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Setyembre 7, 2026

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Humperdink ayon kay ...: For those of you who participate in sports gambling, I present to you the final second ….. er ….. seconds of the U of Michigan football game.; 9/7/26, 6:26 PM
RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...: Great photos. As for gambling and college football. Amazing how things have changed in my lifetime. I can remember way back when liberal pro-fessors were all upset at all the time and money spent on football. Oh and that terrible Bobby Knight!

And other people outraged that football players were being used as "hired help" when they should be studying in class. Why it was a scandal that star Right tackle joe brokowski didn't show up at class and got an "A" anyway. Or that Jerome Washington went to the NFL despite not getting a college degree.

Now, its all about the greenbacks baby. And the "Liberals" don't give a crap. Gambling, players being semi-pros, ESPN putting the game behind a paywall. Who cares anymore about "Student athlete"?; 9/7/26, 6:38 PM
Narr ayon kay ...: Vonnegut pegged it all in "Player Piano."; 9/7/26, 6:42 PM
RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...: Just more example of the liberal/leftists being the biggest phonies and con artists ever. Someone used to say that whenever some Politician talked about Jesus you should check to make sure your wallet was still there. Well it goes x10, for libtards talking about "Morality" or "principles".; 9/7/26, 6:43 PM
Original Mike ayon kay ...: "Who cares anymore about "Student athlete"?"

I do, for one. I think the whole college sports edifice is rotten.; 9/7/26, 7:10 PM
Jim at ayon kay ...: *For those of you who participate in sports gambling, I present to you the final second ….. er ….. seconds of the U of Michigan football game.*

I get your point, but the ending didn't impact any bets ... unless somebody will silly enough to take Western Michigan straight up. (+1600 to +2000)

Western was a +27.5 dog and the o/u was 49.5.

But, I'm willing to entertain some theories other than the betting lines.; 9/7/26, 7:19 PM
mccullough ayon kay ...: Betting lines change during the games.; 9/7/26, 7:23 PM
mongo ayon kay ...: The Yacht Rock channel on Sirius XM radio includes a show with Al Roker of Today show fame. On today's show he said that when he turned 70 he was depressed because it meant he was that much closer to the end of his life. To cheer him up, his wife booked Earth, Wind, and Fire to perform at his birthday party.

I guess the rich really are different than you and me.; 9/7/26, 8:10 PM
Original Mike ayon kay ...: Cynical Publius

"I keep coming back in my mind to all of the “conspiracy theories” that have come true since 2016."; 9/7/26, 8:11 PM
RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...: Hello I feel so bad because I'm so old.
Cheer up honey, here's one of your favorite bands from 1969.
They're only 57 years old.; 9/7/26, 8:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: If Europe had college football, like we do, they would have a chance against the invaders.
Help preserve College Football. It's our only hope.; 9/7/26, 8:45 PM
narciso ayon kay ...: If they are good doesnr mattdr how old the band is; 9/7/26, 8:54 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ ayon kay ...: this is the time of year that most Americans see gas prices going down as demand falls and we soon change to winter gasoline, but as of late, we've been seeing a lot more ups- especially for diesel- the fuel that drives the U.S. economy and that may continue..diesel is closing in on a $6/gal national average as wholesale prices surge tonight 13c/gal with new attacks and threats. BUT the real story may be out West- California could blow past $8/gal, and some pumps aren't even built to display what could come next.
https://x.com/GasBuddyGuy/status/2097116354537025783?s=20; 9/7/26, 8:57 PM
Josephbleau ayon kay ...: Up in the high desert west of Taos. Walked thru the pinions to an old mine in the hills. Gold? Silver? No, a series of pegmatite intrusions into a somewhat rare metamorphic rhyolite formation that is 1.7 billion years old. The pegmatites brought in large quartz, potassium feldspar, and biotite mica crystals. The mica was valuable for the windows in furnaces that burned coal or wood years ago.

