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I have a big project that includes a fair number of trees to cut down. For years, I've managed to get by with renting Stihl chainsaws (usually a 250) from a local dealer for a tree here and there but I think I'm at the point where it's time to purchase. Anyone that cuts firewood or trees on the regular have a recommendation? I don't want a cheap saw but I don't know if a pro saw is worth the investment over a high end "homeowner" saw. I've been looking at Stihl, Husqvarna and Echos, at least 50cc. Most of the trees I'm cutting are tops 10 to 12" wide. They aren't really big trees, but a fair amount of them. I appreciate any advice on the saws.

Trump isn't handling the virus issue well and IMO, that's what's giving the Dems and the media any ammunition they have on the subject. This is a topic where his instincts, usually good, can't carry him over his lack of intelligence, usually quite poor. I think 3/4 of his problem is he doesn't want this virus to affect *his* rallies and *his* re-election campaign, and he needs to accept it will and get past it. I think once he does, he will lead more effectively. What you see is an elderly gentleman who's mad at the world because he wants to cut his lawn, and the meteorologist on the tv said it wasn't going to rain today and it's raining goddammit, and he's besides himself.

You don't want your place of business to be identified as the "ground zero" of *any* outbreak. You don't make any money if your gym used to be in the building that's since been demolished by FEMA. I kid, but that's something the Chinese would likely do.

The problem I see with Manning is that he wants everyone to like him and that's part of his lucrative image. He won't say anything remotely candid on air. You will not get Tony Romo. Why bother trade for Al Michaels? Just burn it to the ground and find new, fresh talent.

He'll be a good RT. He'll be a perennial Pro Bowl Guard. I don't know why the Bills fight it. It's ok to be a great guard. It's ok to draft a great guard in the second round.

Whether he likes it or not (and he will absolutely positively hate it), Trump is going to have to restrict travel if he wants to escape a scenario where he's facing down large-scale virus outbreaks in all 50 states. It's manageable now. It's not going to be.

Who'd Biden want as his VP? Who'd Sanders want? Biden wouldn't be dumb enough to want O'Rourke would he?

Amari Cooper is one of the most mentally soft players in the entire league. The Bills would be fools for wasting the free "air minutes" in making the phone call to the agent.

I'm ok with Milano and White extensions. Not ok with the Dawkins extension. I think Milano is a fine LB, with room for more. With corporate knowledge and experience in a consistent system, LBs play even faster, which makes them even faster on the field. That's really the core principle in Pittsburgh - it's not that they draft blue chip talent all the time, it's that their players keep learning in the same system year after year, and don't have to think as much in the game. Dawkins is a good LT. I don't know, if as a team, you extend the good LT at that price point. Do you really foresee him becoming a great LT?

I'm a little surprised the Democratic party base picked Biden over Bloomberg or took a chance on Klobuchar. I don't think Biden has the energy to see the finish line, he's just as gaffe prone as Trump, and the only reason he wasn't roughed up about his brother's shady dealings, Hunter's shady dealings, his various political positions over the years, etc. is because the other Democrats thought he was dead in the race and they didn't want to spend the precious dollars. Trump and the Republicans will spend those dollars. At least with Bloomberg or Klobuchar, you didn't have decades of that kind of baggage.

I was unfortunately correct about the crappy run nursing homes and hospitals. Crappy run nursing home in Seattle and the Kaiser hospitals are average on a good day. I'll offer another prediction I hope isn't true and is a crazy hot take. The hammer from Washington will come down shortly after Super Tuesday. The feds don't want to keep people away from the polls so they will wait until Wednesday or Thursday to announce more cases, more travel restrictions (from South Korea and Italy especially and probably Iran for whoever can still travel there) and the activation of FEMA since besides Washington and Florida, you'll likely have Illinois, Oregon, New York and Georgia (as I expect Atlanta is going to have cases) declare SoE and they will need money to buy supplies and pay an absurd amount of overtime.

The Eagles should want to trade for Nick Foles but they don't have the balls to admit that's the right play. That offense is on another level when he's the quarterback. He's the guy for *that* system.

