K-9
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At least you are admitting it, which is step one. I wouldn't call your attempt interesting though, that seems a bit self serving.
For those of us who have actually taken the time to watch the Canucks and Kassian play we have seen a young kid going through his growing pains. I don't believe anyone is saying otherwise. When he is playing well, hitting/fighting and scoring as he did earlier in the season, you seen qualities that the Sabres are sorely missing. As Kassian gets older and more consistent, the regret over this trade will increase in Sabre Nation.
Come on, everyone knows Hodgon's dad does all his fighting for him. :w00t:
And as Hodgson gets older and more consistent the appreciation over this trade will increase in Sabre Nation.
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Sorry...he's now on the 3rd line of a team with 90% more points than the Sabres, 3/8 of the way through the season..................
Yes. The Canucks have 90% more points than the Sabres because Kassian plays on the third line.
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It lives through Foligno.
So then Foligno represents that departure from the soft forwards you spoke of up thread? A skilled young player at a position of need PLUS more of a Kassian then even Kassian himself. Nice.
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Then again I dont compare Kassian and Hodgson. I compare Kassian and Foligno. And I rather keep Foligno than Kassian.
That's the only sensible comparison that can be made. Why anyone would consider comparing centers in Buffalo's system with wingers in Vancouver's is beyond me. Foligno consisently demonstrated more of the "Koncept of Kassian" in both RaChaCha and Buffalo last year than Kassian did. End of story. Foligno made it a very easy trade to make.
As for the trade itself, we got a comparably talented player at a much greater position of need at the time. And although both teams will end up benefitting from the trade, Buffalo wins on that basis alone.
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This thread gets dumber and dumber with each game Kassian plays.
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I think both teams can be winners with this trade. We desperately needed a young center with #1 potential. They needed a power forward with skills and toughness. If things continue on the trajectory of the first couple of games, I'd be happy with the trade.
^This. 'Nuff said. It took a young promising player to land another promising player at a position of greater need. Foligno has played more like what we wanted out of Kassian to this point anyway. Good luck to Zack in Vancouver. That's all I got to say about it. I just don't see the point in comparing them after every game.
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I thought there was an eclipse that day and here it was your damned calves in the way the entire time.
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We don't want it.
Haha. Apparently, NYC doesn't want SI, either.
I'm gonna have to start a "Statehood for Staten Island" movement.
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Why on earth is Staten Island not a part of New Jersey? As often as I've been in that neck of the woods, I never once considered that. But looking at the map so many times over the last few days it really struck me. Was it the Dutch? Some early spat between the colonies? I gotta check this out.
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NYRR is saying cancelled. No need to bring the topic and circumstances up again IMO
Whatever you say, chief.
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Cancelled or rescheduled?
Good question. CNN is just indicating 'cancelled' but I gotta believe it'll be postponed.
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Bloomberg came to his senses and canceled the marathon.
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Thus once again proving there is no difference between a nutjob Muslim cleric and a nutjob Christian cleric.
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The mother who watched her 4-year-old get swept away only to have her 2-year-old yanked from her arms by the surge hit me hard. I can't imagine, because even imagining that kind of despair would probably kill me.
As a parent of a 11 and 7 year olds, this story hits particularly hard.
In their report on this story, CNN showed the place where her SUV stalled, the sinkhole she ended up in, and the toppled tree she clung to with her two children. Within 50 feet of that tree is the house she told people she knocked on the door of only to be rebuffed by the owner. 50 feet between clinging to a tree and two little ones in 90 mph winds and the shelter of a home.
CNN also interviewed the man who allegedly denied her refuge. His version is that he never saw any woman with children but that a man had thrown a concrete brick through is back door when the homeowner refused to go outside and assist the man. Perhaps, in the terror of that storm the man was confused and scared, and with good reason. Only he and the woman know the truth. But when I see the proximity of that tree and his house, it's hard to believe she didn't knock on his door.
That man is going to be vilified for the rest of his life. This storm claimed victims in many ways to be sure.
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About half of the deaths in NYC appear to have been on Staten Island, and nearly all of those in areas designated as Mandatory Evacuation Zones at noon on Sunday. Everyone had more than 24 hours to leave the area. The dead range from age 2 to age 79. Sadly, this tragic loss of life did not need to occur.
This is true. Unfortunately, storm warnings often sound like crying wolf to many people. You have NOTHING to lose by heeding them but risk losing EVERYTHING when you don't. Just read a NY Times story about some of the victims they've recovered. Heart wrenching stuff.
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So let me get this right. The NBA has enough sense to postpone the Knicks-Nets game because of issues with public transportation....but Bloomberg thinks it's a good idea to hold the marathon and close streets and divert first responders? Common sense really is in short supply these days.
