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Yeah, I got through without any problem.

Holy [expletive]; he's going to die.

A McCown interception is nowhere near as annoying as most of those other things unless someone just expected him to never throw one. Given who he is it's a miracle he hasn't thrown more than he has.

A common misconception. A moving target going up and away is actually easier to hit (and lead) in a prone or kneeling sniping position than one coming in and down (try it yourself; kneel down and pretend you're aiming a rifle aim slightly above your sightline and then move down and see how little distance/time/maneuverability. Then pretend to aim at a target that is starting below you and then moving up and away and look how much more time/options you have). You also have everyone much more likely to look up and see him if he's firing when the cars are coming towards him. A sniper is going to want to lessen the chance he is spotted before he is sure he has hit his target. Oswald was a trained military marksman who could hit targets at 200 yards away only using iron sights. JFK was never more than 90 yards away. And the shots were always able to be duplicated. The trickiest and earliest recreations (and what the conspiracy theorists glommed onto) were the ones that tried to fit the shots in in under 6 seconds. That's when people had the most trouble getting the shots off in time or being as accurate, but the reality is that the actual window of time was more like 9 seconds...more than enough to do the shooting. And the 3rd shot would have been the easiest; the car is completely clear of anything blocking the view, it was barely moving after actually slowing down and JFK was effectively immobilized by the second shot and his back brace. Understandable given the magnitude of the crime and the chaos of the day (though the doctors trying to treat him didn't really make any mistakes in their efforts to save him), plus the Kennedy's and their circle trying to control the autopsy as much as possible to hide JFK's medical issues. Kennedy had traveled to other "hostile" cities and nothing had happened; despite how it's painted Dallas was no more tumultuous than dozens of other major cities in the U.S. at the time, and the president simply couldn't ignore them in his bid for re-election. And there was nothing unusual about the Secret Service's plans for that day to that point; presidents routinely traveled in open cars on parade routes. Kennedy's assassination was the only one to occur under the Secret Service as we know it, and it the catalyst for a ton of change. Now a bunch of the agents were partying hardy the night before, but the was negligence, not something nefarious (and not the only time it happened, too). Oswald told lie after provable lie that weekend and basically did nothing to expound on his claims of being a "patsy." Remember, he didn't say that just before he was killed; it was nearly two days before he died and he essentially did nothing to try and back that up. You'd think someone who genuinely knew they were being set up would be screaming to the high heavens about it, yet he just drops that one line despite being paraded in front of the press several times. Even his own brother remarked about how Oswald seemed to be enjoying the attention and "toying" with the authorities. Occam's Razor. And hey, weird stuff happens around or related to big historical events. John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln's son from being run over by a train. John Hinckley's family was good friends with the Bush family. History is filled with interesting connections and odd coincidences.

I wouldn't say it was as simple as "he loved JFK so much;" tons of people were horrified by what happened to the president regardless of their political persuasion. Ruby wasn't much a JFK fan as he was offended at the idea that someone like Oswald would kill "his president." The guy definitely had anger issues; he was notorious with the Dallas cops because they would routinely have to come out to his clubs because he'd be in a fight. He was also always trying to ingratiate himself with the cops; he welcomed them into his clubs and plied them with free booze and the like and in turn he hung around the police station a lot, hence why he was in there several times over the weekend after Oswald was captured. Ruby was known around town as a guy who liked to try and always be around whatever was going down; he hung around the police and reporters a lot seemingly always trying to build himself up as something bigger than he was. A lot of people point to this as things that on the surface make him ideal to be in a position to silence Oswald, but if anything it just shows how horrible a choice a hitman he would have been; Jack Ruby could not shut the [expletive] up. He wanted to be liked and to impress people around him and he's the last person you'd entrust to not say anything about a massive plot to kill the president. And yeah, him killing Oswald really was a spur of the moment thing. He likely knew Oswald was supposed to have been transferred earlier in the day, so odds are he made his way over just to see what was going on when he saw the people and the armored car milling around outside; that's the kind of thing Jack Ruby did. He walked down the ramp, got there literally only seconds before Oswald came out (again, why would a planned hit be left so close to failing if he is only momentarily delayed yet again?) and then snapped. He said himself that it was the look on Oswald's face in that moment that made him finally do it, and that was definitely a running theme with Oswald that weekend; multiple people who encountered him remarked about how smug he came across even just in the looks he gave and how people just wanted to clock him, or worse. Basically the whole thing just came down to chance. The only reason Ruby was able to walk down the ramp was because the guard there stepped aside for a moment to help move the armored car out of the way. Add that to the myriad list of things that had to happen just right for him to end up at that moment and he's either the luckiest damn hitman ever or this was the most amazingly powerful conspiracy of all time.

I think I was fooled by McCown, who made his line look better than they were. To compare, Andrew Luck had a similarly [expletive] line protecting him two weeks ago and he played his worst game of the season. Both Cutler and McCown have made the line look a LOT better than it actually has been. I heard it mentioned the other day that the Bears' o-line has allowed their QB's to be the most hurried or however the hell you put it. So they're not getting sacked as much, but the Bears' QB's are still under way too much pressure.

He's so damn dreamy.

But how will they accomplish this with Reinsdorf using Tom as a human footrest?

Pretty much any coach would be against tanking.

And if you're going with the simultaneous thing, where the [expletive] is Oswald's third bullet? He definitely fired three, and if JFK was hit by TWO bullets his head would have straight up just been gone. Oswald's first shot missed only because it likely glanced off of a branch or a street light; how did his third shot completely miss the car? And no, that doesn't explain the Magic Bullet (which doesn't need to be explained away, but that's a whole other tangent), because this theory actually argues in favor of one of Oswald's shots hitting both Kennedy and Connally. It's bonkers.

