The Frankish Reich

Yep, I guess you wanna make sure you hold em to a gain of 5 in that situation.

Ouch. Kind of true.

Not taking the touchback is almost always a bad idea

OK, so boring football games this afternoon so I watched most of this. Review: rehashed information about Jeffrey Epstein and the Maxwell family. She has apparently written one thousand pages about this, which sounds impressive, but there's no indication that she actually did anything other than read the internet. In other words, no interviews, etc. And here's all I need to know to dismiss her as a joke: At 36:50, she suggests that Ghislaine Maxwell is going to play along with the coverup, and as a reward for that she got moved from the facility where Epstein was found dead to a low security "country club" prison in Florida. Well. A quick Google search of where Epstein died would've told her that it was at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan. That's a holding facility that is adjacent to the federal courthouse where Epstein and then Maxwell were facing their criminal charges. And guess what? NO ONE who is sentenced to more than a few months is held there. That's not what it was for (it's closed now). It was for pre-trial detainess facing charges in the adjacent courthouse. In her hours and hours of research, leading to some kind of publication of a one thousand page tome, she somehow didn't bother to look at the Wiki page for the MCC? If she had, she would have learned this: The Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (MCC New York) is a temporarily closed United States federal administrative detention facility in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan, New York City, located on Park Row behind the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at Foley Square. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. MCC New York holds male and female prisoners of all security levels. Most prisoners held at MCC New York have pending cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. MCC New York also holds prisoners serving brief sentences.[1] Oh. Nevermind. Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years. There was never any chance that she'd serve that at the MCC. None. So there goes that conspiracy theory. I'm sure there are other similar nuggets in this 90 minute Glen Beck (He's still around? And apparently not blind, which is where we collectively forgot about him about a dozen years ago) interview, but given this jaw droppingly stupid "argument" - one that may be refuted with a five second Google search - I don't really see the need to pay any further attention. Thank the good Lord you have me here or some of you might have been convinced by poorly researched conspiracy theorists. You're very welcome.

Offensive to those men who have lost a testicle to cancer. And besides: who will Lindsey Graham be voting for?

From an AP story on the failed law school: And school officials, led by president Joe Aguillard, had grand ambitions beyond just the law school, which included opening a medical school, a film school and making a movie adaptation of the 1960s pastoral comedy TV show “Green Acres.” How could this grand plan go wrong? Who wouldn't want to see a film adaptation of Green Acres?

Arizona will definitely get one. The Raiders are tanking by mistake; the Cards are tanking by design. Colt McCoy at QB? Nah, we might go 6-11 with him. Let's try Josh Dobbs. Uh oh, he's not as bad as we thought. Let's trade him and hand the reins to ... Clayton Tune? Who? I think they finally found their man.

Irvin (a guy I can't stand) got it right in the post game - the Phins engaged Tyreek in contact at the line all day long, negating him as a force. Zero receptions beyond 20 yards. And they clutched and held Kelce and got away with it - 3 catches for 14.

And interestingly, Fangio and the Dolphins D showed the way for stopping the Chiefs offense.

With Eisen calling it an "errant snap" - finally a decent replay shows it was all on Tua.

I'm one of the Tua defenders here, but I gotta admit it: that was a pure choke on 3rd and 4th downs.

It never hurts to look at the actual, established facts: - Rosanne Boyland was a physical wreck of a human being: 287 pounds, not surprisingly diabetic, a heart condition, and these are just the established morbidities. And a QAnon obsessed mental wreck too. - An autopsy showed no signs of trauma to her body other than a bruise on her arm. It was not possible to determine were she got that, but of course she was in a large crush of people trying to force their way past security. At any rate, no physical trauma that would have caused her death. - She did have a toxic level of amphetamines (not methamphetamine, but Adderal) in her system. - Obviously she was not accustomed to intense physical activity, which is exactly what she got herself into on the Capitol grounds. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/transcript-cause-death-n1288906 Here's what an independent doctor reviewing the records concluded: Mohyeldin: Dr. Banerjee says that even though Rosanne was young and took her ADHD medication regularly, the amount in her system was in the lethal range, and she had preconditions that made her more vulnerable to amphetamine intoxication. Banerjee: I mean, she's heavyset, she has high blood pressure and diabetes. So you have to think that the heart is under stress from high blood pressure, okay? And diabetes puts you at risk for, you know, all sorts of other medical problems as well. And then when you have the amphetamine on top of that, and the stress of the situation, like, that can trigger an abnormal heartbeat, you know, an arrhythmia is what I'm saying. And so that's why they're top-lining it with the amphetamine, with it being in her system as triggering her death. Another expert they consulted disagreed, but suggested that asphyxiation from trampling should have been more closely considered. Note that the other doctor did not suggest some kind of blunt force trauma by being hit by a stick or whatever; there was nothing to support that theory in the autopsy. All of this makes me think of the nutcase conspiracy theorists who are claiming Matthew Perry died from heart complications brought on by the COVID vaccine. Yeah, we have a career drug an alcohol addict (among other things, he said this caused something he called an "exploded bowel") found dead in his own hot tub. In other words, he'd abused his body for decades and it seems to have just given out while he was in a 104 degree hot tub. But no, it's gotta be that COVID vaccine and not the mountains of drugs and gallons of alcohol he'd consumed over the years.

