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Belly putters
(14-1b Anchoring the Club) was approved in May 2013 and took effect on January 1, 2016. This new rule prohibits "anchoring" a putter when making a stroke. It does not ban long-shafted putters, rather, it bans the method by which they were originally designed to be used.
 * In November 2012, a proposed change for the 2016 edition of the rules of golf was announced, which would forbid players from anchoring a club against their body in any way. This rule change will affect the use of long and belly putters by players. Notable players affected include Adam Scott, Tim Clark, Kevin Stadler, Keegan Bradley, Webb Simpson, Carl Pettersson and Ernie Els. This new rule
 * Webb Simpson ... golf's best putter?
 * Webb Simpson goes very quietly about his work on the greens, but slowly, and surely he has become regarded as one of the great putters of his generation. Controversially he was the second player in the history of the game to win a major championship using a belly putter

History of belly putters

 * August 2011: Keegan Bradley wins the PGA Championship, becoming the first player to win a major while anchoring a putter to his body. Later that month, Davis expands on his earlier comments: 'To date there's no evidence they are giving anybody an undue advantage. But could we become concerned some day? The answer is YES!
 * June 2012: Webb Simpson becomes the second player to win a major using a belly putter, capturing the U.S. Open at The Olympic Club.
 * September 2011: Bill Haas uses a belly putter to win the Tour Championship – the fifth win by an anchored putter in seven weeks on the PGA Tour. In total, seven different players win on Tour using an anchored putter in 2011.
 * July 2012: Ernie Els wins the British Open using a belly putter, holing a 15-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole. Runner-up Adam Scott, using a long putter anchored to his sternum, misses a 6-foot putt to tie Els on the final hole. More than 27% of the field (43 of 156 players) use a long or belly putter.
 * Nov 28, 2012: The USGA and R&A announce a proposal to ban anchored strokes, beginning Jan. 1, 2016.
 * Feb 24, 2013: Commissioner Tim Finchem announces the PGA Tour's opposition to the proposed anchoring ban, saying that it is 'not in the best interest of golf or the PGA Tour.'
 * June 29, 2013: PGA of America, which had staunchly opposed Rule 14-1b, announced that it would follow the PGA Tour’s lead on the anchoring ban.
 * July 1, 2013: The PGA Tour reverses course and announces that it will adopt Rule 14-1b and ban anchoring at its events, beginning on Jan. 1, 2016.
 * Simpson breaks his OPEN putter

Webb Simpson

 * Simpson has used a belly putter and has been a big supporter of the belly putter ever since he took one out for nine holes with his father at Pinehurst Golf Club
 * Golf's governing bodies outlawed the anchored stroke that Simpson had used with his belly putter since he was a teenager
 * Simpson has been using a belly putter for years, and when he won the U.S. Open at Olympic Club, he became one of three major champions to use such a belly putter in the last year. Keegan Bradley won the PGA Championship last year, and Ernie Els won the British Open last month. Els rallied from a six-shot deficit on the last day to beat Adam Scott, who uses a long putter that he anchors near his sternum
 * US Open Champ in 2012
 * anchoring outlawed, "...that anchoring a club to the body will not be allowed"
 * "Golf bans anchoring putting stroke to the body. Putter must be held away from the body to allow for a free swing"


 * Rule 14-1b....prohibits strokes made with the club or a hand gripping the club held directly against the player’s body or with a forearm held against the body to establish an anchor point that indirectly anchors the club. The club is anchored “directly” when the player intentionally holds the club or a gripping hand in contact with any part of his body, except that the player may hold the club or a gripping hand against a hand or forearm. An “anchor point” exists when the player intentionally holds a forearm in contact with any part of his body to establish a gripping hand as a stable point around which the other hand may swing
 * The USGA and The R&A, golf’s governing bodies, have adopted changes to Rule 14-1 of the Rules of Golf that prohibit anchoring the club in making a stroke. The new Rule will go into effect on January 1, 2016, in accordance with the regular four-year cycle for changes to the Rules of Golf. Penalty Anchoring the club in making a stroke brings a two-stroke penalty in stroke play and loss of hole in match play (as with any other breach of Rule 14-1)

Ninth in line for Ryder Cup
Won nearly $2 million for The Players Championship. On the cusp of a return to the Ryder Cup. Simpson has represented the U.S. twice before in the biennial matches, but he was a spectator for the 2016 edition at Hazeltine. Four-shot victory at TPC Sawgrass, jumped him from 23rd to ninth in the latest Ryder Cup standings, with the top eight after the PGA Championship qualifying automatically for Paris.

