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31 – 27 Miami,
So long SEC.
Go Miami, F the SEC.
Yep.
I want the opposite of what the “experts” think.
The ‘odds’ I see say Miami but 3.5.
Not sure those are the ‘experts’ you are speaking of.
TV pundits and others who think the SEC is the best conference.
Miami wins!!
SEC eliminated
Just got back from a grocery run a Walmart.
Several things that we normally get were cheaper than we are used to. Canned corn was down to .67c a can, large container of Hot Chocolate was down to $5.34, Chocolate Chip Muffins down to $3.64 a four pack, and several others. Not sale prices either.
Hope that it is a trend that continues, nice to have a little ‘reverse sticker shock’.
Hopefully that continues.
Chuck Schumer says grocery prices are going up under Trump. You must not be telling the truth.
We never saw a hugh spike due to tariffs
Tariffs only cause those things that are tariffed to go up. Buy American and generic brands and those prices will only go up due to ‘normal inflation’.
They were going up, much slower than they were going up under FJB, but still going up.
Today was the first time I have seen a drop other than ‘Sale Prices’ in years.
FAFO Fani…
Trump filed a motion today, seeking over $6.2 million in attorney fees from Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ office, following the dismissal of the 2020 election interference RICO case under Georgia law allowing recovery for baseless prosecutions.
The case, indicted in August 2023, accused Trump and 18 co-defendants of racketeering to overturn election results; its dismissal stemmed from prosecutorial misconduct allegations, including Willis’ romantic relationship with a special prosecutor.
Baseless Prosecutions is right.
Especially since the Georgia Dept Elections has admitted they counted over 315,000 ballots that did not contain Poll Workers signatures in 2020 as required by Georgia Law. Trump lost Georgia by less than 12k votes.
https://www.walb.com/2025/12/23/fulton-county-admits-verifying-315000-votes-2020-without-poll-worker-signatures/
So my wife was assigned a new client last week at the gym. Heavyset black woman. They have had 3 sessions, and my wife has not been happy, as the woman is very racially biased. Today, she apparently started cussing about getting reparations from white people. She was complaining loudly in the gym. My wife (who is of Mexican descent) politely asked the woman to tone down her voice as it was carrying throughout the gym, and clearly affecting other customers. She started on my wife then, calling her a white bitch, and she doesn’t get silenced by some white trash, etc.
My wife can curl 45 lb dumbbells and benches around 160 lbs. She was incensed to say the least, and told the woman firmly that she had to calm herself or leave. The woman got up in her face and pushed her, yelling more racial insults, not realizing my wife is actually a Latina. This really made my wife angry, and I think she was about to clean this gal’s clock when a large black body-builder named Mike stepped in and told the woman she had to leave or he was calling the cops. Mike is a former Marine, with real combat experience. He is as red blooded as they come, and the whole racial rant set him off. He read her the riot act on slavery and how Muslims were by far the worst of the worst when it came to enslaving people. My wife said he went on a pretty lengthy explanation of the subject, telling her as much as a third of the population of the ancient world was enslaved, including white people. He told her Aristotle considered it “natural” and Plato’s Republic was not only supported by, but founded on it. Slavery existed in India at the time of Buddha and in China as early as the 17th Century BC.
Now that my friends is why I love the Marines. They don’t take no shit from anybody, and they take care of business.
BTW the gym cancelled the woman’s membership.
And when you are a Marine, you are a Marine for life.
No doubt. Mike is just a great guy, and everyone in the gym loves him. He’s training to compete in the Mr Olympia body building competition, and yeah, every inch a Marine. We’ve had dinner a couple times, and swapped some war stories. I’m a fan.
Great story, but I was expecting a more exiting end.
I think if Mike had not stepped in, there probably would have been. When she pushed my wife, I think it was about to be as ugly a scene as you could imagine.
Sounds like an odd duck. If one has racial predilections, why would you choose an athletic trainer that is of a race you despise?
