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Read somewhere one of the dead is a 9 year old girl

my take on that when it happened was that it was INAPPROPRIATE. No, of course Sarah Palin didn't literally mean she wanted to "target" people with rifles and intended for others to do that. but, then it happens, and...? How do you explain that?

Can't really say i'm surprised, unfortunately. except that it hasn't happened yet.

QUOTE (hometeamfan @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) Because clubs like to let the fans know they made an offer...and the player turned it down. They come across as extending a hand....and the player comes across as biting it. When Sox made offer two years ago to Quentin and Danks, people on here called them greedy. Now, in hindsight, they (Danks at least) look smart for declining. I don't recall a single person on here calling Danks and Quentin greedy for turning down their extensions. Pretty much everybody knows exactly why they did it.

BigSqwert is tall as s***.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 10:57 AM) Drinking beer-water hybrids does not count. and peeing 7 times, lol

Lol, I didn't b**** out

Traffic is a motherf***er. I should've been there already but I'm here on the Ryan doing long stretches of 0 mph

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jan 7, 2011 -> 06:43 PM) I guess it's safe to say that the $8M per year number was bogus. yeah... passing up that much guaranteed cash would be kind of dumb.

It's probably because Alexei is a wretched curveball hitter, and throwing a bunch of fastballs to him when he's shown he can'th it a curve for s*** is just dumber than f***.

5/25 million which isn't that bad considering the silly $8 million/year numbers being thrown around.

Looks like Harbaugh is going to take a 5-year contract with SF. Lots of hype and lots of money, I don't know the dollar amount but he's probably going to be making more money than a lot of other NFL coaches and he's never been a pro coach before.

Neither, he just stopped posting on the site altogether.

I didn't read the book in high school, but if I had, I can say with almost total confidence my AP English teacher would've covered that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 7, 2011 -> 02:59 PM) So, if a person who wound up with something of an advanced degree and who was in advanced-level classes throughout his time in the public education system didn't get that part...what fraction of American students do you think understand it? How many times did you read the book in school? I remember going over this in college.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 7, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) It also results in hero worship of the past as some sort of golden age. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK, and pretty soon here Ronald Reagan (he is kind of a special case because there is a whole industry dedicated to rehabbing his image and trying to erase anything negative about it) pretty much have the not-so-good aspects of themselves more or less whitewashed for all intents and purposes.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 7, 2011 -> 02:11 PM) Then fix the retarded politically correct school thinking. This book is a classic. It should be used as a teaching point. Kids should read the book and ask why that word is used. This country is sometimes so backasswards about this stuff. You can't learn from your mistakes by erasing them from your memory as if they never happened. Co-sign this. It's not just with Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, it's the decades-long trend I started writing about above, where textbook publishers (at the demands of state departments of education) make photoshopped versions of history. What lesson is to be learned from all this? The circular logic that anything America ever does is inherently good and pure, and can never be questioned? Really that's not how the country evolved, at any given time there's been a conscience correcting things as we go. Civil Rights era, Vietnam, etc. etc. etc.

I don't really understand the point of this. Mark Twain's books are classics, and they were also something like social satire for the time. Why change it? American society was not a pretty place back then. Mostly, over time in US History a great deal of effort is made to teach everything that happened like it was peaches and roses, and America was always a great place where nothing bad ever happened, all of its leaders and influential figures were good wholesome people with noble intentions, and there were no hard times. Of course this is bulls***, but people end up having a delusional, inaccurate picture of what America was really like 50, 100, 200 years ago.

For fun, search Jenny McCarthy's name in Twitter.

You guys in IL don't really pay anything in income taxes.

So is this going to be 6 pm like in the "white people" sense, or 6 pm in quasi-CPT (colored people's time)?

I don't remember being pissed off about that deal, but I was confused as hell, scratching my head trying to figure it out. I started to change my mind during Danks's rookie season.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 6, 2011 -> 07:49 PM) If you guys all wear Sox hats, you're going to look like a bigger bunch of nerds than Sqwert is already making you look like... I'm pretty sure you'll all be able to find the group of 12 dudes with no hope whatsoever of picking up a woman, standing next to Lost and his group of 17 strippers. Have fun guys! And I kid, of course! lol, I told a couple of women where I was going to be and they were like "ooooh i wanna go with too"

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 6, 2011 -> 07:36 PM) I'm the other underrated rapper in the photo. Well played, sir

I look like this: