Abdullah the Butcher

http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/sipple/article_10514c98-85da-55d5-a85e-897e0f50b4a5.html#.VMCSLjn0mWw.twitter

 

"I know there are people who will say, 'What are you doing going with Bo after all that he did, particularly with that supposedly closed-door meeting with the players?'" said Brown, referring to Pelini's expletive-laced talk Dec. 2 at Lincoln North Star High School, in which Pelini expressed disdain for NU athletic director Shawn Eichorst.

 

"I don't condone the use of the language Bo used — I'm not condoning that whatsoever," Brown said. "What I am saying is, there was a spirit behind that, and that I've evaluated things for the eight years I've been with Bo."

OK. Best of luck, RB. So many years dedicated to Nebraska football.

 

Are you being a dick or being sincere?

Ouch

itt Abdullah learns what margin of error is

I listen to 1620 a lot in my office just as back ground while working. It seems like about every 5 minutes there is a commercial for a law firm that specializes in divorce law and representing men. I absolutely despise these. They actually aren't that bad of a commercial other than it just comes off as...."hey....hire us and we will make sure we screw your ex wife. After all, we know what we are doing because we have all been through divorce too."

 

The biggest issue is that it literally runs every single time there is a commercial break. After a while, I just hope my wife doesn't leave me so that I would have to even think about hiring these slime balls.

Cordell & Cordell

The healthcare.gov commercial with singing pets, shorter versions play on radio and tv.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPkxjgFsMfc

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/justice-department-ferguson-civil-rights-darren-wilson.html?_r=0&referrer=

The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., who killed an unarmed black teenager in August, law enforcement officials said.

 

That would close the politically charged case in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The investigation by the F.B.I., which is complete, found no evidence to support civil rights charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, the officials said.

 

 

 

 

 

I would say at this point neither party has a firm grasp of reality. But hey.

 

What's the Democratic equivalent of pretending like Keystone XL is a monumentally important "jobs bill"?

I was speaking more to the premise of their main platforms not being founded in reality. Which they are not. Gratis post high school education, for example.

I don't know . . . the whole two years paid tuition after high school seems a hell of a lot more reality based than acting like 35 permanent jobs would energize the American economy.

Your opinion. Because I'm damn sure someone's going to be paying for that education. Fundamental economic lessons dictate nothing is free.

I tried to carefully avoid calling it "free."

 

Wonder how many kids we could put through school if we ended the F35 boondoggle?

I'm sure you smart people will correct me but isn't Obama screwing over college savings plans in order to help the community college plan?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/20/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-obamas-new-plan-to-help-families-afford-college/

Strip away 529 college savings plan benefits

 

In order to expand education tax credits, President Obama would roll back tax breaks on one of the most popular college savings plans. If the president has his way, families would no longer be able to withdraw earnings from 529 plans without paying taxes on them.

 

The advantage to 529 plans, named for a section of the tax code, is that families can invest through these accounts without the earnings being taxed as long as the funds are used to pay for college expenses. President Obama would treat the earnings on new contributions to 529 plans as ordinary income subject to taxes, stripping away a key benefit of the savings plans.

 

Families could still defer paying taxes on the plans as the earnings grow, but that ends once they start drawing down the account, according to the White House. Earnings will be treated as student income, which would be taxed at a lower rate, but that could hurt a student's chances of receiving financial aid.

Only one I've seen is Texas, which was $5000 if I remember right.

 

But does Holder's proclamation supersede the Supreme Court's ruling that police don't need to know the law? If you assume something is a law then police are fine to enforce it.

Even if they were ignorant of the law during the seizure the money would have to be returned . . . but this only changes the federal rule.

http://www.fairfieldsuntimes.com/opinion/article_a01634e8-a0d7-11e4-9397-878e8419d604.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a blow to the constitutional rights of citizens, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Heien v. State of North Carolina that police officers are permitted to violate American citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights if the violation results from a “reasonable” mistake about the law on the part of police. Acting contrary to the venerable principle that “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” the Court ruled that evidence obtained by police during a traffic stop that was not legally justified can be used to prosecute the person if police were reasonably mistaken that the person had violated the law. The Rutherford Institute had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hold law enforcement officials accountable to knowing and abiding by the rule of law. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Court’s lone dissenter, warned that the court’s ruling “means further eroding the Fourth Amendment’s protection of civil liberties in a context where that protection has already been worn down.”

Idk Carl, seems pretty open now.

But does Holder's proclamation supersede the Supreme Court's ruling that police don't need to know the law? If you assume something is a law then police are fine to enforce it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransCanada_Corporation

At one point in October 2011, TransCanada was involved in up to 56 separate eminent domain actions against landowners in Texas and South Dakota who have refused to give permission to the company to build the Keystone Pipeline on their land.[6] However, on August 23, 2012, Texas Judge Bill Harris ruled that TransCanada has the legal right of eminent domain and may lease or purchase land from owners who refused to sign an agreement with the company for the public right-of-way of a pipeline. The landowners had claimed that because the pipeline was not open to other companies, it did not meet the criteria for eminent domain.[7]

 

On September 27, 2012, protesters began tree sitting in the path of the Keystone pipeline near Winnsboro, Texas. Eight people stood on tree platforms just ahead of where crews were cutting down trees to make way for the pipeline.[8]

 

On October 4, 2012, actress and activist Daryl Hannah and 78-year-old Texas landowner Eleanor Fairchild were arrested for criminal trespassing and other charges after they were accused of standing in front of TransCanada pipeline construction equipment on Fairchild's farm in Winnsboro, a town about 100 miles east of Dallas.[9] Ms. Fairchild has owned the land since 1983 and refused to sign any agreements with TransCanada. Her land was seized by eminent domain.

