It seems weird for the DA to just drop "no crime was committed" at a presser. Why not the standard, "we arent filing charges at this time"? The DA is a MAGA republican, BTW. No big surprise there. He wasn't elected. He was appointed after the previous DA (also a "tough on crime" Republican) was removed from office by a judge for among other things, pleading the repeated rape of a child down to aggravated assault.

How is this black panther nonsense even relevant? The Carolina Panther was declared extinct. There has been no confirmed sighting since 1938. If the boys had said they thought Bigfoot or Harry Potter or a chupacabra was in the woods would that be taken as an affirmative defense for homicide?

They are slave animals. They are broken to like people.

Based.
As slaves go, dogs have a pretty good deal. I think it's strange you'd consider the deep and ancient relationship people have with dogs as master - slave. It probably says more about you than dogs.

I have a friend that has a grey wolf. She is only one generation removed from the wild and unmistakably pure wolf. She is the most affectionate dog I've ever known. She could easily hop his 6 foot fence and kill skunks for sport but chooses her 'chains'. No one "broke" her.

This guy has a great YT channel that focuses on the important USMNT topics the Main Stream Media is too scared to talk about.

Winners of Group A vs. Runners-up of Group B (Khalifa International Stadium, Al Rayyan; kick-off 3pm BST)

Assuming that's us, big yikes. Men against boys.

France are the team to beat for me. N'Golo Konte is basically playing with cheat codes. Everyone around him becomes a world class player, even chumps like Pogba and Rabiot.

Senegal at 66-1 looks tasty. Great team spirit. All native staff. Great keeper. Can lock it down to force slow knockout style football. The Bracket will keep them away from France until late.

England and Scotland in the same group could be fantastic, but something tells me Ukraine will be stuck in for that tiebreaker match.

The track layout seems unlikely. That's a huge footprint with half the cities hotel rooms inside in the ring. This isnt Baku where the government can tell everyone effected to get fcuked.

I say all this as a religious person. I say all this because I am a religious person. I believe that religion can raise the moral sights of politics (see the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) and root our belief in human dignity. But it is the very power of religious conviction that can make people co-opt it with their own passions and beliefs. Instead of being judged and challenged by the best of their faith, they use their faith to judge others. And they move closer and closer toward blasphemy.

Notice how he author commits the same infraction he lays at Thomas' feet. If you leave the door ajar for religion to "raise the moral sights of politics" there will be enough space for every televangelist and scientologist to squeeze through. It isnt enough for him that Thomas' texts were wrong or unethical or treasonous, it's "blasphemy". It breaks god's law. Whose god? His. Which law? Insert some metaphysical white noise here.

A minority of The Founders won a tiny concession after 2000 years of absolute religious tyranny: "..no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". That second part virtually nullifies the first. There is no "wall", there never has been.

Even the King reference seems to show his blind-spot. Letter From a Birmingham Jail hurled MLK into the zeitgeist. Go read it. Its 6 pages of brilliant, secular (socialist) argument, but after the initial throat clearing, begins:

Beyond this, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth-century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their hometowns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Greco-Roman world, I too am compelled carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

What we need is freedom from religion in all its possible manifestations. Until we as a society openly mock and laugh at anyone who wants to wield religion in the public square (Im looking at you 'good'-christians) we will have to accept god in politics.

Again, your ignorance is apparent to those knowledgeable on the topic
If you say so. If we're comparing our bona fide my first race was at 7. Well over 100 KART starts. Dirt, oval, circuit, every class from 4 stroke to shifter karts. 20 podiums or there about. My grandfather was a founding member of NASCAR. I've driven rally, rally cross, motor cross, outlaw, and sprint until my talent was found wanting after 1 season in GT3. Now I'm just the mechanic,pit crew, team principle and owner for my niece and nephew in the Bambino class.

If someone walked up to me at a race track and said:
"compare how the manipulation of boost pressure as it translates to horsepower was used to equalize competitive advantage in racing with the measurement and limits of testosterone levels in trans woman as it relates to the same for their competition in women's athletics"
I would presume they were having a stroke and call for a medic. Not sure why you posted your non-condescending "tutorial" but it has nothing to do with the points you were trying to make.

You obviously don't know anything about IndyCar.
I don't know a lot. I prefer F1 and rally. I do know Indy is a "spec" series. Every component of the car is built to spec. The object is to make them as close to exactly the same as possible. They usually use two engines to create a domestic/foreign competition trophy. They start with the same chassis, tires, aero package...everything. Teams pick between two (sometimes 3) engine manufacturers based on sponsorship money. Those engines are custom built to be within spec and they fine tune them to get them all as close as possible. These cars are not in different "classes".

