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I really just wanted him so we could sign Furcal.

Oh not this again...

All the ones about the economy are epic fails. The first one is pretty bad too.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Dec 22, 2008 -> 03:46 PM) Funny considering how NBA players themselves post there and executives view RealGM. In fact, aren't you still a teenager. I digress, but you should still get those eyes checked. He's playing great defense this year. His first year he sucked. Second year, he sucked with a few improvements. Third year he was mediocre, 5th year became average and this year he has become above average. Do you think Ben Gordon is better than Derrick Rose?

Reagan's Soviet policy was a strange hybrid of confrontation and reassurance.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Dec 22, 2008 -> 01:21 PM) Hooray for XBox 360 RRoD 6 days before Christmas!! Look it up online: Your warranty expired 6/5/2008 GREAT!! "You can send your XBox 360 in for us to look at and repair. Minimum cost: $94" I don't think so... $7 worth of machine screws and Nylon washers later, working XBox. Nice faulty design though Microsoft, bravo on the X Clamps. When did you buy your 360? The warranty is for 3 years, not 1 which is probably what they tell you online. Although this is moot now, since you did the repairs yourself.

If they had a political party called the "Pragmatists" or something like that then that's what I'd be. When it comes to national politics I don't get hung up on ideology and specifics, I'm more concerned with solutions, what's actually going to be done, and how. I accept that there's probably never going to be a candidate or elected official that I agree with on everything, and that's ok. As long as I know they're competent, and I have a feeling they're working with the country's best interest in mind (which is relative, and open to argument or interpretation, but often the arguments are predicated on ideological disagreements). I'm 100% pro-gay rights for the record, and I don't see any relevance between this, and the advancement of gay rights under Obama (which stands a good chance of happening if it's done right). Hence, like I said, this is not a big deal IMO.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 22, 2008 -> 01:05 PM) I don't see how being mad that he has a guy being involved in his inauguration who compared being gay to Incest and Pedophilia being far left. So you have to be far left to not hate gay people? If its not that big of a deal why is he doing it? I hope he dosen't think this is going to help with the evangelical crowd. Most of them people would have voted for Francisco Franco over Obama. I'm talking about the pattern of behavior the far left has established since Nov. 5, this happens to fit in that pattern. I go to the blogs, they cry about everything and act like the sky is falling because Obama is at least acting like he wants to engage the right which is what he said in his campaign. I just find it obnoxious, and at the same time it makes me laugh. I don't want a leftist version of Bush. That would be a disaster. The middle won the election for him, FWIW. I just can't bring myself to care about this or see why I should. I'm more worried about what Obama ACTUALLY DOES in regards to gays once he's inaugurated, or at least things that come out of his mouth, or some official in his administration. This whole "he-said by proxy" BS went on through the whole campaign.

I fail to see how having a guy deliver an invocation is "running to the right." As far as I can tell, he has no influence on any policy decisions whatsoever, it's all symbolic. Correct me if I'm wrong. As has been said, Obama is not the president of the far left. Frankly the outrage over anything he does that's not in line with the far left agenda is starting to get annoying as hell IMO. How bout we see how and what he actually does as president?

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Dec 22, 2008 -> 02:09 AM) The Show would be the only reason i'd get a PS3, damn I wish they would make a better baseball game for the 360. Yet another reason to hate EA Sports. f*** you, EA.

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 21, 2008 -> 06:22 PM) Our work fridge is so nasty that I wouldn't eat anything out of it. They recently cleaned one of them out at my job and found some coffee creamer that expired in August. August 2007 btw.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 21, 2008 -> 01:40 PM) Good luck finding a recognizable religious figure to do your invocation who isn't anti-gay. ^^ I left this out of my post.

Dallas is... just...

The pick of an OL at that position was the correct one. They just (maybe, the jury is still out until next year) may have picked the wrong one.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 09:26 PM) More brutal: Deion, Aikman, Emmitt or Irvin? Devin Hester should be a broadcaster when he retires.

It only really drives me nuts when people make inaccurate or poorly phrased statements like "most of the information from Wikipedia is inaccurate" which is not true at all. You wouldn't use it as a source for a paper and it's obvious why, but it's a good place to start and oftentimes will lead you to something else you can use as a source. Generally you can tell when something said about someone is wrong, if you read enough Wikipedia.

This article is a little old, but Tyrus Thomas is a lot more mature and accountable for himself than I thought: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/blogentries...orcGDKIZK9SoYtK

The DC spawned the NFL and NBA 2K series. I bought NFL2K on its launch day, I loved it instantly.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 04:13 PM) LOL, do you ever watch him pitch? I don't give a s*** what the stats say, Jenks has become more hittable every single year. It's just a matter of time before hitters catch up. LOL, do YOU ever watch him pitch? Tell me something, if he's become so hittable, then why aren't guys hitting off of him, and if so, when are they doing it? It's an absurdly simple question, and you can't answer it by saying "because they are." Well, I suppose you could, but it wouldn't make any sense. You act like he's out there getting his s*** rocked... of course guys hit off him sometimes, guys hit off Mariano Rivera, K-Rod, Joe Nathan, etc. too.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 03:45 PM) A 94 mph fastball ain't bad if it has some movement on it... but guess what, it doesn't. Oh, that probably explains why his ERA has gone up every year and why his WHIP is so high, he has so much trouble getting guys out. Right?

Did anybody here have a Sega Dreamcast? It was a very underrated system that died an undeserved death.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 01:38 PM) But isn't Warren someone who proactively opposes gay marriage? Seems like there could have been a thousand better choices for the selection. It's just the invocation, I mean it's not like Obama set out to change his agenda all of a sudden or anything. I can understand why they (the gay community and gay rights activists, whose fight for equality I agree with btw) don't like the pic, but they have to understand, it's not all about them. Obama's not going to spend his presidency governing specifically for one set of political views, and even said as such in his victory speech. This is something I noticed about the far left almost immediately after the election.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 01:27 PM) After Obama was silent on prop 8 and now this, I could see why the GLBT community is not happy. Obama doesn't support gay marriage, that shouldn't have been a secret, he's never pretended to support it either. He supports gays and gay rights is on his agenda, but not 100%.

Yeah, I saw this and I laughed. They tend to assume that all of Obama's supporters and Obama himself are exactly like them. This is no big deal... at all.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 12:15 PM) I would prefer that as well. I think if we had drafted LaRon Landry, Roy Williams would no longer be on this team. As for the Bears, their secondary is terrible, especially for a Cover-2 IMHO. The reason why they did so good was because of Ron Rivera, and the D-Line/Linebackers covering up a lot of the wholes the secondary had. The problem is, they aren't particularly fast, and they play for the INT which is a bad combination. In the secondary, the Bears need a complete revamp. I still think Vasher is the only one worth keeping, but if you want, it's either him or Tillman that stays, and neither of them are #1 CB's on a good team. It wasn't Ron Rivera, the guy gets way too much credit. It was the D-line play, which was lights out most of the time. In games where the D-line wasn't generating pressure, Rivera's game plans were neutered, and he'd never adjust. His blitz schemes weren't as unimaginative as Babich's, but they were close, they were predictable and simple. When the D-line isn't getting it done in a Cover 2, the entire scheme goes to s***. Vasher was completely worthless this year, I don't know why you'd hitch yourself to that wagon. I would not be surprised if he got cut and replaced next year to save salary. He was getting abused week in and week out, I don't know what happened to him.