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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    lol, you really need to read the fine print my friend: So if I work for Goldman Sachs and my rich uncle supports Romney's PAC, then this website misrepresents Goldman Sachs as a supporter. It's well known that Opensecrets.org is a George Soros project, designed to convince Americans that something isn't right with the Romney campaign. It's not factual, it's a campaign tactic on behalf of the political left. The "Responsible Politics" that this website claims is being done-so as a faux campaign finance coalition.
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    UCLA Knocks Off No. 16 Nebraska

    I've always liked Jim Mora and he's a guy that, even back when he calling the shots with the Falcons, I pegged him as the perfect guy to build a CFB powerhouse. The first major win of his collegiate coaching career and it won't be the last. Watch for him to bring in nastier and nastier recruiting classes; bringing UCLA football back into a National spotlight. The Bruins are 2-0 on the year.
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    Georgia @ Missouri

    Mizzou played a great game but in the end, Georgia's defense was relentless. Jarvis Jones was in Mizzou's backfield all night long and Marlon Brown clutch on offensive side of the football.
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    Louisiana-Monroe upsets 8 Arkansas

    That is insane. Glad Auburn isn't the most embarrassing SEC loss of the day.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    I won't say that I'm anti-medicare but I am definitely not in favor of all the "options" medicare enrollees have been given with the legislation passed over the past decade...especially when these "Plans" are for nothing more than to appease lobbyists. I don't claim Bush was the perfect President but it irks me how Obama supporters try to use the Bush years as a cop-out, an excuse for why their boy hasn't delivered on all his 2008 campaign promises. Extension of Affirmative Action during the Clinton Administration, you don't remember this? Research what he did during his presidency and Affirmative Action will appear in every summary. You're right, the housing crisis was only a trigger but w/o a trigger the gun cannot be fired and I blame the Dems for the bloated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subsidies. "Free lunches" is the Liberal way, not the conservative preference. I also don't how our Wall Street collapsed equates to, "the whole world endured". Shit, the bailout was so unrestricted and unmonitored that nearly every major foreign bank dumped all debt into their American subsidies and just like that...American taxpayers on are on the hook for that too. If you honestly think Romney made millions bankrupting companies...then you need to stop drinking the Obama Kool-Aid and actually educate yourself. Romney's company, Bain Captial, bought out ailing businesses and then restructured the companies in order to continue whatever business said company was in. Unfortunately this causes outsourcing of jobs but these companies were already bankrupt or pretty damn close to when Bain Capital stepped in. And if you weren't a test tube baby then why the hell do you care about In virto fertilisation? Are you that shocked the conservatives don't agree with scientists "playing God" when it comes to child birth? It's not like Ryan is just being an a-hole; In virto fertilisation goes against Christian beliefs. Doesn't the fact a House controlled by Democrats, for 2 years, wouldn't come to terms with your Democrat President bother you? His political colleagues have never had any confidence in him as a President but they stand by him b/c they'd rather him have the Presidency than the GOP but once the election is over...they basically fight with him as much as the other side of the isle does. I respect the fact you're saying "disappointed" in his first term b/c I can't take a Dem voter seriously who at least won't admit as much. I'm a Republican who had high hopes that he would be able to do a lot of what he promised but he's failed to execute. I really, really liked a lot of his "Blueprint" for a universal healthcare system but this Affordable Care Act isn't anything close to what he campaigned for. I spent the first 2 years of college majoring in History so believe me, I know all about "The New Deal". But because all the money we spent didn't effectively lower unemployment...because taxes have become astronomical...because of effective political lobbying...and because federal programs in this century are met with insane costs........a New Deal in 2008 and beyond just isn't realistic,
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    Art Modell dies at 87

    Are you seriously trying to compare Art Modell to Bin Laden and Sandusky? Get a grip dude, you know damn well you're taking it too far. The point isn't about celebrating death, it's about shitting on Art Modell's death. Hell, some are going about it like Modell was Bin Laden's BFF. R E T A R D E D
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    Paulson made plenty of miscalculations but I think anybody would, given the situation he inherited. The decision to force Lehman into bankruptcy was made without knowing other major banks were nearly in the same bad position. Do I agree with the bank bailout? I think it was absolutely necessary. Would I have structured it differently? Absolutely. But let's put the horse back in front of the wagon here. Is Paulson the face of an bank bailout if there's was no credit crisis to begin with? It's like blaming the mechanic for screwing up the repair when you could've avoided the situation by not smashing up your car in the first place.
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    The Superhero Thread

