To NFL Players, Coaches and Owners

If I have brain cancer, I don’t ask my dentist what I should do. If my car has a problem, I don’t seek help from a plumber! Why do you think the public cares what a football player thinks about politics? If we want to know about football, then depending on the information we seek, we might consult with you, but even a quarterback doesn’t seek advice on playing his position from a defensive tackle!

You seem to have this over inflated view of yourselves, thinking because you enjoy working on such a large scale stage, that somehow your opinion about everything matters. The NFL realizes the importance of its “image” so it has rules that specify the clothes and insignia you can wear, the language you use, and your “antics” after a touchdown or other “great” play. But somehow you and your employer don’t seem to care that you disgrace the entire nation and its 320 million people in the eyes of the world by publicly disrespecting this country, its flag, and its anthem! The taxpaying citizens of this country subsidize your plush work environments, yet you choose to use those venues to openly offend those very citizens.

Do you even understand what the flag of this country means to so many of its citizens before you choose to “take a knee” in protest of this “country" during our national anthem?

You may think because you are paid so much that your job is tough, but you are clueless when it comes to tough.

You are spoiled babies who stand around and have staff squirt GatorAid in your mouths, sit in front of misting cooling fans when it’s warm, and sit on heated benches when it's cold. That’s not “tough” that's pampered.

You think that you deserve to be paid excessively high salaries, because you play a “dangerous" game where you can incur career ending injuries.

You think you that you deserve immediate medical attention and the best medical facilities and doctors when injured.

You think you have the right to disrespect the flag of the United States, the one our veterans fought for, risked limbs and mental stability to defend, in many cases died for.

All you have to do to understand why I say these things, is to visit a V.A. Hospital once in a while and witness those men and women who've had their arms and/or legs blown off, their psyche shattered from the unbelievable things they've had to go through, or attend a graveside funeral - either in your home town, or at Arlington National Cemetery - to watch the spouse and children of those who've lost their loved one being handed a folded flag.

Then, perhaps, it may dawn on you that kneeling during our national anthem is not such a smart, or respectful, action despite your perceived grievances about racial oppression as a player in the NFL making millions. (And I say, perhaps, because if your already taking a knee, you've demonstrated that you're not thinking too clearly and you're just going along to be part of the current trend.)

From a veteran of the Vietnam War, U.S. Air Force. 

More Powerful Than Our Government?

The recent news that a Google employee was fired over a thesis document about gender diversity has illustrated just how pervasive political correctness has gotten out of control in our modern culture.

To better understand what this issue is actually about, I invite you to view this five minute video from Prager U titled, "What Happens When Google Disagrees With You?". The reason for titling this post the way I did is revealed near the end. I guarantee it will get you to thinking about what's going on when it comes to where our culture is heading.

What's ironic about posting this topic, is that this blog is run by Google. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ...

Why Many Don't Trust Our Media

Yes, we lead busy lives and most of us count on our favorite channel we turn on when we want to hear, or watch, the news to be honest, unbiased, and trustworthy. At least this is what reporting used to be many decades ago. (Although, I sometimes can't help but wonder just how far back in time we'd need to go to actually find it since we've had "yellow journalism" as far back as the early 1900s.)

Today, we have the advantage of the Internet to access unfiltered, or differently viewed, news from other countries where the bias isn't influencing what is consumed here in the U.S. It's now commonly understood that this is true by simply going to some of the news sites in the U.K. for this difference in perspective of what's going on because those sites don't have a "dog in the fight".

This more recent Prager U video titled, "Why No One Trusts the Mainstream Media", does a good job of illustrating the finer points of why this is more true today than has been in the past. Check it out.

And Now, Liberals Attack Our Prayers

The following initial script is from the Laura Ingraham show and her intro titled, "The Ingraham Angle" in response to the tragic massacre in Texas last Sunday at the Baptist Church where so many lives were lost:

"... the power of prayer, that's apparently a threat to people. We're gonna have more on all those stories throughout the hour. But first, the latest on Sunday's horrific mass shooting in Southerland Springs, Texas. 

The more we learn about Devin Patrick Kelly, the more shocking it is that he was ever able to purchase a gun. Now, not only did this freak assault his wife, and fracture the skull of his step-son, but he also escaped from a mental hospital in that same time frame. 

Now, despite this, the Air Force never entered him into an FBI data-base, and that cleared the way for him to purchase the weapons he used during the shooting spree; absolutely incredible! [Conjecture is growing that this failure, during the Obama administration, was possibly due to the general tone of how the military was being changed in 2012. You know, the same manner in which Obama treated Bergdahl's family and the remarks made in the Rose Garden?]

Now back in Southerland Springs, we're hearing about the many acts of heroism at the First Baptist Church, from those who survived and from those who, of course, succumbed. By now, you've heard about Steven Williford, the plumber who stopped the shooting by engaging with the killer with a gun of his own. 

And tonight, we're learning more about another person, Joan Ward.  This mother of four died in a heroic attempt to shield her own children from the killer. [She lost two of the four, with one still in critical condition - her 5 year old son, Ryland - and one daughter, Rihanna, who survived.]

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Watching the rest of this on video is available here which includes some powerful remarks in interviews with a close friend of Joan Ward, and the Texas Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick, who spoke with Williford, the plumber who engaged the killer as he came out of the church, in case you haven't already seen this segment from Ingraham's show.

And, Brittany Hughes, from MRCTV, has some great comments to make about this attack by liberals on this latest tragedy. You don't want to miss this!

Also, Sen. Ted Cruz makes some interesting remarks on Shannon Bream's show about how the Dems filibustered a bill in 2012 that would have kept this monster from being able to get his guns!

