buddha

i said i didnt think they would overturn roe/casey, i thought roberts would come to some decision that whittles away at it but not outright dismissing it. that could still happen, btw.

al avila is the 4th longest tenured gm in baseball. only cashman, rizzo, and rick hahn have been there longer. all three of whom have actually had success on the field, unlike avila.

i doubt it, but we'll see.

i think it will take some time to sort through and it will be different by state (of course). texas will be interesting to see what ultimately happens 6 or 8 years from now.

18 weeks

i am not.

who are we tanking for this year?

https://detroithockeynow.com/2022/05/06/detroit-red-wings-prospect-sebastian-cossa-starts-whl-playoffs-4-0-two-shutouts-edmonton-oil-kings/ cossa off to a good start

its amazing to me that avila still has a job.

with alex faedo's appearance the other day, the tigers' 2017 draft has now produced a grand total of -.2 war. which is better than 2016 which has produced a grand total of -.4. which is better than 2015 which has produced a total of - 1.5! give 2017 some time and it may start racking up enough negative war to catch 2015. in fairness to 2016 and 2015, at least they have guys who will make the majors. unlike 2017. where have you gone rey rivera, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

could be worse...cubs pitchers have given up only 1 hit....and walked NINE. trailing 4-2 in the ninth. edit: two hits. betts just homered.

only 2 playoff games a night sucks.

the headline does not represent what was actually said. the republicans now have to walk a tightrope between appeasing the crazies in their base and doing something that will be extremely unpopular with the general voting public. its what the democrats have had to deal with and have done a decent job of it so far. we'll see if the republicans can do the same thing.

"McConnell said even if the GOP reclaims the Senate, he would not entertain ditching the 60-threshold rule to pass a national abortion ban, however. 'No carve out of the filibuster – period,' he said. 'For any subject.'"

https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/33855311/2023-nba-mock-draft-gearing-next-summer-victor-wembanyama-sweepstakes can we lose this lottery and win next year's?

you should read it before you comment.

1) good! i agree. that said, if hutch can be half as good as calvin, stafford, or suh, we'll have something. 2) that's not a high bar to reach.

watched part of the magic johnson doc on apple last night. saw the first two episodes. isiah gets a lot of air time. but anyway, it reminded me of mchale's clothesline of rambis or magic's forearm to isiah's head. now those were intentional hard fouls. dirty fouls. i was telling my wife, if you did thst nowadays you'd get a 10 game suspension, back then you got a regular foul call and a finger wag to not do it again. different game today when what brooks did is considered "out of line" by kerr. but kerr is a jack ass. draymond greene is still on his team, is he not? hypocrite.

so there is no legal opinion that you know of that cites the bible as some source for the outcome of a case. me neither. since the bible is the foundation for western ethics and morality, one could argue its presence is felt in every law that is passed. especially laws that give to the poor (as tater will point out, the ones advocated by democrats and argued against by republicans).

i have no idea about adoption numbers. i merely gave some context to a tweet that was designed to make people angry and provided no context. i find the adoption portion of the argument - if there was one - unpersuasive. alito doesnt really make the argument but is talking about how people's attitudes toward childbirth, motherhood, and adoption have changed since roe. in that part he was correct, but i find the "just put it up for adoption, its not hard" idea to be very simplistic and cruel. of course, the alternative is death so...

im speaking for myself. i dont think i've seen anyone on this board make that claim either. legal wise, the use of outside sources to interpret us law is an argument made by liberals, not conservatives. which legal opinion that cited the bible were you thinking of?

the same people who have never actually read the draft opinion or know anything about the law, sure do have a lot of opinions they saw on twitter.

its not in the bible, it is in a CDC report, which is where he was quoting. its a quote from the cdc that says "nearly 1 milliom women were seeking to adopt children in 2002 whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or in the first month of life and available to be adopted had become virtually nonexistent."

tater started quoting bible versus in his usual attempt to portray anyone who disagrees with him as some sort of simpleton racist bumpkin, not me. no one has said the bible is a source for us law, not sure where you got that from. roe (and casey, since it affirmed parts of roe and changed the analysis) is a tortured piece of constitutional law. if alito's opinion resembles the majority opinion wjen its released, we'll see where the law goes. in another 10-12 years you may be surprised what it looks like on many states. it may even force republicans to compromise now that they have to govern and win elections rather than just rant about roe.

"you shall not murder" - more places in the bible than you can shake a stick at.