#takeaknee--or not, whatever. I don't care. (America flag: good. Confederate flag: bad.)

You know how you feel about seeing the Confederate flag? That's how so many--probably a majority--of Americans feel about people who are disrespecting the American flag or the national anthem. This is not a win for liberals; like Jane Fonda, it illustrates how out of touch these elitist liberals are with regular Americans. It does, however, further show how bad--I mean, BAD--Trump is as President.


Trump was given a question, and he replied in his Trumpian fashion: fire the sonsofbitches who protest DURING the national anthem. This was not breaching the First Amendment, since you're not entitled to play for the NFL, regardless of race or political leanings. What is interesting, however, is how heavily subsidized the NFL is by the federal and local governments. (Research it.... Right!?!) In a roundabout way, the taxpayers are paying these wealthy jocks to protest America(?)


This isn't about BLM or resist or even racial inequity. The players, coaches, team owners, et al don't appreciate being told what to do by a man whom many probably didn't vote for. (Some of them, like Colin Kaepernick, didn't vote at all. Because he respect America so much?) The NFL ignored all the CTE, but would not stand by and let their employment policies be dictated by outsiders.


Trump again overestimated how much influence that he had--although, really, he has helped fortify his base by waging war with these rich team owners and their America-hating employees. He advanced the kneel movement more than the currently unemployed Kaepernick, who doesn't even have a job.

great scott...

I feel that I have done all that I could on this blog to defend cops' actions in excessive force complaints. But words do not come easily in addressing the controversial shooting of Walter Scott.

Whenever a black person is shot--whether armed or not--the black witnesses declare that the dead man "wasn't doin' nothin'." Normally the black man is doing something illegal or at least poorly advised when the police shoot him. (In the case of Eric Gardner, for instance, he was accidentally killed during an arrest owing to his refusal to cooperate and his poor medical health. Michael Brown was attacking a cop when he was shot.) This isn't murder. It's crap police work.

In the Scott case, the cop apparently shot the black man because he didn't feel like running after him. We cannot ascertain what was in the cop's mind when he was shooting. What is evident from the tape was that this cop was trying to shoot a fleeing man in the back. Then he planted a weapon on him. Then several cops lied about performing CPR on him. And the man wasn't just very tanned--he was certainly black. It was so atrocious that the police department has condoned him. It was so terrible that all the cases that he has worked on will now be re-inspected by the media and lawyers for decades to come.

Yes, Walter Scott was most likely a deadbeat--but he never murdered anyone, white people. Let's get it straight who the thug is in this scenario. A guy who kills a man, then plants evidence is a worse human being than a man who has fallen behind on his childsupport and maybe hit a cop. The cover-up is worse than the crime of accidentally shooting a black suspect.

I hope in this forthcoming weeks we see plenty of feel good stories about the many good cops throughout America. I really do.