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Wow, it’s both trade deadline day AND election day! NFL teams, and nations, look to improve theirselves by acquiring talent to upgrade a position of weakness. I’m holding out a sliver of hope that KAM will whip up some miracle deal to upgrade either the center or right guard position. Heck, why not both?
Vikings/NFL News and Updates:
Athlon Sports reported that the Vikings are having ‘constant dialogue’ ahead of the trade deadline. Wow, constant dialogue. You’d think that KAM’s voice would wear out, being in a constant dialogue for days on end. I suppose maybe he takes turns dialoguing, let the assistant GM come dialogue for an hour or two while KAM rests his voice & sleeps & all that type of stuff.
It appears that the Vikings will be without their starting kicker AND long snapper for an unknown period of time, according to the Strib. DePaola was injured during Sunday’s game, while Reichard re-aggravated a nagging injury he’d been dealing with all week. I read a report that the nagging injury became much worse sometime in the first half of the game. That stinks, our special teams have been solid this year. At least the punter isn’t injured……yet.
Check out all the highlights from Sunday’s game, watch O’Connell’s post-game locker room speech, and there’s much more to sift through in the media vault.
It was a good game on Monday Night Football. As of this writing, the Chiefs just went up by a TD, but Baker and the Bucs are putting up a good fight. Here’s a Buccaneers-Chiefs post-game wrap-up and final box score, courtesy of CBS Sports. I hope the Bucs win. The Chiefs are undefeated with a lot of help from the refs, while it seems like the Vikings are playing against the refs most weeks.
Keep up with trade deadline moves from around the NFL, courtesy of CBS Sports.
Media Selection:
It’s election day, it seems a fitting time to bring up one of our nation’s many problems. Enjoy!
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So they just called Pennsylvania for DT.
That gives him 267 electoral collage votes and the currently lead in every state left except Tampon Tims state (although some are admittedly close).
Bonus he already has the Senate, with several left to be called.
House will be close, yet to be seen.
This is my happy face!
I hear MSNBC was already starting to meld down.
Can’t wait to watch Morning Joe and The View reactions tomorrow.
Laughing… I have never watched either of those shows but maybe I will today (since it’s Wednesday now).
4 years ago I went to bed thinking my candidate had a commanding lead. Woke up to a WTF.
Tempted to just stay up this time……..
Went thru same thing.
Just heard that the betting line has moved from DT 58% to 85% just tonight.
Even the Democrats talking heads are saying that their ‘path to victory’ has narrowed.
#nojinx
Has MSNBC or CNN declared Harris the winner yet?
The count at the moment is DT 195 and Cackles 113 but no battleground states have been called yet.
Guess everyone is watching the election results. I’m hoping Trump pulls it out (of course) but worried about late night surprise voting swings.
Not watching results just yet. It’s my 46th today. Voted after work and just finished a great burger from Honest Abe’s. Wife’s friend rolling over later after polls close (she’s an election inspector this year) and we’ll watch some results and smoke a little grass to wind down. Wife is a progressive liberal. Her friend also a registered democrat. I’m more middle of the road (been called a Libertarian a time or two – not sure it’s accurate) Enjoy political debate with both as we’re the rare example of opposing sides that can engage in civil discourse – although my wife and I agree on a number of social issues.
I’m proud that I voted. I’m proud that I keep company with others (including this tiny corner of the internet) that also take part in this sacred ritual.
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Really great post. My wife has a dear friend from Maryland, who comes down here a couple times a year to just relax, and have fun. She is one of my favorite people on the planet. She is a huge liberal, and we agreed a long time ago, that there is no need to “go there”. We love each other and we won’t let politics divide us.
According to exit polls… Seventy-two percent of voters are angry or dissatisfied with the country’s state.
‘It is Trumps fault’ per Cackles.
Well it’s not like she’s been the VP puppet the last 4 years…
Reichard to the I.R. Shit.
Well, if it comes down to kicker and long snapper guessing we have no shot anyways.
Might be more 4th down plays, guessing.
Field goals are for suckers anyway.
Romo will bail us out. I hope.
#nojinx
I hear Romo is coming out of retirement and signing with the Vikings. What happened to Darnold?? His head finally fall off?
The new kicker is Romo 2.0.
Hopefully he kicks better than he held the ball.
Hopefully he’s not as annoying as a kicker as he is as an announcer.
Now that would suck. Romo’s better than Brady though, IMHO.
Despite several defenders trying to take Darnold’s head off the last couple of weeks I’m pretty sure his head is still firmly attached to his body.
#nojinx
So the Officials said Sam was hit in the shoulder on that sack, scoop and score vs the Colts. I guess they didn’t see the video.
https://fansided.com/kevin-oconnell-puts-officials-nfl-on-blast-for-not-protecting-sam-darnold
The polymarket betting odds have inched up a bit today in Trump’s favor….I am looking for any silver lining.
‘Use the term silver lining when you want to emphasize the hopeful side of a situation that might seem gloomy on the surface’
You find the current situation gloomy?
