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QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 10:32 AM) Jenks: Hillary has said she f***ed up with the e-mail server a lot of times, for some weeks now. She's been asked about it over and over. She didn't break new ground last night. OK, this is the first i've heard her say that. She's tried every other tactic before. Denial, it's not a big deal, ignorance of technology, they did it too, etc.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 10:26 AM) I mean, that's where I think Trump really lost. It really started last week with the Birther announcement. He crossed a line with the media where they stopped putting up with the crap where he can lie ad nauseum and it's hand waved. The "crime is actually lower now after stop and frisk ended" "NO ITS UP" "Actually crime is down in new york since it ended" "No" I mean, i'm sure if unfamiliar in real time people could be like, "here we go again", but in the days after, this will be played and it will be said, unequivocally, no, crime continued to plummet after those policies ended. His contention that he can just blatantly say the sky is red and the blue in the map is land is going to be a thing for this last month. It's no longer a "well he's very assertive and people like no nonsense!" I dunno man, he's lied on so much stuff the last year, and despite the media pointing it out it doesn't seem to hurt him at all.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 10:21 AM) Didn't want to dig into it too deep but yeah that "democratic plantation" nonsense isn't exactly well-received by black people. Just because they don't want to hear it doesn't mean it's not true.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 10:18 AM) Yeah, black people are so stupid they became a part of a party and advocated for policies to help their community with their own representatives! Chicago isn't a prime example of this or anything...

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 10:14 AM) He could have walked down that path but instead he placed his chips on an entirely racist policy (stop and frisk) and admitted he only had "relations' with the black community recently and briefly. He cant harp on Dem's failure within the black community (and failure is debatable) while still championing racist policies and accepting support of racist organizations. Thats why the Republicans want him to stay away from that topic. All very true. The stop and frisk stuff was nauseating. "It's unconstitutional" "No it's not." Ugh...

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 10:14 AM) A multi-billionaire who claims that he is going to be good for the middle class who, at the same time, has a history of not paying contractors is absolutely relevant. If he's been spending his professional stiffing people who did work for him, then why should we think that will change once he's in office? I do a fair bit of construction work as well, and agree that there are a lot of really crappy contractors. BUT in one breath he says that his hotels are all the best in the world, and in the other breath, the contractors who built them did poor jobs and shouldn't be paid. It can't be both... I just think it's akin to complaining about not tipping someone. I've stiffed s***ty waiters/waitresses on tips in my life. It's a rare occurrence but if someone wanted to they could claim i'm a s***ty person because i don't tip people for their hard work. Unless you go example by example, it's an unfair accusation. The guys been in business for 30 years working with probably tens of thousands of contractors. If you're talking about a handful of them getting "stiffed," is that really a "history?" Unless it's happening the majority of the time I don't think it's a sign of anything. And I haven't heard of THAT many examples. And i'm not sure why it can't be both. Despite your best efforts you can get stuck with a s***ty contractor or sub-contractor. Doesn't mean you don't know how to build or operate a building.

