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25 February, 2011
Swelly BellyI was 8 months pregnant when I went to this gig - nothing would stop me! This was the second time they played Murrayfield, but I don't see the previous gig (1990ish?) mentioned, although it may have been part of a 'benefit' gig as Deacon Blue etc were there too.
20 July, 2010
Capital stufffew pints in Rose Street, bag of chips on the way to murrayfield around the haymarket area, stopped to pick up a carry out (scottish term for alcoholic beverages for consumption in public places) and sat about the big park to the rear of murrayfield. Oh happy days. Gig was fantastic, i remember a tribute to Diana, cant remember the song though, possibly One.

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This is Alex's side of the table, cleaned up in a hurry.
It includes a 6080 done in red and black that he built entirely himself (makes a poppa proud that does) a hot lava moat (yes inspired by Hachi), the littered remnants of orcish meals, and a nifty drawbridge that Alex and I made together.
Fantasy Fortress (after moderation)
Oh - and a skull that vomits hot lava.
Alex's side was probably the most fun thing we built. It has almost no basis in reality whatsoever. It is simply a place where an orc or a scorpion knight can let his fur down and just kick back with the ... uh... freaks.
Also - note that placed around this and my fantasy castle are several things either inspired by people here... or blantantly copied from them. if you want recognition for something of "yours" feel free to post "hey - thats mine!"


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Ralph Baer basically invented video games. During the 1960s, when television itself was still fairly newfangled, he was piecing together how the first video game console, launched in 1972, could work.
It wasn't just video games that Baer figured out, though. The folks over at Gamasutra have shared this 30-minute video from a German computer history museum showing that back in 1973—just about forty years ago—Baer was already guessing what home multimedia systems would eventually do.
As Gamasutra describes, "Using technology available at the time... Baer demonstrates a concept for something akin to an all-in-one multimedia box that plays games, lets users shop by mail-order, has educational components, and even pay-for-TV applications."
Before modern microprocessors, before the internet, before any of the systems that make the Xbox work came along, before video games themselves were even widely popular and successfully mass-marketed, Baer figured out what we were going to do with it all forty years later.
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dance to (one's) tune
To go along with someone else's views or wishes. I have no intention of making Jake's curfew later, but he is trying his hardest to get me to dance to his tune! I'm not big on animals, but Ella is, so I danced to her tune and accompanied her to the dog show.


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One year out from the 2012 election, House Democrats are joining in on the newly ramped-up battle over voter ID laws.
In a letter sent Thursday to the secretaries of state of all 50 states, all but two of the 198-member House Democratic conference urged the officials to "put partisan considerations aside and serve as advocates for enfranchisement."
"Voting hours, voting sites, identification requirements, voter registration regulation and access to mail ballots should not be used as weapons to achieve a preferred electoral outcome," the lawmakers wrote in the letter, which was spearheaded by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
"Whether it is an elderly woman unable to locate her birth certificate for purposes of establishing her U.S. citizenship on election day or a college student whose school-issued identification is not among the IDs deemed acceptable for voting or a disabled veteran whose local polling place has not yet been made accessible, public officials on all levels of government should be striving to facilitate their right to vote, not make it more difficult," the members wrote.
The letter comes as more than a dozen states have enacted changes to their voting laws in the year since Republicans made sweeping gains in the 2010 midterms.
Those changes -- which include new laws requiring voters to show photo ID or proof of citizenship, eliminating early voting and tightening restrictions on voter registration drives – could affect as many as 5 million voters, according to a report last month by the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice. The center opposes the new laws.
Despite the Democrats' argument in their letter that both sides should return to a "bipartisan consensus," the voting law debate is increasingly being waged along partisan lines.
Republicans defend the new ID laws as necessary to protect against voter fraud and point to examples such as the ACORN scandal, as Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) did in a floor speech Wednesday night.
Democrats contend, as Hoyer did Thursday at a news conference with a dozen other lawmakers, that the new voter ID measures represent "an impediment to solve a problem that we don't believe exists."
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that President Obama's reelection campaign has launched its own effort to counter the new Republican-backed laws.
Hoyer said House Democrats will take a "strong stand" on the issue and accused those who support the new voter ID laws of engaging in "voter profiling" to make it more difficult for minorities, young people and other groups to participate in elections.
Several lawmakers at the event, including Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chairwoman Judy Chu (D-Calif.), spoke of grandparents and great-grandparents who had been denied the right to vote.
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said that "people were beaten, arrested and even killed trying to defend the right to vote; we must not go back."
"The right to vote is precious," Lewis said. "It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society. We must continue to speak up and speak out to protect this simple constitutional right."
Hoyer and the others did not mention Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), who last month created an uproar among some congressional Democrats when he penned an op-ed in the Montgomery Advertiser announcing his support for voter ID laws.
Asked after the event about Davis's stand on voting laws, Hoyer responded: "We have a different opinion."
The two Democratic House members who did not sign the letter were Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.), who is still recovering from her wounds after being shot in the head at a constituent event in January; and Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.).
A spokesman said that Cooper is planning on sending his own letter to the state secretary of state that is "nearly identical" to the one released Thursday but that omits the language referring to local election officials being "seen as partisan combatants, rather than stewards of our democracy" out of concern that the line would unfairly criticize those officials.
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In true Greenpeace style, eighteen life-size tigers, and three tiger mascots blocked the entrance of the coal ministry's office at Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi. They were there to deliver the message of over 1 lakh people who want forests to be preotected from coal mining.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has scheduled an October 29 hearing to review problems the Obama administration is having implementing its healthcare law known as "Obamacare."
The panel said that it would hear testimony from Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that oversees the operation of insurance exchanges that are central to the law.
Other House panels, which are headed by Republicans, also are investigating the troubled October 1 start of individuals' ability to sign up for subsidized health insurance under the federal law.
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From this page you can access campaign finance profiles for all Wisconsin legislators elected in the 2012 fall, 2012 recall, 2012 special and 2013 special elections. You can search for them by name or by Senate or Assembly district. Where more than one person has represented the same legislative district since the June 2012 recall elections the district link takes you to a profile for the last person to hold that office in that period.
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In the Selenitic Age, while you are going through the maze to get back to Myst Island, and you use the "directional sounds" to figure out which way to go through the maze.
However, these sounds are taught to the player in the Mechanical Age. It's entirely reasonable that one would visit the Selenitic Age, and therefore wouldn't have been able to learn the sounds which indicate direction beforehand.
Therefore, it would be unreasonable if there was not also some indication in the Selenitic Age of which noise points in which direction. However, I cannot seem to find it.
Where is it? :)


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BT Vision beats rivals to honour of being worst UK Pay-TV
TalkTalk grip on worst-broadband place remains firm
BT Vision is the most complained about pay TV service in the UK, regulator Ofcom said, receiving nearly four times as many whinges in the first quarter of this year as Virgin Media and nine times as many as Sky.
Although moans about paid television services were generally low, BT got the most with 0.27 per 1,000 customers, mainly about sales issues and problems with billing, Ofcom's analysis showed.
However, the regulator said it had noted that complaints about BT Vision had fallen since the last quarter of 2011, when 0.38 in every 1,000 were ticked off.
BT pointed out to The Register that its telly service is dependent on the quality of customers' Freeview reception and broadband, as opposed to the other big boys in television Sky and Virgin Media, who deliver via satellite dish and cable respectively.
"BT Vision is Britain's fastest growing TV service: from spring 2012 we began to add more new customers than Sky and Virgin combined; when you have more new customers you see more problems in early life," a spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
In landline and broadband provision, TalkTalk kept its place at the bottom of the charts for the sixth quarter in a row, still the most annoying provider.
Ofcom got 0.72 complaints about TalkTalk per 1,000 customers between January and March, but that was less moans than it got in the previous five quarters about the telco.
"We have been working hard to deliver improvements that give our customers a better experience and as a result we're receiving 31 per cent fewer calls to our customer contact centres," a TalkTalk spokesperson said in an emailed statement. "We do recognise there is still work to do and we are continually pushing through improvements."
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So today in an uncharacteristic head-fake toward efficiency over laborious, painstaking discovery, I threw them this:
If you didn't notice, take a look at those measurements and that diagram and you will see the problem. I did not think much about it, because diagrams are not to scale and perfect reasoning on imperfect pictures and blah blah blah. A few years ago my students wouldn't have batted an eye at this, they would have just plugged and chugged, but these guys were NOT. HAVING. IT.
"What is going on with your diagram?"
"That is pitiful, Nowak."
"This is not physically possible."
This made me ridiculously happy. Just that they view the quantities we work with as physical things they can measure and verify and use their spatial intuition on. And they don't see them as arbitrary rules devoid of meaning that they have to memorize because the grumpy lady makes them. Maybe this is obvious and it just means that I'm now a mediocre Geometry teacher instead of the worst Geometry teacher ever. But, you know, baby steps. I may or may not have also shown them Rico Suave on youtube. It is the end of May. We are punchy.


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Hi there, Sugar here. 2012 is almost over and I hope it was a good year for you. I hope you accomplished the things you wanted to. Writing-wise I accomplished a lot. Writing-wise it was a pretty awesome year for me. But it was a long year full of ups and downs and roller coaster emotions. Most of you know that I managed to snag a three book deal with St. Martin's Press. In hindsight it seemed like everything happened so fast but when I was living it everything seemed to go excruciatingly slow. Here's what my past year looked like.
December 2011
Started querying. Mostly rejections. One request for a full.
January 2012
Rejections, rejections, rejections. One more request for a full. One request for a partial.
February 2012
Rejections on partial. Rejections of queries. Some cursing. One request for a full. Two partial requests.
March 2012
Querying fatigue setting in. More rejections on queries and on partial. One request for a full. Two rejections for partials. Waiting for word back on the then four full manuscripts I had out.
April 2012
Rethinking this whole being a writer thing. I was tired of waiting. I was tired of rejections. The doubt monster had me in a nasty choke hold. One more request for a full. One offer of representation. Another offer of representation. SQUEEEEEE!
May 2012
Agent ,who I ADORE, asked me to cut down my manuscript from 100,000 words to 90,000 to make it more sell-able. (Grumble, grumble.) I went out on submission to the 'BIG 6' and romance giant Harlequin. Got my first rejection ON MY BIRTHDAY! Got two more rejections. Starting rethinking this whole being a writer thing again.
June 2012
I got a surprise offer from a smaller but still kick-ass publisher. Screamed like an idiot when I got off the phone with my agent. Two days later I got two offers from two of the 'Big 6' and was informed that I would be going to auction the next day. Was in shock. Was shaking. Was also at work when I found out. Kids in my class thought I was having a stroke. St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) offered me a three book deal. I actually met my editor at CTRWA's Fiction Fest long before I even thought about writing my book. It must have been fate because I don't remember a single other editor that was there that year beside her.
July 2012
Contract negotiations. PM announcement.
August 2012
Contract negotiations
September 2012
Edits arrive. Rethinking this whole being a writer thing again. Contract negotiations finally finished!
October 2012
Book 2 was due. Edits for book 1 due. Super hard. Super proud when I finished both of those things.
November 2012
MUST WRITE BOOK 3. Advance check came! Advance check went! But no more student loans!!!!!!!!! (Do you have any idea how expensive college is?)
December 2012
GOT A RELEASE DATE!!!!!!! Dangerous Curves Ahead will hit shelves on August 27, 2013.
Got my author photos taken. Probably a bad idea right after Thanksgiving, but they came out pretty good.
Tackled this whole social media thing. Amazon author page. Check.
Website updated again. Now it looks kinda professional. http://www.sugarjamison.com/
Got my Facebook page done. Please like me!
Got my cover art! Check back here soon for reveal.
Oh an I won my very first award!
Phew… That was a very long year. What did yours look like?


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The Intelligent Person's Guide to Presidential Politics
by Andrew Ferguson | Posted October 25, 2012
The tradition at Liberty is to introduce every presidential election witha symposium of libertarian views about whom to vote for: the Democrat, the Libertarian, the Republican, and No One at All. This year, we are happy to follow the tradition with commentary by four expert analysts, each well known to our readers: Drew Ferguson, Jon Harrison, Wayland Hunter, and Gary Jason. There's enough here to get anyone's blood boiling. —Stephen Cox
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The Case for Johnson
By Andrew Ferguson
I'm here to exhort you, reader, to vote Libertarian in the upcoming election. Specifically, I'm urging you to vote for Gary Johnson, rather than sitting out the election entirely, or writing in "Donald Duck" or something similarly hilarious.
Since I'm writing to an ostensibly libertarian audience, I assume that those are the options you're considering. Because your individual vote contributes to the totals about as much as a decent piss does to the ocean, why bother disrupting an otherwise productive day to cast a vote in favor of either major party? They don't care about your vote; in fact, they go as far out of the way as possible to disclaim any "libertarian" viewpoint or content in their campaigns. And whichever candidate wins, he's going to screw you more or less in the same way: more taxes to fund more wars; more kickbacks to benefit more cronies; more tariffs to feed nativist ignorance and hike prices for consumer goods . . . in short, more for DC, and less for all the rest of us.
