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Just try to tell me you did not laugh after seeing this one. 😂

still could possibly work out. or hey....join the PAC small school division for football since Tecumseh doesn't want in!

One of the BEST camps in the nation! https://bishopdullaghan.com/middle-school-camps/

I'm back people. I present a new thread: MIC 2019. What a season it was for the Warren Central Warriors last year. They ran the table on route to the school's ninth football championship, a 27-7 victory over the Carmel Greyhounds. Can the Warriors repeat? Or will someone else have a say in it? I want your opinions for this coming season. 148 more days until high school football is back!!! Go Warriors!!! 2018 6A State Champions

Good stay away.

As I explained, the historical context explains why a black director making such a statement is not racist. And as I said, I can't think of a similar context that explains how a white director could say the same thing and not come across as racist, since there has not been any equivalent history of white actors being short changed in getting roles just because they were white. If you can give a context in which you would see it as non-racist for a white director to say he will only cast white actors in his movies, I am open to considering it. But otherwise, your refusal to acknowledge that context affects meaning leaves you arguing that apples are oranges.

One thing about PB - he is incredibly intelligent, and if at all possible will not let himself get pigeon-holed into a character of folly in the Democrat Party. SF doesn't hardly align at all with his Liberal/left political views, and absolutely despises the "smart streets" (roundabouts) in South Bend, and don't get me started on "Lime Bikes" (google it) in South Bend where some of the bikes wound up in the river, but I have to respect his demeanor and his ability to sniff out the traps being set for him in the Democrat campaign so far. He would make a worthy adversary as a counterpart to Pence in the debates if he is unable to get the nomination, but becomes a VP pick. Here is a humorous take from Trevor Noah:

What a sad story. Unfortunately these men may never be able to adjust to life back on the outside. "Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so." - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

Certainly not a dump. Certainly not a cheap shot. It's just small. I think Luers has a beautiful campus and it's great they play their games there. I just think they leave some money on the table when hosting some of the teams that bring a big following. Good luck to the Knights this year! Back to Dwenger. Both teams could very well be 8-0 this year when they meet. That means 5000-10000 depending on the weather. Luckily the game is being played at Spuller. But I can't help but wonder what it's going to look like the first time Dwenger hosts Snider when both teams are undefeated. Maybe it will all work out. Anyway, congrats to Dwenger on their new field.

I'm glad to see these men freed from a wrongful conviction, but as you said, how do they not have a thorough enough investigation into this ... especially when someone else came forth more than 20 years ago to plead to the crime? 40+ years is a long time to rob from an innocent man. I've got to admire the men's optimism in looking forward and their, seemingly, lack of bitterness. Unfortunately, the system failed these guys and there will likely be little accounting for it other than maybe a monetary settlement from the state ... but seriously, how do you compensate someone for four decades of their life?

He wasn't specifically talk about white or black "roles." If you asked him if, given the chance to direct a movie about the life of Al Pacino, would he cast a black actor in the lead role, I imagine he'd give you a funny look. On the other hand, if you are talking about fictional characters created out of thin air for a movie, the race of the characters is very often irrelevant, so the race of the actor playing that character is also irrelevant. If the dude wants to address the historical short changing of black actors when it comes to getting such roles -- which he identified as his motivation -- by going the other way for awhile in casting his movies, what's wrong with that? It is difficult to perceive what sort of similar non-racist motivation would exist for a white director to declare he will only cast white people in all race-is-irrelevant roles in his\her movies.

He's probably glad he didn't buy her those glasses with the corrective lenses......

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In my opinion- Tecumseh has absolutely NO leverage to say what they want/don’t want. How they’ve been allowed to operate as a member of the PAC for this long with basically dropping out of football is beyond me. They are either in this merger, or OUT all together in every sport. Every time I read this thread I just get ticked off...wrong message to send to kids/program- but I’ve been down that road. Carry on

No Al Bundy, huh? Well, I guess EVERY bracket ever created will lead to a discussion of who was left out 😄

Kim Foxx, the State's Attorney Who Let Jussie Smollett Go, Has a Lot of Explaining to Do: http://reason.com/blog/2019/03/28/kim-foxx-jussie-smollett-prosecutor So it appears that as with much in life it's who you know as opposed to what you did. If you are a mid-level celebrity in Chicago, at least.

