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well, yes and no. By '78 there the rumblings had begun. There were some that wanted to be rid of Hayes by that point (2 yrs with more than 2 losses and 4 losses in 78 was too much for some) but he was going to be very hard to fire, the incident gave them the cover to do what some were hoping for.

I don't know if they have to fire him, but they should at least hit him with a hard suspension. - IDK - maybe something like 30 days?

if Berggren, Edvinsson and Soderblom make the team next season, that will be 6 rookie adds (I suppose Veleno still has rookie status but I'm not counting him) in 2 seasons which would be pretty impressive. Still probably a need to sign a FA Dman for next season, not sure how much more Staal has in the tank.

the internet needs a "Tucker Carlson is a Moron" meme.

LOL, running with your head down is always a good way to make an out. Actually it sort of looked like the batter didn't know/understand the interference rules - it almost looks like he's asking for 2nd because the 1B was in the run out lane.

speaking of which, if Xi has leaned on Putin to be good until the game are over, that would make maybe next wed to thurs as Putin's 'go' days. Rain Mon/Tues with weather in the 50s though so the talk of the middle of Feb being the hardest ground is a miss.

So, do you really want to park that electric car in your attached garage? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/18/cargo-ship-fire-porsche-bentley-ocean/

As a person that has training in some level of safety practice, I would say putting a TV over a table is pretty stupid. And there are certainly a lot people that could have told the restaurant owner that. The problem is that none of them worked for him. That is really the biggest problem in the way American business operates, they won't pay to keep the expertise they need in their own house - instead they contract everything out at the lowest $$ amount and because of their own ignorance about what they are doing, don't know if their contractors know what they should either. As bad as the product liability system it, it's about the only thing that pushes back against American business losing the last shred of accountability they have left. I mean - go right back the thing with Stafford - did they put up a stage without a railing or curbing? That would absolutely an accident waiting to happen, which really means it would be no accident at all. But the dirty little secret is that despite the ridiculous payouts when someone hits at the judicial lottery, the fact is that business knows those payouts still cost them far less than doing things right - and that is the real scandal, which is another reason the system doesn't change.

no guns, just some industrial scale crime.... https://news.yahoo.com/u-coast-guard-offloads-1-210603507.html

you've got that right.

plus it's a purely symbolic act today. You can't actually suppress anything that can be digitized anymore. I can put the text of every book that has ever been banned on one 1/2" SD card and duplicate them to my hearts content or even leave encrypted copies all over the cloud. Talk of "Banning" or "burning" books is dramatic and hyperbolic but the real issues are quiet curriculum choices and there is no need to ban or burn a book to drop it from (or add it to) a curriculum.

yeah - any Turkish leader has to prefer a non-aligned Ukraine running Sevastopol to the Russians but regardless of what happens in Ukraine or Donbass, it's hard to imagine the Russians leaving Crimea again any time soon.

Now you're thinking!

the prospect of interest rates rising and P/E ratios coming down to meet them, is going to drive a lot of investors hooked on high returns into investments of questionable wisdom. Houses are expensive to carry, depreciate fast if not cared for, involve risk and overhead to rent. It's like every other investment - if you know the landscape, the local economics, the schools, stay lucky with your tenants..... And if the Chinese are buying run for your life, as every US investment boom by the Chinese for the last 30 yrs has ended badly.

looks like a good investment to me.... US POPULATION GROWTH

True enough. You also have be careful about whether you are measuring change in belief or just change in the language - in the way people understand and use certain syntax. Especially around religion because people use a lot language wrt religion for which they don't really have very fixed definitions/understanding. Of course on a more abstract basis one can argue (and many philosophers have over the centuries) that there is no certainty for any empirical knowledge which was gained by induction/experience/science, but in the modern world we tend to have tossed that argument into the 'how many angels can dance on the head of pin' class of irrelevances. 🤔

LOL - if that number was 68% in 1993 it was only because half the people were lying. I don't doubt there has been a great cultural shift, but I would guess it's more about people dropping their pretensions about they think they believe but didn't really. In any case, one somewhat odd bit is that according to Pew Research, income inequality in a society generally correlates to increases in religiosity, to the US would be going against form in that regard, though inequality in the US may be too recent so show up in deeper cultural trends like religious belief.

Be careful what you wish for though, guys that can hit are going to play even if they can't field, they will just play and be lousy 1Bs or LFs. Ortiz would still have played, Boston just would have been a much worse defensive team for it. That may be the way it should be, but it's not an unalloyed blessing. 🙄

and if you cut the batting order to 8, maintain the '3 times through the order' paradigm and the game ends at 8 innings. That's one way to cut 15 minutes of the games....

Another big road win at Iowa city. 6 games left, 4 against ranked opponents. They can't get to 20 wins but with that schedule they don't need to to make the tourney, if they can win some more of them!

And Crimea was different. It has its own individual history and ethnicity

I'd take the Kabul example exactly as the opposite. Enough of the Afghans refused to be pacified that neither the CCCP or the USA could make it work. We look at Kabul as having fallen because the Afghans didn't fight, but those were just "our" Afghans that declined to fight, the other side was most definitely Afghans that were fighting. If anything, what Ukraine lacks is a unifying ideology of resistance like Maoism or Islam that has some history of holding guerrilla movements together. Or another way to put is is whether Kyiv has reached a point of 1st worldliness where they would rather be politically dominated than physically reduced back to the middle ages by war. To be perfectly honest, that is not a black and white question. Putin and his oligarchy don't run a prison state (in the sense that no-one can get out) anymore like the CCCP. If you are politically disinterested you can be left alone, send your kids to school, if they do well they can probably emigrate to the EU or North America.

Wings are having a hard time finding a balance between coming out flat and over-extending themselves in the 1st period.

Seider 26 min, Larkin almost 25. Blashill's going to need to watch that.

one of worst looking examples of shoot out you'll ever see but the Wings prevail!