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  1. I expect the AHL will expand by adding a team in their Pacific division. Probably a city nearby like Reno or Salt Lake City. Arizona just moved their team to Tucson for next season.
  2. You're wrong on all counts. The laws, regulations, and State Department policy in place during her tenure permitted her to use a non-government email for work. The 2009 National Archives regulation in place during her tenure required that "[a]gencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system." The regulation recognizes the use of non-government email accounts. Clinton's practice was to email government officials on their ".gov" accounts, so her work emails were immediately captured and preserved. Clinton only used her account for unclassified email. No information in Clinton's emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them. Classified information was viewed in hard copy by Clinton while in the office. A separate, closed email system was used by the State Department for the purpose of handling classified communications, which was designed to prevent such information from being transmitted anywhere other than within that system. "If I had to do it over again, I would not have done it", is not an admission of anything but that she now realizes that this non-issue gave fodder to the conspiracy theorists who proactively look for anything she does and try to twist it to fit their narrative. A distraction that she could have avoided if she used separate accounts, even though what she did was legal. Taking the 5th is not an admission of guilt, but it does protect a person from a fishing expedition. Pagliano was subpoenaed by the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch to testify as part of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit they filed against the State Department. Given the history of conservatives starting with one issue and fishing for other information, as when Ken Starr questioned Bill Clinton about Whitewater (which he was cleared of) but then fished until he came upon the unrelated Lewinsky affair, it's understandable that someone would be reluctant to give them free reign. Perhaps he did something unrelated in his past that he doesn't want to disclose. Regardless, Hillary said she wanted all people questioned to answer, for there's nothing to hide related to this issue. Just the facts.
  3. And "We the People" have all her emails that were sent to or received from gov't officials. Every one of them were backed up on gov't servers from the sending or receiving parties accounts. Anything else by definition would be private emails. Just the facts.
  4. In retrospect, given all the hacks that have occurred to gov't and business servers, she actually was smart in using a private server that was more secure. It was never hacked. And of course there were never any top secret labelled documents sent or received by the server when she used it. Weak sauce for conspiracy theorists. Just the facts.
  5. She talked about it yesterday in her speech.
  6. What terrorist organizations has Clinton accepted millions from? Trump does business or has properties in Qutar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Are any of those on your terrorist country list?
  7. She can just use the old Reagan line, "Well, there you go again". But there is a chance he will break precedent as he has with his tax returns and decide he doesn't want to debate.
  8. I'd say he and all those charged with protecting us have done a fine job in a complex world. How many foreign terrorists have killed citizens in America since Obama took office?
  9. September 10, 2015. Senate Democrats filibustered the Republican measure to disapprove of the Iran nuclear deal.
  10. What Ted Nolan said about Ville Leino?
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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."
  14. 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
  15. 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.
  16. NYPD Comissioner Bratton: There are ~1K Muslim officers in the NYPD. Ironically many of them probably guarding Mr. Trump outside of his building.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Unlike Mexico, Canada only sends their best and brightest to Buffalo to watch their Leafs play.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. You mean the Dick Morris trash.
  24. The guy that cheated on his hospitalized wife while condemning Clinton's cheating.
  25. This article explains: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/16/lawrence-odonnell/president-vice-president-same-state-allowed/
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