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Not much good for sure..

Didn't the Ravens just request to interview Jim Schwartz? That'll throw a Monkee in the wrench!

I'm not sure how you work, but if people want to work out a deal with me, the worst thing they can do is start out by threatening me....I'm very likely to tell them where to stick it.

Besides, Many deals are in place and have been for years. No need to threaten them. Your orange god is a damn fool for operating on this manner....

If you feel this response...


Over example #45,855 of the endless fraud and lying by our politicians...

is instigating, that's on you and your sensitivities.

I already responded to that. You chose not to read it.

We can talk about all that as soon as you admit you lied.

Your choice though.

I’d start fresh…new city, new team and new conference. I don’t want to go into my last teams place once a year. Too much unnecessary added stress. Willing to bet that’s what he does.

Yep. Severe sluggishness stopped pretty quickly after my last post and has been about 80% on point since then. Still a bit glitchy, not as bad.

Over the last few months, browsing isn't usually a problem. I usually see nothing wrong until I preview, click to full edit or actually try to execute a reply.

I've seen some reports that Iranian banks are closed and the regime has pulled something in excess of $500 BILLION from the banks.

People are taking over the capitol and I saw a video that claimed to show people tearing through the gates of one of the Ayatollah's estates.
It's getting more and more real.

What the Big Oil executives told Trump about investing in Venezuela

Leading U.S. oil executives told President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday that Venezuela will need major reforms to attract investment.

Trump said Friday the industry would invest at least $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela’s energy sector with U.S. security guarantees. But the CEOs of big oil companies like ExxonMobil
and ConocoPhillips

did not commit at the meeting to quickly re-enter Venezuela.

Exxon CEO Darren Woods told Trump that the Venezuelan market is “uninvestable” in its current state. Venezuela seized Exxon’s and Conoco’s assets in 2007, and Caracas owes the companies billions of dollars in outstanding claims from arbitration cases.

“We’ve had our assets seized there twice, and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here,” Woods told Trump at the White House. “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it’s uninvestable.”

Exxon is prepared to send a technical team to evaluate the current state of Venezuela’s oil industry and assets, Woods said.

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance congratulated Trump on ousting former President Nicolás Maduro. He said the banking sector will need to help restructure Venezuela’s debt and provide billions of dollars in financing for the restore the country’s infrastructure.

Lance also called for the restructuring of state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

“As we think that big and bold, we need to be also thinking about even restructuring the entire Venezuelan energy system including PDVSA,” Lance told the president.

Trump told the Conoco CEO that the U.S. government is not looking at recovering the assets the company lost during the 2007 nationalization.

“We’re not going to look at what people lost in the past, because that was their fault,” Trump said. “That was a different president. You’re going to make a lot of money, but we’re not going to go back.”

Chevron is the only U.S. oil major operating in Venezuela through joint ventures with PDVSA. Vice Chairman Mark Nelson said Chevron has a way forward to rapidly ramp up its production, which currently stands at about 240,000 barrels per day.

“We have a path forward here very shortly to be able to increase our liftings from those joint ventures 100% essentially effective immediately,” Nelson told Trump. “We are also able to increase our production within our own disciplined investment schemes by about 50% just in the next 18 to 24 months.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated Thursday that the U.S. might rely more on smaller oil companies, rather than the majors, to invest in Venezuela.

“The big oil companies who move slowly, who have corporate boards, are not interested,” Bessent said Thursday at the Economic Club of Minnesota.

“I can tell you that the independent oil companies and individuals, wildcatters – our phones are ringing off the hook,” Bessent said. “They want to get to Venezuela yesterday.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/wha...-trump-about-investing-in-venezuela.html

So you mean the people who do not have the 100 billion dollars to invest want in? That's exactly what that means...................

Trump 'inclined' to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela

HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — President Donald Trump is inclined to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela, he said Sunday.

He told reporters aboard Air Force One that he may exclude the oil and gas company from Venezuelan oil activities after its chief executive publicly expressed concern with them. Chairman and CEO Darren Woods said at a White House meeting with Trump and other oil executives on Friday that Venezuela is “uninvestable.”

“I didn’t like Exxon’s response. You know, we have so many that want it. I’d probably be inclined to keep Exxon out,” Trump said.

