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REMEMBERING TRUMAN
by Burt Prelutsky
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The Cleveland Browns — Getting It Right?
by Mark Alexander: Four weeks ago, a group of Cleveland Browns players took a knee (ostensibly to pray) during our National Anthem. Recall, if you will, that former San Francisco star quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started this absurd celebrity knee protest, is now unemployed – and his unemployment is being blamed on NFL “racism,” even though more than 70% of NFL players are not white.
A week after the Browns’ protest, former Browns Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown criticized the Browns team and Kaepernick for disrespecting our country:
Colin has to make up his mind whether he’s truly an activist or whether he’s a football player. … I’m going to give you the real deal. I’m an American. I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem. I’m not gonna do anything against the flag and the national anthem. I’m going to work within those situations. But this is my country, and I’ll work out the problems, but I’ll do it in an intelligent manner.
As a result of Jim Brown’s remarks and protests from NFL fans, the following week all the Cleveland Browns players stood for the national anthem.
Sunday, the Browns organization took another step in the right direction. Ahead of their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers – and the anniversary observance of the 9/11 Islamist attack on our nation Monday, the Browns took the field flanked by U.S. military personnel, police and first responders. This was, arguably, a repudiation of Kaepernick – and by extension, the former St. Louis Rams and their fake “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” charade after the Ferguson race-bait riots of 2014.
As for Kaepernick, don’t feel too bad for him. According to Business Insider, “After leading the San Francisco 49ers to consecutive NFC championship games and one Super Bowl, Colin Kaepernick was rewarded with a ‘record’ seven-year, $126 million contract in 2014. But after three seasons of declining production, including one season of headlines surrounding his protest of the national anthem, [Kaepernick has only] received $39.4 million from the deal.”
Not a bad run for a child born to a destitute white woman, abandoned by his black father, then adopted and raised in privilege by Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, an affluent white couple. His anger is badly misplaced — it is his birth father who was his “oppressor,” not America, where a very generous white couple came to his rescue. (Wait, that sounds a LOT like the bio of an “oppressed” former president.)
As for the NFL, their MSM viewer ratings are the worst on record for an opening season – and the same can be said for ESPN’s ratings. ~The Patriot Post
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House Radicals Gutierrez, Grijalva
To Hold Govt Hostage To Extort Amnesty
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Communist Democrat Rep Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and his fellow Latino supremacist, Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are taking the intensity of their demands for complete immigration anarchy to the extreme... Gutierrez stated in a speech on Friday that he supports the boogeyman of Republicans fear more than anything, a government shutdown, if the House fails to pass the Dream Act amnesty that is currently making its way to the House floor. He said in a press conference, “We have a Democratic caucus where I know the vast majority of the members of the Democratic caucus are ready to say ‘If there is no pathway forward, not only for the 800,000 and for visas for all of you, but also for the rest of immigrant youth through the Dream Act, then there is no government for anyone.'”... http://rickwells.us/gutierrez-radicals-extort-amnesty/. {totalconservative.com} ~ The elite Navy Seals squadron made famous by their successful strike on Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan hideaway in 2011 is back in the news... In the midst of international worry about the nuclear aims of North Korea’s tyrant dictator Kim Jong Un, Seal Team Six is reportedly training a South Korean assassination crew to sever the head of the snake. According to the Times of London, the training exercises are underway in South Korea as the regime in the north continues to push the boundaries in its nuclear and ballistic missile testing. It could signal that, after exhausting diplomatic options, the Trump administration has finally decided that regime change is the only thing that will bring North Korea to heel... http://totalconservative.com/report-navy-seals-preparing-take-kim-jong-un/
Navy Seals Preparing to Take Out Kim Jong In
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Gingrich or Santorum as speaker?
