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The Turquoise Dream 2 months ago Trae, the only aspect of the military the GOP has any love for at all is A. Military contract lobbyists and B. Corporate military contractors. Individual military personnel, their families, veterans, and anyone else, not so much. If you want to see Republicans go to battle and froth from the mouth just have a discussion on the House or Senate floor about regulating the lobbyist or open an investigation into wasteful military spending or sexual assault in the military and the GOP will all a suddenly get very protective about the military.

lets read some comments from watchers shall we? Vicat 2 months ago I have never understood how anyone can stand behind a regime so clearly against their own best interests, when all they get out of it is permission to openly hate anyone who isn't them. Queen that Always Shouldve Been 2 months ago Cotton switched his vote…. And he is a vet! I’m so ashamed that my state keeps voting him into office. akmartinez419 2 months ago I am a disabled Veteran who lives in a red state and close to a military base. I am used to seeing them show up to take pictures and shake hands but drop the ball when it comes to taking care of Veterans. I have advocated along with other Veterans for years for patients to have access to Cannabis in Tx and every two years is like pulling teeth to get issues added to TCUP, just last session we finally got PTSD added. Which is sad because our medical amount is still far less than any other state and all the states that surround us have a more comprehensive medical program. Jeremy Gregorio 2 months ago These are the same people who cheered when Donald Trump attacked John McCain for being captured and a prisoner of war Jacqui B 2 months ago As a New Zealander, all I can say is ya'll have the hardest fight ahead of you. These midterms are SO IMPORTANT, you need two more democratic senators - so I hope you are our campaigning and encouraging your friends and family to vote. 50% voter turnout last presidential election, you have to do better 594 Bill Cook 2 months ago I tell my Republican friends like this. In the US our election system gives us a binary choice. If you're doing 60 on a two line, next to a big old ditch full of nasty, funky swamp water, and a Mack truck coming toward you crosses the line into your lane. You have a binary choice. Just because you choose not to take the truck doesn't mean that you WANT to be in the ditch. You can't vote Republican this time. 426

i honestly do not know what to believe but i hear from a mod some weird stuff is happening. we will find out when harsin is gone. my guess is it was probably scheme mostly and him getting hurt behind a bad o line. but i have learned anything can happen and often it is not what one might think it was. also daddy might have been making his on demands since we are talking a big payday if he gets signed even if he does not make it.

