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EVEN IF THEY ALL WEAR ‘BLM NIKES’?, WE ARE NOT WATCHING

Reading this, our reaction was, “IS THERE STILL AN “NBA”?, IF SO… “SO WHAT?”

From PowerLine:

TUNING OUT THE NBA
The NBA resumes its season tonight. Some players will be wearing BLM-related “social justice” slogans on their shirts, where their names normally appear. In addition, “Black Lives Matter” is printed on all three courts where games will be played.

On top of that, some broadcasters will likely offer their views on race in America. This article in the Washington Post strongly suggests that one or more of the Washington Wizards’ broadcast team will do so.

It’s bad enough to have poorly educated basketball players sharing their political views, without random sports announcers lecturing fans, as well.

Chris Miller, who is featured on Wizards’ broadcast, told the Post:

I don’t want to say myself into the story, but I am a Black man, so this stuff is actually really affecting me. I’m a different person than I was on March 10, the last Wizards game. What happened to George Floyd broke me. I can’t watch another Black man be murdered on TV. So that’s where I’ve kind of changed. I’m more apt to have those conversations rather than talk about if Bradley Beal should make all-NBA.

Miller appears not to have said how he feels about Blacks, including children, being murdered regularly on the streets of Washington, D.C. by criminals. I doubt that this phenomenon — widespread, unlike unjustified police killings — will feature in his televised “conversations.”

But I won’t find out. I’ve watched NBA games on television since my introduction to the league in the 1957 Finals (St. Louis Hawks vs. Boston Celtics), but I won’t be watching any more games this season. I see enough one-sided, superficial BLM-related discussion in connection with my “day job” without being subjected to such propaganda while watching sports.

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MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY; IS THERE A READER OUT THERE WHO IS REALLY STILL ‘EXCITED’ ABOUT PROFESSIONAL SPORTS?

PLEASE, LET’S HEAR FROM YOU.       dlh      Article below

If a mickey mouse virus can do this why can’t free people? 

Derek Hunter at Townhall:

To Hell With Professional Sports

At the outset, I have to say that I’ve never been the biggest sports fan on the planet. So it isn’t a big sacrifice for me to say I’m not going to watch professional sports this year, or maybe ever again. I never actively shunned pro sports, and as a kid I wouldn’t have missed a Tigers or Lions game for just about anything in the world, I just found other things to do as I got older. But I’d wander back for interesting games or championships – there are few things a person isn’t directly involved with that are as exciting as a contest between great athletes when the stakes are high. But with the embrace of radicals like Black Lives Matter by all the leagues, I’m going to make a point of not watching any of it.

I won’t miss basketball at all. The game is boring. I know it’s “fast-paced,” but it’s really not. It takes forever and all that matters is the last two minutes. Each team seems to get 50 timeouts, which sometimes allows them to take the ball out at half-court rather than under the basket. I never cared enough to find out why.

It’s also just not exciting. The first time you saw a buzzer-beating shot to win a game may have been exciting, but haven’t you seen it a thousand times by now? And how many times can anyone get worked up over a 7-foot-tall guy with long arms jumping a foot to slam a ball through a hoop? It seems like everything spectacular that could be done already has been. It’s up and down the court like a really boring tennis match.

That the league has decided to overtake the NFL as the most-woke league in the world only made my resolve harder. That they’re going to paint “Black Lives Matter” and have messages on the backs of their jersey, and undoubtedly protest during the national anthem, killed what little interest I had in even knowing who won the championship.
As for the NFL, again, I don’t care. I didn’t grow up with a professional football team, I grew up with the Detroit Lions. Watching perpetual basement dwellers dwell in the basement is about as exciting as it sounds. The Lions have won one playoff game in the Super Bowl era (in 1991) and only make the playoffs via fluke.

Professional football for me is a distraction on the TV on Sundays – I don’t really look at the action unless it sounds like something exciting is happening. When the kneeling during the anthem started, I stopped even doing that. Now that they’ve gone all-in for Black Lives Matter, I’ll find something else to play in the background.

Baseball is back already (though games are being canceled due to COVID-19 outbreaks), and aside from videos on Twitter, I haven’t bothered to care. A 60-game season does mean anyone can win the World Series this year, but whoever does win will be there prostrating themselves on the altar of a bunch of left-wing radicals. I love baseball, but I love my country more.

It’s not that baseball players are kneeling during the anthem, it’s that the league has caved to the mob and brought politics onto the field. All these leagues have.

Sports served as a distraction from whatever else was happening in the world and our lives, now it’s the manifestation of the Democratic Party’s demands of conformity. I’m not interested in conformity. A bunch of different colored like-minded drones chanting anti-American slogans is not my idea of diversity.

If I want to be preached to, I’ll call a priest, not millionaires who play a game for a living. If I want to learn something, I’ll read a book, not seek out the “feelings” of someone in a profession known for having proxies take their classes for them. And if I want a distraction from the stress of daily life, I’ll practice self-dentistry before I give these pampered, privileged narcissists a second of my time.

Personally, if their whole seasons collapsed and had to be canceled because they snuck an infected super-spreader into their bubble, I’d be just fine with that.

Sports could have been bigger than ever, more important than ever, and could have helped bring the country together during the pandemic by being the distraction people need from everything we’ve lost. Instead, like everything else, liberal politics was rammed into it to the point that it’s just another appendage of the Democratic Party. You couldn’t pay me to be a Democrat, I sure as hell am not about to fund any of their fellow travelers. Until they get the politics out of sports, I’m getting the sports out of my life.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he’ll announce his running mate “the first week in August.”

