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That's what the dinosaurs said right before they melted the glaciers.

Bears sign a kicker who has never kicked in the NFL. Can't wait to see Chicago sports fans go ham on his last name..... "BLEWITT" http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26154410/bears-sign-blewitt-help-kicking-woes-really

What’s wrong with the one we already have?

Chip off of the old block? Purple still manning the timers?

I believe you.

You have the privilege and the power. Go for it. It's what those in power do to the oppressed.

Ahhh - Dinosaur Farts.......Now it makes sense......

I was awaiting the "Luers did nothing in 3a" comments. Luers was pretty darn good a few of those years and played some pretty darn good teams along the way.

Kurt Schlicher s the older brother of BJ. Kurt played quarterback and linebacker at North Montgomery and went onto play baseball at ISU.

The only one Jasper has to walk away from would be Memorial. They already play HH and Southridge

it was a baller move by Lynch and SF Respect that .

Full list found here: https://ifca.net/download/AllStarTotalsbySchool.pdf Thanks for playing along! Any surprises - any team stand out? How cool to be the lone representative in your school's history?!?

Ughh. The 49ers effectively flipped the Bears the bird by franchising Robbie Gould, although they could work out a trade. Unlikely though, I don't think the Bears organization/owners are wiling to to spend big money on a kicker. Some interesting scenarios here: https://beargoggleson.com/2019/03/04/chicago-bears-attempt-trade-robbie-gould/

He played for Washington (and Adams I think) elkhart central?

In addition, the company I work for recycles plastic (polyester) and it save them a ton of money. Recycling these items may not be lucrative for individuals, but it is cost effective for manufacturing by helping keep costs lower in addition to environmental benefits.

That's what she said

Box makers have been recycling paper since before recycling was cool. It’s not a waste of money or time for them.

'97% Of Climate Scientists Agree' Is 100% Wrong: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/#619404d33f9f

When it comes to recycling, anything other than metals are pretty much a waste of time/money. Aluminum cans are the gold standard in recycling. Some plastics hold a little value, paper is/has/will always be a complete waste of time/money/energy. Composting paper wastes makes a lot more sense.

This, in a nutshell, is the “global warming” issue for me. The Al Gore disciples, and their ilk, primarily use a “misdirection” argument to support their position. They trot out lots of statistics about temperatures in the Arctic and polar bears swimming in open water. There’s no denying it’s getting warmer. But, in my mind, the link between that and human activity is what is missing. Simply showing that temperatures are on the rise is meaningless, as there have been innumerable such cycles in the earth’s history.

Just tracking the movement in 2A for fun. 6 teams leaving 2A North (2018 Sag Rating): Oak Hill (46.41), Madison Grant (25.75), River Forest (11.28), Gary Roosevelt (7.83), Taylor (1.32), Lake Station (0.00) 7 teams leaving 2A South (2018 Sag Rating): Southridge (53.14), Milan (38.28), Knightstown (36.99), Perry Central (30.26), Cloverdale (22.09), Indianapolis Washington (12.74), Park Tudor (6.92) 13 Schools Coming into 2A (2018 Sag Rating): 1. Pioneer 85.47 2. FW Bishop Luers 73.22 3. Andrean 71.11 4. Monrovia 51.87 5. Blackford 51.67 6. LaVille 50.4 7. Southmont 45.03 8. Eastside 42.21 9. South Vermillion 30.71 10. Wheeler 29.72 11. Seeger 20.08 12. Howe 16.45 13. Fairfield 6.57 2A is losing none of the top 10 Sagarin ratings from last season and only 2 of the top 25. The top 3 Sagarin ratings coming in would all be in the top 5 of the class based on last season and all 3 of those would figure to end up in the north part of the state. I bolded the 8 incoming schools you would assume will end up in the north half of the state which means at least 2 of the returning 2A schools will probably shift from north to south since only 6 of the schools leaving went north. The bottom line is that the northern route to state figures to get much, much tougher at least based on the very recent history of programs. Of course, things can change quite a bit year-to-year so who knows.

