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VIKINGS NEWS:
Nothing. Maybe that is good?
NFL NEWS: FTP!
Media selection: Fun song that I remember from long ago. Fitting for the Vikings this season. Could be wild.
Slow day today. We need some more football to talk about, or rage about, or be angry and bitter about.
Twinkies started another streak with their 2nd in a row over Wash.
3-2 with some decent pitching and ‘good enough’ hitting.
https://x.com/CarlosSimancas/status/1792363908214517967
Pretty good stuff.
Edge would be triggered though.
Eh, that wasnt really a good stand up bit, also never heard of the guy. Wonder what year its from. He’s right, dont get me wrong but the bit isn’t funny. It comes off like rage bait.
Summary:
DE posts soda slut
GF recognizes he is a struggle for his wife
Burger discussion
Socal washes dishes under dead birds
Wren thinks problem solving is holding a wet mop head over a restaurant fryer
Mjolnir’s wife makes him bowls, not surprising considering his weed habit
The GB football team will be at Socals house a few days before he sells it
Socal considers voting in multiple states
What matters to eggslusher is using his feet to vote and pray
No sign of the lazy millennials
‘eggslusher is using his feet to vote and pray’
Back in HS I would probably make the Sign Of The Cross with my feet.
Not so much any more.
‘GB football team will be at Socals house’
The guy who came to do the estimate was a FTP fan and a Packer Estimate-er. I stopped making FTP jokes once I figured out it might be costing my $$.
Pretty boring in here today
You are part of the problem if you are not part of the solution.
I think that is how it works.
Pre-pre-preseason…
Due to the storm last night, our power was out from 6:45 pm last night until a few minutes after 6am this morning. I got to work and some people only had their power flicker. We must be on the wrong power line. It’s amazing how much a person misses electricity when it is gone.
We are used to having the power go out here in Commifornia.
We have lamps in each room and Power Cells for charging phones and pads plugged in and ready.
We more ready for power outages than earthquakes.
I read a little bit ago that some areas in Iowa got completely destroyed and multiple deaths occurred, very sad.
Alan Dershowitz line for the closing argument on the defense.
I concur. Total sham of a trial that was nothing more than a public character assassination plan for the Democrats. The judge should go to jail for participating in this ridiculous abuse of jurisprudence.
God knows he’ll be protected by Dems for life after towing their line for this trial.
Honestly, people should be marching all over the country, protesting this abuse of power. We can’t allow a Banana Republic move like this to occur in this Nation.
Yeah, but nobody will because they’ll be thrown in jail without cause like many J6ers.
Then Antifa would cause fights and the woke media would use that as proof of Trump starting ‘violent riots’.
Yes they should be, but they won’t… why? For the exact same reason Pubs wouldn’t ever march against awful bullshit their side has pulled… party lines matters more than the country. It’s the same reason I could get many Dems to admit Pelosi was awful and should be out of office but they wouldn’t vote against her and the same reason I could get many Pubs to admit Mitch is awful and should be out of office but they wouldn’t vote against him…
Y’all miss me? haha. Can’t handle the obvious truth.
Did miss you.
Simple question.
Why didn’t Trump have his DOJ go after Hillary on charges of election interference with the Russian Dossier after the 2016 election?
Oh I get it you think Trump is a god who can do no and has never done any wrong ever. (I’m kidding, I’m using Bow’s style of logic here arguing against you)
I mean he is. Trump the great orange deity. Sent to the world to save us all and fight against the demons trying to imprison him and us.
Would you care to answer?
I can agree with you 95%, I will not vote for someone who does not believe in my core values. Therefore, I will not vote Democrat, because no Democrat has ever shared core values with me.
What I will do is vote for a different Republican than what is currently sitting in the political seat.
Fine, don’t get upset about corruption in politics, you are literally the problem. You can say you’ll vote for a different Pub but I am talking about the one’s who have and continue to sit forever in office who know they’ll never get voted out because of folks like you.
Also, I got news for you.. 95% of the politicians that say or run on you core values don’t actually give a shit about those values.
Yes, the answer to get rid of a bad politician is to vote for an even worse one. We know. You’ve told us plenty of times.
