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  1. Sorry man, didn’t mean to steal any thunder, I scanned the front page. To be fair I did it at like 0700 on the morning train.
  2. This is the wildest damn story I’ve read in a long time. In 1988 a guy working at a hot dog cart in Albuquerque stole his colleague’s identity and a car. That man went on to become a pretty well paid hospital IT administrator with a family. The real guy ended up with felony convictions, homeless, and was confined to a mental hospital for insisting he was himself. https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/former-university-of-iowa-hospital-employee-used-fake-identity-for-35-years/
  3. Lol, no one is making Ohtani work on an oil rig either, I thought we are talking about sports. Anyway all those things except government programs and getting saved last are things men choose or do to themselves. You want to pull statistics on who is most likely to be a victim vs. victimizer in random violent attacks, rapes, murders, domestic abuse, etc? Have you ever, in your life, been physically afraid of a woman you’ve never met before and just happened to run into? I guarantee almost every woman you meet has a story about a man. Its the old saw— deep down men are afraid women will reject them and women are afraid men will kill them. Anyways, this is getting into some bullshit MRA debate and I am out on this forum. The important thing is that Kim Mulkey is terrible regardless.
  4. Right, and thanks for confirming my point that it’s just one additional layer of bullshit and barriers for women athletes. Try to imagine a world where some local reporter snaps a shot of a 17 year old boy track star and within weeks it’s all over every sports message board with grown ups talking about his body and attractiveness. It doesn’t happen. And then when attractive women athletes accept it and try to turn it into a positive like Olivia Dunn, people shit on them for that. Even though they’re going to be ogled and sexual used no matter what.
  5. Man, not sure I am there aside from the pure function of more attention on the men’s games. Those women athletes that do break through get more heat than the men, the Williams sisters got all kind of bullshit. Simone Biles. Not to mention the real weirdos and what happens if you’re pretty and good at sports, remember that high school pole vaulter and the creepiness around her? Wasn’t even a famous name, just a teenager. And Monica Seles got stabbed on the court by a crazy person. Can’t remember that stuff happening to a man since the MLB player who got shot by a fan in the thirties or something. WBB is going to see more since it got bigger.
  6. Kim Mulkey’s wardrobe is from the Ric Flair collection and she gives PCs like Ted Dibiase. Her whole schtick is heel, she’s from the South and knows what she is going, the difference is that she actually wants to be hated because she needs to be hated to justify her existence. I don’t know why you’d deny her what she wants. I do have sympathy for Angel Reese as she is young and I don’t think she actually wants to be hated or has a coach and people around her capable of helping her work on some emotional maturity. She doesn’t need to feed on toxicity like Mulkey does. And no one deserves racist death threats for any reason.
  7. Don’t assume. The Dirty Al’s network of restaurants is good with their shrimp. They will also tell you what fish is from the Gulf and isn’t. Ceviche Ceviche also serves gulf shrimp. Gulf and Texas shrimp is a point of pride and most places will tell you if that’s what they serve. If they aren’t telling you, then it’s probably the farmed stuff.
  8. https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-company-sold-contaminated-shrimp-023949494.html I fucking love shrimp but it’s been a longtime prejudice of mine (a bias from growing up on the coast) that it is not worth it to eat non-U.S. origin shrimp. (Or local when traveling in Europe or other places). I won’t buy it in a store and I don’t order restaurant shrimp unless I know the place and what I am getting. Shrimp farms overseas are fucking disgusting and always have been. Anyway, check your labels at HEB. And for the love of God DO NOT BUY any food at all that was packaged on the subcontinent aside from maybe spice blends. And pro-tip, aside from a very few coastal retailers all wild-caught shrimp” is flash-frozen at sea and the “fresh stuff in the counter has been thawed out. Frozen wild Gulf shrimp is nearly always your superior choice.
  9. Anastasis is in here calling everyone racist and then announcing that he doesn’t give a shit about dead people unless he can blame the United States for killing them, which is super awesome. Its. Not. About. Palestine.
  10. I should add that there are other options as well, like the majority partner cobbling together another coalition after a vote of no confidence, or a new coalition coming together. But for a minority party to force general elections they have to begin with a vote of no confidence.
