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McDonald v. City of Chicago – Cert Granted SCOTUScast Debate
SCOTUScast 11-09-2009 featuring Kurt Lash, Nelson Lund, and Clark Neily
November 9, 2009Clark Neily, Kurt T. Lash, Nelson Lund
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On September 30, 2009, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago on the question of whether the the Due Process Clause or the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment makes the Second Amendment applicable to the States and invalidates Chicago's ordinance prohibiting the possession of handguns in the home.
To discuss the Privileges or Immunities question, we have Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Clark Neily and Loyola Law School Professor Kurt Lash. George Mason University School of Law Professor Nelson Lund will moderate the discussion.
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Ok, what constitutes "Old Geezers"? I'm 57, gray, can't see, and still shoot with fingers. Do I make it?
Ok, what constitutes "Old Geezers"? I'm 57, gray, can't see, and still shoot with fingers. Do I make it?
Finger Shooter Since 1962...
Hmmmmmm, well let's see now Ol' "Stillfingers" --- Everything seems in order except yer 13 candles short on yer birthday cake !!!
from the front page...there's an icon that says post new thread.....and BINGO you will have your own thread you started
Ok, that's a 12pack of coke ya owe me now
Well, I kept clicking on enough stuff, that I finally found a new page I never seen so far, and YES, it's gotta box to click on for new threads. Our machine is so slow, that I think that front page first got downloaded, so now I'm all set up for business --- it's time to get serious now.
"12pk of coke" --- my goodness y'all die from "acid indigestion", or turn into a "zit factory".
Young Whipper Snappers, calling us Old Geezers...........Just wait till Carlosii hears about this!
What's muscle memory? At my age, I it's hard to remember having muscles, or memory.
Chuck.....I'll be fine......ok, a coke at Shiloh this Sat will be fine =)
Carlosi has already forgot that the site is working again.
Gotcha covered Tim --- as long as they take credit cards---piggy bank is MT.
Ol' Stillfingers --- at 57 y'all can shoot in the Senior Open Class ---- them "Geezer Wannabies"


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Meet Pauly D's Baby Mama!
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Current Web Services News
|20 th March
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With polls widening even further in Obama's favor after Romney's 'fundraiser-gate' (to paraphrase his 'inelegant' remarks: '47% of Americans are tax cheating, benefit-sucking lowlifes'), the upcoming debates loom extremely large for both candidates. To show you how important it is for Romney, when he isn't sporadically campaigning or 'autumning' in his NH lakehouse, he's spending virtually all of his time debate prepping.
The stakes are huge for the former governor. He must win back his fleeing electorate by convincing them he is a viable candidate for '100%' of the people as well as show he has a 'specific' plan for America. To use the proverbial boxing metaphor, he needs to score a 'knockout' punch, or at the very least, land some heavy blows that catch his opponent off guard and win on points. This will tighten the 'swing state' races, put all future debates in play and make it close until November.
For Obama, a killer performance could be the nail in the coffin that he needs to make his current campaign momentum unstoppable. He needs to make Romney look like the guy they've already been portraying thus far: an automaton who can't relate to the average Joe (or Jane or Jose) and is out to screw the middle class. If the President wins on decision, it could be enough to go the distance but a TKO or a KO would almost assure an early end to the race (barring some kind of major fuckup) and he could pretty much pop the Prosecco on Oct. 3rd (unintentional alliteration).
Because of the singular importance of this first debate, I have thought up some handy tips for both candidates on how they can punch (or in Romney's case, 'sail') their way to victory:
OBAMA - Don't be Apollo Creed. In other words, don't get too cocky. Remember the scene in Rocky when Creed is doing business on the phone while his bald assistant watches Balboa train by hitting the beef in a subzero meat locker? Creed didn't take Rocky seriously. Imagine Obama in a similar scenario: he's on the phone in Oval Office yelling at Hillary, eating a pastrami sandwich and going over his daily briefing while Axelrod watches Romney doing his debate prep on TV by adeptly sailing past buoys which have key planks of his platform on cue cards. There would never have been a Rocky II if Creed had trained properly. I rest my case.
ROMNEY - Fuck being a human. Who are we trying to kid, you are who you are, don't change this late in the game by removing the stick out of your anus. All we hear about from people who claim to know you is how great you are in business meetings. Well, treat this debate as one huge powerpoint demonstration and all of America are your employees. Be detailed and precise and anal, just like we expect you to be. Correct Obama if you find he's wrong. Make it seem like you're in charge. The problem up to now is you show amazing glimpses of rigid uppercrustiness, but you're not really saying anything. Or if you are, it's on tape and that's what you call 'off the cuff', which is code for 'being honest'. So be factual, detailed and specific. Embrace your inner Gekko, and I don't mean the insurance company.
Since debates are often measured by who looks more presidential, here are some ideas as to how to throw the other candidate off guard.....
HOW TO THROW ROMNEY OFF GUARD - Talk about science. Science reminds us of technology and technology reminds us of iPhones. The logic here is if you can paint Romney as anti-science, then he will be viewed as against talking on the phone, i.e. backwards. Pin him down on his belief in Darwinism, global warming, supply-side economics. If Obama can put Romney on a retro lazy susan and put it in a nice package with a pretty 'W' on it, he's won. The public will think he's like a grumpy old Dad who's against change and they will not want to vote for him. I was going to say 'old boxer' but I think I've dropped that metaphor now.
- Present a more detailed policy than Obama. He won't be expecting this from you, Mitt. Act like you're the only one thinking about stuff. Probably the best thing to speak about is energy, although your current plan is ridiculously centered on oil and coal. But if you can state a detailed 'energy' policy that looks towards the future and ties it to foreign policy, i.e., with my plan, we wouldn't have all this Middle East mess, then you might have an opening. If you have reasoned ideas and seem fair, the public will think you're like a responsible Dad and want to vote for you.
Most debates are measured in gaffes, like Ford's 'Poland is not communist' or great lines like Reagan's 'there you go again'. While you can't control the other person's gaffes, you can come up with some great lines....
OBAMA. Russia Lie in wait for anytime Romney mentions Russia then jump on it and say: 'You mean the Russia that you said was our number one enemy? I think I read about that on your myspace page.' (or something funnier) Face. Or 'I guess we also have to worry about Sputnik, too'. Don't be too smarmy or else it could backfire. 47 If Obama tries to mention any number close to 50 during the debate, all you have to do is say, 'I thought 47 was more your number'? Literally, that's all you have to say. It trivializes his argument (whatever it was) and makes a joke about Romney and does it in a very subtle way without hitting it on the head. Boom. ROMNEY Guns and Religion You have to have a comeback for the '47' and surrogates have already been dredging up Obama's 2008 comments about rural voters 'cling to their guns and religion'. So if Obama makes a big deal out of the '47' comment, you say, 'I want those 47 percent to join the 53 percent to make 100 percent, but you catergorize them as 'what did you say' bitter because they cling to guns and religion'? That will probably equalize things as best you can, now move on.
Focus on the next 4 years....
