First of all, I find it interesting that this NFL logo, is plastered over our flag. How disturbing is that?

I do not know the author. I am sure he and I were within shouting distances many times throughout our careers. I could not have put on paper my frustrations with the society within which we live any better than he  did. Told only the way a Marine could do it. Up front and pulled punches.I am not done with the NFL. Oh, I’ll watch a game or two, but only when my team is playing  so I can make a list of the sponsors, whom I will immediately begin boycotting. Money talks folks You want to get the NFL’s attention, don’t buy any product that sponsors an NFL game. Then the companies withdraw their sponsorship, the broadcasting companies can’t sell their airtime, so they stop showing or cut back on games.T rust me it works.

That freak show they put on at last years’ Super Bowl was a sickening, anti-American society, racist piece of pathetic garbage I have ever seen. The world watched as we made fools of ourselves during a freaking football game. It would be laughable if it weren’t such a disgraceful snapshot of our America.

Commissioner,

I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.

I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it.

Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.

Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re not! My Marines and Soldiers were!

You are complicit in this!

You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to this. Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs publicly?

I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring.  I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?

Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK?   You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game! You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines. I applaud  those who have not.

Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles.
They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do it  24/7 often with lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have ice! Many don’t have legs or arms.

Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety.   On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.

I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!

Time to change the channel.

Col Jeffrey A Powers USMC (Ret)

Originally posted 2016-09-16 17:03:11.

Trumped: How Donald Totally Played the Media

I LOVE IT!! Shows just how hungry they are for any dirt they can use against him. They will really go after him now! Oh Dear, How much I do love it!!

Originally posted 2016-09-16 16:39:48.

I find impossible to believe that anyone possessing even a piece of brain, unless he/she is sitting on it, to see what liberal policies and tactics produces. If I were a cop in that city, I be so fat from sitting in Country Donuts eating myself to oblivion. You want me to do what? Patrol those streets? They once sang Chicago, Chicago, my kind of town, now it’s the new home of the OK Corral. And everyone was upset because the Olympics were not held in this city? Are you kidding me? Remember, this is from where that person in our White House came. Where he learned his how to be a politician, by being a Community Organizer (aka Street Hustler) 

The Wall Street Journal

The Black Body Count Rises as Chicago Police Step Back

In 2016 nearly 3,000 people have been shot in the city, an average of one victim every two hours.

By HEATHER MAC DONALD

Sept. 11, 2016 5:58 p.m. ET

‘The streets are gone,” Dean Angelo, president of the Chicago police union, told me last month. The night before, Aug. 14, a Chicago police officer’s son had been killed in a shooting while sitting on his family’s porch, one of 92 people killed in Chicago during the worst month for homicides in the Windy City since July 1993. The August victims who survived included 10-year-old Tavon Tanner, shot while playing in front of his house (the bullet ripped through Tavon’s pancreas, intestines, kidney and spleen); an 8-year-old girl shot in the arm while crossing the street; and two 6-year-old girls.

On Sept. 6, a 71-year-old man was accosted by a teen on a bike while watering his lawn. The robber demanded the man’s wallet and when he refused shot him in the abdomen, then grabbed his wallet before pedaling away.

By Sept. 8, nearly 3,000 people had been shot in Chicago in 2016, an average of one shooting victim every two hours. Five hundred and sixteen people had been murdered. Gun homicides and non-fatal shootings were up 47% over the same period of 2015, which had seen a significant rise in crime over 2014.

“There is no way out of this shooting spree,” Mr. Angelo said. His despair is understandable, because Chicago is the country’s most-glaring example of what I have called the “Ferguson effect.” Chicago officers have cut back drastically on proactive policing under the onslaught of criticism from the Black Lives Matter movement and its political and media enablers.

In October 2015, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch during a crime meeting in Washington, D.C., that the Chicago police had gone “fetal,” and were less likely to interdict criminal behavior. That pull-back worsened in 2016, with pedestrian stops dropping 82% from January through July 20, 2016, compared with the same period in 2015, according to the Chicago police department. The cops are just “driving by people on the corners,” Mr. Angelo says, rather than checking out known drug dealers and others who raise suspicions. Criminals are back in control and black lives are being lost at a rate not seen for two decades.

Chicago’s cops are responding to political signals from the most powerful segments of society. President Obama takes every opportunity to accuse police of racially profiling blacks and Hispanics. The media, activists and academics routinely denounce pedestrian stops and public-order enforcement—such as dispersing crowds of unruly teens—as racial oppression intended to “control African-American and poor communities,” in the words of Columbia law professor Bernard Harcourt. Never mind that it is the law-abiding residents of high-crime areas who beg the police to clear their corners of loiterers and trespassers.

Further discouraging proactive policing in Chicago is a misguided agreement between the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union and the city that allows the ACLU to review every police stop. The police are also experiencing fallout from City Hall’s mishandling of the unjustified fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald in October 2014.

Chicago cops regularly encounter aggressive hostility when they leave their vehicles. In August a  Chicago Tribune reporter filmed a group of teens taunting officers for over an hour while the cops investigated a shooting on the West Side. “F— the police!” went one chant. “Get the f— off my block!” came another insult. Someone fired off shots in a nearby alley for the fun of seeing cops run toward another possible victim. “Run, b—-, run!” a shirtless male shouted as the officers took off in a sprint.

Three gangs—the Vice Lords, Black Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers—reached a pact in August to assassinate Chicago officers, according to a police departmental alert. The National Gang Intelligence Center has also picked up on plans to shoot officers.

