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The Berlin Airlift is a very appealing historical marker for US Air Force and stands in contrast to the 'knights of the sky' ethos of the fighter community. It involved crews working their asses off for an extended period to do a difficult and literally dirty job (coal), for a peaceful purpose that benefitted the peace over conflict.

The sequence of not caught stealing on review and 3 run hr against is not great.

Re: being "fixed". My wife thinks this is top 5 funniest memes she has seen. She's an animal lover who had a black cat who looked just like this so, make of that what you will.

Current starting players for the Twins: Willie Castro Kody Clemens Not on current MLB roster: Jonathan Schoop Robbie Grossman Miguel Cabrera Currently on a MLB roster: Eric Haase (Milwaukee)

Maybe MGOBLOG but it would come with a dash more smarminess.

Trump being questioned by foreign press at the NATO summit is being a complete and usual ass hat.

those VA ABC stores are weird aren't they? Without more evidence I have to think they continue to exists because the NOVA crowd is so damn nerdy and hates that kind of fun. But, maybe its lip service to the old blue laws. I do know that if you are in the parking lot by one of these stores just prior to them opening you see a certain kind of zombie lurking, waiting to go in to buy today's poison.

daily dose of estragon: "I have to remark on this here (really love the clip) because it is so striking how Benetti, truly a master of rhetorical and audiophonic technique, twice in intro-ing this segment reaches straight the **** down into Anglo-Saxon and literally declaims "HWAET!" to draw attention to Bruce's requests." — Bluesky

they realize they are going to lose over this. Maybe they want that to happen so they can finally be rid of these idiot MAGA people.

The real problem will be the multi-million dollar parades he orders to celebrate his birthday. How he will defund the public health offices because he has crackpot friends. He will invite his oligarch friends into the datasets of all city citizens and drop taxes on them to laughable low levels and stop all enforcement of tax code violations. Then he'll wage a totally uninformed war on science and then demand to win a noble prize for his mounting an unsanctioned attack on a foreign country.

How many Dietrich's have the Tigers had on their roster over the years? None... Detroit Tigers all-time roster - Wikipedia This is a heck of a long road he's been on...and all that time he was just on his journey...home. Dietrich Enns Amateur, College, Minor, Winter, Independent, Japanese & Korean Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com It turns out he was the last winner of the Knights cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves and diamonds and refused to be evacuated from East Prussia and spent time after capture in the infamous Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. I wonder if MLB will allow him to pitch with the monocle. Dietrich von Saucken - Wikipedia

Could Mario Impemba manage the rain delay chats like the broadcast team has done over the past few weeks? It may not be always excellent, but Mario and Rod would not have been able to sustain the level of banter. Benetti describing the plot to Severance to Dan Petry or comparing the grounds crew in Tampa to wait staff from the John Mullaney Salt and Pepper Cafe comedy bit to audiences is just amazing freewheeling stuff.

The RW media machine might just turn Mamdani's spouse into an issue nationally and if he wins it will result in Trump inviting Mossad to assassinate Mamdani or he'll drop GBU-57s on the Mayoral residence.

This is a really good post for more than just baseball. I'm have been marveling at how the compiled knowledge on youtube for cooking, auto repair and home repair are so much more valuable than whatever nonsense you get from AI. My son pointed out that the AI has no penalty for providing the sort of swings and misses like the above. So, if I'm seeking the process for repairing a head light on a 2014 Chevy Traverse, the youtube video probably exists in multiple forms and from multiple mechanics. If it doesn't happen to be a correct year/model traverse I can tell instantly if the search gave me the wrong one. I can use my brain and say 'that doesn't look like the correct model' and keep looking. Whereas the cock-sure AI model just plunges us into some solution that might cost us money to buy the wrong part.

Trump's mental and physical fitness is being called into question by a lot of observers. His rants are not helping.

primary resource abundance has crippled many a country. Only those who get a middle class built with actual education resources can overcome the otherwise oligarchic dominance of the bosses with all the resources and money.

Nasser, Ataturk, the baathists, Non-religious, islamic nationalism...that had its moment, for a moment there.

to that narrative...the Egyptian Islamic Jihad that Zawahiri led was a direct response to the defeat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Egypt had all the advantages of surprise and interesting new technology from the Soviets but could not win against Israel because of a lack of...piety. Wrt to the bubba-jihad, i guess they just were potty trained too late or something.

Fine. Just know my comment about Tim Burton is criticism of him and his fans. I always found it tiresome.

not a fan of Chris Nolan apparently

Do not over-validate Tim Burton

My wife will no longer support any business or entity in Florida more than to the minimum requirement of necessity for a vacation so no chance we own property there even though it would be within the retirement budget to have a side condo there. So, VRBO it is... Meanwhile our future property in the Northville, South Lyon, Milford, Ann Arbor triangle is planned to be some place with a couple acres and an out building or two for the toys. *toys here literally means about $40k in legos

Miggy's connection to the city has always been depressingly thin. For as great a ballplayer as he was, he never seemed to be part of the town. As for living in Detroit...its currently the retirement play to do that. I'll be looking to travel where its warmer in Jan and Feb when i can though.

I like signs of life from Jace

Our relationship with these Tiger teams is not yet as tight as the relationship we had with those late 90s, early aughts Red Wings teams when the rivalry with the Avalanche culminated in the Darren Mccarty fight with Claude Lemieux and that was truly the moment when he never had to pay for another beer in Detroit (although he his now a friend of Bill as i understand). Still, i think a few Detroit sports figures are in this same boat. Barry for the 2000 yard season, Gibby for the 1984 WS final game HR ("He don't want to walk you?!"), and Jared Goff who is currently bullet proof for winning a playoff game for the first time since 1991.