I feel sorry for people who would rather spend hours watching a ‘show trial’ Where a one sided ‘star chamber’ would accuse Trump and his supporters for ‘killing’ a police officer (initials ‘BS’ which is exactly What this was), where a well-known habitual liar (whose initials ‘ AS’ could use another S ) is trotted out for a third time in five years to continue his longtime vendetta in lambasting Trump at any cost while purposely eliminating Trump’s words to protestors to go ‘PEACEFULLY and patriotically’, but worst of all, a complicit media that would cover another sham hearing in prime time with not a drop of evidence showing Trump orchestrated the January 6 riots (no mention that it was Trump who called in advance for National Guard to protect the capitol-an order that was ignored repeatedly by Pelosi And D.C. mayor Bowser). The same media would rather cover this McCarthy-istic programming than cover real news like the assassination attempt on New York congressman Lee Zeldan and imminent release from jail without bond of the accused attacker. (Such coverage might have suppressed coverage of ‘the hearing’)
I hope that if the GOP takes the house this Fall we might finally see a legitimate two-sided hearing(s) that the media can’t obfuscate. Otherwise, it’s same old devisive politics and media run amok like never before in my long lifetime.
I grew up in an era when media automatically covered both or all sides of news stories . In fact , I remember my journalism teacher getting after me if I didn’t interview people on both sides of stories . (I remember how this helped get me out of my shyness.) Walter Cronkite, despite being very liberal in his private life, was one of the last ‘fair and balanced’ journalists. When he left us news coverage began to spiral down to the same Russian-style news propaganda for which we used to criticize the communists in the 1950s
Following the Kennedy an MLK assassinations, their became a void in leadership with failing Presidents like Johnson and Nixon and the media , perpetuated by My own generation’ s new anti-establishment, liberal values, seemed to take over the power void as journalism became partisan politics- and now its been that way for over 50 years with no sign of change. My journalism teacher Mrs. MURPHY as well as Walter Cronkite- and even Tim Russert- must be spinning in their graves.
Where were we last night? At a much more enjoyable, a-politcal, timeless music concert, listening to the ageless Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at the classic San Jose Civic Auditorium. The only mention of politics this night was Valli’s casual aside that he didn’t care much for government intrusion of any kind.
Maybe Victor David Hansen is correct in his recent assessment on the ‘death of wisdom.’ > https://roadtosuccess.us/victor-davis-hanson-joe-biden-and-the-destruction-of-wisdom/
There used to be an agreed-on body of wisdom, which both Left and Right, Republicans and Democrats, generally accepted. Heated arguments and invective centered on implementations and methods of solving problems, which at least both sides agreed were problems. Both ideologies accepted a common core of wisdom, despite their radical differences in interpreting it. https://thenewamericanist.com/victor-davis-hanson-joe-biden-and-the-destruction-of-wisdom/
Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden And The Destruction Of Wisdom
✪ The Biden regime is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying Americans’ lives as they have known them…
There used to be an agreed-on body of wisdom, which both Left and Right, Republicans and Democrats, generally accepted. Heated arguments and invective centered on implementations and methods of solving problems, which at least both sides agreed were problems. Both ideologies accepted a common core of wisdom, despite their radical differences in interpreting it.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and especially Biden’s strange cabinet of loud Jacobin amateurs, reject the very hallowed knowledge upon which civilization is based. In that sense the public has begun to recognize them as nihilist and anarchist. Nearly two out of three Americans in some polls hold unfavorable views of the Biden Administration. They fear that it is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying their lives as they have known them.
Nuke Nuttiness
Since late August 1949, a consensus emerged that nuclear powers, for good or evil, were treated differently in matters of global tensions than non-nuclear powers, given the chance of a nuclear conflagration. Arcane rules, but rules, nonetheless, grew up in the Cold War between the Soviet Union, China, the United States, Britain, France and a few other nuclear states about the trip wires surrounding conventional conflicts.
The agreed upon wisdom from the Hungarian Revolution and Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Middle East wars was to ensure such confrontations did not escalate to nuclear exchanges.
No longer. In the last five months, there has been more idle talk and threats about nuclear warfare than in the 73 years since the Soviet Union got the bomb. In a rational world, there would be two Western agendas amid the Ukraine war: first, how to aid the Ukrainians to resist Russian aggression without destroying their entire country; second, how to do so without either provoking or allowing Russia to use a nuclear weapon, or to encourage other powers like China to consider such alternatives.
