I look forward to not having to drag the kids out of bed for school at 7 am in pitch darkness.
I'd also rather not wait until a quarter to ten for fireworks to start on The 4th.
#Teamstandardtime
GOP is spiking the football already in Virginia because Youngkin has seemingly convinced GOP voters to go early.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-may-have-found-a-winning-election-strategy/ar-AA1jlq6z?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=cc41f88307b149e1b386d95d66646b7e&ei=18
45 day EV period? Why would anyone in VA vote on election day?
Shen Yun is bankrolled by the Falun Gong, that pseudo-cult that took the mainland by storm back in the 90's, prompting a nasty crackdown by the CCP. Odd, because they learned all the same authoritarian tactics. They are not the good guys.
FG also finances the Epoch Times, one of the more fucked up and Trump-ball-gargling of right-wing rags.
FWIW their gen 5 fighter more closely resembles the Russian Su-57 than any of our stuff.
Those homes aren't actually built to handle any long term occupancy. They exist because the construction and real estate industries are 30% of the Chinese economy and the people don't have any other options for stashing away their money. Whole 5 year-old subdivisions are falling apart.
It helps to scroll to the bottom of the article.
Polls are small samples of the population and this survey was a sample of that sample. Conducted online. Because methodology.
Yes, the one-state solution is the only one that is viable over the long term. Any country that looks like this has no future by virtue of the laws of physical geography.
Even with the 1949 borders, Palestine was a geopolitical failure waiting to happen.
We won't be getting a secular pluralistic democracy once Palestine is fully digested.
I get all that. I'm not arguing that on-field results aren't important historically, but there are many posters questioning the alignment of a program based on its team winning or losing six days ago, and some of them aren't trying to be funny.
I can't think of any teams at risk of relegation in which on-field performance is the main reason.
I expect Oregon State to push the record to 13-0 today.
Things get tougher next week. Wiscy at WSU, Auburn at Cal, Zona at Miss St. SC and Furd playing each other.
I'm gonna miss this league
Your prognostication applies more to Cal than Stanford.
Harbaugh/Shaw actually happened and the best Stanford could do was not even fill their own stadium. The Phil Knight option is more realistic but money doesn't matter if the networks don't think people want to watch. They are a disinterested fanbase and there's no changing that. That said, I think it would be possible for a handful of donors to prop the AD up even in the absence of power conference membership, or anyone else caring.
Cal was selling out its stadium in the mid/late 00s but football reverted back to the mean and couldn't maintain fan interest. A Harbaugh-like coach or major benefactors would both be godsends right now. Maybe we're seeing the latter, but they have to contend with campus politics, a retiring chancellor, and a meek AD. For Cal, I'm afraid it really is power 4 or bust.
Don't mistake Surly opinion as a microcosm of overall opinion in the West. The real contrarians are the guys like Zeihan. All of our war games show the US losing at least an aircraft carrier. Nobody who matters is downplaying this threat and, if anything, its the China hawks like Bass who hold more sway over actual policymaking.
Now that they are cutting supply, costs will go up and new players will come online and ramp up their own production. Won't happen overnight, but China is either going to back track or they will be out of the raw materials market.
I thought I heard the Russians set a daily record for number of missiles launched at Ukraine yesterday. It would have been easy to annihilate the Wagner column if there was consensus to do so.