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I have no question of the day. Open threads seem to be getting more active. I think that getting closer to another season coupled with the wonderful political crap going on, we have plenty of things to argue about. Have a great Thors Day!
Love it.
Trump said ‘Our Military is not Woke, just some of the fools at the top of it are Woke’.
I think KOC knows it’s important to get Sam Darnold going in the very first game. If I was developing the game plan, I’d work on quick outs, and slants first, as well as screens. Give Sam some easy completions, and don’t force him to hold onto the ball, waiting on long developing plays.
I like this logic.
That is why I doubt we will see it.
Laughing
You’ve not been around much. Hope all is well and you get a little time to enjoy yourself once in a while.
If you want to run for Head of the SS, I’ll certainly second your nomination.
I think the same thing. High percentage throws that build his confidence and move the sticks. Keep him upright. He can move pretty good – roll the pocket and give him clean lanes to throw. Maybe a shot play and a go ball to JJ with the right coverage look. Be nice to give him a competent running game and adequate blocking, especially the IOL.
God. F***ing. Damnit.
Just saw about Bob Newhart.
94….. my goodness, what happened?!?
FTP!
FT*!
Sean Payton didn’t think Bob Newhart was funny…..
Skol!
I didn’t realize he was still alive.
I remember watching his show as a kid and enjoying it.
Funny in everything he did – 90% of which I saw or heard after the fact. Great stand up. Universally loved amongst other comedians.
Things come in 3s.
Today we have Lou Dobbs and Bob Newheart passing away.
Plus FJB with Covid, maybe he will get Hillary Clinton-ed tonight.
Or is there another one that I missed today?
A real force in cable news. Later became a little too ‘honest’ for CNN.
Oh no, loved Lou Dobbs. One of the few decent reporters left, RIP.
RIP Bob Newhart. 94.
A truly funny guy….94 is a good run.
Funny as hell…
If you ever get a chance, listen to some of his old stand up routines.
Really was a very funny man.
Loved the Grace L Ferguson Storm Door and Airline Co.
RIP
A life well lived.
Shit, one of my favorites, RIP
There used to be a time in America when there were lots of really funny comedians. RIP.
Democrat Leaders Make Tough Decision To Place Biden On Hospice Following COVID Diagnosis
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrat-leaders-make-tough-decision-to-place-biden-on-hospice-following-covid-diagnosis
Love it…probably close to true.
I hope he has enough in the tank to make it to Nov 5th.
BTW,
Anybody else think it was totally galling for the head of SS to show up at the RNC last night? I guess you could say she was making sure it was all secure.
She was double checking the safety of her agents…they may have been sitting on sloped chairs.
She was busy at a cocktail party in a suite with “donors”.
How dare you assume a pronoun.
You’re right. Joe did call Cheatle a him.
Yep. He did.
Fair Point.
One thing you can count on from Biden and/or the folks around him – a CLASSLESS statement.
Good for you Joe, hang in there!!
Fight!!
Are we doing the skolholes fantasy football this year?
I’m in.
I was asking on there if we were a few days ago and it was radio silence.
I just saw it.
Hadn’t checked it in a month.
Was brad the league manager?
I thought it was Mick
Mick ran it last year.
I don’t have the app signed in on my phone so I don’t get the notifications anymore and never think to log in on my computer.
If yous guys need a replacement for Five I can play….I can’t bring Five’s spiciness though.
The ideal number is 10. Were down Lifer and now Surly.
I think I am out. I donated twice, and prefer an Auction Keeper to what we ended up doing.
Booooo
Meh. I just really do not care for drafting vs Auction.
I have more control in an auction
Do you a helmet and pads?
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“He does more work in two hours than most people get done in a day.”
That’s because we have so many people that don’t work at all.
LOL. True.
We have to work almost that hard to get my 92 year old mom into the CRV.
The Taco-Ma? We would have to pick her up/lift her into the cab/seat.
Same for my mom. She is 90.
