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- Millionaires and football philosophy - Texarkana Gazette
- Lions, Steelers at opposite of NFL spectrum - Saginaw News
- Is there a ‘right’ to medical care? - Canada Free Press
- Pencader starts clicking in 2nd half - Delaware Online
- Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership - Politico.com
| Millionaires and football philosophy - Texarkana Gazette Posted: 11 Oct 2009 05:40 AM PDT [fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve full-text content] You can learn how the rich really live, how one renowned football coach approached leadership and some new strategies to put to use when searching for a job with three new books that explore these diverse themes. Researcher Thomas Stanley walks ... |
| Lions, Steelers at opposite of NFL spectrum - Saginaw News Posted: 11 Oct 2009 12:57 PM PDT By Tom KowalskiOctober 11, 2009, 1:00AM The Lions have just six winning seasons over the past 25 years.DETROIT -- You could say they're as different as night and day, but that distinction might not be dramatic enough.Day turns into night and night turns into day, but it's hard to imagine the Detroit Lions will ever turn into the Pittsburgh Steelers -- or vice versa. The Lions host the Steelers at Ford Field today and the Steelers are 101/2-point favorites. The Lions are coming off the first 0-16 season in NFL history, while the Steelers are coming off their second Super Bowl championship in four years. The Steelers have had one set of back-to-back losing seasons (1998-99) in the past 25 years while the Lions, in the same time span, have had just six winning seasons. While the Steelers change coaches, coordinators and players, they keep winning. The Lions keep making the same changes and they keep losing. Lions coach Jim Schwartz said the key to the Pittsburgh dynasty has been the consistency of the scheme and overall philosophy, not keeping the same coaches and players. "They've run the same defense since I've been in the NFL. In 1993 they were running the exact same thing that they're running in 2009," Schwartz said. "It's the continuity. Their scouts know exactly what they're looking for in players. They roll through personnel, they just sort of reload every year. They're able to withstand personnel changes because they understand their scheme so well." When coach Bill Cowher retired after the 2006 season, he was replaced by Mike Tomlin, who was a student of the Tampa Two defensive system. When Tomlin arrived in Pittsburgh, though, not only did he keep the Steelers' defense intact, but he kept the coordinator -- the legendary Dick LeBeau. As good as LeBeau has been -- he's acknowledged as the father of the zone blitz scheme -- Schwartz said the Steelers' legacy goes beyond him. "They've even changed coordinators. They've gone from Dick LeBeau to Dom Capers to Tim Lewis and back to Dick LeBeau. The system hasn't changed and that kind of continuity is extremely important in the NFL," Schwartz said. The Lions have had four different defensive coordinators in the past five years and they've all run a different type of defense. And each new coaching staff wants a different style of player to fit that particular system. While players have come and gone for both teams over the last couple of decades, the Steelers have had two head coaches over the past 18 years and the Lions have had seven. And the Lions are in yet another rebuilding process with Schwartz, who is bringing in a new philosophy. "The facts of life in the NFL is that players are going to change, we just know that," Schwartz said. "You're going to have turnover from free agency and from salary cap and from all those different things. The thing they've done a good job of is keeping coaching staff and scheme solid. There hasn't been a lot of turnover there -- there have been two head coaches in all that time -- and one defensive scheme." As a result of their prolonged success, the Steelers always seem to have a swagger. "Success breeds confidence. That comes from the lineage of what came before them," Schwartz said. "They know the scheme has been successful and the players before them have been successful and they've seen teams before them be successful with the philosophy of what they did: run the ball, ball control and an aggressive defense. Success breeds confidence." This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Is there a ‘right’ to medical care? - Canada Free Press Posted: 11 Oct 2009 01:39 PM PDT What is the Source of "Rights"?Is there a 'right' to medical care?By Publius Huldah Sunday, October 11, 2009Do you have a "right" to medical care? Is medical care free? Does it grow on trees? If you don't pay for your own medical care, do you have a "right" to get medical care at other peoples' expense? Do you have a "right" to have other people forced to pay for your medical care? Let us walk through this important question to the clear answer. What are "rights"? Where do rights come from? Are rights unalienable gifts from God? Are rights inherent to our nature as humans? Is the Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution) or the 14th Amendment the source of our rights? Or, are "rights" entitlements to stuff paid for by other people? Let us examine these four views on the nature of "rights". 1. Our Declaration of Independence says Rights are unalienable and come from God:
