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Screw Chuck and his no Spring Training party this year.

I'll pay good money to get drunk with AJ, Adam, Lou, Geoff, MT, Glen, Blarg, Nate, AF25, Red, Adam, Tank, TORS, CF8, AFL, Jay, etc.

We gotta make it happen. And yeah, I said Adam twice. I want regular and Asian Adam to be there.

Finding out I'm just an etc. to Cals has ruined my weekend.

No way can a budget team like the Ducks pay that price for Ladd...Chicago looks like the favorites now but the west is so strong anything can happen.  I want a chance at redemption against them so badly!  At least this time game 7 wont be at the Honda Center.  

Looks like the Bruins will have to get into the tourney based on their name once again this year.  No real scoring threats on the team and we don't play good defense.  

 

SDSU with a huge win against Cal last night...I think they ended the game on a 42-15 run or something close to that. 

I agree

I agree

AJ, you only set yourself up with this. You bring decent topics in for discussion but you can't expect everyone to fall in line behind them.

 

With that said, I voted for the cities who had the big titty blonde with a stein in her hand. 

 

I live in the highest income county in Texas and in the top 10 in the country.  I look around and think how? Pretty much kind of the sticks but I like it.  Whole Foods won't even come here.  In reality it is based on per-capita and a tiny county so it gets a bump.  Really is a worthless stat in my mind but the county officials like it. 

Kudos Kurt.

I'm not following.

I just remembered hearing that line over and over again.

Yeah as long as one party openly advocates for theft and redistribution of property, there will always be a significant number of people who will be influenced by the GOP, even if they're crazy and evil. 

This exactly...I agree with very little on the R side other than a conservative economic policy but it's the issue that I care about most.

Why is saying the same line over and over again a problem? 

If you like your healthcare you can keep your healthcare.  

Trump vs. Hillary would be amazing TV! 

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/ryan-kesler-ducks-how-we-play-hockey-in-america/

Awesome read!  

Ducks just keep on rolling!  Freddie is 10-0-2 since Christmas!  Quack!

Do you ever have to work?

I believe cals works 20 hours/wk and gets 3 months vacation a year.  

Nate, let's try to avoid the personal BS. Whether or not I'm condescending, or have been condescending, seems evasive and pointless. Why not discuss the actual content of what I wrote, the ideas presented, instead of making it personal?

 

Now you did say something about capitalism and socialism, which I don't totally disagree with except to say that what you speak of is the ideal of capitalism, not the reality - which involves terrible abuse and exploitation. And no, in our system, not everyone starts out in equality.

 

Further, you are still falling into the black-and-white fallacy of "capitalism good, socialism bad." I see it differently, more like "socialism and capitalism ok but problematic, democratic socialism/socialistic capitalism better."

Sorry AJ you're in the socialism ok capitalism bad based on all of your posts.

That's a really good question, and I don't know the answer either. I tend to advocate for following your passion as fully as possible, yet having a back-up plan. Or if you love doing something like painting or playing music, also learn a useful skill that you enjoy or at least can tolerate.

 

You might be interested in Ken Robinson's view - this TED Talk is a classic. His view is that we should all try to find our "element," which he defines as the place where our natural talents and interests meet.

 

 

To your first sentence, yes - but why are things more or less valuable? It is what the market dictates. In some case it is actually skill-based (e.g. Mike Trout), in others it is entirely faddish or trendy (many fashions), in others a combination of talent and trend (e.g. Beyonce). But it is determined by cultural values, and then relative to the market. But the thing is, we just accept this, which in turn drives our culture.

 

I'm not talking about entitlement, but fixing a system that is skewed towards commercial wealth. Our economic system rewards those who can either take money from others or make money for others. On one hand this makes sense, but it has become so skewed that we have the obscene gaps in wealth in this country that we have, that are only getting larger.

 

 

I get it, nate, and have no problem with this view as it is basic common sense. But you miss the mark with the last sentence and clearly don't understand where I'm coming from.

 

Your view--which is basically the traditional American Capitalist ideology: work hard and it will pay off--doesn't take into account various factors and obstacles that different people face, and it is overly simplistic and downright cruel to assume that people who struggle are "parasites" or lazy or lacking in ability or intelligence, etc. Many are lazy and without good education or obvious talents, but many aren't. Actually, some of the most intelligent and talented people I know struggle to pay rent. We can say, "Those faggot artists and dead-beat philosophers should have gotten a real education and gotten a real job in business or law or insurance." But don't we want artists and philosophers? Don't we want our nurses to be able to make a living wage, or a teacher to be able to support his or her family?