Not now. In the zeal to protect the Ukrainians from Russian aggression, Joe Biden has talked about removing Russian President Vladimir Putin from office, without details about how or when such an intervention would work. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton has boasted on television of his own experiences in planning successful coup d’états, once a taboo subject. Pentagon officials have leaked in braggadocious ways the use of American intelligence that has aided Ukrainian assassination teams to kill high-ranking Russian generals.
Bureaucrats, media strategists, and congressional leaders have openly boasted about selling Ukraine the necessary weaponry to bring the war home to nuclear Russia, whether that would entail raids inside Russia to destroy energy and logistical depots or sinking the Russian Black Sea Fleet through American-made, long-range shore-to-ship missiles. In response, Russian leaders, including Putin himself, have talked in Strangelovian terms about using nuclear weapons, in efforts to portray their aggression as victimhood worthy of a stronger, and apparently nuclear retaliation.
The ancient idea that in the nuclear age you cannot always do what is desirable to bad nuclear powers is considered passé and apparently deemed in need of a 2022 update.
Blowing Up The Border
Civilization used to accept that all nations in the modern era had borders, within which unique customs, traditions, language, history and culture were nourished to promote a common civic identity.
No more. Sometime in 2021, the Biden Administration blew up the entire hallowed concept of a border. It allowed what will soon be 3 million illegal aliens during a pandemic to enter unaudited, untested, unvaccinated, without English, without any background checks and without consequences for violating federal immigration law. Biden ignores that millions of doses of toxic drugs are pouring across his nonexistent border, along with sex traffickers and cartel drug lords enriched by scalping transit fees.
The president never states how the nation will pay for a massive influx of dependents, much less how small communities near the border will have adequate social services for their own taxpayers under such massive pressures. As a rule, those destroying the border live far from the border. And they brand as racist any who object to the policies from whose deleterious consequences, they are exempt.
Why did Biden erase the southern U.S. border? Did a waning Democrat Party want new dependent constituents? Were corporate and business interests demanding new cheaper workers? Did the identity politics movement seek to replenish their assimilating ranks? Were unhinged globalists eager to reify their nihilist ideas of destroying all borders to establish a Davos-like ecumenical world overseen by transnational guardians such as themselves?
Who knows and who cares? The damage is the same, regardless of the motivations of the nihilists.
Modern Monetary Madness
Ancient wisdom also held that too much circulating money chasing too few goods resulted in an inflated currency. Hyperinflation ensured radical damage to a nation’s very lifestyle, as it descended into a Hobbesian war of all hiking prices and wages against all forced to pay them.
So what? Biden took a recovering economy, one fueled by massive deficit spending by three prior presidents, pent-up consumer demand coming after a nearly two-year lockdown, a labor force crippled by government-subsidized nonparticipation, COVID fears, and long-COVID disabilities—and printed new trillions of funny-money dollars.
Biden would have printed even more trillions had not Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) saved for a spell his own party from its nihilist madness. The creepy modern monetary theory behind such lunacy held that either money was a construct and the more of it printed the more people could spend it with retained value, or that any ensuing inflation would aid those without money and hurt those who had (ill-gotten) money.
So it went, and now American currency is being devalued at an annual rate of 9.1 percent. Retirement accounts have seen 20-40 percent losses, and years of annual contributions have gone up in smoke. The huge national debt cannot be serviced at the interest rates necessary to curb inflation without huge sums cut from entitlements or key elements of the budget.
The current self-created mess was foreseen and warned about by both Democrats and Republicans and ignored as racist, or elitist, or irrelevant by the Left. In other words, Biden’s lunatic economic advisors believed they were either exempt from ancient realities or that their careers hinged on insisting they were so exempt.
The Green New Debacle
Over the last 20 years, a consensus began to arise surrounding fossil fuel energy. While it was no longer so toxic, given radical improvements in emission reductions, the heat itself of nearly clean-burning fossil fuels might be contributing to “global warming.”
Therefore, gradually new technologies would for decades augment fossil fuels, then slowly they would supplant them. Finally new energies would replace coal, oil, and natural gas with renewable or other non-heat-producing energies—all at an affordable cost for the middle class and with plenty of warning and time to make the necessary adjustments.
Joe Biden simply blew up that paradigm. For a year during the campaign, in his half-educated shouts, he foolishly lectured the country that he would end all fossil fuel use, cancel pipelines, and put vast swaths of rich energy fields off limits.
Biden did just that the moment he entered office, as well as lecturing lending agencies and financial groups not to loan to the pipeline builders, frackers, and the horizontal drillers. In truth, they were a heroic bunch who had made America energy independent, free from any need of an optional war in the energy-rich Middle East, much stronger vis-à-vis its two rivals Russia and China, and empowered by affordable transportation and industrial power.
