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I haven’t been paying attention to the specifics. Shri’s district is pretty snaky. Goes thru Detroit to the GP area then back west south of Tliab near me.

It's on Apple.

I liked Suicide Squad, the newer one, and attribute that to James Gunn. So that is a positive for the future of DC. Just have to go into it knowing it's not for kids and it's over the top. For Deadpool 3.... what do you y'all recommend for us to catch up and all that? Just the first 2? Should I watch anything else?

best shape of his life Has anyone yet said "It just feels different this year..... I can't explain it. But guys are crisper. More alert. We're going to focos on the little things. Rounding the bases the right way. Proper leadoffs. Staying down on the ball."

Market is back up to where it was on Monday.

Perhaps it is unethical but it’s how corporate America operated for a very long time. Usually it’s the man bringing along ththe woman. That’s acceptable. But a powerful woman? They gotta behave.

Corporate America, always a race to the bottom to squeeze every last nickel out of things so that our investments can make an extra 1/8 of a point. You'd think with the advertisements this wouldn't be an issue/

It doesnt make sense that the league would care about that.

I have strict instructions to never ever get me anything with this logo on it. Usually a family member will find something at a garage sale or something with it. In the trash it goes.

Maybe those folks retiring on the GOP side will go out with a middle finger?

Tliab has a seat for life in this district if she wants it. Unless they change the lines. She's pretty much got a solid square, 8 mile except for a bit that jets up into Southfield, that covers Dearborn, Dearborn Hts, Westland, Garden City, stretches west to canton and stops just north of I 94 to the South. The only area that could dent her would be "Lily White Livonia" which is still a thing. The Arab/Muslim community is no longer just Dearborn. They've moved along the Ford/Warren Ave corridor going west. So many churches have closed and property bought to open up another Mosque.

The Ilitch family can be very vindictive. Rumors when Lary Sorensen left were that he made a joke about a family member. It was a sudden departure in the middle of the season. Later on when we learned about his alcohol issues it makes more sense, either he said something, or was just drunk all the time. But I could see a scenario where they didn't like his schtick, wasn't enough of a company guy. Jim Northrup was too critical of the team. Al Kaline would have survived as a color guy in today's world. He would get on the players a lot. They want their on air talent to sunshine and all about marketing and promotion.

Thanks. This is not the year but at some point I'm going down for ST.

I think being an outsider is more lucrative. Thinking of people like Pat Caddell and **** Morris and Harold Ford. Just switch and you get swallowed up. But giving the impression of a unique voice can be valuable

This district went from John Dingell to this POS.

As long as the team still wears their current home jerseys with the "wrong" D on the front, I don't care what they wear as it's all garbage. I still cringe when I see highlights or photos with it.

What Romney's loss proved is there was this buried Trumpism in the party that didn't accept him. He was "too establishment" before that became an official term. The populism wing. They would rather let Obama "burn it down" and rise up than let the bankers and insurance and wall street class win. Eventually that group relented with Trump so they could get their tax cuts. There's still people hanging on to hope but I just don't it. They pretend that eventually cooler heads will prevail and we can go back to the 90's with mainstream Republicans like the Good Old Days. it won't happen. Those like Heath Mayo and the Lincoln Project have good intentions but they are blind that it's over. Kevin Freaking McCarthy was too much for the crazies. The GOP is the party of Gaetz and Greene. People like Cruz and Graham saw the writing on the wall and are along for the ride. They had repeated chances to throw Trump overboard but were afraid. There is a perpetual circle jerk between the likes of Tucker and Kirk and Shapiro and that lot that will keep things moving and 40% of the voters will think that's normal because they live in a social media/RW network bubble but as long as the sane people in this country recognize that and keep voting then the republic has a shot.

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.