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Team would have been better of cutting Carmelo. That dude is toxic.

STARE INTO MY SOUL EARL.

Excellent post.

And Rony Seikaly was the best player on the team............ (Penny doesn't count at that point, he was never playing.)

I was wondering how long this was going to take. BBD was clamoring for more minutes and to start, while not being to hit a jump shot and not doing anything stellar on defense. Meanwhile Ryan is having an All-Star caliber season. Dude needs to learn his place/role, and ****.

Will read again. Thanks.

Same story always. The youth vote makes a lot of noise, but doesn't show up when it matters.

DoM calling someone argumentative for its own sake IS SO RICH. :shard: :shard: :shard: :shard:

For Dwight: http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/0151010986

Good post. Thanks for posting.

Good posts. I mostly agree with what you are saying, especially the spirit behind the reasoning. I think the biggest issue that people have with these types of concepts is that they have been lead to believe that the state somehow is a necessary entity in life in its modern form (where it is heavily involved in social programs, regulating nearly everything, lots of bureaucracy, etc.), where in fact, this form of state has lasted less than one hundred years. Sure there were "nations" before that, but the state did not do what they do today, and there was a clear separation between "the state" (them) and "us" (the people), where the state largely was acting in their own interests and not really beholden to their people. That is the the climate from which the United States was born, but in its original form the government looked nothing like it does today. The one thing where DoM got a point mostly wrong is that states changes as a result revolution. Yes and no. Usually revolution very much involves economy and living conditions, this is what causes revolution and this is where I see the inevitable decline. Historically fiat currencies have a 30-40 year life span. The US dollar has just reached that ripeness and it is showing the weaknesses that fiat currencies do throughout history. Fiat currencies are totally worthless and the only value is in the faith that the printing nation can pay its debt. The weakening of ability to pay its debt erodes this confidence and ultimately causes its collapse. Well, we are already paying our debt with printing. We have failed at bond auctions and the Fed is buying the debt with printed dollar. Countries which have invested heavily in our debt are already saying they consider this to be a default of sorts. We have had QE1, QE2, Operation Twist and now are heavily discussing QE3, all in a matter of a short period of history. The one thing that the dollar has going for it is the fact that for the first time in history a fiat currency is a world reserve currency. This changes the dynamic a bit and slowing the decline, but this is changing as well. Countries are dumping the dollar for commodities in kind of an international hot potato. Already, for the first time since the seventies, a number of countries have made trade alliances with the expressed purpose of trading in their own currencies and leaving the dollar out of the discussion. The state of the petrodollar is also in question. So far, a saving grace has been the drop of the euro, which has lead capital to seek safe havens and flee to the dollar a number of times this past 18 months and stopped its slide. But when one is comparing the rate of one sinking ship to another sinking ship and trying to decide which to stay on, the numbers get a bit skewed, in the end they are both sinking, it's just a matter which goes down first. IMO, the underpinnings are coming apart with the economy. What happens with the state is simply a question of where all the pieces will fall when things get chaotic, and that nobody knows. I suspect they will either get far less free and more centralized, or far more free. We shall see.

Are you on digital cable? In my house it only works on sets hooked up to digital cable, not standard cable.

Jareth, just stop it already please. Thanks. :chairshot:

Neck injury.

I heard John Stockton had some hormone replacement therapy and looks like a 25 year old again.

This. The "I just wanna win" is a total slap in the face. What he is saying does not mesh with what he is doing. This either means he is a liar (and thinks the general fan base is stupid) or stupid. I don't think he's stupid, so that leaves the former. I have no respect for him anymore as an individual. It's his life, he can do anything he wants, that isn't the issue, it's a personal stance that I have now with how he appears to be as an individual.

Double post.

I love it when people make comments like "Can you imagine 'insert NBA player who is one of best PG in last decade' playing with Dwight." CAN YOU IMAGINE DWIGHT PLAYING WITH THE HYBRID OF MAGIC JOHNSON, JOHN STOCKTON, AND OSCAR ROBINSON IN THEIR PRIMES???????? Jameil Neelson is the sux.

DoM calling anyone obnoxious.

So, your answer to my question, "You see what I did there?" is no. What I did was show how someone in another country, where we have invaded, occupied for a decade and brought freedom in the form of tens of thousands of bombs, would say that the exact thing about us. Or how about out decades long interventionist policies in the region? They would very likely elicit a similar response. Let me put it another way: The United States does not have a monopoly on the "moral right."

Yeah, I am sure Dwight's league leading .459 FT shooting is making teams cringe at the idea of sending him to the free throw line. Or perhaps his .539 FT shooting last night will do it.

Make free throws. It will stop then.

How about make some free throws forcing the other team to stop? I never saw Reggie Miller getting intentionally fouled as a game plan.

Edit: Nevermind.