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Lightening…. That will always stop the game and then they have to wait for no strikes for 30 minutes before they can restart the game…

Totally surprised but I am glad that the committee got some of it right… I really thought that Georgia was in as no team being #1 in next-to-last CFP never dropped out of the playoffs… Though technically they still have two SEC teams in there…

Noon ET tomorrow…. As cmh said, the rest of the bowls are also announced…

That might be Texas only chance over Georgia, but with the SEC love and Georgia had won 29 or so in a row and the last two champions, I think the committee will want someone to win the title over Georgia…

If Michigan wins, I think it will be… 1) Michigan 2) Washington 3) Alabama 4) Georgia I hope I am wrong, but that is my guess…

Been done before…

Georgia is in…. The committee will want Georgia to defend their titles plus they lost only by three and since the committee loves the SEC, Alabama is in… Washington is the third team…. Michigan will be in with a win…. I think Florida State needs to win and have Michigan lose…. I could be wrong but this is what I am thinking… If Michigan and Florida State both lose, Texas will get in…

I was thinking more of the quote (changed a little): “To call Tim stupid is an insult to stupid people”…

With Georgia and Washington already in, it will have to be a Texas miracle IMO… If Alabama beats Georgia, Alabama will be the third team and that just leaves the last spot for Michigan or Florida State…. If both lose, then Texas would probably get in…

https://wtop.com/national/2023/12/retired-justice-sandra-day-oconnor-the-first-woman-on-the-supreme-court-has-died-at-age-93/ WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, has died. She was 93. The court says she died in Phoenix on Friday, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. In 2018, she announced that she had been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease.” Her husband, John O’Connor, died of complications of Alzheimer’s in 2009. O’Connor’s nomination in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan and subsequent confirmation by the Senate ended 191 years of male exclusivity on the high court. A native of Arizona who grew up on her family’s sprawling ranch, O’Connor wasted little time building a reputation as a hard worker who wielded considerable political clout on the nine-member court. The granddaughter of a pioneer who traveled west from Vermont and founded the family ranch some three decades before Arizona became a state, O’Connor had a tenacious, independent spirit that came naturally. As a child growing up in the remote outback, she learned early to ride horses, round up cattle and drive trucks and tractors. “I didn’t do all the things the boys did,” she said in a 1981 Time magazine interview, “but I fixed windmills and repaired fences.” On the bench, her influence could best be seen, and her legal thinking most closely scrutinized, in the court’s rulings on abortion, perhaps the most contentious and divisive issue the justices faced. O’Connor balked at letting states outlaw most abortions, refusing in 1989 to join four other justices who were ready to reverse the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that said women have a constitutional right to abortion. Then, in 1992, she helped forge and lead a five-justice majority that reaffirmed the core holding of the 1973 ruling. “Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles of morality, but that can’t control our decision,” O’Connor said in court, reading a summary of the decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. “Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.” Thirty years after that decision, a more conservative court did overturn Roe and Casey, and the opinion was written by the man who took her high court seat, Justice Samuel Alito. He joined the court upon O’Connor’s retirement in 2006, chosen by President George W. Bush. In 2000, O’Connor was part of the 5-4 majority that effectively resolved the disputed 2000 presidential election in favor of Bush, over Democrat Al Gore. O’Connor was regarded with great fondness by many of her colleagues. When she retired, Justice Clarence Thomas, a consistent conservative, called her “an outstanding colleague, civil in dissent and gracious when in the majority.” She could, nonetheless, express her views tartly. In one of her final actions as a justice, a dissent to a 5-4 ruling to allow local governments to condemn and seize personal property to allow private developers to build shopping plazas, office buildings and other facilities, she warned the majority had unwisely ceded yet more power to the powerful. “The specter of condemnation hangs over all property,” O’Connor wrote. “Nothing is to prevent the state from replacing … any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory.” O’Connor, whom commentators had once called the nation’s most powerful woman, remained the court’s only woman until 1993, when, much to O’Connor’s delight and relief, President Bill Clinton nominated Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The current court includes a record four women.

What is her degree going to be in?

Not that I care, but thank God...

I couldn't stand her character on "ER"...

Name 2023 votes Percent Years on ballot Bobby Abreu 60 15.4 5th José Bautista 1st Carlos Beltran 181 46.5 2nd Adrián Beltré 1st Mark Buehrle 42 10.8 4th Bartolo Colon 1st Adrián González 1st Todd Helton 281 72.2 6th Matt Holliday 1st Torii Hunter 27 6.9 4th Andruw Jones 226 58.1 7th Victor Martinez 1st Joe Mauer 1st Andy Pettitte 66 17 6th Brandon Phillips 1st Manny Ramirez 129 33.2 8th José Reyes 1st Alex Rodriguez 139 35.7 3rd Francisco Rodriguez 42 10.8 2nd Jimmy Rollins 50 12.9 3rd Gary Sheffield 214 55 10th James Shields 1st Chase Utley 1st Omar Vizquel 76 19.5 7th Billy Wagner 265 68.1 9th David Wright 1st

Maybe he was nervous? Don't worry though, he will shake it off...

Maybe you work with a lot of prunes that don't do that kind of stuff...

What was said joke?

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And rightfully so... These "award" shows are supposed to celebrate them, but De Niro has so much hatred for Donald Trump, he can't help himself... https://ew.com/robert-de-niro-reads-censored-speech-gotham-awards-8407247 Robert De Niro may be an actor, but unless you're a screenwriter, you probably don't want to put words into his mouth. Or take them out of his mouth, for that matter. At the Gotham Awards tonight, De Niro was accepting the Gotham Historical Icon and Creator Tribute award on behalf of Killers of the Flower Moon, when he noticed a sizable chunk of his speech had been omitted from the teleprompter. That's when he went back and read his original speech off of his phone. “I just want to say one thing,” De Niro said. “The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out, and I didn’t know about it. And I want to read it." He continued, "History isn’t history anymore. Truth is not truth. Even facts are being replaced by alternative facts and driven by conspiracy theories and ugliness. In Florida, young students are taught that slaves were taught skills that could be applied for their personal benefit." De Niro went on to reference a quote from John Wayne about "taking this great country away from" Native Americans and rebuking former President Trump for lying "to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office. And he’s keeping up the pace in his current campaign of retribution." Noting after that was where his speech on the prompter kicked in, De Niro expressed his anger at being censored. “So I’m going to say these things but to Apple and thank them and all that,” De Niro said. “Gotham, blah blah blah, but I don’t really feel like thanking them at all for what they did. How dare they do that, actually. But now I will go to accepting the award." Apple and the Gotham Awards did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

That long ago? Eesh...

It wasn't then, but times have changed for sure...

Hell I have enough issues playing on normal, can't imagine how often I would get the word on the hard level...

I doubt it... It really depends on how much Reiner and the Spinal Tap crew aren't extreme lefties and have it come out in the script... Hopefully they can put that aside and just make a funny movie, but I have my doubts... When "History of the World Part II" came out, since Brooks didn't write everything and got a lot of new writers and current "comedians" to write it, it turned out just awful...

I have always wanted to see them as well... Them and 2Cellos...

Yes... Way too much Chiefs and Kansas love... Drives everyone up the wall...