Who’s the bully? Who stands to gain? What’s the end game? What will be Russia’s reaction when it becomes clear they will lose? Who wants to die or have their patriotic kid die over Ukraine? Who could even locate Ukraine on a map? Why are we letting our militant government agencies put the world through the turmoil? Why do they always look for places to pick a fight?

Going to pull the biggest “OU Thing” ever and announce he’s decided to return or is Riley just having difficulty setting up the accounts and getting the money wired?

Is Mike ever going to address what’s going on here? If this continues I don’t see why Kalib would want to come back next year

'Business in front of feelings': Jayden Jernigan details his decision to leave OSU football for Missouri​

Scott Wright
Oklahoman

STILLWATER — Roster movement has begun to flow more freely at Oklahoma State since Saturday’s Fiesta Bowl victory over Notre Dame, with more players entering the transfer portal and some making announcements on their future destinations.

The most notable departure was starting safety Tanner McCalister, who tweeted on Wednesday that he will follow former OSU defensive coordinator Jim Knowles to Ohio State. McCalister, who was a fourth-year senior at Oklahoma State this past season, has one year of eligibility remaining as granted by the NCAA to players during the 2020 COVID pandemic.

McCalister is the third former OSU player to announce a commitment to a new program this week, all heading to other Power 5 schools. Offensive lineman Hunter Anthony is transferring to Nebraska, and defensive tackle Jayden Jernigan is heading to Missouri.

Jernigan, a 6-foot-1, 285-pound redshirt sophomore, had 22 tackles, two sacks and six quarterback hurries playing in a backup role this past season. But according to head coach Mike Gundy, starters Brendon Evers and Israel Antwine are expected to return for super-senior seasons.

“For me, really, I wanted an opportunity where I can go start next season,” Jernigan told The Oklahoman on Thursday. “I had to put action into my future and my plans. Really, me transferring was going to be the best for me to find a route to the NFL the fastest.”

Jernigan played as a true freshman in 2019, then sat out the 2020 season because of COVID-related health issues. He will be a redshirt junior with three years of eligibility remaining next season.

“After not playing last season, and having the tremendous season like I did this year, next season is vital for me,” Jernigan said. “I want to go somewhere where I don’t have to be the backup, and use another year after that.


“I loved my three years at Oklahoma State, and they allowed me to play early as a true freshman. This university, this place, it was hard for me to even leave it. But sometimes, you just gotta put business in front of feelings, and that’s how I made this decision.”

Playing as a backup in situational roles this season, Jernigan was OSU’s highest graded defensive lineman, according to the Pro Football Focus grading system.

He joins a Missouri team that went 6-7 and lost to Army in the Armed Forces Bowl. Still, the lure of playing in the SEC spotlight drew Jernigan to the rebuilding program.

“They always have people that get to the draft in the top three rounds from Missouri,” Jernigan said. “And it’s SEC ball.”

Who else is leaving?​

In addition to the three players who have already announced their commitments to other programs, Oklahoma State has three more scholarship players still in the transfer portal.

The most notable of those is senior running back Dezmon Jackson, who played in 17 games over the past two seasons after joining the program from Hutchinson (Kansas) Community College. Limited by injuries this season, he rushed for 139 yards on 48 carries with two touchdowns.

Also in the portal are redshirt freshman offensive lineman Monroe Mills and redshirt freshman wide receiver Matt Polk. Neither player has seen noteworthy game action to this point.

So far, the only Cowboy eligible to return next season who has declared for the NFL Draft is safety Tre Sterling, who missed most of the season with a forearm injury.

Where might OSU add portal players?​

Oklahoma State has yet to be on the receiving end of the transfer portal, but that will change, possibly in the next few days.

OSU has offers out to multiple players in the portal, most notably targeting defensive linemen. Tulsa transfer Jaxon Player, a 6-foot, 294-pound nose guard, listed OSU among his top five programs earlier this week, along with OU, Baylor, Arkansas and TCU.

Expect the Cowboys to also search for help on the offensive line. Currently, that group is set to lose four scholarship players — two senior starters (Danny Godlevske and Josh Sills, though Sills has a year of eligibility remaining if he wants it) and two younger players to the portal (Anthony and Mills).

OSU signed three offensive linemen in the 2022 recruiting class last month, but only one of those — junior-college All-American Tyrone Webber — would likely be able to add immediate help.

With the departure of McCalister and Sterling, OSU could look for veteran safety help, though that’s been one of the deepest positions on the team the last couple of years. Kolby Harvell-Peel still has a decision to make regarding a potential super-senior season, and redshirt junior Jason Taylor II started nearly all year in place of Sterling.

OSU lost both its starting linebackers, Malcolm Rodriguez and Devin Harper, who were super-seniors. Along with the addition of Xavier Benson from Tyler (Texas) Junior College, the Cowboys could also seek an additional boost from the portal.

And the running back position could also be in need of a veteran presence. Gundy said after the Fiesta Bowl that he does not anticipate LD Brown taking advantage of a potential seventh year — made possible because of an injury that limited him to only four games during his super-senior season this past year.