'Based on what you've seen [give a list], will you be better off in the next four years?' It's risky, but if you have policy to back it up and Obama's not doing very well in the debate, it will be effective, make a nice spin on Reagan's line and definitely get into the news-o-sphere the next day.
So, there you have it -- free advice. Whoever uses it, will win. It's that simple. But I do want credit or you will get a call from my personal attorney.
The following is a typical conversation the day after the 2012 Republican National Convention:
Office Worker #1: Hey, did you see the convention last night?
Office Worker #2: No, I had Pilates. Did I miss much? How did Romney do?
Office Worker #1: Clint Eastwood spoke to an invisible Obama on an empty chair.
Office Worker #2: What?
Office Worker #1: I know, it's really fucked up. Come over to my desk, I've got it on Adobe Flash.
And there lies the collective takeaway by Joe and Jane 'Plumber' Sixpack of this year's GOP convention. Yes, there were a lot of speeches by 2016 presidential wannabes like Marco Rubio and Chris Christie (and a neverending supply of Republican women pretending to be happy); yes, there were copious amounts of Obama 'You-didn't-build-that' bashing and stirring up of the rabid Republican base; yes, there was lots of talk by Romney of 'optimistic nostalgia' and roses; but what will be remembered in the days and years ahead above all else is that on August 31, 2012, Clint Eastwood spoke to a fucking chair.
Now many political pundits and journalists have described this rambling, ad lib Dirty Harry Debacle as an unwelcome distraction from Romney's message. Instead of talking about the headliner the next day, insiders complain that everyone was discussing the message of Mr. Every Which Way But Loose, complete with 'make my days' and 'do what to myselves?'.
I must take issue with this analysis. Instead of castigating this speech as an embarrassing and unfortunate incident, we should actually be lauding it as a fortuitous moment for Mr. Romney's campaign. In fact, I will even go so far as to say that if this whole series of events with Bronco Billy was intentional, it is an act of sheer genius.
Now follow my three-pronged logic here because it's ironclad:
1. The Presidential race is tight and is going to stay tight up until November.
The days of the 20-point post-convention bump are over. Most likely, with no major fuckups on Obama's side, the two candidates will remain neck and neck by the end of this week. And barring any major 'Poland is not Communist' blunders in the debates, the race will remain perilously close right up to the election. It could literally go down to which candidate doesn't make any mistakes.
2. Therefore, all Romney had to do in his convention speech was not say or do anything stupid.
He is a presentable candidate who cleans up nice and has an Olan Mills photo frame family. The bar was set very low for Romney to come out shining. All he had to do was read his policy free speech just one notch higher than the level set at 'William Hurt' for him to look like a wellspring of emotion.
3. But just to be on the safe side, what would set the bar even lower?
Let's face it, there's not a lot of policy meat in Romney's speech so he's open to some criticism even if he reads it adequately. How, then, can his advisers provide a setting in which Romney cannot possibly ruin his chances and yet also be perceived as a substantial voice of reason? Easy peasy lemon squeezy--simply provide a smokescreen; a crazy distraction which would make everyone shift focus on this person and ultimately forget Romney's performance -- a babbling 'secret' celebrity --Mr. Million Dollar Boo Boo himself.
Now, we can debate about whether this Pale Rider Rant was planned or not by the Romney team (personally, in a convention where even the number of balloons dropped on American Samoa is calculated, I find it extremely difficult to believe that Firefox and his Obama Borscht Belt routine slipped under the radar) but you cannot deny that whatever the intent, Romney has come out smelling like the rose he spoke of in his speech. He got a little bump in the polls and he's back on the trail relatively unscathed and free until the next round of intense national scrutiny: the Oct. 3 Presidential Debates.
Space Cowboys' speech was like one of those great gridiron misdirection plays (Go Cornhuskers!) where all eyes are focused on the running back (the Eiger Sanction) and the quarterback (Romney) jaunts across the goal line. Or, if you naively believe this was a fortunate accident, it's like the movie Office Space when Ron Livingston's character, Peter Gibbons, is just about to admit embezzling from his firm, when the entire office complex burns down. He gets away scot free.
Exactly the same thing happened to Romney (we will skip the embezzlement reference). Instead of being dissected and held up to the fire for being vague, factually distortive or downright boring, Honkytonk Man acted as the fire. He took all the heat. Romney waved to the crowd while brushing off the soot on his suit. Now he's got a spring in his step and is more confident than ever.
So with the Democratic National Convention upon us, the honus is now on President Obama. Should he go for it and try to give a flawless and inspiring speech like in 2008? Should he try and knock one out of the park by defending the last four years, laying down some detailed future-oriented policy planks but possibly leaving himself open to critique? Or should he take a page out of the Romney 'trick' playbook? I propose the latter and play it safe.
Why not -- and just open your minds up a bit to some blue-sky thinking -- why not book Roseanne Barr to sing the national anthem Thursday night? People will definitely be talking about her crotchgrab the next day and not Obama's speech. Or what about Kanye West interrupting the President by jumping up on stage shouting, 'Beyonce deserves to be President, not you!' Or what if Axelrod schedules a Justin Timberlake/Rihanna dance number during prime time and he rips off her dress to reveal 'You Didn't Build This Either' panties.
Or perhaps the safest bet of all. I don't even know if he's a Democrat (but from his speech, I don't even know if Unforgiven is a Republican), but he would by far be the most distracting speaker of all: Charlie Sheen. Just slip him into the lineup (with some vodka and xanax) right before Obama's address. He'd walk out to confused cheers with a T-shirt saying 'Romney: Losing!' flanked by two prostitutes (porn stars will do). He will curse at an inanimate object (I recommend a hat rack), then be escorted off the stage by some burly Secret Servicemen (who also take the prostitutes away ba doom). Imagine the scuttlebutt at the water coolers of America the next day? They certainly won't be discussing any delicate climate meltdown, no siree, they'll be chattering about celebrity meltdown...and the President would ultimately be ignored and live to fight another day, just like Romney.
So Mr. President and trusted advisers, I realize that I am just a lowly blogger from blogsville and you have no reason to accept or even listen to my advice. But take it from me, cut your losses. Play it safe. Wait until the debates to make your move, and even if that becomes a wash, let the ad blitzes do your bidding. Just don't make any unforced errors right now. There's too much at stake.
On Thursday night, I implore you, don't slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet right now, just have a simple, all-American psychopath introduce you at this year's convention.
We're counting on you.
Last month, Rich Fulcher and His Fucked Up Friends was unveiled to a packed house full of fun-loving lunatics at the incredible new venue, The Vandella, in Shepherd's Bush. The night featured American funnywoman Morgan Murphy (Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon), David Gregory (Matt Lucas Awards) and Shenoah Allen (one half of the Pajama Men) and me. TOTAL UNMITIGATED SUCCESS.
This month, we will officially make it a tradition! I love traditions because they remind me of something that happens a lot, which I believe is very traditional.
So far we have on the bill the frenetic funnies of shit hot Thom Nelstrop (For the Win, Rich Fulcher and His F***d Up Friends theme tune composer), musical comedy from Carly Smallman (she was not on the bill last month because she lost her voice but I promise she's here this time!) and Abandoman (improv hip hop sellouts all over the world with world credentials - WORLD).
