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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 12, 2017 -> 10:03 AM) Must watch TV - His 19 return TDs with the Bears Man, he was awesome. Several things I was reminded of: 1) I love the all white away uniforms. I wish they'd wear those more often. 2) Hester probably had another 10-15 returns that were TDs if he beat one more guy or didn't step out of bounds. 3) The special teams blocking was so good. 4) One of my pet peeves is the guy or guys who run along side a returner and don't look to block anyone. So many times a guy would score if players looked for someone to block. As the great Lou Tepper said, the punt return is the most exciting play in football.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Dec 7, 2017 -> 09:37 AM) Depending on your state of residence, there are tax advantages to you now for putting them into a 529 plan as well as tax advantages for your children in the future. In Indiana, you receive a 20% tax credit on 529 contributions up to $5k in contributions. For example, if you were to contribute $5k, you would receive an additional $1k back during income tax season. In Illinois, I believe you can use contributions as tax deductions. For example, if you make $100k and contribute $5k, you would only be "claiming" to make $95k. The tax advantages for your kids is that when they pull the money out for higher education, it will be tax-free. Furthermore, the government has been changing the law as of late in that the money can be used for a lot more, whereas in the past, it had to be used for school. I believe now it can even go toward an apartment/rent for school and a few other things. Hopefully this was somewhat helpful. That was my understanding. I guess I just have to keep good documentation. Thanks!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 6, 2017 -> 03:45 PM) Nobody's really done anything about bump stocks, but the House did pass concealed-carry reciprocity, meaning that if you're licensed to carry in one state, you can carry in any state. It's been one of the NRA's main goals for awhile. This is good news. Now I can go pretty much anywhere in the US and have both the police and local do-gooders protecting me wherever I go. America just keeps getting safer.

Moore wins easily and is seated at the kids' table.

I have a bunch of $200 bonds that I bought for $100 years ago. I used to have an automatic paycheck deduction that I used to purchase them, so I have a ton of them. I've looked them up, and quite a few are now worth $200 or more, even though they haven't reached their maturity date. I've done some research, and from what I can tell, they can be cashed and used for education expenses to save on the tax hit. Anybody know the best way to go about using them? Do I cash them and put them into a 529 plan? Should I cash them and immediately use them to pay for my son's college tuition? If so, do I put them into one of my accounts and write a check, or should I have a cashiers check made to the college? A little advice is appreciated.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 01:39 AM) His defense is going to be his partial blindness/medical conditions. Just watch. I'm not sure if he also has a blindness problem, but I do recall that he was losing his hearing due to his addiction to painkillers. That was back when one his big show topics was drug addicts.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 10:29 PM) Is that Rush? Uh oh. He shouldn't be doing that. I don't worship Rush, folks. Unlike some of you I listen to as many different viewpoints as I can in the short attention span I have regarding talk radio. I am a dial switcher; don't like commercials. Love Beatles channel. Love some other music channels and the 2 comedy channels. So, you listen to Rush and come here and post what you heard him say. "Don't shoot the messenger." But, you never post anything from other sources. I guess you wouldn't get much from the Beatles or other music channels. I suppose there might be an occasional deep political thought on one of the two comedy channels, but I haven't seen you come here and act as Jon Stewart or Lewis Black's "messenger." And, yes, that is Rush.

I think I've had enough of the "clever" TD and sack celebrations.

Seen in the last 10 days in theaters... LBJ - Interesting story about a figure I never really knew much about. I wouldn't give it a real strong recommendation. It was just ok. Lady Bird - Entertaining, but it has no real resolution. It just ends. Some good performances, for sure. Three Billboards... - Lots of good performances. I'd recommend it. I saw Snowden on demand. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. It's definitely worth checking out.

Illinois has to be tanking so they can get higher draft choices, right?

Last year, my wife's cousin came over and stuffed up one of my toilets. It overflowed, made a mess, and somehow I was left cleaning it up. Pretty gross. This year the cousin is not invited. For that, I am thankful.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 07:14 AM) Best headline I saw for this one: "Extremely anti-LGBT politician caught having extremely pro-LGBT sex" That gave me a good laugh.