If those were my only two choices — as all the major media seem to believe — I'd certainly exercise my right not to vote. And in fact, I've done exactly that in the past two election cycles: with the major-party candidates, as always, being unconscionable, and the LP candidates being, respectively, naïve and loathsome. But this year . . . this year is different.
I am on record saying that Gary Johnson is the strongest candidate the Libertarian Party has ever recruited to head its ticket; likely, he is the strongest candidate who ever will carry the LP torch. I knew this within the first 15 seconds of my interview with him at the LP Convention, when he quickly showed himself to be neither naïve nor loathsome, nor — and this by far the most important — the sort of personality who seeks guru status, or who inspires (and accepts) cultish devotion.
Johnson will not win. And he will not place. But he must show, and show strong, to indicate that there is a future for libertarian thought in American governance.
Of course, he is in no way a perfect candidate. (Such politicians are illusions, reflections of a better universe, in which each person has the rule of his or her own house alone, and is free there to enact his or her own image of the perfect ruler.) But an America under Gary Johnson would be an America that doesn't maintain or extend its imperial military presence around the world; an America that doesn't haul off and invade Iran or any other country on someone else's say-so; an America that doesn't exude a rhetoric of hatred, fear, and absolute moral certainty. His America wouldn't lock up hundreds of dissenters or millions of victimless criminals; wouldn't starve poor countries to prop up farm subsidies; wouldn't hand economic policy over to Goldman Sachs to impoverish the unconnected; wouldn't court a new Depression by inciting trade wars and deepening international divides.
Clearly such an America is too badass a country for the cultural elites to allow even a fleeting image to lodge in the minds of most American voters. But if such a vision is to get any foothold in this great land — if we are to pull back from the ledge at any moment before we fling ourselves pell-mell over it — we must show in this election that there is some opposition left, some coherent alternative to wars and prisons and empire.
With every election that goes by, the militaristic oligarchy that controls these United States grows stronger, conducting its business and screening itself from criticism behind the farcical pretense of partisan politics. Whichever party takes the present contest will further the agenda and then, since this will take our nation still closer to bankruptcy, lose big in 2016. The party assuming control at that time will misrepresent a normal response to failure — kicking the bums out — as a "mandate" to enact legislation that does yet more harm. Then matters will repeat in 2020, and 2024, and ever after, until we find out just how much ruin there is in a country — or until we shake things up, and crash the comfortable party.
So let's get this straight: Johnson will not win. And he will not place. But he must show, and show strong, to indicate that there is a future for libertarian thought in American governance. This election, don't waste your vote on the big guys. And don't let it pass into nothingness. Give it to someone who can actually use it, someone who can channel the voices of millions of Americans who are fed up with the system and its phonies, its cronies, and its crooks. Vote Gary Johnson.
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The Case for Obama
By Jon Harrison
I find this assignment, to make the case for voting for Barack Obama, somewhat distasteful, because I am neither a Democrat nor a strong supporter of the president. I am turned off by both of the major parties — so much so that I haven't voted in a federal election since 1988. I could perhaps make the case for not voting. I must admit, however, that if my home state of Vermont were in danger of going Republican, I would get out on November 6 and vote for Obama.
I would've been happy to make the case for voting Libertarian, because I think the LP's 2012 ticket is the best it has ever fielded (although John Hospers was a fine choice as the party's first presidential candidate in 1972), and the party platform is one I can live with although I disagree with some of its planks. But as I believe the LP is an exercise in futility, and that libertarians would do well to devote their energies to working within the major parties in order to transform them into something like true liberty-loving movements, I can't honestly make the case for voting Libertarian.
I can't possibly make the case for voting Republican this year, given the manifest danger to liberty the party represents. The party is both beholden to, and largely divided between, two groups of radicals: ultracapitalists on the one hand, and protofascist populists on the other. Establishment Republicans, such as John McCain and David Brooks, are a shrinking minority within the party, and increasingly irrelevant to its deliberations. And even these people tend to hold dangerous neocon views on foreign policy.
Recall that the Republican Party gave us No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, exploding deficits, and two wars financed entirely on credit. Paul Ryan, the party's candidate for vice president and the darling of the far right, voted for all these things in Congress. And Ryan, like so many Republicans, is a notorious reactionary on social issues, with a 1950s attitude toward homosexuality and women's reproductive rights. Do we really want such a man a heartbeat away from the presidency? Do we really want a party that contains people like Todd Akin (he of "legitimate rape") and Allen West ("there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party") running the country?
The state of the party is such that its candidate, Mitt Romney, had to become a serial liar in order to gain the presidential nomination. Romney is basically the Massachusetts moderate he was accused of being during the Republican primaries. Whatever he may say now, the fact is he pushed through Romneycare in Massachusetts, and he would keep important aspects of Obamacare on the books. He is for progressivity in the tax code. He is in favor of shoring up the welfare state, not radically restricting it. If elected, he will rely upon the Democrats in Congress to keep his own party from moving policy too far to the right.
Romney's greatest fault is that he lacks the courage of his convictions. He should be denied the presidency because he is a man without principle: he is willing to say and do almost anything to become president, to an extent that puts even Richard Nixon in the shade. Thus we have the Mitt of the 47% recording, and the Mitt of the first presidential debate, both dwelling within the same fleshly envelope. A Janus such as this in the Oval Office would almost certainly create havoc in the body politic. Add to this his formidable ignorance of foreign affairs, and you have a man who simply must be kept from the highest place, lest we descend once more into Bushworld.
The Obama record is unquestionably a mixed one, and yet the worst has been avoided. This is no small thing, given the situation that prevailed at the beginning of 2009.
Now to the current occupant of the White House. The president has been craven on such issues as the deficit and entitlements. He has done nothing to reverse the Bush administration's unconstitutional domestic surveillance programs. The former dabbler in illegal substances has shown neither courage nor compassion in dealing with America's tragically misguided policy toward drug use and abuse. He allowed Congress free rein to craft a stimulus bill that amounted to the biggest pile of pork ever made into law. He responded poorly to the housing crisis, adopting a middle course that proved the worst of all worlds for real estate, and seriously hampered a recovery of the economy. He also temporized with regard to the shenanigans of the big banks, a policy that may eventually prove disastrous. He came into office even more unprepared than the man he was often compared to, John Kennedy, and he has not grown in office to anything like the extent JFK did. And yet . . .
