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Federal Court In Texas Goes Woke https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/federal-court-in-texas-goes-woke/ As of publication, the post is still up on the official website of the Court. You can access it here. We’ve reached the point in the woke religion where it’s no longer enough for our civil institutions to promote diversity. Doing so is now explicitly defined as the essential function of a U.S. District Court. The second sentence of the notice is nearly as remarkable. One would hope that a “community’s belief” [presumably in the efficacy of the justice system, although the belief’s object is conspicuously left undefined] would be heightened by justice dispensed with perfect impartiality. In other words, a Court that dispenses justice without regard to the racial, ethnic, and gender “diversity” of the community is the only Court worthy of trust. Our country’s history is littered with foreboding examples of a justice system that dispensed justice with far too much regard for the racial and ethnic make-up of defendants. Why is the woke Left seeking to return to a similar system? One genuinely fears where this could lead. Lady Justice, a common symbol on courthouses throughout America and the broader West, has been depicted wearing a blindfold since at least the 16thcentury. Think about that: so central is the idea of impartiality to a functioning judicial system that a blindfold has become ingrained in the system’s marquee symbol. But now, not only is impartiality apparently obsolete, it’s antithetical to the very function of the court. After all, Lady Justice would be hard-pressed to “create diversity” blindfolded. It’s worth noting, too, that this isn’t the historically progressive 9thCircuit Court in San Francisco. This is a District Court in Waco, the heart of Texas, and home of Baptist Baylor University. Indeed, McLennan County, of which Waco is the county seat, voted for Trump 60-37% in 2020. It hasn’t gone for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1976. Notices like this from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas are a reminder that for all the many, “conservative” judges appointed in the Trump administration, our woke ruling class persists unabated. Our country’s elite institutions, the gatekeepers to power in every sector of our society, demand complete obedience to the woke agenda. And they enforce it unceasingly. In this light, perhaps it’s not surprising that the MAGA rioters from January 2021 and the BLM rioters from June 2020 have met very different fates in our legal system. It’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy. No matter which president appoints the judges, the justice system moves forward, seeking to fulfill its “essential function” of “creating and maintaining diversity.” It's distressing to see this occurring in our federal justice system.

IIRC the IHSAA enacted a football mercy rule in 2019: https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/05/01/ihsaa-adopts-mercy-rule-for-football-contests/46498821/ The last "Let's run up the score" spreadsheet I can find on my home desktop and laptop PC's is from 2016, the earliest from 2011. So much guess of doing it for 4-6 years was correct. You are batting .000 so far today FB16. Better quit while you are behind the count.

I've never claimed or wanted to be anything of the kind. It's individuals like you who apply such labels to other individuals who espouse strong opinions, especially opinions you disagree with.

No, it was more like 4-6 years. I have the old spreadsheets around here somewhere. But nice try at hyperbole. And sorry that you equate an internet message forum where thoughts and ideas are supposed to be encouraged as "incessant bitching".

California's New Animal Welfare Law Could Mean The End Of Bacon https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1023708278/bacon-california-animal-law Yet another reason to stay the hell away from California.

Not surprised.

Yes, contact Mr. Bless with your concerns regarding "contradictory and hypocritical statements" and report back to us your dialogue.

Yet you are the one incessantly complaining in this thread about Mr. Bless's scheduling strategy, are you not? Perhaps Mr. Bless would be open to another interview surrounding this particular topic.

We all hear you FK16, why don't you take your complaints/concerns to the source of your consternation? I'm sure you could have a productive dialog with Mr. Bless, don't you?

Then why do you keep bitching about it on the GID? It is getting rather repetitive, IMHO.

Send Mr. Bless an email with your concerns: https://columbusnorthathletics.org/main/staff/id/3603592/seasonid/4236085/staffid/100064

Let's start out a new Colts 2021 thread right: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2021/08/02/colts-qb-carson-wentz-out-5-12-weeks-due-foot-injury/5455375001/ Brett Hundley will be the week #1 starter, you heard it here first.

I just sent you an invite to the OOB 2.0 club.

You are more than welcome to start a Tokyo Olympics topic in the OOB 2.0 forum. Or I can start the topic if you wish.

A Club which contains a Forum.

The Biden Administration Continues to Exaggerate the Risk Posed by COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections While Slamming the Press for Doing the Same Thing https://reason.com/2021/08/01/the-biden-administration-continues-to-exaggerate-the-risk-posed-by-covid-19-breakthrough-infections-while-slamming-the-press-for-doing-the-same-thing/ This "information" is just a huge *hitshow. No wonder a significant number of the U.S. populace doesn't trust it.

