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  • Pigskin Pickem Thread, Week 11

    11/14/2024 1:43:52 PM PST · by Impy · 9 replies
    11-14-2024
    Fool's Ball Week 11!!!!!!!!!! Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)
  • Trump to nominate RFK Jr. to head Department of Health and Human Services: sources

    11/14/2024 12:52:34 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 52 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/14/2024 | Diana Glebova
    President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services, a source familiar with the decision confirmed to The Post.
  • How Dare you Laugh at Woke Meltdowns! (video. Teen Conservative girl has a blast.) [language]

    11/14/2024 12:39:10 PM PST · by simpson96 · 6 replies
    YouTube ^ | 11/14/2024 | Angela Rose
    To bring it home, at the 14:34 mark begins a very satisfying black Trump supporter's reaction.How Dare you Laugh at Woke Meltdowns! (video. Teen Conservative girl has a blast.) [language]
  • Watch as incredible battlefield vid shows fearless solo Ukrainian Leopard tank wiping out ENTIRE column of Putin armour

    11/14/2024 12:32:34 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 26 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 11/14/2024 | Georgie English
    THIS is the incredible moment fearless Ukrainian troops wipe out an entire Russian column with huge explosions and rampant gunfire. Ukraine's Leopard tank blitz took out 47 of Vladimir Putin's men, eliminated three armoured military trucks and blasted away two tanks. The dramatic footage, appearing to be from the city of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine, shows a convoy of Russian tanks and motors steaming down a road before being spotted by Ukrainians. Several rounds of heavy gunfire then ring out in the clip as sparks fly towards Putin's military might. Giant clouds of smoke billow into the Ukrainian sky as...
  • Clashes, confusion and secrecy consume the Harris campaign's finances

    11/14/2024 12:12:20 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 17 replies
    NBC News ^ | 11/14/24 | Natasha Korecki
    Get more news on Create your free profile or log in to save this article Nov. 14, 2024, 4:00 AM CST By Natasha Korecki If Kamala Harris' campaign was known for anything, it was its blockbuster fundraising. In just a matter of months, it crossed the $1 billion mark, in a stunning and record-breaking pace. Now, less than a week since the vice president conceded the contest, it not only has run out of money, it’s still asking for more. The campaign emails and texts, known for their ubiquity throughout the election, aren’t expected to stop anytime soon.
  • My Husband And His Family Voted For Trump — So I'm Canceling Thanksgiving And Christmas [Sweet, sweet Schadenfreude]

    11/14/2024 12:00:17 PM PST · by simpson96 · 149 replies
    HuffPost ^ | 11/12/2024 | Andrea Tate
    I knew he voted red. He knew I voted blue. I had hoped the most capable and most inclusive candidate would win. He hoped his idea of a better America would win. He won, and, from where I stand, America lost. In the aftermath of Tuesday night’s results, still under the bed covers Wednesday morning, I scrolled social media looking for hope. I unfriended a few short-sighted FB friends— no need to continue our digital relationships and witness their selfishness and hate. Then I saw my husband’s post. “God Bless America. God bless #45, 47.” It had a few likes,...
  • Hillary Clinton praises Belfast as a city ‘quickly reinventing itself’ [pictures]

    11/14/2024 11:51:39 AM PST · by simpson96 · 21 replies
    Irish News ^ | 11/14/2024 | Gráinne Ní Aodha
    Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Belfast is “reinventing itself” after the end of decades of conflict. The former US presidential candidate was speaking at the final day of the Global Innovation Summit 2024 at Queen’s University Belfast. The conference will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, next October, which Ms Clinton said was a city that had also “risen again”. “You’ve heard so much over the course of the last few days about Belfast, another city that is quickly reinventing itself and one of the main reasons, I would argue, is because of...
  • How Obama boosted Harris and continues to shape the Democratic Party

    11/14/2024 11:20:20 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 31 replies
    Reuters ^ | 8/20/24 | Jeff Mason
    CHICAGO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - After Kamala Harris secured the Democratic presidential nomination in an unprecedented party upheaval, she got some advice from former President Barack Obama: Tap the campaign talent pool that is out there; you can have anyone you want. Within days, Obama's former campaign manager David Plouffe and other high profile alumni from Obama's 2008 and 2012 election efforts joined her nascent campaign. "He just wanted her to know that she was in a position to recruit anyone she thought they needed," said a source familiar with Obama's and Harris' conversation.
  • Trump fills out cabinet as divisive picks shock Washington

    11/14/2024 10:36:42 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 30 replies
    AFP via Yahoo ^ | 11/14/24 | Frankie TAGGART
    All eyes were on Donald Trump's transition team Thursday, after a series of provocative and startling cabinet choices that showed the president-elect's preference for absolute loyalty above experience or expertise. Trump has been rapidly rolling out his foreign policy and national security picks, but he is expected to shift focus over the coming days to key figures to enact his domestic agenda. The Republican leader has yet to select treasury and commerce chiefs to help set tax and trade policy, a health secretary to oversee abortion, transgender care and a host of other potential flashpoints, or someone for education --...
  • 'Everyone Inside ABC News Is on One Side': ABC Looking to Revamp The View

    11/14/2024 10:11:26 AM PST · by dynachrome · 59 replies
    Hot Air ^ | 11-13-24 | John Sexton
    ABC News has plans to revamp The View in light of Donald Trump's commanding win in the 2024 election. ABC execs are said to be panicking over the fact that their roundtable features a collection of women who are uniformly aligned with Democrats despite the fact that Trump appears to have won the popular vote and won 46% of women voters, a 3% improvement over 2020. If 46% of women voted for Trump, maybe the view could find one woman to represent that perspective on the show?
  • Prison officers deal drugs and ask inmates for sex, BBC told

