S’MORE SUMMER SATURDAY SNIPPETS
HURRICANE DORIAN This monstrous category 4 storm which now appears to have changed track and is now menacing the Carolinas and Georgia as of Saturday afternoon reminds me a lot of Donald Trump-wild, unpredictable, erratic and dangerous!!!! Let’s hope Dorian veers even further to the east and spares the east coast of the United States altogether, and let’s hope we see an end to Trump’s presidency in the near future!!! ANOTHER CLOSE TRUMP AIDE IS GONE!! This time it’s Trump’s personal assistant, who got drunk and shared private information about Trump’s family to a group of reporters. Now the fight is over whether or not she signed a non disclosure agreement like so many other Trump employees have been obligated to do-that’s how he secures loyalty!! At a price, for a monetary transaction, like everything else he does. How’s that worked out for you so far, Mr. President?!? What more can anybody say that would convince the vast majority of Americans that the man in the White House is unfit to be president?!? His employee record of turnover is astonishing-unprecedented!!! SWEET HOME ALABAMA PART III Ten or more people were shot at a high school football game in Mobile, Alabama last night, five of them in critical condition. As I have stated as recently as last week, it seems you NEVER hear a positive news story coming out of this state. This is certainly no different. It’s bad enough that our children have to be afraid at school about an active shooter incident, but now even those who attend extracurricular events are targets!!! I’m sure the answer in Alabama through the REPUBLIKAN state legislature will be to provide guns to everybody who attends one of these events!! Roll Tide and pass the ammo brother!! TRUMP/PENCE 2020? I read where the overwhelming majority of REPUBLIKANS want Trump to include Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence on the ticket next year as his running mate. This is the same party where over 80% believe Trump is doing a good job as president!!! I believe Mike Pence is as phony as that Evangelical nonsense he constantly champions, be it anti abortion or anti LGBT or putting God back in the classroom and VA facilities. I’m personally hopeful that this does indeed prove to be the REPUBLIKAN ticket in 2020, because it will make the Democratic beat down that much sweeter!!! It doesn’t matter who the candidate is, they will rout Trump. The country has had enough and seen and heard enough to convince most of them who voted for him that they made a monumental mistake three years ago!!! MOSCOW MITCH LETTER TO SCOTUS Here’s a real laugher for you-WASHINGTON -- Pledging not to allow Democrats to "pack the Court," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his GOP colleagues in the chamber sent a letter to the Supreme Court Thursday that pushes back on a friend-of-the-court brief recently filed by five Senate Democrats in a Second Amendment case currently before the high court. All 53 of the Republicans in the Senate signed the letter. In the letter, McConnell and his colleagues said the Democratic brief “openly threatened this Court with political retribution if it failed to dismiss the petition as moot.” The Senate Republicans said the court “must not be cowed” and added: “The implication is as plain as day: Dismiss this case, or we’ll pack the Court.” This from the same man who refused to bring Obama’s appointee Merrick Garland to the Senate floor for a vote and then getting a more conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch appointed and confirmed by changing the rules of the Senate, then did the same to get Brett Kavanaugh confirmed. I’ll say one thing for “MOSCOW MITCH”-he’s got some brass balls!!! But Kentuckians, like the rest of America, have grown weary of his act. I sincerely believe his ego and incredible arrogance at this point, as well as his negative ads and a smear campaign fueled by dollars from his lengthy list of corporate sponsors like the NRA and the REPUBLIKAN corporate war chest, will give his Democratic opponent a legitimate opportunity to send this self serving self righteous relic packing!!! TIME TO DITCH MOSCOW MITCH!!! LABOR DAY Let’s remember our union brothers as we get ready to celebrate the last holiday of summer. Despite all of the efforts of the REPUBLIKAN vultures like “MAD” Matt Bevin and CROOKED DONALD and their respective bands of buffoons and clowns to destroy the labor movement in order to have their corporate sponsors pocket more money at the expense of the people who work for them. BTW, these are the same politicians who have consistently opposed a fair minimum wage and fought to get right to work laws pushed through the legislature in order to break the labor unions. Labor unions form the backbone of our working force and always have, and they are also actively involved with projects that benefit the community. Let’s give them a special shout out on Labor Day come Monday. And enjoy the cookouts and backyard barbeques and football games. Don’t forget the s’mores!!!!
