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You can't be an AG or prosecutor without leaving a history of some cases that you got wrong - so stories about single cases I take with a grain of salt. The biggest knock I've heard about Harris that I would take seriously is that she burns out staff people - that's not a good trait. I read some defenses that she's gotten better, but I would look for people fired or exiting the campaign for confirmation this is or isn't still true. Of course in the final analysis, I don't care if she rolls her whole cabinet over every other year, SHE'S NOT TRUMP!.

he's been showing signs - OBP has been rising on the stength of a lot of walks, but then he was 0/5 yesterday.....🤷‍♀️

he played last night 1/3 2BB https://www.milb.com/gameday/bats-vs-mud-hens/2024/07/27/752219/final/box

yeah - we don't have the data. We know that Keith was a 3B before he injured his shoulder sliding into a base and when he came back they decided to move him to 2nd. From all I could gather moving Jung to 2B was expressly done to make room for both he and Keith on the same roster. So the question of why Jung did not go back to 2nd once Keith came to Detroit is a good one - but could be related to them not having any other interesting 2B candidate at Toledo this season anyway, so the Harris plan of teaching guy multiple positions is in play bey default. They appear to still be keeping his hand in at 2b with about 1/4 of his games there this season. As for Keith, I do remember reading that the shoulder injury was something that might resolve completely in over a year or not, but just by observation, he appears to be throwing very well right now at up to ~110 feet, but of course we can't judge if there'd be a problem at 150' or a risk or greater risk of re-aggravating the old injury. Not to mention right now he is pretty much carrying this team and you sure don't want to take *any* kind of risk with him. Save it for the off-season or try a move back in winter ball.

Fair point.

Easy there, it's just conversation

good catch - this looks a pick up off an old story that isn't quite what is claimed..... https://dfrac.org/en/2024/02/28/fact-check-did-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-give-autonomy-to-women-in-regard-to-fashion/

He hasn't been sentenced so I would assume he is still on bail?

I'm curious what his throw catch error split is. His FP% was .992 as a 2B - which is hard to argue with in the same way - so either the 1st step isn't fast enough at 3B (but you don't necessarily get errors on balls you don't get to......) or is he throwing the ball away to 1st a bunch? If it's true that they moved Colt to 2nd to save his arm maybe that is the obvious thing to revisit because Colt's arm looks in fine shape on his DP turns recently.

and yet the director of USSS was hounded out of office for not given those very details on such a real time basis. Not that I can defend the quality of her public performance but exactly as you note, she shouldn't have been answering most of the questions she was getting at the Congressional hearing even if she could have.

That doesn't really hold. The religious story has been the same since the nation's founding along but the persecution complex on the part of the political right wing of US Christianity at the outside might be dated to losing Roe v Wade but really didn't start getting traction until the Bush years. So it doesn't follow from first principles - it derives from the GOP's invention of the culture war and the realization on the part of the conservative movement that selling persecution is their most effective fund raising strategy (for both the pulpit and the political side) to people who would be otherwise uninterested in politics. Or, long story short, it's the product of concerted political marketing. The other aspect historically, is that while Rome persecuted the early Christians, it was the Christians that ultimately emerged in control of the empire, so there is an equally strong streak of triumphalism to balance any sense of persecution.

OK - That's Bacchus - but that's a different shot.

Since May 1, Keith is 297/352/487 (247 PA). He's become the teams best hitter, just like that.

He's just trolling now. But that doesn't mean he isn't weird.

They would no doubt prefer to. But Cleese and the crew have always been completely up front about what they were doing. Cleese even debated the Archbishop of Canterbury on a talk show after the movie came out.

Yes this. Like I said I don't care, but I find the it irritating when people try to backfill their way out what they clearly did - even whether they meant or not. And don't call the viewers the unsophisticated ones here. If they didn't mean what people took it for, it would be that those who created it were ignorant of the existing western art canon they were evoking.

I would say it's the last supper because it's a table, it's 12 around a central character, and the geometry directly evokes several well known "last suppers" such as DaVinci and Dali. And that is what I got from it on first impression 100% before I even read the post. Baccanalia were outdoor affairs as much as indoor. You might depict your participants actually eating or drinking, a satyr or faun or two is a nice add and those folks all have too many clothes on......

Tbh, I’ve seen depictions of Baccanalia and I’ve seen multiple western art depictions of the last supper and to argue the first impression of that graphic anyone would have is not a take on the last supper is simply disingenuous, regardless of what it’s executors claimed. That said, I don’t really care either way!

Does Joe Biden have some condition we don't know about. He's old and we all know that perfectly well, he's out in public not hiding it. His checkup results have been released. How is that not transparent? How is it comparable to Trump who has given us nothing but fantasy medical reports about himself since 2015.

There are always people who are fundamentally in opposition to "western liberal" values who will none-the-less try to abuse them to gain whatever advantages they are seeking in or against Western Society, and it's something we just have to recognize and deal with without throwing the baby out with the bath water.

This is so much at the heart of a lot of things.

well maybe he was, or maybe like most young men there was some transient thing he was hating his father about so killing his father's idol became the obvious logic (to him). He didn't seem to leave much of a bread crumb trail. Unless they find a journal or USB drive or some online handle ID they haven't figured out yet we may never know.

and that's why I say you can't really go by much of what you hear from the people or reporters around the minors (well or the majors for that matter). When Jung was moved there were a number of stories that he was a 'natural' and it would be walk in the park for him, and likewise he put on a good face that he'd handle it. Not true? if not, by not just living with a less than ideal arm in Keith, are they letting the perfect be the enemy of the good in not having two guys in positions each may play better?

It is interesting that all the heat came down on Cheatle - which is fair enough on one level if she either didn't or couldn't find out what was going on, but we know Cheatle wasn't the one making or validating the local arrangements. I suppose this is basically a 'blue wall' episode where everyone who was on the ground is adhering to the code of silence to not blow a brother's cover.

Correct, but that is the whole point isn't it, people who would kill over their private definition of blasphemy are exactly the people we don't want to be aren't they? Christianity historically has a mixed record on the issue of intellectual freedom. Post enlightenment Protestantism and even parts of post reformation Catholocism (e.g Jesuits) have been pretty good on the issue but you'd have to admit that is more the exception than the norm over 2 millennia. The Greeks first gave us the concept and they were pagans - so no current religion really can claim it as their idea.