Buy your tickets here now and become part of a comedy tradition. It's cheaper if you order online. At the door, it's a little bit more, a little bit more.....
NOTE: Unfortunately, Simon Day can't make it so please ignore his presence on the bill. I will force him to come another night with my knees. Stay tuned for any new announcements on my site.
Teacher: Billy, can you say the word 'politics' in a sentence?
Billy: Sure, Polly the Parrot swallowed a clock and now Polly ticks.
Haw haw haw. See? Politics can be fun!
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Rich Fulcher's Guide to the U.S. Elections
That's right. I must confess. I'm a political junky. I live, breathe and eat circus juice.....and U.S. politics. And this election has so much going on I can't help but tell you about it with mouth grunts and prison groans.
Here are a few of the things this show will cover:
Top-notch analysis as to why Mitt Romney makes robots saucy.
Donuts? Donuts? Donuts?
What's happened so far in the Republican primaries.
Political experts and comics will debate why Obama is saving his second term for 'saxes' or sexy taxes.
I will run around with a worm.
PLEASE NOTE: This show has never been performed and therefore never reviewed so please see this 6-star show before it tours the Northeast part of Iowa.
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Can I be honest with you? I never have done a show like this before and I'd love it if you could see me but not today, at the theatre. There are chairs there for most of the show. You will love the drinks and smells that are piped in from down the street. No Danes on Thursdays.
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Check out a new night I'm doing this MONDAY 9th APRIL called "Rich Fulcher and his Fucked up Friends" at the Vandella, Shepherds Bush. It's different from Fulchfest because it's got a different name (hence the different name). Tickets are available here via ticket web.
I know it's on a bank holiday but when have banks ever stopped you from doing anything fun? (don't answer). It's a great night filled with stand- up, music, weird events, all in a great new venue filled with gloop.
I've really tried hard to get a line- up of alternative and well known comics you don't normally see in a club setting.
So, Rich, who are your f****d up f*****s?
TOM NELSTROP A budding comic sensation. Watch this guy- he's shit on wheels!
CARLY SMALLMAN Improviser and comedy music phenom. She has been described by Rob Brydon as "fantastic". This is fact.
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MORGAN MURPHY She's a writer, actress and stand up from the State of Americas. One of the original writers on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, she's also performed on the Comedians of Comedy tour.
- Oh, and then there's ME.
Phew. What a night. Please come. If I get a turnout, it could be a monthly (or even hourly) event. Again, tickets are available here via ticket web.
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Fiscal Deal Boosts Stocks
On first day of trading in 2013.
Wrong again, Mayans! The new year is getting off to a good financial start Wednesday, as stock markets rallied in the wake of the late-night fiscal-cliff deal. U.S. stock markets, which rallied more than 1 percent on Dec. 31 in anticipation of a deal, were off to the races on Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial avergage gained more than 229 points, or 1.75 percent; the S&P 500 index gained 26.53 points, or 1.86 percent; while the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 74.26 points, or 2.46 percent. Global markets also rose sharply. The House voted 257–167 to approve the Senate bill that would avoid major tax hikes and spending cuts.
Latest Updates
Conservative Group Targets McConnell
Runs ads in his home state.
John Boehner, is that you? A conservative advocacy group has targeted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, running ads in his home state of Kentucky highlighting his key role in negotiating a deal to avert the fiscal cliff. Brent Bozell, the president of For America, the group pushing the ads, called them a "statement to make it emphatically clear that what the minority leader did was 100 percent unacceptable. Conservatives are going to hold him responsible for this." McConnell negotiated with Democrats to create a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, although many Republicans felt betrayed by the ultimate deal, which allowed for tax increases. The ads will be distributed through Google display ads and will also run on conservative websites such as the Drudge Report and the Daily Caller.
Lessons From the Fiscal Cliff
From Joe Biden to Pat Toomey, who are the winners and losers from Congress' game of chicken? The crisis will have political consequences. What the deal may mean for 2014—and 2016.
After stepping (or stumbling) back from the fiscal cliff, we have a zombie Speaker of the House, his authority as dubious as his tan, his hold on the gavel barely reconfirmed—a hold reliant on a promise that he will no longer sit down one-to-one with the president of the United States to seek bipartisan agreement.
Joe Biden arrives at the Capitol on Dec. 31 for a closed-door meeting with Senate Democrats to urge them to support a tentative tax agreement with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). (Drew Angerer/Getty)
John Boehner is less the Speaker than a battered ventriloquist for the Tea Party klatch in his caucus. Don't hold your breath waiting for him to accept Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's offer as she introduced him on the House rostrum—to come together and find "the common ground that is a higher, better place for our country."
Instead, the sequel to the end-of-the-year chaos on Capitol Hill is nearly certain to be a Congress that creates crises rather than solves problems. Indeed, the fiscal-cliff confrontation is a precursor of irrepressible conflicts ahead—conflicts that have potentially decisive consequences for the Obama presidency and the economy. There are also political consequences—for 2016 and beyond, and even for the viability of a system of checks and balances that increasingly resembles a charter for permanent checkmate, where the grand bargain on virtually anything seems impossible and even the petty deals are excruciatingly difficult.
The president has been criticized either for doing too little or conceding too much. He has been "missing in action" because he has failed to offer a comprehensive plan for "fiscal reforms." Never mind that he has sent Congress budget proposals for far-reaching deficit reduction that were routinely disdained by a Mitt Romney-in-waiting GOP. The proposals don't meet the Beltway standard of inflicting the most pain on the middle class and the poor, and thus would lead Republicans to pursue them with draconian zeal, although their leadership dares not speak the specifics. Instead, they hid behind the vague googooism of "entitlement reform," in which they would shred everything from Social Security and Medicare to food stamps, college loans, and of course the "socialist" transgression that has so seized and obsessed them—health-care reform.
The GOP lost not only the last campaign, but the last century. Unable to steal the majority—Barack Obama is the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to win more than 51 percent in two successive elections—the losers are still determined to repeal the New Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society.
On the other side, there are some progressives who insist that Obama shouldn't give an inch. He was ready to tweak the cost-of-living formula for Social Security. Progressives denounced the measure as a betrayal of fundamental principle, when in fact it would have just a minor affect on benefits—and most of that 20 years from now. Similarly, they complain that the threshold for the top tax rate was set at $400,000 a year, not the $250,000 the president campaigned on. This is a reflex mirror image of right-wing dogmatism. As Lawrence O'Donnell argued on MSNBC, the $250,000 demarcation line for the top bracket—set under Bill Clinton—today equals $397,000 if adjusted for inflation.
There are liberals who preferred going over the cliff to compromising. It may be easy to indulge this purist impulse if you're not one of the millions of Americans who would have lost jobs in a post-cliff downturn, lost their unemployment benefits and been left with nowhere to turn, or lost the child- and earned-income-tax credits that are a lifeline for families and the economy. Obama saved all that—and saved the nation and the world from a recession—just as he averted a depression in 2009. Perhaps disappointed progressives can take comfort from the acid verdict of überconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer: for Republicans, the final deal was "a complete surrender on everything ... a rout."
