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there is a lot to the notion of sports spending being an arms race for no real benefit besides to those who benefit from the money in the first instance. I've always been a person who thinks this stuff provides an incalculable public benefit. I remember on the old board doing the calculations to what Magglio Ordonez' 2006 Game 4 ALDS home run was worth. It was worth how much in terms of public good. There was some sort of insane multi-attribute garbage analysis going on but the idea was to quantify the qualitative.

Ironically under Harbaugh and later Sherrone Moore, they referred to the program being a submarine.

same story you had i think...sorry for stepping on yours

If you ask the Falun Gong/Shen Yun types in America you'll hear that Xi is no longer alive or is no longer in control. If you look at Drudge you'll see a lot of alarmist stuff. Its shrugs from me. My preference is they are kept off the warpath because they fear we smack them hard enough to cause regime collapse. That's what they fear.

The distances here are not small though. The US Marine base in Australia is in Darwin area in the Northern Territories (the area anyway) and the rest of civilized Australia is down south and east along the coast. So, basically the back of beyond. The base is a staging area for a bunch of systems that would further forward deploy to the islands in the western Pacific in the event of a ...thing with the PRC. There are a couple of these already deployed to the Philippines and may be deployed to Japan which are causing the PRC leadership to lose their minds. This would be the Typhon (not typhoon) missile system. Muy bueno for us system. edit: looks like kegsbreath and the Japanese decided to deploy to Japan. https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/09/15/us-army-reveals-typhon-missile-system-in-japan/

Australia has a very large US military presence on the north coast. It would be an immediate target of PRC attack in a WWIII scenario. As does Guam (presuming that is the blue dot in the western Pacific).

UXO all over the place still.

Yeah, perhaps the enforcement of limitations will allow more latitude for the unscrupulous. The Wild West works for the wealthy and powerful but when caps and limits are actually enforced they only help the lawbreakers who get away with it.

The new rules would seem to make it possible to win within the rules. I mean he's got a death star of money. Unless OSU suddenly (and I am not trying to manifest this) becomes Peter Thiel or Elon Musk's favorite program. You'd have to think having Larry Ellison of Oracle backstopping the program would be a nice guarantor of the budget.

I'm sure the Bill Barr DoJ was absent of all corruption.

Curious what kind of replies she had on Elon's micro-blogging site.

a couple adjectives were fraudulent.

I liked when they tried to ask him about Orlando and he turned it into a story about how Orlando is the greatest city on earth with the warmest most genuine citizens of any place.

Whit's presser lessons learned. He's been a college football coach for long enough not to answer directly the question about Sherrone Moore beyond saying it was a series of unfortunate events. Smooth. Knows how to talk to people quickly and without insulting them.

If there were only some way to do a cross-over show where English small towns with exceedingly clevery detective type civilians, often elderly pensioniers (played by an Alec Guinness or Maggie Smith type) help the kindly local bobbies solve MURDERs and the Bayeux of Louisiana where people are getting got all the time.

A lot going on here. Traverse City voted its asses off. Keweenaw Peninsula as well. NOVA did a credible job. Those dark. blobs in Montana and SD must be reservations but couldn't tell you for sure. Look at the low participation in the rutals in the sunbelt. WTF Mississippi delta? Did the power structure make it harder to vote?

Standard policy for me is that it takes an act of congress for me to go to a second wedding. I'm not here to validate your failure to pick em correctly the first time.

Similar to other ballplayers in that he is bound by gravity and the natural boundaries of the humanoid form. Also, his need to breath and lack of sight in several light spectra.

Freep is trying to stir the pot on Justice Haynes not playing. Ah well. Situation normal.

and yet it appears he endorses the move per his use of Elon Musk's app.

Very interesting commentary on Biff Poggi going rogue. Hmmm...

The thing that offends me about all of the Michigan talent is that its possible its Paramount/Ellison/Emirati/Saudi money and part of the unconscionable stink of stuff that belongs in the political forum. But If our tiny nation state of Michigan is going to survive in this chaos, then we'd better build our own nuclear weapons by hook or by crook.

More on the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000 This had a very Orwellian or even Oliver Cromwellian name "New Standards Men" because they were brought in under a "new standard" which was very low. Mcnamara planned to have them educated and brought up to speed. Cromwell's contribution to pop music is the name "New Model Army" for his English Civil War forces which adapted new training and organization to create a professional force of long-service units rather than seasonal militias.

Woah Nelly! Utah led the nation in rushing yards? I'm down with that. Also the OL coach is a good one. Do what you can to keep Newsome and him and Alford?