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Who takes the time to pull up the calculator app anyway? Stop living in 2019, boomer. "Alexa, what is 137 x 18?"

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These are the types of criminals the GOP just wants to let back out on the street. Soft on crime.

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I post sometimes here about my family because it is something I greatly treasure in my life and I feel that personal stories are often the most relatable. Not only do I reflect fondly on the time we've all spent together, I try as best I can to learn important lessons and take from the wisdom imparted on me from people I am closest with. I also learn valuable lessons of what not to do when I see things in my family that aren't always a positive life lesson. Sometimes, I fail at that endeavor, lose site, and get thrown off course. Each and every month my mom and I would take time out to go and visit the home of my Great Auntie Carmen and my Great uncle Ramon at their home on Rougeway St. in Livonia. When you visited Carmen and Ramon you never just dropped in to say hello and goodbye. Instead, you stayed around. You stayed for dinner and something to eat because they insisted on feeding you something. You also stayed around for the conversations and stories because they insisted on sharing their love with you and imparting their wisdom onto you. Spending time with my Great Uncle Ramon and hearing him tell you about his life stories was an especially valuable experience. Each time you sat around at that brown kitchen table or on their green couch in the living room you got important life lessons that helped you as a human being. Listening to my Uncle Ramon you could gain compassion for your fellow human beings and learn important lessons from history all in one conversation. One story in particular that has always stood out to me and one I heard a hundred times if I heard it once was the story how my Great uncle Ramon fought courageously in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's and stood up against General Francisco Franco and the fascists of Spain. See, even though Franco and his thugs in the Spanish Army drafted my Great Uncle Ramon into fighting on their side, he refused to march the order of fascism, even if it meant his own death in the end. He knew that democracy and freedom were what was right. He refused to shoot his fellow countrymen and himself was almost killed for his refusal to fire his weapon and kill another human being in the defense of tyranny. Never once did my great uncle fire a bullet out of his gun at a human being on the other side to kill in Franco's honor and fascisms defense. He would tell all of us in my family with a sense of sadness about the war, yet with tell us with great pride, that he refused to defend tyranny and kill in the name of fascism for Franco. I'm posting about my great Uncle, Ramon Sieira, on the anniversary of January 6th not simply to share a family story about who he was and what I learned from him. I'm reflecting on his legacy and sharing it here in the hope that everyone can take something out of it. Through his courage, compassion, conviction, and refusal to defend Franco, he knew what was wrong and right. Ramon Sieira defended freedom, liberty, and the right to vote through his support of the Second Spanish Republic of the 1930s. He defended democratic values and norms that proved fragile in Spain in the 1930's and would indeed fall into Franco's hands of tyranny. No, my post about my great uncle is not intended to indict one political party or another. It is not about Democrats or Republicans being worse or better than others. It is about the lessons of democracy and the fragile nature of a free society and peoples. On this January 6th anniversary, I hope we all take valuable lessons from it and don't take democracy and freedom for granted. Republican or Democrat, progressive, moderate or conservative, we should all be able to come together peacefully and support democratic intuitions and accept free and fair election results.

One of my favorite bits of trivia about Fryman is that his slash line was essentially the same in Detroit and Cleveland. .274/.334/.444 for the good guys, .275/.339/.440 for the other team.

my earliest lions memory was billy sims on the cover of sports illustrated when they started 4-0 in 1980 (and missed the playoffs). then going 8-7 in 81 and ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS BEAT THE BUCS IN THE LAST GAME OF THE YEAR AND THEY BLEW IT. then the strike year when they (and everyone else) made the playoffs at 4-5 and got obliterated by the skins. and then. 1983. they had the niners. they had them. despite FIVE gary danielson picks they had a 40 yard field goal to win the game. and little buddha at his grandparents' home in ypsi watching between his fingers cause he couldnt look, monte clark in prayer on the sideline, and reliable eddie murray just needing this one simple kick to send the lions to the nfc championship game and he.... ....pushed it wide. i came in with pain and its been nothing but pain since.

Really, the moment where Cruz showed his true colors in terms of weakness was after he made his statement in Cleveland back in 2016. It was a high stakes moment for his career and he actually took a stand for something for a change. But, like the invertebrate that he is, he reneged the moment there was any adversity to his career. That's the thing about political courage.... you kind of have to make a decision and stick with it. Reversing on something like that just projects weakness and, to use conservative terminology, makes him look like a cuck. I don't agree with Liz Cheney on much, but she gets credit for taking a stand and not reversing out of convenience.

She's not running. They'll have to find one from the pool of people who would actually want the job....

