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Paul (supposedly) has it exactly right in the Letter to the Hebrews "Faith is the evidence of things not seen" This statement functions on two levels (at least) - the 1st is individual - the fact that you believe something is a kind of supra-intellectual evidence - at some level you should trust your sense of what is true sort of a priori (gnosis). But it also functions at a social level: You should take the faith of other people that what they believe is true as evidence that you should believe it too. We all do the 1st to some degree - it's part of human nature, but to me it's the 2nd that can get tricky and be the more dangerous because it's abdication of your own judgement. We all accept the veracity of various 'authorities', you have to in the modern world to survive, you can't know everything, but it's a life's work to learn how to vet the authorities you decide to accept.

They sent a some kind of drone(s?) out to get the crew that was able to transport them to a point were pick up by Helo was done. Would like to see how that was all configured.

It will be the job of the RW prosperity gospel evangelical pastors to preach against his 'feminized, empathy wallowing, defeatist" brand of Sermon-on-the-Mount Christianity. Might be interesting to be in the pews for that.

LOL - but it would be a mistake for overpay for Duren, where it wouldn't have been to 'overpay' for Max. But they didn't make a serious counter offer to Max, Mike Ilitch instead wanted to fancy himself insulted and after having been snubbed on opening day after winning the CY and generally treated by his manager as Verlander's red headed step brother, it wasn't going to take much for him to want to wave good-bye to Det. We seem to be on better terms with JD.

The actual job was on a contract to dept of State, not even DOD, security detail work for the Ambassadorial staff. that's just the fact. That's the risk with Platner do doubt - it''s that he's a fabulist, what he says about himself is if anything more dramatic than the reality.

the top chart is the real one. Oil has come down a little though.

geez - don't give them any good ideas!

Wiles - then next will be Rubio

Or he signed up for an easy gig that his service qualified him for because he needed a job? There is a lot of spin on all this stuff from a lot of parties only interested in the win or loss. The voters will decide who they believe. If this is all getting any traction it should show up in the primary vote.

We'll see who manages to wins the seats. We have three reasonably ordinary Dem candidates in MI and Rogers seems to be polling more or less even with all of them, which I find incomprehensible.

People are angry at Dems for same reason they are angry at the GOP - it's because the Federal government in the US has ceased to function in the public interest for at least a generation now no matter which party was in power. The Federal Constitutional system has broken down to where you have a minority in control, desperate that they are finally going to lose that control and thus perfectly happy the see the whole system crash and burn, and a majority that can't understand why the things they want, the things they need, that they know almost everyone else also wants, can't seem to happen no matter who they vote for. There is an inchoate sense of 'anybody but the incumbents' underlying everything, while the corporate system corruptly funnels billions to those incumbents to help them keep fighting the rear guard.

Manfred claims - and note that word - that the owners are unified on TV revenue sharing and a hard cap. *IF* that is what is coming, then I can understand a team being worried about committing too large a % of a hard cap to a single player when the actual cap number can only be guessed at. OTOH - given where current team payrolls are - with the Dodgers and Mets over $300M and 4 other teams over $250M, it seems unlikely the initial cap is going to be less than $250M, in which case $40M AAV is ~16% of the cap and so probably doable.

there is something to the fact that there is a parallel to the public being done with both parties in their traditional forms. For the GOP it came a couple of cycles earlier in the form of Trump and his pseudo populism rolling over the rump of 'competent conservative' Reaganism. And now the same rejection of the previous generation's status quo - call them the Triangulation Democrats, is coming to the Democratic party. It's right there to see in every poll: People may *hate* Trump, but they do not like the democratic party at all either. The only question is whether the people that ultimately capture the Democratic party will be saner than Trump and MAGA because the old guard is gonna be broomed. But I'm just not so worried about Platner. He was a loud mouth who liked to instigate and be outrageous, and he was an obnoxious 20 and maybe 30 something - and people need to remember that he spent years in combat in the ME where the kind things that sound shocking in his social media posts were garden variety everyday parts of the culture that he was living in. But he hasn't killed any kittens or defrauded any grandmothers (that we know of!) He's the heir of long family democratic heritage and you can read him as finally coming home to that now. YMMV.

or was it simply a holding action in the long twilight struggle... (curiously, I just read the transcript of that speech, and JFK didn't actually use the expression in the way I think it is popularly remembered)

then the only conclusion is she really didn't real care to run a race. So your argument should be with Schumer for recruiting someone for the job who had no will to do it. Which is pretty much the critic of the old guard democratic party in a nutshell.

They don't have to write in Mills, she'll still be on the ballot, Yet the people of Maine apparently have had little interest in funding their uber-popular ex-governor to stay in the race against him. I don't think you've asked the more interesting question. It's not why the Bernie types like him, it's not that he's captured the national party leadership. There is plenty of scepticism of Platner in the national democratic party. The question to ask is why Mills couldn't manage the support to keep running against him?. The mainstream choice is still right there for the voters.

I remember he was in trouble one day for trying to surreptitiously take video on a iphone of a closed practice in Lakeland. It's one thing to break the rules when something is at stake but he seemed to be a rule breaker in more a juvenile "hey look at me" way. That made him easy to get rid of for other possibly less valid reasons.

after looking at this logs I'm a bit less worried about Torkelson. He got to the start of May looking pretty normal but then had a 6/71 stretch arcross 15 games when he was seriously off his feed. But in the 70PA since that two week stretch, he's back to 250/300/469 - ie. pretty normal. Of course you remove any player's worst stretch and they look better so we'll see if he can keep the OPS at least over 750 the rest of the way.

Trump goes to the Garden, the Knicks lose: ETTD!

so just skimming through ESPN's MLB page and I came across this report from the owners meeting: "Manfred says all 30 teams are on board to split TV revenue -- yes, even the Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers -- and other high-revenue teams -- would surrender a competitive advantage under MLB's proposal, which would require them to share all of their local television revenue (they currently share 48%)." That would pretty much be the news of the century for MLB wouldn't it? So I read this as the way that the rich teams will get the poor teams to be willing to lock out the players over the hard cap. Without full revenue sharing, what would the poor teams care about the cap when their salary totals stay well below any cap?

only in the Fahrenheit 451 sense...

somebody has to go to a bad team so the Wings can get a high 1st round pick.

Flaherty is coming around a little bit - there may be some hope. He started May with a 6.14 FIP, it's now down to 4.13. Montero doesn't get a lot of K's but he doesn't walk guys either - maybe more of an enter the game at the beginning of an inning and work 2 or 3 kind of guy than a 'fireman' type?

wasn't it about then (March) when news about 3rd party bookings for 1.8nm chip fab started to show up? Also Del's observation that CPUs are suddenly back in vogue.