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QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 08:19 AM) Kushner is 100% on board. Sheldon Adelson's is willing to jump ship and support someone else. You have to actively keep him happy. But that Mercer money leaves with Bannon. And the Kochs lined up with the HFC bloc opposing the health care bill. Plus, they're spending precious resources to defend once slam dunk Congressional seats in KS and GA.

Elsewhere, the doctor at the centre of the viral incident onboard the flight in Chicago has spoken out for the first time. His lawyers, Stephen L Golan of Golan Christie Taglia, and Thomas A Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio, issued a statement saying: "The family of Dr Dao wants the world to know that they are very appreciative of the outpouring of prayers, concern and support they have received." https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-airlines-...-073030438.html Another United passenger in first class recently threatened with handcuffs treatment

It didn't happen unless there was a period at the end

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 07:36 AM) So there it is, the first apology in the Trump administration is for claiming a dictator was worse than Hitler's because he did something hitler never did, except what he did was what Hitler was known for, and then even in that apology tried to clarify by saying Jews weren't innocent people. Glad we found the line. Jews apparently weren't even German people.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 07:33 AM) Lol, the implication is pretty obvious Caulfield Is he really THAT well-known at SoxTalk? But seriously, with Kushner on the ascendancy, wouldn't he now be the first apology after the president for making the administration look so amateurish yet again? Who was the main one that helped him get the press secretary job? Wasn't it Priebus?

Long season already...

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 07:28 AM) Lmao. What an absolute clown show this is. Why not Jared and Ivanka? Netanyahu? The Anti-Defamation League? The implication for the apology is that Adelson is not only a huge GOP donor, he just so happens to be Jewish.

In Sweden, the deputy prime minister struggles to contain her tears: Her country can no longer cope with the influx of people and is closing its doors to all but a few. http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/26/europe/syria...rkey/index.html A story 1 1/2 years old...the writer's opinion inserted/substituted as a direct quotation...and it has morphed from a Deputy PM to the PM. Maybe the sock puppet bots from Homeland are manufacturing fake news? Putin?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/the-de...refugee-europe/ The Death of the Most Generous Nation on Earth (hint, not the US)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-congressma...changes-course/ One Republican that even us Democrats can at least respect

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion...411-column.html CPD issues misleading PR statement latest weird twist in United fiasco As to the previous point about gun deaths/school shootings: 1) The airplane incident touched a chord with nearly EVERYONE who flies, and particularly United because of its relationship to Chicago 2) School shooting discussions never go anywhere and just end in frustration...people are numb to them. 3) The "political environment" these last two years or so has been so polarized that everyone has their own "hot take" on the situation that's sure to offend someone or another. That and the racial "discrimination" angle, all of my students in China believe that all four passengers forced to leave the plane were Asian/Asian-American. 4) It's almost the perfect case study for a class on public relations/customer service/how NOT to do damage control until hundreds of millions of dollars of company/shareholder value have disappeared. 5) The fact that nearly everyone can already imagine how many millions of dollars he'll win from the forthcoming lawsuits. 6) That it happened in the City of Chicago, a political football for months now between the two parties. 7) Hundreds of millions of people around the world are commenting about the US and our unique interpretation of "civil rights" and re-accommodation.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 11:01 PM) Any public figure that ever utters the word "Hitler" deserves to be fired. You have to be that stupid to evoke the name of Hitler in any capacity. He should never ever be acknowledged in any way. He should not exist. He's definitely the most evil man in human history. Gacy probably is in the top 20. Richard Speck top 20, Dahmer in top 20. Rios 21, Dunn 22, Nate Jones 23, Melky 24

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 08:22 AM) I don't get the Trout comparison, they are both great athletes, but will each impact the game differently, plays the different positions. FWIW Trout was a far more advanced hitter in the minors compared to Moncada at present. Your numbers on Anderson is also incorrect. His minor league K% was 22.5%, but bumped up to 27.3% (124/453) with the Sox. I am hoping Moncada limits K% to 25% in AAA, but that's going to take some work, primarily in learning to hit offspeed pitche. The K% is worth monitoring. Yeah, it was the extrapolated average over a full season (extrapolated from partial numbers from 2016), which projected him getting 673 AB's and having that K percentage near 29/30 statistically. Anderson was actually 117/410 last year and 124/432 for his entire MLB career (first week of 2017, 7/22). Not sure where 453 came from. 28.5% and 28.7% if you include his entire career.

Ray Durham was 1201K/7408AB. Only 16%. Obviously, Moncada's projected to have a bit more power, but we should HOPE that he gets that percentage at least into the mid 20's before he's promoted to Chicago.

