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VIKINGS NEWS – Everyone reporting to camp today. First full team practice is tomorrow. Rookies practiced yesterday, and will also practice today. First “open” practice is Saturday.
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Media Selection
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris for high crimes and misdemeanors.
There are two articles, according to the Washington Examiner, which have to do with Harris’ role as border czar as well as Biden’s cognitive failures.
I guess turnabout is fair play. The Dem’s impeached Trump on bogus charges as a publicity stunt… so here we go.
Well at least it will give us something to watch this fall.
I get tired of the over the top BS. Baseless charges based only on politics. Let’s take the high road. I don’t consider Harris as worthy of sitting in the most important seat in the world, but don’t do this crap.
‘but don’t do this crap’
Which is how Democruds win elections.
They do this crap all the time.
While the Republicans try to do the ‘right thing’.
A conundrum for sure.
Complete waste of time.
Might even help her.
The Fake News would do it’s best to spin in as an attack on Women and People of Color no doubt.
But then every word out of a conservatives mouth will be spun the same way, not sure if there will be a difference.
Voters tend to not like impeachment.
I think it’s dumb to even attempt it.
We don’t even need to worry about ‘Voters’.
Trump supporters are not going anywhere
nor are FJB and now Cackle voters.
We only need to worry about ‘undecided voters in swing states’, no one else is changing their votes.
If Impeachment hurts us with those few then yes don’t do it.
This is terrible:
A member of the French Parliament for the radical-left France Unbowed (LFI) party has sparked outrage over the weekend after saying Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Paris Olympics and calling for protests against their presence.
French MP Thomas Portes says Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Paris Olympics.
Noting Israel’s war in Gaza, Thomas Portes told a pro-Palestine gathering in Paris on Saturday: “We are just a few days away from an international event to be held in Paris, the Olympic Games. And I’m here to say that no, the Israeli delegation is not welcome in Paris. Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Olympic Games in Paris. We have to use this deadline and all the levers we have to mobilize.”
Guess this guy missed the 72 Olympics, huh?
JJ’s blindside should be good for a few more years.
Details
So is the extension for after the 5th year option or encompasses that year?
Do we have him for 4 or 5 more years?
Not sure.
Usually it’s after the 5th year option but he gets his guaranteed money now and it’s spread over the 5 years I believe.
So six seasons.
Hope/pray he stays healthy thru them all.
#nojinx
Boom let KAM COOK! He’s done everything right since the end of last season as far as im concerned.
Good to have young core talent tied up for a while. Cap space to prioritize free agents in a few spots. Bright future.
Not to mention a future HOF quarterback.
#nojinx
Vikings just signed Duke Shelley, back to the team.
Duke!!
I guess Coach Flo decided he could work with some shorter CBs.
CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!
Yellowstone super volcano getting ready to blow.
That would leave one hell of a mess.
Actually the Caldera Erupting would cause a Nuclear Winter and threaten 90% of people living with 1,000 miles of it’s epicenter.
Nice knowing you guys.
Having just moved into the western edge of that possible mess I would still prefer it to ‘The Granola State’.
I’d rather go quick than slowly starve to death.
Looks like the ash would get us here, better than slow starving but not as quick as the lava do us in.
I think I would be in the blast zone and dead before any lava even came.
Lucky bastards in Billings, guaranteed to go quickly. We might survive a few hours in Glendive.
Well we might get to watch the Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake first.
Those happen every 4-600 years and the last one was in 1700. Magnitude 9.0 Earthquakes and accompanying Tsunamis are almost as bad a Mega Quake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake
and my wife would still not want to leave MN
So this was just a hawk tuah?
That would be a more funner way to go.
Just out of range.
The earths core has nothing to do with the climate or at least, the climate does not affect the core.
You sound like a science denier to me.
Neither do EarthQuakes, but that doesn’t stop climate change hysteria.
Kamala stiff arming BB – won’t even attend speech.
Protesters against Israel having a sit in at the Rotunda.
Wonder what all the Jewish Democrats in our country are thinking.
Who’s providing security?
Exactly.