The Economy's Year-End Bounce
As the fiscal cliff approached, the ultra-rich freaked out, rushing to buy apartments and clamoring for dividends. But most companies and consumers kept calm and carried on. By Daniel Gross.
We're starting to get a clear look at what the economy looked like in December. The month that kicked off with grief (Newtown) was hampered by the post-Sandy fallout in the Northeast and paralyzed by the rising insanity in Washington. As the budget talks went down to the wire, there was a rising uncertainty about tax rates, for government contractors, and in the markets.
A retail store at the CambridgeSide Galleria mall in Cambridge, Mass., advertises a holiday sale on Dec. 24, 2012. (Michael Dwyer/AP)
And yet the data we've seen thus far shows that Americans were generally like the stiff-lipped Brits in World War II—they kept calm and carried on. Neither consumers nor businesses really acted in December like they were freaked out by the impending fiscal cliff.
Christmas retail sales may have been disappointing, although blame can be laid in part on the fact that the eastern seaboard, one of the country's wealthiest and most densely populated regions, was recovering from the after-effects of Sandy. When you don't have electricity and are faced with coughing up several thousand dollars for a new generator, it's likely you'll spend a little less at the mall.
But there are signs that the largest U.S. retail sector was quite healthy. Throughout the day on Thursday, auto manufacturers reported their December sales. And the news was generally good: Chrysler, up 10 percent from last year (PDF); General Motors, up 5 percent (PDF); Toyota, up 13 percent.
The ISM Manufacturing report on business came in at 50.7 percent (any reading above 50 indicates the sector is expanding), reversing November's decline. The companies responding to the survey indicated that production, new orders, employment, and exports all grew in December.
Remember in October and November, when businesspeople were threatening to Go Galt, to just shut down and fire all their employees in the event of an Obama victory and the inevitability of higher taxes? That was always a bogus threat. And now we have the data to prove it. On Thursday, Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that the number of announced job cuts in December fell to 32,556, "the second lowest monthly of 2012." That total is off 43 percent from the November figure and down 22 percent from December 2011. It could be that employers didn't let people go because they were in the Christmas spirit. Or it could be that they were simply holding onto workers because they had sufficient orders to keep them busy. In other words, they were more focused on hiring than firing.
That explanation makes more sense in light of the ADP National Employment Report, in which the payroll-processing company estimates the number of private sector jobs created in the month. ADP concluded that employers added 215,000 positions in December. Meanwhile, it revised November's previously reported increase from 115,000 to 148,000. December represented the best single month since February 2012. And guess who was doing the hiring? While giant companies, those with 500 or more workers, added 87,000 posts, medium businesses, those with 50–499 employees, added 102,000, and small businesses added 25,000. "The job market held firm in December despite the intensifying fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington," said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, which helps ADP tally the figures. "Businesses even became somewhat more aggressive in their hiring at year end."
Obama Signs Fiscal-Cliff Deal
Via autopen in Hawaii.
It's over, right? President Obama on Wednesday signed the legislation that will avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the end results of a high-stakes deal that will raise taxes on Americans making more than $450,000 a year. Obama, who rejoined his family on vacation in Hawaii, ordered that the official copy of the legislation be signed via autopen. The Senate approved the legislation in the predawn hours of New Year's Day, 89–8, and the House followed suit the same day, voting 257–167 in favor of the deal. The legislation avoids a series of draconian spending cuts and tax hikes that were set to go into effect on Jan. 1.
The Cliff Deal's Upside
With Republicans voting to raise taxes, Obama is in a strong position to challenge the new Congress to pass a fiscal grand bargain early in 2013, writes Will Marshall.
The fiscal cliff deal finally passed by the House Tuesday night isn't likely to lift the public's rock-bottom esteem for the nation's elected leaders. It took too long and delivered too little, and the spectacle of a Congress that can't conduct the nation's business except under extreme duress from self-imposed deadlines and penalties is infuriating.
Charles Dharapak
Still the outcome wasn't terrible—and it shows that a grand fiscal bargain is still in reach, as our deeply polarized political class seems to be relearning the art of compromise.
The deal is best understood as ratifying the 2012 election result. President Obama campaigned and won on explicit promises to raise tax rates on the rich. That mandate, plus the automatic expiration of the Bush tax cuts, left Republicans with no choice but to negotiate with the White House over narrowing the scope of the coming tax hike.
Had House Republicans followed Speaker John Boehner's lead, they probably could have won significant spending cuts in return for reneging on their anti-tax pledge. But they didn't, and the result was a one-sided victory for Obama, who got $620 billion in revenue from raising rates on very wealthy households, plus an extension of the stimulus tax breaks for low-income families and $30 billion in new spending on unemployment, without having to convince Democrats to swallow cuts in entitlements.
In effect, Republicans opted to give Obama his pound of flesh on tax rates now, and save the big battle over long-term debt reduction for the next Congress. They reckon the imperative of raising the debt ceiling early in 2013 will give them more leverage to demand spending cuts from the White House. That's doubtful, because the public rightly sees GOP intransigence as the main obstacle to a grand bargain.
But the fiscal cliff deal shows that intransigence has its limits, as Republicans finally broke the conservative taboo against raising tax rates that party members have observed religiously for over two decades. Some 85 House Republicans defied the Tea Party and voted to boost tax rates—an outbreak of fiscal sanity that bodes well for the prospect of passing more sweeping reform this year.
Especially delicious was the sight of Grover Norquist, the Grand Ayatollah of anti-tax orthodoxy, issuing a fatwa permitting Republicans to vote for raising rates. The ever-nimble Norquist seized on a technicality—a new budget baseline—that means the tax hike will actually be scored as a tax cut. It's ironic that he would seek refuge in such Washington arcana—the very thing right-wing ideologues are supposed to hate.
Boehner Said What?!
The House speaker's four-letter blast at the Senate majority leader is the latest ugly twist in the nasty back-and-forth between warring Washington pols. Lloyd Grove on the decline of Capitol Hill civility.
It was the sort of acrimonious exchange between co-workers that, had it happened in the private sector, would have landed the aggressors in the Human Resources office.
Last week, Harry Reid told Congress today that the Speaker is running the House like a 'dictatorship' and that all Boehner cares about is keeping his job—and not keeping the country on track financially.
But John Boehner and Harry Reid are constitutional officers of the United States—the Republican speaker of the House and the Democratic Senate majority leader, respectively—so their sulphurous, X-rated squabble last Friday, in the midst of fiscal-cliff negotiations at the White House, had no consequence beyond the further coarsening of political dialogue and a decreased likelihood of bipartisan cooperation in the nation's capital.
"Go fuck yourself," Boehner advised Reid as they crossed paths just outside the Oval Office.
"What are you talking about?" Reid asked in surprise.
"Go fuck yourself," Boehner explained.
In the annals of Washington dysfunction, the nasty back and forth was memorable, though certainly not unprecedented. Who can forget South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's shout, "You lie!"—in the middle of President Obama's September 2009 health-care speech to Congress? Indeed, Boehner's outburst was a near-verbatim replay of Vice President Dick Cheney's notorious recommendation to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) eight years ago on the Senate floor. (Cheney was irate about Leahy's attacks on his former company, Halliburton.)
