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David Ortiz makes long-term commitment to the Red Sox, Fenway Sports Management 

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The Red Sox have come to a long-term agreement with 10-time All-Star and three-time World Series Champion David Ortiz, inking an unprecedented deal that should link him with the organization forever. In his new role, Ortiz will act as a mentor for current players, participate in recruitment efforts, make a variety of special appearances for the club, and work in a business development capacity for Fenway Sports Management and its partners. “For over a decade and a half, we have gotten to know what kind of man David is both on and off the field,“ said Red Sox Principal Owner John Henry. “His skill and success on the diamond are rivaled only by his spirit, compassion, and big heart. I cannot think of a better representative for our organization. I’m happy we can now say officially what we have long known, David is family.“

: David Ortiz makes long-term commitment to the Red Sox, Fenway Sports Management | MLB.com

Yeah!!!!! At last some good news…

Just Like My Mother: How We Inherit Our Parents’ Traits and Tragedies 

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The intergenerational transfer of trauma was first recognized in the kids of Holocaust survivors and has since been identified in kids of Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees.

Just Like My Mother: How We Inherit Our Parents’ Traits and Tragedies | The California Report | KQED News

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After Careful Analysis, I Have Concluded That Jemele Hill Does Not Like Donald Trump 

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….people are freaking out and calling for her job. Ironically, these tend to be the same people who relentlessly hurl “snowflake!” and “triggered!” at anyone who shows a reaction to anything. It’s stupid.

….And guess what, I have more good news — if you don’t like her opinions, you don’t have to watch her show. It’s great. Easy. Simple solution for a non issue. Gotta love it.

But yeah. Jemele Hill, not a Trump fan.

After Careful Analysis, I Have Concluded That Jemele Hill Does Not Like Donald Trump – Barstool Sports

heh

White House Just Said To Fire Black Trump Critic. Obama’s Comms Chief’s Response Is Perfect

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on live television that ESPN should fire African American Sports Center host Jamele Hill for tweeting “Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy.”

White House Just Said To Fire Black Trump Critic. Obama’s Comms Chief’s Response Is Perfect

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Let Hillary Clinton roar (opinion)

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When, too, has any election culminated in a greater disaster for democracy? No wonder the Democrats, the pundits, and the voters themselves are so eager to disown their own complicity and to cast Clinton as the sole cause of our present situation.

“She gave us Trump,” disgruntled Sanders supporters like to say. No, Trump’s win is the result of many things, and we would do better to try to unpack them with precision and a view to complexity rather than scapegoat Clinton or her campaign.

Hillary Clinton may have been a special kind of lightning rod, but the elements that brought her down are still bristling in our atmosphere, ready to strike again, and we need to face them. The fact is that is it only when we’ve done that that we will be able to truly “move on.”

Let Hillary Clinton roar (opinion)

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Stuffing shoe boxes for the world’s poor? Maybe you should reconsider 

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For many churches, Operation Christmas Child is a well-established — and easy — expression of their compassion for the poor. Some congregations, however, are discovering better ways to engage the world’s impoversished.

Stuffing shoe boxes for the world’s poor? Maybe you should reconsider – Baptist News Global

The language of this article is not, well, my cup of tea but the ideas discussed are pretty interesting

The 19 Books Hillary Clinton Should Write Next 

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Here is a by-no-means-complete list of the titles we hope Hillary will be releasing and releasing at least until Chris Matthews shuts his turkey gobbler:

Which Part of “He’s a Russian Puppet” Did You Dipsquats Not Understand?

Suck It: A Guide to the Cocktails I Drink Now That I No Longer Have to Be Polite to Doucheschooners Like Chris Cillizza

Eat It: A Recipe Book of Cookies I Never Baked and Never Fucking Will

…Any of You Jacksmacks Still Want to Talk about E-Mails?

…Some Excellent Benghazi Questions You Bozos Never Even Thought Of, Presented with Answers, Charts and Footnotes

How Headbands Work: Have None of You Dickwimples Ever Grown out Your Bangs?

…Advanced Maintenance for Your Vintage Harley: You’re Goddamned Right I Can Do That Too

Jesus Christ, Would it Have Killed You to Cover Trump’s Extensive RICO Network for 30 Seconds?

 

The 19 Books Hillary Clinton Should Write Next | Wonkette

Mmmm, Wonkette…. The shade is strong with that site!

 

Tyrant Hillary Clinton Cramming Pizza Down Hungry People’s Throats, What An Asshole

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You guys, Mashable figured it out. Hillary didn’t just send pizza because she has more money than God and it was a cute, sweet thing to do. She did it SO PEOPLE WOULD LIKE HER. You know, the people who are sleeping on the sidewalk the night before her book reading like they are waiting for tickets to Smashmouth. Those people, who are camping out for her book reading, PROBABLY were fair to middling on her at best until she sprang for the extra pineapple.

Tyrant Hillary Clinton Cramming Pizza Down Hungry People’s Throats, What An Asshole | Wonkette

Wonkette, bringing the snark with a vengeance!

