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I watched the movie Sinister yesterday after reading that it was ranked as the scariest movie ever. I have to admit, it was a really good horror movie, and that’s coming from a huge fan of horror movies. I won’t say it’s better than The Exorcist (my favorite horror movie of all time) or anything like that, but it’s well worth a watch. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend giving it a try. It’s the perfect time of year for it.
Another day along, another day closer to Vikings football. The Vikings play the Colts on Sunday Night Football, so we have a bit of a wait. In the meantime, we can engage in the usual rampant speculation, rumor mongering, and good old fashioned chicanary. SKOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vikings/NFL News and Updates:
From Newsweek, Jordan Addison responded to trade rumors after people over-reacted to a harmless social media post.
CBS Sports provides us with an NFL week 8 injury tracker.
All the NFL week 8 scores and highlights, courtesy of NFL.com.
Also from NFL.com, the latest news from around the NFL.
Media Selection:
This is Heresy Financial. I like this guy, he has some interesting stuff on the financial markets. Not the usual same ol’, same ol’ that you hear from the networks. If nothing else, it gives you something to think about. Enjoy!
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https://sports.yahoo.com/report-jaguars-trading-ot-cam-232407688.html
They went out and did something to potentially save the season. Good. Shows that they are dedicated and believe in themselves, IMHO. I like it.
The YouTubers are pretty happy with the trade, think we got a top 10 LT for cheap.
Good stuff, thanks for sharing. Encouraging that they go out and DO something when the season is still more than salvageable after a devastating injury to a key player. Makes my night and lifts the spirits.
Looks like an ideal outcome for all parties involved, nice.
F them picks! Vikings trading for OT Cam Robertson/Robinson from the Jags
Apparently Brandel is NOT the answer
He is our LG why would he be the ‘answer’ for LT?
They were talking about him moving to LT (played some there in college) so Risner can play LG.
He’s in the last year of his deal i believe so when they don’t re-sign him they’ll get a higher pick than the 6th or so they gave up for him as a compensatory.
Worst case I think it’ll be a wash if they don’t re-sign him
Yea?
Play him. Screw it.
Play him when someone needs a breather or when we have a large lead.
Don’t play him just because he is/was a 1st rounder.
Put your best players on the field. If it’s not him, too bad.
I see Diggs tore his ACL. Too bad, hate to see players go down. He was having a decent year, 18th in receiving yards, and probably just getting settled in the new offense, and QB.
Lets trade them Addison for draft picks. We are not winning the Owl this year.
I agree. Get some pics for his JA now before something else happens with him.
Might be wise to pass him on as long as we can get something substantial for him. Who knows what shenanigans he’ll be up to next.
Plus he seems to have had several injuries so far, in addition to his extracurriculars.
False, this is the year it finally happens!
How was Sunday’s game being there in person? Seemed pretty good to watch snd great weather.
Hey JR. We had so much fun. Club seating is the only way to go. The weather was great, the atmosphere was great, and the game was a thriller at the end. We enjoyed every second.
Temps and weather in Tampa were very pleasant this morning so I went and played 18 holes at a course I had never played. I forgot my wallet, had to drive back home, and return, so I missed my tee time. The starter was great though and paired me up with a couple guys my age. We had a great, fun, round as we got to know each other. I shot 41-43 for an 84. We did play from the men’s white tees, not the back tees. They still had a 180 yard par 3 though, with water guarding the front and right side of the green, that was a challenge. I decided to lay up with an 8 iron, and pitch the ball over the water onto the green. Two putted for a bogey. Both my partners took double, as both hit their tee shots into the water, and didn’t get up and down successfully.
Made some new friends, played decently, and didn’t kill or maim anyone on the course. Good day.
That sounds great! We are entering into the “solar” winter here in Montana so that sounds really pleasant.
Clear and 80 here in Minny. Thursday, high 43 and rain.
Wow… pretty wild swing there.
I blame Canada.
Trivia Pursuit answer here…
Also:
According to records, the greatest decrease in temperature within a single day occurred in Browning, Montana, where the temperature dropped 100°F (56°C) from 44°F to -56°F on January 23-24, 1916, due to a passing cold front; this is considered the world record for the sharpest temperature drop in a 24-hour period.
So dry here. Gross. Hasn’t rained in ages.
What’s rain? I keep getting notifications that rain is coming but I don’t know what it means and nobody stops by.
Sounds like a fun day, nice.
Nice round!
Nice round. Nothing wrong with white tees. Bogey beats double all day long.
You are obviously about a 10 stroke better golfer than I am. But a 180 par 3 with water in front is right in my sweet spot. That’s a solid 4 hybrid that I can hit fairly high, and fairly consistently.
My problem is 110 to 160….I can no longer hit regular irons.
Get an even higher lofted hybrid – if you have a four, try a six or even seven. Hybrids saved me as I got older.
World Series Game 4, I haven’t paid much attention to it since I don’t like either team. Maybe the Yanks will get swept. I am sure there will be no questionable Ump calls to drag it out another game or 2.
We watched some of it last night because my kid is getting really into baseball and wanted to see Ohtani.
I saw something this morning that said there were a couple million more people watching the World Series last night in Japan than in the US.
I can see that, not a lot of interest in the US, unless you are a fan of either team. It’s not like it is a Juggernaut vs small market team.
Know quite a few folks watched World Series over Giants/Steelers.
Dodger pitching is simply over whelming Yankee hitting. Judge can’t even put the bat on the ball.
T’wolves 5:30 Central, against the Mav’s
Wild at Pittsburgh, Fleury’s last game there. Think I might watch that.
You are strangely in tune with Minnesota sports for somebody who supposedly lives on a different continent……
He’s not from over seas, he just forgot the g in his handle. HungViking.
😂😂😂
Just the Vikes and the Wild. That’s all the Minnesota sports I can handle.
3 channels to surf, remote may not leave hand.
Samesies, Bruins playing at the same time, so I’ll have two channels to watch at least 😊
Hockey gives you the period breaks that help. I usually end up on something most interesting.
TMI there chief……
Tampon Tim Approves.
I should proofread more, can’t get away with anything here.
LOL
Kamala going to get live primetime coverage for her propaganda tonight.
She will have a teleprompter, so she shouldn’t eff it up too bad.
Oh she will. Listen closely to what she says and she will tell you how they plan to de-legitimize the election. Sounds like they are planning for more “peaceful protests” that they will blame on the right wing MAGA crowd.
Riiiiight
I mean, she is just flat out bad at this stuff.
But it will be much more controlled tonight, unless she tries to ad lib.
Maybe they’ll break out the black and red lights again for her to stand in front of and scream about half of the country being Nazis.
What’s the over/under on how many times she utters Trump?
I gotta go at least 20.
25
What’s the over/under on how many cackles happen?
Staffers hate her guts but she must think cackling is endearing to voting base. Plus when she cackles she talks less.
It’s a nervous tic.
Likely.
Or her tell.
100? days w/o a press conference? Speaks volumes for me.
Is it a press conference or just her reading a teleprompter and then walking away like she is in charge?
Just a teleprompter speech. She can’t actually answer questions. Rogan invited her on his podcast too but they wanted it short and were going to make him fly to wherever they wanted. He said no, it will be in my studio and the normal 3 hours. Since they passed because she can’t do it, JD Vance is going to do it.
That’s what I thought.
She can’t just sit down and talk with someone. It’s all got to be scripted.
Get in front of reporters with unscripted questions and no teleprompter. The thought scares the hell out of the left.
She’s going to twerk. I just know it…
great, flacco gonna torch us on sunday night football
Lesson learned from LA – pressure, pressure, pressure!
Plus, stay away from Colts players, so as not to grant them 5 first downs via “penalty”, as happened vs Rams. Also, grab facemask, won’t be called.
Well they can grab facemasks and not be called.
Vikings not so much.
Remember a Monday night game when Rodgers for the Packers turned his head and faked like he got facemasked by a Viking and it was called. The replay showed that the Vikings player never touched his facemask.
I think it was Pukers Vikings.
Well, who can forget I think it was week 13 in 2015 when a Lions player touched Rodgers faceguard with a thumb and then pulled him down by the shoulder – called facemask followed by that stupid Hail Mary TD they broadcast on NFL ads for the next year.
He doesn’t get those calls anymore since he spoke out against the NFL and the jab… Too bad he isn’t still in GB now.
Valid point. No facemask grabbing, then.
Jim Irsay working the phones as we speak….
5-0 with the refs, a neutral loss to Lions, 0-1 without refs.
Everyone hates the owner of Colts. they aren’t getting any calls.
He’s Elite !!
If we are going to get torched it would not matter if is was Flacco or Richardson.
Richardson wouldn’t be able to torch us. Flacco can…
I can see that. Zombie Flacco has his moments.
If that happens, I say we stop rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and start throwing the worthless slop overboard. Let’s get some more picks including a top 10 pick for 2025 so we can build the roster around McCarthy.
Diggsy the Diva out for the year.
Hmmm,
I don’t celebrate injuries, especially bad ones.
Hard not to at least smile at the news Karma being what it is.
So I guess I will keep quiet on the topic.
Let’s hope Trump is playing along with these shenanigans.
I have a feeling they gotta a plan as well.
How does one receive a mail in ballot without a postmark?
Asking for the Unabomber of Lincoln, MT.
Well, that’s the trick.
You can’t use logic when stealing an election.
Put into a dropbox up to three days after the election evidently.
That has to be illegal.
Not in Nevada per their Supreme Court.
Curious – what would be the rational for this. There is an implied meaning in the term “Election Day.”
It’s no longer Election Day. It is now Election Season. Gotta have a chance to know how many ballots to print up.
And that would be the only logical reason for “after.”
Hey, they are simply “defending democracy”. 🤣
What a joke this whole system has become… unbelievable.
I heard some proposal out there that election day should be a holiday, therefore allowing all people to vote on election day only. Except for military personnel.
Kind of like the idea.
Not bad at all.
National holiday. Paper ballots. Photo IDs.
It really is that simple
Yes, it is.
That sounds pretty racist.
That makes sense. I am racist!
I repeat again that they need to federalize the federal election. Thereby eliminating these stupid state by state rules. I will again be shot down.
Election day holiday would not apply to HCW’s, therefore I say heck no.
I personally vote absentee and think everyone should vote absentee for the very reasons Vance said – you get sick, your kid gets sick, you get called into work to cover for an employee, etc etc etc all of a sudden you didn’t cast a vote.
Well the States are what makes the United States unique.
It was a brilliant system devised so that all people have a say in the election rather than a ruling majority of the top 10 cities in the country.
I know of a person, who was literally on her deathbed election day 2020. She was able to get out and vote in person. She died the next day. There is no excuse for not voting in person, other than you don’t want to vote.
Well, I can tell you that as a matter of routine, any craniotomy performed for resection of an intraparenchymal tumor located near an eloquent center will take 12 hours or more to perform. Same with a spinal cord tumor. So there is one excuse for not voting in person. How about your child is hospitalized with a subdural hematoma and placed in medically induced coma? How about you are in labor? C’mon man, I could literally come up with 100 valid excuses just in the medical arena in less than 5 minutes.
If you federalize federal elections, the ” rules ” will very quickly mirror the rules of the most liberal state of the union.
Our system is not a majority of the votes. it’s winning the most electoral votes which is driven by winning individual states. So why that state say how it will regulate voting.
Left eating left.
Totally freaking hilarious.
Too outrageous for CNN.
But calling Trump Hitler is fine.
Dude was just literally called a Nazi, then they hammered him for that comment. Can’t make it up.
Correct.
They kicked Girdusky (“the Nazi”) off the show and banned him from appearing again.
You can call Nazis, Nazis. To joke about anybody on the left is divisive and leads to violence.
All of these Nazis name users, should go visit Auschwitz and Dachua, maybe talk to a few survivors, and then let’s have a real discussion of what the Nazis’ really were (are).
On CNN’s main page, trump is mentioned 2.3x as much as harris atm. What will they have to talk about when she wins?
They’ll have all the cases against Trump and his supporters and censoring Elon to talk about.
Just note the overall tone and behavior of this group. CNN was once recognized as the number one news outlet in the world.
Close to a Jerry Springer show now.
I dunno, I think this changes things….
Boy she knows how to run a pick 6!
Lol, that’s the best part from his post!
@Ok coach@
Hard to get 0 points in Madden…. Yikes.
If Kfey comes around, maybe he can explain how this happened. He is a Madden expert, after all.
