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John Randle opened the 2025 Vikings Foundation Golf Tournament with a tribute to Jim Marshall, from Vikings.com.
Also from Vikings.com, Thad Bogardus talks about the Vikings talent at OLB & what’s next for Dallas Turner.
NFL News
ESPN graded every team’s 2025 NFL offseason. They put the Vikings WAY toward the back with a C+ grade, but it appears they put little to no thought into it, so that makes more sense.
From the Mercury News, Najee Harris was injured in a fireworks accident over the 4th of July holiday. That reminds me, I haven’t heard an update on Jason Pierre-Paul potentially making a return to the field.
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This is interesting, I camped on Mt. Rainier several times when I lived out that way.
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Here is a non-comprehensive running list of new U.S.-based investments in President Trump’s second term:
That doesn’t even include the U.S. investments pledged by foreign countries:
First U.S. rare earth mine opened in 70 years today. Huge business surge for the country!
Soft ground, easy access. By China.
More American jobs.
Deep dig from China to Wyoming.
Saw this. Tariffs are working!
The federal government collected $26.6 billion in tariff revenue in June, rising again as President Donald Trump’s tariffs policy began to take hold.
Spending decreased by $187 billion in June, resulting in a budget surplus of about $27 billion for the month.
The federal government’s total debt is around $36 trillion. It paid $84 billion in interest payments on that debt in June.
Tariffs may be a concern for consumers, but they are starting to have a positive impact on the federal budget, data released by the Treasury Department showed.
The federal government took in more money than it spent in June, the government said today, helped partly by another increase in tariff revenues, which are now higher than they’ve been in at least a decade.
There’s your surplus GF.
I see he just said he was going to institute 35% on Canada.
Oh Canada, $2.1 Trillion GDP to the US’s $30 Trillion? What were you guys thinking?
Exactly. Mess with the bull, you get the horns.
BTW, to date this fiscal year, we’ve taken in $113B in tariff revenue. First time in U.S. history we’ve taken in more than $100B in tariff revenue.
Will that surplus be used to pay down the debt?
I doubt it.
There are truly only two places to turn to ‘actually’ make a meaningful impact on government spending and the national debt – defense and entitlement spending.
All these DOGE cuts and personnel reductions are drops in the bucket compared to the big two.
Ain’t going to happen. Look at the number of Republicans that were buckling under very very modest medicaid cuts.
Our current GDP is a little over $30T. Growing that to $45T will bring in the revenue needed to make a dent in the deficit, and then the debt.
I believe Trump is going to get us there.
This isn’t 2017. We are merely keeping the “existing” tax cuts from 17 – thus, there will be no big boom growth like then. The overtime and tips are peanut items and actually phase out in two or three years.
For sure, if the BBB failed causing mass tax increases, the economy would have tanked. but that’s not spurring major growth. It’s more like neutral.
There still is no real interest in cutting spending on a significant level – and that is a major problem.
You call adding $15T in new business to the economy staying in neutral?
Let’s see when and if that happens. Moreover, if there is growth because of better energy policies, better incentives for foreign investment etc – which I believe there will be – it is not because of the BBB but Trump’s policies.
We have 78.5 million people on medicaid and medica;l costs in general aren’t going down. This must be addressed.
It’s already happening. New businesses are already building factories here.
There are many provisions in the BBB that will enable economic growth and create prosperity for the Nation.
WHAT about cutting government expenses? Real Cutting.
We cut spending by $187B in June, and had a surplus of revenue over spending for the first time in decades thanks to tariff income.
It’s happening JR.
Most people don’t know that President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) which barred illegal aliens from accessing most federal benefits, including Medicaid.
Despite PRWORA’s limitation on illegal aliens receiving federally funded Medicaid benefits, such aliens may receive Medicaid benefits for emergency services.
Specifically, Medicaid is required to cover health care services necessary to treat an emergency medical condition for illegal aliens who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid if not for their immigration status. During the Biden administration, this care totaled some $16.2B. Oh, and Obama added Obama care to their list of benefits, despite the PRWORA. That cost us another $9B.
Give them an inch in good faith and they will find a way to push until they have a mile.
Using our compassion and empathy against us.
Using our Constitution against us too. They violently “protest” then scream First Amendment rights. Illegals (and the liberals who support them) insist all the rights captured in the Constitution, apply to them.