He assured reporters that it would not be a “Black female Mo-Taur”!

Progressive Insurance created the “Motaur”, a strange and mythical-looking creature for a new campaign to sell motorcycle insurance.

Above, Motaur, with the human half played by actor Terrence Terrell, combines the head and upper body of a man with a motorcycle chassis that comprises his bottom half. In the ads, when Motaur is parked at a gasoline pump or somewhere else, he quite naturally elicits head scratching and startled stares from those he encounters.

In one of his frequent gaffes the former Vice President and the Democrats’ presumptive 2020 presidential candidate apparently inadvertently revealed that it was his ‘handlers’ who dictated to him what he must look for in a vice presidential candidate.
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Ass. Press, July 28, 2020
Poor Joe Biden, the hapless 2020 Democrat presidential candidate, told reporters Tuesday in a moment of addled candor, that he misunderstood his Party’s ‘handlers’ when they told him what he must look for in selecting a running mate, claiming that he thought they said a “Black female Motaur” (the half human-half motorcycle, made famous in recent Progressive Insurance television commercials)., Biden told reporters that’s why the selection of his running mate in November has taken so long.

Biden admitted that he was having trouble finding such a potential candidate…the closest he came to one was Rashida Tlaib…”but her ‘saddlebags’ were too big and ugly, he admitted.           dlh

The ‘story’ as reported in the Wall Street Journal:

Where it stands: Biden has pledged to name a woman as his running mate, and last week told MSNBC that among the finalists are “four black women.”

His team has been vetting Sen. Kamala Harris, former national security adviser Susan Rice, and Reps. Val Demings and Karen Bass as potential running mates.

He told MSNBC last week that he would meet the finalists in person, promising “personal discussions with each of the candidates who are left and make a decision.”

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• And we are not talking a collegial conclave with victuals nor the imagery of  superior forces eating the Democrats food as there is rarely any left after Jerry Nadler hears the call
• The two, Jordan and Barr, ate the Democrats alive including the well marbled Nadler

The Nadler hearings today “investigating”  Attorney General  Barr regarding authorization of federal officers to, of all things, protect federal buildings and personnel from anti-Government rioters highlights the theater of the absurd we are living through — and that Democrats in the House are the clown entourage.  Below is the video bomb that Jordan dropped on the Dem’s and their mantra/denial that the rioting in Democrat run big-cities is just peaceful protesting. The Democrats and their PR flaks in the media had to sit through what they have been trying to cover up. Enjoy:

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Here are a few memes courtesy HP to delight and motivate. Readers are encouraged to send us their  favorite political commentary. We delight in the absurd.

Nothing is more absurd in these absurd times than many of the Corona virus policies we see emanating from government, businesses and individuals.

Send us your comments on the absurd, ridiculous, hypocritical, things you see. One example would be seeing people wearing face masks outdoors on a bike path with no one around.  Little vignettes from shopping, driving or work would be welcome. And of course pithy memes like these:

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“High” on what, Michele?     dlh

Raising kids the “Democrat way”?

Adults Have Portland Toddlers Hold Anti-Cop Signs and Repeat ‘F*ck the Police’ 

Toddlers Hold Signs and Say ‘F— the Police’ Outside Portland Courthouse, Raise Black Power Fist

There will be protest etiquette lessons offered, online of course so as to protect the young belligerents.

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• Uniforms on NBA, NFL and likely MLB to be social justice billboards – but only leftist messages approved so far
• Where’s the revenue stream in that!
• Anyone expect that “All Lives Matter” will be allowed?
• How about: “Respect the Police”; “Graduate High School”;  “Marriage Good for Kids” Right to Life; Bill of Rights; Cancel Culture;

Now these ‘oppressed’ athletes certainly deserve the admiration of all fans!   Not!

Major League Baseball pans cops, America as ALL Yankees and Nationals players kneel to BLM

This is no longer America’s pastime.

As an organization, MLB is against America.       dlh

Days After Signing $365 Million Contract, Baseball Superstar Kneels During National Anthem

Mookie Betts was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Los Angeles Dodgers on February 10. He signed an extension worth $365 million over 12 years with L.A on July 22.

Betts received a $65 million signing bonus, the largest in the sport’s long history.
He won the American League MVP in 2018, and he’s a four-time Gold Glove winner. He’s also a perennial all-star and widely considered the second best player in MLB, behind Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels.

On July 23, every player from both games played on Opening Day took a knee before the anthem in a show of solidarity. However, Betts (and a couple players from the San Francisco Giants) took a knee during the anthem.

Hey MLB! Take your game North Korea; NBA let’s see you criticize CCP society IN China

At least there’s a few athletes who have an IQ higher than their uniform number: San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod refused to kneel during the national anthem Thursday night against the Dodgers.

According to NBC Sports, members of the Giants took a knee during the national anthem, and Coonrod didn’t join them. Every member of both teams also kneeled before the anthem. The pitcher also didn’t participate in that action. The reason why? His Christian faith. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)

“I’m a Christian, like I said, and I just can’t get on board with a couple of things that I have read about Black Lives Matter. How they lean toward Marxism and they’ve said some negative things about the nuclear family. I just can’t get on board with that,” Coonrod explained to the media, according to the same NBC Sports report.

It’s everywhere now!

NBA, union approve list of social justice messages for jerseys during restarted 2020 season: report

NBA Criticized for Barring ‘FreeHongKong’ on Personalized Merchandise

Report: NFL to allow players to display social justice messages on helmets

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