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Skip to comments.Newt Gingrich The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism
Posted on 04/27/2012 10:34:48 AM PDT by jacknhoo
Youre a mean one Mr. Grinch You really are a heel. Youre as cuddly as a cactus, And as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch! Youre a bad banana, With a greasy black peel! Youre a monster, Mr. Grinch! Your hearts an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders. Youve got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch!
Well, thats a pretty good beginning at describing how most conservatives feel about Newt Gingrich these days. More of that later. Of course, many of us felt this way before the 2012 GOP presidential primary began, and have been vindicated as Newt has once again shown his true self to the world.
There are probably zealot followers of Newt who are stacking the wood to burn me at the stake as I write this. But I have long since stopped with political politeness toward those in the GOP who claim conservatism, yet through their actions continue to set the conservative movement back. No one has done that more than Newt Gingrich.
As the time was coming around toward the primary, most conservatives longed to have a strong conservative candidate emerge as the one that we could get behind. Knowing that Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney was the establishments pick, and that the media would be strongly behind him all the way; we desired for unity among conservatives so that Romney might be defeated.
One phrase that has been repeated over and over is anyone but Romney. It really didnt seem like that tall of an order, and it really shouldnt have been. On the heels of the tea partys great successes in the 2010 primaries I fully expected for conservatives to rally at some point and send Mr. Obamaneycare into political retirement.
Early on the field was very crowded. Some of us conservatives were with Bachmann, others with Santorum, Cain, or Perry. But who would have ever thought that any conservatives would have rallied around Newt Gingrich of all possibilities? Considering that Newt last held office in 1999 and had a coup held against him in 1997 by the conservative wing of the GOP. Considering that Newt stepped down in shame after he led the GOP to the single greatest loss in Congress that ANY party in history had ever suffered in the 1998 midterm elections, who would have thought it?
I wouldnt touch you With a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole! Youre a vile one, Mr. Grinch! You have termites in your smile. You have all the tender sweetness Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch! Given the choice between the two of you, Id take the seasick crocodile! Youre a foul one, Mr. Grinch! Youre a nasty, wasty skunk! Your heart is full of unwashed socks. Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch!
But slowly and surely the field narrowed as Cain dropped out due to scandal, then Bachmann after Iowa, and then Perry before South Carolina. Rick Santorum sailed almost totally under the radar until his surprise win in Iowa and seemed to be the clear conservative choice going forward. Newt finished a very distant 4th place in Iowa, and then 5th behind Santorum in New Hampshire. So going into South Carolina it would have seemed the better part of valor for Newt to have dropped out and helped consolidate the conservative not- Romney vote for Santorum. But it was not to be. In fact, Mr. 4th/5th place Gingrich was actually calling for Santorum to drop out and back him at that point. What arrogance!
Newt greatly benefited from the emotions of the moment surrounding the Charleston debate, and won South Carolina. Well ok, at that point Santorum, Romney, and Newt had each won 1 state, so each had a claim at staying in and fighting it out. In fact, it looked like Newt might just ride the wave of momentum from South Carolina on to the nomination. But then came Florida, where Newt, pandering to the NASA community literally promised the moon with his wild and wacky moon colony he promised to build before the end of his first term. Florida was a bust for Newt as Romney defeated him badly.
Then came Nevada where Newt finished another distant 2nd place, and afterwards gave an unprecedented speech blaming everyone but himself for his demise. But Nevada was actually the last state that Newt would finish as high as second place all the way until winning his home state of Georgia on Super Tuesday. Next it was Rick Santorum who surprised the world by sweeping all three states of Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado in one day. So at that point Santorum had won 4 states with Romney also having won 4. With Newt flailing, it seemed time for him to drop out and solidify the conservative vote behind the last conservative standing- Rick Santorum. But no, Newt promised his new southern strategy where he would concentrate on the southern states to stage his comeback.
The three words that best describe you Are as follows, and I quote, Stink, stank, stunk! Youre a rotter, Mr. Grinch! Youre the king of sinful sots! Your hearts a dead tomato, Splotched with moldy, purple spots, Mr. Grinch!
But Newts southern strategy also went bust as Santorum took Tennessee and Oklahoma on Super Tuesday. Then Santorum swept Alabama and Mississippi were Newt had campaigned heavily. Finally, Santorum took Louisiana with nearly 50% of the vote while Newt finished a distant third. So surely by then with Newts southern strategy having totally failed he would have seen the handwriting on the wall. Surely he would try and salvage what little respect he had left among conservatives by giving Santorum the benefit of a consolidated conservative not-Romney electorate as the primary calendar turned back towards Romneys blue states.
Not so. Even with top conservative voices such as Richard Viguerie, and even Michael Reagan who had endorsed Newt now calling for him to step aside for the sake of conservatism, Newts massive ego would not let him. Newt even earned the name Newt Perot. He continued to vow to fight on until the convention in Tampa. It seemed fairly obvious to many of us all along, that Newts campaign had been nothing more than him dancing for the Puppet Master in order to help Romney by keeping the conservative vote split.
Whats very telling about this is that Newt has raised very little actual campaign money and is now at least $4.3 million in debt. Basically all of Newts big money came through his super pac - Winning Our Future. And almost all of the super pac money came from corrupt billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, a total of more than $20 million. Winning Our Future has raised a total of $23 million. Sources close to Adelson said as early on as mid February that Adelson was only funding Newt in order to help destroy Santorums chances of beating Romney. Further proof of that, is that Winning Our Future ran mostly anti-Santorum ads. In reality, if Newt truly was all about the conservative movement as he claims, he would have condemned the ads and focused his efforts on Romney instead of helping to destroy the only conservative candidate who had a real chance at defeating Romney. More on Adelson later.
Lets look for a minute at Newts record in this primary contest:
Newt finished dead last in 21 of 36 states, which is dead last in over half of the states.
3rd place in 10 states. *3 of the 3rd place finishes came after Santorum was out of the race
2nd place in 5 states. *1 of the 2nd place finishes came after Santorum was out of the race
1st place in 2 states.
Newt has finished dead last in 4 more states than all his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes. combined, and 1 2nd place and 3 3rd place finishes came after Santorum was out of the race.
Newt had a losing record with every other candidate.
Newt 4 Romney 32
Newt 4 Santorum 27
Newt 14 Paul 22
Every other candidate beat Newt more times than Newt has beat them.
When even Ron Paul has beaten you 8 more times than you have beaten him, its a very sad thing. Continuing to lose to Paul should have been a wake up call for Newt to drop the heck out, but Newt will only follow where his ego leads him.
Lets consider for a minute what would have happened if Newt wasnt solely driven by ego. What if he was truly committed to the conservative movement and had gotten out before Super Tuesday? Well, its clear that would have meant that Santorum would have won the key state of Ohio, as well as Alaska, and Georgia in addition to the other 3 states he won on Super Tuesday. Santorum would have taken 6 of 11 states in one day leaving Romney with only 5 instead of the 7 he got. Think of the total game changing momentum that would have caused in Santorums favor. Then Santorum would have gone on to win Wisconsin as well. If Newt had dropped out when he really should have after New Hampshire, then Santorum would have also won South Carolina and could have dealt Romney an effective death blow in Romneys home state of Michigan. That would have given Santorum 6 more states and lots more delegates, and denied Romney 5 states and many delegates.
