Muda69

I tend to agree. This forum has a definite central Indiana/Marion county and surrounding doughnut counties bias. But again, that is where the most concentrated population centers and most of the wealth are.

What? I thought all high school football games had meaning? At least that is what I have been told repeatedly here on the GID.

Comparing tackle football to wrestling is apples to oranges.

Trump Tweets 'Repeal Section 230,' Something He Couldn't Do if Section 230 Were Repealed: https://reason.com/2020/10/06/donald-trump-repeal-section-230-twitter/ It's an ironic statement since, without the existence of Section 230, Trump very well might not be able to tweet it. If Congress were to remove social media platforms' liability protection, then companies like Twitter and Facebook would have no choice but to remove users' ability to post content at-will. Instead, moderators would have to vet and approve content to make sure that it wasn't potentially libelous. This would exacerbate the very problem that many conservatives have with social media—namely, that Twitter (and to a lesser extent, Facebook) sometimes takes aggressive action against provocative right-wing speech, by labeling the content as misleading or removing it outright. In some cases, the platforms' treatment of right-wing users does seem overly harsh, or selective in nature—though it is by no means the case that conservatives are the only ones to suffer from harsh and thoughtless moderation. Repealing Section 230, though, is not a solution, unless the goal is to prevent Twitter and Facebook from functioning at all. Conservatives—and anyone whose views and statements fall outside a narrow window of mainstream respectability—should think long and hard about whether they really want to go down that road. The demise of social media would limit the ability of people to express themselves on the internet, a venue where right-leaning speech has actually flourished: Facebook posts by Ben Shapiro, Fox News, Breitbart, and others are routinely the most-read content on the site. It is Trump's great enemy, the mainstream media, which would benefit most directly from the collapse of these spaces for disseminating information. Given this, it's no surprise that former Vice President Joe Biden also wants to repeal Section 230. This makes perfect sense: Biden and his allies correctly realize that forcing social media to adopt more guardrails would result in wider moderation of conservative speech. Regulating the internet more aggressively is a straightforwardly beneficial plan for mainstream media–friendly Biden-ism. That Trump is seemingly on board with this plan shows that the president either hasn't thought about this issue very hard or doesn't actually care about expanding the opportunities for conservative speech online. Or perhaps both. Most likely both.

The VP Debate Is Mike Pence’s Final Audition for 2024 https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/vice-presidential-debate-mike-pence-final-audition-for-2024/ I may watch this debate. There shouldn't be the foolishness that occurred in last week's Presidential debate. And I wonder should Mr. Trump lose in November what will Mr. Pence do for the next four years? Campaign?

(Note: link is behind a paywall) https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2020/10/06/indiana-football-2020-mr-football-charlie-spegal-hopes-impress-walk-on-hoosiers/5896660002/ Good luck to young Mr. Spegal.

Bingo.

Guitar rock legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65: https://apnews.com/article/michael-jackson-eddie-van-halen-archive-ad6e71e78b0b5d7e87a72eef1ceaaf26 RIP Mr. Van Halen. Truly an American Icon. He will be missed.

Being an American and a Democrat are two different things. You "point" makes little sense. Have you been a Democrat your entire life?

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2020/10/06/robert-tonyan-jr-indiana-state-qb-before-playing-te-packers/3635844001/ Go Trees.

There are numerous government, parochial, and private schools in this state that don't have a football program and are doing just fine. Are you going to tell those communities that they "need" football?

https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/fiscal-policy-report-card-americas-governors-2020 Yes, the government-imposed costs of owning and driving a motor vehicle in this state is insane. Has to be a big profit center for the state's coffers.

Ok, take your ball and go home. Makes it easier to discount the rest of your statement if you can't defend even part of it.

Hmm, "stolen" and "steal" are fairly serious accusations, especially in the environment of Indiana government school open enrollment legislation. What verifiable evidence to you have to support such an accusation?

Voter fraud is rare. 2 Indiana cases demonstrate how unusual it is. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/06/voter-fraud-indiana-cases-show-rarity-voter-fraud/3586956001/

Mine would be, starting with football, to institute a true system of promotion/relegation and completely dump the enrollment based classification system.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/letter-calls-for-withdrawal-of-1619-project-pulitzer/ Yes, the should. Then entire "1619 Project" was politically motivated, not academically. And it's contents should never see the light of day in a K-12 classroom, especially a government school classroom.

Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-donald-trump-infectious-diseases-michael-pence-a037f5cf6d6f14f90313a3aa7cd58043

Yep. IMHO "triggered" is a BS word that simply attempts to deflect blame back on an individual while making the one being "triggered" seem morally superior.

The Legal Response to Breonna Taylor's Death Shows How Drug Prohibition Transforms Murder Into Self-Defense https://reason.com/2020/09/24/the-legal-response-to-breonna-taylors-death-shows-how-drug-prohibition-transforms-murder-into-self-defense/

‘I hope he dies:’ West Lafayette council member apologizes for tweet aimed at Trump, COVID-19 diagnosis https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2020/10/05/i-hope-he-dies-wl-council-member-apologizes-tweet-aimed-trump-covid-19-diagnosis/3633143001/

Yet the IHSAA board had ultimately approve such competitive balances reforms, did they not? So the end result is the same, no matter what the IHSAA by-laws state. If anything such by-laws become nothing more than CYA jargon for the IHSAA to hide behind should things go south; "Our by-laws say we don't recommend/advocate these kind of changes, but our membership insisted on it so if really isn't our fault."

