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This was a triumph for her for personal reasons. I'm probably biased too, but I think she did a great job.
To the black man in the passenger seat of the black Chevy on Cleveland Avenue in North Linden tonight:
I didn't see what you saw that compelled you to jump out of the car, to put yourself into the situation on the sidewalk, I just saw the passenger door open in front of me, and you heading for the sidewalk, yelling behind my field of vision, demanding to know what was going on:
"What are you hassling him for? Hey! What are you hassling him for?"
Then I saw him, a white man in shorts and a t-shirt, coming for you, his voice moving my hand to the door locks.
"What am I hassling him for?"
And you: "Yeah, what are you doing to him? Are you a fucking cop or something?"
And him, moving toward you, louder now: "Yeah that's right, I'm a fucking cop! What do you think you're doing?"
That's when I saw his badge around his neck and his partner heading for both of you. Right on the sidewalk by my car. Cargo camouflage shorts, baggy white t-shirt, tennis shoes. I didn't see the badges. It's dark at 10:30 at night.
I heard you again, but I didn't make out much, because you were not loud, not demanding anymore, not protecting anyone but yourself. Hands up briefly, turning back to the car. Quickly.
Him following you: "You know what we're doing? We're fucking out here, trying to…"
As you got back in the car, him still yelling at you, face getting red. I saw the man then, the one you'd jumped out to protect, stagger a little toward the corner, no longer even a part of this scene. I'm guessing he was drunk, maybe? A little?
The light had turned green a while before, the driver of your car pulled you both away. The cop turned to his partner, guns on their right hips, the ones not facing the street before, and I thought: I'm so glad you got in the car. But I still didn't understand why you got out.
I followed you through the light and replayed it all in my head. You'd seen something that looked aggressive by one larger white man toward a probably inebriated smaller black man, who was walking down the sidewalk. And you jumped out to protect him. A stranger.
And then as soon as you figured out you weren't going to be protecting anyone—the same moment I did, I didn't see their badges either, and 'yeah I'm a fucking cop' does identify you as a police officer, I guess—you backed off, got in your car and left.
No aggression, no "disrespect", no nothing, but ten seconds before you were so forceful. I wonder what you saw him doing. What makes a man jump out of a car to defend a stranger like that?
I don't know what I think about cops half the time, living where I do. I know some are upright and honorable, and some are aggressive and hostile. Kind of like men. And when I saw this guy, he seemed aggressive and hostile, even after all your words and body language were gone. I know about men, how some of them keep coming after you if you challenge them.
A few minutes later, as I turned down my street, I got scared for you, when you're at least a mile away, but emotions do that sometimes, catch up to your thinking later.
I'm glad you jumped out when you saw whatever you saw. I'm grateful you're home now.
Stay safe, Chevy man.
I didn't change my name when I got divorced in 2012. My kids had the same name, they really really (really) didn't want me to be different from them at all. And I figured I'd had the same name for more than half my life, I probably wouldn't change it.
Then the kids grew up. Then last December I thought: I don't want this name any more. Maybe it's a part of finally leaving everything behind and really being new again. My boss bought me a giant cookie because she said it's worth celebrating a new life. (The boss, like everything else in my life, is a gift straight from God.)
I keep putting fka after things. I'm afraid people won't realize it's me. Like everything else that's happened over the past five years, I'm going to lose my identity.
My friend said, nonsense, people get used to it. We've had lots of people's names changing around here. But they got married. There was an event. I went to court by myself and swore I wasn't trying to cause confusion or avoid the law. The magistrate said that he didn't know what he'd do if someone said yes, they were trying to avoid law enforcement. Call the bailiff, he guessed?
While I was at the courthouse waiting for my certified copies to prove my identity, Matt texted me about the new Kickstarter attempt we're starting next month. When I said what I was doing, he texted: Sweet! are u changing it to some cool Bond Girl name? Then he swore that was a compliment. Matt is considerably younger than me and a boy, so I gave him a pass.
Also I couldn't think of any Bond Girl names. Until a friend reminded me of Pussy Galore. Melanie McMuffins another friend suggested. That's going to be my new pen name fo' shizzle.
I have lots of stuff to change. It is confusing, even though I wasn't intending it to be. I didn't own anything when I was twenty. I own a lot of stuff now.
My books are still in my old name. I'm going to switch all that over too eventually.
Because this is me now. Melanie McMuffins.
I mean Melanie Moore. It feels fabulous.
I didn't participate in Nanowrimo 2015, mostly because I forgot about it. I was feeling like I slacked off, but then I was glad I had, because of what happened Thanksgiving week.
It has come as a surprise to me that for some people, writing doesn't come naturally, if it comes to them at all. I read an interview with Nora Roberts years ago where she said, "I thought everyone made up stories in their heads," and I thought, Wait… everyone doesn't?
Last week, I'd been trying to figure out what to get one of my kids for Christmas when I saw Matt Skunda at a Bible teaching. Matt's a leather worker, and I knew from Facebook that he'd been working on something I thought my kid might like. (Very cryptic, I know, it's not Christmas yet and my kids read my stuff.) I figured I might as well spend my money with him. Win-win, right?
Wrong. No one has wanted to sell me something less than Matt did that day. I just looked at him for a minute, because I'd never before needed words to persuade someone to make something and let me pay him cash money for it, so I was stumped.
I guess he got tired of me looking at him, because he explained himself.
"I'm trying to launch this Kickstarter campaign, and I'm completely stressed about it. I'm stuck, because it's all this writing to do, and I have absolutely no gift for writing."
I hardly know Matt, really. I bought something he made me once (back when I could talk him into selling me things). I know a little bit about him, and we've chatted a couple of times at different things. He was going to teach me how to shoot guns so that I could write about it, but I never got around to it, because I stopped writing that story and didn't need to shoot guns anymore. The offer was still on the table, but it's not like we're friends or anything.
I'm sure everyone reading this is good at something, better than most, maybe, and you've probably experienced being able to help people simply because you are good at something. I'm also sure you've experienced needing to not help everyone with that thing. Because you can't say yes to everybody, or you'd never get your laundry done.
So I sat and looked at him for a minute, that stress he mentioned all over his face, and I told myself this wasn't my problem, and to keep my mouth shut, don't say anything, just don't speak at all.
"I could probably help you with that," I said. "I'm a writer."
I'm also terrible at listening to anyone, myself included.
"I'll buy you dinner," he said. "Or lunch. Or anything."
"Or you could make me that Christmas present I asked for in the first place."
Deal struck, and my Thanksgiving week began with a six hour marathon of writing my very first Kickstarter project. I felt like that was forever, but Matt said he'd spent three weeks trying to do what I did in a couple hours. (He will never be nicknamed "Giver of the Compliments" by anyone's standards, but that one worked for me.)
Kickstarter talks about how you really need a great video, and it's true, and he had that already. But you still can't explain much of anything without words. The first chunk of writing hours piled up because it took a lot of Matt's words to explain what he was trying to do so I could write about it. It wasn't just about selling really nice leather belts, it's about selling those belts to fund a job-training program for teenagers in Columbus, Ohio. The one thing I did know about Matt was that he's been passionately involved in working with kids in the city. Over the years, he started seeing a gap of knowledge with the kids he mentored – they didn't have the skills to get and keep jobs. And that was going to stop every forward movement they tried to make. But to do something about that, he needed money. So he started a business. I saw all the plans, all the models, the spreadsheets, the websites.
And oh my, the belts. You've never seen such belts.
Now there's a Kickstarter to help get the funding to go to some craft shows next summer, then that money will get the training program off the ground. The products are great. The copy is written. The cause is worthwhile. I slept until almost noon the day after Thanksgiving. Then Matt wanted to do a complete rewrite, so we did that on Saturday. I finally know someone more perfectionistic than me, which makes me feel a lot better about myself. It's been a nice week.
