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Please be respectful to others with differing opinions. 

Frank Wiley

It was the worst halftime ever.  It was interesting that after the show there was a view of Roger Goodell walking somewhere in the stadium and he looked really angry.

Lester Cox

This was Bill O'Reily on the Super Bowl halftime show. From Bill.....

The enormous wealth being generated by established internet media companies has never been seen before.  Billions in profits are being generated.  And now that wealth has crossed over into Bad Bunny land.

But the bad guy was paid nothing by the National Football League for his halftime performance. Nothing. He received about $1,000 a day for rehearsal expenses.

But the Bunny will soon hop on over to the bank because of Apple, and that is the story. CEO Tim Cook cooked up a deal with the NFL whereby close to $100 million Apple dollars flowed to the league for advertising, but most of all, to feature Bad Bunny at halftime.

Spotify and other Apple outlets are the reason why.

Cook understands that demand for whatever the Bunny is shouting about will now explode worldwide on his Apple Music service, closing in on the musician’s Spotify success. Right now, Spotify is the primary Bunny Hutch.  

They’ll be rapping about Puerto Rico in Thailand. Cha-Ching.

Now you know the rest of the story. Money, indeed, makes the world go round.

Michael Wetzel

Bill, just to let you know, I also watched TP at half time. You could not pay me enough to watch that other shit........

Michael Kelly

I set out when the name of Bad Bunny was bantered around to Avoid the bold faced Try by the NFL to give what the upper echelons deem is thier Due on behalf of the League to promote Whatever type of Equality so that peope wont be angry at us. STFW. We have been force fed the idea that us Caucasians are to blame for whatever is wrong in the World, and Im sick of it. When I heard that he supposedly said that if we didn't understand his Language we had just better learn it because he would not bother to say anything in English and it was our Job tu make an effort to understand him. I smiled. I do know some of his lingo, and so I was surprised when Trump did not dress him up on Facebook in a Sombrero, and a Dress. 

David Rainwater

Best wishes for another Arizona statehood day!  114 years and still counting.  Could use a little sun over here.

Michael Wetzel

David, I hope you had a very Blessed, and Wonderful BD.........

Michael Wetzel

Happy Valentines Day Patty, and to all the guys Wives on here.......

Frank Wiley

So, I've finished the book, "Elon Musk" by Issacson.  Musk gave Issacson total freedom to his businesses and to his life.  I, as I finished the book had a very different opinion about Musk.  He is a "bend it till it breaks" type of creator.  (I.E.  DOGE)   He has done things with Tesla that are on the edge of safety, ordered by him even on advice from his engineers.  An example is the undercarriage protecting the battery pack.  His company SpaceX earned the NASA contract because of the lowest bid.  Boeing, who WAS the major NASA contractor had a hell of a deal.  Cost plus additional cost not foreseen.  (No chance of fraud there)  So, SpaceX got the contract.  In the book Musk even goes in to cutting costs on various ways to make Space Travel less expensive by thinning the walls of valves that feed the rocket fuel to the rockets.  I hope to God I'm wrong but I'm seeing another loss of Life in pursuit of Musk getting to Mars.  I'm not sure if he feels that the sacrifice of human life in that pursuit wouldn't be worth it?

Jim Coats

Nancy Scott.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow!  Have a great day!!

Frank Wiley

Happy Birthday Nancy!!  How's Toby doing?  I hope well!!

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

Happy Birthday Nancy..   🎂   🎉

Michael Wetzel

Have a Blessed Birthday today Nancy.....

Frank Wiley

The U.S. wins the Gold in Hockey!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (Maybe now Canada will want to be the 51st State)-------Just kidding!!!

Jim Coats

Les:  Regarding your post #15840.  FOLLOW THE MONEY.  It's all about money and power.

Lester Cox

Hey Jim, I completely agree with you—100%. Pretty much everyone operates on the ‘WIFM’ principle: What’s In It For Me? Most of what we do in life boils down to that self-interest question.

