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Rising Tide Lifting All Cellar Dwellers

Indiana has been a cellar dweller for too long to remember, but short of them getting kicked out of the Big10 it's going to be hard for them to not find football prosperity here. Their new Big10 contract is going to propel them into being on of the top 30 football schools in the country from a budget and exposure standpoint. It's going to be hard to screw that up. They have been battling schools like Pitt, Kansas State, Virginia, Cincinnati, and Wake Forest for recruits for year. Basically bottom of the power 5 in prestige programs. Suddenly Indiana has leap frogged them in the last week. Schools like Washington and Oregon just dropped below Indiana in both revenue and exposure prestige which is absurd. Those are major traditional powers that are suddenly homeless and being blocked by the UCLA and USC at the Big10. They will probably find a way in but right now they have a real problem. The biggest winner in this re-alignment to date has been Northwestern, Indiana and Rutgers.

US losing the battle against the monkeypox

Meanwhile, Biden naps.

Enforcement of abortion pill bans

We will see many states make it illegal for women to take medication that will result in an abortion. Presumably those laws would make it illegal to buy or sell the pills in that state. Probably to possess the pills too.

My question is, if this is your preference, how far are you willing to go for enforcement? Do we inspect all citizens mail? Will we track wowens online activity to see if she bought pills? What if the authorities receive a complaint that a woman was previously pregnant but isn’t now? What would that investigation look like? How much resources are we willing to commit? What would we cut to shift those resources?

Even those who are staunchly pro life have to concede that we could run up against some very concerning privacy issues. Are you willing to live in a surveillance state to prevent abortions via a pill?

China has the best dressed riot police

Seriously, we all should feel sorry for the little people. First, they get screwed by their banks' refusal to let them make withdrawals and then get beaten up and arrested by their police.

After reading about the way China has handled its recent effort to improve its banking system, I think China's economic development has progressed only to the robber baron stage.

Edit to correct link: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/china/china-henan-bank-depositors-protest-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

Assuming a 4-5 man class (closing it out)

With the remaining 2-3 spots for this class… what would you like to see added to Cupps and Newton

Guards:
Elmarko
Harris Smith

Wing-SF:
Kaiser
Power
Carr

Forward:
Booker
Page

Personally, I’m super interested in any Combo of Kaiser/Power and Booker / Page

Page doesn’t excite me, I’d be happy with seeing where Duncomb and Reneau go for the 5 spot

Dream scenario would be to add one of the guards, Power and Booker to what IU has

Baseball impact from UCLA and USC moving to the conference...

Here is an article from Baseball America on the impact of those two schools from a baseball perspective, and it appears the move from the Pac 12 is imminent.

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