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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 02:29 PM) There are other issues on the ballot besides for President. Correct, and there are local initiatives on my ballot which are very big deals to local life in my town. Local politics ARE totally controlled by 2-3 local interest groups, but also can totally be swayed by getting 100 of your neighbors to vote that day.

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QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 02:06 PM) Because that's why we vote for presidents, to preserve the legacy of the predecessor. Being an adult is being self-sufficient, accomplishing goals, taking interest in the lives of others and making the people around you live better lives. Voting plays no part in being an adult. We don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic. Voting, as a citizen of Illinois, is wasting ~21 minutes of time I could better utilize elsewhere. Policies matter and instutions matter more than people. They are harder to change than the people in charge. I care a lot more about Clinton progressing and upholding the progress that was made after 8 terrible years than I do that she doesn't seem relateable, or isn't authentic, or doesn't personally make me feel good. Yeah, well many of us view our countries political institutions as crucial to helping the lives of others. Not voting and then sniping at others trying to do their duty to their country is nothing more than being a nihilist. You aren't special because you see things happening in the world that you don't like and attriubute it to a elitist global conspiracy that will put you down. Things don't change in this country because it has 330 million people with different goals and values, most all of which disagree with you at any time, and it takes a lot of work and time to build a coalition to do what you want. It took healthcare FORTY YEARS to go from idea to practice for more than the most vulnerable. Children were not guaranteed insurance until SCHIP closed the loop 18 years ago. If you vote for whomever matches your political values exactly and ignore the rest that don't, you will find that every progress you make gets overwritten and compounded until you never accomplish anything. So yeah, I expect adults in important positions to ignore personal squabbles that get in the way of making the best decision for those who rely on those institutions.

So despite their internal conflicts with each other, they band together to push their progressive agenda that they deem much more important than their personal squabbles. "Jane, I know we have kids together, and we should do what's best for them. But I f***ing hate you. So I will instead work to destroy you until DCFS takes them away to some stranger who will certainly be worse. It's the principled thing to do."

While obviously lack of talent is the most serious problem we need to fix, I'd put PR and organizational communications pretty high up there on the list of problems.

Voting for someone even though you may not personally like them but know it will be better for the country is called being an adult.

The reason I know rabbit has not watched any of Michelle Obama's actual campaigning for Hillary Clinton is Michelle has actually been held up as the one surrogate actually making the case FOR clinton and not just disparaging Trump. Like Lost said, she doesn't even mention Trump, though she makes contrasts and emphasizes the things that make Hillary responsible that are quite clearly basic competencies that Trump doesn't clear. For example https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office...onal-convention and: "It's just silly she talks s*** about Donald Trump and she's some deity that we have to bow down to. " give me a break

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 01:18 PM) AND WE ALL AGREE: UNLESS THIS HITS TRESTMANIAN LEVEL DISASTER, WE ALL SHALL STAND BACK AND WAIT FOR BETTER TO HAPPEN (except fathom and jenks who have their finger on the ejection button) Yes but fully on board with #canloggains #loggainunsuccessful #loggaindenied

I wonder how Gary Johnson would do on Sporcle.

She's kind of like, the first lady of the united states and is currently on the campaign trail during a presidential election.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 10:23 AM) I had a positive opinion of Jill Stein prior to this year, and now for the life of me I have no idea why I ever did. She's a clown. Although, she did make a really great point once - she tweeted about Harambe and the need to protect the defenseless, and she was widely mocked for it. She asked "why have you all been giving my Harambe tweets so much attention, and ignoring the times I tweeted about state-sanctioned violence?" Most people would have no answer for that. That's a definite "I'm not arguing with you, I'm arguing that this argument fits in with this group of people that I hate, so I'm going to argue at you about them" moment. But she tweeted it at the height of backlash to the backlash about harambe.

I would give this 4 years unless, as with trestman, it unwinds in a way that seems like they have no control. But I would replace Loggains immediately.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 10:25 AM) So, are you saying they should have stayed 4-3 in order to preserve Ferguson and Suttons value? edit: nm i see what you are saying. Still though, the Bears switched schemes because they deemed all of their (at that point) current parts to be completely replaceable. Which hasnt been proven wrong Just saying that the climb from Emery is even harder because some of the decisions they made, Emery didn't draft for a 3-4 so his record will look even worse. But, also I don't think Ego is signed anywhere else anyway. Emery didn't draft for a zbs. And the bears coaches decided to go that route even though they know they had no fit. They may very well have made a good decision long term but it makes Emery look worse than if a 4-3 coach came in.

Holy hell just actually read that nightengale story. What a garbage fest.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 09:57 AM) @keithlaw Zach Britton faced Pillar, Barney, Navarro. This is another reason making a one-inning closer Cy Young is just silly. Turn a lineup over. Got to agree with Keith here, pitching only one inning at a time means closers often miss facing good hitters. Plus, a lot of the elite starting pitchers could at least come close to what Britton is doing but the reverse isn't true. How many scoreless inning has Sale had this year? A bit reductive, I know, but this Britton for cy young thing is so ridiculous. It happens every year there is no clear cut winner ->give it to the novelty.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 09:06 AM) No, this mess is on Emery and Angelo more than Pace. Biggs was saying this morning that the only players from the Emery drafting era that could be on the team next season are Leno, Jeffrey and Long. You cant judge Pace's drafts yet On the other hand, they decided to go 3-4, which certainly killed ego ferguson and sutton's value in the scheme. The Bears are not much different than a expansion team at this point for how much turnover they've had.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 09:41 AM) Johnson seems like a cool dude, but he's way out of his depth here. Not as out of depth as Trump, but still. His knowledge is superficial at best. I thought the Aleppo gaffe was a dumb story as that is exactly the type of name that someone could pull out of nowhere and people may not find the context. But after that, you'd like to see someone double down on acquiring international knowledge since you know it's going to come up. It's when they fail the second time with no improvement that pisses me off. I'm obviously not voting Johnson, but he does currently have about 10+million Americans who will vote for him. Do them a service and try.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 09:17 AM) I don't consider last year to be a real overhaul, though. It was really just Frazier, Lawrie, and scraps. The previous winter was bigger IMO That's his point.

Unless it's all Robin's fault you cannot judge him for any faults. It's the way of the world.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 09:03 AM) That quote is also taken out of context. She was speaking about all of the nonsense that was flying around about what was allegedly in the bill Luke death panels and that once the bill was passed, that ridiculousness would die down. She was completely wrong about that of course, but her statement was never that "I have no idea what this bill says" It also hadn't even entered committee at that point.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 02:38 PM) Really all of these rules are about closing loopholes that certain teams have used over the years. All of these things have reasons for being around other than trying to endanger people's lives. But if you have a rule that's side effect is endangering peoples lives, should really put thing sin perspective about whether that is more important than some competitive balance rules.

So Weld comes out and says Merkel, which I highly doubt, and the 16 campaign where VPs answer for their top of ticket continues.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 07:22 AM) [/b] Exactly how our current administration wants it. The administration vetoed the bill though. So I expect you will see how your silly call back (which also doesn't seem to understand how our government works) doesn't make sense.

That's crazy. In a non novel world where sports writers take the opportunity of a non obvious year to choose an idiotic pick, it would probably be 1. Kluber 2. Sale 3. Verlander 4. Porcello 5. Tanaka

The rumors in 2011 of a player manager of Konerko - would have been a better idea.