Mr.TaterSalad

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.

Edmonton is in a complete free fall now.

Every soccer mom in America and every suburban senior voter should be hammered with the messaging that people on the right hate you and hate your way of life. Democrats need to punch back and highlight how Republicans have utter contempt for people living in suburban and urban areas.

Biden and Democrats up and down the ballot need to campaign in every big city and every metro suburb that these people on the right, from Trump on down, hate you and have contempt for you. Just like MAGA campaigns in rural America on the fact that urban liberals hate you, Democrats need to hit MAGA Republicans on the fact that they have contempt for folks in urban and suburban communities.

The Boebert Crime Family is at it again . . .

If Holland were still the GM I'd agree that he's probably 2-3 years away. Holland left Tomas Tatar in the pressbox until he was 23 and Gustav Nyquist in Grand Rapids until he was 24. But I don't think Yzerman is going to wait until Cossa is 23-24 to promote him like Holland did with Nyquist and Tatar. I think there is a chance we see Cossa up next season actually.

Why would any person want to serve in the military when they would be sent off to war to fight for, checks notes . . . No bid oil contracts for **** Cheney and Haliburton. I get wanting to fight to defend the homeland after 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. I don't get wanting to die in a war where the President and his administration sold lies to the American people so an oil company could get no bid contracts in Iraq.

Also, ain't this Rudy . . .

Rudy Giuliani report: His alleged affair with married woman led to wife seeking divorce

I'm all for mandatory military service so long as it includes Trump himself. Send Corporal Bone Spurs to Afghanistan for a few years.

Cap Geek closed when the owner died from cancer I believe. Sucks that Cap Friendly, which I believe replaced it, is shutting down.

Study: American Educational Research Association: Voter preference for Trump linked to bullying in middle schools I happened across this study online and thought it was interesting enough to share.

Ben Carson is a Neurosurgeon with an MD from UofM and a BA from Yale and he believes that Joseph built the Egyptian Pyramids to use as silos to store grain.

What about Iginla's kid? I know Tij Iginla isn't the type of power forward with size, who can win the tough battles in the corners. Smaller size, a lack of physicality and defensive hockey don't appear to be his strengths from what I've read. Scouting reports do seem to indicate that he's a really good skater (albeit not the fastest guy on the ice), a good puck handler with a nice pass, and a prolific scorer. He had 47 goals on 84 points total in the WHL last season, so he's gone some scoring prowess as well. He can also startle between C/F and give us versatility there.

I'm ok with signing players with an edge and who may be considered "bad" in some way. But throwing your girlfriend out the window goes beyond being a Vontez Burfict type of player with an edge to him. Throwing your girlfriend out a window as Sutton allegedly did, knocking a women out as Ray Rice and Joe Mixon did, that should be a step too far for the league. If the NFL wanted to take domestic violence seriously Sutton would be suspended, pending an investigation. He would then be barred from football for life, without opportunity to collect his pension, if he was found guilty in a court of law.