[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Kareem Abdul Jabbar had the best write up about this issue I have heard, Sterling was a known racist for years, this whole fake shock is pure media circle jerkism.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics
“Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it.”[/quote]
I completely agree with all of this as I’ve stated in the other thread. It doesn’t change the situation from the NBA’s point of view. The best thing for their organization is to put this behind them as fast as possible and that means forcing Sterling to sell.
Which would have happened anyways as mass boycotts would likely take place if he remained as owner.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Kareem Abdul Jabbar had the best write up about this issue I have heard, Sterling was a known racist for years, this whole fake shock is pure media circle jerkism.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics
“Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it.”[/quote]
I completely agree with all of this as I’ve stated in the other thread. It doesn’t change the situation from the NBA’s point of view. The best thing for their organization is to put this behind them as fast as possible and that means forcing Sterling to sell.
Which would have happened anyways as mass boycotts would likely take place if he remained as owner. [/quote]
I hear he is going to divorce his wife and give ownership to her; therefore he won’t have to sell. Genius.
Or he could just dismantle the entire team and fire everyone.
A 10th grader at Bakersfield?s Centennial High School on Thursday allegedly distributed semen-filled cupcakes to students who bullied her, according to a report from a local ABC affiliate.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
A 10th grader at Bakersfield?s Centennial High School on Thursday allegedly distributed semen-filled cupcakes to students who bullied her, according to a report from a local ABC affiliate.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
A 10th grader at Bakersfield?s Centennial High School on Thursday allegedly distributed semen-filled cupcakes to students who bullied her, according to a report from a local ABC affiliate.
Oh no, we have even more fucked up people than that.
How about a guy (Mark Leno) who wanted to legalize small amounts of child porn ? How small ? Up to 25 pieces.
What about taxing rain ? Well they tried that too.
The countyâ??s storm water tax proposes to levy a $6,273 per year fee on residential duplexes, equating to a rent increase of $261 per month per unit. It would also impose a $200,000 per year levy on commercial buildings on impervious clay soils in downtown Los Angeles to capture rainwater â?? something that makes no economic or environmental sense.
Some interesting tax numbers coming out from over here…
New figures from the Franchise Tax Board show that the wealthiest 1% of Californians paid 50.6% of the state income tax in 2012 ? up from 41.1% in 2011. It means that of nearly 15 million tax returns, about 150,000 generated more than half the revenue.
Under Prop. 30, the top rate was jacked from 10.3% to 13.3%, by far the highest of any state. The hikes began phasing in for single filers when their earnings exceeded $250,000.
You’d get into the top 5% of income earners at $206,000, according to the tax board. And that group ? numbering 748,000 ? paid 70% of the state income tax.
To be among the top 1%, you’d have had to earn $525,000 ? and the average income in this lofty class was $1.9 million. They earned a quarter of the state’s personal income while paying half the tax.
The dramatic increase in tax payments by one-percenters wasn’t all because of Prop. 30, according to the governor’s state Finance Department. About 60% of it was.
This is interesting. Any mental health professionals out there? I guess the question is would these kids have committed these acts regardless of being on these drugs.