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Tribune reports Schwarber out for year. Knee. Sad, he is fun to watch. -- nm - zunk via drone Apr 8, 15:09 4
- whoa. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 8, 15:11
- glad you kept Dexter Fowler now, Cubbies? -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 15:10 1
  - Seems prescient now. But it's still pretty amazing that they can plug in Soler and call up Baez. - pmb Apr 8, 15:13
- Crap. It's a good thing they're really deep. -- nm - pmb Apr 8, 15:10
Schwarber is done for the year. Full ACL and LCL. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 15:09 1
- I guess that's why they were concerned. -- nm - iSpam Apr 8, 15:10
Ty97, that tweet about Bernie not going to DiFara is awesome. I couldn't like him more for skipping that awful place. -- nm - Krusty Apr 8, 14:58 5
- I knew you'd love that. (downer inside, don't read!) - ty97 Apr 8, 15:00 4
  - I'm sure they would have let him slip the line. -- nm - iSpam Apr 8, 15:14 2
    - Some on the line might and others would be pissed and not let it happen. He's not special. Everyone waits in line. -- nm - Krusty Apr 8, 15:18
    - That's not socialism though -- nm - Roger More Apr 8, 15:15
  - Doesn't matter, he didn't go. That people wait on line for that terrible pizza is sad. - Krusty Apr 8, 15:03
Shan Yu the psychotic dictator? -- nm - David Apr 8, 14:57 1
- "This is something the captain has to deal with himself." "NO IT ISN'T" -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 14:58
*considers using his tax refund to buy an eliptical* - Truman Apr 8, 14:55
Weird political thought. In today's age, why does it really matter WHERE a candidate goes? - Volnelk Apr 8, 14:42 19
- yeah, NC, you can listen to Bruce on Spotify, so quit yer yammerin'! -- nm - Max Apr 8, 15:02
- a lot of it is because for certain politicians, they have a charm that is magnified in person - Reagen Apr 8, 14:57 3
  - okay, but what about Ted Cruz? -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 15:10 1
    - He needs souls -- nm - Max Apr 8, 15:17
  - That makes sense. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 15:01
- for local coverage (say state/regional) i would think so. For national coverage, not sure why it would matter. -- nm - Truman Apr 8, 14:56
- local coverage = raising the candidate's visibility to local voters - the brain Apr 8, 14:47 10
  - I get that, but if I'm a candidate and I have a position on an issue that favors you personally, why should it matter where I say that position? -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 14:49 9
    - There are instances where they meet with people or groups that could make you second guess your support or strengthen it depending on - Krusty Apr 8, 15:01
    - I get that a certain amount of it is necessary but I feel we could take a % of what these guys spend jetting all over and pay for quite a bit. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 14:52
    - Going and seeing the candidates is an experience. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 8, 14:51 6
      - Sure. Just seems like such a weird way to lose someone's vote. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 14:53 5
        
        not sure of the context of your comment but I think most people who go to a particular politicians rally are - Mel Profit Apr 8, 14:59 4
        
        Right. So they wouldn't be a supporter if that candidate DIDN'T come to town? It's preaching to the converted over and over and over. -- nm* - Volnelk Apr 8, 15:00 3
        
        There's a cult of personality thing that happens. It's probably not a good thing but it's what happens. - Mel Profit Apr 8, 15:11
        
        It's about motivating those voters to get out and vote and convince others too as well. When people feel a personal connection they are more - pmb Apr 8, 15:10 1
        
