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tatupu70
2014 Apr 30, 4:17am
2) What happened to the 1st amendment and Freedom of Speech?? When someone gets "hammered" for voicing his personal beliefs, this country has gone WAYYYYYY too far...
Nothing--Sterling is not being arrested. He is being punished by his employer for making comments that hurt the business. Companies fire people all the time for similar actions by their officers.
We can quibble about whether the NBA is really his employer, but that's basically what this boils down to. The NBA is losing sponsorship and that can't happen.
I was strolling west cliff drive yesterday afternoon, saw some whales, checked out this little house for sale. My friend grabbed the flyer.
950 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz CA $3.2 million
3 bd, 3.5 baths, etc.
It was sold in 2002 for $1.6 million.
Some Netflix or similar employee with stock options will probably buy it, but it was interesting to see.
1 bd condos just a few hundred feet away were $500K but who knows what the monthy fees are?
Lotta whales out.
2) What happened to the 1st amendment and Freedom of Speech?? When someone gets "hammered" for voicing his personal beliefs, this country has gone WAYYYYYY too far...
Nothing--Sterling is not being arrested. He is being punished by his employer for making comments that hurt the business. Companies fire people all the time for similar actions by their officers.
We can quibble about whether the NBA is really his employer, but that's basically what this boils down to. The NBA is losing sponsorship and that can't happen.
NBA is not his employer. He has a franchise. NBA has no right to force him into selling or taking away his team.
The guy was upset at his girlfriend making a spectacle of his accommodating policies regarding who she could fuck with behind his back. More importantly, he was probably set up by Milken and Johnson, who want to buy LA sports teams and raise cable TV rate on sports events (like they did after buying LA Dodgers). What kind of girlfriend would have 100+ hours of illegal taping of their boyfriends conversation while calling him honey-this honey-that?
NBA is not his employer. He has a franchise. NBA has no right to force him
into selling or taking away his team.
Sure they do. No owner is bigger than the league. The NBA decided that he was a detriment to the league and they have every right to protect it from the damage that would be caused not just by bad PR, but by likely loss of fans who attend and watch games as well as sponsor loss.
No they do not. Read the NBA constitution. Unilateral expulsion is not in the contract. It's basic contract law.
Sterling was probably set up by Milken and Johnson, who want to buy LA sports teams and raise cable TV rate on sports events (like they did after buying LA Dodgers). What kind of girlfriend would have 100+ hours of illegal taping of their boyfriends conversation while calling him honey-this honey-that? She obviously taped and steered the conversation.
If you want your cable TV rates go up, go cheer the race-baiting mob.
Strategist
2014 Apr 30, 4:31am
NBA is not his employer. He has a franchise. NBA has no right to force him
into selling or taking away his team.
Sure they do. No owner is bigger than the league. The NBA decided that he was a detriment to the league and they have every right to protect it from the damage that would be caused not just by bad PR, but by likely loss of fans who attend and watch games as well as sponsor loss.
No they do not. Read the NBA constitution. Unilateral expulsion is not in the contract. It's basic contract law.
If 75% of the owners want home to sell, he has to sell.
Those are the rules.
Sterling was probably set up
Even if he was set up which is not out of the realm of possibilities what he said was still repugnant and damaging to the league and he must take responsibility and accept consequences for it.
tatupu70
2014 Apr 30, 4:34am
Bull run stock markets produce the inequality that you guys decry so much.
Yep.
Nope.
tatupu70
2014 Apr 30, 4:35am
Gas prices went down a lot more than $0.50 gallon and yes it does make a difference.
make a difference.
If you've got nothing, somethign that costs $1.00 looks the same as something that costs $100.00
Sterling was probably set up
Even if he was set up which is not out of the realm of possibilities what he said was still repugnant and damaging to the league and he must take responsibility and accept consequences for it.
He did not use the N-word anywhere in the recording. He hardly even made any sweeping statements about blacks besides implying that the black athletes hanging out with his girlfriend had reputation for bedding women (Magic Johnson claimed to have fucked 10,000+ women himself). All Sterling said was acknowledging social prejudices exist, and it is beyond his ability to change that prejudice. He even said he loves blacks (that was about the only general statement regarding blacks; is that ground for racist charge? Do you love/like blacks?). He did not use any racial slur. If anyone ever said anything like that or worse have to be escorted out of the stadium, do you think an NBA game would have many people left in the audience or on the court?
