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The underwhelming breast cancer charity despite publicizing its greatness points to leadership woes as well. Also reports that she was an MLM supplement pusher as recently as 4-5 years ago.

I bounced this off a friend of mine who summed this up well. "This is more an indictment of celebrity worship culture than a DeSantis/Republican canary in the coal mine."

I left my mayor vote blank, but that is because I am friends with Donna's ex-husband's best friend, and on the golf course have heard dozens of stories about how big of a piece of **** she and her now husband are. ... Background here, that divorce was very very public. She was the news anchor of the NBC affiliate, married to the sports anchor for the same affiliate, was caught banging the weatherman who she is now married to. it was ugly in public, and behind the scenes even uglier and makes her and especially the weatherman look awful. She is a 3X breast cancer survivor, which is a good story. She started a charity for it, which is good PR. There's a marathon named after her where everybody wears pink and thinks they are helping. The tax forms for the charity don't paint that great of a picture, but I have yet to find the smoking gun where it is just fraud. Best case, she just runs a bloated organization that doesn't really do much of what it says it does. Anyways, back to the divorce and her cancer. The story I heard involved the weatherman kicking her out after the affair was found out when she had one of her bouts with cancer. The sportscaster took her back and took care of her, and when she got better, she left for the weatherman again. Personal **** like that shouldn't affect me politically, but there's just too much about her character and leadership that raised questions. ... More background, Jacksonville has a jungle primary for local positions. Everybody runs in March, if somebody gets 50% they win. Top 2 runoff in May. ... I answered a poll back in the fall asking me about the mayor race. At the time, believe it or not, of the five people, I said Daniel Davis. I have a MAGA friend who thinks I'm still right wing and gives me his endorsements. He called Davis a RINO around that time, and it piqued my interest. He wasn't perfect by any means. He was head of the Chamber of Commerce, and the young professional organization i was a part of in my 20's that was a branch of the Chamber was doing happy hours in December 2020, for example. On the other hand, the Chamber has been LGBT friendly, helped get the city vaccinated, pushed for confederate statues to be torn down, so at the time he wasn't too extreme at all. Of the other candidates, I have mentioned Donna (D). Leanna Cumber (R) was a councilwoman who was trying the right flank. She raised a lot of traditional R money, had some troubling negative ads. And when she tried to steer to the middle, she was sure to use her maiden name, Gutierrez. Al Ferraro (R) was the right wing wacko candidate. And finally Audrey Gibson (D) was a term limited state senator. I ended up voting for Gibson, despite a fuax paux a couple years ago that came off as antisemetic. Davis and Cumber had a very negative primary while Donna basically sat on the sideline. The negative ads between Davis and Cumber got to be a joke. Both calling the other woke and liberal, etc. I think they did eachother more harm than good. Once Davis made the final 2, he really went downhill. Aligned with some questionable right wing groups. Hosted some insurrectionists a couple weeks ago. I should note, my no vote was sent in early April. I may have swallowed my pride and voted Donna if I waited until election day. Donna ran a very positive campaign. Davis ran ads saying Donna was an anarchist because she attended a BLM protest. Also, google Kent Stermon. Easy to tie him to Davis. (VERY easy to tie him to DeSantis) I don't know how much of a Desantis rebuke this is. Davis was a lot closer with the incumbent Mayor, Curry. And there has been a definite schism between Curry and DeSantis for a while now. I don't know the origin. A notorious Curry-aligned campaign manager, Tim Baker, ran Davis's campaign. Baker is a definite rat****er who plays to the worst common denominator. DeSantis' endorsement of Davis was tepid at best. The smaller race, property appraiser, included a MAGA former state rep vs. a black city councilwoman. That seat has been Republican for as long as I can remember. The MAGA rep's street signs include a photoshopped picture of him with DeSantis. The fact that he lost is a bigger DeSantis rebuke, IMO. But still, the city council is 14R-5D (One R endorsed Donna). Five of those seats are city-wide, and all were won by R's (one decided yesterday). Still kind of hilarious Davis had a 4X funding advantage and lost though...

Not sure why I just saw this, but no, it wouldn't. The odds are more precise than that. I'm not exactly sure how the MLB one worked with such precise odds pulling a ball out of the hopper.

I haven't voluntarily listened to terrestrial radio in almost 20 years at this point, but love throwing down 20 dollars at a bar and requesting about 20 songs on Touch Tunes to see if anybody knows them. I honestly have no idea if the stuff I listen to is played on the radio.

Are lunatics only on the right? I had a twitter exchange yesterday where somebody found my tweet where I said I left Mayor blank and claimed that was a vote for the Republican and called me sexist for telling her she was wrong. Anyways, the dem runs an iffy breast cancer charity, former news anchor, and I know somebody who has known her for 30+ years who has repeatedly, even before she started running for office, told stories of how terrible of a person she is. I couldn't, in good conscience, vote for her.

Got another ex-Tiger the beat is hyping up.

I am legitimately worried I could get fired for opening one of the articles. Bad enough the newsletter subscriptions I have pumping to my email (to avoid using twitter steering me to news) have them.

Is anybody else as troubled as I am about WaPo publishing leaked intel on Ukraine?

Not sure who is into Succession, but tonight's hit too close to home.

We need to make sure we don't forget the rule changes last year. The PPI picks are no joke and why Tork was on the opening day roster, and why Greene would have been, so Avila not being into manipulation isn't why Tork got the call. Those PPI picks, ironically, may keep some players who emerged this year down until September so teams can potentially cash in on their prospect eligibility. The only reason to hold Malloy down is to keep him from Super 2 in 2026, and I'm not sure he is of the caliber that you need to worry about that. I just think he legitimately needs to work on his defense, and that is something box score scouting is not going to be able to suss out.

A lot of well hit balls right at guys. I'm not panicking.

He's given up on the spray paint hair, I see.

I believe Myers just got off the COVID-IL, and having gone through that last summer, I can confirm the brain fog is real.

Had to take an airport shuttle to my car yesterday (on-site parking wasn't available when I flew out). My car is in the very back of the lot, 13th stop. The first stop once we get into the lot, these two sketchy looking guys bring on this 10 foot long padlocked case that says it has a gun in it. Call it following the news too much or what, but I got the hell off on the second stop and walked the half mile to the back of the lot rather than ride the shuttle because I really felt like a sitting duck if they wanted to unlock that thing.

Ah, Larry David, thank you for explaining that there were only two ways for Spencer Turnbull to injure his neck.

None of them are worth losing sleep over.

I don't know that there are any minor leaguers in the system that if traded for a 2023 piece would be ill-advised.

There was a 2019 follow up by the same author making some of these points but pointing out the uncertainty. I do stand by the reason I sought it out, though. Gluten free does not help prevent diabetes, but people think it does.

Re: Antivirus software... Since I was already subscribing to NYT and The Athletic, I just bundled it all together and got Wirecutter so was able to see this: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/online-security-built-in-antivirus-software/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/best-antivirus/

I've had multiple people (not credentialed, so I don't listen to them) tell me to eat gluten free when I mention my prediabetes. So.. pet peeve here is bad nutrition advice spreading through society. Also, a good read on how insidious this is: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/risks-of-a-gluten-free-diet/

Carpenter and Kreidler's returns from injury seem like obvious checkpoints here...

Windows' built-in tools cover any and all security needs these days. Anything else is just bloatware.

Gotcha... I figured Mandel was involved since he was a common link between Veep and Curb.