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QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 02:55 PM) The occupy movement, yes. I was involved with it personally. Where did "the movement" get the trucks and tools to do that? Since they did "most" of the work. How much money did they raise for the rebuilding of homes and businesses? Wait, I found it. A laughable 1.4 million.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 02:06 PM) Mommy and Daddy, for those fortunate ones...aka people at my high school. I worked at Jewel (overnight) starting when I was a sophomore during summers. I was the exception to the rule. My parents literally drew the line at spending money. Education, room and board, great. Money to go out and buy things, you are on your own kid. If you want to have fun, work for it.

Man my lower back and ass hurts today after those squats.

Wait, the Occupy protesters did most of the cleanup work after Sandy? What?

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 12:59 PM) I will say this, back in 2008 when I was graduating high school I went out and applied for summer work. I went to over 30 companies, all of them personally asking about job opportunities at a variety of jobs (retail, landscaping, movers, restaurants). I had a decent amount of experience painting, landscaping and restaurant work from previous summers but after a month of looking I had two offers, one for a moving company and one a few weeks later for Lowes in their paint department. I took the moving job because I'm a big guy and could handle the physical nature of it, but it was amazing how hard it was to get a job that summer. Of course the economy has gotten better since then and I had no problem getting internships or offers while in college. Yeah, that was really bad timing. I worked as a lifeguard, pizze delivery boy, subway sandwich artist (yep), bartender and contruction/demo while I was in college/HS. I cant fathom not working like some kids do. Where the hell do they get spending money?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:52 AM) Just remember this...I looked it up a while back, only 20% of fast food counter workers are under the age of 25, everyone else is someone older needing a job. The world of "still there for the taking" jobs doesn't exist right now. Why wouldnt they hire the younger worker, probably for slightly less money? How about yard work, painters, lifeguards, delivery drivers? Almost every place I go to eat lunch is looking for delivery drivers. The jobs are there, kids just dont want them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:44 AM) Data suggests this is true entirely because of the 2008 economic collapse. The labor force participation rate by people in the 16-19 and 20-24 groups significantly increased from 1959 to 1999 , but it then dramatically decreased starting in the late 2000's. Edited because man I compeltely wrote that crap wrong. Maybe. Entry level jobs for teens and young adults were still there for the taking.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:27 AM) Devin Hester, you were ridiculous. He was great, but I'll punch the first person in the face I see that tells me the Bears suck for releasing him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:32 AM) No, because college was actually affordable ~30 years ago to most people if they qualified thanks to significant government support of universities that has evaporated over that time period. Yes but loans were harder to come by. Also kids dont work as much these days as they used to.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 10:31 AM) I see your point...but you're not putting Kentucky further in your bracket than your last remaining (or couple remaining) BT teams. There aren't dominant teams this year, you could see a Michigan, Wisconsin, maybe MSU if they put it together get to elite 8 or final four. That Michigan offense is dynamite in the college game, NBA superstars or not. I could see MSU because they can play defense and score if healthy, Wisconsin and Michigan both have weaknesses IMO that would have been exploited more in a stronger conference year. Wisconsin lost more games at home this year to bad teams than we have ever seen.

WHAT, NO BLOW UP DOLL?????? -Nick Swisher

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 11:53 PM) Fixed. At least there are top teams out there with surefire NBA superstars on their roster. The highest draft pick in the Big Ten is coming from IU who isnt even a tourney team. Gary Harris could be a good NBA player and Stauskas is most likely a role player. Kansas, Duke, Ok St, Kentucky, Cuse, Zona, all have high caliber NBA talent on very good teams that have a chance to win it all. I dont see a Big Ten team getting past the elite 8.

Wow Wayne Simmonds. You are one dirty motherf***er. If you want a case study on why fighting may be stupid in hockey just follow the Flyers. What a dumb team.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 10:04 PM) I've never been a big Russell fan. It seems like he gets 99% of the credit for those Celtics teams even though he was one of several Hall of Fame players. You always hear about his 11 rings, but you never hear about Havlicek's 8, two of which came without Russell. That said, I've always thought of him as Josh Smith with exponentially better basketball IQ. That's a pretty terrifying player. Nice, some love for Hondo. One of the best buckeyes of all time.

The Big Ten isnt very good this year so I wouldnt put any team into a final four at this point.

Triometrics, wow.

Its spring training for the ups too. Nice bunt hit wrongly called out.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 02:56 PM) Well I do understand the private high school tuition part, if her parents enrolled her in that school then they should be paying for that. Everything else is just her feeling entitled to wealth. Also, why do major publications quote facebook comments within news articles? Makes them look like trash. I mean, if your kid runs away because they dont want to live by your rules, why do you have to continue to pay for her tuition? She should be the adult she thinks she is and enroll in public school or get her GED.

QUOTE (SAVVY18 @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 02:49 PM) Spring Training happened. Who knows what he is/was working on out there. Fastball/change so far in ST. No sliders.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 01:11 PM) I wish it wasn't so sprawled out and suburbany, where you have to drive nearly anywhere. Plus, the summer heat, ugh. Yeah, going there now would be great, but its not my favorite for a place to live. Scottsdale is nice but filled to the brim with snobby pieces of crap and the other side of Phoenix is basically a desert version of St Charles/far west burbs. Big boxes, nothing else. Golf is great though.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 01:24 PM) The father of a friend she is staying with is a lawyer and is bankrolling her case. He hired another lawyer (although it doesn't say if it was one from where he works or anything) and has supposedly spend about $13k so far, which was also requested in the lawsuit. And denied. She lost round one. My mind immediately goes to her banging the friends father.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 02:22 PM) Kesler staying in Vancouver Thomas Vanek to Montreal, hadn't heard their name. Legwand to Detroit Moulson likely to Minnesota Detroit gave up a little bit for Legwand but pretty good pickup there. I really hate that the Hawks think they can stay pat this year.

Legwand is available as well.

Whatever lawyer decided to take this case is just as wrong. Kids these days are the worst.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 11:09 AM) I'm going too for the first round of the tournament. As for downtown vegas you just start at one end and walk to the other and see where it takes you. A lot like the main strip but a lot tighter (entrances on the street, no 5 minute walkups) and they now closed off the streets running though it so it's just one giant path way. There's stuff like 2.50 minimum tables, 50 cent beers at certain places. It's a blast. Golden Nugget is the biggest casino along with Binions. They also got a light show that constantly goes on when it's darker and a zip line where you can zoom across the street. Google pictures of new Freemont St andyyou'll see what it's all about. They just redid the whole thing a few years back. Anyways weve gone each of the last two years and had a lot of fun spending 4 or 5 hours over there, particulary St. Patricks day last year. Definitely plan on going back over there. 5 min walkup is being nice. The monorail on LVB has made it better but damn its near impossible to walk anywhere at times unless you are city center or across the street. I remember telling a friend I would meet him at MGM (I was at TI) and I gave up halfway and just stayed at Ceasars. The damn driveway took me 15 min.