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Not football, but sports marketing so related. The Sabres while heading into the 8th of a 10 year run of not getting past the 1st round chose for their 20th anniversary season slogan "Celebrate the Tradition." Yes, let's celebrate the traditional lack of playoff success. Like the Guinness commercial used to say, BRILLIANT!

The only team he didn't get to the Finals was the Sabres, going all the way back to his 1st NHL gig in St. Louis. Agreed. Would be great if the Sabres luck into the 1st or 2nd slot. They need a legit #2 C, #2 RW, to re-sign Skinner, get a top notch HC (Vigneault is VERY intriguing), and have somebody on the coaching staff that can run a PP. Get that done (& that's doable) & the team should be in the playoffs this season. And a legit threat when Mittelstadt & Dahlin grow into the 2C & 1D roles they'll eventually be ready for. Still hating that Seattle delayed joining by 1 year because the Sabres will lose a good D-man that fit in LT but would've only lost Hutton or Scandella had they entered for '20-'21 like originally planned.

Not sure why I'm responding to this other than I have a couple of minutes waiting for a phone call. Can't / won't speak for others and many have already explained well their interpretation of why the 2 situations are not similar. But here's my take. Clinton's home server was an issue for several reasons. The first being the almost certainty that when it was unsecured it was hacked by myriad organizations. The second, and the one that makes it illegal (regardless of what AG Lynch got FBI Director Comey to say regarding said server), is that she was conducting government business on non-government equipment with the express purpose of circumventing Congressional (and departmental via the IG) oversight. The third, which is grayer as in her role as SoS she had the authority to determine at least a portion of the "classified" messages that were on her server weren't/wouldn't be classified, is that she was handling classified information in manners outside of accepted protocols which is also illegal. Others, even high ranking officials (hello General Petraeus), have faced repercussions for much lesser violations of classified document handling protocols. Justice should be equal for all, even Clintons. There's probably more that's concerning, but that should be enough for the purposes of this discussion. The accusations about giving out clearances to people that were flagged as possible security risks are concerning on their surface, but there are several items that mitigate those concerns. The first is that though Newbold didn't name the 25 or so individuals that had "disqualifying issues" (at least in the article I read) it has been reported that some of those individuals include people such as Michael Flynn, Rob Porter, and John Bolton. It is preposterous that any of those 3, who have previously held clearances, should be denied them at the time they were vetted to serve in the current administration. As we know those were flagged for political reasons rather than national security questions, all the disqualifications are called into question. The second is that this is standard operating procedure for all administrations (R&D); while there is concern or question about them, it doesn't equate to them actually leaking classified information nor does it equate to them being compromised. And, as others have mentioned, overriding the recommendations of the staff isn't illegal (whereas conducting government business on private equipment certainly appears to be illegal). That's just the 1st 3. So, to make a long story short, as others have stated, things that are different are not the same.

Who you kidding? The true believers'll take the best of both worlds: the dead baby & the vote of the dead baby.

Who knew Richard Dawson was his idol? Maybe if he had the English accent, it wouldn't be creepy as ####.

Interesting. Would not have picked Time to be the 1st to recover from TDS. (Truthfully, expected Rolling Stone to get over it before Time did.)

Legit?

Should've bolded your 2nd sentence for the reply. Was referring to the likelihood of it being another Facebook-ish rant, not the purported source of the electricty.

Wouldn't be too surprising. Didn't look at any of his other #'s, but an electric rate 1 order of magnitude too high stood out.

Umm, yeah. And in NYS, when all those charges (delivery, supply, meter, taxes, etc.) are added together they total to about $0.12/kwh.

Where is he paying $1.16/kwh for his electricity? It's about $0.12/kwh in NYS.

So, what do you think the odds are that she wins a Pulitzer for all this? Somewhere between slim & not a chance in heck most likely. Sadly. Looking forward to your book as well.

Don't know. Have my suspicions, but no data. Regardless, it is IMHO a bad look for the D's as it makes them look once again like they don't give a rat's bippy about following the rules and once again they are playing the identity us vs them game. (Of course, they also couldn't give a rat's bippy whether I agree with the decision.)

Actually, it was just 2 whackadoodles, 1 with 7 consecutive tweets & the other with the next 4.

Which means it'll likely actually get released this fall. Hope this release doesn't drag out that far, but expecting it will. Which stinks, because the bad actors have to start getting brought to light early enough to make sure a switch to 46 in '20 rather than '24 doesn't scuttle all the good work these guys have been doing to bring the bad actors to justice.

It would be. But it is too early to assume they will. We haven't even seen the sealed indictments yet, nor have the FULL weight of what can legally (and ethically) be brought against these people been used. Until we know they'll all walk, I won't assume they all will. And if somehow they do, then our laws will need more revisions than I expect. Because what they did regarding the FISAs was/is already illegal.

How about rather than that, we let Huber & the others do their job and see how it all plays out? A lot of what was done to set up then candidate Trump (& candidate Sanders & others) was already illegal. Let the process work. And while that's going on, figure out what adjustments need to be made to the laws (if any). Huber has already been working on this for over 1 year. Don't start skirting the law right when things are starting to look up. Would make the good guys just as bad as the bad guys. And the last 2 years would all be for naught. Democracy would be dead.

Mueller's report could end up stating that Russians hacked the DNC. That's NOT what Barr's summary states though. It states they hacked "Democratic Party organizations." The DNC was NOT the only Democratic group that had e-mails turn up on Wikileaks. Hillary's unsecured server was hacked (probably by every Intelligence service in the world) & Podesta's e-mails were also hacked. Probably others with ties to the DNC as well. And if the Mueller Report does claim the Russians hacked the DNC, would really like to see the supporting documentation as the FBI (or any other government agency) did not actually examine their servers.

So, would the Hillary Clinton e-mails that were hacked be the ones that everybody knew were hacked off her unprotected server? And would the "Democratic Party organizations" e-mails that were hacked be those that were hacked from Podesta directly? Sure seems that way from everything that came out to date. The letter to Congress does NOT state that it was the DNC e-mails that ended up on Wiki leaks. Those others ended up there as well, IIRC. More "obfuscating" to keep the bad guys off guard? Or is it more than an implication that somehow the Russians did hack the DNC? Based on everything else that came out the past 2+ years, would seem to be the former. But definitely looking forward to when the Report itself gets released. Either way, can definitely see the Schiffs of the world using that phrasing to double down on their attacks. That and the 'no conclusion was made regarding obstruction.' Mueller left that to the AG & AAG and they determined no obstruction. Which seems correct - as there was no collusion there was nothing to obstruct. (Plus Mueller got to speak to everybody he subpoenaed.)

True. But maybe this' ll be an opportunity for somebody to make a few bucks; they have "veggie burgers." Some quick thinking entrepreneur needs to come out with crow flavored tofu. Mmmmm, crofu. Yum.

His colluding with Mueller would be 1 way for him to know there was nothing there. Or, having been involved back in '16, his 1st hand knowlegde of the original investigation could be another way for him to know there was nothing there.

They absolutely are editing his words. The statement made after the VA rally is proof of that and is only about 15 posts above this one.

The dissonance will be deafening.

Absolutely they both need to happen. But, should the "reform" happen prior to enacting structural changes to better control illegal immigration then we'll simply repeat the '87 amnesty. Those changes (aka the wall & enforcement improvements) don't need to be fully implemented before fixing our highly flawed immigration laws & policies; but they do need to be started in a materially significant manner as a good faith measure.

He's only staying on until 45 fires him. Pretty sure, according to the press reports, that happened 1-1/2 years ago. Fired people can't quit. /Tibs