Well the manager assigned my wife to her, and it was bad from the start. In my opinion, this woman seems to be accustomed to doing this and has found no one really wants to confront her.
Shocking, simply shocking! You mean there are people that regularly play the race card.
Worse, they are aggressively attacking people physically and expecting people to just “deal with it”.
But he was denying her the ‘Black Women Victim Privilege’ that she so richly deserved.
He was indeed. He was really upset when the woman started yelling at my wife, and had moved in to try and calm things down, then she pushed my wife, and he was all Marine then.
Wow
I can see the Packers easily rolling up the Bears.
The Bores must have been ‘Inspired’.
FTP were probably looking for the quickest way to Canada.
*joke* no doubt some FTP fans served with distinction in WWII.
So we need a military attack tomorrow to ensure the Pukers lose?
Might suck for someone, but I’m all for it.
Let’s attack Greenland. Not a lot of people there, DJT says we need it. Two Birds with One Stone.
Will the Thrill
https://www.vikings.com/news/will-reichard-nfc-special-teams-player-of-month-december-january
I kind of like this response from him. 2028 could be fun.
I do have a question. Can’t ICE and FBI get all her phone records and text messages? I am sure that will show that she was doing whatever she could to inhibit ICE from doing their job.
This will be interesting as more info comes out.
Vance and Rubio are both candidates. One will win and hopefully the other the VP nominee.
Getting her text messages will indeed prove insightful.
I would rather see Rubio continue as Sec of State.
He did mention that it is his ‘Dream Job’.
But either could work.
The $9 billion in Minnesota is but the tip of the iceberg. Pocket change for NY and California.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced criminal referrals of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison to the DOJ, alleging they ignored and retaliated against whistleblowers reporting multimillion-dollar fraud in state-funded Somali community programs during a House Oversight hearing.
We’ll see if the DOJ charges them and indicts them.
Unfortunately zero chance.
I have noticed that I am starting to deliberately offend feminists.
I have tracked this behavior back to its source. I have a couple female Facebook friends, and their posts finally activated something within me. I just can’t take their stupid anymore. I’m not willing to consider that I might be wrong. I am just going to label them as stupid and go from there…
I had a similar issue. Then I deactivated my facebook account two years ago.
Problem solved.
you are basically the femchurian candidate…..and you’ve been activated
My SIL is an ‘hardcore’ feminist and she has cowed my brother. She sees everything thru that lens without applying actual logic, just ‘woke logic’.
My Daughter once stated that she was also a ‘feminist’ and we had a long discussion on the topic. She now has backed away from that, she is somewhat liberal in her views but she just converted to Judaism so even that has been tempered a bit.
I dont mind people having left leaning views,as long as they base them on logic. The trouble is, most libetal people i know, only think based on media sound bites and never dig into the facts
I find that true on both sides of the fence.
Agreed, except for people on this site
We are all exceptionally brilliant.
Jared Allen believes he should be tied with Myles Garrett with a single season sack record of 23 sacks. He is credited with 22 in 2011. The NFL initially credited him an additional one on The Douche but decided on the Wednesday after the game it didn’t count.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl/article/think-myles-garrett-broke-the-single-season-sack-record-1-nfl-hall-of-famer-believes-he-should-be-tied-with-browns-star-194208138.html
Yep, robbed.
Even Rodgers agrees. Maybe they’ll fix the books for him.
Not after this amount of time and the hoopla they just gave Garrett.
This video makes me laugh for some reason. The song is great, but the singer’s emotion and punch dance moves in the grass reminds me of Adam Sandberg doing his punch dance in the woods in Hot Rod, expect it is unironic. High marks.
Brent has an awesome voice. We cover two of their songs in the band.
Yes, he is a very strong vocalist. His voice makes the band.
i used to like shinedown, then i stopped listening to the radio
I like that band and that song.
