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You must be assuming people watch these.

Too funny not to share.

Just cannot give over the fact that you were wrong here, huh? lol....funny you always retreat to stating what you think a moderator should be doing. My comment was not connected to the IMPD story in any way shape or form. Muda was posting about the abuses of power by the police; I posted a similar story from North Carolina. The comment I added was based on what someone had added from NC; nothing more, nothing less. You are the ONLY one to come to the conclusion you did.

No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. 😀

Great explanation fox....did you live in Virginia too? 😄

That's where the presidential Twinkie stores have been held since FDR started hoarding them in the run-up to WWII ... maybe THAT explains why President Trump was down there. 😀

In that same site, they lay out exactly what they are referring to in terms of looking at the historical context ... and it is not the idea that the brakes should be put on until that answer is completely and definitively discovered. Rather than focusing on the stopping point, it might be good to figure where to start ... and some of those are extremely easy. As a matter of fact, if the approach was, "It is acknowledged that there are MANY of these monuments that exist for other-than-historical reasons" as opposed to "You want to erase history," it would provide a starting point. From that same site, where you quoted their stance, note that they actually give a good accounting of the general classification of the statues/monuments and the reasoning behind many of them. Per their own statement, they don't seek to address each and every one, but the first place to start is to recognize the history behind the plethora of these and to be very honest in recognizing that." From their site, https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/research/confederate-monuments/historical-introduction-confederate-monuments-and-symbolism ... emphasis is mine: When discussing Confederate monuments, it is useful to group them into three general categories. The first category is Phase One monuments, or early funereal monuments erected from the 1860s through the 1880s. Often placed in cemeteries and taking the form of obelisks, arches, or fountains, these monuments were typically intended to commemorate Confederate dead. Usually erected by ladies’ memorial associations, these monuments served as centerpieces for activities, such as Confederate Memorial Day. The profound impact that the Civil War had on the white Southern population must be considered when examining these monuments. At least 20% of all white men of military age in the Confederacy died during the war. Because almost every white family in the South experienced loss, there was a great desire to create mourning spaces. The majority of remaining Confederate monuments are of a different character and purpose. These Phase Two monuments, erected from the 1890s through the 1930s, coincide with the expansion and consolidation of the white supremacist policies of the Jim Crow era. These monuments often feature celebratory images meant to justify the Confederate cause as a moral victory. Put simply: an equestrian statue of a Confederate general in front of a courthouse or capitol building is not about mourning or loss. It is about power and who was in charge. The strategic placement of monuments at public sites was meant as an official and permanent affirmation of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Lost Cause mythology promoted the idea that the Confederacy achieved a moral victory in the Civil War. The myth denied the role of slavery as the primary cause of the war and ignored freedom as an achievement of U.S. victory. The Lost Cause myth tries to delete the African American perspective from the historical narrative. It discounts the fact that a significant number of Southerners (if not a majority) were opposed to the ideology and concept of the Confederacy, given the stark reality that nearly 40% of the Southern population was enslaved. A new period of Confederate monuments (which we call Phase Three monuments) followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision mandating desegregation in the case Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954. As a show of “massive resistance,” segregationists revived Confederate imagery. For example, the Confederate battle flag was incorporated into the Georgia state flag in 1956, a Confederate battle flag was flown over the state capitol building in South Carolina in 1961, and new monuments were created. These included Stone Mountain, purchased by the state of Georgia in 1958 specifically to create a Confederate monument. Confederate imagery was used as a rallying point for proponents of segregation. Understanding the historical context of Confederate monuments is an important starting point when discussing possible actions taken in response to them. Rather focus on where we stop, it is appropriate to ask, in the 21st century, where do we start? There are plenty of those Phase Two and Phase Three monuments, statues, etc. that are low-hanging fruit for starting points. There may be some of those Phase One statues that also are in that Phase Two/Three majority grouping and there could certainly be a small number of Phase Two/Three statues that fall into more of a "mourning space" category ... although note that the reasoning behind the Phase Two/Three categorizing is less about when they came into being and WHY they came into being in those periods. There are even some that may well be classified Phase One that really became Phase Two because of movement to intimidate or from mourning space to power space. It's just like doing spring cleaning. Very few people ask "When are we going to stop cleaning?" They instead start with the stuff that is broken, not wanted, obviously a bad choice when purchased, no longer necessary. Are there some things that give us problems during spring cleaning that can't be easily categorized? Certainly, and I'll give a direct example of that from my own house. I have five kids ... the youngest kid is 9 and my oldest turns 22 in a week. We still have the baby bed in our garage that every one of them slept in as a baby. My wife just cannot part with it at this point. It can't be donated due to safety issues and it isn't something that we would feel comfortable giving to a neighbor/relative/friend because the safety component can't be guaranteed. With that said, it no longer has a place in the main house as its usefulness is no longer there; however, my wife is still emotionally attached to it, so it resides in the garage for the time being. As a compromise with me ... I'm not attached to it and it's just taking up room in the garage ... my wife has looked at perhaps having her dad, who is a wood worker, converting it into something like a light stand or plant stand or something else. With that said, there are also plenty of other things that we've had from the kids that have been donated, given away, sold, thrown way, etc. If we stopped to ask the question, where does the spring cleaning end or had gotten hung up on that one baby bed, we would have never progressed forward. Ultimately it's about acknowledgement that there is a major issue there and starting to do something about. Doesn't have to be all or none, but the more that the idea persists to stonewall the issue, no pun intended, the more the response on the other side gets pushed toward all-or-none and more extreme expected response. There then becomes little likelihood that it either gets worse or ends in a result that seems damn near draconian in nature.

