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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 05:05 PM) Looks like Robert Gates is getting ready to cut a plea deal. Brought a lawyer known for federal deals on recently, and just now his other there lawyers filled to be removed from the case. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/959191427090706435 The witch hunt snags it's third guilty plea. Rick Gates, Manafort’s PR firm....not the former SecDef When does the story leak about Wray threatening to resign his (Trump) appointment if the memo is released? White House worried FBI director could quit over Nunes memo release (In response to Kyle) https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/politics/whi...memo/index.html Wray has made clear he is frustrated that President Donald Trump picked him to lead the FBI after he fired FBI Director James Comey in May, yet his advice on the Nunes memo is being disregarded and cast as part of the purported partisan leadership of the FBI, according to a senior law enforcement official. Wray's stance is "raising hell," one source familiar with the matter said. Wray has not directly threatened to resign after clashing with Trump over the possible release of the memo, the source added, because that is not his style of dealing with conflict. The potential release of the memo penned by House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes has set up a standoff with Trump against both the FBI and Department of Justice. Although the President has signaled that he is inclined to release the memo, as part of an effort to undercut the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, senior officials inside the White House are trying to come up with a solution that satisfies both the President and law enforcement officials like Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Good luck with that last part...the person you’re plotting to fire isn’t going to bail you out of hot water. Trump’s put himself in an untenable position where he now looks weak making an excuse for not releasing it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 01:07 PM) That is the whole reason why this memo is even being discussed. If this was what was good about the country, then the DOJ would open a criminal investigation. Last I checked, Republicans control the DOJ, named the current FBI director and have the house and senate. Why are they bringing this to the "court of public opinion" instead of into real courtrooms? If people committed crimes, charge them and try to convict them. Otherwise this is just a partisan spectacle created as a distraction. It would be different if it was the minority party doing it, and saying the majority isnt enforcing the law, etc. But ironically, the rules make it so a minority party cant do what Nunes wants to do, because the majority would get to veto is release. I have no reason to trust any of the people involved, and I would love if the govt was actually trying to be more transparent. But I am extremely skeptical of any information that is released without context and that is not considered valuable enough to even warrant a criminal investigation. Nunes hasn’t even gone through all the classified information himself. He refuses to share it with Republicans on the Senate side, starting with Richard Burr. It’s so obvious they’re trying to cook up some semi plausible sounding rationale to get rid of Rosenstein. They gave the FBI less than 12 hours to make any type of response so they would be on the defensive. Why no FBI corruption hearings, if this is so serious? After Rosenstein comes yet another Republican DOJ appointee , Rachel Brand... At the rate they’re going, the FBI won’t have anyone willing to take the Director’s job with Trump still in office. Why isn’t Senator Johnson of WI calling for full “Deep State” hearings after charging the FBI with widespread corruption solely on the basis of flippant/sarcastic text messages from two FBIers who had no love for Clinton or Trump?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 01:02 PM) you could bother to actually check out where the links I'm posting are to before making more lame personal attacks Clearly Hannity, Matt Drudge and Breitbart have the true facts on this one...at any rate, after Ted Cruz and Chaffetz, Devin Nunes just looks like the kind of guy you’d punch in the face at a college frat party. A week ago, a certain someone didn’t even know his name.

