StrangeSox

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 12:56 PM) Indeed. More confirmation that Ben Carson was duped by a prank, not given an honesty reward by his professor. Exactly. The real story is that Carson was the most gullible student in the class, not the most honest (how would the scenario that Carson invented even have tested honesty? it makes absolutely no sense). But that morphed into a story of 1) Ben Caron's moral superiority, especially over those other elitists at a place like Yale and 2) God's divine intervention to gift him another $10 in his time of need.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 12:22 PM) Pk, but you did not answe rthe question. It is highly likely/probable that a kid of his background with his grades in his situation, if he so chose, would have gotten a scholarship to West Point... Cool. What does that have to do with his claims that he 1) personally met General Westmoreland and 2) was actually accepted to West Point but turned it down?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 12:40 PM) Acknowledging that you are seeing improvement isnt drinking koolaid. Nobody here is saying that the Bears are going to the Superbowl, or even the playoffs don't mind jenks he's blinded by his burning hatred of Cutler.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 11:05 AM) Irrelevant. Carson lied. You can think it is no big deal - I get that, and ultimately it probably isn't. But he did what he did. He said something patently false. Could be he remembered wrong. More likely it is just that he's got a monstrous ego (like most of these people) that naturally inflates all his accomplishments. For Carson, it's a little bit different because he's running on his personal background and his honesty/trustworthiness as a person. Clinton, Kasich, Bush, Christie etc. are all running on their public office histories. Trump is running on his celebrity and business acumen. Fiorina is running on her business acumen, even if she doesn't actually seem to have any. But a candidate like Carson is running on being an "outside" and someone people can trust, unlike those career politicians. If his whole story is a lie, he's not really running on much of anything.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 11:11 AM) Carson's latest lie is even funnier. He tells the story about how one of his college professors gave him $10 for being the only honest student willing to take a re-test after the initial set of tests were (not really) burned up in the fire. The truth was Carson got fooled by an article in a prank edition of the school newspaper and went to take the re-test. Hey, if you gotta lie about something, it might as well be about how honest you are! It's part of a series of stories in his biography that play well to his target audience, Evangelicals. In the more hardline versions, redemption stories like Carson's that either border on or fully cross into ridiculously unbelievable are popular and just more proof of their faith and devotion and God's love. It's in the same vein as an allegory, but it's told like it's the absolute truth. Ben Carson was this violent, terrible person growing up. He hit people, he yelled at them, he even tried to stab someone but that person was saved by a belt buckle. Then, he prayed and found God! He was saved! And when he was at his lowest, when he needed $10 for bus fare to get to church, God provided. When he was out of money again, this 'experiment' to find the most honest student came up, and he miraculously got another $10. Some groups of people eat up stories like this uncritically. It reaffirms their own faith. That's where Carson's base of support comes from, and now that he's stepping out of a pretty cloistered world into the mainstream, these sorts of stories aren't just accepted as a matter of fact.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 11:01 AM) So you do not believe a black kid,from Detroit, who was the leader of the ROTC at his school, if he wanted to, would have gotten in to WEST POINT? Really? I do not believe that Ben Carson had a one-on-one dinner with General Westmoreland or that he was officially offered acceptance/scholarship to WEST POINT. Really.

Noticable improvement over the dumpster fire that was last year with similar talent?

War. War never changes.

Got a solid offer on our house less than a week after listing

Wow that catch

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 9, 2015 -> 09:20 PM) Oh thank you for explaining a prevent defense to me. lol

