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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/bla...rich/index.html In other relatively unsurprising news, yet another GOP Congressman tried to keep the Seth Rich story alive...again. Gingrich, Fox News, Hannity, MSM, where does it end?

All you have to do is trace RFK's campaign route in 1968 almost fifty years later. Migrant farm worker communities out West. Pine Ridge Reservation, Boone County SD, still the poorest in the country Appalachia Rural Mississippi Etc. The only area that significantly changed over that time was the Rust Belt, with lost factory jobs hurting Pittsburgh, the northern 2/3rds of Ohio, Cleveland, Detroit/All of Michigan particularly hard.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 24, 2017 -> 08:55 AM) So, Trump tells Philippines President Duterte that we have subs in Korean waters? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkor...s-idUSKBN18K15Y He must have meant waters outside of N.Korea, not inside the intl water boundary demarcations...probably just careless wording? Not knowing the difference?

Halladay and Johan Santana were two of the best of their generation and neither will come close, well...Halladay is on the borderline. Cole Hamels? Nah. And he'll get more votes than Buehrle, undoubtedly. East Coast bias from his Phillies' days. Sabathia's another interesting case...at any rate, right now you could probably only make a case for 5-6 current or recently retired pitchers. Felix Hernandez, Verlander and Greinke should soon join the conversation. How much does the late fade (minus 2016) hurt Verlander's chances? Same with Felix, for that matter.

48% of the births in America today rely on some element of Medicaid spending, fwiw. A huge segment of the US population is going to be affected adversely...not only that half, but the other 50% paying insurance premiums will continue to see huge premium increases as a result of people going bankrupt or not being able to pay their hospital bills out of pocket. Those costs will always be passed on to someone in the system.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-budget-sla...-172810478.html How can he say with a straight face there are no cuts to Meals on Wheels or Social Security?

Who would you choose between Happ and Jimenez...assuming they don't want Schwarber or the Cubs won't discount him? Baez would fit nicely if they had to move Anderson off SS, but that's a long ways from happening still. He'd be 3b for the White Sox.

Trump probably not Ivanka's ghostwriter based on Vad Yashem guest book entry. "It is a great honor to be here with all of my friends — so amazing + will never forget!” Trump wrote during his visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem today. "See you next summer!" Obama: “I am grateful to Yad Vashem and all of those responsible for this remarkable institution,” he wrote. “At a time of great peril and promise, war and strife, we are blessed to have such a powerful reminder of man’s potential for great evil, but also our capacity to rise up from tragedy and remake our world. Let our children come here, and know this history, so that they can add their voices to proclaim ‘never again.’ And may we remember those who perished, not only as victims, but also as individuals who helped and loved and dreamed like us, and who have become symbols of the human spirit.” https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-writes-holo...topstories.html Trump's actually much more popular than AHCA/Ryan...Dems in MT and Georgia races changing tactics to hit this vulnerability https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/05/23/paul-ry...ls.html?ref=yfp

If those mostly pull/power hitters could execute bunts with a 75% success rate, they'd have to eventually adjust but it hasn't happened yet to my knowledge...at least not on a consistent basis. Feel bad Davidson hit into a key DP in what might be his only at-bat of the series, With a huge opportunity to impress his former organization. Probably trying too hard.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 24, 2017 -> 06:21 AM) I saw it the other night, and thought it paled in comparison to the first one. This second one felt like, as I think someone here noted earlier, a mashed together series of skits, only some of which landed well. The dialogue was clunky. They did make some characters more interesting, but others became plastic. Step down for me. The Gamora and Nebula sibling rivalry turned "partnership" sucked as well...didn't feel earned.

Verlander and Felix Hernandez will be two of the pitchers to flesh out the new criteria for pitching... Mussina. Clemens. Pettitte. Jack Morris. Bartolo Colon won't make it. Sabathia will be interesting. Tim Hudson. Curt Schilling. Buehrle won't make it. Lackey has 180 wins, no way for him. Zack Greinke belongs just behind Felix and Verlander. Jon Lester on the outside looking in for now...not many choices. K-Rod as a closer for so long? Kimbrel if he holds up for another 3-5 years is likely.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/sean-hannity-says-...-023551813.html Hannity agrees to give up on the Seth Rich story for now with Fox News bleeding viewers steadily the past two weeks

Lock him up....to an extended contract, lol.

