HOW THE WEEK WENT
Well, it’s been two weeks while NewWife and I snuck off to an old favorite hidey place for a week, so this might get messy.
Duke ain’t 21st
“Suppose Duke loses to Notre Dame: they should, so it would prove nothing.” Well, that’s where we are, and their whooptydo QB has a high ankle sprain (those take forever to heal), and yet they’re UP to 17th. Fuck me.
Florida State sure as shit ain’t 4th,
but they spanked Virginia (no guns on campus!) Tech.
Oklahoma ain’t 18th ,
but they pasted Iowa State before winning the Dallas Bowl: probably be a big miss for me.
Oregon State ain’t 16,
but they beat over-rated Utah and outlasted Cal; we wait.
Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th,
and they only edged Arizona. Oregon should tell us something.
North Carolina ain’t 17th,
but they smashed ‘Cuse and keep moving up.
Utah ain’t 12th,
and got punked by Oregon State and fell to 16th, so maybe I got this one right.
Washington State ain’t 23d,
and they lost to UCLA, but somehow they are still at 19th.
UCLA ain’t 24th,
but they got past the Cougs, so maybe they are 24th? Possible Miss Alert.
NEWLY OVER-RATED
Michigan ain’t 2d, but Nebraska and Minnesota sure as hell think they are, and maybe I should have left this one be.
Texas ain’t 3d: Kansas had nothing for them, but Zero U did, so now they’re 9th; that didn’t last long.
Miami ain’t 20th, lost to the Atlanta Buzzkill, and are now 25th.
Louisville ain’t 14th, and no school should jump 11 slots this late in the season.
RECENT NEWS IN STUPID
There are not nine twelve eleven ten teams better than Alabama: watch this spot.
Ole Miss shouldn’t have dropped five spots for losing to Bama, but they’re back up to 13th after getting by LSU and Arkansas.
Florida shouldn’t be ranked at all, and now, thanks to Kentucky, they aren’t, but, even so,
Kentucky shouldn’t be ranked at all.
Neither should Missouri. LSU came to town and that tune is over.
Neither should Fresno, and I took care of this one myself: slid into Laramie Thursday to taste the air (four stars: tour the old prison if you have time), and then Saturday the Bulldogs got bucked. I normally don’t eat sirloin, but the Rib and Chop House in Cheyenne (motto: We’re slightly larger than Laramie) gets it done at a great price.
Kansas blasted UCF; we wait.
EVEN MORE USELESS OPINIONS
best one-loss team: Bama; there had been a vote for Notre Dame, but they lost again, so….
best two-loss team: Texas A&M (keep trying, Irish!)
best three-loss team: Texas Tech
best four-loss team: Arkansas (don’t sleep on deez pigs)
best five-loss team: Arizona State
best six-loss team: SE Louisiana (truly truly useless opinion)
SPECIAL PRIME SECTION
Colorado ain’t 22d
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- they best CSU by 15? won in 2OT; we rate this prediction Somewhat True
- lose to Oregon by 13? lost by 36, and are now unranked; we rate this prediction Super True; we rate Colorado formerly over-rated
- lose to USC by 18? lost by 7; we rate this prediction SomeWhat True
- lose to ASU by 2? won by 3; we rate this prediction Missed it by That Much
- win over Stanford by 11?
- lose to UCLA by 10?
- then lose to Oregon St by 7?
- then edge Arizona by 3?
- then lose in Pullman by 10?
- then lose to UU by 9?
FORMERLY OVER-RATED
we wish to hear their names no more
Tulane ain’t 24th
Colorado ain’t 22d
Texas ain’t 3d
Miami ain’t 20th
Florida shouldn’t be ranked at all
Missouri shouldn’t be ranked at all
Fresno shouldn’t be ranked at all
EVEN MORE USELESS OPINIONS
The women cheerleaders are the only thing interesting about football.
I watch the college product out of boredom once in a while; it was never very big in my hometown so I have no one to root for.
My nearby alma mater shows up once in a while but instead of the 80,000 seat palaces you see on the big networks, it’s like a stand that seats a couple thousand and 90% of it is empty.
