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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Williams had a drop off in production this year (as of now) so he might be discontented at Bama. Only 4 TDs vs 8 last year. He could be promised more targets and $$$ but it could also lead to playing for a 8-4 team and no playoff.
  2. who would have guessed that a country that can build a city overnight can also have questionable safety standards.
  3. Does anyone not believe that Hegseth ordered the military to kill everyone on the Venezuelan boats, including a second strike to take out any survivors? I would actually be surprised if someone demonstrated that Hegseth was told there were survivors and didn't order a second strike.
  4. I don't know if the student reporter was the first to throw "you can't turn a hoe into a housewife" onto Kiffin, but that is going to follow Kiffin at every turn. The best part is that he's now shown that it bothers him so the rest of the SEC is turn it up to an 11. And forget it just being signs at Gameday, he will hear it personally from strangers.
  5. Everyone in the GOP is refusing to comment on the Honduran president pardon (has it actually happened?) They all recognize how preposterous it is that we're killing smugglers but willing to free someone from the top of the drug orgs.
  6. Alina's case to stay as the NJ US Attorney has been rejected by an appeals court. Now it will be up to the Supreme Court to allow her to stay or every case that she touched or authorized is at risk.
  7. Tangentially related: my social media algorithm has locked in that I love watching videos of people arguing their rights to police. The worst (best) are the sovereign citizens who break out printed supreme court cases to educate the police officer on the side of the road why they don't have to produce an ID.
  8. Guarantee that Kash has googled, "How to stand like a man."
  9. top 3? come on man. you can't really say that with a straight face. I will give you top 10. Do you even watch college football? And talent per capita means nothing like I wrote. Hawaii and DC are high up on the per capita lists but it's just playing with stats. Yes, I agree LA produces a lot of talent but there's zero barrier to someone leaving the state. I imagine that many of the NFL players from Louisiana attended LSU or Louisiana Tech but I bet the majority attended school elsewhere.
  10. I struggle to accept the idea that LSU has this mythical edge because they’re the only large program in a state that has talent. I’ve seen a chart floating around that shows NFL players per state capita with LA at the top. Wtf does that even mean. The same chart shows DC is a hotbed of talent but should Georgetown be a top team in D1? yes, I bet that some mommas and daddies want their son to be nearby in BR and all of their relatives can see them play, But this isn’t 1950 where parents and relatives can’t easily travel. Boosters can effectively hand money to parents now to cover the costs. And it’s not like the other SEC school are far away to begin with. finally every coach will remind recruits that Kiffin has a history of walking away from players while he demands loyalty. kiffin will be gone within 5.
  11. Looks like they understood the election consequences but their neighbors didn’t. Thanks for researching.
  12. Small (200 people) Virginia town loses its only health clinic due to Trump budget cuts. CNN link I can’t quickly find the town election results totals but the wider county of 77k went 75-25 Trump. They also recently voted in a Republican for their state rep over a Democrat physician. The Dem lost by 40 points.
  13. Classy getting drunk and arrested at your son and brothers game. They should look to cash out as quickly as possible because he will soon be forgotten. Maybe a kardashian type reality show on some low end network. Which really means they should have started 2 years ago.
  14. An Auburn win + Kiffin leaving OM would be chaotic. Then assuming UGA beats OM next week, the committee can use Kiffin leaving to keep them out of the playoffs even if that is completely unfair to the players. But then again they trusted Kiffin by going to OM.
  15. Pulled the trigger on a Blink outdoor system today with the Amazon specials. Decided to go with the non-subscription option and added a microsd card to keep the recordings. EDIT: first day review. Very simple set up and install. I am slightly disappointed that blink cameras only accept 2.4ghz WiFi when 5ghz has extended ranges. Two of my cameras are far enough where the WiFi is weak (according to Blink) so I had to connect the cameras using Blink’s XR tech (whatever that is) and it’s limited to 2 cameras only with that connection. For now, no additional cameras. I may test other configs of my WiFi antennas to see if that helps or even an WiFi extender. At night the infrared is reflecting off the house effectively blinding the night vision of my yard. I will need to change the camera position and angle so the house wall is not on camera.
