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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 27, 2012 -> 08:18 AM) Suh'd for $1,000,000 http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/break...story?track=rss That attorney should lose his license. A million bucks for a soft tissue accident? Frivolous.

I really hope Chic fil A sues. They'd basically be guaranteed the permit if they wanted it. The Alderman's own statements make it clear that he denied it solely because of the gay marriage comments. Trying to cover himself with later statements won't help.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 03:50 PM) The ACLU is also stepping up on behalf of CFA and against the alderman: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/26...al-experts-say/ Good for them.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 03:40 PM) Adam Dunn will go a week without striking out before a team with Carlos Boozer as it's starting 4 wins a title. Durant/Westrbrook/Harden/Ibaka got their asses handed to them (OKC had homecourt as well). What the hell would the Bulls have done besides play hard and makes the games relatively competitive? Play much better defense and not try to run with the best running team in the league, for one. Edit: Lol, I missed the bold on my first read. So you admit they would've made the games "relatively competitive" but they'd have no chance at winning? Come on...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 03:35 PM) And people like you are why the Bulls never do anything and are satisfied with being ordinary. Go to Boston, LA or even Dallas and tell their fanbases that Rip will be the difference between losing in the conference finals and getting to the finals and see what happens. Yeah, because that's what I've said.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 03:06 PM) Not really. Unless you really believed a broken down, 5 years past his prime Rip Hamilton would've been the difference between losing in the conference finals in 2011 and getting to the finals in 2012. If you really believe that, maybe Reinsdorf really is a genius. I did, and still do. As do many others. Saying there was "no chance" is ridiculous.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 01:58 PM) That's because they didn't. Once LeBron made up his mind that he was getting his title, that was that. A healthy Bulls (something that doesn't exist, anyway) had no chance at Miami this year. This is one of those comments that causes people to think you troll in this thread. They had a chance. Might not have been a good chance, but they had a chance with a healthy Rose.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 11:21 AM) Yup. Keep towing the company line. Nothing could be done! Poor Derrick Rose and his zero help - we were set! Teams go out and make things happen all the time, those teams just aren't the Chicago Bulls. It's a f***ing joke, but you continue to eat it up. Was that in response to my post? I'm agreeing with you. The Bulls have put themselves in a s***ty position going forward.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 11:04 AM) 1. The front office turned us from 8 seed to back to back 1 seed in one offseason, an offseason we "lost" by the way. We can debate the meaning of the 1 seed, but we were a title contender every second that Derrick Rose's ACL was intact. 2. JR remembers 1998-whenever the end of that run was and is not going to encourage the deconstruction of yet another winning team. He'd rather you pine for superstar number 2 while you have several star players on the roster than having to pretend that players like Marcus Fizer, Ron Artest, and an old Jalen Rose are franchise cornerstone players. I agree with that sentiment, too. 3. What good does spending into the luxury tax bring? More bench mob? I'm sorry but I agree with the FO that being unable to sign free agents and having inflated contracts with your bench players f***ing sucks. I believe the FO will spend into the tax when it comes to keeping key players around -- heck, what would you say if we paid the tax to keep Boozer on the roster? That's the type of s*** these other teams do and we'll do it too if necessary to stay competitive. I'm sick of smart posters losing their mind over spending as if the cap doesn't keep us from signing big FAs. Jerry opening the wallet right now would only keep our overrated bench players around. The instant we have players worth spending into the tax for, we'll do it. All those players are under contract now. Just keep the Ben Gordon contract situation in mind...was that cheap or savvy? You tell me. 4. Speaking of the bench and young players, let's talk about the youth or supposed lack thereof on the bench. CJ Watson and JL3 turned into Hinrich, Teague, and maybe Beverley. That position got younger. The 2 guard position lost Brewer and Korver, gained Belinelli and Butler. Replaced two players at their peak with two young guys with room to grow. Butler is also Deng's reserve, which amounts to about 5 minutes. Taj remains Taj. Omer becomes Nazr Mohammed, final we get older. It just isn't that easy to find a good, cheap reserve 5 and I think Nazr makes sense in that role instead of some NDFA that may cost us when Noah inevitably gets hurt. Scalabrine becomes Vlad Rad, who isn't much younger but at least has a useful skill. The last big man is likely to be Malcolm Thomas who must be you guys' dream come true as an NDFA. Let's just let it all play out and relax. This team isn't that bad, even minus Derrick Rose. We get in the habit of devaluing our players and staff. I'd love for us to make a splash but we didn't. I honestly can't blame a franchise for not going after Dwight Howard either, especially when he says he doesn't like you. Let that circus go elsewhere. I'd imagine most posters would agree this is still a 50 win team. But that means dick in the NBA when you're competing against teams like Miami, LA, OKC, etc. The last two years have shown that - we win lots of team games in a superstar sport. We have one, they have 2.5. Basically the Bulls are in the worst possible position. They're good enough to win, not good enough to win a title. So crappy draft picks for a worthless division title.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 10:28 AM) You said in order to be competitive teams had to recruit like this. Wisconsin is the favored team in the Big Ten this year, and they aren't doing it. And of course Bielema isn't going to call out the rest of the coaches in the Big 10. He isn't stupid. And obviously it isn't wrong. But it is slimy and disgusting. The only reason these kids are available is because their school and coach protected a child molester. Schools wanting to profit from that are no better than any of the other dirty recruiters out there. It doesn't matter if it is Illinois or anyone else. I say good for the Badgers. That gives me a lot more respect for them. So what, these kids are tainted goods or something? You're just being a hater here. This is a special circumstance where, again, the NCAA opened up the recruitment of these guys. There's nothing slimy about it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 10:20 AM) So Wisconsin isn't competitive? Illinois is targeting players that had shown interest in Illinois prior to committing to PSU. Maybe Wisconsin doesn't, who knows. This whole story is a bunch of bulls***. NCAA opened the doors for this, Illinois, and other schools, are taking advantage.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 01:46 PM) Bottom line is we don't allow the government to discriminate against people for their religious beliefs, no matter what we personally think of. People have the free speech ability to support organizations that we don't approve of. The same thing would apply to a group like the KKK. They have the right to exist, and we can't stop that, no matter what they say. Political donations are protected free speech. Come on man, you know this only applies in one direction. It is laughably ironic how discriminatory the anti-discriminatory crowd has been about this story.

