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LOL. It was a toss between that line and "who remembers when Jeff Sessions as AG was our biggest worry about the Trump Administration? - Good Times"

the legal soap opera around the Flint water disaster takes another turn. SCOTSOM rules that a judge acting as a one-man grand jury may not issue criminal charges, judges have no power to prosecute. So the charges against Syder and others who were recharged by Judge Newblatt as Grand Jurist, after Nessel tossed out the previous charge filed under Schuette, have now also been tossed. https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/06/judge-had-no-power-to-indict-in-flint-water-crisis-cases-michigan-supreme-court-rules.html

Jeff Sessions? A name that almost makes you nostalgic for the good old days....

I can add that to my long list of conservative logic fails

I think a huge change - at least in one sense, came with the STP turbine car. It was sort the dividing line where the paradigm was forced to make a shift from auto racing being about doing anything/everything that anyone could figure out to go faster, to "we have the tech to go too fast, from now on it's about how fast can you go within whatever rule set we put in place." That was a shift from one kind of world to another. Anybody could build a car to go faster today - but it takes a ton of very detailed (expensive) engineering at every exploitable margin to get the fastest car inside all of the design constraints. It's a different kind of task than when racing started. I'm also curious about what will happen to IC engine car racing - assuming IC cars are one day going to more or less disappear from consumer driveways. We didn't stop racing horses when people stopped using them for regular transportation, so does IC engine racing live on as a cultural legacy like horse racing, or do the electric car racing circuits eventually displace it. And of course the constraints of electric car racing seem even stranger.

I'd have gone for II Samuel 11:4. That would have been fun in elementary school.

right. The trade was fine based on the information 'in the public domain' so to speak. The issue is exactly whether the Tigers had a player under their nose they never gave a chance to show his value.

Unemployment is 3.6%, the market correction has drained mostly forth - most peoples investments are still well ahead of where they were at the end of 2020, and gas prices may already have peaked. We'll see.

There is *some* truth to this, but even on this point the case is over stated. In almost every case the guy is going to come into the game anyway, the only question is this inning or next inning. Being half way to ready in the 5th when you are scheduled to in for the 6th is just not a big deal. The exception would be getting someone up in the 9th when your closer is already in the game because otherwise that guy might actually not have had to warm up at all.

I don't count this one as the worst they done, but a football coach at a public school is a state sponsored actor and as noted he is in a fundamentally coercive role. Thus it is exactly 'free exercise' (or choice not to) which is being denied. Now I do have a place in my heart for any student worth his salt who tells his coach to stuff it if he doesn't want to pray, In my ideal world every citizen should demand their rights. I also know most kids aren't cut from that cloth. I'm actually more offended by this kind of stuff on religious grounds. It terrible Christianity. The idea of praying to defeat a sports opponent or thanking God for having done it, so trivializes God as to be blasphemous anyway. The coach's preacher should be telling him to stop. But that is just another measure of the bankruptcy of American Evangelicalism. Just play the game, you don't 'deserve' to win anymore than the other guy and you can be confident God isn't going to make sure your placekicks fly true.

Once upon a time, you'd expect a Justice of the Supreme Court to be bright enough to get to this obvious piece of countervailing logic. Not the case with these looneys. Seriously, these guys have so little intellectual candle power it's just sad. This really hit home to me after Citizen'sUnited, when the conservatives made a fundamental logic error of conflating conceptual existence to actual existence that would have gotten them laughed out of any Philosophy 101 class. I've seen no signs of improvement since.

All we can hope is that in someday, this court is looked back and laughed at. And if that's not the case it seems doubtful the US will still exist in its present form.

right - I had failed to put the same qualifier in mine.

Of course in the US we are assuming an administrative state which is turn held accountable to the public by the oversight of a democratically elected government. GOP is trying hard to fail on that score as well. An administrative state unmoored from pubic oversight is just the USSR.

I have any number of noisy obnoxious red squirrels on my lot for whom a shot across the bough would be just the thing, but we must bend low at the waist to naval history as being a richer source of metaphor than our arboreal rodent friends, who in this case have to settle for blinding stumbling into their sparser nuggets of lexicographal reputation.

for me this is where the GOP completely falls off the rails on pure practical grounds. They have it exactly backward. It's funny to me that the GOP always used to call liberals 'ivory tower' and divorced from reality, but it's the GOP thought leaders today who apparently have no experience in how the real world works. Go to work for any big industrial corporation and it won't take long to understand that both civilized society and the planet will be quite doomed if the profit motive is allowed to run free without the administrative state at least trying to stand guard. Killing the admin state is a play for pure future disaster. The role of good government has to be to do your damnedest to make it work better, not constantly try to strangle it, and the GOP had been nothing but a hindrance to those efforts for 40 years now.

It certainly is hard to understand why they fall in love with some guys while short shrifting others. We gave Goodrum something like 1200AB. He averaged less than 1 WAR/season. Why? Willi Castro over 800, many in the IF, he's yet to break 650 OPS. OK, great, he now has a shortstop's arm in the OF, that's nice but not a luxury a team that can't hit can afford. These are the flip sides of the decisions that will have been responsible if Paredes ends up a bad miss. How many games did they give a hopeless case like Stewart?

Colorado's 1st pick from '17 has the most career assists of any player from that 1st round. Our 1st round pick from that draft ................has the most penalty minutes......🙄

I like it.

People do forget that all these things are a large part of what got us Roe in the 1st place and they will all still be there again just like they were 1973

Despite admittedly being streaky, Schoop came into this season with his last 1200 PA at >750 OPS, there was no reason to think he was going to crash like this. Looking through all his peripherals and maybe in hindsight you can argue his pull rate and ISO were down some last season, but could have also argued that was adjustment to COPA. He had had 4 out of 5 RC+>100 seasons. I don't think it's fair to criticize the Tiger FO for thinking Schoop would again be at least in the 1-1.5 WAR range. But given that, should we have expected Paredes to have become better than that? Before this season, if you had asked in my totally fan based subjective judgment I'd have pegged Paredes as maybe as topping out as a 2 WAR player, partly because even if the good plate discipline started to come through, he had yet to prove much in the way of his defensive chops and he does look like he could easily "grow" out of his quickness, even if he hasn't yet. Whereas I do think Schoop is a plus 2B. So sort of a wash between the two of them potential wise to me there, though of course you gain 6 yrs with Paredes. OTOH - to me Candy's resume has been more up and down and he's missed more injury time. Even though Candy's best last year was a lot better than Schoop, to me there has always been more an aura of fragility around his performance. I don't think I would have banked on Candelario blocking anyone long term.

but that's the thing with relievers, if you take them out quick you get them back quick. You leave them deep, you lose them for a couple of days. There is no way around it, you face a certain number of batters, you use a certain number of pitchers. The only real way to save your pen is to get out of innings. If you don't, you just burn the guy giving up the runs plus the guy who finally puts out the fire. The only good exception I would see is a guy you are sending out the next day anyway.

oh - he found some goofus Detroiter who supposedly has some kind of social media presence out at the pool. Total drivel. And that should do it.

well that didn't take long. Another shift run. Does anyone count them?

Kane/Bally are reaching new lows.