First Step: Speaker of the House Elon Musk.

The groundswell among Rs to make Musk the next Speaker of the House is growing. Rand Paul (despite having moved to the Senate) is for it. MTG is for it. If Josh Hawley signs up, it could be a done deal. (I say that because he probably wants the job for himself; so if he steps aside, that may end any serious objections.)

Does anyone know if Musk wants the job?

Musk is unlikely to know how to do the job, but he could easily hire/bribe/delegate - so cluelessness isn't an obstacle. And, like him or not, he does seem to be a quick study.

I'm sure Newt Ginrich would jump at the chance to join Musk as unofficial co-Speaker.

I'm also sure Musk would not be held to any ethical standards or have to put his holdings in trust or any of that good-government silliness.

Second Step: Eliminate the "Natural Born" Restriction to Becoming President.

It's a stupid rule that should have been amended away a long time ago. With Musk pouring billions into getting the amendment passed and ratified, what's stopping it?

Third Step: Eliminate Presidential Term Limits.

The American people should be able to vote for the candidate of their choice.

Fourth Step: President for Life Elon Musk.

From UI:

Forest Evashevski Academic Achievement: Luke Lachey

Iron Hawk Award: Logan Jones

Roy Carver Most Valuable Players: Kaleb Johnson, offense; Jay Higgins, defense

Permanent Team Captains: Luke Lachey, offense; Logan Jones, offense; Jay Higgins, defense; Quinn Schulte, defense; Luke Elkin, special teams

Hayden Fry Award: Mason Richman, offense; Beau Stephens, offense; Logan Jones, offense; Gennings Dunker, offense; Connor Colby, offense; Jay Higgins, defense; Nick Jackson, defense; Deontae Craig, defense; Ethan Hurkett, defense; Yayha Black, defense; Luke Elkin, special teams; Kyler Fisher, special teams

Reggie Roby Special Teams Award: Drew Stevens, specialist; Kaden Wetjen, overall

Team Leader Award: KJ Parker, offense; Brevin Doll, offense; Bodey McCaslin, offense; Derek Weisskopf, defense; Devan Kennedy, defense; Cam Buffington, defense; Jamison Heinz, defense; Devan Van Ness, special teams; Cam Buffington, special teams; Brevin Doll, special teams

Brett Greenwood Award: Hayden Large; Luke Elkin; Kaden Wetjen; Max White

Comeback Player of the Year: Luke Lachey; Beau Stephens; Seth Anderson

Coaches Appreciation Award: Zach Ortwerth, offense; Jarriett Buie, offense; Kade Pieper, offense; Sebastian Castro, defense; Quinn Schulte, defense; Kyler Fisher, defense; Jeremiah Pittman, defense; Jaxon Rexroth, special teams; Jayden Montgomery, special teams; Max White, special teams; Rhys Dakin, special teams; Ty Nissen, special teams; Jaden Harrell, special teams

Team Hustle Award: Jaziun Patterson, offense; Jacob Gill, offense; Addison Ostrenga, offense; Aaron Graves, defense; Max Llewellyn, defense; Zach Lutmer, special teams; John Nestor, special teams; Karson Sharar, special teams

Next Man In Award: Brendan Sullivan, offense; Nick DeJong, offense; Johnny Pascuzzi, offense; Tyler Elsbury, offense; Kamari Moulton, offense; TJ Hall, defense; Alex Eichmann, special teams; Jaylen Watson, special teams; Landyn Van Kekerix, special teams

Bump Elliott Award: Kevin and Rick Manary (Harry’s Trophies)

Distinguished Service Award: Brian Cassady and Chet Wieland

Anyone want in???

List 13 celebrities you predict will pass in 2024. If/when they die, subtract their ages from 100.

For example, if Jimmy Carter dies aged 99, you get 1 point.

Add up the points at the end of the year. Whoever has the most points wins! There's no cash prize this year. I lost in 2023.

My only 2023 "hit" was Tony Bennett. My buddy got Burt Bacharach. $50 loss goes to help Ukranian refugees.


BrianNole's 2024 Celebrity Death Pool:


Bill Cosby
Charlie Sheen
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Jones
Dick Van Dyke
Bob Newhart
Mitch McConnell
Shannen Doherty
Tom Brokaw
Bruce Willis
Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump
Sharon Osborne

When President Biden dropped out of the race in August, I wrote a letter to Dr. Jill Biden thanking her for her service.

I just received a typed card with her signature. I think it's her real signature.

CSB.

