Playoffs and play time
ESPN headline “NBA defends 11% increase in foul calls during playoffs”
That wasn’t the issue most fans wanted defended. What about the fouls that AREN’T called. And the flops?
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And random hockey note: The Montreal Canadies beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 s are 1 win away from advancing to the NHL semifinals
I’m so old I remember when it wasn’t a shock that a Canadian team MIGHT win the Stanley Cup.
(Canadien were the last..in 1993!
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JD Vance today “There’s a lot of fraud in the federal government. It’s unbelievable how much you’ve been fleeced by your own government.”
As the late great English poet Jon Stallworthy wrote… “And every now and then our lies betray us into truth..”‘
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So the President heads to China, bringing his son, daughter-in-law and a bunch of billlionaire tech bros.
But not the First Lady.
And it’s not even a story…
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To put this in perspective.
Trump calls it a “state visit” to China.
But he brought only #2 son & his wife.
Imagine if King Charles had flown to DC, left Camilla at home, and had Harry and Meghan fly from LA to join him at the White House?
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Just went through two days of Fox News website coverage of President Trump in China.
None of the coverage mentions or pictures Donald bringing his son and daughter-in-law along.
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Hey media:
Tourists cannot snorkel at Pearl Harbor. It’s off-limits around USS Arizona & other memorials; considered hallowed, active military cemeteries.
Only “rare, approved dignitaries” are allowed.
So how did Kash Patel rate?
(And what was his liquor bill on the trip.)
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If Xavier Becerra becomes the Democrat who makes it into the general election for the governor’s race in California, it will be a story for the ages – perfect storm of the right opponent dropping out at the right time…so that calm, even boring decency and experience suddenly became attractive.
And how many other Democrats are jealous?
Left Coast Sports Babe 
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