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  1. This one is clean: https://thetvapp.to/tv/wabc-new-york-abc-east-live-stream/
  2. Tech is up 14-0 over UCF with 9 minutes left in the 1st. On the latest score, they ran Jacob Rodriguez out of the wildcat.
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  4. Guardians Of Pedophiles
  5. It seems this is new from last Thursday when the Epstein estate released them to Congress, but I could have misread this piece. The bolded below is what leads me to believe these are new, at least to the public. Gotta think the FBI had access to them, but, of course, Merrick Garland was horrible and ineffective in prosecuting cases. Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims. House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that President Trump had β€œspent hours at my house” with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Mr. Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. Mr. Trump has emphatically denied any involvement in or knowledge of Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. He has said that he and Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019, were once friendly but had a falling out. But Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails, which they selected from thousands of pages of documents received by their panel, raised new questions about the relationship between the two men. In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump β€œknew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage. In another, Mr. Epstein pondered how to address questions from the news media about their relationship as Mr. Trump was becoming a national political figure. In a statement denouncing the release of the messages, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, identified the victim mentioned in one of them as Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in April and had said that she did not think that Mr. Trump had participated in the sexual abuse of minors at Mr. Epstein’s home. β€œThe fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” Ms. Leavitt said. β€œThese stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.” The messages are certain to inflame the debate on Capitol Hill over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files, and top officials’ decision to backtrack on a promise to fully release them. That issue, which has split Republicans and alienated some of Mr. Trump’s right-wing supporters, had faded to the background as the government shutdown dragged on. But the House is set to return on Wednesday to clear legislation to end the shutdown, and attention is likely to shift back to the Epstein matter. β€œThese latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president,” Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said in a statement. The three separate email exchanges released on Wednesday were all from after Mr. Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution, in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges. They came years after Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein had a reported falling out in the early 2000s. One was addressed to Mr. Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, while two were with the author Michael Wolff. In one email from April 2011, Mr. Epstein told Ms. Maxwell, who was later convicted on charges related to facilitating his crimes, β€œI want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” He added that an unnamed victim β€œspent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.” β€œI have been thinking about that,” Ms. Maxwell wrote back. In an email from January 2019, Mr. Epstein wrote to Mr. Wolff of Mr. Trump: β€œOf course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” House Democrats, citing an unnamed whistle-blower, said this week that Ms. Maxwell was preparing to formally ask Mr. Trump to commute her federal prison sentence. The emails were provided to the Oversight Committee along with a larger tranche of documents from Mr. Epstein’s estate that the panel requested as part of its investigation into Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges. The committee’s staff redacted victims’ names and any identifying information from the emails. Because the full set of documents has not been released, it was not clear whether the emails had been excerpted from larger conversations that might have provided fuller context. Republicans on the Oversight Committee accused Democrats of politicizing the investigation. β€œDemocrats continue to carelessly cherry-pick documents to generate click bait that is not grounded in the facts,” a committee spokeswoman said. β€œThe Epstein Estate has produced over 20,000 pages of documents on Thursday, yet Democrats are once again intentionally withholding records that name Democrat officials.” The Republicans, who have repeatedly cited their concern for protecting the identities of Mr. Epstein’s victims as a reason not to call for a full release of the administration’s files in the case, were the first on Wednesday to name Ms. Giuffre, whose name was redacted in the emails. Ms. Giuffre