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New Pennsylvania map gives Democrats big boost in midterms https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/p...midterms-354432

Fat, unhealthy Americans threaten Trump’s defense surge Rising obesity numbers, drug use, criminal backgrounds and other problems mean most people at prime military recruiting age are ineligible to serve. Nearly three-quarters of Americans age 17 to 24 are ineligible for the military due to obesity, other health problems, criminal backgrounds or lack of education, according to government data. That's a harsh reality check for the Pentagon’s plan to recruit tens of thousands of new soldiers, sailors, pilots and cyber specialists over the next five years. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/p...shortage-351365

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 19, 2018 -> 07:20 PM) 1. L. Garcia, CF 2. Moncada, 2B 3. Abreu, 1B 4. Dickerson, DH 5. A. Garcia, RF 6. Delmonico, LF 7. Anderson, SS 8. Sanchez, 3B 9. Castillo, C IF: Saladino OF: Engel BC: Narvaez #1: Shields #2: Giolito #3: Lopez #4: Gonzalez #5: Fulmer CL: Soria SU: Jones SU: Minaya MR: Avalin MR: Infante MR: Cedeno MR: Rondon LR: Santiago Davidson cut, wishful thinking? Nobody has mentioned Willy Garcia, btw. Vieira? (Avilan) If they think Cordell or Engel or Tilson could be everyday players, they should be playing everyday in Charlotte.

JDM, $50 million first two years...opt out possibility, $20 million per year x 3 final years of deal

QUOTE (ron883 @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 03:21 PM) The Sox would be nuts to give yolmer the job over yoan. Yoan has one of the highest ceilings in the entire majors. He proved himself last season. The dude is the future of the sox. Don't see any issue with this. QUOTE (Spartans Rock @ Feb 19, 2018 -> 04:06 AM) Yoan is in the futue of the Sox, However, Jiminez is the really big piece. If they both reach their potential, Moncada and Robert will put up even bigger WAR numbers due to athleticism and defensive ability. You could even say the same about Tatis, Jr.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 01:03 PM) https://twitter.com/ap/status/964675496360456192 AP finally retracts fake news story. So when someone deliberately lies to the media, what is their burden or responsibility in terms of reporting it? Shouldn’t the news media also boycott Huckabee Sanders press conferences or ban Kellyanne Conway from appearing on tv? What’s the difference between all these various lies? One is spin, the other is to intentionally cast blame or aspersions in a specific direction to create chaos or division?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-spent-sund...-072452586.html Trump dares Oprah to run for President on Twitter Since there are 10-15 unique Trump-related events per day...surely we don’t need individual threads about all of them, do we?

What’s more likely? Dickerson nets a valuable piece back (and major league ready, to boot?)...or Cordell/Tilson/Delmonico/Davidson/Leury Garcia/Engel are capable of putting up a 2.5+ war over an entire season? Which has more value to the franchise? Can Leury get you back more than Dickerson with three solid months? I would play Yolmer at third and Leury in CF (Cordell/Tilson to AAA)...but Hahn will probably go Davidson/Engel. We have so many ?’s with so many players to answer! That’s not even considering Saladino.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 10:07 AM) Seriously caulfield what the f*** does this have to do with Donald Trump? This is olympics nonsense Trump tweets all morning long and this is what you add It has everything to do with Trump and his supporters...and their social media bullying/harassment.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 12:46 PM) I don't know if that's your assessment or the article's, but I have to disagree with the point that they "glossed over" those things. Spoilers below:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/blac...d-race-fantasy/ http://time.com/black-panther/ Counterpoint Having now watched the movie, it‘s impossible to discuss it purely from a cinematic perspective. For all the positive images and hopefulness, there's the fact that it’s glossing over a lot of the real world problems like gangs, access to quality education/digital divide, drugs, cyclical poverty, single parent upbringing, unemployment, etc. Of course, super hero movies are made to help us escape reality...to uplift, entertain and inspire. In that sense, it largely succeeds. While ultimately an action-adventure, Black Panther also serves as an intelligent if broad debate between revolutionary rhetoric and the responsibilities of leadership. That said, it’s also the first movie with basically an all-black cast made for mainstream America since Roots, and that is progress in and of itself. And surely a good number of viewers will enjoy rooting for Michael B. Jordan (and his perspective, not unlike Malcolm X pre-1965) to win. That’s kind of cool, too.

