Mark F

as the Leafs crash and burn, it seems familiar to me. last October: "If you ever wondered why the Maple Leafs haven’t advanced past the first round of the playoffs since 2004, the answer may lie in this week’s insanity in Hogtown, where head coach Sheldon Keefe apologized for hurting his players’ feelings. After the Leafs lost to the Canadiens in the season opener, Keefe called the performance “unacceptable” Our best people have not found their rhythm,” Keefe said in his post-game comments. “The difference between us and Arizona is that we have elite players. Our elite players didn’t play like elite players today and couldn’t make a difference.” Mitch Marner, said: “We understand, we’re grown men.” But Marner was upset enough that he asked for a sit-down with Keefe. “I talked to him today,” said Marner. “He explained what he meant to say and how it came out, and everything like that. We’ll leave it at that. … We have closed doors here for a reason.” 😂 And Auston Matthews, another one of the pampered, well-paid elite players, blamed the storm on — who else? — the media." "The bottom line is that Keefe showed who was running the asylum when he offered what seemed to be an apology. “I used some of the wrong words to try and describe what I was trying to,” he said. " Need to take these players off their pedestals.

recent Texas mall mass murderer: "A search by Aric Toler of the Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat turned up what appears to be Garcia’s social media account on an unmoderated Russian site. In his postings, he wrote: “A lot of the stuff going on in f*cking clown world. You better believe their wouldn’t be we’ll convert your children drag queen story hour loser’s running around loose. No [Jewish-controlled government] communist or liberal fake news media under Hitlers watch”. " https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-8-2023-monday the finest people fear communism, liberalism.

what was the record last season for touchdowns allowed? For quite a while it was one a game, something like that.

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Leafs look disorganized and uninterested. Marner with the puck in his own end, is not good.

also involved in diverting 94000000 poverty relief funds to pals, such as brett favre, who directed millions to a volleyball facility. doesnt seem to matter. nihilism. nothing has meaning. morals are woke. https://www.liberationnews.org/steal-from-the-poor-give-to-the-rich-welfare-fraud-in- mississippi/ "The state’s Department of Human Resources, the agency responsible for distributing federal funds to poor families, gave millions of dollars of these funds instead to wealthy, politically-connected Mississippians for their pet sports projects and athletes, and for meals at expensive steak houses. State auditor Shad White called this case “some of the largest fraud in state history.” $94 million stolen from the poor On July 22, the Mississippi State Department of Human Resources fired a lawyer investigating $94 million in misspent welfare funds. The lawyer, J. Brad Pigott, was fired a week after filing a subpoena for records from the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation concerning $5 million in welfare funds the foundation had misappropriated for a volleyball stadium on Southern Mississippi’s campus."

to me the tone of the discussion here is not different from that of the football, and hockey discussions. football forum, posters are referred to as some version of stupid, regularly, and vehemently. sneering, angry insulting comments are seen quite regularly. and often the discussions are not informative, or based on much in the way of facts. If we want to be consistent, may as well shut them down too, if insults and stupid, fact free posts are the issue. I dont have any problem with any of the posts, or posters, I just ignore the ones that seem to be simply arguing, to "win",or to annoy. and, while there is some silly back and forth stuff, there are also many worthwhile informed comments, that are quite good

no need to wonder.As of today: record profit. drilling as much as possible. slowing transition any way possible, including getting laws passed penalizing bank oil divestment policy. greenwashing. funding " skeptics" in legislatures, and on the bench. restricting science, promoting disinformation.

makes sense. you are probably right. of course. I posted for years on this site, re climate change, refuting nonsense. chasing down "skeptic" sites. tedious.

question for people. why bother responding to a person who clearly posted on another thread, that they post here just to irritate you?

next week, an apartment building or two will be bombed . russian apartment bombings brought putin to power. "Then there was speaker of the Duma (Russian parliament) Gennadiy Seleznyov’s announcement about a bomb exploding in Volgodonsk. Such a bomb would explode — three days after he relayed news of that blast. Attempts to question Seleznyov proved fruitless." https://news.yahoo.com/putin-1999-apartment-bombings-ukraine-175001959.html edit This Russian sci fi book ... read it from start to finish, could not put it down. written in 2006. savagely brilliant. Day of the Oprichnik (Russian: День опричника, Den' oprichnika) is a 2006 novel by the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. The narrative is set in the near future, when the Tsardom of Russia has been restored, and follows a government henchman, an oprichnik, through a day of grotesque events. Sorokin in one of the later interviews[1]confessed that he did not anticipate his novel be an accurate picture of the future, even in some subtle details, but rather wrote this book as a warning and "mystical precaution" against the state of events described in the storyline. The title is a reference to the Oprichnina, the black-clad secret police of Ivan the Terrible, whose symbol was a black dog's head (to sniff out treason) and a broom (to sweep away all traitors. some parts are a bit hard. some amazing sci fi ideas.

watching kraken dallas just flying.

given their incompetence, it makes me wonder why it was so easy for them to subvert the 2016 American election. partly inside help probably, from Republicans, Fox, et al.

supposed to be intercepted American military conversation. 😂 "The Russians have published what they claim are secret wiretapped recordings of voice messages sent between NATO troops in Ukraine. Its supposed to be mainly American soldiers. The accents are slightly off though" https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1648829730131435521?s=20 "who the chelle knaose! I keel them! " 🤣

