Everything posted by bmags
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
Hinrich actually pushed us up the court better than any other point guard, Brooks does this but then gets to the 3pt line and doesn't know what to do. The offense could be there. Woulda been sweet to get Ty Lawson as a backup PG like the rockets have.
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White Privilege?
The punishment for assault is death by shooting range.
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White sox open to trading Avisail Garcia
QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Nov 19, 2015 -> 10:10 AM) In what world are they poor talent evaluators? Was it when they gave Abreu the largest contract in team history? Or when they traded for Eaton? Or when they drafted Sale? Or when they pulled Quintana off the scrap heap? Or do you want to go back further in KW's tenure like when he acquire Contreras for a broken down Loaiza? Or when he acquired Thornton for Borchard? I mean, probably when they finished in the bottom ten of the league 3 years in a row.
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White sox open to trading Avisail Garcia
Who on earth would be interested in this? I wonder if he'll be DFA candidate and if this means they are interested in Upton.
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Terrorist attack in Paris
QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 19, 2015 -> 09:17 AM) In the apartment raid in a Paris suburb yesterday, the one where the female suspect blew herself up during the assault. Thanks.
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Terrorist attack in Paris
Struggling to keep up with the response this week. Where was the main plotter killed?
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White Privilege?
weird, Greg, Lawrence sounds awful? Are you okay? http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/nov/19/k...-process-stude/
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
Well, looks like it was an entertaining game. Glad it was on at midnight. I have to say...Hinrich is the #2 PG on this team. Brooks is so bad, he has one idea every time he goes up and when its not there he chucks it. Moore also not playing well. Would love trade Taj for backup guard help.
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
Incredible start but I gotta bed. I hate west coast games.
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
This audio is 80% stadium announcer
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
KC Johnson just said rose was extremely doubtful v. suns.
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2015-16 NCAA Football Thread
So there was a flight from columbia to Memphis to Houston last night. At the very least we end up with Odom which I would not mind. But feels like we'll lose Kuligowski. At least we have Charles Harris, his masterpiece. 0 star recruit in the top ten in like, every category.
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Sleeper prospects
People were pretty good.
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White Sox sign OF Scott Hairston
Is he a hairston of the Hairstons? i don't have google.
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The Democrat Thread
Didn't want to make own thread. Nigeria President said today that a cabinet member basically stole billions meant to fight boko haram.
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David Robertson
2 years ago Montas made a huge jump into prospect status, he's now 21 and has another jump to make (but that's possible). I bring up sale not as a quality barometer, but when that was thrown at sale it was a) actually likely but b) not something that should overshadow what's there. He's 21 with better stuff than most. Nobody is hurting his development by letting him pitch as a starter while he grows. I don't care if he's used in a trade, but all of the "Oh I saw Montas pitch once and knew he'd never make it"...okay, I've read people make this same comment on young prospects quite often and were proven wrong, and also proven right. it's not that interesting, but he needs to develop and this is what it looks like.
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NCAA basketball 2015-16 thread
Mizzou lost. Dream is dead. Team is still 1000x more watchable than last year, though, again it is the freshman +wes clark that are the stars.
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Terrorist attack in Paris
QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 17, 2015 -> 03:43 PM) Are you kidding me? We should accept an increased risk of harm so other countries know we're there with them? Pretty sure 9/11 was a good starting point to the "hey they hate us and want to kill us to!" club. We started the damn club. US Foreign Policy is very active and often creates refugees, refusing to accept any is cowardly and shortsighted. Those countries also took an "increased risk" in offering soldiers in harms way. We are taking screened refugees that are highly unlikely to be a risk.
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Jose Fernandez rumored to be traded
Honestly cannot imagine what its like to be a marlins fan. Obviously 2 WS is great, but that's gotta be annoying as hell.
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Terrorist attack in Paris
QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 17, 2015 -> 03:26 PM) A Syrian refugee passport was found near one of the stadium bombers, but last I heard there were still questions as to its authenticity, if it was the bomber's, and if the bomber really did come in through the refugee path. It was fake, they even know it was made in Turkey.
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Terrorist attack in Paris
QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 17, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) Student and work can be verified though. Random refugee cannot. Is there ever 100% certainty? Of course not. But again, if there's a risk, why chance it? What's the "real human harm" when half are denied anyway, and the other half have to wait 1-2 years? It's not some immediate "let me in or I die tomorrow" situation. Honestly, this annoys me very much. The US is a very important and influential global policy player. If the US refuses to come to bat because of our enhanced risk-aversion to violence-via-terrorism (vs our incredible risk-acceptance to every other form of violence), while the problem escalates to crisis for our allies, what standing would we have to ask for any assistance the next time we need their resouces, or airspace, or bases? It's so shortsighted.
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White Privilege?
Yes, that was wrong. A single group of students within a group of students within a national movement doing something wrong does not discredit the experience the movement is springing from.
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Terrorist attack in Paris
QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 17, 2015 -> 02:55 PM) Much much easier than being allowed to send in a trained solider? Pray tell They could radicalize a former US or Canadian soldier, and then they could go down the street and buy 500 weapons legally.
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Terrorist attack in Paris
If you all are going to be so isolationist about taking the refugee crises that are created by wars, you should all be equally as isolationist about being involved at all in military escalations that create them. You can't spend two decades of this and then say "sorry Germany, your move, we'll be over here across the ocean, make sure to sign on to any future foreign policy we perform, thanks".