RWSGFY
2014 Apr 30, 4:39am
It was a private conversation. So the guy is provably a douchebag. But you're using a conversation his girlfriend taped to prove it ? Wtf ?
I had the same feeling when there was all the talk about Clinton getting a sexual favors from an intern. So ? It's his private business.
Getting one's dick sucked (literally) in Oval Office (literally) is not 'private business'. Should've done that in some motel room or in the back seat of his/hers private car. As a job creator I don't approve such activities of my employees in the office space I provide for them to perform their work duties.
New Renter
2014 Apr 30, 4:40am
Bull run stock markets produce the inequality that you guys decry so much.
Yep.
Nope.
Yep
Only people with excess money (e.g. rich) own stocks. People living paycheck to paycheck (e.g. poor) do not own stocks.
As I showed earlier the labor force participation rate is still dropping despite the bull market exacerbating the inequality further.
New Renter
2014 Apr 30, 4:42am
Gas prices went down a lot more than $0.50 gallon and yes it does make a difference.
make a difference.
If you've got nothing, somethign that costs $1.00 looks the same as something that costs $100.00
But if you have a dollar you can buy that something but if its $100 you can't.
Sterling was probably set up
Even if he was set up which is not out of the realm of possibilities what he said was still repugnant and damaging to the league and he must take responsibility and accept consequences for it.
He did not use the N-word anywhere in the recording. He hardly even make sweeping statements on blacks. All he said was acknowledging social prejudice against blacks, and it is beyond his ability to change that prejudice. He even said he loves blacks. He did not use any racial slur. If anyone ever said anything like that or worse have to be escorted out of the stadium, do you think an NBA game would have many people left in the audience or on the court?
He mentioned how he didn't want his chick to bring them to the games and pose with them on instagram and mentioned several times why she "really had to do that?" He also basically conveyed that in the "culture" that he is part of associating with black people brings negative attention and stated how in israel black jews are treated like dogs vs white jews "150%" and again referenced that "we live in the culture." Sports is supposed to be bringing people together (well uness one is a fan of st petersbugh zenith soccer team lol) and what he said is extremely divisive when heard by general public and does not go along with a society that's supposed to strive for absence of racism or post-racial society.
He mentioned how he didn't want his chick to bring them to the games and pose with them on instagram and mentioned several times why she "really had to do that?" He also basically conveyed that in the "culture" that he is part of associating with black people brings negative attention and stated how in israel black jews are treated like dogs vs white jews "150%" and again referenced that "we live in the culture." Sports is supposed to be bringing people together (well uness one is a fan of st petersbugh zenith soccer team lol) and what he said is extremely divisive when heard by general public and does not go along with a society that's supposed to strive for absence of racism or post-racial society.
Did you miss the part that his girlfriend IS black? Can you bring people of two different races closer together than genital contact and/or oral-genital contact / over-lapping?
He was also recorded on her tape as saying she could sleep with the black athletes all she wanted; i.e. he was willing to share his girl with black athletes. How about that for inclusiveness? and open-mindedness?
He just did not wish that fact to be known in public and be embarrassed among his other friends and business associates. How is a man not wishing to be known as cuckled and made a public spectacle of suddenly a racist?
You liberals don't know too many foreigners or minorities do you?
Want to find out how they think? It may take some effort to move among them depending on your location and other factors.
I know some of American minority people, and they generally attribute the "social injustice" of "income inequality" to white males. They are racist but it's not that terrible. They actually believe that there are fat white guys in suits smoking cigars planning to ruin them somehow.
Foreigners are different, they see things not through the lens of American guilt over slavery. They have some racist tendencies but we call it a cultural trait if it's a Japanese or Chinese or Korean or Mexican, he gets a pass.
What mystifies me is when someone who is American and financially secure actually has such a muddled brain as to attribute racism to everyone who doesn't share their political beliefs.
bubblesitter
2014 Apr 30, 5:05am
I was strolling west cliff drive yesterday afternoon, saw some whales, checked out this little house for sale. My friend grabbed the flyer.
