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My fav college Qb is CJ Carr ND
Still has some deveopement to do
I think he comes out after next season rather than this one


Mestemaker Okahoma St is an exciting prospect too
Also needs developement - very inexperienced
Anticipate he plays next season in college as well

Satellite image reveals major damage that shut crucial Saudi oil pipeline
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BBC A satellite image of a damaged oil refinery BBC
Satellite imagery shows a key oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia has been badly damaged after a strike last week, which experts have told BBC Verify could take more than a month to repair and force oil prices even higher.

The image shows the most significant damage is at a pumping station along the East-West Pipeline, which Saudi Arabia has increasingly relied on to export crude oil via the Red Sea rather than through the Strait of Hormuz, where ships have been attacked by Iran and the US during their six-month war.

The Saudi government has accused Iranian-backed militias in Iraq of the pipeline strike, which followed days of renewed missile and drone attacks on south-western Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi group - which is also backed by Iran. Saudi Arabia has retaliated by carrying out strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of western Yemen.

New satellite images also show damage to Saudi Arabia's King Khalid Air Base after a Houthi strike last week.

The Saudi government said on Tuesday it would respond "firmly" to attacks by the Houthis.

While the Houthis have been fighting a long-running civil war against Saudi-backed Yemeni pro-government forces, the group has stepped up its campaign in recent weeks.

It seized control of significant new territory across Yemen's south-western coast last week, including areas overlooking the crucial Bab al-Mandab waterway, strengthening its ability to enforce its declared blockade of Saudi shipping.




The price of a barrel of oil has surged since Saudi Arabia said on Friday it was closing the pipeline as a precaution. Brent crude was trading as high as $108 (£80) a barrel on Tuesday, down slightly from $109.80 on Monday.

Experts from trade intelligence firm Kpler said the pipeline's closure could reduce oil supplies by as much as 3.6 million barrels per day - or about 3.6% of global demand.

"Based on new information we've received, damage to the pipeline could take four to six weeks to resolve, given spare-parts availability and impaired supply chains," said Homayoun Falakshahi, Kpler's head of crude oil analysis.

Anne-Sophie Corbeau, from the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, said pipelines are "like sitting ducks" and recent strikes are a "very important signal" indicating workarounds being used to avoid the Strait of Hormuz "may not be super useful because they can be destroyed".

The Houthis have targeted other Saudi oil infrastructure with drones and missiles which has led to some operations being suspended.


There have also been attacks on military bases. New satellite images captured on Monday show damage to Saudi Arabia's King Khalid Air Base near Khamis Mushait which the Houthis said they had targeted with ballistic missiles and drones last week after it was used to carry out air strikes on Yemen.

At least three aircraft hangars or shelters appear to have been damaged at the Royal Saudi Air Force facility where US-made F-15 fighter jets are based.

An image highlighting damaged hangars at King Khalid Air Base
The Saudi-led anti-Houthi military coalition of Arab states said on Tuesday that a Houthi missile and drone attack had injured 13 people in attacks on what the coalition said were "civilian objects".

The Houthis said Saudi Arabia had carried out with more than 50 strikes in western Yemen over the previous 24 hours.

The UN Refugee Agency has said that more than 100,000 people have been internally displaced by the renewed conflict.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c65yw2gq2nrno

And yet, the article you were quoting characterized it as something needed in the future. And you fail to mention the accurate part of their concern.

Unfortunately, your comprehension of what comprehensive actually means appears to leave a lot to be desired.

It was, but it was more about any government taking power away from individual people. Unfortunately, many states governments are going the way he was complaining about the Fed going.

The growth of state governments is pretty crazy when you step back and think about it.

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edit: I'm for smaller more transparent government over huge bureaucracies where it is easy for information to get hidden/lost. Too much of the behind the scenes machinery is about maintaining the power of the governing rather than acquiescing to the desires of the governed. The States of today were the Fed of the past.

OCD in the house! Congrats bro!

I changed my pick to the Browns 15 minutes before kickoff as a tribute to GM's eternal optimism.

That was my offering to the gods, the gods told me to take a hike.

