Mike K

BGS is the business school honor society. Neither are a fraternity or sorority.

The US and its oil companies continues to purchase oil at market rates and have not appropriated one drop of oil as part of our operations there. Why do people continue to believe the false idea that we are taking oil from Iraq?

Is it just to buy outfits, characters, and guitars? Do those things help you play, help your "rock meter," or do anything to affect the game at all? Can you use the money to download new songs?

I presently have DirecTV and I get NFL Sunday Ticket (it's the only reason I have DirecTV). I am considering getting Verizon FiOS TV and internet, but I want to make sure I can get Sunday Ticket in that package. I saw online that one of the TV packages Verizon offers is a DirecTV package. Does anyone know if the Ticket is among the options?

I have two Sammy Sosa Chicago Cubs jerseys that, obviously, cannot be worn anymore. What can be done with them?

Hincapie is rocking a fantastic looking Giro helmet that matches his US National Champion jersey. I would love to get one, but can't find it online anywhere. Has anyone else?

The two icons are on my desktop and if I try to delete them it screws up the application.

On a PC, F-9 will recalculate Excel formulas. What does the same for a Mac?

Criminals are, by definition, violators of the law. What sense does it make to think that a criminal would follow the law and not obtain a weapon and use it for criminal purposes? I usually hate cliches, but this one works: "If you outlaw guns, then only the outlaws will have guns."

Why do people expect that in just 5 or 6 years we can:

1. Help a country set up a real democracy in an area that has never seen one or had hope for one until their dictator was toppled when it took decades for us to do it ourselves at home.

2. Prepare Iraqi security forces to be a viable organization capable of battling ununiformed terrorists (pretty much the hardest thing for a military to do) with a professional cadre of officers and NCOs who do not focus on tribal and religious loyalty but focus on the law instead, starting from scratch, when it takes us 2-4 years to turn a new military member into an officer (ROTC, service academies, etc) and a similar amount of time to turn a soldier into a sergeant (mind you they need years beyond that to gain real experience). Keep in mind that our soldiers don't have the guy down the street threatening to kill their kids if they do their jobs like Iraqi soldiers do.