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Boston Bruins Goaltender Releases Statement Explaining Absence From Obama Meeting
While his colleagues from the Boston Bruins were visitng the White House earlier today, goaltender Tim Thomas was absent. Here is his personal explanation for why he did what he did. We can only hope more role-models follow in his footsteps.
Thomas statement on White House absence (via the NHL)
"I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People.
This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.
Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL.
This is the only public statement I will be making on this topic. TT"
And from USA Today:
h/t Not_Jim_Cramer
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Bravo bravo
Hopefully this will help to wake some sheep!
i feel for the guy and his family because the dude's about to get either assassinated or abducted and detained in 3..2..
First NDAA Guinea Pig?
Baby steps Plad. One principled soul at a time.
Well done TT. I hope that it is not your last public statement on these matters though. We need folk in highly visible positions to spread the news. Kudos.
So while the world collapses around him, this asshole can take time to give a speech about some fucking shitfuck team that shouldn't even have made it past round 1, he cant take 5 minutes and open the fort knox doors for us?
Ponzi Continuum 101.
TIMMY TAWMAS!!!!
the guy is OBVIOUSLY a racist
Obama?
As a Canucks fan, I hate Tim Thomas (not as much as Brad Ratface Marchand).
Now I love Tim Thomas more than Roberto Luango
As a Canuck hater, I still hate the Canucks. Roberto Luongo is an overpaid, overpriced, over praised meat head. He stands there and has others take pot shots at him, making millions doing so. Something clearly wrong with this world.
You don't like Bobby Lou? LOL...
Go Timmy! Tell it like it is brother...
I just watched the clip. What a fucking asshole Obama is. Can't even deliver a speech. If this is the calibre of individual the New World Order puts as "king of the world" then it's not going to be hard to defeat them.
Fuck you Obama!
Tell it like it is brothers!
+ 1 to almost all of you upthread.
Bravo Tim! Good luck getting through TSA from now on, though. Keep Rand Paul's cell number handy.
But in case anyone was unaware, there is a liberty movement occurring right now that absolutely supercedes party.
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men. It is the music of a people that will not be slaves again!
May God bless you! (Because you are going to need it to keep Big Bro off your back)
Now Let's Go Rangers!!
My god, its full of stars!
Just pushing the limits of I N D E N T A T I O N.
that obama jersey=barf!
That Bruin is a freakin Patriot!
Wish he had added one more line to his statement,
"I support and will be voting for Dr. Ron Paul, a true champion of liberty and the Constitution".
Then it would have been perfect.
Nice! This is how to win the infowar!
I think they're still readying Rand Paul's cell for him, and I'm pretty sure that those Guantanamo cell numbers are classified information.
White Man can't jump.
Black Man can't play Hockey. ........
Who really cares. It's about the message. Both parties are destroying our Freedoms.
Rocker, didn't you get the memo? Race is an artificial construct and there are no differences between the races. Oops, did I just contradict myself?
It is an artificial construct in terms of the science behind such things.
There are more white people in the US with african heritage in their DNA than there are blacks in the US.
In terms of DNA differences, the progession from one ethnic geological origin to its neighbor shows a gradual transition from one to the next, largely. For exampe many Meditteranean ethnicities carry the cycle cell anemia DNA as their neighbors in Africa do.
Some groups that migrated out of Africa in prior intergalacial periods evolved differently than other groups that they were later isolated from when that intergalacial period ended, and then they all mixed again when the modern human population spread out from Africa with the last intergalacial period. Whites appear to be white in part because we still retain a small amount of Neanderthal DNA.
But the fact of the matter is that other methods of differentiating people tells more about them than what their race is. Morphological groupings tell us far more about the shared health concerns and general behavior of a person than what the color of their skin tells us. A fat black man has more in common biologically with a fat white man than either have a with a tall skinny man of either race.
Our pseudo-science regarding race is an historical anachronism that is more about ethnic groups than about race.
Like it or not, your roots are out of Africa, and the vast majority of DNA in your body is shared with the rest of humanity with race being a largely insignificant indicator of anything important at all. We are all the same race, scientifically, except maybe for Aspergers people likeme who might be the next step in evolution upward from our jungle forebears. (just kidding about the Aspergers thingy)
Archie Bunker has entered the building! ;-)
Or is that meathead?
1004- I have many fuckers taking pot-shots at me as well, but for a lot less than millions. What's the problem? ALL whores name their price, even oil-field whores/merchant mariners.
Fan, yes
As a Habs fan - well you know. Kudos to him for taking a stand. And he has a lot to lose like endorsements etc. (which he will). Should be NHL player of the year.
