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2019 Senior Bowl Roster Release: South Offense
Craig Peters
Rogelio V. Solis/AP
Here's a look at the offensive participants for the South team (alphabetical by last name) in the 70th Reese's Senior Bowl:
This might be the most talented Senior Bowl QB group in 20 years of scouting the game https://t.co/cXIN82n0b1
— Todd McShay (@McShay13) January 9, 2019
Will Grier, West Virginia: Grier ranked third in FBS in 2018 with an NCAA passer rating of 175.5, and his 351.3 passing yards per game ranked second. He had 71 touchdown passes against 20 interceptions in the past two seasons. Grier ranked ninth in FBS in 2018 with 3,864 total passing yards.
Tyree Jackson, Buffalo: Jackson completed 533 of 955 passes (55.8 percent) for 6,999 yards with 49 touchdowns and 24 interceptions in 33 games with Buffalo. He added 757 yards and 16 scores on 201 rush attempts. He ranked 28th in FBS with 3,131 passing yards and 13th with 13.92 yards per completion in 2018.
Gardner Minshew II, Washington State: After transferring from East Carolina, Minshew ranked second in FBS with 4,779 passing yards in 2018, completing 468 of 662 passes, an average of 36.0 completions per game, which led FBS.
Jarrett Stidham, Auburn: Stidham totaled 48 touchdown passes and just 13 interceptions in the past three seasons. He ranked ninth in FBS in completion percentage in 2017, but his rate dropped to 60.7 percent in 2018.
Clayton Thorson, Northwestern: (initially listed as participant, but not on roster) Thorson ranked 21st in FBS with 21.36 completions per game in 2018 and 24th with 3,183 total passing yards. He finished his career with 61 touchdown passes and 45 interceptions.
2019 Senior Bowl Roster Release: North Offense
2019 Senior Bowl Roster Release: South Defense
2019 Senior Bowl Roster Release: North Defense
Here are the South WR (coached by @49ers) for the 70th Annual Reese's Senior Bowl. Practices begin Tuesday, Jan. 22! #SeniorBowl #CompeteAndConnect #NFLTraditionInMobile pic.twitter.com/XMy33ci8At
— Reese's Senior Bowl (@seniorbowl) January 10, 2019
Tyre Brady, Marshall: Brady transferred from Miami to Marshall in 2017 and led the team in receptions (62) and yards (942). He followed by posting 71 receptions for 1,002 yards and nine touchdowns in 2018.
Travis Fulgham, Old Dominion: Fulgham took a huge leap from 2017 to 2018, increasing his receptions from 30 to 63, his yards from 394 to 1,083 and his receiving touchdowns from one to nine. He ranked 18th in FBS with 90.3 receiving yards per game in 2018.
Gary Jennings, West Virginia: Jennings ranked sixth in FBS with 13 touchdown catches in 2018 and fourth with 7.5 receptions per game in 2017. He had 97 of his 168 career receptions that season and totaled 1,096 yards. He followed with 917 yards on 54 catches in 2018.
Anthony Johnson, Buffalo: (added to initial list of participants) Johnson ranked second in FBS with 113.0 receiving yards per game and third with 14 receiving touchdowns in 2017, his first season in Buffalo after transferring from Iowa Wester Community College.
Hunter Renfrow, Clemson: Renfrow made a solid impression as a redshirt freshman who walked on and earned a scholarship in 2015. Renfrow caught 33 passes for 495 yards and five touchdowns, including 11 receptions for 147 yards and three scores in two College Football Playoff games. Renfrow followed with 495 yards in 2016, 602 in 2017 and 544 in 2018.
Deebo Samuel, South Carolina: Samuel bounced back from missing most of 2017 because of a broken leg to post 62 receptions for 882 yards and 11 touchdowns (15th in FBS). During his career, Samuel totaled 1,219 yards and four touchdowns on 42 kickoff returns.
David Sills V, West Virginia: The former Mountaineers quarterback transitioned to receiver as a freshman in 2015 before transferring to El Camino College to play quarterback in 2016. He then headed back before heading back to West Virginia as a receiver in 2017. Sills had 60 receptions for 980 yards and 18 touchdown catches (tied with Bears WR Anthony Miller for FBS lead) in 2017 and followed with 65 catches, 986 yards and 15 scores through the air (second in FBS) in 2018.
The @seniorbowl RB group includes:
Gaskin-UW all-time leading rusher
Higdon- undersized workhorse
Ingold- athletic true FB
Moore- gritty dude coming off injury Williams- late-bloomer
Anderson- sleeper
Armstead- banger
Scott- a guy with something to prove Wesco- versatile TE/FB pic.twitter.com/7wahTzz9mt
— Jim Nagy (@JimNagy_SB) January 10, 2019
Bruce Anderson, North Dakota State: Anderson ranked sixth in FCS with 15 total touchdowns (12 rushing, three receiving) in 2017. He finished his career with 2,896 yards and 24 touchdowns on 486 carries and added 32 receptions for 448 yards and seven scores. Anderson also returned 52 kickoffs for 1,360 yards (26.2 yards per return) and two touchdowns.
Ryquell Armstead, Temple: Armstead totaled 2,812 rushing yards and 34 touchdowns on 573 career attempts. He added 29 receptions for 175 yards.