    This is one of the best I've ever seen. It's about Robin avenging Batman's death, has a ton of characters in it. [why the hell don't my Youtube links show up properly?]
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    Art Modell dies at 87

    That's a pretty shitty thing to say and a microcosm of so many things that is wrong with today's society. 'Hate' is such a strong word and you my friend are passing along too much of by making comments like this. Modell was a human being and in death you bash him for a bad business move that happened how many years ago? I mean, instead of pissing on the man's grave...how about you just say nothing if you're that angry? Sorry Buffalo is too poor of a city to finance a new stadium but holy shit, let's not desecrate Art Modell over it! The man played a huge role in brokering the AFL-NFL merger; he actually broke the impasse between the 2 sides by moving the Browns to the AFC. Played a big role in negotiating the television program that became "Monday Night Football". He also served as Chairman of the Owner's Committee, brokering the first ever CBA. See, this is what you do when somebody dies; you honor the good things...rather than rage about the mistakes they made in life.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    Well this "meltdown" you speak of is accurately broken down in the following ways: The strain put on the economy during the Bush Administration was obviously financing 2 wars at one time. Now over time these wars suddenly morphed into "a big waste of time" in the eyes of many in the public but I can remember when thousands were stomping on the front gate of the White House and demanding blood be shed in the name of 9/11. We didn't care the costs, somebody was going to pay. My how quick we forget...but even the wars, as taxing as they have been, they aren't to blame for the economic downfall. Back in 1999, Liberals were bragging about how extensions of Affirmative Action signed off by Clinton had led to huge rises in home ownership by Afro and Latino Americans. Meanwhile, economists were pulling out their hair while screaming that Dems were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans which would fail the moment the housing market slowed. Deadbeat borrowers wouldn't be able to get out of their loans by selling their houses and (as predicted) the housing bubble would burst. As I've heard it described once: "The Democrats created an affirmative action time-bomb", and it went off during the Bush years. It was actually in Bush's first term where White House chief economist Gregory Mankiw, (Romney's current chief economist), warned that the Govt's "implicit subsidy" of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, combined with masses of loans to unqualified buyers was creating a huge risk for the financial system. Barney Frank (D) denounced Mankiw's theory, claiming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were "under heavy assault" by the GOP and went as far as to say: "How dare you oppose suicidal loans to people who can't repay them!" Hundreds of millions of dollars later...the liberal media would have you believe George W. Bush is personally responsible for the collapse of Wall Street. lol The Dems created the banking downfall, not the GOP.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    Okay, I can see where this is going. Too many of this "the President is just a figure head so who cares" crap going on here. But let me acknowledge that statement and for a second pretend it's true... The Democrats had the White House and control of Congress for 2 years...and they didn't do shit. Does this mean Congress really has no power too?
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    I was kidding anyways Obama hasn't really lived up to a majority of his promises. Last I checked he had a 57% rate of following through on his 2008 campaign promises but the 43% he hadn't followed through with are the big ticket economic issues. And you're wrong about the deficit spending. Obama agreed that deficit spending needed to end during his 2008 campaign but then he comes into office and outspends any other President in the history of this country, in record time, and while financing 1 less war. There's no secret vault the US owns, that is full of money. People need to stop acting like there's no long term repercussions to spending trillions and trillions into the red. I would agree that Romney and Obama, in a lot of ways, are the same person but I believe the economic downfall sits better in the hands of a businessman that has Romney's record of turning rags into riches. I already mentioned what Romney did as the Governor of Massachusetts and I want to see him get the same opportunity with the entire country. What good does agreeing with Obama's economic policy if he's already proven to not follow through with it? And if Romney's policies seem to mimic much of Obama's because just about every politician can acknowledge was is wrong and what needs to be done in order the fix. What [should] makes the difference is which candidate is more likely to execute. You know, make shit happen...something Obama hasn't/isn't doing.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    The fact you're still toting a Sid Rice-Vikings sig says all I need to know about how you roll
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    You're the typical Democratic apologist in that you'll take your charts and bar graphs...and as long as there's a + in there somewhere, you'll claim success. Do you not understand that Obama's failure to produce the number of job he claimed he would, the stimulus was an expensive failure? You want to spend $787 million to bring the unemployment to 6% or below, great but spend $831 billion and barely manage to touch %8...hell no, not worth the cost. Any moron could take over $800 billion and cut 2% out of the unemployment rate so let's not act like Obama did something extraordinary here. Is this what makes you feel better about keeping Obama in office then? Of course they present shit from both sides, hell, even Fox News puts the Liberals on camera b/c it's not much of a debate w/o the other side present to make their argument. The Economist was founded by James Wilson, Liberal politician James Wilson...and the entire basis of the publication is to support the principles of economic liberalism. It supports free trade, global warming, gay marriage, legalization of drugs, central banks, government regulation of health care, free immigration, smoking bans, heavier control laws, progressive taxation...need I go on? Again, your facts show that Obama's 4 years and billions of deficit spending took an American economy that was 'horrible' and made it 'a little less horrible'. Pat on the back!
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    Howdy

