Posts by Linda Hughes88

Daniel Chavez14 said:The bottom line is that when you're struggling just to survive, it's a lot easier to accept that someone else's money matters way more than some abstract concept like national pride. People who put their country above their paycheck either don't have real problems, or they aren't even aware of them because someone else is pulling the strings behind the scenes to make sure they stay comfortable enough to fight for those "higher" ideals...

Look, I'm not exactly swimming in cash here, but I highly doubt everyone criticizing dujin's move is some massive American tycoon. I'm not some fanatic who puts the US above everything else, either. It’s just about having principles, right? I get it when someone is broke and has to move to another country and take up citizenship just to secure a decent living—if that were my situation, I'd probably do the exact same thing. But if I'm making a solid living here at home, it's hard to imagine some slightly better offer abroad would actually force me to change my nationality. If I was born an American, why on earth would I suddenly decide to become an Englishman, an Austrian, or a Bahraini? That's basically what playing for Bahrain is. He had good conditions here for our standards, so this feels like he's essentially selling himself. Is everything really for sale?!
Pešalov's situation was totally different, honestly, because if we managed to land him for relatively small change, then you can only imagine the kind of conditions he was dealing with back in Bulgaria...

placidcanyon16 said:Honestly, I’ve got nothing left to say to you except maybe go back and read Nocobdija’s post one more time and try to actually wrap your head around what he's saying and see yourself in his words...

If you seriously don't get why people are asking about paying taxes to some place in Monaco or why they're calling Ivanisevic, Ljubicica, and Kostelica American, and you think they're just being pathetic materialists, then we really have nothing to talk about... If you can't see that waving a flag doesn't put food on the table, and that those millions in tax dollars could be used to buy equipment for a hospital so wait times drop from months to days, or fix up an OBGYN clinic so ceilings aren't falling on moms and babies, or bring electricity and water to some rural town in the States, or buy computers for a local school and a thousand other things, then you're still stuck worshipping those idols... Once you grow up a little bit, come back and reread Nocobdija's post and maybe you'll finally get it...

Over and out, people.

I don't know a single sane person who actually enjoys paying taxes... if there's any legal way to avoid it, any normal person is gonna take it... do you honestly sit there smiling while you pay your tax bills???
these people make their money abroad, just like our expats over in Europe... does someone working in Germany pay taxes to America? why should athletes be any different?...

Carlos said:The poll results over on Iskon are looking pretty wild—we've got 7,400 votes in so far, and 59% of people are actually saying Joe's move was totally reasonable!
It makes perfect sense to me, honestly... I'd say those are just the folks dealing with real-world, everyday struggles out there.
I guess all the self-righteous moralists in America are suddenly showing up on this subforum or something...😁

and what does any of that have to do with John Doe anyway?
The guy doesn't have any existential crises whether he's hanging out in Bahrain or right here in the States...

Honestly, I think this whole situation is just a total disgrace
Some of the guys who played in the Olympics actually said he’s a complete piece of trash, though I wouldn't go quite that far, but still...
We haven't really seen transfers like this before, probably because back then, during the war, there was such a heavy sense of national pride that players only left in rare cases, like Jukićka
I really hope this doesn't become the new norm, especially when it comes to top-tier athletes, since I figured national pride might play some kind of role in their decisions too...
Even someone like Balic would have had the Spaniards throwing massive amounts of money at him to play for them, so he never even thought about doing something like this. And if money means that much to Duje, well, maybe he should've gone to a top university for business management instead of studying literature
All in all, it's just ugly

Honestly, I’d go with Clive Owen myself, he just has that quintessential James Bond vibe...

I have no clue how this thing with Bloom is going to turn out, though they're probably just banking on making some quick cash off teenage girls...

honestly if i saw the guy in this photo i had any say i'd send him straight to prison
i mean there's a whole lot of guys just like him in small towns in Ohio...🙂

man, that movie is totally biased... especially since it was produced by CNN...
for instance... about 1.4 billion dollars went straight into the pockets of the Bush family, their buddies, and certain corporations... just look at how the money flowed...

Clint Eastwood even said if Michael Moore ever showed up on his property, he'd shoot him on sight... seriously, just give me some Clint 😁

Did Belobaza cream actually do anything for psoriasis?
Basically, I get this nasty stuff breaking out on my arms and legs and the itching is just unreal, so I slap some of that cream on and it clears right up...
It always flares up during the winter, but then it just seems to vanish once summer hits...
My dermatologist keeps insisting it’s just dry skin because the water here in Chicago isn't great for me, but honestly, to me, it feels way more like psoriasis symptoms...

Here’s how I’m looking at the math
if you get $167 per year, and the quarterly rates stay the same, then the daily rate would have to be so high that it works out to 500 x 365=$60833
which is just completely impossible...
can someone please just lay out the actual prices for yearly, quarterly, monthly, and daily options