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It's easy to beat the drum and wrangle out some dollars from people hating on gays. It's not easy to do so hating on shrimp, bacon, mixing meat and dairy, mixing fabrics, or mixing crops on the same plot of land.

My order of nuclear worry... 1. North Korea - Consistently the most irrational world actor. 2. Pakistan - Quasi democratic, sometimes junta governed nation with ungoverned spaces controlled by radicals. Oh, and a borderline failed state to boot. 3. Russia - Not Putin. Look into some of the mishandling of warheads by the US military and our completely apathetic missile force. Now imagine Russia with a shoestring budget, worse military morale, more warheads, and far more nuclear material floating around. 4. Israel - The weapons they don't have of course, and why it makes it very difficult to call Iran's nuclear program illegitimate, or call for the whole region to be a nuclear free zone. 5. "All other" - US, China, UK, France, India 6. The chance that Iran may somehow dupe the world into first getting the material for a weapon, developing a weapon, testing a weapon, testing a delivery vehicle, then after all that, having a surprise announcement. Iran has been two years away from a weapon for three decades. I think it's also worth pointing out that roughly no one under the age of 40 in Iran remembers the shah, and likewise no one under 40 in America remembers the hostage crisis. I was really struck by one scene in particular from Anthony Bourdain's visit to Iran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2-cwlmtsms All that goes away the moment a bomb drops, and pretty much everyone besides loonies like John Bolton agrees a military strike on Iran would accomplish nothing anyway. Sanctions have only seemed to slow their progress, while making their government's cries that all their problems are due to America an easy sell to the right wing and people that just want economic opportunities. Well, anyway, I think Obama's lasting legacy will be ending hostilities with Iran and Cuba. The the last guy left practically all domestic and international affairs as burning train wreck.

I for one welcome a return to the heady days of buying a McMansion and two full size SUVs with no down payment, no credit, and no verifiable income. Then you need to fill that house with stuff from big box stores using a home equity loan on a home you have no equity in. It says right in our constitution that the pursuit of happiness is a right, and I can't be happy without all that. I'm being wildly sarcastic of course, but here's a thought. Last time we did this (circa 2003-2007'ish), the economy was red hot. Why do bubbles burst? Why does the party have to end? What if we just had like, a reset button for all the shady moneylending that takes place with cheap money during growth periods? Who's losing when there's effectively zero unemployment to make / service stuff, and lots of fake (borrowed) money to buy stuff? The way I see it, since we clearly have no hope of stewarding this planet long term as a species, we should be racing towards consuming every resource and destroying the place as quickly, and joyously as possible. Had a long shower this morning.

If OSU pulls this out, and Iowa wins tomorrow, serious consideration will be needed with our conference chant. B1G B1G B1G doesn't quite have the same annoying arrogance that SEC SEC SEC does.

All serious business in Lincoln takes place at the Hi-Way Diner.

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this one... http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11468858/tusculum-sets-ncaa-record-minus-100-total-yards-allowed I did a quick search on this "College of Faith", and I'm pretty sure it's this school: DII school beats up team of homeless adults?

Did you know that at any given time, we have something like 11,000 special forces deployed on missions in 80 different countries now? The use of drone strikes has also increased exponentially during the Obama Presidency.

I have to agree with the other post questioning the very premise of Pax Americana, but to answer the question very succinctly, how about going after "the bad guys" with clear objectives and in a practical manor so we don't get sucked into more multi-trillion dollar quagmires? That seems to be the heart of the Obama doctrine. If the hawks had their way with everything, we'd have two million American soldiers occupying a swath of the world stretching from Tunisia to Afghanistan with a dysfunctional "democracy" in each nation.

Interesting information, but it seems that despite all the blood, sweat, and money that was thrown into Iraq, little was accomplished to stamp out corruption or ensure governance that is at all competent. In fact the regime of corruption was tacitly used as matter of convenience while our forces occupied the country. The Iraqi military is also plagued by corruption, cronyism, and generally incompetent leadership. These are pretty much the same circumstances that were present when the government and military of South Vietnam rapidly collapsed, as well as Afghanistan today.

It doesn't seem coincidental that the states with the least population to govern have the most perceived trust, and I suspect that money in politics has a lot to do with that. Money has always been a weapon to poison the operation of normal democratic process or otherwise distort the notion of majority rule. In that regard, I also suspect that the recent scotus decision to allow donations to an unlimited number of persons will have a staggeringly negative effect on the state and local level.

I hope Bo Pelini is Bo Pelini, or we've all been taken for quite a ride if he's someone else.

