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As with virtually every person with a brain, no matter if they are left or right - the WI democrats condemn the comments by that idiot in your post. Just like the guy who was the alleged shooter - there are idiots on the extremes of every group and political persuasion. Holding up one moron and trying to represent them as being indicative or representing an entire group or an entire political party is just one part of the problem and why we are so divided and filled with bile and vitriol as a country right now.

Wonder no more.

Guardians set to call up Travis Bazzana: What to expect from No. 1 pick in 2024 MLB Draft - CBS Sports
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/guardians-call-up-travis-bazzana-what-to-expect/

The Cleveland Guardians are calling up their top prospect, second baseman Travis Bazzana, ESPN reports.

Bazzana, 23, was the No. 1 overall pick of the 2024 MLB Draft out of Oregon State. Coming into the 2026 season, CBS Sports ranked Bazzana as the No. 16 prospect in all of baseball. Here's part of our write-up:

"The No. 1 pick in the 2024 Draft, Bazzana is now positioned to debut sometime in 2026. He split his first full professional season between Double- and Triple-A, hitting .245/.389/.424 with nine home runs and 12 stolen bases in 84 games. The book on him remains the same as when he was drafted: he combines a disciplined approach with above-average contact chops and power output. Indeed, Bazzana atones for pedestrian exit velocities by lifting and pulling the ball at high rates, a combination that ought to play well in Cleveland's ballpark. His comfort with deep counts will ensure he strikes out a fair amount, and he's not going to win a Gold Glove award anytime soon. Even so, Bazzana is a heady player who should justify the Guardians' selection for years to come."

This season, Bazzana has been at Triple-A Columbus, and in 24 games he's slashed .287/.422/.511 with two home runs, 21 walks, and eight stolen bases. As well, Bazzana presently leads all the minor leagues in doubles with 11. For his minor-league career, the Oregon State product has an OPS of .826 across parts of three pro seasons with 14 home runs and 25 steals in 135 games.

Bazzana will join a Guardians team that's 15-15 after losing three straight and four of their last five. Not surprisingly, Cleveland has again struggled offensively, as they rank 19th in MLB in both runs scored and OPS. As for Bazzana's future position, a job-share at second base in Cleveland has yielded a .202/.312/.330 line from the position thus far in 2026.

Bazzana is not yet on the 40-player roster, but the Guardians have an open slot. They will, however, have to make a roster move in order to add him to the active roster.

Good news, Ytown. Pray that her progress continues...

I was curious about when Simpson would get drafted.

Initially I thought it could go a number of different ways. In the end 20th in the first to the Rams was my first choice. He went 13th. to the Rams.

Teams see guys differently especially quarterbacks.

I love the draft. Berry IMO played it to near perfection. Simpson was not the guy I wanted.

I like what Berry did taking Taylen Green and where he was selected. He is worth rolling the dice on.

In the meantime there will be packages for him.

This is Shedeur Sanders job to hold or lose hold.

They put the marbles in the offense. New head coach with a new offense. New offensive line and new receivers. Last year new TE and RB.

Camp will be a riot with Monken.

There is a place you can go snorkleing above/between tectonic plates.

"Silfra is one of the world’s most dramatic snorkeling sites—it’s a glacier meltwater-filled rift formed by the drift of the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates."


Other than that, just Google "things to see in Iceland". There are some seriously amazing things there.

Yes, just like Jesus said to love they neighbor and he didn't make any exceptions if they were gay, trans, immigrants or because of their politics either. There is also no reference in terms of excluding anyone from due process.

But as we've seen, often times people use the constitution to get what they want and disregard it in other situations depending on what they "want, feel or think".

Except immigrants held in detention centers or flown to third world countries per orders of DJT. Due process.... Ha. Ha. Ha.

I don't really object to the death penalty as the final result. I don't however endorse ignoring and stomping on the constitution in order to accomplish that. Due process is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Everyone is due a trial and proper defense. Everyone.

