Sabres Fan in NS

That may be. I can't remember exactly what he said and I am not up to relistening. If he did say that then he either does not know what he is talking about or he is on some kind of vendetta.

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Man, Charlie, you are about 11 hours late. Inky posted that just above your post, but 11 hours earlier. Sorry, Charlie, but you are not getting a lol thinking or an awesome thingie for piracy.

I don't know this not to be true, so I will believe it. I did take a look at the wikipedia (not always the best source) and it took about 3 years for enough testing to be done to determin that it worked. Anyway ... The thing is that polio is not like any other virus in that it never mutated very much at all. Once the vaccine was developed (God bless Dr. Salk for doing all his work for the true good of humanity and never patenting his vaccine and no one made money on it) it was good for all the polio viruses and still is. With COVID who knows how many times it has and will continue to mutate. In the end I believe there will be not a true vaccine, like for polio, but yearly shots similar to the annual flu shots.

I don't think so. I think it's more of a general comment on what happens in certain situations with injuries and other medical issues. It may even be more of a comment directed to the way the league approaches certain medical issues, especially mental health issues. It could be a comment based on society in general and the lack of proper care for many with mental health issues. Teams are going to be conservative in treatments for injuries like Jack's where there is substancial risk. Also, teams are not sure how to handle serious mental health issues, as are many others in our greater society. We always hear of people not getting the help they need, even when they are basically begging for it. I've been there. I know.

This is a great idea, except that the owners are trying for a little cash grab for the ad. We have to find a way for a sponsor to pay for the ad and have it set up as a 'brought to you by' kind of thing. Then each month a local charity will be selected to receive the proceeds of the sweater auction. This could work well and be a win / win. The billionaire owners would get a few shekels and the charity would get a nice pay day too.

If they are resorting to black mail let the team go.

Sorry, no I don't follow Finish football / hockey (??). I know that European hockey ads are way over the top, but they don't have the revenue streams that NHL teams have.

Yup. Now we have the Federal Conservative Party, but it has only existed since December 2003. It was put together when an alliance of right-wing parties merged with what remained of the Progressive Conservative Party. Before that there was the a mix in the Progressive Conservative Party of Progressives and Conservatives ... Red and Blue Tories. A splinter group of Blue Tories (mostly in Alberta and Saskatchewan) broke away to form the Reform Party. Other even more Blue Tories formed small parties, which all merged into what was called the Alliance Party, which merged with the remnants of the PC Party. Provincially there are many Progressive Conservative Party still around, including here in NS. I did not vote for them, as they are not Progressive enough for me, but they did run on a very Progressive platform. Much more Progressive than the Liberal Party of NS. We shall see if it lasts. Anyway, not sure if that answers your question, so I will just add that ... yes, it is rather oxymoronic. Liberal and Progressive Conservative Parties have long histories in Canada.

Long live the wing!! I have not had them for about 35 years, maybe more.

What a sad post this is. I'm done here.

I am considering both and for me the possible affects of COVID are not as risky. That said, and to your second point ... if you are not getting vaccinated you must not run around as if you are invinsible. That is risky behavior. If you are not vaccinated you must mask and go out as little as possible and be prepared to live a shelterd life, at least for now and until we see that the COVID thing has calmed down, which may not happen, because as long as the developed world are getting vaccinated and the others are not it will remain a problem. Last thing I will say on this is that I don't understand the backlash from the vaccinated against the un-vaccinated and saying that we are / will spread COVID. If you are vaccinated what are you worried about?

All you ever said is that you can see that it's possible that many Sabres get to 20 goals AND that you hope it happens. As far as I know you have not predicted 20 goals from so and so ,but you outlined how it may be possible. Good on you for the optimism. I don't think anyone should be coming at you for this stance. You are hoping that the Sabres find ways to score goals. Nothing wrong with that.