Not much you can do about that from a humane perspective. One way or another you have to deal with someone presenting to the ED with a critical process.
That’s why they have to leave the country. If they weren’t here, we as taxpayers wouldn’t be paying $25B for their care.
I’m with you on that, as are (I believe) the majority of Americans. I myself am particularly annoyed with illegal aliens as I went through the (negotiable yet arduous) process of becoming a permanent resident and then citizen all by my lonesome with no help from all these altruistic pro bono lawyers that are suddenly crawling to the defense of illegals.
Yes, come in the front door, get your citizenship, and join the club. Welcome to America. We have a valid, tried and true immigration process, you personally went through. Congratulations.
Nobody likes people cutting the line. Then worse, actually having to pay for those people.
Have had a very unusual week and will tell you about it next week when get home.
Just add to the Medicaid issue, there was an explosive growth under Obama and driven by Obama care. As I recall there was a cynical provision that ‘paid’ states to sign up as many people as possible for Medicaid. It was something like the feds would pay to the states like $4 for $1 dollar spent on new signups. But it was a sliding scale that went down to one for one down the road. Nonetheless, many states including some red ones fell for it – it was free money for a while. And now everyone is hooked. Note several of the red state senators had to have special carveouts for their states to sign the BBB.
Yep, money talks. It always has.
Nah.
If Trump was involved the Dims would have weaponized that fact a long time ago.
That’s just the picture, that’s not really what he talks about in the video. This guy is a REALLY good investigative journalist.
Correct.
They’re in it too. Mutually shared destruction…
That argument just lets them do it again.
Screw the ‘destabilize the world’ argument, lock the pervs up.
Amen
Yep, but that is going to become the narrative now.
I think the real argument is that innocent people who just flew on the plane with Epstein would get ruined.
But I still say eff them.
Pedo’s need to rot in hell.
I tend to agree with this. I think the “friends and associates” list of names, ended up being promoted as a clients list. It’s like your email contact list, or the contact list in your phone. Just because someone’s name is in there, doesn’t mean they were a client.
DOJ should be able to release the list of only the people who are on tape performing crimes.
That’s a legal issue. Because if there was a crime committed, the video would be evidence. If that evidence was released to the public, it could be ruled as prejudicial, and therefore not allowed to be entered into evidence in the court case. That’s if they can actually identify anyone in the tapes.
This “business” isn’t gonna have records, receipts, or documents that could incriminate the rich and powerful. Those people want to be anonymous. They aren’t gonna get a picture of themselves conducting criminal acts.
Also, just because someone went to the island, doesn’t mean they participated in criminal conduct. That would have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Plane tickets prove travel. They don’t prove criminal activity.
It’s a mess, and the DoJ saying they have a list of clients, intones they have names of people that conducted criminal acts. I think they realized that they have a long way to go before they can build criminal cases. Best step back, tread carefully, and work towards real criminal charges with real teeth.
‘Best step back, tread carefully, and work towards real criminal charges with real teeth’
AKA delay until statute of limitations run out and nothing is ever done.
And some other issue comes up and people just move on.
Trump was “convicted” on 39 misdemeanors (most well past the statute of limitations) cobbled together into a Felony case by the AG, and prosecuted under RICO laws.
That isn’t what I said, or intended SoCal.
No you didn’t.
I just pointed out that it is the logical conclusion of those actions.
I think you’ll find Trump won’t let that happen.
He just said at his last Cabinet Meeting that we shouldn’t even be talking about Epstein cause there is nothing to see there.
I think he was providing cover for Bondi. Just trying to change the subject really. Bondi needs a little maneuvering room, and Trump was trying to provide that.
Anything this administration does is played out in the court of public opinion, and the pundits and political opponents want to trip them up any way they can.
I think we need to let the DoJ do its thing, and not step on its own dick in the process.
Believe what you will.
I believe that this Admin has decided to whitewash the whole thing ‘for the good of the country’ so nothing will be done.
I don’t agree with protecting scum like that.
I hope I am wrong, I guess we will find out eventually, or not (if nothing is done).
We have over 3 years left with Trump. Not everything has to be now. Especially in the courts.
Epstein was arrested for the 2nd time in 2019 so the clock is ticking on the statute of limitations.
You clearly do not know the law. Florida has no statute of limitations for sexual battery against minors under 16.
Epstein Island is not in Florida.
