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Of course, you have the many cases of spying against the US or being double agents...but that’s a bit different from treason by a government officer/official/executive. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1951 Born May 12, 1918 (Julius) September 25, 1915 (Ethel) Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. (both) Died June 19, 1953(aged 37) Ethel June 19, 1953(aged 35) Julius Ossining, New York, U.S. (both) Resting place Wellwood Cemetery Suffolk County, New York Occupation Actress, singer, secretary (Ethel); electrical engineer(Julius) Criminal charge Conspiracy to commit espionage Criminal penalty Death Criminal status Executed Children Michael Meeropol, Robert Meeropol Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Unionand were tried, convicted, and executed by the Federal government of the United States. They provided top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the USSR and were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons.[1][2][3]

Philip Vigol and John Mitchell, convicted of treason and sentenced to hanging; pardoned by George Washington; see Whiskey Rebellion. John Fries, the leader of Fries' Rebellion, convicted of treason in 1800 along with two accomplices, and pardoned that same year by John Adams. Governor Thomas Dorr 1844, convicted of treason against the state of Rhode Island; see Dorr Rebellion; released in 1845; civil rights restored in 1851; verdict annulled in 1854. John Brown, convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1859 and executed for attempting to organize armed resistance to slavery. Aaron Dwight Stevens, took part in John Brown's raid and was executed in 1860 for treason against Virginia. William Bruce Mumford, convicted of treason and hanged in 1862 for tearing down a United States flag during the American Civil War. Walter Allen was convicted of treason on September 16, 1922 for taking part in the 1921 Miner's March with the coal companies and the US Army on Blair Mountain, West Virginia. He was sentenced to 10 years and fined. During his appeal to the Supreme Court he disappeared while out on bail. United Mineworkers of America leader William Blizzard was acquitted of the charge of treason by the jury on May 25, 1922.[12]

https://www.milb.com/milb/news/nick-madrigal-intimidates-with-bat-in-kannapolis-debut/c-286252246 Story on Madrigal debut. Entire OSU career, 40 doubles and 37 strikeouts. That’s a crazy-time stat.

If not for the mainstream media coverage: 1) There wouldn’t have been an end to the Vietnam War 2) Watergate would have been successfully covered up 3) the true depths of the evil going on during the Civil Rights movement in the South would have never seen the light of day 4) there would have been no Church Committee pushing back on CIA-backed executions in Africa, Central/South America and the Caribbean The modern media has always been the greatest check on the expansion of absolute power...especially with the invention of radio, television and finally, the Internet. When did the media start becoming culpable, exactly?

Less susceptible to abuse? Wtf? How?

On the plus side, we can practically cut our defense budget down to near zero because North Korea, China and especially Russia are not our foes...the European Union is.

It’s not Trump and it’s not Congress...who else is left, the Supreme Court? Trump has many business aspirations in Russia that Putin can make or break. In 1986, Trump met with the Soviet ambassador about building a luxury hotel in Moscow, and announced a potential Trump International complex there. At the 2008 Russian Real Estate Summit, Trump touted plans for condos and hotels in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi. In 2011, he licensed his name to an aborted Azerbaijan hotel for $1 million and promoted a Trump Tower in Kazakhstan. Even as he campaigned for the Republican nomination, Trump signed a letter of intentto build Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump’s business depends heavily on Russian money. Donald Trump Jr. said in 2008 that “Russians make up a … disproportionate cross-section of … our assets,” and later added, “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Eric Trump told a journalist, “We don’t rely on American banks; we have all the funding we need out of Russia.” (He later denied saying that.) In 2008, Deutsche Bank’s real estate group stopped lending to Trump after he defaulted on a $330 million loan. Inexplicably, he subsequently borrowed $75 million from another DB group. European and American regulators punished DB for laundering billions from Moscow. It’s not a huge leap to suspect that Trump’s DB money came from Russia. ... Throughout the 2000s, Russians bought many apartments in Trump Tower and $100 million worth of Trump properties in Florida. But these sales dropped precipitously in 2014 after the U.S. imposed sanctions on Russian oligarchs for the Crimean incursion. Lifting sanctions would likely restore these sales, and the profits would flow through a trust run by Trump's sons, with the president as sole beneficiary. Indeed, Trump admitted that he’d “be looking at” lifting them. salon.com