That leaves OSU with Dominic Richardson, Jaden Nixon and Zach Middleton as scholarship running backs on the roster, plus the incoming additions of true freshmen CJ Brown from Beggs and Ollie Gordon from Euless (Texas) Trinity High School.

If you are so slow you can't figure out why Biden's poll numbers are so bad, even with a media that is covering his ass, this chart should sum it up for you.

The US team released their roster for this event, Fix at 61. Will he wrestle both?

Travis Dye from Oregon entered the transfer portal today. PAC-12 leader in all-purpose yards.

Rushed for 1271 yards at 6.0 yards per carry & had 16 TD’s, with another 402 & 2 TD’s receiving.

Would definitely be a nice replacement for Warren…

but it's too late GE. POS evil big Harma has immunity when they kill or maim - businesses do not. Too late for y'all that mandated experimental dangerous shots- can you say class action lawsuit? I hope people Sue every freaking woke appeasing institutions that pissed on people's civil liberties.

Just another slow-mo unraveling of MAGA talking points/gaslighting.

Only MAGA was dumb enough. Flying trump flags, cameras rolling, like dogs chasing a car. Wtf did you guys think would happen ultimately? Flailey? Whari? FiFi? Why are they so gd dumb and violent?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/oathkeeper-rhodes-arrested-doj/index.html

@Syskatine, why do you leftards promote this kind of preventable screw up? Is it really such a bad idea to keep bad people locked up? I mean, I know public safety takes a backseat to feelings and all, but holy shit, common sense should come first. Are you proud of the killing of grandmas, syskaqueef?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/waukesha-christmas-parade-suspect-darrell-brooks-gets-71-new-charges

Bold Prediction: We shoot better than 80% from the FT line tonight.

Looks like we offered Stanford’s leading rusher. Nathaniel Peat.

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Sign recruits, hire a coordinator, plan Fiesta Bowl: OSU football coach Mike Gundy has plenty on his plate​

Scott Wright
Oklahoman

STILLWATER — Mike Gundy and the Oklahoma State football program have some pressing needs at hand.

The early signing period, when Gundy expects to have the vast majority of his recruiting class signed, opens Wednesday. And the Cowboys are still without a defensive coordinator.

With the Fiesta Bowl matchup against Notre Dame less than three weeks away — set for Jan. 1 in Glendale, Arizona — the Cowboys have their work laid out for them.

Here’s a look at the most important focal points of the next three weeks for OSU football:

Solidify recruiting class​

We’re coming down to the wire, with the signing period opening on Wednesday. The Cowboys have 16 players committed, and at the most, will only add one or two more, depending on how some situations play out.

The top focus in the last days of the recruiting cycle is on the defensive line. The Cowboys are in the mix for Choctaw standout Desean Brown, and they’re in the top five for massive defensive tackle Enyce Sledge of Neville High School in Monroe, Louisiana.

Sledge, a 6-foot-3, 315-pound tackle, was committed to Baylor until about a month ago. He will announce his decision on Tuesday, picking between OSU, Baylor, Auburn, Indiana and Texas Tech.

The 6-foot-4, 255-pound Brown is a four-star defensive end with plenty of offers, including a recent offer from OU.

The Cowboys took a big step in their defensive recruiting with Saturday’s commitment from Xavier Benson, a former Texas Tech linebacker who spent the 2021 season at Tyler (Texas) Junior College. The 6-foot-3, 211-pound Benson had 120 tackles in 12 games this season.

Finalize staff decisions​

Defensive coordinator Jim Knowles is off to Ohio State, and the decision has been made that he will not coach in the bowl game. That means Gundy — internally — has determined what his coaching staff will look like for the Fiesta Bowl, though he hasn’t made those plans public yet.

More importantly for the long term, Gundy must decide which direction to go with his defensive coordinator position. It’s likely that he could promote from within, with defensive line coach Joe Bob Clements being the assistant at the front of the line.

Clements has been on staff since 2013, and when Gundy hired Knowles in 2018, he considered Clements a good option as a defensive coordinator. But the timing wasn’t right. Gundy had just parted ways with coordinator Glenn Spencer, and promoting from within after dismissing a coach wasn’t the right move.

This time around, Clements is sure to get a good look, especially considering that it would allow the defense to maintain the schemes it has built over the past four years. Knowles was the mastermind of the defense, but all the coaches had input into creating what it became.

On top of that, the personnel the Cowboys have recruited fit the blended schemes of the 3-3 and the 4-2-5 defenses OSU uses.

If Clements is promoted, Gundy would need to hire someone to coach linebackers, and he’d likely have a plethora of options.

Prepare for transfer season​

Players are already hitting the transfer portal at an alarming pace. Oklahoma State, so far, has lost only one player to the portal, offensive lineman Hunter Anthony. But Gundy has been saying for weeks that he and his staff are holding back a few scholarship spots for portal transfers coming in — something they’ve never done before.

That means once the recruiting class is wrapped up, the staff will go to work looking to fill remaining holes with transfers. The Cowboys could look for some offensive linemen or linebackers to bring a veteran presence to those units.

Or they could go a completely unexpected direction if they find someone who will be a good fit for the program.

