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and that's why I say you can't really go by much of what you hear from the people or reporters around the minors (well or the majors for that matter). When Jung was moved there were a number of stories that he was a 'natural' and it would be walk in the park for him, and likewise he put on a good face that he'd handle it. Not true? if not, by not just living with a less than ideal arm in Keith, are they letting the perfect be the enemy of the good in not having two guys in positions each may play better?

It is interesting that all the heat came down on Cheatle - which is fair enough on one level if she either didn't or couldn't find out what was going on, but we know Cheatle wasn't the one making or validating the local arrangements. I suppose this is basically a 'blue wall' episode where everyone who was on the ground is adhering to the code of silence to not blow a brother's cover.

Correct, but that is the whole point isn't it, people who would kill over their private definition of blasphemy are exactly the people we don't want to be aren't they? Christianity historically has a mixed record on the issue of intellectual freedom. Post enlightenment Protestantism and even parts of post reformation Catholocism (e.g Jesuits) have been pretty good on the issue but you'd have to admit that is more the exception than the norm over 2 millennia. The Greeks first gave us the concept and they were pagans - so no current religion really can claim it as their idea.

On Trump's "wound", politically it is probably a mistake to spend any time worrying about whether Trump was hit by flying glass, a bullet fragment or grazed by a passing shot. He was shot at and the guy came close enough to killing him that the detail of how close is immaterial. It does play only at one level, which is that if he was really only hit with some flying debris or fragment, and he's inflating it be a closer call with a bullet, it's just another amusing aspect of his self-aggrandizing. But that neither new nor unexpected, so I don't see the point is wasting too much media oxygen on it.

Hooboy! Yes indeed, faith vs works is probably the oldest and still least resolved argument in Christianity, and your thumbnails of the two extremes accurately nail the failings of both - Catholic guilt and Fundamentalist self justification. But I have no answers to resolve that tension other than to paraphrase Potter Stewart - we know good people when we see them. And as far as human organizations go, all I've ever come up with to judge them is whether they seem to aggregate a higher or lower percentage of good or bad people than the general population..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Talking about adaption methods is fine, but when you do in the context, which he sets, that warming won't be a crisis, which he is, he's being an apologist. "Your Boys" are working in the ' richest most worker safety aware country in the world. Their situation likely applies for less than 1/4 of the world's population if even that.

I've spent afternoons in Tyvek chemical exposure suits doing clean-out/washdown on potential toxics and know you can check out on even a warm day in less than 20 minutes if you aren't careful. And in the US we generally have all the dousing water we need anytime we need it. In the developing world not so much. The Human body is not well designed to operate at temperatures much above it's own set point.

meh - He may be right as a matter of political calculus for his community, but so what? The staging is silly, but if you are a Christian it's no skin off your nose. If they don't feel any respect for those images, who cares? It doesn't impact you at all in terms of your rights or freedoms in the US. If your community doesn't garner respect in the wider society, it's not because of silly people like this, those problems are a lot deeper and they are in house. When you start telling people who they owe deference not to make fun of, you're on your way to the Islamic Republic. If you are gay in America you still have plenty of reason feel much of the 'organized' Church could stand to brought down a peg or two.

Nice unintended consequence, builds more internal pressure on the Mullah's in Iran.

what rock has he been under that he's never seen Musk? Not to mention all his favorite Democratic demons have children -- Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton(x2), Obama, Biden.

I just posted in the investment thread that the Fed's favorite inflation gauge - released yesterday for June - the "PCE" was up 2.5% year over year and 0.1% for the month. That keeps the Fed on track for a rate cut. That will be one more thing for Trump to burn up bits on Truth Social about (and Harris to campaign on.) 🤣

Lost in the cacophony of politics news filling the cycle, was yesterdays PCE report. From Barron's:

Arb eligible next year, he'll probably cost north of $10M. That's what the Rays do (or don't do depending on how you look at it!)

Romad wins the Interwebs today! (bravo buddy!)

"We have to stop treating politics like entertainment" - Joe Biden They should engrave that around the base of the Washington monument because it's maybe the relevant bit of wisdom for this age.

That's my expression for a guy with what I would call natural fielding skill anywhere you put him so it doesn't matter where he plays. We've probably all played with good IFs that couldn't track a fly, good OFs that couldn't manage a hot grounder (me!), and then there are those guys who just catch the ball, anywhere. (i.e, guys Harris loves like McKinstry-who may or may not be gold glove anywhere but can be comfortable everywhere). So basically a guy you can move to a new position and expect little or no learning curve required.

LOL - The Hoover Institution has pretty close to zero cred on anything related to these issues. They are big time, big industry apologists. His first paragraphs are laughable in the face the increased deaths by simple heat prostration occurring across the planet as places where people have lived through all of recorded history become objectively unfit for human habitation. I'm sure all the construction workers in Iraq who now have to knock off their projects at dawn or face the likelihood of death think his dismissals of climate catastrophe amusing at the least.

No - the cultural/religious base still anchors on abortion. Just because they have found themselves on the losing end in several state referenda doesn't mean the energy around the issue on the anti side has gone away and for the anti-abortion voter facism and/or a blown up economy are trivial concerns-they don't move the needle. Those voters aren't going to be peeled from the GOP short of Armageddon. And that's sort of the interesting thing, because the allegiance there is actually to the legislative GOP and they only care about the Presidency as far as court appointments go. Trump is personally very soft on abortion, and everyone knows it, but it doesn't matter to the AntAb voter because they know he will make his appointment from the Federalist Soc short list regardless.

TBH, the main problem with DD's route in a mid market city isn't that you can't win doing what he because you weaken your farm system, it's because trading young for old leaves you with an unsustainable payroll unless you are NY or LA. You don't need a well stocked farm system to win consistently, but you do to win consistently at reasonable cost. Fans can argue that owners can and should afford to take losses for them, but since no owner actually will over any extended time frame (and in fact the league won't let them) that's an arg which may give vent to fan frustration but is pointless in practice.

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I expect also expect another initiative from the Admin that plays well - possibly a deal in Gaza. Harris has been more vocal in criticizing Netanyahu's conduct of the war, so Biden may be able to get a little 'good cop/bad cop" thing going to extract a little from Bibi on the threat of Harris replacing him and US demands just getting tougher. Of course if Bibi expects Trump to win, he won't care.

Yeah - You wonder if GB is wish casting their QB into the HOF. Except the NFL is not a place where wishing something makes it true.

could be. Hillary took him apart in the their first debate but she faded in the later ones. Harris is probably higher energy today than Hillary was in 2016 and Trump is 8 yrs older and less focused/focusable than ever. If she turns that prosecutor's laser on Trump, Harris's biggest risk might be looking like she's being too mean to him - seriously.

if I'm Trump I can't see any reason to agree to another one. He's not facile enough to actually debate with Harris, so he can't do himself any more good than he already gotten out the night with Biden, and it gives Harris a huge platform where his supporters will see her in action - when because the media segregation, they otherwise might never. And all it costs him is being dissed by the people who already dis him non-stop? It's a no win for him. But his ego might goad him into it anyway.