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This is a ridiculous failure of all in the west (as a former Republican, I have no problem assigning the lion’s share of blame to “The Freedom Caucus”), in that Ukraine is losing to these idiots because, two years after this war started, not enough artillery and munitions are being produced. It’s great that Germany is sending 10,000 shells; that will cover one day. Its great the Czechs are stepping up; 300k shells in three months are too few, too late. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russian-threat-forces-europe-to-choose-bolster-defense-or-protect-social-spending-5d701b05?st=bs3a0xfm9n9fzqh&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

Please explain it to me. I have heard B1G suggested, to get a wider footprint for the B1G, and more network money. I have heard SEC suggested, to keep them out of the B1G. If you see a definite path, please explain.

Is this for real? What’s the story?

Because, the way it works now, a family gets that sweet Buckingham/Kensington/Balmoral/St. Hampton’s government housing for 500 years!

So, the answer is- have a national (or worldwide! The “Windsors” are German, after all) lottery every ten years and let another lucky family get to wear the funny uniforms and cut the ribbons and wave at the crowds.

I suspect Russia weighs the cost-benefit analysis of one AD missile vs. whatever damage a drone does differently than we do in the west.

I know we insist on playing OU every year (as do the Sooners). Arkansas will insist on playing us every year. The only way an eight game schedule works is if we schedule OU as a non-conference game, when the schedule requires it.

…a little dark. I remember where I was when I heard she died. I was working ridiculous hours, and in the middle of a needed, deep weekend nap. My wife woke me to tell me Diana died. I thought, “wouldn’t she still be dead if you let me finish my nap?”

You know, there is already a precedent set for the Prince to divorce his wife, marry his side piece and for her to become Queen, so…

The Big 12 made out like a bandit, considering its member schools are 1-2 (TCU and Cincinnati) in Bowl Alliance championships, BCS CGs, and CFP games.

Reading the thread on the FSU board. Don’t know any of the posters or how knowledgeable they are. There is almost no discussion of where they might land should they exit the ACC. Either they trust their leaders or they just assume one of the P2 would pick them up, and don’t care which?

Without those two schools, they are paid worse than the Big XII, and still have a better conference than the Big XII- UNC, Stanford, VT, Miami,… of course, you could have said the same about the PAC, after UCLA and USC bolted, so…? I’m amazed at the strength provided to the Big XII by the knowledge of the various members that there is no better option out there.

Ok, I listened to it. All of y’all are right, and I was so wrong. There is no other thirty minutes packed with more insight and inside knowledge. My greatest thanks for steering me right, right to this fountain.

Does the royal family count as citizens? I know that every single other Brit is a subject, not a citizen. If so, they may be the only ones.

Do FSU and Clemson have a place to go? Question: is the B1G network still structured with same financial incentive for entering a new region, as it was back when it took in Rutgers and Maryland? If it is, I could see the B1G taking them. If it isn’t, I’d be skeptical.

Watching “The Crown”, every PM is an amalgam of Mr. Drysdale and Miss Hathaway.

Watching “The Crown” taught me that the British royal family makes a lot more sense, when you realize they’re basically the Beverly Hillbillies. -they have a lot of money, but don’t understand why or how -they believe themselves to be more educated than they really are. Their associates, that know better, play along -they like firing guns in the back yard -there is some light inbreeding There’s more, but you get the idea

Sure. I’m sure you’re right (and the others saying the same). All I know is from a couple of years of listening to Burton’s OTF podcasts on IT, and I do t remember him dropping insights. He did shows with other guys-Wadlington, the retired HS coach, Hamilton and Wells- where he tended to be the host, serving them topics and questions. Does he have some other forum, besides those, where he shares all his connected info? I’m not on any insider forums or groups, so maybe he’s doing it somewhere I don’t access. I’ll sure listen to his new podcasts though. I don’t mind admitting if/when I’m wrong.

I don’t disagree with you. And Israel is not using it that way. Hamas, however, they are absolutely using captive kids, women and elderly as bargaining chips.

Agree. High on the list is putting a bolted-on shroud on the underside of an Audi A6, requiring removal to access the oil drain plug. And now they’re making even worse ones!

So, I just read a tech nerd discussion of the data, which argues there really is a reasonable daily variance in the data, if you assume a Poisson distribution rather than a normal distribution. There hasn’t been a rebuttal of Wyner’s noting lack of correlation in reported daily deaths of women and children (you would expect them to be highly correlated). The best explanation (other than the data being invented) is that there is a lag in the data being tabulated, and that Hamas Ministry of Health really shouldn’t try to provide daily totals.

2.5 years ago, Saban spoke at the THSCA meeting and casually mentioned that Bryce Young was to get $1M in NIL. He didn’t share that as a wake up call, that “something must be done”. No, he thought he had a handle on this future, and was letting everyone know that his program was still the one place to be. How do I feel about Saban’s current blessings? Too bad, so sad. Also, I’m pretty sure Bible was using boosters to spread money around the state every bit as much as SMU did. Thing is, until around 1950, it was within the rules. Texas’ “no buying players” ethos was really put in place by Royal.

Let’s try an experiment. Try to counter or criticize the Tablet article without resorting to these logic fallacies: Appeal to Authority- “The Hamas numbers have been accepted before by the UN(RWA)” Ad Hominem- “The author has written for conservatives and is Jewish” In other words, if you don’t like the conclusion, try to counter the analysis, and find errors

Ok. Share with me what I’m missing from OTF podcasts. Who are the regulars that are “must listens”?

“Bagman” is such a great term. Problem- you want to pay a player, against the rules. Where does the money come from? How is it delivered? Constraints- no records of transaction , no misdirection of funds, no traceability to coaches, administrators or Big Money Donors Where does the money come from? Not from coaches and not from the school it has to come from BMDs What form does the money come in? Cash, because you don’t want records of checks or wirings Solution- “bagman”. Put cash in a bag and have a low level employee or associate hand deliver it, along with precautions about triggering auto bank disclosures of excessive cash amounts. In the late 1980s, the Ags were being blackmailed by a former player, George Smith, in Georgia. Rather than hand deliver a bag of cash (requiring a couple days of driving or a plane ticket), the Ag football office FedExed $20k in cash, which was then opened by Smith in view of a DMN writer. And that’s why bagmen were needed. In recruiting, SMU used young boosters to deliver the cash to recruits around the state. That way, the BMDs (like Edwin Cox and Bill Clements) didn’t get their hands dirty, the recruits got the cash, and the young boosters (like Sherwood Blount) got to network with the BMDs, in ways they never would have been able to, otherwise. SMU used junior AD employees to deliver the cash to players on the team.