buddha

why do you do this to yourself? The sign outside LCA should read "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

Maybe. The government is seeking only prospective relief, meaning that the EO is looking to end birthright citizenship for a particular class of persons moving forward. as you state. However, when the SG was asked at oral argument whether the administration would seek to apply its order retroactively, the SG refused to say that it would not. In other words, the government did not commit that it would not look to rescind the citizenship of US citizens who were naturalized under old laws. As Justice Sotomayor noted, the US has done this before when it rescinded citizenship for american indians. Given the cruel nature of this administration in regards to non-white immigrants, and the bipolar nature of donald trump, i dont think you can say with any certainty he would not look to deport as many brown people as his government agents could get their hands on. And if you disagree, why dont you ask stephen miller what he thinks.

where's michael talley when you need him?

i'll be interested to see how teams guard wemby in the playoffs. i suspect they'll just try to beat the **** out him.

i was there in january, once the leaves get on the trees and the flowers bloom, i suspect IU will be great.

detroit is in first place this year by a mile and theyre probably the 3rd or 4th favorite to come out of the east. next year they will likely be lower unless they make a big move this summer. boston and cleveland are the two favorites for sure. detroit is probably behind thw knicms because people overrate the knicks. same thing for philly.

i'd be willing to be that new orleans would give up a lot for stew. like...maybe another unprotected first?

nyah. yaxel can play. big who can guard 2-3-4. can shoot, pass, and is a willing teammate. can take over a game when they need it. he's been the best player in the tournament. only downside is his age but the pistons are built to win in cade's prime, which is coming up. morez johnson is another one they could take. defensive forward like stewart.

hope its yaxel.

depends what kind of opinion they write too. if they make it broad, they might lose thomas, alito, kavanaugh, and maybe gorsuch. if its just about the EO, maybe they only lose thomas and possibly alito, maybe kavanaugh? the questioning was pretty favorable to the aclu, even from alito.

My liberal Michigan grad mother would have a heart attack if my daughter went to Bama.

Bama has a very different vibe to it. VERY southern. much moreso than kentucky or even georgia. at bama, our tour guides were all dressed in formal red dresses, pearls, and heels. lots of blonde hair! the sorority house tour was with another girl dressed in a formal dress and heels. lots of yes sir and no sir. my kid isnt white, so the environment would be a concern. i thought the historical plaques for the brave alabama boys of 1860 defending the university were interesting. athens is a lot more her speed than bama. but bama is easier to get into than georgia and offers quite a bit of cash. so does kentucky. georgia not so much. its hard to get into georgia OOS nowadays.

We just got back from georgia and alabama. Alabama's dorms are amazing. everything about that camous is brand new. its massive. we did a sorority house tour too. it was...interesting. Georgia wasnt as nice as i thought it would be and they didnt show us the dorms which likely means they suck. but she really liked georgia. its georgia and kentucky for her right now. maybe indiana too.

jokic, doncic, and wembanyama. are the three best players in the league europeans?

We were there in January for a tour. its a very pretty campus. We didnt do the dorm tour because we were on our way to Kentucky, so report back on that. 😉

it will be at least 7-2 against trump's EO. the odds are better that its 9-0 than the order is upheld.

who is larkin going to blame this year?

stuff coming out now is just weird. the bulls were likely to make him a QO before this. so he cost himself at least $10m.

if cossa works out, the trade is a plus.

its because monty williams was on that sours team... 🙂

mantha trade will depend on cossa, i think. early returns on the trade are negative.

i think sidney crosby and evgeni malkin make a lot of players better. including mantha and chinakov. larkin made kasper a lot better last year. then they decided kasper had to be a center and he went right back to underperformance (given his draft position). in the brief times he has returned to line one this season, the production has not followed. the grand rapids success has been built off veteran AAAA players, not prospect success. all the things the "prospect gurus" said about danielson and kasper (good, solid players who are more likely to end up as low second, high third line players) appears to be true. asp is too small. lombardi is too small. mazur is too small. mbn is too slow. tuomisto cant skate. wallinder doesnt play with size. the wings "have a type." hard working, responsible players. no more mantha's and athanasiou's for detroit. well....they have worked their way to being in the bottom of the middle of the league. theyre in the worst possible position: not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to get a star. they may be in the worst position in the entire league. i think jason is right that detroit was in a bad spot when yzerman got here. i think yzerman is on the seider/raymond timeline, not the larkin timeline. but its been 7 years now and you STILL cant find a defense prospect to replace ben chairot? how many drafts do you need? if johansson v.2 hits, genborg hits, lombardi grows, mazur gets a better doctor, danielson find some magic beans that make him aggressive, asp starts lifting weights, and mbn learns to finish, maybe they have something? but right now kasper and danielson look more like andrew copp than dylan larkin. asp's ceiling is gotishbere and not karlsson. mbn looks like a plugger. that equals borderline playoff team forever. is that what we want?

yes. but the current management team hasnt done enough to keep their jobs, imo. theyve been passed by multiple other organizations, some of whom have no business passing them (boston, pittsburgh, and possibly philly). im yzerman's biggest fan. in fact, he can stay. but there needs to be some serious changes to the front office if he does. otoh, if they wanted to overhaul to entire front office, get rid of the reliance on former red wing players, and start with a fresh new approach, that would be fine too. probably even preferable.

such a depressing thread.

you need a management change.