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I followed your link, read the article, read the comments, now I am left with the same feeling as I did after inadvertently seeing a video of a man cutting his ###### open on a broken glass: A bottomless void of having lost all hope for humanity. At the very least I have learned to discard any future links you might post, so I guess at least something semi-useful came from this.

As far as I have been able to understand in my years of living in America, any sentence that follows this pattern: <verb> your <noun> is already a euphemism for ######.

Well, we had a good run.

I am ashamed to say that I fall into this category as well.

You have to work around the system and vote "Can't vote due to statutory regulations of the U.S.A" in the first poll like I did. Don't let some meaningless technicality infringe on your right to be heard! Rock the vote!

So, I see reports that the owners will cover the whole make whole share, or just a part of the share, what is correct? This could be the movement that was needed to get something done, I hate how I keep getting all drawn back in every time I decide to never care about the NHL again.

Is this wishful thinking or is it getting reported somewhere?

Says everything about the urgency no one is feeling in the negotiations.

Especially when the facts are all wrong. The real average salary in Moscow is much higher. The average monthly salary in Russia is probably around $1000, and without looking it up I would submit that the average salary in Moscow is probably between $20 000 and $25 000 a year.

I am not a citizen of the USA, so take this for what it's worth, but by far the biggest issue I have with the current administration is the lack of respect for civil liberties and personal freedom. It was the one thing I was hoping would be taken more seriously when Obama was elected, but if anything the situation is even worse now than when Bush was in office. I agree that it's disgusting.

The very best player ever. 20 amazing goals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqYiBjX6dk&feature=related And for others who can't get enough of the little wizard. Maradona's balance and ball control on full display:

I agree, but I hope they are locked out for 7 season and the NHL folds completely. There will always be hockey, the NHL is not in any way essential for the sport to survive.

Perhaps, and perhaps not. Celebrity endorsements probably factor in for some people, or else they wouldn't be made and nobody would report or debate them. I don't think though that there will be any sort of shift of Republicans voting for Obama because Colin Powell says he will. I also think that most people who will vote for Romney would have done so almost regardless of how the country has been doing over the past 4 years, and the same is true for most Obama voters. This might be a side step of your question but I think that everyone has the right to healthcare paid for by taxpayer money. The whole debate weather people should fund things they are against through tax dollars is pretty meaningless to me. If you are going to pay for anything with public funds you are going to spend someones money on something they are against. Some people are strongly against abortion and yet they partly fund planned parenthood, some people are firmly against the US deploying soldiers overseas, yet they are footing part of the bill. Some people hate the Postal Service, others despise public education and still they have to pay their taxes like everyone else. I personally have no issue with it. I am fine with funding a strong social safety net, world class healthcare and schooling, a powerful defense and a robust infrastructure as long as I am granted widespread personal freedom. As long as I am given the freedom to make my own decisions for myself, I am willing to go far in helping other people out. And I don't mind that some people will have different values than me and will be able to live their lives the way they chose partially funded by me.

I come at this issue from my strong belief in personal freedom. It is a choice that should be left to the individual in question, and the right of the individual to decide for themselves is important to me. Of course, in my opinion, having an abortion is a very serious issue and not something that should be taken lightly. That said, just like I don't want my right to be a responsible gun owner infringed by some idiots who don't know how to respect and own a gun, I don't think it's prudent to take away an individuals right to chose because some others don't treat the subject with the seriousness it deserves.

Oh, I see, you are attacking the ever present liberal media bias. As to answer your question, I would suspect that the media still consider Colin Powell to be a somewhat relevant figure that will help them attract interest in their reporting.

You'e missing the point. It doesn't matter how relevant you say Powell is or how much of a media-creation he supposedly is. When he endorses Obama, the right will say, well, pretty much what you just said. If Lieberman endorses Romney, you'll hear the exact same tune from the left. It's all a play to try to win the center, which is what both candidates have been trying to do the last 4 months anyway. So Powell's endorsement is only relevant in how he is perceived by the 'independents' or whatever you want to call them. It doesn't matter that True Republicans brush him off as a RINO, the fact is that 47% of the country will vote for Romney no matter what, it's not Obama's job to worry about those people.

Not in the least! I come from an age when I would follow the sabres through triweekly boxscores in the print paper. The internet has made being a Swindon Town FC fan a real breeze. I wish I could share your optimism, whippersnapper. I have a real and petrifying fear of this happening. I guess the fear is so intense because soccer is immensely important to me. Many things are subject to opinion, that the metric system is easier than the imperial system of measurements is not one of them.

One would assume that the enforcement is not really aimed at the right, rather an attempt to sway some in the center. Because, just let's face it: Jesus himself could return to earth and endorse Obama, and the right still wouldn't vote for him.

As humorous as this would be, my allegiance lies with Swindon Town FC, the Robins This is a double edged sword for me. I fear that once soccer is commercially viable in the US, the game will come under great pressure to become more 'tv friendly' and start including such American 'improvements' as timeouts, 4 quarters and whatever. On the other hand, if America can embrace soccer, despite the built in tendency to reject anything European, perhaps it will open the door to go to the metric system, which would be a huge step forward for the country.

The lockout can't end soon enough.

Pretty excited to see what Grignk can do when his time with the sabres comes :w00t:

How can you like Manchester City??!!?? jk, I don't want to open the can of worms that turns this thread more toxic than the Presidential Politics thread. For the record, my favorite English team is Swindon Town.

Not sure I'd call those upsets. Ajax in Amsterdam will always be the favourite, and Real Madrid losing away to Dortmund is hardly a shock either.

UEFA takes them down left and right

http://www.youtube.com/embed/JmAZKvMxuQc