Muda69

It would be earth shattering if Kokomo would leave the NCC. The rest of the conference would dissolve.

It's obvious the A.D's from the other non-Tippecanoe county schools don't want the power in the NCC centered in Tippecanoe county, with it's (no longer) three member schools.

So goes Kokomo, so goes the NCC. If an athletic conference can have a hear and soul it would be the city of Kokomo and it's Wildkats. Both WildKat basketball and football are currently on the upswing so it's no surprise if it's AD used his muscle to out an upcoming threat like Harrison.

A new use for ChatGPT by the FBI:

Was Anyone Victimized by Trump's 34 Alleged Felonies?: https://reason.com/2023/04/12/was-anyone-victimized-by-trumps-34-alleged-felonies/ Agreed. These charges are dubious at best, and it's becoming more clear they are primarily a political stunt by Mr. Bragg. It sounds like Mr. Trump's real legal troubles could come from Georgia.

So in the Indy burbs schools you can probably add these to the list as well: Basketball Softball Volleyball As would Frankfort.

More on the evils of the Farm Bill: https://mises.org/wire/current-farm-bill-fraud-government-usual WAKE UP!

Soccer is a "country club" sport? That is news to me.................

A number of them are, yes.

American society already legislates the moral choices minors can make, and have been doing it for decades: 1. The age they can legally purchase and consume alcohol. 2. The age they can legally have sex with another individual. 3. The age they can legally drive a car. 4. The age they can legally purchase tobacco products. 5. The age they can legally work for pay outside of the home. 6. The age they can join the military. This list goes on. Again, I'm talking about minors here. If a legal adult want to waste their time and money, along with most likely a lifetime of pain and suffering, to become a different gender, then they can knock themselves out. So you are in agreement that all the above laws should be repealed, in the name of getting government out of the morality business?

Is Dungeons & Dragons Eliminating 'Inherently Racist' Half-Elves, Half-Orcs? https://reason.com/2023/04/05/dungeons-dragons-half-elf-half-orc-racist-woke-pc/

I read somewhere that the total cost for a full transition, including surgeries and drugs, can be upwards of 7 million dollars. Sweet, sweet coin for the hospitals and doctors.

Think about the children Bob! Do you want some woke skold of a parent deciding that it's ok for their 13-year old daughter to become a man, beginning a regime of puberty blockers and testosterones treatments that could have some real long term health consequences? Especially if at 17 the now "man" decides they really no longer like their "maleness" and want to go back to being a female. And surgeries just add another level of cost and complication to that matter. Is this the kind of decision a 13-17 year old can really, really make for themselves? After all we aren't talking about tattoos or piercings here.

More disgraceful stadium shenanigans, this time by the owner of the Bills: (warning, foul language) https://deadspin.com/buffalo-bills-nfl-stadium-pegula-hochul-west-ham-1850306760

https://reason.com/2023/04/03/minnesota-taxpayers-could-be-pillaged-for-280-million-in-vikings-stadium-upgrades/ Yep. Crony capitalism and fleecing the taxpayers at it's finest. Despicable.

https://reason.com/video/2023/04/03/rand-paul-is-right-banning-tiktok-would-be-idiotic/ Yep, the government is always, always looking for new ways to restrict personal freedoms.

A fake woman drinking fake beer. Sounds about right........................

The Revolution Comes for NPR https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-revolution-comes-for-npr/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=second What NPR’s executives see as baseless allegations of racial hostility are, in fact, supported and reinforced by the tools fashioned into existence by NPR. Given how much this company has devoted itself to broadcasting content that purports to divine racial hostility in unremarkable banalities, its listeners would probably agree with NPR’s disgruntled former employees. In recent years, NPR has played frequent host to pop-academic fixtures such as White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo, who lectures white listeners on their need to experience discomfort while interrogating their own internalized white supremacy because “‘nice white people’ can still be complicit in a racist society.” It lectures young listeners on the most effective ways “non-black folks” can “talk to your parents about racism.” It diagnoses acute medical ailments that are directly attributable to the existence of racism and poverty. Applying a secret logic that uncovers “covert racism” in everyday life dominates NPR’s coverage of just about everything. The January 6 hearings were actually all about racism. Banal crime-blotter journalism is rife with racism. Climate-change activism is, in fact, an anti-racist crusade. Philanthropy and charity are tainted by racism. Homebuyers navigate a minefield of racial hostilities. The “food world” is, consciously or otherwise, racist. Birdwatching’s racist legacy pervades the practice even today. The same could be said of conservationism in general. Mundane turns-of-phrase such as “sold down the river,” “grandfathering in,” “master bedroom,” and “cake walk” expose their users as, if not racist themselves, white-supremacist-adjacent. NPR finds evidence of “systemic racism” in seemingly every legacy institution in the United States, a category that surely includes storied venues such as NPR. By lending undue credence to nearly any allegation of white racial bigotry, the broadcaster was writing the instructions through which the disgruntled can bring down the successful. Did NPR’s executives expect their employees not to notice? In my book, The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun, I describe the psychological incentives associated with the impulse to impose progressive political themes on otherwise apolitical cultural stimuli — “a power play reserved almost exclusively for the successful”: NPR made this intoxicating philosophy into a business model. Their employees over-imbibed and became understandably besotted with it. The only surprise in the news that the revolution NPR incubated has at last come for NPR is that it took this long. This would be funny if actually wasn't so sad.

https://reason.com/2023/03/31/public-sector-unions-are-trampling-our-public-services/ Remember the words of FDR: "Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relations and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government....The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service."

The Trump Indictment Exposes Fault Lines in the American Criminal Justice System: https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-indictment-exposes

Donald Trump indicted; expected to surrender early next week https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-new-york-indictment-election-027d0e5ac1881a4c55c6379deae75faa?utm_source=apnews&utm_medium=featuredcard&utm_campaign=leadstory I fear yet another pandora's box has been opened.

Why does there have to be a money factor involved for the mechanics of promotion/relegation to work? You classify teams not by their enrollment but entirely on their success/failure as a program over a determined amount of time.

I think you mean "parity". "Parody" has a completely different meaning. 🙂 But to answer your questions, yes, to both.

https://deadspin.com/ferris-state-tony-annese-cigars-suspension-ncaa-1850273580 Yep. Curse you Joe Burrow!