The Council Has Spoken: January 31, 2014
Council Winners
- *First place with 5 1/3 votes!Joshuapundit-Obama’s Loving Requiem For A Prominent Communist – And Mine
- Second place with 2 2/3 votes –The Noisy Room – The New Progressive McCarthyism
- Third place with 2 votes –The Razor – China’s Rise No Longer Peaceful
- Fourth place t with 1 vote –The Right Planet – The Inequality of Equality
- Fourth place t with 1 vote –Ask Marion – The Power and Ruling Elite
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Independent Sentinel – What Obama Won’t Dare Talk About in His State of the Union Speech
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Simply Jews – Now, what will State Department say about that?
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Bookworm Room – Dachau: The bitter fruit of a terrible evil, in color
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Nice Deb – Comments on proposed IRS rule targeting the Tea Party Overwhelmingly negative
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Iran’s Next Supreme Leader
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Liberty’s Spirit – How frightening is this Hillary 2016 reality?
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 3 1/3 votes! –Kevin Williamson/NRO – Great Caesar’s Ghost submitted by Joshuapundit
- Second place with 2 2/3 votes
Sultan Knish–It didn’t always suck to be a woman in Afghanistan submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD - Fourth place t with 1 vote -The Passing Parade – The Canard Conspiracy, only vaguely by Robert Ludlum…or someone like him, only still living submitted by Simply Jews
- Fourth place with 1 vote-Watchdog Wire – Citizen Files Ethics Complaint Against Wendy Davis submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Fourth place t with 1 votes --Dennis Prager/National Review-What Bothers You Most?submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote -Maggie’s Notebook –Malik Obama, Obama’s Brother Photo’d with Hamas Scarf & Slogan: ‘Jerusalem is ours – WE ARE COMING! submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote -Crystal Wright/Washingtonian Times -Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie – Oh, how the mighty may fallsubmitted by Ask Marion
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote -MoreRight.Net –Splitting Apart the United States submitted by The Razor
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote - JustOneMinute – They Lost Me With ‘Hello’ submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote --Allen West – Tonight: The State of the Dictator — uh, Union submitted by VA Right!
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote - –Gary Schmitt/The Weekly Standard – Privacy or Security: a False Choice submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote --Rick Moran/PJ Media -Media Not Very Curious about D’Souza Indictment submitted by Nice Deb
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Ymarsakar:
http://www.watcherofweasels.org/forum-did-you-watch-the-superbowl-this-weekend-why-or-why-not/
In reply to what you wrote here for the forum question on the SB, why do you not advocate individual player choice in the amount of armor up or down that a player can equip?
Many of the impact injuries are the result of mass and gravity, due to hard armor, equipment weight, and vector trajectories of the tackle.
Why is it necessary to pass legislation nanny laws to protect players when they can protect themselves by shedding their armor?
6 February 2014, 10:12 amScott Kirwin:
I hope I haven’t called for legislation in anything that I’ve written about the sport, because I don’t think either that or changing the rules (e.g. banning certain hits, shortening kick offs) will make the sport any safer. I agree that shedding the armor akin to the way Australian rugby is played would probably make the sport safer than wrapping the players in bubblewrap. It’s just that from my understanding of the medical science, even small repetitive hits can lead to brain damage down the road. It would be interesting to see if European and Aussie rugby players suffer from the same injuries that American football players do. Ditto the Canadian.
In the meantime however I simply can’t stomach the sport anymore. It’s really unfortunate. I wasted money – $200 on DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket this year. Sharing in the enjoyment of the sport gave me a connection to others that I no longer have. As I’ve stated, I do NOT want to see the sport banned – hell, I support the legalization of heroin and more people die from that than football. But I can no longer enjoy or participate in the sport in any way.
6 February 2014, 10:55 amYmarsakar:
It’s just that from my understanding of the medical science, even small repetitive hits can lead to brain damage down the road.
It takes a certain amount of time for the brain tissues to reconstruct themselves, so further brain bruising will accumulate damage over time if there is insufficient healing time. It’s very similar to boxer dizziness that comes from repeated knockouts. Even light concussions are often ignored in favor of winning or more practice. Although I believe the Japanese have more problems with that, given their spirit of toughness and social face.
I haven’t read any proposals for legislation on your part, but your answer to the forum question sounded like you had done something horrible on this matter. Horrible for me, would be to fight for individual liberty yet also default to legislative solutions.
It would be interesting to see if European and Aussie rugby players suffer from the same injuries that American football players do.
From what I have heard, because the risk to people increase, people do the smart thing and avoid hard on collisions. For the tackler, they can absorb the “shock” via their armor, whereas the person being tackled usually can’t avoid it, especially if he has to keep the ball and can’t block the impact of his head on the ground with his hands. The initial impact of armor on armor, whip lashes the head for the target, but not the tackler since the tackler is in the “charge position”. It just compresses his head down in. Then when the target hits the ground, another whiplash and concussive impact hits the brain, that penetrates through the armor since impact/concussion/blunt force can go through hard armor. In Rugby or original American football, people did not have this armor, so they would take almost as much damage tackling someone as the tackled. Thus they avoided numerous repeated hits, which will probably reduce the chance for injury as well in both the short and long term.
This kind of pattern is similar to the housing bubble and other economic markets, where the increase in risk makes people act smarter because the ones that act dumb tend to be terminal and they cease affecting the markets soon enough. Whereas in the housing bubble, everyone was motivated to act stupid and reckless, thereby resulting in a crash.
Other individuals from Bookworm Room, which I came from through the Council links, also share your impression of modern day American football.
12 February 2014, 7:54 am