Be careful what you read, write or even watch on tv.  "He" can hear us - even if he's not in the room

It's good that Jimmy Kimmel got taken off the air.  It's REAL good!  How dare he defy authority?

And those people who dared quote that Charlie person ... using his OWN words!  It's good they lost their jobs!  It's REAL good!

And it's good that people who trade in "hate speech" get fired from their jobs! 

It's REAL good that we be taught to not question authority!  It's real, REAL good that we don't point out that the people condemning "hate speech" are the ones who basically invented it.  It's REAL good!

Now, quickly click off of this thread before "He" wishes you into the cornfield!

Go to  https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/pickem

Pool name is ABBSpread

you need the group id - 37577 and the password GoBears

You can set it to remind you a day or 2 ahead of the first game of the week.

Pick all games with the spread.

Your worst week gets dropped.  So if you are like DanB and get drunk and forget, it won't hurt you for one week.

oh, and there will be trash talking ... 

“The commercialization of what’s happened in college sports, I wonder whether many kids these days will learn those sustainable traits that I think are invaluable to their life and life experience,” he said. “Are we doing them a disservice because we’re tempting them with some money in their pocket?

“My college experience was very challenging. It was very competitive. The lessons I learned in college — and certainly about competition — those traits transformed my life as a professional. I was ready to compete against anybody, because the competition in college toughened me up so much that I had a self-belief and self-confidence that whatever I was faced with, I could overcome that.

“If we take that away from a young student athlete to say, ‘You know what? I know it’s tough to compete. But you know what we’re gonna do: Before you have to compete, we’re actually going to put you somewhere else so that you don’t have to compete.’ That is absolutely the wrong thing to do to a young child.

Okay, I can see where this might've been funny ... once ... if you're like 12 years old.

This is gettin' up there with the morons who still think it's funny to scream "FREE BUUUURD!" at every music event they attend.  Guess what?  Not only has it been done - to death, it just ain't funny.

There's got to be a fan or two sitting in near proximity to the mentally undeveloped excuse for a sports fan who does this stuff.  This ain't middle school!  If you see someone do this there is no dishonor or uncoolness in ratting the moron out to event security.

Put the dickhead's (the perp - not the "toy") name and picture in the hometown paper.  Let's see what his family, friends and employer think of their antic.

Feel safe?...

Outside of those headlines and details, I'm curious what anyone who posts here wants to happen with the Ukraine war and what they think will happen with the Ukraine war.

Hey Google!  While you're re-tagging geography, go ahead and change the country just north of the Gulf to the Divided States of America.  I think that would be every bit as appropriate. 

segue to, anyone care for alien galaxies😮😵‍💫

A Sampling

on the Space label

”Hubble Tension Is Now In Our Cosmic Backyard, Sending Cosmology Into Crisis”

also on the Space label

”Beam Me To The Stars: Scientists Propose Wild New Interstellar Travel Tech”

Futurism label

”Trump Appears To Be Dissolving The National Space Council At SpaceX’s Request”

ars technica label

”Fast Radio Burst In Long-Dead Galaxy Puzzles Astronomers”

remark, so a lotta cosmic debris around & about nowadays🌌 - imo we won’t perfect in our lifetime, technology enabling space travel by means of beaming up 

🚀strap in, space cadets (hehe)

We should not allow this kind of thing in our country from an adversary.  It isn't like we are dealing with the government of Ireland or some ally or friendly nation.  No, it's China and I believe everything Christopher Wray said on 60 minutes last week.  We need to remove China from as many things as we can in this country.

Scott Pelley: What is the greatest threat facing the incoming Trump administration?

Christopher Wray: Well, the greatest long-term threat facing our country, in my view, is represented by the People's Republic of China, the Chinese government, which I consider to be the defining threat of our generation.

Scott Pelley: What has the FBI found about Chinese penetration of U.S. cyber and infrastructure?

Christopher Wray: China's cyber program is by far and away the world's largest-- bigger than that of every major nation combined and has stolen more of Americans' personal and corporate data than that of every nation, big or small, combined. But even beyond the cyber theft. There's another part of the Chinese cyber threat that I think has not gotten the attention publicly that it I think desperately deserves. And that is Chinese government's pre-positioning on American civilian critical infrastructure. To lie in wait on those networks to be in a position to wreak havoc and can inflict real-world harm at a time and place of their choosing.

Scott Pelley: The Chinese have already insinuated malware into critical American infrastructure?

Christopher Wray: That's correct.

Scott Pelley: Like what?

Christopher Wray: Things like water treatment plants. We're talking about transportation systems. We're talking about targeting of our energy sector, the electric grid, natural gas pipelines. And recently we've seen targeting of our telecommunications systems.

Telecommunications, including intercepts at high-levels.

Scott Pelley: They have been listening to the telephone calls of people in the United States government?

Christopher Wray: Some people, we believe that they have collected their content, the actual communications of those people.

Wray wouldn't say it, but we have confirmed China gathered communications of U.S. national security officials, the Kamala Harris campaign and Donald Trump himself. It's part of a world of trouble, including the chaos in the Middle East—spawning new threats of terror.

But some of these people who voted for the legislation are getting cold feet because politicians have little to no spine to do anything that might be seen as unpopular.  Put country first and do the right thing for national security!  I'm sure there is way more troubling information about China's efforts to influence and undermine American society then they tell us.