I think Bloomberg is trying to have his "9/11" moment like Rudy G did and show the rest of the world that New Yorkers are tough and resilient and can rise above the adversity. But it was nearly two months between the events for Rudy while they are still finding bodies in the post Sandy recovery effort today. This is a stupid move by Bloomberg and it wouldn't surprise me if he changed his mind.
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Interesting read about the mess following Katrina. Lots in there that I wasn't aware of.
Great read. Thanks for posting. I commend those NOPD officers who never lost sight of their humanity during that time. But that city never had a chance given the ineptitude of its local leadership.
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Bush didn't land because he didn't want to get in the way. He was trying to be helpful. I'm glad even you see the logic of this.
Too bad the main-stream media ripped Bush apart over it, at the behest of the democrats. In their combined effort to score political points, the democrats and the media did untold damage to racial harmony in this country over Katrina. Yet, after all of this time, the myth that Bush did nothing, and the main-stream media was only "reporting the facts" survives.
That said, turn about is fair play. It's not like after what the democrats did during Katrina, after four years of Obama dividing the country, and, indeed, after nearly 50 years of democrats pounding on the racial wedge, there's much more damage that can be done. So, God speed Fox News, Drudge, et al...you make Obama look like the incompetent, partisan tyrant he is.
Even me? Nice. Keep up with your assumptions.
And blame the 'main stream media' bogeyman all you like. A president simply can't say "heckuva job, Brownie" against the backdrop of the images we saw coming out of NO in Katrina's aftermath. But I blame Bush's advisers for that historic gaffe more than Bush himself. Brownie sure made a nice scapegoat though, didn't he?
Turn about is fair play? During a national disaster? Are you hoping we'll see images of corpses left on the street, hungry people crammed into unfit shelters, people stranded for days, bodies carried from homes, anarchy on the streets? I don't know how to respond to that level of maturity about the issue.
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Provided he can stay out of the responders' way and won't be tying up resources needed on the ground for all the security and circus that goes with a President showing up somewhere, then I'd agree that the President's presence can be 'uplifting' (or something like that).
But, if he's going to get in the way, better to survey from above and not make things worse.
My understanding is that Mayor Bloomberg requested the President not tour NYC. If that is in fact the case, good for him for not getting in the way of those doing the very difficult task they're working on. Gov. Christie wanted him in Joisey, good for him going there.
I think that's a fair way of putting it. I agree.
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Marine 1 is the helicoptor. It never landed in NO though.
On a different note, it was very satisfying breezing past a mile long line of cars waiting for gas on my bicycle on the way to work today.
Wow, I just assumed that Marine One must have landed in NO. Even though I put a TON of blame on his advisers for the mistakes he made in terms of rhetoric, for him not to land and get up close to the destruction is totally on him. Even if he was advised not to, a president has to say, "Phuck it, those are my people down there."
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Bush sent Cheney. Bush's helicoptor never landed in New Orleans and everyone killed him for it. The presidency IS symbolic. It's the president's job to re-assure. It's everyone elses to get stuff done. Obama had to do that yesterday.
I recall Bush personally surveying the damage from Marine One as well in the aftermath of Katrina. Perhaps I'm "misremembering?"
Anyway, as I said upthread, what doomed Bush and forever stamped him as bungling Katrina in the eyes of many was that his rhetoric did not match the images we were being bombarded with. And if things worsen and people become less patient with no power and living in shelters, etc. the potential is there for Obama to have his own "helluva job, Brownie" moment as well. And I GUARANTEE that Fox News and the Drudges of the world are busy looking for just such an opening with this disaster.
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Did you see the before and after pics of Breezy Point? Someone posted them in the Off the Wall forum. Shocking doesn't cover it. It's amazing nobody died in that inferno.
Here are the pics. First link is before pic. Notice house with white roof at bottom center of pic:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qrskxh8v64cj&lvl=19.24&dir=359.05&sty=o&form=LMLTCC
After pic with same house at lower left. Unbelievable.
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I cannot believe the pics from NYC. I can't see how the are going to get the subway fully operational for at least a week. The houses that caught fire in Rockaway. LaGuardia under water.
Did you see the before and after pics of Breezy Point? Someone posted them in the Off the Wall forum. Shocking doesn't cover it. It's amazing nobody died in that inferno.
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...and I'm sure that a cop in Wilson knows so much more about waves and rip currents than a surfer. ;)
Why do we make it their job to care about stuff like this, anyway. If you are smart enough to know what you are doing, you shouldn't have to waste your time justifying yourself to a badge. If you are not smart enough, well, then, a little culling of the herd is never a bad thing either. (Mind you, I only feel this way about things that only effect the participant)
Bottom line SwampD: that "surfer" is a p.u.s.s.y that just doesn't want it bad enough.
Kassian to Vancouver for Hodgson
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I was merely pointing out the opposite to DeLuca's take.
And I agree, this debate is about as pointless as it gets.
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