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By tonight, the Yankees could be outside the playoffs. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 11, 07:44 6
- The fact that the Orioles and Marlins are verry much in the playoff hunt and Washington and Boston are pretty much out - eag Sep 11, 08:00
- This year has made me realize I'd be happy with an 81 game MLB season. - Inigo Sep 11, 07:58 3
  - Get rid of interleague play games and bring it down to say 100-120 games a season. -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 08:04 1
    - They need to balance the leagues as well so at 16 teams in each league and two 4 game series between each team you get 128 games. -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 08:06
  - The season length was one of the main reasons I could never get into it. -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 11, 08:00
- 2020 is finally digging *up*. -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 11, 07:52
New Brunswick Provincial Election: 133,000 people voted early (election is Monday), a 50% jump from 2018 (+45,000) -- (link) - Beaker Sep 11, 07:44 6
- I'd ask who won, but I see from this CTV News report that it was the "old white guy". -- (link) - Mopsy Sep 11, 07:59 4
  - got the PC's who currently rule, the Liberals run by a killer, the people's Alliances (anti-French), the Green (who's leader I like) and -- (edited) - Beaker Sep 11, 08:05 3
    - I like the cut of his jib! - Mopsy Sep 11, 08:07 1
      - nah, just going for clickbait :). He doesn't really come off well in interviews I've seen, but ewe love the Lib guy running here in our riding -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 08:08
    - we're both voting Liberals this year as we know and respect the guy running...and based on the signs he should crush the incumbent PC candidate -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 08:07
- That's almost everyone in New Brunswick! -- nm* - Mopsy Sep 11, 07:57
On a lighter note, today marks the anniversary of one of the greatest catches in NFL history. -- (link) - zunkskunk+ Sep 11, 07:43 2
- Even in 1995, that ponytail was out of date. -- nm - Mopsy Sep 11, 08:05
- I remember that. (nice mullet) -- nm - mud Sep 11, 07:46
"ill-conceived Navy Sept 11 flyover has been cancelled." -- (link) - mud Sep 11, 07:35 2
- I look forward to 9/11 re-enactors in a few years. -- nm - Mopsy Sep 11, 08:06
- Thank goodness! -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 07:41
Hulu has bought the Michael Sheen/David Tennant lockdown comedy Staged and you get the extended episodes too. -- (link) - LMS Sep 11, 07:22
9 straight days of no Covid deaths in the city of Boston. Hope these folks keep doing what they're supposed to do. -- nm - Diva Sep 11, 07:17 5
- this is very good news - !! -- nm - Epiphany - Let me roll it to ya Sep 11, 07:59
- Meanwhile rellies in Texas are going to a wedding in Kansas City. 1) WHO IS STILL HAVING WEDDINGS - Epiphany - Let me roll it to ya Sep 11, 07:54
- Tell us your secrets! -- nm - con_carne Sep 11, 07:48
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 07:21
- great news! -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 07:17
I'll say this is a good call -- (link) - ty97 Sep 11, 07:07
For years and years I've heard about Trump referencing his tallest building after the WTC fell but I never actually heard it - ty97 Sep 11, 06:50 10
- Let's not forget the muslims in New Jersey he saw celebrating the towers collapsing. -- nm - jnine Sep 11, 09:32
- He called into Howard Stern's show and said the same thing that day -- nm - Remlik Sep 11, 08:08
- Yeah, he had an amazing call. -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 11, 07:46
- and right now he is speaking in PA of the heroism of those on Flight 93 and it's obscene -- nm - mud Sep 11, 07:31 1
  - (he's doing it in that revolting low monotone, off the teleprompt) -- nm - mud Sep 11, 07:32
