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QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 08:41 AM) I never saw him reach into the car. It looks like he was standing next to the car with his hands up, they tasered him, shot him and then let him lie on the ground and bleed to death. Shooting seemed to be unreasonable, but why is he walking back to the car if they're telling him not to? All you're doing in that situation is making the cops think you're going to reach for a gun.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:48 AM) This isn't baseball where you can trade players for prospects. No one is gonna give you a valuable young player. You can get a draft pick for him, but there's no guarantee at all he's a better player than Jeffery. And with all the moves they have made, there is plenty of cash to sign him to a longer deal. I'd imagine he could get them something like a 2nd and a 6th or a couple of 4ths. Multiple, decent draft picks. If not, fine, i'm wrong. But if that's possible, do it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:47 AM) They ARE blowing this franchise up. You just have zero patience for pretty much anything and for some reason want to start blowing it up again. The roster inherited from Trestman needed to be purged, and we are watching it happen. What was your predicition this season? Does 0-2 really surprise you or anyone else here b****ing about this game? It's not just that they're 0-2, it's how they're losing. The offense is atrocious. The defense is not good. They're WAY behind where I thought they would be, even if they weren't expected to win many games this year.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:46 AM) The Bears have the money to lock up Jeffrey long term. If they end up drafting a QB next year, it sure would make that QB's transition easier if he has Jeffrey around. I suppose, but how does that advance the ball at all? They have so many positions to fill. Wouldn't it be better to fill multiple spots of need instead of having one decent WR whose presence isn't going to change the fact that this team isn't winning anytime soon?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:45 AM) What? Meathead Bears fans are the ones who hate Cutler more than anything else because he doesn't get mad or yell. Semantics I guess. I"m referring to blind Bears fans who support the franchise without a fault, pretending like Ditka and 85 were two seasons ago.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:36 AM) you call out meathead fan, then drop the McCaskey burn in the same post shortly after the "blow this up" post. lol Which of those arguments do you disagree with? People should still go to every game and give that family more money for a poor product? People should continue to pretend like Ditka and the 85 Bears were the recent past? They shouldn't blow the entire franchise up and start from square one? I mean, to some extent they are on this road already, I realize that. I'm saying pick up the pace and really blow it up. There's no reason to have Jeffrey on the roster. It's a valuable chip. Get something for him before it's too late.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:32 AM) It's completely fair to be down on Jay and still understand that changing coordinators so often has probably affected his performance because how couldn't it? I'm sure that plays a part, but it's been 8 years man. The guy has been given every possible excuse in the book for his poor play. Bad head coaches, bad coordinators, lack of weapons, lack of an offensive line, injuries, blah blah blah. Bears are something like 3-15 at home the last few seasons. How is that even possible? Total embarrassment. But again, fans keep showing up. Fans keep believing this is a traditional power-house franchise. It's not. It hasn't been for decades. We're the freaking Lions without the 0-16 season (something to strive for!) What team is going to lose to this s*** show?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:30 AM) People will be clamoring for Cutler to return in a few short weeks. Meathead Bears fans. The same ones that continue to praise a team from 30 years ago as if they're still relevant and give the McCaskey's money week after week to watch one of the worst run franchises in the league.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:07 AM) No clue if it would of mattered or made Cutler take the next step, but the amount of OC's he's had is insane and would hinder anyone not named Manning or Brady. JMO I'm so tired of this argument. s*** play calling or not, s*** system or not, Cutler makes some of the dumbest decisions of any QB in the league. Last night was a perfect example. Zero reason to try to throw over a line backer to hit a guy that was barely open, but f*** it, i'm Jay Cutler. I hope to God he's played his last game in a Bears uniform. Complete waste of 8 years. Throw out another 10 project qb's, the results would be the same - s***ty offense resulting in losses. Trade anyone with trade value. Get 8th round draft picks if you must. Throw out a garbage practice squad team. Blow this piece of s*** franchise up.

