gehringer_2

This. The real reason the illegals have been allowed to stay is that the business community knows removing them will drive up wages everywhere. The employers of illegals wail that Americans won't do the work implying that they are too lazy, but the truth is not that they are lazy, it's that being legal, they have choices. You will have to pay enough to make it a better choice to get legal workers out in those fields and into those hotels and construction jobs and American business doesn't like that idea one bit.

Of course this is an overstatement, but there is an interesting tension dynamic going on inside liberalism. American Jews have generally comprised a chunk of liberal leadership, and have been in the vanguard of previous progressive movements, but the recent turn of a section of the progressive movement to victimology has been leveraged by the Arab American community to take the movement into anti-semitism, and interestingly, the old guard leadership is now pushing back. We have old traditional Jewish liberal regents at UM, people that would in the past have been considered progressives, pushing the 'U' back toward the mainstream, and the 20% of the faculty that comprise this new style victimology wing are screaming bloody murder.

LOL - this is GM you are talking about - a company that hasn't failed to bet wrong once in the last 40 years. I think I'll start a tracker on GM vs LGES and see which one goes up more in the next 5yrs.......

C'mon, CMR - who needs fruits and veggies, don't they call come from the left coast anyway? We don't care about those farmers, they don't have enough votes to carry their states. Nope - You can have beans and bread on weekdays and beans and corn on weekends, and you'll get fat and happy.

The counter point is that McMasterCarr sells this product as Duct Tape, and with Sears long defunct, they are the pre-eminent authority for all things hardware. https://www.mcmaster.com/products/duct-tape/

so there is an alternate etymology that says this kind of tape was used to repair the cotton *duck* fabric as was used on the wings of early aeroplanes. I don't know which is older or truer. BTW - "duck" had nothing to do with ducks, it's the approximation of the dutch word for canvas - "doek"

I've always understood from game theory that the best strategy is to absorb the first violation of the rules, but then then take it pedal to the metal if your opponent won't come back to the game properly. After the second insult to the system there is no place for decorum - you have to fight with every tool to win, you put the system back together as it should be after you've won. WWII being the salient example of how this actually played out in the real world. The problem is the good guys too often don't trust even themselves to put it back right so they think they can't risk it. The other problem is sometimes they are right.

yeah - it does depend a lot on how fast your org's turnover is. Things turned over relatively fast at the regional level in one org I worked for, you could basically keep your head down and just mostly avoid a bad middle manager because they wouldn't be there long in most cases. Obviously there are limited places you can do that. In some orgs you can cultivate your boss's boss, which can pay off but can also be risky.

then we better make a LOT of NOISE about how BAD an idea the GOLDEN AB IS.

I've learned to enjoy baseball with less expectation about the outcome. Haven't gotten there with Hockey yet though! And darned if for a change I don't have to for football!

Gee, wouldn't it be terrible if the GOP actually faced the fact that Trump was *their* problem? Yeah, no - what am I thinking?.......

and the more unrestrained the rich teams get throwing money around, the more likely the above becomes for everyone else.

exactly

I'm sure the people at Henry Ford Health love seeing the same ad format they adopted show up in this.

so if Bobby Witt singles and the two guys behind him walk, you take him off third base and send him up to bat again?

It's empty rhetoric in any case. The US can't do anything to Hamas any harder or more effectively than Israel has already been doing. The only impact US involvement would have is if the US gave Iran an ultimatum on the theory Iran could force Hamas, but I'm not sure that's still a good theory at this point.

Yup

I'm sure that about now Biden is channeling his inner honey badger.

Nope. He's 36 and has a reground hip. Resigning him smacked more of hope than wisdom. This season Yzerman's decisions on who to pass and who to pay have largely come a cropper.

this should at least be interesting for a few days.

Matt has has started 23 games total in the two years since finishing his DL stint for TJ and he's 34 this upcoming season. If you are Cleveland you probably decided not to overspend on a guy that will probably spend half the season on the DL.

There is something to this. Speaking completely generally (i.e. ignoring the obvious political tie-in) the globalization and instantization of communication means that we can see the variety and extremes across the whole planet everyday, and since we don't really comprehend the scale of the whole planet very well - everything does get more 'normalized', seem more ordinary that it probably should. The culture should eventually absorb that change but the change happens faster than the culture processes it.

I've thought since last year that we'd get more out of Seider if we played him a little less. I think Lalonde runs him out of gas.

It's complex, of course. To raise US wages and restore the middle class, it would be helpful if certain types of manufacturing is reshored - but not just anything. The kind of manufacturing that can support high paid workers is mostly capital intensive processing were each worker manages machines or automation that leverages his hourly output to support a higher way. Things that are mostly handwork - like light assembly, will not pay the kind of wages to make a reshoring effort worthwhile. So how to you do it? Tariffs can create the pressure for it to happen, but investment and tax policy can be just as effective. Along the same line - a better take than just stand alone tariffs is to tie them into a system to recover the externalities that companies often do offshoring to avoid - such as pollution control, site remediations requirements, resource depletion, labor standards. You could group these kinds of things under the heading of 'leveling the playing field.'

yeah - that's a great myth. Things get better in small increments when people keep plugging away to make things better, they get worse in big chunks when people start breaking stuff. I think we tend to think this way because the feed our selves such deep fantasies about America's history: "We are a revolutionary nation". No, we are not really. France's reign of terror was revolutionary, Leninism was revolutionary, Cuba was revolutionary, the Chinese cultural revolution was revolutionary. What happened beginning in 1776 in the American colonies was actually a fight more to keep things the way they were - they way they had gradually evolved in the colonies while the Brits weren't paying that much attention, than to change things. It was the Brits who wanted to force the colonies to change - to pay more to support the Crown and accede to more direct rule from England than where things had evolved. It was more a war of conservation than revolution. Which is why the outcome didn't look like France or Russia.