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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) 8.1% unemployment....that is bad, California at 10.7% and the actual real unemployment rate is significantly worse, imo. It blows my mind how many young people I know either can't get jobs or are getting minimum wage jobs. Pretty sad. Definitely makes me appreciate the opportunities my wife and I have had thus far in our young lives. There was like 187k removal from the workforce for agest 16-19 for this report. That's such a bizarre number I don't even know what to make of it. More going to college than traditional? More older workers taking food service jobs? For months now we get the ADP and weekly unemployment numbers and I think the NFP will be good and the NFP has not been close to good. If the winter speeds up again I'm not getting excited unless it's 300k a month. The seasonal adjusted numbers for winter just seem to be way off.

I don't understand how Greg isn't being interviewed by every news station in this country. I feel like he's the perfect median voter. edit: btw i don't want median voter to be considered a slight, it isn't. I just don't know that many people nowadays that were actually watching the convention for insight into the candidates.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 08:28 PM) I've seen a website or two where I can't tell if people realize that, but otherwise, do a lot of people pretend it will? I just find it funny the overemphasis on the day-to-day in political campaigns where the beltway acts like everyone is focusing on politics because all of their friends and neighbors do.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 08:04 PM) Why the hell aren't the people committing these crimes in juvenile facilities arrested and charged? Are these facilities being run by out of control animals? There are laws out there and if these facilities are all corrupt ... WTF is going on???? Get this problem fixed! Guards are sometimes the culprit.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 05:53 PM) I sincerely doubt that will happen. Dez Bryant is a freak show who should be getting almost all end zone passes. The real problem is that if they come out in the red zone in I form, pro-set, 2 te, Ogletree most likely wont even be on the field. Right now starting Ogletree is nothing more than gambling. Stash him on the bench if you have a free spot, but in most leagues there should be other tempting choices. And yet it isn't dez bryant's first year in the league anymore. How long before he gets suspended? Obviously ogletree would be a bench spot until proven otherwise, but that's what the bench is for.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 08:17 PM) That article is terrible. While Clinton's speech certainly was biased, those weren't lies. He says the Republican Party is inflexible. Great, that seems to suggest the PLAN for Dems is to cooperate. And seriously, I'm sure Obama has refused to compromise on some issues but as someone who is liberal in most cases I've found the President to be far too compromising when it never gets him closer to bipartisan legislation anyway. Then he says costs are going up at a slow pace, which is TRUE. So is the fact that this happened after the ACA. Maybe it isn't because of those two things, but you can't act as if spending is shooting up because of the ACA when it isn't. That's the point. Basically, the article has a difference of OPINION on the matter not the facts. The article points out that major cost cutting measures have not even come into effect...doesn't this make the law look better? The growth of costs is slowing and there's still more help to come? And then he says to remember when he grew the economy. This is true. It happened, and it happened in the time that he says it did. Why would he say that it changed later? It wasn't relevant. "it's bad now but it will get better" is the message. When it gets better, we can correct him and say that it will soon get worse just like it did when he was President. Contrast this to things like "this plant closed because of Obama*" *plant closed while GWB was president* Oh, yeah...Bill got a BJ and lied about it DEFINITELY got owned by a nation of fact-checkers during that scandal Seriously that is a hilarious article "CLINTON: "Their campaign pollster said, 'We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.' Now that is true. I couldn't have said it better myself — I just hope you remember that every time you see the ad." THE FACTS: Clinton, who famously finger-wagged a denial on national television about his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky and was subsequently impeached in the House on a perjury charge, has had his own uncomfortable moments over telling the truth. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," Clinton told television viewers. Later, after he was forced to testify to a grand jury, Clinton said his statements were "legally accurate" but also allowed that he "misled people, including even my wife."" How can you write that after "the facts"? That's a complete non sequiter!

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 04:21 PM) And your league needs to be pretty deep to consider 3rd wrs, especially as Romo isnt going to put up Brady/Brees numbers If he becomes romo's main TD target, it won't matter that he's the 3rd receiver. He would be starting in most 12 man leagues.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 05:20 PM) Democrats won't work with Republicans. Rinse, repeat, give up on the government working for the people instead of for their own interests. Every democrat from a red state falls over backwards to help out republican presidents. IT's what keeps their jobs. Luckily when there's a democratic president they can be whipped. The only republican like this is Scott Brown

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 11:51 AM) You wouldn't believe some of the Gillispie stories people down here tell. Tell them!

