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  1. First off - looking forward to this year's team making some great Sioux hockey memories!

    Also - I'm trying to track down any footage of a game against Denver in the early 80s. Dean Dachysyn went through the penalty box to continue his "conversation" with the opposing player, and a penalty box fight ensued. Hoping to find any pictures or video if they're out there. Thanks in advance!

  2. Dang, thanks for the heads up - those new jerseys are killer! I might actually have to buy one. Isn't the logo on the shoulder patch?
     

    I definitely used to be "Sioux Forever" (and the part of me that learned to read on media guides/programs/etc always will), but I've realized it wasn't worth the controversy and also that Native American imagery is probably not well-suited for athletic team names. Fighting Hawks is a super lame name and I'm glad to see this alternate jersey unveiled. They obviously had full support of the athletic department, so I don't see the issue.

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  3. On 4/9/2021 at 8:37 PM, SiouxScore said:

    Would sure be nice to add a North Dakota logo next to Jimmy Clark as well.

    Pretty sure his dad went to UND. Typical Cities pretty boy, but a good enough dude and hopefully he steers his kid to Engelstad.

  4. 14 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

    Nice work Moderator.

    Would love to read only about UND hockey on this website, but a handful of you guys (moderator included wtf) feel compelled to unnecessarily bring a very debatable and politically sensitive topic into darn near every discussion. I bet the other moderators are really impressed with your posts like the above.

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  5. Let's talk about some new or good restaurants in GF so we stay on thread! I know the mods only shut down the political talk when there's a response (ref always get the retaliation!) so I guess you guys can keep it up.

    Personally, I miss Player's. Two for one drinks and half-priced apps really helped me out back in the day. I used a Jedi mind trick on the bartender/manager to get a pitcher of beer and four Morgan Cokes for the price of a pitcher. 4 beers in a pitcher, the equivalent two-for was 4 drinks. $8 I think. Had a good local stumble my last couple years at school with a cheap buzz at Players and blackjack and dirty girls at Southgate.

    These days, I'm a big fan of JL Beers and Vinyl Taco. 

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  6. 2 minutes ago, NDSU grad said:

    Dude. You were wrong about Covid being highly contagious. Forgot about it and move on. Here’s a link to help you out. It’s from that far-right organization the CDC though so I don’t know how credible it is. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/scientific-brief-sars-cov-2.html

    Glad to move on as I'm not going to get into a pissing match over something this absurd. I scanned that link and didn't see a single sentence about it not being highly contagious - what'd I miss? If it's not highly contagious, how are there so dang many cases? Can we blame testing some more?

  7. 10 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

    The problem with the people who say "daily positivity rate is the key number"  is no it isn't the key number.  States aren't being vilified by daily positivity rate.  They are being vilified by TOTAL NUMBER of positives - which sounds sooooo scary. 

    Which means if ND acted more like Manitoba or Iowa then my guess is nobody would be saying a f*&king thing about ND.  

    No one is scared by the total number of positives in ND. There aren’t enough people in ND for that number to be soooo scary. It absolutely is the daily positivity rates and the per capita rates that have people concerned. 

    And to the guy upthread talking about all the asymptomatic 5 - 39 year olds being incentivized to get tested and increasing the case numbers - do you have any data for that or did you pull it out of the air? And what incentives are you talking about? Is the incentive to know if you’re positive for the highly contagious virus overloading our hospital systems and causing many fatalities, or is there something more sinister at play here? WTAF

  8. 13 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

    How do you fire someone who was never officially a member? 

    https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1330644671693983750/photo/1

    Doesn't that link point to a Trump tweet calling Powell a member of his team on 11/14? Kinda splitting hairs regardless, they had her up there speaking on their behalf so regardless of a technicality or Trump's tweet, she was at the very least taking a face-off whether she was on the team or not.

  9. 23 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

    who is being denied access to health care?  

