Sniffles at school

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and some are panicking. I remind them it’s FLU season in Ohio and it’ll be pretty much like EVERY flu season in Ohio for most of the last roughly 75 years!

From The WHO’s greatest hits: A Genius Award for Airborne Transmission

OUT ON A LIMB: COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure. A key lesson of the pandemic.

OOPS: Paxlovid doesn’t cut risk of long COVID, study finds.

Standing Athwart Abusive COVID Policies

UNEXPECTEDLY! Mask Mandates Officially Return In California.

LOSS OF CREDIBILITY: ‘The Science’ Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds: A separation of science and politics might be called for. A GREAT idea.

Lawsuit: COVID Vaccine Injury Claims Diverted to Unconstitutional ‘Kangaroo Court’

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Lockdowns’ evolutionary pressure made Covid virus more transmissible earlier.

Scattered

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And not in the Waffle House way.

I was told over a decade ago that blogs were dead and replaced by podcasts. Now podcasts are AWESOME but the reports of the death of blogging are greatly exaggerated. FIGHT THE ALGORITHMS! “Time for a blog revival. Some of us have never left.” Preach it!

I’m now expecting a return to running in the next season rather than 2-3 as planned. Canadian swim competition allows 50-year-old transgender professor to compete against 13-year-old girls

BILL QUICK: You’re Going to Miss Reality When It’s Gone.

For those not paying attention D&D has not only gone woke (no surprise) but full 1984! What we can learn from WotC’s Core Book Sensitivity and Inclusivity Changes: Alphastream

All Hail the Grocery Store

Remember that budget increase “we” gave the IRS so they could pursue top 10% scofflaws? “New Years’ Nightmare”: IRS Targets Gig Workers, Sends 30 Million New Tax Forms

Upcoming posts on Covid. Again. The defense of Israel. Again. Climate change. Again. The decline of the American government schools. Again. Voting irregularities. Again.

tsun Week

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Roughriders went down to defeat last week. Not surprised they lost but Soph QB (3rd in the state in passing) was carried off the field in the first quarter. NOT a “good” way to lose. Top receiver graduates. We’ll see what next season holds.

Quite the week in college football. No surprise for the Buckeyes (on the field anyway.) Hairball investigation terminated. Still no idea why. And fwiw Day’s brother is NOT a PI in Michigan. Jus’ sayin’.

Top four going into this week’s play? tsun. TOSU. UGA. And then it gets weird. Not gonna lie. I just don’t see FSU or Washington in this slot. Bama, Oregon and Texas are all better. Eight team playoff? Nah. The final two will be the Big ? winner vs UGA. And my WORST prediction? tsun by a figgie or four. And I hope I’m wrong.

Saints didn’t lose this week, strengthen their grip on the NFC South and prep for the dirty birds this week. Chiefs and Ravens my picks in the AFC. Eagles Niners in the NFC. Saints 21-20. Likely to host the Cowboys. They’ll lose by a TD.

Will the next be like the last?

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as an appetizer: AT THIS POINT IT SEEMS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT LIKELY: Is Biden’s Classified Docs Scandal Connected to the Biden Family Business?

There WAS no problem last time …. right? RIGHT?  Hundreds of 2020 election voter registration forms from Michigan appear fraudulent.

Don’t Blame Ballot Harvesting Scandals On Drop Boxes

THIS IS PARTICULARLY HILARIOUS SINCE VOTE BY MAIL HAS MY POOR STATE-OF-THE-HEART BEYOND THE REACH OF THE VOTES OF ITS ACTUAL INHABITANTS: Democrats Seek To Disenfranchise Coloradans From Voting For 2024 Frontrunner.

As in: How scared do you have to be to do this?

Judge overturns local election after Democrat official caught stuffing ballot drop boxes. Come for the story, stay for the memes.

Election fraud cases break out in 3 Democrat-run states, new voting ordered in one

Rep. Jim Jordan just released a damning report on censorship before the 2020 election. Here were all the people targeted by our government and their friends in academia and Big Tech 👀

ABSOLUTELY NO FRAUD, EH? Why do you think California just made it illegal to count ballots by hand?

ONE DAY. IN PERSON. ID. PURPLE FINGERS. UNTIL THEN IT’S ALL MAKE BELIEVE:  Election Fraud Is Real and Needs to Be Fixed Before 2024.

THIS IS FINE AND ALSO NEVER HAPPENS: Pennsylvania Voting Machines Changing Votes Sparks Outrage.

WE NEED TO CLEAN UP OUR ELECTION PROCESS:  Election Chaos: Machines Down, Vote Flipping, Gas Leak & Police Pursuit [VIDEOS].

If this were happening in some other country, we’d be invading them and monitoring their elections.

From America’s paper of record: Trump Swing-State Lead Expected To Hold Until 3 A.M. On Election Night

Election Fraud Deniers Are The Real Threat To Democracy

FIVE REASONS the 2020 Election FAILED

Saw

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So the good folks over at Flickchart wrote a review of Saw: X which included a listing of all the saw movies.

  • Saw (2004) – 56%
  • Saw X (2023) – 54%
  • Saw VI (2009) – 52%
  • Saw II (2005) – 44%
  • Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) – 33%
  • Saw IV (2007) – 32%
  • Saw III (2006) – 32%
  • Jigsaw (2017) – 21%
  • Saw (2003) – 8%
  • Saw V (2008) – 6%
  • Saw 3D: The Final Chapter (2010) – 3%

My list looks more like this:

Saw200489%
Saw200354%
Spiral: From the Book of Saw202151%
Jigsaw201746%
Saw VI200930%
Saw 3D: The Final Chapter201023%
Saw II200523%
Saw V200817%
Saw III200614%
Saw IV200714%

And I have not yet seen Saw:X. Analysis: Great idea/concept but became boring and repetitive.

What does YOUR Saw chart look like.

Football crunch time

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Roughriders beat the Cadets by more than they did in ’21. Next up: The Garaway Patriots – only undefeated D VI team in the state. This is the Elite 8. Will be within a FG.

ONU closed out the season with another win. Buckeye’s won by a ton as predicted. tsun won even though their coach was serving three hours in time-out. They’re probably the best team in the country but they cheated to get there so we’ll see what happens. Buckeye’s are a solid #2 with the Dawgs third. tsun and Ga both have SoS over 60! We’ll put FSU 4th with the Huskies outside looking in. Also perched to pounce are Alabama, Oregon, and Texas. Bama benefits from a Georgia loss but Oregon gets no help from a Washington loss. Buckeye’s within a score of tsun. Georgia will probably top Bama but it should be slim.

Saints found a way again this weekend and lost three players in the process. Bye week is welcome. Chiefs and Ravens top the AFC. Eagles and Niners on the NFC. Both of my FFL teams are a win away from qualifying for the playoffs with three games to go.

On Veteran’s Day

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Not sure if I’ve shared this before but I’ve told the story a dozen times.

My FFL was found in 1985. In 1987 a young man I knew from theater asked for a team and we brought him in. He was with us until 2003. After his first few years he was assisted by his dad who took over a team of his own from 1994 through 1999. Meanwhile in 1997 we had an opening and a co-worker (Viet Nam era Marine) took the spot.

97 was quite vocal about his service. I’d known 94 for years and nary a peep. In those days we had a spring meeting in April to introduce new owners and discuss rule changes. The ’97 meeting was held at the York steak house on the west side. (Tried to take our annual draft back there this season but they weren’t interested in hosting us.) Introductions were made. I mentioned to 94 that 97 was a Marine Nam vet. 94 quietly observed that he wasn’t a Marine but that he saved a lot of Marines in Nam. 97 bristled and thought “here we go!”

“NOBODY saves a Marine but another Marine. What the hell were YOU?”

94 simply replied “I flew air evac.”

97 paused …. thought a moment …. then said “you guys DID save a lot of Marines!” They shook hands and were quite good friends the next two seasons.

Friday night football

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And Saturday afternoon. And evening. And Sunday morning (live from Frankfort.)

West Jeff takes on the Fort Frye Cadets in Lancaster tonight. Last played them 11/20/21 and beat them 16-14 for the regional title on the way to losing to Coldwater in the Final Four. Tonight? Roughriders by 7-10.

Buckeyes will romp Sparty by 30+. tsun and PSU will be withing a point. Top four? tsun is good but haven’t played anyone as good as PSU. We’ll put them in the top spot pending investigation. Buckeyes #2. Alabama has played the toughest schedule in the country but has a loss as does Oregon, Texas and PSU. A Penn State win this w/e will go a long way to making them the #4 team. Georgia’s schedule is on par with tsun but undefeated puts them at my #3. Florida State gets #4 with Washington on the outside looking in. Side note: Kansas State might be the best three loss team ever.

Saints are marching. They’ll play the Vikings tough but find a way to lose in the final five minutes. Rest on the NFL? Chiefs and Bills with next week’s Ravens/Bengals winner maybe leapfrogging. Eagles are kind of alone with the 49ers and Cowboys dueling to lose the George Halas Trophy.

Audition issues

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I remember the old days when a theater would hold 2-3 days of auditions, the committee would put there heads together and cast the show and then you start rehearsals. Whole process took 4-5 days. We began auditions in June. Couldn’t cast so show postponed to January. We auditioned this weekend and we STILL can’t cast the show. I’ll not be directing again.

We DID have a wonderful young man audition. Parents are Eastern European (or Western Asian?) and he’s home schooled. Had a home schooled young man at my table last month as well. This is NOT your father’s homeschooling. And that’s a GOOD thing. Speaking of schooling:

The government schools (K-12) aren’t teaching anything: Math professors: Incoming students can’t even add fractions, subtract

NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION IS THERE A PROVISION FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL EDUCATION: Federal Education.

CHAOS IN THE SCHOOLS: California Students Can No Longer Be Suspended for ‘Willful Defiance’:  Could Nationwide Change Be Next? It’s closer than you might think.

TEACHERS ARE #JUSTWALKINGAWAY TOO:  We’re Making Teaching Miserable for Teachers Yes. Yes we are.