Now, it's all about seeing that funding bar on Kickstarter fill up with green. We have until December 31. I'm in, so now I'm anxious. I didn't think I was signing up for that.
I just said, "I'm a writer."
First: You have to excuse me. I got stuck in a physics class and that basically took every bit of my time since Christmas was over. Ergo, no blogging, no writing. I got a B. It's over forever. Thank God. Onward:
The funniest thing about speed dating is when you ask people at a speed dating event if they've ever done this before, the vast majority of them say: No, I haven't, I only saw it in Hitch. (Note: I'm drawing an extremely broad generalization from the single speed dating event I attended last month. But it was funny how many of us said that.)
Here's why I went: It was way cheap ($10), I wasn't busy, my friend Angi said she'd come with me, I really want to write something like this into a story someday, and it seemed like it could be entertaining based on the time I saw it in Hitch.
Here's what I learned: Speed dating is like being the star of your own private party where everyone came to meet you. I don't mean that like everyone did come to meet me, they certainly didn't, but when it was their turn to sit down at table 19, that's what it was like. Dichotomy of speed dating: the draw is that you get to meet a whole bunch of guys in in a very short amount of time… and it turns out that meeting a whole bunch of guys in a short amount of time is freaking exhausting. Apparently it's exhausting for the guys too, because by the time the last guy collapsed into the chair across from me, he just wasn't even interested in saying hello to me. (Right back atcha, buddy.)
Picture introducing yourself to someone, engaging in conversation (or trying to) and then talking for five minutes (happily or painfully) and then a buzzer rings and that person gets up, and thirty seconds later, another person sits down and you start all over. Repeat 20 times until you don't even care if the next person who sits down actually is Will Smith. (That's so far from true of course, but you understand what I mean.)
So here's what else I learned. With some people those five minutes took forever. Most of them, I don't think I'd ever want to talk to again… Or to put it another way, "all the attendees minus two" I don't think I'd want to talk to again. That didn't matter much to me at all because of what I learned before I went to this shindig.
Someone told Angi this: they were praying that she would treat every man she met like she would want her boys to be treated by every woman they met when they grew up. In other words, kindly, generously. Like human beings with feelings. I have boys too, older than Angi's boys, who are ten. Mine are actually out there now, meeting young women, going out with them. Potentially being treated like… well, not like I would hope.
The event wasn't registered evenly, more women than men, which turned out to be fine, because of the exhaustion factor, since every so often the buzzer sounded and no one sat down at my table. Quick trip to the bathroom once. Grab a beer and have a speed date with the bartender. That was unplanned, he kind of started that, but we went to the same high school, he showed me pictures of his dogs, and he called out goodbye to me by name when I left. I'm keeping him in my back pocket just because I want to see my mom's face when I bring a guy with double sleeve tatoos over for dinner. And then say he's a bartender. (There are some significant ways I cannot seem to grow up.)
Once or twice I went over to where the women had brought snacks (not me, I was doing physics all afternoon). And these two women were there, and they started talking to me about how they wanted their money back on the first buzzer. And how all these guys were losers. And how they couldn't believe how bad they were. And once they started talking specifics, making fun of one guy and I knew who they were talking about, and it made my heart hurt.
The reason the word "Christian" means nothing, is because of people like this.
All I kept thinking about were my boys and Angi's boys. Meeting women like this someday. And the poor guy who had the bad luck to be sincere and honest around people who he couldn't trust.
The thing is, I kind of went there for stories like that. You know, the losers, the dorks, the ones who would make good material in a novel. And I couldn't do it. I will use that experience in a scene someday, because now I know how it feels to be in that situation, but I will not base characters on anyone I met there. Because this was not easy: sitting down and meeting 20 men in a row, wondering what they thought of you, wondering how you compared, wondering if you were even the least bit interesting. Even if you didn't care, it's hard to put yourself on the line like that once, much less twenty times in a row.
And these guys were doing the same thing. I think they were risking more.
Too long already, and I had another goal when I started writing this, but I'm guessing this was what was really on my mind for now:
Be kind. Be generous. It costs you nothing.
Oh, and if you haven't seen Hitch? You've missed. It's a movie of kindness and generosity, some great dancing lessons, and of course, Will Smith.
I love old graveyards, and that was something I didn't know about myself until I was in Raleigh this past summer and wanted to go visit Elizabeth Edwards grave site at the Oakwood Cemetery. I don't know why I got that in my head to visit there, but while those monuments were definitely impressive, what was more interesting was finding these family plots with generations of people who were connected and you could start tracing out the family tree from the headstones.
I'm spending this long weekend hanging out at an Airbnb house (most wonderful) with my daughter (also most wonderful) just reading and writing (not the novel, sadly, that didn't work out like I'd planned) and relaxing (the three Rs). I'm also trying to beat this fitbit flex 10,000 step light-up torture device on my wrist that I won at work two months ago, so I needed a place to walk. The Airbnb is about a half a mile (1000 steps) from the Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate, KY, which has lots and lots of steps in it (9000 if you get lost by accident. Traveler's tip: Bring your phone and the gps).
I walked through about a third of it yesterday and another third of it today. Today I found the older parts including a headstone for one man who was born in 1776, which just takes you aback a bit. I found the family who founded the town, the Southgate family, in fact. I also found a whole big family that started with this guy, James Taylor (not the singer) whose monument mentions that when he settled here the place was "still infested with the wily Indian."
The whole family was around that monument, and then it spilled over into another family section, joined by the marriage of James Taylor the son (not the singer either). Then I found one with a middle name that matched the family name in the next over section. People got married and stayed with the same people in the same towns for a lot longer by then.
Or they seem to imply that they never got married at all. This memorial said that Mary Aurelia Mayo was the Consort of Captain Andrew Lewis on the same memorial, which you would think sounds sort of risque. It turns out that this is supposed to mean she died before him. Except that Mary died four years after the Captain, and they don't have the same last name either. I don't know much about etiquette in the 1840s but I'm thinking not too many women kept their last names. Still, probably just a mistake in terms. But this was way more interesting while I was in the cemetery thinking Captain Lewis and Miss Mary were all scandalous.
Next up, the sad one. I can't read the verse on the bottom of this memorial but it's one of the beatitudes–Blessed are the… for they shall… (And if you're unfamiliar with the book of Matthew, that's how all of them start the first and second lines. I think it was the poor in spirit, for they shall see God.) The wear and tear and weathering of old tombstones is quite severe. I imagine when you put that piece of granite down you believe that the inscriptions will be visible for hundreds of years, but they don't stay in many cases.
Most of the inscriptions on this one stayed, though, and 164 years after the fact, I stopped short, completely saddened. How did Maria die, and what happened to her bridegroom? Had she loved him? Had he waited for her? Or was it an arranged marriage that no one was all too thrilled about? If that was true, and it could have been, did he feel nothing at all except for guilt over feeling nothing at all?
I think this is why I love wandering through cemeteries, even though I do think there's a morbidity about it. In between all of the standard dates and numbers and facts of life, there are these bits of real history of real lives — he was born in Wales, England but died in Newport, Kentucky. That's quite a journey for one life. I got to ponder that for today. But there's something about the history of cemeteries that I think is passing by us. It's similar to what I saw in a stationery shop window in the Short North of my hometown (On Paper). The owner has been collecting old envelopes and made them into these large wreaths. They're postmarked and addressed, sometimes just to a single name and the town — Washington, DC. Can you imagine? It's a dreamy display, that makes you think and wonder what was in those envelopes once? What are their stories?
We won't have that someday, not anymore. And just as people don't write letters that stay around for decades, people don't live and grow old and die in the same places, and so there is no permanence attached to their cemeteries either. No this family melding into that family and then into that one for a century or more.
