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QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 12:28 PM) Bulls in 7. There's not a team in the Eastern Conference playoffs that we match up with better. Thomas is his typical playoff self (leaving Boston struggling on offense), Wade/Butler/Rondo excel, Chicago dominates the boards, and the Bulls' role players play serviceable basketball. For the Bulls, it's W, L, W, L, L, W, W. Book it.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 12:28 PM) Bulls in 7. There's not a team in the Eastern Conference playoffs that we match up with better. Thomas is his typical playoff self (leaving Boston struggling on offense), Wade/Butler/Rondo excel, Chicago dominates the boards, and the Bulls' role players play serviceable basketball. For the Bulls, it's W, L, W, L, L, W, W. Book it.

Well, there's only one step after dropping that bomb. Trump will happily deploy it.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 29, 2017 -> 06:08 PM) I'm tired of this, just because I personally wasn't affected doesn't mean I can't be upset with his policies. Maybe I actually care about people other than myself. Republicans simply cannot grasp this concept.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 29, 2017 -> 03:13 PM) This is flawed in a few different ways. Unless you're saying these all time highs are inflation adjusted highs it's just not as cut and dried as you make it seem. Healthcare has been performing so well because it's an inelastic industry in a post recession inflationary period. The slow recovery period and the Fed's Bernanke era policy devaluing money were going to make HC look great compared to other industries regardless of whether ACA was signed into law. Insurance companies were obviously the direct beneficiaries of the ACA given the individual mandate. Americans are literally taxed if they do not have health insurance. Insurance companies got a great deal with ACA. Everyone knew it then, everyone knows it now. That's not a supporting argument for the ACA. I invested in Aetna after ACA was put in place and saw the results. If you are proponent of the ACA it should be because you think it would help people not because it helped insurance companies in a torqued economy. Forcing Americans to buy insurance and raising healthcare premiums annually and in turn, enriching the insurance companies, is not a positive for Americans. As the Kaiser study showed, premiums went up significantly annually and 2017 is set to be the highest hike of them all by a big margin. I mean 25% increases year-over-year from 2016-2017? And that's a conservative estimate. Arizona premiums increasing over 100%? That's good for Americans? Not to mention Pres. Obama said that the ACA would bring "greater savings in their monthly premiums" when he signed it into law. Whoops. The government answer to healthcare was not the best answer and luckily for Obama, he gets to leave office right before we see the worst of it. If people think the young folks are going to get insurance at Obamacare price they're crazy. They'll just take the tax penalty. The handling of this is a lot like student loans. I really think a lot of the virtue signalers who say "everyone should have the right go to college" and "everyone should have healthcare" should take a basic economics course before making blanket statements like that. I wish everyone could have healthcare and education too but is it economically feasible? When you make guaranteed students loans available the Universities can charge whatever they want. When you force people to get insurance and increase premiums far past the wage growth every year they can keep raising premiums and keep rising profits even when people start to reject ACA. It's just weird seeing regular people support policies that enrich drug and insurance companies and put the burden on small companies and taxpayers. A huge reason healthcare is thriving is because more patients than ever are able to leverage it and are doing so the proper way. No longer are people going to the ER for stomach bugs as a last ditch effort for medical care only to wind up saddled with bills they won't pay.

No headshot of Yoan in-game.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 24, 2017 -> 06:04 PM) Paul Ryan is about to be a fall guy That's fine.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Mar 16, 2017 -> 12:19 AM) I got Tuesday off work, so I should get a nice afternoon in. You mean the 28th, right?

Rick Porcello will be the opening day starter for the Boston Red Sox. They do not deserve Chris Sale.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 13, 2017 -> 09:26 AM) It's a shame that the reason Hinke was cut short was very likely his stupid tinkering around the edges of the roster and making enemies with player agents and the union. Had he just signed a few more terrible vets, they'd still ahve been as terrible but he'd be in charge of this thing as it revs up. I will say I need to agree with a previous poster despite the way he posted it. Right now we're talking about a roster "revving up" that consists of... - a great talent yet to play in an NBA game in Ben Simmons - a great talent who's played 31 of a possilble 246 games in Joel Embiid. This is way worse than Greg Oden's track record was at the same time - Dario Saric There's a ton of work to be done here still.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 13, 2017 -> 08:26 AM) You were lucky. My middle child was a scheduled sleeper, done at 8-830, up around 6-6:30, naps around 10 and 2. My youngest, nope. We did the exact same things with him, he just refused naps. The best we could do is get him to snooze 10-20 minutes, wouldn't sleep in his crib or bassinet, only wanted to sleep next to mom. It was maddening That very much sounds maddening.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Mar 11, 2017 -> 10:44 PM) Yoda congrats man! I just had my first in November and he's the coolest thing ever. We put him to bed every night at 9 but he sure gets pissed every night at 8. Like clockwork almost, just insta-pissed, nothing one can do but walk him. Anybody else with Witching/Arsenic Hour experience? Why 9pm? Kids need 12 hours of sleep overnight - do you want him to sleep in? Birdie has been an amazing sleeper. I like to think it's because we Baby Wised the s*** out of her and got her on a schedule. She's been sleeping 7p-7:20am since she was like 6 weeks old. Sleep training ftw. She's at one nap a day. Every single day is as follows: 7:20a up 12:30-3p nap 7:00p bedtime She likes the schedule and so do we.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 13, 2017 -> 12:20 AM) So you're not even gonna wait for Embiid to stay healthy to spout your hyperbole? Easy, big fella.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 09:09 AM) I think the most startling thing out of this bill is the benefits to middle-aged, healthy and urban people over young, elderly, and rural. For a GOP whose base is much more rural, it is weirdly disconnected. Rural hospitals will get crushed. Emergency Rooms will fill up with those who can't pay bills. Emergency treatment will be given to those who cannot afford the after care. Everyone loses. But, you know, Paul Ryan's friends will be happy and f*** Obamacare.

