Patty16

Cover story? the tall comparison is for many reasons, the biggest being that it takes a while for extra tall guys to grow into their bodies. You know, just like most rookies aren't yet men and need to mature physically in the CHL. So its not even close to a cover story, And Chara grew up training as a pro athlete in a communist country where his dad was an Olympic athlete. He wasn't some shmuck living on a farm somewhere. He came to learn the NA game just like most Euros do. YOu're right, he didnt start become really good until about the same point Myers is right now. But he also played on much better teams. Myers is a few seconds out of top 10 minutes in the league per night. He's not at Chara's level but people are saying over sized players take more time to develop than average sized ones. It's true accourding to scouts and GMs despite what you think

Right. and you just can't take size out of the equation. People were saying the same things about Chara, and no I'm not saying he will be him either. Buy when you are that big and skate that well people take notice. Myers still has potential. He's a pretty good NHL Dman playing a lot of minutes. Do you think if he was so horrible, why would you expect to get a guy like Fowler in return??

Who was it in Philly- not disagreeing just don't recall I have a different opinion of him. If you listen frequently he does this too much.

They are? They are prospects, with 18 NHL goals combined. Mantha could be better at some point, just like many thought Armia would when we took him

He's 25, lots of really great NHL Dmen were still finding their footing at 25. That said, I wouldn't mind moving him,

You should care that he is bad in the room and players do not like him. He is not going to be moved until the Jets can get what they perceive as full value. That won't happen until the offseason.

Insanity. They always overvalue the trade target and devalue the Sabres assets when analyzing these deals. You would think they were talking about P Kane not E Kane. E Kane is a nice player and has a lot of upside, but a lot of risk as well.

I think Jeremy did, but he's willing to trade anything for anything just to make a trade. I'm less worried about E Kane's off the ice antics than I am about his locker room issues. Breaking team rules and bailing on your teammates isn't the type of player that brings a room together.

what rumor?

of course not but trading arguably the best UFA forward, our top D prospect and a 1st is oerpaying by a lot. The going price is one piece.http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/scouts-price-on-evander-kane-has-dropped-winnipeg-jets-trade-deadline/ why would you overpay? Sounds like that WGR guy who says do whatever it takes....well that's why he's on the radio not making NHL trades. No one is going to pay that to get Kane given his issues.

Agreed but you certainly aren't going to build a contender by overpaying for assets either. 3 pieces for Kane was too much beforeeeeee his latest incident. The asking price as dropped to a roster player, it was never two roster players plus a first.

Theres evidence that in identical twins (obv sharing the same genetic code), if one has ASD, the other has a 90% chance of ASD, yet their other siblings do not have a similar rate. Genetics obv has something to do with ASD but so does environment. But like you said, we can pretty much rule out any causation by vaccination.

+1 Especially when such research has found many other factors that may have some correlation such as age of parents etc.

And yet study after study fails to show any causation between the two.. Indeed studies have shown vaccinated kids actually perform better in school. This is just another issue where people's "beliefs" trump science and it's supposed to be an issue. And people wonder why America falls behind the rest of the world in math and science in countries where beliefs don't trump evidence.

I believe GMTM said as much. A 1st today (for which you can better assess where it will be slotted) is worth more than a future unknown 1st rounder.

What part of the Constitution did he violate? What law? I've seen from your other posts that your Constitutional interpretation is less than accurate and your view of it as a citizen is not how the judiciary as a whole,and the entire legal system, view and operate under said document. A politician saying something you don't believe is true does not rise to the level of incompetence or an impeachable offense. Viewing everyday life through the Constitution, some 200+ years later, when the founders intended it to be an evolving document is perhaps where you go off track. The bill was publicly available, the basis of the bill and your objections fervently stated throughout the course of this thread, trace its origins back to a libertarian and conservative organization. You see, the people actually wanted the ACA. If you had the incliniation to do research as you say, and not cherry pick from FN, you would see that when polled on the guts of the ACA, the individual parts, people supported the ACA. Only when it was called Obamacare did support drop.

The President has the ability to pardon whomever he pleases as to a federal offense, regardless of the will of the people. Too often people throw around the will fo the people as some altruistic and unassailable truth, when in fact the founders made us a republic for a reason. They knew many times the will of the people was idiotic. ONe of the reason why federal judges aren't elected, to protect against the will of the people. And Supreme Court cases are reinterpreted by the Supreme Court all the time, it's the basis of the American legal system. Eleven is correct.

No he's still young for a Dman. He's a big man, and they take longer to develop generally. But i'm sure from your astute knowledge of talent evaluation you already knew that. For example, Hedman from TBL is 6'6 and wasn't tearing it up until last year, he's 23. Again he's still growing into his body. And Bodger was putting up 40+ pts a season when Dmen were scoring 100pts a year. Last year only 8 guys scoring more than 50 and no one was close to 100. It's not the same NHL as the 90s so lets not use 90s scoring #s to compare. I'm not sure what you're getting at, he's never gonna be an all star level dman in your opinion but Detroit should give us one of their top prospects AND a 1st?

Are any of the aforemoentioned players better than Myers at the same age? Not every player's career track is a straight line, Myers started high, crashed and is slowly coming back up. No one has any idea how he will continue to develop. He's still a baby learning a man's game.

Not really, unless you are talking about the govt shutting him down.

Kennedy no, he is a right center guy who has a history of gay friendly politics. Roberts on O-care has been the only one really and most legal analysts say it was to save face for the court. But every other major and minor opinion has followed almost without exception the 5-4 political leanings with Kennedy the swing.

This is how they do it though, in steps. First make a narrow decision, then in a subsequent case expand the concept to the level you want. The Supreme Court is less of a court and more of a policy implementation vehicle. Its sad when you can predict an outcome based on the political leanings of the bench. That's how you know they don't really base decisions on law.

Battista has the same number of letters as..... Golisano and meddling. Coincidence??????????

The temperance movement was very much about religious types, there was certainly an element of suffrage and women's rights as alcohol was seen as the devil's vehicle toward bad behaviour directed at women. Temperance and Prohibition were a confluence of several overlapping organizations. The bulk was the southern and rural northern folks who backs the ASL.

It was, it was spearheaded by the Anti Saloon League, a church based organization. There were some very far left social progressives who thought it was a way to better society but they were a small faction as compared to the social conservatives, pastors and ASL. Their base was the South and farm counties in the North, hardly progressive areas. Indeed, you still see dry counties in rural PA. The ASL was a pretty bad organization and used some dubious methods to gain support.