I did it years ago but I can't remember how I did it without a link to something like Photobucket.

The "Help" section on this site is useless... all it will "help" with is billing... no instructions on posting photos.

The pic is on my laptop....

Any suggestions??? Thanks.

I'm surprised that there's been nothing on here concerning the mocking of the Last Supper during the opening ceremony. And the image of the ghostly rider on a pale horse, bringing to mind Revelation 6:8. Very 1793ish. Is this just to be expected of the French?

Before a sizable bunch of people get their knickers in a bunch, I re-read this very short review, and was awestruck again (like for much of Orwell's work), as to how Orwell is able to deftly distill the makings of a man. In re-readings this, there is much to take from Orwell as he desribes groups of people that are hard to argue with, but also, you could substitute Trump for Hitler in terms of how that person perceives himself, without any trouble. Lest anyone get all out of whack, Orwell isn't referring to the killing of Jews, slaughter of gypsies and slavs, but rather the person. Below is Orwell's take:

“It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone down the book’s ferocity and present Hitler in as kindly a light as possible. For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.

Then suddenly it turned out that Hitler was not respectable after all. As one result of this, Hurst and Blackett’s edition was reissued in a new jacket explaining that all profits would be devoted to the Red Cross. Nevertheless, simply on the internal evidence of Mein Kampf, it is difficult to believe that any real change has taken place in Hitler’s aims and opinions. When one compares his utterances of a year or so ago with those made fifteen years earlier, a thing that strikes one is the rigidity of his mind, the way in which his world-view doesn’t develop. It is the fixed vision of a monomaniac and not likely to be much affected by the temporary manoeuvres of power politics. Probably, in Hitler’s own mind, the Russo-German Pact represents no more than an alteration of time-table. The plan laid down in Mein Kampf was to smash Russia first, with the implied intention of smashing England afterwards. Now, as it has turned out, England has got to be dealt with first, because Russia was the more easily bribed of the two. But Russia’s turn will come when England is out of the picture—that, no doubt, is how Hitler sees it. Whether it will turn out that way is of course a different question.

Suppose that Hitler’s programme could be put into effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of ‘living room’ (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts), a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder. How was it that he was able to put this monstrous vision across? It is easy to say that at one stage of his career he was financed by the heavy industrialists, who saw in him the man who would smash the Socialists and Communists. They would not have backed him, however, if he had not talked a great movement into existence already. Again, the situation in Germany, with its seven million unemployed, was obviously favourable for demagogues. But Hitler could not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not been for the attraction of his own personality, which one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one hears his speeches … The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs—and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.

Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all ‘progressive’ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’tonly want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.”

There is only one correct answer.

These guys do a good job with their writeups. Nebraska looks like they could be a handful when they get to town this year. Cornhuskers

I've been a lightweight tree hugger most of my life (and I believe the earth IS getting warmer.. [but without China and India on board anything the US does means little in the overall equation]...), but I'm of the opinion that a closer evaluation is needed before we take off with just what "seems like" a good idea...

I'm not anti-wind turbines but sticking them out in the ocean Willy Nilly seems like an idea that, at minimum, needs a closer look at the potential long term negative environmental impact they may have...

These Hardcore Green New Deal types might be overlooking the long term consequences here much like the Hardcore plastic is better than paper crowd did..., and all they managed to do was poison the entire planet...

"To protect Democracy"

Login to view embedded media

https://www.si.com/college/indiana/...ound-indiana-football-now-its-time-to-produce

I think Rourke is in the catbird seat … this staff has a habit of coaching talent up to all conference performers.

“I thought he had a really good spring, a great summer,” Cignetti said. “I sleep better at night knowing I've got a guy like that that's played that many games.” …

“I’ve never seen the value of really naming a starter,” Cignetti said Thursday at Big Ten Media Days. “Our first year in the Sun Belt, Todd Centeio came from Colorado State and we trotted him out for the first start of the first game and never named a starter.”

Cignetti promoted competition within that group during the spring and summer months, and that’s not changing.

“I feel really good about Kurtis Rourke,” Cignetti said. “I think Tayven Jackson has improved but needs to keep improving in terms of his preparation and processing and playing quarterback at a high level. I’m talking about the mental part of it and decision making, but he’s made some significant progress. And we’ve got two young guys that we like. So I want to promote competition at every position.” …

Rourke joins the Hoosiers with 33 career starts under his belt. He earned All-MAC second-team honors in 2023, completing 195-of-307 passes (63.5%) for 2,207 yards, 11 touchdowns and five interceptions in 11 games. The previous season was his best statistically, as he threw for 3,256 yards, 25 touchdowns and just four interceptions.

Swimming
Track and Field
Women’s Gymnastics
Women’s Beach Volleyball
Basketball
Men’s Gymnastics
Boxing and Wrestling (tie)
Regular volleyball
Water polo

I like to watch obscure events occasionally.

I’m sure I missed some. What are yours?

Any truth this guys our 13th scholarship?

I’ve held my nose and voted for Trump twice and am struggling like hell this year because I can’t decide if I hate Trump or the progressive agenda worse. I truly can’t believe this buffoon is what my lifelong party is clinging to. I’m embarrassed to still be a registered Republican but can’t imaging voting for the far left. I need a therapist

Login to view embedded media
A really good speech by RKJ and great policy suggestions. Trump's speech coming up later today.

think I would drown at about the 3-minute mark

Good read.

Hemingways last sought-after meal appears to have been a NY strip, baked potato, Caesar salad, and glass of Bordeaux. Pretty good.

You get three items and a drink. List your favorite simple meal.

"Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again."

Trump last night.

I never thought I would see softball players getting that much out of NIL deals, but a Stanford player transferred to Texas Tech after being offered $1.2 million. She will be getting almost twice as much as the 2nd highest paid head coach in college softball.

Login to view embedded media
A David Collier
@CollieronTV

According a recent
@FOS
article, the highest paid coach in college softball last season was OU's Patty Gasso at $1.625 million and UT's Mike White was second at $625,000.New Texas Tech pitcher NiJaree Canady is reportedly set to make over $1 million next season.

2 years ago, we watched newton, had same conclusion, hearing we were right , if stays healthy wont be herlong

Why isn't Cooney in jail?

(long read)

I talked to a left-wing friend yesterday and she was really scared of a second Trump presidency. She sent me this podcast to listen to:


I'll provide a short rundown of the predictions/reporting:

1. Eliminating independence of, institutional pushback by, the executive bureaucracy--they call this dictatorial and authoritarian. They predict Trump will go after Comcast and use the FCC to hound news media that oppose him.

2. Immigration enforcement on a large scale including large deportations, possible creation of camps at the border to house either deportees or asylum seekers.

3. Independence of the Fed--Trump wants more/total control.

4. DOJ--wants to go after his political enemies, open investigations against them, and drop all fed charges against him.

I pointed out how (1) and (3) are actually more democratic, not less, since at least in those instances someone who is elected and is politically accountable would be in charge of those areas. Also re (1), the elimination of Chevron deference should mitigate that concern.

The Fed one, I think, is the most dangerous. Still, the Fed chair is subject to senate approval.

Please