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    NFL 2025 Offseason/ Draft

    1. Titans - Cam Ward 2. Browns - Shedeur Sanders Both are franchise quarterbacks.
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    Soda Pop Wars: MAGA vs MAHA

    I disagree. I did the Atkins (low-carb) diet and lost 30 pounds all while drinking lots of Coke Zero, Mt Dew Zero, Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi, and Diet Dr Pepper and my blood tests show I'm not even close to being diabetic. And even before I did low-carbs and after I stopped, I drink a lot of this type of pop and I'm still healthy.
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    Soda Pop Wars: MAGA vs MAHA

    Purchasing pop with Snap should be a non-issue. People get fat and diabetes drinking too much fruit juice just the same. Plus, most pop sales are diet, not sugar/corn-syrup based.
  4. Since this did happen, it was a mistake, and needs to be cleaned up. In other news, where is the news on what is going on between the US and Yemen now and the state of the shipping lanes? Seriously, our news does not report on what is important, and has ADHD with moving on to something else the next day. Or, I just don't know where to get news.
  5. Good for you. As for me, I've just always filed my taxes as soon as possible in late January. I always get a refund so I want it as soon as possible, plus I just want to get the annoyance of filing taxes out of the way as soon as I can so I don't have to think or worry about it anymore.
  6. So the order was can't take off. It sounds like the order didn't reach them prior to take-off. So, oh well, those last two planes are not part of the order.
  7. Motor vehicle homicide. This is today's news in the city I live in. https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-sarah-root-alleged-killer-court-appearance-bond/64275795
  8. This war is mostly Biden's fault and others within the US govt at the time Biden was VP and POTUS. He created the circumstances that led to this war, and then fueled it without a plan for winning.
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    Zelensky and Ukraine Thread

    Ukraine attacked Russian energy after the Putin-Trump deal, but before Zelensky spoke with Trump.
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    Zelensky and Ukraine Thread

    Yes. Correct. I don't know. She didn't have any more information regarding the Yale tracking of Ukraine kids that seems to have been stopped.
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    Zelensky and Ukraine Thread

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clynp1nldmxt
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    Zelensky and Ukraine Thread

    Today 3/19/2025 Trump asked Zelensky "about the children who had gone missing from Ukraine during the war, including the ones who had been abducted". She added that the US president vowed to "work closely" with both the Russian and Ukrainian sides to ensure those children are returned him.
  13. He wrote a report? Are you sure about that? Link? I don't think he documented anything. The document was based on the investigation of JFKs assasination based on what his friend reported him telling them. That's not the same as him writing a report himself. https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/jfk-files-who-is-gary-underhill-in-assassination-files/
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    Examples of fascism

    The internet isn't forever.
  15. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-hillary-clinton-jfk-jr-and-2000-new-york-senate-race/5993292002/ Kennedy, then 38, was clearly on Clinton’s radar, Gillon writes, and one of the first lady’s advisers said the camp was “scared" over his potential candidacy. Meanwhile, one of the pros Kennedy had approached, New York union leader Dennis Rivera, assured him at a meeting on St. Patrick’s Day 1999 that state Democratic power brokers would tell Clinton to “stand back” should Kennedy chose to enter the race, Gillon writes. For his part, Kennedy was hesitant, asking “will people take me seriously?” before bailing on the race days later. “I don’t think it’s time for me,” Gillon quotes him as saying. Besides, the author adds, Kennedy’s magazine, which sought to highlight the connection between politics and entertainment, was struggling. And his young marriage required nurturing. Clinton, meanwhile, forged ahead with her plans. On July 6, she filed the paperwork required by the Federal Election Commission to begin raising money. That was followed by her “listening tour” to see if New Yorkers would accept someone who had never lived in the state as a candidate to represent the them in the Senate.
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    Israel first!

    Israel Intelligence is linked to THE INVESTIGATION OF THE Kennedy assassination, not to the planned or carried-out killing itself.
  17. If you believe the CIA was involved based on one guy's friends hearsay that a small CIA clique killed Kennedy because he was on to their illicit money laundering, drugs, etc scam, then I don't know what to tell you. Anyway, that's not the same as the leader(s) of the CIA being involved for political reasons.
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    Israel first!

