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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Gottlieb getting a ticket on air

« on: March 01, 2011, 12:36:45 PM »

 


Cop talking about OSU, recognizes gottlieb

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / LOL @ the Southwell Haters

« on: March 01, 2011, 09:16:42 AM »

dude was rock solid last night. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Goddamnit UT Students

« on: February 28, 2011, 07:10:39 PM »

Cole_Manbeck
 
Looks like we may have a flash mob dancing scene here tonight like the ku/ok state game in allen fieldhouse earlier this year

Cole_Manbeck
 
We are definitely going to have a flash mob dance to the black eyed peas. Watching them practice in the stands. And wow they are awful

 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / +9.5

« on: February 27, 2011, 05:31:12 PM »

About what we closed at @ku

Honestly, thought the line would be a little closer given each teams respective play recently


 

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / An Honest Write-Up on Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Economy

« on: February 25, 2011, 03:58:41 PM »

I haven't been real pleased with all the sunshine pumping about the improving economy when none of the indicators are really pointing that direction.  This article brings up some things that aren't really being talked about, but should be.

Austerity, Oil Prices Helping Put the 'Stag' in 'Stagflation'

If you listen closely enough, you can hear the stagflation storm brewing across the economy. It's the sound of rising prices and weak economic growth conspiring to create the Federal Reserve's worst enemy.

Friday's lame GDP print exemplified where we're heading, with the economy gaining just 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 no matter how much government economists tried to talk up the robust corporate balance sheet and supposed gains in employment.

The report unveiled the next ingredient in the stagflation cocktail-namely, austerity at the state and local government level.

Combined with rising energy and food costs and unemployment that will suffer all the more as local governments will be forced to cut labor, government belt-tightening will ensure weak growth for many quarters ahead.

Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross investment fell 2.4 percent in the quarter, reflecting the need for belt-tightening amid a huge debt and deficit mess.

At the same time, the economy will have to deal with a new normal in oil prices, with the former range of $80 to $90 now likely to be replaced by something north of $95 and perhaps well into the hundreds.

T. Boone Pickens told CNBC on Friday that he expects oil to hit $120, a daunting prospect for an economy hoping to keep inflation out of the way long enough for employment and housing to catch up to the rest of the economic data points.

Analysts say $100 a barrel oil takes 1 percentage point off GDP, while $120 would subtract 2 percentage points (this was reported on TV earlier by my colleague Bob Pisani who cited Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg). With consensus running only to a bit above 3 percent growth for this year, the damage that Middle Eastern turmoil could do to the US economy is profound.

Of course, economists would be quick to point out that higher gas prices don't equate necessarily to a surge in inflation. But even those time-honored arguments will get tested.

In a separate broadcast appearance, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker addressed the importance of inflation perception and how a belief that $4 gasoline and $4 lettuce can convince consumers that inflation is here, economic models be damned.

"The real danger is inflation psychology," he said, later importantly adding, "We have got to get the timing just right on this thing."

The emergence of stagflation trends is critical for the Fed in that it means the central bank is failing on both ends of its dual mandate-ensuring stable pricing and employment.

Chairman Ben Bernanke has been a focal point of criticism during the Middle Eastern violence, with detractors saying it is the Fed's easy-money policies that have driven up the price of dollar-denominated commodities and consequently global food costs. The Wall Street Journal in an editorial Thursday cited the "Bernanke premium" on food and energy, and that was one of the kinder catcalls.

"The fact that the Fed's massive money printing effort is the progenitor of global food riots completely escapes (Bernanke)," Michael Pento, senior economist at Euro Pacific Capital, said in a blog post. "As more damage is done, the Fed will use the resulting contraction in GDP to justify a third round of quantitative easing-further harming the GDP.

"Unfortunately, the viscous cycle of stagflation will grow more acute with each iteration of the Fed's love affair with counterfeiting. Countries that make the mistake of continuing to peg their currencies to the US dollar will suffer more inflation and more destabilization. Since it will be hardest for the US to ditch the dollar, our hopes are dimmer."

With the clock ticking on the second leg of quantitative easing purchases, figuring out the right way to step away will be pivotal to avoid the full stagflation fury.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Is this what a "furry" is?