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 9, 2015 -> 03:39 PM) The math in that article makes my head hurt. Historically, teams are 45% on 2-point conversions but let's use the incredibly small sample size of 15 attempts this season to justify why it makes sense. Also, no mention of the fact that as teams start to go for two more, there is more film on what plays they use in those situations, and I believe the percentage would start to go down. Unless your kicker really sucks, kicking is still the right move unless it's the 4th quarter and the score differential justifies it. I do agree that teams punt too much though. You should never punt inside the opponent's 40 and very rarely punt inside the 50. It'll be interesting to see what the PAT conversion rates are after a full season or two of moving the kicks back.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Nov 9, 2015 -> 02:29 PM) An NFL team just needs to hire that high school coach who always goes for 2, never punts and always kicks onside kicks. I don't know about the onside kicks part, but the first two are more often than not the right choice. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/9/24/9391...xtra-points-nfl http://grantland.com/features/grantland-ch...ch-never-punts/

Among the numerous portraits of himself in his home, this one of Carson with Jesus has to take the cake: This one featuring a giant portrait of himself in his massive home proudly displayed over a stone carving of a line from "poverbs" [sic] about humility is a strong challenger, though:

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 8, 2015 -> 09:02 PM) It's amazing that NFL teams still put late game decisions in the hands of their coaches. Falcons FG try late today was the perfect example, they would have been better off had he missed. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/11/8/9694...oal-why-why-WHY NFL coaches are just so ridiculously conservative.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 8, 2015 -> 06:28 PM) I like how every time Carson is caught in a lie, Greg is like "BUT HILLARY! SHE IS UGLY AND TREATS PEOPLE BAD STUPID ROTTEN MEDIA" Balta, did Joseph also build the Enterprise? That was Noah.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 03:00 PM) If it comes out that he is connected with ISIS I wouldnt be surprised. LOL Lol

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 07:38 AM) Lol, at the end of the federalist article he states that nobody admitted to a hit piece Ben Carson claimed in writing that he was offered and turned down a full scholarship to West point. There is no record of this ever happening. Compare it to his multiple other crazy personal lies and it seems like he's a serial liar who needs to puff up his own story

Lol, a link to the federalist. It is shockingly fundamentally dishonest in its representation of reality.

More on Carson's personal lies http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/1...honesty-problem

A flat tax wouldn't eliminate the IRS. Tax brackets are the easy part, and if you're like most people with a simple w2 and a standard deduction, taxes are really simple. What makes it complicated is determining what actually counts as taxable income and what's deductible and what tax credits you have.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 02:54 PM) What's with all the gotcha Journalism surrounding Ben Carson? Man they are out to get him and no outrage. I didn't realize the Republican party was hated as badly as it is. They're just paving the smooth road for Hillary with all this. As far as this story ... so far I'm not enraged by it cause all politicians lie (cop out but true). Just like all major college and pro coaches lie. They just do. Investigating and reporting on the claims candidates make isn't gotcha journalism, it's just journalism.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) Kane is absolutely a victim. How does being falsely accused of one of the worst things a human being can do by some gold digger not warrant being a victim? This girl set real rape victims back 30 years, not Patrick Kane. Apparently trying to frame a rich athlete with rape isnt as bad as "what Kane did to the Blackhawks organisation" by going out with friends with security/driver during the offseason... Its pretty hilarious to see the same people who were all over Kane before the facts came out pathetically trying to stick to their guns. Yeah, I may still think that Kane is a douchebag overall, but it doesn't look like he did anything wrong in this case or even "put himself in a bad situation."

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 11:33 AM) Predictably, that looney bin is starting to be exposed for just how absurd it is that he's even a candidate. Trump wave is already past crest, and Carson has crested. Both too early. Which works well, so that maybe the GOP will have a nominee that isn't a complete joke. There's pretty good evidence that Carson has just been running his campaign as a brand-building grifting effort and not a serious political campaign. He's been spending a majority of his money on more fundraising efforts. Mailing lists can be very, very valuable.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 10:51 AM) The VW scandal does potentially impact Audi and Porsche as they're both owned by VW and share engine platforms on some models (the three have had design relationships going back decades, e.g. the control arms on some 80's Porsches are the same as a Volkswagen Rabbit). http://www.greencarreports.com/news/110078...-than-epa-named Audi, Porsche diesels also caught in this expanding problem.