Schooling For Totalitarianism: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/schooling-for-totalitarianism-loudoun-county-live-not-by-lies/ Here are the key lines: Notice that the words “Critical Race Theory” do not appear in the draft policy. They don’t have to. Here is the Loudoun County School system’s “Detailed Plan To Combat Systemic Racism” — which, of course, is based in part on the work of Ibram X. Kendi, the “antiracist” guru who teaches that anything that is not “antiracist” (in his definition) is therefore positively racist. And here is the “Comprehensive Equity Plan”. Very little of this is straightforwardly presented. A parent who didn’t understand the jargon would have no idea what is actually being proposed for a vote. Reading this, it would even be possible to think, like debate moderator Chris Wallace and Democratic candidate Joe Biden, that this is only about “racial sensitivity training.” In fact, it’s about something far more radical — and the policy will include firing people who publicly disagree with it in any way, ever. If you follow those links and dig deep into the bureaucratese, you’ll find that the “Equity” plan involves manipulating passing grades and school suspension rates to achieve “equity” — that is, to reward or punish people based not on their conduct and accomplishments, but on their race and ethnicity. Equality means giving everyone an equal chance; equity means guaranteeing an equal outcome, or at least a demographically proportional outcome. Look: This is bureaucratic woke speak for “we’re going to indoctrinate your children in left-wing identity politics.” And look at this: If your kid goes to a church that is not progressive and LGBT-affirming, she better shut up about her religious views at school, or she will be expelled. If you kid won’t consent to calling a trans student by that student’s preferred pronoun, that could be the end of him at Loudoun County public schools. Anything that the left identifies as a manifestation of “white supremacy” — and these days, what isn’t? — makes students who hold it targets of the system. What if a high school student believes that on balance, Robert E. Lee was a noble, if tragic, figure, and said so in a history class? He would have to fear that Loudoun County public schools, in the state of Virginia, would punish him as a white supremacist. All throughout the Loudoun County Public Schools documents they talk of “equity” without ever defining it. People not familiar with the way the woke use this word might think of it as neutral, or even positive. Wrong. James Lindsay, in his invaluable Translations From The Wokish dictionary, writes in part: Read it all — it’s fascinating. Basically, deep-blue, wealthy, predominantly white Loudoun County in suburban Washington, DC, is going to ruin its public schools by turning them into ideology factories. You’d want to get your kids out of those schools now, if you can — but what about the people who can’t afford private schooling? Their kids are going to be indoctrinated. Anyway, you may send your kid to a Loudoun County private school, but what if the staff there are also woke? The reader with whom I talked over the weekend works as a well-regarded private school which a woke mob within is trying to make it just as progressive as Loudoun County. The Loudoun County school board paid over $400,000 to diversity consultants to come up with this tyrannical policy, including its provision to threaten people with firing if they criticize it, and its requirement that teachers and staff inform on others who do. It is possible that if the board affirms this policy, they will run afoul of President Trump’s executive order forbidding critical race theory from being taught. The Washington Free Beacon reports: I’m honestly not sure how much power Trump has over local school board decisions — and frankly, I don’t want this or any POTUS to be in the position of ordering local school boards around. Yet I do expect Biden to accelerate woke indoctrination throughout the public schools. In any case, if this isn’t in your public or private school now, get ready, because it’s coming. You are going to have a hell of a fight on your hands with the proponents of this stuff. The fact that in Loudoun County, its advocates want to fire anybody within the system who disagrees, and compel employees to rat each other out, tells you all you need to know about this totalitarian garbage. In Live Not By Lies, I quote Hannah Arendt as saying the destruction of the institutions that made civilization possible — like, I would say, good schools — was part of the pre-totalitarian madness in Russia and Germany: That’s what we are seeing in Loudoun County Public Schools. And not just there. Yep, it's coming.

Michigan Supreme Court Strikes Down Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's COVID-19 Executive Orders: https://reason.com/2020/10/05/michigan-supreme-court-strikes-down-gov-gretchen-whitmers-covid-19-executive-orders/ "This lawsuit is just another partisan game that won't distract the governor," Tiffany Brown, Whitmer's press secretary, declared at the time. But the state's highest court disagreed. It said the governor overstepped the bounds of her authority when she declared a state of emergency after that first 28-day mark. But even if that weren't the case, it wouldn't have mattered, because court also ruled the 1945 emergency powers statute unconstitutional. "We conclude that the Governor lacked the authority to declare a 'state of emergency' or a 'state of disaster' under the EMA after April 30, 2020, on the basis of the COVID-19 pandemic," the court said. "Furthermore, we conclude that the EPGA is in violation of the Constitution of our state because it purports to delegate to the executive branch the legislative powers of state government—including its plenary police powers—and to allow the exercise of such powers indefinitely. As a consequence, the EPGA cannot continue to provide a basis for the Governor to exercise emergency powers." Freedom.