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to that narrative...the Egyptian Islamic Jihad that Zawahiri led was a direct response to the defeat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Egypt had all the advantages of surprise and interesting new technology from the Soviets but could not win against Israel because of a lack of...piety. Wrt to the bubba-jihad, i guess they just were potty trained too late or something.

Fine. Just know my comment about Tim Burton is criticism of him and his fans. I always found it tiresome.

not a fan of Chris Nolan apparently

Do not over-validate Tim Burton

My wife will no longer support any business or entity in Florida more than to the minimum requirement of necessity for a vacation so no chance we own property there even though it would be within the retirement budget to have a side condo there. So, VRBO it is... Meanwhile our future property in the Northville, South Lyon, Milford, Ann Arbor triangle is planned to be some place with a couple acres and an out building or two for the toys. *toys here literally means about $40k in legos

Miggy's connection to the city has always been depressingly thin. For as great a ballplayer as he was, he never seemed to be part of the town. As for living in Detroit...its currently the retirement play to do that. I'll be looking to travel where its warmer in Jan and Feb when i can though.

I like signs of life from Jace

Our relationship with these Tiger teams is not yet as tight as the relationship we had with those late 90s, early aughts Red Wings teams when the rivalry with the Avalanche culminated in the Darren Mccarty fight with Claude Lemieux and that was truly the moment when he never had to pay for another beer in Detroit (although he his now a friend of Bill as i understand). Still, i think a few Detroit sports figures are in this same boat. Barry for the 2000 yard season, Gibby for the 1984 WS final game HR ("He don't want to walk you?!"), and Jared Goff who is currently bullet proof for winning a playoff game for the first time since 1991.

Or, she's just crushed a meat-lovers pan pizza from Pizza Hut and a 6 pack of malt liquor.

Noticing in the Freep that some local chain I'd not hear of called "Savvy Sliders" has a Kerry Carpenter meal. Kerry Carpenter is .059 with an OPS of .229 or some such over the last week. Please return to hitting Kerry. Meanwhile Javy's resumption of goodness has resumed. Weird that Andy Ibanez has just gone away. Baseball be like that I guess.

This has been a random freak out generator for all my civilian relatives. The concern for me: China and Russia use this to do things that are anathema that they would like to do. Russia has already done this in spades in Ukraine. China is in the middle of one of the two periods during the year they can do cross-straits. I haven't checked the weather in the South China Sea.

I guess the neo-cons got their way

Tourists don’t run…

This is going not good

Tampa, a day game... I can see some seersucker-wearing old captain, dabbing himself with a linen handkerchief, perched on his rocking chair, occasionally fanning himself with his panama hat: "we shall betwixt these Yankee devils with some day baseball in the Florida sun! They shall find our excessive heat and humidity, simply intolerable!" Occasionally he will wonder at the behavior of his large blue-tick coonhound which has been searching for some critter under the porch of Steinbrenner field: "Rufus, you had best get yourself out of there or you'll miss out supper!"

5 run gap again.

9-5...still a ways to go.

Ok, I'm excited to see that double!

I miss Parker Meadows

our first inning fail to score was sucky...now this

My social media has blown up with warnings about public lands being stolen .

wrong show...sorry

took a glance at the Rays ticket situation in cozy Steinbrenner Field... only 2% of tickets available.

there was a house for sale in South Lyon or Milford about a year ago that had this design. The mold damage caused by the hard to reach places in the dome was insane. There are practical reasons for practical designs.

when i was a manager, i remember that I'd say "every vacation has risk" because invariably someone would take the fact that you were not around to hand hold them through some crisis with the company they would quit.