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They just had to go to commercial break on the Bloomberg town hall. He sounded pretty good until he said he would vote for Sanders. Not for me anyway. I AM TRUMP ALL THE WAY

I vote for more corruption, we need more corruption. We can't hold this planet together without more corruption. Now get out there and vote for more corruption. Either party will do if that's what you want.

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I vote for more corruption, we need more corruption. We can't hold this planet together without more corruption. Now get out there and vote for more corruption. Either party will do if that's what you want.

Vote early --- vote often.

I promised myself years ago, every time I saw this I would re-post, I didn’t write it but it’s awesome and worth the share! Happens about twice a year. Rings true EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.... Here goes!!!

Most people won't take the time to read this all the way to the end. I hope that you will. 17 INCHES" - you will not regret reading this

An excellent article to read from beginning to end.

Twenty years ago, in Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA's convention.

While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers scheduled to present during the weekend. One name kept resurfacing, always with the same sentiment — “John Scolinos is here? Oh, man, worth every penny of my airfare.”

Who is John Scolinos, I wondered. No matter; I was just happy to be there.

In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate.

Seriously, I wondered, who is this guy?

After speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the prop hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches. Even those who knew Coach Scolinos had to wonder exactly where he was going with this, or if he had simply forgotten about home plate since he’d gotten on stage. Then, finally …

“You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck,” he said, his voice growing irascible. I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility. “I may be old, but I’m not crazy. The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.”

Several hands went up when Scolinos asked how many Little League coaches were in the room. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?”

After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches?”, more of a question than answer.

“That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth’s day? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?” Another long pause.

“Seventeen inches?” a guess from another reluctant coach.

“That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?”

“Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident.

“You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”

“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.

“Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?”............“Seventeen inches!”

“RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?

“Seventeen inches!”

“SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls. “And what do they do with a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over seventeen inches?” Pause. “They send him to Pocatello !” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter. “What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy. If you can’t hit a seventeen-inch target? We’ll make it eighteen inches or nineteen inches. We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of hitting it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.'”

Pause. “Coaches… what do we do when your best player shows up late to practice? or when our team rules forbid facial hair and a guy shows up unshaven? What if he gets caught drinking? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him? Do we widen home plate? "

The chuckles gradually faded as four thousand coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold. He turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something. When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows. “This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids. With our discipline.

We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards. We just widen the plate!”

Pause. Then, to the point at the top of the house he added a small American flag. “This is the problem in our schools today. The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate! Where is that getting us?”

Silence. He replaced the flag with a Cross. “And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years. Our church leaders are widening home plate for themselves! And we allow it.”

“And the same is true with our government. Our so-called representatives make rules for us that don’t apply to themselves. They take bribes from lobbyists and foreign countries. They no longer serve us. And we allow them to widen home plate! We see our country falling into a dark abyss while we just watch.”

I was amazed. At a baseball convention where I expected to learn something about curve balls and bunting and how to run better practices, I had learned something far more valuable.

From an old man with home plate strung around his neck, I had learned something about life, about myself, about my own weaknesses and about my responsibilities as a leader. I had to hold myself and others accountable to that which I knew to be right, lest our families, our faith, and our society continue down an undesirable path.

“If I am lucky,” Coach Scolinos concluded, “you will remember one thing from this old coach today. It is this: "If we fail to hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard of what we know to be right; if we fail to hold our spouses and our children to the same standards, if we are unwilling or unable to provide a consequence when they do not meet the standard; and if our schools & churches & our government fail to hold themselves accountable to those they serve, there is but one thing to look forward to …”

With that, he held home plate in front of his chest, turned it around, and revealed its dark black backside, “…We have dark days ahead!.”

Note: Coach Scolinos died in 2009 at the age of 91, but not before touching the lives of hundreds of players and coaches, including mine. Meeting him at my first ABCA convention kept me returning year after year, looking for similar wisdom and inspiration from other coaches. He is the best clinic speaker the ABCA has ever known because he was so much more than a baseball coach. His message was clear: “Coaches, keep your players—no matter how good they are—your own children, your churches, your government, and most of all, keep yourself at seventeen inches."

And this my friends is what our country has become and what is wrong with it today, and now go out there and fix it!

"Don't widen the plate."

I doubt anyone will ever know for sure, but I wonder just how many people will get their vote thrown away in these primaries because they voted early for a candidate who withdrew before their States actual primary date or how many people will never get to vote for the person they really wanted because that person was eliminated by voters in early voting States?

To me it really brings home the reason why so many people don't even bother to vote - - why would they when there is a good chance that either their vote won't count or that their preferred candidate gets removed from the race before they could even vote?