Money leads to power, and power often circles back to even more money. The real problem kicks in when people lose their moral compass and climb into positions of real influence. Once there, they tend to wield that power in ways that are mostly unethical or self-serving.

Take Congress as an example—wouldn’t you say something like 95% of them fit this pattern? Public perception often paints a similar picture, with polls showing majorities viewing many members as corrupt, overly focused on special interests, or out of touch. It’s a tough cycle to break.

If I ever win the huge billion dollar lottery, you'll all be invited to come live on my island where we throw away the cell phones and our biggest entertainment will be betting on what time the liquor barge arrives on Wednesdays to restock, along with rotating out a great library of books. 

Michael Kelly

Les  You can name the  Liquor Barge the "USS MINNOW" 

Frank Wiley

Panama has backed out of the deal with China to have China run the Canal.  Do you think that would have happened without pressure from Trump?

Michael Kelly

I am glad that Panama has decided to have the USA run the Panama Canal, the blocking of ingress and egress would have Bankrupted anyone who did not have preferred Trade Status with China.

Frank Wiley

The American Goalie Hellebyuck (sp?) reminded me of the goofy song from High School--"The Huckelbuck".  It might be fun to relate others.  Any ideas?

Jim Coats

STATE OF THE UNION:  Great speech!  He stayed on course.  I loved the "Those people are crazy" and "You can't stand for that" shots he fired at democrats.  Well deserved.  Those people ARE the democrat party and "people" still keep electing them.

I did NOT watch the Spamburger response....or however you spell it.

Bill RIHS

SOTU, best ever. Glad and surprised he stayed on script.👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

Nancy Scott (Nicoll)

Good Morning to all on this message board!  For some reason I was blocked out and had to jump thru hoops to get back on this site!  Thank you for those who sent Happy Birthday wishes to me!  We are all very blessed to still be having birthdays to celebrate!!

You asked about Toby...he's in the paramedic program and getting great training!  He still has his eyes on the Ranger program, but his officers keep recommending him for other areas and he goes for it!  This training will bode him well in job opportunities, should he not re-sign.  He is considering that option right now!

I am planning a bike trip in Austria with my daughter and 3 grandsons - includes Toby!  The Army is giving him the time off which I am both surprised about and very happy!!  As I told all of you, Carolyn (Lane) Scott passed away last year and left me some money!  She would be ever so pleased that I'm creating lasting family memories with this great trip!  I just said to them all, "we have to do it this summer because I'm not getting any younger!!".

Keep up your sharing - i read your comments ocassionally.  Who knows, I might make a beer (tea) summit one of these days!  😂

My best to each of you,

Nancy

DeWitt Bacon

Nancy, it's good to see you back. I'm happy that you have fixed the problem and can join us again. Give Toby a salute for me. I hope he can reach all of his goals. Have fun on your trip to Austria. It must be nice to travel. My 'international' travels have been limited to Canada and Mexico. lol' 

DeWitt Bacon

Now, on to the SOTU address Tuesday night. I have made it plain before that I do not worship Donald Trump. I do not agree with everything he says or does, or the way he does things. But I support him and voted for him because he is the only path to making AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Trump was right in calling out the left when they couldn't even show the decency of honoring the families of those murdered and wounded by illegal aliens. Not even the little girl who was critically injured in the crash of an illegal truck driver. In their twisted minds, they were probably praising those illegals. Many of those congressmen are not even Democrats. They are Communists, Socialists, and Muslims. There were only a few true Democrats there, like Fetterman and a handful of others. Many of those were afraid to stand for fear of Schumer's wrath. But I did see a few others stand and applaud. I feel that Trump should not have shamed them. I think they are tyrants and should have been called out as such. They should have been arrested for tyranny and tried as such. Then, given the full sentence for murder, treachery.

SAVE AMERICA

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

Frank Wiley

Interesting that Jeffery Epstein was arrested for child sexual abuse the first time in 2006.  I saw a picture of Bill Clinton walking Chelsea down the aisle at her wedding with Ghislane Maxwell prominently in the picture.  That picture was taken in 2010.  A picture is worth 1000 words!!