StrangeSox

It seems to cut across the political spectrum. You've got everything from anti-gmo, everything-organic holistic herbal remedies in tune with nature Whole Foods crowd to the "f*** you, I got mine, I don't owe society nothin'" types to the "fluoridation is a communist plot!" Birch conspiracy theory types. Plus a lot of generally apolitical and otherwise well-meaning people who have been duped by frauds into believing vaccines cause autism etc.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 07:50 AM) Has something happened in the last year or so that has made this a topic of conversation? Don't remember it ever being controversial or seeing so many anti-vaccine folks before. Over the last decade or so, more and more people have been refusing to vaccinate their children. This is breaking 'heard immunity' and is leading to outbreaks of diseases like measles. The latest incident was an outbreak in Disney. NOVA had an episode last fall on it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/vaccines...ling-shots.html

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 07:55 AM) Haven't seen anything official, but we are certainly over a foot here in Northbrook. I'd guess 14-16" in the end, but hard to say for sure with the drifts. Older kid's school closed, younger kid's actually stayed open. Office open (because the markets are open) but I'm working from home, staying with the older one. 19.1" at O'hare is what I heard on WXRT this morning, making it the 5th biggest snow storm in Chicago history.

The OC throwing the WR under the bus multiple times was pretty awful. That and his nonsensical explanations about wanting to take time off the clock and play for 3rd/4th down, so he called a quick inside pass on the goal line.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 09:06 PM) I would fire me a OC tonight in Arizona....................NE will be fined 10K for ballgate and nothing else.............I dislike both teams. That was just such an awful call.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 09:03 PM) I wonder if Sherman is still running his mouth about Revis now. shocker, the punk b****es Seattle cant handle losing. unlikeable. Sherman played well and it wasn't like revis made the big play. Dint know what you're saying here.

Holy cow.

Melt down at the end for Seattle

Agree there, what a bad play call

Wow.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 07:56 PM) Did everyone just get a toenail fungus prescription commercial or please tell me that was just local? Think it was national

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 07:26 PM) I don't think I'm being hyperbolic when I say those dancing sharks are the greatest thing to ever happen at the super bowl

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 06:55 PM) I'm having trouble not thinking about dead children. Thanks nationwide. These commercials are ridiculous. Buy a car, it'll make you a good father. Get nationwide or your children will die.

This looks like the bears offense.

Ours was a short sale, giant pain in the ass mostly because of the other realtor. You do get a brand loyalty with the cordless tools just because it's cheaper to buy bare tools, so you only get one or two batteries and then the rest bare. I've had good luck with my Makita stuff, and dewalt is always good.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 11:30 AM) Ha, in the same boat. Come on white out conditions! Although I'm already getting tired of shoveling. Round 1 was about 7:30 this morning. Round 2 about 10:30. I'm kind over it. Having a neighbor with an industrial snow blower who looks for any excuse to use it is great. He did half the block.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 31, 2015 -> 11:12 PM) I'm not saying it didn't happen. I just though it was funny. The whole pseudo-science and fake vaccination combination was funny. IIRC the vaccines were at least legitimate vaccines, but it only legitimized the fears that they're just a foreign plot.

Undocumented immigrants have nothing to do with a bunch of upper class mainly white people not vaccinating their children over a bunch of garbage pseudo-science.

On that note, the cia using a vaccination program in Pakistan to gather DNA info sure as f*** didn't help dispel those fears.

The most important aspect of anti-vaxxer idiocy is obviously Mexicans Africans and Muslims.

Jesus Christ.

Was this mannellys decision or management

Kill all anti-vaxxers, banish their children from society.

Freddie and Fannie got into the game very late after their market share was getting eaten by the Wall Street banks. But yes, they made poor decisions as well.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 30, 2015 -> 01:08 PM) That's an interesting point of view. Not knowing the financial world much, I bet this was a huge debate. Who is more at fault the banks for taking the risk or the people who accepted the loans taking the risk. From a societal stand point I guess I would lean toward the people taking the money shouldn't have taken it and agreed to pay it back as opposed to the ones offering it trying to make the money. But who are the educated, knowledgeable professionals here? Who are the ones that are supposed to be experts at evaluating loan risks? It's not like there's a shortage of stories/lawsuits over banks pushing people to lie on the applications in order to qualify or simply changing the numbers on the applications themselves. Think of high-pressure car salesmen. They're just looking to squeeze the absolute most out of you. When I was buying a car back in May, I overheard the deal going down next to me as I waited on paperwork. It was a younger kid, early 20's, looking at buying a new Toyota FR-S. Only problem was, he couldn't actually afford it. Within 20 minutes, the sales guy had talked him into an "affordable" lease and then he could just buy the car outright in 3 years! It's a high-pressure situation with lots of emotion involved (you really do like that car/house, and you do need something to drive/live in). One side of the table is highly incentivized to get that deal closed, and they've got a lot of experience in negotiating. They'll lie to you, their boss and anyone else to get the deal closed. They'll use well-worn but effective tactics ("four squares) to get you focused on the "right" numbers. Now one critical difference there is that most people view car salesmen pretty skeptically, but even with that they're pretty successful. I don't have data, but I'd imagine that people are generally a lot less skeptical towards the loan officer at their local bank branch, and that they'd trust these people to give them sound financial guidance. But that's not what they were getting. They were getting mortgage brokers looking to push as many people into the most profitable loans they could regardless of the actual financial circumstances. Why should we more heavily blame the people emotionally invested in one of the biggest decisions of their lives (buying a home) instead of the people who churn out mortgages every day and are looking to make as much money as possible? The bankers are the people who are supposed to have seriously and legitimately evaluated the financial capabilities of the mortgagee and determined that they could repay this loan.