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Yes, he said he's a Christian who couldn't recall having to ask God for forgiveness. What do you think of retired Gen. Mike Flynn as National Security Advisor? Here's some of his statements: "In next 24 hours, I dare Arab & Persian world 'leaders' to step up to the plate and declare their Islamic ideology sick and must B healed," Flynn tweeted in July of this year following the terrorist attack in Nice, France. In February, Flynn made waves when he tweeted it was rational to fear Muslims. "Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL: please forward this to others: the truth fears no questions," Flynn said with a link to a video claiming Islamophobia was rational and that Islam wanted 80% of humanity enslaved or exterminated. Days before the election, Flynn tweeted a false story claiming the NYPD had found evidence on Anthony Weiner's laptop "to put Hillary (Clinton) and her crew away for life." In late October, Flynn retweeted a false claim that United Nations Agenda 21, a sustainable development program, would create a one world church where Christianity was prohibited and that choosing nationalism was the only way to stop Clinton. In July, Flynn linked to a tweet that falsely claimed Clinton was "wearing hijab in solidarity with islamic terrorists." The picture was from a 2009 trip Clinton took to Pakistan as secretary of state, in which she donned a head covering during a visit to a mosque as a diplomatic courtesy. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/kfile-flynn-tweets/

But during the campaign Trump said he was innocent and could settle but wouldn't because they were all liars. That's a lot of money for an innocent person to pay a bunch of liars.

Sign the petition. Change.org petition, now signed by more than 4.3 million people, encourages members of the Electoral College to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton when the college meets on Dec. 19. The petition argues that Donald Trump is “unfit to serve” and that “Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.” Today's totals: Clinton 63,049,607 Trump 61,610,484 The lead has increased to 1,439,123 more votes for Clinton.

Obama wanted to register white Europeans?

I have next week off. My son and his girlfriend are coming home from Boston to Syracuse Wed night, and he and I will be playing hockey 8am Thanksgiving day against the objections of my wife. Then we're all driving to Kenmore for dinner with my 86 year old mom, and my two sisters and brothers-in-law, and cousins.

Listened to a discussion about it last night. The Trump advocate said that it would not be for American citizens, and it wouldn't register Muslims, it would register people that were coming from countries that had terrorist activity by it's citizens. The person against it pointed out that of the list of countries the Trump administration was considering, 24 of the 25 on the list were majority Muslim countries. The 25th was North Korea. They asked why France wasn't on the list, since there were French nationalist terrorists. Bottom line, the Trump administration would get around the religious issue by naming countries, not religion.

As I've said, as a straight white man the biggest issues that might affect me are my 401k getting screwed and getting nuked. But for all the "others", it's not only the possible revisionist policies that Trump has proposed and his supporters want, it's the tone of his campaign and the unfiltered anti-"other" rhetoric and empowerment that his supporters have displayed around the country that has the "others" rightly concerned. For them it's not an overreaction, but a defense mechanism. And it only gets reinforced as some of Trump's appointments are made: Bannon, Sessions, and Flynn to start.

I'd be fine with that. Many of the red states who don't like federal intervention, especially in the South, receive more federal funds than they pay in taxes.

At 2010; 2 units on Tampa.

That may be true for all the NBA teams for the next 4 years, if Gregg Popovich is any reflection of how the coaches and players feel about the election. "I'm still sick to my stomach, and not basically because the Republicans won or anything, but the disgusting tenor, tone and all the comments that have been xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic," he said before the Spurs' home game against the Detroit Pistons. "And I live in that country where half the people ignored all that to elect someone. That's the scariest part of [the] whole thing to me. It's got nothing to do with the environment, Obamacare and all the other stuff. We live in a country that ignored all those values that we would hold our kids accountable for."

Boo, I'd rather have him on the team. They could use a shot of intensity.

Today's totals: Clinton 62,829,832, Trump 61,488,190. The lead has grown to 1,341,642.

If a vote for Trump was a vote against the establishment, then his supporters have to be disappointed that his list of potential cabinet appointments includes a number of the establishment, some of whom are neo-cons who supported the Iraq invasion. Bolton, Guliani, Sessions, Gingrich, and Palin. It's more accurate to say they just want their type of establishment figures.

Keeping track of how many times someone bet in a month is tough. Perhaps make the rule that you have to bet at least once every three games. Start with Tampa, Pitt, Calgary. Put an 'x' next to the player's name when you list everyone showing they bet. Anyone who doesn't bet once in those three games automatically loses 300 points. Then it resets for the next three games.

You said he'd push the Republicans to be more progressive. How can he do that when he's not one himself, and even has some ideas more regressive than the party.

Forget the 21st century, they're still coming to grips with the second half of the 20th century. And how is Trump progressive when he plans to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v Wade? He recently said the months old Marriage Equality decision was settled law, but the over 40 year old R v W decision isn't? How about being a climate-change denier?

When the public face of the Birther movement becomes the presumptive president-elect, says that he wants to be the president for all Americans, and then one of his first decisions is to appoint Steve Bannon as his top adviser, you should expect some push back from a skeptical public and media.

OK, I defer. I understand not changing in midstream. But I will help if you change your mind.

If you need help, I'd be willing to keep track of the bets and running totals. I'd probably do it in a spreadsheet. I do it for football pools. You could be responsible for posting the betting lines. Perhaps give everyone who's already missed betting for a week a Mulligan. If they want back in, they need to pay a 100 fine. Then going forward, if someone misses a week, they pay 100 for every game that was played that week. 3 games = paying 300. You're out when you drop below 100, the minimum you need to cover a bet.

537 voters in Florida (of those that were counted) decided the 2000 election due to the EC. Yet Gore won the national popular vote by 543,895. So we've had less make the decision.

The Pandora's box was opened when Trump was declared the presumptive winner. Now the issue is how to contain the damage.

Instead of kicking people out because they didn't bet, perhaps a $500 fine would be better. Sometimes people forget.