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TRUMP JUST FARTED AND THE WHOLE WORLD’S GONNA SMELL IT!!! As should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone, Donald Trump’s Environmental DESTRUCTION Agency (EDA) just rolled back 2016 Obama era EPA (Environmental PROTECTION Agency) regulations which restricted the amount of methane gas could be discharged into the environment. "The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it plans to loosen federal rules on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas linked to climate change. The proposed rule would reverse standards enacted under President Barack Obama that required oil and gas operators to prevent the release of methane in new drilling wells, pipelines and storage facilities. It also challenges the notion that the federal government has the authority to regulate methane without first making a detailed determination that it qualifies as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. If successful, that change could hamper the ability of future administrations to enact tougher restrictions on methane. Already, the Trump administration has taken several steps to limit the government’s ability to regulate other greenhouse gases in the future, including in a recently finalized rule curbing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. “EPA’s proposal delivers on President Trump’s executive order and removes unnecessary and duplicative regulatory burdens from the oil and gas industry,” EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement. “The Trump administration recognizes that methane is valuable, and the industry has an incentive to minimize leaks and maximize its use.” Methane is a significant contributor to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, though it is shorter-lived than carbon dioxide and is not emitted in amounts as large. It often is leaked as companies drill for gas and transport it across the country, and methane emissions are more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide emissions over the short term. Scientists have projected that the world needs to cut its overall greenhouse gas emissions nearly in half by mid-century to avert catastrophic effects from global warming. According to the EPA, methane accounted for more than 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as recently as 2017. Nearly a third of those emissions were generated by the natural gas and petroleum industry. The agency estimates that the proposed changes, which will be subject to public comment for 60 days after they are published, would save the oil and natural gas industry $17 million to $19 million a year. But several of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies, including Exxon, Shell and BP, have opposed the rollback and urged the Trump administration to keep the current standards in place. Collectively, these firms account for 11 percent of America’s natural gas output. They are concerned about the negative publicity their industry will receive as a result of this rollback, after telling us for years about what a clean burning fuel natural gas is! The environmentally destructive practice of fracking to obtain the gas by injecting chemicals at very high pressures into the earth isn’t talked about very much either. Just ask the people of Oklahoma, for example, about the increased incidences of tremors and earthquakes since that state was inundated by fracking operations. BTW, many of the methane releases are a direct result of this process. Environmentalists threatened to fight the Trump administration’s move in court. Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group, called the proposal reckless, saying it shows “complete contempt for our climate.” She said that even the Obama administration’s efforts to limit methane emissions were modest, given the significant amount that escapes into the atmosphere each year. Ben Ratner, a senior director at the advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund, said in an interview that rolling back the regulations could reward bad actors in the industry. Given that many major players had embraced limits on methane, Ratner said, it made little sense for Trump officials to ease such restrictions. “It’s more of an ideological reaction to regulation of any climate pollutant by the federal government,” he said. (Above information taken from The Washington Post). I have been preaching the complete disregard that Trump and his “CABINET OF CLOWNS”, including EDA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, himself a former lobbyist for the very industry he is supposed to be regulating, which is par for the course in Trump’s world, have shown for climate change, global warming or the environment. He withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord. He skipped the meeting on climate change at the G7 summit. In short, Donald Trump and his incompetent buffoons in the EDA and the Interior Departments have put our future and that of our children and grandchildren in serious jeopardy for the sake of campaign contributions and getting themselves reelected. The Congressional REPUBLIKANS, including “MOSCOW MITCH” and Kevin (JOE) McCarthy stand by with their you know what in their hands while all of this plays out. As I’ve also said before, the only way to eliminate these environmental hazards is through the power of the ballot box. Make sure you hold these gutless sycophants and their golden idol responsible for the destruction they are wreaking upon not only our country but the rest of the world as well. Trump farted, and it smells REALLY bad!!!! TRUMP FILES FOR DIVORCE…FROM FAUX NEWS!!! Roger Ailes must be rolling over in his grave-it appears the love affair between his golden idol and made from TV President Donald Trump is filing for a divorce after all these great years of lies, misinformation and propaganda shared together!!! It’s like watching the perfect marriage dissolve into a bitter divorce battle right before our very eyes. It’s like Hitler firing Joseph Goebbels. And I LOVE every minute of it! Trump was apparently angered Wednesday morning when Fox News anchor Sandra Smith interviewed Xochitl Hinojosa, the communications director for the Democratic National Committee