Americans are stuck in bubbles. Here’s a way to pop them. 

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Now affluent kids go to schools and colleges with similar people and, afterward, work is usually not much different. They don’t know anyone who never used a toothbrush or cries in the night for his mother or speaks in a Southern accent so thick in molasses it might as well be a foreign language. These folks do not, in short, know America.

…Often the virtue of national service is described in the work done — public service projects of one sort of another. Fine. Spiff up the slums. Do some social work. But to me, the overriding virtue is education — learning about fellow Americans, getting past skin color or regional smugness, stereotypes that the rich have of the poor and the poor have of the rich. We need a national service that throws us all together, the urban with the rural, the Fox News types with the MSNBC crowd. That way, Americans can get to know Americans and learn — as previous generations did — that we are all Americans.

Americans are stuck in bubbles. Here’s a way to pop them. – The Washington Post

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Irma recovery: Richard Branson calls for Marshall Plan 

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The billionaire, who rode out the historic hurricane [in his wine cellar!] on his private island, sees a need for a long-term rebuilding effort.

…The European Recovery Program was a U.S.-led effort to inject $13 billion into the economy of 16 European nations with agriculture and industrial production hollowed out by the war. It has been forever linked to then-Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who powerfully called for substantial aid to Europe during a speech at Harvard University in 1947.

…By many measures, the plan was a success, with a 150 percent increase in standard of living over the next three decades in participating countries, according to the Marshall Foundation, and stronger ties with Europe on diplomatic and economic levels. Launched in 1948, the aid effort concluded in 1952.

“Over the coming weeks, we’ll have to assess exactly what is needed. It is clear to me creating jobs is paramount — there will be a huge amount of rebuilding to be done and people will need work to help rebuild their lives as well as their homes,” Branson wrote on his blog.

…“The boats are piled up like matchsticks in the harbour. Huge cargo ships were thrown out of the water and into rocks. Resorts have been decimated,” Branson said Friday after a tour of Virgin Gorda, a nearby island southwest of Necker. “The houses have their roofs blown off; even some churches where people sheltered have lost roofs. But the whole British Virgin Islands community is rallying round,” he said.

Irma recovery: Richard Branson calls for Marshall Plan – The Washington Post

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‘Textbook example of ethnic cleansing’: 370,000 Rohingyas flood Bangladesh as crisis worsens

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The U.S. is “alarmed” by allegations of killings and village burning by the Burmese military.

…Hundreds of thousands of the long-persecuted ethnic minority continued to stream via land and rickety boats into Bangladesh this week, arriving exhausted, dehydrated and recounting tales of nightmarish horrors at the hands of the Burmese military, including friends and neighbors shot dead and homes torched before their eyes.

…Relief efforts have been rapidly overwhelmed, with stocks of food, temporary shelter kits and other supplies running low. Prices of vegetables, bamboo and plastic sheeting used to make shelters are soaring.

…Burma’s more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims are essentially stateless, and the Burmese government considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

The minority group has endured decades of discrimination and neglect, which worsened in 2012 after Rohingyas clashed with Buddhists in Burma’s western Rakhine State. More than 100,000 were then confined to camps, where their movement, access to jobs and education were severely restricted.

…U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein on Monday pointed to satellite imagery and reports of “security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages.”

“The Myanmar government should stop pretending that the Rohingyas are setting fire to their own homes and laying waste to their own villages,” he added, a swipe at Suu Kyi’s government, which has accused the Rohingyas of doing the torching themselves. He called it a “complete denial of reality.”

‘Textbook example of ethnic cleansing’: 370,000 Rohingyas flood Bangladesh as crisis worsens – The Washington Post

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Gold miners at a bar bragged about slaughtering members of a reclusive Brazilian tribe 

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Corry said the government has slashed funds for an agency that protects the tribes, leaving them “defenseless against thousands of invaders — gold miners, ranchers and loggers — who are desperate to steal and ransack their lands.”

“All these tribes should have had their lands properly recognized and protected years ago — the government’s open support for those who want to open up indigenous territories is utterly shameful, and is setting indigenous rights in Brazil back decades.”

According to the New York Times, the government closed five of the 19 bases it uses to monitor uncontacted tribes and prevent incursions by miners and loggers.

Three of the closed bases were in the Javari Valley, home to more uncontacted tribes than anywhere else on Earth.

…Any contact can be contentious and even violent, with the uncontacted usually getting the worst of it because, as Lorenzi told The Post, “it’s usually bows and arrows against guns.”

…Investigations are tough undertakings. The site of the suspected killing, for example, is a 12-hour trek by boat during the dry season. And it involves a group of people with their own language and a centuries-long wariness of outsiders.

Even the details of the killing are sketchy, Lorenzi said. And the vacuum of information speaks to another fear advocates have: that these types of violent interactions happen a lot more frequently than is reported.

Authorities: Gold miners at a bar bragged about slaughtering members of a reclusive Brazilian tribe – The Washington Post

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