Wes Hills, Slippery Rock: Hills is the second Slippery Rock player to ever be invited to the Senior Bowl, joining former Viking Brandon Fusco. He garnered a late invitation after earning MVP honors on Saturday at the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl. Hills played three seasons at Division I Delaware before transferring to Slippery Rock. He set a school single-season record with 1,714 rush yards, a total that ranked third in Division II in 2018.
Trevon Wesco (FB), West Virginia: A tight end/fullback, Wesco had 26 of his 28 receptions with the Mountaineers in 2018, accounting for 366 of his 373 receiving yards.
The @seniorbowl TE group features a 6’8” small-schooler with 36-inch VJ (Parham), a versatile Y/F (Sample), arguably the two best in-line blocking Y in the ‘19 draft (Seeeney and Moreau), an ascending big target (Oliver), and a junior grad that can get down the seam (Raymond). pic.twitter.com/P0uXt82J4h
Foster Moreau, LSU: A permanent team captain in 2018, Moreau followed a junior season with 24 receptions, 278 yards and three scores by posting 22 receptions for 272 yards and two touchdowns.
Josh Oliver, San Jose State: Oliver's production took off in 2017 when he had 35 receptions for 296 yards and a score and kept increasing in 2018 when he had career bests of 56 catches, 709 yards and four scores.
Dax Raymond, Utah State: Raymond totaled 72 receptions for 873 yards and three scores.
B.J. Autry (G), Jacksonville State: Autry played 25 games for the Gamecocks. He initially signed with Baylor then went to Coffeyville Community College (Kansas) before returning to his home state.
Dennis Daley (T), South Carolina: Daley played 24 games in two seasons after transferring from Georgia Military College.
Andre Dillard (T), Washington State: Dillard played in 41 games, including 39 over the past three seasons, for the Cougars.
Tytus Howard (T), Alabama State: Howard, who enrolled as a tight end and switched, played in 36 games.
Elgton Jenkins (C), Mississippi State: Jenkins played in 49 games for the Bulldogs and became the starting center in 2017.
Javon Patterson (G), Mississippi: Patterson played in 48 games for the Rebels. He was the only lineman to start all 12 games for the team in 2016 (nine at guard, three at center).
Ross Pierschbacher (C), Alabama: Pierschbacher transferred to starting center in 2018 after starting 42 games at left guard.
Ben Powers (G), Oklahoma: Powers started 36 of 38 games after transferring from Butler Community College.
Dru Samia (G), Oklahoma: Samia played 52 games, starting 48 for the Sooners.
Olisaemeka Udoh (T), Elon: The four-year starter appeared in 45 games. He participated in last week's East-West Shrine Game.
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VistaJet completes acquisition of Bombardier Skyjet International
VistaJet becomes second largest business jet company outside North America; VistaJet will generate over 25,000 hours worldwide.
Zurich, Switzerland – VistaJet Holding SA (VistaJet) and Bombardier Inc. today announced that the companies have signed definitive agreements under which, for an undisclosed sum, VistaJet will acquire Bombardier Skyjet International, a leading business aviation company with offices in London, Hong Kong and Dubai.
The transaction promotes VistaJet to the number two position outside North America and allows VistaJet to expand its revolutionary Flight Solutions Programme and expand operations worldwide.
Thomas Flohr, Founder and Chairman of VistaJet said, “Today’s transaction is a perfect fit; the complementary synergies and strengths is in line with our goal of becoming the world’s leading business aviation provider… The merger underlines VistaJet’s vision of revolutionizing the business aviation landscape globally by coupling pure luxury with affordability.”
Bing Chen, CEO of VistaJet said, “VistaJet remains committed to a seamless integration of operations and services for the benefit of our customers. Skyjet’s jet membership programme perfectly complements our innovative Flight Solutions Programme. The Skyjet International brand name has been retained to reassure customers who will benefit from this expanded range of service options. This is another milestone of VistaJet’s continued success in providing the most innovative travel solutions that are transparent, flexible and affordable but with the most luxurious fleet and services.”
On May 20 2008, VistaJet announced that it had placed a firm order for 35 Bombardier business jets, including an option for an additional 25 aircraft. This $1.2 billion order was Bombardier’s second largest business jet order and will triple the size of VistaJet’s existing fleet.
The Skyjet transaction and current aircraft order will see VistaJet’s fleet expand to 94 jets by 2012. The Company recently forecast a 50 per cent increase in revenues for this year and expects to generate approximately 80,000 flight hours by 2012.
About Bombardier
A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from commercial aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, systems and services, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2008, were $17.5 billion, and its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD). Bombardier is listed as an index component to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America indexes. News and information are available at www.bombardier.com.
About Bombardier SkyJet International
Launched in March 2002 as Flexjet Europe and later rebranded, Bombardier Skyjet International established itself as the world’s first truly global business jet charter service. Consolidating some of the world’s leading charter operators into a single network, Skyjet International, based outside London – and with offices in Dubai and Hong Kong – provides a variety of innovative private jet travel options.
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Former Syracuse Player Announces Retirement Because of Head Injury
Concussions have forced talented athletes to retire from the sport they love sooner than anticipated. Sadly, many of these players’ careers might not have been cut short had their coaches and teams followed proper concussion protocol.
