TGHusker

Funny cartoon. I think that fart one is really important. If we can get cow farts (some say the methane from all the cows contribute to global warming) to be peppermint, maybe we could capture the scent, sell it as room deodorizers and use the money to combat global warming.

Fiorina is in. I think she is really running for VP - the be the 1st female VP and that will be the alternative to Hillary. She can attack Hillary at will and leave the top of the ticket to be 'positive'. While Rubio isn't my first choice (Walker is right now), I an see the Repubs going wt a Rubio/Fiorina ticket to get the minority vote and the female vote. I prefer a governor at the head of the ticket however.

Agree, perhaps in a few years, battery development costs will come down much more, batteries become less expensive, more efficient and enlarged capacities for storage, - this could be a viable alternative to being on the grid. If this could occur on a mass scale in homes, just think of the impact on the economy but also it will be key in the discussion of global warming, climate change or whatever the next verbiage they give to 'hot planet'.

You know I had an alternative to hamsters as a kid. I, my sis and brother would get on the back of our buck sheep and I'd sit just behind his head & I'd hold a branch full of leaves just in front of him. That was a perpetual motion machine that wouldn't stop as he could never get to those leaves. Now if I could mount that branch on a harness and put him on a treadmill type of machine that created electricity - wala - perpetual energy. On a side note this might be more realistic Tesla has announced a home battery/solar system that could do the job of any generator. Per the article a German company had a similar announcement earlier in the day. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2917479/sustainable-it/tesla-announces-gigawatt-scaling-commercial-battery-and-a-home-battery-system-for-3500.html

Maybe being toooo honest hurt him in the eyes of those coaches and GMs & they couldn't separate the past from the future. Regardless, I hope he has set himself on the right path and plays with abandon and proves to be an all star. Come on Vikings - take a chance on him.

I thought that was a question for presidential candidates only - Bill Clinton answered this already. (fruit of the loom briefs - try to buy made in USA)

Ah, the skillmaster!

Has anyone found a good solar generator that can at least run the refrig and a few items in case of power outage (or in our modern world - mass riots!!)? If not solar, what other recommendations might you tried and found to be workable solution for an outage due to weather or other emergency? Thanks

Yes, I agree Knapp. Even here is Tulsa we have a controversy brewing. A 72 year old 'reserve' sheriff is being charged in the death of run away criminal (in this case he was a criminal - caught selling illegal stuff) he ran right towards the reserve cop. The cop thought he pulled out his tazer but pulled out the gun instead and bang. On top of that another cop got on top of the guy and held his head down with his knee (2nd cop didn't know he was shot). He is being looked at for using excessive force. Cop # 1 - the shooting may very well end up being judged as an accident. However the plot thickens with evidence of record tamping on his prior training and favoritism towards him because of his many donations to the dept (he's a wealthy local insurance agent wanting to play cop) and his friendship wt the county sheriff. As BRB said, you'd think the cops would understand that they are under a microscope after Fergeson and so many other similar cases. It seems we are starting to get that 1967-68 feeling again - riots are easily ignited by these issues.

ISIS leader may be dead - Let's hope this report is true and we get the next in line, and the next in line, etc. http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-US-airstrike-Mosul/2015/05/01/id/642015/

NU I think is 3 seasons away unless Darlington becomes QB sooner. For all of TA's good points in leadership, work ethic, he just doesn't seem to have the 'it' factor we need at QB. I say 3 seasons for MR to get his type of QB here. While we will lose VV and Collins by then, the Davis Twins will be ready to step in. If we see vast improvement at QB in season 2 (JR College or 5th year senior transfer, or improved Darlington, or a hot shot freshman or red-shirt fresh - think FSU or Texas A&M) and VV, Collins and Gerry are still on D - then I think we can look at challenging OSU in the conf game. OSU is better primarily because of QB play. I'm not saying they don't have overall more talent but we have enough good talent on the starting 22 to compete with them. DPE will be a game changer who can equalize the talent situation.

If Gangwich's play can match his motivation, plus we have VV and Collins in the middle, we might have a 1997 type or 1995 type defensive line in the making.

