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That's a "no" from me.

Do they accept Medicare?

Agreed. If you are trying to portray bird's wings on a helmet the classic Philadelphia Eagle's helmet design can't be beat. The Atlanta Falcons helmet is a distant second.

Looks like we’re going to have some form of college football this season, so let’s start the discussion on the Irish here. Just to show you how excited I am (not) for the 2020 team, my starting observation is about the future, not the present. But, the possibility exists that we’ve finally found The Chosen One. https://247sports.com/Article/Notre-Dame-football-2020-national-championship-147165237/ Barton Simmons outlines Notre Dame's path to national title ByAUSTIN NIVISON 15 hours ago 3 Since 2017, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have been knocking on the door of a national title. So, what can help them take that final step and help them hoist the College Football Playoff National Championship. On the latest episode of the Cover 3 Podcast, 247Sports’ Barton Simmons discussed the path that the Irish should take as they try to build a national championship team. There has been some recent frustration from Notre Dame fans about how Brian Kelly and his staff have done on the recruiting trail. The 2020 signing class finished No. 17 in the country, according to the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings, but Simmons isn’t sure that prohibits the Irish from winning it all. As Simmons points out, Clemson wasn’t recruiting at a top-five level before it began its run of dominance. Notre Dame might be able to follow that same blueprint to take the final step toward being a truly elite program that is in the same category as Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State. The key is Notre Dame being able to recruit and develop a game-changing quarterback. “Ultimately, as a recruiting program, the best model that they could track — that they could look at and say that could be us — is Clemson,” Simmons said. “Pretty good model. Even the Clemson model recruited in a range that Notre Dame recruits at now. When they started jumping into the top five was after the run of quarterbacks. It was after basically Deshaun Watson. Notre Dame fans, I think rightly, are very dialed into recruiting. Why can’t we get the talent Alabama and Ohio State are getting? Until we do that, we are never going to win national championships. That’s true, to a degree. “The bigger thing, for me, is when you get that quarterback that is transcendent, that can elevate the roster you’ve already established into a national championship program. That can elevate the recruiting to follow into top five recruiting, which Brian Kelly has vocalized and said he’s looking for.”Although Simmons doesn’t think that quarterback is already on the Irish’s roster, he may be on his way to South Bend next year. Five-star signal caller Tyler Buchner could be the player Notre Dame has been searching for. “Ian Book is not that guy,” Simmons said. “That’s no shot at Ian Book. He’s a good quarterback, but he’s not the transcendent guy. They’ve got a 2021 quarterback committed named Tyler Buchner. That kid, I think, is the best shot at a transcendent type of quarterback that they’ve had committed … I think this kid has the best shot to be that type of transcendent quarterback. So, that’s the thing to keep an eye on with Notre Dame if you want to take that next step, which obviously they’re ready for.” Notre Dame’s 2021 recruiting class currently ranks No. 9 in the country, per the 247Sports Team Rankings

I agree; losing the combination of Claypool and Kmet is a big hit to offensive production. I posted during the season, being at games, you realize how good Claypool made Book look at times. I think Claypool is going to be great in the league.

Yep; that was bad...like I said in the post I made; the two major parties under the current process have left us two super duper buffoons. lol

I got a laugh out of both explanations. Hilarious stuff.

If you keep saying it, we'll eventually believe you, right? I really hope GS gets to play 15 games this year.

Cootie Cops 😂 lol

The second round is live in this thread: Clarksville sent me theirs and they definitely have the winged helmets. New York's championship matchup included red wings on a grey helmet that faded to white on the back. Pretty slick look.

I wouldn't count the Patriots or Raiders or Pioneers out. IB means "I believe"....we have been through this LOL.

How long will you be away from them? I'm moving to Montana soon. Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

This pandemic has many sides and no easy answer. I’m going to Arizona next month, can’t wait...

