Pence's Pathetic Plot To Please Trump

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You weren't fooling anybody Mr. Vice President!

Your stunt at the Colts - 49'ers game Sunday was already common knowledge before you even entered the stadium.

The press never followed you in because they knew you were going to walk out early in protest when the 49'ers knelt during the National Anthem.

I, and anyone else observing your stunt, knew that you were ordered to back-up Trump's racist attack against NFL players by pretending outrage, by Donny himself.

How much money did this stunt cause taxpayers? You had secret service securing a stadium for what? For ten minutes? A government jet took you there, again on the taxpayer's dime.  

What a picture you and Trump must of made, plotting an attack on free speech in the "war room."

I have to ask, do you have any morals, or conscience left after kissing Trump's ass daily? You don't say much, but when you do, it's seldom accurate and always following Daddy's orders.

Remember, you weren't elected. Trump picked you out as the perfect minion to carry out his agenda. I wonder how you manage to get around without a spine?

Here's the thing, when Trump is no longer around after getting booted out of office, or miraculously finishing his full term, you aren't going to replace him.

Americans may make stupid choices at times, but you'll be so toxic from being a Trumpie that no one will back your effort to take over Trump's job.

In essence, you hitched your star to the wrong wagon partner. 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump's Turbulant Relationship With Fake News

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Irony is Trump launching a crusade against "fake news."

Fake news has been good for Donny since the Russians beefed up his presidential campaign with a pack of lies that went viral on right-wing websites.

Fake news and Trump are old friends. Back in his younger days he used fake news to get something written about himself.

Shoot...he even pretended to be his own PR guy to the amusement of several reporters at the time. It was all about seeing his name in the news.

Nothing has changed since the early 1980s. Trump still wants to see his name, and hopefully, his ugly mug in some publication every morning.

Tweeting from his throne each morning, Donny likes to share what he read, or watched, earlier on fake news sites

that favor fringe dwellers like himself.

Now that fake news planted by the Russians on Facebook has been exposed by the senate intelligence committee, Trump is claiming their report is fake news.

I know. It's hard to believe. The man can no longer distinguish between reality and a fantasy world of fake news. 

What the hell is this maniac still doing in the Oval Office?

Time for me to walk on down the road...

SwampThing, Day 261: Trump Calls Senate Findings on Russian Interference "Fake News'

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As anyone who has been paying attention knows, Trump did not drain the swamp in Washington.

He restocked it. For good measure he crawled in and became the SwampThing-in-Charge.

Donny's very familiar with swamps.

His life before becoming POTUS was a grand tour of swamps around the globe. When it came to slimy, playboy Donnie set the standard in his younger years. 

Now that he's a doddering old bastard, Trump simply calls anything he doesn't like fake. It's a simple four-letter word he can remember and likes to drop daily.

After going through mounds of evidence a Senate intelligence committee concluded that Russia did infer with the 2016 election.

No question about it.

But Donny ignored the facts, and called their report fake.

He quickly downplayed the fact that the committee was still looking into his campaigns possible collusion with the Russians to help him win.

What are Americans supposed to think?

That our president, a chronic liar, knows more than all the senators who interviewed over 100 people and collected reams of incriminating paperwork and digital data?

That's a stretch by any sane persons standards. Yes, I know, not to a core Trumpie. But I did say sane.

So the obvious conclusion must be that whenever Trump opens his mouth he's lying.

One of the sure signs is that he often ends his rants with, "believe me." There's plenty of other tells. 

Meanwhile, we're stuck with a SwampThing in office until Congress grows some balls and impeaches him. 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Time To Really Worry When Trump Says it's 'The Calm Before the Storm'

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The storm started when Trump was sworn in as our president.

In less than one year there's been so many storms coming from the White House that people are living on the edge. What will the Liar-In-Chief say next?

Politicians and average Americans cringe when Trump starts one his patented tweet storms. 

