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http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/18/opinions/geo...ance/index.html Takei:Echoes of Japanese WWII Internment in Today's Political Environment http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/17/politics/epa...il_topeditorial EPA criticizes itself? That will surely boost the morale of the scientific community... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ferris-buell...-212616027.html Donald Trump should watch Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller on tariffs/protectionism...aka the innocuous-sounding "border adjustment tax" http://sports.yahoo.com/news/hey-everyone-...-222937229.html Kylie Irving leaving the Cavs to head up NASA under Trump?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/17/opinions/tru...itis/index.html Why Trump wants you to hate the media http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/nati...er-chaos-235162 “People are so overwhelmed," said one distraught former official who recently stepped down from the NSC and spoke on condition of anonymity. "They’re all in survival mode. Everyone is expecting to get fired any minute." The source said those responsible for regional issues like Europe and Middle East are the only ones preparing briefing reports and other material for Trump’s phone calls and visits with world leaders. “Plenty of people are sitting at their desks staring at blank screens," the former official added. “Right now it is apocalyptic. These are people who have been doing this for years who are professionals and who know how the system works. And now there is this complete lack of competence and understanding of the system and complete lack of desire to learn it, if not outright hostility.” Then there is the simple reality that Trump has virtually no national security or foreign policy experience. "This president more than most will have a learning curve," Rostow said. "The job is hard enough enough as it is."

Why not Buerhle, AJ, Pods and Rowand? Or the entire 2005 team photo? Or Thome/Konerko/Dye?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 03:05 PM) Trump Team’s Growth Forecasts Far Rosier Than Those of CBO, Private Economists http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/17/politics/til...keup/index.html Tillerson presides over abrupt shakeup at the State Dept. https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...src=twsrc%5Etfw Where's the Washington Post and MSNBC? You're slipping! The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People! Hispanic Caucus barred from ICE meeting by Ryan https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-gutierrez-ac...-162250136.html My own comment: They've already killed the Paul Ryan border adjustment tax, which would have cost consumers $1.2-1.7 trillion but gained the govt revenues to at least partially offset the tax gains going to the mostly top 10% and big multinationals. The problem is those tax cuts (rates down, corporate down, incentives to repatriate offshore profits) are going to cost another $3 trillion. That's not even considering the border wall, increased military spending and infrastructure plans. So to think GDP growth will jump to 4-5%, more than doubling....when you have all the disruptions to the health care system forthcoming, to immigration/transportation by putting out another EO, deportations of millions theoretically, various protests disrupting workplaces, it's impossible to imagine. But surely it will be based on the jump in the stock market and extrapolated to the GDP growth numbers.

The hardest part with a 23 month old is balancing overprotectiveness with the opposite instinct to let them learn how to fall and pick themselves up. It's still mostly gestures, as the vocab is limited a bit...partly because English is his second language, primary is Chinese. But you can really see and feel the growing cleverness at about 1 1/2 years. He really loves police cars, wheels, anything technical like air conditioners, fans, remote controls, phones...and his Italian scooter, which will soon be replaced by a tricycle. We also just bought him a pan drum to develop the musical side but he's not quite patient enough yet. He has a lot of children's books but he wants to hold them and turn the pages himself instead of listening to the stories for very long. When we play with any type of ball, he throws with both hands so I'm envisioning him as a future loogy, haha. The thing that freaks me out is his running everywhere and how quickly he can get away if you're not paying attention...especially targeting any escalator going the wrong direction. He will cross his fingers a lot and point and you wonder if that's normal. Then the doctors said he had flat feet but everything I read about shoe inserts and orthotics says to wait until at least 4-5 for any intervention.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 16, 2017 -> 06:52 PM) ISIS just killed 75 people in a bombing, yet not a single word from El Presidente. Probably cause the victims were all Muslims? The opposite. Probably just the excuse he needs to put more American boots on the ground and have a "Wag the Dog" small-scale distraction war with Mattis leading the charge...he has to be BEGGING for ANY excuse not to talk to the media about all the questions he refuses to address, which simply continue to fester. The cycle keeps repeating as the media smells blood in the water. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/don...achable-offense Did Donald Trump just commit an impeachable offense?

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/02...erence-2-16-17/ Jake Tapper really becoming a voice of reason...did Trump actually threaten to blow the Russian ship out of the water to distract everyone? And then another immigration ban next week?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/pen...yria/index.html Pentagon/Mattis to consider more combat troops in Syria...and away we go.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 15, 2017 -> 02:11 PM) Something is very wrong with Donald J. Trump's brain 1) I "allowed" my daughter to marry a Jewish person and she EVEN changed her religion for him (and my grandchildren). Amazing people! 2) Since my son-in-law Jared Kushner's Jewish (he used to be a Democrat too, like me!) and he's my key advisor on all things related to Israel and the Middle East (just not anything to do with terrorism, in fact, I specifically waited until the Sabbath started on Friday to surprise them with the whole travel ban thingie), I can't possibly be prejudiced/biased/anti-Semitic.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/top...tion/index.html Isakson, Tim Scott, Murkowski, Collins...were the four who publicly came out against Puzder. As many as 8 others were considering jumping ship.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/15/media/stev...ebus/index.html Bannon complaining about Breitbart being unfair, what?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/kfi...ness/index.html Miller's Islamofascism/Terrorism Awareness Project at Duke

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/hat...2016/index.html A resurgence of white nationalism in 2016