had said that Ms. Maxwell recruited her into Mr. Epstein’s sex ring while she was working at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and residence in Palm Beach, as a teenager. In a 2016 deposition for a civil case, Ms. Giuffre was asked if she believed Mr. Trump had witnessed the sexual abuse of minors in Mr. Epstein’s home. β€œI don’t think Donald Trump participated in anything,” she said. β€œI never saw or witnessed Donald Trump participate in those acts, but was he in the house of Jeffrey Epstein,” Ms. Giuffre added. β€œI’ve heard he has been, but I haven’t seen him myself so I don’t know.” Mr. Trump has called Mr. Epstein a β€œcreep” and has insisted he never engaged in any wrongdoing with him or Ms. Maxwell. He has condemned the continued questions about his handling of the case as a β€œhoax” perpetrated by Democrats. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein split their time between New York and Palm Beach, Fla., and they were friends in the 1990s and early 2000s. Their relationship appeared to fizzle out around 2004, though Mr. Trump and those close to him have offered different accounts of why. By one account, they fell out after trying to outbid each other on a piece of Palm Beach real estate. Last summer, Mr. Trump said that Mr. Epstein had β€œhired” away spa attendants at Mar-a-Lago. He said that he had kicked Mr. Epstein out of his club, and that he believed one of the women was Ms. Giuffre. At the time Mr. Epstein emailed Ms. Maxwell in 2011 calling Mr. Trump the β€œdog that didn’t bark,” Mr. Trump was a reality television star and New York tabloid celebrity who was years away from becoming president. Around the same time, according to documents previously released by the Oversight Committee, Mr. Epstein was emailing staff members about negative press coverage he had recently received about the abuse that took place inside his home in Florida. Earlier this year, the Trump administration released the transcript of a courthouse interview with Ms. Maxwell, who acknowledged that Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein had once had a social relationship, but denied any connection between Mr. Trump and the sex-trafficking ring. Mr. Epstein’s email from 2019, which claims Mr. Trump β€œknew about the girls” and asked Ms. Maxwell β€œto stop,” was sent to Mr. Wolff, who had recently written a tell-all book about the president. Mr. Epstein was months away from the arrest and federal charges that would send him to prison, but he was the focus of significant attention after The Miami Herald had published a series of articles drawing renewed attention to the secret agreement he had signed in 2008. In his email, Mr. Epstein mentioned a victim of his sex-trafficking operation. He also mentioned Mar-a-Lago, then disputed that Mr. Trump had ever asked him to resign from the club. β€œNever a member ever,” Mr. Epstein wrote. Mr. Wolff was also involved in a third email exchange, which began on Dec. 15, 2015, the night of a debate in the Republican presidential primary. Mr. Wolff emailed Mr. Epstein and warned him that CNN was β€œplanning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you β€” either on air or in scrum afterwards.” Mr. Epstein wrote back, β€œIf we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Mr. Wolff advised inaction, suggesting that Mr. Trump might try to deny a close association with Mr. Epstein. β€œI think you should let him hang himself,” he wrote of Mr. Trump. β€œIf he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency” that could be used to β€œhang him” later or β€œsave him, generating a debt.” Mr. Trump never received a question about the matter in that debate, according to a transcript. It was unclear if he was asked about it separately. The Democrats’ release of the emails came hours before Speaker Mike Johnson was scheduled to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, whom he has avoided seating for nearly two months since she won her election. She is expected to provide the final signature necessary on a petition to force a House vote on a measure demanding that the Trump administration release all of its investigative material pertaining to Mr. Epstein. The White House has strongly opposed the measure.
  6. No gore. Just the sound of desperation in this poor bastard’s voice. And, sadly, one of these brainwashed Ukrainian kids could be next.
  7. Wordle 1,607 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #885 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1388 5️⃣7️⃣ 6️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  8. I've retreated from that earlier stance.
  9. ESPN gives these odds for the next three games, and if all plays out accordingly, Texas would miss the championship game but still have a better than even shot at getting in with a 9-3 record. If Texas beats Georgia but loses to A&M, the odds of making the playoffs doesn't change materially, regardless of whether the Longhorns don't make (or even if they do lose) the championship game. Make the game but lose: 57% chance of getting in. Don't make the game: 59% chance of getting in. Gotta go 2-1 in these next two.
