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Hey, let's put our best players and our best game plan out there.

I guess the problem, as I see it, is that we aren't doing enough to protect the environment, and to balance all the interests, all of which ultimately affect our well being as humans. I think the real question is: are we willing to accept the increases in price and changes in the regulatory environment that would be required to make petroleum exploration and production safer?

I can't find anything comical in this. And this well blowout leaves me feeling less like the American Citizen has any control over any of this. Sorry, right now I'm just not feeling the love for big oil in general, or British Petroleum (or whatever they're calling themselves now), in particular. Not that the Houston refinery blast is directly related to this, but I am kinda wondering if BP has just been neglecting worker safety and the environment, just for short term financial gain, while trying to use their "green" campaign as a public relations cover. Fire away.

This is little more than a link to a link, but hey, it's about football. I'd certainly like us to beat FIU on the field rather than a preseason ranking though. Orlando Sentinal projects UNT at 113 in 2010

You're right, tain't never done that.

I would guess that a blow could be struck against socialism by the next Republican candidate by proposing, Like Barry Goldwater, that the Tennessee Valley Authority be sold. Once during his campaign, after he stated that position, his campaign manager famously said something like "every time he makes a speech, he loses a state". It didn't seem to hurt Ronald Reagan though, although Reagan never succeeded in privatizing it. I don't know if anyone in Congress authored any such legislation during the Reagan years. Here's one link: TVA But, as for the real story here, the only place I have heard the taint discussed on broadcast media was some guys on the Ticket (the Hard Line?) discussing it. One of of the guys on the discussion panel claimed that another guy there had "North Texas" tattooed on his taint (and there was no denial). I concluded at the time that there is something peculiarly North Texas about the taint. I can't figure this out, and anyone here is welcome to tell me I'm wrong.

I guess that's all you're going to tell us, but I gave you a +1. I'd be ok if she was a lesbian. At least she doesn't remind me of the current justices, who remind me of a line from a Bob Dylan song, "Limited in sex they dare, impose fake morals, insult and stare".

I don't find that to have been a big drawback for Rehnquist (whom I consider a good Chief Justice although he held much more conservative views than me) or, going further back and further left, Louis Brandeis or Harlan Fiske Stone. I do want to see what she has to say; one thing about those gentlemen I mentioned is that they forthrightly expressed strongly held beliefs on controversial issues. In other words, what does she believe, what stands has she taken, and how would that inform her judicial thought process?

This.

Or, since there's always the need to blame things on something, somebody, what about... A Greek rebel riot dog.

Really, people are always looking for some event to correlate against some market condition, but I think any of us who are feeling not so rich since yesterday afternoon should consider this possibility: we should have changed from stocks to bonds before May 1 (or mutual funds with bonds instead of stocks). If anyone has found anything more reliable than the old "Sell in May and go away", please let me know. Sell in May and go away, Youtube version.

Let's hear it for the content, warts and all, especially at this time of year. And I hate to admit it, but I will: my expectations are lower for sports writing than for other content. Nothing against anyone here, because I'll agree with what someone (from Western Kentucky, of all places) wrote during the basketball season, that GMG members write at a much higher level than those posting on similar fan forums.

Thank you for your continued support of North Texas music.

I heard on NPR the other day that the Louisiana County projected to be hit the worst by this well blowout had the lowest unemployment rate of any county in the country before this hit. I couldn't find a source for that, but, according to this, Louisiana had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, better than Texas, in March. Unemployment by state for March, 2010. Of course, as mentioned on NPR, a lot of that work was in energy and fishing, and we all know what will happen in the foreseeable future for fishing. So, any wonder they might want some "economic damages" from BP? Still, maybe what you're talking about is some kind of multiple offenses of irresponsible behavior by the state of Louisiana, and by extension, those residing there. Honestly, I just don't see the great similarities between Katrina and this well blowout; if you see that as two indicators leading strongly to that conclusion, then I guess I'm that much closer to admitting that I link the behaviors of BP in this and the explosion at their Texas City refinery. With either of those scenarios, I'm still seeing one big problem: With Katrina and the Texas City refinery explosion, there were warnings that were ignored and with likely consequences that were well known. If anyone here can claim that they could have, or did, foresee a well blowout such as this, I'd have to see some prediction they made about it without the benefit of hindsight. I certainly hope to God that BP can get this thing under control, and soon. Still, I think I'm being realistic to say that the cause of offshore drilling has been set back for years, and that we'll be eating a lot less shrimp and paying maybe another dollar a gallon for gasoline by the end of this summer. Our only real hope is that we can learn a lot more about what will work to provide our future energy needs. At this point, I'm more convinced than I had been as to the abundance of near shore petroleum reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. How we can balance economic and environmental factors still remains an unknown. Sorry folks, we've got to have both, and, yes, we'll end up paying more as consumers. The bright side is, as prices go up, we conserve more. When that happens, sometimes I end up standing while riding the train to work. No big deal, since I mostly sit while working. I hope we can all find transportation and power options that work for each of us.

