It doesn't mean you agree with everything you voted for.

just sayin....

#3 | Posted by eberly

Actions talk, BS walks. This guys actions tell us all anyone should need to know about him when assessing his fitness for the job.

No apology needed. I'm sure he would appreciate just being remembered.
My father was a Vietnam vet too. He was never the person he was before he went according to my mom. He had a lot of mental health and addition problems after coming back but he loved baseball and that is one of the few good things he passed on to me. He used to read Bill James in the 1980's and got me interested in SABR. It is my interest in SABR that led me to know who you were talking about.
Charlie Finley owned the A's back then. He took a lot of unorthodox approaches towards baseball and one of those was the idea of the "designated runner". He'd keep a guy on the roster who rarely if ever hit or played the field, just pinch run. Herb Washington was the most of famous of those. He played in 105 MLB games and stole 31 bases but never had a plate appearance or played the field.

#2 - I know the guy you are talking about because of his unique career. His name was Darrell Woodard and he made it to the big leagues for a brief time. Never had a hit. Reached base once by walk but had 10 runs, 3 steals and caught stealing 4 times. A's mainly used him as a pinch runner.
He wasn't bad at the plate in the minors. He knew how to take a walk and reached base often but he was playing when batting average was still king of stats. Had he come along a decade later when Tony Larussa was managing the A's he might have made a decent career for himself as TLR placed a higher value on on-base percentage.

One of greatest players I've ever had the privilege of watching. Got an autograph from him at spring training 2006 when he was coaching for the Mets.
A little trivia I recall about him. Nolan Ryan pitched his seventh no-hitter for the Rangers on the same day Rickey broke Brock's record.

I guess Abbott didn't really mean it when he said "goal number one in the state of Texas is to eliminate rape so that no woman, no person, will be a victim of rape"

Stop the presses! A young straight man has a thing for young straight women.
#13 | Posted by lee_the_agent

The word women implies adulthood.
I believe the word you are looking for is children.

Must has went full oligarch.

Trump is trying to earn a political appointment for a family member from Desantis and just so happens Desantis name has recently been floated for SecDef.
I'm sure MAGATS see no issue here.

RFK Jr and Donald Trump are convicted felons. Neither should have any level of clearance.

He's already used it to enrich himself just by naming it DOGE. Those Trump supporters who used to yell about draining the swamp are dead and buried under the muck.

Did he confuse them or did he do what MAGATS frequently do and throw out some bullsheet lie based on something they heard in passing without really knowing what the information was about?

This is medical malpractice.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

This is the result of political malpractice. Hope Ngumezi would still be a live if the party you support didn't strip her of her fundamental right to healthcare. Republicans were warned this would be the outcome of them pushing their religion upon the rest of us and they did it anyway because they don't care.

Texas law allows abortions to save the life of the mother. This debacle is the Doctor/hospital's doing.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Are you telling us that you have a better understanding of intricacies of Texas law as related to abortion than all of the attorneys who work for both healthcare providers that treated the patient?

Wait until you see what it does to food prices. I used to work for a Big Agra company and about 30 to 40% of our farm and processing work force was undocumented...of course they weren't "employed" by us. You hide that in a few layers of shell companies and contract firms.

#62 | Posted by LauraMohr

I had to open this post without signing so I can read it since I plonk'd that account.

I don't see anything sensible about it. It's just more bothsiderism. It's acting like the reaction to Trump's picks is just politics as usual. From Gaetz and his cocaine fueled underage hooker sex parties to Linda McMahon who covered up abuse in the wrestling company she ran with her ex, to Hegseth and his sexual abuse allegations, to Oz and his scams to Pam Bondi to being a registered foreign agent, to Kennedy and his heroin conviction and just being utterly insane, what we are seeing from Trump is a series of picks who are either unqualified, criminal or compromised through some other manner.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in Gaetz meeting with the Senators. I hope they blasted that scumbag right to his stupid -------- looking face.

Now Trump can pick MTG.

It is still a bad bill that will increase government and corporate censorship, restrict the rights of adults and children and increase online monitoring.

The revised KOSA is still likely to result in websites expanding content censorship and being forced to enact age and location verification measures. Do you really want the Trump administration to be able to be able to determine what type of content is harmful to minors. KOSA could result in minors being restricted from accessing information on topics such as gender, race, suicide prevention, sexual development, etc?

Furthermore, why does it only ban deceptive practices targeting minors and require sites to give minor's the options to restrict the use of their personal data or even mandate the deletion of their accounts and data? If those are important features when it comes to protecting minors from online exploitation from big tech then why not also mandate those options be available for adult users? I trust my 15 year old nephew to make better decisions online than I do my 70 year old mother.

This story reminded me of a story from 2022.

I certainly don't condone sexual assault, but she made the choice to get uncontrollably wasted with a stranger.
#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist

I'm not sure that you understand what it means to not condone something. It sure sounds like you are pushing the blame back on to the victim.

Here's a simple rule to help you.
Can and did the person legally consent to sex?
If the answer is not yes and yes then the blame lies solely on the perpetrator.

Also, he's not a stranger.
"Jessup was charged with assaulting his youngest daughter, Rachel, on a trip to Las Vegas intended to celebrate her 21st birthday."

Republican voters elected a man who they knew prior to the election was already jailed for sexually assaulting his daughter and they still voted for him.

It is a party filled with deplorable garbage people.

And MTG sat by silently while members of her party got away with sexual assault until she saw benefit in finally calling it out. She's garbage.

Republicans love to elect rapists.

I'll be honest with you guys, I dont think this dude should be nominated to anything.
#1 | Posted by boaz

Why's that? I'd really like to hear your explanation to get a better of idea of how it is we find common ground on this matter.

This dude was on MTV Real World. FML. We are screwed.

#3 | Posted by danni

Nothing against cashiers but you are comparing people who have highly specialized training and doctorate degrees with cashiers.
There's a very high probability that your pharmacist is more informed on potential interactions, allergies, efficacy rates, approved off label uses, benefits/risks of specific generics, etc. If you aren't discussing your prescriptions with your pharmacist then you are not likely talking to the most informed expert you know on the topic.