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No, I'm not. But try again gonzo. Again, a screenshot of DT's exact post/quote:

DT's quote was: " I would choose not to commute 30 minutes to a consolidated practice site after school 4 days a week, but some farm kid in Ripley County might be happy to do it. " Wrong again FK16. Why don't you just admit it?

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Nice attempt at a dodge after being proven wrong. It didn't work though.

I prefer nuclear power.

The IHSAA really needs to allow football co-ops, if they don't already. Illinois does it with some success. Some fiercely independent small government school corporations (think Rossville) would consider a consolidated/co-op football team before they would consider an entire school consolidation. So let's say Clinton Prairie, Clinton Central, and Rossville decide to join forces and create a co-op football arrangement, and have the practices at Clinton Central (because, you know, it's central). Google maps shows these drive times: Clinton Prairie to Clinton Central: 23 minutes Rossville to Clinton Central: 26 minutes.

As a left-handed individual I support this initiative. After all we lefties are the only ones in our right minds..............

The Progressive Grievance Parade https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-progressive-grievance-parade/ The story is full of spectacular quotes, but perhaps none better than these: How spectacularly disruptive and grievance-obsessed are progressive activists? So bad that even Bernie Sanders told his presidential campaign to stop hiring them, because they created more problems than they solved! I’ll pause for a moment, so you can wipe away the tears of laughter. The Intercept article made only a passing reference to the extraordinarily nasty and public tumult at the Washington Post that swirled around Dave Weigel and Felicia Sonmez, and didn’t mention the perpetual drama surrounding Taylor Lorenz, last seen lecturing Matt Yglesias about the alleged horror of joking about his own case of Covid-19. But both cases seem like good examples of the same phenomenon: employees who put their never-ending personal grievances and branding ahead of the organization’s mission, and who are incapable of resolving disputes quickly and quietly behind closed doors. My home has one teenager and one near-teenager, so I’ve been thinking a lot about what kinds of lessons are important to instill in young people as they approach their first experiences in the workplace. It’s a free country; believe whatever you want to believe. But for heaven’s sake, don’t be the kind of person who obsesses over anything that could remotely be interpreted as a slight, a microaggression, a lack of respect, or a violation of some unspoken code. You go to work to do a job (and try to do it well), collect a paycheck, and get experience that with luck will lead you to the next job that you like even better. If you get along with your bosses and co-workers, that’s gravy. But your boss is not your parent. Don’t be someone who turns every interpersonal dispute into a grand crusade, someone who can’t let anything go. (I know, I know, I have my own battles with “Irish Alzheimer’s,” where you forget everything except a grudge.) You don’t want to be the kind of person who is always dwelling on some sort of problem with a co-worker or boss. Seeking out reasons to be upset and angry makes you a miserable person, and that often makes everyone else around you miserable as well! How you feel about the state of your life, your workplace, your community, your state, your country, and the world will be largely determined by what you look for and choose to focus on. As a wise warrior once said, “your focus determines your reality.” (Okay, that was Qui Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and he was killed shortly after he said it, but that doesn’t mean he was wrong.) One of the hard but important truths in life is that very few people care that much about your feelings. Oh, there’s a low, decent-society baseline of care — everyone hopes you’re feeling well, not battling depression, etc. But in the end, your mental health is your responsibility, not other people’s. There’s a limit to how much others are willing to bend over backward so that you feel happier. Your mission is to figure out how to thrive in a world full of people who will not be what you want them to be. You can’t control what other people do; you can only control how you react to them. In Josh Barro’s terrific “your workplace is not Fleetwood Mac” essay, he observed: Lord knows, conservative organizations, including the one I work for, have their own share of quirky personalities and internal disagreements, often passionate ones. But if, as it seems, organizations primarily staffed by conservatives have employees that are generally better team players, we have a fascinating inversion of the expected dynamic. In a workplace full of folks who classify themselves as rugged individualists, those folks are in fact willing to put aside their personal desires and feelings from 9 to 5 or so, for the sake of participating in a smoothly running, effective organization. Meanwhile, the workplace full of self-professed collectivists, who believe the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, is increasingly debilitated by runaway narcissism, petty infighting, and self-absorbed grievance-mongering. Finally, on that last term, I am reminded of an observation about the psychological state of mass shooters by Willard Gaylin, a preeminent psychology professor, which I wrote about a few years ago. Gaylin discusses the dangers of “grievance collecting” in his book Hatred: The Psychological Descent into Violence: As I wrote at the time, “At the heart of the grievance collector’s worldview is that he is not responsible for the condition of his life; a vast conspiracy of malevolent individuals and forces is entirely at fault. There is always someone else to blame. . . .” This isn’t to say that every whiny, self-absorbed, irresponsible employee will turn into a mass shooter. But there are healthy ways of dealing with life’s challenges, and unhealthy ones — and these progressive organizations appear to be filled to the brim with toxic personalities. ....

So Indiana High School Football is all about quantity over quality?

It's discrimination against a particular form of school. The success factor can affect every school, government and p/p alike. Yes. Catholic school barristers could just be one part of a legal team representing all p/p schools, Catholic or otherwise.

https://reason.com/2022/06/20/the-defense-production-act-has-become-a-license-for-central-planning/ Sliding every so slowly into complete economic socialism. It is what the progressive liberals want. And it will destroy America.

Let's Applaud the 10-Year-Old Who Walked to School Every Day for 4 Years https://reason.com/2022/06/20/max-mcpartlin-walk-to-school-every-day/

Exactly. Lawyers for the Catholic church have enough experience with litigation that suing the IHSAA into submission should be child's play.

That and the talk of a possible discrimination lawsuit brought against the IHSAA by P/P member schools if a multiplier was enacted.

No, not really. There is lots of coal left to mine.

Which is why the IHSAA needs to stop screwing around with a success factor or multipliers and implement a true system of promotion and relegation.

LCC now has more 9-12 students than it's former HHC "competition", the Clinton Central Bulldogs.

https://mises.org/wire/juneteenth-and-secular-holidays-tool-regime Agreed. Juneteenth should never have become a federal holiday. Just yet another example of the Biden Administration capitulating to the woke. And George Floyd is no Saint.

January 6 Was Not A Coup: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/january-6-was-not-a-coup/

Bingo. It's all about emotion (Rah! Rah! Go Team!) and not about logic.

Yep, may hurt some teenager's or coaches widdle feelings.......................

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/lafayette/2022/06/10/purdue-president-set-retire-engineering-dean-named-new-president/7583603001/ A good run by Mr. Daniels. I wish him well in his retirement from Purdue.

The elder Mr. Carr needs a larger shirt. Those button are a' straining.

Agreed. Dante and other socialists see U.S. companies turning a profit and it enrages them. They seem to have some kind of threshold of what is "too much profit". The thing is they can never objectively and logically define what that threshold is.

Have you recently, Dante? Don't you still live in or around Las Vegas, Nevada?