I don't think @TrojanDad got the memo @Irishman

West Virginia

As you know it's hard to find a team over the past 8 years that has been able to maintain as high a level of consistency year over year as this program has (and yes that can mean we consistently lose to a team that ends up in Lucas LOL). Lot's of kids play and lots of kids waiting for their opportunity and lots of kids got playing time last season. This schedule obviously isn't designed to be the first sentence in a post season news paper article. It will be brutal out of the gate. I honestly don't know enough about what each opponent will bring to the table to make "predictions" I am willing to stand behind. My guess is something between 4-0 and 1-3 LOL....and all of those scenarios are just fine as long as we compete and improve. I think our Junior and Senior classes blend nicely, and will be battle tested for the last half of the season and into the playoffs. It also looks like the lower levels schedules will follow suit. Here are the holes that will be filled: Offense LT- LG- C- RG- #79 Braden Tucker RT- #64 Alex Breivogel R- #22 Logan Murfin L- Slot- Slot- RB- QB- #18 Brady Allen Defense NT- DT- #52 Tannor Moskos DT- #43 Logan Fauquher Sam- Bandit- Mike- Will- #10 Carter Green CB- CB- S- S- #15 Noah Bryant

Just one more reason not to own a cat. Cats with no symptoms spread coronavirus to other cats in lab test https://www.wthr.com/article/cats-no-symptoms-spread-coronavirus-other-cats-lab-test

Did you end up receiving the dreaded letter that said "Greetings from your President" that called you up? My number was pretty high, I think in the 200's. But by that time it was March of '75. 6 of my older cousins were not so lucky to not get called. Luckily, they all came home, although the meanest badass of them all was injured both physically and mentally. RIP David.

One of the things you're best at is fabricating opinions of others. You don't have a clue what I'm a fan of.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hendricks-county/2020/05/14/brownsburg-schools-discipline-students-who-posed-racial-slur/5189408002/ Then I'm sorry. What these young students did was despicable, no doubt. But because it did not happen on government school property the government school in question, Brownsburg, should not have the authority to discipline them like this. They are acting as the de-facto thought police for the entire Brownsburg community. If I was a parent of one of these students I would severely punish them then sue the government school district for clearly stepping outside of it's bounds.

The School Closures Are a Big Threat to the Power of Public Schools https://mises.org/wire/school-closures-are-big-threat-power-public-schools Many parents may not like what they see, and as many increasingly take on the job of providing in-person instruction, school teachers won't look quite like like the highly trained heroes they have long claimed to be. Budget Cuts With the image of schools as indispensable social institutions quickly fading, the political advantage they have long enjoyed will rapidly disappear as well. It wasn't long ago that schools could go back to the taxpayers again and again with with demands for more money, more resources, and higher salaries. Teacher unions endlessly lectured the taxpayers about how getting your child into a classroom with one of their teachers was of the utmost importance. Voters, regardless of political ideology or party, were often amendable to the idea. That narrative is already greatly in danger, and the longer the COVID-19 panic ensures that schools remain closed, the more distant the memory of the old narrative will become. As school budgets contract, school districts from Las Vegas to Denver and across the nation are bracing for furloughs and layoffs. With smaller staff, fewer teachers, and smaller budgets, expect virtual public learning to become even more bare bones, and less rewarding and engaging for students. What Will Things Look like This Fall? Even if schools open this fall, the reforms currently being pushed will ensure that schools continue to lack many of the amenities many have come to expect. If these reforms are adopted, students can forget about social events. They can expect shorter school days, and an ongoing role for online schooling. Team sports will be gone. Old notions of universal mandatory attendance and long days will seem increasingly quaint and old fashioned—or possibly even dangerous. For many parents, this will just reinforce their growing suspicions that public schools just aren't worth it anymore. Maybe they never were.

Fear isn't paralyzing us. Its called being smart and looking out for each other. Unless you are Texas, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia where you are thinking more politics then people.

You are welcome. Is there a current presidential candidate who currently has your vote? If so then may I ask who that person is?

The Democrats have no plan except the coronavirus. Their plan for the past three years has been the Russia hoax, Mueller Dossier and Impeachment hoax. Plan B is to use the pandemic to destroy the economy and utilize their propaganda machine in an attempt to convince voters Trump is to blame. I would not be surprised to see Hillary as the democrat candidate again. It doesn't really matter, Trump will win by a larger margin than he won in 2016.

Coronavirus Has Infected 2.8 Percent of Hoosiers, Says New Study https://reason.com/2020/05/14/coronavirus-has-infected-2-8-percent-of-hoosiers-says-new-study/#comments We are all going to die?

I know a few therapists you can call for that condition Gonzo.

Restaurants, salons institute coronavirus surcharges, causing social media backlash https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/missouri-restaurants-coronavirus-surcharge-causes-social-media-backlash At least one recently re-opened restaurant in Frankfort has done this. They have a handwritten sign at the entrance stating they have increased the price of almost every item on their menu by 75 cents due to increased prices and overhead they have had to incur to be open during this public health scare. I have no issue with this. If you don't want to pay the surcharge go somewhere else. Nobody is forcing you to eat at this restaurant, are they?