However, all I see when I watch the video is a young mom that abandons her son to chase her dream of becoming a dancer.
I imagine she is dancing at a strip club within two weeks, so she can make enough money to live while chasing fame after abandoning her son.
You’re earning your surly nickname…that is a teenage girl with a younger brother. She leaves to pursue her dream, and her parents realize they can give her a second chance at success in life by becoming a ballerina.
Much better story. Thanks.
Glass is 1/2 empty for me lately.
Their cover of ‘Simple Man’ helped get me thru my mom dying….
Only listen to that version once a year, on 7/7 – the day she passed.
Shocking!!
Not Shocking.
he was getting sick of seeing his coach wearing those stupid little capri pants
His tenure did not go well.
McDaniel had his moments, just couldn’t quite get it all together and rolling consistently. At times his offense looked unstoppable, then it didn’t. The team was just way too inconsistent.
There are now eight head coach openings in the NFL. One fourth of the league. I wonder if that is a record?
That move seemed so obvious months ago that I completely forgot it might happen.
Maybe he would make a good OC?
Ravens interested in Flores apparently…
Hopefully it is just a ‘Rooney Rule’ interview.
The fact that he is getting a HC interview is the scary part (for Vikings fans). Sounds like some in the NFL are past his old lawsuit and are willing to meet with him.
Am I wrong in thinking that the majority of regulars on here are of the mindset that if Flores leaves the defense will fall off a cliff?
I won’t miss him. Defense makes some splash plays but we give up so many 3rd and long, 4th and long conversions with gaps in the zone I believe someone else could do better.
He’s a very good DC. And after following Easy Ed and that crap defense, he was just what was needed to turn this defense around.
Now, doesn’t mean some other defensive guy couldn’t come in and do a good job.
I would be fine if he does move on and they promote the secondary coach.
Honestly, just keep building the trenches.
But wasn’t our secondary the worst component of our D?
I think you are correct.
I am back and forth on Flores. Some very good QBs have destroyed his defenses over the years. Stafford comes to mind, and Josh Allen.
I would really prefer a strong enough front 4 that they can stifle the run and still get pressure on the QB without blitzing often. Like Seattle.
Our team does not have that talent yet.
Flores defenses are fun to watch, but man, when the wheels come off due to injuries or dearth of talent in a specific place, it is a train wreck.
The end is near!!!
i’m a true minnesota.
change scares me
but i agree, i have a feeling we have been grooming his successor and will continue on without missing a beat
If he is to leave this would be the team to go to. They are already playoff contenders.
I reviewed The Victim for fun…
I read your review….I do not think I have 75 minutes to spare for this film.
Thanks for the review! Not watching that, but I did watch the old TV ads.
Brings back memories. I remember some of those ads.
i’m no scientist or meteorologist or astrologer but last night, the stars were crazy bright and more prominent, same with the moon (only like half size, what is that, 3rd quarter or something like that idk), did anyone in minnesota notice them at all last night?
jupiter was crazy bright too.
we are so blessed that all that was put into place by one big explosion!!!!
My wife commented on that last night when she got home. She said the stars were particularly bright. Then she started berating me for not being a man.
But, the point stands. Yes, someone else noticed!
Maybe she would respect your manhood if you stopped posting GIFs of men in bikini underwear……
NO KINK SHAMING!
Hee hee hee…..
“And GOD said, Let there be light…”
BOOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Currently, I believe that IS how GOD got the universe started.
He created us from dust later on.
Yep, Big Bang and evolution don’t mean God doesn’t exist and is just pulling the strings a little.
Read Stephan Hawking’s “The Theory of Everything”. He comes to the same conclusion
Canadian wildfires finally burning out and the atmosphere clearing?
Looks like Lamar Jackson was part of the reason the Ravens fired Harbaugh.
Team effed up. Got rid of the wrong person.
Likely.
