@brianmctaggart That they are in 1st place Aug 1 with a record of 1 game over .500 says all you need to know about the AL West. That said, 1st place sounds pretty f***** good. It’s about damn time. Let’s go, Stros!
11th Circuit in 1986:
"We note at the outset that the district court has once again failed to recognize the structure of immigration policy in this country. The world is not entitled to enter the United States as a matter of right."
From @OptaSTATS: In his MLB career, Kody Clemens, son of Roger, has:
- recorded a strikeout on the mound
- notched a 3-homer game at the plate
- hit an ultimate grand slam (walkoff slam down by 3)
The only other player in MLB history to do all 3 is Babe Ruth.
Wow!
Michael is right, the weirdest thing about people who are energetically "natural origin" is they are inexplicably incurious about *how* this happened
Let's say we *knew* the Covid virus was from a cross-over infection from an animal. We should *definitely* figure out which animal it was. To have a virus like this develop in an animal reservoir to such a potency and transmissibility among humans is a unacceptably high and continual risk.
We should be on a fire drill tracking the path this virus took from some bats in a cave in Yunnan in 2012 to Wuhan in 2020. This should occupy a great deal of our time and energy.
But it hasn't. Why? Because trying to trace that path led to an immediate dead end. China tested tens of thousands of animals across hundreds of species and found nothing. No virus, no antibodies, nothing. It looks like Covid appeared out of thin air. Which it couldn't have done because we KNOW that it came from an animal somewhere.
The scientific response to this cannot be "(shrug) guess we'll never know". It should be "this is the biggest and most important scientific mystery of our time and we are eager to unravel it"
But they aren't eager to unravel it. They have shown almost no interest in solving this mystery. Why?
The answer I suspect is because they already suspect that they know the answer to the mystery. It's no fun to chase down a fake mystery. They're just not allowed to admit they know it.
Again, if you REALLY want to know everything about the COVID era, you have to have an independent prosecutor with permission to subpoena people, but then give everyone immunity so they have to testify.
Neither party wants that level of transparency.
The Deep State is real.