The ring leader had pledged support to ISIS.

Glad we have a growing radical muslim population here(Michigan and where Tampon Tim is from).

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...nce-isis-had-chemical-substances-devices-home

Q: What changes will I see under the ‘Safe To Stay With The Herd’ initiative?
A: Marshall University is committed to keeping attendees safe at all events taking place at our venues. Due to the implementation of Campus Carry Law (WV Code 18B-4-5b) taking effect as of July 1, 2024, fans entering Marshall University venues will go through screening prior to admittance to events. Once guests enter the venue, they may not exit and re-enter without a separate unscanned game ticket.

It's hilarious watching the board bleaters trying to make Walz look like a great American. To be honest, I couldn't care less about all of this. All I care about are his policies and they are absolutely horrible for our country.

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A veteran who served with Commie-la Harris running mate Gov. Tim Walz accused him of embellishing his time in the service and abandoning his unit just before they deployed.

In an interview Wednesday on "The Ingraham Angle," Ret. Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Behrends, who said he was a member of Walz's battalion, scolded the Minnesota governor for misleading the American public about his military career.

His service concluded when he retired from his unit in the Minnesota National Guard right before they deployed to Iraq in 2005, the New York Post reported. The Minnesota National Guard told Fox News Walz's unit was not given deployment orders to Iraq until July and he had put his retirement papers in five to seven months prior to his retirement in that May 2005.

Asked about Trump running mate Sen. JD Vance's accusation that Walz is guilty of "stolen valor," the National Guard veteran told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that it's "far darker than a lot of people think."

"He's used the rank that he never achieved in order to advance his political career," he said. "I mean, he still says he's a retired command sergeant major to this day, and he's not. He uses the rank of others to make it look like he's a better person than he is."

Questions emerged about Walz's rhetoric surrounding his time in the service after Vice President Commie-la Harris announced him as her running mate on the 2024 Democratic ticket.

Walz is described as a retired "command sergeant major" in his governor's website biography and has also claimed he carried a gun "in war," despite never experiencing active combat.

Ingraham, however, said the Minnesota National Guard told the "Angle" he retired as a master sergeant.

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"To most people, that would mean that he was actually in combat, carrying a weapon in a combat zone and getting combat pay and in a dangerous and hostile environment where he is getting shot at," Behrends said.

"I mean, if he thinks Italy was a combat zone or a war zone, and he was carrying that in war, he's delusional," he added.

Behrends said Walz had been promoted to command sergeant major in 2004, but claimed he was required to serve two additional years or the promotion would be void.

His early retirement terminated the promotion, reducing his rank to master sergeant, Behrends said.

"What he did, basically, was he quit. He didn't complete that condition of doing two years after graduation, so he gets reduced to a master sergeant, and that's what he is right now, is a retired master sergeant."

In statement to Fox News, Army Lt. Col. Ryan Rossman, Minnesota National Guard's director of Operations, explained Walz's rank at the time of his retirement:

"He was technically a Command Sgt Major when he deployed to Europe with his battalion but to RETIRE as a CSM you have to go through a final course which he had not completed so from a benefits perspective the Army retired him as a Master Sgt (lower enlisted rank.) But according to National Guard records he was a Command Sgt Major technically when deployed. The lower rank was as a result of benefit requirements and a technicality."

The campaign issued a statement on the matter: "After 24 years of military service, Governor Walz retired in 2005 and ran for Congress, where he chaired Veterans Affairs and was a tireless advocate for our men and women in uniform — and as our Vice President of the United States, he will continue to be a relentless champion for our veterans and military families."

The response didn't sit well with Behrends.

"From what I get from the soldiers that I went to Iraq with, probably 98% of them are completely against him embellishing his record," he said. "Don't try to make it look like you were a command sergeant major. Don't try to make it look like you were going to some place that was in support of Operation Enduring Freedom… that's just all embellishment and lies to try to make things look better."

