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Skubal seems to catching the pumpkin disease.

so this Wilmer Flores is the Tiger pitcher's older brother?

bingo.

I'm guessing it depends on how white evangelical women really feel about guns and abortion. If when they go in the those voting booths they decide they have had enough of the patriarchy, I think that is what could produce your re-alignment - and maybe the only thing. But I'm still pretty sceptical. Working class evangelical women tend to be just as conned as their husbands (and ex-husbands....), so more likely the Dems will have to keep scraping for every vote just to not lose.

On the assumption that the most Chris will ever ask Al to do is move 'upstairs' then it's likely a fill from within,and other than Garko or Hinch who would any candidates be? And of course that has to assume that Hinch and/or Garko didn't have major input into some of the decisions that we are roasting Al for.

Meadows is guilty as Sin so he's not going to talk short of an indictment and a plea bargain. If you want Trump bad enough you offer Meadows immunity (or maybe Cippolone), otherwise don't expect to hear from Meadows.

it does shine a little light into why he probably feels so cheated - it maybe was there almost in his grasp if he could have only have gotten to the head of that mob again - but then he gets foiled by the Secret Service, the one group of people that he probably figured he didn't have to plan for, that would just do whatever he told them, refusing to listen to him. Just left that one little detail how to physically get to the Capital, out of the plan.

put this in the 'bigger fish to fry' basket. It would be nice if Turkey were more magnanimous, but right now Ukraine has to be more important to Europe than the Kurds, unavoidable.

the republic was saved by a driver who physically manhandled the POTUS to get him off the wheel. ..........damn.

LOL. It was a toss between that line and "who remembers when Jeff Sessions as AG was our biggest worry about the Trump Administration? - Good Times"

the legal soap opera around the Flint water disaster takes another turn. SCOTSOM rules that a judge acting as a one-man grand jury may not issue criminal charges, judges have no power to prosecute. So the charges against Syder and others who were recharged by Judge Newblatt as Grand Jurist, after Nessel tossed out the previous charge filed under Schuette, have now also been tossed. https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/06/judge-had-no-power-to-indict-in-flint-water-crisis-cases-michigan-supreme-court-rules.html

Jeff Sessions? A name that almost makes you nostalgic for the good old days....

I can add that to my long list of conservative logic fails

I think a huge change - at least in one sense, came with the STP turbine car. It was sort the dividing line where the paradigm was forced to make a shift from auto racing being about doing anything/everything that anyone could figure out to go faster, to "we have the tech to go too fast, from now on it's about how fast can you go within whatever rule set we put in place." That was a shift from one kind of world to another. Anybody could build a car to go faster today - but it takes a ton of very detailed (expensive) engineering at every exploitable margin to get the fastest car inside all of the design constraints. It's a different kind of task than when racing started. I'm also curious about what will happen to IC engine car racing - assuming IC cars are one day going to more or less disappear from consumer driveways. We didn't stop racing horses when people stopped using them for regular transportation, so does IC engine racing live on as a cultural legacy like horse racing, or do the electric car racing circuits eventually displace it. And of course the constraints of electric car racing seem even stranger.

I'd have gone for II Samuel 11:4. That would have been fun in elementary school.

right. The trade was fine based on the information 'in the public domain' so to speak. The issue is exactly whether the Tigers had a player under their nose they never gave a chance to show his value.

Unemployment is 3.6%, the market correction has drained mostly forth - most peoples investments are still well ahead of where they were at the end of 2020, and gas prices may already have peaked. We'll see.

There is *some* truth to this, but even on this point the case is over stated. In almost every case the guy is going to come into the game anyway, the only question is this inning or next inning. Being half way to ready in the 5th when you are scheduled to in for the 6th is just not a big deal. The exception would be getting someone up in the 9th when your closer is already in the game because otherwise that guy might actually not have had to warm up at all.

I don't count this one as the worst they done, but a football coach at a public school is a state sponsored actor and as noted he is in a fundamentally coercive role. Thus it is exactly 'free exercise' (or choice not to) which is being denied. Now I do have a place in my heart for any student worth his salt who tells his coach to stuff it if he doesn't want to pray, In my ideal world every citizen should demand their rights. I also know most kids aren't cut from that cloth. I'm actually more offended by this kind of stuff on religious grounds. It terrible Christianity. The idea of praying to defeat a sports opponent or thanking God for having done it, so trivializes God as to be blasphemous anyway. The coach's preacher should be telling him to stop. But that is just another measure of the bankruptcy of American Evangelicalism. Just play the game, you don't 'deserve' to win anymore than the other guy and you can be confident God isn't going to make sure your placekicks fly true.

Once upon a time, you'd expect a Justice of the Supreme Court to be bright enough to get to this obvious piece of countervailing logic. Not the case with these looneys. Seriously, these guys have so little intellectual candle power it's just sad. This really hit home to me after Citizen'sUnited, when the conservatives made a fundamental logic error of conflating conceptual existence to actual existence that would have gotten them laughed out of any Philosophy 101 class. I've seen no signs of improvement since.

All we can hope is that in someday, this court is looked back and laughed at. And if that's not the case it seems doubtful the US will still exist in its present form.

right - I had failed to put the same qualifier in mine.

Of course in the US we are assuming an administrative state which is turn held accountable to the public by the oversight of a democratically elected government. GOP is trying hard to fail on that score as well. An administrative state unmoored from pubic oversight is just the USSR.

I have any number of noisy obnoxious red squirrels on my lot for whom a shot across the bough would be just the thing, but we must bend low at the waist to naval history as being a richer source of metaphor than our arboreal rodent friends, who in this case have to settle for blinding stumbling into their sparser nuggets of lexicographal reputation.

for me this is where the GOP completely falls off the rails on pure practical grounds. They have it exactly backward. It's funny to me that the GOP always used to call liberals 'ivory tower' and divorced from reality, but it's the GOP thought leaders today who apparently have no experience in how the real world works. Go to work for any big industrial corporation and it won't take long to understand that both civilized society and the planet will be quite doomed if the profit motive is allowed to run free without the administrative state at least trying to stand guard. Killing the admin state is a play for pure future disaster. The role of good government has to be to do your damnedest to make it work better, not constantly try to strangle it, and the GOP had been nothing but a hindrance to those efforts for 40 years now.