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I wonder if/when the current shower of shite leaves the WH there may be a day of reckoning for all the current criminality/corruption.

Starting with Hesgeth.

https://x.com/mollyploofkins/status/1996059132558770478?s=46

No, becuase if the Dems somehow win in 2028, they'll appoint an ultra-cautious, by-the-book, AG like Merrick Garland who still thinks in the manner of a normal, responsible, before-times justice official and bends over backwards not to be seen as partisan.

Besides, Trump will pardon everyone in advance anyway, especially the likes of Hegseth, Bondi, Patel and Noem.

And yeah, Biden did that with the likes of Liz Cheney, but that was specifically because he knew bogus investigations and indictments would be coming as we have seen with James Comey and Tish James.

Donegal jerseys always has that nostalgic feeling. I think that 1992 jersey was the first jersey I ever got. It was a clinker.

And that one was a throwback to the 70s that we got due to the clash with Mayo in that years semi. We spent the 80s in Kerry style colours (which I believe we previously had until the 60s).

Didn't like the dark green on first glance (that's Kerry's thing!), but it's growing on me and I do like the relative simplicity of it. At least those god-awful shoulder stripes are gone!

He was an understated but very influential guitarist, songwriter and producer.  It was him who took the demo of "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" and finished the song after Otis Redding died in the plane crash. Member of Booker T and the MGs, who were the house band at Stax Records and of course put out their own stuff ("Green Onions", that song the BBC used for the cricket). Wrote songs like "Soul Man" and "In the Midnight Hour". And of course, himself and Donald Duck Dunn, his colleague from the MGs, were part of the Blues Brothers band.

Huge fan of the film but must confess to knowing little about them individually other than they were an actual band for a while. Be some stories due to the sheer number of actors/musicians involved

Most of the Blues Brothers musicians were part of the Saturday Night Live band at the time (Belushi was obviously a cast member on the show then too). Cropper and Dunn were added to BB group.

Think Booker T died recently as well, pretty sure I read his Obituary somewhere. I downloaded Soul Limbo(cricket) & a few other tunes shortly after a rabbit hole read.

Booker T is still alive and kicking! In fact, he's the only one of the four left now that Cropper has died.

Duck Dunn died in 2012, and the drummer Al Jackson was murdered by a burgler in 1975.

For those interested, the band features heavily in an excellent documentary on Stax Records that came out last year. Tiny label, but they struck gold with Booker T and the MGs and others, Otis Redding, and then after Otis died, Isaac Hayes.

https://staxrecords.com/news/stax-soulsville-usa-hbo-original-series/

He was an understated but very influential guitarist, songwriter and producer.  It was him who took the demo of "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" and finished the song after Otis Redding died in the plane crash. Member of Booker T and the MGs, who were the house band at Stax Records and of course put out their own stuff ("Green Onions", that song the BBC used for the cricket). Wrote songs like "Soul Man" and "In the Midnight Hour". And of course, himself and Donald Duck Dunn, his colleague from the MGs, were part of the Blues Brothers band.

The legendary Steve Cropper.

[Could have been worse. That late breakaway by Sunderland just beggared belief!]

Could have been worse. That late breakaway by Sunderland just beggared belief!

Why did it take them until the last ten minutes to start moving Sunderland around a bit. It was totally static up until that point, just back and forth across the field on a horseshoe around the area.

But at least they fought back to get a point. It looked seriously beyond them for quite a while after Sunderland scored. Speaking of which, Van Dijk totally at fault giving the ball away and then standing back watching him shoot.

It was, fine defensive work by Chiesa to prevent the goal and near certain Sunderland win

It was, but in the other hand, was Chiesa supposed to be the last man back? If he was, he left the forward in acres of space with a clear run on goal. If not Chiesa, then who was supposed to be there??

Could have been worse. That late breakaway by Sunderland just beggared belief!

Why did it take them until the last ten minutes to start moving Sunderland around a bit. It was totally static up until that point, just back and forth across the field on a horseshoe around the area.

But at least they fought back to get a point. It looked seriously beyond them for quite a while after Sunderland scored. Speaking of which, Van Dijk totally at fault giving the ball away and then standing back watching him shoot.

Apparently the "Remi Moses is dead" story is not true. 

No doubt, but Trump could not care less about either that or the drugs. He literally just pardoned Juan Hernandez, former president of Honduras, a year into a 45 year prison sentence for trafficking huge quantities of cocaine into the US. Perhaps Maduro can channel some of his country's wealth into Trump's crypto schemes and get into his good books along with such noble national leaders like Putin, Kim Jung Un and MBS.

Oil and Marco Rubio pushing it for his Miami ex-pat pals. I'm sure there's tonnes of money to be made after installing a "sympathetic" government who'll be no better for the regular people than Maduro.

It ain't drugs, obviously.

And once again the manly, macho Trump and the embarrassingly-out-of-his-depth poser Hegseth can't move quick enough to pass the buck and blame someone else on the likely war crime charges coming for killing the two lads clinging to the wrecked fishing boat off Venezuela.

Shame it's taken that to get the GOP (or at least a few of them) to pull their noses out of Trump's arse and show a modicum of interest in these extrajudicial killings in international waters.

I was not aware of Paqueta's previous incidents.

So either he's corrupt or he has the self control of a toddler.

And yeah, Paqueta should be suspended internally for that madness.

Although where were his teammates? You had his international teammate Allison trying to steer him away, but not too many of his club mates around to pull him out of his downward spiral.

Absolute moronic behaviour.