Rick Pitino, who makes about $3.5m per year as St John's HC says that P4 and Big East teams should have an NIL salary cap of $1.5m to 2.0m. Because he's a scion of rules and compliance.
If only Pac 12 could have survived to this product---https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/39472710/espn-fox-warner-bros-launch-sports-streaming-platform
Verdict in on the mother of the then student who committed the Michigan school shooting. Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter on all 4 counts for the 4 students who died. Appeal highly likely.
Good friend's two kids both experienced this shooting, just devastating. The parents were a hot mess of denial and neglect. School district also erred. Incredibly sad all around.
at first I was wondering how the shooter got involuntary manslaughter for the murders. Then I realized it was the mother getting charged. I wondered how she could get involuntary manslaughter, and it looks like she gave him the gun.
She did so many different things wrong in order to get arraigned and convicted of the four charges. She ignored his mental illness, she bought him a gun even though he was only 15, didn't store the gun safely, didn't take him home after he drew a plea for help on his math assignment with a gun and shooting on it because she couldn't take more time off work, said nothing about him having a gun, blamed the school for not searching him, blamed the father because he was the one who used his credit card, got caught out on numerous lies because she was trying to hide her affair, and then capped with the remorseless comment.
Will the Dartmouth athletes as employees decision reverberate soon across the land? Multiple cases are ongoing (USC, for example) as well. It will be interesting to see which other universities’ athletes seek to unionize (assuming appeal is not shot down)?
Things have changed since 2015 when the Northwestern case was first decided at the local level. The NLRB declined to adjudicate the case citing procedural reasons, which I thought was a cop-out.
The noose is tightening on colleges and universities in regards to intercollegiate athletics. At some point, the jig will be up and student-athletes will be widely, if not universally, acknowledged as college or university employees. It's nonsensical that this willful blindness continues.
I no longer wash my car. Take it to the car wash as needed. Which is, to say, during rainy season not at all.
Washing your car means that the runoff gets into the storm sewer system and it pollutes the creek and, consequently, the habitat of aquatic life. It's bad enough that the runoff from rainstorms includes whatever is washed from the roadway into the creek. Car washes are required to capture their runoff, treat it, and recycle it, before dumping it into a sanitary sewer.
While we're on the topic of runoff, even EBMWU staff will put down dams (to control sediment) and dechlor tablets to mitigate the runoff from a mainbreak because treated water is not just water. Just because treated water is safe for human consumption doesn't mean it isn't a hazard to aquatic life. Raw water is less likely to present a hazard to aquatic life than treated water because it hasn't been treated yet with disinfectants to remove or kill organisms and minerals potentially harmful to human health.
This. We take in over 100 tons per day of liquid waste from pumping out car wash sumps of the dirt and crap that is washed off people's cars at car washes. Car wash are a substantial contributor to storm water and other runoff contamination.
I only run our car through a car wash, also. I do run them during the wet season, as keeping road dirt off the car will prolong the paint condition. We also are in a fairly rural area and have more straight up dirt on the roads than many people.
I use a 5 gallon bucket for washing my car. If I use my foam cannon I put clean water in the bucket to rinse off the wash mitt. I haven't tried the 2 bucket method though.
I used to use the two-bucket method until I recently got a foam cannon. Now I don't need a soap bucket and instead only use a rinse bucket. It's been a helpful way to shave an extra 5-10 minutes off the washing process (especially appreciated during this cold time of year).
For the Miata, I notice a bucket is quicker. Takes me like 10 min to just setup the pressure washer. I can fill up the bucket, wash the Miata (it's so small) in 1 go, and dry in under 10 min.
I was thinking that but since I had a pressure washer I thought it might work better. And then technically I can rinse with the pressure washer, but for some reason rinsing with the regular hose and "shower" setting on the nozzle works better. But probably uses more water.
Pretty soon they'll be able to hit the new Vegas or Oakland ballparks. And I think the White Sox want a new ballpark. @And ATL is probably due for another one aren't they?@
i realize that this is not a common thing to do .. i refuse to think of life this way.
rather, i try to live and enjoy life every day to some extent. if i get some amazing experiences or travel to faraway places then that is great too. if some are not possibly at all or anymore, then cest la vie ..
Not necessarily a bucket list, but in Japan I drove an R33 GT-R. The kids got me an afternoon with the car, that ended up only being about 2-3 hours. Didn't drive it hard but it was a blast.
Bottoms (plane, 17/19, WB). It's your standard lesbian teen fightclub farce with Marshawn Lynch. How farcical? For example, the "jocks" are in full game gear no matter the situation. It's not high art, but it's a really, really good comedy. Well worth the watch.