And there will be no more wandering through and stopping to breathe in the history that would lead a man to make sure this one truth about one woman was known forever.
This was a triumph for her for personal reasons. I'm probably biased too, but I think she did a great job.
I almost always miss the big Columbus Arts Festival, and last weekend was no exception. This year, my absence was due to an out of town guest, quadruple graduation parties, and one very fun wedding, where I danced a lot and also tried unsuccessfully to get Joe Biederman to stop calling me "dude". And I played softball Sunday afternoon, which was my first appearance on the field since approximately the last millennium. I could not be happier that my Sunday afternoons now include playing softball, though I cannot be sure my team feels the same way.
This weekend, however, while hunting for something to do because my sister has graced us with her presence, and I don't want her to think Ohio is a boring state and never return… hmm… Okay, I at least want her to think that if she hangs out with her sister and her niece and nephew it'll be entertaining, even in Ohio. Anyway, I found out the Worthington Arts Festival had not bypassed me, and so fulfilled both something-to-do-Saturday-afternoon function and finding-both-Christmas-and-next-year's-birthday-presents-for-difficult-to-shop-for-maternal-parent function. Super cool.
According to my three relations accompanying me today, I consume enormous amounts of time at arts festivals. I disagree, of course— we were not in Worthington any longer than it takes to sit through Lord of the Rings, not that I would ever do that again unless the bribe money ran at least four digits. Here's the reason I have a hard time walking away from festivals—my artistic abilities consist of stringing words together into something resembling halfway entertaining stories. That's all. It's not super complicated or even difficult, actually.
But today I bought a print from a woman who had designed a Kaleidoscopic camera lens. I mean, seriously? Some of them weren't circular, the way you'd think of a normal kaleidoscope, but still, I thought that's what I was looking at on the walls of her booth. It wasn't until I asked her though, and then of course how that worked, and where the photos were taken, and then well, she has a few grown children and some dogs too… She had a few really cool prints with fruits and vegetables, but the only one I picked up was the non-circular kaleidoscope print of the lighted up signs of Times Square.
"It doesn't really match anything in the house," I said.
Michelle said, "No. But it matches you."
True that, baby girl. True that.
I don't usually wish I had more money than I do, except when I'm writing too-small checks to Malaria No More or the India Gospel League or the Innocence Project. I seriously don't care that my car is older than two of my children or that my kitchen floor is almost as old as me. I mostly don't even notice that stuff.
Here's what I wish. For another 3,000 in the bank to buy the sculpted map of the world by a girl from Canal Winchester who spent a month building it… which I would give to Sam who just fell in love today as he did with maps and globes more than a decade ago. Or a grand for the four foot wide photograph on canvas of the rocks in the river as the water rushes over them. Or omg, even an extra 50 bucks for the old window a guy turned into a writing board that you can use with chalk markers, writing instruments I'd never heard of before, demonstrated with a funny to-do list on the window, clearly missing the obvious— that this invention would be the coolest vehicle ever for plotting out sequences of a novel.
I do have fifty bucks, but it's probably going to the Innocence Project because they need it more, and I already have the second coolest vehicle— a bedroom covered with twenty-year-old vinyl wallpaper and a blue wet-erase marker.
I talked to that window guy—he framed his photographs in them too, and that was super cool. And the girl who made the map—some of her stuff is mass produced and on sale at Marshalls. Affordable art, I said, which was actually already on her business cards. (I am a writer.) And I talked to the woman who made some awesome steam punk jewelry that my daughter would like to own all of and the guy who blew glass balls that looked like trees had grown inside them and to the man who made my mom's Christmas present.
And the hammer dulcimer guy. Of course. We lost Michelle, my musician, to the hammer dulcimer guy and I was sent back to retrieve her, and that ended up like going after the first person who disappeared into the basement in a horror movie. I do not generally expect hammer dulcimer players to double as comedians, but then again, that was not the first time this week I've been pleasantly surprised by finding comedians in unexpected places.
Point of blog entry… I was thinking that perhaps as I don't end up buying much, although I do buy more than I used to, thanks to my ability to keep so much more of my money in the bank for the past 2 years and 7 months what with only my name being on the accounts and all… still I don't buy that much. So how do all these artists feel about me asking them about their paintings, their locations, their technique, their ideas… And then saying, wow, well, it's beautiful, thanks so much.
Is that annoying?
Then I thought, if someone wanted to borrow my novels or get them on the days I give them away, or even just read some of these random thoughts I spill out here… and then say, wow, I really liked the way you said that… Thanks so much… and then walk away?
I'm so totally cool with that.
I bought a Chromebook. It was $250 and it does everything I need. I'm now writing in Google docs, and surfing the web for information about thoroughbreds and Mexican drug cartels. And how much it costs to fly from Chicago to Lexington, KY, and also how long it takes to drive that if you started in the middle of the night. I can also make a timeline so I don't forget when my main character went to college on this website called Preceden.com which is free as long as you don't mind your timeline being public which I don't because who is seriously going to find it? And if they do, they'll just think my life includes murdering people.
The Samsung version (3, the one I bought) weighs 2.3 pounds, holds the battery a long long time, fits into a $6.88 neoprene sleeve (wow, I totally forgot how to spell sleeve) and barely gets warm at all. The keyboard is full size, feels a lot like a Macintosh one, which is super nice and very important. The thing fits in a not very large purse.
If I have an idea for something in the book I can be typing it in within 30 seconds, and that includes actually finding the laptop, my son pointed out. We timed it.
This post? I'm typing on a 5 year old Dell I bought for more than 600 that just gave me fits because a control key was stuck down and I couldn't figure out what happened and I installed Windows 8 on it to keep it running longer… and couldn't find where the stupid control panel was to see if I'd turned on sticky keys…
Nothing like that has ever happened on my Chromebook. They even took off the CapsLock Key, which I knew about because my brother told me 3 years ago by sending me this Slate article–called Good Riddance.
OH! Google cloud print? Super cool.
I've been wanting for years to be done with Microsoft, and I am totally. I'll hang onto this machine until it dies, so that I can Photoshop my Christmas cards and keep my sturdy Brother HL-5250DN hooked up (so I can print via Google Cloud Print!) but for the most part?
I'm thrilled.
Also, Kroger in Columbus is selling TastyKakes. You'd have to be from Eastern Pennsylvania to know why I stopped and gasped tonight.
A beautiful, lovely, charming person posted my favorite review ever of Nobody's Hero. Not only is it far more eloquent than the novel itself, she (I assume) totally got it.
I'm working early hours on my next novel like this but different… and this is why I even think it's worth getting up at 5 AM for. If you want to help (and I'm so glad you were asking) click the link and then choose "Yes" at the bottom of the review where Amazon asks if it was helpful. That will make this review float up to the top of my review list, rather than something that says I'm on drugs and only my relatives like my stories.


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Skip to comments.Bill Ayers to University Students: Americas Game Is Over and Another World Is Coming
Posted on 05/02/2012 7:22:26 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Bill Ayers spoke at the University of Oregon last week on the subject of teaching and organizing for social justice. His speech was not free of the radical sentiments he is well-known for espousing (especially in the company of Americas youth). Case in point: he spoke of the end of America, a new world, and what our role ought to be in all of it.
Almost as interesting as Ayers speech itself, perhaps, was how the leftist radical was introduced by the university students. One girl, who described herself as a doctoral student at the university, spoke of the privilege they would have with their honored guest, in an evening [of] radical imagination.
Two others, an associate professor at the university and a graduate student, remarked: Most of us have in one way or another acknowledged the sovereign authority of the U.S. government or the state of Oregon in order to be here tonight, either admission to the university, applying for a job, or just paying the parking meter. We have not, however, asked permission of the [Native Americans] whose ancestral home this is, and to fail to acknowledge that this remains disputed territory would in effect be taking sides, [and] reinforce the erasure of indigenous history and indigenous peoples.
