Yeah...wasn't aware Lekhonen broke a thumb!!! My fav player has been Landeskog since they drafted him and I bought his jersey his rookie season! I own 3 hockey jerseys...Joe Sakic, Gabe Landeskog and one of the Hanson Bros from Slapshot/Charlestown Chiefs fame!!!! I'd buy more but can't justify spending 180-300 for a F****** glorified shirt! I'd kill for an Adam Foote, like an Eric Johnson, LOVE a Scott Stevens (yeah, I know...Devils after Caps) BUT he was the most devastating CLEAN hitter I ever saw play hockey, period! Sure would like a MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar, Francouz (after his cup performance last year...6-0!) but as a disabled veteran buying outrageously priced items like these are a once in a blue moon treat. I wish to CHRIST politicians were forced to live on the same exact money we pay fully disabled veterans (those with a 100% full & permanent rating) as WE"RE why they're able to fu*k EVERYONE, be bought by lobbyists, allowed to do insider trading, make 10x what a DV gets paid and they also get "golden parachute" pension/retirement AND health care coverage for their entire family FOR LIFE even if they only serve one term. MAKE them live on what DV's get, same healthcare, same retirement (none) and see how quickly 99% of the problems in this country are resolved with bipartisan rapidity never believed to be possible!
OOOHHH...almost forgot...ANY politician who got out of serving in the military because Daddy had the money and connections to get them a diagnosis of bone spurs in their feet (a certain very recent president's excuse why he could not serve when the draft still existed!) should NOT be eligible to hold ANY federal office, period! IF you're not willing to fight and maybe die for your country, to protect your way of life, your family etc. than you don't deserve to be in a position to literally "RUN" the country as well as you don't deserve ANYTHING that you weren't willing to fight to defend if it came down to it. This is not at all directed at one party and not the other either...this SHOULD BE LAW! The only way anyone should be excused from serving is if they have GENUINE, significant problems verified by a panel of at least 3-5 independent physicians. Sorry...just in a rotten mood as I'm hurting beyond belief but going to the VA ER will only infuriate me as they outright refuse to admit people who's primary complaint is intractable, indescribable PAIN! They give me a Tylenol and ice pack and tell me to go home to relax...haven't slept in over 80 hours. I also believe it should be legal to tie every "opiate crusading" politician who never gave a thought about drugs killing people when it was strictly inner city & poor rural people....but now there's middle to wealthy WHITE KIDS dying, so opiates ought to be banned and every chronic pain patient who's life has required opiate meds for years (over 20 in my case without a single incident, never ran short, never abused ANY med, never used ANY illicit drugs, never misused a prescription AND have a semblance of a life while on those opiates now being forced off to try a "safer" drug.....10 days in and I'm ready to take a long dirt nap. I knew this would be a long, drawn out process and was able to get them to put on paper that IF this medication failed to provide me with a similar ability to at least try to enjoy life as often as I had been able to that they WILL put me back on the 2 different super duty & high dose opiates I've been on almost continually since 2004...I say "almost continually" as I had a 6 week period where the state forced ALL physicians to cut off all of the opiates they prescribed but thankfully chose my non VA PCP very well as he fought/bitched and screamed (as well as sent in hundreds of documented medical records listing the dozens upon dozens of pain meds I failed as well as the almost 200 headache/migraine + other oddballs once used to treat intractable headaches and had me back on what I'd been on since 2004 though those 6 weeks were living hell and I wound up hospitalized for the majority of 3 of those weeks.
Thanks for listening if you made it this far and once again, my apologies...I just REALLY need to vent...sort of like a volcano hours-days in advance of blowing the entire mountain apart in the very near future.