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QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 04:33 PM) Im not an expert in this stuff so of course Im not gonna be the one to find a smoking gun, but to act like this stuff isnt relevant is kind of ridiculous. Is it that big of a deal to you that people discuss this because youre a Clinton fan? I guess I'm confused what you are talking about. I thought you are talking about the DNC leak. The DNC is a political organization that raises money for party candidates. It can provide baseline strategy for party politicians. It polls and provides research available to its candidates. There is also OFA, which became a lot more powerful and has caused a split. You are saying there is something really bad about fundraising and then setting up high fundraisers with ambassadorships, and I don't think that there is. It is less threatening then lots of fundraising with the explicit agreement thta you would not actually pass a bill you promised. Or agreement that you would never raise taxes, to that like. But our patronage laws largely work to keep people out of important appointed positions. I would like if Clinton is elected and the country finally does implement a public financing system and amended first amendment to say that free speech does not cover political contributions. But it is not illegal or controversial for a political group to try and try to implement communication plans to media anymore than PR for any other group. Pay to play: Hey, man, I'll support and pass through this new hospital plan if you give me 2500 and fundraise for me Hey lady, I'll appoint you as new US senator if you drop charges against me Not pay to play: Hello, thank you for supporting my campaign, I think you'd be great at a posiiton as ambassador to Trinidad. Controversial communication plan: Hello, off the record, here are a bunch of complete lies showing this country has nuclear weapons and are threatening to use it. really urgent Non controversial communication plan: We plan to show off how our candidate is a champion of the working class. Context is important. Actions are important. Actual impropriety and not the optics of impropriety are important.

If you can't prove impropriety after hacking the communications of an org and then just saying it's "implied" then that is the most incredible execution I could imagine. A full org, never putting anything to paper, executing a grand strategy to pull wool over the eyes of the country. I'd like to know what people think would happen if they took your work organizations emails with the assumption you did something wrong. And took every out of context phrase or frustration and assigned absolute malice to it. You would be the guiltiest person of all guilty. These are remarkably tame.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 04:15 PM) Also, Im not trying to make this partisan. I dont for one second think the GOP isnt doing this s*** too. Im just surprised it doesnt bother more people. This system is so rigged and it is only going to get worse. There are some pretty serious claims of insider trading, pay to play and election fraud implied in these leaks and we cant even get the media to investigate it because they are also implicated. I don't understand why you think that is inappropriate. Should we ban our political orgs from interacting with media orgs?

Not sure Eaton is far off either. I think eaton is probably faster than both.

boo hoo he ran on the field back in my day i would have been working and wouldn't have even been at the game! Nobody ever ran on the field when I grew up, we all wore suits and said hello gentleman, enjoying the sporting game? Yes sir!

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 03:21 PM) Im not sure if Hillary's strategy today is a good idea. She is accusing Trump of some serious stuff, likely some of it is true, however its all stuff that she has been implicated with too. Going after his charity and saying business deal with foreign entities could become a conflict for him. I know she's slumping pretty bad but shining a larger light on stuff that she is also doing doesnt seem like the best idea to me. Most of her slump is dems being demoralized. Typically rebounds when she "fights" back. Not sure you are right.

Rosenthanl just reported that Cherington would be reporting to current Jays GM Atkins. bwahh?

man. you have all of those in a 14 team league?!

I used to listen to a lot of comedy podcasts but they are too prolific and i felt bad when i had 1000 unheard podcasts.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 12:21 PM) Blago was just an idiot. I mean he barely even knew how to use a computer (watch the episodes of the Apprentice he was in). That being said I think his problem is that other people in the state didnt like him and it was an easy opportunity to go after him. I think there is also the risk factor. When you give a presidential candidate a lot of money there is no guarantee that they will win. So its seen more as a "reward" for helping. Where as if you paid Blago it was a guarantee. So many people went down around blago though, I think pay to play was the norm, I just don't think they proved it, and I totally see what ss2k5 is saying, and I do think that he would have accepted a quid pro quo, but it just was not an impressive case. edit: I have more commas to use, if you need them,

