GoldRing: "Somehow some people keep devaluing themselves to their true value as a important worker all day long. Not releasing exactly how serious this abusive mutilating is to their person.
Washington DC corruption seems to have influenced the misinformed, or misguided daily life. A dollar by any other means is still a dollar to these people trying to become richer. Even when they know better.
Alas, the dollar that they are making is not really worth that much at all anymore. But in reality the dollar is worth something less than what is printed on the face of the paper that the people are spending or saving.
How can we help the people who won't listen. How can we make what is crooked straight. Why do we keep losing people with great ability to drugs?"
To Tyrann Mathieu;
"How can we help the people who won't listen. How can we make what is crooked straight. Why do we keep losing people with great ability to drugs?"You are much to young, and have come way, way, too far to quit trying now Tyrann. Go back to church. Keep working, and God will bring you home. God bless Tyrann.
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Trillion Dollar Coins: The Ultimate Debt Ceiling End-Around?
The
Saint-Gaudens double eagle, a twenty-dollar gold coin, or double eagle,
produced by the United States Mint from 1907 to 1933. (United States
Mint/Wikimedia Commons)It goes like this: Should Congress fail to extend the U.S. debt limit — reached again on Dec. 31 — the president could ask the Treasury to begin printing trillion dollar coins (in a process explained mostly seriously by Jim Pethokoukis on his American Enterprise Institute blog), a number of which could then be put toward fulfilling debt obligations in the event new legislation stalls in Congress.
While there are laws in place to regulate how much paper, gold, silver or copper currency can be circulated by the government, there is nothing so clearly stated when it comes to platinum. That door open, the Treasury could have the U.S. Mint melt and mold a few trillion dollars of it, then ship the goods over to the Federal Reserve for safekeeping until the time comes to pay the bills.
The more difficult part comes sometime after the decision is made to coin the platinum and before the Mint gets to work in sculpting the pieces.
At that point, the American people must decide whose face will adorn the trillion dollar trinket. The process to determine the “specs” of the coin, U.S. Mint Public Affairs Specialist Genevieve Billia warns, must be “determined by legislation,” creating the potential for another congressional impasse.
Also to note: The likeness sculpted into its side must belong to a dead person, ruling out early favorite Ikea Monkey, but boosting the candidacies of Ronald Reagan and John Maynard Keynes.
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Tyrann Mathieu: Pressure led to use
Updated: January 6, 2013, 2:16 AM ET
By
Joe Schad | ESPN
Mathieu Devastated After Missing Season
Tyrann Mathieu talks with Joe Schad about missing this season, abusing himself and his use of marijuana.Tags: LSU, Joe Schad, Tyrann Mathieu, conversation
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Mathieu, who has been training for the NFL draft at a facility not far from where Monday's BCS National Championship Game will be played, spoke with ESPN this week about his drug problem, self discovery and hitting rock bottom.
"Sitting in that jail cell, it clicked," an emotional Mathieu said. "Looking at those people, just staring at me. 'You don't belong in here.' They wanted to come through the jail cell and get me. I'm scared now. Because it's reality now. I don't ever want to feel like this again. I'm not going to feel like this again."
One year ago, Mathieu was a Heisman Trophy finalist, preparing for a national championship game. Since then everything has changed. In August he was dismissed from the LSU team for a failed drug test, and an arrest and a missed football season have followed.
“Sitting in that jail cell, it clicked. ... I don't ever want to feel like this again. I'm not going to feel like this again.” -- Tyrann MathieuMathieu has many regrets. And he believes his poor performance in last year's BCS Championship Game was a factor in his marijuana issue.
Because last year's title game loss to Alabama was played in New Orleans -- near where he was raised -- Mathieu said he was distracted.
"I remember worrying about me playing in my home town and showing up and damn, I don't think I'm going to show up," he said. "I hope I show up. I hope I have a game like I did against Georgia or Auburn. And it really took me out of my preparation for the game. I didn't give up a touchdown but I gave up four or five passes. Passes when I knew they were going to run that route. I mean, I knew they were going to run that route. But I didn't prepare myself. I was worried about everything outside the game."
If he had to do it over, Mathieu said, "I would have shut my phone off. I would have stayed in my hotel room."