who discussed the candidate qualifications for the party’s next debate. Trump complained that the interview was too soft and that Smith provided no pushback in the largely benign discussion about the party’s rules and recent poll numbers for the Democratic front-runners and organizational work being done for the 2020 campaign. “Just watched @FoxNews heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox. Terrible considering that Fox couldn’t even land a debate, the Dems give them NOTHING! @CNN & @MSNBC....,” Trump wrote. The tweet is the latest in a recent series in which Trump has gone after commentators and aspects of Fox News coverage that isn’t friendly to him. Other recent Twitter targets of Trump’s ire include “The Five” co-host Juan Williams, (“always nasty and wrong), “Fox News Sunday” moderator Chris Wallace (“Fox is moving to the losing side”) and afternoon anchor Shepard Smith (“Fake News CNN is better”). They have all been recent targets of the president’s ire on social media. Executives at other cable news networks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they believe Trump is upset that Fox News is giving any airtime at all to the Democratic Party. Trump’s statements that Fox News is “no longer working for us” is damaging to the channel, which often points out that its news-gathering operation is separate from the opinion hosts such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, who devote much of their airtime attacking the president’s critics. Fox News has also come under scrutiny for having a revolving door of on-air analysts and anchors that have landed jobs in the Trump administration. Former Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on to become a paid contributor for Fox News Channel. Christopher Ruddy, a friend of Trump’s who operates the conservative TV channel Newsmax, said the president’s dissatisfaction with Fox News indicates there is room for more than one conservative-leaning TV outlet. “People are tired of Fox and perhaps the President is tiring of it too,” Ruddy said in an email. “I think the country needs more than one liberal channel and it has several. We also need more than one conservative leaning channel — and now we have it with Newsmax.” (The above information from the Los Angeles Times) So there you have it. The same REAL “fake news” outlet that helped put CROOKED DONALD into the White House with their unrelenting attacks on Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama has been thrown into the Donald Trump dumpster, along with countless others who have outlived their usefulness. The list is endless over the last nearly three years. It appears that the FAUX NEWS “fair and balanced” approach is not up to the President’s standards of lying, misstatements and blind loyalty. I hope this wakes up the people responsible for running FAUX NEWS, that the time has come to jettison the charlatans like The Three Stooges in the morning, Sean “INSANITY” Hannity, Laura Ingraham and others who have been mere mouthpieces for Trump and his REPUBLIKAN cronies while masquerading as legitimate journalists. What FAUX NEWS REALLY needs is more anchors on air like Chris Wallace and Shephard Smith, who actually do make attempts at serious journalism and “fair and balanced”. Maybe then people other than “the base” will tune in. I’ll bet “Newsmax” will be even further removed from reality, just like Donald Trump. It won’t be long before he starts his own 24/7 news channel-he could call it “The FAKE NEWS NETWORK” or FNN. Staff it with brilliant people like Sarah “HUCKLEBERRY” Sanders, Sean “INSANITY” Hannity, Kellyanne “C” WORD and even invite the Mooch back!! I’m sure sponsors like the NRA, Exxon Mobil, BP, MBS, Russian oligarchs and Kim Jung UN will be standing in line to help support this new venture. Even Trump himself will be available for a full time role, perhaps as the host, after November of 2020. He’ll be out of work in D.C. BTW, I really doubt Roger Ailes turned over in his grave-he was much too big to accomplish that feat!!! Good riddance!!! SWEET HOME ALABAMA REDUX!!!
Has ANYBODY ever heard ANY good news about Alabama?!? I have written several posts over the last couple of years decrying pedophile and gunslinger Roy Moore and his senatorial campaign and the REPUBLIKAN controlled legislature passing the strictest anti abortion law in the country in complete disregard for the Constitution. Now comes this. Alabama Republicans are urging lawmakers to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. from Congress after a series of controversial statements, including remarks about Israel and her support of economic boycotts against that country. The state GOP passed a resolution last weekend at the party's summer meeting in Auburn calling on its congressional delegation to “proceed with the expulsion process” against the first-term congresswoman. “Representative Omar has engaged in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism by falsely accusing U.S. armed forces of committing war crimes while on mission to liberate her home country of Somalia,” the resolution said. It said Omar also “dismissed the 9/11 terror attacks waged by radical Islam” and “sympathized with a convicted terrorist” by advocating for “sentencing leniency.” State Rep. Tommy Hanes introduced the resolution, which was approved on a voice vote. One Republican opposed it, according to The Alabama Political Reporter. "Rep. Omar is ungrateful to the United States and the opportunities that have been afforded to her," Hanes said. "Anyone that holds contempt for America ought not serve this great nation as a member of Congress." In response to the resolution, Omar tweeted that she was "elected with 78% of the vote by the people of Minnesota's 5th District, not the Alabama Republican Party" and made reference to Roy Moore, who faced multiple allegations that he had romantic relationships with underage girls while in his thirties. The accusations derailed his 2017 U.S. Senate bid. Omar wrote, "If you want to clean up politics, maybe don’t nominate an accused child molester as your Senate candidate?" (The above information taken from where else but FAUX NEWS Digital!!) Oh, BTW, none of the allegations leveled by Hanes or the other REPUBLIKAN stooges is