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Wings top line playing some terrible D and Nede bailing them out.

well sure - in the most global sense, but if we are talking about health and safety regulatory mandates, you aren't arguing they exist for private citizens in their homes are you?

ignorance knows no party I guess. What makes it so totally ridiculous is that at a time when when a document like that might have taken a take a week for a staff to review and fact check, the standard was such that a mistake like that would have cost a job, whereas today when the task can be done in 10 minutes no-one bothers, and it will pass with hardly a shrug of a shoulder.

actually that's not quite a good formulation either. The state may have standards for the sale and manufacture of ladders, but there is no state law on the books (at least in MI) that tells me what I can and can't do with a ladder in my house. If I want to be absolutely damn-the-deep-state daring and stand on the top step, there is no authority to cite me for it - yet.

well this part of your arg at least fails though - many things that OSHA regulates in the workplace are also done out side the workplace. Ever been exposed to dirty air at home? Ever climb a ladder? Do we exclude OSHA from regulating use of ladders in the workplace because you use them at home? I could give you at least a dozen other examples off the top of my head but not to bore you. But as I've said, this is my biggest complaint about many things coming out of courts today - which is the general ignorance of judges about the real world or even how the law works on the ground in real practice. They make arguments that are nonsensical to the larger public because they have such a narrow understanding of real life. This is not a conservative/liberal issue per se, just a complaint about high level law becoming so Ivory tower from both ideological ends that you end up with too many decisions that tilt at windmills but don't move in the direction of bringing equity or justice to society. Also why I hate this trend to nominate the youngest judges you can so you can push them though a confirmation process where they have no history. Once a judge goes to Scotus their existence becomes divorced from any normal human reality and any possibility of further real life experience is pretty effectively cut off - so the younger their elevation, the less likely they will ever be champions for ordinary people. I think this is one of the things that I like in John Roberts even though I think he is too idealistic about conservative principles such as the belief that law in the US can/will ever be colorblind or esp money=speech. At least he has some humility about the social cost of constantly breaking the china.

always heart warming to see a valley girl that has found her way back home.

I don't have an issue so much if the mandate eventually falls because it was bad rule-making, but I still can't buy the argument that that Osha's enabling legislation does not provide sufficient mandate. Arguments like "the rule only protects unvaccinated workers from their own choices" seem to fundamentally misunderstand what OSHA does. A mandate to put a two handed interlock on a punch press is exactly a rule that does nothing more than protect a worker from his own choices. Are the mandate opponents ready to throw out all those?

Could be. I'm not wed to Blashill at all. I do think that the NHL has a lot of bad coaches that keep hanging around because the old boy network is so strong in the NHL and that's the downside risk. Now, to be fair, I can't see Yzerman being the kind of GM that's going to bring in some neanderthal because he's an old buddy. OTOH, I think he is the kind of GM who he if had already seen a really promising coach become available would have already pulled that trigger. So despite the frustrations of individual games, Blash isn't so big issue for me either way.

yeah - all we can really say is that at least they do have a lot of arms available with reasonable potential so they've helped their odds to that degree, but we've all seen even large numbers of potential fillers all fail in the same year.

he's having a big season in winter ball - you just wait!

Agree and disagree. I think it is important for Candidates to have to express themselves in an environment they don't control. I would agree this pseudo-debate format is a lousy way to do it. I would just as soon require each candidate to do one or more solo interviews with a Mike Wallace level interviewer. The gold standard for this if you ask anyone old enough to remember may have been Jack Paar's candidate interviews prior to the 1960 election. Maybe the most informative hours about candidates ever done on TV.

So we assume Edvinnsson as one. McIssaac is at GR and at least he is finally playing regularly - so maybe some hope on that front if his shoulder holds together. Two guys can make a big difference on D. Look at how much difference Seider has made by himself.

Probably true, but in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king. They don't have better skaters to put at Center.

works for me!

kits are available again now, the shortage was largely a transient issue with the explosion of Omicron. The industry is/will catching up. Demand per se is not the problem, the capacity is there, it as much inconsistent demand defeating sales forecasts. But there is a valid point that if vaccination is not effective for containing contagion, then the rational for the OSHA rule is undercut and does appear vaccination is not particularly effective at stopping Omicron contagion. The problem is that Omicron may not be the last variant and vaccination may be very effective at stopping transmission of the next variant or next epidemic. Law needs to be generalizable to be of any value so one would hope that the court doesn't make a ruling tied to a particular case that may or not be a good representative of the general situation. The case needs to be decided on some general principle beyond the technical question of how good these vaccines work against this variant of one virus. Doubt it will be though.

Of course a lot, maybe even most, OSHA regs are cumbersome. Generally the way around that is partial exemptions for smaller orgs without the resources. But really, getting an employee tested once a week and recording said result is a lot easier than even the most basic requirement for say air monitoring or toxics exposure. My sympathies are pretty limited here.

I suppose it depends on how you define "stupid." 🤔

yeah - those are pretty terrible - just bad research.

I think it depends. If you have two candidates with long track records they probably don't have any impact (eg Trump/Biden), but Obama against McCain did a lot to give people confidence that Obama was up to the task, and Hillary hurt herself with lackluster performances in the latter debates -- so they can be important. But more important is that it will hurt a candidate to duck a debate even with people who wouldn't have watched it in the first place. The downside for ducking debates in US politics is usual severe. Americans hate cowards.

Time isn't going to help when they don't care, and they don't care about football in LA.

When you don't have guys that can't pass accurately or carry the puck past at least one defender, that's where you end up. And of course dump and chase is pointless when you don't have the speed to get there first. Offensively they are just a useless group once you get past the 1st line, which on most teams would actually be a good 2nd line. Veleno and Zadina have no more than 3rd line potential. They need to upgrade probably 6 (OK, 5 if Vrana is 1) forwards and a couple more D to be any definition of a good team. As much as it gets frustrating and you start to focus on Blashill, the truth is you watch the games and you see that even when they win, player by player the other team is putting faster more skilled players on the ice, and that makes me reconsider if there is any point to dumping on Blashill.

yes. In Washtenaw county vax rates are getting near 80% but the majority of hospital admits are still unvaxed. When you consider that vax rates are highest in the most vulnerable populations - the elderly, it's pretty clear that vaccination is helping people resist Omicron illness as well even if the they are less effective at preventing spread with Omicron than with previous variants.

Part of this is that Seider is good enough that everyone else back there is looking even worse by comparison. No argument Hronek has a problem, his skating just seems in the toilet, they all pass him like he's standing still. But it's also true that some of the forwards are so bad defensively that guys on the blue line don't get much help and I think that makes them look even worse than they are. After Larkin, Seider and Raymond, the Wings are a poor skating team and so they are going to look terrible anytime they play a team with better than average speed. They also play pretty soft physically so that means they get pushed around a lot by teams that play a hard edged style. That doesn't leave a lot a teams they can beat on a given night.

Yup, Coulter is a bona fide Aryan Nation xeonophobe. She was bound to part company with any leader unwilling to use machine guns nests at the border. Even kid's in cages wasn't enough for Oberherrin Coulter.

IDK, even if it has, that doesn't mean it should continue to be.