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Hating America In The Heartland: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/washburn-university-hating-america-in-heartland-franklin-jefferson/ Removing statues of our founding fathers is disgusting. It must be a living hell at the University of Virginia, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson himself. The woke scolds and snowflakes that are enrolled there must be having a real existential crisis.

https://reason.com/2018/08/09/inmates-are-helping-fight-californias-ma/#comments Agreed. These asinine bans on felons from holding many respectable professions after they have paid their debt to society have to go.

The CDC Is America's New Landlord https://mises.org/power-market/cdc-americas-new-landlord Thanks to the oft-criticized but in fact essential Zero Hedge for the nice bit of early and original reporting here—a full day before NPR, Bloomberg, et al.—and for details from a phone conference with CDC officials. Again, this was announced without congressional input or approval and purely by administrative decree. At least the eviction and mortgage moratoriums in the CARES Act, passed by Congress in March, were enacted by politicians who face voters this fall. And while those earlier moratoriums may well be constitutionally suspect too, at least in times of sanity, they were limited to federally backed rentals and mortgages. The CDC's new action is much broader, applying conceivably to all private residential leases across the country. The fallout from suspending rental contracts will be deep and long lasting. Many landlords will find their situations untenable and stop making mortgage and property tax payments. New rental housing stock will be depressed, as owners worry about the next suspension of rent payments now that the precedent has been set. After all, why wouldn't moratoriums happen again when the next pandemic or financial crisis hits? Rental housing units will drop in price as more landlords abandon the business—setting the stage for commercial and private equity buyers to grab units on the cheap from individuals and small owners. Ultimately, foreclosures, evictions, and tax sales will happen no matter what the federal government does. The likely outcome is bigger players owning more and more of the rental housing stock, consolidating the permanent renter class and adding to the rootlessness many Americans feel. Even the most modest home ownership creates skin in the game and encourages better neighborhoods, while areas dominated by rentals lack the same incentives for improvement. And the new owners of rental units will pass all the uncertainty, risks, and potential losses on to millions of Americans in the form of higher rents. Even during the most turbulent periods in American history, including the Great Depression, World War II, and an 1880s tuberculosis outbreak which killed one in seven people, virtually no one expected the federal government to suspend rent. This action by the CDC, in response to a very manageable and retreating cold virus, is the kind of quietly unprecedented development we've come to expect this year. This is a watershed moment for the US: when you destroy trust in contract enforcement you create terrible ripple effects throughout society. Something this radical should not be rushed into place with such little forethought, especially when it amounts to buying votes in a national election. But of course in a managerial state we should expect just this type of shortsighted political consideration to prevail over good sense and justice. The CDC wants to effectively vitiate contracts: when you tell one party that it need not perform and the other that it cannot sue for nonperformance, you radically alter the bargaining power of those parties. The contract they signed becomes nothing more than an aspirational document, a legislative (or administrative!) tool to be rewritten at the will of politicians. The effects of this moratorium undoubtedly will spill over in unforeseen ways as Americans get used to the idea that their financial obligations can be erased by state edict. The tremendous costs will be borne by all of us, because when contracts are not enforceable every transaction must account for much higher risks. More destruction of the American economy.

https://reason.com/2020/09/02/you-have-libertarian-alternatives-to-biden-and-trump-this-november/ Agreed. Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are both clowns, and neither one of them should remain or become POTUS.

Bob Rohrman, legendary Lafayette auto dealer, dies https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2020/09/02/bob-rohrman-legendary-lafayette-auto-dealer-dies/5689443002/ RIP Mr. Rohrman you will be missed. Along with your fantastic commercials.

Plus Royal Center is a place everyone needs to visit. Once.

Waiting for the thumbs up......................

Congress Would Like the CDC To Ruin Halloween https://reason.com/2020/09/01/coronavirus-halloween-cdc-congress-fun/ They want to know if kids should attend parties, or package treats for each other, or even participate in some kind of drive-by trick or treating. By the time you're prioritizing "rigorous" anything, you're generally not talking about a super-fun event. If I were to venture a guess, I'd bet that the CDC will recommend that this year, kids celebrate on Zoom with all the joy their parents have experienced in staff meetings these past six months. Maybe the agency could recommend some new games, like, "Who can suck their mask in the farthest?" Or "Green scream!" where kids compete to see who can create the scariest green screen background (or who can wear enough green paint to blend in except for their eyes and mouth—kind of a cool idea). "Pin the tracer on the virus-infected contact" is another game the scientists might recommend, but apparently this is too hard even for grownups to play. Halloween was actually ripe for some re-imagining. In recent years it has morphed from the traditional kids-have-the-run-of-the-neighborhood night into an orgy of infantilization, whereby adults walk or even drive their kids house to house, stunting any kind of independence and bravery that might have taken root on this one thrilling night. This year, they have the perfect excuse to stay home, lock the doors and simply load the kids up with candy (or in some households, fresh broccoli florets and kombucha). Boo. Hoo.

Sound like quite the corporate culture they have there at Cummins. Have they been sued much?

