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A friend of mine is on the event staff (ushering/gates etc). Said his head was ringing afterward even after having used the management supplied earplugs and being mostly on the concourse. Deafness is going to be the big epidemic in the generations since the earbud and Class D audio amps.

Well, they were short one gate on the football schedule weren't they?

This deal is almost certainly DOA as soon as folks are outside DC and no longer stroking Trump's ego. It calls for Hamas to sign on to it's military demise, which they will give lip service to but never accede to except by force, and Netanyahu has already made clear that Israel is going to be supplying that force if they don't see Hamas dissolving to their liking. IOW, it doesn't change the status quo already on the ground. All these guys slapping themselves on the back is pretty much a Trump dog and pony show for a Nobel, but he'll get bored quickly with how much work getting any real change effected will be.

Yeah. Wallace seemed to be more a segregationist of convenience - from what I remember he became a fairly reasonable guy in later years once there was no political profit in the old racism. Trump is a racist to the core of his being and could never reform. He has no choice, it follows directly from his narcissism. If he's White, whites must be better, smarter etc. With Trump the further away from his identity you go, the less valuable a person must be, because only his attributes make a person valuable.

Remember the big overbuild in fiber optic backbone? I could see the same thing happening here. A ton of centers get build, a bunch of power capacity goes in with them, the centers find they have overshot their market - a lot of centers close and the left-over is a nice overhang in electrical generating capacity.

I think that was likely the key thing. Schott was a loose cannon AND she wasn't part of the old boy club either.

How much it was driven by that gets a lot of debate, but no question southern landowners knew all too well they needed armed 'militias' to deal with the potential threat of 'domestic unrest'

Other than Marge Schott anyway.

I think if you live a wild area, it's perfectly reasonable to be armed. I stayed with friend recently that has black bear and wolves moving on his driveway at night. And sure nature is just all cuddly all the time (not). I don't expect people to have to take their chances with a bear guarding cubs or a male alpha predator in a rutting craze. And I'd gladly see a lot more hunting of the XS deer population that prevents me from growing anything in a garden in my neighbor hood. So I'm not against guns for utilitarian purposes. But very few people have any legitimate need for a handgun, and no-one needs an assault weapon. If guns are to be present, every gun and every owner needs to be registered and the ballistics of every weapon need be filed before the weapon is sold and periodically re-verified.

Since at least on major reason for it's existence was to protect slavers from slaves, you wouldn't expect that set of motivations to produce a positive legacy.

and that's the other bait and switch we always get from guys like Kirk: "Responsible guns controls would be OK" but then every conceivable measure of any kind is reflexively opposed. So those are not honest positions, they are just rhetorical fig leaves.

Injuries can change things in a hurry, but a healthy Lions D won't be leaving the middle of the field open for Love.

LOL - Justice was served. Neither team deserved the win, and neither got it!

I think that missed stop was the game.

agree. Dallas has been moving in fits and starts - GB has had steadier momentum with the ball.

that was a pretty terrible sequence for Dallas.

Nutty game - Dallas scores their TD so fast they leave BG time to tie it up. GB pass rush less than impressive late.

so it is some kind of fast twitch/slow twitch thing where the super athletic guys don't have the fine motor, or maybe just that the only way guys without fine motor make the NBA is extreme levels of fast twitch? Chicken, meet egg. 🤔

and the funny part is that Trump would be on board for gun bans and confiscation in a NY minute as part of any plan his lizard brain could cook up to stay in power.

you know what - If the 2A fans want to push that analogy, my answer is I'd be happy as a clam if we had just as many rules and safety regs on guns, ammo, and gun owners as we have on cars, motor fuel, drivers, and drivers' licenses.

They lose to much? (!)

Sure that is the argument, and it is specious. Transportation is necessary to economic, and thus physical survival. Handguns are not. There is no analogy But nice try to move the goalposts.

The human species initially developed skills at co-operation that have allowed it to become the dominant life-form on the planet. But this ability to cooperate began around only the smallest groupings. Cooperation was based on trust, which initially was primarily a matter shared genetics - literally, if you smelled like I did, I worked with you. The history of civilization has pretty much been one long struggle for mankind to learn to enlarge the circles of cooperation needed to accomplish ever greater quality of life for itself, vs the constant tendency to withdraw back into the clan or tribe or sect. The objective value of truth ultimately doesn't matter when it comes to tribal members from outside the tribe, and tribal members will never seek truth objectively as long as they are bound to the tribe. The only, but hard answer, is that when we create a society whose members begin to identify with the larger society around them. When they begin to accept the value of every other person, to see their destiny as tied to every other soul on the planet, then will they start to seek truth objectively instead of through their tribal filter.

I guess the brain trust has crunched the numbers and decided they prefer the match-ups if they lose this game. Hard to explain Hinch today otherwise.