Just to get this out there, I'll describe myself as an environmentalist who says that increased use of nuclear must be among the options to be considered. Also, I'm just talking power generaltion here, not transportation. Sadly, it will be in the weeks and months to come (forget about what BP is saying about 6-8 days for a "containment dome" to be effective) before we will know what kinds of increases, and how permanent those increases, for the costs of fossil fuels due to the present situation in the Gulf. I'll count myself as ignorant as anyone in not knowing the extent of damage one well blowout could cause; I thought, with the exception of some places in the Middle East, that crude had to be pumped under pressure to reach the surface, rather than acting like an artesian well. I think it's reasonable to say that the costs of such power generating fuels of natural gas will be increasing, and that increase may push some overall measure of energy production costs (whatever source anyone chooses will vary widely from almost any other source in calculating these things-perhaps due to where they're getting their research funding). I like this one, because it examines certain environmental advantages of nuclear over other energy sources, but also examines the economic disbenefits of constructing new nuclear plants compared to "fossil fuels". Regardless of how long, or at what costs, the BP blowout continues, I think it's safe to say that use of increased safeguards will drive costs for petroleum and natural gas higher as a result. So, maybe the cost/benefit analyses will make nuclear look safer. Honestly, at this point, I think more is known about providing multiple layers of safeguards for nuclear than about developing additional safeguards for offshore. Anyway, here's one take on it by some DOE study, but you have to know the costs for natural gas and other petroleum will be rising, and therefore making some of the author's conclustions more obsolete than they already are: DOE on comparative costs of nuclear to other energy sources,,

Please, tell me more about Mr. Frosty.

Maybe 28,000?

Honestly, I've never listened to any Lady Gaga music before, and still not sure I ever want to again, but I thought this was hilarious, and just about like some crazy antics my fellow 82nd Airborne troopers (yes, from 40 years ago) would think up to entertain themselves. Guys, I love what you do for us, but just never thought you'd take on the world like this (and hey, I think some of you won't like this, but please remember; these men are in Afghanistan, and need to have a little fun at times): U.S. Army Airborne Troopers sending up Lady Gaga.

Having been to both, I'll vouch for Metzlers as the better of the two.

Rivals has an article about offensive "diversification". You'll have to read the article to see how they figured out the whole thing, but North Texas got a first-page mention as among 8 schools to have 6 runners (same player can count more than once) with over 1000 yards/yr. Now, if we could just get one of those 3000 yards/yr passers, and some of those 1000 yards/yr receivers. If anyone wants to give a shout out to their fav running back of the last decade, now would be a good time! Here's the link: Offensive "diversity" measures.

Interesting read......just vote in a welfare state. I was basing my reply on your original post (in bold above), because I can't afford the time go out and read the Internet articles you link to. Consider this possibility, absent any analysis that's been posted; you have your opinions and I have mine.

All the Puerto Ricans I've known (mostly in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, but now I work next to a Lieutenant from Fire Rescue-he also served in the 82nd) have been hard working people. By the way, Puerto Ricans are already American Citizens. You have some reason for starting this thread, other than attempting to perpetuate some really tired cliches?

On the specific topic, Thompson himself has mentioned the benefit it gave him of "getting noticed". Many parents of athletes will tell you the difficulty in getting that to happen (typical athletes' parents complaint?).

Most people want St. Augustine; it's almost like having an extra carpeted area for the kids and dogs, although it does require more water than the bermuda. It sounds like the main problem IS political though: how to deal with nutcase neighbors. It kinda makes me wonder why some people work so hard to get St. Augustine growing (it requires rain to actually make it thrive; between planting and the first rain, all you're doing with sprinkling is keeping it from dying), and others think there's no stopping it from taking over the world.

Hey, I'm sending a +1 right back at you, because I also fell into that mentality, until you pointed out the Belt's overall draft success. And really, the site SUMG so kindly pointed out was about undrafted free agents. That would take more work breaking down by conference, but, as of my last reading, none of our guys were listed there...yet. I'm still hopeful for guys like Eddrick and Tobe, because I think they could make a list that really counts; an NFL active roster.