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Except greg gabriel is an old coot.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 5, 2016 -> 11:16 AM) Reading about this, I am shocked at how little is said about figures and politicians from the United States. Is there more stuff that includes that angle, is it not being talked about, or does it not exist? Couple things I've read about this - 1) THey are still going through massive troves of complicated data. The US citizens implicated so far are literally ones that had passports in the document dump as those that incorporated through that firm. 2) The US has individual states that work well enough to create shell companies. They may not have needed a specialized firm to take care of their business, their own firm may have been fine to do this knowing US law well enough.

I know Wilkerson is great, and I will support any move to acquire him, I really don't think we should have to give up so much to Jets considering we will have to pay him market value.

I'm scared about paying a dlineman so soon after this FA payday.

I incorrectly said David Cameron's son has the shell, but it's his father.

QUOTE (Doc Edwards Shot @ Apr 5, 2016 -> 10:08 AM) On that note, I don't get America's obsession with caffeine either - all that Starbucks coffee crap, Red Bulls, etc. It's like half the population can't function without a coffee in their hands these days. Caffeine is not unique to America.

I'm not confident Fifa has done much more than window dressing so far.

I'd prefer we take the wins today, though "I'll take anybody's money if the mother effer is giving it away" - clay davis

This was a very good article bringing some interesting points to think about, especially with so much of this money from Russia/China. http://www.vox.com/2016/4/5/11361992/panam...uthoritarianism

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 5, 2016 -> 09:24 AM) re: the US, one of the principle people behind this said something like "just wait for what's next." Iceland's government might be dissolved over their President's undisclosed investments. Putin is dirty as hell but really nothing shocking there. That was a more malicious (edit: meant to say provocative, not malicious) translation than what was actually said, it was translated from German from an editor at the Suddeutsche Zeitung, and the more accurate translation after a question regarding the lack of Americans was "it's still coming out", like, they are still going through the data. McClatchy newspapers were also provided with the data, and it would make no sense for them to bury the US involvement until later. Tribune just went through first group of names today that were the easy pickens of Americans involved and it was a bunch of ponzi schemers. To add to this: In the trib today, I don't think anyone knows of a gangbuster US allegation yet. The trib was talking about the difficulty unwinding the investments, as there are those that incorporated the companies that were fairly easy to uncover, but then there are shareholders in these that has quite a bit more to weave through.

Pretty exciting stuff here. Little involved with US that I've seen except from some known hucksters, but damning information on China/Russia and today I saw France's far right party getting caught up as well. Also with a shell company as tax shelter - David Cameron's son. Just came from China, lots of open negative attitudes and media toward Xi Jinping already, and some of the absurd behavior of the kids from the nouveau riche of China. It will be interesting to see if there is global action toward ending this crap, finally.

Good to see Butler suck against someone.

Calma team Soxtalk

Well. That was discouraging.

Ugh. This is less fun.

Chris on tilt.

4-2. Another worm burner from Eaton. Grass everywhere shudders when he has to throw home.

I second the compliments to the HP umpire. He's been very consistent.

Doh.

QUOTE (Tony @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 09:53 PM) Oakland looks like the 2015 Sox And also the 2015 As.

Jose is TUNED in. Amazing how we recovered after our devastating start to season

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 09:43 PM) Could Hawk have been any more unexcited for that run? He seems like a different guy. He's good today. Seems to be enjoying Stone too.

Triple by Eaton! 1-0 sox

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 09:32 PM) I think I missed game thread overreaction comments. Baseball is truly back.

Bad pitch to swing at.