The letter reads:

"Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. Serving our nation as First Lady has been the honor of my life and the President and I are grateful for your support.

Sincerely,
Jill Biden

For agro business. 40% of labor is done by undocumented workers. They certainly have the money to lobby for it. Couple a strokes of a pen an undocumented worker becomes a visa employee.

is fantastic. For anyone who remembers the Jets D- line of Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons and Abdul Salaam.

Gastineau hasn't changed at at all. Footage of him confronting Favre at a 2023 signing convention.

Also you should look up Gastineau's boxing career. His promoter is shady AF. Had guys taking dives against Gastineau because he had a deal in place to fight Foreman if Gastineau could go 12-0. One figher, Doc Anderson, wouldn't dive and exposed Gastineau in the ring and ruined it all by knocking him out.

They had a rematch later and the promoter allegedly drugged Anderson and Gastineau won. The promoter was later shot and killed by Anderson. They could make a movie just about that.

Biden's Dow has been down 10 days in a row.

Jay Higgins can add another All-America honor to his resume.



The Associated Press named Higgins a first-team All-American on Monday. It is his third first-team All-America honor from the preeminent organizations that determine consensus All-America status, following first-team nods last week by the Walter Camp Football Foundation and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA).


The three first-team All-America honors are enough for Higgins to clinch consensus All-America status. He is Iowa’s second consensus All-American linebacker in the last three years, joining Jack Campbell in 2022.




Iowa running back Kaleb Johnson, meanwhile, was an AP second-team All-American. Johnson also was a second-team AFCA All-American and a first-team Walter Camp All-American.


The Hawkeyes have had at least one AP first or second-team All-American in 11 consecutive seasons.


Higgins’ honor follows a regular season with 118 total tackles and four interceptions. He also was named the Big Ten’s Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year. Johnson, the Big Ten’s Ameche-Dayne Big Ten Running Back of the Year, rushed for 1,537 yards and set a program record with 21 rushing touchdowns and 23 total touchdowns.


The Football Writers Association of America will announce its All-America team on Tuesday, and the Sporting News will announce its All-America team on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot who Donald Trump has said should be jailed for their roles in the inquiry.

Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 people in a ceremony Thursday at the White House, including Americans who fought for marriage equality, a pioneer in treating wounded soldiers, and two of the president’s longtime friends, former Sens. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

“President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,” the White House said in a statement. “The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”

Biden last year honored people who were involved in defending the Capitol from a mob of angry Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, or who helped safeguard the will of American voters during the 2020 presidential election, when Trump tried and failed to overturn the results.

Cheney, a former Wyoming congresswoman, and Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, led the House committee that investigated the insurrection. The committee’s final report asserted that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the election he lost to Biden and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol. Thompson wrote that Trump “lit that fire.”

Cheney, who lost her seat in the GOP primary in August, later said she would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race and campaigned with the Democratic nominee, raising Trump’s ire. Biden has been considering whether to offer preemptive pardons to Cheney and others Trump has targeted.

Trump, who won the 2024 election and will take office Jan. 20, still refuses to back away from his lies about the 2020 presidential race and has said he would pardon the rioters once he is back in the White House.

During an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the president-elect said that “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” claiming without evidence they “deleted and destroyed” testimony they collected.

“Honestly, they should go to jail,” he said.

Cheney and Thompson were “an embarrassment to this country” for their conduct on the committee, Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung asserted.

Biden is also giving the award to attorney Mary Bonauto, who fought to legalize same-sex marriage, and Evan Wolfson, a leader of the marriage equality movement.

Other honorees include Frank Butler, who set new standards for using tourniquets on war injuries; Diane Carlson Evans, an Army nurse during the Vietnam War who founded the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation; and Eleanor Smeal, an activist who led women’s rights protests in the 1970s and fought for equal pay.

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He’s also giving the award to photographer Bobby Sager, academics Thomas Vallely and Paula Wallace, and Frances Visco, the president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.

Other former lawmakers being honored include former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J.; former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, the first woman to represent Kansas; and former Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., who championed gun safety measures after her son and husband were shot to death.

Biden will honor four people posthumously: Joseph Galloway, a former war correspondent who wrote about the first major battle in Vietnam in the book “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young”; civil rights advocate and attorney Louis Lorenzo Redding; former Delaware judge Collins Seitz; and Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, who was held with other Japanese Americans during World War II and challenged the detention.

The Presidential Citizens Medal was created by President Richard Nixon in 1969 and is the country’s second highest civilian honor after the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes people who “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”