950 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz CA $3.2 million
3 bd, 3.5 baths, etc.
It was sold in 2002 for $1.6 million.
Some Netflix or similar employee with stock options will probably buy it, but it was interesting to see.
1 bd condos just a few hundred feet away were $500K but who knows what the monthy fees are?
Lotta whales out.
Tried to sell since 2010. It'd probably sell as long as investors don't see any hope of return anywhere else.
We got a good deal. If we put it on the market now, PK believes we can sell it for $575k.
That price seems very low for $2800/mo in rent.clambo says
950 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz CA $3.2 million
3 bd, 3.5 baths, etc.
It was sold in 2002 for $1.6 million.
The place went pending in 2012 but dropped out, I guess. Overpriced house in an overrated town, despite the ocean view. Santa Cruz was ground zero for bubbliness during the boom years. And at least some of the people who thought they'd be happy living in the boonies eventually got tired of driving over the hill to work. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
tatupu70
2014 Apr 30, 5:42am
If I were any guy, I would tell the girl the same thing, assuming she wanted to continue taking my money for borrowing her pussy.
That's fine. But, by doing so, you forfeit your ability to own an NBA team.
tatupu70
2014 Apr 30, 5:44am
Only people with excess money (e.g. rich) own stocks. People living paycheck to paycheck (e.g. poor) do not own stocks.
Correct. But he has it backwards (as does Reality). Inequality is not cause by rising stocks--they are both caused by the prevailing economic conditions: taxes, power of labor vs. capital, etc.
tatupu70
2014 Apr 30, 5:46am
But if you have a dollar you can buy that something but if its $100 you can't.
OK--but I think you get the point. Prices falling 10% really doesn't make a hill of beans difference if you lose your job.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Apr 30, 6:09am
Does it make sense that someone who developed a 1980s technology is still rewarded even though he has not participated in any innovation since then and may have tried to suppress new technologies?
Well not if he managed to hang onto that Atari Pong money.
He shouldn't have to be innovative, if he isn't trying to produce.
I'm saying without banks paying savers a safe and dependable return on their nest egg. The classic notion of being "Set for Life" is a thing of the past. Now it is like you say, you have to keep plenty of financial bullets and be a marksman to pick off the Indians and to keep the wolf away.
That is proabably how my question wraps up, is you can't. ANd if you're not savvy, then the old adage will apply. "A fool and his money will soon part ways."
Then you consider Madoffs customers, some of the worlds most brightest and creative minds in the world got taken for a ride. So even being savvy enough to hang on to your cash, is getting harder for the smart folks just as much so for the the naturally dumb folks.
That is why its wise to hire a financial planner and have them do the work for you.
Disagree. A lot of financial planners just try to sell you overpriced high-fee insurance products. You could do just as well in the stock market by reading Bogleheads for a few weeks.
You are looking at stock indices themselves with dividend reinvested without taking into consideration transaction costs. Index funds are not the same as indices with dividends reinvested. Funds have transaction cost and tax cost when trying to track indices, which have very different stocks over a long period of time.
I've always gotten dividends reinvested for free. If you are not getting this, stop using your current shitty broker and find a better one. As for transaction costs when tracking indices, if you are buying a shitty index fund, you are buying a shitty index fund. This is almost a non-issue if you are buying low-fee funds from someone like Vanguard.
I wouldn't even care about NAV fluctuations at that point since the worst that this fund has done over the last 10 years is a little over 11% loss and this was in 2008.
Agree, NAV fluctuations are easily made up in a relatively short time via interest rates. Bond prices go down when bond yields go up, and the increased yield will eventually offset the price decrease.
With a $10 million windfall, you could easily and I mean really easily purchase a multisector bond fund and make over $330,000 per year at todays rates. Yes, you would need to pay your fed taxes no matter what at regular rates and depending on the state that you reside in you may need to pay taxes there as well
In recent years, several bond funds have been doing even better than the 3.3% you quoted over the last 5-10 years.
Another alternative is munis, although the returns are typically similar to bonds with similar risk when you account for tax benefits.
FortWayne
2014 Apr 30, 6:52am
Gas prices went down a lot more than $0.50 gallon and yes it does make a difference.
make a difference.