What Bryan Harsin said to preview Arkansas Updated: Oct. 24, 2022, 2:51 p.m.|Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 1:35 p.m. 5-7 minutes Bryan Harsin is ready for the weekly press conference he does each Monday to preview the Tigers’ opponent. Auburn hopes to bounce back from a three-game losing streak when they host Arkansas for an 11 am kickoff on Saturday at Jordan-Hare. The Tigers are 19-11 in the series against Arkansas, including last season’s 38-23 win against the Razorbacks. Auburn has won the previous six games against the Razorbacks. Here are the updates. -- Harsin opens the press conference by saying the team took advantage of the open date last week and had a great practice on Sunday heading into the Arkansas game. “This will be four weeks this Saturday since we’ve been at home, so we’re looking forward to that. I thought guys took advantage of the bye week,” Harsin said. “Got healthy. And that showed up on Sunday, so we had a good practice on Sunday, a little longer than we normally have. We took advantage of a little extra time during the bye week to prepare for that Sunday practice, so that went well. Tomorrow’s a big day to get after it and get ready for Arkansas.” “A really good team. Really well coached. Coach Pittman does a great job and a big win against Brigham Young. I think our guys _ the energy, the enthusiasm, and then obviously the work we’ve got to put in this week _ all need to come together to go out there and have a great game at 11 a.m. on Saturday.” -- Harsin says the team is healthy. “Not everybody is fully healthy, but guys will play... Guys are toughing through it.” He also expects some players who missed previous games to return to the lineup. -- Harsin says Razorback quarterback KJ Jefferson presents several challenges. “He provides a different element,” Harsin said. “He has a strong arm. You have to play with great eyes on him because he can make plays.” Now he’s different. Really big, really physical. I think he plays with a lot of poise. As far as defending him, you’ve got to tackle him. If he’s running the ball, you’ve got to tackle him. You’ve got to have somebody in a position to do that. Then overall you’ve got to be ready for some of the things they do with him. He’s not always going to run the ball. He may show that, and he may throw it. They do a good job. I think they’re creative on the offensive side with what they do with him. And just his overall physicality provides a different element at the quarterback position. He can throw up and down the field if he chooses to. But then, you have somebody as athletic and as physical as he is, they’re going to utilize him. For us, it’s just another challenge with a quarterback that’s a versatile guy that can do a lot of different things that we have to be ready to go out there and play against him. You’ve got to be physical with him. You don’t always say that with quarterbacks but you’ve got to be physical with him and be able to tackle him. Ultimately, just the way they play, you have to have great eyes on the quarterback and be ready for him to be a scrambler or a threat in the run game. You’ve got to find a way to stop him. -- Harsin says Jeremiah Wright is earning more playing time on the offensive line. “Yeah, I think so. Yeah, he’s getting better. Yesterday’s practice too, you know, you get into a groove a little bit, so he got to play. You know, that’s the biggest thing. You just—you don’t know; you see it in practice, but a guy has to go out there and play, and then you work through some things as a player, just because of game speed, game tempo, all those things, and I thought yesterday he came out and practiced really intentional to get better. So, absolutely, he’s earned an opportunity to continue to keep playing. His story, and we all know his story, right? From D-line to O-line, to D-line to O-line—I mean, he’s in the right position now. He knows that. He sees that. We certainly see it. There’s no doubt in our mind, he’s an offensive lineman. That’s where he needs to be. He’s a guard. He’s going to be a good player, and now we got to build on that this week. And I also think not only as a player, he brings some energy, some emotion, you know, and just competitiveness I think up front too just because of who he is. Like, that’s who he is. He’s wired that way. He cares tremendously, and he works really hard at it. So, I don’t see why he wouldn’t continue to keep getting more reps and an opportunity to go out there and play again. He did a really good job last game.” -- “Improving, but not where we need to be,” Harsin said about the quarterback room. “The expectations in that room are really high.” -- “We have a lot of potential to get better,” Harsin said. “We have guys trying really hard. We are developing every game. You have to get better every week.” -- Harsin confirmed that DT Zykeivous Walker is out for the season. He also confirmed that running back Jordon Ingram is out with a knee injury. “Yes, actually. Jordon Ingram is out,” Harsin said. “So, he had a lateral meniscus tear in practice, which was kind of a fluke deal. It was on a pass-catching drill, just kind of landed on it wrong. So, he had surgery. He’s out, I think, three to four months. Obviously, that’s season-ending for him. Everybody else, as I’ve told you before, that’s been injured — there’s injured (players) that are out, there’s injured that are banged up.” If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Bo Nix asked why he’s performing better at Oregon than he did at Auburn Updated: Oct. 24, 2022, 1:20 p.m.|Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 1:20 p.m. 3 minutes Oregon quarterback Bo Nix (#10) shouts toward running back Bucky Irving after his touchdown score as the No. 10 Ducks face the No. 9 UCLA Bruins in a Pac-12 college football game at Autzen stadium in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. Sean Meagher/The Oregonian Bo Nix threw for 283 yards and five touchdowns and No. 10 Oregon handed No. 9 UCLA its first loss of the season 45-30 on Saturday. After the game, a reporter asked the former Auburn quarterback “what’s different for you this year because you are on a different level than in the past?” “Well, I think it’s just scheme, just the players around me,” Nix said. “I think we’ve done such a good job of just running the play that’s called. To be honest, when I’m out there doing it, it doesn’t feel like I’m a whole lot because I don’t have to. I just have to get the ball to the playmakers around me. ... “I always feel like we have plays called at the right time. We’re doing great with our shots, explosive plays. When we call them, we’re hitting them.” The win extended Oregon’s winning streak at Autzen Stadium to 23 games, matching a school record. It is the third-best active home streak in the nation. The Ducks (6-1, 4-0 Pac-12) have won six straight since a season-opening loss to Georgia and are the lone remaining undefeated team in Pac-12 conference play. “Well, I think, obviously, there’s a whole lot of dynamics that go into it,” Nix said Saturday. “Different schedule you’re playing, different teams you’re playing, different personnel, different staffs, different offensive schemes, so it’s hard to say that the other coaches didn’t get it out of me because, at times, I was doing the same thing at Auburn. “It was just the consistent part. We’re doing that now and it talks to all 11 of us. All 11 of us who are out there are being consistent. Every once in a while we’ll have a hiccup drive, and we’ll have to go three-and-out and punt, but we know it’s not going to happen a second time. ... Consistency is the main thing we’re doing offensively right now.” Nix has thrown for 17 touchdowns and rushed for eight this season. He completed 21 of 28 passes against the Bruins. His favorite target on Saturday was Troy Franklin, who had eight catches for 132 yards and two scores. Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Reserve Auburn running back out for remainder of season Updated: Oct. 24, 2022, 2:41 p.m.|Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 2:03 p.m. 2-3 minutes Auburn running back Jordon Ingram (24) carries the ball during the A-Day NCAA college spring football game at Jordan-Hare Stadium, Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)AP Auburn will be without one of its reserve running backs for the remainder of the season. Jordon Ingram sustained a lateral meniscus tear in his knee during practice and will be sidelined the rest of the season after underdoing surgery, Auburn coach Bryan Harsin announced Monday. Ingram is expected to miss three to four months while recovering. Read more Auburn football: Kickoff time, TV network set for Auburn’s trip to Mississippi State Defensive tackle Zykeivous Walker no longer on Auburn’s roster Auburn opens as home underdog against Arkansas for first time since 1998 “(It) was kind of a fluke deal,” Harsin said. “It was on a pass-catching drill, just kind of landed on it wrong.... Obviously, that’s season-ending for him.” A transfer from Central Michigan, Ingram has appeared in just one game during his two seasons at Auburn. He recorded two carries for 8 yards during last season’s win against Alabama State. Ingram is a native of Mobile who was a standout at St. Paul’s, where he was a second-team All-State selection as a senior, when he rushed for 1,394 yards and 18 touchdowns. He signed with Central Michigan but did not see the field in 2020 before he opted to transfer to Auburn, providing depth in the backfield. This season, he was behind Tank Bigsby, Jarquez Hunter, Damari Alston and Sean Jackson on the depth chart at running back. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

