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  1. So, it's plausible Cohen "convinced" a Pharma company to give him $1.2 million for insight, which he routed through a different company as partial payment to  a woman who had an abortion that presidential candidate (or hell, President?) Trump may have impregnated sometime in the past 1.5 years.

    If someone had written a movie script that contained a plot thread similar to that, it would have been trashed at a production meeting.

    What a time to be alive.  

  2. 21 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

    I think Boston can out coach Cleveland, but the Cavs can out athlete the Celtics... 

    Hmmm.

    Cleveland has the third oldest roster in the NBA.  Boston has the fifth youngest.  Now, that's not to say that there's no way Cleveland is going to win and a younger team = better team, but I'd like to think that Boston just might be a bit more athletic now than Cleveland is.

    A Tatum/Horford PnR against Love/Korver would make them look like they were on skates.

     

     

  3. http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23465885/zach-lowe-boston-celtics-toughness-nba-playoffs

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    Almost every playoff team has one or two guys who make you wonder: Are they really ready for this? Are they going to shrink under postseason pressure? How will they respond when the other team amps up the physicality?

    Boston has zero such players. This is a fierce team. No one is afraid to shoot, or venture outside his proven skill set -- something almost everyone has had to do since Irving's knee surgery. They give maximum effort every second. It is a focused effort; they rarely veer out of scheme. Hit them, and they hit back -- harder. Nurturing such a strong culture while returning only four players from last season's team is an enormous challenge.

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    There are no bells and whistles to Boston's culture. They don't regularly host famous guest speakers or take field trips. They'll organize occasional team dinners, but there are no ritualistic, hours-long nights of wine, food and storytelling. Stevens, Ainge and the veteran players have created an environment of serious, hard, consistent work.

    Stevens essentially has banned rookie hazing. He wants rookies to take as much ownership of the team as the stars -- and to voice their opinions. (This is the same reason Stevens declines to name captains.) Pranks waste time. He was not thrilled last season when culprits unknown filled Brown's car with popcorn. "Oh, Brad was not happy," Brown said. "He had my back."

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    Boston is endlessly resourceful. The Celtics have won eight games in which they trailed by 15 points, the third-highest single-season total since 1996, per research from ESPN Stats & Information. When Philly gummed up their motion offense, the Celtics resorted to simple brutality: Smart posting up Redick; Brown driving into the chest of his defenders, bumping them off, and hitting floaters; Tatum slithering inside for any kind of shot you can imagine; and Horford bullying for post-up buckets.

    They pounce on mismatches instantly -- a vicious, smart opportunism. (They are about to go at Kyle Korver a lot.) Whenever the Celtics caught Philly crashing the offensive glass without success, they accelerated into fast-break mode.

    It might end now, against LeBron James and an awakened scoring juggernaut. Boston needed Game 7 at home to squeak by a confused Bucks team. Philly shot just 39 percent on wide-open 3-pointers and an embarrassing 25 percent on open 3s, per NBA.com. The Sixers underperformed their expected effective field-goal percentage -- based on shot location and the proximity of defenders -- by almost 5 percentage points, the largest differential among all second-round teams, per Second Spectrum tracking data.

    Boston still struggles getting to the rim and finishing there. There will be droughts in which the Celtics feel the void left by Irving and Hayward. They will hunt talent upgrades in the offseason, like they always do. (Note to San Antonio Spurs fans pitching Kawhi Leonard deals involving Tatum and lots of other stuff: It's not clear Boston would do Tatum for Leonard straight up without getting a clean bill of health for Leonard and an assurance he re-signs. Tatum is on a rookie deal for three more seasons. A max deal for Leonard would make it hard to keep guys like Smart and Rozier, even for the short term.)

    But they will make Cleveland earn it. Horford and Tatum both think back to a conversation they had after a stirring early-season victory in Miami -- their fourth straight in what would cascade into a 16-game win streak. Horford approached Tatum in the locker room with a message intended to be both hopeful and a reminder of the work to come.

    "If we keep playing like this," Horford told Tatum, both recalled, "we are going to be all right."

