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Oh Jesus. Not this nonsense. You know what else is a myth? The intellectual legitimacy of rap. Another myth? That anyone using the word above at all isn't double dealing, in every aspect of their lives, worse than John Stewart, the "take me seriously until I get caught saying something stupid, and then, I'm just a comedian" guy. Finally the biggest lie of them all: that anyone who draws these distinctions, and enables the double dealing, is being intellectual, and not merely being a fan boi, who's so afraid of being "uncool" that he would blow a rapper before he would ever question the rationale. It's hilarious: we have this entire new wave of PC people...who are the polar opposite of Rock and Roll...and they will only make themselves worse, the more they push conformity with the rapper's "right" to be a d-bag. It's exactly like dealing with Morrissey fans.

There's no way to answer your question without sounding cocky, so, what the hell.. 1. The threshold you are looking for is more like ~50x our sales, before we have to start doing some non-trivial adjustments. Therefore, a need for contract programmers, being specifically, and observably tied directly to increased sales? Implausible. I can prove that with a few benchmark tests. So can a lot of other software firms, using the same/similar arguments. Specific to us, our business model requires that ALL core programming work, which is not configuration, or installation, or integration, be off the critical path. Our platform is designed to respond 100% to client needs, so that's both how and why client needs are 100% removed from the core programming. We write our code in our own time, and do it as we know it needs to be done, without the hindrance of external/uninformed/short term opinion. This approach tends to make some very high quality stuff, thus, this is our competitive advantage, but it also means: you can't point to some external input, like increase sales, or stimulus to us, and infer anything. Nah, if someone was to try and use peformance and scalability as you have in this way? Good luck. 2. Go after me how? What exactly can they prove? I change the comments section of the code, and now there's no record of anybody ever doing anything...provided I pay both expenses and fee in Bitcoin. How that works today is: you pay the contractor enough $/hr in fee to look plausible, and the rest you pay in "expenses". If you do it right, the net $ going out is less, because the contractor is taking home more $ in expenses, and is therefore happy and willing to charge you less $/hr in fee. But, yeah, you are stuck with the problem of defending that arrangement in terms of proportion, and producing documentation for of all of it. However, as I said: this is already being done today, and we all have our weekly expense report, which is how we document/get away with it. Bitcoin makes the whole thing irrelevant, as the transactions cannot be observed. For us? Bitcoin would make the entire thing simple. 3. I'm fairly certain...that every Fortune 500 company in the USA, all of whom employ contractors, and all of whom use the model I've described: could be classified as "legitimate commerce". So, WTF? GG showing his disdain for my profession again? Don't feel bad GG, I had so much disdain for my profession, I quit my cushy. 1% job, and started my own firm.

Nah..Per diems, actuals, whatever. These contractors file their expenses, as part of their contract. 1099 has nothing to do with this. By being eternally, "on the road", and never doing a job within 1 hour of their "home", they can expense their entire lives, and they can produce expense reports to cover any audit. As long as I am down with this approach....good luck trying to stop it. It's our word against...nobody's. Many consultants, especially partners in the big firms, live this way. The whole thing goes over the fence, and the client is happy to pay "expenses", rather than "payroll", because expenses aren't taxed. Payroll is(how depends on state of course, but, nobody cares, because: expenses) The king of this is my 1st PM. He leaves his bed? $20, not including the car service. He sets foot in an airport? $10. That's each airport. He goes anywhere near a client? $50 on top of per diem or actuals, doesn't matter. Nobdy screws with him, and he does his reports just like we all do. The man essentially finds a way to make $150-200/week in tax free cash, and that's every week. Travel construction workers are even worse. This is the schit that goes down right now. Bitcoin? If I pay them in Bitcoin, nobody knows what I've paid to whom. In fact, I don't even need to put them on my books: who's going to come in an check comments in code for who did what? In a bunch of compressed, compiled JS, that lives on whatever server I say it does, for as long/little as I say it does, world-wide?

