Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Ace said:
Tough night tonight here in Arkansas. Multiple tornadoes touching down all around us. We are prepped to head to storm shelter, if they come our way. Lots of damage all around - with it being this late not sure of possible loss of life. Cave City, AR has been hit hard.
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Prayers for y’all and any in west TN tonight. Tomorrow, it’s a red alert for all of us.

Stay weather aware. Great Twitter follow by the way with recommendations for other areas:

 
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85SugarVol said:
He was demonstrably bigger much earlier than 2008. Something changed after his first run of #1. He came back bigger.

I’d say Tiger’s first run of Majors is probably clean.
Just like Bonds & Rocket, he was an amazing talent that was already destined to be one of the greats.

Like Bonds & Rocket, Tiger appeared to be chasing something. Something bigger, something more.

What was Tiger chasing 🤔
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Tail
 
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Ace said:
Tough night tonight here in Arkansas. Multiple tornadoes touching down all around us. We are prepped to head to storm shelter, if they come our way. Lots of damage all around - with it being this late not sure of possible loss of life. Cave City, AR has been hit hard.
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Tornado sirens going off now. About to head to our shelter. Storm headed to us has not produced a tornado so far. Pray for us
 
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Happy Saturday

March 15, 2025: You have been unusually sensitive, which can be good or it can cause you problems. You need to strike a balance so that you do not go off the rails. Quiet your soul and let God be your guide. If you come to the Lord, He will keep you in check and in a place of safety. Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
 
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March 15, 44 BC

The Death of Caesar​


On the Ides of March, the Senate was to meet in the Curia Pompeii, an annex of the colonnaded porticus adjacent to the stage of the Theater of Pompey, which he had been built just a decade or so before. Caesar was late and, as Brutus and Cassius anxiously waited for him to arrive, one of the senators confided that his prayers were with them. "May your plan succeed," relates Plutarch, "but whatever you do, make haste. Everyone is talking about it by now." But there was nothing the conspirators could do except grasp their daggers and prepare to use them on themselves, if need be. Porcia, the daughter of Cato, whom Brutus had married within a year of her father's death, had insisted that she be told of the plan. The day of the assassination, her anxiety was so great that she became hysterical and fainted from apprehension.

Suetonius relates that a soothsayer had warned Caesar that he was in grave danger, which would not pass until the Ides had ended. Entering the building, Caesar now chided him that the day had arrived. "Yes," he replied, "but they have not yet gone." As Caesar took his seat, the conspirators gathered around him on the pretext of presenting a petition. One then took hold of his purple toga and ripped it away from his neck. A dagger was thrust at Caesar's throat but missed and only wounded him. Another assassin then drove a dagger into his chest as he twisted away from the first assailant. Brutus struck Caesar in the groin (a telling blow, perhaps, given that his mother Servilia once had been Caesar's mistress). Hemmed in, "Caesar kept turning," writes Appian, "from one to another of them with furious cries like a wild beast." When he saw that Brutus, too, had drawn his dagger, Plutarch relates that Caesar simply covered his head with his toga and sank to the ground. Although Suetonius records that Caesar died "uttering not a word," some, he says, had written that Brutus was reproached in Greek with the words Kai su, teknon, "You, too, my child?" It was these words that Shakespeare would later present in Latin as Et tu, Brute.

Even though the second wound later was thought to have been fatal, the conspirators continued to strike at Caesar, at times cutting one another with their own daggers, until they, too, were covered in blood. Slumped against the pedestal of Pompey's statue, Caesar died, having been stabbed twenty-three times. "The pedestal was drenched with blood," writes Plutarch, "so that one might have thought that Pompey himself was presiding over this act of vengeance against his enemy, who lay there at his feet struggling convulsively under so many wounds."

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