North Buffalo

im 6’2” 196 and despite a little belly people think im thin so yeh he can put on some muskles...

My other job we were without a contract for about a year and it finally got worked out. Agree strike is not necessary. Depends on negotiations. From what I understand management is trying to play hardball so hence the strike threatening... not in the room so not sure what is happening but SCOTUS recent ruling can’t help.

My experience the last 5 years and the first time I’ve ever been in one has been positive for the most part. Again see above and SEIU is one of the largest.

Generally agree, but I wouldnt have termed KO healthy, able to play yes, but seemed that his game was off. Whether it is because of post injury issues... or he’s falling off the cliff, we will know at latest by November.

So one of the Hospitals I work at may be affected by a strike because Hospital management want to eliminate its contribution to the Unions pension fund. Folks are not thrilled with idea of a 401k because they don’t often live up to goods workers are sold and can be controlled by management. NYC area hospital systems could be affected. Unions have their plusses and minuses but in regards to health insurance and pensions and the reasonable dues make it worthwhile to me. Still interested in peoples thoughts?

Interesting write up on what is left as far as free agents, https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/top-10-ufas-remaining-latest-rumours-reports/ Not sure if any of these guys are worth anything to the Sabres though...

True occasionally you get an Alan Page, Rosie Greer, John Scott etc but by and large you end up with a Jim Kelly, a Jerry Korab and a Rasmus Ristolainin.

Is it October yet? or at least September? Man this offseason is gonna be hell... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etAIpkdhU9Q

By this time of the year it can be in the 80s probably will get there if we have another heat wave like earlier in the week.

Gotta be a RIP special, but I think he chose because he admires Bergeron of the Bruins...

Itll be interesting just went to Jones Beach Long Island... water was a cool 74 degrees so I wonder if that slows the energy down?

possibly on GDP, but I’d like a balanced budget first and worry about percentage of GDP down the road. We are so over that mark at this point... one step at a time and Id have to look at implications of that number. I suspect defense spending alone is more than double that percentage let alone mandatory programs.

And Im hoping one of the young guys designated as AHL take a big step. If I had guess Ghule...

Maybe Arrvidson, Fabri or Hertl but thats it. Like Point but he's not on Sam’s level.

Not a party issue but a commitment issue, a helluv a distraction. And she probably needs him by her side for appearances, baby kissing yada yada. Gonna be tough on both of them. Politics is one of the toughest contact sports ever and often from within ones own party is the hardest. Maybe time for separate thread in the club forum. But it cuts both ways hockey coaching and politics. Oof.

TPegs probably greases both sides of the isle if he is smart.

Possible Housley replacement if things go south, especially with all the Swedes in the organization: http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=12849&cHash=a27c9b3e9019288e03093bdacabb46ea

or Two Boo, too boo!

And this is where I come middle of the road depending on the issue. I want a balanced budget. Government imo should spend money to promote a safety net, a floor if you will... but conditions should be attached so that the money goes for only certain basic necessities. Therein lies the rub, my basics might not be yours. Food shelter clothing ( limited) and any income should offset that support. Also, in the US, defense spending is way too mismanaged and wasteful. Overall taxes shouldn’t be higher than 30 percent including fed, excise taxes, user taxes, state and sales taxes etc and the budget should be constrained by that number. PS SS would not be such a hole if the government would stop borrowing against it and once the millenials reach full integration that hole will go away. It’s a short-term gap. I would love to see a return to the line-item veto. It worked well in Virginia and as well under Clinton for various reasons. Still think though highly political can be used as effective budget balancing tool.

Poltical points of view tend to be circumference in nature not a linear continuums. The extremes or opposites on both liberal v conservative and authoritian v libertarian meet on the opposite ends of the spectrum and mimic each other in view points making them almost indistiguishable.

Yes both sides do these kind of announcements. Once you leave one party the other side considers you a traitor and if you are moderate the new party will consider you with suspicion... almost better to go independent but then you don’t have the backing of one of the machines. Yeh people do unidentify but not enough to truly make them independent. Those that do might split tickets, but they still lean heavily one way or the other in their post breakup voting habits and usually with the party they split with. Too lazy to look up stats but trends rarely show true splits.

TY will do and will let you know if I am successful.

Ah been a while since I have been to the French River... beautiful tributary to the Georgian Bay. Went fly fisching once on a lake in Maine. I have done a lot of small tackle fisching so I picked the casting up fast. But setting the hook on small trout was interesting. I asked my guide if I have to really set the hook. He said yes, so I used two hands like you would for a small mouth bass. Darn fisch came flying from thirty yards away and almost hit the bow of the canoe. My guide nearly tipped the canoe over he was laughing so hard. Figured it out and recently received a fly tying kit last year as a present. One of these days, when I can find some time, gotta try my hand at it.

Ashton Reserves

Thanks Josie, LTS and Aud. Interesting read, deal folks from all walks of life in the ER. I just ask a person's name without pronoun to avoid that kind of issue. That being said, I both got educated and confused by this thread. Great read and I will have to do some thinking on it to see how well I address folks from those walks of life. Hmm food for thought.