This may be one of the oddest football victories I've ever heard of...

Dateline:  Florida

Buchholz High is playing West Port in a Florida high school football game.

Buchholz scored on three of it's first four offensive plays to go up 21-0 about three minutes into the game.

Then, as they go to kick off for at least the third time in three game minutes, lighting in the area suspends the game and then calls it.

I can attest from my Debbie Gibson MLS trip in 1997 -- severe weather in Florida is NO JOKE this time of year!

The interesting part of it?  The game was recorded as a 21-0 victory for Buchholz, even though just three minutes and eight seconds of the game were played.

No chicanery involved.  Just file this under "how is that allowed"?

Buchholz is 4-0.  West Port has won a game this season.

A Day of Conspiracy Theories, Part III: Clancy Case and the one holdout...

OH SHIT.

When I end up having to agree with a right-wing slut on X, we've got a problem.

A lot of people, however, were standing up for the one juror, presuming he was male, who held out that Lindsay Clancy was sane.

I wonder how they might be feeling today.

NBC 10 Boston has reported that the holdout juror, a Black male, was arrested in 2021 for domestic violence.  Charges were dropped, true -- but would that not have been enough for a pre-empt??

There's also, NBC 10 found, a restraining order against the guy.  Which it would have to have been believed would've been reported at the time of the questionnaires -- resulting in what would have to have been immediate disqualification.

In 2025, NBC 10 learned, a nephew referred to in the restraining order was shoved to the ground by the juror and punched in the face.  That did get a restraining order.

Sassafrass84 is correct, but not in the way she wants:  The jury was factually tainted, and probably in a perjurious manner.

A Day of Conspiracy Theories, Part II: America Day and Dick Cheney

You know what today is.

25 years ago today, over 3,000 New Yorkers, many of quite a bit of money, where annihilated when the World Trade Center fell, the Pentagon was hit, and a fourth plane taken down by the passengers in Pennsylvania.

I don't think I need to tell you of the conspiracy theories which have followed in the last 25 years (most surrounding that the act was not of a plane variety but as a direct bombing run on at least the first three planes' part).

To that end, a couple questions:

• We all knew where President Bush was.  If this was just a coordinated attack on the basis of felling American institutions, why didn't a plane take out that elementary school in Florida, and him?  (Sans incompetence, which I'll get to in a second.)
• The standing theory is that, when the planes were effectively swapped out in a missile scenario, the planes were taken to undisclosed areas and the passengers eliminated there.  If that was the case, however, don't you think someone would've tried to escape the plane or overpower the terrorists (much as what happened with Flight 93 over Pennsylvania)?

Another conspiracy theory is that both towers of the World Trade Center were taken out with controlled explosions from underneath.  This would probably account for the visible collapse of both towers during that phase of it.

But wouldn't such explosions take out the better part of multiple city blocks?  How do you not lose half of Manhattan in that scenario, especially in the massive plumes of smoke which made Manhattan all but uninhabitable for the better part of September 11, 2001?

Now, that does NOT mean I don't believe in one major conspiracy theory:  That agents of the United States government (led by Vice President Dick Cheney), in the aim of a secretive plot called the Project for a New American Century, orchestrated the attack with the aid of the relevant Saudis, etc.

And I'll give you a number of pieces of at least suspicion to that end (several correctly asked -- and it's one of the few things he IS right about -- by Karl Denninger):

• Nothing then-prohibited was on the planes, even though one would have to wonder how else you deal with box cutters (one of the threatened weapons the terrorists used) or similar implements would have any other use thereto.
• Saudis were allowed, under the national stop, to use private planes to leave the country.  Who were they and why were they allowed to leave?
• Two of the hijackers apparently rented a room from an FBI informant.  A year before.
• The general incompetence of the American government at large.  And I can give you two points on that:  Any such attack SHOULD FIRST target the President (no matter whom he or she may be nor their political party), especially if the aim is to fell American institutions -- first financial, then military, then...
• ... there's always been the question of the fourth plane and it's destination.  I think any person can figure out with clarity that fourth plane was to take out an in-session Congress.  But the second point of incompetence is that the time distance between the first and fourth plane was so large that, once the terrorists took over the fourth plane, the passengers knew they were dead and were going to take the terrorists with them and force at least that portion to fail.  Which see Flight 93 over Pennsylvania.

Not LIHOP.  Not MIHOP.  Full orchestration.

One more comment to Karl:  I get that you basically make clear that, if you were President at the time, you'd have nuked Mecca.

At that point, you would then be forced to nuke Islam straight off the planet Earth -- meaning any nuclear-capable Islamic state goes with them, including making sure Saudi Arabia no longer exists.

Why?  Something you don't get, either foreign or domestic.

The concept of people who have absolutely nothing left to lose.

You nuke Mecca, rightly or otherwise, and you start a holy war with a culture of people who have no problems martyring themselves for their 72 virgins (one of the reasons your premise of sending them to Hell fails -- even if they are going there, they don't believe so here!).

