MattPie

I don't think it's considered as such here in the US, but I know some of the unsavory characters in JK Rowling's non-Harry Potter book use it that way so it must be a thing. Is it commonly used negatively in Canada?

I never had an issue with John Scott on the team, I really rooted for him. There were people around here that never wanted to see him play another game, goon, etc. though.

I like that the poll is multiselect; vote early, vote often!

As a note, if you have a Verizon phone, the NFL Mobile app lets you stream the game (over wifi); that's my plan, Sabres on TV, Bills on the phone, working on the laptop all the while. Note that I've tried piping the video from my phone to a TV a few different ways and that doesn't seem to work; the only one I haven't tried is using an HDMI cable because I don't have one.

For JJ, I'd be looking at "Not for Highway Use" exhausts and accessories on his registered vehicles. :) I can think of a few things that I'd get dinged for, most around speeding probably. :)

The story isn't worth full relating, but one night I had I-95 completely to myself on the motorcycle for about 10 miles in northeastern Maryland. Not a car in sight on either side.

1st bold: Service providers: depends on the service, right? "Luxury" services (let's say landscaping crews) will take a hit on two fronts: the people paying for them now will have less disposable income and be more reluctant to pay for them in the future, and with this new demand for labor, they'll have to pay their employees more driving the cost up further. There *may* be positive effects for manufacturers of basic goods, although the increased labor cost will hurt them too. You'll see more investment in automation (robots) to eliminate some jobs. 2nd bold: The thing about exports is when you enact a tariff on imported goods, other countries have a habit of doing the same for your goods. The export business goes into the toilet as the now more expensive goods can't compete on the global market.

Your analysis is likely correct at the macro level, but what about at the micro level? For an individual who already has a job his buying power is reduced; essentially the entire nation takes a pay cut. I'm lucky, it'd mostly be a belt-tightening exercise for me. For a person who is just scraping along, they have to start making choices about food vs. necessities. But there's an aspect in there that I don't understand: what happens when production can make an item for a certain amount, but people are buying less of them because they have less buying power. The manufacturer isn't going to lower the price below the cost to make the item to drive up demand. Do they slow down production to meet demand and eliminate jobs? It's interesting that very few economists have endorsed Trump. I hope the revenue from the tariffs goes to fund social programs like food stamps.

Even with one kid, you suddenly become a lot more careful about washing and not getting sick. RosePie has been sick a few times, but (knock on wood) seems to snap out of it pretty quickly. I'm the same way, so hopefully she's picked up the old man's internal defenses.

On trade and tariffs: if you raise tariffs, the cost of items goes up. How are people going to feel when everything made in China at Walmart (which is pretty large proportion) is suddenly twice as much? I may now have the option of choosing China vs. USA for those items, but I'm still going to have to pay the extra money. That's the issue with raising tariffs. Maybe trump is looking at it from the other way; he's going to (somehow) scrap all the environmental and worker protections so US manufacturing starts to look like third world sweatshops. As a paradox, the only way American manufacturing comes back is if American industry embraces renewable resources and processes while oil prices get high enough that it is no longer cost effective to ship goods halfway around the world to consumers. You'll have a tough time finding supporters of this strategy and the tax policies and whatnot to make it work in the short term among the people that seem to be so desperate for American manufacturing to make a comeback.

I think we all know how the arguments play out in that case, and that's the posturing. I just think it's more likely that Putin tries it with Trump than Clinton. Mmm, don't be so sure of that. Anything that traverses the internet, certainly. Email between people on a server (or a set on one subnet) won't fall into the collectors unless the email software isn't set up to do encryption and the client is somewhere else.

Not at all. Sorry to get your hopes up.

Yep, we all know where Trump stands, and almost every stance is despicable. Until catched flak and he denies saying it, even when we all can go Youtube the video of him saying it. I'm actually surprised I haven't seen a split screen ad with him saying things like "I didn't mock that reporter", and then the video of him mocking that reporter. That seems like a lay-up.

Huge Thurman Thomas fan.

I heard an interview with Dick Cheyney (of all people) that mentioned that he'd be in favor of making it "illegal" to report poll results until I think he may have said the next day. I'm not sure about the next day, but you certainly could argue after the polls close out west.

Or in a couple years and there are 32 teams.

FWIW, HDCHDB said all the right things in the beginning about watching the league and adjusting his style, etc. He's either slipped back into his happy zone or feels that he can't play the way he wants to with the current roster.

It's entirely possible that the Republican party internally doesn't want him to win either, and their news outlet is following orders, If you go in for such stuff. It's just a likely that the SOP for filming speeches is that camera angle, just like hockey has a standard angle they show the majority of games from.

I had what I think was the flu in my early 30s and I did nothing but sleep and eat a little bit for a week straight. I was out of sorts for another two weeks afterward.

STOP STOP, I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN MOM AND DAD FIGHT.

Or Chicago Blackhawks.

I thought they were adobo. I think the Reinhart negativity is nutmeg. Maybe he's distracted by an Old Bae or something.

It only gets worse; I wish I has gone out and done more on the weekends when I was younger and carefree. That's my advice for the day. You're never going to look back and say, "man, I wish I stayed home and watched TV more when I was 25."

And Matthews, right?

Nicely done.