Kiyoat Husker

No, I couldn't find that. Only a site offering asylum to Americans in Norway. Here's something: http://www.who.int/gho/mental_health/suicide_rates/en/ The World Health Organization reports a 19.5 per 100k suicide rate for the United States. Norway was 12.9. I'll link the studies on the link between more guns and higher suicide rates a little later, if you like. There is a 90% success rate with a gun, vs. much lower with other methods. Gotta feed the kids, so I'll be back later...

... and yet they stay there. Maybe they are too poor to afford the flight? Nope. Maybe Trump can wake them up to all the possibilities and opportunities here.

Thanks for exposing the Left's myth! That doesn't even come close to answering my question, though. I was asking why any Norwegian would want to emmigrate from Norway to the US today, given the fact that they have universal healthcare and much lower rates of gun violence. Are you going to now tell me that they don't have those things?

I'm not sure black Norwegians existed in the nineteenth century.... I could be wrong. Besides, I already said he was white, silly.

Why the hell would any Norwegian want to immigrate to the US today? To be free from universal health care and lack of gun violence?

My Norwegian Great-grandfather first came over in 1898, when he was 17, along with his cousin. They came because Norway was poor, the population was booming, and there weren't enough jobs. He came to make money in America, and travelled all over the upper midwest as a "migrant worker" taking odd-jobs that were labor intensive. Jobs that nobody else wanted. Once he had made enough money, he went back to Norway to get married, had three kids in three years, and they all immigrated in 1904. He then worked on Orman Dam (world's most massive earthen dam) up in the Black Hills for several years, had 12 kids, and never really learned English. To me, that sounds a lot like what the Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Salvadorans are doing, except that he was white. "Chain Migration", anyone?

This benefits both the players and teams with depth issues. I'm for it.

I wish I could find a tackling efficiency stat for college football. They do it in the NFL. Basically it counts tackle attempts and missed tackles along with the other normal stats. Then you can normalize the efficiency based on either a play-by-play basis or on a per-attempt basis. I'm pretty sure we would have sucked in that stat, and Chinander's defense this year would have been pretty good. The stats for UCF are just skewed by the sheer number of plays they had to endure. Here's an efficiency ranking stat from ESPN. No idea what all goes into it, but it is at least on a play-by-play basis: (click on the column heading to sort by stat) http://www.espn.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings/_/sort/offEfficiency/tab/efficiency Overall Rank/Offense Eff./Defense Eff./ST Eff. 3 PSU 4 OSU 7 Wisc 11 UCF / 9th / 32nd / 10th 24 Mich 25 MSU 31 Iowa 35 Pur 39 NW 48 Indy 75 Minn 83 Mary 86 Neb / 59th / 102nd / 14th 96 Rut 113 Ill

So how to you feel about repealing offshore drilling safety regulations? I realize that we don't know the details, but the Deepwater Horizon spill damaged not only the gulf ecosystem, but many, many industries that depend on it, like fishing, tourism, etc. Not to mention just local people that love the gulf, call it home, and don't want it polluted.

"The plaintiffs in the Pennsylvania case plan to appeal in a case that would go straight to the U.S. Supreme Court." And the plot thickens... The number of gerrymandering cases going to SCOTUS might be a driving force for them to finally render a definitive ruling on the subject. One can hope.

Well, It is a political forum..... fair game, I'd say. Sorry, It was a pretty lighthearted topic before my meddling. Carry on.

Details. My point is that industry needs regulation. Sometimes you can be too close to something, and not see the forest for the trees....

I'm sure the older lagoon-based ones are possibly less ammonia-filled, but my in-laws wouldn't go into their confinements without a respirator. There are plenty of old miners that prided themselves about not wearing masks. Lots of them die of respiratory illness. Plenty of farmers brag about not having to wear gloves when mixing chemicals. chronic exposure to round-up isn't something to take lightly, IMO.

