It’s the first day of WHITE BOY SUMMER and I’m ALL IN!!! Plans:
1. Six Flags.
2. The Dirty Myrtle.
3. Branson/ozarks
4. Inter tube float with the kids!!!!!
5. Florida in August. The worst time to go.

THAT’S WHITE BOY SUMMER SHIT!!!!!

Top it if you can. And what is the drink of WHITE BOY SUMMER????

Indiana​

“There’s a lot of talk about the program for the first time since any of us can remember."

"Cig [Curt Cignetti] is a really good hire; it shows that the school wants to be competitive and respectable in football. They’re taking football seriously in NIL, too."

"They brought in a few studs from James Madison, and they’ve worked the portal well."

"The competition level in this league is still above them, but they should look more talented, especially on offense. The MAC quarterback [Kurtis Rourke] is pretty solid."

"If you’re setting reasonable Year 1 expectations, I’d look for them to build an offensive identity to help recruiting

• The increase in jobs last month easily beat the market estimate and underscores the remarkable strength of the US labor market.
• The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7%, near the lowest level since the 1960s.
• Hourly wages rose a sharp .6% in January, the biggest increase in almost two years.
• The strong labor market has insulated the U.S. from a recession, and if the Fed cuts interest rates this year as expected, the economy could improve enough to stoke more hiring.
• Inflation is now down to 3% year over year, moving closer to the Fed's goal of 2%.
• There are almost 5 million more jobs than in Feb 2020 - - just before the pandemic.
• "The United States has really outperformed relative to other countries for the past year." -Innes McFee, Chief Global Economist for Oxford Economics. The US economy has powered ahead of China, the EU, the UK, Canada and other advanced economies.

Great to see the economy humming in what is still the greatest country on earth.

Some articles that have popped up in the last day or so.

Sounds like something’s happening during DNC

Don’t f#ck this one up fellas. If Trump loses in November does this mean we get a lot of you Republicans back on the team? I’m trying to nail down numbers for Auburn. You’re all invited.

@Aloha Hoosier
@twenty02
@outside shooter
@Bowlmania
@IUNorth
@BadWakeboarder

I apologize for those of you I left off. Also, a simple f#ck yeah or f#ck off is sufficient for an RSVP.

Given we are an Adidas school, I wonder if we will do the same

Texas Tech football reveals Adidas, Mahomes logos on Jones Stadium turf

that Barack Hussein Obama was a good guy.

And now he will try to deny all of his election denials. You know, the one that have been posted on this board and elsewhere literally for years.

He came up “just a little bit short”.

LOL!!!

There's an article on ESPN (behind a paywall) that has quotes from coaches on the top 44 NCAA QBs. (https://www.espn.com/college-footba...024-quarterback-confidential-college-football)

I was going through the B1G section and couldn't stop reading this quote about the OSU QB in Tom Allen's voice.

"Haven't played against him, but watching him on film, the dual [threat] part of that is always scary," a Big Ten defensive coordinator said. "He can run, big, physical guy. Those are tough guys to deal with, especially when you wait to see what Chip [Kelly] does and the influence he has. The style of play with Chip and a guy that can run, that helps. But at the same time, Kansas State was kind of built that way, too. I don't think he's elite. I just think he's a tough, gritty kid. The jury's still out."

I get that it's supposed to be anonymous but he's got such a unique manner of speech. None of this is especially relevant to IU football, but made me chuckle.

FWIW, Rourke didn't make the ESPN cut. The others mentioned were: Gabriel @ Oregon, Allar @ PSU, Moss @ USC, Van Dyke @ Wisconsin, Rogers @ Washington, Card @ Purdue, & Chiles @ Mich. State.

Not sure which thread to put this in. This is getting out of hand though.

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Thought Democrats throughout the nation had advocated that the rest of learn to live on this type of fare "to save the planet"...

Seems they're not as interested in this type of meal when they might actually be the ones eating it...

One might even get the impression that they're phonies thru and thru...

