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I don't like the boos for throwing to first or for mound visits. Chants for the Horn batters, etc, are good.

Todd!

he was waaaaaaay out.

Petrinsky maybe will be ready by conference or post season? McCann has been bad on blocking but nails on throwing. edit: just beaten on Petrinsky question by this much: {} .

She tweets about him but makes it more general calling it: "the administration" did this or "this administration" did that. She's certainly not talking about her administration.

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Not my joke but I laughed at the above tweet. edit: "McDotard" hahahahaha

@hayden_horn, I believe you were a proponent of catch and release with the ankle monitoring bracelets(provided at no small expense by the US Government)? Does it change your opinion to know that X amount are not honoring that privilege to be allowed in with the bracelet and are destructing it in the process? Should they be refused asylum for not following the rules?

How would you describe the near term future of high speed rail in CA? Especially given the 12 year time frame referenced by AOC in her discussions of the GND and climate change in general? Will Newsome change his mind to push to increase high speed rail connectivity throughout CA and connections beyond in partnership with Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and/or the Federal plans surely to come in the GND? /mostly Sarc but I am interested in your opinion say over the next 5 years, 10 years, 20 years for high speed rail prospects in CA and beyond in the USA?

It does look like it was simplified in the early reporting with more 'canceled' talk and Newsome has clarified since the original speech. https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek-warszawski/article226299115.html Pruned it back with the part still committed as being lower end usage than the other, and reasonably way difficult to do with any type of budget, being shelved till later.(if at all, kicking the can for that down the road almost a decade) I generalized a bit too much on it. The mostly relevant areas where you would expect the most traffic, but highest cost areas to build/procure, are shelved.(which I described as canceled)

I would have had the same opinion before. I'm a big R&D guy proponent. The solar and wind incentives have been a boon to the industry, Solindra type Federal action not so much IMHO (tough picking winners and losers type deal that is hard to keep from happening). Let the consumer have a say in who they pick keeps invisible hand and less cronyism, perhaps. Limiting it to USA only companies I'd be ok with if done correctly. I think the GND as written is way worse, regardless of intent, in general wrt reality. High speed rail was just canceled in uber green CA. Etc. Almost all of the proposals are general and pie in the sky with dangerous Federal government implications wrt crowding out the private sector. That last 5 words, in italics, is a huge disaster in the making if it happens to any extent much less to the levels described/implied in GND implications of it.

EEOC language should be used if they want to be taken seriously, not preferences of any type. There are lots of references to preference, the way I read it, for perceived injustices with no clarification on how to fairly administer or recognize these, for example, people of color or indigenous populations, etc, etc vs fairness regardless of EEOC type general statements.(no discrimination on race, religion, creed, etc, etc) Here is another but if you read you can find more: WTF? I guess you could clearly say that people who are poor are going to be living in the low lying areas because it is cheaper to buy/rent there and you may not have an alternative.(which makes you susceptible to flooding) I can understand that. More: Another reference: So reparations? Federal insulation from being low income or poor? WTF? If the Feds guarantee virtually any of that it would devastate the private sector. So the Feds are supposed to go into the coal areas and re-industrialize through Federal job guarantees? Or how exactly is this quote to be implemented and how is it decided who gets the help? SBA type rules? In summary:

what a great add to the team.

/sarc OK, sure, it is all about just enhancing the current SBA loans, student loans, and solar/wind/hybrid car/zero emission car/ incentives etc, etc, right? If the Feds are guaranteeing what the GND is proposing it will certainly affect the Federal ownership balance of many areas of production. Causing a crowding out affect at minimum as private owners learn they can't compete with a Federal government backed competition. The following would be hard to do without Federal taking unless it is just an extension of volunteer incentives similar to what currently exist(that might be phasing out at the end of the year): C) meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources, including— (i) by dramatically expanding and upgrading renewable power sources; and (ii) by deploying new capacity; Of course that is not going to get to 100% or close to it unless there are severe repercussions like fines/penalties/etc which could be seen as, in effect, Federal taking. I'm not reading a lot of incentives to reach these goals so maybe I am assuming it is taking in any case that incentives or current non-taking programs are not clearly specified. Yea, I misspelled it. The border is a special case. Securing it is important.

