StrangeSox

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 06:10 AM) Slit the enemy's throat? Cool Kill twelve with an automatic weapon while helping your fellow soldiers to escape an ambush? Win a medal Kill sixteen with a "smart bomb"? Wow, look at our technology! Kill 200,000 with a couple atomic bombs? Hey, it saved lives! Chemical weapons? NOOOOOooooooooooooooo!!!! Really? Why? WWI and then the Holocaust, basically.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 06:18 AM) Not being flippant here, but I doubt many people (myself included) fully understand all the ramifications and differences between passing a budget, which hasn't happened in years, and funding through continuing resolutions. Then toss in the too many to track procedural options that seem to change based on the current situations, and you have events that I doubt many Americans, including the elected officials, can keep track of. FWIW both the House and the Senate have passed a budget this year, but Republicans have refused to go into the budget reconciliation process. This is the first time in several years that the Senate has passed a budget.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 08:18 AM) The person who is going to give you a job when your term is up. Given the rate of elected office->lobbyist we have now, I don't see how term limits would change that. Term limits take away choice from the voters. They ensure that there will always be a fresh stream of inexperienced people in elected offices. And, IIRC, there's little evidence that they really do much to improve governance. It gives more power to the political machines to produce a constant stream of candidates.

Closer than it should have been, but a solid win

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 10:11 PM) The Bears D also gave the Bears 10 free points, unfortunately the coaching staff decided not to take 3 of those. Boom or bust with these guys

What a huge break!

This run defense...

Huge play by Jennings

Ugh

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 10:01 PM) This shouldn't be so close.

Man that's what the third time Cutler and Jeffery were close to a big play

Lol why it's that flag even thrown in the first place

Soldier Field turf strikes again

Jesus these announcers, the bears aren't going to use up ten more minutes on this drive

"Brian"Jacobs

Missing so many holding calls

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 09:22 PM) No, professional level Federal employees like myself won't be losing their houses. However, I had to dip into my retirement account and I'll never get back the $3K or so in penalties. It doesn't have to hurt a lot to piss people off. Also, the lady who empties my trash and vacuums my floor everyday is contracted and not a Federal employee. She won't get back pay when the shutdown is over, and I imagine the $10/hour or whatever she makes is going to be dearly missed. She's the kind of person who's really getting screwed over by this. Yep, definitely plenty of crappy results.

They're just saying dumb things like "unchartered territory" and saying the first play of the half was the first of the game

But the bears offense looks pretty good!

These announcers are pretty bad

What is wrong with manning

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 07:35 PM) Such s***ty play calling. And you should always kick the field goal. You get the ball to start the 2nd, you stopped them and will be up points. Well it's not like not taking the easy points had burnt anyone recently...oh, wait.

Ok I really don't know about that one

I'll take that start

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 05:41 PM) When is our celebrity president going to get this shutdown ended?? Lot of people are running out of money. I have a friend in defense engineering who said he will probably be furloughed next week. The people who were furloughed from the start are probably close to losing their homes, etc. What a f***ing joke. END THE SHUTDOWN. As terrible and dumb as this shutdown is, tomorrow is the first paycheck feral employees will be missing. I feel for them, my father is one of them, but nobody is close to losing their house because of this yet. There are plenty of crappy things happening right now and that will happen in the future without needing to exaggerate.