Just cannot let it it go, can ya? lol So you have not seen a single post of mine blaming extremes on both. That is the whole point of what I have been posting, to point out the fault of the people responsible on both sides. Howe continues to look just one direction, so I challenge those posts. So I see you challenge those guys regularly, yet never call out Howe. Some of his posts are flat out ridiculous, yet you say nothing wonder why? Funny how that works huh? Why is it you are trying to hold me to a standard you choose to not live up to yourself?

Practice is great July 1st What I would hate to see is all sports all teams do a mad rush and start trying to schedule 7 on 7s, 11 on 11s, 1 day shootouts, insert countless other competition days Be happy to work with your kids in house and prepare what you need to do in house during those times. For 1 summer, I am sure the schools can get by with elimination of competition days Just one guys thoughts

Seriously; let it go dude. You assumed I quoted the article from NC that it was militia doing the destruction. You were wrong in that assumption. In fact you were so far from the truth; it would take days for you to reach the truth.....as you prove with your continual posts on the matter. The funny part is you keep putting in bold that I qualified my statement. Why is it so difficult to grasp the concept of "Not sure if it's true"? Or even "I have not verified..."?

This is hilarious....and sad. I did not state anything even close to that....wow. The article I posted showed police busting water bottles at an aid station. I then added that someone that lives in that area stated that there are militia dressed as police.

For someone so adept at finding videos to state your opinions, I would think you could easily find this. This took 5 seconds. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-protests-white-supremacists-antifa.html This was just a couple links down from the previous one. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-02/george-floyd-protest-violence-blame What was it you were saying about your opinions being right? And mine and others being wrong? lol

I believe hundreds of years of oppression finally boiling over are the cause of the riots and Trumps hateful rhetoric have let racist people to act more brazen. The Mueller hoax? After almost two years, there were 199 criminal charges, 37 indictments or guilty pleas and 5 prison sentences and Mueller proved that Trump committed crimes but couldn't be prosecuted due to long DOJ standing that a sitting president can't be indicted. Robert Mueller did not address that 'collusion" because it's not a legal term.. They focused on if there was enough evidence to charge any member of the campaign with taking part in a criminal conspiracy. There was some evidence but not enough beyond a reasonable doubt. Mueller also added that Trump could be theoretically charged with crimes after he leaves the presidency. Ill take whatever you are smoking. You have a negative score on here because you post the most outlandish stuff that can be easily refuted on here. I mean it took me 15 minutes to easily prove your post wrong.

Both you and I are simply stating opinions. Neither one of us has evidence to support our opinions. I do not need to pat myself on the back. It is a verifiable fact that my opinions have been more accurate than the GID lefties on a variety of subjects during the past three years.

That is an inaccurate statement. Your opinions are simply that-opinions, but you rarely state your opinion, except for your derogatory remarks about so-called "libtards". Mostly you post videos made by someone other than you containing some crackpot conspiracy theory. That's not an opinion, even if anyone did watch them. I certainly don't. Your delusions are certainly fun to laugh at, so keep 'em coming. And if you don't like the moderators, too bad. Stop whining. It's a free website, also free for you to stay away. Either way is fine by me.

Stay focused here...so, you just proved my point....that you have pointed the finger in one direction. You have not posted a thing that would show that you blame right wing extremists. I on the other hand, have stated multiple times there are extremists on each end of the spectrum that are stirring things up. I figure you keep posting with blame on the left, so I balance that. I never chimed in as far as the details of the Mueller investigation. The only thing I have challenged you on is that it is your belief that the only indictments should pertain to the investigation itself, and that the other crimes that warranted indictments, plea deals, and guilty verdicts should have been ignored. My challenge has been that in any investigation, if other criminal activity is discovered, charges are almost always filed for those additional crimes; even though they did not pertain to possible crimes being investigated.......and I get accused of lumping all people of a certain ilk into one category....lol I have been a skeptic of the Hydroxychloroquine use. BUT, there was a point where I did state, I really do hope it works. But at the time you started posted, the evidence was not conclusive. I have not seen anything that shows the drug is overwhelmingly effective. But go ahead and keep patting yourself on the back

Yup. Haha. We won 3 in a row and 4 in 5 years. First one and last one were biggest surprises.

