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You could be referring to Derek Trucks. Today he and his wife, Susan Tedeschi, lead the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

That's not exactly true though is it when you actually look at it. Show me where the democrats tried this? California is one state people are saying but they do it with a committee of 5 Republicans, 5 Democrats, 4 independents. New York is another one but that one can only be decided by the courts. So far the 2 states that Trumps state media touts as doing this have done it in a fair way... Funny they never mentioned the process for those states but that is what Trumps state media does. Now let's look at Texas, they went behind the backs of democrats to take away seats and ensure your vote won't matter for that state. One side is clearly destroying democracy.

Goo goo dolls and Dashboard confessional downtown tomorrow night. I’ve seen goo goo dolls several times now but will be a first for Dashboard.

I got a new car!!!! Thanks @spndnchz. Also, my insurance agency decided that having my car at an incompetent dealer in Schenectady for a month is not good for their customer (me!). So they agreed to pay to have it hauled to Rochester. One step closer to resolution! I know I was a few minutes late @spndnchz but i was reading other threads when I saw you opened it up. 🙂 NOw it is Saturday.. so it's Spectacular Saturday!

This is where we disagree. In my world, both sides have been destroying it. It's just a change in language, squeeze from the left, squeeze from the right, either way you are getting squeezed. See below. Yes.This is it 100%. The electoral college almost made sense back then. It makes no sense now. It's all about creating a representative government where the mix of political affiliations or at least viewpoints can be reasonable represented in government. The electoral college only applies to the presidential election so it's an easy target. But when you get to drawing custom "lines" to fit a narrative then you know it's all *****. Let each state also be represented by its proportionate voting structure. Of course this invites striation into the two party system and the two parties can't have that.

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Traded in my car today for something new. Gone is the used car loan and in is a nice 0% for 60 deal and not even on an EV! Love that. I would have posted this in the Fantastic Friday thread but apparently @spndnchz has an early bed time and locked the thread early. 🙂 My 2019 Subaru Forester was... okay. But I never had the love for it. Naturally 6 hours into the new car I can't derive a solid opinion, but I'm not upset. So.. cheers!

When they went to LED for arena lighting I sent an email. Next game it was adjusted. only complaint I would have is the concourse being taken over by beer/soda. No place to chill with friends

Well 100% of people who <insert any criteria here> die. So I accept this.

Can you explain this to me? Is gaslighting being used correctly here?

There is a guy that opened up for Clapton. I forgot his name but he was GOOD slide guitar

I saw Robert Cray open for Eric Clapton back in 2006. Excellent guitarist.

If anyone is in the north Jersey area on September 5th, I’ll make sure you have a ticket.

This doesn't change my cynicism around the arena and the weird gaslighting around the naming rights. Doing absolutely nothing and just letting the lease roll over to year to year, or 5 years, or whatever the agreement says happens without a new proactive lease isn't a commitment from ownership. It's happenstance.

I’m really surprised at how long this thread has lasted. Like you said, it’s a non-subject, it’s never going to be bargained away.

Appeal forthcoming. Sad day in America when law enforcement officials can willfully violate a court order with impunity. Yet another example of fascism as practiced by this corrupt administration.

The highlighted sentence is a succinct summarization of the Skinner saga. The GM took a big risk signing a goal scorer on a long-term contract. It didn't work out as hoped. The problem wasn't the large amount of money he was paid as it was the length of the contract. To state the obvious, bad decisions lead to bad consequences. All GMs make bad decisions. No GM is immune from such miscalculations. The problem with the Sabres is that they don't make enough good decisions to compensate for the decisions that don't work out. Because of the caliber of our decision-makers and the financial restrictions they have to work under, there is less margin of error.

Exactly. And “free persons” makes no distinction on citizenship. There are numerous outdated terms in the Constitution but outdated or not, the SCOTUS will decide.

For the harder core fans, you are correct. For many of the casual fans, and kids who go to the games that might be bored of staring at the action on the ice, that stuff matters. Ideally you get both. Winning is MORE improtant, but the other stuff matters to many of the casual fans.

No. The Sabres decided that Skinner didn't fit in with the direction they wanted to move. Had he not had a full NMC they SHOULD have been able to trade him without having to pay out $6MM of the $9MM he was due each of the remaining years on his deal. Botterill took a risk that he'd be worth $72MM over 8 years. He wasn't. BF-LTIR had nothing to do with rhe situation. He wasn't eligible for it and he qouldn't have been eligible for it. And should the Sabres have tried to put him on BF-LTIR, he would've filed a grievance he would've won. The Sabres miggt even have been caught up in cap circumvention on top of it.

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What it excludes are "Indians not taxed and three fifths of all other persons." What it includes is "free Persons, including those bound to service for a term of years." Those terms seem outdated. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants was not a concern back then. I don't believe a favorable Supreme Court ruling is the slam dunk you think it is.