http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/03/super-sunday-predicting-the-death-of-football Comments On: Super Sunday: Predicting the death of football by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Steven E]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:48:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
I think everybody on this blog would answer "NO" to that question. I've also not heard anybody ask that we do that. And since you know better, your question is disingenuous rather than ignorant. Ignorant would probably play better.
Posted by Olphart]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:28:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:19:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:36:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
While I do not agree with a lot of what Eureka believes in, I do admire the consistency and force of facts that Eureka brings to the discussion. In the face of a thugocracy, is it really prudent for the people to simply lay down arms and trust entirely in the beneficence of the State? Eureka and I agree, that it would be foolish folly to trust in others who have created and perfected state sponsored murders and wanton destruction.

That some of the hypocritical would exploit the death of a SEAL to further a nebulous point is not surprising. Some of the OUtliars have no shame, and are outraged when someone brings them to the point of shame. Why else would they tell a fellow liberal to 'piss off' in such petulant pique?

Football, as it is, will not go anywhere, as some have predicted. Too much money, too much testosterone and too many individuals desiring to partake to ever allow its demise. I have been listening to these predictions since 1975, and the allure of football has continued, and grown. Injuries are to be expected, and most who get involved shrug off the concerns in typical macho indifference.
Posted by Steven E]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:35:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by bejeeus]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:07:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
DO you really want the sarah palin type of wingnuts or nanny dems to decide what metrics a disposition matrix has or doesn't have in re your behavior/mental state? If so, set aside guns and apply that process to free speech or the other few rights we supposedly have. And they will maintain/enforce them in secret. We live in a society where we can't/won't even enforce an FOIA at the university of arkansas, much less where it really counts. Banks, war crimes, matrix, gov secrecy, political bribes, etc.

There was plenty of information to do something in re Jared.... not a demonstrably credible scenario in which 80 to 100 million law abiding citizens should have their rights fettered. We should not treat everyone like they will go crazy... or let computers mind our human matrix.

I don't like the 2nd amendment. Though I don't agree with your selective interpretation of it. The long precedence of citizens having them should mean more than what you want it too at this point. Least you could have done when saying you read it all is quote it all.
via wiki
As passed by the Congress:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.[8]


I think both well-regulated militia has failed us terribly as well as unfettered access as we've known it has failed. We should dramatically reduce the militia run amok we have first... and it's matrix.


And Scalia's nomination was approved in the neoliberal U.S. Senate 98-0.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:20:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
I try to tell myself that I watch NASCAR races because I love cars not the constant threat that some driver will go over the top barrier at 190 mph. In truth I've slacked up on watch car races on TV but not really because of my liberal tree-hugging outlook, it's more cause the thrill of watching cars drive around in a circle 500 times has worn off.

I've got no one in our many wars for oil. No one playing sports so brain damage in my family is 100% natural. But it is a crying shame to read about all the guys a lot younger than I am....drooling on their knee because they used their heads for 5 mph bumpers when they were young and good looking.

Now that we've become aware of the damage done to brains merely for our weekend entertainment what will we do about it? Probably not much. I don't know how you take the violent collisions out of football and still have football. Take that out and you have some kind of ballet with acrobatics. No one would watch that.

We're a country that's gone mad for sports, made everything a sport. Most of the people in politics and who follow politics have adopted a sports mentality about it. My TEAM Right or Wrong has given us horrible Republicans and Democrats like Mark Pryor. People who boo sick people, gay soldiers in Afghanistan and think John Boozman is a hero.....talk about yer brain damaged! Just reading the comments under the picture of Obama shooting skeet on the front page of the NY Times shows how impossible it will be to ever be a united country living in peace ever again.

The sports lovers on the right WILL bring Civil War 2 if anything meaningful is done about the Sea of Guns we live in. It will be a very short and bloody war but I'll forever mourn my close friends who'll be zapped crossing their own front yards. Once again this is a very good time to buy stock in body bag companies. Team Gun refuses to learn even after reading about America's # 1 Sniper mowed down at a shooting range by one of those damaged veterans that Boozman refuses to help. Live by the gun....die by the gun.

Since our only god is MONEY, millions will tune into the Super Money Bowl today to enjoy some more brain damage for entertainment. Go.....enjoy....clean your guns while you eat chips & dip and chicken wings watching 2 teams of young strangers that have no connection to your life. I don't get it...but carry on.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:01:45 -0600 Arkansas Times ......
"It's not a right if you have to ask permission. It's not a freedom if it can and will be used against you. ...

"Folks over at naked capitalism were discussing the 'mental aspects' of the background checks and other reporting categorization of mental problems a few days ago.... and some mental health professionals were discussing what they are compelled to categorize as a danger and or report it in their states now.... one of the things was if a patient was grieving the loss of a friend or family member for a period of time longer than 14 days

Jared Loughner was an UNreported mental patient undergoing treatment, not grieving about a deceased grandmother. He legally purchased semi auto weapons with large clips and used them to kill several people and wound others including Congresswoman Giffords.