Liberals Want Luxury For Their Crimminals

Don't believe me? Check this out...

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CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS??? 
I guarantee you won't believe it!

Can you get it on the first picture or second or third or do you have to wait till the fourth or fifth one?? 

 

  

IT  IS . . .   The New Cook County 
Correctional Center in Chicago, Illinois

>> And yeah, they can also choose from the menu!

Let me see now... 

Who was the US Senator who helped arrange the funds 
to build this beautiful "punishment center"??? 

Oh yes, it was Senator Obama!!! 

This is where his Administration planned on putting the terrorists from Gitmo, and we have Americans living in cardboard boxes on the streets that have never killed anyone. Nothing makes sense anymore!!!

No wonder there's such a huge shooting spree going on in Chicago... the perps get a luxury lifestyle as a reward!

MOST  PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THIS!

Benghazi and the Matching Serial Numbers

Never saw this on TV, probably never will.

This is the smoking truth finally………

Looks like the ship has finally hit the sand!!!!

Benghazi and the Matching Serial Numbers

Tyranny is so close!  Hopefully we are now witnessing the death throws of the lying liberal media. May they go the way of Montgomery Ward!

Benghazi and the Matching Serial Numbers

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 missile hit the Chinook it didn't explode, but the Chinook 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. 

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.

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.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a pawn...everyone KNEW he was a traitor.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, and a woman that is a serial liar, and who perjured herself multiple times at Congressional hearings.

Perhaps this is why no military aircraft was called in that night in Benghazi, because the administration knew our enemies had Stingers they could use.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story.

And to think, over half of the US population doesn’t even know this event occurred!

The Only Constant Is Change

The longer I deal with using technology, the more this post's title is true. The only thing that one can be certain of as a constant is change.

I spend months, if not years getting familiar and comfortable with a particular interface - be it an operating system for Windows/Mac, Android/Apple, ISP email box, and suddenly a change is made that throws everything I've learned into chaos and confusion again. Once again, I have to spend months, if not years, discovering and remembering where this feature is, or that particular function is now because some geek programmer created some supposedly "better" interface.

I had to replace my cell phone recently and while there are some features which allow for improved capabilities, like the quality of camera images and voice when speaking with someone, the design leaves much to be desired when it comes to intuitiveness of the interface. Before getting my new phone I went into my service provider and had them help me - a senior citizen who now believes there's a conspiracy to make it more and more difficult for us to use newer tools - turn on the "cloud" upload feature so that I could transfer all contents to the new phone.

A few days later I got the new phone and asked the store agent to show me how I could download the old phone contents from the cloud. Rather than actually showing me, he just tapped a few times on my new phone and said, "There you go!" As a career educator I wondered if he even heard my request to be given instruction on how I could accomplish the task. After asking him if it was finished and that everything would be there on the new phone, he assured me that it would even pause and continue the download from the cloud once I got back to my house and set the Wi-Fi to automatically pick up my router's signal.

However, upon getting home and bringing up the main screen, I realized that there was no settings icon I could find like I had become used to locating on my old cell phone. As a result, I had no way to set the Wi-Fi feature to complete the download from the cloud. Frustrated that I had to return to the service provider store eight miles back into town, I went the next day and sought assistance with another agent.

Upon explaining to him what I'd encountered with the new layout of icons and features on the phone, I asked her to explain to me how I was supposed to know where to find the settings icon for the phone if the interface wasn't familiar to me on this new phone. Her answer was that I should just "explore" things on the phone to see if I could locate what I needed. After explaining that that is precisely what I attempted to do the evening before, she pointed out to me a small carrot symbol just above the bottom row of app icons and told me to place my finger on it and slide upwards.

Hidden within, or underneath this little carrot symbol, was the whole bank of app icons for the phone. I looked at her again and asked, "How am I supposed to know that that little symbol there is where I'm going to find all the apps?" Her reply was priceless, "I don't know, just mess around with stuff!" Wonderful!

Then, I explained to her after looking around in my photo gallery that there were only two images on the phone, I asked her why after the download had completed there at the store the other 98 images weren't there. Looking a bit confused, she took my phone, fingered on my phone's face for a minute, then told me that my photos had to be downloaded from a different server; Google's, rather than where the rest of my old phone's contents was downloaded from. But, when I asked her why that was the case, she couldn't explain why my photos were on a Google server and not the other with the rest of my phone's contents.

Over the past couple months I've been using this new phone I've received notices that the OS was being updated. After the update completed and I went into use it, some of the features looked different and functioned differently as well; forcing me to reassess how to deal with it. This constant change is getting to be extremely frustrating because it caters to the youth who think nothing of such rapid modifications to how technology is designed for interaction. Instead of wanting reliance and certainty, they enjoy and invite anything new, it seems.

And what is this fixation Google has with needing to have permission to know what my location is, what photos I have in my gallery, and who my contacts are, just to allow an app to work at getting directions to an address? Of course, there's text among the set up for the new "gizmo" I want to use telling me that my personal information will not be share with anyone, but we all know after the revelations a few years ago about the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. that they gather our metadata voraciously. So, please, don't tell me my information's not shared with anyone.

New is clearly more important for marketing purposes as opposed to being consistent and reliable. But what of seniors who prefer that reliance of familiarity and certainty about how to do things and where to find them? We need those types of things to just be able to function in this age of rapidly changing technology. Forget it, we're living in a brave new world where technology is assumed to be infallible, yet it's always unreliable and glitchy, making our lives more frustrating and complex. I tend to wonder if it's really worth it.