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Snodgrass has chosen West Ham over Burnley after both clubs had £10m bids accepted by Hull. -- nm - CQ Jan 26, 14:48
y'now, i remember when the 24 hour news cycle was a bad thing.... - x Jan 26, 14:41
Poll: bands with names that sound like they are christian rock, but hell no they ain't - zeitgeist Jan 26, 14:24 6
- Rolling Stones? -- nm - Loyola Jan 26, 14:47
- All Saints -- nm - Max Jan 26, 14:38
- Blind Faith -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 26, 14:33
- Chvrches -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 26, 14:29
- For some reason, I for years thought O.A.R. was. No idea or reason why. -- nm - ty97 Jan 26, 14:29
- Tool. Amirite -- nm* - con_carne Jan 26, 14:27
I smell weed. -- nm - Diva Jan 26, 14:14 19
- And now I do too. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 26, 14:25 3
  - Put it down. put it down. *looks you in the eye, establishing dominance* downnnn... -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 26, 14:32 2
    - *passes it to Mel on the left hand side* -- nm* - Krusty Jan 26, 14:33 1
      - *pauses...looks left...looks right...looks back at you* -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 26, 14:38
- be careful . . . that migh be poison ivy burning . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Jan 26, 14:25
- *now* you smell it. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 26, 14:23
- Nice! Go make friends. -- nm - Krusty Jan 26, 14:23
- Story of my life and I hate that smell. - ty97 Jan 26, 14:15 11
  - I really like the smell. Not joking. Good weed smells sooooo good. -- nm - Krusty Jan 26, 14:24 7
    - Yes. It smells sweet. Like Justin Trudeau. -- nm - Diva Jan 26, 14:33 1
      - Haha! :-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 26, 14:39
    - where I live you gotta love it, and I do. -- nm - mud Jan 26, 14:31 4
      - Where are you? - Krusty Jan 26, 14:40 3
        
        Krusty asks as he packs his bags... -- nm - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 14:41 2
        
        As if Krusty will ever leave NYC - ty97 Jan 26, 14:43 1
        
        You're probably right. I can't afford to stay or leave. - Krusty Jan 26, 14:49
  - Reads the subject line to the tune of that One Direction song. -- nm - pmb Jan 26, 14:16 2
    - You have daughters, I'll excuse this. -- nm - ty97 Jan 26, 14:16 1
      - I did it too. It scans well. -- nm - Diva Jan 26, 14:34
I am particularly interested on the threat of sending the feds to Chicago for the killings. - groiny Jan 26, 14:11 58
- Depends what is meant by The Feds. Certain part of 'The Feds' have been there for some time. -- (link) - ty97 Jan 26, 14:16 4
  - I am of the mindset that he has no idea who the feds are - groiny Jan 26, 14:17 3
    - I am of the mindset that he has idea what anything is - ty97 Jan 26, 14:21 1
      - Considering that there was a proposal to have the US defund the ICC when they don't fund them... -- nm - Reagen Jan 26, 14:34
    - G-Men. "All right now, let's do some good!" -- nm - Max Jan 26, 14:20
- He says he can take care of it in a week. I say have at it. -- nm - . Jan 26, 14:15
- Can you imagine the republican reaction if Obama had threatened federal action in a city or state under republican control? - pmb Jan 26, 14:15 48
  - and how much better is it with the new police chief compared to McCarthy? - groiny Jan 26, 14:21 1
    - It's going to be a process for sure. I think the new guy is making strides. But it's not like flipping a switch. They need to change the police/ - pmb Jan 26, 14:23
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    - that was something -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 26, 14:32
  - Jade Helm 15 -- nm - Roger More Jan 26, 14:16
  - well, to be fair, for the most part, I feel Obama ignored the issues in Chicago. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:16 42
    - Depends on what you view as the issues and what you view the role of the federal government as. These are typically local issues. They did send feds - pmb Jan 26, 14:20 33
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        I think that press conference was the last thing I watched news wise. - groiny Jan 26, 14:35
      - IMO, the police abuse has little to do with the people getting shot daily. - groiny Jan 26, 14:22 30
        
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        if you believe him, I thought Rahm said that he requested the DOJ to come in and assist. - groiny Jan 26, 14:36 6
        
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        In order to fix the problem you need to know just what the problem is. The CPD wants it to be anything but them, but they are oart of the problem. -- nm - . Jan 26, 14:40 3
        
        oh, we are well aware of the CPD shortcomings. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:41 2
        
        Just to be cleary groiny, I'm not saying this is the only source of the problem. There's also poverty, lack of opportunities, anger and perpetual - pmb Jan 26, 14:48 1
        
        Lack of affordable housing. The CPS stuff. -- nm* - . Jan 26, 14:52
        
        It wasn't a Rahm request. It was something he accepted. - pmb Jan 26, 14:39
        
        But the police can't do anything without help from the citizens and they've burned that trust. -- nm - pmb Jan 26, 14:24
        
