The Frankish Reich

I disagree. The Eagles seem good but also lucky (that turnover ratio until Monday night). Cowboys somewhere around 10-12 in any fair power ranking, with the Giants as a Team Most Likely To Regress to the Mean. And Washington as a scrappy any given Sunday team. I am now convinced that both the Bills and (sorry) Dolphins are real contenders, with the Jets as our division’s Giants and the Pats as a playoff caliber (barely) team in most divisions.

That was astonishing when it happened. But I predict that it will now be the norm for both parties. Elections are increasingly about abstract feelings (“make America great,” “build back better”) than about concrete proposals (“we support federal legislation making abortion available on demand up to 15 weeks, and banning it thereafter,” or “we support legalization and regulation of marijuana along the model of alcohol regulation”). Good luck finding any specifics in the 2024 “policy” debates.

Correct. “Ego and intransigence” is always a fine excuse. Remember: the whole classification scheme exists not because it would be unlawful to use secret government information for your personal economic gain - that’s already covered by other criminal laws. It exists because of the danger that allowing that information to be accessible to outsiders poses a grave danger to national security. “I took them out of a secured location and kept them at a resort hotel out of pure vanity and vanity alone” isn’t, to most normal Americans (not to mention to the law) really an excuse at all. It is an admission that you put your own childish self-aggrandizement over the security of the country.

https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/geothermal-still-in-play-at-ski-area-base/ I think they did exactly that. I hadn’t thought of that before.

I wanted to do that when I remodeled the house. Probably the most expensive upgrade, so I decided to buy a snowblower instead.

Thanks … I get it now. But now that the “secret” is out (it only took 16 years since the rule change for offenses to exploit it), isn’t it likely that we’ll see short yardage offenses with a big guy lined up to take the snap (Florio suggests Taysom Hill) and two enormous Jordan Phillips type “pushers” lined up behind him to slam the QB forward? It’s a pure matter of Newtonian physics: F = MV. Is that really what we want to see in today’s game?

I tried to watch the campaign launch speech. Really, I did. I stuck with it till Fox News actually cut away about a half hour in. (Only CSPAN - hah! - stuck it out to the bitter end, with emphasis on “bitter”). That’s how dull and tired it sounded. Somehow I thought he’d do the prepared/teleprompter thing that actually worked reasonably well in one of his speeches to Congress. No. The same rambling, self-aggrandizing, “I’m great and I’ve been persecuted” crap that has been his outdoor rally shtick for years now, only transported to an controlled indoor setting where he didn’t have the crowd energy to make it work. His best hope is actually a repeat of 2016: a lot of potential Republican opponents saw the same tired act and won’t be discouraged from jumping in. Trump will hold his hardcore 1/3 of the Repub voters, and the other half dozen (more?) candidates will fight it out over the remaining 2/3. Then money will start to dry up when a Pence or Pompeo is stuck at 15 percent. And the last man standing in the Republican Party will be Mr. Trump. The paradox: by kind of sucking, by not even trying to broaden his appeal, he ensures a repeat of 2016.

You know where this great naturalized US citizen, who has already fired a bunch of foreign H visa workers, wil find employees willing to take this deal? India. MAGA on.

If the people of a state believe their state is generally well governed, the sitting governor will be re-elected. Regardless of the overall political winds. The national Republican Party sank a ton of money into challenger Heidi Ganahl in Colorado. Incumbent Dem Jared Polis trounced him. Same thing in Michigan. Same reasons in each one.

Nice set of choppers too!

Thank you. I will be reporting that to my handlers.

Here’s what it has to do with: yes, you innocent children, law enforcement agencies recruit informants with terrorist groups and other groups crowing (online or otherwise) about overthrowing the legitimate government. Yes, this is perfectly legal. No, the fact that an informant “helped” you with your stupid plans is no defense in a criminal case if you were predisposed to violent action. Yes, it is possible that anti-government groups were subjects of intel gathering, but that nobody anticipated that the sitting PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES would egg then on and that that same President would rebuff his own Vice President’s request to call of his dogs by saying, “Mike, you’re too honest.” There are hundreds of informants all over the place. I spooked a certain Deranged Rhino into thinking that I may be one. Are you so sure I’m not? 🤔

Worse than the take that it was a blessing in disguise that Allen hurt his elbow?

Yes, Kyle Becker, whoever the eff you are, I do have a question: Did the FBI assets you think were around sharpen flag poles and then use them as spears to attack the police? Did they beat on the Capitol Police with whatever they had access to as they tried to breach a barrier? Did they dress up like Halloween cavemen and prance around various Capitol chambers? Did they break windows and crush a police officer in a door? Amazing the powers of these informants. It’s like they hypnotized these trashy (“low class” in Trump’s own words) rioters into committing a whole variety of felonies.

Julie is shocked (shocked!) to hear that the FBI is skilled at using informants “to lure targets into their traps.” That’s what they do! Julie needs to watch more TV.

So … about 45 percent “won’t be returned.” How does that fit with the narrative that sneaky cheaters are “harvesting” all those mailed-out ballots, filling them out for Democrats, and then dropping them in drop-off boxes?

Yep, she roped that dope. A ballsy move to keep your mouth shut given how close it was projected to be (and was). That discipline served her well.

I understand it is somewhat better now that Jerry Hughes is gone

But as I said: we're not Philly. We're the generally happy drunk who won't shut up about the game until his friends drive him home and deposit him in bed. Philly is the angry drunk itching for a fight.

I think they're a very solid team in all phases with a QB who's making a significant leap this year (although still far from elite). But yeah ... I wouldn't be afraid of them come the playoffs.

But I thought the rule was you always kept the game going till the conversion attempt was done. It's not like a walk-off HR...

And that's technically another Eagles turnover. That turnover ratio isn't looking so extreme anymore. Philly, your luck has officially run out.

Don't we need to kick the point! What about the over/under!!!!

Haha Philly.

Oh, I see....