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Comments by Slade the Leveller in reply to North*

On “What If Trump Wins?

Finally, Trump is 78 and his age has been showing.

Talk about burying the lede!

On “Open Mic for the week of 10/21/2024

Hell's bells, even the Dems wouldn't. Preet Bharara, hero of the left, famously left a bunch of bankers uncharged after 2008 saying prosecution would be too hard. Despicable.

On “Campaign Scratchpad: Known Unknowns

Idiocracy was set 500 years in the future.

On “Hamas, Anyar Sinwar, and The Grand Delusion

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-21/ty-article-live/israel-reportedly-strikes-beirut-after-idf-warns-of-attacks-on-hezbollah-economic-assets/00000192-acd0-d049-a3db-bff6ed0d0000?liveBlogItemId=992052909#992052909

Israeli government officials giving Hamas a little bulletin board material.

On “Weekend Plans Post: Thinkin’ ’bout Numbers

Shingles #2 kicked me in the butt! I had to knock off work after just a few hours. It didn't last beyond that day for me, though. Hope it's the same for you.

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Remember when the U.S. armed forces were in the business of killing ISIS leaders?

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Hoo boy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/13/netanyahu-mulls-plan-to-empty-northern-gaza-of-civilians-00183574

On “Lone Star Rising

American candidates have historically made appearances at churches. Since DJT isn't really a churchgoer, this is probably as close as he's gonna get.

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6 years is a long way off.

On “From Freddie: The Basics: School Reform

I never said Baltimore schools were great. I'm sure there are plenty of other cities with schools that are just as abysmal.

Anyway, Freddie isn't quite as down on American public education as you seem to be. At least, that's what I take from his piece.

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I think this comment (and the included Twitter link) is informative.

https://open.substack.com/pub/freddiedeboer/p/the-basics-school-reform?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=72006874

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"Up until recently, a plurality of struggling students in American schools were white, and this has changed because of evolving American racial demographics, not an improvement in white student scores; it remains true that a very large portion of our struggling students are white, despite assumptions otherwise."

Perhaps Baltimore isn't the outlier it's purported to be here on this site.

On “Open Mic for the week of 10/7/2024

I think this is right. It probably won't be soon, but the sooner we turn the Middle East into a backwater the better.

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More like religious hatred. As lovely as the precepts of the 3 faiths that look to that region are, in practice they've proven to be more trouble than they're worth there.

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Exactly. We've been devoting a huge amount of money, concern, and column inches to an area the size of Vermont.

https://maps.cga.harvard.edu/cmes/Map_02.pdf

On “The Joy Of Opening Time Capsules: The 2024 Presidential Election

As much as I'd hate to lose J.B. as a governor, I think he'd make a fine president.

On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/fourth-school-joins-wave-women-s-volleyball-19812157.php

New method of winning conference championship discovered.

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The Troubles are over in Ulster and have been for 30 years. Obviously, neither party in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is interested in seeing and end to it or we'd be there.

On “Vice Presidential Candidate Debate: Sen JD Vance vs Gov Tim Walz

This is probably the best way to sum up all of the VP debates. Especially points 1 & 3.

You're doing the Lord's work watching this slop, Jaybird.

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Pitcher of warm something or other. I’m with InMD. Currently watching playoff baseball.

On “Pete Rose and the Limitations of Hustle

Given the average major leaguer's propensity for and indifference to striking out, I'd say Joltin' Joe's record is quite safe. Only 2 guys had 200 hits this season!

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I remember more his chase of Dimaggio's hit streak record in '78. Maybe it is unbreakable.

On “Missouri Conducts Controversial Execution of Marcellus Williams

I'm not sure executing someone based on circumstantial evidence, no matter how damning, is something the state ought to be doing.

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