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Bingo .... Double bingo

.... except qwk.

You have in America! Have you visited Washington, DC, lately? Do you have a cell phone? Have you tried to bring a purse into a hockey game?

East ... I don't like you, I love you .... ... but you said something I hear often and couldn't disagree with more. "It's changing the way WE interact with THEM ... so that ... etc." There is accountability, tonight, for the deaths of hundreds of Parisian men, woman and children. The accountable parties aren't the dead. I will never understand the self blaming philosophy that gives a pass to murders. Further, the moral equivalency between any arrogant American wrong, today or one hundred fifty years ago, and the beheading of Christians for your viewing pleasure, simply doesn't exist in any world I'm familiar with. Lastly - This is a night we will all remember forever. I had my television and my iPad. I chose to spend it with all of you because of the respect I have for your views.

For my edification, and with all due respect. Are those opposed to military action willing to endure the occasional 9/11s, Charlie Hebdos, Paris Concert attacks, etc., until hearts and minds change? This isn't a web blog based trap question. I ask not having made a call for, nor having ruled out, the military. Several of you got ahead of me.

"The war on terror we fight today is a generational struggle that will continue long after you and I have turned our duties over to others." We'll all be asked to vote. Our adversary will not be accommodated toward any peace where we retain our freedoms. I hope our current generation values freedom, and pays its costs, to the same extent our prior generations have.

I picture you sitting behind an easel, sizing up the Seine...

I'll butcher this one ... Amid reports of linkage to Syria / ISIS, the French Council of the Muslim Faith condemns the "odious attacks". Grateful for, and respectful of, that ... in all sincerity ... I am sensitive to the challenges of leading people with extremist wings.

... when you blame an Internet video. icrackmeup

I'm grateful for the reporting. I have no quarrel with it or the language you're using. I'm telling you I'm looking well beyond tonight and concert halls. No war of words occurred to me.

... the "situation" that's meaningful to me, this night, isn't the "situation" in a Parisian concert hall ...

The "situation", as that word is most meaningfully used, is far from over ....

I'm an American who's never lived overseas. I grew up with a certain view of France and the French. Uninformed, but impressions. We all have them. Two years ago I spent 11 days in Paris with my daughter. I came away with quite a more informed view. I could write for days about the beauty, grace, and awe inspiring sense of history. Another time, perhaps. For today, though. When and if perpetrators emerge, they will find they're dealing with a steely, capable, proud and determined adversary in the French. What do I know ... but that's my better informed impression as of today. Acknowledgment ... The perpetrators would say the same about themselves ...

Grateful ...

Hoss -- as my "newsman" -- do consider this OT Thtead worthy? Not sure about thread theory, but I'm interested and you may have a lot of commentary on this ... Grateful for the heads up

I re-visited some Woody Allen work for the New Yorker in the 1960s. Some awesome humor. I enjoy Allen best in small doses. I still read The New Yorker, but only from time to time. With the proliferation of outlets in a web and cable world, we don't see media giants anymore. We don't often see the prose, either. The New Yorker loomed large. Available online, and a five minute read, is The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers. Enjoy the absurdity and the language. http://maxxwolf.tripod.com/woody.html

I'm telling you ... I will never understand how this rule improves anyone's hockey experience ... Minutes, momentum, and still the width of a hair either way ... who thinks this is a good idea ...?

!! Good one ... psst, what are combs?

Food pics, please. I am barren.

I agree completely. It's policy, left and right. Not to go off on a tangent, but differentiating would be integral to any ... Did you see Junior's grades? Neo = Junior*. * SabreSpace's first use of David Lee Roth and Gottfried Leibniz references in the same post.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Captain has turned on the fasten your seatbelt sign. Please return to your seats, put your tray tops in the upright and locked position, and fasten your seatbelts. The Captain will turn off the Fasten Your Seatbelt sign when it is safe to get up and move about the cabin. Thank you ....

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Sabres wanna ride on your Disco (Dan) stick. I'm Gaga for that one ....

Welcome back! I want your Disco Dan views. I'm in at 25 cents.

Cruz ain't my guy, so I have no insightful familiarity with his tax plan. Conversations I've heard around abolishing the IRS refer to the agency and its complicated code, not the revenue. In other words, the phrase means roughly the same thing as flat tax, or one page return. I hear "abolish the IRS" and "Flat Tax" the same way. The proposals are often (always?) described as income tax revenue neutral. Calculate away. Few things are more attractive to me. I expect the same tax burden. It eliminates loopholes and the influence of special interests. It's an idea from the right that hasn't caught on with the left. Cruz should describe it and I suspect he has. I missed the debate. Some businesses hire illegals. Big business does not. Any business certainly profits. So do you and I, the customers of those businesses. Finding the cheapest labor is human history, not merely US history. We each affirm it every time we buy lettuce at the price where our demand meets farmers' supply. If we pay a penny more for lettuce, we have a penny less for croutons. At 15 cents more, we have unemployed lettuce pickers offering their skills in other labor pools. Cheap labor depresses all wages, mine and yours included. It should be a primary consideration in any immigration debate. Humanitarian immigration of the unskilled puts downward pressure on wages. We may choose that. We shouldn't ignore that. My humble understanding of the Cruz position ...

I indulged myself when even a moment's thought would have caused me to conclude you'd be uncomfortable with that label. I apologize. Better had I said "gratefule that a poster as gracious and understanding as NS points out that war is hateful even as we recognize veterans". Interesting to me that moral authority is best when recognized, and worst when claimed.