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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2011 -> 07:30 PM) Eh. We are halfway through this Presidency, and confidence is where now? I'm not sure what gets said that changes two years of non-believing, but OK Where was reagan at this point?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2011 -> 04:53 PM) It doesn't? I thought it was hitler exclusive.

Yeah, Kanye's personality is such an outlier, most rappers are very humble.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 20, 2011 -> 04:46 PM) Reasonable? Not many rookies are going to hit .291 in there first season (I'm not even going to count that brief cup of coffee he got last year). I find those projections pure crapola. I hope they are true, but probably pure crap. I agree. I'll be happy with .250/.300/450

i believe godwin's law should apply to goebbels

catwoman is just a s***ty character.

replace hathaway with halle barry and i heard the same thing. A bad movie is a bad movie.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 19, 2011 -> 05:34 PM) Bennett and Hester couldn't power a lightbulb between the two of them. eh, Bennett went to vanderbilt.

ugh, catwoman sucks.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 08:08 PM) K-State and MSU have been major disappointments this year Still fun killing them.

Knox truly is the dumbest receiver. It makes me wonder how dumb aromashadu is.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 19, 2011 -> 12:20 AM) We're (generally) a bunch of lazy asses who eat fast food and then b**** and moan that we're fat and have health problems and don't have the money to pay to see a doctor. I'd say we're not. In general, in terms of hours work, we work our ass off.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 11:02 PM) This irritates me - not your post, but this topic. For any given person on any given election in Chicago, once every two years or so, maybe once a year at most... you have zero to 8 Constitutional offices and maybe zero to 10 local offices to vote for. Why is it so beyond people to spend a f***ing hour once a year to make an intelligent decision about who represents them in government? I mean, I get that with judges and water commissioners, there is little or no info available. Fine, on those, use party or whatever. But your alderman? State rep? State Senator? It is just so frustrating to me that 99% of voters know nothing about these people. You are GIVING away your freedoms and rights by not paying attention. I'd add on something to this, we have too many offices that are voted in. Judges being the dumbest.

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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 06:57 PM) You don't think the city deals with that issue? Jesus Christ, my point is that unlike state and national politics you can really vote for an individual over voting for a party, and it matters. Do people at the city level do social welfare programs? Yes. But that has nothing to do with my point that the national parties are not informative at the city level. They are much more informative when there is a traditional legislature/executive set up.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 06:29 PM) You can't get economy, such as tax versus budget cuts out of parties? honestly, I just find that really simplistic when dealing with a city. "I'm going to cut taxes and budgets" vs "i'm going to improve social welfare and raise taxes", I really see a lot more over land management which REALLY is obscured in the two national party identities. You can have a few easy identifiers like more green parks vs. more retail space, but i don't often see that. Rent control/parking regulations/ etc. I really haven't seen consistency in the parties at this level. I'm not saying that there aren't ideological differences at the municipal level, but that you could create two new parties, find people that generally fit in either, that really don't fit that well into that national party identity.

Mizzou just killed kstate. Fun game.

jeeze, over 50% in a field that big.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 06:16 PM) They imply a basic set of solutions to questions. How does that not inform more than obscure? Not having parties would actually confuse more, because you would miss out on a basic understanding of what a person stands for. I don't think so, I think people have a general idea of how a democratic party would run the country and the GOP, and same with the state. But I really don't find those ideas translate exactly to city management. The only very basic level you can get is union v. non union workers.

You write that a lot. I'm not sure what we are supposed to do with that info.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 06:02 PM) It is a whole different set of circumstances when you are talking about $10 billion versus something like the $50 million that my hometown of 30,000 people has. There are economies of scale and big social considerations that don't happen at smaller levels. I don't understand why national party labels are helpful to this problem, though. I think they obscure more than they inform.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 06:35 PM) Chicago has about as many people as Iowa does. Their budget is big enough you can't just pass it off as a municipality. Their budget including the coporate fund, is almost $10 billion. yeah, that doesn't change my opinion.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 04:45 PM) s*** Chicago doesn't even have a second party... let alone other parties. national parties at municipal levels seems pretty stupid to me anyway.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 04:44 PM) The Bears are getting plently of respect. I could post links to about 30 articles talking about how good the Bears D has been this year, what Martz has done and so on. Because people are picking the other team to win by 3 points is not a knock. No one is picking either team to win by 4 touchdowns. giving three to the away opponent is pretty significant

i wish we had a rent is too damn high party.