accurate. And since when did Israel become our Fifty First State?!? Israel and its criminal leader Netanyahu have been committing atrocities in the Middle East for decades-now our President openly condones their ongoing human rights violations while the REPUBLIKAN controlled Senate under “MOSCOW MITCH” stands on the sidelines counting Jewish votes. And since when does the most racially segregated state in the union, Alabama, start becoming the defender of “our great nation”?!? Was that before or after the civil war??? The people of Alabama should be embarrassed by this outrageous resolution against a member of the United States House of Representative, whether that individual is a Muslim or a Jew, a woman or a man. But not in Donald Trump’s world and NEVER in Alabama the Beautiful!!! They still fly the Confederate stars and bars with pride! Just take a look at the state flag above-all it's missing is the stars). And the REPUBLIKAN controlled state legislature should be proud in that same tradition!!!! As if that wasn’t enough fodder to rip Alabama, now we anxiously await the next senatorial campaign of the gun toting child molester himself-Roy Moore!!!! From the same state that brought us the KKK and George Wallace and police dogs and fire hoses. It turns out Neil Young was right after all!!! Roll Tide. WELCOME TO INDIANA THE “LOSER” STATE
I’ve never liked Indiana. Growing up in Kentucky it’s only natural to learn to detest our neighbors to the north from the Hoosier State. Being a Kentucky basketball fan, we learned to despise Bobby Knight and Indiana and all they stood for back in the day-it was a REAL rivalry. The two coaches and the two schools seriously did NOT like each other, just like the relationship that exists between Kentuckians and those who live on the wrong side of the river. From the state that gave us a blowhard bully like Bobby Knight to the fraudulent politician V.P. Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence, we now have Dan Dakich, himself a former interim basketball coach at I.U. and now radio talk show host and color commentator who lambasted Indianapolis Colt’s quarterback Andrew Luck for announcing his retirement from professional football and the Indianapolis Colts. Luck announced his retirement last night as a result of a series of injuries that have plagued him throughout his seven year NFL career. The consensus is that it was a bad look for the Indianapolis Colts fans who booed Andrew Luck after news broke that the quarterback would announce his retirement Saturday night less than three weeks before his 30th birthday. No shit. Here is a player who gave everything he had to this football team until he had nothing left to give, and the fans boo him?!? Only in “LOSER” land. But what about a well-known college basketball broadcaster, former college hoops head coach and sports-talk radio host openly questioning Luck's reasons for retiring? As well as his manhood. Dan Dakich went there on Twitter on Saturday night - and wasn't subtle about it - after Luck's announcement, drawing plenty of replies to his controversial takes that likely also won't be received well by Luck himself: Garbage..I’ve spoken openly about my own mental health issues for years on my show..go away https://t.co/isD11q3utc Gil Brandt and most scouts questioned his commitment when he was drafted..I told you this for years https://t.co/BuGDYzUT8i I have family working in steel mills..cops..teachers making far less and this guy is “tired”..... my backside https://t.co/2zx5kutkSL Luck has a freaking ankle and a freaking shoulder...just tell us I made a ton of $$$$ and don’t love the sport.. Luck is full of ish and always has been As I told you...FULL OF ISH https://t.co/OyKxy1gf85 This Trumpish fusillade of tweets railing against Luck’s announcement that football had taken it’s toll on him mentally and physically to the point it was time to walk away from the sport at age twenty nine speaks volumes about Dakich, himself no stranger to controversy. The fact that Colts fans took off his jersey and booed Andrew Luck as he walked off the field of Lucas Oil Stadium for the last time speaks volumes about the people of Indiana. And since I began this post last night, another ex jock, Doug Gotlieb also chose to rip Luck with this following tweet of brilliance: “Retiring cause rehabbing is “too hard” is the most millennial thing ever #AndrewLuck,” Gottlieb tweeted. He was himself subsequently shredded by Super Bowl winning ex Dallas QB Troy Aikman, who does color commentary on FAUX NFL broadcasts, where Gotlieb also has a radio show on FAUX Sports 1. “That’s total bulls--- Doug. What qualifies you to decide how someone should live their life? So you’re now the authority on what motivates Andrew Luck? And if his decisions don’t fit into what you think is best for him then you rip him? Guess that keeps you employed on FS1. Nice,” Aikman tweeted. I couldn’t agree more. These talking heads are all a bunch of self righteous morons who jump at the opportunity to rip athletes to pieces because they don’t agree with them or don’t like their game. There’s way too many of these buffoons filling the airwaves and delivering podcasts!!! The truth of the matter is Indianapolis has never been that big of a football town. After all the Colts had to steal away in moving vans in the middle of the night to move there from Baltimore, and let’s be honest-Indiana, like it’s great neighbor to the south, is a basketball state first and everything else second. The Colts haven’t been serious contenders for a Super Bowl in a decade. College football is second tier in the state outside of South Bend and perhaps now W Lafayette, and Chicago with the Bears and their loyal fans is only a few hours drive north. So the bottom line here is this, folks. I wish Andrew all the “LUCK” in the world in life after football and I’m quite certain his decision will literally add years to his life expectancy. As far as the people who booed, destroyed jerseys, Dan Dakich and Doug Gotlieb and other critics of his decision are concerned, you embody the name “LOSER” State instead of Hoosier State. With apologies to my fine Hoosier friends (wait, I don’t have ANY!), I still love to hate on your state!!! TIME TO EIGHTY SIX THE NFL EXHIBITION SEASON!
