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Sweden vs Russia

Thanks

Slovakia vs Finland

Why does Finland need a regulation win today ? Wouldn’t one point still give them first place if they beat Canada ? Don’t know what is used for tie breakers but even a regulation loss today by Finland would still let them tie Canada with a win tomorrow. Am I missing something ?

Canada vs Switzerland

USA vs Czech Republic

Czech vs Russia

Canada vs Slovakia

7-0 after 2. Shots 52-5. Second period shots 30-2.

1-0 US after 1. Shots 22-3.

USA vs Austria

Canada vs Germany

Painful to watch. They look tired and unprepared.

All games are important especially this year. Too many unknowns on how playoffs will work. Will there still be 16 teams ? What is the selection criteria when there are no out of conference games ? It wouldn’t surprise me if they gave auto bids to conference regular season winners and playoff winners. That could greatly limit the at large bids and limit the number of teams from a specific conference. While the NCHC has been the best conference for a number of years now that does not guarantee anything this year once the politics of a selection committee get involved since there is no way to measure conferences against one another. Control what you can control. Finish in the top two and you are in. Probably top three. Finish in fourth or lower and you may be out unless you win the conference tournament. Highly unlikely you will see five teams from the NCHC in the tournament no matter how good they may be.

Back to 13

Only down 7 now.

I believe a win in OT is only worth 55% of a win for pairwise purposes. Their record is officially 2-0 but the OT win is not much better than a tie in the pairwise.

Absolutely. My answer is I don't have the first damn clue. Some days it will go up, some days it will go down. I'm an educated man, but I'm afraid I can't speak intelligently about short term gyrations in the stock market. What I am confident in is that the market will be significantly higher over the next ten years. Now, please tell me that you are investing for the long term.

The full house never voted on Nixon’s impeachment prior to leaving office. Look it up. Pretty simple to do.

On 7/27/74 the house judiciary committee recommended that he be impeached. Nixon left office on 8/9/74. He was not impeached by the full house at that time. On 8/20/74 the full house voted 412-3 to accept the final Judiciary committee report so technically I don’t think that counts as being impeached.

Nixon had not been impeached by the house prior to his resignation. The house voted to impeach him after he left office. Not sure if that counts as being impeached or not.

That is a huge mountain to climb. So many politicians are capable of claiming that title.

The stock market likes certainty.

It’s not that I would have a problem with them raising the highest marginal rate by 3% in theory. My problem is twofold. First, as soon as the tax rate is increased the Democratic Party will say they need to raise taxes on the rich so they pay their “fair share”. No one ever defines “fair share”. Enough is never enough for some. Secondly, increased revenue will be used to add additional spending programs or increase existing ones. The new spending increase will suck up all the new revenue and then some. This, of course, will lead to demands that the rich pay their “fair share”. The fiscal irresponsibility of Congress never ends. The Republican Party is just as bad but in a different way. They continually want to cut taxes but won’t tie it to spending cuts. We need some way to tie term limits with balanced budgets. Not sure how you do that but it is obvious Congress won’t do it on their own.

I can never be in favor of tax increases on anyone or any business as long as the government continues to increase spending and adding new programs. For some reason politicians seem to think an extra 500 billion in tax revenue means they can spend another trillion or more. I would be in favor of tax increases if they would freeze spending. Both parties spend recklessly without regards to the deficit. The democrats want to spend all the time, the republicans seem only to care about deficits when the democrats are in power. The approach to health insurance is nuts. The discussion involves how much the government is going to help pay for it. Absolutely the wrong way to look at it. Health care costs have been going up for years at a much higher rate than inflation or GDP. Cost increases must be brought down to no more than the inflation rate or it will bankrupt us. Same this goes for education costs. The idea of free college education should scare the crap out of everyone. The costs will go up at a faster rate than our currently unaffordable pace. The cost of college needs to be brought under control or we need to seriously revamp our entire system of higher education.