Because our Declaration of Independence, one of our three founding documents, refers to The Creator God as The Grantor of Rights, let us look to The Bible to see what those rights are. The Bible reveals many rights, such as the right to inherit, earn, and keep property; the right of self-defense; the right to work in one's chosen trade or profession, the right and duty to demand that the "king" adhere to the Covenant of civil government; the right to travel; the right to speak; the right to marry and raise children free from interference; the right to worship God; and so forth. The distinguishing characteristic of all these God-given rights is that each and every one of them may be held and enjoyed at NO expense or loss to any other person. 2. The Philosopher Ayn Rand saw rights as inherent to the nature of man; but thought God had nothing to with it. John Galt said in Atlas Shrugged:
Thus, Ayn Rand also saw "rights" as attributes which may be held and enjoyed at no expense or loss to any other person. 3. Others say our rights come from the Bill of Rights, or from the 14th Amendment. But these are grievous and pernicious errors. To say that the Bill of Rights "confers" our rights; or to discuss "the full scope" of any of the First Ten Amendments, constitutes a restriction on, and reduction of, the rights given by God. To say that the Bill of Rights is the source of our rights, diminishes them from their hallowed status as unalienable gifts from God, and transforms them into revocable privileges which we hold, or not, according to whether they are recognized in a document written by men; and according to the interpretations of judges! Furthermore, Alexander Hamilton opposed adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution. He said they were unnecessary and dangerous because they contain exceptions to powers which are not granted. They thus afford - to those disposed to usurp - a pretext to regulate those rights (The Federalist No. 84, 9 th Para). Well, our Hamilton was a prophet as well as a genius in political philosophy, for it has been demonstrated elsewhere how judges on the U.S. Supreme Court exploited the First Amendment's promise of "free speech" and "free exercise of religion" to actually ban religious speech in the public square! Equally pernicious is this: Judges on that same Court have asserted that the source of our "rights" is the Constitution, as such "rights" are defined and discovered, from time to time, BY THEM! It has been explained elsewhere how judges on that Court evaded the constitutional limitations on their power to hear cases by fabricating individual "constitutional rights". In this manner, a handful of judges "discovered" "constitutional privacy rights" to engage in practices which had been outlawed by the States! When we substitute the Constitution for God as the source of our rights, the entire concept of "rights" becomes perverted. Literally. Furthermore, The Constitution is about the Powers which We the People delegated to the three Branches of the Federal Government. It is NOT about Our Rights, which come from God, are unalienable, & predate the Constitution! We created the Constitution & the federal government! Why would the creator of The Constitution (that's us) grant to our "creature" (the federal courts), the power to determine, "discover" and define OUR Rights? Statists are not concerned with protecting Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness!4. The statists and their dupes assert that rights come from "the government". The statists are not concerned with protecting Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness! They love death: abortion, infanticide!, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and government "death panels" who decide who gets medical care and who does not - who lives and who dies. They hate private property. They hate Liberty (as it has traditionally been defined in western civilization). Productive men exist, not to pursue their own Happiness or to serve God; but to be plundered by civil government. To statists, a "right" is a claim for stuff produced by, or paid for, by somebody else: The "right" to medical care, the "right" to a public school education; the "right" to housing; the "right" to food stamps; etc. But it is a contradiction in terms —it is a perversion—to speak of "rights" to stuff that is produced by, or paid for, by others! To hold that people who produce exist to be plundered by civil government for the ostensible benefit of others is slavery. Just as no one has the right to own another human being; so no one has the right to own the fruits of another man's labors. Folks! We need to face Reality and acknowledge that statists are not people with "good intentions". As stated in Our Declaration of Independence, we must insist that our rights come from God, are unalienable, and pre-date and pre-exist Our Constitution. (0) Reader Feedback | Subscribe
