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While you're marching, carry a sign to remember Naveah Crain, Amber Thurman, Porsha Ngumezi and all the other women who died or were traumatized because they were forced to keep dead fetuses in their bodies by the government.

And if I hear the ridiculously insulting “well, he’s on the autism spectrum”, I will fight you. I’ve taught children to young adults with this disorder and to clamp on the attribute of “lacking empathy” is absolutely infuriating to me.

Trump being a real president in NC today.

The second paragraph is a good breakdown of one of the unintended consequences of prioritizing immigration enforcement over everything else.

Noting the above. I never claimed anything about a secret service agent from New Jersey. This reference is to an informal discussion with a person i know who had heard scuttlebutt from Secret Service people. I also know USSS people from previous jobs. I usually ignore this poster but having seen my name in the mud i choose to at least spray a little water on the mess.

I've never been to a game at the Bell Centre, just in their lobby and merch store in the summer. Have been to a few games at the old Forum and it was always electric. Late January game in cold, snowy Montreal when the Habs have surged into playoff position? Should be a great atmosphere. My daughter goes to school there, McGill, and went to a game with her boyfriend before Christmas when he visited from Vancouver, so she can show me the ropes at the "new" place (opened 1996 I believe).

Hasn't Trump had a major forking hard-on for windmills ever since the Scottish golf club incident?

A point that bears repeating. There is no connection.

Trump is a lot like the callers on 97.1 who haven't the faintest clue what they are talking about but are so certain in their opinions. The callers that will ignore all stats and analytics in favor of the some opinion that they didn't put two seconds into actually researching. They will regale you with stories from the 68 or 84 Tigers and how great it all was back then and how much the game has changed for the worse.

Seriously though, Nuclear power, it's time. Let's do it.

He's also wrong in that Cubans have pretty much always been a GOP constituency going all the way back to the fall of Batista / rise of Castro

Pro life marchers are only interested in shaming women for what they think is an immoral lifestyle. It’s about control.

Lysenkoism come to America. What a country!

Trump and his voters are what I call barber shop people. If you’ve been in an old school barber shop you kkow what I mean.

Way back in the mid 90s we moved into a new subdivision on the Aurora/Naperville boarder. Once the sub was built out, the builder handed over the HOA to the home owners, one of the discussions turned to the issue of the retaining ponds on the property. A number of home owners asked why we needed them anyway. We found out about a year or so later when a series of thunderstorms came down I-88 dumping about 18-25 inches of rain in about 10 hours causing some flooding. The golf course community across the street received major damage, our sub not much.

Exactly. This is one reason why noted right winger Ted Kennedy opposed windmills that were going to be too close to the Kennedy Compound in Cape Cod.....

The precursor to encouraging neighbors to turn in neighbors for words and acts of disloyalty.

There is a lot of basic business blindness going on here because of the bright light reflecting off the shiny new toy. Energy has never been free, will never be free. Even if the marginal kiloWatt can be genated for next to nothing (as per solar or even fusion) the capital input, transmission cost, and maintenance of power systems are and will remain substantial. If AI answers continue to cost a lot of energy, then they will have cost associated with them and people will use other ways to get the same information. Right now the IA you are getting is coming to you subsidized by the suppliers as market investment, but if the cost doesn't come down, they eventually have to make money and the cost will go up and the free stuff will go away and the market will narrow. The energy consumption will have to fall to get the kind of application rates they are dreaming about.

Please take a moment to read this… and btw, I believe HER.

If I was a voter, Jeter and Ichiro are both no brainer first ballot HOFers. In my opinion, Ichiro (among several others) was a more complete high level player among all facets of the game—and reached significant milestones despite not coming to MLB until he was 27. If Ichiro starts in the MLB at 21, he’s the hit king. Jeter was a superior power hitter, but he benefitted heavily from many years of all-star hitters behind him and his defense was actually quite a negative.

Honestly this should have been a no brainer. He should get the nod for how he acquired all the defensive bodies to fill all the hole and not have an absolute turd defense.

Offseason picking up where the regular season and playoffs left off for the Lions' cornerbacks. Hope this isn't the beginning of a bumpy offseason.

