Interesting, at least in my mind, how two towns of such differing size would have their schools vie in a "battle for Stevens County." Could Morris lose this battle? Headline implies it could. And MACA did lose the girls basketball game to Hancock Saturday. In fact, the Owls crushed us.
MACA saved face with the boys game but not by a very decisive margin. The score was 55-50. I seem to recall that when I was in high school, any athletic contest vs. Hancock would have been treated like a scrimmage. Made sense. Today is different.
There is in fact a long history of Hancock being the cock of the walk in girls basketball. Well congratulations to them. Congrats to the Owls. I realize they had a coach who ended up in prison once, but what a long and storied history. Years, and years, and years. That coach was succeeded by Jodi Holleman who also took the Owls to state. The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
I reflect on the Hancock vs. Morris disparity in girls basketball in my current "Morris of Course" post, my companion blog. I invite you to read:
It is 8:30 a.m. Monday as I write this, and no stats yet reported on the MACA boys "Maxpreps" site, sorry. I can report that Riley Asmus led the Tigers with 18 points, nine rebounds. Drew Huebner supplied 13 points and Charlie Hanson scored eleven in a reserve role.
The Owls had Jackson Koehl putting in 13 points, plus he had six rebounds, four assists. Then we see Chase Evink with 12 points, nine rebounds. Hudson VerSteeg put in ten points and grabbed nine boards. The MACA won-lost record: 11-6. for Hancock: 6-7.
Man it's cold again this morning!
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| Olivia Troye |
Another day, another day with headlines about the sheer craziness within the Republican Party. Is America sick? Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to be angling for vice president. In what sort of cerebral terms is this being weighed? Former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye said of the matter, that Greene is "not going to meet the looks match for Trump."
Trump is off and running for 2024. Name someone who you think could actually beat him in the GOP primaries.
So Greene "wouldn't meet the looks match." Troye added "I hate to say that to disparage another female, but we know how shallow this man is."
These matters can head into complicated directions that the average person might have trouble seeing now. So I ask: Have you considered what would happen if Trump became president again and wrested control of the Federal Reserve from its chairman? Of course it could happen. Of course it's almost a certainty. OK it is a certainty because Trump crosses every line.
Every time he is on the verge of doing this, the media seems to ring alarm bells. Former Republican Joe Scarborough every morning on his MSNBC show is giving a sermon on how outrageous the situation has become with his former party. It's starting to seem like Joe is just going through the motions every day. Because, no matter how painfully logical his arguments are, life goes on and with no real restraint of Trump and MAGA.
Yes, Trump had to leave the White House, but only after the failure of his coup attempt. Hasn't that registered with you? Trump was the 100 percent puppetmaster of a failed insurrection at our U.S. capitol. People were killed. We would have been made to feel horrified back in the days of the gatekeeper media. The problem is this new "wild west" of media in the unshackled digital age.
Right wing media feeds a certain large percentage of the population constantly. These people are total fearmongers. Trump despite his background is still taken very seriously. On and on we see reports about his "legal troubles." So why does he have the freedom to continue to float in front of us as a viable hopeful for president next time around?
Headlines seem to scream about the absurdity of it all. The "Georgia investigation" has been going on forever. Trump's voice is on tape. But all we hear is that he is "threatened" by this and other investigations. We hear he was "fined" for filing a frivolous lawsuit, but a few days later we learn he's "appealing the fine." The road never ends for these "investigations" on the white collar level.
If you or I got a traffic ticket, it's basically a done deal. You're lucky if we can be treated with the same courtesy afforded the accused Idaho murderer when he was pulled over twice an route to Pennsylvania. So you can see our two-tiered system of justice, nakedly. The June proceedings in Idaho re. the quadruple murders will provide lots of well-compensated work for many people inside our law enforcement/judicial system. In a sense these people become indebted to the case.
Death penalty? Just watch the appeals roll on.
Olivia Troye told MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart that the Republicans who are being "elevated and empowered are the crazies" in the party.
I hear almost no talk of this, but if Trump seized the Federal Reserve and insists that interest rates be pushed down to near-zero again, we could face an existential threat to the country. The threat would come from hyper-inflation. The big shots love low interest rates because they become like heroin injections for them. For politicians they are the classic short-term fix for getting re-elected.
There's a saying "don't fight the Fed." Watch that go out the window.
If the Fed raises interest rates, it is not because it is deliberately trying to hurt the country. Interest rates exist for a reason, but hardly anyone would listen to me on this.
Olivia Troye said people need to take Marjorie Taylor Greene's potential interest in VP seriously, noting that Trump's 2016 run was considered a joke prior to his win. This is just stating the obvious. But try reminding certain people like the majority of church parishioners in our Stevens County. We have "conservative" churches here that would be lock-step with Trump, again, no doubt.
So why am I even asking this? I cannot compete with church pastors or with God and Jesus, if the "conservative" message is what we really think is coming from God and Jesus. Is it? Rhetorical question with the answer being "no."
So Troye is skeptical of Marjorie Taylor Greene's chances at this point but mainly because Greene "won't meet the looks match" for Trump.
So this is where we're at in 2023 America. Why do we have colleges all over the place if this is how adults are turning out?
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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