- I remember seeing this, maybe 2 or 3 years ago exactly. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 11, 07:03
- (so why did you vote for him in the first place, George?) -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 06:54 3
  - Did he? (I actually don't know, I just assumed he was an anti-Trumper from the start but maybe not?) -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 07:01 2
    - Yes. He says he turned quickly, and I'm glad he did, but man, this stuff was out there. -- (link) - Reagen Sep 11, 07:03 1
      - ahh, okay. Thanks. -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 07:04
Hmm. I forgot my lunch today -- nm - oblique Sep 11, 06:34 1
- I am pretty sure you still have time to eat. -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 11, 08:00
US Open (tennis) spoilers - Dano Sep 11, 06:29 4
- unrelatedly, that's the first match of the Open that I've watched. The (lack of) sound on the court is just soooooo strange -- nm - prayformojo Sep 11, 06:34
- It's a wonderful story. -- (edited) - Diva Sep 11, 06:32 2
  - I don't know the story. Can I get a quick overview? -- nm - pmb Sep 11, 07:22 1
    - Very quick: Nasty custody battle with her ex for their son complicated further by the fact that she’s not a US citizen. -- nm - Dano Sep 11, 07:30
In case you needed an extra bit of adorableness to get you to the weekend.... -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 11, 06:25
wwwwwhhhhhhaaaattttt??????????? -- (link) - ty97 Sep 11, 06:11 23
- I wrote about 9/11 last night. In the process, I re-read plenty of early internet discussions. His first two comments are objectively wrong. -- nm - David Sep 11, 06:53 1
  - (And the travel industry didn’t stage a recovery for more than two years.) - David Sep 11, 06:55
- There was a lot of anti-Muslim sentiment. It's amazing how much people forget -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 06:50 7
  - yep. -- nm - Diva Sep 11, 07:19
  - It still lingers today. I remember a few years ago watching some episode of the L&O franchise from pre-9/11 - ty97 Sep 11, 06:55 1
    - It most certainly does continue and now they've added Asian people. I remember people going after Sikhs because they didn't know the difference. - Krusty Sep 11, 06:59
  - Yeah, there was. I think a better way to say what Krugman is getting at is... - Inigo Sep 11, 06:53 3
    - Almost certainly true. But if a person kills one person and another kills 100 people, the former doesn't get credit for killing 99 less people -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 07:20
    - To be fair, I think his point is that Bush actively tried to dissuade anti-muslim sentiment. Pointed out that that most live peacefully and my - pmb Sep 11, 07:17
    - That's a fair way to put it and I would agree with that. -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 06:55
- There were isolated pockets but nothing like it could have been. He spoke warmly about the faith and how OBL tainted it. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 11, 06:16
- I seem to recall a little anti-Muslim sentiment here and there. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 11, 06:16 1
  - A mass outbreak though? There was sporadic vandalism, abuse etc from people acting alone/small groupsbut not, say, mob violence, random lynchings etc. -- nm - Roger More Sep 11, 06:23
- I'd agree with that. W sucked for many reasons but that wasn't one of them. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 06:16 9
  - There was a major spike in Anti-Muslim bias and W invaded countries. -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 06:18 8
    - It wasn’t anti-Muslim sentiment that led to Afghanistan. It was then harboring a mass murderer of Americans. - Will Hunting Sep 11, 06:27 7
      - The "yeah, he attacked Iraq" was kind of a big, terrible, thing. -- nm - Andie Sep 11, 06:28 6
        