It was there, an adit mine, a horizontal tunnel into the hill. And since I am an old miner I brought a bright flashlight. A great visit underground. I hoped to find some nice quartz crystals but they were pretty picked over. If I had a jack leg drill and 50 lbs of powder I’m sure I could have got some nice vugs, but blm would take them and me.; 9/7/26, 9:00 PM
Smilin' Jack ayon kay ...: “If Europe had college football, like we do, they would have a chance against the invaders.
Help preserve College Football. It's our only hope.”

I read somewhere that as the allies advanced in Europe during WW II the Americans had a significant advantage because they’d all grown up playing baseball, and thus knew how to throw a grenade. The Germans threw like girls because they’d grown up playing soccer, and kicking isn’t very useful in armed combat.; 9/7/26, 9:03 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: I gave a ride to a couple of private plane pilots after they landed at Athens-Ben Epps Airport and in course of talking about how big college football is in the south, they related a story of a dying pilot school that was about to be shut down for lack business. The flying school happened to be in a big college football town.
When a college student showed up interested in flying lessons who happened to be a kicker for the football team. Word got back to the football program and it wasn't long before they figured out that flying lessons could be a tremendous recruitment tool. College football saved the flying school... or maybe they took it over. I don't know exactly.; 9/7/26, 9:08 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...: I was watching Caribbean cricket last night and they have done the same things as baseball, changed the rules a little bit to shorten the match, and allow challenges in the same way as baseball, or so it seemed. The match was in Barbados vs St Lucia, and it was worth the watch for the pleasure the crowd took in the game. Indian cricket is enjoyable too, they actually allow hot cheerleaders, for one thing. Not sure if I can recommend cricket to baseball fans, it took me being stuck alone after work for six months with nothing else to watch, but it’s basically the opposite of baseball, runs are cheap and getting a guy out brings the crowd to its feet.; 9/7/26, 9:08 PM
Josephbleau ayon kay ...: The deposit was very similar to what you find in Spruce Pine NC. The roots of the Appalachians. But in that case the feldspar was valued for sanitaryware. There was a large industry of urinals, toilets, sinks, and shower tiles there which supported a lot of previously poor families.

Then comes ww2, where radios were critical for small units to call artillery fire. And the transmitters needed an oscillator to generate radio frequency. In order to have accurate frequency and stability, called Q by engineers, they needed large quartz crystals, so Spruce Pine, and Hot Springs Arkansas were mined by old simple people to provide the materials to win the war.; 9/7/26, 9:12 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: College Football starts in High School. They have a leg up on the military.; 9/7/26, 9:16 PM
Eva Marie ayon kay ...: Were they simple people?; 9/7/26, 9:20 PM
Achilles ayon kay ...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

this is the time of year that most Americans see gas prices going down as demand falls and we soon change to winter gasoline, but as of late, we've been seeing a lot more ups- especially for diesel- the fuel that drives the U.S. economy and that may continue..diesel is closing in on a $6/gal national average as wholesale prices surge tonight 13c/gal with new attacks and threats. BUT the real story may be out West- California could blow past $8/gal, and some pumps aren't even built to display what could come next.

And everyone knows that Democrats will raise gas prices higher any chance they get.; 9/7/26, 9:23 PM
Original Mike ayon kay ...: I love pegmatite. I can just imagine those crystals growing.; 9/7/26, 9:26 PM
Original Mike ayon kay ...: I guess the Epstein files were a dry hole.; 9/7/26, 9:27 PM
Josephbleau ayon kay ...: I was on my high school football team. It helped with the girls. I was second sting and my girl friends were second string. In social rank but the best in intelligence.

College sports should require every department from physics to literature to participate..; 9/7/26, 9:28 PM
hawkeyedjb ayon kay ...: “Help preserve College Football.”

