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Indiana does that to every team they play. if they're going to be beat, it's in a game like this. Sayin under pressure and rattled until he left the game. We made the plays that were needed to win the game, that's what champions do.

another note, how bad is Tavien St Clair that this really short guy passed him on the depth chart to be the backup qb?

The conversation getting side tracked into a nonsense discussion about Canada being the 51st state - which will never happen - deflects from the point that Trump is a blowhard tantrum and instigates these knee-jerk petulant tariffs which hurt the economy.

Along with a war in Iran that has no end in sight because there were never clear objectives and Trump is too big a baby to not move on, which hurts the economy.

Along with pandering to Putin and siding with Putin against Ukraine while trying to blame Ukraine for the poor economy... while simultaneously trying to tell people the economy isn't too bad and claiming the country has very little inflation as it climbed to 3.7%

You seem to forget that President Trump had split terms. Lot's happened between the two terms.

I also wonder why if he is ticked that Canada doesn't want to be the 51st state, why with the partial tariff and not on everything?

Seriously, I can't believe I am even having this discussion with you.

During the offseason the Big Ten Commish proposed the 24-team playoff plan and the SEC wanted to expand to only 16 and keep the conference championship game. I think as this season has gone on the SEC Commish Greg Sankey has seen then depth of the SEC and he easily could foresee that most of the teams in his conference are going to have 2 to 3 losses I think he has softened on the stance to keep the conference championship game to get more of his teams in the 24-team playoffs vs keeping the CG and having teams miss the 16 team playoffs. Now that the Big Ten and SEC Commish's are aligned it will get approved quickly.

I don't know if it is cooking the books. No doubt public schools have to take a lot of non-motivated students. On the other hand you have parents shelling out up towards $40,000 a year for a private HS education who are going to take a keen interest in seeing the Jr. isn't screwing around and making the grade.

Note, that $40000 figure is the top end schools. I say on average parents pay around $10,000 a year.

As for taxation, I'd include food. Most folks who need assistance get their snap. I don't care what is and isn't taxed. I don't care if it isn't an across the board tax, meaning you want zero or a small percentage on food and a higher levy on gas, or whatver.. It just needs to be high enough to cover costs and a tax everybody pays.

Donations people can give and candidates receive should have a cap. Thats a nice simple common sense start.

I believe that Trump is softening us up to sell us out or give us to Putin. We are weaker after he has sucked up to Putin and strip-mined usa.

not good news for Hurts. Hoping he is back soon

Is that the only way you think your Gators will ever make the playoffs again? Stop saying stupid stuff.


I don't care about the teams that don't make it. The fans of teams on the bubble are the same people that care now. Like I said, that will change nothing. I'm sure you think teams with three losses actually have a shot to win. Or maybe a two loss Lower Tennessee Valley State team? lol


My problem isn't with money. My problem is with greed. Pay attention. After all these many years I would have thought you may have figured that part out already.

Three-game series now to play for the marbles. Go, Guards!

For me it became painfully obvious when trump took the word of Putin over our intelligence community.


Where people missed the boat is that was during his first term. People were warned everywhere, including on this very board, that trump restrained himself because he knew he would need to be re-elected. That he couldn't do the things he wanted to do because he knew he could never be re-elected if he did. They were told that if he had a second term he would surround himself with yes men and run rough shod over any and every existing norms.

And here we are.

He's obviously a RINO ... I mean no true American would question our dear leader ...

In reality this isn't hard:

“This week, in lunatic public statements … the president again blamed Ukraine for the war and gratuitously insulted Zelensky,” McCarthy said.

Finally, McCarthy zeroed in on the restriction to the Starshield satellite system — which, according to a Reuters report, came from the White House.

“If we … allow common sense to enter the equation, too many dark signs point in the direction of an American administration — at the very moment it was seeking Ukraine’s capitulation and threatening to leave it defenseless by denying intelligence — taking conscious action that left Ukraine exposed to an intense attack, which Russia just happens to have conducted right at the perfect time,” McCarthy wrote. “This is dark. It demands answers. Now.”

Sort of reminds me of all those HUGE and unusual oil futures bets that were placed minutes or hours before Trump opened his pie hole and lied again about Iran ...