Jesus. Go look how Obamacare is polling with Latinos, compare that to whites.... ...and then throw out that "Demographics means Democrats can't lose" nonsensical book that was wrtten 10 years ago. That book didn't take into account something some have always known, and some, like 1st generation Latino business owners are learning: "If you want something done right, put the far-left in charge of doing this opposite" In this case, if my goals were 1. Permanently destroy Universal Healthcare, the idea, in the minds of the USA 2. Drive a permanent wedge between Democrats and Latinos(who are the fasest growing, and growing means: starting firms, working in new firms)? What on God's green earth makes a Latino business owner, dealing with Obama's Minimum Wage economy, and Obamacare, any different than any other new business owner? then I can't think of a better way than Obamacare. The good news? Per the adage? I didn't have to think of my own way to accomplish 1 and 2, the far-left have seen to that for me.

You know what the sin of this is? What if these guys are actually right? It doesn't matter now. Nobody is going to listen. We've had so much wolf crying, and political posturing. and flat out scams, to go along with the shoddy work and the obvious conflict of interest on the part of the AGW scientists...that a real guy who actually does something useful, will be crowded out by the noise. I wrote this wiithout looking at the link. Now, I'm gonna click it. I'm shocked. An article that talks more about air seats for children, than it does about AGW? Noooo. How about this? Jesus. Here we go again. Yeah, I'm gonna measure the occurance of something(# of airline turbulence encounters), relative to an external set of somethings(CAT), and draw a direct line to another set of somethings(AGW)? But? I can't even define or measure the original something, in neither a "standard" or "objective" way? And, I have 0, nothing, in the middle, between the something, and the other something? Assume AGW, what about AGW causes the wind/temp changes that are required to increase turbulance? Show me exactly how that works....when you can't define turbulence consistently, or connect CAT directly to AGW, and have 0 chance of connecting CAT to airline encounters, because we can't even define what an encounter is? A study that measures something, when that something itself, never mind the breadcrumbs leading to it from AGW, are all undefined/not starndardized? BS Flag. 1 paragraph in the entire piece that talks about AGW, and does NOTHING to support the second headline? How did we go from "may", as in the study done last year, to: "likely", as in the headline? As I said: here we go again. /facepalm

Don't people realize how dumb they make themselves sound, when they try to blame Bush? But, screw that. Who cares if they sound dumb? They are dumb. Here's something important: Don't they realize how badly they marginalize Obama, when they keep talking about Bush? If Obama, after 6 years, hasn't been able to surpass Bush, accomplish more, and hasn't been able to put Bush in the rear view by now? WTF has he been doing? If you are the man, and are in fact as good as you say you are? You don't need to keep bringing up supposedly "defeated" enemies/ideology. All this time? And Obama can't get out of Bush's shadow, or, everything he does is STILL seen in the context of Bush? Then Bush rules Obama. Bush steals his lunch money. This isn't the Obama Presidency, this is the Anti-Bush Presidency. Obama isn't even the star of his own Presidency. He can't even get his name to run before the title, in his own damn movie? Thus, it's simple: Marginalized. Apparently Obama supporters have to keep living in 2008. 2014 is just too tough for them. The price for living in 2008? Obama gets marginalized, along with every major D party initiative. All for the sake defending their idiotic choice to go with the inexperienced(and now clearly weak) guy, because he is black. That's the real reason why they need to live in 2008: that's before they found out just how dumb they were, via how horrible Obama is. As I said above: they are dumb. Rather than facing up to that awful choice: they'd rather talk about Bush....not realizing that they are only making it worse.

