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# 1 or me please

He's a member of the team, so, Im gonna support him into the playoffs as well.

Amen bro,just lets let the man be some, really.

Thanks for this post.....very informative, yet I find it did not change my stance. I do appreciate your time, and effort Sir. While I do have an opinion, it is not my opinion that really matters.

I would agree with this observation, but, would add, that attitude is no longer reserved for the lower positions in any company. Management is getting just as bad. Our shop made the decision two years back to reduce the number of parts vendors having their products made in China/Mexico etc. It is very frustrating to deal with US companys who just don't give a damm. Poor quality, poor techical assistance and customer service, failure to meet delivery dates, and zero communication beyond the billing for their garbage company's performance. It is a very frustrating enviorrnment to do business in.

I've noticed the "available in Wisconsin only" signs, and just laughed them off as marketing ploys.....guess I underestimated the "gateway" behavior threat.

The entire discussion is slippery. Is the "fetus" viable the day before birth? Is the child truly 'viable" the day she/he is born? The next day? In the first year or two? I can see the oportunity for some to argue that a new born is not viable because that child needs some level of care. The whole situation seems beyond any true definition. The entire discussion has been re-defined to be called reproductive choice for women, the child is not a direct result of a woman's choice, beyond the choice to engage in life reproductive behavior. After that decision, which is uncontested imo, the child is the one who is killed. So, at what point is choice irrelevant? To me, that is the question to be answered.

Ahhhh, yes, Margaret Sanger was such a visionary. If this topic were not so incredibly sad, there would be great humor in people's support of deception of this magnitude. I don't understand how even one black person could support PP, but.............

I love the end, "lean forward", which of course means lean Leftward, and yes Hillary would agree. Oh, and on topic, yes, yes she is, and yes, yes they are.

The Delphi retirement fund was taken over by the gubment as well. Those benefits are now on the tax payer's dime. That was and is a dangerous precedent, and seemingly forgotten by most everyone.

I read Jim Webb's "Born Fighting" 5 0r 6 years back, very interesting read, especially if you're of Scots/Irish roots.

Yeah, I guess I stayed away from a few tunes, just because. I do like much of his stuff though.

ummmm, no, but, I feel I may be informed in short order.

David Allen Coe references......................I guess I need to hang around here more often.

I'd love to see a Carly Fiorina/Clinton one on one debate........in fact, it should be pay per view. No holds barred, questions asked alternately by Sean Hannity, and James Carville

I'm kind of new here, but would like to wish all a Happy, Blessed Easter.

In the Minneapolis area, Cub Foods is close to Wegman's, but, I would rate Kowalski's higher than Wegmans.