Memo to Roger Goodell and all NFL owners: it’s time to put an end to the farce known as the NFL exhibition game schedule. The news that Houston Texans running back Lamar Miller blew out his knee after ONE play in his first carry of the preseason and could possibly be lost for the season is just the exclamation point on what has been a growing outcry to do away with these pointless preseason games. Here is a partial list of high profile NFL players who have been injured thus far in the preseason: Cam Newton/Carolina Panthers; Jarred Davis/Detroit Lions; Blaine Gabbert/Tampa Bay Bucaneers; Rashan Gary/Green Bay Packers; Derrius Guice/Washington Redskins; Isaiah Wynn/New England Patriots; Deon Cain/Indianapolis Colts; Cedric Lang/Minnesota Vikings. The list in reality is considerably longer. Injuries. Bad fields. Lousy weather. None of these issues is new when it comes to the preseason. Neither is the lone reason to keep it at four games: NFL owners don’t want to lose the revenue they get from tickets, concessions and selling local TV rights. But the players are adamant about not trading two preseason games for two added regular season games. There was some optimism earlier in the week about the possibility of expanding the playoffs from 12 to 14 teams — thus adding two postseason games to the schedule — in exchange for cutting the preseason to three games, but the owners probably aren’t going to regard that as a fair trade as the long slog toward a new CBA continues (the current deal expires after the 2020 season). The toll taken on the body of NFL players is cumulative and debilitating over time, and the numbers of games they play have a direct bearing on their health and well being. Instead of looking at adding a couple of more regular season games, how about cutting back the regular season to fifteen games and adding another week or two of play off games? Like many other professional sports, such as baseball and basketball, the football season is too long as it is, driven by owner greed and the insatiable appetite of the 24/7 news cycle for filler and fodder for the talking heads on radio and television. I daresay NFL football is the biggest ratings draw of ALL sports on a consistent basis here in the U.S., and now we are subjected to bombardment about the league and its players and coaches 365 days a year!! I have a good friend who recently lamented to me about the overlap of seasons which occurs in the fall of the year when you have professional baseball, football, basketball and hockey all going on simultaneously (throw in college football/basketball)-talk about overload!!! He’s a baseball fan like I am who faithfully follows the Red Sox, and with college football starting and pro football approaching he said he probably won’t see much news about his team the rest of the season!! NFL coaches like Kyle Shanahan of the San Fransisco Forty Niners are in favor of either doing away with the pre season altogether or reducing the games by half to two instead of four. I understand that there is a need for player evaluation in the run up to the final cuts and that no amount of practice can simulate a real game scenario, but let’s face it-the team regulars are often not played in these games anyway, and player evaluations could be done in other ways. The notion that giving players like Lamar Miller “a few pre season reps” is in anyway a legitimate coaching concern is up for discussion-the man was an All Pro back last year who rushed for five TD’s and nearly 1000 yards. Tell me he needed the reps that ended his season in the pre season??? I’m not buying it!!! The NFL has long been a league whose owners are a bunch of rich old white dudes who could care less about anything but how big their wallets are!!! Look at the recent outrageous acquisitions of $250,000,000 yachts by both Jerry Jones of Dallas and Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons.. Patriot owner Robert Kraft buys his way out of solicitation charges involving a sleazy massage parlor! And these guys are worried about revenues from exhibition football games??? Gimme a break!!!! The Dallas franchise alone is estimated to be worth FIVE BILLION DOLLARS. Yet it took literally years and lawsuits to get the league to agree there was a serious issue with head trauma-these owners have NEVER put the welfare of the players above the almighty dollar and never will until the NFL Players Union decides enough is enough. Granted, these athletes are paid more than ANY athlete is worth, but let’s be honest-professional football is about as high risk as it gets. That doesn’t excuse the unacceptable greed that the owners collectively exhibit when it comes to making the game safer for the players at the expense of their pocketbooks. Get rid of the exhibition season. Players hate it, coaches don’t like it and the fans could care less. The owners are the only beneficiaries of these useless four games. Play fifteen regular season games and expend the playoffs by a week or two to include more teams and games-maybe a sweet sixteen type format. Players understand and accept the risk of playing in games that actually mean something. Getting hurt in a meaningless exhibition game shouldn’t be part of the equation. Ending a player’s season or career simply isn’t worth the marginal additional revenue generated for these billionaires by playing these sand lot games, which is about what they amount to. DONALD TRUMP UNPLUGGED AND UNHINGED