Even if only 1% of the voting age population believes in some form of Ham's young earth argument, and feels the need to inject their belief into public schooling, that's still 2.4 million people that can punch well above their 1% minority with money and influencing school boards in areas where they are more concentrated. The fact that such extreme minorities can create the appearance of a real debate and lack of consensus is fascinating to me. You would think that with the vast quantities of information available quickly and easily with the Internet such ideas would quickly be extinguished, yet the opposite seems to happen with all sorts of crazy ideas that become reinforced.

Online LJS article comments are the worst. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

It's the interchange for Airpark, so it can get quite busy.

http://journalstar.c...525518d5d0.html Not sure how I feel about this. We already have the very controversial high traffic roundabout on Superior that has been keeping business at area body shops steady. Great theory, love the roundabouts on Sheridan that fixed dangerous intersections, but it doesn't seem to work well with high traffic, higher speed intersections with many inexperienced drivers. This will be even higher traffic with more non-standard turns, and probably at higher speeds with drivers coming off the interstate to merge into left handed traffic. When did we sign up to be the test subjects for road design theory?

The increasing power of the executive branch is a direct result of congress failing in their duties. Dick Cheney saw this way back when he was a representative of Wyoming and spent his entire political life afterwards amassing new powers for the executive, powers which someone from the other party now happens to have, so it's bad I guess. This isn't particularly new in history. Democracies in in ancient Greece failed and gave way to dictators. The Romans did a pretty good job murdering or throwing those who aspired to rule as a dictator off the tarpian rock for a period of time, but eventually gave in after decades of relative anarchy in the late republic to rule by dictator in all but name. I imagine if you asked the men who thought up our republic if it would work to govern over 300 million people, in 50 states that span the continent, with a military that spans the globe, they would have emphatically said no. Our system was designed to operate more in the manner that the Swiss confederation does to this day, for that number of governed and individual states, and that kind of foreign policy. So don't be pretend to be shocked or horrified when the system isn't quite working as intended.

It's a really a shame we made it this far with no mention of the master of oration on the subject, the late senator Ted Stevens.

Well there's that too of course

I think the real issue here is the NFL game experience has been getting worse and worse over the years. Look how badly Green Bay struggled to sellout their playoff game this year. Not many people want to sit around in sometimes poor weather conditions to watch PATs, injury timeouts, breaks for commercials, reviews, etc. At home you have the luxury of flipping the channel or doing other things during these times.

Highly recommended for CFB fans. Just a few chapters in and you will loath Lane Kiffin and the SEC even more. A lot of troubling numbers about the dollars in the sport too...98 out of the 120 FBS schools lose money, and an average of $91k is spent per student athlete, over 5x what is spent on a regular student.

I don't think your idea is terrible, but as you know, regulation very often does not keep pace with changes in the market place, and quite often because a new point for the cancer of lobbied interest to spread. So if there was to be a change as you suggest, first there would be a huge battle over the traffic percentiles (80/20 rules as you suggest), regulation for auditing, exceptions for different types of services and service providers, and all that. Pretty quick this is how companies end up spending more on regulatory compliance than what is ostensibly in the interest of business and the public. Sometimes that's necessary, sometimes it's a pointless burden. I happen to think in this case it is the latter, and not at all in the public interest. And getting back to what I was saying about the wireless industry, I wasn't talking at all about the latest iPhone or whatever. It's very interesting to me that AT&T was the on the verge of buying out T-Mobile and closing in on a duopoly there as well, but the government wisely blocked it and T-Mobile has become the most disruptive force in the industry. Now, like the rest of the world, we are moving towards a more rational business model than locked devices bought on contract, and at that very moment Verizon suddenly decides to focus all their efforts on breaking network neutrality to invent a new reason to fleece consumers.

It's more complicated than that, because sometimes the consumer ISP is also network 2 and / or 3 in your example. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/innovation-web-lives-and-dies-net-neutrality I strongly encourage you, and anyone else interested in the topic to read through this article. It's not only to protect Google and Netflix from potential cost of differentiated services, it's to protect the next company that wants to compete with them (Google and Netflix) from a monopoly barrier.

I don't even know how to respond to your points without four paragraphs of technobabble conga. Bandwidth isn't really the issue here, as the main cost of the last mile network to customers is maintenance of the physical medium that's paid for with your base rate. That's not to say it's an infinite resource, but neither is it as limited as you are are making it out to be, and a good that truly needs to be rationed out with an elaborate fee structure.