    If those documents are legitimate, the Israeli Intelligence in brackets to be redacted was a decision back in 1998.
  19. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/us/billie-sol-estes-texas-con-man-dies-at-88.html Billie Sol Estes, a fast-talking Texas swindler who made millions, went to prison and captivated America for years with mind-boggling agricultural scams, payoffs to politicians and bizarre tales of covered-up killings and White House conspiracies, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Granbury, Tex. He was 88. He died in his sleep and was found in his recliner, Mr. Estes’s daughter Pamela Padget said. Nonexistent fertilizer tanks. Faked mortgages. Bogus cotton-acreage allotments. Farmers in four states bamboozled. Strange “suicides,” including a bludgeoned investigator shot five times with a bolt-action rifle. Assassination plots. Jimmy Hoffa and Fidel Castro. Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. The rise and fall of Billie Sol Estes was one of the sensations of the postwar era: the saga of a good-ol’-boy con man who created a $150 million empire of real and illusory farming enterprises that capitalized on his contacts in Washington and the gullibility and greed of farmers, banks and agriculture businesses. He was a Bible-thumping preacher who gave barbecues for governors and senators, rode his bike to work in Pecos, Tex., and his airplane to Washington, and was named one of America’s 10 outstanding young men of 1953 by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. Later, autographed photos of John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson and others lined his walls. As his empire crumbled in 1962, the notoriety of Billie Sol, as nearly everyone in America called him, might have been passing had it not been for the bodies that kept cropping up, for the bribery scandals and fraud in federal farm programs, and for Mr. Estes’s own lurid accounts of how it all happened and who was involved. Many of his statements were self-serving and never proved — particularly allegations about Johnson. Mr. Estes said that he had given millions to Johnson, and that Johnson, while he was vice president, had ordered seven killings disguised as suicides or accidents to cover up his connections to the frauds and had then set up the assassination of Kennedy in 1963 to become president. The Estes chronicles filled newspapers and magazines, inspired books and songs, created new lines for comedians and conspiracy theorists, and played out politically in myriad ways. Scandal-loving Americans lapped them up. Mr. Estes’s smiling, dimpled moon face — with a liquid fertilizer tank in the background — was on the cover of Time magazine on May 25, 1962, then its all-time best-selling issue. “This government is staying right on Mr. Estes’s tail,” a harried President Kennedy said at an overflowing news conference as he, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman were thrown on the defensive by almost daily revelations in the serpentine scandal. Administration officials were fired. Congressmen who had taken favors were mortified. Scores of F.B.I. agents were dispatched to Texas to investigate suspicious deaths. Richard M. Nixon, then running for governor in California, called it “the biggest national scandal since Teapot Dome.” Political cartoonists had a field day, caricaturing Mr. Estes and Washington as mired in the same farm muck. ... In 1963, Mr. Estes was convicted on federal charges and sentenced to 15 years. A state conviction was overturned on grounds of prejudicial news coverage. After exhausting appeals and serving six years, he was paroled in 1971. In 1979, he was convicted of tax fraud and served four more years. He was released in 1983. A year later, in what he called a voluntary statement to clear the record, Mr. Estes told a Texas grand jury that Johnson, as vice president in 1961, had ordered that Mr. Marshall be killed to prevent him from disclosing Johnson’s ties to the Estes conspiracies. He said a Johnson aide, Malcolm Wallace, had shot him. The Justice Department asked Mr. Estes for more information, and the response was explosive. For a pardon and immunity from prosecution, he promised to detail eight killings arranged by Johnson, including the Kennedy assassination. He said that Mr. Wallace had not only persuaded Jack Ruby to recruit Lee Harvey Oswald, but that Mr. Wallace had also fired a shot in Dallas that hit the president. Mr. Estes also claimed knowledge of a White House plan to kill Fidel Castro and a plot by the former Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa to kill Robert Kennedy. Mr. Estes reiterated his allegations in a book, “JFK, the Last Standing Man” (2003), written with William Reymond, and a memoir, “Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend” (2004). As with similar allegations in books, articles and documentaries over the years, none of the Estes claims could be proved. Johnson had died in 1973, and everyone else, except Mr. Estes, was also dead.
  20. This one is kind of interesting about Oswald. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/104-10014-10064.pdf
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    Zelensky and Ukraine Thread

    Poor Rusty, WRONG! https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/18/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-call.html
  22. Sorry to hear this for you, but surgery, etc. sounds promising. I hope all goes well and you are (or become) cancer free.
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