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I can’t believe Alabama women/mothers are calling in to C-Span to argue that Roy Moore ONLY has two accusers because the other 7 were 16/17/18 years old and it was not officially breaking the law to be with those GIRLS (merely “icky”) at that time. Or they seduced HIM...were essentially like Eve and the snake in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Donald Trump, Jr., fighting the righteous war against the corrupt media https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tru...-231215245.html If they were really trying to get to the truth you would think they would reach out to the other side before running with it. They all have my number... they couldn’t care less about the truth. https://t.co/QDEUOgmAVx — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 10, 2017 “So this week is precisely why people should trust the media??? Have you lost your mind? MSM happy getting their narrative out there and forgetting about the truth. Only did so when forced to by people with large enough platforms to call them out. Sadly, most don’t have that!” he said in a separate tweet. Amazing! Who knew Honest Abe was such a regulation buster? During a rally in Pensacola, Fla., on Dec. 8, President Trump claimed that he has cut more federal regulations than any other U.S. president including Abraham Lincoln. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...m=.1c6974889eb8

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 10, 2017 -> 03:59 PM) Yeah they are and the train keeps rolling. Read somewhere that the cubs want to have Cobb signed by Monday. Would be nice if the Sox could get Nate Jones healthy. There's still some potential for a nice haul down the road. It would probably require at least one full healthy season AS A CLOSER before he regained most of his value from 2 years ago. That's a lot of strain to put on someone who has been through as many major injuries as Nate has recently.

Who is their Dotel/Linebrink combo to save the day? Cubs are in dire need of dependable RH relievers to supplement Edwards, Jr. They better hope Morrow doesn't morph into Jesse Crain.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Dec 10, 2017 -> 10:46 PM) https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s...-what-happened/ This is just from 2016 alone!!! If Trump succeeds in getting all those crooked media members fired, we'll have the best media west of Russia and east of China. The most "humiliating debacle in ages" happens everyday in the so-called American mainstream media, and if you send us $25.00 in the next 10 minutes, you'll not only receive a tax-exempt donation receipt, but your very own FREE autographed limited edition copy of Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer. Number 1: Hillary will win in a landslide. The media was so sure Clinton would win in a landslide. Every poll reported that Clinton was a shoe-in. They struggled to justify their position all night, until, finally, they couldn’t believe their own bias any longer. When they announced Trump the winner I was buckled over in laughter! ... Number 10: White people ruined America. Samantha Bee from TBS blamed white people for ruining America after Trump prevailed over Hillary Clinton. You know Samantha Bee, racism goes both ways and blaming Clinton’s loss on an entire race is one of the most despicable things I’ve ever heard. Her poor ratings indicate that many agree with me! http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/media-moments-2016/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/racial-dispute-b...-124730394.html Stories like this are ONE possible reason that Trump and the GOP will retain power. Granted, there might be some missing context, but there's just no way that a logical person can side with the Oberlin (OH) students against this private bakery (once again, from all the information provided so far). The idea that even that the school cafeteria's cooking Vietnamese spring rolls or sushi and it's considered "cultural appropriation" is just nutty. Southsider2k5 asked for more stories that show liberal excesses, this is clearly one of them. PS: Greg will love this story.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 10, 2017 -> 07:27 PM) Maybin and Miller were such hot shot prospects and it took them about 8 more years to become productive major leaguers and neither in the role they were projected. These cases always make me a little nervous about the rebuild. Unless the Cubs/Astros are running the rebuilds...or you have the Dodgers/Red Sox/Yankees' ability to invest in the farm system, international youngsters and outbid pretty much everyone on the FA market when you choose to dip your toes into the water. IMO, the real test will be how long the Indians and Astros can keep their cores together. KC, it only lasted two years, but they made two World Series and almost won both. The Cubs have made 3 consecutive NL Championship Series, and might still have 3-4 more in them. At any rate, it's an extremely interesting time in baseball. Taking the "middle route" like the Mariners have been on (and the White Sox attempted for a decade) just doesn't work anymore because the margin of error is razor thin. We shall see if the White Sox/Padres approach can work this time around. It's also fascinating because the Cardinals' Way (despite doing everything the "right" way) has its limits (couldn't attract Heyward, David Price, Luis Robert, now Stanton).

