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bullzak

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  1. So MJ is a big meanie to his teammates in the name of excellence. Heard the same shit about Troy Aikman from a coach who was with the Cowboys then. If that's the price of greatness, lets have more of it. The world is plenty full of little bitches. Its why people are paying so much attention to this series. Its a reminder that greatness is out there but it usually comes at a price.
  2. Meh. Too long. Spent way too much time being sympathetic to Koresh and the cult. Not my cup of tea there. Always thought this was ATF idiocy and didn't see anything to dispel that.
  3. Northwestern hospital in Chicago is losing 150,000,000 per month. At 39,000 per Covid death they need to fake 3800 deaths a month to get back to even. People really believe that shit happens? I had surgery and an overnight there last year. Total bill was 100,000. Logic would dictate that if anything they would hide all Covid deaths so they can open up and get that hospital going 100% again. Thats the incentive.
  4. And the last 10 minutes of Episode 7 was just awesome. No apologies, no excuses. Dont really see that anymore.
  5. Back in the day, buddy of mine went to a dinner with Phil Jackson that was sponsored by a Wall St. firm. No press. Jackson is riffing on various things and talks about how even the best need to ask for help. In the Finals against Seattle Payton is just killing them at one point. At half, Jackson asks what are we going to do about the Glove? MJ apparently said hey man I need some help with this guy. Pippen said he's mine, shuts Payton down, and they win the title.
  6. Have to think just about any retailer that has been taken out by a PE firm is in huge trouble unless they are significant online players. The model is established. Lever the shit out of it and maybe exit big. Retail as we know it will be a smoking crater if this goes on another few months.
  7. I have always thought that getting this from a doorknob would be extremely rare. If that were a normal route anyone who rode mass transit would have gotten this damn thing by now. The EL is a regular petri dish.
  8. That praying mantis is all "hold still while I eat your face." Nature you scary indeed.
  9. That team would get crushed in the modern NBA. Almost no skill anywhere on the floor. I will give you Ewing but that's it.
  10. Even mediocre space program stuff is awesome. In.
  11. When it comes to polling hard to ignore that no polling showed Trump with much of a chance. I think people are saying what they think pollsters want to hear, but their actions will be quite different. Its human nature to be fatigued at this point. Most people outside of NY probably dont know anyone who has gotten sick from this. Hard to get past the idea that this is not a front and center thing to them. On that note I did check the official Illinois stats and noted that for my age and ethnic demographic the total deaths is 43, out of a total population of 12 million. You cant stay closed indefinitely and destroy the economy for a decade with numbers like that. Its too far on the other end of the risk/reward spectrum. We dont all have the same risk profile. Now comes the part where we go with the best info we have and start to put humpty dumpty back together again, even knowing we will have rolling shutdowns.
  12. So the RE owners are exempt from property taxes too, right? Or is everyone in Seattle a Microsoft billionaire?
  13. This really sucks too. Chicago was a tremendous restaurant town before this. Going to be lot of smoking ruins pretty soon.
  14. The CDC revision is interesting. IMHE has about 65,000 to date estimated. And CDC is 37,000 with huge drop off in weekly deaths? Kind of a big spread there Bob. Haven't really dug into this but if this pattern holds its kind of a big deal, no?
  15. I liked how he went after the nearest threat Clyde Drexler. "I got something for that dude" then scorched Clyde for 35 in the first half of game one. Love Clyde but he had no chance.
  16. Man, if there were ever a model that is ripe for disruption this is it. Hard to justify 60k per year for some online classes. And good luck getting a bunch of college kids to practice social distance over the long run. I wouldn't have done it either.
  17. Have you ever seen Grand Central at rush hour? Mass transit brings more people into tighter quarters than anything on earth, especially in NYC. When we get real contact tracing people will really see it. I bet the exposure for anyone who rode that in March is much much higher than the national average but you cant prove it.
  18. For Fauci to say Remdesiver will become the standard of care is a big deal. I dont remember him using that kind of tone. Plus this dude was all over HIV so he presumably has an eye for what has a chance and what doesn't.
  19. Still think this will be a game changer. I would think in general if this works it works across the spectrum of patients.
  20. Amazed how Rodman could party like a rock star and still play his ass off. Dude was a physical freak. And fuck Isiah Thomas. And China.
  21. At last count something like 5% of applications got filled and there has been all kinds of abuse where public companies with huge revenues got funds. The big banks are facing lawsuits over how they prioritized their large customers, etc. The little guys aren't getting shit so far. It will take well over $1 trillion to really fund this thing. Thats if Congress has the appetite, and businesses can hold out long enough. I bet 25% of restaurants and bars in Chicago dont make it through this. Terrible.
  22. Hopeful, but IIRC correctly history is littered with vaccine attempts that didn't translate from primates to people. Ebola was one of them I think. That said, it seems probable they are closing in. Just continue to be stunned and amazed at medical science. You have a lot of the brightest people on the planet going balls to the wall to make it happen. Restores your faith in humanity.
  23. I think at this point the number of COVID cases is not especially helpful. Of course it is increasing almost entirely because of moving from zero to 10 mph on testing. Too late. Hospital admissions, ICU, and death rate matter now. Those are the curves to watch. For policy I would ignore the new cases curve. Kinda pathetic that's where we are. Antibody testing? Now you have my attention.
  24. More shitty B&W movies Third Man Judgment at Nuremberg They Were Expendable Twelve O Clock High. Maltese Falcon Double Indemnity Manhattan
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