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I’m sticking with the 4-5-1 lineup with Clint Dempsey being a supportive striker under Agudelo. The midfield is stacked and having Holden injured still doesn’t help. I place Spector in the wing where’s he has been playing at times with West Ham and also been scoring as well. Lichaj plays similar to Cherundolo so I have him starting as a right back with Ream and Onyewu in the middle. Agudelo is on a role scoring goals versus a Altidore who hasn’t scored in awhile. Buddle could start too.

Goalkeeper: Tim Howard

Defense: Lichaj, Ream, Onyewu, Bocanegra

Midfield: Donavon, Bradley, Jones, Spector

Forwards: Dempsey, Agudelo

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

In the past year, I’ve been reading into mental conditions people suffer with, from Autism to Aspergers. Mental conditions that don’t have much explanation from Medical Science today. Why? An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.

Aspergers- is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.

Manic Depression, also referred to as bipolar affective disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or more depressive episodes.

I have had opportunities hangin’ with these patients in my lifetime and most of them are aware of their condition. Seems like they know their problem, but they CAN’T control it. So the answer from the doctors is taking medication.

Does every human being have free will? Control of their emotions? I believe every human being have the free will to control their emotional state.

Medication can only go so far…