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I don't mind the Cover 2 as the base defense, but the Bears are running an obsolete version of it.

I totally did that to my friend earlier today but I was trying to get on her nerves on purpose.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 08:07 PM) That, and it also seems that the vast majority of other teams' fans believe he was on steroids based solely on his size. Yeah that is such a lazy ass argument, you see pics of him from college when he played FOOTBALL and you could see he was still a behemoth. Then he got old, and got fat like all old guys do.

Sosa looks like a bean pole in that clip

Remember when AOL would send you spam by snail mail of CDs that promised ever-increasing numbers of free hours for a month, to the point where they'd promise more hours than were actually IN a month? Remember when AOL used to be the undisputed leader when it came to internet access? (I never had it, first it was AT&T dial-up to avoid all that crap AOL puts on the computer, then it was AT&T cable internet)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 07:51 PM) Remember when you had to go to the ballpark to get tickets to a game? Remember when you would fly somewhere and you'd physically carry a ticket to the gate?

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 09:48 AM) Street signs. Unless you're in Atlanta, that's the only place that doesn't have enough street signs. Well, clearly you've never been to Washington DC. There's street signs but it doesn't matter, because none of them actually lead anywhere. But Atlanta's layout looks like it was planned by a drunken ass redneck with a crayon, and has been pointed out, all of them are named Peach-something.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 04:30 PM) So I was reading this article about the new security measures, and was surprised to see this: Cuba? State sponsor of terrorism? Yeah, that's much ado about nothing. The idea of state sponsors of terrorism and the policies that come from it is really half-assed and contradictory and probably creates more problems than it solves.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 09:13 AM) For a long time in Saudi Arabia, yes we were. That was one of Bin Laden's complaints prior to the 9/11 attacks; the U.S. left a large contingent of troops there after the gulf war. They pulled out at the start of the Iraq war when we found a new base to move them to. We weren't patrolling neighborhoods, we were just kind of there.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) It just goes to show you the idea of the "Big tent" is a joke. Its a big tent as long as you agree with everything they tell you to agree with. If this was true the Dems would've passed a healthcare bill with a public option back in the summer.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 12:49 AM) According to the Comcast post game show, the hot dog vendors little sidekick Jiggets thinks that we should bring back Turner because it was the QB and not the play calling that cost the season. Turner did a bang up job according to Jiggets. The defense and everything has been fine. Its only the QBs fault. If we only had a Kyle Orton according to the hot dog vendor and his sidekick we would be on the way to the playoffs. Jim Miller of course thinks that bringing back Turner is a wonderful idea and if anything only Pep Hamilton should be gone. Everything should be the same as this year. Just add a safety and poof fixed. Yeah that worked out for Denver, what with their vastly superior defense and offense.

It's not a myth, it's just not usually explained very well by the people who bring it up because it's almost an abstract concept. They wouldn't exactly just call the whole thing off if we withdrew from all Muslim countries but that's really not helping either and it's cited virtually every day as one of the justifications for their "war" against us. Well that, and the oxymoron that is Israel-Palestine. Me pointing this out doesn't mean I agree with them or think we are immoral or whatever. Only stating facts.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Jan 3, 2010 -> 10:27 PM) Good to see Cutler have another good game today. It's nice to see him end the season on a positive note after all the s*** he's taken. Finished with more TDs than picks too. And I'm loving the fact that Denver choked the 2nd half of the year. Josh McDaniels is a complete joke. The idiots will still say that Orton had the same record as Cutler, but won't point out the fact that Denver went from having the 30th ranked defense last season and had the 8th ranked D this year. Without Cutler their offensive stats took a dive too, IIRC they were the #2 offense last season. They would've been a Super Bowl contender this year with Cutler.

When you were headed to an unfamiliar place and you had to call a friend and use their crappy ass directions instead of looking it up online or plugging it into a GPS, and there was a chance you'd get lost and have to find a pay phone.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 2, 2010 -> 01:38 AM) Read my post further up absolving Obama himself and basically making the same point Balta was in different words. However, all the links, posts, media stories, etc. have to give this guy his golden pile of s*** to hide behind. It's ridiculous. If Obama deserves to be criticized for something right now, it's for arbitrarily throwing the intelligence community under the bus to keep anything from sticking on him just in case. I was reading his statement where he sounded all pissed off and I was like "what the f*** is this guy talking about." Then again the IC is going to throw each other under the bus anyway, that's just what they do. The FBI in particular, those guys are really good at blowing something really bad (Ft. Hood for example) and coming out smelling like roses.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 1, 2010 -> 10:57 PM) So, rather than continuing the sniping, let me ask this in reply...Lost...is this a level of attack that the U.S. simply could never gather the intelligence to stop beforehand, without, as I suggested, doing something like closing down every airport to international travel or something like that. (And if the answer is no, would there actually be such a level of attack?) I think I know what you're getting at here although I can't really put it into words. The question is something like "is it possible to have flawless, 100% security" and the answer is no, you can spend an insane number of resources far past the point of diminishing returns, and that'll just mean the bad guys will eventually think of something you haven't thought of yet.

