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I did it all the time. The South American thing was a joke. There have been times that I got absolutely drilled while trying to take a charge. I got a few elbows and forearms to the face and throat. Its not a flop if its a real charge though. its just common sense. you can stand there and take ALL of the punishment which fucking hurts and will end up injurying you and the other guy, or you can take some of it and let you momentum take you on back. Someone slightly extending their arm and you flailing back like you had been shot...flop. A guy making a move, you getting there first and catching some shoulder(while not enough to knock you completely down) and you hitting the ground, not flop. The problem is, at full speed, its tough to see which is which sometimes.

Firefly, Clone High, Wonderfalls. And fucking Invasion. Goddamn them for cancelling it with a cliffhanger ended. FUCK them right in the eye.

Barkley was a better rebounder and a better low post scorer and if the game was on the line I would give him the ball. he was virtually unstoppable for quite a while there. Karl Malone had a Automatic midrange game and was made for the pick and roll. One on one he wasn't nearly as good a scorer as Barkley but ran in one of the better offenses in the league, taylor made for his talent and stocktons ability to get him the ball. As mentioned Malone was a great passer and both of them were quite sucky on D, but I will say that Barkley tried harder(despite him always picking at himself now. Greatest moment of the 92-93 finals was Charles getting Jordan on a switch, getting down in his stance and Jordan laughing at him. Nothing trumps that for me). Charles was a better ball handler too. Him thinking he had a 3 point shot hurt that monster field goal percentage he had earlier in his career. Malone loses points for me because he was a dirty player while Charles might have been physical as hell, but he never tried to hurt anyone. Unless they were stupid enough to try and take a charge from him. He would try to destroy your soul then. I take Barkley, but that could be homerism, but I think that if you put another PF with a good midrange stroke in Utah's offense, he might not have been as good as Karl for as long, but he would have put up similar numbers for awhile there. Think, Armon Gillim. The Hammer would have been a monster for Utah and Sloans offense. I mean look at what Thurl Baily did with Stockton feeding him the ball when he wasn't getting the ball to Karl.

Reasons these aren't facts Except it doesn't. The goverment makes ALOT more money off illegals than they give back. The job market in the areas where most illegals work has remained a constant. The problem is that we have inflation and the minimum wage has stayed the same, which has absolutely jack shit to do with immigration. B.S. Lower classes are making minimum wage or close to it. The minimum wage should not leave you below the poverty line, but it does. That is a much bigger problem than illegal immigration. And I really wish some people would meet a couple of illegals for once. They aren't making 1 dollar a hour, no matter how much you want to believe that. When they don't go the fake papers route they are still getting paid enough to survive. Combining Agents stuff and NoCal Mikes stuff, they are working 80 hours a week, getting paid sending back 60 percent of it, and are some how paying for housing, food, clothing, transportation and utilities for themselves and their children. Come on now. 128 dollars a month....This is where people are checking common sense at the door in favor of the bs they spew on those talking head shows in cable networks. And once again, I haven't seen anyone show me how this is effecting the middle class when outsourcing is the culprit. Fine. If the crime is not being in the decade long process to become a citizen then fuck that "crime". There is a line where survival trumps a crime that doesn't kill anyone. If you are saying they can become a citizen if they are proving they want to contribute to America, then why are they going after the ones that are contributing. You have people coming here and getting honest work(and please stop with the "its not honest, they are illegal" they are doing illegal activities for money) Thats what money should be spent on going after and deporting? You are saying that eventually you run out of money for the humanitarian causes, but the methods in which you are suggesting would cost the economy more money to deport than to keep illegals (who aren't costing the economy any literal money. A best you can't point to the arguable points that you have). This is the only humanitarian cause where the economy reaps the benifits. You actually get something back here, so I don't think that can be a reasonable excuse to point at this as the line in humanitarian aid.

First off 32x had Virtua Fighter which kicked fucking ass, and the best NBA Jam port at the time and fucking Doom. AND thats about it. But I would still play those (yes, I owned the 32x) And I know its about a page back but how the fuck is Marcus Fenix a bad character design? What is a guy in a post apocolyptic war supposed to look like. all the characters in that game are pretty well designed.

