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PROBLEM: Neighbors walk under the rain past a washed out road in Alajuelita on the outskirts of San Jose  Costa Rica  Thursday  Oct. 5  2017.  Tropical Storm Nate  formed off the coast of Nicaragua on Thursday and was being blamed for at least 17 deaths in Central America as  it  spun north toward a potential landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend. (Moises Castillo/Associated Press)
MANAGUA  Nicaragua â  Newly formed Tropical Storm Nate  was blamed Thursday for at least 22 deaths across Central America as  it  dumped rain across the region on a path that would carry  it  toward a potential landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said  the storm  could cause dangerous flooding by dumping as much as 15 to 20 inches (38 to 50 centimeters) of rain as  it  moved over Honduras  with higher accumulations in a few places.
In Nicaragua  Nateâs arrival followed two weeks of near-constant rain that had left the ground saturated and rivers swollen. Authorities placed the whole country on alert and warned of flooding and landslides.

SOLUTION: Tropical Storm Nate blamed for 22 deaths; threatens US coast

PROBLEM: Johnny Bower  didn't even want to come to Toronto. Yet the pint-sized goalie with the big heart became a part of Maple Leafs lore.
 Bower   a beloved two-time Vezina Trophy winner who helped the Leafs win their last Stanley Cup in 1967  died on Tuesday.  He  was 93.
 His  family said in a statement that the Hall of Famer died after a short battle with pneumonia.
 Bower  was a two-time Vezina Trophy winner who became known as the China Wall.  His  career took off after the Leafs claimed  him  in an intra-league draft in 1958  and  he  played 475 regular-season games and won four Stanley Cups for the Leafs before playing  his  final game as a 45-year-old in 1969.
" He  was an inspiration to us " said George Armstrong  who captained the Leafs' last championship team. " He  shamed others into hard work.
" John  gave everything  he  could during workouts and  we  weren't going to let  that old guy  show  us  up."
Years after retiring   Bower  remained one of the most beloved ex-Leafs even though  he  originally had no desire to be in Toronto.  Bower  was playing happily with the minor league Cleveland Barons in  his  30s when Toronto acquired  him .  He  said  he  only showed up to avoid being suspended.
 Johnny Bower  helped the Leafs win their last Stanley Cup in 1967.
"They just wanted me for one year  but I had a good team in front of  me   " Bower  recalled with a laugh in 2014. "I was there for 13 years  so it turned out really nice for  me ."
 The 5-foot-9 Bower  won the Vezina Trophy in 1961 and shared  it  with teammate Terry Sawchuk in 1965. The Leafs hoisted the Cup in 1962  '63  '64 and '67  and  Bower  remained a standout into  his  40s despite near-sightedness and painful arthritis.
 Bower  pioneered the poke-check  brazenly diving head first at opposing players to knock the puck off their sticks. The move came with a cost âthe mask-less goalie suffered cuts and lost teeth by throwing himself into the action.
 Bower  was the only boy among nine children in a family raised in rural Saskatchewan.  He  made  his  first goalie pads from an old mattress  but put  his  hockey career on hold when  he  lied about  his  age in 1940 to fight in World War II.  He  told authorities that  his  birth certificate had burned in a fire  allowing  him  to enlist at 16 years old.  He  was stationed in England but did not see action during the war because of  his  arthritis.
"It's a good thing I didn't because the Germans were right there waiting "  he  said. "A lot of guys there were killed on the beaches. I know four or five good hockey players from Prince Albert who were killed. They never came back. "
Johnny Bower . (SHAUN BEST/REUTERS)
 Bower  wanted to remain in the AHL  but  he  agreed to show up when Cleveland general manager James Hendy ensured  him  the Barons would take  him  back if Toronto didn't work out.
 He  never returned  instead becoming a fixture for one of the league's most storied franchises.

