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2022-23 Season: Greiss out, who do we get to back up Ned...?

That was a shitty 1st goal but... It's 2-0 anyways so, a bit of work to do to get back into the game. And they just blew a 5 on 3 with nothing to show for it so... I don't know what to say.

Yes. Unfortunately.

I think this would most likely be a majority opinion.

They need to be forceful responses. IMO. Not sanctions.

Just to flesh that out a bit... I like Changes and Life on Mars... but they're just ok songs to me... they don't knock it out of the park imo. And I know how popular Changes is, I actually do like the song... I just prefer other stuff by David Bowie. For example, aside from those two "decent" songs, the rest of the album is very meh to me... Except for one song that I think "knocks it out of the park": My favorite song on Hunky Dory is "Queen Bitch". A magnificent Bowie song...! This song really grabs me by the... ummm... yeah, ok... by the balls.

A comment on Sticky Fingers: I'm not really interested in listening to "Brown Sugar" anymore. And Wild Horses is too maudlin for me, at least as sung by the Stones. Oddly enough, I prefer even slower versions of that song by I-love-them-slow-core bands Mazzy Star, and The Sundays... The only thing that really only still holds my attention from Sticky Fingers is Can't You Hear me Knockin'. But I do love listening to The Sundays or Mazzy Star belting out their slow-core versions of Wild Horses (The Sundays I think is the better of the two...).

Oh, I'm sorry... But... The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust just completely blows Hunky Dory out of the sky. My apologies... 😁

I don't think there should be any wafting. If Russia uses those weapons, they need to "Crimes Against Humanity" declare war against Russia. I think they should do that right now, based on their current extensive list of war crimes. But I'm Teddy Roosevelt, or Ronald Reagan, and I like using the Big Stick. Not everyone is willing to hold my position. That's just my 2 cents.

In my opinion, cases don't matter anymore. Only hospitalizations/ death. If cases go up 1,000% and hospitalizations go up 5% as a result... moot point. Nothing should change from our current approach. In other words... I'm ready to move on with life.

In answer to this... One note of caution: If an album has only 1 or 2 songs on it that I like then... I may like the artist/ songs but don't care for the album. I've never listened to the whole album by Bill Withers, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, some others... but I do know that I like a song or two. In either case, I wouldn't rank the album as I'm thinking in terms of loving the album, not just 1 or 2 songs. Aside from that: Genesis was too much for me at that time period. I liked them more after Peter Gabriel left and they became a lot more pop, or easy to listen to. Now I really love me some Peter Gabriel... but not with Genesis. The Rolling Stones/ David Bowie/ Pink Floyd/ have better albums than these, but there's at least one or two songs I like per album. Same with Bill Withers & Marvin Gaye, there's 1 or 2 songs that I absolutely love, but I can't speak to the whole album as I haven't listened. The Allman Brothers I know the whole album, but mostly just care about 1 song. None of these albums would gain a ranking from me... just not enough there when I'm thinking in terms of albums. As an entire album, these are the ones that are historically great, I love them to death, equally. I can't put any one above or below the other: Led Zep IV, Who's Next, L.A. Woman. These others, I absolutely love the album, even if they are not as iconic as the above albums (so they get the smaller font). I wouldn't be able to separate them or rank them, just as above, as I love each of them for their own uniqueness in sound and mood and excellence, but they are 1 step below the above list: Fragile, RAM, Imagine, Masters of Reality, Aqualung.

Chiming in here... I want to give them what they've asked for in terms of military hardware. That means all the available Polish and Romanian MIG's that they keep asking for. 50-75 jets I think, between the two countries? And enough anti-ship missiles to watch the Russian Black Sea Naval Forces, all of it, to sink to the bottom...

I don't know how many anti-ship missiles they have but we're trying to get them more...

As soon as I heard Ukraine was pushing back Russian forces I started to worry about Putin lashing out with a chemical or nuclear attack in revenge/ frustration/ rage. I won't put it past him at all.

How about a top 10,000 list?

Yeah... Soto didn't pitch all that well either... But it's early, and Spring Training, so...

It is.

Russian invasion forces Officially declared War Criminals by Biden/ U.S.

They'll get a lot more time with the Red Wings, to develop, so we'll see what happens. Rumor has it that "Sunny" Sundqvist has an infectiously optimistic locker room personality so... there's that. Yzerman uncovers another gold nugget discarded for... reasons.

This isn't difficult at all. 10K dead, at least (probably more) 15-20K at least, wounded or incapacitated 5K plus? Surrendered. This is the biggest unknown as I haven't seen any documented numbers here. Just stories. But that's a 30K starting point, with a high degree likelihood of larger numbers... out of 150-190K that entered Ukraine (I don't know if the actual entered-combat number has been verified?)

Sweet!

Sorry, my original comment may have been too general. What I meant is that the fascist movement that is specifically trying to overturn the 2020 election will die with Trump. Other parts of the fascist movement that was Pandora-Box opened by Trump will live on, I agree. Such as the willingness to use violence to try and overturn a future election, to attempt the murder of US politicians, to lie/ cheat/ steal elections in the future by nefarious undemocratic means will still exist, etc... Pandora's box has definitely been opened. (does that one work Sue?)

Only if Trump is still alive. That fascist movement will die with him.

I have a better idea than just "locking down" or "freezing" Russian assets held by US Banks and other US entities: https://www.yahoo.com/news/senators-discuss-freezing-russian-gold-002710655.html Confiscate all those assets, gold and otherwise. That includes all these oligarchic mega-yachts. And transfer ownership of all of those assets over to the Ukrainian Government as war reparations. For Russia's extensive war crimes. That should be fun...!

Bon Jovi bores me to tears, I hate them. Funny story... About 15 years ago, a Marketing girl (only 23 I think, at the time) about 20 years my junior is leaving the company for a better job offer. Everyone is hanging out at a bar just having a drink or two at a table and somehow she's directly to my left, next to her boyfriend. She's going on and on about how much she loves 80's music and, in particular, Bon Jovi. I, on the other hand, am ripping Bon Jovi apart: regurgitated weak-kneed insipid pop rock that I've heard 1,000 times before by better bands than Bon Jovi, etc., etc., etc. This goes on for most of the time I was there. She wasn't very pleased with my ripping on them. She even had a depressing look of annoyance on her face. I couldn't stop though, Bon Jovi sucks, and she couldn't talk me out of that, defending them as bravely as she could. But after a socially correct drink or two, I stand up, wish her a successful and happy career, etc... And then belt out several lines of Livin' on a Prayer, loudly, including the higher pitched chorus... Almost the entire bar started "whooping", the table bursts out in laughter... She nearly fell out of her chair, hysterical(ly laughing). A quick hug, "good luck", exit stage left.