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Yeah don’t. This is season 2. Season 1 was very different. They got heat for being too overtly liberal so Peggy Noonan came on as a writer. Enjoy the ride. Just a warning that things got weird when Sorkin left and at the time I didn’t care for it but when I rewatched the later few seasons with the new election it was better than I remembered. Just hang tight until Alda and Smits show up.

Last week we were in the car and Brothers in Arms came on and I prompted me to watch that sequence of episodes over the weekend. Might be the best 4-5 episode run of any series ever. Oliver Platt is great.

BUT LincOLN was A REPubLiCAN and DEMOcRATS OWNEd SLaVEs.

any pretty girl could infiltrate that gang.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Or poker games. Or golf games. The only time it's relevant is if it relates to something else. For example my season ticket buddy had Lions seats for years, going back to the 80's. He finally gave them up a few years ago. This year he got them again. He told me about this back in June. Flash forward to July and I bring it up again and he says "Yeah but dude... I bet on that guy to win the British Open.... total luck pick" That paid for his seats. He will ask me at games to check other scores b/c we can't see the scoreboard from our seats. He bets about $100 a day and claims to be up overall a few grand since he started. He quit smoking during the pandemic after 2 heart attacks so he spends that money on bets.

Background. In Texas they passed a law that mandated In God We Trust signs placed prominently in schools if they were donated. They had to have the flags like this and only that test. So this guy is doing it in Arabic.

Totally. An analogy doesn’t have to be perfect to be valid. They accepted government money or help. also amused by some who think that blue collar workers don’t rack up student debt.

That was around the time either DD got crazy or he was put in shitty positions by Ilitch. 2014 was the season that doomed us. A few different moves could have put us on a different path. Let Cabrera go like the Cards did wtih Pujols. Sign Max. Keep Suarez. Keep Ray and not worry about the pushback from the Fister trade. Ray was the only time I think DD bowed to public pressure.

all my kooky fundamentlist people from HS were for Rebandt.

Would we ever use the argument that we shouldn't make insulin low cost because 10 years ago it wasn't low cost and those people who paid a lot for insuiln get "scammed"?

Awesome throws from OF excite me.

Someone on twitter said that the government basically just gave some people a 25% off Bed Bath and Beyond coupon.

I was going to say that. I don’t have any. But my friends who do…. Coke is less addictive and cheaper.

But a lot aren’t. It’s because they became teachers or social workers or some other important job that society decided should be low paying. Every program is going to have people on the margins who either abused the system or are otherwise not the ideal representatives.

Ok now I get it. I wasn’t sure if his question. I thought me meant how many would pass a CA amendment. I agree with you. Kentucky?

And we borrowed money from China to pay the debt of the trade war with China. Geniuses.

I know three people who did the RV thing an all of them sold after a year.

I’d rather they get it than some hedge fun manager or health insurance CEO.

I understand some resentment but I also can’t fully square up the idea that we shouldn’t help people today because we didn’t help their predecessors 20-30-40 years ago. I sense some “welfare queen” going on where they have created an extreme example as representative of those benefitting. There’s always an anecdote to make a program look wasteful.

Isn’t Ron someone who shouldn’t be calling someone else an elf?

Why was Ivan Rodridguez in town?

why do the Tigers always play Boston at home very early in the season?