StrangeSox

There were some great stats about the Bears versus playoff or potential playoff opponents this year on 670 a little bit ago. That list would be Green Bay (x2), New Orleans, New England, Dallas, Detroit. ** They are 0-6 being outscored by an average margin of 22.5 points.. ** The Bears scored 114 points in those 6 games. Their opponents scored 122 points in JUST THE 2ND QUARTER of those games. **The closest game was the 41-28 loss to the Cowboys; a game the Cowboys started the fourth quarter leading by 28. **The fewest points allowed were the 31 scored by the Saints last night **The average score after 3 quarters was 35-10 **The Bears were within 24 points to start the 4th in only 2 of those 6 games. And within 2 touchdowns entering the 4th just once (down 7 to Detroit on Thanksgiving) **The opposing QB has 23 TD and 0 INT and averages 323 yards passing (Romo was only one not to exceed 300 yds) **Jay Cutler had 12 TD and 11 INT in those games **Drew Brees' passer rating of 137.8 was the 2nd WORST in the 6 games (others: Rodgers 151.2 and 145.8, Brady 148.4, Romo 138.0 and Stafford a measly 116.0)

The Smoking Gun identifies "Witness 40," details her history of false reports/claims, bipolar disorder, racism and how she repeatedly changed her story and her account of what happened during grand jury testimony and admitted that parts of her account were based on what she read in the news.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 01:37 PM) Oh I enjoyed it too. But you have a woman and a man acting in stereotypical ways - the man is a big dumb moron that can't see what's right in front of him, and the woman is the overbearing/nagging one. To me that's funny because by and large that stuff is true for each gender. But it IS a kids movie and it IS perpetuating stereotypes. Seems right up some feminist/liberal alley. http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=341

Ingram's last TD eliminated me

The Guardian has a story on and the video of the police aggressively questioning the girlfriend of John Crawford, the guy gunned down instantly by police for picking up a toy gun off the shelf in a Walmart.

And that play ends my fantasy season.

Trestman saying "fire me" with these play calls.

Why.

Just such terrible football

Eighth time bears have gone into the half with seven or less points this year including four shutouts.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 08:26 PM) Trestman so unprepared week after week. There is no way they can keep him. No way.

Although I think statistically it actually increases your win chance going for it in that situation.

Failed fake punt, nice. And not even enough players. Jesus.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 02:18 PM) Another thing that annoys me is that there's no "1 sigma" margin of error posted and since this is a prediction stat you ought to actually be able to calculate that for every season. yep, error bars/ranges would be very helpful for these sorts of stats.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 03:45 PM) I'm not sure cardboard is the highest quality paper you could have reached for. lol

Oh I don't disagree. TNC is who gets my annual donation.

I think you need a mix of both TNC and SC-style conservationism. Sierra Club and others like them have achieved important legal and policy victories, including being instrumental in blocking the plans to put some dams in the Grand Canyon and Dinosaur national parks.

Apparently there's a bit of a ideological civil war going on in the conservationist world There's also a pretty good profile here of the Nature Conservancy's shift at the national level to working more with industry to mitigate effects than simply buying off parcels of land for preservation. Relatedly, The Nature Conservancy recently reintroduced bison to the Nachusa Grasslands out near Dixon, IL.

As good of an argument as any in favor of due process rights through tenure or some other means. edit: wouldn't have helped your friend since it sounds like he's year-to-year, though.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Dec 13, 2014 -> 11:41 AM) Exactly.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 09:30 AM) There was a huge chemical spill in West Virginia last week that has left 300,000 residents without clean water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401100100 FBI charges president of company responsible for West Virginia chemical spill Gary Southern has been charged with bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud and lying under oath

Homicide just means "killed by another person." This is a determination of the cause of death by the medical examiner, not a criminal charge, ruling or finding.

I watched DamNation on Netflix the other day, and it was pretty interesting to learn a little bit more about the ecological impacts of "green" hydropower. One of the focuses of the film is the restoration of the Elwha river on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. My wife and I decided to stop there on the last day of our trip earlier this year, and I'm really glad we did. You can walk around the former Elwha dam site and continue a little ways down to the old dam-formed lake. You see the stumps of old-growth trees that were cut down and submerged a century ago.

that is pretty awful

Pelosi has definitely looked silly in her denials about knowing or having worked with Gruber, but I have no idea why anyone would think that this would be worthy of the front page in any newspaper or worthy of a mention on a national news broadcast.