Taro T
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Speaking of which, does anybody else know the "seal song"? The chorus goes something like this:
"You don't bludgeon a seal 'cause you want him for a meal.
You do it 'cause you want to hear that litter f***er squeal.
You club him in the head,
and you do it just for kicks.
Then you poke out his eyes with your eye pokin' sticks."
Sorry for the interruption.
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The problem wasn't that they came out flat. They came out too pumped up. The 1st 5 minutes they were absolutely flying around the Stars, but darn near every shot they took either hit a leg or the stick broke as they took the shot. After Dallas weathered the initial burst, then the Sabres looked flat or exhausted or something.
Buffalo did end up with only something like 12 shots, but Dallas blocked something like 20 shots, and in the only game I can ever remember seeing it, the Sabres broke at least 3 sticks in the 1st period, 2 on 1 powerplay IIRC. (Talk about being too pumped and also about gripping the stick too tight!)
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It seems to me that your stance is libertarian, aside from wanting economic individualism, the ill-defined charge of "blight" in these cases seeks to return non-performing properties to the free market sector. Or as O'Connor said a "Robin hood in reverse, stealing from the poor to give to the privelidged." I do see your point though but I still believe a good Marxist interpretation of this system would still say that the peasant is getting his ass kicked in this class system
Untimately, as for libertarian capitalism for groups such as the Cato institute, the danger in this case is not individual rights for the homesteader per se, but case law that could eventually be turned against private corporations. My bet is the Cato institute spends very little time in East Buffalo, although they did write an excellent brief.
You are correct that the little guy is taking it up the keister on this one. I would expect though that a Marxist or socialist that believes in communalism would be willing to sacrifice his proletariat brethren in this instance in order to further the overall socialistic "good" of expanding the legal justification for eminent domain takings.
I did not read the Cato Institute's brief in this matter but would expect that, as a matter of principle, they would be opposed to the property confiscation of the homesteader or the corporation.
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My point was that there is no clear division on this decision.
The state is not taking the property for its own use, but co-opting it
and putting it into the domain of capital ventures. I certainly don't
agree with this decision, but is it leftist thinking to take property and
turn it over to corporations. What is classically leftist about that?
The heirarchy appears to be:
Corporation> State> Individual
What socialist worth his hammer and sickle would agree with that?
It's not that the corporation takes precedence over the state. (The politicians don't really give a rat's butt who is getting the property, all they care about is tax $'s.) It's that the politicians "know" how better to use your property. In this case the "better" usage is the one that brings in much more tax money. Who knows what obscene justification the state will use the next time it thinks it knows better how to use someone's property than that person.
"Good socialists" tend to believe the "collective good" trumps individual rights. The increased tax revenue is the "collective good". This is why the left wing of the SC was fully behind this decision. Individuals having the ability to develop and make use of their own property without fear of confiscation by the government or others are the people that enabled our capitalist system to grow and prosper. This decision says essentially that eminent domain can be invoked any time a government wants to as long as the government had a "plan". What socialist worth his h&s wouldn't love that?
The fear of government confiscation of property (land, factories, whatever) and the lack of property rights are large factors limiting growth in the developing countries. A good capitalist does not want to see this country follow down that path.
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The vote hardly matters, it is the principle involved: to allow municipalities to co-opt private property to foster capital enterpise (not municiple enterprise)and to clear the way for big box stores such as Target and Walmart would not be particularly leftist in thinking, but strictly an admission that capital trumps the weak.
Who liked this decision: Wall Street, City Halls, Souter, League of Municipalities
Who disliked this decision: NAACP, Thomas, O'Conner, Cato Institute, Urban League
So what do you want to call the NAACP and the Urban League? Conservatives?
That isn't an admission that capital trumps the weak, it's an admission that the GOVERNMENT trumps the weak. A good capitalist says that that decision is horrible because the government has significantly weakened property rights and stepped in where it had no legitimate grounds to be. When land gets eminent domained, especially in a case like this, it is very doubtful that the rightful owner gets full value for his property. The developer could have built his development, all he needed to do was pay the property owners what the property was worth or alter the plans and build around the properties in question.