"To put things in perspective, this is not one lawmaker punching another, or caning him half to death, so I don't want to hype its impact," said American Enterprise Institute scholar Norman J. Ornstein, co-author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. "But the fact that Boehner dropped a couple of f-bombs on his Senate counterpart, and in the White House at that, reflects the tribal nature of our politics these days, and the less-than-cordial relationships that exist among and between the congressional leaders. Having said that, we can all thank Dick Cheney for his pioneering role."
Tea Partiers Want Revenge
Word had it that the Tea Party was on the decline, but the Republican cave on taxes is galvanizing furious grassroots members, who are vowing to root out recalcitrant GOP lawmakers in 2014—a year they say will make the 2010 wave look like a ripple.
Until last night, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that the Tea Party was on the wane. Congressional leaders of the nascent movement, like Allen West and Joe Walsh had lost reelection, or, like Jim DeMint, had decided to leave politics altogether. House Speaker John Boehner had stripped some of the more outspoken members of the Tea Party caucus of their congressional leadership posts, a sign that the GOP establishment was no longer going to be led by its ultra-conservative tail. The big money groups backing the Tea Party were falling apart in a spate of post-election season squabbling.
President Obama thanked Speaker Boehner after the House passed the Senate's fiscal cliff legislation.
But after 85 House Republicans joined Boehner in raising taxes without spending reductions during the end game of Monday night's fiscal-cliff negotiations, Tea Party leaders and conservative activists from around the country are dusting off their tri-corner hats and "Don't Tread On Me" signs, and now say that their members are as energized as they have ever been since the first Tax Day protests in 2009. And the Republican Party, they add, had better beware.
"We now have 85 members of the House who have shunned their noses at us," said Dustin Stockton, a Texas- and Nevada-based operative and the chief strategist of The Tea Party.net. "Our job now is to recruit and inspire and motivate people to run against those Republicans who did it."
For Tea Partiers and fiscally conservative Republican rank-and filers, the Congress that ended its term this week was at last a chance to get federal spending under control. Hopes were high that this class, which more than doubled the number of members in the House's Tea Party caucus on their first day, would repudiate previous Republican tendencies to reverse campaign promises and open up the spending spigot as soon as they had their hands on it. And if these newly minted members failed, the Tea Party promised to rally its energy behind new challengers who wouldn't.
Instead however, this Congress voted to increase spending three times, and never once to cut taxes. The final indignity, the bill to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" by raising taxes on the wealthiest, was negotiated behind closed doors and at the last minute, anathema to a group that had pledged unprecedented openness around legislation. Plus, as many Tea Party leaders around the nation pointed out, the bill that was passed this week includes $1 dollar of spending reductions for every $41 of new taxes.
"I was shocked about that. I was in complete shock," said Louisiana GOP chairman Roger Villere, Jr., who, despite working in the establishment, has actively courted Tea Party types in the Bayou. "I think the conservative movement is going to get fired up. I don't see people getting depressed. I see people getting fired up and working twice as hard."
And it's not just local grassroots groups that have been incensed about the deal, but even GOP insiders with close ties to the movement, such as Villere and some of the well-heeled national umbrella organizations that provided the Tea Party some institutional heft.
Dear Liberals: Stop Complaining
Obama isn't Captain Liberal. He's the president. And liberal pundits who are up in arms about the fiscal-cliff deal seem not to recognize the difference. By Michael Tomasky.
Here's my New Year's resolution: I'm going to read less liberal grousing about Barack Obama. At the moment, we have a number of critics of the deal Obama just cut with the Republicans to avert the fiscal cliff. They make some fair points, about the deal and about Obama. But if there's a style of criticism that really bugs me, it's that which reproves him for failing to be Captain Liberal while refusing to recognize that the guy has to be Mister President. Here's what I mean.
After the House passed the Senate's fiscal cliff bill, Obama warned Congress: the U.S. can't 'simply cut our way to prosperity.'
The standard liberal position in the run-up to the cliff deal, or at least a position taken by a number of prominent liberals, was that Obama should have let the country go over the cliff, because he'd immediately have more leverage after Jan. 1. Taxes would go up, the argument went, most of the country would blame the Republicans, and boomity-boomity-boom, they'd come crawling to Obama ready to sign a deal on his terms.
I will readily confess that the logic is, if not impeccable, only mildly peccable. The Republicans would have been over a barrel. Of course predicting what those people will do and how they'll respond to any given situation is risky business, but presumably they would not have wanted to be blamed for middle-class tax rates going up, so they'd have done something vaguely rational.
I get it. But here's what I think proponents of that argument don't get. Obama isn't some co-speaker. He's the effing president. People want the president to lead. They may blame Republicans more than Democrats for obstruction, and that's a good thing. But they still want the president to Get Things Done, and, however naively, they still think he ought to be able to just assert his will and Get Things Done.
There is, in other words, a responsibility that comes along with being the president. It may be unfair, but the leaders of the House and Senate can play all the silly games they want to. Half the country or more doesn't even know who they are. But the president—he's supposed to do stuff. Obama really and deeply understands this—perhaps to a fault, but better that than believe he only has to represent the third of the country that loves him.
Sometimes acting out the jobs of Captain Liberal and Mister President can be done in harmony. But sometimes not; in fact, I'd say most often not, given that this is not an especially liberal country. So Mister President Obama was absolutely right to make every effort to hit the deadline. To your average person, failing to hit it would have been a terrible reflection on him, and an explanation from him about his increased leverage would have just sounded like more game-playing.
Relatedly, I've been amazed to read, sometimes from people I've considered quite knowledgeable, that Obama held "all the cards" here. He didn't, by a long shot. This was a negotiation. Negotiations are hard. The other side wants exactly what you don't want. Like it or not, liberals, the other side legitimately represents 47 percent of the country, so they had every right to get something out of this. And as it happens the other side also had the ability to block anything from happening. And they would have, too, if Obama had given them half an excuse.
What do Democrats Want?
We raised taxes on the rich. Now what?
I wrote on Monday that it wasn't clear to me that Republicans actually wanted any of the stuff they said they wanted in exchange for tax hikes, like entitlement cuts. The Democrats at least had one thing that was politically popular: tax hikes on those who make more than $250,000 a year. Now they've done it, or at least, gone most of the way there: taxes rise on incomes above $450,000 ($400,000 for singles), while the Bush tax cuts are permanently extended for everyone else. Sure, that means we're raising taxes on only about one half of one percent of the population instead of 2 percent, but that half a percentage point contains most of the obscenely rich people, while exempting the professional class that contains a lot of Democratic voters in high-tax, high income blue states.
After the House approved the Senate's fiscal cliff deal late Tuesday night, President Obama sent a message to the next Congress, arguing for a balanced approach to deficit reduction.
Yet Democrats and liberal pundits seem distinctly unhappy. Partly they're just mad that Obama made concessions at all; apparently, they were expecting that they wouldn't have to, not on anything significant. But I wonder if there isn't something else to it. As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for: you might get it. And then what do you do for an encore?