The whole argument from the Newt camp was that his being in the race was helping defeat Romney by Newt getting delegates instead of Romney. But that argument is absurd because its a far more effective way to defeat an enemy by having one strong challenger instead of multiple weaker ones. This is especially true for the winner take all states like Wisconsin, because Newt prevented Santorum from even getting any delegates and allowed Romney to take them all. If Newt had dropped out before South Carolina, Santorum would have won at least 16 states instead of 11, and Romney only 15 instead of 18. If he had dropped out before Super Tuesday it would have been Santorum 14, Romney 16, (Newt 1). I will not even bother to get into how the delegate count would have gone.
Your soul is an apalling dump-heap, Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, Mangled-up in tangled-up knots! You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch! With a nauseous super naus! Youre a crooked jerky jockey, And you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Grinch! Youre a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich, With arsenic sauce!
As the process lingered on, it was becoming all about preventing Romney from getting to 1,144 delegates and allowing the convention in Tampa in August to be open and contested. But since Newt served as Romneys wing man helping to destroy Santorum, we can all but rule out that possibility now. Romney will most likely coast onto his needed delegates and the nomination without a strong candidate such as Santorum to stop him. And no, Ron Paul is not a strong candidate. Ron Paul took on Romney one on one in Virginia due to no other candidates making the ballot, but Paul could only muster 40% of the vote. Paul hasnt won a single state, though he has managed to take some extra delegates by hijacking delegate conventions in states like Minnesota and Missouri. But without winning at least 5 states neither Paul nor Newt one will be able to get their names on the ballot at the convention.
Newt has had to lay off one third of his campaign staff and is over $4 million in campaign debt. Even his flagship The Gingrich Group has filed for bankruptcy within the last few weeks, which is only one of at least a dozen such enterprises that Newt has led into bankruptcy over the last 30 years. But still Newt continued to flail around jousting at windmills.
After finishing dead last in 4 of 5 states on Tuesday, Newt has finally decided to drop out at long last. Though it is satisfying to see him admit defeat, it comes way too late to do have any real meaning or give any help to a fellow conservative such as Santorum. Had it come weeks or months earlier it would have certainly meant the defeat of Romney, and victory for a conservative.
To me the timing of Newt dropping out is very telling. He stayed in long enough to make certain Santorum was out, but had he dropped out then, it would have been obvious that he was the intentional spoiler. He continued to run a ghost campaign knowing that he would lose badly on Tuesday and then used that as the excuse to drop out. Adelsons wife recently gave another $5 million to Newts super pac even though the Adelsons had changed their support over to Romney and Sheldon had stated that Newt was at the end of his game weeks ago.
The three headed snake of the GOP establishment Sheldon Adelson, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney
Even though Newts campaign was $4.3 million in debt, Winning Our Future made no plans to spend any of the $5 million in any way. It seems that the plan was/is for it to sit there; because once Newt is officially no longer a candidate he can use it as he pleases with one exception, he cannot use it to pay off campaign debt by law. However, he can use it in any other way he pleases and can actually pay off the campaign debt in an indirect way. For instance, he could purchase $5 million in property and then sell it and use the profits to pay off the debt. He could also put it into one of his business ventures and then give himself a pay bonus and use it to pay the debt. The point here being that Newt has more money at his disposal than he has debt; and it was given to him by someone who was supporting Romney at the time it was given, and given by a person who knew that Newt was not going to be able to win or even continue in the race at that point.
There is no smoking gun that directly proves that Adelson was funding Newt as a means to help Romney, but speculation has been risng for quite a while. We know for sure out of Adelsons own mouth that he wanted to help destroy Santorum. We also know that Adelson had long since given up on Newt and was backing Romney for weeks prior to giving additional millions to Newt. We also know that Adelson has said that he is pro-choice and socially liberal. It would stand to reason then that he would have interest in helping Romney because of Romneys pro-choice and socially moderate stances.
Whether Adelsons game plan all along was to help Romney, or if that became plan B for him is not 100% clear. But what is clear is that Adelson had his bets hedged. (What else would we expect from corrupt guy who has made billions from casinos?) I smell a rat and say that 2+2 = payoff .
Newt Gingrich is a political has-been that never really was, and never will be. Unless a miracle happens between now and the convention, Newt will always be remembered as the one who cost conservatives the single most important election in modern times. He will be known as the Grinch Who Stole Conservatism. At least the Grinch who stole Christmas eventually saw the light and gave Christmas back to the people of Whoville. But Newt cannot give back the 2012 GOP nomination to conservatives. In fact, by ensuring Romney the nomination he may well have handed Obama his second term.
Its important to point out that the people who supported Newt also bear a great deal of the blame in ruining conservative chances in 2012, especially those who call themselves tea partiers. As someone who has been part of the tea party movement from the beginning, I knew that Newt Gingrich was last candidate I should get behind. But many others ignored the warnings. They got caught up in a bloodlust to see Obama embarrassed in a debate and fed the troll, so to speak. They acted as co-conspirators with Newt in stealing conservatism, and they will share in whatever consequences the are to come.
Yes indeed, youre a mean one . Mr. GinGrinch!
By: Javan Browder
Santorum? The guy who couldn't win his own state? That Santorum?
Yeah, but, it's time to face the facts.
You mean the Santorum who beat Newt in PA and almost tied him in RI and wasn't even in the race anymore? That Santorum?
If anybody is the Grinch it is Santorum, the political whore who helped Spectre pass the Obamacare bill.
Santorum wasn't much of anything , much less a Conservative.
Newt could have beaten Obama. If Romney does luck out and beat Obama we still don't have anything representing a Conservative.
What we have is another Mccain -Dole Fiasco.
Santorum was a boy running for a man's job.
You mean conservatives, I assume.
I'm betting Rick could beat Newt in a footrace and Newt could beat Rick at arm wrestling. And those matter about as much as the primaries you mentioned. Neither one came close to the nomination, did they? Neither one had a chance against the hundreds of millions of dollars available to Mitt Romney. It's almost like we're discussing fantasy football or a Star Trek episode.
That's probably true at this juncture.
"Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he expects to endorse Mitt Romney.
Santorum says that he believes Romney is "the right guy" to challenge President Barack Obama. ..."
Sainty 'Expects to endorse' the 'Right guy' Romney - LoL.
Well Jack we all have opinions.
IMO Newt was the only candidate worth voting for. Now we see that santorum quit, and Romney is certainly not worth voting for, so you can hate Newt if you like we ended up with a RepubloDem running as our candidate.
Even if we win we lose.
And what will be your position when your boy Newt backs Milt next week? Will you attack him with as much childish vigor?
You mean like Newt has already done?! Of course, Santorum could be up for VP...You know Newt won't be.
"I suspect you're going to get a bit of heat on this post..."
I agree. I think the smell of sour grapes is in the air.
Gingrich out, will endorse Romney
The former Speaker is likely to appear with Romney next week at a campaign event to make a formal endorsement.
By Philip Elliot / April 25, 2012
Gingrich had a friendly telephone conversation Wednesday with Romney and had started planning an event where he would throw his support behind the likely nominee, Gingrich spokesman R.C Hammond said. The pair agreed to work together to unite conservatives against President Barack Obama.
"It's clear Romney is the nominee and the focus should be on defeating Obama. We should not focus on defeating ourselves," Gingrich told disappointed supporters in Kings Mountain, N.C., the morning after Romney tightened his grip on the nomination by sweeping primary contests in five states.
As if this hasn't been Gingrich's plan all along...