She bangs her head on the car every freaking time.
My mom is having her 90th birthday party this weekend..she is home from Colorado…she likes to mow my yard when she comes back to ND (push mower)…..sometimes I let her.
SIT DOWN MOM YOUR SPINE IS GONNA SNAP!
There’s some NSFW language so just an FYI.
LOL
Not to shabby. Could add a couple of others but this is a start.
Will they go after the Dems for not having Jimmy Carter at their convention?
Still no JJ or Turner news…….
Kwesi sucks.
I just read a quip about JJ’s agent. He tends to come down to the wire with rookie contracts. He has the same agent as Jets.
Yeah. I saw that too.
My Kwesi sucks is more tongue and cheek.
Kwesi tends to go down to the wire as well.
You think people were crazy during Covid. I came across a general medical book for the home from 1917. In it was a typed up sheet for: Directions for Care of Communicable Disease in the Home.
The person should be put in a room far from everyone else. All furniture, drapes, carpet that isn’t attached should be removed from the room. The attendant shouldn’t mingle with the rest of the family. All discharges from the nose and throat should be received by some cheap material and promptly burned. All discharges from the bladder and intestines should be received in a vessel and carefully disposed of. The vessel should be cleaned 4 times per day with soap and disinfectant. All dishes used by the sick should not be used by the rest of the family.
Then when the disease is over there are directions for clean the home:
Open all doors and windows and air the house for 4 consecutive days. All curtains and drapes that are not perishable should be washed. If they can not be washed they should be exposed to sun and fresh air for 4 consecutive days. Carpets should be cleaned and aired. The linens from the bed should be boiled for one hour before washing. The mattress and pillows, if not soiled, should be sunned and aired for 4 consecutive days. If soiled, they must be burned. Comforts and blankets shall be washed. All walls and woodwork of the room should be painted and papered if possible or they must be washed with hot soap suds containing one pound of common washing soda to three gallons of water. Basements shall be aired.
Did Fauci author the book?
It was probably his grandfather.
Interesting.
Different but similar.
Remember the Apollo missions?
Upon return from the moon the Astronauts were put in a trailer for 2 weeks or more.
Over time, that was reduced.
When dealing with something unknown, we tend to live in fear and overreact.
We do over-react. And it seems like those that over-react the most, yell the loudest and get their way. The more rational people get drowned out.
Excellent point.
You will recall this line from Yeatts. The best lacked all conviction while the worse were full of passionate intensity.
I didn’t mind the over reaction to CoVid initially.
Problem was we didn’t adjust well once facts became know.
Those in power decided that they liked the extra authority that the over reactions gave them so they came up with excuses and suppressed ‘science’ that argued for lowering the over reaction.
Oh they adjusted alright. “2 weeks to flatten the curve”
Had they stuck to the two weeks, I wouldn’t have had an issue. But, when the governor kept moving the goalposts anytime things were looking better, that’s when I really got upset.
I understood it initially.
I still wasn’t a fan of it.
Agreed.
And then it got longer/worse.
I do this every time my wife sneezes.
How many layers of paint and paper do you have on your walls?
The 12 X 14 living room is now 8 X 10.
Just got the energy bills for both Idaho and Calif.
Idaho was $45 for the month.
Calif was $460 for the same month.
But Idaho is ground zero for climate change.
WooHoo!!
But California is helping everyone. Of course, everyone has to be on government help to pay the bills, but they are helping everyone.
They are ‘helping’ everyone to give more money to the government.
They now have ‘flex’ billing for energy. If you cool your home at night it will cost you less per kilowatt than if you cool it during day. That way they jack the daytime cost up and say that the ‘average cost’ hasn’t gone up very much.
There was a time in our great land that everyone had enough electricity, gas prices were reasonable and folks could afford to eat. Most people worked and frowned upon folks who didn’t. Nobody really wanted handout. Too bad we don’t teach history anymore.