A year ago at this time, no one was talking about OSU’s need for a running back, yet they added Jaylen Warren as a transfer from Utah State, and he became one of the most valuable offensive pieces of the team this season.

Get ready for Notre Dame​

Oh yeah, there’s a game to prepare for, amid all this other madness.

The Cowboys have a chance to earn their second 12-win season in school history, matching the win total of the 2011 squad, which went 12-1 and won the Fiesta Bowl over Stanford.

This has been a great season for OSU, despite coming up just short of a Big 12 championship and a shot at the College Football Playoff. The season still deserves a strong finish in the Fiesta Bowl.

Say goodnight to this POS legislation:


Or to put it more plainly for a senile ol' fool:

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Note: For you "oldie" music fans, Black and White Night is well worth the watch; you won't
believe who's playing in the band.

Has anyone lost at least some confidence in Chad Weiberg yet?
Conference re-alignment still has a way to go, but in case no one has noticed, both men’s and women’s basketball are absolutely disasters. I don’t think he plans to do anything right now (with men he can’t), but he could do something about Littell.

Who here thinks it's a good idea to have ballot drop boxes? IMO having a drop box opens up all kinds of opportunities for voter fraud and ballot harvesting. If states have two weeks of early voting, numerous polling precincts and people who are physically unable to go to the polls can request absentee ballots there is absolutely no reason to have ballot drop boxes unless you support voter fraud.

Retail spending drops 1.9% in December much worse than expected.

Jobless Claims rise more than expected to 230,000.

Wholesale prices jumped record 9.7% in last 12 months

What a great job Democrats and the Bide Administration are doing destroying the country. Oh well might as well get ready for Democrats to come up with another multi trillion-dollar boondoggle that does nothing but drive up the national debt and allow Democrat political cronies to profit.

Anyone else watch this show? What did you think of it?

If you haven't watched the show and you like Steve Martin and Martin Short and have and ounce of an interest in murder mysteries then you'll like this show. There are a few weird things that make you scratch your head but they DO get explained. I am really excited to see what they do for season 2!

January 13, 2022

Biden’s poll numbers are bad, especially with a demographic he really needs​

By Andrea Widburg

Qunnipiac released a poll today and the numbers for Biden are disastrous. In his first year—his honeymoon year when the leftist media will do anything to promote him—his numbers keep going down, down, down. On every subject, Americans think he’s doing a lousy job. What should be even more frightening for Biden is the fact that Hispanics, who are as necessary a demographic for Democrats as Blacks are, think Biden is doing a terrible job.

The American people are not happy with Joe Biden. According to Quinnipiac’s data, only 33% of Americans approve of what he’s doing with 53% disapproving. Just two months ago, his job approval was at 36%. For the most part, Democrats are still willing to support him, with 75% approving. However, they’re peeling away from Joe quite quickly because, two months ago, 87% approved of him. At that rate, within two more months, he’ll be in the low 60% among Democrats.

Moreover, Americans are disappointed with Joe on every metric (34% approval on the economy, 35% on foreign policy, and 39% on his response to COVID). These are all areas that saw him making big promises during his limited campaign appearances, only to disappoint on a massive scale.

What’s also fascinating is contrasting the poll results with Joe’s inaugural speech, during which he insisted that, after the divisive Trump years (divisions that came from leftists who refused to accept his presidency), Biden himself would be the “unity” president. He’d bring Americans together. But even before Biden’s angry, demagogic rant on Tuesday, Americans understood that Biden was anything but unifying. Forty-nine percent say he is dividing the country, while only 42% see him as a uniter. Another promise broken—and Americans have noticed.

For those inclined to say that the Quinnipiac poll is an outlier because other polls give Biden slightly higher marks, that’s true but irrelevant. As Scott Adams used to say when I was listening to his podcasts a few years ago, what’s really important is the trend. If there’s a consistent trend in one direction or another, that’s the message you should take away, regardless of slight variations in numbers. And about that trend?

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Quite possibly the scariest thing in the poll for Democrats is the fact the Hispanics have given up on Joe Biden:

Hispanic voters were least supportive of Biden’s job performance, with 28% saying they approve of how he is handling his duties, compared to 32% of white voters and 57% of black voters. Just 25% of independent voters said they approve of Biden’s performance, while 57% said they disapprove.

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If the Democrats cannot get a majority of Hispanic voters, they cannot win. Unfortunately for Democrats, their economic policies have been devastating for Hispanics. Additionally, many Hispanics are traditional enough to dislike having abortion and the LGBTQ+++ agenda forced upon them.

And here’s something to chew on: About 15 or so years ago, someone very familiar with politics (and I can’t for the life of me remember his name) said that there’s no question that all Democrat presidential candidates get a 10-15 point boost from the media. In other words, if Biden were not a Democrat and was being judged on his current record, his numbers would have his popularity at around 18-23%.

The big question, then, is how long the Pravda Press can prop up this appalling president before the entire Potemkin Village they’ve created collapses, revealing in its entirety the squalid wreck that is the Biden presidency. Certainly, the stream of Democrats announcing that they will not seek reelection suggests that Democrats are anticipating that the wall will fall soon and hard.