Yes. The vast majority said it was like a very bad cold, some not even. Others said the they didn't even know they had it. One friend did spend considerable time in hospital and it was very bad. She had blood clot issues in her lungs, but she is not sure if they were from the COVID, or the treatment. They developed while in hospital for treatment long after her other COVID symptoms were gone. Another friend who is a doctor in Europe got COVID as he was a front line doctor in the COVID ward at the main hospital in Novi Sad (Serbia). He had issues, but has recovered, but it take considerable time. He has tested for the anti-bodies and yet the authorities there are trying to force him to have the vaccine. He can't get an answer as to why. So far, they have not forced him. This tells me that something else is going on with the push to vaccinate. I am done with this *****

Pay wall, but I trust you. Still the article seems to 'imply' the Sabres offered x. I don't think there is actual documentation out there to confirm what the Sabre offer was. Also, why is there a 'd' on the word hire in the thread title?

How are there documented long-term serious health issues with COVID? It has not been around long enough. The vast majority of people who get it recover. The death rates that we know about in the developed world stand at about 2%. The vast majority of those people had underlying health issues to begin with. The deaths are tragic. Don't get me wrong. Bottom line is ... I am young (relatively speaking) and the risk of the unproven and rushed vaccines scare me more than COVID. I have family that have been severly affected by taking vaccines in the past, so I am reluctant, especially when I do not see a big problem in getting COVID. I am avoiding COVID as much as possible by doing the things that I was asked to do before the vaccines came out ... isolating as much as possible (this is easy for me, I admit ... I work from a home office and Zoom and electronic data exchange are easy for me to do as a CPA), wearing masks and physical distancing, which I was doing before COVID.

In most cases that I know the choice not to be vaccinated has nothing to do with that person being 'borderline insane' no matter what the reasoning. I do not like that people who disagree with other people are refered to as such. If you agree with me (yes, I am talking to you @Cascade Youth) you are sane and rational, but if you don't you are not. That is a terrible take, IMO.

Do have something that shows this? All I have ever seen reported was the the 'suspected difference' between the Sabre offer and the arbitrator award was $50,000, but nothing that says what the Sabre offer was.

Seems pretty small time to me. Something like that is now legal (betting on individual sporting events) in Canada, except the provinces have not figured out how to administer it as the law just passed

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WTF are you talking about?

Okay. I can understand what you are saying and feeling. I happen to agree with you that he is terrible. I think that our PM is terrible, but I do not celebrate if something bad happens to him in terms of health especially. Then what about Karma? You mentioned this is Karma coming back to haunt him. This tells me that you believe in good and bad Karma, so what about your thoughts being bad Karma? With that, I like you a lot and we are not going to get anywhere with more back and forth, so lets just leave at this. Okay?

Okay, wish was a bad word choice, but it does not change the fact that celebrating in someone's illness, or hardship, or whatever, is never right. No matter what they have done. I can understand victims of a murderers rampage feeling fine with them getting their punishment, but this situation is not like that. Even if you make the arguement that his policies as governor of Texas have been problematic and part of the issues with COVID illness and even death it is still not right to celebrate his misfortune.

This is correct. No matter what. If you know better, you need to do better. No matter what it is very bad form to wish ill on anyone. This is not going to help and is also a bad take, IMO.

Stunning result in Nova Scotia last night. A Progressive Conservative sweeping majority. No one really saw this coming. At the start of this very short and ill timed campaign the Liberals had a slight majority of 1 seat. The Premier took over from the retired Premier in February, so he wanted his own mandate, but he didn't need it now. He had 2 years left on the mandate he inherited, but nope, he needed his own. Well it backfired on his ass big time, heavy duty. The PC party ran a very good and very progressive campaign. I wish them luck in doing what they outlined. I am not upset, as the PC party right now are very liberal. Nova Scotia is a funny place in that they keep their hands close to their chest during elections and when they get pissed off they will really show it. Only about half of the eligible voters voted, which is disgraceful, and the ones that did about 40% voted PC. So, that means that roughly 21% of the eligible voters in NS decided for everyone else who was going to run the province for the next 4 years. We have a very strange electoral system here in Canada and it needs to change. I bet Mr. Smug Ass Trudeau is watching very closely what happened in NS last night. I think that he is in for a reconing on September 9th. I just hope that he hangs on for a slim majority, since I don't like his main competitor at all. My hope beyond hope is that Canada finally gives the very liberal NDP (New Democratic Party) a chance to govern, even in a minority. Minority govenments, both Federal and Provincial, tend to work best, as the PM needs to work with other parties to get things done.