     

  4. 16 minutes ago, Whitman said:

    This one pisses me the fuck off (we even get them here at the office phone all the time ).  Congress has an opportunity to fix something (at least make it better) and look good for once and I don't understand why they don't do it or at least try.  Any set of numbers robo-ing out 10's of thousands of calls a day should be looked at.  If it is a legitimate call center, fine, if not, fuck them up bigly.  There has to be a simple way to make life so difficult for these people that they will go away.

    It's always a fun time to try to explain to people, mainly olds, that come into our office asking why they received a call from one of our listed numbers telling them that they have won a condo or a trip to Cancun.  

    People's eyes glaze over when you attempt to educate about caller ID and number spoofing.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    She was pretty obviously next in line for the dems from the moment Obama was sworn in. They had 8 years to focus on her and focus they did. The dem field in 2020 will be pretty crowded, so they can't laser focus on any one potential candidate like they did Hillary. You did see a little of it when Oprah's name got floated. I'd guess it took less than 24 hrs for the right wing memes to start showing up on the usual suspect's Facebook posts, but then she downplayed it and the memes stopped. Since the nomination likely won't be decided before summer of 2020, it will be much harder for them to gin up the hate like they did with H.  

    Surely you jest. 

  6. 20 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Ok? And Boston struggled with the fucking 7 seed Milwaukee who is not that good. Indiana is better than Milwaukee.

    Cavs in 5.

    Indiana won 3 games by a combined 54 points.

    Cleveland won 4 games by a combined 14 points.

     

    Milwaukee won 3 games by a combined 37 points

    Boston won 4 games by a combined 41 points.

     

    Looks like a wash to me, other than Cleveland's defense is still shit.

    At some point, however, people need to recognize that Boston might just be pretty good.  The vast majority of the NBA watching planet, including this board, said Bucks would win the series easily, because there are too many injuries, whatever.  Same thing with the Sixers.

    Neither of those teams have LBJ; I'll concede that.  But none of those teams, including Cleveland, has Stevens.  And that has to be worth something.

  7. I gotta say; all these predictions of the Cavs in 5 or 6 are kinda hilarious.

    Boston has issues, no doubt, but Cleveland struggled with Indiana.  

    Cleveland still has the same warts they had in that series.  Mind fucking Toronto didn't magically improve their defense, etc.

    I'd say the series is a tossup.

  8. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Interesting, but with this crowd, utterly not shocking.  

    The real question is...did they collect cash and keep it all for themselves...or did the Godfather insist on a 10% vig?

    10%?.  He probably wanted 25% minimum.  

  9. Hmm.  This might be interesting 

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/michael-cohen-trump-lobbying/index.html

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    A former Trump campaign official who worked on the transition said "everybody knew" Cohen had taken on consulting work after the election. It was widespread practice among high-ranking Trump associates who did not go into the administration to provide consulting services after Trump won in November 2016, this person said, noting that Cohen was far from the only person to do so.
     
    "You don't need access to (Trump). All you need is the perception of access to (Trump)," the former campaign official said.

     

     

  10. Lulz.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/michael-cohen-avenatti-false-information/index.html

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    Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen is denying the accuracy of some of the information made public by the attorney representing Stormy Daniels.

    Cohen's attorneys accused Michael Avenatti in a court filing on Wednesday of circulating some false information by including private bank records from other people named Michael Cohen who are not Trump's personal attorney.
     
    Cohen's attorneys also acknowledged that some of the information Avenatti circulated about Cohen on Tuesday is correct. 

     

     

  11. 2 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    I want to know if Trump received any of the money.  The answer to that question has monstrous implications for where this goes.

    Come on.

    Cohen did all this and Trump didn't get a dime?  You think there's a chance Cohen did this and was gonna cut Trump out?
     

    Oh, it probably got shuffled to the "Trump Organization", but everyone fully understands what that means exactly.

  12. 6 minutes ago, DiceHands said:

    God damn, even shs looks defeated answering questions about cohens pay to play.

     

    I'm far from a SHS apologist. In fact, she deserves whatever mockery and scorn that is directed towards her.  It's her decision to stick around and be the public face for this administration.

