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37 minutes ago, romad1 said:

except Fetterman and the AIPAC caucus will stumble over themselves to vote for it. 

he was the vote to get Mullin out of committee.

I guess anyone had to be better than Noem, but as on the of Dems on the committee said "what a low bar".

Just now, Edman85 said:

Friend left Florida for a ski trip in Colorado, where it topped out in the 90's the day he arrived. Meanwhile, we played beach vball in low 40's wind chills last night.

LOL - I've Spring Skied in Co when it was 70s at the bottom of the mountain and maybe 30 at the top. It still fun but you have to be off the mountain by about noon when the upper slopes turn into ice and the lower ones into lakes......

21 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Tech bros don’t care about college sports like they do in Texas.    Texas Tech has thrown down the gauntlet already and it’s only going to get bigger and more competitive in the Lone Star state 

then there is Phil Knight at Oregon. I guess he's not tech but he sure bleeds "green". (tee-hee)

29 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Murkowski for Fetterman.   

she's not much a prize to win.

3 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Tech bros don’t care about college sports like they do in Texas.    Texas Tech has thrown down the gauntlet already and it’s only going to get bigger and more competitive in the Lone Star state 

The best outcome of this kind of thing would be for about half of D-1 to just opt out of the whole thing and go back to a completely non-profit model, club based sports,  free student tickets etc. Games where nothing is on the line but school pride and a good time. Of course it won't happen, but it should. 

7 minutes ago, Screwball said:

The history of the Great Lakes (on edit; shipping), which Toledo was a large part of, is really neat stuff. Not far from the Spicer plant on Bennett, on Phillips Ave, is the famous Mancy's Steakhouse. Captain McSorley of the Edmund Fitzgerald lived in Toledo in the off season and was a regular there as it was told.

But a pain in the ass at times. 

Glad to hear it's still there. Our refinery group would do Mancy's when bonuses were paid.

5 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Cat has become our best fwd...he plays a much more complete game than he did a few years ago

Yup. And I like Faulk. He skates well enough he's hard for opponents to forecheck or tie up. That's a nice add.

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Ludicrous Texas oil money in the NIL era means every year the Final Four and CFP will become some combination of Texas, Texas Tech, SMU, Baylor, Houston, or TCU.  

LOL - I suppose, but don't forget there are a couple of schools adopted by Tech Bros to broaden the field. 🙄

I seem to be done with college sports anyway. I'm not finding the rent-a-teams interesting at all. We have a group of close close friends, we're all UM alums, and they are all excited about the Tourney now - it just leaves me cold, and that's never been true before.

19 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Sweeney's 40-man spot is in danger...

I've been assuming for some time now that Sweeney is out of any immediate plans for the 25 but particularly if McGonigle comes north, they'll want another SS at Toledo anyway.

ST is still a small and questionable sample to look at, I'd rather we had seen what he did in 300 AB at AAA, but BB/K and OBP sure seem to be holding up so far, and where ever his D settles out, he has shown that his arm is fine and the glove is reasonable.

Fitting him in is going to be tricky. It would certainly easier to send him to Toledo and bring him up when someone is inevitably hurt so that it wouldn't be so much of a line-up juggle, but that's what they pay Hinch the big bucks for.

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

College sports are dead if oil and gas prices continue to go up.  
 

IDK about 'dead', but for sure there is going to be some buyer's remorse over setting up conferences with a lot of 4+ hr by jet trips.

11 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Yep G we are just like Iran.

Would you rather that US justice be moving toward or away from being like Iran?

And if you are sitting on death row in Arkansas or Tx you might might be forgiven for not being aware of the difference.

7 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Your sympathetic bros....

 

 

 

He was tried and convicted of murder. Was it trumped up? Probably. But we have a Supreme Court here in the US that says you can't reconsider our cases of capital punishment even given evidence of innocence because outcomes 'must have finality'. It's fine to call out Iran's practices of state murder as barbarous, but consistency would at least require we do the same for ourselves.

21 minutes ago, TJ Rollercoaster said:

From BBC reporting

If he's speaking in English you can pretty much ignore what he's saying, much like the same is true when Arab leaders speak in English. What they say in English is what they want us to hear, what they say to the listeners at home in Hebrew or Arabic is what they mean.

Things have climbed down a little this afternoon. The Admin put it out that the Israeli strike on Pars was against US wishes. That's proabably 100% backfill fabrication but at any rate prices are back down to Brent at $101 and WTI at $93.

