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*bursts into thread, completely out of breath*. Guys, guys, did anyone make a "process of the catch" joke yet??

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 04:54 PM) Check that, now we’re on pace for 800 HRs! That's just Tim Anderson

Did Shields and Duffy switch uniforms

Lol James Shields Just lol

Thanks for all of the hard work to everyone who's been busy getting this site back up and improved!

Trade War!! EU promises firm response to U.S. steel tariffs Trump's using a "national security interest" provision to get around WTO rules on these tariffs. That could unleash a big can of worms internationally.

It's probably worth pointing out that Illinois already faces a teacher shortage, and gutting pay and protections and labor rights certainly wouldn't help fix that problem. It hasn't hit the Chicago area quite as hard, but districts across the rest of the state are struggling to fill open positions.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 10:04 AM) This has been in complete chaos this morning, and the meeting has now changed to a "listening session" so who knows what'll actually happen. but now it's back on and he announced tariffs. Strong and stable No White House chaos oh they got this all screwed up, let me fix that Strong and stable? No, White House chaos! more here Trump declares his trade war: targets steel, aluminum Watch for huge fallout: Will Gary Cohn and other free-traders stay after this? Trump just completely circumvented the interagency process and is executing a policy Cohn and others think is calamitous. Perhaps the thing that will most unsettle Trump is the markets falling after his announcement. Cohn and Mnuchin had been using Trump’s love of his record-setting stock market as a way to convince him not to take any dramatic trade actions. Over the course of a year Trump watched his top officials — the free-traders versus the protectionists — duke it out in front of him, in meetings that sometimes descended into officials flat out insulting each other. These fights have happened in the Oval and more recently in the Situation Room.

slime ball Devin Nunes leaked Sen. Mark Warner's personal text messages to Fox News. Republican Richard Burr and SEn. Warner met privately with Ryan who, of course, did absolutely nothing. Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s Texts

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 11:11 AM) Teachers in West Virginia are having a major strike. All 55 counties are striking, MSNBC the leading "liberal" TV station on Monday brought it up for 2 minutes in the middle of the day. None of their prime time shows even mentioned it for 5 minutes. New York Times op-ed continues to pump out absolute garbage Bret Stephens pieces, but can't have one person do one on this. But you know Russia or something.... Massive wild cat strike of 33,000 teachers.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 11:53 AM) i understand that Trump showed up and was like "FREE MONEY, IM GONNA GOLF!", but it somewhat surprises me that lifetime politicians like Price, Zinke, Pruitt, Shulkin have showed up and used their positions as black credit cards and it never occurred to any of them that it would be called out. Price is the only one who's really faced any consequences. DeVos and Pruitt have both had multi-million dollar security details from the start, they're all flying around first class and taking private jets. They're taking their signals from leadership, where clearly nobody cares about that sort of grifting.

The Lottery Hackers Long and interesting article on a couple of Michigan retirees who figured out statistical advantages in the Michigan and Mass. lotteries and walked away with millions

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 09:00 AM) Anyway, President Trump set to announce tariffs at meeting Thursday He's expected to announce 20%+ tariffs on imported aluminum and steel later today. This has been in complete chaos this morning, and the meeting has now changed to a "listening session" so who knows what'll actually happen. but now it's back on and he announced tariffs. Strong and stable No White House chaos oh they got this all screwed up, let me fix that Strong and stable? No, White House chaos!

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 09:07 AM) You quoted me and attributed a personal attack to me that never happened. Then per usual back here, someone piggybacked you on it. There’s a transcript here. How you think I’m lying I don’t know. You got caught. Yeah, and I freely admit I messed up the quote while phone-posting, and of course the way I messed it up doesn't actually have any significant impact to what you said. By the way, are you claiming you never edited your original post in any way? Here's your lie: QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 28, 2018 -> 09:25 PM) Somehow you pivoted from that initial point and it devolved into another "Trump ruins everything" rambling. This never happened. There's a transcript here. I'm perfectly happy to let this drop and to move on to actually discussing topics of interest instead of board members again.