Why rooting for Lindsey Vonn to fail is un-American https://sports.yahoo.com/rooting-lindsey-vo...-035939602.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-padres-sig...-045527963.html $144 million...first $100+ mill deal in franchise history. $18 million aav, less than Carlos Santana at $20 million. Wil Myers at $83 million was record holder until Saturday. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports...0216-story.html

Shapiro didn’t resign from Breitbart, despite ample evidence of its monstrous racism, until the victim of Breitbart’s thuggishness was a white female colleague in peril. And while Shapiro is no Milo, he has also said some vile things. There was, for instance, an October interview with ABC’s Nightline, in which Shapiro said transgender people suffer from “mental illness.” Or this 2010 tweet in support of Israeli settlements: “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue.” #settlementsrock On Oct. 9, 2017, known as either Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day depending on which way you swing, the Daily Wire posted an animated video mocking the Native Americans who Christopher Columbus encountered when he landed in the West. The video portrayed Native Americans as savage cannibals and then displayed a ledger comparing their putative contributions to the culture of the Western Hemisphere with those of post-Columbus Europeans. The Native American column listed only three contributions: “dreamcatchers,” “tomahawks,” and “cannibalism.” On the Western culture side of the ledger were contributions such as “science,” “underwear,” and “not-scalping.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01...n-count-on.html

"I hate jews, ni**ers, immigrants" Racism was a constant theme in the chat group, which was called "Murica (American flag emoji) (eagle emoji) great" -- a name it was given by Cruz. The hatred he and others in the group espoused met little resistance from its active members. In one part of the group chat, Cruz wrote that he hated, "jews, ni**ers, immigrants." He talked about killing Mexicans, keeping black people in chains and cutting their necks. The statements were not made in jest. There are hundreds of racist messages, racist memes and racist Instagram videos posted in the group. One member even joked about Cruz's particular venomousness, saying that although he hated black people, too, he didn't "to a point I wanna kill the (sic) like nick." Cruz said he hated black people simply because they were black; Cruz hated Jews because he believed they wanted to destroy the world. After one member expressed hatred for gay people, Cruz agreed, saying, "Shoot them in the back of head." White women drew Cruz's hatred as well, specifically those in interracial relationships, whom he referred to repeatedly as traitors. There are no indications in the group chat that any member, including Cruz, is or was part of a white nationalist or white supremacist group. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/us/exclusive...roup/index.html

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Feb 15, 2018 -> 03:24 AM) I just got back from seeing Black Panther... It’s pretty hard for me to watch movies like an average person, it’s takes me two or sometimes three viewings of a movie to really enjoy myself and not think about why or how they did this or that. The entire lead up to this movie has been pretty emotional because, I wish that I was 20 years younger and 5 years old again to experience this moment. As a black kid, who grew up obsessed with nerd culture all of my favorite characters were 97% white men. I was able to latch on to the ideas that they represented but they still felt unattainable because of my skin color. I can only imagine how empowered and inspired black kids are going to feel watching this movie and seeing an African King at the center of a superhero movie. There are no words that can do justice to the impact that this could have on the entire community. Instead of seeing themselves portrayed in the media as thugs, unintelligent and lesser they’re going to be seeing themselves as royalty, geniuses and as equals who are deserving of as much respect and opportunity their white counter parts get. I loved how the movie was at times structured as a conversation with the audience as it talked about a lot of issues facing black people today. Kids can hear these messages about lifting each other up from another black person and really take it with them. I really enjoyed the movie and I won’t go into specifics about what I liked and didn’t but everything happening around it makes me wish I’m 5 years old again, just so can this all in and take it with into adulthood. I can even picture my mom driving me to Tower Records to pick up the soundtrack, what a time to be alive. https://medium.com/new-york-times-magazine/...ca-14ad4e63e9ee On Why Black Panther is a Defining Moment for Black America

But Trump and Ryan told the American people the tax cuts would pay for themselves!!! Since Sandy Hook, a gun has been fired on school grounds nearly once a week (430 total deaths) By PRIYA KRISHNAKUMAR UPDATED FEB. 14, 2017 There have been more than 290 shootings on school campuses in the U.S. since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, 2012 according to Everytown For Gun Safety, an advocacy group. Incidents were classified as school shootings when a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on campus, as documented in news accounts. This includes events that did not target students or teachers, like suicides, misfires and other activity. http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-scho...-since-newtown/

LeBron/Laura Ingraham war of words...who didn’t expect that? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/laura-i...-191513589.html

He made racist comments towards blacks, Jews and Muslims. The Anti-Defamation League called him out. The Southern Poverty Law Center started investigating as well. Wore the MAGA hat. All-around, I don’t think anyone’s going to pin him to Antifa. The original reports were confusing because that white supremacy group was saying he trained with them, probably to get publicity/funding/support. It’s pretty difficult to prove someone is or is not a member of a group like that in the first 2-3 hours after an attack until all the information comes out. What’s the difference between being a member, training with them once, regularly training...that’s harder to ascertain. The media would have been under fire for not reporting it (deliberately), or getting scooped by other media outlets reporting it. http://www.northcrane.com/2018/02/anti-def...macy-group-rof/

FBI had a call into their Florida tipline on January 5th...the problem is there’s simply no system in place in each state to deal with these issues from a combined mental health and law enforcement perspective. Certainly, no funding, and funding that did exist is being stripped away on the health insurance side of things.