funny you guys mention this and the repubs want to continue trumps 3.1 trillion to the rich again. and they also appear to be wanting to cut social security as well. not sure if it will cut those benefits for those not getting a check yet and grandfathering in the folks that have been on it a while.

Kickoff time, TV network set for Auburn’s trip to Mississippi State Updated: Oct. 24, 2022, 12:06 p.m.|Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 11:50 a.m. 2-3 minutes Auburn running back Tank Bigsby (4) runs for a first down against Mississippi during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP Auburn and Mississippi State will kick off under the lights in Starkville, Miss., in Week 9. The Tigers and Bulldogs are set for a 6:30 p.m. kickoff when they meet at Davis Wade Stadium on Nov. 5, the SEC announced late Monday morning. The matchup will air on ESPN2. Read more Auburn football: Defensive tackle Zykeivous Walker no longer on Auburn’s roster Auburn opens as home underdog against Arkansas for first time since 1998 Statistically speaking: Where Auburn stands coming off the bye week Auburn’s trip to Starkville will mark the 96th all-time meeting between the two SEC West foes. Auburn leads the series, 62-30-3, and holds a 14-7-1 edge on the road in the series. Despite that advantage on the Bulldogs’ home turf, the Tigers are 2-3 in their last five trips to Davis Wade Stadium. This year, Auburn will try to avenge the loss that kicked off the program’s backslide during the second half of last season. The Tigers squandered a 28-3 first-half lead last year at Jordan-Hare Stadium, giving up 40 unanswered points on the way to a 43-34 home loss. It was the first of five consecutive losses for Auburn to end Year 1 under Bryan Harsin, and the program has not fully recovered in the nearly 12 months since, as the Tigers are off to a 3-4 start to this season -- with two wins coming against an FCS team and a Mountain West opponent, and the other coming in the form of an overtime escape against Missouri to open SEC play. Before Auburn travels to Starkville, it will host Arkansas this weekend at Jordan-Hare Stadium while aiming to snap a three-game losing streak. Mississippi State (5-3, 2-3 SEC) is off this week after losing back-to-back games against Kentucky and Alabama, as Mike Leach’s program dropped out of the AP top 25 on Sunday. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

