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Wow. He thinks you're a Person Of Substance. That's nice. Though he probably should write it out long hand from now on, as by using the acronym people might think he views you the way most everybody else views him.

The case against McCabe was dropped?

Thanks. It looked like a legit site. So truly feel bad for the kids getting "educated" by those dingbats.

How the #### does that teacher manage to get out of bed each morning knowing that she's going to have to face 20 or so finger toting 5 year olds EVERY morning? (Well, except for weekends, and holidays, and vacations, and teach conference days, and the like.) Seriously, she has to face those mini-Nazis 180 times each year. She deserves a medal, or at least one of Bill Engvall's signs. The other parents that send their children to that school have to be wondering how in the hell they get their children out of that school if the administration is that obtuse. PLEASE tell us that was just some elaborate parody site and not a legitimate news story. SMH.

Truly amazing. These TDS suffering, oppose 45 at all cost, foot soldiers manage to make a world class arse like Roger Stone into a figure that seemingly deserves our sympathy.

Pegula saying "trade him right ####ing now." (Now hang up.) (Oh.)

Am still firmly on the fence regarding Botterill. Expect they did him a huge disservice by not bringing in a Team President with a hockey background when he was hired. If they can him, unless they find a GM that also wants to build in that Chicago/Pittsburgh-ish mold, then they're set back a couple more years again. Though this time they've got some good pieces to build around (they had that when Botterill was hired as well, but all 3 of the big pieces Murray went out and obtained became personas non gratia and were traded/ released for pennies on the $ it took to bring them in) so hopefully the step back would be a small one. But, really don't want to take even a 1/2 step back 9 years into this "suffering." So, am willing to give him 1 more off-season, but if they are floundering around again come Thanksgiving, will join the pitchforks & torches contingent. Still believe (with no proof) that Botterill got forced into accepting a horrible return for O'Reilly. A legit return (or better yet, no trade, but that horse already left the barn) and then this team is in the playoffs this year with just an adequate goalie to pair with Ullmark. And, that belief that the trade was beyond his control to a large degree combined with their really only needing a couple of pieces to be in the mix is what says to me give him this off-season. (That, and an expectation he'll be back anyway, so why tilt at the windmill when there's nothing but frustration to be gained.) Of course, the flip side of the argument, that many take is: he should've somehow convinced Pegula the ROR return needed to ge better and somehow have forced him into paying the $7.5MM signing bonus that was due to get a reasonable return. And his unwillingness to sacrifice future assets to help NOW are disqualifying to letting him stay on. (Which after 9 years, is understandable from a fan perspective. There's been a lot of bad hockey through the years.)

Hoping you're wrong and expect you are. But sadly, can't say that isn't plausible. Had a liberal friend tell me the Chines government was pretty good and effective a couple of weeks before reports of Corona Virus came out. Haven't had a chance to see if that's still his opinion yet. Sadly, expect that it is.

His career is getting "wasted" the same way Steve Yzerman's was in the 80's. (That story eventually had a happy ending for Detroit.) The 2 biggest issues are, as mentioned above, subpar goaltending and a lack of a 2C. (1 more 2nd line winger would also help, but is a lesser issue.) And both of those problems can be traced back to a degree to the excess of bad contracts on the books. Botterill has been reluctant to give up the prospecfs/ picks he'd need to trade to bring in the sort of players that could fix the issue with limited cap space. The good news is, after this season, there is only 1 truly bad contract on the books (Okposo) and the rest go away (Hunwick, Sobotka, Bogosian, Sheary all come off the books along with several other UFA's (some of which MIGHT be back like Girgensons, Larsson, and Vesey). Botterill refused to spend the assets last year to bring in Marcus Johansson which could've both helped last year AND given notice that he wouldn't be a fully acceptable stopgap at 2C until (hopefully) one of Mittelstadt or Cozens grow into the role; which would've increased the urgency BEFORE this season to do more to fill in the 2C role. Botterill tried, kind of, to fix the goaltending by firing the old goalie coach (Allen) & bringing in a goalie whisperer (Bates). That kind of worked as Ullmark has become an excellent backup / passable starter and Hutton looked great for 6 games. But then Hutton fell apart for 3 months and that hoped upgrade wasn't. They also need to fix the special teams (NEVER should have let Wood out of his contract when Bylsma was canned. The PP has been a shell of itself since.), ideally by making an upgrade to the assist coaches. It could be time to bump Taylor up full time from the Amerks. When Krueger eventually moves over Botterill, Taylor could very well be the proper replacement. So, they should be in the playoffs next year with just a handful, or less, of necessary moves. But, was saying that this year as well and those moves didn't happen.

Why only play the same 23 or so songs everytime? Guessing it probably has something to do with them pushing 80 and having spent the better part of the last 60 years frying their brains. They've got most of those 23 locked down but probably don't even remember 1/2 their catalog. :p.

What happens at the mouth of a river DOESN'T effect what happens at the head. The mouth moves upstream as the body of water it flows into has grown and now encompasses where the mouth previously was. Have you never seen a tide come in?

Not sure how they managed to get Bloomberg hanging upside down from 45's tie, but it was a sweet effect. Somehow, thought Mike was a bit taller than that.

That gun clearly can't be a Leftist. Firing upon being triggered is a rational response, haven't seen many of those when a Leftist is triggered, so ...

You aren't the only one. Thought it was an ugly guy until about 3 months ago. Turns out, it's a really ugly woman.

As was the most revered Republican President since Lincoln.

Probably not too far off from how he chooses them. Sadly.

Don't know. Suppose you'd have to ask the resident paint chip eater how he chooses them.

Probably not. And it probably includes Bill Nye, the cast of Big Bang Theory, and Thomas Dolby (She Blinded Him with Science. SCIENCE!), and the like.

Thank you very much for the perspective. Would've expected ticked off to be the reaction, but can definitely see how it all could be amusing from your perspective. So, are you a Sanders supporter or do you back one of the others? (Assuming from your reply that you do support Bernie.) Agree that caucuses have a ton of flaws. Counterintuitive that there are still a handful of states that hold them to allocate delegates. It'll be interesting to see what, if any, changes the 2 parties make to their caucus rules in Iowa and elsewhere.

So, she gets her news from MSNBC? That seems to be a vicious little feedback loop.

Legit question regarding the apparently failed Iowa Caucuses for the Dems that venture to this portion of the board. Are you ticked off, embarrassed, indifferent, or other by what appears to this outsider to be either gross corruption or gross incompetence? Suppose in fairness, it could be both. And, considering the D party always claims to be the party of the little guy (or the person without a voice to be less gender specific), does it ever get frustrating to see them once again act in a manner that only helps the established power structure? (Not expecting an answer to that one, but would appreciate any feedback you wouldn't mind supplying.)

SMH. Didn't expect it to be possible, but the Dems found a way to make Shiff and Nadler appear relatively competent.

You forget Pasta. He was heartbroken in November '16.

99% sure that back in the very early 90's (when GHWB was in the WH) he made a big deal out of being a smoker and would say he was holding a piece of paper in his "nicotine stained fingers." Sometime late '90's it switched to "formerly nicotene stained fingers."

Ray just interfered with a double homicide investigation. He didn't actually pull the trigger, so the NFL has no qualms with letting him back in the club.