Lamar is talented. But if the inmates run the asylum……
I am happy Harbaugh gets to try a new place (if he does, of course). A fresh start might reinvigorate him. Hey, he should call the Wilfs!
It mentions Daunte Culpepper, so it is Vikings related!
https://x.com/lit_phins/status/2008971166774657483?s=20
book reader: “Saban is 5’8 tall”
little girl: “so….is he a lady??”
i’m LOLing big time at that
Tosh is a funny guy. He kind of gets lost in the mix, but he is good at being offensive in a super playful way.
idk who that is, but for 3 seconds i thought it was Tom Brady LOL
Made me lol.
Thanks!
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Happy Thorsday!
FTP Auto Rec.
I am so glad that I left the Minneapolis area years ago.
I used to enjoy going into Mpls and walking downtown, going to Vikings games, and visiting bars and restaurants. In September I took my mom to her childhood neighborhood (South Minneapolis) and we reminisced about her parents and growing up. It seemed safe enough and everything appeared small and old.
But Minnesota is now a total sh**show. I still have siblings who live in the suburbs. I couldn’t do it. I’d want to get the hell out of there. I know that outside of the cities Minnesota is a decent place, but people keep putting up with this garbage and voting in lunatics.
Im embarrassed to tell people I grew up there, but happy to say I left.
The only time I will likely be back is to visit mom and dad’s grave at Lakewood Cemetery.
To mayor Frey and Governor Walz…F**k off.
In complete agreement.
My wife will not leave. My options are an expensive divorce, or suck it up and grow old and die in a place I have grown to absolutely hate. Or I just move and stay married, but live elsewhere.
I am looking at states with the lowest Somali population and beneficial tax rates.
FL still looking good to me.
Happy wife, happy life.
I guess you can get by living there if you want.
I was there for about a month over Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Choosing to do so baffles me.
On taxes alone.
It really is a stupid place to live in if you enjoy freedom and do not like the cold.
If you are into winter things, there is plenty to do. My knees no longer tolerate skiing. So I am pretty much hating things until April or May.
Even Nordic skiing? I love nordic skiing, one of the few things I miss about Roch and Grand Forks was the plentiful snow to XC ski in.
I could probably do that again. it just is either shitty level cold, or the snow is bad because it is too warm.
I could very well just be a grumpy old man.
I used to go winter camping. Last time we were in the Boundary waters in January mid 80s (Nordic ski in, camp and stay for 5 days) it was below zero the entire trip. I decided that was enough of that.
If you care to share, why does your wife refuse to leave (presumptively) MSP? Obviously I lived in Rochester, that is close to the cities but far enough away that I never felt unsafe in the parks or bike trails. Or you could live in Iowa, Dakotas, Wisconsin and still be close enough to visit family.
She is very attached to this house that we raised our children in. Her mom still lives in the house where my wife grew up. Her grandma lived to 102 living in the house where she had raised her family. To me it is just a building that is much larger than two people need. I would downsize today, but she will not.
We have about 7 years left before it is completely paid off. If I had made better financial decisions in the past, I would be looking for a condo in FL today. Instead I wait.
Our adult children also live in town. While I am not sure if we will ever become grandparents, that is the other issue.
meanwhile we both have siblings that live in AZ or FL.
I would not move to Rochester. If we are moving, I want to move to FL. I like the ocean and going on cruises and I like golfing. No taxes is a biggie for me as well.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Funny how some spouses get attached to a house. I actually missed the home my wife and I bought after we got engaged, sold it when I started med school and used the profits to buy a mobile home, etc…now I look at the various places we lived as stepping stones to what we have now. I like how we have this place set up and of course I like having a few acres to do with as I like. Truth be told, my wife doesn’t like Glendive, it was her hometown but she found out as I did long before that you can’t go back, things always change. Hence the push to have me retire in about five years, then we could spend more time in temperate climes and I could do part time work for spending cash.
Yeah, if we do not kill each other or divorce, I will probably look to either buy something in FL or at least rent 1-2 months each winter once this place is paid off.
