It is the extraordinarily strong faith that they have. They are believers, and praying is the vehicle. Think MAGA. Vote for a millionaire certainly increase wealth, maybe not for them, but for the millionaire. Nothing like keeping the faith, be it a praying mantis or a MAGA evangelical prayer.
Aragona is as smart a value handicapper as there is. He may not pick the winner but, golly, if you want a dream horse representing excellent value, he is the man.. He is the kind of guy who could find the horse likely to beat Secretariat. It’s not about winning, it is about a big price IF he wins.
The Doc needs to understand that facts are irrelevant on the MAGA moon - just tiny ignorant steps for their kind.
This is a country more of belief than of valuing facts. Mary L Trump spoke up and against a close family member, her uncle. Caroline Kennedy did the same with RFK jr; nevertheless, although not having met these officials, voters felt better informed than those relatives. Can faith move mountains?
Rogers has money but no baseball acumen. Guerrero and Bichette came up together like twins feeding off each other. They should have been packaged for a total of the $500 million that went to Guerrero singularly. This could be the worst signing in baseball history. Bo will probably sign elsewhere.
Even his picture seems to confirm speaker Johnson not only as an Hogan’s Heroes Sgt. Shultz type character, but the guy projects an air of Chief of Voyeurism at the Epstein Institute of Pedophilia.
Schneider is not a thoughtful manager. He seems to want to make baseball a science rather than the art it is. A right handed pitcher goes 6-7 innings getting out both left and right handed hitters. Come the 7-8th, an inferior left hander is asked to get out a n inferior left handed hitter. Say what?
Julius Caesar said of Cassius: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; Such men are dangerous. The same can be said of J D Vance, who some view as having a superior intellect to that of his boss. Beware, whether the Ides of March or not.
The travails of Hoffman; if only we had the pre- injury Romano of past years, he was a good close-down guy.
Can you imagine how Blue jays would be leading all of baseball if Dan Schulman’s version of Guerrero could be found before season’s end.
From your mouth to God’s ears, I guess.
If there is no Hell then people should contribute to the building of one, and it should be named McConnell’s Paradise.
He’s got to be an awfully sick man. You cannot be aware of Al Capone’s record and then encourage him to visit more banks, because it is his right under the Constitution.
Great credit to America’s Cupid for promoting new relationships. First, there is Canada falling deeply in love with Europe; and, most recently, the world’s two most populous countries, India and China - almost 40% of all humans on planet earth - say if birds can do it, they can as well.
I rather doubt that is about their being overachievers, in my opinion. Parents ought not place excessive stress on their children in any endeavour. Encourage them. If a baby takes a bad step, give it a chance to get better. The old adage, if at once you don’t succeed, try again.
Coco Gauff’s athletic skills are a given. Brad Gilbert has worked with her generally, Andy Roddick one of the sports all-time great servers, and now her new coach on mechanics. She was taught she must be a winner - just note the tension-driven parents. A sports psychologist could work wonders.
The question is being tested. The Blue Jays' star player in 2025 is the team. Guerrero is a very good player, and so is Bichette. Springer has rebounded both young Clement and Barger have emerged. There has been solid play from both Kirk and Varsho, and a dependable set of starters. This is a team.
Do you seriously believe they care? At least she is fighting back with excellent lawyer Abbie Lowell.
Highly skilled, well experienced health professionals are quality assets for which a substitute is absent. The Canadian government should pursue them, because they are people primarily motivated by the science, its value, and freedom of thought to explore the possibilities.
Faked looks, with a capital ”F”, man; the medium is the message, and Mar-a-Lago the destination. Once upon a time FM meant Frequency Modulation, but now …???
So apparently a very competent CDC health expert gets fired on “The Apprentice”, by politicians who have low or failed grades in biology and the physical sciences generally. Paging Hollywood, Netflix, somebody, please tell me that this is a nightmare.
Many, and the Democratic Party in particular, refused to believe social evils of the GOP, which accepted racism, poverty, and minimum educational support to the poor and disenfranchised. They painted Democrats as leftists and socialists for wanting to address these issues. The truth is now known.
Praise be to logical reasoning!
Yes, that’s really rich right tgere!
I respect Stuart Steven’s intellect immensely, but find his urging of Republicans to question many of the administration’s un-American initiatives a fool’s errand. Republicans have quietly signalled that Trump speaks for them. Past time that this is accepted fact.