We got the cup! :D
Sheldon Adelson wants to rename las vegas......."Las Zion"........newt will do it too.........
He is god awful without a telepromter.
Good for this guy! Hopefully they don't do to this guy what they did to john kerry, 2 black eyes and a broken nose...and they say he has been playing a lot of hockey....Yea right, he got his ass kicked by somebody.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/23/john-kerry-breaks-nose-playing-hockey/
...by Teresa Heinz Kerry, obviously...that bitch is nasty...
Exactly, there is no way anyone can play hockey with a bullet lodged in their right buttock and a purple heart medal up their ass.
All he said was, "Honey, it's Sunday night, and...." That's as far as he got.
His wife caught in the closet with Barry O and kicked the shit out of him!
Barry does like those MANly-type women!
They make wireless hand held teleprompters now?
America's Gulag Archipelago: (about 1% of the population in jail, 3.5 % under correctional supervision)
The accelerating rate of incarceration over the past few decades is just as startling as the number of people jailed: in 1980, there were about two hundred and twenty people incarcerated for every hundred thousand Americans; by 2010, the number had more than tripled, to seven hundred and thirty-one. No other country even approaches that.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik#ixzz1kL3fK9st
the war on drugs: if one can get them in maximum security prisons, what's the point? r.p. '12.
(it's one more way to keep the 99% afraid and in line)
The Prison Industrial Complex says "Hi!"
Well if drugs were legal, the CIA would go bankrupt!
pods
I've long held the view we have too many laws.
I propose for every new law put forward, ten must be found to repeal before it passes from commitie for a vote. I'm of the opinion you and I couldn't walk or drive two blocks without breaking a local, state or federal law.
No loitering, spitting, disturbing of the peace, stay in your lane/crosswalk, signal before turning (but not too late or too soon), go faster or slower or else you're just a "revenue stream" ;-)
When enough laws get passed, we'll all be guilty until proven innocent
when enough laws get passed we'll all be guilty.
there i fixed it for you
Amen nmewn, My municipality's ordinance book is 3 inches thick. You can add volumes and volumes more for county and state gov't. Laws get passed in a knee jerk reaction and forgotten until it becomes advantageous for gov't revenue drives. In Illinois, our state legislature enacted a law several years ago that requires automobile headlights to be turned on whenever it rains. My state is fucking bankrupt and this is what our state legislature does with their time in session. I told my useless state representative that she should go over to the local welfare office and spend the week there as she might learn something valuable. She said their problems stem from a lack of funding and staff. I will probably go down with the ship because our taxes and liabilities are making our homes unsaleable. A-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h
Right on brother nmewn!
Good to know it is Mr. DoChenRollingBearing who gave you a thumbs up.
It's worse than too many laws.
The latest modus operandi is to write laws that are thousands of pages of bullshit sprinkled with ringers that only the authors and their masters know about. Moreover, anything of importance is deferred to the process of bureaucratic regulation, which of course is controlled in backrooms by the same puppet masters and is expotential in breadth.
Techniques reminiscent of the worst kind of totalitarian banana republicanism imaginable.
You hit the nail on the head, Banz. The lawyers who create the laws write them so there is a certain ambiguity that can only be interpreted by Judges who were once lawyers who wrote the laws with a certain ambiguity that can only be interpreted by judges who were once lawyers who create the laws with a certain ambiguity that can only be interpreted by judges who were once lawyers who create the laws with a certain ambiguity that can only be interpreted by judges who were once lawyers who create the laws...
I'm going to sue you for saying that...
This is precisely the way it's supposed to go ... we are on Rothschild's script, they are doing it:
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Looking rather familiar now? ... or just a confluence of happenstance?
You're not the first to take note of this:
[quote]
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with. -- Dr. Floyd Ferris, "Atlas Shrugged"
[/quote]
"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
-Karl Kraus
Uh, the Bruins [looks down] they are [looks down] a good team. [Looks down] They played [looks down] well last year [looks down] and had long playoff beards to show for it! [Looks down] Bla bla bla, uh [looks down], bla bla bla. [Looks down].....
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Yep, what a disaster a public servant cannot talk fluently about a sports team.
US citizens are endless screamers, who resent their elite for no longer being able to warrant their US citizen born rights aka entitlements of all sorts.
As usual, the trap:
if that your typical US citizen president was able to speak fluently of a sportsteam, it would betray that he spends way too much time on trivial matter when the undivided nation of the US is going through harsh times
when that your typical US citizen president is unable to deliver a speech on that sportsteam, well, that is, we've got the answer.
US citizens are such screamers.