Most of you have echoed my thoughts in one way or another. 1) i'm embarrassed as a citizen of this country that these are our choices to be the leader of the free world: a narcissistic blowhard with no experience and a career bulls***ter with little to show for being in positions of power for 30 years. He is an unqualified moron and she is an unlikable fake person. Ugh. 2) I'd say Clinton "won" in the sense that she didn't fail as much as Trump. I don't give her any credit for "getting into Trump's head." He does that all on his own. And it made him look moronic. "Wrong.....Wrong......Wrong...." I mean the whole thing was such a circus. 3) I do give credit to Clinton for finally just admitting she f***ed up with those emails and saying that she regretted it. That should have been her answer from day one. 4) I give credit to Trump for actually agreeing with Clinton on multiple issues that normally Republicans seem too hesitant to admit (limited gun control, for example). I also give him credit for finally saying on a national stage that blacks have been given promises after promises from democrats and they have nothing to show for it. I feel like that's a drum that Repubs don't hit often enough. 5) The nonsense about taxes and not paying laborers is such a low blow. Is it a big deal that Trump doesn't pay federal taxes personally? Eh. He pays more in taxes than we all do combined in other ways. I don't like it, but i'm not going to hold it against him either. And i'm not sure why his comment "because i'm smart, i know the laws" is a bad answer. We all do that and would do that if we were in his position. He's just being honest there and I actually appreciate that. The other low blow was bringing up not paying contractors. Having done many construction and commercial agreement cases in the past, a contractor doing s***ty work is not exactly uncommon. I don't know the specifics of the cases she's referring to, but if someone was hired to do a job and didn't do it right or did it for beyond cost or whatever, Trump not paying may be totally reasonable. But if you think about it, what an unimportant issue for a Presidential debate. Might as well bring up the time he only tipped 15% instead of 20. 6) I'm jealous of Trump's confidence/ability to actually believe that he didn't say the things that he obviously said. The dude has a twitter account. It's a public record of his thoughts. How can you so confidently state that you didn't say X or Y when you know that someone can prove you wrong in a matter of seconds? And it's sad that he can do that time and time again and there's basically no consequence. He even did it after the debate in the spin room when he denied saying he doesn't pay federal taxes. He denied saying it despite saying it 30 minutes prior! 7) Holt didn't do well, but that's gotta be one of the toughest jobs in the business. I think he's being criticized a bit too much today. 8) Ultimately no one is changing their votes based on last night, and I doubt any minds will change based on the other debates. At the end of the day these are both s*** candidates and people are going to choose what they believe is the lesser of two evils - someone out of left field with no ties to the "establishment," promising things will be different or someone who looks the part and acts the part but is the same as what we've had for the last 8+ years. Whatever these two say between now and then doesn't change the narrative of each campaign.

Injuries or not, rebuild or not, they should look like a competent football team. Losing games is expected but they should not be embarrassed and outplayed every minute of the game. Fox isn't doing his job. If it continues he should be gone.

The offense is so bad. Im having flashbacks to the John Shoop era.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/media/disn...linkId=29118376 Silly white kid. You can't pretend to be another race! That's racist! Oh, and silly brown kid, you can't be a brown character. You have to be a white character! This whiny, complaining society has gone so far anti-PC that we're now on the other end of the extreme.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 05:09 PM) From Clinton's letter: "Second, we need real consequences when firms on Wall Street break the law. This past week, we learned that one of the Wells Fargo executives that oversaw the division that ripped off its customers left the bank – not with a pink slip, but with a $125 million payout. It’s hard to imagine that top executives were unaware of a problem that involved thousands of the firm’s employees. After all, they imposed sales targets and compensation incentives in ways that led to this behavior. And it’s frustrating that a bank can simply pay a fine and keep doing business as usual – with massive compensation for the executives responsible. That compensation should be clawed back. I’ve put forward an agenda to enhance accountability on Wall Street. Executives should be held individually accountable when rampant illegal activity happens on their watch. Their compensation should take a hit if their companies pay major fines. And they must face appropriate legal consequences if they break the law." Wall street shill! https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/sta...argo-customers/ Edit: added URL. Yeah, she still didn't name the guy directly. She's talking in generalities. "Executives." To the author's point, why is she doing this? Why is she afraid to go after a specific enemy or name specific people?

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 04:51 PM) Good Josh Marshall article on the Clinton campaign: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/--100769 I can think of a reason why. It's telling that unlike Warren, Clinton didn't even accuse the CEO of doing anything wrong. She generically referred to "this behavior" and then threw out a bunch of proposed ideas that she, and her friends in Wall Street, know has about a 2% chance of happening. They're fine with her throwing out those worthless proposals because they know she'll never act on it.

Ha, this just came up on my twitter feed. Timely.

The people rioting are doing more harm than good. They're providing the justification for cops to act like assholes. "See how out of control these people act? Who knows what can happen. That's why I shot, I was afraid of what they might do!"

