NFL SHOULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS

Enough is enough: The NFL Player's Union has forced the NFL to continue allowing players to kneel, flip their middle fingers or do whatever else they want during the presentation of the American  flag and the playing of the National Anthem.  The recent decision by the NFL regarding conduct during the playing of the anthem and presentation of the flag has been scuttled.  

Let the bastards go play futbol in Venezuela and we'll start up a new league with real Americans in it.   

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

THIS WEEKEND AND FOREVER...

SAY GOODBYE TO THE NFL

GOD BLESS AMERICA

There may be hope for this nation after all.  

A good indicator is the continuing plummet of TV ratings for the NFL.  Professional football has been a national pastime for decades now; sports fans have been glued to their television sets on Monday and Thursday nights, as well as all day on Sundays  from August to the end of January as long as long as I can remember.  Colin Kaepernick and associates have changed all of that, and the longer the battle carries on, the worse their ratings become.  

The fact that more and more people are tuning out those who show no respect for our National Anthem or our country is a good, positive sign for patriotism in America.  Hopefully, as patriotism increases, we will come to some sense of national unity.  Maybe them, we can cure this almost hopeless sickness that has infested us for far too long.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

AMERICA: THE LID BEGINS TO BLOW OFF

Late yesterday afternoon, astounding news hit the table about the insidious extent of corruption, bribery and violation of the public trust that was running rampant throughout Washington from 2009 to 2017, involving Obama, Holder, Clinton, Mueller, then Lynch, Comey, Rosenstein and God knows who else... all associated with hundreds of millions of dollars illegally coming out of Russia.  

This story undoubtedly involves people in high places in the Democratic and Republican parties, because they had every reason to know what was going on and did nothing about it.  

It will be interesting to see to what lengths the mainstream media will go to stifle these ugly revelations in the days, weeks and months ahead. 


Now, back to my originally planned post.  

Colin  Kaepernick and the NFL aren't the only ones trashing our country and what we stand for.  The body of 29-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright was being returned home on a Delta Airlines flight and a passenger, Pamela Dee Gaudry, decided she wanted to stand up and sing the National Anthem in salute and recognition to the fallen soldier when they landed.  Many passengers wanted to join in, but a Delta flight attendant told them all to sit down and shut up because it was against Delta's policy to sing the National Anthem.  

Well, once a video of the incident started circulating around the Internet. Delta decided they'd better do some damage control and apologized to Gaudry; they did not apologize to Americans on board or to the family of Wright.  Why wasn't Gaudry trained in Delta's policy, whatever it is?  

Delta and Kaepernick and the NFL deserve to suffer their consequences for their anti-American displays.  If they don't like it here in America, why in the hell don't they move to North Korea or Iran, where I'm sure they'd be so much happier?  

As for me, I don't watch NFL games, I don't buy Budweiser and I no longer fly Delta.  

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY, that's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

CANCELLING A SUPER BOWL PARTY

I belong to one of three veterans organizations in my town.  For the first time in a very long time, the three of us decided to get together on a joint fund-raiser to bring in much needed money to help local veterans, the youth and the community.  

We decided to do a big, first-class Veterans Football Party on Super Bowl Sunday, with hot dogs, hamburgers, pulled-pork sandwiches, chips, nachos, chili and drawings for TV's, NFL memorabilia, etc.  We were on the very verge of kicking this project off, with flyers and tickets already printed and ready to go.  

Well, we're not very happy.  

We put our lives on the line in order to protect America's freedoms, liberties and rights.  But, it seems like there are a lot of so-called Americans who don't believe in standing up for our flag or our National Anthem.  They put their self-centered political agendas ahead of their nation.  And just to show they're damned serious about it, they ignored the outcries and doubled down by getting into our faces with it on Monday Night Football.  

How can any veterans organization do anything to support those anti-American bigots?  

They and all of the advertisers who support them... from Budweiser to Hyundai, from Carnival to Coca Cola, from Doritos to Go Daddy... you name them... they can all take their sorry, unpatriotic butts and head for the poor house, because we're not supporting them or their disgraceful and disgusting anti-social, unsportsmanlike conduct ever again.  