        That makes sense. I just think it's strange overall though I completely acknowledge that it's necessary. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 15:12
- Sure. Maybe you get to shake the candidate's hand in the line. -- nm - amoxy Apr 8, 14:44 1
  - So that should factor in to whether that person should represent your party or become leader of the free world? Seems super arbitrary. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 14:47
It took 679 Rubber Bands to do it. -- (link) - amoxy Apr 8, 14:42
Birthday: Robin Wright (50), Patricia Arquette (48), Katie Sackoff (36) - amoxy Apr 8, 14:39 3
- FKM -- nm - Beaker Apr 8, 14:46
- MKF -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 14:43
- FMK -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 14:41
Wells Fargo agrees to pay $1.2 billion for improper mortgage lending practices, says US DOJ -- (link) - amoxy Apr 8, 14:34 2
- Wells Fargo total assets for year-ending 2015: 1.78 trillion -- (link) - the brain Apr 8, 14:36
- Friday news dump! -- nm - Diva Apr 8, 14:35
10 years ago in theaters: Scary Movie 4, The Wild, (ltd): Preaching to the Choir, The Notorious Bettie Page, Kinky Boots, Hard Candy, Mozart & ' Whale -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:33 5
- sounds like i picked a good week to move to LA -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 14:34
- 15 years ago: Bridget Jones's Diary, Joe Dirt, Kingdom Come, Josie and the Pussycats -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:33 3
  - 20 years ago: James and the Giant Peach, Fear, (ltd): Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Jane Eyre -- nm* - Max Apr 8, 14:33 2
    - 25 years ago: Out for Justice, (ltd): The Object of Beauty, Impromptu -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:34 1
      - 30 years ago: Band of the Hand, Off Beat, Critters, (ltd): Violets are Blue -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:34
"this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters." - prayformojo Apr 8, 14:20
it's a good thing baby hedgehogs get cuter before long. nm but: -- (link) - b. Apr 8, 14:14
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Other fun LYC Jax's news: any day now, we're going to become Grandparents. - JaxSean Apr 8, 14:06 32
- Holy crap! Congratulations! -- nm - Krusty Apr 8, 15:04
- Woo-hoo! Congrats! -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 14:35
- whoa congrats! -- nm - Diva Apr 8, 14:35 2
  - cheers! -- nm - mud Apr 8, 14:38 1
    - ? my aim is off sometimes I guess (wait til youre old) -- nm - mud Apr 8, 14:40
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Apr 8, 14:26
- Whoo, Happy Happy Congrats to all !!!! -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 14:26
- Congrats! -- nm - znufrii Apr 8, 14:25
- Whoa. I leave ST for like half a day and people get knocked up. - Mel Profit Apr 8, 14:25
- *happy jealous* -- nm - landbeck Apr 8, 14:21
- Whoa! Congratulations!! -- nm - kelly Apr 8, 14:20
- those little girls I met in DC like yesterday? Holy moly. Congrats! -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:20
- Oh come on. That's not freaking possible. - pmb Apr 8, 14:19 4
  - I was just wondering the other day who of us is going to be turning 50 first (aside from those who've already unlocked that achievement.) -- nm - b. Apr 8, 14:22 3
    - I'm already wondering if/when I'll be a great-grandmother :) -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 14:27
    - shush, you -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 14:23 1
      - it's inevitable - I was thinking we should have an e-fete! -- nm - b. Apr 8, 14:25
- Congrats! You're old! -- nm - iSpam Apr 8, 14:18 1
  - I'm still in denial stage. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 8, 14:25
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- Congrats! And I how she is okay (per your injury comment). -- nm - MDH Apr 8, 14:12 4
  - Yes. details inside - JaxSean Apr 8, 14:17 3
    - Man, she should never stop suing them. -- nm - David Apr 8, 14:44
    - Oh wow. Glad she's doing okay. -- nm - MDH Apr 8, 14:27
    - poor thing! I hope the injuries don't impact her pregnancy/the birth. -- nm - b. Apr 8, 14:20
- what?? omg, congrats! -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 14:12
- Congratulations! -- nm - Roger More Apr 8, 14:11
- mazel tov -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 14:10
- wow! congratulations! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 14:09
- oh wow, congratulations all around! I thought she was still serving. -- nm - b. Apr 8, 14:09
- congratz -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 8, 14:08
- Congrats -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 14:07
You should all go watch my wife's anniversary present to me. Our friends wrote and performed a song for us. -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 8, 13:58 [youtube] 12
- ALL THE LIKE -- nm - David Apr 8, 14:43
- (Title note - Lobster Red is from Phoebe on Friends) - JaxSean Apr 8, 14:13
- That's pretty awesome. -- nm - MDH Apr 8, 14:07
- That's great. -- nm - pmb Apr 8, 14:05
- Nice! -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:05
- aww, that's really nice. :D -- nm - b. Apr 8, 14:05
- Very sweet -- nm - amoxy Apr 8, 14:05
- Wow, that's terrific. - prayformojo Apr 8, 14:04
- what a great gift. -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 14:02 3
  - It was. She raised the bar ridiculously high. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 8, 14:04 2
    - Looks like you're gonna have to step it up with an interpretive dance routine. -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:05 1
      - which will need to be filmed, also -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 14:05
