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Category: Politics

  • Nike’s Stolen Valor

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    Fox News reports Nike on Friday apologized and halted the release of a logo for a sportswear line that bore a striking similarity to the U.S. Naval Academy crest scheduled to launch Sunday.

    The logo, which was a collaboration between Nike and Undefeated, a Los Angeles sportswear line, sparked backlash on social media and prompted the rebuke from the U.S. Naval Academy.

    “The similarities of the Nike/UNDEFEATED logo released this week and the USNA Crest are undeniable and we believe their logo is clearly an infringement under trademark law. USNA is working with Navy leadership to order Nike/UNDEFEATED to cease and desist their use of the logo,” the Naval Academy tweeted.

    An academy spokeswoman also released a statement Friday obtained by The Washington Post.

    “The Naval Academy crest represents honor, integrity and leadership,” she said. “And is emblematic of our students and more than 80,000 alumni who serve and have served our country, many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice in its defense.”
    Comments poured in on social media calling the logo “just plain wrong” and a “ripoff,” while some on Twitter called it “stolen valor,” according to The Post.

    I’m willing to bet most folks at Nike and Undefeated had no idea someone in the graphic arts department was ripping of the Naval Academy’s Crest; the quick apology and rescinding of the logo is welcome. Now they need to publicly fire those responsible.

  • Levi Tillemann pepper-sprays himself for gun control

    Levi Tillemann pepper-sprays himself for gun control

    Mick and Kevin sends us a link to Fox News which reports that Levi Tillemann, a candidate for Congress in Maryland made the great sacrifice, spraying himself with pepper-spray to promote gun control;

    “Pepper spray doesn’t cost much and it can be safely stored in a break glass in case of emergency cabinet. But it’s powerful and won’t accidentally kill a kid,” he continued. “Trust me, this will stop anybody in their tracks.”

    The Democrat then proceeded to close his eyes and began spraying the pepper spray in his face. He’s later seen trying to wash off his face by dunking his head into water and spraying himself with a hose. “It’s incredibly painful, now I can’t see anything,” he said. “Wow, that’s intense.”

    Tillemann, a former Department of Energy official during the presidency of Barack Obama, made gun control the key issue of his campaign, doubling-down on his website that pepper spray should be “be made widely available as quickly as possible” for teachers and school officials to combat potential school shooters.

    “The time has come to move beyond apologies and half measures and fight for real solutions to gun violence in our community. Help us win this fight,” he said.

    Maybe he should shoot himself in the head with a scary black rifle so we can make a comparison in the effects. According to the article, it appears that his antics won’t secure his place in the election – his party is backing another candidate.

  • Eagles were playing out of their league

    The Philadelphia Eagles should stick to the NFL. Last week they tried to game an opponent who regularly plays in a really big league and got their showboating butts handed to them, much to the amusement of millions of Americans who are fed up with their sports venues being used to promote social justice claptrap. Following a tradition begun by Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump invited the Super Bowl victors to the White House for a celebratory visit to honor their victory. Rather than graciously accept and show up at the appointed time, the Eagles’ organization tried to play cute by agreeing to the date named by the White House then abruptly canceling at the very last moment after all the preparations had been made and their own fans had traveled to Washington to view their team being honored. The Eagles then arrogantly named their own date which just so happened to be when the president would be in Singapore for his talks with the North Korean dictator Kim as they assuredly knew.

    It wasn’t like the president’s trip was a state secret; it had been broadcast all over the media, even by the leftist networks that so love the social justice protests in our sporting events. So there is no way the Eagles organization didn’t know what they were doing: they were trying to psych their opponent. Well it may have worked on the Patriots but it didn’t work on the Number One Patriot who promptly informed them they had just forfeited the game as no shows, much to the delight of those tens of millions of us who want the Left to get the hell out of our professional sports and take all their angry, defiant, social justice drivel with them. The Patriot-in-Chief then used the forfeited time to stage a patriotic event honoring the very themes of duty, honor, country that the swaggering Philadelphia Peacocks were dishonoring with their raised, clinched fists. Game summary: The too-confident Philly offense fumbled on their trick play and Donald’s defense ran it back for the winning touchdown.