Greg, I suggest you read this whole article and see if there's anything you disagree with... http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option...p;jumival=19160 Also in here, there is huge cuts to the domestic discretionary portion of the budget. This is most of what we think of as the Federal Government: the National Parks, the National Endowment for the Arts, humanities, NIH, the National Institutes of Health. He's projecting cuts over the course of a decade of about 50% for those programs. That's an enormous cutback on the size of those programs. Also, very big hits for federal employees. He's proposing large cuts to their pay, to their retirement benefits, and I'll have to double-check this, but I believe he's even proposing to cut pensions for people who are already retired. This is money that they worked for, and he's going to take it away from them. If Mr. Mulvaney wants to look at theft, these people worked for those pensions, and their budget proposes to take it away from them. ... DEAN BAKER: We structure our whole economy in ways that create winners and losers. That's the point of my book and a lot of my writings. The people who are big winners, that's because we structured it that way. I was at the Fed yesterday, and we were talking about the Fed raising interest rates. You raise interest rates, that keeps people from getting jobs, so they're not getting jobs. Some number of people won't get jobs because the Fed raised interest rates. I understand, they're raising interest rates because they're worried about inflation. That's fine, but that's keeping people from getting jobs. So we give some of those people food stamps, we give some of those people Medicaid, you want to call that larceny? They weren't at the Fed, they weren't the ones who said that they're going to raise interest rates to keep people from getting jobs. So I can give a long list of things. Of course, I do in the book. I'm not pitching a book. It's free, so you can download it for free. But there's a long list of ways in which we'd redistributed income upwards, and I might call much of that larceny. But in any case, that's the way we structure the economy, so having some safety net programs that ensure that the people who we've made to be losers in this system don't starve, get access to healthcare, that doesn't seem like larceny to me.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-maternity...-160552617.html Ivanka's Maternity Leave Plan a CRUEL JOKE Theoretically, Trump’s leave plan could help someone like Regina Mays, who took six weeks of unpaid leave from her job that pays her about $10 an hour at a Walmart in High Point, North Carolina, after she had a baby girl last year With no money coming in, she struggled to feed herself and her four other children at home. “There was time when I paid the bills and I literally didn’t have money for food,” Mays told HuffPost recently. A relative came by with groceries for her and her kids so they didn’t go hungry. There was at least one thing Mays said she didn’t have to worry about: paying her hospital or doctor bills, which were covered by Medicaid. Trump’s budget would rip that rug out from under mothers like Mays who theoretically would get about $1,800 for her six weeks at home, but without healthcare would also be on the hook for potentially tens of the thousands of dollars in medical bills. The math is terrifying. Cutting Medicaid would be devastating for all low-income Americans, but particularly for women and mothers: 45 percent of childbirths in the U.S. were funded by Medicaid in 2010, according to data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Trump’s budget also cuts funding for after-school programs for children and support for domestic violence victims. The budget proposal lays bear a perverse, reverse Robin Hood administration ― taking from the poor to give tax cuts to the wealthy (proposed earlier this month). But on the bright side, like most White House budgets, Trump’s is unlikely to become reality. As for the parental leave plan, Democrats see it as too skimpy. And there’s little indication that GOP lawmakers, who are typically eager to cut taxes and slash social programs, would want to give Americans what the Republicans likely to view as a new entitlement.

Greg, with the new law, you can't be dropped for having pre-existing conditions. The problem is with community rating going off the books (AHCA), the prices for those with those conditions will still skyrocket. You can argue "access" and that they can't drop you, but they can certainly price you out of the market or bankrupt you anyway. Then the penalty for letting coverage lapse and trying to get under an insurance plan again when you get sick (those pre-existing conditions) will be double the already skyrocketing rates.

QUOTE (harkness @ May 23, 2017 -> 10:40 PM) Well score 5 runs in two games in Arizona launching pad probably isn't going to result in many wins. Navarro gets the game fail tonight though with the clutch strike out. Overall a decent effort however. Navarro or Narvaez? Please tell me we didn't bring back Dioner. Seems like he should be retired.

QUOTE (daggins @ May 23, 2017 -> 08:58 PM) There goes good ol' Kevan Smith. How I hate him. I hate Northside (just a bit) for hyping him for so long. He hits in Charlotte, but by god he's terrible at the big league level.

When's the last time a White Sox starter had an 8+ ERA after almost two months of pitching? 7+? Shields is the only one that comes to mind (last year), but that's an entirely different situation contractually than Covey is in. And he had a really solid stretch in the middle of all that terribleness, even though it wasn't backed up by the peripherals.

Great story. Unfortunately, he could never pass the "Sean Connery" test with a lot of Bond fans, but I'll always remember him for his tongue in cheek humor that he might have been the best of all the Bonds of pulling off...and maybe it's also the case that political correctness in the 1980's and beyond made those same jokes, knowing glances, smirks and innuendoes impossible to pull off for later Bonds.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 23, 2017 -> 08:12 PM) Young players typically struggle at first, why is this so surprising to you? Not surprising. Just that so many of them were hyped as being "sure things" that their organizations would never dream of trading. The pendulum swung too far the other way in the last couple of years. They were probably overvalued, and that might turn out to be a mistake for some of the teams that could have used a huge upgrade for their rotation like Jose Quintana. That's all.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 23, 2017 -> 08:07 PM) My biggest problem with the situation is the whole Rule 5 thing. It's not 1962 anymore. It's outdated. Either you belong in the big leagues or you don't. When it's clear you don't belong, it's time to try somebody else. A backup catcher is one thing, but a starting pitcher that can't compete is another. Or at least have the common decency to stash/hide him in the bullpen for the year as the Beck/Michael Ynoa on our current roster...who they perhaps kept around just to recruit Luis Robert as well, lol. Getting his brains bashed in start after start isn't the mark of an organization that takes care of its players and protects them.

Cabrera now tied with Jarrod Dyson for 171/182 in MLB qualified OPS, lol...

QUOTE (fathom @ May 23, 2017 -> 08:04 PM) Greg must hate him Waiting for the inevitable Elrockin is the "greatest fan in White Sox history" because he will think of something positive to say about Covey after each start, lol.

Adell is scary...just because of Courtney Hawkins. Otoh, it's not like Tim Anderson faced the best of the SEC/ACC in junior college ball playing in rural Mississippi.