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Down to 140 and I'll put 100 on Buffalo. Phuck the Phlyers!

At 240 and I'll put 100 on the Sabres.

Down to 240 and I wouldn't have bet on Buffalo either if I had known Miller wasn't getting the start.

At 340 and putting 100 on Buffalo

Down to 340 and with all the changes I may need to re-evaluate my recent strategy of just blindly picking the Sabres to lose.

At 540 and putting 200 on the Kings.

At 540 with some major ground to make up. That win against the Sharks was still worth it though, as long as we still finish in 30th.

At 440 and I'll put 300 on Anaheim.

I took a bath on that one. It was nice to see Buffalo actually look like they wanted to win and pull through though.

I'll go with 660 on San Jose.

I should be up to 1100 now with the loss to Anaheim.

At 900 and I'll put 360 on Anaheim.

I'm generally a lurker in this thread and the board in general, but I'll throw in just to remain eligible. When I first read the thread I was going to bet one unit on the Sabres opponent each game which would have had me sitting pretty at this point but since I never placed any bets, I'm at $1,000 and I'd actually like to put $100 on the Sabres to win since the Rangers seem to have as much trouble scoring as we do.

You forgot to add the momentum that those few meaningless win manage to carry over all the way from late March and early April all the way to the following October.

I'm ready to downgrade my votes on him at this point, even though I hope he sticks around for now. There's no way I want another coach falling on the sword and taking the fall for Darcy's ineptitude because with our luck the new guy will do exactly what Rolston did last year and that's provide just enough improvement for us to miss out on the chance to draft a true blue chip prospect in the draft. When Regier eventually gets ######-canned then I want the new GM to be able to bring in his own guy but for now I'm willing to let Rolston continue to flounder watching him try to make chicken salad out of chicken ######. He does a lot of things I disagree with coaching wise but when you look at the fact that we don't have a single center on this team (excluding the kids) who is capable of playing well defensively he's been dealt a bad hand.

I work on Camp Lejeune here in NC and I got furloughed for 3 1/2 days back when the shutdown first happened and then got called back to work the following Monday. I'm not even sure if I'll be getting paid next pay day but the orginazation that I work for is funded partially by appropriated funds and predominantly by non-appropriated funds so my paycheck should go back to what it was before all this. If not, I'll be dipping into some savings until they strike a deal that kicks the can down the road another 6 weeks or so and then we can do this all over again.

Many poor people don't travel out of the country and don't have cars so they have no need for a passport or a driver's license. What sort of photo ID would you use if you didn't have a passport or a driver's license.

Nice to know that $17 trillion was THE threshold that broke the camel's back. Maybe they should've started worrying about it earlier like when Reagan and Bush were racking up deficits like it was their jobs it could've avoided ever getting close to that point. But I'm sure if McCain had won the election the tea party would've been just as tough on him when the debt level eventually reached that point as well. As to your other point tax rates are at historically low levels and thanks to loopholes, fancy bean counters, and the convoluted tax system, many of the biggest profiting businesses like GE, Boeing, and Exxon don't even pay income taxes. It's flat out pathetic that with my income in the low $30,000's requires me to pay more actual money and a higher percentage of my income in taxes than these companies who records billions in profits every quarter.

Voter ID laws are fine in theory but if you want to be honest with yourself you should admit that their purpose is to disenfranchise voters who are disproportionately poor and more likely to vote for the candidate you disagree with and that is why you want them to go into effect. Republicans realize that the demographics of the nation are moving in a direction that hurts their party and there aren't enough rich people, gun nuts, and religious zealots to reverse the trend so they have to do whatever they can to keep the people who disagree with them from voting.

Yeah, they weren't around then because they didn't care about government spending as long as a Republican's hands were on the purse strings. Deficit spending was ok when Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bush Jr. did it because it was used to give rich people and big business's tax cuts and/or the money was spent on wars. But as soon as even marginally higher amounts of money was ear marked to feed poor people, expand Medicaid, and fund entities like the EPA, FDA, or the Department of Education they just couldn't take to the streets fast enough.