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Dec 10, 2017 -> 07:53 AM) What in the hell... http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-2...iller-incidents Author argued that radical, even violent rhetoric coming from the political right is more incendiary and aggressive than that coming from the left. During the Obama years, it was even more one-sided than now. It was decidedly more violent and deadly. The current President has the bully pulpit and a 40 million plus twitter audience. Fox News and conservative talk radio spend 24 hours per day going after the left with incendiary rhetoric/conspiracy theories and don’t even pretend to care about the truth half the time. Not to mention their audience is a multiple many times greater than that of CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and NY Times combined. It’s not even close.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Dec 10, 2017 -> 11:11 AM) http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/263...inter-meetings/ Am I the only one who has absolutely zero recollection of this? Could you imagine how this changes ChiSox history? Also, why did KW refuse taking on the Willis contract? It wasn't much at all and DET seemed to handle it well Danks, Fields, and Gio for Miggy and Willis? (Likely mans NO SWISHER(!!!!!!!!!!!) PLUS, the Hunter pursuit? Note this also likely doesn't cancel out the Quentin-Carter swap or Garland-Cabrera swap Miller and Maybin were both huge prospects at that time, and the unwillingness to take on Willis money (they already had a lot of money sunk into the fading starting rotation) was also a pivotal factor. Detroit was willing to absorb the remaining salary, and they sent four other players. Not sure how the $29.5 million extension Dombrowski signed Willis to two weeks later factored in, but the Sox were apparently not interested in that particular commitment. Also pretty sure that particular package of all 3 players was never offered by the Sox. Looking back online, Gavin Floyd’s name was also involved.

https://sports.yahoo.com/bryce-harper-go-no...-235551119.html The six favorites for Bryce Harper now, Cubs in top 3

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Dec 9, 2017 -> 10:14 PM) I thought Gleyber Torres was slated for 3b, not 2b. Headley is mediocre at best and getting old. I'd imagine he will be a platoon player next year. That was before Castro was traded. And I think some here are getting Gleyber Torres and Ronald Torreyes confused. He’s more of a utility guy.

Ryan Sweeney says hello. In all fairness, the same was being said about a certain Astros OF prospect in 2016 and he really blossomed this past year. Nobody knows when or if it will happen. Avi Garcia is a perfect example. Projected/potential power vs. reality is an inexact science.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 9, 2017 -> 07:48 PM) I suspect they’d be happy to take any number of our assets off our hands for Frazier. If we offered a package of say, Dunning and Burdi, I’m pretty sure that deal gets done. There are any number of combinations that get it done, tbh. The White Sox would be one of the easier organizations to complete a deal with, IMO. They already have the best pen in baseball, why do they need Burdi, who has to prove himself first coming off injury. Dunning? Not enough. Same with Fulmer. It would have to be someone closer to Lopez/Giolito/Hansen territory. They can simply dangle Gardner and/or Frazier until they get the exact pitcher they want back in return. We don’t have anyone in that 60-75 range, Cease/Dunning/Hansen (just one) feels light, the others are still pretty close to untouchable from Hahn’s perspective. Odds are, though, they’d prefer to trade Frazier, since they tend to value vets so highly.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 9, 2017 -> 03:59 PM) FWIW, the 2016 and 2017 world series had the highest ratings since 09 when the Yankees were last in it. And seriously, you posted the phrase "Lots of talk that NFL owners want Silver as next commissioner" 3 days after they gave Gooddell 5 years and what, $200 million? The argument was that superteams were killing the NBA....when all indicators and metrics show the opposite, except for maybe the Atlanta Hawks. The NBA is projected by most experts to eat into the NFL fanbase, rather than poaching fans from MLB. No news in China about the NFL...it will only exist when they play the preseason game here. And I have a sneaking feeling Jeter will end up selling that team in the next 10-15 years at an extremely profitable markup and it will be relocated.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 9, 2017 -> 04:55 PM) Not when one side is using more hateful, inciteful, and provocative language to create the situation that exists. Honestly it is similar or worse than how Trump's description of immigrants was portrayed, yet barely anything is said. The whole, don't let the few define the whole thing? Nope. Hateful/inciteful/provocative...how do you plan on objectively quantifying that as being worse? Worse than the anti-Muslim videos shared on twitter two weeks ago? Isn’t more to be expected from the President of the United States than a random yahoo message board poster? What do you want to be covered that isn’t being covered? Wouldn’t the news media simply be considered more divisive for doing so? Listen to C-Span someday. They take alternating calls from Democrats, Republicans and Independents on Washington Journal. A good number of the conservative callers are currently labeling c-span as fake news and arguing they’re only focused on bad news about the administration, and calling it fake news as well. So where does real news exist anymore?

