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It’s futile to discuss medicine and science with people who think women are second class citizens which is what “pro life” is all about. Pro life men only love women when they can control them. It’s all patriarchal bull**** based on religion and religion has no place in public policy.

There is a fake Lynn Henning on Bluesky that is trying a bit too hard to mimic Lynn’s style and pass himself off as the real thing. Only true Henning scholars (like myself) may be able to notice.

My somewhat selfish view is I'm in my late 30s and realize if I'm going to start a family with somebody my own age or close to it, she is going to be at high risk. I would rather the full array of medical options be available than some arbitrarily taken away by politicians.

The girl just informed her company she would be sticking with her December 13th retirement date. She originally planned to go last June. But they talked (guilted?) her into staying until the end of the year. They approached her again about staying into the new year and she said no. Happy for her.

Here is an amazing 30-minute film from 1934 called, “Play Ball“, which features some of the greatest players in of the time, including Mel Harder, Tommy Bridges, Schoolboy Rowe, Ted Lyons, Lefty Grove, the Ferrell brothers, Charlie Gehringer, Al Simmons, Jimmy Dykes, Rogers Hornsby, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, Babe Ruth, Joe Sewell, Sam Rice, Earl Averill, Connie Mack, Mickey Cochrane, Frankie Frisch, and Dizzy Dean: The last three minutes includes footage from Games 2 and 6 of the 1934 Series being played in Detroit. Some of the more amazing things you will see are the various pitching and batting motions the players exhibited 90 years ago. With only a few exceptions, none of them like anything like the players of today. Another notable thing that the film is underwritten by Fisher Body.

Supporting your state laws means you do support allowing abortion in cases of rape or incest. Since you support abortion for women and girls in cases of rape or incest, that means your concern really isn’t about the life of the child, is it? Because if it were, you would recognize that a perfectly healthy life conceived by rape or incest is just as much a life made by God as a life conceived by a man and his wife in their marriage bed. If you have different standards for when a woman should be allowed to obtain an abortion—no way if she consented to sex, yes it’s fine if she did not consent—that would explicitly mean your concern is primarily about how the woman engaged in sex and conceived the baby in the first place, and not as much about whether the fetus is a life worthy of protecting, even if perfectly healthy. Is this truly your position?

I loved Dan Campbell from the very beginning. I wasn't positive it would work. It's one thing to be a leader of men, it's another to get the right guys around you that will listen, heed, and walk the walk. That introductory press conference, I remember watching and thinking "this dude is awesome!!" He spoke directly to all of us. He knew his audience, and it wasn't the talking heads on ESPN who made fun of it. I thought that if he got the right guys from Holmes, that this could turn into something special. My faith wasn't unwavering though. The closest I came to not believing was when they hit 1-6 in 2022, fresh off five straight losses where they lost 28-24, 48-45, 29-0, 24-6, and 31-27. I thought they needed to change something and that it might need to be Aaron Glenn who went. They canned Aubrey Pleasant instead and the rest is history still in progress. As long as I'm flaunting my own predictive success though.... In August 2022, fresh off the 3-13-1 season, I bought these AirPods, which I still have. Which is impressive in two regards: (1) that I have a working pair of AirPods that I haven't lost or broken after more than two years... And (2) that I believed, dammit!! Well, believed enough to give myself two shots at being right (I would have claimed credit last year and will definitely claim this year if the impossible becomes reality).

Jonathan Swift lives.

I agree with everything you say, and in my view it's even worse than that: I believe it's a basic hypocrisy for someone to say they are pro-life when in fact they will accept the abortion of healthy babies—babies who could be birthed, cared for, raised, and live good full lives just as much as any other healthy baby—based only on their circumstances of conception. A person who is truly, honestly pro-life would advocate for the protection of those babies, too. But so many who say they are pro-life do not advocate for them. Why not?

I need you to go with me on this if you want to get Christians to back abortion (of non-innocent babies at least)!

I don’t know what the confusion is here. If you find a rape-incest exception to allow the abortion of healthy babies to be acceptable, you’re not pro-life. Simple as that.

Great video Chas! Kinda OT but Babe Ruth's swing is so sweet, you can argue whether or not it would work in today's game but in general how he transfers is weight, the lag he creates with his wrists/hands and how long he keeps the barrel in the zone is so amazing. For how heavy of bat he swung he probably still had insane bat speed.

