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Vince I'd like you to explain how posting factual evidence that shows shady or criminal activity is wrong? If russia was hacking voting machines I'd agree with you.

We are the aggressors and if Hillary wins she's going to push us into war with them

No I didn't always defend bush. I defending the war in Iraq for a hot minute. I always hated his spending. I would say a year into his second term I was done with him as I saw he was no different then the democrat I despise

You guys keep doing this, well so and so did it so it's ok for us to do it. Just call a spade a fucking spade

Who sticks up for him?? He spent like a democrat and the Iraq war was a massive mistake.

How is applying the Law racist?

The Red Wings’ Inconvenient Truth October 13, 2016 at 1:24 pm By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com October 13, 2016 Over the last few years we have lost a disturbing number of outstanding entertainers to premature death, but none impacted me more than the drug overdose of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The Academy Award winner was my favorite actor (the thespian equivalent of Mike Trout or Barry Sanders) and I mourn the incredible appearances we missed out on due to his needle and the damage done. One of Hoffman’s most underrated roles came in the overlooked Tom Hanks movie, “Charlie Wilson’s War.” In that film, PSH played a CIA agent named Gust Avrakotos who was instrumental in assisting the Afghan rebels in ridding their country of the U.S.S.R. during the eighties. At the end of the movie, after Congressman Charlie Wilson’s secretive assistance from Capitol Hill helped Avrakotos’ operatives turn back the Soviets, Avrakotos warned Wilson that this was just the beginning of the aid Afghanistan needed. This was that discussion: The reason for that parable? Because Avrakotos knew if the U.S. refused to help fund the Afghanistan rebuild, some serious shit would boomerang on us. So Wilson went back to Congress and attempted to get money to rebuild Afghani schools and to purchase food for our Cold War heroes and he was summarily refused. Surface to air missile launchers, yes. Money to educate youth? Nope. Of course, we all know what occurred in Afghanistan in the subsequent years. The Taliban took over the country and gave Osama Bin Laden a safe haven to plan 9/11 and that was our own “We’ll See” reminder. That Zen Master story reminds me of the situation we are currently stuck with regarding Red Wings General Manager Ken Holland. Because while it’s OBVIOUS that no one would regret the windfall the franchise received from the 1989 draft (Sergei Fedorov, Nicklas Lidstrom, Dallas Drake, Vladimir Konstantinov) or Håkan Andersson’s draft day steals (Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk) leading to FOUR Stanley Cup banners, we are definitely getting our “We’ll See” moment right now. Because without Mike Ilitch’s blank-check approach to free-agency — evaporated due to the salary cap era — along with Andersson’s return to mere mortal status and the loss of assistant GM Jim Nill to the Dallas Stars a few years back, the Detroit Red Wings are currently stuck with the worst General Manager in the National Hockey League. Yes, I said worst. And that’s not hyperbole. Because of the team’s past success — over which Holland’s influence can be debated — the organization is now tethered to this man who has been leading us into an abyss for years. With the year 2017 just around the corner as the puck drops tonight on the season, this franchise STILL doesn’t have an analytics department to assist Holland with the changing dynamics of roster construction and the doling out of ice time. While Stan Van Gundy has built one of the largest advanced metrics departments in the entire NBA — if not the biggest — and the Tigers have added Apple’s Jay Sartori and promoted Sam Menzin, the Wings’ mathematical department is as antiquated as their current building — which they are about to blow up. Look, if you want to know why almost every forward in the regular lineup played more minutes last season than Tomas Tatar it’s because of the team’s total aversion to sabermetrics. If you wonder why the Red Wings’ best defenseman in 2015-16 (Brendan Smith) was a HEALTHY SCRATCH for the first two playoff games while Jonathan Ericsson and Kyle Quincey played critical minutes in Tampa, it’s due to Holland’s flat-earth beliefs. And if you think the Red Wings have hit rock bottom…all I can tell you is, “We’ll see.” Because the past few months have been Holland’s masterpiece and I warned all of you folks that this was going to occur before the summer transactions even happened. It was my belief that the WORST thing that could have happened this offseason was Holland dealing Pavel Datsyuk’s dead cap contract away in exchange for the ability to add free-agents, but not even I could have imagined how disastrously that plan would work. I figured some organization that needed to get to the cap floor would end up taking Datsyuk’s final year off our hands and that might cost Holland a couple of prospects like Teemu Pulkkinen and Martin Frk. What I could not have POSSIBLY seen coming is not only would he lose those commodities for absolutely NOTHING in return, but Holland would further damage the Wings future when making the Pavel trade. But that is exactly what he did when he sent the albatross contract (brought to you by Dan Milstein) to Arizona instead of drafting the Sarnia Sting’s Jakob Chychrun. Chychrun was the no-brainer selection at that point in the draft. During his draft season, Chychrun was considered the second best prospect available behind only Auston Matthews. Ever hear of him? For whatever reason, a kid who was considered the best defenseman in the 2016 Entry Draft fell into the Wings’ lap at #16. Instead of running up to the podium to grab a left-handed, puck-moving defenseman, Holland decided to dump Datsyuk’s salary cap hit in exchange for the 20th pick and a second round selection. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Holland used the first round pick on defenseman Dennis Cholowski. A kid who is a project, was considered a second- or third round pick at best and about whom Holland HIMSELF said on draft night that he was AT LEAST four years away from making the NHL. Chychrun? Well, he had one of the best training camps of anyone in the 2016 draft and MADE the Arizona Coyotes opening night roster. At the age of 18. Here were some comments from an article Bob McKenzie posted about Chychrun on TSN.ca. So while the Red Wings’ 23-year-old defensemen (Ryan Sproul and Xavier Ouelett) can’t crack a top six that includes Ericsson and the perennially banged-up Niklas Kronwall, Chychrun at five years their junior is wowing the NHL. And let’s talk about Sproul for a moment. In March of 2015 the promising defenseman — who once won the equivalent of the Norris Trophy for the Ontario Hockey League — skyrocketed up the Hockey News’ list of top prospects. Yep, Sproul was rated the 49th best prospect in the world 19 months ago. And yet, we could be a week or so away from Sproul suffering the same fate as Pulkkinen and Frk as he will most likely be the odd man out when Kronwall returns. So, either the Wings are AWFUL at developing their promising young talent or they are constantly misevaluating their own prospects. Pick your poison. Because on that Hockey News list of Top 50 prospects, the Red Wings had FIVE players listed. And only one of them (Dylan Larkin) is starting this season with an important role on the team. Anthony Mantha is in Grand Rapids. Pulkkinen is in Minnesota. Ouelett is a spare part defenseman who will most likely be in the press box once Kronwall returns. And Sproul will probably be exposed to the waiver process — and lost — once Nik is ready to come off short-term IR. And yet what might be the most depressing part of this past offseason was the juxtaposition of the man who IS our GM and the person who SHOULD be the franchise’s GM. Because while Holland did nothing to improve the Wings’ defense, added a scumbag like Steve Ott to the roster — which further buried Andreas Athanasiou, Mantha and Tyler Bertuzzi on the depth chart — (not to mention helped cost us Pulkkinen and Frk), re-upped with Darren Helm, handed Luke Glendening a new deal and gave a soon-t0-be 33-year-old forward (Frans Nielsen) a SIX-YEAR contract, Steve Yzerman was in the middle of having one of the best summers a General Manager has ever had in the NHL. Before I go on, just remember that Mike Ilitch wanted to keep Yzerman when the Hall of Famer left Detroit to run the Lightning back in 2010. Mr. I asked Holland to take a promotion upstairs and let Stevie Y. run the show. Holland refused his owner’s request so Yzerman exited town. And while Holland was busy trying to salvage Thomas Vanek from the scrapheap of hockey and unwisely spent every dollar allotted him due to the foolish Datsyuk/Chychrun deal, #19 was busy bringing back Steven Stamkos, Victor Hedman and Nikita Kucherov for HOMETOWN, team-friendly discount deals. Yzerman was also able to massage the cap and keep Alex Killorn, Vlad Namestnikov, Andrei Vasilevskiy and J.T. Brown as well. Nobody in the NHL thought Yzerman could pull off ALL of those moves and yet he amazingly positioned the Lightning as Stanley Cup favorites. And I didn’t even mention Yzerman refusing Jonathan Drouin’s trade demand last winter and then watching the young forward blossom in last year’s postseason. That’s what we could have had. Instead we are stuck with a manager who couldn’t figure out a way to trade Jimmy Howard’s contract, handed Datysuk a FRONT-LOADED contract extension when he KNEW Datsyuk desired a return to Mother Russia and doled out contract extensions to aging players like they were 20% off coupons to Bed, Bath and Beyond. And things are only going to get worse. The organization has barely any cap flexibility moving forward. Arguably Detroit’s best forward (Tatar) is a restricted free-agent next summer, their best defenseman (Smith) is unrestricted and there were whispers this summer that Zetterberg is ALREADY contemplating retirement which would leave the franchise in an untenable bind due to the NHL’s rules regarding cap-circumventing contracts like the one Holland gave the team’s captain back in 2009. Holland thought he was being cute by signing the then 29-year-old Zetterberg to a TWELVE-YEAR contract but the subsequent CBA penalized those types of deals. So one day the chickens will come home to roost and the Wings will have even more dead cap space to deal with. I’ve been told that could come as soon as next season. Even more aggravating is an organization that made its bones with European players seeming to now to be taking a xenophobic, Don Cherry approach to roster building. How else can you explain receiving absolutely NOTHING in return for Mattias Janmark, Calle Jarnkrok, Pulkkinen and Frk while players like Riley Sheahan, Glendening, Helm and others get every opportunity to not only make the team, but get huge minutes? Which leads me to the most frustrating part of being a fan of this team. A majority of the fanbase (at least the vocal portion) have been ready for a youth movement for years. The hardest thing for a sports executive to sell is patience — playing inexperienced players on the theory you might need to take one step back to take two steps forward. Yet Wings fans have been begging Holland to utilize this approach and instead we are given the Brad Richards and Ott experience while guys like Pulkkinen are never given a fair shot. It’s like your pre-teen children BEGGING you to serve them broccoli and asparagus and to set an early bedtime and responding by feeding them McDonald’s and forcing them to watch Jimmy Kimmel before going to sleep. People ask how I can call for Holland’s head while the team is in the midst of a 25-consecutive-season playoff run. Like, we are supposed to be impressed with consistently qualifying for the postseason on the last day of the season and then getting eliminated a mere ten days later in the first round? Because as bad as the situation is today, it’s only getting worse. Holland is compounding mistakes and the only way to right this ship is to take away the wheel from the person who is steering it straight into an iceberg. In THREE years, the Red Wings will have over $36 million in salary dedicated to the following players: A 40-year-old Zetterberg A 36-year-old Nielsen A 33-year-old Abdelkader A 33-year-old Helm A 31-year-old Glendening A 30-year-old Danny DeKeyser A 36-year-old Ericsson The dead cap space of the ghost of Stephen Weiss So let’s summarize where this organizations stands …. The team’s GM is on record as saying this current team isn’t a Stanley Cup contender. They have zero cap flexibility next offseason when they’re moving into their new arena. Not only is the team in salary cap purgatory for the foreseeable future, that won’t begin to clear up until AFTER the 2019-20 season at the earliest and that’s only if Holland doesn’t make any additional boneheaded signings. Can shit get any worse for this once proud franchise? We’ll see. (You can follow the writer of this piece on Twitter @JeffMossDSR. Also, you can join in on the discussion of this article on Facebook by clicking here.)

