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Is an apology expected because someone thought a thief was also a racist? I don't feel silly in the slightest for assuming it was racist. The only reason one would feel silly about it is if it turned out to be a municipal action for maintenenace reasons, like they were moving it or cleaning it, or whatever. Otherwise, it was vandalism and theft of an icon on race issues so assuming racist intent is perfectly logical and nothing to apologize for.

Demographic collapse and declining birth rates huh. How can people like Tim Scott be around guys like that?

Does the staff really need 5 reporters?

It's like that with many podcasts I am told to listen to. I don't have the patience for it.

You all know I live in Dearborn. Large middle eastern population, which means a large non English speaking population. My son's middle school also had a lot of kids bussed in from the east side of town due to crowding issues. My son got in a lot of trouble in middle school. At least once a week we were called. Great. We raised a bad kid. That was our thought. Nothing was really that bad that he did, he wasn't a bully or anything. Just being an average 12 year old I guess. We get to high school and the first parent teacher conference happens and I ask the teacher how his behavior was. He looked puzzled and said "He's fine, he's great. No issues" Then I concluded that the administrators had to call 'someone' when kids were being kids in middle school and since we spoke English and were likely to come in and "talk" that we got designated as the parents to do that with. It was easier for them rather than call a house with broken English, if at all, across town, with no way often to even get to the school. The admins had to check off their boxes on discipline and we were the lucky family. I'm just sharing that as an anecdote, not in the context of what many here are facing.

I remember Del sharing a clip of the scene from the movie 21 about the Monty Hall problem and it stuck with me because I couldn't get it. I understood what they were saying and wasn't arguing that it was wrong, but it bothered that I couldn't get it because I like to think I'm kinda smart. And my research showed me lots of other people think the same way. The Monty Hall Problem being, you are given a choice of 3 doors, a prize behind 1 of them. Once you make your pick, then the host will open one of the doors that does not have a prize and offers you the chance to switch your choice? Do you? THe odds say you should. Many people, like me, thought it was still 50/50 whether you should switch. On a whim the other night I started looking at it again and then it hit me like a ton of bricks after looking at a chart that simulated every possible outcome. That just proved the math who I wasn't disputing, I was just angry I didn't see how. What helped me was to not think about it in terms of winning but instead losing and to think of it from the game show hosts perspective. You can pick any of the 3. He can only pick 2, and if you pick one of them, then he only has one choice. So 66% of the time the door he didn't open will have the prize. I was very excited when this revelation occurred to me and you all are the only ones who would appreciate it. My wife wasn't impressed. "Ok nerd...."

Today bullies have a lot more tools at their disposal, like exponentially more, and the impact is exponentially broader. Back then the worst thing that could happen were isolated and contained for the most part. Now it's permanent and available for everybody to see. Think of the worst you were ever embarassed or shamed as a kid being bullied. Now imagine there's a video of it and everybody at the school saw it and shared it and laughed at it and can do that anytime they want. That's the challenges parents of younger kids face today that I, even 10 years ago, didn't face to the same degree.

yeah I mean it's just like it's us doing one. It's hard to be "on". I've done a couple of videos in a studio at work that gets broadcast and hosted on a national site. Even with a script that I wrote for the teleprompter, an on a subject I know very well, once that light comes on it's weird. I mean.... the cost to listen is nothing. These aren't professionals. That guy Roger lives very close to me and we have some mutual real life friends. Small world.

The Mellon family. Noted left wingers, right?

The ad was put out by a PAC, so allegedly not him, (riiiiight) he apologized to his family for it on twitter. Of course his tweet of the ad is still up though.

Also a moderator note here: Let's try to keep the political talk out of the sports forums. I get that a certain side is against Taylor and all of that but we don't need to bring that into this thread. Should be about the game only. Those things can snowball if people start responding and then it becomes less fun. There's a subforum for that talk.

The Lions beat KC in week 1, on the road. They almost beat SF 2 weeks ago, you could argue they should have, whatever. SF loses in OT to KC. Yeah... the Lions belong. They would have fit right in. Late last week I was thinking about how crazy this town would be right now with the Lions in Vegas. The Red Wings played Saturday night in Detroit. I bet there would have been a constant chant of Let's Go Lions and Jared Goff.

He also made the longest FG in SB history earlier in the game.

I saw a tweet that suggested Hur purposefully wrote a report that didn't conform to DOJ guidelines.... the idea being he was baiting Garland to change it. Then that would be the scandal and the story, that Garland is "interfering". They would muddle up the details, as they always do. Talking points were already made up.

It was hard in 2014 when my son was getting to be that age and from friends I have with kids around that age now it's still bad. I think for girls it's especially harder.

Later on Quayle was asked by Larry King if he could respond now, what would he say? "Yeah and my wife is glad I am not Jack Kennedy" Quayle wasn't wrong. JFK had a very thin legislative and governing resume in 1960. Much of his congressional career was spent sick in the hospital. Once he decided to run for POTUS he realized he needed a wife, so he found a suitable one in pedigree in Jackie. Then he got himself on some good commitees.

I watch old shows on prime when I work from home. A comfort food kind of thing. Background noise. Yeah they went into the 20s. Hour long episodes too.

And to be fair about it last week they tried to roast Speaker Johnson for saying Iran instead of Israel. You knew what he meant.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/bidens-memory-issues-draw-attention-neurologists-weigh-rcna138135 My wife is a therapist who works with the elderly and has a mother in her mid 70s. Her brother constantly worries about memory issues but my wife knows the difference and would not let their mom be in danger to herself. At our company gathering in December I was staring for a few minutes at a co worker I interact with daily thru IM and emails trying to remember her name. At a Christmas party I called my cousin Don “Stan” when Stan is his brother and also his father’s name. (Yes they are Polish).

Who is defending him? Is the prosecutor defending him by not suggesting charges?

It’s the worst thing about social media. Older folks shaming younger folks because they don’t do things “their” way. This isn’t a booker thing as Gen X is just as guilty.

regarding the soft support of Harris... that's conventional wisdom from the pundits. But is it true? I'm trying to determine who the voter is that's fine with Biden but not with Harris and will accept another 4 years of Trump over her. Who are these people?

Ann Coulter was right.... our only hope is to see what happens when Trump dies. I used to enjoy politics like I enjoyed sports. I could detach from my own views and get into the spirit of who was beating who, what was a good point made, what is their strategy, etc. Analysis. That's all gone now. There is no shame by our politicians. There are no electoral penalties anymore. It all comes down to winning for your side and hurting the oppositon and certain groups. I'm not both sidesing this either. Democrats by and large want to govern. Republicans do not and don't care if you tell them that. They know that 47% of the voters will still vote for them and they have a gerrymandered and EC guaranteed shot at running every branch of government and plenty of states to prevent Constitutional Amendments they don't want. We'll never ever see another Constitutional Amendment.

Everybody in the future should be a DH except Riley Greene and Meadows.