Not staying at home is a mistake Mathieu, 20, says he's made too often.
It was in August when the immensely popular Mathieu -- nicknamed "The Honey Badger" because of an ultra-aggressive on-field demeanor overshadowing his 5-foot-9 stature -- was dismissed from the Tigers team because of failed drug tests.
"Devastating," Mathieu said, tears flowing. "It's all I had. Football. And to think back on it, as I told you, for the BCS game, I abused myself. I took it out on myself. So many people were trying to help me. Coach Miles, he was basically like my LSU father. And our head trainer, Shelly (Mullenix), was like my mother at LSU. Those people did everything for me. All they wanted was for Tyrann to make a play. They just wanted me to show up. I prepared myself so hard in the spring and summer just to let everyone down."
Mathieu said he used marijuana as a way to deal with problems on and off the field.
"I'd tell the world I abused myself though marijuana," Mathieu said. "I abused myself through marijuana. Was I addicted to it? Maybe. Did I form a habit of it? Yes. When people didn't think I had a good game or I didn't have the greatest practice ever, I didn't go into the office and try to figure out what was going on. I just automatically abused myself."
When Miles informed him in a 5:30 a.m. meeting that "you can't be a part of our family anymore" Mathieu said he began sobbing. He asked a school official to notify his parents because he couldn't bring himself to do it.
“ I abused myself through marijuana. Was I addicted to it? Maybe. Did I form a habit of it? Yes."There was nothing anybody could do at that point," Mathieu said, crying. "I had to accept the responsibility that I was never going to play for LSU again. The only school that believed in me. And I didn't even believe in them. I felt I was a loyalty person. Looking back, I didn't know anything about loyalty. I could talk it, but you know, walking it, was a whole different thing. And when you realize you're not loyal, that's what hurts the most. When you realize you lied to people, that's what hurts the most."
” -- Tyrann Mathieu
Some advised Mathieu to play lower-division football for a season before entering the draft. Mathieu considered it, but couldn't. Instead, he re-enrolled at LSU and paid his own way as a student. Mathieu said Miles told him he might be able to return to the Tigers in 2013.
"I had to regain everything that I lost at LSU," Mathieu said. "I didn't want to go to another school and they call me the Honey Badger. They didn't know how hard I worked to become the Honey Badger. They don't know Tyrann. LSU is the only fan base that truly knows Tyrann. I couldn't play for another school. I just couldn't do it. I wouldn't have given my all playing for another school. I was only going to give my all for LSU."
But then in October, Mathieu was arrested, along with several former teammates, for marijuana possession, effectively ending any chance he had to play for LSU again. And sending him to the NFL draft.
He had been through counseling. How could this happen again?
"I fell back into the same trap that got me suspended," Mathieu said. "The entire September even into October, I'd go up the football dorms, to encourage those guys, and I'd go back to my room. Didn't go out. Didn't do anything. But then you just get comfortable. People just talking good about you. 'Oh, Tyrann, he's doing good. He's not missing classes.' And then you start to confuse yourself again. Everything is not good. I'm paying for school. They're not checking my classes, even though I take classes with football players. They're not looking at Tyrann anymore. When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time."
Mathieu has been training in South Florida with Patrick Peterson, Sr. And on Sunday, he heads to Arizona to train with Patrick Peterson of the Arizona Cardinals. Mathieu knows he will face difficult questions at the Senior Bowl and/or NFL Scouting Combine.
“Once the Honey Badger took off, it's like, you have to be a different person. You have to be fearless walking around school. You have to have this mean look on your face, like every day is a football game.” -- Tyrann MathieuNotably, can he stop smoking marijuana?
"Yes," he said. "I've stopped."
How?
"It's a mind thing," Mathieu said. "It's a mind thing. The rehab I've been to, the counseling I've been to, my mama and daddy jumping down my throat, Coach Miles popping by my apartment, none of that could stop me if I didn't want to stop. If I didn't want happiness for myself, nobody else can want it for me."
Mathieu said he's distanced himself from bad influences.
