Arab Emirates Tournament; Lakers on Life Support

LeBron James is showing his age. Like an old tree in a forest slowly rotting from the inside because it has grown too tall for its capillaries to elevate water to the top, he is developing fumblelitis. It is hard for a coach to tell the greatest total points shooter in NBA history that he should not start except in the third quarter when the Lakers usually are half asleep after halftime snacks and are outscored 150 to 2. Younger, quicker players look to steal the ball from James’ hands. Last night he and Austin Reeves gave up critical steals  sealing the Laker’s loss.

The Lakers were close all the way yet waited to long to get more scoring from Knecht with 3s.  The defense was good enough. The Lakers need more and consistent points production from a third star if LeBron’s drop in scoring and increase in turnovers is a thing that continues.

If Dalton Knecht’s scoring threes increases and DeAngelo Russell can score 20 off the bench consistently the Lakers may need just one quality point guard like Trey Young to be the best they can be even this year.

Anthony Davis and Christian Koloko would be formidable in the front court, if Koloko can play full games this year after not playing last year because of blood clots. I was bitten in the leg once by a little terrier and that formed a gate in the vein to break and a permanent blood clot to form. Makes life as interesting as being bitten on the wrist drawing blood by a Rottweiler. The Rott bite did no perm damage while the tiny terrier did. Small things can have large consequences. Blood clots are meaningful. I have no idea if Koloko can recover to full health needed for playing 38 minutes

The Lakers should trade five players for a good point guard and fill the empty seats with South Bay Lakers

The Lakers need to show Donald Trump that it is possible for winners to arise from Los Angeles.

The Lakers Future Line-up and Threes?

The Lakers tend to enhance their defense to cling to leads and take out good shooters such as they have in the back court. Meanwhile the opposition sinks 3s and goes on to win. When they trail they also believe they can win with defense as if they were the Baltimore Ravens in their championship year.

Playing in the 4th quarter shoot 2s while the other team shoots 3s is like being 2 dimensional in a 3 dimensional game.

The future Koloko, Davis, Russell, Reeves, Knecht starting line up is amazing to consider. That might be a very good team. Jackson Hayes can back up Davis and Kololo to good effect.

The Lakers need three good centers, four good guards and three good forwards... Fundamentals for a variety of offensive schemes.

The Lakers can run a double post three guard offense with Davis as a forward-center because James or Knecht can play guard-forward as good shooting 6 foot eight or nine players. Maybe that's why the ten rebounds and assists per game average for one of the best shooters in the game was a wing position.

Will Donald Trump Win the 20 Million Convicted Felons of the USA Vote in November 2024?

 When Donald Trump, former President of the United States and the presumed Republican nominee for President in the 2024 presidential race was convicted of thirty four felony counts that was a small step toward a one-party state and a giant advance to banana republic politics. Democracy seems to have died yesterday in New York City, or at least to confirm the corrupted, fallen state of U.S. political leadership. At the national political level such legal victories can be Pyrrhic victories.

On the face of it one would think that Trump will become a two-time loser running for President due to the loss of support from older Americans voting for Trump because they want a law and order candidate wiling to reinforce their personal security. A convicted felon usually isn’t considered to be in that category.

Yet voting restoration of those convicted of felony crimes is a just movement that helps prevent a class segregated social, economic and political order from continuing, and Donald Trump-felon convict at large who may be rehabilitated with felon conversion therapy to become a productive, law-abiding citizen, just could be the symbol of rehabilitation able to draw in millions of convicted felon voters to the Republican Party- and the United States has tens of millions of former convicted felons within it (more than 20 million I recall).

So as counterintuitive as it may appear, the conviction of Donald Trump could be like the watershed political moment when Richard Nixon realized that he could capture the evangelical vote to provide a winning edge in the 1968 Presidential race (in addition to Democrat students subject to the draft were tired of the Democrat Party led Vietnam War). In fact there may be as many convicted felon potential voters in America as there are evangelical voters- a forgiving group- that may be drawn to vote for the next Felon-in-Chief.