"The House Intelligence Committee, the group that had their Twitter suspended yesterday, is said to be possessing the memo that would expose corruption that would lead to the end of careers for lifer politicians." Corruption, sure! Just throw that word out there, like “there was no collusion!” and it will stick if you say it 100 times. Lifer politicians=Rod Rosenstein, a Republican appointee, lol FBI texted Peter Strzok has been found guilty of...hold for it...going after Hillary Clinton, initiating the Comeygate Memo on emails/Weiner. Okay Rabbit, why do Mueller, Comey, McCabe (another Republican primary voter), Rosenstein, Strzok....want to get rid of Trump through this supposed Deep State conspiracy? So that the military industrial complex under Pence/Ryan can pump out defense contracts? Another war? How could they be so sure Pence wouldn’t also go down in flames in the Mueller investigation, and even Ryan now that he’s complicit with Nunes? Why won’t the GOP allow the Inspector General’s (1+ year) own investigation see the light of day? Why block the Democratic memo if publishing just one will come across as hyper partisan? Why poop on Joe Manchin after he actually went after his colleagues for not standing to honor American heroes during the SOTU? Idiots one and all. Gowdy knows it, that’s why he is quitting this charade.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 09:15 AM) 2/10/88 according to his wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanmar_G%C3%B3mez Send www.thebaseballcube.com a correction, then... Mlb.com and ESPN have his birthday as February, too. At any rate, I’m not normally in the business of confirming birthdays for Latin American players.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 10:37 AM) I know there are a ton of moving parts out there, but I would love to see the Cubs gets screwed by waiting so late into this off season to do something about their starters. Sounds like the same exact thing we heard about Houston for months and months last year...

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 07:37 AM) Why does Wray have to resign? Because the president is running roughshod over the Bureau...eventually, a few good Americans will see the Constitutional crisis developing and step into the breach. Resigning would bring this crisis to a head, and Trump is clearly demonstrating he has no respect for their advice and counsel, regardless of who is in charge over there. If Trump forces out another FBI Director, along with McCabe and Rosenstein, well, something just have to give somewhere in the GOP Senate. Yet another Trump lie, this one about SOTU tv ratings. Trump’s right about the numbers. Per Nielsen data, approximately 45.6 million viewers tuned in to watch his speech. And he’s also accurate that Fox News garnered the highest ratings, although, per Nielsen data, the network actually had 11.5 million viewers, not 11.7. But he’s not right when he called the numbers the “highest number in history.” Trump’s three immediate predecessors — former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton — all amassed higher ratings from their first State of the Union than he did: 48 million people tuned in to watch Obama in 2010; 51.7 million tuned in to Bush in 2002; and 45.8 million tuned in for Clinton in 1994. (The President delivers an address to the joint sessions of Congress during his or her first year, and the State of the Union the following year). Trump’s speech, however, did have the highest views since Obama’s in 2010.

Christopher Wray pretty much has to resign as soon as that memo comes out today or tmrw. The crazy thing is that there were many pieces of intelligence behind the Carter Page FISA wiretap request, not just the infamous Steele Dossier. James B. Comey, the (former) F.B.I. director, has described the hurdles to obtaining an intelligence wiretap as a “rigorous, rigorous process.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/south-carolinas-go...-205154018.html “If you don’t stand for the National Anthem while watching the Super Bowl at home or at a party, coordinated drone strikes/snipers should take you out”...SC Governor Henry McMaster (okay, a bit of hyperbole but would anyone really be surprised?) This same governor: COLUMBIA S.C. Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster will take his membership in the all-white Forest Lake Club with him to the Governor’s Mansion. A pair of Democrats say the state’s next Republican governor must quit that membership to truly represent all of South Carolina. However, a Republican in the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature says the membership is a non-issue. McMaster, a member of the exclusive club for more than three decades, has no plans to quit the country club, his spokesman told The State. Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-gove...l#storylink=cpy

Has a Republican (or Democratic administration, for that matter) ever publicly attacked its own FBI, DOJ, CIA and NSA in the same calendar year? Even one of those agencies? They have no incentive to be honest and transparent. They also have no track record of exhibiting either of those traits. Since when has the FBI been dishonest and not transparent in the modern age? Are we talking about abuses under J. Edgar Hoover? Rosenstein and Mueller are REPUBLICANS. What is their POSSIBLE MOTIVE to help Hillary or hurt Trump? Comey, from all appearances, fits the political profile to a TEE as well. Even McCabe voted in the Republican presidential primaries, despite his wife being tarred and feathered as a Clinton stooge/benefactor. Another grand conspiracy...that they want to purge Trump and put either Pence or Ryan (whoever emerges unscathed from the ashes) in charge of the country without a vote? Here's an example of this crap: Peter Strzok was transferred to HR where access to all of the deep agents and employees communication records are kept. Access to all of their communications are being thoroughly purged so that the Inspector General can’t piece together the Pro Clinton/ Anti Trump activity found on the seventh floor. They, Wray and Sessions and Mueller are depending on Strzok and his aides to diminish the evidence available on the FBI Department and Justice Department Revolutionary’s records of meetings, contacts and conspiracies to overthrow the United States Government, The main weakness is that Obama, Clapper, Rogers, Brennen (should be Brennan) and the Clintons didn’t start until they were surprised by Trump’s win. Trump moved to New Jersey while the entire White House was “Sniffed”, cleared and cleaned with new security equipment installed. Notice no real leaks now. MIKE ROGERS IS YET ANOTHER REPUBLICAN!!!!!! The Inspector General's office has been working on their own report for a year and now Nunes' committee is attempting to block its release as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lanny Davis claims FBI Deep State was actually in the bag for Trump in 2016, led by Giuliani and Kallstrom http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/371755...t-elected-trump

