Good Morning Thinkers - Today I'm going to begin with a quote from legendary Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka. In an interview with TMZ Sports about the kneeling controversy that is now spanning multiple professional sports he said, “If you can't respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country. That’s the way I feel. Of course, I’m old fashioned. ... You don’t protest against the flag, and you don’t protest against this country who’s given you the opportunities to make a living playing a sport that you never thought would happen. So, I don’t want to hear all the crap."
Thanks Coach. You're a great American.
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In the days before Rangers had vehicles, we were road marching beasts. One morning my platoon went out for a 12 miler with a new PL and first squad set one of those head down and haul ass paces. That lasted a few miles and the PL rotated my squad, 2nd squad, up to the front hoping for some relief. No effing way. We continued to push the pace. The same thing happened when 3rd squad took the lead. For the last stretch, Chris Hardy took the lead and hauled ass. We weren't running but we were moving out. When we made it back to the Company area and were stretching out, the LT asked Chris, "Sgt. Hardy, do you think that we were marching at an EIB standard pace?"
Chris replied, "No sir, because if we were we'd still be out there walking."
And that was that.
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If gender selection abortions resulted in zero female births in 132 towns and cities over several months across the US, would that be distressing to the left at all?
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When the America haters condemn our treatment of people who attempt to cross our border illegally I think of this:
Imagine what our country COULD DO to dissuade people from crossing illegally but doesn't. That restraint is the measure of our goodness as a nation and our generosity as a people.
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I was in a conversation in a private group and we were discussing the differences in the refugees/immigrants we knew who had come to this country- either through our own family connections or from direct observation. Consistently we found that those fleeing communism/socialism (actual communism/socialism) tended to be the most appreciative of the freedoms and opportunities provided by their new homes in the US. The following is one of the comments I made:
I lived in Orange County, CA during the time that the Vietnamese 'boat people' fled their country. Many of these refugees settled in the city where I lived. So many, in fact, that a generation later the demographics of the city have changed completely. In the mid to late 70s when I lived there, there was a smattering of Vietnamese families. Today the population is 47.8% Asian and 39% White; and the city is thriving. My Vietnamese neighbors came and started businesses, worked their asses off, demanded excellence from their kids, and prospered. The point is that there is a vast difference between refugees determined to make a better life for themselves in the US through their own productivity, and immigrants who want to make a better life for themselves in the US by living indefinitely off of taxpayer funded social welfare programs.
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The fundamental choice in politics today is between being people who are self-determined or people who look to the government to the government to solve problems for them.
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Self-deprecating humor doesn't work when coming from a narcissist. It rings hollow.
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Editorial Comment: The word 'woman' is not an adjective, it is a noun. It is grammatically incorrect to say "The first woman President." The phrase should be "The first female President," as female is an adjective.
THIS drives me insane. Educated people should know better.
" A night that started with a reported shooting and a bag containing loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails amid a peaceful protest..."
How is it a peaceful protest if there are reports of shooting and a bag loaded with ammo and incendiary devices is found? This BS narrative has got to be crushed. It is NOT peaceful. It has NOT been peaceful for a long time. They are NOT protests, they are riots.
And, as far as I'm concerned, the rioters are damn lucky to walk away uninjured and alive.
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Headline: Black start up founders day that venture capitalists are racist, but the law protects them.
Article here
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