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3 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:
This is funny how it does bring out hypocrisy. Remember in Kavanaugh, the right was like let it be, it’s old allegations. We believe him. This is a non-story. Now they jump all over Cuomo to resign.
Its not new. The same thing happened with Democrat Senator Franken. The Dems did put pressure on him to resign and he did.
We’re already seeing Dems call for investigation. AOC being the most prominent one. That is what should happen. I don’t think you’d find any Dem say otherwise.
It would be interesting if the Republicans took a consistent approach with this and applied their Kavanaugh standard to Cuomo but we know that will not happen.
The Republican hypocrisy part isn't really applicable here. Remember, Senator Feinstein knew about Blasey-Ford for a long time and didn't think much of it until Kavanaugh was set to be confirmed. There was no investigation into the allegation while Feinstein sat on the claim. It was a circus because of the 11:59 timing of the release of information, and it seemed completely unnecessary at the time. Problem is that now all the "believe her" politicians are stuck with this position, or else they're going to look like the hypocrites. In this case, the first allegation was made in December, and now there's another one -- and it appears that there are bipartisan calls for Cuomo to resign. And those calls for his resignation are all premature. So whereas Republicans were saying "prove it" then they should rightly be saying "prove it" now. The loudest calls for Cuomo to resign seem to be coming from Democrats. Both sides seem to be consistent here: "prove it" vs. "believe her (without more)".
You're right that the Dems are piling on, especially the progressive Dems. This looks a lot like an internal party power struggle. I said it before, the sexual abuse allegations are more headline-worthy, but Cuomo's handling of the federal investigation into nursing homes is a bigger deal and easier to prove. Why aren't the Democrats hammering this angle? Looks like a smear job that's politically motivated. They want him to go away, not go to jail. And NYS Republicans should be careful what they wish for.
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12 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:
Well, stick a fork in this season...
Ullmark is out for at least a month. I don’t see any way they can overcome that loss.
Hutton as their starter for an entire month... 😬yikes!
JJ and Tokarski are no better. JJ’s hardly an AHL caliber goalie.
Really happy to see Risto back though! Hopefully he doesn’t suffer any PASC related setbacks.
If they’re stuck with Hutton then I say that they should play a wide open up and down style of play.
Theres no use in playing a defensive style to help Hutton because he lets in goals anyhow. They have skaters and (in theory) scorers, even on the blue line — let Montour and Dahlin in on the action.
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4 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
If true he should resign and be arrested.
The easier case to make is the one where he lied to federal investigators who were looking into his administration.
That would get you or me in jail pretty quickly. No he said/she said there. He will skate on both of these, I bet. It may wreck his re-electin, but he won’t see jail, not ever.
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4 hours ago, ALF said:
“These strikes were authorised in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel,” he said.
According to the Pentagon, US fighter jets dropped seven 500-lb Joint Direct Attack Munition-guided precision bombs, hitting seven targets, which includes a crossing used by the armed groups to move weapons across the border.
Kirby said the strikes destroyed multiple facilities at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups, including Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS).
“We are confident with the target we went for. We know what we did,” said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. “We are confident that target was being used by the same Shia militia that conducted the strikes.”https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/us-strikes-iranian-backed-military-infrastructure-in-syria
Austin said a lot of nothing, ALF. Every quote was a dodge and a weave and an empty statement amounting to "trust us, everything is great".
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1 hour ago, SoCal Deek said:
We boycotted Russia. Did it change anything? Nope!
We didn't boycott Berlin in 1934.
Appeasement sucks.
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On 2/24/2021 at 10:48 AM, SoCal Deek said:
Not another Olympic boycott! All this does is hurt the athletes. It proves little else. If our political leaders are upset with the policies and behavior of the host country, maybe they should get off their comfortable rear ends and pass some real legislation that actually does something about the issue, instead of using innocent and unpaid athletes to make their 'statements' for them!
Sanctions have been imposed. You're right that there should be more pressure. But to dismiss a boycott of the Olympics begs the question: some actions are acceptable and other actions are less important? Whatever actions we take, or statement we make to China needs to be consistent.