This absolutely is leftist (socialist) thinking. The state (government) knows better how to use your property, or in this case who will use your property, than you do.
I don't know if Wall Street applauded the decision, but the WSJ sure did hate it, as well they should have.
I suppose Rehnquist and Scalia are also liberals? They joined Thomas and O'Connor in dissent.
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Let's not forget that the AFC was extremly weak for a number of years.I total agree with your sentiment about Marv, loved him for awhile but in the end he and his team choked, each loss was worse than the previous. Didn't he also hire the coach who totally insulted the hogs before superbowl 26 only to be spanked by them??? What was that guys name, Dickerson or something like that ????
Let's also not forget that including the 4 superbowls and 2 end of season games when the Bills sat most of their regulars, the Bills were 14-6 against the NFC from '90-'93. That includes a win in '90 at the Giants, the no punt game against Frisco, and a win in '93 at Dallas (yes, Smith didn't play that game, but they still went down there and won).
I will agree that Marv was outcoached in the 4 superbowls, but the Bills didn't only make those Superbowls because the AFC stunk.
Going back to the main point of this thread, Marv would not be a good HC for this current Bills team.
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I ask myself if the weather was a factor, and if JP really does have accuracy issues, and I have to say yes and no...
Carson Palmer and Eli Manning made some HORRIBLE throws their first year, and I think JP needs some slack.
But I think there could be a lot to the accuracy issue, because I go back to the other QB playing in that game, and the over the shoulder pass to Faulk is a throw that I have NEVER seen JP make. Bouncing the ball at the feet of receivers is usually about retreating to make the throw and not having the time to step into it. That will come with improved offensive line play. I think he is going to be fine but he may never have Joe Montana accuracy...
I'm not that worried about JP having a bad day in his first windy wintry game. In Kelly's second season, he played the Pats at home in December with a chance to hold a share of the AFC East lead. The weather was very bad and so was Jimbo. He seemed to play better in bad weather after that one. I'm not saying JP will turn into Jim, but I expect him to be a good quarterback and expect that he will learn how to play in bad weather.
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You shouldn't confuse defense with agreement with his position. He may be so full of crap he has extra to throw around
, but I mislike incivility of such an extreme nature as you well know.There may be times when we agree, hopefully in such areas as Tom Donoho-ho-ho needs to be given the boot. Now THAT you can mark on your calendar too.
And to think I selected this coming weekend to go to Buffalo to freeze my butt off on a Saturday night watching the Bills get killed by Denver. ah well.
Well, if you don't have Bills tickets yet or even if you do, the Sabres are playing the Pens in the Mmarena that evening. So you can actually come into town and (hopefully/likely) see the home time play well. I doubt the game is sold out yet, but it very likely will be, especially if the Sabres win Wednesday and/or Friday. Game time was moved up to 5:00PM to reduce the conflict w/ the Bills game.
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She'll lose someone, someday. Chances are, it won't affect her too bad. Why?
I kind of think the opposite. I think one develops that empathy earlier in life. If one doesn't develop an ability to relate to, to care about other people by the time they are 20 or so, it's probably not going to really happen. Patterns. Both behavior, and even neurological.
As was mentioned, look at the Mom response.
I pity the sap who marries her.
You may be right about that but I think major life events might affect the witch. I know that having kids made me much more empathetic to stories such as the barcalounger boy's tragic plight. I want to say hopefully she will develop empathy as she has children of her own but can't say honestly that I want her to reproduce.
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QUOTE(Mile High @ Dec 12 2005, 11:24 AM)
Biron AND Miller.
unquoteMy point! The 'Bres have THREE goalies and need to deal one. My understanding is they couldn't decide whether to deal Marty or Mika...neither was playing well enough to want or to get value for. Well, now Marty is playing great. So...trade Mika? Get big value for Marty? (I think Miller stays for sure.) I dunno...what should they do?
One of the 3 will be moved before this season is over barring major injury to one or more.