When Ayers spoke, it was largely of how the American Empire is over, and what this means for her citizens (though there was a fair amount of the wasteful American theme throughout as well):
The great challenge for our generation [is] to find a way not just to live differently as individuals, but to find a way to think differently about what work means...
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
That is what Yuri says... Yuri Bezmenov on Marxist
"Unfortunately for Billy Ayers, he's target #1 at the outset of the war."
You'll have to take a ticket, stand in line and wait your turn for a shot at him. :-)
LOL, I wouldn't want to be within fifty feet of him for fear of severe lead poisoning.
The dead who lost their lives because of this miscreant cry out from the grave for his bloody death. Simple justice requires he be hanged. Why does it go on living. It's an affront to America, freedom, and everything good and decent.
what a jerk ping!
Jeepers... Thanks for the ping!
He's an arrogant little bass turd isn't he?
He thinks that when Obama is ready to drop the kerchief to begin the killing, he and his gunslut Dohrn will be spirited away by government extraction teams, to enjoy the slaughter on classified and encrypted uplinks while circling overhead in NEACP ("Kneecap") with Axelrod and Plouffe and the rest of the inner circle, managing the MSM on one hand and their werewolves on the other and hopping back and forth between secret fortified bunkers and airborne command posts, all the while spewing propaganda and moralizing excuses ("they started it!" </vast lies>).
He's probably already got his go-bag and instruction packet.
The reality they will actually see is that they and all of their Commie scum will dragged forcibly to a wall, defecating and urinating, crying like babies before they get executed by regular units of the US Army who will have had enough of this mess.
A new world is coming alright but Ayers isn't going to be a part of it. No matter how you slice it, God is always in control! So he better enjoy his little communist friends while he is here.
The U.S. Army has never refused an order, even an unconstitutional one: If you don't believe that, read up on what Lincoln did before and during his ascension to office in 1861, w/r/t the overthrow and suppression of the States of Missouri and Maryland, and the suppression of their state governments and officers.
The proof that he acted beyond his powers, extraconstitutionally, and without a warrant is shown by his loss in the Merryman case from Maryland -- and his subsequent order, never carried out, to arrest the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, for finding against him in Merryman. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was moved by the Lincoln example of inter arma silent leges to write a book about it, All the Laws But One, q.v. You'd better believe that Barky's henchthugs have copies of it.
I don't! Don't you underestimate the integrity of the US Armed Forces and those that are in command right now are not Obozo's choices and are not his friends. Please spare the BS in comparing Obuggery to Lincoln.
Rome never won any of her civil wars. The Devil won them all ..... Rome and the Romans lost.
And America lost her own Civil War. The United States and its owners won ..... and America and her people lost.
Half of them even fought on the wrong side, and thought they won.
However, if he can arrange political events as Lincoln did, Obama might be able to get Lincoln's result: complete adherence of the entire U.S. military establishment, and even part of the Southern military establishment (George Thomas, David Farragut -- and there were others), to his cause as the "legitimate" combatant.
Remember that the issues of "loyalty" were no more clearcut then than now, in a contest among the States over the issue of whether the Southern States were indeed free to leave the Union, or were to be compelled to remain, as a military province and an economic march (in the sense of a conquered territory) and a spoil for the enjoyment of the Atlantic economic elite. Lincoln had large liabilities, on coming into office, in the area of persuading much of the Northern public, and the Army, that he could legitimately compel -- use major force against -- entire States of the Union (he did) and other States that had left the Union.
Please spare the BS in comparing Obuggery to Lincoln.
I think he is paying very close attention to Lincoln's success in warring down the People, and he aims to emulate him. Marx admired Lincoln, and so does Obama for the same reason: for his war, and for his conquest of the Southern planters as a resistant class.
He will consult Lincoln's war propaganda and methodes d'emploi as a hornbook to overthrowing us and making us his slaves -- or his victim dead.
I caution you in making comparisons between the 1860s and 2010s. People are not the same and America is not.
Obuggery is also beginning to be perceived as illegitimate president amongst the rank and file military. He is also despised by much of the officer ranks, He will not get far with them at all. So kindly stop comparing today to the Civil War days of the 1860s it just doesn't wash.
Thanks bitt.
He may be and probably is correct. But I will gurantee the pimple pocked face sobs that ate up every word that came from his lips, they will not like it one bit when it gets here.
There's no doubt in my mind Sarah would have selected him, which is another reason I hate the driveby media in this country, as well as far too many ignorant sheeple (including Republican sheeple) that believe their commie crap.
Why are people in such fear of Ayers and his she-devil wife? Do people think they're gods? They're only human like the rest - and they're as physically vulnerable to every form of assault as the rest of us - and worse.They're both close to 70 now....their bodies are as frail as egg shells by now! A solid blow or two should finish them!
It's as if the mere sight of them makes everyone suddenly forget about lead pipes,bats, rocks,loaded bottles....and worse!
Will NOBODY step up for the sake of the USA?!!!!
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Unverified Voracity Complains About Gift Horses
Hatch Gameday. Via MLive:
Positioned on the Crisler court alongside coach John Beilein and ESPN's Rece Davis and Jay Williams, Michigan freshman Austin Hatch looked up at the arena scoreboard as a his tale of loss and triumph played on the video screen.
If, by chance, a pin had hit the hardwood, you'd have heard it.
Beilein brushed a tear from his eye. As images of the 2011 plane crash that claimed Hatch's father and step-mother and left him in an eight-week coma flashed on the screen, Beilein rested his hand on Hatch's leg.
Hatch gave him an "it's OK" glance.
The nonsense of a 14 team conference defined. UNC and Wake are playing nonconference games in 2019 and 2021, because they'd rather do that than wait a zillion years to play each other again. Congratulations, conference commissioners.
This is a bump. Harbaugh was supposedly getting 7-8 million a year; he is not. The gap between his deal and his rumored deal seems to be headed to his assistants:
Michigan's coaching staff will have a fund of $4-5 million for assistant coaches, not including strength staff.
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) January 23, 2015
That bumps at the same rate Harbaugh does. Michigan was at 3.5 last year; the top end of that scale would see them third nationally behind LSU and Alabama, pending everyone else throwing money at their assistants.
Other contract details. Harbaugh's deal is pretty standard. It specifies that he gets a private plane for recruiting, which I think we're all happy with. Saving time as you flit about and not dealing with commercial air travel are things that make sense for the head man. The rest of the terms are as favorable as you think they might be for a guy in that kind of demand: if Michigan fires him they're on the hook for the whole deal anyway; if he leaves his buyout is a pro-rated portion of his two million dollar signing bonus. IE, nothing.
Izzo is really something. Walter Pitchford got tossed three minutes in to the MSU-Nebraska game for throwing an elbow at Matt Costello. Tim Miles:
"I thought Walt deserved to get kicked out, after seeing it," Miles said. "He made a mistake. I know he's sorry for that mistake. He's being held, he looks at the ref, but you don't do that. That's uncalled for. That's not us. Walt will learn from that."
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said Nebraska indirectly may have benefited from Pitchford's ejection.
"I thought it energized them," he said. "Calls went differently after that, like normally they do."
Izzo could complain about winning the lottery.
Caris evaluated. Draft Express took the opportunity to evaluate Caris LeVert after the information NBA teams will get before next year's draft was abruptly finished by his foot injury. The upshot:
LeVert will need to decide now whether or not to return to Michigan for his senior season. The feedback he gets from NBA teams in the next few months will likely play a large role in that. While this is not considered a weak draft at the moment, it does look fairly shallow at the guard positions, which could help LeVert's stock.
