Muda69

Meh, again this is children playing a game. Not adults in the college game or professionals in the NFL.

More on the Mr. Assman story: https://jalopnik.com/assman-will-not-take-this-sitting-down-1832602198

Can still cost $ to install and maintain. So it is a convenience item, not a competitive or safety issue. Got it. Should those fields that choose not to have a visible play clock be penalized by the IHSAA in some matter? Maybe they cannot host tournament games?

http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/14/choosing-smart-embryos-isnt-im Agreed. That said, is the world as one portrayed in the movie Gattacca not far from fruition?

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/the-democratic-double-standard-for-anti-semitism/ Agreed. Hypocrisy all around in the Democratic side of the uni-party.

I disagree. I visible play clock is an expense that some programs may not be able to afford. And how does the play clock not being visible detract from the game, other than the "drama" of of watching it count down to zero?

Please elaborate.

I wonder if blue or green hats with "Make America Great Again" on them are also now viewed as a vile symbol of racism and misogyny?

Investigation finds no evidence of ‘racist or offensive statements’ by Covington Catholic students during Lincoln Memorial incident: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/diocese-reverses-course-clears-covington-catholic-high-school-students-of-wrongdoing-after-investigation-of-viral-incident-on-mall/2019/02/13/c11195f8-2fa7-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.75f601726b0d

He made a good living in the plumbing & HVAC trade, so I'm sure he very content. Agree with you on the fruit company investment. I was about 13-14 when they went public.

National Debt Hits a New Record High: $22 Trillion: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/13/national-debt-hits-22-trillion Hitting the $22 trillion threshold is just one step towards that future debt crisis, but it will take a long time to reverse these trends. The time to start is now, while the economy is still growing—because another recession will only make these problems more intractable. Unfortunately, there's little reason to expect Congress or the current president to take meaningful steps to defuse the long-term debt crisis before we hit the next milestone along the road—which won't take long at the rate we're going. A sorry future awaits America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/opinion/sunday/pain-opioids.html Spot-on commentary. Just goes to show the consequences of the government's War on Opioids. An abject failure.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/fdr-new-deal-experimental-no-coherent-plan/ I agree with that, but it’s worth reminding folks that there was never any single coherent thing called “the New Deal.” From the beginning, FDR was clear that he was winging it. At Oglethorpe University, he famously set the tone for what they were up to: “bold, persistent experimentation.” He added, “It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” Roosevelt fans on the left — and of late on the right — have lionized FDR’s “pragmatism” ever since. But this is a terrible credo for a nation committed to the idea that we live under the rule of law, not of men. Some avenues are supposed to be closed off from “experimentation.” Let’s try getting rid of the Bill of Rights for a bit and see if we can’t get great things done! Let’s be — as Tom Friedman puts it — “China for a Day.” Implicit in the idea of experimentation from Washington is the idea that planners should not be constrained. Implicit in the idea of a constitutional republic is that they should be. As we put it in our editorial on the Green New Deal, “The Left really has only one idea: control” — and that is the idea implicit in New Deal–style “experimentation.” But there’s something else implicit in the idea of such experimentation: a total lack of policy coherence. The New Deal cargo-cultists have a vexing habit of pointing at the things they like or liked about the New Deal and saying, “That’s the New Deal.” So they like Social Security but are silent — usually from ignorance — about the policies that caused blacks to protest the NRA (National Recovery Administration) as the “Negro Run Around” and “Negroes Ruined Again.” They like all the government makework for artists and writers but don’t talk about the little things, like Jacob Maged or the scuttling of the London Economic Conference, that helped deepen the Depression. The simple fact, as I argued here, is there was no single New Deal (which is one reason why historians talk about the second New Deal, which produced most of the stuff people associate with the good New Deal). It was the steady pursuit of control and constantly updated wish lists. As FDR told Congress in 1936: In other words, so long as we have the power, whatever we want to do is “wholesome and proper.” But if our political opponents get power, look out! “I want to assure you,” FDR’s aide Harry Hopkins told an audience of New Deal activists in New York, “that we are not afraid of exploring anything within the law, and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do legal.” The New Deal wasn’t a program, it was the by-product of ad hoc experimentation by people who thought their own power was self-justifying. And to look back on it as somehow more coherent than the would-be Green New Deal is to give it too much credit. “To look upon these programs as the result of a unified plan,” wrote Raymond Moley, FDR’s right-hand man during much of his rule, “was to believe that the accumulation of stuffed snakes, baseball pictures, school flags, old tennis shoes, carpenter’s tools, geometry books, and chemistry sets in a boy’s bedroom could have been put there by an interior decorator.” When Alvin Hansen, an influential economic adviser to the president, was asked — in 1940 — whether “the basic principle of the New Deal” was “economically sound,” he responded, “I really do not know what the basic principle of the New Deal is.” It was control. And wish lists. And it was ever thus. Yep. FDR's "New Deal" was just romanticized government control, and an unprecedented level. And now the new breed of progressives want the same.

Did you actually read the article? Apparently not:

No, my uncle does. And he is not a kazillionaire.

The best government high school football field in the country. Fleur De Lis Field in Greenfield, Illinois, doesn't have a play clock and it thankfully probably never will: High school football shouldn't be homogenized like college football or professional football.

https://www.cato.org/blog/lawsuit-car-passenger-tased-11-times-criminally-charged-after-asking-officer-why Note: This video is disturbing. And more evidence of the police state we live in.

One Cheer for Kamala’s Cannabis Candor: http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/13/one-cheer-for-kamalas-cannabis-candor More political flip-flopping. *yawn*

This monument to the war on terror is still open, and it’s costing taxpayers a fortune.: http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/12/gitmo-preps-for-an-upgrade Agreed. Gitmo needs to be closed, and then torn down. As for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, his torture is probably the reason why he hasn't had a trial. Easier for the government to let him rot in jail then risk exposing the atrocities perpetrated by fellow Americans. Cowardly.

A Holcomb-appointed Indiana teacher pay panel lacks teachers, though one will advise it.: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/12/teacher-pay-heres-who-guide-indianas-effort-raise-salaries/2846729002/ Should educational professionals in Indiana be outraged by the makeup of this commission? What do guys from banks and car makers know about education? And I wonder if the framers of the Indiana State Constitution envisioned the state government becoming a de-facto education company, as the outrageous amount of spending toward government schools proves?

Betting is now open: yl7dtrB.mp4

Will he ever learn?:

http://databases.usatodaynetwork.com/indystar/indiana-teachers-pay/

I'm getting a larger refund back this year, and it stinks. I dislike letting the government borrow my money. Of course I probably made a mistake somewhere.................

Either should whiteface, or yellowface, or redface, or greenface....................