Easy there Morton Downey Jr.

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Why do you believe it's a negative? Should you go into rural areas just because?

If you would prefer, I will holster this line of thought until you do your next suburbs bashing rant.

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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!

My Guy! where does he fall in the liberal/conservative debate? I know he always railed against "pablum puking liberals", but I always got the feeling that he was secretly a liberal. I used to check his show out during my adolescent/teenage years. Interesting dude with a fairly "diverse" personal history. I wonder how he'd fair in today's brand of conservatism

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I think he would have become the male Arriana Huffington

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You have already written it in the past so what is another rehashing?

It's probably best to save it for when my rant addresses schools.

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

I think you're right. His show was fucking awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM45bTgmo0g

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Freedom is our Strength.

I don't remember this show at all.

You learn every time you experience something new. Are you devoid of curiosity?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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It isn't about schools though. It is about the idea that the city somehow subjects you to many different types of people and yet you still choose to engage heavily with a clique of people who derived membership in that group when they were 14 years old. I don't see much of a difference between that and someone choosing to move to Naperville and the negative connotations associated with it.

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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!

Heavily?

You so wanted the neighborhood thing to fit your thesis, didn't you?

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

I think we all lost.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

We go into the city a little more than we used to but I don't like it. I never really have. I didn't live down there after college like most people. It's crowded and expensive. I don't see why you are treating it as if it's noble to live there.

The thread seems to be gone but I remembered that it had do with "living in the city" and not just working in the city in terms of how important your high school was. I obviously can't prove anything though so I'll just wait for the next time.

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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 remember one time the Badger Badgers hosted the Catholic school from Racine. BIG. BLACK. STUDS. It was like watching a Harlem Globetrotters game. By the middle of the first quarter, the pep band was rooting for the road team.

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I think you are conflating topics from over the past 15 years. You don't even have it half right as working within the city borders is irrelevant as well.

Boy, you came in all loaded for bear and...poof!

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

Is this why you are so biased against Catholics?

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My mom's family is Catholic and I don't think it's served their mental health all that well. I hate the whole hierarchical institution of the Roman Catholic Church; I think Protestants and Jews have it right in terms of small congregations. There's no King of the Presbyterians walled off and holed up in the Capital of Presbyteriania and I think it's better that way. Theologically speaking, I think Judaism has a more attractive blend of pragmatism and idealism, because so much of it is just a time-tested survival guide to life but also about doing the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing (though I don't observe that religion either, I grew up secular Protestant-in-name-only with little nods toward the Jewish branch of the family tree). I don't like all the chutes-and-ladders complexity of Catholicism and overall I think the faith has done more harm to the world than good.

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80 more pages

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Well then explain what your high school affiliation means in the city then instead of pretending like you have answered it.

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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!

Within the borders? Nothing that is attached specifically to residing in the borders(well not that much). The benefit would be living in the Chicagoland (whatever that means) area, where you get the greatest impact from affiliation.

Like I said, you have combined pieces of a lot of topics into this thread. I answered your question so many times.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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I'm asking for a broad explanation of the way that your high school network affects your life. Either give it or don't but stop saying that you already said it multiple times. I am certain that you were talking up your high school and the benefits it provides you to this day back in that thread and now you act like it's basically just a speed dating club for friends.

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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 was fairly specific in my answers and I know I've given it to you more than once through the years. I'd be happy to provide if I thought you were interested. What you are really looking for is something to parse and then take out of context for one of your arguments down the line.

I have clients who I have obtained through networking with the school. I have referring attorneys who I have met through the school who send me work. I have co counsel, opposing counsel and judges who I can interact with on a much more collegial basis because of the relationship we have developed with the school as the nexus. There are other decision makers of various kinds who I can more casually interact with on matters because we have gotten to know each other. The school sponsors required continuing education we all must take to maintain a license. I also get the ability to vet professional service providers I need for my work.

I would also say the school provides entrée into a larger network of catholic professionals in the area as well.

Rick, this isn't shocking information. My recollection of threads of this nature is that you were denying high school alumni networks exist or were effective.

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

How come you guys never include me in the catholic education mentions!!!!!!

Where did you go to school?

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The now closed Immaculate Heart of Mary in Westchester.

Well, now we know.

Most of the mentions or references here are from people that went to CCL schools.

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I know suburbs don't count again. They're so elitist.

I was sure to be religious until my Catholic school closed at Christmas break in 4th grade. R.I.P. Alexine Academy.