In a gathering of military elites a couple of days ago, Trump hinted at something big happening soon. He coyly told reporters that it was, "The calm before the storm."

Oh shit! That means anything can happen. He was addressing military families gathered in the room. It was obvious that Trump had a plan to shake something up in the world.

Does he plan on attacking North Korea? Is he going to void our treaty with the Iranians? Is he going to start a war in some third world country?

It's been time to worry about Trump's actions since his first big lie about the crowd size at his inauguration. When a moron like Trump declares it's "the calm before the storm," it's really time to worry.

He's like a little kid, toying with the press and millions of Americans lives.

After belittling Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, for pursuing diplomatic solutions to the North Korean crisis, Trump undercut him and said negotiating was useless.

After suffering through too many nasty surprises from Don the Con, Americans are wary. For good reason. His reign has been a waking nightmare, violating laws, ethics, and attacking people of color.

Americans are already weary, and wary, of what Trump will do next. For him to announce that he's got a blockbuster bit of news to share soon, it's going to be "yuge" and terrifying.

It would probably be a good idea to locate the nearest bomb shelter in your city. I'm just saying.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

The State of Trump: Of Morons and Mice

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It's no secret that Trump is a moron. The cat was let out of the bag decades ago.

If anyone should know, it's Rex Tillerson the nation's besieged (by Trump) Secretary of State.

You did notice Rex didn't deny calling Trump a moron when he held a special press conference to say he and Trump were still buddies.

My guess is that everyone in the White House (and down the food chain) has called Trump a moron, or another equally accurate moniker.

America elected a moron.

It's been less than one year since Trump was inaugurated and lied about the size of the crowd attending the sham ceremony.

I hold all the mice in Congress complicit over the chaos in our country, and abroad, that's been created by top fat cat Trump.
I've never seen a bigger collection of cheese (or shit) eaters in my life.

I just want those Republican mice to remember Trump will be gone someday - either early, or after serving a full term.

That will be their time of accounting (starting with the hot tar and feather treatment) by the majority of Americans who didn't vote for Trump.

Hopefully, the Trump era of madness and hate will serve as a wake-up call for politicians and voters alike.

Let the mice play with taxpayer money, flying around on private trips, and other abuses of the system, while they can.

Mouse traps will surround Washington after the Orange Scourge slips once too often and gets locked up for obstruction of justice, colluding with the Russians, lying under oath, and a host of ethics violations.

Even if, by some perverted miracle, Trump finishes his term, he'll slip away and be forever remembered as the worst president this country ever had.  

America...take a deep breath this time, and don't fall for another con man when you vote.

All Americans should be united in not wanting another moron to sit in the White House again. 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

When Did This Great Divide Among Americans Happen?

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When did Americans split into two warring political camps?

Some historians suggest that when we elected a black president we tipped the scales. White dominance was challenged.

Closet racists pulled out their white hoods and claimed President Obama was born in Kenya.

All the suppressed white fears about giving blacks more equality in the 60s and 70s, while whites were supposedly losing rights, bubbled to the surface when Obama was elected.

At least that's one theory.

Others suggest it's the economy in one form or the other. The millionaires and billionaires vs the rest of the country. Growing financial desperation among the poor, and middle class. 

I go with the theory that the wealthy, the elite, and the politically powerful, have taken over America for some time now.

Equality and justice are graffiti on the restroom walls.

The crazy bastard that's nominally-in-charge of our government, is a racist, serial liar, and mean man-child whose busy taunting another mean man-child in North Korea.

The rumors of nuclear war remind me of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. It also reminds me that we have never been totally united in this country.

United We Stand was, and is, a myth.

The great divide has always existed.

We're currently witnessing an extreme reflection of the hate and fear that has always lingered between whites and people of color, and the wealthy versus the poor and middle class.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Deadly Silence: GOP Congress Controlled By Gun Lobby

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Don't let anyone kid you, hunters don't need silencers, despite a GOP attempt to legalize them to "save a hunter's hearing."

