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These two I like. Yes my avatar looks like a changed version of Pioneer, but I'm an AC guy as most of you know. My avatar was a helmet my stepson and I came up with as we wanted to set it up for NCAA Teambuilder but we never got it on there. The inspiration for the avatar was being a Michigan fan and we incorporated the Chargers lightning bolt as the created team was to be the Power. Anyway, I believe South Adams had some cool yellow helmets back in the late 90s or early 2000s that were pretty cool as well.

My alma mater...Very cool set up. Always a high intensity, packed house that was always so much fun to play in front of. This place made me and so many others understand the importance of football.

Early on - SF was kind of impressed with Cuomo's handling of the virus in NY, and his "apparent" bi-partisanship and appreciation with the WH task force. But after he went ballistic demanding 40,000 ventilators, (When his state didn't even need the 4,000 he got and even gave some away) demanded the Federal Government do more - FEMA helped by building the beds and rooms (in the Javits Center 2,500 beds, 141 were full) transferred the CG ship Comfort (with 1,000 beds, treated less than 50), and contracted to build a $40 million hospital in the Bronx (which was scrapped by Cuomo) SF became very weary of his antics. Now he's wanting to tax the people who came to NY's aid (at his request) and earned any income. YES - NYC had it bad, but look at the dynamics, population density, subways not being sanitized, and then the Governor forcing nursing homes to accept Covid patients (along with body bags).... all of these things combined made a really bad situation even worse and literally caused many more deaths. Any admiration I had towards NY Governor Cuomo has faded very fast......

https://outsidethehuddle.net/2020/05/06/oth-football-field-countdown-no-2-victor-field/

This tribute to the Late Great Coach Larry Willen is a favorite of mine. If you know of Coach Willen you will get the tribute.

Thanks for all these awesome helmets. We're around 70 so far. Planning to launch the polls on Tuesday so accepting helmets through Monday.

Minnesota

Well played CVS, well played.

So you wouldn't catch Wind Cancer?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/05/06/majority-of-new-coronavirus-cases-in-new-york-are-from-people-staying-at-home-not-traveling-or-working/?fbclid=IwAR1Bm9gZx_6zIMWTk83S9dqQ-Lr1fPnbGmcIV_NBRC0TrfxNtZLFqbwrUfk#446f9b001655 Majority Of New Coronavirus Cases In New York Are From People Staying At Home—Not Traveling Or Working TOPLINE New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shared initial survey results of hospitalized coronavirus patients during a Wednesday press conference, which said 66% of respondents were at home before being admitted, showing that the virus has continued to spread during lockdown, even as New York prepares for an eventual reopening. KEY FACTS About 1,200 patients were surveyed from 113 hospitals over a three-day period, Cuomo said; his office did not respond to a request for comment by Forbes. In addition to mostly coming from their homes, surveyed patients were more likely to be over 51 years old, and either nonessential workers, retired or unemployed. 96% of the surveyed patients had co-morbidities, which means nearly all had another chronic medical condition prior to catching coronavirus. The survey also found that COVID-19 disproportionately affects African Americans and Hispanics living in the New York City area. The New York survey appears to be unique in that it released results on where patients came from before being hospitalized. Some of the survey’s results on ethnicity and age appeared to match a Centers for Disease Control study of hospitalized patients released April 8, 2020, which showed that older people and African Americans were more likely to have COVID-19. CRUCIAL QUOTE “They’re not working, they’re not traveling, they’re predominantly downstate, predominantly minority, predominantly older,” said Cuomo. “Much of this comes down to what you do to protect yourself.” KEY BACKGROUND The survey was conducted because while new COVID-19 hospitalizations are down in New York, they are declining at a much slower rate than Cuomo would like, he said. Cuomo did not provide an explanation as to why so many of the surveyed patients were coming from their homes, but he did say it reaffirms precautions such as mask-wearing and handwashing to protect more vulnerable people. Cuomo said he was surprised by the survey results, because he expected more patients would be essential workers or using public transportation. “That’s not the case,” he said. TANGENT Cuomo also revealed that an upstate agricultural greenhouse was experiencing an outbreak that he compared to the state’s first outbreak in New Rochelle, as well as outbreaks seen at meat plants across the country. “It’s not about meat or vegetables, it’s about worker density and large gatherings,” Cuomo said of the spread. No kidding - that's just great......Then why the F did we have to stay at home......

Yet you can answer for the GOP? Riiiiiiight.

And now you know where he's been. Free publicity.