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 03:25 PM) Last Year in 13 games Andy Dalton threw for 3200 yards with 28 total touchdowns and 7 Ints, 2 fumbles. Last year in 15 games, in Jay Cutlers best regarded year as a Bear, he threw for 3600 yards, 22 total Tds, 11 interceptions and 5 fumbles lost Alex Smith, 16 games 3500 yards, 22 total TDs, 7 ints, 0 fumbles lost. Matt Ryan has taken a beating, but even last year as everyone decided he's not very good, he threw for 4,600 yards, 21 touchdowns and 16 ints, with 5 fumbles lost (12 fumbles!). Stafford in 16 games threw for 4,200 yards, 32 touchdowns, 13 INTs and 2 fumbles Everyone pretty much does see more attempts per game, which would account for the gross yardage almost always being in favor of other QBs, but it may also be that they are trusted with a more passing offense and don't kill drives as often. If you put those QBs ahead of him (which I would), he is in the bottom 10 in the league. Flacco is the one QB I would say is most often like Jay Cutler. Flacco has that one amazing, historic run on the way to winning his Superbowl on the resume. Cutler can't sniff that level.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 09:39 AM) I especially had that thought in the scene where they let him walk outside... alone... after a gigantic terror attack on the capital which killed pretty much everyone. Contrast that with the stories from 9/11 where the Secret Service quite literally told W that he couldn't go back to Washington no matter how much he insisted to go. Yeah the fact that he - and his family - were in the White House was dumb. Ultimately that's where this show is going to fail for me. Network drama's just gloss over the reality of most situations for some reason (drop in, drop out viewers maybe?).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 07:23 AM) Watched it, and interested. They set up some decent story lines potentially, though I am already annoyed with the whole general who will do anything to go to war guy. Ha, I thought the same thing. Way over the top. I also thought there were too many quiet conversations. For a pilot, after such a big event like 98% of the country's leaders being killed, that should have been a fast hour of hectic "what should we do now" moments. Instead it seemed to drag every 5 minutes when Sutherland's character and his wife would talk about their feelings. Has me concerned for the pacing going forward but i'm hopeful they'll work it out.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 03:14 PM) This generation has far too many people going to school and either taking on student loan debt when they shouldn't or majoring in some useless degree. Then they want to blame the system they chose to play in when it doesn't work out. That's the crux of the issue. Yes, a political science degree could be useful if you have daddy warbucks paying for law school but that's not in the picture for many. I know three people with communications degrees and none of them are doing anything with their degree. Small sample but they're all good people who are trying hard for employment so to be me, it's telling. Maybe they shouldn't have taken the road of least resistance. I am too motivated to settle but still, part of me wishes I went in the union. That guaranteed livable salary and pension with regular hours sounds awesome. My cousin is 30 years old making near 100K and incredible pension. He has no college credit and spent his 20's gang banging and getting in bar fights. The unions are not glitzy by any means but if you're a 17-18 year old from Chicagoland you should at the very least consider it for a minute. The state isn't broke for no reason - there's a lot of upside with those gigs. Based on my experience dealing with the various trade unions in litigation, those income figure fluctuate year to year. You can be an iron worker or pipe fitter making 100k one year and 30k the next. It all depends. And it's all based on seniority bulls***. Don't forget dues too, they're not a lot, but 2-3% of your salary isn't nothing.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 10:35 AM) Netflix has a goal of making 50 percent of their programming original They smartly realized years ago that studios were going to start demanding a king's ransom for their content. To stay ahead of it they needed to create their own library that people would want.

Dear God, it is becoming more of a reality http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-e...n-forecast/#now

I enjoyed The Good Place. Some good laughs in there. Excited for Designated Survivor tonight. Would have been 100 times better on a cable network, though, so I'm not holding my breath.

So the wife and kids were gone for a good chunk of the weekend. I was bored and surfing around the internet and saw that WoW had a new expansion out. For some reason I thought, hey, I wonder if that game holds up. Six hours later I had a free, starter edition character to the max level. That game is like crack. Hadn't played it in 5 years and it took about 30 minutes to get sucked right back in. I have to force myself not to sign up for another month or two to keep playing.

w00t: Rich Eisen Show ‏@RichEisenShow 1h1 hour ago

This looks pretty good: