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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2011 -> 12:58 PM) Scott Walker, Man of the People, cracking down on unconstitutional visitation rights for homosexuals. Please someone give me one valid reason to do this besides intentionally being an asshole. I don't really care about how one feels about gay marriage or homosexuality in general but I can't see how someone could be comfortable with the government getting THAT deep into your life and then with the same mouth saying your political opponents are dong more than you when nothing they've ever said is anywhere that intrusive (cuz you know proposing a couple percentage points extra of taxes is the same thing)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 18, 2011 -> 04:21 PM) He's having an impressively solid meltdown this week. Gingrich's spokesman had a bizarre quote (seriously the whole thing was just f***ing weird) that referred to him as a "Washington outsider." lol. Was he or was he not the Speaker of the Motherf***ing House?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 17, 2011 -> 10:03 PM) You're Tom Tancredo? I'd never have guessed. Well I guess you guys short-title my screen name as "LF" and not "lost" like they do on other boards so my joke doesn't really work

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 16, 2011 -> 02:23 PM) And lost, so now he's available for the job. I'm flattered, but I think you overestimate my ability to get anywhere in the GOP primaries.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ May 17, 2011 -> 09:02 PM) Classic Clippers. They give up an unprotected first to dump Baron Davis and it turns out to be the #1 pick. That is some Cubs type of s***.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 17, 2011 -> 08:13 AM) whoa, he started off light and then started hitting haymakers. Yeah, there was a moment in there when Stewart really pivoted and drilled his point in hard and started talking about the "selective outrage machine." O'Reilly was reeling and couldn't explain how Stewart's example wasn't EXACTLY THE SAME and Stewart went ahead and spelled it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_NBA_Draft Every time I read that list I'm always thinking "who"?

Fantastic.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 9, 2011 -> 09:56 PM) lol And I just read an article on him but I thought that was part of your signature. I actually thought the joke was about how many basketball players have brought guns to arenas, which was a surprisingly interesting point when I thought about it. Perfect storm for idiotic hilarity on my part. ^^was this intentional? If so, nicely done.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 16, 2011 -> 06:42 PM) LF just said in one long post what I think I've said in about 7-8 posts today. I just went back and read a few of your posts and if you piece them together, it's basically what I said. lol. Except for where you were saying how iso is easier with more than one guy of that caliber.

I've been on vacation and I don't have the time to go through a week's worth of posts plus last night's game where I'm sure there was a flurry of posts and an obligatory argument or two... but here's my take on the game. Obviously, the small lineup vs. the Bulls was a terrible idea. The Bulls aren't Boston, and hell, Boston isn't Boston, it's a busted down shell of what it was the last few years. The Heat aren't really that great of a rebounding team to begin with (actually worst offensive rebounding team in the NBA I think) and the Bulls happen to be the best in the NBA. So going small concedes what's already a disadvantage and exacerbates it. It looked like it was going to work for about 18 minutes... Miami is fantastic, unstoppable even, in transition and they play their guys back to facilitate this (also another reason they aren't good at rebounding). BUT as was probably already mentioned, it takes a lot of energy to play this way, to force turnovers, to keep up with the lack of rebounding or finish plays that don't allow rebounds. I never really realized until last night how much iso Miami runs, they barely run any actual plays, and Thibodeau's schemes make that kind of play extremely hard. So Miami predictably started to wear down halfway through the second and the Bulls caught up once the Bulls threw the second wave of fresh bigs at them... Miami has no answer to that and this is where the depth issues really hurt them. Furthermore, Noah is as fast as almost anyone Miami has so their small guys can't exploit a speed mismatch there which is the whole point of the lineup in the first place... at one point I think he was actually running a transition play. Wade was exhausted towards the end and even LeBron can't blow past double teams as soon as he catches the ball, or when everywhere he's going is sealed off. Yeah this means Bosh gets 30 but who cares. Miami's halfcourt sets are mediocre, even with Wade and James, when someone else dictates to them how they have to play. Miami can't keep up its defensive intensity for 4 quarters... this is why they dropped the 3 games to the Bulls during the regular season, too. Where they led, they blew the lead. Where the games were even, the Bulls pulled away. This is also why Miami's record against certain kinds of opponents is so poor, and their record in close games is embarrassing. They can get away with crushing average opponents, but not teams like the Bulls. They didn't suddenly become a different team in the playoffs. This is basically the long version of everything I've said about Miami all year.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 6, 2011 -> 10:07 AM) I don't question his death at all. I don't question anything about the mission. I'm just saying it looks pretty bad when high ranking officials disagree over basic facts - was he armed/unarmed, did he use his wife as a shield, etc. The most obvious though is the reaction from his followers (and more importantly, sympathizers) if people start acknowledging that he surrendered first. We already have a bumbling idiot saying he was "executed" and he should have gotten a trial. I'm thinking that the SOF team went in and basically executed bin Laden and all the different stories were the administration trying to get the PR spin right because they really can't just go saying that s*** out loud. I'm totally cool with a summary execution of bin Laden though. A trial would've been expensive, time-consuming, demoralizingly politically draining... everybody's happy with a bullet to the head.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ May 4, 2011 -> 11:19 PM) when theres a rebound opportunity he goes "GET THAT SH*T!!!!!!!!!" i love that Boozer has the foulest mouth of any player I've ever heard. lol. "GIMME THAT s***" "GOD DAMMIT" "WHAT THE f***"