Perfect description. We enjoyed it for what is was, a bawdy, well done comedy with everyone playing their part in the whole thing quite well. Great Friday night and 2 glasses of wine movie.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, final season. Whenever I watch that show I constantly think of how absolutely asinine it is and how by the end of it, I must have actively lost brain cells while watching. It's such a delight and I'm really going to miss it after this season...
I am at the tail end of S4, with the 5th and final season due out this year. It’s finally starting to wane on me, and I find myself now actively rooting against our “protagonist.” Which may be, in fact, the intention.
New poll shows that three quarters of voters don't expect Trump to concede if he loses in 2024. Conversely, one in four Americans do expect him to concede.
I'd also want to know if there's a higher incidence or susceptibility to being conned among that group. Does this group engage in more daydreams, fantasies, or wishful thinking than those who expect Trump *not* to concede.
Yeah. There is disagreeing with or not liking a particular outcome, and then there is delusional unrealistic dismissal of at least highly probable events and outcomes, no matter how much you don't like them.
This would be a fantastic opportunity for the Democrats to brand the Republicans as a do-nothing party on their biggest issue going into the 2024 elections. I doubt they'll take advantage, however...
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has made a forceful finding in its opinion that it is the federal courts' responsibility to handle the criminal prosecution of a former president.
One question that has come up repeatedly in this case is if the court system has the ability to try a former president who faced an impeachment proceeding in Congress, and if they can look at the presidential immunity question before a trial.
On both fronts, the appellate judges said they could.
GOP fails to advance the Mayorkas impeachment 216-214 with 4 Republicans voting against; shortly after they fail to pass a standalone Israel funding bill by a huge margin. Just a total clown show of a caucus
I think Klay started but in crunchtime Gui Santos played for Klay. Gui provided lots of energy, dived for balls and went for rebounds, and good D. Quinones also played rather well. What was interesting to me was that Trayce didn't play at all. Don't think he was on the injury report so it was interesting to me that he didn't get an run at all.
I saw the interview last night and to me he was glad the team won so all is good. But there seemed to be a little bit of gritting of his teeth. Not sure if it was because it was that he wasn't in there or realization that he isn't playing up to his standards. Probably a little of both.
Good baseball move. If you aren't good, at least hold onto a few of the players that you have that are good, and popular with the fan base, making it more fun while simultaneously creating the illusion that there is hope.
Got a commitment from 2024 PWO QB Andrew Mauschardt. He held several D1 offers before a season ending injury his senior season. Chances are we'll still seek out a spring transfer to add depth. https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/mauschardt-commits-to-cal
Cal gets a '24 commit in Jude McLellan from a Carlsbad HS. He looks like a PWO and is a high school teammate of Luke Ferrelli. Both McLellan and Ferrelli will slide up a position (DE-> OLB, OLB--> ILB) in college. Both players are high-energy sideline-to-sideline types, something that Cal hasn't had a lot of since they've tended to recruit bigger guys who defend better against the run.
Woman brags about abusing Costco's return policy. Returns a 2.5 year old couch because she doesn't like it any more for a full refund.
https://www.tiktok.com/@xojacckss/video/7327451039567744298
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Rick Pitino, who makes about $3.5m per year as St John's HC says that P4 and Big East teams should have an NIL salary cap of $1.5m to 2.0m. Because he's a scion of rules and compliance.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39471080/rick-pitino-says-college-basketball-needs-salary-cap
If only Pac 12 could have survived to this product---https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/39472710/espn-fox-warner-bros-launch-sports-streaming-platform
Verdict in on the mother of the then student who committed the Michigan school shooting. Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter on all 4 counts for the 4 students who died. Appeal highly likely.
Appeal away. The more I read about this case, the more appalling the actions and inactions of the parents are. Stunning.
Good friend's two kids both experienced this shooting, just devastating. The parents were a hot mess of denial and neglect. School district also erred. Incredibly sad all around.
at first I was wondering how the shooter got involuntary manslaughter for the murders. Then I realized it was the mother getting charged. I wondered how she could get involuntary manslaughter, and it looks like she gave him the gun.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/us/jennifer-crumbley-oxford-shooting-trial/index.html
Jennifer Crumbley took the stand in her own defense and, in a remarkable moment, expressed no regret for her actions.
“I’ve asked myself if I would have done anything differently, and I wouldn’t have,” she testified.