Don’t you?
Today?
No I am cautiously optimistic.
Ask me again when the results are announced.
We do have to ‘beat the cheat’ after all.
I am not optimistic at all, we have a flawed candidate,
Yes one side supports High Inflation, Open Borders, and Soft on Crime stances, so it should be easy.
But the other side is largely against killing babies, and that is disqualifying.
Both sides have flawed candidates. One side has better policies/record.
Yes. The Policy thing is easy.
Word salad and Tampon can’t put together a coherent sentence. Leaders of the Free World.
When will that happen?
If it is a landslide we could know late tonight.
If there are lots of close states and lawsuits it could take up to a week ala Bush-Gore.
Would be nice if it would be a landslide for Trump. Curious if he manages to beat the cheat this time. Fingers crossed.
I was wrong the Polls in Pennsylvania to close until 8 eastern. (3 hours from now).
This race is largely about Pennsylvania, statistical modeling suggests whoever wins Pennsylvania has a 90% chance of winning the election.
Very interesting, thanks for the info.
There will be no true landslide like 1980 or 1984. It’s just not happening.
But Trump at 320 is possible, picking off a couple of blue states.
Different for each state since we have 4 different time zones. I believe we will know something after Georgia closes at 7 Eastern Time, but we will know much much more when Pennsylvania closes at 7:30 Eastern time.
Last two elections I stayed up until very early to watch the results coming in. Don’t know if I’ll do that today. It was amazing (and creepy) to watch the cheat happen in realtime.
Yes, I hope we have things in place to avoid the cheating…the biggest problem is “mail in ballots” that get dropped off in the middle of the night.
Yup, those miraculous mail in ballots… all for the dem candidate, of course. They pulled a somewhat similar trick in Austria as well in 2016.
DT daughter-in-law is the RNC Chairwoman. They stated last night that they had filed 130 lawsuits already and that they would not allow any cheating this time.
That gives me hope.
#nojinx
Would be vital to at least partially stop the cheat, hope they’ll succeed with this.
Trump isn’t dumb.
He isn’t about to let it happen again IMO.
That would be nice. Really curious if the they dare to try pulling it off again.
Trump isn’t going to let this happen to him a second time.
He cleaned out the RNC and put a Trump in there.
Mike Johnson said something like, “we have our secret weapon” in place late last week.
Let Will rest up.
Sounds like Will is going to IR so he will miss at least 4 weeks.
Yep.
This is a good 4-week stretch to miss, tbh
Not too surprising.
Not much good out there on the FA market.
Rub some dirt on it.
Not shocked about Romo, he was with us earlier this year.
Just got back from the polls, took about 90m.
Guy in front of me asked about the ‘Ranked Choice’ prop that is on the ballot here. He said no one explained it in a way that made sense to him. I tried to explain it without getting political and getting kicked out.
Finally I said ‘we are political refugees’ from Calif and we are voting against it. Then he understood saying ‘ok, I know all about Calif’. And so we started discussing Santa Barbara as he was familiar with there like we are.
Political refugees. That’s a good way of putting it. Same proposition on our ballot.
I voted absentee. Took me 60 seconds to run into the courthouse and drop it three weeks ago. 90 minutes on a workday I’d be in a froth.
They said that there was a line forming at 7am for when the polls opened at 8.
The line was about 1/3 shorter when we left that when we got there but we figured lunch would be more crowded, did seem like it.
Live look at your ballot….
I am in Idaho not a swing state.
My ballot is safer, I think.
There was an article in the most recent edition of the local newspaper about how they secure the ballots, etc…said they had received FBI training to recognize signature fraud. I can believe it cuz once I forged my wife’s signature on a ballot (I noticed when I was dropping it in the ballot box she had forgot to sign it)…and they called her to come down and resign the ballot.
My signature is very different each time.
When I joined the Army I did full name with middle initial as they required. Did that for a few years then started doing first initial last name. And depending on how important the thing I am signing it is more or less readable.
They had us do that ‘electronic’ sign in that you do with your finger at the poll today. I normally just make a squiggly like for those.
Signing things is one of those brain worms I get from time to time. If I squiggle something when I buy an item, can I later claim that is not my squiggle?
When I get informed consent from a patient prior to a procedure that they may become a eunuch, can they later say that the signature on the consent is not valid and I owe them a pair of testicles? For that matter, is it my word versus theirs on exactly what was discussed in the consent process, and that all their questions were answered satisfactorily?
If they were to compare my signature to something I doubt I could duplicate any specific one unless I had example of the want to compare it with in front of me.
When I did mortgage paperwork, both here and in Calif, I reverted back to the full name with the middle initial. Those don’t compare to anything else I have signed in 15-20 years.
I voted at about 7:40 am as I was on my way to work. There were only 2 people in front of me. I was in and out of there in about 10 minutes. Of course we are in a small rural area. My wife voted at about 6:30 pm and she was number 400 and something.
See ya….
Shocked
With good reason.
