What Did He Expect?

Here's a comment post from "harndawg" in an article about the non-news story of Colin Kaepernick not being picked by the Miami Dolphins football team. His remarks focus on how critical thinking no longer plays into youth's decision making about the consequences of their actions, but are based more on how they believe their importance overrides any critical thinking.
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Just my two cents, but here are a few of my thoughts/rants:

1. Not Standing for the flag: There are so many things I could say here so I will try to make it short. I am 20 yr. vet of the military, the military fought for his right to not stand for the flag…I don’t like it, but he has that right. That said, for every action (positive or negative) there is always a reaction. In this case, what did you think would happen Mr. Kaepernick??? I hope you did not think that (to paraphrase the Rock) “the millions…(and millions)…” of NFL football fans would all be on your side in this…to say nothing of TV networks, sponsors and (oh yea) football owners. You had to know going in that you were going to piss off the very same people you were hoping would support you, and that those people that you pissed off might send a message back to you.

2. Fans: I think that one of the issues fans have with you protesting the flag was that you have no problem staying, living and making a lot of money (well maybe not so much now) in the country that flag represents, yet on the other hand you’re going to disrespect that same flag for your personal issues. In essence it seems like your saying “it’s alright to take your money…but not alright to at least respect the flag of the country that provided you that opportunity to get where you are.” I don’t think you understand how lucky you are to be in a country that allows you this right…try doing this in North Korea, China, Russia or even the Middle East.

3. Business: Here is a very hard pill to swallow, The NFL (as well as MLB, NBA and the NHL) are a business. The bottom line for owners is making money. If I worked at McDonalds or a Major Corporation like Northrop Grumman, should I do something that the organization I work for is unhappy with, they won’t hire me again. Why would the NFL be any different? To quote (L. Ron Hubbard I believe from one of his SF books) “Banking is Banking and Business is Business…” you made a decision that could affect Banking and Business…did you think it would not affect you? 

4. Skill: Here is the hardest pill to swallow…You’re a gifted QB…but not that gifted…If your skill level was so much better than other QB…you would have been hired months ago. Look back at the NFL over the last 5 years and see how many other players have screwed up far worse they your actions…and yet they were back in the NFL the following season…things that should make you co…hmmmmmmmm
I would love to say more…but this is longer than I wanted it to be and to be honest, longer then you deserve…

Looking At The Bigger Picture

Our nation's current situation doesn't look good.

Our Constitution is being ignored.

The Dept. of Justice is only now beginning to gear up to go after criminals; like MS-13, Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch. Clearly, A.G. Sessions has got his work cut out for him.

The mainstream media is pounding their drum about a false news story; Russia/Trump Collusion for the purpose of distracting the nation from the real acts of treason committed by prior administration individuals.

Leaks are coming out in the papers more frequently than Tweets from Pres. Trump. 

Special prosecutor Mueller, looking into the Russia/Trump Collusion investigation which has produced not a single scintilla of actual evidence over the last year, has hired a bevy of Obama/Clinton supporters onto his team and has been given carte blanch as to what he can consider looking into; a fishing expedition.

North Korea is "thumbing its nose" at the world by developing nuclear ICBMs with repeated tests.

Our social justice warriors and Soros funded anarchists are going off the deep end with their childish rants on our college campuses across the nation to suppress free speech.

The Democrats, and some Republicans, are doing their best to play the role of obstructionists in Congress.

Seth Rich, a DNC worker, mysteriously ended up dead on the streets of D.C. and the police aren't even interested in investigating the murder, calling it a "botched robbery". It is speculated by some that he was involved in releasing Hillary Clinton's emails to Wikileaks.

Obamacare is imploding and millions of people across the nation are suffering with ballooning premiums.

ISIS has infiltrated our nation's major cities and the F.B.I. has reported that there are cells in every state in our nation.

California is threatening to secede from the nation to become its own country, taking the fifth largest economy and its growing debt, with it.

Now news has recently broken about Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT guy was arrested for attempting to flee the country with oodles of cash after being denied access to computer systems by Capitol Security. And the Congresswoman from Florida kept him on an exorbitantly high salary for months after being cut off.

To say there's a shortage of news stories and circumstances which indicate that the past administration has done far more damage to our nation's future is the understatement of the century! 

Perhaps we should say a prayer each day for the protection of our liberties and freedoms which seem to be hanging on a thread.

Remember Benghazi?

With the constant drum pounding of the narrative by the media of the "Russian/Trump Collusion" fake news, our nation's attention has been successfully distracted away from the real treasonous actions of two government individuals; Pres. Obama and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton.

