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According to https://pistolsfiringblog.com/guide-ncaa-wrestling-tournament-scoring/ Placement Points 1st place: 16 points 2nd place: 12 points 3rd place: 10 points 4th place: 9 points 5th place: 7 points 6th place: 6 points 7th place: 4 points 8th place: 3 points Advancement Points Each advancement in championship bracket: 1 point Each advancement in consolation bracket: 0.5 point Bonus Points Each fall, forfeit, default, disqualification: 2 points Each tech fall (w/ near fall points): 1.5 points Each tech fall (w/o near fall points): 1 point Each major decision: 1 point Does it not seem reasonable that the bonus points should be halved for the consi bracket like the advancement points? mspart

Like I said before, my heart says JB, my head says Dake. I hope JB at least gets the opportunity to get to Dake. mspart

My opinion means nothing here. But I think Taylor wins in 2. To whoever comes knocking. mspart

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/florida-governor-ron-desantis-signs-212011291.html Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Legislation to 'End the Squatters Scam & Protect Homeowners' In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that he signed legislation “to end the squatters scam & protect homeowners.” "We are putting an end to the squatters scam in Florida," DeSantis said in a release on his website. "While other states are siding with the squatters, we are protecting property owners and punishing criminals looking to game the system." Under HB 621, “a property owner can request law enforcement to immediately remove a squatter from their property” if certain conditions are met, and it “also creates harsh penalties for those engaged in squatting and for those who encourage squatting and teach others the scam.” It is about time that a state has taken this path. For too long it has been legally acceptable for squatters to take over a house. And the property owner, who pays the property taxes, has no rights to get rid of them. That is just plain wrong. Hopefully other states around the country will jump on board. This is a long time coming and is a good thing for the property rights of property owners. mspart

Tell that to China!! mspart

Well put. mspart

Guzintas need to match guzoutas. Or be more. If not the case, it has a finite life. mspart

Yikes!! Now that electricity will be so much more expensive. I guess someone forgot about hail in their calculations. Kind of like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Perhaps they will make those so they won't shatter with baseball size hail, because although uncommon, it is not unheard of. But then they'll be too heavy. So many tradeoffs. mspart

Since there's a thread about personal accountability, we should be consistent and treat people in other countries like we treat our own people. We should enable/lift Palestinians and Gazans in particular up by allowing them to be accountable and come up w their own funding and weapons for their genocide. See what I did there? mspart

Even with lower rates, more money came in. So that part is not a lie. The fact that spending continued to increase is another topic and piece of the pie. Your solution is to get more money. This will work but only if spending is throttled. But you only address one side of the issue. There are the income and the expense. Both are supposed to equal each other. By saying we need more money, that means we will spend more. But we are so far in debt that something needs to stop. Spending is the easiest thing to stop so we should do that first. But we won't. Too many people want too much stuff. So the spending stays and increases. So we need more money. But more money will not help if spending does not stop increasing. It takes both to make the recipe work. But neither D nor R have the will to do either, at least for very long. mspart

How about the Gazans become self accountable and fully fund their own economy and everything else and stop killing Israelis for fun and giggles? mspart

I remember when Carter introduced what he called a Lean and Austere budget at $500 Billion. People thought he was out of his mind. mspart

I will add this. Without a sense that there is a God and that we are accountable to him, these questions cannot be truly answered. When we lose our mooring from what is eternal truth, then there is all sorts of rationalizations that occur that take us away from base truths. Personal Accountability starts with how that applies to our relationship with God. If there is a God, then it seems pretty clear what our personal accountability is. You do what is right and there is no question of what is right and what is wrong. If there is no God or we choose not to believe in God, then it seems pretty clear that there is no personal accountability in the same sense. It is whatever you think is right or wrong and how you keep yourself accountable to that. But with no serious spiritual mooring, this can be anything an individual wants it to be. And therein is the rationalization of human behavior. That's my opinion. mspart

Yes good stuff. Thank you. mspart

Gable used to be able to get more out of his guys than they thought they had. He had a psychological way of looking at his guys and getting them to go where he needed them to go. The Brands are good coaches no doubt, but they are no Gable. Dan brought something intangible to the job and dominated for decades. Cael has done that same thing I think and has dominated. Cael, and maybe his brother and Casey have that intangible quality to get inside their wrestler's heads and get them to where they need to be. For the most part Gables guys overperformed. Caels guys do that now. Brands guys do not. I have said many times I was excited when Zalesky took over OSU years ago. He did nothing with them and finally got canned. Brands is pretty much in that same situation and I think AgaveMaria has a good line on this. Tom and Terry need to figure out how to get to the next level rather than doing the same old thing and getting the same old results. Having one guy in the finals is not doing it. I'm not an Iowa fan but was with Gable. I'd like to see them succeed. I would like to see someone challenge PSU. mspart

Again, as I said, you see these things politically. You just proved it. mspart

Last I heard 2 people were recovered and 6 were unaccounted for. Is that still the case? mspart

Let's say the new news is that he guarantees he is the 65kg Olympian this year. Now that should start a conversation!! mspart

Poor Letitia - she's reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy disappointed. The idiots on MSNBC are beside themselves. I have said all along that the Judge Engoran had it in for Trump from the beginning and that was apparent in his ruling and the appeals court blew the whistle on that foul. They did not absolve him of the bond, but reduced it by a lot, thus not agreeing with Engoran's judgement. There is no question this is the case. I have heard that the appeals court cited due process grounds for their ruling but I cannot find that. I cannot find any article that discusses the decision in detail anywhere but on NYT which I do not pay for. Now the appeal can proceed and I believe that it will succeed as this was a travesty in the first place. mspart

Johnson party affiliation doesn't matter. Clinton - D Trump - R Majorkas - D Yes very predictable. I just wondered where you draw the line. It is apparently at the political divide of R and D. You could tell me I'm wrong but I'm guessing you don't think Fani should be booted from the prosecution in GA and you think Letitia James' conduct laughing at Trump via social media after the Engoran decision is totally acceptable. On the other hand, investigation into Hunter is wrong and is a farce. And any of the things found that point to Joe are equally farcical. I would expect as a lawyer you would find their conduct disgraceful and unprofessional. I really hope that's the way you feel but because it involves Trump, I have my reservations. I would love to be proved wrong. The charges on Hunter are real and he admits to most all of them in his book. All has been quiet after Bobulinski testified last week (without HB who wanted his public hearing but did not show up) because why? He said things that are not helpful to the Biden cause. So no real mainstream media coverage of that. What he said was blistering and he had the receipts to prove what he said. But still I'm sure you think it is a farce because of who Hunter is, and not what he has, of his own accord, admittedly done. mspart

That's what I figured. Completely partisan and predictable. I threw in Johnson as a joke figuring you weren't there at the time. I assume that was a good guess. Turns out all were farces because none got convicted. mspart

To the first bolded statement - Mueller found no evidence of collusion. Period, end of story. To the second - Maybe they didn't but JFK did. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/1960-electoral-college-certificates-false-trump-electors-00006186 mspart

That their impeachments were farces? mspart

Methinks that needs Congressional approval. So it may not happen that way. Or, the feds could pay for it as a loan for Baltimore/Maryland to pay back over time. This would be more palatable to me. Use the interest payments to bring down the debt to start that conversation. mspart

Were you like minded with the impeachments of Trump Vak? Of Clinton? Of Johnson? mspart