Birds of a feather, a/k/a I Love the Poorly Educated. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/us/capitol-riot-boyland-qanon.html For months before the rally, Ms. Boyland had bombarded her friends and relatives with messages and links to long videos about the fantastical theories she had come to accept as fact. Many of the false claims spilled from QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory movement that rose in popularity over the course of his presidency and promoted the idea that many Democrats and celebrities are part of a global pedophile ring — a theory that 15 percent of Americans believe, according to one poll this week. Many of its supporters falsely believed that President Biden had stolen the election, and some attended Mr. Trump’s rally on Jan. 6. Ms. Boyland’s sudden fixation so alarmed her family members and friends that some of them asked her to stop talking to them about politics — or just to stop talking altogether. Some of her closest friends believe that Ms. Boyland was a vulnerable target for the conspiracy theorists. After a stint in drug rehabilitation, she had returned to her parents’ home and largely avoided drugs for several years, her family said. But the isolation brought about by the pandemic was making it harder. QAnon filled a void in her life, they said, helping distract her from thoughts of returning to drugs even as it acted as a different kind of hallucinogen. “I was worried that she was trading one addiction for another,” said Blaire Boyland, her younger sister. “It just seemed like, yes, she’s not doing drugs, but she’s very obsessively online, watching all these YouTube videos and going down the rabbit hole.”

Liftgate - I've gotta admit that I find this hilarious. Politico analyzes Ron's boots like they're the Zapruder film.

Not so fast. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2021/10/28/is-the-halloween-supply-chain-a-sustainability-nightmare/?sh=56080dad5ce9 https://www.buzzworthy.com/halloween-environmental-horror-story/

Voice of Reason, that is.

You know who really killed her? Jack Posobiec, originator of the nutcase conspiracies that came to consume her and to make her a willing participant in a riot. Correct headline: Obese Georgia Rioter Dies in Crush of People Storming Capitol

But can he tackle? The Bills might be interested. Deport that mofo.

They elected him as their leader by a unanimous vote. They own it now. His Republican Study Conference policy papers are now the official policy positions of the Republican-led House. The Republican presidential candidate can either join in those positions or argue against them, but it's not a viable position to ignore them, and the Dems know that. Soon the voters will too.

Dementia? No. Stupidity? Ignorance? Definitely.

DeSantis knows better. He's a lawyer, and he worked on national security cases as a JAG. His explanation: he can ban pro-Palestinian advocacy student groups because they proved "material support" to Hamas, a terrorist group. He explained that they do this by their "words." That's moral support, not material support. He's getting nowhere - in fact, going in the wrong direction - by playing dumb in an attempt to out-outrageous King Donald. Maybe he'd do better if he tried to present himself as a smart conservative.

Agreed. Look, you miss 100% of the tackles you don't get to. The Bills have a defense built on speed/pursuit. And those guys are smaller, and may have a harder time bringing down a big RB, etc.

Small, and it's become smaller this year.

And what do we have here? Why, it's another "nonviolent trespasser" convicted of a felony: Jacob Travis Clark, 34, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and 12 months of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich. Clark was found guilty of one felony and five misdemeanors following a Jan. 30, 2023, bench trial before Judge Friedrich in the District of Columbia. And just like many others, he stupidly bragged about it in texts to his equally moronic friends and relatives: Clark's criminal conduct on January 6 was captured in his text messages, surveillance videos of him entering and remaining in the Capitol building, and other evidence of his threatening behavior towards officers while inside the building. According to court documents, Clark anticipated violence well before January 6. In one of his text messages, he stated that he anticipated January 6 to be a "revolt." According to Clark, "They are going into D.C. and bringing guns. Which isn't allowed in D.C. They aren't gonna let Biden win." Court documents say that Clark intended to go to Washington D.C. on January 6 and "be a part of history." On Jan. 5, 2021, Clark drove from his home in Colorado to Washington, D.C. The next day, Clark attended the rally at the Ellipse, during which he anticipated violence, as he texted his father, "It's a trump thing I'm here for the riots when they say he isn't the winner lol." After the rally, Clark walked to the West Front of the U.S. Capitol grounds and joined the mob, forcing their way through the barricades. On the grounds, he continued to text his friends, "We are gonna storm the capital." At 2:14 p.m., Clark was among the first to enter the U.S. Capitol building through the Senate Wing doors. Inside the Capitol, Clark went onto the second floor, onto the third floor, inside the Rotunda, and walked through multiple hallways. Clark continued to send texts stating, "yeah I'm in the capitol (sic) building" and "we stormed it and busted the door down." He claimed to be the first rioter to enter the Senate Chambers. Clark was then observed walking down the hallway from the Senate Wing Door toward the Crypt holding a 2x4 wooden plank. Moments later, a U.S. Capitol Police Officer (USCP) was hit with the wooden 2x4 plank, which forced the officer to retreat into the Crypt in visible pain. Clark later joined a crowd of rioters, pointed at police, and threatened them. The mob forced the police to retreat, and Clark proceeded deeper into the building. Congrats to the law enforcement investigators and attorneys for giving this insurrectionist his just deserts. And kudos too to all the volunteer social media civilian investigators who in many cases dig through photos and social media of these creeps and provide tips to those investigators. They thought they were somehow anonymous and immune from consequences. They. Were. Wrong.

I've seen reports that this part relates to a different, much older Robert Card. The Army part is confirmed. Prior mental health issues also confirmed.