Thanks everyone, I appreciate the sentiments. I and my family, colleagues, etc... are ok as far as we know. I take this flight often enough for it to be kinda routine (once every month/two months or so).

The thing that is incredibly fucked up is that the country had been on high alert for months since the last, we had military personnel actually patrolling the airport (I saw one in the exact place where the first bombs were detonated), subways, multiplexes, shopping streets and malls, ....

We need to stop thinking that throwing more brute force at this problem is going to solve anything, it just creates a false sense of security. Everyone can always hide in plain sight in busy places like this. We can only really solve this by dramatically increasing the quality and quantity of our domestic (as in pan-European) intelligence operations. These groups need to be infiltrated, up to the highest levels, with as many agents as possible and taken down from the inside.

DCK, I seem to be stacking up these near misses! I was in Paris the day of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, I was in LA when San Bernardino happened, I took the Thalys the day that attack was foiled... Oh, and my birthday is September 11th... go figure!

Well, he better have his rasp back in that case!

That's a fine setlist, but with only two CD songs I would hardly call that a continuation of Axl's GNR.

If I were to build on this, I'd drop some of the slower/piano stuff (and if Atlas Shrugged really is yet another piano ballad, I'd hope they debut another new song instead) and substitute for more rockers. For Axl to save face, I think you'd need to include CD, and given that it's a rocker that's easy for him to sing I'm betting it'll be in there (and I don't mind). If Pitman is really out, I think they'll drop Maddy. Since the better rockers on CD are sort off out of character for classic Guns, it might be better to pick up Slither and/or Set Me Free instead of adding Scrapped and Shackler's. I'm on the fence about Better, and really don't like Riad.

So how about this:

Welcome to the Jungle
Chinese Democracy
It's So Easy
Mr Brownstone
Slither
Fortus solo (James Bond theme)
Live and Let Die
This I Love
So Fine (Duff vocals)
14 Years (Izzy vocals)
Fall To Pieces
You Could Be Mine
Set Me Free
Slash solo
Sweet Child O' Mine
Civil War
Axl piano jam
November Rain
You're Crazy (slow)
Yesterdays
Slash/Fortus guitar duel
Rocket Queen (Adler guest drums)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Patience
Nightrain

Encore
Don't Cry (Adler/Izzy guest)
Paradise City (Adler/Izzy guest)

It does, but the unfortunate side effect will be that Americans should get ready to pay up to 50% more for their CE devices, clothes, etc...
Also, it'd set the US high tech industry back significantly if Europe doesn't follow suit: European companies would still manufacture in China, import to Europe and sell through to the US shifting the center of the high tech industry (back) to Europe.

Even the most pessimistic/right-wing view on Bernie's plans project a net positive result of $9.8 trillion over 10 years, how is that spending your way out of debt?

The concept behind it is very simple (and gives some insights into why trickle-down economics doesn't work): the richer people are, the greater the percentage of money they earn becomes "immobile" (in bank accounts, long-term investments, ...) effectively taking it out of the economy. Poor and middle-class people on the other hand will spend most, if not all, of the extra money they earn as part of an updated tax program (or money they don't have to spend on things like healthcare and education), pumping it back into the economy which leads to higher income for the state, which in turn covers the cost of all these social plans.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a miracle cure for an economic malaise, but I believe it definitely is what the country needs at this time.