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Thanks Irishman. Coach Shine said the prayer at the funeral. My guess is that so long as he lives only he can lead that prayer at Bishop Chatard. When asked a few days earlier, Coach L simply stated that Coach Shine “says the prayer”. My wife and I grew up in Southeast Indiana but our work life took us to Indy many years ago. As the Catholic in the family she chose Bishop Chatard and the boys and I followed. It’s a choice I have never regretted. At the football banquets every year when they ask all who have played for Bishop Chatard to step forward and then a prayer is said I choke up a bit. The number of men standing is a long, long blue line going back over 50 years. My wife and I have often looked at one another and mutually said that we could have only wished to be able to stand at an event like this. We take solace in the fact our sons can stand.

This isn't a meme ... but it needs to be.

I have been told from a very good source with direct ties to the decision makers at Jasper that thier preferred outcome is a football merger of the PAC/BIG 8. If done creatively they could basically keep the same schedule they have today except they trade GS for Mt. Carmel in football.

I’m also confused on what Jasper gains from joining the PAC. Even with big and small divisions, Jasper and Booneville would be the only 4A schools. So they would be in the same situation by not playing bigger schools. Unfortunately, you only get 9 games a year in football so relationships are important. Whatever Jasper and the rest of the Big 8 decides to do will have consequences to their schedules and relationships with schools.

Nice try at deflection on a Donald Trump thread by talking about past Presidents, campaigns, and future elections instead of the topic at hand. Truthfully what got Trump elected was old white people. I knew who won when I went to the polls and was the youngest person there. Old gullible people who didn't care if a man claimed to be christian, but grabs women by the pussy in public, pays porn starts for sex, uses Russian prostitutes, etc, etc.

Aren't you the one who asked in the first place? Why ask if you are so certain?

Here is the link for the All Metro team. https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/03/30/castles-alex-hemenway-flashed-his-potential-early-and-often/3277592002/

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.

No it wasn't.

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Because you remove a large reason why we have geographical/social entities know as 'States'. As the opinion piece states:

Because the USA it is one of the largest countries in the world by land size, and it needed some way to be subdivided in increments. The states system came about due to the fact that the U.S. did not want a strong centralized government. By having a lose confederation to ensure there would be no more tyrants like the King of England controlling them.

What Is The Purpose Of The Electoral College?: https://www.dailywire.com/news/44922/knowles-what-purpose-electoral-college-michael-j-knowles

Unmediated mass democracy would lead to the serfdom of minority groups and the smallest, poorest states.: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/democrat-opposition-constitutional-order-electoral-college/ Excellent commentary by Mr. Williamson. What came first Dante, the states or the federal government? And your continued fascination with dead man is kind of disturbing. Why haven't you taught your strident belief in a United States King to your students yet?

Sound like more and more this country needs a third-party candidate elected as POTUS, and not a member of the uni-party.

On an actual topic concerning Mr. Trump: As Mueller Finds No Collusion, Did Press Overhype Russiagate? Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/25/as_mueller_finds_no_collusion_did An interesting exchange between Mr. Greenwald and Mr. Johnston.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/theres-a-partisan-fiction-at-the-heart-of-the-case-against-the-electoral-college/ If anyone thinks the American republic would remain stable if political power is consolidated in coastal urban enclaves, then they lack understanding of American history, American culture, and human nature. The founders struck a balance between state and federal power for good reasons — reasons that remain valid today. But can we get real for a moment? While there are some constitutional scholars who carry on this debate based on high-minded concerns about the nature of American democracy, the real energy behind the Democratic anger at the Electoral College (and behind the Republican defense of it, for that matter) is purely partisan. They look at the national popular vote since 1992 and see exactly one Republican win but three Republican presidencies. Since George H. W. Bush’s rout of Michael Dukakis, only his son has managed a popular-vote victory. So, if we abolish the Electoral College, the Democrats win, right? Not so fast. The Democrats are basing their optimism in part on “success” in a political race that no one is actually running. There is not a single sensible political strategist who has ever plotted out a presidential race for the purpose of winning the popular vote. That’s like game-planning to run the most total yards or to shoot the most free throws. The bottom line is that no one can state with confidence who would have won the 2016 race if the national popular vote determined the outcome. The strategy would be completely different. Candidates would message differently, campaign in different states, and engage in radically different ad buys. Perhaps Hillary Clinton would have won. Perhaps not. We simply don’t know. In fact, outside of the true blowout elections, we don’t really know who would have won any of the close national contests since 1992. And let’s not pretend that a national popular vote elevates every citizen’s vote in a way that the Electoral College does not. Your vote counts in each state, and the fact that your state is overwhelmingly red or blue is no more or less demoralizing than the popular-vote idea that your single vote is thrown into a pool of 130 million others. Besides, if we want to talk about antidemocratic institutions — and the vastly disproportionate impact of a few, small states on national elections — the real culprit isn’t the Electoral College. It’s a primary system that places extraordinary emphasis on the power of winning the first three primaries. We live in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina’s America, and that’s far more troubling than perpetuating an electoral system that our founders wisely determined was helpful for maintaining national unity. Agreed. If we get rid of the Electoral College we might as well drop the "United States" from the name United States of America.