ned nederlander

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Belgium playing great

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Is also what happened and is getting zero coverage. Belgium played an outstanding game.

Especially defensively disrupting our possession, deflecting crosses, getting touches on through balls.

Belgium really played great and with very few mistakes.

The reality of the US at the World Cup. Since our golden moment in 2002, we have beaten the following teams in the World Cup:

Algeria
Ghana
Iran
Paraguay
Australia
Bosnia.

That’s the entire list over the last 6 tournaments.

I’m not sure we are going backwards. We are just stuck being a largely a JV squad and unable to play teams with a roster filled with European league players.

Belgium hopes FIFA will waffle on its decision.

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Mexico shite quality in the final third really showed. They kept over hitting crosses and England got much needed breaks with each one.

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You can’t be surprised that Mexico is just Crosses and Prayers.

I find myself pulling for Mexico.

Part of it is a tinge of the regional pride that has me yelling SEC when Florida beat Ohio State and Oklahoma.

Part of it is genuine respect for Mexican shithousery and the atmosphere they will create tonight in Azteca.

Part of it is watching the English step on a rake is always great trage-comedy.

This to me the game of the tournament so far.

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At Gettysburg he finally came up against an opposing general who was competent and not afraid of him.

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This is overlooked. Once the North chewed through political patronage posting and staffed a truly professional military chain of command, Lee stopped winning. He won on his home soil against semi-professional military leadership. He lost twice when he took his army on the road against quality opposition.

The older I get the more it is clear the South stood zero chance. The best approach was a Longstreet style defensive slog. Make each fighting season painful and pray the political winds on the north change was the only viable option.

There was no strategic knockout blow that could ever have been landed.

If the south “wins” Gettysburg . . . they have a tattered army in the middle of Pennsylvania and the union controlling the Mississippi.

The South needed to move more resources to stop Grant in the west, but was ultimately too provincial to win against a cohesive north.

The drop off from Balogun to Pepi or Wright is pretty damn stark.

I think I’d rather pulisic up front. He hell even Mckennie. Pepi and Wright just aren’t of this class.

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Ukrainian defence company F-Drones will open its first assembly and manufacturing centre in the United States after securing a Pentagon contract.

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I would love to know what the supply chain and production of Ukrainian drones currently looks like. What is the capacity of their domestic production? Are facilities across Europe ramping up for them? Basically, how sustained is this from Ukraine and how much can their use and production still accelerate.

On the flip side . . . surely at some point Russia can close any qualitative gap here on drones with even greater production?

Finally, if Ukrainian production really can accelerate, Ukraine needs to give a civilians leave Crimea by August 1 date because we start targeting evacuating cars on August 2. It’s time to seed some real chaos.

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The 14th has always been one huge clusterfrick. Why couldn't the guys back in 1865 have simply worded it: "All descendants of African slaves are hereby granted U.S. citizenship." That was the entire point of the 14th - to codify into law that slaves are now citizens.

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If you are not a troll and genuinely interested, read Judge Jackson’s concurrence. It is quite good.

As Judge Jackson deftly lays out, the language you proposed was the original text of the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1866. That language was rejected and the Civil Rights Act was adopted with universal language, and that language is the basis of the 14th amendment.

Senators warned we would be overrun by Chinese, gypsies and all manner of undesirables if the language was universal.

That argument was rejected and universal language was adopted in the 14th amendment because that was precisely the point and purpose. A universal statement that never again will rights be denied to people in America.

God bless, Judge Jackson and the United States