Mark Davis

I know that in our state, slots for sectionals and state meets are limited. So if a biological male is involved, it takes the spot of a female. There are a fixed number of entries allowed for the top qualifiers in each event. So even if this male qualifies in the furthest north section in the state, someone in the furthest south section could be impacted because their wild card slot could be taken. A lot of girls here their HS goal is to one day make the state meet. It sounds like a low bar, but we had one girl who got a Division I scholarship not make it until her senior year and she was only about three slots from the last qualifier in one of her events. Some of these meets are extremely hard to make and are decided by times, even if it's from other sections ran at different locations. So they don't even have to be in the same area to be impacted. I'll use one event I know about bc of my daughter's involvement. To make the 1600m girls finals in our largest class, the qualifying time is 5:45. Well, just because you run a 5:45 at sectionals doesn't qualify you. Each section has so many slots (5), so if they have enough girls qualify, those girls make it. So let's say that fifth girl runs 5:25, everyone after 5:25 until 5:45 goes into a wild card pool with similar people from all the other sections. There are four of those statewide plus if any section fails to qualify enough runners to use all its slots that can add to the four. I can't recall a time the state meet ever had empty slots, so 5:45 won't get you there. So by default, anyone who qualifies knocks someone else out.

One key is it happened in Boulder. I'm not always for the rednecks, but something like this wouldn't happen where I'm from. That nutjob would have gotten in maybe 2-5 minutes in a public area yelling about Palestine and some good ol' boy would have rolled up and knocked him out and nothing else would have happened. It's not even really a parody, it wouldn't happen around here. If he wanted to attack/kill someone he had better start out firing right off the rip.

Well, we have a generation who was taught that diversity is righteous no matter what. To me it's akin to the equality/equity debate. Diversity is fine and I'm all for welcoming someone who wants to be here legally and assimilate or someone who earns their spot via merit. But it's idiotic to not realize there are dangerous regions of the globe where entire populaces are raised to hate the West. We shouldn't be accepting people from there, nor from China who controls who they send to our country. To say that you are immediately labeled as racist or an Islamophobe.

Well, they'll be safe until the Islamists reach critical mass to basically do as they wish. They can't just give them autonomous zones forever and expect that to last.

They aren't raised to embrace our culture. They don't want to assimilate, trying to bring them here will never work. Well, not if you want the West to survive.

I'd be all for obliterating Pakistan, but the problem is they have nukes and India knows this as well.

I was listening to a clip off CNN about the whole boys running in girls track thing. They kept trying to compromise with the guest with a differing view by offering the whole "this needs more study" phrase to whether it's fair. Just go to milesplit.com and pick any state and sort by the top times in each distance boys and girls. Just put them side by side and see how it goes.

It's funny that there is now this acknowledgement of some big scandal on his mental acuity. The media acting like they were duped only needed to look at their own footage. If they didn't know it was because they didn't want to know.

Playing to their political base. If you don't bend the knee for George Floyd you can't virtue signal.

It is a choice. Every statue, moment of silence, and wanting to memorialize him is a choice by someone. Just like you chose to defend him on my post which wasn't initially even a response to you. You rushed to his defense like I'd just shoved in front of a pregnant lady holding an arm full of groceries at the check out line of Publix. The man was a criminal. I didn't want him dead but he's not someone that should be revered. Moments of silence for this man and not others who were better people who were murdered over those five years speaks volumes. There are statues of this guy. Somewhere along the lines this political ideology of wanting statues for a guy who was a career criminal but wanting to remove those of some of our country's founding fathers is pretty outside the mainstream. It's just one example of this odd choosing of figures to attach themselves to that become an albatross to them politically. It's also part of why when Trump speaks on victims of violent crime perpetrated by illegal immigrants it gets more traction. The left says well statistically it's less, etc. But while Trump is embracing people like Laken Riley, the left is embracing people like George Floyd. It's fertile political ground because those not on the extremes are pretty clear on who they choose.

You are making my point for me. The left has latched on to him and they can't let it go, somehow they've chosen him over victims who happen to have smaller rap sheets, or no rap sheets at all. The obsession with him by the left is a political loser, especially when the connotation now with his name is the riots from 2020.

When people on the left don’t understand why or how people could vote for Donald Trump they fail to realize these kooky things are what drives those in the middle more toward his camp. Most people realize George Floyd was a criminal. Even if you believe Chauvin was guilty of murder, there are much more sympathetic victims you could find to latch on to. There’s a significant portion of the population who believes both that he was murdered and he was pretty much a scumbag. There are all shades in between. But the left seems to like to pick the most flawed characters to latch on to.

