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I think thAt if a car is coming across a stop sign intersection and a biker is at the stop sign also you are to obey the signals but if no vehicle are not present that will be find not to stop for a stop sign but you guys with an intersection full of cars waiting their turn to go you guys just zip pass and cut off drivers. I had a wheel chair on my bus one day and he couldn't believe how bikes would just even cut off CTA buses and large trucks and how dangerous it is. Please this summer just stay safe on your bikes please.

Not. One. Dime. For. The. Cubs.

I fully believe the full Ricketts clan knew what was up with these proposed ads. And it's emblematic of most of the 1% class that they begrudge and fight with all of their might any dime going to the lower classes while also expecting us to let them slide on taxes and give away the farm for the privilege of keeping their precious businesses in town. They can go to hell. If they can keep their crappy, urine-scented dump of a ballpark profitable on their own, it can collapse into a pile of brick for all I care.

The root of the problem is that honest, reasonable, rational people have to share a society with sociopaths of all income classes, cultures, races and political leanings. People who do not seem to care about anything but their immediate gratification. They are obsessed with themselves, and frankly don't care who pays.

This applies equally to someone who games the system to receive assistance, and to someone who signs off on financial instruments, that are so arcane no one can understand them as an investment, simply to ensure a bonus for that particular financial period.

Sadly, the media is complicit in maintaining this system, as they do nothing but highlight them, and their mockery of our social compact by constantly chattering about how clever, or cunning or ingenious their cons are. There is condemnation tempered with opinion pieces blaming their victims, or asking if playing to win is so really bad.

if you want to play to win, join a basketball team. Don't attempt to sabotage a financial system or abuse a social assistance program to your gain. But there are people who are simply incapable of caring about what damage they do to others. They are at the top, and at the bottom, on the left and on the right.

Greg I did not know that ..In that case the Liberals can censor any Conservative view just by the breadth of their numbers . What that tells me is that they don't want different views on this site ..Or someone didn't count on this thing being used to censor . I dont think the ones I had deleted ( on another thread ) were done from that . The two that were deleted had 6 and 5 thanks and only 1 no thank . It said they were deleted by a " Trusted Community Member "

Keewpie62...The clinics have indeed been "consolidated" and spread out over the city and this may sound like a fiscally sound solution to limited funds. However, when dealing with the mentally ill, mentally disabled and impoverished the relocation of neighborhood clinics reduces the likelihood that they will continue to receive services. While this may be perceived as an inconvenience to healthy people who can pay for carfare, gas or public transportation, it is the death knell for those who are not socially functional or supported by family members who are able to make go to their appointments. Some people who have been working with therapists for years are now unable to continue their therapy. Others will be at a loss when their routine is disrupted.

It may be difficult for those who don't work in this arena or who don't love someone who is disabled to understand just how profoundly affected these people are by tiny changes. Emotionally fragile people need support and easy access to services in order to remain functional in our communities.

That's why "consolidation" is not an acceptable alternative.

That's a really good question, Bob. I've been uncomfortable with the automatic assignment of invisibility to a level of no thanking and find some threads don't make sense without the hidden posts. Though it's easy to reveal them, I think the invisibility can create preconceptions that affect how I read the post.

Not sure what EB is doing with the data from the thanks/no thanks binary (anyone know?) but the false dichotomy might skew any info collected. It's easy for participants to understand "thanks/no thanks" as "agree/disagree" or "like/dislike"—but the words actually mean something different and function differently as used in real life.

Online life doesn't necessarily have to replicate 'real life', of course, but I'd like a button for "Thanks for the input. I disagree but can we keep talking?" :)