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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/eco...25d0_story.html Potential business conflicts mounting...already met with Mumbai property developers since the election, and lots of stories going around that Blair House is essentially being replaced by the Trump International Hotel as foreign nations seek to "impress/pay homage to" Trump by booking suites at his new Washington hotel. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hous...on-fight-223366 House Erupts After Votes Mysteriously Shift on LGBT discrimination

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 20, 2016 -> 08:57 AM) Tweeted another one earlier today. Not sure if still up. He took out the one about not even being able to memorize their lines...commenting about it being overrated, ripping on Harry Reid and wanting equal time on SNL, so much for staying away from Twitter. The only real shocker is that he hasn't gone after Duterte, Xi Jinping/China or Mexico in the last 24 hours.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trum...-231649?ref=yfp Paying for infrastructure with a gasoline tax rather than creating thousands of toll roads and bridges might work but it's going to be a struggle to get through Congress.

Well, at least Romney over Giuliani for Secretary of State would be an improvement. Trump's Hamilton tweet disappeared.

Understated but poignant Loving is very good...about interracial marriage VA case that finally made it to the Supreme Court. The chameleonesque Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga from Agents of SHIELD star. Not sure if it's an Academy Award contenders but the reviews have been quite solid (89 at rt.com). Considering the history is 50-60 years ago, it's even more jarring to watch with this election season as the backdrop. Nerve with Emma Roberts and Dave Franco was a lot better than expected...

http://www.espn.com/blog/chicago/bulls/pos...oss-to-clippers Blame for Bulls' loss goes deeper than Hoiberg

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 06:42 PM) I agree. They simply can't make a decision or focus on one direction or when they do actually pick a direction, they fail to execute-- like all the time. Seriously, how do they still have a job? Their rationale for not making trades at the deadline in 2015 was they felt they "were still in it" Boy that was horrible judgment. Not to mention they half assed another winter of fixing the team- bringing in Frazier and a bunch cheap scraps. In 2016 at the trade deadline-- their rationale for not beginning the rebuild was that "teams in the race were unwilling to deal from their main roster to obtain high needs-- we will have more trade options in the offseason when there is an even playing field" or "it was hard to deal veterans with more than one year left on their contracts... Seriously? Nobody wanted Frazier or Melky? Seriously, what will their next excuse be for failing to operate a successful rebuilding offseason? "Nothing panned out so we will gage the market again in July" Or Jones. The odds of him lasting four more years without recurring arm and back problems for someone with his mechanics...not good. Speaking of reliever values, Cecil just signed with the Cards for $30.5 million over four years.

QUOTE (Tony @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 06:37 PM) LET IT DIE. (Unless he's smarter than we think and he's trying to take away attention from the Trump U stuff). https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/...134631467012096 "Couldn't even memorize lines." Says the same person who always goes off script with the teleprompter, refused to do much debate prep and has never memorized an accurate figure orstatistic relating to public policy. That's his narcissism speaking, his own fear of memorizing lines and following scripts being projected onto others in demeaning way. So for all those who ripped Obama for golf, smoking, vacations, Final Four picks...we've got the leader of the free world wasting time on commenting about a performance he didn't even attend in person. Petty. It's like when Truman went after critics ripping his daughter's performance in a play. You have to be above that.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 06:32 PM) True, although I would call it a major retooling. If done right, it could work (big if). And likely a large amount of spending after 2018...especially if you don't crush the Sale trade. See Sabathia to Brewers for sheer and utter garbage. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/3084786// The Indians were able to survive that one, though. Brings a smile thinking back to Ozzie jokingly referring to him as LaFatta.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 07:05 AM) He should maybe win office somewhere. That actually might be more of a negative in this new politics...outsidery, much less of an official record to be blasted, not a captive of Washington Swamp=positive. http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/11/21/jonah...clinton?ref=yfp The Fall of the House of Clinton...interesting reading, despite the source

