gehringer_2

yup. In for a dime, in for a dollar. Where do the R's have left to go?

truth is the 1st casualty in war, but that would be a whopper of a lie to tell!

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today!

less the 'gotcha' aspect than the silliness we have gotten to in the US about speaking inconvenient truths out loud.

Mitt didn't lose because of his foreign policy views. It was Americans he had trouble with - at least 47% of them.......

I wonder how the outrage over Biden calling Putin a "killer" last June is aging?

Where is Dr. Strange when you could use him?

what's the old line? "No battle plan survives 1st contact with the enemy"

oddly enough, recently my sister and I came across some material my father had brought home at the end of WWII. There were a bunch of single sheet 'flimsies' (what the Brits used to call them, I don't know what we used to call them here, but they are copies made on something that is almost tissue paper) of some kind of news digest that the guys aboard the ships in the Pacific must have gotten - apparently daily or weekly. In any case he had saved a bunch and one was from about a week after the surrender and according to the story the Allies were right PO'd about the post surrender speech Hirohito gave. Really interesting to read a direct contemporaneous news story when it was still today's news and not history.

The guys is becoming a nut case to boot. Valenti's crew was having quite the laugh about this yesterday: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/aaron-rodgers-did-12-day-cleanse-that-typically-involves-vomiting-laxatives

FCNTX!! As they say, past performance is no guarantee of future results, but CONTRA is a very old fund with history of cool headed management. IIRC Contra was supposed to be based on similar principles to those the legendary Peter Lynch used to build Magellan. I'm not familiar with it current manager but I'd see what I could find on his history and try to read between the lines of his management statements - which should be in the fund prospectus, should give you some feel for whether he is any kind of cowboy.

Skeptical on that. He isn't going to stop the *program*, and shouldn't have wanted to, but the order to go still had to be given and he was CIC. He may have felt he was not up to the task of making a different decision, but that doesn't mean he didn't have the power to. That said I'm not arguing the much bigger question of whether he should or shouldn't have, only that I don't agree it wasn't in his power to have made a different decision. If you can order MacArthur relieved, you can change a weapons deployment.

LOL - how do you say 'doublespeak' in Mandarin?

JB, a good rule for investing is never fall in love.

pretty ironic that right now Germany's security, such as it it, is largely in the hand of the Poles.

this would be a period when the Russians would be ramping up internet mischief efforts. Do the math.

how racist is it to just deny 'anyoneness' to over 200,000 souls? Asking for a friend.

Not so much. He has his own dreams of an increased sphere of influence and a rebuilt Russian empire would step on them big time.

if the other team has a big speed advantage you have to play a little more physical - don't know if the Wings have that in them.

he has some very tough decisions to make if the Russian tanks roll. How many lives is a show of resistance worth if it's going to be futile? OTOH, if they have something clever enough cooked up to bloody Ivan, does he have will to give the order knowing that Putin will surely come after him in person.

LOL - you can't miss a spot if you just let it grow...

Mi case rate came in at about 10/100k today. It's falling at a pretty incredible rate.

philosophically, it's easier to be with the players, since they provide the value, but intellectually I can't get past the fact that player salaries help price the live game out of reach of ordinary fans. There's no way to square that circle.

yup - for sure I've heard players, when challenged by people like sportswriters about the fact that they don't know much about the history of the game basically come back with - "time spent on all that doesn't make me a better player today"

that looks like a match. Sad case: Cantor's daughter died after falling out of a dormitory window at UM 20 some years ago.