Critical Legal Lunacy
Since ancient times, laws were seen as a response to human nature, often modulated by religion and government, sometimes imperfectly in the case of autocrats, theocrats, and dreamy utopians. Nonetheless, civilization accepted that stealing anything, assaulting anyone without cause, or destroying the property of others were crimes by nature. Punishment prevented their recurrence, since their repetition would lead to mass disobedience and ultimately the unwinding of civilization.
Critical Legal Theory subverts those ancestral wisdoms. It is embraced by many in the Biden Administration, who ignored massive riots, arson, and looting in summer 2020. States such as California defined theft as a mere unpunishable mistake.
Prisons were emptied. Most lawbreakers were not arrested. Most arrested were not indicted. Few among the indicted were convicted. Most of the convicted were not punished. The result is an epidemic of murder, assault, rape, theft, and chaos in our major cities, a return to the chaos of the 1970s as the streets after dusk are ceded to criminals who mock those who appease and empower their criminality.
Critical Race Theory, another campus parlor pastime of the academically incompetent and unproductive, posits that racism defines America. It can be cured only by endless and enduring reverse racism.
Ancient truths in the process were entirely ignored, namely that humans are tribal and like fish or birds can naturally flock together by tribal, religious, ethnic, or racial affinities.
Only a nation state can supersede such innate characteristics by infusing a common civic identity that makes superficial appearance or creed incidental rather than essential to a citizen. Biden too has blown up that concept entirely by promoting identity politics and tribalism.
The result is a growing fear that once the government encourages tribalism, then all must revert to the protection of their own tribe—or perish.
Diversity—a euphemism for disunity—is our creed. We have taken all the abuses of the pre-Civil Rights era in the South—racial obsessions, one-drop fixations, segregated spaces and ceremonies, hiring and admissions by race, ignoring merit in favor of race, and racial demonization—and rebranded them as critical race theory. Apparently, the Bidenites believe in the folly that 2022 reverse-racist man is inherently smarter and knows better than his racist predecessors—and thus can be a good racist rather than just a racist, which always means a bad racist.
Transgendered Fantasies
For centuries civilization agreed that there were two sexes. Scientists and doctors since antiquity, of course, accepted that in very rare cases, some men and women seemed dysphoric. To differing degrees, a tiny minority cross-dressed to mimic the nature of the opposite sex or more seriously felt trapped in their own bodies. Vocabulary from transsexualism to transvestism roughly identified a range of these rare disconnects.
But no one believed that these maladies were common, or that one born with the primary and secondary sexual characteristics of one gender was in fact by his or her volition able to fully become the opposite gender, or to construct a third, entirely separate gender identity.
Not now. The country is torn apart by the insistence that there can no longer be just male or female restrooms, that biological males can rebrand themselves to their true nature as females and dominate women’s sports, and teens and even pre-teens can be given extremely dangerous and often carcinogenic drugs, as well as radical life-threatening surgeries, without their parents’ consent, and without firm medical knowledge of the eventual psychological and physical harmful aftermaths of such still experimental regimens.
The Biden Administration has insisted that gender dysphoria is a national epidemic, that there are three sexes, and that males and females must concede that sexuality is a construct—and to the degree everyone in society must radically change their lives from learning new pronouns to expecting young athletes with male genitalia to undress in female locker rooms with their daughters.
Each time Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland, Antony Blinken, Deb Haaland, Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Pete Buttigieg, Alejandro Mayorkas, or Jennifer Granholm speaks to the public, the people concludes two things: these people are either crazy, incompetent, or ignorant of ancient human nature, and they were appointed to their positions for reasons that have nothing to do with either experience or competence.
And the result is the rapid destruction of most wisdom as we once knew it. ✪
REVIEW: The REAL Watergate Story by John O’CONNOR, Deep Throat’s Lawyer
Much like scenarios today where the media covers up the real story to protect (usually Dem operatives), so was the case with Watergate, according to O’Connor.
Nixon was way ahead in the polls- by 20% over McGovern in the run up to the 1972 electjon- so why would the Nixon people bother to get their hands dirty?
It was basically a setup by the Dems to entrap the GOP, continues O’Connor.