Every time there's a push for some common sense gun control laws, the NRA cracks its whip and the Republicans in Congress cower...like cowards, hiding behind a very wide-open interruption of the 2nd Amendment.

Besides the silencer measure, House GOP leaders had been moving forward with a bill to allow people with concealed-carry permits to take their weapons to other states.

A vote on that measure seems unlikely due to the recent massacre in Las Vegas. The bill will probably be stalled for awhile, but when the controversy settles down it'll pop back up like an evil Jack-In-The-Box.

Republican leaders have refused to entertain Democratic demands to expand background checks for gun purchases and tighten restrictions on semi-automatic weapons.

They claim the Democrats are taking advantage of the situation - a mass murder - by "politicizing it."

So, when is the right time to talk about gun control and safety for Americans? During the Christmas holidays? Easter? Halloween?

I don't think so. When a shooting this horrific - think about it, over 500 people wounded and 59 killed - happens you don't turn your head at one of the root causes.

By brainwashing and bribery, the NRA lobby is holding the majority of Americans hostage. The GOP led Congress is responsible for the spiraling gun murders using semi-auto and automatic weapons.

One example of the NRA's duplicity is a way to make long guns automatic, skirting the American ban on automatic weapons. That's what the Las Vegas shooter did.

The part can be ordered online and easily attached to a semi-auto weapon making it a machine gun. We saw that in Las Vegas.

There's ways to protect the 2nd Amendment without allowing guns of mass destruction to be sold like BB guns. One is common sense.

No one needs a machine gun to go hunting. No one needs a silencer to go hunting. No matter what the bastards at the NRA tell you.

Related Article from the New York Times:

If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim

"On crushing ISIS, our president and his party are all in. On asking the N.R.A. for even the tiniest moderation, they are AWOL. No matter how many innocents are fatally shot — no matter even that one of their own congressional leaders was critically wounded playing baseball — it’s never time to discuss any serious policy measures to mitigate gun violence."

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Las Vegas Massacre: The Biggest Question is Why?

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Like millions of other Americans, I'm still in shock at what happened in Las Vegas.

It was a well-planned massacre. There's no other way to put it. Perhaps the scariest part of the whole thing is this killer doesn't fit the usual profile of serial killers.

Everyone who knew him, including his family, were shocked at what he did. There's nothing in his past - no criminal record - no indication of anything abnormal about the guy.

What Americans have to understand is that we are never really safe against a "Lone Wolf" attacker.

No amount of planning or making new laws is going to change the fact that there is no way to stop a determined person from attacking innocent people.

All the experts agree. Weapons are as easy to get as candy. If you can't get a weapon legally, there's plenty of illegal alternatives.

There will be political debates for months about this terrible massacre. In the end, nothing is going to change. Americans love their guns, and are paying the price for their passion.

I hate to sound so cynical, but you and I both know it's the truth. The NRA owns Congress, so don't even think about those politically biased bastards making any positive changes.  

I'd like to say things will get better...but I can't. All I can do is pray for those innocent people who lost their lives for no reason.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Reality Show Back For Another Season: Meet The Booger Family

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The Booger family is back by popular demand!

It seems thousands of readers couldn’t get enough of this reality show when it appeared last September.

So, in case you missed it, here’s your chance to weigh in on this popular reality show:

MEET THE BOOGERS

Travel through Texas with the Booger family as they gross out restaurant patrons throughout the Lone Star state.

Watch as Pa Booger, Ma Booger, daughters Mandy and Randy, and son Jim Bob blow diners minds with well-timed Booger battles.

Listen to Booger family members as they explain their existence. Their mission in life.


Pa, a retired preacher and classic Booger collector, wants the world to know that there’s a place in the world for Boogers.

He’s best known for his long stringy boogers.

Ma constantly catches her kids off-guard, and blows boogers at them.

Twins Mandy, and Randy, have an ongoing argument over which has the better booger blower and which is the most accurate.

Jim Bob likes to eat boogers. And he’s not too particular whose.

Viewers will get to follow their adventures weekly as they travel about in their custom Bogermobile bus.

At the end of every episode, viewers are asked to send in the names of restaurants they’d like to see them appear at.

Related video:
See the world’s biggest booger!

Time for me to walk on down the road…

Trump and Session's Renewed War on Marijuana is a Pathetic Ploy To Cater To His Base

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The latest from the Believe it or Not files:

Did you know that there's three marijuana arrests made every minute, day in and day out, in America? 

According to FBI figures, pot arrests are on the increase since Trump took office. That's a complete reversal of the last seven years.

Since last November, the arrest total for marijuana offenses tripled. Drug offenses were the single largest category of crimes for which people were arrested, more than burglaries, DUIs or any other criminal offense. 

The FBI reported some 653,000 people arrested on marijuana charges just last year.

Think about that.

Trump's favorite minion, Jeff Sessions, was given the green light to arrest nearly a million people for substance abuse in 2016, despite the fact that alcohol is considerably more risky and drunk drivers continue to push up insurance rates.

There's no good reason to criminalize marijuana use, which has devastated families across the U.S., particularly in communities of color.

Polls consistently show the majority of Americans are for legalization of marijuana.

Recreational marijuana use is now legal in eight states and the District of Columbia — with a majority of U.S. states offering legal cannabis products to patients for medical use.

Once again, Trump is going against the majority of Americans will, so he can cater to his core base of supporters.

It makes me wonder at what point will a majority of Americans get what they want?

It's apparent Trump has his own hateful agenda that feeds off fear, lies, and racism.

Resurrecting the War on Drugs - which was a complete failure -  reinforces how out-of-touch the Trump regime is with the majority of Americans.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump's Hyprocrisy Over Email Investigation of His Family and Staffers

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I'm trying real hard not to let Trump and minions sour the milk in my coffee this morning with their overt hypocrisy.

The latest case is about an investigation into private email accounts being used for government business. Sound familiar?

Remember Trump's rallies where he stirred up supporters about Hillary Clinton's use of a private server?

"Lock her up! Lock her up!" Became, and still is, a mandatory chant at all Trump rallies.

Here's the deal; investigators have begun pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from the private accounts of senior aides.

Politico first reported last week that Kushner had used personal email for government matters. 

Investigators are particularly interest in Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

They are reviewing their accounts to determine whether any of the messages are relevant to the investigations into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia.

They are also expected to scrutinize whether any classified information was put at risk.

Meanwhile CNN reported that, in his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, Kushner made no mention of his personal email account.

Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary and expert liar, told reporters on Thursday: “The White House has been clear and instructs all staff to fully comply with presidential records acts."

Oh, I see. They didn't know what they were doing was wrong and Daddy told them to stop.

Please...the majority of Americans know better. It was a blatant display of hypocrisy.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump's 'Middle Class Miracle' is More like Christmas For The Wealthy

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A new con is on. Donny calls it "The Middle Class Miracle."

He failed with his racist immigration con, and overturning Obamacare.

So, now he's rolled out a tax plan that is a gift to his wealthy friends and corporations. It's wrapped in lies, few details, and lots of bullshit about how it's all about the middle class getting breaks.

New York Times writer BINYAMIN APPELBAUM analyzed Donny's latest con : Trump Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Including Trump.

This should come as no surprise to anyone. Not even the morons who voted for him because he was a "businessman" (like that's some kind of magical endorsement).

Anyone whose bothered to look into Trump's past knows he was a shitty businessman who declared bankruptcy several times, and had a lot of shady business deals with wealthy Russians and mobsters (more on that in Mueller's report when the investigation into collusion with the Russians is released).

Since when is being a businessman president of the United States a good thing? Who started that ridiculous rumor?