Windmills and solar are woke. Real men heat their homes with coal.

as LOLic once famously said its 2024 bub

Maybe we can keep this thread going Kyle Cheney ‪@kyledcheney.bsky.social‬ Follow JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

I think Jamie Moyer may have single-handedly skewed that data.

Well part of it is that it seems like all of them end up having to get TJ surgery at some point. Doesn't it feel like that? It's just some kind of rite of passage now? Man, if Casey Mize can be anything close to his draft position. I haven't given up on him. He was okay last year, but okay is better than a lot of other guys in their firs post TJ year. Maybe he can find that other gear. Right now the rotation feels like it's Skubal-Cobb-Olson and then question marks. And I'm not convinced that Olson isn't another Jeff Robinson/Willie Blair one year wonder. What else do we have. Casey Mize - But what is he? This is the year we finally figure it out Keider Montero. Showed flashes, feels like 4th/5th starter is his ceiling Jackson Jobe - #5 prospect. I think they probably want to start him in Toledo unless he blows everyone away in ST Matt Manning - "The Forgotten Arm" We've seen some very very good starts from him, including a shared no-hitter. I think he could be good enough to be in a MLB rotation, but they haven't found the consistency. Kenta Maeda - Total wildcard. Was okay in the bullpen, but I don't know if he can find whatever he had a few years ago. Horrible signing. $14 million a year for a mop-up guy. The other side of the Flaherty coin. What's the most you've ever lost in a coin toss? Ty Madden - Looks like a reliever to me Alex Faedo/Beau Brieske - They COULD be starters, I guess, but they were very effective in their roles last year Tyler Holton - As much as they need another lefty starter, they used him nearly perfectly last year Sawyer Gipson-Long - Return from TJ surgery year. I wouldn't expect much as a MLB starter Jaden Hamm/Troy Melton - Sleeper picks. Only if they blow everyone away in the minors or the Tigers have another boatload of injuries. I remember a lot of us thinking about the Big 3 of Mize, Manning and Skubal and how in reality we'd be fortunate if one of them turned out. That looks like it's right on the nose right now. If they enter the season with the roster they have now, it feels like they'd be using an Opener in one of the spots BRING BACK JACK ! I don't know, you guys, I feel like an offseason of Alex Cobb and Gleyber Torres is as disappointing as it gets. Especially coming off of last year. I don't feel like those guys will make much of an impact at all.

The playoff format definitely needs a little tweaking. Even if you wanted to continue giving conference champs a bye, you could re-seed after the first round games, so you don't have a Boise or ASU as 3/4. Also, it seemed very odd to me that the teams that earned byes then missed out on having a home playoff game. Not exactly sure how you fix that part, but an oddity nonetheless. I attended the championship game with my son (who is an OSU student). The crowd, the venue, the game, it was all great. Besides being really cold (in the low 20s and windy), my only complaint is that a lot of the area bars/restaurants were closed for private events. I can't imagine how much it had to cost for places like that to close and miss out on all those customers. It made the places that were open really crowded, especially since no one was tailgating outside due to the weather. The game was so great though. We definitely got a bit nervous when it was just a one score game and it looked like we would have to punt it back to ND with ample time on the clock. Then this happens!

I've started following the Canadian Public Health Agencies. If it applies to Windsor, it should apply to Detroit no?

This rando is free to make the decision that some of us made with Twitter - leave.

Its not like anyone was warned what would happen if we removed the doddering but still moderate and certainly better than replacement level Dem president with a random noise generating corruption factory that enabled the worst, most antiscientific impulses of the ignorami of the fringe of the Right Wing, fueled by the unassailable media positioning of the kleptocrats. Ya gonna get ignorance and theocracy trying to slip stream behind the kleptocrats and vice versa.

I’m glad the Tigers aren’t bidding against themselves.

Hi, just opening this thread and going straight to the bottom to post. Accuse me of having my head in the sand all you want, but completely tuning this **** show out the last few days instead of constantly refreshing and doom scrolling has been pretty great for my psyche. 10/10 recommend.

