A little Sunday humor and ironic truth.....

Daniel Snyder, owner of the NFL Redskins, has announced that the team is dropping the word "Washington" from the team name and it will henceforth be simply known as "The Redskins".

It was reported that he finds the word Washington imparts a negative image of poor leadership, mismanagement, corruption, cheating, and lying, and is not a fitting role model for young fans of football.

Some political humor....


TEAM NAMES

I think all sports fans will get a kick out of this letter written to the Chicago Tribune.... Enjoy !

No matter which side you are on in the matter of renaming the Washington Redskins, this is funny. This guy is hilarious…

Here is an e-mail sent to Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune after an article he published concerning name change for the Washington Redskins.

Dear Mr. Page: I agree with our Native American population. I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward.

Let's ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns.

The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to us white folk.

The New York Yankees offend the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young men's lives.

I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.

Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates!

Now, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children. The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. Wrong message to our children.

The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic. Wrong message to our children.

The Cincinnati Reds promote downers/barbiturates. Wrong message to our children.

The Milwaukee Brewers. Well that goes without saying. Wrong message to our children.

So, there you go. We need to support any legislation that comes out to rectify this travesty, because the government will likely become involved with this issue, as they should. Just the kind of thing the do-nothing Congress loves.

As a die hard Oregon State fan, my wife and I, with all of this in mind, suggest it might also make some sense to change the name of the Oregon State women's athletic teams to something other than "the Beavers (especially when they play Southern California . Do we really want the Trojans sticking it to the Beavers???)

I always love your articles and I generally agree with them. As for the Redskins name I would suggest they change the name to the “Foreskins” to better represent their community, paying tribute to the dick heads in Congress.

hotrod.....The most important thing is for you to take care of yourself.....this board and it's "inhabitants" will be here....be well!!

sherm....actually, they are very much alike....the difference is state ownership vs state control without direct ownership.....

but, in the bigger picture it's all a moot point since there is no such thing as socialism analogous to the fact there is no such thing as "cold"....

either is simply a statement about how much has been lost...

cold, of course, refers to one's comfort zone relative to heat.....

and socialism refers to how much freedom has been lost as the political environment strives to achieve totalitarianism.

progressivism, socialism, fascism.....essentially, they are all the same thing....just different labels for different nuances.

Vexari...you're getting carried away again....

it' been know o a long time that Wal-Mart has a computer system that is only beaten in sophistication by the Pentagon's system...

Wal-Mart's system has been used in the past to aid government during several natural disasters....Katrina being the most prominent......

I don't get it...what's the "beef"????

I must disagree....it's not an oligarchy...we're a plutocracy....subtle difference....but different.....our disgustingly corrupt politicians have ceded their power to the $$$$$$.....

who might that be??? The same "police" which allow the beheadings, rapes, murders, and other atrocities in the middle east?

and, do you think that in the absence of "police" they will never ever be a threat to us?

Do you think we should wait until they kill a lot more people and gain enough strength to become formidable adversaries?

Shermann....I must disagree with you....

(of course, all of these labels have been thrown around so much that there meanings become muddled).....

that aside.....Neocon is a label which gained popularity in the 1980s....and, it merely pointed to right-wing views promulgated by the use of government....(the departure from traditional conservatism is in the role of government....traditional wanting less while neocons want more)....

Fascism however is a term I find to be misused on a daily basis....Fascism is the "corporate state" exerted via dictatorship....it controls the socio-economic environment, yet is not designed as a two tier system like communism.

moxa....

IMO.....your statement would make lore sense if you substituted the term leftist, progressive, or democrat for neocon.....

please remember that every war in modern history (with the exception of Iran/Afghanistan) was begun by a progressive/democrat.....not because they are war mongers....rather, because they are simply inept at foreign relations.....

Obama is a prime example of the sheer ineptitude and leftist sympathy exhibited by the progressive mentality.

Shermann, Shermann, Shermann.....