People like Donny have tons of skeletons in their past, and no history of caring about the American middle class and poor.

The businessman mindset was a farce from the start.

We needed an educated president who isn't a racist and a liar. Not some wheeler-dealer whose embarrassing millions of Americans with his ignorance on almost any subject.

Here we go again. Trump wants us to believe another one of his lies.

The truth is this Big Tax Plan for the middle class, doesn't even have any details on how the middle class or poor will be affected.

The interesting thing is cuts for the wealthy - like doing away with estate taxes which only helps uber-rich like Donny - and a clause to defer their taxes have been spelled out.

That doesn't sound like a middle class miracle to me, as Trump claimed when announcing this latest scheme. It sounds more like Christmas for the wealthy than anything else.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Snakes Stories and a Piss-Poor President

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How are you doing?

I'm sitting here at my keyboard pecking away some thoughts for the day, while sipping some cannabis infused coffee.

Yes. Wake and bake. It's great to be retired. It would be even greater if I wasn't an old coot now!

Did you see that story in the St. Louis Dispatch about the woman who was bitten by a copperhead snake while eating in a restaurant?

Talk about an appetite suppressant! The snake bit her foot and held on while she tried to kick it off! Her boyfriend and son stomped on it, sending it to snake heaven.

Moving on...

It's really sad that we have a president who likes to pick fights with people, or organizations, on twitter. The clown wasn't even aware that Puerto Rico is an American territory when he told the governor to talk with his leader about getting help!

Reportedly he couldn't understand how an "Island of Spics" could be full of Americans with the right to go back and forth to the mainland anytime they wanted.

Trump complained Puerto Rican refugees that are flocking to the mainland are setting a bad optic for illegal Mexicans who will sneak in with them.

It's enough to make a person puke. How did we ever get such a bastard for a president?

Moving on...

Another snake whose made the news, showed up in an 88-year old man's toilet.

The North Carolina man asked his neighbor to help get rid of the snake.

All I can say is that neighbor must have been his best friend, or a relative, because he used his bare hands to pull a six-foot snake out of that toilet bowl.

Okay. One more snake story, and I'm done:

Try to imagine your a customer at an auto parts store and you have to suddenly take a dump. You lift the toilet seat and see...a friggin Python!

The male store owners have said they caught that bad boy on camera lurking there twice. My question is were they looking for a snake, or women dropping their drawers? 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

What's Keeping Kelly From Saying Goodbye To Trump?

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The only adult in the White House right now is getting tired of the man-baby-in-charge stirring up shit for no reason. 

John Kelly is surrounded with Trump minions who are afraid to deal with Baby Trump's tantrums, tweets, and attacks on the American people.

Imagine how lonely Kelly's job is? He has to deal with a staff that doesn't use more than four letters a word in order to communicate with Donny. 

I can just see Kelly gritting his teeth when Trump went off script at a rally in Alabama and attacked NFL players for kneeling during the National Anthem.

Trump, who loves playing before a crowd, worked himself into a lather attacking "Rocket Man" North Korea's deranged leader, and the NFL.

He was supposed to be there to support a Republican candidate, Luther Strange. But a strange thing happened when the crowd started begging for meat from Donny the ringmaster.

This is what Kelly is up against. He now knows that Trump will tweet about anything, no matter how divisive if he feels like it.

Worse, Trump can go off-script at a moment's notice, no matter how important the setting is, or how hard Kelly pleads with him to grow up.

Kelly once remarked he'd never been so badly treated by a person before than when Trump went off on him in one of his rants. Yet, he stayed.

You can watch Kelly's body language to see the agony he goes through when Trump is on a roll, and he's in the same room with nowhere to go.

This is not a happy man. How long do you suppose he'll stick around before joining the Exodus from the White House? 

You have to wonder what keeps Kelly going? Why does he stay?

Does he realize how dangerous Trump is, and that if he leaves the wackaloons will return like sparrows to San Juan Capistrano?