He was found because someone saw a man sleeping in a hallway of a local business and called the cops. Seems like a move of someone that wanted to be caught.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 09:30 PM) USPS doesn't get taxpayer money. It's self sufficient. The USPS unions are pro-Democrat especially after the Republicans tried to cripple the USPS with the Retirement Health Care pre funding mandate in 2006. That's why it's always reported that the USPS is losing money. Not really true. http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/

LOL, I didn't know the stage collapsed: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/donald-tr...dium=socialflow Btw, don't mistake me here - Trump is a gigantic f***ing idiot and he is rightly criticized for all this nonsense. My only point is that Hillary did the same sort of maneuver even if she's being more tactful about it. No, she's not coming out and saying that she led the crusade for gay rights, but she keeps boasting about being for equal rights even though she wasn't until a few years ago.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 12:16 PM) In 2004 George Bush and republicans put gay marriage ban amendments on the ballot to help drive up republican support at the polls and it worked tremendously well. IN 2012 Democrats put a lot of gay marriage liegalization amendments on the ballot and it worked very well. in 8 years the shift was incredible and dramatic. How you think liberals are unaware that people changed their mind is very peculiar. In the 1990s, gay marriage wasn't even the focus within the gay community, and it took a very awesome group of people to build a movement in the courts and public influence to create the groundswell. There are very few politicians or people that exist in the country that were "right all along", and the poeple who were deserve credit, not revising history to believe that EVERYONe was on the right side. I love how you're going so far now to excuse everyone for their ignorance on the issue because of group think. I had this very debate with people here like SS in the last ten years and was always called a bigot for being against gay marriage and pro civil union. There wasn't this bulls*** "well i excuse you for thinking that way because that's how everyone else thinks and the movement isn't big enough yet."

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 12:08 PM) Here was the hilarious statement. Hillary was the vicious conniving Birther smearing Obama. Trump heroically ended Hillary's ugly attack in 2011 by getting to the truth. To use your Hillary-SSM comparison, this would be like Hillary claiming she singlehandedly pushed for same-sex marriage legalization in 2003 and that it was actually Donald Trump who banned same-sex marriage in the first place. I mean, fine, one is obnoxiously, narcissistically boastful about it, the other just likes to pretend she's always been about equal rights for people despite her husband signing DOMA into law. They both still want to pretend like they've always been on the right side of the issue. The manner in which they do it is similar to how they talk about any issue.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 12:01 PM) This isn't a POSITION to shift from. This is like insisting that mangoes are computers for 5 years, then after a bunch of people tell you that you're stupid, you say ok fine, mangoes are definitely not computers. A position would be "I don't like mangoes" and then later changing your mind to say "I do like mangoes." I don't think the people on the left who now support Hillary despite her flop flop on gay marriage ever believed gay marriage was a "positionable" argument. It was axiomatic that the right existed and there was no debate about it. It wasn't an issue that someone should be forced to "believe" in.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 11:48 AM) That's exactly what it is. This is like if CNN said "We never thought it was important where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 landed. The whole thing was Fox News's idea." Then your equivalent reaction would be to point out that Fox News has a strong pro-Republican bias. This is a logical fallacy, put it either in "False Cause" or "Irrelevant Conclusion." I'm not comparing the stupidity of the underlying original position or the severity in which either person believed in their original position. The fact is both were against something before being for it. It's a classic flip flop. And he's not the only one that has done it. Trump continuing to assert the Breitbart conclusion that Hillary started it is irrelevant to what I was pointing out.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 10:54 AM) What are you talking about? Trump isn't admitting to having been a racist idiot; he's rewriting history and making himself out to be the one who was in the right. Trump is a teenager who drove 120 mph, crashed his dad's car and bragged about it for years. Now he says Hillary crashed the car and he repaired it. It's amazing. I don't think he's claiming that he was never a part of the birther movement. He seems to have acknowledged there isn't an issue and he's satisfied. But maybe I missed that statement. Link?

