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  1. If the Memphis cops can get a not guilty, why not Luigi? Not that I think he should get a not guilty if he's guilty.
  2. Gainesville is still a dump. Went to the "Gainesville Zoo" last summer for some country inlaw reunion thing with the grandkids and wow. That was a sad state of affairs. An emaciated black bear in a chain link fence on a 200 sqft concrete slab was the highlight of the trip. Deformed giraffes cast off from mid-tier city zoos. A smattering of invasive species pawned off as attractions (e.g. raccoons, rabbits, wild boars). The sad part is I'm only slightly exaggerating.
  3. Sure, but on the whole, they don't have the infrastructure to really divert the waters and cripple Pakistan, which is what you'd need to do in short order (a swift, fatal blow) versus a slow, tortured process of diversion which would allow Pakistan to rally a) world sympathy (millions of innocent people affected by the lack of water) and b) Pakistan/China escalated response which would be bad for everyone.
  4. Speaking of Pete, what did Trump just say? Did his mask fall off and he loves Pete?
  5. For all the bluster, India is NOT going to do away with the Indus Waters Treaty. That would all but gaurantee a full on hot war with nuclear threat-- Russia and the US won't let it get that far. China might keep prodding Pakistan up that escalation ladder, but I'm not worried about it (I know I know, famous last words). Estimates are that the Indus water irrigates like 80%+ of Pakistan's crops and secondly reports are that India doesn't even have the technical abilities to divert the waters anyways (yet).
  6. Trump Announces Trade Deal With Britain The agreement is the first since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on dozens of America’s trading partners. Trump said the deal would remake the global trading system, even as he added that its details were still being finalized. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/08/us/trump-uk-trade-news
  7. csb alert:
  8. But then again, Trump is a moron, so he might actually do something wildly illogical by somehow backing Pakistan (e.g. giving some concililatory or complimentary language like "Shariff is a great guy, Pakistan and I are friends") and condemning India and being in direct conflict to his aims in other areas and completely mixing signals. I guess.
  9. The US would NEVER back Pakistan or condem India. Where are you getting that from? Pakistan is backed hard by China. We are anti-China very adamently when it can be done via proxy and shadow like in this case. If anything we are tying up closer to Russia through all this because India's arms are heavily supplied and financed by Russia. IMO
  10. So he's the male Kyrsten Sinema?
  11. Yea how? I need to see some legal eagles to provide a technical analysis of the case to explain how this happened.
  12. Guilty on both accounts!
  13. So catching up on this thread. Looks like you got in trouble by the teacher. Haha. Better shape up!
  14. Ha. Meant $50 [more]/month!
  15. Also, TIL that there are some folks who didn't know that India + Pakistan + Bangladesh used to be one country less than 75 years ago.
  16. I didn't know "Paki" was a slur. TIL. To the guy who didn't believe India jets were shot down. Pakistan now says it’s downed five Indian jets (Delhi reportedly cedes at least three have “crashed”), and the two are now trading artillery along Kashmir. So that's fun, with nuclear foes starting to skirmish. Pushes can become shoves and shoves can become punches and punches can become an all-out brawl. That's the concern, not that there is a little dust up right now.
  17. In 2019, The New York Times estimated that as many as 75 percent of Catholics priests may be gay ‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out The crisis over sexuality in the Catholic Church goes beyond abuse. It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is trapping thousands of men. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/it-is-not-a-closet-it-is-a-cage-gay-catholic-priests-speak-out.html
  18. Groceries are $50/a month. Priorities?
  19. I went for spring break once when a friend went to ASU. It was college and it was spring break— hard to screw it up. Not sure how much fun it would be as an old, but report back and let us know. Also does anyone remember the horn fans poster who died at Rocky point on spring break in like 2001?
  20. That combined with an article I read that estimated 75% of the bishops are gay….
  21. India Strikes Pakistan Two Weeks After Terrorist Attack in Kashmir The Indian government said its forces had struck nine sites in Pakistan and on Pakistan’s side of the disputed Kashmir region. Pakistani military officials said that five places had been hit, in Punjab Province and its part of Kashmir, and that the strikes “will not go unanswered.”
  22. Bad news for Pope Pizzaballa, as the old adage goes, "You go into the conclave a pope and come out a bishop".
  23. Oh I thought her husband literally died. I think I get it now.
  24. Pierbattista Pizzaballa: relatively young at 60, he was always destined for buzz with a name like that. Say it out loud, and you’ll be transported back to that time you fell in love while strolling Cinque Terre. Fluent in Hebrew (though not Arabic), he’s Patriarch of Jerusalem and has focused on interfaith dialogue, the plight of Christians, and de-escalation (he offered to swap himself for the Hamas hostages ^^ This guy has my vote (wait, it doesn't work like that?)
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