Below, we discuss the case of former Syracuse player Mike Clark, one of the victims of this negligence.
Why Mike Clark Retired From Football
In late December 2019, Syracuse offensive lineman Mike Clark revealed that a head injury ended his football career prematurely.
Clark announced in an Instagram post that his head injury occurred during training camp in the summer leading up to the 2019 football season.
Clark is just one example of the droves of promising young athletes who had to give up the sport they love due to a debilitating injury. And, sadly, many of these cases occurred due to collegiate coaches and teams failing to follow proper concussion protocol.
NCAA Concussion Protocol
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has established guidelines for coaches and teams to follow before and after a student-athlete suffers a head injury during play.
These guidelines include the following:
Education. College institutions should provide applicable concussion fact sheets to student-athletes, coaches, team physicians, athletic trainers, and athletic directors on an annual basis. There should be a signed acknowledgment that all parties have read and understand the concussion fact sheets and their institution’s concussion management plan.
Pre-participation assessment. A pre-participation concussion assessment for all student-athletes should include a brain injury/concussion history, symptom evaluation, cognitive assessment, and balance evaluation.
Recognition and diagnosis of concussion. Any student-athlete experiencing symptoms consistent with a concussion must be removed from competition and referred to a team physician with experience in concussion management.
Post-concussion management. The student-athlete must receive appropriate post-concussion management, including clinical evaluation, hospital transport, continual monitoring, and more.
Planned return to activity. Student-athletes may not return to play until they have returned to their baseline condition, as judged by a healthcare provider.
For a variety of misguided reasons, some coaches and teams decide not to follow the proper concussion protocols and often return a player to competition before they are ready.
This can lead to subsequent head injuries and a worse prognosis for the student-athlete.
Received a Sports Concussion? Contact Us Today
If you or someone you love received a sports-related concussion that could have been prevented, our sports injury attorneys at Shrader & Associates L.L.P. are here to fight for you. We make it our mission to hold negligent coaches and teams accountable for their actions and to protect the health of current and future student-athletes.
Contact us today at (844) 256-8685 to speak with our team today
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Posted 2020-September-25, 06:44
helene_t, on 2020-September-24, 19:15, said:
As I understand it, "virus particle" should here read "air droplet that carries the virus particle". The weight of the virus particle itself doesn't matter, even the heaviest virus would be plenty light enough to travel if it could travel alone. But it can't.
Well yes, more or less. The large particles from the original advice are actually muscosalivary respiratory droplets, which basically means the tiny droplets that we breathe out. Back in April it emerged in a range of papers from different groups that the virus could also travel on smaller air pollution particles and after further research it was found, in June, that the virus can be transmitted on a wide range of droplets and particles. That the CDC has not updated advice over 2 months later is remarkable.
David Leonhardt channeling shyams in today's The Morning newsletter:
The idea of an all-powerful Supreme Court — a court where justices with lifetime tenure have ultimate authority to resolve society’s toughest questions — has come to seem normal in today’s United States.
It’s not normal anywhere else. In no other democracy do judges serve for as long as they like. In most other democracies, the highest courts are less aggressive about striking down entire laws, as Jamal Greene of Columbia Law School told me. The courts instead tend to direct legislators to fix specific parts of a law.
An all-powerful Supreme Court has also not been constant in American history, largely because the Constitution does not establish it. The balance of power between the judiciary and the other branches of government has oscillated. The past two decades, when the court has intervened to decide an election, legalize same-sex marriage and throw out multiple laws, represent a high point for what scholars call “judicial supremacy.”
All of which suggests that the future of the Supreme Court does not depend only on who the justices are. It also depends on whether future presidents and Congresses choose to accept judicial supremacy.
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has moved that question to the center of American politics.
The Constitution certainly gives Congress and the president ways to reclaim authority. Jamelle Bouie, a Times Opinion columnist, has explained how Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln both fought their political opponents’ attempts to lock in power through the courts.
“If the policy of the Government upon the vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court,” Lincoln said in his first inaugural address, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”
In recent years, conservatives were often the ones criticizing judicial supremacy, especially after Roe v. Wade restricted voters’ ability to decide abortion policy. Today, liberals are alarmed: The Republican Party, despite having lost the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, may use the judiciary to dictate policy on climate change, voting rights, economic inequality and more, for decades to come.
The option for Democrats that has received the most attention is an expansion of the number of justices. But there are other options that seem less radical, Richard Pildes of New York University notes. Democrats could also pass a law restricting the court from reviewing some areas of the law — a power that the Constitution explicitly gives Congress. Or Congress could pass a law requiring six or seven justices’ votes for any decision striking down federal or state laws.
If Democrats choose any of these options, Republicans may retaliate in the future, setting off a destabilizing political arms race. On the other hand, the acceptance of judicial supremacy brings big downsides, as well. It may be tantamount to forfeiting political power for the majority of Americans.
“If protecting the right of the people to govern for themselves means curbing judicial power and the Supreme Court’s claim to judicial supremacy, then Democrats should act without hesitation,” Jamelle argues. “If anything, they’ll be in good historical company.” Of course, it’s all academic if Democrats don’t win the White House and both houses of Congress.