They don't want your money. They just want to hear you whine about how tough it is for an old white man with a government education.

5 - Valpo 9 - Jimtown

Good stuff Muda Happy to see Kyle Long restructure his contract: I get a feeling that he will be retiring after that contract is up. Guy has put his body through the ringer. Much Respect

Although it would be interesting, personally, I love the idea of Snider in the SAC under the new format. There is no denying the fact that all schools in the SAC would be better served by scheduling outside competition. Who wouldn't want to attend the following games? Snider vs Penn Dwenger vs Cathedral Homestead vs Carmel (this series has been very one sided with lopsided scores, but I still maintain that the Spartans would have given Carmel a run for their money in 2017) -these are the kind of games Homestead needs to schedule if they are ever going to be relevant in 6a. Carroll vs Warsaw (given that the Tigers continue their uptrend) Luers vs Coldwater, OH - (I love this potential match-up)

You realize that the Daily Wire is the political equivalent of the Weekly World News?

According to Mr. Granderson I have accumulated oodles of "generational wealth" just by the virtue of having to have been born Caucasian during the 1960's in the United States of America. Therefore he and others are entitled to a certain amount of that wealth: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/05/opinions/reparations-democratic-candidates-2020-granderson/index.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-migrant-families-arrested-at-border-in-five-months-than-any-previous-full-year-11551810657 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/05/illegal-immigration-under-trump-projected-to-surpass-obama-era-levels/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/5/illegal-immigration-worst-rate-2007/ Illegal immigration continues to break records on the southwestern border — and they’re not good ones. The number of families snared trying to sneak into the U.S. soared by 50 percent in one month alone, setting an all-time record with more than 36,000 family members apprehended, Homeland Security officials announced Tuesday. The government has also encountered some 70 groups of at least 100 migrants during the first five months of the fiscal year, shattering records and placing new challenges on Border Patrol agents. The mini-caravans are being funneled to some of the remotest parts of the border, where there is little in the way of medical help and it takes hours to process and transport the groups. That takes agents off the line, and drug smugglers use the distraction to send across their shipments, top border officials said. “We are facing alarming trends,” said Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He said the numbers signal the existence of an immigration and humanitarian crisis, reinforcing President Trump’s assertion of an emergency necessitating his redirection of money to build a border wall. Overall, Border Patrol agents nabbed 66,450 illegal immigrants last month, marking the worst February since 2008. Of those, 6,825 were unaccompanied alien children — juveniles who arrived at the border without any parent. Another 36,174 were family members — a majority of the total and a record-shattering number. The previous high was 27,507 family members in December. Before fiscal 2019, the government had never topped 17,000 family members in any month on record. It has now done so in each of the past five months. In addition to the Border Patrol, CBP officers who man the ports of entry encountered another 9,653 migrants who tried to enter without authorization. That is a slight drop from the past few months, and it suggests that illegal immigrants are defying the government’s goal of having them show up at ports of entry to be processed. An inspector general’s report last year said CBP officers were throttling the pace of people allowed to show up and demand asylum at the ports of entry, and some then attempted to sneak across the border instead. CBP officials say it’s smugglers who determine where migrants enter. Indeed, the formation of mini-caravans is a tactic used by smugglers, officials said Tuesday. The same cartels control drugs and human smuggling, and they use migrants as a distraction by sending a large group of people to occupy agents’ attention and then try to slip drugs into the U.S. in another location. “We have four specific cases here recently that we’ve seen those family units used as a diversionary tactic,” said Brian Hastings, chief of law enforcement operations at the Border Patrol. Caravans as large as 300 people are delivered to places such as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a beautiful but rugged location in southern Arizona that is far from any substantial infrastructure or medical care. In just five months of the current fiscal year, agents have encountered 70 large groups, defined as those of 100 or more migrants. The previous year’s total was 13 large groups. All told, nearly 160,000 unaccompanied alien children and family members have been encountered at the border over the past five months. That is far more than the 120,000 encountered in 2014, when President Obama first called it a crisis, said Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “It was a humanitarian crisis in 2014, and it is a growing crisis today. It is well past time to develop bipartisan solutions to secure our border and fix our horribly broken immigration system,” he said. Mr. McAleenan suggested some options Tuesday, including investing in Central America, targeting the multibillion-dollar smuggling organizations that funnel the migrants north, constructing more border wall and changing laws to end incentives to migrate to the U.S. At current rates, the Border Patrol is on track to arrest more than 780,000 people trying to sneak across the southwestern border, which would be the highest total since 2007 — before the government’s last wall-building spree. Officials said the current numbers show that a majority of the migrants are children and families from Central America. Under U.S. policy, they are much tougher to deport. That only invites more to make the journey, said Chief Hastings. “The word of mouth and social media quickly gets back to those in northern triangle countries: If you bring a child, you’ll be successful,” Chief Hastings said. The number of people caught at the border is generally considered a proxy for the total flow of illegal immigration, so more apprehensions is believed to mean more people are attempting to cross. However, Mr. McAleenan acknowledged that the formula has changed in recent years based on the new demographics of the migrants. In the past, when most were single adults from Mexico and a majority were men, their goal was to evade capture. Now, the children and families from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — dubbed the northern triangle countries — want to be caught. After sneaking across the border, they often “present” themselves to Border Patrol agents and demand asylum, certain that they will be quickly released into communities to await a process that can take years — giving them a chance to disappear into the shadows. Mr. McAleenan said the surge of children and families has grown worse in the past few months as smuggling organizations begin to use charter buses to ferry migrants from Guatemala, in particular, to remote locations at the border in Arizona and New Mexico. Buses also mean more migrants who would normally not be able to make the journey by foot are traveling, and it’s meant a surge in sick people arriving at the border. Fifty-five migrants a day are being sent to clinics or hospitals for care, and the Border Patrol says it’s on track for 31,000 total this year. That is up from 12,000 last year. Agents have to accompany each of those migrants, taking them away from enforcement duties. Chief Hastings said his agents have logged 57,000 hours of medical watch so far this fiscal year. Yeah, there's no crisis......

