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Nike makes Juneteenth an annual paid company holiday https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/nike-juneteenth-company-holiday/507-5f4459fb-e878-4de0-b516-aa87b7bf6c7d

Right - Gotta be the same thing. Big BS flag. Don't even go there with this one Gonzo. Those MI protesters obeyed the LAW, (not an order) said their piece and went home. No violence, no occupation, no "Autonomous Zone" just a real protest. There is no comparison of the Seattle occupation and the MI protests........

I used Google. Found several pages of links. Malheur wasn't built in a day. But do they have an armored John Deere?

No danger of that in my case.......but if my local watering hole had a Board............

Happy Loving Day

To answer your question: No

His son.

A Presidency Is a Terrible Thing to Waste https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/president-trump-behavior-destroying-chances-reelection/

Again the liberal mind continues to fascinate me.....

They did occupy part of a city. By your own definition, that's a crime. If the Seatlle protestors leave, then they have not broken the law? Got it.

Doing great. Get to watch some girls basketball next weekend and all of July. Been too long.

I will forever associate you and John Deere, lol. Hope things are going well for you!

Touché....I like that one.....and the Deere. (at some point I am going to need to get some work done today)

Did you look? https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-police-autonomous-zone/index.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/seattle-protesters-set-autonomous-zone-after-police-evacuate-precinct-n1230151 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-06-12/protesters-banish-police-to-occupy-seattle-neighborhood https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-autonomous-zone.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/06/11/the-autonomous-zone-in-seattle-is-a-harbinger-of-americas-future-if-politicians-dont-start-working-together/#156cc2e773f8 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/12/seattle-protest-chaz-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-police-free/3173968001/

Is this new thinking - "Houseist"? Lysander - think for yourself on this one, while the US version of Antifa appears to be using a different flag, this one appears to have started in the global antifa movement as depicted in the Snopes video from the UK. BTW - It’s literally only been one day of autonomous communism in Seattle and the system is already failing and famine is setting in.

Swordfish - is this actually for real? Honest question. If so, it’s frightening....and would seem to be a bit of a “tell”. I have long recognized that Antifa was little more than a babysitting service for backdoor Brownshirts (since they seem to openly wallow in that imagery) but this seems even too obvious a message for their somewhat wanting PR department.....though they do rely perhaps too heavily on their many apologists at the Times, Post, etc. to sugarcoat their real message. Still, I truly think they need to beef up their marketing department. The only other observation I have about all of this is the absolute dearth of information and coverage about this situation outside of a quite literal handful of places.....one would think “CHAZ” (sharing that somewhat unfortunate name with the cologne from the 80’s - but no doubt MUCH more fragrant given their population) is north of the DMZ with the scant coverage and seeming lack of interest by the mainstream press. I get more Google references regarding UFO abductions in Metamora, Indiana than I seem to get when I look for information regarding this newly formed communist utopia nation on our western shores. God forbid I Google for references regarding those “commoners” in Michigan marching peacefully to go back to work or to attend church....such things as national crises are composed of apparently....based on the intense and scathing coverage of that “rabble” (Thank God for that brilliant governor they have holding things together in Michigan, btw). Can’t have those flyover rubes wanting to get back work or attend church when there is a country that needs burning to the ground.

True, but BC has always been a basketball first school. In fact, their long time AD, Dick Atha who recently passed away, was a standout, even played in the NBA.

My grandfather was a minister, always in small town churches, ain't nothing worse than a church fight.

Try serving on a church board......that runs a daycare......Geez.....the longest 4 years of my life.......and my wife's......she was the treasurer.......

Do you believe in America, or just the America you want it to be?

Interesting. The new leftist utopia has a border wall and border patrol.

So does your Hamilton county compound.,

The left has clearly stated their position regarding a border wall and border patrol as racist.

Lady Antebellum changes name to Lady A https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/06/11/lady-antebellum-definition-now-officially-lady-a/5342373002/ *sigh*. Where does the PC end? Yet another bending over by individuals because someone might be offended. No, make that looking for something to offend them. The Homogenization of America: https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/homogenization-america/

I don't own a trailer, just a modest one family home. As for what protects it I have motion sensing lights at various locations around the exterior, along with a subscription-based security package. Why the apparent derision for individuals who live in trailers? Why no patrol? Are the walls of your compound that high and that strong?

With 1 Republican Cosponsor, Rep. Justin Amash Gains Tripartisan Support To End Qualified Immunity https://reason.com/2020/06/11/justin-amash-tom-mcclintock-republican-cosponsor-tripartisan-support-to-end-qualified-immunity/ The cops in those cases received protection under the legal doctrine because the judiciary had not yet established in near-identical terms that those actions were unconstitutional. In other words, officers need clearer notice to know, for example, that stealing is wrong. Even so, qualified immunity still has its supporters. "'Clearly established' means that the law is so clear at the time of the incident that every reasonable officer would understand the unlawfulness of his conduct," Judge Amul Thapar of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit wrote in the majority opinion for Howse. "To avoid 'paralysis by analysis,' qualified immunity protects all but plainly incompetent officers or those who knowingly violate the law." When considering how the doctrine works in practice, the contradiction in Thapar's reasoning is a bit hard to ignore. Only "plainly incompetent officers" and "those who knowingly violate the law" are exempt from qualified immunity, he says. And yet it still shielded two cops who could not deduce without the help of the courts that taking hundreds of thousands of dollars is a violation of someone's constitutional rights. Brynne Kennedy, the Democrat facing McClintock in the November election, called his stance "a welcome surprise," according to McClatchy. It shouldn't be, however, when considering that McClintock has historically erred on the side of support for police reform, even before he clinched his seat in the House. "No-knock warrants have proven to be lethal to citizens and police officers, for an obvious reason," he said yesterday. "The invasion of a person's home is one of the most terrifying powers government possesses." For her part, Kennedy isn't impressed. McClintock must show he will "protect Social Security and Medicare, combat corruption, and lower the cost of prescription drugs," she said. Otherwise, his bipartisanship—rather, tripartisanship—is moot. But that logic represents a backward understanding of crosspartisan lawmaking. Ironically, by Kennedy's definition, bipartisanship can only exist when everyone already agrees with the core tenets of her platform. That attitude is also counterproductive to striking down awful legal doctrines like qualified immunity and perhaps explains, in part, why so few lawmakers are willing to cross those political trenches. Just last week, I wrote about the Republicans' hesitance to support Amash's bill—an odd trend when considering the GOP claims to be the party of small government. Qualified immunity puts more power in the hands of the already-powerful at the expense of the little guy. One hopes that more might follow McClintock's lead, understanding that principled leadership need not be hamstrung by tribalism. I hope this legislation actually gets somewhere. But then there is the bigger task ahead of breaking the public sector police union.

You did. Again like always out of the side of your mouth. Perhaps you live in a trailer surrounded by your compound walls?? Or does it looks more like this?:

CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, NY Times & USA Today articles were published after 6:00 pm yesterday or today. Fox News has been reporting on this insanity for three days. Tucker Carlson had a hilarious video last night.

Where was the statement "no one was reporting it besides Fox" posted?

The above statement makes no reference to Fox. The author stated he was unable to find a reference using Google who routinley filter searches. Perhaps the links you provided were more readily available on a less politically driven search engine service.

Probably. Trailers may be banned in well-to-do Hamilton county, too downscale and harmful to property values.

Common sense independents in swing states will reject all of this ridiculous nonsense. Coronavirus lockdown hoaxes, Democrat and mainstream media inspired riots and the lunacy in Seattle. A considerable portion of the young adults who are participating in the riots and looting won't even vote. The Democrat platform and their candidate are so pathetic that they view schemes, scams and hoaxes as their best political strategy.

PBS documentary "The Brain". Virginia Tech Neuro Research Institue

Science says liberals, not conservatives are pyschotic https://nypost.com/2016/06/09/science-says-liberal-beliefs-are-linked-to-pyschotic-traits/ Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians. A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” now says it got it wrong. Very wrong. The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism. “The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed,” the journal said in the startling correction. “The descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.” In the paper, psychoticism is associated with traits such as tough-mindedness, risk-taking, sensation-seeking, impulsivity and authoritarianism. The social-desirability scale measures people’s tendency to answer questions in ways they believe would please researchers, even if it means overestimating their positive characteristics and underestimating negative ones. The erroneous report has been cited 45 times, according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Brad Verhulst, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher and a co-author of the paper, said he was not sure who was to blame. “I don’t know where it happened. All I know is it happened,” he told Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks corrections in academic papers. “It’s our fault for not figuring it out before.” The journal said the error doesn’t change the main conclusions of the paper, which found that “personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes.” But professor Steven Ludeke of the University of Southern Denmark, who pointed out the errors, told Retraction Watch that they “matter quite a lot.” “The erroneous results represented some of the larger correlations between personality and politics ever reported; they were reported and interpreted, repeatedly, in the wrong direction,” he said.

Seattle's CHAZ: Homesteaders or Illegal Squatters? https://mises.org/power-market/seattles-chaz-homesteaders-or-illegal-squatters Seattle's mayor Jenny Durkan may not go quite as far as Dr. Block, but she does appear to acknowledge the new, uh, "community" essentially colonizing major thoroughfares in the Emerald City. She may not be ready to grant the CHAZ outright ownership of the streets in question, but neither is she setting any deadlines for eviction: Clearly the mayor is in the midst of a dangerous situation, both literally for the people in the CHAZ and in terms of her own political career. It's a public relations nightmare. And from a purely legal perspective, what grants her authority over who occupies Capitol Hill? One answer is taxes, says Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe. In his view, the streets of Seattle are not virgin territory available to homesteaders, but rather akin to land held in trust by (admittedly unworthy) state agents on behalf of taxpayers. If those trustees won't sell the land or other property outright and return the funds to taxpayers, Hoppe's view is that they at least ought to operate and maintain such property on their behalf. So, for the purpose of countering Dr. Block's contention that government property should be viewed as open to homesteading—and only for that purpose, Hoppe says—"public" property should be viewed as being owned by taxpayers. As such, it should be managed on behalf of the long-suffering (net) taxpaying citizens as a matter of simple justice. Principles aside, the essence of ownership is control. Bureaucrats, police, and politicians who control access to and use of "public" property are its de facto owners, because only they can sell, encumber, or control its use. The average American's ownership claim to the local playground or a city library is virtually nil. Simply try sleeping in them overnight, and you'll quickly find out who really owns them. So, for the moment, the Seattle protestors have the greatest control over Capitol Hill and hence an ownership claim of sorts under the brute force of "possession is nine-tenths of the law." Whether their claim is valid comes down to whether they are illegal squatters or righteous Lockean homesteaders. In a densely settled area like Seattle, with a long history of property titles flowing from valid sales, the question becomes absurd. Their protests and encampments directly affect the undisputed private property all around them. The Seattle government has thoroughly controlled the roads and police using funds forcibly taxed from Seattle residents. Capitol Hill residents, businesses, and visitors rely and depend on existing understandings and contractual arrangements. Seattle cannot be homesteaded, not even city property, in any conceivable manner that does justice to its current inhabitants. And to the extent that they've paid for it all through taxes, their right to evict the CHAZ protestors clearly supercedes any "right" to conflate occupation with protest. It's tempting to dismiss the Seattle protestors en masse because of their terrible and violent political beliefs, and their terrible designs for remaking America without property or markets. But that doesn't change the thorny question of how to deal with them here and now. If they are illegal squatters—not to mention disruptors of many who live or work in the area—then their forcible removal is justified. But New York City lacked the political will to remove Occupy Wall Street campers from Zuccotti Park for many months. Will ultrawoke Seattle in 2020, with its obliging mayor, evict the CHAZ protestors anytime soon? I would start with a blockade. Starve them out and turn of their electricity and water supply.

So sorry you're blatantly misinformed, but the Pandemic rolls on, and in many places it is exercising its second wind. All of these, so called, reopening to normalcies, are just a gamble that every state's health department may be able to stay on top of the citizen's healthy do diligence and everyone continues to exercise safe social distancing, and the use of face masks. I guess it is fine to handicap your own decision making for the finishes in 5A football.

Since I am pretty sure the pandemic has been cancelled, it is time to start figuring out who will be # 2 3 4 and 5 in the state this year. My personal feelings are that bloomington south takes a beating in the state championship to the saints. But well give valpo the #2 slot because let's face it, state championship will be played in the north this year. Looking for castle to take the #4 slot And cathedral to roll in at 5