CC finished tonight's game against LA with 24 points, 10 assists, and 10 rebounds for her 2nd triple double of the season as the Fever win 93-86.

Ho hum ....

1-3 is glorious?!?

And that single Sky win was by a single point after they overcame a 15 point deficit.

Friday night's game found the Fever up 27 midway thru the 4th before benching their starters.

However, Angel Reese was left in the game to chase points to maintain her double-double record totals. And she succeeded, scoring a lay up with about a minute left that got her above 10 points, long after the outcome was decided - against the Fever's bench players.

Clark is obviously a key reason for the ratings jump across the WNBA this season, as out of the 21 games that have drawn at least one million viewers, 18 of them have included Clark and the Fever. Reese has brought plenty of fanfare of her own to the WNBA, so it's no surprise that the late-season matchup featuring the duo shattered WNBA television records.

It's been a particularly strong season for WNBA basketball on the ION network, as games this season have averaged 639,000 viewers, which represents a 123% increase compared to the average of 287,000 viewers last year.

Just another signpost on the road being traveled by one of the most popular athletes on the planet and her team, now playoff bound for the first time in 8 seasons.

Ebs,

My parents paid for my Catholic school education for 9 years - Kindergarten thru 8th grade. They wanted me to go to a Jesuit high school that cost $5,000 per year back in 1974. I said, that's crazy and went to my then public suburban high school and ended up at Notre Dame anyway. Truth is my dad was then a school teacher and mom didn't work. Either we didn't eat or they'd have had to go into debt for me to stay in a private high school.

That aside, one other aspect of how the voucher program morphed from something designed to help disadvantaged blacks into a funding-sucker of the public schools where 91 percent of black students actually attend, making it harder still for them to compete with white students receiving objectively superior educations offering a greater variety of class choices - especially for advanced, higher achieving students.

This is a "system" that was originated to assist lower income and minority students that now primarily serves wealthier white families have their private school tuitions subsidized by all taxpayers. And since it has a disproportionate impact on blacks and other minorities, it has become another example of a government-instituted, unintentionally-biased program that harms mainly blacks/poor and helps predominantly whites.

This is what systemic racism/bias/classism looks like and it still exists in today's society just like it has since America became America.

"He's taken himself out of [the election], he's entered legacy territory with some voters, they've seen he's passing the torch," David Paleologos, the director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center told HuffPost. "So in that sense, it's not point in time job approval, it's more the totality of his administration over the last four years."

Paleologos compared Biden to a retiring athlete getting a last round of applause from the hometown fans: "You forget the bad games and you remember the time when the athlete performed to your liking or exceeded your expectations. It's the same kind of dynamic."

Beyond Suffolk, polling from Quinnipiac University and Gallup has also found big increases in Biden's standing. In Quinnipiac's polls, he went from a net -18 approval in mid-July to -7 in a survey conducted last week. Gallup had him jumping from -22 net approval in July to -10 in August.

Paleologos pointed to Biden's gains with independent women, who have tilted increasingly Democratic since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Biden went from 47% approval to 58% approval with the group in Suffolk's polling.

It's turning out that Biden isn't quite so despised as Republicans contend as Joe's popularity is leaving Trump's wallowing in the dust of his overused bronzing powder. If these trends were analogized into a Magic 8-Ball answer to the question is Kamala Harris going to be elected President(?), the answer - at this moment - most certainly would be "Signs point to yes".

[T]he program has become a subsidy for predominantly wealthy, white suburban families. The program's average recipient is a white female, who has never attended public school, from a family earning more than $99,000 a year. The shift has taken a huge bite out of state funding for public school - an estimated $600 million this year.

Looking forward, experts and critics in Indiana question whether the state can afford to subsidize sometimes wealthy private schools to the tune of $1.6 billion (since the program started) without devastating the public schools that provide the vast majority of the state's education.

When the voucher program first launched in 2011, 24 percent of voucher users were black students. Today, that demographic has dropped to 9 percent. At the same time, the number of white students on vouchers has increased from 46 percent to 64 percent as the program has expanded.

In 2023, the eligibility was changed again to include families with incomes up to 400 percent of the free and reduced lunch threshold. The result was that a family of four that makes over $222,000 now qualifies. Today, there are more students receiving vouchers whose families make more than $100,000 than those making less than $50,000.

"It started out low-income, but it is no longer low-income," State Rep. Cherish Pryor said. "It's now a way for some of the wealthiest individuals or upper-income individuals to pay for their child's private education."

