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Who's the moron?

That's the big thing that matters, although I would not say he survived 3 elections, he won two elections and survived a recall all in a purple state that is closer to blue then red. If he can do that then the question is can he also take it again along with Ohio and Florida in 2016? If he takes the red states and those three purples, he is in.

Not only did I support it but I voted for it as well. The reason it passed in Nebraska was because it was a modest and reasonable increase. That's how we do things in the Cornhusker State. For those companies like fast food restaurants and big box stores, it won't affect them too much since automation will eliminate most of those jobs anyway in the next decade or so.

Maybe they should change their name to the Washington Retards since apparently "Redskins" is offensive but "retarded" is not.

Ha ha! I saw native prairie nearly every day when I was growing up in Nebraska. There is quite a bit of pastureland in central and western Nebraska that's never been seeded. But I guess it's not "native" inasmuch as 100 years of grazing cattle on it, off and on, probably affected the plant population quite a bit. Actually, I'd guess a loft of that pastureland has done better the past 100 years with cattle on it compared to the gigantic uncontrolled herds of tatanka that would sweep through and devour/trample everything in site. In particular, I'd imagine the Sandhills region probably looks as good as it ever has.

Ebyl did a great job explaining how complex the sport really is. To add to the Premier League teams regular season schedules, the top 4 play in the Champions League, Usually two or three are in Europa League, the second tier tournament, then you also have the FA cup which is a tournament for all the teams in the pyramid and then League Cup which the a tournament for the the top four divisions of English football. So a team like Arsenal could be playing their regular season and three tournaments during that season. Sometimes it gets crazy just to follow everything that is going on. To add to what Ebyl said, my team Everton who is usually a 5th-8th place team qualified for Europa this season by finishing 5th last season. What this means for a club like Everton is they needed to go out and get some extra players this season for the extra games they will have to play in Europa. Everton doesn't have a budget like a ManU or Arsenal does so it's much harder for them to get the quantity of players of high quality to play those extra game and not suffer too much playing the Premier league season at the same time. BTW, I too absolutely love the promotion and relegation aspect. It makes so many more of the games important

Good choice picking Everton! I can't get enough of them.

Believe it or not but at one time Seneca had a population around 800. It was a big railroad town.

Very well done USA! They exceeded my expectations by getting through the group stage. Belgium is loaded with talent but they haven't impressed me with their play in the group stage. I would have never figured we would have made it this far so no way am I discounting the US against Belgium.

I don't disagree with you but that song is extremely popular over there. I'd heard awhile ago that it's played in stadiums in Europe, but don't chant it in a game against the USA, heh. Why not? 'cause it's a U.S. song. Just seems weird to me when you're cheering for your country that you'd pick this new song from another country instead of doing, I dunno, some old-timey German soccery chant thing. It's a club level thing just as much as a country thing to use a lot of the same songs. I'm sure they really don't care what country it came from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHyQf5PdG9M

I've been there a time or two and that would probably be the best outcome.

The best thing about doing your own work on your house is it does justify to the wife why you need all those tools. Spend $6000 remodeling your bathroom or do it yourself for $2500 and tell her the additional $1000 of tools you bought still saved her $2500 on the remodel, plus you have those tools for the rest of your life. BTW, I have saved myself a lot of money doing things myself that I wasn't so sure I could do but then did after I found some very helpful tutorials on youtube. It can be a great resource for the doityourselfers.

I have never understood why anyone in Nebraska would choose to put vinyl siding on whether it be a new home or or replacing old siding. At the same time if I was an insurance company, I would jack the rates up if the house had vinyl. A house with vinyl on can easily get damaging hail every five years. Heck I knew a homeowner that got damage three times in five years. The new stuff may not fade as much but it still fades. If the vinyl has been on there more then a couple of years, replacement pieces stick out big time. There are so many other problems too. Being able to even find the same product. So many of those vinyl sidings get discontinued and then you are left find something close. Had a neighbor get hailed on one side of the house. The siding was about 7 years old. They couldn't even find anything close and ended having to redo the whole house all because one side got damaged. Don't get me started about all the times I have seen people put there grill up next to the house when they thought it was cooled down and come out the next morning to see a big square of vinyl melted behind. Then you have kids hitting it with balls and putting holes through, people hitting it with a mower or weed whacker, on an on..... Some type of hard siding seems like a no brainer to me if you live in Nebraska. Yes painting sucks but a good quality paint will last you at least 10 years and some of the hard sidings have really nice prefinished products that are supposed to last 15+ years before you need to repaint. I have a wood lap siding on my house. It's probably getting close to 40 years old and is going to need to be replaced soon. Since I plan I living in my house for a long time, I want to spend the extra $$$ and do some kind of concrete siding so I will never have to worry about replacing it again. Bring on the hail. Now that I have made my vinyl siding rant, it amazes me seeing brand new $400K house covered in cheap vinyl. If was spending that kind of money for a house, put something on there that lasts.