Kelly may be the only stop gap between Trump and "the button" right now while he's busy baiting another man-child with nukes in North Korea.

That's something to think about.

Time for me to walk on down the road... 

The Trump Era: 'Divided We Fall'

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I just finished reading an article written by a group of professional psychotherapists who are troubled by the environment of rampant dishonesty in the White House.

The group is also very concerned about the daily disregard of civil and social norms by the president, and the threats he makes against vulnerable people.

Other concerns:

* Policies and rhetoric that undermine progress on the environment

* Trump could care less about humane immigration laws.

* Thus far, Trump's agenda against race and gender has proven toxic and millions of Americans are feeling disenfranchised.

Those Republicans in Congress who are enabling the Liar-In-Chief, are complicit in Trump's hateful agenda.

Even though they know he's a world class liar, they have been trying to dismantle our nations health care system just to score some vague ideological points.

However, I have noticed the pushback from a majority of Americans, from pro athletes to women marching for equality.

I have hope this country will survive Trump's assault on everything we stand for. There's too many good people in this country who want to reunite America.

They can start by voting in 2018, and getting The House of Representatives back from Republican control.

When the 2020 presidential elections roll around hopefully we'll have a record turnout to take Trump out of office (that is if he's still there, and doesn't get impeached and indicted for obstruction of justice and colluding with the Russians).

Time for me to walk on down the road...

'Barking Dogs,' S.O.B's, 'Rocket Man,' Anthem Tantrums: WH Calling...

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It's the White House calling...

Ask not what your country can do for you...oh wait a minute!

This is the Trump era and his minions all believe taxpayers money is theirs to play with.

For example, how about one of Trump's poster children for corruption, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin, who thought it was perfectly fine to request a U.S. Military jet for his European honeymoon last August.

Someday, historians are going to look back at Trump's ruinous regime. They'll undoubtedly be amused at his twitter storms and total lack of diplomacy.

On a slow Friday night in Alabama during a political rally, Trump decided to tackle athletes who knelt during the National Anthem, calling them sons of bitches for not standing.

In a head-twisting moment reminiscent of The Exorcist Trump swiveled his slander to North Korea's Rocket Man and how he wasn't going to be around for much longer.

That of course got a personal response from Kim who called Donny a "barking dog" and "dotard," which I thought was pretty accurate.

It's getting so people don't want to go to the White House (gee, I can't imagine why) like Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors basketball team.

When Trump heard he didn't want to visit the White House he did the only thing a responsible mature president would do - NOT! 

He rescinded the White House invitation for the whole team (who by the way, hadn't decided if they were going to visit or not). Coach Kerr gave the kindergartner in the Oval Office something to think about when he defended people's right to protest.

Thanks to Trump's twitter addiction, we can be sure he'll continue to try to dismantle our society. He is the great divider - not uniter.

It's also fair to say Trump has also stoked the fires of racism in this country like a little kid toasting marshmallow's. Sad. 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump Once Again Displays His Stupidity By Attacking Football Players

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It's Sunday Football in America, and Trump is calling football players sons of bitches!

In another of his infantile tweetstorms, Trump suggested football players should be fired for taking a knee during the National Anthem.

The reaction from football players, owners, and the leagues commissioner, was one of disgust and alarm. The consensus was Trump needs to stick to politics and leave sports alone.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement Saturday morning in response to Mr. Trump's comments.

"Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities," Goodell said.

Trump doubled down on his hateful speech by saying that any owner who followed his encouragement would become the "Most popular person in the country - at least for a week."

The NFL Players Association also reacted to Trump's comments Saturday morning in a statement.

"We will never back down. We no longer can afford to stick to sports," executive director DeMaurice Smith said.
"This union ... will never back down when it comes to constitutional rights of our players as citizens as well as their safety as men in a game that exposes them to great risks."