In a few months, we begin anew the fight over raising the debt ceiling. Democrats are saying that they must get 1-for-1 new revenue in exchange for any spending cuts. But do they actually want new revenue? I submit that just as Republicans are more interested in entitlement cuts as talking points than as actual new laws, Democrats will prove much more interested in tax hikes in theory than in practice.
For starters, there's a matter of timing. President Obama just successfully raised taxes on the rich. Is he going to go back and do it again in a few months? I'm not sure about the optics here: while I think that a tax increase on the rich was popular and inevitable, I don't think that Democrats will do well to position themselves as the party that does nothing but demand more tax increases, even on rich people. Moreover, each successive tax increase is likely to be less popular than the last, precisely because the most politically popular increases inevitably get passed first. A return to the Clinton-era tax levels on people who make more than $450,000 a year is, politically speaking, a no-brainer. A further hike will peel off a few voters who just wanted the rich to pay their "fair share" and now feel content. The third hike will be pushing rates close to 50%, if it is to raise any money at all. That seems to be pushing pretty far past most Americans' ideas about what tax rates ought to be.
Now consider the potential alternative sources of extra revenue. Which of these do Democrats actually want to do?
1. Limit personal income tax deductions: In theory they're totally in favor of getting rid of loopholes. In practice, they're maybe willing to attack the carried interest deduction for hedge fund managers, but this raises a trivial amount of actual cash for federal coffers. All the real money is in the the child tax deduction, various educational deductions and credits, the mortgage interest tax deduction, the charitable deduction, and the deduction for state and local income taxes. Touching the first is political suicide, and touching the rest is a slightly more exotic form of political suicide. Ending the state and local income tax deduction would create instant political pressure to shrink blue state government, and also of course be bad for blue-state taxpayers. The mortgage interest deduction also disproportionately benefits blue-state homeowners whose homes sit on expensive land. Educational tax credits are also a boon to various Democratic constituencies, including educational workers. And nonprofits are a very liberal sector that many policymakers and legislators move in and out of.
2. End the tax-free status of municipal bonds: As with the personal income tax deduction, I have no doubt that there are Democrats who think they want to end this. This is, after all, the gimmick which allows folks with the wealth of a Theresa Heinz Kerry to pay approximately the same effective tax rate as a single mother payroll clerk.
Boehner to Reid: Go F--k Yourself
Speaker cursed out Senate majority leader outside Oval Office.
Get that rage out where you can, Boehner. As the tense weekend of fiscal-cliff negotiations were just getting started, House Speaker John Boehner reportedly walked up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid outside the Oval Office on Friday and said, "Go f--k yourself," according to a report in Politico on Wednesday. Startled, Reid reportedly replied, "What are you talking about?" and Boehner repeated his earlier statement. Boehner then reportedly bragged about the exchange to House Republicans. After a marathon two days on the Hill, both the Senate and the House passed a fiscal-cliff deal, although not without major concessions by Republicans—including allowing tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans. The president is expected to sign the deal on Wednesday.
Congress's Cliff Chaos
Yes, the House did manage to push through a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff at the last possible moment. But the ugly scramble was exasperating—and leaves us facing yet another showdown before spring, says John Avlon.
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they've tried everything else," Winston Churchill once said. But even by that standard, the scramble to avoid the entirely predictable fiscal cliff at the last possible minute was an exasperating exercise that made sausage-making look good.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, flanked by Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), left, and Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), at a news conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the fiscal-cliff bill passed by the Senate, Jan. 1, 2013. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Despite 518 days to deal with the sequestration cuts and 12 years to anticipate the end of the Bush tax cuts, it took two late-night votes on the hinge of the New Year to stop Congress from kicking America's economic recovery in the teeth. The Chinese must have been laughing, watching C-Span these last few days. This is not a textbook example how great nations govern themselves.
But as bad as it looked from the outside, the atmosphere in the corridors of Congress was even worse, according to staffers. With the sun setting on New Year's Day, chaos was the order of the day inside the House Republican conference, when Majority Leader Eric Cantor came out against the Senate's bipartisan bill to avoid the fiscal cliff. The complaint among conservatives was that spending cuts were absent from the last-minute deal.
That's true—and irrelevant at this particular moment. All hope of a grand bargain evaporated when House conservatives undercut Speaker John Boehner's attempts to negotiate with President Obama. House Republicans' rational right to amend any bill ended when they hightailed it out of town to enjoy an extended Christmas vacation and kicked the responsibility for negotiations to the Senate.
The irony, of course, is that hard-core conservatives' impulse to condemn any compromise ended up costing them a better, more comprehensive deal on overall deficit and debt reduction. The president had been offering entitlement reform, at the risk of angering his base. None was included in this package.
As it stands, the fiscal-cliff bridge—crafted largely by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—represents a compromise on taxes that in saner times would be seen as a win for the center right, permanently extending tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, fixing the onerous Alternative Minimum Tax by adjusting it for inflation, and taxing estates over $5 million at 40 percent—lower than just a few years ago. Revenue is going up, but not nearly as much as many liberals had wished. The AFL-CIO strongly opposed the measure.
But despite this, almost precisely two times the number of House Democrats supported the bipartisan Senate plan as Republicans. The final vote count was 172 Democrats in favor versus just 85 Republicans in favor, including Speaker Boehner. The no votes from Republicans totaled 151, while just 16 Democrats gave the Heisman.
Obama Wins Cliff Showdown
The president is riding high now that many Republicans have joined in raising taxes on the wealthy. But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda.
President Obama clearly won the fiscal cliff skirmish on Tuesday as he faced down the Republicans, forcing them despite years of fervent promises to raise tax rates on the wealthy. But he also made concessions over New Year's weekend that could weaken his hand in future battles.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks about the fiscal cliff negotiations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House December 31, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
Beating back a conservative revolt in his party, Speaker John Boehner brought to the House floor the compromise bill passed in a predawn session in the Senate. The bill passed late Tuesday night, with Nancy Pelosi's Democrats providing 172 votes, enough to offset substantial Republican defections. Eighty-five Republicans voted for the bill.
The measure will restore the Bush tax cuts for individuals making less than $400,000 and families under $450,000 a year, while also extending unemployment insurance for a year and reviving an inheritance tax exemption for estates under $5 million.
During several tense hours, with Majority Leader Eric Cantor opposing his own speaker, it appeared the House would amend the bill to include $300 billion in spending cuts—which, if it had passed, would have required further negotiations with the Senate that probably would have run out the clock. But the leadership decided to stick with the "clean" version, knowing full well that Democrats would get the ball across the finish line.
At the same time, Obama has left some in his party disaffected as well. By raising the income threshold at which higher taxes kick in from $250,000 to $400,000, the president did more than back off his constantly repeated campaign vow. He gave away a huge amount of future revenue that will make it more difficult to fund the entitlement and social programs dear to Democratic hearts.
Obama also signaled that when push comes to shove, when the final deadline is at hand, he will retreat from his line-in-the-sand position, although the White House would call it reasonable compromise that spared most people a nasty tax hike.