As opposed to all the liberals shooting up schools and pushing for a commie state? What an ignorant stupid post. Quit trying to knock commies down to the level of liberals.

I'm still trying to figure out how the tea party members in Virginia found enough time in the day to vote for Brat. I figured they would have been too occupied shooting cops and planning their next step for anarchy.

These are the words of the Lord. Miley Cyrus is in the Bible?

It will be interesting to see what he does the rest of this MLS season. If he continues to play like he has as of late, then Klinsmann will look smart. If he goes on a tear then in the MLS and we fail miserably in the World Cup, which we likely will anyways, then this story will continue for some time.

This would just be spit balling on my part but if I am thinking like Delany, here is why I go after KU before UConn. I think he would do it because there would be a good chance of getting BTN in the KC and/or state of Missouri TV market. Due to the proximity of Lawrence to KC/Missouri. Which would compete head to head with the SEC network with Mizzou being a member. Bringing in UConn gives you no MAJOR TV draw. I could be wrong but from a business standpoint, that is my thought. http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/docs/solutions/measurement/television/2013-2014-DMA-Ranks.pdf Hartford is the #30 tv market. Kansas City is #31. The state of MO outside of the KC area would not watch KU more because they moved to the BIG anymore then when Nebraska moved to the BIG for example. If you want MO in the BIG market, you go after Mizzou. As for football don't forget both Uconn and KU have played in a BCS bowl more recently than Nebraska. Sure they aren't the national brand like we are but maybe we should actually win something once in a while before we decide who is worthy or not. You are forgetting the St Louis market included with KC. Remember that it doesn't matter who WATCHES the game, it matters how many TV sets get BTN on their basic cable packages. I am not saying that this is the right way, I am saying that I can see how the thought process could go. And as far as UConn playing in a BCS game, how many BCS games would Nebraska have played in if they were in the Big East at that time? It's unfair to compare the 2. Not getting what St Louis has to do with Kansas City? St Louis has their own Bball team plus Mizzou plus they border IL. I can't imagine there is an overwhelming number of KU fans in St. Louis compared to the other three that would demand the BIG network there. Also by that logic they should already be a BIG city since they border IL. If you want the entire state of MO you need Mizzou, otherwise KU to the BIG would bring in the state of KS plus the KC metro. If you say KU gives you St Louis then UConn would give you both Boston and New York City. Nebraska in the Big East at that time? Honestly I'm not sure any. BTW, I'd take both UConn and KU in the BIG but would rather have KU and Mizzou if I could make the call.

Considering we have the #2 and #3 ranked teams in the world in our group, that may not be a bad assumption. Maybe it's time to change the rule that you are required to have 3 goal keepers on the team. Two keepers I could see but keep that last spot open for someone who could actually play.

This would just be spit balling on my part but if I am thinking like Delany, here is why I go after KU before UConn. I think he would do it because there would be a good chance of getting BTN in the KC and/or state of Missouri TV market. Due to the proximity of Lawrence to KC/Missouri. Which would compete head to head with the SEC network with Mizzou being a member. Bringing in UConn gives you no MAJOR TV draw. I could be wrong but from a business standpoint, that is my thought. http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/docs/solutions/measurement/television/2013-2014-DMA-Ranks.pdf Hartford is the #30 tv market. Kansas City is #31. The state of MO outside of the KC area would not watch KU more because they moved to the BIG anymore then when Nebraska moved to the BIG for example. If you want MO in the BIG market, you go after Mizzou. As for football don't forget both Uconn and KU have played in a BCS bowl more recently than Nebraska. Sure they aren't the national brand like we are but maybe we should actually win something once in a while before we decide who is worthy or not.

