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  1. 9 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5493651/2024/05/14/chiefs-harrison-butker-pride-month-sin/?redirected=1

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    Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, speaking during a commencement speech at Benedictine College, referred to Pride Month, the events in June demonstrating inclusivity and support for the LGBTQ+ community, as an example of the “deadly sins” as he advocated for a more conservative brand of Catholicism.

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    “Not the deadly sins sort of Pride that has an entire month dedicated to it,” Butker said, “but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the holy ghost to glorify him.”

    Butker spoke for more than 20 minutes to students at the Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas, saying he wanted the graduating class to prevent political leaders from interfering with social issues that impact their relationship with the church.

    Butker, 28, criticized an Associated Press article on America’s Catholic Church, which detailed the institution’s shift “toward the old ways.” It highlighted Benedictine’s rules that “seem like precepts of a bygone age,” which include “volunteering for 3 a.m. prayers” and “pornography, premarital sex and sunbathing in swimsuits being forbidden.”

    Butker said the story was an “attempt to rebuke and embarrass” places like Benedictine, and that it would be met with “pride” instead of “anger.”

    Benedictine, a college with more than 2,100 full-time undergraduates as of September 2022, describes itself as a liberal arts institution aimed at “the education of men and women within a community of faith and leadership.” Butker, who called on religious leaders “to stay in their lane and lead,” praised Benedictine for embracing what he called traditional Catholic values.

    “When you embrace tradition, success, worldly and spiritual, will follow,” Butker said.

    In October 2014, the school ordered basketball player Jallen Messersmith to remove a Pride flag from his dorm room window.

    Butker also used the speech to criticize President Joe Biden on several issues, including abortion and the coronavirus pandemic, and questioned Biden’s devotion to Catholicism. Butker also addressed gender ideologies and said that a woman’s most important title is “homemaker.”

    “It is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world,” Butker said.

    The Chiefs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    While the NFL isn’t in season during Pride Month, the league participates in LGBTQ+ initiatives. On the Wednesday before Super Bowl LVIII, the NFL hosted a “Night of Pride” event in partnership with GLAAD, the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. The Chiefs are among the NFL teams that have a Pride selection of apparel with rainbow colors.

    Kansas City is among the many North American cities that host Pride events during June, led by the KC Pride Community Alliance.

    Butker is a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Chiefs. He was a seventh-round draft pick in 2017 and made 33 of 35 field goals in the 2023 season.

     

  2. 4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Well I got her canceled from the Texas book festival and got one her mid level staffers shitcanned.  All in the duration of about five red lights.  DSS opened up a file on her at the sixth red light which will possibly inhibit her ability to seek higher office. .  But I’m completely sure some $75mm worth of Colin Allred signage will change the fate of our nation.  You take a shit and use the time to poke and prod bad people and fun things ensue.  But yes; I’m sure the female youth vote will totally turn this around.  You know that thing that’s never happened; ever. 

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  3. Saw CSS in Denver last night. They are such a blast. Described by some as Brazil's B-52's, but they had a harder edge live. They are super endearing and hilarious. The singer (Lovefoxx) introduced a song called Fuck Everything saying it was about how much they love pizza. They also did a mashup of Sleater-Kinney and Jennifer Lopez. Good times. 

       

    We caught some of their set at Kilby Block Party this weekend. They were fun. Speaking of fun, LCD closed last night and they blew me away again. They’re simply incredible live.

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  4. watch it at .25 speed. principal contact the shoulder, head whipped, hit in head by Johnston on the follow through. It was reviewed and determined to be a clean hit and it was. And no, Chewbacca ain't no Kid. He's more like Baron Munchausen, imagining a fight that isn't there. again, cry more. 

    It’s clear as day to me at 2:50 of the clip. It was shoulder to shoulder and his neck whipped due to the force of contact. They called a major and then reviewed and say no penalty. Remember you can only confirm/reverse major call there. You can’t knock it down to a 2-min minor.