    If you'll reread what I said, I said giving access to screenings and preventative healthcare on a regular basis was a good idea. I never said anyone was being denied access to healthcare. You guys and your straw man arguments in this thread are tiresome. But, when it's the only tool in your toolbox, it doesn't really how matter dull it is, eh?

    I was only talking about Canada's healthcare to prop them up for something besides legal weed, all-dressed chips, and their hospitality in my Walsh Hall days. I'd rather continue discussing the tinfoilers that think the election was rigged against Trump. I had no idea the internet was this full of smart people (maybe) following ludicrous conspiracy theories, jiminy Christmas.

     

  10. 1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

    Fair enough....especially the lifestyle comment.

    Any thoughts on how demographics might play a role in life expectancy between the two countries?

    I quite luckily blew this thread off during the Black Lives Matter protests this summer, and am not going to take the bait. Not particularly interested in discussing demographics with this board. I think there would certainly be a positive correlation between low life expectancy and living below the poverty line, I’d give you that much. 

  11. 10 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

    Curious as to why you think that is? Canadians live longer than Americans.....why is that?

    There are a lot of factors that go into that, and I'm not claiming to be an expert. Lifestyle choices obviously play a part, but giving access to screenings and preventative health care on a regular basis sure seems like a good idea.

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  12. 23 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

    If you or someone you loved were dealing with a serious healthcare issue...let’s say it’s cardiac...would you rather be in the Canadian system or the US?  I can tell you that id be at the Cleveland Clinic tomorrow. 

    I said learn from, not trade with. As someone with a good standard of living, health insurance, and a healthy(+/-) lifestyle, if/when I need serious healthcare I do and will continue to go the best regional facilities I can - might as well play the hand you're dealt. That doesn't mean our current system couldn't use an overhaul - Canada's system consistently outperforms ours in several major metrics, most significantly life expectancy and percentage of GDP that is spent on health care.

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  13. 2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

    I’ll say it again: can we contract with Canada to run our next national election? All paper ballots and hand counts. 

    Have you been sounding the alarm that our elections aren't run properly prior to 2020? Or did this go from zero to national crisis in one election cycle? I'll assume the latter.

    Do you think your attitude towards our elections has been influenced by the Trump campaign? Their only path to remain in power is to remove public faith in the election process, disenfranchise the votes of every American (especially the ones that voted against them), and throw a Hail Mary trying to get in front of a Supreme Court that they think they've stacked. It won't work, and they know it - but they'll do it anyways. Horrifyingly un-American, and a sadly tragic and predictable end to what I hope is the most far-right President this country ever elects. Our election process is fine - it's only now that Trump lost that we're talking about it.

    On another note, Canada does a ton of things well that we could learn from. Health care, cannabis, all-dressed chips, and they've got the hockey thing down. I'll always owe them for the road trips out of Walsh Hall to the peeler bars.

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  14. Just now, SIOUXFAN97 said:

    what's your source on the 5-25?  if this is so absurd why did they vote 2-2 to not certify?

    My source was from mlive.com, posted the link a few pages back when this BS all started. 
     

    The two votes not to certify (assume you’re talking about Wayne County last week; it was 3-0 today in favor of certifying with one abstaining) were from two minor county election officials that drink the Trump Kool Aid. There hasn’t been any evidence presented of voter fraud in Michigan (or anywhere else).  

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  15. 5 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

    but isn't this hypothetical exactly what is happening in michigan?  they signed off on it just to move it on.....

    Dude they were like 5-25 votes out of balance max in each precinct. Your hypothetical is absurd. As said above, it wouldn't have been certified by the county. 

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  16. 43 minutes ago, Bison Dan said:

    Please enlighten us on these tax shelters?

    Im definitely not saying tax shelters are partisan. Rich people both blue and red have tools at their disposal to avoid paying taxes that normal folk simply don’t have.  When you see some of the effective tax rates paid by the wealthy, it’s pretty crazy and counterintuitive to how things should work in a healthy society. In my opinion at least, obviously. 

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