House of Cards

Lol...US allies are basically begging for the formation of a shadow government! So it is significant that Maas used the words "White House" rather than the United States -- because it reflects how Europeans are increasingly looking for ways to engage Washington through other centers of power rather than through the capricious President. Beneath the uproar of Trump's disruptive blast through Europe, strong links remain between the military, business, intelligence agencies and civil society groups on either side of the Atlantic. Those may be crucial to riding out the Trump storm. Nicholas Dungan, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who teaches at the prestigious French research university Sciences Po, said it was time for America's friends in Europe and for the US leadership class -- political figures, CEOs, heads of think tanks and universities -- to take action. "Stop wringing your hands ... get your act together and start doing things that are going to repair the situation, rather than just sitting around and talking about how bad the situation is with Trump," he said. Dungan argued that America's friends -- like French President Emmanuel Macron, Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- need to adopt a dual track approach: "You need two different policies. You need one policy to the individual Donald Trump, because it's clear that he doesn't make the distinction between himself and his office. You need another policy toward the United States of America." Source: Fake news CNN (even though an intelligence expert appearing on one of their programs was recently quoted in this thread)

Why don’t you challenge her to a debate to elevate your own candidate’s national profile? Since that battle with Crowley was entirely about local and US policy, it’s no surprise she needs to play catch-up on these topics. And the bar is pretty low with Trump’s own lack of foreign affairs expertise painfully obvious...that’s the risk of choosing someone with no or little political experience. Having had the opportunity to travel abroad (see Kennedy’s) due to inherited wealth also isn’t her particular advantage.

Well, considering the shadow government is actually Trump/Russia...we’ve already seen it. The only question is how long Trump’s base remains loyal before they begin to start putting country over ideology. Congress is finally starting to turn on him.

You’ve really gone off the deep end twisting yourself into a pretzel to defend the indefensible...sigh.

13 homers in 65ish games is asking a lot...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/henry-wallace-americas-forgotten-visionary-politician_b_8569658.html Interesting to speculate what would have happened had Henry Wallace (FDR's first VP) become president instead... 1948 presidential election Wallace left his editorship position in 1948 to make an unsuccessful run as the Progressive Party's presidential candidate in the 1948 presidential election. With Idaho Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor as his vice presidential running mate, his platform advocated universal government health insurance, an end to the nascent Cold War, full voting rights for black Americans, and an end to segregation. His campaign included African American candidates campaigning alongside white candidates in the segregated South and he also refused to appear before segregated audiences or to eat or stay in segregated establishments. Time magazine, which opposed the Wallace candidacy, described Wallace as "ostentatiously" riding through the towns and cities of the segregated South "with his Negro secretary beside him".[44] A barrage of eggs and tomatoes were hurled at Wallace and struck him and his campaign members during the tour. Wallace's opponent President Truman, condemned such mob violence as "highly un-American business which violated the American concept of fair play." State authorities in Virginia sidestepped enforcing their own segregation laws by declaring Wallace's campaign gatherings as private parties.[45] The "Guru letters" reappeared and were published, seriously damaging his campaign.[23] More damage was done to Wallace's campaign when journalists H.L. Mencken and Dorothy Thompson, both longtime and vocal New Deal opponents,[46] charged that Wallace and the Progressives were under the covert control of Communists. Wallace's refusal to disavow publicly his endorsement by the Communist Party cost him the backing of many anti-Communist liberals and of independent socialist Norman Thomas. Wallace suffered a decisive defeat in the election to the Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman. He finished in fourth place with 2.4% of the popular vote. Some historians now believe his candidacy was a blessing in disguise for Truman, as Wallace's frequent criticisms of Truman's foreign policy, combined with his overt acceptance of Communist support, served as a refutation of the Republicans' claim that Truman was "soft on communism". Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond finished ahead of Wallace in the popular vote. Thurmond managed to carry four states in the Deep South (all in which he was designated as the "Democratic" nominee), gaining 39 electoral votes to Wallace's electoral total of zero.

