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NS and nf .... awesome to both.

30 for 30: Of Miracles and Men ... This is the 1980 Olympic Hockey story told through the eyes of the Soviets. It includes a great history of the Soviet / Russian game and the way one man set out to deliberately change it. Awesome footage and interviews. If you're a hockey fan, you'll be glued .. PS .. apologies if this has been mentioned.

... has Kruppstahl's mom texting him the moment Kruppstahlal steps away from the computer.

... walked out of "Dances With Wolves".

I'm Lamp.

I'm glad you're here. Our memories are the similar and we share a Sabres chronology. You were one of the first, if not THE first, to engage me as a human being. The Clash! I remember taking a picture, in Paris, of an old Clash poster to share with you on this board. My daughter asked me why I was taking the picture. We were walking along the Seine and the Eiffel Tower was in the distance. "It's for a friend I've yet to meet", I told her. You're humanity in every post. I've learned from you and often applauded your grace as you comfortably, confidently, teach us all about a world we know little about. Relevant here? Yes. You helped me find my legs. You are one of the first posters I noticed enough to look for. On my first visit, you were engaged in some back and forth with Chz. I jumped topics, looking for you. I found a mind that was a three ring circus of activity! You pushed boundaries I hadn't even noticed existed. I saw you as a Yatzee cup full of dice. While others were posting, I could hear you shaking the cup while I waited to see what you'd eventually roll out. You dissected horses and linebackers like you were a veterinarian and an orthopedic surgeon. Your Bylsma thread is one of my all time favorites. You made an introduction and submitted a proposal. After that, one by one, you addressed detractors and made point after point. We watched a tide turn.

Is embarrassed he went to Timon.

On the prior page, nfreeman did his multi quote comment thing. "Good stuff" and "keep it coming". I remember being new here. I read daily, but posted rarely. It wasn't so much that I was intimidated as I had such great respect for the flow that I didn't want to be the guy swimming upstream and disturbing things. One day, I got a "good stuff". It made my day. I could write and a "core guy" appreciated it. To the core: You're big ships that cast wide wakes. Little acknowledgments, not gratuitous, go a long way.

Peter, I was, I was. Instead, I'm traveling west with my lovely wife for our thirtieth ... and to visit my serviceman son and his family ... Just wanted to greet a fellow transplant. Do it! We'll all be looking and listening. Bring the noise!

I love this place. My view, as an occasional poster, multi time a day lurker: There is a core. I'm glad it's here. It gives this place order, structure. Think "I wonder what he/she will think of this/that?". I'm not sure if it's ten or twenty of you. Then, there are one hundred more regulars. Finally, the occasional and the new. I see a tree, with trunks, branches, twigs and leaves. And the topics! All things, hockey and not. Generally polite, respectful, and fair. Sometimes sharp and accountable. Occasionally snarky and angry. It's a family dinner table. Everybody in character and more three dimensional day after day. As I've said ad nauseum, there's no place like it. Edit: To those who carry the mail - I'm grateful!

If you have cable, I'll live with you and share costs. I'd support that IF the reforms necessary to make it a pension are in place. I think lockbox (supported by Bush and Gore in a debate), among other things. At the risk of all of you putting me on ignore, I also want a serious conversation about privatizing it. I began contributing in 1977 when the Dow closed at 831. Thirty eight years at 8+ percent!

Then what was FDR referring to in my excerpt? I understand that if SSI starts today and Bob retires tomorrow, Bob, as the first recipient, will be paid by someone's premium. The program, though, was to collect, reserve, invest, grow. In short, to self fund. Read his words. At day one, it took in more than it paid out in aggregate (Bob's good fortune notwithstanding). It no longer does. The Trust Fund is shrinking. Soon, the inadequate excess goes to zero. We've collected too little, promised too much, or managed poorly. More precisely, we've done a little of all three. I agree that's the reality today. I don't agree that was the intent, design, or pitch. What a dumb pitch it would've been! Unsustainable by design and administration. I don't disagree with most of what you say regarding today's program. I disagree with you when you say it's what we were told we were paying for at the outset (or during most of our lives). No party, no person. PS - I still owe you Mills. I am a man of limited capacity.

Well, I'm older. I have more retirement time to rely on robbing Peter to pay Paul. Our kids will have to pay for our SS (today) and fund their own (for their tomorrow).

The thing bigger than increasing life expectancies is the declining birth rate. When social security stopped being funded and managed correctly, it began to use "today's" collections to pay for yesterday's under funded promises. Think of a life insurance company paying death benefits today with premiums collected today and not with adequate reserves being managed over time. Your premium pays your grandfather's death benefit. His premiums are gone, either inadequate or badly managed. Works today. What happens when you die? The system collapses when there aren't enough living people paying premiums for the death benefit on any given "today". Switching from death to retirement, and looking at SS today, the tipping point comes in 2033 (I believe).

People get the government they deserve. Paraphrasing de Maistre or de Toqueville.

FDR: "This is not an untried experiment. Lessons of experience are available from States, from industries and from many Nations of the civilized world. The various types of social insurance are interrelated; and I think it is difficult to attempt to solve them piecemeal. Hence, I am looking for a sound means which I can recommend to provide at once security against several of the great disturbing factors in life--especially those which relate to unemployment and old age. I believe there should be a maximum of cooperation between States and the Federal Government. I believe that the funds necessary to provide this insurance should be raised by contribution rather than by an increase in general taxation. Above all, I am convinced that social insurance should be national in scope, although the several States should meet at least a large portion of the cost of management, leaving to the Federal Government the responsibility of investing, maintaining and safeguarding the funds constituting the necessary insurance reserves. I have commenced to make, with the greatest of care, the necessary actuarial and other studies for the formulation of plans for the consideration of the 74th Congress." An excerpt, surely, and not complete. I see reference to contribution, investment, insurance, and actuarial plans. It was designed to be self funded, If that's different from a pension promise, I'm not sure how. Social security is a pension promise, badly managed and un(der) funded. It was made to supplement the natural old age retirement of those whose efforts, or those whose circumstances, left them without resources when they reached a retirement age.

For those interested in history, war and weather ... I found this cool. Watch Germany and the USSR/Russia as dates change. If you're going into Russia, better finish by November. And I mean finish! Hitler first. Another, Napolean without dates. Napolean invaded Russia in June and reached Moscow in September. In this video/graph, the size of the French graph/box represents the size of his army. https://vimeo.com/71148323

My man! Say it ain't so! Wait, maybe I read that wrong. Am I "Matrix"?

We have very similar memories and circumstances. The open practice was an annual event that I looked forward to for months. If I remember correctly, we clipped a milk carton for the request, filled out a form, mailed it in and waited. I lived in Blasdell at the time and took a bus in, as well. You arrived earlier than I did. I sat in the blues.

It was awesome.

Insight. Sounds like an untended consequence has been surfaced.

John must've. GoDD has more posts.

48 - 52 makes him fastest to 300. Can he do it here? A RW who can put up 60 pts., a surprise in net, Reinhart developing quickly, and the first 20 games of 16/17 become interesting. Bruce Boudreau. Did I get that right? BRB, counting eggs and calling them chickens

Indeed. Someone wrote in an earlier thread that there are thousands of us who self announced our success, on ponds and tennis courts, with Milt's intonation.

Old timer, indeed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqPA775tPvs I found hockey, the Sabers, and Bert in 1970.