Donald Trump might be able to catalyze and energize a new block of voters-convicted felons and lead national prison reform. Mass incarceration and prison reform haven’t drawn serious enough attention from the well-to-do in government. The Angola Prison is a kind of American Mamartine, and prisons turn out to be training facilities for repeat offenders as one would think they logically should be. Maybe Mr. Trump will learn how to hot-wire cars, crack safes and write computer viruses when not pumping iron up the river.

Donald Trump is the Richard Nixon punching bag that Democrats never had the chance to beat up enough to be satisfied. The Donald is also a peace candidate paradoxically who would end the Ukraine War and therefore unpopular with the Hollywood-military-industrial complex that manufacturers weapons and global warming gasses for breakfast.

Former President Trump is a free enterprise Eugene McCarthy politician for peace convicted of having a convicted perjuring lawyer pay for suppression of unpopular news stories during the 2016 Presidential race and falsely claim the payments were campaign expenses (though they actually were). If Mr. Trump was not in a Presidential election campaign it isn’t likely that he would have paid to suppress the allegations that he had engaged in sex with a porn star. Maybe the Democrat Governor of New York Kathy Sokel will pardon the Republican Presidential candidate and let the nation swiftly step out of the trap it seem to be determined to put its feet into though its unlikely, since Democrats hate Donald Trump for defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016

The Democrat Party have moved the nation further toward its goal of being a one-party political system where wealth is concentrated and political incompetents being political nominees are the rule rater than the exception. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was easily and obviously the best available choice for Republicans who should yet choose him to be their nominee at the Republican convention, yet are more likely to stay with Donald Trump even though he may receive a sentence of 34 minutes or even 34 months in Sing Sing where he can conduct his campaign from and serve as President from if he gets the harsh sentence of 34 months confirming unequal treatment of the law for rich and poor in the U.S.A.

Republicans needed to run a lawyer for President able to battle and win in legal arenas where partisan politics throws every sort of bull-crap imaginable in order to disqualify rival party candidates from office. Like the dishonesty of the reasoning of the historical evolution of the Ukraine War that is the favorite pastime of the current Democrat Party lawyer-President, Democrats have undermined trust in the fairness of legal justice in the the U.S.A. for the public that already had little respect for the politicians that are elected by public. The Biden administration has at least liberalized marijuana laws to help let a dopey political mileau accept the way things are in the politics of Sodom and Gomorrah supervised by an elite three stooges beekeeper shadow government.

New York would sentence a poor citizen convicted of 34 felony counts to thirty four years or more in jail yet the billionaire Presidential candidate may not serve much more than 34 minutes. Regardless of the lunatic developments of specious and possibly a few true legal proceedings against the former President the American public are the losers in reducing the political system to a banana republic sort of shit-hole political system with a convicted felon vs an octogenarian war monger for abortion, homosexual marriage, decriminalized marijuana, open borders and apparently deceived the electorate about getting real global warming gas reduction legislation or a tax increase on the rich passed when his party had both houses of congress in control.

When Mrs Trump drives a gray Chevy Camaro with a stick shift and 454 hemi to park outside the gate of Sing Sing waiting on the hood of the car for the release of her husband from 34 minutes of hard time breaking rocks insides so they can drive off into the night across America the former President should have already withdrawn from the 2024 Presidential race and thrown his support to Gov Ron DeSantis who probably would have a better chance of defeating the perennial ego candidate incumbent Joe Biden. DeSantis might pardon Trump from future convictions at the federal level that could occur if Mr. Biden is re-elected to his Golden Pond waging interminable war on Russia and Donald Trump from the White House. Republicans seem to be trying to throw in the towel on winning the battle for the White House this year by in effect running a convicted felon to represent the scofflaw party.

