StrangeSox

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 05:03 PM) Jones gave up a hit to the first batter he faced and then he and the rest of the pen retired every single hitter the rest of the game. 14 in a row.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 05:13 PM) Don't you pay FIT on Social Security income? I thought that was one of the Greenspan reforms. I'd imagine they might be low enough to cancel it out with eitc mortgage etc.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) I don't understand why this is such a problem for so many people. What do they do with their kids the other 180 days/year they aren't in school? There are a lot more options in the summer.

Isn't a significant portion of the non-FIT payers made up of the elderly?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 03:29 PM) I didn't say he cost me $5500, I said POTENTIALLY. I have the whole season mapped out w/ my picks, I was pretty damn confident. It's possible that shank of a kick cost me $5500. please post the rest of your picks so that we can all follow along

He also didn't inherit anything! Except a wealthy upbringing full of connections and a bunch of money that paid for his multiple Harvard degrees. I wonder if he really does buy his own "bootstraps" bulls*** and really can't fathom why everyone couldn't make as much money as he did if they just applied themselves.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) Mother Jones got their hands on a Romney rich-person fundraiser video. Nothing truly awful in it, but you might be able to turn some of this into a "cling to their guns" (from 08) level annoyance. Do they really believe that the 47-49% of Americans who pay no net FIT are hardcore Obama/Democrat voters?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 03:29 PM) I didn't say he cost me $5500, I said POTENTIALLY. I have the whole season mapped out w/ my picks, I was pretty damn confident. It's possible that shank of a kick cost me $5500. You lost a survivor's pool in week 2, it's pretty silly to talk about POTENTIALLY winning it.

Why Jump a Kneeldown? Because it worked two years ago.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 03:31 PM) Veal.....Go breaking ball, breaking ball, breaking ball & end the inning please. good call

Tigers can't throw strikes

Gameday showed that solidly over the plate and above the knees?

got something good going here

oh come on

Fister's losing control

Gameday's showing the ump to be very generous to the Sox hitters

the only way the Sox can score a run

Gameday shows that last pitch right down the middle of the plate?

Rahm said the teacher's union is about to break, purple-monkey-dishwasher

They should have some sort of auto-sub function for the last-minute sits.

consider potential sampling bias i.e. upper-middle class white collar professionals A lot of people were already unhappy with Rahm/CPS over the school closings.

QUOTE (G&T @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 10:57 AM) Well the union wouldn't be dumb enough to advise teachers to defy the order regardless. Absolutely true.

I don't know why they couldn't get this thing done over the weekend, but that signals that the delegates still have some serious concerns about the proposal and whether or not the union members as a whole would vote to approve. You can't go back to work this week and then strike again next week if it turns out the membership doesn't like what was offered. It also makes me wonder how much of the "we'll be back Monday" rhetoric was coming from the CPS side versus the CTU side. I haven't seen any polling on this issue aside from a brief mention on a blog that 60% of parents were siding with the CTU, but I don't recall the source. This Reuters article mentions this: