Sunday, October 27, 2013

We are all going to die soon enough anyway, right?


Tinker:

Choosing the wrong side to fight for is the downfall of a lot of people who otherwise would turn out to be very good company.

People like Charles Krauthammer and George Will, can really win over your respect just because of who they are as men who work passionately to try and do a good job giving life itself their best shot.

Well like I once said to myself, sometimes life's best personality's are fighting for the wrong side. Wasting their publications of their beliefs fighting against the wrong people.

How can anyone with rational judgment not know that America is drowning in corruption growing into a self devouring monster. Like all the rest of the mindless creations studded about over and over again throughout humankind war history.

The American government is eating the American citizens up at a alarming rate. Addiction is controlling the United States population only so much. Because guys like me are still resisting the giveaways that the Washington DC political character are using to control the American people with.

The United States politics is killing the American peoples government. So forget about following anyone else favorite political leader that someone else likes, and think for yourselves. Get together to vote the bad people out of Washington DC, gang of corruption.

You know who they are, so go vote until the change is final and the American people control their own destiny again, just like the forefathers intended. A government by the people.

Our argument is not so much with Charles Krauthammer and George Will, because they are not thrilled over Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz. But rather our focus should be to elect the men and women that are truly trying to be nice people in a political way with their fellow citizens. Getting our politics right between us the people of the United States. If our political leaders are stacking the cards and playing the American people for everyday chumps. Making one corrupt deal after another, then of course they are corrupting the three branches of our American government.

Lets get the better people among you and then chose the trusted personality and keep supporting them until the United States Government is finally clean of the past corruption.
We have the entire country of people to choose from. Can't we do better than what mistakes we have already made?

Let's make everything better not worse, bring our fighting soldiers home. And then get our politics right before we ever go fight a war against another nation. Lets fight on the right side of a government for and by the people, and not some narcissistic power crazy politicians.

And please don't treat people who work in Television like celebrity of glamor, when in reality they are simply reading a scrip of something a writer wrote telling a news story. How our American population became influenced and addicted to television is sociability horrifying. Please stop it, and think for yourself.

We are all going to die soon enough anyway, so lets get our politics right?
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“I’m in the individual market and I got the letter, the same letter everyone’s talking about…”
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Tense: Megyn Kelly Takes on Obamacare Architect Over Law’s Ongoing Issues, Obama’s Broken Promises

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On Friday’s episode of “The Kelly File,” Megyn Kelly battled Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects of Obamacare, over the horrific rollout of the health care law. One of the most contentious topics of debate was whether Obama’s many assurances were “intentionally misleading or grossly mistaken.”
Megyn Kelly Takes on Obamacare Architect Over Laws Ongoing Issues, Obamas Broken Promises (Fox News)
When Emanuel argued that it’s not Obamacare’s fault that people’s insurance companies are canceling their current health care plans, Kelly reminded him that the problem was “foreseeable” and people warned about the effect’s Obamacare would have on the individual insurance market.

Kelly also reminded Emanuel that she has had people on her show that say they liked their health care plan, but were forced onto a new plan thanks to Obamacare.

Emanuel countered by saying the plans with “minimum floor” coverage are better now and millions of uninsured people will now be covered under Obamacare.

When Kelly raised the potential problems facing Obamacare, like young people not signing up and the “huge swelling of the Medicaid rolls,” Emanuel deflected and called the numbers “totally irrelevant.”

“You have no idea whether you’re on track or not,” he hollered.

“Kathleen Sebelius won’t tell me!” Kelly replied.

Watch the segment via Fox News below:
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Tinker:

Great day in the morning the dark days has returned to Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge La. Because the LSU defense has not looked this bad since the time before Dick Saban. Furman just out played the 2013 LSU tiger for a great part of the first half of the football game against LSU Saturday night.

Words escape me when I try and say just how different the LSU defense looks. I want to say pitiful, but I don't want to further hurt the obvious decline in the ability of this LSU football team.

Alabama, Texas A&M, or any high quality college football team is going to embarrasses this sad reflection of what was once a very proud LSU tiger football program.

Not anymore, because anything can happen to this 2013 LSU football team now, no leadership from a coaching staff with no discipline themselves. And just where is all those great recruited football player everyone was talking about? I don't see them.
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http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=332990099
Final

Furman 16

(3-5, 2-2 Southern)

(13) LSU 48

(7-2, 3-2 SEC)
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No. 13 LSU pulls away from Furman with big second half

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Zach Mettenberger 63-yd TD Pass
Zach Mettenberger pass complete to Odell Beckham for 63 yards for a TOUCHDOWN.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Unhappy as Les Miles was with two turnovers in the first half which helped an overmatched foe keep it close through halftime, the coach could only criticize his team so much.
Odell Beckham Jr., Terrence Magee and Jeremy Hill still had their share of long, explosive scoring plays, LSU's offense piled up nearly 700 yards and the 13th-ranked Tigers walked out of Death Valley with a comfortable 48-16 romp over Furman on Saturday night.

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"We cannot continue to play like we played in the first half. I think our team understood and I think the coaches made the point that, basically, `Let's focus and let's go play," Miles said. "Eventually we caught speed and played like we're supposed to."

Beckham caught six passes for 204 yards and two scores, Magee added two second-half touchdowns, including one from 39 yards out, and Hill highlighted a 143-yard night with a 55-yard scoring run for LSU (7-2), which held a tenuous 20-16 lead at halftime before outscoring the Paladins (3-5) 28-0 in the second half.

Hill said LSU's mood in the locker room at halftime "wasn't anything serious or panicking. We already knew what we were capable of. ... You can see in the second half, if we don't turn the ball over, what we're capable of doing."

Hill finished with an average of 10.2 yards on 14 carries. Beckham's TDs went for 63 and 37 yards, he also had a 53-yard catch and run to set up Hill's 4-yard score in the first half. Magee finished with 108 yards on only seven carries, a whopping average of 15.4 yards per carry.

"In the second half, physically, they were just able to take over the game with their offense," Furman coach Bruce Fowler said. "We just had trouble stopping the run and when you mix in the pass that is an offense that is hard to stop. We just kind of got run down."

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Team Stat Comparison

FURLSU
1st Downs13 26
Total Yards198672
Passing 106340
Rushing92332
Penalties3-187-75
3rd Down Conversions4-165-7
4th Down Conversions1-10-0
Turnovers13
Possession35:1824:42

Passing Leaders


FurmanC/ATTYDSAVGTDINT
Hannon 16/281043.701
LSUC/ATTYDSAVGTDINT
Mettenberger16/2432813.732

Rushing Leaders

FurmanCARYDSAVGTDLG
McCloud16794.9018
Anderson9151.70 5

LSUCARYDSAVGTDLG
Hill 1414310.2255
Magee 710815.4239

Receiving Leaders


Furman RECYDSAVGTDLG
Culbreath 4246.009
Scott 22311.5016
LSURECYDSAVGTDLG
Beckham620434.0263
Landry58717.40 27

Scoring Summary

FIRST QUARTERFURLSU
TD10:52Reggie Thomas 74 Yd Interception Return (Ray Early Kick)
Watch Highlight 		 70
TD09:47Jeremy Hill 55 Yd Run (Colby Delahoussaye Kick)
Watch Highlight 		 77
FG03:57Ray Early 46 Yd
Watch Highlight 		 107
TD02:57Jeremy Hill 4 Yd Run (Pat Failed)
Watch Highlight 		 1013
SECOND QUARTER FURLSU
TD13:34Odell Beckham 37 Yd Pass From Zach Mettenberger (Colby Delahoussaye Kick)
Watch Highlight 		 1020
FG06:48Ray Early 31 Yd
Watch Highlight 		 1320
FG00:00Ray Early 23 Yd
Watch Highlight 		 1620
THIRD QUARTER FURLSU
TD11:12Terrence Magee 1 Yd Run (James Hairston Kick)
Watch Highlight 		 1627
TD01:56Melvin Jones 7 Yd Pass From Zach Mettenberger (James Hairston Kick)
Watch Highlight 		 1634
FOURTH QUARTER FURLSU
TD14:15Terrence Magee 39 Yd Run (James Hairston Kick)
Watch Highlight 		 1641
TD09:10Odell Beckham 63 Yd Pass From Zach Mettenberger (James Hairston Kick)
Watch Highlight 		 1648
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Alleva, LSU Board of Supervisors agree on need to raise football ticket prices, Tradition Fund

