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It's amazing how clueless people are and have to equate how a player played hockey to how a player can fulfill the role of assisting and leading others in developing their skills as a hockey player. Who's better suited for the role? A person with natural gifts that they can't explain what they had done to make it to the NHL or someone who had to work really hard and examine every aspect of their game in order to be a marginal player in the NHL? Maybe he'll do a good job, maybe he won't. No one knows, and people on this board sure as hell have no idea. The best you have available to you is having seen him play and somehow that makes you qualified to judge his ability to fulfill this position. It boggles the mind. Let's just make some ***** up about people and ***** all over them. As long as you feel better about yourself, that's all that matters right?

Look at it this way, at least your achilles injury is from working too hard. You pushed, it pushed back. Rest up and come back at it as committed as ever.

First day off in months. So needed. Started out with a nice flatbread breakfast pizza, then for a hike and hanging out by a creek for a bit. Had to stop home to get the kid to work and now we're off to Irish Mafia for lunch and some lazy summer afternoon beers to be followed up by more lazy summer afternoon beers at Seven Story brewing along the canal. Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah..... so needed.

Surface? It plays to the immigrant vote, the non-caucasian vote, the female vote. I think she's qualified from what I know of her (then again, with the bar having been set so low now, who isn't qualified?). She's more centrist than anything else which would irritate more liberal voters but let's be honest, where are they going to put their votes? I would think Democrats want anyone but Trump and voting for any fringe candidate that could impair the vote for Biden/Harris would be detrimental to their own cause. Bottom line, I like the pick. I think there needs to be a qualified non-male sitting that close to the top and it certainly would set the stage for a historic election in 8 years if Biden were to win and she established herself more during that time. At this point I have a better chance of understanding quantum mechanics than how anyone can vote for Trump. Personally I am glad that I live in NY. This state will go Biden and it won't be close. I can still vote the way I would vote and not have any impact on the election. ?

Cool, although the article says his role has not been defined and goes on to say he will be the PBP. So confusing. And that answers the question I had... I might have to find a few clips.

Hallelujah.. they look excellent.

Not to be a jerk.. but I will be.. don't we usually have a mod post some "automated message" by now indicated that descriptive thread titles are important? I wandered in here wondering why we'd want to talk about Doug Bodger.

Gochugaru - Korean dried red pepper flakes, are my guess. You can guy them at Wegmans (McCormick no less) but absolutely at an asian grocery as well. They are spicy and tasty..

Hockey didn't stumble upon this. The NCAA began the concept of a play-in game a few years ago. It's just another way of pulling in more money and it's garbage. It's a playoff because the team that loses is done for good. But 16 teams from the middle playing each other is just too much variance. It makes the regular season damn near meaningless and it extends the overall season when the overall season is probably too long already. In any elimination series or game the lower seed has a chance to knock out the higher seed by getting hot, a few lucky bounces, an injury here or there. The reason you play the whole regular season is to allow those teams that deserve a shot at the championship to prove that while overcoming a hot opponent, a lucky bounce, or an injury here or there. As it stands now the top 16 provides enough of a chance for the lower seed to make a significant impact and win (ask the Kings). It's why teams shouldn't go all out to be the top seed because it usually means expending too much energy in the regular season and ultimately getting bounced in the playoffs. There's no advantage in the NHL for being the best team in the conference. You want to talk about giving byes to the top seeds, that would be a place to start. Have the lower seeds play for a shot to continue on while the top seeds rest up. Not sure I like that idea either.. but it's a damn sight better than the top 24 making it.

I made kimchi for the first time a few weeks ago. Amazingly easy and it turned out far better than i expected. Learned a few things and looking forward to making more very soon.

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/buffalo-strong/local-business-delivers-fresh-produce-to-western-new-yorkers There's an option. There are public markets. Buy some seeds, plant some plants.. grow some food. Get together with neighbors and start a community garden. There's plenty of responses to the "inner city" problem. It's certainly not as prevalent as suburban areas, that's not in question. But to dismiss it as "distilled answer"? The same could be said of your "distilled response". People who WANT to eat healthy can find a way. Even if that includes walking 5 miles to a store and back or riding a bike 10 miles to a store and back. Exercise and healthy food in one. How about that? I think it's easier to say that people CHOOSE to eat the crappy fast "food" because spending $5 for two whoppers allows me to have more money for other things. They might need those other things, they might be able to live without them just as they choose to live without the healthy food and exercise at which point they are also choosing the downsides that comes with those choices that will cost them more money in the future. There are people who need the help, but let's not pretend that it's a majority issue. Instead let's recognize that people are making choices. More expensive does not mean other food is too expensive. If you want quality food, make it yourself. You don't get healthy food by eating at a restaurant and you sure as hell aren't going to save money.

We don't have to get into a debate, but I don't find the two items comparable. In one you are in control of your own destiny. Move more, eat less. It's as simple as that. Clearly there are those where it doesn't work, but that's for a good reason, and I don't think it's political. Get a job and work hard also means the system isn't stacked against you by taking all the money you are working so hard for and that you keep your job. It feels like you are trying to say that it's hard to get good food. I would disagree with that if that's the path you are going down.

It's not as simple as diet and exercise? Outside of uncontrollable genetic dispositions, why is it not about diet and exercise? How does any level of politics play into how people choose to live their lives and what they choose to eat?

Kodak had a fairly well established pharmaceutical production facility back in the day. Guess the equipment still works?

We've all been there. Teachers get the shaft, never gonna get an argument saying otherwise from me. ?

Someone please make StrongBad relevant again. StrongBad livestreaming video games would be something I would subscribe to.

Kids will be given the option to be in school or not. They will be able to learn remotely as well. Those who are comfortable sending their kids to school will do so. The teachers have to deal with this the most. They are the one's who will be exposed. They are the one's who may not have a choice in the matter. I know some teachers who have no intention of stepping foot in the school right now and some who are ready to go. One can only hope that some balance occurs such that those who don't want to go in can teach the remote learners while those who will work in the school will teach those in school. It's going to be a mess because the schools are that much more complicated than pretty much any other facet of society. Handling kids is difficult. I'm watching how our local youth baseball league is doing handling a subset of these kids. It's exactly as Liger posts above... they have no clue what they are supposed to do. The baseball league puts the onus on the parents to police their kids but they aren't doing it. It's chaos. Now, add more of them to the mix.

One might wonder why you don't go do just that. Also, your post has nothing to do with the Blue Jays in Buffalo.

I'm a fan of the name... etc. That's all.

Went the other night, got an OKAY shot...

I have not heard of them before either. Thanks.

Posting anecdotal photos and resorting to "you haven't spoken to all gun owners" will not further the discussion. Agree to disagree or find evidence to support your claims, if such evidence exists. I would imagine the information you both seek to back your claims lives within the same research, if it exists. And it is interesting as to why the kidnapping of American citizens by its own government on US ground is not getting more air play. Government officials pulling people off the streets in unmarked cars is usually something you read about in countries whose citizens have historically sought refugee status in the United States. Seems like soon, citizens of the United States might need to seek refugee status in other countries. This is no longer the country we think it is.

Just remember, the politicians in the house and senate had the opportunity to remove this person from power. They chose not to do so. I would keep that in mind when trusting your party affiliations. While the top may be the most noticeable part of the infection, the stuff underneath causes more damage. People want to still make excuses for their parties, but bottom line, they are failing all of us. In fact, I would argue that having Trump in his role distracts the American public from the sketchy actions of the rest of the government. Look at this blowhard over here, ignore all those people over there.

I think many people are missing the point here. It matters not whether you are comfortable or not with his firing. it's easy to say that the comments he made were inappropriate and the results adequate. The issue is based in the double-standard that someone who is gay was able to make similar comments (allegedly) and did not receive the same discipline. I also expect this to end up in the politics club in 3..2..

I mean... if you already had the answer, why'd you ask the question? ?