"I have my stories about what he did to the military, when he left us like that, and I was kind of like, ‘Are you kidding me?’" Schilling said, recalling his reaction when he heard Commie-la Harris tapped Walz as her running mate.

"We all did what we were supposed to do, we did the right thing, and it's dishonorable what he did," Schilling said. "He left somebody else to take over his spot. He just ditched us."

Walz's team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from "The Ingraham Angle."

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For about 20 years, writer Bruce Feldman has created a list of college football players he calls “freaks.” To be a freak, you have to put up astonishing numbers of strength and speed in the weight room, especially compared to your size.

Originally, the list was very short. This year, the freaks list grew to 100. A Marshall player made the list:

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This is the first election I’ve ever been concerned that searching backstories on memes for literally all the candidates will actually put shit in my algorithms I honestly don’t want

Rifle has claimed to have slayed some vag, but looking back the only “chick” he posted in bed was that tranny….though ET and Raoul will say that was a courageous act.

Just for Rifle and H&H. Go fvck yourselves, losers.

Currently leading 2-0 over WVU

Pitbull bought the naming rights to the stadium for the next 5 years. He will pay $1.2 million per year for it.

So you have the FIU Panthers...playing at Pitbull Stadium🙄🙄🙄


I like The Joan, but if someone wanted to give MU a million dollars a year to rename the stadium, what would you say?

It would be amazing if Randy Moss did that and named it, "Rand University" 🤣

The below link has the top 50 MSAs in the U.S. How many have you been to? Driving through, having a layover, etc. doesn't count as being there. For it to count, you had to have stayed at least one night in that MSA.

I've stayed in 46 of the 50. I have been to the Detroit airport about 50 separate times, but I have never stayed the night in Detroit. I also haven't stayed in Portland, Milwaukee, or Grand Rapids.

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Green Helmets? I hope not

I watched weeks of programs on the church of scientology. Tom cruise lies when he says he has studied psychiatry. He never picked up a book in his life and studied chemical imbalance or arterial or depression. All he knows is what the church of scientology taught him that an evil alien plot from some far off planet brought psychiatry to the people of earth to be able to control the whole planet. I believe he got on you for taking anti depressants. God forbid if you saw a psychiatrist or sought counseling. If he would just tell the truth it's what the church of bobble heads has brainwashed him not his studying of medicines. I was blown away hearing about that organization. Greed lives in Wayne. He is not a true scientology man. He bought a couple books that's all. I am glad for greed. He is s Christian that goes go a free will baptist church. He is a rich man. L Ron Hubbard was not a Christian if it is based on him ever claiming Jesus as his savior. The testimonies of ex members really gave the public a reason to stay far away. Rifle has enough money that he could move up the latter in that group. Hubbard makes jimmy swagger and Jim baker look like saints. Tom will go from being called a great actor to crazy Tom cruise. Reading now how Hubbard had like a guardian angel who communicated to hubbard

The biggest scam ever produced by man. They have only snared one person off of Pullman that I know of and its EG. Have you ever read much about that cult? I have read a whole lot and amazed that cult gets by with how they operate. They are not a church they are a cult. Jesus Christ is not important to them. He doesn't matter. They love Tom Cruise and other celebrities. You can't be any kind of a person who believes in a higher being if you attach yourself to the cult of scientology. Trump hopefully will do something to get all their money and take their buildings they call churches and donate them to the homeless.

Not sure why (other than their mental illness) being an undecided voter somehow makes liberals more angry than telling them you're voting for Trump. I rarely if ever talk politics outside of this board. Most of the women I date are in their early 30's (along with a lot of my teammates in different intramural sports.) Maybe it's because I don't talk politics everyone assumes I share their political beliefs. But once you tell a lib you honestly have no idea who you're voting for, why does that trigger such a truly unhinged response? I've honestly never had a Trump supporter lose their shit & tell me not voting for Trump is somehow the same as voting for Kamala. I thought it was insane four years ago but it's even worse this time.

He says his family reunions and his sisters don't dress like this. Wanted to know if this bunch was from Iowa.

And now the Secret Service guys physically guarding Trump and hired to take a bullet for him are sh!tting their pants. Interesting.

17 INCHES

You will not regret reading this an excellent article to read from beginning to end. Twenty years ago, in Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA's convention.

While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers scheduled to present during the weekend. One name kept resurfacing, always with the same sentiment — “John Scolinos is here? Oh, man, worth every penny of my airfare.”

Who is John Scolinos, I wondered. No matter; I was just happy to be there.

In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate.

Seriously, I wondered, who is this guy? After speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the prop hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches. Even those who knew Coach Scolinos had to wonder exactly where he was going with this, or if he had simply forgotten about home plate since he’d gotten on stage. Then, finally …

“You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck,” he said, his voice growing irascible. I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility. “I may be old, but I’m not crazy. The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.”

Several hands went up when Scolinos asked how many Little League coaches were in the room. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?”

After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches?”, more of a question than answer.

“That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth’s day? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?” Another long pause.

“Seventeen inches?” a guess from another reluctant coach.

“That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?”

“Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident.

“You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”

“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.

“Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?”............“Seventeen inches!”

“RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues? “Seventeen inches!”

“SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls. “And what do they do with a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over seventeen inches?” Pause. “They send him to Pocatello !” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter. “What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy. If you can’t hit a seventeen-inch target? We’ll make it eighteen inches or nineteen inches. We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of hitting it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.'”

Pause. “Coaches… what do we do when your best player shows up late to practice? or when our team rules forbid facial hair and a guy shows up unshaven? What if he gets caught drinking? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him? Do we widen home plate? "

The chuckles gradually faded as four thousand coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold. He turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something. When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows. “This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids. With our discipline.
We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards. We just widen the plate!”

Pause. Then, to the point at the top of the house he added a small American flag. “This is the problem in our schools today. The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate! Where is that getting us?”

Silence. He replaced the flag with a Cross. “And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years. Our church leaders are widening home plate for themselves! And we allow it.”

“And the same is true with our government. Our so-called representatives make rules for us that don’t apply to themselves. They take bribes from lobbyists and foreign countries. They no longer serve us. And we allow them to widen home plate! We see our country falling into a dark abyss while we just watch.”
I was amazed. At a baseball convention where I expected to learn something about curve balls and bunting and how to run better practices, I had learned something far more valuable.

From an old man with home plate strung around his neck, I had learned something about life, about myself, about my own weaknesses and about my responsibilities as a leader. I had to hold myself and others accountable to that which I knew to be right, lest our families, our faith, and our society continue down an undesirable path.

“If I am lucky,” Coach Scolinos concluded, “you will remember one thing from this old coach today. It is this: "If we fail to hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard of what we know to be right; if we fail to hold our spouses and our children to the same standards, if we are unwilling or unable to provide a consequence when they do not meet the standard; and if our schools & churches & our government fail to hold themselves accountable to those they serve, there is but one thing to look forward to …”

With that, he held home plate in front of his chest, turned it around, and revealed its dark black backside, “…We have dark days ahead!.”

Note: Coach Scolinos died in 2009 at the age of 91, but not before touching the lives of hundreds of players and coaches, including mine. Meeting him at my first ABCA convention kept me returning year after year, looking for similar wisdom and inspiration from other coaches. He is the best clinic speaker the ABCA has ever known because he was so much more than a baseball coach. His message was clear: “Coaches, keep your players—no matter how good they are—your own children, your churches, your government, and most of all, keep yourself at seventeen inches."

And this my friends is what our country has become and what is wrong with it today, and now go out there and fix it!

"Don't widen the plate"

The author is Chris Sperry from Vancouver, WA. Former head coach at The University of Porrlsnd. 

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