2500 pages....but that basically covers it. Again, everthing is a zero-sum game to these people. They will always characterize an industry, a company, a business line etc. as slices of a finite pie(largey because they don't know anything about business)...... ...as they type on their iPads, and search Google, and buy stuff on Amazon. These companies economic growth, just those 3, has accounted for 300+x the economic loss of typewriters, landlines, and God forbid the local seller of overpriced whatever. Every time I read a leftist economist....I have to laugh. They know what happens when you grow GDP. EVERYBODY knows this. However, they want to pretend that GDP is a finite thing? Moronic. Hence, this is precisely why the image above nails it. We "can't" have an increase in health care....supply. No. In "I contradict myself in my own sentences" land, supply can never grow. There is a fixed supply of health care, and then the government slices up that finite pie. That's called proper allocation of scarce resources.

Whoa! Hold your horses. If the IRS loses power, then somebody else gets it. DC is a zero-sum place.....which....is why they come up with batshit retarded "solutions" like Obamacare. Somebody has to lose, so that somebody else can win. Which, is how the lazy/untalented/corrupt see the world. DC: home of the lazy and untalented and definitely the corrupt. Somebody else will take that set of power. The full set of "we have the pristine, moral authority here, so yeah, we can take your house" pieces of power, along with the "we are the only government agency besides some units of the military and law enforcement, that are actually, truly respected and feared by all = you actually have to posess a college degree in something both useful and relatively difficult to work here" upgrade? That's a power collector's dream. Now, who should we say gets that collection of power? Congress? You want to see Congress directing Tax enforcement policy from a commitee hearing? And you thought the Issa thing was bad? You've seen nothing. The courts? Yeah, let's never EVER have enforcement policy changes or judgements on competence, not until 10 years from now, and only if they will listen? There's a reason why the court system isn't responsible for execution of laws.....they'd argue forever, and bill us all by the hour while doing it, and never give us a real answer to anything..... ....like whether Obamacare is a F'ing tax. So who's left? The president/WH? RUFKM? We already know what the problem there is, don't we? Answer: whoever is in office will be "shredding the Constitution", but, only when it's their turn, and depending upon which media outlet is doing the "reporting". You want to see even worse incompetence/corruption/assclownery? Let any of the above make personal hiring/firing/design and execution decisions. ONCE AGAIN: (and this is for a specific poster) when you concentrate this much power in one city, things are bound to go sideways. (Again, for a specific poster: It's not that hard, just place the shovel gently at your feet, and climb out) ONCE AGAIN: when you give this much power to incompetents/influence traders...they will sell it. The former will do it for job security, and the latter will do it because that's their business. ONCE AGAIN: If you want to fix the central government? De-F'ing-Centralize it, you unmitigated morons!. The entire internet, and, the entire business models of highly prodcutive, and happy employee, companies all have one thing in common, that they don't share with the failing organizations: They've been decentralizing for the last 10 years. I can cite more examples than you want to hear. And, of course, I don't expect the reality I've just placed under the noses here....to be accepted as the reality it so obviously is.

Hmm. I suppose the one thing that hasn't been acconted for: The BetaMax Effect. Meaning: things in technology don't always proceed in the logical, linear order that we predict they will. BetaMax made all the logical sense, but, VHS still ended up being deployed. It's possible Bitcoin is something, that is not fullly understood yet, and therefore, may proceed unpredictably. I realize that Bitcoin is not merely a technology, and that the "rules" of currency are prehistoric. However, I see IT as the place #2(right behind drug dealing and gun running) where Bitcoin would have immediate adoption. Example #1 for me is: paying contract programmers. I can easily see a time when contract programmers will ONLY take Bitcoin. Some of them will only take PayPal right now. They pay off nearly all of their expenses in Pay Pal/"business credit card" funded by PayPal, often including rent/meals/utilities, treated as "expenses", and, change states every 11 months, before they bring in their "income". Good luck regulating that. Technically they are never a resident of anywhere, other than Texas or Florida, where they keep a PO Box, after having lived there for 6 months to establish residency. So, they can throw basically the cost of their entire life over the line, and that's before IRA stuff. If this is what they do with PayPal, and Bitcoin improves on that by letting them stay in one place? They will move to Bitcoin. I don't see how any regulator can realistically track Bitcoin well enough to actually enforce regulations. And, as Bitcoin is a technology, and therefore unlike any other currency, it can be changed, over and over, thus always winning the typical cat/mouse game with regulators, and making them pointless.

