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I guess the people who were righteously indignant that he was initially charged under a felony statute are feeling a little sheepish at this point. He was basically allowed to plead it down to a low 6-figure fine.

Smollett was a victim? Apparently his $100,000 bond was enough restitution................ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5746142-Jussie-Smollett-bond-proffer.html https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/jussie-smollett-charges/index.html Smollett — who authorities said filed false reports of a crime — was indicted earlier this month on 16 felony counts by a Cook County grand jury. Cook County State's Attorney has dropped the charges against actor Jussie Smollett. Here's what prosecutors said in a statement: Attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes released this statement:

lol, isn't this the truth. A few year ago we hosted the rehearsal dinner for our child and fiance's wedding at our home. The fiance had a couple relatives drive in from Maine to attend the wedding so they were invited to the dinner as well. About mid-afternoon a bad stormed rolled in; torrential rain, lighting, thunder, then finally the county tornado sirens went off. While we Hoosiers are standing out on the front porch watching the spectacle the relatives from Maine were nervously asking "Shouldn't we be going down to the basement or something?" They and a few others eventually did head down to the basement for a few minutes, but most stayed upstairs.

Somehow a local company is teaming with a local sod farmer in some kind of Hemp test program. I was thrilled to see it, we will see how it works out. http://www.tribtown.com/2019/03/19/cbd_production_to_begin_in_seymour_this_fall/

And Governor Holcomb continues to dismiss Hemp based on ignorance and predudice.

I guess I won’t be running when I am in Florida next week. These gators are too smart.

Nice drubbing of the defending champs!! Next stop...the KFC Yum! center and a Sweet 16 bout with Rocky Top.....

Nah. The morning session was above average. The evening session was way down because CMA has no fans, neither Ben Davis or Carmel has huge fanbases either, despite their size, and there was no IU or Purdue recruit playing to draw in casual fans.

In less than a year, from FC to Jeff to Paoli. I guess rumors of Jeff's rising like the Phoenix were greatly exaggerated.

Evansville Bosse Powel and Heritage Hills Becher who were rivals in sectional are the only 2 Evansville area players to be selected and both on the blue group who will play against the KY Junior all stars at KY. Team has a Core 6 and 3 more groups of 6 the Core plays in 3 games and other 3 play in just 1 game so sounds like 12 dress for each game. Click link for complete team. https://ibcacoaches.com/download/all-stars_current_and_historical/junior_all_stars_historical_boys_and_girls/2019_boys_girls_junior_all_stars.pdf

HAHA, the things I fall into. But, I will have to rely on my wrestling co hort @Coach Nowlin I would think Randy Orton would be a higher seed that Kurt. Championships, Impact, and remember its all going to be by popularity anyway. So who cares what the seed is.

Perhaps we'll create our own bracket in the future. Becky "ICEBOX" O'Shea is also a noticeable snub.

Slightly disappointed Steve Lattimer and Lucy Draper did not make it to the big dance.

I don't normally post a lot on here, but this has me triggered... How is PABLO SANCHEZ a 5-seed? Pablo was a character in the OLLLLLLD Windows video game "Backyard _____ (fill in the sport)", and he was literally nicknamed the Secret Weapon. He was basically Bo Jackson. Also, check out that belly. He was promoting positive body images for us fat guys two decades before it became a big deal.

I would agree the MIC is a great conference and easily the best in Indiana, but the best player on the best MIC team isn't automatically the best player in the state. Both are great players, but Bell wasn't "hands down" better than Kizer and finishing second in the voting wasn't a "crime".

The Electoral College and Slavery: A Reality Check: https://spectator.org/the-electoral-college-and-slavery-a-reality-check/ According to Congressman Cohen’s biography, he was educated at Vanderbilt University. His comments suggest that his parents must have paid a hefty bribe to get him enrolled in that once-respected institution. Cohen’s statement reveals a breathtaking level of illiteracy regarding American history in general and the Electoral College in particular. For example, Cohen obviously believes that, when the Constitution was ratified, slavery was limited to the southern states. In reality, slavery was ubiquitous throughout the fledgling nation—both north and south. Yes, you read that correctly. The 1790 census reveals the following: More than 6 percent of New York’s population consisted of slaves. Likewise, 6.2 percent of the people living in New Jersey were slaves. The number of slaves in Delaware totaled 15 percent of its population. Maryland’s slaves accounted for a whopping 32 percent of its population. The census also found that New England states like Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire had significant slave populations. Even Pennsylvania had a few. Only Massachusetts had none. In other words, the “slave states” included all but one. There was no need for them to impose their will on the other states represented at the Constitutional Convention. Cohen’s claim that the “slave states wanted equal representation in the Senate because they wanted to keep slavery” and the implication that this somehow drove the debate over the Electoral College is equally absurd. The decision to allow each state two senators regardless of size was an effort to ensure that the large population states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, and New York (all slave states at the time) would not be able to undermine the will of the voters in low population states. The “two senator” structure actually reduced the power of the large slave states. In other words, Congressman Cohen has it exactly backwards. Another of Cohen’s uninformed assertions goes thus: “The slave states wanted to have an Electoral College… where the slaves counted as two-thirds.” Here, he not only fails history but arithmetic as well. What he is blindly groping for is the three-fifths compromise. Like a lot of people who slept through their history and government courses, Cohen never learned that this often misrepresented compromise was not supported by the big slave states. It was supported primarily by the small states, the majority of which were located in the north, and it had nothing at all to do with the Electoral College. As Tara Ross points out in the Daily Signal: Cohen finishes off his remarks with the following claim: “So the slave states didn’t want a popular election because their slaves wouldn’t count towards voting and the slave states would have less votes.” Once again, he has it backwards. Cohen mistakenly believes the slave-to-white ratio at the time of the Constitutional Convention was equal to what it became after the invention of the cotton gin. It was, in fact, the smaller northern states who most feared direct popular vote. The large slave states had enough white voters to swamp the small states. Virginia alone had as many eligible voters as Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire combined. It was because of that large disparity that opponents of slavery tended to favor the Electoral College. It is commonly believed that it was first proposed at the convention by James Madison, whose comments on the matter are routinely taken out of context by the people who peddle the canard that the institution was designed primarily to perpetuate slavery. This, as it happens, has no basis in fact. The use of some system of electors rather than a direct popular vote to choose the President was first suggested by delegates to the convention well known for their lifelong aversion to slavery. To quote Tara Ross of the Daily Signal again: The notion that the Electoral College was designed to perpetuate slavery is nonsense. Most Democrats who make this claim, like Cohen and (inevitably) AOC, know little about American history and less about the institution they wish to abolish. Its more crafty critics, like Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton, just lie. The obvious reason they dislike the Electoral College is that they can’t win playing by the rules. This is why the Framers designed it as they did — to preclude the tyranny of the majority. During the past 230 years, the number of states has increased and population centers have shifted, but demagogues haven’t changed much.