There's a Target nearby to where I'm at while at the beach. I should have rolled by this evening to see if they are offering any "walk out specials" on flat screens in honor of George Floyd Day.

They are gonna love this guy in the penitentiary.

The Masters is likely to become much more expensive after this year. Augusta revoked quite a number of badges after distributing them this year causing chaos and a spike in price. They used RFID chips in the badges to determine which badges were being returned daily to certain addresses in Augusta by posting RFID readers around town. Those that were returned to hospitality addresses and the houses used by Stubhub, Vivid Seats, etc. were revoked. The plan is to bring in On Location or perhaps another partner, but I'm hearing On Location for now, and you can bet the badges will be sold along with hospitality packages for way more than previous years.

I wish I could be as optimistic. It will only take the next outrage article by some loon from The Atlantic.

You’ve hit on the problem. Today’s left wants non citizens to be given every benefit of the doubt even above and beyond citizens. They’re worried about non citizen perps rather than victims who are citizens. See Senator Chris Van Hollen.

You say that and I’ll give you credit for the stance, but the Democratic Party is not in this same place you are. If they were, we could pass legislation to stop this and all move on. That’s the reason this is still an issue. It’s a shame we need legislation for something this straightforward but unfortunately we are in that spot.

I never said anything of the sort about the vaccine and have had it myself. I've never bashed the vaccine for trying to be rapid, but there are side effects we don't fully understand yet. That happens when you do the best you can in a time sensitive situation. That's pretty much what I think happened and where we are on that. Unless you don't wish to believe every doctor who has been interviewed, including those on that right wing stalwart MSNBC, this cancer has been there for some time to be at this stage. So it's that, or you think that Biden wasn't having regular physicals when President. The odds that both those are true are remarkably low. This has been known for some time unless he has a doctor who should be sued for malpractice, which is hard to believe a sitting President was in that position. It just doesn't make sense that this is new information. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the timing of the Hur tape releases and this book release, on a Sunday evening no less.

Well, again just purely my limited anecdotal experience, I don't know of anyone who recovers once it's advanced to the in bone stage. My first thought when I heard that was it's terminal at this point. I feel sorry for the man, but the way the mental acuity issues were handled and now dumping this on a Sunday night before that book releases deserves some next level cynicism. He's got some truly hardcore people around him .

I'm not usually a black helicopter guy, but prostate cancer is usually detected way before it gets to this stage. Given what else was hidden, was this hidden from us for part of his term? To now have progressed to his bone, the cancer isn't new. You don't want to believe a President could be undiagnosed with that type of cancer for that long, it should have shown indications in blood tests etc. I'm no doctor so easily I could be totally wrong, but at this point it's not a great leap to imagine one more thing was hidden.

A few legitimately care enough to make the sacrifice, or are lucky enough to have constituents who would stand behind them for taking a stance on the debt. Most of the rest care about it to varying degrees but not enough to risk losing their mostly safe seats. The problem is we have to address entitlements to fix the deficit and begin work on the debt. It's like telling a drug addict we are going to start by cutting you off. He wants to get clean until the day comes you make him go through withdrawal, all his resolve crumbles. If you start trying to fix entitlements, most voters want other people's entitlements corrected, not theirs. The specifics are the difficult part.

Well for one thing nobody would be admitting Joe Biden was mentally unfit during his presidency. The lie would need to be continued.

When I used to say Ron Klain or someone else was running the country I was told it was ridiculous. I don't know that it was Ron Klain, I know on at least some days it was not Joe Biden. Jake Tapper is the ultimate charlatan, he knew all along that Biden was in mental decline and lied to the American public for four years. To try and profit now by acting as if this is some kind of expose is ridiculous. Nobody should ever take anything he says seriously again. I do think the co-author did some honest reporting along the way during the Biden term and called his mental acuity into question. I don't know why he included Tapper. Maybe he thought he needed someone to help sell the book.

100%. Pete Rose knew this. He spoke to a group of us out in Vegas one time. He stated that after he died is when it would happen. Rob Manfred is a total scumbag, he can't make a move without showing his colors. As for Joe Jackson, any of you who have ever visited the HOF know the museum is full of his memorabilia and references to him. To display his items openly and to have blackballed him for so long seems contradictory to say the least.