Tinker Town Tiger: How can we reach out to people who are so misinformed and lack the basic good vs bad, right and wrong foundation to understand what we are saying? I sometimes wonder why do the sinners let themselves get so bad off that only a divine god could help them. That they take themselves out of the reach of everyday people who really could help them. If only they would give us their neighbors some honest consideration.
They deliberately go where decent people will not. The hard cast criminal. The worse of the worse. Who in the end must get locked up in a cage out of society every day way. That the criminals who take sinful behavior that far, is a mystery to me.
Just how could Hitler kill so many Jews. Just because he had the power to do so? How can any person feel like taking sin to far, that can only end up in a painful destructive pit of hell is beyond common sense.
The choice to give your reason powering away, because we feel like stealing. Because no one else is looking. How can a person really not realize their limitations?
You walk into a room with a million dollars, no one is there but you. No cameras, only you. The million dollars is not yours. You can pick up the money a walk back to your car. And no one will see you leave with the money. You can take that million dollars and get away clean, from anyone else knowing it.
The only person that will ever know that you are spending a million dollars, that was not yours, is you. Whatever lie that you tell to hide the theft, will be excepted by the people around you. And only you will know that the money was stolen by you. Only you will know. You could steel a million dollars just because you could.
What would you do?
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Equality in our society is playing out like some kind of confused completed Broadway play. We all know by now that slavery was a very bad sinful thing to do your neighbor. That is truly not tolerated in our civilization now. And yet the equality play from the politicians today are rerunning the same thing over and over.
That is worrying the Broadway entertainers about what the audience think. The equality play is the ambition of the rule makers, that is showing us a long list of their hypocrite reasons to social equality. A tall tale of bull talk. A equality play that speaks of a lifetime of who get all the power to rule over the laws that are enforced.
To vote for them and make them richer. So the rich can keep getting really rich. Equality for the people who vote for them whatever their Party Affiliation. And for the rest if us, not so much.
And of course they now look like Tweedledee and Tweedledum to me. Just more sinful politicians corrupting the government for their own personal ambitions.
That Broadway equality play should be called "Social equality not so much."
Of course we the people can be fair to each others, so we can give the other person a equal chance to succeed in our society? My eyes glaze over after seeing the politicians who keep talking to us on HDTV. About what they think is the American people problems are.
The thing that I see now, that is very wrong with my society. Is who we listen to on HDTV. That we are now living with a HDTV box full of lies in our so called civilized society. And of course the means that keeps showing me the lying politician that who is talking to me. Without them two varmints. ( lying HDTV & politicians ) And I am doing better. Forget about them running dogs. Vote better the next time that we vote. Maybe we will get luckier the next time around?
Equal opportunity in America today means to stop the unfair white entitlement social structure. And then give everything away to the children and let them run the ship of state. Our social decline is the direct results of grown ups fearing to tell the young kids to simply pull up your pants. And show some simple respect in public. The grown ups are afraid to make the kids behave.
Fear is a very destructive thing to our society. I wish that we as a civilized society would knock that baloney off. Put the stealing politicians in jail. Along with the bought and paid for judges, money dealers. Turn off the foolish liberals gone wild news network. And stick together to clean up your society. Make our kids grow up. And then elect the honest men and women in our community to run your government. Why is America becoming so afraid to clean house?
So I ask myself then, just what is equal in gods eyes?
The ten commandment
I am the Lord thy God,
Thou shalt not have strange gods before me
Thou shalt not make for thyself any graven image
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ;
Remember to keep holy the sabbath day ;
Honour thy father and mother
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's (goods)
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Rising TV Fees Mean All Viewers Pay to Keep Sports Fans Happy
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NBC cameras at an N.F.L. game last month in Philadelphia. By BRIAN STELTER
For a glimpse of how out of control sports bidding wars have become, look no further than your cable television bill.
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Per-subscriber fees for sports networks keep going up: ESPN, the granddaddy of them all, passed the $5-a-month mark last year.
The eye-popping price tags have restarted debate about a topic near and dear to sports fans, fairness: many TV customers never watch the mightily expensive channels at all, yet almost all must pay. There was a shudder in the industry when John Malone, the business tycoon who helped create the modern-day cable system, said in November that “runaway sports rights” costs amounted to “a high tax on a lot of households that don’t have a lot of interest in sports.” The only short-term fix, he said, was government intervention.