Do you care to challenge these facts or do you admit ignorance of this racing history?
71 isn't 'completely wrong'. 61 is incoherent and in no why a description of Indy rules.
So I feel safe in my position: you dont know anything about motorsports.
These is just a strange pivot, anyway.

I reject that scores of male athletes will chose to transition to female for the sake of competitive advantage
Cool. I reject the implication that "scores" and 'more than 0' are in any way related. "ONE" is enough, remember. You used all cap to make sure I got the point.

Get back to me when your irrational fears become a reality
It would be too late then. WMLS and WNBA teams are already a red number on their parent team's balance sheet. Those leagues would collapse long before that point.

Isn't the point to get more trans athletes involved, and simultaneously empower more people with GD to transition, and simultaneously make a society more accepting non-binary people? The number of trans athletes (almost entirely women) will go up, and that's a good thing. Neither of us know by how much. The hypothetical is supposed to be a reach; I'm asking if their is a point where you would be willing to protect women's sports over an admittedly infinitesimal minority.
I don't just think you are wrong on the issue. I think you are doing long term harm to the people you want to help. How much political capital are you willing to spend here? Because you know as well as anyone on this site, politically, this issue is a loser. You're going to lose. You're messing with sports/apple pie, and the Republicans are going to beat you over the head with it in every school board election and State House seat across the country. And what do you get for this? Wait, what did you call it: "only ONE trans woman athlete in the entire state".

you've yet to acknowledge that athletic participation by trans women is regulated by the level of testosterone in their bodies, period.
Didn't know I needed too. Laura said it best: "I've been on hormones 7 years 2 months 20 days. I am a shell of my former self as far as strength goes. I couldn't compete in ANY sports. Her last 7 years are everyday in the life of a cis woman. To continue your race car analogy (and I don't think you know anything about motorsports) cis women would need to take any and all performance enhancing drugs they want for 4 years (or average male puberty) before spending their NCAA eligibility.

seemingly based on the fiction that unsuccessful males will seek the avenue of transgenderism
Im talking about sincere people with gender diaspora in their physical prime, after male puberty and one year removed from transition. But since you brought it up. Suppose there is cis man who trains until 20, lots of testosterone, no lost time to a menstrual cycle. Transitions. Hits the women's tennis circuit at 22. Wins two majors over 2 years. Pockets 12 million. Retires. Is this a "fair competition"? Do you honestly believe the number of cis men that will try something like this is zero?

Truth/Laura/Roma,
If in 15 years all of the major women's sports-- basketball, soccer, softball, tennis, gymnastics, swimming, skiing, golf, volleyball-- are dominated by trans-women; they win 50% of the gold medals and lead the WNBA, WMLS, WPGA in scoring, would you still hold your position? And do you think anything should be done for trans-men, who at the end of this hypothetical 15 years, still don't have a single athlete competing at any level in any of those sports?

Title IX is milestone that had a global effect. It's a great example of the power of government being used to create a better, happier, healthier society. Participation in women's sports is up 600% in the NCAA and 1000% in high school. Those aren't typos, it worked. It worked despite the legal challenges and with most schools still far below compliance. If you want to see Title IX dismantled misuse it as a a shoehorn to benefit trans-women (and only trans-women, trans-men can fcukoff). Republicans will get the ammo they've needed for the last 40 years to push the legal cases over the line. Conservatives will win the messaging game, this is right in their wheelhouse, and the LGBTQ will take a net loss in public support.

So I watched King Richard last night and there seems to be a case for life imitating art.
Overbearing, egotistical semi-retarded man attempts to hijack the success of two women to create a story about him. He goes on a series of embarrassing and incomprehensible rants on national tv then becomes fatalistically rich despite no apparent talent of his own.

Aunjanue Ellis and Saniyya Sidney gave the standout performances but black women will be the last to receive the fruits of racial and gender empowerment.

Poor Mel Gibson. You could read his face. It's like no one told him he could have slapped the ---- outa Ricky Gervais.

Kinda like living in Putin's Russia

Don't let him off the hook. He had a choice and a career before Rupert Murdoc got out of the porn business. With most of the talking heads on Fox you know what you are getting. Like Lt. Raine, I prefer fascists in uniform so you can see them coming. Wallace and Perino give cover to Hannity and Ingraham.

He isnt the Devil. He's the guy that runs down to the store to buy the Devil a pack of cigarettes.

How Can She Slap!?

Pretty bad joke. Offsetting personal fouls, replay the down.

Dune/Zimmer brought it home, so I'm happy.

to demilitarize and denazify the Ukraine.
They don't want to occupy the whole country.
They want the Crimea and the Donbass.