  10. You make a good point, so I decided to dig into the numbers. Assuming BYU wins out, and all of their opponents win the games they're supposed to (according to ESPN's current odds), then BYU's strength of schedule is actually better than I'd anticipated: They will have beaten 10-2 Utah, 9-3 ECU, 8-4 Cincy, 8-4 Iowa St., and 7-5 Arizona going into the championship game. So, maybe I'm not giving them enough credit. Also, according to ESPN's playoff predictor, if BYU wins the rest of its regular-season games but loses to Tech in the championship game, this is what their model spits out for BYU's chances of getting in. So, it appears that the Big 12 has a strong chance of securing two spots. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/cfbplayoffpredictor2025/2025-college-football-allstate-playoff-bracket-predictor
  11. Too late to edit my post above, but if BYU beats Tech in the Big 12 championship game, I think both have a good case for inclusion and giving that conference two spots in the playoffs while lowering Texas’s chances of getting in at 9-3
  12. If BYU loses a second time to Tech in the CCG, they don't have a compelling argument to be included in the playoffs. In other words, they've definitively and emphatically proven they're not the best team in the country if they lose to the same team twice and, therefore, should not be stealing another team's spot. I could see that as being the committee's reasoning for excluding them when it comes to selection time.
  13. Arrogant ignorance is another way of putting it.
  14. This is what I could find: Iraqi singer deceived into joining Russian army Iraqi singer Hussein al-Turki appeared in a video on Saturday wearing a Russian military uniform, saying he had been misled into joining the Russian armyβ€”a case that coincides with Shafaq News reports documenting thousands of Iraqis recruited by Russian forces. Al-Turki said he had signed what he believed to be a four-month performance contract arranged by an Iraqi company in Baghdad’s Mansour district, complete with travel papers and a visa. After arriving in Russia, he was taken more than 16 hours from Moscow, had his phone confiscated, and was made to sign documents in a language he could not read. β€œI later discovered that I had been enlisted for a year of military service.” He said he pleaded to return to Iraq and even offered to pay his way back, but was told it was β€œout of their hands.” Al-Turki warned that other Iraqis are being deceived through similar contracts and false assurances. Under Russian law, foreign nationals fluent in Russian may enlist voluntarily, with monthly pay estimated between $2,500 and $3,000. Since the war began in 2022, more than 5,000 Iraqis are believed to have joined under coercion or misinformation. In an interview with Shafaq News on October 17, Russian Ambassador Elbrus Kutrashev said β€œthousands of Iraqis are ready to join the Russian army if given the chance,” a statement widely criticized as an attempt to justify foreign recruitment in violation of international law and Iraqi sovereignty. The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR) said the recruitment of Iraqis by foreign forces contravenes Article 9 of Iraq’s constitution, which prohibits the formation or operation of armed groups outside state authority.
  15. Performing poorly on the Monday morning puzzles should earn you a mulligan that allows you to go back to bed and hit the reset button on the week. Wordle 1,605 6/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #883 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1386 7️⃣8️⃣ 4️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  16. This is very much along the lines that I've been thinking.
  17. I just checked HBO Max, and it doesn't look like they have it available. But the Internet Archive does appear to have all six seasons. https://archive.org/details/the-hitchhiker-s-1-6-complete
  18. I honestly don't believe this should be spoilered, but just in case:
  19. That final scene was...umm...slightly unexpected. I'm a little high, but I don't think I conjured that image all alone with my brain.
  20. The only word I could make fit after staring for a bit. Wordle 1,604 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #882 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1385 8️⃣6️⃣ 4️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  21. Iowa has life. Just completed a 40-yarder and in Oregon territory. Oregon 15, Iowa 10 with 4:33 left.
  22. Have you ever made it out to Evie Mae's in Wolfforth? Think that's the BBQ place they were talking up -- heard it's fantastic. I need to check it out on my next trip up to Lubbock.
  23. It was comical. Bad snap sent the ball to the two. Iowa's QB batted it into the end zone, then tried but missed kicking it out of the back end. Then, as Oregon players were diving onto it, he successfully kicked it out. Of course, refs correctly called it a safety.
  24. Good game, guys. @Crockett @RecoveringAlcoholic Guns up.
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