Something to keep in mind.

A Day of Conspiracy Theories: Part I: COVID

I have long asked this question of the White Right Anti-Vaxxers...

And, though the answer is not directed at me personally, I must give points for the attempt to actually frame an answer to the question consistent with the "it's the vaccines" belief.

(In fact, given more reflection, I think it's likely that this person actually falls into the "There Was No COVID At All" camp, which has it's own ramifications.)

I do frequent White Right rags like the supposed American Thinker to see what the people who want to kill me and those close to me think.

Well, today, I actually see an article from Antonio Chaves (which I will not link).

I have long asked the question that if it is the vaccines, how do you explain the nearly 3% drop in life expectancy in the United States in 2020 and 2021, knowing that the vaccines were not largely available to the general public until well into 2021?

Chaves' answer?  The opioid epidemic.

He DOES provide a significant chart -- an Asian death year over 2010 baseline chart of the COVID Era which shows a far more significant death pattern between the ages of 25 and 45 (I would dare say, the "Died Suddenly" crowd, those most susceptible to dying of cardiac arrest where no known other cause would be other than either COVID, Long COVID, or what they believe is the vaccines...), and since the accepted numbers from the CDC attribute a massive explosion in deaths in that age range to the opioid epidemic (since 2000), that all the excess deaths in that age range can basically be, instead, applied to opioids instead -- driven by the isolation protocols of the day.

There are several problems with this:

• If this were the case, why has the life expectancy recovered since the vaccines became widely available?  
• It would stand to reason that the only way the life expectancy could recover at that point (especially if 25-45 were drugging themselves to death in obscene numbers) is if basically all the addicts died off.  True especially because many of said addicts would be unemployable 25-45s, and hence the end of the isolation protocols would make no material difference to them.
• You still don't account for the number of dead FAR EXCEEDING even the admitted COVID death tolls (almost certainly now the better part of an order of magnitude)...  If you're willing to state that you believe that comes from a massive number of opioid deaths (which would be declared desirable deaths by the right-wing, not unakin to the fat, lazy, etc. you wanted to die to COVID...)
• Since you don't, then, believe any virus then existed, are you then willing to make the charge that staff at nursing homes throughout the country committed mass murder by smothering their clients when they were no longer of (financial) use, etc.?

I give you points for actually answering the question consistent with your political stands.

But I think you are far under the mark unless you are willing to make even more monstrous charges than the vaccines or the fact there was no virus at all.

Well, does this mean Puka Nacua has blown up the Rams again?

Still under league investigation for a New Year's Eve allegation he bit a woman, Puka Nacua and the Superteam Rams promptly laid one hard in Australia this morning:  27-7 -- and it was never really competitive.

Certainly not the kind of game the NFL would like to present, especially with two marquee teams, in it's International Series...

Unless...

Stay tuned on this one.  Puka Nacua admits issues with alcohol and a dark time in his life.  They're probably delaying further legal action so he continues to play.

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And Green Bay's Josh Jacobs has pled no-contest to his misdemeanors, clearing the way for a six-game suspension for domestic violence under the Personal Conduct Policy.  He is now on the Commissioner's List -- but I do not anticipate that will be for long.

You DO get paid on the Commissioner's List -- you DO NOT under suspension.

And I think the books get it:  Minnesota is a 1.5 point favorite.

Take them and give the point and a half.  My advice only.

Extension and Further Remarks From Last Night's Pigfucker Bribe

The more I think about it, the more I think it's endemic to this blog.

Donald Trump's $5,000 a head bribe if the Republicans retain both houses of Congress is massively inflationary in the Republican mindset.

And then there's the question of how to pay for it.

I think it's clear how he's going to pay for it:  A massive pile of millions of American dead bodies.

It's BLOOD MONEY.

Start with the transgenders, that's 3 million gone.

Then you kill all the homeless, that's another million admitted and probably far more.

Then the lifers in prison and the mentally ill.

Are we getting to the point of a trillion dollars believed saved yet?

If not, then you get to the noncompliant, and then start sprinkling in some "Communists and Socialists" (read: Democrats).

PS:  And then a Zerohedge commenter with another prescient point.  Most of the money, he believes, is going to end up in prediction markets or fantasy sports (or both).

And then I remembered how much of a stake the Trump regime has in the former!

PPS:  The Republicans will hold the Senate.  I've always believed it, but last night's stunt by Fetterman to actually appear in support of Trump at the REPUBLICAN midterm convention should seal the deal for the general public.  Even if the Democrats get to 51, he then jumps.

As the minority party, he can drag the party to the right.

Well, Pigfucker's finally done it...

He is openly bribing the country to vote his oinkers back into Congress.

I guess it IS consistent with running the country like a business -- but, at tonight's first-ever midterm Republican convention, he's bribing every American adult with $5,000 each if the country votes both halves of Congress Republican.