Even though the Olympics have probably lost their luster, in the uniglobal world the Olympics are a big deal. To the Chinese they represent legitimacy. I see your point the opposite way. Allowing participation says "we hate your oppression and expansionism, but we will overlook that for a couple weeks to we can watch our figure skaters." What about people from other countries who ask "why isn't the US participating?" In order to answer that question, China must admit that there is an issue with what they do and it forces them to see that everyone else thinks what they're doing is unacceptable. It also forces other countries to question whether they should ignore the Chinese issues to play amateur sports. Nobody said anything in 2008 and China got bolder and bolder, and that will continue if no consistent message is sent.
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1 hour ago, Doc said:
So people who voted for him knew he was in mental decline but ignored it just to get him elected? That's just great.
And doubling the dosage isn't an answer.
Yes, people knew Biden is fading and still voted against Trump. That isn’t too difficult to see.
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8 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
If not boycotting the Olympics in a country that that is currently holding millions of people in camps isn't reason enough what would be? There needs to be a campaign to compare it to the Berlin Olympics before WWII. The idea that sports and politics should be kept separate is nonsense on an international stage which was the argument at the time. I doubt the US or anybody boycotts because of the potential economic impact such a move would make in international markets so there has to be political pressure to force their hand (worldwide protests would be a good start).
Concentration camps, mistreatment of Tibetans, breaking international treaty in Hong Kong, threatening Taiwan’s existence, expanding territory by land and at sea, technology theft, belt-and-road sovereignty grabs, etc., etc., etc.
There are lots of reasons to boycott.
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I bet the UK boycotts.
They're still fuming over Hong Kong.
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1 hour ago, 4merper4mer said:
Thanks Jersey and NHL. Such crap man. If his career is impacted I hope he sues the league and NJ. They were negligent.
And he was playing the best hockey on the entire team.
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1 minute ago, K-9 said:
Forget the passing stats, Wentz has an even longer way to go before he reaches Rivers’ mental ability at the position.
Absolutely. Rivers experience and mental ability overcame the fact that he had no mobility.
Maybe a better line protecting Wentz will slow thing down for him. Maybe being back with Reich will help, too. But you’re right that Rivers >>> Wentz when it comes to experience and smarts.
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8 hours ago, Nihilarian said:
Phillip Rivers was the #10 QB in 2020.
12 games, Wentz was #26 with a completion % 57.4 percentage.
437 attempts, 2437 yards 16 TD, 15 INTs.
Somebody will need to be a magician to get Wentz to look like a franchise QB again...
This is the way is see it, too.
I don’t think the Colts got better with this move vs. who they had at QB last year.
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I’ve got:
My Cosino owns-a da ristorante anna makes-a some-a good ravioli!
Or:
They turned the Cosino into covfefe.
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17 hours ago, Nextmanup said:
I remember 2 primary things about Crystal Beach: the homemade cinnamon suckers and riding the Comet.
The Comet had an advantage over more modern roller coasters in that it was made out of wood, and it felt like it was falling apart every time I rode on it. It had a raw element of fear going for it that the slick modern steel coasters couldn't match!
The thing really shook and vibrated as you went along the tracks.
And the comet had that one thin metal bar across your lap to hold you in.
Two friends and I went to Crystal Beach on the last day it was open. The line for the Comet was immense — to ride facing forward. No waiting for facing backward. We rode it backward, twice. I’ll never forget those two rides, had to hold on for dear life.
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3 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:
When the Sabres are playing well this town is electric during hockey season.
This is very true.
I don't think the owners understand that.
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On 2/13/2021 at 9:36 AM, Buffalo_Stampede said:
I'm not familiar with everyone's stance here but typically pro Trump people go after Cuomo. Pro Cuomo people go after Trump. I'm guessing you're a pro Trump guy.
There's always an agenda, so the topics always go together.
Or you can be neutral to either one, or both, and dislike the specific decisions they've made. And it is certainly fair to have an opinion on their respective reactions to being criticized. The politicization of Covid from both sides is really unfortunate.
Looks like Cuomo is catching a lot of heat, both for his decision to return patients to nursing homes and for his covering up a federal investigation. And he's catching a lot of political heat from members of his own party in the State legislature.
I've always maintained that Cuomo is lucky that people aren't tracking and reporting the illnesses and deaths of nursing home employees and their immediate families. His policy could easily be connected to those cases.
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41 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
How? What’s changed?