Period.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

DEMOCRATS DEFEAT REPUBLICANS 11-2

I have to honestly think that if the game had been played the day before, the Republicans would have won.  I mean, it's totally unfair and James Comey was the cause of it.  We all know that there was no way the Dems could have won, if it hadn't been for the Russian collusion with Mike Doyle, the team's manager.  He should be impeached. 

This calls for Congressional hearings and a special prosecutor.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  
 

SCREW THE NFL

SPECIAL POST

I've not watched a single NFL game since Colin Kaepernick's protests over our National Anthem started.  More and more people are turning the tube off and regaining their lives, discovering that professional football has become just as corrupt and un-American as most of our politicians, media and bureaucrats.  Frankly, we're all just sick and tired of it.  

Kaepernick has every right to express himself, even if he makes an ass out of himself in doing so.  But... neither he or the NFL has any right whatsoever to force us to participate in the process.  

To hell with all of them.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  
 

RYAN LOCHTE IS A GOOD GUY

SPECIAL POST

Ever since Ryan and his friends made asses out of themselves in a Rio gas station, the whole of U.S.A. has been down on him.  They've been calling him all sorts of epithets and now, even corporate sponsors are dropping him like a hot potato.  

It appears that he and his friends got rather lacquered up, took some leaks behind the gas station, vandalized a wall poster and falsely accused the security guard of robbing them.  That, in turn, has become an international incident of great magnitude; nobody's even paying the slightest bit of attention to Kim Jong-il's latest tantrum or barrage of threats.  

Now I ask you this: What's more important: the pay-for-play corruption going on in the Clinton Foundation or some drunk in a Rio gas station?  If she's getting a clean bill of health over her emails a la the Director of the F.B.I. no less, why is everybody picking on Lochte?  

It is evident to me, when I look at the larger scope of things, that Lochte is a good guy and Hillary is scum.  At least he has booze to blame for his actions; she doesn't.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

NAG, NAG, NAG

SPECIAL POST

For the very first time in 6-1/2 years, the American people felt like it had a leader Saturday when American  Pharoah pranced around the track at Pimlico to what appeared to the novice as an easy win.  That was the first good news to come out of the East Coast of the United States in a very long time.  

Obama is said to be wondering why a damned horse gets to wear three crowns when he himself only gets to wear one.  


That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

ADMINISTRATION MISSING MORE THAN EMAILS

We all know the Government is missing thousands of emails.  Every day we hear about missing millions and billions of taxpayer dollars.  And there's missing military equipment too.  It just seems to me that anything the government gets its hands on comes up missing.  

Now, there's a new scandal brewing in the West.  It seems that the government is admitting to a missing 63 trilllion gallons of water.  This unexplained mystery is killing crops and livestock; even the earth's parched crust is rising.  "It’s just amazing to us that this covers the entire western United States,” says Adrian Borsa at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California.  

The F.B.I., C.I.A. and N.S.A. have been investigating the missing water.  A Washington informant who shall remain unnamed,  tells me that the missing water has been used to water golf courses on Obama's nationwide golf tour.  Whether or not that is true, it is fact that every golf course Obama has played, (and there are quite a few of them), is lush green.  

My God, the whole country is going to die of thirst before this jackass gets out of office.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

NFL HAS NO BUSINESS SUSPENDING RICE

SPECIAL POST

I take issue with the right or the responsibility of the NFL, or any employer for that matter, to discipline an employee for criminal or civil infractions of the law that occur outside of the scope of employment.  Now, don't get me wrong: If the activity involves the physical ability of the employee to safely perform his employment duties, then I don't have an issue with it.  Hence, I don't have a problem with punishment for illegal drug use, legal drug abuse, steroids, etc.  

The realm for prosecution for wrongs against humanity is the criminal justice system, just as the realm for perceived wrongs between individuals is in a civil proceeding.  When you allow or require an employer to also administer some judgment and to take action accordingly, that is not only double-jeopardy but it is also an interference in the employer-employee relationship and, I believe, a violation of the right to privacy.  