        He attacked Saddam, who in his mind was an evil man who wanted to kill dad. 9/11 wasn’t why; Islam wasn’t why. - Will Hunting Sep 11, 06:38 4
        
        And W used 9/11 and anti-Muslim fervor // rampant nationalism post-9/11 to make Iraq happen. -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 06:42 3
        
        And they made every case possible to try and link Iraq and 9/11. They didn't go after the country that paid for it all and where the men came from. - Krusty Sep 11, 06:49 2
        
        I won't suggest for a moment it wasn't cynical. But SA is precisely the reason he didn't sow anti Muslim sentiment in the run-up. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 06:52 1
        
        They and others were making the case against Islam pretty soon afterwards but tried to walk a fine line at times. -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 07:02
        
        But like they're only Muslim not like Muslim Muslim and we only killed like a million of them. -- (edited) - ty97 Sep 11, 06:31
Trump voter response I ran across on a friends feed: "Can’t vote for a guy who has 46 years in office and NOW he says he’s going to make a change" -- nm - oblique Sep 11, 06:08 13
- The only thing Biden is going to change is back to the status quo we had pre-Trump. -- nm - Qale Sep 11, 07:01 6
  - man, everyone can only hope -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 07:24
  - I'll take that considering where we are today and what would happen if we have another 4 years of this maniac. -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 07:04 2
    - Ultimately where I come down on things is that it's not Biden's, or any other Dems', fault that Trump and most of his supporters are psychos. - Reagen Sep 11, 07:35 1
      - Very true -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 07:48
  - Which is nowhere close to where we need to be, yet 1000000 times better than where we are. -- (edited) - ty97 Sep 11, 07:02 1
    - "C+ is better than an F-" - JaxSean Sep 11, 07:52
- I don’t think it’s difficult to come up with plenty of reasons not to vote for Biden if you look just at Biden. -- nm - Dano Sep 11, 06:27 1
  - True for any candidate. -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 11, 08:01
- "and that's why I'm choosing to sleep on this bed of discarded heroin needles" -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 06:18
- I've seen things along that line. The argument strikes me more as a decided Trump voter justifying/trying to sway other, as opposed to the deciding - ty97 Sep 11, 06:14 2
  - That's a good observation. I read it entirely as the "Never Democrat" crowd but I see where you're coming from. -- nm - oblique Sep 11, 06:15 1
    - A Never Democrat voters is, in the vast majority of cases, going to be a Trump voter so I think you're on the right track too. -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 06:30
The MCU actors are all in a FFL and here are their picks: -- (link) - Diva Sep 11, 06:00 3
- I notice they didn't invite Cumberbatch. Wouldn't really be fair with him seeing the future and all. -- nm - Sam SeaBaron Sep 11, 06:33 1
  - Out of the millions of permutations, there'd be only one way for him to win - prayformojo Sep 11, 06:36
- The trash talk videos throughout the season last year were great. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 11, 06:15
Apparently I won the draft for the BF league yesterday. Neat. -- nm - Shaun Sep 11, 05:55 2
- I'm glad we're doing something this season but I couldn't be more disconnected from sports right now -- nm - oblique Sep 11, 05:58 1
  - I had the game on last night and I think I actually saw three of the scores. - Wakanda Forever Sep 11, 08:02
Sid Meier’s Memoir! debunks the myth of “Nuclear Gandhi”—but not the assumptions that created him -- (link) - Beaker Sep 11, 04:56 1
- That's a Kessel Run level excuse. -- nm - Sam SeaBaron Sep 11, 06:58
Listening to an old podcast with Paul Rudd as the guest, and I nominate him to take over the Fred Willard space in our pop culture. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 04:55 1
- And it’s convenient that he’s going to look the same forever -- nm - Dano Sep 11, 05:07
TV PSA: The Boys (Amazon), NHL, NBA, Bering Sea Gold, Smackdown, RuPaul, Being Reuben, Love Island, Bill Maher, Coastal Elites (HBO), -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 04:43 1
- The Duchess (Netflix), Great Performances: Romeo And Juliet (PBS), Room 104 (HBO), Animal Babies (BBC America), Deranged Granny (Lifetime), other stuf -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 04:44
FYI: $5 Fridays is all Star Wars and Harry Potter stuff, most has been up before but a nice Baby Yoda long sleeve shirt is on (not here sadly :( ) - Beaker Sep 11, 04:15 3
- I can't get the link for some reason to see. 😒 -- nm - Andie Sep 11, 06:27 2
  - try this one -- (link) - Beaker Sep 11, 07:25 1
    - THANK you. i wasn't getting anything like i normally do. -- nm - Andie Sep 11, 07:26
some states in mexico have run out of death certificate paper -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 11, 02:26
buy/order some vitamin D3 before they are cleared off the shelves. a limited study in Spain finds D3 very effective in helping c19 victims -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 11, 01:05
Now watching: Kim's Convenience S1E1 -- nm - Ender Sep 10, 23:00 9
- Nice!! -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 06:12
- Yes! Everyone on ST should watch this. -- nm - Shaun Sep 11, 05:48 6
  - Added to my list. I think I had Kim Possible stuck in my head and for some reason thought all of you were watching a cartoon -- nm - oblique Sep 11, 06:14
  - It's nice to see it finally catching on here. -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 06:12 3
    - I'm also looking forward to Simu Liu as Shang-Chi. You know, once that movie gets made and it's safe to go back to a theatre. -- nm - Diva Sep 11, 06:30 2
      - At least he never takes his shirt off in Kim's. -- nm - Shaun Sep 11, 06:33 1
        
