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What a total croc that was. Detroit got royally screwed. There is no way any team in the post-season tourney should be eligible for the top two picks in the draft. The NHL is a joke. And Buffalo with yet another 8th overall selection. See you in three years whoever it ends up being. Better yet, just trade that pick for whatever you can get because we need help now.

Those five doctors should quit the profession before they cause real harm. From your description, they are absolutely clueless about SARS-CoV-2, how it’s spread, and the enormous strain it’s placed on hospitals and health care professionals in various areas around the world. Those five doctors are a disgrace to the Hippocratic oath.

The guy in the second tweet below seems to have it figured out.

Complacency has set in. We are, BY FAR, the most immature generation in our country’s history. Previous generations were asked to make the ultimate sacrifice in service of a greater good. We were asked to stay home on the couch or wear a mask and it’s just too much for our delicate, spoiled sensibilities.

Don’t worry, Wall Street will realize another socialist windfall to keep their over-inflated and artificial values propped up. Meanwhile, in the real world...

Good point. People who don’t self reflect and get past their defensiveness aren’t/can’t being honest.

Looting, yes. But there is nothing wrong at all with people exercising 1st amendment rights to protest and seek redress of grievances. The vast, vast, vast majority of protest activity has been unmarred by looting and vandalism. No matter how hard others try to paint an alternative picture.

You can’t have a revolution without violence. At least I can’t think of an example where that occurred. But if any country has the structures in place to accomplish that, it’s ours. Assuming, of course, that everyone has an equal opportunity to utilize those structures. Which we don’t have and which some are in the process of further trying to deny.

He, Csonka, and Morris took turns being Bills killers. But he was always classy about it. RIP.

Outstanding. I take omission a step further in that we are actually complicit when we don’t take a stand. I don’t know how many times I’ve let racial comments or jokes made by friends or relatives pass without comment, for example. Or in not joining with minority voices in demanding fair and equal access to vote. Not taking a stand makes us complicit in the act denying people their equality. It’s just not enough to wish people well in their pursuit. We have to get on board in a very real, meaningful, and impactful way when it comes to seeing the promise of America fulfilled for all.

You can only have honest discussions about race with honest people.

Isn’t it our time, Mr. Hand?

So, you’re just jealous?

I admire the optimism!

I gotta strongly disagree here. They should get credit for being able to evolve in their views. Few movements are adopted by the masses initially; all of them have depended on changed points of view to succeed.

Yeah, I suspect it’s a vestigial element of our psyches.

I think “actual work time” for football players spans from the open kickoff to the final gun. I suppose you can include pregame warmups to be “actual work” as well. If players have permission from their teams to kneel if they want to, how are they shirking their work responsibilities, anyway? The 49ers, for instance gave CK, Reid, and others express permission to kneel in 2016.

I appreciate this and agree, but I’m still trying to get to the “why.” Human nature is one important variable to be sure but what’s at the root of that evolution? There are tribal elements involved but it goes farther than that, I think. Anyway, I appreciate the incite you offered.

Perhaps, but that doesn’t answer why we refuse to accept the explanations offered by those who choose to take a knee. They’ve explained time and time again why, but people have this obsession to make it about something else entirely. I’m curious about that mentality, not the protest itself.

Why is it that some people just can’t accept everyone’s explanation for why they are taking a knee? Clearly no disrespect is intended yet some people are intent on being offended. Why the insistence, the need, to make it about something it isn’t? It’s a lot more than, “It’s my flag, it’s my country, it’s my military.” Some sort of psychological phenomenon is at play here.

Awful but lawful. If Mr. Gugino were under 65, I don’t think the officers would have been charged as the DA specifically mentioned that age related NY statute.

Nazi liberal.

And I can’t help but wonder that had they intervened, not only would George Floyd be alive today, their intervention would be viewed as a heroic act and much deserved needed praise would have been heaped upon police around the entire country. What could have been.

There is no second wave. The first wave never ended; just brought under control in the hottest spots and that made our improvement stats look really good for a while.