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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 12:04 PM) Wonder how much the years of unnecessary austerity policies helped to drive this result. If Scotland leaves the UK, it pretty much guarantees tory political dominance. But those were TORY policies. They went through double dip recession and knew this would be result. It's because they are old and already "got theirs", who cares about the rest?

Growing soft in your old age I see

So on the banking front, this is kind of interesting from DLA PIper's site: Post-Brexit, there is, on the one hand, scope for regulated firms which do business both in the UK and the EU to be exposed to two sets of regulatory requirements which may be equally onerous but in different ways; whereas, on the other hand, if the UK takes the opportunity to lessen the burden of regulation, firms may see this as an opportunity. https://www.dlapiper.com/en/uk/insights/pub...ncial-services/ UK could water down their banking regulations. And we'll have iceland part 2

People who live in cities should have their votes count less than those living in more sparse areas, got it.

It's amazing how these great assets the bulls have never return much.

Glad that Jimmy trade didn't go down. Trading him for a #5 pick in a not strong draft would have been horrendously dumb. Could probably get a much better haul at deadline if they decide to. Not a fan of valentine. Thought bulls would take advantage of teams like Hawks/Celts that needed to unload picks. But, Bulls.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 09:58 AM) So this is probably an oversimplification of it all, but if a "half-member" of the EU that is exempt from a lot of EU mandates and policy is going to bring the whole system down, maybe that system sucked to begin with? There are more ways to reform things that suck then to blow it all up. Britain will undoubtedly be poorer for the future. Their "half-status" actually came with quite a bit more perks than other states in that system. There are a lot of faults with the EU. There was also a lot of benefit. England had a lot of firms locate there for access to an integrated euro market while paying lower English taxes. That gets split. Their military power is not nearly big enough to matter as much foreign policy wise. THey just ensured they have less influence. Destroying things that aren't always optimal but are stable and serve millions is actually fairly remarkable in global historical politics. But old people are scared of Polish people. So we all should be punished.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 09:50 AM) A bigger reason was to retain some power for the smaller states. Backed then states actually mattered. If we eliminate it then politicians could just concentrate on New York, California, Texas, and a few flyover states. If it was to protect smaller states they wouldn't have been awarded proportionally.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 09:25 AM) I was actually expecting a bigger knee jerk market reaction than what we got...this didn't even create a buying opportunity. I think this is typically being over hyped and overblown by the media, and despite US markets being down, they've gone up more than that in the past week, so it's like the needle barely moved. Dow is currently at 17,600 -- keep in mind that less than 6 months ago it was just over 15,000. In other words...meh. yes maybe overhyped from a US market perspective, but this has huge foreign policy and economic implications for Europe, which are important things.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:21 AM) Our system prevents any one person from destroying us. Checks and balances and all. As long as "his party" stands up to his crazier ideas we'll be fine. This is one reason I like having Congress controlled by a different party than the White House. Something we always seem to do during mid term elections. We benefit when we employ the best of both party platforms. Except when you talk about nuclear weapons

People take stable government for granted. For everyone that hates the "x would be worse" arguments, now you'll get to see how true they re. British pound devalued, and they just left the one of the largest trade markets in the world. It kills me that it's driven by older voters too. Burning the world down for their children from immigration scare mongering. Never fails.

as of this moment it looks like it's happening.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 23, 2016 -> 08:15 PM) Trade dead per woj. Bulls fans dodge bullet God darn it fake woj retweeted

Trade dead per woj. Bulls fans dodge bullet

I think Abreu likes Fenway park. Especially RF

QUOTE (Insp @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 06:57 PM) Good News: Coats got his first ever MLB hit, a double, Bad News: He got it by swinging on the first pitch like an idiot. I hated when loner no swung on the first pitch for a grand slam

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 05:10 PM) So your rebuttal argument is that we've signed ONE "top player" out of Venezuela that 85-90% of SoxTalk hasn't even heard of? The odds for OU's Mr. Hansen winning the AL Cy Young some day are higher than that kid making it to the major leagues. Why are you writing this? Are you arguing we shouldn't sign Latin American players because it won't often work out? I know you don't think that, but because you write for some reason everything free every post it is what you are arguing.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 03:38 PM) Carlos Lee is Panamanian and Ordonez is Venezuelan. . I know all about the Wilder scandal. If that messed up 10 years what about the other 40 since the Alou brothers came into MLB around 1963 where are our Dominicans ? Oh sorry, I didn't realize your point was so shallow that you actually meant we needed "our own Dominicans" to win.

Jason I have to believe you had the luxury of not watching the Bulls last year to find Butler ball entertaining. Would much rather have suffered another year of hell and faced 2018 fresh than with this news that we are trying to "retool" (worked great with Sox, Jerry) with Pau Gasol Jimmy Butler and Robin Lopez as our core. Kill me now. LOL at resigning Gasol. For the next four years we are basically the Brandon Jennings Milwaukee Bucks without fat OJ Mayo to gawk at. Maybe we'll get lucky and McDermott will put his baby fat back on.

I would rather watch Khalid El Amin in the back court than watch either Lopez brother play basketball. It's like convincing me Joe Johnson isn't that bad. He is certainly tall and can rebound, but they make me hate the sport of basketball.

Clearly Butler didn't put them int he top third or else they would have been in the top third last year. I don't understand the "they would have spent it on worse" Don't worry about them taking on long term crap contract for a short term crap contract, they are so inept they'd spend it even worse next year! No reason to complain.

Hawks are apparently needing to just give away their 2 first round picks. Seems like something to kick tires on. They can't take the salary.

Can't decide who will be the more miserable team to watch next year, the chicago bulls or the brooklyn nets.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 02:45 PM) Taj, Portis, McDermott and Mirotic. Other than Carmelo and Porzingis, who does New York have? Derrick Williams averaged as many ppg as Doug Mcdermott. He isn't a good player. Portis has promise, he was not a good player. New York also has Arron Afflalo. Rose Afflalo Anthony Porzingis C That's probably outperforming anything bulls have. Mirotic and McDermott are names to everyone else but bulls fans. Taj is great. BUt again, we didn't make the playoffs last year in the EAST. WIth Jimmy Butler. With Rose. With that "stacked" supporting class.

Here you guys go, here's the great trade that had to be done. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=jd95om7 Check out that sweet money transfer.