It happened because AOC and TW are a couple of slapdicks that don’t know what they’re doing……
0-0 happens when you’re fucking around and trying to ‘connect’ with a certain crowd – while being woefully unaware that Madden players are too smart to not immediately recognize you’re pandering to them.
I’d let AOC/TW pick my team….. and I’d smoke them both.
I’d smoke Kfey too.
Now I’m going to smoke some weed.
Tampon’s controller wasn’t even on.
FTP!
FT*!
If I were in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden and Sean Payton and I had gun with only 2 bullets……
I’d shoot Sean Payton twice.
SKOL!
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I laughed.
Both times in the crotch?
Thought this was interesting…..
Figured the money could be better spent in Michigan and Pennsylvania?
You would think that with $1B raised money would be the least of her worries.
I guess that could be good news (they have locked up WI and NC) or bad news (no path to winning those states) depending on the reason for their strategy.
@I still think Minnesota is going to be the tightest race in the nation.@
Seems like tightest would be Pennsylvania then maybe Georgia of the swing states.
Who knows if Virginia some other ‘blue state’ get stolen by Trunp in a tight one.
Of course with all the cheating attempts anything can happen.
The post said it went to Virginia.
They must be worried that they would lose there then.
That’s the take.
But as MT said, plausible they think they are winning WI & NC.
Wisconsin maybe, NC? It might be close but in no way is a certain blue win.
Maybe since there is more delegates at stake in Virginia it is a priority.
Unless FEMA is still denying access in NC where Trump voters can’t get out to vote.
They’re just going to be nice and collect the ballots from those dirty, poor Trump voters and deliver them. Don’t question it either when they say votes can be counted that arrive in unsealed envelopes.
Would be shocked if Virginia went blue. Just too many libs in NoVa and the Tidewater Areas compared to the rural populations.
At this point, nothing would shock me.
In a normal society and normal election, it should be Ronald Reagan 2.0.
I won’t be shocked if Trump wins NH, VA or even NM.
But I also wouldn’t be shocked if Harris wins.
Reports in PA of republicans being told the line is too long to vote and told to come back later.
And the printers are “breaking” so they are sending people home. They arrested a lady for telling people to stay in line and vote.
Yep.
Yea, suspect this election is going to be unlike any in our history, countless law suites and who knows when it will get finally decided.
We won’t know the winner for at least a week and then lawsuits will drag it out for months. If Trump wins they will try to show the election was illegitimate and therefor null in order to “protect democracy”.
My gut says it’s over election night.
There will be lawsuits, but I think it won’t be worth the squeeze for the dems.
Then the real shenanigan’s begin.
Trump thrown in jail.
Electors not voting in December.
Another assassination attempt.
Seems about right. After Gore v Bush, courts are lathe to again get involved with election results. Suites need to be right now and decided before next week.
Now all the shenanigans you mention, they will certainly try anything.
Not only did he taunt the fans and tip the ball to Brown for the TD but he was suppose to be the one who was covering Brown. Hey, but at least he apologized.
https://sports.yahoo.com/bears-cb-tyrique-stevenson-was-responsible-for-defending-noah-brown-on-hail-mary-coach-matt-eberflus-says-173920957.html
Great article on Cousins..The Falcons currently have the lowest 3 and out percentage in the league.
‘Elite processor’: Kirk Cousins displays expert knowledge of play concepts in Week 8 win
Bad things: CD out for season, I wonder if we’ve seen Darnold’s ceiling already this year, NFL refs, taxes.
Good things: Second grandson was born yesterday, going to Missouri to meet him Friday. Shot a bull 20 minutes into the season on Saturday.
Congrats, on the Good things.
Out of our control on the Bad things.
Congrats on #2 grandson! and filling 20 minutes into the season may be a record!
Bull on public land?
No, actually had a once in a lifetime chance to hunt a ranch east of Lincoln. Friend of my wife, she just inherited it. She is selling it and closes Nov 11. Hunting private land almost felt like cheating. It wasn’t a given we’d shoot elk, got lucky and found a herd glassing the evening before and they were still there in the morning.
Wish she wasn’t selling.
Get the checkbook out.
If I could I would. $10M
Just put it on your credit card at 25% interest.