You can't make this up: Bissent says they are considering lifting sanctions on *IRANIAN* oil already at sea.

46 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I’m beginning to think this thread should be changed to the fall of the republic of the United States. 

 

couldn’t have happened. Didn’t TH tell us Iran’s fighting capacity has been destroyed?

6 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

 

65,000 registered voters in Dist 98. Americans don't deserve Democracy.

5 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

 

Should improve the Dems general election prospects. AIPAC took a beating in the Dem Senate primary as well.

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

This is a key way The Big Club makes its money: they make products steadily worse and worse while charging the same amount of money until we get used to it. Then, they bring back the old regular product as a premium product with a premium price, even though it’s the same regular product we bought last year  

I promise you they will have a Reese‘s premium peanut butter cup line in the next five years at double the price, and it will taste the same as the regular cup tasted last year.

#Murica

 

The harvesting of Cocoa in Ivory Coast has been unsustainable and heading for disaster for a couple of decades at least. Deforestation, child labor and slavery, climate change, soil exhaustion from over production, all the things you can imagine can be wrong in a desperately poor place doing extractive export agriculture. Production is falling, prices are rising. 

34 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

They think they have Iran down to a level where they can't retaliate effectively. We'll see.

1 hour ago, Screwball said:

The Fed can only monetize what .gov spends.

I'll dismiss all the other word salad and say they are not cutting rates today.

Unrelated, kind of, crude it back to $98 and change for WTI. Brent over $100.

Wholesale prices up between 5% and 8% per annum depending on which basket, Brent near almost $110 as I type.

The fed has more leeway than just fiscal spending to work with, not that that isn't plenty. They can buy or sell other securities, such as mortgage bonds, which gives them plenty of additional space to manipulate things. And monetization isn't their only tool. Control of short term rates drives interbank lending volume which also drives the number of dollars available in the system. 

43 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

He's both, sometimes its evident, sometimes its not that clear.  On the ignorant portion, and I hope she doesn't get mad at me, but my wife's grandma (rest in peace) would just take tidbits of information and form them into new 'policies'.  So Papa had heart issues and was on a drug which he was told not to eat too many green peas.  Apparently too much of a certain vitamin in them that could make the drug more ineffective.  Did Grandma understand this....no.  Instead she preceded to tell the family that they need to stop eating peas because it's bad for the heart.  She didn't lie, cheat, and steal, so it was obvious when she said something like this you could trace it back to some info she got.  Unfortunately with Trump, who knows, could be lying about it, could be saying it based on some tidbit he's unable to fully process in his brain, could simply be saying it because at the time it sounded like the best way to retort as he really doesn't care if its true or not.

I think with Trump there is also the basic sales shtick idea run amok. I've known guys in sales orgs that learn the art of making up anything and everything they can throw at a customer to close a deal. There are two problems when Trump runs this a President. The 1st is that he *is* too dumb to know or remember to make mostly unverifiable or difficult to verify or ambiguous claims, which a good salesman will keep himself to. The second is that unlike a guy making one sale who is going leave that possibly dissatisfied customer to his customer service org and go on to his next deal, as Pres you don't get to walk away Tuesday from the countries, voters, legislatures you tried to snow on Monday.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

because they have 4 residential spaces for every person and the

The apartment tower overbuild is a good example of people not being willing to tell the truth in a command system.

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

They are completely hollowed out by the one-child policy.  

and now that they want it to go away, it won’t.

They suffer all the ills command regimes will always suffer, but they still have much better vision than the Sovs ever did. Unfortunately that is probably because after Mao they developed a reasonable method of succession that kept them out of another cult of personality dictatorship. There was Deng in the background for a long time but Deng was a one of. But now Xi has thrown a Monkeywrench into that process big time.And thus they are regressing.

OTOH, on one score, I think predictors of demographic disaster as countries come to stable population numbers just need to look at Japan to see their arguments are overdrawn. I think it has a lot to with a simple misreading of economic data. If your population is growing at 3%/yr like people became habituated to, and your GDP goes flat, you’ve got a situation that’s going to cause deep social stress. If your GDP goes flat when your population has decreased by 1%, per capitas are still rising and the countryside stays happy as a clam. The only people it’s gloom & doom for are the local imperialists and pols paranoid their nation might “fall behind” some other nation in economic rank (we certainly get that one here) but populations don’t really care about that unless the demagogues work at it, the only economics people really care about are their own and maybe their neighbors’.