romad1

Or Dominos, Toys R Us, etc.

I'm reading about the David Rubinstein plan to purchase the Orioles. So, he's going to pump and dump the franchise?

If we had played Washington in the Rose Bowl I would have felt like we were playing in their home turf as well.

I wasn't tracking this...kinda unjust for Washington to have to go into the belly of the Beast whereas Michigan and Alabama are basically going to a neutral site.

Is his family still going to stay in the Detroit burbs?

Something similar to the history lesson Tommy Lacelles gives young Queen Elizabeth2 in The Crown regarding her father's brother's.

Belongs in the Religion thread as well

Reading Ian Toll's very good WWII in the Pacific series. Today being December 7 reminds me that the wartime leaders of Japan manipulated their people using what they claimed was in Shinto and in Bushido to conduct suicide attacks. Toll points out that the concept of suicide attacks was never in their tradition. It was only after they lost their advantage in air power and the US industrial might was producing naval, air and ground forces far surpassing by leaps and bounds the Japanese military that they cynically rewrote their traditions and convinced everyone to go along with suicide attacks. Since the people were completely cowed by propaganda and total surveillance of their every word and the military had taken over the lives of their children there was no way to resist -- even among military officers who knew it was all bunk. This gets me back to the original point about theocracy being in harness to kleptocracy.

wakes up...scans board...groans

Is OSU gonna be able to field a team?

Michigan taught ND how to play football. We have the most wins in CFB history. We lag only Penn State and Indiana in the number of living alumni. Our Endowment (not our ***** size) is $17B which puts us in the top 10 nationally. I'd say we have a seat at the table. If we had won a NC in the last 20 years that might be nice. Rather than the apparently, Jim Singleton-driven era of depredations, Rich Rods and Brady Hokes.

we need to let Maduro know that he will be digging his literal grave if he moves against Guyana.

I guess, You can come back from fighting with Trump but the last conversation those two had was McCarthey telling Trump to go eff himself.

This story is based on some appalling situations where parents were able to abuse their kids because they were protected by the lack of oversight of homeschooled kids. I have colleagues who did the homeschooling thing because they lived in places with terrible schools (e.g., Texas, Florida). Many other potential reasons why people don't want their kids being socialized within the community but...if it also enables this great evil...yeah, lets get some oversight.

She was really good on Nicole Wallace last night as well.

"I woke up feeling the cheesiest!"

I have no idea if this is real

Presuming Michigan has another couple key transfers lined up.

Michigan seems way better now.

Morning Joe has Finebaum on to talk about how wonderful Alabama is and how evil Harbaugh is.

all this team needs is a month off between now and its playoff games.

Starting to see a lot more of this around the World. Canada's war with Huawei being a good example.

The real issue as far as the well-being of the NATO alliance and our allies in the Western Pacific is that China is developing advanced technology that surpasses our own and using the tried and true Soviet model of just stealing it or just buying to do so. They are in a 360 degree 24/7 technology vacuuming mode. So, why give them any breaks by giving them a base in Michigan to develop their knowledge?

Isn't Michigan out of the playoffs according to Stephen A. Smith?

The US Government is coming up some actual guidelines for dealing with Chinese state owned enterprises with ties to the People’s Liberation Army or the CCP’ security services wrt EV development and joint projects in the US auto industry. Some will be blocked. My cynical side thinks these are probably a set of loopholes unless the people judging what is an SOE actually are guided by the realities on the ground.