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The answer to Knapp's last point is of course compartmentalization, as well as the fact that racism today largely isn't direct and overt, but rather a set of internal biases.

 

 

If your white your automatically deemed racist these days.

Wow. Really?

A little bit of a reach there, but it seems like there is an adverse amount of reverse racism these days. I just get tired of hearing about all the African Americans still being repressed. There s just as much opportunity for blacks as there is for any other.

 

It just gets old after awhile having to pay for the sins of our forefathers that occurred hundreds of years ago.

 

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There's no outrage because there's nothing to protest. A guy did a despicable thing, everyone has condemned it, and the guy is now dead. I think everyone is sad and upset about what happened and I know I feel horrible for the two officers and their families. Now if the perp was still alive and was not indicted for his crime for some reason, then there would be something to be outraged about. It's really not complicated, nor is it some hypocritical situation at all.

...But put it this way, I will not be unhappy when Perlman is no longer Chancellor of this great university.

They're really good at pushing the envelope and trolling the world without giving us any one single good reason to just flat-out destroy them. I don't feel this way about any other country, even Iraq, but with NK someone needs to just flat-out destroy that house of cards.

As someone who hates war and conflict unless absolutely necessary, it's tough to say that

Our military and intelligence blow them out of the water, they can't even launch basic missiles for f#*k's sake, and the most they've accomplished is hacking Sony's extremely underprotected servers (actually I'm quite astonished they did that).

The only problem with starting a conflict is their trade relationship with China which could cause some sort of a diplomatic mess, but if we were ever going to start a war and liberate a people, the North Koreans would be the ones. Their slave labor camps are among the worst things on planet earth at the moment. Iraq is nothing compared to what North Korea is up to.

So,

More people in each household are working, each of those people are working more hours, the productivity and GDP continues to rise, yet the household income remains stagnant, even decreasing, adjusting for inflation of course. People are working more and more and more for no gain.

And employers take advantage of exactly that fact, and exacerbate it even. My own company requires a 4-year degree for jobs that in no way shape or form need anywhere near that education, and only pay a small hourly wage. The lack of blue-collar jobs and middle-class mid-skill jobs means that you have more people fighting over the higher-skill jobs, pushing wages down, and many more fighting over the lower-skill jobs, pushing those wages down even worse.

The result is people indebted to get educations that don't pay off, people working more hours than ever before and a workforce that continues to get more and more productive yet wages have gone nowhere. The end result is quality of life is worse for a majority of the country and an economy that tanks when the resulting indebtedness catches up to people.

There are no easy answers either.

Or more accurately, read it. It's a series of articles!

Let's look at Papuchis's career prior to working at Nebraska

2000-2001 Blacksburg High JV Basketball coach

2001-2003 Kansas University Graduate Assistant

2004-2007 LSU Graduate Assistant

AND THAT'S IT. That is a guy who is the defensive coordinator at one of the most storied programs in the country. I know he's just a puppet for Pelini, but that's exactly what the problem is. A guy with no experience, no clue what he's doing, who simply is a puppet hand for Pelini and provides no valuable input or outside thinking of his own. Still wondering about Melvin Gordon's 408? Here's part of the reason why.

A great 6-part series on what has become of the American middle class and why America has been moving backwards for decades:

Part 1 - America's middle class is lost in space

Part 2 - The devalued American worker

Part 3 - The college trap that keeps people poor

Part 4 - A black hole for our best and brightest

Part 5 - The great startup slowdown

Part 6 - Fixing the broken talent flow.

Very insightful stuff.

I look forward to Fox simultaneously calling Obama a pu&&y for bowing down to foreign powers while also calling Hillary a war hawk, angrily sending us into unnecessary combat or whatever.

Please no Bush/Clinton. To make things interesting we should have a Cruz/Warren 2016 race. I'm not saying Cruz is my guy, just that this would be the more entertaining. If we have to go through all of the TV adds, it should be entertaining.

 

Dude no. The political views in this country are already very polarized, more than they ever have been in the past. We don't need two candidates on the extreme ends of the spectrum in the same election. If Cruz gets nominated (he won't) then fine, and if Warren gets nominated (slim chance) then fine, but the last thing we need is both of them at once. You're forcing people who are already way way too extreme in their views to take two extreme sides in an enormous election, and that's just going to lead to more political turmoil down the road.