    11/14/2024 9:52:15 AM PST · by RandFan · 10 replies
    BBC ^ | Nov 14 | Sima Kotecha
    Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear. She served more than a year here for money laundering, and claims she was sexually harassed by a male prison officer. “He made me feel very uncomfortable,” Auty says. “He commented on my appearance - a lot. He suggested he wanted to come to my cell - I feel if I had been up for it, he would have wanted sexual favours.” Auty says she reported what happened, and told...
  • Byron York: Matt Gaetz ‘a terrible pick’ for attorney general

    11/14/2024 9:44:43 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 36 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 11/14/24 | Jenny Goldsberry
    Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York warned that former Rep. Matt Gaetz is a “terrible pick” for attorney general. President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had chosen Gaetz as the chief legal officer, and the Florida congressman subsequently resigned from the House of Representatives. While on Special Report with Bret Baier, other guests suggested that Gaetz was the choice to enact major reform in the Justice Department as Trump wants, but York said that “Matt Gaetz can still be a terrible pick” even if he does as Trump says.
  • Desperate Putin calls up movie prop tanks to use in his invasion of Ukraine

    11/14/2024 9:32:10 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 36 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 11/14/2024 | Will Stewart
    Vladimir Putin has been forced to call up dozens of creaking T-55 tanks used by Russia's Hollywood as props in war films. The army has raided the Mosfilm warehouses in its desperation to invade Ukraine. Desperate Russian president Putin thanked movie chief Karen Shakhnazarov for the outdated Cold War military hardware during a Kremlin meeting. 'We have handed over to the [Russian] Armed Forces 28 T-55 tanks, eight PT-76 tanks, six BMPs (combat vehicles) and eight tractors [that] we had stored at the military-technical base,' Shakhnazarov said. 'I found out that there was a need, contacted the Ministry of Defence...
  • Counting Down my iTunes Play Count (VANITY) -- Day #51

    11/14/2024 8:55:33 AM PST · by Alberta's Child · 11 replies
    AC’s iTunes Directory | 11/14/2024 | Alberta's Child
    Day #51 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the last couple of months. We are down to the last two days, folks! There are two "extra" days at the end because we had a tie at #50 and an Honorable Mention collection a few days ago. To show my gratitude to the FR management for giving...
  • `Ball Is In US` Court`: Russia`s FM Lavrov On Contacts With Trump Administration, Says Report

    11/14/2024 8:15:43 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 10 replies
    Zee News India ^ | 11/14/2024 | ANI
    Russia is open to contact with the US under the Donald Trump administration, but the ball is in the US court, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with journalist Marina Kim as reported in by its state media TASS. Days after the Kremlin denied media reports that US President-elect Donald Trump held a call with Vladimir Putin, in which he is said to have warned the Russian president against escalating the war in Ukraine, Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday said that his country has no expectations from the new US administration, but will assess its concrete...
  • Russia economy meltdown looms as Putin is handed dire stagflation warning

    11/14/2024 7:35:37 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 22 replies
    Express UK ^ | 11/14/2024 | CIARAN MCGRATH
    The price of potatoes - a staple of the Russian diet - have increased by 64 percent this year, according to the latest figures. -snip- Sergei Chemezov, who is the CEO of the state-owned defence giant Rostec, warned that sky-high interest rates are eroding business profitability and could lead to widespread bankruptcies. TsMAKP echoed these concerns. He cautioned that “the current high interest rate and the prospect of further increases create a risk of economic downturn and a collapse in investments.” -snip- Recent data showed a 3.1% contraction year-on-year in the latest quarter, with more slowdowns expected as war-related disruptions...
  • Trump’s Playbook: How Putin outsmarted 4 US presidents, then was outplayed by 'The Donald'

    11/14/2024 7:14:07 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/14/2024 | Rebekah Koffler
    Trump will not fall for Putin's tricks and could end up being a nightmare for the Russian leader. -snip- American media was so beguiled by the KGB operative in the Kremlin that Putin was chosen as "Person of the Year" by Time magazine in 2007 and four times in a row from 2013 to 2016 by Forbes magazine as the "World’s Most Powerful Individual." Putin’s trickery didn’t work with former President Trump, however. You see, Trump invented the game. He loves talking with people and understands the value of communicating, even with foreign dictators. Last month, Trump angered the commentariat...
  • Don’t Cry, Cryo! 😂 Need a Break from Trump’s Term? Freeze Yourself for 4 Years! (Hilarious Short Video 1:32)

    11/14/2024 7:08:13 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 11 replies
    Election blues got you down? Meet Don’t Cry Cryo – the ‘pharma’ company offering a hilarious ‘solution’ to get you through another Trump term! ❄️💤 In this parody commercial, unhappy voters are invited to cryogenically freeze themselves for four years, waking up when the term ends. Complete with side effects, a soothing voiceover, and pharmaceutical-style disclaimers, this satirical ad is sure to have you in stitches! Watch now, laugh out loud, and share with anyone who’s counting down the days to the next election!
  • The Babylon Bee Is Graciously Offering To Hire Any Laid-Off Employee From Fake News Rival CNN

    11/14/2024 5:19:34 AM PST · by airdalechief · 10 replies
    The Babylon Bee ^ | Nov 13, 2024 | Media
    U.S. — In one of the most truly magnanimous gestures in all of human history, the Babylon Bee is officially offering to hire all the employees being laid off by Fake News rival CNN. "We're not here to gloat. We're here to help," said Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon. "Look, the Fake News industry is fiercely competitive, and CNN has incredible talent. We may be rivals, but at the end of the day, we're human beings -- human beings who love making up the news."
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    11/14/2024 5:02:38 AM PST · by nikos1121 · 12 replies
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