buddha

people are waiting outside for hours on end to get tested at medical facilities. there is an extreme shortage of testing kits right now. it could be very cumbersome at the moment. i think this will all wind up moot because the supreme court seems poised to shoot down the mandate as being outside osha's mandate from congress and/or beyond their emergency powers.

i wouldnt go that far, but if you dont want it they offer a testing option. in a way that undercuts the mandate (as does the 100 employee limit and the religious exemption) but it offers people a legitimate "out" other than quitting.

at least neddy gives them a good goalie moving forward. hopefully cossa or bednar pan out.

the one thing they have going for them is salary cap flexibility and steve yzerman's ability to acquire talent. theyre going to have to remake 1/2 their defense next season. not sure there is anyone in the minors ready to help. do they bring back hronek one more time just because there isnt anything else available?

proposed trades from the athletic: New York receives Jerami Grant, Detroit receives Alec Burks, Nerlens Noel, Obi Toppin, NYK 2022 first-round pick (top-10 protected) or Washington receives Jerami Grant, Pistons receive Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Thomas Bryant, 2025 lottery-protected first-round pick (or two years after a draft-pick-owed commitment to OKC is settled, whichever occurs first) or Portland receives Jerami Grant, Detroit receives Norman Powell and Ben McLemore or Lakers receive Jerami Grant, Pistons receive Talen Horton-Tucker, Kendrick Nunn, Kent Bazemore and a 2027 first-round pick of those, i would rank them knicks, washington, blazers, lakers. but the only one i would take "as is" would be the knicks trade. i would need something else from the wiz or blazers, and would outright reject any deal the lakers present. lakers will need to get another team involved if they want grant.

would you do grant to the bulls for williams, jones, and the blazers protected first rounder?

you are correct on the osha rule. i agree. i am not opposed to it in theory but the implementation will be cumbersome and im not sure it will do anything to solve a problem that, by the time its implemented, may not be that much of a problem anymore.

trey lyles might be my least favorite piston since bob mcadoo. ive never seen a guy be as pathetic on defense and as stupid on offense. yes, he is a threat to score because he's an ok shooter for a big man, but he's selfish and just does dumb things. not disagreeing with your post, just commenting on lyles in general. that bulls game was such garbage play it really pissed me off and soured me even more on this collection of players. they better get something decent for grant.

heck, that's kinda how we got rutherford b hayes! republicans decided to sell black folks down the river and end reconstruction by agreeing with white racist democrats that hayes would be president despite getting a lot less votes than tilden. ah white americans. forever sacrificing the rights of black people in the name of national unity.

where do you stand on vaccine mandates to return to work?

voter id is popular with americans. eliminating the filibuster is a great idea because the filibuster is ridiculous and prevents the party in power from running the government, but to pass this voting rights act? dumb hill to die on for the democrats. the real threat is at the state level. reform the electoral college voting procedures, dont waste your time trying to stop the republicans from eliminating "ballot harvesting" or making people show a drivers license or (good lord) passing out water at polling sites. that doesnt help you like you think it does and isnt as popular with voters as you think it is. stop the republicans from not certifying state electoral votes. that's the real potential crisis. people can bring their own water.

the unvaccinated people i know are anti-establishment people. some are anti-corporate liberals who do not trust the pharmaceutical industry, some are anti-government conservatives who do not trust the democratic party or government in general. all of them are very smart. i disagree with them about vaccines, but they're not stupid people.

MIKE ILITCH would have fired him a long time ago. and probably hired gallant.

i dont think blashill is here for the long haul, but i dont think he'll get fired mid-season. yzerman must think he improves guys and makes them better or else he would have fired him earlier. i think blashill will go when yzerman thinks the team is ready to take the next step and transition away from ultra defensive hockey to more of an open system. basically when they have enough skill players to compete night after night. they dont have that yet. maybe next year? probably in two years, assuming everyone stays healthy and continues to develop (which is not always a given).

that's really hurting joe biden and the democrats. whomever is in charge will be blamed.

the only public official or group whose satisfaction rate has improved over the last year in chicago? the police.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/01/13/more-than-2-in-3-chicagoans-feel-unsafe-in-their-own-neighborhoods-chicago-index-survey-finds/?utm_source=Pico&utm_campaign=16ebddf4a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_01_06_03_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6b84a5cee-16ebddf4a6-124063403&mc_cid=16ebddf4a6&mc_eid=30fe6c2596 Fewer than one-quarter of Chicago residents feel the city is safe after almost two years of a pandemic and surging citywide crime, and fewer than one-third feel safe in their own neighborhoods, according to a new survey conducted through the Chicago Index. Chicago recorded 836 homicides in 2021, an uptick from the city’s historically violent 2020 and a number not seen in Chicago since 1994. The crime surge has set off a circle of finger-pointing among Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago Police Department leaders and leaders of the Cook County court system. Other “quality of life” metrics also nosedived in the most recent survey. Seventy-two percent of respondents said they feel less safe retail shopping in Chicago than they did in 2019. The same percentage said they felt less safe going out to movies or concerts, and 84 percent said they felt less safe riding public transportation than they did in 2019.

what is the data on spread between being vaxed and not vaxed?

if so, what is the justification for requiring people to get vaccinated before they can go to work in person or to go into a bar or restaurant? is that an effort to force people to get vaccinated for their own good? which, while laudable, wasnt really the way it was argued or presented to the public, iirc. i could be remembering it wrong. if this becomes endemic or seasonal, do we require people to get vaccines for it every year? or is it just a suggestion like the flu vaccine? i guess that depends on the virulence of whatever future covid strain comes down the pike.

i wonder if holland would give us two seconds for zadina like he did for athanasiou?

i dont know if they'll be a playoff contender next year. the year after is when they should be in the mix for the playoffs. they have a long, long way to go and a huge hole to dig out of. but you never know. if vrana can come back, edvinsson is as good as seider has been, and raymond can continue what he did at the beginning of the year then maybe. but what they have now is a good (not great) top line, an ok top 2 defensive pairing (seider is good, leddy has been ok), and then a huge drop off. hronek is bad. dekyser is bad. staal has been getting bad lately. lindstrom and oesterle are bottom of the rotation guys. on the front line they have an entire team full of bottom six role players. ras, veleno, zadina, suter, fabbri. these are ALL bottom six guys. they can fill a role. they can plug in and be good soldiers. but that's all they are and all they look like they will be. they need an entire second line of players. maybe they get that when vrana comes back and either joins line 2 or pushes raymond down, but they desperately need another good center. do they get lottery luck and end up with wright? if not, do they spend on a top line 2 center free agent like hertl (who abused them in sharks games the last two times they played)? i dont see either happening and yzerman continues to patiently build more depth. after NEXT season i expect them to make some moves and go for it.

coach larinov will be here when the wings are ready to open up and skate with other nhl clubs. two years from now if the rebuild stays on track.

pitchers dont need help, hitters need help.

i hope stafford wins the super bowl. multiple super bowls.

kane's agent probably told people that to make it seem like there's interest in him.