Muda69

No. I do not live in Arcadia. And I have no idea how many high/next level athletes they are churning out. Do you? I give them much more credit than you obviously do. And if it is not about your inherent distrust then what is it about? I did not attend Colorado Tech. And I am not a English Major like you apparently are. Where is your English degree from again? What higher institution of learning?

I'm not paid to do it but I work with and speak with youth and young adults on a personal level at least weekly. Your complete and utter distrust of them is frankly shocking. Must be that government school job thing. I hear it tends to wear you down after a decade or two.

Look who's talking.

And very well may keep them alive, at taxpayer's expense.

West Lafayette mask mandate challenge heads to Aug. 25 court date https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2020/08/14/covid-indiana-west-lafayette-mask-mandate-challenge-heads-aug-25-court-date/3368663001/

Yes, thanks to all the "free money" handed out by the federal government in the form of loans. A business the government should not even be in.

? Why do you wish for these private institutions to close their doors?

*sigh* There you go:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/900309119/colleges-that-keep-small-isolated-towns-vibrant-now-pose-public-health-threat So will the likes of Wabash, Depauw, Hanover, Franklin, etc. weather this storm?

Lawmakers: Postal changes delay mail-order medicine for vets: https://apnews.com/22b2d77511b94d33076f64b9f7577aa2 So why does Mr. Trump hate veterans?

A little drive around downtown Portland:

It appears that Frankfort High School has partnered with the ISC Sports Network to provide a PPV option for most if not all home sport events. $5.99 for an individual contest, $74.99 for a season pass. https://www.iscsportsnetwork.com/products/frankfort-high-school-season-pass https://www.iscsportsnetwork.com/products/frankfort-high-school-2020-21-game-pass

Mike Pence Comes Out Against Marijuana Banking Bill That Would Actually Save Taxpayers Money https://reason.com/2020/08/13/mike-pence-comes-out-against-marijuana-banking-bill-that-would-actually-save-taxpayers-money/ Pence and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.) are using the SAFE Banking Act as a cudgel to accuse House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) of including "non-germane" content in coronavirus relief legislation. Back in May, when the House previously attempted to add the SAFE Banking Act to coronavirus legislation, McConnell took the same approach as Pence is taking now, mocking the bill for referencing "cannabis" more than it references "jobs," which is a cheap and lazy way to score points. The number of times a bill uses a particular word is not a good indicator of what the bill does. The SAFE Banking Act passed the House last September, 321-103. Only one Democrat (Terri Sewell of Alabama) voted against it, while 90 Republicans supported it. Thanks to McConnell, it hasn't been taken up by the Senate, despite having the support of fellow Republican and Kentuckian Sen. Rand Paul, who tweeted in support of it just yesterday. While there are myriad issues with the federal government's coronavirus relief efforts, allowing state-legal cannabis businesses to use banking services is not one of them.

https://reason.com/2020/08/13/you-dont-have-to-vote-for-your-partys-crappy-ticket/ Sound advice from Mr. Welch.

I am not personally offended. It is these young adults who you are offending with your hyperbolic statements. Why yes, we need to keep these elite athletes minds completely on football else they will be more "social" and bad things will automatically happen. Do you even read what you type?

So these football scholarship and non-scholarship young adults can only find structure and purpose in a sport? What about academics, the true reason they should be attending the institution in the first place? There is not structure and purpose in that? No friend, it is you with the selfish blinders on, not I.

You are the one with preconceived notions friend, not I.

Individuals 18+ years of age are not "kids", they are by practically every law of the land adults. I submit that you and others on this forum do these young adults a great disservice with your baseless assumptions that without the "structure" of college football/athletics most if not all of them would become mindless party animals.

I played video games and honed my programming skills. What did you do?

Scientists say the coronavirus is at least as deadly as the 1918 flu pandemic: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/scientists-say-the-coronavirus-is-at-least-as-deadly-as-the-1918-flu-pandemic.html Ramp up the fear!

