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What does Ford (and her family) have to gain from all of this? Is Anita Hill's public life any better for having been dragged into a public scandal, or Monica Lewinsky's? Only if you argue that Ford is getting marching orders (and financial support) from George Soros and the Clinton's (to get revenge for Kavanaugh's Monicagate impeachment involvement) does it make sense for someone like Ford and some of the others to come forward? Think, if this was your daughter/wife/sister...what would your advice to her have been had a similar experience happened? Do you honestly think that it would be easy to tell her to subject herself to this type of media/international scrutiny? Why would anyone want to go through it? Besides, stopping Kavanaugh simply gets another conservative on the court...if she calculated the Dem's were also going to take the Senate and be able to block Trump's nomination process for 2 years, she knows a lot more than every political consultant in the entire world does.

It worked for the Pirates, but they had superlative defenders all over the field from 2012-2015. Especially their infielders.

We've also managed to make Yoan Moncada Mr. Irrelevant the last month in Hahn's push to avoid him setting the strikeout record, as well as passing some Adam Dunn K marks with the Sox as well.

New positive spin on Giolito's late season slide...subconsciously attempting to help our draft status. So we have Rodon, Lopez and 3 wing and a prayers, which will undoubtedly be Covey, Giolito and a veteran placeholder. Giolito and Covey get until June/July, HOPEFULLY NO MORE, unless they're down in the 4's for ERA.

Dems eliminated John Tower and ended up with Dick Cheney...

Seems the only Republican who would have crossed Trump on this one is McCain...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-history-clintons-220740 American Politics is Boofed

Heitkamp and Manchin need to be gone too, if they vote for Kavanaugh. As it stands, she’s already losing her race. She would actually pick up more female voters taking a stand rather than siding with Trump, because the Trumpists are already lined up with her opponent. Getting rid of Manchin won’t be as easy.

https://splinternews.com/kavanaugh-was-obsessed-with-right-wing-conspiracy-theor-1828855594 After that political speech about the Clintons, you can forget Dems not questioning every single decision he makes for the next 30-40 years. “As inventive as they were vindictive, these partisans concocted all sorts of wild theories to explain why Mr. Foster could not have killed himself. According to one of Mr. Kavanaugh’s sources, Mr. Foster had been working for the National Security Agency and was being blackmailed by the Israelis over a secret Swiss bank account. Carpet fibers had been found on Mr. Foster’s clothing, which was proof positive that he was murdered, his body wrapped in a carpet and then dumped. Another charged that “long blonde hairs” on Mr. Foster’s clothing pointed to a cover-up. [...] He investigated the Swiss bank account connection, down to examining Mr. Foster’s American Express bills for flights to Switzerland. He meticulously examined the White House carpets, old and new. (By now, Mr. Foster had been dead four years.) He sent investigators in search of follicle specimens from Foster’s bereft, blonde, teenage daughter. (“We have Foster’s hair,” one agent working for Mr. Kavanaugh reported in triumph.) Mr. Kavanaugh apparently took a special interest in Hillary Clinton’s bruited affair with Mr. Foster, a popular rumor in the fever swamps of the right. As he reported, his investigators “asked numerous people about it,” before he decided to ask Mrs. Clinton herself.”

Most miserable fan bases in pro sports (ESPN) 7. Chicago White Sox, 19.88 As a White Sox fan, you're always overshadowed by your neighbor on the North Side of town. But for 11 years, you had the bragging rights, as the White Sox won the 2005 World Series while the Cubs were scuffling through a century-plus drought. But with the Cubs getting over the hump and winning in 2016, things got that much worse for the South Siders. But even excluding the Cubs factor, it is not altogether pleasant to be a White Sox fan. The White Sox haven't made the playoffs since 2010 and have made the postseason only nine times in 114 seasons. And since they are in the midst of a massive rebuild, it doesn't look as though the White Sox will hit double digits for a while. But hey, at least Sox fans can enjoy "Eight Men Out." Can't even get that right, it was 2008, lol... http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24367000/the-top-25-most-miserable-fan-bases-professional-sports

Will any SC decision (involving Kavanaugh and Thomas) about women’s rights the next 30-40 years be taken as anything besides an act of war on women/privacy? If Garland is blocked and now this clown goes through, it’s going to be a 50-60 seat gain in the House and a Senate takeover in November. Best case scenario for Trump is to survive to 2020 but then decide not to risk losing and withdraw from politics, essentially declaring Mission Accomplished.

North Korea? Vietnam is officially communist. Venezuela in the last 10-15 years, at different points. Bolivia is fairly close, under Morales.

Cue the "BUT things are different now" responses regarding this particular ownership group and front office operating style...

