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Just a guess but I think the Packers will beat the Lions today. Perhaps just past bias, just not completely sold on the Lions.
If that happens and we win that will mean a 3 way tie for first place.
I can except that even if it means FTP winning.
FTP losing is also acceptable (always) even if puts us in 2nd as the Loins have a lot of tough games coming up.
Hmmm… since we’re not playing until bedtime, guess there won’t be a game thread posted for another 8 hours or so…
I suspect that Brad or one of the Admins will show up at sometime today.
But I am frequently wrong.
Laughing…
I’ll try to hop on my computer in a bit of nobody else does. Cutting up a deer at the moment though. Wife got her first buck last night
Congrats on the freezer full of venison.
#jelly
Sounds good, new thread would be nice. Have fun cutting up that deer, meanwhile.
as you command.
I commanded nothing, only speculated.
I thank you either way good sir.
So here’s my prediction for today’s game. Ready?
24-20 Vikings.
#nojinx
Sure hope the defense can stop Flacco, Cashman still being out has me nervous. Darnold needs to get in the groove again, hope getting Hock back will help with that.
SKOL!
I have a feeling Darnold will have a very good game.
Let’s hope so, he’s due another good game with 3 or 4 TD passes.
#nojinx
Think more like 31 – 17. Colts are not very good and after last couple of weeks our guys will want to make a statement.
#nojinx
I think this team is capable of achieving that score, but for some reason we tend to slightly underachieve somewhat routinely. Thus my somewhat conservative prediction. Would be awesome to live up to our potential for once.
Well since the Vikings are going to ‘dial down’ the offense that will ‘dial up’ the scoring right?
Right??
Dunno. We’re all trying to understand what JJ meant when he said that. Less bombs away, and more control the clock with “possession” plays? Less “adaptive” route running and more just run a route, and let the QB throw it to you? No idea.
Guess we will see today.
I read the squirrel bit someone, and was euthanized to check for rabies. The video of the owner appears to reveal a far more insidious side of this. The owners are Trump supporters, Did they have to be treated the way they were? Sitting outside for 5 hours, while officials searched their home? It was all done “legally” with search warrants signed by a judge, but this looks like a massive overreach here. I think a huge lawsuit may be in the works.
The squirrel bit someone when they came in to ‘take him into custody’. So why does it take 12 federal agents with a warrant to pick up one squirrel and raccoon?? Seems like more is going on?
It might have had to do with the raccoon since they found raccoons with rabies ‘in the area’. I had never heard of the squirrel until all this happened.
No Federal Agents should have been involved if I understand the situation correctly. This engagement was conducted by the State of New York, not the Feds.
Hockenson is back tomorrow. Everybody is excited right?
More hopeful than excited at this point.
More Joe…
🤣😂😆
Our President…
Says the guy who couldn’t whip a 12 year old girl. Big hat light ass.
He likes to smack garbage in the ass??
NFL fined Young for facemask that was never called. Think NFL is run by Democrats.
So the NFL goes back and reviews games after the fact, looking ways to fine players?
NFL is about the $$$, not officiating fairly.
They should have fined the officials. That cost us a safety and eliminated any chance of winning, pretty much.
This is terrible…
Republican lawmakers demand answers from the Pentagon after military service members complained that they have not received enough absentee ballots to vote before Election Day.
GOP Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Mike Waltz (R-FL) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin citing their “grave concern over deficiencies in the Defense Department’s protocols” for the U.S. military because they said the absentee ballot stockpile has been “depleted and had not been replenished.”
I read that and could not tell if they were talking about overseas bases or not.
Overseas bases would be more problematic getting the ballots to the servicemen/women in time to mail in their votes.
Elections happen every four years. Making sure there are enough absentee ballots for the base population is not exactly a logistical nightmare. I voted from Bosnia one year for God’s sake.
Even in US bases most vote in their Home Of Record, mine was Calif all of my career.
Yes, I have been a legal resident of Florida for decades, but have been stationed many places both OCONUS and stateside outside of Florida. The military absolutely tracks your home of record.
Yea, not exactly rocket science!
That’s democracy, huh?
Well as they are obviously too stupid to vote for the current administration (in large enough percentages) it is not very important to insure that they have ballots and are able to get them in in time to be counted.
Duh.
The shit going on in this country, go as time as any to age i guess.
All by design.
Planned incompetence is used as an excuse to play politics.
RIP Peanuts. Sleep peacefully knowing you may have been the final straw to bringing down government overreach.
What’s this about Bow?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/social-media-star-peanut-squirrel-182927676.html
Sad. Showed this to my wife and she knew this guy. He’s a body builder who is a friend of hers. She’s mad about it.
Thanks.
I had seen the headline before but hadn’t read the article.
The Comic Strip??
Like there is nothing better to do than to break into someone’s house to take and euthanize a pet.
Pretty sad.
“the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Guess i’ll cheer for pukers and cowpies tomorrow. Can’t believe i said that.
Rodents go into Illinois and beat the 24th Ranked team 25-17 to become bowl eligible.
Plus #4 Ohio St goes into #3 Penn St and beats them 20-13 with the help of 180 yards of rushing.
And Army won a defensive battle with AF 20-3.
Just saw this:
Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott did not travel to Atlanta because of disciplinary reasons and will be inactive Sunday, per ESPN.
Zeke behaving badly?
Say it isn’t so.
Well… “disciplinary reasons” covers a lot of territory.
Cowboys are activating Dalvin again this week, to face the Falcons.
@I am sure that will make on the difference@
JJ says they will ‘dial down’ the offense going forward.
Reading the article it sound like he means ‘simplify’.
https://thevikingage.com/justin-jefferson-hints-changes-minnesota-vikings-offense
Weird that he would say anything like that. Yes, our passing offense is 17th in the league in yards per game, but only six teams have thrown for more TD’s than us, and all of them have played 8 games, to our 7 (and one team, the Jets, has played 9 games).
Justin himself is third in the league in yards, and 4th in TD’s amongst receivers, so it’s not like he’s having a terrible year.
Just kind of weird to hear him acting like the offense needs to be changed.
I got from it that KOC was dialing up complex plays to get people open and now they will lower the complexity and trust/allow the player’s skill to do more to provide that opening.
Still doesn’t make much sense.
Unless they are just talking about the one game against the Rams.
Mayhaps it has to do with quicker routes due to the lowered complexity?
The loss of CD could cause them to examine the passing attack with that in mind.
Just spitballing here.
We all know that KOC brought his “adaptive passing scheme” to the Vikings, where receivers are required to read the defense, and adjust their routes in-flight. This is very hard to do, and also the QB ends up holding the ball at times, waiting to see how the receiver is going to react to the defense. Justin might be saying “look if the play calls for me to run a stick route, I can run a stick route and win on it”.
can’t say that makes sense. Doubt watching we will notice much of a difference. Adjust and tweak some, but dance with what brung ya.
Hoping Hock gives us more of a 2nd level element. Still have no idea on who is on the O-line.
They would have to make a roster move to activate Risner.
Thinking they are going to sort the LT situation this work and the RG situation next week.
Lol…..
I’d bet good money that Jordan Love is aTrumpamaniac
Darnold supports Cackles?
Cut him!!
Looks like Jordan Love is playing tomorrow.
If the FTPs win (and us of course) it would be a three way tie.
If Loins win (and us) then it would be Lions then Vikes then FTP.
So which is better, tied for 1st or alone in 2nd?
#nojinx just to be safe.
There is no satisfactory result to the outcome of that game….therefore I shall ignore it and deal with whatever the outcome is…
If I am watching football at all during the late window it will be Chicago vs Arizona (via my illegal streaming service) no sense wasting energy on the Lions Packers game.
I am thinking that a meteor will provide a ‘satisfactory result to the outcome of that game’.
Ha! Yep.
Gooooooose Morning Skolbros!
5 years ago today I drove to Guthrie, Oklahoma to pick up my little buddy.
🎶 … He was born in Oklahoma
And his wife’s name’s Betty Lou Thelma Liz
And he’s not responsible for what he’s doing
‘Cause his mother made him what he is….🎶
Happy Saturday Skolbros!
On my way to brunch with me Milly and the wife – celebrating another trip around the sun (my birthday is Election Day)
About to have Salmon Eggs Benedict with some breakfast potatoes, wheat toast and some GD bacon (RIP Burgess Meredith)
Got some bro-bros coming over to watch our beloved Bugeaters attempt to become bowl eligible against UCLA today. One more win and we go bowling for the first time in almost a decade.
Homemade meatballs in the crockpot. Prepped some ham & cheese sliders and got a pot full of potato bacon soup to feed the horde. Wife made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. We’ll eat well.
Got a Tecmo Bowl tournament planned for this evening. Teams pulled from a hat. 5 minutes to adjust rosters/playbooks and away we go. Can’t wait. Been talking shit all week.
Excited to right the ship tomorrow night on SNF. Excited to get Hock back. Hoping to see BFlo get the leaks plugged.
Errrrbuddy be safe this weekend. Drink and eat and be merry…..
or Steve or Tony or Horatio or whatever your name might be.
FTP!
FT*!
Sean Payton once pooped his pants at a Sizzler. And didn’t leave until after his 2nd plate of shrimp.
SKOL!
🔨⚒️🔨⚒️
Laughing… that first part made no sense to me, and I read it three times. The rest sounds great. I went and hit a small bucket of balls this morning just to get the blood flowing. First time I’ve been to the range in probably 25 years. Took the car to the carwash, and yes, I vacuumed the inside and the trunk too. Came home and made some creamed chipped beef on English muffins, with coffee and orange juice. Gonna relax today, and enjoy some football.
Ohio St-Penn St is the big one today.
Army-AF should not be close but I hear Army is breaking out some epic helmets for it.
https://www.outkick.com/sports/army-football-uniforms-skull-crossbones-helmet-photos
Yeah, Air Force is bad… Army will beat them easily. Why do teams have to indulge in such extravagant trappings for the players? Just play football, man.
Article said this would be the 3rd Helmet that Army used this year. Have to wonder who is paying for those custom helmets? Taxpayers?
I guess if you want to get young men to apply to your U then ‘extravagant trappings’ might help. Young men are not known for having a fully developed brain.
Sounds awesome. Love some chipped beef.
The first part is the opening line to ‘Up Against The Wall’ (Redneck Mother) – played that on the way home from Oklahoma with my wingman riding sidesaddle…. He still perks up when hears it.
SOS was a favorite of my in Army Mess Halls.
Pair it with an Omelet and some fried taters and you are good for most of the day.
Of course you had to work all that off so as to keep the heart attack away.
I think two things about that.
Enjoy!
Dad (former Marine reserve) made
The Teacher can’t stand even the thought of SOS.
She says that it is similar enough to something her mom made that just roils her stomach.
So I have to only have it when we eat out at someplace that offers it.
Sad but probably better for my heart health.
I only did 28 years in the military… ate my fair share of SOS in chow halls over the years, and I really like it.
‘Only did 28 years in the military’?
I only did 22 followed by another stint in the prison.
They claimed it as ‘military like’ but those of us with actual military experience thought of it as more ‘kids playing army’ that anything else.
28yrs is more impressiver.
I liked what I did, and I was good at it. I loved the sense of team, and commitment I was a part of in the military. These days though, the military is going full woke, and the Air Force actually has as one of its goals, reducing the number of white males in the ranks, to meet DEI objectives.
DT says that the military will never be woke.
*during Rogan and probably other places*
The people at the top are, which he will stop, but not the entire military.