Could not be any happier that gentlemanly Bonzi was able to regain his composure and defeat this apology for a good competitor. Hopefully Sinner and Alcaraz will ensure we never see him in another Grand Slam final.
Is this the first step in Putinizng tennis?
Were it Wimbledon, Medvedev would probably have been permanently abandoned. Sinner was brutally penalized for a drug he had never voluntarily taken. Will the ATP allow Daniel’s pernicious and mean-spirited antics of persuading the crowd to assist in overruling their the umpire?
He has no worry. Deep down inside he is confident that there is no Hell; but, If Mar-a-Lago is hell then he would be welcomed.
You are right on Mitch McConnell. He publicly declared a policy to make the first Black president, Barack Obama, a superbly intellectually gifted man, fail significantly even if the country were to be negatively impacted. Yet he refused to convict a president, whom he said had committed crimes.
As a generalized principle, Republicans who stand back, with hands clasped behind them, should all accompany Garcia to Uganda, if they indeed support that order and the spirit in which it is being executed.
She will be pardoned, and Garcia will be sent to a jail in Idi Amin’s Uganda, which will then get U. S. aid for prison industry development. Just cannot make this up, fiction is dead.
Chalk it up to a Republican Party that remains in the background cheering mutedly as loudly as onOne can get.
Could this be an invitation to another civil war in the country?
In time Trump will be gone, but not the Republican Party. Republican operatives, like Sgt Shultz, seem to neither see nor hear anything. These events should never be forgotten. The present MAGA Republicans should be replaced, and future GOP voting be only for candidates of character and patriotism.
They are not even embarrassed at being as publicly racist as they are. Why if Garcia has to be deported the alternate destination must be Africa, and Uganda; why not Europe, and either Sweden, Norway or Denmark?
Mathematical Genius defined in certain spaces: Anyone who can validate the formula 2 Wrongs = 1 Right.
This is your RETRIBUTION. This is what Christ wanted. We must punish these people while protecting Ghislaine, who was merely expressing her love for our little girl children, sharing their joy with our best business men, and preparing them to be mothers of America’s future beautiful children.
Forget about Epstein and sexy girl children; look over here, we have critic John Bolton who also carted away classified documents. I told you it’s no big deal but Democrats complained and Bolton joined them. Such nasty criminals.
A future Dem government? A rather pleasant and reassuring note; but, one has to wonder, given what's been strategically taking place, if a Republican dictatorship is not in the making. The government calls Dems left wingers and socialists, while concurrently grasping a share of Intel's ownership.
Putin has to understand that the human spirit can never be suppressed forever; for everyone there comes a point where the mind says no mas. People do not enjoy being either physically or intellectually controlled forever. We are foremost animals and, as such, freedom is an inherited trait.
So true! Civilization happens to be just north of you, and on your way to heaven. Do not retreat to savage ages. Humanism will set you free.
Such a bright man! Why disrespect white people, especially when Blacks are doing well in my country and do not care?; also, it’s nobody’s business if wealthy men exploitatively sleep with children; or pay for adult sexual encounters. This is all private, and all left wing judges should butt-out.
The Alaska red carpet and hand-embrace were intended to be theatre and not peace talks. The occasion was rather staged to see how best Ukraine could be urged to capitulate. President Carter bringing Israeli’s PM Begin and Egypt’s President Sadat was prime example of how to hold serious peace talk.
Yes, and when President Putin approves he says “da”; I will then double-up on that by saying “da-da”. That’s my Russian/English bilingual take on all this. I am the most polite person on earth.
Absolutely correct! And if indeed we succeed at it, a grand Golden Shower will be arranged for Moscow.
Think again, Boston Globe. The U.S. Constitution allows it through the U.S. Congress. The present U.S. Congress is under the control of MAGA, which Trump controls. So the Congress approves the appropriate bill and off it goes for WH signing. Then BINGO, we have law! This is how MAGA will do it.
It certainly is not a Peace Talk when one of the combatants is absent from that discussion. Mr. Rather frames it correctly, a “strategy session” best describes it. Reporters need to get on this. Leave theatre and theatrics to Broadway, they have a remarkable comparative advantage.
He does not blame Putin. He does not blame Hillary. He blames Obama’s incompetence in not sending troops to defend Crimea. The reasoning then is that Putin now has a right to Crimea. This Trumpian logic would have had Bertrand Russell screaming for the murder of reason.