Good fallacious reasoning… typical
When you only have a choice between bad and worse, then you vote for bad. Nobody worth a damn is getting into politics because they will just be drug through the mud.
Get rid of the corrupt POS for someone else, and if they suck or you disagree with them… then vote them out… this isn’t difficult.
It’s not as easy as getting rid of them though. When it comes down to it we have a choice between 2 people and typically the other option is worse than the bad option we are currently stuck with or people are too stupid to get informed and vote for people based on catchy phrases from 20 second TV commercials.
fellatious >>>>> fallacious
There needs to be a way to hold the party leadership accountable. The Rs here are horrible at picking candidates and keep giving what should be an easy red seat to the dems by picking bad candidates and taking it for granted. Tester and the lefties have already built the narrative that Sheehy is nothing but a rich out of stater, same as they do every time. That narrative will stick, nobody will care that Tester is one of, if not the most, crooked people in Washington and he will get re-elected.
Your response to JackVike about corruption is interesting.
Believe Trump ran on a platform of ‘draining the swamp’ which is directed at the head of political corruption – washington DC.
That is why he is so hated in that town by not only all the dems but a fair amount of Repubs (there part of swamp too).
Would think trump’s ambitions align with yours.
Yeah, some say “Well, he had 4 years to drain the swamp. Why didn’t he do it/get it done?” Not only is that a short timeframe in the grand scheme of government and corruption, but he had every member of media and nearly all politicians and his own staff working against him the whole time. Hard to do anything with that.
But sniffer/cackles built back better in 3 1/2 years.
So…by voting for the challenger even though he is from the same party makes me the problem. If that is the case wouldn’t voting for the independent that has no shot of winning be the problem as well.
If 95% the politicians don’t truly believe in their so called core values, then why bother voting at all.
Does matter what I think of Mitch since I can’t vote for or against him as I am not in his state.
Pelosi I vote agains every time she up for election, my votes don’t count though so i am voting with my feet.
Nice try though.
Voting and Praying with your feet is what actually matters.
The point about Mitch and such is just to use as an example of how this long lasting corruption matters and the issues with party politics, c’mon you knew that.
Dershowitz also called the judge a tyrant.
Don’t know much about the law, but it just doesn’t seem right in the American System of laws a judge and DA can act like this with complete immunity. Waiting until they are up for reelection seems rather trivial.
‘in the interest of all Americans’
Don’t think that part will work on the Liberal New York Jury.
They are mostly interested in ‘protecting America from Trump’
They will probably see that as their duty instead of a fair verdict.
Yeah. I’m guessing a guilty verdict.
The Judge instructed the jury to throw out “beyond a reasonable doubt” for a criminal trial and to use the civil trial version of a preponderance of the evidence. This will get overturned on appeal, but that won’t happen until after the election.
The question I have is will the judge sentence Trump to jail with no bail before appeal.
He might try but I could see the Supreme Court getting involved then.
Plus Trumps poll numbers would go up every day he was in jail.
I have zero doubt that Biden/Dem wins. Polls and voting don’t mean anything. They are already printing enough ballots to win.
I sure hope I’m wrong though.
The cheating will be rampant, that’s for sure. Hard to keep hope for a fair election after last time.
Yeah. Even if Trump were to officially win, I doubt he would even be allowed to take the oath of office.
That’s how far gone I am.
I was sitting here reading what you said and thought nah, no way to stop him.
But then on some reflection, seeing this trial in NY, you’re probably right.
Even if it’s illegal, immoral or whatever, they don’t care. And there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop them.
Guess I’m gone too.
Nothing is too far in the sake of “saving democracy”.
And so said the Romans when faced with Christianity.
Wasn’t saying that poll numbers would mean he wins the election. Just that they would make the cheating that much more obvious, not that the woke care about that any more.
They are perfectly happy burning down our democracy in order to ‘save it’.
Yep.
They saying that out loud and proud.
Were #2!!
Idahome that is.
https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live
Everybody should go by this list. Montana is not on it so nobody should move here.
^this
4 Electoral Votes is pretty puny. The ’cause’ could use a few more.
They should declare that they are a ‘Sanctuary State’ so that more illegals will move there so that they can get more Stuff.