“ He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops.” If that line seems familiar, it’s from a scene in one of the greatest movies of all time “Apocalypse Now” where the general is explaining to Martin Sheen why Colonel Kurtz’s command had to be “terminated with extreme prejudice!” These words could also be used to aptly describe the recent behavior of POTUS Donald Trump, who appears to be more and more unstable in both his words and his actions. Perhaps it is time to invoke the Twenty Fifth Amendment!! Oh wait, his “CABINET OF CLOWNS” are themselves a collection of incompetent grafters who would NEVER put the good of the country above their own greed. Let’s just review some of the most recent incidences of the wildly erratic words and actions of our Commander In Chief. He has flip flopped numerous times on tighter gun restrictions since the twin massacres of a couple weeks ago, bragged about how the victims and their families “loved him”; he has cancelled a scheduled diplomatic visit to Denmark because in refusing his absurd request to buy Greenland he felt “disrespected by the P.M and others after they “weren’t nice to him” and “disrespected our country”; he urged allies to admit Russia to the G7 group after they were expelled for usurping Crimea and menacing the Ukraine while at the same time bashing other NATO members for not paying their fair share of military costs to the alliance. On Wednesday, Trump shared messages from a conspiracy theorist claiming that Israeli Jews regarded him as the "second coming" of God, questioned the loyalty of Jews who support the Democrats and bragged about extending the stay of immigrants in the so called detention centers. This was all just in the past few days, America. Aides in the White House and media news reports indicate that Trump is growing increasingly paranoid about the economy-the one favorable indicator he has going for him. His insane trade war with China is one of the primary reasons that the economy could be teetering, and he has floated the idea of a payroll tax cut and ripped his own appointee the head of the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates in order to stave off any perception that his policies will be to blame if the economy goes south. He takes all the credit but will accept ZERO responsibility if things take a turn for the worse. He will blame the fake news media, the Fed, the Democrats, the Chinese or whoever else pops into that empty space between his ears! As far as the rest is concerned, let’s look at his reelection resume based upon his accomplishments so far. His foreign policy is an unmitigated catastrophe, from N Korea and his BFF Kim Jong un to Russia and his pal Vlad to Iran and Dr. Strangelove’s incessant drive to an armed conflict in the Persian Gulf to the trade war with our largest trading partner China to his aforementioned skirmishes with our allies of over seven decades. His “CABINET OF CLOWNS” and the revolving door of personnel in and out of the “WORST WING” are a reflection of the most corrupt and incompetent group EVER assembled. His administration has been involved in one ethical scandal after another since the day he took the oath of office, and only because of a questionable policy guideline within the DOJ that supposedly precludes indictment of a sitting president has he himself remained unscathed by his numerous misdeeds thus far. The inhumane immigration policy orchestrated by Stephen “The KILLER” Miller gets worse by the day, with innocent children dying and legal asylum seekers being detained indefinitely in cages. The environment is in shambles due to the rollback of nearly every previous EPA rule regarding pollution, Trump’s insistence and that of his REPUBLIKAN cohorts that climate change and global warming aren’t real and the complete disregard for worker safety guidelines are all out the window in order to garner favor (campaign contributions) from the very companies they are supposed to be regulating!!! In many cases agency directors actually themselves came from the companies they are now regulating (not!). The supposed middle class tax cut turned out to be smoke and mirrors that only really put huge amounts of money into the hands of the greedy corporate boards and presidents and their shareholders or the very wealthy. We got crumbs. The trade war is also a disaster, from the huge billions of dollars bail out for farmers to the increased cost to American manufacturers so far; if his additional tariffs kick in as threatened right before Christmas the costs to the American consumer will increase considerably. He has sided with the murderous Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia MBS over his own intelligence community in the slaying and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist and supported their genocidal conduct of the war in Yemen which has claimed thousands of innocent men, women and children’ lives, all for the sake of selling the Saudis BILLIONS in military hardware, including highly confidential nuclear information. He overrode a Senate attempt to stop the sale. Trump and Jared Kushner’s family are in so deep to the Saudis financially they might as well own him (maybe they do!). His blind support of Netanyahu and his corrupt regime and hard line toward the Palestinians and the Iranians and his assertion that any Jew who supports a Democratic agenda is disloyal are nothing more than a political strategy aimed at swaying the Jewish vote that has been historically Democratic. Anyway, how’s that for accomplishments over the last nearly three years of the inept and corrupt governance of Donald J Trump, his family and all those in his pathetic administration?!? Is it any wonder that he has to lie to the American people EVERY single day and is worried into frenzy because the economy is about to tank???? Folks, he has NOTHING else going for him, and his assertion that even if you don’t like him you should vote for him anyway because of the economy is as fraudulent as he is. He is nothing more than a snake oil salesman, a complete charlatan. “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”?!? I daresay the last several years have seen the steepest decline in American stature around the globe EVER and what we have become under his regime is anything but. We have become a punch line in a Marx Brothers movie starring a reality TV front man. Maybe those red hats should read “MAKE AMERICA GREAT-FIRE ME!!!!” The man is NOT playing with a full deck, and something should be done about it before it’s too late. Let’s not forget this is the same man who has his finger on the trigger. That thought alone should be enough to scare the living SH*T out of everybody. I know I’m NOT sleeping better at night. Are you????? TRUMP DECLARES WAR ON DENMARK!!!