Urge...to kill...fading...fading....

I'd have to imagine that moving Deng is the top priority right now.

The Bulls won't do that, and in any case, the NBA already rigged one lottery for them, they're not going to do it again. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cdsy14MT_PU/UX2Us2XfUkI/AAAAAAAALfQ/7WgpwA-vMLs/s1600/ill-kill-you.gif

This season: http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/misc/ronrunfall.jpg

Chicago needs another fire.

In years past, yes. Before I ended up as actually part of a package I would buy them or parts of them from season ticket owners. For several years me and group of family/friends bought 60+ games from single packages.

the hell is a goober Not as good as a mammer jammer, but close.

Bill James is pretty much a kook at all non-baseball stuff Ok because I was like "this is an incredibly bright person who I really admire believing in utter [expletive]." It did not compute. It's really bizarre how this theory has come back. It was posed in a book 20 years ago and the agent it accused sued the publisher and it basically went away. The only thing I can guess is that with the agent now dead they're trotting it out again with the anniversary since it's a theory that sticks out even among the most ridiculous conspiracies. [expletive], Bill Kurtis was hosting a special seriously debating it the other night. i am not a person who is knowledgeable about jfk assassination stuff at all. what is the argument that disproves all the stuff about the head shot coming from a secret service member at ground level? There was no physical evidence found of any other gun being used besides Oswald's. The autopsy indicates an entrance wound that came behind and ABOVE the motorcade. And while eyewitness testimony is always something that should be taken with a grain of salt, literally NOBODY on the scene claimed they saw or thought a shot came from the cars behind JFK's. Basically the theory is that Oswald was doing the shooting, but then the agent armed with an AR-15 in a car behind JFK's accidentally discharged the weapon while reacting to the shooting and hit JFK in the head. Even in the conspiracy theory "community" it's not taken very seriously.

Bill James is pretty much a kook at all non-baseball stuff Ok because I was like "this is an incredibly bright person who I really admire believing in utter [expletive]." It did not compute. It's really bizarre how this theory has come back. It was posed in a book 20 years ago and the agent it accused sued the publisher and it basically went away. The only thing I can guess is that with the agent now dead they're trotting it out again with the anniversary since it's a theory that sticks out even among the most ridiculous conspiracies. [expletive], Bill Kurtis was hosting a special seriously debating it the other night.

i think that there was a conspiracy. Maybe not a "high-level government" conspiracy, but I don't think Oswald "acted alone." Oswald's assassination at the hands of Jack Ruby just makes such little sense. I don't think any of them planned on anyone involved getting caught, but there were other shooters acting as fail safes if Oswald didn't hit his target. Ruby, on the other hand, was tied to organized crime and others that lost a lot in Cuba. To many, it was a very personal thing, and the murder may not have occurred for any other reason besides revenge, think Max Cady-type revenge, for the Bay of Pigs. If Ruby was actually tasked with killing Oswald, why was nobody sent to kill Ruby? Basically his killing of Oswald doesn't make a lot of sense because it was an irrational act based almost completely on chance. Oswald was actually transferred later than announced; Ruby was still asleep when Oswald was originally scheduled to be moved. He finally heads downtown and literally minutes before he shoots Oswald he's posting a money transfer at a Western Union office. He actually let the guy behind in him line go first; if that customer had taken just 30 seconds longer to finish his business Ruby would have missed Oswald's transfer completely. He brought his favorite dog along and left her in the car; everyone who knew him said he adored that dog and would have never left her in a car if he knew he wasn't coming back. Most damning of all is that Oswald was further delayed when he asked for a sweater. Without this act, Ruby yet again misses Oswald. The only way that was staged was if Oswald himself was in on his own execution. Nevermind that Ruby was in and out of police HQ throughout the weekend. He had multiple chances to kill Oswald during those times, yet if he's assigned to silence Oswald he waits to do it at a moment that requires a multitude of lucky breaks to succeed (the armored car couldn't fit down the driveway, the chief's car couldn't back right up to the door because of all the reporters, etc.). This is a very temperamental, emotional guy and he finally snapped (and his mob connections are vastly overstated; he was a hanger-on in Chicago and Dallas at best. It was basically inevitable that he would know made guys based on who he grew up with and because he ran strip clubs but he was never anyone really all that connected and basically would be the worst choice for mob hitman ever). If there were other shooters they literally left no trace of their existence. Dealy Plaza as a whole was scoured after the assassination and nothing was found besides evidence pointing to Oswald as the shooter. That's where any idea of a "small" conspiracy falls apart because a massive one is required to not only completely remove any evidence of anyone else but to also manipulate everything so that it points only at Oswald. It's just not realistic that something with so many moving parts and so many people required would have worked so perfectly. Hell, if anyone would be backing Oswald as the lone shooter I'd think it was you, sulley, since he killed him for Cuba and Castro. He's a true revolutionary!

Losing makes too much sense at this point; this is the kind of game they will annoyingly win so that they end up with a middling draft pick.

Grossssssssssssss. I'd rather see the White Sox become the best team in baseball.

Oh, I would definitely pick the Bears and Cubs over them, but still, it would be pretty cool.

Yeah the Dolphins Martin/Incognito saga sure was fun as is Loria and the Florida Panthers. It would be pretty awesome to see a single Chicago team that's not the Sox or the Blackhawks win it all.

it would be pretty cool if you put the hundred dollar bill on your forehead and injected the heroin through it. give the paramedics a story worth telling. I like the way you think.