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My black friday went well, and it was generally civil interactions with other shoppers. I got some fantastic bargains on clothing, which helps with the college student shoestring budget. There was one guy who was shouting in the line at best buy, but nothing else beside that.

Suh is dumb for doing that, and I disliked his post-game reaction even more, but I doubt he gets more than a 1 game suspension for this. This is the NFL, remember the Courtland Finnegan Andre Johnson fight, punches to the face got them itty bitty fines.

Tebow is really turrible at passing. He is a legit runner and a leader, but as a thrower he is one of the worst NFL quarterbacks I've ever seen. I doubt he will amount to anything special in this league, but you never know. Cowboys didn't look that great at all today but they pulled out a win. I hope I get to see the Thursday game!

From the Washington post "Girling said Friday that the 13,000 figure was “one person, one year,” meaning that if the construction jobs lasted two years, the number of people employed in each of the two years would be 6,500. That brings the company’s number closer to the State Department’s; State says the project would create 5,000 to 6,000 construction jobs, a figure that was calculated by its contractor Cardno Entrix. As for the 7,000 indirect supply chain jobs, the $1.9 billion already spent by TransCanada would reduce the number of jobs that would be created in the future. A TransCanada statement Sept. 30 said the project would be “stimulating over 14,400 person years of employment” in Oklahoma alone. It cited a study by Ray Perryman, a Texas-based consultant to TransCanada, saying the pipeline would create “250,000 permanent jobs for U.S. workers.” But Perryman was including a vast number of jobs far removed from the industry. Using that technique in a report on the impact of wind farms, Perryman counted jobs for dancers, choreographers and speech therapists." and more from fact checking from Think Progress I seriously and strongly question the merits of this project as a "job creator" that it is being touted as.

Away to Never Never Land!

I didn't think the Rays were really that hot coming into the playoffs, rather the Red Sox were so bad and collapsed so epically that there was a misguided perception that the Rays were on fire, when they merely played well down the stretch that was actually on par with the Rangers. Go Rangers!

Deja Vu? Nelson Cruz smacked a 3 run homer to end the game tonight. This guy is goood. Also feel like he has chronically underachieved throughout his career; he should be a superstar of the game.

I am enjoying the Rangers this year That being said, I am pretty upset that MLB arbitrarily canceled the game on Sunday without even trying to play it. I was in Dallas for the weekend and made plans to see them play on Sunday, which obviously did not get to happen. So no Rangers game for me thanks a lot MLB...

Detroit has legit pieces in Mathew Stafford, Calvin Johnson, Brandon Pettigrew, and N. Suh (lol no idea how to spell his name...). There are still a lot of positions that could really be upgraded, but the elite talent is there for the Lions to be really good, for a long time. There is a lot to like about Dallas, but there are too many issues with the offensive line to truly consider them a contender. Phil Costa, Nagy, and Kosier are all below average offensive lineman which makes them one dimensional on offense which is exacerbated by the utter mediocrity of their stable of running backs. Tony Romo and the passing game have some serious talents but Romo makes too many bad decisions throwing the ball to rely on him to carry the team to a super bowl.

Yeah I didn't agree with cutting Gurode. I dont feel like the interior of our line is very good at all. Bill Nagy has some of the lowest offensive line grades at LG in the league, and we clearly saw what Costa did last night.

Dang Cowboys are getting decimated by injuries! Our center, left guard, backup left guard, starting wide receivers, starting tight end, back up tight end, top three cornerbacks, starting running back, and our quarterback all are dealing with moderate injuries that could keep them out of the game on Monday. Crazy!

Food for thought. Reflections of an ex-GOP Operative I think this article encapsulates my views on the current state of politics better than any article I've seen.

I think its reasonable to take a short vacation, no matter what your profession. We are all human and too much work and too little sleep will burn out the best of us. That includes presidents, house leaders, prime ministers, CEOs, professional athletes, and architects.

I was driving back to Lubbock so I missed the game but I heard the entire team looked rather bad. Ominous sign for the season. Drew Pearson only makes the Hall through the senior committee and I have no idea what their opinions of him are.

0.o $120 million dollar contract for Larry Fitzgerald...dang that's a lot of money!