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 10:47 AM) Come on Jenks, are you really comparing something that is just an indisputed fact backed up with documented evidence compared to a social issue like whether to support gay marriage? How many people in this country can claim they always backed gay marriage? how many people over 30? There is no end to the evidence of unbelievably embarrassing standards of trumps that won't be tortuously compared to something Clinton has said or done in her 30 years in the public spotlight. ah, yes, #itsdifferent Plenty of people in the last 10 years were very much pro-gay marriage. I'm not exactly comparing someone's views from the 20's or whatever to today. This was in the recent past. She went on a talk show with a well known gay person and told that person she shouldn't have the legal right to be married. Of course she later "saw the light" when it became politically advantageous. And now she pretends like that never happened and she wants credit for being on the "right" side. Yes, the birther s*** was nonsense, and Trump was stupid for ever backing it, but now he's publicly stated that he's over it. So, like Hillary, we should all be satisfied that he's on the right side now, regardless of what an awful person he is. This really isn't a tortuous attempt to compare the two. It's comparing the reactions that the respective supporting sides have for their douche/turd sandwich candidate. It seems justified for one, but not the other.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 09:45 AM) Trump's statement on Obama's birth is the most amazing spin of all time. He spent years and years leading the Birther movement, harping on Obama and his birth certificate and saying his investigators found crazy things. Even THIS YEAR, he was saying he didn't know if Obama was born in the US. Now he says that Birtherism was terrible and ugly, Hillary was behind the whole thing, and he was the one who rightfully resolved it in 2011. THE BEST SPIN, JERRY. THE BEST Ah come on, he just saw the light. It's ok to change your mind for political purposes when you land on the "right" side! http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/278350/hil...-marriage-2002/

South Park this week nailed the whole "controversy."

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 15, 2016 -> 04:19 PM) I hope you are not using this to show that somehow there is not a disproportionate amount of minorities who are the victims of police shootings. According to the 2010 US survey the percentage of the US population was as follows: 72.4% white 12.6% black/african american So black people make up 12.6% of the population but account for 28% of the shootings. Ill let you figure out what the problem is (hint its that the ratio is completely out of whack.) And honestly, what is the point of just posting a quote and not actually giving your opinion on it. It leaves the reader trying to assume what you are trying to prove. My guess is that you were trying to show that there actually isnt a problem because more white people get shot. But thats like saying if there are 10million white people and 100 black people, that there is no problem when 150 white people get shot as compared to 99 black people. I mean 150 > 99 right? Old cliche, statistics never lie, but liars use statistics. To be fair, other studies have proven what he's trying to say is true: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/s...tings.html?_r=0 Copes use excessive force more against minorities, but when it comes to shootings, there isn't a bias. edit: i should have said "use of force" not just "excessive" force.

Here's a good (long) read about the whole case. Based on those text messages she was sending him, I'm not sure i'd find in her favor. http://thewhitebronco.com/2016/09/the-derr...t-trial-primer/ What's abundantly clear is Derrick Rose has some REAL close friends (yuck), and he's a complete moron (not surprising).

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 15, 2016 -> 09:34 AM) Sure, we know about things like not paying contractors and having his products made overseas, but an email that's very explicit about those things would be really bad for him among blue collar workers. Imagine an email where Trump laughs and tells a project manager not to pay workers ("they can sue me") or says that American workers suck because they're too expensive compared to Chinese workers. I have to believe he has said those things publicly at some point in the past.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 15, 2016 -> 09:27 AM) I don't think that's plausible. Even normal journalists are regularly able to dig up dirt on him. I'm sure hackers could find something (tax records, shady business dealings, explicitly racist emails). Reports on his business history are out there already.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 04:38 PM) Honestly the most relevant part of this should be these questions: What is the motive of the hackers? Why are the so worried about Hillary winning or conversely why are the trying so hard to help Trump win? That really is what people should be asking. If this was happening to Trump I would say the same thing. I am not really a fan of foreign interference in American politics, and I am actually somewhat concerned that if these hacks are successful in influencing the US election what that will mean for future elections. I've mentioned this before, but it's plausible that there's just not any dirt there. You just had the Colin Powell emails released, they were pretty tame. Anything Trump says privately can't be any worse than what he says publicly. And there's just not enough history there to pull anything (politically speaking). Trump was the Kardashians of the 80's and 90's. It's all out there at this point. He's been a public figure for too long.