NFL Experiment?

The 1-10 San Francisco 49ers meet the 2-9 Chicago Bears at Soldier Field today.  These are two teams playing out bad seasons and one of them will win to drop lower in the draft.

Snoop Dogg, hardly a paragon of virtue, put Colin Kaepernick in his dog house calling the Niners QB a hypocrite for protesting social injustice while praising late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.  The “Lay Low” rapper advised the fool to make a choice between football and his ongoing National Anthem protest.

As Kaepernick stoops ever lower with his disgraceful “protests” it would be hilarious if the Chicago Bears played the Cuban National Anthem in an effort to get this punk to stand at attention.

Obama's Nothingburger Eulogy of Fidel Castro

Why do people always say "it goes without saying", and then proceed to fill the air with words? What's worse, is to fill the air with meaningless words. Case in point: Barack Obama.

I'm sure Barack Obama would love to be remembered as an outstanding orator if not a statesman. I think he pays his speechwriters extra if they throw in some bit of unusual and flowery language that someone else might find profound, but mostly sounds stilted. But then, since he has said he's a better speechwriter than his speechwriters, there's reason to believe that this particular bit of nonsense may have been penned by the President himself!

"History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and the world around him."

Really? Really?? This may be profound in the "water is wet" school of oratory, but, please! This particular bit of nothingburger could have been written about virtually any national or world leader, good or bad, throughout history. You could say it about Churchill or Mussolini. You could say it about Pol Pot or the Pope. You could say it about Henry VIII or Idi Amin. You could say it about Hitler or Stalin. Or even Obama! Change the gender of the pronoun and you could say it about Maggie Thatcher, Mother Teresa and Joan of Arc!

"History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and the world around him" reaches new depths of shallow. Plug in any of the names above or supply your own, and tell me it isn't true.

I suspect the President has a copy of "How to Say As Little As Possible in As Many Words As Possible With a Straight Face or Condescending Look For Dummies."

Or maybe he wrote the book???

Castro and Bollocks

The Twins

A Shithole Dictatorship

When Fidel Castro and Che Guevara marched into Cuba in 1959, the communist revolution turned the country upside down.

Via Don Surber:

“If only FDR had normalized relations with Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Tojo.” 

“What we need to do is normalize relations with Israel, but Obama doesn't like Israel. Never forget that Obama attended a church headed by Jeremiah Wright, an anti-Semite.” 

“This is a sad day for America as once again, an American president cozies up to a dictatorship.”

Thirteen Days In October: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Miami, Florida, 22 October 1962:  A Cuban refugee listens to President Kennedy's television address in which the president explained the United States' position on the Cuban situation to the American people and the world.  Photo courtesy:  Bettmann/CORBIS

On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane on a photo-reconnaissance mission captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba.

President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.

After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this "quarantine," as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites. On October 22, President Kennedy spoke to the nation about the crisis in a televised address.

No one was sure how Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would respond to the naval blockade and U.S. demands. But the leaders of both superpowers recognized the devastating possibility of a nuclear war and publicly agreed to a deal in which the Soviets would dismantle the weapon sites in exchange for a pledge from the United States not to invade Cuba. In a separate deal, which remained secret for more than twenty-five years, the United States also agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey. Although the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba, they escalated the building of their military arsenal; the missile crisis was over, the arms race was not.

Another modern standoff is over Iran, which the West accuses of pursuing a nuclear weapons program. In a recent U.N. speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red line on a cartoon bomb to illustrate that a nuclear Tehran would not be tolerated.

"Take Iran, which I have called a Cuban Missile Crisis in slow motion," said Graham Allison, author of the groundbreaking study of governmental decision-making "Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis."

"This same process is looming on the current trajectory, inexorably, toward a confrontation at which an American president is going to have to choose between attacking Iran to prevent it becoming a nuclear weapons state or acquiescing and then confronting a nuclear weapons state," Allison said.

"Kennedy's idea would be, 'Don't let this reach the point of confrontation,'" he added. "The risks of catastrophe are too great."