with everything that's gone on over the last eight years and the truth that's been posted about Clinton on Wikileaks's how can democrats turn a blind eye?? Well they have, and remember these are the same people that called for Bush to be jailed just eight years ago and turn a blind eye to the same behavior by Obama and Clinton

The republicans fucked themselves. Furthmore anyone who voted democrat for senate seats is a fucking idiot. Harry Reid is a clown show.

Again how does this change Hillarys Crimes?

He's up in two national polls today

That's what I basically said. Everyone other then trump would be up 20 points with all the email evidence against her

The only reason he's not winning is we've become a nation of pussys that care more about PC issues than the real issues. If this election was taking place in the 70's or 80's he'd be ahead by 20 points. Hillary isn't running on her record she running on trump's non PC personality. If she was so great at being a politician she'd have a mountain of evidence to prove it. What is her platform? It's the Obama platform that's gotten us the worst GDP growth ever. It's the Obama blame the rich platform that's been proven over and over again to be nothing more then hot air to get votes. Obama played the same card and 8 years later the rich are richer then they've ever been. By contrast Trump laid out his agenda over a year ago. Build a wall, fix trade, and fix our debt issues. Not one politician has run on that platform in my lifetime. Again I don't like trump. He's not the long term answer. But he's not a criminal lying useless politician who only cares about himself. A great America is good for the Trump organization. Hillary could careless about what's good for America it's all about what's good for the Clintons!!