It will be challenging for Republicans to be a law and order party if they run a convicted felon for President even though he would do a better job than Joe Biden- that is a very low bar to cross. Republicans shouldn’t be a war monger party too advancing the prospects for global thermonuclear war by letting Joe Biden take another term. Under the influence of the administration’s Rasputin, Joe Biden has ‘adapted and adjusted’ this policy to allow Ukraine to use U.S. supplied weapons including missiles to attack Russia. Joe Biden’s Rasputin (Sect. Blinken) may believe there is sufficient legal distinction between the U.S. attacking Russia itself and Ukraine using U.S. weapons and training to attack inside Russia to keep Russia from retaliating in some way directly on the United States.

The late Sen Edward Kennedy transformed the Democrat Party into a party led by combat lawyers. Like the evolution from peace time to war time military fighter aircraft regulations that allow more radical turns in time of war, Democrat lawyer politicians have jettisoned any regulatory norm for democracy and politics in order to press for present political victories regardless of the consequences to the nation in the future. Republicans never adjusted to the Combat lawyer approach to legislation or Executive action. They did not advance the nuclear option to win votes in Congress. They can count on the fact that some Americans just won’t vote for a convicted felon to lead the nation; even if the conviction was made in a blue state where Hillary Clinton lives-loser of the 2016 Presidential race and Bill Clinton live- a founding father of the theft of Ukraine from Russia. Combat lawyers have an amoral evolutionist ethic and value winning at any price. The west is militarily stronger than Russia in their opinion and therefore can continue to defend the post Cold War redistribution of Russian land to Ukraine as the new normal with the majority of voters being ignorant, like themselves, of world history except as it is useful for increasing their wealth and power. In the modern world that is a Mister McGoo worldview.

One need play by the rules, even when the rules suck, when there are no viable alternatives. If Republicans want to present a no-contest election like they did in Barrack Obama’s Illinois Senate campaign they are well on the way. It is as if Wall Street is happy enough with the Ukraine war and the no tax increases on the rich history of Joe Biden that they don’t want to rock the boat with a Republican President against war in Ukraine and for a negotiated, fair and just peace and direct resumption of normal relations with Russia.

Laker's Bench Depth Surfaces with Several Players Injured

 The Los Angeles Lakers have several players out with injuries; i.e. Prince, Vanderbilt, Hachimura, Vincent, Hood-Schafino) and that is something of a blessing. It provides an opportunity for playing minutes for new and young players that otherwise wouldn’t arise.

Coach Hamm knows that Russell and Reeves can play. So he could start Cam Reddish and Max Christie a few games to see what they can do. He also has a double and triple big lineup that would be interesting to use now and then. Wood and Hayes improve with more minutes. Give them a playing card and see what they call. The possibilities and combinations are endless and are all good.

A poem written in Elgo Form

 

Like Unto 1st Samuel:10

  Politicians gather rust
works sent to morticians
passes just in time to lurk
kurst public seek their asses.

The Case of the Missing Asses; Republican Presidential Candidates 2024

The Republican primary race for the Presidency so far seems to have boiled down to three candidates. Ron DeSantis is not the best campaigner yet might be the best and most effective President if elected, while Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are the most acerbic reality TV quality candidates. If Gov. DeSantis were like his opponents in demeanor he would seem mean.

It is questionable if Nikki Haley could be elected. She is an Indian (from India) Sikh and former Hindu who converted to the Apostate Christian sect of Methodism after marrying and running for political office. It s possible that evangelical voters would be cool on that Clemson graduate accountant.

Donald Trump is the candidate with a thousand criminal charges usually instigated by Democrats that Republicans are reluctant to move past. President Trump was abused by Democrats while in office and was a foreign policy wiz of a sort. The public knows Mr. Trump is an environmental Luddite though with a bad enough senselessness of the peril humanity faces such as could endanger human survival on this planet.

There is a remarkable and strange irony and humor in the Republican party’s inability to get behind a viable candidate and elect one to the White House when the Democrat candidate is the worst in several generations that could be knocked off by a janitor with a degree in cosmetology.

In ancient Israel Jews becoming organized wanted a king to rule them. God wanted them to be a democracy with Himself as their spiritual. Working with the Prophet Samuel select Jews were sent to find their missing asses (donkeys). When the asses were at last found the Jews also found their new king; Saul. That is like unto how the Republicans will have their 2024 Presidential candidate selected.