Anyway, President Trump set to announce tariffs at meeting Thursday He's expected to announce 20%+ tariffs on imported aluminum and steel later today.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 08:57 AM) You saw SS’s post. Noticed how he denied the chance to stick by his quote to me. He go caught in his own lie. I either misread or mixed up something that isn't actually that important and said so. I didn't ramble about Trump, which was the main point of what you were claiming. Who's actually caught in the "lie" here, buddy?

andrew kaczynski? @KFILE NEW: White House appointee and aide to Ryan Zinke at Interior resigns after KFile inquiry into birther, anti-Muslim comments. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/kfi...inke/index.html She's far from the first Trump appointee or nominee who's had to resign after a history birther/bigot comments are uncovered.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 08:22 AM) Illinois changing a little will help. Everyone always points to Chicago as a reason why gun laws dont work, but literally a mile outside of city limits the laws are totally different. Thats a problem. Something like 60% of guns used in violent crimes in Chicago come from out-of-state.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 07:17 AM) Those people haven’t even begun to completely understand what’s the reforms will do for their clients. My CPA and his practice were pretty adamant that the IRS folks aren’t there yet. What he did mention is that the new tax laws will be much more flexible for corporations than the individual, and recommended I set one up for myself. Yeah, it was a mad panic for my CPA relative as everyone in their company had to work tons of overtime between when the bill passed (12/20 or so) and the end of the year to reformulate all of their clients' tax plans. On the IRS side, it won't hit the auditors directly for a few years, but the person I know on that side spent decades in the corporate tax world as did many of his colleagues. Maybe it's a biased sample, but it doesn't seem like most IRS auditors have spent their entire careers there. There was lots of coverage, and still is, regarding the pass-through tax loophole and how a lot of accountants are salivating over all of the new creative ways they can structure their clients' taxes. Like so many things in the tax world, it comes down to how you can classify different types of income to best advantage your clients, and the new law is really murky. Rather than simplifying anything, it made it even more complex for these sorts of clients (if you're a typical W-2 wage earner, it's not really relevant) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/201...-blow-wide-open The GOP tax plan creates one of the largest new loopholes in decades You can agree ideologically with a trickle-down approach and still recognize that this tax cut bill didn't simplify anything and doesn't meet the GOP promises of being focused on middle-class tax relief.

Shooter had swastikas etched into his magazines https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/968821191157977088

Your post had a "deluded" in there before you cleaned it up but it was in a jumble probably from phone posting. Speaking of making things up nobody was talking about Trump and I certainly didn't pivot to any ramblings about him.

Kushner’s Business Got Loans From Companies After White House Meetings Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup made large loans last year to the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 28, 2018 -> 08:43 PM) I think, for the first time, Trump has an actual, personal opinion about something. I think he's actually anti-gun. There's no other explanation to that roundtable today. This is insane and fascinating and.... wow. This has been one hell of a day in Trumpworld. If we win back Congress, we'll have a Democrat in office. I'm more sure of it than ever. It was essentially the same as the DACA meeting where he agreed with passing a clean dream act and then with supporting whatever Congress came up with. Why do you think he has any idea what he's talking about and won't get his ear bent by senior White House staff yet again?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 28, 2018 -> 08:22 PM) Y'all thought Feinstein should retire, and she convinced Trump to support an assault weapons ban today! HAH! I'm sure this will last at least as long as his commitment to supporting any bipartisan DACA bill presented (Kelly killed that idea the second the cameras left the room).

I didn't mention Trump, dude. E: whoops I guess the headline attributed it to "Trump tax cuts" but that was the extent of his reference, not sure was "deluded rant" you're talking about. Can you try to not make every disagreement with anyone here so personal? And I'm not surprised that companies aren't handing out the windfall to employees. I never expected otherwise. That's sort of the point--it was sold to the public as something it very obviously wasn't and isn't turning out to be. As far as the puff pieces that were being put out, many had glowing headlines but the details weren't as rosey a originally portrayed. A lot of the announcements turned out to be things that had been long planned or in pine with what the industry had been experiencing in wage growth for a number of years. Again that'd go back to if you wanted public policy to help the working and middle class, which is how this plan was promoted, you could have done a heck of a lot better than what they came up with.