GM probably laughed and called me a dumbass. 🤣

Darnold lost with losing franchises, he won with winning franchises.. for reference on the info below Darnold was 17-32 during the time Baker was with the Browns a 34.7% win rate.
the Ravens were wining division titles long before Lamar Jackson came along
The Bills were 33-31 the prior 4 seasons to Josh Allen being drafted and coming off a playoff season

The Browns were 11-53 during those exact same 4 seasons coming off a 1-31 run leading up to Baker Mayfield being drafted. Baker took the Browns to the playoffs for the first time since 2002 and won the first playoff game since 1994. He was given 4 years to turn the franchise around and returned them to respectability. He took a 0-16 team and won 7 games his first season. He was 29-30 as the Browns starter, the most prolific QB since Bernie Kosar... let that sink in.

4 winningest QBs in Browns history:
Otto Graham 81%
Brian Sipe 59%
Bernie Kosar 51%
Baker Mayfield 49.2%

Is .500 a milestone? Of course not, but in the annals of BROWNS history, he stands above most others that donned the uniform.


I wouldn't judge that draft by it's cover, these QBs have endured/enjoyed very different situations during their careers. We don't know what they would look like in each other's shoes.


What we do know is that draft produced 4 winning QBs... I think the 2027 draft will produce at least that many.

Prosecutor brought in to lead investigation of Trump foes tells AP that he has resigned his position

WASHINGTON (AP) — An ally of President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has resigned from his post leading a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president.

The departure of Joe diGenova injects instant tumult into an investigation targeting former government officials who have scrutinized Trump over the last decade, including in connection with Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

“I did in fact resign,” diGenova told The Associated Press, calling it an “honor and a privilege” to serve Trump and the Justice Department.

Though diGenova declined to comment to the AP on the circumstances of his resignation, a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss a personnel decision said the departure came amid mounting frustration from the Justice Department and White House over the pace and management of the probe.

In an interview later with The New York Post, diGenova responded to criticism of his management of the investigation by saying, “If you want indictments where there’s no evidence, you have an ethical problem.”

When reached again by the AP, diGenova said the comments were taken out of context, adding: “There’s plenty of evidence in all of these cases to prove the theories of prosecution. It just takes time to get there, and some people want to get there a little faster than others — and you can’t do that.”

The investigation has always been something of a tall order, aiming to present separate and unrelated inquiries of the president as part an anti-Trump conspiracy by law enforcement and intelligence professionals. Though promoted by the White House, and seized on by Trump supporters looking for accountability against what they see as “deep state” intelligence community actors, the conspiracy investigation has proceeded in fits and starts since its inception a year ago.

The 81-year-old diGenova served as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during the Reagan administration and for years has been a prominent Trump ally, including backing his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and publicly and repeatedly claiming that the president was the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy.

He was brought back to the Justice Department in April and given the reins of the loosely defined investigation.

Five months later, no charges have been brought and it remains unclear whether any will be, or what information has been gathered to support any basis for the idea of a plot against Trump by the government officials who investigated him.

Investigators have sought interviews related to the 2022 FBI search that recovered classified documents from Mar-a-Lago and have also focused intensely on one of Trump’s chief grievances: a U.S. intelligence community assessment that Russia interfered on his behalf in the 2016 presidential election. The assessment has long infuriated the president, along with a Justice Department special counsel investigation into Russian election interference that shadowed him during his first term.

That special counsel investigation identified widespread Russian interference in the election but did not find evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the Trump campaign. Multiple other government inquiries, including by the Justice Department inspector general, have identified significant errors and omissions in the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia probe but did not find evidence of criminal conduct by senior law enforcement officials.

The yearlong conspiracy investigation has hit stumbles before. Last April, a lead national security prosecutor in the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan was replaced on the team after raising questions about the strength of the case. Days later, diGenova was sworn in.

Brennan has been investigated on allegations that he lied to Congress about the creation of the intelligence community assessment, which he and his lawyers have vigorously denied. In July, he sued the Justice Department for a court order requiring the preservation of all records from the investigation, forecasting plans to challenge any potential indictment of him on vindictive prosecution grounds.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-russia-probe-5741c227d76e813c01923df943b8544e

LMAO - Jon Stewart is dumb? Because he's been pointing out the hypocrisy and stupidity Trump and MAGA fanboys for years? . . . Or is he dumb because that's such an easy target and not challenging?

Yes, Trump is a steaming pile of evidence.

Yet, lacking a stench doesn't mean there aren't other piles hidden elsewhere despite your insistence on sniffing the obvious pile.