It still makes no sense to me. house is worth around 550k and the property taxes are above 7k. For that reason alone I would downsize. By the time I do finally retire, my taxes will be above 1k per month.
It is just a damned building. My guess is that since I moved 5 times before I was 11, I never really cared about the buildings. Home was where family is. Her family is much different.
Just keep in mind divorce is not the pathway to financial happiness.
I like to tell people all the time that my wife paved the way for my success in med school. That way I don’t get intrusive thoughts like gee I’d be happier with a high maintenance sporty newer model. Please no. Lately I’ve had the joy of my prostate pushing on my bladder, if I drink a lot of liquid quickly the detrusor reflex makes me dance, so my wife knows all about my having to find a bathroom if we are in public or whipping out my feller if we are walking or working outside around the place. A new model might struggle with that image. Reminds me, my best friend from med school and I were sitting outside the VRBO in Sedona, drinking a few alcoholic beverages, and the urge came fast, I said I’m just gonna pee in this bush (it was pitch dark on the street but we were in the front yard), and he was horrified. I went inside instead. Can tell I’m used to living in the country now.
‘Just keep in mind divorce is not the pathway to financial happiness’
Until my divorce my Ex spent my money like a Drunken Sailor and when it ran short she borrowed from family or charged up Credit Cards until we had to file bankruptcy.
I was financially much happier after my divorce. My biggest financial mistake was marrying the wrong woman.
Haha
‘You have chosen wisely’.
Eventually.
I am proof that ‘Pain is the best teacher’
Just keep in mind divorce is not the pathway to financial happiness.
I fully realize that it would be the stupidest decision ever, financially. Between alimony and the income difference I would be screwed.
I am just getting worn down by the arguing about the stupidest things ever. Trying therapy first. If that fails, I will be looking for studio apartments in FL soon.
My wife was telling me about a couple that live in separate cities. They visit each other periodically.
Like in Die Hard??
I have never taken one step in Minnesota but grew up in Illinois and feel the same way as you. Chicago used to be one of the great cities in the world – now a complete shitshow. Downstate in the rural areas there are wonderful, salt of the earth people. And like you, I see the Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor and wonder how could reasonable people elect guys like this.
I hardly ever mention my Illinois heritage to anyone,
They don’t, it is the lunatics that elect these people. The lunatics are running the asylum, nowadays.
Unfortunately then there must be more lunatics than same people in Illinois and Minnesota.
I for the time being tell people I’m from Northern Virginia but it’s going to hell too.
I used to take pride in being from MN, in the “MN nice” concept, in the beauty of the state, etc.
Now I don’t even mention that I’m from there if I don’t have to. It’s embarrassing.
The cities area (and even surrounding suburbs) look very different than they used to. It’s a weird feeling when I’m back in the state visiting family.
I honestly don’t even know how MN recovers.
Agreed, what a shit show.
I go back to visit family, luckily, they all live in the west-central farmlands. I can avoid the Twin Cities. It breaks my heart to watch a beautiful state fall apart.
speaking of minneapolis being a total poop show…
took the kids to a Twins game this year, there was a protest a couple hours before the game, we drove by an overturned car (so obviously a peaceful protest) and my kids were like what theeeeeeeeeee….
and i decided i won’t take my kids down there any other time that afternoon games.
it’s a total dumpster fire down there.
Same. I miss going to twins games with my daughter, but the Saints are less expensive and the stadium is in a slightly better area. I am not worried about having to kill someone to get home.
the laws of the road don’t apply to me when i’m in minneapolis at night time. i will blatantly go through red lights so long as to not come to a complete stop in that cesspool.
Must be the modern “Minnesota Nice”.
I remember my wife had an appointment for downtown Minneapolis during the Floyd riots. She is like, “Yeah, I made an appointment downtown Minneapolis Tuesday.”
“What!?” I ask.
