all of a sudden Boozer is a better than average defender...you all can blow me

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Didn't Boozer sit entire quarters because of the liability he posed on defense? I don't know about basketball so someone is going to have to tell me.

Also, there is a teeny tiny thread of a WYC to be made during that superhero discussion detour in the 3:00-3:30 hour or so. Dan said something to the effect of, "What's with kids and their new made up super heros?".

Uh Dan, last I checked every super hero is made up, not just the new ones. So Dan, why don't you take Stan Lee's dusty coin purse out your mouth, check your optics, and ask yourself, who you crappin'?

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Who's a bigger pile of suck: Bowen, Hub, Durkin, or Miller? I think they all suck, but can't decide who is worse.

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

Been reading about this today. Of course, the anti-vaxers are nuts and should get their kids shots but this immigration point cannot be ignored either.

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Elections have consequences.

Where the hell you pull that out of?

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Elections have consequences.

All I have seen and heard about is mostly Jay's wife and Chicago's very own bimbo. I assume their are plenty of whackos but are the number of people not getting their shots really huge?

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Elections have consequences.

Wouldn't 97% vaccinated be pretty good?

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Tough call.

Bowen: Never entertaining. Just drab, pedantic, and criminally uninteresting. Monotone voice.

Hub: Smarmy, insipid, and dumb. I do enjoy laughing at how wrong he always is and his "heh, listen guys" is amusing in a fun-bad way.

Durkin: Can't think of how this guy sounds or remember what he speaks about. Bears?

Miller: Jim Miller? Captain Obvious type statements that any 70+ IQ person could deduce.

My ratings with 1 being the most sucky:

1. Bowen
2. Miller
3. Herbert Alonzo Zachariah Miguel "Hub" Arkush VIII
4. Deerking (goes last since I can't remember him)

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Well, add in delinquency, provisional enrollment and medical exemption and you're shooting for close to 100%

Not too shabby.

Dan Durkin is actually pretty good and seems to be a rising star at the Score. The only strike against him is that he and Adam Hoge have never been seen in the same place.

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That's just all kinds of stupid. Everyone knows he had his father killed to cover gambling debts.

Lots of illegals spend vacations at Disney theme parks? Arizona is a haven for neocon shitdicks. Let them all infect each other.

Do you know what a "Neo-Conservative" actually is?

1. Miller- as dumb as was untalented. Dumb jock holding a job until a more recent dumb jock fills the role. He has cobbled together a nice group of post playing days gigs but I cannot figure out why?
2. Bowen- I like Matt. I want to like him on the radio. Score hosts treat him like a teacher of the game. A teacher makes the complicated understandable. Bowen makes the understandable complicated. NFL football mainly employs monosyllabic sociopaths. Don't hide that truth in jargon.
3. Hub- Doug is great because he is in on the joke and laughs along with us. Hub sucks for the opposite reason. Still, there is comedic value in in this guy if you understand that he is not a football insider with great insights. The comedy is even more enjoyable when you realize Hub looks in the mirror and sees a brilliant Adonis.
4. Durkin- I like his work. He is the opposite of Bowen. He does not overcomplicate a relatively simple game.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

My drive time 2/3 was mercifully short and the commercials blocks seemed to be just a tad long.

Terry's lucid moment came when bemoaning what the day's discussion topics were: Super Bowl game winning play, and a Super Bowl commercial. My thought: On day two of the post season those topics will only have legs if they give them legs.

Dan telling a caller not to worry about the coming changes, they don't matter as the Bears will be good again someday in the distant future. As if fans should accept losing as some kind of needed cleanse and preparation to a return to competitiveness. My thought: The Theo plan has taken such a hold of Dan that he now sees all teams as needing to lose more to win later, if he was half as smart as he thinks he is he'd just say he doesn't know but awaits the developments to come.

Rex Huppke was a guest, and Dan was able to inject several of his buzzwords while also making a parody of himself. The injection of "ESPN" into the news debate about vaccines had me chuckling as I was listening to a sports talk radio program that was devoting another segment to vaccinations, along with the requisite villification of Mrs. Jay Cutler. Perhaps the highlight of the amusement came in Dan describing the anti-vaxxers as being people quite similar to himself; smarter than you, more independently thinking than you, and very willing to tell you how you should better live your life. Maybe they're too similar, hence the ongoing discussion.