Stanley Black & Decker, the world’s largest tool company, just launched the largest privately funded onsite solar farm in Kentucky. Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) worked with Castillo Engineering and renewable energy company RPG Energy Group to bring the 4.3-megawatt (MW) solar farm online. The solar farm sits on nearly 15 acres next to its 280,000-square-foot production factory in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The solar project is producing enough clean energy to power Stanley Black & Decker’s Kentucky factory with 100% clean energy – and also provide excess energy back to the state. The company says the project is going to deliver an annual energy savings of $400,000. Stanley Black & Decker has set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. https://electrek.co/2023/05/01/the-worlds-largest-tool-company-debuts-kentuckys-largest-private-onsite-solar-farm/ big business noticing: renewable is cheaper than fossil. period. much of renewable investment in usa is in states led by anti renewable republicans. probably weak labour protection laws, low wages. edit... fifteen acres. not much land at all.

experts befuddled.

helleybuck got a low grade. worst goalie in the first round. eek. maybe one of the players bowness was talking about. The team suffers from " Uneasiness; discomfort; specifically, an indefinite feeling of uneasiness, often a preliminary symptom of a serious malady" malaise!

are you a Dylan fan?

Leafs acting like they won the cup...pretty funny. nice to see a canuck team win.

"The Russian special vessel SS-750 was near the Nord Stream pipes four days before the pipes were blown up on September 26 last year. The special vessel is designed to carry out operations under the sea and has a mini submarine of the AS-26 Priz type on board. The Norwegian Defense Command confirms in a response to a document inspection that 26 photos of the Russian vessel were taken from a Danish patrol boat that was in the area east of Bornholm on 22 September 2022. "It's incredibly interesting. The SS-750 is a special vessel that is designed precisely for underwater operations,' says the Swedish researcher, Russia expert and intelligence expert Joakim von Braun. Jacob Kaarsbo, who is a senior analyst at the think tank Europe and previously worked for 15 years in the Defense Intelligence Service, believes that the information "sheds light on what was going on in the area in the days before". "The SS-750 is the most interesting vessel to confirm, because we know it has the capacity to carry out such an operation," says Jacob Kaarsbo. Information has previously revealed that the Norwegian Defense Command is in possession of 112 images of Russian vessels in the area. But this is the first time that the defense has confirmed that it is the specific Russian vessel SS-750 with the mini-submarine on board. At the same time, the Norwegian Defense Command refuses to provide access to the photos of the Russian special vessel, as the photos are "of an intelligence nature" and "are part of the intelligence work". Several Russian naval vessels The German media T-Online and the open source intelligence analyst Oliver Alexander have previously described that the special vessel SS-750 was one of a total of six Russian naval vessels that may have been in the area in the days leading up to the blasting of the pipelines. They based this, among other things, on information from anonymous sources and satellite images that showed that SS-750 had left the port of Kaliningrad at the same time as, among others, the vessels Aleksandr Frolov and SB-123. These satellite photos, along with AIS data from a tugboat, indicate that SS-750 sailed from Kaliningrad at 00:22 on 21 September 2022. AIS transmitters are typically used by larger vessels to supplement radars. They send signals about the ship's name, number, direction, draft and speed and can thus be used to map the movement of vessels. The SS-750 sailed even without the AIS on. However, the tug Alexandr Frolov had its AIS on when departing from the Russian naval port. AIS data from this vessel shows that the convoy of naval vessels headed for Bornholm, but north of Poland the tug's AIS was also switched off. Until now, it has been assumed that the SS-750 and the five other vessels continued to the area where the Nord Stream pipes were blown up a few days later. Now the Defense Command has confirmed that the SS-750 was observed in the area. Danish language site https://www.information.dk/indland/2023/04/forsvaret-bekraefter-rusland-specialfartoej-naer-nord-streams-spraengningspunkt?lst_frnt crazy people.

well, sheifele recently said , publicly, he didnt agree with the coach on strategy. lol, how does that pass for ok? In the midst of a scramble for post season. Was wheeler complaining about that?

My theory is that most of the systems would work more or less ok, if they were uncorrupted by greed, But that seems to be impossible for us humans. Greed. going to be the end of us.

re bed bath beyond: "Why do private equity firms succeed when the companies they buy so often fail? In part, it’s because firms are generally insulated from the consequences of their actions, and benefit from hard-fought tax benefits that allow many of their executives to often pay lower rates than you and I do. Together, this means that firms enjoy disproportionate benefits when their plans succeed, and suffer fewer consequences when they fail." (can not link nyt article so here is a bit) Why do private equity firms succeed when the companies they buy so often fail? In part, it’s because firms are generally insulated from the consequences of their actions, and benefit from hard-fought tax benefits that allow many of their executives to often pay lower rates than you and I do. Together, this means that firms enjoy disproportionate benefits when their plans succeed, and suffer fewer consequences when they fail. Consider the case of the Carlyle Group and the nursing home chain HCR ManorCare. In 2007, Carlyle — a private equity firm now with $373 billion in assets under management — bought HCR ManorCare for a little over $6 billion, most of which was borrowed money that ManorCare, not Carlyle, would have to pay back. As the new owner, Carlyle sold nearly all of ManorCare’s real estate and quickly recovered its initial investment. This meant, however, that ManorCare was forced to pay nearly half a billion dollars a year in rent to occupy buildings it once owned. Carlyle also extracted over $80 million in transaction and advisory fees from the company it had just bought, draining ManorCare of money. ManorCare soon instituted various cost-cutting programs and laid off hundreds of workers. Health code violations spiked. People suffered. The daughter of one resident told The Washington Postthat “my mom would call us every day crying when she was in there” and that “it was dirty — like a run-down motel. Roaches and ants all over the place.” In 2018, ManorCare filed for bankruptcy, with over $7 billion in debt. But that was, in a sense, immaterial to Carlyle, which had already recovered the money it invested and made millions more in fees. " legalized fraud.

"drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry"

it is much easier to control an extremely compromised person like kavanaugh.