‘Among 200 cornerbacks who’ve played at least one snap this season, Booth’s 29.1 PFF grade is dead. last.’
I thought Zim was the cornerback whisperer.
I think Booth needs a ‘CB Yeller’ to get thru to him.
Who did we trade straight up for him again? Did he last longer with us?
Nashan Wright.
I don’t see him listed on the depth chart.
He got released a while ago.
Election Prediction Post.
Don’t open if you are not interested.
Trump wins the popular vote with 51-52%
Trump wins at least 6 of 7 swing states. Michigan is the only one he might lose.
NH, VA could go to Trump.
NM, MN are very close.
Senate: R’s win 53 to 55 total seats.
House: No real change.
R’s: 220 to 225
D’s: 218 to 210
Leftist trash major cities this week and incite an insurrection.
Media will jump out of tall buildings.
If I’m wrong, I will ban myself from Skoloholics until after the SuperBowl.
Somewhat bold predictions, curious if you will be right. Don’t like the last sentence though, don’t do it, if.
A plausible outcome.
I’m interested in hearing more conversations about stool color and what people had to eat last night…
Oh sweet! I’ve been waiting for us to finally come to this topic, after all these years of Kirk discussions, Peterson beatings, stadium financing, nap strategy, smoker recipes. So anyhow, (…)
oh wait, assume sarcasm.
I am basically the Make A Wish Foundation…
I just made the day of a regional site. Couple of weeks ago I noticed a “spot” on frontal/lateral x-rays/radiographs on the same location on two consecutive patients. Called and asked them to check it out. Today I noticed a spot in the exact same location on the laterals…paged back to the last five exams I read and there it is. Now the story would be “funny” if I said all the patients had cancer, but it was more of an edge of film thing that was filtered away by my brain until I noticed it again today.
So now they are tearing apart the entire system from x-ray source through image intensifier and digital transfer.
You should have told them, “I think your x-ray system is capturing images of the human soul!”
Then see what they do…
Speaking of imaging souls, if such a technology existed I would probably not have one.
The “unhoused” are extremely rare in my little corner of the world. Last three months there has been a feller notably camping in the ditches around town, he has all his belongings in some kind of cart contraption and sets up a little tent every night. Naturally I wonder what he does with his um waste, etc…
The story is he spent a winter outside up in Williston, and migrated down this way through Sidney. Apparently “likes to be left alone” although he “enjoys the food and money that people drop off”.
My soulless self thinks yah awesome these unhoused have a network, soon there’ll be a dozen or more roaming around town asking for food and money, etc…Also I find the many posts on Fartbook from people exclaiming how they sat down and had a burger with him and gave him some cash to be virtue signaling.
I wonder if there is a soul store?
They are now called “newcomers”
There was a guy who lived like that in my neighborhood in a winter many moons ago.
Word around the campfire was his feet froze, and he tried to amputate them, and that is how they found him in the spring…
Don’t know if it was true. Before my time.
Not just a ball of lint on the lense?
I had a double cheeseburger, which was supposed to be a Flamethrower, with cheese curds from DQ. Wife gets home and says “you don’t get a Blizzard, I didn’t want to fuck around with ice cream”.
As far as stool color, mine is golden oak stain with a satin finish.
Now that’s how you do it!
Flamethrower is legit. But the best thing you can get at Dairy Queen is their Smores Shake. It’s not on the menu but you can ask for it. If they say they don’t have it, order it piece by piece. Vanilla shake, graham base, Marsh-mellow fluff and for the chocolate either ask for chocolate dip cone topping or oreos.
I am going to make this happen in my life.
It’s so fucking good.
I literally go,
Me: “Can I have a smores shake or are you going to make me order it piece by piece?”
DQ – Sorry sir we don’t have that.
Me – OK can I have a vanilla shake with graham cracker base, marshmallow fluff…
DQ: OK sir, we will make you a smores shake
It’s like, why did you tell me no in the first place when you damn well know what it is! haha
You are the master…!
I weighed 330 lbs at one time in my life… So… there’s that. haha
One of my wife’s great weaknesses is the turtle blizzard with extra pecans. Every time we are in a town with a DQ she asks if we can share one, I decline about half the time (for our health) but have to stop the other half cuz she just loves ’em. She shares every other spoonful with me and pretty soon if the doggos are with us they start getting little spoonfuls. Don’t judge me for eating off the same spoon as the dogs, I have no soul.
I’m a ginger… me either haha
That’s the problem right there.
I hate everything marshmellow.
You’re entitled to your wrong opinion… it’s literally like sugar and air. Texture thing?
I think it is because we were poor growing up and usually the only thing in the house we could consider a treat was marshmellows.
Also, as a young kid, like 5-6, we would roast them on the gas stove. my mom caught me once and said I could start a fire doing that. Well, one time we were roasting them on the stove and the building next door caught on fire. So my 5-6 year old logic was I started the fire by roasting marshmellows on the stove.
Makes sense. Same reason my dad won’t touch anything maple flavored. Grew up poor, lots of mouths to feed. Sometimes pancakes and syrup for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He hates pancakes.
