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No consistently good offensive line play to me was a major factor. You can't win if you can't score. Also Trubisky took a step backward in his development as a QB this season. Also losing Hicks and Trevathan for a significant portion of the season didn't help their defense any.

You are mistaken if you believe I consider the GID as "life". It is not. So to you "life" is all about entertainment?

Some good stuff there. Kind of reminds me of the offense Brett Colby and now his son Austin typically run.

Nice picture of you and Gonzo.

Bad Capitalism and Good Socialism: https://mises.org/power-market/bad-capitalism-and-good-socialism

https://mises.org/wire/how-unions-reduce-real-wages A long but very informative read.

? Why are you co-opting quotes from crimsonace1 from what appears to be a different conversation?

Which IMHO is what several here want the GIB OOB forum to become. That and a repository for cat videos/memes. I'm afraid that was not the vision of the late, great Tim Adams.

Because IMHO life is about more than being "entertained". But to each his own, long as it doesn't violate the ZAP.

No, the objective truth.

Texas Schools Use 'Vape-Detecting Technology' To Arrest and Imprison Teens Who Vape: https://reason.com/2019/12/17/vaping-texas-schools-thc-drugs/ The article highlights a few concrete examples. Student Thomas Williams-Platt, age 17, brought a vape pen into school that he had purchased from another student. Police conducted an on-site drug test that determined it contained THC. He was arrested, handcuffed, and booked into jail, where he spent hours in a cell "listening to the screams of other arrestees suffering from drug withdrawal." Texas law considers 17-year-olds to be adults for sentencing purposes, which meant that Williams-Platt could face felony charges. That 17-year-olds in Texas are considered insufficiently mature to vape, but plenty old enough to go to prison, is an absurd and unconscionable hypocrisy. It's also the law. When students are caught vaping, they are often immediately expelled and shipped off to alternative schools for serious wrongdoers. These are even worse environments for young people, described by Williams-Platt as a kind of "super strict kindergarten" where students learn very little, except perhaps to follow capricious and arbitrary rules. The number of Texas kids sentenced to these schools has increased 6o percent since last year, and officials say the war on vaping is largely to blame. To the extent that vaping is harmful, most of the danger comes from consuming illicit, black market vaping products—the very sort of vaping that becomes more common as the industry is driven underground by overzealous legislators. But let's say the health concerns were well-founded. What's worse for the average teenager: vaping, or going to prison? There should be no doubt that the solution to this supposed problem—pulling kids out of good schools to send them to bad schools, treating them like inmates, and charging them with felonies—is significantly more harmful. The war on vaping is a moral panic with terrible consequences for the very people it is supposedly designed to protect. Sadly, it is likely to get much worse. Various Republican and Democratic senators have proposed a federal measure to ban all tobacco products—including e-cigarettes—for everyone under the age of 21. So you can fight and die for your country at the age of 18, but you can't legally consume alcohol or (soon) tobacco products. Something is wrong here.

So no, I never used that word. Thanks for proving that. But I'm sorry that you believe that internet message forums only exist to "entertain" you.

https://medium.com/@Cameron1/taking-back-our-country-reducing-waste-and-corruption-in-government-d2105b4a5753 https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/these-wasteful-government-programs-need-go https://www.rd.com/culture/wasteful-government-spending-examples/ Just 30 seconds of searching google.

Disdain? Where was that word used in our recent conversation? You don't agree that sometimes minds can be changed, or at least thought-provoking questions raised, on a internet message forum?

1. Generally agree. 2. Sorry that choose to keep you head in the sand.

Why just the Department of Defense? Are you saying there is no waste/graft/corruption endemic in other parts of the federal government?

In full agreement. How about a 25% cut in spending across all federal government departments/agencies/bureaus/etc.? That should help out.

I think that there are, one just has to be more discriminating. Most of the news articles I read at places like apnews.com or reuters.com do not have a uni-party bias. Neither does the excellent reporting and opinions at reason.com or the podcast No Agenda. So you believe you can "change the world" from a high school football internet forum?

California Freelancers Suffer From Totally Predictable 'Unintended Consequences' of Gig Worker Protection Bill: https://reason.com/2019/12/17/california-freelancers-suffer-from-totally-predictable-unintended-consequences-of-gig-worker-protection-bill/ Sympathy for the freelance writers and editors harmed by this shameful legislation.

Agreed. Being elected the Senior Patrol Leader of an active Scout troop and taking the responsibility seriously will help to development leadership qualities.

I have only watched the likes of Mr. Lemon and Mr. Hannity a handful of times and have no desire to revisit their partisan rhetoric. Agree on the point about ad blockers.

My favorite NFL team is the Chicago Bears. And oh, also whoever happens to be playing the Cowboys or Patriots that week.

Ok. May I please ask what sources you utilize for "real news" and "substance"? Or is consuming "entertainment" currently your only goal in life?

So you go to facebook for substance? I try to eschew most forms of social media. There is enough 'entertainment' out there to last a person a lifetime even without facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.

Watchmen, not Game of Thrones, proved to be HBO’s show of the decade: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/watchmen-not-game-of-thrones-proved-to-be-hbos-show-of-the-decade/