    I do know one thing — whoever wins this series is gonna wipe the floor with Edmonton/Vancouver winner in the WCF.
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  5. Denver Post columnist crying about the Benn hit:


     
    DALLAS — Jamie Benn needs to “feel” you, as Nuggets coach Michael Malone likes to say. Right between the ears.
    If the NHL won’t send a message to Benn, the Dallas Stars’ goon in green, then the Avalanche must. Starting with Game 3 Saturday night at Ball Arena.
    Legal hit? More like calculated assault. At worst, the Dallas captain should’ve seen five minutes in the sin bin for his cheap shot of Avs defender Devon Toews some 2:43 into the second period of Game 2.
    Benn launched. He left his feet. Toews’ head snapped like a crash test dummy. Officials declared it a shoulder-on-shoulder crime and suggested we all move on. To paraphrase my best pal Deion Sanders, that’s some bull junk, right there.
    For one, even if the Stars winger was aiming for Toews’ shoulder, at least one angle showed him connecting directly with No. 7’s neck. Which, last I checked, is connected to and immediately south of the head.
    “I mean, does he catch a piece of his shoulder? Yeah, I guess you could argue that,” Avs coach Jared Bednar, whose team returns to Denver after a road split at American Airlines Center, replied when I asked about the collision. “But the target is high and it’s at his head, and he makes contact with the head. And I’ve seen, many times, guys get called for the head shot and penalty with a lot less than that. But I guess they didn’t think so.”
    Two, Benn knew exactly what he was doing. The Stars knew what he was doing. Dallas coach Pete DeBoer, whose Vegas teams delighted in pushing the Avs around in the postseason, knew darn well.
    “Benner has been outstanding in this playoff. I thought against Vegas he did and he did (it) smart,” the Stars boss said late Thursday night. “He did it at the right times and he did it clean. But his presence physically is having an impact for us in these playoffs in a real positive way.’’

    Kareem Jackson, my man, you chose the wrong sport. DeBoer woulda loved you.
    In the NFL, Benn’s shot is an ejection, a fine, a suspension and a chat with the safety cops.
    In the NHL, it’s a “real positive” presence, a strategic wrinkle in a no-holds-barred, merciless bracket.

    The refs decided the hit was at Toews’ shoulder blade and not a head shot. Some slo-mo angles showed otherwise, especially as the D-man pinged off another Dallas player like a rag dol. By the letter of the law, it looked (makes air quotes) “clean.”
    But barely legal is still barely.
    “It is what it is,” Bednar said. “You’ve got to play through it.”
    You’ve got to respond. After that hit, Gabe Landeskog would’ve found a convenient, strategic moment in the action to kindly re-arrange Benn’s face.
    Once a bully knows they can get away with murder in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, there’s only way to stop a killing spree.
    Someone’s gotta pick up the Captain’s spine. Someone’s gotta let Benn know that this won’t stand. And neither will he.
    Someone’s gotta pick up Landy’s steel. Landy’s soul.
    It’s not in Nathan MacKinnon’s game, bless him. It’s not in Cale Makar’s DNA, although a reactive shove after Toews got clocked landed him in an awkward headlock for a few seconds.
    “Hopefully there was no intent into the head,” Avs forward Andrew Cogliano said of the Benn ambush.
    Then, instead of walking it back, Cogs walked it forward.
    “Maybe there was, obviously, a little bit to the head,” he added. “But, yeah, I don’t know.”
    He knew. Everybody did.
    “It’s a physical game this time of year,” Bednar said, “but I just can’t understand how that was not a penalty. Even if it isn’t a five (minute major).”
    Join the club. Fortunately, Toews returned to the ice, but Benn needs a break. And a lesson. If the league won’t do it, somebody in burgundy and blue needs to apply a little elbow grease.
    Better yet, the whole elbow.
     

    What a bitch-made column. Anson Carter or Bissonette said maybe — maybe — you could call charging but the contact to head was on the rebound off Wyatt. They also the proof it wasn’t a head shot was that Toews came back and played. If it had been a head hit, not a chance he gets cleared to play.
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