College football TV schedule for Week 9 of 2022 season Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 9:00 a.m. 3-4 minutes Below is the college football TV and live stream schedule for Week 9 of the 2022 season. All times Central: Thursday, Oct. 27 Virginia Tech at North Carolina State, 6:30 p.m., ESPN (ESPN+) Louisiana at Southern Miss, 6:30 p.m., ESPNU (ESPN+) Utah at Washington State, 9 p.m., Fox Sports 1 (Fox Sports) Friday, Oct. 28 Yale at Columbia, 5:30 p.m., ESPNU (ESPN+) East Carolina at BYU, 7 p.m., ESPN2 (ESPN+) Louisiana Tech at Florida International, 7 p.m., CBS Sports Network (CBS Sports video) Saturday, Oct. 29 Notre Dame at Syracuse, 11 a.m., ABC (espn3) Ohio State at Penn State, 11 a.m., Fox (Fox Sports) TCU at West Virginia, 11 a.m., ESPN (ESPN+) South Florida at Houston, 11 a.m., ESPN2 (ESPN+) Toledo at Eastern Michigan, 11 a.m., ESPNU (ESPN+) Oklahoma at Iowa State, 11 a.m., Fox Sports 1 (Fox Sports) Arkansas at Auburn, 11 a.m., SEC Network (ESPN+) Georgia Tech at Florida State, 11 a.m., ACC Network (ESPN+) Boston College at Connecticut, 11 a.m., CBS Sports Network (CBS Sports video) Miami at Virginia, 11:30 a.m., Bally Sports South (Bally Sports+) Rutgers at Minnesota, 1:30 p.m., Big Ten Network (Fox Sports) Illinois at Nebraska, 2:30 p.m., ABC (espn3) Florida vs. Georgia (at Jacksonville, Fla.), 2:30 p.m., CBS (SEC on CBS) Oklahoma State at Kansas State, 2:30 p.m., Fox (Fox Sports) Cincinnati at Central Florida, 2:30 p.m., ESPN (ESPN+) Northwestern at Iowa, 2:30 p.m., ESPN2 (ESPN+) Alabama State vs. Alabama A&M (at Birmingham), 2:30 p.m., ESPN Network TBD (ESPN+) Oregon at California, 2:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1 (Fox Sports) Wake Forest at Louisville, 2:30 p.m., ACC Network (ESPN+) Temple at Navy, 2:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network (CBS Sports video) South Alabama at Arkansas State, 3 p.m., ESPNU (ESPN+) Missouri at South Carolina, 3 p.m., SEC Network (ESPN+) Kentucky at Tennessee, 6 p.m., ESPN (ESPN+) Colorado State at Boise State, 6 p.m., Fox Sports 1 (Fox Sports) Coastal Carolina at Marshall, 6 p.m., NFL Network (NFL Network live) USC at Arizona, 6 p.m., Pac-12 Network (Pac-12 Network Live) UAB at Florida Atlantic, 6 p.m., CBS Sports Network (CBS Sports video) Michigan State at Michigan, 6:30 p.m., ABC (espn3) Baylor at Texas Tech, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 (ESPN+) Arizona State at Colorado, 6:30 p.m., ESPNU (ESPN+) Ole Miss at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m., SEC Network (ESPN+) Pittsburgh at North Carolina, 7 p.m., ACC Network (ESPN+) Stanford at UCLA, 9:30 p.m., ESPN (ESPN+) San Diego State at Fresno State, 9:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1 (Fox Sports) Nevada at San Jose State, 9:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network (CBS Sports video) Select games are also available via FUBO.tv. Click HERE for subscription information. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Cancer-linked ‘forever chemicals’ detected in these Alabama rivers Updated: Oct. 23, 2022, 7:44 a.m.|Published: Oct. 23, 2022, 7:00 a.m. 5-7 minutes A large-scale water sampling program has confirmed the presence of PFAS, or so-called “forever chemicals,” in dozens of rivers across the United States, including eight in Alabama. The sampling, conducted by the environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance and its affiliates, found PFAS chemicals in 95 of 114 waterways sampled, including the Coosa, Cahaba, Black Warrior, Mobile, Pea and Little Rivers, as well as Buck Creek and Hurricane Creek. The Coosa River at Neely Henry Lake contained the highest levels of PFAS of anywhere in Alabama, showing 13 different PFAS chemicals at levels up to 4,000 times higher than health advisory thresholds issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water. Coosa Riverkeeper Justinn Overton, who directed the sampling on the Coosa, said the results confirm that PFAS pollution is a widespread problem, in Alabama and across the country. “Our organization really is trying to raise awareness about what PFAS are and what it means for your health and how to reduce your exposure through your drinking water as well as if you are eating fish from the river system,” Overton said. The samples were conducted between May and July by Waterkeeper groups across the country. In Alabama, Coosa Riverkeeper, Cahaba Riverkeeper, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Little River Waterkeeper, Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper, Mobile Baykeeper and Hurricane Creekkeeper all participated in the program. Alabama's results from widespread PFAS chemical sampling conducted by Waterkeeper Alliance groups in the state in the summer of 2022.Waterkeeper Alliance PFAS are man-made chemicals that have been used in a wide range of consumer products since the 1940s, including stain-resistant and non-stick coatings on fabrics and cookware, as well as food packaging, waterproof coatings and fire-fighting foams. These chemicals are extremely durable and do not break down readily in the environment, and have been shown to accumulate in the tissues of humans and animals. Exposure to high levels of these chemicals in the blood (mostly through drinking water) have been connected to increased risk of kidney and testicular cancer, as well as liver damage, high blood pressure, and increased cholesterol levels, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. At present, there is no evidence that swimming or incidental contact with PFAS-contaminated waters could lead to health problems. But it could be a problem if there are even trace amounts in your drinking water, or if your diet includes large amounts of fish taken from PFAS-contaminated waters. Since the chemicals do not readily break down in the human body, they can accumulate over a number of years, reaching levels that could cause problems. The Gadsden Water Works, which draws from the Coosa for its source water near the sampling location, has installed a large-scale reverse-osmosis filter to remove PFAS from its drinking water before reaching its customers. The Gadsden system was one of eight drinking water systems in Alabama that were informed in 2016 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that their drinking water contained potentially unsafe levels of the PFAS chemicals. All those systems, including Gadsden, installed specialized filters or changed their source water in order to reduce the PFAS concentrations of their drinking water below the advisory level. Gadsden Water Works recently settled a lawsuit with industrial carpet manufacturers and other industries it believes are responsible for the chemicals in the river seeking to force them to pay for the new upgraded filtration system. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Overton said that these large-scale reverse-osmosis filters are usually seen as the best option for water systems to remove PFAS from their drinking water, but there are options for homeowners as well. “From an individual household level, having a granulated active carbon filter is a way that someone could ensure that they’re removing as much of the PFAS as possible from their own drinking water,” Overton said. The Waterkeeper Alliance sampling program was organized as the nation tries to determine the consequences of having these chemicals so prevalent in the environment. The EPA’s health advisory threshold is only a warning sent to drinking water systems. There is no direct requirement to limit the concentrations of PFAS in drinking water, nor is there a limit on the amount that can be discharged into public waterways. The EPA is expected to announce a PFAS drinking water standard next year, and groups like the Waterkeeper Alliance are urging Congress to pass the Clean Water Standards for PFAS 2.0 Act, which would establish limits on PFAS discharges for industries. “When we began testing waterways for PFAS earlier this year, we knew that our country had a significant PFAS problem, but these findings confirm that was an understatement,” Waterkeeper Alliance CEO Marc Yaggi said in a news release announcing the results. “This is a widespread public health and environmental crisis that must be addressed immediately by Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).” If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Auburn opens as home underdog against Arkansas for first time since 1998 Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 9:00 a.m. 2-3 minutes 01 10, 2022; Auburn, AL, USA; Robby Ashford (9) Tiger Walk run out during Auburn vs Missouri Zach Bland/AU AthleticsZach Bland/AU Athletics Fresh off the bye week, Auburn will be a home underdog for the third time in six games at Jordan-Hare Stadium this season. Auburn opened as a 4.5-point underdog for Saturday’s game against Arkansas, according to VegasInsider.com, with the line shifting to four points as of Monday morning. It’s the first time since 1998 that the Tigers have not been favored against the Razorbacks at Jordan-Hare Stadium; Auburn was a 2.5-point underdog in that matchup, according to OddsShark’s database, and lost, 24-21. It’s also the second straight year that Arkansas has been favored against Auburn. The Razorbacks were slight favorites at home entering last year’s matchup but Bryan Harsin’s program left Fayetteville, Ark., with a top-25 road win. This year’s matchup on the Plains is set for an 11 a.m. kick and will air on SEC Network. Both teams are coming off open dates in Week 8. Auburn (3-4, 1-3 SEC) is mired in a three-game losing streak after a home loss to LSU and back-to-back road losses at Georgia and at Ole Miss. Arkansas’ last game was a double-digit road win at BYU, which snapped a three-game skid for Sam Pittman’s program. Auburn leads the all-time series against Arkansas, 19-11-1, and has won each of the last six meetings, including last season’s matchup, when Harsin’s team knocked off then-No. 17 Arkansas, 38-23. Auburn is 9-5-1 at home against Arkansas in series history and holds a 10-6 advantage in SEC play. Auburn has not lost to Arkansas at Jordan-Hare Stadium since 2012, when the Razorbacks beat the Tigers, 24-7. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