Some of the cases were filed in Florida against Epstein.
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, for felony child abuse, felony child neglect, any felony sexual offense perpetrated against a victim, and human trafficking, there is no limitation of the time within which a prosecution shall be commenced.
The Left is the epitome of success last 4 years. Why do anything different?
Laughing, I have my standards.
You’re a Patriot. Numbers seem to be dwindling.
Are there any pending charges?
Since nothing is going to be prosecuted, release the names and ruin their lives, like they ruined the lives of sexual victims.
Then they can sue the Government for 100’s of millions of dollars. Guess where THAT money would come from.
Is this what actually happened to your neck GF?
“Oh…oh no!…oh geez!” The classic Red River exhortation.
Yeah, no, ope…
I don’t know if I mentioned on here but I “won” a one hour ride in a (Cessna) 172 at a benefit and took the flight on Monday. It has been a while since I’ve been in a small plane, but the pilot knows Dawson County like we know our neighborhood streets. It is striking how hard it is to see transmission lines flying into the sun. He just wrote a letter to the editor about the proposed wind farm in the area, I can definitely see how the blades on those could ruin your day.
Those are fun flights and yes, flying by those wind farms is sketchy in a small plane or helicopter. I did that, as a passenger, a couple of times in a previous life.
Man, do what you can to keep those wind farms out of there. Ugly as hell and worthless as tits on a bull.
It’s the usual…landowner rights, boon to the local economy, millions of dollars in impact fees worker wages taxes. Full page ad in Wednesday’s paper.
They’re pretty good at reducing the local raptor population.
‘in a (Cessna) 172′
I climbed out the window of one of those in Germany. I took a parachute class and that was the plane that they had. We had to climb out, in our parachutes, stand on a step welded to the side of the plane, hold on to the wing strut and then jumped at about 7,000 feet up.
It was terrifying. 2nd time was easier. #grin
That is exactly how I did my first jump, standing on the strut…only a larger plane that held seven jumpers. Plane was stuffed, I was the first so the instructor told me that once we took off I had to jump no matter what as there was no room to shuffle us around while full.
Think we had 4 or 5 jumpers but we were told the same thing.
Jumpmaster wrote in my log that I “arched well but then I started ‘swimming’ after the plane”
I guess I thought I could catch up the plane and climb back in. Panic is a half of a drug. The open parachute was the most beautiful thing I ever saw at that point.
That is a great description. I did the same thing (swimming), but then remembered gotta stabilize and release the main chute. That feeling when it popped open was such relief. I had to kick out of a twist in the lines but otherwise smooth sailing. Because of the twist delaying my glide, I ended up landing across the highway from the landing zone, wrapped up all of the lines and chute and tossed them over the barbed wire fence to get there…I remember the chute “packer” yelling at me that the lines were all tangled.
Funny how adrenaline accentuates your memory of such things.
I had a slight twist, kicked out no problem.
I then looked for the guy who went out just before me and followed him down.
First landing was so gentle that if one foot hadn’t slipped I would landed on my feet. 2nd time I nailed it.
Wow, he’s lucky he fell into the river.
I am disappointed in the whole group of them for shielding Epstein’s clients.
I don’t care what their reason are, even though I trust that they have good ones.
Yep, this one pisses me off, too. I’m also pissed that Trump’s spending bill is just the status quo, add more debt making our money even more worthless.
I think Trump knows what he’s doing. Tariffs have worked, stock market is soaring, and oh by the way, he’s brought $15T in new business commitments, in his first 120 days. The economy is growing at an incredible rate, and many provisions in the new bill will spur greater growth. Let’s see how this plays out GF. I think we may be in for a huge era of prosperity.
If the Dem’s don’t find a way to cock it up.
I don’t. Looks like business as usual in DC. If they’re going to add another $5 trillion to the deficit, then they’re just continuing the country’s demise.
I do.
CPO has gotten stuck in outdated models for years.
Not to mention the left/deep state bias.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/how-cbo-got-wrong-again-trumps-economic-bill-set-generate-trillions-surplus-not-debt
I think Trump knows how to increase the economy.
Trumps policies will bring in huge revenues to the government.
The problem is, spending.
No politician wants to cut spending, so you are partially correct.
