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@OmarLittle1974 @Gregg_Sarra I assume you mean perhaps of public schools? Iona Preps offensive and defensive lines would maul Massapequa’s. Have you been following them?

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@VarsityAces At what point was it closer than it looked? When it was 28-20 for 2 minutes and then 35-20; 42-20; 49-20; 56-20; 63-20. Paramus was never in it and didn’t have an answer for the physicality of both lines.

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@MikeAndTheMouse And by the way, it was the Big Tens call, not Michigan! The same league and replay officials that OSU and MSU are part of, so by transitive property if they have any issue with Michigan they have an issue with themselves just as much as Michigan is no more culpable than them!

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@_jcfe @TryMinervaAI Amazing!! Congrats.

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@TheRealDanSaedi Huge congrats to the Minerva team! Been great to watch you cooking in the lab while providing valuable service to our company!

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@BiffPoggi Thank you for being you! Go Blue!

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@wiseapeman @SenSanders You are apparently not so wise apeman. Free speech is different than illegal activity and destruction of property, hate speech, inciting violence, etc. What we are engaging in is free speech. Camping on your home lawn, spewing hatred & preventing you from getting home isn’t!!

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@PalmettoHawk @EYakoby Yes but illegal and disruptive encampments and activities, destroying property, and physical intimidation in conjunction with or independent of the speech is not protected and should not be tolerated and that is what is happening at these institutions.

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@JipRipped @jdpickell That’s the main position they needed to improve. With a good QB this year they had a legit CFP chance. They just beat OSU and Alabama in succession with every star player out on offense and defense and those teams best players all still playing.

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@ChrisCuomo Thank you Chris! Appreciate you doing what the rest of the media doesn’t seem to have the moral compass or balls to do.

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An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel

It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.

Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .

That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.

Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.

That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).

In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.

On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.

In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.

Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.

Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.

Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.

It's up to you to find out more.

Yours sincerely,

Denis MacEoin

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@zinemagilea @sentdefender Read Paul’s general posts. He’s clearly a mentally unstable, anti-semitic, anti-alotofthings zealot; who follows the outcasts of society & conspiracy theorists; was likely abused in some way by his parent; has a nefarious work history; & can’t assimilate into normal society!

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@AGHamilton29 The same strain of putrid idiots who are causing disruption or cancellation of college graduations all over the country but she’s upset she won’t get to have one now! The entitlement and cluelessness of this group of misfits is incredible.

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@SpiritAirlines I then took things out of it but you said we have to charge you for a “carry on” as you already have a book bag. So that didn’t help me. So you charged me $175 to check one 40lb bag!!!! In what universe do you think that is remotely ok?? It’s usurious and predatory. Shameful

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@SpiritAirlines Spirit, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. I paid $50 to check a bag online. When I got to the airport the bag was 50lbs (which every other airline used for their weight limit) and you only allow 40lbs. So you proceeded to charge me $125 for being 10lbs over.

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@KSNicholsAuthor @SpottedBabies Your PTSD about your own coaches and program have apparently given you convenient amnesia about Woody Hayes, Jim Tressel and Urban Meyers and their individual and program issues. But hey enjoy living in that glass house of yours.

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@SNY_Mets Meh-tsy

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@Mets @StevenACohen2 Happy Birthday SAC!

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@MorningBrew This is all starting to make sense now. He’s is clearly financing a new movie where he stars as the notorious Clown Faced Spear Throwing Surfer Villain trying to take over the world. I like his dedication to training for the role.