The price increases reflect the leverage big sports leagues have as distributors like Time Warner Cable and programmers like ESPN desperately try to hang onto live programming in the age of the digital video recorder and the Internet.
Sports are the television industry’s bulwark against rapid technological change: while the companies fear cord-cutting by customers who can cobble together a diet of TV on the Internet, they rest a little easier knowing that former customers would be hard-pressed to find their favorite teams live online.
Pretty much everybody in the business agrees that the overall costs are outrageous. Nobody has an easy solution.
The latest example of this is likely to come on Monday when the Dodgers’ owners are expected to announce a 20- to 25-year deal to create a regional sports network with Time Warner Cable. The cost per subscriber in Southern California is likely to be between $4 and $5 a month, though Time Warner Cable will swallow some of the amount itself.
In assessing the impending Dodgers deal, Michael Nathanson, a media analyst at Nomura Securities, wondered earlier this week “if we have reached the top of the sports rights bubble.”
But while the price is steep, the alternative might have been worse; the other bidder, Fox Sports, could have turned around and charged Time Warner Cable even more per subscriber.
“When a team sees their rights fees, and therefore the costs to consumers, rise more than sixfold, as is rumored, for the exact same games that they got last season, that’s an unsustainable model,” said Dan York, who oversees DirecTV’s decisions to carry and not carry networks. Yet Mr. York said DirecTV hopes to continue to carry the Dodgers in the years to come.
As both he and his counterparts at Time Warner Cable know, the games are popular with a segment of its customer base.
News Corporation, knowing the same thing, acquired a 49 percent stake in the Yankees-branded YES Network for nearly $2 billion two months ago. News Corporation is planning a national rival to ESPN, tentatively named Fox Sports 1, joining other competitors like Comcast, which has the one-year-old NBC Sports Network, and CBS, which has the CBS Sports Network. The National Football League has its own network, which clawed its way onto all the major distributors’ lineups despite costing nearly $1 per subscriber per month. An increasing number of college conferences have their own television homes, as well.
For the most part, all of these networks are requirements, not options for cable customers. (Some distributors charge extra for packages of sports channels for die-hard fans, but the big networks remain in the packages that most customers get.) Some games are hugely popular: On the high end of the ratings, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” averaged 21.4 million viewers this season. But Dodgers games, like those of many local teams, were lucky to garner 100,000 viewers on any given day.
But analysts and industry critics say that if anything ever causes distributors to try more of an “à la carte” model of pricing, it’s sports programming.
“The cable industry has done everything it can to bundle programming and force consumers to buy things they don’t want,” said Gene Kimmelman, a former Justice Department antitrust lawyer. “Finally, one piece of their bundle has become so expensive that it may finally force the cable industry to shift gears and split the bundle out of fear of pricing its own customers out of the market.”
Some executives at the distributors privately agree. They talk of a bubble caused by the high license fees commanded by sports leagues, and demanded by the networks that pay those fees. They say they want to keep costs down, and some have even threatened to drop low-rated channels from their lineups. But they continue to agree to pay more and more for sports.
Chris Bevilacqua, an investor and consultant who has spearheaded the creation of several college networks, said, “If consumers were that upset by the costs, they’d be dropping their cable subscriptions in droves.”
To date, that is not happening. Cable alternatives like Aereo (a service that streams broadcast networks via the Internet for a small monthly price) are sprouting up, but none are stealing share from the distributors that have been around for years. In fact, over the last two years ESPN has signed new long-term deals with seven of the top ten distributors in the country.
What is more common are customers who lower their monthly bill, albeit temporarily, by leaping from one distributor to another. Verizon FiOS, perhaps testing the waters, announced a sports-free package of channels this week that is $15 cheaper than a similar package with sports.
Along with regional sports networks and the ESPNs of the world, sports costs are baked into the television industry through the deals that distributors make to carry local broadcasters’ television signals. If a distributor is not willing to pay what a CBS-affiliated station wants them to pay, for instance, its customers may miss out on the Super Bowl, which is Feb. 3 on CBS.
