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Opinion: Mr. Money Mustache says Suze Orman has it wrong on financial independence and early retirement By Mr. Money Mustache https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mr-money-mustache-wants-suze-orman-and-everyone-else-to-understand-these-8-things-about-the-fire-movement-2018-10-05?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo These are the bad things about early retirement that no one talks about https://finance.yahoo.com/m/7ced7a9b-ab6a-37a4-add6-274aea4d8822/these-are-the-bad-things.html?bcmt=1

We’ve already gone through it with Fisk...unless Sale signs elsewhere after his contract is up.

Ummm...no. He was attacking Jewish people because he blames George Soros and “his cabal” for financially supporting the immigration caravan from Central America, which is completely unsupported by any documented evidence. While he blames Trump for being too close to Israel and cozying up to Netanyahu, he most assuredly would never be caught dead at a Hillary event. Just because you’re to the right wing of the political spectrum doesn’t mean you have to agree with Trump. In fact, 85-90% of current registered Republicans are globalists/corporatists (who seem to be) paying lip service about the loss of American low-educated/lower middle class manufacturing jobs and are very much opposed to tariffs as a tactic (as opposed to using the full leverage of the EU, Japan, Korea and India collectively against China.) Otherwise, they would be on the same side as Bernie Sanders, not Trump.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25104063/chris-sale-shouts-rally-boston-red-sox-game-4-world-series

Where are all the recent examples of targeted political violence...bombings, shootings, targeted executions...from Wrathofhahn’s list of alt-right equivalents? How many have they killed in the last three years, and are now considered victims of political “hate crime” charges? We’ve got the Scalise shootings, Antifa around the time of the Trump inauguration (no fatalities)...what else? The Dallas police shootings? Charlottesville, if you go with the “both sides” equivalency. Obama’s minister? What alt-left “conspiracists” have fired weapons in the name of “defending the US and it’s soveriegnty/freedoms”? What minority groups have directly attacked the press/members of the media and been praised for their actions? How many white churches and places of worship attacked? How many minority/immigrant mass shooters are now in jail? This week ALONE, we already have Cesar Sayoc, the Pittsburgh synagogue and the Kroger shootings...where African-Americans were deliberately targeted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-shooting-synagogue.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Why allow any shooter to succeed? We shouldn't treat these deaths as somehow more consequential than others. Israel has nowhere else to go for support, but the United States.

Jansen might be on the White Sox in 2019 at this rate...

He (Madson) was good in 2015...?

Eovaldi was only an option before the postseason. We already have Giolito, Cease, Rodon, Dunning and Hansen to worry about health-wise. The one thing nobody wants is a soft tossing lefty veteran, which is probably exactly what we need...at the right price. Frankly, I’d go after Joe Kelly and start him again. Nothing to lose.

I often think of George Washington's beautiful letter to the Jews of Rhode Island. He wrote the letter on August 18, 1790, after a visit to the Newport congregation, which had fled persecution in Europe. He assured them they would find "toleration" on these shores, liberty for people of all faiths. Religious freedom here was an absolute, he wrote, and all creeds were welcome. He quoted from the Hebrew scriptures, saying that "everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid." This is so heartbreaking: "And there shall be none to make him afraid." source: cnn.com Somehow, I have a feeling even George Washington’s words will end up being politicized.

After watching Iowa wet the bed against PSU (luckily I gave up and missed the 4th), I just wanted a great series...pulling for a Game 7 and a Dodgers’ win, simply because the Red Sox winning four in 15 years is boring. Still incredibly challenging to beat a team like Boston three in a row, even at home.

We can certainly win with second tier free agents and smart “minor” trades that unearth valuable players, see 2003-2010. It’s just that Hahn has shown zero evidence of the ability to do so. Who’s his best free agent acquisition? We know the bad ones. Unless you count Abreu (a different classification of FA, more KW/Paddy), it’s probably David Robertson...who was overpaid to leave NY. Other than Eaton/Santiago, there haven’t been many great trades, either. Q for Jimenez/Cease currently looks like the second best. At any rate, you need a lot more than Swarzak, Kahnle, Narvaez and Palka to go right over a 2-3 year span...because those are the bottom 10 players on a playoff roster, not frontline guys.

Not until the country starts being defined again by what unites us instead of what divides us...and it feels like it’s likely to get worse before it gets better, because the real financial hardships/stressors are just around the corner. Up until recently, this has mostly been a period of prosperity.

I’m not even sure Jared Kushner or his sons being attacked would be enough to change his mind at this point. The Koch Brothers are the equivalent of Soros...I bet they’ve never worried a day in their lives about being attacked or targeted. Whenever they spend money, it’s about free political speech and liberty, whereas Soros and his Jewish cabal is funding hordes of locust-like invaders.

