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I don't think many Americans are discussing Iran as a potential travel destination. It's being discussed because of its nuclear weapons program. The location of an adverse country with nuclear weapons might be relevant to our foreign policy decision. Adverse nuclear weapons next door is a more significant threat than on the other side of the world.

A lot of Americans don't like the president. I am sure they wouldn't like another country dropping bombs here. Also you can't take the US bombing run in isolation. Iran was in an active conflict with another country at the time that was bombing much more than a few bunkers. The US attack makes it more difficult for Iran to defend itself in its conflict with Israel. The US only bombed everything Israel was incapable of bombing at Israel's request. Polling shows the US attack is unpopular with a majority of Americans. Hard to imagine it would be more popular in Iran.

The wikipedia page for the bomb has a picture of one being deployed by a B52 in a test. I think they are so big that only the B2 and the B52 will work and the actual bombs that were delivered for use were made to be used with the B2.

If done on that timeline via an air strike it will be with American munitions dropped from American planes flown by American pilots. Any ridiculous paper trail to try and obfuscate that through selling/leasing/rebuying serves on purpose.

I don't think the US has ever sold a B2 to another nation. There were only like 20 of them ever built. I don't think selling Israel 10% of these is a solid idea or having them sort out the pilot situation by hiring retired pilots who maybe haven't flown it in years. It would all be pointless. All these machinations wouldn't involve us any less in the eyes of Iran or anyone else. We'd just be putting two B2s (that we are definitely going to want back) at greater risk by selling them to Israel and having retired pilots operate them to create a paper trail no one is going to care about.

ESPN is reporting this is his second speeding ticket in the past month. Also has a 91 in a 65. He missed a court date for that one on Monday. Does missing the court date suspend his license at least until paid? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45545248/browns-shedeur-sanders-cited-twice-month-speeding

Are you being sarcastic? My understanding is that Hastert's crimes happened in the late 70s/early 80s and by the time they had come to light the statute of limitations had long passed. The only thing he was convicted of was structuring for how he was making the withdrawals to pay the hush money to his victims. He was sentenced to 15 months, which was above the sentencing guidelines for structuring. He was released after 13 months and is free now. He had also been retired for years from Congress so the only political hit he took was that he could no longer work as a lobbyist. Still collects his congressional pension. In this case Strauss died years before the scandal became public. So he couldn't even be held to account at all.

It's possible. High School, middle school, elementary school, pre-school...

There was an in depth feature on the Jordan and the scandal in the Washington Post a couple years ago when Jordan was attempting to become speaker of the house. Below is the link to it. One can circumvent the paywall by changing to reader view in their browser. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/jim-jordan/ This was the satement from Jordan's office when the scadal came to light in 2018 “Congressman Jordan never saw any abuse, never heard about any abuse, and never had any abuse reported to him during his time as a coach at Ohio State.”

Vent=ventllator. It's a device that moves air into the lungs. Used when the lungs are unable to take in enough air on their own. ECMO=extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. It's an external device. Blood is pumped from the paitient into the ECMO machine which ooxygenates its and then pumps it back into the patient. It's like a set of external artificial lungs/heart. Could also be used if the heart is too weak to move the blood on its own.

I think that is a different species of strep, Streptococcus pyogenes. Prevnar is one of the commercial available pneumococcal vaccines. These vaccines first became available about 25 years ago and are only reccomended for young children, old people, and those at high risk. Given Askren's age when it was released and current age it's unlikely he would have received it. After this he would almost certainly be in the high risk category especially if he has a lung replacement.

That is not his district anymore. It changed for the 2022 election. Now it has a more reasonable shape. Setting that aside I doubt it was ever gerrymandered to keep him in power. Gerrymandering done most effectively will typically try and put likely voters for the opposing party in a few "safe" districts and divide the rest of the state such that they are close, but with an edge for the party drawing the lines. It wouldn't make sense for Republicans to draw the lines to give Jordan a better chance of winning. Jordan has won every election by at least ~20% points over his Dem rival. It would make more sense for Republicans to draw his district in a convoluted way to include more likely Democratic voters so he only wins by 5-10% and the Republicans can make one of the 5 seats held by Democrats more competitive. The last election (2020) under the old districts Republicans had a 12-4 majority. Currently they only have a 10-5 majority. So it is ostensibly less gerrymandered in favour of republicans and Jordan is still winning by 35-40 points. Republicans would have been the ones drawing the lines in both 2011 and 2021.

If his pneumonia was caused by staph then there isn't a commercially avaialble vaccine for that particular bacteria. One of the most common causes of necrotizing pneumonia according to your wikipedia link is Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. There have been commercially available vaccines for that bacteria for over 20 years. So my point is that without knowing the cause(s) of Askren's pneumonia there is no way to know if a vaccine exists that might have prevented it. It all seemed pretty speculative one way or the other to me.

I thought maybe you only did the 6 that were top 3. Welsh was 6 on Flo's big board. Looks like Willie got it right here.

I think that back in 2022 when he was still at Minnesota. Kasak has a cadet/U17 world silver from before PSU too. I was listing accomplishments from this freestyle season.

Welsh was #6 in his class and though not on the national team was in the list you quoted. I think it's a surprise to have 6 athletes with college eligibility left on the senior national team much less all on the same team with multiple years left. In 2023 the top three in men's freestyle were as follows. Eight with eligibility left and no more than 2 on the same team. This is also a little skewed due to COVID Brooks, Camacho, Sasso, and Steveson were all class of 2018 and Arujau and Fix were class of 2017. Only O'Toole and Trumble were within 5 years of graduating high school. All 6 of PSU's senior national team members are. 57kg 1. Zane Richards 2. Thomas Gilman 3. Nick Suriano/Jacob Camacho 61kg 1. Vito Arujau 2. Nashon Garrett 3. Daton Fix 65kg 1. Nick Lee 2. Yianni Diakomihalis 3. Joseph McKenna 70kg 1. Zain Retherford 2. Tyler Berger 3. Sammy Sasso 74kg 1. Kyle Dake 2. Jason Nolf 3. Keegan O'Toole 79kg 1. Chance Marsteller 2. Jordan Burroughs 3. Alex Dieringer 86kg 1. David Taylor 2. Aaron Brooks 3. Zahid Valencia/Mark Hall 92kg 1. Zahid Valencia 2. Michael Machiavello 3. Kollin Moore 97kg 1. Kyle Snyder 2. J'Den Cox 3. Isaac Trumble 125kg 1. Gable Steveson 2. Mason Parris 3. Nick Gwiazdowski

I meant 4th on the ladder. 3rd at the open is 4th on the ladder since Arujau was sitting at Final X. Open runner-up Seth Gross had beaten Blaze earlier in the tournament so there was no need for a true second/third at that weight. Unlike 57kg where the open runner up and 3rd place finisher did not meet in the tournament. So, Cronin and Provo wrestled for true third at 57kg at final x. 61KG ladder is 1 - TBD Forrest/Arujau 2- TBD Forrest/Arujau 3 - Seth Gross 4 - Marcus Blaze

PSU will have 2 senior world team members and 6 Senior national team members on their NCAA roster. When was the last time a team had as many? Additionally they have 4 other wresters on age group world teams: Blaze (61kg U20), Duke (70kg U20), Henckel (79kg U20), Connor Mirasola (92kg U20), Cole Mirasola (125kg, U20), Welsh (86kg U23) and Welsh is also on the senior ladder somewhere having finished 5th at senior nationals 86kg. They will also have 2024 61kg world champ Masanosuke Ono and Joe Sealy who was 3rd at the U20 trials in the room. A crazy accomplished team in freestyle. 57kg Lilledahl 2nd 61kg none (Blaze 4th) 65kg Marcus Blaze 3rd 70kg PJ Duke 1st 74kg Mesenbrink 2nd 79kg Haines 1st 86kg None (Welsh 5th at senior nationals) 92kg Barr 2nd 97kg None 125kg None

I really don't know about the dual. OSU and Fresno wrestled a dual on 1/31/1998 in Stillwater. OSU won 39-4. I couldn't find individual results for that match, but based on the team score it's theoretically possible either wrestler won though I reckon it's less likely Abas beat Moore by bonus to get 4 than Moore winning a regular decision. The All-Star match was on 2/2/1998 in Buffalo, NY. Perhaps neither wrestled in the dual electing to postpone the match two days?

It would be classless for someone to dunk on or say I told you so to a person in Askren's condition. I don't know what caused Askren's pneumonia. I don't what vaccines he may have taken. And I don't know what he has said one way or the other on the topic of vaccines. Regardless I hope he makes a full recovery. Pneumonia can be caused by ether a virus or bacteria. There are vaccines available for some of the viruses that cause it. There is also a vaccine available for the pneumococcus bacteria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumococcal_vaccine

Did Abas lose to Moore in the Dual in January 1998? If so I think Abas lost 4 matches his redshirt freshman year. He also lost to Moore in the All Star Classic on 2/2/1998. I thought the all-star classic counted as an official match back then, but maybe not. 1998 All Star Classic 118 Teague Moore - Oklahoma State Defeated Stephen Abas - Fresno State 9-8 Abas had defeated Moore at CKLV in 1997, the 1999 All star classic, and the NCAA semis in 1999. They definitely didn't wrestle in the dual in the 1998-99 season - Abas went up and wrestled Guerrero. I don't know if they wrested at CKLV in 1998, but if they did Abas won. He was the first to win 4 CKLV titles. Logan Stieber was the second though it took him 5 attempts. That should cover all their folkstyle meetings in college. 1999 All Star Classic 125 Stephen Abas - Fresno State Defeated Teague Moore - Oklahoma State 5-4

Has it been definitively confirmed that Askren developed the pneumonia from staph or is that still a rumor? Though potentially not relevant to Askren's condition, pneumonia can be caused by viruses such as influenza and coronavirus. There are vaccines available for both of those viruses.

The reason for mentioning not wrestling Glory and the relatively weak competition Lee faced in 2020 and 2021 was two fold. It refutes the FRL presumption that Lee had a tougher schedule than Abas. It also brings into question how healthy and unaffected Lee was with a torn ACL. Looking dominant against lesser competition doesn't mean he wasn't limited by the injury. Lee wrestled his senior year in high school with a torn ACL. He was dominant and a prohibitive favorite when he lost to DeSanto in the state final.

You keep inventing things that I am not arguing to argue against. I never said Lee wasn't or shouldn't have been a big favorite to win in 2020. Lee has been the favorite in every match he has ever lost before 2024. I never said that Lee was afraid of Glory. I said you mischaracterized that Spencer Lee wrestled the whole season, was healthy, and was in peak shape. He was on a pitch count, had a torn acl, and though he looked great he didn't wrestle the top contenders in either folkstyle or freestyle.