https://mises.org/wire/objective-journalism-has-always-been-myth "Since the real effect of most laws are subtle and hidden," Lippmann contends, "they cannot be understood by filtering local experiences through local states of mind. They can be known only by controlled reporting and objective analysis." But how is this "objective analysis" to be achieved? The answer for Lippman lies in making journalism more scientific, and in making facts "fixed, objectified, measured, [and] named." It is not a coincidence, of course, that Lippmann is writing this in the early 1920s. This was the late Progressive Era, and as such it was the age of "scientific motherhood" and an endless society-wide drive to convince Americans to hand over all important decisions to "experts." Consequently, mothers were to abandon control to parenting "experts," parents were to hand over their prerogatives of educating children "experts," and the economy was to be controlled by "experts" in public policy. Journalism historian Richard Streckfuss notes that Lippmann was jumping on the same bandwagon: Lippmann's influence on the profession's aspirations has never really waned. To this day, the Lippmann model leads to continued efforts at greater opbjectivity inluding the promotion of methods like "precision journalism," popularized by Philip Meyer. Meyer notes that journalists often stray from the Lippmannian ideal, largely due to the difficulty of collecting information. Meyer believes the solution to this This ideal remains quite popular among journalists. They continue to fancy themselves as experts at providing objective and balanced information on critical pieces of information and as the only ones who can be trusted with providing an unbiased viewpoint. Not Even Scientists Are Objective This philosophy, however, is faulty even at its most basic foundation. Lippmann, as a proponent of scientific objectivity was himself embracing a fanciful idea of scientific inquiry and objectivity. This view that the physical sciences were above bias was almost universal in Lippmann's day. But in recent decades, numerous cracks have shown up in the facade of scientific objectivity among even physical scientists. Thanks to the research in the fields of the "sociology of science" and the "economics of science," there is increasing documentation illustrating what should have been obvious all along — namely that scientists are not immune to the effects of their own personal biases. ... On the other hand, scientists have a better claim to objectivity than journalists. In many fields, scientists are constrained by whether or not their scientific knowledge is actually useful. Prescription drugs either work or they don't. New building materials and new chemical solutions either work or their don't. Many physical scientists are thus limited in how they might indulge their biases by the successful application of their discoveries and conclusions. Journalism, of course, has no such check on its own work, and thus we see the fundamental flaw in Lippmann's attempt at making journalism "scientific." There's no practical measure of whether or not a news story has been communicated scientifically or not. Journalists Increasingly Admitting Objectivity Is Unattainable Thanks to journalism's profound and obvious hostility to the Trump administration, it has become increasingly difficult for the media to continue to claim it enbraces as Lippmann model of dispassionate scientific inquiry. This departure from the scientific ideal has become so clear in the last decade, in fact, that even mainstream journalists have started to openly discuss it. For example, in 2015, Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone authored an op-ed in The New York Times titled "'Objective Journalism' Is an Illusion." Taibbi was writing on the occasion of the retirement of John Stewart from The Daily Show and contended that part of Stewart's popularity could be explained by the fact Stewart did not pretend to be an objective journalist. Unlike most journalists who hide behind a facade of objectivity, Stewart was upfront about his biases. Although many journalists are still in denial about this, the overwhelming majority of those who consume media are well aware that biases are rampant, from all directions. Thus Taibbi concludes: Trying to hide one's bias is thus only courting suspicion from readers. Others have departed from the ideal of objective journalism as a means of defending the mass media's lopsided hostility to the Trump administration. This is partly why Rob Wijnberg at The Correspondent concludesthat "'not taking a position' means being not only a mouthpiece for power but a conduit for lies." Wijnberg abandons the ideal of objective journalism because, for him, that means going too easy on the forces of evil. It's better to emphatically oppose the bad guys (i.e., Donald Trump) rather than be limited some some arcane ideal of scientific reporting. Whatever the agendas of Taibbi and Wijnberg might be, they're more honest about the realities of journalism than the powerful talking heads at CNN or Foxnews who would have us believe objectivity is possible in journalism.Regardless of one's political leaning, variations on the slogan "We Report. You Decide" have always been based on fantasy. ... Thus has it always been. This isn't to say that no journalists have tried to be objective. Many have. And many have thought they have achieved objectivity. But the realities of framing and agenda-setting mean that even those who attempt objectivity are bound to fail. Indeed, the real scandal here may not be the fact that many journalists continue to indulge their entrenched ideological biases while claiming to be objective. Perhaps the real problem, all along, has the been the fact that so many Americans have been so gullible as to even entertain the notion that the information they receive through the news media is objective or free of bias. Nowadays, it's extremely difficult to believe there was ever really a time that Americans watched the networks' evening news and went away thinking "golly gee whiz! I guess I now have an even-handed purely factual re-telling of the world's events!" In the age of Walter Cronkite, it's possible some people thought that way. Hopefully, those days are over. An interesting perspective from Mr. McMaken.

Socialism for Thee, But Not for Me: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/socialism-for-thee-but-not-for-me/ Yep, most socialist believe that only government force can get them a "better deal".

Pete Buttigieg: Tortured Libertarian: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/pete-buttigieg-tortured-libertarian/

So the white male candidate is being discriminated against because he can't bring "diversity" to the workforce. Got it. And because this "diversity" is mandated by law we once again have government picking the winners and losers. Frankly I would prefer an actual coin toss in order to choose the candidate in this scenario rather than government fiat.