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ May 4, 2011 -> 11:14 PM) there was a fight.. at least verbally.. i heard him go "AAAHHHH!!!!!" a couple times? Boozer? He does that every time he gets the ball ripped out of his hands or gets rejected (sometimes he does it BEFORE actually getting rejected)

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 4, 2011 -> 10:56 PM) He's mentally wrecked at this point. I blame this on Kwame Brown. I mean, I know you're in the past against Josh Smith, but really now. When you have the ball and you get to the rim first you need to finish, I don't care if you're playing against Dwight Howard. He was just getting everything slapped away without a fight.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 4, 2011 -> 09:53 PM) UN?

Carla Boozer played like a b**** today... I've got half a mind to meet her in the locker room and f*** her to see if that helps.

And his ankle problems aren't helping. He normally tries to push through the paint and draw contact but I haven't seen him do that in 2 games.

QUOTE (Felix @ May 4, 2011 -> 10:46 PM) Horrible is very accurate for his game. You can say that some/most (depending on your outlook) of that is because of the ankle, which is certainly true, but it doesn't mean the game wasn't horrible. He was really, really bad. No, he wasn't horrible. It was a mediocre game (for him) but he was not horrible, he was in some Atlanta players' faces on defense forcing them to make bad shots and turn the ball over. He was just taking way too many bad shots.

QUOTE (Felix @ May 4, 2011 -> 10:36 PM) At this point, is it even defendable? He's a great player and he had a great season, but it's really laughable how bad his deep shot is. There is no excuse for him to shoot it as much as he does. He's been doing it a lot more in the playoffs than I saw him doing it in the regular season. Then, he was making them at a decent clip, now he's just bricking. I want to taser his ass when he does that. I think he just expects so much of himself that he feels like he has to be dazzling and score 40 every game to win, when he doesn't. He ends up trying to do way too much because he wants to be a hero so he doesn't get the other guys involved in the offense, and starts making sloppy passes and chucking up threes and long jumpers he doesn't need to take. There are other guys who can take those threes and are better at it than Rose, Bogans and Deng, but Rose thinks he has to score a flurry of points all by himself. He didn't get the MVP playing this way, it was natural instinct and aggressiveness. Right now he just needs to relax and feel the game. He's 22 but because of what we've seen we assume that he handles everything like a veteran, but all of this is new to him.

Osama should've been captured alive and made to go through airport security for the rest of his life.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ May 4, 2011 -> 07:10 PM) The best part of that tweet is her saying it's a warning. Yeah, because I'm sure all of those terrorists willing to suicide bomb and die for their cause of killing others will really be scared off by death. terrorists are funny like that, because they want to be killed and they're ready for it, but they still get p**** hurt and talk about revenge when we kill them. Hey whatever gets you off I guess.

Faking the thing requires too many moving parts... the government really isn't as good at that kind of thing as some people assume or daydream about.

The last front office-type figure that I can recall being fired for subpar performance was fired because he got f***ing indicted, so that doesn't really count.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 4, 2011 -> 04:55 PM) Does a threat like that about an ex-president get you a secret service visit? (serious question). Yes