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Do you think Clemson goes after any starters or any oline recruits from the football program... Because the current players can enter the transfer portal within 30 days...

…..crusted with cat food. Cut against the grain with his finger nails.Another masterpiece!

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A lot of NIL deals influencing verbal commitments. I get it. But, are these athletes actually signing some type of NIL contract prior to verbally committing. Or are they verbally committing based on “promises” and then signing an actual contract shortly after the verbal.
Trying to understand the process so the NIL collective and the athlete protect themselves from being screwed over.

Just found the documentary “What Haunts Us” on Amazon Prime. WTH?

Great news!! She knows that Trump won!!

Georgia state House member leaves Democratic Party for GOP

Mainor will continue serving in the Georgia General Assembly as the newest House Republican Caucus member.

justthenews.com

Mainor will continue serving in the Georgia General Assembly as the newest House Republican Caucus member.

By Madeleine Hubbard
Updated: July 11, 2023 - 12:38pm
Georgia state Rep. Mesha Mainor on Tuesday said she made the "moral" decision to leave the Democratic Party to become a Republican.
"I made the decision to leave the Democrat Party," Mainor, who represents a heavily Democratic district in Atlanta, tweeted.
She also wrote that it "wasn't a political decision," but "a MORAL one," adding, "I will NEVER apologize for being a black woman with a mind of my own."
Georgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon welcomed Mainor into the GOP.
"This is a historic day for Georgia Republicans. We are delighted to welcome Rep. Mainor to the Georgia Republican Party and look forward to collaborating with her to advocate on behalf of hard working Georgians," he said.
Mainor will continue serving in the Georgia General Assembly as the newest House Republican Caucus member.
Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.

We knew this the whole time too.


July 11, 2023 (14h ago)

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Most of you will remember the huge DNC uproar during the 2016 election. Emails from the DNC and Hillary’s campaign CEO, John Podesta, were published online by Wikileaks, causing quite a stir. The true origin and culprit who got their hands on the emails remains a mystery to this day, but our less-than-trustworthy intelligence community claims it was the “Russians” who hacked the DNC and handed the goods over to Julian Assange.
Assange, who typically refrains from discussing sources, was forced to refute the intelligence claims that Russians were the email providers. Assange claimed it wasn’t the Russians but someone “inside” the DNC.
Many believe the Wikileaks contact was Seth Rich, a disgruntled Bernie supporter and DNC employee, who was infuriated that Hillary had “stolen” the primary from Bernie. He allegedly sought to retaliate by distributing the emails. Seth was later murdered in DC, and his homicide remains very mysterious and unsolved.
Thus, the intel community, which propagated the whole fake Russia hoax, continues to push this absurd narrative that Russians hacked the DNC. However, a previously overlooked report from 2017 has come to light challenging the “Russia theory.” The report originates from a group called VIPS, “Veteran Intel Professionals For Sanity.” These veteran intelligence professionals say that based on their investigation, the DNC email theft was not a hack at all, but an inside leak that didn’t involve Russia — precisely what Julian Assange informed us.
The Nation highlighted the VIPS report back in 2017.

The Nation:

Stunning new report reveals new information on the so-called 2016 Russian “hack” at the DNC…
VIPS, formed in 2003 by a group of former US intelligence officers with decades of experience working within the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and other agencies, previously produced some of the most credible—and critical—analyses of the Bush administration’s mishandling of intelligence data in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The most recent VIPS memo, released on July 24, whatever its technical merits, contributes to a much-needed critical discussion. Despite all the media coverage taking the veracity of the ICA assessment for granted, even now we have only the uncorroborated assertion of intelligence officials to go on. Indeed, this was noticed by The New York Times’s Scott Shane, who wrote the day the report appeared: “What is missing from the public report is…hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack…. Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’”
As editor of The Nation, my purpose in publishing Patrick Lawrence’s article was to make more widely known the VIPS critique of the January ICA assertions, the questions VIPS raised, and their counter-thesis that the disseminated DNC e-mails resulted from a leak, not a hack. Those questions remain vital.

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The Nation goes on to mention that a few of the article’s “conclusions” were presented as “facts,” whereas, in reality, they are actually opinions. This shouldn’t surprise anyone; as stories of this sort often get purposely ignored, and they aren’t fully investigated (like the DNC pipe bomb story), so we’re all left guessing and offering our opinions. If they fully investigated, we’d likely discover that our “opinions” were actually “facts.”

Subsequently, Nation editors themselves raised questions about the editorial process that preceded the publication of the article. The article was indeed fact-checked to ensure that Patrick Lawrence, a regular Nation contributor, accurately reported the VIPS analysis and conclusions, which he did. As part of the editing process, however, we should have made certain that several of the article’s conclusions were presented as possibilities, not as certainties. And given the technical complexity of the material, we would have benefited from bringing on an independent expert to conduct a rigorous review of the VIPS technical claims.