Companies are rarely willing to take that risk as nothing provokes the public quite like missing a sporting event. Time Warner Cable’s blackout of MSG Networks, which carries the Knicks, rankled thousands of customers last year; Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo eventually put pressure on both companies to make the deal that ended the blackout.
David Goodfriend, the chairman of the Sports Fan Coalition, said sports leagues were the root of the problem, because they “get exemptions from federal antitrust laws so they can legally collude and drive up prices for television coverage of the games.” The coalition wants to cut what it calls “vast public subsidies.”
Washington regulators have not shown a special interest in the subject. When Mr. Malone, speaking to The Los Angeles Times, brought up government intervention in sports rights costs, he said that “usually markets have a way of correcting themselves.”
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LSU boasts Republicans and Democrats in high places
Where LSU’s coaches and administrators side politically
By JIM ENGSTER
Tiger Rag President
Louisiana has 2.9 million registered voters with about 1.4 million of its citizens registered as Democrats. About 789,000 voters in the state are registered Republicans. There are 694,000 independents or members of other parties.
Despite the numerical majority enjoyed by the Democratic Party in the Bayou State, no Democrat has carried Louisiana in a presidential election since 1996 when Bill Clinton routed Bob Dole by more than 215,000 votes. Only one U.S. House seat is held by a Democrat in Louisiana (Cedric Richmond of New Orleans) while U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu is the only elected Democratic statewide official in the state.
LSU is regarded by many politicos as a conservative campus in what is depicted as a haven for liberalism-academia. As chancellors and presidents have learned for decades, LSU has evolved into a controversial cesspool of conflicting goals and approaches. The ability to navigate the uncertain political waters is often the key to survival for administrators at the Ole War Skule.
It has never hurt those seeking office in Louisiana to brandish LSU credentials, particularly in the sporting world. Former Baton Rouge Mayor-President Pat Screen, a Democrat, served two terms at City Hall after starring as an LSU quarterback in the Sixties. Former District Attorney Doug Moreau and former Public Service Commissioner Jimmy Field, both Republicans, were standouts for the Tigers on the gridiron in the Sixties and parlayed that popularity into political offices.
LSU football’s only three-time All America performer, Tommy Casanova, served as a Louisiana Senator more than two decades after departing Death Valley in 1971. Mary Landrieu went almost directly from her sorority house to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1979 while Lieutenant Gov. Jay Dardenne was student body president at LSU in 1977. Journalism graduate Dardenne is a member of the Manship School Hall of Fame as is East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden.
Funding for the flagship university has been curtailed dramatically the last few years, much to the chagrin of former LSU president John Lombardi, former chancellor Mike Martin, and former provost Jack Hamilton. All three men are staunch Democrats, perhaps a reason why they were not in good graces with the Republican administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Acting president/chancellor William Jenkins is an independent, a status that is probably wise amid the swirling political winds that frequently envelop the Baton Rouge campus and LSU system. Information about the party affiliation of many LSU luminaries has been obtained through a public records request from Tiger Rag.
Gov. Jindal is a graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island and does not appear to have the emotional ties to LSU sports that some previous governors have exhibited. Former Gov. John McKeithen regularly recruited for the Tigers from the fourth floor of the Capitol while Huey Long was consumed with LSU football, famously muttering about the future of the university and its athletic program on his deathbed.
Jindal was born in Baton Rouge on June 10, 1971 shortly after his pregnant mother arrived in the city to accept a job at LSU. The university’s offer of employment to Raj Jindal is quite possibly the reason the governor is a native born American. But football is not Jindal’s major passion. During the Ole Miss game last November at Tiger Stadium, the governor reportedly attended Mass at his parish church than cheer the Bengals as they were squeezing out a thrilling 41-35 victory over the Rebels a few blocks away. LSU football is religious experience to many, but it’s hard to knock a man for opting to commiserate with a higher power.
Football coaches at LSU are more powerful than governors as long as they are winning at an acceptable rate. Les Miles has conquered 80 percent of his opponents in eight years and used the clout to lobby effectively the Louisiana Legislature against guns on campus. Otherwise, Miles has been more focused on his program’s budget than the tenuous budget of the state.