Sounds great, enjoy your weekend bro! 🍻
‘my birthday is Election Day’
Hope you get a ‘special gift’ for your birthday this year.
Oh, and happy Saturday.
I’m sick of politic stuff, but I’m sure part of that is because of the lengths that people will go to support one side and suppress the other. I didn’t read the article, but there was a headline that said the NFL is going to investigate the player that crashed an interview with a MAGA hat on. Would there be an investigation if it was a Harris hat?
Not likely.
If Trump wins it will get 1000% worse.
I just don’t watch tv news any more.
Its complete BS.
Players do all sorts of things to promote woke agendas and liberal causes, and the NFL is fine with that. The MAGA hat that Kittle put on and photo bombed an interview with, doesn’t mesh with the NFL’s liberal bias.
Bosa
Yep… hell gettin old… grin.
‘gettin old’
I would welcome you to the club but I think you are an original member.
#grin
Laughing… indeed I am.
Haha I’m not even that old yet I feel the same way. Must be the kids.
Yes.
It is a well known fact that you ‘inherit’ gray hairs from your children.
Bosa, IIRC. Good for him, but of course woke NFL can’t let this one go. Should have investigated Kaepernick for kneeling.
Suspect that the NFL is just CYA with the Woke and Swifties.
A big nothing burger as far as I am concerned.
Saw some Lib reporter say that if you were upset about Kaepernick then you should be upset about this because both insert politics into sports.
That is some Edge level false equivalency there.
Indeed…
Good morning, FTP, and SKOL. Big weekend for the NFC North with the Lions and the Pack going at it. I guess I want the Pack, because the Lions are starting to look really good, but Love may not play. If that’s the case, the Lions win in a laugher.
Anybody worried about the Colts game? I’m not.
I am, this is the Vikings after all.
It’s a Vikings game. Of course I’m worried.
#nojinx
You’ve said this for the last two games.
Just sayin.
Worried? No.
Could the Vikings lose? Yep.
I will predict a win for the Vikings on a last second field goal.
#nojinx
Nah, I never said I was confident about the Lions game. Rams I probably did. Stafford was having a very sub par year, then he suddenly woke up against us.
Yeah, because Flacco is much better than Richardson and they switched them
I keep wondering why the NFL had to move our game to Sunday night. Probably so Flacco can tear us a new one if the defense doesn’t figure out how to be effective without Cashman.
I could be wrong, but I think they made this move before we lost to the Rams, anticipating we would at least be tied for the Division lead, and “a team to watch”. With the Lions and the Packer playing today, one of those teams will be 6-2 and one will be 7-1. Had we beaten the Rams, we would be right there as a team to watch, after the Lions and the Packers played in the 4:25 p.m. game.
Final Injury Report.
We are out a Starting LB.
While they are out a Starting LT.
You guys had quite the day today…
Similar to yesterday.
An eclectic mix of topics.
Let me know when we’re gonna discuss an erotic mix of topics.
That is Skolholics after dark.
Your need a permission slip from a parent or guardian.
Good conversations were had.
Deer opener Nov 9th, going to try and cheat grocery store out of money.
Nov 8th here. I took that Friday off and have Vets day off so I got a nice 4 day weekend at home to hunt and chill.
Weather looks decent, fairly mild and dry. Have a elevated stand with a heater. Last thing i wanted was rain and they bed down.
We’re heading up Friday morning, 3 hour drive, opening is Friday at noon here in ND.
Good luck Brad. Kiddo hunt? Be safe.
He’s going along to walk, he can’t shoot yet. Not deer, anyway. He goes bird hunting.
Trump vs Liz Cheney. Man, you need a sense of humor to watch this political bullshit.
Piss on her and her criminal father. Dick Cheney is a scumbag.
Time for my much sought after political forecast.
Trump loses Pennsylvania by 1.5 percentage points and therefore loses the overall race.
Cackles will be our next President….God help us all.
Nice knowing you. I’m sure the FBI has all of us tracked down. Maybe we can meet face to face in the re-education camp.
I am sure the FBI has monitored this site, but it has ultimately decided we are l harmless hicks.
‘harmless hicks’
I sure am.
The country will survive either way. But as we get closer I don’t feel good about either. Trump is not the correct answer for this country but man it keeps feeling more and more like he is the better answer.
Only 4 years with him and there will likely be further assassination attempts and they’re bound to get lucky at some point.
All fair points. I saw a guy I know who is a big Dem supporter who supported Biden through and through post recently how Trump is in mental decline and he’s not fit to be president but GOP leaders seem to be in denial. That a president without mental competency would be a disaster for America… It’s like, well you’re right about one thing, a president without mental competency IS currently a disaster for America lol.
Sounds about right.
If Trump is elected, or declared victor, a smart move on his part would be to say he is going to pardon Hunter on his first day in office.
4 LESS YEARS! 4 LESS YEARS!
FTP
Should i cheer for Pukers or Kitties?
That is so hard to decide. I think it is in the Vikings best interests if the Packers win. I have decided I am not cheering for either team, I am not paying attention at all to that game.
I’ll watch but it is a bit of a conundrum.
Think I’ll do the same with that game, FTP win might be better for us though.
Easy, gotta cheer for Tucker!
He’s pretty damn good. I guess i won’t stress too much.
Pukers.
Loins need a division loss.
Not sure man, that’s like cheering for cackles/tampon.
I know guys, let’s deport the richest person in the country who is going to take us to Mars because Orange Man bad.
Just make sure DT wins,
Problem solved.
NOW the Dems want deport illegal immigrants?
LOL….
I just got an email notification from Linked In that I should follow Mark Cuban…
Well he does have to replace all of those strong, intelligent women that support DT that he insulted yesterday.
You are just who he needs to replace them with.
