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corrections above - I was looking at another race and typed Toth in instead of Paxton - oops.

also notable that the Dem senate primary had 165K more votes cast than the GOP side even given how high profile the Paxton/Cornyn race is. Still, we're talking 4 million total votes cast. In the last off year Tx senate race (Cruz/ORouke), 8 million votes were cast so still not any kind of slam dunk indicator for the general. If you do want to be optimistic, Cruz only won that race by 215K votes. If Cornyn loses, the GOP will not be running as an incumbent. On that score, I don't know enough about Hunt to know who his voters are. Cornyn ended up outpolling Paxton slighty, but probably whichever picks up most of Hunts voters is going to win. I think Hunt has tried to position himself closer to Trump than Cornyn, so maybe his votes go to Paxton.

that's not what the post is about, but nevermind

Today's pitching is more evidence that in baseball, quantity is pretty meaningless. Ten guys who can't get out majors leaguers are still worse to have than one who can.

Is there an ICE training facility there or something?

what good is a war if you can’t grift off it?

so they are going to have a hereditary dictatorship, just not the one Pahlavi Jr had in mind. 🙄

it's looking like the 2025 Trump bull market is out of gas. The question then is whether the market stagnates for a while or undergoes a large correction.

Colin Grey found guilty in GA yesterday - 2nd degree murder and manslaugter, for leaving Colt Grey in possession of the AK-47 he had given him despite the obvious signs of his instability. Jury deliberated only 2 hrs. Colt Grey still awaiting trial. But here is the line that stopped me in this story: Seriously, you couldn't think of a better diversion for troubled teen than the deadliest weapon you could find? All I can say is it's too bad this Yahoo's genes were ever in the pool. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/colin-gray-verdict-apalachee-shooting.html

"My opinion was Iran was going to attack first" OK, children, it's a big word but can we spell it all together now?: P-R-O-J-E-C-T-I-O-N! Very good, Children!

I was able to get to a game last week via DirectTV>Disney+->EspnUnlimited but I'm not sure if that was a one time thing/free game/whatever. Also didn't seem to be any DVR function at ESPN-Unlim which I would miss a lot because I almost always start a recording of game before I'm available to watch it. If they make a deal to get a 'linear' service on DTV I'll probably be too lazy to do anything else.

Market in the same pattern as yesterday. Over night pessimism driving a lowered opening and a drop, then midday bargain hunting bringing it back, but not as much so far today as yesterday.

I thought Snyder had a decent 1st term, the Detroit resolution was pretty epic, but he transformed into an ordinary GOP hack in his second. Voted in MN in that election though.

Kasper was a force in this game. Nice to see

Freep reports Wings think Gibson is fine. Said he got a stinger in his arm/shoulder from a collision but they think that is all it was - subject to further testing.

Makes no difference to US prices, Exxon is still going to charge you the world price.

Huge risk no doubt - so much so that at minimum it can't on terms that cost them anything other than paying his contract and preferably not all of that.

Unfortunately you are comparing apples to oranges here. The increase in Vz exports from Jan to Feb was approx 300,000 bpd (the take-up of one medium large refinery). The petroleum at risk transiting the Straight of Hormuz totals approximately 21,000,000 bpd. Vz increase is literally a spit in the ocean. I've seen estimates that maybe 1/3 of the tanker volume could be diverted to pipeline. That still leaves a 14MBPD shortfall at risk. In it's heyday 30 yrs ago, Vz never produced more than about 3 MBPD

In a long past life I remember sticking tanks with water visualizer applied at the end to check for leaks. Water would turn the treated stick purple. If it was over 1" we were supposed to pump the water out. Who ever thought putting thin wall steel tanks in the ground was a good idea.......

Curious report about a strike at a Saudi refinery. The Iranians said they called the Saudis to deny it was them. So that then, the Houthi's just doing their buddies a favor unbidden?

Marco word salad is still in the spinner.

LOL - do you think big oil paid half a billion to elect this Prez just to sit by and pass on collecting a windfall from the rise in world prices? Of course it would be cosmic justice if there is some kind of emergency order freezing gasoline prices. Then big oil can join the that long queue of people that have been used and discarded.

I think we've been down this road so many times before without the worst case happening that there is a lot resistance to believing this time will be any different, esp given the current admin's past history of making a lot of noise only to fold their tents. However, if Iran makes good on closing the Strait of Hormuz it won't take that long for La merde a frappé le ventilateur.

Metaphorically, they go to the IL, they are dead to us. 🤷‍♂️

It strikes me that is he is still playing a strong defensive game but has disappeared on offense it's because there is still too much ill will with his teammates. Your defensive assignments are more individual, less need to trust and be trusted by line mates or want them to succeed or them wanting you to succeed. Just more confirmation of what is already known; he is on the roster but not the team.