Lattimore traded to Commanders…..
How do you lose a kicker and long snapper on same game?
^^Be a Viking fan.
LOL…
Apparently, Reichard hurt himself at practice and then “re-aggravated” the injury in the game on Sunday night.
Didn’t he get totally pancaked on one of the punts?
Hurt his hand somehow. So Viking esque.
And going into it they were having a perfect season… Like, we finally got shit sorted… and then… AND THEN…!!!!
FTP!
FT*!
I vote Sean Payton be excommunicated from the NFL….
SKOL!!!
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If I were a betting man, I’d put $$ that it happened on his first miss.
Dalvin Cook school of thought.
If I go to Subway, a foot-long wrap, chips and drink costs about $16.
I can go to a sit-down restaurant and order a big burger with everything, fries and a drink for about $15.
What the hell, Subway?
And you could order your burger to go.
Don’t have to deal with people.
Have not gone out to eat in restaurants much in the last couple of years. Wife and I recently went out and the price tag was reason enough to stay home from now on.
Somehow, my salary has not kept up with inflation.
@Shocking@
I thought they had some deal going on for like 6 buck footlongs or something…
I see they started a special this week. $6.99 for a six inch, chips and drink.
I want to go back to the $5 footlong days!
They’ve had specials.
Maybe your location chose not to honor it.
I know that plenty of Subway Franchises were complaining about all of the $6.99 footlong deals, and they couldn’t make money at the local stores.
One business analyst was speculating that Subway was going to file bankruptcy. Not sure why though.
We had BOGO at Subway two weeks ago.
So we took advantage of that with four of us.
Makes cents
Trump said one of the first calls he will make if elected is to Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, about the border crisis, telling her to “stop letting people come in through our border.”
He then told supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina, how he would make Mexico cooperate.
“We’re being invaded by Mexico, but now we have a new president of Mexico,” he said. “I haven’t met her. And I’m going to inform her on Day One or sooner that if they don’t stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25 percent tariff on everything they send into the United States of America.”
Personally, I’m good with this.
Yep.
Step two is to deport as many illegals as possible out of here.
Let them come in the legal way.
Totally agree. I am so sick of my tax dollars being committed by politicians to support and facilitate illegals in this country. They robbed FEMA to support illegals, and then there wasn’t money enough in the coffers for a real disaster. Mad as hell about it.
Did you happen to see the video of some MA people (wearing HarrisWaltz shirts) going door to door on homes with Harris/Waltz signs in their yard letting them know that they have been chosen to house immigrants they had in their car?
They literally just flipped out in fear.
One lady said, “we support you. Don’t do this to us.”
Just like DeSantis’ martha’s vineyard plan.
Send illegals to the people who vote for this stuff, and they panic.
Utter hypocrites and disgusting to me.
I didn’t see that, but honestly, I’m not surprised. Dems are so virtuous, until they get hit with reality. I want prudent, practical, and pragmatic leadership. Trump was all that as President. Biden-Harris has been a total disaster. The left’s activist nature is destroying the country.
‘Virtue Signaling is easier and cheaper than being Virtuous’
Well said.
Start with the criminals.
It would take a decade or more to process all of the illegals that FJB let in.
Especially considering the semi-legals status they gave those that they flew over the border.
Agreed but how do you start with the criminals? Is it just you get caught doing a crime and are illegally here then you get deported? I mean… yeah. But is there another avenue here?
Wouldn’t they all be criminals, if they are here illegally?
I was gonna say that too haha.
yes it will cost some money to deport the illegals, but it costs an awful lot of money to pay for their healthcare, their kids education, their housing, and their food. I am pretty sure it costs less to deport an illegal than to keep them here on average.
Believe if he simply reinstates the ‘remain in Mexico policy’ 95 % of the problem immediately goes away.
I am good with it too… if it works. But we HAVE to try something, and something other than a useless, expensive wall. So yeah. let’s give it a whirl. But these Tariff situations could backfire.
Who pays a tariff?
Payment of a tariff imposed by the U.S. falls on the person or organization in the U.S. who imports a given product — but that’s not the whole story.
Follow the money: The true economic burden of a tariff can fall on the importer, the exporter, and/or the consumer.
Let’s say a U.S. importer buys hats from overseas for $12 and sells them for $20 each. If a new tariff of 50% — $6 per hat in this case — were implemented:
Case in point: A 2019 study estimated that by the end of 2018, “Import tariffs were costing U.S. consumers and the firms that import foreign goods an additional $3 billion per month in added tax costs.”
So what happens if you raise the corporate tax rate?
The very rich on the right complain about not being able to afford another 12 yachts and pretends trickle down effect has ever shown to be a reality and beneficial and the identity Pubs eat it up like it’s true. That’s what happens. lol
70% of the wealthy are supporting the Democrats.
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-being-party-rich-could-cost-them-2024-election-1806747
Don’t all for this false propaganda Edge.
Political reallignment is happening.
Trump is bringing the middleclass to his side.