Trump would be foolish to leave it all up to the Secret Service.
@Its Minnesota nice. Nobody from MN would ever commit a crime@
SCPD is on it with a little help from SCSU.
It’s Minnesota…if the way they hunt in Montana is any indication of their capabilities I would say nothing to worry about.
Could aim at Trump and hit Vance and vice versa. And then there’s ‘even a stoped clock is right twice a day.’
Any chance the governor might be hanging around and take the bullet instead? Sorry, that was mean. I don’t want anyone to get shot.
He’s going to be busy meeting with Kamala about being VP.
Hey hey HEY! I resemble that remark! I mean resent that remark! I am not an IRS agent, I’m a good old southern (MN) boy who wouldn’t shoot at anyone. Unless it was a warning shot…
The only warning shots I send are to warn the rest of the group what’s coming if they don’t stop.
SS. (social security)
Does Trump now need to do fake rally posts to trick the SS out of being there?
I saw Hitman Harry is listed as number 93 on the NFL top 100 list as voted on by players. Only the 80-100 are out. So far he is the only Viking.
I say sing him to an extension.
I’m not singing to anybody.
Thank you.
I would not sing to anyone either.
It would be inhumane.
I am actually a decent singer…I give myself 8 of 10 stars in my car solos.
Love the national doubt about the Vikings.
They always seem to surprise with low expectations.
Would hope we can handle the Giants. The rest….. tough schedule.
Don’t see a loss on there.
And Trump will carry California and the District of Columbia.
guess I need to get some of that Montana ‘fresh air,’
And he’s gone too!
On a mountain redoubt in the middle of nowhere, kodiak’s ears just perked up.
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That’s the one I was thinking of.
Nah.
The spreads should be bigger…..
Oooh I sense a LCL tear left knee and medical meniscus tear right knee.
Somebody just got more excited than when he sees the dancing pregnant gal.
For you Gopher fans.
ben will be pumped with this news
Also the vegas shooting in 2017 was done by 2-3 Helicopters, not the guy in the hotel. Shits wild.
Sure… And you once called me a conspiracy theorist? haha
When was that? Please refresh my memory. And funny how most things that are called conspiracies in the present are found to hold weight in the future. This is normally not my thing but, things do not add up or make sense and to take everything at face value is ignorant at best.
I was asked where I got my info for there being at least 2 to possibly 3 shooters at the trump assassination attempt. Heres the link , its 2.5 hrs but well worth the watch and break down. Its not being presented as fact, its just going over audio and video evidence that shows things do not add up with there being one shooter involved.
They’ve already said that 2 separate snipers shot at the guy. 1 was a local officer and he missed and then the Secret Service sniper hit him.
But I heard the Director of the SS say yesterday that ‘1 sniper engaged and neutralized the threat’.
If you can’t count on the head of the SS to tell the truth who can you rely on?
Yeah, I believe whatever the opposite of what she said. Bongino is saying that he’s being told the reason that there wasn’t a team on the roof that the sniper was on is because it was supposed to be locals and they decided that it was too hot out.
‘it was supposed to be locals’
Maybe State Police as the local PD only had 6-8 there and they were on traffic duty.
thought there was no one on the roof because it was too steep. If to0 steep for SS, would also be for locals.
I guess the roof is so steep that it would actually be ADA compliant for a wheelchair ramp.
It was too steep for the SS DEI hires.
Pre-DEI hires like the snipers on the steeper roofs were just fine.
Steepness didn’t matter, locals or SS agents doesn’t matter. This is simply a total f’u.
And accountability wise. The Head SS Agent in charge at the site should be fired also.
Im not saying Crooks wasnt there and didnt take shots, he did, but theres eye witnesses static minutes after that they shot and killed another person in the water tower. From where Crooks was and the way trumps head was tured, it was impossible for his shot to hit him in is right ear, it would have hit the left side of his head.
Thanks.
I will take a look at it.
This is false. Another good conspiracy theory though.
Im sure you watched all 2.5 hrs before you typed that up. Thanks though. Are you one of those people that believe the Government would never stoop so low to do this things? And Oswald killed JFK on his own and his own vallation? Redacted Government documents be damned huh?
