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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 8, 2010 -> 10:37 AM) Man, I took a couple of painkillers yesterday, and I woke up this morning feeling like I had the worst hangover... Can I blame that on Juan Pierre? Hydrocodone (what I assume they have you) dehydrates you like crazy. Go drink some water.

As I said in my posts a couple of days ago, Vancouver doesn't have the mental capacity when the heat gets turned up. The 'Hawks have taken it to them but good. They've stepped up.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ May 7, 2010 -> 02:02 PM) What happened was five specialist firms pulled their bids and the mkt tanked. The feds stepped in and stopped the bleeding and here we are on our way to 1085.75 or up to 1132. Sometimes, I wish you'd just stop posting. I don't think you've been right but once, maybe... and even then, it was a case of the sun shines on a dog's asscrack once in a while. If you really know something, great, otherwise, I'm kind of tired of "tales from the crypt financial advice" posts.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 6, 2010 -> 08:18 PM) If it is indeed a fat fingered trade, it does happen. I have seen it happen first hand in a futures market, but never in a stock. A fat finger at that level should not have happened. Usually there's some sort of override that has to be done on that stuff, IIRC.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 6, 2010 -> 06:39 PM) All of their fans on their board are talking about how much faster they are and how they need to win with speed against the slow goonish Blackhawks. Apparently they know nothing about our roster. I even saw them calling Buff as slow as anyone on the ice. It's actually not even close to true, he's a very fast end to end guy, which is why he's dangerous. I just commented on that. IMO, you're sorta right... and yes, the 'Hawks have some speed... but Vancouver plays better in that environment then in a really physical game. When it's really physical, they lose their mental capacities...

A few comments here: First of all, Vancouver DOES have to make the 'Hawks pay in the crease in front of Luongo. You all are hilarious in the blatent homerism here in that they should just stand around like little girls and let the 'Hawks muscle them. I saw the goals for the hat trick, and he is playing right in the crease, but I don't think it's wrong, just so I'm clear. It's what you have to do in the playoffs to win. Anyway, in case you haven't noticed, the difference is the play in front of the net in the last two games, and Vancover hasn't responded (at least what parts of the games I've seen). I'm just saying. Second: Vancouver can and would stay with the 'Hawks in an uptempo game. See game one. You open up the ice, they have some pretty good offensive weapons. Third: I do agree, however, the "kill the 'Hawks at all costs" crap on some of the Canuck boards are useless people who don't know the game. It'll be interesting to see what happens in game 4, but as I said in my post above, Chicago has responded well to the game one callout.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 3, 2010 -> 10:32 AM) I think it was one game and the Hawks are going to come out and dominate tonight. Sorry I forgot to check the tread, but damn good call, Steve-o. I honestly didn't think they'd show up like they have the last two games.

Let's just nuclear bomb Arizona's f***ed up people and get it over with.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 6, 2010 -> 05:53 PM) Rig Survivors Felt Coerced To Sign Waivers This is complete trash. Yea, they let them sit out there only to let them get good and f***ed up in the head, JUST to get lawyers assembled to assassinate these guy's character. Yep. I'm sure that's exactly why. That's just a weeeeeee bit cynical. Yet, I shouldn't be surprised by this.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 5, 2010 -> 09:22 PM) I love the right wing pundits complaining that the government was too slow to respond to the gulf crisis. I thought they wanted to let the market dictate things without government intervention. Now they want they expect the free handout? Of course! Everything is SO black and white (or brown, depending on the day).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 5, 2010 -> 07:55 AM) I can't wait until they decide to slow Soxtalk down on your connection unless you pay an extra $10/month. Then the Filibuster is mine, all mine! Nice. That's awesome...

QUOTE (bmags @ May 5, 2010 -> 01:47 PM) It's because context matters.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 5, 2010 -> 02:25 PM) That's good. I'm not sure why you ridiculed public transit, though. I don't find it inconvenient to hop on a bus or a train especially with the CTA feature of telling you when the next bus is so you don't have to wait. And the efficiency of a dense population means that chicago and their metra service to the suburbs means that Chicagoans should be proud their lifestyle is an asset to the country. California's highway layout is really stupid and poorly planned in hindsight. We are not. I'm happy about that. I wish we had a decent public system here.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 4, 2010 -> 11:46 PM) So would the world have to end in like a 3-day span from climate change in order for you to pay any credence to it? The Goracle definition of "climate change", errrrr, "global warming" (what do we need to call it today to make it fit an agenda), yep, that's about right. "Climate change" doesn't have to exist based on a cult.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ May 4, 2010 -> 08:00 PM) You know what's sad? That no one in the national media is paying much attention to this Middle Tennessee/Nashville flooding. Billions of dollars of damage have occurred to the city of Nashville and tens of thousands are homeless. But no, let's not act like this is a big deal. I'm a racist mofo, obviously, so here goes. This ain't New Orleans. Thanks and have a nice day. :::: Seriously, I agree. It's crazy to see all that water in a lot of places I've been.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2010 -> 07:44 PM) Yeah, no. I completely disagree. I'm posting a lot in the game threads, win or lose. I was at the game last night, so sure I wasn't on when they were playing well last night. Oh, missed that one. And like I said, I'm messing with you. You have a rep to uphold.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2010 -> 07:38 PM) Huh, I just got home like 5 minutes ago and have 2 posts on this entire game. Thanks kap, but I'm here every f***ing game. Really? The frequency of posts are in direct relation as to the suckage of the Sox, but carry on. And I'm just messing with you and jphat.

