Mr.TaterSalad

It's amazing what kind of outcome you can get with a biased and non-critical jury pool. A man who murdered his wife and another human being in cold blood got off because of a shriveled up glove with dried blood on it, a racist cop, and celebrity status. Never mind that all the actual evidence pointed to him being guilty. RIP Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.

Do we know that Bates is a culture fit though? Think of someone like Evan McPherson when he sat on the sidelines to watch the Super Bowl halftime show instead of being in the locker room with his teammates. That would NEVER fly here.

These Pastor Gas videos of televangelist preacher and TV huckster Robert Tilton "farting" are the best. When they time the fart with Tilton saying maybe they'll put that one on TV . . . HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Desperation maybe?

A must have game and this offense is outscoring them 27-16 and we're still scoreless and down 2-0.

Rizzo has had it looks like 3 years with an OPS north of 900 and another 5 seasons with a north of 800 OPS. In all of those seasons he never struck out more than 120 times and several of those years he was below 100 strikeouts. Last season is really the only full season reference point we have. So hopefully he can trend more in the Rizzo direction from here on out, and not the Rob Deer direction. I agree that if he develops into a Rizzo type of player it would be a net positive for this team's future.

I'm certainly willing to give him more time and coaching to improve. I want to think he can improve his overall plate approach and work to be a more patient hitter, capable of putting more balls in play. That said, two seasons in a row he's off to a rough start and trending in the wrong direction.

And he hit 31 HRs, batted .233, had a .758 OPS and struck out 171 times. I get it, it was his first full season in the bigs and he's not exactly surrounded by talented hitters. So he deserves times and patience for sure. But those numbers, they are Rob Deer-esque to me. Strike out or hit a home run with too few balls in play in between.

Is Torkelson trending to be a Rob Deer type of player in that he'll hit 25-30 HRs per season, have a sub 750-800 OPS, bat somewhere between .230-.260 and strikeout 140 times in a season? He sure seems like a Rob Deer-esque player to me. He'll swing for the fences and either hit a homer or KO. He'll put few balls put in play and leave himself nothing in between hitting it out of the park or striking out.

Happy Solar Eclipse day! Remember, don't look directly into the eclipse without the special glasses. It can both damage your retina and make you the moron of the office.

Not entirely no. They are allowing, in small doses, more profanity and a little bit of blood on the shows now. They aren't allowing the amount of blood and profanity they had when Austin was the main guy on the show. There is also much more respect for women in today's WWE product than in the Attitude Era.

Wrestlemania 40 is this weekend and I haven't been this excited for a Wrestlemania in ages and ages. Now that Vince McMahon is gone from WWE and not in charge of the creative direction of the company things are sooooooooo much more interesting to watch.

I agree with this sentiment regarding Biden and older voters. The GOP is still pushing the cut Social Security and Medicare narrative. They are still out there trashing the ACA as well. These are all things that are popular with older voters. Combine that with the obvious dysfunction and bad behavior of Trump and I think that scares and/or turns off a lot of over 60 voters. It also directly threatens their financial wellbeing when you talk about cutting Social Security or rolling back Medicare being able to negotiate lower drug prices.

He absolutely should and Egypt should be receiving international pressure and condemnation for closing off their border and doing next to nothing to help refugees in Gaza.

Yes, I have considered that and hope he does. And I for one will applaud any elected leader, Biden or otherwise, who supports conditioning military aid.

What I've been saying all along, condition military aid based on Netanyahu's current and future actions. If he does a full scale ground invasion of Rafah and tens-of-thousands more civilians die, and a famine breaks out, condemn the invasion and act upon the conditions put in place regarding military aid to Israel. Also, cancel the sale of the F-15 fighter jets that were planned to be sold to the IDF. Also, to continue to strongly condemn Netanyahu for his brazen actions to thwart democratic institutions in Israel and work to build relations with opposition leadership to restore democracy in Israel. All of this can be done simultaneously to condemning Hamas and working to bring new leadership to Gaza that is Palestinian controlled. Trying to obliterate Hamas by invading Rafah, prolonging the war, and occupying Gaza will work about as well as trying to obliterate the Taliban in Afghanistan. You'll end up with a permanent occupation that breeds more extremism, hatred, and ultimately violent terrorists. Have we learned nothing from occupying Afghanistan for the last 20 years? What's your plan?

