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they remind me of the mid 90s red wings before bowman got there. a lot of flashy offensive players who couldnt win in the playoffs. leafs need their mike vernon and brendan shanahan.

nobody does strawmen quite like mcs.

i dont mind the veto, a lot of these laws are poorly written (like most laws), but the general principle will need to be addressed at some point and in some fashion that recognizes trans rights while also recognizing the reality of the effects of human biology and the sex differences between men and women. i doubt a bill from the indiana legislature does that.

https://law.duke.edu/sports/sex-sport/comparative-athletic-performance/ high school age boys routinely outperform the best women in the world. and its not close. the us womens soccer team (that's supposedly far superior to the rest of the world) played a team of high school boys from dallas. and got crushed. i'm not sure how they go about reconciling this with the current trans-inclusion moment were having, but at some point people will need to realize there is a difference between "biological sex" - which USUALLY comes with all sorts of physical advantages for males - and "gender" which is largely a social creation. sports is one are where the differences in biology between men and women matter. a lot.

i loved watching gloria steinem and the rest of the democratic "feminist" establishment rally around bill clinton and say that monica....and gennifer....and paula....were just asking for it or crazy. its all about whose ox is being gored.

good loss. cade scored well and the team lost to the blazers' B team.

let's just laugh at the leafs for a moment. waive mrazek and sign sateri to play goal...then have to pass sateri through waivers and he gets claimed! so they have to take mrazek back! looking forward to the leafs scoring 5 goals in the playoffs and losing by 2.

agree

mike hughes was let go in minny for a reason: he was terrible. he was sheltered in kansas city and when he played against good teams that game planned (like buffalo or the chargers) he got roasted. see above. he's a depth piece and a swing on a guy with draft pedigree, but the odds that hughes will be good are low. i hope okudah is healthy, oruwariye contines to improve, and hughes rarely sees the field.

what goes around sometimes comea around. otoh clinton definitely did it.

like all those frat boys from duke who raped that stripper. or all those frat boys from virginia who raped that girl who ran to rolling stone? look, i'm jaded because of my job. i see these things when people want money and say all sorts of things to get it (see watson, deshaun). so perhaps i'm not the best person to ask. lol.

same applies to democrats. republicans need to "respect stare decisis" and democrats need to judge from their "life exoeriences." politics. rinse. repeat.

the allegations against thomas were more disqualifying, imo. thomas was someone's boss taking her out and making inappropriate comments. the allegations against kavanaugh strike me as a drunken college episode that may have gone farther than she wanted. and it was over 30 years ago. kavanaugh strikes me as a middle of the road justice who will be fine if youre center right. nothing special, nothing groundbreaking. likely to have a non-descript career. like breyer, but center right instead of left. alito is becoming much more outspoken in his libertarianism and now he has gorsuch, who is not only smarter, but a much better writer. thomas is thomas. roberts is trying to herd cats and stay the center-right middle ground. kavanaugh helps there because he seems to follow the chief more often than not. we'll see if he develops his own voice as he gets more experience. acb is a wild card. i think she'll end up more to the right than the chief, but not as far as alito/thomas. last thing, it will be interesting to see gorsuch and kentaji brown on civil liberties issues. alito may be a libertarian on economics but he has never met a cop he didnt like. unlike gorsuch who has taken over scalia's fifth amendment attitude, which should dovetail with kentaji browns.

the way people judge conferences on how they did in the tournament is silly. if you lose a one off game or two suddenly your conference sucks.

if someone accused you of rape and you didnt do it (like kavanaugh says he didnt), how do you think you would you react?

and let's be honest, if the republicans could drag up some allegations of kentaji brown, they would have done it. the fact that they havent is likely because they dont exist.

i really have no idea. none of us do. however, they struck me as being greatly exaggerated.

you think kavanaugh had fake tears and outrage? if someone falsely accuses you if rape in a public setting, you might be upset too. nothing the republicans said to kentaji brown comes close to what the democrats accused kavanaugh of. at the end of the day it is politics. and those making noise on this board about the injustices done by democrats to poor little republicans will be the first to do the same to them if the tables were turned. there's no crying in politics (not even you, brett).

so what are you going to do when we pick seventh?

there is going to be a lot of competition for qbs in NEXT YEAR'S draft. if the lions want or need to move up, its going to cost them. i hope they can move down this year and get another #1 for next year.

looks like twitter confirmation that bert stays put. red wings look done unless they end up shipping greiss somewhere. send out a forward and a defenseman and bring back two defensemen. no room at the inn for berggren?

i think it went down almost as quickly as it went up.

green bay is the only good team in the north. dallas is good. philly is frisky. washington and the giants are terrible. tampa bay is good (no wonder brady came back). atlanta, carolina, and the saints are awful. rams and niners are good, but who plays qb for the niners? do people trust lance? do people trust the cardinals after so many late season meltdowns? the seahawks are rebuilding. on paper its green bay, dallas, tampa, and the rams. then maybe the niners, cards, and eagles? at least one of those teams is going to turn out to be bad, and there will be at least one bad team that surprises people. my money would be on the cardinals sucking amd either the vikings or washington surprising people. but who knows? maybe harad goff pulls a rabbit out of his hat and the lions luck into a wild card?

i still think their ceiling is 8 wins, but in this conference 8 wins might get you a wild card. or the division if rodgers gets hurt.