BREAKING NEWS President Trump today in Louisville, KY declared war on Denmark following their refusal to negotiate the sale of their protectorate Greenland and the subsequent Danish backlash and ridicule, from the P.M. on down regarding his outlandish proposal. News sources report that the military is mobilizing for an invasion of Greenland from within, as we already operate a huge base on the island with the permission of the Danish government. Greenland has no regular military; the Royal Danish Navy Maintains several bases, under the Joint Arctic Command, and conducts coast guard as well as search and rescue operations. On the other hand, Thule AFB has a total of around 600 personnel, including military, civilian and contractors. In other words, cakewalk. The invasion force can stay on the Mexican border for now. It appears President Trump was incensed when his reality show offer to buy Greenland was rebuffed by both Greenland and Denmark as “nonsense”, an “April Fools prank” and “idiotic” among other choice words they had for him following his incredible cancellation of his state visit to Denmark in early September. Oh, BTW, Denmark has been a staunch ally as well as a member of NATO for literally decades now, and this is the way our illustrious president chooses to treat them, just like the French, Germans, English, etc. He had stated on the record to reporters last weekend that the Greenland thing was not a priority and was “on the backburner” for his forthcoming discussions with the Danish P.M.; now he cancels a long scheduled diplomatic visit with a strong ally and the Danish Royal Family because of the way it was handled by Denmark. OMG!!! We all know how petty and vindictive Trump is, but this might be setting a new low for the bar!!! And people wonder why the rest of the world is looking at the United States and asking WTF?!? In addition to declaring war on the Danes and threatening to usurp Greenland, Trump also issued a ban on Danish pastries, mandated that children to give up their Lego’s, ordered Hans Christian Anderson’s published works to be burned and issued a travel ban on Tivoli Gardens. He boasted that these “devastating sanctions” will bring Denmark to its knees and that people in cities like Nuuk and Sisimuit will be dancing in the streets (or on glaciers) when their American liberators arrive!!! Stay tuned for further updates. THE FACE OF EVIL
Once again, our nation has suffered senseless tragedy in the form of gun violence perpetrated by SANE individuals and carried out with weapons of mass destruction, assault rifles. After the massacres in El Paso and Dayton on the same weekend, the usual cries went up for the President and Congress to do SOMETHING to stem the tide of gun violence. And also as usual, Donald Trump promised that this time things would be different, that at a minimum stricter background checks as proposed in a bill already passed by the House would be given strong consideration. Even “MOSCOW MITCH” McConnell, Senate Majority Leader seemed amenable to bringing the legislation to the floor for consideration. Recent polls have indicated that OVER 90 per cent of all Americans favor this and perhaps even stricter regulations on the sale of assault rifles and extended ammunition clips. And now, two weeks removed, Trump has completely changed his position once again after a single phone call from the President of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre. Meet the new face of pure evil America, because he is the embodiment of it!!! It was obvious from the beginning that Trump was hedging his bets on the entire gun issue, mouthing the same platitudes about mental health and it isn’t the gun doing the shooting but the person holding the gun, yada, yada, yada. As I stated before, I can’t think of a single mass shooting incident in our recent history where the perpetrator was declared mentally incompetent. Not one. Most of these massacres were motivated by ideologies and hate and in most cases the weapons that were used were purchased legally. So stricter background checks would not have made ANY difference nor would there have been any evidence of mental health issues. President Trump spent at least 30 minutes on the phone Tuesday with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, the latest conversation in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House in the weeks since the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. The call ended the way that Mr. LaPierre had hoped it would: with Mr. Trump espousing N.R.A. talking points in the Oval Office and warning of the radical steps he said Democrats wanted to take in violation of the Second Amendment. “We have very, very strong background checks right now, but we have sort of missing areas and areas that don’t complete the whole circle,” the president told reporters Tuesday afternoon, adding, “I have to tell you that it’s a mental problem.” “Democrats would, I believe, give up the Second Amendment,” Mr. Trump said. “A lot of the people that put me where I am are strong believers in the Second Amendment, and I am also.” For Mr. Trump, his dealings with Mr. LaPierre and other gun rights advocates in recent weeks have been a reminder that even if his initial instinct after the mass shootings this month was to say he would press for aggressive gun legislation, any such push would be seen as a betrayal of the N.R.A. members who helped elect him. The president’s remarks also demonstrated how the N.R.A., which spent $30 million on Mr. Trump’s campaign in 2016 and stuck with him when other Republicans wavered in their support, still wields great influence over the White House, even as its own future is in question. The organization has been mired in investigations into its finances by two attorneys general, in New York and Washington, as well as a legal battle with its former advertising firm and calls from its own board members for change. In a statement, Mr. LaPierre expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the call. “I spoke to the president today,” he said. “We discussed the best ways to prevent these types of tragedies. President Trump is a strong 2A President and supports our right to keep and bear arms!” (Above information from the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times). So there it is once again. THE NRA and its leadership absolutely refuse to consider ANY meaningful gun legislation so that the gun manufacturers can continue to peddle their weapons of mass destruction. And Trump and the rest of the gutless REPUBLIKANS once again are hiding behind the Second Amendment as their shield, an Amendment that was NEVER intended to put military weapons in the hands of civilians. This lame ass argument has been worked to death by gun rights advocates and needs to be put to bed for once and for all. My fellow citizens, I urge you to take these actions to heart and to hold EVERY single gun rights advocate who refuses to consider stronger measures to protect us and our children from these senseless acts of violence accountable at the ballot box. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again-the only tool at our disposal to make meaningful change is the power of the ballot box. Make your vote count to reverse this insanity-haven’t enough people been killed yet to motivate the overwhelming majority of Americans who want to end the violence????? From Trump to “MOSCOW MITCH” to the other REPUBLIKANS in Congress who are so beholden to LaPierre and the NRA, these gutless cowards need to be voted out of office. Until they are, we can expect more mass shootings and more inaction from them. BROWN OUT! brownout
