People say hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in professional sports...yet it isn't even the hardest thing to do in professional baseball! Out-pitching a big league hitter is definitely harder.
Brookings Institute talking head on NPR saying Iran is trying to "spin" this as a victory...they are controlling & tolling a critical waterway that they did not before. They held off the U.S. And they re-established power after the killing of their 86-year old head of state. There's no spin there.
In fact, a critical part of European imperialism was stifling or controlling the development of indigenous technologies and the co-optation of scientific/medical knowledge useful to the emergent European empires.
Indigenous American and African technology and scientific/medical knowledge were on-par with or superior to the European equivalent at the time of first contact and, in most cases, would continue to be so well into the 19th century.
But they were all deceived for a 5th loco was made
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How will this affect the Riyadh comedy scene
Image of Greg Gilbert's 1993-94 Upper Deck hockey card, which depicts him desperately grabbing for the boards as he clearly is about to eat sh**.
Imagine you're Greg Gilbert, you don't get on a lot of hockey cards, and in 1994 Upper Deck sends you a free copy of yours from the 1993-94 set. Oh, to be a fly on the wall for THAT reveal...
Moving Stanley AND Schenn for any value is good, for Rosen, a 2nd, and Bryson is great. Nice work, Jets.
Picture of 4 boys and a flock of 7 sheep in a field. A large, unexploded missile juts out of the ground, nose down, the size of a small car. The boys are contemplating it; one is touching one of its fins.
AP's Baderkhan Ahmad with a picture for our times out of Eastern Syria (taken March 4th). Shepherds and the Bomb:
Daily Faceoff has it as Quinn, Konsta Helenius, and Power and a 1st (www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/three-p...), which at least is more sensible. And still a yes on the deal to me. Thomas is 26 and that good, and on that good of a contract. Quinn is not it, Power is maxing out on 2nd unit for BUF.
If THN is right and the Blues were asking for Owen Power (& probably a 1st) in a Robert Thomas trade (thehockeynews.com/news/latest-...), how are you turning that down? Power is never going to have more than 2nd unit value as long as you have Dahlin, and Thomas is the real deal on a great contract.
Can't wait for John Bolton's heel turn. He's been craving this moment.
Excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut's essay, "Cold Turkey": "But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America's becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas."
Kurt Vonnegut, himself a WWII veteran, in his 2004 essay on war in the Middle East, "Cold Turkey" (inthesetimes.com/article/cold...):
Excerpt from John Williams' novel, Stoner: "A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we -- you and I and others like us -- have brought up from the slime."
John Williams, himself a WWII veteran, in his novel Stoner:
LRT: CBS fact checker was like "mmm...Misleading" on the SOTU comment that Dems were ripping children away from their families and turning them trans. (www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-ch...)
The President singled out racial minorities as the source of fraud in the United States and the first line in recaps is “he stayed focused on the economy“ lol
Welp.
not sure how the "it's not politics" crowd is going to square having hockey players attend the "cheer the politicians i like and boo the ones i don't" gala. should be an interesting and memorable evening!
Sorry to my Canadian friends about the outcome of the gold medal game; I'm especially sorry about all the upcoming hobnobbing they'll be doing with the worst people imaginable. Hopefully one or two of them show some integrity.
Gee, the U.S. men's hockey team could use some offensive, goal-scoring type players. But I'm sure they didn't leave 2 or 3 of those at home in favor of guys that look absolutely gassed by the 3rd period.
These places are supposed to be smart, and still don't understand fascism. Yale and Northwestern have been very "compliant" as well.
One thing that's a little wild to me is that U.S history education has long included the Sacco & Vanzetti trial in its standard textbooks, yet for too many Americans it seems that none of that particular lesson has stuck.
Cannot overstate how crushing it was when WI lost him and gained Ron Johnson in the Senate.