There are worse ways to go...

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 11:53 AM) It's Chicago, you make a zoning decision based on whatever the hell you want, normal rules don't apply. What a waste of time/energy/money though. That article said they've been working with the City for 9 months on traffic plans. Everything was a go until this alderman decided to make a headline.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 10:57 AM) Didn't he say God would punish those with the audacity to define marriage? Looks like it happened. No, he said he thinks it's wrong that humans feel like they can redefine marriage when God has already done it. He's never said anything about punishing gay people that I've seen.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 10:16 AM) Well, that's what happens when you have a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that you have the audacity to define what marriage is about. That is a personal opinion that never affects how the business runs or operates, especially as it pertains to homosexuals. I just find it hilarious the double standard. "Treat people equally unless you don't believe what I believe and then it's ok for me to treat you unequally."

I think this is kinda bulls***. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/bre...,0,929023.story So they support one definition of marriage. There's been zero evidence that the store, or its employees, discriminate in anyway.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virgini...rms-ar-2081517/

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 05:30 PM) http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-don...45339--nba.html This makes me feel worse

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 01:35 PM) Tara is hot, but I love Lillith more than her. I actually thought it was the first decent episode of True Blood, I just wish they would get rid of half the story lines and stick with the Sanguinista Vampire Civil War. Do they really need the Ifrit, Mexican Shaman, Faery, Werewolf and shifter stories as well? And Breaking Bad was good, I think there is a lot more to Madrigal than we know. Yeah Lillith was pretty hot walking off the stage. Basically if they cut everything out but the vampire lore, the show would be great. But all of the other stuff is filler that's just garbage at this point. Also, it annoyed me that Eric/Bill didn't know that the main authority chick was working with Russell. In the last episode she was like "hey you want me to increase the silver IV? Ok! I'm going to go do that RIGHT NOW." And then 2 seconds later it's clear that Russell was at full power. HMMMMMM...doesn't take a genius to figure out who helped him guys...

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 01:12 PM) Sam Smith's take on things: http://blogs.bulls.com/2012/07/bulls-will-...-offer-to-asik/ That makes me feel little better.

Great episode of Breaking Bad. Good back story on Gus' empire and very little Walt Jr. and Skylar. True Blood. Ugh. Might be the end of the road for me. SO many storylines and none of them are all that good. I bet Soxbadger loved Tara on the pole.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 05:34 PM) Well officer I was just watching the video so I could ascertain her age. That's not my urine. Someone CGI'd that in there.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 04:24 PM) On the other hand, if anyone here has read the Tiger Mother/Amy Chua book, the main moral of the story is that the parenting model has to be something of a "hybrid" between Eastern and Western modes. In the book, she's (the mother) pushed the youngest daughter so hard in piano (the older daughter was forced to learn the violin, or maybe I have it the other way around) that she finally cracks under the pressure as a teenager and her mom relents and lets her quit playing and start tennis instead, after she's invested 10-12 years and tens of thousands of dollars on lessons and experts and tutors in an effort to make her a prodigy. There's a much higher suicide rate in Asian countries because of all the burden and pressure of expectations from parents, especially when it's an only child. The major difference is countries like China don't allow gun possession by civilians. What happens there most often is disenfranchised men who are lacking in education go into an elementary school and stab children, or maybe there's acid attacks in Hong Kong, another example. Sarin gas in Tokyo, the AUM religious cult. The difference between pushing someone and abusing someone, is a very very fine line. Look at how kids who grew up in systems like this turned out as adults, for example, Tiger Woods, the Williams sisters or Todd Marinovich. Parents need to remember their reasons for pushing kids, and think about what's really in their best interest. Kids don't exist to make the parents look better, that's not the way it works. The other thing is that fewer and fewer kids are playing organized sports...PE budgets are being cut back or don't even exist, as well as areas like art and music. Kids are content to just play on their cell phones or laptops and hardly ever exercise anymore (the majority). If there's any one difference that always strikes me about the US vs. Asia, it's that every time I go out to eat, 60-75% of the customers are fat or obese. In Asian countries, you always never see that. If you do see someone who's overweight in middle or high school, they're teased or bullied unmercifully about it by their classmates. Is that better? Where people are blunt/honest and say whatever they think or feel instead of holding things back for fear of hurting someone's feelings? Who knows? It's a question I still haven't found the answer to as a teacher trained in the political correctness of the "West" but sometimes horrified by the behavior of parents in the "East." Our country's motto is "Don't worry, it's not your fault."

Apparently she might have been underage at the time. Sucks to be the ex-boyfriend if that's the case. Going from potential millions selling the thing to a felon.