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formermav43

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  1. Then yeah, you’re probably right (and that’s pretty messed up).
  2. Oh, I was referring to your persistence in making that same comment over and over and over again. No one is thinking about Meyer unless they’re an abject moron. So you might actually have a point about some of our BMDs.
  3. If at first you don't succeed...
  4. False dichotomies, how do they work?
  5. That’s semi-correct. Even with the housing allowance, they still have to pay property taxes if the buy a home. The housing allowance is supposed to be accountable too, reflecting either what was actually spent on housing or else the fair market rental value (so you can’t just declare your whole salary as a “housing allowance” in other words.) And even then, that money is not subject to income tax, but it’s still taxed for social security.
  6. The church has to actually own it and provide the home as part of the compensation package. It sounds as if your friend owns the home himself, at least based on the way you put it, in which case he'd pay property taxes just like everyone else. Churches do it both ways these days. It used to be much more common for them to provide parsonages. In the last couple of decades in particular, they have started selling those off and are just paying more in salary so the minister can own his own home and they can get out of the landlord business.
  7. Wait, what? The same Roy Williams who had the worst drop rate in the NFL his last 3 years in the league? You guys realize that just because you play WR - even just because you're a really good WR - it doesn't necessarily mean you have great hands, right?
  8. I’m worried about all the people who are taking a Hank Scorpio post seriously.
  9. I hate the proliferation of EDGE to describe a 4-3 DE/3-4 OLB type. I don’t mind the term itself, but it annoys me that it’s all caps when all other positions are abbreviated with one or two letters. It should be Edge, abbreviated with just an E. The only potential confusion would be with DE, but it effectively replaces that anyway. We don’t say a guy plays CENTER or SAFETY. It makes no sense.
  10. Why do I get the feeling that you’re this uncle?
  11. And it has to be hand washed too. What a bargain.
  12. There are $1200 hoodies?
  13. His predecessor couldn’t even do that in 6 years. Yeah, we *should* expect better than that. But we need to be realistic too.
  14. I still can’t get over Burke being there at all. He’s not worth a dollar. Ignoring obvious guys (Bell, Alou, Finley, Luis Gonzalez, Hampton, Bass, etc.) who belong on higher tiers but won’t fit due to space, there are innumerable more worthy candidates at that level: Ausmus, Adam Everett, even Spiers come immediately to mind. You could pick any random jag and do better than Burke. Eric Bruntlett put up more WAR in Houston over the same time frame. Pull a random name out of a hat-Orlando Miller has twice as much career WAR in 2/3 the seasons. I’m probably taking this too seriously. But seriously. Come on.
  15. I was thinking this same thing. In fact, if you start studying the late Roman Empire, there's a sense in which even it didn't fall so much as become decentralized. Its language, institutions, even infrastructure endured, in many ways down to the present.
  16. If only we had a board for news and current events.
  17. I wouldn’t trade the corpse of Ed Price for him. No thanks.
  18. Bourn averaged 4.5 WAR for 4 seasons at the peak of his career (2009-2012). Doran put up a couple of 4+ WAR seasons and one at 5, averaging 3.4 for 8 seasons. Those guys are huge bargains at $1. And including them on the same tier as Chris Burke is almost insulting.
  19. They signed Tyler White as well.
  20. Like in distinguishing between adjectives and nouns, for instance.
  21. My exact reaction to these two responses back to back.
  22. But thank you for sharing?
  23. The 3/5ths comprise and forcing car dealerships to close one day of the weekend: two historic atrocities.
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