Muda's current cult like fascination with AOC does not allow him to discern a decent source from trash. The blinders are on.

Where have I said it was tough? And Mr. Granderson and others supporting reparations have made it very clear that they want my money, and the money of other Caucasian Americans.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Monumental Hypocrisy: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-monumental-hypocrisy/

Ill listen to experts... https://www.pbs.org/video/97-of-climate-scientists-really-do-agree-vl3snl/ you can listen to Forbes. Tol is debunked https://skepticalscience.com/climate-contrarians-accidentally-confirm-97-percent-consensus.html Idso is a geologist, not a climate scientist, who is paid nearly 12K a month by the Heartland institute to deny human caused climate change. As Im sure you know, the Heartland Institute also thinks there is no connection from smoking tobacco and lung cancer. Lots of credibility. Heartland, as Im sure you know, has historically been funded my big oil, big tobacco, big polluters. Shaviv and Scafetta both think cosmic rays and other planets are the reason it is getting warmer. They are the outliers with wacky research who are also paid by Heartland. I'll stick with the 97%

Are they recycling or reusing? Since the article focused mainly on the consumer level, that's what my comments were aimed at. Industrial applications can and obviously do have some benefits.

Cosmic rays. must be blinding you while also heating the Earth.

Wholesale recycling makes sense, but individual recycling appears to cost more than it's worth. Found it interesting when at lunch I was watching the trash truck emptying the recycle bins in the recycle area at the park. He was putting all the bins (the ones we have to separate the plastic, cardboard, paper, etc. into each container and for goodness sake - don't mix them) into the same container. I was stunned. We have to take care to keep the items separate, yet he was putting them into the same truck before heading over to the processing plant. Which led to my question - Why am I separating this stuff if you aren't?