Oh please. I never said Newt was perfect, but you SantoBots displayed "childish vigor" of zealots endorsing the guy whose record was liberal on spending and who sought working with liberals by tooting it in his political ads.
Yep. Romney, via Adelson, played FRingrichers masterfully. The only question is whether Gingrich was in on the scam or had his ego played by Adelson without realizing he was being used and then discarded.
It's over now. We've now got Romney. Anybody for lemonade?
[crickets chirping]
I didn't think so.
Oh gee you got me - not. LoL. Hey Ricky must have been planing it all along too. Back to future we go!
Santorum Gives a Passionate Endorsement of Romney in 2008, Then Flip Flops For Political Gain
You do realize that Newt has said the same thing?
You should also realize that Santo gave an 'impassioned endorsement" for his "man" Romney.
Nothing short of the unthinkable will stop the march to globalism.
You mean as opposed to supporting the guy who was actively working with Algore on promoting the Global Warming hoax, touring the country with Rev Sharpton for education reforms, said Romneycare was a great idea, said the era of Reagan is dead, called Paul Ryan's modest plan extreme and gave speeches with Hillary Clinton to promote having our health care records controlled by the federal government. BTW, Rick had the highest rating from the NRA of any candidate running and also had a solid rating from the ACU and Taxpayers Union. Judging by the final results in this Primary, most Conservative voters saw it the way I did.
Santorum: Romney is the "right guy" to challenge Obama.
Not you Santo?
"...he will ultimately support the GOP presidential nominee. And he says it's clear that Romney will be that nominee." "... we have to focus on beating Obama."
"It's clear Romney is the nominee and the focus should be on defeating Obama. We should not focus on defeating ourselves,"
A or B? It sounds as if Santorum and Gingrich are on the same page.
You can say that about just EVERY candidate who was in the race. So were ALL of them on Romney's dole?
Or maybe, just maybe, there wasn't a single strong enough candidate in the entire pack and the only reason Romney won was his overwhelming money edge and his lack of scruples in attacking the other candidates?
I am not sure how productive it is to keep fighting the previous battle.
It isn't productive in the least, but I am not going to let my guy get smeared with childish names and insults just so some can feel better about themselves.
I just as soon move on to the matter at hand. An out of control, corrupt WH and a House and Senate populated with enough Statists and Progressives to destroy the country.
What we have been covering here isn't out of bounds for discussion. I am on the cat ping list for crying out loud. That is fairly unimportant, but this issue on this thread isn't very important at this moment in time.
Sour grapes and childish behavior started with the posting of this article and I feel the same as before.
Is that right? Lets take a look at Santorum's "solid ratings".
"According to National Journals annual ratings, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorums votes on key issues often placed him in the conservative faction of the Senate. But he was not consistently found among the chambers most conservative members. For instance, in the years leading to his 2006 reelection contest, Santorums voting record became relatively much more liberal..."
Santo ranked 34th, 35th, 34th in his last years. Definite liberal pandering went on.
Ah. National Journal. The stalwart of Conservative thinking. Charlie Cook, Richard Cohen et al? I know they are my go to source, even over FR, for solid info on matters important to me.
VERY unlikely. During the 19th century it wasn't uncommon for a party to lose 50% of its reps in a single election.
Not to mention that the Whig Party entirely disappeared. Which would seem to be a pretty significant defeat.
Newt was the spoiler. He could have been a kingmaker.
No way could he have beaten Obama. I supported him in the beginning but now have lost all respect for him.
He "fundamentally, transformationally" ruined this campaign for the one Conservative in the race: Rick Santorum.
Big ideas? Big deal.
Love the way the Newties have to keep bringing up Santorum in an effort to change the subject. Kinda like the Dems do with Bush.
Santorum can hold his head high for running one heck of a campaign.
Newt, on the other hand, has proven to be an embarrassment...
I disagree heartily
Santorum sucked from the beginning but a few went with him and ruined Newts chances.
Sanntorum never had a prayer.
You mean like having his campaign staff quit in disgust with the lackadaisical nature of their candidate?
BTW, the "few" that went with Rick was 1 Million more than Newt could muster. Hard to believe since that Southern Strategy worked like a charm.
A million idiots who went with the boy wonder.
Right now they have the same thing Newt people have.
Nothing, while Romney rises to the top,
Aint that great,but you go on with your lame candidate while I stick with my lame candidate.
Ya know what this really amounted to was Momentum.
Newt had Momentum and was rolling, then Romney spent millions to place him in a bad light, Then the Momentum switched over to Santorum, everybody jumped on that bandwagon except a few of us who saw Santorum didn't have the juice to bring it home, but our boy Romney started spending millions to kill his candidacy. Now they are both gone and so we are left with a handfull of crap.
I really believe that either of them could have beaten Mit Romney, but both could not.
Romney played them and us for fools, and he had the money to do it. Now it is Romney who faces Obama's millions we will see how he makes out.
A couple of people who really don't have a clue.
Just an honest look at the records is all anyone needs to do.
How was Santorum supposed to know there would even be an Obama"care"?
Guess the criteria of being a Newt supporter is to be devoid of common sense.
"The Truth Regarding Santorums Endorsement of Arlen Specter
October 12, 2011
The reason I endorsed Arlen Specter is because we were going to have two Supreme Court nominees coming up, said Santorum. I got a commitment from Arlen Specter that no matter who George W. Bush would nominate, he would support that nominee.
excerpt http://blog.lisagraas.com/2011/10/12/the-truth-regarding-santorums-endorsement-of-arlen-specter/
Santorum said Alito would not be a Justice if it werent for Specter. Specter was very effective at being the head of the Judicial Committee. Toomey would not have been the Judicial Committee leader, plus Toomey might have lost the election at that time. Specter won the election by a good margin.
OK, now its YOUR TURN. Care to tell me why Newt endorsed Dede Scozzavave?
lol, Newt ALREADY endorsed Mitt. Newt couldn't wait.
National Journal? At least you have a sense of humor.
Now let's see what CONSERVATIVE groups thought of Rick Santorum:
American Conservative Union 88%
National Right to Life Committee 100%
Americans for Tax Reform 95%
National Tax Limitation Committee 92%
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 88%
League of Private Property Voters 94%
"in an effort to change the subject. .."
They act an awful lot like libDems, don't they?
"When even Ron Paul has beaten you 8 more times than you have beaten him, its a very sad thing. Continuing to lose to Paul should have been a wake up call for Newt to drop the heck out, but Newt will only follow where his ego leads him."
So much vile bile for a man who has done so much for conservatism. Such overkill. Why not think up a term like "Gingrichism" to get your jollies.
Speaker Newt Gingrich may be out of the primary but he isn't going to stop shaping the conversation.
Just as Governor Rick Perry, Newt will be in the Left's face shaping arguments in clear terms. Perry and Gingrich will never stop their fight against socialism nor back away from championing American exceptionalism and strength.
Why the perverse need to tear down a good man? What's your angle?
Possibly he/she is a sleeper troll?
That's what did it. Newt shows up on TV what a decade later holding no other office to say here I am. As governor or seantor he could have built back some credibility he lost. Newt carried a very huge trust issue. That is what cost him the nomination.
BTW where was Newt showing up the most? FOX News wasn't it before he declared? Who was Fox News behind? Romney all the way. I'm not sure Newt's sticking around was because of his ego or by design. In any case Conservatives have been had.
Their angle is divide, conquer and control agitprop.