If it’s good enough for the feds, it’s good enough for you.
Speaking of CC debt (long MT style boring tale to follow)…
I have a long history of paying my CC statement every month. In fact, I usually pay it the day I receive the bill so I don’t forget. I’ve had my Amex for 30+ years, etc.
I got a TSC (tractor supply) branded card as I shop there a lot for farm stuff and get discounts on dog food in their “neighbor club” faster using their card. They recently switched to a card issued by Citibank.
Long story short I did not receive a bill from them in September, nor did I notice I didn’t receive a bill. The October statement included a late charge for not making the minimum payment as well as significant interest charge, say something like $65 total. First time in my life.
Called and explained I didn’t get a statement. Beep boop beep okay we will reverse late charge but you still owe interest <grr> okay. They said to wait 48 hours to pay bill to allow late charge credit to process.
I pay bill on a Thursday morning. Friday morning my bank notifies me the bill has been paid.
I walk into TSC on Sunday, buy some saw blades. Run my CC – rejected – call vendor. They call vendor (line building up behind me), Citi wants to talk with me, give me the spiel that because my bill is overdue the card will be frozen until they get the minimum payment due of $whatever.
Personality flaw – I freak. Not freak as in I had a meltdown, but internally I am planning some Machiavellian takeover of Citi stock to bring them to their knees. I pay with my Amex, go stalking home, immediately get on phone while my wife tries to talk me off the cliff. Some Sri Lankan giving me the business, my wife is saying “tell her they said to wait 48 hours etc…” so I ask the rep if she can just talk directly to my wife (who is a master at these scenarios). Almost immediately the rep said that she was with collections and couldn’t answer my wife’s concerns.
What followed was one of the many things I so love about my wife. For the next 30 minutes, she started chopping down the tree the collections gal was climbing up, ended up with a citi rep from Virginia, both the late charge and interest reversed plus a $50 statement credit. Meanwhile I’m still huffing in the background “just cancel the f’ing card”.
That is pretty much what I would do…just cancel the card and escape with my rage. I view my time as more valuable than any hassle like that.
But my wife…she will spend a whole day to reverse a $20 charge, if necessary.
I can’t live like that.
Entertaining story thanks for sharing.
I used to have issues with cards and payments and such. But now since I have turned all that over to The Teacher I don’t have to worry about it.
She has spreadsheets with all bills listed to include when they are due, now much was paid and when.
Life is much better now.
I had Citi Card charge me a fee and a penalty one month for not paying. However the check cleared my bank. Got on the phone and within 10 minutes got it fixed.
But yeah, I tend to just cancel and close stuff if the company is giving me guff about anything.
Yeah, I’m not hearing of much success on public land so far this year. It seems to get harder every year.
Elk in Nebraska?
Lincoln MT a town of about 1000 west of Great Falls about 90 miles.
Not sure how much elk hunting I have in the future. I am in pretty good shape but am getting weaker. Drove right to the elk and buddy and I weren’t even close to being able to load it. We usually carry 2 x 12’s to use to make a ramp and he forgot them. Would have been nice to have a healthy Darrisaw and O’Neil with us.
Buddy of mine took one with a bow about three weeks ago. His description of the arduous task of quartering it and getting it out makes me wince.
Quartering em is easy. I can have one done in like 15 minutes. Still gotta carry the quarters out from there, but with a good pack it’s not that bad.
I can remember in my 20’s I could walk on a bird hunt 10 miles easy on a warm day, carrying the shotgun, shells, birds, water for me and the dogs, etc.
Now by the end of six miles I’m pretty knackered. Plus I find excuses not to go out when the temps are in the 70’s (the Labs will get too hot, scent conditions are no good, etc). I find myself thinking do I really want to carry three pheasants all the way back home in this heat?
Often hearing your stories of working on the fences, greenbelt, misc chores around the house I often think ‘that is a lot more than I can do currently’.
I walk and do some upper body exercises but not nearly the level the Army/Prison required. Not unhealthy but not really ‘fit’ is how I would state my current fitness level.
Now hearing you say that walking while carrying some pheasant is a chore for you is surprising. 70s is cool for me, seems like I am missing something.
