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I agree

I see you have an axe to grind with Rush Limbaugh, does that mean that you dislike the lying and dishonest liberal talking heads as well? Or are the people out there like Al Franken, and Bill Maher good honest upstanding people?

closed-mind⋅ed    /ˈkloʊzdˈmaɪndɪd/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [klohzd-mahyn-did] Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person. Origin: modeled after open-minded Such as... Thinking that "right wing" = "closed minded" Or to put in SAT terms If (in your mind): right wing = closed minded Then: Pot = calling kettle ......

Well, We can all be first timers next year. I was planning on being the overweight recent grad who pretends to be athletic but actually has hands made of stone and a gut. If I am in town I plan on being at the spring game, and who doesn't like tailgating!

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So does that mean that our old "grenade" celebration would take away one of our TD's

Im sorry, what did i miss? They took out what? When did that happen?

You have a great point. We did not vote as a country for anyone as much as we did against Bush. We will see what is going to come of this but the way it is shaping up right now it is going to get much much worse. Then i fear that in four years when we are still mired in this crap hole of an economy the cry coming up from the campaigns is going to be "look what Bush left us we haven't had a chance to get out of it" and because the electorate as a collective is ignorant and believes what ever comes out of the best campaigns spin doctors, I think that no matter what gets screwed up worse in the next several years that the only one held accountable in the court of public opinion is going to be Bush. I don't however put all of the crap that we are in squarely on Bush's shoulders, though he does carry the blame for a large part of it. The economic policies that were started in the 70's with Carter and the Community Reinvestment act given more teeth by Clinton during his administration, that helped guide banks into making risky loans also carry a lot of this blame. To ignore those facts is in my opinion carrying the media inspired hatred of Bush to a point that it is blinding people to what is actually happening, and has already happened.

The scary thing about that is that in the same book Tom Daschel says that a time of economic insecurity would be the perfect pace to put these measures into effect. In his estimation you could bury those health care measures into a spending or large budget bill and get it passed, He says that , and I am paraphrasing, that by burying it in a larger bill we can bypass the congressional system! That is exactly what is going on here, Especially the health care part of this bill should be for open public debate but because they buried deep in the back of a much larger bill it iwll never happen.. That is what i call transparency <sarcasm>

No they don't make the loans but they do guarantee to buy them from banks so that the banks have no fear when they make a risky loan because they know that Fannie and Freddie will be there to buy it up from them thus leaving them with no risk of default. Then Fannie and Freddie bundle up loans that they have purchased and sell them to what is called Tertiary markets as a good, or A Paper, loan. Fannie and Freddie had every right to create regulations in regards to "risky loans" but because the are sponsered by the government, and they enjoyed selling the tertiary markets securities made of the bad loans, that they knew were not as valuable as they were saying they were, they did not. Instead they encouraged the private banks to make the loans based upon the "encouragement" of the federal government. Just in case anyone was wondering how Fannie and Freddie work, on a basic level, the following comes from Al Jazeera English http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2008...1713856139.html So, Coffee, you are right, Fannie and Freddie do not make the loans. However they are the sole reason tha banks can make the loans, they guarantee them and buy them.

My question is why is there such a emphasis on getting this through so quickly if this is supposed to be an open and transparent government now. There are too many projects that are not stimulus related in this bill. They should all be debated on their own merits one at a time. Why in a transparent government is this not happening?

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who says they will be taking a pay cut. We did pass the Athletic fee afterall. Maybe , in a coue years that e tea revenue could be earmarked for a higher payscale for coaches.

I know expectations seem to be very low here at the moment, and I can't say I blame people for those short expectations, but seriously... The season hasn't even started yet and we do have a head coach at the moment and presumably for at least the rest of this calendar year as well.... Aren't we being even a bit presumptuous?

I completely agree. I think Dodge is a smart guy and he knows that his job is riding on a winning season this year. I know that there are several people he that firmly believe that coach Dodge is going to play favorites and that is the end of the argument. I disagree. Dodge has to put a winning team on the field this year or risk his job, I do not think that preferential treatment for his son is going to help him do that. If Riley is the best option tan I think that he will be the one throwing the passes. I am looking forward to this upcoming season and I do believe that Riley will be the QB but not because of who his father is but because of who he is and what he can do.

They always had a very unique sound...

Now you have gone and jinxed us

Judging by the most recent election rhetoric, Congressional approval ratings, and a general sense of malaise and disenchantment with the way that this country is currently run I would say that the method of Term Limits by public election is not working very well. Seeing how, on average, 90+% of House incumbents get reelected and an equally alarming percentage of Senate incumbents get reelected each term and we continue to complain about the "good ole boy" system in Washington I would say that there is something fundamentally wrong. I personally feel that by imposing term limits on Congress we are encouraging a uninterested public to take an interest in their government, we are invoking fresh ideas and encouraging politicians to act more on principal than on the drive to get reelected as a career Representative or Senator. The argument of term limits is not new to this country. In the Articles of Confederation publicly elected officials had a limit of three years in a six year period in which they could spend in office. Upon the collapse of those articles statesman such as Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams all fought to continue the idea of term limits into the new constitution. Even prompting Benjamin Franklin to say the idea of term limits is "to prevent every danger which might arise to American freedom by continuing to long in office the members of the Continental Congress." "House Turnover and the Principle of Rotation," Political Science Quarterly 94 (Winter 1979-80) Why is it that even by the centennial of this country the average tenure of a member of the House of Representatives was less than two terms? I feel that it was the same reason that for more than 150 years before FDR, presidents followed the example left for them by George Washington and left office voluntarily after two terms, There was a need for new ideas and new blood into a governmental system that is designed to be run by the people. I feel that there is a innate danger of corruption in office and of a public that grows more and more disinterested in their own government the longer that we let politicians use Washington as a place for them to cement a career. At this point I feel that career politicians of both parties are no longer a member of the government by the people, and they are more of a government for themselves. I think that a majority of the public seems to be dissatisfied with the way things have been going with this country and that being the case the idea of term limits by election to me is not a way to say that the public likes the direction of the country, but rather it is a measure of the voting public's complacency and indifference to their government which needs to change.

That is awesome! I knew I liked Gary Deloach

I am very excited about Austin Fitzpatrick, I think that getting a WR with size who can also play some TE might be signalling some good things ........ for the offense and their schemes

term limits are election. I suppose you are right, but why did congress impose presidential term limits?

I half way agree with you that they are imposed by people. Thebpeoe can choose who they elect by definition however often times people are elected by familiarity and not necisarilly substance, see eddie murphy in distinguished gentleman, strom thurman, ted Kennedy, etc If the people want term limits then congress is going to have to vote them in themselves. THe will of the people seems to take a back seat to those elected officials who want to maintain power.

I am in full support of term Limits for congress. I want people in three that know what is going on in the real world. Why not make them live under smilar rules that they make the presidents live under, 2 terms then go get a real job. After you have been in the work force for 2 more terms then you can come back if you want to. Washington needs new blood in it, people with an actual feel for what is going on with the rest of the country.

He has decided that he is not worthy. It is about time. Daschle Bows Out

i don't generally like to get involved in things that could become arguments but I had to point something out... There is no argument that the last several seasons of NT Football have sucked but, if there is one thing that this staff is better at, on paper anyway, than the last staff it is recruiting... Dickey's 2004 Class Dickey's 2005 Class Dickey's last Class Dodge's 2007 Class Dodge's 2008 Class Dodge's current Class Like I said this is only on paper, but it is a more national perspective of the type of players that we are able to draw into this school. I am not saying we are awesome recruiters, or perfect or that Dodge can't improve but if we are going to look at a bright spot here in this crap that we are currently mired in it is that we are drawing a higher, on paper, caliber of player to the school. I don't know what you are trying to say TFLF but i think that anyone can look at the recruiting efforts of the last two staff's and pretty easily see that there has been improvement.