Speaking Out with Pete Abington - Dec. 30, 2009

GOOD ATHLETES IN MHS FOOTBALL
We don’t have to go far to find some exceptionally fine high school football players from this past season. These might have been some of our finest produced, as far as a group, ever. Their team was Many High School football team.

The Louisiana Class 2-A All State Team was announced this past week. Two members of the MHS football team were on this team. They were D. J. Palmer and Nick Jacobs.

D. J. Palmer was named Outstanding Player on Offense for Class 2-A. He is 6’’0”, 180 lbs., with 4.6 speed in the forty. His efforts produced 3,622 yards and 51 touchdowns during a 11-2 season and in 13 games Palmer rushed for 2,382 yards and 29 touchdowns on 274 carries and completed 84 of 133 passes for an additional 11,280 yards for 22 more touchdowns. In addition to these honors, D. J. Made The Shreveport Times 2009 All-Area Football Team. He has not decided which college he plans to attend. There are several scholarships being offered to him, one of which is Northwestern State University.

Nick Jacobs played tight-end. He stands 6’6” and weights 265 lbs and has been a real exceptional athlete for MHS football as well as basketball. He has been on LSU’s “heavily recruited” list since last season. He has the grades and has committed to attend LSU. He is the first athlete ever to go from the MHS program to LSU football.

Besides the athletic accomplishments, these scholarships that are being offered to these two students are worth a lot of money and gives them a great opportunity. The monetary awards from having a scholarship to college is big, big dollars, as well as the future it can help them create for themselves and their families. These athletes must remember that they can be an example to many of those who follow and help other young men who have dreams and goals and let them know that it is possible right here at Many High School in football..

Congratulations to the MHS Football team and to Coach Keith Menard and his staff.

SOUTH INCREASES POLITICAL STROKE

If appropriation was done today rather than after the 2010 Census, the South and Southwest would gain seats in the House of Representatives.

Texas would be the biggest winner adding three seats. Others to add a seat: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. Ohio would lose two seats and Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania would each lose one.

What this means is a change in the political landscape of this nation that effects how more than $400 billion in federal money is distributed each year. In Congress, a larger delegation means more committee seats and more lawmaker requests for pet projects known as “earmarks”. The 2010 Census data, which will be released in early 2011 will represent the first step in an often bitter process of redrawing the boundaries of Congressional and Legislative districts.

RED NECK STORIES

You just might be a red neck if....
...You shot a partridge in a pear tree.
...You think paparazzi is an appetizer at Olive Garden.
...All of your wedding photos have someone torn out of them.
...You actually got ammo for a stocking stuffer.
...Wrote a hate letter to a cartoon.