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2 hours 13 min ago	I hpe you are right	No doubt we'll do right by the people in this disaster, but I fear we won't do enough to limit the impacts of the next one
9 hours 49 min ago	Would be nice to see your rationale for downvoting	Are you suggesting there is no point to a serious dialogue about whether we can do more to reduce the devastation of future disasters?
9 hours 57 min ago	Who would downvote this?	Disagrree - sure. Downvote, that is the sign of an insecure, smallminded person
10 hours 43 sec ago	How small-minded are you?	To downvite something suggesting we should all do more?
10 hours 8 min ago	Its good to see how open minded some can be.	Heaven forbid one suggests we do more than donate and pray and actually try to do things to minimize tge devastation of future disasters. If it doesn't fit in my worldview, it must be downvoted and labeled as flamebait.
10 hours 44 min ago	If by every way we can you mean	Donate money and maybe even have some kind of music benefit, you are probably right. If you mean have a serious dialogue about what we can do to limit the impact of future severe weather events, I highly doubt it.
11 hours 13 min ago	There is lots more we could discuss	But it would cross the no politics rule. There is lots more you can do than just pray and donate.
3 weeks 11 hours ago	Brian was wrong about RR and wrong about Hoke	I suspect he'll be wrong about this too
3 weeks 11 hours ago	Any chance you'll sell e-versions?	I'd much rather have an e-version than a hardcopy
3 weeks 11 hours ago	Not sure that is a representative sample	Is it surprising that people who go listen to Brian are ones that tend to agree with his opinion?
3 weeks 11 hours ago	So it would have been better	If the big ten didn't do what everyone wanted them to do? And that would have given you more hope they'd get it right the third time around?
3 weeks 11 hours ago	East coast alums - the $ part of the equation hat gets ignored	Everyone focuses on tv money, but I suspect that this will significantly increase giving by east coast alums. I can't wait to go to College Park to see Michigan play
3 weeks 12 hours ago	Or we could welcome Andrew to the Michigan family	And just leave his dad out of it all together
3 weeks 12 hours ago	His son on the other hand	Might be disappointed to find out that a bunch of Michigan fans are kinda dicks
3 weeks 12 hours ago	Great third post (s)	Way to show support for someone who's just signed up to put in four years to help make our team better
3 weeks 12 hours ago	You make me proud to be a Wolverine (s)	Is there any reason for your post? Why is it remotely relevant what you think of his daddy? If you really supported Andrew, you wouldn't feel compelled to curse about his dad in a post welcoming him to the University. The quote in your profile is quite ironic, because your senseless post looks like it was written by a street urchin, not by someone with any character. I hope that if Andrew decides to check out Mgoblog to see what people think about his decision, he realizes that many Wolverines are much more classy. Walkons like Andrew are an important part of thebteam and will be a part of our future success. Andrew could have a key role from day 1, when Beilein may take Derrick Walton aside and have Andrew run the second team so that Walton can stand back and see how Spike handles the first team. He may run the second team when Walton or Spike have the flu and can't practice and at some point in his career he could play a key role when a second string PG is injured and the first string point gaurd runs into foul trouble. I for one am very excited about this addition to the Wolverine family and am excited that he ad parent's who were supportive of his decision to come to the greatest University in the world.
4 weeks 4 days ago	Bloomberg donated $350 million to Hopkins	http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-01-26/news/bs-md-bloomberg-hopkins...
6 weeks 4 days ago	Agree wholeheartedly on the ebook option	Would love to get an e-book version rather than a hardcopy
11 weeks 1 day ago	It would require legislation	NM
11 weeks 2 days ago	It requires legislation	For a Federal Agency to collect money
11 weeks 2 days ago	How is asking a serious question	Whining
11 weeks 2 days ago	To whoever moderated this as flamebait	Why? Was! i not respectful enough in criticizing Brian? Am I not allowed to critisiize him at all? Something else?
11 weeks 2 days ago	Feel free to neg this one away	Posed in the wrong place
11 weeks 2 days ago	Off-topic?	It answers in the post right above it
11 weeks 2 days ago	Another really negworthy post?	Some of you are amazing with your moderation
11 weeks 2 days ago	How is this flamebait?	It responds respectfully to the post right above it
11 weeks 2 days ago	How is this off-topic?	Love the way people on this blog moderate
11 weeks 2 days ago	Think it would require legislation	My understanding is that in general, charging any sort of user fee requires legislation. Furthermore, using any money generated for a specific purpose rather than just having it returned to the general treasury would also require legislation. Which is not to say it's a bad idea, just a complicated one to implement, when one of the basic arguments is, should the deficit be reduced solely through cuts or through a mix of cuts and revenue increases.
11 weeks 2 days ago	I may be wrong	And I've been accused on this very blog of having no sense of humor, but isn't the comment, "hey look an airplane" mocking people who like flyovers? I guess it could be sarcasm, but I don't think the poster you are ridiculing is ridiculous for taking it at its word that the commenter who said both, "flyovers are stupid" and "hey look, an airplane." may in fact actually think that flyovers are stupid.
11 weeks 2 days ago	Thanks for the response	While the no fly-overs issue itself is sports related, it is clearly only a very small part of a much larger political issue. I personally think zone left made the right call. With regards to the small flyover part of the issue - how can that be a scare tactic? Is anyone scared that we aren't having flyovers? Flyovers are about PR, not training. By combining it with training, it is a very smart way to get low cost or free PR. In this case, the military has decided that the PR they'd prefer at the moment is that our armed forces are getting less training. Unless one is going to argue that given the rules of the sequester, they don't have to cut any training, this seems to me to be a smart move, not a scare tactic.

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