I need to reread the articles and take it all in. Since I'm a fan and teacher at small schools, I've been to many of the smaller schools in the area. If I'm going off of fatboy food, but my favorite is Eastbrook sausage, Woodlan donuts, and I think Goshen High School was very good. Now that I'm on a super diet, I try to stay away from those things. 🙂

Amen - Our locker room is separate from the school and is named after him. He is THE MAN. We deal with Coach Thomas' trickery yearly as they are a conference foe. His teams always execute well. I know I have said in my headset before, "How did they have the time to practice that to make it look that easy. I'll do some digging on the entrance, I think we have a video or two Hudl of it over the years. Here is a picture!

Maybe you should spend less on helmets and more on T-shirts. 😀😀 (I kid, I kid.) And somehow all my teenage son’s t-shirts have lost their sleeves in the last few months. So the same joke applies to our household. Lol

Remember it well. That was our crew’s 4th straight playoff game decided in the final seconds! We had another one the next week at Adams Central. Worked a playoff game at Garrett once. Really a nice facility.

https://mises.org/wire/governments-are-real-price-gougers Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Let’s consider the circumstances of Pusateri's price gouging, but let’s also consider the circumstances related to the price charged by the government for its so-called universal healthcare system. This seems appropriate in light of Ford’s concern about providing adequate healthcare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to Pusateri’s price gouging. Pusateri's charged $30 for Lysol disinfecting wipes, which is roughly ten times the prepanic price. In contrast, as I have written before, the cost of socialized healthcare in Canada in 2018—approximately $4,389 per capita—was twenty-three times the cost of private healthcare in the early twentieth century, measured by how long a person must work to pay for healthcare. And that’s a conservative estimate. At this point, someone might say “Ah, but the high price of health care is not caused by the government's monopoly. Rather, it reflects the rising cost of modern medical technology.” This argument is unconvincing. There are many complex products—e.g., computers—for which competition and technological innovation produce lower prices. The government's price gouging is more than twice as bad as Pusateri's price gouging. Unfortunately, government price gouging—through taxation—is hidden from view because healthcare is free to consumers at the point of service, whereas consumers must pay Pusateri's directly for their disinfecting wipes. Because the phrase “price gouging” has ominous implications, it should only be used to describe a situation where people are forced to pay a specified price, such as when the government forcibly taxes people for healthcare. This is not the case with Pusateri's, which cannot legally force people to buy disinfecting wipes. If no one buys disinfecting wipes from Pusateri's, they will eventually lower their price. On the other hand, if people voluntarily purchase the wipes, Pusateri's higher profits will prompt other retailers and manufacturers to increase the supply of wipes to meet the increased demand, which also leads to lower prices. This is the effect of competition in an unhampered market. It is equally important to remember that if you pay Pusateri's $30 you know for certain that you are getting what you pay for—the disinfecting wipes. Not so with the government's socialized healthcare, as revealed by the Fraser Institute's 2014 study: Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have noted that patients in Canada die as a result of waiting lists for universally accessible health care. Our analysis estimates that between 25,456 and 63,090 (with a middle value of 44,273) Canadian women may have died as a result of increased wait times between 1993 and 2009. As we can see, Canadians have universal access to waiting lists, but not to actual healthcare. Thus, socialized healthcare is best described as a government scheme which forces you to purchase a product which you may not want or need at a price which the government dictates, raises, and confiscates annually. Then, the government often refuses to deliver the product, without refunding your purchase price, while forbidding you from purchasing a replacement product from competitors elsewhere within its jurisdiction. Therefore, Ford’s holier-than-thou complaint should not be directed toward Pusateri's,1 but toward the government itself: "It is absolutely disgusting that the government forbids competition and lines the pockets of highly paid bureaucrats by forcibly price gouging the public on healthcare that is often denied to them when they desperately need it." Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of economics can see that Ford's diatribe reveals a political double standard. Understanding the economics of so-called price gouging in the private sector requires us to turn a deaf ear to politicians. Instead of complaining about price gouging and empty store shelves, we should learn how market participants filled those shelves in the first place—before the onset of panic buying. This will enable us to consider so-called price gouging—and the government’s response to it—with the proper context. I promise you that young teenagers can easily understand these basic economic principles, which is probably why the subject matter is not properly taught in government schools. After all, we can't have all those graduates questioning government policies. It is therefore ironic that the government's school closures present a golden opportunity for parents to educate their own children, including in basic economic principles, which is not a difficult task, even for the younger ones. Yep, virtually anything government gets it's finger into becomes higher in price and lower in quality.