If you've got nothing, somethign that costs $1.00 looks the same as something that costs $100.00
But if you have a dollar you can buy that something but if its $100 you can't.
Speaking of gas prices, what the hell is with the 4.67 / gallon lately? And Obama, got no balls to stand up to oil companies to get this addressed.
Gas prices went down a lot more than $0.50 gallon and yes it does make a difference.
make a difference.
If you've got nothing, somethign that costs $1.00 looks the same as something that costs $100.00
But if you have a dollar you can buy that something but if its $100 you can't.
Speaking of gas prices, what the hell is with the 4.67 / gallon lately? And Obama, got no balls to stand up to oil companies to get this addressed.
Inflation running rampant paired with the upcoming summer holiday season. This is what the Fed calls "subdued inflation" - LOL!
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
Maybe he is just organizing a program to attract neonazi tenants.
Isn't that just called marketing?
They needed another site:
FortWayne
2014 Apr 30, 8:07am
Even if he was set up which is not out of the realm of possibilities what he said was still repugnant and damaging to the league and he must take responsibility and accept consequences for it.
But he didn't do anything that was damaging the league. Private conversation isn't damaging.
What made it damaging, was making that conversation public by whomever. Probably Johnson was involved, since he is interested in buying the team.
FortWayne
2014 Apr 30, 8:08am
Except the taxpayers seldom give the McDonalds free land, and foot the bill for a massive complex; nor does the McDonalds charge $20 for a Big Mac and $10 for a Coke - unless it's in a Public-Private Partnership stadium.
Most healthcare corporations are registered non profit. McDonalds got a special deal with Obamacare too. They are all sleeping in the same bed with the same politicians.
tatupu70
2014 Apr 30, 9:08am
But he didn't do anything that was damaging the league
Of course he did. Did you see every advertisement in the Staples Center was covered for the last playoff game? You don't think that hurts the league??
Someone should start more than black owned leagues while they're at it.
Have 4 leagues: black owned BBA (black basketball assoc.), NBA, NTBA (no thug basketball assoc.) and GBA (gay basketball association).
Have I covered it? Any more league suggestions?
I thought of the TBA (transgender basketball assoc.) but I think there just aren't enough of them to make a good league.
Strategist
2014 Apr 30, 9:15am
Magic Johnson: ‘I will be owning an NBA team some time’
“We’ll see what happens. I will be owning an NBA team some time,†Johnson said. He added the prospect of the Clippers being put up for sale is a long way off, but he might consider a purchase with his associates at Guggenheim Partners.
Hmmmmm.... I wonder what Johnson promised Stirling's mistress for her "help"???
Fame, fortune, and a big black dick.
I don't mean to stop the circle jerk here, but She-Man cannot claim to have 5.5 million in assets. That's horseshit since he's levered multiple times over and better pray that this laughable 0.1% rise in GDP isn't a harbinger of things to come(which it is).
Once you can post the deeds to your complexes free and clear, then we can bow down in admiration.
I actually have some respect for her. She did what other females with no real talent, brains or looks do, she leveraged what she had into some fame and dough.
I prefer her to Michelle Obama, Michelle's champagne wishes and caviar dreams are paid for by you and me.
That's how it had always worked and will be more so in the future. Assets are used to acquire more assets and housing is a function of too much savings. That is why income/price ratio is as unimportant as ever when valuing assets.
No, it's function of leverage (plus special deductions/exemptions) where it has clearly an edge over other vehicles.
Housing is a tax sheltered assets for most and tax deferred assets for others. When the combine that with prop 13, step up basis, and forever ownership in a stable country, it is a class of assets to hold forever and accumulate. The liquidity risk is easily mitigated with cash out available to the rich at less than 2% and 4% to most.
makes sense?
Sure, but housing is no different from other bubbles (except for its great leverage and crony exemptions/deductions) and people will be destroyed with the next housing bust for the benefit of those who got in earlier. It is not meant to fluctuate like this and being used as a highly-leveraged vehicle chasing maximum yields, and that's why the boom/bust cycles are more frequent. It's like stock speculation on steroids. These policies and the subsequent bailout-scrambles are exactly responsible for the rising inequality and unpredictability of the economy.
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