    Hey guys, nice forum you got here. I need a place to crow; it's gonna be a long ass season for me.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    You're severely misinformed on the results of the both the bailout and the stimulus. The Dodd-Frank law did nothing but give the Government even more ammunition in blaming the banks for our economic failures. The losses of the banks went from $10 billion to $50 billion, post bailout, which did nothing but lead to more bailouts and speculation of another mass plan. Congress allowed too many loopholes in bailout and banks were legally permitted to hedge over a trillion in assets. The bailout led to nothing more than short-term stock market gains and it's almost impossible to argue otherwise. I mean, look around...it's been 4 years, does the economy honestly reflect success of Dodd-Frank? Now as for the stimulus...lol, an even bigger failure which is well-documented and a huge pain in the ass for Democrats to create the illusion of otherwise. Obama's stimulus plan cost the country $831 billion that we don't have, on a promise that it would see unemployment back to 6% by the end of his firm term. Well unemployment hasn't dropped below 8% and when you look at the cost-efficiency of Obama's stimulus, you'd be mildly retarded to claim it was worth it. The $831 billion cost of the stimulus and the estimated 200,000 to 1.2 million Americans who claims they wouldn't have found a job if it weren't for Obama's plan...means it cost roughly $693k per job. Our economic recession technically ended in June of 2009 and since then America's growth cycle has been nothing short of pathetic. Obama is at risk of becoming the first president since WWII to not see a real GDP growth of 4% or higher in a first term. Obama's legacy is nothing short of our grandchildren and great grandchildren having to pay off the husky debts left by a President who spent the money and failed to bring the unemployment rate any lower than 8.1%. Yes, it's naive to expect it to happen...which I do not. I was making a point of what it would take to find a solution. You're taking information from The Economist, one of the largest economic and socially liberal weekly magazines of the subject. No shit you believe Obama has a great track record and Romney will fail.
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    Greg Jennings Could Be Leaving The Packers

    True but I don't think Finley finds the fat paycheck he may think is waiting for him on the open market. The league is actually pretty heavy with pass-catching TE's right now and unless he has the greatest season ever, he's not going to get as much play.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    Please explain exactly how you've come to this conclusion.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    Henry Ford once announced that he was going to double his employees' wages for no reason other than the fact he believed it was a major corporation's duty to service more than just it's shareholders. His plan was based on the simple principle that once companies' employees are another companies' customers and it doesn't take a genius to realize what spreading the wealth does for the economy. Now by "spreading the wealth", we aren't talking about taking money from the 14% of uber-wealthy Americans and giving it to the poor...we are talking about the private sector simply taking better care of it's employees. Henry Ford's belief that it was his companies' responsibility to protect the financial welfare of his employees is what allowed Ford employees to live middle-class lives rather than poor. As a result, employee turnover was at an all-time low which effectively reduced the costs of new employee recruiting and training. The point I'm making is the Government isn't going to effectively end the recession by increasing the national debt by another trillion or by taxing the small percentage of super rich. It's literally going to take the major corporations of this country to wake the hell up, take responsibility, and become more concerned about employee's well being and less about making more freaking money than a single person can spend in a lifetime anyway. It wasn't outside of the realm to be rich and care about your employee's in Henry Ford's era and it still isn't today. Taxpayers are sick of corporate welfare, as am I, but I do believe somewhat in the trickle-down-effect principle. But if the Government is going to continue to pump money into major corporations, why aren't they setting more precedents? The reason the bailouts have failed was because the Government failed to set standards on how the money was to be spent. The banks padded their pockets and still won't loan out money, which was the whole point of the bailout. Just think about that for a second...the banks were given your tax dollars but won't loan any of it out to you because you don't have a credit score of 750 or above. The corporations of this country need to better protect the welfare of their employees, the banks need to start loaning out money, and the Government needs to seriously take a look at the corrupt system of personal welfare, disability, etc. Instead of the millions of dollars a year spent on conferences for the countless bureaucracies that exist within the United States Government...how about using technology to spread the message? We've all seen how GSA is spending our tax dollars and guess what, they aren't alone. There's solutions but again, it's going to take a President with some brass nuts, not afraid to piss people off and cross up the "good ol boys" in order to make it happen. Obama has catered to too many sides to be this guy.
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    Greg Jennings Could Be Leaving The Packers