40+ billion deficit? More? Corporate tax collections declining. Hell ya, give him FJB job.
LOL. Can’t just take his word for it.
Or the video evidence.
Who posted that?
CNN?
MSNBC?
ABC?
CBS?
Some other woke ‘news’ outlet?
NBC news Chicago.
I mean, the Video could be a cheap fake.
People going after SS diversity hires.
DEI Hard.
Meal Team Six.
When Pelosi has to get a valve changed in hear heart, I hope she as a DEI selceted surgeon.
Just call Jill. She’s a doctor after all.
Do you have a $100? If so, you can easily go get a doctoral degree in education at any of a number of colleges.
Nice ring to it — Dr, Bow
LOL. I would hire the most qualified person but what the hell do i know.
You don’t have to worry, she doesn’t have a heart.
Good point. Think she has had a breast job though.
These people need to watch more tv. Because if you watch tv, you know in your heart that 1 woman can beat up 10 trained men soldiers.
El Tigre -1 after 3. Just hit a provisional, good chance at +6.
I hope Tiger can win one more major.
But his body is too far gone to be able to put together 4 exceptional rounds of golf.
Yeah, body is used up. +7 after 12. Doubt around for weekend.
Newsom running Cal into ground and he would be the choice?
FJB is running the US into the ground.
And they thought he was the best choice until the debate.
Woke policies are more important than competency.
No way they jump Kamala and they have to keep Kamala on the ticket to keep the money. Isn’t she from California as well? That would raise the same issue that Trump picking Rubio would have. Can’t have the President and Vice President from the same state.
When talking about Trump/Rubio I heard that there was ‘ways around it’ so I assume that it is also true for Newsome/Harris.
Democruds would not even worry about it being legal.
There is, but not a practical one.
Given that Rubio was a Senator representing Florida, he would have to immediately resign his Senate seat, and move out of State.
Or Trump would have to move out of Florida.
Enter Gavin Newsome.
He can’t move out of California because he is the sitting Governor.
He would have to resign and move out of California.
If they want the “dream team” ticket, I guess Kamala could move out of CA.
Correct.
I was wondering what people were thinking with Rubio or DeSantis on the ticket.
When Cheney switched, he wasn’t an elected politician in Texas.
It was a much easier move to make.
A good used car salesman can sell a person a complete piece of crap and make them think they got a great deal. That is Newsom.
Sounds like Biden is done.
Hope that is wrong. The longer FJB stays in the better it is for Trump.
If they replace him then Cackles would be next best.
All others are crapshoots, Starting from zero, well starting from the 1/3rd that will vote woke no matter what.
I think Newsome will be the choice, and he will be the most dangerous opponent.
Yes, California is a cesspool; but he is young, vibrant, and a smooth talker…It will not be easy to defeat him.
If it is Cackles, Trump will win easily.
Probably true.
There will be a decent amount of people to fall for Newsome’s slickness who otherwise would not have voted for FJB.
Newsome is indeed slick and probably their best option. But if they don’t take Kamala, the black vote becomes dicey. Clayburn has already warned the Dem brass about this, and he will lead the charge.
‘Newsome is indeed slick’
One of the best liars I have ever seen.
And this is after working in Prison (which is full of them) for almost 20 years.
But that is a positive for democrats.
“Bill Clinton is an unusually good liar”
Quote from the media back then.
Media loved that.
Oh being an accomplished liar is essential for democrats.
Otherwise they would have nothing to run on.
They, the press, didn’t call him Slick Willie because he used to much Vitalis.
The DEI people would scream and rebel if Cackles isn’t the nominee, so they will lose a lot of that support.
Plus if she isn’t part of the ticket I believe that they lose the donations Biden/Harris has taken in.
If they make it Newsome/Harris, a white man talking over the top of the ticket over a ‘woman of color VP’. Yeah that could get ugly.
It would be fun to watch but keeping Brandon in is the better option for Trump.
