LastPommerFan

yeah, I'm just adding Rochester and Elmira to his list.

That's exactly what I'm getting at,I was just looking one step further down the timeline, but your right, it was the same thing then. As soon as the GOP left the table, it should have been a whole hog "we're going single payer" campaign. it could have been 2 straight years of democrats campaigning on how they help the US join the 20th century first world nations. But once they passed the law, which is a good law, they should have owned what they did. THEY did it, it wasn't some hold our noses and join with the right compromise, it was a "what will look the least bad when conservatives get on the Sunday talk shows" compromise. I hate that.

mostly I just like that he plays the game with his physical skills rather than crazy mental games. I loved Ryan, but I'm ready for a guy who plays with reaction rather than positioning. Hasek 2.0, you heard it here first. I know Ullmark had a bangup regular season for MODO, but I watch Makarov instantly adjust to the AHL and keep it going in the playoffs. He has the "thing" that goalies need. Ullmark is probably too good to keep on the bench, that's the only reason I see him traded a few years from now.

Ullmark will be a nice 4/5 depth defensemen and a mid-round draft pick after GMTM trades him.

well played sir...well played.

I hugely enjoy sparring with knowledgable conservatives, like yourself. I'm very critical of liberals and democrats who sit there and get steam rolled by insults and negative "factoids" thrown against their policy decisions. The one thing the GOP gets right about liberals is that we have proven to be weak. 2010 is the perfect example, and we got what we deserved. You don't pass huge system changing legislation like the ACA and then run away from it because your public champion died of brain cancer and the public is having buyers remorse. You hit the ground swinging. You passed the bill because you thought it was good. Stand up and fight for what you believe in. That's why I am so vocal against these kinds of op-eds. Too many democrats take the low road and try and explain how their policy "isn't that bad" rather than standing up and saying "This is right. It's the right thing to do, here's why..." It makes me sick. I'm tired of losing because we try to make our platform look "not as bad as they say" rather than the right direction for the country. I also am comfortable saying "we screwed that up" (like the 2009 Stimulus) when we make a mistake. All or nothing political theatre is a huge part of the lack of governing compromise. Neither side of the aisle will be completely right all the time. It can't be viewed as a political death sentence when you try something and it doesn't work. That's why we keep having elections, because being the United States isn't something that can be completed. You try something, you see how it works, you adjust and move on.

He will never be a starting goalie on any team in the sabres organization. Makarov is the future.

What's in a Tropical Storm?

Isn't that the team name now? I haven't been paying attention.

He's a super awkward hugger, isn't he?

I like the red/black flag logo. Also, swords have almost certainly killed more people than hurricanes. jeez, at this point I'm trolling myself.

GMTM gives zero f#$%s about your probabilities and choices.

Are they still the same guys? They did save 2 players who got their throats slit, so they got that going for 'em!

Don't worry, once Pysyk wins the Norris I'm sure he'll return as Lifetime Pysyk Fan.

Megadeth. Have fun!

Who's LPF?

I apologize for the misleading statement on employment. There was an honest error between what my brain wanted to say and what my thumbs put into the phone. It was misleading. I hope my followup provides clarity. The economy more than made up for the weather related minor contraction in Q1 in Q2 and is on pace for solid-but-not-great annual growth rate of 2.5%-3%. 1Q14 was an anomaly. A single data point that is an outlier but makes a nice media story. I completely agree with you (and Zuckerman, btw) about the poor structure of most of the 2009 stimulus. Bailing out the public sector, which was the main thrust of that bill, was never going to drive the kind of economic multiplier that the slower infrastructure, R&D, and Public Works stimulus most liberals promote would have had. It was a first aid measure, sold as a cure. It's time for the remedy.

Would the USMNT be better if we included players from Puerto Rico? worse? the same? Does Puerto Rico's poor record indicate some failure of US Soccer?

I'm talking absolute jobs, not employment percent, So in the sense that full time employment is at about 119.4M (June 2014) full time jobs compared to an all time high of about 120M (2007) full time jobs and a recent low (2010, pre ACA) of about 110M full time jobs. Yes, there has been population growth, yes the % is still too low, yes the job mix is structurally bad. The current trend is positive. We are, finally, recovering more jobs than needed for population growth. People are, slowly, rejoining the economy. It is not abysmal, it has been a staggeringly slow recovery. It is a recovery. All that said, we would be better off if we'd changed course and followed the recommendation of most economists and provided a little public investment to spur things along.

I think the economy is doing better than last year which was better than the year before. Full time employment is nearing an all time high. It's not good enough, but it is not "abysmal" I'm fine with blaming President Obama for this haggard recovery. I blame him in much the same way Zuckerman used to (he may still, as he referenced the stimulus in his piece, it's hard to tell because he's move so much on the Obamacare front.) One of the main policy thrusts of this op-ed, however, was that part time employment is skyrocketing and that it is the fault of Obamacare. The reality is that Part time employment jumping in 2008 absolutely cannot be blamed on a law passed in 2010, on a clause that hasn't even taken effect yet. It's completely wrong in even "a Clintonian sense" of the word "wrong". It can be Obama's fault that it hasn't come down faster. I don't think that is correct, but it at least can be argued in good faith. That the increase is a result of Obamacare is discreditingly false. Your arguments will be better when you make arguments without insults, but your comfortable with what you wrote, so... c'est la vie.

This chart pretty much says: "It's all about the Elite Talent." Woah. Pump the breaks there buddy,,,Murray hasn't had any of these boys extradited to Siberia and killed in a gypsum mine "accident". Which I believe to be his default method of freeing up contract slots for new prospects. For that alone, I think he deserves more credit than Darcy.

I'm not sure about gazelles, but their cousins the deer don't fare so well on ice:

burn him. ;)

First, Obamacare is the only "reason" he provided in his piece, but my response was more directed at Zuckerman's general editorial thesis these past few years. I disagree with his choice to compare numbers from before the recession and now and say we are not recovering. That's like looking at an EKG and Stress test of a heart attack patient 4 years later, comparing it to the one he took 3 months before the attack, and saying he's getting worse. Meanwhile, his efficiency is up 40% since that day after the bypass. Second, your rhetoric is insulting and beneath the standards of the conversations wanted in this thread. "Obama-genuflecting", "Knee Jerk Liberal Reaction", "Bozo President" etc. add nothing to the conversation and reflect poorly on your arguments, which outside of the unnecessarily derogatory language raise a solid issue about the structural nature of our employment economy.

Fair point.