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Just so you understand my position, I do think these things are very concerning. I think it very clear that a large group of people are trying very hard to hold on to control that they have had for a number of decades. Call it deep state or whatever. The problem is that there are very few willing to confront the issues involved with this centrally held power. The minute Comey was introduced as a highly respected "by both sides" impartial arbiter of justice my BSometer was triggered, I then saw him talk and the needle pinned. I knew that claptrap about Hillary doing things that would have landed you or me in jail for good would result in nothing waaaaaaaaaaay ahead. They could have paid me a few million and I could have written that crap he spewed on national TV in an hour. It would have saved time and money. He's a lap dog exactly like I said years ago over and over. I'm sure if you look you can find it. Beardy McGee, like Huber and Horowitz have merely put a different spin on the same inaction. This is is all very obvious and right there for people to see. That it doesn't bother some people because of political persuasion is sad but real.

Ralph Krueger?

Well run organizations aren't just going to let a ton of players walk without trying to re-work the guys they want to keep and let the Shearys of the world hit the market. We also won't be the only team with cap money and any top FA will realize we need 4 top FAs or this won't be an attractive place at all. We are not set up anywhere close to succeed in FA the way you describe.

Dude sorry but as much as they likely did, they are not getting indicted because the phony indictors are part of the pack.

You don't have to run for office to be a politician. Those people are politicians.

Lol at "a few missing pieces". If by " a few" you mean nine then we agree. I also agree that the offseason is a better time to make transactions than just doing a deadline deal to do it. With that said, I am skeptical about a magical avalanche of good players falling into our lap. Most NHL teams are competently managed and able to adjust to multiple factors. We are used to signing Connor Sheary and hoping but other teams aren't run like that. You say that you're "hopeful" that "in the not too distant future" that the tide will turn. How does the tide differ from the trajectory which I've been told is already upward? Does the trajectory impact the tide sort of like the moon does? In terms of time are we using a human scale or a geological scale? The lack of specifics would be funny if it weren't actually superior to those the GM gives. Bots is a nice guy and I'll take no personal joy in watching him go, unlike Murray's departure. But depart he must.

That just missed Foxboro. How much more/less CO2 do we need? We can do it!!!!!!

A supernova would be more enjoyable.

When you assemble a roster as talent laden as this, you'll have to adeptly manage all the moving parts.

Wolf Blitzed

Blame the fans.

You mean you don't think Vesey, Sheary, Mittlestadt, Johanssen, Thompson, Berglund, et al, cut the mustard. Are you disagreeing that the Rangers are one of the best teams in the league? And are you ignoring this team's valuable World Juniors playoff experience?

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I'm not sure but do you find it annoying when your hamster tries to learn a second language but only the swear words?

These people can sire use their imaginations but their imaginations sure are limited.

And people also claimed Clinton and Obama wouldn't leave. It's a joke.

Guys, the Dolphins have Rosen so I doubt they pick a QB.

In the same way an arsonist does? I don't think that is true at all. They made consecutive hires of an arrogant moron followed by a nice guy who is a moron. They need to better with the next hire but I believe they want to win.

Understood. But is it Joan Jett?

The net of this is that Bots took three years to turn us into an expansion team that has no ability to draft players from other teams.

She's a liberal from Mass. I don't like to categorize people into groups but if you do you won't find a more racist group than Mass liberals.

Very sorry to hear. May God rest her soul and give peace to you and your family.

Imagine how dented that can must be given how long Beardy McGee and rest of the phony grifters have been kicking it down the road.

Any updates on this?

You're getting there. Let's just say these systems exist in 100 years. By then two other things will likely have happened: 1. Artificial intelligence will have made huge leaps. 2. Another theorized, or as yet theorized superior system of high speed space propulsion will have been devised and would potentially be deployable. Don't like 100 years as a measure? How about 10? 50? 1000? 10,000? Pick one. And let's say the limitation of light speed turns out to be 100% the upper limit. There is another constant that renders this exploration a little less exciting but no less important. It will always be vastly more difficult to maintain a life support system traveling for decades through space to known or unknown destinations than to go without one. Each one of us has billions of bacteria within that help support our existence. The same complexities and interdependencies are obstacles for most living things on Earth. Does it make economic sense or scientific sense to attempt to send entire ecosystems on journeys for thousands of years in multiple directions? It sure would be awesome but does it make sense? I don't think so, because all of these life forms come in miniature form and you know what they all do? They replicate. We don't have the means at this point in history but at some point in the future we will be able to send a miniature Noah's Ark.....and it will be able to replicate. It's transport will also be able to replicate. No matter how advanced we become, this method will always make more sense than transporting actual living things. So.....given self replicating robots that hop around exploring, how long would it take to explore the entire galaxy? Realistic numbers say it would be about 250k years once started for the purely robotic variety. This method makes sense for us. If the galaxy was teeming with life it would also have to make sense for at least some of the other societies, no? 250,000 years isn't that long really. But where are all these probes? Where is any other sign at all? We are learning a lot and every single thing we've learned in the past decade+ points to it being just us. Every data point. Our probes will be the first but with some luck and perseverance they will succeed somewhere, probably many somewheres.