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So, if you've never seen a dam collapse, California is on the verge of having one tonight after failure of the ground beneath the dam's main spillway.

Jeff Sessions's literal first move after becoming Attorney General is to roll back Obama Administration guidance regarding transgender students and discrimination in schools. So again, who was it who said the LGBTQ community would have no issues with this administration?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 11, 2017 -> 08:15 AM) Well kind of. Some of the voters just wanted something different to help them out in some miraculous way like that town in Wisconsin. The base you are referring to think the most incompetent executive branch, maybe in history, is the best ever. Mostly because they've wanted someone in that position who is as racist as they are. Or who are as scared as they are. But they are slowly finding out that their desires financially aren't quite as aligned with the administration as was promised during the campaign. And that part is going to suck for them. There's a reason why so many Republicans refer to them as "illegals". You don't have to acknowledge that someone is even human if they're illegal. If they're an illegal, they deserve to be rounded up. That is what their party has sold from the highest levels for basically my lifetime - it goes away every now and again and then comes storming back. Those voters don't care if things done at the top level hurt them...as long as they hurt the illegals more.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 10, 2017 -> 09:58 PM) The 20-30% of voters in the middle will have to choose a side. Right now, it's probably 25-30% strongly for and 40% strongly against. Here's his polling aggregate, slightly improved since the Muslim ban. This is who our country is.

Iranian born, U.S. Based doctor travels to Iran for a couple weeks a year to perform complicated surgeries on a handful of unborn Iranian babies, literally saves a couple of babies per year as his way of giving back to his homeland. Only a handful of other people on Earth know this technique, many of them trained by him. I'm sure you can see where this is going. This year's 3 kids are going to die. He can't leave the country and be sure he'll be able to get back in. Those babies should have known better than to be conceived Muslim.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 10, 2017 -> 08:30 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/09/us/arizona-g...ests/index.html I can't imagine going through this (mother separated from 2 American-born kids) deportation protest 800,000 times is going to sit well with the Catholic Church. The Pope is much more popular than Trump...and it's going to drive almost every Hispanic-American to the left. Please people, stop thinking Trump's Voters will find something bad about this. This is EXACTLY what they wanted. No, Demanded. For years. This is the dream of the Republican base.

Donald Trump is violating U.S. Classified Document handling requirements in this AP press photo. Lock him up.

Happy valentine's day from the Central Michigan College Republicans.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 06:55 PM) A system where everyone is independent and fighting to keep their own budgets at the expense of everyone else is exactly how we got the system we have now. The best chance of it happening is to have it insulated outside of politically managed governmental organizations. Let me put it this way, how is the system we have now going to fix those problems? How are they preventing the next too big to fail? The answer is they can't. They are quite literally not able to because those agencies do not possess the powers to do anything about things like too big to fail. This system is only geared towards stopping the last bad thing, and not the next one, because that is how they get a budget. And because preventing the next collapse will cost people money in advance of the collapse, so the more fragmented the regulatory apparatus is, the more easily it is beaten to make money during that time.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 9, 2017 -> 01:54 AM) The bulls have the worst front office in chicago right? Well, let's see, the same ownership runs the White Sox so...that's not great. And the Bears...yes they've got things seemingly better right now, but 2 years ago Trestman/Emery were the guys employed by that ownership. The Bulls have taken a narrow lead at best.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 9, 2017 -> 11:29 AM) Brady's numbers were also super pedestrian pre Randy Moss year, he wasn't carrying the team to anything back then. Dude is obviously a great qb and one of the best ever but I'll stick with team Beli. His overall numbers were pedestrian but you may also have to correct for the era. In 2002, his 2nd full season, he led the league in passing TD with 28. In 2005, he led the league in passing yards, with 4110.

So let's see, was just at a small rally at this school, bout a hundred people, out of that group we had one student who is blocked from his wife, a couple who just wanted their parents to be able to come to their graduation, and a couple who just started graduate programs and now can't risk going home or traveling overseas for research/conference purposes for more than half a decade. Also had a guy who returned from Afghanistan last year who is sponsoring 2 Afghans to come to this country.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 9, 2017 -> 02:22 PM) https://mobile.twitter.com/drewharwell/stat...src=twsrc%5Etfw Even the author of right-wing attack tome "Clinton Cash," who has worked very closely with Bannon in the past, is dubious about the WH promoting Ivanka's line. Who goes first? Conway or Spicer? None of them, they have clear and strong support of a majority in Congress and they're making good on their #1 goal - removing people who look wrong?