And yet the worst has been avoided. This is no small thing, given the situation that prevailed at the beginning of 2009. I was opposed to Obama's bailout of the auto industry, yet we must admit that it probably prevented an economic disaster (on this see Bruce Ramsey's "Assessing the Bailouts"). The American war in Iraq has ended, and the war in Afghanistan is finally being wound down (Obama's Afghanistan "surge" was a mistake, it now seems clear, yet unavoidable given the pressure he was under from the Republicans and certain quarters of the military). Bin Laden is dead. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has been abolished, with no noticeable effect on the morale or combat capability of the military. Above all, we have not plunged into the folly of pulling Israel's chestnuts out of the fire in Iran. An American war to stop Iran's nuclear program would be a catastrophe economically, causing energy prices to soar to unprecedented levels. Add to this the cost in blood and dollars of such a campaign, and the growth of radicalism in the Muslim world that it would provoke, and you have a situation even worse than the final years of Bush. We are more likely to avoid such a fate under Obama than Romney.
The Obama record is unquestionably a mixed one. The man, though personally engaging and far more "cerebral" (as former Secy. of Defense Robert Gates put it) than his predecessor, has been a mediocre first executive. Moreover, he appears worn and seems to lack fresh ideas for the future. How then to justify a vote to reelect him?
Bloomberg conducted a poll on the presidential race at the end of September. In its report it quoted a self-described libertarian, one Stephanie Martin of Virginia, who said the following:
If I have to choose between the two, I prefer Barack over Mitt. I think Mitt Romney is just so out of touch. It's mostly a protest against him and the Republican establishment; it's not that I think Obama has done such a great job.
Stephanie, I'm with you.
* * *
The Case for Romney
By Gary Jason
I will be cheerfully (though not enthusiastically) voting for Mitt Romney. While I don't expect the following sketch of my reasons to convince many readers who don't already favor him, the case is worth stating.
Let me begin by stating the obvious (but not the always recognized): in our system, voting for a third party candidate is almost always just wasting your vote. Since I have written at length on this elsewhere in this journal, let me simply reiterate that while I would favor something like a ranked voting system, in the absence of such a system, to vote for a third party is merely political theater.
Put another way, the reply to "I'm tired of voting for the lesser of the two evils" is that when you vote third party (or refuse to vote) you are helping the greater of two evils to triumph. Seems pointless, right?
Moreover, Romney (while admittedly a moderate) has a number of strong points (especially when he is compared with Obama) that make me positively want to vote for him. The most obvious of them include superior managerial competence, deeper economic understanding greater disposition to freedom, more realistic vision, and better character.
Superior managerial competence: Begin with the fact that our nation is in an enduring economic malaise, with unemployment still around 8% even after several years of recovery, and debtlevels soaring. Romney seems clearly more qualified to turn this around.
- Romney, who earned an MBA from Harvard and had an outstanding career in business, views free market capitalism as the key to prosperity. In contrast, Obama continues his college professor rants against businesses and wealthy people, which only discourages economic expansion. In this Obama recapitulates the errors of his hero FDR, who (as Amity Shlaes has argued in The Forgotten Man) managed to extend the Depression through his class warfare rhetoric.
- Romney is less likely by far to raise taxes. Obama in a second term would surely use his power to force increases in taxes at least on wealthier citizens.
- Will Romney lower all tax rates by 20% and eliminate deductions? It will be great if he does, and he did do so when he was governor of Massachusetts. One of the advantages of Romney's plan is that it would lessen the deduction of state taxes for the wealthy, which I strongly favor even though I live in the tax hell called California, because it is immoral to force citizens of low-tax states to carry part of the burden of state taxes in the irresponsible high-tax states. However, I don't know whether and to what extent Romney's party will control Congress, so I don't know whether he will succeed. If he just keeps the present rates in place that would be enormously helpful.
- Romney's masterly handling of Bain Capital and the Olympics showed an innate talent for running organizations competently.
Deeper economic understanding: Romney shows reasonable understanding of the need for free trade, free markets, and free labor mobility — not to as great a degree as I would hope, but surely infinitely better than the economically ignorant Obama.
- Romney will at least be open to free trade, especially with South America. I have suggested elsewhere that he should start with Brazil. An FTA with Brazil (and one with India) would do wonders. Obama by contrast started trade wars with our close partners Mexico and Canada, stalled for three long years the three FTAs he inherited from Bush, and has taken no steps to enter into FTAs with any other countries.
- Romney clearly seems to favor free markets in energy. He would end the war on fossil fuel waged by Obama and the environmentalist ideologues he placed in power at the EPA, the Department of Energy, and elsewhere. Romney will almost surely sign off on the Keystone Pipeline. He will very likely allow more leases on federal land and offshore. He may even succeed — finally — in opening up ANWR, through (again) that will depend upon his control of Congress.
- More generally, Romney will doubtless lighten up on regulation. Can he repeal and replace Dodd-Frank? God, I hope so — why not just repeal it and reinstitute Glass-Steagall? Again, it depends on Congress. But at least he will not push new regulatory mischief.
- Romney seems more inclined to allow free mobility of labor, aka immigration reform. He seems sincere when he expresses support for expanding legal immigration of skilled labor, though I am not entirely sure of the depth of his feeling in that regard. But while Obama talks as if he favors comprehensive immigration reform, he really doesn't. He had complete control of Congress for two years, and never bothered to introduce a bill. At least Romney has promised to increase the H1-B Visa limit for skilled immigrants, which is something.
Greater disposition to freedom: Romney seems to want to roll back the encroachments on freedom imposed by Obama's expansion of the progressive liberal welfare state.
- I am very sure that Romney will carry through his promise to try to repeal ObamaCare, and if he succeeds, it will be hugely important. It would be the first major defeat of the ever-advancing progressive welfare state since 1932, and would stop the process of nationalization of healthcare which, when it has happened in other countries, has proven impossible to reverse. It would also prevent a wave of built-in tax increases, such as the new federal tax on the profits from home sales, and the new tax on medical devices.
- Regarding education, again the choice is clear. Romney favors expanding school choice, while teacher union tool Obama ended the meager DC Voucher program, and did little to expand charter schools.
More realistic vision: Regarding foreign policy, I view Romney as simply more realistic.
- Yes, both major candidates favor withdrawing from Afghanistan, but Romney seems to recognize that to simply turn the country back over to the Taliban would not prevent future attacks. Taking the time necessary to train a proper Afghan force may take longer, but it saves lives in the long run.