This is a guy who made his college basketball selections on national television, and who has spent more time on the golf course than any other single activity. Your comment is eurotrashtalking.
And we wonder why his transcripts and college writings are not released? Empty suit, smiling face, with a television preacher's elocution who can mouth only the words provided for him by a teleprompter. I'd bet money that his IQ is even lower than George W. Retard's.
Good job Tim Thomas. That piece of shit Obama just wanted to use him for the photo opp.
Where are your bad sentiments for those who actually showed up? It's not all about Obama.
Read his statement again. Make it about the POTUS if you will, but methinks you missed the point.
His statement and Obobwa's intentions needn't have anything to do with each other.
And yes, it is a shame that the other players did not boycott it as well. Now THAT would have been a news story!
Judging by the plethora of junks I got (which I take pride in), folks don't like someone pointing out the obvious.
Tim Thomas born April15,1974 Flint Michigan
Michael Moore born April 23,1954 Flint Michigan
you would know...
"Oviously a racist."
And also my new personal hero.
Sorry trav, they took away that math test and now < 100 IQ holders who don't understand sarcasm (unless you write /sarcasm off" are commenting.
Who Obama? Absolutely a racist and so is his wife.
hey, not so fast, I am from Vancouver and made a bundle that the 40 year old virgins would'nt score, yeah bruins
Can't figure out why you are getting junked. I can't see any sleight aimed at me, unless I'm a dunce! Perhaps you chose an inappropriate place to slot in or answered the wrong post; or you have insulted a lot of Bruins fans.
Tim Thomas Top 10 All-Time Saves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8XfuoWLCpI
The kid from Flint does his nation proud! Not that there is anything wrong with that. Fuck you, Michael Moore. Pay your fair share of taxes! Now!!
6 peeps may check out hockey.maybe.
The dude is likely too drunk to find the WH anyway.
Wow, good man!
http://davidmorganblog.blogspot.com/
Unfortunately for Timmy boy captain zionist Gary Bettman will make him retract that shit by the morning. They have this shit on lock. Every facet of our lives has been predetermined to suit a small minority that wear funny little hats. Welcome to the new American Dream.
Zionist Bettman?
Is the NHL going to take over the Detroit Pistons? The Globetrotters? The Houston Astros?
It must suck to be you SGS, and see a cursed minority of less than .00001% of the worlds population beating you down at every turn.
The Yids are laughing at you.
Now shut up and get back to work (for your Yid masters)
at least you're consistent dave.
you still suck
especially at math: jews are about 0.2% of the world's population (although growth is about zero).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population
What happens to the guy depends on how Faux News plays it. If he getes a lot of air time we will soon know about every support payment he's missed, credit card he was late in playing, etc. Hope he has no real dirt or skeletons in his life. If no one gives him any air time he will be ignored. The smartest thing he did was say both sides are bad, that way he less likely to get battered around like a puck.
The international media is already positioning the story as being the hockey player is simply boycotting Obama because he is a Republican and "and fan of a conservative talk show host who is an Obama critic" Even though his statement was about both parties abusing the Constitution.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/republican-ice-hockey-star-snubs-white-house-visit-20120124-1qeqk.html#ixzz1kKx3HGCCYou are a moron if you think anything on TV or the news is different. You must be a dumb sheep who watches TV which helps keep the elites in power. Moron. Stupid avatar too.
TV gets a bad rap; it's simply the new campfire that does the talking for you so you don't have to listen to the idiots that surround you. Humans have been staring blankly at illumination for centuries upon centuries. I don't think we're smarter or more stupid than we used to be (or more easily swayed). TV is just the new distraction for an animal that enjoys looking at lights...
Your avatar looks swell.
Captain to Captain, I respectfully disagree. Although we no longer have to listen to the idiot sitting next to us, we instead get to listen to the biggest handful of idiots on the whole planet. And the last time I checked, campfire light is not imbedded with subliminal programming.
Freddie's so dumb, he sits on the TV and watches the couch.
Max Fischer, Magnus frater spectat te
Midnight Express
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DctWBdv2HfE
The smartest thing he did was say both sides are bad, that way he less likely to get battered around like a puck.
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Border line criminal comment.
If you understand the US, you understand the gang.
It is not safest to indict US citizens, no matter their sub membership, it is the most dangerous move possible.
US citizens are rippled with conflicts and there is one successful consensus rising up method: beating up a guy who bad mouth all of them.
If you are not in the gang, you are out of the protection reach of the gang, you are a target for the gang.