They didn’t add $5T to the deficit. They raised the debt ceiling. This is the kind of lies we get, that people don’t understand. If all the cuts are implemented, we’re removing $1.8T from the actual deficit. AND this estimates doesn’t factor in Tariff income, or any of the new business investments.
Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure GF.
I hope so. I don’t see any reduction in spending, so I’m doubtful.
The reduction in spending is coming from the DOGE inputs. Also Trump directed all the Cabinet Secretaries to find ways to cut spending. State Department just announced they’re cutting 1,300 positions. Reducing the size of Government, and getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse is underway.
Correct.
I’d be stunned if any politician reduces spending.
It’s never happened.
Debt keeps going up.
Agreed, and that isn’t good for the country.
You do remember that Trump negotiated the cost of meds down, so now instead of the U.S. paying the most for medicines, we’ll be paying the least right? That’s a massive cut in Medicaid spending per year. Like Billions.
But the debt keeps soaring higher.
Does it really matter that some spending is reduced, but the overall spending keeps going up?
Spending is coming down. Getting rid of USAID and other organizations that were just money laundering institutions for the Dem’s are being shut down. State Department just cut 1,300 positions. Dept of Education with all its ridiculous funding of Universities that hate America, is going away. More cuts are coming based on the DOGE recommendations.
Getting rid of FEMA and just sending money to a State when an emergency occurs will save billions. How about cutting NPR? Lots of spending reductions are occurring, to the Dem’s chagrin.
Overall spending is not coming down, simply the rate that spending is increasing.
That’s not right either Bow. Medicaid growth is slowed by this bill yes. That isn’t the sum total of the bills spending reductions or additions though.
It took 16 hours to read the bill on floor. It’s massively complex, so people can take bits and pieces of it to create any false narrative they want.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
National Debt keeps going higher, not lower.
Well, first you have to lower expenditures, which Trump is doing. Then you have to increase revenues, which Trump is doing.
So, it’s gonna work DE.
Do we have a budget surplus?
If not, the deficit is not being decreased.
So the country has been in a state of deficit spending for a long time. The last time we had a balanced budget, Bill Clinton was the President. The current debt is over $37T. Each year we’re currently spending close to two trillion dollars more than we take in. The Trump administration is working first to eliminate the excess (deficit) spending Congress currently endorses. Remember, Congress has the “power of the purse”. They control the spending. The President can use his Article two powers to somewhat arbitrarily reduce the size of the Government, which by default cuts spending, and that is exactly what Trump is doing. Congress cannot restrict that power, and nor can the Judiciary.
Trump though is also working to increase revenues via tariffs and new business investments in the country. So he is cutting spending and increasing revenue.
That strategy will eliminate the deficit first, but then get to paying off the debt. It’s actually the only strategy that will actually accomplish this.
Patel is a lying prick, too. Saw him on Rogan, he’s full of s***
I’ll never understand lay people’s fascination with any fireworks larger than sparklers. Let the pros fire off the biggies. You should see the hand pictures and x-rays of a guy in um south central Montana that had one go off in his hand, he decided to leave it overnight perhaps thinking it would look better in the morning.
‘I’ll never understand lay people’s fascination with any fireworks larger than sparklers’
I understand it is a maturity issue.
In the Army lots of people who are drawn to explosives and such. It seemed more like a fetish.
It probably is a maturity issue. I LOVE fireworks and I am immature.
Although I was a medic in the army, I was in a combat engineer unit so was cross-trained as a 12B. I had WAY more fun using C4 than I did fixing people’s injuries.
French doing Euro things.
I don’t know… some folks say “she” was born a man, some folks say the plumbing doesn’t match.
There’s a surgery for that. Nobody has every provided any proof of the existence of “Brigette” prior to like age 30 and her brother happened to disappear about the same time.
Was Hillary in the building?
It sounds like her MO.
Heh I envision a courtroom moment like that scene at the end of some Jim Carrey movie, might have been Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
I believe you are thinking of The Mask
That would be Liar Liar
A new Anti-DEI Index Fund just started up.
They only invest in companies that hire/promote based on merit and not that woke crap.
Seems logical as those companies should do better and they won’t do ‘Go Woke/Go Broke’.
Might have to invest in it.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/new-anti-dei-index-fund-only-invest-companies-hire-based-merit
This is for Wrenage.
