The Water Cooler

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Did anyone catch the episode the other night? I finally watched it off my TiVo... It had me cracking up when they related cheating with the Patriots and Bilicheck! Like it or not, Pats fans will have this legacy do deal with for a long long time...

2 years till youre legal

Bought a HD TV little over a year ago and never got around to subscribing to HD programming and buying proper cables for it. I know, waste of time, but hey, I procratinate all the time. If I had only knew what I was missing I would have been a bit more proactive. The technician just finished the job, got Dish network HD package including NFL Network, ESPN channels, and Big 10 channels (along with many others) all in HD. Watching the replay of the Bears Cleveland game as I type. What a difference. I swear I can see every blade of grass on the field, LOL.

http://www.mdc.edu/Home/Press/rally.htm LOL! This tells you all you need to know about this ACORN flap. It's pure political scapegoating. Boogyman stuff! And on the Ayers deal... The Chicago Tribune, a conservative newspaper... More bullshit from the McCain camp. They can't argue about the economy they and the Republicans BROKE so... may as well go 100% sleaze, all the time. Even Christopher Hitchens, a ultra-conservative, Clinton hater of the highest order, today endorsed.... WAIT FOR IT..... Obama! LOL! You Republicans have a lot to apologize to the nation for. Your day came and went and we now know what giving you contr…

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/m...a_n_134595.html I can't wait to hear them explain this one! Here they're making such a big deal out of Obama's middle name when all this time, right there on the Straight Talk Express... A Saddam Hussein sympathizer! Here's the story:

Do Facts Matter? By Thomas Sowell Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election day, just a few weeks from now. Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time. The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain— which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had …

A libertarian is a conservative who's been busted. A libertarian is a liberal who learned economics. What is the derivation of the word Politics? It comes from Poly, meaning many, and Ticks, a blood sucking insect

So what is everyone's Xbox Live Gamertag? Got my wireless connection set up today (no more dragging my modem back and forth) and thought it might be fun to play some people from this board. my gamertag is "BF2K"

My son bought the newest "need for speed" game but we had trouble with the game constantly freezing or the message kept saying dirty disk or damaged. The disk was spotless and no scratches. So we returned it and received another with the same problem. WE called xbox and they said it was our hard drive. Which is fine since it is under warranty, but if we send our hard drive in we lose all data saved. Is there some way to retreive this data and place it in another storage unit, and then when the new drive arrives put this data back in the new hard dive ?

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/01/madden-co...dence-or-curse/ Do you believe in the Madden Curse? There is decent supporting evidence from each version. Favre & the Jets choke to miss out on the playoffs, Mangini gets fired, he leads the league in interceptions. Does it exist? If your favorite team's star player was going to be on the cover, would you care about it at all? Or is it just a silly notion.

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/01/exclusive...m-ian-cummings/ Straight from the Lead Producer of Madden 2010. Great to hear stuff will being told to the community more often. Any Madden news before the release is awesome.

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/02/new-madde...ing-philosophy/ Definitely something to impact the way that almost every single one of us plays the game of Madden. I know this will change how many league, tournament, online players play.

Maybe a question especially for the chicago natives on site. I'm looking for a blues station that streams???

http://www.virtualsportsnetwork.com/madden...gs-screenshots/ Here are the Madden 2010 Rookie ratings & screenshots from everybody that was taken in the 1st round & 2nd round of the draft. They only have screenshots for the 1st round though. Graphics and ratings look pretty good...thoughts?

Just wondering if there any people on this board who play Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox live. I would consider myself a casual gamer some of the people... ok most of the people on the multiplayer seem to take the game entirely too seriously and play it non stop. It might be fun to set up a clan or do some multiplayer matches with fellow Bear fans. This is going to be a long offseason for the Bears might be a fun way to pass the time.

We are trying to breed our beardies. Eggs near to hatching & this is the first one out

I have the Saints defense and after Thurs night's performance I'm concerned about the Saints D this season. They netted me whopping 4 points, my kicker got me more points than that. the available Defenses in FA are listed below but non of them gets me that excited either. I could try to trade for a better defense, or is it too early to give up on the saints D. Of course next week I hope they totally tank again. If it helps here's the defensive scoring system for my league. Sacks:1 point Interceptions:2 points Fumbles Recovered:2 points Fumbles Forced:2 points Safeties:2 points Touchdowns:6 points Blocked Kicks:2 points Kickoff and Punt Return To…

Has anyone ever heard of playing every team, every week?? A friend of a friend told me about it. He asked how I did this year and I told him I had a great year, but ended up in 7th place. He said his site offers an option called like power schedule or something and he is thinking of going to it next year. I never caught what site he used and I've been searching and can't find anything on it. Anyway, I worked the numbers with the resutls from my own league and it does see to be a pretty fair way to do things. It rewards the best overall teams on the year, instead of some teams that just caught some lucky breaks. This is different from doing just a point ba…