    Green Bay isn't going to throw Jennings w/e he wants and I have a feeling that Jennings is going to look to get paid. Green Bay has an offense that does exactly what Brady and New England do...exactly what Peyton's Colts did....they make almost any player look like an All Pro. Honestly, with Jordy Nelson being the sure-handed possession guy he is, Randall Cobb being a kid who can stretch the field, and let's not forget about Finley as a pass-catching threat... Jennings can be elsewhere in 2013 and the Packers wouldn't miss a beat.
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    The Superhero Thread

    The hair style is definitely off. Captain Planet needs to have a green mullet, no if's, and's, or but's.
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    Unemployment Falls Only to 8.1%

    Don't but into the hype? So it's hype and not facts? People are more or less afraid of Romney because of all the hype being generated by a media dominated by the liberal market. Romney went into the Massachusetts Governorship while the state was in debt and left with a $3-million surplus. He has a private sector business record of saving companies from bankruptcy and he also spear-headed a campaign the clean up the Olympic games, get rid of the corruption, and maximize profits for the host cities. Obama is inexperienced and in 4-years he's done nothing to prove that he is even a sliver of the solution. Romney has a track record efficiency and circling the wagons. So what that he's wealthy; Obama isn't poor either. So Bain Capital outsourced jobs in order to keep a lot of companies afloat; they did manage to save jobs that would've otherwise been gone if nobody stepped in and said businesses were kept in bankruptcy. Mitt has balls, Mitt isn't afraid to make the sacrifices, and he certainly cannot make things any worse. We already know what we get with Obama...a lot of talk and very little show. Obama is the Rex Ryan of the political landscape.
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    Post Your 2012 Rosters

    12 team, PPR, Auction Draft w/$200 budget, $100 buy-in QB - Matt Stafford $38 RB - Adrian Peterson $39 RB - Frank Gore $26 WR - Calvin Johnson $46 WR - Wes Welker $29 TE - Jason Witten $11 W/R - Evan Royster $1 W/T - Santana Moss $2 K - Dan Bailey $1 DST - Detroit $1 ------- BN - Alex Smith $1 BN - Brandon Jacobs $1 BN - Dexter McCluster $1 BN - Laurent Robinson $1 BN - Kevin Ogeltree $1 BN - Dustin Keller $1 Peterson for $39 was a bargain, considering Ray Rice went for $64, Foster $59, and McCoy $58. The Vikings' offense being so bad and AD's knee injury have obviously dropped his stock but in today's game of multi-RB ground games and uber-passing, Peterson is a lock to touch the ball a ton in every game. The worst move was Gore but I'm hoping he can put together 1 more season of ground and pound; stay healthy. Detroit's defense lead the league in interceptions and forced fumbles last season...so as bad as they can be, they do amass points. I obviously put all of my money in my top 6 but I do my homework and I'm confident that I'll be able to keep my flex positions and bench with players who will remain productive. Every season I manage to find at least 1 hidden gem who turns out to be a major play difference-maker.
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    The Superhero Thread

    Those who watched Captain Planet as yungins' will love this: http://youtu.be/PirI19qzQoU This was made by a bunch of fans but I think it's pretty good. Captain Planet looks a little 'meh' but these people obviously don't have CGI at their fingertips. Reminds me a lot of the fan-made "Grayson" trailer that became a cult phenom a few years back.
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    Nick Saban pissed off at media

    I despise the media and its unfortunate how society today is full of uneducated people who draw every single assumption from the headlines. Nobody goes out of their way to actually know anymore; it's all about what the media is telling them and the media is too much about an agenda driven by profit and controversy...and less honesty. I hate the Tide with every fiber of my being but I've always had a great respect for the way Saban goes about his business, a respect that began during his time with LSU. He's absolutely right but tbh, Saban calling out the media for being ignorant is pretty much a waste of time.
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