DukeNukeEm

Oh give me a break. Take away Brazil and all of South America's GDP's combined is barely more than the state of Texas. We also gave $5 billion in 90% economic aid to South America last year. Tell you what, when they start repaying the combined $200b we've given them since the war ended we can feel embarrassed about something like this. Until then they're just another country that talks like they dont like us while gladly accepting more and more of our money. f*** 'em.

Yea! How do you get $1b in unfunded pension liabilities or let one of your cities churn out 500+ homicides a year? I mean even the last two FL governors have wound up being convicted in federal court! f***in' Flori--oh wait...

I wanted to like Pacific Rim so much more than I actually do. The special effects were awesome, the fight sequences themselves were probably the best I've ever seen and (for once) you could tell this was approached with some imagination. The Hong Kong scene was just unreal, it was as epic as this movie advertised itself and that happens very rarely (looking at you Battleship). The problem comes with me missing almost anything interesting any of these characters have ever done. I cant remember any of their names, except for Mako who's the only one we see grow into something. Charlie Day and his sidekick are funny, they get worked into the plot, but they come out of nowhere and each time they have a scene I wonder to myself why I care about them. I remember the names of the Jaeger, though: Typhoon, Gipsy Danger, Striker Eureka and Cherno Alpha. Maybe my brain works the wrong way--but the Jaeger were infinitely more interesting and had much more personality than all but one or two human characters. But we dont meet many of them, we get to know hardly any of the crews because we skip everything interesting that seems to have happened rushing to a "final" conclusion. I think they did this because they were worried about looking Transformers-like. But this movie was nothing like Transformers, the physics seemed plausible, the fight scenes were imaginative and the world in which this took place wasn't just "MODERN WORLD + DEADLY ROBOTS". It was a better movie than any of the Transformers, much better than any big monster disaster movie we've seen since I can remember and honestly, I did enjoy the living s*** out of it, but it hamstrings itself. Oh well, at least it was fun.

It may not necessarily apply in this case, but couldn't this be used pretty easily to trick someone into incriminating themselves?

If you're the White Sox you want something equal (and likely better than) Chris Sale's production over the course of the next 6 years. Because, you know, that's what you're giving up. I dont think, other than the other "untradeables" out there, there's a single guy worth it and no combination of risky minor leaguers either. I want a guy younger than 25, producing at an All Star level in the majors who is under control for at least the next couple seasons plus a handful of top 100 prospects. That's what it should take to get a guy who's on the verge of Cy Young seasons and will be under team control at less than half of his market value through the rest of this decade.

Yea the NHL is probably reeling from the fact that two of the top five jersey sellers in the league have won two Cups in four years. The league is loving this.

its on SPEED both on cable and online

http://www.spotterguides.com/2013-wec/ http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/81st-24-hours-of-le-mans-the-all-inclusive-megaguide-536754318

Uhh.. Boston has a lot more to be worried about now than the Hawks do. Rask didn't necessarily light the world on fire, and the Hawks are finding line combinations that work. If they expect the kind of calls they got tonight for the remainder of the series (esp with two games in Chicago) they'll have a b**** of a time getting them. Blackhawks, for how inept they looked in G3, are in a marginally better spot than the Bruins are in this series going forward.

Keep voting Democrat guys! We swear, it works! Chicago is looking at this future as well, you could argue it's already here.

Hossa out per HNIC

The Tigers didn't make the playoffs from 1987 to 2006. That's a pretty massive price to pay for relevance, and that's really all they've gotten because they still haven't taken the World Series. I dont want to be in my 40's when I next see a contending White Sox team. No thanks. So no, I dont want to emulate the Detroit of model of being so bad for so long that you run out of ways to be bad so by default you become good. f*** that, I'll take September collapses and down years over that any day. I like the way we are now. Were almost evenly split the last 10 years between being good or being bad and occasionally were somewhere in between. At least its interesting, at least I know coming into the season that the White Sox have a real chance every year at being good. Only half the teams in this league even have that, maybe less, so instead of b****ing about how we cant be like the St. Louis Cardinals (HINT: EVERYONE WANTS TO BE LIKE ST. LOUIS) how about we enjoy this team as is? They just got back to .500 and its not even June 1st.

