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I'm not going through all of them, but taking the time to check out and learn that the first two on his list are not nearly as bad and that at least the one has indeed faced objections really blows a hole in his point.

Senator Kennedy starts quoting the book 46 seconds in. I will make three points nothing in the Vampire Academy books from the link of the steamy scenes contains such graphic detail as Some Boys Aren't Blue. feel free to read/listen to both. apparently Duff goes into even less detail there are indeed objections to the Vampire Academy books being appropriate for school libraries

Does The DUFF have inappropriate scenes? Sex, Romance & Nudity. Sex-related themes permeate the movie. Crude jokes/references right off the bat include talk about what boys would like to do to girls ("banging," etc.). Teen couples also kiss/make out, sometimes passionately, and imagine/allude to having sex, but no graphic nudity. ------- I've found actual excerpts from Vampire Academy... https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/vampire-academy/sex-quotes-4.html starting to think theres not nothing near as graphic as what Senator Kennedy was reading in the Senate... the sex scenes aren't so nearly in the steamy detail of the gay porn in libraries. no talk of "lubing up" and "feeling him inside me"... ----- IT also seems that calls were made for these books to be reoved as well even though the sex in them are already less graphic.

You know what, maybe you've succeeded. I'm not familiar with any of them but teen girl romance stuff... if you have any explicit juicy excerpts, I'll have to throw in the towel.

They use their mohelers. Sorry, Sorry. Couldn't help myself, I'll leave the discussion now

Find me a hetero book that involves teen sex and reads like Not all Boys are Blue or Gender Queer (if you can) and I'll find you a book that already isn't in any school library anywhere, although Roman Polanski and R. Kelly might have a personal copy.

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I didn't know this. What a waste. I presumed they would pitch him 40 times a year then , between starts, they would (do something like) park his ass at first base for the other 120 games. Why let that bat ride the bench?

They don't have the Y2K Ravens D. That's an all-time best, once in a generation D. Them and the '85 Bears. Twice in our lifetime. Add Jamal Lewis or Walter Payton and stir for sixty minutes before serving up an L. Nobody compares and even Trent Dilfer can QB a team like that to the Super Bowl.

1) San Francisco 49ers 9-3 (3) 2) Baltimore Ravens 9-3 (2) 3) Philadelphia Eagles 10-2 (1) 4) Dallas Cowboys 9-3 (5) 5) Miami Dolphins 9-3 (6) 6) Kansas City Chiefs 8-4 (4) 7) Detroit Lions 9-3 (8) ------- Buffalo Bills 6-6 (9) 9) Houston Texans 7-5 (11) ----- 10) Los Angeles Rams 6-6 (14) 11) Seattle Seahawks 6-6 (12) 12) Green Bay Packers 6-6 (19) 13) Indianapolis Colts 7-5 (16) 14) Denver Broncos 6-6 (13) 15) Pittsburgh Steelers 7-5 (10) 16) Cleveland Browns 7-5 (15) 17) Cincinnati Bengals 6-6 (21) Maybe Browning is fool's gold... maybe not... put them with their AFC North rivals for now 18) Los Angeles Chargers 5-7 (17) 19) Minnesota Vikings 6-6 (18) 20) Jacksonville Jaguars 8-4 (7) Sux for the Jags. I've no idea what to do with them, so I found Minnesota and slid them just under. -------- 21) Atlanta Falcons 6-6 (22) 22) New Orleans Saints 5-7 (23) 23) Las Vegas Raiders 5-7 (24) 24) New York Jets 4-8 (20) I've finally given up the ghost 25) Chicago Bears 4-8 (25) 26) Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5-7 (26) 27) New York Giants 4-8 (29) 28) Tennessee Titans 4-8 (28) 29) Arizona Cardinals 3-10 (30) 30) Washington Redskins 4-9 (27) they play like they've given up ------ 31) Carolina Panthers 1-11 (31) 32) New England Patriots 2-10 (32) ----- My criteria is if I were a .500 team with a league average offense and a league average defense, who would be hardest team to beat through who would be the easiest pushovers.

Hopefully they win their next two games so they can rest their starters for the last two. They'd be locked into the three seed and need to get healthy more than they need to beat Dallas and Minnesota. Alim McNeil, CJGJ, and James Houston may return and Frank Ragnow. Get as much of the band back together because this team use to do some damage before all the starters began to go down and they lost their mojo. Hopefully.... Denver and Minnesota are .500 teams playing for their playoff lives that won't just roll over.

I don't wish "defund the police" on any community unwilling to vote for a pro-criminal/ anti-cop mayor. So congrats Dallas. The city should maintain its reputation as a reasonably decent enough big city with Democratic, but adult leadership. That's about the best you can expect.