I'll take Bradshaw's numbers last night anyday. Giants seem fine with running on big downs and in the goal line. That's good news in fantasy... More important takeaways, is Kevin Ogletree the new Laurent Robinson?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 05:16 AM) Nope, not rooting for Mizzou in the least. Aren't you guys thrilled you aren't starting out 0-1 every year?

I think democrats need to realize there was a football game on last night. I highly doubt the clinton speech changes the election.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 11:39 PM) What you say implies things, whether you meant for them to or not. Your protestations aside, your position leads to supporting the continuation of prison rape so that "bad people" fear it. That's deplorable. And considering how many of these rapes happen in juvenile facilities, ...ugh i just can't even follow that up. It's too awful

That was branded as the Clinton recession almost immediately by republicans. And I don't recall objections to that.

Oh god, people are rooting for mizzou. Something awful is going to happen. 5 downs awful.

At least it would end the sign him or don't debate. /silver lining

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) 9 Georgia guys injured in the game vs Buffalo, 7 of which won't play this week. And, if Saint Richt decides to actually keep the folks suspended for this game that should be, Georgia is going to be very undermanned. This sounds good to me, and to dasox I'm sure. Whatever makes Georgia lose and bring them back down to earth, also helps UT/S.C.'s chances at the title. Georgia sure as hell doesn't have many other games on their schedule that are losses. Go Missou! Mizzou.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 07:08 PM) Some days I wish that the North would have just let the South go. Im tired of supporting them with my tax dollars, while they refuse to change socially. And that is something youre beloved liberal media never talks about, donor states. Then why are you a liberal?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 04:55 PM) And love boat issues. Ha, forgot about that

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 04:33 PM) Sounds like Bryant McKinnie is going to be released or he quit or something. @RavensInsider Bryant McKinnie in a text to me when asked if he's off the team: "Yes." Wow. I haven't followed his career at all, I just remember his long rookie holdout. Has he been a problem off the field?

Romney's plan might actually offer some short-term love. Unpaid for dramatic tax cuts and huge spending on defense will provide a boost to the economy. Of course, it would be atrocious for the deficit, but that's never been a concern now has it?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 01:51 PM) Prison rape is not a punishment for anything and I think it's pathetic that people think somehow that's ok. I don't care what a person did. Yes. It's just an awful accepted fact and guards are often the perpetrators in the juvenile facilities.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 2, 2012 -> 08:39 AM) But seriously, WRs running into you is a weird experience. I was able to watch the game. Pretty fun/boring in the second quarter. Really impressed by Berkstrasser, he was slingin those balls in there. I'm still pretty worried about playing UGA in week 2 with all of our oline injuries. YOu could tell their inexperience at picking up blitzes, most of the pressures on Franklin were guys coming in untouched. But, Murphy, Lawrence and Hansbrough in the backfield are quite the threat. I think we'll be alright without Josey.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 31, 2012 -> 04:49 AM) When I first read that they used a similar system to the FIFA 12 physics engine I laughed. Supposedly the Madden version is a bit refined, but yeah, it's bad. Well, to me it's better. Still some awkward tackles, but it makes a lot more sense when the rb runs into the lineman. It looks more realistic, less like zelda walking into a wall

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 31, 2012 -> 03:32 PM) I'm still waiting for Romney's actual plan to better the economy. Believe in America, aka taking Obama's slogan from 2008 and adding words isnt enough for me, I need actual facts. At least the Godfather of Pizza had an actual though terrible plan before the PAC's outed his secrets. Also, I just hate party politics, I feel that Obama as well as other first term presidents spend too much time plodding forward with their party's agendas in anticipation of the reelection campaign. This is why I think the second term is so much more indicative of who the president actually is. I see Romney bringing a VP with him who really doesnt believe in much that he is trying to do just because his party wanted to appease a certain population. I f***ing hate that concept. Eh, for me electing Obama to his second term is defense. He'll have no leverage in congress to pass anything, and will likely coast on a steadily improving economy. But our hardfought gains will be safer if he's there so I'm going to keep him there. Funny enough, Romney would bring more stimulus with his cuts and defense spending, but obviously the deficit would explode again.