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QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 4, 2017 -> 01:48 PM) Anyone see those protesters from Berkeley? Surprised it hasn't been brought up. Pretty vicious stuff from the extremists at that school. Jumping people they don't agree with, fires, destruction of property, etc. The same way the vicious white right wing attack in Quebec hasn't been mentioned even once by the President? Trump-identifying supporters have murdered a lot more in the last 18 months than Muslim refugees from the 7 ban countries have in 40+ years combined.

Speaking of Hardee's and Carl's Jr http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la...0123-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/polit...tary-trump.html Maybe encouraging employees to take ownership stakes is even more impt than competition. Compare to the attitude of the typical Wal-Mart worker who's raising a family on that salary. http://www.forbes.com/companies/hy-vee/

QUOTE (New Era on South Side @ Feb 4, 2017 -> 10:05 AM) Nice to see a judge in Washington stand up to this bulls*** EO. Now the DHS is suspending the travel ban - maybe they are sending it to congress for a vote, or they are trying to "legal proof" it before announcing its new implementation? http://nypost.com/2017/02/03/white-house-t...udges-decision/

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/opinions/fac...slan/index.html Facts still matter on real terror threats in US (hint, not Islamic) https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/...hreat.html?_r=1 The Growing Right Wing (anti-government) terror threat Trump does realize THIS judge was a Bush appointee?

Competition? Education...mixed results at best for charter schools, proliferation of for-profit and online universities, bottom 60% of students suffer as public schools worse Prisons...privatization has been a disaster Military...Blackwater Banking services...unscrupulous lenders, lack of oversight and regulations, bailouts Pharma...FDA deregulation will lead to more profits and potentially dangerous drugs on the market

Competition? Education...mixed results at best for charter schools, proliferation of for-profit and online universities, bottom 60% of students suffer as public schools worsen Prisons...privatization has been a disaster Military...Blackwater Banking services...unscrupulous lenders, lack of oversight and regulations, bailouts Pharma...FDA deregulation will lead to more profits and also potentially dangerous drugs on the market

"When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot, come in & out, especially for reasons of safety &.security - big trouble!" he tweeted. A chaotic Friday night set up the nation for a second straight weekend of widespread uncertainty over the controversial ban, this time with the administration on defense. The White House first called the order "outrageous" and then dropped that word minutes later in a second statement. Cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/politics/jud...file/index.html The Bush appointee who stopped Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/nyregion...WT.nav=top-news Gillibrand rising to lead the opposition

Maybe Mike Cameron's son would be a good example here (stretching draft pool)...but still a fairly high bust rate. Or Trayce Thompson.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gregg-popovich-g...-132914082.html For Greg

The rule, rolled out under the Obama Administration, took eight long years to develop. It isn’t perfect: Financial advisors have several work-arounds that may trip up investors even if and when the rule is adopted. Still, the previous administration argued the rule was necessary to protect retirement savers, who, under the current system, may be given conflicted advice by brokers who are incentivized to sell specific financial products that aren’t in their clients’ best interests. The fiduciary rule aims to protect retirement savers from bad advice and keep more money in their pockets—to the tune of $17 billion collectively each year. It also seeks to indirectly change the way the industry structures its products and advisor compensation policies. “I’m optimistic that this rule will significantly reduce fees on retirement investment products,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, a huge proponent of the rule, told MONEY last fall. She noted at the time that while the rule had not even been implemented, companies like Fidelity, Charles Schwab, BlackRock, LPL Financial, and others already had announced that they are slashing fees for various funds. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-takes-firs...2--finance.html Next up, Dodd-Frank. Earlier Friday, the Senate used an unusual pre-dawn vote to approve legislation, 52-47, killing a regulation that has required oil and gas companies to disclose payments to the U.S. or foreign governments for commercial development. The House approved the measure this week, and Trump is expected to sign it. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/three-ways-p...-163405257.html

Paul Wellstone, for example.