"When they call my phone, 'Nah, I'm with my girlfriend,' " Mathieu said. " 'I'm about to go work out. I've got something to do.' I'm growing up now. It ain't that I'm lying to them. I'm saving myself. Because I've got an outlook on life I know what's behind that door. I know why you're calling my phone. We've only got a few things in common. And it's not football."
Mathieu has had plenty of time to reflect. And he's come to the conclusion he did not like who he was and he was trying to live up to a persona he didn't create.
"People see the Honey Badger and they see this fearless guy," Mathieu said. "This guy who's going to go balls to the wall and just give it his all. But off the field I was really quiet. I was really laid back, really humble. Once the Honey Badger took off, it's like, you have to be a different person. You have to be fearless walking around school. You have to have this mean look on your face, like every day is a football game."
In private moments, Mathieu said he was pained.
"When you go to rehab and counseling, it's not about the physical person," he said. "It's about the person inside of you, the soul of you, the spirit of you. Many times I looked in the mirror and didn't see anything. Couldn't see anything. I didn't see anything in the mirror. It was me, but I didn't truly know my soul, my spirit.
"Some nights you have to think yourself to sleep rather than cry yourself to sleep. But it's truly a blessing to find that person in the mirror. I know who Tyrann is. Stop walking around like that. Put a smile on. You're a good person. You're a good kid. That's Tyrann. Not the Honey Badger. I'll turn it up on Saturday or Sundays. Hopefully Sundays. But that's not me off the field."
Mathieu knows some NFL teams will view him as high risk.
"I know what it feels like to be on the dark side," Mathieu said. "I know what it feels like every day not being able to sleep. Just thinking about football. I know what it feels like to hurt. I know what it feels like to lie to people. I know what it feels like for people not to trust you. I know my mistakes throw red flags up. But I want people to trust me. When I get back on that field, I don't want to get off. I don't ever want to leave this game again." See video...http://espn.go.com/
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Ivan Maisel and Chris Low preview the BCS title game and discuss the Alabama-Notre Dame rivalry. Listen 
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Analysis: Big hits early on sealed the fate of LSU's 2012 team
BATON ROUGE – Considering all the losses before the losses, it was a significant accomplishment that the 2012 Louisiana State football team managed to finish 10-3.
And it was less than 60 seconds from finishing 12-1 as the Tigers lost to No. 1 Alabama 21-17 on a 28-yard screen pass from A.J. McCarron to T.J. Yeldon with 51 seconds to play and then fell to No. 14 Clemson, 25-24, in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Monday on a 37-yard field goal as time expired.
Using basically the same logic, though, the Tigers were fortunate not to finish 8-5 as it struggled to beat such poor teams as Auburn, 12-10, and Arkansas, 20-13.
And without a thrilling, 89-yard punt return for a touchdown by Odell Beckham Jr. with 9:10 left, LSU may not have gotten by an average Ole Miss team by 41-35.
In the end, a 10-3 finish in the second-tier Chick-fil-A is about where LSU should have finished.
Whereas Texas A&M, Georgia and even South Carolina improved late in the season and won better bowl games with flourishes, the Tigers limped into the sunset over their last four games by never equaling their performances in the loss to Alabama and in the wins over A&M and South Carolina.
Had LSU not suffered major losses on its roster early on, though, it could have all been different.
It is not a reach to say that the Aug. 10 dismissal of cornerback and kick returner sensation Tyrann Mathieu -- the soul of LSU’s 13-1, undefeated 2011-12 Southeastern Conference championship team -- for repeatedly testing positive for marijuana cost LSU a national championship, or at least an appearance in the game.
In the previous season, Mathieu single-handedly and repeatedly provided points or set LSU up for points via his uncanny ability to cause turnovers or and return kicks.
Against Arkansas in the 2011 regular-season finale and Georgia late in the SEC title game, for example, LSU’s offense looked worse than it ever did in 2012 as it trailed 14-0 and 10-0 in the first quarter, respectively, before Mathieu struck with a 92- and 62-yard yard punt returns for touchdowns, respectively. Read more...http://www.thetowntalk.
Louisiana State running back Kenny Hilliard is stopped in his tracks by two University of Florida defenders on Oct. 6, 2012, in Gainesville, Fla. Florida beat LSU, 14-6. / AP
GoldRing: "Goodbye Tyrann"
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