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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 04:12 PM) If by running for President, you meant ran for Congress, than I agree with you. Both. It really took off in 2008, you can see from his tax returns, the book sales made him a millionaire.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 04:12 PM) It's nice to see the Vikings in a big mess.

Anybody got a fork to stick in the 2010 Vikings?

I just had an ad for Sarah Palin's reality show on Facebook so I removed it, and it asked why so I clicked "Other" and when it asked for a reason I wrote "stupid"

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) Looks like the ball hit the ground before Briggs secured. I thought it'd be overturned but they really blew it IMO. But nice to see someone else get f***ed by a bad call (Johnson TD notwithstanding)

Vikings totally forgot about Davis. Nobody even noticed he was there.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) It's not a Cutler game without the prerequisite red zone TO, guess we'll have to take the bad with the good. That was probably the stupidest throw he's made all year.

What was Jay looking at there? He threw it into a sea of white jerseys.

s*** Kreutz what the f*** was that? Blatant as hell and the block wasn't even necessary.

LOL, awesome punt return. Vikings couldn't tackle for s***

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 10:19 AM) I'm going with the opposite, anyone who wants to be a candidate writes a book for the free publicitiy. Free publicity which also turns into $$. Obama wasn't rich personally before he started running for president and his book sales really took off.

What a return by Hester.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 03:03 PM) Daniel Manning looking right at a receiver, decides to run into him. Not too smart. lol I was ready to throw the flag from my house.

Cutler's instincts led him wrong, he should've kept running.

You ever notice how DJ Moore just seems to randomly be in the right place? Not that I'm complaining.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 02:30 PM) Not sure where there's stats on this, but Maynard and Gould have to be the worst combo of punter/kicker in the NFL...right? You have a quota of at least 1 post like this every week don't you?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) I'd have zero urge to give Bobby Jenks that kind of money. Not even close. Me either. Do something enough times and it becomes a pattern.

That TD pass and especially the run after was a thing of beauty.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 14, 2010 -> 01:36 PM) What the f*** Knox. That should have been a big 1st down pickup and instead its a pick and Minny is now driving thanks to two Bears defensive holding penalties. f*** f*** f***ity f*** Knox makes a lot of the same mistakes he made his rookie year.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Nov 12, 2010 -> 02:42 PM) Why? He proved he can break out of a slump by hitting a ton in the 2nd half of the season. He's should be among those to be least worried about going forward. I'm as big a Beckham fan as anyone on this site, but that was a three-month slump. You can't just hand-wave over it.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 13, 2010 -> 11:20 AM) That I won't defend. Ok - here's how the per diem stuff works on a couple of different levels. I'll try to simplify and use examples that I've run into. Each city/region has their own per diem rates as established by the us government. There's foreign allowances (http://aoprals.state.gov/) and US allowances (http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/21287). For example, because I work for an aerospace company, our rates cannot exceed established per diem guidelines. We get audited by government people all the time in this. However, there's a couple of instances where per diems go out the window. One is if there's no facilities within a certain perimeter of where you're staying - you get stuck with the rates charged - and most of the time it's full up pricing and no discounts received, and two, if there's ANY type of security risks, you have to stay in a pre-approved facility which exceeds the per diem guidelines. What I find funny about this is they tell you where you have to stay, and they know you're going to exceed per diem rates. So, it's an exception right away if people want to make a stink about it. What I cannot tell you about Gov. Christie specifically is if this stuff falls in category one or category two... people know that these expenses are tracked and they don't stay at places without one of the two being the case 99.9% of the time. They're not going to "rip off the tax payor" or stay somewhere extremely excessive because everyone knows these are scrutinzed, let alone scrutinized because said person is running for political office. I just don't think there's much of a story here because of these reasons - honestly, much like I don't think there's a story of $200 million per day being spent on Obama overseas - it's too easy to inflate these type of numbers to make a story that's not a story... i.e. said hotel costs $499 per room per night gross, but on a discount it's $199 per night typically. Oops, it cost $499 because you're the US government! Cha-ching! Talk about inflation. Hopefully that makes sense. 100% accurate. Staying over per diem can be a huge, huge pain in the ass... like if you go travel during a convention or something and all the hotel rates are jacked up because of increased demand/hotels openly colluding on price gouging/whatever and they don't want to give you an exception to policy letter. Yuck.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 13, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) It would be extremely predictable. The big difference between the two threads would be the complete handjob given to Obama over anything he writes. There was none of that here. eh... if you haven't noticed, the left isn't exactly enamored with Obama, even here. BigSqwert said something like "f*** Obama, I'm done with this asshole." When he gets praised it's because he did/does something they wanted him to do which is the whole reason they even care about politics to begin with, then other stuff peripherally follows. Bush did virtually none of that and vice versa for Obama and the right. Why would it be any different? We can go back to Clinton and Reagan as well.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 13, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) The one ghost written by a terrorist? lol see. Someone completely made the Ayers thing up on the internet, and...

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Nov 13, 2010 -> 12:46 AM) The numbers actually indicated that he was only above average. From what I remember seeing, he got good reads and had solid speed, but he wasn't amazing out there. He made some amazing plays, but Podsednik made an amazing play or two in CF in 2009 too, and I don't think anyone was beckoning for him to be the team's every day CFer. It's because he had those off-the-charts numbers in 2006 (juxtaposed against poor Mackowiak's awful defense) combined with his scouting report. After that it was kind of taken for granted that he was a plus defender, but I don't recall really being blown away by him after that. He had some really good range but you'd never see him robbing home runs, or throwing lasers to get runners out at home (he was more likely to airmail it).

Dennis Rodman's career high in rebounds was 34... in case you were wondering