I'm always leery of a by-line which warns of impending doom such as this one which says:

this doom and gloom, end of the world prophesy has been going on since the beginning of time....

funny thing is: the video claims the economic end will happen in 6 months.....well, we've past the 6 months mark because we notice that the video interview was released/made on Sept 9th, 2014....

it's St Patty's day and we're still here eating corned beef & cabbage with boiled potatoes and drinking green beer....

I'm betting the sun will rise tomorrow and we'll be no worse off economically than we were when that video was made....

thanks....funny stuff!!! phew!!!! I'm still laughing

EXCELLENT!!! Hopefully, they will gather in one spot and that is wonderful opportunity to kill them all!!!!!!!!!!!!



Pleeeeeeze!!!! you're drinking the Kool Aid....9/11 wasn't needed for that purpose



DISAGREE ENTIRELY....it WAS super easy to win...(notice I said was)....fact is as time goes on, it becomes somewhat more difficult.....



that's erroneous....Iraq and Libya are still with us....people live there....things grow there

protection???

would you believe that BS when all your possessions are taken and you are herded like cattle by armed guards?

I presume you are referring to the beheadings??

the answer is simple.....no where to run....no where to hide...

so, what you are telling me/us, "father Flannigan" is that there are no terrorists out there.....their just a group of "misguided" boys? and, they will never be a threat to us?

lastly, yes, of course the government lies to suit it's agenda....

but, that does not mean all the stories conjured by the extremist groups are true.....and, as I said before, that drop could have been a legit mistake.....

each side spins the tale to suit its own agenda.....you and many others like the "false flag" theories and anything which suggests the government is lying....

we cannot draw a conclusion and then spin the evidence/facts to fit out belief, we have to let the evidence lead to the conclusion....and, in the case of that article, only the superficial was judged and the conclusion drawn before the facts were established.

it's possibly true.....but, that does not mean "plot" as the fear mongers would like everyone to believe....

in warfare situations, a lot of mistakes are made.....

American soldiers kill their own troops....civilians are killed....supplies and weapons are mishandled....etc, etc.....

those things do not, in and of themselves, mean intentional wrong-doing....as you would suggest and like to believe.

I've thought about that, too....and, all I can come up with is that it is part of a defeatist mentality.....kinda like knowing or feeling that you are powerless....

I believe that is why the left tries so hard to accomplish gun control....that disarmament of the population leads to or feeds that feeling of helplessness and assigns power to those in control....those with the weapons......

if you want the explanation look closer at the "holocaust".....just a few "German kids" with rifles loaded hundreds of people at a time onto railroad cars to take them to concentration camps and not a soul lifted a finger to escape.....

moxa.....c'mon....you're killin' me.....

how can you even post that drivel.....????

axis of logic is internet propaganda which originates in Venezuela....another picture of democracy and admirer of the United States!!!! hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what would you expect the enemy to write...??? and, really, UK planes flying the guns and ammo to ISIL troops....????

at least, they should write something that's half assed believable.....but, then again.....I guess they don't have to with so many out there hungry to blame the US....

IMO, the words progressive and liberalism do belong linked together in the same sentence....

progressivism is the "secret word" used by wannabe Marxists/communists in America....simply because Americans are too averse to the terms socialism, communism, fascism....so, its proponents in the US say "Progressive" and BS the public by stating that progressivism stands for progress....

in reality, if you are a progressive, you basically dislike everything America stands for and are part of the Obama camp of "fundamental change"....meaning that personal freedom and capitalism are N.G. and need to be replaced by the government as the "giver of all rights" and communist style equality for the masses....basically, a two tiered system which mimics traditional communism....

modern day liberalism, on the other hand, can embrace capitalism and individual freedom but, lacks personal responsibility or accountability.....thereby, breeding a chaotic situation over the longer term and a lack of cohesive values to bind the society together.

oooh, and one last peep....executive orders are essentially unenforceable.....

they work well now because as Obama OVERSTEPS his authority, the spineless GOP does nothing to thwart or stop any of his antics....

more hysteria hype....

unfortunately, that can't be done by executive order.....executive order only pertains to government agencies; not the public........an executive order can't write/create law.....

nor, can it be done by the ATF which is an ENFORCEMENT agency....it can't make the law....only enforce the law....just like your local police department....