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She did so many different things wrong in order to get arraigned and convicted of the four charges. She ignored his mental illness, she bought him a gun even though he was only 15, didn't store the gun safely, didn't take him home after he drew a plea for help on his math assignment with a gun and shooting on it because she couldn't take more time off work, said nothing about him having a gun, blamed the school for not searching him, blamed the father because he was the one who used his credit card, got caught out on numerous lies because she was trying to hide her affair, and then capped with the remorseless comment.
That is a remarkably callous or delusional statement
Will the Dartmouth athletes as employees decision reverberate soon across the land? Multiple cases are ongoing (USC, for example) as well. It will be interesting to see which other universities’ athletes seek to unionize (assuming appeal is not shot down)?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/athletics/2024/02/06/dartmouth-basketball-players-are-employees-can-unionize-nlrb
Things have changed since 2015 when the Northwestern case was first decided at the local level. The NLRB declined to adjudicate the case citing procedural reasons, which I thought was a cop-out.
The noose is tightening on colleges and universities in regards to intercollegiate athletics. At some point, the jig will be up and student-athletes will be widely, if not universally, acknowledged as college or university employees. It's nonsensical that this willful blindness continues.
Word.
Bucket List
1. Standard 2 gallon bucket. Very handy for washing your car.
2. Classic mop bucket with a mechanism to squeeze your mop. There are better versions now.
3. Dual mop bucket. One side, clean, one side dirty. A good innovation.
4. 5 gallon bucket like the ones sold by Home Depot. Popular I guess, but I don’t use these.
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I no longer wash my car. Take it to the car wash as needed. Which is, to say, during rainy season not at all.
Washing your car means that the runoff gets into the storm sewer system and it pollutes the creek and, consequently, the habitat of aquatic life. It's bad enough that the runoff from rainstorms includes whatever is washed from the roadway into the creek. Car washes are required to capture their runoff, treat it, and recycle it, before dumping it into a sanitary sewer.
While we're on the topic of runoff, even EBMWU staff will put down dams (to control sediment) and dechlor tablets to mitigate the runoff from a mainbreak because treated water is not just water. Just because treated water is safe for human consumption doesn't mean it isn't a hazard to aquatic life. Raw water is less likely to present a hazard to aquatic life than treated water because it hasn't been treated yet with disinfectants to remove or kill organisms and minerals potentially harmful to human health.
Hence, I don't wash my vehicles anymore.
This. We take in over 100 tons per day of liquid waste from pumping out car wash sumps of the dirt and crap that is washed off people's cars at car washes. Car wash are a substantial contributor to storm water and other runoff contamination.
I only run our car through a car wash, also. I do run them during the wet season, as keeping road dirt off the car will prolong the paint condition. We also are in a fairly rural area and have more straight up dirt on the roads than many people.
Back in the day, my father would only wash the car with water, no detergent. Is that better for the environment?
I use a 5 gallon bucket for washing my car. If I use my foam cannon I put clean water in the bucket to rinse off the wash mitt. I haven't tried the 2 bucket method though.
I used to use the two-bucket method until I recently got a foam cannon. Now I don't need a soap bucket and instead only use a rinse bucket. It's been a helpful way to shave an extra 5-10 minutes off the washing process (especially appreciated during this cold time of year).
For the Miata, I notice a bucket is quicker. Takes me like 10 min to just setup the pressure washer. I can fill up the bucket, wash the Miata (it's so small) in 1 go, and dry in under 10 min.
Ah, my foam cannon works with a standard hose so there's no additional setup
I was thinking that but since I had a pressure washer I thought it might work better. And then technically I can rinse with the pressure washer, but for some reason rinsing with the regular hose and "shower" setting on the nozzle works better. But probably uses more water.
Newellbany and I have banged out all of the MLB parks, so my travel bucket list is now the 63 US National Parks…some of them are gonna be doozy’s.
Seems like there will still be new ballparks every few years or so...
new national parks every so often too
Every couple of years it seems….
59. Pinnacles
60. Gateway Arch (the lamest of them all imho)
61. Indiana Dunes
62. White Sands
63. New River Gorge (WVA)
luckily there are mostly easily accessible.
New River Gorge is pretty nice. i went there for the first time recently. rode my bike to the pointy part of land that is impressively nice.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kEbRqU1vLpBHiYf6A
A few in AK are gonna be tough…
Don’t schedule much time at Indiana Dunes when you get around to it. My sister was monumentally underwhelmed.
I hit that one on my Coast to COVID road trip with the pup in July ‘20…I agree with your sister. Not much to it.
He can go check it out after the Cal/UofL game in 2025. Oh just saw where it is. Yeah that looks like a drive by visit.