“I made an appointment for downtown Minneapolis Tuesday.”
“Do you know what is going on in downtown Minneapolis?”
“No. What?” (She pays zero attention to the news.)
I just shake my head. “You aren’t going.”
“Yes I am.”
So…she went.
She is one of those fearless people. She don’t give an F about nuthin. She would just randomly go visit Gaza and come back home fine. Meanwhile, I will die just going to a random Wal-Mart or something…
I’m just glad I can say I’ve lived out west longer than I lived in Minnedishu now if it comes up that I lived there as a kid. I love my parents, but I have no desire to visit that shithole of a state.
The problem with the video clips I have seen (IMHO) is that they are ambiguous, show some LE officers trying to open a locked car door, vehicle trying to speed away, not clearly driving at LE, etc…therefore, this is another smoldering bin of garbage waiting to flare up as when George Floyd died.
FWIW I think anyone that drives into a nest of LE vehicles and LEO deployed on the ground is taking a grave risk, similar to walking by a buzzing hornet’s nest and lighting a firecracker. Well, I didn’t mean to incite hornet violence but now they are coming at me.
She was an “Observer” attempting to catch ICE doing something bad for video clicks. Why she thought it would be a good idea to block traffic is beyond me.
I think the officer overreacted by shooting, but he was probably getting rammed. Intentional or not, does not matter. I think she was trying to drive away, after being the instigator by blocking traffic. Stupid.
I think Darwin Awards could use this.
‘I think Darwin Awards could use this’
Appropreate.
I posted my take on this yesterday but it was late and down the thread so I will repost here.
It looked like she panicked.
She was virtue signaling by blocking the road, ICE told her to move, she refused so they went to move her. When an agent reached in the car to unlock the driver door she hit the gas. An other agent was standing in front, and he shot her.
She probably meant to drive away but in the one second the agent had he saw a SUV coming toward him. He had been injured in a similar pervious incident. Her wheels were initially were pointed straight and she turned to the right just as he fired. She might not have known the agent was in front of her when she hit the gas as she was focused on the agent trying to open her door.
I don’t think it was murder or domestic terrorism, more virtue signaling gone wrong. She FAFO the hard way.
Yes, I agree. Funny though, no less a source than FB, browsing the comments, you will see people interpret the video in vastly different ways. Much as people on here interpret things like the stars and vaccinations in very different ways.
I did watch a brief clip of the protesters in MSP this morning. Fortunately it is cold and slippery outside so they are having a hard time getting a good burning man rally going.
‘source than FB, browsing the comments, you will see people interpret the video in vastly different ways’
I don’t do ‘BookFace’ so I don’t know what ‘different people interpret the video in vastly different ways’ are seeing.
That is also how I see it.
More fodder for the news networks though. Anything the dems can do to demonize will be broadcast loudly.
This is exactly as it looks. Good summary.
I just wish people weren’t so one-sided and anxious to be riled up these days that they refuse to see it objectively.
Honestly, this would never have happened if ICE wasn’t so vilified, so I blame the leftist politicians who pump out this rhetoric on the regular more than the agent or the driver.
I see it the same. First time I saw the video my focus was on the ICE at her door, never saw the guy in front of her until the vehicle turned more to the right. I don’t think she did either.
Honest question, since I have paid extremely little attention to the whole thing…..
Is it confirmed that she was intentionally blocking traffic, or was she in the process of turning around on an icy street?
It has been ‘unofficially confirmed’, she was spotted at multiple locations trying to interfere with ICE operations. I have not even heard her ‘wife’ deny that she was blocking traffic and she was filming the incident, lady just outside the SUV,
I moved to Minneapolis after high school from very small town in NoDak graduation class of nine. I lived on Lake street for a year then joined military. I worked second shift so walked around went to stores after midnight never had a problem wasn’t till I met someone from Minneapolis later that he told me I was in a very bad area, I never noticed, could not pay me to live there now.