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Ladd for Tavares! Seriously though, if somehow they can off-load old Toby, I'm 100% onboard. I am so tired of seeing the other team just skate up to him and take the puck away...

Looks like New York is the next target... http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/18/europe/paris-attacks-at-a-glance/index.html

The True Cost of Europe's Muslim "Enrichment" by George Igler November 18, 2015 at 5:00 am The United Nations, in 2000, advocated the "replacement" of Europe's population by Muslim migrants. There seems to be an economic premise underlying this view: that importing the Muslim world en masse into Europe is mutually beneficial. For decades, the mass immigration of Muslims into Europe has been labelled "enrichment." Shouting "Islamophobia" does not negate how it is virtually impossible to think of a country actually made richer by it. Even in a country with an established Islamic population such as Britain, Muslim unemployment languishes at 50% for men, and 75% for women. Those using an economic rationale to implement Europe's demographic transformation fail to recognize the complexities of Islam: they ignore the fundamentalist revival that has been ongoing for over a century. One feature of this growing embrace of literalism is a belief -- validated by scripture -- that Muslims are entitled to idly profit from the productivity of infidels. The idea that with time, Islam's religious tenets will somehow moderate and dissolve, merely by being lodged in Europe, is wishful thinking, especially in communities where Muslim migrants already outnumber indigenous Europeans. The "blind eye" turned towards polygamy in Britain, France, Belgium and Germany has ensured that some Muslim men have upwards of 20 children by multiple wives, almost always at state expense. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6915/europe-muslim-enrichment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7VKQwDS2s You know that MB was watching this at home and thinking "why didn't I think of this???"

Odd that a soccer game would attract a stadium full of Islamic radicals. They all just need a good hug.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1229826.html Turkish soccer fans boo and chant "Allah Akbar" during moment of silence for Paris terror attacks. It's not their fault. It must be ours.

If a guy like Wes Welker can find work in the NFL, I don't see why Matthews wouldn't be in demand.

So quite the epic takedown over night in France of 9 more bad guys, meanwhile, two Air France planes diverted due to bomb threats. Things are really spiraling out of control. I am wondering if the big Climate party gets moved to Montreal now, so that JT and the premier of Alberta can show everyone how much we want to join them to fight a fairy tale, while continuing to put their heads in the sand about an actual threat.

well the greatest car chase I've seen was in The French Connection.... that's an old movie. best fight...... first (I think) Jason Bourne movie, fight in the glass and steel ultar modern apartment with the German assassin. my word that was well done. I think Jason did him in with the phone cord. There's a bar fight in "Treasure of the sierra madre" that was really good. That's fairly old. Classic car chase: Treasure of the Sierra Madre - classic movie - watched it many times. That movie has contributed a lot to pop culture, including giving us the famous line (said with a Mexican/Spanish accent) "Badges? Badges? We don't neeeeed no stinkin' badges!"

Watching CNN right now, looks like they've cornered the last remaining Paris bad guys in an apartment.

course this is completely different than the one in France. It was these dudes. The type of guys you just want to go have a beer with and watch a football game. Introduce to the wife and kids. They're just misunderstood. It can't be their fault that they like to kill people.

First time I saw Ursula Andress in Dr. No she made me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.

Mark Steyn on Paris - well worth the read. He sums it up brilliantly at the end: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/mark-steyn-the-barbarians-are-already-inside-theres-nowhere-to-get-away-from-them

Yeah that pissed me off. In 2011 the place was packed out with a whole bunch of fake Lions fans and then last year there were thousands of empty seats. BC sucks.

Willy to Matthews. I like the sound of that.

I can see why, with their plethora of talented receivers like....hmmm....who places receiver for Seattle again?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4617051908001/ayaan-hirsi-ali-we-need-to-face-problem-of-radical-islam/?playlist_id=2694949842001#sp=show-clips Ayaan Hirsi Ali weighs in on the Paris shootings - on that most abhorrent of all TV stations, Fox News. Let the howling and attacking of the source commence.

I think you know what my opinion is on that...though he probably was thinking "what is Derek Zoolander doing talking to me about the Ukraine right now? Doesn't he watch the news?"