Most places still have him as first round pick, though now he's out of the lottery. As a young junior he still has a lot of upside he could explore in college. Unfortunately, it's often hard for guys to come back when they go into a year expecting it will be their last in college. We saw that with Glenn Robinson III last year. GRIII entered the draft knowing full well he wasn't getting a guaranteed contract because of that momentum.
This is reasonably nasty. Kyle Connor will be a freshman next year.
MUST SEE: @KyleConnor18 (@YtownPhantoms) scores a goal that is amazing, beautiful & unbelievable all at the same time pic.twitter.com/KQbdxvxE4M
— USHL (@USHL) January 24, 2015
He's projected as a first round pick.
So this guy exists. Not sure what job this gentleman landed:
Congrats to #Eagles pro personnel asst Joe Hastings (also a former #49ers WR) who just landed a job with U of Michigan football.
— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) January 26, 2015
But he landed a job. Hastings played for D-II Washburn University, which I have just learned has one of the best logo/nickname combinations in college sports:
They are the Ichabods.
Anyway, after college Hastings kicked around the 49ers practice squad for a few years, then landed in the Eagles' front office. He's probably getting one of those analyst jobs Michigan was supposed to be adding.
Etc.: ESPN wants to move next year's semifinal playoff games from New Year's Eve because they're afraid of Ryan Seacrest. Seriously. Charles Pierce on deflategate is mandatory. Harbaughtweets power-ranked. Jon Falk on decals.
Michigan's NBA Draftees: How Do They Fit?
I promised I'd write a post this week on how Michigan's latest crop of NBA players fit in with their new teams. When I said this, I forgot a fundamental aspect of the NBA offseason—namely, that the post-draft free agency period is complete and utter chaos, so projecting what teams will look like in October can be rather difficult. Adding to the difficulty: two of the three Michigan draftees went to teams whose front office decisions are often summed up with a hearty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Undeterred, here's my best effort.
Nik Stauskas, Sacramento Kings
In three of the last four years, the Kings have attempted to pick their shooting guard of the future, first with BYU's Jimmer Fredette in 2011, then Kansas' Ben McLemore in 2013, and now with Stauskas. Fredette is now on the Bulls. In related news, the Kings haven't been very good, winning just 34% of their games in each of the last two seasons. They're also a team with a lot up in the air at the moment: they just signed point guard Darren Collison, making it very likely restricted free agent PG Isaiah Thomas will play elsewhere next season. The Kings have rumored interest in Detroit's Josh Smith and several others; after a very disappointing rookie season, McLemore could even be on the table as trade bait.
It seems unlikely, however, that the Kings would give up on the #7 overall selection from last year's draft so quickly, even with the brutal 7.8 PER McLemore posted last year (the NBA average is 15). Sacramento needs both shooting and bench scoring; Stauskas obviously could provide both, and coming off the bench as a rookie in need of some development, especially defensively, may be the best situation for him anyway. That's how SBNation's Sactown Royalty sees Stauskas getting used in year one:
But the "good news" for the Kings is that their needs are many, including production from their starting shooting guard and wing production from the bench. And this is where Stauskas could potentially help the Kings in a big way.
The drafting of Stauskas is not a death knell for Ben McLemore. Based on how McLemore finished the season, I am guessing that he has at least a slight leg up on Stauskas right now. I'm not saying that the starting job has been given to him by any means. I am saying that he is likely ahead of Stauskas in the here and the now. But when it's all said and done, one of these guys could start and one could get some serious burn off the bench, including in three guard sets. The Kings have a definite need at the positions that Stauskas could fill.
The Kings have a lot of holes left to fill, so this outlook could change dramatically even in the coming hours, depending on what they do with Thomas and McLemore. A Microwave-type role seems ideal for a rookie Stauskas, however, and once he gets used to the NBA game there's a good chance he challenges McLemore for the starting spot at the two.
Mitch McGary, Oklahoma City
McGary has the most obvious fit among Michigan's draftees, though it's one that'll likely have him riding pine for much of his rookie year—not necessarily a bad thing for a guy coming off back surgery. Landing on a great team that doesn't need immediate help up front is a great situation for McGary; he'll be able to ease his way into playing time, and down the road there should be opportunity for much more.
Right now, OKC is pretty much set in the frontcourt. Serge Ibaka is a star, coach Scott Brooks has a baffling affinity for the plodding Kendrick Perkins, Steven Adams had a breakout playoff season as an energy/tough guy with a good deal of untapped potential, and Nick Collison is the wily veteran who provides solid rebounding, defense, and a little scoring touch while possessing the versatility to play the four or the five.
Collison's role is the one McGary projects to best, and given Collison's minutes have waned over the last couple seasons, he'll have an opportunity to carve out a small role on a title contender this year—an Adams/McGary pairing off the bench could be a heck of an energy boost. (Also, a potential riot-starter.)
The real opportunity for playing time should come in 2015-16. Collison and Perkins are both entering the final year of their respective contracts; entering this season at 34 years old, it's unlikely Collison will be back. Perkins should be either gone or in a reduced role; even Brooks finally realized last season that he needed to dial back the big man's minutes. A big man rotation of Ibaka-Adams-McGary should be something to build around for the future—you know, alongside those Durant and Westbrook fellows—and that future may not be far off.
Glenn Robinson III, Minnesota Timberwolves
We're well aware that Robinson needs significant development before he's ready to thrive in the NBA. Not only does his defense need work, he's going to have to improve either his jump shot or ballhandling (preferably both) to be a reliable player in halfcourt sets. GRIII's transition game is the one aspect that won't be questioned from the beginning—he can run, fill a lane, and finish with the best of them.
No matter what, Robinson should have a limited role in his rookie season. He's transitioning from playing the four at Michigan to being a small forward in the NBA, which means guarding a wholly different type of player—most rookies struggle with defense as they get used to the higher level of play, and GRIII will be no different. The Wolves don't have a lot of talent on the wing, but they've got enough to allow a second-rounder to ease his way into the rotation.
While the role should be relatively small regardless, it's tough to project anything further with Minnesota considering the current state of the team. Their superstar power forward, Kevin Love, is going to be traded this offseason; he has a player option for 2015-16 that allows him to opt out of his contract and Minnesota has little-to-no chance of re-signing him, so they must act soon or they'll lose one of the league's most valuable players for nothing. They've been in serious trade talks with Golden State; if those fall through, several other teams will line up for a shot at Love, especially once free agent Carmelo Anthony lands on a squad.
Jordan Morgan, Minnesota Timberwolves (Summer League)
J-Mo's situation is pretty simple. He'll play for Minnesota's summer league team, and in doing so he'll hope to earn a training camp invite from any NBA team and/or impress an overseas squad enough to get a shot for a more guaranteed contract. If Morgan is looking for job security, the latter route is the most preferable.
If that doesn't work out, I think Morgan will land on his feet just fine.
NBA Draft Recap: Stauskas #8, Beilein Scoops Everyone
While Michigan didn't quite end up getting their entire starting five from the 2013 national title game into the first round, last night's NBA Draft proved a major success for the program. Here's an overview of what went down last night; next week, I'll take a closer look at how each U-M draftee fits in with his new team.
Nik Stauskas, #8 Overall, Sacramento Kings
Nik Stauskas went off the board at #8 to Sacramento, becoming the highest Wolverine selection since Dallas picked Robert Traylor (RIP) sixth in 1998 before trading him to Milwaukee. Stauskas, resplendent in a suit that probably cost more than my car, immediately celebrated with a perfectly executed three-goggle handshake with his dad. (His subsequent handshake with John Beilein wasn't quite so flawless.)
Afterward, Stauskas was asked about Michigan by someone who clearly never went to Michigan, because Zingerman's is way too expensive for students and the Art Fair takes place when almost nobody is on campus. He handled it well:
Q. Nik, Michigan is a very good school academically, great campus like Zingerman's, the art festival in Ann Arbor. Was it an easy decision? There must be a tough decision to say, I want to leave early, because it is a great school. Was there part of you that said, I should get my degree here and then go to the NBA?
