gehringer_2

It's just a little limp Coach (dragging himself along the floor), put me in!

I find the fascination with the 10 words so odd in groups of people that never come close to at least 4 of them.

You are more willing to ascribe to ignorance in the population what I see as fear, greed, prejudice and a healthy dose of malice.

Romad1's SS teacher would have toldl you "The Lord works in mysterious ways."

He’ll cave, they always cave

It doesn't seem to matter what Yzerman does, he can't seem to collect enough guys who handle the puck/and or skate well enough to play any kind of puck control game. It's like somewhere in the system they have a disease where as soon as their stick touches a puck they drop into slow motion and the only thing they can do before they are checked off the puck is make a dump/ice the puck.

IDK Chas - I won't argue that there are a lot of people who are shallow consumers and have just fallen in with what they happen to hear in the sources they habituate to, but I'd argue there are still waaay too many folks who know full well their media source is fully slanted but that is its exact attraction to them because they simply don't want to hear the facts that are uncomfortable to their chosen believe system. IOW, on your side are the people you identified as conditioned by media, I'll argue on the other side there are the people who choose the media they consume because they have already made the decision that they want their side, right or wrong and they are not going to hold their side to any standard. Or another way to put is that the RWM machine is as much an affirmation service to folks as it is an information news source. And I suppose to that part you can draw the parallel to media on the left.

I've gotten to where my dominant reaction when the topic of college football comes up is disgust. I'm beginning to tune out for my mental health.

This always bears repeating.

you know, I was thinking about a similar thing the other day. I don't think disclosure would even matter anymore. This is why: Go back a couple of generations - say to Watergate. The tapes just killed Nixon dead. We were in an era where it has hard to get evidence, but when you got it, it mattered. We dreamed of the day when Pols woudn't be able to get away with saying one thing in private an another in public. Fast forward: Today, there is camera or microphone almost everywhere. Every lie Trump or anyone else has ever uttered is totally documented - nobody cares. The facts only matter if there is a standard. There isn't.

There is a limit to that though. If he shows up he's going to have to at least work at training etc to a reasonable level or he is in breach of contract and could end up fined/suspended and lose some money anyway.

and just stupid. Just because you can doctor up an image doesn't mean it signifies anything at all. 100 monkeys with typewriters level stuff.

J.J. has some talent, but you are correct, he didn't have to do much at M, was seldom called upon do win a game through the air, just plain never threw that many passes under game pressure. He was the perfect guy to hold a clipboard and get mop up downs and practice time because maybe there was something there to work with given more reps.

IDK SB, If the public is so stupid that they keep voting for people who promise to give them something for nothing, then what other choice is there other than national bankruptcy? At some point there has to be an adult in the room!

I take your point, but OTOH question of an immigrant's rights are not a matter of who is apprehending them per se either. As it happens, the Border Patrol and ICE should be apprehending different people but that is not what drives the rights the courts have granted those targeted by either group.

Or he could just outrun them even if they are keying on him. As we learned with Barry, just because a team decides to try to take something away, you still have to make them prove they can do it before you give up your A game.

just looking at his numbers I hadn't realized how much he dropped off last season from not being all the productive to begin with. 20 pt and a 1:1 G/A ratio is pretty terrible for a center - though granted he doesn't always play center and with that low an assist number he shouldn't.

While I posted this, I also think it's unconscionable to suddenly decide to uproot people who have been here for years and built a life, that for years we never took the time or effort to be bothered with. I think of it sort of like a common law marriage after any number of years. Time and space absolutely creates/changes the reality of what is just.

I think the outcome will have to be a 'new' tax added to the mix - something like some variation on a VAT that people will not see directly. Maybe a grand deal where we trade adding a VAT for flat no-deduction income tax and/or annual 'assets' tax. If you made the public an offer that eliminated the 1040 and all its attendant schedules it might have enough appeal to slip in a net overall increase. If you wanted to be clever you could tie the VAT rate to the size of the debt - have the tax fall as the debt falls.

This gets a little more complex that either side admits to. Just because you cross the border, you do not immediately gain the right to anything like full process prior to removal. People caught in close proximity to the border either in time or space are now immediately sent back ("expedited removal") without a hearing and the courts have let that stand. And you can argue that in such a case the person is not being deprived of anything and so has no claim.

but anyone who has ever gotten into too much credit debt knows that paying interest eventually leaves you with less buy what you need. The interest on the debt already consumes as much tax revenue as the amount taxes would have had to go up to prevent the most of the debt.

One thing that is starting to move a little is that as loathe as they have been to give up on Rasmussen, he is finally running out of rope with McLellan.

The thing to keep in mind is that Trump doesn't care about American Interests - he cares about self-aggrandizement. All he wants in any plan is that it appears to work - at least externally, and hold together long enough for him to claim the credit. If he thought it was more likely he could bludgeon Putin into accepting a Zelenskyy blueprint, he'd be all over that instead - but of course since Putin impresses him, the thinks the main chance lies on that side. Sort of like Gaza - Israel is still doing pretty much what it wants, they had already defanged Hamas, all Trump really accomplished was to put a gloss on the status quo and take credit for it.

Fair critique. If he had averaged just the comparable months the diff would still be there but smaller. OTOH, some/many BLS numbers are already seasonally adjusted to account for exactly that kind of effect, so most of that should be normalized out, but I'm not taking the time to research where Rattner came up with these particular values.

all three winners last night were over 130.