Prior to Covid regulations, my day-to-day existence hasn't changed much.
The only dramatic and disturbing change I see in the past 15 years is a rabid political party tribalism on both sides. It used to be a fiction to think that one party was out to destroy the other. Now, not so much. And it gets worse by the month.
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1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:
I thought the House managers made a pretty good case through past comments, past tweets, showing him encouraging people to march on the Capitol building to stop the steal right before the incident, and comments made during the attack about fighting for Trump that he could be directly blamed for the insurrection on the capital building. All the senators knew it too. The case against him was MUCH stronger than the quid pro quo impeachment case. That's why you saw seven Republicans break rank which is unprecedented in modern times. Zero from Clinton's party voted to convict and only one did (Romney) on one count in Trump's first impeachment trial.
I get that McConnell doesn't want to anger Trump's fervent base so him and other Senators used the convenient rationale (unconstitutional to convict a president who is out of office which is in itself a stretch considering he was in office when this happened). That way they didn't have to defend Trump's conduct.
As far as Democrats not calling witnesses, they made the right move in not dragging this out another few months when it was clear Republican Senators weren't going to change their minds. They have an agenda they need to get to and an aid package is needed to keep the economy afloat during this pandemic. It will be more difficult now that the Republicans can scream deficit again.
The house managers connected a lot of dots, but not the important ones that actually addressed the Atricle of Impeachment. They made a great case for whomever is in charge of security to have been negligent. They made a great case for dereliction of duty, but there was no article of impeachment which addressed that. Haste makes waste. The House must have thought that the Constitutional jurisdiction question should have gone the other way because they were super hasty in banging out the one Article. This case would have been stronger if it wasn’t messed up in preparation. Haste makes waste.
The Constitution gives the government powers and the Amendments chip away at those powers. The defense was right in that the first amendment controlled. As far as witnesses, the one witness that both sides stipulated to was well known, yet the managers didn’t see fit to present her words during their 14 hours of their main case? Haste makes waste. Trump could have been convicted in my eyes, but not following the charge and the applicable law.
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6 minutes ago, daz28 said:
The message we were talking about was the defund the police message.
...and yes, one officer did bring this to light. It would be great if it turns out he is white. The larger problem is many times fellowship takes a back seat to people doing the right thing. It reminds me of Michael J. Fox in 'Casualties of War'. It's often easier to just look the other way
NYT article got the message out abut NYC de-funding the police last year. $1Billion was transferred from the Cops to other spending.
And most major crimes were noticeably up in 2020 over 2019.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0902/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-august-2020
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11 minutes ago, daz28 said:
It's hard to get a message out, when you have Tucker, Sean, and Laura all distorting it on a nightly basis, but you're right they do have to do a better job at that.
Yet by several accounts, it is being investigated. Here are three links. So I'm not sure what you're saying there about a message getting out. There's news reporting, and there's editorializing/opining. Too many times the two lines get blurred these days -- both ways. I wouldn't single out one source of opinion.
https://news.yahoo.com/lapd-investigating-george-floyd-photo-143100107.html
11 minutes ago, daz28 said:The problem with the racism is that it isn't called out when it rears its head. The nation itself is indeed complicit when they don't.
I agree with this. And the LAPD incident you pointed to was called out. None of us would have heard about it if it wasn't called out.
Seems like the LAPD is investigating and probably the people involved will be disciplined. At least they should. I'm sure there are a lot of people looking for something to come of the investigation.
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14 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:
You do understand that this has been the most partisan impeachment in the history of the country right?13 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:
l don’t think you understand what partisan and bi-partisan means.I’m not sure you proofread your initial post.
Then you wasted a lot of effort explaining bi-partisan. A word you didn’t use.
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What should be done about this?
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What should be done about this?
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31 minutes ago, 716er said:
15 Senators did not attend today's proceedings.
That cant be true.
Their attendance is mandatory.
10 minutes ago, Scraps said:I'm pretty sure Joe, Kamala, Jill, Doug and their families voted for Biden.
I’m pretty sure they voted against Trump.
This seems normal, not scary at all
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There can be both, I agree.
There's a third likely group. There are a lot of voters who went with Biden on name recognition, alone, without seeking any media portrayal at all -- and they'd be classified in my mind as anti-Trump votes.