Calif, NY, etc are leading the way in this.
You don’t need to punch my lights out.
Calif Power Grid will do that for you once too many people plug their CRVs in.
While MPLS is just a #2
you’ve got some pretty lame ass liberal cities on that list – Virginia Beach and Austin come to mind. Just saying, when you go to a restaurant you’ll have to wear ear plugs an d keep your mouth shut
Boise is the most liberal part of Idaho, so that makes sense.
Nampa is considered conservative even for Idaho and it is about 20m away.
So we can travel for the amenities and not have to live there.
Was just thinking I love Seattle – it’s beautiful scenery, water, markets and really stunning vistas. But it’s politics would kill me – I’d get into a fight damn near every time I left the house.
Santa Barbara is like that for me.
Hometown, no place better actually.
Except for the prices and politics.
Down town Seattle is an outhouse and I mean that literally.
S.B. has too much money to allow that.
It has sketchy areas but you have to know where to look for them.
Yes it is now. But some time back it was cool to walk around, all the coffee shops, Pikes Street Market and great views.
Now, it is just ruined.
It’s a liberal paradise.
You voting in both CA and ID this year?
Considered it.
But didn’t want to become woke.
Since we are only a step behind Commifornia due to our benevolent Dem overlords, how long til this happens here?
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/cars-california-could-alert-drivers-232129409.html
I’m sure they’d never dream of reporting that directly to the cops, too….
It’s coming.
I assume that soon your car won’t start unless the seat belt is fastened.
Congress has tried to put in kill switches in vehicles for some reason.
Probably to control the right type of driver.
Not sure how often I break the speed limit and don’t know it.
I guess it could happen.
It would probably be harder to talk your way out of the ticket though.
I break the speed limit every time I drive.
I’m don’t like being told what I am allowed to do.
But if it is only alerting you what do you care?
Once it starts alerting police and insurance company then the problems start.
That’s how it starts. Then it will record everything and the police will be able to download it. Actually, they already can so this is just step one to automated speeding tickets being sent in the mail a la the bill you get for going on toll roads. After that they will mandate kill switches so if you are “too dangerous” your car can be disabled. It will start with traffic violations and quickly move to social scores and your car and bank accounts will be shut off because we will also be in a cashless society.
You’ll get run over on an Interstate in Florida if you are only going 10 miles over the speed limit.
You get the ‘I love my lane’ people out here.
Plus the tesla/pirus people who want to sit in the fast lane doing the speed limit to ‘save the planet’.
Those are the people who need to volunteer to reduce the population to save us from global warming.
Nah.
I drive 15 over….
You’ll be fine then – 85 in a 70 usually works OK.
Got a loaner from dealer in ND, electric thing, beeped and flashing light every time went over limit
And probably no way to turn that stuff off either.
Hope you were not stuck with that for long, and that it wasn’t winter.
Electric Car in ND? Summer car I think they call it.
Man it is getting way to close. This one right around the corner. And 5 Violent crimes in my area. Better get some more packing in today.
We found 5 violent crimes in your area:
An Assault has been reported near 28XX WESTLANDDR less than 0.1 mi from your home:
I’d be packing also, but I guess its a different story in Cali.
It is getting worse, you can see the sketchy areas growing.
Luckily the packers are here just a few days before escrow closes.
Squatters shouldn’t be an issue (#nojinx) since they need 30d to have any standing legally.
I pack a Glock Gen 4 Model 19 almost all the time. In Montana if one can legally own a firearm one can conceal carry. I do have a CCW permit, I gain a few states with reciprocity.
Idaho is open carry.
Funny in Calif, where you need the protection, the victim is more likely to be prosecuted if he has to pull a gun to defend himself.
But in Idaho, where there is much less protection needed, the laws are all tilted toward the victim.
Quinky Dink?
I like the sheriff in Florida who encouraged people to shoot home intruders and told them about their firearms classes so they could shoot better.
‘they encourage them to shoot before the cops get there’
Said it is cheaper and easier.
Florida has some problems but is pretty squared away in many respects.
Merry Mid-Week Skolbroskis!