Isn't funny how the resident left stay out of these threads

Meet the general who’s paying for Hillary Clinton’s sins By Josh Rogin The Obama administration’s Justice Department has investigated three senior officials for mishandling classified information over the past two years but only one faces a felony conviction, possible jail time and a humiliation that will ruin his career: former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman Gen. James E. Cartwright. The FBI’s handling of the case stands in stark contrast to its treatment of Hillary Clinton and retired Gen. David Petraeus — and it reeks of political considerations. Monday marked a stunning fall from grace for Cartwright, the man once known as “Obama’s favorite general,” who pleaded guilty to the felony charge of lying to the FBI during its investigation into the leaking of classified information about covert operations against Iran to two journalists. His lawyer Greg Craig said in a statement that Cartwright spoke with David Sanger of the New York Times and Dan Klaidman of Newsweek as a confirming source for stories they had already reported, in an effort to prevent the publication of harmful national security secrets. Under his plea deal, Cartwright could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Last year, Petraeus cut a deal with the Justice Department after admitting he had lied to the FBI and passed hundreds of highly classified documents to his biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell. He pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor of mishandling classified information and was sentenced to two years’ probation and a $100,000 fine. Clinton was not charged at all for what FBI Director James B. Comey called “extremely careless” handling of “very sensitive, highly classified information.” Comey said that although there was “evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,” the FBI’s judgment was that no reasonable prosecutor would have filed charges against Clinton or her associates. Still, the FBI’s unprecedented release of documents related to its Clinton investigation shows the bureau is keenly aware of the public criticism of Comey’s decision not to recommend any charges. And the mere fact that Clinton had the State Department, along with an army of lawyers, negotiating with the FBI over the investigation shows that the playing field is not even for the targets of such investigations. Petraeus, for his part, had several top US senators publicly calling on the FBI to exonerate him before he cut his deal. Cartwright, by contrast, was short on high-profile Washington friends. He had long ago run afoul of his two Pentagon bosses, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, who never forgave him for going around the chain of command to join with Vice President Joe Biden to present Obama with an alternate plan for the Afghanistan troop surge in 2009. Cartwright’s greatest mistake was not talking to reporters or lying about it; he failed to play the Washington game skillfully enough to avoid becoming a scapegoat for a system in which senior officials skirt the rules and then fall back on their political power to save them. I interviewed Cartwright on his way out of the Pentagon in 2011, after he was passed over for the job of Joint Chiefs chairman. A high-stakes whispering campaign about an alleged affair made the appointment politically difficult for Obama. Cartwright confirmed to me (on the record) that the president had promised him the job but later reneged due to the smear campaign. From that point on, Cartwright was a pariah to many of the Very Important People in Washington’s national security elite. One notable difference between Cartwright’s case and those of Clinton and Petraeus was the fact that Cartwright was the subject of a leak investigation. There’s no evidence Clinton’s or Petraeus’s actions led to the public disclosure of classified information. The Obama administration has prosecuted twice as many leakers as all previous administrations combined. The mostly low-level prosecutions have often resulted in harsh prison sentences. For example, Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is serving 35 years at Fort Leavenworth. Cartwright’s prosecution allows the Justice Department to say even senior-level leakers face consequences. In his best-case scenario, Cartwright could avoid prison time but will be saddled with a felony conviction that will bar him from most money-making opportunities. In the worst-case scenario, he could be getting released from prison around the same time Clinton finishes her first term. In his statement taking responsibility for lying to the FBI, Cartwright asserted his motivations were patriotic. “My only goal in talking to the reporters was to protect American interests and lives; I love my country and continue to this day to do everything I can to defend it.” Can Clinton or Petraeus plausibly make the same claim regarding their indiscretions? © 2016, The Washington Post

To people looking me Vince Rubios statements justify Hillarys actions. What he doesn't see is Rubio is advocating criminal behavior and saying don't cheer this it could our crimes that are uncovered one day.

These are the two reporters who uncovered the watergate scandal. Can you imagine if The media and the Republican Party tried to deflect the scandal by blaming the reporters for the release of the information?? This is basically what Hillary Clinton is doing when she tries to deflect or excuse the emails that Wikileaks's is releasing.

That should be a picture of Hillary holding you as the puppet. I mean what kind of an idiot cares more about who stole damaging information then about the damaging information itself?

Calling someone a crybaby is a lot different then acting like saying it's rigged or suggesting you may not accept the results is the worst thing that's ever been said

Oh and she didn't answer the question on the Clinton foundation and then lied about the amount of money they pay out