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South Montgomery 6, Frankfort 26. 3:08 left in the 3rd quarter.

Who said it offended me, Irishman? And are you sure the late, great Tim Adams would approve of such language being allowed on his creation? I don't think so. “Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.” - Spencer W. Kimball You appear to be the exception Mr. Nowlin, not the rule. And I thank you for your considerate behavior.

South Montgomery 6, Frankfort 6 halftime

Libertarian Party Reminds Americans They Can Actually Choose Lesser Of Three Evils: https://babylonbee.com/news/libertarians-remind-americans-they-can-actually-choose-lesser-of-three-evils

https://libertariancandidates.news/blogs/news/libertarian-donald-rainwater-polls-at-24-in-indiana-gubernatorial-race Welcome news. Perhaps change is coming.

Left-wing dark money groups to ‘carpet-bomb’ 2020 election, report warns: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-dark-money-groups-2020-report Soros.

Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Is Unethical and Unscientific https://mises.org/wire/mandatory-covid-19-vaccination-unethical-and-unscientific

FTA: So what was the cops response when he said do you mean 23? Why is that left out? It likely was not left out because the scumbag cop would have had to work at duping someone else after reiterating she was 13 and the mark disconnecting. You see, if them don’t meet their duping quota then them miss out on the opportunity to get in on “These funds (which) “paid for additional detectives, hotels, food and overtime.” And one of the comments to this story puts it thus:

So the free use of foul language/swearing is now allowed on the GID? Have noticed at least two instances of it in this thread alone, and by a GID moderator no less.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sports-is-for-liberals-conservative-alienation/ ... That is remarkable. Sports used to be a unifying phenomenon in American life, but no more — not since athletes got woke. I can’t find the crosstabs for Gallup’s results about the media and the entertainment industry, but we know from other polls that conservatives feel quite negatively about them. Look what the Madden video game announced yesterday: Colin Kaepernick can’t get a job on a professional football team, but he has been affirmative-actioned into virtual football by the woke capitalists at Madden. Insane. What does it portend for American life to have so many millions of Americans alienated from pop culture institutions (sport, entertainment, media)? Sports, of course, is the big one, because sports never before was politically charged. Now it is. The NFL season is going to be the big one. If conservatives and independents turn off the TV because they don’t want to be preached at by woke football players, it will signal a sea change in American life. I plan on watching the NFL season opener, Texans @ Chiefs, tonight on NBC. Don't know how long I will watch however, depends on how much "woke" BS goes on................................

Agreed. I'm not a whiskey drinker but that combination sounds like putting ketchup on your steak.

Most voters don’t see Trump and Biden as mentally fit to be president, new poll shows: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/2020-election-news-voters-see-trump-biden-as-mentally-unfit-to-be-president.html Yet the vast majority of voters in those states will feel compelled to vote for one or the other. Asinine.

Multiple times my posts have been hidden/deleted with no simple PM sent by a GID moderator as to why. Same with entire threads being deleted/hidden or moved with zero explanation, aka transparency, given. And I understand that as private enterprise the GID is under no legal obligation to provide such transparency but such simple actions would go a long to way to maintain good faith between the GID overlords and regular members.

And makes children more prone to injury: https://www.popsci.com/sports-injury-turf-grass-football-soccer/ https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/07/03/athletes-injuries-artificial-turf/

And expensive.

No disrespect intended, but based on previous GID moderator decisions shouldn't this topic be moved to the OOB forum?

No, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Didn't Spawn 250,000 Coronavirus Cases: https://reason.com/2020/09/09/no-the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-didnt-spawn-250000-coronavirus-cases/

Yet a little more transparency regarding moderator decisions would be a welcome way to operate.

Book: Trump said of virus, ‘I wanted to always play it down’: https://apnews.com/c9f35842f7bb355be72842d15a8f7c02 Interesting timing of the release of this information.

Norwegian lawmaker nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize: https://apnews.com/4ec1ce1ff6cf9d7321d9cad200650e2c lol, the likes of CNN and MSNBC appear to be melting down at the moment over this. Quite funny.

Republicans Are Using Big Ten Athletes as Pawns in a Sick Game: https://deadspin.com/republicans-are-using-big-ten-athletes-as-pawns-in-a-si-1844989180

‘Door-To-Door Trick-Or-Treating Is Not Allowed’: LA County Releases Guidelines For Halloween: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/09/08/los-angeles-county-halloween-no-trick-or-treating-covid-19/ Online Halloween parties and contests? Please. If this level of control comes to my Indiana town they will have to pry the bowl from my hands in order to get to me to stop handing out candy. Destroying an American tradition.

