Wild Bill

Yes, I am familiar with that because I did it when I lived in South America, but I'll stand by my statement that cocaine, crack and free-basing coke are evil. Hell yes, they're guilty of running madrassas that turn those boys into terrorists! The "majority" is not necessarily correct. Budweiser is the most popular beer, but it's far from being the best. I tried an HMO for a year instead of a PPO and that was the closest I wanted to go to communism. It was poor quality healthcare. Our friend from Scotland tells us that 95% of the people in her country are in a state-run socialized medicine program and the care is very poor. I don't want that, Hillary. Charity should be up to the individual. Why should my healthcare money go to support people who are not my friends or family and therefore bring down the quality of the product I get? I enjoy supporting charity, but on my own terms. And if it's a really hard-core madatory thing like my property taxes going to support the local school board, I still have the choice to move if I think the local schools are too screwed up.

How about a viable candidate? Ron Paul has no chance of winning.

Just for the record who are you backing? The Christian Jihadist? The flip-flopper? Or do you have something like "Limbaugh for President" on your bumper? He's probably just a die hard Republican who is only going to vote for Republican's no matter what. OK, you smart guys tell me who I should vote for. My positions: - I believe in drilling in the ANWR, but also believe in tough financial penalties for US automobile manufacturers who don’t continually raise the mile-per-gallon fleet standards. - Abortion is not an important national issue. - I want a presidential candidate who is in favor of legalizing weed, 'shrooms and peyote but who knows that all forms of cocaine are evil. - I want someone who is not afraid to bomb the f#*k out of radical Arab and Islamic countries and other troublemakers too. - I am not for “socialized medicine.” - I want someone who will defend the rights of law-abiding non-felons to own and use shotguns, rifles and pistols. I’d give extra consideration to someone who is tough enough to go waterfowl hunting in cold, wet weather at least five times a year. - I want someone who will enforce existing immigration laws. - Driver’s licenses should not be given to illegal aliens. - Physical appearance is not important, but the president should have a “command presence” and be rather intimidating to other heads of state. - It would be nice if the person is highly educated in history and government and speaks at least one foreign language fluently. - I care more about the president getting the job done according to my closest interests, than to making friends with other countries.

Not sure if you would believe CBS News the CIA or the FBI, but.... Piro says Saddam told him he himself gave the orders to use chemical weapons against the Kurds in the North. When shown the graphic pictures of the aftermath, Piro says Saddam reacted by saying, "Necessary." In fact, Piro says Saddam intended to produce weapons of mass destruction again, some day. "The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there," Piro says. "And that was his intention?" Pelley asks. "Yes," Piro says. "What weapons of mass destruction did he intend to pursue again once he had the opportunity?" Pelley asks. "He wanted to pursue all of WMD. So he wanted to reconstitute his entire WMD program," says Piro. "Chemical, biological, even nuclear," Pelley asks. "Yes," Piro says. Piro says Saddam expected to die and that it didn't bother him. Why not? "Well, his answer was is he was 67 at the time. He had lived longer than the average Arab male lived in the Middle East. He had a wonderful life. Got to be the leader of the cradle of civilization. And in his opinion, of course, had a significant impact on that country. The region. The world. So he was not bothered by having to face death," Piro says. "No remorse? No concern for the kinds of things that he had ordered and done?" Pelley asks. "No. No remorse," Piro says. "No regret." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/24/...in3749494.shtml

Oh, a ConSpIrAcY ThEoRisT! Got all your provisions stored up? You been smoking bales of weed with Willie Nelson? It amazes me how some people actually believe this bull sh#t, f#*k obama and f#*k clinton I wonder about their news sources, like the kids who rely on the Internet and Jon Stewart of The Daily Show for their political, national and world news instead of a quality newspaper such as The Wall Street Journal.

Don't risk doing the wrong thing!

Oh, a ConSpIrAcY ThEoRisT! Got all your provisions stored up? You been smoking bales of weed with Willie Nelson?

What would Barack Hussein Obama do to protect Americans from radical Islamists? He never seems to talk about that when I see him making his glorious "let's bring everybody together" speeches. Could we be in for a lot of high-level tea parties and kumbiya-singing sessions? He sounds like the second coming of Jesus Christ, or at least Mahatma Gandhi, right?

Thank you for posting!

Or how about Obama? I've seen you on TV, but are you a part of Husker Nation? Step up and be counted!

Don't knock him too much. He was the source for a lot of "unofficial" news I got on Oct. 15, 2007 and I had a hell of a great time knowing about events before they were announced via the official press.

Yeah, really! I used to live in Lincoln.

In a news conference today, Deanna Favre announced she will be the starting quarterback for the Packers this coming Sunday. Deanna asserts that she is qualified to be starting QB because she has spent the past 16 years married to Brett while he played QB for the Packers. During this period of time she became familiar with the definition of a corner blitz, and is now completely comfortable with other terminology of the Packers offense. A survey of Packers fans shows that 50% of those polled supported the move. Does this sounds idiotic and unbelievable to you? Well, Hillary Clinton makes the same claims as to why she is qualified to be President and 50% of democrats polled agreed. She has never run a city, county or state. When told Hillary Clinton has experience because she has 8 years in the white house, Dick Morris stated "so has the pastry chef."

