StrangeSox

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 10, 2012 -> 02:53 PM) But we NEEDED Shea McAsshat to run by the QB over and over till he gets hurt. At least we didn't have to suffer false hopes after Jerry left for long

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Dec 10, 2012 -> 02:43 PM) I'll take an average offense now, aren't we ranked near the very bottom this year? We're above-average right now, though that's somewhat inflated by 8 defensive & special teams TD's. Still, we have 9 rushing TD's and 18 passing TD's so far this year. All of last year, we had 10 and 18. In 2010, it was 10 & 23.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 10, 2012 -> 02:36 PM) I would be terrified if Ted Thompson was asking his o-line coach who to draft. They may have some input, but there are full time scouts watching these players. The Bears haven't exactly done much o-line drafting since Tice has been here, anyway. They drafted Webb in 2010, but Tice had only been there a few months at that point and he was a 7th round pick. They drafted Carimi last year, who is inexplicably playing poorly at RT. They drafted no o-line this year.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Dec 10, 2012 -> 02:24 PM) I think our offense looked much crisper under Martz. Maybe someone could find the stats to prove my point, I'm in a bit of a rush right now, but at least Jays individual statistics bear this out. And for all of Tice's talk of protecting the QB he has not been able to do it any better than Martz did. He's got 31 sacks now. Last year at 7-3 Jay was sacked 21 times. They were average/below-average in points/game* under Martz and towards the bottom in yards/game. *that includes defensive and special teams points, which were 4 TD's in 2011 and 10 TD's in 2010.

Those two blogs contain other links, including to the Greenwald column which contains yet more links. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...-torture-awards Feinstein and Levin clearly disputed the claim that torture played a role in the Bin Laden raid: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/o..._n_1465820.html An FBI counter-terrorism agent points out Rodriguez's numerous other lies regarding the successes of torture: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/20...-rodriguez.html The man was a torturer and a liar who destroyed the evidence of his crimes. I see no reason to trust him or his attempts to vindicate his despicable actions (to himself and to the public), nor for a Hollywood movie to present his claims as fact.

Our offense looked "so much better?" I thought it was pretty awful under Martz.

AFAIK there's nothing corroborating the idea that torture was crucial and necessary and several sources discrediting that claim.

Disappointed to hear that Zero Dark Thirty perpetuates the awful lie that torture was critical to finding Bin Laden.

1) Governments aren't households and analogizing the two leads to all sorts of really wrong conclusions. 2) Just because taxes were cut at some point doesn't mean they can't now be raised. "The budget they have" can be adjusted, and should be.

If they decide to issue $100B in tax credits or spend an additional $100B on roads, the budgeting result is the same. Refusing to look at tax expenditures in the same light as spending leads to circular "starve the beast" logic, which, while nice for conservatives, is bad for public policy when people don't actually want to gut all of those programs. If you're actually concerned about deficits (nobody really is, it's just cover for other policies), then you should be treating both sides of the ledger the same way.

Tax expenditures and tax cuts can be classified exactly the same way as spending w.r.t. budgeting and balance sheets. Whether I cut you a check directly to subsidize your mortgage or I give you credits to reduce your tax bill, the end result is identical.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Dec 9, 2012 -> 06:11 PM) Defense has been very bad, they cannot escape criticism either. They got murked by two rookie Qb's this year, inexcusable. And today they collapsed on the very first drive and affected the momentum in a very bad way. Got the crowd into the game right off the bat and the Vikings started playing much harder after that first drive on offense and on defense. injuries expose a lack of depth which again points to coaching/talent evaluation/the ghost of Angelo The defense gave up one drive to start the game. That was pretty much it.

Crap punt. Remember when the Bears didn't suck?

Ugh. They missed a blatant block in the back on cutler

Off to a good start!

Tex, everyone needs to make sacrifices to fix the deficit! And by everyone, I mean the most vulnerable members of society who depend on Medicaid and Medicare to survive. Every Republican has told me that raising taxes is bad and revenue doesn't even matter, we need to CUT! CUT! CUT!

Nhl seriously expanded to too markets with no hockey fan base, that's a big part of it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 7, 2012 -> 12:42 PM) My post wasn't a defense of how awesome Demint was/is, in any regard. oh I know, it wasn't in response to anyone in particular, just the subject of the thread

jim demint is an awful person though: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/...-demint-resign/

Thread is now about college budget cooking, mod please fix the title

Let's not ruin a thread with lame tu quoques and non sequitors

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 6, 2012 -> 03:37 PM) This has Gen. Petraeus written all over it. No,bmags was right

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 6, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) I thought a special election was necessary. No? In that case, NVM. It varies by state

But that's the point, that's a common perception and why race is likely a factor in both of these cases.

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