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Hayes comes back into the game, gets an open look 3, bricks it. /....sigh.../ but they've won 3/4ths of the game. Too bad it doesn't count that way.

fair point!

no-no - ambiguious syntax on my part. I meant not that many Dems are 'where those folks' are at in terms of their politics.

I don't know if the high profile crime increases you've seen in Chicagoland have been matched here - at least not in terms of political profile.

there aren't really many Dems where where those folks were. I imagine most Dems see their recall as a positive development for their party.

it seems so obvious that to reverse ice and hold possession is a good play at many points in a game but players are basically afraid to do it because they don't have the confidence they won't be fore-checked into a bad turnover. You have to have elite level possession skills - Seider does.

I can't even imagine a system in the US that would relegate a $40M/yr all-star getting off the ground. Maybe that's an oddity of baseball where you can have any number of the best players on a team that still isn't that good - i.e. the Angels.

I don't see the pitching being bad unless the kids get hurt, which is always possible. I don't think Mize, Skubal or even Manning were getting by with smoke and mirrors and are prime candidates to turn into pumpkins. They've shown what they can do against ML hitters. If anything projections that like Tork/Greene or any other hitter that hasn't done it against MLB pitching would be where I could see the big misses. My rule of hitters is that their plateaus are pretty much invisible until they actual hit them, which can be at any level step. As they say - previous results do not insure future performance.

the buddha may be contemplative, but he offers no quarter.

From the same article: LOL - no kidding. "International Negotiations For Dummies" page 1.

they would later make "Nobody's Fool" together. I usually rate either the Hustler or 'Cat' as Newman's best roles, but there aren't many bad ones in his catalog. I've read that T Williams didn't like that Hollywood sanitized 'COAHTF' but it still turned out a great film.

Yup. McCain looked at the financial crises like a military crisis, a time when everyone might have to bury their differences and pull together, but that is exactly wrong. A financial crises is a policy crisis that demands political debate and public political decision making about the direction of future policy. It really telegraphed that he didn't understand the situation or the politcal processes that needed to happen.

I think the admin has played their hand pretty decently so far on the information war. The best psyops tactic you have against Putin is make it look like you are predicting what he is doing because he will hate more than anything else to prove you right. So the public intelligence campaign has been a good work. No doubt not enough by itself but a good piece of an overall effort.

LOL. Right! - good example of the epic lack of self-awareness on the part of the M'urica First crowd. "if those dern Canadians get bad enough they might even be in our league!"

there is now some speculation that the 'Russian flu' outbreak in the 1890's might have been a previous corona that just came and then either died out or attenuated down to just a 'common' cold. They really have no clue why or how these things disappear (and then sometimes re-emerge!). The original SARS also just seems to have died out by itself for unknown reasons. Mysterious stuff... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/health/russian-flu-coronavirus.html

Pronger played more a bruising style game than Seider does - or needs to. My memory could be wrong but I seem to recall a funny incident in the playoffs where Pronger had Yzerman lined up but Yzerman ducked the check and Chris ended up almost knocking himself out of the game.

he did have seem to have a lull but he's still been pretty solid - 7 pts in his last 10 games. Of course that is partly because Larkin has been on fire the last dozen games also. I'd like to see Vrana anchor the 2nd line when he come back so they can put Bertuzzi back with Larkin - they are such perfectly complimentary players - Larkin on open ice, Bertuzzi in traffic.

yeah - the McCain campaign was one for the ages.

All the Dmen with more points than Seider are also 3 yrs or more older.

Turley under the misapprehension that it's black letter law and not civil culture that is the ultimate protector for civil rights. Ask any Russian of the Soviet era about the guarantees under the Soviet constitution or any black American who lived through Jim Crow about those in the US Constitution. Not to fault Turley particularly but it's the typical tunnel vision of lawyers (just like people in any field see the world through that field) to only see the law. With items like Civil rights and civil culture, law is no better than the will of the rulers that it be followed and that is often no will at all. The Canadians have already proved their civility and tolerance by giving the protesters a week to make their point.

WCF probably viewed football players as fungible commodities regardless of their color.

Trump was leveraged by his celebrity on the Apprentice, which is what opened the door for him on Fox. Not many other people you can think that could bring that kind of pre-launch altitude. At some level most American's realize that 'reality TV' is scripted, but they still give a guy like Trump a pass in terms the 'character' they spent time with being him instead of him playing himself as per the producers 'script'.

I don't think the non-Obama voter needed Palin to increase McCain's appeal, and I doubt if she drew much of the progressive women's vote, so I'd have to guess that based on her own negatives, she was a net negative for him

The truth is the worst thing the west can do to Putin long term is renewable energy. That will hit the oligarchy where it really hurt$.

True enough that the West has to avoid overing playing its hand here. In fact Putin's overplay has made it relatively easy for the West to get a deal without actually giving up very much - but they aren't going to get it without giving up anything. Taking NATO membership off the table gives the West a virtual 100% return to the status quo ante. Putin would have spent a lot of energy for no real change on the ground. That looks like pretty close to the good guys winning to me.