So from that it sounds like they did take the land and started building.

I don't get why we're suddenly talking about a fictional novel in this thread.

 

I'm not hung up on the word 'precedent' because wrong is wrong whether this is the first or the 81st time this has happened, but I'd be genuinely interested to know if this has happened before, that a foreign national corporation has been able to successfully use Eminent Domain against U.S. citizens and their property.

 

 

 

EDIT - I typed this while the above response was being sent. Ignore my first statement. Still would be interested in knowing the answer to the last part, though.

In an email after the publication of this article, TransCanada said it has reached voluntary agreements to secure 100% of the private easements required for the pipeline in Montana and South Dakota. It has 76% of the easements required for the route in Nebraska, it said. In general, the company said it has had to use eminent domain with only 2% of landowners.

 

 

Perhaps I wasn't wording that as aptly as I should, so let's not get hung up on the word "precedent." It doesn't matter to me if it's happened before, it was wrong then and it's wrong now.

 

What foreign company(ies) were allowed to exercise eminent domain on Americans' properties in California?

 

You never read Rising Sun?

Explain.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_%28novel%29

Although a detective/murder mystery novel at first glance, Rising Sun deals with the controversial subject of Japanese-American relations, and questions the premise that foreign direct investment in the high-technology sectors of the United States is beneficial. Throughout the book, the differences between the Japanese and Western mindsets are highlighted, especially in the areas of business strategy and corporate culture.[3]

"Liberal" and "Conservative" are labels without meaning in today's political realm.

 

Not according to the last few years of court rulings.

 

 

 

In the wake of the eminent domain filings, Van Housen said he feels like Nebraska lawmakers have thrown him and other landowners “under the rug.”

 

“I don’t even feel like I live in the United States any more,” Van Housen said. "A foreign company coming over and shoving a pipe through my land without my OK? I feel terrible about it."

 

LJS Article

 

This is, perhaps, the scariest precedent this pipeline is setting. For the government to approve of this is disgusting.

In a surprise twist you can blame the liberal justices for private use eminent domain.http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/03/12/the-devastation-caused-eminent-domain-abuse/yWsy0MNEZ91TM94PYQIh0L/story.html

I remember that ruling. Utterly awful. And I don't know why that would be considered a surprise.

The "surprise" part is that it was the liberals and not conservatives who sided with big business.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/02/24/foreign-company-tries-to-seize-u-s-land-for-keystone-pipeline/

But why would anyone not want the Keystone pipeline on their property? I mean TransCanada offered Crawford a whopping $7,000 to help complete its $10,000,000,000 project (OEN). Surely that was fair.

 

Maybe Crawford declined because there have been over 6,300 pipeline incidents since 2002. 154 people have died, 540 people have been injured and $4.7 billion in property damage has resulted (Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration; Cornell University). The potential economic damage caused by the expected spills from the Keystone pipeline alone could outweigh the benefits of any jobs created by the project.

 

Perhaps I wasn't wording that as aptly as I should, so let's not get hung up on the word "precedent." It doesn't matter to me if it's happened before, it was wrong then and it's wrong now.

 

What foreign company(ies) were allowed to exercise eminent domain on Americans' properties in California?

Transcanada in Texas

 

In the wake of the eminent domain filings, Van Housen said he feels like Nebraska lawmakers have thrown him and other landowners “under the rug.”

 

“I don’t even feel like I live in the United States any more,” Van Housen said. "A foreign company coming over and shoving a pipe through my land without my OK? I feel terrible about it."

 

LJS Article

 

This is, perhaps, the scariest precedent this pipeline is setting. For the government to approve of this is disgusting.

In a surprise twist you can blame the liberal justices for private use eminent domain.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/03/12/the-devastation-caused-eminent-domain-abuse/yWsy0MNEZ91TM94PYQIh0L/story.html

http://m.omaha.com/huskers/recruiting-nebraska-looking-at-tight-numbers-to-finish-class/article_de2e25e0-a192-11e4-9311-8b34daf49592.html?mode=jqm

The Big Ten rules are a change from what Riley and Co. dealt with at Oregon State. There, teams got 25 scholarships to offer each cycle and didn't have to necessarily fit within 88 on Signing Day. In the Big Ten “88 is 88,” Gunderson said.

 

“That's a new rule for me and I'm adjusting to that,” Gunderson said.

 

Oregon State was known in the mid-2000s for having large recruiting classes, but Gunderson said the Beavers, because of their location and place in college football had to take risks – especially academically – that they won't have to take at Nebraska. As an example, Gunderson said, if you had five different things you wanted in a player, at Oregon State you may not get all of them. At NU, you can.

 

“Here we can get the top-level guys with the best grades and the best character, and that's what we want to get,” Gunderson said. “That's been different. It's not easier, but when you project (at Oregon State) you have to look at a much bigger pool of candidates and choose which one of those guys who's really going to rise to the top.”

Liked his visit with Bray. Planning to be in Lincoln next weekend along with quite a few high school recruits.

Looks like Bray will be in Columbia today. Probably making a visit.

Are you stalking me or something?

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You want...

 

White guys

Black guys

Super religious/preachy

Laid back cool

Young

Old

You forgot the Pacific Islander, racist!

I suppose the black players can relate to the black coaches better, especially when they are all former players. Not that it should matter but it probably does. All the coaches are fairly young also.

But the SEC says it isn't fair!