NFL kneelers

 * "People like ourselves..."
 * "  get rid of players like that...."
 * Jake Tapper:Trump is "focusing like a laser on the major problems of the American people: black professional athletes with opinions."

Steve Schmidt comments

 * This Kelly Sadler issue, such as it is, puts into very stark relief a fundamentally important contest between two completely divergent set of values: John McCain’s life represents one set of values, Donald Trump and his corrupt presidency represents a different set of values,” said Steve Schmidt, a former top McCain strategist and confidant.
 * He knows nothing about anything
 * Pence preens every 3.2 seconds
 * It's about DT scoring points
 * Nicole Wallace

SpyGate

 * Disinformation campaign "....This is propaganda. This is what propaganda looks like. It's what it smells like. We have never seen anything like it. What we're seeing is an attack from within on vital institutions like a person's body would be attacked by a flesh-eating bacteria. And it is unprecedented in America."
 * Jake Tapper
 * Tucker Carlson sleight of hand
 * Sen Jeff Flake
 * Frum How to Build an Autocracy

Reference within a talk thread

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Kids names in articles
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Preparing for Timeline

 * A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump cannot block people from following him on Twitter.
 * A federal judge rules that it is unconstitutional for PT to block people from his Twitter account. It violates their right to free speech and equal access to the president. Read the Tweets

Talmadge bridge
Girl Scouts

Trump/NFL
With son of a bitch' comments, Trump tried to divide NFL and its players

The Trump presidency is a test. Institutions like the courts, the news media and the business community have all been tested. Now it's the NFL and the NBA's turn. The president is embracing an "us versus them" conflict involving politics, patriotism and popular American pastimes. And there is an unmistakable racial element at play, since he is targeting prominent black players.

On Friday night, seemingly out of nowhere, President Trump criticized the National Football League broadly and athletes who kneel during the national anthem specifically. Analysts are now predicting further on-the-field protests at games. Trump waded into controversy with another league on Saturday morning. On Twitter he criticized Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry, who intends to skip the traditional NBA champs celebration at the White House. "Stephen Curry is hesitating,therefore invitation is withdrawn!" Trump wrote twenty minutes after "Fox & Friends" mentioned the issue. NBA great LeBron James responded by calling the president a "bum" who misled his followers. "U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite," James tweeted. "Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!" Trump's remarks renewed the accusation made by ESPN anchor Jemele Hill a week ago -- that Trump "is a white supremacist." CNN's Jake Tapper wryly tweeted on Saturday that Trump is "focusing like a laser on the major problems of the American people: black professional athletes with opinions." The anthem protests, which began when Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem last fall, seemed to come up randomly while Trump was rallying an Alabama crowd to support Luther Strange in a primary election. Trump said NFL owners should get rid of players like that. "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, '''"Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he's fired. He's fired," Trump said.''' "You know, some owner is going to do that. He's going to say, 'That guy that disrespects our flag, he's fired.' And that owner, they don't know it [but] they'll be the most popular person in this country." The president followed up on Twitter Saturday afternoon. "If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect. ... our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!" Opponents of Trump accused him of failing to respect the First Amendment rights of Americans. Trump also said NFL ratings are down "massively" (that's not true -- the ratings are only down modestly) and criticized the NFL's efforts to make the game safer for athletes. "There's a more important issue about the health of young, American athletes. And obviously the president wasn't too concerned about that," CNN sports analyst Christine Brennan said after the rally. The president finished his NFL critique by saying it hurts the game "when people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they're playing our great national anthem."  In response, Mike Allen of Axios wrote Saturday morning, "To address a largely white crowd as 'people like yourselves,' and refer to protesting athletes, often African American, as 'those people,' does nothing to heal the wounds of Charlottesville." NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued an unusual statement about the president's remarks, criticizing the "divisive" comments without calling out Trump by name. The NFL players union spoke out more forcefully. And Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, an active Twitter user, responded Saturday morning: "The behavior of the President is unacceptable and needs to be addressed. If you do not Condemn this divisive Rhetoric you are Condoning it!!" Trump is "focusing like a laser on the major problems of the American people: black professional athletes with opinions."