• March 23, 2026: Roughly $500 million was traded (approx. 15 minutes before an announcement delaying strikes on Iran's power grid).
• April 7, 2026: Roughly $950 million was traded (hours before a U.S.–Iran ceasefire announcement).
• April 17, 2026: Roughly $760 million was traded (about 20 minutes before an announcement regarding the Strait of Hormuz).
• April 21/22, 2026: Roughly $430 million in Brent selling (4,260 lots) was placed 15 minutes before an indefinite Iran ceasefire extension.

I would have no problem funding schools through sales taxes. Just not sales taxes on food. Too many people have a hard time feeding their families as it is. You know, like a lot of those public school families.

But what make it hard for public schools to "offer the same level of education" as people put it, is that public schools have to accept everyone. They can't pick and choose which students they accept and which ones they turn away the way private schools can. So of course when you choose better students you get better results. That's sort of like cooking the books.

I suppose if you drive over a cliff it will make for a soft landing. Now if it can only launch. I had no idea someone could impress you by dropping a car out of the air. Hmmmmm.....

But hey, it's "a car straight from the future".

Yes, sorry, I meant back up cameras.

Andy McCarthy Shreds Trump for Giving ‘Aid and Comfort’ to Putin in Scorching Column — Demands Congress Investigate Immediately
Joe DePaolo
Oct 18th, 2026, 8:53 am
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LEFT: Andy McCarthy RIGHT: Donald Trump

Andy McCarthy — prominent conservative legal commentator and former federal prosecutor — ripped President Donald Trump for giving “aid and comfort” to Vladimir Putin.

In a scathing column for National Review, McCarthy — a former Fox News contributor — took Congress to task for not applying sufficient scrutiny on Trump’s “alliance” with Putin.

“Putin’s war of aggression and hoped-for conquest against Ukraine, like his war of aggression and conquest in Georgia (swaths of which he has occupied for nearly two decades), is part of his quest to reconstitute America’s Soviet enemy,” McCarthy wrote. “And President Donald Trump is giving him aid and comfort.”

McCarthy added, “In a properly functioning republic, there would be immediate hearings about this week’s shocking escalation of the Trump–Putin alliance. Since the start of Trump’s second term, it has been excruciating to watch America’s president blame the victim, our ally Ukraine, for Putin’s war of aggression.”

The column comes on the heels of Trump striking a deal to buy Russian diesel and — late on Friday night — signing an executive order exempting Russia from sanctions he himself signed into law last month. The president has regularly blasted Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky — calling him “not a good guy for us to deal with” in an interview on Thursday.

McCarthy was unsparing in his criticism of Trump’s recent rhetoric.

“This week, in lunatic public statements … the president again blamed Ukraine for the war and gratuitously insulted Zelensky,” McCarthy said.

Finally, McCarthy zeroed in on the restriction to the Starshield satellite system — which, according to a Reuters report, came from the White House.

“If we … allow common sense to enter the equation, too many dark signs point in the direction of an American administration — at the very moment it was seeking Ukraine’s capitulation and threatening to leave it defenseless by denying intelligence — taking conscious action that left Ukraine exposed to an intense attack, which Russia just happens to have conducted right at the perfect time,” McCarthy wrote. “This is dark. It demands answers. Now.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news...emands-congress-investigate-immediately/

And last night Ukraine sent about 1000 drones to St. Petersburg and blew up a refinery, data center, a power station and a bridge.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/st-petersburg-fire-zelensky-defies-37783952

I didn't mean people were not paying attention anymore, just that his performances have to start affecting the impressions they had before the season started.

Oh absolutely ; they only lost by a couple of inchs .. I thought they where the better team on the field yesterday ..

On the topic of corruption itself, I’ll reiterate what I’ve said other places in this forum. I agree it’s the top priority. You can’t fix anything until you fix corruption. You can’t fix corruption until you cut off the deluge of special interest and dark money in politics, and start enforcing the laws surrounding it. As in, people start going to jail.

So, basically, you need to cut off the source on the front end, and have accountability on the back end.

As it is right now, we are failing massively on both of those fronts.

What's funny is that I don't think Trump thinks we've figured out he's corrupt?

It's always been that way with this guy...

Yes, the question is how can you possibly ignore his rants about the 51st state in the run up to these broken trade talks. Canada has been one of our staunches allies until this idiot decided to try and talk of Annexing it.

Please try and remember, he put the deal in place that he thinks is a bad deal now. If there is a problem with it, he did it.

Some credit needs to be given to the Hoosiers. Good defensive play has a way of making a good O look a little less than good.

I'd bet a lot of people who count are still paying attention.