I find the NBA so funny sometimes. Any asshole who follows the league knows Nurkic has a monster ceiling. He winds up on the same team as Nikola Jokic and gets his playing time f***ed and, at age 22, gets cast off for a relatively decent big AND A DOWNGRADE OF A DRAFT PICK. Somehow, that's the best the Nuggets could do. And after the deal all the pundits said the Nuggets got the better end of the deal and I was just sitting here like wtf. Oh but he doesn't defend the pick and roll well, they said. Oh but his screens aren't great, they said. Now he's beasting. F*ck everyone. Primarily, though, f*** the Bulls FO for having a chance to right a wrong and not taking it. F*cking picks that led to Gary Harris and Jusuf Nurkic for Doug McDermott. F*ck you, Bulls.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 11:02 AM) PS4 big update is out. Can finally store games on an external hard drive. AND CUSTOM WALLPAPERS

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 01:16 PM) Josina Anderson‏Verified account @JosinaAnderson Follow More I'm told, as of now, WR Alshon Jeffery is leaning towards choosing the #Eagles when free agency starts. Bears gone Bear Idiots.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 04:33 PM) That's BS if they aren't even calling back. Oh they called back with no news. Got the MyChart this morning. Margins are free of involvement so I guess I'm in the clear on this one. Good, now it can just heal. I do have a Spitz Nevus on my ear they want to remove further, but my research tells me that may be unnecessary.

I think it's time for us to finally bid adieu to Jay Cutler appropriately. I stood by Jay forever, but no one anywhere will argue that he was a collosal disappointment. I still remember the day the Bears traded for him. It was huge news. I ran down my office. I was so young, so foolish, so naive. It's still the Bears.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 11:32 PM) I think he'll be up by May. We should all take bets on dates. I agree with both points. We could have $5 per entry with full payout to the winner. Set it up like a baby birthday predictor.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 10:29 AM) Supposedly it's 3 years/45 million for Glennon lol. All about guaranteed money though. I'm guessing it's only 1 year of guaranteed money. This'll make the dude like the 23rd highest-paid starting QB in the league. I guess it could be worse. With the cap going up the numbers will follow. Hope for better than league average production while guaranteeing pay below the top 15 and hopefully grooming a new draft pick or two.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 02:13 PM) Enjoy this time while she is unaware of what you are playing. Once she realizes that, its over. I never play while she's awake nor will I.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 02:05 PM) that comes in a few months, they are going to have a yearly subscription service like PSN and XB, supposed to be about 50 bucks a year I'm not talking about s***ty free games to download. I'm talking about new awesome games. Good God, the games coming out are just unreal. Deep, beautiful, immersive, different. Jesus, I'm like 3% into Horizon: Zero Dawn and Ghost Recon Wildlands is about to come out. AND I'M STILL PLAYING MLB 16 AND NOW MLB 17 WILL BE OUT. And I'm still playing NBA. And I still have tons to do in Steep. And I still have Metal Gear which I never started. And I still have Batman which I never started. This doesn't include the tons of games I've already completed. Man, we have it lucky. I'm a 34 year old with a kid and I have countless options for entertainment each night after she's in bed.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 02:07 PM) Had a mole removed in Dec. There was no worry for me from the start but took 2 whole weeks to get confirmation. I'm sure you called yourself to follow up? 3 days in a row.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 1, 2017 -> 06:50 AM) This week I'm recovering from having about 4.5 inches wide and an inch high removed from my front right side, because I have melanoma (skin cancer). More fun! Stage 1- means it's beyond the first layer of the skin but not into the organs. Ok, that IS actually fun news. They're also removing my left earlobe. WHEEE. I'm going to utilize my wife's fancy health insurance and see a plastic surgeon. I already started behind the 8 ball handsomeness-wise, so removing an earlobe ain't gonna help. Anyway, fingers crossed they got the margins necessary with Monday's surgery. The moral of the story? This was caught during a routine skin exam with a dermatologist. I have fair skin and red hair so RED ALERT, but if you have the means, go ahead and schedule one as it could save your life. 9 days later, I am still waiting to hear anything regarding results. Billed? Immediately. Results on cancer removal? Please hold.