« on: February 25, 2011, 10:58:19 AM »

Ass clown congressman creeps out staff members, acts like a lunatic, takes drugs, and says he's fit for office.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110224/ap_on_re_us/us_congressman_mental_health

He and Christine O'Connell should hook up.  Both are very furry 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / a little peek into the selection process

« on: February 24, 2011, 07:56:22 PM »

A bunch of media partook in a mock tournament selection process last week.  I didn't realize that they were actually role playing as a members of the tournament selection committee and operating within their parameters/procedures, etc. under tourney selection committee supervision.  Worth the 4 minutes if you have time.



 JMart siting???

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Tim Floyd and Cop

« on: February 24, 2011, 06:17:47 PM »

didn't see this posted.  w o w

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/24113/video-tim-floyd-ejected-escorted-away

How the mighty have fallen, and stuff

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / When sex doesn't pay

« on: February 18, 2011, 07:50:58 PM »

This psychopath b*tch is gettin' her due. 

Pitino, a married father of five, testified during trial that he had sex with Sypher -- who then was known as Karen Wise -- in the empty restaurant after she whispered to him and then unzipped his pants. Pitino said the sex lasted "15 seconds" and was "unfortunate."

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6136611

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Essentially Flyertalk / American Funds: The Growth Fund of America

« on: February 18, 2011, 10:38:35 AM »

One of the most popular and well known mutual funds of all time.  Anyone that knows dick about investing has heard of it.  Incepted in 1973.  Here's a prospectus, it's a regulatory document required by the SEC.  Average return since inception of over 13.5%

https://www.americanfunds.com/pdf/mfgepr-905_gfap.pdf


This has been a really good investment for me in my Roth IRA.  Anyone else have any great mutual funds or stock ideas?  I heard the Magellan Fund is closed.

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Kansas State Football / Anyone read about that crazy bama fan

« on: February 17, 2011, 11:07:45 PM »

Got pissed because a "scam" newton jersey was placed on a Bear Bryant statue after the game this year.  Drove to Auburn and put a bunch of poison around some sacred trees in Auburn.  Called into a radio show and bragged about it, says he doesn't care about "the law".  Says those trees are gonna die.

Pretty effin' funny.

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/man-arrested-in-toomers-corner-tree-murders/

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Essentially Flyertalk / Using the goEMAW user settings

« on: February 17, 2011, 04:17:38 PM »

Looking for suggestions here:

how do I get my screen name changed back to The Real Sugar Dick?  Also, I'd prefer it if the phrase "racist piece of crap" weren't located under my name.

What should I do???  I don't even remember doing any of this.  Has this happened to anyone else???

TIA,

Sugar Dick

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Booger coaching on the U

« on: February 16, 2011, 10:31:39 PM »

gorgeous come over still going, skin looks like the Marlboro man.

I can't believe he failed soooo bad at K-State.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Must be 18 to Enter

« on: February 15, 2011, 02:26:02 PM »

On the interwebs, certain websites require you to acknowledge that you're 18 or 21 to enter (NOT JUST PORN as it turns out)

Has anyone ever clicked on the button saying you aren't 18/21???  I wonder where it sends you???  Even when I was a little kid I always lied right to the interwebs face and said I was an adult.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / So the budget came out today

« on: February 15, 2011, 12:41:13 PM »

Never mind the fiscal year began almost 6 months ago. . .


It's $3.73 trillion.  For people who can't count very high that's:
three thousand, seven hundred thirty billion dollars - $3,730 billion or
three million, seven hundred thirty thousand, million dollars - $3,730,000 million
- it also necessarily implies that spending considered material would start around $10 billion

According to Pravda, the new budget will cut $1.1 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years.  Pravda failed to mention that the budget was due prior to OCTOBER 1ST 2010.

No plans to deal with imploding SS or Medicaid, no comments on brand new entitlement Obamacare.  Obama says republicans have to deal with that because it would be too unpopular for democrats to be serious and attempt to fix the entitlements they created (paraphrasing).


