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From the same article: LOL - no kidding. "International Negotiations For Dummies" page 1.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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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
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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.
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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.
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yeah - the McCain campaign was one for the ages.
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All the Dmen with more points than Seider are also 3 yrs or more older.
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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.
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Stafford watch (A place for Stafford discussion)
gehringer_2 replied to RedRamage's topic in Detroit Lions
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'.
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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
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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$.
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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.
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02/14/2022 07:00 EST Detroit Pistons @ Washington Wizards
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Pistons
John Wilkes Booth had too high a shooting percentage to interest Troy Weaver. -
LOCKOUT '22: When will we see baseball again?
gehringer_2 replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
the most finely articulated part of the human body is the arms/hands. You give up a lot taking them out of the game!- 1,851 replies
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LOCKOUT '22: When will we see baseball again?
gehringer_2 replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
But even for this, it only works if you know the game well enough or had played it so that your mind is able to fill in the action from the description. A fan already knows well what his team’s DP combo looks like making the play so you don’t need to see it as much. Sort of the inverse of basketball or hockey where radio is harder because there is no set form to what is happening.- 1,851 replies
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LOCKOUT '22: When will we see baseball again?
gehringer_2 replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
It’s more popular with kids that grew up playing it, which is pretty much the same reason baseball is dying (relatively). the thing that baseball has in excess to other sports is not action, but tension. Tennis somewhat similar that way.- 1,851 replies
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LOCKOUT '22: When will we see baseball again?
gehringer_2 replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
one thing that soccer could use is a sidewall all the way around so the ball stays in play. Maybe a low wall just a couple feet high (which would stop most rollers) and then glass or tight screen above that so it can be seen through but still keep the ball in play ball. It would end the interminable throw ins and open up all kinds of rebound passing. ...don't mention it, glad to have helped. When does baseball start again?- 1,851 replies
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IDK Tater, the Trump saga has already had more turns that a 3 ft jack-screw. But here's hoping...
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LOCKOUT '22: When will we see baseball again?
gehringer_2 replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
I suppose there is nothing wrong with soccer that shrinking the ball, giving the players sticks and moving to ice couldn't fix.- 1,851 replies
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LOCKOUT '22: When will we see baseball again?
gehringer_2 replied to Motor City Sonics's topic in Detroit Tigers
acquired taste I guess. I'd rather watch paint dry.- 1,851 replies
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