Seems like some States and their Voters think its some kind of honor or right to vote before other states - I think it isn't much different that wanting to cheat the system so that others only get the choice you want - - - its pure BS - - yet every cycle we all just watch the same stupid system and try to fool ourselves into believing the system is honest and fair and that we actually had a choice

As a side note about voting for corruption - - - its the only option they really give us

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Vote early --- vote often.

THE GAY IS GONE!!

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Does anybody believe that the DNC didn’t have anything to do with Steyer, Mayor Pete, and Klobuchar dropping out and endorsing Biden right before Super Tuesday in an attempt to derail Bernie??

There probably isn't anybody that thinks that. We got Trump because of a crowded field, where nobody dropped out early enough. At least the Dems learned from the past.

No Republicans would want a Bernie President, the majority of independents and Dems don't want a Bernie President. It will happen if people don't stop splitting the electorate like they did in 2016 in regards to Trump. Much like Trump, Bernie has a big base and when the majority of votes is split between 3-10 other people, the person with the big base wins.

It is funny to hear Trump and some Republicans feeling so sad for Bernie. They don't like him or his policies, they just think they are a sure win if Bernie is the nominee. Sadly, that is flawed logic that should be apparent based on 2016. Remember Hillary's, "slam dunk" running against Trump, the guy nobody likes that had a small, but strong base?

Just remember not to complain and cry too many conservative tears if you get to run against Bernie and lose. You asked for it(those clammering for Trump v. Bernie).

I wonder how many people will walk into polls today and vote for someone who has dropped out, but is still on the ballot - - - - it will be interesting to see the percentages tonight - - - - especially in States like California where vote by mail has been going on for over a month. Most vote by mail people mailed their ballots a long time ago and they should be the first counted - - in 2016 almost 41% of voters voted early, either in person where allowed or by mail or absentee and in 16 States that percentage was over 50%. these numbers have been going up every election cycle so it is almost guaranteed that close to 50% of the votes that will be counted today were actually cast long before the recent dropouts

California early voters want do-over

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Does anybody believe that the DNC didn’t have anything to do with Steyer, Mayor Pete, and Klobuchar dropping out and endorsing Biden right before Super Tuesday in an attempt to derail Bernie??

LoL! Grumpycat for President!!!

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Oh my naive little buddy !! The DNC heads are terrified of Bernie - if you don’t believe that some back room deals were cut to have all of em drop out and endorse Biden you just aren’t paying attention. Mayor Pete was on a plane to his own rally and abruptly shut it down - then came out endorsing Biden. Just for the record- I got no sympathy for Sanders - IMO he is the worst thing since the clap!! The RNC didn’t want Trump but he rolled over em - let’s see if Sanders got the juice to roll over the DNC the same way !!

The only one Apperantly "naive" is you my friend. Naive to the question you asked. "Does anyone believe the DNC DIDN'T(did not).

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Does anybody believe that the DNC didn’t have anything to do with Steyer, Mayor Pete, and Klobuchar dropping out and endorsing Biden right before Super Tuesday in an attempt to derail Bernie??

Now read my response again and I yes, I accept your apology for your "naive" comment(double entendre) .

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I got no sympathy for Sanders - IMO he is the worst thing since the clap!!

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I suppose I can accept your somewhat cryptic first message and subsequent explanation. I will withdraw my prior “naive” connotation but cannot move into an apologetic direction at this particular time

Come on!

Your question:

"Does anyone believe the DNC didn't have anything to do with...an attempt to derail Bernie??"

My answer:

There probably isn't anybody that thinks that.

Not very "cryptic". Legalese is more cryptic counselor. The rest was just my take on the situation, which only confirmed I believe the DNC very much is trying to "derail Bernie", for good reason.

You may apologize now and I will still humbly except it.

I do not agree with her pick as to who to support, but I think she is dead on about Sanders & Biden

Judge Judy's Take

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“we got Trump because of a crowded field”. - I don’t think so scooter !! He ran over the RNC like a Mack truck and they joined him - let’s see if the same thing happens to the DNC with Bernie !!

I'm sorry, I consider 17 a crowded field. Also, if you take the percentage or number of votes for the top THREE of seventeen, that weren't Trump, they beat Trump my naive friend. The others votes would just make the beating worse.

Looking at about what has happened in past campaigns and elections no longer seems to be a reliable indicator of what will happen in future campaigns and elections - - if it were Hillary would be our president not Trump - - I also highly suspect that many on the left still haven't figured this out either that or they have convinced that Trump really didnt win and that 2020 will some prove this