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What’s Hector’s take? Nelson Cruz on the way to help at DH, with Vaughn moving to RF?

Assuming we can somehow avoid Houston along the way…I know, I know, totally different team with Robert, Jimenez, Grandal, etc.

Okay Ron, which are acceptable sources of fair and balanced, objective infirmation? AP News Reuters ABC/CBS News NPR (probably will disagree) Newsy? PBS (probably will disagree) Bloomberg (owned by conservative centrist Dem) WSJ (editorial leans right) Axios Politico NY Times (no conservative will agree there) Washington Post (see above) Financial Times (very few free articles) The Economist BBC The Hill The Christian Science Monitor CNN is shown in two places…maybe CNN Headline News or International Business Insider OZY The Atlantic Quartz https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/media-bias-chart?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/olivia-rodrigo-is-helping-president-biden-and-dr-fauci-convince-young-adults-to-give-covid-19-vaccines-a-shot-11626193151 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/16/tech/misinformation-covid-facebook-twitter-white-house/index.html 12 people online are responsible for majority of Covid/vaccine misinformation

The center right like Biden are the moderate Republicans of the 70’s and 80’s and the progressive left has gotten so lost in the weeds arguing hot button social identity issues that the majority of the country has given up, since pretty much nobody represents them any more. Only the Top 20% and corporations are winning. The intellectualism…if you want to call it that or such as it is, is being utilized to make the majority of people apathetic and cynical about change being possible anymore. Labor or union movements like Corbyn or Sanders can get up to 20-25% but hit their ceilings when they start threatening the careers of politicians, the elite and corporate profits.

What still amazes me is that nobody on the right has come up with a legitimate health care plan since Mitt Romney in MA. Trump made no effort whatsoever, to predictable results. Once upon a time, in the era of Buckley and then George Will, Jack Kemp or even Paul Ryan…there was at least a governing philosophy and policies to represent that belief system on the right. What does it mean to be a smart Republican now? It’s called RINO to actually use your brain and question the direction of the party. Obey, or be run over and left as road kill. So I will blame Trump, Grover Norquist and Rupert Murdoch, haha. And it happened everywhere around the world, the Le Pens in France, Brexit, Germany, Scandinavia, anti-immigration beliefs taking over gradually over the last decade or so. Cult of authoritarian personality in China, Russia, India, Brazil, etc. All different versions or systems of controlling people. I read a lot about Thailand after spending two years there and the military government/junta actively seeks to undermine independent education, preferring the people get addicted to Facebook (but then also following the lead of China in internet censorship) and daily soap operas instead of thinking for themselves. Covid 19 has only exacerbated this, many of the countries that China sponsors trending in the same direction. The best European examples are probably Hungary and Turkey.

Politico, how many have the time and attention span to read long, informative nuanced articles? 3-5% of the country, maybe 10-20% if being charitable, but the majority of that group probably are already vaccinated. I guess the next argument will be that the Emergency Use authorization and lawsuit protections don’t expire until at least next year…the belief from skeptics everything was rushed and that we’re all essentially human guinea pigs for Big Pharma. This will be the case especially if boosters for variants or third shots start getting required. But yeah, as a teacher we just go along with all those tests for measles, mumps/rubella…nobody is fighting those in an organized way, right? In fact, a student here in China just had TB last semester, they just informed us over the last week or so we had to get a chest X-ray and another test so specialized that only two hospitals in Wuhan have it, and those are being used only for treating Covid patients (for some reason they allowed a plane with 30+ cases in from Afghanistan) so I can’t get that skin reaction test but still a pain. But you have to provide proof or no teaching job.

And that will be the case unless/until it gets back down to 3-4 GB.

Clase is so frustrating with his stuff. Going to have to switch back to Karinchak.

Having a hard time those Whitewater/Vince Foster conspiracy followers would have gone anti-vaxx because Newt Gingrich and Dole at least respected science and intellectual expertise.

Sure, I alway read articles from Real Clear Politics. But then the site ownership took a dramatic rightward turn and so did the origin of 90% of the articles. I don’t think having just Juan Williams because he’s a minority is exactly a representative sample of both sides. Kind of like the old McLaughlin Group where they had one wishy washy liberal.

Is it anti-vaxxers or just anti-government/libertarians? At any rate, there should be a chyron on the screen whenever someone’s talking that shows their personal vaccine status (or explanation, like Rand Paul saying he can’t get it or spread it since he was already infected once, which every credible scientist in the world will disagree about the accuracy of such a belief.) Otherwise, it’s just hypocrisy to say one thing for political reasons and do the opposite personally…unless we’re going to take away public health rights from an entire community to protect individual/privacy rights. The argument has already commenced with the fight over vaccine passports. (But then that doesn’t exactly square with trying to take away right to choose for women, does it? They are either both or neither related to the right to privacy, especially in situations where careless actions can actually KILL multiple others.

But which are middle of the road media sources? Time, Newsweek and US News & World Report, previously? Christian Science Monitor? Wall Street Journal, with editorial leaning to the right? Al Jazeera? Watching Chinese Global TV Network?

Also, aren’t Fox and OAN and all those networks dramatically up in ratings vis a vis CNN and MSNBC ever since Biden’s inauguration? If more than half of America is not working already (not greatly affecting ratings one way or the other since Fox viewers are the most loyal), how is CNN possibly going to influence overriding the governors of red states and force all of them to stay at home? They might have to wear masks or work from home, but there’s probably a stronger correlation between Trump being in office compared to stay at home orders benefitting CNN or MSNBC ratings.

But are these jerseys at least more comfortable? Wasn’t Sale bothered by the material or lack of give/strechiness?

Indians came back, take 4-3 lead to 8th in Oakland. Shaw struck out Moreland and Murphy with the bases loaded. Zimmer go ahead homer, first of year.

As it stands, you’re benching Giolito for Kopech? Because only need three for first series.

Just have to ride Burr while he’s not but can’t expect it to continue….see Marshall, Evan.

Sheets love has quieted considerably.

The bar was set too high last October. Right now, he’s closer to Thornton or Marte but the versions where you don’t feel 100% confident like you did earlier in their Sox careers.

Seems Bieber might be at least a month away…if CLE is 12+ back then, they probably shut him down for the rest of the season.

We really want to instigate this debate when everyone’s in a sour mood?

Foster got sent down…along with Fry.

We already used Heuer and he struggled, too.