House conservatives plot mischief for the fall
by Robert Costa and Ashley Parker
{washingtonpost.com} ~ Several influential House conservatives are privately plotting ways to use the legislative calendar this fall to push their hard-line agenda — including quiet discussions about possibly mounting a leadership challenge to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan... The group has gone so far as to float the idea of recruiting former House speaker Newt Gingrich or former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum as potential replacements for Ryan (R-Wis.) should there be a rebellion. The Constitution does not require that an elected member of the House serve as speaker. While the chances that a non-House member could mount a credible threat to Ryan are exceedingly slim, the fact that the group has even toyed with the idea underscores their desire to create trouble for GOP leaders if they believe their demands are not being addressed... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gingrich-or-santorum-as-speaker-house-conservatives-plot-mischief-for-the-fall/2017/09/07/8df6ab60-9316-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_story.html?utm_term=.f5eee2b78922.
to strike down injunction against his travel ban
by Anna Giaritelli and Ryan Lovelace
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to immediately intervene and block a federal appeals court ruling imposing an injunction against President Trump's modified travel ban... The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's interpretation of which family members are permitted to enter the U.S. under the portion of the travel ban that the Supreme Court allowed to take effect. The travel ban temporarily blocked foreign nationals from coming to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries unless they have certain family ties in the U.S., a move the Trump administration said is needed to ensure national security... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-strike-down-injunction-against-his-travel-ban/article/2634018?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2009/11/17&utm_medium=email
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liar-Clinton – Women Haters,
White Supremacist Rednecks Stole Her Crown
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ The narration asks, “So what did happen? liar-Hillary Clinton was supposed to make history as the first woman president of the United States.”... Really? According to what set of rules? The same rules that said Hussein liar-nObama, despite never proving his American citizenship was “supposed to make history as the first black ‘president?’ Are we simply anointing by ethnicity or gender now, msm? The poor, mistreated and put-upon liar-Hillary Clinton says she “started the campaign knowing that I would have to work extra hard to make women and men feel comfortable with the idea of a woman president.” Americans are already comfortable with that idea, it’s the thought of this particular corrupt, pilfering, do-anything, evil woman finding her way into the Oval Office that we couldn’t accept... https://rickwells.us/clinton-women-hater-supremacist/.
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I recently suggested in an article that Trump very much reminds me of Truman, and it’s not just because their names are so similar. Still, when you realize that the only difference between the two names is the difference between “an” and “p,” it does seem to suggest something of a cosmic connection.
I know that people look for different things in their presidents. Some want an inspirational leader, some a quasi-religious figure, others a combination of a commander-in-chief and a king. I prefer someone I can imagine spending time with, just talking. Aside from Truman and Trump, Reagan is the only one of the other 12 presidents who have had the job since I was born who would have filled the bill.
There were issues Truman and I agreed about, such as dropping the atom bombs on Japan and desegregating the military, and things where we parted, as with his support of Adlai Stevenson and not getting rid of Alger Hiss and the other communists who, along with Hiss, had wormed their way into FDR’s Soviet-leaning State Department.
Because history has proven kind to Truman, it’s difficult to realize that he was despised by a great many of his contemporaries. They thought that he drank too much and cursed too much to be considered presidential. He struck them as uncouth and unsavory. But he was a man who had friends, not just the party hacks who surround every president because they regard it as a good career move.
Two things took place during the 1948 election that so far as I’m concerned shine a light on what made Truman special. Although we all know that he defeated Thomas Dewey, what might be forgotten was that Truman was given less of a chance to win than Donald Trump was.
When someone, possibly Truman himself, decided that he needed to rent a train and ride it across country, giving a series of speeches from the rear platform at depots along the way, it was discovered there wasn’t enough money available. No doubt the DNC decided that they didn’t want to squander what they had in the coffers on what was sure to be a lost cause, figuring the money would be better spent trying to elect senators and congressmen.
It was at that point that a few of Truman’s old friends in Missouri, mainly men who had served with Truman’s company in WWI, decided that good old Harry deserved a fighting chance. So, they came up with the money to finance the train trip, even though they were mainly Republicans.
Many people wondered why despite all the constant attacks on his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, Truman never wavered, never even considered firing him. It’s probably because all the smart guys in Washington wrote off Truman, figuring he’d be gone in a few months, so when Truman returned from the whistle stop campaign, there was only one person at the train station to welcome him back to Washington….Dean Acheson.
● Someone sent me something she saw on Facebook: “You know the problem in the Middle East? They have a glaring lack of community organizers. We should send them some of ours.”
I replied; “Just some? How about all? We could even start with the most famous one of the bunch.”
● Someone else sent me something that bears repeating, bearing on the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The source is anonymous, otherwise I’d give credit where it’s due.
“Hundreds and hundreds of small boats pulled by countless pickups and SUVs from across the South are headed to Houston, mostly driven by men. They’re using their own property, sacrificing their own time, spending their own money, and risking their own lives for one reason: to help total strangers in desperate need.
“Most of them are by themselves. Most are dressed like the redneck duck hunters and bass fishermen they are. Many are veterans. Most are wearing well-used gimme-hats, t-shirts and jeans; and there’s a preponderance of camo. Most are probably gun owners, and most probably voted for Trump. These are the people the Left loves to hate, the ones Maddow mocks. The ones Maher and Olbermann just ‘know’ they’re so much better than. These are the Quiet Ones. They don’t wear masks and tear down statues. They don’t, as a rule, march and demonstrate. And most have probably never been to a Whole Foods.
“But they’ll spend the next several days wading in cold, dirty water, dodging gators and water moccasins and fire ants; eating whatever meager rations are available; and sleeping wherever they can in dirty, damp clothes. Their reward is the tears and the hugs and the smiles from the terrified people they help. They’ll deliver one boatload, and then go back for more.
“When disaster strikes, it’s what men do. Real men. Heroic men. American men. And then they’ll knock back a few shots, or a few beers with like-minded men they’ve never met before, and talk about fish, or ten-point bucks, or the benefits of hollow-point ammo, or their F-150. And the next time they hear someone talk about ‘the patriarchy’ or ‘white male privilege’ or ‘safe spaces from micro aggression’ on the media, they’ll snort and turn off the TV and go to bed.
“In the meantime, they’ll likely be up again before dawn, to do it again. Until the helpless are rescued and the work’s done. They’re unlikely to be reimbursed. There won’t be medals. They won’t care. They’re American heroes, it is just who they are and what they do.”
Thanks to my friend, Art Hershey, for passing it along.
I’m reminded that although it probably won’t wind up in the history books the way certain other events do, in a way Hurricane Harvey was our own Dunkirk. It was over the course of several days in late May and early June of 1940 that thousands of Englishmen piloting every imaginable sort of seagoing vessel, ranging from yachts to rowboats, rescued 338,000 English and French soldiers stranded on the French coastline at Dunkirk, facing death or captivity at the hands of the Nazis.
Some have called that rescue mission a matter of divine intervention. But sometimes, as the recent rescue mission in Texas has shown, even God needs a helping hand.
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
REMEMBERING TRUMAN
by Burt Prelutsky
I recently suggested in an article that Trump very much reminds me of Truman, and it’s not just because their names are so similar. Still, when you realize that the only difference between the two names is the difference between “an” and “p,” it does seem to suggest something of a cosmic connection.
I know that people look for different things in their presidents. Some want an inspirational leader, some a quasi-religious figure, others a combination of a commander-in-chief and a king. I prefer someone I can imagine spending time with, just talking. Aside from Truman and Trump, Reagan is the only one of the other 12 presidents who have had the job since I was born who would have filled the bill.
There were issues Truman and I agreed about, such as dropping the atom bombs on Japan and desegregating the military, and things where we parted, as with his support of Adlai Stevenson and not getting rid of Alger Hiss and the other communists who, along with Hiss, had wormed their way into FDR’s Soviet-leaning State Department.
