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or alternatively, you already do know the single most important thing.

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yeah - hard to say - ordered to do a bag skate - was he still rehabbing the knee, did he know it was likely to aggravate the knee? Coaches may be right, or they may be dickheads.

because having a deal with Iran is better for the US than not having a deal with Iran. Iran with IAEA inspectors running around is much better than Iran without IAEA inspectors running around. This isn't hard. Nobody's hands are clean in the ME, and that includes the US and Israel. Kacie was just posting about our client SA pretty much practicing terrorism against children in Yemen. Who is fighting *for* those children? Iran. The conflict between Iran and the US is a mile wide and 1/2" deep. We actually even had a chance to patch it up after 9/11 and Shrub botched it, both out of his own ignorance and because Cheney and his oil industry buddies were too much in thrall to the Gulf Sheikhs who made sure any openings to Iran went nowhere.

Sounds like he might still have upside if the knee problem resolved. Good to be trying something, Veleno looking like a dead-ends and Zadina not far behind.

Hmmm. D man signed, forward down? Vrana being activated and maybe Leddy gets moved?

seems to be a gap - 10 games in the NHL and 3 in the AHL? What else has he been doing? Injuries? (EDIT: yes apparently has not been healthy much of his career so far...)

I wonder if they are making him do an anger management course. It could actually help him...

I would guess pitchers will make more mistakes, which should increase offense, but OTOH, the batter has less time to prep himself as well, and maybe that will play the other way. And of course, who knows what damage it may do to offense when hitters have to start playing through having loose batting gloves......🤣

right, the guy in charge is always the last to know, and TBH, how many of the Bush II people have ever admitted they had it wrong to this day, certainly not Cheney or esp W himself.

I wonder if as a bonus they also find out that when a pitcher throws 5 innings in one hour instead of 2 he isn't as tired.....

Fareed is a realpolitiker. His view is you have to accept that some things are more important at a given time than others, that if you are stuck on trying to do everything, you will accomplish nothing. Something to be said for that, but OTOH, there is also risk in making compromises that come back to bite you later. You could put arming the Afghan mujahideen against the Russians as a counterexample where taking your eye off the longer term issue of Islamic radicalism to score short term points against the Sovs doesn't look so good in hindsight. Intellectual frameworks are a good thing to focus thinking, but every situation still has to be evaluated on its unique merits.

Hallelujah!

Just think of the strange cognitive dissonance that must be dancing in Vladdy's hot little brain, who after spending his life critiquing US military misadventures, has fallen into making every mistake we ever did, and in spades.

Sounds too familiar for comfort. Shrub should have had this guy in his ear instead of Rumsfeld and Cheney. Marx didn't have it quite right, history can repeat and both times it's still just tragedy.

they should give Northrup their shot a producing the F23

funny how sometimes mundane engineering issues turn out to be some of the hardest - like heat. A big problem for jet powered STOLs is that they cook the runway - which of course is a really big issue for using them on aircraft carriers. e.g, I saw they are working on the next generation of the V-22 where only the rotors pivot and not the whole engine so the hot exhaust stays off the deck, but of course that's much more mechanical complexity than having the whole engine plus rotor rotate together as on the V22

India not in a particularly happy place. They have no emotional, ideological or fraternal ties to Russia, but as part of their 'non-aligned' status they have traditionally refused to hitch themselves to the US as arms supplier, thus they are dependent on Russia for military supplies. OTOH, their troops and Russian equip failed miserably in a recent border dust-up with the Chinese and they can't be happy seeing Russian equipment fail in Ukraine even if they have no sympathy with what the Russians are doing with it. There might be some opportunity to peel them away the Russians, but the Indian commitment to the 'non-aligned' status runs pretty deep.

right - F-35B is STOL, doesn't much need an airfield at all, but supposedly it's not as capable as the non-STOL variants.

I think it was in a piece by the Asia CSIS guy where there was a good presentation of the issues for Xi with Taiwan - the big diff is that it's much harder to invade over water, but it will also be much harder to resupply Taiwan with no friendly land borders. Bottom line, Taiwan's needs to stockpile a lot of ordinance and they should be doing it now.

according to Monarrez in the DetNews Campbell has already decided to go 4-3.

Nixon was a figure whose tragedy the classic Greeks would have loved. Brilliant strategic thinker but insecure, paranoid personality.

or another way to put it into scale, over the last few years annual imports from Russia have been roughly 10 days consumption. But it's a canard that environmental regs have stopped the frackers. Low prices closed down fracking. High prices will bring them back.

I say this all the time and people think I'm joking but I'm not: but ban velco closures on batting gloves and you take 30 min off a baseball game. (snaps, buttons or zippers only!)

take I-75 south to the Fla turnpike, follow that to i-95, take the Oakland Park Blvd exit west, around the bend to the left in 10 miles and you can't miss it.