Dumb move on Issa's part. Just leave. It's a much better image for the clown to left there, talking to no one, looking like the crazy dude you see in the park.

Yeah, and you still have no idea WTF is happening here. If laughing at your cluelessness makes me a narcissist? You many call me Barak Obama.

No. What does Muhammad have in common with Paul the Apostle? Or, John the Baptist? Or Simeon Niger? That's not what God thinks, that's what we think, right? Or, that's what you think, if you think...about it. ( Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Niger....and notice how they call Niger, a "nickname". Racists!) I don't know, I just like it when somebody busts on Simon. No white man in history...

Wow. To hear GG talk in these terms? I thought Bitcoin was DOA. Now? And, question: If we begin to use Bitcoin, in any capacity, isn't that utilization directly proportional to its legitimizaton, especially over time? And what about that legitimacy "bleeding"? If I become used to accepting Bitcoin as a means of transfer, and I keep doing that for a while, what prevents me from evolving??? into seeing Bitcoin as something I would accept as currency? It seems to me that the day I believe that the Bitcoin I get is worth something...is the same day I accept it for my services. All it takes is that belief. And, Tasker's point is interesting: don't they HAVE to treat it as currency? Otherwise, IT .com type businesses will be all over this. If a .com could get paid in Bitcoins, it could do all sorts of stuff "off the books", and only leave a very little "profit" to be taxed, you know, after the board has traded their bitcoins for new cars, etc. In all seriousness, 2 sets of books seems to be the logical, ultimate outcome here. What CEO, at least in IT, given Bitcoin, isn't going to run as much of his business in Bitcoin as possible?

The notion of "Southern" has been cleansed from the NPR story completely. Again, I gotta wonder: does anybody in the MSM truly understand the Internet? I thought Dan Rathergate was the wake up call. I guess not.

See? It's as I said in the other thread. MSNBC/NYT/Media Matters has not produced a "Chevron Case" pellet yet, so, gatorman breaks, and starts throwing error messages. He needs the pellet. Otherwise, if you keep trying to run him with missing parameters, you're just going to get more error messaages. I say parameters, plural, because for a case like this? He's going to need more than 1.

Hilarious. Hint that I am joking: (And dumbasses want to know why I use emoticons? Yeah. Dumbasses) I'm weird...for riffing on your Nabakov reference by infusing Police lyrics...humorously? Most people wouldn't call that: weird. But, if that makes me "weird" so be it. And put me on ignore all you like: that only means you won't be able to see me busting your balls. Man, I've haven't seen this much go over someone's head....since the last time I was looking at: Lolitas. Boy, it's like EII really has no idea what's happening here, isn't it? ...but yeah, I'm the weird one here. DC_Tom? Let's keep that boiler stuff to a minimum. (I have no idea WTF this is, but, that doesn't make it any less funny) And, now EII says he's skimming your posts....so....

You know, a case can be made for some of this. I mean, at the very least, we can say that Muhammad was very unlike every other Prophet of God. It's the Duck Test in reverse: Muhammand doesn't talk like a Prophet of God, he didn't act like one. He might have been one. But, he was the first and only of his kind since. This is easily identified in the history we do have. Can somebody show me something Muhammad had in common, with any of the Prophets, besides being a Prophet? Sometimes I think: If God wasn't such a miserable dude, he'd send us another, real prophet, and sort some of this stuff out. I mean, if he was willing to deliver Commandments, you'd think he could be bothered to give us a ruling on something trivial in comparison, like Muhammad. All I'm asking for is a replay challenge. It's not like I'm asking for a Federal case.

