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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 01:40 PM) Would you keep your job if your bosses got ahold of a tape of you punching your financee in the face and knocking her out? Probably. They may say dont do that again.

The Bears need to score more than 20 points against the Bills.

This is a really bad loss.

Not sure what the offense is doing here.

This is where you go to Bennett with all lb eyes on Forte.

Well that just was a bad play. You have Bennett blocking? Eh, when the Bears just need to get a simple 1 yard they do something screwy.

A lot of talent on offense.

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Anyone have opinions on the following: QB: Brees WR: AJ Green WR: Cobb RB: Ellington RB: Vereen TE: Martellius Bennet Flx1: Ridley Flx2: Pierre Thomas Bench: Reggie Wayne Hartline Tannehill J. Stewart Dalton Bruce Ellington Anyone have an opinion on whether I should bench a patriot rb for Wayne? Its a 14 team league so my team is pretty loaded

Nice work! You always had great talent.

True Blood ending was fine. They went the happy route, fine with me. The show had its ups and downs.

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/futurespor...ba-lakers-china If you havent seen it yet, its the LED basketball court.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 11:38 AM) That wasn't him in the robbery photos. #allblackpeoplelookthesame

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 29, 2014 -> 05:07 PM) Too anti-team. The idea is that you lower your offer because of injury. You can't be compelled to offer damaged goods full slot value Dont take the player if you think there is that risk.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 30, 2014 -> 02:12 PM) You want him to do so effectively. If results don't matter because you just went through your entire pen the last few days, then fine. But when you're talking about a guy that doesn't have a body of work to fall back on, and your offense has just gotten you back in the game, and the guy is near 100 pitches already anyways, what is the point in trying to get one more batter out of him? Sometimes you lose a battle to win a war. Perhaps they believed that burning the pen would result in more losses. Impossible to speculate, and once again, no one knows if the other options result in better results. Simply hindsight allows you to always argue another position with the possibility that position results in a better outcome. When in fact, there is also the possibility that the other position resulted in a worse outcome.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 30, 2014 -> 01:52 PM) What's absurd is pulling a starting pitcher in the 4th inning when he's given up 3 runs in the 9th game of the season. Quit bringing logic into this argument. Not to mention it was a game early in the season. It also is extremely easy to question something after it happened. That whole hindsight is 20/20. For all we know in another parallel universe Ventura had someone pitch to Harper and it led to worse results. /shrugs

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 29, 2014 -> 01:24 PM) If Kyle Korver had shot better than me from 3 range in the series against the Heat he probably isn't given away. Yep, gotta make big shots.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 29, 2014 -> 11:38 AM) I never lived there, just visited when my Cubs fans friends insisted. I went through an entire era of my life doing the club/bar scene on the north side/downtown -- and it was a huge waste of money, and nothing good came of it. 1997-2003 or so... So advice I give the childrens these days is to save your money, that scene sucked then, and it sucks now. And my complaint was the same -- but there was so many of them it was impossible to avoid. You can say that about anything fun. Ive lived in the Uptown/Lakeview area for almost 10 years, good access to most areas. Only negative is that getting to Wicker Park is kind of annoying. But back when I first moved, Wicker Park wasnt anything.

I think another fair idea would be that you only get a pick that that is equal to the slot value you offered. So if you offer $3mil, you get a pick in next years draft that was slotted for $3mil. So that way if the Astros want to play around, its their loss.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 05:44 PM) That article is from 2008. Yeah I was comparing Wisconsin's trouble to OSU

Rock, I sent you like 50 pms, whats the deal? Dont you have time for me anymore? lol

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 04:27 PM) You know you come off as a real condescending prick with these back-handed statements right? Just argue the damn issue. Why do you have to add crap like this, as if you and your opinions are so much better than everyone else? You are right. Its a subject that infuriates me because there is very little evidence to support that position that immigrants hurt the economy. So to me it seems like nothing more than cloaked racism. And as someone whose family has been the "other" for thousands of years, I feel an obligation to fight for those who are in a similar situation. Everyone deserves a place as great as America, and it really just enrages me that so many people in America take it for granted, b**** about it etc, and then we deny the people who actually want to come here because they recognize just how amazing it is.

Shack, Your photographer pulling that nonsense where he is the owner of all the copyrights etc, and you are just getting a license/limited use?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 03:02 PM) When taxes are used as punishment or as a way to steer the market, for example with sin-taxes, they absolutely inhibit free market ideals. It's not about paying your share to the government, it's about limiting your market exposure with government intervention. So for the next 10 years and however many billions of dollars, the tens of thousands of kids coming into the country are going to help the country how? You're speaking and dreaming in idealistic terms, not reality. The reality is we're letting tens of thousands of people in who are just skipping in front of others who have been waiting in line, and then they're released into the wild. It's not fair to LEGAL immigrants, and it's not fair to the suffering people who are already here. Like I said, there is not really any point in belaboring the economics issue. Taxes are part of any govt economy. Even a sin tax is because it is taking into account the cost to the govt. Sick humans cost more. Sick humans arent as productive. Thus if you cause humans to be sick, you pay more taxes. But again, no real point, you just simply do not believe it. It is like arguing for or against religion, either you believe or you do not. How will it help the country? The same way that my great grandfather did, be a part of the American economy, add to the pie. That is how economics works. You just simply dont believe it. Its like arguing with someone that the Earth is the center of the Universe. If their "faith" tells them that, there is no point in arguing. And Im not sure how my idea wouldnt be "fair". The people in line would get to come here too. They wouldnt be skipping anyone. It would just be fixing a broken program that forces people to wait in line. Its like if Im waiting for the train and it breaks so I have to wait another 45 minutes. When they fix the train they dont force other people who arrived later to "wait another X minutes because its not fair I had to wait for a broken train". That is just idiocy. It would have been like after the slaves were freed telling them that "Its not fair that some of you were only slaves for 10 years, so you dont get freedom today". When you fix a problem, sometimes it may be unfair to those who were subject to the problem. But it doesnt mean you dont fix it. As for the people that are here. It will help them, so I dont see how it is "unfair". Its only "unfair" if somehow these immigrants are getting a benefit that the current americans dont, which isnt the case. But its your opinion, just like the people who thought that women shouldnt vote or there shouldnt be interracial marriage. As an American you are entitled to it, no matter how unfounded it may be.

Tax has nothing to do with free market ideals. Adam Smith (the guy who invented it) said: "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state." And you are right, we can do whatever we want. It just is historically really bad to screw with the labor side economics. Which is why guys like Adam Smith said immigration restrictions were bad. As for caring about americans or non-americans, they arent non-americans when they immigrate here. They are American, and that is what will make this country remain at the top. We need to keep stealing the best and the most driven from other countries, it is simply the best way to protect our style of life. And since I believe in economics, I know that more immigrants would ultimately be good for the poorest americans, so there is no conflict. Its not like I can only help A or B, in my scenario both A and B are helped. In your scenario, neither are helped. So its either help A and B or hurt A and B. Not really a tough choice.