I'd just like to point out that making the playoffs in 2008 and at least competing for them (more or less) every year is extremely important. You do not want to get mired in Pittsburgh/KC-land where the culture of winning around the organization just disappears and losing becomes such habit that decades go by before the team even sniffs the playoffs. That's the risk you inherit with selling off, that you cede being bad and since everyone expects to be bad actually being bad isn't considered a big deal. The first couple years you justify it, "this is what rebuilding looks like guys!", but the guys you're rebuilding around dont work out and it becomes habit. Now you have no assets. What few guys wind up being stars you have to trade because you cannot afford them since nobody goes to see a loser and, honestly, you need 5 good players much more than you need 1 great one when you're awful in this league... it's just a disaster. Staying competitive, even if you are just pretending to be competitive to keep up appearances, means you always have players that other teams want and that fans want to see. Every season the team will be at least worth watching until ~ASB and you never know when you'll catch lightning in a bottle one year.

The team we've seen the past two weeks is very capable of winning a championship.

I honestly dont know how the "KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY VAGINA" crowd would take that.

OK, so we won that game.

Look, its the NFL Draft. You try to trade down if you find someone, but if you dont you take the guy you wanted anyways even if it is a little early. The Bears did that twice. You cannot always find a willing trade partner, and even if you do the return may not justify the risk of "your guy" not being there when you pick later. When you're the Bears, with obvious weaknesses, you can only grade this thing right now in terms of positions filled. In that respect this is a good draft. I can live with: LT- Bushrod LG- Long C- Garza RG- Carimi RT- Webb I mean its still bad. Because Webb, Garza and Carimi are all pretty bad. Bushrod is not a sure thing. Long could easily bust, too. Its still got to be one of, if not the, worst OL in the NFL. However there at least now is a chance that maybe somehow Carimi stays healthy/figures it out, Webb learns how to play tackle in the NFL (or being on the right side masks how bad he is a little), Bushrod plays up to his contract and Long pans out. If that happens Garza, who is totally f***ing hopeless and shouldn't even be on an NFL roster, will have 4 other competent guys covering his ass. I dont think that best case scenario will happen. I cant imagine why anyone would be expecting it. But hey, at least Emery is trying, we have some new bodies in there and maybe a couple years from now if Long and Bushrod work out we'll have a good NFL OL. Reversing all the neglect and incompetence of Jerry Angelo is going to take a while. So yea, I like the Bears draft. Gives us a little glimmer of hope. Would've liked to see OL again in R2, would've really liked to see R1, R2 and R4 all go to the OL especially but whatever.

There is definitely cause to have faith in Jeffrey's ability and Bennett ain't bad either. We could've maybe used a 4th option but we did sign Martellus Bennett too. I wouldn't mind another WR, but maybe in a later round.

What else happened on August 9th?

Look earlier at this dates you posted. That'll answer your question.

Eh, this is where I'm straying to opinion but I'm not sure it would've been much worse than the atomic bombs. I think we knew that too. Patton blazed across France against an opponent that still had some fight left in them. Japan has some rougher terrain and they were a little nuts (the lengths of their craziness is a bit overblown), but they also were woefully incapable of fighting a modern war at the time. Either way, we dropped the bombs, the war ended, the Soviets eventually got one too and the whole point of cooking those two cities was rendered moot. Maybe the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made it more difficult to anyone to work up the nerve to unleash nuclear weapoons in the Cold War, but nobody really knows. I don't think it was a war crime. I think a precedent of total war had long been set and while awful Hiroshima doesn't even compare to firebombings in Dresden and Tokyo or the shelling of Berlin.

Nobody other than a few hundred Americans knew what the secret weapon was or what it was capable of doing. By the time Potsdam rolled around the Cold War had basically started (if not, Potsdam essentially began it)... nobody trusted each other at that point. That conference was more about an American-Soviet rivalry that any sort of cooperation. The actual invasion of Manchuria was almost inconsequential. The Soviets were going to roll the Japanese there whenver they decided to invade, and when they actually did it despite us showing off the atomic bomb at Hiroshima we dropped another on Nagasaki. This isn't really up for debate in any serious forum, you're just being confrontational with me for some weird reason.

Your point? After what happened in Europe there wasn't much mystery over what the Soviets were going to do in East Asia. Even in 1945 you couldn't just sneak an army the size of one the Soviets had to invade Manchuria across the entirety of Russia without your allies noticing.

We dropped the atomic bomb because the Soviets had just invaded Manchuria and we needed to 1) win an unconditional surrender from Japan ASAP and 2) make it clear to the Soviets we were not to be f***ed with. That's the reason. It wasn't because mean ole America was so evil and racist that we wanted to flash fry a hundred thousands dirty Japs in the blink of an eye. If that was our real motivation our post-war occupation of Japan and Germany would not have been so benevolent. "America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima because they were racist" has to be the most blatantly stupid thing anyone has ever said about the topic. You didn't come up with yourself did you? Where did you read that? As for why it wasn't a war crime? We won.

---> So much for other bombs. But this is how fear works, assumptions are made that scare people even more.