And the leading posters in this thread tonight, jphat and fathom. We know how this game's going.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 3, 2010 -> 05:21 PM) Get used to it. I know, those evil mother f***ing corporations. /oops, not the filibuster.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 3, 2010 -> 10:32 AM) Just passed the final part of the Certified Internal Auditor exam. Phew! Awesome, M. That's terrific. I know how hard it is to pass those damn things. I'm taking the CMA right now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 4, 2010 -> 12:05 PM) You're half right, but I still disagree on the other half...this is exactly the type of event that you would call a symptom of a changing climate. It was spurred by record temperatures unreachable a few years ago at this point in the season. It broke every record. It's going to look like a small event in another decade or so at business-as-usual. The odds of this event happening 50 years ago were so that it's hardly worth calculating. Now, this really wasn't that extreme of an event, considering how many other temperature records we've broken this year. OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYY GOD, WE'RE ALLLLLLLLLLLL GONNNNNAAAAA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 3, 2010 -> 07:28 PM) That's basically paraphrasing Obama... lol Really? Yup.

This is going to be a real quick series, me thinks. Vancouver remembers last year quite well, and so do the 'Hawks. And what I mean by that is, the 'Hawks think by just showing up, they will beat these guys like last year. Ain't gonna happen.

QUOTE (Soxy @ May 2, 2010 -> 07:51 PM) Thanks Kap. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and honesty. (Can you hear my teacher voice?) I feel like it's so hard to know anymore when people are serious and when they aren't. My issue with a lot of politics, Kaperbole ™ aside, is the blatent one-sidedness of it all. The pendulum swing of BushCo's "either you're with us or against us" vs. the "we are all global citizens and we all need to be one people" stuff really bugs me. The honest middle should be, yea, I'm proud of my country, be it Canada, the US, Germany, France, or whatever, but the freedoms granted to us all should be kept at all costs (aka, remember our history, don't repeat the mistakes, honor generations before us, etc.), no matter what the nation, creed, or race. Way too often, people forget that, and that's where respect goes out the window.

QUOTE (Soxy @ May 2, 2010 -> 07:23 PM) I saw you use the bolded term in the republican thread and I wanted to ask you about it here (it seemed rude to say anything about it in your home thread). So, do you not like any other countries? Do you even feel like there's a country out there you can respect? Or is it just us? I have to ask because when I've been abroad people always talk about being global citizens--so do you disagree with that concept? Before I answer that, of course, I'm rude. Ok, now I'll answer that, and I won't be an ass like usual. The "global citizens" phrase makes me really ill right now, because it's being used as a huge cliche and to push an agenda. That's why I have a problem with it, and why I have a problem equating our society and trying to model it to everyone else. On the serious side, I have business ties to international places, and I respect people all over the world. In fact, they'll more often then not even joke about their own system and then say right in the same sentance about how the way we do things is so much better; yet, we are throwing it all away. That is on a whole lot of subjects. Of course, they're proud of their country, but so am I. I don't want to be like everyone else, I want to be better then that, because we've always been better then that. So, I guess that makes me an arrogant American, right? IMO, no, because I can respect people and their ways - yet; it's a really fine line. I've traveled enough and been to enough places to understand the difference and then on top of that expect more out of our society then to "just be like everyone else". We've led the world for about 5 or 6 generations now, and I personally hate to see it go to where "we're just like everyone else" and the "global citizen" thing. When people look at history, especially western cultures, they know they wouldn't be where they are without what our country has done for them. Now, I'll do a little Bush bashing here - I don't like the whole "my way or the highway" thought that he planted (to tie back to the fine line sentance above) - nor do I treat things as such. But, to me, when it's proven time and time again that there's an exceptional way to do things, you continue to be exceptional, and not let yourself get pulled back to the rest of the world, so to speak, because "it's not fair" to be better (kind of the concept of giving the kids on the last place team "good job" trophies - you have to learn to want to excel, not just accept that "everyone's swell" world right now). With all that said, "Euroweenie" was meant as the typical Kaperbole ™ smart ass post and wasn't meant to be serious.