Prison stocks went up right after Kamala Harris was confirmed as VP pick:

https://reason.com/2020/08/12/once-again-kamala-harris-record-as-a-prosecutor-was-less-than-progressive/ In a piece headlined "Kamala Harris Did What She Had To," The Atlantic's Peter Beinart wrote that Harris' deference to police and prosecutors was necessary for her political survival, which is not exactly a sterling endorsement of Harris, law enforcement, or politics. More convincingly, former San Francisco public defender Niki Solis writes in USA Today that Harris was indeed a progressive district attorney, citing Harris' practice of not charging low-level marijuana cases, her creation of a diversion program for juvenile offenders, and her refusal to pursue the death penalty, even in the case of a murdered police officer. "Simply put, Harris was the most progressive prosecutor in the state," Solis writes. "This is not an anecdotal opinion. It is based on facts." It is true that Harris pursued diversion programs and other progressive issues as San Francisco D.A. (It's also true that the San Francisco D.A. is probably the most progressive in the state as a general rule. Harris actually ran as a law-and-order candidate in 2003 against the incumbent lefty D.A.) Solis didn't mention what happened after that death penalty case, though. The backlash nearly cost Harris her shot at becoming the California Attorney General in 2011 after police unions didn't endorse her. After Harris squeaked into office by one percentage point, she tacked toward the center and never lost the police unions again. As attorney general, she defended the California death penalty and opposed efforts to increase oversight of fatal police shootings. As Beinart wrote, Harris did what she had to do to survive politically. It would be one thing if Harris said that working within the system required her to moderate herself, or that her views have shifted since her days as A.G., but instead, she insists her career in law enforcement was progressive. Whenever Harris is pressed about specific instances where she was decidedly unprogressive, she dodges, misleads, or glosses over the facts. In her memoir, The Truths We Hold, Harris explicitly acknowledged the immense power of prosecutors in the criminal justice system. "America has a deep and dark history of people using the power of the prosecutor as an instrument of injustice," Harris wrote in the book. "I know this history well—of innocent men framed, of charges brought against people of color without sufficient evidence, of prosecutors hiding information that would exonerate defendants, of the disproportionate application of the law." Yet Harris avoids addressing why her office did things like defend egregious prosecutorial misconduct, fight exonerations, oppose civil asset forfeiture reforms, or appeal the removal of the entire Orange County district attorney's office from a high-profile death penalty case after a bombshell report revealed an unconstitutional jailhouse snitch program. Harris office' launched an investigation into the Orange County D.A. scandal in 2015. The investigation ended four years later, after she had moved on to the U.S. Senate, with no charges against the sheriff's deputies involved, despite a California Superior Court judge ruling that two deputies "intentionally lied or willfully withheld material evidence." The Los Angeles Times reported in January that the California Attorney General's office only interviewed a handful of sheriff's deputies, none of whom were the ones at issue, and that the investigation had been moribund since 2017. In 2010, while Harris was still San Francisco D.A., a California superior court judge slammed her office for failing to notify defense lawyers of known misconduct by a drug lab technician that later led the San Francisco police to shut down an entire section of the lab. The judge noted "a level of indifference" from prosecutors, who were aware "at the highest levels of the district attorney's office" of the problems. In fairness, Harris may have been unaware of some of the cases her office was involved in—the California Attorney General's Office employs more than 1,100 attorneys—and state attorneys general most often reflexively defend prosecutors and the state's position. But if that's the case, it still doesn't sound like an official who was terribly concerned about the dark history of prosecutorial misconduct and wrongful convictions. Harris has a solid record to tout in the Senate, where she is notably progressive and one of the most vocal advocates for criminal justice reform. But there is no need to excuse or whitewash Harris' law enforcement career just because it has outlived its usefulness for her political ambitions.

"Rightful place in the White House"?

If I'm going to buy and eat Nachos & Cheese at a high school football game a public bathroom better be readily accessible. Just saying.........................

Thank you. Recently finished watching the new series "Perry Mason" on HBO. It has inspired me. Yes, independent and contrary thought is becoming rare in this country.