Billy Idol?
Great minds think alike.
https://twitter.com/MatthewSabia/status/1815608731109069202
@How Shocking!!@
#notshocked
Have no idea if this is true or not. But Biden hasn’t been that articulate in 10 years. If it wasn’t AI then a professional actor filing in.
What a staged BS event. Oh, we just love Joe (Kamala). I’ll bet you do.
Did you see where Kamala starts to call it a recording and catches herself?
She’s slightly sharper than Joe – he would have missed it.
There were two assassination attempts last week. One was unsuccessful (Trump) and one was successful (Biden). And most folks never even saw the later one.
‘She’s slightly sharper than Joe’
Well since FJB is as sharpe as a cube of butter that is not really saying much.
My sister texted some really tin foil hat stuff about the WH causing the internet outage last week and relating it to AI and how some foreign actors hacked into Biden AI stuff, causing him to drop out of the race.
All I have to say is that an incumbent pulling out this late in the race is unprecedented and extremely unusual. Yet the president has not appeared in person to let the American people know what happened. You have a tweet, a letter, and a voice on the phone.
Tell me that ain’t peculiar.
I would say this no matter the party of the Executive branch.
You don’t announce you’re not going to accept the nomination less than two weeks after you said only the good Lord would make you step down…in a tweet.
Yeah and there hasn’t even been a still image of him much less a video. Just a suspicious letter and a questionable speaker phone recor, I mean call.
i have a feeling “they” took matters into their own hands to make it look like the good lord was making him step down….
DO NOT QUESTION THE NARRATIVE AND JUST GO ALONG WITH IT. NO THINKING ALLOWED.
I didn’t need AI analysis to know that was a fake recording. Dude hasn’t sounded that coherent for 3.5 minutes in years.
Shameful how the WH and Dems are handling this whole thing.
This whole situation reminds me of the movie Dave. Where an actor that looks like the president is brought in as a replacement while the real president is dying.
Haha good movie. And very true.
Also, sadly, this movie:
equilibrium auto rec
GOOD movie
Any car audio gurus on here?
I need to mount some speakers in the front of my 72 riviera but it’s proving to be quite the dilemma. The car originally had a center mounted speaker in the dash but a previous owner broke the mounts. I don’t want to cut holes in the doors and they don’t make kick panels with speaker mounts for this particular car. Anybody know of any other solutions?
Is Freezy on today??
That’s right.
The speakers would be powered by the car’s battery so that would be right in his wheelhouse.
Good thinking.
How about the bottom edge of the dash?
I’m thinking like underneath the steering wheel column?
No clue what type of room you have underneath to set something up.
That old boat has quite a bit of space under the dash. Just not sure what I could put there.
Probably more true than people want to realize.
Secret Service Director Resigns In Disgrace For Failing To Assassinate Trump
https://babylonbee.com/news/secret-service-director-steps-down-due-to-failure-to-take-out-trump
But they only missed by just this much.
So the Head of the SS has resigned.
Going forward, wonder who gets more coverage, Jill Biden or Donald Trump.
After watching yesterday I was wondering.
If she didn’t resign, FJB was not going to fire it, she would last at least until Jan 20th.
One more DEI hire gone at least.
But it gets even better. In her absence, our old friend Mayorkis is going to step in and lead efforts to straighten things out.
CYA to try to limp to the election and see if they can steal it at the last minute like last time.
That is all that the Democruds care about currently.
DEI – Didn’t Earn It.
It is a lot like ‘Nepotism’ only easier to spell.
I am not in favor of the philosophy that someone needs to be fired every time something goes wrong. The circumstances and processes should be evaluated and improved…if the core of the failure was blatant incompetence then, yes, someone should be fired.
In this case, her performance yesterday was absolute incompetence…she was provided the questions for which the congress was seeking answers days in advance and showed up unwilling or unable to provide any information. She needed to go.
Thoughtful response and agree. Simply no excuse for lack of preperation for that hearing.
She prepared, she had all of her excuses all lined up.
She was told not to provide any answers and she accomplished that.
