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the foster GTD was goodnews, thanks for your help everyone.

I'm in a tough spot this week. In my auction league i do not have good early depth at RB, I have good depth if some RBs go down. This weekend: AP or Ben Tate?

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I've said it before I'll say it again, I've interviewed at a lot of companies, and a lot of those companies the senior management has had english degrees or odd degrees. This whole "you need a degree in business to be a part of a business" is garbage. But I love how we are blaming laziness as the reason unemployment is 8.1 percent. Not the unbelievable amount of private debt that was accumalated in the 00s by a different generation.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 04:33 PM) Wow, which is only what, like 3? You sir, are TERRIBLE luck! Well, really it was just 2/5 but they pissed me off enough that it feels like every game. And frankly, I shouldn't complain. The game against cleveland where we got an infield hit because there was a pop fly into the smoke monster was the highlight of my life.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 05:15 PM) Personally I can't complain. However, I've seen some pretty good and hard working people get laid off over the past few years and some have had hard times finding jobs. Are there people I know that are lazier, sure, but lazy people have found work at much higher rates in the past then now. A top performer is a top performer, but our economy and the unemployment #'s aren't based upon top performers. The way I see it, the % has always included lazy people and while I think to an extent, the younger generation is lazier (and I'm in that generation), I don't think it really explains the high unemployment because there were always those people. I'm also still young and developing though. I think if I were in a more seasoned position, that answer might be different. And I can flat out say businesses are struggling, places are struggling. Talk to sales people and I think most of them will tell you most of the customers they work with are still hurting. God a buddy who works in sales for Heinz. Makes pretty good money but everyone he calls is bleeding/hurting still. Grocery stores, fast food places, etc. Plus, we are more likely to know people with a college degree, whose unemployment rate has been largely manageable. Those without have seen much of the harder issues.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) I have to ask, as I think we all know people in similar employment circumstances...how much of that is their own fault? I know I can't speak for everyone, but I'm doing better now than I ever have been...so to answer a oft repeated Republican talking point...are you better off now than 4 years ago? Yes, I am. And 4 years ago I was better off then that I was the 4 years prior to that. And so on... I got lucky getting my job and I've done very well since. But it was miserable being unemployed working at a potbellys getting $400 paychecks when I had $400 rent. My friends out of college have had some brutal luck. Getting a job one month and laid off a few months later when they lose a contract, etc. Moving all over the country for work. It's easy when you have a job to forget what it's like trying to get one. Also aren't you in IT and engineering? Not exactly a problem industry right now. Most of the losses have come from manufacturing and it hasn't come close to recovering (if ever).

I'll be there. Please no rain. Every game this year I've been in a rain delay.

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.