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Good. Economic conservatism needs to return, not this 1980s Democrat MAGA crap.
Rent control needs to see its day in front of SCotUS.
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Kids with comprehension issues that aren’t ready for higher grades are held back?


Looks like you could do with some holding back. I commented on the legitimacy of the testing results, not on the pedagogical strategy.
Yeah, he was the beat writer for Tennessee in a paper owned by USA Today. Not exactly a neutral party.
Combining college and professional play and achievements, along with his career after retirement, you have to go with Shaq. He is a household name, even among people who do not follow basketball. The guy is literally a cultural icon.
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No, one will ever convince me otherwise.


It is amazing how dumb you people are, thinking that a sitting Louisiana governor would do anything to jeopardize LSU football. He is simply too stupid to understand that what he was doing wasn't some Huey Long boss-move.
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our military absolutely kicked their arse in every conceivable way, as we usually do, despite being held to bullshite rules meant to hamstring carrying out the mission


That is the power of communism. You are a cog. You mean nothing as an individual. Zealots who buy into this are damn hard to stop, because they will keep coming regardless of losses.
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Men must fight their own intuition to help them, obviously. But our intuition has been removed by their vote.


Excuse the double negative...
I will never not step up. Maybe it is best I don't live in a place like NYC.
Defeating a power is about defeating their will to fight. We no longer had a will to be there.

Modern warfare, especially for countries like the U.S., is strange. Had we wanted to "conquer" Vietnam, old school style, replacing their population with our own, we could have. Even with all of the shite we did there, we were still not fighting a war of annihilation. If we chose to fight like Russia, attempting to conquer territory regardless of the cost to the local population, we could take many countries down without breaking a sweat.
I don't know contract law, so I consulted with the expert.

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Termination for Cause – Relevant Clauses
The contract states that LSU may terminate the Head Coach for cause if he:
“(i) fails to comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement or the policies, rules, or directives of the University, the LSU System, or the Athletic Director,”
or “
(xii) engages in conduct which, in the reasonable judgment of the University, brings the University or its athletic program into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, or ridicule.”


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How This Applies to the Scenario
Refusing a Directive:
If the athletic director gives a direct order—for example, to dismiss an assistant coach—and Brian Kelly refuses, that refusal would be a clear violation of subsection (i):
“fails to comply with … the directives of the Athletic Director.”

Grounds for Termination:
Because this is explicitly listed under “for cause,” LSU would be legally entitled to terminate Kelly without paying his remaining buyout, provided they document that:
The directive was reasonable and within the AD’s authority, and
Kelly knowingly refused to comply.

Possible Discretion:
LSU could choose not to terminate but could instead treat it as a breach requiring corrective action or issue a formal reprimand. But from a contractual standpoint, the refusal gives them grounds for for-cause termination.
Based on Brian Kelly’s 2021 employment contract with LSU, the head coach would indeed be in violation if he refused to dismiss an assistant coach after being instructed to do so by the athletic director.

Here’s the relevant clause:

“The Head Coach shall, at all times, comply with and carry out the reasonable directives and decisions of the Athletic Director and the President. The Head Coach shall ensure that all assistant coaches and other football staff members also comply with the directives of the Athletic Director and President.”

Explanation

This section gives the Athletic Director (AD) authority to issue directives that the head coach must “carry out.” Since employment and dismissal decisions for assistant coaches fall under the athletic department’s oversight, a directive from the AD to terminate an assistant coach would qualify as one that must be followed.

Therefore:

If the AD directly instructs Brian Kelly to dismiss an assistant coach,

And Kelly refuses to do so,

then Kelly would be in violation of his contractual duty to carry out directives from the Athletic Director.

Consequences

While the contract doesn’t specify the exact penalty for that specific violation, noncompliance could be treated as:

Breach of contract, or

Cause for termination, under sections defining “for cause” termination, which include failure to comply with university or athletic department directives .
Penn State is 0-6 in their league after starting ranked in the top 5. I'd say that is a bit farther of a fall.
The "Mississippi Miracle" is a sham. It is simply NAEP testing manipulation. Mississippi holds kids back in 3rd and 7th grade to keep them from taking the 4th and 8th grade tests. This means that low scoring students are excluded from the results until they get to an adequate reading level. Having a 12 year old 4th grader do well because he was in 3rd grade for three years is not a miracle, it is a shell game.
I won't vote another penny to EBPL nor BREC. Both let politics guide their spending.

re: Legal THC going away

Posted by ActusHumanus on 11/11/25 at 7:08 am to
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There is more illegal weed being grown in California than you realize. All cartel run.


Les Stroud (Survivorman) had a story about this. When he was setting up an episode in Humbolt County, he had quite a few locals that warned him against it due to all of the grow operations on federal land.
The song isn't about the boat. It is about the largest freshwater lake in the world, and the men who have the balls to work on it. With the nature of freshwater (less buoyancy) and rogue waves reflecting off of shorelines, those lakes are extremely dangerous. A ship (as with the E.F.) can get dumped off a wave into a trough and literally be snapped in half.
These suits are common. The only ones making a big deal about it are you people and media beholden to other SEC teams.
Whatever you choose, get someone to wipe and install fresh Windows without bloat. So many people just keep what the manufacturer sends them.
Trading a 1st means that you are trading for someone who is expensive. Successful teams are built through the draft because of the affordability of rookie contracts. One of Loomis's gaffs is signing older players, while failing to succeed on draft day.

The Saints need to cut dead weight, trade back to get more picks, and build around the two young QBs. D and OL are back as the path to a championship.