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CJOB reporting that they are taking over radio rights for the Jets.

You know, as a single issue voter, I am disappointed the debate moderators have not put a question about Space Force to the candidates. Still undecided until I get answers. Thanks for the reminder Mr. President.

I get the idea of trading Laine if they don’t think they can afford him long term (I.e. if he costs them $10-11 million. + for 7-8 years), but the idea of trading him to fill holes elsewhere seems kind of silly. What is the point of trading for a legit 2nd line centre to feed Laine if it costs you Laine to get him? Unless you want to bring in 2 solid top 4 d-men and turn this team into a trap style all defence first Islanders clone.

Boy, when Kellyanne resigned to focus on her family, did not think that meant lying to your kid about your diagnosis and knowingly exposing and then infecting them.

Elliot Friedman reporting that Bryan Little is unlikely to play again. If his contract is now freed up ($5.3 million) along with Buff ($7.5) and Kulikov($4.3), what are the chances we can go after a decent 2nd line centre, starting D-man, re-sign DeMelo and extend Laine (who is already at $6.75 so even at $9 million/yr longer term only “costs” us $2.25 million over our current cap)?

So the number of cases connected to the Trump outbreak now stands at 25 at least: Donny, Melania, Rona and Brad from his campaign, 3 GOP senators, ND President, Chris Christie, Kellyanne, Hope, 3 White House reporters, and 11 Cleveland Clinic Centre employees. Yes, 11 people from Monday’s debate. And Trump told his half of the room not to wear masks. But what may be more telling is that attendees, Wallace, and both candidates were to be tested before the debate. but Trump and his team showed up late and did not leave enough time to be tested before the debate started. After the debate he was lethargic on the flight home on Air Force One and fell asleep. A conspiracy-minded person might suggest that he knew he had COVID before the debate and showed up late to avoid the test result leaking. Hope Hocks positive test was being covered up by the White House before a journalist broke the news, forcing the administration to open up about Trump being tested, and we’ve all heard about the timeline fudging. If Biden falls ill, the chaos would be unbelievable. The VP debate suddenly has become the most consequential in US history.

Gee, where was their anger when he downplayed a known threat in February? When Democrat states like New York And California were getting hammered? When he refused to provide PPE to states that were not effusive enough in their praise of him? When his rallies led to Herman Cain’s death? I guess when someone else’s life was put in jeopardy, it was not worth their indignation, only when it impacted their selfish interests did it become an issue.

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson, age 84. In1968 won the CyYoung with a stunningly low ERA of 1.12.

Body language experts say arms crossed is always indicative of a defensive posture.

I don’t really but the sentiment that the GOP would be worried about ramming in their SCOTUS pick in a lame duck session if they lost the Presidency and the Senate majority. Everything in their antics these past 8 years would suggest the opposite in fact, and what more would they have to lose at that point? If I recall from the movie “Lincoln”, he got the necessary votes to abolish slavery from lame duck senators on their way out, which is why he rushed it through between winning his team-election and Inauguration Day, before the new Senate took hold which would have voted him down on it. What I wonder is, if a 4th GOP senator falls ill with COVID (not an unlikely scenario given the last 24 hours) and has to quarantine, could the Dems tam through a motion to bypass the confirmation hearing and proceed straight to a vote, and then vote “no” with the majority of votes present. This gamesmanship has been done before in Parliament (even in MB) where the minority catches the majority napping with reduced numbers in chambers and gets in a quickie vote while they hold the balance. Right now the plan is to boycott and keep the numbers below quorum (which is only the case with the current COVID-reduced GOP numbers). Two final thoughts - Since the US is such a religious country (especially fundamentalist Republicans) I like to think that when Ruth Bader Ginsberg died and went to heaven, she looked down on the Barrett SCOTUS announcement, saw her life’s legacy about to be torn down, and got in God’s ear. God then said “Hold my beer, and BTW the irony of this GOP victory party being their undoing of the Presidency and the SCOTUS vote In one fell swoop will be delicious”. At least that’s what I tell the Trump backers happened to see them get all triggered. 🤣 And finally, not sure I like this new “merging of posts” when you write consecutive posts on a topic. My posts are more than long enough as it is with out combining 3 of them into 1 (yes, I am self-aware enough to know how much I blathering, don’t need the “TLDR” smarty pants responses telling me so).

Understandable that you posted here. The two topics are so intertwined now (sadly) that I fear a number of discussions back and forth on both threads, just thought declaring one place to do it would keep things cleaner. But no harm, no foul.