I'd say they should trade Marty. He is playing darn near the best hockey of his career and is currently getting a lot of friendly bounces that don't normally go his way (at least not in the 1st 1/2 of the season). His value is not likely to be any higher than it is currently / in the near future and he is making a lot of money in comparision to the other 2 goalies.
Mika is 2 years younger and is a quality backup that very likely could blossom into a starter if given the opportunity. I think Mika has more upside than Marty does (that stated, I doubt he (or Ryan for that matter) will break Marty's consecutive win streak).
I don't expect Darcy to make any moves in the near future as he has shown a tendency to wait for the "right" deal to come along. A wild card in which goalie gets moved, Marty or Mika, is that Lindy hasn't shown much faith in Mika in the past. Lindy isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so if he doesn't want Mika that would tip the scales toward Mika being the goalie that gets shipped. My expectation is that Mika gets traded, but I would trade Marty.
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It's one guy's misguided opinion. I'm not too concerned over his opinion now, nor will I be concerned later in the season when he ranks the Sabres higher.
I'm more concerned with what Dallas thinks of them on Thursday and Pittsburgh thinks on Monday. Hopefully they come away thinking the Sabres are pretty good.
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How truly sad that Bills / Sabres fans are stealing quotes from Philly fans on Rome. How much sadder is the fact that Buffalo fans didn't figure that chant out about 30 years ago, especially considering it has been valid about 20 of those 30 years.
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Wasn't Friday a day that almost everyone on this board would have said there was 0% chance that the Bills, if they had a 20 point lead in the 4th quarter, would be able to blow said lead to another team that came into the game 4-7 and had Mitch's brother and some guy named Sage as their top 2 quarterbacks?
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On the one plus side for the game, there were about 17 fish fans that saw the debacle in person. Although my guess is that there end up about 400,000 people that claim they were there.
I hate the @#%@$%%@@%$#@^#@$& fish!!!! I'm sure I was more upset after the "home run throw forward", but it's been a long time since I have been this ticked after a Bills game.
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I apologise if someone else posted about this, and maybe it's just concession lines being even longer in their stadium than in the Ralph, but did anybody else notice that it looks like the stands are only about 25% full after the half?
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I went to the game, didn't catch the announced attendance but it was close to a sell-out with a LOT of will call / last minute ticket buyers. Hopefully those people who came to their 1st game give the Sabres a mulligan.
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When exactly did they say paris hilton would be arriving? It looks like they are ready for her, and they even remembered her favorite color.
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No, no, no. With all due respect to your culinary excellence, I think that a mallard would go better with a fine white such as your basic Thursday vintage Thunderbird. Now if you added fried mallard to retatta, I would agree with you that MD would be appropriate.
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One day in the middle of summer, my street was being paved with fresh tar. The steamroller had just passed to level it off. So I decide it was a good idea to go ride my bike on the new road. My front tire got stuck in the hot tar and I fell off the bike on my hands and knees. I had never felt something so hot in my life, and the tar was stuck to my hands and knees.
So I go running and screaming back at my house to try and got that hot sh-- off of my skin cause it was burning like hell, but I couldn't grab on to anything.
When the heat finally wore of a couple hours laterf, I was able to get most of it off, but my hands and knees had both blistered badly. For the next 2 weeks, my mom had to hand feed me.
It would be painful enough in summertime in Houma just falling down on the road after the stones were steamrolled into the tar. I can't imagine how painful that must have been doing the Brer Rabbit impersonation. Oh well, at least you'll eventually be able to show the grandkids the scars and hopefully come up with a better story than the real one.
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I didn't know they had a school for Canadian ballerinas. I thought they learned those moves on their own.
Cool.
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Remeber going to see a Genesis cover band named Pegasus at McVans several times in the early 80s. Been a long time, but I was at Sheas for the U2 concert in 83 or 84, thought that was the last "rock" concert they allowed in there.
BTW, guy that works for me has also heard alot about the reunion tour fwiw
No, they've had rock shows in there since, but they did reinforce the balcony after the U2 show. It's a good thing they did too because they stopped an INXS show there mid-encore because the balcony was "boucing" a couple of years after the U2 show.
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