From 1^st Samuel 10 KJV

“Samuel Anoints Saul

1Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? 2When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? 3Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: 4And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands. 5After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: 6And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. 7And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee. 8And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.

Samuel's Signs Fulfilled

9And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day. 10And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them. 11And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? 12And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? 13And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

14And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel. 15And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you. 16And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.

Saul Proclaimed King

17And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh; 18And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you: 19And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.”

The Veteran v 2.0 (poem)

 

George Patton knew death
guts and stomach hanging from a branch
like Dali’s Persistence of Memory
time melting down
with artillery explosions

  The poet would shake Heine's bloody hand
in Valhalla somewhere beyond the River Styx
were Custer, his brother the two-time Medal of Honor recipient
and Geronimo could consider if he deserved a third
that day on the bloody knoll

  Veterans of war they encamp where orders sent
fate with a 1000 dead at the battle of Brooklyn
to a place that time forgot to the east
like the Suoyi Ford where Hong Xiquan sought ascension
and Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus could share grog
with Ashurbanipal, Hannibal, Carlos Hathcock, and Roy Benevidez

  Heroes of countless wars on land and sea
that reflect a futility of life ending to soon
so waves may cover other waves
Ernest Evans and the USS Johnston
seven destroyers took on eight Japanese heavy cruisers, four battleships and the Yamato
to save lives, to sacrifice their own
a native American commander defending his land

  The poor man’s Christ sacrificing his life
so that others may live
-without the omniscience of God
knowing no better way

  Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
the sea takes the dead for its own
until a last day
-many aren’t sure of intelligence
when bullets fly.

The Veteran (a poem)

 

George Patton knew death
guts and stomach hanging from a branch
like Dali’s Persistence of Memory
time melting down
with artillery explosions

  The poet would shake Heine's bloody hand
in Valhalla somewhere beyond the River Styx
where Custer, his brother the two time Medal of Honor recipient
and Geronimo could consider if he deserved a third
that day on the bloody knoll

  Heroes of countless wars on land and sea
that reflect a futility of life ending too soon
so waves may cover other waves
Ernest Evans and the USS Johnston
seven destroyers took on eight Japanese  heavy cruisers, four battleships and the Yamato
to save lives, to sacrifice their own
a native American commander defending his land

  The poor man’s Christ sacrificing his life
so that others may live
without the omniscience of God
knowing no better way
many can't be sure of intelligence
when bullets fly.

Interstitial Space (poem)

 

Interstitial places were spaces
fulfilled with tentative connectors
convectors roiling content
atoms rolling with strong force
field gaps of time to race
shadows of being and becoming
string quark consonants

      Each green shadow moved
before it faded to history
where it was the moment
a live chameleon
walking the trunk upwards
before rain and wind brought cold
such cold change to make lizards shiver

      A planet and galaxy drawn toward centralism
mass gathering mass
bushel baskets at harvest moon
streets that fade into pillowed softness
dusted with history of the past
a mystery for what has gone before
occupies fragmented memories fading away

    Other Universes and theories for Einstein
Mozart and a variety of souls brought down
to the benthos of the seas of time
compacting to metamorphic rock-
stones that roll upward only metaphorically
with expansive forces immediately contracting
reasoned guesses of a Creator making history a mystery

    Where each pace is a landslide
surfing rhyming intermezzos
tumbling talus slopes
with carbonaceous chondrite courtesy
to stop where impact craters resound
at the edges of the sea
crumbling elements
filaments each put together like sewn soldiers

    Skeletons mislead about the dead
interlocking field lines and fingers
slopes of mountain ranges that ever were nothing to see
something après;
and if there were a key
with Peter it might be.

The Question; 'Does Mind Affect Wave Form Collapse?'

 Some speculate the wave function collapse doesn’t occur…instead an infinite number of universes exist and thought finds the appropriate one to branch to. The Schrodinger wave function collapse is a way of measuring the position at an instant in time of a wave-particle in motion arbitrarily and does have an intrinsic problem of being somewhat unreal- especially for massless particles that haven’t really got a time dimension.