Garrett is out. Now, it's time for Watson to fall in line.

nailed it.

9/11 goes back to a time where we didn't get instantly alerted to breaking news. I was in college. Had a 2 hour lecture that morning. I didn't know anything had happened until 10:30 when I went down to the lab and saw everyone huddled around a TV.

Not just yet.

Wow! Thanks for posting that.

Wow. What an incredible connection to Brian’s spirit, eh?

For eleven years, we watched him handle unimaginable hardship without a single complaint or 'woe is me' attitude. Outwardly, his body went through so much, but inwardly, his light only grew brighter. His mantra that 'every day is a good day' was proof that he was looking past that pain toward something much bigger. Pain is temporary... but his legacy, and his peace, are eternal.

Thanks for sharing.

Oh, the irony.

Nope. He has to be Bub "Refried" Means first, then graduate to "Means Business". At least that's how it worked with Natrone. 😉

Guards are now only one half game out of first in the Central.

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday did not commit to acting independently of President Trump, but he claimed the president has not and will not ask him to prosecute specific individuals.

Trump publicly pressured AG Bondi to take action against Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and former FBI Director James Comey. Trump directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate Democrats tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman. Trump, in an executive order signed Thursday, directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate allegations that Republicans have raised that ActBlue allows illegal campaign donations.


“There’s a big difference between saying we will always do our job and investigate any case and act independently of the White House. No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that,” Blanche told host Kristen Welker on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

He later said, “If I were to pledge, I will be independent of the White House, what that means is that if President Trump says, ‘I want the Department of Justice to go after every violent criminal in this country’ — which is what he has said — what you’re saying to me is I should say, ‘No, sir, I’m not going to do it.’”

That would simply be him asking you to do your job. Not go after his political enemies or make purely political decisions and prosecutions based on politics alone.

Blanche also said he would “of course” take the president’s view into consideration before taking action, noting he hoped “every attorney general in history would not answer that question differently.”

Since taking over at the Justice Department in an acting capacity, Blanche has overseen the department’s prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey — who was fired by Trump during his first term — over an alleged threat to the president.

Comey, a frequent critic of Trump, denied threatening the president via his Instagram post of a photo depicting “86 47” written out in seashells on a beach.

Blanche also signed off on the creation of a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund as part of the president’s settlement agreement with the IRS.

Under that agreement, Blanche ordered the IRS to never again probe the taxes of Trump, his family members or his businesses — despite the tax agency falling under the Treasury Department. A federal judge has since reopened the president’s lawsuit against the IRS.

The Justice Department scrapped the fund amid bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill, with Blanche officially rescinding his initial order earlier this month in exchange for Republican Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) supporting his confirmation.

The Senate confirmed Blanche via a 50-49 vote last weekend, and Trump’s former personal attorney was sworn in as the full-time attorney general on Aug. 10.

When Welker asked Blanche what he would do if the president asked him to cross an “ethical or legal line,” the attorney general dismissed the possibility.

“The president will never ask me to do something unethical or illegal. He never has. He never will,” Blanche said Sunday.

The attorney general later remarked, “The president does not expect any of his leaders, including me, to just say yes to him no matter what he says. And so of course, there’s vigorous back and forth with every Cabinet member of the president of the United States, which is exactly what President Trump expects.”

“Again, there is this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up in the morning and calls me and says, ‘Todd, go prosecute X or Y.’ He does not do that. He has never done that. He will never do that,” he added.

Once again......
Trump publicly pressured AG Bondi to take action against Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and former FBI Director James Comey. Trump directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate Democrats tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman. Trump, in an executive order signed Thursday, directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate allegations that Republicans have raised that ActBlue allows illegal campaign donations.

The president previously urged Blanche’s predecessor, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, to speed up the prosecutions of multiple of his perceived enemies last year.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6032206-blanche-rejects-independence-pledge/

I thought something was up. That post didn't sound like you at all. Hope everything gets worked out.

In August, had an historical event in Colorado Springs. The National museum of World War 2 Aviation hosted 3 SB2C Helldivers. The only 3 in the world that fly. They did a sunrise flight along with a B-25, then a second flight around noon. Seeing 4 WW2 planes startup, taxi and sit in line waiting for takeoff was quite a sight.

Lmao… politicians would have to pass this. Find one on either side that never lies.