Other ideas: The historian Julian Zelizer has made the case against court expansion. The Economist magazine favors term limits for justices (which may require a constitutional amendment), and Maya Sen of Harvard has summarized the arguments for term limits.
A simple and I hope non-controversial remark.
Yesterday I got my write-in ballot. I will be voting next week. I think it is very important that we all decide early on whether we will vote in person or by write-in, and then we get no with it. Covid has created problems. This much is obvious regardless of political views. We need to do our best to have the vote go smoothly and to get the results as early as we can, consistent with careful processing. A large number of last minute write-ins will cause problems. So let's do our part. Often I can procrastinate as much as the next guy, but not this time.
Seth Meyers said:
I think the mistake was phrasing the question that way. You should have asked, ‘If Joe Biden wins, do you commit to playing even more golf?’
Trevor Noah said:
Can you imagine how fun it would be if the incoming president always had to fistfight the outgoing president? Yeah? Biden and Trump are gonna be at the White House recreating the geriatric fights from ‘The Irishman,’ while Kamala Harris has Mike Pence in a head lock? [imitating Mike Pence] ‘Oh no, my hair grazed her bosom. Now I’m going to hell.
Zelandakh, on 2020-September-25, 06:44, said:
Remarkable indeed. My brother is a retired Colonel, and back at the start of this pandemic I talked to him about the risk of travel, and he said he relied on information from the CDC as it was non-political. He and his wife are lifelong Republicans so I don't know how they are explaining the failings now. Myself, I never believed it was possible to do what Trump has done - but then who could have ever thought we would elect a mafioso as president.
Major news is coming in over the "case" of the nine "discarded" ballots from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania that President Donald Trump revealed to Fox News Radio on Thursday.
Here's what appears to have happened, and we're going to bullet point this so it's easy to follow.
The ballots were discarded by a temporary, or "contract" worker assigned to sort the mail who appears to have been following direction.
They ballots were military ballots, not absentee or other by-mail ballots.
The county immediately reported what happened to federal officials, who appear to have immediately politicized the issue.
"Because these ballots were returned in envelopes similar to absentee ballot requests, elections officials opened them," The Washington Post reports. "If the ballots weren't then enclosed in another envelope which shielded the actual vote being cast, they may have been considered 'naked ballots,' a term used to describe mail ballots returned without the voter's intent being protected.
The Trump campaign and the Pennsylvania GOP in a lawsuit argued that "naked ballots" should not be counted. They won that lawsuit. These nine ballots appear to be "naked ballots," and that appears to be the reason they were thrown out.
Here's how MSNBC's Chris Hayes sums it up: It's the GOP's fault.
Winstonm, on 2020-September-25, 07:51, said:
Myself, I never believed it was possible to do what Trump has done - but then who could have ever thought we would elect a mafioso as president.[/size]
I don't know why you are insulting the Mafia in this way. I've seen documentaries where the Mafia helped the war effort during WWII which is more than Bone Spurs in Chief did in the Vietnam war. The Mafia may be murderers and criminals, but they aren't the Manchurian President.
#16288 sharon j
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johnu, on 2020-September-25, 17:29, said:
This made me laugh.
#16289 Chas_P
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kenberg, on 2020-September-25, 07:14, said:
As Josef Stalin said, "It doesn't matter who casts the votes. What matters is who counts the votes." That's what worries me. I respect your right to cast your vote as you see fit. And I feel that you respect mine. But mailing out unsolicited ballots to god-knows-who really bothers me. If Biden wins fair and square I can accept that. If he wins by political chicanery...well life goes on and I hope my offspring (and yours) live through it. God (or whomever) Bless America.
Chas_P, on 2020-September-25, 18:54, said:
But mailing out unsolicited ballots to god-knows-who really bothers me.
Years ago I volunteered as a poll worker during many elections. In my experience, all of the poll workers -- republicans and democrats -- took our responsibilities very seriously. Training was mandatory and the procedures were tight. A representative from each major party was always present, and both signed the certification of the counts.
No absentee ballot was cast for anyone not registered to vote, and once you voted, your name was checked off on the same list used for in-person voting. There was no voting twice.
Also, I've never heard of a case of "mailing out unsolicited ballots to god-knows-who." If you aren't making that up, I'd appreciate a link documenting that. So far as I know, absentee ballots go only to registered voters who've requested them.
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The fraud is often on the other end, in the referendum that gave changed the constitution to Putin's benefit, according to reports many people went to the polling station and were told they'd already voted by post and would be investigated for trying to vote twice if they complained.
Donald Trump has stated publicly at least twice three times in the last week that he will not agree to a peaceful transfer of power if he doesn't like the outcome of the election. There cannot be a more profound internal attack on the U.S. republic than that - it is the equivalent to a coup.
Supporting Donald Trump - by casting a vote for him - should be considered an act of sedition.
Here is my starting point: Covid has created a serious problem, and it is the responsibility of those who supervise the election process to make it safe to vote and to make the results trustworthy. My responsibility is to vote in accordance with the procedure that they lay out. I add on the suggestion that we can all help by casting a vote early so as to not overwhelm the system in this time of difficulty.
