Left Coast Sports Babe

If Trump is going to deport immigrants who commit any sort of crimes, does this mean MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA really get chaperones for all their foreign born players. Because assume minor drug crimes, speeding tickets and DUIs count.

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Tampa Bay Bucs WR Mike Evans sat during the national anthem to protest Trump’s election “I’m not big on politics or anything like that, but I told myself, ‘If this happens, America is not right right now.’ I said this a long time ago — when he [Donald Trump] ran, I thought it was a joke. The joke continues.”
Good that he feels the right to exercise his free speech, but just maybe Evans might have been more effective had he vocalized his feelings BEFORE people voted?

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Chicago Bears WR Alshon Jeffery the latest to be suspended for violating NFL PED policy. He says he took a “recommended supplement” to battle inflammation, and it contained an ingredient on the league’s banned substance list.
Waiting for Goodell to say he’ll cut a game off the suspension of the first guy who owns up and says “Yeah, I was trying to get an edge and got caught.”

Apparent chaos and endless queues at London Heathrow Terminal 5 this last Sunday when British Airways had an “IT issue early this morning” which “was quickly resolved.” The airline added “We are sorry for the delay to our customers’ journeys.”
Right, but now try to explain to BA if an IT or indeed any issue results in you being delayed and missing a flight.

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#SteveHarvey ending his talk show. Many Americans were hoping he’d tell us the election was just another Miss Universe results flub.

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So now Trump says, hey, if Roe vs. Wade is overturned women can just go to another state for an abortion. Sure, I’m sure private jets are standing by. Let them eat cake with pickles and ice cream?

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Way too young. RIP #GwenIfill,,61. She was secretly in hospice. where one can hope she died happily unaware of election results.

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So it’s bad enough that Steve #Bannon is a white nationalist and an anti-Semite, but he’s also a veteran of Goldman Sachs #swampwhatswamp?

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And now leaving snark aside, temporarily, for my fellow unhappy moderate and liberal friends:
Voter restriction laws – ID rules, fewer polling places, shortened early voting hours, etc, definitely cost the Democrats in this election. One thing that isn’t getting talked about is how all those things happened – Republican governors and state legislators. (Not coincidental that Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida are governed by Republicans.)
So, if you want to work on change before the next election, start paying attention to local and state races. Now. The voting rights you save may be your own, or at least your party’s.

Thinking #KateMcKinnon just became odds-on favorite to win an Emmy this year. #hallelujah @nbcsnl

RIP Leon Russell   Writer of two of my favorite songs, this one less well known.  Long ago, and oh so far away…..

While Dallas RB Ezekiel Elliott has one of the NFL’s top-selling jerseys, ESPN reports the league is continuing to investigate him over an alleged DV incident. So wonder when they’ll finish the investigation? The day after the Cowboys finish their postseason?

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So if @Pac12 season ended tomorrow the championship game would be between #Colorado & #WSU. Just like everyone predicted. @ESPN

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So any way to get everyone who is protesting the Trump election victory to sign a pledge to spend as much time on GOTV for the next election as they do on the streets in 2016?

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Some who didn’t vote Clinton because they didn’t think she’d do what she said, voted Trump because they don’t think he’ll do what he said.

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So Trump says gay marriage is settled because of the Supreme Court but abortion isn’t? Has someone informed him you don’t get to pick and choose?

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Re reports Trump had no idea what he was getting into & wants counsel from @BarackObama, wonder if he’d consider Obama as chief of staff?

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Donald Trump, when Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes” told him Muslims and Latinos are being harassed after his election “I am so sorry to hear that. And I say, ‘Stop it.’ If it — if it helps, I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: ‘Stop it.'”
In other words, “Do as I say, not as I do.

