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  1. Which honestly feels light compared to his first term when he golfed 3x a week it felt liked.
  2. I’m curious to see the odds in a winner take all game 7 after OKC showed the lack of a killer instinct tonight. I tend to agree OKC is the better team on the whole, but the problem with allowing it to go to a game 7 is that anything can happen in a single game— players get hot, players get cold, team makeup, chemistry, nerves, coaching etc are more magnified. Pacers feel like the “team of destiny” and Halliburton with the game winner would be rejected from a literary agent because it’s too on-the-nose and fake underdog cliche, but stranger things could happen…. who am I kidding. Bandana, Pollyanna, lilweezyiana. OKC in 7.
  3. Geez. Thanks for the link.
  4. Of course I realize that. However, do you realize that my comment was in response to the rest of the league who "literally hate her" despite her adding zero's to their bank account? (which was directly quoted in my response)
  5. I think he meant the disconnect between the actual dates of something happening and the date we celebrate being incongruent. e.g. July 4th isn't when we had freedom, though we celebrate it like it was V-Day for the revolution.
  6. With all the Israel/Iran stuff I hadn't seen anything else really reported on this. Is it over? Did everyone go home?
  7. What do you mean Putin gave nothing. He's offered to mediate peace! What a mensch.
  8. Was Israel's hospital being used to house terrorists and terrorist operations and munition storage? Or was it a normal healthcare space full of sick people? Inquiring minds.
  9. Not just your speculation, but a common one in the diplomatic space. Rumors abound that Bibi has a weapon capable now after literal decades of development and that we wouldn't be where we are today if there wasn't at least a plan to see it through to the end (complete disembodient of Iran's programming). No half measures. The other side of the rumor mill is that Bibi & Trump/U.S. brokered a partnership to see it through-- Israel doing 90% of the work and American putting in the finishing touches with the GBU-57's. Or Bibi could be calculating that he could see his 90% through and then cajole and sell Trump on finishing them off and sharing the credit or something. We don't know what we don't know, lots of informed speculation at this pointm though.
  10. But it's not fair that they couldn't get those commas themselves and it's dirty, colonizer money...
  11. I like you and believe you but you should have probably just left all that out in the first place. It's an online messageboard-- nobody has any credibility without links. Unless you are on the recruiting board.
  12. Lost in all this (for a variety of reasons, one being that Iran's retaliation seems to be dying out and looks very limited) is that Iran dropped a bomb on a major (and occupied) hospital in Israel. This isn't going to buy them any immediate mercy or grace in the same way that a lot of anti-Israel folks will not have a lot of sympathy for the afflicted Israeli's/hospital. This doesn't seem like an action that will move Israel or allies to the table for a ceasefire and/or peace. So either Iran doesn't want the peace (despite rumors that they do) or it was an acccident because their military leadership has been neutered and have a bunch of 2nd and 3rd line leaders trying to make chicken salad.
  13. Riding coattails is a concept that anti-Caitlin peers in the WNBA are clearly above. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven, I guess they think.
  14. The simple explanation is usually the right one: he was clearly at a .32 BAC with how those sluggish right hooks looked. To the untrained eye, he just looks like a fit 45 year old trying to fight, but that's because he's highly functioning alky.
  15. I don't think that is correct. It feels (very scientific, I know) pretty 50/50 and "reasonable minds can disagree" in tone. I think that is because regardless of evertying, fundamentally everyone from all sides agrees with this precept: "Iran cannot get a nuclear bomb". The United States, Republicans, Democrats, Independents-- just about nobody seems comfortable with a nuclear-armed Iran. The debate is more around how close they are (if they are at all), and what to do about it today now that shoes have dropped.
  16. Okay. Maybe you are a modern Middle East studies expert, but it appears to most pundits and reporting that the rest of ME has evolved past mullahs into hardened late stage capitlists looking to diversify their incomes from outside of oil, and as such, are letting Iran hang out to dry with barely even any lip service being paid to the situation. They are still hardcore autocrats of course (KSA just executed a citizen journalist who was critical of MBS on twitter using the Iran headlines to mute the coverage of course). I'm not saying this is you, but it's interesting that a lot of folks who might have had first hand or even very high secondand opinions in the gulf and ME during their times in the service or agency employment but have rolled off into industry as they aged up seem to all have this static idea of KSA, UAE, Oman, Jordan, even a more Western-friendly Iraq etc. as being close brothers with the Arab Brotherhood still. In a couple of weeks we will be closer to 2050 than the year 2000. Things change.
  17. Christian extremists is a new one.
  18. Two things jump out from reading the updates this morning: 1) I'm not so sure that "drag us into a war in the ME" is the automatic result of every scenario where US could plausably engage. I can see a very limited engagement that deploys and then backs off, whehter it's us missle striking the Houthis or acting as Israel's last mile to finish off the nuclear program by firing off some GBU-57 bunker busters for the first time in history and then letting Israel and the ME deal with the fall out of a decapitated Iran. 2) Israel is showing us how non-nuke adversaries and yappers are being shown to be paper tigers. On one hand, if you are an underdeveloped sovereign nation you see the absolute value in getting a nuke for yourself. On the other hand, all our enemies (save China) are being exposed militarily. In fact, Russia had signed a much ballyhooed security pact with Iran 6 months ago that they are conveniently trying to forget about in light of their workload and instead are hilariously offering to be the peace-talking mediators. Yea, that's what they meant by security pact haha
  19. I honestly think that the majority lesbian and BIPOC league must view Caitlin, and by extension all the new fans, as colonizers. We are all Chiquita Banana corporation and they are the wild and beautiful uncultivated lands occupied by a primitive style and game. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven for the WNBA old guard, it seems.
  20. Y'all back off Peppa. real ones know Peppa is INFINITELY better than Bluey and that the new Bluey dad's are nerds who were bullied until their 30's.
  21. Would you call that a....Portnoy's Complaint? (You can probably deduce a lot about someone that goes out of their way to make a Philip Roth, titan of modern literary fiction, pun on a WNBA thread)
  22. That's our concern, dude.
  23. The best analogy I can think of right now is, Iran finally got caught outside in the streets and is catching these hands from Israel and everyone is standing around and watching it. No Arab/ME are jumping in to help and the West is just yelling "Worldstar!". The internal calculus has to be one of two things: 1) do you let up on them and hope they've learned their lesson though they likely get down the block and barely within earshot start talking mad crap again before running off with threats of "just wait til I get back" and try to rally his friends, or 2) beat the pulp out of Iran to the point where they don't even come outside of the house again
  24. I mean, I guess. Iran has reportedly wildly changed tunes from "we aren't even talking about a ceasefire until we get our revenge" to "back channeling to american allies asking them to tell Israel to please stop"
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