Present Wars weren't Caused by Hate

 Hate is a pop term these days of course yet wars occur more for financial reasons these days with social inertia and economic and social pressures driving conflicts. Hamas is a gang of terrorists with sponsors that have their own motives. If Gaza is put on parole for 20 years and with good behavior having all rights restored maybe the lunatic gangsters won't takeover again. There are real organizational and social dynamics in that particular conflict that need be realistically addressed. The hate thing in my opinion is a way of deflecting responsibility from those that actually can positively change economic and boundary issues that stim conflict. Do the 1 percent really care if gangsters in Gaza use their own people for human shields or if Ukrainian and Russians kill each other? Some actually profit on it.

Sartre's 1000 page 'Critique of Dialectical Reason' in which he investigated organizational structures of humans experiencing life. It would be difficult to make a brief bite-sized explanation of what Sartre's thesis was and how it functions in regard to a specific setting like the Taliban and Afghanistan. Needless to say hate is not the essential factor. Women's rights in Afghanistan were a challenging problem for many of the west. Yet without a western level economy many of the western level prerogatives of females were not practically attainable. Sociology is a deep field itself, yet Americans tend to want to apply technical fixes superficially without much understanding of why certain social conflicts evolve or how to mitigate the damage. Vietnam was the first modern case in point and their have been several others.

Stupidity of Modern War Shows AI and Drone Future for Land Battle

 The criminal stupidity of the Ukraine war that could have been avoided if the west shared some of historically Russian Ukraine with Russia has demonstrated the vulnerability of armored vehicles to accurate artillery fire directed by intelligence and surveillance from the land and sky. Not that Israel using Vietnam era M-113 armored personnel carriers should avoid some criticism. Maybe they can’t afford more modern Bradley fighting vehicles because the U.S. Congress hasn’t spent much on their milliary in comparison to that of Ukraine. Oh well.

Obviously tanks will need to be regarded as tiny aircraft carriers with a battle group of capable drone surrounding to defend them. From mines, from artillery strikes and other direct and indirect fire weapons. Planning for wars is a comparatively retarded venture when the smart thing is to avoid them with rational, fair and balanced international economic planning. Yet even the U.S. Congress can’t accomplish peaceful relations enough to pass a surfeit of good legislation.

Tanks may be downsized as well and be run remotely without humans inside them something like global hawk operators work aircraft from a distance. The inhumanization of war is something of a natural evolution of incompetent leadership in the U.S. and N.A.T.O countries that don’t prioritize ecological economic evolution with inclusiveness globally as immediately profitable or desirable as war.

It is wise to seek God

 It is wise to seek the truth. Some are called by the Spirit unto faith in the Lrd and salvation. Some people believe that spirit is the true nature of the Universe and that the Higgs Field entanglement of massless 2-dimensional particles creating the appearance of mass and being is a configuration of God...That is mass is a relatavistic phenomena that sems solid to people embedded within it. Some don't believe that obviously. The faithless whom are not reprobate may exert all manner of arguments against faith in an unseen realm of Spirit under the authority of God.

St. Augustine was a neo-Platonist follower of Plotinus before he converted to Christianity, or perhaps because of it. Luke 8-13 says "And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away." It is not good to lose faith. Perhaps it was never well-rooted to start with. Many pastors talk about people attending church who are not really saved...that is they have not personally accepted Christ as their personal savior. It is a serious talk though. There is a passage from the book of Hebrews 6: 4-6 that causes worry for some of those that have lost faith. For it says they cannot be recovered for they would need to crucify Christ a second time. The good opinion might be to go aheaad and recover it as best you can with assurance the Lord will save you if possible. You needed to go pretty far to the dark side of faithlessness after being saved to find it impossible to find your way back. Jesus is the good Shepard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tozPaL6S8g

Hai water (a haiku)

 

  Blue water would reach

angstroms of perception quarks

hai water to pink.

Colorfall (a Haiku)

 

     Pools of frozen time

shadow nature in quiet

     blue over pink landfall.