On a serious note (my earlier post was an attempt at a joke, note what I quoted), I will watch football if I’m at a bar and it is on the TV. But all I’m doing is watching for the women cheerleaders or panoramic videos/shots of the area the game is played in.
The Cleveland Browns have no cheerleaders, and most of the panoramic shots will focus on the lake or the Science Center/Rock Hall.
Cleveland also has no football team, so there’s that…
Hey now!
We’ve got a team… they just haven’t been very good in *mumble mumble* years.
I was marginally interested in KU v BYU but I forgot about the game, so that tells you how marginally interested I was.
The Rib & Chop House is the best place to eat in Cheyenne.
Well, okay, thats an extreme low bar, but its a decent place.
Both of my non-rodeo trips to Cheyenne, I have eaten there.
I like Cheyenne.
I like Wyoming, period.
I have been through Wyoming so many times it’s not funny. Once I stopped in Rock Springs because I got a speeding ticket. Once I stopped in Cheyenne at the crack of dawn to call in sick to work because I left home at 10p the night before.
The Free State Project totally screwed up choosing NH over WY.
Cheyenne should be a porn star name.
Search “Cheyenne” on boobpedia.
Cheyenne Silver? Hell of an “actress.”
She truly gives back to the community.
OT – remind me not to drive in Bucharest.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/175guz9/stopping_in_the_middle_of_the_road_to_take_your/
That’s pretty brazen.
I have only stayed in Rawlins (80+mph winds) and spent a little time in the univeristy town just north of Colorado. I plan to spend a bit more time there next year.
Oh, I totally lied. I’ve spent the night twice in Wyoming. I think one was Laramie, and I know the other one was Rawlins.
Where does Taco John’s fall on that list?
I’m just glad Tech shows up in SOME fashion in this post.
Is Texas Tech even the best 3 loss Tech?
I mean, who have they beat?
Okay, we didnt so much beat Miami as accept a gift, but still.
Texas Tech did almost beat a sleepwalking Oregon team.
Even though I live in Missouri, I am in KU/Jayhawk country. We have Mizzou merch here, but it doesn’t really sell well. Columbia’s only 2 hours away, but Lawrence is 45 minutes.
I’m on the Mason-Dixon line between UK and U of L. Red on one side of the street and blue on the other.
Football season is tame compared to BB season, although the Petino stuff has gotten a lot of people to hide their red shit.
I don’t care either way, but I like twisting tails amongst the fans I work with.
USC keeps winning and keeps dropping in the rankings. Seems odd although their “best offense / worst defense in college football” strategy will probably catch up to them eventually.
USC has something like the 107th strength of schedule so far. And the #1 SOS remaining. So yeah, its about to catch up hard.
I think their inability to get good non-conference games was a factor in the Pac-12 collapse. Money was the primary, but that’s also tied to the ability to get premiere match-ups.
They had Notre Dame every year.
That is already better than a lot of schools do OOC.
Huge game some years. Since they’ve already lost twice, so it doesn’t mean much this year – hence the 107th strength of schedule rank robc cited.
The Pac12 collapsed out of greed and envy.
Well, I’m expecting to watch the Browns get whupped by the 49ers on Sunday, but the girlfriend and I are doing one of the fancy VIP things before the game (her birthday is coming up), which includes unlimited food, drink, bathrooms, is indoors, and is about a block away from the Rapid station.
Golden Coral ain’t vip.
Come November, this ain’t gonna fly.
Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah and raising concerns that more outbreaks could follow.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that avian influenza, which is deadly to commercial poultry, was confirmed in a flock of 47,300 turkeys in Jerauld County, South Dakota, on Oct. 4 and at a farm with 141,800 birds in Utah’s Sanpete County last Friday.
The outbreaks are the first reported among commercial flocks in the U.S. since the disease struck two turkey farms in the Dakotas in April. Infected flocks are normally destroyed to prevent the flu’s spread, and then the farms are decontaminated.
I’m starting to get suspicious of all the commercial flocks of birds getting sick. Truly convenient that the turkey supply is threatened just as Tryptophan Day is upon us.
It almost seems deliberate.
I hope the wild turkeys are immune, I can shop in my backyard.
We got something going on with Turkey here local.
The Turkey bag count for this past spring was the lowest in 12 years.
Wildlife management is trying to figure out why yet, but I know I ‘ve seen less than usual.
Time to break out the roast cricket recipes.
There’s the Tofurkey,
Now you have the Crick-urkey.
Fuck that. Where I come from, we do ribeyes for Thanksgiving…
Couple years ago I did a Thanksgiving with a spread from our known backgrounds. English, Irish, Scandanavian, French, German, Spanish and native North American with a splash of colonial period. Far better than the same ol same ol.
What were the representative dishes?
Errr…
I think mushy peas(England), a roast and potatoes(Irish), deserts were Scandanavian (can’t recall what I did), Succotash and can’t recall anything else.
In order: something boiled, whiskey, lutefisk, surrender, kraut, grease, and colonialism.
After my parents divorce, my father always did a German Xmas: goose, Linzer tort, etc. God, it was good!
Popcorn and toast.
Plus jelly beans and pretzels. 🐶 🐤
How does turkey flu get transmitted around the country? Don’t visiting turkeys wear their masks and social distance? Seriously, how does it spread?
It’s those migrating anti-vaxx deploribirds
Rawdogging.
Who wants to tell him?
John Fetterman, completely unironically: “America is not sending their best and brightest, you know, to Washington, D.C.”
That has to be Fetterfake.
Has to be.
Lump didnt tell him to not say that part outloud.
Fetterman, a Harvard grad, isn’t stupid. He just plays one in the Senate. Someone, in that party, has to be the designated mentally challenged one.
So many to choose from.
Fetterman used to not be stupid. Post stroke Fetterman might actually be.
Brain damaged, not stupid.
Well, brain damage can make you stupid, so . . . Por que no los dos?
War by other means
The Biden administration is set to announce new measures to raise the cost of Russia’s attempts to skirt a limit set on the price for its oil, senior administration officials told CNN, as the West aims to enforce more strictly a price cap first introduced nearly a year ago.
“Today, the US Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on two entities and identifying as blocked property two vessels that use price cap coalitions services providers while carrying Russian crude oil above the coalition-agreed price gap,” a senior official briefing reporters Thursday said.
“Taking the steps is sending a clear message to Russia that we will continue to be focused on forcing them into two costly options. And attempts to expand beyond them will face a decisive and unified response,” the official added, as the US and its allies have determined that the price cap is unequivocally “diverting Russia’s money that could be spent on tanks, armored vehicles, and other equipment for use on the battlefield.”
The new sanctions, part of a series of actions announced Thursday, would primarily target the illicit fleet of ships the Kremlin has built up in the last year for the purpose of transporting its oil and oil products and selling them above price limits put in place by the West.
The Biden administration is “looking to make sure that their (Russia’s) costs go up significantly in this next phase,” the official briefing reporters said.
Additionally, the senior official briefing reporters said, the G7 price cap coalition is reiterating in a new joint statement the risk of violating price cap rules.
Sure, why not? We’re the World Police.
So they’re really raising prices on the Euros and anyone else who goes along with us. Not anyone in BRICS.
Do you know what would happen if we didn’t stick our dick into every conflict in the world?
CHAOS! ANARCHY! CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER!
If people were to find out the only effects were lower taxes, cheaper gas, and increased international harmony it’d be a catastrophe, for the MIC anyway.
I’m doubting there would be any increased international harmony.
I’m more worried about national harmony.
Fuck dem guys.
https://babylonbee.com/news/lindsey-graham-calls-on-the-united-states-to-bomb-every-country-in-the-world
Maybe we should stop poking the bear and produce our own energy. Maybe.
Sanctions are getting more and more ineffective as more and more of the world gets out from under the boot of the U.S. Treasury department and joins other economic arrangements with other countries that we have under sanctions.
In December 2022, the United States, G7 allies and Australia banned the purchase of Russian oil above the price of $60 per barrel if it was shipped, insured or financed by the West. The policy’s goal was to cut off revenues to Russia – used to fund the country’s invasion of Ukraine – while still keeping enough oil on the market to limit disruptions for global consumers.
But the Kremlin began establishing a workaround by sourcing other means to ship and insure energy and sell it above the cap. In early October, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told reporters that recent market prices for Russian oil suggested there had been a “reduction in effectiveness” of the price cap.
Inconceivable.
Weird! It’s almost like it’s a fungible commodity or something.
Malice is the master.
How do people plan on celebrating tomorrow’s Day of Jihad?
Quietly working. Hopefully nobody around me gets stabby, shooty or explodey.
This is my hope as well.
To tie this together with the post, I’m going to a packed college football game on Day of Jihad so…. yay.
The Holy Cross Crusaders?
Ha. No. Although I do tailgate in a church parking lot. It’s the late game on ESPN.
I actually considered manufacturing a reason to work from home tomorrow.
It’s Friday. What more excuse do you need?
“I can’t find my underwear.”
Oh, that doesn’t stop me, but I get weird looks when I can’t find my pants.
Going commando is an appropriate activity for the Day of Jihad.
In the back door
Businesses and climate activists have been pushing to shape the SEC rules for months, because the stakes are high. The economy is awash in climate disclosures that companies tout, but there are few ways for customers and investors to gauge the validity of the claims. The SEC’s goal is to ensure that publicly-traded corporations are reporting comparable information, and also to make sure they aren’t misleading investors about their environmental activities — a practice known as greenwashing, Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, told the House Financial Services Committee in September.
And while Gensler has said repeatedly that the SEC isn’t writing climate regulations — they’re rules for financial reporting — the requirements the agency comes up with could boost efforts to limit global warming. A study published this summer in the journal Science found that requiring companies to disclose their emissions could put pressure on firms to cut their climate pollution.
The SEC isn’t alone. Regulators in the European Union, United Kingdom and Hong Kong have been writing their own rules for what companies have to tell investors about climate change. And in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a pair of bills that will force big companies operating in the state, including Corteva, to publicly disclose their financial risks from global warming and how much greenhouse gas pollution comes from their operations and supply chains.
They’re just asking questions. For clarity.
Men really are better at everything…up to and including being women.
British publication Attitude Magazine named American transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as Woman of the Year, supported by Virgin Atlantic.
“Knowing that my community sees me this way and acknowledges my womanhood is all I need to keep going,” said Mulvaney in a Wednesday statement.
The Patriarchy wins again!
Oh, Sir Richard… 🤦♀️
“The days of a company trying to avoid reporting their emissions at all are over,” says Madison Condon, an associate professor at Boston University School of Law who studies climate change and financial risk.
What the fuck does that even mean? Are they going to compare U S Steel and Walmart by “reported emissions”? What on earth will that achieve?
Compliance. Getting big corp to bend the knee and grovel. That is the only goal.
And accepting the premise. Then they can go after companies for misstating numbers or badger them to lower them by any means necessary.
My question: How do you even get a defensible estimate of your company’s emissions?
I suppose you could track how much gas and diesel you go through and put some slug factor on CO2 per gallon (who knows how accurate that would be)? What about electricity, though? Doesn’t the CO2 emitted to generate your electricity have about a zillion variables, few if any of which are available to customers? Do you count the second order CO2 of the stuff (food, supplies, equipment, etc.) that your company uses, or is that supposed to be tracked and reported by your supplier? What if your supplier isn’t publicly traded so the SEC crap doesn’t apply?
Regardless of whatever point there is to this exercise, the actual data is guaranteed to be utter garbage.
Oh Bee…
Just when I think the gloves are off, they somehow produce another pair of gloves.
That’s hilarious
Without direction and oversight from federal regulators, there’s also concern that companies may be engaging in greenwashing. George Georgiev, an associate professor at Emory University School of Law, says some of the climate information that companies are releasing looks more like marketing material than risk disclosures.
“In fact, they’re even being prepared by the marketing department versus the investor relations department,” Georgiev says. “So, they’re painting a certain picture of the company being a green company or being up-to-date in terms of [a] transition to a carbon-neutral economy. And it sends a marketing message, as opposed to a more objective message about both the good and the bad, which is the purpose of the SEC disclosure regime.”
Whimwham for the suckers. Of course it comes from the marketing department.
Sigh…
The Pentagon said a squadron of A-10 ground attack planes arrived at al Dhafra Air Base, in the United Arab Emirates, on Thursday as part of the Biden administration’s effort to deter further attacks against Israel. A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean earlier in the week, and additional squadrons of jet fighters are expected to be in place by next week, U.S. defense officials said.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-aims-to-dismantle-hamas-as-blinken-tries-to-prevent-wider-war-55a434f1?st=6fvpm8sqr3tyf44&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Israel bombed Damascus and Aleppo airports to prevent Iran from landing there. This is not going to end well for anyone…anywhere.
What’s a leppo?
Our finest hour!
I had no idea either at the time.
Maybe if I was running for president, but I try not to keep track of peddlin ass small foreign towns.
Dog food?
Long-lost Marx Brother?
$20, same as downtown.
I wondered about that. That makes senese.
Again?
I read that as Dafuq Air Force Base. Been reading too many MikeS posts.
*waits…
*Fails at Summoning MikeS
Has Israel been reduced to dependence through unlimited no strings military aid from us? They should be capable, and are, of handling this themselves. Now stop bombing Syria you shitheads.
How the hell are we going to start a regional war and get the U.S. to invade Iran for us if we don’t start a regional war?
We are trying to find the right regional war than can be escalated into a world war. Syria could be the ticket since all the players are there.
I’d say it’s just so goddamn stupid but no one’s this stupid…it has to be on purpose. The region is already a powderkeg ready to touch off and now we’re sticking our nose in it and Israel’s bombing third party countries. It’s nuts.
How many times does it have to happen before people stop falling for the propaganda?
Half the population is average intelligence or below and some of the smart ones agree with it for various reasons. They’re never not going to fall for it it looks like.
Nothing like a good war to get thise poll numbers up – braindead biden
Jimmy says “not always”.
Now stop bombing Syria you shitheads.
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
Harvard Student Leaves Lecture On Microaggressions To Attend ‘Kill The Jews’ Rally
Brutal
Compare to how the Onion does their satire…
How sad.
It is sad. The Onion was awesome circa 2005 or so.
You are off by at least 1 decade.
It has been all downhill since it started appearing on the internet.
It was at its peak when you had to pick it up at your local Rocky Rococo’s.
The money pit was good onion.
Absolute Peak Onion:
Smells Like Splattered Brains
The Bee seems to have some smart people who pay attention to what’s going on, and pay attention to both sides. They know their subject, that’s why they’re so good.
They seem to vying to be the counter-Bee, even though they started the satire newspaper thing. Here’s another one…
https://www.theonion.com/university-installs-red-light-phones-for-conservative-s-1850907474
See, the joke really hits home because conservatives are never exposed to progressive ideas.
OMG, what clinkers. The epitome of dull humor.
Everything old is new again.
Eat a bag of dicks, IDF.
I know how this movie ends
The hand is already being overplayed and that kind of rhetoric is despicable.
Yeah, few things piss me off more than “you’re either with us or against us.”
Howsabout you be happy I’m sitting this out?
The end is known to everyone: lots more graves all around, Israel continues to exist in its current borders, and Hamas (which is to say Iran) continues to run Gaza. The only open question is, will this really turn into a regional war? You know Hezbollah wants to get their Jew-killing on, and they probably won’t get a better chance again for awhile.
Boy I hate that shit. It’s the same strategy used by the tranny cult, ad BLM. There is room to be left the fuck alone.
I’m not wearing the ribbon.
They say that this is their 9/11 and they are bound and determined to make it so.
God love you Don, but you are wrong about deez hogs. Go ahead and sleep on them. We can’t block up front and no amount of coaching is gonna fix that. We are toast. Bama is gonna be eating bacon by halftime tomorrow
Hey neighbor
This morning I escaped Georgia (motto: our flag is no longer racist), then Alabama (motto: it ain’tgerrymanderingif it’sjust getting even), and then I thought: wondering if it posted.
Sweet gums are starting to turn in Mississippi (motto: our flag is no longer racist except for the racist magnolia part).
Enjoy the nonsense!
Lindsey Graham Calls On The United States To Bomb Every Country In The World
https://www.wnep.com/article/news/crime/gas-pumps-scammers-theft/73-567167d6-1289-4eca-96c1-dd93113316f9
Denver also leads the nation in auto theft.
The Western mind explained.
I LOVE THAT!
Heh.