Muda69

Sounds like a bit of a mess. So did the Shelbyville AD contact the New Palestine AD and basically say "Your team is too good and our team is too bad. So we aren't coming to your place on 10/4, especially for a homecoming game. Sorry about your luck."?

Good point. After the feds get done probably the only vaping products available to purchase will be made by Juul, owned by old time tobacco giant Phillip-Morris, who spends millions a year on lobbying.

From going to college in Terre Haute I know one of the issues is the smell. What is the other one?

https://reason.com/2019/09/24/vaping-rashida-tlaib-hearing-conspiracy/ Moments before, Tlaib had asserted secondhand smoke was "worse than directly smoking cigarettes." This, of course, is not true—indeed, it's utterly ludicrous. Who is the conspiracy theorist again? For more on Tlaib's fact-free anti-vape agenda, read the Reason Foundation's Guy Bentley. Yep, fact-free is about how the federal government starts most of it's "wars" against the general populace. Why should vaping be any different.

You didn't answer the question, Dante. And under a more free market medical system I'm confident medical house calls covering basic care will once again be a viable option for families. As cheap as WalMart? No, but affordable enough that some families will pay for the convenience.

Thank you. Andre was truly a world class athlete.

They don't have to because the the technology already exists. It is called Sagarin's.

Actually I don't. If the change is financially prudent and an objectively marked improvement over the old product/method then I would have no issue with it. Unfortunately digital down markers are neither. It is the equivalent of:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/greta-thunberg-climate-activist-united-nations/ You bet it is nuts, and frankly borders on child abuse.

Bummer. Not even a pretty please?

Walmart's Entry Into Health Care Could be Hugely Disruptive in All the Best Ways: https://reason.com/2019/09/23/walmarts-entry-into-health-care-could-be-hugely-disruptive-in-all-the-best-ways/ The part about paying out-of-pocket for basic care is huge. IMHO the current medical insurance model regarding the coverage of basic care is broken. Who here has an automobile insurance policy that covers oil changes, tire rotations, brake service, etc.?

More of a chance for somebody to get hurt then.

Ahh. May have to ask the officials to activate the mercy rule by the 2nd quarter then.

Again, If you have peer-reviewed studies showing that the color blind need digital down markers in order to receive this critical information in a timely manner, please post them. So far the only "proof" of your claim is the statement "I have been told........". And a good friend of mine happens to be color blind, has never once complained to me about those damn traditional down markers.

Just following the conversation, Dum. I still stand by my initial contention that digital down markers are an expensive extravagance for Indiana high school football, a game played by children.

Remember, Dante claims to be an insurance expert. Therefore he must know what medical professionals are doing during every minute of their work days.

lol, nice hyperbole. I don't recall the color blind being your prime impetus for starting this thread.

My how the color blind have suffered over the last 100 years at football contests. And why hasn't every NFL venue embraced this technology?

If you have peer-reviewed studies showing that the color blind need digital down markers in order to receive this critical information in a timely manner, please post them.

No, they can simply look at the scoreboard. How many Indiana high schools have football scoreboards without down and distance information on them?

I fail to understand how a glowing, digital down marker puts one "at the top". If you want your traditional down markers to be more visible paint the numbers a bright neon green or something. What's next, robot chain crews?

Nice that the Western Boone varsity won't have to dress for this one. Perfect time to heal some injuries.

Sounds expensive, and yet another electronic doodad prone to breakage.

Kamala Harris and the Cult of the Presidency: https://mises.org/wire/kamala-harris-and-cult-presidency Essentially, Harris would ask Congress to rubber-stamp her gun-control policies in order to give them the appearance of legitimacy. But if they refuse to comply, she can simply forgo such formalities. At worst, Congress is a frustrating (and ultimately vestigial) obstacle to Harris’ domestic policy goals. They have, for example, stubbornly failed to pass the “Green New Deal,” a massive government-enforced overhaul of the economy intended to fight climate change. Should they continue to remain idle on this issue, Harris warns, she will get rid of the filibuster. How she plans to do this is unclear: the filibuster is an internal Senate procedure and therefore not constitutionally subject to presidential decree. But the Cult of the Presidency knows no limitations. The Constitutional Road Less Traveled Harris’ attitude is unfortunately emblematic of America’s obsession with the presidency. We have become accustomed to organizing society around the president, whoever it may be. If the stock market goes up, we praise the president; if it goes down, we criticize him. When there’s a natural disaster, we expect the president to be directly involved in the relief efforts. When there’s a mass shooting, we expect him to visit the survivors and memorialize the victims. Our society’s obsession with the president is both a cause and a consequence of his immense power. Public policy today is almost exclusively directed from the Oval Office and so of course we end up paying a lot of attention to the chief executive. But at the same time, this cult-like attention helps to feed the behemoth that is the imperial presidency. After all, everyone can name the president, but very few know who their own congressional representative is. Fewer still can name the Speaker of the House. It is only natural, then, that folks look to the president for everything: he is often the only national political figure they are even remotely familiar with. On a practical level, many of Senator Harris’ political ilk have acquiesced to the use of executive power simply because it’s the easiest way to get things done. Unlike the hyper-partisan “do-nothing” Congress so often derided by Harris, the president, by virtue of being a single person, is not hampered a lack of consensus. If left unimpeded by a passive Congress and deferential courts, the president as head of the executive branch may simply enforce the nation’s laws in any way he pleases. Under these circumstances, it should come as no surprise that presidents are increasingly pushing their luck and creating new laws unilaterally. On the other hand, Harris is deeply critical of how President Trump has been governing. But rather than lead a fight from the Senate to reassert the authority of Congress, and thereby limit the damage a bad president can inflict, as she certainly could, Harris has been campaigning to increase the president’s power. Her main critique is not that the president is too powerful, but merely that the wrong person is in office. The cult of the Presidency is getting stronger and the Constitution is getting weaker. And that should concern us all. It certainly concerns me and others who value freedom and personal responsibility. Unfortunately there are many, some represented here on the GID, who would champion the U.S. Congress being subservient to the POTUS, to merely be a "advisory body". Of course that depends on who the POTUS actually is at the time.................