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...840306161123328 Not making many friends in the FBI or NSA...the leaks will just get worse.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/rus...ship/index.html Now Russia is deliberately provoking us in multiple places....so you've got that, Iran and North Korea with no real answers and not much of a national security apparatus in place. Wonder if Tillerson still wants that Secretary of State gig after this past 72 hours? http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/14/media/whit...ions/index.html How the Trump admin sidesteps tough questions http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recent-trump...-085726426.html More ethics/emoluments clause issues with Trump trademarks in China http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/14/michael-fly...y-response.html The scandal was "not even paranoia, it's something immeasurably worse," said a Facebook post by Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the upper chamber of the Russian parliament. "Either Trump hasn't found the necessary independence and he's been driven into a corner... or russophobia has permeated the new administration from top to bottom," he added. Alexey Pushkov, a senator with the United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, said Flynn was "forced to go" because of "paranoia." Pushkov also labeled the incident a "witch hunt." While the Kremlin's supporters piled in, the government itself remained neutral. Putin's spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, told state-run news agencies that the matter was "none of our business." https://mobile.twitter.com/philippereines/s...356816609116160 What goes around COMETS around...Flynns getting trolled about possible pizza jobs in their futures

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 14, 2017 -> 09:27 AM) Rep. Jason "EMAILS EMAILS BENGHAZI BENGHAZI" Chaffetz sees no reason to investigate why a Russian stooge who broke the law was the National Security Advisor privy to all sorts of highly classified intelligence despite the Justice department warning the White House that he was compromised. Seems like it'd be important to know what the White House knew and when? Still too busy accusing Dems of paying protestors and bringing busloads in from out of state (in reality, just one confirmed AZ couple).

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...-nothing-214775 President Trump Has Done Almost Nothing (except the immigration ban that wasn't)

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 14, 2017 -> 08:56 AM) Pence is 200% tier 1 For his extreme views, but all indications are he's still not very close to Trump and wasn't for the majority of the general election campaign, either. That said, he's the key bridge between the White House and Congress right now.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 14, 2017 -> 08:43 AM) fyp e: Mnuchin wants to appoint some other Goldman Sachs guys to the deputy level, too. Seems like handing over the Treasury department to the same investment bankers who tanked the world economy less than ten years ago is an extremely bad idea, but what do I know? Trump's the Greatest President in the Universe, so this must be a good thing. It's always Rubin's fault. Or Chris Dodd/Barney Frank. Btw, what happened to that long "conspiracy theory" post about Obama's Goldman ties? Don't hear about that very often anymore. Or HRC speeches, even though Trump's speaking fees were considerably higher.

DeVos, Sessions, Mnuchin/Munchkin, Tillerson, Puzder (if he survives), Price Tier 1 Threats Pence, Carson, Perry, Ross, Pruitt (EPA) Tier 2 That's not even taking into consideration Bannon, Conway, Spicer, Miller and Priebus. The funny thing is most of America probably couldn't name more than a handful of Obama's cabinet and staff members over the course of a full 8 years.

Thought Harward was the choice...? Keane, Allen, McChrystal and Petraeus might not be done yet at the rate they're going.

Republicans running scared of doing any more town halls...I guess that's one approach, just to never put yourself in a position to answer questions publicly except through less media-friendly conference calls. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/politics/rep...ents/index.html

No way they're trading Cole to us. Harrison would be fine as a placeholder but we already have Saladino, among others. In the end, they probably need him and Newman as insurance for the Kang situation.

Not to mention that all available evidence points to his wife violating US immigration laws by working illegally as a model/"escort" while in NYC on a tourist visa. We also still have no idea how she ended up an American citizen in any legitimate type of way. That consular officer case file would make for an interesting read. Conway isn't the real ethics scandal in admin http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/opinions/kel...cupp/index.html When President Trump questioned the authority of a "so-called" federal judge on Twitter, where were separate powers enthusiasts in the Republican House and Senate to defend his legitimacy? Nowhere. Are any Republicans concerned that Trump's national security adviser may have violated the Logan Act when he reportedly discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador to the United States, because Trump was elected (sworn in)? Will any Republicans say they mind that the President and his spokespeople regularly mislead or lie to the public about matters large and small on national television? If Obama had called a raid in which a US soldier was killed (along with scores of civilians) a "winning mission" and then scolded an actual war hero who questioned it, Republicans would have launched one of three dozen investigations. In fact, switch Obama for Trump in any one of these scenarios and Republicans would be calling the first few weeks of his presidency a zombie apocalypse. Instead, they seem content to whistle past the pile of corpses, pretending not to notice. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/don...lems/index.html In another early executive action, Trump signed an order seeking to "ensure that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds, except as mandated by law." Delivered days before the travel ban, this too set off an avalanche of protest, both in the streets and among mostly Democratic leaders in major urban centers like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Smaller cities like New Haven, Connecticut, and Austin, Texas, have also threatened to fight back in court. And in an ironic twist, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (among others) pointed to a 2012 Supreme Court case to explain why they're so confident. The ruling in NFIB vs. Sebelius, which allowed states to reject Medicaid expansion without the threat of losing pre-existing funds, set a precedent Trump's opponents say will prevent him from using federal money as a tool to coerce local governments.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 11, 2017 -> 08:34 AM) Caulfield, I think you're a great poster, but my god do you know how to derail a thread. Haha, I've gone off the deep end because we just had a three week holiday in China from school. Too much CSPAN. I think I've been paying more attention to politics in the last three months than last twenty years combined. Luckily, back to normal life on Monday. As far as Wieters goes, why not? We're not going to compete this year, but we need someone to have a Carlos Quentin 2008 season from out of nowhere (eventually). Abreu in 2014 was it. That said, Wieters has never been able to stay healthy enough to make consistent enough contact to put up his projected numbers, but sooner or later someone's going to have a surprising offensive season (coming from FA) You can also protect his health by DHing him frequently. It's not like Narvaez or Smith were going to amount to much, anyway.