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 12:15 PM) If the reward is implicit in the agreement, not really. I know Rod's big mistake was making a clear and public suggestion to make it obvious, versus the usual, wink-wink stuff that goes on here. There's no real qualification for ambassador though. Had it just been an Obama bundler going to ISrael that would be a big deal, but, throughout history we've had a lot of interesting ambassadors. I don't know, I don't find ambassadorships to bundlers corrupt. Question now is whether ambassadors are needed at all.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 12:03 PM) Taking a flyer on Jalen Richard. It's a 14 team league and my guys are getting hurt too much. I am 100% confident Latavius Murray will eventually lose that job. I'm just unsure which backup it goes too. More likely they start a 3 way RBBC

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 12:06 PM) It makes you wonder who did Blago piss off. I mean, everyone. But difference between rewarding campaign supporters and explicitly extorting them. That said, I have never really felt like they proved the case against blago. That no sums or anything were discussed, I do feel like the "I've got this thing and it's gold" is not enough. BUt, oh well, glad he went to jail. If not for this, would have been taken down with rezko likely.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 12:03 PM) I don't know what it looks like for sure, but it feels like he is cashing in with RISP at a much higher rate over the last month or two. It seems like he just isn't missing out in clutch situations right now. I'm sure he has, but also seems like either Anderson or Eaton are on every time. From SSS: Eaton September .400/.464/.640 That'll do pig, that'll do.

What do you find so corrupt aobut these documents. They were also dumped ten hours ago, were not emails, and was a big file. More personal donor info, though. Really hard to prevent, obviously.

You can attribute some of those RBIs to eaton's incredible september as well.

Nevermind - not included in their income: About Tweet Share on Facebook Census money income is defined as income received on a regular basis (exclusive of certain money receipts such as capital gains) before payments for personal income taxes, social security, union dues, medicare deductions, etc. Therefore, money income does not reflect the fact that some families receive part of their income in the form of noncash benefits, such as food stamps, health benefits, subsidized housing, and goods produced and consumed on the farm. In addition, money income does not reflect the fact that noncash benefits are also received by some nonfarm residents which may take the form of the use of business transportation and facilities, full or partial payments by business for retirement programs, medical and educational expenses, etc.

After reading that, I think it's plausible that the cash transfer for subsidies for health insurance could be claimed as additional income, but gonna keep looking.

Anyone wanna read this with me then:? http://www2.census.gov/library/publication...6/p60-256sa.pdf edit: Doesn't get into survey questions.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 09:48 AM) The issue is that it doesn't line up at all with wage growth, GDP growth, inflation, savings rate or any of the other traditional measures. So where did the money come from, and where did it go to? This is just another in a series of numbers that don't really make sense in a package. These are all valid reasons to think this is an outlier (again, the way census measures is peculiar, but measured against it's own previous reports would show we are picking up something) The "don't buy it us workers less skilled than ever" is not accurate, as they would certainly be MORE skilled as there are more of everything, than ever before. But even if there were less skilled workers, that may be a reason for wages to increase as there is scarcity.

I wonder if this Bayer/Monsanto merger will go through. http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/14/investing/...deal/index.html

Also I do think there is room to question the census data as some of their measurements are a quite different than what we are used to from BLS and FRED

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 08:07 AM) So, you don't buy a massive year-long data set conducted and reviewed by mathematicians, but you buy your personal view that people in a certain age range seem less skilled? Also, and important, skill level and pay are not necessarily linked. In fact the US economy, for good or bad, continues to drop away from hard skills in engineering and manufacturing, into softer service-side skills, which are much harder to quantify. Re: skills. 2008 moved a lot of former construction workers to other industries (or dropped out), now there is a shortage of construction workers, and so far they aren't matching up. May be what SS is alluding to in terms of geographical mismatch right now.

I didn't do a very good job showing that was the authors writing and not my own in that post. Going to edit now, but won't fix in SS.