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I love the idea. But the standard operating procedure on this campus is to tear old buildings down and start over from scratch. Personally, I think tearing down a solid structure like Hyslop would be a big mistake. Putting basketball back in there would be awesome provided they modernized it first.

The world price for crude oil fluctuates from day to day and week to week based on world events. But that doesn't prove the existence of a "free market". The fact remains that a small number of big oil conglomerates control the world's oil supply. The biggest problem with oil prices is all that "future's market" speculation on prices. Do these big-shots have some special power to predict the future? No, they just "guess" what will happen in the future. And in the long run, it always favors Big Oil over everybody and everything else. Why do you think we put up with Saudi Arabia's horrible human rights record, but slap big sanctions on Iran when there is little or no difference between the two? The answer is spelled O-I-L. Even drilling more at home won't change that. And I don't feel sorry for them over all the "expenses" they are forced to absorb. If you can't make money selling a commodity that the whole world needs almost as much as food and water, then you have no one else to blame but yourself. The only "free market" I know of is in the retail grocery business. That is as cutthroat as it gets. That is why the Sunday paper is loaded with grocery store ads. But most of the rest of our economy is controlled by big corporations and big businesses who are big enough to shield themselves from market forces that small to medium-sized businesses have to contend with day after day. Big Oil falls into that category.

That means Cub fans are gluttons for punishment. When Wrigley Field is a bigger draw than winning, that tells you why they haven't won a title in over 100 years. If George Steinbrenner was still alive and owned the Cubs, he would spend what it takes to win. But if Cub fans don't care, why should we?

The Cubs aren't a small-market team, but they act like one.

Boy, I hope that place never changes. It's a nice change of pace from the robotic chain restaurants.

Didn't you hear? If you are a corporate CEO or the sole proprietor of a global-scale business, you are a "job creator" (what they don't tell you is that those jobs are in the Third World and not the United States) and thus are entitled to all the tax breaks, tax shelters and "goodies" you can extort from Washington Beltway politicians. C'mon man, that is what the country was founded on, don't you know? (extreme sarcasm alert! )

Oh get off it; the only "wealth redistribution" that has taken place over the past 30 years is UP, UP and UP some more. Big Oil is just another example of this. When you have a half-dozen big oil conglomerates controlling the world's oil supply, there is no "free market" for oil. I would argue there really isn't a "free market" for anything anymore, but I'll stick to the oil market. What happened to all that "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" garbage? Isn't working that way, is it? All these pricks need to do when their CEO wants another big, fat bonus check is to shut down a couple of refineries because some rubber hose sprung a leak and it will take 10-14 days to fix. Then gas prices go up immediately an average of 5 to 10 cents/gallon. Gee, I wonder how that happened? Honestly, if I hear one more bow-tied, smarmy, polyester-suit wearing classical economist blather on and on about "supply and demand" and "this is how the free market works" as it pertains to oil, I might throw up. The game is rigged by the global oil oligarchy, which was never anticipated by the authors of Econ 101 textbooks. End rant.

No, back when it didn't matter how ugly the uniforms are. We didn't sell them in stores and we didn't have color (and then HD) television to placate. I agree with you though, they are butt ugly!

I am liking rookie LB Anthony Barr more every week. Now he wins a game for the Purple!

That was from an era before television (or at least before color television).

I thought stuff like this left town when Shantel Rivard did?

I have some other words I could use, but this is a family discussion forum.

Two steps forward (Montana and Portland State games) One step back (Southern Utah game) This is how it works when you are rebuilding a program that was basically starting over from scratch. I am still looking forward to the final two home games. In Bubba We Trust.

O'Donnell is invisible most of the time, unless he is going to the box or misses the net. What has he done to earn all this ice time? Thank God he is a senior.

Gas Lamp District is fabulous. You can eat outdoors at pretty much every establishment there. They have heaters to keep you warm on those chilly San Diego evenings.

I am pretty sure I was on the U.S. side of the border.

My parents used to take me there for special occasions. Just another casualty to the robotic national chains.

I went to an authentic Mexican place in San Diego's Old Town area. The food was light years ahead of anything in this area.

To each their own.

"Garbage" Logic is a poor man's Rush Limbaugh for the Twin Cities area. Joe Soucheray would be mistaken for Richard Belding at a Saved By The Bell convention. I "tried" listening to their incoherent nonsense once and I lost a few brain cells in the process.

I knew that was coming. The difference between Daddy's Little Boy in the Iron Range and Dayton is that Dayton doesn't run around acting like he hit a triple when he in fact was born on third base. Junior Mills runs around acting like a self-made man, when in fact he got his cushy VP job at Mills Fleet Farm because "daddy" gave it to him. Dayton knows that not everyone is as fortunate as him; Mills III doesn't even understand the concept.

I know that. What I meant is that he acts like what the Senate thinks about any issue doesn't matter. He likes to think he is all that matters in Bismarck and that arrogance is what needs to go.

I just had supper; please don't bring the spoiled-rotten little rich kid into this topic. I think they would have had problems competing with Home of Economy; it's like if Hornbacher's tried to get into Grand Forks when Hugo's is so entrenched.

The sooner we get rid of his pompous, arrogant a$$, the better. Everything he does revolves around him being the de-facto "Prime Minister" of North Dakota. He doesn't care about what the governor thinks or the N.D. Senate as a whole. After what he tried to pull with the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo, the answer to this question is obvious. GET...RID...OF...HIM! End Rant. Go Sioux.

Or what?