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Why they didn't split the prize money is beyond me. Corporate suits with no brains.
Exactly. In my Fathers day you'd be hanging for doing what they have done.
It's not going to end well. Evidence everywhere.
Yes, mostly rookies. Hopefully they don't hit the wall as the season goes on. And they've never seen a QB like Mahomes before so they might think a play is dead slow down just for Mahomes to side arm the ball making them look like fools.
So I'm thinking when we play you guys if I can't have Maholmes get the flu we'd have a chance if Kelce does.
That dude is unreal.
I'm sitting there thinking next play Mahomes definitely going to him this is the money down coming up.
Everyone knows this.
But still they can't defend the guy.
He has amazing skill sets.
We play you guys Christmas Eve.
I'm thinking maybe Mahomes could get the flu or something and help us out. LOL!
I agree with your QB assessment.
Going to be interesting if Josh Fields can stay healthy. Pick his runs just a bit better and develop his sliding technique. Saw a tape on him yesterday and he had really good accuracy on his passes on the run. Wilson use to be really good at that until his mental breakdown.
They showed the other QBs face not long before KC would get the ball back one more time and I'm thinking wonder what he is thinking?
If I was him I'd be thinking I failed because the other QB is Mahomes and if you want the game in the bag with a minute left you best be two scores ahead.
Odds are if only one score ahead Mahomes going to erase that.
I try to watch as many games as I can of Mahomes cause QB's like him come along how often?
Yes, to many take that for granted I never will and he isn't even on my team.
I just really appreciate skill sets at the top of the top.
Maholmes showed why at end of last game.
To think Wilson use to do that all the time and now he can't even lead his team down the field. Mental tran wreck.
I see the Seahawks getting 11 wins.
Speaking of done .....................
Russel Wilson found out the grass isn't always greener elsewhere.
If he can't pull out of his mental state he is done also.
Not sure I've seen a player fall apart as fast as he has.
No timing on his throws.
Indecision almost every snap.
He is one big train wreck.
BTW ............. I wouldn't be writing off brady just yet. Against the Seahawks his ability to get the ball out of his hands they had him at fastest in the league. He looked unreal. Hard to rush a guy when the ball is already in the air.
That all being said ..............
Seahawks would have made any team look good last week as they started the game at 6:30 in the morning for those players that would have been the time back here. Unreal the NFL bla bla bla about best product on the field then schedule a game at 6:30 in the morning. Notice in second half they woke up.
Armed and Beltway-ish: More federal bureaucrats than U.S. Marines authorized to pack heat
By Mark Hemingway | RealClearWire
Nov 16, 2022 Updated Nov 16, 2022
Greg Bishop / The Center Square
https://www.ncwlife.com/news/national/armed-and-beltway-ish-more-federal-bureaucrats-than-u-s-marines-authorized-to-pack-heat/article_d1fc6521-c740-5f87-95df-ea6cabce3196.html
When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy warned that “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.”
A video quickly went viral racking up millions of views, purporting to show a bunch of clumsy bureaucrats receiving firearms training, prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of taxpayers. The GOP claims were widely attacked as exaggerations – since the video, though from the IRS, didn’t show official agent training – but the criticism has shed light on a growing trend: the rapid arming of the federal government.
A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, “The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies,” found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests – more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. “One hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted),” notes the report. “Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone.”
The watchdog reports that the Department of Health and Human Services has 1,300 guns including one shotgun, five submachine guns, and 189 automatic firearms. NASA has its own fully outfitted SWAT team, with all the attendant weaponry, including armored vehicles, submachine guns, and breeching shotguns. The Environmental Protection Agency has purchased drones, GPS trackers, radar equipment, and night vision goggles, and stockpiled firearms.
A 2018 Government Accountability Office report noted that the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in inventory at the end of 2017 – before the enforcement funding boost this year. The IRS did not respond to requests for information, though the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division does put out an annual report detailing basic information such as how many warrants the agency is executing in a given year.
More than a hundred executive agencies have armed investigators, and apparently no independent authority is monitoring or tracking the use of force across the federal government. Agencies contacted by RealClearInvestigations from HHS to EPA declined to provide, or said they did not have, comprehensive statistics on how often their firearms are used, or details on how they conduct armed operations.
