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Marinelli is going to tear these guys a new asshole at halftime.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but Olsen's blocking has come a LONG way in the last month.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Dec 5, 2010 -> 02:08 PM) The D line is getting dominated today. Lions running game is putting Stanton in makeable 3rd downs. They are still stuck in traffic on I-94 or something.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 5, 2010 -> 02:06 PM) Bennett is having himself a game. Best WR on the Bears and I don't mean that as a backhanded compliment. He does all the dirty work that doesn't get highlight reels (but lets others get it) and he's the most reliable of anybody else on the roster.

Unimpressed with the Bears D today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 5, 2010 -> 01:40 PM) The Minnesota Messiah is out. Fittingly, that pass was an interception. If this injury is serious then it'll be another season that ends on an INT, like the 5th in a row.

Really Bears? Really?

I updated my phone to 2.1 Eclair (Motorola couldn't update before b/c of Motoblur but they made it work recently) and now I can watch porn on my cellphone. I shouldn't be as excited about this as I am.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 08:44 PM) Um, like, god damnit. I hate when a post is so bad that I don't even know how to respond to it. Oh well. All of the responses to that post were pretty awesome but this made me lol.

The homos are totally waiting to rape you in the shower, all they need is for DADT to be repealed

Yeah, that's why I didn't bother trying to cover the whole thing, 2K5 is going to come in here and argue strongly against what I just said.

Yeah pretty much. Not really worth the effort.

I had a chart somewhere I can't find, but there is basically no direct correlation between tax rates and GDP growth. The full explanation/rebuttal of the argument that says there is one is much more complicated but that's the basic underlying fact. Cutting spending actually hurts GDP directly. Whether it's the right move to take or not, the reasons why are pretty obvious (for examples of this see Iceland, Ireland, other European countries that drastically slash spending).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 10:57 PM) Well, there are anecdotes out there of a lot of bizarre methods that the military "Found out", like people who are seen anywhere else in public acting homosexual, like the line at a grocery store, or, I can't find it, but there's a case I vaguely recall of the military finding out by reading people's private letters/emails. It's kind of dicey territory because you actually had to have a rock-solid case usually, they'd have to actually say "I am a homosexual," etc. The criteria was "SAM" (Statements, Acts, Marriages). Reading someone's private correspondence is unethical as f*** but I think that would fall under "statements." "Acts" is a homosexual act you see them doing. Rumors, jokes (even if it comes from the alleged homosexual) and innuendo don't count which is why the gay club thing wouldn't work. Seeing someone in the line at the grocery store (I haven't clicked your link yet) probably counts as "Acts" if you see them kissing or something like that. One guy in my unit when I was in Iraq had his team find a Maxim or something like that that he'd taped a bunch of pictures of naked men, penises etc. inside when they were moving his stuff while he was on R&R, I guess it really depends on your unit leadership what they do about that, but my unit didn't do anything. Holding hands doesn't count either, I'm not sure exactly where the line is. I think Gates has made the burden of proof higher, actually. There were a lot of people rumored to be gay when I was in and while people occasionally made fun of them nobody really cared. One of the best NCOs in my unit was gay and came out of the closet his last few weeks in, I had no idea but a lot of things made sense in hindsight. Nobody gave a s*** actually because his reputation as a professional preceded him. One of my friends who works in the building I do now is a lesbian and around the unit she is coy about it, but she actually has a live-in girlfriend. She said even if gays were allowed to openly serve she wouldn't come out, because she doesn't want some woman getting upset over something like being supervised for a urinalysis (her words: "it's not about that, you stupid b****"). "Marriages" is pretty obvious.

The Bulls clearly are not firing on all cylinders... Boozer hasn't even gotten going yet and they look like they've taken a step backwards in the meantime. Deng and Rose were about the only consistent ones that game.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 10:51 PM) The Putz that ran out of gas last season closing would not be a good thing for this organization. That home run he gave up in that one game might be the hardest hit ball I've ever seen. I forget the particulars. It was on the road. I realize the lefty thing with Thornton, but before he hit that bump in the road late as well, he was nasty. I'd prefer a nasty closer like Thornton. We have needed a reliable one or two inning setup man for a long long time. Putz could be the man. You are talking about Roberts destroying that ball against the O's and I think it was the 10th inning. That was the beginning of a skid that'd last a couple more weeks, I guess he was hurt or not ready to go that deep into the season or whatever, but before that he was money. He's been a successful closer before he got hurt (he was in the Cy Young discussion actually).

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 10:39 PM) I don't know why Putz would close over Thornton. Putz to me would be a perfect setup man So would Thornton. Really you could just flip a coin.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 10:24 PM) Van Gundy ripping on the Bulls shooting guard scenario. It really reminds me of the rotating DH debacle. It was worth the risk to trade Hinrich but god damn does that hurt right now, because he would be the PERFECT player to round out this starting 5. Had it worked and LeBron was starting at SF (with Boozer at PF for the sake of argument), it wouldn't matter who was the 2 guard.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 09:52 PM) Amazing, isn't it? Announcers ripping on the Bulls effort on defense. It's like clockwork... usually they manage to go off and get back in it in the 4th but this is Boston. Let's see if Rose can carry them back into it.

You can't be chaptered out for being seen at a gay club, that's one of the specific examples they would bring up in schools.

On the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association's Facebook page today they put up a message saying they stood with Secretary Gates/Admiral Mullen on DADT. A s***fit/temper tantrum from a bunch of people ensued. I don't think they should've made a statement on a political issue like that but really people in the military are such crybabies. Don't ever let someone qualify their opinion on DADT by saying "I was in the military" to try and overrule yours. Their opinion means s***, and they follow orders from civilian leadership. Period, end of story. You wouldn't ask them "what's your opinion on going to war in Iran?" and then if they say they're against it to decide not to go... they will do what they're told. Secondly, they are fully entitled to their opinion as a citizen but you don't use your opinion as a service member to endorse a political position (it says in so many words in the UCMJ). You can't even say what you really think about the President in public. Also I see a lot of people, mostly combat arms types, talking about how they don't want to share living quarters or showers with gays. I always tell them "YOU ALREADY DO, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW IT OR IGNORED IT ON PURPOSE." I haven't heard about a bunch of people getting raped or molested in the shower, maybe I just wasn't paying attention. Maybe it's still inappropriate for the stereotypical flaming homo to be in an infantry unit, but at the very least let's not chapter someone out because someone found out they were gay... that's just unfair, and spiteful.

If we ever do get to the point where we have a surplus that is big enough to place a light at the end of the debt tunnel (like in 2000) then we will just push whoever is running for president to cut taxes to get rid of the "tax surplus." People don't remember this but both Bush and Gore were going to cut taxes if they got elected, but they obviously disagreed about the amount.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 08:51 PM) The second unit really benefits from having Gibson. They're back in this game. Now they have to weather their inevitable third-quarter meltdown and get back into it in the 4th.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 02:36 PM) If this allows the Sox to retain Paulie then I LOVE the deal, but Cofield doesn't offer much in the way of upside at all. A true salary dump. I almost want to say "who cares"? If he got Linebrink the f*** off this team, I don't care if he never sees the MLB roster.

Bulls getting handled to start the game.