I have never viewed the United States as a Christian nation. In fact, thinking of it as a Christian nation goes against everything I think the United States is histotically. The majority of Americans have always been Christian, but I see it as a nation where people can be free to be what they want to be. I think the notion that out laws should be based (directly) on Christianity is dangerous and un-American.

Get Up stole my clip art!! (that I found on Google like three years ago and have put into the Thanksgiving GDT ever since)

Don't look now but there may be a new member of that club come 1/21.

One of the things I like most about visiting family in TN are the loose dogs. I have cousins who between them and their folks had about 50 acres, with 4 houses spread out on the land they owned. There was always a few dogs running around. It was a rural-ish area. When my dog is outside I can't relax. I leave one of the entry doors, out to the enclosed patio area with another door, open so I won't forget he's out there. But in TN... the dogs are just around. You leave some food out for them, they'll eat it when ready.

The think the explanation for pitchers throwing more breaking balls early in a career is simply that being able to train with instant pitch F/X data has allowed pitchers to optimize how fast they can learn to throw a more effective breaking ball, and for that matter how to optimize their velo as well. A trial and error process that used to take seasons can be done in a couple of weeks now. And drifts in mechanics can be diagnosed just as fast/accurately. On the flip side, I think the K zone has also trended wider - things have sort of standardized that if a mere stitch of the ball is within the zone that's considered a strike, and so when umps miss, they give away even more to the pitcher. I don't think it's an accident that wider breaking sliders (sweepers) are coming back into vogue - that would also argue that the pitchers are getting more effective width to the outside of the zone. For the same reason I also wonder if the numbers show a bigger jump in K's for guys coming to the majors since the minors started using more ASZ. Since hitting in AAA doess appear to be up, that sort of argues the differential for guys getting called up has be going up too since MLB hitting does not seem to be going up like AAA hitting is, but numbers would be more convincing.

All I ever wanted was a Lions team that was not the butt of every joke. Also to play competitive games and be in the mix at the end of the season for a WC spot. Then Shiela showed up....

I saw them on the D.O.G.E. priority list.

I’m like Cardinal, could have written his thoughts myself…no airpods though. 💪🏻

I checked. It is not his kid.

I never lost faith and called every single win in that 8-2 run except Carolina and was literally laughed at.

Mojo he's right. Where are you crossing the border? If it is the Niagara River, the Buffalo/Fort Erie duty free is better than the Niagara Falls one, or Lewiston/Queenston. Grab a case of PBR for yourself, and a gallon of Canadian rye whiskey.

A lot of pro-life is about controlling women and I don't care very much what men think about abortion. However, I do think there are people who are genuinely horrified by abortion. Many women are against it too. It's a complex issue.

Snowflakes. Don’t they know our fanbase will go into any stadium, any city, any subreddit, and start a Jared Goff chant?

Now that we know the date of the Rule 5 Draft, we can schedule the Rule V party.

Sonic and Knuckles are gaining popularity https://x.com/HonoluluBlues_/status/1861461476344504639?t=8oegLZUq0E6THij39EvSLA&s=19

I also think that someone who strikes out as much as Adames will not age well, so that being two years younger may not be an advantage. This is old data, but the charts from Hardball Times below show that K% rates increase rapidly from mid 20s onward and there is already little room for his k% to get any higher. Interestingly, BB% remains stable into a player's mid 30s. . https://tht.fangraphs.com/aging-curves-revisited-damn-strikeouts/

Bregman's approach is what Harris says he wants; so if you are spending big money ($175M+) you should get what you want and not settle for a really good player who Ks too much.

Buch had two assists after this so he's up to 28 points in 29 games, tied for second in the KHL

Finally was able to extract myself from the Musk cesspool. Now if the butterfly app would allow us to embed posts. I don't mind the copy, paste, link mode, but was spoiled by the pre-musk setup over on the old bird

In other words you are fine with a million more abortions, plus an unknown number of mothers who died under the "right to life's" new draconian rulings. Sounds very MAGA to me.

You can hide from the issue all you like, but here’s the bottom line: the only legitimate position with integrity a pro-life person can have is no abortion for rape, no abortion for incest, period, no exceptions. Because if it’s really about protecting the life of babies, as the pro-life position repeatedly claims, there’s no other position you can have and not be hypocritical about it. If you support the killing of a perfectly healthy baby because it was conceived under certain circumstances, but forbid the abortion if it was conceived under other circumstances, then you are not pro-life. You are anti-women having a choice.