This is the technical definition, an intentional drop in voltage lasting from minutes to hours. My definition regards Antonio Brown of the Oakland Raiders and the ongoing saga of “Helmetgate” as well as his past history with the Pittsburgh Steelers, a marriage that ended with a very messy divorce. Like the third or fourth husband, Oakland should have seen this coming!!! In what has become a story pulled right out of the most twisted Edgar Allen Poe poem, Brown was so irate about the NFL's new policy that would essentially decertify his longtime helmet and force him into a new one that he clashed openly with coaches at OTAs over the issue. This included him reportedly storming out of practice and attempting to sneak his old helmet onto the field, going so far as trying to paint it to mirror the mandated helmets in the hopes no one would notice. Spoiler alert: They noticed, and it didn't end well. Following several exchanges over the issue, the team broke for summer break and believed HelmetGate was behind them going into training camp. The Raiders were wrong yet again about the mindset of Brown, because he was not done trying to take the field with his old helmet, and again he clashed with the coaches over it. This hadn't been made public just yet, though, and mostly because there was an even more bewildering headline that emerged with the newly-acquired ... well... headache. The team placed Brown on the Non-Football Injury list with a non-disclosed issue to start training camp, but they removed him immediately thereafter. Questions emerged surrounding the nature of Brown's injury, and the truth turned out to be stranger than fiction. The bottom of his feet were severely frostbitten after he entered a cryotherapy machine wearing improper footwear and he was sent to a foot specialist to determine the extent of the damage. Initially listed as day-to-day, Brown's absence has since changed to what can only be described as indefinite, with conflicting reports now swirling about that claim he's ghosted the Raiders and their attempts to communicate with him -- with an alternate report claiming there have been discussions and he's expected to return "soon". He took to IG to post a stomach-turning image of the soles of his feet, revealing just how bad they looked. The [additional] problem is it doesn't truly matter at the moment when his feet heal because it's rumored Brown threatened to never play football at all for the Raiders if he isn't allowed to wear his old helmet. The Raiders have financial recourse if Brown holds true to his threat -- with an arbitration hearing set to take place after he filed a grievance against the NFL -- but nothing could've prepared the Raiders for this circus of events. At the end of the day, it's Brown's way or the highway. "I'm really not into dreams anymore, okay? I'm into f----- nightmares," Gruden famously said on the latest season of HBO's Hard Knocks, speaking on how important the Super Bowl is. "You gotta end somebody's dream." Unfortunately for him, his own All-Pro receiver might be the one that ends his, and before the two could even roll out of bed. (CBS SPORTS). Is there ANYBODY else out there who is as sick and tired of these Prima donna professional athletes and their agents doing everything they possible can to draw attention to themselves?!? Apparently being paid tens of millions of dollars isn’t enough anymore. Apparently the word “team” no longer has any meaning to these disenfranchised cry babies like Antonio Brown. Out of 2880 NFL players currently in training camp, there is exactly ONE who has a problem wearing the new improved helmet designed specifically to protect the players. Who might that be you ask? You guessed it-Antonio Brown. Last year concussions during the regular season were down by thirty per cent. The NFL has finally recognized, after years of utter disregard for player safety, that head trauma is a very real and serious issue in the sport. To address it, they have come up with new standards for the helmets the players can wear. But not Antonio Brown-he wants to wear his old helmet which provides ZERO protections from head trauma as we understand them today. I believe his latest rendition is a 2011 model. The league sent it to their independent lab for testing and it failed. Back to square one? I believe the Raiders and their G.M. Mike Mayok have already seen evidence of why Pittsburgh let Antonio Brown move on. "Here's the bottom line," Mayock said. "He's upset about the helmet issue. We have supported that, we appreciate that. At this point, we've pretty much exhausted all avenues of relief. So, from our perspective it's time for him to be all in or all out. We're hoping he's back soon." Here’s what his agent, Drew Rosenhaus (who else) had to say on ESPN this morning: “I do think he’s going to be back soon,” he said. “We’re looking into any and all options right now to resolve the helmet issue. Antonio is very genuine. He wants to be there, he wants to be part of the team, he wants to practice, but he’d also like to do it with the helmet he’s worn his entire life. He wore this helmet in pee-wee football, high school football, college at Central Michigan, and he also wore this helmet his nine-year career. People keep saying to me that there are 2,000 players that are wearing approved helmets, but there are very few, if any, that have worn the same helmet for their entire nine-year career. He’s a wide receiver. He gets hit across the middle. People are trying to take his head off. He’s a big target. You talk about how many catches he’s had over the last six years, for example, this is his life. He’s risking everything. He’s got a family. He’s had a concussion before. This helmet has kept him safe. He’s had brutal hits. And we’re just trying to find a way to work it out. We’ve worked very closely with the Raiders, we’ve worked very closely with the NFL, but I hope people can appreciate, this is not a simple issue. The helmet is the most important piece of equipment and he’s had the same one every single snap he’s played in his football career. This is a major issue for him.” I call BULLSH*T on both Brown and Rosenhaus and couldn’t agree more with Mike Mayok-either put up or shut up!! It’s time for Antonio Brown to put up AND shut up!!! Strap it up and be a man and a teammate instead of a Prima donna. You’re a hell of a wide receiver, but you have yet to prove you’re a valued teammate. Time to man up!!! |
About Mike ColeBorn in Hamilton, OH but a proud Kentuckian since age two. One brother and three sisters. Suburban, Catholic middle-class upbringing. Attended Jefferson Community College and Pasadena Community College. Proud father of four and grandfather to seven, and most of all, a concerned American citizen! Are you??? Categories |