Both as a practical matter and by nature, I strongly believe that if/when things go wrong we should look first for the errors we have made rather than look for the errors of others. But in this case, it is the responsibility of those in charge of elections to make this work right. So, have they done so? I hope so. If there are specific areas of weakness these should have been identified and addressed. Vague assertions of distrust don't do the job.
Now as to details.
I received my write-in ballot by email, I had applied for it by email. It was a while back and I do not recall the procedure exactly but I went through an identification process that was a good deal more detailed and extensive than when I vote in person. My name is on the ballot, there is a ballot tracking number, I will be signing the ballot, swearing under oath and penalty of perjury that I am me, it is noted that the penalty for lying is a thousand dollar fine, or two years in prison, or both. I could mail it in, and I might of the line to drop it off is too long, but they are accepting drop-offs starting next week so I imagine things will spread out enough so that dropping it off will be similar to getting groceries, as far as covid danger is concerned.
You mention both how the ballots are sent out and how they are counted. As far as how they are sent out, the process seems very good. How are they counted? Well, I don't know. But then I have never known in ay election I have voted in. I had an experience in college, definitely at odds with the care Passed Out cites. I worked various jobs, some long term, some very short term. Somehow I learned that there was a one day job delivering ballots from one place to another and I did that. The votes were cast in location X, they were counted at location Y, I was a college kid with a car who took the ballots from X to Y. I suppose they were boxed in some reasonably secure way but for 45 minutes or so I was in sole possession of them. I suppose I could have done something., but of course I was trying to make a buck, not influence a vote. (It was some local matter, not a presidential election). I am hoping/trusting we will be doing better than that in 2020.
It should not be that difficult to provide a secure counting method, and if they want to do some random checks for accuracy they do have my name and the ballot tracking number.
If fraud is discovered then this has to be addressed. But vague claims about fraud are more than a little unsettling. We are holding an election at a very difficult time and any worries about insecure voting arrangements should be addressed by specific corrections rather by vague, and not so vague, hints that a result that is not liked will be declared to be fraudulent.
In short, I don't know the details, I never do know the details, but as near as I can see this is going forward in a manner that can be trusted. And yes, trust but verify is a good slogan. If I were to worry, I might worry more about electronic voting. I think most places now have a paper trail back up to use if needed. I hope so. Most everyone wants accurate voting. I see no reason to distrust the process I am using, or at least no reason to distrust it more than in-person electronic voting.
Just as an aside, coming to mind from your mention of Stalin. In high school I did a term paper on Josef Stalin. I also did a term paper on Douglas MacArthur. This was all back in the early 1950s just before Stalin died and when MacArthur was the old soldier who never dies but just fades away. The world was different. I am not quite saying that I miss it, but it was different.
The rot in this country has been incremental, and it started as we slowly adopted the right-libertarian ideals and started on the long road to neglect and even repudiation of the concept of "the public good." The end result is that we have elected Gordon Gecko as our Godfather, while a nation cheers his wily corruption and giggles about his theft of public goods.
Well, as least we were entertained; however, I've never been a big fan of the fiddle.
re: Vague assertions of distrust don't do the job.
This applies doubly to vague assertions by professional trolls. No integrity is no excuse.
It's important to engage. Trump is not a Libertarian, Trump is a user. They are not the same thing.
When I was young I was trying to choose a path. I was looking for what I wanted, looking for how to get there. But I was not looking for how to con someone else. I am certainly not a Libertarian but I do feel that opportunity is a fundamental good. I would disagree with Libertarians who don't appreciate how important it is for government to provide opportunity, I would disagree with some on the left who, at times, seem to think that if someone fails to do what has to be done to follow up on opportunity then it is our fault. Some people make really stupid choices. There are times it seems that I want X ot succeed more than X wants himself to succeed. I assume that we have all had such experiences. Many and often, I would say.
So for me, it goes something like: Provide opportunity, then stay out of the way. That's largely how I recall what I was given in my early years, and I think Dems would get a lot more votes if it were clear they thought along these lines. If this is what they think, they could do a better job of putting it across. One way f putting it: I am more favorable to government giving people chance to do something, less favorable to a government telling people that they must do a certain thing or can not do a certain thing. In this last, I might find some common ground with a Libertarian. But probably only briefly.
At any rate, Trump is no Libertarian. User. Crook. Con man. Not Libertarian.
So for me, it goes something like: Provide opportunity, then stay out of the way. That's largely how I recall what I was given in my early years, and I think Dems would get a lot more votes if it were clear they thought along these lines. If this is what they think, they could do a better job of putting it across.
Of course Trump is not libertarian. That was my point. Our rot did not begin with Trump. He is a symptom of a much deeper problem that began decades ago as the U.S.A. political elite slowly adopted the views of 20th century right-libertarianism.
The con was not invented by Donald Trump. There have been many who preceded him who used similar methods - he just took the lid off. But we have been told from Harding to Coolidge to Nixon to Reagan to Clinton and by the Chicago School of economics that if we simply adopted the free-market free-for-all of unbridled, unregulated capitalism that all human problems would be magically saved by the competition of the "invisible hand"of Adam Smith, although aware that the invisible hand of Wealth of Nations and the 18th century was dominated by small local markets that were limited by distance against monopolizing.
