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why is she backwards?

NYT finally got around to the story today. This was the strongest headline they could come up with "Britt Tells Misleading Border Story in State of the Union Response" and their story pretty much dropped Britt as a topic 1/3 or so of the way, pivoting to pick up Jacinto-Romero's story, which would have been fine in a stand alone companion piece but as it stood simply amounted to more glossing over/ignoring GOP lying. Journalism wise, give the Times a point for actually tracking down and interviewing J-R for their story. They also did cite "independent journalist" Katz as original source.

2-0 now and the shots are 16-3. Looks like freefall. They gave up both both goals with the same five on the ice - Seider, Chairot, Veleno, Raymond and Berggren. Might consider not sending that combination out there again.

Randy Smith over-ruling his staff on the basis of a personally observed SSS. Figures. And Larry Parrish throwing Smith under the bus. Was that also around when L Parrish left the org?

To people who don't like Trump, when he's not in office he's probably like Hillary was to conservatives in all the years between the WH and 2016. Someone you don't like and only hear things about that make you like them less.

Manning getting ahead but but having trouble putting guys away.

Monroe calm today working with Dickerson. Better.

it is mostly an issue in older urban areas, and you-know-who lives there.

one would like to be surprised at something like this....

In Moses' case he was eminently qualified, he grew up in Pharoah's household. "Isaiah" was probably at least 2 different people we don't really know much about. I'll give you Peter.

It's good to fear, complacency kills. But this election is not too much like 2016. Clinton and Trump were unknowns as leaders. More people thought Hillary would be worse than the she probably would have been, and many, many more people had no idea Trump could be anywhere near as bad as he was/is/could be again. Biden has the advantage that he doesn't need to change anyone's mind, he only has to remind people that have already voted for him that they need to do it again. Things can always to wrong (See Tigers, 2022). The Dems should not lose this election unless they can't get out of their own way. That risk is always real enough.

They aren't as good as they looked on the hot streak, they do need more leadership in the room than just Larkin. Yzerman has done a good job of raising the general talent level to where the team is much more competitive, but he's got to do something in the way of swinging for the fences to increase the number of players on the team with top level will to win, which right now is pretty much just Larkin and Seider. I don't know if Kane was a player that used to supply some of that for the Hawks, if so maybe his role in the regard will grow.

The public health impact of removing lead pipes from well operated systems where it was properly deployed in the 1st place may be speculative. There is a reason those lead pipes are mostly over 100 yrs old, in proper service they never corrode, meaning the lead is staying put, thus no-one is being poisoned. The problem is that you do get situations like Flint where a system was under invested, undermaintained and then terribly mis-managed and when that happens there is no speculation about the impact and once out of control it's very hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. So you can take a reasonable green-eye shade arg and say there are better places to spend the marginal public health dollar than removing every lead pipe regardless of its engineering context. But given the generally poor approach to infrastructure care in the US, I think it's just something you do to eliminate an unnecessy overhanging risk.

Not to mention a checking line like the Grind. Yzerman probably gets it from Scotty, who generally hated young defensemen. Wings did always bring in a lot of older Dmen back in the day, they could just get better ones - Murphy, Fetisov, Samuelson, Schneider, Coffey.....

This is where I part a bit with the conventional wisdom about voter motivation. Just my read based on nothing but my own intuition, but I don't see that anyone who was motivated to get Trump out of office is going to be any less motivated to keep hm out of office. To me the difference is that people are quieter about it so maybe it seems the energy is lower, but I think that is the way it works in life. Once you are really resolved about something, when it becomes one of your bottom lines in life, you don't have to talk about it any more, you don't care about justifying yourselves to others, but you aren't walking away from it either. And in this particular time, people who oppose Trump have largely given up trying to persuade the other side anymore. So for me I don't read the lower apparent energy as necessarily indicating any less resolve to keep Trump out of the WH.

TTBDNS getting a work out early today. Team is rounding into mid-season form!

The bigger (to me) surprise is that once he decided he wasn't buying he didn't sell either.

5 months since I've had to say "I hate the contact play"

not surprising

Loonspudery of a high order

The tweeter is of course wrong. mRNA tech was originally intended as a possible cancer treatment vector and that work has progressed.

This is one worth the time to do a little digging into how this plays in Israeli media.

She figured she'd talk you into it. The recruiter knew that plenty of people are nutty enough to regularly commute hrs each way. Heck - I did an hour each way for a number of years - but that was about my limit, but I was working with a guy that was doing >1 1/2 everyday, and it didn't seem to bother him....

only one thing really mattered tonight - Biden was able to stand there and talk, and in fact shout at us, even with the regular Biden syntax assaults, until the rest of us were past being tired. It was political speech as treadmill cardiac stress test, and it was meant to attack his single biggest political liability in the most indirect, almost subliminally designed way

Carlos has already vaulted himself into a solid #2 behind Dirks in the whole list of people that have been through the role.