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California legislature opens up potential pay-to-play future: https://deadspin.com/california-legislature-opens-up-potential-pay-to-play-f-1849170950 Oh, what a time for D1 college football.

I met a woman who only had one leg. She called herself Eileen.

https://mises.org/wire/turns-out-elites-administrative-state-better-democracy The ruling did no such thing. Instead, the court said that federal regulatory agencies are not free to create and enforce rules outside of their statutory authority. The EPA had simply declared itself the official power plant CO2 emissions regulator under the Obama administration despite the fact that Democrats had a supermajority in the US Senate and a huge majority in the House and theoretically could have passed a law giving new regulatory powers to the EPA. That Congress did not do so is instructive. In other words, this was an extralegal power grab but one approved by elites because, well, elites know more than everyone else. The NYT editorial continued: The “administrative state,” of course, is anything but democratic; it is autocratic to the core. For all of their professed love for democracy, progressives have long demanded rule by experts, or at least rule by “experts” that meet progressive approval. As I pointed out last year, when actual scientists studied the effects of so-called acid rain and concluded that it was not causing lake and river acidification, progressives in the media, as well as EPA administrators, immediately tried to destroy the careers of scientists failing to echo the party line. Not surprisingly, one of the loudest antiscience voices in the acid rain affair was the New York Times. Furthermore, for all the “experts know best” rhetoric in the NYT editorial, there is no proof that the administrative state governs as effectively as democracy, which elites pretend to love. The “experts” at the Federal Reserve believed they could substitute trillions of printed dollars for actual production of goods without creating monetary chaos. In western forests, the “experts” at the US Forest Service have had fire suppression policies in place for more than a century, and the result has been that what were once mere forest fires have become destructive conflagrations that burn so hot that they often destroy the scorched soil’s ability to generate postfire growth. The ”experts” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed policies that precipitated massive job losses, caused unnecessary premature death from ailments other than covid-19, and still failed to promote adequate information about the virus and its origins. Education “experts” have created one educational crisis after another, and so on. Rule by experts—the administrative state—has caused destruction whenever it is invoked, yet the editors at the “newspaper of record” have failed to notice. Instead, they proclaim eternal fealty to what only can be called a failed experiment in governance, not to mention that it is antidemocratic. Yet, the NYT editors cannot keep from claiming loyalty to both forms of governance, even when they contradict one another: There is much to dissect in those words, but suffice it to say that to assume that EPA decision makers have the kind of knowledge and expertise implied in that editorial is to foolishly demonstrate faith in something that inevitably fails. Far from being near-omniscient sages of science, the bureaucrats making life-altering decisions at the EPA are people who bear no costs if they impose unnecessary burdens on the lives of ordinary people but who also find that the more draconian their edicts, the greater the praise from environmental interest groups and, of course, the New York Times. What possibly could go wrong? Of course the elites prefer the administrative state over real democracy. It helps perpetuate big government.

I remember my college days, driving to/from Terre Haute on the weekends, when I would pass little 'ole Westfield High school on US. 31, with the "Worlds Largest Dairy Queen" caddy cornered from the football field at the intersection of US 31 and SR32: https://vintageaerial.com/photos/indiana/hamilton/1971/MHA/66/26#:~:text=Comments&text=--This Dairy Queen in,room for the parking lot.

So you are in the logistics industry now?

When a quarter of the class identifies as trans https://pitt.substack.com/p/headline-when-a-quarter-of-the-class?r=7bjvz&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Yep, it is the progressive liberals that appear to have taken over a majority of the administration and teaching positions at government and private schools that is driving this trans madness. BTW, I recently watched the excellent documentary "What is a Woman?" by Matt Walsh. I suggest everybody else watch it as well.

FDA Finally Admits It Caused the Baby Formula Shortage https://reason.com/2022/07/07/fda-finally-admits-it-caused-the-baby-formula-shortage/

Hmm. I used to work at facility designated as a free/foreign trade zone, and never had a federal background check. Must be a different level of security. As if forced government compliance will work, especially where labor unions are concerned.