Pryor also voiced concern for a lack of diversity and fairness. The fact that private schools do not have to "let in every student that presents themselves to the school" raises equity issues.

"You're getting taxpayer dollars - you should be accountable for every single penny that you spend," she said. "But I don't think it's fair to starve our traditional schools and then expect for their performances to be stellar when we haven't given them the proper resources to have a stellar educational system."

This is another example of how something supposedly implemented to help minority - nominally poorer black students - has been transformed into another wealth-transfer to predominately upper-middle class white families who previously paid 100% of the cost to send their kids to private/parochial schools. Instead of helping disadvantaged minorities - as these voucher programs were originally sold to the public - now the program benefits whites at the expense of poorer blacks, and becomes another example - whether intentionally or unintentionally - of tacit systemic bias, nee racism, in its usage.

What are her platform planks?

Biden has spent nearly 40% of presidency on vacation.

Yet again, more creative fiction from the halls of Fox News. Doesn't a $783M payout for lying prove to you not to believe anything they tell you?

Guess you're not that smart.

From legalization until 2019, Organized Crime charges for weed distro went up 400%

Not in Colorado. I'm surprised at you, presenting anecdotes without any links to confirmed studies.

In terms of crime, law enforcement agencies continue to combat illicit market activity. Because of the nature of this type of activity being inherently hidden from regulation and oversight, it remains challenging to quantify the size of the illicit market in Colorado; the state can only track and report the indicators of illegal activity, such as arrests and seizures. The number of plants seized on public lands and the number of out-of-state seizures of marijuana sourced from Colorado has fluctuated significantly over time. The number of court filings for marijuana-related felonies or charges related to the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act has also fluctuated -- in 2019, the number of charges was close to or slightly below 2012 numbers.

I'm not doubting the gist of what you're saying, but the most comprehensive studies done in Colorado do not support what you imply.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, and Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on its subcommittee for national security, the border and foreign affairs, wrote to Trump that they were making the request as a result of a Washington Post article published last month.

"Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether a former president - and a current candidate for president - took an illegal campaign contribution from a brutal foreign dictator," the letter signed by the two Democrats reads. "Accordingly, we request that you immediately provide the Committee with information and documents necessary to assure the Committee and the American public that you never, directly or indirectly, politically or personally, received any fund from the Egyptian president or government."

Trump campaign officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump campaign declined to answer detailed questions from The Post for the story last month but said the Justice Department investigation found no wrongdoing and was closed.

In early 2019, as Mueller was preparing to deliver his report on Russian interference and close his office, his team obtained records from Egyptian banking officials. The records revealed a cash withdrawal of nearly $10 million - an amount almost identical to what the intelligence indicated - from an account tied to the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, The Post reported. The withdrawal occurred in January 2017, five days before Trump took office.

The discovery intensified the probe. Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. who took over the case from Mueller proposed subpoenaing Trump's bank records from a period that included Trump's first months in the White House to see if any of the money from Cairo could be seen landing in Trump's accounts, The Post reported.

But months after the handoff, The Post's investigation found, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining those records. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump's then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe. Michael Sherwin, the then-acting U.S. attorney who closed the case, told The Post he did so for lack of evidence.

There simply is no bottom to Trump's corruption of America's government in service of his own greed and avarice. Trump's DOJ really was his personal defense team and it will only get worse if he gets another try at it.

And the FBI is saying they can overcome VPNs to find the originating IPs as well.

Wow, I wouldn't want to be a Russian propaganda pusher trying to influence our elections on political news based sites. Club Fed is allegedly quite unforgiving these days ... or at least that's what some are saying ....

Prosecutors say that Russia, in relatively low-tech fashion, sought out a sympathetic group in the United States, invited its leader to visit Moscow and established a long-term relationship through calls, email and electronic messages. The group, which has long had a presence in St. Petersburg, Fla., then promoted Russian views on its website, social media accounts and radio station. One post argued that Russian athletes should be allowed to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

"Infiltrating social movements has been core to Russian espionage since the 1950s," said Bret Schafer, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, a Washington-based research group that promotes democracy. Some of the infiltration attempts involve unwitting Americans, he added.

At least that's what some are saying, you know...

That's not what he said.

You have reading comprehension problems along with being a complete douchenozzle. Read the big words S-L-O-W-L-Y:

In Colorado, when they legalized weed black incarcerations went up, not down.

There is less than a ZERO chance that black incarcerations for all weed offenses increased after legalization, period.

What is your malfunction?