  11. If a minority party leaves a coalition then it can force early elections by calling for a vote of no confidence, but they don’t always want to do that. If they don’t call for a vote of no confidence then the government can continue as a minority government. If they win a vote of no confidence then usually you’ll get a caretaker government appointed until there is a fresh election.
  12. Kim Mulkey is a POS who went full apologetics for Baylor and Briles. Do not let the culture wars Jedi mind trick you into carrying her waters Mulkey is a POS and anyone save Baylor and LSU fans need to be haters.
  13. Have you considered that adjusting thinking in reaction to reality is more intelligent than knee-jerk dogmatism. Just a possibility for you to mull.
  14. Andres came out strong in on the side of Israel’s right to defend itself. He’s not a contrarian or loon. I remain pro-Israel as a concept but Netanyahu has lost the plot.
  15. I gotta be real man, and I’ve supported Israel’s right to defend itself aggressively- they haven’t been working very fucking hard to let aid in. It’s been pulling teeth to get them to do anything. The take from the administration is correct, if you break a place you own it and if they aren’t going to do relief work as you invaded then at a bare minimum you need to dedicate IDF forces to protect aid workers. When we’ve gone in heavy it’s always been with a plan to secure civilian essentials.
  16. We need to talk about the munitions, too. Per Bellingcat and all the photos, there is lots of evidence pointing to an inert or low-yield missile. Which is what you use for precision strikes normally on high-value targets. That suggests a lot of coordination and planning for this. Sorry, Israel has to have a better explanation than “our bad.” So far they haven’t got one. If you fuck up and triple tap WCK and make sure they are all dead you need to say who the fuck you THOUGHT you were after. I don’t think we will get one. This one fucking stinks and it sure as shit seems like they want Gazans going hungry and all the aid workers out so they have a free-fire zone.
  17. You got people irritated by expressing your disapproval with the “bloodlust” of people who might want to fund some arms for Ukraine and listed a litany of things that better deserves our attention. But here’s what’s happening— a bunch of thugs are carrying shit out of your neighbors’ home. They’re raping the women in the house and beating the shit out of the men. They are shoving the kids in a truck to hold them hostage. And you agree it’s awful but just abhor violence. So you’ll be ready to maybe help buy a new refrigerator or to donate to a rape crisis center. Which is fine! Good on you. The world needs those things. But don’t shout from your fainting couch that you are disgusted with those of us ready to hand our neighbor a gun. Don’t ask us why we are doing that instead of running to donate to the homeless shelter or UNICEF. If you want to do that, go ahead but don’t shit-talk people who are ready to help solve the immediate problem. Because the ethical short-circuit is on your end and not ours. You have a weak stomach and not a higher developed sense of ethics. Disgust is the right word, it’s an irrational emotional reaction that is not tied to right and wrong.
  18. The Hatch Act covers federal, state and local employees (if their employers receive federal funds) but not elected officials. A partisan elected sheriff or elected law enforcement official has a specific a carve-out to appear in uniform at political events. Presumably local governments could pass regulations against it but that’s the federal law. There are of course no elected uniform service members.
  19. Netanyahu is doing tremendous long-term damage to his country that will take decades to even begin to chip away at. His response was terrible, basically “shit happens and we will try to do better. We said sorry.” If you’re Israeli or a friend of Israel it’s time to toss him overboard for self-preservation if not because he’s awful.
  20. We talking about Grenada man. Grenada. Was this copy that Jacobin rejected for too-blatant Whataboutism? Never mind that it’s a really shitty entry in the classic genre, “someone did a Bad Thing once, which means he loses the right to do a Good Thing.”
  21. Why are we talking about Hamas being in this group when even the IDF hasn’t alleged that. All of the WCK volunteers were third country nationals from the West and Oceania. We know the name and identity of the Palestinian driver. WCK is a gold star group and I don’t believe for a moment that they allowed Hamas operatives to embed with them. This isn’t some co-opted UN shitshow, Jose Andres’ group is absolutely impeccable. If there was someone there, it means that theu were basically hostages and the IDF killed them all. The most charitable possibility is negligence spilling into criminality. There’s no goal-tending this one.
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