If Putin wanted to "denazify" he'd start with the RIM, they run two open training camps outside St. Petersburg. He knows exactly who they are, some of them have done wet work for him in Syria, Libya and Africa carrying the Russian flag.

Im generally curious, why do you care if there are nazis in Ukraine? Suppose I grant that 90% of Ukrainian speakers are face tattooed, jackbooted, full regalia nazis (like the RIM). They haven't gassed anyone, they haven't encroached on any neighbor. Does the mere presence of nazis justify an invasion? And would you apply this same standard to, say, Iowa where the National Alliance has a large presence?

Humans cant live in Crimea without access to the Dnieper. It's been dying since the Ukrainians blocked the canal in 2014. Putin doesn't have to give it back, but it will cost a fortune to keep the lights on and producing food will be impossible.
He wants the offshore gas (or a situation too risky for a western company to get the gas to market). He needs Crimea and a good portion of the coast to lay claim to the gas. He needs some portion of the lower Dnieper to hold Crimea. You dont need to be a graduate of West Point to see this, just look at a map. Donbass gets him nothing but the ungovernable unemployed 'redneck' part of Ukraine.

Drunk and disorderly, it's the whitest of crimes. There really should be stronger punishments even when they arent violent. Usually the cops will just throw them in the tank overnight. Again, evidence of how this particular crime favors a certain skin color.
Had to throw many of these buffoons out in my bartending days. They are capable of anything and every bit as dangerous as a drunk driver.

I hope they skin him, but this isn't a "sucker punch". Feel free to confront these mutts, smash them up if want, idc. But you better take them serious. This guy was clearly drunk and looking for a fight.

Old Finnish joke:
The Russians come on a hill and hear someone shouting, "One Fin can beat ten Russians!"
The general snorts and sends ten of his troops over the hill.
Crack, boom, screaming...then silence.
The voice cries out " HA one Fin can beat 100 Russians!"
The general perturbed sends 150 of his troops.
More explosions, screaming, fire then silence.
The Voice yells: "One fin can beat 1000 Russians!"
The general turning red sends 1000 of his best men.
Several minutes of gunfire, trees shaking, smoke and fire.
A lone Russian crawls back over the hill badly wounded and yells "it's a trap, there are two of them!"

If the gangster owner didnt giveaway the spoiler, this club is scum. Fans are scum. Racist plastic scum. The lot.

Stayed you all night for the 8am kickoff.

The moderator will have to get over it.

---- off Chelski FC
You aint got no his-tor-y
Six European Cups
And 19 Leagues
That's what we call his-tor-y

YNWA!

Just to be clear, you're saying Finnish peasants were the actual Fascist fighting against a liberating army that days before signed a treaty with Ribbentrop? And you arent sure if the Comanche/Zulu/Polynesians were capitalists?

This is a troll, right? You're trolling me. Surely.

Again, maybe it would be easier if you pointed out a socialist country that wasn't authoritarian?

Do any of the hundreds of First Nations put to the sword count? Or do you only mean white "civilized" nations?

Yea right. Finland is just as helpless as Sweden would be if Russia invaded.

The Soviet invasion of Finland was three times larger than Normandy. 200,000 men, including reserves, many civilians, against any army of 2 million. Most Finns had never even seen a tank, none were trained in how to fight them. They chewed up 45 divisions in 15 months. Three whole divisions lost in a single field. They developed "motti" tactics against armor on the hoof, invented the Molotov cocktail, and killed tank crews using logs and crowbars. Motti comes from the Finnish word for piles of firewood. They stacked Russians by the cord. They'd cut the throats of officers and let them freeze like mannequins to great their comrades.

Didn't they teach you this stuff at Super Solider school? Did you have a tummy ache that day?

Your staggering ignorance about....well everything... is no longer the least bit surprising. It's your complete lack of any human quality, totally devoid of empathy and incapable of seeing outside the tiny cage you have decided to live in I find fascinating. Keep it up, you are what keeps me coming back to this place.

Has anyone considered the magpies aren't particularly clever but Australians are, to use their word, bogan? It's a penal colony that lost a war to emu, just saying...

Aren't trials and ridicule from the filthy sinful heathens part of the program? You cant have Jesus without Judas. Wasn't Judas just following god's plan? Aren't the tournament officials also part if his creation and subject to his will? Adhering to the Sabbath is a meaningless gesture if the whole world is forced to stop spinning so you can have your prayer time. What's the point in having principles that you never have to put to the test?

SDA believe the Earth is 6000 years old and evolution is incompatible with a belief in god. Presumably Kay Ivey's big STEM training rollout wont intrude on their little corner of Huntsville.

On a side note they also believed the world was going to end in October of 1844. They refer to this event --when all life on Earth wasn't burnt to a crisp-- as "the great disappointment".