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i’d kind of like to ask the men on this forum to talk to the women in their family right now. Because I have a feeling that not everyone can appreciate what women are feeling at the moment with this latest killing. Men may say, watching that video and hearing the dialogue that ensued, that they are angry. But I believe at least some women may share with you that what they are is afraid. Angry sure, but women are afraid. Why? Because we have seen that look that that ICE agents had in their eyes when they approached her car. They’ve seen that look sometime in their lives. Because men and women have different reactions. Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. But women are afraid that men will kill them.

My problem with this is these voters seem to have short memories. We are 9 years into this and have been thru several dozen moments that should have been turning points for the average “swing” voter. A point I saw made recently; “Our country isn’t like this because we have Donald Trump as our president. We have Donald Trump as our president because our country is like this”. This isn’t directed at you but I am tired of “this is the moment it’s over”. It will never be over until he’s dead. There are no such moments.

And the crew of 60 Minutes

His life wasn’t threatened. His authority was threatened. Do you recognize the difference?

Just a random observation, but while ICE's ostensible charge is centered around enforcing immigration law, it's noticable how little "immigration" factors in to this operation. Or that they aren't even bothering with the pretense that this operation is about "immigration"... It's purely about harassing a large metropolitan area because they can. If they keep this up, they are going to end up turning "abolish ICE" into something the median voter actually agrees with.

Nothing against the people of Iran and their struggle for freedom, but when people can't drive around the suburbs of Minneapolis St Paul without a nonzero chance of being accosted by our own government, it's a little hard to divide one's attention And it's certainly hard for me to take our own government's commitment to "democracy" and "freedom" seriously. Particularly as events in the Cities unfold and as they have endorsed the rump of Nicolas Maduro's government to stay in power after his ouster.

I hate using this term but I’m doing it to speak their language. They’re not alpha males. They arent tough guys. They’re a bunch of pussies.

this was amazing

Jimmy Kimmel says hello.

If we could get back to normal institutional stability I'd be glad to argue with my most liberal friends about a lot of things, but old style liberal/conservative policy detail debates today feel like worrying about the hang nails of a patient with a metastatic carcinoma.

Mario Nawfal. Don’t know who he is, but I’m sure he’s a trustworthy news source.

Is the position here that a platform should be able to create and disseminate AI child porn without any sort of consequences?

quantity is pretty useless in baseball. Until some of them do something to prove quality, you got nothing to plan on.

Agree. I think for a while there we were headed in a direction that would make us better. Unfortunately, judging from comments I've had from people who assumed I felt as they did, I also, deep down, knew that the transformation was far from complete. The only difference now is that people have brought the ugliness to the surface. And just like removing a cyst-we need to make sure to remove the sac or it will keep coming back.

😂

Imagine being a Packers fan in Bears country this weekend.

I don’t know of a better way to share this here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPuTWm7Eomv/?igsh=MXRjb213cXd6dHBlZw==

Remember way back when face coverings were considered weak?

something like that. IIRC Way back, when the state first passed the enabling legislation for city income taxes it did specify the city had to be 1M population because nobody outstate wanted their municipality starting one. Somehow that got changed/waived but I don't remember those details. Obviously Flint is nowhere near 1M and the city itself is now well under 1M and since they keep bringing it up in A^2 that requirement must just be gone.

you cannot time contention....I don't get that.

I’ll throw in Steve Winwood as a comp for that kind of thing. His first #1 hit was 60 years ago. I know you and I have discussed him before. (Came up on a FB memory a few days ago).

Had Maduro bowed down to worship the gold plated idol, would he have been taken away in the middle of the night?

Yeah, Frank was definitely an inward person, if not exactly a loner. Form the time he was rich enough to build his home studio, he would spend every waking hour in it working on composing and arranging music, which was the only entity outside himself he had any passion for, to the detriment of all the other people in his life. He probably had some diagnosable condition leading him to withdraw, but he was also intelligent and insightful enough to seek help for that if it ever bothered him, which to all appearances it didn’t, since it led to his fame and fortune. There was a very good Washington Post article from a couple years ago about how his kids are divided from one another, and Frank does not come off looking good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/interactive/2024/frank-zappa-family-feud-moon-unit-dweezil/

I'm interested in the UK, Canada and Australia talking about banning X in their countries. That's a move in the right direction to restoring democracy.

interesting.