To understand why this is the case, consider the following information:

(Note: While this explanation tends to support other reports proffered earlier, I find its veracity to be questionable because of the last sentence which doesn't line up with the fact that a military chopper landed at the pickup site to retrieve Bergdahl from Taliban members.)

From Wikileaks:

 

So here's the REAL story.  Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi in order to retrieve US made Stinger missiles supplied to Ansar al Sharia without Congressional oversight or permission.

Hillary brokered the deal through Stevens and a private arms dealer named Marc Turi. Then some of the shoulder fired missiles ended up in Afghanistan and were used against our own military.

 

It was July 25th, 2012 when a Chinook helicopter was taken down by one of our own Stingers, but the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile and the Chinook didn't explode, but had to land anyway.

 

An ordnance team recovered the serial number off the missile which led back to a cache of Stingers being kept in Qatar by the CIA.  Obama and Hillary were now in full panic mode and Stevens was sent in to retrieve the rest of the Stingers. [Stevens met earlier that same day before the attack on the consul with Turi in an attempt to broker a deal for getting the Stinger missiles back. It obviously didn't go well for Stevens.] This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the stand down orders given to multiple commando teams.

It was the State Dept, not the CIA, that supplied them to our sworn enemies, because Petraeus wouldn't approve supplying these deadly weapons due to their potential use on commercial aircraft.  Then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus after he refused to testify that he OK'd the BS talking points about a spontaneous uprising due to a YouTube video.

 

Obama and Hillary committed treason and THIS is what the investigation is all about, why she had a private server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and why Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of a YouTube video, even though everyone knew it was not. [Remember, Susan Rice was sent out to the network station Sunday shows - five of them - to promote the cover story about the video.]

 

Further...the Taliban knew that this administration aided and abetted the enemy without Congressional approval when Boehner created the Select Committee, and the Taliban began pushing the Obama Administration for the release of 5 Taliban Generals [in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl].

 

Bowe Bergdahl was just a pawn...everyone KNEW he was a traitor.  So we had a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised and a woman that is a serial liar, perjured herself multiple times at Congressional hearings.

 

Perhaps this is why no military aircraft was called in...because the administration knew our enemies had Stingers.

 

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While this most likely is actually what occurred, the "power players" in high places have made certain that they will be immune to any prosecution because, as is the standard operating procedure in "the swamp", they have "dirt" on those who would pursue any prosecution against them.

"Auntie Maxine" Reveals Her True Mental Condition

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D) of CA was a guest on The View recently and she was asked if she was going to run for president in 2020. After denying she was, she was asked if Trump is impeached whether she was going to go after VP Pence. Her answer to this question reveals several things to me:

1. How stupid she is.
2. She wants to meddle in every country's elections.
3. She thinks someone other than Pence is the VP.
4. She believes everyone on earth gets to vote in everybody's elections.
5. She keeps getting re-elected in her congressional district because she's as brain-dead as her constituents in her L.A. district where she condoned the brick being thrown into the head of the truck driver pulled out of his cab and assaulted by hoodlums in the street during the riots in the '90s.

Trump Does The Unthinkable

by Liz Crokin

Donald Trump is a racist, bigot, sexist, xenophobe,

anti-Semitic and Islamophobe -- did I miss anything?.... He is also deplorable.

The left and the media launch these hideous kinds of attacks at Trump everyday; yet nothing could be further from the truth about the real estate mogul.

As an entertainment journalist, I've had the opportunity

to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I've never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president

Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could've potentially sold a lot

of magazines and would've been a huge feather in my cap.  Instead, I found that he doesn't drink alcohol or

do drugs, he's a hardworking businessman.

On top of that, he's one of the most generous celebrities in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million New York penthouse. Since the media has failed so miserably at reporting the truth about Trump, I decided to put together some of the acts of kindness he's committed over three decades which has gone virtually unnoticed or fallen on deaf ears.

In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill's family farm after her husband committed suicide.  Trump personally phoned down to the auction to stop the sale of her home and offered the widow money.  Trump decided to take action after he saw Hill's pleas for help in news reports.

In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system.  His grief stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn't hesitate   to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York so he could get his treatment.

In 1991, 200 Marines who served in Operation Desert Storm spent time at Camp Lejune in North Carolina before they were scheduled to return home to their families.  However, the Marines were told that a mistake had been made and an aircraft would not be able to take them home on their scheduled departure date.  When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami to safely return the Gulf War Marines to their loved ones.

In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire.  Trump asked the Good Samaritan how he could repay him for his help.  All the man asked for was a bouquet of flowers for his wife.  A few weeks later Trump sent the flowers with a note that read:  We've paid off your mortgage.