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Dec 9, 2017 -> 03:11 PM) MLB is soon going to have the same issue that the NBA is now having. Three or four "super" teams...Dodgers, Yankees, Indians, Astros. A small number of very good teams...Red Sox, Cubs, Nats and all the rest mediocre at best or tanking / rebuilding with ZERO CHANCE to win anything. Not good for the fans and not good from a business standpoint when fans stop watching or going to games because there isn't any point. And I'd argue just the opposite, on a point. Miami actually has Stanton over a barrell. The guy wants to play for a winner and doesn't want to go through a rebuild. Fine. Miami should have said, 'you go to the Cards or the Giants or we'll trade everybody in the f***ing lineup and you'll be out there alone with no protection in last place. How would you like that?' I'm willing to bet he'd change his tune mighty quick. Instead Miami acted like Miami even with new ownership. The knowledgeable fans complain, but the NBA tv ratings are way up the last three years. Lots of talk that NFL owners want Silver as next commissioner. As long as the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs or Dodgers are one of the top four teams...baseball will be fine. You also might be able to add Angels with Ohtani/Trout as the fifth megafranchise.

Harper’s going to want to play somewhere that he’s clearly THE guy...just not seeing the fit there now in NYC. Would almost be like Durant to the Warriors if the Yankees win it all next year. IMO, Yankees would be better off saving remaining gunpowder for starting pitching.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 9, 2017 -> 02:55 PM) Here's a question. Are these two ideas compatible? 1. Police officers can be afforded some leeway, in the words of several posters here, given that use of deadly force is very possibly warranted in their day-to-day work and would be warranted much more frequently than the justifiable uses of force are for typical civilians. 2. Police officers, as an important part of the criminal justice system, should be expected to give the benefit of the doubt to the people they confront even if it entails risk of bodily harm to the officer. This is because the least desirable outcome of an encounter between a citizen and police is a death, regardless of how innocent or guilty the citizen is because that cannot be known definitively until the other arms of the justice system have decided. This is also not to suggest that cops shouldn't defend themselves, sometimes with deadly force, when there is no margin for a benefit of the doubt. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-shows-ma...y-shot/?ref=yfp And here’s the perfect companion video. Officer overrun, taser fails...another officer basically has to come to his rescue. You almost get the feeling they were too patient. So then it comes back to the Greg comment of why do you have to shoot to kill instead of just to “take him down”? The first officer was getting the worst of it, but was his life in imminent danger? Nevertheless, we all know that if you don’t back down (lucky to get even one warning) and you’re assaulting an officer of the law, you’re assuredly going to to end up being shot. He had multiple opportunities to back off (the victim). Would have to see the toxicology results to find out if the victim had any drugs or alcohol in his system that might have exacerbated the situation.