- I won't rehash Obama's policy of being overly attentive to Russia (in canceling the missile defense system we had arranged to put in Poland, for example) and getting nothing in return, or in tossing the tyrant Mubarak under the bus in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood — a huge mistake with ever more disturbing unintended consequences appearing every day (for example, the recent announcementby one of the Brotherhood's leaders that he favors instituting Sharia law). Just ask the Copts — which will be easy to do, since very soonall of them will live here. And the inconsistency is breathtaking: we aided the Libyan rebels — even though Col. Gaddafi had in fact turned over his weapons of mass destruction (including an advanced nuclear program) to our country the week when Bush invaded Iraq, and ended his support of terrorists, in exchange for our tacit agreement not to invade him — but we have refused to give armed support of the Syrian rebels — even though the government they fight (the Assad regime) is a devoted supporter of Iran, which funds terrorism against us. Go figure.
- The naiveté and hubris of Obama's foreign policy has been evident from the day he accepted the Nobel Prize for "peace," after doing nothing but say that he wanted peace. The sheer dishonesty of his foreign policy is sufficiently exemplified by recent events regarding Libya. Naivete, hubris, and dishonesty are assets to no one, even people who favor the president's announced goals of peace and international harmony.
- I can imagine the responses from some readers: You are a dirty neocon! No, in matters of foreign policy I obey a law older than neoconservatism: realism. We can't withdraw into Fortress America, and we never could. But on the other hand we certainly shouldn't take on the role of Captain America, world policeman. We need to exercise practical wisdom — what the Greeks called phronesis — to distinguish (among other things): vital national interests from mere national preferences; sending weapons from sending troops; encouraging alliances from establishing empires; supporting the lesser of two evils (such as Mubarak) from supporting the greater of two evils (the Brotherhood); and maintaining peace through free trade from courting war through protectionism.
Better character: Can anyone doubt that Romney has superior character to Obama?
- Obama has proven himself to be arrogant, snarky, cheap, infantile, and narcissistic. Romney seems none of those things, appearing essentially modest, decent, and generous — actually having given $50 million of his own money to charity — as well as mature.
- The mainstream media have been trying to dig up dirt on Romney for many months now, and cannot find one iota of dirt to display. Hence their pathetic attempts to use his wealth and Mormonism to attack him.
- We might also mention Obama's disgusting corruption — learned no doubt as a community organizer and player in Chicago's political cesspool. In numerous cases, government loans and grants have gone to companies headed by prominent cronies of Obama. Not a scintilla of this has ever attended Romney's tenure in any of the enterprises (for-profit, non-profit, or governmental) that he has run. Maybe knowing you can earn a quarter of a billion bucks legally and honestly makes you less inclined to corrupt dealings.
I know many people are nervous about Romney, especially those on the political right. Romney may possibly be lying across the board. Maybe he will not sign Keystone, not try to repeal ObamaCare, let all the tax increases happen, not allow more skilled immigrants in, block free trade agreements, and go all wobbly Green by opposing fossil fuels. Maybe — but the point I would make to the ultra-pure rightists is that Obama has shown that he will do all these things.
Nor am I under any illusion that Romney is Hayek redivivus. He has what seems to be a congenitally moderate nature, one that doesn't adhere to a purely classically liberal ideology –more's the pity. So I don't expect him to get school vouchers enacted nationwide (as Sweden did years ago), or to end all farm subsidies (as New Zealand did years ago), or to enact a truly low flat tax with no deductions allowed (as Russia and numerous other countries did years ago), or to privatize Social Security (much less Medicare), or to create a vast free trade alliance of all democratic countries. I myself deeply desire all of these things, although I believe I will live to see none of them.
For this I won't blame President Romney but my fellow Americans. They are too addicted to the welfare state, and will only change when the major welfare state programs finally fail. But Romney can do some moderate good in limiting the depth of our decline, instead of willfully accelerating it, and for this he will have my vote.
* * *
The Case for None of the Above
By Wayland Hunter
When I walk past my local polling place, I see people coming out with little stickers on their shirts, saying "I Voted!" As if that were something to be proud of.
I'm not saying that I've never voted, or that I feel some kind of quasi-religious objection to the secret ballot, à la 19th-century anarchist Lysander Spooner. I'm not an anarchist. I remember, maybe 30 years ago, Reason ran a poll asking its readers all sorts of things. One of them was, Are you an anarchist? Another was, Do you vote? The results were something like 40% on the first question and 90% on the second. So much, I thought, for libertarian anarchism.
I have no such "principled" objection to voting. If I find an election in which I think my vote matters, in the right way, I'll go ahead and vote.
But right now, I feel as if I were channeling R.W. Bradford, founder of this journal. I don't know whether, or how often, Mr. Bradford may have voted. (Seldom, I suppose.) But I recall his exposure of the "handful of votes" myth. He showed, beyond any possibility of confutation, that virtually no elections, however petty, are decided by the proverbial "handful." The possibility of any election being decided by one vote, your vote, is similar to that of Columbus, Ohio being obliterated by a meteor strike.
There is no practical reason to vote.
But what about the alleged moral reason? Good libertarians remind us, every four years, of the categorical imperative: you must act in such a way that if everyone acted in that way, it would be good, or there would be good effects, or better effects than worse ones, or no really bad effects, or something. In other words, you shouldn't throw your cigarette onto the sidewalk, because if everyone threw a cigarette onto the sidewalk, what would the sidewalk look like?
If you don't see how silly that is, I'll try to explain it, or at least to extend its logic into the absurdity it's heading for.
Just think: if everyone ate a hamburger at every meal, every day, no cows would survive. If everyone went to the symphony, tickets would be priced out of sight. Don't become a guitar repairman, because if everyone becomes a guitar repairman, the world will starve to death. If I don't have children, it means I am decreeing the depopulation of the earth.
Not convinced? But why should you be? It's a silly idea. If I had a cigarette, I would look for a decent receptacle to put it in. I wouldn't throw it on the sidewalk. Why? Because littering is wrong in itself. I don't care how many people do it; it's ugly and therefore wrong. Now show me why it's wrong in itself not to vote. Is it only wrong because if everybody else refrained from voting, that would be wrong? Have we gone in a circle here?
One of Obama or Romney will win, and the election won't turn on my single vote. But does either of them provide enough reason for me to go to the polls and pull the lever for him? That question answers itself.
