StrangeSox

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 11, 2015 -> 05:05 PM) Why doesn't one or all of the adults responsible step up to the plate, accept responsibility, take the heat off the kids, and show the kids what you do when you screw up.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 09:06 AM) There's more chemicals than originally thought in the Freedom leak. http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401210072 WV's response to a huge chemical leak that poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 of its residents: weaken chemical safety laws

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 04:20 PM) Remember how McNeil didn't like waking up early in the morning and stuff how much "pre-show" stuff is there to do for a 97.1 show versus a talk show?

to get an understanding of why a lot of people really were unhappy with AFFC, consider that people reading the books as they came out had to wait 12 years for the plot lines of Jon Snow, Tyrion and Daenerys to continue.

Lethal injection can also be pretty brutal, but when it goes wrong and the person suffers tremendously during their execution, attitude of most Americans seems to be "Good! He deserved it!"

Bill Maher is a moron in general.

haven't read this yet but looks interesting: How To Sell Off a City Welcome to Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, the privatized metropolis of the future.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 6, 2015 -> 11:50 AM) There is not a single index fund offered. I definitely need answers, I'd love to manage myself as there are plans I am a fan of, but I do not know how employee match is affected if I move to Roth. I'm sure it's gotta be in the employer's plan to get the employer match. My company started offering a Roth 401k option, but that just has to do with pre/post tax treatment. The options in the two plans are identical.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 6, 2015 -> 10:30 AM) I'm doing a pro-con speech in my high school english class on vaccinations. Any suggestions? My stance will be pro-vaccinations and I have to refute all of the autism concerns The refutation of Andrew Wakefield's work is a good place to start. He was instrumental in the early "vaccines cause autism" crap.

My thought has always been that if it's not an index fund, I'm probably getting ripped off.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 6, 2015 -> 09:35 AM) I would have thought that energy crash would have propped up GDP and consumer numbers more than jobs reports. But, obviously the revisions of recent GDP reports have been greater than 1% since q1 of last year. Yeah, I'd think that any economic spur from dropping energy prices would lag a little behind the actual prices, and that employment would lag substantially behind that.

Max the match and put the rest in your own IRA if you want better options.

Huge revisions to the November/December numbers. http://www.businessinsider.com/january-jobs-report-2015-2

Measles Hits Chicago-Area Daycare Center

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 5, 2015 -> 12:52 PM) They behead journalists. Completely innocent people who just happen to be associated with a western country. You're delusional if you don't think that's just as cold, calculated, and deliberate. Yes, SA's actions are also reprehensible, but in the land of "which is worse, cancer or cancer," I'll choose at least having the option of NOT being killed. I'm not sure how sophisticated the "witchcraft" laws are, but I suspect you have to be found guilty of doing something. You're not executed just because of your citizenship. I am in no way defending ISIS's actions, but ISIS is a lawless insurgency whose only legitimacy is force. Saudi Arabia is a functional government who beheads their own citizens for "witchcraft." It's more that I hold actual countries and legal systems to a higher standard.

Reddy works on one now apparently. I went on two with family when I was younger. They were fun but I prefer having more freedom to get out and explore rather than just being in a port for a few hours.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 5, 2015 -> 12:30 PM) How? At least in that situation you're afforded the option of NOT doing something to prevent your death. ISIS's barbaric actions were carried out against a foreign prisoner of war. Saudi Arabia's is cold, calculated, deliberate and carried out against their own citizens. That they have a legal system that explicitly endorses such barbaric actions is morally worse, in my opinion, than the seemingly crazy violence of ISIS. edit: the SA beheadings are also over witchcraft. Not exactly a legitimate law there.

I'd say the one that has the guise of legality is actually even worse.

My first anniversary gift to my wife happened to be paper (concert tickets), but I don't think I was even aware of that 'tradition' at the time.

It doesn't, but buying gasoline or products made from or distributed with oil doesn't mean you support SA.

This really does make it look like it's going to be an easy TD: Just a perfect break by the DB there or the Seahawks score.

balta's been doing a lot of balta-ing of his own lately

Study: You Can't Change an Anti-Vaxxer's Mind

I don't think the autism-vaccine science was all that inconclusive in 2008, though. People knew Andrew Wakefield was a fraud pretty much right away.

S.&.P. Announces $1.37 Billion Settlement With Prosecutors no one will ever actually be criminally prosecuted for wrecking the world economy, unfortunately.