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Or have been elected to Congress.

Point a Minute. Carroll reliving his USC days.

Lions look good for about 5 min. Now back to your regularly scheduled draft sweepstakes.

Bucs are done with him - at least for now. He's been released.

C'mon - seriously Arch? When the was the last 'terrorist' attack committed by anyone that came across the Southern Border? The 911 guys didn't get here that way. IIRC all the events since then have been home grown. The Latin American poor are not interested in jihad, they are interested in paychecks. Tell me what am I missing here? Yes the border needs to be managed, but immigration is nowhere near the top of the problems we have in the US. (Well, top of the GOP imaginary problem list maybe) And drugs come across the border because Americans pay for them.

FIFY. (gonna be hard to get another gig after that.)

and back to back penalties. Worst game I've watched them play in a while.

Wings have thrown in the towel. Oesterle could have blocked, Lindstrom spectating.

Yup. And Hronek should have had the puck cleared in the right corners 5 sec before the goal but he was slow and played off. Bad team looking bad.

Scrums in front of the net after a save are getting ridiculous in the league again. They had done a good job of clamping down on that for a few years but it's been coming back in a big way. It was stupid back in the day and it's stupid now.

The wall was a dog and pony show. People find ways around barriers as long as there is motivation. Until the US gets serious about punishing the employers that draw illegals they will continue to come. Don't hold your breath on that one.

You haven't heard there is a worker shortage? It's the US capitalist class that does not want the border closed tighter because it would force up US wages. And they pay the most of the campaign bills for both parties. At least the progressives who want open immigration are honest about it and want the emigres to have a path to citizenship so they are harder to exploit. I think they are quite wrong about open borders being a viable policy, but at least they don't lie about it.

Most of those people "being shipped around the country" are actually working at low paying jobs for unethical employers. They are in the main the exploited, not the exploiters.

Seider just took the puck from Marchand on a rush. Nice

Veleno is pretty useless. it will be a big disappointment if Berggren isn't better than one of the guys here now.

I guess you can say he was out of gas, but. yeah - I could have gotten down ice faster than Oesterle on that Bruin breakaway,

Leddy's not that great, but they still miss him by virtue of having to play Lindstrom

it would probably have to be three - the three pacific coast states would end up separated from the rest of the blue states. There was a story in WaPo listing some of the logistical issues. One thing is certain, a nation composed of the MountainWest and old South would quickly fail economically - it's transfer $$ from the other states that keep all but FLA and Tex alive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/31/secession-civil-war-stephen-marche/

Rasmussen doesn't cover Bergeron. Tie game.

love the way Boston attacks the puck against the power play. Would love to see the Wings have the speed to play that way again.

63 rebounds?!

well, you can't just turn on hospital capacity like a faucet. No-one knew/knows how long or severe this is going to to run. Omicron might wash over the population causing little harm and leaving everyone resistant, or the 'RHO' version could show up tomorrow with double the mortality of delta. Facing that kind of uncertainty throwing billions into hospital construction as opposed to other public health efforts (vaccines etc) isn't so simple a question. Building out hospital space to modern code and practice requirements is phenomenally expensive - esp if done in a hurry, and if that capacity ended up empty in 24mo the people that spent the money would be fish in a barrel for the political 2nd guessers. It may come to it, I just don't think it's an easy or trivial decision to make.

when UM went remote fall '20, the admin was surprised to find the students all came to campus anyway and did a fine job of passing Covid around without ever going to class. With little to no transmission documented in classrooms, they've decided there is little point to going remote now. I guess we will see if that is still the correct logic for Omicron. With a 5 day quarantine, an asymptomatic positive test won't cost a student much class time. For me, the risk walking around the rest of A^2 right now is higher than it is on campus.

Regional manager (step below a VP) at a Fortune500 (my boss's boss) was a good guy and he had no illusions about the fact that even at his level (maybe even especially at his level) the company was most definitely not his friend. He wife's long term health was not good and he had been counting down to retirement for a number of years but couldn't go early because he needed to keep his health insurance (pre ACA days....). So he puts a screen saver on his company laptop that counted down the days, hours and minutes to "Bob's Retirement." Then he forgets to shut it off at a regional meeting when he had a presentation to make. Divisional Prez was not amused when it flashed on the screen, but Bob actually was too valuable to fire over it. ⏲️

ROTF!