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Perhaps Biden should put this ruling to the test, declare Trump, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and the people intent on implementing, including those various members of Congress, as domestic threats and a clear and present danger to the Constitution and take them all out in a covert SEAL team operation. Defending the Constitution is job one for a President and is the epitome of an “official act.”

Poland has been gearing up for several years now as seen by their spending of 4% of GDP on their military. They plan on doubling their number of troops to over 300k in the next two years. Poland has lived thru invasions previously and they know that Putin is committed to reconstituting the Soviet Union. If the psychopathic lying sack of orange crap somehow wins in November, Poland won’t hesitate to move troops into Ukraine.

Like the saying goes, there’s Atlanta and then there’s the rest of Georgia. 😄 But I’ve been coming here for decades and Atlanta, despite it’s huge corporate population, has always felt like a giant college town. Very rich in history and multi-cultural experiences.

Hey Scotty, thanks for the generous offer to celebrate our nation’s birthday with you and yours, but we’re in Atlanta visiting family down here. I’ll face north, raise a glass and toast to your enjoyment of the day. Sounds like you’ll have a blast. Enjoy!

I think you meant to say “window treatment” instead of curtains.

That would be a sacrilege of the worst kind, bordering on a crime against humanity.

Skinner also waived his NMC for the expansion draft so that the Sabres could protect someone else on the roster, which was a decent thing to do for the team.

He never concerned me, but the team surrounding him certainly did.

Unless I’ve had a beer or two with a player, I really only know what they present to us in interviews, community events, and what people close to them might reveal. What KO exhibited in that regard while here was leaps and bounds above whatever Kane chose to share. So yeah, there it is.

If Evander Kane had one iota of the class and dedication illustrated by Kyle Okposo over the years, perhaps a few would have been happy for him.

Whoever those “some” are need to acquaint themselves with number 11. End. Of. Story.

Edmonton outplayed Florida for long stretches in those first three games as well, but Bobrovsky was the difference. He hasn’t looked the same since.

I’ve heard several chefs say to use regular olive oil for cooking because of the higher smoke point as the flavor holds up much better and that extra virgin should be used for dressings, etc.

The offside rule went in because Jerry Buss died? Who knew?

In fairness to me and the other doubters at the time, both Mitts and UPL were playing like absolute crap when we made that assessment, so I don’t apologize for it at all.

Somebody mentioned that Lindy likes at least one solid two way player on every line and imo, that’s Benson on line one with Tage and Tuch or line two with Cozens and Quinn. Benson is gonna bring his 200 foot game no matter where he plays, but he has offensive chops as well, which is why I see him more as a top six winger.

Uh-oh.

I thought it was understood that my entire premise was based entirely on an unrealistic outcome in the first place; strictly a theoretical exercise.

I’d love to see them come here. But if by some miracle Savoie and Kulich demonstrably outplay Ek and Bennett, is that KA not doing good enough or us having underestimated them?

Yes, and if you’d read my posts in this thread you’d realize that I agree that Savoie and Kulich have little to no chance at all of cracking the lineup as I’ve always maintained that they both need more seasoning in the A. My only point has been that IF they should outplay whomever Adams brings in (again, little chance that happens) then we will have underestimated them.

Perhaps you missed the part of my initial post where I said there would be little chance of either Savoie or Kulich making the team as I believe both need more AHL seasoning. The point is that if they should happen to play well enough to beat whomever Adams brings in, then perhaps we’d all have underestimated them. Pick any two players that you’d like to see brought in, any two. If by some miracle Savoie and Kulich beat them out (and, again, I highly doubt they would) then I don’t think we could say Adams didn’t do well enough so much as Savoie and Kulich did far, far better than expected. Hence we will have underestimated them.

Perhaps you’d be underestimating Savoie and Kulich.

I agree, but what if Adams brings in enough talent and Savoie and Kulich end up outperforming that new talent, anyway? Imo, both Savoie and Kulich need more seasoning in the A so there’s little chance of that happening, but it would be a nice problem to have.