    If the Democrats, who are supportive of liberal politics being force-fed to Americans through sports venues, think that irritating tens of millions of NFL fans in the months leading up to the elections is the way to make their so-called Blue Wave happen, then, by all means, let them continue to think just that. It demonstrates such clear political vision they should dub their ingenious plan “The Left Coast Offense.” As for those grounded turkeys cooling their heels in Philly as they critique this first loss of the 2018 season, if they really want to get down with the cause, why don’t they hire Colin Kaepernick and make him first-string QB? So what if they have two super-talented quarterbacks who took them to a Super Bowl victory? Wouldn’t sacrificing the coming season by playing the whining has-been hack who kicked off this political mess in the NFL be just their season ticket?

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Memorial Day Melancholy – An Annual Re-post

    Two or three times a year some of us geezer types get a bit tangled up in old times. Late April and much of May include several dates that trigger memories here.

    Late April because my pop was declared KIA in Korea on April 25, 1951.

    Early May because years ago I was discharged on May 9, 1969 from the Navy after spending over a year around Vietnam. Flew back into SFO IN UNIFORM and got spit at and called a baby killer on arrival.

    And then there is Memorial Day. The advertisements for sales and off topic events make the day difficult to avoid, even if I wanted to. So I repeat this post with minor updates.

    Circa 1950 pix of me ‘n dad

    I was an Army brat the first few years of my life. I have vague memories (or memories of memories?) of several Army posts; in Georgia, in Arizona, and another place or two. Then my dad was deployed to some place called Korea sometime in 1950.

    Three additional memories are a bit more vivid – the day we were notified he was Missing in Action and, sometime later, that his remains had been recovered, and finally, his funeral. I wasn’t allowed to go – I was deemed too young.

    But, I have a Purple Heart.

    He is buried in our home town, and there’s a small memorial in the city park there with his name inscribed. I visit both as often as I can. Even though I was only five or six at the time and will be 72 in about a month I still miss him. I have pictures and memories, and…

    I have a Purple Heart.

    For many others, like myself, Memorial Day has a face.

    We’re past the 50 year anniversary of Vietnam and there is a wall FULL of my brothers and sisters who earned a Purple Heart

    With that – Please don’t wish me a happy Memorial Day because…

    I have HIS Purple Heart!

  • Confirmed!

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    National Politics News reports today Gina Haspel will become the first female director of the CIA, after a Senate confirmation vote that overrode concerns about her role in the spy agency’s harsh interrogation program after 9/11.

    Thursday’s count of 54-45 votes was the closest for a CIA nominee in the nearly seven decades that confirmation from the Senate has been required. Haspel, who has spent nearly her entire CIA career in undercover positions, is the first operations officer to be confirmed since William Colby in 1973.

    Haspel, 61, is a native of Kentucky but grew up around the world as the daughter of an Air Force serviceman. She worked in Africa, Europe and classified locations around the globe and was tapped as deputy director of the CIA last year. She worked under former CIA director Mike Pompeo until President Donald Trump moved him to secretary of state.

    Haspel was backed by many in the CIA rank-and-file and was robustly supported by senior intelligence officials, including six former CIA directors and three former national intelligence directors, who said she earned the chance to take the helm of the nation’s premier spy agency. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats said Haspel has integrity and both frontline and executive intelligence expertise. “We salute Director Haspel, a trailblazer who today becomes the first woman to lead the CIA,” he said.

    Her opponents argued that it wasn’t right to promote someone who supervised a covert detention site in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. They said the U.S. needed to slam closed what was one of the CIA’s darkest chapters that tainted America’s image with allies abroad.

