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6 minutes ago, The Ronz said:

Your monitor functions as a two-way mirror.

It has been this way since April 30, 1993.

 

 

Thinkpads have a shutters on their cameras, desktops don't have cameras built in. Tape is handy otherwise.

7 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

He's had about 2 good months in August and September 2024.   He's been invisible other than that.   The last spot for the OF should not be between Vierlng and Jones, it should be between Meadows & Jones.   

Parker is screwed anyway because when McGonigle makes the team, Javy goes to CF.

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

Atlanta has long profiled as more progressive than Houston.

Houston was a company town for all of its early years. The oil biz still has a big presence there, and that's a lot of professional, engineering and scientific types who should be the ones telling their neighbors the truth who have made the deal to self-censor  (or self-delude) themselves for their paychecks.

30 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Great upgrade.

be hard for it not to be.

3 hours ago, oblong said:

Trump is a NY guy and he likes winners.  That's it.  There's no principals to it. 

right. NYC will always be the center of the world to him and he will always crave approval there.

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Why did they call up Cossa? 

 

8 hours ago, pfife said:

Hearing momtana senator that is not running for re-election and his buddy rigged it so that his buddy could run w/o a primary challenge

No primary?   HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

the guy who just stepped down as University Pres at U Montana also filed as an independent - apparently with Jon Tester's backing. 

Left Oblique strain for Hao Yu Lee. See Yu Mai  - maybe.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Not exactly true. Atlanta has long been considered a much more progressive city than Dallas, Houston, or any other Texas city except Austin.

Houston and Atlanta are also both minority majority cities, but in Houston the largest group are Hispanics, In Atlanta Af-Am. 

1 hour ago, slothfacekilla said:

If I was Patrick Kane I'd threaten to retire if they played me another shift with Rasmussen

I saw Ras make exactly one useful play in his ice time tonight. I also saw guys repeatedly skating around him as he waved at them going by on rushes.

I'd love to hear McLellan or Yzerman tell us what it is he's doing that we apparently aren't seeing that forms the reason he's getting regular ice time. He has maybe one game every two weeks where he actually looks like an NHL player.

7 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

if true, tactical foolishness for Iranians to waste a ballistic missile against one the least likely places for it to succeed. But when the enemy screws up, you take it.

I don't like Kane out there without Debrincat - he's seems to be a non-factor without his alter-ego.

weird game - the Wing had a long 5 on 5 cycle in the Vegas zone in the 2nd, and once that was over the game shifted to Vegas the whole rest of the way.

4 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

It will take more than regime change in Iran to change the basic animosity between the Shia and Sunni, Arabs and Persians. You need the religiosity on not only the Iranian side, but also the remaining Wahabi influence on the Sunni side to subside before you get anything that looks like a real peace.

12 minutes ago, Screwball said:

It's not only about what might, or could, get blown up, but what does it do to the supply chain.

This has all been war gamed and they all know the score. It all depends on how ugly it gets.

 

supply chains may determine the outcome on this one. Does Iran have more drones and missiles than the defenders have defense? If the Israeli's run out first it could be catastrophic for them.

14 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

That was 8 years ago and before COVID. Since then, the Texas suburbs have expanded rapidly. It’s the type of growth that put Georgia in play. People forget Texas has the same racial makeup as California. The environment also seems to be more Dem friendly than 2018. 2018 was the first time in decades a Democrat seriously challenged for a statewide race. 

true - I was just going back to '18 to get a number on a non-presidential year Senate race/turnout.

But not all of surburbia is necessarily favorable ground for Dems either. Depends on where people came from to get there.  We've got Macomb county which is suburbia, as is the area in MN that elected Michele Bachman just as another example I remember when I lived there.

The racial makeup similarity is interesting. Still a lot of cultural differences remain, with the Texas heritage being ranching and even more so the oil field, vs the California heritage being agriculture, entertainment and now tech. This produces a lot of difference in the world view of the professional classes in the two places. Also with CA being  renowned for its educational institutions, Tx not so much.

2 minutes ago, diaspora04 said:

He injured his back.  Obviously age was also quickly catch up on him at that point in his career, but it seemed like he was never the same after that injury.

Certainly didn't help but is was mostly his right knee that did him in. He simply couldn't drive off it in the last several seasons so he was getting by hitting only above the waist. You could see that once in a while the knee would feel better and take the weight and you could tell because he would pick up his left foot on his swing, the rest of the time he was batting flat footed. On those rare occasions he could still drive the ball.

12 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

The Democrats literally have a reverend in the senate. Talarico can appeal to suburban housewives and religious Latinos. He’s not going to peel away Christian nationalists. He needs to build the Beto coalition, which he did, and pick up a few more suburban whites. 

Comparing with 2018, if Cornyn gets by the primary he's probably a stronger general candidate than Ted Cruz was, Paxton maybe about equal. We'll see if Talarico can be as good or better than O'Rouke was.

5 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

If this post is real then please endorse Ken Paxton, please endorse Ken Paxton, please endorse Ken Paxton! James Talarico is likely going to lose either way, Cornyn or Paxton. But I think he has ZERO chance against Cornyn. I'd say he has a 15-20-25% maybe against a nut like Paxton. He's the male version of Sharon Angle or Kari Lake.

Trump is triangulating for leverage to get Cornyn's support (or at least avoid losing it) for the rest of year.

17 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

Somewhere George Orwell is sad but laughing his a$$ off.

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

JV Last had a good piece today talking about Talarico. Basically getting into Talarico's "WWoke Christianity" vs MAGA's Christian Nationalism. It will be interesting to see how this will eventually play out. Especially in Texas

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-lessons-of-james-talarico-and-woke-jesus?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I'm pessimistic that Christian nationalists will be swayed by any appeal to the Sermon on the Mount Jesus. Most people will gladly cede their moral freedom to any institution that will offer them God's blessing for doing what they want to do anyway.

Not too long ago I came across a John Guilgud video dramatization of a story told inside Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" It's a scene that brother Ivan is describing to his younger brother that expresses his view of "The Church".  It's couched as being a dream he had about about the Inquisition so the author could get a way with telling it in Orthodox Russia, but at its heart it can too accurately describe the relationship between any highly institutionalized religious organization and its followers. And the Evangelical church in the US is definitely institutionalized - esp in the South. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxhvTAevdU8

58 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

It’s not free exposure. Republicans are going to have to pour in money on a primary while Talarico is already working in the general. 

Paxton/Cornyn is an interesting general election challenge for the Dems. As a candidate, Paxton has anti DC status quo value and the energy of the true believer right wing. OTOH, the Dems have the chance to peel away more moderate voters or those just turned off by Paxton's grifting. I have to think Paxton would be easier to beat, but it's Tx.

49 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

It’s not free exposure. Republicans are going to have to pour in money on a primary while Talarico is already working in the general. 

sure, and you hope GOP donors have donor fatigue by the general, and they might. 

4 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

Gibson day-to-day. 

Better news!

Just now, buddha said:

compher and rasmussen for petterson and 2nd and a 4th.  vancouver retains $4million on Petterson.

i'd be fine with that but i doubt vancouver would be!  lol.

The problem for Vancouver is they are in a trading paradox. His value to the Canucks is currently negative and other teams know it and that they have to move him. OTOH, his value to another team could be positive, and the Canucks know it and still want something back.