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Trade Trouba, let Myers go to free agency. Time for some of the kids to step up, Niku, Samberg, Stanley. I don't know what Buff was smoking the last two games, but he was just not there mentally. Watching him slide helplessly out of the play haplessly trying to defend a two on one on the third goal reminded me of watching my nephew's bantam team. Just not good enough, but Buff is an enigma. I don't know what to do there. Sign Connor and Laine to long term contracts. Those two guys are our future. I was pretty frustrated with Laine during the season, but in the playoffs he was one of the few guys who showed up and played hard. He's a guy that can take the playoff pounding, and give as good as he gets. Ehlers - I think I am done with that guy. Won't cry if he gets traded in a package with Trouba. Two playoffs now show how ineffective a little guy like him is in the playoffs. He can get us there, but he won't produce in the rough and tumble. Reminds me of the Sedins that way. Hellebuyck - redeemed himself for Game 2. I am good with him. Wheeler - I really am starting to not like that guy very much. I don't know totally why. I just don't see him as a leader. He seems to be getting Andrew Ladd syndrome - believing his own BS. I won't cry if he gets traded. Random thoughts...

Brainfart kids. Much more accurate.

Had we gone to the third round the year before?

perhaps if she hadn't antagonized them by calling them "baskets of deplorables", they might have been more sympathetic. That was a brilliant move to show that she wasn't an elitist. I still say that by far the biggest mistake Hillary made was posting this tweet a week before the election: How can you be so stunningly non-self-aware that this would come off as arrogant and elitist?

This statement by Mark and Rich's comment about Trump's aids not doing what he asked really tweaked what I had already been thinking. Trump's got a road-map to follow, laid down for him by our own government here in Canada, who essentially is caught in the same kind of quagmire (did Trudeau break the law? If his aides didn't do what he asked, is that mean he's off the hook? Did he commit obstruction?). There was a huge out-cry here in Canada too, and the Trudeau Liberals have just been saying "nothing to see here" and changing the subject, hoping everyone will just forget about LavScam and the potential malfeasance committed. Can Trump get away with the same strategy? Granted Trudeau and Trump operate differently. Trump just doesn't care, and says so, while Trudeau tries to play the sanctimony card. But the strategy is the same - just deny, ignore, lie, spin, and hope it goes away in time for the next election. I am not saying that Trump would have acted differently if he didn't already have the Trudeau model to follow, but he does have a precedent now to follow, set by our own gang of lying slime right here in Canada.

I was thinking the same thing, but then there is a lot to digest. And there was a Jets game last night. I have been watching CNN, and my take is that a lot of Democrats are reluctant to proceed to impeachment, despite a lot of goading from Wolf, Chris, Jake and Don. May be smarter to just use in the upcoming election as impeachment is pretty tough even with a smoking gun.

I don't know what planet Buff was on last night but it wasn't Earth. Just staggering.

I can't stand the Oiler guy. Prefer Beyak.

Not really. All he's done is offer a differing opinion.

The last two games have taken me back to 2018 playoff Jets. Been a pleasure to watch.

If I were the Jets I'd opt to just play the rest of the series in St. Louis. They play way better on the road for some reason.

It's like no one here has ever watched CNN or MSNBC. Democrats are just as good at the false equivalency thing. And just out-right lying. Republicans don't have a monopoly on straw-grasping at all.

Those still defending Ilhan Omar's blatant anti-Semitism may want to take a page from Bernie Sanders... For Democrats, Ilhan Omar Is a Complicated Figure to Defend WASHINGTON — When President Trump tweeted an edited video portraying Representative Ilhan Omar as playing down the 9/11 attacks, it took less than three hours for Senator Bernie Sanders to rush to her defense and declare her “a leader with strength and courage.” But when a Fox News anchor described Mr. Sanders on Monday night as “a staunch supporter” of Ms. Omar, the senator balked. “Hold it, hold it, hold it,” Mr. Sanders insisted. “I’ve talked to Ilhan about twice in my life.” His reaction reflects the broader Democratic Party’s conflicted embrace of Ms. Omar. That struggle has especially been apparent in the House, where Jewish Democrats have tangled with Ms. Omar and Democratic leaders have grappled with how to handle the freshman Democrat from Minnesota, who is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. When Ms. Omar, 36, pushed for a House rules change to permit her to wear her hijab on the House floor, she was heralded as a powerful symbol of the Democratic Party’s inclusiveness. But her support of the boycott Israel movement and her attacks on supporters of Israel have made her a complicated figure to defend. Democratic leaders, as well as many in the rank and file, are choosing their words with caution. Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the president for invoking the “painful images of 9/11 for a political attack” without mentioning Ms. Omar, and waited until Sunday — two days after Mr. Trump’s tweet — to issue a statement saying she had asked the Capitol Police to assess the congresswoman’s safety. Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the House Democratic leader, waited three days before calling on the president to apologize to Ms. Omar. “They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse,” Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan and the only other Muslim woman in Congress, wrote on Twitter, responding to someone who complained about Ms. Omar’s “lack of support” from the Democratic leadership. “However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for & why we ran in the first place, we are ignored. To truly honor our diversity is to never silence us.” In many respects, Ms. Omar, a Somali refugee whose family received asylum in the United States when she was a teenager, represents a new direction for the Democratic Party. Her allies on the left argue that Mr. Trump’s war with Ms. Omar is a defining issue for the party. But centrist Democrats have a more complex relationship with Ms. Omar. Her leftist brand of politics does not go over well in the swing districts that delivered Democrats the House majority. Her views on Israel make many Jews — an important component of the Democratic base — deeply uneasy. And her insinuations that American policy toward the Jewish state is driven by money — “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she wrote on Twitter — have drawn charges of anti-Semitism, prompting her to apologize. Democratic presidential candidates have had their own complicated reactions. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, has cast herself as a progressive on the campaign trail. But she qualified her support for Ms. Omar, by saying, “As a senator who represents 9/11 victims, I can’t accept any minimizing of that pain.” Even Mr. Sanders, who hails from the same liberal wing of the party as Ms. Omar — and would be the country’s first Jewish president if elected — offered a mixed response. Speaking at a town hall-style meeting televised by the Fox News Channel on Monday night, he said he respected Ms. Omar. And while he said he does not believe she is anti-Semitic, he added, “I think Ilhan has got to do a better job in speaking to the Jewish community.” Ms. Omar’s supporters say there is a danger to the Democratic split. “Some of these institutional Democratic leaders can’t find, frankly, the spine to speak up quickly and strongly in defense of one of their colleagues,” said Zahra Billoo, a spokeswoman for CAIR. “If we don’t find alignment soon, knowing that Donald Trump is already passing Democratic candidates in his own fund-raising, I worry that we are looking at a second term because the leaders of our party did not do the right thing.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/ilhan-omar-democrats.html

We will have to agree to disagree. I find her attacks on Jewish people to be in bad taste and hate inspired. That's why I find it hypocritical of the Dems for crying about Trump's tweet, yet doing nothing about potential violence being incited by Omar.

Mostly because it's so rare!

It would be nice if the Democrats cared as much about Omar's anti-semitic comments, and the violence that she may be inciting. That would make them look at least somewhat less hypocritical here.

They are full on Notre Dame now. Just amazing to watch.

and if you think that the Democrats are any different please come to Kelowna to check out a bridge I want to sell you. It's nice, SNC Lavalin built it.

Looks like our PM is guilty of a crime, obstruction of justice....what a clown!!!