A Horse Named Stranger

Dayum news travels. So, since yesterday evening I have a new flatmate. A fucking rat found its way through the kitchen window. Little bugger managed to quickly find a spot under the washing machine I couldn't access. Fast forward a day. I have it now trapped inside a metal bin (ca 50. cm in height), I usually use for dirty clothes. It's very much alive, and I intend to set it free outside. And yes, this was my way of a bragging to have succesfully constructed a live trap with a bin, a paper bag, some old chocolate-hazelnut bar, and some boards. Horses are smarter than rats. Anyway, gotta set the bugger free now.

Cheer up :')

And arguably the two worst run clubs are level again. oh FFS United.

Ok, Liverpool back in the lead.

United and Liverpool equalized in their games.

Ok, I am gonna do a counter jinx for PG now. Glory glory Man United, glory glory Man United.

Liverpool really should turn their performance into a second or third goal. Meanwhile first round of the candidates has started (yes, this is of interest to presumably 2 (rohrshach and I) or 3 people at best just mentioning it)

Luxury tax is not really a deterrent, when you have a money printer in Dubai, Riyadh or Doha.

That 0.5 bilion bail was reduced significantly on appeal to a mere 175m or something.

Dyfunctional optimism. In this case: The urneasonable expectation that they wouldn't get screwed over with the prospect of a huge payday. Wasn't part of this start up posse some of his The Apprentice rejects? I mean in this case, I feel quite comfortable to pass moral judgement on them and have very little sympathy for their woes. Fucking wannabe Finance Bros.

My guess is, is that they either pick Arsenal or they've just become used/numb to City winning. Liverpool is probably their least preferred outcome as that would tie them with 20 league title each on top of them being their main rival.

I think I've got an idea what happens in a year, when you reach the final page of that diary. I must give it to the Amazon algorithm, that was very thoughtful.

Vague or not, if the the US decides that alliance obligation are merely suggestions that would right now be the end of NATO. The European partners lack the firepower (figuratively and literally) to stop Russia, if he Putin decides that the independence of the Baltic states is rather optional - at least by means of conventional warfare. Sure France and/or the UK (a bit unlikely without the US telling them what to do) may decide that would be the moment to make use of their nuclear arsenal, but there might be a very justified hesitancy to go nuclear (literally). And yes, the European nations would be as much to blame as the US.

Hum, unless I missed it you still haven'T really addressed kal's main point. Can the legislature force Trump to honour the US's Article 5 obligation? What happens if he just says, Nah, I don't feel like deploying US troops.

24, 27, 28 goals conceded by the top three. Fine margins imo, the clearly best is a bit too much imo. Next best teams with fewest conceded goals are United, Everton, Aston Villa and Spurs with 40,41,42, 43 conceded goals respectively. That's a clear drop off to the top three. It really comes down to form and nerves in the run in. Cpmgratulations to whoever comes out on top there.

Draw keeps the table interesting with all three teams still in the race. Liverpool right now in the driver's seat as mentioned above, but not comfortably. Arsenal first in line if Liverpool slip, and City also in striking distance.

Arsenal are apparently also fine with a draw here (at least Raya had no urgency to take get the game going again).

Draw is the best result for Liverpool, I guess. Keeps City 3 points away and they also stay 2 points clear of Arsenal. So that would at least tentatively put Liverpool somewhat into the driver's seat.

Anyway, in more important footballing news 2-1 home victory, while our sleeping giant neighbours only drew away at Fürth. Thus 11 points clear of the play-off spot with 7 games to go. (also 5 points clear of second place. But whether we win promotion by winning the league or as runner-up is secondary. As long as promotion is the final result).

Ah that one. I still have to think about that non-offside goal for Liverpool against Spurs that was ruled out as the most outrageous VAR/ref decissions of the season.

Are you confusing Arsenal with Spurs? Don't let any of our resident gooners read that.

fair enough. Altho, if you can afford a flight in Africa with a local carrier, fair chance it's still an old Boeing (or Airbus) being sold and re-sold by western Airlines finding it's way to an African carrier. Not gonna derail the thread about the issue of air travel having become too cheap, increase in number of flights and its impact on the climate.

Funny how the organized Bayern fan scene shot back at Hoeneß during the Dortmund game. There was a banner that read: You're yourself responsible for your shit football. That was a reference and response to Hoeneß. Small background to put that into context. During an annual club meeting, the organized fans criticised the clubs ticketing and lack of atmosphere during home games (would have to look up the exact year and background, which I am too lazy to, but that was the thick and the thin of it essentially). To which Hoeneß being the populist he is infamously responded. We (as a club) take the VIP fans to the cleaner to finance you [cheap(ish) tickets for the regular fans]. You are yourself responsible for your shit atmosphere. During the protests against allowing investors to buy into the league fans across all clubs (including Bayern fans) pretty much united to stop that and flooded the pitch with Tennisballs and other things. Including Bayern games. Bayern during their run of poor results that resulted in Tuchel announcing his departure at the end of the season, this happened at Bayern's game at Bochum. Bayern went 1-0 up, interruption due to fan protests and tennisball flooding the pitch. Bayern (according to Hoeneß) lost the thread as a result of the protests and the game. He also specifically targeted the organized fan scene by saying something along the lines of especialy those fans, who see themselve as the are the true fans of the club. I disagree with that. So that banner was really straight up get effed by the fans to Hoeneß.

Intuitively I'd think those rich folks have private jets by Embraer or Gulfstream. Those Boeing private jets are primarily state owned (aka military operated) VIP planes (aka flying heads of states). There I think Boeing will be very careful with the quality of the delivered products and since they are military operated, that should be another layer of protection. The non-goverment number of private Boeings jets (in contrast to passenger jets) is probably not that high.

They might have reservations. But when push came to shove (I hope that) need to get Ukraine armed tops the politics wrt Israel, who frankly speaking unlike Ukraine could do without US support.