To ratify a treaty, two-thirds of the Senate must vote in favor. Our politics just does not allow for that kind of consensus. Perhaps the saddest example of this dysfunction came in 2012, when the Senate could not even ratify a treaty that simply translated the Americans with Disabilities Act into an international commitment. The treaty was negotiated and signed by Republican President George W. Bush, but even with former Republican presidential candidate and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole returning to the Senate floor in his wheelchair to lend support, it garnered only 61 votes. Not bad for our hyper-partisan times, but six short of success. Only eight Republicans voted for it, and of them, only three are still in the Senate. No reasonable observer can believe that two-thirds Senate majorities are possible on difficult and contentious issues. They are not even possible on easy ones, like celebrating U.S. leadership on disability rights and extending our best practices to the rest of the world. politico.com

Seems like AGES since 2012, the last time we were playing meaningful baseball games in September. The crazy thing is that adding Abreu was one of their best moves in a generation, but it still didn't really make much of a difference...if anything, it probably delayed the rebuild by at least 2 or 3 years.

Dawn a Female Assistant @Truth08168336 Tuck it in boys, your panic is showing “Hurry and vote!” “She is not coming, is she coming?!?” “She misidentified him!!” “She is a political actor!” “No matter what, we confirm him!” “We can’t interview her, hire an attorney, we will call her our FEMALE ASSISTANT!!” Patti Solis Doyle ✔ @PattiSolisDoyle A female assistant??? In addition to conducting the questioning of Dr. Ford, will she also make the Starbucks run?

The White Sox don’t even have to play to lose these days...but at least Tim Anderson, White Sox “star,” made the national baseball news for calling out Joe West. So there’s that. Hawk will be amused, at least. Almost feel bad he couldn’t watch Tiger Woods over the weekend, instead.

On the plus side, the Internet is more upset about Crissy Teigen’s new bob hair style and how it makes her face look bigger and how she hasn’t lost as much weight after her 2nd baby. In all seriousness, Trump personally has 35% that are rock solid and unmovable, roughly 45-50% that are solidly opposed and 15-20% STILL on the fence (or not yet won over by any Democratic candidates on a national level.) That’s the only thing that makes sense, reading that recent poll arguing the GOP has peaked in popularity again at 45%, going back all the way to early 2011 and the Tea Party/anti-ACA election. You also have almost 1/3rd of Americans believing the middle class will eventually entirely disappear in America.

If you go in any direction, we’ve been beaten up by rivals. Cubs and Cardinals. Brewers and Twins with new stadiums, better attendance, more competitive teams (2002-2010, two of last three years from MN, Milwaukee recently and with Greinke/Sabathia), playoff appearances, etc. KC in 2014-15. Cleveland for the last four seasons, likely to be at least 5 in 2019, not unlike Tigers’ run at beginning of decade. About the best thing you can say is that we’re in similar situations to the Reds, Tigers, Pirates...or Mariners, for a myriad of different reasons. We’re not KC, at least? Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is we’re STILL 24th in MLB attendance, the same as 2012/13 and an improvement position-wise on 2014-17!!! Of course, the “real” revenue generation has fallen off even more dramatically than those numbers would indicate compared to the Cubs, Cardinals and Brewers. Profitability, definitely...but largely due to revenue sharing, the Chicago market and one of the most advantageous stadium lease deals. http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance Obvious problem is we’ve arguably lost another 10-15% of the fanbase...but, halfway through blind luck, we’re better positioned for competing the AL Central than any team but the Indians for the next five years (2020 is the first year you can realistically argue anything close to competitiveness, barring some shocking free agency moves.)

Clarence Thomas was probably/arguably worse...but you would have thought after #metoo and Gorsuch’s “success” that they would have looked for another straight arrow type. Hubris?

But why can’t they find another version of Kavanaugh, maybe a conservative female...do we really want to tarnish the Supreme Court further with Clarence Thomas already there? Do we really want the first justice confirmed on a 100% partisan vote? It would be sort of like Joe Moore serving in the Senate today. Not illegal, per se, but not morally the best thing for the country. Imagine the SC overturns Roe vs. Wade on the back of votes from Thomas and Kavanaugh...how embittered women across the country would feel? We keep saying let’s have objective conversations, so let’s get real here. Fewer and fewer Americans attend church once a week anymore, it might be down to 25-30%. At least 2/3rd’s or maybe even 75% of the country doesn’t want abortion to be made illegal. Why do we want to divide the country even more by going in this direction? In fact, a new candidate would give Collins and Murkowski a lot more protection on their flanks, politically. Or maybe women losing all their rights to a “minority” government will finally balance out female representation in Congress...as women get increasingly tired of 10-11 committee members (old rich white men) deciding and controlling their private lives and run for office?

Can’t wait to see if he decides to “soldier on” like Collins, Hunter and Joe Moore...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-attacks-kavanaugh-accuser-string-134819897.html Is Trump even human? How can you have zero empathy when you have two daughters of your own? Even ___________ (fill in the blank with random infamous world dictators) somehow exhibited more emotions/caring in his relationships.

https://t.co/YIDC3rrdbi https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-tries-zillow-prove-kavanaugh-012933947.html Man tries to use Zillow to prove Kavanaugh's innocence and ends up owning himself

Apparently we need to show the career OPS numbers of all the Cubs' position prospects that have come up in the last half decade and compare them. Do we get any credit for Palka? A little, I guess...