Putin couldn’t have been behind this most recent nerve agent attack because The Donald and Theresa May warned him...and he is so much more fearful of Trump than Obama or HRC. Honestly, at this point, we might as well install the Kushners as King and Queen and Donald Jr., as the Court Jester/Gaston from Beauty and the Beast comedic foil. Things could hardly be more embarrassing.

And for the 90-95% of Tepublicans who are too afraid to? Just punt?

The amazing thing is that the generic Congressional preference has only swung about 2% in favor of the Dems (8% total) over the last month...both sides are pretty firmly entrenched by now.

I’m pretty sure Greg’s Kansas (or Westboro Baptist) is not quite ready for Davids quite yet...that type of campaign works better with suburban soccer moms in Johnson County than outlying/rural areas. Sylvia Williams from Leawood is the seventh Democrat and second woman in the race. Like the other six candidates, Williams has never held public office. A recently retired banker who grew up in southeast Kansas, Williams says Congress needs people with financial experience but focused on the middle class. “They don’t care about the stock market," she says. “We need to get some policies passed that help small businesses. We need to get policies passed that help kids in college have better accessibility to financing for their college loans.” Williams says she does not want to arm teachers and she would support an assault weapons ban. She also says she supports women’s issues and embraces diversity. Also in the race is Sharice Davids, an economic development consultant, Tom Niermann, a teacher, Chris Haulmark, an IT executive, Brent Welder, a labor lawyer, Jay Sidie a businessman who ran against Yoder in 2016 and Mike McCamon who also has a technology background. kcur.com

What does 2019-2020 FA Class look like for top outfielders?

Trump’s political genius is this... https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/07/15/fareed-zakaria-gps-republican-party-ideals-malleable-sot-vpx.cnn Sasse calls Putin a “murderer” ahead of meeting https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sen-ben-sasse-calls-putin-murderer-says-trump-065804378--abc-news-topstories.html

What other choice do they have? It’s up to individual candidates to create the enthusiasm, however. Fwiw, the heart of the Trump Revolution was SE Minnesota, NE Iowa, SW Wisconsin, W-NW Illinois. That’s also why Cheri Bustos gets brought up over and over again, for being able to successfully speak to those voters. On the GOP side, it’s Will Hurd holding down the biggest Congressional district in the country, a Texas district that’s majority Latino while he is biracial (half white, half African American.)

Read he was consistently at 97-98 that inning...let’s hope he can sustain better than Giolito.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-futures-game-20180715-story.html article on Basabe and Cease starring in Futures Game

Winner: Immigration France’s unique beauty (in the World Cup) was its diversity – its distinct personalities and backgrounds, and the way they blended together. Les Bleus represented all of France – all cultures, all socio-economic classes. They were predominantly the sons and grandsons of immigrants, of Congolese and Haitian and Catalan and Martiniquais and Guinean and Nigerian and Italian and Cameroonian and Algerian and Mauritanian and Portuguese and Senegalese and Malian and Togolese and German and Angolan and Zairian and Moroccan and Filipino descent. A few were born abroad themselves. While some European nations that have historically maintained stricter immigration policies, and whose soccer federation have been plagued by explicit and implicit racism, failed to even qualify for the 2018 World Cup, France represented the powers of merit-based integration and inclusion. Immigration is not the reason France won the World Cup, per se, nor the reason Belgium and England made the semifinals with diverse squads. But merit-based integration and inclusion are reasons France has such an insanely talented pool of players to pick from. https://sports.yahoo.com/14-winners-14-losers-2018-world-cup-best-modern-era-200353611.html

https://news.gallup.com/poll/224864/football-americans-favorite-sport-watch.aspx https://finance.yahoo.com/news/handwritten-letter-tom-seaver-inside-business-baseball-nostalgia-143017186.html