It begins with the GOP trying to get some files on Dan Ellsberg’s Pentagon papers that incriminate the GOP and Nixon white house. And it escalates when ‘traitor’ John Dean leads on an aggressive Paul Ehrlichman who wants to get evidence on Larry Obrien and a call girl ring politicos were using. Dean is fearful he and others (mainly Dems) might get caught and tries to get out ahead of Ehrlichman. EHRLICHMAN , who would have had the Dems on the ropes, instead goes much too far by leading the Watergate breakin, spurrednon by Dean. Watergate would have never happened without a rogue guy like Ehrlichman and Dean, Dems and media leading the GOP to their demise, much like today with the Dems and complicit media are trying to bring down Trump with ‘dirty tricks.’
By the way, Nixon won the ’72 election in a huge landslide over McGovern. What never got into the Washington Post was a wider CIA operation to ‘get Nixon’ with wire taps . The Dems admitted to the call girls but nothing more.
The GOP ,as is the case today, got scared, and tried hard to cover their ass. Watergate was the beqinning of the big media move to the left, says O’Connor. The GOP couldn’t get past the media’s lies and biased coverage of Watergate and ended up resigning.
G Gordon Liddy could have prevented the whole thimg if he hadn’t kept silent to be patriotic and instead fingered John Dean and the call girl ring, says O’Connor.
The bad guys who KNEW-the Post, John Dean and Dem
Postgatebook.com> mysteries of Watergate. To write this book O’Connor spent two decades deciphering Woodward and Bernstein ‘hatchet job,’ ‘All the Presidents Men’ and its flaws And more- and was the one who figured out who was Deep Throat (Mark Felts)
Great read will shed real light on our current dirty games and politics. You’ll see an amazing parallel in politics then (the dawn of a subversive media and intolerant Dem party) and now. Because the media has been covering for the Dems for 50 years , ever since then, the Dems are not fearful to continue to engage in their bigger dirty tricks and modern McCarthyism.
The main difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party.
Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate – Biden (no surprise) was at the bottom of his class). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Barack Obama was a lawyer. Michelle Obama was a lawyer. Hillary Clinton was a lawyer. Bill Clinton was a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is a lawyer. Former Senator Harry Reid was a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different. President Trump is a businessman. President Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen. Vice President Cheney was a businessman. President Eisenhower was a 5 star General.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. Ex-House Minority Leader John Boehner was a plastics manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers. This is very interesting. I had never thought about it this way before.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the procession of official enemies grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.
Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, which, in this case should be the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.
Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast, and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom, he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When House Democrats sue America to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.
The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high.
Taken individually these reasons may not be enough but cumulatively they are more than enough proof, and there are more left out such as the media’s complicity and social media, such as Zuckerberg’s $400 million contribution to left advertising to beat Trump. Then you have the ‘2,000 mules’ who were purportedly paid for stuffing ballot boxes with Biden votes in the wee hours of election night. Even if you don’t accept some of these there are too many others to deny Trump the election. Many, such as Attorney General ‘Bushie’ Bill Barr, simply ‘blew off’ these without looking at them for political expediency. Then, Big city left wcorruption. Threw out the dozens of GOP election lawsuits from overpowered swing state legislators, who never had a fair chance to investigate the election corruption. We may have to wait until November when GOP should regain house and Senate to do a REAL investigation of 2020 election – never too late to account for something as important as this.
Grassfire’s “Top 11 Reasons Why President Trump Won The 2020 Election And Joe Biden Lost”:
Biden reportedly received 81 million votes. That’s a questionable total, considering it’s far more than the historic candidacies of Barack Obama, who received a then-record 69 million votes in 2008, and Hillary Clinton, who received 66 million votes in 2016.
According to The Spectator: “Biden leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because of an apparent avalanche of black votes in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee. Biden’s ‘winning’ margin was derived almost entirely from such voters in these cities, as coincidentally his black vote spiked only in exactly the locations [battleground states] necessary to secure victory.”
Biden won 524 counties (17%) — a record low — while Trump won 2,497. In 2008, Obama won 873 counties, 67% MORE than his former VP, and still received 11 million FEWER votes than Biden.
Biden was the first Democrat to win the presidency but lose the state of Ohio since 1960.
Lack of enthusiasm for Biden is evident on social media. He has less than one-fourth the Twitter followers (20.4 million) than the President (88.7 million).
Biden hardly left his basement during the campaign and attended rallies with only dozens of supporters, while the President spoke to tens of thousands of supporters who were undeterred by the threat of COVID.
Trump’s 74 million votes are the most for a sitting president in U.S. history and 11 million more than he received in 2016. It was the third biggest increase of any incumbent president EVER. Obama won re-election in 2012 with 3.5 million FEWER votes than 2008.
