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Singh said Puget Sound-area Sikh men in particular have reported a rise in verbal abuse and uncomfortable encounters recently, “a kind of prejudice, a kind of xenophobia that is nothing that we’ve seen in the recent past.” To Singh, the number of incidents targeting members of the religion, which has its roots in the Punjab region of South Asia, recalls the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. “But at that time, it felt like the [presidential] administration was actively working to allay those fears,” he said. “Now, it’s a very different dimension.” Sikh Coalition Interim Program Manager Rajdeep Singh, in calling for the hate crime investigation, said in a statement: “While we appreciate the efforts of state and local officials to respond to attacks like this, we need our national leaders to make hate crime prevention a top priority. Tone matters in our political discourse, because this a matter of life or death for millions of Americans who are worried about losing loved ones to hate.” Matt Day: 206-464-2420 or mday@seattletimes.com. On Twitter @mattmday

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trum...bsession-235681 Trump just can't quit Obama If there was a wiretap, after all, Trump now has the authority as president to make it public. Matt Miller, a former Justice Department spokesman under Attorney General Eric Holder, tweeted, “By confirming it publicly, Trump has also pretty much guaranteed no one can be charged for leaking the existence of this FISA warrant. Oops!” As is usually the case, Trump’s supporters in the conservative media gave him all he seems to feel he needs. The Twitter fury that Trump greeted the world with Saturday morning appears to have wormed its way from conservative radio host Mark Levin to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s former Breitbart News website to the president pecking out on his phone, “Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Very quickly, he got an echo from a reliable source. “What did OBAMA know and when did he know it??” Hannity wrote on Twitter. Lindsey Graham and Sasse (both Republicans) calling for investigations into wiretapping allegations http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/03...response-nr.cnn

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Mar 4, 2017 -> 07:14 PM) I can see it now. Minority gun sales have probably increased ten fold since the election. Just a matter of time before they start shooting this crazy white f***ers dead. Go back to your country? You first, motherf***er. Just let the Oklahoma State House start working with ICE, VOICE and DHS. TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma lawmaker who once likened Islam to cancer required Muslims to answer several written questions — including, "Do you beat your wife?" — before agreeing to meet with them. Republican state Rep. John Bennett's office distributed the questionnaire on Thursday as the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations organized its annual Muslim Day at the Capitol. The lawmaker's office gave the list of questions to three Islamic school students who came to his office and asked to speak with him. "(The prophet) Mohammed was a killer of pagans, Christians and Jews that did not agree with him," read one of 18 questions on the form. "Do you agree with his example?" The questions asked Muslims whether they would denounce terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and whether they believed former Muslims should be punished for leaving Islam. One question asked Muslims if they agreed that Islamic law, known as Sharia, should rule over non-Muslims. https://www.yahoo.com/news/oklahoma-lawmake...--politics.html

"Obama could be sentenced to up to 5 years in prison if he is investigated and found guilty of wiretapping President Donald Trump's campaign headquarters during the last presidential election..." Lol. Love the Breitbart comments section. In response to Levin/Breitbart hit piece Julian Borger reported for the Guardian back on January 11 that FBI inquiries into ties between four Trump associates and Russian government figures had led to applications for two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) warrants. One application was rejected, and then a second, narrower application was accepted. Contrary to Trump’s assertions, the President of the United States does not personally direct FBI investigations, and there’s no evidence that Obama had anything to do with this personally. Lurking beneath Trump’s conspiratorial web is simply the reality that he seems to be confirming that intelligence services and the FISA Court believe there is some kind of investigation-worthy evidence out there. http://www.vox.com/2017/3/4/14813434/trump...hoo&ref=yfp