Pic up top:
Well, it’s actually a Viking saint, Olaf II. Seeing is that it is All Saints Day, I thought it was fitting.
Monty Python Auto Rec.
Cuban ousted by Harris.
Also, the Majority Owner of the Dallas Mavericks is a massive Trump donor.
So fired not fired?
More of a, hey you’re not on our payroll anyway, but you really need to shut your mouth if you don’t want trouble later.
Been a busy morning. Read with interest the discussion of the Supreme Court from earlier this morning. Can’t say I quite understand all the thinking.
But was wondering, and after spending a few years in DC, wasn’t John Roberts appointed by George Bush. Yet, in “conservative circles “around the Beltway, he is considered as one of the worst appointees ever. A total disappointment.
I totally was under the presumption that a lot of their voting was party lines. It’s not. I still hate the idea of one president let alone one side to get to appoint almost half or more of the justices…
But I have the same amount of fear of Harris getting to appoint even 1 lol.
In my opinion. it’s not the Justices, and who appoints them, or the Supreme Court in general that is the real problem.
Congress, and legislative bodies, should write law and if they can’t reach enough consensus to create law, then so be it. We should not then expect the Court to do it. All sides should not want this.
Similarly, under very divided conditions, we do not want the President issuing Executive Orders and Federal Agencies creating defacto laws thru regulation. Both sides should not want that either.
This is on the other two branches of government.
Bingo. Congress needs to stop righting laws that simply say, such and such government body, with no oversight by the American people, shall write rules governing blah, blah.
The Supreme Court ruled against the EPA in a pretty big case recently on this issue. Need Elon in there to clean house. Government agencies could probably be cut by at least 50%. A ridiculously his percentage of the “job growth” in the Biden/Harris administration has been government employees. The recent jobs report was almost all growth due to government jobs while manufacturing lost almost 50,000 jobs. Those numbers need to be reversed
That was a great ruling.
Don’t think people understand the wisdom of our founders.
When you have a 51- 49 Senate, House is controlled by just 2 0r 3 seats, and the President is elected 50.2 to 49.8, we have a very divided country. And under those conditions not much is going to happen unless it is middle of the road. Extreme items should not happen – and that’s by design with good reason.
And both sides try to jam stuff when they have very marginal control, and that’s what gets things so screwed up..
Yep. And these omnibus budgets need to stop. That is not the way it is supposed to work and is just a way for everybody to cram in crappy pork to get themselves and their friends rich. Have you heard about the exemption to the minimum wage that Newscum slipped into the bill for his buddy?
For sure, the system would work quite well, serve the people well, if it was merely followed.
I have not heard about Newsome, but not surprised.
$15 minimum wage for fast food (maybe all restaurants) unless you own a restaurant that sells loaves of bread. Guess who has been friends with the owner of Panera since college.
A perfect example of bastardizing the system and then the same politicians bitching the system is broken.
This is the way the founders wanted it.
Abortion has NEVER been passed or signed into law by any President.
SCOTUS did the constitutional thing by ruling that since no federal law has ever been passed, it’s up to the States to make their own laws in regards to it.
And abortions have actually INCREASED because of it.
It’s a fair point, but while we are talking about it. Did y’all know the abortion issue was highjacked as a political tool and there isn’t 1 case to be made in the bible that life begins at conception and the early church didn’t look at it that way till over 1500 years later when the topic was highjacked for political purposes?
Unborn fetuses were treated as property and not people in the bible, and there are examples to prove it… but you know… those are just the facts… uh oh… facts that go against what some folks around here think… wonder how that will go over…
Yes, I have seen your narrative on that before…I would still point to Psalm 139 verse 13.
No. Ps 139 is just a poetic reflection of God’s oversight of gestation, not a notion of fetal personhood. Throughout the Hebrew Bible, breath is the essence of human life (ruah & nefesh mean “breath” & are used to refer to “life”) & fetuses are treated as property, not persons. Because of influence from Greek philosophy, Hellenistic Jewish folks adopted the Aristotelian notion of the soul entering the body at the quickening. Early Christians debated Greek concepts of ensoulment, ultimately agreeing with the Aristotelian concept (until 19th century).
Jeremiah 1: 4-5 would be another good one.
Jeremiah 1:5, which indicates God knew Jeremiah before his conception. In addition to the fact that this was an exceptional claim, it doesn’t remotely indicate they thought of fetuses as having personhood.
No but it does enforce the notion that contraception is bad.
In my mind people should be sane enough to realize there will never be consensus but at least most people should agree that abortion up to and past birth is wrong. I can separate my personal beliefs with what is politically possible. I believe abortion is wrong no matter what, but I also realize that a 36 week ban with exceptions is going to save more babies than trying to ban it outright and getting nowhere.
It seems science has come a long way since the Bible was written and even since the initial decision of Roe.
My believes and religion aside, doesn’t science now say at X weeks a fetus can feel pain, hear music, understand it’s mother’s voice etc.
That seems so “human” to me.
Please give this a view. Because you are reading and adding your own thoughts into things that aren’t actually said. That passage says nothing about contraception, you are having to add that. You have this very literally approach to the constitution but then add read into the Bible a lot. Again, I am not some crazy all out abortion advocate. This guy does a very good job covering the actual history and actual translations of this topic.
I’m just saying that passage literally is one that churches will use to say contraception is bad. I never said I agree with that stance by the church either, but if God knows you before you are born then using contraception is working against the will of God. It all comes back to the same point in my mind though. Somewhere there is a line. Where is that line? It is different for everybody. Somewhere between semen and eggs to breathing. I think fetal vitality is somewhere most people could agree on. If you don’t believe in contraception, don’t use it. If you want to sleep around or an accident happens and have an abortion, then use Plan B or do it early.
Just like this one. The line is different for everybody. As intended with the construction of our government, compromise could be reached, but you can’t run on an issue if it isn’t an issue.