At a time when birth rates have shrunk to unsustainable levels in the U.S., the Democrats offer free vasectomies and free medicated abortions at their convention. Abortion is the number 2or3 issue for Democrats as if the economy, the border, energy, and war are side shows.

So the Biden admin appointed Special Counsel is moving ahead with felony charges against Hunter for lying on the checkoff form when he bought a gun, claiming he wasn't a drug user.

Have at it.

Could be fascinating election results in the UK today. Labour will definitely win in a landslide, but it's a question of how big of one, and also just how far the conservatives drop. There is a realistic scenario in which the Tories end up in fourth, behind the Lib Dems and Reform both (Reform is the hard right anti-immigration party that used to be the Brexit party).

Results start coming in around 6pm Eastern time.

Consider this the outrage thread. Does it turn your stomach? Post it here. Maybe we can decrease the number of such threads and just put all the "what the **** is wrong with the world" articles here.

All prompted by this:


WTF Germany? 7.5 years for murdering a newborn?

OK I've watched this footage multiple times and someone is going to have to Foxsplain to me why the hosts are categorizing this as "chilling"? This is video of Crooks walking around the Trump rally, unarmed and basically looking like thousands of ther Trump rally types. I mean he's not wearing a diaper,using the flag as a costume, or carrying around cups that claim to hold JD Vance's sperm, but rather walking around in pro-gun tshirt and passing the time...

I contend that if undercover agents were randomly walking up to average Trump rally attendees and demanding "ID", the first people who would complain would be the MAGA crowd. They'd be whining that the FBI was "harassing them" because they were Trump supporters. Trump told the SS at his DC rally on Jan6 to stop confiscating weapons, because thousands of people were refusing to give up their weapons to come inside, so the publicity photos demonstrating his crowd size weren't as full as he wanted. After all this was his chance to outdraw MLK...

Using that logic if this guy was walking around wearing a two gun bandolero across his chest, then that shouldn't even be suspicious. I mean there are multiple youtube channels which feature people carrying rifles, or wearing holstered sidearms just walking down public streets, in parks or various other locations just to demonstrate their brazenness to open carry and get in verbal confrontations with other citizens who oppose their actions. There's one channel with a guy that is a "fisherman", and that's his whole schtik, instigating controversy, even with law enforcement...

So I don't get why anyone that emmeshed in the gun culture should find this video of Crooks as "suspicious"? He's not armed, he doesn't seem to be engaging in any verbal disputes, just walking around minding his own business. So what am I missing about the terror this video should apparently reveal?

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I always respected him for having a lot of differing viewpoints and keeping it from being a free-for-all. My favorite was discussions with Milton Friedman. I can't think of anywhere today that someone would be so cordial with someone in the other camp.

It's difficult to keep up with a new lie seemingly uncovered daily, but here's a good list of the lies (thus far) from GOP Republican Rep. George Santos.

Meanwhile, Santos announced that he is recusing himself from his two committee assignments after meeting with GOP Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy and GOP Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Santos insists that it was his idea, not theirs, which, of course, is another lie.


His mother’s death
As of at least October, Santos’ campaign website stated that his mother, Fatima Devolder, was “in her office in the south tower” of the World Trade Center on the day of the 9/11 attacks. The website said “she survived the horrific events of that day, but unfortunately passed away a few years later.” However, an online obituary shows Santos’ mother passed away more than 15 years after 9/11, in December 2016.

It was revealed in mid-January that Devolder did not appear to even be in the U.S. at the time of the 9/11 attacks, but was in Brazil awaiting approval from immigration authorities to legally enter the country. The findings were revealed by a Manhattan accountant who filed a request through the Freedom of Information Act requesting Devolder's visa application. Her application requesting to enter the country was dated 2003. Her paperwork, according to a screenshot shared by the accountant, showed she was living in Brazil for six years.