        It'll be interesting to see him not playing comedy. -- nm - Diva Sep 11, 06:37
  - It's delightful. A wonderful panacea to things like our US war dead are all 'suckers' and 'losers' etc... -- nm - Diva Sep 11, 06:01
- I was expecting "Kim" to be a first name. -- nm - Ender Sep 10, 23:29
I don't know if Magic Johnson last track of the series or is just very confident, but this wasn't smart of him to tweet. -- (link) - jnine Sep 10, 22:49 1
- I think he just didn't know the series count. - David Sep 10, 23:25
Oh no. Kraken puns. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 10, 22:39
"Kids, Henry is absolutely right. This is not real gold. But it *is* REAL CHOCOLATE!" -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 22:36 6
- A location in Psych got me looking through Google Maps in White Rock BC. At a glance ... seems like one place on the mainland I'd consider living. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 23:08 3
  - When Vancouver was on our radar, that's where we were looking. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 02:43
  - I have like a third cousin who lives there. it's fine. basically South Surrey. -- nm - mafic Sep 11, 00:46
  - This is the location (they didn't change the name for the show) -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 10, 23:09
- Castle published real novels to support the show. The Boys should release a Black Noir dark chocolate bar. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 22:47 1
  - And ... spoils - Beryllium Sep 10, 22:57
The Scott Pilgrim game is coming back! -- (link) - Mopsy Sep 10, 22:21
If my choices right now were a threesome with Bonnie Haine and Carol Vessey or a haircut, I'd take the haircut without hesitation. - David Sep 10, 22:17 5
- I'm diggin these 80's shags, Colbert/Meyers look good with a full head of hair covering the ears -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 23:37
- !! Why don't you just dis Jill Flint for the hat trick. -- nm - Max Sep 10, 22:19 3
  - I'm not saying I have a type, but... -- (pic) - David Sep 10, 23:29 [Attachment] 2
    - These are -- (pic) - David Sep 10, 23:30 [Attachment] 1
      - three different actresses. -- (pic) - David Sep 10, 23:31 [Attachment]
So... there’s a LOT of videos out there of Harrison Ford talking about planes. - Mopsy Sep 10, 21:46 [youtube] 6
- I already crash around the clock! -- nm - Qale Sep 10, 22:04
- How often does he talk about his accidents, incidents, near misses? -- nm - Meg Sep 10, 21:50
- Considering his history, I wish he didn't fly out of the airport next to my house all of the time. He's a menace! -- nm - jnine Sep 10, 21:50 3
  - if/when he stops flying call your insurance agent and ask for a reduced rate now that a major threat is over :))) -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 10, 21:55
  - Two years older than I am - and I'm beginning to worry about *driving* :/ -- nm - Meg Sep 10, 21:52 1
    - It’s clear he loves it. It’ll be tough for him to quit it. But he needs to know when he can’t any more. -- nm - Mopsy Sep 10, 22:00
I wanna know how Meg’s Zoom call went. -- nm - Mopsy Sep 10, 21:23 3
- Meeting went great. Speakers audio was a little 'off' but we got the important parts. Not bad for a first attempt. Checked my phone when we were - Meg Sep 10, 21:34
- She is still on it. -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 10, 21:34 1
  - Last one standing, of course. -- nm - Mopsy Sep 10, 21:47
The Boys S2E4 quote spoils - Beryllium Sep 10, 21:18 6
- Misquote I can't get past - Max Sep 10, 21:19 5
  - spoilers - Beryllium Sep 10, 21:25 4
    - I LOVE the twist. -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 10, 21:28 3
      - that was quite ..uh - mud Sep 10, 22:31
      - It was very twisted. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 21:57
      - Whoa. Quote spoil. -- (edited) - Wakanda Forever Sep 10, 21:31
AC, GV, GL, SSC - Max Sep 10, 21:16
Last night sorta got so insane as I went ridin’ on the all night train… -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 21:00 3
- Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train. Ridin down that New Delhi Line Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train Well I left my guns behind Yeah I left my - Peglegpete Sep 10, 21:14 2
  - Driving that train, high on cocaine. Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed -- nm - Wakanda Forever Sep 10, 22:36 1
    - this train don't stop This train don't stop This train don't stop there anymore -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 23:52

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