Hate him or not.
You asked what would happen. Which side supports the idea of trickle down? I said nothing about Dem or Pub leaders. But what side’s voters have been the one’s to get behind the notion of trickle down? Come on now… you know the answer to this but just don’t want to answer…
“Trickle Down”. Isn’t that a clever term democrats created to put down Republican policy?
Will Rogers came up with the term. But yeah, it’s always a conspiracy.
It’s not who came up with the term, but how it has been applied politically, but thanks for playing.
What’s strange is that a fiscal policy that says it will make things better for ALL (including the rich) Americans works. When you try to pull some Rube Goldberg thing that “intends” to only help poor and middle class at the expense of the poor usually fails.
Indeed. The left knows this. Capitalism ensures people have opportunity, and the left wants people dependent on the on their Government. This is a strategy that has been promoted for eons. We will take care of you, if you give up all your rights.
LOL.
You mentioned “trickle down” and the “very rich on the right”.
Come on man.
Don’t fall for this tired old propaganda.
Again, the uber wealthy are supporting democrats now.
And I’d say even upper middle class too.
Yep.
I saw a stat that said 70% of the wealthiest Americans are voting democrat.
true, I did. You got me!
Ahhh… cry me a river. MOST of the taxes in this country are paid by rich people. Most of the jobs in this country are provided by rich people. Most of the opportunities in this country are provided by rich people. Capitalism works. Socialism fails the people. It doesn’t make people equally prosperous, it makes everyone equally poor, dependent on the Government, and freedomless.
It’s not a cry me a river situation… it just doesn’t work.
That word is so hijacked. Socialism. True actual socialism doesn’t work. Correct. Just labeling everything socialism also doesn’t work.
Bullshit… it HAS worked. People have jobs, and opportunities because of Capitalism. The lie is there is something better. There isn’t.
No it hasn’t worked. Trickle down tax codes and capitalism are two different things. Seems you are unware of that.
It could work if businesses were incentivized to spend but they aren’t. They are incentivized to spend on lobbiests and put their capital gains off shore to avoid paying taxes on those gains. To a small degree they are incentivized to spend right? But not at anywhere near the same rate of gain from tax code benefits. The argument people have jobs is so dumb. People have always had jobs… even under Dem tax codes.
Are you aware that the top 25% of wage earners pay 89% of ALL taxes?
I mean this trickledown schtick is old, worn out and false. Pure propaganda that you are buying into.
Why you choose to die on this hill is hilarious. And Sad.
You’re aware that whatever stat you give the top earners have billions hidden away from the US tax code right?
It isn’t propaganda. Tax cutting the top in an effort that they will create more jobs or pay their employees better etc… is false, like stupidly false. You really believe that fairy tale? Here’s the thing… if it worked. I’d be for it. Shit, we have seen where failing companies bailed out by the federal government still do this shit. Just give all those tax dollars as bonuses to the fuck heads the screwed up the company in the first place instead of re-investing and taking care of the company.
Yeah, after Trump cut taxes for everybody businesses definitely didn’t give out raises and bonuses because they were making more money.
So raising taxes on the rich to “make them pay their fair share” works?
I saw an Harris ad this weekend where she duped some poor worker in a hard hat to say,
“Trump takes my money and gives it to billionaires. That’s robin hood in reverse”
Embarrassing that anybody thinks you can steal from the poor to make the rich even more wealthy.
Did I say anything about raising their taxes? No! Way to put words in my mouth/straw man that. I said that trickle down as it sits doesn’t work?
I even said I would be for it if businesses were actually incentivized to re-invest that back into the economy but they aren’t. That is the real problem. Businesses have no more incentive as they bring in more income to reinvest that at any higher rate than they already are.
True actual socialism would work, if you are willing to make the tough decisions.
Socialism works if everybody pulls their own weight. But you have to be willing to let those that do not do their fair share perish. You cannot have 51% doing the work, while 49% reap the benefits, they did not deserve.
Not the point. And the rich are not the issue. Do you have a 401K?
Corporations pay expenses – like labor, electricity and yes taxes. You think they hold prices constant while expenses go up? No, they raise their prices and consumers pay more.
Just like your tariff exanople.
I see. I said I am not against the tariff idea, and I get that it might increase the cost of goods. But remember all the bitching of the price of goods that went up under Biden… make sure you also bitch if it happens under Trump.
I’m just trying to explain basic corporate finances. Raising corporate taxes is NOT good for the middle/poor people. It will get you just the opposite!
But thank you for reminding me to bitch if Trump puts forth some bad policy.
There is absolutely no need to impose tariffs on Mexico to shut down the border.
Wall doesn’t work and will also cost the taxpayers a ton as well.
Stay in Mexico will for sure work and costs nothing.
Stay in Mexico did
willfor sure work and costs nothing. FIFYHow does it for sure work for stopping people coming over the border? Like I like the idea of it as far as slowing down asylum seekers but how does it help stop folks that are trying to come over the border?
Landmines would help.
