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I cried last night when hawk interrupted stone in the smirnoff 8th to say "If we don't start scorin some runs I'ma need to get me some of that smirnoff" Stone ignored.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 07:31 PM) Oh, Michael Vick, I believe Mr. Flacco has surpassed you on my team's depth chart moving forward. I have the same QBs as you. Not sure what to do. Vick's first two games were awful visually but not bad for me Fantasy wise. I keep thinking he'll have a blowout soon.

I ran into the Torrey Smith/Charles buzzsaw. Had a pretty good week too, but Gates/Romo sunk my nice contributions from andre brown, mcfadden, and j jones.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/21/...E88K12P20120921

These are such marginal things. The intimation that there are phones that are far advanced than other phones right now is ridiculous. The speed additions will be slight, the weight will be slight, the screen definition will be slight for human eyes. The apps and functionality are nearly universal across both platforms. Most people are going to go with what they are comfortable with and have found to be reliable, since these are not people's first founds anymore. But here apparently product is some sort of extension of person, and judging by this thread it's an extension between the legs. And I find it annoying. If people who just purchased a new product can come in here and just post some of the new things they like/don't like about the product that would be a welcome change to the measuring contest it has been for especially the past few weeks.

nobody gives a s***.

Agreed.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 04:41 PM) I never understood why liberals think that when conservatives b**** about this it's only black people we're considered about. More white people receive food stamps and welfare. I get more angry at the white parents with the 2-3 kids at Sams Clubs using Link and Wic for essentials and then spending 300 bucks on garbage more than someone living in a public housing development (anger is equal if it were black parents, but I don't see any at my local Sams Club) Because of history.

Was able to get brown in both my leagues last week because i had an awful week 2. I don't trust him all season, but DAMN what a week from him.

Just a reminder: Ted Kennedy reached across the aisle for Bush's signature education proposal, and democrats voted for cloture on medicare part D even if they didn't vote for the bill. And there's also Iraq. You can't really point to any such cooperation on the Republican side for Obama, who entered with much more popularity than Bush. They received a single republican vote for health care, in the house. And received no such cloture votes from them.

To be fair, Chicago's trend might be different than the national. This is actually fairly fascinating to me. A 50% decrease over 6 years in revenue. I wonder how much is evasion and how much is decreased smoking. I wonder if there's data for surrounding counties.