We lose less GDP from communication errors if parents would name their children John instead of Jon and people stopped using punctuation in email ad's - Max Apr 8, 13:57 2
- ad's? -- nm - Roger More Apr 8, 14:02 1
  - 'addresses' didn't fit in the character limit. -- nm - Max Apr 8, 14:02
the different interpretations of the vince neil/nic cage dealio are a pretty telling precis of the voice of different news orgs. nm but: -- (link) - b. Apr 8, 13:56
Springsteen - Wow -- nm - amoxy Apr 8, 13:55 4
- '/~Iii ain't gonna play n ceeee..'/~ -- nm -- (edited) - b. Apr 8, 14:07
- yeah -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 14:05
- Legions of Bruce fans in NC are suddenly considering moving to another state. -- nm - pmb Apr 8, 14:03
- Maybe the prospect of decades of nothing but country artists playing concerts in NC will turn the tide -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 13:58
538: Bernie Sanders even less competitive than the delegate count would imply -- (link) - the brain Apr 8, 13:51 2
- eh, a bit of a specious argument that. - ty97 Apr 8, 13:57 1
  - You can extrapolate from the states that hold actual voting primaries -- nm* - the brain Apr 8, 13:59
16 days until Game of Thrones -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 8, 13:46 1
- Yesssssssssss -- nm - Volnelk Apr 8, 14:11
t-Minus 5 minutes until liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Watch here -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 8, 13:39 6
- I like this progression. nm but: -- (link) - b. Apr 8, 13:58 3
  - That landing...the future is here. -- nm - MDH Apr 8, 14:00 2
    - yep. for those who haven't been following, this is the first time they've sucessfully launched, landed, recovered a rocket from an ocean platform. -- nm - b. Apr 8, 14:02 1
      - Yeah, that's cool. The future is almost here. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 14:02
- more or less exciting than what multiple people I follow on twitter were apparently watching earlier? waiting for a watermelon to explode. -- nm - b. Apr 8, 13:49 1
  - Clearly less. Far, far less. What could be more? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 8, 13:56
It is Beer O'Clock -- nm - Beaker Apr 8, 13:24
wait, so, parents HAVE TO drive their kids to school? (and we wonder why there is childhood obesity.) -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 13:24 8
- clicking through to the referenced story, it's that they don't want parents walking on school grounds; so kids have to either take a bus or be picked- - b. Apr 8, 13:30 4
  - in trying to find why the school doesn't want parents walking on school grounds, I found this, from september. it's frustrating. - b. Apr 8, 13:44 2
    - custody fights? -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 13:46 1
      - could be. that and other things I mentioned could happen at any school, though; so I wonder how many, if any, have similar policies, or how they - b. Apr 8, 13:48
  - And I'll bet the protesters will blame this on PCness -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 13:34
- Principal has wrong principle's. is how I just forwarded the story to a friend -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 8, 13:28
- Sounds like an order freak drill sergeant, who belongs nowhere near small children. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 13:27
- you don't have to be in shape to pull a trigger so they will be fine -- nm - Beaker Apr 8, 13:25
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- True. They ain't wrong, but there definitely using the political events to get themselves visibility -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 13:25
I mean we've watched months of these fools going to county fairs in Iowa and eating at diners in NH. We've earned this. - ty97 Apr 8, 13:23 9
- What are the last primary or caucuses? It could literally come down to the last precinct -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 13:36 5
  - There are several primary calendars online -- (link) - mara Apr 8, 13:41
  - For the Dems, the last biggies are Cali (THE biggie) and NJ both on 6/7. - ty97 Apr 8, 13:39
  - for the GOP, yes (California) -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 13:37 2
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      - only in the Bernatics' minds -- nm - the brain Apr 8, 13:43
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  - I'm not convinced they hate the MTA, they just want it to be better. - ty97 Apr 8, 13:25 1
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Aloo Gobhi sounds pretty good, actually -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 8, 13:22 4
- just make sure it's the dry version. that's usually sauteed with peanut oil, but it's better health-wise than the creamy version. -- nm - b. Apr 8, 13:27
- where's the beef? -- nm - Beaker Apr 8, 13:23 2
  - Grilled lamb kebob? -- nm - znufrii Apr 8, 13:25 1
    - Likes -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 13:37
Restaurants Will Respond to Mississippi’s New Anti-LGBT Law by Hanging ‘Everyone’s Welcome’ Signs -- (link) - ty97 Apr 8, 13:22 5
- I'm waiting for some deli to say they refuse to serve Baptists. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 8, 13:49 2
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    - Lousy tippers, leave a bible tract instead -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 16:19
- Some restaurants -- nm - amoxy Apr 8, 13:22 1
  - sure, some love the law no doubt. But I like to see the local counter-action -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 13:24
I can see you through the curtains of the waterfall. -- nm - David Apr 8, 13:20 2
- Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 8, 13:22
- my youth, my youth is yours, trippin' on skies, sippin' waterfalls. -- nm - b. Apr 8, 13:22

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