I still suck at posting twitter links, so I will just recap what I read. Kellyanne’s positive test was revealed - by her daughter on Tiktok. Claudia Conway went on to say that her mom did not want her to post the COVID diagnosis but rather keep it quiet, but Claudia was “furious” because Kellyanne lied to her and said the test was negative while walking around her all day before telling her the truth, and now Claudia will spend her birthday in quarantine. Unless this is a fake TikTok account, this was a post straight from Claudia. Dinnertime conversations at the Conway household must be next level, even if George is not thrown into the mix. CNN said there would be an update from doctors at 11:00 am EST. But the shortness of breath claims make this suddenly much more problematic than “mild symptoms”. I did not think about this yesterday, but Biden took off his mask for the debate. Imagine if both candidates caught the virus. The VP debate suddenly became the most consequential one in history.

Just a suggestion for everyone’s consideration, not a demand. Perhaps the current GOP COVID outbreak comments can be put in the USPolitics thread and not in this thread to keep from cross cluttering of the threads? FYI Mr. Dee this is not a complaint about your last post. I was going to propose this before I got on here and saw your update just now - thanks for the news BTW.

No but her announcement was likely the super spreader event. Hicks had it and Trump is likely traced to her, but the head of the RNC and also the President of Norte Dame University, who were at the SCOTUS announcement on the south lawn, both have it too, among others. I suspect we will hear of a dozen or so connected to this outbreak in a few days. Utah Republican senator Mike Lee also tested positive after meeting with SCOTUS nominee at the event.

One source I read said she tested positive in the summer and has since recovered.

So a 2 day postponement? Given that COVID quarantine is typically 14 days, that seems completely useless.

The Athletic did a piece where they interviewed players about the playoff bubble, and the one thing they all seemed to agree on was that they would not play for a whole season in the bubble after this experience.

Start October 1. Give all teams their week off between Christmas and New Year's. Make the All-Star skills competition on New Year's Eve. Replace the All-Star game with the Winter Classic and the All-Star host gets to play a division rival. Finish March 31. 80 game season max. Playoffs start in April 3. Teams play every second day, 4 series each day. Stanley Cup awarded by the end of May.

So unless they both happen to have their scheduled bye week on the same week, how do they make up this game? Only other options I see are to (a) postpone the playoffs one week and play the make-up games that week, and eliminate the week break before the Super Bowl (PLEASE make that happen - the break is stupid) or (b) push all the playoffs back a week and the Super Bowl gets played a week later too.

Let’s not forget that Jared and Ivanka were also both denied security clearance Through the proper channels before daddy strong-armed them through. Saw a report that one of the primary reasons for denial of security clearance is having a large debt, which makes one open to manipulation from creditors. We’ve heard a lot about Jared’s debt owed to the Middle East, and now Ivanka has been linked to Trump’s tax dodge by being paid as a “consultant” while also running the same projects she is consulting on (a clear conflict of interest, and double dipping, yet another form of tax fraud), which Donald has used as a tax write-off himself (yet another improper deduction). So the whole inner circle is exposed to foreign influence. Again, nothing new if people have paid attention and done any sort of digging. So that rules out most Americans.

That has been my prediction too. Like every con man who slinks off leaving wreckage in his wake.

The difference here is supposed to be that he is now a public servant ripping off his employers on the public dime. When he was a con man in private business he did tons of illegal things and got called out on it, but it was always through private lawsuits. And since he had deep pockets courtesy of daddy, he could stonewall and muck up the proceedings legally and bankrupt his opponent before it ever got to court, so when he ultimately settled all those lawsuits she’d pay pennies on the dollar. But now he’s playing with the taxpayers’ money. His golf weekends at his own course with top dollar for the secret service to rent a room while he’s there goes from the taxpayers’ pockets into his personal company, which unlike every other President was required to he did not divest himself of. And the rules about Presidents not profiting and the whole emoluments clause are pretty clear, so now he is breaking a law that is not a civil matter.

What is the “it” you are referring to?

The one thing I don’t get from the local TSN1290 media (and I sense the majority of the “Laine trade” talk is solely a media creation rather than them actually quoting sources) is that they keep saying the Jets have a 2-3 year window to win a Stanley Cup, which I think is nonsense. Their top 5 forwards aside from Laine (Wheeler, Scheifele, Connor, Ehlers) are locked in for 4 more years each minimum, as is Hellebuyck, and their top d-man Morissette is here for 7. And team windows always seem to be short-changed. How many times did we hear that the Caps window was closed before they won, or the Sharks before they made the final, or the Pens after the 2009 Cup win, or Boston after the 2013 Cup loss (you get the picture). Laine is still an RFA after next year’s contract is up, so we have him for 3 years minimum right now. Don’t move him unless we clearly win the trade from a “right now” perspective, otherwise, take the $11 million plus from Kulikov and Byfuglien that is off the books and get a serviceable centre and d-man.

So I cannot seem to write or reply to a post off of my laptop any more, only my iPhone. Any tech savvy people out there with any idea why?