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Nice Planet XI: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!

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However, the head shaking part of this is the sponsors are from Prince Georges County, where hockey is not exactly a sport on the radar.

Oh come on, joe. There are hardly any Jews in PG. :p

(For non-Marylanders: PG county is the most affluent black suburb in the US.)
 
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You're confusing body contact (no check) with body checking. There is plenty of contact in girls hockey. There's not supposed to be body checking. This says no contact.

I think they have to mean body checking, right? It's just badly phrased?
 
I think they have to mean body checking, right? It's just badly phrased?

You never know. The men's league in Des Moines considers itself no contact, while the one I played in in Omaha was non-checking. There is a difference. The Omaha one was way more fun (and better run, but that's besides the point).
 
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So yeah, remember that pastor in Idaho who got offed after giving the invocation at a Ted Cruz rally?

They found the guy. Outside the White House. And he's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/08/us/id...urce=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

Sounds like everybody involved is crazy. The shooter is crazy by his deeds and manifesto (I like the ancient Martian overlords, though. Very Quatermass). Cruz is crazy because no kidding. The Pastor is crazy because he thinks God sent Cruz and the whole thing went down in Coeur d'Alene which is ground zero for the white supremacist fundy militia movement.

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
 
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So This Happened...

So much wrong with this...someone calls 911 because a person is suicidal. Cops burst in the door, taser an 86 year old man cause he had a knife in his hand, kick him in the stomach then arrest him for harassment. The NYPD spokespeople then commend the cops for showing "intelligent restraint" by using a taser and not shooting the guy.

Leaving aside the fact that the guy they were looking for was 23, since when is it proper procedure to treat possible suicides this way? My lord!
 
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Nope. Just like "1984", you have to keep the sheeple hooked on football and gambling (albeit they meant soccer in the book, not handegg, but you get the point).

I don't recall any gambling in 1984, but there is a point to be made that as long as football remains the multi-sector cash cow that it is, the odds of anything serious being done about head traumas and CTE are slim-to-none.

If anything, across all of the four major revenue sports, I would say there is too much emphasis on playing a pro-style game from a young age, and it is proving to be detrimental to the development of players, the long-term health of the players, and the overall enjoyment of the game at the youth level.
 
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Nope. Just like "1984", you have to keep the sheeple hooked on football and gambling (albeit they meant soccer in the book, not handegg, but you get the point).

The people are hooked on frivolous entertainment in Brave New World. In 1984 they are simply brutalized.

c.f. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
 
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Snowmachiner attacks Iditarod leaders, kills dog
Two Rivers musher Aliy Zirkle and Denali Park’s Jeff King reported a snowmachiner repeatedly attempted to harm their dog teams as they traveled to the Yukon River checkpoint of Nulato early Saturday morning. King’s team was struck, according to a press release from the Iditarod Trail Committee, resulting in the death of 3-year-old Nash and non-life threatening injuries to two others: 2-year-old Banjo and 3-year-old Crosby. A dog in Zirkle’s team also received a non-life threatening injury. The dog was not named in the release.

That guy can go die in a fire.
 
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