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/mar...ails/index.html Here are Hope Hicks' qualifications to make such a statement. Btw, is sleeping with that idiot Corey Lewandowski an attribute for a CV/resume? Hicks was a teenage model having posed for a Ralph Lauren campaign with her older sister Mary Grace, and was the face of the Hourglass Adventures novels about a time-traveling 10-year-old.[4] She was the cover model for The It Girl (2005), the first novel in the series by Cecily von Ziegesar.[15] She attended Greenwich High School, where she was co-captain of the lacrosse team, and graduated in 2006.[13][16][17] She attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in English and played on a club lacrosse program she helped start. She graduated in 2010.[13][4][18] Career Hicks started in public relations with the New York City firm Zeno Group.[19] Hicks began working for public relations firm Hiltzik Strategies in 2012, after meeting the firm's founder at an NFL Super Bowl event, working for among others its client Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's daughter, on her fashion line, and then on other Trump ventures.[13][20] In August 2014 she joined The Trump Organization full-time.[9] Hicks worked for Ivanka Trump inside Trump Tower, helping expand her fashion label (the Ivanka Trump Collection) and modeling for her online store.[21] In October 2014 she began working directly for Donald Trump in The Trump Organization.[22] In January 2015, Donald Trump earmarked Hicks, who was 26 years old at the time, for the role of press secretary for his potential presidential campaign.[23][24] Donald Trump summoned her to his office and, as she tells it, "Mr. Trump looked at me and said, 'I'm thinking about running for president, and you're going to be my press secretary.'"[21] Until that time, she had never worked in politics, nor volunteered on a campaign.[25] After Trump's first primary victories, Hicks was asked to choose between staying with the Trump Organization or working on the campaign full-time. She initially decided to leave the campaign, but Trump convinced her to remain and she stayed on as press secretary.[13]

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 09:24 PM) I'd bet quite a bit he stays there. Not alone in that assessment either. He has shortstop actions and a future 70 arm, but he’ll almost certainly need to move to third base eventually as his large frame fills in and he slows down. The combination of the arm, athleticism, hands and actions could lead to plus-plus defense at third base, though, and with more mass will come more power. http://forums.rotoworld.com/topic/636018-f...3bss-san-diego/

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:04 AM) Gonzalez will be in CF primarily at whichever level he's at IMO. Heres my guess on how it shakes out. Charlotte: Polo, May, Cordell, Palka, etc Birmingham: Jimenez, Booker, Fisher Winston Salem: Robert (CF), Adolfo (RF), Basabe (LF), Call Kannapolis: Gonzalez (CF), Rutherford, Dedelow, Destino I wouldn't assume either Tilson or Engel are making the team...at this point. Then you've got Willy Garcia (most likely 4th) and May in there as well. Pretty sure they give Robert at least 4-6 weeks at KANNY unless he absolutely dominates Spring Training and gives them no choice. Always better to build his confidence and give him a head of steam into a more difficult assignment where he'll see a lot more breaking stuff compared to Low A.

I guess ISU has a UVA transfer for next year and a pretty strong recruiting class. The problem is the Big 12...although OU and TX will lose Young and Bamba. ISU around 105 mark in RPI, will be in 95-99 range after tonight's win...but still need to win the Big 12 unless they can finish conference just 2 games under .500 and get RPI closer to the 60's/70's range.