Muda and his reading comprehension skills. lol

Then why refer to living in Virginia if you were not using it to add some level of credibility to what you posted? But you did claim in one sentence to know what the monuments were not meant to be, but the previous sentence you stated you had no idea what the intent was. lol......did the cider go hard on you? lol Never did I even attempt to paint all Southerners with one broad stroke. I was referring to those that get their panties in a wad over the removal of the statues, especially the ones that show up at the rallies with their confederate flags and nazi flags. I got a kick too out of the large font. You can backtrack all you want to, but your statement was I was way off on my claim. I just countered it. You sure don’t like being called out do you? Toppling statues equates to burning books.....yeah ok. That may be your funniest line yet. Nice stretch though. I think even Muda would be impressed with that reach. That comment actually leads to a point I made. There are museums dedicated to what has happened. There are thousands of books written about the events of that war. But oh my God, we cannot tear down the statues that glorify those individuals. I get the intent behind the monument in Indy. There actually is a monument where they are buried now, which is fine. They are not nor ever were buried in Garfield Park. The reason it is there is because of the klan......enough said. Again....plenty of details are written about them and what happened to them. Removal of the monument does not and will not erase that.

I think we are 100% in agreement. I would much rather have games with fans in the stands for all the reasons you mention. Officiating games with fans is much more fun than without fans even if those fans are obnoxious! I worked a Carmel-Cathedral game once where a storm delayed the game at halftime. The first half was packed an exciting. The second half was like working a 7th grade game on Tuesday night. It seemed to affect the players as well. The financial hit of not playing football this Fall would have a devastating impact on HS sports at the schools. Having to play without fans I think would likely be worse. It's possible some of that could be made up by revenue from selling ads/viewing on streams, but would it be enough?

This is a biggie, because HRC $ucked at playing defense. A lot of things killed Clinton, but the over-reliance on this is one factor. He's not wrong.

Or in the case of the GID OOB, what the @Howe posse identifies you as.

Glad to be of some service.

Interesting that you don't know what the protests are about.

Interesting. We must not have had the same Evidence and Trial Advocacy classes in law school.

Embarrassing.

https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/research/confederate-monuments

Cool story bro.

This actually reminds me a little bit of The Man in the High Castle. If you don’t like a part of your history, just erase it and act like it never happened.

The hits just keep coming to Portage Athletics. Would have never guessed a coaching carousel in the Hoosier North would cause a 6A Duneland school to lose their coach. I would like to see the Portage AD make a call to Roydon Richards.

Understood. A moderator quotes and references a video, then posts a conspiracy theory and links an article. The video and article do not support the conspiracy theory.

I think that's against the law in some states. 😀

You consider 5 times in 1 month "excessive"? Wow, your responses to me would be considered astronomically obsessively excessively tremendous in that case. And one of those from @Bobref was a response after @Howe called him a leftie. Glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that one!

Left wing incited rioters murder former Police Captain. Unfortunately Fox News is the only network with broadcast coverage of this senseless murder.

A Socially Cocooned Nepotistic Aristocracy https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/a-socially-cocooned-nepotistic-aristocracy/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first Yep, Uni-Party to the max.

He posted 2 identical extremely large comments on a High School Football message board.

An entire family of nutjobs.

Is this supposed to be an ironic statement. I fear not.

"homey" must be the archaic version. He's a U.S. History teacher. He should be an expert on Black History in the U.S.

The coronavirus is contagious yet has a mortality rate comparable to the annual influenza virus. Expect to see a spike in the spread within a few weeks of the start of the protests, riots and looting in several Democrat controlled cities across America..

The Lancet retracts and withdraws fake Hydroxychloroquine study. Dr. Fauci supported the fake study last week. Dr. Fauci hasn't said a word since the fake Hydroxychloroquine study has been retracted and withdrawn. The New England Journal of Medicine also published information from the same source. A company no one in the medical community is familiar with - Surgisphere.

The article made no mention of "militia dressed similar to police". I have no idea where you came up with such an accusation. I attempted to search the comments section of the article to no avail.

This is similar to the countless Russia hoax articles posted. Neither article provides evidence of either left or right wing extremists instigating the riots. Both simply reference opinions of others. The LA Times article did state the FBI had a signed affidavit on Mathew Ruppert yet did not indicate whether he was a left wing or right wing instigator.

Muda posted a video of IMPD beating a female citizen with clubs for no apparent reason. You posted a comment referencing the video and stated they could be "militia dressed similar to police" and linked an article. I expected the article to support your statement.