All this is true. It really wasn't too hard to see. Like a trainwreck it was.
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Zack Kassian and Kyle Clifford: On powerforwards, odd connections and hot starts
Thomas Drance
January 28 2013 02:28PM
Two power forwards, both alike in dignity, near fair Venice Beach where we lay our scene.
As the Vancouver Canucks prepare to face the Los Angeles Kings on national television Monday evening, both teams have good reason to be pleased with the early season performances of their respective twenty-two year old powerforwards.
For the Canucks it's Zack Kassian, who despite a quiet outing on Sunday night against the San Jose Sharks has been something of a revelation in the early going for Vancouver. He's scored three goals through five games - several of them beauties - and has provided Vancouver's hockey club with a rugged forward presence the franchise has lacked for so long.
For the Los Angeles Kings, it's left-winger Kyle Clifford, a 6,2 208 pound enforcer who plays bigger than his size. A staple on Los Angeles' fourth line for several years now, Clifford is flashing his hitherto untapped skill level in the early going this season, and has racked up six points in Los Angeles' first four games while skating on Los Angeles' second-line alongside Mike Richards and Jeff Carter.
Their paths to get to the NHL level were divergent - Kyle Clifford was something of a surprise second round pick and a pure enforcer for the majority of his OHL career, while Zack Kassian was a highly touted first rounder who everyone has long agreed possessed first line upside and skill to burn - but they're linked together by their respective involvement in one of the most controversial trades in Canucks history. You see both players were targeted by Mike Gillis as an acceptable return for a popular one-way centreman named Cody Hodgson.
Read on past the jump for more.
In case you're in need of a refresher, here's the fascinating tidbit that was reported by Elliotte Friedman in a 30 Thoughts column from late April of 2012:
In the March 6 edition of this blog, I mentioned that Vancouver "targeted" a few players in a possible Cody Hodgson deal. Zack Kassian was one, obviously. I also noted Brandon Sutter, who the Carolina Hurricanes love, and made an educated guess at John Carlson (which appears to be true). Canucks GM Mike Gillis said Tuesday there were six players. According to a couple of sources, sounds like the fourth was Erik Gudbranson and the fifth Kyle Clifford. No. 6? Not sure.
When I first read that way back in April, I thought that targeting Kyle Clifford as a possible "fair return" for Cody Hodgson was a spot of insanity (and I'm still glad Vancouver ended up with Zack Kassian, frankly). But with Clifford looking not at all out of place in Dustin Penner's usual spot in L.A's top-six, perhaps Mike Gillis and the Canucks are just better at scouting professional hockey players than I am (as well they should be).
Now, obviously calling Kyle Clifford a legitimate top-six forward just because he's put up a whole whack of points in four games is a bit of a stretch, and indeed his peripheral metrics suggest that his recent run of offensive success is rather completely unsustainable. For example, Los Angeles is currently shooting well over 27% with Kyle Clifford on the ice and have yet to allow a goal against, so if you're paying attention you know that Clifford is sporting a stratospheric 127 PDO.
But unsustainable percentages aside, the Kings are doing well to drive play with Clifford on the ice and he's posting some very auspicious possession numbers (albeit in a very, very limited sample) in the top-six. For what it's worth, even Kyle Clifford doesn't expect to take home the bacon with his offensive talents alone and spoke at length with Helene Elliot this week about his desire to take on more defensive responsibility with the Kings.
For Zack Kassian, his hot-start has benefitted less from the bounces, though it's tougher to evaluate his possession numbers because he's being deployed almost exclusively in the offensive zone alongside the Sedin twins. I'd argue that Kassian possesses a much higher ceiling as an offensive player than Kyle Clifford does, though at this point you'd have to be ecstatic to have either young forward (and their cap-friendly entry-level deal) on your club.
Vancouver's evaluation of Kyle Clifford's potential was and is telling. Much in the same way that Zack Kassian's hot start has helped Canucks fans calm down about the Hodgson trade, Clifford's performance in an enlargened role with the Kings to begin this season somewhat vindicates the judgement of Vancouver's front office regarding his "ceiling" as an NHLer. Clearly he's got more pop than your run of the mill, five minutes of ice-time per game, fourth line thug.
Oh and we should mention another link between the two burgeoning young power-forwards: they don't seem to like each very much, having fought on three separate occassions during their OHL career according to HockeyFights.com. Think they might drop the gloves again on Monday night?
Zack Kassian wipes the floor with Clifford in this one:
I'd call this one a draw, I think. What a marathon bout this is:
How much do you want to bet (knowing what we know now) that number six was Bjugstad?
Still think it was weird of Gillis to bring up that there were 6 players targeted. Why be so specific? If anything you hurt your leverage if one of these players are made available in the future.
@Thomas Drance
True, but Gillis did mention there being 6 players correct? Don't think it would be that hard for a GM to learn what Friedman did and use that against GMMG. A little farfetched perhaps, but a smart manager could take advantage of that info and use it to gain the upper hand in trade talks.


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Jets Depth Chart in August: Forwards
Kevin McCartney
August 05 2013 07:07AM
We looked at the Depth Chart back in July, and hilariously, I published the article mere hours before news broke that Burmistrov had signed in the KHL. With Burmistrov penciled in, I thought the forward group showed more balance than last year. Without Burmi, I suggested Halischuk might be a target to fill the role.
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NHL Forwards
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EV Scoring per 60 in 2012/13
- Ladd (3.06)
- Wheeler (2.60)
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- Kane (1.97)
- Halischuk (1.68) (Nsh)
- Frolik (1.36) (Chi)
- Thorburn (0.95)
- Jokinen (0.93)
- Wright (0.78)
- Tangradi (0.59)
- Slater (0.54)
Those are the skaters we know about, and I think there are some surprises already. Setoguchi played limited minutes with an on-ice shooting % over 10, while Halischuk bled chances against, took a lot of penalties, but started in an uphill position and managed to score some points. That Thorburn out-scored Jokinen reminds us what a miserable season it was for Olli. Let's look one year earlier and see what we have.
EV Scoring per 60 in 2011/12
- Kane (2.42)
- Halischuk (2.27) (Nsh)
- Wheeler (2.05)
- Jokinen (1.80) (Cgy)
- Ladd (1.77)
- Little (1.53)
- Setoguchi (1.35) (Min)
- Slater (1.25)
- Frolik (1.17) (Chi)
- Thorburn (0.95)
- Gordon (0.94) (Ana)
- Tangradi (0.61) (Pit)
This gives us some context. Halischuk had a miserable season by every other bit of math we have, but the man seems to be around when the puck goes in. He had high luck in few minutes two years in a row. Setoguchi actually had better process-based results in 11/12, but his luck dropped and his scoring with it. He was added as a top 6 fix, and will given every chance to be that. His scoring has always been percentage based, and that's a concern. Speaking of percentages, Ladd's on-ice shooting % was sky high in 12/13 (11.4%) and I think we should be prepared for him to return to his 2011/12 level of scoring. Jokinen was better in Calgary but dragged Kane down last year. If I'm not mistaken, all of his most productive years have come with a strong RW. Horton in his good years in Florida, Iginla in his good(ish) years in Calgary. Is it possible the lefty centre struggles to use his backhand side? Can Setoguchi help him regain form?
