It’s the “great reset” brought in by the covid pandemic.
Keep the good reports coming!
Friend says it turned out to not be much. He treated it with drinking a few glasses of wine.
I guess the soil in Turkey is great for growing opium. There were huge opium fields bordering the base I was at. Along the waterfront in Izmir, you'd see blocks of what at the time I considered old men smoking it in their water pipes. I considered that an odd sight, but places in the modern USA make that a peaceful serene scene. What a world!
Soon after 9/11 I spent the night in a vast, sprawling graveyard in Quetta, Pakistan on the Afghanistan border as part of a story about the complicated politics of the opium/heroin trade in that region. The Taliban officially shut it down, but looked the other way and reaped kickbacks from some favored traffickers they used to buy weapons.
Encountered an aggressive homeless panhandler on Saturday, Aug 12 at nearby gas station as I walked in around 6:30 am. He physically threatened me as I entered store. Told him I only used a credit card while making purchases. Kid wanted a dollar. He had the balls to ask for 50 cents after I exited store. Came home for my pistol in order to teach little SOB a lesson. Wife stopped me at the front door. Thankfully. Thankfully. Incident could have sparked rioting.
Bernie, I see Wainwright is getting another start tonight. Curious how you, as a die hard Cards fan, see his quest for 200 wins...As a Reds fan, I've been a little put off by Votto hanging around, I suspect in part to see if he can secure HOF credentials. But Votto has been somewhat productive. Wainwright has been a train wreck since getting stuck on 198 in the spring..Nootbar with painful injury.
Cards' Nootbaar, Edman exit early in loss to A's
Lars Nootbaar left in the sixth inning with a lower abdomen contusion after fouling a ball off his groin, and Tommy Edman departed two innings later with a right calf contusion.www.espn.com
He pitched very well last year till a Sept fall off partly due to injury. I think he made a mistake pitching in the WBC. He pitched well, but should have been prepping for the season. If I recall correctly, he had a slight injury in the last WBC game he pitched in. I don't post on Card message boards, but do read a little. He's catching a lot of grief. He is a career Cardinal and I think a good guy. The Cards are going no where this year and some say are tanking to get a better draft pick. Many years ago there was a guy named Early Wynn who hung on through some bad pitching to get 300 wins. I don't mind AW getting a couple more starts and then maybe going to the bull pen if he doesn't improve. BTW at his age, he needs the umps to give him the corners. I've watched several of his games and the umps are forcing him to the heart of the plate. He doesn't throw hard enough to pitch there anymore.
While before my time, I've certainly read about Early Wynn...Part of one of the greatest rotations ever on the 54 Indians -- Feller, Lemon, Garcia, Wynn. And was still around when Herb Score looked like he might be one of the best ever before hit by a line drive. (I was a nerd kid and read every baseball book the school library ever stocked.)
Spahn won a battlefield commission in WW2.