It would probably be better to ask Democrats which specific goals do they believe will actually come to fruition by the Feds grabbing the means of production to achieve said goal or goals and how much cost benefit per X will it add to the nation that will be paying for it? Will it be via straight taking of the means or imminent domain, or some type of public/private coercion to allow the Feds to control these goals? There is a ton of gross generality in there, filled with ambiguity and preferring people of color over non for whatever reason going forward. The Federal government is not the means to the end for virtually all of the high and mighty ideas in it. If you want to compete with sustainable farms then you pay to do that like is already happening to a limited extent for those that choose to pay more. Etc, etc.

Not fair as it is happening now IMHO. it will change because it isn't fair. More and more will speak out till it is made right. Not sure you could have a third category for trans? Sanity will prevail. The old East German steroid teams were bad enough. Those were just cheaters, not using the Trans excuse. (not that they shouldn't be Trans, that transitioning born men should be able to compete against born females isn't right) At least clearly spell it out so the born females know not to waste their time training in the events that depend largely on strength.(wrestling, weights, etc)

ok. enough Trumping this thread.

So he got indicted, as a candidate, he only paid a fine. Maybe Trump should have to apologize for fucking Stormy and then paying her off: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99681725 Clearly having Cohen manage that payment was just a careless mistake he would have rather not had gone public.

Sure. All things Russia related to the campaign. So I am assuming that means no chance to investigate the British-Russian dossier creation paid for, in part, by the Clinton campaign via their lawyers. Or perhaps he didn't but certainly Rosenstein didn't. Probably in deference to Bill and Hillary status as PotUS and first loser bride of PotUS. Like probably Trump will get being duly elected PotUS with not enough to convict or impeach stuff. you mean like the cases where people paid fines for similar or worse violations?(paying off baby momma with actual campaign is much different than using self funded campaign funds(perhaps who knows since he did self fund a lot) to pay for silence) no big deal. We'll see though. Maybe Mueller will make that case! It is sour grapes on my part. Britain is foreign just like Russia. (there are differences for sure so don't go there on ally vs non-ally but not enemy; foreign is foreign) Paying via your campaign and then through a lawyer shouldn't be different. But it probably is or with enough silence or pleading the 5th and no follow through or will to follow through then nothing happens. So give him the fine like Edwards and others got. No harm, no foul over paying off sluts. Get real. Unless they were Russian sluts pissing on him and even that could be because it was really, really cold that night in Moscow.(or wherever he was in town for the talent show, hotel build planning meeting, or whatever golf course or whatever else Trump was doing business in Russia for in the years and years before the campaign) Edit: maybe the RNC and DNC should establish slush funds like the Congress has to make the sluts go away?(via payments and then keep it hush hush) I'm actually for full transparency on that Congressional slush fund use. FULL disclosure of all of that. AOC is just trying to get people to react and keep her name going. She is Trump light in that regard. She is not doing Boston U. Economics dept any favors. But that is like, just my opinion, man. She won't be going away any time soon.

Looks like manafort got caught on the money laundering for sure from well before he was in the campaign. We'll see on the rest. Mueller is incoming any day, like tomorrow is Tuesday? We can wait till it is reported, if it is going to be that is. Seems like the signals are that Trump will skate from the Mueller findings? Just speculation of course. We still have the new Dem investigations ramping up to keep it going. Sessions recused, Rosenstein refused. Trump has delivered on some, not all for sure. This is way off topic of the magical AOC.

I'm saying there was plenty of room to fire him for the actions during the election. You know Hillary would have canned him. Felony what? Felony joking about hacking a server that had long since been removed? Felony having your campaign hiring a lawyer to conspire with foreign agents to create, or continue to create, a dossier on your campaign opponent? Like that?

Sessions recused himself. Rosenstein didn't do it. Firing Comey wasn't wrong.

Seems a bit rough to knock Fullerton out of the ratings after playing top notch Stanford. Although I didn't see the games nor know anything about the performances except Stanford won them, I believe.

Sounds like a good reason to fire Comey for the way he, at the direction of LLynch, bungled the case at minimum. Since Obama didn't, Trump did.

~$917 per month extra is significant. The receipts for the government were very close to the previous year before the tax cut, SALT deduction cut. Spending went up and interest expense went up significantly due to rate increases.