Maybe Sitz meant this:

#11

When there's no link, the facts usually stink.

To respect the holiday is to take the holiday.

Tell that to all the businesses, factories, plants, and service providers where 10s of millions of Americans worked yesterday.

What an idiotic statement! There is never an hour of any day out of 365 where all American workers have the same time off.

Only a non-American moron would make such an malinformed misstatement of how politicians should honor American workers on the holiday created to note their importance to this nation's progress and wellbeing.

It is an American tradition for public celebrations on Labor Day, held to honor those who labor year round as well as those still working at that moment, making such celebrations safe and possible. It's also tradition for those seeking elected office to attend such celebrations, thanking workers and asking for their support.

Virtue signaling, my ass. You know nothing of how labor is respected, frankly, because you know nothing of American traditions outside of using right wing tropes and lies for denigration purposes.

It disenfranchises the voters. It makes the election less legitimate than it would be if the voters got to vote on the selection of the candidates.

You simply show total ignorance on how the party system works in this country. Many states don't allow "voters" to vote in primaries unless they are registered to the specific political party they receive a ballot for. How is that democratic in the broad sense?

Primaries are PARTISAN elections by design. The members of the Party indeed voted for Harris as a part of the Biden ticket. You morons keep trying to imply that Harris hasn't been voted for when she clearly WAS. If Democrats didn't want her in position to succeed Biden, they could have voted for whomever else was on the ballot or written in their personal choice. No one was forced to accept Kamala Harris at VP, just as Americans have multiple choices not named Kamala Harris to choose from in November.

I wish you fake, anti-American ignoramuses would simply stop sowing dissent where you don't belong. You continually lie and obfuscate what most of know are the actual truths and facts, particularly about our elections.

Drop dead Fred. No one needs your ignorant opinions about something you obviously can't understand nor comprehend. Political parties are privately controlled entities, not public utilities. They make their own rules and every American can express their individual will at the ballot box. It's called a write-in vote and Harris ascending to the top of the Democratic ticket has taken away no voter's right to choose whomever they want.

Kamala Harris told the crowd that they'd "better thank a union member" for the worker protections won for the American labor force since 1926 - the five-day work week, sick leave, paid leave and vacation time, she said.

"The way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work. We know that when we organize, when we bring everyone together, it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families," she said.

Harris later added that "on Labor Day, and every day, we celebrate the dignity of work ... We celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class."

Harris campaign spokesperson Joseph Costello said in a statement that Trump "is ditching workers on Labor Day because he is an anti-worker, anti-union extremist who will sell out working families for his billionaire donors if he takes power."

#79

And how that photo came to be used was 100% legal and drew no comment from the military and violated no federal laws. It was taken by the federal government itself, totally unrelated to any politics or political campaign.

Trump's photos and video DID violate federal law and was condemned by the US Army along with the fact his goons assaulted a federal employee in the course of simply doing the job she was hired to do.

But go ahead Strawlighter, keep digging your hole deeper and deeper. Pretty soon Trump will be in there with you and don't come crying when you're forced to smell his nasty Depends. They smell worse than your reputation does here on the Retort.

Suggestion: Change your moniker to Strawlighter. It's a far more honest description of the vast majority of your posts and your favored style. And throw in the Trumpian "I know what I am but what are you" retorts and that exhausts the breadth of your extremely limited abilities of self expression.

Your posts are either strawmen that immediately go up in flames or gaslighting, which you fail to comprehend, confirming your innate inability to express yourself outside of Tourette's-like repetition of already discredited or out of context factoids which you cling to like Linus does his safety blanket.

#75

Read this as many times as it takes to penetrate your pointed concrete head:

Oh...you're so insightful.

Did I couch my questions as though I claimed to think of something no one else ever has? Of course not. Since you agree with the premise, why criticise me for mentioning it? Have you ever seen this question asked in a presidential debate? I can't say yes or no but I can say that I don't remember something so possibly illuminating of a person's analytical processes when another parent's child's life is put at risk.

The question is currently relevant because the issue of presidential military orders and command are front page. It's easier to criticize when things go wrong than it is to take credit for all the decisions that went right because that's what our fickle, uninformed public demands.

At any rate, thanks for the drive-by sniping attempt. It's been one of your most impressive contributions in months, considering the veritable shallowness of your intellect and factual knowledge.

#45

Mad? Naw, I'm too busy laughing with those offline who think you're an idiot.

IOW, I'm having the time of my life watching you make a fool of yourself.

How about you?