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  1. I agree, the original post didn't bring race to mind at all for me (though wow did it blow up today, eh?)  Detroit has a long-running reputation as being a victim of urban decay and crime. I think Detroit, I think Robocop :)

    If she'd have said Washington DC or New Orleans I'd have thought "homicide". Detroit? General crime. Denver or Seattle these days would probably spur visions of cannibus.

    If she'd have said "Cleveland" I'd have thought polution. (I'm probably the only one who remembers a burning river.)

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  2. I Am Talking About A Thread With Racial Undertones In Which The Moderator Participates, ...

    And "Bison Dan" and "bison73" and you and the board owner. Your point being?

    Talking about LSS and how they are milking the system is wrong?

    And until we can have a civil discussion of cultural differences and race in America it's not going to change.

    PS - I'm pretty sure not every word in your statement is worthy of capitalization. ;)

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  3. We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.

    But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

    T.R. 1907

     

     

    I see you and raise you:

     

    “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”
     
    “This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
     
    “But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
     
    “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.”
     
    “The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
     
    Theodore Roosevelt 
    New York City- October 12th, 1915

     

     

  4. The nature of Bartles' injury has never been revealed beyond "shoulder" and "game time decision". 

     

    I suspect there's more to it if they pulled the redshirt off Studsrud.

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  5. Spot on.  LSS needs to be held accountable. 

     

    LSS is only doing what any "non-profit" would do: play the system to make a buck. The laws are set up that LSS makes a nice "handle" on each "new American" they bring in. Want to solve the deeper problem? Get rid of the system that makes it worth it to LSS to do what they do. Talk to your legislator and get the system fixed to where we deal with the problems of the people here already before we bring more troubled folks in. 

     

    How do I know LSS has too sweet of a gig going? They're putting up this new facility on some of the most expensive land in Fargo. 

  6. The knock on this team all off season was "where from the offense?" 

     

    Season starts, MarkMac gives the answer, and then goes down to an injury that we still don't have a timetable for. 

     

    Given that background, I'd say the better option is to go with Murphy. On Saturday versus Air Force Murphy finally started to look comfortable out on the ice. His offensive up-side potential is greater than St. Clair's. We know what we're getting with St. Clair: third/fourth line dependability and a PK guy; maybe, maybe some offense. With Murphy? I'd argue we don't have enough run time on him yet to know. He got a chance v. USAFA and he showed enough improvement to get another go in my mind. 

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  7. During the third my wife commented that it was like Hak told them to spot AF 2 and then play the third period like it was the playoffs and their season was on the line.

    It did have a bit of that feel. :(

    What was interesting to me is that Michael Parks played the last five of regulation and the OT like he decided he wasn't losing that game despite anyone else's interests, actions, or intentions.

    If he could skate every shift like that we'd need to start making space for another Hobey case.

  8. This injuries are an unfortunate side effect of limited depth; however, they are also related to strength and conditioning.

    Is the UND Football strength and conditioning program where it needs to be?

  9. Couldn't figure out what the trigger was for this.

    Found it: http://www.inforum.com/content/stabbing-reported-downtown-hotel

    Seven convenience store robberies in Fargo last year? Sorry, that sounds low.

    As far as oil being the cause in Fargo? No. It's the explosive growth that city has seen. And their law enforcement is just not able to handle it all.

    Get west of Highway 281 (and definitely west of Highway 83) its the oil side effect. I spend enough time out there and it's drastic how some areas have changed.

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