The Case for Private Education Co-operatives https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/case-for-private-education-co-operatives/ Members of a community, whether religious, ethnic, or merely geographic, would ban together and pool their resources so that each could have access to quality health care. This stands in contrast to the public-insurance model, whereby resources are forcibly confiscated by the taxman and decisions concerning their use are referred to distant bureaucrats and political commissars. Why not revive the model of private association in the context of education? Most parents send their kids to public school only because private schools are too expensive. But if churches, neighborhoods, and nonprofits formed private education co-operatives, in which poorer parents could draw on community resources in the context of face-to-face relationships and voluntary solidarity, communities across the country could begin to declare independence from government education. At the moment, poorer parents largely do not draw on the financial resources of their community. Community is voluntary, face-to-face, human, accountable, and local. By contrast, government welfare is impersonal, uncaring, unaccountable, and coercive. It bequeaths material resources to recipients, but without any bonds of human relationship or mutual emotional investment. Even the word we use to describe this process, “entitlements,” connotes a relationship between the benefactor and the recipient that is far weaker than those in a community where money is exchanged on a voluntary basis. Because the government takes everyone’s taxes and puts them in one big pot and then spends this undifferentiated lump of money in the form of “government outlays,” the people who receive government funds generally have no idea who in particular is paying for the services they’re receiving. Government places itself between giver and receiver and annihilates the individual relationship between the two. The result is that the human element in this exchange of material resources is completely erased. If communities throughout the country were to form private education co-operatives, poorer parents could put a name and a face to the funds that are propelling their sons and daughters to academic heights. Richer benefactors would also be able to witness how their wealth can enrich their community — a moralizing experience in itself that might serve as a social check against the materialist excesses of consumerism. A local association of churches, for example, should have, as a part of its ministry, a Christian education co-operative. A sizable portion of each congregation’s tithe and financial donations could be channeled into the co-operative fund so that members of the church who could not otherwise afford to send their child to a Christian private school would have the same opportunity as the congregation’s wealthier members. After all, if a Christian church cannot voluntarily redress the disparities in wealth among its members, then what institution will? This is not to say that co-operative enterprises like this would have to be religious in nature or motivation. Any and all kinds of communities should form these co-ops. The kaleidoscopic nature of America’s social variety is (along with its geographic variety) is one of the most enchanting and remarkable things about this country. There’s no reason why there shouldn’t be as many kinds of private schools as there are American ways of life. We have become so used to the idea of government education that it does not strike us nearly as oddly as it should. For centuries, American parents have simply handed their children over to the state once they reach school age, much in the same way that they hand over the garbage when they take it to the side of the road. The negative consequences of this model are too numerous to list here. But, as I noted above, parents across the nation are experiencing some of them right now as the teachers’ unions threaten to stop work if their conditions are not met. As long as the poor and the working class have no better option than to give their children over to the state for six hours a day, public education will always have an outsized and pernicious influence on our national life. The better-off parents among us cannot be content with simply sending our own children to private school and leaving the poor to suffer what they must at the hands of bureaucrats. An enlightened libertarianism will always seek to replace welfare with charity, and state coercion with voluntary community. The idea of private education co-operatives accords with every great American tradition of social action. It is local, voluntary, anti-statist, aspirational, enterprising, and infused with the spirit of moral mission that animated all of our great reformers. It is the kind of endeavor that would bring a knowing smile of recognition to the face of Alexis de Tocqueville. After all, the great Frenchman would surely recognize it as quintessentially characteristic of those restless colonial reformers at the edge of the known world whom he so admired when he came to these shores. The only question left to ask Americans today is, “What are you waiting for?”

https://reason.com/2020/09/09/the-persistent-myth-of-widespread-voter-fraud/ If anything, Ginsberg goes easy on those who make broad election fraud allegations. When Kris Kobach was Kansas Secretary of State, he pushed election law reforms premised on the need to root out election fraud and, in particular, prevent voting by non-citizens. When these restrictions were challenged in court, his case crumbled. Given the opportunity to present evidence and expert testimony, Kobach was unable to substantiate his fears of stolen elections. Kobach was eventually held in contempt and sanctioned by the court. The evidence of widespread election fraud is woefully thin. When it happens, it may effect local races (where the total vote counts are much smaller). It is impossible to prove election fraud is not happening, as it is impossible to prove a negative. (To those convinced we have a problem, the lack of evidence only shows that those stealing elections are even more devious than we thought!) While election administration in parts of the country may be rickety and inefficient, there is no reason to think national elections are compromised, let alone that the Presidential race could be stolen. That said, when efforts to subvert election laws are uncovered, they should be prosecuted aggressively. Election law violations should be taken seriously. With that in mind, here's more from Ginsberg's op-ed:

What exactly is ad revenue used for in regard to the GID? It is bucketed for a separate purpose than the donation drive/booster monies?