Donald Trump, a Playboy Model (most famous of the 90’s), and a System for Concealing Infidelity One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/do...-karen-mcdougal As the pool party at the Playboy Mansion came to an end, Trump asked for McDougal’s telephone number. For McDougal, who grew up in a small town in Michigan and worked as a preschool teacher before beginning her modelling career, such advances were not unusual. John Crawford, McDougal’s friend, who also helped broker her deal with A.M.I., said that Trump was “another powerful guy hitting on her, a gal who’s paid to be at work.” Trump and McDougal began talking frequently on the phone, and soon had what McDougal described as their first date: dinner in a private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. McDougal wrote that Trump impressed her. “I was so nervous! I was into his intelligence + charm. Such a polite man,” she wrote. “We talked for a couple hours – then, it was “ON”! We got naked + had sex.” As McDougal was getting dressed to leave, Trump did something that surprised her. “He offered me money,” she wrote. “I looked at him (+ felt sad) + said, ‘No thanks - I’m not ‘that girl.’ I slept w/you because I like you - NOT for money’ - He told me ‘you are special.’ Afterward, McDougal wrote, she “went to see him every time he was in LA (which was a lot).” Trump, she said, always stayed in the same bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel and ordered the same meal—steak and mashed potatoes—and never drank. McDougal’s account is consistent with other descriptions of Trump’s behavior. Last month, In Touch Weekly published an interview conducted in 2011 with Stephanie Clifford in which she revealed that during a relationship with Trump she met him for dinner at a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Trump insisted they watch “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” alleged that Trump assaulted her at a private dinner meeting, in December of 2007, at a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Trump, Zervos has claimed, kissed her, groped her breast, and suggested that they lie down to “watch some telly-telly.” After Zervos rebuffed Trump’s advances, she said that he “began thrusting his genitals” against her. (Zervos recently sued Trump for defamation after he denied her account.) All three women say that they were escorted to a bungalow at the hotel by a Trump bodyguard, whom two of the women have identified as Keith Schiller. After Trump was elected, Schiller was appointed director of Oval Office Operations and deputy assistant to the President. Last September, John Kelly, acting as the new chief of staff, removed Schiller from the White House posts. (Schiller did not respond to a request for comment.)

The FBI had the “black eye” photos of Porter’s ex wife a week after Trump’s Inauguration...and, at the very least, communicated their concerns if not directly sharing the pictures with the WH Personnel Office. Washington (CNN)The FBI obtained photos of the bruised face of Colbie Holderness seven days after President Donald Trump's inauguration last year, according to emails obtained by CNN, raising questions about what information White House counsel Don McGahn had at his disposal regarding her ex-husband, Rob Porter. Holderness provided the photos to the bureau as part of a security clearance background check that was being conducted into Porter. At the time, Porter was Trump's staff secretary, managing the flow of some of the most sensitive information destined for the President. But, according to the White House, the full extent of the domestic violence allegations weren't known by senior officials until last week, when pictures were published by the Daily Mail. It's unclear if the FBI sent the photos to the White House, though a law enforcement source said the bureau would have at least provided a synopsis of what they portray. But the existence of the photos is leading law enforcement experts and officials in previous administrations to strongly question how McGahn didn't act on the domestic violence allegations, which have rocked the White House over the past week and triggered at least one congressional investigation. Like other top presidential lawyers before him, McGahn had legal staff in his office who were assigned to deal with clearance issues. "That isn't reasonable," national security expert Mark Zaid said of the idea that McGahn only learned about the photo when it was published. "I would be surprised that if in their partial report in March, the FBI either didn't include the photo or, at a minimum, reference they had photographic evidence of the domestic assault." He added: "And I can't fathom it not being part of the completed report" that the FBI delivered to the White House in July.

A year ago, Trump signed a bill repealing a rule the Obama administration put in place after Sandy Hook that prevented people receiving Social Security benefits for mental disabilities from purchasing guns. On Thursday, hours before his public remarks, he tweeted that “neighbors and classmates” should have reported the shooter earlier—while his son Donald Trump Jr. stoked the flames of anti-deep state fervor within the Trump base, liking a tweet from Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter that said: “the FBI was too busy trying to undermine the president to bother with doing it’s [sic] freaking job” and track the shooter’s threats online. Aside from a presidential proclamation lowering flags to half mast, neither he nor anyone else at the White House said anything more about the shooting after his remarks, even after the leader of a white nationalist group in Florida said the shooter had trained with its members, or after CBS News verified an Instagram account belonging to the shooter in which he set a profile picture of himself wearing a red Make America Great Again hat. Politico.com https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics...gton/index.html Washington’s political impotence on full display

There are no great movies this year. I tried to watch Phantom Thread and gave up after about half an hour. I’ve seen the rest of the nominees in the main Oscar categories, great performances but not the films themselves, overall.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2245877...school-shooting Anthony Rizzo joins the gun control discussion at Parkland HS vigil