        I disagree a lot. You need the community to trust the police. Otherwise, they don't engage with the police. -- nm - ty97 Jan 26, 14:23 20
        
        which has to do with one gang shooting another gang how? - groiny Jan 26, 14:24 19
        
        The trust matters a lot. If the community doesn't think the police will solve the crime, why call? - ty97 Jan 26, 14:32 4
        
        valid point. - groiny Jan 26, 14:33 3
        
        There are stories lately about the Chicago Police lowering policing and lowering solve rates. -- (edited) - ty97 Jan 26, 14:42
        
        Yes, but they don't trust the police to protect them. They've seen too many innocent people shot by cops, not to mention forced confessions and - pmb Jan 26, 14:37 1
        
        And sadly, the CPD has a long and varied history of abuse on their part. -- nm - . Jan 26, 14:42
        
        It's hard to deter crime if you don't catch and punish criminals, it's hard to catch and punish criminals without good intel, it's hard to get that - Roger More Jan 26, 14:31 7
        
        and they are not really wrong. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:32 6
        
        That's right - it's a vicious cycle, and it's hard to break. -- nm - Roger More Jan 26, 14:41 5
        
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        Not to mention further burdening an already overburdened system. -- nm - . Jan 26, 14:47
        
        Right. Really it's one of the two primary reasons. It lowers trust and safety in the city and it's an administrative and fiscal burden. There's not - pmb Jan 26, 14:45 1
        
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        "we'll welcome all people to Chicago, there is only a 5% chance you will be shot your first year here." -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:44
        
        In the areas where Cease Fire operates shoitings are down. However the CPD doesn't want work with them and the Rauner crap has cut funding. -- nm - . Jan 26, 14:29
        
        Because they aren't able to do as good a job predicting where the problems are an intervening because they don't get useable intel. I have little - pmb Jan 26, 14:26 4
        
        I think most police know where the problems are. - groiny Jan 26, 14:28 3
        
        They know the neighborhoods, but the details, the individuals, etc. are something different. And statistically they are not really spreading. -- nm - pmb Jan 26, 14:29 2
        
        I have not looks at any recent statistics, so I trust you know better than I do. - groiny Jan 26, 14:31 1
        
        I was really speaking to Chicago. I don't know that I've seen statistics that cover the suburbs so I can't say. -- nm - pmb Jan 26, 14:33
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      - not saying it does, but is no action better than a crazy leap? -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:18 5
        
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        that I would also agree with, but I would have liked him to at least address it here and there. - groiny Jan 26, 14:23 3
        
        I mean, they sort of did. Not that there weren't shootings before, but they had declined like violent crime everywhere until they suddenly spiked - pmb Jan 26, 14:28 2
        
        Have the gun laws in Indiana and Wisconsin always been weak or did they change recently? -- nm - . Jan 26, 14:31 1
        
        pretty sure Indiana has been so for quite a while. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:34
    - As does Rahm, and Richie before him and Rauner. -- nm - . Jan 26, 14:17
- They'll have soldiers go door to door confiscating guns. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 26, 14:14 2
  - No, this is Trump. They would be handing out guns. -- nm - pmb Jan 26, 14:15 1
    - in white nabes -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 26, 14:20
This apparently went viral yesterday - 11-year-old kid says "Screw our President" on FoxNews. -- (link) - GregW Jan 26, 14:01 2
- I'd think they'd be just as worried about the kid starting a fire in the middle of the street as they are with what he said... -- nm - IrishStephen Jan 26, 14:25
- was it lil Trump? - groiny Jan 26, 14:09
Mentions of Ultima IV remind me of my first videogame farming... - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 13:58 6
- Loved these -- (edited) - Jovian Jan 26, 14:06
- never got into those, went right into Bards Tale and the D&D games. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 13:59 4
  - Bard's Tale is one of my all-time faves, especially the one with Dark Slayers. - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 14:00 3
    - the memories of sitting in the chair, with the radio playing for hours playing that shit. - groiny Jan 26, 14:02 2
      - Bard's Tale the app comes with the original Bard's Tale trilogy. -- nm - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 14:04 1
        