The Lines
The reality is that this team won't ice its best lineup possible. Cheveldayoff has organized the contracts to be able to pay Halischuk and Gordon less in the AHL, while Wright and Peluso are on one-way deals. Further, Chevy's given the team 7 defencemen who are waiver eligible and on one-way contracts plus Trouba, so the team will likely hold only 13 forwards, at least one of whom can only play 4 minutes a night. With this context, can we craft some lines?
Power vs Power: Ladd - Little - Wheeler
What started as a de facto first line formed into a genuinely strong unit and are in pen on the chart in Claude Noel's office.
Elusive 2nd Line: Kane - Jokinen - Setoguchi
Noel has shown his love for veterans over youth, and the team has a strange loyalty for Jokinen. He gets the chance to lose the job (again). Setoguchi is better than Miettinen, but how good will be a question of puck luck and chemistry it seems.
The line that misses Burmistrov: Wright - Scheifele - Frolik
We begin to see the lack of balance. Halischuk is less than he appears - lacking entirely the possession skills of Burmistrov despite appearing to play a similar style. But he's not worse than Wright and in this scenario, Frolik has to move back to the RW where he started his career and struggled defensively and in transition. Scheifele won't score 40 points without help. On this roster, that help doesn't exist this far down. This line is an early coaching test for Noel.
The cliff: Tangradi - Slater - Thorburn
We've seen lines like this for both years in Winnipeg. Slater will get big PK minutes and d-zone faceoffs for Scheifele. Tangradi and Thorburn get limited minutes - Thorburn as a reluctant enforcer with Peluso in the wings, and Tangradi as a zone-entry wizard who is lost after the blueline.
Pressbox: Anthony Peluso
Despite not being the next best forward available, the team will likely keep Peluso around so that when there is an injury, we can really see how badly that player is missed. It's a sign of a bad team to protect non-assets as the expense of icing your best possible lineup, but Cheveldayoff signed Peluso for two years at NHL money after 25 minutes of NHL hockey, so it's tough to send him away on day 1. Peluso will play 4 minutes in any game in which he dresses. (But they're OUR sub-replacement level players!)
Training Camp Battles
This was always my favourite part of Madden games. So here it is, folks!
Photos courtesy (L to R): clydeorama and Terry Wilson, OHL images
This is the biggest and most obvious training camp battle. On a shallow team, the consequences for the players are severe. If Scheifele gets the push, Jokinen won't recover his scoring from the blackhole of that third line and his career is in jeopardy. If Jokinen wins the 2C job, we might worry about stunted development and a trip to AHL around Christmas.
Photos (L to R) by ztil301 and dinur
Shown here: Tangradi's stick is not being used for anything and James Wright appears to be doing a bag skate between the top of the circles and the red line during a game. These two will be battling for the 3LW job as far as I can tell. It's kind of a lose-lose situation when considered from the Jets' perspective, but Tangradi should win the job if results are the only measure.
Andrew Gordon is a dark horse for the 3RW job, and I think Halischuk gets sent away for contract reasons. These players are battling to gain chemistry with Scheifele, Jokinen, or Frolik, and trying to earn a call-up opportunity should there be a major injury. The question isn't whether they are better at hockey than Anthony Peluso, but whether the team cares about that sort of thing. If the team is running a meritocracy in the bottom 7, it's possible Peluso and Wright go to St John's (both would have to be paid their full 1-way contracts), and both the above players stick with the team. That choice would cost the team a million extra dollars, without exaggeration. What's the likelihood? Only training camp will tell. (PS: if this was Madden, I'd go back to Free Agency when this battle came up).
The real battle here is whether the GM can see the hole in the lineup before the season begins. The team went into last season with a hole at 2RW that they tried to fill with waiver wire addition Antti Miettinen. With the departure of Burmistrov, the team has a hole at 3RW that remains unaddressed. Cheveldayoff stated in his conference call last week that "It is when the puck drops that the evaluation truly begins" (see here). The fact is, it is much harder to make adjustments in-season, and points are left on the table. The bottom six on this team needs more proven NHL quality players, and players like Wright, Peluso, and Thorburn have long since been evaluated by multiple teams as being at or below replacement level. We wait.
August 06 2013, 01:00PM
Re: Jokinen in Calgary. He was "productive" with Iginla, but the pair of them gave up more than they ever generated at ES.
At this point in his career, Olli should be your 3rd line, 2nd PP pivot. If you want more than you lose that is.
August 07 2013, 10:45AM
You contradict yourself in this article a couple times.
Your lineup put Frolik at third line rw.
then you argue gordon and Halishuk are fighting for that spot.
then you say they're trying to gain chemistry with Frolik (they are trying to gain chemistry with the player they are replacing...?)
Then you say there's a gaping whole at third line RW.
Did Frolik retire during the time it took you to write this article or do you think Frolik is a "hole"- his career shows him to be a more then respectable third line rw.


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Skip to comments.Vanity: Rush Limbaugh sleeps while Herman Cain attacks free market and federalism
Posted on 10/23/2011 4:57:25 PM PDT by JOHN W K
In November of 2010 in Don't be VAT stupid Herman Cain writes:
``A national retail sales tax on top of all the confusing and unfair taxes we have today is insane! It gives the out-of-control bureaucrats and politicians in denial one more tool to lie, deceive, manipulate and destroy this country.``
The fact is, Herman is now proposing a new tax, a national retail sales tax, in addition to taxing corporate profits and incomes, and also would tax the wages working people earn. Herman Cain essentially admitted in the above mentioned article his existing plan is ``insane!`` So, why do so many "conservatives" support this Washington Establishment Hobson's Choice candidate whose mission is to give another taxing power to Congress with which to ``lie, deceive, manipulate and destroy this country``?
And why is it that our ``conservative`` talk show hosts give this former federal reserve bank chairman, a Washington Establishment insider, a pass on his ``opportunity zones`` which attack our free market system? Why do they not object to Mr. Cain proposing to give preferential treatment under law that would relieve residents living in his designated "opportunity zones" a duty to contribute an equal tax burden as those not within his designated zones? Is this proposed preference of commerce not in defiance of our founder's intentions when they added the following words to our Constitution? "No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear or pay Duties in another."
Why is it that our "conservative" talk show hosts are silent in connection with Herman Cain's proposed assumption of power to enter the various united States to enforce unequal law and meddle in each State's internal commerce when such activity defies the very words of our founder's intentions which are summarized as follows? "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State".
Has FoxNews, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Schnitt, Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, Bill O'rielly, Mike Gallagher, Lee Rodgers, Neal Boortz, Doc Thompson, Tammy Bruce, Monica Crowley, or any talk show questioned Herman Cain's proposed assumption of powers which is very similar to that of Obama's Solyndra type "green deals" which were hatched to plunder the American Taxpayer's federal treasury and loot it of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS?
And why is it than none of the above "conservative" media personalities are concerned that a power to "designate" geographical areas within each of the various united States to be an "opportunity zone" invites political partisanship of the most dangerous kind in that a democrat president, as exhibited by the Obama Administration, will use such power to reward friends and punish political enemies? I thought Rush Limbaugh was the fountain of all political knowledge and would see through this Washington Establishment's cooked up scheme to enlarge its blackmailing powers over the States [e.g., federal highway funds and the Establishment's No Child Left Behind Act] and further enslave the defenders of a free market system. And these complaints do not even take into account how Herman Cain's proposal feeds the class warfare game which our folks in Washington have learned to play to perfection with their good-cop bad-cop routine which is engaged in by the leadership of both political parties, and done so in concert!