I’m in favor…
Yeah, gated communities don’t work to keep the RifRaff out, thats why all of the Rich people live there.
Walls do work. I lock my doors when I go to bed at night, I don’t just leave them wide open and hope no one comes in….
I lock everything. Have guns (unchambered but easy to chamber). It’s the new world, just watch the news.
The “elites” either pay their employees less or fire them outright and expect the ones they kept to keep up with production demands. Or they move their operation out of the US and leave everyone without jobs.
IMO, the “economic experts” have been wrong on Tariffs.
At some point, extreme Tariffs on all incoming goods, would be a big burden by US taxpayers.
But that’s not happening with Trump. Yet.
He has selectively chosen various Tariffs to enforce.
The threat to Tariff has worked to make foreign companies comply and make a deal with the U.S. without imposing an undue burden on the U.S. consumer.
Tuesday, ugly sister to Monday.
FKH
FTW
FTP
Under the things that don’t matter category….I am going to 2 more games at US Bank this year, and I believe both have a good chance of being flexed, although I would rather they weren’t.
The game vs Atlanta is scheduled for noon. There is a good Sunday Night game already but the Monday night game is now a little weak (Dallas vs Cinnci). This year they can flex games INTO Monday night….I think the Minnesota Atlanta game gets moved to Monday night.
The game vs Green Bay is scheduled for noon. The Sunday night game is weak (Miami vs Cleveland). I believe the MN GB game will be flexed to Sunday night.
Flexing a game from Sunday to Monday would probably infuriate folks with tickets, especially those traveling to the game from out of State. Ratings are all that matter to the NFL though, and money.
I hope you have fun. I see the Vikings losing both of those games.
The amount of ads running while people are voting is a bit mind boggling.
I will not vote for a trans candidate…..
^^DEI USA military.
Let’s hope it changes come January.
i always find it funny when standing in line to vote how NO ONE wants to look around, talk etc…
lighten up! chat, we’re all neighbors, it’s rigged anyways!!
Correct.
I walked in and started talking with people.
Someone wrote my name down.
I don’t care.
We all need to…..
we had a official making sure no one was wearing anything that was one party vs the other…
she asked one guy to show his shirt to make sure it was ONLY the american flag.
we crazy
Why? We have freedom of speech and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution. I wore a shirt with American flags on it, and my wife wore a blouse with the flag on it, but no one in this country will ever tell me what I can say or express.
Hmmm… we talked a lot in line. Took about 45 minutes to vote, so why not talk? Didn’t talk politics of course, but lots of other things like the Bucs and Baker Mayfield, the Lightning, the hurricanes, etc.
well in my neighborhood, it’s a no no apparently.
glad i found a good friend/neighbor in line and i went back to him and chatted the whole time
Freezey gets it.
It’s just like me on the elevator, no one wants to hear about the color of my stool and what I had to eat last night.
SkolfromMissourri:
Warmish here, grandson is fine daughter ended up having a C sec, labor stalled, SIL needs to get some tools if he wants me to get these projects done, I am making due. Watched the Vikes on SNF Jets is good. SIL asked what the turnstyles names were in the middle of the line. First vike’s game he watched this year and he said didn’t think they could win the Owl with those 2. Hope all are well.
Well, I’m confused about your sister in-law being a “he” but what do I know?
SIL= Shouse is LIT
Son-in-law, I was confused at first, as well.
Ahhh sooooo… thanks!!!
Yeah the way everything was listed in that first sentence took a 2nd reading to parse it all.
But SkolfromMissourri is good people (I assume) and I make enough mistakes on here that I am not going to point out anybody else’s. Unless they are funny of course.
Haha I had that happen at my parent’s house. They couldn’t install a shower arm and head and I said oh my goodness that will take me five seconds. Only it doesn’t get done in 5 seconds when all you have is a set of stripped out pliers and a flathead screwdriver with half the head missing.
I haven’t seen any kicker rumors about who the Vikings will bring in.
Hopefully Reichard will be good to go, if not we should bring in a kicker seeing that our last 2 point conversion attempt was subpar, to put it mildly.
NH is too close to call.
Given that NH has gone Dem since 2004, this could be interesting.
Current live official election results in NH:
Harris: 3
Trump: 3
Wow! a dead heat and very predictive of how the rest of the state will go.
Well Biden won 5-0 in 2020, so that means half of Biden’s supporters didn’t support Kamala.
I saw some polls last night showing Harris only up by 2 or 3 in MN. Get your asses out there and vote you rocks and cows.
MN hasn’t sided with an R since 1972.
Don’t hold your breath.
Not planning on it. Komrade Kamala will be president elect within 24 hours.
Agreed.
It would be awesome though….too many socialists in Minnesota for that to happen.
I saw that this morning. Haha.
At least we have reason to watch the results tonight. In Canadia, once the polls close in Ontario and Quebec, the election is over as 75% of the population lives along the St. Lawrence river and seaway.
