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Given your educational background and insight, I'd be interested in your opinion on the prison-industrial complex. I think it's every bit as insidious as the military-industrial complex, even worse in fact. I LOVE eating bacon with my neighbors!

How are you going to go about dissolving your political bands with a federal government you seemingly detest and have little respect for?

LOL! I'm hoping it could be more like a 'All in the Family' evolving into 'The Jeffersons.'

I loved those patches.

All but destroyed? I'm saddened that you feel that way. Cultures and societies evolve or they die. IMO, that was the true genius of the founders, that they actually accounted for this phenomenon. Like Jefferson said, laws and governments are like a coat that needs to be let out or taken in, depending. For as long as I can remember, people have been forecasting with great gloom and doom, the demise of our "culture", whatever that is. America's strength is its diversity of cultures and the great melding that has occurred among them. Like forged steel. Seems there's always a nostalgic longing for the "good old days." Well, they never really existed. It's a psychological phenomenon that has us longing for times when things were less complicated in our youth and we weren't faced with the challenges of the hard decisions all generations have had to make.

This is your exact quote. You'll have to excuse me if I thought you were implying that the Federal government was responsible for calling in the Ohio State National Guard at Kent State. Most reasonable people could conclude that's what you were saying. I'm quite familiar with military hierarchy and it's relevance to the National Guard. But thanks anyway.

The involvement of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State had nothing to do with the Federal government. It was a call made by the governor at the behest of the mayor who had declared a state of emergency. Kent State is an interesting psychological study.

Unfortunately, your right to bear arms has no influence at all over what you describe above. The concentration of power doesn't so much reside in the two parties as it does in the political interests that control them and thus, our military. Your right to buy arms to protect yourself against the tyranny of the government goes only as far as your ability to arm yourself with cruise missiles, tanks, tactical nukes, etc, etc, etc. The 2nd amendment is archaic.

It's not a question of what Ott can teach them from a talent perspective. But he can teach and preach volumes on "hockey character" and what it means to be a pro on and off the ice. This facet of veteran leadership on a young team cannot be overstated. GO BILLS!!!

I'll leave the stats out of it and let others make the case for what they mean. Hawerchuck is one of the best ever and I'll leave it at that. But no player in the history of the Sabres has ever given me that pit of the stomach excitement when winding up in his own end, like Perreault. And I mean EVERY time. I can't remember a player that was a threat to go end to end EVERY TIME. And that's no exaggeration; not one ounce of hyperbole. He was OJ on skates. GO SABRES!!!

"Thank-you Sabres!" era. Ottawa series, '06. Drury's clutch goal vs. Rangers. GO SABRES!!!

It would have been more costly to lose picks this year in what is arguably the deepest draft in 20 years. We KNOW which players at what positions are there THIS year. The 2015 draft is still just a hazy ball of nothing at this point. GO BILLS!!!

I detect a strong disregard for Watkin's credentials coming out of college. I can't think of one other WR prospect in recent years that matches those credentials coming out. He's a generational talent at the position. The reaction to this trade reminds me a lot of the reaction to the Bennett trade. Of course 27 years after the fact and with the knowledge of how it all turned out will cause people to deny they were against it at the time, but half the city wanted to run Polian out of town for mortgaging the future of a team coming off a 4-12 season and half-way through a strike-shortened season when he made the deal. Fortune favors the bold. I am not the least bit worried about giving up a TOTALLY unknown value at this point in time for the best offensive talent in the draft. Just like I loved getting the best defensive talent in the draft in '87. GO BILLS!!!

It's a mistake to judge history through the prism of modern day societal norms. On the face of things, they were hypocritical. They also constructed a system that has withstood the test of time because, as Jefferson said, ..."it's like a jacket that needs to be let out and taken in at times, depending..." Less and less voices are being heard because of campaign finance issues and a fat cat shouldn't have the right to vote for his reps where he lives, and then buy others where he doesn't.

Can't agree more. When billionaires living in one place, represented by the congressmen and senators of their districts and states, respectively, can contribute to and influence the outcomes of campaigns run by candidates thousands of miles away in places they'll never visit, let alone live in, something is wrong. The Founders must be spinning on spits.

Simply not true. Racism is a learned behavior. Not everyone gets those lessons. Human nature is a lot of things. GO BILLS!!!

Robert Moses should be hung in effigy, even though he's been deceased for a long time, because of the travesty known at the 190. Billions of dollars in prime waterfront property wasted. Wasn't the original plan for the Humboldt Parkway stretch of the Kensington to be underground? They should have done that. Screw it, let's bury it now!

Agree totally. The Skyway gives eyesores a bad name.

Nice to see the term "consistent" used in reference to Grigorenko. Another full year in the A will do him good. Of course, he should have been there all along. GO SABRES!!!

As a world traveler at the time, I was very interested in foreign viewpoints on US policy. Indeed, my job was keenly influenced by these views at times. When you get a chance and if you are so inclined, I'd be interested in your ideas on what the US could/should have done in the former Yugoslavia and the surrounding region.

Just to be clear, I don't know enough about any of these prospects to know one way or the other, so I don't have a preference. I just thought TM's previous comments about LD were telling. It's my understanding that Draisaitl is a puck possession type of centerman with good vision, which seems like just what this team is lacking more than anything. In Murray I trust. Don't have any other choice. GO SABRES!!!

2 down, 6 to go. GO SABRES!!!

Good point. I think he really likes Draisaitl for some reason. Big, strong C, hard to knock off the puck with superior vision and playmaking skills. And at our most critical position of need to boot. GO BILLS!!!

You may breath a little easier as he only has to get them to the WC finals (and play 50% of the first two rounds). So it's 1 down, 7 to go. GO SABRES!!!

You sucked me in once regarding this topic and, while I'm glad I could amuse you last time, I'm not gonna be the organ grinder's monkey on this one. That's cool. I'm out.