Author Keith O'Brien argues "prop bets pose a particular threat to the integrity of the game."

As long as one athlete can fix the outcome of a wager, the temptation will continue to prove irresistible to some players. This temptation comes at a time when millions of Americans are betting billions of dollars on sports, and sometimes more than a billion on a single game. At some point, according to gambling-addiction experts, an athlete will manipulate their performance during one of these big games, if it hasn't happened already. That leaves those who love sports with only one sensible option. It's time to kill"or at least reel in"the prop bet.

[E]liminating the prop bet entirely will be challenging. Since the first single-player prop bet was invented in the lead-up to Super Bowl XX, in January 1986"when William "The Refrigerator" Perry, a defensive tackle, opened at 20 to 1 to score a touchdown for the Chicago Bears"prop bets have become popular among degenerate gamblers and casual fans alike. If legal gambling platforms didn't offer them in 2025, gamblers would probably turn instead to illegal bookies and illegal websites"a still-thriving world where oversight hardly exists at all.

Of course, Napoleon himself was okay.
In fact, he beat the grunts out of Russia.
Same as it ever was (and is).

Hubris

Melanie Trump ... under oath?
Hahahahahahahahahaha.

An itemized list of the identities of all donors to the Trump Money Laundry & Epstein Memorial Ballingroom and all amounts, a list, listed is not too much to require from a serial liar, thief, and thirty-four times convicted felon who asks, yet again, for our trust.

Only MAGAts would be stupid enough to accept Trump's word for anything.

I know people who have performed at state functions and they've been embarrassed to have world leaders in a tent.
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I'm sorry, but Tiffany Haddish's bat mitzvah was not a "state function" and Billy Crystal, Wanda Sykes, and Chelsea Handler are not "world leaders."

The Ballroom will be larger, uglier, and more expensive yet.
It is being constructed for the primary purpose of laundering money and buying influence.
It's secondary purpose is to massage the fractured ego of a mentally ill president.
We've come quite a ways from when people around Ike were discrete about his brand of golf ball.
To do otherwise would have been unseemly.

Well, that's another barrier to unchecked power demolished.
On to whatever else might be next on Old Yeller's list of oh, well, what the hell, why not shatterables.
Just to prove he operates without adult oversight.
A goddamn shame and totally preventable.

Boy, is this ever going to be a clueless piano player in the cathouse story.
Fascinating tale in the details, for sure, populated with loathsome characters aplenty.
But is anyone actually surprised?
Other than the piano player.

Musk's reflexive, go-to yip to cast aspersions on someone (sans evidence) seems to be to his high-pitched "Pedo!" shriek.
Interesting, when you factor in the man's erratic behavior, heavy drug use, and the word "projection."

"Tasty" - not quite! "Rasty"

As a kid I spent some summers traveling with the circus.
However tasty some of the roustabouts might be, they were always seen as a better sort than ...
Carnies.
Circus folk provided a show; carnies we're always addicted to running a grift.
Evangelical religion theatre in America isn't a circus attraction.
It's a carnival show for rubes run by a cast of damaged carnies.

Charlie, a youthful albeit practiced grifter, would be proud. Why, you can and will bet your bottom dollar he's up there in Heaven in some smoky celestial dive bar playing three-card monte with Jesus and a handful of the disciples right this minute.

ICE is the armed and masked paramilitary wing of the Republican Party.

"Left? You fled!"

Great line.

Trump "dismissed concerns that his administration had not been transparent about the project."

"Well, he would, wouldn't he?" as call girl Mandy Rice-Davies replied during the Profumo Affair when informed Lord Astor denied ever knowing, let alone bedding, her.

From the ICE spiritual parent:

Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt

Raise the flag! The ranks tightly closed!
The SA marches with calm, steady step.

Interesting, because upside-down was also Benito Mussolini's terminal perspective of the world.

And a day later, BELLRINGER done gone total Trumpy: Ta-ta-ta-TACO.
Thanks, Jeff, for just shutting up and folding that losing hand.

It helps maintain the conspiracy of silence surrounding Trump's minions murdering people in international waters.

Any MAGAts care to take a shot at the why of Admiral Alvin Holsey's sudden, unexpected resignation from his position overseeing this boolsheet?

Sentinel ...
Well put.

Sentinel ...
Well put.

#5
BELLRINGER: "principled conservatism"

Please explain what that might be in this day and age, with a few examples of folks who fit that bill.

Thanks (eager to learn).