WOW!! the author of that piece has missed the mark by so many miles it's hard to know where to begin to refute all that nonsense and drivel....

ANSWER: HYPE/BS

Arrest Punxsutawney Phil, Police In New Hampshire Say

February 11, 2015 8:44 AM

MERRIMACK, N.H. (CBS) — There’s a warrant out for Punxsutawney Phil.

Merrimack police are trying to lighten the mood amid one of the bleakest winter stretches in recent memory by threatening the famous groundhog with arrest.

“We have received several complaints from the public that this little varmint is held up in a hole, warm and toasty,” police said in a Facebook post. “He told several people that winter would last 6 more weeks, however he failed to disclose that it would consist of mountains of snow!”

Police are asking residents to resist taking out their frustrations on Phil and not approach him because he’s “armed and dangerous.”

That might be an exaggeration, but one groundhog did bite a Wisconsin mayor’s ear this month after predicting an early spring.

“Call Merrimack Police, we will certainly take him into custody!” they said.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/02/11/arrest-punxsutawney-phil-police-in-new-hampshire-say/

Vexari....credit when it's due....good info!!

all I can say is WOW!!!!! that's unbelievable!!

but, in all fairness, I will also say that I had mumps, measles, German measles and chicken pox.....but, back in the 50s & 60s that was expected as a part of "growing up"....just as no one panicked when we got a cut, scrape, or bruise....it was expected.

we got polio shots....but flu shots didn't exist as far as I know

and, after childhood, I was never sick a day in my life.....

until I met Mr. Agent Orange in Vietnam and it caused some "bumps along the way" after I got into my 50s.....but, I'm OK now and still here.....

moxa.....here's the problem with taking drips and drabs of info from very unreliable, "sensationalistic" web sites....

Thompson said:

and, therein lies the problem......who....other than the brain dead vaccinates toddlers???

I'm an old guy....and, while the statement above points to danger for the African American community...."way back when".....like in the stone age when I was a kid NO ONE WHO WAS BARLELY CONCIOUS VACCINATED A YOUNG CHILD!!!!

we didn't get vaccinations for anything until we about 10 years old (as best I can remember).....(I didn't know it at the time....but doctors then were concerned about development of the immune system before vaccinating)....

so, if you respond by telling me that children less than 3-4 years old are being vaccinated, then all I can say is "they, unfortunately, are getting the trouble their stupidity asks for").

MY Prayer


I just had to share it with you:

"Dear Lord, the last number of years have been very tough. You have taken my favorite actor - Paul Newman; my favorite actress - Elizabeth Taylor; my favorite singer - Andy Williams; my favorite author - Tom Clancy; and now, my favorite comedians – Robin Williams and Joan Rivers.

I just wanted you to know that my favorite politicians are Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and I have a special place in my heart for Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Amen."

look at the low volume & the paltry PPS......

have you ever heard of "painting the tape".....

Bert....

I looked this up because it just does even begin to sound correct....

and, IMO, it's all spin taken out of context, and exaggeration with "leaps" of opinion......

1) FM (Field Manual)....(and the military has a manual for everything....including how to take a shower)....

FM 3-39.40 is an addendum to FM 3-39....which is: Military Police operations....and is largely about overseas duties as it pertains to prisoners, securing areas, etc....

2) the info about Russian troops guarding FEMA camps is bogus insofar as uniformed foreign troops are not allowed on American soil except as covered by the SOFA agreements....

