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  1. No one's saying it's evil, a lot of really cool advancements have been made because of splicing. But when it comes to consumer health and safety don't you think they have a right to know if something could be potential harmful to them? I agree that anecdotal stories shouldn't be used as a basis for claims of health risks, but when you have so few studies about the issue where else can you draw your evidence from?
  2. Several things. First, plants do not have to be altered with animal or bacterial DNA in order to be called GMO. For example, if I studied drought resistance in plants and was able to identify 3 genes in millet that make it so exceptionally drought tolerant, I could theoretically integrate those genes into the genome of corn and make corn exceptionally drought tolerant. This would be a GMO crop, but almost certainly would be a good thing. So the scare tactics about GMOs are meant to bypass reason, and ignite hysteria. Second, we have been genetically modifying organisms for thousands of years, by selecting the most fit crops or livestock and mating. Creating new, stronger breads of horses, for example, or increasing yields on corn. This is the high tech version. And yes, there are drawbacks at times, round-up resistant weeds are a fine example. However, the issue you listed is with the new herbicides being used, not the GMO crop itself. Third, always, always, always cite the study you are referring to. Fourth, a real world example of a GMO fish, where the only thing done was to alter Atlantic salmon with a gene that helps production of a growth hormone in Chinook Salmon, in order to decrease time to market: http://www.nytimes.c...wanted=all&_r=0 Those are all good points to keep in mind Junior, but as mabrown pointed out genetically modified can also mean splicing genes from other plants and animals. That's were the biggest concern is with GMOs. There just isn't enough research out there right now to make any kind of conclusion about the safety risk of eating those types of foods. However there are some personal accounts from people having reactions to food they have no business being allergic to only to find out it was some kind of GMO.
  3. Nice knowing you GSG, may god have mercy on your frozen soul.
  4. Knapp Hawaii Elvis with some grey...
  5. Bo should know how to defend against that WCO. Exactly, that is playing into his hands, it is also forcing Michigan to put in a new offense and to take away a lot of the QB runs. I am super happy about that! I don't know about that, they will be running the WCO with a pretty good passer and an excellent runner at QB. The latter being our major weakness of course.
  6. If memory serves correct, very few. Most of TM's fumbles happened when he left the pocket, whether by designed run or scrambling. I can think of a couple scrap examples where he was blindsided in a throw and lost the ball, but that was irregular. He typically has poor ball handling skills when running. I'm about 90% positive exactly 2 were from blind sides in the pocket. Just from casual observation it seems like half his fumbles come when he gets near the sideline. I don't know what it is but he always seems fumbles going out of bounds or fumbles the ball out of bounds. Of course those aren't turnovers so it's not as big of a deal, but it's still a ball security issue. I watched the Southern Miss game and the Arkansas State game on DVR in the last two weeks and off the top of my head I can remember two blindside hit/fumbles in the Ark State game alone. One accounted for Ark State's first TD and the other killed a Husker drive in the red zone. I find it awfully hard to believe that it only happened twice and both happened in the same game. Maybe I'm thinking of blind side turnovers, that's probably it actually.
  7. If memory serves correct, very few. Most of TM's fumbles happened when he left the pocket, whether by designed run or scrambling. I can think of a couple scrap examples where he was blindsided in a throw and lost the ball, but that was irregular. He typically has poor ball handling skills when running. I'm about 90% positive exactly 2 were from blind sides in the pocket. Just from casual observation it seems like half his fumbles come when he gets near the sideline. I don't know what it is but he always seems fumbles going out of bounds or fumbles the ball out of bounds. Of course those aren't turnovers so it's not as big of a deal, but it's still a ball security issue.
  8. 950 kegels? that's impressive!
  9. If you like chili I suggest making the same recipe but without hamburger. That's about the only suggestion I have because I'm kind of a freak. I'll eat a bag of frozen vegetables for a meal. Another one that I think would be good is broccoli penne. I made chicken broccoli penne with alfredo sauce and some cheese mixed in and it was pretty decent. I'm sure it would be just as good without the chicken since borccoli is pretty hearty itself.
  10. ZRod

    NASCAR 2013

    I to believe this is true. Long run Jeff had the best car. Couldn't touch Jimmie or Clint on the short runs I feel like that's been Jeff's m.o. for the majority of his career now. Probably a big reason why he can't get another cup since Nascar likes to throw a caution if someone hocks a loogie on the track. It's a solid plan to finish top ten but when you can't get going on a restart you're dead in the water these days. How about those grills flying off the Fords, that was just weird. I can't believe they let thim glue those on in the first place, somone had to know it would happen sooner or latter.
  11. Stellar burn attempt from a person who can't be in bars after 9. Remember that library pass ID won't ever pass for a fake
  12. REPLACE THE TURF! BO MUST GO!
  13. In the video above it says they are planning to wrap up the expansion about July 1st, so there is still 3 months before they would likely start doing the turf. And I think we also discussed before that it doesn't take more than a month to complete so nobody freak out yet.
  14. Was really impressed with how the O line looked physically. Bunch of big guys that aren't fat boys. Just hope they're as talented as they look. They were tossing around our DTs in the first quarter so I don't know what to think about that. It seemed like a lack of effort up front for the D.
  15. I thought Bo was supposed to be some salty old coach that was never any fun, who's this guy? Loved how he was calling some of his guys buy their first and last names, sounded like a dad out there.
  16. That run was great, puts a smile on my face evertime. First from his little counter action and then just pure joy from him turning on the jets. It actually got it's own segment on SC for the late night runs.
  17. Pretty sure that's Drake. And they all got some goofy looking shoes as well.
  18. Oh god ticket express commercials are back. Kill me now!

    1. Danny Bateman

      Danny Bateman

      Did you give him some of your latte again? No... I got him his own.

    2. huskerfan99

      huskerfan99

      Facebook friend deleted. lol

  19. No we don't that's mean! says the guy who acts like he's still 18.
  20. You know I was curious whether there was an credibility to the author. When I saw she wrote for SI the Times, and is an Auburn alum I figured it was good to go, but I still had doubts. This makes me even more suspect... A little wiki background check shows that she also wrote the unauthorized A Rod biography that's gotten some criticism.
  21. This is true. I drove a 98TA for many years and one of my friends drove a LT1 Camaro. Endless LT1 vs. LS1 arguments resulted. They both have their perks, I just think the LT1's have the biggest down side. Friend in high school had a 98TA as well and man would that bad boy plant you in the seat, loved it!
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