Hence, when Ray Rice beat on his girlfriend, the NFL should have kept its nose totally out of it.  Now, if the criminal judge sentences him to a month in jail and he misses playing four games because of it, then he can be and should be punished for failure to perform his duties or his end of the contract. 

But, I'll be damned if I want my boss suspending ME for a week because I'm fat, I had an affair with a married woman or I got a parking ticket... and those absurdities are where this country is heading  if we allow this liberal encroachment on fundamental rights in this country to continue unchecked, unfettered.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

SATIN SHEETS AND BENGHAZI

SPECIAL POST

The Benghazi story first broke as September 11, 2012 was coming to an end.  That' s a tad over two months ago and every day that has gone by since has brought new revelations about the massacre, the resulting coverup and the players involved.  We have now two generals and two women intertwined in a salacious sex scandal that is almost as hot as the Benghazi ashes.  The story circulating around Washington is that everything was going along just fine until Broadwell caught Petraeus and Kelley in a restaurant, and with Kelly's hand on Patraeus' crotch.  As I understand the story, things went rapidly down from there, (play on words intended,).   

General John Allen, the fourth player as yet uncovered in the scandal, (pardon the second play on words), is a friend of Petraeus and took his place in Afghanistan when he left to take over at C.I.A.  Obama's White House is denying that Obama was informed until last Thursday, but Holder is confirmed to have known last summer and certainly had to discuss it with Obama; protocol would require it.  

Last night, the Pious High Potentate announced that he was going to hold a press conference, set for today at 1:30 PM EST, during which he will allow the press and media to ask questions about the affair(s).  It is not now known whether or not he will take questions about Benghazi, but it is interesting to know that he has stonewalled the bloody massacre of an Ambassador and three men and is being quick to get into the associated sex scandal.  It's also interesting to observe that the press and media which both virtually ignored that massacre are now frothing at their collective mouths over "email phone sex" and satin sheets.  

Petraeus, now out of the saddles, (pardon the third play on words), was originally set to testify in the Congressional investigation of the Benghazi coverup.  His departure brought the news that he will not be testifying; White House Press Secretary Jay Carney shored that position up yesterday in his press briefing by stating that Petraeus would not be testifying due to the fact that his temporary successor would be.  There's also the matter of the report on the Benghazi massacre that Petraeus was in the process of completing when the sheets hit the fan, (pardon my fourth play on words).  

In the final analysis, I'd be inclined to urge that we pay less attention to the sex scandal and concentrate on what really happened at Benghazi and what the real reason was Obama risked his Presidency in order to hide.  However, Broadwell's father has come forth with an Al Jolson admonition about the affairs... "You ain't heard nothin' yet!"  

I can hardly wait.  Act 23 coming up, (no play on words intended,).  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

BASEBALL TEAM REFUSES TO PLAY STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST TEAM WITH GIRL

The Our Lady of Sorrows baseball team in Phoenix, Arizona, has refused to enter into the Arizona State baseball championship game with the Mesa Arizona Preparatory Academy because the Mesa team has a girl starting at second base.  Our Lady of Sorrows decided that playing the game would violate the school's mission to teach boys and girls separately. 

Of course, you have to wonder if the Sorrows team did not know that girls could play in the league in the first place.  If they could, then the Sorrows team had the option not to participate.  The fact that they did participate in the whole season would indicate to me that they agreed to the rules of the league.  If they reached the championship game and were faced with the Academy team that had  a girl on it, and then elected to refuse to play the championship game, what they are saying to me is that they wanted to force their own standards against the league in which they participated. 

It was kind of like an attempt at blackmail: either the Academy drops the girl from the game roster, or we won’t play.  The girl, in the interest of the spirit of the game of baseball, had agreed to sit out two previous games against the same team; but, since she worked so hard to help her team reach the championship game, she decided not to sit that game out. 

Now, folks are trying to transfer blame to her for the Sorrows team not paying the championship game.  Her team is upset because they win by default as a result of forfeit; they wanted to win for real.  The other team is upset because she wanted to play the championship game in a league that allowed female players. 