Play it again, Sam. As I've said: the TEA party has already won the game. Now? It's just a matter of whether they will run up the score in November. This is because gatorman, and most leftists, don't know schit about politics, or how real politics actually works. Therefore they can't comprehend how Marco Rubio can have less in common with Rand Paul than he does with John McCain, but, why both Rubio and Paul can get TEA party support, while McCain can't. They only know that they get their pellet, from the MSNBC/NYT trough, and once they have it, they parrot it. Nothing they say is actually a result of their own thinking, which, is WHY you see gatorman performing so poorly here. He can't react. Once the pellet is parroted, that's it. But, PPP isn't scripted. You have to do you own thinking here, and that means often times the pre-prepared talking point/script/pellet will break. It's not that the pellet isn't based on some reasoning and some logic. It's that the pellet's reasoning and logic is: inferior. It's not designed to withstand places like PPP. These pellets are designed to fill empty heads, and make the rats that consume them feel "smart". They are not meant to actually stand up against real scrutiny...or wiseasses. We Libertarians, or real TEA party people, don't espouse Republican politics either. Especially when conservatives are having their nutties over abortion and Christmas, as if those issues will matter...at all...if we default on our debt, or don't get this country moving in the right direction financially. Fiscal chaos will create 50x more, very real, immorality, than every abortion clinic in the country, and porn site in the world, combined. If the social conservative is truly concerned about moral decline, he better refrain from handing elections to the people who will oversee moral decline, because he can't control himself. The fastest way to an immoral USA? Conservatives like Mike Huckabee running their mouths and playing into the lying, statist hands. It's far past time "conservatives" got their heads around these simple concepts. Remember: it all starts with self-control. Self-control leads to self-respect, which leads to courage.

You know what else about Pittsburgh it doesn't get any more than? Racist. I'll give you the "short" version, if you really want to get into this with me, then you'll get the long: It's far and away the most racist city I've ever lived in. They just come right out and say it, once you've been there for a while, and they think they can trust you. Pittsburgh is also the most provincial place I've ever been, so, it took me 2 years to be accepted. But, once I was, the flat out racism was uncanny. Go out on any other night but Sunday to The Strip or the Southside...and count the minorities. You won't get past 10. Not unless you know the cool places. Seeing a black person in a bar/club in Shadyside? That's like seeing a unicorn. I went out every weeknight there for 2 years. I saw: 3. You don't even see that many in the obvious drug bars in Oakland. The reason Pittsburgh doesn't have a budget problem? They refuse to pander to the minorities there, they refuse to spend gobs of money on them, and they refuse to play the game that you find in every other city. There are no Al Sharptons in Pittsburgh. All you need: Watch the local news. An Al Sharpton type would literally end up as a floater. There is no black voter political power in Pittsburgh, none at all. A white politician seeking to pander? They'd end up in the river too. This goes back to the steel days, where many of the grandparents/parents of the people there had to compete for jobs, and THEY were the minorities. In a sentence? Eastern Europeans who picked up the West Virigina/Unreconstructed Southern attitude. If you ever really talk to the people there, and really get to know them, you'll find that they simply do not care, this is who they are. Blacks belong where they belong, and noplace else. Wanna test this? Be white and walk/drive in East Liberty. You won't get past 2 minutes during the day without being pulled over. Then? Do the same thing anywhere near Aliquippa. You will be stopped there. The Pittsbugh area is MORE segregated than ANY place I've ever been, and I've worked in every Confederate state. "White people have no business in black neighborhoods unless you're buying drugs, so turn this car around, and GTFO of here, or you're going to jail right now." - Direct quote from a cop, and I heard it multiple times, both in the city and anywhere near Aliquippa. Dude, don't even try....to make your point with Pittsburgh. You will only succeed in embarrassing yourself. The "private and public", "cooperative" people you love so much? They are actually the most racist people you know.