Final AP poll Rank Team Record Pts Pvs 1. LSU (60) 12-2 1,620 2 2. Nebraska (3) 11-2 1,515 4 3. Southern Cal (1) 11-2 1,500 6 4. Missouri 12-2 1,347 7 5. Ohio St. 11-2 1,346 1 6. West Virginia 11-2 1,342 11 7. Kansas (1) 12-1 1,303 8 8. Oklahoma 11-3 1,139 3 9. Virginia Tech 11-3 1,096 5 10. Boston College 11-3 962 14 10. Texas 10-3 962 17 12. Tennessee 10-4 904 16 13. Florida 9-4 685 9 14. BYU 11-2 654 19 15. Auburn 9-4 648 22 16. Arizona St. 10-3 587 12 17. Cincinnati 10-3 566 20 18. Michigan 9-4 508 -- 19. Hawaii 12-1 460 10 20. Illinois 9-4 443 13 21. Clemson 9-4 353 15 22. Texas Tech 9-4 308 -- 23. Oregon 9-4 253 -- 24. Wisconsin 9-4 202 18 25. Oregon St. 9-4 110 -- Great job, Huskers!

Good job, Rob!

Any of you guys tried it? Got any recommendations for brands?

Witt needs to be able to outrun campus police if he wants the job.

But it's not like he's going to the prom with you. At least he didn't have the gum at the press conference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04pMwzDUAuw At 3:39 is possibly the greatest single note ever to be played on an electric guitar.

