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For those people that had Women's reproductive rights as an issue.

The democrats have no plans at all to address this issue. They gaslight you, and they will never do anything about it, because they can't do anything about it. And yet you vote for them thinking they will address it. No one, I repeat , no one can pass any federal laws about abortion. The GOP is not going to ban abortion, because doing so would be unconstitutional. The democrats can pass no law allowing abortion because that too is unconstitutional. So what the hell are you people thinking? You are getting angry about something that you have no ability to change. The only way that democrats can legalize abortion is to pass an amendment to the constitution allowing abortion, and if you truly believe in your issue, this is what you have to do. Instead, you vote for the democrats in the hopes that they will either ignore the constitution, or destroy the constitution. Stop voting with your emotions and think logically (if that is even possible).

FOOTBALL ***Iowa State vs. Cincinnati game prediction thread (please read contest rules!)***

It's Cincinnati week, so let's get rolling with those predictions for the game against the Bearcats at Jack Trice Stadium.

1) Winner & margin of victory. (ex: Iowa State by six)
2) Total points scored. (ex: 52 points)
3) TIEBREAKER: How many passing yards will Iowa State finish with?

Number one will be the first determiner and then I'll take whoever gets closest to the total points. If needed, I'll go to the passing yards prediction to break a tie.

Contest winners will be rewarded as follows: first place (three free months added to your subscription); second place (two free months); third place (one free month).

Iowa State is currently an 8.5-point favorite and the over/under is 52.5 points.

***PLEASE NOTE***
YOU MUST HAVE A CURRENT SUBSCRIPTION TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN. THOSE WITH ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE BEEN 'CANCELED' OR THAT HAVE 'LAPSED' ARE INELIGIBLE.

BASKETBALL ***RELEASE: Hawley Out Indefinitely with Shoulder Injury***

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State senior Conrad Hawley will have surgery on his left shoulder this week and will be out indefinitely.

Hawley suffered the injury late in Iowa State's 83-44 season opening victory against Mississippi Valley State.

The Bench CEO, Hawley has appeared in 19 games in his Iowa State career.
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Updated Bowl Projections

Still avoiding that "L" Bowl in the town beginning with "M"...

Friday, December 27, 2024

Pop-Tarts Bowl
Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida)
3:30 p.m., ABC

Bonagura: Pittsburgh vs. Iowa State
Schlabach:
Notre Dame vs. Iowa State

Rocco

My opinion - Rocco needs to play better. He missed some key throws at critical times the last couple weeks which could have resulted in points.
In his defense, the OL can be criticized for not giving him enough time on occasion. His stat line isn’t bad - but what it doesn’t show was the make-up of the incompletions, such as the missed bunny to Klotz in the end zone. That was a well designed play he just needed to execute with a touch pass.. He’s not seeing open receivers at times, and is missing them too frequently when he does see them.
Given our injury situation, we really need him to be at his best each week, and we aren’t always getting that.
Now he isn’t the only party to blame for today’s debacle - he wasn’t responsible for pass coverage or QB pressure, but that is a subject for another post.

The Rising Nepal Daily on what Trump’s win means


Of course written by a CNN “journalist”.

What Station Did You Primarily Watch For The Returns?

I almost never watch FoxNews these days, but after listing to a Business Wars podcast, I had to check it out for the election returns. That podcast talked about how all the media used to get their projections from the same set of raw data, although I assume they each processed it in their own way. After the polls missed so badly in 2016 and again missing the red wave in 2018, FoxNews was determined to fix that and set out to improve those projections. I don't recall exactly what they did, but I think they gathering some of their own data. They wanted not only to be accurate, but to be first to call results. And they were apparantly very successful in the next election with whatever they did.

FoxNews was the first to call Arizona for Biden. That irritated Trump and he called them and told them to retract the projection, which they didn't. As a result they suffered in their ratings as conservatives turned to another, much smaller conservative outlet. As a result of that ratings hit the podcast told they gave extra coverage to the Trump claims the election was stolen. They lost one of their top personalities, who quit in protest since they knew there was no basis for the allegations. But the network kept driving that narrative to get those viewers back. And they did come back.

