John Adams

If I was LeBron, I'd leave basketball tomorrow. Never a more embarrassing article. He's got to be the biggest kitty to ever play in the nba. http://m.espn.go.com/nba/story?storyId=11040631

This is PPP not Romper Room. When a tragedy happens, we talk about it and even joke about it. It may not be your cup of tea but that's what happens here.

Sorry it's not working out for you today little buddy.

Little defensive?

Bradley is not an attacker. He's a controller.

Bradley is THE playmaker. Without him, there is no USA in the WC. Bank on that. He's the best player on the team. The US does not play controlled soccer traditionally. The style in MLS is forward-forward-forward and the same thing happens with our national team. We don't instill patience into kids and it carries through all our players. We've gotten better but "hair on fire" is a good description of the US style. You'll never mistake them for Spain.

How is 9/11 his fault? And what did he do wrong in Katrina? It took 2 days (!!!!) to get food to thousands of people who didn't evacuate before a massive hurricane when they were supposed to. Was the federal government supposed enforce the Domino's 1 hour delivery guarantee while New Orleans was under 10 feet of water?

Then stop talking about him and move on if it bothers you so much.

Let's see: (1) The kid was 8. (2) The dad drove away left his bawling kid standing on the side of the road. (3) The kid WAS picked up by a stranger driving on the same road. This sounds like a story with a good outcome? Kick your teen out of the car? OK. Kick your 8 year old out of the car and drive away while he's bawling, then return to find him gone? What kind of parent is this? I am sure the dad prefers his 1 year probation to the many worse things that could have happened. He should STFU and be happy.

I never heard of that but anything that annoys another poster trumps that rule and all others.

Let's see: (1) The kid was 8. (2) The dad drove away. (3) The kid WAS picked up by a stranger driving on the road. This sounds like a story with a good outcome? Kick your teen out of the car? OK. Kick your 8 year old out of the car and drive away while he's bawling, then return to find him gone? What kind of parent is this? I am sure the dad prefers his 1 year probation to the many worse things that could have happened. He should STFU and be happy.

As an aside, the backlash on the Cuban comment was so retarded. In the full context, what he said was not racially biased but meant to show that as humans, we're biased. Put 100 people of 4 races in a gym randomly and an hour later, they will have mostly congregated to the people most like themselves. That's human nature. It's got nothing do do with hating others.

You need more justification than that? Returning to LA's question: I was not attacking the right to bear arms. It just comes at a price. Just like free speech does (Wesboro douchebaggery being one of the prices). Guns are used more in commission of crimes than the nightstand handgun coming in handy. But I don't care about that either way--I'm not trying to argue over which is better. Clearly, the issue is one of too many DC Toms and Thailogs out there ruining it for the rest of us. How you get them the help they need is a huge problem, made worse by a mental health system that is so, so, so, so behind our medical system. And that's just for the people who would accept help in the first place. I'm a lot more worried about the people who don't, or walk away from the help. Those are the people that are the big problem.

More like Macintosh commercial.

Guns make it easy for wackos to commit these crimes. Will wackos commit crimes if guns are harder to get? No doubt. Will it be as easy to commit the crimes? Probably not. That said, this is a country of guns so we just need to live with it. Mentally ill people are going to shoot up others in the US. It's not about to stop because we believe in the right to have relatively free access to guns. It's one of our defining traits and one of the consequences of that is a huge negative. Some of the consequences are positive (people feel good having a handgun in the bedside drawer). The two sides of the right to bear arms coin travel together. Aside: I have a UK friend whose buddies visited him while he was stateside for 5 years. What did they want to do when they got to Philly? Go shoot guns. He described this experience of going to an indoor north Philly shooting range in a way that only a foreigner could--made us sound like a bunch of gun toting wackos but had me in tears. Everyone from the store owner lecturing them on their god given right to carry to the guys on the range wanting the funny Brits to fire their guns was a chapter in the story.

It's only that opening progression that has any similarity but a chord progression is not copyright infringement. The test is whether it's strikingly similar. Is it?

I was at the India-Pakistan Waggah border recently. They do a daily ceremony on both sides. India's is a chaotic (shocking I know) mass of humanity all intermixing and having a mini-Woodstock. Pakistan's side is not so much. The men and women sit apart. They cheer and sing but it's 1984ish.

Whogivesashit thread.

I like you too.

Moran.

The good news is that when the government removes risk from the market, nothing bad can happen.

You don't fool him: He knows you read his entire post and hang on his every word.

Debating the reason why you posted something in one thread vs another is a retard fight that you are engaging in with yourself. And no, I haven't read your post or your article. Un-ignoring you to engage in this conversation is annoying enough.

Kook, who cares?

I'm not a GW denier like some here. But the reality is that GW is happening (man made or not) and there's not much if anything we can do about, except act like the good humans we are and adapt. Florida is not flooding tomorrow and no doubt as more and more storms ravage the coast, people will move further from it. As food doesn't grow in one region, it will grow in another. It won't be an easy adaption but we'll do it.