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No consensus. But his mom is very unhappy with a couple of posters, so who knows.

Not really sure what the thought process is, but it would not surprise me if he is trying to put on weight but it is going slowly. On HR they also speculate that 265 is the right football weight if he wants to be a hand-on-the-ground, rush-that-passer, get-the-man-paid type linebacker. If he can do that and maintain explosiveness it seems like that would be a problem for other heavyweights to handle too.

I would ask a follow up question, but your response makes it painfully obvious that you do not know what you are talking about either.

Can we talk about another EO that has my attention? All Presidents over reach and play to their base (Biden's 162 EOs, and pre-pardoning, Trump's 26ish so far with the promise of many more to go along with the 220 he issued last time around). I get that. I do not agree with it more often that not in both directions, but I get it. But there is one EO in particular I am interested in. I am interested because of it's precedence and boldness. With "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship" Trump is attempting to over ride the Constitution. That has to be the single most dictatorial move ever attempted by a President. And in his attempt to justify, there are a few notable lies. "But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States." That is just plain false. 'The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”' This one is more insidious. It ignores the fact that the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was in reference to Native Americans whose land we had not yet taken, but would, and who were not subject to the jurisdiction thereof. There were no plans to grant Native Americans citizenship. That only changed with the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. Every person now born in the US, hell every person who is in the US, legally or illegally, is subject to the jurisdiction thereof. To claim otherwise is dumb. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/

238 per HR

I love me some Mahomes, but I think I am pulling for Buffalo in this one. Washington, too. But you buried the lede. Somehow the Bears were able to see what no one else could see. They have identified Ben Johnson as the worst coaching hire of the decade. I know this to be true because the Bears hired him. How could everyone else think Johnson was the "IT" hire this season? Time for some talent evaluation departments to get evaluated.

I do not know what this means in the above context.

I looked at them too. Their total is 48 (1, 4, 1, 12, 6, 1, 1, 12, 5, 5). The 2020 Iowa team had a lower total, 45 (1, 6, 7, 1, 8, 1, 2, 11, 5, 3)

I am not at all surprised that you do not understand the difference.

TBD

Unlike Trump and many of his followers, I do not deny reality. I know he is my President. All forms of the "you can't read" attempt at gotchas are lost on me. I have heard more compelling arguments on playgrounds. As for guidelines and mandates, you will take note that is not what I commented on. Attempts to change the subject are also not interesting to me.

Whoa, whoa, pump the brakes on created the virus. I have listened to you and others go on and on about how Trump has not been convicted of _________. Even when he was convicted. And now you want to go with created the virus just because one Rutgers professors' reading of a document that is not supported by anyone else who read the document. Get the hell outta here.

Potato, tomatoe

Wrestlestat has some unique views on a couple of teams. Iowa - they have Teemer out for the year. Meanwhile he is listed on the team sheet for Friday. Oklahoma State - they penalized Spratley much more than the other two for his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. Ohio State - they remain very optimistic about Nic Bouzakis', Sammy Sasso's, and Nick Feldman's prospects. Cornell - they still have Greg Daikomihalis at #5 in spite of reports that he is out for the year (Intermat has him #17, Flo removed him).

If you own tax-exempt municipal bonds you should be aware of a current situation that threatens their tax-exempt status. As the Trump administration contemplates extending the 2017 tax cuts they are required to find ways to offset the resulting decrease in revenue. The "tax pay-fors" are a mix of policy repeals and tax cut repeals. The House Committee on Ways and Means released a broad list (found here) of potential pay-for options. This is a comprehensive list that will be paired back over time. It currently contains over 200 options, but not all will happen. Of note among the options is to repeal the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds, Build America Bonds (BABs), Private Activity Bonds (PABs), and "other non-municipal bonds". If the interest is no longer tax-exempt the market will re-price these bonds significantly. Any holder of these bonds will face immediate unrealized losses. That is the short-term effect. The long-term effect is that everyone will face higher local taxes. If your school district, park district, or local government needs to borrow money they will have to pay higher interest rates. And those increased borrowing cost will be passed on to you. Or projects will not get funded and you will wonder why your roads, bridges, schools, etc. are in such bad shape. The impact/importance of muni bonds is detailed here. But, it is not too late to do something about it. If you want to send a letter to your Member of Congress, the Bond Dealer of America has provided a template that can be found here. And contact info for your Member of Congress can be found here.

Ohio State's success on Monday will pique the interest of a few deep pocketed alums, I think.

@Jon_Kozak stops in on occassion

You get dumber every day and right now you are acting like it is the middle of next week

Suddenly I am interested

On the flip side, I once did a swim meet by mail. It was awful.

You are just repeating the word team over and over again and saying it has meaning in one context but not the other for unclear reasons. For example, you imply in a dual the wins and losses are not determined at the individual level. But they are. The score in a dual is just the sum of the individual results translated into a scoring system, just like basketball. And unlike in basketball, none of your teammates are assisting you in any way while you compete alone. In wrestling you can have a dual meet in 10 separate locations and just add up the results. You cannot do that in a true team sport. I am not against anything. But claiming a dual championship is somehow superior to a tournament ignores that team is artificial in wrestling. And as an aside, how does Aaron Brooks come in 18th at last year's NCAA? That one really confuses me.

Right now PSU has ten top 7 wrestlers in both Intermat and Flo. If their ranks wound up being their seeds I have to believe this is the highest seeded team ever (sum of seeds = 33 on Intermat and 32 on Flo). I started looking at seeding for the era after we locked into 10 weights and 12 seeds (1970 - present) to see if this year's PSU team has a shot at being the highest seeded team ever. To qualify a team has to have sent all 10 wrestlers. Last year's PSU squad had a seed total of 40 (1, 10, 2, 7, 1, 2, 9, 6, 1, 1). I took a look at some of the old greats and the closest I found was 1985 Iowa. But there is a complication. One of their ten was unseeded. Seeds went to 12 that year. The other nine had a total of 25 (8, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 5, 1). So if you assume 13 or 14 for the unseeded wrestler then 1985 Iowa beats out 2024 PSU. Assume 15 and it is a tie. Anything higher goes to PSU. So probably PSU. Can anyone think of a team seeded better overall than either of those two teams? I didn't feel like going through all the brackets, so I thought I would crowd source.

Shinto and Buddhists too, but I was just going for the cheap laugh

I think the odds are pretty good.

Let me make the counter point, because I do not think this is correct. Team is an artificial construct in wrestling. When you are on the mat, your teammates cannot help you. In true team sports they can. So to get a sense of the "team" strength in individual sports there needs to be some accounting of how strong the individuals are. Dual scoring compresses the differences in quality too much. In a dual setting a lot of the true separation in teams is lost. Carter Starocci may only win by decision every time out (well, not so far this year, but still) and he only ever gets credit for a decision. But in a tournament, where no one can beat him, he gets credit for the true extent of his dominance over the whole field even if he never wins in dominating fashion (score-wise). If we are talking basketball or football a team of average athletes may certainly be better than one with a single superstar, but I do not think that is the case in a team of individuals.