Yup, it is a combination of sore muscles as well as how quickly I can get the pheasant meat cooled down. Back in the day I could pretty well jog all the way back to the pickup with a handful of partridge, a couple of grouse and a couple of pheasants.
I can still cover lots of ground while actually hunting birds as that is a slower process, watching the dogs “birdiness”, letting them cast back and forth, investigating thickets, etc. But a six miler straight line over varied terrain – ugh I’m getting old.
Put a backback on the pups and let them carry the birds back.
When I hiked with the vizslas, I had them carry doggy first aid supplies and their water on a backpack. Hunting before the temps dip below 10 degrees is problematic as the dogs heat up fast (the rule of thumb is a dog covers 5 times the ground the hunter does), plus the backpack would likely get shredded, covered with mud, or soaking wet (or all three) even though the v’s are effete when it comes to thorns and thickets.
With the Labs, the backpack would be gone in 60 seconds as they have zero compunction blasting through any cover whatsoever.
You need an all-terrain dog sled.
Go as far as you want. Make the dogs pull you back. Mush! Mush!
A buddy of mine skijores with his husky. I do XC ski, I can only imagine if I hooked up my chocos to my belt, they would rip me in half with one going after a bunny and the other a doe.
You do the gutless method?
Yep. Even if I’m close to the truck. I can quarter one faster than I can gut one, I don’t get bloody and then I don’t have to try and load a whole elk. I also don’t have somewhere where I could hang an entire elk and would end up quartering it to butcher it.
Down hill with snow I’ll drag if not too far, and not a bunch of dead fall, otherwise I just 1/4, have boned a few because I was in pretty far.
It seems the new Grandson and the Bull Elk are way more better than your ‘Bad things’.
Maybe saying they are more relevant to your everyday life is a better way of putting it.
More better indeed!
congrats!!!
Congrats on the good things!
ok that is GOLD
too funny!
Still hilarious to watch this dude smack talking while the final play is snapped.
Reminds me of Payton doing the skol chant before the miracle in Minneapolis.
And it looks like he is the one who tipped it to the Redskins receiver.
LOL
Can you imagine if Ditka or Lombardi was this guy’s coach.
I put the Manning broadcast on for a couple of minutes last night and it was fun watching Belichek. He was taking notes and would get really frustrated about things he was seeing that should be coaching points and easy to fix.
I thought I had seen he had posted Free3. That may have been the original, when he was at Pitt.
GF – thoughtful presentation of the federal funds rate cut. Also add, FED would do better if they stayed out of politics and simply did their job.
Dy-no-mite!!!
I’m calling BS on this being nothing. If it started when he was at Pitt, he also entered the portal and transferred to USC. So, he was not happy at Pitt, which means, he is not happy here. Him saying it was nothing, is apparently after KOC, or McCardell talked to him.
Or it’s a water mark he’s used on Instagram for at least 5 years and it is nothing. He didn’t post a message that said “free3”, it was literally just a little watermark in the corner of a picture.
exactly
I’m leaning towards your take.
Not sure why he would be unhappy in Minnesota.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Will he ever get big money here playing second fiddle to JJ?
Why not? He’s not due for another contract for at least 2 years. SF paid both Aiyuk and Deebo. It’s probably more because he’s stuck living in a state that elects weirdo libs that put tampons in boys bathrooms and takes 90% of his paycheck.
Do believe taxes can be an issue.
SF – Alyuk and Deebo are two very different type of receivers. JJ and JA are more similar.
Well if that’s the issue, he’s toast.
One can dream I guess.
All I can say about the economy is that we are in no man’s land.
Stagflation.
Some sectors are in a recession (manufacturing, transportation), other areas still have inflation (healthcare, service).
Something has to give.
If Trump wins, the deep state will unload the Kraken to wreck the economy.
In the current election year, the issue of our country’s potentially unsustainable level of national debt has largely been sidestepped by party leaders, likely due to politicians adjusting their policies to the desires of the electorate. In a democratic form of government, a nation’s leaders enact policies that please their constituents, or they will be replaced.