Gallup: Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza That's a lot of tankies that oppose what Israel is doing.

He was a White House staffer and Director of Speech Writing while Biden served in Obama's White House as VP. The point is that people like Favreau and Tommy Vietor aren't low level staffers or radical left wing shmucks being critical of the administrations policies towards the Israeli war effort. Now you are starting to see respected elected officials, who are center/center-left types not progressives, like a Chris Murphy, come out and critique and change US policy towards the Israeli war effort. If we sit idly by and continue to send munitions and weapons to Israel while they do a full scale invasion of Rafah it's only going to get worse, both in terms of the death toll in Gaza and in terms of the political situation at home for Biden. Banging your head against the wall and shouting Hamas could stop this at any time isn't an effective political strategy for the Biden administration. It hasn't worked to this point and won't make the situation any better IMO.

Favreau worked for the Obama/Biden administration as the Director of Speechwriting. So it wasn't like he was some office assistant fetching coffee and getting faxes. He's got some high level credibility in my eyes.

Watching Chris Hayes tonight he had on Senator Chris Murphy and even he's on national TV criticizing Isreali war efforts and being at least semi critical of the Biden administration. This has gone beyond just tankies on the left being critical of the war effort and limited change in US policy towards Bibi's war.

When Obama and Biden's own former staffers, like Favreau and the Pod Save America crew, are coming out against the administration's policy towards Isreal I think that speaks loudly. These tankies, far left people, or whatever people want to call people who dare to criticize Bibi. These are rational, run of the mill Dems.

I thought you supported democracy and were against Trump? You might as well just bubble in Trump if you're willing to support Bibi.

We need to drop the military aid we're giving without condition and place actual, tenable conditions on that aid and hold Isreal to it. We also need to publicly call out Bibi, just as we have called out Hamas, for who he is and what he's attempted to do to democracy in Isreal. The public criticism needs to be ratcheted up and the military aid needs to either be restricted with heavy conditions or stopped entirely imo. Even former Biden staffers who host a nationally recognized podcast, who are loyalists of his, are demanding he do more publicly and change direction towards Israel.

And then the refs are going to throw a flag and we will proceed to learn about some obscure rule that we have never heard of before and it will be overturned. Then, everyone here and collectively across Lions fandom will lose their minds. Then, in the offseason, only after the obscure rule that no one has ever heard of has cost the Lions a game, will that be reviewed and changed.

When I think about support for Israel under Netanyahu I think back to Harry Truman and his view of supporting Spain so as long as Francisco Franco was in power. While Franco was himself a full blown dictator in Spain and Bibi is not quite there yet, Netanyahu is hell bent on becoming one. Truman had the belief that you couldn't negotiate with or treat on equal footing a country like Spain so as long as Franco was in power. Now, would I go as far as Truman did and keep Israel out of the UN? Of course not, there are plenty of nation states, led by worse people than Bibi, whose countries are apart of the UN. Many of them right there in the Arab region. I do think the US needs to take a much tougher diplomatic tact with Israel, akin to what Truman did with Spain and Franco's government. I think we need to condition and/or outright stop military aid until this war gets under control and Netanyahu's power grab is brought under control. Israel has a right to defend itself, but with the death toll rising over 30,000, a famine outbreak likely, and the Israel government now targeting aid workers, something has to be done on our end speak out against the assault Bibi and the IDF are waging on Gaza. There comes a point where self defense crosses the line and where measurable objectives (like getting hostages home) need to be met. Israel is crossing the line on self defense and Bibi is not meeting one of his own, major, self proclaimed objectives.