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She needs to keep building her network and take over the state Dem party.

Taking a look at his advanced stats, Bregman isn't really deviating all that much from career numbers. Maybe it's a little loss of line drive percentage here, a little loss of exit velocity there, plus bad luck. The only area where there's a more demonstrative decline is walk rate. It would be kind of crazy if he was cooked at 30.

Well, if you can’t tell they quit programming for you a long time ago. That’s why the “one man army” movies starring (take your pick) Chris Pratt, Michael B Jordan, or Hemsworth are going direct to streaming.

You’d think with declining attendance the exhibitors would reduce prices or do more to offer a superlative experience (and there’s been efforts on the latter), but it mostly appears they, like pro sports, price themselves out of young people’s reach and never get adopted as a result.

Michael Kofman, who has been referenced many times on the thread and writes for The NY Times and War on the Rocks, predicts a 2024 stalemate with Ukraine attempting to build up for an offensive no earlier than spring 2025.

Oh, no doubt we are at least owed a thanks in the meat smoking manifesto.

@Neonmoon For years when recruiters have called me my response has been "send me a list of your jumbo investors and raw pricing on a typical jumbo with 20% down, SFR, O/O, 780, and if I like it we can talk further." It's really the only area that, if a depository bank or credit union is in the mood, I can get beat and not do a whole hell of a lot about it. For example, last year I lost a $1.6m or so loan, returning borrower who was quite loyal, to Navy Fed. If I had the ability to entirely waive our YSP and have the bank make the loan for free I still would been more expensive. On top of that we would ridden him hard about his RSU income (because the best priced investor was Citi and they are anal retentive) and Navy Fed said "no big deal, we'll do it" (note the borrower wasn't a veteran).

Certainly words I’d never associate with a professional footballer. BTW, did you know Allred played in the NFL? This might be false hope, but Abbott doesn’t just need two to win, he needs two to win in the GENERAL.

And 365 of them are related to @BearSchlong

I don’t know how anyone “frequents” Franklins unless they are retired…

I’ll probably regret this later but I would take Dusty back right now.

Frankly, I’ve moved on to the potential bloodbath Dem primary in ‘28. Or the VP nomination when Biden dies in office and the House and Senate get to vote on Kamala’s nominee. I can see her nominating someone loudly divisive like Hillary, because fuck everyone, that’s why.

That's because the campaign has been deploying her only when it's safe...

I guess--my understanding from the guys getting top billing at the Texas One Fund event is that they take seriously that there's an actual endorsement made (like the Arnold and Itkin interviews). They also take compliance seriously, just like everyone else does that wants to be welcome at Bellmont.

I might be misreading your post, but are you proposing salary caps on endorsements?

Let’s not get hysterical here-there’s a lot of ways this can play out that don’t point to a Trump victory.

Jesus, that’s awful.

Personally, I'm looking forward to a guilty verdict so I can have a brief moment of satisfaction before the polls come out and show it resulted in a gain in popularity.

I think I'd prefer a manager, at least for this Astros team, that the players all hated but understood was ruthless in search of tactical efficiency. Zero loyalty, zero "he did it last year, back of the baseball card" nonsense and was relying heavily on data. @Wulaw Horn and others (including me) have opined that a championship aspirant shouldn't be breaking in a rookie manager--maybe it's also that THIS Astros team shouldn't be breaking in THIS manager. @Planet HoustonDidn't you have a contact in the GM's office? Do you hear anything that colors Espada as more of a taskmaster behind the scenes?

Maybe--Seth Rogen was on a podcast recently and rebutted that with "people still go to museums." Maybe rather than dying it's just evolving (but certainly the market place for films is de-emphasizing theatrical).

I beg your pardon? I know we like to extol these folks as "The Generation Generation", and maybe they were, but as a USMC OIF veteran I feel reasonably well assured that there's simply no clear condition under which surrender would be considered an option, particularly so if you want to describe it as "we", i.e., it's a unit or a platoon surrender. All of this is just fantasizing, anyway, but I'd far rather have been freezing in Belgium than running patrols through the jungles of South Vietnam. Those guys were very tough and by comparison get little of the glory. I tried to show it to my 7 year old boy and only got through Carentan before my wife caught us and shut it down as too violent. I conceded mostly because I didn't think he was appreciating the parts of it that come along with the violence-the sacrifice for your comrades in arms, the devotion to the mission, the confusion and fear and how that's normal. There's a lot to learn and as a parent you almost have to be a commentary track. I haven't tried to show him The Pacific yet (I was a little underwhelmed, myself), but his great-grandfather survived Bataan so perhaps he'll be more interested.

Oh come on, that's ridiculous. He's a professional politician and totally incapable of remaining silent when there's an opportunity to give himself a pat on the back. The challenge is that the media either a) isn't interested in repeating it or b) they are repeating it but the story of those accomplishments simply isn't that compelling (or both). This may be false hope but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that, as the election nears, all this money he's raised will be used to flood the airwaves with SOMETHING. Unfortunately, the truth is most of the media would far rather report on whatever imbecilic thing Trump has done that day because outrage sells.

Nitpicking but Compton was an officer-it’s an important distinction because the series touches on how it impacts the relationships the men have to one another frequently (and not just with Compton-the salute stuff with Sobel, Winters’ promotions, Nixon’s demotion, etc.)

Well, on the bright side everyone else on the team is doing great tonight.

I’m not sure I would castigate the whole generation, but perhaps your intention was just in reference to those in “the pack”. There’s a ton of versatile actors like Stanley Tucci, Kenneth Branagh and Tilda Swinton that are in the same age group.