Trump increased his support from key minority groups. Blacks (men 18%; women 8%), Latinos (35%) and women (55%) all voted for the President in higher numbers in 2020 than they did in 2016.
Trump received 26% of the “non-white vote,” which is the highest for a Republican president candidate since 1960. Newsweek adds that he also doubled his support among LGBTQ voters from 2016 to 2020.
The Federalist reports: “First, no incumbent who has received 75 percent of the total primary vote has lost re-election. Second, President Trump received 94 percent of the primary vote.”
Trump’s candidacy brought amazing “down ballot” success. Currently, House Republicans have gained about a dozen seats, and not a single GOP incumbent lost re-election.
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John Madden, One of Few Who Were Both Tops in their Fields as well as their Humanity
One of a handful of almost ‘ heaven sent’ in our lifetime, the o t hers perhaps Robin WILLIAMS, Rush Limbaugh, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and Ronald Reagan and there may be a few more but not many who were not only tops in their field but in their humanity. Interestingly, most of the figures didn’t live out ‘ normal ‘ lives , either dying prematurely or in an unexpected manner.
Only their humanity was as pronounced as their talent and accomplishment
When Madden felt he had done everything on the field he ‘retired ‘early only to take up a new challenge, broadcasting, where he, again, excelled above his colleagues.
But what makes Madden special and almost ‘heaven sent’ is his humanity. There seemingly wasn’t a player who played for him who did nt love Madden
Ex-Raiders coach John Madden, NFL Hall of Famer and broadcasting legend, dies at 85
Edited from Matt Kawahara S.F Gate
John Madden, the gregarious Hall of Fame coach who led the Raiders to their first Super Bowl title and later became a defining TV analyst and football icon, died Tuesday. He was 85. “On behalf of the entire NFL family, we extend our condolences to Virginia, Mike, Joe and their families,” Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a statement released by the NFL. “We all know him as the Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders and broadcaster who worked for every major network, but more than anything, he was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.”
In a statement, the Raiders shared that, “The Raiders Family is deeply saddened by the passing of the legendary John Madden. Few individuals meant as much to the growth and popularity of professional football as Coach Madden, whose impact on the game both on and off the field was immeasurable.”
Added Goodell in his statement: “Nobody loved football more than Coach. He was football. He was an incredible sounding board to me and so many others. There will never be another John Madden, and we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the NFL what it is today.” According to the statement, memorial service details “will be announced when available.” Hired by Davis as a linebackers coach in 1967, Madden helped the Raiders reach what would become known as Super Bowl II, where they lost to Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers. After the 1968 season, John Rauch left Oakland for Buffalo, leaving a vacancy at head coach. Davis chose to make Madden the youngest head coach in the league — younger than some of his players. That dynamic, combined with Madden’s passionate coaching style and how he treated players, endeared him to members of the Raiders’ roster. “It was like playing for your big brother,” former quarterback Ken Stabler told The Chronicle in 2006. “I think his age helped a lot — that and the fact he had so much confidence in us. He let us be the people we wanted to be off the field, and he let us be the players we wanted to be on the field.”
Said former Raiders linebacker Phil Villapiano: “He loved outrageousness and he appreciated it when you worked your ass off. It was the job you always wanted, because you just had to do the job. No BS. No politics. No backstabbing. That’s why I loved playing for him. He just let me play football.” Madden could bark at players and gesticulate and yell on the sidelines. But he also allowed his players latitude at a time when many successful coaches were more straightlaced. Madden’s three rules, he later said, were simple: Be on time, pay attention, play hard when instructed. And his teams helped cultivate the Raiders’ image of swaggering toughness. “When you have a good team, as we did, a good coach gives the players a little freedom,” said the late Willie Brown, a former Raiders cornerback. “John liked for us to be in before curfew, but he also knew certain players would probably be out after curfew. He didn’t want to know about it; he’d say, ‘Just don’t tell me.’” While some wondered about the dynamic between Madden and Davis, who was demanding of his coaches, Madden maintained afterward the two worked well together. “Anything that I ever wanted that had to do with football, he supported me,” Madden told NFL Films in 2017. “It was a perfect situation, it was a perfect thing for me.” Madden’s first Raiders team finished 12-1-1 but lost to the Chiefs in the AFL title game. It was the start of a frustrating trend: In Madden’s first seven seasons, the Raiders reached the conference title game five times and lost. They also lost in the divisional round of the 1972 playoffs to the Pittsburgh Steelers on one of the most memorable plays in NFL history.
