StrangeSox

Homer doesn't even have it's own police force, saw Romeoville police blocking off the intersection at 143rd and Lemont. That must have been a square mile or so that they were rerouting traffic around.

Kansas is failing even harder, with projected budget shortfalls growing over the next few years. Good thing we're going to go full Kansas on the federal level.

W's ethics lawyer thinks that Trump not fully divesting himself means he's in violation of the Constitution on Day 1 and should be impeached. https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/808696929...src=twsrc%5Etfw Odds of that happening are 0% though.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 16, 2016 -> 11:49 AM) Unleashing cyber attacks would be capable of opening up the very rich information of all of putin's dealings with his oligarch base. It can open up avenues for dissent to be heard. It undermines his power within Russia. That is still powerful regardless of what happens on inauguration day. Did anyone in Russia give a s*** when all of his shady dealings related to the Panama Papers came out?

Fake news is a convenient scapegoat, but the big 2016 problem was the real news

oh wait, of course it can! Trump reportedly not planning to divest from his businesses

ahaha his ambassador is his bankruptcy lawyer. http://www.npr.org/2016/12/16/505845640/tr...sador-to-israel this cannot get any more ridiculous.

House explosion last night in Homer, they were rerouting traffic and evacuating people in a pretty large area due to a gas leak https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribu...android-verizon

Hypothetically, what happens if there's evidence of Trump's campaign actually colluding with Russia in some way?

Trump to appoint David Friedman as US Ambassador to Israel. Friedman's an atheist anarcho-capitalist

Obama to hold press conference tomorrow on Putin/Trump hacking

That's the problem, and while I get what you're saying SB, it feels like unilateral disarmament right now.

Unfortunately, though, at the same time Democrats are rightfully trying to figure that out, Republicans are going to be doubling down on their voter disenfranchisement efforts and there'll be no one in the Department of Justice to give even the slightest amount of push back since it's going to be run by a guy known for trying to prosecute black people for registering people to vote.

Trump’s 17 cabinet-level picks have more money than a third of American households combined

Buck Up, Democrats, and Fight Like Republicans

It's s***ty scammers all the way down!

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Dec 14, 2016 -> 12:38 PM) What the f*** does Trump think he's doing? exactly what his white populist base (along with standard Republicans) elected him to do: dismantle the federal government those "elites" put together.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Dec 14, 2016 -> 12:23 PM) SS do you really think people changed their vote because of Comey's letter? Sure, maybe a few but a majority of people knew who they were going to vote for before it. Both independent and internal analysis found that the first letter, 11 days before the election, collapsed her support but that she largely recovered from that. The second letter saying "oops, turns out that thing that was really obviously nothing? it was nothing after all!", released the Friday before the election, boosted Trump's numbers. Together, it was likely enough to put him over the edge and give him the narrow victories he needed to win the electoral college. It's not about whether it changed someone's mind and they decided to go from voting for Clinton to voting for Trump, it's about reducing the likelihood of marginal Clinton voters from turning out and boosting the likelihood of marginal Trump voters to turn out. Now you can also put forth an argument that a better-run campaign from Clinton won't have been as vulnerable to this last-minute bulls***, but Comey's letter still changed the coverage of the campaign for the last two weeks back to EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS!!!

Even though there's plenty of bulls*** to put some of the blame on (Comey's bulls*** letter arguably being the thing that put Trump over the top), there's still plenty of things Democrats need to figure out internally. And nobody who was associated with Clinton 2008 or 2016 at the top levels should ever be allowed to run a campaign again.

What I want to see some additional reporting on is how all of these truly awful people can cause damage. What sorts of policies and rules can a fundamentalist Christian anti-public secular education Sec. Ed really put in place? How much damage can they do, and what can possibly be done to counteract it?

Reuters had their own long piece on the extrajudicial massacres going on there right now. http://www.reuters.com/investigates/specia...duterte-police/

And said that Duterte's tackling their drug problem "the right way."

Britain did something similar to Stonehenge.

Interesting article on Cahokia, an ancient city that's right outside of St. Louis. My wife and I stopped there for a couple of hours when we were heading back from St. Louis back in 2011, and I'd recommend it to anyone passing through the area. At its peak in about 1100 AD, it had a population of as many as 30,000 people, which would have made it larger than London or Paris at that time. It was the largest city to have existed north of Mexico in the Americas until the Europeans came over, and its the largest archaeological site in North America. http://arstechnica.com/features/2016/12/th...-louis-suburbs/