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horrible person, but interesting compromise

Another problem with polling and punditry on abortion is that it tends to get framed as a binary. Pro Chioce vs Pro Life. I suspect many that lean towards the latter side are hugely put off by the lack of exceptions for women’s health, rape, incest, or even by time limits so short as to be virtually absolute bans. So many people, especially women, understand that it’s not so clearcut in the real world and that the hardliners are too zealous and vindictive. Take enough of those folks into account and you get a vote in Ohio (or Kansas or Colorado).

Our local community approved to continue an existing millage on non-homestead properties for our schools and didn't vote the guy that wanted to remove offensive (to him) books from our public library. Nice win/win for our community.

It’s not even Sunday yet!

(This is just a practice post, it's not real) WOW, JUAN SOTO? WE HAVE OUR NEW MIGGY? I mean, good luck in San Diego Kerry, Colt and Casey, but WOW, NOW IT'S REAL !!!!!!!!!

I'm convinced that E-Rod nixed the trade to the Dodgers because he knew he'd get lit up in the playoffs and that it would greatly affect his value on the open market.

this happened on Oct22 last year. Hu was seen at Zemin's funeral afterwards. from WIKIp:

and many many people are nuanced and mature enough to hold a position that is "I think abortion is generally wrong, maybe even immoral, and women generally shouldn't get one but I don't think it should be illegal because a woman ultimately should have full autonomy over their body". I think my wife falls into that camp. The flirting around with banning contraceptives and denying certain cancer/medical treatments because a woman may be pregnant is also at play. Throw in the higher risk women in their 40's face with pregancy issues... it's just too much. It's the ultimate "Dog catching it's tail" analogy.

Worse for Islamic-Americans: They have nowhere else to turn. The White Trash Bigoted party (oops... Republicans) HATE Islamic-Americans. They can abide "top 1%" Jews who may be politically/ fiscally aligned with Republican ideology and that is only one reason (also, biblical theory on the land of Israel/ Jerusalem) that they heavily support Israel and are open to fellow Jewish Republicans even with the stain of antisemitism ingrained in a fairly large percentage of this current version of their party. And Jewish Republicans have at least a few reasons to stick with party even if there are also multiple differences they might have with this version. Lack of support of Israel is not one of them obviously. But Islamic-Americans have nowhere else to turn but the Dems. The Republican Party is STRIDENTLY anti-Muslim, from top to bottom. Their best case scenario is a Dem Party that works hard to try to advance Palestinian statehood measures, supports both sides equally, and protects Islamic-Americans from the virulent hatred/ policies of the hard right. If they get less than that... From Biden or the Party as a whole, they can't just turn to the Republicans for relief. They either have to hold their noses and hope for better from the Dems/Biden (if they are not getting all that they want) and vote for them ANYWAYS. Or just stay home. And they're not going to just stay home. They are motivated voters by all accounts... I don't know how much this war changes that but we'll see next year. It affected nothing in this year's elections... And as for young people? They're not "living or dying" on this issue. They have lots of issues with the older generations. Every issue is life or death for them (I'm being hyperbolic). Not just this one, and this one ONLY. That also came out in yesterday's elections. Abortion appears to have been the #1 issue (IE: PA Supreme Court Justice, Dem, elected after promising to protect abortion and pointing out opponent wants to strip abortion rights...). NOT the Israeli-Gaza war.

Maybe ….. he sneezed on the wrong guy. 😁 Remains to be seen if we see this person in public any time soon, or ever. Like I said before, it’s doubtful we’ll know the actual story behind this. Not officially, anyway.

Seems like it is always a terrible draft this time of year.

I never took the injury thing that seriously. I assumed they were tanking and just holding guys out longer than normal to pile up the L's. Now? Yeah, it might be a problem. Hopefully someone compiles all the missed games and compares it to other teams.

So long, Edweirdo....

Yeah I am not a fan. I don't care what people do. I just don't want to smell it and I don't want to be bombarded with the adverts for it. I drive to Ohio 3 times recently and noticed the plethora of signs in Monroe. A friend came up to visit us and she commented "I have to stop at a place on the way back for my brother" and she laughed, then I understood. It's always very evident when you are passing through a town where it's legally sold.

But I WANT boring. Obama was boring. Do the ****ing job. I think Biden is doing a really good job. Tired of this whole celebrity worship crap.

Reading in the freep this morning that some towns voted against pot dispensaries in Metro Detroit. I can see that. Its like having a strip club next door. Michigan was definitely the wild west when I was last there. The entire town of Monroe as I drove through it because of a detour on I-75 smelled like a skunk tannery because apparently as the first big town as you arrive in the state is just chock full of them. Also, there were ads on my gas pump's intrusive advertising screen telling me how wonderful it was to go to a particular dispensary. Its amusing but also shocking to see how that issue has developed. Its legal. If that's what you are into...knock yourself out. But, i definitely get how a nice neighborhood wouldn't want all that in their midst.

This was a really bad night for the GOP.... really bad. Their one signature win (MS Gov) probably ends up being around 3-4% when it's all said and done as well. Now, here's why that's bad for Joe Biden....

Jerry Rogers was dirty! Back in the '70s. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531122/ Storyline While Marcia is hanging posters advertising Westdale High's upcoming "massacre" of Fairview High at this weekend's league championship football game, she is approached by Jerry Rogers, the quarterback of Fairview's team. To Jerry, asking Marcia out on a date is more important than school loyalty, or so he tells her. What she doesn't know is that Jerry is trying to gain access to any secret that Greg, Westdale's halfback, may have lying around to assist in Fairview beating Westdale, most specifically the Westdale playbook. Bobby does see Jerry trying to steal Greg's playbook, which Marcia does not believe or want to believe. To test what Bobby claimed to have seen, Greg, with Marcia's knowledge, leaves a fake playbook lying around to see what becomes of it. Meanwhile, in the lead up to the big game, Carol is expecting a visit from Tank Gates, her high school sweetheart from her days at Westdale. Tank was the star quarterback who went on to play pro football. As Carol extols the virtue of Tank, Mike begins to feel a little inferior. What Mike eventually learns is that Tank doesn't try to make others feel inferior, but make himself appear superior.

Wings' first real stinker of the year. Four goals in 7 minutes makes it 5-0 for the Ravens, I mean Rangers.

Lay off the drugs, man.

just voted - no line - straight Dem - need to keep just one house to stop sweater-vest wearing fascist Youngkin

The Lions will sound like a Lions home game when it comes to fan support.

A colleague who is a china linguist and who follows all this very closely says that Hu is headed for the glue factory from that Communist Party meeting he got escorted from.

Sort of interesting because Houston has zero bench right now and he still can't get run. Nice to see a team using the G-League.

One of the worst red zone offenses and one of the worst red zone defenses in the league. That’s how you regress to mediocre. That has to change in the second half. They have to stop with the horrible red zone play calling and they need people to step up on D in the same spot. Dont know what to expect. They were outclassed by the ravens and then looked bad against a horrible raiders team. Didn’t look particularly good against the Bucs either. It’s been a solid month since they’ve played a game where they looked like a real contender. Go out and dominate. Now is the time. Vikings are now breathing down our neck and look like they can’t lose, have to continue to win. Chargers don’t have a real home field advantage. If they don’t win this game it’s likely they won’t win the division.