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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.

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 national leader in wind power generation is dead red Texas. Let that sink in if you think Trumps speaks for conservatives about windmills.

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.

If we want to be totally honest, Los Angeles finds itself in the predicament that it's in because (in large part) it's really not an area where a major metropolis should have been built. But that's the fault of the likes of Fred Eaton and Wililam Mulholland, not contemporary politicians. My guess is that Donald Trump probably has no idea who William Mulholland was nor understands anything about hydrology, and views this more using the tragedy of others for his own gain.

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.

*crickets*

It should definitely be in the mix. Germany for one would be happier if they had kept their plants going. But those politicians that Putin bribed stayed bribed.

I'm so glad that we have somebody to tell us what we like and don't like... I actually thought I liked those things!

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

I think Evans is comparable to Whitaker. They both belong. Whitaker will have some stiff competition just making the final 8. Whitaker, to me, is clearly a Hall of Famer but he is going to need someone to push him through and I don't know if that's ever going to happen. Maybe Trammell will have some influence some day, but he doesn't sem like a pushy guy himself.

It bears repeating yet again, but people who live and reside in the Midwest are in-line to be acutely impacted by Canadian tariffs should they happen. Plan accordingly.

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.

Ironically—or perhaps not—the higher egg prices go and the more it gets reported on, the higher retailers and distributors can continue to raise egg prices, since news about it psychologically prepares us for that very thing. I hypothesized the same thing years ago when I would see this happening with gasoline. I would bet there even a name in Psychology for this phenomenon, and that someone here knows what it is.

That is what I assumed for a long time, but career path studies have shown that the average pitcher declines faster than the average hitter. This might be explained by your second point that pitchers are more likely to get injured. At any rate, I would bet that the confidence interval around career paths for pitchers is a lot wider. Pitchers may decline faster, but it is possible for them to avoid decline by getting wiser with age. There is not much a hitter can do once they lose their ability to react.

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.

He can mow the grass on the Allen Park hill.

raymond is turning into quite the playmaker. he's keeping the puck more, working the boards, and making some pretty slick passes. his pass to debrincat for the second goal was a thing of beauty.

Love when the Wings score in dying seconds of period. DeBrincat makes it 2-0 over red hot Habs. I will be in Montreal and expect to see Wild @ Habs on Thursday.

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

I agree, for what it's worth I'm curious is Holic's liking of your post constitutes agreement with the characterization that they are both narcissistic ***holes and total control freaks

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

Just in time for our march tomorrow!

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

Oh, I’ve got stories alright. 😂

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)