MUDA - WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS CAN WE? THERE'S A FREAKIN' PANDEMIC - AND PEOPLE ARE GOING OUT TO EAT AGAIN!!!! Seriously, if it didn't happen within the confines of the school property or during a scholastic sponsored event, the school has nothing to do with this. Also - what discipline will the school be dishing out?

Sudden liberal opposition to Electoral College not about democracy, but about power https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/306350-sudden-liberal-opposition-to-electoral-college-not Or, as Alexander Hamilton explained: “Talents for low intrigue, and the little acts of popularity may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single state.” But a nationwide election would prevent the worst from rising high. Morris predicted that the people “will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character or services,” or of “continental reputation.” Only if the electors could not agree on a single candidate would the election go to the House, where states would vote by delegation (again enhancing the voice of the states). If Democrats oppose the Electoral College, it only is in keeping with their broad hostility to the Constitution’s founding of a republican government, not a democratic one. They are also only arguing to benefit themselves now, not to defend principle. For if they were serious, they should argue that the United States adopt a parliamentary democracy — indeed, the very goal of Woodrow Wilson, the intellectual father of progressivism. In most of our democratic allies, such as Great Britain, Germany, and Japan, the majority party in the legislature selects a prime minister, who becomes head of the executive branch as well. But even under that system, Hillary Clinton would still have lost, as Republicans have built a huge majority in the House of Representatives over the last three elections. Nothing better shows how liberal attacks on the Electoral College amount to nothing more than sour grapes and constitutional cherry-picking.

I didn't know you wore glasses.

Of course we can Bob. The only real difference between the Democrat and Republican sides of the uni-party coin is whose money they want to steal in order to fund their big government schemes. But lately that difference has been minimal, it's "just borrow $ until we can't borrow anymore." Nice way to run a country.

You must be a fan of allowing the residents of the New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago metropolitan areas deciding all future presidential elections. I'm not.

Obama administration Director of National Intelligence and current CNN National Security Analyst James Clapper disappears when asked about Obamagate.

COVID-19 Contact Tracers or Cootie Cops? https://reason.com/2020/05/15/covid-19-contact-tracers-or-cootie-cops/