3) it may be trivial....but, how do we know the pictures provided are substantively accurate relative to the info in the article?

and, I could go on an on.....

the article is, IMO, more BS by the alarmists, sensationalists and spin doctors.......

funny stuff.....

or, is the inability to think or reason clearly a by-product of the acquisition of wealth?

or, perhaps their folly is a status symbol....like the possession of a Faberge egg....like: "hey, I have a condo in an old missile silo in N. Dakota!"

here's the lie:

here's the BS to evoke emotion:



here's the socialist/leftist agenda:

SOMETHING TO PONDER......

A RECENT STUDY FOUND THE AVERAGE GOLFERWALKS ABOUT 900 MILES A YEAR.

ANOTHER STUDY FOUND GOLFERS DRINK, ON AVERAGE, 22 GALLONS OF ALCOHOL A YEAR.

THAT MEANS, ON AVERAGE, GOLFERS GET ABOUT 41 MILES TO THE GALLON.

KIND OF MAKES ME PROUD.....

I ALMOST FEEL LIKE A HYBRID.

moxa.....elitist right = Nazis.....funny stuff.....

the difference between the "right" and "left" is their base.....

the right is concerned with matters beyond the scope of the "everyday" person.....the right allies with big business and industry and attempts to control resources.....thereby only affecting the population at large via an indirect trickle down....

the left is based upon rallying the uneducated and dregs of society.....the unwashed masses, in short.....consequently the left is an "in your face" movement which directly impacts the average person....

the masses are enticed into a constant state of discontent and wooed with manufactured "struggles" against a fictional enemy....while at the same time placated with handouts by the "omnipotent" government (the source of all rights)......

IMO.....the methodology/ideology of the left is far, far worse than that of the right because it intends to impose itself upon ones everyday activities and aims to control the actions of the individual.....

Bert....sorry for the double negative in the last sentence

I don't see or hear lethal gunfire....where's the tell-tale "crack" of rifle fire and smoke?

and, I must ask several questions.....

first.....am I/we to believe that the cop has on a helmet camera so he can record him/them murdering a man.....I doubt that seriously.....

secondly, 4 policemen and a dog didn't just stumble over this guy.....they seem to have "caught him".....listen to the opening dialogue....

next....getting back to rifle fire.....I saw the man fall forward...and, it appears that the person wearing the helmet cam fired his weapon.....no "crack", no smoke, and you can see the non-lethal round travel out of the rifle....

lastly.....

where's the blood?

why did they step on his hand with the knife if he was dead? .....

and, again.....why bother to cuff a dead man?

and, why would they fire bean bag rounds at a person who just took lethal rounds? there was a time lapse...that doesn't make sense....no one yelled something like "hey, ya killed the guy"

I don't believe this is NOT as straightforward as you think or as it might appear on camera.

ok....I'm with you....but consider this:

play the tape from about 1:30 to 1:40....LISTEN to the conversation and look at the weapon.....the yellow rifle is a non-lethal air rifle....(play it a few times if necessary)

next....notice that his sweat shirt moves up when shot....a bullet wouldn't do that.....he was hit with a non-lethal projectile....

next.....why would they stay back and talk to a "dead man"......then cuff a "dead man".....???

lastly, when they walked up to him and cuffed him, where was the blood on his clothing.....???? there was none !!

The only possibility I see is that IF HE DIED, it could have possibly been from a concussion from his head hitting the rocks as he fell to the ground....

but, clearly, the video shows he was not killed by gun fire....the only shot fired (by a "real rifle") was into the ground near him at the outset of the footage. you can even see the non lethal projectiles exit the yellow air gun if you look closely...

whadda ya think? do you see that?

this is like the story of the terrorist in France shooting the cop in the head....he didn't.....he shot into the ground near him....you see it on the tape.

the guy in the video???

I didn't see them shoot him......there was no rifle fire.....no blood on his shirt or the ground....

they cuffed him and took him away......

did they kill him after that incident? off camera??

do you mean the pellets from the non-lethal air rifles killed him???

murdering whom?