The natural conclusion is that the deficit spending that has occurred accurately reflects the will of the American people and is thus likely to continue. With elevated deficit spending appearing likely for at least the next four years, a problem arises as to how this spending will be paid for. Investors cheered the September rate cut by the Federal Reserve along with the prospect for future rate cuts. However, the sheer increase in outstanding debt (combined with the requirement to roll over existing debt that comes due) increases the likelihood that lenders will disregard Fed actions and demand higher interest rates to compensate for the additional credit risk of the U.S. government. Higher interest rates would only add to the significant fiscal challenges already faced by the nation while also increasing the borrowing costs for all individuals.
To avoid this unpopular scenario, politicians have historically decided to print money to finance budget deficits. Inflation is likely to follow.
It’s only money.
Skoloholics Pick ‘Em League #8
We have reached the halfway point of the regular season (roughly). I did okay this week, coming in third in the weekly standings.
We had a lot of unanimousity or homogenousity or sameity in our picks this week. On paper, a lot of games seemed somewhat obvious. They didn’t all go that way, though.
This week I picked against Kirk, so of course the Falcons won. There is no getting around it. Kirk is the single most annoying player in the history of the world. I wonder what team will give him $100 million next…
Since there was so much parityity in the picks this week, not much happened for changes of positioning in the standings.
Little Fishin’ is still at the back of the pack, chasing the big boys. He does have youth on his side, though. He knows all of us will be drooling in wheelchairs soon, so all he has to do is wait for his opening to strike.
Freezy and JacksonVike are hanging out in 9 & 10. One bad pick, or one good one, could flip-flop them quite easily. Who will blink first? It is hard to tell since they are both Vikings fans. In that case, they will probably both blink at the same time and somehow both run into a wall.
I continue to be stuck in no man’s land at #9. I have a slight gap on the guys behind me. Yet, the guys in front of me have a gap on me that I can’t quite close. This is junior high all over again. Not geeky enough to excel at Knowledge Bowl and not cool enough to be acknowledged by the upper echelon. I’m stuck in the middle with Kirk.
3 through 7 is a proverbial cluster-bunch. NoDakRub, I’d rather be fishing, DE Viking, Surly Viking and Bowbunch only have a 14-point difference from top to bottom. I can’t tell who is who anymore. They have become a freakish blob of golfing, fishing, hunting and IPAs.
Bleeding Purple ‘N Gold has opened a slight 11-point gap on Kirk is still good in the 1 & 2 spots. Everyone needs to combine their psychic energy together and reel Bleeding Purple ‘N Gold back a smidge. Everyone concentrate on this thought, “Put 16 points on Carolina every week, Bleeding Purple ‘N Gold…”
We had two Genius Picks this week. DE Viking was the only one to pick the Rams over the Vikes. It appears that the days of automatically picking the Vikes to win are slipping into over. Meanwhile, Kirk is still good is the only one to get the Eagles over the Bengals.
We also had multiple Iconoclast Picks this week. Little Fishin’ was the only one to pick the Saints over the Chargers. Surly was the only one to pick the Seahags over the Bills. Jackson Vike was the only one to pick da Bears over Washington, and JacksonVike and Bowbunch were the only ones to pick the Cowgirls over the 49ers.
Everyone got a bunch of games right: Detroit over Tenn, GB over Jax, Houston over Indy, Denver over Carolina, KC over LV and Pit over NYG. Like I said, lot of easy games to pick this week.
Baltimore over Cleveland is the only game that everyone got wrong.
Onto Week #9. I can already tell Kirk is going to screw me again. The Falcons play the Cowboys. Cowboys suck, but if I pick Kirk, Falcons will suck worse.
I looked like a genius… for 29 seconds.
You were sooooooo close!
It was worth it, to see Chicago lose.
LOL, saw that. You are the only one who picked the Bears.
How could you ever pick against Kirko???
Especially in Kirktober.
Kiddo missed a couple weeks, he finally figured it out. He was making his pics without being logged into yahoo. At least we figured out the problem.
Don’t forget who Dallas’s DC is. Who hates the other more still?
Kirk is a nice man who doesn’t harbor hate. Zimmer hates Kirk more, definitely.
Zimmer is also incompetent at this point. Kirk is sometimes competent.
I should probably pick Kirk.
Find Atlanta game on listFlip coin to choose winnerSet confidence points to 1This is how I have been doing it, until this week. Kirk going to get his revenge on dem boyz.
You guys got me sold on Kirk.
15 points on Kirk, baby!