Still, this was his moment of greatest political leverage. And now that the messy and embarrassing slog over the tax issue has been resolved, the playing field will be more favorable to Republicans in 2013. The administration has little left to trade now that the debate will focus on the $110 billion in automatic spending cuts that Tuesday's voting delayed for two months.
House to Vote on Cliff Deal
Both sides expect it to pass.
House Republicans signaled late Tuesday that they will allow an up-or-down vote on the bill to resolve the nation's "fiscal cliff" that passed the Senate on Monday night, with the vote reportedly taking place around 9 p.m. The possibility of a vote remained unknown throughout the day as teh bill wasattacked by conservative representatives unhappy with the concessions their Senate colleagues made. Congressman Eric Cantor reportedly indicated that he would not support the legislation in its current form and other GOP lawmakers complained it is raising taxes and not slowing spending enough.
Fiscal-Cliff Deal Reached
Biden to meet with House Democrats.
And no one thought a deal could be reached before the new year. The Senate voted before dawn on Tuesday—yes, on New Year's Day—to pass a deal that would avert the fiscal cliff. Even rarer than the New Year's Eve vote? The 89–8 final vote tally. The deal prevents automatic tax increases on much of the country, but will put tax hikes in place for the richest Americans—a major concession for Republicans. The House is likely to vote on Tuesday, to avoid any market effects of the breach of the so-called fiscal cliff from happening on Wednesday. The reported dealmaker, Vice President Biden, will reportedly meet with House Democrats Tuesday afternoon to sell the deal.
Obama: U.S. Can't 'Cut Our Way To Prosperity'
After the House approved the Senate's fiscal cliff deal late Tuesday night, President Obama sent a message to the next Congress, arguing for a balanced approach to deficit reduction. And he was clear about his position on the coming debt ceiling debate. 'We can't not pay bills,' he said.
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Jul 07 2012 — by Rachel Jacobowski
What's more flavorful than water, less caffeinated than coffee, and contains less sugar than sodas and most juices? The answer is Tea! Like nail polish, it's something we wouldn't want to live without. Convenient to our busy lifestyles, we can get a wide variety of teas in portable containers.
Below, we break down our favorite bottled teas and explain exactly what sorts of health benefits each offers. Since we like all sorts of teas, we have included a variety including black, green, white, and oolong teas. Hope you enjoy!
Honest Tea: Peach Oo-La-Long
Oolong tea contains about 15% of the caffeine in a cup of coffee, and may aid you in maintaining a healthy weight. Honest Tea is Fair Trade Certified and USDA Organic, and this peach variety contains oolong and black teas. You can taste a hint of peach flavor, and it was not very sweet-- a light and refreshing taste. However, it was a little bitter, probably because black and oolong teas are rather strong. We love that it's only 60 calories per bottle (30 cals/serving); drinking lots of calories can feel like a waste.
Sweet Leaf: Peach Iced Tea
Black tea contains about 20% of the amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee, so it's a good morning alternative to your usual cup of java. Black tea can also help maintain healthy cardiovascular functioning, and keep cholesterol in check. Sweet Leaf Peach Iced Tea is black tea-based and is USDA Organic. At 140 calories per bottle (2 servings/bottle) this drink is quite sweet, yet still refreshing. There is a strong, but not overwhelming, peach flavor. This tea is not bitter at all; the peachy sweetness seems to mask any bitterness the black tea may have. While we enjoyed the flavor, it was a bit too sweet to drink more than a few sips at once.
365: Mango Acai White Tea
White tea is very low in caffeine and contains antioxidants, and is beneficial to a healthy complexion. The Whole Foods store brand, 365 teas are USDA Organic and Fair Trade Certified. This flavor contains both white and green teas. It was light, refreshing, and not too sweet. We didn't really taste the mango. Another relatively low-cal option at 80 calories per bottle, you can feel good about hydrating on the go with this tea.
Pom: Pomegranate Lychee Green Tea
Green tea contains healthy antioxidants, and is good for skin and teeth, and maintaining healthy cholesterol and blood sugar levels.Pomegranate is an antioxidant-packed fruit; pair it with green tea, and you've got a powerhouse! We absolutely love the flavor of this beverage. The pomegranate and lychee make it very flavorful without being too sweet. Also, green tea can often become bitter if steeped too long, but this one is not bitter at all. You can taste the green tea without it overpowering the other flavors. Pom is 140 calories per bottle but its delicious flavor and healthy antioxidants make it a worthwhile splurge.


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So…we're going to guess that Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together. Maybe it's all the photos of them together, maybe it's just an instinct we have. Let's just say we have Riri senses.
The pair have been snapping photos and posting them online for everyone to see for the past couple of weeks and we think it's loud and clear that the two have rekindled their romance. After posting on of the two hugging, Rihanna has posted yet another photo of the two. This time, she's sporting a camouflage jacket while he's casually smoking a joint – as all loving portraits of couples should look like.
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Nights asks: "Assuming the lockout ends in January, which players and prospects will have benefitted the most from the additional development time?"
The lockout presents an opportunity to many young players, whether they're in the American Hockey League or Europe. For example, Oilers prospect Linus Omark is being given the opportunity to play with Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg and Swiss sensation Damien Brunner. Omark has made the most of that opportunity and is currently tied for the lead in the Swiss National League A in scoring with Brunner, putting up 28 points thus far.
Then you have the prospects that weren't quite ready for the 2011-2012 season, given an opportunity to show their organization what they are made of. An example of that is Roman Horak, a young skilled player that didn't quite have the legs to stick with Calgary for a full season. Everybody knew Justin Schultz was NHL ready, that's why the prospect garnered so much attention before signing with the Oilers. A young defenseman with that kind of upside on the open market doesn't come around very often.
Back to Horak – he is off to a fantastic start, with 10 goals and 11 points in just nine games with the Abbotsford Heat. He finished the 2011-2012 season with 61 NHL games played and just 11 points. After preparing himself for 2013, lockout or not, Horak is definitely making a good impression on the organization.
Angus asks: "My team in signature, any areas to improve upon? We count the standard categories and added hits last season. Obviously I rely on Sid a lot and am hoping for a Luongo trade."
UFP - The Crosby Show (keep 17)
C - Crosby, Krejci, Zajac, Ott (LW)
LW - Sharp, Eriksson, Marchand, Booth
RW - Gaborik, Little (C), Purcell
D - Chara, Karlsson, Edler, Giordano, Hedman, McDonagh, B. Smith
G - Luongo, Schneider, Gustavsson
Prospects - Conacher, Barberio, Hagelin, Kassian, Bjugstad, Phillips, Faksa, Donovan
Strong team all around, you've got elite scorers, consistent players and very good goaltending. Something I would do is try and upgrade your right wing position, Marian Gaborik will be out for a while and if New York plays a guy like Rick Nash on the first line, he could see his numbers suffer a bit. While Nash is mostly a right-winger, I could see New York using him as a left-winger, to play with Gaborik and Brad Richards once the lockout subsides.
Your farm team could be improved as well, I see Bjugstad as your top prospect, with other players that have upside and nice potential. Hagelin should be a solid winger in the NHL, since he has great speed and a scoring touch. I think its safe to say he will be a top-six player forward with the Rangers. I like the Cory Conacher and Mark Barberio combination as well, should do well with Tampa Bay when they're ready for NHL action. If you give Kassian time, he could be a stud, but there are tons of player with great upside and potential that never reach it.
