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The Party of the Well-Educated Offers the Least Well-Educated Candidates

November 15, 2024

The Party of the Well-Educated Offers the Least Well-Educated Candidates​

By Robert Weissberg

NS - Prayers Work

Sorry for the distraction but I am shouting hallelujah and saying thanks to the Lord. For the first time in three months I woke from a nap with no back spasms or sciatic nerve pain. It has been a rough patch since Extreme Camp when unexplained I tweaked my lower back on a walk back to the Atherton. No running, no dancing, no stumble after drinks just bam. Went on my yearly elk hunting trip sitting most of the time in a rocking lawn chair at camp. I enjoy my cot but spent most evenings sleeping in the chair under a heavy dose of muscle relaxers by the fire. Had a elk tag, never picked up a gun. I never take prayer for granted and the latest round were answered. If you have issues or need just a moment of peace. Bow you head and ask God to intervene. Thanks for listening.

Mizzou @ Virginia Tech

Hokies look pretty tough, up 17-0 through 157. Looks like Mizzou will get a win at 165 with Cam Steed up 4-0 so far. Hokies got major decisions at 149 and 157. Surtin didn’t wrestle at 125, I guess he is injured. Looks like Rocky Elam is not wrestling tonight either. Hokies are going to cruise tonight. Our dual with them on December 19th will definitely not be easy.

The Gaetz appointment is a masterstroke

November 15, 2024​

The Gaetz appointment is a masterstroke​

By Fritz Pettyjohn

Lisa Murkowski is itching to vote against firebrand Matt Gaetz as attorney general. She may not get the chance. If the new Senate leadership recesses the Senate for three days, Gaetz can take office as a recess appointment, circumventing the confirmation process. It remains to be seen if Senate Majority Leader John Thune will play ball.

The Gaetz appointment is a giant middle finger to those in the Justice Department who have harassed Trump since before he took office in 2017. It started with the Russia hoax, and it's been going on nonstop for eight years. The final straw came when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, including searching Melania's bedroom, purportedly looking for evidence of a crime.

Trump will not allow this invasion of his wife's privacy to go unavenged. Heads will roll down the entire chain of command that was responsible for this travesty. If these people are smart, they're already packing their bags.

If Thune refuses to allow a recess appointment, it's highly unlikely Gaetz can be confirmed. If that's the case, Trump's replacement appointment, regardless of who it is, will look reasonable by comparison.

Gaetz also serves to distract attention from other controversial appointments, such as Pete Hegseth for Department of Defense.

The Department of Justice is infused with arrogance. These people think their loyalty is to their ideas about the law, not to the democratically elected President who appoints them. As the execrable James Comey put it in the title of his book, they have A Higher Loyalty.

But the courts decide the law, not the Department of Justice. They are the President's lawyers and are obliged to advocate for him. President Trump, with his appointment of Gaetz, is putting these people in their place.

It's pleasant to think that this is just the beginning of four years of fearless leadership.

To: Syskatine

Say 3 genuinely nice things about Trump and/or the potential of his upcoming administration and/or opportunities to become better as a party (dems).

I'll go first:
I'm thankful for the opportunity for a (hopefully) wiser Trump to lead a *team* of people that are all rowing in the same direction toward what they feel will be beneficial for all Americans.

I'm thankful that the election was clean and resulted in a call for change, as much in the rejection of Democratic vision/practice/execution as it is the acceptance of anything Trump promises.

To elaborate, I feel there's a controlling faction in the Left that is doing everybody but themselves a disservice. You and others have a chance to boot them...for the better health of your party and resulting in a better health of the nation. This is not a rejection of the Left; it's a message to reform and get better. I embrace that, as there may be a point in the future that I need an alternative to shifts in political party preferences.

I hope Trump leads graciously and doesn't get baited into unnecessary flamethrower. That will disappoint me.

I hope you kick the race and gender hustlers to the curb or at least the back seat. I hope you bring in fresh, new blood.

Anywho, I hope this finds you well and that you can maintain good spirits. Everything is gonna be alright.*



















*Until the incarceration encampment vans arrive.

Jk. Lol

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OSU v. Utah Valley

The Cowboys travel to Orem Utah on Friday to face the Utah Valley Wolverines at 8:00 (CST). Looks like it will be carried on Flo. rankings are Intermat/Flo and expected starters via wrestlestat. Utah Valley beat CSU Bakersfield 25-15, and lost to Stanford 29-12 and Nebraska 32-7 so are 1-2 on the year.

125: (6/6) Troy Spratley (0-0) v. Bridger Ricks (4-2). Jr. Transfer Ricks went to OT against top 5 ranked Caleb Smith (Nebraska) last weekend so he could be a little dangerous. Still hard not to pick Spratley here for a major (4-0)

133: (33/33) Cael Hughes (4-0) or Reece Witcraft (0-0) v. Kase Mauger (5-2): Kase is a senior with an overall 35-30 record and should be easy work for either guy. Tech fall. (9-0)

141: (14/12) Tagen Jamison (4-0) v. Haiden Drury (6-1). Drury kept it close v. #4 Brock Hardy last weekend only losing 4-0. Could keep it close here too, but IF this is Tagen, I think he gets a MD like he did last March. (13-0)

149: (18/21) Carter Young (0-0) v. Q'veli Quintanilla (1-2) or Tanner Frothinger (2-3). Q'Veli started their first dual, but Frothinger has gone the other two and was pinned pretty quickly by Ridge Lovett. Neither will match up with Young. Tech fall. (18-0)

157: (8/12) Teague Travis (0-0) v. Ryker Fullmer (3-2): Fullmer got teched by Anterll Taylor (Nebraska) and I expect much the same here. (23-0)

165: (5/6) Cam Amine (0-0) v. (6/7) Terrell Barraclough (5-0). Obviously the match of the night. Barraclough is a really good wrestler who was stuck behind elite wrestlers for much of his time at Penn State. He is 47-19 for his career and has 2 pins and 3 majors in his first 6 matches this year with only his match against #7 Hunter Garvin (Stanford) being close (11-9 win). Im going to give this one to Bear Claw for the simple fact that he's been wrestling matches for 2 weeks and might be a little more prepared. (23-3)

174: (5/4) Dean Hamiti (0-0) v. Mark Takara (3-2): Takara was teched by the two good guys he's wrestled this year (Lenny Pinto and Lorenzo Norman), and Hamiti is better than either of those guys. Pin. (29-3)

184: (3/3) Dustin Plott (0-0) v. Caleb Uhlenhopp (4-2): Although Uhlenhopp kept it close v. #6 Silas Allred, Plott is another level. MD using on a TF here. (33-3)

197: (19/20) Luke Surber (0-0) v. Kael Bennie (2-3): Bennie was able to hold off AJ Ferrari to the 3rd period before losing by TF. Look for Surber to want to make a statement. MD, but close to a TF (37-3)

HWT: (2/2) Wyatt Hendrickson (0-0) v. Jack Forbes (3-1). Hendrickson pinned him last year in the first period. Will happen again. (43-3)
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