20.2K people are talking about this "As a mother, Ms. Luther wanted to feed her children," Paxton said in a letter to the judge asking him to free her. "As a small business owner, she wanted to help her employees feed their children. Needless to say, these are laudable goals that warrant the exercise of enforcement discretion." On Thursday, Paxton praised the governor for ensuring that people would not be jailed for flouting the state's coronavirus restrictions. "I applaud Gov. Abbott’s decision to ensure that penalties for violating public health orders are reasonable and not excessive. All Texans are trying to get through this crisis together and no one should be put in jail unnecessarily," he said. Abbott said it was not just that as the state was reducing its prison populations because of the coronavirus that it was also throwing entrepreneurs in jail. "It may also ensure that other Texans like Ana Isabel Castro-Garcia and Brenda Stephanie Mata who were arrested in Laredo, should not be subject to confinement," Abbott said of the order. "As some county judges advocate for releasing hardened criminals from jail to prevent the spread of COVID-19, it is absurd to have these business owners take their place.” 9,356 people are talking about this On Thursday night, Abbott said on Fox News' "Hannity" that citizens' liberty needed to be balanced with the need to slow the coronavirus' spread. "There is [a balance that needs to be struck], Sean, and that is why we are now in Texas opening up things like hair salons and barbershops," Abbott told host Sean Hannity. "But Sean, you need to know this: The problem that we're dealing with is far worse than what you've articulated in Dallas County." Luther, after her arrest for operating her salon in violation of Abbott's executive order, was given three choices by the judge: She could offer an apology for selfishness, pay a fine and shut down until Friday, or serve jail time. "I have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that I'm selfish because feeding my kids is not selfish," she told the judge. "I have hairstylists that are going hungry because they would rather feed their kids. So sir, if you think the law is more important than kids getting fed, then please go ahead with your decision. But I am not going to shut the salon." The dustup Wednesday over Luther's actions came after two Texas Republican lawmakers got illegal haircuts at another business in protest of the fact that hair salons and barbershops were not part of the initial wave of businesses to reopen under the governor's plan. "Hairstylists and the cosmetology industry don’t have a lot of lobbyists in the Capitol advocating for them, whereas maybe the big-box stores and large restaurant chains do and sadly they were overlooked when this should have been an industry that was opened first, because of how regulated they are and the health standards they have to comply with," state Rep. Briscoe Cain said, according to Fox 26 Houston. He was joined by Rep. Steve Toth in his act of civil disobedience. Abbott this week moved up the timeline for hair salons, barbershops and tanning salons to open to Friday after they were initially slotted to reopen in mid-May under the state's plan to get its economy going again. I mean after the State AG, and the Governor both called for her release, then the Governor amended his E.O., wouldn't the Judge be compelled to release her? Maybe this was political afterall....... Did it again Muda...... The judge is a Democrat activist and a lunatic. Dallas began releasing 1,00 inmates, some of which were convicted of felonies, three weeks ago to "save the inmates from the coronavirus" yet this lady was sent to jail for feeding her family.

“Community standards” now means no way are you to be allowed to decide for yourself. : https://spectator.org/the-youtube-memory-hole/

Post-Lockdown: Insist on the Old Normal https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/post-lockdown-insist-on-the-old-normal/

No, I'm not.

U.S. Field Hospitals Stand Down, Most Without Treating Any COVID-19 Patients https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients

Andrew Cuomo's Morally Grotesque Rationale for Maintaining COVID-19 Lockdowns https://reason.com/2020/05/07/andrew-cuomos-morally-grotesque-rationale-for-maintaining-covid-19-lockdowns/ It's becoming increasingly clear these politicians insistence on maintaining lock downs is more about controlling the populace and the power it gives those officials.

Precisely. Yet nearly every democrat across America will pretend the illegal lock downs are for “public safety”.

BARRYOSAMA and gonzoron reacted with the "disdain" function within 60 seconds of each other no less than four times during the past 2 hours. gonzoron and BARRYOSAMA reacted to a post in a topic The Democrat's roster for a Trump - beater in 2020 30 minutes ago gonzoron and BARRYOSAMA reacted to a post in a topic The Coronavirus - a virus from eating bats, an accident or something sinister gone wrong? 31 minutes ago BARRYOSAMA and gonzoron reacted to a post in a topic The Democrat's roster for a Trump - beater in 2020 2 hours ago BARRYOSAMA, Muda69 and gonzoron reacted to a post in a topic The Coronavirus - a virus from eating bats, an accident or something sinister gone wrong? 2 hours ago

Why yes, only the GOP side of the uni-party has ever staged an action for PR purposes.

Since I'm not a member of the Libertarian Party I can't answer for them.

IU student files lawsuit, seeks reimbursement after class moved online due to coronavirus https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2020/05/08/iu-student-files-lawsuit-seeks-reimbursement-after-classes-moved-online-coronavirus/3094828001/ An interesting case.

If a simple observation equals an "answer" then yes. But most intelligent people would not equate the two, unlike you.

I'm sure the governors of all fifty states had zero to do with those numbers. TDS.

Ahhh, Forrest Gump. The movie where the Lieutenant gets his legs blown off and he wasn't even fighting in a real war.