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 01:58 PM) Foreign diplomats get sales pitch for new DC Trump Hotel as way to curry favor with the new President. Not a surprise, as they already lost their anchor restaurant over the whole set of anti-Mexican comments. It explains partially why Ivanka was there, that project's her baby. It's going to be interesting to see how many Trump-branded projects pop up outside of the US. Obviously, Kushner's background is in real estate development as well. No issue there at all with him having security clearance and getting a constant stream of insider information. Then there are the golf courses and tournaments to track. Ivanka's jewelry and clothing lines are already up 50%. The Bannon/Kushner Trump TV project, how to monetize his position and especially make money off all those followers. And look at the uptick in the two for-profit prison companies since the election. Hopefully Elizabeth Warren continues to fight him...just these conflicts alone will keep her in business.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 04:16 PM) Yeah, I wonder what percent of those who didn't vote, did so because they didn't want either one of those two anyway. Can't act like every non-vote would have gone to Hillary, or even enough of them to change the results. Hell, that was my position until my family guilted me in to deciding to vote, of which I screwed up anyway by apparently missing the registration deadline. My vote was going to Kasich though. Bit isn't the popular vote margin already close to 1.4 million and expected to climb even further by the end of November? It's already a 1 point spread head-to-head in favor of Clinton. https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-ceo-pre...-145037063.html World leaders at APEC aim at Trump on trade LoL at Obama's line buried at the very end of the story. He must already be very tired trying to defend the guy. He's going to fight all of them on Twitter tonight at 3 a.m.?

This sounds like the no offers of three years or longer last offseason nonsense. Why we would even put idiotic stuff like that out there as a floating/planted media rumor is beyond me. How about we finally get some results?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 10:59 AM) They have money to spend. The problem is that spending money does not make you a strong team if you don't have a strong organization around them. Baseball has been teaching teams that lesson for a decade now - the last team that made themselves into a world series winner based almost entirely on free agent acquisitions was the 09 Yankees. You can use the FA market to supplement players and fill a handful of holes, but if you're signing 3 guys you better have a strong enough roster to absorb 1 of them completely flopping and 1 of them underperforming. The Royals, the Indians, the Cubs, the Mets, the teams that are making the world series are teams that build a strong internal foundation then add 1-2 pieces to it. If the White Sox had ballooned their payroll to $150 million last year, signed Cespedes instead of Jackson, they're still not a playoff team. They're probably over .500. And that's with hindsight of knowing that Cespedes was still ok last year, while some of the other expensive OFs were flops. If the White Sox had ballooned their payroll by adding Heyward, well you know. Or Gordon. Or Upton. You would have had to go 3/4 or 4/4 on your moves, like trading scraps for Jean Segura, and signing Trumbo, Desmond and Fowler. Plus bringing in a different pitcher than Shields...or still having Guerra on the roster. Almost everything would have to break right.

I actually enjoyed Hacksaw Ridge more than The Arrival, but maybe it was due to watching both on a laptop. That, or seeing about 25 versions of similarly-themed movies in a previous lifetime. Maybe it's also attributable to not liking Jeremy Renner all that much.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/polit...voters/?ref=yfp You can keep studying white working class voters, but we know the answer (already)

Can he launch a pre-emptive cruise missile strike at US/domestic targets if he gets REALLY angry? At Alec Baldwin or most of the brothers except Stephen? What next, reporters picking on Ivanka will end up at Guantanamo Bay for waterboarding and rectal feeding under Mike Pompeo?

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 12:03 AM) Yes, sir, but you know that line "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry ." Teams now seem to be of this mindset where they covet and will never trade their top tier young players and prospects and will only trade their second tier prospects and players who have injuries or other issues. If that turns out to be the case, then what do we do ? Adding to that...there may no longer be a Draft day pay-off for tanking seasons in an era where there is a race to last so teams can game the system like the Cubs did. So we could be "mired in mediocrity" for longer than any of us anticipated with this rebuilding plan. Shelby Miller, Giles and Kimbrel trades say hello, for example. If you're going for it now, can you really risk gambling that Sonny Gray and Chris Archer are close to the equivalents of Sale coming off the seasons they had? Both GM's are going to ask for overpays, but which of the three gives you the most certainty? The Astros are already much stronger...it's clearly a situation in the AL where there are already 9-10 teams that are clearly better suited to compete, spend more and with better farm systems to trade from. We have more possible combinations of players available to fill multiple holes simultaneously, such as Sale and Frazier...or Quintana and Cabrera, Abreu, Eaton or Nate Jones, Robertson, etc. If this isn't the best time...or the trade deadline in 2017, there never will be a better time and we'll just sit on those guys until they become another Jenks, Crede, Floyd, Danks or Crain due to injuries. We already had numerous opportunities where we could have dealt Robertson to start the rebuild and now they're stuck with him. Cabrera, as well, will not be on the next White Sox playoff team and has elevated himself to where you don't have to eat salary to trade him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pence-booed...-063728742.html Two NY Times writers defended Pence/office of the Vice President https://gma.yahoo.com/autographed-trump-hat...topstories.html "autographed" hats and books sold for crazy prices by Trump campaign were all signed by autopen