Why? It has nothing to do with amateur sport - or with the college, really. Universities sponsor professional teams. Why do they do that, and why should we preserve the practice?; 9/7/26, 9:28 PM
Eva Marie ayon kay ...: This is kind of hokey but it makes a point
https://x.com/ginamilan_/status/2096301423516409968?s=46; 9/7/26, 9:30 PM
Josephbleau ayon kay ...: “Eva Marie said...
Were they simple people?“

Yes and I am a simple person, who worked his life out to the best he could.; 9/7/26, 9:33 PM
Eva Marie ayon kay ...: Congrats.; 9/7/26, 9:42 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: why?

In the previous sentence I said... “If Europe had college football, like we do, they would have a chance against the invaders."

We need strong men (and women) to defend the nation and our way of life. College football and the military is where these men (and women) we need are grown.

I see college football and the military as two sides of the same coin.; 9/7/26, 9:46 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: I kept forgetting to post this and now I'm rearing to fix that.

Wikipedia: "Constance Margaret Fisher (née Sirois; March 26, 1929 – October 1, 1973) was an American serial mass murderer. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, she killed three of her children in Maine in 1954. After spending several years in a mental institution, she was released, only to kill three more of her children in 1966.

Deemed unfit to stand trial, she was hospitalized at the Augusta State Hospital, from which she managed to escape in 1973, but died in an accident shortly afterwards."

The more you know, the more we know.; 9/7/26, 9:54 PM
Narr ayon kay ...: "College sports should require every department . . . to participate."

Whatever for?; 9/7/26, 9:54 PM
Josephbleau ayon kay ...: "College sports should require every department . . . to participate."

Whatever for?“

I said that in a fit of pique. To emphasise that college is not a commercial operation, but should provide regular students an opportunity to combine and use their skills to represent the school, rather than a corporatized multi million dollar fake extravaganza.; 9/7/26, 10:18 PM
Iman ayon kay ...: “Hello I feel so bad because I'm so old.”

Get off my lawn, you lousy punk!

h/t Broderick Crawford; 9/7/26, 10:31 PM
Iman ayon kay ...: “To cheer him up, his wife booked Earth, Wind, and Fire to perform at his birthday party.”

More like Earth, Flatulence and Embers without Maurice White.
Just sayin’…; 9/7/26, 10:34 PM
john mosby ayon kay ...: Smilin Jack: "I read somewhere that as the allies advanced in Europe during WW II the Americans had a significant advantage because they’d all grown up playing baseball, and thus knew how to throw a grenade."

When I started in the Army there were lots of VN veterans. One told me there was a guy in his platoon who had been a minor league baseball player. They made him the grenadier: gave him all their grenades, which he kept in a bag, and then hurled accurately at enemy concentrations the other guys identified.

In hindsight, I see several problems with this story. Each grenade weighs almost a pound. There's a limit to how many even a pro athlete could carry around in the jungle. No matter how strong or accurate your arm is, you can't throw through trees. The Army had the M79 grenade launcher, with significantly greater range than even the strongest right fielder, plus flechette rounds that turned it into a big-bore shotgun.

Still, it's plausible. CC, JSM; 9/8/26, 2:57 AM
john mosby ayon kay ...: Lem: "College football and the military is where these men (and women) we need are grown."

College football involves not even 100 men out of a school's thousands. For the rest, it's an excuse to get drunk and chant.

I guess if football is the spearhead and money-printer of a program that includes lots of varsity sports, to take participation up to a double-digit percentage, plus intramurals, rec sports, and (horrors!) PE classes to get the rest of the student body active, then maybe so. That's the model of the military academies, and used to be the model of the Ivies. CC, JSM; 9/8/26, 3:03 AM
Kai Akker ayon kay ...: --- "Deemed unfit to stand trial, she was hospitalized at the Augusta State Hospital, from which she managed to escape in 1973, but died in an accident shortly afterwards."

Western civilization hasn't been the same since.; 9/8/26, 3:12 AM
Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...: “this is the time of year that most Americans see gas prices going down as demand falls and we soon change to winter gasoline, but as of late, we've been seeing a lot more ups- especially for diesel- the fuel that drives the U.S. economy and that may continue..diesel is closing in on a $6/gal national average as wholesale prices surge tonight 13c/gal with new attacks and threats. BUT the real story may be out West- California could blow past $8/gal, and some pumps aren't even built to display what could come next.”