        I am afraid to tarnish my memories by firing it up now. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:07
oo, idea! we could trade cauliflower for avocados with our canadian folks! -- nm - b. Jan 26, 13:56 6
- oddly we get a lot of produce from BC here in WA, low cost water (and power?) and agricultural buildings are not taxed (as much?) - zeitgeist Jan 26, 14:19
- If it gets cauliflower out of my sight, I'm all for it! -- nm - Max Jan 26, 14:03 2
  - Let me guess your not a fan of Broccoli either right? -- nm - eag Jan 26, 14:05 1
    - I like broc plenty. Spinach too. -- nm - Max Jan 26, 14:06
- heh, it's not. that blip ended. -- nm - Andie Jan 26, 13:57 1
  - ah well, maybe it will rise again, or another item will present. :) - -- nm - b. Jan 26, 14:00
they're walking it back... - x Jan 26, 13:56 23
- Reince needs to explain to them having your Press Secretary float the 'trial balloons' is stupid. -- (edited) - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Jan 26, 14:47
- I almost feel bad for Sean Spicer - ty97 Jan 26, 14:11 4
  - He can quit any time. No sympathy. -- nm - Max Jan 26, 14:13 1
    - Alex Jones, White House Press Secretary - ty97 Jan 26, 14:22
  - the nice thing about being sick the last few weeks, is I have little to know idea what is going on. - groiny Jan 26, 14:13 1
    - It's about what you'd expect if you paid attention during the election (which I believe you did) - ty97 Jan 26, 14:14
- It's not my intention to lie to you, but I have to be honest, it's sure going to seem like it for the foreseeable future. -- nm - The Spiceman Jan 26, 14:06
- We can joke or debate a lot of this stuff, but the most remarkable part is just how media-sensitive they are. - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 13:59 15
  - I assume this eventually bites them in the ass. - ty97 Jan 26, 14:12
  - they should really learn to clarify what they say then.... - x Jan 26, 14:02 5
    - The President is a literal spin-and-say - ty97 Jan 26, 14:13 1
      - "Spin-n-Say" is a great phrase. I will steal it. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 26, 14:25
    - They literally don't know what they're talking about. Trump says things. They repeat them. Trump complains about backlash and changes his tune. - pmb Jan 26, 14:05 2
      - yeah, you really have to think that trump was right in wanting conway to be his press sec....nm - x Jan 26, 14:24 1
        
        she's haaving more fun doing the news and talk show circuit, limo rides, fancy restaurants -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 26, 14:29
  - I think "these people" means Trump and then he yells at his people. - pmb Jan 26, 14:01
  - Which is why the pressure must stay on. (but, seriously, they can't predict the outrage that will follow these things?) -- nm - Andie Jan 26, 14:00 5
    - To be fair, they're rank amateurs. - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 14:04 3
      - That last part I don't agree with. The Republican establishment has happily jumped back on board (with one or two skeptics). They're drowning in - pmb Jan 26, 14:07 2
        
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        yeah, the gop establishment is also really having a hard time keeping up.... - x Jan 26, 14:27
    - They aren't really used to having to do anything but preach to the choir. They could tell their followers anything and they would believe it. Now - pmb Jan 26, 14:03
  - I really need to get a job with them in the outrage department. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 14:00
BeeGees obvs. -- nm - Amanda Jan 26, 13:56 2
- ~'Cause we're living in a world of fools, Breaking us down, when they all should let us be~ -- nm - Max Jan 26, 14:02 1
  - ~is the next bus due at three~ -- nm - Max Jan 26, 14:07
Lindsay Graham continues his trump voter outreach/education program -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 26, 13:56 8
- In pro wrestling, he'd be a face by the end of February. -- nm - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 13:59 3
  - him and Glen Beck would be the tag team champs by June. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 26, 14:31
  - Who knew that he would turn out to be they guy with some principles. - pmb Jan 26, 14:09
  - Both him and McCain can go back to being the kind of mavericks they want to be with Trump in there -- nm* - eag Jan 26, 14:02
- whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.. Margaritas? now it's personal. -- nm - Andie Jan 26, 13:57 3
  - (note to self, buy tequila on the way home tonight) -- nm - Andie Jan 26, 13:58 2
    - (you live in Canada, tequila is like Cuba vacations for you) -- nm* - ty97 Jan 26, 14:18
    - Wonder how that would affect the ban on tequila made outside Mexico? - Meg Jan 26, 14:06
I think the lack of sleep os the worst part. As soon as I lay down, I cough - groiny Jan 26, 13:55
Here Wes, this can distract you. -- (link) - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 26, 13:53 1
- sounds about right. Some of them get dismantled right away if I never seem thembeing used in PVP -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 13:56
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- sure, because it is from behind a keyboard. -- nm - groiny Jan 26, 13:58 1
  - Yup. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 26, 14:52
- I had to bite my tongue whilst sitting beside some American coworkers discussing Trudeau. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 26, 13:57
Fidelity Tax Forms "Check back 02/17/2017 for updated availability info" :-( -- nm - Meg Jan 26, 13:52 1
- Discover Bank "your IRS Form 1099 will be mailed by January 31 and available online after that date." -- nm - Meg Jan 26, 13:55
Day 6. -- nm - Diva Jan 26, 13:50 3
- Schwarzenegger was paid $25m for The 6th Day, which earned $34m in the U.S. -- nm - Max Jan 26, 13:53
- I've been saying the count every morning as I listen to news while getting ready for work. -- nm - b. Jan 26, 13:53
- Shaking my damn head -- nm - prayformojo Jan 26, 13:52

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