I don't think I can agree with your reasoning behind the line of middle and lower class. If you remove income from most people they will change income class. Trust me, I don't believe that there is some big glut of jobs sitting out there for the taking, but the lower class, low paying jobs have not seen a decline in available work and the jobless rate amoung the lower class has not gone up or down with the influx of illegals. Thats one thing that has been pretty constant. Anything at or below the poverty line in pay is still pretty much there. Joblessness has hit educated, middleclass workers the hardest and the blame can be on a slowing down economy and on outsourcing. Once again, neither of which have anything to do with illegal immigration. As for punishing the companies, yes they know that the employees are illegals, but they also have one HUGE work around. The illegals that they employee more times than not have a social security number and paperwork to say they are a citizen. Sure, they KNOW that they are illegal, but they have all the paper work, and the employees pay taxes, and are making at least mininum wage. Its hard to prosecute them when they have employees with papers. That is the loophole, but at the end of the day, it is a loophole where the goverment collects and that is the real reason they aren't being to big on the illegal immigration issue. And I personally don't believe in drawing the line in humanitarian issues. Why?

My problem is that if you were working in a meat packing plant, you weren't middle class to begain with. People in the lowest income bracket (those just above the poverty line) haven't seen any difficulty in finding work. Finding good paying work is the problem. The Middle class is being destroyed by outsourcing because that is where the middle class income is going. You can't say its an attack on the middle class and at the same time point to the lowest paying jobs and showing that as an example. Outsourcing happens at a much higher rate and is the main source of their losses. And once again (I know i am repeating myself here) you are talking about fines, taxes, prison time, etc. for poor people trying to feed their families. You see that as an acceptable end? This is what these obsenely expensive raids are doing. Spending money to punish people that are just trying to survive. I just don't see the good in that.

Cashemere Mafia and Big Shots sounds like the same show. One with men one with women. Thats some originality right there.

A easier less long winded way of saying it is that the last time the casual fan saw Kurt Angle, he was the "NEW FACE of ECW" and viewed as a threat by the way he was hyped. The last time you saw Christian and Tomko, both were pretty much jobbin it up.

Well lets just say I have never met one making less. You would think i would have run into one by now. certainty was probably strong, seeing as I guess there are day workers in smaller towns. Let me change that to in Atlanta, you aren't finding a day worker on a construction site making less than that.

Except when the guy you want is Sheldon Williams and noone inside the top 10 wants him and you can trade your number 5 pick for, I don't know, ANYTHING and move down and still get your guy....except when that happens. (sorry...still pissed about last year) With the coaching the hawks have (and they seem content in keeping Mike Woodson's inept ass) they need a big man that can score more than they need a point. conley would be great, but with the Hawks offense led by woodson, he would be completely worthless. Despite having probably the most athletic lineup in the NBA that is made for an uptempo offense, he runs a half court set where he has no post up players and basically is "Watch Joe Johnson try to score". I don't care if they had taken Chris Paul, Deron Williams or Brandon Roy in the last couple of drafts, they all would have been worthless and probably benched by now with Woodsons horrible coaching. But if they are going to keep giving him more time, give him the team he needs to win. He needs a guy with scoring ability with his back to the basket, can rebound and block a shot every once in a while. THEN they need a point that can consistantly hit the outside jumper and defend the perimeter. I would LOVE to have Conely but he isn't the most pressing need. I think they could trade and get both of their needs with the number 3 pick in this draft and still be in the lottery with the 11th pick.

not claiming to be a expert, but aren't they paid by how much they pick, not how long? And I can say for certainty that you aren't going to find a day worker on a construction site making less that 12-14 bucks a hour.

No way Memphis would pass on Corey Brewer. Or if they are content on trading Gasol, then they would go for a big like Hawes or Wright. Conley wouldn't last past 5 though because Boston would trade the pick to Portland for something so they can have conley and durant. Thats why I still say go for ZBO and a point if you are Atlanta. Portland could have a strating line up of Oden/Aldridge/Marvin Williams/Brandon Roy/Mike Conley while Atlanta could be looking at Jarret Jack/Joe Johnson/Josh Smith/Zach Randolph/Solomon Jones or Zaza Pachulia. Atlanta gets the point they need and a inside scoring presense since Mike Woodson is determined to have a half court offense for some reason, and Portland sures up their SF position if they can't hold on to Outlaw and get Conley to play along side Oden. If there wasn't a Billy Knight involved in all of this, it would be a no brainer.

Yeah, thats what I meant. I left off the "n't" on that should.

It depends. Do you mean they should make more or they should make at least?