And you can stick to your Fox News talking points to make yourself feel morally superior all you want to. It won't change the fact that the middle class is rapidly disappearing as the number of poor people continue to raise and the wealthiest continue to take more and more of the pie for themselves. Using side issues like guns, abortion, welfare, the war on religion, and gay marriage is the only thing left that allows the Republican Party to maintain any sort of foot hold in American politics. Once more and more of the population wises up and realizes that what most of the wealthy are really concerned about is gaining more wealth at the expense of the poor the side issues will matter less and less and the Republican party will find it harder and harder to win elections despite voter ID laws and whatever types of tactics they'll try to employ to keep common people from voting.

This is complete nonsense and sad attempt at revisionist history. If the Tea Party was a reaction to Bush's fiscal ineptitude then where were they during the first 7 years of his 8 year presidency? Sure they showed up with their 3 cornered hats to oppose the bank bailouts but where were they when he turned a budget surplus into a giant deficit? Did they ever threaten to not raise the debt ceiling or shut down the government even once while he was in office? Did they try to get him to cut federal spending with any sort of actual legislative road blocks even once before the mortgage crisis? You can try to split hairs on the gay marriage things all you want as well, but trying to deny hospital visitation, insurance coverage, estate beneficiary exclusions, and marriage to gay couples is flat out discriminatory and any justification of it through the hate the sin not the sinner type rationale of saying we're not anti-gay just anti-gay marriage is a farce. I'm still dying to know the rationale of how most of them can claim to love Jesus so much yet ignore his main tenet of helping the poor as well, along with the way they want big brother government off their backs when it comes to assault rifles and background checks for owning guns but then insist that the government tell people who they can marry, what types of vaccines (like HPV) people can have, what kind of birth control their insurance companies can provide and whether a woman should be allowed to choose if she wants to keep her baby or not even if she's raped or their are major health risks to carrying the baby to term.

I wouldn't say the Tea Party is insane but they definitely have their collective heads up their ###### when it comes to their views and their inability to compromise. Unfortunately due to the extreme gerrymandering of political districts they have basically painted themselves into a corner. They refuse to compromise because giving an inch will cause them to look weak amongst their own brethren and lose their chance at re-election not during the next election but during the next primary when the next extremist tea party yahoo that is waiting in the wings will point to that compromise like it was an act of treason. They have their heads up their ###### because they seem to have a cognitive dissonance in their heads that won't allow them to see the vast hypocrisy of their political platform. Bush spent like a drunken sailor for 8 years while raising the debt ceiling many times with little more than feigned opposition. However, once their man was no longer in the White House it suddenly became the time to become frugal with the purse strings and fight any amount of spending tooth and nail. Add in the fact that the vast majority of them seem to be evangelicals or other devout Christians that flat out ignore the biggest theme of the New Testament of helping the poor and it just blows my mind how purposely out of touch they seem to be. Jesus never said a word about homosexuals and he lays on the whole the rich people are bad, unless they are helping the poor stuff pretty thick (just about every damn page). Somehow they've manage to ignore that though and do their damnedest to cut taxes for wealthy people, cut spending programs that help poor people while supporting guns, wars, and doing everything they can to keep stick their noses in people's private business when it comes to gay marriage, abortion, etc. all while crying about not wanting big brother government to tell them what to do.

Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket. Seriously? People are morally bankrupt because they enjoy some tv shows with adult themes? You must be a riot to hang out with. What about the violence that gets glorified in what is presumably one of your favorite sports (ice hockey) with the bare knuckle fist fights and bone crunching body checks? I'm just curious but how do you square that circle?

I edited my previous post. I believe the July 1st date still applies, just like it did under the old CBA. Malkin either hasn't signed the contract yet or it's signed and it just can't be submitted to the league office until 7/1/13. Either way, Darcy needs to piss or get off the pot and determine what we're going to do with Miller and Vanek. Hopefully he already has and they just haven't made the news public.