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The system continues to spin into chaos. I have no doubt only some future Congress will be able to sort out the mess the courts have created, but of course not likely this Congress.

Right. It has been the strategy going back to Reagan. If you find a dificiency in the government, you don't fix it, you use it as an excuse to stop doing that function, which is precisely the agenda of the GOP's corporate funders and why the GOP is able to collect so much corporate money despite the general corporate preference for sanity and stability. What could be more transparent in that regard than their crusade against the IRS? The people who rail daily about deficits won't support the agency that could earns back something like $10 for every 1$ they put into it?

Yzerman has a lot of confidence in his - or his system's - ability to find talent in the draft. He's sort of the exact anti-Holland in that regard.

yup. Another guy who is OK but for whom I would take what I can get.

on second and third thought I have to say that moving Hronek does surprise me. I guess that means Yzerman has some level of confidence in the Dmen coming up through the system, because with Hronek gone there certainly isn't much to be excited about in the Wing's current defense corps past Seider and Walman. It could also mean that Yzerman sees something that makes him doubt that Hronek's turnaround this season is sustainable.

LOL - seems to me they were a lot less corrupt than the US gov on or about July, 2019....

could we be setting the premise for.... MALICE. ?

Now the other shoe that has to drop is Bertuzzi isn't it? You've more or less raised the white flag on this season even if it is a good trade for Hronek.

Bert can play an abrasive style, but he's not big enough to create much physical 'presence.' I tend to think they would rather deal him, but he may have succeeded in torpedoing his trade value over the last year, thus I wouldn't be that surprised he does't get moved now. Afterall, even if they don't wan't him long term they can sign him and then trade him in the off-season just as well.

Angela Merkel and Neville Chamberlian can have a good talk comparing notes in the hereafter....

Seems Putin has made that choice for us.

this one is going to be more interesting. Signing Larkin was no-brainer, but I wonder more about where Bertuzzi's skill set (and baggage) rank put him SY's hierachy?

but the payoff is bigger in terms of pulling the teeth of an adversary that traditionally generates a lot of the rest of the defense budget. To the degree that it also leverages the Euros into a more active defense posture it could reduce our long term burden there as well, though whether Euro current rhetoric will be followed by concrete Euro spending is certainly still an open question.

ususally there are more teams wanting to trade down than up - we'll see if this qb crop has enough drawing power to make this year an exception.

a game with too much 'effin around before they found out.

just repeat to yourself as you sip your coffee..."It's not my money, it's not my money....."

never a doubt

in the interview clip Holmes seemed to me to be thinking purely in terms of getting a backup secured and doing it a little earlier in the process than they strung it out to last year. I'd go short on early round QB draft.

Cartoon says Manning didn't have a lot on his FB. No issue for his first start but something to track given how many guys come to camp throwing full speed today.

man, tough AB for Torkelson there. Every pitch was on a corner or just off. He did what he could do - took all the balls and swung at the strikes, but he wasn't going to do anything with any of them.

No problem. Washtenaw east of Stadium, Huron Parkway, Jackson Rd west of Wagner. All within minutes of campus....

Looking at those they also have pretty bad lawyers and marketing people, because if you hold a trademark, the quickest way to lose it is to talk about your own product incorrectly. So for instance, if the NCAA is going to avoid losing the right to the trademark "NCAA Basketball", then every time they referred to it in their own literature, they need to say, "NCAA Basketball brand Naismith game competition" or some such. (see - already impossible). IOW, if you don't use your own trademark to properly refer to your own product as a particular case of a generic thing, you lose it. If you look at Dupont literature about Teflon - it always says "Teflon brand non-stick coating" etc. As one of our alums would say - loonspuderry.

NCAA is not going to successfully sue anybody for saying dribble - or probably several others of those because they fail the 'alternative' test. You can't sustain a trademark for a term for something if it already has become the generic term for it - for instance "NCAA Basketball". For example, take 'Kleenex brand tissue." Without 'tissue' being available, they could not trademark 'Kleenex', The NCAA tournament is the thing itself - I don't see how that could pass muster. Obvious the same for dribble. OTOH, "Elite 8" is a particular term for a particular tournament quarter final. Since I can say what I just typed, 'Elite 8' is probably trademark able.

I though C.K. had a lot of useful things to say early in his career, but it seemed like Obama's determination to get the US out of lapdog status to whatever injustices Israel wanted to commit in the West Bank was more than he could handle and it seemed to drive him right into the lunatic right's arms before he passed.

I only wore a tie-back (soft cloth 'strings') when I had to wear one all day. Cannot abide elastic around my head or behind my ears for more than about 1/2 hour. Got really good at tying knots behind my head.