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The issue with Quebec is the low exchange rate of the Canadian dollar due in large part to dropping oil demand, which placed an extra financial burden on Canadian teams. Plus the league would prefer to use Quebec as a relocation site in case a team like Carolina decides to move. And they want to balance the conferences and hope Seattle can get their act together to build an arena.

There was an assault weapons ban passed by the Democrat majority in 1994 during the Clinton years. It expired after 10 years, and since then all attempts to renew it have been voted down.

It was a stand-alone bill. The poison pill was the threat of the NRA not supporting them. And there was more... "Also on Thursday, the Senate failed to pass another bill that would have expanded background checks to gun show and online firearms sales. The measure would also prevent convicted felons and the mentally ill from having access to weapons."

Last December. "Senate Republicans rejected a bill that aims to stop suspected terrorists from legally buying guns, on Thursday. The vote came a day after at least 14 people were killed during the San Bernardino massacre in California by two suspects, including a woman said to have pledged allegiance to ISIS. Forty-five senators voted for the bill and 54 voted against it. One Democrat, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and one Republican, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, crossed party lines. The measure would have denied people on the terrorist watch list the ability to buy guns." http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gop-blocks-bill-stop-terrorists-buying-guns

Nobody said he represents all gun owners. He just represents the kind that shouldn't be allowed to purchase guns (those under investigation or on no-fly lists). But the Republicans in Congress won't even vote for that reasonable measure.

NYPD Comissioner Bratton: There are ~1K Muslim officers in the NYPD. Ironically many of them probably guarding Mr. Trump outside of his building.

Then they'll have a "Bremance" with Europe. The latest from Donald J. Trump: "Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post." I hope other members of the media will boycott him in protest.

Watching Trump speak today from a teleprompter again (after he mocked others for using teleprompters). He's terrible at it. Sounds so scripted and monotone. In leashing him to a teleprompter the RNC is taking away the very thing that attracted many of his supporters; his frenetic free-form rants. It's like putting a muzzle on a wild dog and selling it as a family-friendly pet.

You just said in your previous post that " it's necessary to fight the war in a manner that is designed to win quickly". So which is it? The quick contradictions are Trumparian.

Unlike Mexico, Canada only sends their best and brightest to Buffalo to watch their Leafs play.

This sounds like WWII rhetoric which doesn't work in today's asymmetrical war where there are not clearly defined lines of who and where the enemy are. The internet and the easy availability of weapons can turn any lone-wolf like the one in Orlando into a weapon of mass destruction. The public is weary of the Middle East conflicts after the 9/11 justification to go after Al-Queda turned into an excuse for regime change in Iraq, which was neither quick or paid for as promised. There's no quick solution, and what the president or anyone else calls the enemy is such an irrelevant red herring that does nothing to solve the long-term issues.

That's not the argument, it's that it's a waste of resources and hypocritical to arrest people for weed when alcohol is legal. And I'm not worried if someone points a joint at me.

You mean the Dick Morris trash.

The guy that cheated on his hospitalized wife while condemning Clinton's cheating.

This article explains: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/16/lawrence-odonnell/president-vice-president-same-state-allowed/

He would come in third after president-elect Trump and 2nd place Clinton, or get enough electoral votes so no one got 270. The House would then select a Republican. So either way the Republicans win and we lose.

I'd say Fasching has the most potential given his shooting skills and ability to use his size down low. He could be an Andreychuk type of player. I'm most excited about his potential. The times I've seen Bailey play for Rochester he showed speed but didn't always give the effort he's capable of. He reminded me of Evander Kane when Kane started playing in Buffalo before he committed to playing hard every shift near the end of the season. Foligno has occasional great games, but again his inconsistency makes him no better than a 3rd-4th liner.

I saw him play in a Legends game vs Sabres alumni in the '90s. He still looked like he could play in the NHL. Maurice Richard was the guest referee.

Hard to say, given that her job as our Senator for 8 years required spending much of her time in Washington, and her job as our Secretary of State for 4 years required working around the world. That doesn't take away from where her home residence is, just as someone in the military who is stationed overseas still says their home is where they live when not serving.

So if you live somewhere for the past 16 years you're not allowed to say you're from there? That's a new one. The latest Birther movemt?

But the electoral college goes by current residence at the time they run. And the president and VP are not usually chosen from the same state because of electoral college voting rules I won't go into. That's why Cheney switched his residence from Texas to Wyoming in 2000.

I saw that and thought it was a typo. There were over 50k voters in Sourh Dakota. So I found that isn't actual votes, it's the number of state convention delegates won in the state caucus, who then decide how to apportion the state's 18 delegates. Another reason to get rid of caucuses and go with primaries that apportion delegates based on actual vote totals.

Tim Kaine is often mentioned as a contender. I wouldn't mind Bill Richardson.

Now that Clinton has the most votes and majority of pledged delegates, it's time for Bernie to wrap it up. To fight at the convention for super delegates to change their support to him would be going against the clear will of the voters and hypocritical. Hopefully he'll go home and reassess while Jane checks the pickle jars in the root cellar for their tax returns.

Those lazy liberal welfare cheats! http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/06/owner_of_diner_whose_menu_lampoons_obama_guilty_in_welfare_fraud_case.html#incart_m-rpt-1