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yeah - I don't think any wires are going to get fished through that stuff without cutting wallboard. But most inside work guys treat redoing wall board as pretty much nothing. Of course if you weren't planning on repainting the room after the electrical work, well, now you are!

I had fiber insulation blown into the walls at my 1st house - it was a bit messy when you opened an electrical outlet - but the insulation worked great . I was always a little reticent about the foam blowers because of the potential for organics, but they do have much better compositions then when I was looking at it. Current house was built OEM with tar paper backed fiberglass in the walls - not enough, but enough that trying to shoot anything in around it is probably a bad idea....

another difference is that as I read it, there is still some semblance of a distribution Chinese governmental authority around Xi - he has not had nearly the generational time frame to consolidate his dictatorship that Putin has. He may have the same impulses, but he remains somewhat more constrained.

If China eventually losses control of Omicron despite the draconian measures to keep the lid on, Xi is going to see a level of pressure he probably thought he had reached immunity from.

maybe....hard to see how college baseball could fill the role that college football does given that it doesn't generate very much revenue, and even if you somehow generated the fans, it would take years to build out the college baseball stadium infrastructure to support a larger fan base.

25 cases in Washtenaw County. 1st time under 30 since.....I don't remember when.

If Correa goes back to the 'stos I'll wager it will be for less than he purportedly turned down from the Tigers - or else maybe it will be all deferred money out 20 yrs..... Along the same lines though, I'm beginning to wonder if the Tigers and Matt Boyd may not be done with each other either....

Yankees could get lucky and get 2 more good years out of Donaldson, in which this trade will be good for them, but more likely Donaldson's bat will fall off the table sooner than that.

maybe the Yankees are going to go all in on D and will join Baltimore in moving their fences back...... nah.....

can't figure out Minny. Dumping salary. But the Yankee end is odd also - a 36 yr old 3B and glove 1st SS are not really typical Yankee type targets..... ...and the list gets shorter for Correa...

another aspect of this that even with the most supportive position by Chinia, the logistics are very bad. There are only limited road and rail connections from China to Russia by land, and at this point arms shipments by sea could face Western interventions.

and this piece showed up today in NYT today by one Wnag Hulyao - who runs a 'non-governmental' think tank in Beijing (yeah - I know that's kind of an oxy-moron in today's China, but I'm just the messenger here.....). Basically making the case why this war is not really such a good thing for China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/china-russia-ukraine.html

What I don't get is that it's crazy enough that for all intents and purposes he is "aid and comforting" the enemy, but he's not even doing a creditable job. The rhetoric is stupid weak from any side. Embargoing the importer of 8% of our imports is the "the worst..." whatever. That doesn't even make any sense as Russian agitprop.

Back in my philosophically more conservative days, I was more sympathetic to the idea that making things that are already illegal ‘more illegal’ is little more than a kind of virtue signaling, but as time goes by, I’m less sure our society isn’t becoming one in need of more formalized consensus virtue signals. If a guy with a deep record as a ‘real’ philosophical conservative, say a Justin Amash, opposed something like this one the grounds given above, I’d accept that as an honorable position, but not from this current House GOP rabble.

IDK, at least from outward appearances Chris seems pretty happy to be a baseball owner and pretty involved with the team. If he's only doing this as a chore for his mother he hides it well.

He's still too sloppy with the ball, but aside from that....

ah - memories of Eric C.

So speaking of Chris Ilitch, Henning suggested recently that the Tigers would be on the block once Marian dies. Does someone know the logic to that? The Tigers are in a Trust, Chris is the Trustee, Marian is not legally a party as far as I can see. Sure, Chris might for whatever reason sell the team, but I don't see the connection to Marian being here, or gone. I guess it depends on the rules of the trust but if Mike made Chris the supervising Trustee my understanding would be that the other siblings couldn't force a sale even if they wanted to - but I could be wrong there.

curious, Washtenaw county, which has the 2nd highest vax rate in the state and where the U is still enforcing masking in the classroom, is seeing its case rate sort of sticking just above 10/100k while it's falling lower in many places. Maybe fewer cases here through the pandemic mean that even with the higher vax rate net immunity is lower? Or just the higher population of youth due to EMU/UM, or maybe even early vaccine compliance means more people with falling immunity? Or maybe just a statistical blip this week......

attack the bearers of bad news and for sure you will stop getting bad news. And the bonus is it's always good for your adversary to keep himself in the dark. Just listened to Masha Gessen be depressing about Putin for an hour with Ezra Klein. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-masha-gessen.html?searchResultPosition=2

VerHagen was a legitimate tease, there was always a lot of talent in the arm, he just couldn't pitch! 🤷‍♀️

"Religious school" covers a large universe. Even inside Catholicism you have wildly different intellectual strains - for instance the Jesuit tradition (and Jesuits run a lot of schools) is strongly reason/free inquiry based.

This point is worth coming back to - asymmetrical warfare was hard enough for the US to deal with when the opposition had Kalashnikovs and homemade IED's, but supplied the best of western technology and it's going to be (already is?) devastating/unbearable for the Russians.

propaganda works best when there is no competing narrative. Putin can control the media, but when the reality on the ground become contradictory to the propaganda, public mood can shift to skepticism/rejection very fast.

yeah, I remember those interpretations: "God buried all the dinosaur bones as a test" etc. So you want to believe that the supreme being in the Universe is ....Loki?