As a backdrop to all of this was their current Bulls discussion where Pau Gasol is both the best player on the team and the worst player on the team, which sparked the question of Boozer as somehow not being so bad? Funny how they contort the discussion to where they regularly have to defend their newest contradiction.

PTFB before my ride is over as I contemplate how long Dan was ambivalent about Brandon Marshall's past in juxtaposition to how much longer he will be his current object of villification for the same thing, his past. The over/under: 1.5 times villification to ambivalence, so another year to go.

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the problem is kids from Nicaragua aren't the ones fleeing their country. not even in the top 10. because they actually have decent care/wages there.

I hate these dopes who don't vaccinate their kids too but to harp on anti-vaxxers while ignoring the much larger looming collection of unvaccinated kids coming over the border is silly.

we went to visit our friends from college who lives in SD who actually works for some group who does medical stuff with all sorts of immigrants. We also comically went to disneyland on this trip a good while ago. he said most children are not that come through their clinic and yes at Disney world, there were TONS of hispanics. To assume that many were illegal would not be the right thing to do obviously but I imagine that some of them were.

and it is kind of funny everyone is freaking out about measles btw.

Agreed

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You are truly a fascinating person.

Wow. I cant believe how many here are cool with the government forcibly sticking needles (whichever ones the govt chooses, btw) in you

I know people throw out this comparison a lot but that really is some 1984 type shit. Do you really trust the government to always do what's best?


I absolutely believe that people should get their kids vaccinated but making it mandatory IS a slippery slope.


Id just make it mandatory for school and all activities surrounding it. If you want to not vaccinate your kids, then you can home school them.

No, it isn't anything close to that. It also isn't "the government" deciding what is best. It is decades of medical science that has been verified and studied all around the world and they have all come to the same conclusion.
As I said, we require parents to do many things for the health of the child.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

that's my take too.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Extend it to never taking them in public and we have a deal!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Its absolutely THAT. You're entrusting your body and health to a government entity. Im not saying they're evil. But that's exactly the type of thing that happens with a 1984 type dystopia


Who will be passing the law and in charge of enforcing it? (Im not arguing that the government is taking over labrotories)


Not really. Not like this.

Sorry, I have trust issues with governments, but that's just me. My child is vaccinated so you needn't worry.

We all entrust our body and health to a government agency. Who do you think oversees hospitals and public health? This is like saying you don't trust the government to regulate roadways or airports.
The government already helps set the standards of medicine and also grants power to other organizations to manage and administer healthcare. I honestly don't know what you are railing against here. Government has a major role in health care right now.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Our society has been trained to have government protect us from private corporations and from one another. This is evident because every time something goes wrong we look to the government to fix the problem. The ensuing costs and bureaucracy are put in place so we can all sleep at night. Then the next problem pops up, and we blame the politicians, forgetting that the government is as flawed or more than the general population and private companies.

"Why didn't you close Lake Shore Drive?"




"Why did you shut down NYC, and we only got six inches of snow?"

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I can't imagine what anyone thinks the role of government should be if you don't think they should be protecting public health by requiring everyone who is medically sound to do so is vaccinated.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I don't require the government to tell me what to do in making decisions. They don't need to tell me drugs are bad, Mickey D's will give you a heart attack, or that a doctor recommended vaccine is a good thing. I make decisions that best suit my life.


Now, what I figure you are referring to you is the impact on others from my bad decisions. Meaning, you want the government to protect you from everyone else. As I said in another thread, this is the toughest of calls for me because of the balance between safety and freedom. One's decision not to vaccinate causes a problem for the rest of society (externality). The problem I have is where does that road end? You eating at McDonald's increases the likelihood of type 2 diabetes, which government funded Medicare will have to address. It's a balance that I wrestle with.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I thought they did close Lake Shore Drive and idiots drove on it anyway.

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No, its not like that at all. Mandatory injections are not on equal footing with general regulation of an industry

The government already helps set the standards of medicine and also grants power to other organizations to manage and administer healthcare. I honestly don't know what you are railing against here. Government has a major role in health care right now.[/quote]
Im railing against the government putting a substance in people's body by force.