Believe you can run on a sensible solution. There’s enough there to beat the two extremes.
One would think, but for some reason it never happens or even when someone tries the other side claims otherwise.
True enough. Trump is fairly reasonable, But Harris presents his position with a complete lie. The Dems need the issue.
Bingo
You wouldn’t eat horse? I grew up with horses… I’d eat horse. I’d try dog too if I’m being honest.
I would. I’m not about to butcher one, but I’d give it a try. Put a little cheese on it and you have a filly cheese steak.
All animals want to live.
That must mean we should outlaw or kill all carnivores.
I feel ya, but seriously that video was just posted today and it really does give GREAT information. Give a it a listen.
Will do when I got a few free minutes.
Yeah, well living people were property in parts of the bible because that was the times. Try harder.
Attacking religion is not the correct path to go on this Edgey.
Really… If you truly believe the Bible was behind the times then and got shit wrong based on their limited understanding of things just know I think you are correct about that but it opens a whole can of worms.
The point being there are DIRECT passages that deal with how the unborn are seen, treated, whatever you want to say there for that word. And the unborn are not seen or treated on par with those who are born.
I have been on here and have stated I am for abortion bans having a middle ground cut off date. I struggle with this myself tbh. BUT most everyone I have ever talked to that is very much against abortions it stems from religion but that religious view was VERY much hijacked for self serving non-religious reasons.
Oh, politicians have most definitely high jacked it. If they, both sides, didn’t want to keep running on it, a middle ground could be reached yesterday. Like 70% of the country agrees with some level of restriction with medical exemptions. The problem is the extremists get the attention because it is way easier to just say that all Republicans want 100% bans and now they are saying that Trump and the right want to take away contraception. That’s just dumb. Most of the left does not want zero restrictions either, but they can’t say that because somebody running for as a Democrat saying they agree with some level of restriction would be suicide so they don’t say anything.
Well, except for the immaculate conception where GOD told Mary she would have a son and to name the fetus Jesus.
Or the prophets of the old testament saying Jesus would be be born thousands of years BEFORE he was placed in Mary’s womb.
you did “god” in all caps and yet are wrong… Funny. come on now, this athiest/agnostic guy (getting more agnostic) knows better than you… who actually told Mary… it wasn’t Yahweh (God)…
One of his soldiers on his instruction.
The Angel Gabriel is from GOD.
GOD told Gabriel to deliver the message.
Luke 1:26-27
If you want to get all technical about it, go for it.
It was GODs message. Not Gabriel’s message.
When you get a bill or a letter in the mail, do you tell your wife that you received a letter from the post office today, or do you say I got a letter from my friend today? Are you able to see the distinction? You didn’t get the message or letter from the post office. The post office was the subcontractor hired by your friend.
The letter is from your friend.
But back to your silly point.
Why would GOD send Gabriel to tell Mary about a fetus that doesn’t have life?
Do you ever dig deeper into these things and find things that make you question your stance or do you dig your heels in? The immaculate conception as a term wasn’t even in reference to Jesus…
Well of course the term wasn’t used.
GOD said Mary will conceive a Son.
Not a fetus. Not her/him.
A Son.
So you totally ignore the point?
Talk about digging your heels in.
Those are the constitutional rules.
President Nominates.
Senate Confirms.
It’s worked for 250 years.
If Trump wins, the right better take back the Senate or they will never get anybody appointed. He could put up the best candidate possible and the left will stonewall.
They will win the Senate.
I’m predicting 53, but 55 is possible.
Especially if Trump wins.
Hopefully Montana is going to do it’s part, but the left has dumped a ton of money into villainizing Sheehy and I’m afraid it’s going to work. The Shady Sheehy moniker was started early and stuck. A lot of people will listen to it and fall for the rich out of stater vs 3rd generation farmer bit.
Don’t know the politics there. But having 51 Senators is hugely important to every single Republican in this country.
A vote for Testor is a vote for Schumur
For sure. Tester votes with the left like 97% of the time but he plays ads of him driving in an old pickup and says he works across party lines and people believe it because they don’t actually research anything beyond political ads and the Republicans keep thinking that it is going to be an easy victory so they don’t put in the effort they need.
MT said Sheehy was up close to 10% in the polls.
We know they have to win by enough to ‘beat the cheat’.
The Hill says Sheehy is up 50 to 46 as of 4 days ago. There’s an AARP poll that shows him up by 10, but most are around 4-6. It’s promising, but I will probably be watching that closer than anything Tuesday since we aren’t going to know what happens in the presidential election for a week or two and it won’t matter anyway because the litigation is going to go on for months so Biden can keep the Senate from certifying the election while the litigation continues to protect democracy. They may get Biden out as well immediately after the election and then find a way to keep Kamala in there.
My point is Trump has already appointed 3, I said 1 President getting to appoint half of them. Did I state that confusingly? I don’t understand how you didn’t get that?
But that’s just your feelings.
There is NOTHING that says a President should or shouldn’t appoint only 3 justices.
lol, OK. So you’d be fine if Biden appointed 4 justices. You’re just as OK with that as Trump right?
No I wouldn’t, but it would be his right to do so.
I certainly wouldn’t advocate packing the court like the libs want to, in order to get their way.
Or to set term limits.
Or investigate only the judges they want to investigate.
That’s ridiculous. I didn’t want Biden to appoint a single one. Trump can appoint another 4 and I’ll be fine with it. If they are radicals, then it will come out in the confirmation hearings and get stopped.
DE can answer for himself, but for me, that’s the law and so be it.
Let me ask you this. Democrats have repeatedly been saying do away with the filibister and pack the supreme Court.
If Trump wins and the Repubs control both houses. Shouldn’t we ask those same Dems, Schumar and the boys, they still OK with this?