And finally, where is Mark Levin who continually informs us of the virtues of federalism who seems to have closed his eyes to a wolf in sheep's clothing whose mission is admittedly designed to further erode the defined and limited powers of our federal government as summarized by our very own Supreme Court shortly after our Constitution's Tenth Amendment was adopted to preserve and protect the virtues of federalism?
"The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act.
Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void." ____ MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law, 1858.
Sorry but I'm going to have to laugh at you. LOL
Well, no I'm not really sorry. LOL
mark levin doesn't agree with you.
Which candidate are you trolling for here?
Are you honestly comparing Cain's plan to the beast we have today? Do you prefer the current code? What alternative(s) do you propose?
You're high up on your high horse, but there are too many mistakes and false assumptions and straw ideas in your post to even bother. So I won't.
Let me guess....Romney supporter.
Wow the first sentence with the underline for emphasis is completely wrong so I stopped reading right there.
How is a 9% flat tax complicated?
Mr. JOHN W K, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Cain must be onto something.
For the media and everyone to be losing their minds over this 9-9-9 plan, it must be good
Cain must be onto something.
For the media and everyone to be losing their minds over this 9-9-9 plan, it must be good
Ho hum. So, I wonder who you support?
How is a flat tax an attack?
Seems to me we have the "entitlement class" paying nothing at one end (the occupy crowd), and the GE and Berkshire Hathaway crony capitalism at the other.
Cain is the ONLY person who would make BOTH groups PAY their fair share.
That is a lie.
I like Cain.
That said his 999-909 plan and his "opportunity zones" are bad ideas. Really bad.
I think as President he would sign a flat tax if it came to his desk.
Who was that brain-dead, buck-toothed moron?
What a hypocrit!
I can't believe in less than a year he is out claiming his National sales Tax is a great idea.
Another lying opportunist.
It's gotta be Perry...
"Giving the administration and Congress another tool to tax us and confuse us is like giving an alcoholic a key to the liquor store with no supervision, only to discover that he locks the door after he is safely inside."
Herman Cain 2010 (His words regarding national sales tax)
Let us make a more simple argument
I like Herman Cain
I think Cain is the best candidate in the race for the nomination.
I do see that he is inexperienced with politics and he can talk too much when asked a simple question. The "journalists" will let him ramble, he'll say something sooner or later that can be twisted and taken out of context. That is what leftist journalists do to conservatives.
His 999/909 plan is stupid though and his "opportunity zones" is un-American as far as I am concerned, I will explain that.
First, let me restate, I like Herman Cain. I think I was the first one to use the slogan "Cain Vs Unable", for instance.
Let me explain why I don't like the tax plan he put forward.
Somebody call 999!
This plan requires the creation of a brand new tax, a national sales tax. This will give the federal government yet another revenue stream to tap into. As a conservative that alone bugs me to no end. Plus he says the plan is "revenue neutral", which is not a positive if you ask me, the government takes far too much money out of the economy as it is.
A simple flat tax would be preferable. Would President Cain sign a true flat tax should it pass Congress? I think so.
Opportunity Zone comes knocking
Why should the federal government give special regulatory breaks to "zones"? If it good enough to help depressed areas, then it is good to help the whole freaking country! If he proposed eliminating harmful regulations permanently for the entire country we could see the economy boom. Why propose a plan that would simply encourage your job to be moved to places like Detroit? Pretty much because that is where the African-Americans are, this is known as "pandering". If you want to pander for votes, pander to the whole country!
Who will decide where "zones" will be? A new bureaucracy.
Who decides the criteria? Who will process the applications from cities and states wanting to be declared or keep their status as "zones"? Will they have to fall on their knees before the federal emperor? A new bureaucracy.
Why is Herman Cain, a conservative, proposing a new federal bureaucracy that will literally enforce discriminatory regulatory policies??
If his idea is good enough for Detroit, then it is good enough for every single square inch of this country!
I still like Herman Cain, though.
Cain is a "Washington Establishment Hobson?s Choice candidate"
Who knew ???
So who's paying you Mittins or Perry ?
News Flash.... the constitution was killed in 1937
What part of 9% corporate tax(instead of 35% with a bunch of hidden taxes), 9% personal income tax(instead of our complex system of death tax, medicare, medicaid and personal income tax) and 9% national sales tax (since corporations dont have to spend 400 billion a year filling out tax forms prices will drop)and COMPLETELY THROWING OUT THE PRESENT TAX CODE do you not understand???
Does this mean RP is just not doing so well.................
Sooo, I hope you find your rocker soon.
Totally out of context and ill informed. He was talking about a national sales tax ON TOP OF THE EXISTING TAX CODE DUH DUH DUH!
He's been a FAIR TAX proponent for over a decade for crying out loud.
"I think as President he would sign a flat tax if it came to his desk."
I think a consumption tax is the only way to go... Sorry.
We already have a national sales tax on phone bills, tires, cig's, alcohol...and more. So what do you mean a brand new federal tax? There should be sales taxes and import taxes and NEVER a tax on income just as the founders had it.
You are correct in that Herman Cain's plan would add a new tax, and his plan definately has some serious problems that I would like to see corrected. That being said, his plan, or the flat tax proposed by Perry and Gingrich, would remove the Social Security and Medicare taxes which Congress likes to pretend are separate from the general revenues. It would also remove capital gains taxes and 10,000,000 words from the current tax code. The people who should fear his plan most are tax attorneys, accountants, lobbyists and tax preparers. All those people would need job training when their industries disappeared. And that's not a bad thing.
Those who reject abiding by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was agree to, [u]as those intentions and beliefs may be documented from historical records,[/u] wish to remove the anchor and rudder of our constitutional system so they may then be free to "interpret" the Constitution to mean whatever they wish it to mean.
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Those who reject abiding by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was agree to, [u]as those intentions and beliefs may be documented from historical records,[/u] wish to remove the anchor and rudder of our constitutional system so they may then be free to "interpret" the Constitution to mean whatever they wish it to mean.
Play with this. The string can be rolled up slowly.
I don't like the carve outs for Detroit or the folks under the poverty line either, but overall it's not a bad plan - and this attack hit piece is totally mumbo jumbo.
Well, two of those "nines" are flat taxes.
I'm still voting for Cain.
Betcha Rush will too. Nice try, RINOmney supporter.
Congress has always had the power to tax sales. Sales taxes and tariffs were the original plan. They could easily be made uniform. Property and Capitation taxes would be more difficult to enact because they had to be apportioned. Any item imported into a state could only be taxed by the federal government until the Constitution was torn up after the Civil War.
You need to get your facts straight.
Polybius, is that you?
(I thought you got banned.)
I was about ready to flame you until I read the article. Herman is not clear about the difference between a flat or a retail sales tax at the national level and the fair tax. The article is a legitimate point to the confusion around the sales tax options.
Juan Who Knows? How sacrilegious.
You're gonna sound just like Roseanne Roseannadanna after you catch up on the facts of Cain's tax plan.
The vanity poster thinks he knows more about the Constitution and federalism than Levin and Rush. What he is proving is that he knows less about the 999 plan than even David Gregory - which is to say, he doesn't understand sh-t about it....
That should read VAT not flat. My voice transcriber did not transcribe that correctly.
The fact is, Herman is now proposing a new tax, a national retail sales tax, in addition to taxing corporate profits and incomes, and also would tax the wages working people earn... So, why do so many "conservatives" support this Washington Establishment Hobson's Choice candidate whose mission is to give another taxing power to Congress... And why is it that our "conservative" talk show hosts give this former federal reserve bank chairman, a Washington Establishment insider, a pass on his "opportunity zones" which attack our free market system? ...a wolf in sheep's clothing whose mission is admittedly designed to further erode the defined and limited powers of our federal government...