Crude prices continue to decline in this country, and around the world, though we benefit more than once. Prices at the pump remain stubbornly high, especially in CA. Why is that. Because CA is rapidly shutting down its remaining refinery capacity. They have their own unique requirements for gasoline and diesel. So cant just bring it in from other states. We haven’t built a new refinery in this country for decades. At least under Trump that is starting to change, with construction of two new refineries having been started this year, and more to come. Not in CA, of course. Three of its remaining refineries are slated to shut down this year, with no replacements on the horizon.; 9/8/26, 3:16 AM
Peachy+2 ayon kay ...: Z - Cynical P.
"Conspiracies Everywhere; What to Do?

1. The “Trump/Russia Collusion” hoax was a complete fabrication and a product of overt coordination between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DOJ/FBI. It was literally a coup attempt and remains probably the worst political scandal in U.S. history.
2. The Mueller Inquisition went forward even though the entire team knew the issues at the heart of it all were outright fabrications. Mueller’s team’s actual objective was to make it very difficult for Trump to enact his agenda in his first term—that was the real reason for the investigation's existence.
3. The first Trump impeachment was set up via illegal manipulation of whistleblower rules specifically for purposes of allowing a “whistleblower” to go after Trump based on hearsay alone. (And let’s not forget that Trump literally did nothing wrong and it was a perfect phone call, plus the impeachment was genuinely an attempt to coverup the Biden family’s role in preventing a thorough investigation of Hunter’s Ukrainian employer.)
4. COVID almost certainly came from a lab in Wuhan, China, and that’s what the CIA non-publicly believed while all the time we were being called racist conspiracy theorists for believing just that. Now we know.
5. The COVID vaccine was largely untested and the assurances that it was almost 100% effective and safe were outright lies that the CDC and the vaccine manufacturers knew were lies but peddled anyway.
6. January 6th was a Nancy Pelosi set-up that included a pre-planned “insurrection” narrative to be immediately peddled by the Democrat/Media Complex on January 7th. She even had her “filmmaker” daughter there to chronicle the “story” she invented and fostered herself.
7. Hunter’s laptop really was Hunter’s laptop, it was not “Russian disinformation,” and the entire mass media suppressed all reporting on those facts so Biden could get elected.
8. Voting laws such as “No voter ID required,” mail-in ballots, ballot drop boxes, weeks of early voting and “ballot harvesting” all are logically and verifiably practices that reduce election integrity. However, these laws are purposely and specifically designed to make fraud detection virtually impossible.
9. Non-governmental organizations have been the U.S. shadow government, pushing agendas the electorate specifically rejected, and they used a sort of NGO pseudo-money laundering scheme to hide who their true donors were, plus they got tax dollars to spread their woke hate.
10. USAID was a front for using taxpayer dollars to peddle woke policies in un-woke nations, and in many cases funding went to Democrat-run NGOs who received preferential award treatment.
11. An enormous portion of our tax dollars go to fund Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security fraud.
12. Congress is swarming with sex offenders, and we’re not supposed to ask questions.
13. The Southern Poverty Law Center was funding actual hate groups like the KKK, and the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally was coordinated and paid for, at least in part, by the SPLC. The SPLC basically is the fire department that commits arson.
14. The entire United States government (including the U.S. military) weaponized the idea that “white supremacy” was the greatest threat to national security. This was based almost exclusively on reports from the SPLC, who were themselves funding marginalized “white supremacy” movements, thereby creating the threat they claimed to oppose."; 9/8/26, 3:24 AM
Peachy+2 ayon kay ...: Bruce- I heard CA runs the major airports with fuel brought in on Southwest jet airplanes. Insane.

CA dems also like to remove water storage. blow up dams.