John Madden
1 of a handful of almost heaven sent’ in our lifetime, the o t hers perhaps Robin WILLIAMS, Rush Limbaugh, Roy Orbison, John Madden. Buddy Holly, Ronald Reagan and there may be a few more but not many who were not only tops in their field but in their humanity
Only t heir humanity was as pronounced as their talent and accomplishment
When Madden felt he had done everything on the field he ‘retired early to take up a new challenge, broadcasting, where he, again, excelled Above all others But what makes Madden special and almost ‘heaven sent’ is his humanity. There seemingly wasn’t a player who played for him who did nt love Madden
Ex-Raiders coach John Madden, NFL Hall of Famer and broadcasting legend, dies at 85
Matt Kawahara
John Madden, the gregarious Hall of Fame coach who led the Raiders to their first Super Bowl title and later became a defining TV analyst and football icon, died Tuesday. He was 85. “On behalf of the entire NFL family, we extend our condolences to Virginia, Mike, Joe and their families,” Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a statement released by the NFL. “We all know him as the Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders and broadcaster who worked for every major network, but more than anything, he was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.”
In a statement, the Raiders shared that, “The Raiders Family is deeply saddened by the passing of the legendary John Madden. Few individuals meant as much to the growth and popularity of professional football as Coach Madden, whose impact on the game both on and off the field was immeasurable.”
Just 32 when he became the Raiders’ head coach, Madden, who quickly became known for his sideline outbursts and unruly hair, led his team to the playoffs eight times in 10 seasons and compiled a .759 winning percentage (103-32-7) that still ranks as the highest of any coach with at least 100 victories. Madden’s knowledge of X’s and O’s and unpretentious enthusiasm later informed his transition to the broadcasting booth, where he won 16 Emmy awards and revolutionized the craft with his use of the telestrator and array of comic-book exclamations. Madden, whose family moved to Daly City from Minnesota when he was a child, was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Former Raiders owner Al Davis was the presenter at his induction. “He loved the game. He loved his team. He loved the Raiders. He loved this league,” Davis said in his speech. “He loved the AFL and the NFL, and especially his players.” 
Added Goodell in his statement: “Nobody loved football more than Coach. He was football. He was an incredible sounding board to me and so many others. There will never be another John Madden, and we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the NFL what it is today.” According to the statement, memorial service details “will be announced when available.” Hired by Davis as a linebackers coach in 1967, Madden helped the Raiders reach what would become known as Super Bowl II, where they lost to Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers. After the 1968 season, John Rauch left Oakland for Buffalo, leaving a vacancy at head coach. Davis chose to make Madden the youngest head coach in the league — younger than some of his players. That dynamic, combined with Madden’s passionate coaching style and how he treated players, endeared him to members of the Raiders’ roster. “It was like playing for your big brother,” former quarterback Ken Stabler told The Chronicle in 2006. “I think his age helped a lot — that and the fact he had so much confidence in us. He let us be the people we wanted to be off the field, and he let us be the players we wanted to be on the field.”
Said former Raiders linebacker Phil Villapiano: “He loved outrageousness and he appreciated it when you worked your ass off. It was the job you always wanted, because you just had to do the job. No BS. No politics. No backstabbing. That’s why I loved playing for him. He just let me play football.” Madden could bark at players and gesticulate and yell on the sidelines. But he also allowed his players latitude at a time when many successful coaches were more straightlaced. Madden’s three rules, he later said, were simple: Be on time, pay attention, play hard when instructed. And his teams helped cultivate the Raiders’ image of swaggering toughness. “When you have a good team, as we did, a good coach gives the players a little freedom,” said the late Willie Brown, a former Raiders cornerback. “John liked for us to be in before curfew, but he also knew certain players would probably be out after curfew. He didn’t want to know about it; he’d say, ‘Just don’t tell me.’” While some wondered about the dynamic between Madden and Davis, who was demanding of his coaches, Madden maintained afterward the two worked well together. “Anything that I ever wanted that had to do with football, he supported me,” Madden told NFL Films in 2017. “It was a perfect situation, it was a perfect thing for me.” Madden’s first Raiders team finished 12-1-1 but lost to the Chiefs in the AFL title game. It was the start of a frustrating trend: In Madden’s first seven seasons, the Raiders reached the conference title game five times and lost. They also lost in the divisional round of the 1972 playoffs to the Pittsburgh Steelers on one of the most memorable plays in NFL history.
