Gonna get real next week.

The Hoosiers are back in action tonight, playing host to the Leathernecks. Follow along this thread to stay in the discussion throughout the game!

Is he even allowed to vote at his age?

Anyway, it's just another example of what @mcmurtry66 talked about before. The GOP will lose not because of policy or ideology or the economy or anything else, but simply because the GOP voters stupidly nominated a man that too many people think is a direct threat to the Western way of life.

Like it’s yikes bad.

It actually surprised me. I thought I remembered Dbm referencing Lichtman likely picking Trump? Maybe that was when he was facing Biden.

He's not often wrong...some would say he's never been wrong. I guess we'll see. Probably getting more and more difficult for him to quantify why people are voting how they are these days.

I'm going to start a new thread (which anyone is entitled to skip) because there are some serious issues being reported in the Winder shooting...

First of all I was struck, since the suspects name was released, by the unintentional irony of a mass shooter having the name "Colt". Of course his parents may have named him after a young horse. But with some of the details emerging about his parent, it seems more likely to me that they either named him after Samuel Colt or the type of weapons Sam Colt manufactured... That's an aside...

But there are some really troubling aspects to this case that you may or may not have heard in passing. Colt lived with his Dad, while Mom was raising the 2 daughters. The relationship seems a mite acrimonious as Mom was arrested last year for keying Dad's truck. Also when Mom was physically arrested they found her in possession of both meth and fentanyl, as well as a glass pipe.

GA has no "red flag laws", so even though LEO's questioned both father and son last year over a possible threat regarding a school shooting, they both just denied any knowledge. I think Colt even claimed someone hacked his Discord. Ultimately since no crime had actually occurred there was really nothing police could do. Another interesting tidbit, the tip to police came from Discord users in both CA and Australia, which both have very stringent rules regarding gun ownership.

So in this local report from Fox 5 Atlanta, there is some audio of how the questioning session went. Dad admits that his son has access to the weapons but claims they aren't loaded. He also maintained that he was trying to promote a healthy outdoor lifestyle for his son, and keep him away from "video games", because as the NRA will tell you video games and the violence they promote are one of the reasons the US has so many school shootings. Makes you wonder what will happen in schools around the world when the rest of the world Discovers video games...

Dad further explained that he and Colt liked to hunt together, and seemed proud that his 13 yr old son bagged his first deer. Now you'd think that after a visit from law enforcement Dad would at least keep an eye on his son and maybe limit his access to the weapons till he got older. But instead Dad decided it made sense to buy Colt an AR 15 for Christmas, presumably so Colt could shoot more deer...

Of course during the interview Dad also brings up the issue of his son being picked on at school, and recounts some examples.No doubt that will be offered as a possible motive. But here's the fly in that ointment imho...

The interview was conducted last year. Post interview two key events occurred, the first being Dad buying the rifle. But the 2nd was Colt and Dad moved, as Colt transitioned from Jr High to High School. But he didn't just change buildings, but they moved into a completely different District in a different county.. So I guess we're supposed to believe that two totally different sets of students in two seperate school districts uniformly decided to "pick on" the kid in successive years? Now imho, that's a hell of a coincidence...

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Now obviously the kid should never have access to a weapon. But this is a prime example of parents (at least a father) who should also not have access to weapons. Imho, someone this irresponsible should not be allowed to own firearms. I'm not even sure they should be allowed to have kids...

Thoughts?

will sit this one out as far as betting

After little consideration The Dream Team has announced that it will endorse Donald John Trump for president. Now that's a band of outlaws. Kick out the goose steppers and mix things up. Let this collection of crazy fcks have a shot. shine a light on censorship, reduce overreach, audit these big agencies and bust up the inertia that plagues so many of htem. we'll have countless entertaining press moments to boot. hopefully rogan will agree to be press sect. or the hulkster would work.

This is the ticket the Dream Team officially endorses
TRUMP/vance 2024

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Saw “Food, Inc” several years ago and it changed my eating habits forever. The small farm coops are making a comeback, but buying from them is expensive, for obvious reasons. As more jump on board with getting away from processed foods these prices will fall. This is a groundswell movement being helped by the Huberman’s, Attia’s and Rogans. Hoping this continues.

That's a good overall sign and trend IMO. I have no idea how it compares to other large state schools, but scale and quantity helps to increase offerings and ultimately, quality, over time.