Guys, I wanted to get your take on this article based on a Duke Univ research project. it seems like a mixed bag to me. I think it is telling us - big picture the earth is warming, however current picture not as fast as the computer models suggest - those models may be incorrect. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3052926/Our-climate-models-WRONG-Global-warming-slowed-recent-changes-natural-variability-says-study.html The first paragraph and a couple more are below and give somewhat of a summary and a presentation of the mixed bag. Global warming hasn't happened as fast as expected, according to a new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records. The research claims that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of a decade can account for increases and dips in warming rates. But it adds that these so-called 'climate wiggles' could also, in the future, cause our planet to warm up much faster than anticipated. The team examined whether climate models, such as those used by the IPCC, accurately account for natural chaotic variability that can occur in the rate of global warming. To test these, created a new statistical model based on reconstructed empirical records of surface temperatures over the last 1,000 years. 'By comparing our model against theirs, we found that climate models largely get the 'big picture' right but seem to underestimate the magnitude of natural decade-to-decade climate wiggles,' Brown said. 'Our model shows these wiggles can be big enough that they could have accounted for a reasonable portion of the accelerated warming we experienced from 1975 to 2000, as well as the reduced rate in warming that occurred from 2002 to 2013.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3052926/Our-climate-models-WRONG-Global-warming-slowed-recent-changes-natural-variability-says-study.html#ixzz3YFjkNko5 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Hard to follow Landlord's story. Tops. Mine wasn't a specific date but a several day event. My girlfriend at the time moved from our town (in eastern SD) to spend the summer with friends in Montana. At the end of the summer I drove 19 hours straight to 'bring her home" - arriving at 2 am or so. The next morning we get up to go to Yellowstone. We see the Yellowstone falls and then drive a few miles and my water pump goes out. We make it to the gas station and while siting in the trees, watching a moose come out of the woods, and waiting on my car - she says those famous words no one likes to hear: "I think we are getting too serious." Talk about deflating - drive 19 hours, broken down car, 2 hours from her friends, and then you hear those words. Luckily, when we made it back to eastern SD, and I made her a dinner of my not-so famous but good fried chicken, we started to click again. She's now been my wife of 36 years.

Singer is a nut job who has been talking this way for many years. He has said previously that a child shouldn't be declared a child until 3 days after birth. Kind of a buyer's remorse policy for kids (automobiles - kids what's the difference? Nothing in his world). The ultimate pro-abortion (pro-death) position one could take.

Good post. I think we are 3 years away (Conf Championship and NC playoff talk). MR gets a good QB in here - the missing component on O (besides OL consistency which I expect to improve greatly under the new OL coach). It would be nice if MR could secure a great JC QB who could step in right away or one of those 5 year senior transfer guys like Wilson was for Wisc. I think a aspiring QB would like the opportunity to be coached by a guy who improved Eli Manning's game. -- Maybe 2 years if we can retain VV and Collins on D and DPE - who will be a star.

Political correctness running amok -- regardless, the timing worked out for RB when Turner fired the WR coach.

I was thinking of something similar - the 1995 team was full of Achiles - esp on D and Tommie on O. Those guys had the 'take no prisoner' mindset. Tom had to control that aggressiveness in a way that allowed them to maintain discipline and focus. You end up wt a team that allowed NO QB sacks all year (unheard of), low penalties, and disciplined (the Hector factor) enough to not be threatened in any game.

In other words you'd rather be NU and not OU. Seems like every time OU won a nat'l championship there was scandal or NCAA penalties

That is a man with an exceedingly sharp crystal ball. So, reading the tea leaves, it would seem that Brown went to YSU intending to stay there. But, something happened with Gill's WR coach, Gill had to make a move, and called his buddy Ron Brown. I'm betting this has less to do with Ron Brown's ministry and a lot more to do with Turner Gill's short list of coaches he wants to work with. I agree with this assessment by Knapp. RB would have continued his ministry regardless of location - it can happen anywhere. But there are few opportunities to coach with and under a very good friend. This switch makes perfect sense to me. Coach under Bo or under a friend - Turner. Not a hard choice. The last video exchange between Bo and RB that I saw was of Bo spitting all over RB has he walked by yelling on the side lines. On the ministry side, Liberty, Gill and RB is a good match. On the football side, the school will be on the rise with coaches like these.

SUH's money put to good use!

A good (doesn't have to be Heisman great - a good game manager and passer will do who isn't a turnover machine) QB, a great O-line, and consistency on D and we are there. We've had skilled players at WR, RB and spots on the D. If our OLine can get back to 'pancake' form then we'll be able to competed season in and season out with anyone. I look for Riley to get a better QB in with his next class - someone we can build around. We know we have a coaching upgrade in the o-line - I'm looking forward to see how it plays out on the field. We have some excellent WRs - DPE will be and is a game changer, we'll be good at RB (maybe by committee to begin with), and the D-line will be excellent wt Collins and VV set free to be aggressive. We are just a few pieces away from where we need to be. I think it starts wt the O-line and a good QB.

Potential recruits caught http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/fbi-arrests-six-isis/2015/04/20/id/639518/

Add to that the story of the Christians dumped at sea by militants - as they were escaping Libya on their way to Italy.

This should get interesting pretty soon