Publius Huldah is a retired lawyer who lives in Tennessee USA. She writes on the U.S. Constitution and posts her papers at publiushuldah.wordpress.com Before getting a law degree, she got a degree in philosophy where she specialized in political philosophy and epistemology (theories of knowledge). Publius can be reached at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Pencader starts clicking in 2nd half - Delaware Online Posted: 11 Oct 2009 02:08 PM PDT GLASGOW -- Pencader Charter took control in the second half to defeat host Hodgson Vo-Tech 42-21 in Blue Hen Flight B football action Saturday. The fifth-ranked Titans (4-1, 2-0) entered the second half trailing the Silver Eagles 21-14, but a change in defensive philosophy enabled Pencader to shut down Hodgson's offense. "It was gang tackling. Our whole halftime speech was about getting more hats on the ball and finding ways to make plays," Titan coach Rahsaan Matthews said. "We also did not want [Jamaal] Jackson to get free, and we did that in the second half." The Titans held the third-ranked Eagles (3-2, 1-1) to only 33 yards of total offense in the second half after allowing 217 in the first. "We just kept on doing what we were supposed to be doing," Pencader linebacker Darrell Miller-Smith said. "We never let the little things get us down. We still had a half at hand, and we just kept on pushing and pushing at it." Pencader's offense also picked it up in the second half with 28 unanswered points behind 305 total yards in the half and 478 for the game. "We were well-rounded today," quarterback Brandon Norman said. "If they focused on stopping the run, we were able to throw the ball, and if they played the pass, we ran." Pencader tied the game at 21-21 when Brandon Norman connected with Emmett Richardson for a 19-yard strike on a third-and-10 with 11 seconds remaining in the third quarter. On the ensuing Eagles possession, Brian Norman picked off Jamie Treml's pass to give the Titans possession at their 40 with 11:05 left in the game. On the next play, Pencader took the lead when Brandon Norman connected with Miller-Smith for a 60-yard touchdown. "We saw there was a mismatch between me and the cornerback, and Brandon made a great pass. I was able to catch it and run it," said Miller-Smith, who also had a 70-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter. Brandon Norman, who later put the game away with touchdown runs of 11 and 48 yards, finished the game with three touchdown passes and 257 yards through the air, and he credits his offensive line for the team's offensive explosion. "I relied on my teammates. I can't do all that on my own," he said. "I can't run or pass without my offensive line. They did a great job blocking for us out there." Jackson led the way for Hodgson with 156 yards rushing on 28 carries and four catches for 109 yards and two scores. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership - Politico.com Posted: 11 Oct 2009 01:47 PM PDT While the energy of the anti-tax and anti-Big Government tea party movement may yet haunt Democrats in 2010, the first order of business appears to be remaking the Republican Party.
Whether it's the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups that have played an organizational role or the state-level activists who are channeling grass-roots anger into action back home, tea party forces are confronting the Republican establishment by backing insurgent conservatives and generating their own candidates — even if it means taking on GOP incumbents.
"We will be a headache for anyone who believes the Constitution of the United States … isn't to be protected," said Dick Armey, chairman of the anti-tax and limited government advocacy group FreedomWorks, which helped plan and promote the tea parties, town hall protests and the September 'Taxpayer March' in Washington. "If you can't take it seriously, we will look for places of other employment for you."
"We're not a partisan organization, and I think many Republicans are disappointed we are not," added Armey, a former GOP congressman.
In Florida, where the national party has signaled its preference for centrist Gov. Charlie Crist in the GOP Senate primary, tea party activists are lining up behind former state House Speaker Marco Rubio in reaction to Crist's public backing for President Barack Obama's stimulus package.
"We were very disappointed with Gov. Charlie Crist when he supported the stimulus, the bailout, and he appeared publicly with President Obama," said Everett Wilkinson, a South Florida-based organizer for Tea Party Patriots. "The opposition comes from Crist's support for the largest spending plan ever and the environmental policies he's pushing on the American people."
Rubio has already made appearances at Florida tea parties, and protesters have been seen waving signs declaring, "Anybody but Charlie Crist." He also has Armey's endorsement, and Armey headlined a Dallas fundraiser for him several weeks ago.
Wilkinson said that the tax status of his Florida-based group limits what it can do to assist Rubio in the August 2010 primary. But he said the organization would launch an aggressive get-out-the-vote operation and issue a report card grading each candidate appearing on the ballot.
Tea party activists are also lining up behind challengers to GOP establishment-backed Senate candidates in Colorado and Connecticut. In California, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina — like Crist, another National Republican Senatorial Committee-favored Senate contender — is the target of tea party animus in her primary against conservative state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.
"My impression is that the support among tea partyers for DeVore is high," said Mark Meckler, a California-based organizer for Tea Party Patriots. "I hear nothing but praise for the guy."
Tea party organizers say their resistance to Republican Party-backed primary candidates has much to do with what they perceive as the GOP's stubborn insistence on embracing candidates who don't abide by a small government, anti-tax conservative philosophy. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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