I don’t think Trump really wants to be President again as much as he wants to see how much in campaign money he can siphon into his and his friends pockets from the red hat morons . He made billions the first time through and they were all figuring it out as they went. This time they have experience and he can really get his grift on. I don't think 11 figures is out of the realm for what they can make off the 2024 election.

Best buddy in the Army was from Boston... Couldn't tell... he neutralized his accent. Unless the Celtics were on... then it came out thick and furious... "Bawston Celtics ah on" Larry Bird and Robert Parish and... all of a sudden I couldn't understand half of what he was saying...

Oprah spawned two of the biggest antivax nutjobs out there right now. She sucks.

2024 is a really long way away. Not even saying that things will be better in 2024 or that there aren't scenarios where the climate in 2024 wouldn't redound to Trump or DeSantis' benefit, but rather it's unlikely that we're dealing with the exact same issues then as we are dealing with in Jan 2022.

if inflation is high or the economy slows down or another covid variant is causing shut downs up north, desantis or trump could easily win. hell, we dont even know who the democrats will nominate yet.

I wonder if he has to pay Heidi $10,000 every time he gets to use her name like that. Nobody likes Ted. Not his family. I don't know if he they have a dog but if they do I bet the dog hates him too. Trump doesn't like him. He doesn't respect him. Never let it be said I don't think Trump was right about something because he was spot on about Marco and Ted in 2016.

Same as it ever was. In Rome it was "Panem et circenses" - "Bread and Circuses"

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2019cv11161/527808/39/ Never forget what Fox News' own fucking lawyers argued in support of Tucker Carlson in federal court. "Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statement he makes." and also . . . "The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "

yes, it's amazing that I became a Tigah fan. Most educated people learn how to speak with a more neutral accent, but I kept my Massachusetts accent.

Randy Smith tucks his shirt into his underpants.

if they dont pick up the NIL game theyre going to fall further behind.

"OK Google"

lol or you could just admit what your side did and not chose to come here and defend it.

Gabe Alvarez was a part of one of Randy Smith's enigmas.... "We can't really afford Travis Fryman anymore, we gotta get younger.... let's trade him for some younger guys" They trade him to get Joe Randa and Gabe Alvarez ( and Matt Drews because they lost him in the expansion draft after trading Cecil Fielder for him so they gotta recoup that loss). Then after a year of nothing at 3B they sign... Dean Palmer for more money than they would have had to pay Fryman.

I suppose its on how a "terrorist attack" is defined. If a riot is a terrorist attack then it was one. If the riots in Oshawa, St. Louis, Minneapolis, the western states, etc, etc, etc, are considered terrorist attacks then riots at the Capitol then would be considered the same. There was as much organization or more in those riots than there was in DC. Now if all those other riots are considered peaceful protests like some democrats like to think, then DC was also a peaceful protest. Point is that no matter which way its defined they are all the same and should be described alike.

yeah - the more I think about it the more I believe we need a shift in the way we think about speech. For most of recorded history, the resources to spread information were limited and suppression of ideas was fairly easy. That lead to legal theories biased strongly to speech protection as a fundamental guarantor of liberty. But there really has been a fundamental shift with the IT age. Today virtually nothing can be truly suppressed. Get it on the internet once and it lives forever and can go anywhere. The real problem today is the just like the industrial age polluted the physical environment in ways unthinkable in the pre-industrial era, the internet pollutes is capable of polluting the intellectual environment in ways unimagined a generation ago. And it's even reached the point where media misinformation has become a form of international warfare. It seems to me the eventual result has to be that just as pollution forced a reconsideration of and limitation of the primacy of private property rights (which used to be considered inviolate) to protect the physical earth we must share, we are going to reach a point where we will need a reasonable legal regime that recognizes the media environment we have to share is also reaching a point of pollution that demands some reasonable ways to push back against. It's going to be a hard line to find, but I think we need to stop whistling past the graveyard clinging to 18th century speech theory and start looking to find a different way forward before misinformation destroys the national polity completely.

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i remember being the only white kid in my grade school classes and having to be lincoln at every. school. play. so yes, i still recall four score and seven years ago our fathers set forth on this continent a new nation....

Do any of the cards have pine tar on them? Asking for my friend, Billy.

I have two George Brett rookie cards....mini and full size. The mini one was generously gifted to me by a person on this site 20 years ago who went by the name "Buck". I have hundreds of GB cards but those two are my favorite along with the Bird rookie card.

I collect autograph cards, much to my wife’s chagrin. Here are a few:

And he makes it so obvious. Other commissioners showed some appreciation for the game and its history (or at least pretended to). Manfred seems to not even like the game or know anything about it.