Mr.TaterSalad

Holland cannot shoot correct? So we have a roster full of guards that can't shoot?

Walman AND a pick traded? Is Ken Holland secretly running things again?

Our first trade of the offseason.

No surprise that McDavid won the Conn Smythe.

Florida has hardly gotten a shot on net this period, but damn what an exciting period of hockey it has been. If you don't like this, then you don't like hockey.

I really think Edmonton is going to pull this off tonight. What an incredible series this has been. Some of the games haven't been the most exciting to watch as they've been one-sided affairs. But to see Edmonton battle back game by game is itself exciting as hell.

If I went on a date with someone who supported Trump I'd ask them if I mocked a customer in this restaurant who had a disability during the course of our meal together would you go on a second date with me? If the answer is no, then why the **** would you elect a person President who does that.

Does he discuss Kane at all? Is he presuming Kane is gone or just letting him walk?

Florida is giving away the Stanley Cup. Their defense looks terrible, Bobrovsky hasn't looked strong in net the last two games, and their powerplay is non-existent. Edmonton is going to win the Cup now it seems, they've got all the momentum.

I would presume all Social Security payments and Medicare benefits would immediately cease to exist if they succeeded from the union.

Jason Isbell and Zach Bryan killing it tonight at Ford Field. Hardly anyone seemed to know who Isbell and the 400 Unit were sans a dude behind me. Jason is a ****ing killer gutair player though and you don't truly appreciate his skill until you see and hear him live and in person. 20240620_204049.mp4

Can someone with more hoops knowledge then me give me the good and bad on Chris Quinn. He seems like a highly regarded and up and coming assistant coach they would fit where we're going. He comes from a successful franchise in Miami and has seemingly had a decent hand in their player development down there. Is the Erik Spoelstra coaching tree good, middling, Bill Belichick-level unimpressive?

Who are the four factions inside the organization that can't get on the same page? Team Gores, Team Tellem, Team Langdon, ??? I feel like anyone not on Langdon's page or anyone who stands in the way of Langdon making the moves he wants should be broomed out with the previous administration and front office.

A Congressperson is supposed to do the right thing, even if the public they represent hasn't caught up to what the ring thing to do is just yet. Sanders voted no on DOMA as did 65 other House and 14 Senate Democrats at the time. So clearly they had the courage to stand up and do the right thing when others wouldn't. Public opinion doesn't mean much to me when it comes to civil rights issues. There was a time when public opinion said blacks and women didn't deserve the right to vote or hold certain jobs. If a leader took a stand on civil rights but lost the next election because of it, I think I'd prefer that person over someone who did the wrong thing but kept their job.

I'm not interested in your same condescending argument against Bernie Sanders that you make all the time. Bernie Sanders went out and campaigned for both Hillary and Biden dozens of times after he lost both primaries. He did TV ads, digital ads, social media ads with both candidates encouraging his supporters to vote for them. You ignore all of that though. Imagine having an entire career in politics and then having to work at the end of your career to undo everything you supported throughout your career. Biden being progressive-ish now doesn't excuse or undo all the real world pain and suffering he did at the begging and middle parts of his career. It doesn't excuse Bill Clinton for supporting these policies either. It doesn't excuse all of the LGBTQ people who were denied the right to marry who they loved in the 15 years that DOMA was around. It doesn't excuse not allowing LGBTQ people to serve openly for their country. It doesn't excuse all of the mothers and fathers who were forced into extreme poverty when their benefits were taken away. It doesn't excuse all the people who lost their lives because of a war based on false pretenses and fabricated intelligence reports. It doesn't excuse all the economic pain caused by banking deregulation and bad, one-sided trade agreements. The amount of damage Bill Clinton's era of deregulation and center-right social policies did was immense and far more destructive than anything Sanders did.

When Bubba deregulated broadcast radio with the 1996 Telecommunications Act it allowed for companies to consolidate and give control of many major and mid market radio stations over to a handful of media corporations. Prior to the 1996 Telecommunciations Act there was a cap on the number of stations a company could own and how many per market they could own. Removing this cap intern allowed companies to buy up more and more stations. It allowed them to then broadcast the same programs to a nationwide audience, on all of their stations. So you had companies like Clear Channel, Cumulus, Citadel broadcasting the likes of Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and others coast to coast on all of their stations.

I mean, first off, it was John McCain and Sanders who spearheaded the VA reform legislation. And if you'd rather see someone like Bubba who enacted all that devastating legislation then ok. Bubba is literally one of the reasons we have this right wing media ecosphere because of his having deregulated the telecom industry in 1996. That deregulation gave rise to the abundance of right wing talk radio that we have experienced over the past 20+ years.

Earlier in the thread, a few pages back, people were talking about damage done to the Democratic Party. When I think of damage done to an entire generation by a Democrat, I typically think of Bubba and not Bernie Sanders. It was Bubba's era of banking deregulations led to the 2008 Great Derivatives Crisis when he replead Glass-Steegall and replaced it with Gramm-Leach-Bliley. It was Bubba who deregulated the derivatives market in the first place when he signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. Bubba supported legislation, like the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act that saw the closure of thousands of community banks and brought on a wave of destructive consolidation in the banking industry. It was Bubba's era of media deregulation led to the rise of Fox News and the far right media ecosphere. When Bubba signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that deregulated the airwaves, killed local radio as we know it, and gave rise to the right wing media empire. This act has directly led to more of the political polarization that we live in today. Bubba's trade policies like NAFTA and CAFTA, as well as normalizing trade status with China, decimated good-paying, union, manufacturing jobs across the country. NAFTA devastated manufacturing jobs with some job loss estimates as high as 700,000 jobs. Granting China permanent normalized trade status was always a big mistake, as it is a mistake to trade with any low wage country, and has resulted in job loss estimates into the millions. Bubba was a bigot and homophobic as well. His policies discriminated against the LGBTQ+ community and he worked against marriage equality for LGBTQ+ individuals with his signing of DOMA. As well, Bubba took a bigoted stance on people who are openly LGBTQ+ serving their country in the military with his support for Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Bubba also doubled the extreme rate of poverty in America by gutting AFDC and other social welfare programs and replacing them with TANF. The extreme rate of people in poverty more than doubled in the year after Aid for Families With Dependant Children was replaced by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Mass incarceration and the prison population exploded because of Bubba's tough on crime policies. The famous 1994 crime bill and Bubba's bragging about putting 100,000 new cops on the street helped to increase the incarceration rate in the Untied States and cause an already exploding prison system to grow exponentially more in the years since it passed.

So are they going to have kickers doing tackle drills during practice? I wonder how good a tackler Jason Hanson was, he sure could kick though.

While I think Cruz has turned into a sycophant for Trump I don't think a video of him clapping a few extra seconds is really that newsworthy or bad. I think the bigger issue is Trump insulted the way the guys wife looks and he sat their and took it like a bitch, not the length of how long he clapped for Trump.

If it's just a temporary, transition name that's fine then. I just had a hard time believing this is what the fans chose.

LOL

So the team name for the Utah team is Hockey Club and their logo is the shape of the State of Utah with the word Utah on it. Really uninspiring choice for their team name and a very bland and unoriginal logo.

It is up to Democratic leaders and strategists and activists to make this election a referendum on reproductive freedom as a whole, contraception included.

Andy Beshear ran this ad on abortion against Daniel Cameron in his race for re-election for Kentucky Governor. This is a great example of the type of personal, emotive, hard hitting ad that the Biden team needs to be running against Trump. This is a devastating ad because of the way it makes you feel and think, not because it is a traditional, scary, boogyman style attack ad.