And today t
hey threw her outshe resigned likethey did withFJB.And her opening statement was ‘leaked’ to the press 3-4 hours before it was provided to the committee.
‘I have no idea how they got ahold of that’.
And no idea how all that $$ got into her bank account.
She is a lying sack of trash. Good riddance. Probably will get hundreds of thousands in severance, though.
So now that means EVERYTHING will get buried and no comments will be made public.
All part of the plan.
Nailed it.
I heard it first from JR right here on the skoloholics site. Strong work!
We are making progress, got our Idaho drivers licenses yesterday.
They have this weird rule about not being able to check in to your appointment more than 10m in advance. Much better than being a ‘walk in’ though as they were being told it would be up to a 2 hour wait.
We got thru it, paperwork, picture, test, fees and such within an hour. Then we ran errands and did a bit of shopping. The Teacher is getting the place organized while I assist and move things as ordered.
Seems everyone we interact with at the DMV, bank, county courthouse, etc is from out of state and moved here recently (4-5 years)
That’s interesting, how the different states work. Moving to MT from AB, they just took my AB license and gave me a MT one, no test required. When I went to med school in ND, I was required to keep my MT license cuz I got funding from MT. When I left ND for internship in WA, I had to take a written test to get a WA license. A year later same thing, written test, in MN. When I moved back to MT they didn’t even take my MN license, just gave me a new MT license.
I actually had to show a Certified Birth Certificate yesterday to get my license.
Idaho is not playing around with illegals I guess.
Wow, they aren’t playing around. Only thing that surprised me was the hernia and rather lengthy prostate check. They all do that, right? Right?
How much ‘length’ did they use to check your prostrate? How did you know to compare it with a ‘shorter check’?
Never mind, no kink shaming, and I really don’t want to know, where did my ‘mind bleach’ get put since the move.
Delaware requires that as well. For a license.
Not to vote though.
Of course not, it is racist to require IDs for voting.
Duh!
Hearing lots of chatter that you Minnesotan’s boy Waltz is one of the top picks for Kumala’s VP. That should get you excited.
i mean i would hope that would secure the loss for them if that’s the case….
I hear he’s a rising star in the party.
So MN is a “swing state” now? Maybe there is hope yet.
That’s the stories, which to me means Trump has this election locked. If MN is a swing state that means NY and Cali are in play and everything else is basically red.
Republicans do not run well from ahead.
Remember the ‘Red Wave’.
Best to keep campaigning/fighting as if they were behind ala 2016.
Oh for sure. Do not underestimate the voter fraud coalition.
We need a large lead to counteract the shenanigans they are sure to pull.
Correct. And if California is in play we all should buy lottery tickets.
I read that some coalition called “Black Women Coalition” or some such had a zoom call on Sunday, with 40,000 participants clamoring for Kamala. Impressive to have 40,000 participants on a zoom call, if my employer gets more than 300 on teams even if everyone is muted and cameras off it gets really buggy.
Yet still no z key on skoloholics. Sigh.
It’s the cheating that prevents any red waves, unfortunately.
Well, this report seems to be making sense with what has happened with FJB this past week.
veryyyyyy convenient
So they lied to lie about the reason to drop out?
They would never lie. Joe simply made a patriotic decision to step aside so they can keep Trump from getting elected and therefore protect democracy (while bypassing the democratic election process). Oh, and no matter water Kumala almost said, that call yesterday was absolutely not a recording.
that call, was the best biden has sounded in 30 years, while also suffering a major health scare….JUST BELIEVE IT BOW!
Nothing’s wrong and he’s going to keep being president and also campaign for Kumala, but they couldn’t get anybody to meet Bibi yesterday and Joe is now delegating authorities.
Patriotic Joe – as they performed assisted suicide to get him out of the race.
and Miss Congeniality Kamala – can’t keep a staff to save her life.
The spin is off the world.
I like how fast the left has pivoted from Joe is not too old or senile to be president to Trump is too old so Kumala should be elected.
The “Presecutor versus the Felon.”