You could get KG for Amare. You couldn't get KG for Marion. Marion at 16 mil isn't as tradeable. -Although if Utah could put together a package I would love to have AK-47 and his superior shot blocking and passing abilities in a suns uniform for Marion. I also would like Josh Smith(and Childress) for Marion and Banks, (I can dream, can't I?_

Amare is a basketball asshole and probably isn't particularly liked in his locker room . Zbos main problem has been off the court issues which have pretty much died down recently, but I am not sure if that is a "its just a matter of time" issue or "he has gotten some common sense". But yeah, you are talking two 20-10 guys that have had micro fracture surgery that have shown attitude issues. I don't know how you can be interested in one and not the other honestly. Anyway, fuck Chicago. I want him in Atlanta.

How can you call literal fact hogwash? Illegals are paying for housing. There is no debating that. They are paying for food. No debating that. They are paying for gas, clothing, entertainment. You are calling it hogwash because they are sending some money back to their families at home. I guess I am not helping the economy because I have a savings account. And once again, BILLIONS of tax dollars are coming from the illegals also. The economy is not being screwed by illegals. 4-5 times more jobs are lost to outsourcing, a MUCH cheaper alternative to the big coorperations and no reprecussions to it. But its more fun to point out the hispanics that you can see and say they are what is wrong with the economy. You want to point at the illegals in the prison system. And to combat that SMALL percentage, almost non existant, you say lets spend BILLIONS of dollars to deport a bunch of hard working poor people. That will save us like a couple of hundred thousand dollars on those prisoners! And it only cost us a few billion dollars to do! Once again, if one person was making an argument saying we need to make sure that drugs aren't getting across the border, fine. But raiding places and getting rid of the poor people that are working there whose only crime is that they haven't gotten into the ridcilously over complicated citizenship procedures...thats not looking into national security or safety. To quote Charles Barkley of all people, "Rich people do a great job at making poor people fight each other." How anyone can not respect anyone doing honest work to feed their family is beyond me. Especially when it is coming from a bunch of people who didn't do a goddamned thing to "earn" the same rights they are trying to take away from these people. So your mom squeezed you out a few thousand miles north of where someone else is born. Whoopity. Someone and their family should starve because their mom was a few thousand miles south. At a certain point it becomes a question of common decency. Too many people lack it and have let the droves of impovrished men women and children become nothing more than a political talking point. The Mexican president should just declare his country communist. Then they can all come searching for asylum.

because everyone knows that Chicago needs a big change to become championship caliber. Zbo makes them that right now. People say he is a bad seed and all, but winning has a way of making you saintly.

Because anything involving the case he says no comment. The reporter asked him if he still had support, he never claimed his innocence. He didn't say anything about the case. Its called good coaching by a lawyer.

And if you cut out alot of weight training and high protien diet needed to maintain that body builders frame he had before. not saying he was clean but it wasn't like they guy wasn't hitting the weight room everyday. Now its more flexibility, cardio, and training for real fighting...not just looking huge.

Yeah, him too, but thats to be expected from Dr. Janosz.

The best move if he is stupid. how exactly is his stock giong to get any higher. the longer he stays in college the more people realize how iffy of a pro he might be. Dumb dumb move by the kid.

Its like a action movie with zombie movie effects. That is a great combination that hasn't been used enough.

I personally didn't have a problem with the Jessikki storyline either. Not as much as others did. I think it was just annoying that there was no connection to the main story being shown with them. That and Ali Carters teeth annoy me. But besides that, I had no problem with it. I would like to mention that DL overreacts like a bitch to a little bullet. Goddamn dude, if you were able to walk around less than a hour later you weren't shot that fucking bad. the finalle should have been a two hour and included the previous show. It would have gone well together. I have no problem with the finally, but with the last ep kicking various asses it set up a biggy in the finale and it wasn't as big as some would have liked. So Peter should be dead since he wouldn't have died in the blast in the first place. Also, I think in the future episode, Hiro assumed that it was Sylar the blew up, when it was really peter, so when he stabbed Sylar, and the bomb went off anyway, future hero assumed it was because of Sylar surviving by having Claires poweres. I am guessing the events went alot like they went in the finale. Hiro stabs Sylar, Sylar sends him flying and he teleported out. Only the last time, Claire was in hiding and didn't convince Nathan to change anything so Peter still blew up. But Sylar was still alive in the future ep meaning that he survived this time too. If that makes any sense to anyone. So basically, thinking Sylar had Claires powers was a wrong assumption by future Hiro. And thus, Sylar is still alive.