Good points
Two weeks from Today is the HOF game.
I am looking forward to watching the crybaby at QB.
It’s nice to have football games again.
But after one game of the preseason, I want real football.
Comedy and news event.
He can’t remember their names because they were hired for what they are (race/gender/etc) not who they are.
DEI hires, SS is going ‘all in’ on those. Their ‘Equity Director says ‘DEI is the ultimate goal’. Here I thought it was protecting people.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/secret-service-equity-director-says-dei-agenda-mission-imperative-ultimate-goal
Partly.
He can’t remember stuff because he has dementia but also he looks at it from an event, rather than as an actual human being. So yes.
This is embarrassing. I always thought his name was “The Black Guy.”
Oops…
I want him to stay on the ticket.
I want to watch his acceptance speech live on TV.
Treating people with dignity is absolutely how you should conduct yourself, however, referring to the Secretary Of Defense as “the black man” does not accomplish that, it minimizes him to the color of his skin and diminishes any actual accomplishments and qualifications he has for the position. He is highly qualified for the position, he’s been a veteran for almost 50 years, but Biden reduced him to nothing but his race, which is pathetic.
100%
Highly qualified for position is a bit strange. There is a rule that a SecDef must be a civilian and not a former. career military person. An exception was made for Mathis and there was considerable howling from the democrats over his selection.
Fair point.
JR, that’s not quite correct. In 1947, Congress passed a law that anyone vying for the SECDEF position, had to have been out of the military for at least 10 years. Then in 2008, they reduced that to 7 years. When Trump wanted James Mattis for his SECDEF, he had only been retired from the military for 3 years. His eligibility for this position was contingent upon the granting of a congressional waiver, as, as I mentioned, amendments to the National Security Act prohibited active-duty commissioned officers from serving as defense secretary for a period of seven years after their retirement.
Thanks . Knew there was some limitation. Thanks for clarification.
He’s highly qualified and been retired long enough for the position.
Not sure why you say he is highly qualified. SecDef is to establish policy and the military is run by the chairman JCS.
I don’t care about this one way or another, but if you go back ( about 2015 I think) and review his testimony with Sen McCain on middle east ‘policy,’ you might find it interesting.
And as I remember, could be wrong, but believe he was the General that spent $500million and trained 50 Syrian fighters – quite an investigation into that as well.
again as far as I know, he may be a very fine man.
I won’t quibble about his ‘qualifications’, as retired Army I am glad to see someone who served in the job.
I have issues with him drinking the woke cool aid and deciding that pronouns are more important than lethality for the military.
And yes I get that he was ‘following orders’ from the Commander and Chief. That just makes it clean that keeping his job was more important than making the Military the best it could be.
You know really how he got this job. Biden’s son Beau was a lawyer on Austin’s staff in Irag and Lloyd and Beau went to mass together every Sunday.
Not the complete reason, but who you know works well in Washington.
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know, or in Kamala’s case who you blow.
I was just typing this.
Except the Kamala part. I would not think of shoving things that are important to me in Cackles mouth.
Joy Reid says that FJB surviving Covid is just as much ‘a sign of strength’ as Trump getting shot in the head, isn’t that exactly the same?
The TDS types are getting more and more unhinged, can we get a vaccine for that?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joy-reid-suggest-biden-recovering-from-covid-exact-same-thing-trump-surviving-assassination-attempt
Yes, because hardly anybody has survived covid.
She must have taken a few shots to the head earlier in her life.
so went on a little rabbit trail this morning and found out that wasps are essentially a $750BILLION industry…
The economic value of their pollination services to agriculture alone is valued at greater than $250 billion per year worldwide. But wasps are also top predators of crop-damaging insects like aphids, and their value as crop protectors is worth at least $416 billion annually worldwide.
I shot at a wasp nest in the peak of a granary roof as a kid with a BB gun. Wasp nest was a good 20 feet up. I was probably 20 feet from the base of the building.