So anyway, long story short (with longer story below), I turned to FoxNews first to see how they called the race. They were indeed ahead of the other channels as I flipped back and forth cross-checking projects. At one time NBC had called more states, but that didn't stay that way for long. So I will let the many of you conservatives know that I mostly watched FoxNews coverage of the election. There were times their commentary was a bit too much, especially when the early returns were indicating something special was happening. They started to gloat a bit, but it was far too early for that, which I think they realized when their group-think went too far. They pulled back a bit.

The other thing I noticed while checking out the other major networks is the over-the-air guys sure broadcast a lot of commercials. It seemed far less on FoxNews or maybe I just didn't notice because they kept a side bar and ticker on during commercials.

I recently listened to a Business Wars podcast on CNN vs. FoxNews. These podcasts are usually pretty good, but I was particularly intrigued by this one leading up to the election. It covered the history of CNN starting a 24/7 news channel amidst much skepticism that there is that much news to report and more importantly would have much viewer interest. That was proven wrong especially with the ratings it got from covering the first Gulf War.

Upstart FoxNews had trouble breaking in to the market because the control Time Warner had on the cable market. Time Warner bought CNN from Ted Turner in the early days and also owned many cable stations. We all know FoxNews did finally break through. They were focused on the conservative viewpoint because of the belief the other news outlets were biased toward the liberal viewpoint. I guess that should be a surprise to no one just understanding where these major media players are located. They are in some of the most liberal locations in the country, whether it's New York or LA. Or even Chicago.

The FoxNews formula worked not just because they captured conservative viewers, but also because their shows were interesting to the other side and in the early days would have a liberal voice on some of their regular shows. I never thought they had the strongest liberal personality, but he probably knew his place as the Washington Generals of the channel.

CNN had wanted to cover the news objectively and stay away from leaning one way or another. That seemed to be more true in the early days, although most media had a liberal slant. My theory is they are located in liberal cities as I mentioned before. I suppose when Turner sold to Time Warner, the shift from Atlanta ownership to New York may have started the shift, whether it was intentional or not.

FoxNews was a ratings juggernaut, but they started to fumble the ball with controversies costing them their CEO and best personalities. Calling the 2020 Arizona race early cost them ratings, but their ratings recovered by fueling the stolen election narrative. That is shameful as it riled a lot of people up while knowing it was a bogus claim. It's pretty bad when you have what you hope is reliable media, making decisions based on what drives ratings. Journalism is dead.
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Democrats...The college educated party.

That was a comment on msnbc.

They don't understand how condescending that is.
They piss off:
The Republicans and who do have degrees.
All non college grads.
Independents who feel the dems are elitists.

As someone who has lived in small town Iowa with a college degree for 41 years. You just don't talk like that if you want friends.

They'd be soo much farther ahead to just teach and try to win people over. Instead they preach and blame demographics

Glenwood HS XC brag

Just got to give a shout out to the Glenwood, IA girls XC teams that are coached by my daughter. On Thursday night in Carroll, IA. The Glenwood teams swept the Hawkeye 10 Conference meet. Varsity, JV, and MS girls teams all came in first in their races.
Imo, the best achievement was done by the MS girls team. Last year they only had 4 MS girls out, and of course weren't in any team scoring in any meets.
This season a bunch of MS girls switched from sitting on the bench at VB games and joined the XC team.
They evidently learned how to run and compete in short order.
For the HS varsity and JV teams this was their 3rd conference Championship in a row, and the 4th in 5 yrs.
In the words of a University of Nebraska XC assistant coach in attendance at the meet Thursday: "These Glenwood girls have what it takes".
Now the real season starts next week for the HS Varsity girls with the State qualifying event in Harlan on Wednesday.
Crossing my fingers that the Glenwood girls continue to run well.
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