I think on a macro level, what HP is doing here is why the Western world's economies are so shaky right now. Growth and profits supersedes sustainability and stability for investors. Time to go learn Mandarin...

But why is it even necessary to maintain such a large standing army? Let us consider the military expenditures officially on the books in 2010 for the U.S: $ 698,105,000,000. Let me repeat that. $ 698,105,000,000. First of all that is a tremendous sum of money when you consider the discouraging fiscal situation that the U.S. is in. Now the second largest output of military expenditures falls to China at $ 114,000,000,000. The U.S. spends almost 7 times more than the next country in the world on its military. There is no way around it, that is too much money. I got my numbers from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The US did not spend $663.7 billion "for weapons." That is the Defense Department budget for maintaining the entire military, which includes, among other things, paying military service personnel and providing them their service benefits. Regardless of whether or not the money was directly spent on weapons, it is an undeniable fact that it represents a huge amount of the government's money devoted to war and killing. It is unnecessary. Imagine what condition the United States would be in if the proportions of the federal budget for education and research were inverted with military spending. I see a better world.

Charles Haley, Drew Pearson, and Larry Allen are all being inducted into the Cowboys Ring of Honor. Cowboys new ROH inductees Pearson and Allen both are immensely deserving of this honor, but Im not a fan of Haley being inducted. He was a huge huge part of the Cowboys dynasty in the 90s, but he was only with the team for 4 years. His legacy is as much a 49er as it as a Dallas Cowboy. Regardless of what I think, congratulations to all three of these men!

Want to know what IBM is doing now? IBM computer chip mimics the human brain Scary but exciting!

I was disappointed when the Affordable Care Act with all of its huge steps towards fixing the American health care system created such a meek public insurance entity. I believe a large problem with the historically high health costs relative to other industrialized nations is the fact that we have this gargantuan middle man sticking its finger in the pie of health costs; health insurance companies. Think about the tremendous amount of money and profits that companies like Aetna produce. Here's a list of health insurance CEO compensation packages in 2007. What are these guys doing that a state-funded insurance can't do at a fraction of the cost? Aetna Ronald A. Williams: $23,045,834 Cigna H. Edward Hanway: $25,839,777 Coventry Dale B. Wolf : $14,869,823 Health Net Jay M. Gellert: $3,686,230 Humana Michael McCallister: $10,312,557 U.Health Grp Stephen J. Hemsley: $13,164,529 WellPoint Angela Braly (2007): $9,094,271 L. Glasscock (2006): $23,886,169 courtesy of healthreformwatch

I had this exact experience last fall. I suffered a partial tear of my rotator cuff in high school. After taking a nasty spill playing basketball this last fall I heard something pop in my shoulder and after a half week of being unable to move my shoulder, I went for an MRI. My doctor's visit, though the university, cost $20, My insurance copay required me to pay $2,000 out of pocket for the MRI facility to do a 15 minute MRI scan, and another $300 for a specialist to interpret the results. I never met face to face with the specialist; I had to call over the phone to find out my diagnosis. The only good thing to come out of it was that I tore residual scar tissue and not my rotator cuff this time, which actually fixed my shoulder problems. But this college student was $2,300 dollars poorer as a result of finding that out.

This is rather an unrelated tangent, and I know its shallow of me to say, but I really really hate the thought of aging. I love playing racquetball, basketball, flag football, and working out at the gym with my friends. I love how my body feels right now at age 21. I feel great. Then I look at my family and I am almost horrified by what I see. My grandmother before she passed was a bed ridden old lady suffering from severe osteoporosis and stood half a foot shorter than she was in her prime. My dad is heading down the same path, where he can hardly do anything physical anymore without his body breaking down. My entire family has the same history; very athletic at a young age, followed by an extreme disintegration of their bodies in their 60s and 70s. ....fears of a young guy that's not ready to have his body fall apart

More Onion news. Sometimes I have a very hard time recognizing that their news is fake... New GOP Strategy Involves Reelecting Obama, Making His Life Even More Miserable

Hey what do the chargers look like this year? I haven't really heard anything about them in the media. I know they're still rocking with Phillip Rivers and his superb receiving corp, but what is the state of the rest of the team?