It is not like the most powerful nation in the world can't afford the ballroom. The crux of the issue is that this is Trump's own idea slammed down the Americans throat with not one word or authorization from Congress or the various agencies that are responsible for taking care of our national treasures. Sorry, but Trump is not the remodeler in charge. He is a temporary tenant. The reason why it is "privately funded" is to avoid any oversight of the project. It's just wrong.

Stuff that Parisian arch up where the sun does not shine as well.

The new ballroom trump is proposing is 90k sq. ft. The Washington Hilton ballroom is 30k sq. ft.

No logical reason why people oppose the ballroom?......................

Trump said the new White House ballroom construction wouldn't 'interfere with the current building'

The president's quote from July 2025 circulated online as demolition began on the White House's East Wing in October 2025.

True

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction/

A lot of people, and rightfully so, object to our president blatantly lying to us about disfiguring and destroying a part pf the White House without any prior approval. You know another one of those "king like" moves. But I understand there are those who think it's perfectly okay for trump to do things like that. I get it.

Before I respond to the part I quoted, I want to say that I appreciate the convo. Also, the part I quoted is such a small portion of your post because of how close our two arguments are on the matter.

As far as the part I quoted, I would say that you can 'what if' anything to death if you wanted to. I could get shot walking out of work today, but I'm not going and grabbing law-abiding peoples' guns, right? So why here? And through answering the question of 'why', you have to somehow get past the complete lack of tangible evidence of fraud that rises to the level of taking away methods of voting.

I did a quick Google search, and clicked on the link below. There wasn't a ton of thought put into which link I clicked on other than it appearing to be the most legit.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/108824/documents/HHRG-116-JU00-20190129-SD020.pdf

In that sampling, the largest bucket of voter fraud was associated with absentee ballots and duplicate registrations. Not mail-in ballots, or ballot drop-boxes, or hacked voting machines, or whatever other nonsense that gets discussed but isn't happening. I think (with the exception of voter ID, IMO) if the proposed election security actions lined up at all with the attempted fraud that we're seeing, then I'd have a much easier time getting on board with taking away peoples' preferred methods of voting.

I am REALLY in favor of public executions in this case. If you try to kill the president I think you should be hanged within a few days, maybe even the next day.

Spoken like a true Christian.

As can you. It's possible we all can. Heaven isn't reserved for only the people who share your views and your politics. And from seeing the things you've been promoting I hope you can change directions to prevent that.

Point being, when a president who promotes and shows his hate towards anyone who questions or opposes him on a daily basis by calling them names, when he uses pressure and threats against his opposition, a man who circumvents congress in ruling by decree, who purposefully starves millions of children world wide by cutting off funds to feed them and I could go on.....

It is going to garner extreme blow back. And when you combine that with the state of our mental healthcare system in this country it only magnifies the situation.

If and when someone in power doesn't want to act like some evil villain every time they open their mouth that would help. While I understand trump has never read this, someone may wish to read it to him...... " for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. "

The fact that Hitler too had so many attempts made to end his life points out history has shown this to be true.

I certainly don't condone such actions. I don't think any form of political violence or as in this case, attempted political violence is the answer. When someone such as the president presents himself and poses as such a nasty figure there are things you can expect to happen.

And before you bring people up such as myself, I'm not the president. I'm not qualified to be president and don't claim to be. Usually normal people hold the president to a much higher standard than an every day citizen. Or at east make an attempt to be an example as a good and decent person as our leader. That ship has sailed and yet you seem to blame everyone else for it.

As to the proposed ballroom, it does show a need. The ballroom wouldn't be large enough to hold an event as large as the one at the Hilton. That was around 2000 people. The ballroom is around 800 or so, but for State functions is it probably needed considering the politically deranged on the roam these days.

I see no logical reason why people are opposed to this. It is basically privately funded. It is said no tax dollars are involved. Even I doubt it won't take some tax dollars. The only reason I see as any opposition is because it is proposed by President Trump and you can't or won't agree with anything he does, so I just pretty much just ignore your opinions on things.

Do not attempt to apply logic to anything that comes out of Trump's mouth...

There is no logic, only half baked statements to get what he wants (the ballroom).

Pretty pitiful commentary. I get comments about Hitler, pedophiles, and numerous other things.

You folks can go to hell.