FTP! Not a good day for us Lions fans having to watch Stafford and Ben move on in the playoffs.

What a choke job by the Packers. I’m not sure LaFleur will have a job on Monday.

Thank You Cubs.

Missed the FG! 😂😂😂

Wings finally have a positive goal differential on the season, at +3.

Anyone know if Colston Loveland has a good throwing arm?

Trade Mize? I get the idea but I just don't see it happening. Harris hasn't made many meaningful trades, so I dont see him moving what many consider a major starting Tiger pitcher. Maybe he'll surprise us but I just dont see it.

I am on the Stafford bandwagon this postseason. Would be OK to see the Bills win it too. FTP

And he took 2:01 of that to march down the field for the go ahead TD. A surprisingly entertaining, close game.

This one is tough. RIP Bobby

Mize pitched like an allstar for a couple of months, but I wouldn't call him allstar caliber based on his whole body of work. If he pitches the same next year as last year, I'd say he is an average starter. I do think they could get Max Anderson for him, but that's pretty close to Chas's stated 10-20 range. He's right around 10 depending on the list. I wouldn't be OK with that, but they might get a little more. Still, I'd rather have Mize than anything they could get.

Best comps I could find the last five offseasons of SP with 5-5.171 years of service traded roughly on Mize's value tier were Chris Bassitt and Steven Matz. Both got decent packages of guys who were names at the time, but didn't work out (one of the prospects was the brother of a former swiping app match I never met up with, but every time I see this name it reminds me of that. Can you guess whose sister I matched with? 😄 ). I think it would be foolish to trade Mize right now, given need and upside. Just pointing out he's got a bit more value than one third tier prospect.

Everyone seems fixated on low income people not getting credit cards if rates are capped at 10%. I agree that will happen, but not sure if that is the biggest issue. Google tells me the average CC interest rate is between 21-23%. If you cut a company's revenue stream by over half, they are going to fight like hell to claw that back in other ways. What does that look like? $0 annual fee cards will be gone. Cards already with a fee will see those fees go up. Cash back, points, and rewards will shrink and/or disappear. CC companies will increase fees on businesses that use their cards. You are already starting to see some businesses charge customers a fee for using credit/debit cards. If fees go up, that practice will become ever more widespread. So yeah, dropping interest rates will help some people save money. But the pushback from CC companies will probably end up costing more people money in the long run. I think you could also make an argument that lowering interest rates while raising fees in other areas will make CC companies more money in the long run. According to Google, half of US adults carry credit card debt. Google says only 14% of transactions are now cash. So more people use credit/debit cards for purchases than carry monthly debt. That sounds like a big win for the credit card companies.

That's because they are not actual ministering or religious Christians. They are cultural Christians, which makes them secular Christians. The Christianity they flash as social credentials is all posturing and virtue signaling. So much for Matthew chapter 6.

Flaherty had such a weird season. He'd have games where he'd be dealing, looking great and then one inning would blow it up. He'd stay in the game - and look great again. Just a bizarre season.

That was pretty nice

Skubal having Boras as an agent tells me he means business and understands the Tigers mean business too. Skubal isn’t fragile. He knows what the Tigers are doing. It’s fine. These numbers and this process will have no impact on his future with the team. It relates to 2026 only. Peoole watch too many movies.

Getting minor surgery on the ear Monday morning. They are inserting a tube and injecting steroids directly into the middle ear and then I will have to put steroid drops in my ear for two weeks. I hope tis works. I'm really scared that I'll never hear in that ear again.

Then throw into the mix social media drama this week that management decided to wade into rather than ignore. They'll be fortunate to end this season "middle of the pack". Because so far, they're 8th out of 8 in the Atlantic, 15th out of 16 in the Eastern Conference, and 23rd out of 32 overall.

One of the few things my wife and I bicker about is I do this thing where as soon as you turn a light on inside, I close the curtains/drapes/blinds/etc. I have this hangup about people being able see inside my house, particularly from the front. The back I don't care so much about as we have a lot of coverage/privacy. She thinks I'm weird. Am i? At least in this context? It's especially bad now with the early nights. By 4:30 I'm shutting down. But I'm also the kind of person who doesn't really care if it's dark inside. We still have christmas stuff up and those lights throughout our rooms satisfies me. But if a lamp or overhead light is turned on.... close it up.