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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 11:37 AM) Biden just doesn't get taken seriously. He is treated like the racist and really old uncle who just occasionally yells something stupid, and everyone laughs and goes "Oh that Uncle Joe!" Now the gloves would come off if he were every the nominee for President, but for now he kind of gets the Quayle treatment. Biden hates that characterization, but there's a reason he never got close to being nominated for president. Over the past few years when conservatives would start talking about impeachment, my response would be "you want Joe Biden to be president that bad, huh? And of course you realize he can potentially be re-elected twice after that too?"

One of my Facebook friends linked this executive order with a hysterical description of how the Obama administration has blanket authorized drone strikes on U.S. citizens. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office...strike-measures I bet you I could choose a random XO in the 13xxx series (hell, it doesn't even have to be one of Obama's, it's not like people will even notice) and say "This is terrifying! The Obama administration has ordered everyone's children to be transgender by 2019!" and people will share it on Facebook without reading it like they do everything else.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 01:01 AM) After watching Biden at the ESPY's a thought hit me: Why the hell didn't he run for President this time. He would be GREAT and a super alternative to Hillary. Nobody hates Joe Biden. Many people are like me and not fond of Hillary. What was Biden thinking?? He didn't want to, his heart wasn't in it. Simple as that. I do think it's kind of funny that Biden has ALL of the liabilities on his voting record Hillary has AND THEN SOME though and nobody cares about that (Hillary campaigned for the '94 crime bill, Bernie voted for it, Biden wrote the damn thing, he voted for the Iraq War, history is not kind to him for the way he treated Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, etc.).

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 04:44 PM) Wow not even typing? That was mandatory for me in middle school. My stepdaughter didn't learn that in school (it was probably available but that's not where she got it), she just taught it to herself somehow.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 12:20 PM) There's definitely some overlap depending on how you define the dates for each generation and when your parents, you and your kids were born. But it's not entirely wrong to say Gen X raised this current generation. Even the youngest of the Gen X'rs are pushing 40 now. A whole lot of us had kids in the 80's and 90's who are coming of age now. I think as a general rule of thumb, Gen Xers were raised by Boomers and Millennials were raised by Gen Xers

What's the big deal about kids using electronics? So they are more sophisticated than we were growing up. We were more sophisticated than our parents and so on. So? What is this, jealousy? I wish smartphones existed when I was 12. Granted, I was too poor but still.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 09:58 AM) Maybe some were but the first round of boomers gave birth to Gen X. Boomers (1946 - 1964) --> Gen X (60s - 70s) --> Millennials (80s and 90s) My parents are boomers, I'm Gen X and my kids are millennials AKA Gen Y. It kinda depends. My parents are def Baby Boomers and they're both over 65 but my brother and me are at the beginning of the Millennial scale.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 11:23 AM) Indiana is cheering. There is also a movement to draft Mitch Daniels back, which would make me double happy. I'm not a Republican obviously, but Mitch Daniels is okay. He's more of what I consider a traditional Republican and not the Brownback/Walker/McCrory/Pence douchebag type of governor who run their states into the ground. My favorite memory of Pence in Congress is when he invited President Obama to come speak at the Republican retreat in Baltimore, I guess expecting to lecture him or get him told but they'd *completely* underestimated him and halfway through they were like "yeah this is a bad idea. Good thing this isn't on TV."

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 04:47 PM) wtf? I thought he came out last week and said it was 7% edit: alright, sorry, I must have read an article wrong. That was his prediction for the nomination last fall. Silver also uses a couple of different projection models