“I would be amazed if that data exists in any way,” said Trevor Burrus, a research fellow in constitutional and criminal law at the libertarian Cato Institute. “Over the years of working on this, it’s quite shocking how much they try to not have their stuff tracked on any level.”
All this weaponry raises questions about whether the 200,000 armed federal agents are getting adequate weapons and safety training. HHS did not respond to a request to comment on the $14 million in guns, ammunition, and military equipment it purchased between 2015 and 2019 or its new National Training Operations Center within the Washington, D.C. Beltway. Another government agency – Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers – also declined to speak with RCI for this article.
According to Burrus, recent history helps explain the militarization of the federal government – “This is 20 years of the war on terror, with the production of an excessive amount of access to weaponry,” he says.
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 extended law enforcement authority to special agents of 24 Offices of Inspectors General in agencies throughout the government, with provisions to enable other OIGs to qualify for law enforcement authority. As a result, even obscure agencies such as the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board’s Office of Inspector General now have armed federal agents. This summer, before the expansion of the IRS was approved by Congress, Republican congressman Matt Gaetz singled out the RRB as an example of the excesses of an armed bureaucracy. He introduced a bill to stop federal agencies from stockpiling ammunition.
Federal agencies doing their own criminal investigations raises important constitutional and civil rights questions. Last year, the EPA raided a number of small auto shops across the country for allegedly selling equipment that helped car owners circumvent emissions regulations.
“It was 12 armed federal agents, and they had little EPA badges on and everything,” John Lund, the owner of Lund Racing in West Chester, Pennsylvania, told the Washington Examiner. The EPA did not respond to a request for comment.
While it’s hardly a new complaint that federal bureaucracies are overstepping their rulemaking authority, the idea that executive agencies are broadly empowered to effectively create their own laws and go out and enforce them with armed federal agents is another matter.
“So many of the regulations that can be enforced at the point of a gun have almost nothing to do with what people would normally call dangerous crime, that would be the kind of thing where you might want armed agents there,” said Burrus. “And especially coming from agencies such as the EPA and other agencies that are more quality-of-life agencies dealing with regulatory infractions, rather than involved in solving real crimes.”
This article was adapted from a RealClearInvestigations article published Oct. 6.
Originally published on thecentersquare.com, part of the TownNews Content Exchange.
The FBI should be on the list as well.
Covered up clinton and now biden family.
Anyone see a pattern?
She nailed it!
Telsa will come up with all kinds of excuses for the lives destroyed in this video.
Warning graphic content .............
LOL!
Vote in person. Votes are counted on the spot. Results at 7:00.
Silly me that makes to much sense and eliminates fraud.
Yes, that one is a classic. Not sure but think they did the ending a bit different but message the same.
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he
asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money
from you, I'm doing community service this week.'
The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a
'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.
Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill,
the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing
community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop.
The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank
you' card and a dozen doughnuts waiting for him at his door.
Then a Member of Congress came in for a haircut, and when he went to
pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from
you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Member of Congress
was very happy and left the shop.
The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen
Members of Congress lined up waiting for a free haircut.
And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between
the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
Hardly a week goes by I don't see one of these types of posts.
Ask yourself this after reading it.
How many times you remember reading about unexpected deaths and NOT being given an explanation of why?
Not ONCE have I read one.
It's like the rest of the family got the poison shot also so no way they going to say we been nothing but a pawn to make others rich.
Good to hear from you PMS Witch!
That turning off fuel should be common sense but with all of my common sense I missed it for years. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
My mechanic told me years back been doing it ever since.
Ticks me off I didn't think about it.
I've had a ryobi blower for years. They make a real good cordless mower also. The rest of their stuff I not to impressed at all that is why my tools are Hilti & Makita.
Yes, the gas machines can be a pain for carbs.
My generator I turn the fuel off not the off switch.
I should time it as it takes a while before it finally runs out of fuel and shuts down.
Supposedly that does the trick???
I'll find out in the coming years that hopefully will eliminate carb rebuild.
I'm like you I get excited when a product actually works well.
Evidence is all over the place.
But .............. just like the clintons everything is covered up because to many are involved.
Our government cartel is corrupt!
This is all about having vision. I wonder what the laws read? Obviously there was none stopping him which I think is great. Try to do that in my state good luck no matter if the land is useless just sitting there.
LOL!