NIK STAUSKAS: I definitely thought about it, but the biggest thing for me after this season was I felt like I was ready. I thought I had improved enough throughout the year, and I had made a lot of strides in my game and made the necessary improvements to make that jump to the next level.
Like I said, this has been a dream of mine my entire life. The fact that I had the opportunity to do it now, I feel like this is the right time. I understand that I could always go back and get my education after, which I fully plan on doing.
It's great to hear that Stauskas plans to finish earning his degree down the road. And yes, Nik, you were ready.
In the end, it turned out Stauskas separated himself quite a bit from the two players believed to be his biggest competition as shooting guards projected to go in the mid-to-late lottery. Kentucky's James Young went to the Celtics at #17, while MSU's Gary Harris surprisingly plunged all the way to #19—he'll end up in Denver after a draft-day trade with Chicago.
Mitch McGary, #21 Overall, Oklahoma City Thunder
One of the most entertaining aspects of draft night is watching Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski announce every pick on Twitter well before the actual picks are announced, sometimes getting so far as three picks ahead of the telecast. Rarely does anyone scoop Wojo; when they do, sometimes it's because they're wrong.
So when John Beilein tweeted this out minutes before Oklahoma City selected Mitch McGary at #21 overall, it'd prove to be the second-greatest thing Beilein did last night (TEASER):
Another Wolverine about to go up on the board. #GoBlue #WeWork
— John Beilein (@JohnBeilein) June 27, 2014
John Beilein is better at your job than you are. There's no shame in this. Just accept it.
Meanwhile, MLive's Brendan Quinn passes along this fantastic quote from OKC GM Sam Presti, generally regarded as one of the best in the business:
"The last thing that is really, really impressive to us, and the reason that we value him even more, is that he's an incredible teammate -- just an incredible teammate," Presti said. "That was on display during the season when he missed a significant amount of time.
"I felt like I was scouting him on the bench while he wasn't playing. The way that he engaged with his teammates, his support was unwavering, his enthusiasm was unwavering. Combine that with his skill-set and and his intangibles, and that's a Thunder player."
If the Thunder don't use a future pick on Andrew Dakich, I'll be sorely disappointed.
Glenn Robinson III, #40 Overall, Minnesota Timberwolves
Wojo cruelly tweeted that Oklahoma City was considering GRIII with their second pick of the first round, which was not to be. In a really deep draft—Wichita State's Cleanthony Early lasted all the way to #34—he dropped to the tenth pick of the second round, but the team that nabbed him valued him much higher than that:
Robinson III 26th or 27th on #Twolves board, per Flip.
— Darren Wolfson (@DarrenWolfson) June 27, 2014
At GRIII's draft party, his mother took a moment to note that this was the plan all along:
When the waiting was finally over, after the Timberwolves had finished the drama, Clay [Robinson's mother], along with Robinson took the podium.
She read a letter he wrote in high school about how he was going to miss school but that he was onto bigger and better things.
That in a couple of years, he would be playing in the NBA.
He called it.
With Robinson's selection, Michigan—as expected—ended with three players taken in the draft, tied with UCLA for the most among any school. However...
Jordan Morgan, Undrafted Free Agent, Minnesota Timberwolves
...that didn't mean Beilein's night was over. The last person remaining in the green room, Michigan's coach waited out every pick in the hope that a team would take a second-round flier on Jordan Morgan:
John Beilein will not leave until all of his players are drafted. pic.twitter.com/dH6WCBK1ba
— Daniel Feldman (@danfeldman31) June 27, 2014
John Beilein is the best. The absolute best.
Morgan didn't get picked, but he'll get a chance to earn a roster spot alongside GRIII, as he told Quinn today that he's joining the Timberwolves as an undrafted free agent. He'll get his shot on Minnesota's Summer League squad; they start play on July 12th, and you can find the whole schedule here. Even if Morgan doesn't get a spot on the Timberwolves, it's a great opportunity for him to audition for other NBA teams and scouts from other leagues.
How About The Pistons?
While Detroit lost their first-round pick (don't ask, or this vein in my head starts doing funny things), they used their second-rounder on Colorado guard Spencer Dinwiddie, considered a potential first-round prospect last year before coming back to school and suffering an ACL injury. How would I grade the pick?
Unverified Voracity Bought A Suit
A veritable flood. Congrats to Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, and Glenn Robinson III as they embark on their NBA careers. I'm not even going to linger on the fact that if the Pistons didn't get jumped in the draft order their shooting-desperate butts would have been sitting at #8, where Stauskas went to the Kings. I'm not going to just stand over here banging my head against the wall and moaning "whyyyyy."
I will take off my ratty, old Pistons hat and put my Michigan one on so I can be happy:
Coach Beilein, the only person left in the green room, waiting for Jordan Morgan to be picked #TheMichiganDifference pic.twitter.com/c9sBbq6FNf
— William Locke (@william_locke24) June 27, 2014
Morgan signed a free agent contract with the Timberwolves.
Meanwhile Caris LeVert is projected as a lottery pick next year. #welcometothefactory
It's not impossible. A pretty stunning counterpoint to Michigan's claims that their issues with selling tickets are everyone's issues:
Hats off to #PennState fans. School sold out allotment of Over 21,000 student season tix all bought in just SIX minutes!
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) June 27, 2014
Penn State's fan culture has remained that enthused through all of that. There's something to learn there. Or we could just keep hiring people from the Knicks with no clue about college sports or Michigan.
Keeping the band together. Michigan's three basketball assistants have signed contract extensions. Finally, someone spends money on something that they definitely should.
The other draft. The NHL Draft starts tonight; recruit Dylan Larkin is likely to go off the board in the first round, so there are a number of "here's this guy" articles. USA Today:
Larkin might be the safest pick because he's a gifted skater who could be a team's No. 2 center for 10 years.
"He is probably the most fluid skater in the draft," said Dan Marr, director of NHL Central Scouting. "He has a powerful stride, and he is also an intelligent player."
Red Line Report has him going 16th to… sigh… Columbus.
The Washington Post also had an interesting piece about how college players are underrated relative to their draft positions:
Of the players drafted from 2006 to 2009, 14.7 percent of players from Major Junior have hit that benchmark [of 40 NHL games]; players from collegiate programs, on the other hand, have hit that mark 17.1 percent of the time. And those players from Major Junior are picked close to a round earlier on average than those playing in college (97th pick vs. 121th pick).
This is not a huge surprise. College players play in a tougher environment against older players, in which points translate more readily to higher levels:
Despite this, college prospects are actually getting drafted less often even as the percentage of players in the NHL from the NCAA ranks hits all time highs—30 percent as of last year. Meanwhile:
A study of players selected in the NHL draft from 2000 to 2006 shows that an incredible 70 percent of U.S. college players taken in the first round went on to play at least 300 NHL games (100 or more games for goalies drafted in the first round) compared to 57 percent of all other players selected in the first round through the same time period.
There is a Moneyball opportunity here for any GM who isn't a neanderthal.
That's going well, then. Stewart Mandel's final take on the O'Bannon case: there was something there to argue, but instead the NCAA trotted out a bunch of empty overpaid suits. ESPN's Tom Farrey was willing to declare "Game Over" at halftime. Grantland's Charles Pierce titles his story simply "How It Ends."
Etc.: Michigan plans almost $350 million in construction. Here's a charming story about bird shit at Michigan. Why our brains cannot accept randomness.
NBA Draft Primer: Three Michigan First-Rounders?
Michigan's trio of early entrants will learn their NBA Draft fates tomorrow night, and it appears there's at least a puncher's chance Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, and Glenn Robinson III all find their way into the first round. Here are the most recent projections and rumors for the three Wolverines as they await the moment they officially realize their professional dreams.