Trump was back at it this morning, demanding that teams fire any player who doesn't stand during the National Anthem. Even Trump's buddy, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, called him out on his stupid comments.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Welcome to the Weekend Coffee Klatch Time

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Have you got a nice hot cup of coffee going?

Good. Let's chat about some of the issues in our world today while sipping some Joe. Topics are wide open.

A new documentary on Vietnam came out last week and once again the North Vietnamese side of the story is sorely lacking.

If you saw it, I'd love to hear your take on the documentary. You can comment with the link provided at the end of this post.

Thoughts on Walls:

The hideous black WALL in Washington DC dedicated to those Vietnam veterans who died, is really a stark reminder of failed colonialism.

Trump's WALL is a right-wing fantasy that has failed to materialize...yet.

Joseph Fort Newton once said,

“Men build too many WALLS and not enough bridges.”

That's spot on for what's happening today.

On Natural Disasters:

Is it just me, or is there an awful lot of natural disasters happening this year?

Hurricane after record-breaking hurricane has been savaging the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and southern states. Hurricane Harvey hit Texas like a runaway freight train.

There's been earthquakes and volcanoes erupting along the Pacific "Rim of Fire." Mexico was especially hard hit with two big earthquakes.

Major fires across the nation this summer struck particularly hard in the west, with states like California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Montana burning out-of-control for weeks and even months.

Is it time to sit down and really examine Global Warming and what we can do about it?

What do you think is happening?

Is Global Warming fake news? Is it something we should be very concerned about? I'd like to hear your take on this topic that seems to divide so many Americans today.

If you'd like to send me your comments via email, my address is: richarddavestancliff@gmail.com 

How Close Are We To Nuclear War?

Donny and Kim's pissing match is getting serious. The two man-children are engrossed with throwing shit at one another, to the determent of a peaceful solution.

I try not to picture those two crazy bastards sitting next to "The Button." It harshes my high for the day.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

On Statues: Believe It or Not, We Do Have Progressive Heroes in Seach of a Statue Near You

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With all the controversy surround statues these days, I have a simple question to ask;

Where are the statues of famous progressive heroes in American history? 

America has been traditionally content to put up statues celebrating wars and the heroes who fought in them. That alone, is a reflection of what we see ourselves as; a militant nation.

If Americans are going to continue putting up statues why not celebrate our progressive heroes too? I'll just give you two quick examples.

You get to ring the bell if you've heard of both of these men.



James Armistead

If Independence Day should be about anything, it should be about celebrating the life of a black slave turned spy, who worked as a crafty double agent, and passed details to George Washington that provided the catalyst for a crucial victory.

In 1781, he joined the army and was put in service under the Marquis de Lafayette, who was desperately trying to fight the chaos caused in Virginia by turncoat soldier Benedict Arnold.

His forces diminished by British Gen. Charles Cornwallis' troops, Lafayette needed reliable information about enemy movements.

Enter James Armistead.

Using the intricate details Armistead provided, Lafayette and a stunned, but relieved George Washington lay siege to the town.

Concentrating both American and French forces, a huge blockade was formed, crippling the British military and resulting in their surrender on Oct. 19, 1781.

Stetson Kennedy

Stetson Kennedy, the writer for Superman recruited the Super Hero to fight the KKK in a novel way.

He infiltrated the KKK and learned about their inner workings. He took this knowledge to a radio station which had a regular Superman serial and sold them on the idea of running it as a special series.

The 16-part series, The Clan of the Fiery Cross, striped away much of the KKK's mystique and left their reputation in tatters.

By 1948 people were just showing up to their meetings and laughing at them.

Kennedy who was both a writer and political activist, coined the term "Frown Power," which encouraged people to frown when they heard bigoted speech in public.

There are hundreds of other examples I could give you, but these two illustrate my point well.

This is the 21st century, and Americans should be more aware of their famous brothers, and sisters, who made this country great without leading men into battle.

That's what teachers should be teaching children today.

Time for me to walk on down the road...