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those lines spoken in the movie by one ex-senator ex-watergate Senate minority council and "Law and Order" regular to be Fred Thompson, a Republican of the kind the US would be better off with more of.

they were never meant to withstand challenge, they were just meant to abuse and dissuade.

you hadn't seen Max Anderson

maybe third time's the charm.

yeah - a lot of money needs to be spent to get VZ back in the game

we are near the point of the year when refiners have to stop blending so much cheap light ends into gasoline headed to the north because the weather is getting warmer. That puts upward pressure on gasoline prices in addition to whatever increases in crude come down the line because of the fighting.

Not only the soul, also bigger than the brain.

there is certainly a complex interaction between the frequency of repetitive stress, the intensity, the max stress and the recovery interval and they are probably all non-linear. Superimpose that on the genetic diversity of the population and the relatively small sample size of pitchers to study and you have really tough epidemiology to solve. OTOH, there is a stupendous amount of money at risk that should be motivating people to solve it.

Market opens down but orderly. Exxon and defense up, cruise lines getting hammered (=slow moving floating terrorist targets I guess)

I still pull up DSOTM once in a while. I think it's held up pretty well.

The difference in TJ morbidity for relief pitchers compared to starting pitchers isn't anywhere near as large as I would expect it to be if it were just based on pitch count. But the question is whether it's throwing harder or more often or just both, that increases the risk for RPs.

Future shooting is the key for both of these guys and it's just not easy to predict. The one caveat with Thompson is how long will he keep his extreme outlier athleticism? Another genetic unknown.

I'd say don't let the perfect be the enemy of the better. The fact that two players might be in the same place doesn't mean they will be there at the same time. In the example shot against the other night, it was on a break and Cade was elsewhere on the court while Duren's route to the basket was going to be blocked. It was a good shot to take under the circumstances and was useful to have in his arsenal. Of course it would be better if could shoot from 25 -- Duren with a .375 3pt % would be a superstar. But in the real world where that likely never comes, a player that can shoot confidently from 10-20 still has more tools than one that can't, for instance after an offensive rebound in that range. For serious spacing purposes you want a different guy altogether, one for whom the 3pt shot is major part of his game. That's been the on-going debate. If that is what you really need, you move Duren because I doubt that will ever be true of Duren. But if you keep Duren you may eventually get a player who can at least get his own shot without getting to the basket every time. You wouldn't be trying to build your offense around that, you're just trying to give a player more options for the opportunities when they are useful. The real question is: Can any guy that can learn to shot from 15 learn to shoot from 25? I don't know that answer, I would assume not. But that is an assumption made in ignorance. If it's wrong then I grant you are 100% correct. 🧎‍♂️

Every once in a while you get a tease like a perfect swish on a pull-up J from the top of the key against the Cavs. There has to be more in there, right?

they don't even need to get the phone call anymore, the linear programming computer at the refiner's HQ doing real time market analysis can send price changes over the net straight to the pumps.

There is a reason Khomeini found such an enthusiastic response for his revolution 45 yrs ago, Pahlavi was a murdering tyrant. If they can't do any better than dream of resurrecting the heirs of SAVAK they might as well leave the crazy mullahs alone.

Gasoline prices have crept up about 8% so far around here.

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It a question of what the real comparison is. The point is the IEAE has at least as good a chance of figuring out what is going on with negotiated access to sites on the ground as we do with remote intelligence from sapce of a bunch of buried stuff. Remember Saddam froze international inspectors out because he realized they were too close to exposing that his nod and a wink claim to have weapons was a sham and his logic was that once he lost that threat, he was toast.

I think this whole thing is a pretty strange role inversion. It used to be Conservatives that chided liberals for celebrating symbolic things that felt good but didn't do any real good or change anything. Until some kind of concrete evidence emerges of change on the ground in Iran, where the IRG army is still clearly in control of military operations, Trump and Bibi have accomplished exactly nothing but make themselves (and TH!) feel good. Not saying something good might not yet happen, but until then they are channeling George Bush on the Abraham Lincoln.

More respect for them than the man that sent them to their deaths ever showed them.

His ballhandling is improving I think. His assists are up, TO's are down - but his shooting is going backward - with a significant drop in his FT %. A slasher that can't put away his free-throws is not the best combination.

This. We've seen Compher play very well in stretches, and Ras too though in only shorter stretches. I suppose the NHL game today is played so close to the limit of human aerobic capacity that there must be guys who just don't have the genetics to maintain an elite energy output level on a consistent basis or neurologically just can't drive themselves to it, so despite whatever skills they flash, in the end you've just got a jersey.. Also TBF, the Wings did come back in this one- McLellan seemed to be deflecting away from Talbot here.

Bombing Iran would be one way to help expose jihadi's hanging out in the US......if you don't mind their victims as collateral damage.

He doesn't even know how the mafia works. Whack the boss and all you get is turf wars.