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Given your health situation of the past few months, I'd have to imagine you shouldn't watch Sabres any games, whether able or not :p Oh I agree on both counts, I was just positing that from the perspective of the team, the injuries surely help to insulate Bylsma.

*does double take* You know we're in the politics thread, right? :p :lol:

They can, and they will. I don't particularly enjoy being a wet blanket, but Bylsma is less than two years into a five year contract--he's just not getting fired, particularly given the injury issues (...which wouldn't be as much of an issue if Murray would have been the least bit interested in bolstering the team's NHL depth in the offseason, but I digress). C'mon, you're the king of meddling theories! Surely you can come up with something! How about: Murray was pressured into Bylsma by Pegula et al., and now that Pegula sees the results, Murray can have free reign to bring in his guy without ownership's influence.

It wasn't! Despite his obviously flawed taste in beer, he and I are good friends. Funny typo though :lol:

Yea but he's good for a few entertaining moments each game on his own. Plus, the injury excuse for Byslma will finally be put to bed. Positive thinking man!

At least Jack should be back at the end of it :)

On the bright side, my bother in law didn't care for the Bourbon County Stout, so I have a second bottle I can age.

WHY IS SAMSON BACK ON THE WING?!?! Serenity now.

The best (see: worst) part about charter schools is that when their students are underperforming, they kick them out back to the public schools, where the teachers and school are then held accountable for the test performance of a student they've had for less than half the academic year. It's insanity.

No. I'm talking about parents who can't or won't support their child's academics for any number of reasons (generally in impoverished areas, but can also happen to middle class parents who are stretched too thin), parents who won't hold their kids accountable because they think their kids are perfect and everything is the school/teacher's fault, marital strife affecting the children. Outside the system stuff like that. Cutting funding for after school programs and other extracurriculars make matters worse, but aren't the fundamental problem.

My two cents: the biggest problems with education in this country involve things the education system, be it public, private, or charter, cannot fix. Which, of course, is not to say there isn't room for improvement.

Speaking of gerrymandering, some interesting changes potentially on the horizon depending how things shake out at the Supreme Court: http://election.princeton.edu/2016/11/24/a-lower-court-win-on-partisan-gerrymandering/

I bought Overwatch finally since it's only $35. Great fun, but I'm either not going to have enough time to get good at it, or I'm going to be seriously shirking other responsibilities :lol:

I believe it was more incredulity that Tortorella coaches a more offensive game than does Bylsma. In a "you know you have problems if Torts has a better offensive approach" kind of way.

If only he had used 5 other teams in addition to the Rangers to support his point.

It's a lot deeper than ours, that's for sure. But I'll put our top end against theirs even with Eichel out.

Flagg, remember when I said you were dead to me, and you responded that a Bylsma rant would fix it? Consider it fixed. I bow before you.

IMO all bets on the Sabres should be null and void if it goes to a shootout with Lehner in net.

Good news: Apparently I missed what was an excruciating way to collect a point. Better news: I got all of my grading done for the week. Not touching anything teaching-related until Monday! Bad news: I forgot to set my fantasy hockey lineup, leaving Ovechkin and his hat trick on the bench and 3/4 Dman slots with players not playing. Whoops.

I would like to see Carrier get a shot at some point.

I demand you read the rest of my rant.

What good comes from challenging an election based on extremely weak evidence? The difference between the paper and electronic ballot results is easily explained by the demographics of the areas using each method. These demographic differences reflect those in other states where there is not a paper/electronic discrepancy. There's nothing here. Throwing wild conspiracy theories based on nothing but blind supposition and cluelessness about the voting process is harmful for the very foundation of democracy: faith that elections are valid and the government is legitimate. This crap has to stop. Edit: I'm not done being mad. Every time somebody who says something like "Well I heard..." or other quasi-conspiratorial phrases, it legitimizes the approach. It's why fake news spreading like wildfire through social media is so dangerous. What are facts? What is the truth? The more stuff like this is given coverage, the more it gains life, and the more people buy into it when things are just floated out there for public consumption. Disagreement about policy surrounding established knowledge is what politics is supposed to be all about. But right now we're skipping down the rabbit hole of knowledge itself being political. We as a society can't amicably disagree if we can't even agree that the sky is blue. More to the point, compromise is already dying. Legitimizing conspiracy about the validity of elections only speeds along its death. Everything that's wrong with contemporary politics is made worse when nonsense like this spreads. And it WILL spread, because people are preprogrammed to believe what they want (in this case, that Trump couldn't possibly have won). Bernie supporters loved it in the primary, Trump supporters loved it in the general, and now Hillary supporters are buying in post-election. It's madness. Our election system is so incredibly decentralized (yes, even within a state) that it'd be all but impossible to rig it. And if by chance a group was powerful enough to do so, you think a court challenge is going to fix it? Come on people. Our democracy is already lost in that case.

One unit on Buffalo.

*shifts eyes nervously* I'd still like to see Zemgus on Eichel's wing.

Between the calls for electors to be faithless and now this election rigging nonsense, to say the political left is currently making me wish my head would explode would be dramatically understating things--at this point I'm hoping for total body immolation. This quasi-conspiratorial and baseless accusations about a rigged election were dangerous when Trump yelled about them during the campaign, and they're dangerous now; same goes for pushing for electors to spurn their state's voters. Faith in our political institutions is already alarmingly low (and a contributing factor to Trump being winning in the first place), actively pushing things to make matters worse is about the worst idea anyone could possibly come up with.