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Bears should hire Brian Kelly.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lucasfi...heforceawakens/

I'd much rather have McCarthy.

Neither Indianapolis nor Louisville are at all interested in teams. They are more than satisfied being AAA cities.

My guess would be that the Cubs would get ticket sales but the Sox would get parking/concessions.

Yes, the #1 reason this team is bad is defense. However, there are an awful lot of plays where Jay is throwing to receivers who aren't open. I get that sometimes Marshall and Jeffrey can come up with catches when they are covered, but there shouldn't be that many passes thrown to covered receivers. What I can't tell from watching on TV is if there are receivers open whom Jay just isn't seeing, or if there are really that many plays where nobody is open.

If Wrigley Field isn't ready to use by Opening Day . . .

Cubs/Sox do not have any overlapping home dates until July 3.

Most likely place for a new/relocated franchise to succeed is Montreal. San Antonio and Las Vegas are other possibilities

Is Butler back?

This. Wendy's bacon is awesome.

No work today, but working tomorrow. Have 7 employees who don't have any vacation time to use tomorrow so they have to work. I opted to come in so the supervisors could take the day off. Favorite thanksgiving foods are mashed potatoes and fresh rolls.

4 feet? I'm sorry, I'm not going to hold any cop, black or white, to the standard that somebody has to get closer than 4 feet before the officer can defend himself. I think we have reached the point where we are putting way too much emphasis on whether or not people are armed. Unarmed people can be very dangerous and do lots of damage.

The photograph was of their marriage license and that was removed, but their address is still in the story as of two minutes ago.

How does the prosecutor know these are faulty witnesses? They claim to be witnesses, and the prosecutor would get hammered if he didn't present them.

http://www.nytimes.com/news/ferguson/2014/...guson-shooting/

Several people who initially claimed to be eyewitnesses to the event did not admit until actually testifying to the grand jury under oath that they were not actually eyewitnesses but passing along what friends who had claimed to be eyewitnesses had told them. This was cited by the prosecuting attorney as one of the main factors in the decision since these were mostly the witnesses claiming he was shot in the back and/or had his hands up when shot.

A pair of NY Times journalists printed a story that included Wilson's new home address. In less than two hours, several blogs had posted the home address of the journalists. Somebody needs to keep this going by posting the home addresses of the bloggers who posted the home addresses of the journalists who posted Wilson's home address.

By the nature of their jobs, police officers are put into situations where they are forced to kill other people far, far more often than private citizens. Now, there are very likely situations out there where there officers should have been charged but weren't, but that doesn't make it right to charge Wilson in this case. You have to admit that there is more than enough evidence that the defense can use to justify self defense, even if you personally don't feel that it was justified.

With the level of evidence presented to the Grand Jury, it should be obvious that a conviction is impossible.

If you want to agree to an 80% income tax rate, then sure, we can have a jury trial every single time there are differing sides to a story, or we can have a system where people who prosecute crimes for a living use their expertise to determine which of these situations are most likely to lead to a conviction. My house got broken into last summer, and I have circumstantial reasons to believe that my neighbor did it but no physical evidence. How about we waste the government's money on a trial that has zero chance of landing a conviction?

Digressing for a moment, I always believe that if the Sox had managed to put together a competent hitting lineup 1-8, they could have lived with Anderson's bat in the 9 hole because the defense he provided was that good. The problem was that most of the rest of the lineup also sucked and Anderson became the whipping boy for the team's offensive woes.

That's a weak assumption to begin with because we have 20 feet of blood on the other side of Brown's body, backed up by witnesses who confirm that Brown had been that far away, but if Brown really was only 20 feet away when he started toward Wilson, then Wilson is in imminent danger from pretty much the first step. The closer Brown is, the less distance he needs to cover before Wilson is in danger.

I haven't seen anything indicating the audio recording was validated. Even if he only moved 9 feet, that's about half the distance between himself and Wilson.

I've seen a couple references on TV to the distance from the fatal blow. Forensically, it's a very easy thing to nail down at close range. The actual word "charging" was not used by all of the witnesses, but it was much more than a couple steps. There was enough forward movement for there to be multiple rounds of shots fired.