Eagle11

Well, against my better judgement, I stayed up and watched the SOTU last night. Between the outright lies and incoherent babbling I gave up an hour of sleep. I gotta give old Joe his due (or at least his speech writers). He stuck to the same old tired Dem talking points. Heck, 4 supreme court justices skipped it (one a democrat). The bright spot on my loss of sleep was Sarah Huckabee Sanders response. Ok, on to my coffee and getting going at work. Have a great hump day everyone.

Ohhhhhh.....I know, I know. Pick me, pick me. It's pretty easy if you back off and give it a good look. LOL

From Cardinal Backer...... My solution? A set period of benefits like we have now… 24 months or so. Once it’s done, it’s only good for products like WIC provides, the old cheese and butter like they used to pass out, and MREs like we feed our troops. My guess is that you’d have a lot fewer people on the system. Heck, prove the liberals wrong. Only give them healthy alternatives. Fresh fruit and vegetables, no processed foods, no soft drinks. My guess is that our spending in that area would shrink when they couldn’t shop like fourth graders turned loose at the grocery store with unlimited resources. Isn't this how it was when I was younger? You could only get so many months of unemployment and other handouts? When I was a younger man there was a stigma that came with being unemployed. Now it is a badge of courage. I had a friend out of work that called asking for a job. I hooked him up with a job paying $35/hr. Much less than we had made in the past but a good paying job non the less. He took the job but told me......... "This job is beneath me and I need more money." My response was, no job is beneath you when you don't have a job.

This.......if you read most negative views on this it is from tax people. Heck yeah they won't like it because they will be obsolete. I don't know enough about it to know if it is good or bad. I like the idea of having a choice on how much I pay in taxes. Example, when it is time to buy a vehicle do I get the loaded truck and pay a higher tax or do I choose a lesser truck and control what I send the government? I know taxes are a necessary evil, my issue with taxation is the tax code. Eliminate the thousands of pages of write-offs and just do a simple tax. You make $100k you owe $15k. You make $10 million you owe $1.5 million. Simple.....every pays their fair share. People mad that Donald Trump paid less taxes than you or I should be mad at the tax code not the percentage. He is just taking advantage of the system. They all do it. Clintons, Rockefellers on and on. I believe there should be a corporate tax for the companies. It should be fair. We want to encourage investment and growth but they should not get a free ride. Just my $0.02

Baddog, I am with you on hoping we get to see the take down of the left but I have my doubts. What I get tired of is the RINO's assisting in the plot. I think how this debt ceiling is handled will tell us how the next 2 years will go. At some point spending has to be addressed and stop kicking the can down the road. I also love all of the whining and crying from the left when adam schiff is removed from a committee. Wasn't he the one that kept Jim Jordan off the Jan. 6th committee? Why yes he was.

When I was younger all I heard from the gay community whether in the newspapers or tv was "we just want to be accepted, that is all". Once that happened, that was not enough and then here we are. If you don't acknowledge and protest and join in all their causes you are a homophobe.

On this, I wholeheartedly agree. I remember my folks and grandparents just outraged at some of the shows on tv in my younger days.

"What one generation tolerates the next will embrace"..........

[Hidden Content] Why is this guy being crucified? This politics in sports in getting out of hand. I stand with Ivan.

Reagan, No answers will be forthcoming as you probably knew when you posted this. This regime of the Bidens is the slimiest there is and we are only halfway into it. We need Rip to take them to the train station.

I found this quote funny about this committee, McGovern is a democrat from Mass......... “It’s simply about revenge, it’s about disrupting and destroying, rather than collaborating and creating,” McGovern said Tuesday. That is exactly what the Jan. 6th committee was about. There was no collaborating and creating then. It was simply about smearing Trump. If it were a serious committee why were there only 2 repubs on the panel (and they were both anti-Trumpers). Jim Jordan was told he was not allowed on the committee by Adam Schiff, which by the rules is all on the up and up I guess. No cross examination of the facts was allowed by any person the committee was going after. The hearings were in the basement and no one allowed to attend. Now that the shoe is on the other foot it is not ok for those same rules to be applied. I think this is going to get interesting.

I believe they are. The only value I see is the team and coaches getting the extra practice time.

I wanted Beard to be the coach. That being said, no doubt in my mind Del Conte and in house legal team have left no stone unturned in making this decision. I don't expect the salary will be paid, ever. This is really a no win for UT in public perception. Keep him for any reason and all you care about is winning games. He can do whatever he wants as long as he wins. May not be true but that would be the perception. Get rid of him and you did the right thing but lost the best coach/recruiter you've had since the Barnes years.

My dad took me to watch David Clyde pitch in high school. He truly was a man among boys.

A committee made of of Trump haters pushed this forward. Liz Cheney cannot go away and hide in her daddies basement fast enough. If this Congress were serious about going after criminals, that presidents crackhead son would be in prison already and he would not be far behind.

Hoops, there have been some really good stories come out over the last week. As a UT fan, he frustrated the hell out of me at times but he was just a different guy with a different perspective on things. He will be missed in college sports.

I will miss Leach interviews. My 3 favorites are Leach, Bob Knight and Orgeron. Rest In Peace Pirate

I hope there is a special room in hell for these offenders.

Biden will do anything to get a few more black votes. This is crazy, even for those left wing loonies.

That was crazy. The sound of the contact he made........knew it was gone just by hearing it.

Before the fine was retracted by PayPal I had read and heard reporters talking about people reporting others for posts on social media. You know, the everyone gets a trophy crowd that needs safe spaces and are easily offended turning others in.

Great president??? More like total disaster [Hidden Content]

RIP to The Coal Miners Daughter. A life well lived

Oh so true

The only thing more embarrassing than his loss of capacity and bumbling through prepared speeches is the press secretary's explanation of why he said it. This chick that does this now and psaki before her have the most difficult job in the world.