Former President Donald Trump, whose fundraising operations are awash in cash, continues to stiff the Texas city of El Paso on a $570,000 bill for a campaign rally almost four years ago, The Houston Chronicle reported. The “billionaire,” whose political war chest “boasts well over $100 million,” has ignored the $569,204 his campaign owes El Paso, including a 21% very late fee, the Chronicle noted on Saturday. Trump racked up the bill for taxpayer services used at his “Make America Great Again” rally in February 2019, at the El Paso County Coliseum. Local authorities provided police, transportation, emergency and traffic services. The bill was due in April, two months after the rally. The Trump campaign racked up debts in nine other cities for rallies by mid-2019. Albuquerque sent a $211,000 long-overdue rally bill directly to Mar-a-Lago last year. As for El Paso, the campaign still owes the police department alone more than $381,000. A Trump campaign spokesperson told ABC last year, two years after the rally: “We are reviewing” the bill. The city hired a collection firm to go after Trump in 2020, but so far hasn’t recovered anything, the Chronicle reported Saturday. “It shows a lack of concern for the community and the taxpaying voters of El Paso,” city council Rep. Alexsandra Annello told the El Paso Times last year. Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor in next month’s election, had a rival rally the same day in 2019 that Trump turned up in El Paso. O’Rourke, who was then running for president, settled his bill with the city three months later. Trump didn’t respond to requests for comment from the Chronicle, and has ignored El Paso officials for years. He returned to Texas for a rally Saturday at the publicly owned Nueces County fairgrounds, south of San Antonio. It was unclear whether the county secured an up-front payment. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. Related...

so that is three now charged with the death of george from manslaughter to murder. were there not folks on here claiming the cops were not guilty? or did they change their mind?