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/ste...view/index.html New Republican Party will rule for 50 years according to Bannon...with 40% of black and Hispanic votes. $1 trillion in infrastructure spending planned. Yay! That means we won't have to hear about blowing up the Federal debt, fiscal responsibility or wasteful big government spending (while simultaneously lowering revenues due to across the board tax cuts) again. It might even work. Trump inherits a much stronger economy in terms of stock market, unemployment, inflation and GDP growth than when Obama entered the White House in January, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/11...h-pkg-lead.cnn# $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan (over ten years)...of course no pork barrel projects allowed But lots of tolls/road usage fees on the horizon, as well as tax credits....all predicated on keeping interest rates low/er http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-12/t...e-plan-feasible Moreover, while certain types of infrastructure projects lend themselves to private financing, projects like toll roads, airports or water systems where funds can be segregated and investors can be paid a return on invested capital, other projects like pure maintenance work are more difficult to fund privately. https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-democrat-con...-190950574.html Objections to Pompeo for CIA Director from Wyden

https://gma.yahoo.com/nepotism-law-might-af...opstories.html# How the nepotism law might effect Jared Kushner https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-jap...-180754752.html Ivanka and Kushner at meeting with Abe was out of a "tin pot oligarchy" playbook...pictures of event wouldn't have come out if not for the Japanese releasing them

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-ugly-awfu...-183453337.html

QUOTE (farmteam @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 07:20 PM) I heard something about a couple popular guys from Texas (San Antonio, maybe?) that people were excited about. Can't remember the names though. It'd be a gamechanger if Texas was actually in play during an election. Probably Julian Castro and Tom Perez. Were seen as potential VP picks. Castro has a lot of helium.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 03:05 PM) It certainly gets tough to get to the bottom of things when the topic keeps broadening and I was undoubtedly a contributor to that. I just didn't like that you were using Bannon as a way to get me when I had no reason to talk about Bannon. You're a obviously well read and a worthy debater. I take nothing personal here and appreciate your ending sentiment. All the best SB. If you give me one post where I sourced Breitbart I will move to China and help you grade papers. Not once have I ever used it to support an argument nor have I even read any of their work other than perhaps Shapiro and probably some stuff from Breitbart himself after he died. I know you feel a lot more comfortable coming at me in the filibuster because you have a group of people who align with you politically (even if they can't follow your train of thought) but please stop coming at me with stuff I never did. It's petty and there's no constructive converastion to have. When I saw that I laughed out loud. Unbelievable. That was a great share illinilaw. More than anything, I'm interested to see if Trump brings some of the isolationist rhetoric he's had into action. It's refreshing to see someone from the intelligence community call the spying for what it is. Frankly, that stuff getting supported by regular people is maddening. "I'm not doing anything wrong so they can spy on me, I have nothing to hide." Just give them all the power why don't you, I'm working on it. 10-20 pages of Republican Thread, and we have The American Mirror, Wikileaks and The Washington Free Beacon. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/19/ja...ws-nexus/213927 When you consistently cite O'Keefe, there's no way for you to then run away from his obvious ties to Steve Bannon. They are essentially one and the same. O'Keefe doesn't have the audience he does without the backing and support of Breitbart. You attempted without even bothering to source it to tie Froman to Obama when they didn't even communicate with each other from 1991-2004...by connecting them in some sort of left wing banking conspiracy through Rubin. It's the kind of thing that people don't even bother to read, they just see the headline in the Facebook echo chamber...and assume the worst if they already have a tendency to dislike Obama. You made fun of Huffington Post being cited but didn't even read what it said. You do understand that basically identical copies of the same article being at multiple sites throughout the web, Vanity Fair for an example, doesn't mean they can change the words that Trump and Bannon actually uttered in a recorded radio interview? What in that story about Trump and Bannon is factually untrue or take out of context? How would you write it to more accurately portray Bannon?

Oh, for the halycon days of Barry Goldwater.