We're obviously talking about the unfettered distribution of firearms to just about anyone with the cash to buy one. It's a perverted path laid out by nutcake justice named Scalia who I have no doubt will go down in infamy not only for his outlandish, irrational approach to the 2nd Amendment but including his disastrous and blind support for unitary executive privilege. He was appointed by the 'neo-liberal' Reagan.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:05:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
That's why, in a fit of pique, I told him to "piss off". I don't think he wins many converts and I think people who think like he does probably wish he and others like him were less strident and off-putting.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:04:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.ija-usa.com/www.ija-usa.com/ind…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:48:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Hackett]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:47:33 -0600 Arkansas Times
Nate Silver Picks the Super Bowl!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/magazine…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:16:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:05:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
I'll melt down my guns (even the hunting guns) on live television and encourage others to do so as well when we reduce MIC 90 percent, prosecute our leaders who murder and torture with abandon... and destroy the disposition matrix/secret surveillance police state. Establish health care as a human right and a living wage too.

That would be the best day of my life as a citizen.

Until then you are just asking law abiding citizens to be weak and stupid.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:09:34 -0600 Arkansas Times
Again, I embrace the entirety of the 2nd Amendment, "well regulated....militia...necessary for free state.
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In 1991, Warren E. Burger, the conservative chief justice of the Supreme Court, was interviewed on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour about the meaning of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms." Burger answered that the Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud—I repeat the word 'fraud'—on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime." In a speech in 1992, Burger declared that "the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee the right to have firearms at all." In his view, the purpose of the Second Amendment was "to ensure that the 'state armies'—'the militia'—would be maintained for the defense of the state."

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-a…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:43:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:43:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
DOJ: We Can’t Tell Which Secret Application of Section 215 Prevents Us From Telling You How You’re Surveilled
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/02/01/doj-w…

A known murderer who utilizes the disposition matrix to surveil and murder based on nothing more than patterns.... then perhaps people should treat you as rational. It's easy in the Machiavellian sense to wage your nanny liberalism upon little people who say outrageous things in defense of their rights... but have not acted in a lawless manner... much easier than demanding prosecution of a known murderer. But it is not rational.

MLK was right and he was murdered for it... we have to quell mass weapons, lawless murdering/violence from the top down. Without rule of law and non violence at the top the people should not give up such a major and rare right no matter how dngerous their crude tools of defense may be. Not at this kind of point in lawlessness at the top.. The so-called left today is asking citizens to be as, if not more authoritarian following as the GOP was at any point under Bush Cheney. Even Cheney didn't ask citizens to lay down your arms or enter all your data up front into a permanent record... while he was murdering and torturing with abandon.

And our government should be waging war against the existence of a disposition matrix, private or public... nobody should have a right to all of a citizens information in advance, much more decide how to use it against them. Heck, we can't even see our own files! Even Senators who found out they had absurd entries in their file could not challenge or alter it. For what the disposition matrix already is designed for should outrage us all. Universal backgrounds checks is a tool of both oppression and murder. Just ask some old Holocaust survivors or members of the fallen Soviet Empire if you can't honestly look at your own countries way of doing things now.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:41:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
And I share your concern about stigmatizing the mentally ill. But then there's this.

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Famed-…

As I said on a previous thread, we apparently need more guns at gun ranges. Read the comments on the above link. A lot of those people have no business being anywhere near a gun. They are irrational and dangerous to the rest of us.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:56:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's not a right if you have to ask permission. It's not a freedom if it can and will be used against you. And though i continue to advocate for mental health care access for all as part of a single payer or tri care system.... there is a real danger with many, many consequences the so-called left is simply refusing to consider in re universal background checks. What are the questions and criteria of these checks? What else will this data be used for/against?

Folks over at naked capitalism were discussing the 'mental aspects' of the background checks and other reporting categorization of mental problems a few days ago.... and some mental health professionals were discussing what they are compelled to categorize as a danger and or report it in their states now.... one of the things was if a patient was grieving the loss of a friend or family member for a period of time longer than 14 days. SO if you miss your dead mother for more than 14 days... the disposition matrix spits out a take your guns order?

There is real danger in universal background checks to say the least. Far beyond just the gun issue.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:49:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:48:38 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4
Posted by Doc]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:22:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:12:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Archaeopteryx]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:07:34 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's not a right if you have to ask permission... suffer the approval/formula of a disposition matrix in order to keep it. Meanwhile your leader of choice continues to murder and terrorize on a global scale.... yet y'all say and do nothing.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 09:13:19 -0600 Arkansas Times