StrangeSox

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 01:05 PM) This is the worst defensive performance I can ever recall by the Bears. How quickly we forget Carson Palmer and the Bengals, eh?

LOL. Time for me to consider going out and enjoying the weather instead of watching this garbage.

HOW DO YOU LEAVE FITZGERALD THAT OPEN AT THE GOAL LINE?

Oh my goodness the Bears defense is terrible.

That is the offense we expected with Cutler.

Why haven't they been trying to do that all year?

Tommy Harris ejected on the third play of the game for punching an Arizona lineman who was on the ground.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 1, 2009 -> 09:51 AM) I have the issues I do with polls for a reason, and yes, it may border paranoia with my trust issues related to polls, specifically because in college I did a project (a trimester long project) which focused on the intentional or unintentional manipulation of polls despite having to follow posted methodology and rules to keep said polls "honest". We did this in statistics class, and the lesson learned was that numbers can be manipulated almost no matter what rules are in place when the human element is added to the equation. We all took the same poll, following the same rules, with the same type of focus group/test group, and from team to team, the numbers weren't even close. The rules in place and the posted methods matched, but despite this, the resulting numbers should have avoided any extreme variance, but the results were the results...and the variance was extreme across the board. Statistics are simply too easy to fix depending on the whens, the wheres and the hows. So I apologize for being so skeptical of polls, regardless of who issues them. I keep hearing how polls show that the majority of Americans want this "public option of government run care", which is complete BS, because the fact is the majority of Americans are happy with their health care, so there is no way a legit poll should show that, unless the sample used was from a majority of currently uncovered people (who are actually a minority). So yes, from personal experience, I find polls to be a load of crap. And this has nothing to do with me ignoring science, science is one thing I wouldn't dismiss. Polls are not science. LOL. Polls are not to be trusted! Unless they support your a priori beliefs and rationale.

I found a Lincoln costume at about 6 PM last night. It worked well because I'm 6'3" and skinny. One of my friends and his fiance went as Roman Polanski and a 13 year old girl.

The reform-minded conservative Indiana's governor: Making headway in the heartland http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/2...d-conservative/

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Oct 29, 2009 -> 10:04 AM) So the Saints get the ball 1st and goal on the 1 correct or am I missing somethign? As for the Bears why does it take so long for that team to realize what radio experts and I am talking about the guys that played the game have been saying for weeks. Not if it goes into the endzone and then out of bounds. Then it is Miami's ball at their own 20. I think that rule is pretty stupid.

Nate Silver explains why Leiberman is crazy: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/10/som...rman-puppy.html

If that income is used to support the church when it otherwise wouldn't be or is turned around and spent on charity or the community, eh. But thinking out loud there's already tax deductions for that sort of stuff.

Kap, there's now prescription medication to grow thicker eyelashes. They invent diseases like Restless Leg Syndrome and then sell you the cure. You cannot argue that the profits incentivize the wrong things some times.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 27, 2009 -> 01:30 PM) Yeah, I always thought it was silly when people used phrases like "we are destrying the earth!". No, the earth will be fine. We, however, won't be, because the earth (mother nature or ecosystems or whatever) is waaaaaaay stronger and smarter than we are. This is why conservationism is so important - reducing our impact on our environment means reducing the equal and opposite negative reaction. We'll take a lot of other species down with us, though, and the billions of years of evolution it took to produce those particular lines.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 27, 2009 -> 01:00 PM) The problem is you needed this vaccine months ago...getting it now won't help much, since by the time your body builds the necessary antibodies, you'll have probably contracted the very thing you were attempting to combat. And blaming drug companies for this is ridiculous. No, it's beyond that. If it wasn't for the private drug companies, most of the modern medications that exist...wouldn't exist, because the governments ability to "innovate" would have never produced them. And for every Viagra you know about because it's advertised in sports, there are hundreds of other breakthrough medications given daily at your local hospital that help people a lot more than their predecessor did. The very reason these medications exist is because of the private sector and the competition therein, and let's ignore the BILLIONS of R&D money each of these drug companies pours into this. Removing them from the equation will not suddenly fix the drug issues the world faces, nor will it suddenly spawn the perfect number of vaccines on time...oh, and it sure as hell wouldn't innovate anything...so all you'd end up with is a larger supply of old drugs and almost nothing new in the pipeline. Our government is only good at searching for answers or solutions AFTER the issue arises or the hard question is asked of them...which is too late. The biggest issue with the private/public and any other "sector" is in the "Trek" solution. Until the worlds drive to acquire wealth is curbed and completely eliminated, this is how the system works, and it works like this WORLDWIDE. The government doesn't do anything for free, either...the people who work for government get paid...the government itself as an entity gets paid, etc. Until the acquisition of wealth is removed from the equation, this is how it IS and how it will continue to be. Blaming people for working in and with the system is ridiculous, and governments don't have the answer to this problem, either. Nobody does things for free, because everything costs money. Eliminate the money factor and maybe...just maybe, we are on our way to a solution for all mankind. Without the NIH and it's funding and grants, we wouldn't have most of the medical advances we do. Oh, and let's not forget the BILLIONS in basic research done in universities and government labs that it's all based on, too.

Hey guys anyone else taking prescription medicine for thicker eyelashes?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 27, 2009 -> 12:34 PM) Who is "they"? QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 27, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) Pretty sure he was referring to Scientology Yep. I generally don't have a problem with legitimate religions having tax exempt status for legitimate reasons.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Oct 27, 2009 -> 11:03 AM) How long did they know swine flu was going to hit the U.S.? (-12 months? Seems like a pretty good head start, don't ya think? No. If they had that much advance warning it would have been included as another strain in the regular seasonal vaccine.

The nerve! Really though, this does not compare to round-the-clock promotion of events for weeks.

No. There never was going to be. That idea wasn't even brought up for discussion. Maybe it was the right move given the reaction to a public option.

No, they'll buy it through the Health Care Exchange if they are eligible. Not everyone will be. I've read that it is negotiated rates, not Medicare rates, as well.

I really wish they'd lose tax exempt status here.

I used the many links here to prepare for my interview recently. http://markthispage.blogspot.com/2009/06/s...-you-going.html Prepare answers for standard questions. You don't want to be reciting a script but you want to be able to have examples and explanations right at hand. Good luck!

Must have locked up 60 votes then?