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I have only been there once and my memory is a little shaky of what I saw there and what I saw in other cathedrals, but not only attached to the walls, but how much was painted into the walls as a fresco that cannot be removed. I also read the roof was 13,000 oak trees cut in the 12th century. I had a friend whose house burnt down. They said the firefighters were amazingly good at [pulling things out that they thought would have sentimental value. Hopefully more was saved than we thought would have been possible. He asked why planes were not dumping water on the fire. Must act quickly!

I saw this in a tweet - hopefully it is true: and this tweet -- in addition the architecture and art - simply all of the history that has occurred there.

I love that Columbo is on this list.

Everyone at this stage in politics tends to not be drama-free. Although, in this case, wanting to see more than a four page summary written by someone who had already written a 19 page essay on why this investigation should not be happening and not trusting him to redact in good-faith, is not creating extra drama, it is doing their job.

Nice way to have your first hit of the season.

Not that they were necessarily going to be a play-off team regardless but I thought the PR games messing a bit with their schedule last year threw them off a bit.

I was away from the radio - where there at least some really good hit balls and the runs and hits were robbed by some excellent defense by KC?

Is he your older brother or uncle?

Did you watch Penny Dreadful? - it is not easy being Eva Green.

Collusion aside --- these are things the President of the United States has said in the last few days (paraphrasing): Windmills -- what happens if there is no wind - and then I can't watch TV... (notice how not watching TV is what he considers a horror). Because he absolutely has to be the best at everything - he has to claim "I know a lot about wind!" Going on and on about a representative in Congress having a skinny neck like he is some third grade bully (and not to be petty, but should Trump be giving anyone a bad time about their physical condition?). On a very presidential note, you can now buy a t-shirt with a picture of Adam Schiff literally having a pencil neck on the official Donald Trump merchandise webpage. Some rant about how much money we will save if he closes the border highlighting how he still really has not bothered to figure out how trade works and why he has gone bankrupt more than once. Pretending he is an expert on the Great Lakes he claims record deepness - very deep. Lake Superior itself has to actually dispute that on twitter. Not to mention his praising of the Great Lakes is a bit hypocritical since his proposed budget wanted to do big time slashing in that area. Pretending he is a great savior to the Special Olympics when he got enough negative reaction that he had to pretend he was not fine with the money being slashed in the first place. Having the nerve to say he has done more than "any living person" for Puerto Rico. Even if he has committed no crime, this man is not fit for office - he is lazy, he lies, he has no moral center, is petty and vindictive, and he is proudly ignorant and feels that his gut feeling on things is how he should make his decisions -- not on any of the experts or amount of data he could review (unless he hears it on Fox&Friends or Hannity). He really, really, needs to get voted out in 2020.

I think unless there is some unforeseen injury or they lose momentum when the clinch the division in August -- they are on a strong march to 162-0.

I was actually scanning for this post when I first read the thread. I was disappointed when it was not there yet, but glad you came through.

I am not sure worse - but it does seem odd. Plus even though Dozier and others were gone mid-year, it still seems strange to glance at the line-up and not see some of the old standards (not that that is a bad thing). I saw Phil Miller tweet that Joe is not there because the girls are on spring break (we did not have that when I was in kindergarten). Speculation on my part, but from the few clips or tidbits I have seen of him during the off-season, I am really under the impression that Joe does not have any second thoughts and has fully embraced life as Dad Mauer with the occasional charity sporting event.

I am hoping you will still take time to post here and contribute to TD after you make it as a big time commentator.

Yes - I think that has always been the way to get Trump out of office. Even if the report would have said collusion, I don't the the GOP in the Senate would do anything and would not convict even if the House impeached him. I had already heard a number of people starting to argue collusion would be no big deal. I do think they need to continue to try and get the full report and not abandon the other investigations, but they need to chew gum and walk a the same time and have a large focus on the election and focusing on other issues than just being anti-Trump. I am not sure what the make-up of the open Senate seats are for 2020 - but it would be nice to have people like Mitch and Lindsey lose a bit of their power.

Things are going to get ugly(ier). Trump is going to feel pretty unrestrained and not feel limited in what he can do or say about people he feels are not loyal to him and the GOP leadership is going to stay out of his way. I do think the above quote should probably be amended to read:

Sadly, there does not appear to be a Rod Stewart cover of "What a Feeling!"

Yes - I feel bad for him and for his sake I hope for a quick recovery, but at one time I would have been bummed because I thought it would be a set-back for a key to the future really coming into his own. Now I think he still has potential to be a contributor, but nothing guaranteed, and probably not as one of the team's crucial, irreplaceable cornerstones.

Good foreign policy, although it appears it might not be something of which Trump is aware. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1098343075280310273

I believe this was from Chief's 30th or 40th birthday. The painting was discovered on a cave in France.

The Twins home opener is 6 weeks from today. I am sure by then this will all be a faded memory and the steamy late March heat will make us wish for cooler times.

I thought the same thing about the WCCO interview. I have noticed a couple of times in the past when he had been interviewed by some national sportswriter that he gave more interesting answers largely because they did ask him some different questions. He did not just shoot of a canned response which he could often do with the local interviews because they often asked him the same thing over and over. I remember someone (I think it might have even been Souhan) saying that when Joe does not have to answer questions about himself and how he is feeling he actually has some interesting things to say about the game. He might end up being a much better interview as a relaxed retiree than an active player who probably often felt he had to be politely defensive and guarded in his responses.

I grew up in the Ely area (Babbitt) in the 70's and 80's. I remember many days when the class room would be half empty because the the kids from Embarrass were stranded somewhere on a broken down bus somewhere on the way to town. They would arrive half-frozen about 45 minutes late. Now I am going to sound almost as old as Chief - although I don't remember the mammoths. I remember 81-82 being esp. cold winters and the windchill reaching -100 below by the old calculations (be between 60 and 70 below now). I think that was one of the times the official thermometer in Embarrass broke, and the only time I remember school being cancelled not due to an actual snow fall. Other than that I never remember it being cancelled simply due to cold (although in retrospect, the way the buses broke down, there were probably other times it might not have been a bad idea to cancel a few other times).

So no one volunteered to be part of this trick? I think it would have really made the evening memorable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW8YnEobznw