Nik Stauskas
It doesn't appear Stauskas will fall any further than the #13 pick (Minnesota), and there's a solid chance he cracks the top ten. The Philadelphia 76ers own two lottery picks, at #3 and #10, and Stauskas appears to be an ideal fit for their second selection. CSN Philly states Stauskas would fit the team's needs "perfectly," as they lack shooting, which you may know Stauskas does rather well:
The Sixers are in desperate need of shooters to complement Michael Carter-Williams, Nerlens Noel and whomever they draft with the third pick. Nobody in this draft shoots the ball better than Stauskas. Defenses always have to account for a shooter like Stauskas when he's on the floor. This would open up driving lanes for Carter-Williams and create more room inside for post players like Noel to operate.
Stauskas and Carter-Williams would form a dynamic backcourt. Both have good size and their skill sets complement one another very well. Stauskas is a solid enough ballhandler and decision-maker to play point guard in a pinch. Brett Brown would also have the option of bringing Stauskas off the bench. He would thrive in that role, providing instant offense the minute he enters the game.
The two other prospects who fit that mold and are expected to go in the same range are MSU's Gary Harris and Kentucky's James Young. After pre-draft workouts, Stauskas and Harris have seemingly separated themselves from Young, and Stauskas is consistently projected to go a spot or two above Harris.
A Sixers squad featuring MCW, Stauskas, Thaddeus Young, Nerlens Noel, and the #3 pick could be a really exciting young team to watch.
Mitch McGary
McGary has taken a cautious approach to the pre-draft process as he recovers from back surgery, as he detailed after working out for the Milwaukee Bucks, per UMHoops:
"It's a little different, my situation with the surgery and everything else going into (the draft)," McGary said. "I thought this was was the best possible outcome for me — having a couple of limited workouts and getting my body back to where it needs to be and have the best chance in the draft. I talked to the assistant GM and the GM and they're definitely interested in me."
The Bucks own the #2 pick (not happening) and the first pick of the second round, but it appears they'll have to move up if they want to snag McGary. According to ESPN's draft insider, Chad Ford, there's good reason why McGary hasn't pushed himself through workout after workout:
I'm confident Mitch McGary has a promise in the 1st round. He's done just 1 workout. He's healthy. His camp has gone radio silent.
— Chad Ford (@chadfordinsider) June 24, 2014
Hearing Hornets at 24 most likely destination for Mitch McGary to land. Source says they are the culprit of his draft workout shutdown
— Chad Ford (@chadfordinsider) June 24, 2014
That's a little higher than the most recent spate of mock drafts had McGary going, but not by much: he was projected to go anywhere from the Miami Heat's pick at #24 (Ford) to the Dallas Mavericks' selection at #34 (CBS's Gary Parrish, who seems to think the marijuana thing will actually matter to the NBA, so... grain of salt) before Ford unveiled the info above.
While the Hornets don't have the NBA's most talented roster, they have some promise in the backcourt (namely PG Kemba Walker), a consistent 20-10 guy in center Al Jefferson, and a big hole at power forward filled last year by Josh McRoberts (an unrestricted free agent) and Cody Zeller. If McGary landed there, he'd have every chance at playing time once he's 100%, and he'd fit in great as an energy guy alongside the older, more polished Jefferson.
Glenn Robinson III
This is where it gets interesting, as nobody seems to have a great idea where GRIII could end up; he's projected to be picked anywhere from #21 by Oklahoma City (NBADraftNet) to the LA Clippers' second-round selection at #39 (Parrish). Most, however, have him right on the edge of the first round; ESPN's Jeff Goodman has him going to the Clippers at #28 overall, while his colleague Ford has Robinson playing for his father's old team after Milwaukee selects him with the first pick of the second round.
The Clippers seem like an ideal landing spot for GRIII. He wouldn't be asked to do too much right away on such a good team, but there could be opportunity for some early minutes at the three if Danny Granger doesn't re-sign after opting out of the final year of his deal, and at the very least Robinson would provide another high-flying fast break threat for Lob City.
Homerism caveat granted, I believe it'll be difficult for a player with Robinson's athleticism, pedigree, and potential to slip out of the first round, especially since most of the teams picking at the back end of the draft can afford to grab a guy who needs some development before being a major contributor. The development of his midrange game during his sophomore season could prove the key to him being the third Michigan first-rounder in this draft.
Unverified Voracity Checks Verascity
It's cotnagnous. Last week we learned that red squigglies are turned off in Ann Arbor when Mikey Weber posted a photoshop he'd been sent; this week we find out that red squigglies are also off in Columbus.
"DEILVER." Didn't they have a WR named that recently?
And we all had a laugh at this funny old world and moved on. Except perpetually aggrieved DJ Byrnes, who rushed to his damsel's defense, sword in hand, reporting that anything without an Official Urban Meyer signature was fake. Weber, who probably didn't even notice the typos—the mind tends to gloss over such things—responded that an Ohio State coach sent it to him. So of course the thing to do in that situation is double down and call a recruit a liar.
So, there are three scenarios: 1) Stan Drayton is moonlighting as a graphics designer. 2) They're now sending out work lacking all the hallmarks of his other work. 3) Weber is fibbing to save himself some embarrassment.
Buckeye Occam's Razor insists that a Michigan fan posing as a Buckeye coach made this terribly embarrassing photoshop as a false flag operation, and that Weber is in on it. JenniferLawrenceOkay.gif.
Meanwhile in somehow less embarrassing responses to this event, the Free Press claimed Weber was vouching for the "verascity" of the photoshop. Well done, well done.
HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS. Because Spellgateoff is a national crisis, The D Zone interviewed Weber about it. Weber says that minor typos on fake magazine covers are not going to impact his decision.
"Really my opinion on it is it really isn't a big deal. I know people make mistakes. It was kind of ironic, but it isn't something to blow out of proportion," Weber (5-foot-10, 200-pounds) said today in an interview with The D Zone.
Come out of the bunkers, everyone. It's over. It's finally over.
Hooray, but please still redshirt. Incoming DE Lawrence Marshall is a larger man these days:
Michigan commitment Lawrence Marshall tells me that he's up to 6'4"/250 as of today.
Marshall will enroll at Michigan in a little less than a month and is considered a player who could potentially play early depending on how things shake out at defensive end.
Taco Charlton's move to SDE complicates things but Michigan still has Ojemudia behind Clark and for pants sake just redshirt somebody at some point. With Clark, Ojemudia, and Ryan sliding down for nickel duty Michigan is set at WDE.
Robinson moving up boards. Chad Ford says that Glenn Robinson III is impressing in the bits of NBA draft testing he was always going to, and that this is reviving his flagging stock:
Robinson III was one of the four or five players who helped themselves the most at the draft combine. His elite athletic abilities, a slimmed-down physique and some very solid shooting numbers in the drills all gave him a boost in the eyes of scouts. Not to mention the fact that according to multiple GMs he absolutely nailed the interviews.
So what does Robinson have to do now? Show that he can apply those skills to actual basketball.
Ah, that. Robinson did develop a highly reliable elbow jumper that NBA teams are going to like a lot, and he's been shooting it well in workouts and such. Ford says teams in the mid-first are poking around and that he should go in the 20s.
The big ol' preview. Bill Connolly previews Michigan, and hits upon a salient point:
Michigan faces only three teams projected better than 37th, and they're all on the road. The Wolverines face seven teams projected between 37th and 78th, and five of the seven are at home. And 2014 Appalachian State is in no way 2007 Appalachian State. This is about as low-variance a schedule as you'll ever see. Whether Michigan ranks 20th or 45th, the easiest result to project is about 9-3.