Because history has proven kind to Truman, it’s difficult to realize that he was despised by a great many of his contemporaries. They thought that he drank too much and cursed too much to be considered presidential. He struck them as uncouth and unsavory. But he was a man who had friends, not just the party hacks who surround every president because they regard it as a good career move.
Two things took place during the 1948 election that so far as I’m concerned shine a light on what made Truman special. Although we all know that he defeated Thomas Dewey, what might be forgotten was that Truman was given less of a chance to win than Donald Trump was.
When someone, possibly Truman himself, decided that he needed to rent a train and ride it across country, giving a series of speeches from the rear platform at depots along the way, it was discovered there wasn’t enough money available. No doubt the DNC decided that they didn’t want to squander what they had in the coffers on what was sure to be a lost cause, figuring the money would be better spent trying to elect senators and congressmen.
It was at that point that a few of Truman’s old friends in Missouri, mainly men who had served with Truman’s company in WWI, decided that good old Harry deserved a fighting chance. So, they came up with the money to finance the train trip, even though they were mainly Republicans.
Many people wondered why despite all the constant attacks on his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, Truman never wavered, never even considered firing him. It’s probably because all the smart guys in Washington wrote off Truman, figuring he’d be gone in a few months, so when Truman returned from the whistle stop campaign, there was only one person at the train station to welcome him back to Washington….Dean Acheson.
● Someone sent me something she saw on Facebook: “You know the problem in the Middle East? They have a glaring lack of community organizers. We should send them some of ours.”
I replied; “Just some? How about all? We could even start with the most famous one of the bunch.”
● Someone else sent me something that bears repeating, bearing on the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The source is anonymous, otherwise I’d give credit where it’s due.
“Hundreds and hundreds of small boats pulled by countless pickups and SUVs from across the South are headed to Houston, mostly driven by men. They’re using their own property, sacrificing their own time, spending their own money, and risking their own lives for one reason: to help total strangers in desperate need.
“Most of them are by themselves. Most are dressed like the redneck duck hunters and bass fishermen they are. Many are veterans. Most are wearing well-used gimme-hats, t-shirts and jeans; and there’s a preponderance of camo. Most are probably gun owners, and most probably voted for Trump. These are the people the Left loves to hate, the ones Maddow mocks. The ones Maher and Olbermann just ‘know’ they’re so much better than. These are the Quiet Ones. They don’t wear masks and tear down statues. They don’t, as a rule, march and demonstrate. And most have probably never been to a Whole Foods.
“But they’ll spend the next several days wading in cold, dirty water, dodging gators and water moccasins and fire ants; eating whatever meager rations are available; and sleeping wherever they can in dirty, damp clothes. Their reward is the tears and the hugs and the smiles from the terrified people they help. They’ll deliver one boatload, and then go back for more.
“When disaster strikes, it’s what men do. Real men. Heroic men. American men. And then they’ll knock back a few shots, or a few beers with like-minded men they’ve never met before, and talk about fish, or ten-point bucks, or the benefits of hollow-point ammo, or their F-150. And the next time they hear someone talk about ‘the patriarchy’ or ‘white male privilege’ or ‘safe spaces from micro aggression’ on the media, they’ll snort and turn off the TV and go to bed.
“In the meantime, they’ll likely be up again before dawn, to do it again. Until the helpless are rescued and the work’s done. They’re unlikely to be reimbursed. There won’t be medals. They won’t care. They’re American heroes, it is just who they are and what they do.”
Thanks to my friend, Art Hershey, for passing it along.
I’m reminded that although it probably won’t wind up in the history books the way certain other events do, in a way Hurricane Harvey was our own Dunkirk. It was over the course of several days in late May and early June of 1940 that thousands of Englishmen piloting every imaginable sort of seagoing vessel, ranging from yachts to rowboats, rescued 338,000 English and French soldiers stranded on the French coastline at Dunkirk, facing death or captivity at the hands of the Nazis.
Some have called that rescue mission a matter of divine intervention. But sometimes, as the recent rescue mission in Texas has shown, even God needs a helping hand.
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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