I think that's 9 strikeouts on the season...heading for that mid 30% range in the early going.

Apologies will NOT be forthcoming. Obfuscation already accomplished.

Spoke way too soon about Lopez's night. OOPS. Assumed he was getting pulled.

Moncada breaks out of mini-slump, haha, now 3 for his last 14 (but two homers). Lopez had a very solid outing, 9 K's. Actually getting more excited about Willy Garcia at-bats than Kahnle pitching in extras in CLE. Runners on 1st and 2nd to lead off 6th, no outs, but the bottom of the order coming up to the plate (which means Raburn will surely homer). (Note, please don't make us miss an extra Moncada at-bat for Jose Freakin' Vinicio leading off.)

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 03:54 PM) Haha good one Sure, with no May, Asche/A.Garcia/Davidson, Covey/Pelfrey, etc.

Can't recall the last team to have 8/10 starters from Latin America. Excellent scouting.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/iva...raph/index.html Nice to know Ivanka's now a military advisor as well http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/iva...ouse/index.html "Ivanka is by his side in Washington. She is not involved in everything. I think she comes and goes with issues she deeply cares about but when you get to a certain level of power a lot of times, and you see this in business too, a lot of times people will say yes just because you happen to be the boss...I think it gives you a sounding board who is a little bit more unconventional than the 37 people that might happen to be standing round a table at that one time who just want to appease." Totally fascinating, right? What we learn from Eric Trump here is that: 1) Ivanka is the person in the White House who can tell her father "no" and 2) her installation as a formal adviser -- with a West Wing office -- might well be in reaction to the family's concerns that Trump wasn't getting the right sort of advice from "37 people that might be standing around a table at that one time who just want to appease."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/spi...ssad/index.html Sean Spicer just forgot the first rule of politics

Probably the first time in history the WH press secretary pushed the biggest story in the world (United Airlines) to the side on TMZ. Sean Spicer should be fired for saying Syria's president is worse than Hitler ... so says the Anne Frank Center. The Center's executive director said Spicer's statement is "the most evil slur upon a group of people we have ever heard from a White House press secretary." He also called for Spicer's immediate termination. Spicer's been under the gun since Tuesday's press briefing, where he said not even Adolf Hitler sank to using chemical weapons like Present Bashar al-Assad did on his own people. Spicer also flubbed while trying to clarify, adding ... "He was not using the gas on his own people in the same way that Assad is doing." The fact Hitler did just that, and in far greater capacity than Assad, has Rep. Nancy Pelosi also demanding Spicer be fired. Spicer has issued an apology of sorts, saying ... "In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust, however, I was trying to draw a contrast of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on innocent people." Www.tmz.com Maybe he's intentionally trying to sabotage himself to get fired instead of quitting??

Looks like the stock market finally gave UAL some breathing room at the end of the day... Dave Carroll/Columbia Business School Lessons from "United Breaks Guitars" anti-customer service song trilogy Now the story's changing again...so his wife was one of the three who had left voluntarily? Or she stayed with him? I could understand the feeling about agreeing to switch but the Airlines not informing anyone they had to wait one full day to fly. No way they warned everyone about that before the voucher offers. The man who ended up bloodied and screaming Sunday night had initially agreed to get off the plane, passenger Jayse Anspach said. "Him and his wife, they volunteered initially," Anspach said. "But once they found out that the next flight wasn't until (Monday) at 2:30 p.m., he said, 'I can't do that. I gotta be at work.' So he sat back down." The harder the officers tried to get the man to leave, the harder the man insisted he stay. "He was very emphatic: 'I can't be late. I'm a doctor. I've got to be there tomorrow,' " Anspach recalled. His pleas didn't work. Moments later, the man was getting dragged down the aisle. At one point, passengers say, the man hits his head on an armrest. Video shows blood starts streaming from his mouth. During the ordeal, the man claimed he was being profiled for being Chinese, passenger Tyler Bridges said. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/travel/unite...ight/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/opinions/i-g...tone/index.html I got bumped from a flight, sued and won

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 10:34 AM) It would never get to millions because its just like anything, at some point a person will take the offer. Its impossible to imagine that if someone was offered $10k they wont take it. You could rent a car and drive to Louisville (its a 4.5 hour drive) and still be at work the next day. The part that is odd is that no one at United thought that it would be better to figure out alternative transportation for their employees than creating a pr disaster. It was Chicago to Louisville, you have to believe there was some other way to accomplish their goal. Not even their United employees, but for Republic, a smaller partner airline.