My point was I don’t think the founding fathers ever wanted it to be that way either but the law of averages and math game worked out that. I think the idea was always balance by the different parties but it just so worked out this way.
They also didn’t intend to have career politicians. Their pay needs to be seriously cut. I wish somebody would find a way to challenge the constitutionality of them giving themselves pay raises. Being a member of Congress was supposed to be a part time duty done as a service to your country.
True, maybe if we didn’t have these damn justices making easier to make a career out of it… AND WE’VE COME FULL CIRCLE haha.
The founders system was all about balance and they very much believed in it. And the founders knew full well the downside of political parties and many loathed them ( Adams and Washington for example).
If crooked self serving politicians cheat the system, it’s on the humans not the system.
And that’s why there is a Congressional body to ensure there is not overreach or radicals appointed. The problem is that both sides have dug in and won’t support the other side. There’s enough RINOs for the left to get it done, but if Trump is president and the left controls the Senate, no SCOTUS judge is getting confirmed.
Correct.
Adrian Peterson to sign one day contract & retire a Viking, as it should be.
Will they sign him for enough to pay his back child support?
Nice, is the one day on Sunday? Maybe he could suit up for us one more time 😀
Careful what you wish for…..
Ok, had to get some 9v batteries to change the smoke alarms out.
Went to local Bi-Mart and got batteries and looked at ladders.
12′ (minimum required) is $124 there, up to $250 at Lowe’s/Home Depot.
Since we expect to only need it for one day we will check rentals of 14’s.
Then we can do everything we need a taller ladder for, some cleaning/decorating.
Came home and changed the first battery and now sweet silence.
We will change other other 6 lower ones and then plan for that sucker up about 18 ft.
You should have just bought the taller ladder.
You could decorate your cathedral ceilings for Christmas.
All options are being debated at this point.
We know it has to be done, don’t want to be awoken early in the morning like that again.
Buy a scissor lift.
It’s better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.
#NOYST
You should have called freeze and had him do it.
Huh. I may have a problem. I have an 8 foot ladder, a 10 foot ladder, a 14 foot ladder, and a 24 foot (extension) ladder.
Thanks Bow!
As late as you were on last night I was sure you had set up todays Daily Tread.
Guess you were distracted by your 500+ trick or treaters.
Did you get a final count? Ours was a dozen.
Last I heard was the 537 our neighbors counted, we had many after that. Had a blast.
I meant to post the thread, but fell asleep in my recliner, it was a long day, over 600 miles, plus trick-or-treaters.
Jameis is awesome.
Jameis is so much smarter than people think he is
Not another 1st round CB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Vikings only taking $2.5m ish of Robinson’s salary.
At least they didn’t break the bank.
So a little bit left to play with.
Better than zero left.
Cashman and Tairmani are the only ones on the injury report.
Hock should be a full go Sunday night.
I really think Cashman is a bigger piece than we all think.
Agreed. Our defense was different with him in there. Good coverage over the middle.
Probably. But as you know, live by the blitz, die by it. Who you’re playing matters Worked well early, especially with younger less experienced QB’s. Some problems with older guys and good playcallers.
Still think we will be quite successful going forward most of the time.
It appears to be that way.
But Flores defense went to sleep last year as well.
It also wasn’t on fire like it was this year. I always wonder if it is that teams are on to him an he hasn’t changed much or if he is overthinking it and adjusting in a bad way in an attempt to be ahead of the other teams counteracting him so it’s not as effective
Or the players just get mentally gassed executing it.
Yup, mentioned this before. It’s not just him, but him and van gink together is what makes the difference. They seemed to kinda feed off each other with the splash plays they were making earlier in the season.
I also think their play together took some pressure off of our secondary. A lot of plays made by our linebackers were ones that our DBs didn’t have to make. Just my 2 cents.
Rio Bravo is on in the background. I watched two minutes and a third testicle dropped…
TMI??
How many do you have ????
Great movie, John Wayne with Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson. Also Emily Dickinson, she’s from ND.
I assume the media will run stories with pictures of Trump secretly putting people into gas chambers this weekend.
Or the FBI will release that they found child porn on a Trump computer.
Get ready for a wild weekend.
Walz fumbles again…..
Love this response….
He’s just trying to run a last minute pick 6. Give him a break.
You think somebody from MN would reference hockey.
Group together collection of athletes. It’s the general close of the game’s time. We got the main equipment piece and we are progressing down the field of play. And boy/girl/other do we possess the group of athletes to have a higher score at the end of game time…
He’ll probably just check it down on 4th and 12 for a 4 yard gain. What kind of dumb fuck would do that?
https://babylonbee.com/news/kids-at-tim-walzs-door-disappointed-as-he-fills-candy-bags-with-tampons
But 12,000 is great.
The story is not even on the front page of CNBC as we speak.
They were hyping this news yesterday about the jobs report.
State run media at its’ finest.
It is now on the front page.
No “breaking news” banner though.
So Vance is going to be the Dictator I guess.
This looks like an ad for Hunger Games: Beyond the Revolution
Wow… that is seriously disturbing. The leftist propaganda messaging on steroids. Very scary this is allowed to be published with so many lies and absolute distortions of reality. Can you say lawsuit? I’d sue the shit out of the folks who put this out.
It’s not lies, if the future hasn’t been told yet.
Well, I guess that’s the excuse the media has been using this election cycle.
Well done Jackson.
I saw an add in SD where their angle on the add was a teacher saying she wasn’t comfortable talking to students about weather or not they should get an abortion so say No on this bill… I mean… You could just say, “Hey kid, sorry what you’re going through but I don’t feel comfortable talking about this with you.” The way in which both sides are attacking right now sincerely worries me. IF the adds I have seen from either are an indication of what works and people think make a good argument for why they should vote it doesn’t matter who wins, we’re in trouble. I lean towards Trump right now. I mean you can’t believe a word she says, but the same goes for Trump.