10/26/2013 10:44:41 AM

By CODY WORSHAM
Tiger Rag Editor

The vote may have been delayed, but its outcome is all but inevitable.

The LSU Board of Supervisors did not vote Friday on a measure to make increases to football ticket prices and the Tradition Fund, as was originally planned. That vote was tabled until December on Thursday.
The board, did, however, express support for athletic director Joe Alleva’s plans.

"There’s no question in my mind ticket prices have to go up and tradition fund increases have to go up,” said board member J. Stephen Perry. "The process of getting there is something that’s going to take time to straighten out.”

Every board member who spoke offered support for the plan, which seeks to raise football season ticket prices by 6 percent as well implement an increase to the Tradition Fund for reserved parking on campus for both cars and RVs. The parking plan would allow nearly half (49 percent) of current parking prices remain at their current level.

Alleva noted that the department is currently operating $2 million in the red, ushering in a need for increased revenues after seeing expenses increase by $20 million over the last four years. Those increased expenses come from salary expenses, scholarships, and payments to the university, among other costs, and Alleva expects a $3 million annual increase in expenses moving forward.

"I’ve been remiss by not doing this, but for four years, we haven’t come to the board for any price increases,” Alleva said. "In retrospect, I probably should have done it every year just to do it. Things have changed so much in athletics that we have to have the flexibility to make changes on quick notice.”

In addition to the across-the-board increases, Alleva also expressed a desire to create "more break points in prices" throughout Tiger Stadium in order to more flexibly adjust ticket values on a seat-to-seat and game-to-game basis. Asked if there could be an across-the-board increase in ticket prices of 10 percent, Alleva responded, "Never say never, but I don't see that happening."

Alleva cited increased expenses to the athletics department – like the construction of and the operating of new and planned facilities – as the most important reason to seek the increase in revenues.

"In our business, the facilities arms race is constant,” he said. "That’s a constant concern. We’re going to have to invest some money in our football ops building. Our football ops building is 10 years old. We’re going to have to invest some money to keep up. We need to keep up with the Joneses. Seventeen and eighteen year old kids are highly influenced by facilities.”

One new facility LSU has in the works is an athletics nutrition center.

"Part of that arms race is a nutrition center,” Alleva said. "Many schools in the SEC have built nutrition centers. We have plans to build a nutrition center. We have to find the right place to build it and make sure it’s done properly. We have an academic center for our student-athletes academic needs. I think a nutrition center for their nutritional needs is something that will help us not only in their performance, but for the rest of their lives”

Alleva also wants to construct new facilities for gymnastics and tennis, which can only be done by increasing revenues from LSU's cash cow, football.

"Funds are available to build those facilities. We have to make sure funds are available to operate those facilities.

"Increases in ticket prices and parking and tradition funds all go to those programs. Football is what carries the day.”

There is also a need to increase parking -- Alleva cited a 4,000-space decrease by next season, despite an 8,000-seat increase in Tiger Stadium -- and revamp the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

"The PMAC is an old building,” Alleva said. "We just spent $25 million on that building and you wouldn’t even see it. The HVAC units in there are all the original units that were in the building.”

While Alleva brought up many new projects requiring revenue increases, he also noted that expenses have gone up for the athletic department. One such area that particularly struck a chord with the board was when Alleva noted LSU’s annual 10 percent tuition hikes have increased what the athletic department pays in scholarships, particularly those for out of state athletes.