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Meanwhile, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, said on Fox News that Harry Reid should be “”very careful” about criticizing the President-elect.
Conway indicated she is considering filing a lawsuit against Reid, and is “calling for responsibility and maturity and decency.”
And she said it with a straight face

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Colin Kaepernick “You know, I think it would be hypocritical of me to vote. I said from the beginning I was against oppression, I was against the system of oppression. I’m not going to show support for that system. And to me, the oppressor isn’t going to allow you to vote your way out of your oppression.”
So after the revolution who’s going to be buying football tickets? #SMH

Five of the top 10 teams lost.  Including 3 undefeated.

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USC beat Washington, Pittsburgh beat Clemson. A great weekend for all those underprivileged SEC teams who never get a chance at the College Football Playoffs.

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Now #Michigan has lost, following #Clemson and #Washington. 4 days after election. Did we switch to an alternate universe & no one told us?

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Iowa’s visiting football locker room has been painted pink since 1979, at the behest of then coach Hayden Fry, as he thought it would give his team a psychological advantage. Yesterday before the game, Michigan temporarily redecorated it in maize and blue.
Maybe they should have used less energy on decoration and more on preparation?

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So was there any reason to add Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten other than to provide in-conference cupcakes for the rest of the conference?

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Atlanta has signed both R.A. Dickey and Bartolo Colon to contracts for 2017. Well, since they can’t get Hank Aaron to play and draw fans into their new stadium, the Braves instead went for pitchers who pitched against him?

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In Scotland, an art historian says that a painting of the Virgin Mary bought for $25 back in 1899 as a decent copy of a Raphael painting now turns out likely to be a real Raphael. And across the world wonder how many auction house appraisers are bracing for an onslaught from peoples’ garages and attacks.

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Oops- from Facebook today “A mistake has been fixed Recently, you may have incorrectly seen a message about memorialization on a Facebook profile. This was a mistake and the message was shown on the wrong profiles. We’re very sorry for the error and have fixed it.’

(I got the memorialization mistake on my page too… Nope, not dead yet.)
Glitches happen. But maybe better when they don’t happen on a week when people were saying they’ll kill themselves if Trump got elected….

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As USA wonders how smart Trump really is, give man his due, w/ #MikePence as VP, it’s a lot less likely for a woman to want to shoot him.

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Sauce from the gander? The Turkish government has just warned Turkish citizens in the United States or considering traveling to the US to “be careful due to protests” following the election of Donald Trump.

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2000 was 16 years ago. While many of us not-so-old farts remember what happened with all those 3rd party votes for Ralph Nader, thinking that’s ancient history and might have been irrelevant to millennial voters.
And of course there’s that “those who cannot remember the past” thing…

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Snark aside, here’s my longest post in some time. It’s going to be interesting as this Trump transition continues. Of course not all his supporters are “deplorables,” and it is clear that many people were just angry at the status quo.
But even when President Obama was elected, while I supported him strongly, and still do, I had a nervous feeling after the initial euphoria.
So many people thought Obama would fix all their problems. As now so many people think Trump will fix all their problems. And there’s no way all those people ever were, or are going to be happy with reality.
What happens then? And this time, since part of the message, theater or not, was blaming others – minorities, immigrants etc. -for problems, what’s going to happen with that anger? Trump may be able to pivot away from the “Lock her up, build that wall” rhetoric, and from the hate speech, but what will he do with the people who believed it?
As the old Chinese curse goes, “May you live in interesting times.”

We’ll be back to more sports soon, I  promise.

#KendrysMorales signing w/ #Bluejays. Now long until other #MLB teams complain Trump’s election gave #Toronto free agent unfair advantage?

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Happy Veterans’ Day. While we honor vets, let’s hope President-elect will weigh decision to put those serving into combat as if they were his own children

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Open notes to all protesters this week: 1 Destruction is not protest. 2. Vow that you will never miss a vote going forward. #Election2016

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R.I.P Robert Vaughn. Or should we say he just said U.N.C.L.E.

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Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!”

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Well, one good thing about Trump, at least our country won’t have to worry about the stress of his wife also running for President some day.

