MattPie

I'm curious, what's the concept in keeping your phone hidden away?

I go back and forth about State Rights vs. Federal. On one hand, the idea that individual states can choose what's best for them has merit. On the other hand, I believe in the idea that there are "Americans" as a people and having each state be it's own little country with wildly different education, commerce rules, or laws about every day things isn't an advantage. At least some of the states would end up denying rights to portions of their population. Companies would have a harder time expanding outside state boundaries. We'd look more like the European Union and I'm not sure that's a good thing. I'd worry it would only stoke division and end up in, if not Civil Wars, Civil Conflicts. Thought experiment: more people live in California than Canada. The argument for states rights is that the federal government is too big and craves too much power (I think, educate me if that's not the case). Is it OK that the State Government of California would be larger and more powerful than Canada? If so, where does the boundary lie?

That was Bogosian, not Kane.

I don't know the others well enough, but I don't see Johnson going to AZ. Domingue has been OK for them and Mike Smith is supposedly coming back this season. I think they just fill the spot with a prospect until Smith returns.

It'll be interesting to find out which NHL exec has skeletons in the closet and is protecting him from DoPS.

Bogo often ends up against the other teams' top line, which may be a bit much for him. Based on this year, he's not a top-2 D. I think if he were playing a steady 2nd pair role, his numbers would look a lot better. Unless he falls further off a cliff, he's better than 3rd pair.

I see it more like, "Well, the season is scerwed, what's the most crazy thing that goes against my instincts I can do here? I know, Eichel, O'Reilly, and Risto in OT!"

I have one of these, and it seems to work pretty well in the very limit riding I've done, FWIW. My Nexus 6 is the largest possible device that'll fit in it though, I have a chunky case that doesn't fit, but the slim case does. http://www.amazon.com/RAP-SB-187-UN7U-Mount-Thunderbolt-Incredible-Smartphones/dp/B005EP84Q8/ref=pd_sim_422_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=41Un6YWru4L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0QXF207QF7RGY2X0VTC9

I'm not in love with the size most of the time, but it's nice for watching a little Netflix at night. I don't use my TV nearly as much as I used to, I'm really thinking about downsizing it if not for the cost.

:) Possibly, although that would only happen in Lindback was on the block.

Otter Creek is often good. Their porter has been around forever and holds up reasonably well. Kind Ryed, Fresh Slice, and Over Easy are nice beers too.

I don't think there's a really easy embed, but save as .png and upload might work.

Stone is in SD.

What's incredible is in the entirety of WW2 and Vietnam, not a single soldier, sailor, or marine got drunk and couldn't make reveille in the morning.

Victory and Southern Tier to unite under a single holding company. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/victory-brewing-company-and-southern-tier-brewing-unite-under-new-holding-company-2097138.htm

Even the dust ups are pretty civil, as we've recently seen. Wait, what? Are we really talking about the party that hasn't compromised on anything (other than their small government principles, hey-ooooo) since Clinton was president? But you're right, the Democrats would pull the same crap. It's still stupid. The Supreme Court is the top of 1/3 of the government, leaving it a mess for a year because they want to score points and hopefully pick their own is BS.

Coyotes add to the Ryan Vinz club: http://coyotes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=869074

I think this belongs in the Buffalo Women's Hockey team thread. :ph34r: (I feel quite bad about about making this joke)

25 games left, 52 points. To get to 93, that's 41 points. Let's call that 19-4-2. Not likely, the Sabres can only leave 10 points on the table before it becomes unlikely they end up #8.. Even 80 is 28 points, so 12-11-4, which seems reasonable give the current team, but deadline selling probably makes that optimistic.

I think you just divide the amount of line out by the number of lines supporting the load, so 8 ft out / 4 lines = load drops 2 ft. The worker, BTW, only has to hold up 1/4 of the load weight. In general terms, block and tackle systems don't alter the amount of work required to lift a load, they just change the force - distance ratio. If you quarter the force required to lift or hold the load, you need to put four times the line through the system (distance) to lift the load to the same height..

I like your optimism. Yandle has been talked about around here, but last I heard he's off the block for the trade deadline due to injuries on the Blueshirt Blue Line. I don't follow that closely, so I have no idea what his contract situation is.

If they're really paying attention, could they be betting on GMTM fire sale and the likes of Schaller and whatnot regularly skating the last 20 games?

Do we all get to declare victory if Kane is traded in a hockey trade, such as for a #3/4 LHD? Or does it have to be that he's be run out of town for antics? Realistically, they guy is good but I could see moving him for the right return.

This year? Almost no chance barring something like losing 3 games for the rest of the season. So no, it's not going to happen.

This is going to sound snarky, but you're advocating that everything was going in the right direction at the culmination of 4 years of nearly unrestrained government spending (creating jobs in the war industries), which itself was at the end of 8 years of massive government jobs programs before that, all of which were fairly tightly regulated. And, that the government should be re-educating the population to think the right way.