Hamas; The NAZI Party Next Door

 After the present conflict ends the Gaza will need to be on parole for twenty years. With good non-violent behavior then their graduation toward an independent status could resume. Like Canada or Australia gradually becoming independent as Britain relinquished direct control, Gaza too could become independent except perhaps I the fine print-possibly resembling again Britain’s relationship with Canada and Australia.

Hamas is the Nazi Party next door. President Biden and select U.N. personnel have suggested that Israel should cease fire before Hamas has been entirely removed from the Gaza. That is like suggesting that the Nazi party be protected and given a chance, with international nurturing, to recover and rebuild perhaps with a two-state solution so they can build up the Nazi military again.

Applying Wisdom to the Analysis of Theoretical Orchards (a poem)

 

The work is a slippery image
where inflation holds the keys
graduating ever for nowhere
progress is shooting the breeze

    Echoes of images draw
artificial intelligence dating
hope like figures scrimshawed
arisen for a while with ratings

    The truth was generations passing
economic handles disappearing fast
evolving atheist’s quicksilver massing
to nothingness with themselves in the past

    Bickering proofs pasted paper mache crowns
on pedestals of prosperity
that global warming rain drowns
with  Luddite ubiquity

    Wars conducted with tighter algorithms
fast as light laser bullets fly
unemployed forever targets fall to staccato rhythm
a democrat congress found a way for each to die.

Tunnel Vision (poem)

Organizations
and motivations
build the constructions
leading to war

  So look to the west
where fighting is best
with nothing but death
brought to the fore

  Violent Hamas
draws killing to pass
gang satanic mass
just death to see

  Never new in store
same old, same old war
like life is a whore
fait accompli.

Lebron James Didn't Really on a College Scholarship

 Lebron James never attended college. He was signed to the N.B.A. directly completing high school. Unlike most other N.B.A. players he never got a college scholarship. Giving scholarships to what are basically pro athletes is corrupt.

Colleges should give scholarships for scholarship; not sports. Sports in college should be intramural and purposed to build up student health. Colleges really ought to get out of the big man on campus sports focus and look toward becoming the best in the world with intelligence and education.

The United States has innumerable empirical challenges to day that can be solved only with better education of the populous. Better politicians, a better informed electorate, better philosophers,more quality scientists and a wealth of social science innovators need arise to overcome the reef of ignorance surrounding the island-like nation as if it were a coral atoll.

Pro entertainers comprise 5% of the top 1% of the nation’s richest. They provide good cover PR for the super-rich that don’t wish to be regarded as Scroggishish misers calculating like 100 lb weaklings how to skim off wealth from everyone in the country. Pro athletes in college should not receive scholarships though it is often touted how much revenue college sports- especially football bring to colleges. Creating an intellectual atmosphere on colleges is difficult enough without making colleges something like vast left-wing upper high schools churning out mediocrity to rise in business to make the nation a compliant plutocratic corporatocracy.

Colleges need to work hard to create a culture to support and develop intellectual excellence. It should not be a demographic dumping ground for quotas nor a place for developing athletes for pro sports. Sporting leagues should pay for their own minor leagues to develop prospects. Athletes that want to work in pro sports and yet attend college should receive scholarships solely on intellectual merit. Fundamentally the two activities should be separate.

Free Will and Non-Free briefly

 The determinism vs indeterminism argument is interesting especially from a Christian perspective. This is a very old discussion that has been gone over by the millions of words. God draws the elect unto the Lord Jesus Christ. There salvation is through grace rather than merit; that is no act of will or self-determination by a human gts himself saved. So the paradox of salvation by election of God- he will save those whom he will and how can mankind object since man is the pot and God is the potter.;some he makes for salvation, others for destruction etc. In quantum physics too there are many levels for simultaneous determinism and indeterminis as there is in behavorial psychology (ref BF Skinner). It seems there are necessary levels of protocol of contingent free will and automatic will existing simulatneously. It exists in human thought, quantum mechanical relationships and field phenomena and even in theology since God does hold people accountable for their actions.