  16. My bad about thinking Ole Miss already had 2 losses. I keep thinking they would be higher with only 1 loss.
  17. If Georgia beats Bama or Ole Miss in the SECCG, does Bama/Ole Miss get punished for a 3rd loss and fall behind us? I do think that a loss in a CG should be slightly different than a regular season loss but the committee can’t ignore that loss.
  18. I've never understood why people fall for the line that your license will be suspended if you refuse to blow. So what. As you said, look to get an exemption for work travel. Use Uber or friends/family for the rest. And honesty, you can probably still drive in many situations and never get caught. But it's a risk. I have heard lawyers warn that blood tests can identify other substances in your blood including legal prescription drugs that could impair your driving. Not too mention less than legal substances. It's a consideration for some when requesting a blood test.
  19. In fairness he was drunk so you can't expect him to make the most rational decisions in the moment.
  20. Of course when park revenue drops and the fed govt is asked to provide more funding to keep the lights on, the MAGA business opportunists will point that it's another reason that national parks should be sold off to private interests who can better manage them. Which also means selling off to more industry interests and give the more scenic areas to billionaires.
  21. complete anecdotal evidence, but while on a recent vacation I was at a national forest during a workday. Based on accents that I heard, I would have to guess that ~50% of the visitors that morning were not Americans. My guess is that we will see the following: Trump will claim this will generate X additional dollars. He will take the estimated annual foreign park visitors and multiply that by $100 or $250. Perhaps declare a possible "F the Foreigners" check to all Americans Never discuss how total park revenue will eventually drop by a large percentage as non-Americans are staying home. Definitely ignored will be the local impact to hotels, restaurants, etc.
  22. SIAP but here is the letter that Abbott, Paxton and now the DOJ says has nothing to do with how the Texas govt redrew that maps even though that they followed it. Pure coincidence. https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/archive/2025/57372.pdf Non-lawyer but if redrawing districts, due to race, is considered unconstitutional I would assume existing districts based on race are also unconstitutional. Wouldn't the proper method be to attack the current map in court to get a judge to toss out the current maps and then create new non-racially designed maps? Obviously that could be a longer process than just breaking the law. Beg for forgiveness, not ask for permission. What's funny about the 18th district (Houston) is that I don't disagree that it long had a consistent theme that the GOP packed minorities in that district to create more GOP seats. Past Republicans weren't so brazen to go as far as disenfranchising all/most Democrat voters in Houston. Now they want to crack the districts to overwhelm central city voters with suburb or rural votes.
  23. I'm not going to lose sleep over this but another example of nationalism and a desire to kill tourism. The National Parks are substantially hiking (pun intended) entrance fees for non-Americans. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/travel/us-national-park-foreign-fees-tourism-hnk Presumably the national parks will now start to ask about someone's citizenship when entering the park. Nothing is as welcoming as a park ranger asking to see your papers like some Gestapo cop. I also imagine that enforcing this policy is going to be the worst part of being a park ranger, who I would imagine are all good people. If I'm reading this right, a foreign tourist family of 4 may show up to Yellowstone expecting a $20 per person fee. Instead of the $80 fee, they will pay $480. Welcome to America.
  24. 100%. I have heard some lawyers say that if you've absolutely have had nothing to drink that they don't see a problem but other lawyers say otherwise. Personally I would respectfully decline by telling the officer that I'm happy to comply with any warrant but I'm not saying more without a lawyer present. Regardless you definitely don't go near the breath analyzers with even 1 drink in the last day. And...
  25. I'm for the next Dem President knocking down the Ballroom monstrosity and expect the same corporate donors to pay again to build something appropriate.
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