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Their purpose isn’t teaching or expression. It’s just to bully.

Not making a point here. I just like the picture.

The new 10-1 Congressional map in Virginia might be Trump's biggest self own yet. He's had a lot of self owns, but this one is his perhaps his biggest. He brought this on himself when he demanded that Texas and others states prematurely redraw their district maps for Congress to give Republicans more seats. This is a big time win for Democrats ahead of the midterms. For the record, this is bull**** and it shouldn't be this way at all, I'm any state. All states should fair maps, drawn by independent redistricting commissions. But until Republican states agree to do independent redistricting commissions in their states or until national legislation is passed, this needed to be done in Virginia to help balance out Trump's intentional power grab.

Except all the numbers say the opposite. The team is better on offense when he's on the court and has been all season. The reasons are simple: You get more disruption, allowing you to get layups in transition You get more stops, so you don't have to play against the opponents set half-court defense You get more offensive rebounds which usually result in higher percentage shots at the rim Conversely, when's he's off the floor opponents score more, so you're forced to play in the half-court Unless you're suddenly bringing Vinnie Johnson off the bench to jumpstart the offense, there's no one on this team worthy of sitting down a first team All-Defensive player. And even if you did, a scorer only can only match the opponents scoring. A disruptive defender like Ausar gives you more possessions - that means taking away a bucket from the opponent and getting an easy one for yourself. That's been their identity all season. When you do wind up in half-court sets it's simply poor/lazy coaching to leave him in the corner when team's are sagging off of him. He can be the screen setter or getter in the pick and roll, put in the dunker spot, be the DHO hub (Draymond), used in cuts, or simply play him more minutes with Stew at the 5. It's really not that hard. He's literally the best perimeter defender in the league and a freak athlete. He's also a very good passer and an decent enough ball-handler. If JB had any idea how to run an offense or adopt a strategy mid-game, this wouldn't be a problem. But we're seeing what Cleveland saw. He's great at building a regular season identity, but his in-game rotations, strategy, and decision making leave a lot to be desired. I truly believe it cost us the series against NYK last year and it could very well cost us this year if it continues.

Listening to Stuart Stevens talk about the referendum. He says the numbers were: double digits Yes in areas with predominantly African American residents single digits Yes in white predominant areas double digits Yes in Hispanic areas bare majority no vote in Virginia Beach Doors blown off for Yes in NOVA and Richmond So the devious attempts to use Obama images to juice No vote failed because African Americans are not "low IQ" like Trump says they are. The stars and bars crowd out in the Shenandoah and other places where they worship Robert E. Lee are still out there Hispanics probably turned off by all of the past year...how is that possible? You set forth a gestapo against everyone who is brown...why don't they like outright racism by the federal authorities? VA Beach is a GOP stronghold. They barely kept that maybe because some of those military retirees were sick of the current drunken asshat running the organization formerly known as the DoD. Nova - DOGE

yup. What i find so funny is that as a society, the Christian Right is so selectively oblivious. Do they think that OT god of plague and genocide, who strikes down anyone who puts a fire pot in the wrong place is just going to give them a pass on 3, 4, 7, and 10? It reminds me of what Paul said about “with the law comes sin”. They condemn themselves by their own stds. Go figure. Which is because, as you note, it’s not really about religion per se at all, it’s about anti-democracy. it’s about establishing that “my rules transcend your vote”

It was originally reported by a guy named Larry Johnson. Ex-CIA. Nobody believes CIA people.

Gerrymandering is a lot more complex than people make it.

The best part about this is, the Texas gerrymander relies on Hispanics staying red but all elections since Trump have shown Hispanics have gone back to Democrats. Republicans not only may not gain seats in the Texas gerrymander but could lose them.

Just another Taco Tuesday

I felt bad taking the under on Duren’s points, but it was such easy money.

Carter is winning the battle of the Eskimo brothers.

When you take Cade out, Ausar should be coming back in. All bench guys in the playoffs is terrible.

A second baseball on the grassy knoll

Orlando keeps sending a second guy to poke the ball away. Just need more communication to call that out and more movement in cuts. They’re ripe for backdoor passes.

Defense scoring points the last two possessions

I see that Hinch has the best hitter hitting 3rd tonight.

Exactly. And I'm willing to bet that is exactly why they posed the way that they did. The regime wants women to be second class citizens, that must sing from the balcony and always walk a few paces behind.

I don't think Sasser is a very good basketball player. Doesn't create for himself or others, doesn't score well, doesn't defend well. He does seem to shoot the 3 well, but that isn't good when its all you can do. An even bigger reason not to play him is the Magic lineup. Game #1 saw 9 Magic players get on the floor. One was 6'5" one was 6'6" and the rest were 6'7" or above. We're already at a disadvantage running 6'1" Jenkins out there. You can't really afford to add a second 6'1" player in Sasser as well. If the Pistons wanted more shooting then Green was the answer. He played 4m46s and in that time had 3 points and went to the line 4 times. He plays solid defense and shoots 38% from three. He played 0 minutes in the 2nd half.

I was just struck that the team was basically stonewalled by a bunch of men. Basically erasing whatever achievements the women had obtained.

I like to watch the Ken Burns PBS Country Music documentary. In the section on Kris Kristofferson and Sunday Morning Coming Down and the lyrics: And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing And it echoed through the canyons Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday Larry Gatlin said: "All those words are in the dictionary but until Kris no one knew what damn order to put them in "

This is a big reason for all the stupid distractions—it is so the abject destruction of government as a tool of the people can be replaced by government as a tool of the Trumpian oligarchy.

A better player for his career than Tork.

Or, “Tommy Boy”

That photo, though. Always a new way to demonstrate what complete and utter glops of pig**** they are.

Exactly this. Christianity was never a live-and-let-live religion—most religions aren't—but the evangelical flavor is double that. Their idea is to control your life and, by extension, control your body in terms of labor, reproduction, and just plain fun.

she's lost weight or invested in photoshop.

I glanced over at the Washington Post earlier this morning and yep, its a house organ for a guy trying to sweet talk Trump for his business interests.

Detroit, New York and Boston all lose home games. A Trifeca. I never would have guessed that. Even though Atlanta scares me. But Philly?

Dumars has either fired or not renewed contracts for 25 front office people. No, him and Troy are not on that list.

I loved Leyland. He was a character and also knew what he was doing. Plus, the players loved him. The Tigers were behind the curve in analytics during that era, but Leyland was a good manager.

I love a speedy center fielder who can steal a bunch of bases as much as the next guy. I like one who can get on base a lot and win you a few games with his glove even better.

So as it turns out, Dingler lost the game for us because he made the last out. I remember that from Mad Magazine when I was a kid in the early 60s.

On the plus side, there are free, curly fries…

Just wanted to throw this in here for anyone who considers what's happening in Virginia "Foul Play" The Democrats are using the GOP playbook. All old rules are out, for now

I learned how to play hotbox when I was ten.... Hinch better give all his pitchers some extra fielding practice.

Well, it’s disappointing to get only one run with the bases loaded and no outs. If the tigers hadn’t already given up three runs, it wouldn’t be quite as disappointing, but in that context it is.

Jon Stewart finally understands the 3d, 4d, and even 5d chess Trump plays while everyone else is playing checkers. He apologizes to Trump as well.

Brad's antenna just went up.

at least he's worried. Insert meme of Doogie Houser mind melding with the brain bug in Starship Troopers and declaring "its afraid!" and everyone cheering.

Rob Deer was better than conventional wisdom portrays him.