1) San Francisco 49ers10-3 (1) 2) Baltimore Ravens 10-3 (2) 3) Dallas Cowboys 10-3 (4) -------- 4) Philadelphia Eagles 10-3 (3) ------ 5) Buffalo Bills 7-6 (8) 6) Kansas City Chiefs 8-5 (6) 7) Miami Dolphins 9-4 (5) 8 ) Cleveland Browns 8-5 (16) 9) Detroit Lions 9-4 (7) 10) Jacksonville Jaguars 8-5 (20) Sorry, 20 was a mistake ranking last week because I didn't know WTF I was doing. It looked to me that Lawrence was done for the year ----- 11) Cincinnati Bengals 7-6 (17) 12) Denver Broncos 7-6 (14) 13) Houston Texans 7-6 (9) 14) Los Angeles Rams 6-7 (10) 15) Green Bay Packers 6-7 (12) 16) Minnesota Vikings 7-6 (19) 17) Seattle Seahawks 6-7 (11) 18) Indianapolis Colts 7-6 (13) ----- 19) New Orleans Saints 6-7 (22) 20) Chicago Bears 5-8 (25) 21) New York Jets 5-8 (24) 22) Pittsburgh Steelers 7-6 (15) Ugh! L's to the Cards and Pats in back-to-back weeks is a disgrace. 23) New York Giants 5-8 (27) 24) Los Angeles Chargers 5-8 (18) 25) Tennessee Titans 5-8 (28) 26) Atlanta Falcons 6-7 (21) 27) Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6-7 (26) 28) Las Vegas Raiders 5-8 (23) ----- 29) Arizona Cardinals 3-10 (29) 30) Washington Redskins 4-9 (30) 31) New England Patriots 3-10 (32) ------ 32) Carolina Panthers 1-12 (31) My criteria is if I were a .500 team with a league average offense and a league average defense, who would be hardest team to beat through who would be the easiest pushovers.

They're in a vast, vast no-man's-land that separates the terminally average from the truly elites. Jacksonville is in there with them as are the Flacco-led Browns. When the season started, I thought win the division and a home playoff game was going to be par. As it went on, I had a glint in my eye with some Super Bowl aspirations. Well, those took a serious hit when they got spanked by Baltimore. Then it morphed into "maybe we can get to the Super Bowl if we can land the #1 seed and have home field on SF and Philly and hopefully Baltimore isn't waiting for us there." Now it's back to when the season first started ... settle for the three seed and win a home playoff game. This team isn't as good as SF, Philly, and Dallas. The NFC East runner up will get to smash the NFC South winner, meanwhile, the Lions will get a home game against the next best team. If they win, they will go get smoked in the next round. Ideally they win the next two games, then rest their starters for the last two weeks of the regular season and try to get healthy.

Um... you can't compare a Mahomes team to a Dilfer team. There is no similarity. You need an elite defense and an elite RB. The Trent Dilfer comparison in 2023 would be something maybe the Browns could say, with former sofa riding 38 y/o Joe Flacco. You don't need to go back in time that far for a better example. For a team led by an elite QB like Mahomes and his 2023 Chiefs, a better comparison would be just a few years ago. There was another elite HoF QB similar to Mahomes who took over Jameis Winston's 7-9 Tampa Bay team and dragged/willed them to the Super Bowl.