So let's say I am a professor at Nebraska and I want to submit a grant to the NIH to study Salmonella pathogenesis. (I am not a professor at Nebraska and I do not study Salmonella, this is purely an example) First, I have to write the proposal. Length depends on the agency you are applying to, but I believe the NIH is currently at 12 pages, not including citations. I have to include the amount of money I'm asking for and a detailed budget for how I plan to spend that money. Postdoc or grad student salaries, new equipment, animal experiments, etc. If the budget looks funky, your grant is going nowhere. These people know how much money it takes to do most research, and if you are trying to juice the numbers, they will not treat you kindly. After it is written, I send it to the University's grants and contracts office, where they decide if I may or may not submit the proposal in the first place. At this point, I submit the grant to the NIH and I put it into a specific "study section". For a grant on Salmonella pathogenesis, I would submit to the NIH study section on bacterial pathogenesis. A study section is a peer review group that consists of investigators from other universities, the NIH research wing, the USDA, private industry experts, etc. These people all have expertise in bacterial pathogenesis, but not necessarily Salmonella. A subset of the study section (maybe 3 or 4 people) are assigned to read my grant and assign a score. If it scores well enough it will get discussed when the study section gets together in a random DC hotel. If it doesn't score well in that initial review, it is "triaged", not discussed further. All proposals receive feedback from those initial reviewers, outlining what they liked and didn't like from the proposal. This is how I can learn to make my proposal better if it is triaged, and I can resubmit later. If they discuss my grant, then the entirety of the study section talks the pros and cons of my proposal and rate it against the rest of the grants in the section. If, by chance, my PhD advisor were in the study section, he would be obligated to remove himself from the room when my grant was being discussed. Only after discussion of the merits of my proposal is it rated against the others in the section. It is given a score, but that study section itself doesn't decide if a grant is funded or not. Ultimately, the funding boils down to what they call "paylines". After the NIH budget comes out, different divisions are given their amount they can spend on new proposals. So your grant may score very well, but not be funded due to budget constraints. Something like 10 - 15% of grants submitted actually get funding, depending on the year. The only benefit to being on the study section is that the NIH pays for your flight, hotel, and meals. That's it. You aren't given a salary or stipend. The reason you agree to participate is for the benefit of the scientific community. If I submit a proposal in February, the study section will review it in May or June, and I will know in July or August if it is funded. If it is one of the lucky ones, I'll get the money in January, at the earliest. So the process takes nearly a year, assuming you get funded on the first shot (which rarely happens). So, yea, I suppose theoretically, it is possible that someone might be in the study section that has financial motivation to fund a specific grant. But given the amount of people within that study section, one person being the champion of a poor proposal isn't going to get very far. http://journalstar.com/news/local/unl-faculty-salaries-beat-inflation-but-uncertainty-looms/article_2b101f2a-b731-5960-90a6-1c5f0112cbad.html In 2009 your average salary would be $110,100.

Always hated the fact that they oversold the amount of parking permits because they knew there would be a certain amount of students who dropped out or changed schedules and once they left there was more open spots but if you had class that first week about 10 am and showed up at 9:45, fuhgeddaboudit!

I hate bike thieves but have to admit I had to chuckle a time or two when I walked out of class and saw some dude taking off on his bike with no seat on it. Had to explain that one to my kid as to why my bike from college had a lock on the seat.

One year I lived a couple of blocks south of A street, didn't get a parking permit and rode bike to class every day both semesters rain, snow or shine. Usually I'd go over and ride my way up and down 8th street as it was never that busy. From that location, if I had driven, found a spot and parked, then walked to class, I would have already been sitting in class for 5-10 minutes faster with the bike. It really wasn't even comparable because you can ride right up to your building. It was also great for football games as well. You could usually make it up to P street before you had to start walking. You could always tell who were your fellow all weather bike riders on the wet days when we showed up with the little stripe of wet and mud down the middle of our backs. Even with the mud guards, you still got it on the bad days, but that is what rain slicks were for. Never had any bad instances with cars on the streets or walkers on campus. The only bad thing I had happen was wiping out on that train track that was in the middle of 8th street on a snowy day. I never forgot where that rail was after that day.

Love seeing three Everton players on England's roster with Stones possibly being number four. If the US doesn't make it to the knockout stage and England does, I'll go for the Three Lions.