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A Yankee jersey? Really?

Immigrants are fucking awesome

He’s an honest to God danger to every last one of us. When will there be definitive push back ? There seems to be absolutely no limit to the hate and violence he spews every day. And now, we have an ever-growing number of sycophants who have taken up the mantle and will follow his mentorship in how to be a ruthless leader. This self-serving psychopath needs to be held to account.

The media and FG chatter notwithstanding, JV was surging when he was traded, and if the proposed returns didn't represent his potential return to greatness, that's on AA for settling for whatever he could get at that time.

I follow a guy who's been on that tirade for a long time. It's almost all he tweets about. One of those "Why isn't this illegal already" kind of things.

tim biakabatuka's nephew!!!!

Stole this from Facebook

And Niederbach, think this is comprehensive of our guys in Sweden: Rogle BK, William Wallinder, LD Rogle BK, Theodor Niederbach, C/RW Rogle BK, Marco Kasper, C Frolunda HC, Liam Dower-Nilsson - C/LW Leksands IF J20, Anton Johansson, RD Orebro HK J20, Maximilian Kilpinen, C/LW Mora IK (Allsvenskan), Albin Grewe, W

they were traded for quintana in the same off season. white sox struck early while the tigers were still dithering about whether to deal him, iirc. look, part of it was theo mishandling the cubs' prospects. lets remember, theo traded candy and paredes for justin wilson. he's the only gm who al could beat in a trade (although castellanos worked out well for 1/2 season with chicago). when they dealt for quintana, verlander was just starting to round into form. but i know there were discussions about him going to the cubs at the time, and it would have been for eloy at a minimum.

lions would blow their cap up to sign lamar jackson. the plan - i thought - was to get a young qb to take over after goff leaves after next season. by then they will have built up the talent on the rest of the team in order to be successful. but lamar is a good qb and would likely make them nfc north contenders if they continue to use their draft picks wisely.

I appreciate the apology, thanks for that. I think the debate continues to be valid as long as people have opinions about each side and has something to say about the topic itself. I don't know about the concession on the point itself, exactly, but then, I wasn't looking for one either, so I don't care so much about that ... 😁 This debate is meant to be all in good fun, anyway. Have a great weekend! Go [local_sports_team]!

who said I was blaming anyone, only that we get do get affected by what happens in other places and that the predictions about those things end up in the policy decisions that get made in DC. If they guess wrong about those, that is just one more route to get US policy wrong. WRT 2016, the Fed has been up the creek since the crash in 2009. The experience of the post crash years is a reason I doubt the Fed's first couple of interest rate moves off low levels - 1-2-3% etc made much difference. It took until they hit the level that moved mortgage rates. On the way down the cuts at those levels really didn't move anything in terms of prices, so I don't see why they were going to on the way back up. I would have made the first increase something like 2.5% instead of dinking around with 50 and 75 BP initially. We'd be 6 months further ahead.

Today is POW/MIA Day. Just a reminder of what some people think of prisoners of war who were captured in battle . . .

What I find amusing is that James base in this district is Shelby Township and yet they would not want someone like him living there.

This 9 times out of 10

maybe he's got a sick kid in the car, maybe he's going to be late for a flight, maybe he's a jerk. You might have willingly given him your spot if you knew the story - or maybe not. The point is you have no idea one way or the other before you drop the hammer of judgment from the lofty vantage point of the next lane.

They do merge into the ticket agents. Often there's more security stations than ticket scanners. It's not 1:1. At least at comerica park's entrances that I use. One stop is security then you walk up to the ticket person with the device.

My work commute is primarily one lane (each direction) county roads at off peak hours. This discussion reminds me that that ain't necessarily a bad thing.

Of course the Stalin quote about the Pope comes to mind.

Here are the liberals freaking out over the migrants.

Yes, I like this. I also think what could help is if they have a sign that says, "Stay in your lane until lane closure" or "closure point", or "merge point", something along those lines. I think that might be a good way to train drivers over time to get comfortable with zipper-merging. Maybe adding a sign near the lane closure that says "Start merging here" would also help.

I think the Wings' prospects first game will be tomorrow, should be streamed on youtube at 3 pm. I'm excited!

This cannot stand He must be punished for this.

It took me far longer than it should have!

I just came back from Ohio last weekend pulling a pop-up trailer. Because of this, when I saw a lane closure coming, I got into the right lane right away. But I watched as more than 1 vehicle tried that whole block both lanes thing. Very close to causing a huge pileup because he would wait until a car was coming behind him to get over. Morons.

Whenever I hear Ernie Harwell I think of 2 things........My red bike with the purple banana seat. And the time that all the family came out to our house to a gathering. My dad had 9 brothers and sisters and 6 of them lived closed by. Dozes of Cousins..............we had a pool. My dad's father was still alive at the time. He was Serbian and he was a very soft spoken and unassuming man (10 kids'll do that to you). We couldn't find Pa. Nobody knew where he was. He wasn't senile or anything like that. Finally, we found him sitting in a car down the street listening to Ernie. It was a hot day too. He didn't want to bother anyone by asking to put it on in the house "the kids want to hear their music". We had a radio and he wound up sitting in the garage listening. He never went to a game and almost never watched them on TV, he just loved listening to Ernie.

And here, I was going to just let this go ... Look: I didn't call you this, or "fascist", either directly or indirectly, and you and everyone else here can easily see that. But it doesn't surprise me that you're confused about all this, anyway. But it’s really quite simple to understand. This unseemly nonsense of you outing me by name in your post is all about trying to shame me for my observation. By calling me by my name instead of my handle, you’re making your criticism about me personally, and as a deflection, because you can’t effectively defend against the actual point I am making—which I get, because it’s not easy defending people who put themselves and those around them in danger by purposely getting in the way of other cars in order to regulate their driving behavior. So you've tried to change the conversation from the nature of people taking enforcement of a driving preference into the own hands to being about me so that, I guess, other posters can join you in piling on me? Is that what you’re trying to accomplish here? Because if that’s the case, then your outing post is off to a slow start. It also bears noting that you may or may not be clear about what “partisan politics” actually means. I said nothing here about political parties at all—I just noted how a particular phenomenon leads some people to act in ways that resemble the social control mechanisms of fascism in broad terms. But based on your response, I can reasonably assume you must be awful sore that these days, the political party you identify with is considered by most people to be the party of fascism, and since you went right there with you're criticism of me, you seem to be sensitive enough about that to be personally embarrassed about it. And really, I don’t blame you. If people on my side of the political spectrum were engaging in fascism—a near impossibility, since fascism by its very definition emanates from the far right—I’d be embarrassed about that, too. OK, that's enough of that. If you don’t mind, I’d like to set all this aside and get back to the pet peeves. Will that work for you?

Leave it to you to make the conversation all about me the person when you can’t refute a good point on its own terms.