The media blame poverty, racism and a lack of government services for the growing mayhem. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson blames lenient prison sentences for releasing Chicago’s gun criminals onto the streets too soon. The Illinois Legislature’s Black Caucus, however, blocks any effort to mandate stricter sentences for gun-toting felons—in a sub rosa acknowledgment that the vast majority (80%) of Chicago’s gun criminals are black.

But neither Mr. Johnson’s lax-sentencing explanation nor the media’s systemic-injustice explanation aligns with the timing of Chicago’s surge in violence. Sentencing protocols did not weaken in 2015 when crime started rising. Nor did poverty or alleged racism grow worse. What did change was the intensity of anti police ideology, driven by the Black Lives Matter movement, relentlessly amplified by the press, and echoed by President Obama.

“Where does this end?” Mr. Angelo asked last month. “We’re in an unknown environment. We don’t know at what point in time the people in this city and the city council will stand up and say: ‘Enough is enough,’ so that cops feel that they have the support to be the police again.”

The ideal solution to Chicago’s violence would be for more at-risk boys to be raised by their mother and their father. Until that happens, the only hope for law-abiding residents of Chicago’s high-crime areas is that police regain control of the streets.

Ms. Mac Donald is the author of “The War on Cops” (Encounter, 2016) and a contributing editor of City Journal, from whose fall issue this article is adapted.

Even the ship named after that place is defunct, gone, turned into razor blades. She was a proud ship though, I spent a year aboard her, not my best tour, but definitely an educational tour.

Originally posted 2016-09-16 16:18:40.

. . . . . me, the hell with the country.” This pretty much sums up many of Hillary’s constituencies.  They could care less about America. They are the new slaves this country as created. The slave owner’s  are our government, they own these people’s lives, and they aren’t all African-American; there are as many Caucasians and Hispanics slaves as there are African-American. They cannot vote for someone that’s not a member of their owner’s group.

Originally posted 2016-09-16 09:38:54.

• Yesterday,  a good friend and contributor to my blog, Lee, sent me the following with comments:

  

  I thought I would pass this along to you, as I think it can gain momentum and send a message… I hope all is well with you and yours

  Oh, and I have been trying to continue my post on this subject from your post, but I think LinkedIn is preventing me… If you were interested, my point of view is the following : I can certainly appreciate your opinions and views… You have made some valid points… But let me, if I may try to express what I feel the true problem is in Black America.

  I feel that black America points the finger at white america when something sensational occurs within the black community. It seems to me that black America has an epidemic that needs serious attention. White america also has an epidemic within its culture.

  Let me start with the issues I see that Kaepn Krunch is protesting. “The oppression of the black man in the USA”, and for, “police disproportionately targeting and killing African-Americans.”

  Let’s examine those key words and apply some statistics to the problem, 25% of black households live below the poverty line as opposed to 8% for white households. Blacks are twice as likely to be unemployed opposed to whites. The unemployment rate for blacks has been twice as high as whites over the last 50 years.

  Gun violence in America is rising. Blacks are suffering the most because they are six times more likely to commit a homicide opposed to whites and seven times more likely to be a victim of homicide than whites. So what is the problem here?

  From my point of view, the problem stems from a President who says he is in it for Black America, yet does nothing to help Black America! Oppression? Who is oppressing who? We have a president in office who “has had time to advocate for gays – getting them gay marriage, repealing the US military’s gag order on opening gay and lesbian soldiers serving in the military.

  Through executive order, Obama prevented millions of illegal aliens age 31 and under from being deported from America…” But blacks, who voted at a rate of 95 per cent for Obama in 2008 and 93 per cent in 2012, have gotten nothing in return for their efforts. Why do you suppose that Black America voted so high for our President? Why do you suppose that 71% of Latinos (including nearly half of Cuban Americans), 75% of Asian Americans and 93% of African-Americans voted for Obama?

  My theory is that Black America truly believed that he would change our nation’s policies and lend a hand up not a hand out to the people who were living below the poverty line. Instead, what we got is more free hand outs for the poor, more welfare, more promises of easy living… why work when the system will take care of you and yours?

  The government and its current DOMESTIC POLICIES in my opinion, not the citizens of our country have oppressed the blacks. The SYSTEM AS A WHOLE, not the citizens, have oppressed the blacks… Many people of all races will continue to turn out in fantastic numbers to vote for a President who will continue these GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS.

  How about a system that continues to let down the Black youth over and over again? You want to protest something? Protest the current POTUS AND HIS POLICIES. Protest the man at the helm who was to be the Black Messiah. Don’t use our American Flag or our National Anthem to demonstrate your frustrations, our flag and our national anthem is so much better than that.

  Too many people have fought and died for that flag, do not desecrate it in an attempt to make a statement – YOU are better than that! We are better than that! I honestly do not see a difference between ignoring the Anthem as a citizen of the USA, or burning our flag as an enemy combatant… in MY opinion, they are 1 in the same.

  I would like to share with you, an excerpt from the writing of Ruth Apperson Rous titled, “I AM THE FLAG”:

  “Today fifty stars signal from my union, one for each of the fifty sovereign states in the greatest constitutional republic the world has ever known. My colors symbolize the patriotic ideals and spiritual qualities of the citizens of my country. My red stripes proclaim the fearless courage and integrity of American men and boys and the self-sacrifice and devotion of American mothers and daughters. My white stripes stand for liberty and equality for all. My blue is the blue of heaven, loyalty, and faith. I represent these eternal principles: liberty, justice, and humanity. I embody American freedom: freedom of speech, religion, assembly, the press, and the sanctity of the home.”

Originally posted 2016-09-15 11:37:05.