The Yankees were happy to have Bucky Dent around in 1978...one of the most famous homers hit in modern baseball history, off Mike Torrez of the Red Sox.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:32 PM) I can't speak for "progressives" as a whole, but for me, his record on issues would matter. How has he voted, what bills has he sponsored, etc., and how does that align with his platform. I haven't looked into that at this point, but I will say that if his record looks like that of a neoliberal, which is what most consider to be "centrist/moderate", I would not personally support him and I would not vote for him as president. Now, I happen to live in Indiana, so I have the "advantage" of knowing that my vote for president won't count no matter how I cast it, so in that race I don't have to take the "lesser of two evils" approach and I'm essentially free to vote in a way that lets my progressive ideology be known. That said, I'm tired of choosing the lesser of two evils, I'd like to see candidates that are actually going to govern for the people instead of the special interests. The interesting thing to watch will be how much Biden/Sanders/Warren try to hold onto leadership in the Democratic Party, or if they're willing to "anoint" a younger heir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kennedy_III You can decide for yourself. His grandfather went from one of the most conservative Dems in the 1960's to the evolution of the 1968 populist campaign, which was anti-war, pro-migrant workers, pro-Appalachia, pro-Native American, as liberal as you could possibly get for that time. The only thing like it since has been John Edwards' attempts to copy it, which of course came across as inauthentic. Paul Wellstone and perhaps Sherrod Brown would be a couple of other comparisons. He has been cast as a "grittier," put the work in, down in the trenches Kennedy, compared to JFK Jr. or RFK Jr., for example.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:34 PM) Tatis Jr. plays SS not 3B. For now. The scouting world is divided on whether he sticks there or not. Obviously, his father filled out and played 3B for most of his major league career, mostly with the Expos and Cardinals.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 07:51 PM) He 30 this month. Jeanmar Alejandro Gomez Born: October 2, 1988 (29.121) We can split the difference. He was 28 at the end of the 2017 season. He's also a sinkerball pitcher who doesn't overwhelm with velocity, which is usually what the White Sox are looking for (keeping the ball on the ground and out of the air at USCF).

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/pro...P=Jeanmar-Gomez The crazy thing is that he's only 28 years old and had 37 saves for the Phillies two years ago. When I looked up the bio, I expected him to be early to mid 30's. He's also pretty familiar with our division, which should also help. That gives you Soria, Gomez, Nate Jones and potentially Burdi who could all figure into the backend bullpen rotation. It alleviates almost all of the pressure on Jones to rush himself back and then get hurt again.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 07:08 PM) So Trump is committing treason and the House is investigating the FBI and DOJ? Why? https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/str...tter/index.html 50% of the basis for their attacks (the text messages between the two "lovers") has now been wiped out. Emails obtained by CNN show the FBI agent at the center of a Capitol Hill storm played a key role in a controversial FBI decision that upended Hillary Clinton's campaign just days before the 2016 election: the letter to Congress by then-FBI Director James Comey announcing the bureau was investigating newly discovered Clinton emails. To answer your question: Because our systems of "checks and balances" and "accepted norms since 1787" is breaking down, lol. Because the 30% of Americans who consume Fox News will eat it up, and draw higher ratings, for another. Anything to obfuscate or draw attention away from Trump/Russia/his personal finances/his family. Since we're debating "pragmatism" here (the last 2-3 pages of thread): Let's say Joe Kennedy was somehow the nominee for President in 2020 at age 40. Kennedys have always been moderates/centrists, would liberal women (or members of #metoo) actually not vote because of that family's history with women and the "crony" influence (similar to the Trumps today) they've been able to wield since the first Joe Kennedy a century ago? Does it have to be Liz Warren, Cory Booker or Kamala Harris (at least as the VP) to motivate the progressive side of the party?