To summarize in one word how Obama is handling our nations financial woes:  PUNT

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Not a good sign

« on: February 14, 2011, 09:22:06 PM »

@Cole_Manbeck
KU coaching staff going after officials into the locker room

not sure what their beef is

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Thank God K-State doesn't operate like this

« on: February 11, 2011, 01:10:42 PM »

I assume the $5 is a typo and should say $5 million

Cal eliminates baseball, men's gymnastics

UC Berkeley announced Friday morning that its men's baseball and gymastics programs will be eliminated at the end of this school year, but that men's rugby and women's gymnastics and lacrosse have been spared.

"New philanthropic commitments will support the teams' expenses while plans are implemented for long-term financial self-sufficiency," the university said in a news release.

The release said the changes will keep Cal athletics on track to operate under a cap of no more than $5 annually from the general campus fund by 2014.

"We are all greatly impressed by how our community organized itself in the attempt to help these five sports and the university," Vice Chancellor Frank Yeary said in the statement. "We are delighted that, together, we have found a path that allows us to retain the two women's teams and our rugby program without adding costs to the strained budgets of the university and Cal Athletics.

"Sadly, the efforts did not meet these criteria insofar as baseball and men's gymnastics are concerned," he said. "Although the amount of money raised for these two programs is meaningful, the teams' costs are also significant.

"Both programs would have needed to raise multiples of what they actually did raise to meet our criteria. In the context of both current and forecasted economic and financial conditions, we simply could not agree to short-term, stopgap measures."

The university announced Sept. 28 that five sports would be eliminated after this school year to save the athletic department $4 million annually.

Supporters of the programs reacted swiftly, locking arms to create "Save Cal Sports." That prompted Birgeneau to announce that if they raised $25 million by the end of January the sports would at least temporarily be saved. The chancellor's plan called for the sports to then generate funding to become permanently self-sufficient within seven to 10 years through endowments.

Donors raised between $12 million and $13 million, the university confirmed, a portion of it from "Save Cal Sports." Another significant chunk came from a low-profile group that had no affiliation to any specific sport.

Cal has fielded a baseball team since 1892 and won national championships in 1947 and 1957. The Bears open their 2011 season Feb. 18 at home against Utah.

One source told the Bay Area News Group that the property where Evans Diamond sits is coveted by the university for non-athletic uses.

Among 24 NCAA Division I level athletic programs in the state, Cal becomes only one without a baseball team.

Men's gymnastics, which began competition at Cal in 1922, won four NCAA team titles between 1968 and 1998 and has had top-10 finishes in 13 of the past 14 seasons. But men's gymnastics slowly has been squeezed from the athletics agenda on the West Coast, with Stanford the only other Pac-10 school to field a team.

Rugby is the school's most successful sports program, having won 25 national championships since 1980, including the 2010 title last spring. Rugby is a non-scholarship varsity sport at Berkeley, largely supported through private funding, but it was scheduled to be demoted to club status.

Cal's rugby squad was 11-0 entering play Friday, having outscored its foes 576-28.

The women's gymnastics and lacrosse programs, much younger than their male counterparts, may have survived because Cal would have been in violation of Title IX federal gender-equity laws had they been cut.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Twist on Kenpom

« on: February 10, 2011, 09:32:56 AM »

For those that like this stuff, a look at "possessions"

http://uponfurtherreview.kansascity.com/?q=node/2934

Rebounding is a PRODUCTION stat, not an EFFICIENCY stat. I can't help it if Pomeroy or others don’t understand this point.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Things that are socially acceptable you don't want K-State bballers doing

« on: February 09, 2011, 10:29:59 PM »

Getting caught smoking weed 3 times

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Mainstream Economics Thread

« on: February 09, 2011, 10:26:42 PM »

Talk about:

1) "Mainstream economics"
2) stuff china exports to the US
3) inbreds and repubs (might as well hit the teabaggers too)
4) China being geographically larger than the US
5) dope
6) [and most ironically] anti-intellectuals

Your Welcome, Cleveland
 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Which K-State Balla (past or present) would you like to smoke gonj with

« on: February 09, 2011, 05:21:28 PM »

Past:
Massey - I bet he does all kinds of crazy sh*t when high, stuff that makes no sense, involves lots of effort and grunting, but is hilarious to watch

Present:
JamSam - seems like a funny guy