SOLUTION: Johnny Bower Maple Leafs great and Hall of Famer dies at 93

PROBLEM: The Democratic partyâs strategy for responding to  the Al Franken scandal  is now apparent: Taking up Frankenâs own hint in  his  apology statement  there will be an âEthics Committee investigation.â
Investigate what  Senate Clouseaus?  Franken  has been caught on film. When Los Angeles radio host Leeann Tweeden said that during a 2006 USO tour  Franken  used  his  position as an entertainer to rope her into kissing  him  in the guise of a rehearsal for a sketch  that was repellent enough. Franken âput his hand on the back of my head  mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth â Tweeden said  and  Franken  offered no specific alternative story  only a lame suggestion that âI donât remember the rehearsal for the skit as Leeann does.â
Is the Senate Ethics Committee going to invite Tweeden in to tell her story and try to nail down exactly what  Franken  claims happened? Is the Senate Ethics Committee going to issue an open call to any other women out there who may have similar claims about  Franken  to submit their testimony? I doubt it. The purpose of this phony investigation is to give the appearance of doing something while allowing time to pass and tempers to cool  on the way to administering some meaningless reprimand to  Franken .
 Franken  might be able to shake this off if  he  could depend on conflicting memories. But  he  canât. Because of that photo. The sex-abuse scandal is becoming  to cultural history  what Watergate was to political history. It is gigantic. It is era-defining. And among the dozens of famous people implicated in it  the  Franken  photo is the most damning and irrefutable evidence yet to emerge. Itâs a tableau of our time. It is the photo of our moment. Itâs the kind of smoking gun you couldnât use in a Law & Order episode because it would be too blatant. It will never disappear from the national consciousness.
Consider the breathtaking way each detail reinforces the horror of the others: A Hollywood celebrity who will soon be a Democratic senator is molesting a woman. While sheâs asleep. And in military gear  because sheâs traveling to support our troops. In a war zone. And  Franken  is smiling. While shamelessly posing for the photographer. How can we ever cease to be amazed and appalled by this photo? It is to the sex war what the picture of the summary execution of that Viet Cong prisoner was to the Vietnam War.
Yet as the Senate circles the wagons around  Franken   itâs liberals and Democrats who should be angry â not Republicans. To Republicans itâs Thanksgiving come early. It makes no difference to the Republican policy agenda whether  Franken  or some other generic liberal Democrat holds that seat. If  Franken  remains  Roy Mooreâs chances of victory in Alabama increase. It makes it too easy for Republicans in Alabama to say  âWait a minute  weâre supposed to end the career of Roy Moore  a legend in this state  when Democrats wonât expel  Franken ? Why should we agree to unilateral ethics enforcement?â Should Moore make it to the Senate  Democrats will be able to cast Republicans as the party of sex creeps only if they expel  Franken . Every time Mooreâs name is mentioned  the response will be  âWhat about  Al Franken ? And by the way  what about Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy?â
True  in a certain sense this isnât fair. What Moore probably did is worse than what  Franken  admitted doing. But politics isnât fair. Whataboutism and crying hypocrisy arenât very strong moral arguments  but theyâre easy to make and theyâre emotionally satisfying. And a photograph of obvious wrongdoing simply carries more salience than a verbal allegation â even if the allegation is credible and even if the behavior alleged is worse than that seen in the photo.
Democrats who just this week were saying they would no longer tolerate Bill Clintonâtype behavior can prove it. They can make a clear break with the past by saying no more sexual misbehavior will be tolerated  even by beloved party members. They could then leverage that moral clarity in 2018 to seek the votes of the married women who are wary about the liberal agenda but might be persuadable. Instead  theyâre protecting their own. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand either can position herself as Americaâs leading tribune for women victimized by sexual assault or she can support keeping  Franken  in the Senate  but not both. Her initial gambit â  his  apology isnât enough but âI expect to hear moreâ from Franken â is insufficient. What more is there for  Franken  to say now that  he  has admitted guilt and apologized? The Democrats are creating a three-word weapon with which the GOP will never stop beating them over the head: What. About. Franken.
Al Franken Gives Liberals Another Chance at Virtue

SOLUTION:
Al Franken Scandal : Him Staying in Senate Would Be Gift to GOP