For every great one-hand catch I see, I swear there are 3 or 4 drops that might have been caught if the guy went after it with both hands. OBJ started a revolution, and I am not on board.

QUOTE (aryzner @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 02:52 PM) 4-time World Cup Champions Italy have just missed out on the World Cup. Sweden going, Italy out. If USMNT players think American criticism is bad, that's nothing compared to what these Italian players will get from their media. It's the World Cup. Wouldn't it make more sense to let every team in? Why make teams qualify and risk some of the big countries missing out?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 02:16 PM) This might be a little odd, but is it better to show GPA vs. class rank? I ask because I can't contribute. My school didn't have a class rank. I'd say I was probably top 10-20% with a school with about 1200 students. I am an Assistant Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis An estimate is good enough for me. He just needs data. It's an 8th grade science fair project. It's inherently flawed. I made up all of the data for mine in 8th grade.

This is great. Thanks for the feedback, and I promise not to lord my higher ranking over any of you.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 12:13 AM) Wouldn't salary, or at least a salary range, mostly dictate the "financial success" equation? He's going to use average salaries for the occupation listed. Asking people to provide their actual salaries might be a little invasive.

Thanks. Might as well give mine for the record. 1) 27 2) 340 3) Injury Compensation Specialist

My 8th grader is doing a science fair project. He needs the following info for his data collection: 1) Your high school rank 2) Number of students in your graduating class 3) Job title you have held that paid (or would have paid if you changed jobs for whatever reason) the highest salary. Just the title - DO NOT PROVIDE SALARY INFO. He's testing to see if there is a correlation between HS rank and future financial success.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 6, 2017 -> 11:45 PM) I was driving in the car today and Rush had some good takes.... Thanks for the update. Those are some pretty hot takes.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 6, 2017 -> 05:22 AM) The ACA, as designed, was a pipe dream, but when you have nothing else to argue just say "GOP", point and giggle like a 12 year old and you win. That's how every other discussion on this site ends. But when you have nothing else to argue just say "liberals", point and giggle like a 12 year old and you win. That's how every other discussion on this site ends.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Nov 1, 2017 -> 06:27 PM) Why does it seem like everybody here is pro-Dodgers? Why would you ever pull for the Dodgers? They're basically the California Cubs. I'm pulling for Houston. I pretty much always root for the team that hasnt won (with one notable exception). Dodgers fans (and LA fans) have had enough sporting success.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 28, 2017 -> 12:48 PM) Parkins was on McNeil's podcast recently and was really good. He was pretty transparent about his time at 670 so far. He talked about his rough times at the beginning because people there disagreed with him getting the gig. He's been excellent so far in my opinion. There's something about the swearing on podcasts that throws me off a little when the host or guests are radio guys. It seems so unnatural because they have to filter it out on radio. It seems like they force it on podcasts. Parkins is did quite a bit of swearing. I did like his honesty about the culture of Chicago radio, though. Bruce Wolf was good with McNeil. He was pretty brutal (and correct imo) in assessing Bernstein.

My ideal postseason happened last night. Now I can watch baseball again.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 19, 2017 -> 09:46 PM) They're still a force but changes have to be made. They won't win much with a rotation of Quintana/Hendricks/Lester/Montgomery/Tseng. I don't know that they'll be able to replace Arrieta/revamp the bullpen just by trading Schwarber, either, given his lack of trade value. They may need to trade someone like Happ or Russell. I've heard multiple media types (I know Bruce Levine was one) suggest that they might need to let Schwarber go for someone like Archer. I really hope nobody bails the Cubs out and gives up a front line starter for him. I think Schwarber would be a really nice AL player, but he's not worth a #1 or #2 starter at this point. If I'm the GM of a team, I'd insist on winning any trade with the Cubs, Dodgers, Yankees, etc. - any of the big money teams that can outspend 80% of the other teams. The Sox did a pretty good job of this with their trades this year.