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Also no mention of an apology by Zelenskyy for the meeting going upside down, and that will be noted, if it hasn’t been already.

I started working out at gyms in 1987. In 2002 we bought a home and got our own equipment so I canceled the gym memberships, but long story short, I stopped doing legs and I ended up with knee surgeries as a result. I've started going back to gyms in the past year specifically to do legs, and I have noticed two changes: People had always hogged machines by laying on them in between sets to prevent anyone else using them, but now they have something to keep them on the machine even longer: looking at the phone. They will sit there for five or even ten minutes in between sets. There is a series of five machines I rotate around when I go, and more than once ,when I first get there I have seen someone on a machine I eventually want, I do complete series of three sets on all four of the other machines, and the fifth machine still has the same person staring at the same phone. At no time do I glance over and see them actually using the machine. Every time, on the phone, in between sets. Maddening on a few levels. But, also, I have found that when I do approach someone I have seen on a machine I have worked around and I need that last machine before I go home, and I ask them this exact question: "Do you think you'll be much longer?", I have never once gotten anything less than a cordial reply and an offer either to wait just one more set OK?, or even allow me to work in. People seem much cooler about sharing machines with others now, and they're normally very good about wiping down. Back when I went the gyms before, people would get super agitated if you approached them and bark at you that they'll be off the machine when they're goddamn good and ready.

That's exactly it. "Illegal" is whatever he says it is. He appears to be the law now.

That’s a relatively nice, innocuous thing to say about him.

As it turns out, Trump’s birthday is also Flag Day, so that creates cover with the less gullible, less cultish right wingers.

And this would be another goal of the bankrupting of America through crypto: reduce everyone to subsistence agriculture just to survive day to day, just like in days of old and knights of bold.

I can’t tell whether the ultimate goal is to grift goal is to grift off the rubes using crypto and increasing their reserve of dollars; or whether it is to replace the dollar with crypto so they get to bankrupt the America public entirely and be literally the only people who have any money at all, and they get to enslave everyone else in exchange for a few morsels. The use of multiple cryptos would also mean they get to shift the value back and forth for maximum gain for them and maximum pain for us.

By the way, how's the gold in Fort Knox holding up?

SoCal had made the comment about Ty Cobb in regard to the BBWAA Rule #5. As for the gambling accusations, Cobb and Speaker were almost certainly guilty of what they'd been accused of, which was fixing games for a bet, and they were both forced to resign their managerial positions because of it, and banishment from baseball was on the table. But they were not banished because Landis, for reasons of his own, was disinclined to do so, so they remained in good standing with Baseball, at least technically, And that's they were not declared permanently ineligible. Unfair? Sure. But I would not agree with the unsaid proposition that Rose should be allowed back into Baseball as a result. I wonder whether Manfred would cite Cobb and Speaker if he were to allow Rose back in?

To be clear, I never said that Al Stump's characterization of Cobb was correct. I am as certain as anyone else that it wasn't. What I said was, Lehrsehn did a poor job of trying to demonstrate that Cobb was a man who was merely ordinary for his time in terms of his racism, to the point of even discounting contemporaneous Detroit Free Press articles which stated that Cobb was a man of unusual racist tendencies (which was really saying something for 1905).

Fair comment, although even a sneaky political statement, even one not intended as in your case, makes it fair game. I do want to be clear that I'm not here to drop politics in here unbidden, and I don't, and I didn't this time. That said, I will take your fair comment into consideration in the future. Thanks.

lol certain people who post here stink like a fish or something. Praising the genius of Trump, even in a headline link, is inherently political and deserves a political response. You don't want that political "slop" here? Then strip the politics out of your own posts. Simple as that. I will not escalate this from here, nor will I liken anyone posting here to sea creatures.

As foretold by prophesy: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/business/economy/tsmc-chips-grant-biden.html

I’ve been praying for Trump to survive long enough to get through his term and see his party get turned out in droves in a free and fair election in 2028. That’s the hopeful pessimist in me, and if the electoral system manages to hold up until then, that scenario seems like a certainty. Flip side, I’ve been … well, maybe not exactly worried, but at least a little concerned in one of the corners of my mind … that Trump will get to a point while in office that once he understands he’s going to die any day now, he attains Peak Sociopathic Narcissist and decides, “if I can’t live in this world, nobody can”, and pushes The Button before he goes. What, you think the people around him would never go along with that? You mean those wackadoodle super-evangelical Christians who are preparing the way for Christ to come again so He can finally put this sinful world to its prophesied apocalyptic end? As if. This government is lousy up and down the whole system with people who believe in that shǐt. Perhaps the only guy who could stop that is FElon, and for any number of reasons, he might not even be around by then. That’s the Mr. Alarmist Non-sense in me. Go ahead, tell me that’s 100% impossible. Then tell me why.

I hope France, Italy, and the UK are ramped up enough to fulfill the order, because I’m pretty sure the U.S. is no longer in the arms-sales-to-western-Europe business.

I’ve actually been wondering how the 4th of July is going to be received by the public in general this year? It is the one unabashedly hyper-patriotic holiday people of practically all political stripes lean into. I’m going to be at the Tigers-Blue Jays game in Dunedin on Saturday. I am eager to see how the Canadian national anthem will be received? I assume it will be overwhelmingly Americans there as a not insignificant number of Canadians have avoided going to the southern U.S. this year for obvious reasons, but even so, I don’t imagine there will be any incidents when the Canadian anthem is played. Either way, I’ll be ready to belt out the words.

I’ve re-read this a couple times and I’m still trying to figure out what you mean here? Do you mean Trump gone by ‘28? Or America gone? Or something else?

Me and you are totally on the same page here.

Ty Cobb was not considered a bad guy in 1936.

Rule #5 of BBWAA's Rules for Election stipulates that "[v]oting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played," and while Rose is well-qualified on at least three of these standards, he fails in spectacular fashion on two of them, and quite possibly three. It can be fairly debated whether the Baseball Hall of Fame should even consider attributes such as character and integrity for inclusion while other sports, notably football, have no such requirement. But it can't be seriously debated that as long as the Baseball Hall does require those two characteristics, Pete Rose will always fall very, very short against them. I don't understand what problem they'd be trying to solve by setting all this aside and letting Pete Rose back into Baseball and clearing him for eligibility for the Hall of Fame.

Exactly this. Permanent ineligibility for betting on a game in which you have a duty to perform, and one year for betting on any other baseball game. If they were change that to, say, one year for betting on a game a player is in, then what happens if they serve their year then return to the game? How could anyone ever trust them ever again to maintain any competitive integrity? Talk about letting the fox into the henhouse.

I was thinking of mentioning that myself, but it would have clashed with the "flying monkeys" bit.

That's because people typically regard other countries in the way they wish those countries were, rather than as they are.

I wish they were only $5.59 here. Larges are $7.99/dozen at Kroger/Mariano's here.