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Of course he's joking, horses can't skate. In Canada it's a snow track, not an ice track.

That's technically true, but in reality no negotiations would have taken place until January/February '12 if the deal ran into March '12. Neither side would have felt the urgency to get the deal in place and both would have thought that showing up w/ a legitimate 'fair' offer would be showing weakness - which would have caused the other side to dig its heels in further. ('Hey, if they're already here, just imagine where they'll be in February when the rubber starts to hit the road. We're winning!') And there was a reason for the owners to lock the players out now - it improves their leverage as the players haven't gotten any money for '11 yet and face the possibility of a full year without a paycheck. Just like a strike late in the season would benefit the players as the owners would lose all their playoff money and the players would have already received most of their salary for the year.

NHL players get (at current leaguewide revenue levels) 57% of all designated receipts. That # is so firmly set in stone that portions of the players salaries are held in escrow until the accountants look at the books in the off-season and the actual salaries are adjusted up or down to the agreed upon 57%.

The FO typically refers to the GM & scouts. That portion of the organization is unchanged as of yet, which is what Doc was referring to. Expecting major additions to the scouting department in the off-season. Though the FO hasn't changed, the guys approving/nixing the FO's handiwork have definitely changed.

But would you feel better about Obama's golfing if he wore a friggin' laser on his head?

Does Charlie speak French?

Well of course, he'd naturally be the one to find out about it before anyone else. Were there any suspects of Italian descent living in Moe-ray-all?

If it were to happen, a loud cheer would be emanating from the Bills warroom as they'd be guaranteed to have available to them at worst the 2nd best defensive player in the draft. (Of course, past Bills drafting history would lead me to believe they'd take the 202nd best defensive player in the draft with that pick, but on paper at least they'd have at worst the 2nd best guy and possibly the best one.)

The school's response is idiotic. I'd like to know what the parents' response is/was. If one of my kids pulled that stunt, they would not be using a cell phone for a REAL long time and they'd be wishing that were the worst of it.

Provided you don't get U-turned.

Close. It was the Dems and it was to prevent a redistricting vote. It didn't work in the end, but it is good to see that they tend to be consistant.

How in the world are you going to replace ME oil in 3 years? There is no way you could even get all the right of ways issued to get all the new power lines you'd need in 3 years. Much less the rest of the infrastructure modifications. Heck, we haven't needed to provide for "rural electrification" for about 40 years, but we can't even get that program killed. It's not a matter of "economically unsound" (though it is), it's "politics, politics, politics."

Over on SabreSpace someone said that NBC had 'exclusive rights' to their 'Hockey Day in America' telecasts. If that was the case, then CI couldn't show any of those games. The Sabres - Ducks game earlier this year fell on a Vs 'exclusive rights' day. I don't remember which game Vs was showing, but it wasn't that game and even in the Sabres or Ducks markets that game wasn't shown. Kind of sucks that they've set up some of the broadcasts that way. I'd have to believe that it ticks off more hockey fans than the ratings bump for hard core fans forced to be watching the 'national' game is worth. But somebody in the league office or their broadcast partners doesn't see it that way.

True, it was, but "All the Way" wasn't exactly an only released on a minor label in England B-side either. Just sayin'.

3 Very Good Songs. Loved Synchronicity II but never thought much of Synchronicity I. Liked On the Turning Away, but would probably choose One Slip as my favorite from that album. Saw them in '87 in TO on an overcast rainy day. They opened w/ Echoes and the lasers were reflecting back off the very low clouds. I'd go a little later in the decade for my favorite JCM and The Who songs; I'd go w/ Cherry Bomb and Eminence Front. And it was a great call by SDS w/ the Triumph, though I'd add Magic Power to that list.

A few that I don't think have been mentioned yet. The Church - Under the Milky Way Tonight Pink Floyd - Not Now John Dire Straits - Telegraph Road Rush - Red Barchetta R.E.M. - South Central Rain R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (& I Feel Fine) The Kinks - Destroyer The Kings - This Beat Goes On / Switchin' To Glide Duke Jupiter - I'll Drink To You Gowan - A Criminal Mind EDIT: X'd out the 'standards' and added some replacements. Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home Donald Fagan - New Frontier

Obviously, every person that has a problem would like the problem to go away; health related or not. Your post implies that when people want something they will necessarily work towards that end when provided the resources to accomplish it. That isn't always the case. You really haven't ever seen a person that has insurance skip going to a doctor because they believe their problem to be "minor" and something that "will go away" only to find out that it's more major than they thought and that going to the doctor would have enabled the problem to remain "minor?" Whether a person has insurance or not will not magically make people that are predisposed to bad decisions stop making bad decisions. "Wishing" for more affordable insurance seems to be the only thing supporters of Obamacare are doing. It has a lot of problems inherent to it, not the least of which being the main point people have been arguing against you in this particular thread: that it now creates a mandate that people enter into a transaction with another private party whether they want it or not. We have NEVER been forced to do that in the history of this country. Well, seeing as how you seem to be an expert on bad blanket statements, I'd suggest you have a point there. There are a lot of things that can be done better in the way healthcare is provided in this country. (Many good ideas have been supplied by people posting to this board in the past couple of years.) Unfortunately, I don't see where the things Obamacare "does right" outweigh the myriad of things it does wrong.

The team has definitely been making better adjustments at the 1/2 on both sides of the ball than they've done in years. I hated it last year when Jauron would defer to the 2nd 1/2. There was no expectation that the team would do anything. This year, I like seeing the Bills get the ball to start the 2nd 1/2. I've started to expect to see them do something with it at that point.

Again? When did you ask the 1st time? I chimed in on the 1st post of mine you replied to in this thread. The better question is, does it make sense to you now? It's good to see you do appear to realize there is distinction between 'healthcare' and 'health insurance' but I'm not convinced you know what the distinction is.

Again, I ask, how does someone receiving 'healthcare' which is by definition what someone receives when they are being treated in the ER not 'have healthcare?' He clearly doesn't. Whoa, hold on. Can somebody check the TOS? Are trolls allowed to put people on 'ignore?'

Should the personnel that provide healthcare in an emergency room not provide healthcare to a patient in the emergency room because the person didn't already have "healthcare?" That seems even sillier than the "your only problem w/ this is a federal / state issue."

It'll be interesting to see whether Kagan recuses herself when that happens.

RIP. When I lived down south, I used to subscribe to the Snooze's Sunday edition to be able to read his "Inside Hockey" column. It arrived about 5 days late, but it still was a treat to read every week.

How sad that the league chose Ken as the example to single out. They just don't get it. Ken, keep doing what you do. You are a big part of the game day experience for a lot of people.