easily willhahn. Although i like the potential of being rickwill'd

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 09:33 PM) Like I said, just don't eat peanuts, OR, bring your own lunch if you have a highly specialized diet...or, the school should be able to not f*** that up and make sure the kid gets no peanuts...I don't think it's too much to ask of these people who just begged for raises... What we do instead of punish all the kids that aren't allergic to peanut butter...I just find it absurd. Today it's peanut butter for X reason...tomorrow is something else for Y reason...and before you know it, you can eat a protein tablet with purified water and nothing else for Z reason. But the issue isn't kids with peanut allergies grabbing a peanut butter sandwich because he feels left out. It's that peanut residue can be on the table they eat at, and get digested by the kids.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) They've already f***ed themselves on the cigarette tax...just 3 years ago they were raking in almost twice as much tax money on cigarrettes than they are now. Bottled Water Tax: Claim because it's bad for the environment...yet the other two aren't? Also where did you read this? That seems too dramatic to be true.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) They've already f***ed themselves on the cigarette tax...just 3 years ago they were raking in almost twice as much tax money on cigarrettes than they are now...and that's not just because the good people of Chicago decided to quit for the health benefits...but because those same people are going over the border and buying them for less, or being priced out of smoking... Hey, good for us non smokers...as I find smoking annoying...but the City was making millions per year off of it...and now that they're drying that well up, they'll have to find something else to tax. I'm sick of their tax everything mentality...especially when they pretend they do some of it for our own good. Cigarette tax: Claim because it;s bad for us. Soda tax: Claim because it's bad for us. Bottled Water Tax: Claim because it's bad for the environment...yet the other two aren't? Right, I agree our tax base is largely at it's limits, that's why I was against the teacher strike. But the cigarette tax is mostly just going to punish the very poor. Frankly at this point there is no good revenue stream that hasn't been tapped into. The TIF rollbacks are probably the safest, but will still hurt quite a few people.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) No, I did no such thing. I merely mentioned that these 1st-3rd graders are old enough to be taught to not talk to strangers -- OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL -- and you suddenly said strangers are entering into schools or some such nonsense?! Not the same. My point was that if we can teach them important things like crossing streets, and not talking to strangers, common safety...then they can be taught to not eat something that will kill them. They're not that dumb. The way you dismissed it like, they're just 1st-3rd graders seems to be you saying that they're too dumb to know these things...and that's simply not true. No, what I said fits in perfectly. You can still teach these kids values like that to help them avoid danger. But just because you are doing that doesn't mean you can't help remove some of the dangers from their lives. Example: 1) Remember to look both ways and always cross at a crosswalk -Yet schools still regularly supply crossing guards to keep the children from getting run over by a car. 2) Scissors are dangerous -Yet schools still often require children in grads 1-4 to have those harmless plastic scissors Schools are responsible for teaching children but also providing them with a safe environment. If the school has numerous children violently allergic to peanuts, they have to assure their safety just as they have to assure anyone else.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 09:40 PM) You're talking about apples and oranges now, but nice try, troll. You brought that example up.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 09:41 PM) I know you think you are being smart there, but just how do people who go to Sox games or the museums or a play 'moochers'? If anything the city should be welcoming those dollars into their economy, not actively f***ing people who decide to visit. Several million at Sox/Cubs/bears/Bulls games? Museum attendance has to be high, and I bet more than half from out of the city. Again, how are they moochers? The parks were either privately built or with STATE funds. I'm talking about the cigarette tax. But "actively f***ing" tourists over, is ridiculous. I doubt the amount will be large enough to prevent people from going to any of those things. Gas prices would make a bigger difference. White sox pricing would make a bigger difference. Chicago already reached the property tax threshold and has 10% sales tax, the money has to come from somewhere.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 08:21 PM) Yet they're old enough to teach about not talking to strangers... The school also doesn't allow strangers to walk in to the school. Are they infringing on the kids rights there too?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:49 PM) They are doing it the only way it can be done in a controlled manner that doesn't make the schools infinitely worse - by opening charter schools a few at a time. If you did a complete meltdown on the existing structure and tried to get an entirely charter system up and running, it would take years to get all the kids back into normal schooling. That destroys educations, a lot of them, and I would not be OK with that. Not the same - completely different school administration (both in staff as well as rules/procedures/curriculums). Well I don't know why they would clean house completely, but yes finding 60k relevant people to take over would be quite difficult.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:48 PM) I think it's more important to teach kids to be careful and watch out for themselves rather than to teach them that the world will watch out for them. They aren't going to be able to walk into any grocery store, restaurant, lunchroom, house, etc... and tell everyone there "Hey I'm allergic to ______ so nobody else here can have it." We are talking about 1st-3rd graders in school. These existential lessons tend to get lost when the child gets sent to the hospital.

I just bought borderlands so I can discuss with you guys. Please don't switch topics before then.

People can die from peanut allergies, dairy allergies just give you a stomach ache. Kids can accidentally put things in their mouths, i've seen it! I don't see a problem with removing peanuts from their lunches. That's not really a grave injustice any more than not allowing kids to bring knives to school.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 06:19 PM) The day after Chipotle is not pleasant for me. And it's crazy over-priced. Give me a burrito from a cheap, dirty mexican place anytime of the week. I prefer enchiladas from mexican places, the quality of meat at chipotle is typically better. But in the loop, more likely to see a chipotle than a la pasadita.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:02 PM) I think his point was that instead of giving kids with nut allergies something different than peanut butter, schools have decided to just not give peanut butter to anyone so that the kids with the allergy don't feel left out or different. Just a small nitpick but I think they got rid of peanut butter and peanut products because they could so easily contaminate other foods. Using the same knife, used to be on the counter, etc.