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When has Trump gone out of his way to criticize anyone who wasn’t a minority for not thanking him? Didn’t the players acknowledge this during the past week, already? This was all about going after an equivalent loudmouth on social media. Trump's social media director, Dan Scavino, fired back at Ball on his personal Twitter account Saturday afternoon, saying Ball's son, LiAngelo, "would be in China for a long, long, long time" without the President's assistance. "Wannabe @Lakers coach, BIG MOUTH @Lavarbigballer knows if it weren't for President @realDonaldTrump, his son would be in China for a long, long, long time! #FACT," Scavino wrote. source:cnn I don’t even remember the name of Obama’s social media director.

http://www.guideinchina.com/articles/6/for...l_1493086810915 http://www.upfrontsportstrek.com/blog/who-is-wendell-brown Meanwhile, Wendell Brown, former Ball State FB and Detroit MLK standout has been rotting in prison for well over a year here for doing much less...he was actually teaching American football and English to locals in Chongqing. Trump doesn’t care about someone who isn’t connected to a famous person.

QUOTE (New Era on South Side @ Nov 17, 2017 -> 10:31 PM) Let’s be fair to coverage from both sides. https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/...losers.amp.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/17/news/econo...bill/index.html I’ll ask once again, how does this benefit all Americans? That’s what you get when Mnuchin, Ross, Cohn and Tom Barrack are giving Trump most of his economic advice. Why Peter Navarro hasn’t resigned yet is beyond me.

Numerous families, NFL teams, former friends (online and off) and neighbors have been split...forced to choose one political side or the other, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise than SoxTalk also reflects that same fraying of the social fabric. I’m honestly not sure we can say with certainty that we are still more alike than different. And country always comes before allegiance over a sports team. That’s just the way it goes. Surely the same debates will be happening around the Thanksging table, perhaps even more heated this year (for those not already worn out trying to “convert” the other side.)

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/16/opinions...il_topeditorial GOP tax plan a disaster for Asian Americans

QUOTE (Wanne @ Nov 17, 2017 -> 06:55 PM) I'm there with ya raBBit....I just choose not to engage in these type discussions on any of the boards I'm on because it usually ends up with "mob posse" D's whining...and finger pointing...and basically becoming unhinged. Tell ya what...it's basically the reason I re-registered back in 2010. I was and voted D all my life...but pretty much got sick of the hypocritical bulls*** that I saw from the left...so I bolted. Honestly...it's like a f******* mob posse mentality. For everyone like you who bolted from the party or voted Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania....there are 2-3 who are going back in the other direction, repelled by everything they’ve witnessed in the last ten months. You can’t just selectively block out the association with Steve Bannon and the alt-right. The Republican Party is splitting right down the middle, just like the Democrats. But the Dems (especially women) are more motivated to stop Trumpism before they can even consider healing the rifts in the party. The big difference is that on issues like health care or tax cuts (take your stand on the side of those earning $500k or more, see http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/17/news/econo...ill/index.html) which provide the greatest good for the greatest number of Americans, you’re on the wrong side. And that’s not even considering the anti-women, anti-minorities, anti-immigrant side of the GOP at the moment...rearing its ugly head in Charlottesville or over Roy Moore. And that’s not even considering the stance of putting your head in the sand while we continue to damage the environment (see the most recent oil pipeline spill)...what’s the worst thing that could happen if we take proactive steps right now instead of waiting until it’s too late and the planet has been damaged beyond repair? If Trump had actually done anything to benefit the middle class since coming into office, you’d at least have an argument. If the best that you can come up with is the stock market continuing to rise, there’s really going to be hell to pay when the bubble pops and even the upper middle class and rich start to turn on Trump after all the tax cut bills have withered on the vine.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 17, 2017 -> 02:31 PM) To get this unfortunate thread back on track from the derailment, there looks to be another Senator who could on the chopping board next. Former intern of Senator Blumenthal tells her sexual assault story, then sets her account to private shortly after. I'd like to see something more official but worth monitoring. https://twitter.com/SSludgeworth/status/931574521089445888 Surprise, surprise. Twitter User With Fake IDs (and fake pictures) Spreads Blumenthal Assault Charge https://amp.thedailybeast.com/a-twitter-acc...tes-ran-with-it And yet 35% of the American people will still believe it....even if it’s clearly fake news with zero corroboration by a legit news network. Any 13 year old could pull off a stunt like that and accuse a politician, celebrity or neighbor/classmate of sexual assault. Account suspended/shut down turns to account turned to private in order to protect herself from vicious left wing attacks. In fact, a quick search shows that the account ripped off bio photos of women in Texas and London and misspelled the name of the accuser’s Connecticut hometown. The account was quickly shut down once the accusation went viral on rightwing media, with the user then emerging to claim she’d been hacked. After that, the account was suspended. A reverse Google Image search of that photo revealed that it was actually a different Linda Flores—a Linda Flores Olson who served as the former Executive Director of the Houston Hispanic Forum. When reached by The Daily Beast, a spokesperson for the Houston Hispanic Forum told The Daily Beast that Olson is no longer working for the nonprofit, but said she had nothing to do with the Twitter account. “She's aware of the tweet. That is a fake account,” the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. Hours later, the picture on the Linda Flores account had been changed to a picture of another woman who was not, it seems, actually Linda Flores. A reverse Google Image search revealed that woman pictured was actually Sarah Brook, an HR specialist in the U.K. whose Twitter and LinkedIn accounts predated the creation of “Flores’” account by several years.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion...-story,amp.html Ivanka Trump might be the worst enabler of them all

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doubts-surface-k...-203614558.html Doubts Surface about key witness in Uranium One probe of Clinton

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/politics/kir...rats/index.html Should Dems turn on Bill Clinton (based on standards of today)?

http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/donald-tr...-the-nfl-apart/ Donald Trump is tearing the NFL apart

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps? ..... 11:06 AM - Nov 17, 2017 Surely he was doing even worse in front of tons of people on a USO plane/tour... If the Democrats REALLY wanted to sabotage the GOP over the Moore situation, they would have waited UNTIL AFTER he was elected...putting them in the position of being stuck with him (and tarnishing whatever's left of the "brand") or having to expel him from the Senate (which hasn't happened for 155+ years, at the beginning of the Civil War, see below) or . Expelled for supporting Confederate rebellion in 1862, three Senators from Indiana/Missouri. Expelled in 1861, John C. Breckinridge, a Kentucky Senator, later a general for the Army of the Confederate States who served mostly in the Western Theatre. John Ensign (NV) and Bob Packwood (OR) the two most recent examples where they resigned before being expelled...can probably add Menendez to that list.

Justice League has been getting panned. Sitting around 40 at rottentomatoes. Will they go away from Snyder/Whedon and give Sally Jenkins (Wonder Woman) a shot to make the next one?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 16, 2017 -> 04:23 PM) Never wager on something you have no way of knowing. A lot of "liberals" have been caught in this mess. The reason I hate politicizing it, is because its going to become about "teams" instead of looking at each case on its own merit. Look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They can’t talk about anything without the obligatory criticizing of Obama or the Clintons. What President ever acted like that 1 year into office? Not even Nixon, vis a vis the Kennedys and LBJ. Now every election should be about wiping out every single policy of your predecessor from an opposing party?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 16, 2017 -> 12:02 PM) The problem with the article is that there is no way to know whether Franken or Tweeden is telling the truth. As Rock alluded to, there are videos of Tweeden with Robin Williams where she wraps her legs around him in a sexually way for laughs at a similar USO event. It will be interesting to see if anyone else comes out against Franken. Yes, therein lies the issue. How many other accusations equals corroboration in the public eye? Weinstein and Spacey number in the fifties by now. Moore has at least six. Trump had 10-15...plus the whole Russia thing, the Access Hollywood tape, the allegations about terrible behavior during Miss Universe/Miss Teen USA/Miss USA pageants. We all know about Bill Clinton and GHW Bush now.

She was a pretty famous lingerie/fitness model who eventually became a Playboy model and actress... She has made appearances as a politically conservative commentator on such Fox News shows as 'Hannity' and 'Red Eye'. [5][6] wikipedia So the defense is going to be that it’s a political hit job and 2) that photo was taken jokingly with lots and lots of people around on the plane, so very poor taste/trying to be funny in an inappropriate way vs. a “fireable offense.” Of course, Franken was better known for being a comedian/book writer than politician at that point. My sense is that this gives Trump and Moore some political cover (both sides are guilty!!!) and there’s going to be tremendous pressure to resign from the Democratic Party despite his high popularity. Do some of the Congresswomen/staffers/pages start naming names now? Will it get any traction without visual evidence or recordings? If current political leaders or celebs took similar pictures in high school or college (with lots of witnesses around), especially at parties where heavy drinking was involved...does that end their career/s as well or get excused as a “youthful indiscretion?”

https://twitter.com/darinself/status/930880...eet-of-money%2F One of the best tweets of the year...