Fri-Yey!
had a fun time at the Saints game last night. I don’t love “gimmicks” when it comes to games, so the 5 or 6 paid staff that dresses up and walks around trying to get people to do stuff was very annoying to me.
but the kid who got us the tickets and we went to watch play ended up pitching 3 innings and gave up no runs and got the save. so that was fun
he let us all onto the field after the game, all 19 of us, and the kids thought it was AWESOME. he was signing anything they handed him. Super cool kid. I have a feeling he will be on the Twins before the year is done.
very fun experience
Very cool Freeze. Great experience for the kids to get on the field and get close to the player. Memories they’ll have forever.
Poor guy.
I feel for him…..
Not good this year but once they sell it could be a good gig.
Just a year in purgatory/training first.
i mean, i wouldn’t hate the paycheck he’ll make for throwing a baseball every few days….
If he’s doing what he loves, that’s what matters.
That’s awesome! I love going to the minor league games. We have the Larks here in Bis, not on the same level as the Saints, but still fun.
Canadians Police Spokesperson says the quiet part out loud.
“Canadian police official warns ‘traditional values’ may be sign a person is becoming ‘extremist'”
Of course they had to walk that back, but a ‘Freudian Slip’ no doubt.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/canadian-police-official-warns-traditional-values-may-sign-person-becoming-extremist
This is what happens when liberals get into power.
Canada is a woke as Commifornia.
I don’t know if there is any coming back from that.
I agree. But socialism always fails in the end. As Margaret Thatcher said, eventually you run out of other people’s money. Look at what has happened to Venezuela. Do you remember the riots in Greece when the Government ran out of money?
Maybe you are right.
However after being stewed in Woke-ism in SoCal I have seen as it becomes ‘the norm’, people start believing in it, kids have grown up being taught and thinking it is correct, laws are written to support it, eventually it becomes imbedded and very hard to get rid of.
Well eventually all that gets overcome by reality. The wild fires in L.A. debacle started showing the cracks in the ideology. You personally saw the holes in their liberal Governance themes and left. Eventually so will anyone with any sense. Same in New York where the communist says he’ll pay for everything by taxing the rich. So the rich will simply leave. Then what? You become the Mayor of the biggest ghetto in the world, that’s what.
You make things better when you make everyone more prosperous. Socialism and Communism erode and destroy prosperity.
I saw ‘the holes in the liberal Governance’ because I spend 22 years away in the Army. When I got back I influenced who I could but it is like swimming up river in Texas.
The smartest ones are leaving the state, the next smartest are bunkering down and keeping quiet, then those who ‘go along to get along’ and then the clueless and finally the ‘true believers’.
I saw any interesting stat that I have no way of validating. Supposedly the decrease in illegal aliens has resulted in 2 million Americans getting jobs since Trump took office, and blue collar wages are up more than ever. Might be exaggerations, dunno.
Good morning, SKOL!
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I get excited when I see this when I type MN Vikings into the search bar.
I have mixed feelings. I love me some Viking football, but it also means that summer is on its way out.
Yep, agreed.
Am I the only one that would be nervous if the Vikings were lining up for a 51 yard long field goal with 7 minutes left in the SB, up 23-7?
I would be as tense as a bowstring.
‘7 minutes left in the SB, up 23-7′
I would be very nervous until the final gun sounded and all ‘officials reviews’ were finalized and the score was confirmed.
Goodell will show up at the parade and say that JJ has been retroactively suspended for illegal use of crystals in his pre-game meditation and the previous game has been nullified.
As a Viking Fan I could see that happening.
Amen.
Happy Friday Skolios
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RIP Alan
‘Hand To God, I Know The Names’: Alan Dershowitz Says He Knows Who’s On The Epstein List
If that is true, the dude is 86 years old. Write a book exposing all before he dies.
Have it published once he is dead.
He better get started.
I give him a week before he has a “medical event”.
Yep, lots of those happen at very convenient times. There is some sick crap going on with the elites.
Well of course, since the rules don’t apply to them.
What sick stuff would the ‘normal people’ come up if they knew the rules didn’t apply?
Maybe some P. Diddy level stuff.
Remember when they said Biden had cancer? Now, there hasn’t been a peep since. I think he was threatening to leak something and they set that up so they had an explanation for his sudden death if he decided to not keep his mouth shut.
Anything is possible.
I lean more towards getting sympathy from the media rather than his incompetence.
Just a little benign skin thing…doc froze it off and it’s all good man!