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Eggs may expensive in some places, but the Duck are laying enough to drive the price down in LA tonight....

You can probably figure that when a problem sits in Congress for 40 yrs without resolution, it's because there are powerful interests in it not being resolved.

I am not offended if we want to allow more immigration, I am not offended if the country decides to allow less. I am offended by the hypocrisy of letting millions of people into the country on a nod and wink for the benefit of employers without giving them rights or a path to citizenship.

I'm willing to give Reagan some benefit of the doubt that if he had seen what GOP policies have done to income distribution he'd have switched sides again. Reagan started out as a dem but bought into the Austrian school stuff and was pushing welfare reform. I will grant that how you do welfare does matter and a good deal of reform eventually happened, but the Austrian School/Every-dollar-the-government-spends-is-a-Threat-of-Socialism stuff was, and remains bunk - it's just bad analysis, but since it fits the narrative the rich want to sell to oppose tax increases, it won't go away.

I guess they still trust Kreidler's glove to fill-in in case of injury, but I think any hope the bat can play in the majors in other than emergency duty is gone. Haven't seen Navigato play but from what little I've seem about him the glove doesn't play at MLB SS. Concern about D at SS can only have increased with Gleyber penciled in at 2B.

Hard to say much about Kim without knowing the medicals - but agree the fit is certainly there the team can get some kind of assurance he's going to be 100% in reasonable time.

If we are talking about what policy should be, it's on the assumption policy will or needs to change. What policy is does not bind what it should be, and the arguments to support what it should be can't be constrained by what it is.

It seemed so spot on that the 1st thing McLellan said was the Wings had to play faster. No kidding. But still striking to say it out loud since it was such a direct slam at Lalonde. Everyone and their brother could see it, why didn't Lalonde?

These folks put their seed phrase online. Isn't that at about the same level as leaving a post-it note with your password on your monitor? Does last pass advise people that is a good thing to do? There always has to be something you remember yourself that isn't stored anywhere. The key is to leverage remembering one easy thing for you into a bunch of other locks that are hard to open. I don't have anything against PW managers per se but I'm too multi-platform to have found one that works everywhere I would want it to. I generally use a personal "seed" string and an algorithm to generate passwords for any site I visit. I don't have to remember them because I know how I generated them. If you hacked my google account you might figure out the algorithm, but you still wouldn't have the core string. That isn't stored anywhere. OTOH, the core string by itself isn't the PW to anything.

But the circumstances of their presence isn't why their performance is better or worse. If the issue is that the need for skilled labor should be reflected in who immigration policy favors, then MTU's point is exactly valid.

there has always been that contradiction at the heart of populism: The levers of government cannot be fixed by any means. Give me power and I will fix the levers of government. Nonsensical when simplified to its core. But that's because what we are seeing here is also a culture suffused in the Superman myth. The leader can do it because he is special. Ironic that in an age when it's almost impossible for any public figure to escape being show to have feet of clay, the public clamors all the more the mythical Hero. But look at film as a reflection of popular culture in this regard - what do we see but super-hero movies? We've given up on the idea that normal people working together can solve problems and are reinforcing that idea to ourselves everyday. We used to see Mr Smith goes to Washington, now we wait for Thor to save us from Armageddon. The stories a society tells itself matter and the ones we are telling ourselves are not the ones likely to inspire us to get off our own asses and fix it.

I think it has as much to do with the rise of social media. There has always been a big difference between what's said to the next of kin or in a funeral service, and the conversations in the cars of the acquaintance on the way to the funeral. It's just that the latter get shared much more widely because the kinds of conversations people used to have in 'private' aren't as private anymore. But I will grant that what has changed is the acceptance of low class behavior in general, and in a sense, it's I think that's also a symptom of that same blurring between public and private discourse. In the social media era we have monetized the kind of speech that used to remain private - so now we get it marketed in public.

Carter had let military preparedness slide to where he didn't have many good options when things fell apart in Iran. Still, I doubt a more competent Carter could have stopped the revolution in Iran any more than Reagan was able to stop the one in Nicaragua. Like Assad, the Shah had done enough to make sure his ticket was going to get punched by his people. And the Islamist movement was not something new - it had been percolating in the ME since the fall of the Ottomans. They could have done in Khomeini, but big countries prefer the status quo where leaders are off the table - it's in their overall interest not to encourage that level of asymmetric warfare. We've moved off of that stance some in the 40 yrs since Khomeini but at the time I don't think any US gov would have targeted him directly. And of course it's not like Khamemei has been any kind of improvement.

Interesting thing is that Radical Sunni Islam was also just getting off the ground in 1980 with the Siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, but the White House and the American Press were so transfixed by the hostage situation in Iran that the whole event flew completely under the radar in the US, but it was the event that largely paved the way for the rise of Bin Laden/AlQaeda/Isis etc.,

Raymond passes on a 'gimme' empty netter for his mate Larkin. Wings 4-2 final. Redmond spends the game amazed at how much better their defensive zone exits are. Strong game by Holl

Wings get the lead. Now stay out of the box for 5 min.

Ice is starting to tilt toward the Pens...

Raymond, Larkin, Veleno line started to click a little in the 2nd after not doing much in the 1st.

Keene just came in, if Davis doesn't bolt that's two options if Underwood is redshirted. Wouldn't be surprised if Orji could succeed at any skill position at D1 except the one he wants to play.

One good play, but otherwise continues to be snake bit with his puck handling. Getting Tarasenko going would be a good 1st victory for McLellan. I like that McLellan split up Edvinsson and Seider. Two decent pairs is better than two mostly bad pairs.

Not sure what it all means but all Terry Gilliam references get a like.

so why didn't he?

oddly enough, Hoover ended up being quite influential in his post presidential life. Chaired a government re-org program for Truman but probably more his establishment (pre presidency) and fundraising (post presidency) for the Hoover Institution - which has had enduring influence on US politics.

I wouldn't knock the number of caddies Gerald Ford may have put through school...... ⛳

Taking a bad contract and 'Fixing' an under performing player maybe the only way the Wings acquire a top talent. Risky business though.