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I think the biggest story of this season has got to be the resugence of the Miami Heat. That is a team with little talent and little hope and was looking like they were heading for a lottery pick. Now they are riding a 13 game win streak are just six games under .500. That's impressive.

Well, I didn't vote for him but I did prefer him to Clinton. Like I posted elsewhere, choosing between two awful choices is no choice at all. That said this immigration battle he has launched himself into, and in a ham fisted way at that, is squandering whatever good will and political capital he might have had. It's stupid. Why fight over a hill that you probably can't take and isn't worth fighting over? WoD was right in that if it was drafted in such a way as to not raise due process conflicts for green card and legal US visa holders this might not have been an issue. Although there were flaws beyond those. Now so much has been said, so much ill-will generated that there is no way out. Just continue on up the worthless hill. This is the exact danger of putting a political neophyte in high office. They don't understand the age old lessons of picking your battles.

Hey Leferd, did you see GSW vs the Grizz last night? Draymond Green does the near impossible. A triple double, boards, steals, and assists and does it without scoring. Well, the Grizz have has their way with GS so far. Last night the worm turned.

Some fun alternative facts:

Spicer's daily hostage video. Now THAT is funny!

Well, that is really a matter of their opinion. If you want to gnaw on THAT bone there is a bit more meat on it.

No. As Gromnir intimated the only thing at issue here is if the injunction will be lifted before the whole order is litigated. The only standard the judges have to apply is if the case to overturn is likely to succeed on it's merits. In other words is there a fair chance the temporary moratorium will be overturned. They decided there was so the injunction is upheld. They did not make a decision on whether the Executive has the authority to do what it did. That will come later.

Barack Obama ignored whenever he could and bitched about it when he couldn't. President's trying to do things they cannot do is nothing new here I'm sorry to say.

Oh yeah. This is a 15 round bout. This is only round 2

That has to be a record

Oh no, Apollo died? The REAL Apollo, not the whiny Jamie Bamber version.

possible. am knowing ohio state has more than a few student-athletes who likely scored worse on their sat/act than would the typical somali refugee, but as flagrant as is urban meyer's abusing o' ncaa regulations when he were at florida and now at ohio st. is hardly rising to the level o' terrorism. close, perhaps. Only if you are a Michigan fan.

You are wrong Gromnir. There really WAS a Bowling Green massacre. Last September Ohio State beat them 77-10, That must be what Conway was talking about!

I laughed at this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2017/02/06/how-super-bowl-like-election-falcons-won-popular-vote/97537944/

The 22nd is a Saturday. Amusingly, the Saturday immediately before that is also a target date for some significant anti-Trump activity. The 15th is traditionally the day that income tax filings are due (the actual date this year will slide to the 18th because of the weekend and a DC-only holiday, but the 15th is generally still thought of as "Tax Day"), and, of course, he still refuses to release any of his tax information. Nice to see you back around Enoch. We haven't heard much from you lately.

I rained last night. Then got cold. Below freezing cold. So I walked out back this morning to feed the chickens (not one of whom bothered to leave their heated house) and slipped in ice on the porch steps. No now I mave the makings of an ugly bruise on my hip and I am already getting sore. I hate getting old. 10 years ago I would have jumped right back up and laughed about it. 20 years ago I'd have caught myself before falling. Now, I'm just going back to bed.

I'm sure it varies from company to company, but yeah, I can "call in sick" (using one of my 5 sick days) and nobody blinks an eye or expects me to prove it. On the flip side, if I took over one month off due to various illness I would probably be shown the door. I work in an office and I don't really worry about infecting others. They are always already sick before Ill even sniffle. When I get sick I come in early and make phone calls on the desk phones of everyone I don't like. And that is a hell of a lot of phone calls!

Could you imagine High School.... without the High School? http://www.roanoke.com/news/education/mcauliffe-unveils-plan-to-require-schools-to-make-virtual-k/article_5b2935f0-38ec-5499-acac-7e3e629f32a4.html

The US Military is a big fan of using both the carrot and the stick in equal measure. Most other institutions of learning seem to rely on one to the exclusion of the other in my experience.

How so? Honest question. I know, different countries and cultural differences and all, but overall I found my time in uniform *extremely* demotivating. And the most valuable lesson I learned is maybe... "I really ****ing hate long runs". Oh it's not the PT. By the time you've been in a little while you're in good enough shape you can run anywhere. If you enlist with the guarantee of a certain job/school/ MOS it on you to actually PASS. You only get one shot. If you fail then the Corps will pick a new job for you. And you can bet it will not be one anyone else wanted. Don't think infantry either. There are many MOS much, much worse than infantry. Now THAT is motivation.

I was reading KP's post and saw a little bit of myself there too. Minus the drugs of course, never touched them. But I was smart enough tp get by with C's and not exert any real effort. It wasn't until I got into the Marine Corps that I leared the single most important lesson of my life: Doing just good enough to get by was not good enough. In college I got a 3.0+ all the way through. I'm not one to blame my parents for anything but I think they did me a disservice by allowing me to think a C was a good grade. It really isn't. In the military if you are not excelling you are failing. Now the military is able to motivate someone in ways no public school ever could. But as I know Hurlshot has pointed out many times an engaged parent can do a heck of a lot to improve a student's academic perfromance.

Abomination!

Mass graves? Draconian prison sentences for speaking out? Labor camps? Should I go on?

A Utopian ideal that young people tend to cling to?