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Hronek and I think Fabbri basically spectating on the 4th goal. It has to be frustrating to Yzerman that he can't exile to siberia everyone of these guys you see coasting in standing straight up behind opposition players that have beaten them to rebounding position. ARRGGGHHH!

To expand, I would note that the thing about the US is that we have *never* have a majority religion. From the founding we had a bunch of different Christian denominational minorities, plus RCCs, none of whom ever wanted someone else's catechisms visited upon their children in the public schools.

I have to disagree with you there. The Brit expats had come out of centuries of inter sectarian Christian warfare back home. They wanted nothing to do with giving anyone the opportunity to establish a religious orthodoxy as part of public education. I think the situation as recently as the 60's was probably the one that existed over most of the country's history, which was that in areas like music and holiday decorations there was acknowledgment of the generally dominant Christian culture in non-sectarian ways, but the public schools did not teach 'Christianity' in any direct way. We have this modern idea that the 18 and 19th centuries had less scruples about politico/religious separation, but I don't think the facts bear it out. Things like 'In God we Trust" and the "Under God" in the pledge are mostly 20th century additions. Granted, it was a different scruple - based on the fear of sectarian disagreement between Christians rather than the more current disagreement between the religious and the secular, but the scruple was there none-the-less.

LOL - I though about taking the quote from a word or two later but that would hardly have been honest. But I don't think religion is specifically key to the civic purpose embodied in the NW ordinance - though I won't ague many of those at the time probably did. It's more the importance that the commitment to education as a public/civic endeavor has for both the educators and the educated.

The idea of public education supported by the founders was in part to create a common bond of experience and understanding in a nation that it was already clear was going to be one largely formed of emigres from somewhere else, and in part to make sure education was actually distributed through the populace democratically so as to produce a population capable of self government in every corner. Every kind of diversion that removes resources from the public schools or reduces the pressure they should be under to perform detracts from those ends. I don't think it's necessary that there is only one way to do *public* education, but I do think it is necessary for government not to support any kind of education that is not completely public. For instance there are charter concepts I don't have a problem with, but in general the advocates of vouchers want them for religious based schools, that goes beyond where I want the gov to go- TA's report notwithstanding.

WRT to Taiwan, the Nationalists who moved there in exile did not represent the indigenous population any more than Mao did. I don't know enough about Taiwan to answer the question as to whether this generation of Taiwanese leadership has actually won the heart of the larger population of if they are still just an aristocratic graft that maintains political control - though maybe in a less corrupt way than Chiang Kai-Shek may have? If the Taiwanese population wants to fight, China will have it's hands full, in the same way as if the Ukrainians don't want the Russians, the Russians will have their hands full. Those factors will make a much bigger difference in the outcome than whatever US posturing precedes any military action by Russia. We've learned the hard lesson enough times that just because a Western leaning political class in some nation tells us they are ready to fight to the death if only they have our unqualified support, it doesn't mean we won't find out that their internal support was a mile wide but 1/2" deep.

just to play Devil's advocate - I can say you can look up who the best statistical players were on any baseball stat site - they will have their places right at the top - you don't need a museum for that to be confirmed or recognized. Being in or out of Cooperstown wont change anyone's understanding of what kind of hitter Barry Bonds was. Ergo - save the museum for the people the sport wants to 'celebrate' - with all the texture that term might imply.

I don't disagree with what you catalog here, but I'll specify that I'm talking residential segregation. We are much more integrated publicly, but the basic question is whether America is still a racist nation, and I would argue that despite all the changes that you note since 1922, it still hasn't changed that basic calculus that White American move away from where Black Americans live and we are still a vastly privately segregated county. That is the one irreducible part of the equation that, despite all the changes in law, and *public* behavior, which have certainly made life for Blacks in America much better, tell me that at heart, this country still harbors a fundamental racist bias. And I would argue that on a residential basis, this country is at best only marginally less segregated by where people live, go to school or go to church, than 100 yrs ago.

As nice it it would be to see Gaetz go down, it sadly won't have much effect on anything beyond his district.

Before the Constitution was even on the table, the founders at the Continental Congress put this in the Northwest Ordinance: It happens to be engraved in the wall over the entrance of Angell Hall at the 'U'. Just another example of a 'conservative' party that has lost any connection to founding motivations of this nation.

Just because there was one good war to defeat Nazism doesn't change the historical truth that 99% of all wars make things worse than they ever would have been otherwise. Empires are hard to control in the modern world and very expensive to maintain. Putin may do more to weaken his position in Russia by invading Ukraine than by making a deal for Ukrainian neutrality and he probably knows that despite his USSR nostalgia. The question is whether the West can avoid overplaying its hand as it did after the Soviet fall, which - while not to minimize Putin's paranoia - is at least in part what has gotten us here. With the death of ideological communism as world wide jihad, it would be the height of folly to get in to a WAR to protect the membership prerogatives of a supposed anti-communist PEACE keeping alliance.

yeah - More than one person I know that had a Roomba and a dog has had just such an unfortunate experience.

according to Henning's column about Dingler, who is not on the 40, is working out at Tigertown now.

If you have enough owners that want to play, there will be baseball on schedule.

I saw a thoery that Dieppe was sacrificial cover for a failed covert effort to steal a 4 rotor Enigma. It struck me as even if the Enigma story was true, it was more likely the tail than the dog.

what a terrible prospect. Then again it could speed the Commonwealth along the path to the future and the cashless society.

he didn't exactly do the world a particularly good turn in India either IIRC.

FIFY!

yeah - Hayes doesn't need to play 30 min. At this point either he is a bust or he's just still too young (20 1/2) and may mature into a better player with time. Either way playing him starter's minutes now seems pointless. You either keep him around on the 2nd unit for at least another year because you see something such that you still believe he will mature into that better player -- or not, but big minutes now aren't going to get him a year older any faster.

34/8/8 - closing in on triple double territory. But 3 FT attempts total by the 5 starters. Easily a 5 pt difference.

He's a D-Lineman isn't he? He's not supposed to like QBs. When Alex Karras was a Lion he hated all QBs, including Detroit's!

interesting point. No State of MI report today but cases today have hit their lowest level in several weeks in Washtenaw county.

the GMO thing covers multiple of issues. I would agree there is little evidence that GMO food is harmful to consume, but the issue of whether it is harmful to the environment to grow it is a different question. e.g - If engineering crops to resist glyphosate results in more massive quantities of glyphosate being pumped into the environment where it 'overflows' into other systems where it is toxic, you may still believe with justification that there is a problem with GMO.

What chance did he ever have with parents that couldn't spell?

fair enough - I really wasn't thinking about this law in particular as much as the concept of sanctioning an elected official who is dishonest in an official administrative (as opposed to political) capacity. The question of what to do about candidates - or for that matter elected political leaders that lie is a another question. It's basically something that the society has completely let get away from itself. Back in the day, there was a kind of standard about bald faced lying in office. You certainly could always get away with a ton of shading of reality, but there was still a level of of denial of reality that held. It was still strong enough 50 yrs ago that Nixon was forced from office over it, but for me there was a real turning point with Clinton. Regardless of whether it was a question that never should have been asked or the topic was irrelevant to his official duties, allowing him to remain in office after having lied under oath was simply a terrible civic precedent to set and IMO has made any kind of political truth telling standard impossible ever since. The irony is that he could have admitted everything and still would have left office with high approval ratings and Al Gore as President. In my book he turned out to be a great fool in the end. And I think our politics has paid a price ever since. I wish I knew how to put that toothpaste back in the tube.