My wife and I spent several weeks looking at all the candidates for all the races on the ballot, plus all the amendments. We talked a little about what we thought in regards to the candidates, but there wasn’t any push to agree on anything. She just said what she thought, and I said what I thought. I don’t know how she voted in specific on every single thing on the ballot. We have mutual respect, and recognize we might not always agree on things.
I voted Dem!!!! (but not for president haha). Seriously the only person I felt good voting for was a guy who came to my doorstep a few weeks ago. An old timer, who was going door to door, shaking hands and explaining his position and running for a state office. Seemed so genuine and made sure to point out he didn’t actually care about party and his pamphlet didn’t even say what party he was running under. Liked that old dude. He probably won’t win, but I hope he does.
Good for you for voting. Hope the old guy works out.
I’m told no one – either side – felt very good about Harry Truman. Yet, he turned out to be a pretty good President.
He just seemed to genuine.
I voted for an Independent on the US Senate election here in DE.
Fuck yeah. I actually voted for the Libertarian candidate for President. If my vote actually mattered in my state I probably would have voted for Trump. One thing’s for sure, I wasn’t voting for Harris. But voted Libertarian, man we need a 3rd party something fierce.
No good Republican candidate?
No republican is going to win in DE.
I went with the “independent” because the dem candidate is almost automatically anointed out here. The “independent” is a democrat who got pushed out because we have a DEI candidate.
I did it out of spite of the status quo out here.
Thanks. Spite works for me.
Despite the consensus around here, not every Republican is anointed by God to be the highest and infallible supreme being of the land.
I don’t think that and believe many around here are solid thinkers.
That said, Senate races are important and have meaning beyond individual candidates in races.
The Senate is majority rules and it is vital to have 51 seats or 50 with the VP. With that you control every committee and even which items get to the floor for a vote. And for example, if you have 51 votes you can kill the filabuster.
so, sometimes you may choose to cross party lines for a candidate, maybe even better, but the down stream consequences of this can sometimes be huge.
And besides, God wouldn’t side with the Nazis.
I… I was being sarcastic. But obviously based in some truth. Look at what is shared around here. It is almost exclusively negative about the left and almost exclusively positive about the right and that shows 1 of 2 things. Either the right is all good and the left is all bad with no exceptions. Which if you believe this shows you are totally indoctrinated and brain washed. Or the other option is you understand both parties are filled with (not all but most) corrupt scumbags but the media you consume is completely one sided and the algorithm has you trapped in an echo chamber.
Solid thinkers yes. But solidly caring about being honest and holding both sides to the same standards? Not a chance.
But what if neither of your two assumptions are right.
I won’t speak for others as we all think our own ways.
Your first assumption is just wrong – there is of course good and bad on both sides. As to your second, and I’ll only speak for myself, if I am “brain washed” as you suggest, it is driven more by 50 years of living in DC and dealing with that, as opposed to listening to the media.
Correct, we all know there is good and bad on both sides. Then why around here is literally almost everything shared politically by not me almost always bad about the left, if it is positive it’s positive about the right and basically never the other way around… See what I am saying. That shows the issue with the echo chamber that people have built around themselves and they don’t even see it.
Is Liz Chaney a Republican?
Is George Bush a Republican?
Are Dick Chaney, Mit Romney, Mitch McConnell republicans?
Guess what I think of those people!
If you want to talk about bad Republican Policy let me know. But most discussions tend to be about policies about the people in office. The Dems are the ones that have most recently enacted bad policy – yes?
If you’re argument is the Republican’s haven’t had any bad policies that you can think of then we can’t have this discussion. There’s nothing I can say at that point.
Not my point at all and you know it! You seem to loathe politicians – if so, let’s have “honest” discussions.
You. from reading my post don’t know know what I think of Bush’s policies.
You’re too smart for that.
I would say Bush’s policy to incentivize businesses to move production to China was a bad policy.
I hate everyone equally.
I don’t… I hate Biden way more than Trump haha.
Only in Minot are the Republicans anointed by God and infallible.
Why not Minot!?!?
Freezin’s the Reason!
I voted Dem!!!!
Today is a very important day for America. Tensions are high across the country and some changes are bound to be made soon!
Get your popcorn ready…it’s the NFL Trade Deadline!
Doubt that they trade for a kicker or long snapper.
But some help at DT or OC, maybe even more better CB.
Ummm that was humor…
You are joking about the Vikings actions/lack of actions on the day of the NFL trade deadline?
Laughing…
The Browns are trading Za’Darius Smith to the Lions. Hmmm…
The rich get richer.
Yup and it cost them a 5th and a 6th and they gained a 7th I believe… great move on their part… ugh!
Our old friend Za’Darius a Kitten now… not good. But I’m afraid the Lions will take the division anyway, they are good (and play dirty, but that seems to be OK for the NFL) and are getting ref help when needed.
Couldn’t agree more…
Skoloholics Pick ‘Em League Update #9
I demand a recount! This is BS! How did I come in last place this week? I had all of the battleground games picked exactly right. Everything looked fine when I went to bed. Then I get up the next morning and see the results. Someone cheated, I tell you! You’re all cheaters!