What a sad commentary to have to write in a day and age when the country has a President who chooses to sanction gay marriage. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

AMERICAN SPEECHLESS OPINION?

I’m speechless. I don’t know where to begin. The President’s State of the Union address is old news and every two-bit opinion maker, including me, has already had their say. I’d like to kick Obama around the parking lot a few times, but what’s the use? He’s either too dumb to understand how Americans really think, or he just doesn’t care. Reid and Pelosi? Hell, they’re now rated so low in the polls that no one wants to read about them anymore.


What can I dig up to say about the illustrious Barney Frank? It’s been a while since I fried his fanny on these pages; let’s see…


January 29, 2010, good old Barney provided some us with more of his famous wisdom. He told the BBC of a "constitutional crisis" in the United States. He was complaining about the 60 vote filibuster-proof Senate that Scott Brown’s election disrupted. He reported that a financial reform package, passed in the House, is going to get torpedoed in the Senate by a filibuster. Obviously, he still harbors an internal hatred for democracy in action. If he was smart, he order Brown to come over to his office, and then he’d pull seniority on him and tell him about the facts of life as a lawmaker from Massachusetts. I’d like to see him do that.


Well, that’s all I can say about Barney. I’m running out of material. Oh… Hillary. I don’t think I’ve had a word to say about Hillary since before the election. And now… I’m going to have to applaud her for finally showing some intelligence. She’s made it clear she will not stay on as Secretary of State if Obama gets a second term, and she’s not going to run for President, either. Now, if she WERE going to run against Obama in 2012, it would only be polite and expected for her to vacate her job first. So, for her to say she’s not running…. Well, that’s kind of like saying she doesn’t really want to stick around for another four years with Obama. If anything, it’s a slap at his face. It’ll be interesting to see what happens next in that relationship.


Only half a blog ready to post and I’m running out of important things to discuss.


One of the nation’s top golfers is calling it quits. No, it’s not Tiger Woods, it’s John Daly. In his day, John could hit a golf ball so far that sometimes it would circle the globe and slam him in his butt. Daly is 43 years old and has struggled with his game for years. While he could hit a ball a mile, you never really knew for sure where it was going to go and he’s not that great a putter. If he does quit, I’ll be sorry to see him go, but Tiger might want to buy his 9-iron.


Mumbling right along… I see that Bin Laden has come out of his cave long enough to claim that the United States is causing global warming. Well, I’ve got this to say about that… What does he think those explosions and plane bombs on 9/11 did, contribute to global cooling? Did Al Gore move in with him, or what? We need to take him out, and not to dinner, either. Here we can use our satellites to spot a fly on one of Tiger’s golf balls, but we can’t find Osama even after eight years pass? For some reason, I suspect we don’t want to find him. Maybe we owe him some money for the national debt? God knows, we owe everyone else on the planet.


No, I don’t want to discuss health care; that subject is bound to be back in the forefront before a fortnight passes. Jobs? This is interesting. Three different people in the Obama administration came up with three different figures as to how many jobs have been saved or created with the Recovery Act. They opted to go with 2,000,000. What that is based on, I don’t know. How do you measure jobs saved? The boss looked at his employee with a mean glance, and the employment Czar warned the boss not to fire him, so they saved a job? An accountant was there to watch this exchange and reported it to the ARA website, the site that’s the laughing stock of Washington? Wasn’t it Obama himself who said that figures really don’t matter, back when the website was claiming jobs saved in Congressional Districts that don’t exist?


Here’s the sad part of this, and as a religious man I have a difficult time relating to this: Every day, we have been losing more and more jobs. People have been losing cars, houses, spouses… businesses… And we’ve been talking about everything else under the sun except jobs. This is not economics, or politics, or health care time… it’s humanitarian time. Get people to work, dammit.

But, my guess is that we’ll still be jawboning about health care six months from now and unemployment will be sky high. How can we sleep at night? Why aren’t we standing on the steps of the Capitol shouting from the tops of our lungs and demanding jobs?


There, that does it. Sorry I didn’t have much to say today, but


That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.