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QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 5, 2016 -> 05:15 PM) Honest question though, do you still believe they aren't largely silent? If the roles were reversed, would this not be front page news for days instead of the blip that it was? When the 3 biggest liberal names are all condemning it, no, I don't think that's silence. These stories are blips because violence (on both sides) has become common at his rallies at this point.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 5, 2016 -> 05:11 PM) I said good for Vox for suspending the author. Did you not read my post? Hillary isn't condemning anyone by blaming Trump. It's insane. Yeah, you said that after you blamed Vox and I noted that all the articles on their site condemned the violence. Hillary explicitly condemned the violence. She *also* said Trump deserves some blame.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 5, 2016 -> 04:57 PM) Vox had articles up in the immediate aftermath praising the incident and calling for more of it. But upon further review they they took it down and suspended the author. Good on them. Hillary just blamed Trump for it, which is ridiculous as if he hadn't condemned it repeatedly himself. So they had one article up and they punished the author and removed it. And 4 against, which remain up. You said the left was silent, but the 3 biggest figures all condemned it. I don't know how it's ridiculous to also throw some criticism at Trump, who has explicitly supported violence at his speeches before (so long as it's against protestors, of course).

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 5, 2016 -> 03:03 PM) https://youtu.be/EwXlW_rm0Rs The refusal to condemn this act and the rest of the San Diego rioters speaks volumes about the left. In some liberal circles such as Vox and Salon they advocate it. Telling. Hillary condemned it. Sanders condemned it. Obama condemned it. I found 4 articles at Vox about it, all condemning it. Vox: "Anti-trump rioting is counterproductive and wrong" http://www.vox.com/2016/6/4/11850532/anti-...unterproductive Vox: "Violent protest is always bad" http://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11852620/riots...ests-trump-help Vox: "bad and dangerous" http://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11850938/violent-protest-trump Vox: "Violence is bad" http://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11856746/vox-sentences-may-jobs I did find one at Salon attempting to justify it, saying Trump & Supporters are violent/aggressive too, but overall this sounds like the "why don't Muslims ever condemn terrorism?" schtick.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 01:37 AM) Add on top of that a skyrocketing population. Population growth is at all-time lows.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 12:28 AM) The stuff revealed about trumps scam University is pretty terrible. Structured like a high pressure multi level marketing scam. Why does an alleged multi billionaire need to bilk the elderly and poor single mothers of of thousands of dollars? Scamming money from gullible/desperate people is smart business. When he's President, he'll get other countries to buy worthless s*** simply because it has the Trump name on it. TRADE DEFICIT SOLVED

QUOTE (shysocks @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 05:14 PM) It hasn't changed since the "beta" but Overwatch is still real good. It's very good. Reinhardt 4 lyfe.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 05:27 AM) I love it. Trump calls hundreds of media members to hold a presser today just to tell them what they're doing wrong, and they still make the same mistakes. The media that hates him continues to be the one that makes him more popular and powerful (not that I'm complaining) while collectively being too stupid to realize it. It can be spun in any which way, yet Trump is still getting an incredible amount of free press for donating millions to veterans. It's amazing. What's the press supposed to do? Let him continue to claim he raised $6 million when he didn't? I think you vastly overestimate how good this coverage is for him. He looks like a giant baby, and his "unfavorable" polling numbers are massive.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 31, 2016 -> 01:52 PM) So does Arya defeat the faceless girl person and is granted her freedom or does she then join the faceless men? She leaves. Jaqen can't give her ANOTHER chance. She's already made a kill she wasn't supposed to make, and now walked away from one she was supposed to make. They will part ways amicably though, as the Waif's death is an acceptable substitute for Arya. No clue where she goes though.

"HAVE A GOOD SUMMER"

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 25, 2016 -> 07:21 PM) So, I'm catching up on Game of Thrones. Just started watching a couple weeks ago. I'm at the end of season 3. Can't believe Robb Stark and Lady Stark got killed. Who killed them? You need to stay out this thread. They were killed by a conspiracy including Walder Frey (the guy hosting the party), Roose Bolton (the Stark ally who stabs Robb), and Tywin Lannister.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 25, 2016 -> 01:43 PM) The whole Bran, white walker, tree people storyline could go away and I wouldn't mind one bit. Getting a little lame. PSH That's the best material on the show right now.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ May 24, 2016 -> 04:00 PM) I am usually really awkward when I first meet people. It takes a while for me to open up to people. I have to go to a wedding on Saturday where I won't know one person. Super excited about that. How did you get invited if you don't know even one person?

On one hand, they did hide the negative effects of it for a while. On the other, Gwynn kept chewing and dipping that s*** until 2008, long after knowing it was horrible for him.

Old IBB process is slow and unnecessary. Give them the base.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 23, 2016 -> 06:45 PM) Related, how is Bran supposed to get anywhere without Hodor? Could this lead to the introduction of Coldhands? Mmmmmm

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 23, 2016 -> 06:44 PM) It seems almost too obvious that Dany's dragons will play a part in defeating the White Walkers. Yes. I don't think GRRM is so mean that he'll do a "lol bad guys win" ending, but he's not going to let the good guys all band together and romp either.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 23, 2016 -> 04:59 PM) Yeah, they have to invade south so Dany's dragons can kill them all to end the series. I don't expect Dany to win at the end. If she does beat the White Walkers, then I'd wager she also turns Mad Queen and has to be killed herself.

Brann is going to destroy the wall like a big dummy

QUOTE (bmags @ May 20, 2016 -> 04:09 PM) Fair enough. I know people are busy though, and don't want anyone to feel like they need to drop out if they fall behind. Realistically, you could look up right now the stats of that team, so, we aren't talking about game of thrones here. True, true. I only put it out there because I personally can say that knowing the results made me far less interested in the book, which I otherwise would have picked up for sure.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 20, 2016 -> 04:35 PM) Hey I'm going to try something: http://www.amazon.com/Only-Rule-Has-Work-E...t/dp/1627795642 This book looks great and is baseball related. Ben Lindbergh caught my attention at Grantland writing on baseball. Here is the concept: This thread will feature discussion on the book, broken into sections. Buy the book by June 1st. When we start, I'll post ideal sections to accomplish, but obviously there's no "plot" so there shouldn't be spoilers or worries of falling too far behind. I'll post questions in here based off what we read. We'll talk about it. (I'll talk about it) That's it. Let me know if you plan on joining just so I can know how embarrassed I'll be if I keep bumping this and discuss it independently like when I live-blogged the Project Runway finale on soxtalk. I think 538 had an article on this book. In a sense, there are spoilers (how well the team does under their stat-head leadership), so people should be a little careful.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 20, 2016 -> 03:18 PM) What a student just basically told me "I turned in an assignment that was four months late THREE HOURS ago and my grade STILL HASN'T CHANGED!!" "I'll get right on that" If only they understood the green in my voice. Fours months late? How much change in the grade is there going to be 0% to 1%? Edit: change the grade in 4 months, Tex

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 17, 2016 -> 01:22 PM) http://www.gp.org/social_justice/#sjHealthCare Barf.

The Osha/Rickon/Karstark secret plan isn't working so well!

We have a Mazda CX-5. Love it.