To the greatest rock guitarist in the history of the universe - forever in my heart - James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix. May your spirit and music live forever. Greenwood Memorial Park, Renton, WA (Yes, I've been there more than once.) From allmusic.com: Biography by Richie Unterberger & Sean Westergaard In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship — he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire — has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter, singer, and master of a gamut of blues, R&B, and rock styles. When Hendrix became an international superstar in 1967, it seemed as if he'd dropped out of a Martian spaceship, but in fact he'd served his apprenticeship the long, mundane way in numerous R&B acts on the chitlin circuit. During the early and mid-'60s, he worked with such R&B/soul greats as Little Richard, the Isley Brothers, and King Curtis as a backup guitarist. Occasionally he recorded as a session man (the Isley Brothers' 1964 single "Testify" is the only one of these early tracks that offers even a glimpse of his future genius). But the stars didn't appreciate his show-stealing showmanship, and Hendrix was straight-jacketed by sideman roles that didn't allow him to develop as a soloist. The logical step was for Hendrix to go out on his own, which he did in New York in the mid-'60s, playing with various musicians in local clubs, and joining white blues-rock singer John Hammond, Jr.'s band for a while. It was in a New York club that Hendrix was spotted by Animals bassist Chas Chandler. The first lineup of the Animals was about to split, and Chandler, looking to move into management, convinced Hendrix to move to London and record as a solo act in England. There a group was built around Jimi, also featuring Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass, that was dubbed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The trio became stars with astonishing speed in the U.K., where "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze," and "The Wind Cries Mary" all made the Top Ten in the first half of 1967. These tracks were also featured on their debut album, Are You Experienced?, a psychedelic meisterwerk that became a huge hit in the U.S. after Hendrix created a sensation at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967. Are You Experienced? was an astonishing debut, particularly from a young R&B veteran who had rarely sung, and apparently never written his own material, before the Experience formed. What caught most people's attention at first was his virtuosic guitar playing, which employed an arsenal of devices, including wah-wah pedals, buzzing feedback solos, crunching distorted riffs, and lightning, liquid runs up and down the scales. But Hendrix was also a first-rate songwriter, melding cosmic imagery with some surprisingly pop-savvy hooks and tender sentiments. He was also an excellent blues interpreter and passionate, engaging singer (although his gruff, throaty vocal pipes were not nearly as great assets as his instrumental skills). Are You Experienced? was psychedelia at its most eclectic, synthesizing mod pop, soul, R&B, Dylan, and the electric guitar innovations of British pioneers like Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, and Eric Clapton. Amazingly, Hendrix would only record three fully conceived studio albums in his lifetime. Axis: Bold as Love and the double-LP Electric Ladyland were more diffuse and experimental than Are You Experienced? On Electric Ladyland in particular, Hendrix pioneered the use of the studio itself as a recording instrument, manipulating electronics and devising overdub techniques (with the help of engineer Eddie Kramer in particular) to plot uncharted sonic territory. Not that these albums were perfect, as impressive as they were; the instrumental breaks could meander, and Hendrix's songwriting was occasionally half-baked, never matching the consistency of Are You Experienced? (although he exercised greater creative control over the later albums). The final two years of Hendrix's life were turbulent ones musically, financially, and personally. He was embroiled in enough complicated management and record company disputes (some dating from ill-advised contracts he'd signed before the Experience formed) to keep the lawyers busy for years. He disbanded the Experience in 1969, forming the Band of Gypsies with drummer Buddy Miles and bassist Billy Cox to pursue funkier directions. He closed Woodstock with a sprawling, shaky set, redeemed by his famous machine-gun interpretation of "The Star Spangled Banner." The rhythm section of Mitchell and Redding were underrated keys to Jimi's best work, and the Band of Gypsies ultimately couldn't measure up to the same standard, although Hendrix did record an erratic live album with them. In early 1970, the Experience re-formed again — and disbanded again shortly afterward. At the same time, Hendrix felt torn in many directions by various fellow musicians, record-company expectations, and management pressures, all of whom had their own ideas of what Hendrix should be doing. Coming up on two years after Electric Ladyland, a new studio album had yet to appear, although Hendrix was recording constantly during the period. While outside parties did contribute to bogging down Hendrix's studio work, it also seems likely that Jimi himself was partly responsible for the stalemate, unable to form a permanent lineup of musicians, unable to decide what musical direction to pursue, unable to bring himself to complete another album despite jamming endlessly. A few months into 1970, Mitchell — Hendrix's most valuable musical collaborator — came back into the fold, replacing Miles in the drum chair, although Cox stayed in place. It was this trio that toured the world during Hendrix's final months. It's extremely difficult to separate the facts of Hendrix's life from rumors and speculation. Everyone who knew him well, or claimed to know him well, has different versions of his state of mind in 1970. Critics have variously mused that he was going to go into jazz, that he was going to get deeper into the blues, that he was going to continue doing what he was doing, or that he was too confused to know what he was doing at all. The same confusion holds true for his death: contradictory versions of his final days have been given by his closest acquaintances of the time. He'd been working intermittently on a new album, tentatively titled First Ray of the New Rising Sun, when he died in London on September 18, 1970, from drug-related complications. Hendrix recorded a massive amount of unreleased studio material during his lifetime. Much of this (as well as entire live concerts) was issued posthumously; several of the live concerts were excellent, but the studio tapes have been the focus of enormous controversy for over 20 years. These initially came out in haphazard drabs and drubs (the first, The Cry of Love, was easily the most outstanding of the lot). In the mid-'70s, producer Alan Douglas took control of these projects, posthumously overdubbing many of Hendrix's tapes with additional parts by studio musicians. In the eyes of many Hendrix fans, this was sacrilege, destroying the integrity of the work of a musician known to exercise meticulous care over the final production of his studio recordings. Even as late as 1995, Douglas was having ex-Knack drummer Bruce Gary record new parts for the typically misbegotten compilation Voodoo Soup. After a lengthy legal dispute, the rights to Hendrix's estate, including all of his recordings, returned to Al Hendrix, the guitarist's father, in July of 1995. With the help of Jimi's step-sister Janie, Al set up Experience Hendrix to begin to get Jimi's legacy in order. They began by hiring John McDermott and Jimi's original engineer, Eddie Kramer to oversee the remastering process. They were able to find all the original master tapes, which had never been used for previous CD releases, and in April of 1997, Hendrix's first three albums were reissued with drastically improved sound. Accompanying those reissues was a posthumous compilation album (based on Jimi's handwritten track listings) called First Rays of the New Rising Sun, made up of tracks from the Cry of Love, Rainbow Bridge and War Heroes. Later in 1997, another compilation called South Saturn Delta showed up, collecting more tracks from posthumous LPs like Crash Landing, War Heroes, and Rainbow Bridge (without the terrible '70s overdubs), along with a handful of never-before-heard material that Chas Chandler had withheld from Alan Douglas for all those years. More archival material followed; Radio One was basically expanded to the two-disc BBC Sessions (released in 1998), and 1999 saw the release of the full show from Woodstock as well as additional concert recordings from the Band of Gypsies shows entitled Live at the Fillmore East. 2000 saw the release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience four-disc box set, which compiled remaining tracks from In the West, Crash Landing and Rainbow Bridge along with more rarities and alternates from the Chandler cache. The family also launched Dagger Records, essentially an authorized bootleg label to supply harcore Hendrix fans with material that would be of limited commercial appeal. Dagger Records has released several live concerts (of shows in Oakland, Ottawa and Clark University in Massachusetts) and a collection of studio jams and demos called Morning Symphony Ideas.

Nice video. Too bad the audio's f'd up.

If you've never been arrested, you haven't experienced much of life! When you go to write your autobiography, that chapter entitled "Time I Spent In Jail" is going to be pretty damn empty!

But no reason to not be smokin' some damn good herb, huh, Dedhed?!? Yee-haw!

You may want to have someone with a much greater command of the English language than you check your writing before you post in the future.

Nebraska beats Colorado, goes to a pud bowl and fires Bill Callahan.