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Hey coach Cig, you turned around the Hoosiers, but I bet you can't turn around the Browns.

Kev bids the fans a fond adieu.

Trump says US will do something on Greenland 'whether they like it or not'
ALEXANDRA HUTZLER
Fri, January 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM EST
3 min read


Trump still wants US to take over GreenlandScroll back up to restore default view.
President Donald Trump on Friday continued to press for U.S. control of Greenland, telling reporters: "We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not."

"Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor," Trump said as he hosted oil executives at the White House to discuss investments in Venezuela.

The president has repeatedly said he wants to take over Greenland either by buying the autonomous island territory or by using military force, calling it a matter of national security despite fierce pushback from Greenland, Denmark and European allies.

US military is 'always an option' for Trump to acquire Greenland, White House official says

"Greenland is not for sale. I think our Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and our Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt has made it very, very clear. Our country belongs to the Greenlandic people," Jacob Isbosethsen, Greenland’s head of representation to the United States, said to journalists on Thursday after a closed-door meeting with members of Congress.

When asked on Friday for how much money he believed it would take to get Greenland on board with his proposal, Trump said, "I'm not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that."

"I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way," Trump said.

High-profile Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have also poured cold water on Trump's aim to acquire Greenland.

"I think it's been made clear from our Danish friends and from our friends in Greenland that that future does not include a negotiation. There's no willingness on their part to negotiate for the purchase or the change in title to their land, which they've had for so long," Sen. Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after meeting with Isbosethsen and Denmark's Ambassador to the United States Jesper Møller Sørensen on Thursday.

"There is no reason for a negotiation around who controls Greenland because Greenland and the United States and Denmark have been allies. We share the same values, we have worked cooperatively together," Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said after the meeting.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of Trump's top allies, notably dismissed any assertion that the U.S. would use military action to acquire Greenland.

"I don't think anybody's seriously considering that. And in the Congress, we're certainly not," Johnson said at a news conference on Wednesday.

Rubio says Trump wants to buy Greenland while White House dangles military option

ice President JD Vance on Thursday said to take Trump at his word on the issue and defended the administration's interest in the island territory.

"I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the president of the United States seriously," Vance told reporters at a press briefing with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

"No. 1, Greenland is really important, not just to America's missile defense, but to the world's missile defense. No. 2, we know that there are hostile adversaries that have shown a lot of interest in that particular territory, that particular slice of the world," Vance said.

Next week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to meet with his counterparts from Denmark and Greenland after they requested an urgent meeting with him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-us-something-greenland-232840265.html

You can say that again!

Speaking of Jan 6; remember when an unarmed Ashli Babbitt "got what she deserved"?

Any way the wind blows...

Ravens complete interview with Kevin Stefanski

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ravens-complete-interview-kevin-stefanski-204730231.html

Missing my son

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

Family Stages Intervention Over 40-Year-Old Dad's Skinny Jeans

https://babylonbee.com/news/family-stages-intervention-over-40-year-old-dads-skinny-jeans

I see you dodged every point I made entirely. No surprise there.

This playoff has been a good one for Carson Beck. He has commanded the Miami offense. Showed ability to manage a game when necessary. Keep drives alive executing throws or using his legs. Executed 3 late game winning drives. I don't think he will get back into the top of the draft discussion, but he is playing his way into a late first early 2nd round pick.

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

Yeah, I've been seeing this, too. I'm trying to figure it out, but every avenue I've gone down has been a red herring.

It is definitely not a resources issue on the server, it seems to be more like a deadlocking issue in the database combined with excessive amounts of activity from internet bots. They aren't a server load problem, per se, it's just that the (my theory) number of them increases the chances of the deadlocks occurring. One of the previous issues that is now handled was those bots basically crashing the "Who's Online" table in the database.

I think "economy is booming" is only if you take some big liberties with the data. I can understand wanting to take a victory lap on the economy given all the doom-and-gloom from earlier in the year not really materializing. That said, unemployment is a problem, and inflation is still something we're dealing with.

Overall, I don't agree with you at all regarding the political shift. The Trump admin continues to push the envelope on things that were already trending in the wrong direction (hyper-partisanship, governing via EO, pushing both parties further to the fringes being some examples). None of these things started with Trump, but he not only continues to push these in the wrong direction, but also seems to like to add his own little "flourish". These are things that, when the voters decided to whiplash back to the DNC, their stooge is going to do the same things and then Republicans are going to complain like it hasn't been happening within their own admins.
Specifically with Trump, however, is he seems perfectly fine eroding/attacking bedrock elements of our government. Founding-Father level stuff.

I'll hold back on my thoughts regarding the US's international footing internationally. I don't particularly care for our treatment of our allies, however it's interesting how some countries are responding. The emergence of the Coalition of the Willing and their recent announcement of troops in Ukraine without "daddy" is something I doubt would've happened without getting smacked around a little (so to speak).

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."

Makes me glad that I don't live in Cuyahoga County and won't be paying for it.... and I hope the courts block their intention to use the Ohio's Unclaimed Funds... that money isn't anyone's to touch for ANY reason.

I'm becoming more convinced that AI actually means "Almost Intelligent"

thanks guys

Vietnam's economy grew 8% in 2025, highest in three years

Exports increased 17% to $475 bn despite US 'reciprocal' tariffs

https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/vietnam-s-economy-grew-8-in-2025-highest-in-three-years

Make Vietnam Great Again?

It can't effect the strength of schedule since both teams are in the the AFCN.

#6 it is.

I don't think Sanders was over drafted in round 5. At that point in the draft you are drafting a QB with very low odds of succeeding. It's much akin to throwing a hail Mary. And the results we are seeing is that the hail Mary pass they threw fell incomplete as they most usually do.