With prospects like Zach Phillips and Radek Faksa, they should be top six forwards when they make it to the NHL. They don't have huge upside, but 60-70 points should be possible if they pan out, possibly more if they work at their games. Matt Donovan is a player that the Islanders seem to like a lot, but he's not exactly high on the depth chart right now. Mark Streit, Lubomir Visnovsky, Andrew MacDonald and Travis Hamonic are all ahead of him at the moment.
Chico Resch asks: "If you were me, where or how should I look at improving Team Chico"?
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C - E.Malkin(rw)/R.Kesler/J.Schwartz
LW - B.Ryan/M.Duchene(c)/R.Nash(rw)/T.Fleischmann
RW - T.Selanne/C.Giroux(c)/L.Eriksson(lw)/J.Iginla/D.Alfredsson
D - M.Green/D.Byfuglien(rw)/R.Suter/A.Larsson/J.Carlson
G - J.Hiller/J.Halak/J.Howard
You have a good mix of current stars and future stars on that team, but there are a few areas that I would focus on in order to improve that team. Firstly, I would trade Rick Nash if you can get a more consistent player back, I don't expect more than 60-70 points from Nash in NY. I would also consider trading veterans like Tomas Fleischmann, Jarome Iginla, Jonas Hiller, Jimmy Howard and Daniel Alfredsson.
In terms of core players, I would make sure Evgeni Malkin, Claude Giroux, Matt Duchene and Dustin Byfuglien stick around. I'd be open to trading players like Jaroslav Halak, Loui Eriksson and others for the right price. I think you could use some help on left wing, because Bobby Ryan most likely won't be eligible there come next season. I see you have a ton of depth at centre, making look at trading a guy like Duchene for a stud left winger that you can depend on.
I really like your D as well; I think that's the least of your problems. Hiller, Halak and Howard is pretty solid in net, but I think it could be better. This is the kind of team that should be able to pull of a deal where you send one of those goalies and a forward upgrade for a goalie you can really depend on and a forward downgrade.
Kluu asks: "Will the Sharks ever make it to the Stanley cup finals with their current core"? Thornton/Marleau/Boyle+
Sharks management, led by Doug Wilson, seems to believe this team is capable of making a run at the Cup every single year. Frankly, I just don't see it.
The Sharks are a classic example of a team that will always make a move to improve their team immediately, rather than waiting on certain prospects to make an impact in the future. An example of this comes from the Brent Burns trade, in which they gave top prospect Charlie Coyle and speedy winger Devin Setoguchi to Minnesota in exchange for Brent Burns.
Coyle was just starting to make some noise, after being selected 28th overall in the 2010 NHL entry draft. I remember seeing him play in the World Juniors as a teenager and he really impressed me with his all around abilities. I was truly surprised they made that move, because Coyle could turn into a dominant two-way forward just like David Backes of the St. Louis Blues.
Goaltending is also a question mark for San Jose, you just don't know what you're going to get from Antti Niemi. Some games he looks unbeatable, other games pucks are getting by him that should be stopped by an NHL caliber goalie.
San Jose needs to re-tool and I'm surprised they haven't done so just yet. I would build around Logan Couture and entertain offers for Joe Pavelski, Ryane Clowe and maybe even Patrick Marleau as well.
They're a playoff team, but I don't see them as a cup contender right now.
PrairieDog asks: "Zac Dalpe, is it time to cut bait on this guy? I was expecting a big step forward last year and got quite the opposite and he is struggling early this year in the AHL. I own him in three leagues and have been waiting on him for a while."
Include me as one that believed in Dalpe, he reminded me of a young Ryan Kesler. He was given an opportunity to play with Carolina and he didn't do much with it, putting up only three points in 16 games. Perhaps there was just too much hype around the kid, because when I look at his numbers in various leagues I don't see much to be impressed with. Dalpe was selected in the second round of the 2008 NHL entry draft, 45th overall.
BCHL, Penticton Vees (2007-2008): 63 points in 46 games
Ohio State University (2008-2009): 25 points in 37 games
OSU (2009-2010): 45 points in 39 games
AHL, Charlotte Checkers (2010-2011): 57 points in 61 games
The numbers he has put up are good, but they're not what you would expect to see from a top prospect. It is possible that Dalpe will develop slowly, so I'm not prepared to call him a bust just yet. I can understand that you're worried but what's the harm in just leaving him on your farm team? Let the kid develop – that's something that Carolina probably realized after his brief stint in the NHL.
Dalpe is serious about trying to make the Hurricanes roster when the NHL is back, which is good to see.
"It's kind of unfortunate the way things are working out (with the lockout), but as far as hockey is concerned it probably is the biggest year of my career," he said. "It's take or break for me. You've got to take the good with the bad, I guess. I'll go down to the American League and I want to have a good year. And I want the team to have a good year, too, because I think we owe to ourselves and Charlotte to rebound from last year."
You always love to hear a young player speak his mind about how determined he is to make an impact, he does have seven points in ten games with Charlotte. Remember, this is no ordinary AHL; it's at a much higher level with all of the young talent there due to the lockout.
Axeman33 asks: "Will the Oilers make the playoffs this year? Do they make a big trade to improve their back end and if they do, who do you see on the move or do they stay the course building through the draft, waiting for their prospects to blossom"?
While it would be nice to see, I don't think the Oilers are good enough just yet. Another year of letting all of that young talent grow will do wonders for the Oilers and I do expect them to be much more competitive next year. That will be the time where they have established which players they want to build around and roster tweaks will be made.
Something that will hold them back is the cap hit on Nikolai Khabibulin's contract at $3.750 million, but that comes off the books in 2013-2014. Ryan Whitney's ability to stay healthy just hasn't been there, either. Expect the Oilers to pair him up with young offensive phenom Justin Schultz, or even the steady veteran Nick Schultz.
I really like the way Devan Dubnyk finished the 2011-2012 season and he was rewarded with a two-year, $7 million contract extension. Here's a look at his game log towards the end of the season.
April 7th @ Vancouver: 42 shots allowed, 39 saves, .929 SV%
Apr 5th vs. Anaheim: 17 shots allowed, 14 saves, .824 SV%
Apr 2nd @ Los Angeles: 37 shots allowed, 35 saves, .946 SV%
Apr 1st @ ANA: 33 shots allowed, 32 saves, .970 SV%
March 28th vs. Dallas: 25 shots allowed, 22 saves, .880 SV%
March 25th @ Columbus: 32 shots allowed, 29 saves, .906 SV%
If you look at his game log, Dubnyk was terrific from March 6th to April 7th as the Oilers starting netminder. His highest GAA during that period was 3.07 (Mar 28 @DAL). Is he ready? We will hopefully find out soon.


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The courtship song of the bridled titmouse (Parus wollweberi) is heard in the Cottonwood thickets in riparian habitat in Central Arizona beginning in April. This example was recorded at Tavasci Marsh [Arizona], April 9, 1998.
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