This fits you to a T, my socialist friend:

There is that, along with the covid restrictions of no spectators. Make the competition seem kind of dead.

FBI Seized $900,000 From Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says https://reason.com/2021/07/29/fbi-seized-900000-from-safe-deposit-box-on-pure-conjecture-federal-judge-says/ Good to see the side of personal freedom prevail against the feds.

Keeping The Sport But Losing The Team: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/keeping-the-sport-but-losing-the-team/

Haven't watched any of the 2021 Summer Olympic games so far. Not interested this year.

Kroger, The Wokest Supermarket: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/kroger-the-wokest-supermarket/ As you will see, that’s what Kroger is doing here. It’s perfectly fine for a company to expect its employees not to bring their political, religious, or cultural proselytizing to the workplace. But that is exactly what Kroger is doing with LGBT! Employees who don’t agree with the ideology behind “allyship” had better go into the closet at work. Kroger says it wants to focus “on behaviors and not beliefs,” but if that were true, they would not be indoctrinating employees by the woke LGBT catechism. They would simply insist on courtesy and respect, not push gender ideology onto unwilling employees. Look: What does any of this have to do with being a supermarket cashier or stock person? Nothing! Do you have to affirm these contestable categories and definitions in order to treat your LGBT co-worker with respect? No, you don’t. Kroger wishes to indoctrinate its workers, and by so doing make it a less friendly place for people with dissenting moral or religious values to work. Again, what possible relationship does this ideology have to the ability of a Kroger employee to be a competent and dependable supermarket worker? Since when does corporate management involve itself in propagandizing for left-wing theories that until five minutes ago were confined to the Gender Studies faculty? Since the American elites lost their minds. Look at this stupidity. Imagine how hard it is for the people at the Kroger in Southern states, with our courtesy codes, to get with this idiotic language policing: We are re-working ordinary English to accommodate a thin-skinned fringe and their corporate elite allies, and turning the workplace into a massive eggshells-walk. Speaking of walking on eggshells: “Oppressive”! Gosh. So now some poor young man who got his GED, and is now working as a trainee at the meat market at the Kroger in Opelika, Alabama, might forget to say “xe” or “hir” or some other weird-ass Klingon pronoun to a co-worker or customer, and thus find himself denounced as an oppressor, and fired. Great, just great. Don’t work for Kroger if you want to retain your sanity and self-respect. Behold, the High Holy Days: Here’s the most outrageous thing in the whole set: Kroger tells its employees to get politically active to support a particular (and particularly controversial) law, then tells them to join the LGBT activist group HRC. What an outrageous overstepping of workplace boundaries in a supermarket. In this presentation, Kroger went from being nice to LGBTs to instructing its employees to take specific political stands. And it tells employees to join these activist organizations: Unbelievable. A person just wants to be a cashier at the local Kroger, but she has to endure this culture-war harangue by her employer. Imagine what ordinary people who work at Kroger must think as they have this stuff forced on them. They don’t dare object, or even question it publicly, out of fear they will be called a bigot, and fired. But see, that’s okay, because Kroger doesn’t want bigots working for it! If working-class bigots mopping the aisles at Kroger are terrified for their jobs in case someone discovers their bigotry, well, good: that means the system is working. As someone — Robespierre, or maybe Ibram X. Kendi — said, “Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.” Plainly Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in America, is a bad place to work for the non-woke. If you are one of the deplorably non-woke, don’t shop there. Don’t participate in this propaganda and indoctrination foisted on working-class people. Look at these charts from Indeed.com to see what people at Kroger are paid: Unsurprisingly: Kroger fired a couple of workers in Arkansas over this stuff, and are now facing an EEOC suit: Here is a key principle behind Woke Capitalism: You can pay your employees badly and bully them, making them afraid that they’re going to slip up, or that somebody’s going to find out that they are conservative, or go to church … but as long as you say the right pronouns, and get the seal of approval from the leading woke activist groups, hey, you’re golden. All the elites at the country club praise your executives for their social progressivism, and you never run into the grubby Bible-beaters and other grocery-store deplorables anyway, so who cares what they think? Right? I'm glad that I don't shop at Kroger.

High school children's football. Serious Business.

Should Taxpayers Be on the Hook for All Rental Debt Accrued During the Pandemic? https://reason.com/2021/07/29/should-taxpayers-be-on-the-hook-for-all-rental-debt-accrued-during-the-pandemic/ A knee-jerk government reaction may cost U.S. taxpayers billions. Again.

R.I.P. Ron Popeil, TV pitchman and inventor https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-ron-popeil-tv-pitchman-and-inventor-1847382554 Truly an American Icon. He will be missed.