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Not only pad her resume, but make her a house hold name. Instead she was about the most invisible VP since Dan Quayle I guess everybody has their own weirdness. Biden certainly seemed totally enthused about her in the end, it was no Ike/Nixon kind of show. So then way did he didn't he see he was torpedoing for VP ship for 3 years? Was he afraid if he made her look good that would have increase pressure on him not to run? I'd have to guess that was it, and if so it turned out to be a pretty terrible miscalculation.

Time to come up with a handle I guess.....

You don't think A.J. Please-Don't-Bang-Those-Can-Lids-OK-Nevermind Hinch would have whipped that young man's rear into line and saved his career? Just kidding. Don't know much about Kevin Cash but I wonder if it could have made a difference if he had come up playing for an old mad dog like Jim Leyland. But Wander have have already been a golden child too long before he ever got to the majors.

Has good power, can get round on velo, and has a good low O-Zone swing rate (not fooled too much). His problem is getting his inZoneContact rate up.

You mean those guys I ducked weren't from the forum? I must really be in trouble.......

I have to admit I am very jaded when it comes to Musk at a technical level. SpaceX flies well but I saw what he was trying to do with hyperloop and that was one of the more hair-brained things I'd ever seen. Some of his people are obviously top notch, but anything that gets close to being a personal pet project of his and I can't help be more more skeptical.

Maybe - but you know as well as I do that it can be a long way from 'not difficult' to 'done right'!

Goodness you're touchy. Do you own one? I never said anything about proving anything, just pointing out places where execution matters more than average. If you recall when Ford started adding Al body panels to the F150 there was were questions raised about whether they had adequately designed to protect against interaction between the steel undercarriage and the body. They seemed to have done well with it, but it was not a foregone conclusion and it takes work to get it right. Grade wise you can pick any grade of SS you like and they are all still much less active on a galvanic series then any kind of sheet carbon steel.

here's the material guide of a body blowup. Looks like giant set of galvanic corrosion opportunities! Well maybe they insulate the living daylights out of all the joints or put anodes/galvanizing on the mild steel areas. https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybertruck/BodyRepair/BodyRepairProcedures/en-us/GUID-B4A61C9E-4CE2-4D9A-B9B3-B6D74EEFE038.html I liked this one also: How hot can a body panel get in the desert sun of a warming planet?

Yeah - I was thinking along the same line, at least Rubio is not illiterate.

HA! the truck thing certainly benefits by not having to do any forming of the stainless. I wonder if they stress relieve the welds though - or will they all end up with stress corrosion cracking from road and sea salt?

I have a cousin on the faculty at Western Mich. She loves her field but the teaching drives her insane. She's not really allowed to demand anything from the little princes and princesses without getting blow back all the way from the admin and of course they have no idea how unprepared they are because no-one is allowed to make them face reality- it would make them uncomfortable...... Now I saw tons of brilliant,motivated kids at UM and it's easy to get lulled into a false sense of security about the national future until you realize what a small bit of the total cohort you're seeing. They're not the real world, or at least not very much of it.

Thinking about the PO - it would be interesting to get someone (probably not Musk!) who could think outside the box of paper a little. What if the PO set up a gov ISP that would allow you to go to the PO (or use a verified account from home) and sign a document and then have that reproduced and verified at the other end electronically by a secure government chain of transmission? There are a private services that do that now but it's kind of mess of various nethods and operators and you never really know if you can trust any of them with your info or $$.

I didn't think they'd even make it through to the end of the campaign before there were fireworks. I guess while it's rare, there have been some people that been able to stay close to Trump over long periods - Roger Stone comes to mind.

I hate the very idea of loans for education. A society that doesn't have the brains to pay to educate its own citizens or at least make it affordable without incurring debt is well on it's way down the tubes already, and of course the biggest unintended consequence of the increase in available loan money has been a reduction in the pressure for cost control at colleges. The former absolutely has driven the latter.

If he turns the nation's MAGA global warming deniers into green car drivers I'll live with it! but just as possible his involvement in government will end up ticking off even more potential buyers of all stripes than his political activism already has, and if Tesla's sale don't pick up accordingly the share prices can go down as easily as it went up. A possible winner for Musk would be a postal service contract for EVs.

the issue with DOE for educators is that every $ comes strings that end up costing dollars in administrative costs. I guess districts have judged that they get more than the cost or I suppose they would leave the programs, but DOE has been a driver for increased non-teaching payroll at every educational level. That idea of getting rid of the overhead and keeping the money is probably attractive to a lot of people who think doing away with DOE would be nice, but they are doomed to be disappointed. Bureaucracy is more powerful than party - I don't think there is any way they ever get the $$$ without the strings.

I'm as big an opponent of private schools feeding at the public trough as anyone, and it's a topic that stands on its own in any discussion, but I don't see any direct connection to the existence of the Department of Education. The voucher battle has been playing out for decades at the State level. The only way it becomes an issue is if the Fed were to offer a direct private voucher - possible but seemingly an unlikely expenditure choice to come from a GOP Congress - though I freely admit one never knows!

This feels right. Tork's swing is a beautiful thing now, it's what he chooses to swing at, or maybe what he needs to be able to get his swing on that he hasn't in the past, that needs to change. I've though for a while that his biggest problem was plate coverage, and I think Harris said as much in the post-season presser. In that sense maybe he has to learn to/become more willing to, take what he regards as a less than perfect swing to defend the zone better.

Can "Protegor" be far behind?

the existence of the dept of Education is simply an org chart choice. The real question is what happens to the legislation that directs the department's current mandates? Before there was a department of Education there was a division within the former Dept or Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). The president can reduce his cabinet by one chair (assuming he gets Congress to go along - TBH, 15 direct reports is a large number for any admin) but the rubber meets the road at what Congress does with all of DOE's current tasks. If they just all get moved into another administrative unit inside say, HHS, then not much changes. It's not like any one knows who the Secretary of Education is or he/she has any great pull in inside the executive branch now. Just for context, the nation managed to educate the largest cohort in his history before DOE existed (est 1979). This is actually the kind of thing I hope Trump spends all his time on. Stuff that is red meat to the base but in basically re-arranging deck chairs. Improves the odds he'll have less ambition to screw up important stuff.

is it really, or is it just that the Biden/Obama voter didn't show up? If your people don't show up every sub group is going to look shifted to the other side. The real question is were minds changed or just voting reliability that changed.

combination of a good bullpen holding the line but also a symptom of a team that can't hit the breaking ball? Theory: relieve pitchers throw less spin than starters.

which is the sad part. So we 'blame' it all on the brown people when it's us that have created the framework within which they are just trying to do the best they can for themselves. If the country isn't going to let them in or stay, the first thing we need to do make sure the people in CA/SA understand the situation before they leverage probably everything the have to get here.

the approach was mostly wrong. If you want to slow the flow, the people coming need to understand they can't stay, not that it's harder to get across - there will always be ways to get across. And in fact we have little problem interdicting people who do cross, it has been that the process after they are interdicted is broken. The dems sort of went along with theoretical discussion that border 'security' was the problem because they didn't want to face changing the asylum system because it's a progressive marker. If you could close the border tight enough, you wouldn't have to face that the asylum system was broken. But 'sealing' the border is an illusion. You can't apprehend a crosser until they are in the US and as soon as they cross the line they can avoid being returned. That is where the bigger part of the problem has been for a long time now. And this doesn't even touch on the fact that small business owners (largely GOP) don't want stricter employment enforcement either. A dirty little economic secret is that the large number of undocumenteds in the workforce creates a constant downward pressure on entry level wages across the economy and that's just peachy with the Chamber of Commerce.