Boy, you never miss an opportunity to miss and opportunity, do you? It's a joke....I was getting to a joke. Never mind. And yeah, I know all about Nabakov. My cousin worshipped The Police. To a level of perfect annoyance for me. Nothing pleased me more than when they broke up. What of it? And another thing: I believe in personal space, so don't stand, or hang around, so close to me, or my posts. EDIT: no shaking, and no coughing either.

Hmmm...so what sort of websites do you like to visit? You know, late at night, when the locks are closed? Nobody else around? Sorta bored.... Also, let's assume the very best about Congressman Alan Grayson, OK? Think: "he didn't do anything wrong at all, not a thing, and it's all a lie". Now, remember, we are assuming the best..alright? Ok, here goes: is it really a shocker that he'd marry a spiteful, lying, violent, vindictive b_tch?

I wonder how many heads in this thread that this one flew right over? Um, this county's ENTIRE fiscal, and policy, not social, agenda, has been moved at least 3 spaces on the numberline to the right? As in, the Keystone pipline is a dead issue without the TEA party? Then why are you giving the third party, The TEA party/Libertarians, schit for getting into them, and staying there? What exactly are we supposed to accomplish with the far-leftists, and in many cases, flat out socalists, who are in charge of the Democratic party? You think they want to make deals? No. And, as you say, the big business right wants to protect their special interests too. No. The only way is the TEA party way. We need to show up at Townhalls, and raise hell. These people are weak. They are scared of 2 pts in an approval poll. They don't have right on their side, they only have marketing people. All we have to do is put constant presssure on them, and they will fold. That is the secret of the TEA party, that nobody, certainly not the leftist media seems to understand: it's not about winning an election, and then going home, it's about constant pressure, evenly applied to all elected people. This is why the media keeps saying the TEA party is dead: they don't see the constant pressure. This is HOW the agenda has been pushed to the right. Constant pressure. Boy you can say that again: look what Obama, Pelosi and Reid have done to the Democratic party. Man, they better get rid of the kooks, and get back to representing the little guy, not big government, big union, or big business, or they are going to be in some real trouble. Once again, the real enemy shows its face: Entitled Baby Boomer. These people have manipulated the system, because there's so many of them, to benefit themselves, this entire time. I do this every so often: 1. In the late 60s/70s, Baby Boomers voted for liberal candidates(Nixon was a liberal Republican, because there were no Conservative Republicans except Goldwater, check the math, and Nixon's price/wage controls and EPA, etc.), because they wanted cheap education, and all the things that the liberals promised them. Jimmy Carter is the perfect candidate for the Baby Boomer/Me Generation people at this point. No wars they have to fight in, make everybody else pay 70% taxes so they can get started in life, get assistance/education/food stamps/pay for their kid's health care, all of it. 2. In the 80s, once they had their education, and were starting new jobs, now it was their turn to pay 70% tax rates. "Hey, that sucks, we don't like that": So, Reagan/Bush. And the tax rates get slashed to 28%. Now they can start building their net worth. 3. In the 90s, now it was time for their kids to go to school, or they were out of a job and needed education themselves, Clinton promises both, and viola! 4. In the 2000s, now the kids are done, and retirement is coming soon, so? Less taxes, less regulation, investment becomes important. Some of the kids haven't finished school! Which is why Gore almost won. But then? Even in spite of an unpopular war, and an election he should likely have lost? Baby Boomers step in an re-elect Bush, thus safeguarding their investment/income/capital. 5. Now, retirement is here, and, they don't want to pay for Medicare Part D, and, let's elect Obama, so we can feel young again, and we know he won't cut our Medicare...or raise taxes...or do anything that costs us personally. We'd rather borrow from China, and put that on our grandkids. The mentality you are complaining about emanates 100% from the Baby Boomers, and always has. Democrats love to cut DOD, as long as its not in their district, or their district doesn't depend on it. Come on. Chicago is where the food goes, so it can be moved elsewhere. Same thing with Toronto. These cities are where most of the recession-proof commerce takes place, so, no matter what, they aren't going to fail. These cities are literally "the market". "The market" will never go anywhere, as long as it is being fed resources. Holding Chicago up as an example of anything other than: America is so well endowed with natural resources, and people that are willing to harness them, that we can run our "market" cities like retards, and still not completely fail, is just plain dumb. The degree to which Buffalo is a "market" is the degree to which it keeps from failing. Buffalo hasn't really been "the Market" since the Railroad was invented. WW2 made Buffalo into a place where stuff gets made, but, it still wasn't "the market". The market was still NYC. Hence, Buffalo, and Detroit and Cleveland will fail, where cities like Chicago, Toronto and NYC will not. Non-market cities, like St. Louis, must be run properly, where "market" cities can never truly be run into the ground. Nobody knows what this is...yet. Bingo.