Murkowski and Collins on DeVos

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/opinions/yem...rgen/index.html Why are Bannon and Kushner giving advice on SEAL raids? This would be like Axelrod and Michelle Obama's brother calling the shots.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 09:19 AM) From the NYT front page. Not sure how Trump (or Obama) are to blame for this. At some point some general had to tell either or both of them, "this is the plan, it's going to work." Easy rebuttal. JCS and CIA told Kennedy the same before Bay of Pigs. Who does history blame? A famous Truman line comes to mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/...illed-al-awlaki I'm sure how much sympathy this will elicit because of who her father was... Col. John Thomas, a spokesman for central command, told the paper that the U.S. military was unaware that the girl was at the location. Thomas said Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula “has a horrifying history of hiding women and children within militant operating areas and terrorist camps and continuously shows a callous disregard for innocent lives. The girl’s grandfather told the paper that he did not believe the girl was targeted. “I don’t think this incident was intentional,” the former government minister said. He told the paper that the location of the strike was confusing because it was not a hotbed for Al Qaeda, rather tribal sheikhs fighting the government, which is supported by Iran-backed Houthis.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-not-orwel...-100035222.html Trump's not Orwell. He's the Distractor-In-Chief. In Huxley’s vision, Postman wrote, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” It’s worth hearing a bit more of Postman’s comparison: “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. … Orwell feared that truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.” As it happens, in 1949, just after the publication of “1984,” Huxley drew much the same contrast in a letter to his countryman Orwell. Much as he liked Orwell’s book, he suggested that tyrannical governments would soon abandon “boot-on-the-face” tactics in favor of “animal magnetism and hypnotism.” Cable TV had yet to be invented. ... And yet there’s something bracing, given today’s political debate, about the way Mustapha Mond, the state controller, warns his charge: “Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.” Or about the way he defends inequality: “The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg — eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

QUOTE (brett05 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 06:25 AM) Your former VP Joe Biden disagrees with you. Sept 8th, 2016 On Thursday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be on Capitol Hill to join congressional Democrats at a news conference where they will push for a vote on Judge Garland, who was put forward by Mr. Obama in March and is now the longest pending Supreme Court nominee in American history.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/opinion/...col-left-region How Populism Stumbles (Ross Douthat) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archiv...tocracy/513872/ Trump 2020, how to build an autocracy (Frum)

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 11:53 PM) ? A seal is dead. The line needs to be drawn somewhere. Pissing all over the ideals of free speech & tolerance by beating people up and setting s*** on fire is one thing- that's just hypocrisy 101...but using a dead seal as a pawn??? That's too far to me. Fwiw, this is Reuters' general response about covering the Trump White House. Pawns are nothing new...look at the politicization of the Pat Tillman case or Kzir Khan/Gold Star Father. Especially with the overhang of the immigration ban.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 11:32 PM) I understand bashing Trump for things but reporting like this makes me sick. One of our best just died trying to gather intelligence to help the free world. Running a story purely to insinuate incompetence is a disgrace to the dead operator, his family & all the special operators risking their lives. Everyone knows that US special operations are probably the most thoroughly planned missions in the history of all things being planned. They don't go unless they think it will work, bottom line. To write an article making it sound like Trump is just recklessly sending in SEAL teams & using the death of a special operator to further a political beef is beyond dishonorable. Sorry but f***. that. s***. How can you realistically expect the country (and the media, that Trump and Spicer declared war on) to hit the reset button after the last 16 years, and particularly the tenor of discourse since the Mexicans are rapists and criminals campaign kickoff? It's a verbal version of the Civil War. Everyone has been forced to choose sides.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 10:23 PM) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trum...o-idUSKBN15G5RX "U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations. As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger than expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists." http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/politics/us-...emen/index.html Seems they were also surprised by a number of female fighters...new tactics?

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 06:57 PM) Luken Baker is an excellent 2018 draft prospect as well Rise of the Lukens?

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Pr...UC-10901829.php Frontline report from Berkeley demonstration/riot

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...-for-our-values Article from the point of view of Australian press criticizing Turnbull for not standing up to Trump...gives a pretty good feel for the current mood outside the US.