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I just can't muster a fuck to give except we're in for several months of some of the most rank hypocrisy ever seen from a band of people who were already the most hypocritical hypocrites of all time. They call for and celebrate political violence at every turn. Some looney does it the other way and pearls are all clutched. If Jan. 6 didn't result in auto disqualification for dotard, this shouldn't make a huge difference at the polls, but we are a fundamentally stupid country, so I'm sure it will. "He calls for political violence, inspired and egged on Jan. 6, says he'll suspend the constitution, and implement christian jihad style nationalism, while deporting ethnic minorities, and will cancel future elections, but someone clipped his ear, I guess he's the right guy for the job!"

I still can't get over the fact that he was handed what was supposed to be a prop gun that somebody else fucked up before he pulled the trigger. How is he criminally responsible for something like that, specifically with regard to criminal intent? I can see a civil case not based on his pulling the trigger, but if he had significant control over the set and he hired, trained, supervised poorly in the area of safety on a set including several firearms. But criminal responsibility? It never made any sense to me whatsoever.

Yeah, people are gonna be super excited for FSU @ SMU. Utah @ OSU is going to be a good and “watchable” game. Also, no news flash, BIG and SEC are going to have the most watched games, genius stuff going on there.

Prosecutors withheld evidence, lol. What a waste of fucking time. BREAKING: Baldwin 'Rust' Case Tossed Over 'Willful Withholding' Of Evidence Law360 (July 12, 2024, 1:23 PM EDT) -- Alec Baldwin wept and hugged his attorneys Friday after a New Mexico state judge threw out involuntary manslaughter charges against the actor in the "Rust" shooting case, finding that prosecutors willfully withheld key ammunition evidence from the defense. "The late discovery of this evidence during trial has impeded the effective use of evidence in such a way that it has impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings," First Judicial Judge Mary Marlow Sommer ruled. "The state is highly culpable for its failure to provide this discovery to the defendant," she said. "There is no way for the court to right this wrong." Judge Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it has been permanently thrown out. The claims of misconduct, outlined in a motion filed late Thursday by Baldwin's defense team, derailed what was supposed to be the third day of testimony in the case. During a Friday hearing on the motion, outside the presence of the jury, special prosecutor Kari Morrissey voluntarily testified under oath about the withheld evidence, claiming that she had done nothing wrong. She also revealed that her fellow prosecutor, Erlinda O. Johnson, had abruptly resigned during the hearing, because she disagreed with the decision to make it public. Johnson, Morrissey and Baldwin's defense team did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Baldwin's attorneys said they had discovered that law enforcement and prosecutors concealed evidence indicating that "Rust" prop supplier Seth Kenney could have been the source of live rounds that ended up on the film's set. Kenney denied that allegation while testifying during Friday's motion hearing. He was not charged with any crimes in the case. The film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, mistakenly loaded a live round into Baldwin's gun, which fired inside a church on the set in 2021, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Prosecutors alleged during the armorer's trial that she was the source of live rounds, though they had no definitive proof. She was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in March and sentenced to 18 months in prison. She is appealing her conviction. Baldwin, who would have faced the same potential sentence if convicted, had contended that the gun misfired without him squeezing the trigger. According to the motion filed Thursday, the live rounds from Kenney are the same type of ammunition that fired from Baldwin's gun. Part of the state's argument was that Baldwin was criminally liable for Hutchins' death because he was aware that Gutierrez-Reed was a young, inexperienced armorer and there was a "possibility that she brought live rounds on set," Baldwin's motion stated. "Evidence that the live rounds came from Kenney is therefore favorable to Baldwin, which is why the state buried it," Baldwin alleged. A supplemental report that the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office made after inventorying the live rounds in question also was never disclosed to Baldwin, according to his motion. Baldwin's attorney Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP described it in court Friday as "critical evidence in this case that was never disclosed to us." "What we know is we don't have those bullets and they were required to be disclosed so we could put on a case that was fair," Nikas said. Morrissey, who denied any wrongdoing, said during the hearing that she had been unaware of the supplemental report on the Kenney ammunition evidence until Friday morning. "I've never seen these, and I never saw the report," she told Judge Sommer. She also questioned how the defense had learned about the report. Baldwin alleged in his motion that Troy Teske, a retired police officer, told Morrissey about the live rounds in Kenney's possession during a pretrial interview in November 2023, but she failed to follow up on the information or collect the rounds in question. Morrissey said during the hearing that she determined, based on images of the Kenney ammunition, that the rounds did not appear to match the round fired from Baldwin's gun or those found on the "Rust" set. She testified that she concluded that the ammunition, which was not forensically analyzed, was irrelevant and had no evidentiary value in Baldwin's case. "Your honor, there have been no violations of our obligations as prosecutors," Morrissey told Judge Sommer. "This is a wild goose chase." The state is represented by special prosecutors Kari Morrissey. Baldwin is represented by Luke Nikas, Alex Spiro, John Bash and Sara C. Clark of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, and by Heather M. LeBlanc of LeBlanc Law. The case is New Mexico v. Alexander Rae Baldwin, case number D-101-CR-2024-0013, in the First Judicial District Court of Santa Fe County. Read more at: https://www.law360.com/trials/articles/1857611?nl_pk=40e02655-09b8-4fea-a90a-4877e6ac6d74&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=trials&utm_content=1857611&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0?copied=1

OSU sold out of season tickets a month ago. Without OU or TX on the schedule? Must be an accounting error, lol. Please don't include basketball attendance. Ours is shit, because the team has been shit for most of the last 20 years.

