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PPP was only a loan in a technical sense. It was never designed to be paid back. As long as an employer used the money to keep employing, it was forgiven. It was only structured as a loan to make legal recourse simpler if an employer failed to live up to their promise.

It is the right decision.

Why do they have to be 30% white male? 36% of Standford students are from CA. CA is not 36% of the US or the world. What rule or criteria of theirs are you referring to?

Is 12% the right number or wrong number? Too high, too low? If 12% is accurate that means 26% of male students in the class of 2026 were white. That does not include any international students who do not get bucketed as white in the official Stanford stats. As for athletes they make up about 12% of the students with about 5% of students on athletic scholarship.

My college roommate got wait listed at Princeton. After he read an article damning Brooke Shields' admission because it denied a deserving student, he insisted he was that deserving student. Where is his justice?

Au contraire, because Spencer Lee agrees to my terms and we have the wrestling match in the deep end of the pool. Check and mate. Pin and fall.

I said good day, sir.

What if I told you he had the seventh best career of the 3xers in the past decade? Then what?

They are, but they can be offset by loses. Sadly, no one ever loses.

yes

wanna bet?

I would rather not bait @VakAttack into an internet brawl.

Did we embrace correctness when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

And I predict Pyle and I will be Team Bryant soon enough. Stop fighting it.

doubtful. Someone already told me it is NBD.

What could possibly go wrong?

Confusingly perhaps, but not controversially.

For those interested in a longer view, here are the lists of three-for-three timers and three-for-four timers: Three Times A Charm Three Outta Four Aint Band

Let's play at some mental gymnastics this morning. Perhaps even a mental back flip. Where would you rank Gable Steveson's career among three-timers? I am going to assume that if he wrestles this year, and wherever that may be, he will replicate his 2022 season. That means 17-0, another title, and another Hodge. Tangent 1 And another boots on the mat? God, I hope not. I hope he has a sense of humor and figures out a way to lampoon his premature (in this scenario) "look at me" move. Let's start by updating my table derived from wrestlestat.com data: Steveson suffers from low usage. With only 97 projected wins he is on the low end of the group. But I am not sure how much that matters in the current age of wrestling less. But with only 2 losses (and unlikely to see a third) he is the leader in the clubhouse here. Tangent 2 Does Anthony Cassar pop a bottle of champagne in a reverse 1972 Miami Dolphins celebration move every time Steveson wins another title? "That's right. I beat that guy. Twice. And no one gets a third shot at the title." Even though Steveson is not a pinfaller, he has a very respectable bonus rate driven by a lot of majors. But the guys he is pinning and majoring are not the highest ranked. However, he does tech fall some very tough dudes. Tangent 3 Does it help Steveson's case for dominance that he never has any problem with Mason Parris and the one year he left Parris goes undefeated and wins he Hodge? Based on numbers alone Steveson would rank somewhere around fourth best of the wrestlestat era (plus Dieringer's freshman year) behind the three headed Lion monster of Nolf, Nickal, and Retherford: Every Heard of the Hodge Trophy? But in my world Steveson has three Hodges and those three only share three among them. That has to count for something. And probably a lot. But is it enough to say he is the best three timer of the wrestlestat era? All That Glitters is Gold Before you answer that question let me tell you a story about 13 seconds in Tokyo. Can you still hear John Smith saying "fake, snap, fake, snap, fake, snap"? So...........? So we have a three timer who is also a three time (two and a half?) Hodge winner, one time Olympic Gold Medalist who was quiet dominant in folk. I have to put him at the top. But wait, what did Mars Blackmon say? Oh, yeah, "It's the shoes." That top ranking is now contingent. I going to require an act of contrition for the shoes on the mat thing if he wants to keep that ranking.

It might take that. Bloomberg had a story today about the Wagner Groups business interests in Africa. Gold mines, breweries, and much more. They provide forces to back whatever local despot in exchange for a free reign to crush competitors (i.e. fire bomb a competing brewery). All of it endorsed by the Russian government as they try to increase their influence and control in sub-Saharan Africa.

Flexibility is weakness. Rigid-ize all rules.

I just broke the world record for eating pistacchios on my porch while watching TV.

What is your criteria for this opinion?

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/9-year-old-signs-six-figure-nil-deal-with-sports-agency/ Which nine year old wrestler is in line to cash in on NIL NOW? How about eight years old? Will anyone pay for the naming rights to a wrestler's child, before the child is born? Conceived?

But who pays those troops? They are mercenaries. They are in it for the pay. With Prigozhin in exile he certainly isn't collecting from the Russian government. So were does the money come from to keep those troops "loyal"? And it cannot help that Russia is offering those who did not participate, contracts to join the Russian army. This is one of the things that was said to have set off Prigozhin in the first place. It threatens his control/power.