Not really. Just thinking of examples off the top of my head. My wife's family owns two fairly recently built confinements, and I have worked in them. The older confinements have issues with leaky manure containment from lagoons or the concrete basins. The new ones are better, but it's definitely something that needs oversight and regulation IMO. The ubiquitous hog confinements and cattle feed lots in Iowa are one of the biggest causes of surface water pollution and nitrification. If you work in a hog confinement too long without a respirator, you can have some serious health problems from the strong ammonia fumes. How would you like to be one of the pigs that live in there permanently? It would suck. As to the cannibalizing, some hog farmers simply assume that pigs are just "like that", but animals do funny things when they are held in confined spaces along with hundreds of others, with nothing to do but chew each other's tails off. Once they get a taste for flesh, any pig that is vulnerable (sick, leg trapped, etc.) will get eaten alive. Pigs are intelligent animals. When intelligent animals get bored, they do weird stuff. Like primates in zoos throwing poop. You think they do that in the wild? Don't get me wrong. I'm not a PETA-pocket or Vegan. I like meat, and I have a great respect for animal husbandry. I know lots of farmers and ranchers that love and respect the animals they are charged with, and care about minimizing their suffering. I just think that the industrialization of meat production has come at a great cost. It has dehumanized the tradition of animal husbandry. You are a religious man, BRB. The bible tells us that plants and animals were created by God for humans use. To me, that means we should respect that gift, and not exploit or destroy natural resources wantonly. Also, Jesus was the "good shepherd" who would give his life to protect his sheep. Just the way I look at it. If we eat meat, we have to be OK with animals being killed for that purpose. We don't have to make their lives hellish in the process, though.

Yeah, and in other news: Slavery and racial oppression ended generations ago..... Sorry, had to go there....

Here's the last paragraph of the article I linked about offshore drilling: "The move to open America’s coastal waters to drilling is the latest in a series of efforts to reverse restrictions on energy production. The Interior Department has also repealed offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the Deepwater Horizon disaster." seems legit.

I can see both sides of the offshore drilling discussion. 1. On some level, we can't have a healthy economy without industry. Industry can be messy and ugly. So there is a little hypocrisy in the NIMBY arguments. Its like landfills. Nobody wants to live near a landfill. And yet we keep throwing things away, hoping they "disappear". Or Hog confinements. They wouldn't exist without a demand for meat. But nobody wants one built near them. 2. On the other hand, Hog confinements don't have to be cruel places that you have to wear a respirator to enter, the animals routinely cannibalize each other, and efficiency trumps any consideration for the animal's well-being. Hog confinements don't have to have manure containment that fails, and dumps concentrated waste into streams. It's OK to hold industries to high emissions and pollution standards. It's OK to hold industries to minimum worker safety standards. Yes, it will affect profit margins and competitiveness. Yes, owners will still make plenty of money, without infringing on American citizens' rights to life, liberty and not getting cancer from their food, air and water. The powerful special interests that want more and more deregulation are not the non-union factory workers, afraid of losing jobs. They are the ones that profit the most from big industry.

Agree. Ganz was one of those guys that just had all the intangibles. Great decision-making, leadership, field vision, elusiveness, etc. I think he would have been just as good playing in Beck's offense.

Look at the date, though. I'm a firm believer in polls being time-dependent. Two years is definitely enough of a temporal difference to qualify as a different set of data. Interesting that it was Jan 5-9, though. Same season almost exactly. Will be interesting to compare.

Not to mention any family heirlooms, photo albums, etc. Stuff that is essentially priceless and irreplaceable. Let's hope they catch the perps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/climate/trump-florida-offshore-drilling.html The Trump administration said Tuesday it had ruled out drilling for oil and gas off the coast of Florida after strong opposition from the state’s Republican governor, Rick Scott. [...] “I support the governor’s position that Florida is unique and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver,” Mr. Zinke said in a statement after meeting Governor Scott in Florida. “I am removing Florida from consideration for any new oil and gas platforms.” [...] A tweet from California's Attorney General, Xavier Becerra: Gee, who knew there would be any push-back on such a sound policy decision....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/01/08/supporters-roy-moore-accuser-raise-175-k-after-house-fire/1012782001/ Something positive, at least..

This is big. If it is appealed and picked up by the SCOTUS, that would be a THIRD political party gerrymandering case they would be looking at this year. In this instance, the Republican that drew the map openly admitted what he was doing and why.

Joe Dailey has arguably had more signature wins as an assistant coach under Turner Gill than he ever had as a QB at Nebraska IMO. Zac Taylor is winning at life. Married Mitch Sherman's hot daughter, NFL assistant coach, $$$, etc. Sam Keller won that one lawsuit... Joe Ganz has a winning personality..

...and just for fun, here are the average scores of the B1G schools (25th-75th percentiles) 32-34 Northwestern 29-33 Michigan 29-33 Maryland 27-31 Ohio State 27-31 Wisconsin 26-32 Illinois 26-31 Minnesota 25-31 Purdue 25-29 Penn State 24-30 Indiana 24-29 Michigan State 23-28 Iowa 22-28 Nebraska