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He's being facetious.

That link shows only Euro stops.

IMO, Vance's job tonight is to define what Harris and Walz are. They are intentionally trying to be candidates with undefined, amorphous positions. But both have significantly Leftie positions in their past.

I'm a bit of a geology wonk; one of my many useless pursuits. Your situation is similar to the Hawaiian islands, which are also along a fault. Every once in a while, the earth says "fock it" and spews a bunch of lava up. If you look at an undersea map of the Pacific, you'll see a series of islands going up and to the left towards Japan. Also, relatedly, you live in the "Ring of Fire". Good luck. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/plate-tectonics-ring-fire/

I would not want to be a higher up in Iran's government right now. What a bad ass response! A true leader. Lefties like @The Real timschochetwould have responded with "please Iran, don't send more ineffective bombs at us, let us send you several billions of dollars to fund your continued nuclear development!" Pathetic Also, I agree with your last sentence. I can only see two scenarios in which Iran did this: 1. They honestly think they are stronger than they are, or 2. They hope Biden/Harris will step in and be the poosay in hopes of buying pro-terrorist votes for the election. But Israel doesn't seem to care at this point. Doesn't look good for Iran. Which is awesome.

Maybe they do, I don't know the details. I was speaking more in the hypothetical against what seemed like a dichotomy argument. Also, you've got a major tectonic plate junction not far off of the PNW coast which is overdue for some unwanted behavior. It's what created your mountains. Ts and Ps.

Also, my wife is from the Detroit area -- she doesn't root for the Tigers any more, but she has family/friends that do. Also, Torkelson is an ASU guy. Vamos El Tigres!

Great start to the postseason. Playoff baseball is great.

I wish the DBacks made it. Watching yesterday's Mets/Braves double header was painful.

If I may interject here, I think in general, a public/private approach works best in these situations. FEMA has the resources and authority to do big things, and to coordinate the overall effort. But the closer you get to on-the-ground activities, those tend to be much more efficient when executed by private companies. Just a thought.

I'm not sure the bolded is true. Lots of countries don't like Iran and their proxies, some might argue the majority of countries. UAE, Bahrain (already did Abraham Accords). Saudi, Egypt, Jordan (although they'd never admit it) as well. This is a unique opportunity to stomp out Iran and its proxies, and let the cooler heads of countries like the above take leadership. This is the only way, for instance, a two-state solution is remotely possible. Kamala keeps saying the words "two-state solution" because it sounds so darn good, but it ignores the cold hard fact that Hamas time and again has rebuffed it, and will never agree to it in the future, no matter how much "talks" and "negotiation" goes on. Such talks being a joke of course: who are they negotiating with? Israel has killed most of the leadership.

The thing about the Left is, any response against a group they consider higher (worse off) on their intersectionality cheat sheet is unacceptable. These poor groups are disenfranchised by the bad white Jews (even though ethnically, they are all pretty intertwined) and must be allowed to do whatever they want. It was the same attitude during the Summer of Love riots.

You already did what? Say how this is worse for Israel? Because if they just sit there and take it up the ass without lube, that's going to make the terrorists more friendly? If you believe this, you have absolutely no understanding of what drives these terrorist groups, or what they respect. Pro tip: they don't respect weakness, they prey on it. Or, it's going to make more young Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranian boys hate them in future generations? The problem with this is that this war has been the most surgically precise in the history of war. I'm trying to imagine this scenario. I'm a young boy in Lebanon, and my parents are raising me to hate Hezbollah and crave freedom. Then I watch Hezbollah bomb Israel for a year, and finally Israel takes out... Hezbollah and virtually nothing else out. Am I not happy about this? In your model, this young boy says "dadblammit, I was hoping to go to college and work towards capitalism, but now I'm going to join Hezbollah!" Think it through.

This is nothing like Vietnam. Israel will destroy, not try a slow land invasion. And if we had those two collective brain cells I mentioned, we'd help them finish the job. But we won't, because of pandering to our pro-terrorist voting block. Which you don't seem to want to address. I find your last sentence so... I won't say it, in the interest of politeness. Instead, please help me understand how it's worse in the long run to destroy Iran and it's proxies than to sit there having bombs lobbed into your country on a daily basis.

I'll take that as a "no"

Nonsense. Iran is proving to be a paper tiger. Their entire leverage in negotiations is that they had big bad Hezbollah aiming it's awesome arsenal at Israel. How'd that turn out? Hamas, more or less done as well. Houthis, when they get around to it. Israel has already shown Iran that they can get in and kill anyone they want, and that they have missiles that Iran can't even see. Iran will be extremely luckily if Israel does not destroy all of their airfields and nuclear sites. Israel has been preparing for 20 years for this. It's time. As I said yesterday, the best way to end a war is to win the war. Decisively. Thankfully, Netanyahu has stopped asking the US for permission and has decided to just ask. If the US leaders had two collective brain cells to rub together, they would see this as the opportunity to finish Iran and help Israel, like allies should. But they probably won't. Can't upset that pro-terrorist voting block and all.

It's not a stupid question, and the answer is to support girls who think they are boys.

Governor Walz, please explain your statement, "one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness."

I know, I just told @Fnordexactly that.

Exactly. California is Hunter Biden.

Not exactly. Both of them built off of their fortunes. Kim Kardashian is another. California is the rich trust fund kid who sits around smoking pot and making it rain in clubs.

An argument can both be a strawman and be correct. We were discussing Trump's speech ability... ... and here we are, still discussing the situation in Springfield.

Wut? Your culture blows. You have nearly unlimited God-given natural resources -- great weather, beaches, mountains, ports, raw materials -- and somehow you still manage to fock it up and have companies/people leaving in droves. That's not "culture." California is like the son of the rich dad who thinks he is superior because his dad is rich. Wait, you literally ARE that kid.

I remember that at least 1/2 of the land was on state land, although Google isn't clear on that. Nationwide, I've seen estimates that 84% of fires are on state or private vs. federal land. Also California environmental groups protest against such cleanup.

Sorry, I fell asleep during your first option it was so boring, so I never read the rest. This is dumb. 10 expensive homes get destroyed, and 1000X as many hovels more inland get destroyed. If you've been to coastal communities, you know you don't have to go very far inland to find the shacks that house the people who work for the rich people/resorts.