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Without the “DNC Russia hacked” theory, the already shaky house of cards built around the Russia hoax would completely crumble, leaving Hillary, the media, and the Democratic Party with nowhere to hide. They’d then have to start acknowledging a great deal of misconduct and criminal behavior. This is likely why they are rigorously gatekeeping information and making significant efforts to bury stories like this one from 2017. And they’ve done a good job. You probably weren’t even aware that a group named VIPS existed, investigated the DNC email scandal, and concluded it wasn’t Russia, did you?

Smart move! Good job Clements!

https://www.wspa.com/video/clemson-bans-tiktok-from-campus-networks/8803071/

We lose very little. Grice, Ingle and the 2 top prospects are gone. I think Ammons is a toss up. He could probably go a bit higher next year with a good, healthy season. We retained everyone except Head and Stafura from the recruiting class, I believe. That's about the best possible result I think we could have gotten. I hope Blake has a monster senior season and gets taken high next year. I was a little shocked Blackwell wasn't taken on day 3, but I'm sure he will be picked up. He is out of eligibility, I believe.

Which one was the best outfitted to win a national championship? Was it the 89 team?

I'm asking for some of the old timers' opinions on this one.

DJ was drafted in the 20th round

TI Family - I know there's a good number of Charleston folks on this Board. And while I've been to Charleston many times, I was young and single at the time. Loved all my trips to Mt. Pleasant and Folly Beach, etc..., esp for weekend getaways at fraternity brother's parents places and for Bachelor Parties.

But my question caters specifically for Charleston recommendations for a group travelling with kids. Why I'm going - I'm not entirely sure because my fiancee and I don't have kids haha.

BUTTT this is an entirely different trip soooo here we go. Let me know your best recommendations for a group of 4 couples with 4 young kids, ages 2, 5, 5, and 7). Looking for good food spots, places to hang out, parking advice, hidden gems, and kid-friendly bars (for me I suppose).

Going next weekend and staying at an AirBnB close to downtown.

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Has anybody seen it yet?

Just seasoned (heavily, due to the low fat content) a couple of cuts of a Beef Tenderloin, will go on later. Wife has the baked potatoes going in the oven.


Any other Cowboys cooking over fire in the Great Outdoors tonight?


And, @jmed99, GYAIH. You too, @Cris_Ard, @southerncaltiger, @bron90, @Hovice, @BrettHovis, my man @Dackel. Apologies to anyone I left off this list.

Don't take it personally, I'm simply not bright enough to remember all of the handles. Mea Culpa.

Throughout yesterday the recurring theme was that Clemson can’t recruit the OL or that we have not stockpiled talent there. While I would agree we tend to take smaller classes and the on field results haven’t been what we want, I’m not sure I agree we haven’t been getting better at stockpiling talent. Here’s the analysis of what’s on campus currently:

2019 Class
4* Putnam (5.9, #120)
3* Rayburn (5.7)
3* Boateng (5.6)

2020 Class
4* Parks (6.0, #38)
4* Tchio (5.8, #125)
4* Mayes (5.8, #142)
4* Tucker (5.8)
4* Williams (5.8)
3* Howard (5.6)

2021 Class
5* Leigh (6.1, #27)
4* Tate (5.9, #114)
4* Linthicum (5.9, #119)
3* Pennington (5.7)

2022 Class
4* Sadler (5.9, #121)
4* Miller (5.9, #124)

2023 Class
4* Sewell (5.9, #123)
4* Reed (5.9, #174)
4* Owens (5.8)

15 recruited OL on campus. Avg star rating of 3.93. Avg rating of 5.86. 10 of 15 in Top 200 overall.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect it to be that high either. But if you asked me if I’d be good with 15 OL on the roster who were basically four stars I’d say absolutely. You could argue the Rivals ratings and we’ve all discussed whether we are missing on our evals. But I don’t think we can fault the staff for not getting presumably talented players. The facts don’t align with that.

Interestingly as I noted yesterday, the biggest problem seems to be the highly touted 2020 class not making a significant impact (yet?) while also not moving on to allow space to get new guys. As I’ve also said before, though, OL is such a hard position you ideally want your starters to be older. If true and the light starts coming on for the vets then we are on the cusp of the OL talent starting to turn in the right direction. I’m actually pretty high on the OL possibilities this year so we’ll see how it plays out.

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Adding this here too. Buster Murdaugh et al sit for an interview. If I were him, I'd move on with my life and nor stir this up again....but I'm not him.

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Thanks to everyone who has supported the series so far! We will have a bit of a schedule change and would love your input!

Next up on Clemson’s schedule and parts five and six of the series would be Miami and NC State Rivals in that order.

Originally, I had two interviews tomorrow with both writers and planned for Wednesday and Friday episodes. Now, the NC State episode will release first as the Miami interview had to be pushed back to Friday.

Now the question is, would you want part six being Miami drop on Friday night or the next day on Saturday?

Thanks for the continued support. I’m excited for these next two episodes as we reach the halfway point of this series!

3 tds

Coach Bowden turns 69 today.

Wow!! It's going to be harder to reconcile what reality is when bad players start earnestly taking advantage of this tech.

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Dickey from TN went early round 11 to KC.