Sounds like Trump should get the black vote then. Especially after they showed how many people, especially blacks that Kamala locked up on trumped up drug charges and kept in jail beyond their sentences. How do you coronate somebody to be your nominee who has never received a single vote, even in a primary? She was such a bad candidate 4 years ago that she dropped out of the race before the first vote.
You know that and I know that. But, you’re about to hear the stars only shine during the day and Kamala is the second coming of Madame Currie and Mary Tyler Moore.
You forgot Gandhi. She is also a pariah to the transgender movement.
He is a true hero! What a masterful statesman to wait until the Republicans were locked into their ticket with an evil prolifer as VP.
I hope they add his face to Mt. Rushmore.
Forget Rushmore. He deserves his own monument/mountain.
Ooh Granite Peak on a clear day you could see it from Billings.
Like Crazy Horse?
That one might get finished in 100 years or so.
so i’m confused by some of the comments on here this morning….
was the expectation that the vikings should CUT addison? that’s absurd.
Probably more of a Vikings fine and suspension.
I think he should be traded.
Why did KOC use tough talk about it last week and not follow up?
“You are one bad man JA and that can’t happen….!!!!”
Followed up by, “we are going to let the NFL handle it”
👍
I might go to the preseason game in Philly.
“Going to let the NFL do their thing on Addison”
In other words, the “that can’t happen” schtick was just a PR move.
Year 3 of kumbaya Kev is wearing thin with me.
I still like coach and GM.
5-6 years of history is needed for me to make another uninformed emotional decision and root for them to burn it down again.
I still like KAM/KOC.
You got give them 3-5 years.
But I’m now just tuning it out because what they say is BS.
“Let the NFL…..” well run organizations take care of their own problems.
Kids value to the team is still pretty high, if he was a shit tier WR with lower draft stock he would probably be gone. Way she goes, im fine with it. Kids an idiot but , meh.
I don’t think he’s as good of a coach as probably everyone else here does. He has made some pretty dumb decisions in the past, some regarding personnel play time and quite a few clock-management and playcall decisions. I think he’s a bust.
I don’t know what to think of KAM yet. He’s done some good things and some idiotic things. Average maybe.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Life can be really good. Crete is amazing, beautiful weather, sunshine all day and not a cloud to be seen, the food is amazing, the beer is cold and served in chilled mugs, and the people are genuinely friendly and happy to accomodate tourists.
Still a few days left of our vacation, very happy that we chose Crete this year 🏖
Awesome vacation, have fun!
Thanks!
Been there twice – great spot and people. Did notice quite a few stray dogs running around, probably been cleaned up.
Wonderful beaches..
Great spot indeed. The stray dogs seem to have been replaced by stray cats, many of them running around and politely begging for food at the breakfast table 😅
Love the beaches around here.
Glad you are having a good vacation.
We are indeed, thank you!
That looks amazing!
Glad you are taking some time to enjoy life.
Thanks Surly! Hope things are fine as well in your neck of the woods.
Awesome!
Crete is really worth at least one visit. We’re pretty sure that we’ll come back next summer, such a lovely place!
Sounds like the Vikings are going to keep JA. They want to help him get his shit together. They are going to let the NFL decide on his punishment.
The right thing to do I’d say, he’s very talented, and if he can get the stupidity out of his head (with the team’s help, possibly) he might still have a great career. I can see why Queasy is not willing to give up on his pick yet.
Another strike, though, and he might be gone. Curious what punishment the NFL will decide to hand down, JA better humbly accepts it and keeps on working to better himself as a person and a football player.
Sorry, I think this is weak shit management. JA is a Vikings and a Viking problem. Letting the league do their ‘dirty work’ is I believe weak.
Wilf’s doing the right thing.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40618549/minnesota-vikings-finalize-plans-honor-khyree-jackson
AotD:
When training camp was in Mankato I would go, but now that it is in the cities I won’t. I am not driving 3 hours to watch practice.
I am 20 minutes away, and in 2018 went to two practices.
Not interested in going again, but it is a very nice facility, and the museum is cool.
Go watch JJ for me and report back here on his obvious greatness.
Skol
FTP
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