Thats my mug up top – not my face, that would break the internet as I’m devastatingly handsome – but my actual coffee mug I only use twice a year, and I stand by its message.
Looking forward to game 1 of the WCF tonight.
Skol!
That is a very cool mug!
Painted it myself – was a first date with my wife and we went to a ‘Paint Yourself Silly’ place. Mugs, plates, other ceramics. Wife made a little bowl that day that I use to put my wedding ring in when I shower.
Mother nature sure can be a bitch at times. We had bad storms yesterday evening. Not sure if a tornado went through or straight line winds but my brother lost his 100+ year old barn. I feel bad for him today, will be helping him with a lot of cleanup.
I read there were tornados in Iowa, not sure about MN or WI
Yeah, I think we had straight line winds. Did plenty of damage though. He wasn’t the only one that lost a barn, another big one went down also not far from us.
Any weather reports on velocity of wind?
Not yet, but they were strong. Big trees down also. Some areas of the farm border a golf course and there is debris everywhere. My son just left to help with that cleanup. I’m guessing no golfing will be going on that course today.
Brother a farmer? Any animals in the barn?
He works for the railroad but does raise some sheep. Had 3 dogs in the barn. No animals died and no one was hurt, so I guess that’s what’s important.
‘100+ year old barn’.
Not sure how long barns are good for?
Did it not hold up well due to it’s age?
If the tornado was strong enough it wouldn’t matter of course.
It was a solid barn, pretty good shape actually, that’s why it was shocking. We’ve been told by the locals that it’s been on the farm for at least 100 years. Not exactly sure what year it was built.
https://x.com/i/status/1791281575784513712
Here’s some advice for you single people.
https://x.com/seanhannity/status/1793239904702320715
That’s gonna be a big ol’ yikes from me, dawg.
Is Joe Muslim now?
Good luck finding a family of 5 or more daughters, maybe Utah?
“best burgers” according to someone on here, wonder what they dry over the grill, dirty rags?
https://x.com/nypost/status/1793220382087917695
Don’t they just microwave their “grilled” burgers?
IDK, I could see them throwing frozen patties in the microwave, then slapping them on the grill for 30 seconds and calling them “grilled”
I think it’s the other way around.
I think they are grilled in regional warehouse, shipped cooked, and then microwaved at the franchise location.
After some googling, it appears McDee’s does grill their burgers.
So I must be thinking of a different chain.
My sisters both worked at a McDee’s back in the late 70’s and they said they were microwaved, so apparently they have changed.
I worked at a Burger King, we would flame broil them and hold them in a steamer table. They would get microwaved to warm back up fully and to melt the cheese.
She should get a promotion for “thinking outside the box”.
“thinking outside the box”
The Box of McNuggets?
That girl is a problem solver…
I mean, I can’t argue that it wouldn’t be effective for drying the mop
Just imagine what goes on in the kitchen in your favorite Chinese restaurant. Is that really chicken?
I washed dishes at a Chinese restaurant while I was in HS.
There were usually dead chickens hanging over my head while I did so.
Ahhhh those were the days.
Washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant must have been one hell of an experience for a young guy.
Heck I started in a Mexican restaurant moved down the street the next year to the Chinese restaurant, then the next year worked in an Italian place
Didn’t wash dishes during the summer, it was more an after school thing. Summers were for working with the dad laying carpet and tile floors.
I know of one that got caught butchering deer in the kitchen that they took from the railroad tracks behind the restaurant. They were only using the meat for personal consumption though.
Had a buddy used to say you don’t see a lot of cats around Chinese restaurants.
We say the same thing about Mexican restaurants.
We were talking about Hamburgers the other day and Matt’s & 5-8 were brought up with the Jucy Lucy.
Well, here’s a story about the burger.
I lived in Twin Cities for 27 years and I have never heard of this before.
Sounds pretty good.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/twin-cities-taverns-turn-cheeseburger-inside-out-ooey-gooey-sensation
The burgers at the stadium suck, despite the 5-figure price tag.
I can’t eat them anymore anyway, well, at least not with a bun.
Is gluten the issue for you?