Trump argued last night that stricter gun laws in Chicago have made no difference, So...what is the nuanced solution to all these confrontations that doesn’t take a side? Republicans would argue that all we have to do is build a wall, block chain migration, end DACA, sanctuary cities, hire more ICE and Homeland Security/Border Patrol officers, pass Kate’s Law, stop M-13, problem solved! But what about addressing the training and conflict resolution/threat mediation and de-escalation skills of modern-day police officers? Why does every video come across like the officers are dealing with alleged criminals like they’re confronting non-humans in a video game environment...with zero empathy or compassion or consideration, just cold-hearted brutality? There was a time when the relationship between police and the neighborhoods they protected was not 100% adversarial. Maybe every member of Congress needs to sit through at least one season of The Wire so they can start to have a broader, more realistic perspective? Perhaps they could also watch The Interrupters (2011 documentary about Chicago) and see that not every single minority in the inner city is the enemy, just like the majority of police officers are not the enemy? But that’s asking way too much. We talk so much about gun control and the police, but hardly ever address real issues like endemic poverty and the woeful state of public education today.

Yankees, Red Sox, Indians, Astros...Hahn has at least 50% of his work cut out for him still. For the next two years, those are the AL teams to beat, with the Angels (Omani/Trout) and Twins interesting as well. Rangers aren’t going to play dead, either.

Medicare, which specifies reimbursement rates for all the doctors who compete to serve its enrollees, is in fact the most efficient healthcare delivery system in the nation, with the lowest administrative costs. Far from suppressing innovation, Medicare has been a fount of innovation. The program has been a leader in testing new models for healthcare payment and new approaches to, yes, "patient-centered" care. Ryan just wants to cut costs, but his prescriptions, such as they are, won't do that. Medicare and Medicaid can't actually be "reformed" from within; they're both prisoners of overall healthcare costs. That's what needs to be reformed — how we pay doctors and hospitals, how we judge the value of medical outcomes, and how much we allow drug companies to charge patients for their products. None of those factors is on Paul Ryan's agenda. He's just talking about shifting the embedded costs of healthcare from government to individuals, and in a way that will drive costs up, not down. As long as he chooses his interviewers carefully, his lies and misrepresentations aren't going to get the scrutiny they deserve. But since's he's threatening to turn them into policy, it's time they did. http://beta.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/l...1208-story.html

After listening to Trump’s Pensacola speech and giving up after one hour: Wait until insurance policies across the country continue to rise, partially due to the ObamaCare mandate being shoved aside. As long as the middle class/lower middle class continues to stagnate economically (they’re not all heavily invested into the stock market like all of Trump’s buddies), Trumpism will wither on the vine. Those are the families in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan earning $30-75,000 per year. The ones who won’t receive any or much benefit from the tax cuts and will see health care and higher education costs continue to be more and more unaffordable. Any economist worth his salt knows that giving them tax relief would be the best way to stimulate the economy even more. Injecting money into small and medium sized companies, instead of the Fortune 500 behemoths. The problem is none of those people I’m talking about employ lobbyists, or accountants who enable them to (legally) pay lower taxes than Warren Buffett’s secretary. The economy is already humming along at 3.3%, and probably closer to 3.5-4.0% if you factor in those three major hurricanes (Florida, Texas, PR). Now is the time the government should be paying down debt...through increased capital gains taxes and lower estate taxes. This is also largely what led to balanced budgets under Bill Clinton his last 2-3 years in office. Tax relief should be going to the middle class, infrastructure repair, strategic defense/military and breathing life into small and medium sized businesses. Everyone else will be able to take care of themselves just fine. When you help the middle class, eventually you can address extreme poverty. Right now, the middle class is being pushed in that direction, so we have to start fixing the problem there first.

Distance from cop? Speed of approach? Is it a military knife/K bar or Swiss Army knife? What other ways does he have to de-escalate the situation short of deadly force, like a taser? Is he alone or does he have backup, and how many? There’s no one size fits all answer to that question.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 8, 2017 -> 12:47 PM) Holy s***! kimberly kindy‏Verified account @kimberlykindy Exclusive: As Conyers weighed resignation, former intern stepped forward saying he brought up Chandry Levy case when she rejected his advances Fits right in with Franks’ desire to relive The Handmaid’s Tale, Judge Moore’s to recreate Gone With the Wind and Representative Farenthold to pay out over $80,000 over a mere legit difference of opinion.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Dec 8, 2017 -> 12:20 PM) King is an absolute disgrace. Tough call between him and Grassley. Branstad even seems somewhat tolerable compared to those two.