Drunkard

I'm looking forward to the debate as well. I hope Donald Trump takes the rest of the field to the woodshed for kissing the rings of the Koch brothers. I was disappointed that he didn't bring it up in the last debate, but they are still way more interesting with Trump out there. Without him, it's the same old song and dance. The economy is this mythical beast that has been magically constrained by evil regulation and if only businesses were able to do anything they wanted it would lead to economic progress for everyone because business is almost as wonderful as Jesus and the only reason they do crooked stuff is because they are forced to by evil regulation. Oh and we need to cut entitlements so we can lower taxes for businesses and the wealthy. It'll work this time.

I was pissed that we lost Lemieux. I had high expectations for him. If he ends up being half the player his Dad was he'll be a solid contributor in the bottom 6, especially in the playoffs.

Sign me up, although if what Liger says is the case and it's actually craft beer I'll have to pass. My top hat and tails are at the cleaners and my monocle is in the repair shop so I probably won't be spiffy enough to get be served the fancy stuff. Unless I revert back to my college days and sneak double cans of PBR into my socks under my jeans in which case count me in.

SFinNS, I appreciate your response. It makes sense that many of the regions leaders woud consider them an enemy in name only rather than an actual enemy. That keeps instabilty in the region as you said and keeping them as a stated enemy probably also allows weapons and equipment from the US to flow to them freely since we practically send more on defense than the rest of the world combined.

Vikings is an awesome show. I can't wait for the next season. I just wish it aired on HBO or Showtime so they'd show Lagertha (Ragnar's ex) naked.

Indianapolis W New England W @ Miami L NY Giants L @ Tennessee W Cincinnati W Jacksonville (London) W Miami W @NY Jets W @ New England L @Kansas City L Houston W @ Philadelphia L @ Washington W Dallas L NY Jets W 10-6. Wildcard berth hopefully.

It was a toss up between the flying spaghetti monster and Odin/Thor but I thought this jpeg was too funny to pass up. I'm glad somebody else got a kick out of it.

Something I would like to know is why is it that the muslim extremists appear to be so much more adept at fighting than the moderate or non-extremist muslims? ISIS/ISIL has something like 30,000 soldiers and if you add up all the armies of the surrounding muslim and/or arabic nations in the region you have something like 6 million troops that consider ISIS the enemy. How is it that they haven't been defeated or at least severely crippled as an army already?

The whole "they hate us for our freedom" schtick might actually hold some water if we didn't have military bases sprinkled out all throughout their region not just in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. I imagine next we'll have bases in Iran and Syria especially if a Republican like Jeb (for example) is elected in 2016. The middle east is a giant cluster and we need to get the hell out and get off our dependence on fossil fuels.

Yes we should blame comrade Obama for the problems we have today and not the idiot who sat there for 7 minutes waiting for his to piss to dry while reading to kids instead of getting to work after finding out the country was under attack. It's not like we live in the nuclear age where 7 minutes can make a difference or anything.

In that case, I'd like to submit Odin and Thor as official Gods of America. He carries a hammer while the Christian God was nailed to a cross. That's a checkmate if I ever saw one.

I hope we're not still depending so heavily on fossil fuels 10 years from now but given the people in charge we probably will be.

I guess that settles it then. Praise Jeebus!

Maybe I'm just getting fat, slow, and old (my BMI is actually in the normal weight range) but that actually sounds tough to me. A standard track in 400 meters so running 75% of a track 3 consecutive times with only a 3 minute rest in between seems tough, especially for guys who do much more skating than running. If I was lucky enough to finish the first one in time they'd have to scrape me off the track with a giant spatula so the other guys could start phase 2 without having to hurdle over me or run around me.

I'd prefer to split the kids (Ristolainen and Psysk) up and pair Gorges with Ristolainen and paid Psysk with Bogosian. Both make solid pairings that are fairly even in talent and ability at this time. Give both pairings about 22 minutes each a night and you can split the rest between the 3rd pairing and special teams.

Yes, a bit of a let down. I hated it at first but as I reflect on it now it wasn't all that bad. If he had a person strapped to a table with cellophane in his pacific NW cabin in the woods I would have probably even liked it even with the rest of the finale staying as is.

Ok, so how is what I said false then? We still consume way more oil than we produce, even if the trend is beginning to reverse. It hasn't happened yet and isn't expect to happen for 5-20 years.