Outspoken, idiosyncratic, able to inspire, successful in a field outside sports.  #Popovich2020

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/article/Gregg-Popovich-uncensored-Discusses-the-10609311.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop%3Fcmpid%3Dfb-tablet

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Mabel Ball, 108, a Cubs fan who was born the last year the team won the World Series, has died.   Well, heck, had they just blown that game 7 lead she might have lived a few more years.

Somewhere between denial and anger. If you read this blog for sports it will be more sports by next week…..

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You know if Donald Trump won popular vote & lost electoral college he’d say system was rigged for Hillary Clinton.

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#Trump margins: Penn -fewer than 70,000. Mich -fewer than 11,000, WIsc fewer than 27.000. Hope everyone feels good about their protest vote.

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Proud at least to be on side of electorate that said, UP FRONT, they would accept #electionresults & has followed through.

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All you need to know about the man we just elected President: Martin Shkreli is celebrating. #TheMorningAfter

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Think about it, a man who had two top aides be convinced of conspiracy etc in Bridgegate is now in line for a top job in the Justice Department.

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So in outrage over Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Sachs speeches, we elected a man who said he will appoint Steven Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury. Mnuchin is CEO of private investment firm Dune Capital, and a 17 year-veteran of Goldman Sachs. Well played America. #sarcasm

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Americans give @BarackObama 56% approval rating, then vote for a candidate who has promised to repeal most of what he has done. #WTF?

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Lesson for children in America, saying “grab them by the p*ssy” will get you fired from television, but you can still be elected President.

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Speaking of that wall, can California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada build one, & get red states to pay for it?

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Angela Merkel: “Germany and America are connected by values of democracy, freedom, and respect for the law and the dignity of man, independent of origin, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political views I offer the next President of the United States close cooperation on the basis of these values.”
Can’t wait to see what insulting name Trump comes up with for Merkel now.

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But yeah, who thought Germany would be lecturing America on tolerance?

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Over and over am seeing some variation on Trump’s word’s being excused as “just the way men talk in private,” or “just hyperbole.” But the internal emails exposed by Wikileaks with people bitching about Hillary or talking about potential campaign ideas, THOSE were all the gospel truth.

Since it won’t be long before even racists in America miss the black guy – #Booker2020

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From TC  “Once again, like Brexit, and our local  British Columbia provincial election, the polls are totally wrong. Where is “Paul the Octopus” when we really need him?”

Midnight in America. And right now most of the world is going, “Go home America, you’re drunk.” #Election2016

Donald Trump may have gotten chance to #draintheswamp. How long until he realizes he is up to his ass in alligators? #Electionnight

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So now that we’ve elected man behind the curtain, what happens when people of Oz figure out to pay no attention to him? #Election2016

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Next up for the anti-elites? Only using doctors and lawyers who flunked out of medical and law school? #ElectionNight

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Hope all those Americans who decided to lodge a protest vote for a candidate with no chance of win are feeling good about the election.

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So how is America going to build that wall when Canada offers higher wages and starts building it first?

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Exit polls @CNN: Only 25% said vote was based on dislike of other options. And voters complain CANDIDATES aren’t honest?

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Playing #RollingStones “You can’t always get what you want” at Trump rally. Song from the movie #BigChill that started with a suicide

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Fortunately #California just legalized marijuana. We may need it. #ElectionNight.

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Just might be that our  founding fathers made a big mistake in allowing white men to vote.

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And really, now #Trump  won #Wisconsin? Waiting for studies to come out to say excessive cheese consumption rots your brain. #Election2016-

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#GoldGloves  announced tonight. Smart of #MLB to pick a night when nothing else important is going on.

Some Sanders supporters tweeting Bernie would have done better in swing states. This is why #Democrats don’t win every election. #Election

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61% of Americans told exit pollsters Trump was not qualified, more said he didn’t have temperament to be President. So much for US supremacy.

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Is it too soon to draft #VanJones for President in 2020? @CNN #ElectionNight @VanJones68

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Since polls show that college educated voters went for Hillary, time for the #GOP really to cut student financial aid.