The con of that is not that free markets are bad; the con is to take a basic truth - some form of capitalism is our most useful economic model to date - and then make outlandish and unreliable claims about its abilities to solve problems. You see this again and again in the claims that tax cuts pay for themselves in increased economic activity. Time and again this has been shown to be untrue. It is now a mantra, chanted in support of a belief system, a religion of the right. We have all heard it - government is the problem.
No. Bad government can be a problem. But that can be fixed. The biggest danger is unregulated, unbridled capitalism. It is a zero sum game. Winners and losers. And if you are lucky enough to get yourself elected president and don't use the power of the government to make you and your friends richer you are a loser and a sucker.
And that is Trump - corruption as normal as breathing. But libertarian? No. I doubt he can even spell it.
Obviously that would "panic" the American public and affect the election chances of the Manchurian President. In case you haven't been following the news, control of the CDC has been moved to the Fox Propaganda Channel.
PassedOut, on 2020-September-25, 19:42, said:
So far as I know, absentee ballots go only to registered voters who've requested them.
If that is, in fact, the case then I'm all for it. But the key words are "registered" and "requested".
hrothgar, on 2020-September-24, 19:30, said:
I was so hoping that you were dead.
2020 is truly a horrible year.
It's refreshing to see that you are still in the turnip patch Richard. Live long and prosper.
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Soldier set to retire signs up for new challenge on Veterans Day – playing Division II golf
by: Jack Patterson and Nexstar Media Wire
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – With The Masters set to begin Thursday due to the pandemic, it was only fitting that a Georgia soldier set to retire would spend Veterans Day signing up for his next challenge – playing Division II golf at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.
Jonathan “Buckets” Shuskey, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army and a North Carolina native, has served in the Army since 2000. He’s been at Fort Benning, Ga. for the last few years.
During his service, Shuskey has been a machine gunner, team leader, squad leader and platoon sergeant. Additionally, he’s served in five tours of combat during his time with the Army, with four tours in Afghanistan and one in the Philippines.
Now, Shuskey is taking a different path. While most students sign for college sports fresh out of high school, the staff sergeant is trading uniforms and taking on a new challenge to play Division II golf at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, once his 20th year of service comes to a close.
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“[Legendary basketball coach] Pat Summitt once said that you’re never too old to reinvent yourself. ‘Buckets’ is living proof of her quote,” Chip Seagle, Manchester High Offensive Coordinator and good friend of Shuskey, said.
“Every coach I talked to, we were all kind of on the same page,” Shuskey said. “This situation is unique because I’m not just making the decision for myself. I have a wife and four kids, and they are coming along for the ride too. And so, that was the other part of Christian Brothers that, when I talked to Coach Brice, and he really just seemed to like that idea of us making that move and making that commitment as a family and made me fell really comfortable with that decision.”
Shuskey and his wife have four children. His family will move with him to Memphis in the summer as he takes the next steps of his journey.
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Maine GOP To Reconfirm Presidential Caucus Results
Totals Will Be Posted On Maine Republican Party Website
Updated: 6:17 AM EST Feb 16, 2012
The Maine Republican Party is getting the results of last weekend's presidential caucuses reconfirmed.Mitt Romney was announced as the winner. But the announcement upset a number of party activists, especially Ron Paul supporters who felt it ignored Washington County. The caucuses were called off Saturday in Washington County because of a snowstorm. Washington County has rescheduled its caucuses for this Saturday.Webster said the review was requested after officials realized several towns were left out and figures for Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were flip-flopped in Portland. Webster said the revised numbers won't change the outcome, and may even increase Romney's lead."We have worked diligently to contact town chairmen throughout Maine to reconfirm the results of their individual caucuses. These totals once confirmed will be posted on the Maine Republican Party website," Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster said in a release.The Maine Republican party website is www.mainegop.com.The results of the Washington County caucus will be reviewed at the March 10 Republican State Committee meeting."The Executive Committee voted unanimously to recommend to the State Committee that they include the results in the final tally for the Presidential Preference Poll as their caucus had been scheduled to occur by the February 11 deadline, however it was postponed due to inclement weather," Webster said.
AUGUSTA, Maine —
The Maine Republican Party is getting the results of last weekend's presidential caucuses reconfirmed.
Mitt Romney was announced as the winner. But the announcement upset a number of party activists, especially Ron Paul supporters who felt it ignored Washington County. The caucuses were called off Saturday in Washington County because of a snowstorm. Washington County has rescheduled its caucuses for this Saturday.
Webster said the review was requested after officials realized several towns were left out and figures for Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were flip-flopped in Portland. Webster said the revised numbers won't change the outcome, and may even increase Romney's lead.
"We have worked diligently to contact town chairmen throughout Maine to reconfirm the results of their individual caucuses. These totals once confirmed will be posted on the Maine Republican Party website," Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster said in a release.
The Maine Republican party website is www.mainegop.com.
The results of the Washington County caucus will be reviewed at the March 10 Republican State Committee meeting.
"The Executive Committee voted unanimously to recommend to the State Committee that they include the results in the final tally for the Presidential Preference Poll as their caucus had been scheduled to occur by the February 11 deadline, however it was postponed due to inclement weather," Webster said.
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Loan Watch | Ryan Leak learning on and off the pitch
It’s not just on the pitch where Wolves’ young players are learning while on loan at FC Jumilla, but off it as well.