SEARCH CANCEL Julio Cortez/AP Countdown to Draft Day Thu Apr. 2, 2015 T-Minus 28 Days: Meet the Upstart from Hobart It’s been 25 years since a Division III player has been selected in the top 100. Offensive lineman Ali Marpet might go by 75. The story behind one of the draft’s unlikeliest prospects. Plus, scouts on a plane and getting to know an SEC back By Robert Klemko · More from Robert· 3 Introducing Ali Marpet to the NFL has brought about a handful of firsts for Andrew Ross, a 19-year agent who’s never had a client garner as much attention—17 visits or private workouts with teams—as the standout from tiny Hobart College in Western New York has received since finishing his senior season four months ago. Marpet, a 6-4, 310-pound college tackle (and likely a guard or center in the NFL) was the first Division III athlete to be invited to the Senior Bowl in more than 20 years, and he’s quietly become the hottest topic in NFL war rooms in 2015. “I started in 1995, and I’ve had five first-round picks, including Aaron Curry,” Ross says. “And it was nowhere close to this.” Part of Marpet’s allure derives from the mystery surrounding his game. He went to the combine and blew away the field with 30 bench press reps and a 4.98 40. He was dominant against schools like Endicott College and Rensselaer, but how does that translate to the NFL? And the inevitable question: How did he end up at Hobart? “I didn’t exactly come out of college as the biggest freak,” says Marpet, who attended Hastings-on-Hudson High in Westchester County, N.Y. “My high school was pretty small. It was always my dream to play at Alabama, but that wasn’t even remotely a possibility for me.” The biggest schools interested in the 200-pound tackle were Fordham and Holy Cross. He chose Hobart and landed a merit-based scholarship for part of the $57,000 yearly tuition. During his junior year, an NFL scouting service came around and tested Hobart athletes. Marpet ran a sub 5-second 40 and scored high on the Wonderlic aptitude test. The Prospects Jean Sifrin: A high school dropout's improbable 10-year journey to the NFL draft. Leonard Williams: Our Andy Benoit sat down for a film session with the draft’s best defensive player. Brandon Scherff: The draft’s best—and nastiest—blocker is a modern-day Paul Bunyan. T.J. Clemmings: A switch from defense to offensive tackle awakened a monster. Shaq Thompson: Before he was an NFL prospect, he was baseball’s worst player. “I think I realized that I had some of the same physical tools that some of the guys going to the NFL had,” Marpet says, “I thought I had a shot.” The next two years couldn’t have played out any better if they were scripted. He was a conference co-MVP as a senior, never allowing a sack, then the Senior Bowl—a coup—then the combine. In between his final game and the combine, he trained with Chip Smith and former Pro Bowl offensive lineman Bob Whitfield in Atlanta, and blew the veteran coaches away. “I’m in my 26th year doing this, and I was a little skeptical,” Smith says. “He came here, and it was like he was a sponge, physically and mentally. He went from 290 to 310, and he went from 20 bench reps to 30 in a matter of months. We immediately started seeing him improving every day, in his strength, technique, everything. He was the Giddy up and go, and we were the Whoa.” As far as the other rookies could tell, Marpet might as well have been a D-I All-American. Smith observed the SEC’s finest prospects gravitating toward Marpet, hanging on his every word. “When Ali walks in the room, he’s like the pied piper,” Smith says. Smith, who has trained more than 250 current NFL players, says he shoots straight when scouts and coaches come calling. He has a deal with draft-eligible trainees from the jump: Come here, do the job and don’t create distractions, and I will vouch for you. “But if you screw around,” Smith says, “I have to be honest with teams, because they have to be able to take me seriously when I go to bat for guys like Ali Marpet.” Marpet is a “diamond,” Smith says, and all he had to do was polish it and point it at the sun: “He’s got to thank mom and dad for that athleticism.” Thing is, mom and dad aren’t especially athletic, or especially large. Mom is 5-6, a grad student and musician. Dad is almost 6-feet, an Emmy-winning cinematographer and a big name in the New York fashion industry. Each day during Ali’s childhood, Bill Marpet worked long hours but always rose at 5 a.m. to work out. “Watching that was huge for me,” Ali says. “You have to respect that.” Ali considered a media path but ultimately majored in economics, with minors in philosophy and public policy. With his first NFL check, he plans on paying off his college loans, then put “all or most of it away.” “Smart?” Ross says. “I’d have him handle my money.” Where Marpet is picked (and how much that first check will pay) is anyone’s guess. The last D-III athlete taken in the top 100 was Ferrum College’s Chris Warren, the 89th selection in 1990. (Warren, who played 11 NFL seasons, began his college career at Virginia but transferred after two years.) Several evaluators I spoke with pegged Marpet as a second- or third-round talent. A handful of teams have evaluated him as a tackle, while most suggest that he would play guard or center. As a raw talent and a longtime tackle, he would have a significant transition to make regarding interior line technique. And yet on draft day, the biggest factor will have been Marpet’s ability to convince teams that he believes he is ready. “They want to know that I believe I can play at the next level,” he says. “Confidence for me is huge. They want to know if I can mentally handle the transition. I know I can, and I think the tape shows that I can.”

Nice job What a Tuel, great to watch the old man get the job done.

Another was when he was concussed, a third was when he tore his MCL. Also why focus only on one season's running stats, when in that same season, Jackson was the team's top receiver?

This is unquestionably true, but, it is a gateway to politics on almost every level, just like frats are.

Maybe the new staff will be using more unbalanced Oline sets, and Felton to fill that role, jmho.

Not a good knee bender, and pads too high, and stiff hips too. Not worth his 4th round grade imho.