More than 1,200 Europeans who joined Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq have returned home in the past two years, an Associated Press count shows. Many have been jailed but others — absorbed into the underbelly of some of the continent's biggest cities — have thrived with impunity. All five Frenchmen linked to Friday's attacks in Paris — four strapped with suicide vests and the fifth on the run — are among them, according to officials linked to the investigation, redoubling fears that the returnees form a pool of potential terror attackers. Many remain off the radar, and France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve acknowledged Tuesday that "the majority of those who were involved in this attack were unknown to our services." The Belgian believed to have masterminded the Paris attacks bragged about his ability to return home from Syria, saying an ID check by police raised no flags. Two of the Frenchman responsible for the rock concert bloodbath had apparently done the same back and forth unnoticed, despite having files linking them to terrorism and Islamic radicalism. France has the uncomfortable distinction of being Europe's leading exporter of jihadis — nearly 1,600 out of a continental total of over 5,000, according to government figures. And despite the government's promises after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January to block and prevent citizens from leaving for the war zone, the pace of departures has remained essentially unchanged. An Associated Press analysis of government figures puts it at about 13 a month in the first 10 months of the year compared to an average of 12 a month in 2014. Neighbouring Belgium has sent more young men and women per capita than anywhere in the West. And the two groups of foreign fighters are bound together by a common tongue and nearly as often a common background, often living in the same compounds and entering the same combat units. Both countries have paid the price in blood: last week's attacks in central Paris left at least 129 people dead; the co-ordinated assaults in January on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket killed 17; the attack against a Jewish museum in Brussels that killed four last year. All the attacks were carried out by Frenchmen with close links to extremists abroad and all too often Brussels, and neighbouring Molenbeek, on their itinerary. "With the conflicts in Syria and Iraq in particular, there has been a radicalization that we have never seen before," said Molenbeek Mayor Francoise Schepmans in her office Monday. And the government knows the neighbourhood has long had trouble to contain it, as too many terror cases show. "I see there is nearly always a Molenbeek link. There is a gigantic problem," said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. The French government's most recent figures put the number of returnees to that country at 250, but the number is clearly far higher. With the attacks on Paris and the co-ordinated assaults in January, French citizens have become both the leading killers among European extremists and its primary victims. French officials estimate about 520 citizens are currently with extremists in Iraq and Syria, a number that has climbed steadily despite government promises to make blocking departures a priority. The numbers of departures exploded by 2014 — young people spurred in part by the chemical weapons attack that killed as many as 1,400 Syrians in August 2013 who said they wanted to help Syrian civilians and fight President Bashar Assad. The vast majority ended up with the Islamic State group. Look beyond France, and there is a sense of the scale of the problem, and of the rising alarm of European intelligence officials. And because of Europe's open borders, returns appear to be nearly as fluid as departures. "Syria has become the biggest factory of terrorists that the world has ever seen," French President Francois Hollande said Monday. According to an AP count, Britain has an estimated 350 returnees. Germany has documented about 250 returnees while Belgium puts its figure at about 130. Sweden has a total of 115 as the only other European Union nation with triple digits. Most ex-jihadis who return to France are arrested and charged with terrorism. With justice system moving at a snail's pace, people who left in 2013 and returned quickly are only just going on trial next month, according to Xavier Nogueras, a lawyer who represents more than two dozen of them. He spoke with the AP in an interview before Friday's attacks. "The justice system is trying to make the effort to figure out who is dangerous and who is not, but because they don't have the manpower, they put them all in prison, and that can make them dangerous," he said. "There are so many of these people who now wait in prison, without knowing their fate They are going to get more frustrated, ask 'why are you leaving me in prison to rot?'" He estimates that two of his 25 cases are truly dangerous, and he said he has no interest in defending committed terrorists: "There's going to come a time when I'm going to have to stop this." In Britain, 114 are awaiting trial while 21 have been convicted. Petter Nesser, a senior researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, said those who commit terror attacks in Europe are both former foreign fighters and others who are simply inspired by the radical rhetoric. But the deadliest attackers, he said, have a background in jihadi warfare. Nesser said that there are many ways of tackling returnees, and one way "is to combine prosecution and preventive moves." "Right now, we do not know what actions really help," he said. http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-152019-5-.htm#152019

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-russia-trudeau-putin-ukraine-1.3321069 Looks like JT had his face to face with Putin. We'll see if it makes a difference.

The EU has opened the door to Britain sending troops or other specialists to France after an emergency mechanism was triggered for the first time in the bloc's history. France activated Article 42, a distress call that compels other EU states to send military and other support. It is akin to Article 5, the Nato mutual defence pact. States have already pledged support, which could be military or civil. France will specify the support it needs to each state in the coming days.

To answer your question, I think that this definitely would have affected the election. Harper would have won a majority, no question. I also have to wonder if these attacks are going to cause the cancelation of Justin's climate change party in Paris next week?

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/german-stadium-evacuated-after-concrete-evidence-of-explosive-plot-1.2662737 Soccer game cancelled today in Germany on short notice due to explosive device plot. Merkel was supposed to be at the game.