Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
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Memetrics
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ScottC
yellojktSyracuse, ostensibly an FBS football program in a P5 conference, opens against Colgate, an FCS team.
Michigan State, not to be outdone, opens against Furman, which may be in a lower division than even Colgate.
There are some good games scheduled this weekend – real intersectional clashes. ‘Bama is playing USC in Jerryworld. K St. goes to Stanford. UT plays ND Sunday night. Oklahoma is at UH; not a true old fashioned intersectional game, but it does pit preseason #3 against preseason #15. UNC v. UGA, Mizzou at WVa and LSU traveling to Lambeau to play Wiscy round out the potentially good games, I think, except for this one. UCLA is traveling to College Station to play the benighted Aggies. Here is UCLA’s take on Aggie “traditions”:
In other news, Turkey needs the west and the west needs Turkey, according to this article:
The EC wants to fine Apple more than a billion Euros for something.
https://espresso.economist.com/5133aa1d673894d5a05b9d83809b9dbe
What Texas state employees earn:
https://salaries.texastribune.org/
And piston engine airplanes are the last major source of lead in the atmosphere.
http://news.mit.edu/2016/unfriendly-skies-piston-engine-aircraft-pose-significant-health-threat-0826
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on vacation this week and won’t be posting…
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Have a good vacation, Brent.
Kev – you could do an Evening Report with a variety link dump one day too.
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I will do what I can! Not likely to be today, though. Tomorrow.
This boggles the mind. Someone should tell Brussels about the outcome of the Brexit vote. Might get them to tone it down a little.
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Kev, at the predominantly liberal group to which you were once briefly a party, where I am far and away the most conservative correspondent, two of them could not understand what was wrong with an unelected foreign commission telling a sovereign to revisit and extort an entity the sovereign had already collected taxes from according to the sovereign’s own law. I explained why the USA, Ireland, and Apple were all fiercely opposing the EC on this. I asked if they would object to their previous tax years being reopened at the behest of “commissioners” from Canada and Mexico, unelected, but supposedly representing NAFTA.
I made a little progress on that one. But only a little. Because big corporations should pay MOAR.
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“I made a little progress on that one. But only a little. Because big corporations should pay MOAR.”
There are lots of other, not insane, ways of accomplishing that, if that is the ostensible goal. This seems like a bad move for the EU, especially after Brexit. But what do I know? This seems like picking big fights for no reason.
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on vacation through labor day. enjoy the holiday everyone. and just think, after labor day, it’s officially campaign season. this has just been a preview. get excited!
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Enjoy yourself and family, NoVA.
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Syracuse, ostensibly an FBS football program in a P5 conference, opens against Colgate, an FCS team.
And they could conceivably lose, too.
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