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Alex Rodriguez donated $2700 to @HillaryClinton. Who knew – #ARod a #HRC fan. Or maybe he can’t stand idea of Pres. w/ bigger ego than him.

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Colin Kaepernick, who has talked about a choice between “the lesser of two evils” told reporters he hasn’t voted today and has no plans to do so. Sounds like the same great decision making skill the 49ers QB has been showing in tough situations in the pocket.

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Apparently on Instagram, a fan asked Gisele Bundchen – “Gisele I heard you and Tom were backing Trump! Is that true??” Her answer: “NO!”
So is that a “NO!” for both of them? Or was she really saying “My husband cannot think and throw a football at the same time?”

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So Kap decided not to vote. Leaving aside Clinton and Trump there are many propositions and local candidates on the ballot. Way to be a role model for those, especially young people, who want change. #WTF?

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Interrupt this election for some bi-partisan good news: @BusterPosey @bcraw35 & @JoePanik all win #GoldGloves. #SFGiants

You better have voted, or be on your way to vote. Or else forfeit all bitching rights 🙂

Canadian readers, you are off the hook. And you done good last time. #JustinTrudeau

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When I was a child, there were many who had the idea that a girl could grow up to be President. Harder to believe for the younger generation, when I was a child, many had the idea that growing up to be President was a GOOD thing, instead of “You’d have to be insane.”

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Now that @HillaryClinton won #DixvilleNotch NH 4-2, waiting for @realDonaldTrump to say he’ll be building a wall & town will pay for it.

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Americans are voting today.   Canadian consulates in U.S. wondering whether they should disconnect phones tomorrow for possible immigration questions

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If Hillary wins we can move on to the really important stuff: Like what will Bill wear to inaugural & will his outfit go to the Smithsonian?

Hard to believe all polls will be closed & #Election2016 will be over in 24 hours. #ElectionCountdown for 2020 starts Wednesday

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KellyAnne Conway, being questioned on Trump’s lack of charitable giving, responded that he is “somebody who has made such a tremendous sacrifice to run for president ― basically, a huge sacrifice ― didn’t need the money, didn’t need the fame, didn’t need the power, didn’t need the status. ”
And just think, since he announced, of all the grabbing Trump hasn’t been able to do….

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Now @realDonaldTrump says #TomBrady & #BillBelichick have endorsed him. For those who needed any more reason to hate the #Patriots.

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Donald Trump Monday mocked Jay Z and Beyonce’s performance of hip-hop music “The language is so bad and as they were singing — singing right? Was it talking or singing?”
Well, to be fair, there probably were at least a few African-American voters the Donald hadn’t offended yet.

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So now that @realDonaldTrump’s aides have taken away control of his #Tiwtter account, what does the Donald do at 3am?

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RIP Janet Reno. Some in the GOP can’t decide, should they attack Hillary now for any and all mistakes Reno made as Bill’s AG, or should they accuse the Clintons of having Janet killed because she knew too much?

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A five-foot snake who somehow ended up in an overhead compartment on an AeroMexico flight to Mexico City got out and slithered down to some seats. No injuries. But it’s not enough that we have an election that has become a bad movie, now it’s airplane flights too?

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Dallas Cowboys owner-GM Jerry Jones said “we don’t have any issues” over the latest domestic violence allegations involving star rookie Ezekiel Elliott.  “I’m shocked,” said nobody who remembers Dez Bryant and Greg Hardy.

Heard one of the SF 49ers this morning complaining that teams are now circling games against them on the calendar. Well, the team now has something in common with the Warriors, albeit for a different reason.

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And if you didn’t already love Gregg Popovich, a little election diversion :http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/11/gregg-popovich-tim-duncan-spurs-love

This post got drafted two weeks ago and not posted.  So it’s out of order.  Blame Obama.

So the #WorldSeries winner in 2016 will be a team that hasn’t won in my lifetime. #Cubs #Indians

Clayton #Kershaw may be the “best pitcher in baseball.” But he’s no #Madbum.

