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Cudgels.

Thats what I was thinking when she said it. That, and “there was no teacher’s union”? She said there was no union to protect her. Warren HATES Bloomberg.

Bloomberg—I bought all the Democrats.

Ha ha. Biden finally gets his say and blasts Steyer!?

I’d “name check” Steyer every time I answered.

Bernie—I don’t want to do the math.

I can't see Warren doing this. It goes against all of her strong woman rhetoric. Then again, it IS Warren. She doesn't seem to hold fast to her rhetoric. If they're smart, they'll blast Bernie as a Socialist/Communist. He will never deny it. He hates being up there with Democrats. But they won't because they're not honest. What all of this has shown is that 70-somethings (including Trump and Clinton four years ago) are what they are -- and they don't change easily. Bloomberg won't rebound from his humiliation.

Perhaps he was in the Castro School of Literacy?

B. S. She’s the next Mayor of NYC. Oops, didn’t read this before I posted. Beat me to it.

I actually think that a lot of people will vote D Congressperson if they also vote for Trump. Enough people? Not sure.

His idea for healthcare is to mandate that everyone be on exactly the same plan — no option. He won’t entertain an option. That would include every doctor and hospital and clinic. To pay for it, he wants to tax rich people. He has no idea how much it will cost, so he refuses to define what “rich people” is. That’s government takeover. The New Deal of Roosevelt was implemented because people were desperate for jobs and food. Once the economy came back there was less need for Roosevelt’s new deal construction projects. Sanders wants to take a decent economy and alter it primarily out of his adherence to an economic theory that’s not anything like we have in place now. Sanders’ “green new deal” is borne out of climate fear and is ill defined. Without any details, it is impossible for you to say it will be a good plan. The only thing certain it that it will be an expensive plan, justified by largely unproven eco-altruism. Can you or anyone else tell me why the US should go completely green and ignore the remainder of the carbon-emitting humans on our planet? Reduce emission, sure. Cut pollution, of course. Eliminate ALL carbon? WTF? You say that socialism is economic, but implementing socialism is the function of government. The implementation may start out benign but it will inevitably lead to harsher measures. Social welfare programs are meant to assist people who are for whatever reason unable to assist themselves. Social welfare programs obviously have a place in society, but they’re not meant to be a platform for everyone to live exactly the same lives. Therefore, there is little reason to expand them. Keep in mind that I’m not saying that the healthcare system in our country is good. It does need fixing. But Sanders’ approach is just a side door to his goal of reshaping everything. When he says things like revolution and movement, he means revolution and drastic change. He means to impose that change on a majority of citizens who don’t want that change to be so drastic. If you think that Executive Branch regulations aren’t enough to get the ball way down the road then you’re not seeing what Bernie can accomplish on his own — and for the next person that follows Bernie to take it further. That socialist road sucks. If all anyone can trot out as an example is “look at Denmark”, then that should tell you everything you need to know. There’s absolutely no reason to even be sniffing that path if you know where it leads.

Yes, and Futbol.

Point taken. And we shall see who Rodriguez gets paired with so he can blossom into a goal scoring magician.

They're 11-8-1 over their last 20 games. So, hey, maybe they keep it close. They still have to jump two teams. Nearly impossible.

I wish you're right, but we don't have the goaltending to pull it off.

Botteril was dealt a bad hand and IMO he has played it poorly. I like that he's trying to focus on building the team long term through Rochester. However, his Housley move was a disaster. He's only been able to upgrade the blueline -- and actually over-built it. He's been terrible at picking up forwards who can compete, and the forward line talent level has actually gone down. All that being said, I'm split in my mind about whether they should allow him to continue in his current job. This is mainly because the team is in the process of scrambling to fix the bad Housley decision. Whatever Botteril's "vision" was when he came to the job had to be drastically altered, and a big part of the fault lies with Botteril. The team isn't "trending up". It is trending sideways. It might have been on an upward trend by now if the team plan didn't have to be scrapped and re-written.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I think Putin is a Trump puppet. Maybe the media can prove me wrong.

I think he opened the speech with "Thank you for inviting me to your shithole."

Have you ever said that the trendline was down? Patience is a virtue, until it becomes enabling. Sonofagun, that's thy guy I wanted last year at this time (and I barely wanted him -- more his type of player). Too little, too late. This does NOT make our "upward trend" any better. Is this our eighth 4th liner now -- or is he our sixth third liner? At least they didn't give up a lot to get him.

Please just be honest about how the Sabres got into their situation: They tore down the team too far. They screwed up the rebuild by trading away too many draft picks for players that weren't talented enough; or players who were overpriced and past their prime. Their former GM couldn't pick defensemen from names in a hat. The current GM can't pick forwards from names in a hat. They hired a couple "system" coaches and never had accumulated the talent to fit the system in place at the time. With all the shi**y talent, nobody could bring in a decent goaltender to at least keep the team in games. It took years to get into cap hell and at least this year to wait to get out of it. Yeah, different teams, different situations. Don't sugarcoat the Sabres' ineptitude by characterizing it as a NON-accelerated rebuild. It is rightly called a long-term s**t-show.

An accelerated rebuild ya say? How reckless!

Good job so far. I remember the early days of quitting. If I had owned a machete at the time, people would have been dead. I’m barely exaggerating. Buy a bunch of sugarless gum.

If Bernie wins, I’m gonna have to go on eBay and snap up a bunch of #resist t-shirts and bumper stickers!

I get what you’re saying, but the comparison isn’t really all that spot-on. Denmark is also a State in the European Union. With less population than Massachusetts. And people have the same ability to move from Denmark to another European country as Massachusetts residents have of leaving their State.

You don’t see it there on the 12th?