That's not what Al was saying, and you know it. You're a fucking clown.

Not to be crass, but what is the $50K for exactly? Losing a child isn't exactly an economic hardship but the opposite. To be clear, strictly speaking dollars and cents here.

I don't think there is any polling anywhere suggesting a "guaranteed" loss, and I agree, neither of us know for sure how either way would play out, but if he's not stepping down, undermining him publicly by calling for it is just making it less and less likely that he can win. Just swallow your personal feelings and get behind him to give him the best chance at a win. That's my thought on how this should be handled.

Then support him regardless, especially considering the alternative.

So no link? Here's what I remember. The offer included aggy, I don't recall anything about a conference network. I also recall that KU had a pretty sweet tier 3 deal of their own. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6918208/texas-aggies-had-chance-partner-longhorn-network-deloss-dodds-says Edit: To add that if the offer was spending a bunch of money to set up and own a conference network, like the PAC did, then it was a damned good decision not to do it. The LHN was a partnership with ESPN using primarily their resources, made far more sense with far less risk.

I'll never understand your need to talk out of your ass like this. Every program in the "IR8" has improved football at some point over the last 20 years, most notably to their stadiums. Baylor: Brand new stadium 2014 ISU: Major renovation (and expansion) 2014. KU: Late to the game but completely new build ongoing right now. KSU: Already a great facility, major renovation 2011. OSU: Complete overhaul (basically a new stadium) 2009. TCU: Major renovation 2012. Tech: Never a bad facility, doing a big renovation right now. WVU: Already a good facility, looks like some renovations in 2015. None of these programs will ever be bluebloods. None will ever match UT in revenue or even come close. None of them need that to be relevant in college football. The conference is looking for additional ways to make money through sponsorships, games in Mexico, etc., to try and make up some of the gap. That's how the system works. Your constant allegation that the programs just sat around sucking the teet of UT and OU is such a bizarre thing for you to say over and over and over again.

Kennedy ain't getting 9%, that alone tells me that some real bullshit polling. I guess in non swing states he might get some protest votes, but he's not getting 6+% in all those states. No fucking way.

They should be raising these concerns behind closed doors not undermining their party's candidate and sitting president in public.

Does the NYT know that?

If that's the direction, and if the SEC and BIG are both done (I doubt it but we're just speculating here), it'll likely be more than FSU and Clemson, and the Big 12 would ultimately become essentially two conferences under common administration. Big 12 is currently at 16, if you add 8, it breaks down into two 12 team "divisions" (essentially two conferences). With each side being 12, the name continues to make sense too (the Big 12s). Big XII East: WVU, Cincy, UCF, UH, FSU, Clemson, UNC, Duke, UVA, VT, GT, Miami (maybe Louisville instead of Miami). Big XII West: UU, BYU, AU, ASU, CU, OSU, KU, ISU, Tech, TCU, BU.

Yes.

I think it's all just chatter. If FSU and Clemson themselves put it out there, it's a negotiating tactic to continue pressing how unhappy they are with the ACC right now, not because there is any legitimate chance of them joining the XII.

My concern is that there are some old school democrats, primarily in the rust belt, who wholly support equality, but still have some internalized racist and misogynistic tendencies that would make them second guess Kamala Harris. Obama was probably able to overcome that with his overwhelming charm and inspirational character (and being male), Kamala doesn't have that capability. I like her well enough but even I find her public speaking to be less than inspirational or magnetic. But I said earlier, she should at least be on the campaign trail with him, and they should speak at the same rallies back to back so that anyone who has a concern with Biden's slowdown at least know what the backup is and that she'd do well enough. I said it before, I think we're all speculating here and have strong opinions, but a decision needs to be made now, and everyone needs to rally. As big of a mistake I personally think it would be to replace Joe with Kamala at the top of the ticket, if that's the decision, I'm all in for Kamala. Just shit or get off the pot already. If Joe says he's staying, and if the party delegates or going with that, stop fucking undermining him already and go all in already.

What's really annoying is that if the majority had gone with Barrett they might have saved a little face but just couldn't do it. Barrett essentially agreed that immunity exists for official acts, but went on to say that the Court had enough of a record to determine that nothing that dotard was charged with was an official act, which is true, and which the lower court will almost certainly determine. The majority also had no reason whatsoever to go into the evidentiary rule that was only inserted to help trump by making the burden harder on the government. That's the part that really pisses me off. Roberts has no defense anymore to the legitimacy of his court. The Roberts Court will be considered one of if not the worst including once he's long dead. The fact that he cares so little about his legacy is astonishing.

I liked it but thought some of the dialogue just dragged on too long, and because of how they set her character up last season, I was super tense waiting for it to blow up. I can see why some people didn't like it though.

Only think I learned from Letterkenny is that I could not watch it while high, the dialogue goes way too fast when in that condition to keep up, lol. The ladies of Letterkenny are worth it alone.

Don't worry, it'll be flooded tomorrow with criticisms of trump for meeting with fascist dictator Orban during the NATO Summit. I mean, it's a pretty big red flag, right? The media's gonna hammer him for it, right? ..... right?

Hunter got that fat hog from somewhere, you know.