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/03/03/char...l-flynn?ref=yfp Now it's time for the conservative media to close ranks and blame all current Trump political quagmires on "land mines" set by the Obama admin One positive (if Bannon/Priebus/Miller are out of favor) is that Ivanka softens his worst instincts, like separating mothers from their children at the border...on the other hand, Jared Kushner has zero foreign policy experience...but more of a deal maker than a keyboard warrior, compared to many in the admin. Unless the flashpoint is Israel, that is.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 4, 2017 -> 08:37 AM) 1. Trump is in full panic mode. They must be getting close to the truth about him and Russia 2. His defense is to tweet out stories from Breitbart. Lol They STILL have Milo's podcast prominently featured...along with an exciting assortment of Breitbart souvenirs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...m=.cfaaf78a4c23 Latest WaPo wiretapping story http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_...-03-03-08-20-54 Moscow compares Sessions uproar to McCarthyism....still coordinating news? What next, Russia hacked Oscars to rally Trump voters against Hollywood glamorization of "perverted" gay black males by exchanging La La Land Best Picture envelope for Moonlight? SNL will destroy him tonight. https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...src=twsrc%5Etfw And yet he still has energy to feud with Arnold about Celebrity Apprentice

“Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone,” Trump tweeted.. Trump small mind doesn't realize that Obama was the sitting president who had the authority to meet with foreign diplomats. "Yahoo Tony" 4 mins ago

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-claims-o...fices-election/ It gets worse. "Obama is a bad (or sick) guy." https://www.yahoo.com/news/this-is-nixonwat...-131755678.html snidesnide29 minutes ago wow kite surfing and wire tapping? Trump you are turning Obama into a regular James Bond!!!!

Not sure where Joshua is going...but the fact is that many of us (including myself!) have probably deserved at least a 5-10 day ban more than once. If anything, the mods here are TOO reasonable. And surely the political jokes have been pushed to the precipice, but life is too short to hold a grudge against a comment riddled with obvious sarcasm.

Moncada with a single and triple...but two more K's. (Second hit was off Andre Rienzo.) Now 7 in 13 abs.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 3, 2017 -> 05:47 PM) Chaffetz contends that because Sessions was a senator it is not perjury due to some rule. "It is, at best, very misleading testimony," said Richard Painter, formerly the top ethics lawyer in President George W. Bush's White House. "I don't go so far as to say that it's perjury, but there is a lesser charge of failing to provide accurate information to Congress." "A nominee at a confirmation hearing has an obligation to provide full and complete information to Congress," Painter continued. "Conduct that might be just short of perjury in a deposition in a typical civil case is entirely inappropriate in front of Congress." However, such misdemeanor charges are usually only rolled out as part of a plea deal after prosecutors obtain or threaten more serious felony perjury charges. Some lawyers say those would be a stretch in Sessions' case. "Perjury is very hard to prove," said former House Counsel Stan Brand, who worked for the Democrats. "You have to prove two elements that are very difficult in the Congressional context: one is intent and two is an absolutely clear and unambiguous question." Politico.com

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/opinions/why...nion/index.html Trump's war on reality is truly baffling (excellent piece) http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/hous...s-it-say-235648 New ObamaCare repeal details leaked... The bill still includes new tax credits for individuals based on age, a proposal that hardline conservatives derided as "Obamacare lite" after POLITICO published a previous version of the draft legislation last week. However, one significant change to the tax credit is being considered: not allowing wealthier Americans to qualify for assistance. No specific proposal for cutting off eligibility has been added to the legislation, but staff have been directed to come up with possible proposals, according to a source familiar with the deliberations. The latest draft, dated Feb. 24, also still includes a plan to phase out Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. Instead the program’s current open-ended federal entitlement would be replaced by capped payments to states based on the number of Medicaid enrollees.

MSU seems safe, Michigan a bit less so. Illinois and Iowa need to win at least two B10 Tourney games.....probably there ends up being a head to head elimination. If they only beat Illinois once or closed out Minnesota, they'd (Iowa) be in the same position or better than Michigan. Have beaten Iowa State, Wichita State (without Van Fleet), MD, Purdue, WI. MD and WI on the road.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Mar 3, 2017 -> 01:11 PM) Who else is gone from the "ton of moves?" They biggest one is still here. Rollins, Lawrie, Navarro, Morneau, Latos, Jackson, Avila, etc. Shields and Frazier still around.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 3, 2017 -> 07:49 AM) Sessions used campaign funds to visit with the Russian ambassador. https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/8374...src=twsrc%5Etfw That means he lied in response to both frankens broad question and the narrower written question. And now Trump will go after the conservative Wall Street Journal, too? Trump can't exactly try to push the stock market back down to enact revenge on them, can he?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/03/news/econo...jobs/index.html Trump voters in the Rust Belt want good jobs now