Pretty soon they'll be able to hit the new Vegas or Oakland ballparks. And I think the White Sox want a new ballpark. @And ATL is probably due for another one aren't they?@
There will be new ones, sure…but with nothing on tap currently, I figure to be stuck on 47 for a spell…maybe Vegas, maybe Oakland, maybe ChiSox…
ugh, don't get me started on my Atlanta ballpark bitterness
i realize that this is not a common thing to do .. i refuse to think of life this way.
rather, i try to live and enjoy life every day to some extent. if i get some amazing experiences or travel to faraway places then that is great too. if some are not possibly at all or anymore, then cest la vie ..
I've never made a list of buckets, we only have one so it's not necessary.
Not necessarily a bucket list, but in Japan I drove an R33 GT-R. The kids got me an afternoon with the car, that ended up only being about 2-3 hours. Didn't drive it hard but it was a blast.
Bounce
DVD AV Club
Bottoms (plane, 17/19, WB). It's your standard lesbian teen fightclub farce with Marshawn Lynch. How farcical? For example, the "jocks" are in full game gear no matter the situation. It's not high art, but it's a really, really good comedy. Well worth the watch.
Perfect description. We enjoyed it for what is was, a bawdy, well done comedy with everyone playing their part in the whole thing quite well. Great Friday night and 2 glasses of wine movie.
Is WB the network? That still exists? Or is it the studio. Like this is in the theaters?
I enjoyed it. Marshawn is quite good.
I have this downloaded to watch at some point because of Marshawn.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, final season. Whenever I watch that show I constantly think of how absolutely asinine it is and how by the end of it, I must have actively lost brain cells while watching. It's such a delight and I'm really going to miss it after this season...
oh I saw Ep 1 dropped this weekend. I do need to watch it.
Country singer Toby Keith has died at 62 from stomach cancer
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/entertainment/toby-keith-death/index.html
Raise a drink in a red solo cup in honor of him.
Sad news. I liked his music…the ex and I actually enjoyed seeing him together in concert at SPAC in upstate NY…a rarity.
You.
I am at the tail end of S4, with the 5th and final season due out this year. It’s finally starting to wane on me, and I find myself now actively rooting against our “protagonist.” Which may be, in fact, the intention.
no you
Finished the last few episodes of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. (19/19 Disney+)
They did such a better job than the movies, though they did have more time.
Can't wait for season 2.
does it more or less end as book one ends?
i am sure there was some obligatory cliffhanger ..
Honestly I don't exactly remember how book 1 ends. There wasn't really a cliffhanger. They do seem to be pretty good at following the book.
Stumbling, Bumbling, Fumbling Democracy
Rep Greene (R-TN) baited into condemning his own editorial
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-impeachment-republican-embarrassed/
This is so good.
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman sued for $11m. On a not-completely unrelated note, Burkman plead guilty to robocalling and is likely to be disbarred
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/marine-vet-targeted-in-catfishing-scam-by-right-wing-operatives-and-conspiracy-theorists-who-make-s-up-and-destroyed-his-life-sues-for-11-million/
This woman is a nonce. She has a page reserved for my future coffee table book "Piss on Your Grave" when the inevitable happens
https://www.threads.net/@podsaveamerica/post/C3BFuzUJVl-
Trump: "I'm immune from prosecution"
DC AG: No
SCOTUS: [closes eyes, puts hands over ears] "LALALALALA-ICANTHEARYOUDONALDTRUMP"
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1754883119717462337
New poll shows that three quarters of voters don't expect Trump to concede if he loses in 2024. Conversely, one in four Americans do expect him to concede.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4448963-trump-concede-election-denialism-biden-2024/
he still hasn't conceeded the last one.
Anyone who thinks Trump would concede is fooling themselves; possibly deliberately obtuse.
maybe the interesting question is what it the political split in this number. ie out of the 25%, are most of them Dems or Reps?
what does it mean if you are a Rep and you expect him to concede? and are you more out of whack w/ your peers compared to Dems?
Those are interesting questions.
I'd also want to know if there's a higher incidence or susceptibility to being conned among that group. Does this group engage in more daydreams, fantasies, or wishful thinking than those who expect Trump *not* to concede.
i would like to talk to this 25% .. they must be the craziest of them all
Yeah. There is disagreeing with or not liking a particular outcome, and then there is delusional unrealistic dismissal of at least highly probable events and outcomes, no matter how much you don't like them.
Senate Border/Ukraine bill dead after Trump derails it. Senator McConnell says whoever sent to the House is a moron.
https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-trump-border-bill/
This would be a fantastic opportunity for the Democrats to brand the Republicans as a do-nothing party on their biggest issue going into the 2024 elections. I doubt they'll take advantage, however...
