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"It was a slow start"

So, I've never really hidden the fact that I'm not exactly a fan of the Veep. But after watching her performances on both CNN and MSNBC, I have to say that I am impressed with how she has developed her political acumen. She walked a terribly fine line tonight. On the one hand, she made it very clear she was Biden's surrogate, and she was making the argument that Biden is the best choice in November. And yet, at the same time, she just barely made sure that it was also clear that Biden isn't 100% Biden. Whether she doesn't want to spend time focusing on 90 minutes, or how she doesn't need to worry about one bad performance, or whatever, but most importantly, how she made sure that the discussion about these two men quickly evolved into a discussion about what was wrong with Trump, and suddenly her arguments didn't mention Biden at all, she really did a great job setting herself up as the obvious choice to battle Trump without remotely even coming close to recognizing that such a choice even needs to be made.

I do not think her talking points tonight came from the Oval. I think they came from her team. And I think her team is very talented. She is positioning herself as Biden's alternative while simultaneously denying he needs an alternative. Well done.

Friday Funnies

An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears.

The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: “Airbus, boring flight isn’t it? Now have a look here!”

He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, and then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks: “Well, how was that?”

The Airbus pilot answers: “Very impressive, but watch this!”

The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly straight, at the same speed. After 15 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, “Well, how was that?

Confused, the jet pilot asks, “What did you do?”

The AirBus pilot laughs and says: “I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the washroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry.”

The moral of the story is: When you’re young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, you learn that comfort and peace are more important.




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Tractor Supply "Woke" Policy Reversal

Tractor Supply has been donating to organizations supportive of DEI and climate change, some with connections to Soros. It doesn't exactly fit their customer demographics outside of suburbanites who buy birdseed and softener salt from them. I've been involved with a couple of TSC's smaller, regional competitors, and they were hammering away at this in meetings, trying to figure out how to use it in marketing campaigns to their more rural client base. It looks like TSC just took it off the table.

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Rivals rebrands site and logos - Promotion too!

Yes there are changes to the Rivals site and TheHoosier.com. Changes usually bring mixed reactions, but change in all things is inevitable, especially in an effort to make things better.

There are several exciting, new elements that come with the front page and content refresh, including a scrolling latest news ticker, an expanded content display and new homepage widgets. In the future those widgets will be customizable, but initially they will default to the Rivals250, 2024 Team Rankings, your team’s Top Targets and your team’s Commitment List.

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There are many of you that enjoy the boards everyday, but are not subscribers. We provide a ton of content, as much as anyone. And we want to be able to do more. The only thing that is free for us in our coverage is admission. There is a cost to everything else for us. Travel, equipment, payroll, etc. The cost of a Rivals subscription is $99.95/year or .27 cents a day. For those of you that are on here frequently, daily, multiple times a day, etc, I would hope you are getting .27 cents worth of entertainment, conversation and more. And my hope is that you will please consider supporting what we are doing by becoming a subscriber to theHoosier.com. The Promo gives you multiple months for free.

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Joe's potential drug cocktail

Awhile back I was ripped and a few attempted to shame me (because I couldn't name the drug mix off the top of my head) by saying there were no drug cocktails out there that could enhance cognitive performance... Well..., what about these:


That's just the easily obtained stuff..., now imagine that you were the handlers for the President... I'm just spitballing here but my guess is that given his handlers desire to keep power at any price that more than a few illegal drugs have been considered for the mix also...

Here's predicting Ole' Joe will show up on stage tomorrow completely wired and they'll practically have to keep him from attempting back flips during the first hour of the debate...

January 6 Coo Hilarity

CSPAN covering the 3rd Annual Press Conference about the ”attack” and signs saying “Democracy Is On The Line” are in the background.

The DC Rep (Elenor Holmes) trying to talk about how Trump didn’t send in the DC National Guard and how it took hours and how it would have saved “lives” etc. and how the people of DC are mostly “black and brown” and deserved better protection (remember EVERYTHING happens or doesn’t happen BECAUSE OF race).

But some protester is screaming about Israel nearby. Hard to if it’s pro or con, but they aren’t concerned with January 6. I hear “genocide”

Second speaker says “sorry if I repeat anything, but I couldn’t hear what they said.” He says there were 5 police officers deaths. Says “the truth about January 6 must be told,” then talks about all the trials and convictions. (Was the truth used to get them?) Then devolves into talking about Trump’s lawsuits and indictments.

Seems like they are all “winging it.” Really getting thrown off by the other protestors. No notes.

How liable should Vandy Medical be for the Nashville School Shooting?


alongside the revelation a source claimed Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) Chief John Drake acknowledged VUMC failed its duty to warn Hale’s intended victims after she expressed fantasies of killing her father and enacting a school shooting.

On one hand, I’d imagine given the amount of mentally ill people in this country, threats are made all of the time. On the other, a bunch of innocent kids are dead because mental health professionals continue to fail at their jobs and more specifically, allowed this to occur.

When we talk about problems with deinstitutionalization, this is such an obvious example of the drawbacks. Those with mental illness gained more freedom, but others are sacrificing theirs.
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Do we need more money in K-12 schools? DeBoer says no.


This is all bound up in conventional wisdom that was developed decades ago and is now well out of date. For example, that we’ve somehow “defunded” K-12 education. Just flatly wrong, and yet I hear it all the time.

U.S. Public Education Spending Statistics [2023]: per Pupil + Total

Education expenditure as share of GDP in the United States

On the scale of a decade and expressed in dollars, or on the scale of three-quarters of a century and expressed as a percentage of GDP, we’ve spent more and more and more on education. No miracles in academic performance. You want funds earmarked for poor kids specifically? Here you go, here’s Title I spending:



But the money gets concentrated in the wealthiest schools, right? No, it does not. The opposite is true. Poorer and Blacker schools get more public funding than richer and whiter, for the obvious reason that we’ve been throwing money at the achievement gap for ages. This is a consistent finding and can’t be ignored. For the micro, let’s take a look at some schools in Brooklyn, a borough in the highest-spending state and the site of a great deal of racial and economic diversity.

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