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I'm going to regret getting involved in this I know, but what does the economy have anything to do with this issue at hand? I absolutely hate how the 2 party system divides this country. Both parties have their strengths and weaknesses, but so many people are adamant their party is 100% right on all issues and the other is 100% wrong. One party could come up with the cure to cancer and the other would find a reason to object because they weren't the ones to come up with the idea (obviously I know a party wouldn't come up with a cure to cancer). This makes the country weaker, not stronger. As a moderate, I just wish candidates would run without party labels and the people would pick the candidates solely based off the issues, not because they belong to a political party their parents supported.

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There's way too much to follow here, but let me add a few things: 1) I have gay friends and relatives, including an uncle and cousin. I love them the same. 2) I invite the millennials/liberals (or however they are defined) to tell me who should have "rights" if their own mother, wife, young daughter or young niece has the crap scared out of them by having a big burly man walk into the bathroom with them? Your stance that this "man" should be allowed in there because they are acting on their own "sexual preference" would change in a heartbeat. 3) See #2. The problem with the entire argument is that today's young liberals want whatever THEY feel is right and just to be protected. And everything else is an act of discrimination against somebody. Where do you think the rhetoric that, "if you don't like Obama, you must be a racist" began? 4) When someone won't service you in a store because of their religious beliefs, wouldn't it be easy to just go to another store down the street?. That's what I do when I don't like how a store is treating me. But when liberal lawyers, left wing organizations and the media offer to exploit your case for you, everything changes. They even strategically choose to challenge those cases in areas where there are liberal judges that would be sympathetic to them. Why would they go to such effort? Because....it has nothing to do with being denied service at that store. That store merely serves as their latest vehicle to force their own social beliefs on the rest of us. 5) Common sense laws to protect public safety are a necessity. No .1% group of people in this country should be permitted to violate or change those laws at everyone else's expense, especially when it comes to trying to claim that you are some gender other than the gender that you actually are. I recently got my driver's license renewed. Should I have had a right to make them put "F" on there? Should I report it to the media, and hire an attorney? It's getting ridiculous, folks.

What I said at the beginning of all this was true. At the end of the spring semester neither Antino or Noah were eligible to be grad transfers. Noah chose the prudent path and decided to sit out a year and concentrate on his studies at a reasonable pace. Antino on the other hand is trying to cram an entire years worth of classes into 2 summer sessions so he can get his degree. I wish him luck. If you look closely you will see that the only announcement about Antino transferring to New Mexico was from him. The school can't make any official announcement until he graduates.

I know you might find this hard to believe, I 100% agree with you. I hate the two party system that boils the things down to a divisive issue, instead of a conversation. I'm personally an advocate in the Democratic party, for it to open it's umbrella and accepting people who don't agree with us 100% on every issue. You wouldn't believe the blowback I got. I know I come across as a Pure-Democratic-Live-And-Die, I'm really not. I despise both parties, and I have candidates I like in both, however they usually get torpedoed by a system that isn't set up for debate and discussion of ideas. Unfortunately it's all about the $$$$. Parties make it easier to run, which in turn makes it easier for those who have $$$ to have access to the parties.

Of course I don't. But the research conducted on the matter, indicates that anti-LGBTQ legislation in any form...anti-marriage laws, allowed to refuse service laws, and bathroom laws (I'll come back to this one in a moment) are overwhelmingly not liked or supported by generation. Newsflash; millennials are more progressive, even the conservative ones, than your generation. It's just a fact. I am not practicing a brand of fundamentalism, sorry. You're allowed to excercise whatever ideals you want, I don't care. But I will challenge you on them, I will criticize you on them, and I will call BS on them. Where I have a problem is when municipalities pass laws that allow discrimination of ANY kind. Fortunately we have laws that protect based upon Race and Religions, but we don't based upon sexual preference. Of course, I AGREE with you that we shouldn't have to pass laws to protect that, it should just be a given. Who cares who you sleep with at night, or who you're married to? (This is a rather Libertarian idea BTW, not progressive). You get these states that then pass laws that say it is okay to single out someone, for something that's none of their business, because they have a "sincerely held religious belief" not to serve them. That's wrong. That's anti everything this country should stand for. It's in the same ilk of having a "sincerely held religious belief" of not serving black people in a restaurant. And I will call it out, every single time. Again this idea that people shouldn't be discriminated against for arbitrary reasons, is a Libertarian idea, not a progressive one. The progressive idea is that you must use the law to protect that right. The ones passing the laws, aren't the progressives in this case...it's the Republican legislatures.

Let me preface this by saying I am a Big Dog fan and appreciate all he did for the Zips. That being said, he's not an NBA player. The pro game has moved away from traditional post up big men and given his "physical stature" he can't get up and down the floor as required by the NBA game. His ability to get back down the floor on defense and his inability to defend the pick and roll were exposed repeatedly. He certainly has some offensive skills, but they are not enough to make up for his other shortcomings in the context of NBA play.

Knew I shouldn't have clicked in this thread.

Saw it too. What a beauty!!!

I really think this was a great commit and we will have to work to keep him. I hope he is watching practices and really starts to feel a strong Zips connection, early.