But there's another reason why not voting is not equivalent to littering the gutters. Not voting is not doing something. If nobody voted, well, the parties would have to nominate candidates whom somebody would go ahead and vote for, willingly and unthreatened by false moral theory — and that would be a good thing, right?
To support my view, I don't need to go in the Randian-anarchist direction and talk about how awful it is to give my "sanction" to some candidate who isn't ideologically perfect ("moral") by voting for him or her. All I have to do is point to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. One of them will win, and the election won't turn on my single vote. But does either of them provide enough reason for me to go to the polls and pull the lever for him? That question answers itself.
Well, what about the Libertarian Party nominee?
Please. When I vote LP, what am I voting for? An organization that, in forty years, has never won a significant election. An organization that occasionally appears to have thrown the election to a Democrat, rather than a Republican. This is not a compelling reason to go to the polls.
Oh, but by voting Libertarian you would be voting for your principles!
Would I? You who say that — have you read the LP party platform? Neither have I. Neither has anyone else — including, I suppose, the people who wrote it. In this case, principles are irrelevant.
I rest my case. If all the paid staff members of the Libertarian Party, and all the unpaid volunteers whom they try to organize, would devote themselves to nonelectoral work for specific libertarian causes, who would deny that more would be accomplished? So if, by not voting, I am somehow objectively voting against the LP — as the old Marxists used to say when arguing that if you don't participate in the workers' struggle, then you are objectively in favor of fascism — aso be it. But I don't think I am voting against the LP. I think I am voting for the LP activists to go out and do something productive. Even the devotees of the categorical imperative should be proud of me for saying that.
And that is all I need to say.
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Rodney Choate, P.E.
I simply didn't take the piece seriously and didn't read very deeply into it, but please bear with me anyway. 1) Gary Johnson (or someone like him) is my man, but it's not the time for a spoiler- we are in too great a danger right now. In fact, I almost fault him for not sitting this one out, even though he has every legal right to stay. 2) "The case for Obama"? Please spare me- not worth the waste of time reading, and 3) Romney? Another of a long line of political opportunists who will behave essentially like those Republicans before him. If he gets in (and he needs to!) he won't save us, but only provide a better alternative leader in the event of a society collapse, and perhaps provide some Supreme Court appointment(s).
I am always surprised at how many people seem to be bogged down in so many details and seem to overlook what is essential about people and things. Because it is the essentials that are important I don't need to know any "good" things about Obama, and for the time being, I don't need to know any "bad" thing about Romney. And I know that Johnson has many more good things about him than bad, but we are not going to get HIM.
Sun, 2012-10-28 11:19
Jon Harrison
You didn't take the piece seriously and didn't read very deeply into it, yet you felt moved to post two quite banal comments. Why? To see your name, as it were, "in print"? You're the blogger version of the guy who falls in love with his hand because it takes some time and effort to get into a girl's pants.
Mon, 2012-10-29 16:24
Rodney Choate, P.E.
Jon I take your comments in good nature. One of my comments was indeed a little off topic, and hopefully "banal" to us here (the electoral college comment).
I apologize for insulting the article. I just feel strongly against the "spoiler effect" of Johnson right now, and think others might feel the same way. Further, when I became aware of "the case for Obama" portion of the article, my first thought was indeed to wonder if the article was written with seriousness or not.
Tue, 2012-10-30 17:26
Jon Harrison
I appreciate your follow-up comment, Rodney. And thanks for taking my own words in good part.
Thu, 2012-11-01 08:50
This article is the latest installment of a series Liberty has run for several presidential elections now, where cases are made for the primary contenders for the libertarian vote (GOP, Dem, Libertarian, and None of the Above). As such, our contributors' pieces reflect both the seriousness and playfulness we strive for in every article published under the Liberty masthead.
Thanks for reading!
Wed, 2012-10-31 02:04
Jim Henshaw
re this: "But an America under Gary Johnson would be an America that doesn't maintain or extend its imperial military presence around the world; an America that doesn't haul off and invade Iran or any other country on someone else's say-so; an America that doesn't exude a rhetoric of hatred, fear, and absolute moral certainty. His America wouldn't lock up hundreds of dissenters or millions of victimless criminals; wouldn't starve poor countries to prop up farm subsidies; wouldn't hand economic policy over to Goldman Sachs to impoverish the unconnected; wouldn't court a new Depression by inciting trade wars and deepening international divides."
Johnson is running for President, not dictator. Congress can and would override quite a few of his vetos. I have talked with Johnson over the phone (when he was trying to get my vote as a delegate at the LP convention in Vegas), and I did not hear that Johnson had the cojones to refuse to implement any and all laws or spending passed by Congress via veto overrides, or to eliminate most cabinet positions and fire all the employees working at those agencies on the grounds that those weren't enumerated powers.
That being said (and although I voted against Johnson at the convention, since Lee Wrights is closer to the anarchist that I am), I've already voted for Johnson, because he would be better than any President we've suffered under since at least Grover Cleveland.
Sun, 2012-10-28 00:14
Rodney Choate, P.E.
I heard it again today- a caller to a talk show complained once more about the Electoral College. The reason given for the complaint: "my vote doesn't count". Translation: The disturbed person happens to live in a state that doesn't go to THEIR candidate in November. These complainers tend to feel small anyway due to their deficient reasoning skills. They don't realize the good aspects of the Electoral College. These complainers wail over the prospect of a difference between the electoral and popular votes, not understanding that should the event occur (to either sides favor) they should say quietly say a little prayer that the majority was denied its way at least once.
The Electoral College is a fine way to choose the Pres. It avoids the spectacle of a nationally run election. It gives the more rural states a little moral (and well deserved) boost. It would make it more difficult for any dictator to steal their election. It is proper to elect the Pres. "by states" and not by the people directly.
No, the Electoral College is a fine system.
Fri, 2012-10-26 18:45
The electoral college would be far more effective were it restored to it's original form: Electors' names on the ballot rather than the names of the Presidential candidates. In each of the States, actual debates and interrogation of would-be Electors on a townhall basis would allow voters to know just what was the political philosophy of the person being elected to go to Washington to in turn elect a new President.
Imagine a bloc of Electors refusing to vote for anyone not expressing ideas that reflected more Libertarian positions. The Electors themselves were never mandated, by the Constitution, to be "committed" to a given candidate.
Mon, 2012-10-29 21:01
Let me see if I've got this right, Romney is a Massachusetts' moderate who's too dangerous in the White House? Pardon me if I laugh just a little bit. In his second term, the current occupant of the White House will likely appoint Supreme Court Justices with absolutely no respect for the Constitution. Cap and Trade, massive subsidies for existing state enterprises (schools & healthcare) and increased taxes on attempted wealth creation make this President a disaster for bringing the poor and the disadvantaged into the work force. He simply wants to slice the pie, made smaller by his actions, into different proportions.
So, I won't comment on the other three writers. I am voting AGAINST Obama. Ayn Rand wrote frequently about "sense of life" decisions. This is surely one of those.
Thu, 2012-10-25 23:25
Jon Harrison
Ah, Visitor, one can always count on you for a few laughs. But why, I wonder, the anonymity?
I fault myself and not you for the fact that you almost always fail to get my drift. I just can't communicate clearly enough for you. Perhaps I need to triple or quadruple the length of my pieces, filling in every blank, dropping crusts of insight with every step, lest you lose your way in the labyrinth of my thought.
Yes, at heart, Romney is the Massachusetts moderate I came to know when he was my governor. Unfortunately, he will likely be putty in the hands of the neocons on foreign policy questions. This makes him as dangerous as Bush II. Moreover, having run without taking a firm position on anything whatsoever, he will find it difficult to restrain the dominant, hard-right elements in his party. This will probably lead to policy confusion (at best) or the implementation of all sorts of crazy ideas that will have deleterious consequences for the nation.
The early period of a Romney adminsitration will see a burst of economic growth, as business puts the $2 trillion that's been sitting on the sidelines to work. Business, of course, very much wants the Mittster to succeed. I predict, however, that the structural flaws in our economy will prevent a return to a long-lasting, stable prosperity.
I do not think that we will have morning in America if B.O. is reelected. Indeed, if you gave enough attention to what I actually wrote, you would see that my preference for Obama rests mainly on foreign policy concerns. I've said in this space that Romney's ideas on the economy, government spending, and entitlements are sounder than Obama's. But the Mittster's serial lying on any and every issue makes him even less qualified to run the country than B.O.
Fri, 2012-10-26 09:28
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A lot of the hype surrounding this series has boiled down to the Penguins trying to solve the suddenly hot Martin Biron. While Biron will arguably play the largest role in determining the Flyers' chances, the amount of praise that has been lumped upon him seems to be a bit overstated, or at least hypocritical. Here are Biron's stats in the regular season compared to the playoffs.
Biron, purely by the numbers, was actually better in the regular season, and has only faced an additional shot per game this postseason. This doesn't factor in the quality of the shots or key saves, most notably in Game 7 of the Caps series. Still, either give the guy credit for a good season or lay off the Conn Smythe talk for at least this series.
Also, I'm having trouble understanding how Fleury is still unproven or untested, but Biron gets off the hook. Fleury has put up a 1.76 GAA and .938 SV% while facing an average of 28 shots a game. Facing four shots less per game can have an impact on your goals allowed, but not THAT much of an impact. If anything, Fleury has appeared to finally turn the corner while Biron is more of a flash in the pan, the next Johan Hedberg. Nothing against the moose, but he only got us to the conference finals too.
So if the Flyers defense is allowing around the same amount of shots and Biron is maybe playing only slightly better than he did in the regular season, then why are the Flyers' surging? It's all in the offense. Here are basic statistics for each team.
The Flyers are averaging an extra 0.6 G/GM in the playoffs. The Penguins are hitting at 0.5 G/GM higher now then in the regular season. While they are similar bumps in scoring, the Penguins had already shown an increase in their offensive output with the arrival of Hossa and Dupuis, averaging 3.21 G/GM from the trade deadline to the end of the season, only 0.23 behind their current pace. The Flyers were relatively consistent with their scoring throughout the year, indicating they may be playing above what they are actually able to produce consistently.
Defensively, the Penguins are lowering the ice curtain with a GAA of 1.89, which is 0.6 GA/GM lower than their regular season mark. Again, though, after the trade deadline the Penguins improved to a 2.36 GAA. While there are signs that this improved defense is here to stay due to the new personnel, assuming that the Penguins can maintain this gaudy mark is probably wishful thinking.
This series boils down to two units playing better than they probably actually are, going head to head, with one likely tumbling back to Earth. I'd have to give the edge to the Penguins, simply because they had displayed signs in the regular season that their defense had improved, and the new players add credibility to that argument. The Flyers, on the other hand, have played the second worst defensive team in the playoffs and a young and shaky goaltender who couldn't catch a cold in winter.
Either way you look at it, Biron is going to have to play better than he's already played and the Flyers have to crack a surprisingly stout Penguins defense. The chances of both happening are slim. Pens in 5.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Penguins-Flyers Breakdown: Bursting Biron's Bubble
Posted by Sam at 1:30 PM
Labels: Flyers, NHL Playoffs, Penguins, Stats
23 comments:
- Stu said...
Hmmmm... How come no mention of the cupcake first round the Pens faced in the Ottawa Senators. Oh that's right, you probably left that one out, because they purposely lost the last game of the season so they wouldn't have to face the Flyers in the first round.
Sad thing is the Pens would have done better had they faced the Flyers in the first round. Now they worst fears have come true. They get to play the Flyers who are full of confidence now!! Flyers in 6!!!!
- May 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM
- Rocco said...
Looks good for the Pens on Paper, but the flyers have been the underdogs all postseason. it'll be real close though. Flyers in 7!
- May 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM
What's the point of analyzing these numbers when they have had zero common opponents and a minuscule sample size? No mention that the Flyers played against two of the most up-tempo teams in the first two rounds, while Pens played the disinterested Sens, and the slow it down Rangers.
It should be a great series, the Pens clearly have more talent, but talent doesn't always win out in the NHL playoffs.
- May 7, 2008 at 3:53 PM
I like Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam!!! You just laid a statistical beatdown upon my looking holes...AMAZING. Also, RARARARARARARARARGH!!!
- May 7, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Where are all these Philly trolls coming from? Let's see if any of them have the guts to come back here if the Pens win the series. Somehow I doubt it...
- May 7, 2008 at 4:17 PM
get off the pens dicks- its gonna be a physical close series- stats dont = wins- flyers in 7 (crosby gets hurt in game 5)
- May 7, 2008 at 4:34 PM
- Sam said...
@nastyemu: The stats may come from a small sample size, but thats why its just a trend. I just figure that it will even out somehow. Maybe it won't, but if I had to bet I'd say either the Pens D or the Flyers offense will come closer to their season long numbers, possibly both.