The Patriots* are still cheating? Color me surprised. Word on the street is that these are Belichick's and Brady's last year in Massholeland so I guess they want to go out on top.

Falling Skies was a decent show but it was a turd of a finale. The final battle was about as anti-climatic as it gets. I agree with the point that most shows tend to screw up their finales though. The only ones I can think of that I actually liked were Six Feet Under and Breaking Bad. Even the Dexter finale was a bit of a let down.

Every time I try to click on that link the article pops up for a second and then some pop up that wants me to subscribe pops up and when I close it out the article disappears. Any chance you can copy/paste the article or provide a summary because I'm not shelling out money to read one article or giving them my email address so they can spam me to death. However, when I did a google search I came across this site which shows exactly what I stated. We consume way more oil than we produce. http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=us Now, the graph only goes up to 2013 but I fail to see how our consumption would drop or our production would increase so much in 2 years that it would make my statement untrue. I did specifically say oil though. Is there any chance you are factoring in natural gas or other fossil fuels? I know with the increase in fracking may be enough to tip the balance but most cars don't use natural gas so my point about oil still remains.

I imagine it's because of what Whiskey said in that most of the equipment used to grow, harvest, process, and transport everything needed to make ethanol on a large scale is still run by fossil fuels. It's going to take time for everything to be converted over and until it is, it will never be as clean as it truly could be. It's definitely a start though, plus it has all of the other benefits I stated. The rest of your statement doesn't really make any sense. We consume way more oil than we can ever produce so as long as we are going to use it, we have to be able to transport it. We basically have to import it because we can't produce our own fast enough and I'm not aware of us exporting it although it's not something I go out of my way to track so I could be wrong. Sure we can import the stuff from Canada or Mexico instead of Saudi Arabia but crude oil is a global commodity so the price will always be a function of global supply and global demand. Remaining depending on it while there are renewable alternatives isn't the best way to go.

Ethanol can be produced with up to 90% less lifecycle emissions depending upon how it is made. However, as long as it is produced in a way that leads to 25% less lifecycle emission then that essentially makes up for the finished fuel being about 25% less efficient than gasoline which would put them at basically equal from a carbon standpoint. Factor in the fact that fuel would now be coming from a renewable resource, the fact that we could finally get the hell out of the middle east and save all that bloat in the defense budget, and the fact that people would have the option of producing their own fuel rather than being forced to be at the mercy of multinational business welfare queens like Exxon, Shell, and Texaco then I'd say the scale is tipped highly in favor of ethanol. Plus an ethanol spill would never be anywhere near as damaging to the environment as all of the oil spills that happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_production_in_the_United_States I saw 27% here but that is only factoring in corn. Ethanol can also be made from wheat, sugar, or any plant that creates starches. With the amount of subsidies the government provides for agriculture though, I'd rather some of that corn go directly into my gas tank anyway. Maybe if they did that they could stop putting high fructose corn syrup into nearly every damn products on the shelves at the grocery store.

That 70% figure doesn't seem accurate from initial google searches I've made and from my understanding making ethanol produces a "waste product" of low starch, high fiber, highly nutritious animal feeds for cattle, chickens, and pigs. Seems like a perfect match to me. Also, the real beauty of ethanol is that anyone can make it for themselves. The model T was designed to run on gasoline, kerosene, or ethanol and it wasn't until Rockefeller riled up the evangelicals and got prohibition passed that oil really skyrocketed to the point that by the time prohibition got repealed gasoline had pretty much become the standard. In South America, they produce ethanol with sugar cane. Ethanol can be produced from basically any plant that contains starches that can be distilled into alcohol so ethanol can really be produced in any part of the county and the crop that is grown to produce it can be whatever plant happens to grow best/fastest in that particular region. Even if it was more expensive, the fact that it is renewable, less polluting, produced locally, and would allow us to pull our troops out of all of the countless bases in the Middle East which would save the government billions of dollars everyone year makes it a wise decision.

I think the majority of them are on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry. The vast majority of studies funded by oil, coal, and gas companies magically find no correlation while the vast majority of independent studies or ones that are funded by people other than energy companies say the exact opposite. Regardless, even if they weren't contributing to global warming (which they are) they are still harming the environment with all sorts of pollution. Developing alternative forms of power through renewable resources is the smart way to go even if global warming was the farce that Exxon would like you to believe. Hell, switching to ethanol would be hugely beneficial and could be phased in over time. Most cars already have the ability to run that way but there's very few gas stations that sell E85 fuel.