Wow. More evidence that the GOP is a freakin' clown car. How do these people become elected US Representatives and Senators?
By running for office in districts where there exists an inbred disdain for anything and anyone not far right.
heh...do something to keep out migrants, which you've always wanted, but then pull back because it would help your opponent's reelection campaign.
And publicly admit it, repeatedly.
Court rules Trump does not have immunity from 2020 election subversion prosecution
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-court-ruling-immunity-election-subversion-prosecution/index.html
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has made a forceful finding in its opinion that it is the federal courts' responsibility to handle the criminal prosecution of a former president.
One question that has come up repeatedly in this case is if the court system has the ability to try a former president who faced an impeachment proceeding in Congress, and if they can look at the presidential immunity question before a trial.
On both fronts, the appellate judges said they could.
Finally. I was wondering when this ruling would drop.
Kick this thing up to SCOTUS, already.
GOP fails to advance the Mayorkas impeachment 216-214 with 4 Republicans voting against; shortly after they fail to pass a standalone Israel funding bill by a huge margin. Just a total clown show of a caucus
VP Harris is off to somewhere. Saw a Marine helicopter waiting outside her house as I ran by this morning.
PRO
Bieniemy out, Kingsbury in. It turns out that not having Mahomes as your QB makes it harder to be an OC. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/commanders-eric-bieniemy-out-in-washington-after-team-hires-kliff-kingsbury-as-new-offensive-coordinator/
Having a lame duck HC didn't help either
Let's check in to see how Jurgen Klinsmann is doing for Korea.
D'oh.
https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1754913396913291778
Warriors bench Klay again in favor of Moses Moody
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39468639/klay-thompson-latest-benching-warriors-win-really-hard
Really seems to work out better when he doesn't play crunch time. I can still see a use for him as a dangerous shooter in limited minutes.
Klay's problem seems to be when he's missing open 3s, he gets pissy and doesn't seem to hustle as much on D.
Yeah, I understand that shooting can come and go, but it's his defensive game that used to always be there anyway and it's not anymore.
I think Klay started but in crunchtime Gui Santos played for Klay. Gui provided lots of energy, dived for balls and went for rebounds, and good D. Quinones also played rather well. What was interesting to me was that Trayce didn't play at all. Don't think he was on the injury report so it was interesting to me that he didn't get an run at all.
I saw the interview last night and to me he was glad the team won so all is good. But there seemed to be a little bit of gritting of his teeth. Not sure if it was because it was that he wasn't in there or realization that he isn't playing up to his standards. Probably a little of both.
Royals lock up a potential star on the rise for an 11-year $288.8m deal. Whether this is savvy or dumb has yet to be seen.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/42403/bobby-witt-jr
I think this is good for Royals fans and the team. He definitely seems like a star and they need to start keeping some of their youngsters.
Good baseball move. If you aren't good, at least hold onto a few of the players that you have that are good, and popular with the fan base, making it more fun while simultaneously creating the illusion that there is hope.
Jerry Jones denies the obvious
https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-jerry-jones-doesn-t-think-mike-mccarthy-being-in-final-year-of-contract-will-hamper-dc-search
As I've said before in this very space, Jerry Jones should fire his General Manager.
Le'Veon ends his holdout on playing for the Steelers
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39464624/leveon-bell-attempt-nfl-return-eyes-steelers-reunion
How do you say "battery throwing" in Portuguese?
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-announces-eagles-as-designated-team-for-brazil-game
The London and Munich games are nice novelties, but having a game in South America is fantastic. I'll definitely tune in to that one
Footballer demands action after getting bumpoked while he cupped the ball
https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/05/footballer-demands-action-fan-pokes-bum-mid-game-20230397/
Raiders new HC asks if Raider Nation is ready to run through a wall!
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/antonio-pierce-nfl-football-las-vegas-raiders
Are you sure the question wasn't "Are you ready to have your team run into a wall?
CAL
I - F O R - N I A !
Got a commitment from 2024 PWO QB Andrew Mauschardt. He held several D1 offers before a season ending injury his senior season. Chances are we'll still seek out a spring transfer to add depth. https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/mauschardt-commits-to-cal
Go Bears!!!
Cal gets a '24 commit in Jude McLellan from a Carlsbad HS. He looks like a PWO and is a high school teammate of Luke Ferrelli. Both McLellan and Ferrelli will slide up a position (DE-> OLB, OLB--> ILB) in college. Both players are high-energy sideline-to-sideline types, something that Cal hasn't had a lot of since they've tended to recruit bigger guys who defend better against the run.
https://twitter.com/JudeMcLellan24/status/1754349703444242768