This is my go-to

Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real

Gonna go to Ted's tomorrow and hopefully pick up something new

This comes a week after Sipple went on Sharp and Benning and insinuated that Shawn Eichorst and Barry Alvarez conspired together in order to bring Riley to Lincoln and set Gary Andersen up with the OSU job in order to get an Alvarez protege (Chryst) the head job. I mean what. the. f#*k.

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I just cannot stand Sipple. He has licked the right buttholes for many, many years, and owes his success to that alone. He's not a particularly good writer, he doesn't have any inside scoops (he does, but the whole butthole-licking thing means that he covers his inside info up rather than turning it into journalism), and he's just plain not very smart - and he'll be the first one to tell you that. .

He defended Pelini for years and years and years, and even released a column arguing why NU should keep Pelini and give him more support on the morning that Pelini was fired. And now, with one last incident surfacing after Bo is gone, Sipple decides that he can jump on the dogpile and write his first column criticizing Pelini's actions. Too late, Sipple.

So Sipple is seriously more offended by the actual taping of the comments than of the comments themselves?

I don't want a Semi Ojeleye, I want a WHOLE Ojeleye.

always loved this cover. jammin out

What a TYRANT

Obama is DOING THINGS again

Why is it a "cat fight?"

It it because they're both women?

 

A few embryos and some stem cells have been created, but that's about it.

 

Cloning an entire human being is pretty worthless and that's where most of the religious nuts go crazy, but in reality nobody wants to do that. But what is useful would be creating lab-grown tissues and organs - cloning could allow us to create lab-grown bone marrow that would perfectly match a patient for a transplant, or a lab-grown kidney or liver tissue or whatever it might be. If it is cloned, it contains all of the cellular markers of the original host and would eliminate rejection and graft v host disease in transplants. And cloning stem cells paves the way for not only all of this but for anything that stem-cell therapy and stem cells in general are used for, including research.

 

Why hasn't a human been cloned yet? Well besides uselessness of cloning a human just for sh#ts and giggles (and the fact that funding/support for this would be nonexistent), there are a bunch of challenges that we don't face when cloning animals. First and foremost is a supply of egg cells - with sheep or cattle or whatever, we can just harvest a sh#t ton of ovaries and get egg cells. Thousands and thousands of them without too much trouble. With humans, you're talking hormone therapy and a surgical procedure by a willing donor in order to get just a few egg cells. So that's the big thing. And the unique developmental biology of each organism in its embryonic stages and the implantation procedure (also needing a willing host mother rather than just a female lab animal) poses a challenge because it means you can't just do the sheep procedure with a human egg - it wouldn't work. But I'm pretty sure we've gotten to the point where we've at least created some viable embryos, so it's a start

 

Unfortunately, the religion nuts start foaming at the mouth when they hear the word "clone" so they're sabotaging research that will produce literal medical miracles in the future. So it goes.

 

A couple of the obstacles you mention--donor cells, a willing host mother--these things could be overcome with a pittance of an investment. Perhaps a couple hundred thousand dollars or less. Every fertility lab in America has hundreds, perhaps thousands of donor cells on ice. A willing host mother? I'll bet I could find one on Craig's list for $50k. (Not that that's where they would actually get a donor.) I'm not sure about the unique developmental biology of humans.

 

As for religion nuts, why would this even enter into the equation? Do you think an organization that attempted to clone a human would ask permission? Uhhh, no.

 

Dude, no. Sorry but nothing you said is true.

You don't need "hundreds, perhaps thousands" ...you need hundreds OF thousands. And you can't use those cells anyways because they're donor cells given specifically under the agreement that they are to be used for in vitro fertilization and whatnot....not experiments and cloning. And it takes years and millions of dollars. You don't just show up with a pipette, a few eggs, and a petri dish.

And yes, scientists do not ask permission from churches. They do, however, get permission and funding from governments and ethics commitees and so on...whose decisions are driven by social values of the country as a whole.

 

As long as we don't end up with Paul Ryan or Rand Paul (or anyone of that breed) as the nominee, I don't care.

 

Christie/Bush/Romney are all fine in comparison.

Are you saying that because you actually would consider voting for Christie, Bush or Romney? Or, are you saying that because you believe it would be easier for the Dems to beat either of those three instead of Ryan or Paul?

 

Would I consider voting for any of the 5 you listed? No.

And please. Christie/Bush/Romney would be far more difficult to defeat than any of the Ryan/Paul/Cruz trifecta.

But yes, Christie/Bush/Romney are the lesser of the evils. At least with those three, I think they're actually halfway suited for the job, even if I completely disagree with what they would do while on the job.