The Trump-Putin F- art of the deal: Ukraine gives up territory and the bank robber will leave with the help of the police.
Too bad European members of NATO do not have the spine to risk America’s withdrawal under Trump by immediately granting membership to Ukraine.
Why stop there if dealing with Santa Claus. Just go for the entire Ukraine and have a by god jolly sleigh-ride.
J D Vance will get prime time equivalent to attempt pushing Zelensky and European leaders around. Europeans seem to have their act together to deal with Trump and Putin. Putin does not reside in America, and hopefully a lot of decent Americans exist to discourage his intentions.
Oh that would be a nasty thing for those leftist liberals to do.
So meanwhile, back at the Texas ranch a gunman intrudes. The rancher argues with him and tried to persuade departure from his property. The Sheriff arrives and demands the gunman leave. The robber insists on leaving only if he is given two of about 5 horses that can be seen grazing on the grounds.
Great news. Too bad Republican Party Congress members seem incapable of confronting their leader. Understandably he speaks for them, but even the best of speeches may not be delivered as well as intended. If they disagree with this, they should not be part of the country’s governance.
The ghost of Neville Chamberlin appeared on Friday. We have peace says one, there is no deal says the other. Nothing will come of it. It is well known that the “You are Fired” man walks away when incapable of being in control.
Hopefully the Europeans will be present. Let’s give paper tiger JD Vance another chance. Let’s see if he attempts to push European leaders aside the way he tried with Zelensky,y who stood his ground.
No body language expert will be needed to note the contrast in Zelensky’s reception. No patting on the back of his hand as if daddy is proud of his bright kid. Zelensky will be readily dismissed. JD Vance will confidently refute the leader of 40 million, millions of whom are brighter than he is.
Right you are. He is a very skilled hitter who knows what he can likely hit and what he cannot. No theatrics with Dalton. He is quiet and non ra-ra. He is a Gold Glove outfielder and Jays should have been smart in locking-up him, Guerrero and Bichette for 5 years and $500 million and save $s.
Because it was a sham meeting; nothing was expected to come from it, as Hillary wisely pointed out, and nothing came out of it. But Hillary is disliked because the GOP operatives feel a woman should not be as smart. The Red Carpet handshake was instructive, two old buddies delighted to reconnect.
Trump: You keep saying “da”, which must be what they say in Russia. In American language I would say to you da-da.
Of course; agreed, I do not mean to offend but only a fool would not vote for such a person.
That’s OK with MAGA. He is a godly man, says that sweet old lady from Mississippi; he is rich and has his own airplane, she continues, that’s the type of person who knows how to improve your life. Who would not vote for a man like that.
No one should blame the President for not ending the Russia-Ukraine war on day 1 of his presidency, as he had promised. It is not the President’s fault that Putin was too busy bombing Ukraine that he was unavailable for a meeting at the White House.
Do you really believe that, not even little girls?
Great theatre today. Hopefully the Academy was taking notes. Only thing absent was the performance’s title: “You Are Fired”
Not only does Putin have a worldwide platform on which to voice his nonsense, but Republican politicians in Congress will publicly applaud and then head right home for a good laugh. A stage performance that not even Shakespeare could imagine man could play so well.
Of course it’s Biden’s fault that Putin had to seize Ukrainian territory because it belongs to the old U.S.S.R., as is today’s Russia. This is the kind of logic being offered.
Over the past 5 years Canadians Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime have emerge with great promise but have gradually receded. Gabriel Diallo now represents their best hope. Diallo’s performance vs Sinner in Cincinnati augurs very well leading into the U.S. Open and tournaments subsequently.
I cannot figure how Trump would handle the Russia-Ukraine conflict if Zelensky were the one making claims on some of Russia’s territory. We know how Putin would view that, but Trump?
America appears concerned with Russia and Ukraine making peace and living in harmony. Why then is America’s Republican Party so intransigent with respect to peace and equal participatory governance with its own Democratic Party? Seems Shakespeare has it right again: all the world’s a stage.
Yes, some Republican Party members should live and learn that loving is much more than what they exploit as sources of sexual gratification.
JUST WHAT OUR LEADERS NEED, GOOD ROMANTIC VIBES, WHICH CAN CLEAR THE HEAD AND PLEASURE THE BODY.
