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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 18, 2011 -> 02:01 PM) Out playing someone over two series versus a season, is the very definition of small sample size. I hate James, and have no doubt he is the best player in the NBA, and by a large margin. End of the game, championship on the line. Who do you give the ball to? Wade or Lebron? Unless you answer Lebron, I dunno how he can be considered the greatest.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 18, 2011 -> 01:54 PM) The drugs you ingested prior to this post made it too obvious that you are high. LeBron is the best player on his own team, and it's not even close. You apparently suffered a bout of amnesia through the 2010-2011 playoffs when Wade clearly outplayed him 2 of the last 3 series they played.

Anyone been following ESPN's NBA player rankings? Pretty terrible top ten. Lebron - how? He's not even the best player on his team. Howard - Top 10, dunno about 2. Best defensive player, but still a liability on offense late in games Wade - when healthy and rested he's one of the best. #2 in my book. Dirk - #1 right now, not sure how anyone can question that. CP3 - too high. this is a list of greatest players, not potential greatest players. Durant - about right Kobe - about right Rose - few spots too low but can't complain DWill - love the guy but too high. Has yet to show he can lead a team to a deep playoff run like some of these other guys. Still a top 3 PG though. Griffin - ridiculous. no where close to top 10. Probably the best or second best PF in the game, but his team won about 30 games last year. Other questionables: Kevin Love at 16 Rondo at 17

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 18, 2011 -> 09:54 AM) They'd probably move him if they got the same package the Raiders just offered up (First rounder and a conditional first the next year). I think Forte is vastly overrated, but I think he's worth more than a 15-25 pick first rounder.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 17, 2011 -> 05:30 PM) I've been saying for a while now, to the disagreement of almost everyone here, that the general election boils down to this... the GOP doesn't need to worry about their base, because their base is far more focused on getting Obama out, than on who they vote in. All they have to focus on in the general is getting some support among swing/moderate voters. Obama's camp, on the other hand, while also needing to get this middle of the road voters, has a second and larger problem - the base is unhappy and may not show up. You want proof? CNN's latest poll has the proof right there. Consider these numbers... Only 30% of GOP respondents have settled on a candidate. But 65% of them are very enthusiastic about supporting their candidate. What does that tell you? Furthermore, only about 35% of Dem voters are energized for the upcoming election. Everyone likes to talk about the GOP base coming out. To me, that is a complete non-issue for this cycle. The keys are two: moderate voters (which way they go), and the Dem base. That is the election right there. Isn't it sad that people get so upset with "the other guy" that they just ignore the credentials of the people they'll be voting for? This two party system we have needs to be destroyed.

I guess I don't get why the "53%" pictures are "terrible."

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 17, 2011 -> 07:02 PM) here is one I am thinking of. Dad is nowhere to be found, he's been missing for several years now and presumed to be in Mexico. The student I have is the youngest of five. Three of the other four dropped out as soon as they turned 16, the fourth is still in school, but in and out of the alternative school and expected to drop out at 16 as well. When mom gets arrested, which is a fairly regular occurrence, they go to live with their tia who occasionally will get them to school. The older ones, before dropping out, were regularly busted with drugs. This girl is below grade level for every statistical yardstick we have. Could a foster situation be worse? Sure. Is this girl going to graduate high school in the present situation? No way. Will she wind up in and out of jail like the rest of the family, I'd say yes. Toss out all the stats you like, but in this case, I'd go with my judgement and take a chance on new surroundings. I'd like to know why these people have 4 kids. What possible incentive is there to keep having children when all you want to do is get high?

I guess i'm not understanding why that happened, especially last night. I'd be interested to see his explanation.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 17, 2011 -> 10:55 AM) Well, perhaps he considered that, while he was tangling with one zombie, the other would turn its sights on the girl and he would be unable to stop it. But they had just spent 35 minutes showing that if you don't move/don't make a sound they'll ignore you. I dunno, a trivial issue, but it just sorta summed up the episode. The whole thing felt "clunky" to me.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 17, 2011 -> 11:30 AM) LOL, clear as day last night, you could hear Jay Cutler yell "'Tell Martz I said f*** you!'" when was that?

I thought the Walking Dead was a pretty big disappointment really. The commercials were incredibly annoying and broke up any momentum the show had going into the last 45 minutes. The scene on the highway, while good, was too contrived. Bottled up highway, RV breaks down....gee I wonder what will happen. Also found it odd that Rick melee'd the two zombies after the kid, but only after he ran away....why not do it right there where the kid is so you don't lose sight of her? I'd give it a B-. Too slow for my liking, especially after the first half hour, and especially for a series premiere.

ugh, gonna need a huge 4th here. both defenses playing well

way too conservative. need to open up the playbook. we're calling plays like this is the NC OSU team.