IU Bloomington set a record this fall with 48,424 students enrolled. Applications for the Bloomington campus were also up 25% from last year, which has led to the campus’s second largest beginning class ever at 9,600. IU Bloomington’s new class represents enrollment growth of 24% over the past decade.

The campus has 5,231 undergraduate beginner students from Indiana. For the seventh consecutive year, IU Bloomington enrolled beginner students from all 92 Indiana counties, and a record 48 states plus Washington, D.C. IU Bloomington’s beginner class is academically outstanding, with 38% achieving a 4.0 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale in high school. There are 88 valedictorians in this year’s cohort, and 29% of the beginner students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class.

The number of undergraduate students of color from Indiana at IU Bloomington hit a record this year, up more than 7% from last year.

We open up a massive favorite heading into tonight's game:


Personally, I think we'll win bigger (then the line), but the overall execution by the entire Team is a bigger story line to watch...

Hopefully the backups will be able to be utilized in force for much of the 2nd half and we'll get a look at who the rest of our guys are and what they might bring to the table...

First, the drug companies have a competitor, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. They teach groups how to make their versions of the same drugs that big pharma makes. For example, there is a drug that costs $1000 per pill that cures Hep-C. Doesn't treat, cures. But it takes 84 pills. So insurance never pays for it, they pay for the much cheaper pill that treats Hep-C making it so one can live with the disease forever. Obviously, I think most would rather it be cured—the cost of the cure for the collective to make, 80 cents a pill.


Another drug they work with is Daraprim. Now this one was $13.50 a pill until a hedge fund startup bought the rights and it went to $750. So this is different than above, this isn't a company recouping investment costs, this is profiteering. So they make Daraprim available. It is mentioned in the story above, here is a story about it being bought and the price jacked up:


Now switching to insurance. By law, insurance denials are to be looked at by doctors and signed off on. One would think that is to safeguard the consumer. In CIGNA they are signing off on denials at an incredible rate, one former employee-doctor said it takes 10 seconds to sign off on 50 denials. One doctor rejected 121,000 claims in his first 2 months. How much time is he spending looking at a file and considering?

This hit home after a buddy had a claim rejected. I've known him since high school, he was diagnosed with a degenerative lung condition and his quality of like greatly eroded. It came to the point he could no longer work though he was desperate to work until 67, so he was facing going on social security disability. Just before that point, he was sent to a new specialist. The specialist said he was misdiagnosed. his issue was in the pulmonary artery and there was a very effective treatment in a pill. Of course the pill cost maybe $1000 per pill, but it was available. This is someone who could barely sit up for 2 hours any longer. Of course his insurance denied it. He won on appeal, but it was 3 months. It seems the insurance company has an incentive to deny. The worst that happens, they save 3 months of the treatment. If they are lucky, he accepts their decision and they never pay.

So it turns out, Aetna is doing almost the same thing as CIGNA. Claims are denied in bulk without being reviewed.


It seems coverage mandated by state law are often turned down:


Mistakes happen, we all know that. But it seems that insurers aren't particularly concerned about reducing mistakes that benefit them. And as that last article notes, the fines are often a very small percentage of their profits, so not exactly a great deterrent. If enough big bills are held back for a month or three on appeals, that can be a lot of interest gained.

The irony of this story is just delicious.

- People earn and accumulate miles/points.

- The issuer of these miles/points reduces their purchasing power.

- When people decide to use their saved miles/points, they find they’re worth less than what they had originally been worth when they earned them.

Hey, Pete….

I've enjoyed watching the Open this year with the American men and women doing very well.

Couldn't help but notice Taylor Fritz (a S.D. native) has a healthy resemblance to our own hoopster Trey Galloway. What do you think?

#separated at birth?












and Fritz's girlfriend can console him if he doesn't win the Open!

Pretty cool if you like historic arenas.

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@Marvin the Martian said he’s too old and too fat to get into cars he likes and has no interest in getting into those he doesn’t. So sept 13 is the last grand tour. Sounds like it’s going to be a good. The end of another era

Ran across this article and thought it was interesting given how much it was discussed when I was in school.

Following the devastating Iskander double tap strike on the Poltava Institute of Military Communications, numerous government officials decided to find other less hazardous grifts to enjoy, including:

Dmytro Kuleba - Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Denis Maliuska - Minister of Justice
Alexander Kamyshin - Minister for Strategic Industry
Ruslan Strelets - Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources
Olga Stefanishyna - Deputy PM for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
Iryna Vereshchuk - Deputy PM For Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories
Rostislav Shurma - Deputy Head of the Presidential Office