Government Pensions, Incentives, and Our Everlasting Welfare State: https://mises.org/wire/government-pensions-incentives-and-our-everlasting-welfare-state Disincentives The Council’s recommendation is based on a concept which is equally applicable to other government welfare programs such as unemployment insurance, child benefits, etc. These programs are a disincentive to employment because government handouts trigger the entitlement mindset, “Why should I get a job when the government is willing to force other people to support me?” Thus, by discouraging productive work, the government’s policies promote the growth of problems they are supposedly trying to solve, namely the alleviation of poverty. As Thomas DiLorenzo wrote : Government Hypocrisy Since the labour market was one of the areas on which the government asked the Council to focus , it is noteworthy that their advice was rejected out of hand . Noteworthy, but not surprising. Seniors are a large voting bloc, which means economic growth will be sacrificed as the Liberals pander to the desires of pensioners. Rejection of Council’s advice by Canada’s Liberal government reflects the mindset of the vast majority of politicians, which is to say or do whatever is required to get elected, and re-elected. That is why, when we study the government’s various policies, we see that hypocrisy is the common thread. The government says it wants economic growth, yet it continues to maintain various welfare programs which inhibit economic growth. These are conflicting policies, which means the government’s actions are hypocritical. Council members were hand picked by the government, and the government did not dispute their advice. They simply ignored it, and have continued to ignore it for two years. Moreover, governments have likely been aware of the counterproductive effects of government welfare programs for decades, just as economists have been aware. Therefore, it is NOT true that “slower economic growth” is an “unintended consequence” of government welfare programs. In fact, slower economic growth, which reduces overall prosperity, was, and is, the government’s intended outcome. The outcome is “intended” because the government “intentionally” maintains its welfare programs with full knowledge of their negative economic effects. This doesn’t mean politicians like the negative economic effects. It simply means that votes from various welfare constituencies are more important to them than increased prosperity for all groups. That may sound counterintuitive, but not if you understand the mindset of politicians and bureaucrats. Governments do not usually favor increased prosperity for all groups unless they can claim that their policies deserve credit for this outcome. Thus, increased prosperity for all groups due to the elimination of government welfare programs makes the government look bad. Guaranteed Minimum Income Theory Another socialist program which is gaining new adherents is the Universal Basic Income , or some other form of guaranteed minimum income. Many promoters of a ‘no strings attached government-guaranteed-income’ believe such programs will alleviate poverty by increasing employment. They say this is likely because unemployed people will not lose any portion of their government-guaranteed-income if they become employed. In other words, there is no disincentive to work. That’s their theory. Council’s report blows that theory out of the water. Asserting a causal effect on the workforce-participation rate, Council recommended increasing the age of eligibility for CPP, which is unconditional, and OAS, which is unconditional for people whose incomes do not exceed a specified threshold ($75,910 in 2018). Thus, Council’s position is clear: Unconditional welfare handouts are a disincentive to work. Again, these are the experts hand picked by the leftist government. Conclusion Eliminating welfare handouts will incentivize older people to work, an effect likely to be even more pronounced with the younger generations, as they tend to be healthier and more energetic. Even though a majority of people do NOT trust their government , it is difficult to convince welfare recipients they can prosper by giving up free money. Therefore, the elimination of economically counterproductive government welfare programs may well hinge on voters’ ability to grasp basic economic concepts and dispense with their misconceptions about the ideology of socialism. To borrow a sentiment from Ludwig von Mises , we need to rid ourselves of the idea “that the State or the Government is the embodiment of all that is good and beneficial.”

Here you go again ... since you deleted the last one with your "new power." https://www.rjionline.org/stories/who-trusts-and-pays-for-the-news-heres-what-8728-people-told-us?link=mktw

Then you didn't know the "old Muda" as well as you thought you did. Do you as a private citizen and property owner have the right to censor an individual who say, walks into your front yard with a sign that says "God's Dead!" and marches back and forth for an hour? What if the same individual does this on the lawn of the Tippecanoe County Courthouse?

Thank you for your support.

lol, the "oppressed" of the GID Out of Bounds club. Get over yourself. Taunting? It was a simple question. BTW, there is a difference between government censorship and private censorship.