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/217383778/to...y-mlb-pipeline/

"Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional," Trump said. "This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win. The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election and now, they have lost their grip on reality. The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total witch hunt!" On Twitter, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren warned that Sessions should never have been confirmed at all, but now there is reason to remove him. "Now Jeff Sessions is AG -- the final say on the law enforcement investigation into ties between the Trump campaign & Russia? What a farce. This is not normal," she tweeted. "This is not fake news. This is a very real & serious threat to the national security of the United States." So much for the unifying tone TUES night. Out the window already. Both sides firmly entrenched yet again. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/dem...call/index.html

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 2, 2017 -> 07:41 PM) This thing is just going up in flames. I love every second of it. Except if that happens you're still left with Pence or Ryan as president...depending on your views towards those two, it could be even worse in terms of partisanship, because Trump at least can float from side to side politically and try to pick off the Democrats and might actually be able to FORGE a compromise on immigration. Of course, that might all be just "reasonable-sounding talk" from the administration and a red herring to distract from a more nefarious reality.

Another national security adviser to the Trump campaign, J.D. Gordon, also disclosed Thursday that he had met with Kislyak, this time during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. That meeting was first reported by USA Today. Gordon told CNN that along with national security advisers Carter Page and Walid Phares, Gordon stressed to the Russian envoy that he would like to improve relations with Russia. Gordon added that at no time did any inappropriate chatter come up about colluding with the Russians to aid the Trump campaign. "This is not any different than anything I said publicly and on panels," Gordon said. Gordon had advocated for language in the GOP platform that the Ukrainians not be armed in their battle against pro-Russian separatists, an effort was ultimately successful. But Gordon says he was simply advocating what Trump himself had expressed -- that he did not wish to see major war break out over the situation in Ukraine. cnn.com So you've also got one of Trump's three key advisors, Jared Kushner, admitting to meeting Kislyak http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/rus...ions/index.html Kislyak is NOT a spy, Russia contends (hahaha!!!)

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 2, 2017 -> 12:37 PM) After a SEAL’s death in Yemen, questions persist on Trump’s decision-making process https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/2/headl...ential_approval Solution for Trump...let Pentagon call the shots and blame them later by claiming you weren't involved in decision-making process Here's hoping that the NSA/CIA has recordings of what Sessions actually said...otherwise, deny deny deny

Complacency/risk-aversion biggest issues with American workers http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-tougher-...-153036556.html Trump undoubtedly tapped into a vein of frustration among Americans fed up with the kind of economic stagnation Cowen documents. But Cowen doesn’t see Trump as a savior. “I think he’s proving to be an ineffective president who isn’t getting much done because of lack of attention to detail,” he says. “For all this talk of change, Trump is just another symbol of complacency.” Trump fulminates about protecting Americans from terrorism, for instance, and claims the government will bring relief to Americans falling behind. But he doesn’t call on Americans to take more risks, show more initiative or make short-term sacrifice for long-term gain. Where is all this heading? To more economic volatility, the continued displacement of jobs by technology, and even more feckless government, if Cowen is right. But the gloom won’t last forever. “People will be shook out of their complacency by changes and risks that are so big they can’t control them,” Cowen says. “Only then will America somehow find itself once again.”

He was the ONLY member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to meet with the Russian ambassador, period...and not just once, BUT TWICE. Flynn Manafort Cohen Sessions Tillerson Wilbur Ross http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/1...l-ties-russians Donald Jr. and Eric Trump However, he and his family have had many dealings in Russia and with Russian émigrés elsewhere. Donald Trump Jr., for example, was a keynote speaker at a Moscow real estate conference in 2008. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump Jr. said during his speech, according to reports from the time. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-g...l#storylink=cpy

https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-central-mist...-100052871.html Forget Trump's speech, look at his budget. Of course, Sessions/Russia Talk is about to take over again for the next week or so.