K-9
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You know what's even more disgraceful than burning an American flag in protest? Seeing it being waved and held up as "their" symbol by neo-nazi and other white supremacist groups. I'd rather burn a hundred American flags in protest than raise one at one of their rallies. It's beyond phucked up to care more about a symbol than what that symbol represents. Clueless morons like Trump will never understand that.
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Jack gonna be sore tomorrow.
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I liked what they had to say about Pu in the comments section. Can't wait until we are taking advantage of that speed.
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I think Jack's a little gassed. Gonna take a few games to get back in game shape me thinks.
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Got that right. We need to be ready to respond like Kane was all the time. Ottawa goes after Jack's ankle, we go after Karlsson's. That simple.
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Yeah, I'll be worried all year probably.
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The nature of high ankle sprains. I'm hoping Eichel is the exception to the rule that usually dictates this type of injury tends to linger and is easily re-aggravated. I fully agree that if he's ready to play he should play. I just think, in the case of elite athletes, that there are varying degrees of "ready to play."
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Cannot agree more with your opinion on the Saudi's and the problems they represent. For two hundred years, they've been practicing a dangerous brand of fundamentalist Wahhabism and its tentacles run deep in everything they do. It is totally at odds with Western values and yet, because of the sheer magnitude of American interests represented in Saudi Arabia for the last 80 years or so, we have turned a blind eye. He keeps this up, he'll get taken out far sooner than later as he further solidifies the idea that he is woefully unfit to serve. Having a working understanding of the Constitution and the rights it confers is job one. This tweet just continues to prove he hasn't a clue.
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Good move, DD. Now we have three legit fast skaters in our top six. I hope that translates to DD implementing more of a forecheck. I think he's been worried about lack of top end speed getting caught up ice and putting too much pressure on a depleted D corps that features a couple of molasses on cold days players as it is. I'm still worried they brought Eichel back too soon, though.
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Time to ban false equivalencies.
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Batista was the very definition of a fascist dictator who enjoyed support from both our government and mobsters alike. Didn't matter to him. And suspending the Cuban Constitution made him a bigger enemy to his people than even Fidel Castro. But he made a lot of money for his friends while he was busy screwing over the average Cuban and most of his friends were well off enough to escape Cuba and resettle in Florida.
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Whether Bylsma stays or goes, that won't change the fact that we don't have ANY prolific scorers in the lineup. Not one. Christ behind the bench isn't gonna make chicken salad out of this chicken schit.
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This is absolutely the case. The corporate welfare system has been booming. And some of these hypocrites would have you believe that welfare moms, food stamps, and other social programs are the real problem. They have suckled at the public trough like they own it and now that they have one of their own at the helm, surrounded by even more of the same, it's gonna get worse. His regressive tax "reform" is only the start.
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What a lying sack of schit he is. And surrounded by total idiots on all sides. My favorite is Myron Ebell who isn't a scientist and has NO scientific credentials, but feels qualified to say that climate change is "bad science." Here's more about this unqualified idiot. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-simmons/trumps-epa-advisor-myron-ebell-natural-disaster_b_13123040.html Yay oligarchy. Yay fascism.
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It's disgusting. And I strongly doubt Betsy Devos ever mentions that nasty little fact when she's spouting off about how much she cares so deeply for "those" kids, too.
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This is correct. The education system CANNOT fix the underlying socio-economic issues which are the main culprits in the vast majority of underperforming schools. Here's a nasty little truth about charter schools: they pick ONLY the best students from those neighborhoods and leave the rest to the underperforming public schools they plucked them from. This inflates their "test" scores while also negatively impacting those same scores in those public schools. Bottom line is that charter schools aren't demonstrably better than traditional public schools. And there is no way private parochial schools should get a dime in tax dollars in the form of vouchers. There's a little thing about the separation of church and state and we'd do well to remember that.
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The push for charter schools and privatization is nothing more than a money grab by corporations eager to get their hands on a piece of the $50b education pie. This cry for "reform" of one of the best public school systems in the world is a crock and has been since they started demonizing teachers and trying to bust their union, which are necessary first steps. Are there some under-performing schools out of the nearly 100,000 public schools across the country? Absolutely. And privatizing them won't do a damned thing to fix the problem. Nothing at all. People should better acquaint themselves with the issues before spouting off.
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I'm totally fine with Murray insisting on patience, too. I've been worried they'd feel pressured to rush him back given our anemic offensive production. That said, I suspect Harrington pulled Dec.10th out of his ass.
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Another example of alt right "nationalistic" politics running amok in Turkey. You get enough of the wrong people in power at the right time and bad schit happens. Nice to see the people of Turkey rejecting this twisted policy. WTF is wrong with those politicians for even conceiving of this in the first place? https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-pm-says-withdrawing-controversial-child-sex-conviction-071444708.html
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Just so we're clear, I'm not investing too much energy in combating the pinheads that post crap here. I'm needed more on the front lines, on a much larger scale. But you bring up an interesting point and that is, the left just isn't devious and/or evil enough to fight fire with fire in when it comes to false news. I'll have to look for it, but some weeks ago an analysis of false news was done and something like 75% of all false news stories planted on social media were attributable to right wing sources. While I'm not sure exactly what that says, I have an inkling.
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^Yep.
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All true. But with the proliferation of fake news in social media and the ever increasing percentage of people that get their news from these sources, we have to call it out. Fascists took over Europe because they were able to propagate lies through mass media and kept repeating them until they were accepted as truth. That's not being an alarmist, it's simply a regrettable fact. And the idea that it can't happen in this country is already being proved false; it is happening. Right now. As I type this. Like Steve Schmidt said, fascism didn't succeed because it was strong, but because democracy was weak. These false news narratives weaken our democracy and it is our responsibility to combat that at every turn. This is a war. When wingnuts with control of mass media outlets like Bannon keep using terms like "nationalist" like he did last week, it should raise flags for everyone concerned. Hitler had his Goebbels after all.
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What a total crock of schit. Then again, crocks of schit is where you alt right wingnuts find your news so I'm not surprised. Not only did Clinton win the popular vote, but close to 8 million more people voted for somebody other than Trump. So much to be proud of.
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I'm confident he's always gonna make the right play offensively. But he's often a liability on defense and I just don't think he's an NHL centerman at this point.