Miles, like his predecessor Nick Saban, is registered in Louisiana as a no party voter. On the basketball court, LSU’s Johnny Jones is a Democrat. Election records do not indicate that Trent Johnson registered to vote in his four years as men’s basketball coach.
On the women’s court, Coach Nikki Caldwell is a Democrat. Her predecessor Van Chancellor is a registered Republican while ex-coach Pokey Chatman is a Democrat. Athletic Director Joe Alleva is a Republican and previous AD Skip Bertman is a Democrat. Track and Field Coach Dennis Shaver is a Republican as was his predecessor, Pat Henry.
LSU Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope lists his party affiliation as “Monarchist” while Associate Athletic Director Verge Ausberry is a Democrat. Vice Chancellor and Associate Athletic Director Herb Vincent and Tiger Athletic Foundation President Ron Richard claim no party affiliation.
Former basketball coach Dale Brown was courted by politicos a decade ago in his native state of North Dakota to run for Congress as a Republican. Brown opted not to seek the office and is also not affiliated with a major party in Louisiana.
LSU Leaders and their Party Affiliation*
Democrats Republicans No Party Monarchist Did Not Register
Mike Martin Joe Alleva Les Miles Kevin Cope Trent Johnson
John Lombardi Paul Mainieri Nick Saban
Jack Hamilton Dennis Shaver William Jenkins
Johnny Jones Van Chancellor Dale Brown
Nikki Caldwell Pat Henry Ron Richard
Pokey Chatman
Skip Bertman
Verge Ausberry
*Source: The Louisiana Office of Secretary of State
LSU has possessed a healthy mix of Democrats and Republicans on campus and reflects the varied preferences of voters. President Obama, who won the national popular vote by nearly five million ballots, received just 41-percent of the votes in Louisiana. But Obama carried the state’s two largest cities, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, by decisive margins.
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Jim Engster is the president of Louisiana Radio Network and Tiger Rag. Reach him at jim@louisianaradionetwork.com.
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TigerGumbo on January 24th, 2013 11:50 am
TigerGumbo on January 24th, 2013 11:50 am
I am surprised at how much I like your column about ” Where LSU’s coaches and administrators side politically.”
------------------------------Tinker Town Tiger: What you do, is who you are for the most part. But I can't help but admire the lucky people who seem to get along with one another no matter what they are doing. I saw a Mother and Daughter simply sitting on a chair in a women's clothes store/department.
Just
having a great chit chat with each other, laughing, relaxed, glad to be
with each other. I thought what a wonderful picture of how nice it
would be for other unlucky families to have the same nice moments also.
But then I guessed that the mother/daughter fun behavior was most
probably earned from a long history of devotion, family members who
truly love each other.
To many time our life is harsh, there's really no protection from other people feeling. The best we can do, is to understand ourselves better and keep up our own faith in yourself. In time we will only remember what we did them. Because what they did us will fade into nothing. But what we do them, will stick like glue.
------------------------------To many time our life is harsh, there's really no protection from other people feeling. The best we can do, is to understand ourselves better and keep up our own faith in yourself. In time we will only remember what we did them. Because what they did us will fade into nothing. But what we do them, will stick like glue.
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Good morning, Tiger Fans. I hope all of you are enjoying your weekend.
The LSU football coaching staff is busy preparing for the final 10-day stretch before National Signing Day. This weekend the staff is entertaining several recruits already committed to LSU, as well as targets Tashawn Bower (DL, 6’5”, 250, Somerville, NJ), who is currently a soft commitment to Auburn, Eddie Jackson (ATH, 6’1”, 180, Fort Lauderdale, FL), and Louisiana’s own Duke Riley (LB, 6'1", 212, John Curtis, No. 12 on our list of Top LA Football Prospects for the Class of 2013). Most of you will recall that LSU offered Riley a grey shirt earlier, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see LSU extend a full scholarship to him if there's room in the numbers before it’s all said and done. Riley is a great prospect and he wants to be a Tiger, and if LSU wasn’t so stacked with talented underclassmen at linebacker it would be a no-brainer to grab him. Remember, LSU signed six linebackers in last year’s class and already has one in this year's class (Melvin Jones). Read more...http://www.dandydon.
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