1 By way of contrast, to see the QB inflation, compare 2023 to 2024 at ed's link, Deshaun Watson CLE QB $63,977,000 2 Dak Prescott DAL QB $59,455,000 3 Patrick Mahomes KC QB $57,358,269 4 Kyler Murray ARI QB $51,857,000 5 Matthew Stafford LAR QB $49,500,000 6 Daniel Jones NYG QB $47,105,000 7 Josh Allen BUF QB $47,056,281 8 Derek Carr NO QB $35,700,000 9 Russell Wilson DEN QB $35,400,000 10 Lamar Jackson BAL QB $32,400,000 11 Jared Goff DET QB $31,650,064 12 Geno Smith SEA QB $31,200,000 13 Joe Burrow CIN QB $29,714,000 14 Jimmy Garoppolo LV QB $28,517,000 15 Kirk Cousins MIN QB $28,500,000 16 Tua Tagovailoa MIA QB $23,171,000 17 Justin Herbert LAC QB $19,345,675 18 Aaron Rodgers NYJ QB $17,161,112 19 Jalen Hurts PHI QB $13,558,800 20 Trevor Lawrence JAC QB $11,707,019 21 Zach Wilson NYJ QB $11,184,307 22 Jameis Winston NO QB $10,668,000 23 Ryan Tannehill TEN QB $9,200,000 24 Taylor Heinicke ATL QB $9,000,000 25 Bryce Young CAR QB $8,626,153 26 C.J. Stroud HOU QB $8,245,282 27 Jordan Love GB QB $7,757,731 28 Anthony Richardson IND QB $7,725,916 29 Mitchell Trubisky PIT QB $7,556,666 30 Jarrett Stidham DEN QB $7,000,000 31 Justin Fields CHI QB $6,004,713 32 Trey Lance DAL QB $5,310,714 33 Mike White MIA QB $5,210,000 34 Andy Dalton CAR QB $4,967,000 35 Mac Jones NE QB $4,959,294 36 Kenny Pickett PIT QB $3,836,701 37 Case Keenum HOU QB $3,375,000 38 Marcus Mariota PHI QB $3,068,000 39 Cooper Rush DAL QB $2,875,000 40 Brian Hoyer LV QB $2,770,000 41 C.J. Beathard JAC QB $2,420,000 42 Baker Mayfield TB QB $2,300,000 43 Nick Mullens MIN QB $2,275,000 44 Will Levis TEN QB $2,168,674 45 Kyle Trask TB QB $1,761,244 46 Davis Mills HOU QB $1,661,577 47 Desmond Ridder ATL QB $1,462,626 48 Malik Willis TEN QB $1,407,300 49 Tyrod Taylor NYG QB $1,400,000 50 Hendon Hooker DET QB $1,299,778 51 Jake Haener NO QB $1,091,204 52 Stetson Bennett LAR QB $1,089,785 53 Sam Ehlinger IND QB $1,087,677 54 Sam Howell WAS QB $1,075,400 55 Aidan O'Connell LV QB $1,042,345 56 Skylar Thompson MIA QB $1,005,554 57 Brock Purdy SF QB $1,004,252 58 Clayton Tune ARI QB $1,002,656 59 Dorian Thompson-Robinson CLE QB $1,000,568 60 Sean Clifford GB QB $996,045 61 Bailey Zappe NE QB $985,000 62 Jaren Hall MIN QB $984,819 63 Tanner McKee PHI QB $961,630 64 Tyson Bagent CHI QB $923,333 65 Tommy DeVito NYG QB $915,000 66 Teddy Bridgewater DET QB $500,000

After that it's a massive clusterfock and you can get a defendable/valid ranking of the next eight or nine by putting them a hat and pulling them out at random.

Turkish football leagues suspended after team president punches referee (youtube.com) This is how they handle (allegedly) bad officiating in Turkey. I've not seen the call/non-call that triggered this, but the president of the football federation was livid and the official was visited in the hospital by the country's president. IMO something like this should be reserved for egregius examples of bad officiating such as the "complete the process" a$shole at the Bears/Lions game 13 years ago or on any official who has the temerity to throw a flag on the Chiefs with under five minutes left in a close game.

Mitchell put up good FF numbers because he a stacked team around. As far as Ws and Ls go, he himself was always the problem. There's a reason every Detroit fan who lived through that era despises Scott Mitchell. In the recent Bye Bye Barry documentary, Jeff Daniels and Eminem speak for all of us, as does Wayne Fontes of all people. With the game on the line, Mitchell became the anti-Elway. He wilted in the 4th quarter and with maddening regularity found creative ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Detroit fans at that time were criticized in national media for booing our goalie and our quarterback by focking as$holes who didn't watch every game like we did. That's because both were stacked teams, and the most critical position was manned by an incompetent loser. We knew what good quarterbacking and goaltending looked like because we saw it regularly wearing the colors of the other team. We booed because Tim Chevaldae, Bob Essenza, Rodney Peete and Scott Mitchell were all bums. Mike Vernon and Chris Osgood were not elite goaltenders but they were good, and the Red Wings won Cups with each of them. Both were worlds better than the likes Chevaldae and Essenza. Same could have been true with the Lions. Even just an average, competent quarterback along the lines of a Derek Carr or Jimmy Garapolo would have been a big upgrade, let alone an actually good QB who could have had them right there with Dallas and the 49ers. Despite having a black hole loser, perennial choker at QB, those 90s Lions were otherwise regularly one-and-done playoff wildcard teams. It was impossible for Lions diehards not to hate Scott Mitchell.

This is going to be a great ending too.

I presume Tennessee has been playing pretty scrappy all day. I wouldn't know, I just checked in every once in a while because I was always wondering if Tua got hurt or something.

Good job on that final drive Giants. That was a relief.

I guess Miami scored a couple of TDs while everyone for Tennessee was too busy watching the highlights from other game on the jubotron.

Go Giants! I can't believe they're not just winning but actually outplaying the Packers. Hopefully this continues.

I'd rather rely on any practice squad WR from any team than Cadaverous Toney. Sight unseen.