I wonder who the top students of baseball believe will hit most home runs for the Jays at the end of this season. Will it be Guerrero, Varsho, Barger, Springer or Bichette? Dan Shulman, the great baseball statistician, bets Guerrero will hit the longest, perhaps 500ft., and that’s most important.
The media are laden with actors who simply crave la dolce vita, there lives were never this good with all that money flowing for them to do the bidding of their masters.
The so-called Third Estate has turned out to be no more than a band of fifth columnists. Many members are human beings who easily opt for the social gatherings and money available to them, so they pay the piper by ditching basic principles of ethics and morality to play that game.
If one is running the red light, yes that person should be blamed, but to focus most on that carefree, risk taking and dangerous driver and not calling out the police for not penalizing him is to my mind a fool’s errand. That’s why civilized societies have laws.
Yes, and you also believe in that China Teapot that cannot be seen but many “KNOW” is orbiting the earth. Do you also believe blocks of ice are stored on the sun?
Time to stop blaming the WH. This I supposed to be a tripartite government. The Republican-controlled Congress is at the heart of this because it has the capability to immediately stop it. These religion-centric right wingers make the Ayatollah and Iranian governmentlook downright leftist.
My dear brother, it is essentially not a difficult proposition, the problem is an absence of a thing called courage. These same folks are types that will find ways to evade a military draft if their country’s existence meant winning a war.
In his warped mind Zelensky is the problem. There is an incursion by a neighbour on another’s property, how on earth can an objective and fair resolution be that some of the victimized property has to go to the aggressor in order to settle. Republicans figure this is OK?
It gets very complicated, it’s called World Peace.
Correct in all of that, but in the same way Trump is said to have believed Hitler was Australian and expected to have seen a Kangaroo with him in a picture, only to be told he was from Austria and not Germany, he could well believe that Turkey is only relevant at Thanksgiving.
Sounds like common sense to me; however, for some, common sense is the least common sense.
Sparky Anderson used to say that some managers interfere too frequently with the game and thereby end-up losing winnable ball games.
Here is how the Mets can save some money without unduly changing team performance: Blue Jays had wanted Juan Soto (28 hrs); now the Mets could offer the Jays Soto plus $100 million for Guerrero (19hrs)and his $500 million contract.
He has a doctorate from Trump U. In Accounting-Statistics, which marriages the science of Statistics to Convenience-Accounting such that the numbers generated are the numbers desired.
Jeff Hoffman is as cool as they come. He deliberately gets the bases loaded to tempt the opposing team into believing that they are going to score, then signals the manager to bring in his lefty Io close the game. That’s genius, let’s all give it up for smart-thinking Jeff Hoffman.
Let’s get real folks. The only reason troops are on DC’s streets is to relay a message to the rapidly growing black and brown members of the population. Prof. Tim Snyder understand this quite well. Religious racist, Speaker Johnson, understands it too. America does not, it is in a deep coma.
You have attracted the attention of a certified and experienced pickle psychologist. As you are doubtlessly aware, pickles are high in beta-carotene and antioxidants to protect yourself from diseases; however, my professional advice is that you should never get into one, it’s just too stressful.
Should the assumption by a non judge, non lawyer be that the esteemed Supreme Court of these United States is completely on board with developments of at least imagery of an evolving police state in Washington, DC?
That’s as it should be. Neither Trump nor Putin has the right to determine a sovereign Ukraine’s future; in the same way, Zelensky has no right to determine the future of either America or Russia. Putin is a master chess player. Hopefully Trump has enough knowledge and pride not to be manipulated.
That’s all this DC takeover is about.
Strange this heartfelt concern about crime rates in DC as they show tremendous decline relative to other towns, cities and the tcountry at large. Unfortunately, this very caring heart does not extend its concerns to Palestinian and other babies dying from starvation and weapons being used in Gaza.
From those cold eyes we can ascertain the admired purity of operator Ghislaine.
An undercover agent protecting and exploring the potential and talents of innocent young girls.
No kiddin’!
Mboko will win a lot of Grand Slams. She plays basic tennis superbly, much like Djokovic, not with the god-filled relish of Federer and Nadal. Gauff did not so much win the French but she allowed Sabalenka to power balls out of court. Mboko will be Sabalenka’s nightmare: “ here it is, have a go”.
Did Ray Charles not once pour his heart and soul into a song called America The Beautiful, or did he not realize his acting talents?