In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach, Florida, accusing the town of discriminating against his Mar-a-Lago resort club because it allowed Jews and blacks.  Abraham Foxman, who was the Anti-Defamation League Director at the time, said Trump put the light on Palm Beach not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. Foxman also noted that Trump's charge had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed his lead and began admitting Jews and blacks.

In 2000, Maury Povich featured a little girl named Megan who struggled with Brittle Bone Disease on his show and Trump happened to be watching.  Trump said the little girl's story and positive attitude touched his heart.  So he contacted Maury and gifted the little girl and her family with a very generous check.

In 2008, after Jennifer Hudson's family members were tragically murdered in Chicago, Trump put the Oscar-winning actress and her family up at his Windy City hotel for free.  In addition to that, Trump's security took extra measures to ensure Hudson and her family members were safe during such a difficult time.

In 2013, New York bus driver Darnell Barton spotted a woman close to the edge of a bridge staring at traffic below as he drove by.  He stopped the bus, got out and put his arm around the woman and saved her life by convincing her to not jump.  When Trump heard about this story, he sent the hero bus driver a check simply because he believed his good deed deserved to be rewarded.

In 2014, Trump gave $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tamoressi after he spent seven months in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the US-Mexico border.  President Barack Obama couldn't even be bothered to make one phone call to assist with the United States Marine's release; however, Trump opened his pocketbook to help this serviceman get back on his feet.

In 2016, Melissa Consin Young attended a Trump rally and tearfully thanked Trump for changing her life.  She said she proudly stood on stage with Trump as Miss Wisconsin USA in 2005.  However, years later she found herself struggling with an incurable illness and during her darkest days she explained that she received a handwritten letter from Trump telling her she's the bravest woman I know.  She said the opportunities that she got from Trump and his organizations ultimately provided her Mexican-American son with a full-ride to college.

Lynne Patton, a black female executive for the Trump Organization, released a statement in 2016 defending her boss against accusations that he's a racist and a bigot.  She tearfully revealed how she's struggled with substance abuse and addiction for years.  Instead of kicking her to the curb, she said the Trump Organization and his entire family loyally stood by her through immensely difficult times.

Donald Trump's kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every sex, race and religion.  When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help.  Two decades ago, Oprah asked Trump in a TV interview if he'd run for president.  He said:  If it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally, because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country.  That day has come.

Trump sees that America is in need and he wants to help.  How unthinkable!  On the other hand, have you ever heard of Hillary or Obama ever doing such things with their own resources?

A Well Written Post From Facebook

To all the whiners on the left, and to the crybabies in the LGBT community, let me throw some reality into your bowl of fruity pebbles...

Nobody has a "right" to serve in the Military.  Nobody!!

What makes you people think the Military is an equal opportunity employer?  Very far from it.

The Military uses prejudice regularly and consistently to deny citizens from joining for a variety of reasons, like being too old or too young, too fat or too skinny, too tall or too short.

Citizens are denied for having flat feet, or for missing fingers or toes, poor eyesight will disqualify you, poor hearing, undernourished, Drug addiction, metal implants, Criminal history, Anxiety, Phobias, Hearing voices in your head, Self-identify as a Unicorn, handicapped in anyway, Can't run the required distance in the required time, Can't do the required number of pushups or sit-ups, have an eating disorder, or any kind of mental disorder, have a below average IQ, can't read or comprehend English, can't problem solve or make quick decisive decisions.

Are you not really a "morning person" and refuse to get out of bed before noon?   You're out!

You have a penis but want to use the women's restroom?  You're out!

Don't like the camouflage uniforms because you'd rather wear pink? You're out!

The Military has one job... Prepare for War against anybody who threatens the safety and sovereignty of our nation!  Anything else is a distraction and a liability.

Did someone just scream "That isn't Fair"?  War is VERY unfair. There are no exceptions made for being special or challenged or socially wonderful or different.

YOU change yourself to meet Military standards.  Not the other way around.

I say again:  You don't change the Military standards... you must change yourself.

The Military doesn't need to accommodate anyone with special needs or emotional and mental issues. The Military needs to Win Wars.

If any of your personal issues are a liability that detract from readiness or lethality...

Then, thank you for applying and good luck in your future endeavors.  Who's next in line?

Dancing With the Stars

 

At first when I saw this I thought the girl
was one of his daughters.

 

Green and white shirt, black tee shirt, gray pants
and tennis shoes.

 

How many people know that President Bush hosts
a few Wounded Warriors at his ranch
10 weekends every year?
Every year! All expenses paid!

 

Not what you expect to see, huh?
There he is, dancing with a "Wounded Warrior"
who has lost a leg but still dances.

 

I guarantee we will NEVER see a story or picture
like this from NBC, CBS, ABC, The New York Times,
or The Washington Post.