    Haspel is taking over from Mike Pompeo, whom Trump recently made his secretary of state. Her boss, John Brennan, CIA director during the Obama administration, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 8, 2013, by a vote of 63-34. He was also deeply involved in “enhanced” interrogation techniques, discussed here: https://www.azuse.cloud/?p=79403 but was not a Trump nominee.

  • Kent Brown; phony veteran

    Kent Brown; phony veteran

    Our partners at Military Phonies shared their work on this Kent Brown fellow who claims to be a military veteran in his videos and on social media;


    The National Personnel Records Center responds “Who?”

    Kent Steven Brown’s military records were requested. The National Personnel Records Center, which would hold Brown’s records, could find no records indicating that Brown served in the Armed Forces. It is possible that he could have served in a state level guard, but active duty would have shown up if he went to boot camp and certainly any specialized Army training.

  • Democrats and the evil Russian Facebook Ads

    Democrats and the evil Russian Facebook Ads

    According to the Huffington Post, Democrats are still blubbering over Russian-financed ads that were on Facebook two years ago;

    Lawmakers released redacted copies of some of the advertisements last year that focused on immigration, same-sex marriage and gun control. Facebook later said more than 126 million people potentially saw the ads purchased by the Russians.

    Schiff’s efforts come just a weeks after Republicans on the Intelligence Committee released a 250-page report that said they had uncovered no evidence of collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s election campaign.

    I know Democrats are trying to convince themselves that it wasn’t their policies or their candidates that lost them the 2016 elections, but this is just more useless bullshit that wastes our time and our money.

    Popsugar has the graphics from some of the ads;

    California Senator Dianne Feinstein said during the hearings, “What we’re talking about is a cataclysmic change. What we’re talking about is the beginning of cyberwarfare. What we’re talking about is a major foreign power with sophistication and ability to involve themselves in a presidential election and sow conflict and discontent all over this country. We are not going to go away, gentlemen. And this is a very big deal.”

    From where we stand, with nearly 126 million Americans having seen these downright inflammatory posts and not having thought anything of it — well, we really couldn’t agree more. And perhaps being able to put some tangible imagery behind the amorphous idea of Russian meddling will make us all think twice before we scroll past an image such as the ones ahead on any of our social feeds ever again.

    So what? Seriously. There are Americans who never logged on to Facebook and still voted against Democrats. How do you dummies explain that?

    I’m going to guess that Russian-sponsored ads had no effect on the election, compared to effect that Hillary Clinton had on the loss. She was a terrible choice as a candidate and she had a terrible platform. Period.

    This is just so much mental masturbation.

  • Attacking liberal bias as assault on free press?

    Hillary Clinton thinks so. Apparently, what’s obvious to us regarding the truth, fact, reason, logic, etc., is something else to Hillary Clinton. She’s seeing this from a liberal perspective; liberal lies, snowflake emotion, irrational thought, etc., are, “fact, reason, and logic.”

    Hillary Clinton insinuates that President Trump, and conservatives, are waging war against the truth, fact, and reason. Her argument suggests that President Trump is ignoring things that are “plainly obvious” or “fact” like man-made global warming. This “dismissal” of the “truth” marks the “beginning” of the “end” of freedom.

    Yes, by not getting behind a farce like man-made global warming, and by taking action against useless policies aimed at fighting nonexistent threats, President Trump is carrying out “authoritarian” actions.

    Hillary Clinton quote by The Associated Press:

    “Although obsessed with his own press coverage, he evaluates it based not on whether it provides knowledge or understanding, but solely on whether the daily coverage helps him and hurts his opponents.”

    When Hillary Clinton argues that the Free Press is under open assault, critical thinking people would see something else… The liberally biased press is under open assault from those that want real news. Not liberal propaganda shoved down our throats. Consequently, those that do not like to be baffled with nonsense are waging on all-out war on lies, non-facts, and irrationality, intended to get people to mindlessly support liberal agenda.