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LOL - Thanks for that! Ironically, the only people I've ever argued about this with were all born post word processor. I remember doing a lots of search and replace for two spaces back to one on final assembled copies of bid documents when we had several people working on them. The other tidbit is that IIRC, the IBM 'Selectric' typewriter was capable of proportional spacing even before the word processor era, though I couldn't tell you how it actually did space after a period.

he approves.

Yup. A lot of fine players on the team at almost every position. Unfortunately WR and QB were not strengths. Not sure Landry would have been good enough even with better receivers and Munson definitely wasn't.

Playing with players good enough that he couldn't be triple teamed there? Even if you believe he is better than the TO's bricked shots and inability to get the foul line argue right now, there is no way for Cade to star in the role of one on 5 basketball!

Plus the thing is there is no team. There is a roster and rotation, but in no way does this collection of players represent a team. No evidence of logic or planning in this roster that I can see. Maybe Cade just missed his time. Maybe he would have been more successful in the man defense era when he could have gone iso against generally smaller guards.

If you think McCarthy is mad now, wait until he sees that the conservatives have no appetite for vacating Johnson for doing exactly what they bounced him for.

The Gov apparently has a reprieve until mid January. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/us/politics/government-shutdown-vote-mike-johnson.html "The legislation would fund federal agencies at current spending levels with two different expiration dates: Jan. 19 for one set of government programs and Feb. 2 for another set. That timing would allow lawmakers more time to try to finish off the individual annual spending bills, as many conservatives have demanded. The bill did not include any military aid to Israel and Ukraine."

It's the government's business to create an environment where business wants to stay enough to take care of their workers as well as society demands. There are lots of details to that but that basically a big piece is that everything you do to create a better all round society helps. That's the job. That's why 'kill the beast' and 'starve it till you can drown it in the bathtub' is such lunacy. A well run gov at each level is the key to a lot of things Americans want but they've been brainwashed into thinking they can get those things by magic instead.

They could pack up and go before WARN just as easily. WARN serves a purpose but a fairly small one in the overall scheme of things.

The D was not good last season and they invested only moderately over the off-season so I don't know why anyone would have expected it to reach top echelon. Starting from last season, to achieve a middling D in one season was a realistic target, and that is about where they are. But with this offense a middling D still got them to 7-2

that is the key with Torkelson. After disastrous April, he righted the ship and his 2nd half OPS+ would have been closer to 120. He might not have been their best player over the season but he may have been over the 2nd half, which is what is promising going forward.

I suppose you can do anything you want if everyone agrees about how it's going to work before

Torkelson's _2 oWar were wiped out by his -2 dWAR. I'm not sure how much I care about that for a middle of the lineup 1B.

That started out being true, but I think most observers agree that politics and governance in Taiwan has evolved a long way since 1945. Certainly a lot further toward a modern open society than the mainland has in the same period!

Individual leaders and their personalities are important, I wouldn't underestimate that. The forces that Trump is riding are certainly bigger than he is, but they don't need to be channeled in the direction he takes them. I think we all agree the issue is the sense of disenfranchisement felt by large a swath of mostly the non-college educated population. But political nihilism isn't the only program that could channel that. Another movement could catch the loyalty of those people that had a far different set of priorities. Personally my biggest fear is over the country simply becoming less and less able to think intelligently. The educational system, the media, and even the business establishment, are failing miserably at producing, preparing, a population capable of making rational self-governance decisions. If we keep losing that, we are toast on all the other fronts anyway. I tend to see it as the tribalism being basically a reflection of ignorance. To transcend your tribal identity means you have spend time and effort thinking through and understanding why there are values more important than just the short term win for your side. When people are no longer equipped to do that, it's over.

Exactly. A fun narrative but not the reality.

Blaha's ability to paint a BB game on the radio is extraordinary. He developed a whole short-hand syntax of his own optimized for the listener to keep up with the speed of the game.

It depends on what you classify as a handout. The poor benefit when the government provides effective education, transportation and security services (as local business and employment cannot survive without safety) - all of which cost serious money, and in fact cost more to supply in depressed areas. The social utility of various direct subsidy programs has always been a matter of debate, but regardless of where any one comes down on any particular income transfer program, the truth is that the GOP is bad on all the things that do work as well as the things they claim don't work. So they are still worse for the poor than the Dems. (Rick Snyder having been standout counter example, until he self immolated in Flint!). And if you want to take a deeper dive into why there is so much urban poverty in the US in particular, it's because both parties have at various times since the beginning of the 20th century put policies into place that effectively destroyed the ability of the poor, and in particular the Black poor, to accumulate and maintain family social and economic equity. The two salient ones in my lifetime were "White flight" from US cities, which destroyed billions in family equity and employment opportunities in middle/lower middle class minority neighborhoods of US cities and from which cities like Detroit are still struggling to recovery 50 yrs later, and both political parties colluding in the collapse of US manufacturing employment. To ask whether one party or the other was more responsible for the 'suburbanization' of America or the embrace of 'globalization' are probably not even meaningful questions. The outcomes were cooked into the political process as a whole.

Not sure either team deserved to win that finish!

Lee, If I'm ever in the dock, I want you on the jury.

RIght. But you can be politically foolish/inept without constituting a clear and present danger to domestic tranquility and the survival of the constitutional republic. In fact being the former sort of guarantees you aren't the latter. Which is why Trump is dangerous.

I don't think the comparison is particularly apt. Hillary's comment was not bad because of the language or any implicit violence, but because her exact phrase "basket of deplorables" was a case of total class based dismissal. It was taken as a window into an elitist/privileged mindset that dovetailed so well with enough average voters' predispositions about the Clintons that it stuck. Trump calling people 'vermin' is classic fascist dehumanization agitprop which is always the prelude to the eventual moral justification for discrimination, abuse or violence against the targeted people. I don't think they are in the same league at all. One was political stupidity and a classic example of a politician saying what they really mean by mistake. The second has all the hallmarks of a much deeper and threatening moral degeneracy and spoken with intent to mean exactly what was said.

"Rules" without an enforcement mechanism are not much more than invitations to hypocrisy. Which is the main reason they've never existed before - how do you institute an enforcement regime against SCOTUS justices is not a trivial problem. Another one the Founders never anticipated as they certainly never imagined the appointment of SCOTUS members would devolve into partisan food fights over candidates that had no business to have been nominated in the first place.

Greetings!

For much of history, grounds were allowed to be a size smaller than the neutral and line wires since there should not be any current flowing in them, so if you have old romex around you'd see "14/2 with ground" cable had a 16 ga ground wire. The electrical code has 'upgraded', so buy new romex and the ground gauge will match the conductor size. So whether your ground wires were applicable depends on whether they matched the gauge of the conductors.