I recently came across a 10 year old or so article from Musk's wife #1. She basically described him in just that way. Constantly reminding her he was the Alfa in the relationship. That along with his constant work focus and desire to become one of the major power brokers. Watching Trump since the 80s puts him pretty much the same way, along with his ruthlessness. Musk's South Africa background probably contributes to his traits. With Trump I think he's still trying to prove something to his late daddy (who seemed to be constantly bailing his businesses out of trouble) They are both Alfa males with inferiority complexes and many deep seated prejudices, especially against women and minorities. I've said this before, look up photos of Trump with Putin at Helsinki. He's one cowed little boy

So we'll get 60 year old information about JFK and MLK but not a word on the real cause of death for Trump's buddy Epstein. Come on Donnie Baby make it a trifecta

Practically the only players who start significant decline in the early to mid 30s are All-Stars and hall of Famers. Most players' declines start in their late 20s. An even better reason to not trust anyone over 30.

The House Speaker's Christian ethics strikes again.

Why negotiate against yourself?

State's rights already exist in emergency response support from FEMA. The entire system is designed to be handled at the lowest level possible. If the local municipality or county is overwhelmed, they engage the State for support. If the State becomes overwhelmed by the response (or it exceeds their capability/capacity) they can either appeal to EMAC (basically asking other states for help) or seeking a Federal disaster declaration that allows FEMA to come to the table with additional resources, or both simultaneously. Even once FEMA is engaged because a declaration has occurred, they still cannot act unilaterally and must receive a request from the State to provide support for each requirement. Now, if we want to have a conversation about a lowering of the bar or an increased willingness to issue Federal disaster declarations, that would be a interesting discussion. I've been doing this long enough to remember some requests for declaration being denied because they didn't meet the threshold....I haven't seen one denied in about ten years, though; basically since Sandy. If the goal is to actually push the States to be more self-sufficient in the wake of an event, then let's talk about the threshold for declaration....but we all know it's not actually about creating increased self-suffieciency, but rather being punitive.

A 4 year old Japanese boy who can throw a baseball 83 mph has already signed with the Dodgers.

I have a feeliung that the Tigers are actually the only team that's even close on Bregman and they know it and they are refusing to budge. I am not sure Alex Bregman is on anyone's roster on Opening Day

They can't get out of their own way. I really hope Bobby Saleh doesn't take this job. It would be better to be a DC (with the Lions hopefully) and wait it out until a halfway decent opportunity comes along. I just feel like if Saleh goes to another dysfunctional situation that he will fail and if you fail twice as a Head Coach, you'll never get another shot. I like Saleh.

Only the coaching staff knows because we never actually see him. I don’t expect him to be traded though. His value is about as low as it could be. It doesn’t inspire confidence that in the end of his second season in the league, shortly after his 27th birthday, the team thought a guy who was coaching high school ball a month ago gave them a better chance to win. I’m sure Teddy being a veteran played into that, but the point remains.

I read 44 books in 2024. Of these, 30 were non-fiction, 14 were fiction. Also of the 44, men wrote 30 of them, women wrote 14 of them. I read almost exclusively on Kindle these days and did a purge/donation of most of my print books a few years ago. So while I don't really have a physical library, I do keep track on a spreadsheet the title and author of each book I read and have done so since 2009. Some of my favorites from 2024, in no particular order: Non-Fiction Endurance - Alfred Lansing (classic about doomed Antarctic expedition a century ago; one of the few books I've ever re-read, which I do every decade or so) A Walk in the Park - Kevin Fedarko (Grand Canyon adventure) Destiny Disrupted - Tamin Ansary (history from an Islamic perspective) How The Word Is Passed - Clint Smith (essays on race/slavery by visiting various sites with historical or modern significance) To The Field Of Stars - Kevin Codd (on walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, which I did this September) Why We Love Baseball - Joe Posnanski (considers dozens of moments and personalities over time, some familiar, some not so familiar) The Teachers - Alexandra Robbins (an educator's perspective on the challenges and rewards of the profession) Revelation For Normal People - Robyn Whitaker (making sense of the final book of the New Testament) Fiction Normal People - Sally Rooney (about two Irish teens growing into adulthood together and apart, made into a BBC TV series available on Hulu) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (English aristocracy a century ago, made into a TV series in the '80s) Kindred - Octavia Butler (late 20th century black woman who time travels back and forth between the South of the early 1800s and today) A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles (Count returns to Russia around 1918, lives under house arrest in a hotel for the next quarter-century or so) Margo's Got Money Troubles - Rufi Thorpe (fun; a single mom who was the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler; turns to OnlyFans to make a living)