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This was my take after seeing everything except Nederland/ Lumberton game conditions. And yes, scores are meaningless, not because it isn’t s real game but I think it is s practice to see where you might be okay and where you need work. During the controlled scrimmage, the best squad was the Newton offense. They seemed to move more consistently and in bigger chunks of yardage on average. The squad needing the most work was the Lumberton offense. I don’t know what formation they are running but it looks like a Vidor clone.... all stacked in close and I don’t think I ever saw any wide outs. They had some positive gains but not consistent and they could almost never pass protect from that formation. I don’t care what offense you run as long as you can do it but they really weren’t getting it done very often. In the controlled scrimmage the Nederland pass defense had some big holes open up. Lumberton hit a wide open receiver for about 25 yards underneath and Newton did the same for 40-45. It wasn’t the yardage but the missed coverage or scheme. Like Nederland got 35 yard pass on Lumberton but it was actually pretty good defense, the Nederland player just made a good catch. The rest of the controlled was a lot of give and take with the wet conditions hurting the ball handling. In the game conditions, the clear winner was the Nederland defense over Newton. To say bottled up would be an understatement. Good practice for all of the teams and they all had some positives but plenty to work on. The Lumberton player looked to suffer a possible season ending injury. He was on the field for about 15 minutes before they could move him. Hopefully it was just a lot of precaution, it is not as bad as it looked and maybe he can get back and finish his season. At least it didn’t look like a neck injury.

Lumberton v. Newton

It is fine like it is. It is an opinion poll used for conversation.

So that’s why they see the world differently. She officer that wrote the article left the service after 6 years after being injured according to the article. January 2020 will be my 36th year anniversary..... [Hidden Content] On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman By LTC (RET) Dave Grossman, author of "On Killing." Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always,even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? - William J. Bennett - in a lecture to the United States Naval Academy November 24, 1997 One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me: "Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident." This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another. Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million. Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep. I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators. "Then there are the wolves," the old war veteran said, "and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial. "Then there are sheepdogs," he went on, "and I'm a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf." If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed Let me expand on this old soldier's excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids' schools. But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid's school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep's only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial. The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours. Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa." Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog. The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door. Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero? Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed right along with the young ones. Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, "Thank God I wasn't on one of those planes." The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, "Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference." When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference. There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population. There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast majority said that they specifically targeted victims by body language: slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness. They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least able to protect itself. Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs. But I believe that most people can choose which one they want to be, and I'm proud to say that more and more Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs. Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury, New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, "Let's roll," which authorities believe was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred among the passengers - athletes, business people and parents. -- from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground. There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. - Edmund Burke Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each year. In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They didn't have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious, moral decision. If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you. If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior's path, then you must make a conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door. For example, many officers carry their weapons in church.? They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their backs.? Anytime you go to some form of religious service, there is a very good chance that a police officer in your congregation is carrying. You will never know if there is such an individual in your place of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre you and your loved ones. I was training a group of police officers in Texas, and during the break, one officer asked his friend if he carried his weapon in church. The other cop replied, "I will never be caught without my gun in church." I asked why he felt so strongly about this, and he told me about a cop he knew who was at a church massacre in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1999. In that incident, a mentally deranged individual came into the church and opened fire, gunning down fourteen people. He said that officer believed he could have saved every life that day if he had been carrying his gun. His own son was shot, and all he could do was throw himself on the boy's body and wait to die. That cop looked me in the eye and said, "Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?" Some individuals would be horrified if they knew this police officer was carrying a weapon in church. They might call him paranoid and would probably scorn him. Yet these same individuals would be enraged and would call for "heads to roll" if they found out that the airbags in their cars were defective, or that the fire extinguisher and fire sprinklers in their kids' school did not work. They can accept the fact that fires and traffic accidents can happen and that there must be safeguards against them. Their only response to the wolf, though, is denial, and all too often their response to the sheepdog is scorn and disdain. But the sheepdog quietly asks himself, "Do you have and idea how hard it would be to live with yourself if your loved ones attacked and killed, and you had to stand there helplessly because you were unprepared for that day?" It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up. Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn't bring your gun, you didn't train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear helplessness and horror at your moment of truth. Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less, his superb post-9/11 book, which should be required reading for anyone trying to come to terms with our current world situation: "...denial can be seductive, but it has an insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers think they get by saying it isn't so, the fall they take when faced with new violence is all the more unsettling." Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level. And so the warrior must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life, and prepare himself for the day when evil comes. If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be "on" 24/7, for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself... "Baa." This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.

I believe that is true. I think that she violated the US Code and there are parts of it that don’t require intent. I often hear the argument that they cannot prove intent. NEWSFLAH: All crimes do not require intent to commit a crime but sometimes as little as negligence. But getting a US Attorney to get an indictment her and an actual criminal trial against such a previously high ranking public official seems far fetched. She will be protected.