Of course, this guy did not target all US citizens, only thesubregistered libs and cons but still, he now faces two gangs instead of one, while indeed he will gain support from the other US citizens, those who are left away because Earth has not enough resources to sustain that number of US citizens in their entitlements.
At minimum he'll be forced by spineless, terrified team owners to publicly apologize to His Royal Presidential Highness. Right now the Leftwing attack machine is doing some furious digging into his background.
This will certainly be interesting to watch unfold. By that man's brief statement, he is an awake one. Knows the game. I don't think he will rescind that remark.
He's probably going to suffer an "accident" while "driving drunk at high speed his Ferrari".
Why are you getting junked for that?
Perhaps, no one wants that to happen.
Agreed. He knew what he would unleash and is prepared for it. It's a shame the rest of the neutered country isn't beside him.
He's going to need to seek political asylum somewhere, now.
I already know enough to be sure I'd prefer him to 99% of our elected "public servants."
Hockey fans are pretty dense.
You try and master all those Russian and Swedish names dumb-ass. You metro-sexual, appletini-sipping, DA-douche.
appletini=iPiss?
-tini [TEE-nee]
adjectival suffix applied to any double or triple priced sweet cocktail served in martini glass
(Not to be confused with "martini"--a traditional gin cocktail.)
Have attended numerous AHL games and you usually get a cheat sheet that gives you a weird phonetic spelling of all names - so you can cheer or jeer someone who is playing.
Stanislav "Stan" Neckár?
It's pronounced "NETS-cash."
pods
LOL How many hockey fans have a clue as to what this guy is talking about?
This one's clearly an idiot:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/23/john-kerry-breaks-nose-playing-hoc...
For sure. Most hockey fans will believe that story too.
Yeah, just like the ones who believe Barak got that fat lip playing basketball.
These hockey fans are in their thirties and the one who got knocked out is an off duty cop:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/06/wife-beaten-rangers-fan-bystanders-shouldve-called-11/
As opposed to all those basketball fans waiting patiently to get thier air jordans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ4E13cyL3A&feature=related
I agree, basketball fans are denser then hockey fans.
you ain't seen wrestling fans.
The education's got to start somewhere - why not with average sports fans?
Judging by the comments on the USA TODAY article, not many.
"He's still our prez show some respect" is the one with most "likes"
Blech.
Although I realize this is a sampling of USA Today's hockey fan population.
loyal democrats and republicans are even more dense...borderline retarded
The sheeple believe there is a difference between the parties.
The idiots forget how Reagan raised taxes multiple times or how Bush Sr. did as well. They forget how Democrats promised to change Wall-Street and help home-owners. They forget how Republicans promised they would end abortion or how Democrats promised they would end poverty and homes for everyone. They forget how Bush led us into stupid wasteful wars and how Clinton signed into law the removal of Glass-Stegal. Etc, etc etc....
The parties don't represent we the people..they represent special interests and if you aren't one of those special interests you are a slave. Funny how slaves cheer on their masters.
Nice summary.
Well said, Stack.
+1.
Great comment. Reminds me of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWlnwl77hRs
Really? I'd put the average Canadian hockey fan up against the average NFL/Nascar/NBA fan in any intellectual contest you'd care to name (such as finding the USA on a map, adding two two-digit numbers together without a calculator, or writing a coherent sentence without a spell-checker) and be sure he'd win 90+% of the time.
Baseball fans are another matter, of course. I respect them.
Invented in America NFL NASCAR NBA plus baseball are all legit sports producing bundles of revenue worldwide.
What sports have you woodchucks in Canada ever dreamed up- Ice fishing? Synchronized logging? Canada sucks.
Well, hockey, obviously and basketball ...
Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. http://www.kansasheritage.org/people/naismith.html
As for football, it developed in various forms as a variation obviously of the English game of Rugby, but ...
The first documented gridiron football match was a game played on November 9, 1861, at University College, University of Toronto (approximately 400 yards west of Queen's Park). One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was (Sir) William Mulock, later Chancellor of the school. A football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_football
As for NASCAR ... you can keep it, Gomer.
Yeah. But we invented Calivnball.
and Fizbin ... no, wait a sec, Shatner's Canadian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v77SF4TFUoM
oops
@ TrentUSA, You forgot to mention Ice Road Truckers?
8,ooo horsepower out of 500 cubic inches/NHRA top fuel....pack that in your ice fishing ass
Never been ice-fishing, genius ... not once ... unlike lots of Americans, BTW.
8,000 HP? Ohhhh! So the fuck what? Alkane Junkies gonna cry when the pump run dry.
US Army's gonna burn the second last barrel fighting over the last one ... Jackass!
now THATS funny.
ok, you can stop right there at canadian. hockey, flyfishing or even beerdrinking. canadians have to earn their existance, whereas here in merica', all one has to do to survive is shit themselves, and the check$ $tart rolling in. firstly, nothing is free in canada. NOTHING. canadians just dont identify with the concept of free.
a few years ago i found myself reading the disclosure agrement for some contest microsoft was having. i printed it out so we could all have a laugh at the fact that canadians would be required to answer a mathmatical question without mechanical aid, before they could qualify for the prize. rather biased i would think! i didnt think about it until just now. research indicates it was not restricted to microsoft.
http://www.wheeloffortune.com/minisites/wendys/rules/
5) If you are a Canadian resident, you must correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question as a pre-condition to being qualified as a potential prize winner. This is required by Canadian law.
The potential winner (and his or her parent or legal guardian, if winner is a minor) of a prize must complete, sign and return an original unmodified affidavit of eligibility (or declaration of compliance, if the potential winner is a resident of Canada), a liability release, and where lawful, a publicity release, in a form designated by Sponsor within ten (10) days of receipt of those documents in order to claim his or her prize.
If a Canadian entrant receives a potentially winning game piece (or is selected in the second chance drawing as discussed below) he/she must answer correctly within a specified time a four-function mathematical skill-testing question without the benefit of any mechanical calculating devices. The test will be administered by the Sponsor or Administrator at a pre-arranged mutually-convenient time, and only if the question is answered correctly in the allotted time period will the Canadian entrant become a potential prize winner. If the question is not correctly answered in the allotted time period, prize will be forfeited and will be awarded to an alternate winner.
im guessing you could stack any ol' canuk against the best we have to offer, and while you may not win, you will STILL be more than willing to TRY!!
im guessing you dont even have buy-one-get-one-free deals there. this rabbit hole could go quite deep.
Skill-testing question's not that hard really:
17 beers plus 7 beers = ?
A Two-four!
We've got ourselves a winner!
Actually, the hard part for Canadians on US quiz shows is getting the loot past the IRS. Not possible, actually ... I hear they won't even let you out of the building until they get their cut.
Isn't Alex Tribek Canadian???
Whereas those who curl out facile generalizations like verbal turds are obviously brilliant.
Nice!
Yup all that head board banging and gay shit in the minors leaves most of those clowns clueless.
Hockey fans/players are dominated by Northern European ancestory- you know, the cultures of education and hardwork.
"Northern European ancestory"
Yeah, pity about the invention of the modern game by the Quebecois. Oh yeah, and names like Lemieux, Crosby, Gretsky, Iginla, Roy, Ovechkin and Malkin sound like Northern European names eh?
Do us all a favour and educate yourself before you talk about hockey
Yeeeeppp, and now you're gonna tell me the Chinese are the best basketball players and you're going to point out Yao Ming?
Quebecois: indicates a french speaking Quebecer... France is pretty European no? So I think the European heritage is still in there.
A lot of Swedes, Fins and eastern Europeans today. The frenchies are most Canadians not from France. A big move over the last 20 years has been the russians and Czechs, very skilled players. The europeans grow up with soccer which is the same concept as hockey, just not played on ice.And you don't get to throw a beat down on the guy defending you. Both have 2 forwards, center and 2 defenders along with a goalie.
You are a goob! Hockey is the last team sport where no one celebrates the 'me' moment like they do in basketball, soccer and football. Hockey players don't boast, they're humble in public and they don't whine (unless they're from Vancouver and are the Sedin Sisters). It's the last true man's game.
So which one of yous is Tim Thomas?
So, which one of you is Barack Obama?
That would be yours truly.
ROADLUST
MDB
Gotta be...or Romer. No one is that pollyannish.
Yes, and to think his kind have now rejected the brilliant anti-guvment, successionist crusader Rick Perry!
Of course our forefathers spent years creating a government because they thought government sucks!
Being stupid has it's own logic.
Successionist?
don't mind the village idiots
Seriously...
';-)
~//~
The Police-Canary in a Coalmine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQEIYjS1ePY (2:24)
The Police "Canary in a coal mine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG7lDY-s24g (2:27)
~//~
David Bowie - Changes (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE (3:33)
David Bowie Changes with lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgzX7vwlFk (3:35)
@ nmewn, sun & knukles
+ 1 to you guys, bitchez!
Stupid has both its own logic and spelling.
ANOTHER ASSHOLE independent / libertarian voter
who keeps his head up his ass
and listens to coast to coast AM
with all the right wing conspiracy wackos
for his (faux) news...
sad just how stupid people get with stupid news