Chi coms smile. good boi, Newsum.; 9/8/26, 3:27 AM
Breezy ayon kay ...: Curious if CA taxpayers have ever demanded a cost benefit analysis of their high gas rates. Is there any bang for their bucks wrt whatever that money was supposed to do? If not, they’re complete saps.; 9/8/26, 4:02 AM
tim maguire ayon kay ...: John, fewer than 100 men are on the football team, but probably half the men at the school play football.; 9/8/26, 5:13 AM
Political Junkie ayon kay ...: I used to be strongly against paying college athletes.
Once college coaches started making so so much money, I felt it was inequitable to the players and changed my position.; 9/8/26, 5:18 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...: Jim responded: “I get your point, but the ending didn't impact any bets ... unless somebody will silly enough to take Western Michigan straight up. (+1600 to +2000)“

My point was not that particular game or the spread. My point was the integrity of the officiating and the Big 10 is/was in question.; 9/8/26, 5:44 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) ayon kay ...: Althouse’s post about her ITA experience reminded me of something I experienced once unrelated to my brief and occasional migraine affliction. Here’s what I added to the comments on that thread:

**Unrelated to my migraine experiences (which resolved about 1989 and never returned with the impact of those I had in my 20s) but similar to Althouse’s ITA experience was an episode sitting in church before the service and the word “worship” on the Songs for Worship hymnal suddenly became unintelligible. I sounded it out quietly. It didn’t sound like a word I recognized except the homonym “warship” and that thought almost made me LOL. The word just seemed wrong. Within about ten minutes it resolved. The word did not seem wrong or unintelligible any longer. But I remember that feeling every time I see the word. Even now roughly 25 years later.**; 9/8/26, 5:50 AM
rcommal ayon kay ...: This thread is so interesting! Got my brain cooking early. Thanks for the variety!; 9/8/26, 6:15 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...: From the NY Post: “OpenAI has reportedly hired Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter Jessica Schumer for a top policy job.”

I am certain she’s highly skilled.; 9/8/26, 6:23 AM
rcommal ayon kay ...: I saw that Hunter Biden is launching a meme coin, which brazenly (in my view) features that damned laptop. Oh, ugh!!!! My gut recoils.

Now, I have zero understanding of crypto. If less than zero were possible, I'm there. It's a thing I've never "picked up info and understanding along the way" nor researched at all. Based purely on emotional gut, which I generally try to push aside on principle, this Hunter thing is just hitting me in a very negative way. I'm repulsed.

Does anybody understand crypto here? Can he actually make out like a bandit? And, yes, it disgusts that people would buy this, no matter what their political stripe.; 9/8/26, 6:23 AM
rcommal ayon kay ...: Not looking forward to today's stock market trading today, by the way. I'm thinking it will be...interesting.; 9/8/26, 6:42 AM
rehajm ayon kay ...: …for me it’s strange to see the leftie bots try and coerce people into believing fuel prices are harming them. The economic impact on households is something that is tangible- people feel it and see it in their kitchen table finances, their checking account, their credit card statement. It is but one data point however while perception is a collection of data points, while fuel prices are a single reference. Employment, inflation, overall economic vigor- does the work phone ring with opportunity? These have favored the worker, like it or not politically…; 9/8/26, 6:43 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...: John Hinderaker (Power Line) extensively quotes an article by Matthew Syed of the London Times. Syed states the Euroweenies have been able to expand their welfare state at the U.S.’s expense. How so? The U.S. has backstopped their defense so they don’t have to. Then came Trump. Now their economic outlook is bleak and really has been for some time.

One salient quote caught my eye: “No EU company worth more than €100 billion has been built from scratch in the last 50 years, while six US firms worth more than €1 trillion have been created in the same period.”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/09/europeans-know-they-need-to-step-up.php; 9/8/26, 6:54 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...: Since the early 2000’s the Lefties have been whining for higher fuel prices to reduce driving on U.S. highways. Well here we are and what’s their response? Whining about affordability of gas prices.; 9/8/26, 6:58 AM

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