That struck me as a pretty honest answer, did you expect him to say they were doing it out of genuine concern for the safety of this country? We'd have all been screaming BS.

There was like... 10x the amount of information about 9-11 prior to that attack than there was about this, and there was information that made it all the way into the President's Daily Brief... I'm not sure why you guys are talking about it. It's not the same thing at all. Everything is what it is and it's not something else. This really shouldn't be turned into another Bush or Obama thing, but since they always are, for last week's attack there wasn't even anything to be briefed, let alone ignored or mishandled. And even if there was, the attack was so insanely pinpointed and designed so as to circumvent the already-stiff security procedures (because who in the TSA is going to look at somebody's cock?), what could they have done about this category of threat anwyay in that amount of time? Further, I would like to point out that the reaction by some in this country following any terrorism-related event (attack, arrest, threat, statement, Predator strike, propaganda video, sneeze, fart) is exactly what they intend for us to do and helps them immensely. That would be break down internally, fight among ourselves, take ridiculous overreactionary steps that actually undermine our security, spend a s***-ton of money way past the point of diminishing returns, live up to their narrative about us and make "Islam" synonymous with "terrorism" which is something that we're trying to eliminate from the world, and play this whole deal up to be an epic clash of civilizations and call them the glorious soldiers in that war that they want to be seen as. They're not... they are terrorist pieces of s***. I can't imagine that even bin Laden himself would have figured a few years ago that a terrorist acting on his behalf would try to blow up a plane and end up setting himself on fire and being subdued by unarmed passengers, and in the process get hundreds of hours of free PR and undeserved credit in our media, mostly about how dangerous they are and how scared we should be. For the record this incident was almost completely ignored in the Arab media, all they talk about is Gaza.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 31, 2009 -> 03:40 PM) Spencer Ackerman discusses to what level this should be considered a failure of the intelligence system. The answer to that hypothetical question he asked is NO. The media does this reflexive thing where they automatically assume the IC knows things after the attack and then politicians (i.e. President Obama) follow suit as a CYA. There are countless tips on possible dangerous individuals like the one from dude's father, I see them literally every day and usually it's pretty much impossible to tell how valid they are without corroborating information and there almost never is. Then let's go assume that someone did take this info down and treat it as valid (I guess it actually was documented and archived somewhere), you have SIGINT from some terrorist in Yemen talking about a Nigerian being ready for an attack. That by itself, at the time, means absolutely nothing at all. Even in hindsight you just go "oh, I guess he could've been talking about the same thing"

btw Kap did you choose to completely ignore anything Obama's said on Afghanistan, or things he's done in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc.? You act like he is all apologies and concessions and hasn't ever taken any aggressive actions and he just chose a bunch of weak counterterrorism policies. In reality he hasn't changed that much, just put it in a sleeker marketing package.

When is the last time a star rookie was traded DURING his breakout rookie season? Theoretically he is worth a first rounder because that's what first rounders are expected to do but since that never happens, basically ever, it's a moot point and not really worth discussing.

It was a pretty consistent message from a U.S. president to the world. American foreign policy doesn't change that much from administration to administration.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Dec 30, 2009 -> 05:56 PM) I have a crush on: *Tiffany "New York" Pollard from "I Love New York", I think she's freaking hot! *Jennifer Hudson *Eva Mendes *Serena Williams *Kelly Starr (porn star) *Jada Fire (porn star) *Vanessa Blue (porn star) *Jessica Alba *Michelle Rodriguez *Bahar Soomkeh *Kellee Stewart (I think she's HOT) I noticed on your facebook profile that you had a thing for black women

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 30, 2009 -> 01:48 PM) If I were in charge I'd be increasing the intelligence budget to follow each and every cell known to exist. Once I get information about a potential terrorist leader, I find every one of his family members and make it known that I know who they are, what they do everyday, and at the drop of the hat I could get rid of them. People don't mind if you come after them, but when you bring in their family it's a much different situation. Who was the guy in South America (i think) that was all ballsy against the US and we got rid of his son and we haven't heard from him since? Why can't we use that tactic? I agree that an all out war is worthless, but at the same time we shouldn't just be sitting back, playing nice with governments in hopes that the "people" will somehow view us as the nice guy and the terrorists as the bad guys. That's never going to happen. Create a system whereby retaliation is imminent and maybe some of the younger guys would think twice about joining up with the crazies. What the current administration (and the previous admin. for that matter) is doing is a lot closer to this than a lot of people realize, it's just not a high-profile thing. Like Rex said, for as much as people say Obama is a bleeding heart liberal, he's pretty hawkish. Which is what made the Nobel Peace Prize so awkward.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 09:11 PM) That's not necessarily what I mean. However, if we were to do what it takes to really win any war now - Americans on the face do not have the stomach for real war anymore. Even the commando style small force type of stuff that would be pretty bloody. They just don't, and they never will, after Vietnam. Yeah, we're not talking state-on-state conflict like that though. Strategically that's just not sustainable.