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MAGA blame game shows Trump in retreat |
| THG: Survivors of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released a powerful public service announcement (PSA) on Super Bowl Sunday calling for full transparency in what they describe as the largest sex-trafficking scandal in the world.
The emotional video, released by World Without Exploitation, features survivors speaking directly to the public, demanding Americans stand with them and pressure U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all information related to the case. |
| THG: Epstein island trip boomerangs on Trump official as his lies melt into confession, 'blackmail' story |
| THG: A preliminary estimate issued last year by the BLS projected that annual employment for March 2024 through March 2025 would be marked down by more than 900,000 jobs once all the data was in from states. The bureau will issue its final mark down of the year ending in March 2025 on Wednesday. |
| THG: A preliminary estimate issued last year by the BLS projected that annual employment for March 2024 through March 2025 would be marked down by more than 900,000 jobs once all the data was in from states. The bureau will issue its final mark down of the year ending in March 2025 on Wednesday. |
| THG: The few remaining moderate House Republicans appear poised to break with President Donald Trump in a key vote on his signature economic policy.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) is using several procedural maneuvers to shield Trump from legislative challenges and oversight, planning to ask the House to extend the ban on bringing up resolutions challenging Trump’s tariffs on products from dozens of U.S. trading partners through August.
However, according to Punchbowl News, key Republicans indicated they would likely vote against the measure. |
| THG: Trump's gambit to destroy bipartisan governor tradition blows up in his face |
| THG: Analyst rocked as voters 'shift heavily' against Trump on key issue |
Brenda: Not really SIX. There are pee wee teams all over the country and all the kids have to is try out. The teams pay for rink time and such. Parents if they can afford it can pay for new but you can pick up hockey gear like skates and masks and other stuff if you are lucky, say at the Salvation Army thrift stores. Kids grow out of stuff or get tired of playing parents don't want the clutter they donate it. Not sure about hockey sticks parents may have to buy those. Ah, field trips to the local rinks for ice skating in elementary school. I used to do that. Hockey sticks were always around the guys would grab them and pretend to famous hockey players of the time.  |
| 6ixStringJack: That makes sense, Brenda. In Canada, is Ice Hockey considered a rich kid sport? I know it is here. No school I went to or that was even near me had Hockey Teams. If you played hockey, you had rich parents that paid steep prices for all the gear and the time on the ice at rinks for every practice and match. No taxpayer dollars (at least through the schools) and no traditional means of having "Booster Clubs" since unlike more traditional sports that were in every school, these parents were already spending boatloads of cash just to put their kids in there and probably weren't very likely to be donating any more of theirs. I bet they have to sell a ton of candy bars or something. |
| 6ixStringJack: That makes sense, Brenda. In Canada, is Ice Hockey considered a rich kid sport? I know it is here. No school I went to or that was even near me had Hockey Teams. If you played hockey, you had rich parents that paid steep prices for all the gear and the time on the ice at rinks for every practice and match. No taxpayer dollars (at least through the schools) and no traditional means of having "Booster Clubs" since unlike more traditional sports that were in every school, these parents were already spending boatloads of cash just to put their kids in there and probably weren't very likely to be donating any more of theirs. I bet they have to sell a ton of candy bars or something. |
| Brenda: Well, they didn't. Norway is now on top. The Nordic countries tend to do better in the Winter games I think because they put such an emphasis on sports when kids are in school. The summer games feel that way for sure. I think for these Winter games it will be a Nordic country that gets the most. Findland, Norway, Sweden. |
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| 6ixStringJack: Wow... I can't really imagine that they keep it up, but it would be cool to see some small european country win the thing. Does that alraeady happen sometimes? I haven't paid attention in decades. To me it seemed like it was always between America/Russia/China and everyone else was just there for funzies and to compete against each other. I'm not saying other countries didn't go home with some golds and a boatload of medals too, but it would make sense that the superpowers with the largest populations and money pools would take it all. It was why they put the salary cap on Baseball so the NY Yankees wouldn't outspend everyone else 10-1 |
| Brenda: Okay, just told Janyzestown to take his garbage somewhere besides my Olympic thread. I don't want pollution in there. |
Brenda: A couple of good movies I've been rewatching are "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" and there are two of those. They are hilarious.  |
| Brenda: It probably was written for the movie and they hired a singer to preform it. And she did do that well. I saw the music video somewhere. |