Hit the nest. A wasp came out. Hovered for about five seconds, then boom. He came right at me and stung me in the neck.
It was amazing how it identified I was the problem that quickly and effectively.
oh yeah, they are built for attack….
but also helping keep the pollination world spinning and crop world thriving….
stupid rich wasps
I am picturing the movie Battleship, where the aliens look at something and determine whether it is a threat or not.
Fuck wasps, they attacked me and made me go to the ER
This week we had to have an exterminator to kill a nest of black wasps. They kept attacking and stinging me. They went ahead and also killed a nest of the normal brown ones that was also there last year, but they minded their own business. Exterminator said the black ones were known for being very aggressive. Son in law could have taken care of it, but we’re trying to give him a break, he’s already helped us so much.
I’m just here for the Trump theories.
Which ones?
The bandage is fake and it was staged?
Or he had someone shoot him in the ear to invoke sympathy.
Yep. We all know it was planned perfectly that he had turned his head at the exact millisecond to get an owie on his ear. One person sacrificed their life to pull this stunt off.
The bullet wasn’t actually even close. He had one of the Secret Service people cut his ear one the ground. That’s why there hasn’t been any medical report released. Plus, a bullet would completely rip his ear off and probably fracture his skull from the concussion, at least if you believe the same experts that think guns should be outlawed.
Hadn’t thought about this conspiracy deep enough.
Good point.
Any and all.
i have a friend who is 100% in the camp of it was faked/staged by trump and his cronies.
he makes his arguments. while i don’t agree with him or his take, i can understand why people would think that.
but he also thinks trump is also one of “their/they’s” puppets, and i do not. i think he is the worst thing that can happen to “them/they” whoever they are haha
But what about the others that were injured or killed?
They were robots.
he would say that they/trump don’t care.
which i mean is true, if someone is actually doing this crap, who would care about innocent civilians? (whoever ordered this assassination attempt on trump obviously didn’t care)
Staged?
For the person who thinks so. I’ll put up one grand if they will stand 130 yards from me and let me take 7 shots at them with an AR 15 – trying to hit them in the ear.
he says it wasn’t a bullet that hit him, it was something behind his ear that goes off IF ANYTHING
again, i don’t agree, everyone seems to grasp at straws to make things make sense to them.
I could see this being the case, if Trump was trailing in the polls and needed a publicity stunt to get him back in the race. But, he is leading in just about every poll and this would be career suicide if anyone found out it was fake.
The only ones that show FJB close are the National Popularity Polls where they take a larger sampling of Californians and New Yorkers.
It is the ‘Likely Voters’ in battle ground states that matter. Those are the ones that have the Democruds scared and scrambling to replace Brandon.
Exactly correct. Because of CA and NY the Dem nominee starts with an 8 -10 million spot every election.
Even if that were the case, there were 7 ‘real’ bullets flying around – and most all of them were close to Trump.
He’d have to be really stupid or brave as hell to allow a “stunt” like this?
Trump is a showman. Always has been. So I do understand the thinking about him staging some things.
He exaggerates all of the time. “It was the greatest economy in our history”.
I doubt it was. These are things that I dislike about him.
But taking it to the next level that everything he does is staged is hilarious to me.
Does your friend think the whole Biden presidency is staged or is everything he does on the up and up?
i did love his quote about his “iconic picture” with the bloody ear.,..
something along the lines of: “some say it might be the most iconic picture ever, i’d agree with them”
But that might actually be true.
Should he have said it? Not the best look.
Not in my DNA to make that claim if it happened to me.
If he wins this election, it will become an “iconic picture” for sure.
Agree, Trump need not say anything, it will just happen.
I think it is already iconic.
It just goes to one of the all time top pictures in American politics/events if he is sworn into office.
It has been great hasn’t it? Bring ’em on.
