StrangeSox

New England Patriots, you are ridiculous.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 17, 2007 -> 02:03 PM) Sorry, I don't mean to be insulting. I just find it odd that people consider one innocent life so important when we deal with death on a daily basis. If people are so strongly opposed to the death penalty because innocent lives are taken, then it shouldn't matter that the costs of society prevents us from protecting every life. How is that not a double standard? What if the statistics show that for every innocent person wrongly convicted and put to death, 10 lives are saved from criminals convicted of murder who kill again after they do their time? Would your positions change? No. Those people should be imprisoned for life, not put to death. Risk plays zero factor into the death penalty; there is no more risk with the person locked in max. security vs. dead. The death penalty is a conscientious act of ending someone's life, not at all similar to a car accident, a fire, a tornado, etc.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 17, 2007 -> 12:21 PM) It's an incredibly small percentage of cases. And really if you want to use that argument then we should just not prosecute people and put them in jail because mistakes have/are/will be made.If the percentage is greater than zero, then we are allowing the government to murder innocent people. Incarciration is reversible. Execution is final. That's the whole point -- they didn't take another life and are wrongly being put to death.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 17, 2007 -> 10:21 AM) Valuing all life as sacred and valuable is less hypocritical than valuing some more than others, which is what your position does. You make it seem as if death is the only suitable punishment. Life in prison values both lives. I do not believe our government is perfect and do not feel comfortable allowing the government to execute humans. We've sent people to death row who were innocent of the crimes they were accused of. If we allow executions, what could be considered cruel and unusual? Anything less than death could be considered better so all punishments would be allowed. It seems like this point has been been ignored.

BTW, a google search turns up a ton of article from May of this year or earlier that predicted $4 in the immediate future. I'm not holding my breath for $4/gallon, but I am glad that I carpool to work. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=g...244+this+summer

Gas is continuing to drop (2.75 at the Thornton's in Elk Grove Village next to O'hare this morning) while oil futures continue to swell. How long could the market sustain $80+/barrel and $4/gallon gas?

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Oct 14, 2007 -> 03:20 PM) Well Adrian Peterson sure as hell made the bears his b**** today. The Bears D was awful, tons of missed tackles, no sacks, no turnovers. they're definitely playing below-average this year.

OH God damnit.

That's what I'm talking about!

Illinois is not looking very good at all right now. And why did Zook accept that penalty in the red zone? It would have been 4th down instead of giving them another shot to convert (which they've been doing all day).

Indiana really is the armpit of the Midwest.

ILLINOIS FOR NATIONAL CHAMPZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously though, its nice that they're god-awful for the four years I'm there, and as soon as I'm gone they turn it around.

What does the environment have to do with world peace, anyway?

Fantastic episode.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 9, 2007 -> 03:16 PM) Oh. I thought we were all making claims and assumptions not based on facts. It's a quantifiable fact that Rex has been one of the worst QB's in the NFL since week 5 of last year. Just look at his TD:INT ratio from that point on. The man sucks at throwing a football.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 03:43 PM) I didnt really think Griese looked that much better than Grossman, seems the OL is doing a better job of not letting free players wreck our QB, and now that Olsen is playing its giving the QB another big target. When Griese floats a ball, I always just have to wonder, could Rex have done it slightly better. Rex would have underthrown it and had it picked.

I was finally starting to come around on Romo after seeing him play against Chicago. I won't make that mistake again.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 12:03 PM) Good work. In the future, if you doubt something someone says is true and want to accuse them of making something up, you should probably spend at least a minute looking into it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 12:03 PM) It's not accurate. He said people who remember a president other than a Bush or Clinton, not approval ratings. He was commenting on Tex's comment "I'm realizing that many high school teachers were not born when Carter was in office."

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 11:50 AM) That's a cute number. Where'd you get it? Just going off of the 2000 census, which took google all of 5 seconds to find and me another 30 seconds to add up, 35% of the US population is under 24. I'd say 1983 is a good cutoff for remembering who was president in 1988.

Their billboard on 294 was a kid picking his nose. Whoever is in charge of their marketing should be tared and feathered.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Oct 2, 2007 -> 10:29 PM) the Iraq war has possibly been the biggest waste of money in US history. I have a feeling the whole thing will end up running about $1,000,000,000,000 and for what? oil? please, i wish. we aren't getting any oil. the whole idea of "nation building" is being shown for what it really is. That was one distorted view of reality PNAC neo-conservatives had: Phase 1. Invade Iraq Phase 2. Flowers and rainbows greet us Phase 3. The entire ME is taken by a whirlwind of American democracy; War on Terror over by 2005.

I didn't like the first quiz's question on immigration. Bits and pieces of each answer fit my view, but no single view really stated what I believe. Anyway, here's my surprising (to me, anyway) results: Guiliani: 37 Kucinich: 31 Dodd: 31 Obama: 28 Second Quiz: 1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) 2. Kent McManigal (campaign suspended) (65%) 3. Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (64%) 4. Barack Obama (61%) 5. Dennis Kucinich (59%) 6. Ron Paul (55%) 7. Joseph Biden (55%) 8. Hillary Clinton (54%) 9. Al Gore (not announced) (53%) 10. Wesley Clark (not running, endorsed Clinton) (53%)

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Oct 1, 2007 -> 11:59 AM) Neither one can be considered a good QB, but at least the offense actually DID something yesterday. They were able to take the ball down the field several times, and a non-offensive lineman actually caught a touchdown pass. That was with the line, runningbacks, and receivers still having some problems as well. He may have a rag-arm, but he can also find and hit short to intermediate receivers with some kind of consistency. Obviously the picks are a major problem that will hopefully be ironed out in the next few weeks (not sure how likely that is, though it was his first meaningful game in years), but IMO there was a moderate improvement, which is about the best we could hope for in our current situation. We definitely need to do something to fix the whole QB/line situation this off-season though, we're not going anywhere with any of these guys at QB. It was nice to see the offense actually move down the field a few times yesterday, but Griese is making the mistakes he was brought in to correct. If he has just one less INT, the Bears probably this game. This entire offense needs to be rebuilt. The QB situation is pitiful and we all know it. Every week, Benson looks less and less impressive. The WR's are dropping balls left and right and just look mediocore at best. The o-line is a joke. The only position that seems ok is TE -- Turner's just too dumb to utlize Olsen and Clark down the middle.

Fantastic speech (at least the parts posted by BS).