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Thinkpads have a shutters on their cameras, desktops don't have cameras built in. Tape is handy otherwise.

Parker is screwed anyway because when McGonigle makes the team, Javy goes to CF.

Houston was a company town for all of its early years. The oil biz still has a big presence there, and that's a lot of professional, engineering and scientific types who should be the ones telling their neighbors the truth who have made the deal to self-censor (or self-delude) themselves for their paychecks.

be hard for it not to be.

right. NYC will always be the center of the world to him and he will always crave approval there.

the guy who just stepped down as University Pres at U Montana also filed as an independent - apparently with Jon Tester's backing.

Left Oblique strain for Hao Yu Lee. See Yu Mai - maybe.

Houston and Atlanta are also both minority majority cities, but in Houston the largest group are Hispanics, In Atlanta Af-Am.

I saw Ras make exactly one useful play in his ice time tonight. I also saw guys repeatedly skating around him as he waved at them going by on rushes. I'd love to hear McLellan or Yzerman tell us what it is he's doing that we apparently aren't seeing that forms the reason he's getting regular ice time. He has maybe one game every two weeks where he actually looks like an NHL player.

if true, tactical foolishness for Iranians to waste a ballistic missile against one the least likely places for it to succeed. But when the enemy screws up, you take it.

I don't like Kane out there without Debrincat - he's seems to be a non-factor without his alter-ego.

weird game - the Wing had a long 5 on 5 cycle in the Vegas zone in the 2nd, and once that was over the game shifted to Vegas the whole rest of the way.

It will take more than regime change in Iran to change the basic animosity between the Shia and Sunni, Arabs and Persians. You need the religiosity on not only the Iranian side, but also the remaining Wahabi influence on the Sunni side to subside before you get anything that looks like a real peace.

supply chains may determine the outcome on this one. Does Iran have more drones and missiles than the defenders have defense? If the Israeli's run out first it could be catastrophic for them.

true - I was just going back to '18 to get a number on a non-presidential year Senate race/turnout. But not all of surburbia is necessarily favorable ground for Dems either. Depends on where people came from to get there. We've got Macomb county which is suburbia, as is the area in MN that elected Michele Bachman just as another example I remember when I lived there. The racial makeup similarity is interesting. Still a lot of cultural differences remain, with the Texas heritage being ranching and even more so the oil field, vs the California heritage being agriculture, entertainment and now tech. This produces a lot of difference in the world view of the professional classes in the two places. Also with CA being renowned for its educational institutions, Tx not so much.

Certainly didn't help but is was mostly his right knee that did him in. He simply couldn't drive off it in the last several seasons so he was getting by hitting only above the waist. You could see that once in a while the knee would feel better and take the weight and you could tell because he would pick up his left foot on his swing, the rest of the time he was batting flat footed. On those rare occasions he could still drive the ball.

Comparing with 2018, if Cornyn gets by the primary he's probably a stronger general candidate than Ted Cruz was, Paxton maybe about equal. We'll see if Talarico can be as good or better than O'Rouke was.

Trump is triangulating for leverage to get Cornyn's support (or at least avoid losing it) for the rest of year.

Somewhere George Orwell is sad but laughing his a$$ off.

I'm pessimistic that Christian nationalists will be swayed by any appeal to the Sermon on the Mount Jesus. Most people will gladly cede their moral freedom to any institution that will offer them God's blessing for doing what they want to do anyway. Not too long ago I came across a John Guilgud video dramatization of a story told inside Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" It's a scene that brother Ivan is describing to his younger brother that expresses his view of "The Church". It's couched as being a dream he had about about the Inquisition so the author could get a way with telling it in Orthodox Russia, but at its heart it can too accurately describe the relationship between any highly institutionalized religious organization and its followers. And the Evangelical church in the US is definitely institutionalized - esp in the South. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxhvTAevdU8

Paxton/Cornyn is an interesting general election challenge for the Dems. As a candidate, Paxton has anti DC status quo value and the energy of the true believer right wing. OTOH, the Dems have the chance to peel away more moderate voters or those just turned off by Paxton's grifting. I have to think Paxton would be easier to beat, but it's Tx.

sure, and you hope GOP donors have donor fatigue by the general, and they might.

Better news!

The problem for Vancouver is they are in a trading paradox. His value to the Canucks is currently negative and other teams know it and that they have to move him. OTOH, his value to another team could be positive, and the Canucks know it and still want something back.