I would have said "about 8-4", but yeah. This is a year where being outside of that 8-4, 9-3 range would be a major shock. Unfortunately, 8-4 and 9-3 are the kind of records that keep Michigan in limbo about Hoke's future. It is what it is.
And then there's the fact that you should probably just predict 9-3 every year for accuracy's sake. Predictions are bad like that.
Latest eyerolling opportunity. Ticket sales are not going well—you can see the relative enthusiasm for Michigan football in graphic version at right, where our HTTV kickstarter is struggling to get over the hump. You know it, I know it, let's not belabor it even further. But I have to highlight this from the inevitable ticket packs (200 bucks for PSU, Miami(not that Miami), and any other game, a… deal?):
Michigan football fans can choose from three ticket-pack options with the 'Go Blue' Pack, the Fan Choice Pack and the Family Pack presented by WWJ Newsradio 950 as well as a new group sales option.
Check "ticket packs" off the list of things that haven't been sponsored yet.
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I purchased this generator to provide whole house power during an outage. The feature I liked was the 50A 240VAC outlet, larger than the 30A outlet I saw on most other generators of this...Read complete review
I purchased this generator to provide whole house power during an outage. The feature I liked was the 50A 240VAC outlet, larger than the 30A outlet I saw on most other generators of this size (this generator also has two 30A outlets). As I have a well pump, the extra capacity is well needed. Generator starts and runs well; I haven't performed a full tank test to see how long a tank of gas (10 gallons) will last. The control panel is well laid out, starting was easy, and the panel exterior lighting (small LEDs) works well. Only complaint is that the manual is lacking in some detail. While the maintenance and use instructions and warnings are generally good, some maintenance items are shown simplistically when they are not so simple to perform. The battery came completely disconnected with no fasteners to make the connections; after calling Generac support and waiting 3 weeks, I purchased my own connectors. The battery charging wires (off the rear of the control panel) also were not connected to the battery or the battery cables and there is no mention of them in the setup portion of the manual. Air filter replacement is not as simple as noted in the manual as stuff needs to be removed to access the filter cover. Since spare parts were provided for spark plugs and filter, I had to check to see if a filter was actually installed (it was); that required removal of a side panel and still resulted in tight access to the filter cover. Since two quart bottles of 30W oil were provided (for use in warmer climates), I needed to drain and replace the oil with 10W30 for the colder climate in New England. Oil was easy to drain and install. If the manual had sufficient detail that I didn't have to do these checks, this would clearly have been rated a "5" overall.
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I spent over $2000 for what is supposed to be a high end work horse boy am I disappointed. I knew the unit was heavy but putting on the wheels and feet while it sits on the pallet is impossible, it's really a 2 man job just to unpack it. Paper oil funnel it comes with why? Totally useless. It doesn't state anywhere in the manual that I saw if you're using this for home backup you need a 3 pole switch or floating neutral/ground on the house end. Started very easy, it looks nice and weatherproof, comes with extra plugs and filters but I ran it for less than 1 hour and it's blowing oil threw a gasket behind the fan shroud somewhere. I am so disappointed my 2 week old unit has to be brought in for warranty service before it's first use. Oh and good luck getting a 280lb+ unit in for service. I was told it would cost me $100 to have it picked up. I may revise this if the unit gets fixed properly and I put it thru its first real test but I would not recommend this right now.
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By Dan
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Comments about Generac XG8000E Series 8kW Portable Generator:
I purchased this generator to be used as a back up unit for my home. I was looking to purchase a whole house unit but decided on the XG10000 because is portable. I can take it to where it is needed (family members homes) if my power is on. When not in use I keep it under my work bench in the garage. I do need help getting it into my truck she is a bit heavy. The electric start is great. It will run everything I need to run in my home and more, I can toss a couple of extension cords to my neighbors too. I do recommend that a weekly test run with some load is a great idea. I normally plug in a portable space heater does the job. The only issue I have is, when running it is kind of noisy. Generac please work on a better muffler. I do like this my XK 10000. Looks good too.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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this generator when used property is a big bang for your buck
By sparky
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the 10000 kw unit can handle most of your needs when used under the right circumstances
Works like a charm
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We moved to the 'country' north of Spokane, WA earlier this year and were warned of potential power outages due to weather. I researched portable generators with the goal of buying a high quality unit that could do more than power a toaster and decided on Generac's 10Kw model. We had an electrician wire the house for it early in November, and on the 17th, the area experienced a record windstorm with gusts exceeding 70 MPH. Over 200,000 homes, including ours, lost power for up to 9 days. Our Generac kept the lights on, refers and freezers cold, TVs functioning, and fans working in our propane fireplaces to keep us warm in 15 degree weather. We were the only home within sight that had lights in our area. The genset never missed a beat and had a fair amount of excess capacity that wasn't used. Probably the best investment we've made since moving here.
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The 10KW portable is a very nice product. I appreciate the quality, appearance, and value. Product arrived on time and as advertised. Product was easy to assemble and started right up. Very happy with product. No surprises, which is a good things these days. The salesperson was very helpful, the delivery staff was great, even had the manager present when the product was delivered. Generac stood out from the competition. I like that they describe product as a 10000 W 'running' generator. Many others advertise the surge watts first, then the running watts. Very deceiving marketing. With Generac, no deception.
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By TJ
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Have had the XG10000E for 2 days when the power went out. We have a well pump, furnace, electric dryer, as well as satellite TV, 2 fridges, water heater, microwave, lights, etc. This powers it all easily, just remember to unplug air compressors, that kicked out the breaker. Only problem was the factory forgot to bolt down the fuel tank. I need to get four flanged bolts and tap the holes. Also there was only one qt of oil, needs two.
Power to spare
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from Lyman
Have had the XG10000E for 3 years now. We have a well pump, septic pump, furnace, electric dryer, as well as TV(s), fridge, microwave, lights etc.. This unit runs it all easily. We don't need it often, but it sure is nice when we do!! Only thing I would change would be to charge the battery automatically off the engine when it is running.
Great for Backup and work!!
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Great Product for he price and capabilities it can provide!!
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Excellent generator
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I use xg10000e generator to completely power my auto detailing business. Always runs and delivers power. Only issue I ever had was with a breaker. I called generac an d the next day a technician came and fixed it. Overall a great product and would recommend to everyone needing a large amount of watts
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I bought the XG 10000 basically for power outages at home. It will be used for other things as well. It came assembled with the exception of the wheels, the cushion mounts and the battery cables. The engine was already full of oil and the battery was charged. I filled it with fuel, added some sta-bil gas treatment and off we went. It fired right up and I ran it for a bit. I plugged a grinder in to test it and it never flinched. The accessory kit had all kinds of extra's like spark plugs, oil filter (which was damaged), air filter and all the needed hardware. I called the customer service phone number and told them about the filter and they are shipping one out right away. Thats exactly what I expect of a well known company. Excellence at it finest. I will write another review later if possible when I power up my home with it.
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generally the generator was a great purchase. very easy to put together and get started. The only problem was the axle is two inches too short. They are sending me another one that i hope will be right., My concern is that it has been nine days so far and it still has not shipped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You would think that a missing or damaged part would be shipped out pretty quick.Only took three days to get the generator shipped, why so long for missing parts??????????????????
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Alright so after two weeks of getting my blue ram pair they laid eggs. They are still currently laying more, but when their done im not sure of what to do. They laid them on a leaf way up high in the aquarium. I have a breeder net thingy a cube with net around it. im wondering if i should cut off the stem so that the whole leaf i can place in there or if i should just let them go. the problem is at night the rams go to sleep and at night my corys go wild up on top of those leafs.
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I've read that rams will protect their eggs with a vengeance and normally lay them on a flat area (piece of slate, in a flower pot) Strange that they'd lay them up on a leaf. Maybe they take shifts as far as sleep? Obviously I don't know the answer...
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