If it is, I know people who like gluten free bread or they use crisp lettuce as the bun.
Brad has mentioned that he does the lettuce option.
Said he hasn’t found a gluten free bread that was any good.
Gluten free bread tastes terrible.
My daughter went through a “gluten free” stage, so I tried it.
I assume it’s an acquired taste.
Not only is Matt’s the best Lucy, its incredibly affordable compared to the others. Plus, its a dive bar style pub, which is the kind I prefer.
Just read that story on Fox, was going to share it here but you beat me to it.
Good Job!
Flowers I got my wife for our anniversary. Check out the card.
LOL.
My 28th is coming up next week.
Not sure my wife would appreciate that card.
My wife laughed, she sent a picture to her family. She told me “thank you for acknowledging my struggle”.
Gratz!
that is a great card
The first to post soda slut.
I likes her
The NFL will implement optical tracking systems for yardage rulings this preseason with the potential for full-time implementation, a source confirmed to ESPN.
The league considers this a test run of accuracy on line-to-gain rulings, the source said, with the option to continue the use of measuring chains in 2024.
The league has experimented with the system in the past but would need to install it in every NFL stadium for functional use in the regular season.
The league’s competition committee approved the matter in March. It is not on the agenda at this week’s owners meetings in Nashville.
Not sure what this technology is, but players use the sticks to know where they need to get to when running routes to the sidelines, and getting around the edge. What visual will there be for the players to know where the first down marker is?
That would suck. Don’t want the quarterback throwing it short of the sticks.
Well you know, that’s every single QB who has ever played the game… so…
YAC is real.
Hopefully on 3rd/4th down you won’t have to rely on it too often.
I have heard that it can bite you if you do.
Never throw to a TE short of the sticks on 4th down and expect YAC.
Why – I’d take a shot with Kelce all day long if I had to get rid of ball quickly. Probably Kittle too.
Kelce would get past the sticks or Mahomes would throw to somebody else.
Kelce will indeed get beyond the sticks – whether he catches the ball short of or beyond.
The sticks and chains will still be there (especially if Trump gets elected), as a backup.
NFL owners passed a new rule on Tuesday establishing a three-hour interview limit for head-coaching candidates who are employed by teams still in the playoffs.
Such candidates will also only be permitted to interview at a location of the choosing of their current organization if it’s an in-person meeting with a prospective employer.
The NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, Jonathan Beane, said the new rule was created to put less time constraints on coaching candidates who are trying to balance interviews with their preparations for playoff games.
I’d probably make it a half hour then I’d walk out. A three hour interview? No thanks.
this is idiotic. This is a “senior executive” position. In real business candidates go through hours of multiple interviews to get a position.
Any time a chief divisity and inclusion officer is involved bet it’s going to be screwed up process.
They should just say no interviewing candidates still playing.
It used to be no interviews until a team is eliminated.
They then went to a few days.
Now it’s down to 3 hours?
Weird.
This is fun strategery. Should have been saved for the Olympics. One Chinese skater took off like a bat out of hell, lapped everyone and then tucked in behind the mob. Everyone then forgot about her. When the bell sounded for the final lap for the Chinese skater in back, everyone thought they had one more lap, so they pulled up at the end of it. Meanwhile, the other Chinese skater was in on the plan and knew she had to go one more lap to get an easy silver.
Interesting strategy.
But it only works if you have a superb athlete who can go that much faster than everybody else.
I liked the trick play Kentucky baseball pulled off the other day. I’ll try to find the video later, but there were runners on 1st and 3rd. The guy on 1st acted like he was going to steal and then “fell”. While the pitcher was looking at him, the guy on 3rd stole home to win the game.
Skater goes out and ‘almost laps the field’ and they promptly forgot about her?
Sounds sketchy.
I wondered that, too, but apparently, it is possible. Sometimes skaters do that to screw with the pace for their teammate and then drop out. Others have said that the skaters also don’t have the same vision as the top-down camera, so it is easy for them to lose track if someone drops out. They could have assumed that lead skater left the ice.
So they didn’t have a team? Trainers? Support People?
Not one person in the race?
Still sketchy IMHO.
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SKOL!
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Good morning, SKOL!
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