I find the idea that Sanders uniquely represents certain things that the Democratic Party supposedly opposed to be laughable, to be honest. -Universal healthcare: no. This has been a Democratic thing forever but they have never been in a position to actually enact it. -Raising the minimum wage: no. Obama has repeatedly tried to do this but there hasn't been enough support in Congress. -Citizens United: Get the entire f*** out of here with this. I'm not even going to bother explaining it. Sanders's college plans specifically, maybe, but it's not like making tuition more affordable is something that never occurred to Dems before he mentioned it. And he's been louder about "breaking up the banks" than most Dems. But the majority of stuff he campaigned on is standard Democratic stuff, it's not like he campaigned on anything actually socialist like a guaranteed minimum income or anything. "Get money out of politics" is a hell of a lot harder to do than just having a position against it and there's multiple layers of reform that need to happen. But, again, that's a standard Democratic position.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 01:49 PM) The real question is where the heck does lost spend his money. Hookers and beer mostly.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 01:41 PM) It was the most obvious thing ever. Of course Sanders endorsed Clinton. Its either that or turn into the next Joe Lieberman who gets ostracized from his party for not falling in line. These guys are full of s*** on the campaign trail. They all fall back into line when it is said and done. The only shocking thing is how many Republicans are still refusing Trump, which makes me feel better about some of those guys having some morals. The excuses Republicans are giving for not going to the convention are funny as hell. "I need to mow my lawn" "I have a breakfast meeting" (checks calendar, fills in "breakfast meeting") "I'm taking my kids to New Jersey to see a literal dumpster fire" (all of these are actual excuses/reasons given)

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 12:30 PM) I don't recall him ever saying Clinton was evil, but if you thought the HRC/Sanders primary was nasty, then I hope you enjoyed your first primary. For real, as asinine as this primary got, the 2008 primaries were so much uglier. Clinton (as in, herself and her campaign directly, not others) did next to no negative campaigning this time.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 12:16 PM) Do candidates usually announce their VP pick before the convention or after? Just before, so they get a speaking slot.

Every few months, my debit card information gets compromised and a bunch of purchases get made in Georgia or Texas somewhere and I have to get a new debit card. I'm never responsible for the charges thankfully, but god damn is this annoying. Every major retail data breach (Target, Home Depot, etc.) I've had my cards compromised and had to get new ones. It's probably about the 10th call I've had to make.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 12:51 PM) Ha, well yes those are the same people who now check in on one playoff game and then say the NBA is just a bunch of iso hero ball and how great college is. Yeah, basically, lol.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) Those two teams though were quite different. They did speed up pace, they did amp up passing. They did just use to slow the game down to a crawl and use their fantastic defense to their advantage. It was boring. But also, it was insane to watch this 38 year old man go out and give you 16/10 every night, and still have playoffs where he dominated. More than that, to watch a guy that was absolutely the face of the franchise so gracefully bring in other teammates and stars without any drama. I'm not giving these people that much credit. They don't know the difference, they were still saying that s*** in 2013.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 12:39 PM) He made a bunch of money doing that though and received fawning profiles. He's still better than nothing. I hated landreiu/nelson, but when they left you weren't getting a moderate republican you were getting a crazy tea partier. Bayh is like what everyone thinks Clinton (who has a solidly liberal domestic voting record maybe even to the left of Obama) is.

I'm bout to be "that guy" Probably a good 60% of people singing Tim Duncan's praises everywhere right now were people who spent 10+ years derisively talking about how "boring" the Spurs were, and only started giving the Spurs proper respect when they beat Miami that year (and had come close the year before).

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 12:05 PM) Ron Fournier probably just sobbed himself to puking over Evan Bayh running for Senate. Though he is probably really confused why he has a label again Evan Bayh did as much to block his own party from doing certain things as anyone who wasn't a Republican, or Joe Lieberman. I remember when he retired, it was some sanctimonious bulls*** about how the "environment had deteriorated" or something, and he was otherwise pretending like he had nothing to do with that.

Xbox Live just had this sale where like half the library was on sale... I bought 4 games, knowing I didn't really have the free time to play them. This is what women experience at Victoria's Secret when they have their semi-annual sale, isn't it?

Sox need the bullpen help right now and he could use the experience.

Tim Anderson kind of doesn't suck.

s*** thread, lock+ban, kthxbai