I think that it is silly. Reparations are a payment of debt owed by a person, corporation, country, etc. The debt can be actual or it can be merely compensation. Actual can be like, your actions caused me to spend money to legally go against you and you should pay my expenses. After WWI a believe the Allied Powers ordered reparations from Germany (which crippled them and helped fuel WWII). The case was, your stupid actions Germany by causing this war cost us billions of dollars so you have to repay us or... reparations. Another example might be a judge rules that a person committed a crime and must do jail time but he must pay reparations for the damaged caused to the victim. The other general reparations category is not a direct repayment of money but for a wrong done to someone and you caused it. During WWII the US Government interned Japanese Americans without any due process out of fear. In the late 1980’s the US Congress voted to pay reparations of $20,000 to each survivor of the camps or the heirs of that person. Why were reparations paid by Congress? Because it was the US Government that interned them. So it comes down to two questions in my opinion. Does a valid grievance exist for payment and if so, who owes it? I think that a good case could be made for slavery. Not the existence of if being being abhorrent which is indisputable but whether someone owes for it. In the Japanese internment it appears to be a clear constitutional violation of due process (5th and 14th Amendments) so a law was violated. Slavery however was not illegal to slave owners, unlike the US Government to the Japanese which committed an unlawful act under the then current law. Then, who committed the acts? In the Japanese internment it was the actual government that locked them up so the government paid money in compensation. Did the US Government own slaves or was slave ownership completely private. If private, why would a government that never owned slaves, pay reparations? I often have seen the argument that the Japanese were paid a settlement by Congress. Yeah, they are the ones who did the enslaving. To compare that to privately owned slaves is like me demanding any member of this forum repay me $1,500 for the 25hp Evinrude motor that was stolen from me in 1987. It is true that any of you didn’t steal it and it was a long time ago, I should still be repaid and I should bevable to choose one of you to owe it to me, right? Obviously that is nonsensical because if you aren’t the one to cause the injury, why should you repay. And again, the theft from me was a crime, unlike slavery which was legal. The history of slavery from what I read in the now USA, began in the early 1600’s. The original slaves were brought to the colonies which were part of... Great Britain. It wasn’t until almost 200 years later that the USA even existed. So even if you believe that a case could be made on the government paying reparations for something lawfully done by a private citizen, shouldn’t it be Great Britain paying the reparations? I don’t believe that a case for reparations is valid however feel free to petition a Great Britain for the money. They are the responsible government who allowed slaves to be brought in, not the country that was created almost two centuries later.

You are overthinking it. Yes, if we signed for taxed gasoline, it would be under a penalty if it was false. We don’t sign any taxing document when we go shopping at Walmart or fill up our car with gasoline What so many people claim to want in income taxes, actually exists in most other taxes. That is a no deductions flat tax. If you buy it then it is taxed at a given rate. It doesn’t matter if you are a billionaire or on welfare, if you pull up to a gas pump at the same time on the same day, the price is the same. It doesn’t matter if you buy one gallon of gasoline a year or 20;000 gallons. It is built into the price.

Yes he was a hero. The word is too often used but Castillo was a first responder. He chose to be a firefighter running into a building to save someone, a police officer heading toward gunfire or a member of our military willingly going in harm’s way. When the survival instinct hits and the immediate adrenaline dump makes you want to run to survive, Kendrick Castillo chose the almost unthinkable in a moment of intense stress and went toward the danger. They won’t do it but they should fire a 21 gun salute to him at his funeral. He earned it.

Unlike Obama, Biden can go away from the TelePrompTer. Obama was absolutely befuddled when he went off script. Biden doesn’t have that problem because he just makes it up as he goes. You can tell by his rambling that he is just throwing words out.

The only interesting thing about this thread is the media fascination with bills that have absolutely no support and practically no chance of becoming a law. Every two years it is the same thing. Headlines will say things like marijuana to be legal in Texas or DWI now a felony on first offense or Medicare for everyone in Texas or... In truth, likely one guy submitted a bill because he told his constituents that he would. Out of the hundreds of other legislators, no one else would sign off on it but by God he did submit it. It will never come up even for a discussion within a committee much less come even close to becoming a law. It is nothing more than Clickbait.

Ground out. Called strikeout. Ground out to 1st. Final BH 3-0

High throw error from short puts lead runner on. Sacrifice bunt shoves runner to 2nd. Foul out to first. Passed ball moves runner to 3rd. Strikeout. Bottom of 7, BH 3-0

Pitch count Nederland 91 BH 62

Walk on 4 pitches. 4-6-3 DP Strikeout. End of 6, BH 3-0

Lead off walk. Wild pitch moves runner to 2. Strikeout. Long out to right. Shallow pop to center. Heading to bottom of 6, BH 3-0

Hit between 1 and 2. Strikeout. Lead runner out at 2nd on ground out. Runner on 1 on fielder’s choice. Caught stealing. End of 5, BH 3-0

Fly to right at the fence. Caught looking at strike 3. Lined out to center. Bottom of 5, BH 3-0

Strikeout looking Fly to right. Hit to right. Caught stealing. End of 4, BH 3-0

Ground out. Long fly to right. High pop up. Heading to bottom of 4, BH 3-0

Leadoff hit. Double play Ground out. End of 3, BH 3-0

Leadoff infield hit and Kemp goes down, maybe twisted his ankle. A couple of practice pitches and for now checks okay. Bunt fouls out to catcher. Double to center puts runners on 2nd-3rd. Base hit up the middle scores 2. Runner on 1st. Centerfielder misjudged ball for a double. Runners on 2-3. Intentional walk liads them. Infield hit scores 1. Ground out ends it. Bottom of 3 on the way, BH 3-0

Strikeout, ground to short and strikeout to end the inning. Top of 3 coming, 0-0

With one out, BH doubles to right. HBP puts runner on first. Strikeout and deep fly to end the threat. 0-0 heading to bottom of 2

End of 1 lead off hit was all. 0-0

Kemp strikes out the side. Heading to bottom of 1.