Nunes hasn’t even shared any of the classified information with Burr, head of the Senate investigation and a member of his own party. Alot of the memo eventually is going to be out of context or redacted...so we’ll have lots more opportunities for guys like Ron Johnson to claim Deep State conspiracies and then quietly walk those comments back days later. The main reason it exists is to cook a case against Rosenstein to finally fire him and undermine Mueller’s credibility. Ryan is really going to make running for President difficult for himself if Trump is ever impeached. The hyper partisan nature of both memos (and the Dems will leak theirs if the GOP tries to block the rebuttal) means that nobody will get anything close to the objective truth, which is going to hurt the FBI and further erode trust between that agency and the executive branch.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 12:53 PM) (IMO) The election was lost because the "polls" made them so confident that instead of focusing on the 4-5 states they needed to get to 270, they instead started trying to make states like NC and Texas competitive. Its not that Clinton didnt feel comfortable speaking to the midwest (shes from the midwest), its that she didnt even step foot in the midwest. I dont think she ever actually stepped foot into Wisconsin or Michigan (not 100% sure on Michigan). This is from Clinton herself: http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-cli...happened-2017-9 Ironically, the one with best political instincts of his generation, Bill Clinton, was marginalized by Mook and basically ignored on the late-emerging Michigan, WI and PA issue.

Chain migration, not my words, doesn’t allow cousins, for example. I would love to see a Republican explain why featuring a North Korean rescued by “chain migration” or even a refugee is suddenly a good thing...? Does Trump expect South Korea or China to rescue all those in similar situations? Why should they (trust to) look to us for help, if America only wants to use them for PR purposes and then quickly discard them? So immigrants are okay if they’re not white, as long as they’re smart/diligent Asians oppressed by Rocket Man? What about Egyptians, Filipinos, Russians, Turkish or Chinese repressed in the same way...especially members of the media fighting a losing battle for free speech in all those places and being disappeared or murdered everyday? You would think Russia, China and Europe didn’t exist from listening to that speech. Or the environment.

I think you’re overlooking how much the party assumed that African-American voters would turn out in non-Obama elections...and how many of them sat out due to disappointment over the way Bill Clinton treated Obama in 2008, over the term super predators and how the “mend it, don’t end it” revision of government policy in the 90s was coded to be targeted at blacks. She suppressed those voters, or took them for granted...which seems strange to say, because the campaign was largely targeting women and minorities at the expense of the white/working middle class they lost in all those Heartland and Rust Belt states. Hillary never learned how to feel comfortable speaking to them, and made them feel she was really going to be in the trenches fighting for the improvement of their lives. Between young people being turned off (Sanders being pushed aside) and the lack of any excitement about Clinton from blacks...and assuming those middle class whites in Wisconsin would never turn against the Dems, that’s where the election was really lost. It took a perfect storm of bad strategy, wishy washy messaging and not having a strong rationale for why you were even running, other than that it was time for a woman finally.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 12:10 AM) Matthews keeps calling him, "this guy." It's funny how cocky some people are. Their candidate didn't win so they don't even recognize the winner as President. When Obama won, nobody referred to him as "this guy." If you are an American you have to admit he's your president at least. We voted him in. So he's the USA president. U live in the USA so he's your president. Trump may be a chump but a lot of smart people are claiming the economy is thriving under DT. If we can get him impeached, fine, go for it. But if not he's still the US president until a scandal arrives that dictates he be removed. Just cause u lost doesn't mean u have to call him "this guy." This was exactly what Trump and Fox News (certainly after the bloom wore off the rose in 2010) were calling Obama, or worse. Let's not forget that Trump wouldn't even acknowledge for many years that Obama was an American citizen, nor had he the right to be president. Or the times that they said Obama wasn't patriotic simply because he didn't wear an American flag lapel pin. "THIS GUY" was a much more racist term in many parts of the US that refused to believe that an African-American was in charge of their country for the first time after 220 years of white males. Don't you remember "YOU LIE!!!" being shouted at him during a SOTU speech by Representative Joe Wilson, Greg? https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video...mp;action=click Trump's top health official traded tobacco stock while leading anti-smoking efforts CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald bought shares in a global tobacco giant even as her previous holdings were under review. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/30/c...ointment-316245