Dog Donations
In mid-January, the news site Patch first reported that Santos allegedly ripped off a New Jersey veteran out of $3,000 needed to pay for the veteran's sick dog in 2016. Santos, who allegedly went by the alias Anthony Devolder, had raised the money through a now-defunct GoFundMe page he had set up on behalf of the veteran, Richard Osthoff.

The day after the allegations were revealed, Santos tweeted, "The reports that I would let a dog die is shocking & insane."

His religion
On his campaign websites, Santos noted that his “grandparents fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII.” His biography on his campaign website has since been changed.

Santos described himself as “a proud American Jew” in documents to pro-Israel groups. But six weeks after he was elected to office, he admitted to misleading voters about his cultural and religious background. Santos told The New York Post during a Dec. 26 interview that he “never claimed to be Jewish,” only “Jew-ish.” He said his grandmother told him she was Jewish but had converted to Catholicism.

The Forward looked into ancestral records, and found evidence that Santos’ maternal grandparents were born in Brazil before the Nazis rose to power in Europe.

His education
Santos told the Post during the Dec. 26 interview that he never graduated from college, retracting previous statements claiming that he received a degree in economics and finance from CUNY’s Baruch College in 2010.

When he ran for Congress in 2019, Santos claimed on his campaign website that he graduated from the prestigious Horace Mann School in the Bronx. Ed Adler, a spokesman for the school, said officials there “checked all the records and all the aliases. He (Santos) did not attend Horace Mann.”

Volleyball
Shortly after admitting he hadn't graduated from Baruch College, it emerged Santos had invented other details about his supposed time at the school. He claimed during an October 2020 radio interview that he had a volleyball scholarship to attend Baruch.

"You know, it's funny, I actually went to school on a volleyball scholarship," he said in the interview on WABC.

“[W]e went to play against Harvard, Yale, and we slayed them," he later added. "We were champions across the entire Northeast Corridor. Every school that came up against us, they were shaking at the time. And it’s funny, I was the smallest guy and I’m 6-foot-2."

He said he "sacrificed" his knees to play volleyball and had to have knee replacement surgery.

His work experience
On the campaign trail, Santos billed himself as a “seasoned Wall Street financier and investor” and claimed he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. But during the Post interview, the soon-to-be-lawmaker clarified that he “never worked directly” with either of the financial institutions.

Around the same time, Santos claimed that he was working his way through the financial sector, a Times investigation showed that he was a customer service agent at a Dish Network call center in Queens.

His real estate portfolio
Santos tweeted in February 2021 that he owned 13 rental properties where tenants had not paid rent for a year. “We worked hard to acquire these assets. Now it almost feels like we are being punished,” he wrote. But in the Post interview, he admitted he does not own any real estate and lives at his sister Tiffany’s home in Huntington.

Santos’ tweet railing against his fictitious tenants came four years after he was evicted for at least the third time in Queens, according to housing records surfaced by The New York Times.

In court eviction records, he claimed to have been mugged in 2016 on his way to pay $2,250 in back rent on his Queens apartment. The NYPD says it has no record of the attack.

Brain tumor
During a March 2020 interview, Santos claimed he had a brain tumor. He said while his condition resulted in a weakened immune system, he was still capable of fighting a COVID-19 infection. He claimed the pandemic — which officially began the month he was interviewed — had been exaggerated.

“I am just shocked that the proportion that this has been blown up because I am the perfect candidate to be, you know, R.I.P., and it just didn’t happen,” Santos said at the time.

Santos did not respond to claims verifying he had a tumor.

Pulse nightclub shooting
During an interview on "The Brian Lehrer Show" shortly after he won the November general election, Santos claimed that four of his employees had died during the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The incident — in which a single gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens — is considered one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.

“My company, at the time, we lost four employees that work, that were at Pulse nightclub,” Santos told Lehrer. “This is a deja vu moment for me, not something that is really good even going over because it just brings back such tragic memories.”

However, The New York Times investigated this claim in its first investigative story into Santos last month. The Times story stated that “a review of news coverage and obituaries found that none of the 49 victims appear to have worked at the various firms named in his biography.”