@stu: You're right about Ottawa, but I still think the Pens played the best of the 4 teams beaten in the Rangers. Huet is a solid goaltender, but he's not Lundqvist. People are wrong to say the Canadiens lost the series instead of the Flyers winning it, but stick Huet in net instead of Price and I bet they push it to 7 games. Thats a guess, but your compatriots seem to find hard evidence pointless, maybe they'll like random projections.
@the comments on Wyshynski's blog on Yahoo:
What should be scary to Flyers fans is that even if many of you are right, and Biron is playing better than any goalie has ever played the position, his stats now are worse than his regular season numbers. So Biron is playing phenomenal, then your defense must suck. Which means if Biron loses any sort of edge it will all crumble down.
- May 7, 2008 at 6:41 PM
I've watched the Pens for 20+ years and have never seen them put on a defensive display like they did vs the Rangers - holding them to looooong stretches without a shot on goal. The sheer number of shots on goal the Flyers have allowed in the playoffs is reflective of a shaky defense - they just haven't faced a team with enough firepower to make them pay for it.
- May 7, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- Unknown said...
The stats may say one thing, but people who were watching the Philadelphia series can tell you how great Biron's been playing. The teams that he's faced have had loads of excellent opportunities and the saves he's had to make and his consistently solid positioning and general goaltending have been outstanding. Without him, the Flyers wouldn't have gotten this far, let alone beat Washington.
And I'm saying that as a person who's wanted the other team to beat Philadelphia in each round, including the upcoming one against Pittsburgh.
- May 7, 2008 at 10:54 PM
The Pens suck and you can all give Crosby a reach around later. The fact of the matter is the Flyers beat the Pens during the regular season and they're going to beat them in the playoffs. The team who gets hot in the playoff wins and right now that team is Philly. Flyers in 6.
- May 8, 2008 at 2:50 AM
Funny, half the flyer fans say that the shots the flyers d have given up were all outside low percentage shots.
At the same time they try to say how Biron has been steller.
Gerber and Lundy kept those games against Pittsburgh from being blowouts.. its only a matter of time before this team starts putting up 6 or 7. The Rangers played a tight defence... the flyers try to stand up at the blue line... its not going to be pretty.
- May 8, 2008 at 8:44 AM
what's all this talk from these jags from Philly about how the flyers are the "hot" and "confident" right now? The Pens have lost ONE GAME this post season!
Pens just tortured one of the best goalies in the game. Biron is going to get yanked in game one. Kristy Yamaguchi would light him up.
- May 8, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Holy shit! These miserable classy bas"tards" from Filthadelphia actually think that they have a shot? The Flyers are hot right now? Yeah, maybe hot like that burning sensation when you pee. The PENS lost just 1 playoff game. Biron is a joke. PENS in 5, but I'll keep my broom near by just in case.
- May 8, 2008 at 9:32 AM
I love how that one guy says the team who gets hot in the playoffs wins and its Philly...when the Penguins have lost 1 playoff game so far, and it was an away game. Good argument there, boss. I don't give two damns if the series goes to 7, if we hold our home winning streak, the series is ours.
- May 8, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- Dave Wannstache said...
You know, just from reading these comments... I think if I cared about the Penguins as much as I care about the Steelers, I would absolutely despise the Flyers and their fans like I despise the Patriots and theirs.
- May 8, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- Pat said...
trust me, you would 'stache. Although to be honest, I like that Flyers fans are strikingly confident. It is a refreshing reprieve from the "woe-is-us-lets-start-booing" mentality that seems to plague the other Philly sports.
- May 8, 2008 at 1:52 PM
- ryan said...
-from wandering goat: "The stats may say one thing, but people who were watching the Philadelphia series can tell you how great Biron's been playing. The teams that he's faced have had loads of excellent opportunities"
so doesn't it worry you that the flyers are giving up so many shots and so many excellent scoring chances going into a series against the best offensive team in the NHL? the flyers may have gotten away with taking an abundance of penalties and giving up a ton of quality scoring chances against Washington who's only top notch scorer is Ovechkin and Montreal who's "top notch talent" is confined to Kovalev and apparently the Kostitsyn brothers. they will be hard pressed to get away with those flaws in team defense and concentration against a team that employs Crosby, Malkin, Hossa, Gonchar, Sykora, Malone, Whitney, and Staal.
let's put it this way. if the flyers defense plays the way it did in the first two rounds and the flyers take a similar amount of penalties as they did in the first two rounds and they STILL manage to beat the Pens, Biron WILL be the leading candidate for the Conn Smythe. he'd have to be. short of the flyers suddenly finding a great defense or a herculean individual effort by biron (which his numbers don't necessarily point to as particularly likely), this series is going to the pens. if the flyers PK doesn't tighten up, it will go to the pens sooner rather than later.
- May 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM
- kmart said...
you say that the penguins have only lost one game in the playoffs, but neglect to mention that they also played the worst team in the playoffs, while the flyers drew two of the best teams in the playoffs. for the flyers to dispatch the #1 seed with one loss (the same amount the penguins had to the #5 seed) gives them a ton of confidence that they are going to need in the series.
- May 8, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- Dave Wannstache said...
I assume this is big news, considering that from what I've read this guy is the Flyers' best defensemen:
- May 8, 2008 at 9:42 PM
K-mart, you state that the flyers drew 2 of the best teams in the playoffs? Uh, the capitals had less points in the regular season than your beloved flyers, and didn't make it into the playoffs until the last day of the regular season. Do you even watch hockey? FYI, Carey Price was soft in all but one game he played all post season, nobody's impressed with the win over Montreal, they almost blew it against the Bruins(#8 seed). RICHARDS IS A DIVER!
- May 9, 2008 at 12:21 AM
lol..I love the Richards is a diver comment that's classic.
- May 9, 2008 at 6:47 AM
- Kipper said...
Alot of Flyers Trolls.
Timonnen's Blood Clot says that the Flyers slim chances in this series have vanished. At least the Flyers fans can blame Timonnen's injury instead of the refs or the Bettman conspiracy.
- May 9, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- bgsteelfan said...
I know its late, but this seems like as good a time as any to post a comment. To all the Flyers fans, all I gotta say is...
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As soon as they all go back we can start working a good immigration bill.
Jeff – "Maybe we should stage a hunger strike until Obama repeals Obamacare."
Go for it! Even if it takes the rest of his term!! Can you get all your teabagger friends to do it, too!!! Would be the best thing you could do for the future of America!!!!
The day after Thanksgiving and the hate mongering un-Christian right is in full bloom.
Jeff – By all means, start your hunger strike until Obamacare is repealed.
God bless those ppl , even thou republicans forget the they coming from immigrants because a real American is indian not white
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