Depends on the money...would he sign just a bargain basement one-year deal, and how willing would he be to include an option for 2019? If you're only getting him for one year, the payoff's/upside's considerably less. And what is a bargain for a catcher? The same as Holland made for us? $7-8 million?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 09:18 AM) Businesses have been making record profits and hording cash for years. Nobody is struggling for money to invest. Giving them big tax breaks won't change the job market or turbocharge the economy, but it will continue to widen the wealth and income gaps. And you know, that bolded is a pretty important point. We had an intentionally hamstrung recovery stimulus package at the peak of the worst economic crisis the world had seen in 80 years, but now we can deficit-fund a tax cut for the wealthy that's more than twice as large and not a single Republican seems to care. This country could really use $1.5T in spending on something actually worthwhile like infrastructure. And yet Obama is ALWAYS the one primarily blamed for the $20 trillion deficit. Not Bush. No mention of the US government successfully bailing out the automobile industry (turned a profit on those loans), and how cataclysmic things could have been had we followed GOP/Romney orthodoxy of letting them all fail. (Of course, the GOP was perfectly unwilling to let more than a couple of the smaller banks fail, but that's another story.) Does it really matter now, anyway, since the level of concern about that $20 trillion debt from the majority of GOPers is probably about a 2 or 3 on a 10 scale, except for a few of the most outspoken House Freedom Caucus members? There doesn't seem to be much concern about adding billions and billions of dollars to the defense budget, either (even though we're supposedly "isolating" ourselves from being the policeman of the world, instead preferring to respect national sovereignty and even putting it out there that Japan and South Korea should have their own nukes). Meanwhile, there's not even a hint of a $1 trillion GOP infrastructure or job training/retraining bill. It seems that those representatives and Senators simply are being forced into a box where they feel they HAVE to do SOMETHING that will be perceived positively by at least 50% of the country (Yay! TAX CUTS!)...and maybe sneaking in the ObamaCare mandate repeal can be buffered/mitigated by the bigger story of the tax cuts. One thing is certain...they're certainly not doing any favors (to local pols) by lowering that mortgage interest deduction to $500K. It will have a disproportionate impact on blue and purple states (mostly NE), along with CA.

One of the "betting odds" websites has it ranked like this: Michelle Obama Kaine (blehhh) Warren Booker J.Castro Klobuchar Bernie Sanders Biden Bloomberg Cortez Masto (that's a new name, relatively inexperienced) No mention of Kamala Harris, Gillibrand, O'Malley, Sherrod Brown

Well, I see things never change around here...the irony is that a lot of these "fake" issues and conspiracy theories are doing exactly what they're intended to accomplish, driving away the conversation from the most salient issues of the day. Even some of the Fox News on-air talent is pushing back against the Uranium One story and Sessions going after the Clintons' "corruption" storyline. Meanwhile, none of the probably 100's (by now) of examples of nepotism and violations of the emoluments clause by Trump and his family are being highlighted because it long ago failed to shock...or all of the millions of dollars spent on Secret Service, travel, golfing, Trump venue rental/fees...or even the Pence/Colts stunt and all of the money that was allocated to that rather than a million other better purposes.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/18/opinions/gun...nion/index.html Do we love our guns more than our children? http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/15/us/californi...ings/index.html Mental health issues galore Neal had been out of bail on an assault with a deadly weapon charge from January, officials said. Neal, 44, "was not law enforcement friendly" and authorities a number of times had come to his house after complaints that shots were fired from the property, Johnston said. Neal's sister told CNN's Sara Sidner that he had struggled with mental health issues for at least 20 years. "My mom spent a great deal of her time and nearly all her energy trying so hard to placate him," said Sheridan Orr, who was with her distraught mother in North Carolina. Neal's mental state began a steep decline about a year ago, said Orr, adding the family had tried to get him help. Before police shot him dead, Neal injured at least 10 others in a string of shootings that spanned at least seven sites in the small community of Rancho Tehama, west of Corning, police said. Those locations include a locked elementary school that the shooter fired into from the outside, injuring a boy. The shootings started in Neal's neighborhood shortly before 8 a.m., where he killed a woman neighbor who had a restraining order against him, Johnston said. Neal had been arrested and charged in January on suspicion of assaulting her with a deadly weapon, he said.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 09:03 AM) League revenues are growing at more than 5% per year right now. At that pace it should take less than 15 years for contract values to double. At that pace, $25 million for JD would be something like $12 million for him in 2005. That year, Johnny Damon signed with the Yankees for 4/$52 as a 32 year old. Martinez has been a comparable player, maybe a bit better than Damon was, during the years preceding his deal, and he's reaching FA younger. If we can assume the local broadcasting rights deals continue unabated...despite the cord cutters/higher subscription fees. The stock market has been doubling that pace, but how long before the long-awaited recession hits after nearly a decade of growth?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 06:54 AM) Bernie Bernstein? Did they decide Jewy McJew was too obvious? Must be a relative of Bonnie, lol...why would someone saying they’re Bernie or Lennie have an email address of albernstein?

Or the estate tax...is that still on the table in either bill?