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Let me EDIT this: Larkin line on fire again with 4 goals, 3 by Larkin...

FTFY. That's what the Republican Party has been bleating about the past two years, and will be doing so again for the next umpteen years...

This.

They will when the fascists take over the country.

I've long thought... but specifically after Putin invaded and took Crimea... That the solution to Ukraine's/ Russia's/ and NATO's "Ukraine Problem" is for Ukraine to declare Permanent Neutrality. Putin would immediately (or close to it): celebrate, offer to double the transit-gas through Ukraine, back out of the Donbass, would never give up Crimea however would offer free port visitation/ usage to Ukraine's Navy or Coast Guard in exchange for energy & other supplies to Crimea... Russia would gain: their desire for a "buffer zone" between NATO and Russia, or, from their perspective, a non-threatening neighbor. Ukraine would gain: An immediate back off from Putin, a permanent (or as close to it as one can get) reduction in Russian hostilities against Ukraine, their manufacturing region back (intensively located in Lugansk & Donetsk provinces or... the Donbass), other benefits from Russia (as noted above). Ukraine also could still: arm themselves to the teeth (with conventional weapons) with anti-tank and drone weaponry (anti-Russian materials mostly) while still maintaining neutrality, work with NATO forces in joint "project" work that is non-threatening to Russia, work intensively with the European Union economically, etc... NATO promised Ukraine they could "one day" join NATO. They would gain with Ukraine's Permanent Neutrality status... a face-saving way out of that, and a "silent partner" as they would still work with Ukraine, maybe even extensively... just without the Article 5. Ukraine loses the Article 5 commitment. But I think Neutrality gains them far more then joining NATO does... just my 2 cents. Good article on current tensions: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nato-says-yes-ukraine-no-130900960.html

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I think more along the lines of evaluating several 2022 (draftee) QB's as late (borderline) 1st round graded QB's. In other words, don't trade up for a borderline 1st round grade, let them come to us. And I know teams panic at the last moment for QB's... just don't do it Lions. Don't overdraft. If they all get snapped up within the top 15 picks then draft two highly ranked WR's instead this year at late 1st/ and 2nd round picks and wait until next year on a QB... I guess I am saying I don't think Holmes will panic and lose draft capital unnecessarily chasing QB's that all look like they have flaws that will make them mediocre QB's or less.

Our Democracy is on life support.

Expected. We all know Trump attempted to flush our Democracy down the toilet with his Trump Supporters and co-conspirators. And we are not yet out of the woods as he is currently plotting the destruction of our Democracy with the same cast of fascists/ insurrectionists/ capitulators as on January 6th and before. Trump is the poison in the well. And the Republican Party as it stands right now is trying to get everyone to take a drink from that well and to just ignore all the dead bodies laying on the ground nearby.

"Hey, hey, my, my, Rock and Roll will never die" The earth's immune system is not going to stop humans from continuing to crap all over it. Only we can stop that ourselves... Working on it... working on it...

I wish I could give you 5 stars for this...

Sure... But I still don't see a compelling reason to trade up...

Good response.

Yeah... I see no reason to trade up whatsoever. A QB and a WR will fall to us at our second 1st round pick and at our 2nd round pick. I don't see it as any more complicated then letting the draft come to us and if there's a QB the team likes then go ahead and get him (using the Rams pick, not trading up) and there will still be a WR that we like at our 2nd round pick. I believe buddha is categorically not correct that we will be trading up in this draft...

I guess our game plan is to wear out their 16 players with all this scoring...?

3-2 first period... Ugly.

That's crazy. That and we're down 2-1 already.

I wasn't a hard-coded Correa or Bust. I also stated that around here a few times. I wanted Correa because he was the best player. And Baez the least because as a wild swinger I think that will cause serious problems, in the near future. But I also said if we signed him, or anyone "Not-Correa", I'd get on board and get behind that player. Even Baez. It was a soft (not completely serious) Correa or Bust... But now our best outcome is for Hinch to convince Baez to not swing at everything/ anything... For Baez... that means replicating what he did with the Mets, and improving upon that if Hinch etal can get him to do that...

Teach Baez to have a lot more patience and a much better discerning eye and we may have a "Correa Equivalent" anyways. Like he did with the Mets in a SSS.

Who were already barefoot anyways so "Shoeless" caught their attention...

That's why we opted out of a weekend like July 4th as that would indeed be a monstrous mess... we'll see about a later weekend... although July in the cool mountains might be a must see anyways... We'll see about that first part... My stamina at the moment is a little less than zero... We'll see how my older aunts & uncles and Mom and Dad fare... My Mom has had foot, knee, back and hip surgeries so I don't think she'll have an easy time negotiating a lot of hills...

We're going to have a family reunion in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee last week in July. We haven't had a reunion in over 10 years... We're a bit of a Michigander Diaspora. Searching for jobs and we ended up in: Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, England (my sister has lived outside of London for over 25 years...), maybe some other states with the great grandkids but I've lost track. Tennessee is roughly in the middle for everyone. Between Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and kids... I think we have roughly 100 coming in... Grandma & Grandpa had 9 kids which got us off to a nice little start on that...

Oh how I want to see arrests of some of these Congressman while they are IN SESSION: "Jim Jordan, you are under arrest for Sedition against the United States of America". Handcuffed in front of the entire congress, and walked out the door...

Hah!!! Now with Kingpin? Now I gotta remember which Vigilante series he was in, and which season... And I know he made it into more than one series/ season so... Wait... wasn't Vera Farmiga his love interest in his main vigilante series? Funny, at the start of this episode, just as Jack Duquesne was getting arrested I thought "OH, her mom is going to go bad...". I blazed through the different vigilante series and was ok with some of it but... it didn't sink in like the rest of the MCU...