Just once in a while, it would be nice to get a Walker Buehler instead of Carson Fulmer. Sale’s exploits for Boston will have to suffice. It’s like 2005 and picking Chris are sufficient to get everyone lifetime contracts. Or just one outfielder we developed who could be one of the three best in Boston or LA.

Looks like 4 for now...

Even Pecota, a projection system that typically underestimates the Sox, was off by 11 full games.

Eovaldi just bumped up his contract demands by $10-15 million.

Board moderators, please put the original wins predicted for 2018 thread back up, before April 17th when everyone started revising their numbers downwards. Thank you.

Mentally disturbed people don’t think the same way those of us who watch CSI, NCIS or Criminal Minds do...maybe he wanted to be found? Cry for help, seeking attention type of thing...had been thrown out of house, homeless, no life prospects, was defacing his driver’s license to seem younger (40-something) to have a better opportunity in the dating field, some wacky behavior.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-whines-twitter-says-follower-152806488.html [EDITED BY MODS]

The Scalise shooting would have gotten coverage for weeks and weeks had he not recovered from his injuries. The scale/scope of this in terms of two past presidents and two other candidates (Biden/HRC) and at least two more for 2020 (Booker/Harris) makes this a huge story. Let’s turn it around and argue Antifa operatives from Cal-Berkeley carried out a similar op on 14 prominent Republicans. Is there ANY way Fox News, Breitbart, Alex Jones, Lou Dobbs...would not have bombarded the news with 24 hour coverage up through Election Day? Did anyone tune in to Fox at this time? I would bet they were covering the immigrant caravan...not referring to them as asylum/refugee seekers...and playing up that Mattis has authorized a heavily armed deployment at the border but as of yet there were no plans to shoot into the crowd of potential immigrants. This guy has such a long rap sheet..but I’m also willing to bet if he was a white unemployed 35 year year old who played games in his mom’s basement that the story would be extended further than through this upcoming weekend. https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article220694495.html His remarks came a short time after he tweeted a complaint that the media’s focus on bombs was distracting from Republican efforts in the upcoming midterm elections. “Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics,” Trump tweeted in the hours before Sayoc was taken into custody. “Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!” Trump’s tweet was an effort to refocus attention on the midterms that could alter the path of his presidency. His quote marks around “Bomb” were striking, suggesting the president might doubt the authenticity of the scare. That theory had gained steam in some quarters on the right. A number of Trump’s allies, including his eldest son, Donald Jr., and conservative commentator Lou Dobbs, have used social media to promote the idea that the bombs may be a Democrat-run hoax. And the president’s favorite television show, Fox & Friends, ran a segment Friday morning in the hours before his tweet that raised the possibility that the bombs were a “false flag” operation meant to gin up Democratic enthusiasm. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for an explanation as to the president’s meaning. Trump also issued a 3 a.m. tweet in which he complained that CNN and others were blaming him for the scare, saying they were “ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, ‘it’s just not Presidential!’” One of the packages was sent to CNN, forcing an evacuation of their Manhattan studios. Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article220694495.html#storylink=cpy

The debate here is whether universities should continue to force students to spend money on required PE courses. Univ of Iowa had two if I recall, so I took field hockey and racquetball. I taught badminton, baseball/softball, tennis, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, basketball, etc., as a TA which paid for most of one of two Master’s degrees. If you’re not going to be a healthy adult and spend all your time on gaming, it won’t matter. You can also take AP or CLEP or test out of required classes...but still difficult to find interesting courses you want to take in your major/minor areas due to low priority status for underclassmen in scheduling. Here in China, law school or medical school begins at age 18...you go directly into it. The problem is a numbers game...if you don’t do well on exams in high school, you can’t g to college or they choose a crappy major for you which you spend two years trying to escape by earning top 3 marks in the class. But no student loans, either. Parents pay for everything. Most kids never have their first job until somewhere between 21-24 years old.

QUOTE (SonofaRoache @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 08:47 AM) I will sit back and watch how the narrative changes now. Previously we were saying we'd compete for a playoff spot next year and a WS in 2020. If our team continues to progress slowly and play poorly, with the exception of a few pitchers, then those years need to be pushed back. Even Hawk was saying 2020. If a lot goes right, next year they have a shot. It's not like you have to win 100 games to make the playoffs. But 2020 is probably more realistic. From Dick Allen Most were predicting at least low 70’s for wins this last March. Not low 60’s or high 50’s, which was below the actual projected pace until the final two months of the season. That narrative didn’t change until the middle of April. Plus, everyone badly underestimated how putrid the entire AL Central would be after CLE, but the win total was still 5-10 lower than the consensus coming into the season on this particular board.