So we need government regulation, aka legalized force, to compel free enterprise to do something. Got it. How about a terminal companies doing a better job than their competitors, causing those competitors to lose business, which in turn will compel them to either upgrade of go out of business altogether. aka the market working as it should, without government interference. ? Please explain.

Big deal, you supposedly visited one port. Did the port security chase you away after they found you supposedly filming this? And I still stand by this original statement: It is government control that suppresses innovation and technology in the marketplace. I currently work in an industry where billions are wasted every year due to government "oversight".

The danger of license plate readers in post-Roe America https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/the-danger-of-license-plate-readers-in-post-roe-america/ So will the Indiana State Police and other Indiana law enforcement agencies be watching the Indiana/Illinois border closely?

Frankfort already plays 2-3 of the HHC schools every year in the big-three boys sports; Football, Basketball, Baseball and also in the big-three girls sports; Volleyball, Basketball, & Softball. And they are in no way dominant. I say before considering contraction just go all in and attempt to join the conference. It would greatly reduce travel times and reinforce the existing county rivalries. A win-win.

Because the size of the school is not always indicative of the "power" of it's athletic programs. This is the preconceived notion that the IHSAA's primarily enrollment based classification system has caused.

Unfortunately Frankfort is a "4A" school with a large 2A - small 3A athletic talent base. It would fit we ll in the Hoosier, And isn't Western a 4A school that is also currently a member of the Hoosier conference?

Frankfort was a charter member of the NCC, and left when it's enrollment growth could no longer keep pace with it's larger NCC brethren. Don't think they would have any interest in returning. The Hoosier Conference is the best fit for the Hot Dogs should the Sagamore Conference fall apart. That or the Hoosier Heartland Conference.

McCutcheon and Harrison need to merge into one mega-school, call it Tippecanoe County high school or something.

Can Boilermaker Alliance, John Purdue Club co-exist in same financial space? https://www.jconline.com/story/sports/college/purdue/2022/07/07/purdue-athletics-name-image-likeness-boilermaker-alliance-john-purdue-club/7827856001/ So the "deep pockets" among Purdue alumni and fans will be asked to dig even deeper into those pockets. There has to be a breaking point, right?

NIL has forever changed the game. 'The NCAA created this monster themselves.' https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2022/07/06/year-into-nil-ncaa-struggles-keep-up-college-sports-shakeup-name-image-likeness-future-explained/7766493001/ (Note: Story is behind a paywall) The opening of Pandora's Box is rarely pretty.

Donation had been made. Thanks to all that the GID staff do.

Look for the Kokomo Wildkats to make some noise in 4A. The north side of the 4A tournament bracket should be theirs for the taking.

Soon to become real?

Which is probably where the majority of Indiana women who want an abortion will travel to for the procedure, once the Indiana Legislature passes legislation during it's July 6th special session to at least severely restrict the practice. I know of at least one liberal progressive acquaintance of mine who has offered transportation to/from Illinois for women when such a law is passed in Indiana.

Yep, funny that Mr. Holcomb called that special session not to address abortion, but to get the legislature to issue a tax refund of $250 per taxpayer back to Hoosiers. Who know if that legislation will actually pass now with everybody focused on this, as you say, "sh*tshow to end all sh*tshows."

Here Is a State-by-State Rundown of What Will Happen Now That SCOTUS Has Freed Lawmakers To Restrict Abortion https://reason.com/2022/06/24/here-is-a-state-by-state-rundown-of-what-will-happen-now-that-scotus-has-freed-lawmakers-to-restrict-abortion/ Considering our neighbor to the West, Illinois, looks likely to keep abortion legal, look for those Hoosier women seeking such a procedure to head there.

Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to abortion https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/24/supreme-court-abortion-mississippi-roe-wade-decision/9357361002/ Mr. Alito is correct. This should have always been a decision for the states to decide, not Washington D.C.