The NFL got something right with this year's show: No matter what, "Dat Ass" will get viewers. It doesn't matter if the ass is from Mexico, the North Pole, China, Mars. People complain about J-Lo and Shakira but believe me, they were watching, and that's the only thing the NFL cares about. They don't care if you hated it, or you called the FCC. So if the NFL thinks that running out a bunch of Asian K-Pop schoolgirls is going to get the job done, that's what we're all going to get. If Lizzo is what's appealing to the focus groups, we're going to get Lizzo in her outfits. Maybe we'll get Asian schoolgirls and Lizzo. ?

I expected him to play lights out after he got traded to Jacksonville. If you can't play lights out angry, you just don't have the passion. He's a case study in guys getting soft after getting the big contract. Yes, Rex Ryan played a big part in damaging his (and Mario's) career but he could have turned things around in Jacksonville and he didn't. I will always be disappointed in Marcel's career. Such a talented football player. Hall of Fame talent really. Just didn't have the desire and the guidance to show the world that talent.

Has there ever been an NCAA player with potentially elite route running skills who's been a bust in the NFL? That's a legitimate question to all of you who are far more in the know about the college game and the draft than I am. IMO, that's a metric that's rock solid. You can never have enough WRs who commit to becoming elite route runners. In a league where everyone is fast and strong, that's how you truly get open.

I'd be doing it right now. I think that's good planning Masks, ventilators, the cleaners and all the medicines that we rely on China too much to begin with. The government can do things...like making sure there's supplies. You don't ramp up supplies production when you *desperately* need them. The worst case scenario is if people, out of fear, stop showing up for work, you have no domestic production plus no foreign production. Get it all started now.

That's my concern in concise summary. If that's how the White House is thinking we're in trouble. I think this virus is deceptively dangerous because of its long incubation period and it legitimately thrives on human incompetency. Here in America, you'll start to see it take root in the poorly run hospitals and nursing homes where you have a bunch of compromised patients, protocols are already lax and you have B team physicians and management that won't even know they have a major problem on their hands.

Trump is a fool if he doesn't mobilize the CDC, State HHS, Homeland, State, DOD, etc. to a pandemic footing and pressure the WHO to declare a pandemic. You don't want the US to be caught flat footed when this virus enters the US from every direction, and you know it's going to come through every port of entry. The WHO doesn't want to cause a panic but I think the virus did a lot more damage in China than China has let on, and it's just ramping up in new areas of the globe with even less sophisticated health care systems.

He really doesn't need either of them because he has more money than both of them combined. He *could* do what Trump did and make his own brand and own the entire party. However, I don't know if he lacks the courage, the smarts, or the ego that Trump has. Or maybe all of it.

I agree. He needs significant coaching on how to run for President and act Presidential. His negatives are largely Trump's negatives. He needs to stay away from the Clintons. HRC as VP is a sure loser. She's more unlikable than Trump and he campaigns for the title daily. He also should never apologize for stop and frisk. Everyone but the super left were a-ok with NYC being tough on crime. NYC today is nearly as bad as it was pre-Giuliani, and it's fresh in people's minds. Overall, I don't think Bloomberg would be a terrible choice.

I'd ban them both from my airline. He gets banned for his behavior on the plane. She gets banned for her behavior after the incident. These two people didn't even make an effort at being chill passengers to one another, and that's why they both would never fly with me again.

It was *strongly* suggested in a Philadelphia Inquirer article late last year he was only on the Eagles roster due to his immense knowledge of Jim Schwartz's system. Schwartz campaigned heavily for Bradham not to be cut in the season prior. He was able to play faster than he physically was due to that corporate knowledge.

I wouldn't trade for him. A lot of these available guys are done. Inconvenient truth perhaps. Johnson, Olsen, Norman can give you a couple good games in the first month of the season, but that's going to be about it.

Hollywood has made this movie many times before. IMO, nobody is going to top Hard Target, a 1993 John Woo tour de force that had JCvD *and* Wilford Brimley with Creole accents, Lance Henriksen in one of his few bad guy roles, Arnold Vosloo chewing the scenery and John Woo legitimately giving zero Fs before Hollywood said enough's enough. Doves flying, guns blazing, so many motorcycles.

Matt Patricia isn't going to do anything productive in Detroit. They prize consistency and longevity over results. Matt Stafford isn't the problem there. Much like every one of their vehicles except the F-150, Ford is ruthlessly consistent at making a mediocre product, hiring mediocre FO and coaching talent to ultimately shape a mediocre product. I've never seen an organization so committed to being "ok".