Here is what I find odd in all of this. The man in question here never entered the ballroom. There was no breach of the ballroom at all. There were no shots fired in the ballroom. Whether people question the security measures or not, the ultimate goal of keeping any threat out of the ballroom to the point no actual shots could be fired at any administration official was successful.

So in response trump claims this is proof of needing the ballroom at The White House for security reasons?

I propose that if in fact a new ballroom at the White House were completed and this same event had taken place there, if an armed man breached The White House grounds but were prevented from entering that ballroom, trump would be applauding that he was stopped from ever entering the ballroom because of what a great idea and plan he had and taking credit for it himself. He would be saying that look at how this ballroom was in fact not breached and the reason he was not shot at and was so needed.

So the fact that security did its job and the shooter never breached the ballroom is the excuse trump is now making for why he needs the ballroom at The White House? Nothing more than a ruse to get what he wants.

The world is inching closer to a global recession... All because of Trump and his ego.

It's that simple. Fact.

And the EU and ROTW is probably going to get more vocal about it. What Germany just did/said was the equivalent of screaming "WTF are you doing dummy" ... Diplomatic talk is not normally so blatant.

Songs from on the road............

By Andreas Rinke and Kirsti Knolle

BERLIN, April 27 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday Iran's leadership was humiliating the United States and getting U.S. officials to travel to Pakistan and then leave without results, in an unusually abrupt rebuke over the conflict.



Merz also said he not see what exit strategy the U.S. was pursuing in the Iran war - comments that underlined deep divisions between Washington and its European NATO allies, which had already been festering over Ukraine and other issues.

"The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result," he said during a talk to students in the town of Marsberg.

"An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible," he added at the venue in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

U.S. President Donald Trump has harshly criticized NATO allies for not sending their navies to help open the Strait of Hormuz during the conflict. The waterway has remained virtually shut, causing market turmoil and unprecedented disruption in energy supplies.



Merz reiterated that Germans and Europeans were not consulted before the U.S. and Israel started attacking Iran on February 28, and that he had conveyed his scepticism directly to Trump afterwards.

"If I had known that it would continue like this for five or six weeks and get progressively worse, I would have told him even more emphatically," Merz said, comparing it to previous U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hopes of reviving peace efforts have receded since Trump scrapped a visit on Saturday by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi travelled to Russia on Monday after failed talks in Pakistan and Oman.

Merz said it was evident the Strait of Hormuz had been at least partially mined. "We have offered, also as Europeans, to send German minesweepers to clear the strait, which has obviously been mined in part," he said.

He said the conflict was costing Germany "a lot of money, a lot of taxpayers' money and a lot of economic strength."



(Reporting by Andreas Rinke, writing by Kirsti Knolle; editing by Matthias Williams)

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/othe...umiliating-us-as-talks-stall/ar-AA21PzkD

I need to dig more into this before I really comment, but the little I read was that there are quite a few parallels between this incident and the last assassination attempt (namely, someone without the credentials getting WAY too close to accomplishing their deranged goals due to shortfalls in the performance of secret service and whoever else was in charge of security).

The draft is now over.

Since free agency and now the draft the Browns have added this list of offensive linemen:

Titus Howard - T
Zion Johnson - G
Elgton Jenkins - G, C
Jack Conley - T
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Drafted OL

Spencer Fano - T
Austin Barber - T
Parker Brailsford - C
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Receivers drafted:

KC Concepcion
Denzel Boston
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Shedeur now has a golden opportunity to prove what he can do. He has gained a year in the NFL and had seven starts.

He has new weapons and an upgraded offensive line. He has to prove in 2026 that he is a capable NFL starter.

Not asking him to prove he is an All Pro.

Prove to the Browns that he is the guy you want to go forward with.

If not then next year we go back into the draft looking for a future quarterback.

Terrelle Pryor is definitely the comparison.

Here is something that is lost, in 2016 he had 77 receptions for 1007 yards and 4 TD's with the Browns. That was his best season as a reciever.

Terrelle Pryor was a bit of a mess from a personal standpoint, Green does not appear to have those type of issues.

Nice