gehringer_2

Life imitates art. Peter Sellers would be proud.

Santander to the Jays - in case someone else like me was wondering.....🤨

yeah - they've gotten themselves into a place where they can't serve an order fast enough to make any money. Death by a thousand menu choices.

I always felt that way too, and then when I realized I didn't any more the decision was easy.

You guys need to get your resumes into Ron Wood ASAP 🏈🏈🏈 🤣

speak for yourself. I'm not hoping he crashes the economy. I believe left to his own devices he would, but that's not the same thing!

The backsliding begins - Trump won't institute tariffs 'immediately" Gives himself a loophole big enough to drive a 4 yr administration through. Reality always sucks when you are a narcissist. -nyt

What the court says here is immaterial as to any actual truth of the matter. Only an individual himself can speak to his own admission of guilt or claim of innocence. It's strictly legalistic fictions that anything else could be true. Which of course is not to say that the SCOTUS isn't well steeped in legalistic fictions. And in terms of precedent, there likely is none because cases are specific, and one can only hope the American public will have learned by 2028 that it's a mistake to elect a person who carries on about an enemies list of otherwise innocent people. Well, that may be a little optimistic - we learned it once in 1974 and seem to have forgotten, but I suppose each generation has to learn it once for itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95kNwZw8YY&ab_channel=MarcEder

Yup. The dirty little secret that modern welfare state governments (and yes, the US is a 1st world welfare state - we just aren't very good at it.....) need property and income taxes because they are stable. Sales taxes, excise taxes, tariffs, can all swing wildly with the business cycle leaving government budgets to swing likewise.

I'm only disappointed that since Trumps coin was $TRUMP, Melania's wasn't $TRUMPETTE.

Tariffs will act just like sales taxes in the sense that they will hit the bottom half of the income distribution hardest (as President Cleveland understood perfectly well a century ago). Just what the US income distribution needs is a Trillion in new taxes paid mostly by the underclass. We are doomed.

Qouth the Dodgers: "All your players are belong to us"

Melania knows how to sell herself.

Pretty simple really. I want him to support vaccine research and use since that's how you eventually solve it for the birds as well as any people once it makes the jump we are all waiting for. (not!)

Here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, we just voted to allow the City to start up it's own electric utility. Talk about daylight madness. Granted DTE has done a ****ty job of line maintenance here for about 20 yrs - they basically stopped tree trimming hoping people would start paying them for it. Well they didn't particularly care to, and the power outages in town are probably the #2 civil complaint after the potholes. So in the last couple of years, after the "public power" political drumbeat started, DTE has upped line replacement and maintenance in a big way, but the it was too late to salvage their reputation in town and the public utility initiative sailed through in the election. Now of course it's the City that is already responsible for the roads, (that #1 complaint) which they can't figure out how to maintain, so doesn't it make perfect sense to give them charge of something infinitely more complex to do than paving roads and filling holes? Sure it does.....

No, but his buddy RFKj may be the worst pick in the world to try and end it.

Yup. You can have all the stuff in the world, but you have to have command. His walk rates last year were too high. Certainly something everyone assumes will fall into line, but he hasn't proven it yet.

It comes down where you put resources to get the best return. As long as there are owners out there willing to rack up deferred liability out to 2050, a team like Detroit will probably remain better able to use its resources more effectively on scouting and development and rehab recovery. I don't see trying to 'outstupid' the orgs that have income to burn as a likely route to more winning. No - I don't care about the money per se, but the team won't operate at a loss, so big non-productive contracts do affect what else they can spend on, Ilitch's personal wealth not-withstanding.

One interpretation of Cleveland is that he believed it was the government that was the primary culprit in mal-distribution of wealth because of a highly regressive regulatory and tax-system (largely tariffs in the pre-income tax days). So he might have a foot in both the left (anti-wealth disparity) and right (anti-government 'interference') in today's paradigms. Some of the leaders around the turn of century were pretty economically radical. Hayes apparently favored nearly total inheritance taxes. With money running US politics today, no leader today can be as patently anti-rich as some of those guys were. There are certain steps that a system may take that turn out to be irreversible, and it appear to me that Citizen's United was one of those. We've politically empowered monied interests to the point where they can stop the political process from ever controlling them again. If the US fails to repair its broken politics and thus ultimately fails - and right now I see little prospect of that repair, CU will be the root cause.

Always good advice, even if it came from a lapsed Anglican.

Wasn't it poor line maintenance by AEP that brought us the great 2003 black-out?

This is why I never got my panties in any kind of bunch over the supposed influence DEI at schools like UM on the larger culture. All this stuff rolls mostly right off the kids' backs. It's millennial - and older - faculty that were the most charged up. The bulk of students just saw it as extra work and a distraction, and I'd guess for every student that got "proselytized" by it, one other was driven to become more conservative/reactionary. Personally I never saw anything particularly onerous in anything I was asked to participate in, my larger concern was always the return on investment on the resourced devoted to it. Interestingly, from what I've been reading, the research on diversity program effectiveness done by business says stop talking about who is right and wrong or oppressed and oppressor and just spend the time educating people on how to have their antennae up and be more inoffensive - you play on people's natural predisposition to self-improvement. And given that young people today tend to be deficient in sophisticated social skills today anyway, I can get behind that. Also apparently, simply dropping the 'E' seems to make a difference in how people respond. Folks seem to be OK with "Diversity" and "Inclusion" but "Equity" immediately makes them think their own jobs are at risk. One analyst I heard discuss this said "Equity" is a problematic term because people don't parse the difference between "equity" and "equality" very well.

that didn't age well.

Tim Allen is less funny as .... almost anyone.