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Not seeing Girg's number in that list. But if Bailey is gonna stay another game I am damned glad he is on a more talented line. GO SABRES!!!

This got me to thinking that if it WAS another player Wideman hit on the way to the bench, would anyone even be putting forth the idea that he was concussed moments before and that's what made him hit the other player? I doubt it. Because that wouldn't seem so egregious and the need for a mitigating factor is lost. Especially when we look at what transpired afterward with Wideman never missing a shift, etc.

I don know, smell. I think that is exactly how the league approached it with Wideman and I think you allude to that by citing Gudas. If it had been another player Wideman hit, the suspension would have been far less severe. The league fully recognized that because it was a ref, different standards applied.

I am not unsympathetic to Wideman's condition. And I would accept his mental condition as a mitigating factor if the hit was on a player. Refs, however, are in an entirely different class of protective measures. For too many reasons to list and argue here.

There can be no mitigating factors when refs are targeted and hit in the way Wideman hit that ref. None. It was intentional, regardless if Wideman was in his right mind or not. It was a deliberate act. Being concussed and not in his right mind may explain his actions. It does not excuse them.

Those were some stylin' kicks. Must have cost MUCHO Ricky Bucks. I wanna know what team the writers are tipping their hats to with the red and gold/yellow color scheme? Minnesota Gophers maybe? They are maroon and gold, afterall and Pryce seems to have that Norm Gunderson vibe.

Thank-you for the clarification. I have a whole new appreciation for the speculation.

Why would anyone speculate as to Pegula "continuing" the Toronto series when it was "discontinued" when Mr. Wilson was still alive and well before Pegula was known to be a serious player? I don't get it. Was the speculation that Pegula might "resume" the series?

I agree Congress often cites interstate commerce when there isn't always a clear interpretation there. But commerce is only one aspect of what you posted. IMO, the abrogation of rights by individual states is the larger issue and has been since our birth. Anyway, I thought you summed it up nicely from where I sit.

Work in progress. Gaping five-hole. GO SABRES!!!

You have succinctly framed the biggest reason for expanded Federal government since our founding. Genie is out of the bottle and can't be put back in.

Mea culpa! I only read one of his posts that mentioned coke and assumed it was Kane given the thread title.

Sounds remarkably like the player we traded for him, only Bogo brings far more sand to his game GO SABRES!!!

You give garbage a bad name by comparing his crap to it. I'm surprised he hasn't asserted that Kane snorted coke with Auston Matthews in the bathrooms of the high school Matthews didn't attend.

When Kane disappears for huge stretches of games like Zadorov did last year, I will entertain the comparison. Dude brings it every game. Zadorov doesn't know the meaning of the phrase. GO SABRES!!!

Fight against mental health? I liked it better when we were fighting against mental illness.

I appreciate the point about evolving parties. Makes me laugh when I hear far right wingnuts citing Lincoln's Republican party as their own when they were the leftist progressive party of its day. Or when they cite Southern Dixiecrats as representative of the Democratic party of the 1960s. Quick rant: if I read one more screed about Bork getting voted down in the Senate because he was a conservative, I'm gonna barf. Visit the PPP forum at TwoBillsDrive if you ever want to have those hopes dashed. I'd call it a cesspool of I was into insulting cesspools.

If Bylsma puts Moulson on the Eichel line instead of Bailey, I am going to have to have a word with him. Don't make me do that, Dan. GO SABRES!!!

Getting back to our previous exchange regarding how lower court rulings will prevail in the event of a 4-4 SCOTUS, has anyone done the research on what cases are pending and which of those the lower courts ruled in favor of a more desired outcome for liberals? Might be interesting.

Right, and I lament that fact. It wasn't always like this, either. I think it is a reflection of our modern day values. We value corporate success more than we value the American worker that lessons that.

Maximizing profit is the goal, so yes. But I don't conflate economic systems with governmental systems. And you can't force companies to have a patriotic sense of duty to its workers. Especially when foreign widgets are so much cheaper than American widgets.

I laughed because of the post immediately after yours.

Yes and no. Yes, in that American companies with American ownership, American leadership, and American investment, continue to produce all sorts of stuff.... overseas. No, in that the American labor force that once was the backbone of those American companies with American owners and American leadership, was usurped in favor of foreign countries. I use to think that American companies had a patriotic responsibility to her people. How naive was that? They are phucking turncoats and traitors. Every last one of them. But as long as Wall Street and the shareholders are making do in ever increasing record numbers, nobody gives a crap. But hey, these great patriots sure know how to turn out a TV ad, don't they? Just show a flag while Sam Elliot does a syrupy voice over and we are all good.

Assuming the SCOTUS continues to rule along ideological lines with 4-4 decisions, then the lower court ruling is automatically upheld. I don't mean to suggest that lower court judges don't also rule along ideological lines, but their ruling now seems to carry more weight. For instance, had Scalia passed before the recent EPA verdict was reached, the lower court rulng would have prevailed and there would be some very disgruntled energy industry players. I have to believe political players that had a certain faith in favorable SCOTUS outcomes previously no longer do.

Seems to me this will put some downward political pressure on the lower courts in the meantime.