You have no understanding of his plan. First step(though done at the same time) throw out the present tax code, replace with 9-9-9. Economy will then boom and even if it starts at the same level it is now the plan is revenue neutral. If Economy goes booming then it will bring in more! Allowing us after a few years, like 2 years, to go to the fair tax! Also do you think the present monstrosity or any of the plans that simply mess around the edges agree with our founding fathers?!?
A VAT is product oriented and is a process tax.
I support the 32 word plan which would return us to our Constitution's ORIGINAL TAX PLAN as our founders intended it to operate:
The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money
So, which of our Republican presidential hopefuls will take up the cause and defend our founding father's original tax plan, and work to put an end to the class warfare game which is proposed to continue under Herman's plan?
"…a national revenue must be obtained; but the system must be such a one, that, while it secures the object of revenue it shall not be oppressive to our constituents."___ Madison, during the creation of our Nation`s First Revenue Raising Act
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Hamilton Crossings TIF not dead yet, Lower Macungie commissioners say
LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. - Tax increment financing isn't dead yet as a mechanism to help fund the proposed Hamilton Crossings Shopping Center in Lower Macungie Township.
At the start of Thursday night's township meeting, Ron Eichenberg, president of the commissioners, announced a public hearing scheduled for that night to receive public comment on proposed plans "to create the Hamilton Crossings TIF project has been continued" until the Sept. 5 commissioners meeting.
No elaboration on the surprise announcement was offered during the rest of the four-hour-long meeting.
What made it surprising was that for months officials have said the TIF financing plan can not happen unless it is approved by all three local governing bodies.
East Penn School Board approved the Hamilton Crossings TIF by a 6-2 vote on May 13.
But on June 26, Lehigh County commissioners rejected it by a 6-3 vote. That appeared to kill the deal.
The developers repeatedly have said they cannot build the $140-million project -- which would include a Costco, Whole Foods and Target -- without a TIF to help pay for public road, storm water and utility improvements at the 63-acre site.
On June 27, the day after the county commissioners voted, the developers stated on their Hamilton Crossings website: "We suffered a major setback in our efforts to develop Hamilton Crossings with the vote against the TIF by the county commissioners.
"We will regroup and refocus, and try to work to identify a solution so we can move forward with this exciting project."
While Lower Macungie's commissioners support the TIF plan, they never had an opportunity to vote for it. And a vote by the township seemed pointless after the county's rejection.
Adding to the confusion of Eichenberg's announcement was that a Hamilton Crossings TIF hearing was not on Thursday night's meeting agenda.
At the end of Thursday's meeting, Eichenberg explained the developers -- Tim Harrison and Jeremy Fogel – initially were on the agenda for a TIF hearing. He said they asked to be taken off that agenda, but to be put on the agenda of a future meeting.
The developers also may plan to revisit the county commissioners, suggested Lower Macungie commissioner James Lanscek. "They may be looking to do a new deal with the county and they'll come to us last. They have options."
Asked what those options might be, Eichenberg said. "We don't know. No clue." Lanscek and fellow commissioner Ryan Conrad also said they don't know what the developers may be planning.
Conrad noted the developers did say they were going to regroup.
A public hearing on creating a Hamilton Crossings TIF district originally was scheduled for June 20 in Lower Macungie, but had to be postponed until after the county commissioners voted.
County commissioners were briefed about the project on April 24, had a first reading of a proposed TIF ordinance on May 8 and debated the issue but deferred voting on May 22 and again on June 12.
After Lower Macungie's public hearing is held, the township must wait at least three weeks to adopt a resolution or ordinance creating the Hamilton Crossings TIF district.
Hamilton Crossings is planned on both sides of Krocks Road, between Hamilton Boulevard and Route 222 in the township.
The developers initially hoped construction could begin by the end of this summer and that Hamilton Crossings would be completed by the autumn of 2014.
If the county commissioners had opted into the TIF plan, the county and school district would have given up 50 percent of increased property taxes generated by the shopping center for 20 years. Lower Macungie currently does not collect any property taxes.
The shopping center's owners would have paid all of its property taxes, but 50 percent of that tax money would have been transferred to the Lehigh County Industrial Development Authority to pay debt on bonds that are used to finance infrastructure improvements.
Officials at the industrial development authority have said the TIF plan could not be done without the county, because the full financial burden would fall on East Penn School District.
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Skip to comments.Fred Phelps, former head of Westboro Baptist Church, died, family member says
Posted on 03/20/2014 9:01:36 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Fred Phelps Sr., the former head of the Westboro Baptist Church, died late Wednesday night, according to a family member.
Phelps' son, Timothy told 13 News that his father died just before midnight. Timothy Pheps works at the Shawnee Co. Jail.
Ironically, another son who is a member of the church, attorney Jonathan Phelps told us Thursday morning, "Pastor Phelps is doing just fine." That, of course, could have been a spiritual reference.
Over the weekend, we learned that Phelps was reportedly "on the edge of death."
In a statement on his Facebook page, Nathan Phelps, who has been estranged from his father for 30 years, said the senior Phelps was dying in hospice care in Topeka, Kan., and that he had been ex-communicated from his own church in August of 2013.
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I'm pretty sure he got a BIG surprise.
Hope he brought warm weather clothing...
The entire "greatest generation" failed America. Not the stupidity of one man.
May he RIP.
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church plan a massive loud protest at his funeral.
Probably dead and buried in secret for a few days so nobody could protest at his funeral.
No comment.
I first ran into his crowd fifteen years ago while protesting Clinton at the VFW convention in Kansas City. I told the secret service I wouldn't stand on the same corner as them and they let us establish a new protest site across the street.
I take it NOT flip flops and shorts...
Seems like some in his own family rejected his antics.................
I hope that he received the Grace of repentance and conversion before he died.
The gays have lost their biggest asset.
Don't let the door hit ya....
If they excommunicated him then why would they refer to him as "Pastor Phelps"? Unless they mean Shirley, or whoever is running the show now.
If Westboro Baptist isn't doing his funeral then what church in their right mind is?
May he roast.
Another Democrat.....................
Bet you a dollar that Phelps in real life was an atheist.
Phelps-Roper politely said it was "none of your business" to a reporter's questions of whether members of Phelps' family had been present when he died and whether a funeral service would be conducted for her father.
Well, 'bless their hearts.'
Is he gonna picket his own funeral?
They need to install a pay urinal on his grave to start paying off just a little of the damage he did in life.
Good on you and the Secret Service!
What does your comment even mean????
You're right!
Best news in months. Burn in hell, you bastard.
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
My very first FReep, first of several encounters with the SS, with my loyal GS dog Max.
Biting my tongue... biting my tongue.
One less Democratic voter... oh, wait...
I'm smiling! You had a great first FReep!!!
[ Biting my tongue... biting my tongue. ]
I Fink i vit mah funge....
You're on. Wish there was a way to determine who won.
I agree with their foundational message, that God is judging our nation because of our descent into depravity. I can certainly understand their frustration that our nation bows to the sins of abortion, adultery and homosexuality, to the exclusion of obedience to God. The simple formula is that God blesses obedience and punishes disobedience.