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 02:03 PM) I'm no constitutional lawyer, but do those rights extend to non-citizens? I wouldn't think so, but knowing our SCOTUS decisions on illegal immigrants i'm sure the law is every citizen of the world has constitutional rights. Also, recent history aside, is this a decision we want on our books? That our government can't deny a class of aliens from entering the country? What if we go to war against Iran? Wouldn't we want to be able to bar them? Let's ask that question in reverse. Is a decision saying that the government can discriminate against immigrants from a country because we later went to war with that country one we want on the books? Well, technically it still is.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 09:57 AM) What would 31-year old Adam Dunn get in this market? I'm looking at the numbers in the 3 years before he hit FA and thinking he might be in that 2/$20 range? Maybe longer and a little more money than Napoli et al. since he had hit better than them, but was never an all around star?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 09:26 AM) #AlternativeFacts http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trave...iraq-mom-2017-2 Thank you, I had not seen that. Post edited.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 10:04 AM) I wonder what they would have to do to actually get fired? The same thing Robin Ventura had to do. Resign.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 09:34 AM) Sure the Sox could win 77 games if Holland/Shields/Gonzalez each pitch to an ERA, say, of 4 or a little less, the bullpen is a little sturdier (which it actually should be), Anderson gets better offensively et al....AND if Hahn halts the tear down of the team. If those guys pitch that well, then we're going to pick up 4-5 minor league players at the trade deadline and be relieved of Shields's contract. That's pretty good right there. Try to stock up the lower levels of the minors and 1 or 2 of those guys might break out in a few years - that's literally one of the things that worked for Cleveland.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 10:01 AM) Yeah it's possible they use this year to see what they have in some of the youngsters. Next off-season, they can deal for Q if he isn't traded before then (which he probably will) and sign another starter. The following off-season, they can sign one of Harper/Machado or maybe Harper + Donaldson. They could very well be the ideal team to be involved at the trade deadline. If they're in the game for the wild card at that time, which they have a shot at being...pitching will be on their list of needs, and they won't want whatever they acquire to impact their ability to spend in FA.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 09:05 PM) Nah, just growing tired of the minute by minute overreaction circle jerk on this board. 7 days into their administration they canceled the visas of somewhere between 60-100,000 people who held legal visas, detained hundreds of people at airports with no warning for several days, ordered DHS to seize and investigate people's social media accounts upon entry to the country, and in the process wound up sweeping up travelers from a variety of other countries and even U.S. citizens if they also had backgrounds in those countries. Please, continue.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 05:40 PM) Yes, no Sale every fifth game and no Eaton. But..there are a few things that make the team better in some respects than it was last year. No Danks, No Matt Latos, No Matt Albers, a better option at SS to start the season than Jimmy Rollins, a better option at second base with Moncada, possibly a better clubhouse attitude without Sale and Eaton, and a much better Manager than Robin Ventura. A Closer other than Robertson might be another plus considering the key games he blew that really helped to turn the season around. It is too early to make any predictions though. We will have a better idea during Spring Training, don't you think? The Sox have question marks but I am not ready to predict last place out of 30 teams yet. No Danks or Latos, but James Shields and Derek Holland, Yoan Moncada may not even see the big leagues this season so that's still Lawrie until he is hurt or traded, Robertson will still be closing until dealt.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 05:32 PM) Financial regulation in this country is a flat out disaster. You have dozens of different agencies, each with a piece of responsibilities of the overall pie. None of these organizations work together to share relevant information. Many of these rules have overlapping regulatory bodies, of which often don't disagree on the actual interpretation of the rules, and each tells the same firm to do something different with the same item. Each of these agencies got their start out of a different federal agency, most of which don't even fall under the scope of the financial sector anyway (as in neither the SEC or the Federal Reserve bank as their heads) This is just another step down that road of discombobulated financial regulations in a attempt to do some good, but without a true understanding of what actually would do some good here. Do you really want to fix regulatory issues? Burn it all to the ground and start over again. Place all financial regulatory authority into the Federal Reserve bank. Give them the authority to investigate and connect all financial products, and not just the banking system. You could even do this with the SEC at the lead, but to me it doesn't sense to do it without the institution responsible for monetary policy being the head of it. Then you have one agency with the ability to oversee all financial products, instead of just one thing at a time. You shouldn't have one body for stocks, one body for options, one body for bonds, one body for mortgage securities, one body for options, etc. Get it all under the same roof. Then you can start to fix what is systemic with the overall system, instead of just trying to stab at individual problems. I have zero issue with this suggestion and would generally support it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 06:47 PM) When was the last "bipartisan committee" to actually get something constructive done in Washington? Simpson/Bowles on budgeting? That commission failed in its one goal - issuing an agreed upon budgetary framework that the Congress would vote on. It never issued a report or any official recommendations.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 11:08 AM) Because when you impose lots of layers of regs that are overlapping in purpose, doing all that paperwork and documentation takes time, and therefore costs money. It's also less time doing what customers want them to do - analysis and guidance. That's not to say you should have no regs, but instead that you make sure you make the burden as low as possible to still achieve the ends. And let's be frank, if all people want to do is pick a few mutual funds, they really don't need an advisor to begin with. But if they do meet with one...that advisor is going to do all they can to sell that person on the idea that they should invest in the products they sell rather than a few mutual funds.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 03:51 PM) Trump has sheriffs in the White House, brags about how he is the first President to have them there. Talks about the sad situation in Chicago mentioning those sheriffs would clean it up immediately, then lies about the murder rate being the highest in 45-47 years. If that were true, aren't these sheriffs he is commending and saying would stop all the killing in Chicago, not able to stop the killing in their neck of the woods? Obviously any murder rate should be considered too high, but if you really think about it, praising these law enforcement people then talking about murder rates being sky high is contradicting yourself. Those sheriffs would be doing an even better job if they could rough up more people who look the wrong way.