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This weekend we turn back the clocks 60 minutes. And next Tuesday #Trump #Pence try to turn the clock back 60 years. #ImWithHer

While they may not be a great team @Lakers without #KobeBryant are actually fun to watch again.

On Wednesday night, the Cubs’, David Ross became the oldest man ever to hit a home run in a World Series game 7. His reported words rounding the bases “You punks get off my plate.”

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No 3:00am tweet from @realDonaldTrump today, in fact nothing between about 7p & 7a PST. Maybe election taking toll on his health. #stamina?

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A new poll says that 40% of Millennials worry the election is rigged. And this is the generation that sexts and puts all of their personal lives online?

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#RudyGiuliani laughed about #FBI leaks. “Darn right I heard about it.” Now denies it. Just found out being tipped would have been a crime?

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#RememberWhenTrump, for most Americans was just a name on some casinos and a gaudy 5th Avenue Tower?

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Harvard has cancelled the remainder of the 2016 men’s soccer season, over the discovery of “scouting reports,” dating from 2012, which ranked players on the women’s team on their looks and sex appeal with”the lewdest of terms.”
Okay, I get it, men can be pigs. But aren’t they being punished now not so much for their attitude and comments, but for being stupid enough to write this stuff down?

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Fox News’s Bret Baier apologized today for saying Wednesday five foreign intelligence agencies had hacked Hillary’s email server, and that she faces a “likely” indictment over the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
Beier admitted the email alllegations came from a “single, anonymous source.” And that saying “likely” was a “mistake.”
Well, I’m sure all conservative websites will issue retractions immediately….

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Chris Christie’s former aides were found guilty on all counts in their Bridgegate trial. Time for the FBI to announce there must be a connection to Hillary Clinton?

My friend Marc Ragovin  “Breaking news, Jim Comey has just announced the FBI is investigating allegations that HRC once drove across the GWB bridge.”

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Just a thought for Hillary haters, many who don’t really love Trump either. Some insist Clinton’s health isn’t good enough to make it through a term, or that revelations over emails etc will mean she will be indicted and have to step down.
If they are right….then a vote for Hillary is a vote for Tim Kaine, who has the reputation of a reasonable man, especially compared to the Donald.. So what’s the problem?

Santa Clara has accused the 49ers of breaching their contract with the city and is threatening to take over management of Levi’s Stadium. What, did the Niners promise to field a professional team?

Reports are that the FBI reportedly interviewed Angelina Jolie for hours over Brad Pitt allegedly assaulting their teenage son.on their private jet. Can’t wait to see how the GOP spins this against Hillary Clinton. Surely there are emails.

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Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says of the man who shouted “Jew-S-A!” at a Trump, his “conduct was deplorable. And had I been there, I would have asked security to remove him.”
Of course had he slammed Muslims, or Mexicans, or “nasty women,” have to wonder if he’d be asked on stage.

GOP  Halloween attack ad? “We’ve tried to bury Hillary Clinton so many times, she’s still alive, she must be a zombie.”

There have only been 5 teams in MLB history to have come back from 3-1 World Series deficits. All of them more recent World Series wins than the Chicago Cubs.

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So how long until they sell t-shirts at #WrigleyField “Wait until next century”? #Cubs #WorldSeries

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Corey Kluber, the latest member to the “Pitchers Who Rake” club.  Well, kinda sorta. (infield hit)  Somewhere #Madbum is smiling.

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Maybe  Jose Fernandez toxicology report, showing he was legally drunk, and with cocaine in his system, will be  cautionary tale for young men who think they’re invincible?  For about five minutes. But we can dream.

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NC Governor Pat McCory, in a tough re-election fight against Democrat Roy Cooper, is tired of questions about House Bill 2, the anti-LBGT law he signed. In an ad decrying political correctness McCory asks “Are we really talking about this?”
Maybe the question should be “Did you really sign this?”

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Donald Trump today over Comey’s email announcement “This is the lowest point in the history of our country.” Uh, Donald, with your campaign it wasn’t even the lowest point this week.

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