I don’t even want to talk about this insult to honesty, but it is my duty…
Little Fishin’ is still at the bottom after missing a couple week so picks, but he keeps hanging around. The fun is waiting to see who he will eventually pick off. Right now, I’m beginning to think it will be me because…cheaters, all of you!
Freezy and JacksonVike are still in 9&10, but they closed the gap on me in 8. Is it because they are cheaters? You know it! I know what I should do…I should wait until all of the results are in and then somehow hack the servers of Yahoo and give myself enough points to win overnight. It is only fair…
The cluster in the middle has actually pushed all the way up to threatening third place. In 4-7 place, I’d rather be fishing, Surly Viking, DE Viking and Bowbunch could all possibly claim a podium position next week. I’m not sure how any of them could feel good about it, though, because…cheaters, all of you!
NoDakRub currently sits in third place. Likely, he is pretty tired this morning, as he laid awake all last night bothered by his conscience for the things he did to achieve that high of a ranking.
Kirk is still good is in second place. It is insulting to me that he besmirches Kirk Cousins’s good name in his quest for ill-gotten dominance through cheating. Kirk would never cheat. He would just throw short of the sticks like an honest person.
Bleeding Purple ‘N Gold is in the top position. The power he now yields from there is truly frightening. It wouldn’t surprise me if he is deliberately letting bad players into the league to puff up his numbers. Except…that would make me one of those bad players. Would that make me a cheater, too? Argh! This game has made me lose all sense of self. I don’t know who I am anymore!
We had one Genius Pick this week. Freezy is the only one to pick the Jets over Houston. I guess that makes it an ULTRA Genius Pick then…
We had multiple Iconoclast picks, though. DE Viking is the only one to take the Giants over Washington. JacksonVike is the only one to take Jax over Philly. DE is also the only one to take GB over Detroit. Kirk is still good and Little Fishin’ are the only ones who took Seattle over the Rams. Bowbunch and me are the only ones who took Chicago over Arizona. And Surly and me are the only ones to take Indy over the Vikes.
Everyone got Atlanta, Buffalo, Cincy, Baltimore and KC right. There were no games that everyone got wrong.
I just want to put this week in the rearview mirror and move on. It should be a nice quiet day for that. I can’t imagine any newsworthy events are going to happen today that could have any accusations of cheating looming over them. Thank goodness for that!
I think it should not only be mentioned, but celebrated, that i only got 1 game wrong this week AND that i actually lead EVERYONE in win/loss record…
so…CELEBRATE ME!!!!
Valid point. I get in a habit of looking at the picks vertically and not horizontally, so I don’t notice how well folks did overall.
You deserve this moment. Bask in it, my friend!
GM
FTP!
SKOL!
Today’s vote should be interesting, and no matter the outcome that our owners (the people that count the votes) choose, there will be drama.
I guess we live in interesting times.
Our owners are the people who pay for the elections. Then we support that system in a Stockholm Syndrome type of situation.
Good morning, FTP & FT*! Also, FTL!
Indeed. Swifties seem to enjoy the favor of the league and therefore the refs, while the Vikes have to handle business as usual, as in not getting those calls other teams get on a regular basis, or getting phantom calls against them. Darnold especially doesn’t seem to get the level of protection other QBs get. I mean a player almost takes his head off, ref looks literally directly on but doesn’t throw the flag because “they couldn’t see it”, and then the player gets fined for the foul the following week. Yeah, right…
It’s an uphill battle for the Vikes, having to play vs the “12th man” in stripes almost every week. Lions seem to be the favorite team in the NFC so far, won’t be easy to win the division. Still, I’m glad that the team seems to be determined to make the most of this season, hope Queasy can pull off a last second trade for a RG somehow. Go Vikings! SKOL!
Also, first.
I fell asleep last night. Missed the second half. Woke up and read about it. The Bucs loss helps us in a wild card scenario, so I guess I’m good with it.
That’s all in the eyes of the beholder.
With the Bucs loss, that makes the pukers more likely to get a playoff spot.
Yuk.
Yeah, but I only care about our chances.
I’m assuming the Vikings are already going to the playoffs.
I would rather have the Bucs in over the Pukers.
Didn’t get to watch that game at all, need to look at the highlights sometime later today. Bucs seem to have played well, wasn’t enough to beat KC (and the refs?) in the end. But yes, as I think the Kitties will win the division it’s important to keep pace in the Wildcard race, a Bucs loss should be good for us.
I have the Chiefs penciled into the Super Bowl for infinity.
I don’t see how anyone stops them until Mahomes is maybe 50, and Reid is in a nursing home.
Reid’s heart could go any time. He’s a big feller.
Yup, and until Kelce breaks up with Swift, or vice versa.
Amen. They looked unstoppable in OT. It wasn’t like the receivers/TE’s even had to make great catches. Run their route boop the ball is there defender at least a yard away. So far, Detroit looks like the class of the NFC but they will be ground down inexorably by KC if they make it to the SB.