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How about the guy not drive his knee into the neck of the man he had in cuffs? That said, I do think a more immediate arrest could have kept things from escalating to the point it did with the protests.

Just a list of people and the things they did when their lives were taken from them. Oh yeah, they do have one thing in common.

More perspective: There are several of these where many more names could be added to each category. We can’t go jogging (#AmaudArbery). We can’t relax in the comfort of our own homes (#BothemSean and #AtatianaJefferson). We can't ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride). We can't have a cellphone (#StephonClark). We can't leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards). We can't play loud music (#JordanDavis). We can’t sell CD's (#AltonSterling). We can’t sleep (#AiyanaJones) We can’t walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown). We can’t play cops and robbers (#TamirRice). We can’t go to church (#Charleston9). We can’t walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin). We can’t hold a hair brush while leaving our own bachelor party (#SeanBell). We can’t party on New Years (#OscarGrant). We can’t get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland). We can’t lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile). We can't break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones). We can’t shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) . We can’t have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher). We can’t read a book in our own car (#KeithScott). We can’t be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover). We can’t decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese). We can’t ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans). We can’t cash our check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood). We can’t take out our wallet (#AmadouDiallo). We can’t run (#WalterScott). We can’t breathe (#EricGarner). We can’t live (#FreddieGray).

5A state runner-up Valparaiso just solidified their role as the favorite in the Duneland, and to come out of the North on Thanksgiving weekend, with the transfer of 2 yr. starter Maximus Grimes from Lafayette Jeff ... where he threw 66 TDS vs. 9 interceptions over the last two seasons. https://www.nwitimes.com/high-school/update-former-lafayette-jefferson-star-quarterback-maximus-grimes-transfers-to-valparaiso/article_c9a29116-bd5e-5405-b1c1-56765a9b2737.html UPDATE: Former Lafayette Jefferson star quarterback Maximus Grimes transfers to Valparaiso James Boyd May 28, 2020 Updated 48 min ago Valparaiso is in search of a new starting quarterback for the first time in two years, and the Vikings just received a big reinforcement. Former Lafayette Jefferson star Maximus Grimes has transferred to Valparaiso for the final season of his prep career. He confirmed the news Thursday and explained that the move was family related. Grimes' father got married last summer on July 4, and his stepmother — who lives in Valparaiso — gave birth to identical twin girls a few months ago. To make things easier logistically, Grimes and his dad will join the rest of their family in the Region. "Those have been my guys since I was young," Grimes said of leaving his former teammates in Lafayette. "But at the same time, I'm excited for a new experience." Vikings coach Bill Marshall corroborated the transfer and added that Grimes is eligible to compete. The IHSAA plans to resume school sponsored athletic activities on July 1. "He is in fact enrolled at Valparaiso High School and has had his athletic transfer cleared by the IHSAA," Marshall wrote in a text message to The Times. After a runner-up finish in the Class 5A state final last season and losing two-year starting quarterback CJ Opperman to graduation, Grimes should receive heavy consideration as the Vikings' new leader under center. During his junior campaign in the fall, Grimes commanded one of the most high-powered offenses in the state. The Bronchos averaged 52 points per game and scored over 60 points on three occasions. Grimes led the way through the air with 235.8 passing yards per game, 19 touchdowns and two interceptions. He also rushed for 139 yards and three scores. As a sophomore in 2018, Grimes was even more potent. He averaged 314 passing yards per game and threw a program-record 49 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Grimes picked up 174 yards and two more scores on the ground. Beyond his gaudy stats, he believes his intangibles are what will allow him to have a successful senior season at Valparaiso. "I think that I can bring passion and competitiveness just by being somebody who loves to play the game," said Grimes, who stands 6 foot 2 and weighs 200 pounds. "Whether it's in practice, a scrimmage or the state championship game, I want to win." According to 247Sports, Grimes is a pro-style quarterback with interest from Indiana, Miami (Ohio) and Purdue. He announced via Twitter on May 15 that he received a scholarship offer from Valparaiso University. Last year, Grimes led Lafayette Jefferson to a 9-1 record. The Bronchos were undefeated heading into the playoffs but had their season ended in a 27-20 loss to Merrillville in a Class 6A sectional semifinal on Nov. 1. Grimes played against the Pirates with a torn right ACL, which he initially ruptured against Anderson on Sept. 27. He still completed nine passes for 75 yards in the first half. But on a Hail Mary attempt in the closing seconds of the second quarter, Grimes' right knee finally gave out. He did not return to the contest and underwent surgery a few days before Thanksgiving. Grimes said his right knee is about "90-95%" healthy, and he expects to be at full strength for the Vikings' season opener against Penn on Aug. 21. In the meantime, Grimes has remained in contact with Marshall and recently met up with his new receivers for a couple of throwing sessions. "Obviously, everybody wants to win a state championship. That's the only thing that matters," Grimes said. "Anything less than that would be a loss in my book."

Pre-orders available if interested. Also pretty sweet a WW kid makes the cover. Congrats to Holden. Now I await my copy to help me pass time till kickoff

Oh the irony of placing a trump flag next to the ametican flag.

I know one who can answer yes to all of those. That person also has black children. I don't know

Pet peeve of mine. A flea-flicker and hook and ladder are two completely different plays. And don’t get me started on shuffle/shuttle/shovel passes.

I don't want to name names, but they do! While obviously Grimes is a loss, the young man that will take his place is not that far of a drop-off.

He played for Battleground when he was young. The kids he played with then played for Harrison.

I find this interesting. He calls certain people out, telling them they do not know of which they speak, yet this sanctimonious hypocrisy occurs. Baffling.

Perspective is interesting...... Next task...search the story about exactly WHO started the destruction in the rioting.

in 1998, the undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table."

I will add; as far as Dr. King is concerned. Would you believe the police response in both situations should have been the same then?

Being the target of the comment; just exactly how is it juvenile to compare to other riots or protests? As someone who has been called out for being "selective" in my criticism by others; I was merely pointing to other riots that have occurred, and excluding the tea party one, that the other riots were never brought up here. I also added the disclaimer at the beginning of the post that I do not condone. Now that I have been called out again. I wonder what exactly was the point of posting about the riots at all? No posts about the murder of Floyd; in fact, the first comment made was AFTER a post about the rioting. I have also noticed that no one addressed the differences in protests I made in a follow up post. How is it that heavily armed militia and protesters can go inside a Statehouse (an illegal act) and yell and scream in the face of law enforcement, while many innocent protesters (excluding the looters and others causing destruction) were tear gassed and attacked by law enforcement in full riot gear (something law enforcement at various Statehouses apparently did not need).

No it isn't. It's time to make America............America. I think the looting is misguided. I think those doing the looting would be better served taking other actions. Peaceful actions don't work, it's time for something else.

Literally makes no sense. Not every team can go undefeated in the conference, you know that right? Some teams will unfortunately be toward the bottom while others are more successful. And as I pointed out to you in a different thread, most years 4 of the 8 teams (Plymouth, Northridge, NorthWood, Wawasee) have been in the same sectional, and another 3 (Concord, Goshen, Elk Memorial) would be grouped together. That leaves a maximum of 3 sectional champions each year, and that's lucky to occur. The Duneland is guaranteed at least 1 sectional champion (6A - Sectional 1) and has a 75% chance of a 2nd (5A - Sectional 9) and a 50% chance at a 3rd (6A - Sectional 2). Hell they've got a 75% chance at a Regional champ in 6A! My point being - post season success is not a fair assumption on how good a confernce is or is not. Outside of Valparaiso and Merrillville - who in the DAC has made much postseason noise since in the last decade? Michigan City only just recently won their first 2 sectional & regional championships and are obviously on a good trajectory under Coach Mason. Crown Point had a 3-peat of sectional championships, but look at their overall record those three years... it's .500 (18-18). And again, they benifited from being in a sectional of all DAC opponents. At least 1 of them had to win it!

There is no meme that could be justified surrounding that incident when Mr. Flloyd was being murdered. We have all seen the video and it is sickening. SF is referring to the "protests" that are ongoing. There is no justification for what has happened the past 2 nights. How many cans of spray paint did Dr. King carry with him during his protests? How many businesses did he burn to the ground during his protests? NONE. The genesis of the protests - I absolutely agree with, the officer(s) murdered Mr. Flloyd. They should be charged with murder, and I think they will. The events in MN have moved way beyond protests now. This is just an excuse for bad behavior, and anyone saying it is simply a protest is part of the problem. And comparing this (or any idiotic celebration or protest) to the Boston Tea Party is juvenile and misguided.

Good bloodlines will always tell. 😉

Correct. That gets alleviated a little with football divisions though. Only have to travel super far in the week 9 crossover game.

Where's your meme of the guy getting his trachea crushed? Not surprising this is the first mention we get of this in this Club.

12 hours and not a single "wolfs" comment. Board is slipping

My 2 cents.... 1) I’ve seen multiple kids the last few years receive invites (including my son) from our school and the area. It’s not that exclusive. 2) $3K to spend the week in Hawaii with 3 other players in a room and share a bed with limited exposure. *meals not included 3) $3K can get you to a lot of camps at schools with multiple college coaches attending. 4) if you’ve got the cash and want to go to Hawaii, what better way to do it than getting to play football. 😎 P.S. $3K for each person that wants to go along with the player.

Semantics...

As far as the rioting goes; here is one of the early entries for the category of "stirring the pot". He is seen walking along the front of this Autozone store breaking the windows; and then walks away from the scene. Looks a bit overdressed. His ex fiance' was shown this and identified him. He is a cop from St. Paul.........hmmmmmm So it appears Chauvin has more supporters.

Well, I do know this. You have assumed too much in this post. I am not referring to myself. But I do know for certain you have made an ass of yourself with this comment. For context, I am referring to the quote, “when you assume....”

Guess who was the Hennepin County Attorney prior to becoming a Senator......... https://www.westernjournal.com/bombshell-klobuchar-refused-prosecute-officer-center-george-floyd-case-might-prevented-death/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=conservativetribune&utm_content=2020-05-28&utm_campaign=manualpost&fbclid=IwAR1yrO2FRYkAjJJcZSK2r5rWIItbOJTFULGbpilvanUbR3xhKuncPeS0Bf0

After the fact damage control.

Three Ways Lockdowns Are Costing Human Lives https://mises.org/wire/three-ways-lockdowns-are-costing-human-lives

Nursing Homes Account for 42 Percent of America's COVID-19 Fatalities https://reason.com/2020/05/27/nursing-homes-account-for-42-percent-of-americas-covid-19-fatalities/

The Spread of the Debt Virus https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/national-debt-washington-postponing-frightening-choices/

Trump's Executive Order on Twitter Is a Total Mess https://reason.com/2020/05/28/trumps-executive-order-on-twitter-is-a-total-mess/ Interestingly, after years of downplaying the idea that foreign actors used social media in an attempt to influence the 2016 election, Trump now opportunistically claims that the U.S. government must have power over these platforms to stop the scourge of "disinformation from foreign governments." But his biggest complaint is about alleged ideological bias by private companies. Despite previously rallying around the rights of conservative businesses to choose who they do business with and decline to display liberal messages (think florists and bakers), Trump now says that private businesses should have to be totally content-neutral conduits of whatever messages that customers want to broadcast. To justify his position that the feds can compel companies to display messages from private citizens and government officials alike, Trump turns to a mangled conception of the federal law known as Section 230. This is the 1990s statute stipulating that online platforms and publishers are not to be treated as the speaker of user-generated content (i.e., if I defame someone on Facebook, Facebook isn't on the hook for defamation). The order erroneously suggests that Section 230 only applies if online companies moderate content in ways that are explicitly laid out in their terms of service, though nothing in Section 230 comes close to saying this. It complains that Twitter has been "restricting online content" for reasons other than those laid out as permissible reasons in Section 230(c)(2). This is the part of the statute saying companies don't become liable for all user content by virtue of moderating content that is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable." But "otherwise objectionable" is a completely discretionary standard and can encompass just about anything. The order relies heavily on conservatives' victimhood conspiracy du jour: that social media companies are colluding to suppress conservative voices. It's an objectively untrue viewpoint, as countless booted and suspended liberal, libertarian, and apolitical accounts can tell you. But even if it were true that Twitter or Facebook only takes action against conservatives—or if we take the more believable assertion that current content moderation policies tend to hit some political viewpoints harder than others—it would still not fall outside the bounds of Section 230(c)(2) moderation, which requires only that the moderator find some speech to be "objectionable." Somehow, out of Trump's several paragraphs of paraphrasing Section 230 with random erroneous asides, federal officials are supposed to intuit a new paradigm and "apply section 230(c) according to the interpretation set out in this section." The document also instructs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to define concepts that Trump just made up for this order and then propose ways to tell if companies are running afoul of them. Trump wants the FCC to determine the conditions under which content moderation will be considered "deceptive, pretextual, or inconsistent with a provider's terms of service"—but then what? Nothing in Section 230 says a company can't moderate in ways "inconsistent with" their terms of service. And it's laughable to think that bureaucrats will be able to tell whether thousands of individual content moderators are making decisions based on the right reasons or on secretly "deceptive" grounds. The FCC is also tasked with defining this bit of Trumpian gobbledygook: the conditions under which content moderation will be considered "the result of inadequate notice, the product of unreasoned explanation, or having been undertaking without a meaningful opportunity to be heard." One of the most concrete parts of the executive order, and perhaps the only feasible part, is a bit saying that all federal agencies must review and submit (within 30 days) a report on the amount of money they spend on social media advertising. It comes in a section titled "Prohibition on Spending Federal Taxpayer Dollars on Advertising with Online Platforms That Violate Free Speech Principles." Insofar as this order helps keep stupid government propaganda campaigns off social media and reduces what the public pays for those campaigns, great! Alas, Trump doesn't really have any clue what the criteria for preventing these ads might be and didn't bother finding out whether he has the statutory authority to require this before writing the order. It actually asks the heads of each executive department and agency to independently review "the viewpoint-based speech restrictions imposed by each online platform" and then tell Trump "the statutory authorities available to restrict advertising dollars to online platforms." The second-to-last part of the order is another bit that sounds vaguely weighty but is actually just a bunch of big words sort of strung together in the way that might fool random Trump fans into thinking he's taking action. He declares that Facebook and Twitter are "the functional equivalent of a traditional public forum"—which would essentially mean that they are the "functional equivalent" of government property. But of course, Trump has no authority to simply seize these private companies via executive order. And even if he could just declare that Twitter and Facebook were the digital equivalent of the National Mall, this would mean that government actors would face serious hurdles to restricting speech on them. Bottom line: Unless government officials are going to completely take over Twitter and Facebook content moderation, invoking public forums here is just bluster. Ultimately, the order's lack of standard review very much shows. It seems the White House apparently didn't consult with the Federal Communications Commission about the order, which would mean it did not go through the standard interagency review process. "Worth remembering that with prior WH attempts to draft an executive order targeting social media companies, the FCC and FTC (which are led by Republican chairmen) privately pushed back on being deputized to police political speech on social platforms," noted CNN tech reporter Brian Fung on Twitter. "Much of the order could quickly get bogged down in a thicket of legal and constitutional questions," Fung added. "Just for example, the FTC reports to Congress, not the WH." Good luck with this one, King Trump.

Hydroxychloroquine has been FDA approved since 1955 and has been prescribed to millions of people by thousands of doctors throughout the world.

Twitter using CNN and the Washington Post as “fact checkers” is ridiculous. Politifact still lists the claim that all 17 U.S. Intelligence Agencies agreed the Russians hacked the DNC servers is “true”.😂

I disagree. No, I don't believe it is.

What caused the Minneapolis PD to start tear gassing? Oh yeah - the destruction of property, fires, looting, the throwing rocks, in case you failed to notice that. What caused the Michigan PD to NOT respond in a similar manner.........? Oh yeah - the Michigan protesters forgot bring spray paint and forgot to grab a shopping cart from the Target Store they looted to fill it with rocks, and forgot how to start fires and break windows - THAT'S WHY!!

Not necessarily. What exactly is inaccurate about swordfish's statement then?

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351

Rioting, looting and arson are not considered protests. The people in Michigan were protesting government imposed lock downs. Most of those men did not appear to be the type of guys who are concerned about their "hair" and "nails".

Bingo. Another one of the problems with having Public Section Unions.

Thank you.

George Floyd’s Death Must Be a Catalyst for Accountability https://www.cato.org/blog/officer-involved-killing-george-floyd

https://reason.com/2020/05/28/minneapolis-police-killed-george-floyd-then-failed-to-protect-property-owners-from-riots/ So exactly what would have mollified these many in Minneapolis who have resorted to violence? The immediate sentencing and execution of these four police officers?

They are two completely different situations that occurred in two different states, are they not? And is "yelling and screaming" a violent act?

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I just donated to the Trump campaign and downloaded the Trump 2020 app.