Late in a game the Raiders led 7-6, Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw a pass intended for John Fuqua that was broken up by Jack Tatum and deflected to Franco Harris, who ran it in for the winning touchdown in what became known as the “Immaculate Reception.” During a 2002 broadcast, on the 30th anniversary of the play, Madden recalled: “That was the night before Christmas Eve, and that was a big old lump of coal. And that big old lump of coal has been sitting down there for 30 years.” . When Madden secured his 100th win in 1978, he became the third-youngest coach to do so behind George Halas and Curly Lambeau. “There are men who can speak to you on Sunday mornings and your pulse rises,” former Raider cornerback Lester Hayes said in 2006. “That’s a very unique gift Coach Madden had … He would speak about war, and it would sound so good I thought I was listening to the second coming of General George S. Patton. It was like that every week.” After the Raiders missed the playoffs in 1978, for only the second time in his tenure, Madden retired from coaching. As he later told NFL Films: “We won every game that there is. Regular-season game, playoff game, championship game, Super Bowl game. All we could do was do it again. And that didn’t excite me.” But he didn’t stray far. Madden began his broadcasting career in 1979 with CBS and ultimately called games for all four major networks, becoming one of the sport’s most recognizable faces over the next three decades. In the booth Madden was incomparable, frantically illustrating plays with the telestrator and punctuating his descriptions with sounds like “boom,” “wham” and “doink.” He worked with a few partners before CBS paired him with play-by-play man Pat Summerall. The two would call games together for 22 years, including eight Super Bowls, with Summerall’s low-key steadiness balancing Madden’s energy. “He was John Wayne and Walter Cronkite,” Madden told NFL Films. “He could keep everything on an even keel. I’d be wandering off and then Pat could summarize it, like, in three words. And I’d think, ‘That’s what I was trying to say.’”  John Madden talks about the 49ers many offensive weapons as he cruises around Pleasanton. John Madden, the former Oakland Raiders coach, and television personality talked about the 49ers and the upcoming playoff game at his offices in Pleasanton, Calif. Tuesday January 15, 2013. Brant Ward / The Chronicle Madden’s quirks, though, only contributed to his persona. Afraid of flying, Madden drove between cities for broadcasts in a customized bus he named the “Madden Cruiser.” He selected players for his yearly “All-Madden” team based on hard-nosed, gritty play as much as performance. His down-to-earth, sometimes rambling style belied a dedication to the craft. Al Michaels, who called games with Madden on “Monday Night Football,” told the New
Ponder these questions: As an AmericanJew, or, If you were a jew,
1. If a Nazi-like doctrine took over America, and you could knock on the door of someone who obeyed all government orders regarding masks, regardless of their rationality, or someone who questioned government authority and obeyed few or none of its mask orders — on whose door would you knock?
2. If you were given the choice between knocking on the door of an atheist professor or the door of an Evangelical pastor — on whose door would knock?
There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in the event of a Nazi-like outbreak.
I don’t know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decades following the Holocaust often wondered: Would this non-Jew hide me?
I have thought about this all my life because the question, “Who hid Jews?” is one of the most important questions anyone — Jew or non-Jew — needs to think about. That question is far more important than “Who didn’t hide Jews?” because great goodness is rarer than great evil and even rarer than simple moral cowardice. Yet, a vast number of books have been written attempting to understand evil, while relatively few have been written attempting to explain good.
The reason for this is simple: Since the Enlightenment, i.e., since the decline of Judeo-Christian thought, most secular people have believed, and nearly all secular thought has been predicated on, the reality-denying idea that human nature is essentially good. As a result, scholars regard good as the norm and evil as the aberration. So, they study evil far more than good.
That is why the question, “Who rescued Jews?” should be of overwhelming importance to humanity as a whole. If people are interested in increasing good and in decreasing evil, what question could be more important?A lifetime of study of this question has led me to the following answers:
No. 1: Sam and Pearl Oliner, two professors of sociology at California State University at Humboldt, were the authors of one of the most highly regarded works on altruism, “The Altruistic Personality.” The book was the product of the Oliners’ lifetime of study of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. They themselves had been hidden by non-Jews in Poland, and I had the privilege of interviewing them.
I asked Sam Oliner, “Knowing all you now know about who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, if you had to return as a Jew to Poland and you could knock on the door of only one person in the hope that they would rescue you, would you knock on the door of a Polish lawyer, a Polish doctor, a Polish artist or a Polish priest?”
Without hesitation, he responded, “Polish priest.” And his wife immediately added, “I would prefer a Polish nun.”
I should note that neither had a religious agenda, as both were secular Jews.
