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Oklahoma had a notorious athlete dorm. I worked with a guy who wrestled for OU. That place was literally Animal House.

I hope I don't get hated on, but I really hope that we don't get to that point in society... You hope that you don't get treated the way you treat gays, you mean?

Andy Staples (not to be confused with his alter ego, Randy Staples) interviewed our Chancellor, Harvey Perlman, who sits on the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee. Perlman was, until recently, the Chair of the committee. Perlman's anti-playoff stance is in full effect in this interview. Click the headline for the full interview. Perlman only sees benefit to the +1 system in that it will allow fans to have one more game. He doesn't feel that will better crown a champion, nor does he think a playoff will better answer the question of who college football's champion is. He sees the driver of the playoff crowd as simply a desire to see more football. I see that as a vast oversimplification of the stance of those interested in the demise of the BCS.

Isn't the main point that we "live and let live," not where homosexuality comes from? Sure, the roots of homosexuality are fine for discussion - as long as we don't use that conversation to invalidate who someone is. I haven't commented on this topic much, but I have read the conversation. Good stuff so far. It's telling that we're having a conversation where the majority of us aren't homosexual, yet the tenor of the posts is acceptance, understanding, information. We've progressed beyond the slurs and the total lack of acceptance for the most part. I'm very happy with the progress we're making as a society. I hope it continues, until we get to the point where homosexuality is as accepted as any other form, and we simply have no reason to talk about it.

This is utter BS. Laughable. But whatever. You can believe what you want to believe. You mean reality instead of fantasy based? I don't really think you kept up to knowthe inroads that the Taliban made into Pakistan. Fantasy, as in your straw-man arguments and red herrings? Nobody said that Obama got sole credit for killing bin Laden. Straw man. Nobody is talking about whether the Taliban has sovereignty over Pakistan-held territory. Red herring. You have no idea what I know about the Taliban. I'm as informed as you, I have the same access to google as you, and neither of us are on the ground over there. I have buddies on the ground in Afghanistan, I've kept up correspondence with a friend in an intelligence FOB over there, and I have as much knowledge of the situation as any other joker sitting on his butt in front of a monitor has. So stop with the implication that you know more than I do about the situation over there. As Carlfense pointed out, Bush stopped pursuing bin Laden, even stated it publicly. Exactly. It beggars belief that people insinuate otherwise. husker_99 - you're a Republican, yes?

No you are wrong. This conflict map shows the taliban's strongholds and presence in Pakistan http://news.bbc.co.u...sia/8046577.stm Sorry but Pakistan Government doesn't have fully control of their country and the battle rages on. yes it is from 2009 but proves my point. Pakistan isn't going to use their nukes. I'm sorry, what point do you think that map proves? I have no idea what part of my post you're disagreeing with, or how the map you're showing means we didn't kill bin Laden. What is your point, aside from "you're wrong?" I told you going into Pakistan was no problem cause the government didn't have full control of their country. Solely crediting Obama with the kill is absurd. Without of those years of Bush pursuing him Osama would be alive today and Obama wouldn't have gotten a chance to kill him. It was a symbolic kill. Killing Osama isn't going to stop terrorism. I dont really care if he was dead or alive cause there were bigger problems than him. This is utter BS. Laughable. But whatever. You can believe what you want to believe.

It's rare to see such brutal candor from the local press. Not sure if Rosie has inside info that Doc is really on the way out, or if he's just gauging the winds, but I found this peek behind the veil of a local sportswriter's opinion pretty interesting:

No you are wrong. This conflict map shows the taliban's strongholds and presence in Pakistan http://news.bbc.co.u...sia/8046577.stm Sorry but Pakistan Government doesn't have fully control of their country and the battle rages on. yes it is from 2009 but proves my point. Pakistan isn't going to use their nukes. I'm sorry, what point do you think that map proves? I have no idea what part of my post you're disagreeing with, or how the map you're showing means we didn't kill bin Laden. What is your point, aside from "you're wrong?"

That's why I disagree with their #3 ranking for our O Line. Far too often we failed to seal blocks and plays that could have been bigger broke down - not just for Martinez, but for all the backs. Martinez has his own issues to deal with, which he'll either fix or get passed on the depth chart for, but that stat is as telling about the O Line as it is anything else. Rex's TDs also went down in that stretch, from nine in his first six games to just six over his last seven, including getting shut out against Michigan and South Carolina. When opponents stacked up against the run, we couldn't overcome it.

Good point. After that, Kinebahan is gonna get all you unbelievers!

You can find Brewsky's in the Haymarket, then. The biggest problem will be finding parking.