Which, as I've said, will backfire. Do any of the people you share social media with realize how dumb they are being with this? Here's what I say to mine: "You're giving him free name recognition, that very soon will be on par with Clinton's, so he won't have to spend $ on that. He'll spend all his $ attacking Hillary on Benghazi, and attacking all of you for Obamacare." That's usually puts an end to it. All Christie has to do is start being Christie again, in a few months, and then? Not only will everybody know him, they will like him, for the same reasons they liked him before. IF we don't remember what first made Kim Khardashian famous, who the hell is going to remember a traffic problem in 2 years? The media? The media has almost inocculated Christie from this entire incident. Again, who cares about 2 year old news? When he gets to come out, and do his righteous indignation thing? The left will be peeing themselves...in shock, horror and amazement at the monster they created. I bet MSNBC would beg to have him on...just for the ratings alone. He will deny them of course, and then go on Hannity or Greta and bust their balls. EDIT: Then again...the more I think about it: why should Christie be afraid of MSNBC? It's not like he can't destroy those mental midgets, and get himself a viral video or 3 out of the deal. Start with Andrea Kramer: she's a soft target. Then, on to the fatass blowhard. (Hehehe. 2 fat ass blow hards on one screen? Thank God for HD.) Then move in for the kill shot: take on the It, otherwise known as Maddow, and run her into the boards. There's no doubt that this is problem #1. In a way, I'm quite pleased with Mike Huckabee. Coming out and mangling his message like he did(he didn't say what he meant) will hopefully give pause to anyone else who feels the useless need to pontificate. Ever since Huckabee, the message has been clear: Obamacare, Obamacare, and a little bit of IRS/Benghazi, just to prevent it from being dull.

I don't know how any sane person can come away from that trade, for 2 rentals, and say bad. Yet, there are still morons who say bad, like Barry Melrose. Especially when we are now ~85% certain, given Miller's comments the other day about signing with them + the good chance they have at making the WCF, that we get 2 first round picks. Never mind the chance at getting even more 1st rounders out of Halak and Stewart. Carrier? Who cares? He's good, he's bad? He's a left wing that can play tough and score. He's sprinkles on the sudae. We can always knock them off if we don't like them. The rest of the thing is still awesome. I was thinking it before the guy said it on NBC yesterday: "The Sabres should just set up their table on the stage at the next 2 drafts". That's the thing: we haven't gotten half-way through the trades that I expect to happen. Moulson is gone for sure. Erhoff is a possible, so is Stafford, Tallinder, really anybody. So, we haven't even begun to get picks yet. This is not D'Arcy Regier. I highly doubt we will get all fired up, only to find out that nothing happens.

Well, now remember, I'm not as good at history as you are. However, I prefer the Sam Kinison version:http://comedy-quotes.com/sam-kinison/being_jfk.html Imagine how different the world would be if Kinison was still alive. The PC people, and the phony moral superiority people would be absolutely screwed. They thank thier lucky stars every day that he is dead, because he always owned them, completely.