It's the protesting at military funerals that has been wrongheaded and downright counterproductive. They should've confined their protests to homosexuals' funerals. With AIDS and all the cancers they contract because of their deathstyle, there shouldn't be any shortage of them.
I hope that some protestors show up with signs equally as offensive as those of "his flock."
I'll bet Midland Care Hospice is highly annoyed that their name came out in connection with Phelps. I hope they don't get any fallout because of it.
No comment.
Me too.
Anyone care to enlighten me as to the circumstances of his "excommunication"?
So they are a Godly group of folks who only stepped over the line when they picketed military funerals, is that it?
Where do we get to protest his funeral? Lots of loud bikers might help.
Short version that covers it.
I don't think anyone knows for sure. Supposedly he either got the boot for advocating a knder and gentler Westboro or he was kicked out for pounding his pud. Considering he was 84 and by all accounts completely senile I have my doubts on either version being the truth.
I've heard that he had begun to moderate slightly in his old age, which offended the more zealous, leading to "excommunication."
I've also heard that he was caught masturbating, apparently in church, which the church equates with Onanism and homosexuality, leading to "excommunication."
Given his age and health, I'd tend to lend credence to the first, with the second being a scurrilous tale spread by his own former zealots to further discredit the man.
But, I really don't know. I hope he realized the error of his ways, repented and received forgiveness of his sins before he died.
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The e-commerce software provider blames maintenance and a data storage network for the outage.
Paul Demery
Volusion Inc. reported problems in loading its clients' web sites today, blaming a delay in maintenance preparing for the holiday season and difficulty in rebooting a data storage area network. The outage comes two months after the company released a new version of its e-commerce platform, and after the company's CEO Clay Olivier said in July that Volusion was upgrading its data center to avoid further outages.
It could not be determined how many of the more than 40,000 online stores that the company says use its hosted e-commerce technology were effected. But more than 30 postings on the company's Facebook page today complained of site problems, including one by Laurie McConnell, CEO and founder of web design firm Bad Dog Design Inc., who wrote: "Ah, a systemic problem. Thought so—590 people ahead of me on chat." By chat McConnell meant the customer service online chat feature that Volusion provides its customers.
Several web sites Volusion.com features on its coporate site as clients today either failed to load or produced an error message informing users to contact customer service with a given reference number. The message did not provide phone or e-mail contact information or clarify if it was referring to the customer service staff of Volusion itself or the client.
On Volusion's technology status page at Status.Volusion.com, the company blamed the outages on two "unrelated issues." It said one stemmed from a "delay in completing last night's session readiness maintenance" and that the other was related to an "automatic reboot of a portion of the Storage Area Network." It added, "Currently the SAN has been stabilized and engineers have started returning functionality to impacted databases and web application servers. Once these last two steps have been completed, full functionality will be restored for all stores."
The company also issued a statement later in the day after Internet Retailer requested a comment. It noted that the problem with the SAN "caused a delay in completing one of our final steps in the overall season readiness maintenance that was scheduled on October 11."
It added: "Over the past eight weeks, Volusion engineers have been preparing the infrastructure for this year's holiday selling season. During this week's scheduled maintenance window, our routine maintenance involved balancing sites and databases across the infrastructure. Towards the end of the maintenance, there was a cluster of servers which engineers were unable to bring back online. After extensive troubleshooting, our engineers determined that there was an issue with part of the SAN. We worked with representatives from EMC to further troubleshoot the hardware issue.
"Once the issue was resolved, our team began the process of bringing servers back online. During that process, a portion of the SAN returned an error that initiated a reboot, which in turn impacted additional customers. Volusion engineers then stabilized the SAN and returned functionality to impacted databases and web application servers. At this time, full functionality is being restored to all stores."
EMC Corp. is a provider of data storage and management systems.


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X4500 + Solaris ZFS + iSCSI = Perfect Video Editing Storage
By user13366078 on Dec 06, 2007
Digital video editing is one of those applications that tend to be very data hungry. At SD PAL resolution, we're talking about 720 pixels x 576 lines x 3 bytes of color x 25 full frames per second = about 30 MB/s of data. That's about 224 GB for a 2 hour feature film. Not counting audio (that would only be around 3-4 GB). And we (in Germany) haven't looked at HD or Digital Cinema a lot yet...
During the last couple of weeks I worked with a customer who bought a Sun Fire X4500 server (you know, Thumper). The plan is to run Solaris ZFS on it, then provide big iSCSI volumes to the video editing systems, which tend to be specialized Windows or Mac OS X machines. Wonderful idea: Just use
zpool create to combine a number of disks with some RAID level into a pool, then
zfs create -V to create a ZVOL. Thanks to
zfs shareiscsi=on, sharing the volume over iSCSI is dead easy.
But it didn't work.
First, Windows wouldn't mount the iSCSI volume. After some trying, we discovered that there must be an upper limit of 2TB to the size of iSCSI volumes that Windows can mount (we initially tried something like 5 ot 10TB). So be it:
zfs create -V 2047G videopool/videovolume.
Now it mounted ok, we formatted the disk with NTFS (yuck!) and started the editing system's speed test. Then came the real issue: The test reported a write performance of 8-10 MB/s, but the editing system needs something like 30 MB/s sustained to be able to record reliably!
After some trying, we started the systematic approach:
- A simple
ddfrom one disk to another yielded >39 MB/s.
dd'ing from one small ZFS pool to another exceeded 120 MB/s (I later learned that
cpis a better benchmark because it works asynchronously with large chunks of data vs.
dd's synchronous block approach), so that was again more than we needed.
- We tried re-attaching our ZVOL through
iscsiadmto test the iSCSI stack's performance and ran into a TCP fusion issue. Ok, I've always wanted to play with
mdb, so we followed the workaround instructions and we were able to attach our own ZVOL over the loopback interface. Slightly less performance (due to up the stack, down the stack effects, I presume) but still way more than we needed. So, it wasn't the X4500's nor ZFS' fault.
Finally, Danilo pointed me into the right direction: Nagle's algorithm. What usually helps maximize network bandwidth turns out to be a killer for iSCSI performance. For Solaris iSCSI clients, we know this already, but how do we turn off Nagle on Windows?
The answer is deeply buried inside the Microsoft's iSCSI Initiator user guide: The "Addressing Slow Performance with iSCSI Clusters" chapter mentions a similar issue (although they talk about read not write performance) and they do mention RFC 1122's delayed ACK feature, which is related to Nagle's algorithm. The Microsoft document suggests a workaround which involves setting a variable in the registry, so it was worth a try (and my vengeance for having to use mdb before).
And low and behold, the speed test now yielded 90-100 MB/s (Close to a GBE's raw performance)! Yipee that was it! One little registry entry on the client side gave us a 10x improvement in iSCSI performance!
Now, can someone explain to me, why on Windows 2000 you need to set "TcpAckDelTicks=0" while on Windows 2003 the same thing is accomplished by saying "TcpAckFrequency=1" (which is the same thing, only seen from the other side of the division sign)?
So, to all you storage hungry video editors out there: The Sun Fire X4500 with Solaris ZFS and iSCSI is a great solution for reliable, fast, easy to use and inexpensive video storage. You just need to know how to tell your TCP/IP stack to not delay ACKs...


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International Student Visitor Arrives for Forest Service Internship
Wellington Cardoso, an undergraduate student from Brazil, arrived in Auburn, Ala., this past January to begin an internship with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station where he's been studying a biomass harvesting operation.
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