Late tonight, the New York Times reported that anonymous intelligence sources are confirming they've intercepted communications and financial transactions from Russia which may link Trump associates to Russian officials.

or "The Three Amigos go to Moscow",

Paul Manafort is a focus, as is Carter Page and Roger Stone.

All kidding aside I agree here.

This may be the most chilling part of the entire report -- the reasons why they're leaking it now:

Representatives of the agencies involved declined to comment. Of the half-dozen current and former officials who confirmed the existence of the investigations, some said they were providing information because they feared the new administration would obstruct their efforts. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the cases.

Hopefully we'll have a good crowd tomorrow and everything goes smoothly.

While my rational mind understood that nothing was going to stop this nightmare from actually happening, I guess I was holding on to a tiny bit of hope that something would happen to stop this inauguration.

We have multiple trash cans for dog poop around the community but this person was too lazy to walk there and did not want to stink up his/her garbage can, so they threw it in mine.

Now that Russia (and maybe us) are fascists, Europe should keep NATO and boot our sorry arses. Problem there is we got all the weapons.

The important part of your quote:

If that's what NATO is for...

It is amazing that Trump thinks he has a mandate to dismantle NATO and the EU.  The campaign was really about that?  (Setting aside the fact that he lost the popular vote and thus has no mandate for anything.

What do we get for giving Putin his wish list?  Help fighting ISIS?   Really?  What would he do to help?  Giving away the Ukraine and throwing away NATO is worth Putin's saying he will help with ISIS?

And Russia will help with terrorism generally?  How so?  We have avoided a major coordinated attack in the U.S. since 9/11.  We have had lone wolf single shooter attacks from home grown terrorists.  And Russia would help with those how?

The GOP has shown how far it will sell its soul to support Trump--giving up on all their national security positions appears to be on one area they will gladly give up.  But there is probably more.

keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down

"The Russians stole Hillary's coronation!" doesn't seem to be working as a call to arms despite the new Cold Warriors in the Democratic environs anxious to use that as the reason Trump won the election.

"They did bad things and must be contained!" from the Republican Old Guard hasn't flipped many Bics either.

I have watched this for 58 years and it was hard enough to keep the public focused on an external threat when the Soviets were actually saying they would bury us, seizing countries in Europe, installing missiles in Cuba and fostering revolutions to the south of our borders.

What the public sees as a threat is radical Islam. While its attacks, threats and invasions may be seen as our fault by the people who worry over Russia the public views it otherwise. The continual flood of improperly vetted "refugees" into Europe paints as clear a picture of grave problems to come as did Hitler's early moves. Yet we import our own and if we complain we're lectured on the need for "diversity" to atone for our support for the former colonial powers.

So Trump finds himself much like FDR. He finds us facing an external group, who has many internal American supporters, that wants to destroy us for "religious" reason. In the meantime he has a Russia that is also threatened by the "new Germany," radical Islam, but wants to take back what it lost in the Cold War while defending itself from radical Islam.

To that end Putin has made some smart moves in the ME that may be more successful than Stalin's treaty with Germany.

What we need is for the radical Islamists in Iran and the rest of the witches brew of terrorists to convince Putin that he must first defend against them and that he needs us to help.  

And after that he can continue his own attempt at world dictatorship.

Sweden and Finland undoubtedly cannot deter Russia alone, even if they make a robust commitment to doing so.

Looks like he probably didn't realize that real estate was to be included.

1. Bill Gates: America founder of Microsoft (net worth $75 billion)
   
2. Amancio Ortega: Spanish founder of Inditex which owns the Zara fashion chain (net worth $67 billion)
   
3. Warren Buffett: American CEO and largest shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway (net worth $60.8 billion)
   
4. Carlos Slim Helu: Mexican owner of Grupo Carso (net worth: $50 billion)
   
5. Jeff Bezos: American founder, chairman and chief executive of Amazon (net worth: $45.2 billion)
   
6. Mark Zuckerberg: American chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Facebook (net worth $44.6 billion)
   
7. Larry Ellison: American co-founder and CEO of Oracle  (net worth $43.6 billion)
   
8. Michael Bloomberg: American founder, owner and CEO of Bloomberg LP (net worth: $40 billion)

"The land is made up of a few properties. In each case, we worked with the majority owners of each property and reached a deal they thought was fair and wanted to make on their own.

"As with most transactions, the majority owners have the right to sell their land if they want, but we need to make sure smaller partial owners get paid for their fair share too.

"In Hawaii, this is where it gets more complicated. As part of Hawaiian history, in the mid-1800s, small parcels were granted to families, which after generations might now be split among hundreds of descendants. There aren't always clear records, and in many cases descendants who own 1/4% or 1% of a property don't even know they are entitled to anything.

"To find all these partial owners so we can pay them their fair share, we filed what is called a 'quiet title' action. For most of these folks, they will now receive money for something they never even knew they had. No one will be forced off the land."

the military's budget has been cut by 25 percent in real terms since 2011--much of it coming from accounts used to maintain and build combat readiness. Yes, leaders from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have all publicly expressed their deep concerns about readiness levels. And, yes, top brass are publicly discussing "Carter-era" readiness problems and even the prospect of a hollow military.

The size of the U.S. Army has been reduced to the fewest number of active soldiers in more than 70 years, Army Times reported. ... shrinking the number of soldiers on active duty to less than what it was during World War II. The current number of active troops is slightly more than 479,000 soldiers.

Medicare is going to be replaced with coupons that allow you to pay for everything yourself too.

Prescription drug coverage will be a discount card.