Mr.TaterSalad

Does having watched an 8th seed like Florida make the Stanley Cup Final make you anymore hopeful for the Wings in the near future or do you still feel like we're a ways away from making a deep playoff run?

Good for Bruce Cassidy.

I really miss when we were good and dominant. Watching these guys skate with the Cup, listening to the fans sing "We Are The Champions", I really, really miss those days. We got spoiled for so long.

**** me, 9-3. Florida didn't even show up. They completely folded tonight.

What do we consider a ton? If we are calling about Scheifle, we might as well be asking about Connor. I'd offer up both firsts and additional picks for him. I'd throw in Wallinder or Mazur if they needed a top prospect to get it done.

I would much prefer my President be someone like an Elizabeth Warren. Someone who has all the intellectual tools and self drive to read and retain information. Someone who can admit when they don't know something and is willing to learn and study up on it. Someone who is also compassionate and empathetic, recognizing that human beings are not numbers to be crunched or pawns in a game. It's too bad we can't elect someone like Liz for President. 😞

Trump is a malignant narcissist, which gives him an inability to ever admit wrong doing, guilt, or truly feeling bad about something he did. From an educational, learning, and retention standpoint, he has all the right answers and thus probably feels he doesn't need to read or study up on anything because he already knows everything. He's a subject matter expert, just ask him. He's also had everyone else do everything else for him. From the time he had his sister cheat on his college entry exams to all of his business dealings. His life is like a book that's being ghost written. He is the face and understands just enough to slick talk his way into a business dealing, while someone else behind the scenes is doing all the leg work likely. He has a certain, vile kind of people smarts or sense of what a certain group of angry people want. But I genuinely think Trump is a dolt and would test out low on any kind of intelligence tests.

The new Jason Isbell album Weathervanes has dropped. I haven't given it a full listen yet but am excited to do so very soon. As a huge fan of Jason's, I recognize that there will never be an album that compares to his 2012 album Southeastern. So I don't hold the expectation that he needs to record a Southeastern 2.0 type of album and don't expect this album to be that. His Southeastern album was deeply personal and was produced as he was coming out of a very dark time of his life. So I judge each album on its own merits and for their own artistic value and songwriting. And Isbell offers a lot of artistic value and always incredible song writing. I truly do believe he is the greatest songwriter of our times. The modern day John Prine, Bob Dylan, Woodie Guthrie. I can't wait to dive into Weathervanes this week. One of my favorite music blogs/websites, Saving Country Music, has a nice review up on the Weathervanes album. Saving Country Music Weathervanes Review

If Winnipeg is rebuilding, and if you had the chance to get Kyle Connor or Alex Debrincat, which one would you pursue? I don't know that Kyle Connor will be available, but he is the guy I would go after if given the choice. It might cost a little bit more to get Connor, but I'd be willing to go get him so as long as it didn't cost me one of Raymond, Edvinsson, or Kasper. I'd part with both draft 1st round picks for Kyle Connor too.

Are they suspending Dan Campbell for that game and allowing Wayne Fontes to come in and coach? I'd hope so, because you can't have a throwback to the old NFC Central like this without the Big Buck coaching.

What Jason song are you playing? I LOVE that you're playing Isbell and Son Volt. Also, are you playing Loading Zones by Kurt Vile?

When Fox's primary legal correspondent can't even help you spin your way out of this you know the walls are closing in.

What a piece of **** this guy is. He's even a ****ty criminal.

I can't believe, no wait, I can believe, that Judge (and noted Trump sycophant) Aileen Cannon got assigned this case. How will she screw this one up? What unethical tricks does she have up her sleeve this time to try to run interference, delay or hinder the process?

Great game tonight and a solid effort by the Panthers. Bobrovsky looked good in net tonight and their defense showed up overall. An exciting overtime snipe to win it too.

An oldie, but goodie with Trump talking about Hillary Clinton's emails and how classified material should be handled. ALWAYS projection with this guy and everyone around him.

Of course Trump is fundraising off this. Amazing the number of people that will still follow this guy off the cliff and give him their hard earned money.

I think that today's news, coming on the heels of Meadows testifying, likely means he didn't plead the fifth the other day and actually gave up information against Trump.

I wonder if today's news means that Meadows turned states witness on him.

New Billy Strings music with Willie. I'm thinking of buying tickets to see Billy when he's at Pine Knob next week.

I just finished this and really enjoyed it. Justin Theroux was great is Liddy and Woody was equally as great as the manic Howard Hunt. When he was screaming at his kids not to answer the phone because he was sure it was bugged, that cracked me up.

Didn't Graham's son whip his dingy out on a boat and post pictures on social media or am I thinking of someone else?

I don't think there are many in the mainstream. First off, to call yourself a devout Christian, proclaim to care about the less fortunate, and hoard that type of wealthy is disgusting and goes against the very tenants of Jesus' teaching. Jesus went into the temple and flipped over the tables of the coin counters and bankers. Jesus didn't drive a brand new Ferrari and live in a multi-million dollar house with luxury items wall to wall like Pat Robertson, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland, Jimmy Swaggert, Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, etc. all do. Jesus certainly didn't make a $50 million mega church built for his followers to gather in either. Second off, the way in which most of these TV hucksters make their money and keep it flowing in is deceitful and dishonest. Call now and give me a tide, sow a seed for only $100 a month and I'll send you a little green prayer cloth and a bottle of miracle water that I "blessed". They pray upon old people who live on fixed incomes, the poor, and uneducated often times. People who can barely afford what they are asking them to give. Furthermore, they scam them by making their donations reoccurring each month, often times when the person donating doesn't realize it will be a reoccurring donation. Third off, Jesus never picked up prostitutes and banged them at the Inn (Jimmy Swaggert), snorted coke on the church's dime with a gay prostitute (Ted Haggard), or denied desperate people into his church after a hurricane (Joel Osteen). He helped people during their time of need and shared with others everything he had. "But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” - Luke 14:12-24

"And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.” - Matthew 19:24

Hopefully St. Peter gives Pat Robertson a big smooch on the lips and then kicks him down to hell. Rest in **** you homophobe.