Ryan Leak is one of nine Wolves players who are currently playing for the Spanish Segunda División B side, and during his time at Jumilla, the 20-year-old has been taking weekly Spanish lessons to enable him to improve his communication with teammates.
The defender has featured in 11 of Jumilla’s last 14 league matches and has taken well to life – and football – across the continent.
On settling in Spain
“The first few weeks and first month was quite difficult. We were in the hotel and didn’t have cars, so getting around and having a bit of freedom was quite difficult. But now we’ve all got our own apartments – well most of us anyway – and our own cars.
“The lads here are good with us as well. I get on with most of them quite well, they’re proper friendly and some speak English, some don’t, so we’ve got to try and speak Spanish to them which is difficult, but everyone’s been very welcoming.”
On taking Spanish lessons
“It’s been alright. Learning a different language comes with the new experience of coming over here. We currently have two lessons a week, so my Spanish is improving.”
On differences to England
“The weather. Not now, but before at the start of the loan spell it was very hot, but now it’s got cooler. There’s also a different style of football here, and although Wolves are now playing the way Spanish teams do, it’s still different.”
On his Jumilla targets
“My aim is to just play as many games as possible. I’ve had a good run in the team, played quite a lot of games and I think I’ve done well. I just need to kick on from his point now and see what comes.”
On playing friendly against Wolves Academy
“It was a good test. It was weird playing against people you know, but it was a game at the end of the day and I thought we played well.
“I was glad that some of the boys who haven’t been playing as often got a few minutes, which was good for them.”
Away from Jumilla, Rafa Mir has scored four goals in 14 Spanish La Liga 2 matches for UD Las Palmas, while Phil Ofosu-Ayeh has netted once and set up two goals during his seven appearances for German 3. Liga club Hansa Rostock.
Roderick Miranda made his first Olympiacos start in six Greek Super League matches on Sunday, playing the full 90 minutes in the team’s 3-0 win over PAS Lamia 1964. The defender was also on the bench during Olympiacos’ 3-1 victory over AC Milan in the Europa League last week.
Slovakian Fortuna Liga team Dunajská Streda have qualified for the league’s Championship group after Christian Herc helped the club finished second in the league. They will now play a mini-league between the top six teams to see who qualifies for next season’s Champions League and Europa League.
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‘Category 5 hurricane’: White House under siege by Trump Jr.’s Russia revelations – Washington Post
By Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker,
The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government, as the president fumes against his enemies and senior aides circle one another with suspicion, according to top White House officials and outside advisers.
President Trump — who has been hidden from public view since returning last weekend from a divisive international summit — is enraged that the Russia cloud still hangs over his presidency and is exasperated that his eldest son and namesake has become engulfed by it, said people who have spoken with him this week.
The disclosure that Trump Jr. met with a Russian attorney, believing he would receive incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as part of the Kremlin’s effort to boost his father’s candidacy, has set back the administration’s faltering agenda and rattled the senior leadership team.
Even supporters of Trump Jr. who believe he faces no legal repercussions privately acknowledged Tuesday that the story is a public relations disaster — for him as well as for the White House. One outside ally called it a “Category 5 hurricane,” while an outside adviser said a CNN graphic charting connections between the Trump team and Russians resembled the plot of the fictional Netflix series “House of Cards.”
Even Vice President Pence sought to distance himself from the controversy, with his spokesman noting that Trump Jr.’s meeting occurred before Pence joined the ticket.
Inside a White House in which infighting often seems like a core cultural value, three straight days of revelations in the New York Times about Trump Jr. have inspired a new round of accusations and recriminations, with advisers privately speculating about who inside the Trump orbit may be leaking damaging information about the president’s son.
This portrait of the Trump White House under siege is based on interviews Tuesday with more than a dozen West Wing officials, outside advisers, and friends and associates of the president and his family, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
[The Take: Trump Jr.’s emails offer a revelation unlike any other in the Russia probe]
The makeup of Trump’s inner circle is the subject of internal debate, as ever. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser; Jared Kushner, her husband and another senior adviser; and first lady Melania Trump have been privately pressing the president to shake up his team — most specifically by replacing Reince Priebus as the White House chief of staff, according to two senior White House officials and one ally close to the White House.
The three family members are especially concerned about the steady stream of unauthorized leaks to journalists that have plagued the administration over the nearly six months that President Trump has been in office, from sensitive national security information to embarrassing details about the inner workings of the White House, the officials said.
Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s communications director, said: “Of course, the first lady is concerned about leaks from her husband’s administration, as all Americans should be. And while she does offer advice and perspectives on many things, Mrs. Trump does not weigh in on West Wing staff.”
Lindsay Walters, a deputy White House press secretary, disputed reports about Priebus’s standing. “These sources have been consistently wrong about Reince, and they’re still wrong today,” she said.
After this story first published, Josh Raffel, a White House spokesman, said in a statement on behalf of Kushner and Ivanka Trump: “Jared and Ivanka are focused on working with Reince and the team to advance the President’s agenda and not on pushing for staff changes.”
