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State law has full authority in the national forest land. Isle Royale is the only “National Park” in MI. I think Old Fort Wayne in Det was a Federal compound at one time-WWII era- but I don’t think it is any more.

LOL- you left out that you can walk there, from MN, in the winter, if there is enough ice, (which becomes less likely with each ton of coal burned). Just you and the moose and maybe the occasional timber wolf.

Do children that were helicopter parented grow up expecting to be helicopter governed?

I want to pull this out because it I think it bears on an important point. I believe one of the reasons that some on the left have invested to much in the mindset of wokeness and micro-aggression is because it's a neat explanation for why the legal successes of the 60's, which at the time were thought to be the solutions, turned out not to be - at least not a complete enough solution. So the whole micro-aggression/lingusitic/semitoic paradigm arises as an explanation of why we are where we are despite the civil-rights legal reforms. But I think there is a much more straightforward reason that the explicit legal reforms of the 60's failed to effect a complete social solution, and yes it was because they failed to address institutional racism, but not because that institutional racism resides in the language of micro-aggression or unsurfaced personal racial hostility in most of white middle class America. but because it resides in the basic fiber of democracy in a geographically segregated society. You don't need lack of wokenes to explain that resource decisions in a democracy go to the majority, and when the majority (whites) live in districts geographically segregated from where the minority lives, then the places where minorities live get starved for public resources needed to help build social capital in minority society, and thus they can never catch up economically. That is the core of America's problem, not lack of wokeness. But that is a much more terrible and subtle problem to face because it explodes the myth of our democratic perfection. We have to face that to solve that problem the nature and structure of the Union is going to need some corrective surgery, and that will be a very big lift for our society. The only other alternative is for Whites and Blacks and rich and poor to stop trying to live apart from one another so the benefits of a geographically based representative politics get shared more fairly. Either way, not easy stuff. Much easier to explain away the failures of liberalism's great hour of triumph in the 60's by holding that we are just being too mean to each other. That said, there is a fight over basic wokeness that is still needed for America to begin to see the real problem but that fight needs to be redirected. Whites do need to understand that even if they don't really hold Blacks back because of conscious social micro hostility, they do hold them back simply by the way they vote ("innocently" enough I might add) in their own interests. The American system of government is a stacked deck.

Baddoo 3/4, SB tonight. He's on an upward trend. Walk and K rates OK, 7 for his last 23. What he hasn't started doing again is put the ball in the seats at all. Carpenter 2/3, BB. 1 K in 12 AB at Toledo so far, 21% K rate for the month of June (22 in 106 PA)

this is from Thomas Edsall's latest NYT column:

No - she has no brains either, at least not any strategic brains. She doesn't think past tactics, and that's exactly what gets the Dems and GOP to the relative level of long term success on their goals that they are at now.

little fool. How much harder is it to say "I urge you to write the white house and urge the president to work toward "x,y,z.." Just stupid and counterproductive to go after the only thing that stood between you and the abyss at the last election. Like I said - a slash and burn politician - for all intents and purposes just the liberal mirror image Jim Jordan.

Seeing many reports that the Ukrainians are bleeding Russian forces at an unsustainable rate, but no evidence yet that is having any practical effect on the ground, and of course it's no picnic for Ukrainian forces either.

Soto in control today. Nice. Candy and Schoop......./. sigh /

I think at this point in history it's the rebuttable presumption that truth is of no particular value to anyone willing to spend any significant time in Trump's orbit.

walk the #9 hitter twice - ✅

IDK, so far she's basically been a slash and burn politician. Does she get anything accomplished?

Not gonna argue with the run, but Miggy could have taken one swing trying to extend the rally before settling for the sac fly. Guess he doesn't have that kind of confidence anymore.

Tigers in their usual 7 men on the IF configuration I see.

Stern goading Trump into talking about banging his daughter may be been the most cringeworthy piece of radio I ever had the misfortune to have overheard. It would be tough to decide which of their stenches is worse.

it will probably end up in court if she tries. She will be 35 by election day (by 2 weeks) but not by when she would have to file her nominating petitions. If the Constitution is interpreted to read that the candidate must be 35- meaning at the time of filing, which is when other eligibility criteria are applied, she would not be eligible.

team can't stay in the zone, can't hit the pitches that are in it. What is this week's excuse our hitting coach is still employed?

Tigers fail to convert a run, turn around and give up a run up.

the 10 million yr loses a little vigor when you extend it to a couple of billion yrs though. The human brain really can't adequately conceive of how steep the odds are against life spontaneously arising, nor how long 4 billion years is. Neither side of the argument is really accessible to a judgment of experience.

There will be a lot of arguments after the fact about what 'fetal viability' means, but I'm going to guess this passes easily in MI

I'm beginning to think they have him thinking too much. He's always late on FB and that was never a knock on him in the past. Do your thinking before you stand-in, once you're in the box to be thinking is be out.

or maybe another way to put it is that any coach is going to like having a vet his rookie has to win his playing time from. It's another useful tool for him to use. The guys at the Cade Cunningham level that can walk in take over a team virtually from day one are still the exception.

They do seem to have a fair number of bright spots in system. I can remember long years in the Tiger system when you would be lucky to find any players whose stat sheets were actually shouting 'promote me!.' That's still no guarantee any of these guys actually make it, but they are at least taking a necessary 1st step in a way that is refreshing to see in this org. And again, this goes back to the conundrum about Avila. There has been progress under his watch - but it's still too little, too slow, and most importantly, too little impact has reached COPA yet.

I don't even want them to be driven by fidelity to theory. All theories are imperfect mappings onto real life. Every legal theory will end in injustice if pushed to it limit. We put living breathing people there at the top of chain exactly to do the sculpting when the necessary imprecision of rules and statutes runs into the messiness of real life. Their objective should be justice.