One of the thing that really makes me not want Trump to win is the Supreme Court. It shouldn’t be full of one party or the other. That is a problem, like a huge problem. Especially when 3 of the justices Trump has already put all ruled last summer in favor or supporting political corruption and pro-politician bribery. We can’t have this and expect anything to get better, hell we can expect the corruption to get even worse. Trump and his right wing justices are here for it.
They can only rule based on the constitution and not what they think is simply right or wrong. At least if they’re honest judges. At least the conservatives on the court can tell you the difference between a man and a woman.
Oh yeah sure, that’s why dem judges vote along dem lines almost always and republican appointed judges do the same. I know how ideally it is supposed to be but in the end every person on there is a politician. It’s why I really, really fear if it was all one party on the court or the other. Not good.
It just seems that way because the Republicans follow the constitution and the Dems vote against it.
Like the 3 liberal judges who just desented on the removal of ‘self identified non citizens’ from the voter rolls in Virginia?
Yeah, that’s fucked too. It’s just goes to support what I’m saying. A supreme court dominated by one side or the other is BAD for the country. Very, very BAD!
Yup, ideally a 5-4 court all the time if possible, either way.
The sad part is, I don’t know if you are joking or not.
90% joking and as already stated, the “Republican” judges descent from the wishes of the party far more often than the dems. The entire Democratic party is much better at towing the party line.
Actually edge, much to the disappointment of many on the hard right, the republican appointed judges have many times voted against the republican position on matters – the same cannot be said the justices appointed by democrats who have ALWAYS voted along with the wishes of their party.
I’d like to take your word on that. But being as you and most on here live in an echo chamber and have consistently not believed in your own arguments if they are applied against you. I hesitate to believe you have a biased opinion on this. I am happy to say in the little digging I have done has disproved my stance a bit.
That also means instead of being irritated with party line voting in the case of this bribery in politics case, I should be irritated specifically with Trump and the people he’s appointed since they all supported it… fuck! I was on team vote Trump next week, now this makes that even harder… thanks for that! lol
Have you read the actual law? The may have done their job and simply interpreted a poorly written law.
I know I know, it’s an attack on your side so 10,000 excuses as to why it’s not legit. Got it.
No it’s not. I am simply not jumping to a conclusion based on an article written by a biased person. Show me the law they interpreted and where what happened is actually outlawed. I totally agree it is wrong, but if it is not included in the law, then it is not the courts job to decide that the law had the intent of implying it. If the law is bad, then amend it.
I’m not even outright supporting the decision. You just haven’t shown any real evidence of how the decision was wrong. The actions that the guy was taken to court for were wrong, but that doesn’t mean they were actually forbidden by law.
No amount of evidence would sway you. I am not sure if it was ever you but any time I’ve went down this rabbit hole on here, literally every time. The goal posts are moved. So I am not going to waste my time. The 3 guys Trump put in there voted to support bribed for politicians. That makes me very hesitant to want him to appoint a 4th person.
Here’s the actual law for you to read. Be forewarned, there’s some big words. The law specifically says there needs to be corrupt intent. The case in question involved supposed after the fact tipping that they claimed was not agreed upon before the contract nor expected. The law specifically exempts certain payments as well from prosecution, of which tips are not one. The law needs to be amended to include tips. The guy shouldn’t have been convicted in the first place, even though he shouldn’t have taken the payment and quite frankly I’m sure there was a wink, wink, nod, nod beforehand, but to convict somebody in the United States, the prosecutors needed to show that corrupt intent since he is presumed innocent and therefore the presumption is that there was no corrupt intent unless proven otherwise.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/666
According to the law, it looks like it should have been a 9-0 decision, that he did not break the law.
Looks like this guy has grounds for a lawsuit against the government for wrongful incarceration.
No way, you’re just crazy and jumping to conclusions and protecting your side!
Amazing how the smartest man in the room leaves, when facts come out.
Or should I say, spin doctor.
I’m sure he’s just researching to show my obvious bias. The text of the law is obviously biased.
I don’t know man. I have learned today I am wrong about my stance I have had on the supreme court and how they vote. Not the first or last time I’ll be wrong. I will adjust accordingly. BUT I can’t get over how obviously corrupt this situation is. I feel like it’s like when they asked I think was it Clarence Thomas what the definition of porn is and he said you know it when you see it… I think that applies here. It’s corrupt.
Or Kentaji Jackson saying she is not a biologist, when asked what a woman is.
I believe we all agree that what he did is unethical. But the law the prosecution used to sentence him to 21 months in jail said nothing about gratuities. Had they proven he knew he was going to get something in return, then it would be a bribe, and illegal.
One of the first differences between the left and the right was, and still is, the belief of how the constitution should be interpreted. Some are strictly word for word what it says. The left tends to want to imply things based on what the think the framers meant or wanted. There should be some interpretation of intent in the case of truly constitutional matters because the Constitution is quite old, but the Constitution is not supposed to cover specific, small issues. That’s why there is a line that specifically says that anything not addressed in the Constitution itself is left to the states to decide. That’s where the Roe V Wade thing came in. The Supreme Court decided that the Founding Father’s meant to include it in some part. The reversal was simply an acknowledgement that the Constitution does not address it, therefore it is a state issue unless there is a Constitutional amendment. This guy getting off on this is like a cop watching a drug dealer, who deep down you know is a drug dealer, but you can’t do anything because you don’t have real hard evidence. The prosecutor was lazy or just overreached. Everybody knows the guy was shady at best, but the alternative is government overreach that prosecutes people for other things that aren’t technically in the law. You don’t want to poke a hole in that dam so the alternative is to do your work as a law enforcement officer or prosecutor or where there are blatant loopholes in laws then the legislature needs to get involved and fix it.