I think the "explanation" from Ms. Sykes is pretty racist....And addresses none of the facts in the story above ....She needs to stick to her comedy - She will have a larger, more diverse audience that way...... https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/what-obamagate U.S. President Donald Trump's long-standing accusation of criminality against his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, has taken on a new name: Obamagate. In this new iteration being hotly promoted by Trump and his right-wing allies, Obama officials in the waning days of his administration conspired to entrap Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, as part of a larger plot to bring down the incoming president. The conspiracy theory took on new life after the Justice Department, in a dramatic about-face last week, moved to drop its criminal case against Flynn, saying the FBI was not justified in investigating him over his 2016 conversations with Russia's former ambassador to Washington. FILE - Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, following a status hearing, July 10, 2018. As part of its reassessment of the Flynn case, the Justice Department released a deluge of records that shed light on previously unknown Obama administration deliberations over Flynn. That led Trump to claim that Flynn had been illegally targeted and that the decision to investigate him went all the way up to the previous president. "The biggest political crime in American history, by far!" Trump said in one of a blizzard of tweets and retweets referencing Obamagate on Sunday. In short order, the hashtag "Obamagate" went viral, giving an old conspiracy theory a new twist. Asked on Monday to describe Obama's alleged crime, Trump would only offer that "some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country." He predicted further disclosures in the coming weeks. Obama is a favorite and frequent target of Trump's attacks. Trump turned up the heat on his predecessor after Obama, in leaked comments to former officials in his administration, blasted the Justice Department's decision to let Flynn off the hook, saying the "rule of law is at risk." By advancing new allegations against the former president, Trump is also apparently seeking to implicate his likely opponent this fall, Obama's vice president, Joe Biden. Here is a primer on the controversy. Obamagate origins At its core, Obamagate is an old allegation given a new name. As early as March 2017, Trump alleged that Obama had illegally wiretapped the billionaire businessman at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election campaign, comparing the alleged surveillance to the Nixon-era Watergate scandal. The following year, Trump claimed that the FBI had planted an informant inside his campaign, dubbing the alleged conspiracy "Spygate." FILE - Russia's ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, speaks with reporters in Washington, Jan. 13, 2017. The main allegation in Obamagate is that the former president directed the Flynn investigation, even though the FBI had no legitimate reason to probe the retired three-star general. Flynn, a one-time Democrat, served as the Obama administration's top military intelligence official before being forced out of the job and later aligning with Trump. Flynn was investigated twice in 2016 and 2017, first as part of the FBI's probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, and later over a series of conversations he had with Russia's then-ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, in which he counseled the Russians to refrain from retaliation against Obama administration sanctions — hinting that Trump would soften them once in office. Oval Office meeting Central to the Obamagate conspiracy theory is an Oval Office meeting between Obama and his national security team on Jan. 5, 2017, just 15 days before Trump took office. The meeting came the day after the FBI moved to formally close its investigation into Flynn's suspected ties to Russia before deciding to keep it open after learning about his intercepted calls to Kislyak. Top intelligence officials briefed Obama on their findings on Russian election meddling. At the end of the meeting, the president asked FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to stay behind. Joining them were Vice President Joe Biden and National Security Adviser Susan Rice. FILE - Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, June 28, 2016. As Yates recounted during a 2017 interview with special counsel Robert Mueller's team, Obama began by saying "he had learned of the information about Flynn" and his conversations with Kislyak regarding the sanctions on Russia. This was news to Yates, who as the Justice Department's No. 2 official oversaw the FBI but had not been told about it. As Comey later told the House Intelligence Committee, he alerted CIA Director John Brennan as soon as he learned about the Flynn calls. Brennan in turn briefed Obama. Yates and Rice later recounted what Obama said at the meeting. According to Yates, while Obama said he did not want details of the investigation, he asked "whether the White House should be treating Flynn differently" during the remaining days of the administration. FILE - FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 27, 2016. Yates did not recall Comey's response to the question. In an email to herself on Obama's last day in office, Rice memorialized that Obama reiterated at the meeting that "our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book." Yates and other former officials have defended the Flynn investigation. Yet, the fact that the White House meeting came the day after the FBI was preparing to close the Flynn investigation, and Obama was aware of Flynn's wiretapped calls to Kislyak, has led Trump, right-wing commentators and Flynn's lawyers to claim that the subsequent Flynn investigation over his calls to Kislyak constituted an anti-Trump conspiracy that reached the highest levels of the Obama administration. "So, the whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, (former national intelligence director James) Clapper, Brennan and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama," Sydney Powell, Flynn's attorney, told Fox News on Sunday. Recently declassified FBI records of the Flynn case that were turned over to Flynn's lawyers provided further fodder for conspiracy theory promoters. In one widely cited handwritten note, a top FBI official mused whether the goal of interviewing Flynn over his calls to the Russian ambassador was to "get him fired" or get him to lie. Unmasking of Flynn The Obamagate conspiracy theory feeds off another allegation: the politically motivated unmasking of Flynn's identity during the Trump transition period. U.S. intelligence analysts routinely "mask" the identity of U.S. persons whose communications are incidentally collected during intelligence-gathering on foreign officials. Flynn's conversations with Kislyak were apparently overheard during a routine interception of Kislyak's calls. Authorized national security officials seeking to understand the underlying intelligence can ask the National Security Agency to "unmask" an individual's identity. This is a common practice. But Trump and his allies have long accused former Obama administration officials of illegally unmasking Flynn's identity for political purposes. This week, Richard Grennell, a close Trump ally who serves as acting director of national intelligence, disclosed the names of more than a dozen Obama officials who requested the unmasking of Flynn's identity during the final weeks of the administration. The list includes a string of Obama administration officials Trump has long viewed as his enemies — Brennan, James Clapper, director of national intelligence, and Comey. Prospects for an investigation Since starting Obamagate, Trump has been pressing congressional Republicans to investigate Obama. That prospect is highly unlikely. "If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama," Trump tweeted on Thursday. "He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!" Trump tweeted on Thursday. FILE - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Feb. 25, 2020. But Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, a Trump confidant, says he is not interested in dragging Obama before Congress. "I don't think now's the time for me to do that," Graham told Politico. "I don't know if that's even possible." But Graham vowed to call in Trump administration officials as his committee investigates the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. For their part, Biden and other Democrats dismiss Obamagate as a blatant attempt by Trump to divert attention from growing criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis. A much better explanation than "because he's a black man, and still is" ........

Don't get your extra-large sized panties in a wad, Shirley. It's no fabrication, Shirley. Your previous criticism of the electoral college system tells us all we need to know. But then again you are a GID liar, so it's a real possibility you are lying about your criticism as well.

Thank you. I personally no longer understand how an individual can still vote for a member of the uni-party, but it is your vote.