 

I think the point Bernie is trying to make is that wealth has been pooling at the top, and it doesn't have to be that way. Part of the reason it is pooling (going to the 1%) is that the country has become more and more oligarchic, especially since Reagan. The wealth hasn't trickled down, it has pooled up. The trends are very clear: Lower taxes for corporations and the wealthy, stagnating wages for the middle and lower classes, and rising cost of living. All of this is connected.

What?  That can easily happen even in a place with as high a cost of living as Orange County.  My sister in law is a nurse and her husband works 2 days a week and they take turns watching their infant son on their days off and each get a day off together a week to spend as a family all day.  My sister and her fiance are both high school teachers and have no problem what so ever supporting themselves and will not have a problem supporting a child or 2 should they choose to have them.  ****, more than half the women in my family/extended family are teachers and none of their family units are having a problem with money.  

Good lessons in this piece

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/stefanie-williams-response-to-yelp-employee-talia-jane-2016-2?utm_content=buffer5c01b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I was going to post this same story...phenomenal response to the entitled Jane Talia.  This story goes to your early post about every decision you make having an ROI.  

You are saying all of this as if it's fact and it's already proven. It's not.

 

Those schools are looked at favorably because they're name brand and they cost a lot.

 

I guarantee you not every person would be going to college, hell a lot of people already barely finish high school. There will be no shortage of baristas.

 

There are a lot of people deserving of a college education that would excel, but don't have the opportunity to.

Name 1 and name why they are deserving, why they aren't currently getting that education, and why they don't have the opportunity to receive that education.

Where do you keep your jerkoff rag?

The most important part of the home office.

Team won 98 games in 2014. No one expected that and yes we know only to be swept in 3 games. Hamilton missed some time and came back and was just awful. Who played LF when he was out? I don't remember

Last year we had 1 really good month (I believe July). Trout had a awful August if I remember correctly. Then the rest of the year happened

My memory is not great but what was the difference from 2014 to 2015 and also what makes us so sure 2016 is going to suck?

I mean I'll take a platoon of Nava and Gentry over a 2014 (and a current) Josh Hamilton. I'd like to get freese back and move Escobar to 2B. Simmons is the best defensive SS. We get Skaggs back to go along with the rest of the staff. What I'm trying to compare now is the bullpen from 2014 to now. How is it different? I'm sure a guy like shoemaker or Santiago will go in the pen giving it more depth

I feel like we have almost the same team we had when this team won 98 games and now all of a sudden its shit bc we didn't sign a left fielder? Maybe I'm just trying to be positive. I'm not saying we're winning 98 games this year but would it surprise anyone if we made the playoffs? I feel like the west is wide open.

So I guess my question is what makes this team different from 2014?

Stop being so positive, this isn't allowed on Angelswin.

The entire AL is wide open...most of the teams over/under wins in Vegas are in the 80s so anything can happen.  

I was reminded of my dear friends at Angelspin, for some reason.

Haven't read it yet...is number 1 that you have a job?

I love Jagr...the best was that slut that tried to blackmail him with a pic after sex and he was just like IDGAF.  

Going to the Honda Center expecting the Ducks to dominate, and then watching them dominate is such a joy.  I can't wait for the playoffs!!!

No way we can trade Anderson right now...Gibby is too injury prone. 

Hope you guys bought your tickets on the presale...general onsale prices were at $5-15 higher in most sections.  

I have never once questioned character, I only question his "economics" because they are wrong.

Your forgetting to mention that this employer is no longer contributing to the employees health insurance premium.

Saves the employer money.

He already doesn't contribute to his employees health insurance premium because of Obama's policies.

Last I checked Bernie Sanders isn't Barack Obama.

LOL, let's take a look at how 1 part of Bernie's crazy tax increases will affect a restaurant owner who makes 100K per year.  A man runs a sucessful business employing 15 people at an avg of 35K per year.  One of the Bern's tax increases is a raise to payroll tax.  

• Creates a new 6.2 percent employer-side payroll tax on all wages and salaries. This is referred to by the campaign as an “income-based health care premium paid by employers.”

So this employer now owes the govnerment and extra $32,550 in payroll taxes.  Tell me how this is good for small business?  Good for a person who is working hard to run a business that makes 100K?  This is only 1 of many different taxes the Bern is going to enact.  This doesn't even count the employee side of the payroll tax so each of his employees salary is going down as well.  

You keep saying that, but unless you make over like 200k you would save money.

People were saying that with Obama too...boy were they wrong.