kelownabomberfan

Pavelec and Hutch might end up playing Senior A whale s*$% hockey as schmelts next year for the Letterkenny Shamrocks. Leg days with them are a bitch!!

Pavelec now a coach-killer - for other teams!

Matt Dunigan will be crushed....

Not sure Elizabeth Warren is the answer either...

You watch too many celebrities (just kidding!). The actual polls when you cut through the noise and the shouting and the protests and the anger, show Trump's ban is popular! http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316914-poll-over-half-back-trumps-refugee-ban Now I realize that this poll was conducted by a right-wing firm, so its probably not very reliable. Just offering it as a talking point.

Going back to 3 NI OL would open up other options elsewhere. Especially with Loffler now established at safety.

Corney plays end while Shologan was DT. Jake the Snake and the Butcher can pick up the slack I guess, plus whatever DT Kyle drafts this year. Any good ones available in the first round? I have to admit I haven't checked the latest scouting reports. EDIT: Looks like the second ranked guy on the list is a d-lineman. Not sure if he plays end or DT.

Does this open the door to THE BUTCHER??

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/31/donald-trump-refugees/97284688/?csp=breakingnews

Yup, hard to argue that people in favor of the current ban aren't at least somewhat racist, that's for sure. Or just plain not educated as to the world. They really could benefit from leaving their homes in the US and traveling outside the borders. A friend of mine is from the UK and he does business in Texas. When he showed the secretary at an oil company his driver's licence she actually said "The UK? What state is that?" There's people who would be considered bigot and racists in the US, but they don't even know they are bigots and racists, because they can't be bothered to learn why different is a good thing.

They should go on a vacation together. It's been a solid 3 weeks of work for Justin since his last holiday, it's high time for another one!

I'm not sure about that. For eight years they could have stirred up violence with Obama as president and there was very little of that, other than the odd stand-off with the FBI in places like Oregon. I am not sure what the bigots and racists want, other than to just be left alone I guess. Which is no excuse for their behavior, that's for sure.

The point I was trying to make is that while some are pointing at Trump's low approval rating, I honestly don't think either candidate would have a high approval rating at this point in their presidency, due to the palpable anger on both sides of the spectrum. That's all I was trying to say. For every Trump hater in the US, there's a Trump lover, and so we as foreigners have to come to grips with that reality.

Please stop with these kinds of comments. They do no good to anyone, and only engender more bickering that does no good, and just shuts down discussion. I think I've managed to cut these kinds of comments out (if not, please let me know) and I think we all deserve respectful responses here.

I didn't think I said that Hillary would have been worse. I'm just trying to point out that we're all looking at the US through our Canadian sensibilities, and a lot of what we are seeing doesn't make sense. I can't imagine living in a country that wouldn't welcome two Iranian academics with open arms to an academic conference. And I don't think most Americans want that either. But for every person that the media shows in the US as angry etc., there is a person who is happy that Trump is doing what he said he was going to do. And while I agree that these people aren't as vocal and so on the surface the US wouldn't seem as fractured under Hillary, we have to admit that there is a large fracturing going on. It's just with the anti-Trump that fracturing is out there for all to see. With the silent Trump supporters, it's a much more quiet anger. Anyway, that's just my two cents. Either candidate at this point would have a low presidential approval rating. It's unavoidable when the country is split right down the middle.

yes. This is very true. We are all in this together. All of us.

fair enough, sorry.

This is all I was saying. And I don't believe for a second that Hillary wouldn't have hammered those fractures just as hard, just from another direction. Deny it all you want, but this is what people in the US have been telling me. If you don't want to listen, that's fine, but I am still going to say it.

Come on man. Alt right. I still don't know what that means. All I know is that both candidates were extremely unpopular with half the US. You can deny it all you want, but it's true. The US is in a bad way. Calling people names like "alt right" doesn't really deal with the source or cause of the issues.

and yet, can anyone say Hillary's approval rating would have been much higher? America is very fractured right now.

Yeah I was just reading about that. He's essentially going to reverse a presidential order brought in by Obama. It's also telling as Trump used homophobia as an excuse for the Muslim ban. Apparently Pence wants to bring in the religious freedom laws he introduced in Indiana as well.

I also like going to Hawaii too. Don't forget that. Thank you for telling me what was relevant in my post. I get it, everyone is just supposed to agree all the time here with the narrative, or be dumped on. Once again, I don't think anyone should be body cavity searched, or if that does become a regular thing then it will limit tourism. Not sure what is belittling about that statement.

The original question was posed by Rich I believe, in that he was asking if wanting to see peoples' phones was going to cause a tourism drop. I stated that I wouldn't care and it wouldn't stop me from going to the US. Then you jumped into body cavity searches, and I said that I would draw the line there. Now somehow this has become a white guy thing. I should have known that that was where this was headed, and just hit "like" instead of offering my opinion on phone searches I guess.

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-187413-5-.htm#187413 Hope that they are successful. This ban is ridiculous.