"I’m in a business,” Alleva said. "I can’t raise ticket prices 10 percent every year. I’d be out of business. Nobody would come. Or if I did, you’d fire me. That’s fine. I’m not going to do that. But it would be nice to go up 10 percent on one section of the stadium and maybe go down 10 percent on another section of the stadium.”

Flexibility in ticket pricing wasn’t Alleva’s only concern, though he did propose lowering ticket prices for men's basketball. He also expressed the desire for more flexibility to make changes to prices without requiring board approval, something only two other schools in the SEC require. The rest of the universities need only approval from the president, and Alleva would like, similarly, less red tape to cut through.
"It’s not just ticket prices,” he said. "It’s parking and tradition fund also. There’s 150 items. If I want to raise parking prices by 10 bucks somewhere, I have to come to you for $10 parking. If I want to change the gymnastics ticket prices, I’ve got to come to you. I just think that’s burdensome.”

Athletics chairman Blake Chatelain agreed, and said the board is trying to strike a philosophical balance between remaining involved and giving the athletic department freedom to do as it deems necessary in a timely fashion.

"The policy is how much do we need to be involved,” Chatelain said. "We need to properly govern and look at this information on a regular basis.”

The general consensus among the board, however, was Alleva’s successes have earned him more freedom, but that an increase in freedom would also create more responsibility.

"I believe everybody on the board is for free enterprise and free markets,” said board member Rolfe McCollister. "Fans have a choice. If you lose, Joe, they have a right not to buy tickets. In the Curley Hallman days, we lost half our season tickets. Nobody had a mandate to buy those tickets. They dropped them on us and said, ‘Good luck LSU.’

"The demand is there. This is free enterprise in America. You’ve got a great product. People are buying the product. This is a ticket. Not a tuition, not somebody’s career, or somebody’s future. It’s about entertainment. We need to keep that in perspective.

"You have to run your business. You have no state funds. You are on your own. You’ve done well with it. You’ve done well for the University and shared [profits]. I particularly want to stay out of your business as long as keep producing the product.

"If not, we can get in your business, and we can fire you. That’s the way it works for you, the president, and everybody else. So good luck.”

LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva on…

THE SEC NETWORK

"It has great potential, but the word here is ‘potential.’ ESPN is out selling it now. Distribution is the key. If we can get distribution as wide as we think we can, it has potential to make a lot of money.”

THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF

"The new structure for playoff will generate some money. The question is how many teams can we get into a playoff. We now have 14 teams in our conference as opposed to 12. So when we split the money 14 ways, the pie has got to be a lot bigger just to break even. The pie didn’t grow as much as the 14 splits.”

HIS MOST IMPORTANT JOB

"My biggest job here it to protect the integrity of this institution. That’s something I worry about all the time.”

TICKET PRICES

"There are only three schools in the SEC that have to go to their board for ticket price increases. All the rest of them can be approved by the president. Our ticket prices are relatively middle of the pack. It’s hard to compare apples to apples with ticket prices. Florida requires a very large donation for the right to buy the tickets. But the actual ticket prices are relatively low. At Alabama the ticket prices are almost exactly the same as ours.”

SEC NETWORK AND TELEVISED FOOTBALL GAMES 

"CBS has first pick of games. Then you have ESPN. Then you have ESPN2. Then you have ESPNU. Then you have an SEC channel. That’s the pecking order of picks. CBS has the first pick. Their time slot is 2:30 p.m. our time. So if they pick us, we have to play at 2:30. Now, when it comes to ESPN we have more control – they know we like to play at night. With CBS, we have none.”

HOW HE WOULD SPEND EXTRA PROFITS

"My number one concern would be building up the reserves, because we’re a business. That’s what we are. For a business like ours to have the reserves we do is insane. Georgia has over $80 million in reserves in their athletic department. If the roof blew off the PMAC, or all the HVAC system failed – and sooner or later it will – we’ve got to take care of that. If we have to terminate a contract, we need reserves. That would be number one. Number two, I would make sure we always have the proper staff to take care of our student athletes. Third, I would pay down our debt. I don’t like debt personally.”



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