Pretty amazing to me that it's been almost 2 quarters and OSU has attempted one pass. Yet they're still winning

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Oct 15, 2011 -> 03:28 PM) Seems like illini been coming out flat every game, I don't think they have any chance vs Wisconsin. Their defense is really, really good though. I wasn't a believer for a while, but they've been pretty stout against a lot of different styles. They've got 2 excellent DE's and a really good MLB. They might not win, but the defense will keep them in the game. Would help if the receivers could catch the ball today. That's about the 4th drop on 3rd down today.

exactly. lost 20 yards and ended up getting nothing.

That's why I hate Ron Zook. Defense controlling the last two drives, yet you punt the ball instead of using two plays to pick up 4 yards

Oof, close fg there

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 15, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) Last night I was at our game and was thinking how different it is from my days in Illinois. First off, the town where I teach has a population of 30,000, the football stadium seats 15,000. Tickets are $7, reserved seating. Jumbotron scoreboard. Instant replays. Giant custom inflatables for the players to run through. Sixty or so players on the side with 16 coaches. 30 or so cheerleaders (boys and girls). The marching band has about 80-100. Various other dance and pom pom groups. Everything is sponsored, first downs, red zone, stops, you name it. Away teams arrive in 6 to 8 school buses, often times with custom graphics on the vehicles and a police escort from their town with sirens and lights blasting. Sounds almost as good as high school basketball in Indiana.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 04:18 PM) That modern people can't figure out how ancient people would have done something doesn't mean that they couldn't or didn't do it, and it certainly doesn't lend any actual support to claims that they must have been built by aliens or advanced civilizations of which there is no evidence at all. Those are simply "just so" stories. Modern archaeological explanations do not have all of the answers. Hell, modern (insert scientific field) explanations do not have all of the answers. But they do all follow the best path to the truth that we have: the scientific method. Crank science and crank history don't, and it's plainly clear which claims lack any methodological rigor. It's no different than cryptozoology or any other pseudoscience. But in what other field would you accept the premise that A caused B with the only evidence being that B exists and A happened to be around in the same area. From what i've read/seen, they literally have no idea how the pyramids were built. There's no tools, no heiroglyphs, no secondary writing sources, nothing. They have Egyptians living there and the pyramids existing there and then a whole bunch of theories (widely ranging theories at that). I'm not saying that's proof that they didn't do it. But I don't see why there's that automatic assumption that they did.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 04:00 PM) There's nothing that indicates that the Egyptians couldn't have or didn't build the pyramids. What about the fact that no one has come up with a workable theory for how they actually built them? Every time i've ever read a book or watched a program, they offer theories, none of which are accepted as very workable in reality.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 03:23 PM) Guns scare the bejesus out of me. Why? Because there are wackos? Well, yes, of course. But, I'm afraid of are the wackos you don't know. The ones that COULD pass any exam. The ones that PRETEND to be on the up-and-up. Look, we are too far gone from banning all guns in the country. Ain't gonna happen. But there are too many stressed-out, near-breaking-point people out there that can put on a show for the license. People like GLTI and Alpha are the ones that I'm not afraid of, not because they know HOW to use a gun, but because they know WHEN to use a gun. There is no reason in this society to have a concealed weapon unless you are police or a licensed detective or in some kind of harms way on a daily basis. But, that's JMHO. This is an incredibly rational opinion. Unfortunately, most criminals aren't rationale. Neither are the crazies who end up using guns to kill people. As to the bolded, protection is a reason, and really the only reason you need. Assuming you go through the rigamarole of obtaining your gun in a legal way, of keeping up to date with various safety courses, pay your fees, whatever, there's absolutely no good reason not to let you carry your gun whenever you want to (with obvious exceptions to places where it should be banned such as government buildings, sporting events, etc.) Why punish the majority for what a very small minority does?

I remember reading McCullough's Lewis and Clark book. Those guys on the expedition would eat 5-6k calories a DAY of whatever meat they could get. Think how much physical work they went through to need that kind of calorie-intake.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 10:45 AM) Honestly, the fact that talking to a lawyer is in your guys' opinion 100% necessary to make sure my service provider is not screwing me over in the process of taking out a mortgage scares the living f*** out of me. It shouldn't. A lawyer drafts the legal documents required for the transaction of property. 90% of their work deals with issues before closing. They don't go through the mortgage step by step and tell you what it all means. They tell you what every other document means, from disclosures to deeds to title issues. You're blowing this thing so out of proportion. Edit: More to the point, a lawyer doesn't protect you from your service provider. They protect you from the seller/buyer, and offer general assistance with the loan portion of it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 09:44 AM) The fact that a mortgage is "large" doesn't give it some sort of incredible increased significance. People are regularly entering contracts for financial products that last for decades. The average price of a U.S. house is close to $160k. The average retirement savings is about $70k, but you haven't sat here and told me how I needed to consult a lawyer before establishing a 401K plan with Fidelity. Hell, I'm pretty sure I asked and no one here told me I needed a lawyer for establishing a retirement plan. The average family pays >$5000 a person for health insurance, which over 30 years comes to $150k, but same deal. You're still ignoring the point that basic, fundamental understanding of how mortgages and loans work would have (and will) help thousands and thousands of people from getting into terrible situations, lawyer or no lawyer.