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Monday to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd just as jury selection was about to begin. Another former officer waived his right to a jury trial, setting up an unusual proceeding in which the judge will issue a verdict after lawyers submit written arguments. The plea deal for J. Alexander Kueng calls for 3 1/2 years in prison, with prosecutors agreeing to drop a count of aiding and abetting second-degree murder. Kueng is the second officer to plead guilty to the state charge, following Thomas Lane, who pleaded guilty earlier this year. Their former colleague, Tou Thao, rejected a plea deal earlier this year, telling a judge it “would be lying” to accept any such deal. On Monday, he agreed to go forward with a modified proceeding called a trial by stipulated evidence, in which he accepts certain evidence against him and waives his rights to a trial by jury and to testify. The two sides will work out agreed-upon evidence against Thao and will prepare written closing arguments. They will submit those to Judge Peter Cahill by Nov. 17, with Cahill to rule on guilt or innocence within 90 days. The process includes an agreement to drop the aiding murder charge if Thao is convicted on the lesser charge. With such a conviction, Thao would likely get about four years in prison. All three were convicted in February on federal counts of willfully violating the civil rights of Floyd, who was Black. Lane was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in the federal case. Kueng was sentenced to three years and Thao was sentenced to 3 1/2, but for some Floyd family members and activists, the penalties were too small. Floyd, 46, died May 25, 2020, after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd’s neck as he repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice. Kueng and Lane helped to restrain Floyd, who was handcuffed. Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back and Lane held down Floyd’s legs. Thao kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint. As part of his plea agreement, Kueng admitted that he held Floyd's torso, that he knew from his experience and training that restraining a handcuffed person in a prone position created a substantial risk, and that the restraint of Floyd was unreasonable under the circumstances. Kueng's plea called for him to serve his state and federal terms concurrently, just as Lane is doing. Chauvin was convicted of state murder and manslaughter charges last year and is currently serving 22 1/2 years in the state case. He also pleaded guilty to a federal charge of violating Floyd’s civil rights and was sentenced to 21 years for that and for an unrelated case involving a 14-year-old boy. He is serving the sentences at the same time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona. Kueng is Black, Lane is white and Thao is Hmong American. They were convicted of federal charges in February after a monthlong trial that focused on the officers’ training and the culture of the police department. All three were convicted of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and Thao and Kueng were also convicted of failing to intervene to stop Chauvin during the killing. After their federal sentences, there was a question as to whether Kueng and Thao would proceed to trial, with legal experts saying it was likely they'd seek a plea deal with the state that would not exceed the federal sentence and allow them serve both sentences at the same time. State sentencing guidelines for a person with no criminal record, like Kueng, call for a range from about 3 1/2 years to four years and nine months in prison for second-degree unintentional manslaughter. The presumptive sentence is four years. If Kueng had been convicted of aiding and abetting second-degree murder, he would have faced a presumptive 12 1/2 years in prison. ___ Find AP’s full coverage of the death of George Floyd at: https://apnews.com/hub/death-of-george-floyd

this is not a shot at repubs but i look at all of trumps guys on tv and i am sorry they look seriously under educated. and of course their are some super smart folks on the right. and every single time i see something new and think they cannot be that dumb they prove me wrong.

well look at what we have done. gangster crap has a huge influence on this country which basically glorifies crooks. this includes white folks as well since i had a step son wanna be gang banger. we have gotten lazy. calling stuff fake news with out research shows me low IQ's. we have pols on both sides getting rich and helping themselves instead of serving the country honorably. we allow corps to break laws and let them get by with it pretty much no push back. meanwhile the rich keep robbing the country blind along with their enablers and have pretty much destroyed the middle class. and if you want better pay and helping the poor we are suddenly a dirty commie party. and yes the other side brings up examples that have nothing to do with and are no way close to what ruined their country.free health care is the libs trying show socialism down the countries throuat but we are the only industrialized nation without free health care. it is all a boogie man invented by the right. it is hard to run on making the rich richer and letting the poor pay the most taxes when corps pay little to nothing. all they have to run on is mud slinging and fear. and so many on their side buy into all that crap and here we are. now we are corrupting religion just as hard as we can. if we had called some of these churches on their illegal crap and even the legal side of fleecing scared citizens we might have slowed that crap down. but my hope is it is going to bite the right in the ass in the long run. they have won abortion rights issues for now so what else are they going to run on? making the rich richer while we struggle more and more? it is complete and total madness.

it has been my opinion that all this "fake news" crap is from lesser educated folks which gives them an out without revealing what dummies many of them are. they also do not care what the truth is as long as they get their way..............

Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. The Trump Organization is going on trial accused of helping some top executives avoid income taxes on compensation they got in addition to their salaries, like rent-free apartments and luxury cars. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Michael H. Keller and David D. Kirkpatrick Mon, October 24, 2022 at 6:57 AM·10 min read In this article: Donald Trump 45th President of the United States When Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas voted last year to reject Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, many of his constituents back home in Fort Bend County were thrilled. Like the former president, they have been unhappy with the changes unfolding around them. Crime and sprawl from Houston, the big city next door, have been spilling over into their once bucolic towns. (“Build a wall,” Nehls likes to say, and make Houston pay.) The county in recent years has become one of the nation’s most diverse, where the former white majority has fallen to just 30% of the population. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Don Demel, a 61-year-old salesman who turned out last month to pick up a signed copy of a book by Nehls about the supposedly stolen election, said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.” - ADVERTISEMENT - A shrinking white share of the population is a hallmark of the congressional districts held by the House Republicans who voted to challenge Trump’s defeat, a New York Times analysis found — a pattern political scientists say shows how white fear of losing status shaped the movement to keep him in power. The portion of white residents dropped about 35% more over the past three decades in those districts than in territory represented by other Republicans, the analysis found, and constituents also lagged behind in income and education. Rates of so-called deaths of despair, such as suicide, drug overdose and alcohol-related liver failure, were notably higher as well. Although overshadowed by the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the House vote that day was the most consequential of Trump’s ploys to overturn the election. It cast doubt on the central ritual of American democracy, galvanized the party’s grassroots around the myth of a stolen victory and set a precedent that legal experts — and some Republican lawmakers — warn could perpetually embroil Congress in choosing a president. To understand the social forces converging in that historic vote — objecting to the Electoral College count — the Times examined the constituencies of the lawmakers who joined the effort, analyzing census and other data from congressional districts and interviewing scores of residents and local officials. The Times previously revealed the back-room maneuvers inside the House, including convincing lawmakers that they could reject the results without explicitly endorsing Trump’s outlandish fraud claims. Many of the 139 objectors, including Nehls, said they were driven in part by the demands of their voters. “You sent me to Congress to fight for President Trump and election integrity,” Nehls wrote in a tweet on Jan. 5, 2021, “and that’s exactly what I am doing.” At a Republican caucus meeting a few days later, Rep. Bill Johnson, from an Ohio district stretching into Appalachia, told colleagues that his constituents would “go ballistic” with “raging fire” if he broke with Trump, according to a recording. Certain districts primarily reflect either the racial or socioeconomic characteristics. But the typical objector district shows both — a fact demographers said was striking. Because they are more vulnerable, disadvantaged or less educated white voters can feel especially endangered by the trend toward a minority majority, said Ashley Jardina, a political scientist at George Mason University who studies the attitudes of those voters. “A lot of white Americans who are really threatened are willing to reject democratic norms,” she said, “because they see it as a way to protect their status.” That may help explain why the dispute over Trump’s defeat has emerged at this moment in history, with economic inequality reaching new heights and the white population of the United States expected within about two decades to lose its majority. Many of the objectors’ districts started with a significantly larger Black minority, or had a rapid increase in the Hispanic population, making the decline in the white population more pronounced. Of the 12 Republican-held districts that swung to minority white — almost all in California and Texas — 10 were represented by objectors. The most significant drops occurred in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs and California desert towns, where the white percentage fell by more than one-third. Lawmakers who objected were also overrepresented among the 70 Republican-held districts with the lowest percentages of college graduates. In one case — the southeast Kentucky district of Hal Rogers, currently the longest-serving House member — about 14% of residents had four-year degrees, less than half the average in the districts of Republicans who accepted the election results. While Nehls’ district exemplifies demographic change, Rep. H. Morgan Griffith’s in southwest Virginia is among the poorest in the country. Once dominated by coal, manufacturing and tobacco, the area’s economic base eroded with competition from new energy sources and foreign importers. Doctors prescribed opioids to injured laborers and an epidemic of addiction soon followed. Residents, roughly 90% of them white, gripe that the educated elites of the Northern Virginia suburbs think that “the state stops at Roanoke.” They take umbrage at what they consider condescension from outsiders who view their communities as poverty-stricken, and they bemoan “Ph.D pollution” from the big local university, Virginia Tech. After a long history of broken government promises, many said in interviews they had lost faith in the political process and public institutions — in almost everyone but Trump, who they said championed their cause. In a bustling clinic called the Health Wagon in Griffith’s district, Paula Hill-Collins sees low-income and uninsured patients with maladies from tooth decay to heart conditions and diabetes. Since the last election, they have often raised another complaint: the false claim that Democrats stole Trump’s victory. “‘Did you see that box of votes that was thrown away? Did you see they found extra ones?’ This is what we hear from our patients,” said Hill-Collins, a nurse practitioner who grew up in the town of Coeburn, population 1,600. Residents of the area — former coal towns at the southern end of Appalachia — have felt cheated for generations, she said. “They believe it because look what’s happened to us,” she said, recalling the exploitation of her community first by mining interests and more recently by drugmakers. “That’s fed a culture of suspicion.” Conditions like diabetes and heart disease overlap so often that health workers feel lucky when their patients can walk in the door, said Teresa Owens Tyson, a nurse practitioner at the Health Wagon. “Sometimes they collapse in the parking lot,” she said. Although not all are so hard-pressed, the districts of the House objectors share similar disadvantages. Households there had nearly 10% less annual income in 2020 than those in other Republican areas. Not only were college degrees less common, so were high school diplomas. The GOP’s hold on those districts reflects its shift away from its former country club image to become the party of those left behind. The residents of Democratic districts, on average, are better educated and earn significantly more. Some residents said that their reasons for questioning the results should be obvious to anyone: the relatively small size of Biden’s rallies, the overnight disappearance of Trump’s early lead as more votes were tallied, the allegations about stuffed ballot drop boxes. “It’s not a political thing. It’s a we-love-our-country thing,’” said Alecia Vaught, 46, a homemaker and Republican organizer in Christiansburg. “You’re either for America or you’re not.” Griffith, 64, a lawyer and state legislator before joining Congress, built his career fighting for the lost cause of coal. In the Tea Party wave of 2010, he defeated a 14-term Democratic incumbent by slamming him for supporting carbon caps. When Trump lost in 2020, his claims of a stolen election quickly took hold in the district. “I’d be pumping gas and people who didn’t even know me would want to know if I thought the election was stolen,” said Frank Kilgore, 70, a lawyer-lobbyist and local historian who is an independent. “Morgan heard it more and more from his base,” Kilgore added. Local Republican leaders “said they thought it was stolen, too,” raising the specter of a primary challenge if Griffith voted to accept the results. Constituents circulated a petition demanding that he fight Trump’s loss. Yet Griffith was not among the vocal chorus of House Republicans echoing Trump. On Jan. 6, 2021, he voted to object citing only changes to election procedures during the pandemic. The congressman, who declined to comment for this article, wrote to constituents after Biden was inaugurated: “It is time to move forward.” Texas is one of six states where the white population is now outnumbered by Black, Hispanic and Asian residents. Nehls’ district, which includes most of Fort Bend County, is part of the reason: It swung from nearly 70% to less than 40% white over the past three decades. But changing demographics in many places may not yet be reflected at the polls, because of a larger white share of the voting-age population and higher turnout levels. Exit polls show that white Texans still made up 60% of the state’s voters in 2020. The greater Houston area is the center of the state’s transformation and also a hub of the “stop the steal” movement. True the Vote, the organization behind some of the loudest accusations of voter fraud, was founded 12 years ago by a Fort Bend resident who claimed that a nonprofit was falsely registering voters in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Houston. A cluster of congressmen who actively promoted Trump’s election denial come from the area. Next month, another Republican who calls the election stolen is expected to replace an incumbent who accepted the Biden victory and did not seek reelection. Many Fort Bend-area Republicans say their doubts about the 2020 results have nothing to do with race. “I think it has more to do with polarization than it does with racial or demographic issues,” said Jacey Jetton, 39, a Texas state legislator and former GOP county chairman. “We are so divided now,” he added, that no one can accept that their opponents “believe what they believe.” Some Fort Bend Democrats said they saw an obvious connection between the declining white share of the population and the refusal by Nehls and his supporters to accept Trump’s defeat. “It is a power grab by white Republicans,” said K.P. George, a Democrat born in India who was elected in 2018 as the county’s top executive, the first nonwhite person to hold the office. Nehls, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, served as the county sheriff for eight years before running for Congress in 2020. His seat appears safe this year because the Republican-controlled state Legislature redrew the boundaries of his district to include more predominantly white and solidly Republican terrain outside Fort Bend County. Whites now make up a majority of the eligible voters in the district. Nehls said election fraud was the only thing that could stop “the greatest leader of my lifetime” from returning to the Oval Office in 2024. “In a fair election, you can’t beat Donald Trump!” Nehls said, posing for photographs in front of a life-size photo of the former president. He saw no fear of demographic change among his supporters, he said. “These people aren’t against brown or Black people. They just don’t like the way Democrats are running the country.” © 2022 The New York Times Company

i believe right now the repubs would take over the country if they could and to hell with what folks think. i am not saying by violence but it also cannot be ruled out. i will admit with all the crazies they have they make me nervous and i am afraid they will destroy this country. i am dead serious............

this is because you still have the trump taint on you. it is kinda like covid fog.......grins. how are you today im4?

so did bill make our country prosperous again or do you think he was riding off of ron's policies? i have missed you suga britches,,,,,,,,,,