Trump recently publicly praised Priebus’s work ethic, and the chief of staff’s allies note that Priebus has done as good a job as can be expected under the unique circumstances of this administration. Defenders of Priebus have long said they expect him to make it to a year in the position, and Trump is said to be hesitant to fire him or any other senior staffer amid the escalating Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
The mind-set of Trump Jr. over the past few days has evolved from distress to anger to defiance, according to people close to him. He hired a criminal defense attorney but maintains that he is innocent of any wrongdoing. After his tweets commenting on the matter drew scrutiny, he agreed to his first media interview — with his friend Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity on his show on Tuesday night.
One friend of Trump Jr.’s said the presidential son saw the Hannity appearance as an opportunity to give his version of Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” speech, a 1952 address in which the then-vice-presidential candidate defended himself against accusations of financial improprieties.
[Trump Jr. could be in legal jeopardy, but analysts said more would be required for a criminal case]
Trump has had no public events since returning Saturday night from Germany but has been closely monitoring developments with his eldest son in the news.
Trump continues to view the Russia controversy as an excuse used by Democrats for losing an election they thought they would win — and an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of his victory, aides said. They said that the president’s frustration is based on the media coverage of his son’s actions, as opposed to the actions themselves.
“He just looks at this as the continuum of taking a group of unrelated facts and putting them together in concentric circles and saying, ‘Aha — look what happened!’ ” said Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a longtime friend of the president who was chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee. “With Don Jr., whatever set of facts there are may not lead to the conclusion that the establishment media is making.”
Trump and his advisers are deeply frustrated that the disclosure by Trump Jr. has overshadowed the positive coverage they expected to receive from the president’s trip abroad, as well as other issues they hoped to spotlight this week, such as the Senate health-care bill and trade.
A handful of Republican operatives close to the White House are scrambling to Trump Jr.’s defense and have begun what could be an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists who have been reporting on the matter.
Their plan, as one member of the team described it, is to research the reporters’ previous work, in some cases going back years, and to exploit any mistakes or perceived biases. They intend to demand corrections, trumpet errors on social media and feed them to conservative outlets, such as Fox News.
But one outside adviser said a campaign against the press when it comes to Trump Jr.’s meeting could be futile: “The meeting happened. It’s tough to go to war with the facts.”
In the West Wing, meanwhile, fear of the Mueller probe effectively paralyzed senior staffers as they struggled to respond.
No official has yet delivered a robust defense of Trump Jr., although Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the principal deputy press secretary, told reporters Monday, “I would certainly say Don Jr. did not collude with anybody to influence the election.”
At Tuesday’s press briefing, Sanders read a brief statement from the president — “My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency” — but declined to speak further on the issue, referring all questions to Trump Jr.’s attorney.
[Donald Trump Jr.’s emails about the meeting with a Russian lawyer, annotated]
Other senior White House officials were hesitant to talk about Trump Jr. — even on the condition of anonymity — for fear of exposing themselves legally.
Some top officials, as well as outside advisers, had earlier suggested that the White House conduct its own internal review to identify any potential problem areas related to Russia so that it can release the information on its own rather than be caught unaware by news reports. But that notion went nowhere, in part because officials were afraid to discuss any potential Russia interactions that could make them targets of Mueller’s probe.
One White House official went so far as to stop communicating with the president’s embattled son, although this official spoke sympathetically about his plight, casting Trump Jr. as someone who just wants to hunt, fish and run his family’s real estate business.
“The kid is an honest kid,” said one friend of Trump Jr. “The White House should’ve never let that story go out on the president’s son. . . . What he’s upset about was that it was a minor meeting and the media glare — anything that’s Russia-related, gets picked up the way roaches get caught in a roach motel.”
Eric Trump, another son of the president, defended his older brother Tuesday night by retweeting a message from British politician Nigel Farage, who said Trump Jr. was under attack because he is “the best public supporter” of the president. Eric Trump tweeted: “This is the EXACT reason they viciously attack our family! They can’t stand that we are extremely close and will ALWAYS support each other.”
Critics of Trump Jr. counter that he should have known better than to accept a meeting with someone who was explicitly described in an email as a “Russian government attorney.”
“It wasn’t naivete,” said Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia in the Obama administration. “It was, ‘Oh, they have some dirt on our opponent and I’m eager to receive it.’ Nobody thought to think, ‘Well, how did they obtain that? Is this coming from the Russian government, Russian intelligence?’ Those are the kinds of obvious questions that should have been asked, in my opinion.”
Pence found out about Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Russian attorney Friday evening in advance of the first Times story, said one person familiar with the discussions. Both Pence and his team view the Russia coverage as a distraction, and are working to keep the vice president clear of it and focused on Trump’s policy goals — such as health care, the subject of his scheduled visit to Kentucky on Wednesday.
“The vice president is working every day to advance the president’s agenda, which is what the American people sent us here to do. The vice president was not aware of the meeting,” Pence’s press secretary, Marc Lotter, said in a statement. “He is not focused on stories about the campaign, particularly stories about the time before he joined the ticket.”
On Capitol Hill — where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday that he is delaying his chamber’s August recess by two weeks — Republican senators were becoming increasingly frustrated with the White House, which they blame for Congress’s inability to pass any major legislation.
A growing number of senators believe that the widening Russia probe — as well as the Trump-fueled tumult that seems to dominate nearly every news cycle — have stalled their legislative agenda, leaving them nothing to offer their constituents by way of achievements when they head home over the break.
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