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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 03:02 PM) Nah its all that liberal college thinking. You learn about great liberal thinkers like Machiavelli and those pesky liberal ideas like "the ends justify the means." What is the point of being an uncompromising ideologue if being one results in less of my ideas reaching fruition? The difference is that many positions that are considered "Republican" seemingly do not leave room for compromise. You are either for or against abortions. For or against gun control. For or against gay marriage. At the end of the day, its about winning and losing. There is no point in going against Hillary if in the end it is likely to result in something worse than Hillary. Its nothing more than Game Theory. You pick the action that is most likely to result in the best outcome for yourself. Since the chances of "other option than Hillary" will never win, I am presented with 2 choices. Trump or Hillary. As I believe that Trump is the worst outcome, I therefore have to pick Hillary. It has nothing to do with being a good little Dem, it has everything to do with the fact the Republican's have failed to provide an option that is better than Hillary from my personal standpoint. If I didnt believe Trump as a person was completely off the reservation, I may have been tempted to go another direction than Hillary. Come on now, that's laughable. Don't pretend like in 2016 America one party is better or more open to compromise than the other.

Bernie should have gone independent. He's a sell out for backing a corporate/Wall Street puppet like Hillary, the exact type of politician/Washington insider he was campaigning against. Especially in an election like this, where the threat of Trump actually winning is incredibly low. Hillary doesn't need his support and he didn't need to give it to her.

Wow, that's some terrible luck. I think my card has been compromised once, but I always seem to be a possible victim on those big store hacks. Anyone spending lots of money on Prime Day? So far my wife and I have bought some odds and ends, but most of the deals are Amazon specific devices (have enough of them) or crap we don't need.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/s...-shootings.html Interesting result there...

Damn it's nice to have the AD's office excited about sports again:

Joe Henricksen ‏@joehoopsreport 17m17 minutes ago Jeremiah Tilmon on his good friend and AAU teammate Jordan Goodwin: "I'm going to get him to come with me." ...

Pull in Goodwin and Scruggs. Then i'll BE REAL happy. #don'tgetgreedy.

Derek Piper ‏@DPiperScout 2m2 minutes ago Belleville Althoff wing Jordan Goodwin tells me Jeremiah Tilmon's #Illini commitment: "Definitely opens up my eyes for my decision."

Nice! Now get Goodwin and i'll be very optimistic about the next few seasons.

Hope the rumors are true. Get these guys in then get a real coach to lead them to some wins.

#toooldtounderstandwhatyouaretalkingabout

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 03:15 PM) These don't look at all related. The one in Georgia sounded like a set-up according to the AP. The Associated Press ‏@AP 9m9 minutes ago Authorities: Man called 911 in Georgia to report break-in, ambushed, shot officer who came to investigate. http://apne.ws/29AYaB6

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 03:28 PM) i could see Euron going to Cersei as soon as he realizes that Yara got to Dany first What's he have to offer Cersei if Dany is already on land though? And even on the water, what chance do his ships have against 3 dragons unless he has the horn? I'm guessing they open next season with some kind of sea battle and the horn gets whipped out. Otherwise Dany's rise to the throne is going to be anti-climactic.

I deleted it. I thought you were trying to justify this guy's want for revenge. edit: I had just read a bunch of morons on Twitter saying exactly that prior to reading your post.

Looks like he was an ex-Army Reservist. So he had some training.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 02:59 PM) s***, can you imagine the chicago PD going through sweeping changes like that? No chance. Break up that union and it would be 100000000 times easier. Instead you have a well connected, entrenched machine that makes change basically impossible.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 02:48 PM) I'm not freaking out about it, I was dying laughing at it only to be told its not funny and it's a completely normal excuse we hear all the time in sports free agency. It was a horrible excuse because they have terrible PR. They pride themselves on not commenting but let the stupidest stuff linger until you have to just assume they are terrible at their jobs. And this from one of the most profitable teams in the league. Hire Edelman for PR for god sake. Or, again, you lack facts and are assuming a lot based on one tweet that wasn't even sourced directly to Gar or Pax.

Yeah if he purchases the house based on his current income and moves there 6 months later, they're not going to re-check his income. Once the loan app is approved, it's approved.

QUOTE (kevo880 @ Jul 6, 2016 -> 05:04 PM) The wife and I are kicking around the idea of moving back to MI towards the end of the year. Denver housing market has just gotten to the point where I don't even want to try and buy a house here and rent is out of control too. Buying a house in MI is part of the appeal, as well as my entire family living there...only problem is I work on commission, and for a lender to include my commission as income, I need to be with the company for at least 2 years. Since I have been established with my current company for over 4 years I was curious if it's possible to buy a house in MI in the next 6 months before we move out there, while using my current job and income...Does anyone know anything about this? I get the feeling it won't work since I'm assuming I will need to prove what my income will be in MI, but what if I bought the house as a second home and didn't tell the lender the plan is for me to move there instead of using it as a second home? Any insight from anyone else that works in sales or is a lender? I don't see why a bank lending you money cares where you earn that money.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 02:14 PM) That's because no one wants the job for the most part, and it is only getting worse. Raising qualifications will just mean less people to choose from. Not sure this is true either, especially in bigger cities. Chicago always has a huge wait list. In big cities where the pay and benefits are nice, there's a good amount of competition to become a cop.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 02:13 PM) I mean, we are hiring a lot of under educated people (by some measure), throwing them out into the field with the utmost authority and deadly weapons, thats not a great formula. Not sure (1) this is true, but more importantly (2) whether being intelligent has anything to do with it. Most of these cops committing these acts aren't young and green. They seem to be to be older cops who have grown intolerant/impatient with the people they are serving. They're wrongly ASSUMING that something bad is about to happen or they get ANGRY far too quickly about how the situation is progressing.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 01:02 PM) Man, are we hiring the wrong police officers? Less than half have college degrees and that half is less likely to use force. Do we need to up the requirements to be an officer? I think a big problem is that we have a lot of ex-vets who go into law enforcement. And the way the government has handed down gear and trained local and state police departments, its inevitable that they just take on a military style form of justice.

K.C. Johnson ‏@KCJHoop 5m5 minutes ago Rondo called he and Butler and Wade are "three alphas" but called it "Jimmy's team."

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 12:17 PM) Their plan is probably to try and get Cousins anyway. What is his contract status? Unrestricted free agent in 2018.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 12:16 PM) Technically, isn't Steph a free agent. If you sign Giannis you would have room for a max to Giannis and a max to someone in the older age max group (given how the max deals range). Yeah but I didn't add him because he's not leaving.