name the player,or post whatever you friggin' want

im sure someone will.

 

192 days sober today and today is also my 45th Birthday. Im still mad at myself for having my life come to not drinking for the rest of my life versus just to take control of it, but it is what it is. i went on a golf trip last weekend and if i was drinking, i would've easily been the drunkest guy there. thankfully, i wasn't. being sober makes me see the silliness in people now that they are the drunken fools and not me.

 

Congrats, Cat. Stick to it.

Now, for the next step in your progression: begin to appreciate what others offer rather than dwelling on their shortcomings. Focusing on the "silliness in people" is really just you dwelling on your former wayward ways and thinking "there, by the grace of God, go I". It's focused on the negatives in people. Start looking for the positives people offer.

 

Dan-i know these guys have a ton of positives. one is an attorney with his own profitable business. one is an insurance agent with his own agency etc. all have great families and kids. i wish i was them. i envy all of them.

it was just that since i was the sober one, much like me going on a bus trip of drinkers to see ND play in NJ two months ago, that being sober makes me see them drunk and not be one among them. i don' think silliness is a bad thing at all and not a shortcoming. it was just funny to see and not see me among them. if i was drinking, i would be the silliest of all of them.

 

Cat, I hear ya, and I was not trying to insinuate that you were making fun of others. I was just pointing out that it's a progression. When one is over-using anything then the focus is always on themselves. It is a stage of recovery to shift the focus on others. Initially that can still reflect the previous attachment to self, and life gets better when we're not walking around centering everything on "me".

I'm not trying to be testy here; I'm not saying that this means someone is a bad person. What I am saying is that when one gets past these stages that life takes on more meaning. Ironically, it's when the focus is not on oneself that life becomes more fulfilling.

Nuff of this, and back to hockey talk.

 

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/11/trump-epa-pesticides

The health of the planet's at stake here, this is heartbreaking. Myron ebell has a degree in philosophy and he's in charge of the controlling emissions and pollution for the biggest industrial nation on the planet. He argues with scientists on the validity of climate change and pesticides, this is making me so sick. If I don't stop reading the news I think I'll lose my mind, this seems like a bad dream.

 

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16112016/myron-ebell-climate-denier-epa-donald-trump

This clown will make decisions that will effect future generations, we're fked.

 

Screw the environment, we need to put people to work. Build, build, build!

 

Trump is a cheater, he cheats on his taxes, he'll cheat for the industries, he'll cheat for the farmers. There's a price to be paid by others when you cheat. Unemployment is at 4.9%, down from 7% in 2008. Don't believe all the bs about making it great again. Hillary was one of the worst politician in american history and everybody hated her, and now we'll pay.

 

I was thinking that snider had a block on him for those six years.

 

i hope you're wrong skinny and he is a solid President. we got 4 long years ahead if he's a bad one.

 

i hope not as the Flyers inducted Lindros to their Ring of Honor 2 yrs ago. The feud was with Clarke, not Snider and Eric always spoke highly of Mr. Snider.

 

I hope he ends up being a great president too. He has too many business interests all over the world, I was one of the first to point out his business ties with russia way back in the spring. CNN and the media now waking up to the conflicts of interest that will exist in upcoming trade and foreign policy deals, not only in russia but many other oil rich middle east countries.
He preaches protectionism, meanwhile his duaghter ivanka has factories in china making her products with cheap labour thats forced to work 16 hours a day. He'll drill oil in the arctic and kill off the homes of so many of the animals and then boast that he's finding america jobs. Meanwhile the people going to work there would be employed either way, they could easily get work on another project. I don't believe that such a narcissist actually cares about anything other than something with the label TRUMP on it. I don't want to dwell on this topic too much and change the spirit of this thread, time to move on.

 

I'm old enough to remember when Presidents such as: Nixon, *, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama were inaugurated to the anguished cries that "the country is going to hell in a handbasket". (* Ford wasn't elected but we knew his inauguration portended this fait.)

So far the country has not hit perdition, (but like everywhere, it is getting warmer).

The most anguished cries of them all came in Jan. 1981 with Ronald Reagan, and now that we have the requisite time to look back with an objective historical view, it is obvious that the concerns were overwrought.

Ironically, the one inauguration (actually a reinauguration) with the least national angst happened in Jan. 1973 with Nixon. The nation was in turmoil, but the matter of who should be President was not questioned. His administration brought us closer to the brink of hell than any other in modern times.

I know from personal experience that the president-elect is a world-class asshole. We did not vote for Mr./Ms. Congeniality however. Let's all give this a little time.

 

I wasn't sure about obama either, all the right wingnuts were calling a disaster. They wondered how a fundraiser could lead a country. The big difference between obama and trump though, is that obama's generally a good guy. You could trust that when it comes time to choose right from wrong, he'll try to make the best possible decision using morals. Can we expect the same from trump? As I pointed out in an early post from last spring, when it comes time to decide on something that would have benefit more on his business interest than the country, what would he decide? Never has there been a president with so much business interest all over the world and has so much to gain from his policies. He passed on all business interests to his children, but at the same time they get security clearance and his daughter shows up to government meetings.

Give him a chance, the media will be keeping a close eye on his every move. If you thought the clintons were corrupt, you 'aint seen nothing yet. Remember, a guy like trump doesn't just blow $100M of his own money for a $400k job, and now he settled another $25M for trump university. He never would've settled if he wasn't president elect, keep a close eye.

 

Obama has a political position that is very staunch. Trump - we really do not know - up until his election much of what he said is likely to be posturing. Pre-election one says what will help get elected. After the election what someone says & does takes on a different meaning.

Trump's appointments indicate that the country will veer right. But that is what the country asked for.

I do not know if there will be less moral underpinnings to his decisions compared to Obama. They will be political decisions, or at least they'll be what Trump feels is politically expedient. Same as Obama until proven otherwise.

 

The Trump Univ. settlement pleases me greatly, and it surprises me a bit. It indicates to me that he wants to put this distraction behind him and his administration.

I personally believe that many non-profit universities were exploitive, if not outright corrupt. They reflected the era - and let us not overlook the fact that this occurred during the Obama administration.

It should also be remembered that companies make decisions about lawsuits all the time that are expedient. Settling for a dollar figure can be much cheaper than the alternative. A settlement means that (in this case a modest amount of) cash is used to prevent future distractions. It should not be viewed as an admission of guilt.

 

That is right Skinny......a President can be Impeached if there is Fraud,Racketeering involvement.

Trump has both..........but managed to buck up 25M $ for students of his BOGUS Uni.

We are ALL in a new era.........brexit and Trump have hit us in 2016 and there is a new Uprising.

............................POPULISM................it is sweeping across Europe and it is now in North America.

I think Dan has summed this up the best.........

 

Trump must've repeated over 100 times during his campaign that he'll never settle this case, he'll fight it right until the end. I guess he's doing what's in the best interest of his presidency, and doesn't need any distractions. Something interesting to note, a lot of the graduates said that one of the conditions for recieving your degree was having to write a positive review about trump university.

 

I think it is in the best interest of his presidency to move on. It was in the best interest of his campaign to maintain the rhetoric.

Why I am pleased has nothing to do with what's in Trump's best interest per se. It's in the best interest of the country, so I'm pleased.

I doubt he'll try to have Hillary locked up despite his campaign rhetoric. It's the same thing: what one says to get elected vs. what one does once he is elected.

One other thing: many, if not most, that are promulgating allegations for what the Trump Presidency will do, and what the impacts will be, are engaging in their own politically expedient rhetoric. I do not plan to rely on the words of others but draw my own conclusions based on what Trump does.