Agreed, this 'overlap' for lack of a better term will always be there. But I firmly believe it will be minimized when enrollment is completely removed from the classification equation.

John Muir Is Canceled. Who’s Next? https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/john-muir-is-canceled-whos-next/ The debate over John Muir is only the beginning of a purge sweeping the environmental community. In Crosscut magazine, Glenn Nelson wrote a piece last month headlined “Toppling John Muir from Sierra Club Is Not Enough.” Nelson called for dramatic efforts to “overcome a violent history of exclusion” by environmental groups. He said the next focus should be on the National Audubon Society, whose namesake, artist John James Audubon, “was an enslaver who opposed the intermingling of races.” The fact that Audubon may have himself been born to a black Creole woman in Haiti is less important than the fact the Audubon Society “has not reconciled its association with a man who, like Muir, embraced racist ideas and activities.” If we are to expunge from their place of honor all the historical figures who changed their views later in life or who held views that were common in their time, where will it stop? Larry Elder, an African-American radio-talk-show host, recently noted that for years Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an advice column for Ebony, a monthly magazine for black Americans. A closeted gay teenager once asked him: King answered: Today, such views would get King flat-out fired in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and many other places of employment. Or how about John F. Kennedy? Former New York Times investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reported in his book The Dark Side of Camelot that Kennedy once said of a donor who hadn’t backed his campaign but still wanted to be an ambassador: “I’m going to f*** him. I’m going to send him to one of those boogie republics in Central Africa.” But, when it came to others, Kennedy sometimes punished even those who supported him to the hilt. Singer Sammy Davis Jr. strongly backed JFK in the 1960 campaign, even agreeing to postpone his wedding to a white actress to avoid alienating white voters. Burt Boyar, Davis’s biographer, notes that when Davis finally got married, after Kennedy’s election, Kennedy rewarded him by disinviting him from attending the inaugural. And let’s not forget Robert Kennedy. He was appointed as attorney general by his brother and authorized many wiretaps on Martin Luther King. The tapes they produced represent an outrageous invasion of King’s privacy, and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover tried to use them to blackmail King. Cancel culture is a tricky thing. It hasn’t reached the point where books or DVDs are being burned in squares, but it is providing many ominous parallels to authoritarian cultures. If it’s John Muir today, which soon-to-be-tarnished icon will it be next? Good question.

Good question. Would these individuals have lived with these other conditions but it was covid-19 that tipped the scales so to speak? Or did contracting covid-19 simply accelerate the inevitable?

Virtually anything to keep Mr. Biden in his basement, and leading in the polls.

https://www.iscsportsnetwork.com/products I watched the Frankfort - Clinton Prairie matchup this past Friday via the ISC Sport Network. My rating of the broadcast is middling. Primary reasons being: 1. The two announcers calling the game were not actually at the game, but in some room somewhere. So they were basically just seemed to be watching the same camera feed as we all were. And for some reason this camera feed was zoomed in relatively close to field and never varied much. It would have been nice to see say the scoreboard every once in a while, or maybe a crowd shot or two. 2. About midway through the 3rd quarter the camera feed dropped completely for about 5 minutes. 3. The on screen graphics with the game info was very basic. It displayed the score along with what quarter it was but that was it. Every once in a while the announcers would say how much time was on the clock, I assume they got this from the on-site cameraman. 4. During commercial breaks they played the same 3-4 ads over and over and over and over and over again.

Nice hyperbole. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-voters-haven-t-been-motivated-racism-if-anything-it-ncna1236027

Apparently, I "Owe" a "Debt" "to African-Americans" https://reason.com/2020/08/30/apparently-i-owe-a-debt-to-african-americans/?itm_source=parsely-api#comments My parents and my brother and I came to the country in 1975. We didn't inherit any wealth in the U.S. (and really none anywhere). I don't owe any debt—because of my skin color my ancestors or theirs—to blacks or whites or Asians, and neither do other Californians. https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/08/30/california-moves-toward-reparations/

Hmm, I don't recall seeing "Trump 2020" painted on the parking spot. It is your TDS that automatically wants to make the statement "Make America Great Again" a political one. Tell us Dante, what do you do to make America great? Also the student in question is a senior. Mostly likely his parking spot will be painted over by a member of the class of 2022 by this time next year.

If you were the school administrator why would you not approve a design like that?

So?

Yet another example why the simplistic primarily enrollment base classification system used by the IHSAA is flawed. It's overwhelmingly about program, not size. And only a system of promotion and relegation would crown a true Indiana state football champion.

Frankfort 53, Clinton Prairie 12 Final Hot Dogs win their first varsity contest since October 13, 2017.

Frankfort 46, Clinton Prairie 6 End of 3.

McCutcheon High School senior's customized parking space defaced over pro-Trump paint job https://www.jconline.com/story/news/crime/2020/08/28/indiana-high-school-seniors-parking-space-vandalized-over-pro-donald-trump-paint-job/5648720002/ TDS rears it's ugly head again, this time against a 17-year old child. Despicable.

Frankfort 20, Clinton Prairie 6. Halftime.