    Having said that, just how fucking hard of a job is it to face the press on a daily basis and answer questions about a subject or situation that you had no idea existed 12 hours earlier, and probably learned about via the media just like the rest of the world, and because of your boss's outright lying and stonewalling, will get little to no information helpful for the situation directly from him.

  13. 1 minute ago, Upgrayedd said:

    I also could have gotten them nothing for a fraction of the cost.  Idiots.

    I'd have entered into a contract with them as well for, oh,  $500 a week.

    But as long as they were willing to pay Cohen $100K per month, then I gotta take that into consideration as well.

  14. 6 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

    how is there not cause to terminate the contract when it became clear that cohen couldnt perform the duties required under the contract? if he couldnt deliver, he is in breach and they can terminate the deal. but of course that is not what was going on here. 

    They didn't want to terminate the deal.

    The remaining 11 months of the contract was petty cash for potentially a much larger chunk of influence peddling, profit making, etc.

    The company's spin that they couldn't terminate it was spin from the real story.

  15. 3 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    After donating not more than a few hundred dollars here or there in previous years, Intrater gave 250K to Trump's Inauguration fund.  You know, that Inauguration that blew the lid off all previous inaugurations in terms of cash contributions exceeding 100M, but were only partially used to pay that polka band that arrived by bus ?  Whatever happened to the rest of that 100M.  It got donated like they said they would, right?

     

    Also, Novartis paid Cohen $1 million for literally...nothing ?

     

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      1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:

     

     

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/09/novartis-paid-trumps-lawyer-michael-cohen-more-than-1-million-for-work-he-was-unable-to-do-company-says.html

     

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    Novartis paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for advice on Obamacare – work he was unable to do

    Drug giant Novartis reveals it paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for health-care policy consulting work that he proved "unable" to do.

    Cohen was originally contracted to consult Novartis on health-care policy issues, including ones related to Obamacare.

    Novartis also says it has talked to investigators from special counsel Robert Mueller's team about the payments.

     

  16. Yeah, those who know what I mean in the title.

    Many of you are probably aware of Pinball Arcade, the table emulation app for iPads, XBoxes, pretty much whatever.  The developer (Farsight) announced on May 7th that WMS chose not to renew their license, so effective June 30, you will no longer be able to purchase the following tables.  If you had purchased these tables prior to June 30, you will still be able to download them in the future.

     

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    • The Addams Family
    • Attack from Mars
    • Banzai Run
    • Black Knight
    • Black Knight 2000
    • Black Rose
    • Bram Stoker's Dracula
    • Cactus Canyon
    • Centaur
    • The Champion Pub
    • Creature from the Black Lagoon
    • Cyclone
    • Diner
    • Doctor Who
    • Dr. Dude & HIs Excellent Ray
    • Earthshaker
    • Eight Ball Deluxe
    • Elvira and the Party Monsters
    • F-14 Tomcat
    • Fathom
    • Fireball
    • Firepower
    • Firepower II
    • Fish Tales
    • Fun House
    • The Getaway: High Speed 2
    • Gorgar
    • High Speed
    • Hurricane
    • Indianapolis 500
    • Jack Bot
    • Judge Dredd
    • Junk Yard
    • The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
    • Medieval Madness
    • Monster Bash
    • No Fear: Dangerous Sports
    • No Good Gofers
    • Paragon
    • The Party Zone
    • PIN•BOT
    • Red and Ted's Road Show
    • Safe Cracker
    • Scared Stiff
    • Sorcerer
    • Space Shuttle
    • Spanish Eyes
    • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    • Swords Of Fury
    • Tales of the Arabian Nights
    • Taxi
    • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    • Theatre of Magic
    • Twilight Zone
    • White Water
    • Whirlwind
    • WHO Dunnit
    • Wild Card
    • World Champion Soccer
    • Xenon

     

  17. 3 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Yeah ATT straight-up paying 200 large to Trump's personal attorney/bag man while he was president is astonishing. 

    Makes one wonder....how many times in the past has something like this happened.

  18. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    How many times did you click the Submit Reply button?

    3 times, apparently.

    Which to me seemed odd the first time I clicked the button.  Nothing happened...so, onward I went.

     

     

     

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