I know the last few days, everyone is asking why would you go with a 20 year old kid and not a professional? It makes sense to find some over zealous kid that is willing to do the hit. If you hire a professional, everyone knows he was a hired hitman.
they used whoever they could easily trick and convince it has to be done…
the fbi has bee doing this for years….
Look at Lee Harvey Oswald, he was ex- military, but from the sounds of h it, he couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
I woke up to see my wife spent $1,100 on Amazon last night.
What is the biggest bill your wife has ever gifted you with unexpectedly?
She ordered a standing desk and office chair, plus other assorted items.
Meanwhile, I have been sitting with a pair of running shoes in the cart for a month at a $100, wondering if I should pull the trigger on that amount…
I no longer look at our visa bill. I get too angry.
As long as we pay it off in full each month, and we still pay the agreed upon extra to the mortgage, I would rather not know what she spends. I think $1100 without at least giving me a heads up would more than annoy me.
Took me two weeks to pull the trigger on a new gap wedge ($125). She spends hundreds on stuff I just do not understand. I mean, how many purses and tote bags does a woman need?
Generally, she is not too bad, but she blows a lot of moola on “health” foods/supplements, etc.
From my perspective, it looks like she is trying to “cure” age. It’s a losing battle. Seaweed essence from the waters of the Saragasso Sea is not going to magically make joint pain go away.
I prefer to age gracefully. There are going to be ups and downs. Somethings I can fix. Somethings I will have to live with.
Same. I take so many vitamins just to keep her quiet. One a day was fine for me. Nope.
Plus the hair coloring. Let it go. Grey is normal.
Losing battle. I do not even bother arguing about any clothes/haircare/magic elixir to cure aging/whatever crap she sees on instagram or facebook.
Money well spent on a gap wedge – valuable club to have.
Been around the world for a while and been married for a while. Finally after years of frustration simply learned to accept women are different and nothing I say or do will change that.
So what I don’t know doesn’t hurt me And we’re happy.
Now, this works both ways. She thinks I watch sports too much, but accepts I am going to do this.
We seem to work best when we accept each others shortcomings or excessive habits if you will.
Smart. Respect is a two way street, and I do realize she is wired much differently than I am.
Ignoring the Visa bill is best for my mental health.
I get to try the new wedge this weekend.
How dare you say women are different than men!!
It’s true however. Now that we have grandkids, my wife just can’t stop buying them crap. I keep telling her that they don’t need anymore stuff, but it’s like she can’t hear me.
That is a good way to look at it.
Must be like water in a cup. Take the form of the cup.
I was in this same space with my wife.
It took her years to realize she was spending too much.
Now, as long as our “operating” account that is used for bills and daily stuff is not negative every two weeks, I am good with that. We/I am saving money before it hits that account.
Women definitely see money differently.
My experience is that most women are smarter with money than men.
But not in my personal situation. Go figure.
Yep. she is smarter than I am about a lot of things, but I am focused on paying off the mortgage fast since I cannot retire comfortably until that is done. Every January we evaluate and agree on the extra $ sent. If that happens I am fine.
To me ‘not spending lots of money’ equates to making more of it.
The Teacher needs her ‘shopping therapy’, I call her ‘The Amazon Queen’.
I think she got a wake up call when we had to organize for the move. She had so much crap squirreled away that a lot had to be donated and some was tossed out. Even I was amazed at how much was stashed under beds, in closets, in the back of drawers/cupboards.
Lots of scented candles, lotions, knickknacks, etc. I get that teaching is stressful and it was, in part, a way to distract from all that. She makes her own money and pays her share of the bills and still saves some. She can buy what she wants/needs.
I get that she comes to answers differently than I do. It doesn’t make her answers less valid than mine, sometimes hers are better. She adds so much to the partnership that it would be dumb of me to try to change her. She is better than some stuff than I am, thankfully.
QotD:
Will the 1st rounders sign before Sunday?
It may be Sunday when they sign, but yes, I think they will both be signed prior to the start of camp.
Yes.
It’s Thorsday
Skol
FTP
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Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!