“I didn’t like their response. They’re playing too cute.”

Trump asked Woods at the meeting to speak after the president expressed hope that companies would invest in Venezuela. Woods said in response that there would need to be significant changes in the country’s legal and commercial frameworks in order to produce oil there. ExxonMobil’s property has been seized twice since it began working in Venezuela in the 1940s, the executive explained.

“And so, you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here and what is currently the state,” Woods said.

“If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s un-investable. And so significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to be durable investment protections, and there has to be a change to the hydrocarbon laws in the country,” the executive added.

Trump said on Sunday that he has guaranteed companies they won’t have any problems. Oil executives only had issues in the past because “stupid people” were presidents, Trump noted.

“We’re gonna have guarantees that they’re gonna be safe, that there’s gonna be no problem, and there won’t be,” the president told reporters.

The National News Desk requested comment from ExxonMobil but hasn’t received a response. Woods said during his remarks that he was confident the Trump administration will work with the Venezuelan government to implement necessary changes, though.

“With the invitation of the Venezuelan government and with appropriate security guarantees, we are ready to put a team on the ground there," Woods said. "We also have a integrated set of capabilities, from production to refining to trading, and I think we can be of assistance to getting the Venezuelan crude to market and realizing market price to help again with the financial situation in Venezuela.”

https://newschannel9.com/news/natio...en-woods-out-of-venezuela-oil-activities

How dare you question or anger the great and powerful Oz!

I agree. I feel Josh Allen is the best QB in football. He couldn't win with the players we have on O. No way!

That story rocks!

NFL Announces Each Quarter Of Playoff Game Will Be Broadcast On Different Streaming Service

https://babylonbee.com/news/nfl-ann...will-be-broadcast-on-a-different-network


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Losing Football Team Excitedly Introduces New Coach Just Fired From Other Losing Football Team

https://babylonbee.com/news/losing-...st-fired-from-other-losing-football-team

Start building Jose his statue outside of Progressive Field tomorrow. What a gem.

I never claimed he was the answer.

I said he was worth a flyer in the third round and he was not over drafted.

Don't try to twist what I stated.

Donald Trump has said “I don’t need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”.

Coming from someone who is morally bankrupt

Kev bids the fans a fond adieu.

Missing my son

And he is injured in game 5, and out for the season ......

DOJ says it has released less than 1% of its Epstein files and is still reviewing more than 2 million documents

The Justice Department on Monday said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1% – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told a federal judge in a Monday court filing that “substantial work remains to be done.”

Looking to update the court on their progress, they told Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York that the 12,285 documents the department has already released contain roughly 125,575 pages.

“There are more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” they added.

It comes after Congress passed a law in November – with near-unanimous support – giving the Justice Department a December 19, 2025, deadline to release all of its files about Epstein, the convicted sex offender who was accused of abusing dozens of underage girls. Epstein died by suicide in 2019.

The files are made up of papers, videos, photographs and audio files that live within the FBI’s main electronic case management system and largely originate from the FBI’s two major investigations into Epstein, in Florida and New York, spanning decades. A July 2025 FBI memo said that the department had uncovered “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence” during a review of the investigative materials.

“This work has required and will continue to require substantial Department resources,” the Justice Department wrote to the judge in the Monday court filing.

“We noted in our prior letter the hundreds of attorneys dedicated to the review at the time of that letter. Currently, and anticipated for the next few weeks ahead, in the range of over 400 lawyers across the Department will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to the Department’s efforts to comply with the Act.”

Trump appointees at the Justice Department have said they’re acting in good faith to release as much material as fast as possible, while also going through the painstaking work of reviewing every file to make sure victims’ identifies are shielded, as required by the law.

In a letter to Congress released on December 19, Blanche said the department was working “diligently” to meet the deadline but that the “volume of materials” meant it “must publicly produce responsive documents on a rolling basis.”

The Justice Department announced in late December that there were more than a million more newly discovered documents potentially related to Epstein – and that they would take “weeks” to review and release them.

And as CNN previously reported, the Justice Department’s leadership also asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the the holidays to help redact the documents.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/epstein-files-justice-department-review

Grandpa speaking to his grandson about the good old days....

"Yes Billy, back in my day we had to use the CIA, secretly fund and hide their operations from the public to steal another country's resources. Those days are long gone."