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meanwhile, just to add insult to injury, the Mudhens have scored 18 runs tonight.

and part of this one of those strange ironies where because one side is totally out of reach of Western influence and communication, the intransigence of the side you think you should have some influence on, or that at least you believe could do better, ends up becomes the primary focus of frustration sort of by default. In the US a lot of anti-Israel energy on the left is young people, who know little or no history, but have the finely tuned sense of injustice of the young. In the main they are not culturally, racially, religiously anti-semitic in any traditional sense of the word (those parts are more likely on the right) but they have bought into the narrative that Israel's national conduct is no longer the lesser of the two evils in the region. I don't think that many people yet believe that, but if Israel doesn't start helping it's own cause, more will. Also the 'demonization' of Aipac on the left also ties into their support to Trump and/or Trump aligned candidates.

IDK - he can play all the hard ball he wants, I'm not sure any American city is in the mood to be extorted by an Oligarch in the current environment.

Well, at least they are proving to be a balanced team: Failing in all three phases of the game.

this can't be real can it? Am I going to wake up and Tigers still have a pitching staff? or maybe the Tigers still have a infield.... I guess that was why Workman was the last call-up

If you saw the CF shot of Colt hitting the single, you could clearly see that in that swing, his hips were already done - they had stopped rotating, by the time his swing got to the ball. That's part of the power vacuum.

yeah - give it up once you run into the ump- but adrenaline had taken over.

Bolton with an asinine Editorial in WaPo complaining that Trump 'just needs to open the Strait.' I'm sure he would have by now if he could have, but he can't, and that's the fact on the ground. I don't know where these neo-cons get their fantasy ideas about the ease with which the US Military can just conjure their international management wet dreams into existence.

Well, I certainly don't get it. These people seem desperately to want to get back to the 1950's. By that standard we are still about 100million people over target. 🤷‍♂️

facts not in evidence on this one. but yes, I absolutely will grant you that the kind of atrocities committed by Hamas are beyond the pale (btw they are all the exact same ones committed in at the turn of the century in the Turkish nationalist frenzy against the Armenians that I heard about from 1st hand eye-witnesses even as a child.. so you have no surprises for me on that front.).There are some uniquely grotesque and evil ideologies/mindsets that come out the ME that are absolutely hard to fathom. I will even grant you the old saw about "two wrongs don't make a right" goes pretty much out the window in war. But what I will stand on is that States with more power have more responsibility and Israel is trying hard to fail on that score. The attitude that populations are grass that needs to be periodically 'mowed' with high explosive in perpetuity is a pretty terrible mindset also.

I agree is not genocide, there is a reasonable case to made it has crossed the line into war crimes though - a situation Trump seems intent on having America follow them into in Iran.

Not even talking about Gaza - they are and have been regularly dispossessing people and property on the West Bank without recourse.

If they go out, we will probably find out something is wrong with Duren - but that's still no excuse for leaving him out there if he is compromised when Reid seems better able to hold his own.

My grandfather, who came to this country in flight from genocide, would always get impatient at his fellow emigres when they would talk old homeland grievances, he would say "You are an American now. You came here to leave all that behind!" When the old world grievances of emigres become issues in US politics it never helps America, whether it's Cuba, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, whatever.

I suppose anything is possible in that asylum, but he is so mercurial and fit to rages at people that I have to doubt anyone would risk posting anything in his name without on the spot approval. Plus the contradictions post to post? An aide would be playing with fire doing that.

Except that that is exactly what Israel is doing today in the West Bank. The State of Israel has bought and paid for the critique they are getting. Having sympathy with anyone is dubious when there are no good guys. 🫤

can you pre program VTT for all caps or does he just have to shout at it?

Yeah - It would be hard to believe he is not in the room real time with whoever is actually typing the keystrokes/constructing the GIFS - I think we can assume it is all originating in what is left of his brain.

It doesn't break on a particularly consistent pattern. Just as an example, it's GOP candidates for Michigan Regent seats that have been the most outspoken in opposition to the shout out to the Palestinian activists in the UM commencement speech while it is a board with a majority of pretty mainstream Democrats that has been roundly criticized for allowing the mood on campus to become toxic/dangerous to Jewish students in the first place.

And what's worse for the GOP is that in surveys, inflation expectations are even higher, over 4%. That means that much like at the end of Biden's term, people aren't going to believe it even if inflation starts down again.

One of the things that has happened in Israel is that public opinion there has hardened - the radicalism of Hamas and Hezbollah has in turn created a reaction in the Israeli general population sufficient to create a majority of support for Netanyahu's terrible policies. It's sort of the same phenomenon we see here with Americans supporting terrible cruel Trump policies. I don't know what the answer is when whole societies lose their moral bearings. In the ME it's been an ever descending spiral for my entire lifetime. Arabs cheer in the street when Israelis die, eventually Israeli's don't care how many Arabs they kill. And we've imported those mentalities onto the DOD with Hegseth cheering at killing people with same kind of glee as a dedicated Hamas radical. Hard to see it all ending on any good note.

Apparently Real Estate Tycoon Trump has never had to take care of an old building. Old buildings are always falling apart a little bit here and there. You fix this, you fix that, you don't bulldoze a wing because it needs to be spackled.

yeah - that makes sense, but you wonder about him nibbling the hand that feeds him here - even if it's a pretty little nibble. Maybe at this point he feels like he's good enough he can make a secure career in AAA for some number of years with or without the Tiger's support, and whatever time he gets in the majors is playing with house money.

I think he's finally gotten so besotted that he's starting to cross lines with real costs. The Jesus pic, and not\w this. There isn't much that GIs hate more than this kind of thing.

So on the ESPN Tiger site right now, Buster has an interview with Boras. So what Boras says is that the deal here is that they did not use an arthroscope on Skubal, they used a new micro device (come kind of fiber optic micro canula) that isn't much larger than a hypodermic needle. That is why they are looking for less than 'std' return possibility. The story is the new even-less-invasive-than-a-'scope treatment tech provides a possibility for faster recovery.