Or do so that this thread can get shut down like it should've when March began Why should we shut the thread down? I changed the title. Now we have ten more months to talk about this before it gets stale again.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction whose existence affects the prediction's outcome. It doesn't have much to do with how you are perceived by other people. It's like believing in monsters so strongly that, when you turn out the lights in the basement, you double-time it up the stairs so you don't get eaten. That fear of non-existent monsters is the prediction, and your belief that you'll be eaten is a direct result of that fear, whether it has merit or not.

I wonder if people remember that Fonzie returned kicks as a Freshman. Had a decent average, but he was the #2 guy in the tandem behind Niles Paul.

Which part of this blog you've linked shows that Obama did the wrong thing in his 2009 bailout? Specific paragraphs/graphs, etc? Because the title being "2008 Bailout Counter-Factual" leads me to believe (and the blog itself supports this) that this guy is decrying George Bush's bailout of Fannie/Freddie et al., not Obama's bailout. Ritholz does comment on TARP, but his conclusions don't really support your argument.

Gentlemen. We are getting into a realm of discussion that is best left for the Woodshed. Please agree to disagree and let's not worry about who lied to whom, or whatever the term is we're using here. Disagreements are going to happen in this forum. Let's not get out of hand. Have a Bandit day.

I like these pics. Game-worn jerseys from Austin Cassidy and Alfonzo Dennard. Cool stuff.

That is conjecture, I would like to know what inofrmation backs up your assertions. First, clear signs of economic recovery, what are those signs that are directly related to that bill? What are the policies by bush that wrecked this country? It's not conjecture. It's based on sound fiscal numbers. This is a 2008 article written by a guy against the bailout - but who foresees the disaster if we don't do it. Note - this article was written two months before Obama won the election. The economy was in a shambles after Bush's war-time spending, the bursting of the housing and dot-com bubbles and rampant deregulation - and Bush had already bailed out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Bear Stearns, and others. As for the stimulus' success, Carlfense has already posted job-growth data since the bailout, we are factually not in a depression, and consumer confidence is up. It's a work in progress so it's not the time to declare it a success. Certainly, to this point, it is not a failure.

It's official. The worst-kept secret in the land has come to fruition:

Looked like a good crowd as I drove by on my way to disc golf. Also, caught this pic on the webz:

I think it's interesting that Michigan was picked to win the B1G, but they're ranked 240th by this site. EDIT - my bad. The Coaches picked Sparty, not Michigan.

Like the balls to go into Pakistan and kill bin Laden? Or the balls to sign off on a huge spending bill to salvage the gutted economy so we didn't fall into yet another Great Depression? Those are some pretty damned big decisions for a president who has done "nothing." First Pakistan doesn't have complete control of their country. The Military doesn't go into some areas and the Taliban does have some sort of stronghold. So going into Pakistan wasn't the problem. Bin Laden wasn't that big of a deal to kill cause he would just be replaced. Terrorist organizations aren't structured that great. It's not like if you take out the head guy then everyone falls in line. Al Qeada hasn't stopped since Bin Laden was killed and more of a symbolic kill. Too bad that our own government gave his people the training to attack us after staving off the Soviets. His spending bill just prolonged the depression we are in. The economy always goes into a cycle into a boom and bust. We just came out of the internet boom so heading downward should've been expected. The only thing Obama has done is contribute to the national debt. Um.... wrong and wrong. Killing the world's most-wanted man, and doing it in the territory of a Nuclear Power, is not a small thing. It's absurd to minimize this. You don't have to like Obama in any way to recognize the gravity of this decision, and to give him approbation for the successful accomplishment of this task. Let's not for a second pretend that the GOP/Tea Party wouldn't have trumpeted this to the heavens if a Republican president (say, George Bush) had accomplished this goal. The 2009 bailout bill prevented another Depression. The fact that we're seeing clear signs of economic recovery today is directly attributable to that bill. Yeah, it sucked, but if you want to blame someone for ever having to throw that money away, blame the GOP president whose policies so thoroughly wrecked the economy that we were backed into a corner and had to do this. Had McCain won the election he'd have had to promulgate the same bill.

I think you're mistaking a very generalized explanation of the act in this Wiki entry. Pederasty in ancient Greece most definitely involved sexual acts, including penetration and oral sex, although penetration wasn't always the case. Often the boy would stand or kneel with his knees tightly together and the adult would put his penis between the boy's thighs, an act they called "intercrural" sex. Mentorship was most definitely involved, but so was sex, as a regular part of the relationship. It was most definitely a romantic relationship in every way, including courtship and consummation.

Not to derail this into a DVR thread, but you're right - they need to provide more space. Another thing that irks me is, my TWC DVR took a crap about a year ago and I had to take it in. They absolutely refused to transfer content from my old machine to the new one, so I lost several games and some good shows that I hadn't watched yet. Monopolies suck.