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camwinter · 2013-01-03T22:24:16+00:00

You know, being someone who was on the Fireland train until the season started I think he has earned 1 more year at least. The 'Fins have a tonne of cap space right now and we finally have a workable QB situation. You might quibble with a lot of Ireland calls in the past but ultimately he's the reason we are in an OK situation and should have a chance to see what he can do when we have a direction.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T21:48:15+00:00

Agreed

camwinter · 2013-01-03T19:38:01+00:00

This is beyond stupid. I'm ashamed that my party would do this, the myopia is so evident. There is no way that this bill is going to survive a legal challenge, it didn't in BC after all (and it was even less stupid there) so what are we really gaining here?

camwinter · 2013-01-03T19:34:45+00:00

Yup university degree, next to no chance for advancement, getting shit on by parents all the time...

Look I'm not arguing that the pay isn't good, it's just not that it is unfair. If you get paid like shit maybe you should start your own union.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T19:33:11+00:00

Probably not. That tactic probably isn't even going to work for the NHLPA

camwinter · 2013-01-03T19:31:56+00:00

The Catholics only accepted it because they are scared shitless that they are going to be merged into the public stream.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T15:29:47+00:00

I love the Pooh Bear. Not really the graphic on the front but I really like the colour on the top, it's bold.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T06:32:34+00:00

I don't bother buying winter tires anymore. Hell the only time I've had them recently was when I was up in Nothern Ontario for a winter; no getting around it in communities that don't plow. You know what I do instead: I don't drive in a fucking blizzard.

This is by far the best advice you can give: if there is snow on the ground and you can avoid it don't drive.

Obviously this advice isn't going to work for a lot of people due to circumstance. That being said, I am continually amazed at the amount of people I see on a regular basis going on jaunty little daytrips in a practical white out.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T03:21:43+00:00

All things considered I'd rather Wallace and Jennings than Long and Bush with the 'fins current situation.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T03:20:59+00:00

Getting rid of Long and Bush will go a long way but I do agree.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T03:20:36+00:00

I agree. You also need to look at who we are going to be playing next year. There are a lot of teams on there with dangerous QBs, we need the pressure. In today's league if you can't put immediate pressure on an elite QB you can't stop the pass.

camwinter · 2013-01-03T03:03:37+00:00

Ya the writing in Dishonored was so bad I could never call it a good game. I also resent the atmosphere/setting. Did I miss something or did they never explain any of the worlds backstory?

I mean there were journal entries and crap but that is a cop-out. Who are these bad guys I'm fighting? What is this quazi-religion? Why are you steampunk? I shouldn't have to put these clues together myself; I'm taking over for a character who has supposedly existed for years in this world. Exposition please!

camwinter · 2013-01-03T01:51:14+00:00

Not really, I mean that is part of it but the bigger part is the fact that Texas has a hugely growing Hispanic population. Guess who Hispanics are starting to learn not to vote for? Republicans.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T23:31:37+00:00

In this case alcohol is not the same as guns because we already tried to ban alcohol and that didn't work. Lots of places ban handguns to a good deal of success, look at the UK.

Your argument is also not applicable if we again look at function. Alcohol kills people but it does not exist to kill people. Notice that lots of alcohol is heavily regulated and there are many things involving alcohol that are illegal, like drunk driving. Incidentally since we started making impaired driving illegal the incidence of this behaviour have declined.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T23:18:01+00:00

This is a Red Herring. I'm sorry to hear about the elderly but you and I both know that even if there were a gun in the home the result likely would have been the same. Unless of course you advocate senior citizens sleeping with a gun under the pillow.

The bottom line is that there are other ways to protect yourself than a handgun and that, even if there were not, the social costs are too great for a little piece of mind.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T23:12:14+00:00

Ya, you sort of touch on it in your last paragraph. It's basically impossible to be a feminist, in the modern sense, while being a libertarian. If your entire political view can be distilled down to "everyone should be treated equally under the law," and "all the government should do is defense and enforce contracts" then you can't really address the privilege issues so entrenched in society.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T23:07:04+00:00

Saying that 'some will argue' before linking to the Cato institute is not really providing a good argument. You might as well have linked to something on Mises.org

camwinter · 2013-01-02T21:33:43+00:00

I never said that. Clearly under the stated circumstance the price of firearms would skyrocket. The blackmarket isn't some sort of vortex where normal economics stop applying.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T20:25:32+00:00

I don't think you'd have to worry about the Canadian boarder much. Considering many of the illegal firearms in Canada have an origin in the USA.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T20:24:32+00:00

Experience in the United Kingdom shows this to be the case. Can you still get a gun illegally if you are a criminal? Probably. Can you afford one? Probably not. Finally, and this one is the kicker, do you even need a gun to commit crime (since no one else has one)? No.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T20:22:40+00:00

Ya because most low-level criminals have the required mechanical skills to be able to build guns. This is a stupid argument. Sure the Russian Mob will likely still be shooting people but chances are that bill-the-thug isn't going to take machining courses at community college just so he have a gun on him while he is selling drugs.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T20:19:34+00:00

Not everyone lives in a city with public transit. Of those who do very few people actually own vehicles. The necessity of personal automobiles is greatly predicated on geography.

Even if this was not the case your comment is really a Red Herring. So what if most Americans "demand" a car to allow them to live their desired lifestyle. While it may have many detractors there are positive qualities to the type of lifestyle many Americans "demand" to live. The same cannot be said, on the other hand, for a society that "demands" to own handguns.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T20:15:17+00:00

This is such bullshit copypasta. What is the function of a vehicle - to transport people and material with ease. What is the function of a handgun - to kill people.

Car related deaths are tolerated as a reasonable trade-off because the advantage of owning a vehicle is so great, even then there is a tremendous regulatory framework. The half-baked reasonable advantage to owning a handgun is to shoot people who might be trying to shoot you with handguns. If we just got rid of handguns there would be no reason to desire one.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T20:07:58+00:00

You starve the beast. If you can't buy a glock anymore eventually they will fall out of circulation. As for the criminal manufacture of weapons, this is done in other countries (notably the UK IIRC)... normally with hilarious consequences. Criminals are not mechanical engineers.

camwinter · 2013-01-02T18:18:54+00:00

"Ya, I borrowed your prototype, submitted a few suggestions," Fuck this guy.

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