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You can’t bear that bumper sticker
Is there a place I can’t can buy that from the campaign?
SEC unveils opening week college football schedule Sept. 26th
The SEC will play a 10-game, league-only schedule this season and previously announced earlier this month two additional opponents for each team to go along with the existing eight league foes. The two additional opponents were cross-divisional foes and selected, according to a statement from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, to "create a schedule that is as competitive as possible and builds on the existing eight conference games that had already been scheduled for 2020."
The entire schedule will be announced Monday at 7 p.m. ET on the SEC Network.
The SEC has released its opening week football schedule for Sept. 26, and the four first-year head coaches in the league all have daunting assignments.
Mike Leach's Mississippi State team goes on the road to face defending national champion LSU, which is ranked No. 5 in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll. The other three first-year SEC coaches -- Arkansas' Sam Pittman, Missouri's Eli Drinkwitz and Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin -- also debut against teams ranked in the top 10 of the coaches' poll.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29681417/sec-unveils-opening-week-college-football-schedule
Is it too late to buy a lemon tree?
A Meyers to be specific.
I have it on my list for my wife but I just hadn’t gotten around to getting one.
Looks like the “season” is later winter - early summer. Did I wait too late?
CNN - Iran offered bounties in Afghanistan too
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/iran-taliban-bounties-us-intelligence/index.htmlWashington (CNN)US intelligence agencies assessed that Iran offered bounties to Taliban fighters for targeting American and coalition troops in Afghanistan, identifying payments linked to at least six attacks carried out by the militant group just last year alone, including a suicide bombing at a US air base in December, CNN has learned.
"Bounties" were paid by a foreign government, identified to CNN as Iran, to the Haqqani network -- a terrorist group that is led by the second highest ranking leader of the Taliban -- for their attack on Bagram Air Base on December 11, which killed two civilians and injured more than 70 others, including four US personnel, according to a Pentagon briefing document reviewed by CNN
The revelation that Iran might have paid the Taliban follows the controversy over Russian bounties for attacks on American troops, an issue that has been consistently downplayed by the Trump administration in recent weeks.
Basic training and the virus.
An old friend of mine had his boy go into the military. First of his family, in.
Okay so he had to quarantine for 2 weeks before entering. Hotel accommodations. His start date was moved back a month. No electronic devices. Even in quarantine.
Since he’s been at training he’s doing well. There was a complete shut off of info. My buddies wife found a Facebook page related to this specific group of soldiers/sailors/Marines/Cav. <—- I’m Cav 😁
Other than that - nothing
I remember calling from actual phone booths at Ft. Knox.
Regular testing. We used to sleep head to foot to prevent a spread of illness.
There was a positive test. Next bunk. My friends son is going back into quarantine for 2 weeks.
6 other people too. On base as I understand it.
Hey. We need them. What a nightmare situation.
Watched "The Right Stuff" with our daughter last night. Watching it I couldn't help....
but think how cool it would have been to hang out in the desert with Sam Shepard and Levon Helm. Throw Chuck Yeager in there too.
I was giggling at one point and my wife gave me a look. I just grinned and said, “I can’t explain it”.
Still holds up. My wife is a huge Dennis Quaid fan. Seems like all our movies in the HBO Max queue have Quaid or Redford in them.
Watched “All the Presidents Men” Friday night with our daughter. She’d never seen it. Woodward left being an officer in Naval Intelligence to be a beat reporter at a mostly town paper? .....okay.
Amazing. Looks like Alex Smith is going to play football again.
Washington QB Alex Smith cleared for football activity by team
https://www.espn.com/soccer/manchester-city/story/4160901/man-citys-kevin-de-bruyne-named-premier-league-player-of-the-season
Washington Football Team quarterback Alex Smith has been cleared for football activity and activated off the physically unable to perform list, the team announced Sunday, capping a remarkable recovery from a leg injury that nearly cost him his life
Smith, 36, broke the tibia and fibula in his right leg in a November 2018 game against Houston. Because of an infection, Smith required 17 surgeries, and doctors not only worried about the possibility of his leg being amputated but also feared for his life. But Smith vowed to return, and while team officials acknowledged the massive odds he faced, they always returned to one comment: "If anyone can do it, Alex can."
Smith was featured in an ESPN documentary detailing his journey
Here is an extensive article on what exactly happened with his leg. It gets pretty gruesome
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29112995/alex-smith-comeback-fight-save-qb-leg-life
Postal Service warns 46 states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/usps-states-delayed-mail-in-ballots/2020/08/14/64bf3c3c-dcc7-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.htmlAnticipating an avalanche of absentee ballots, the U.S. Postal Service recently sent detailed letters to 46 states and D.C. warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted — adding another layer of uncertainty ahead of the high-stakes presidential contest.
The letters sketch a grim possibility for the tens of millions of Americans eligible for a mail-in ballot this fall: Even if people follow all of their state’s election rules, the pace of Postal Service delivery may disqualify their votes.
The Postal Service’s warnings of potential disenfranchisement came as the agency undergoes a sweeping organizational and policy overhaul amid dire financial conditions. Cost-cutting moves have already delayed mail delivery by as much as a week in some places, and a new decision to decommission 10 percent of the Postal Service’s sorting machines sparked widespread concern the slowdowns will only worsen. Rank-and-file postal workers say the move is ill-timed and could sharply diminish the speedy processing of flat mail, including letters and ballots.
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