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bob_sauve28

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  1. It amazes me how fans jump to conclusions like this. What on God's green Earth would make you think there is any pressure pm Lindy what so ever?

    All I can say in my defense is that in my mind we need a coaching change, and I think that's a reasonable conclusion to get from the situation, so it is always a possiblity. If I can see its necessary, then perhaps others will also. I mean Galisano can't be completely blind, can he? Perhaps there is also the fact there was a Galisano sighting at the rink yesterday. At least we know he hasn't been deposed by Ruff/Regier Junta. So that's a good sign, lol


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    • There'll be nothing tonight from the Sabres as far as retribution or anything.
    • It's a pretty loud crowd in the United Centre, leading the Hawks to score early in the first.
    • The Sabres will slouch around on their skates for the rest of the game.
    • Roy and McCormick will be the only Sabres out on the ice looking like they've come to play.
    • Myers and Montador will consistently either lose the puck or ice it in the face of a strong forecheck.
    • Vanek is going to be sulking around the net and getting shoved off every puck that comes by.
    • Connolly will consistently manage to lose the puck in his legs.
    • Gerbe and Ennis will buzz around skating like they're playing pond hockey but forgetting to put the puck on net.
    • Nothing-goalie Crawford will look like a MVP and we'll lose 4-1 or something.

     

    What would be the odds on a 9-way parlay bet on this? 3 to 1 at most? It'd be great if even one of these wagers is off wouldn't it?

     

    Boy, he has really disappeared. Should be benched. I noticed Staffoed was not on your list, which is perfect. He won't be a factor

  2. Considering what happened last time? Would Chicago really want to open a big lead?

    What? You think they will be afraid to score goals? They won the Stanley Cup last year, ya know. They didn't do that being worried about cheap shots or looking over their shoulders.

  3. I hate when messageboard posters start long-winded, hey look at me threads just to announce that they are leaving the board. It's even worse when they immediately lock the thread so no on can mock them mercilessly.

    OMG!! I wanted to start in on that guy!

  4. I had to put the dog down last Friday. This was the first time I'd ever done this and it was easily the most painful & difficult thing I've ever had to do. I still feel mildly guilty about doing it, but I know she's not suffering anymore. She would've just gotten sicker and things would have been exponentially worse for her.

    Sorry about you loss. I understand the feeling. Had to have a pet put down before and it really hurts. Hopefully a new pet will hepl you feel better

  5. I've always thought that Calvinism was just a way to use religion as a means to justify greed,"God knows everything, so he must have wanted me to have all this material crap, otherwise he would not have allowed me to have it." Seeing as Ben Franklin was a Calvinist it's no wonder that a lot of American ideals are based on this very concept.

    Calvinism was used to justify material success, but it wasn't all bad at all. It may have evolved into that later when people got tired of its strict life style, but originally it was a rejection of worldly pleasures that seemed to be perverting society since the Renissance and how it was flaunted by some and led to "ungodleness" in others. "Protest"ant "Reform"ation, protest and reform, they saw society--and the Catholic Church especially, as hoplessly corrupt and wanted the individual to have a way to salvation through his own actions, even if he was chosen by God to act that way [Predestination]. It taught the middle class "Bourgeois" type of life style. You are responsible for you! I've always seen it as one big tax revolt. The new urban middle classes--commercial people involved in the flourshing trade that had sprang up--did not want to be taxed by the church which provided horrible services anyway. This is one reason why the Protestant Churches didn't have gold crosses or own vast tracts of land, because it wasn't seen as the duty of the church to be wealthy. Ben Franklin and John Calvin would not have gotten along. Though, Franklin really was a benefator of the Reformation--we all are-- in the since that Calvinism very much pushed education so that the chuirch goer could read and understand the bible himself and thus have a personal relationship with God. So greater education for all was a result of Calvinism...which actually connects to the industrial revolution because many of the early inventions that helped blast off the IR came out of Calvinist Scotland. And you see that same spirit in Franklin who was one of the most well respected scientist of his time, at least for a colonial.

     

     

    Ok, I didn't plan on discussing the Reformation when I woke up this morning :unsure:

  6. But the problem is that with paper money, an overabundance of it can result in hyperinflation. Ask the Germans in the 1920's. Ask the people of Zimbabwe today.

    That was an entirely different situation than today. The Germans were not printing money to deal with a depression, it was another situation entirely.

     

    Deflation is the threat of the moment. If inflation hits, the Fed will crank up interest rates.

  7. People are going to hate me for responding, but, well, some of them hate me anyway...

     

    Why does gold need to be the standard? Things have value because humans say the things have value. Doesn't matter if it's gold, Honus Wagner baseball cards, four-leaf clovers, model rocketships, or bottles of "fine" wine. None of those are intrinsically valuable; they only have value because we arbitrarily decide they have value. So if it's portraits of dead presidents on linen paper, instead of a metal that has no common application besides its ability to conduct electricity, who cares?

     

    If you feel the need to base money on something tangible, why not grains of sand, or coffee beans, or iron nuggets, or silver, platinum, carbon, or whatever other element? Why gold?

     

    There's really nothing that special about gold, unless you're buying jewelry. Then, it's pretty. (But so are tulips, and what happened when the economy was based on those?)

    No, you are absolutely right. Dollars only have value because we believe they do. And gold is the same way. Can't eat either one, can you? Indians used wagpun, and people now laugh, but why is that so much different than a, as you call them, "portraits of dead presidents on linen paper"?

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