I lean to the strict interpretations typically (and probably obviously), but that has been shaped through experience. It is also why I feel all gun restrictions are a violation of constitutional rights. The Constitution says “shall not be infringed” which is pretty clear to me. Considering that the 2nd Amendment was put right there at the top with the intent of people being able to overthrow the government if necessary, we quite literally should be allowed to own tanks and anything the government has. The government is supposed to be afraid of the people, not the other way around. Now, I’m not calling for anything, but as the Don says, peace through strength. If you’re afraid of an uprising, then don’t take people’s rights and freedoms away and sell your soul to the highest bidder. If fair rules are written and the government doesn’t overreach by enacting laws without the input of Congress, then there will be no issues or the issues will be so small they will be easily tamped down.
If you want gun control, there are ways to achieve that through a Constitutional Amendment. Anything less is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has decided different, I accept it to a point, but I don’t have to agree with it.
I think it comes down to the individual on either side. Lumping everyone together doesn’t hold up. The Moral Majority was clearly a conservative movement and they wanted books band and wanted to tread all over free speech. Then of course you have Tipper Gore leading the charge in the 90s with the parental advisories. So I think as most things in life it comes down the individual. I think you can find folks on both side who take it literally and folks who infer.
There’s going to be some crossover, but the difference in interpretation is very common and was some of the founding tenants of different political parties. Most liberals have no problem and expect legislation from the bench. That’s why they write vague rules so they can just have one of their judges interpret it the way they want when the time comes.
Clarence Thomas is probably the most corrupt one. He needs to be the next to go.
But the judge who can’t figure out what a woman is, is not corrupted?
And don’t get me wrong, there are bullshit things Dems stick together on with the Supreme Court as well. But it really seems the right are at the end the day the real supporters of corruption in politics as shown by how the Supreme Court ruled on this one. We should not be supporting and making it easier for politicians getting thousands and thousands in kick-backs.
I don’t know what you’re talking about specifically so don’t really have an opinion.
https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/07/us-supreme-court-holds-that-federal-bribery-law-does-not-criminalize-gratuities
The article doesn’t really give enough details. It looks to me like it is possibly a situation where the law specifically defines what a bribe is and if there is no expectation of money and a tip happens after the fact that it is exempt because of the language of the law. If that is the case then the statute needs to be reworded and include gratuities or the definition of bribe should be reworded to include gratuities. Just because something is obviously wrong doesn’t mean the idiots in congress write a rule that makes sense. I could tell you about numerous ridiculous laws written by people who don’t know what they’re doing. At one point in Wyoming, there was a regulation that specifically said you could own an owl and a separate regulation that specifically forbade it.
If it was an article about something bad you thought the Dem appointed judges voted on it’d be plenty of information.
You are so wrong and quick to jump to your pre-determined conclusions. I am simply explaining a very rational possibility. The difference in ideology is that I believe laws say what they say and there isn’t really “interpretation”. Libs believe the constitution and laws are living documents that have feelings and you should be able to interpret intent. If you want something outlawed, it has to be outlawed, not simply implied.
Well actually the constitution is a living document which is a very smart and good thing our founding fathers put in place. Otherwise we’d still have slavery and all kinds of shit without amendments to that constitution… here learn yourself something:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States
Living by amendment, not the feelings of the current judges. Yes, it is meant to be amended and there are steps to do that. The feelings of judges interpreting what is not there is not that route.
Also you are totally biased. You don’t vet articles and shit that comes from your side. It’s what an echo chamber is.
The fuck I don’t. I just actually happen to have a tad bit of experience with laws and regulations both from an enforcement and compliance side and don’t jump to the conclusions that you do to say that everybody is wrong and pretend to be smarter than everybody else. I already said, maybe it was a bad decision, but I don’t know the details.
Bingo!
So they admit that Dens lied about covid measures, are screwing up in the middle east and are trying to censor Americans but still think voting for them is ok because the other side Might be worse?
Got it, woke logic.
My Friday sucks.
The Jets and the Douche won gosh darnit….
My Friday started at 5:30 when all of the smoke alarms started beeping.
I guess one has a dead battery so they all beep.
With the vaulted ceilings we can’t even reach some of them with the ladder we have.
@it is going to be a fun day@
That is how our house is set up.
There is circuit breaker on our box for “smoke alarm”
Can you reset them from the circuit breaker?
Opened up the first one and have not found a battery yet.
My memory is no.
We had one go off and shut off the CB and it still was going off.
I found the battery and replaced it and they shut off.
Good luck!
We are planing to change all the batteries, figure if we only changed the one we will go thru this again next month and the one after that.
We have 8 eight of the dang things. One of the requirements because this house was a long time rental when we bought it.
Unreachable beeping smoke alarms would drive me to drastic measures.
That’s why you follow the manufacturer’s recommendation and replace the batteries once a year. Make a holiday of it.
We only moved in 4 months ago.
We are still learning about this place.
Preventive maintenance is an unsung habit. I am trykng to get wifey more into it.
This happened to me as well this morning, except at 4:30.
4:30 your time the same as 5:30 our time??
Yep.
Jackson, WA is one hour behind you.
4:30 my time would be 3:30 Mountain time.
Did you call Freeze for help with changing the batteries?
I can’t take this constant beeping that long.
Do you realize how long it would take him to change 8 batteries?
I don’t have the math skills to figure out that calculation.
Kindred spirits. I was awakened at 2:30 am on Monday morning when the alarm in the hallway started beeping. In my experience, they always beep in the middle of the night. Similarly, we have ten foot ceilings so I sleepily replaced the battery.
I should replace them all this weekend with the dreaded switch to MDT, dark af when I leave work, followed a month later by dark when I go to work as well. The tight ass in me hates to replace functioning batteries but the safety conscious person in me thinks climbing a stepstool at 2 am is not ideal.
Thanks Bow
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