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On 12/23/2025 at 10:58 AM, Deleterious said:

The article seems to agree.

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Consumer spending has stayed resilient despite the negative sentiments about the economy, 

 

The top 10 percent of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all spending, Moody’s Analytics estimated this fall

(this tidbit cited in a NYT story on conspicuous consumption dining. $600 for a suckling pig anyone?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/dining/nyc-restaurant-prices-luxury-menus.html)

2 hours ago, Cruzer1 said:

The only thing is that Gibson has been amazing, but I don't know if it will last. 

all the more reason not to overwork him now. We've seen the story of an overworked goalie fading with the Wings often enough.

half a dozen dozen Christmas cookies  baked! 

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

You could also include the absence of led paint in many of the older lower income apartment buildings 

when we were kids they painted some yellow pencils with lead chromate - double whammy.

On 10/4/2025 at 6:18 PM, Archie said:

They are always starting something but then claim they are the victim.  Its never ending.

LOL - more projection.

20 minutes ago, casimir said:

I remember the artificial tree my parents had.  It was stored in these humungous heavy/compressed cardboard barrels.  These things were humongous to me as a small kid, they were probably similar in size to a 55 gallon barrel.  And they seemed like a hassle to haul up and down the basement steps, but maybe they were just awkward rather than heavy.  There was the base, the trunk/"spine", and then the limbs.  The limbs were all color coded on the thick wire attachment part to set into the same color coded holes in the base.

my dad loved gadgets and hated the arguments over picking out Xmass trees so when the first silver aluminum ones came out he had to have one. It had the floodlight with a rotating color wheel that shined on it. They were pretty hilarious in retrospect but seemed pretty cool at the time. The boss and I have evolved in several stages from cutting live down to a 4' fake that goes up in about 5 min. Should have started there years ago.

I've only known one navy airman  - a top gunner - flew the F-14. It was a fair number of years since he'd been out but at the time he was driving a mini-van!

46 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

interestingly enough, there is an argument to be made that the big increases in urban crime in the 70's-80's which have taken a few decades to fall back, line up with the increase in lead burden in children from the huge increases in the use leaded gasoline that were occurring during that period. Lead isn't good for brains, esp young ones. Things like poor development of impulse control follow. 

There are a lot of environmental scares that pretty much just that, but I tend to believe that one was real and never has been fully recognized for the disaster it was. The combined political pull of big oil and the auto biz meant that no-one was ever going to be held to account for what happened or even look all that closely.

On 12/22/2025 at 8:51 PM, Motown Bombers said:

An Achilles is the worst possible injury for a safety to have. Sports medicine has come along way but Branch is going to have to prove himself. 

at least they have the surgical technique to the point were full recoveries are more likely. As recently as Brandon Jennings it was pretty much a career ender.

2 hours ago, Cruzer1 said:

I think the elephant in the room is Cossa. I think the Wings need to make room for him in Detroit. 

I suppose they want to see if Cossa can hold up over a whole season this time instead of fading in the 2nd half, but OTOH it seems a waste of potential if he could be supplying high quality play in Detroit while we're waiting to find out.

3 hours ago, sagnam said:

3-on-3 OT hockey is the best idea the league has had in a long time.

especially when your team has Dylan Larkin. I don't know if there is a 3 on 3 first line in the league any better than Larkin, Seider and Raymond.

3 hours ago, sagnam said:

Dude. That pass was unfair. Sure it was a nice finish by Larkin, but I can't believe that JVR wasn’t the center of that celebration.

between the trip to the trainers room and the bad penalty that let the Stars get the lead JVR probably has some mixed feelings on his night.

Chippy game. I don't think these two teams like each other much.

But even some good shifts by Rasmussen early leading to the assist. But as the game went on I seemed to be progressively less aware of his presence.

2 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

This is truly tyranny of the stupid. We are not only being run by some of the most truly disgusting, repugnant people on Earth, but the dumbest among us too. Sick ****ing people. 

I love when the top of the food chain discloses itself as unable to even feed itself without assistance.

At the Forbes 100 I once worked at, a divisional VP sent out a 200 page bid on a nearly 9 figure contract to the customer. Not only did he not even bother to convert it to PDF, he sent it as a Word doc that still contained the markup history from the starting template, which was a bid to a different customer. But he and the Pres were a couple of Italian blood brothers so they blamed it all on us peons that had sent him the pieces of the rewrite for him to assemble - a job he regarded as too important to let us do for him - most likely because we might find some things out they weren't telling the team.

2 hours ago, Adullin said:

Fun game Pistons defense is leading to fast breaks 

thought they started looking tired in the 2nd half, but they still had too much for the Kings

Cade playing sloppy on defense. 3 fouls early in the 2nd.

6 minutes ago, casimir said:

Don’t pagans have their own shrubbery to decorate?  Like a maple tree or hydrangea or something like that?

Pagans were already into pine trees in the OT. 

19 minutes ago, buddha said:

when is the last time the red wings and pistons were both in first place at christmas?

even odder, going into Feb 2025, who would have though the Lions would be the only Detroit team not to lead their division for much of their season?

On 12/22/2025 at 7:36 PM, buddha said:

asp is fine.  his defense is bad as a 20 year old rookie.  that's fine.  most are.  he'll be ok.  i'm happy he's in the nhl and learning.

a problem that's not going to go away for smaller D men in today's game without rule changes is that you need brute strength to clear the front of the net more than ever today because the league is allowing less hacking/cross checking of  offensive players near the crease.

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

In honor of bone spurs, every ship should have a little cork in the hull and if the cork goes missing they can't fight. 

Not to worry. If Trump has any input into the design of a ship you can be sure it won't be fit to fight.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Yeah, our economy is fueled by debt.  Stay tuned tomorrow, where we tell you water is wet.  

unfortunately, consumers don't have the option of spinning off their loses and leaving someone else holding the bag the way US corps do. They end up having to pay their bills sooner or later.

49 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

The article seems to agree.

 

league really needs the rule change about contact initiated by the offensive player.

football teams have terrible injury years, nothing you can do but reload and try again. As long as it's Holmes picking the talent they'll be back.

16 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

 

I think the Navy has screwed up on every ship but one it's designed in the last 30 yrs. Add Trump to that mix and you can count on it being 40.