Of course, most Christians in Europe failed the moral test of the Holocaust, but so did nearly all secular intellectuals. And few Christians today deny this. But any honest person would still bet on a priest before a doctor, artist, lawyer or professor. It is one reason I believe that the decline of Judeo-Christian religions is a calamity: We will produce fewer people who will do great good.
No. 2: Another study of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust offered four characteristics of rescuers. I read this book about 40 years ago and I do not remember the name of the book or three of the four characteristics. But I remember one of them because it struck me as an original insight and because it made so much sense. According to this study, individuals who were considered “eccentric” prior to the war were disproportionately represented among those who hid Jews.
Now, why would that be? Why would people regarded as eccentric be more likely to risk torture and death to hide a member of a persecuted group they weren’t part of?
The answer is obvious: Eccentrics are, by definition, people who march to the beat of their own drummer, who are nonconformists, and who don’t seek social approval.
That should give us some major insights into who would save Jews — or any other group targeted for death (such as landowners in communist countries) — if our society were taken over by Nazis or communists.
If this theory about eccentrics is correct, it should give us pause.
When I observe Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and, for that matter, the citizens of most countries at this time, this observation about who would risk their lives to hide a Jew leaves me pessimistic with regard to how any of these groups would act under a Nazi or communist regime.
We have seen herdlike behavior and an unquestioning obedience to authority that few expected to witness in previously free countries such as the English-speaking ones. Worse, we have seen unquestioning obedience to irrational authority.
Wearing masks outdoors is irrational. Yet a vast number of Americans have, sheeplike, obeyed irrational government demands to wear them. Telling people who have had COVID-19 to take a vaccine against COVID-19, when natural antibodies are longer lasting and more effective, not to mention safer, than a vaccine is irrational. Telling people who have been vaccinated or had COVID-19 to wear masks is irrational. Prolonged lockdowns of healthy people are irrational.
Yet tens of millions of Americans are unquestioningly obeying irrational orders and castigating those resisting or even questioning them.
It was “eccentric” Christian pastors who kept their churches open and an “eccentric” Catholic priest who sued the state of California for denying him his constitutional right to minister to his flock — and who prevailed against the state. Except for these clergymen and a handful of eccentric restaurant owners, almost all other Americans obeyed the state’s irrational orders.
That is frightening because people who obey irrational orders and despise those who do not are precisely the type of people who didn’t hide Jews.
So, then, here are two questions for American Jews (or if you were Jewish) to ponder:
If a Nazi-like doctrine took over America, and you could knock on the door of someone who obeyed all government orders regarding masks, regardless of their rationality, or someone who questioned government authority and obeyed few or none of its mask orders — on whose door would you knock?
If you were given the choice between knocking on the door of an atheist professor or the door of an Evangelical pastor — on whose door would knock?
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Questions for American Jews (or if you were a Jew) to Ponder: 1) If a Nazi-like doctrine took over America, and you could knock on the door of someone who obeyed all government orders regarding masks, regardless of their rationality, or someone who questioned government authority and obeyed few or none of its mask orders — on whose door would you knock? 2) If you were given the choice between knocking on the door of an atheist professor and the door of an Evangelical pastor— on whose door would knock?
Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?
There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in the event of a Nazi-like outbreak.
I don’t know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decades following the Holocaust often wondered: Would this non-Jew hide me?
I have thought about this all my life because the question, “Who hid Jews?” is one of the most important questions anyone — Jew or non-Jew — needs to think about. That question is far more important than “Who didn’t hide Jews?” because great goodness is rarer than great evil and even rarer than simple moral cowardice. Yet, a vast number of books have been written attempting to understand evil, while relatively few have been written attempting to explain good.
The reason for this is simple: Since the Enlightenment, i.e., since the decline of Judeo-Christian thought, most secular people have believed, and nearly all secular thought has been predicated on, the reality-denying idea that human nature is essentially good. As a result, scholars regard good as the norm and evil as the aberration. So, they study evil far more than good.
That is why the question, “Who rescued Jews?” should be of overwhelming importance to humanity as a whole. If people are interested in increasing good and in decreasing evil, what question could be more important?A lifetime of study of this question has led me to the following answers:
No. 1: Sam and Pearl Oliner, two professors of sociology at California State University at Humboldt, were the authors of one of the most highly regarded works on altruism, “The Altruistic Personality.” The book was the product of the Oliners’ lifetime of study of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. They themselves had been hidden by non-Jews in Poland, and I had the privilege of interviewing them.
I asked Sam Oliner, “Knowing all you now know about who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, if you had to return as a Jew to Poland and you could knock on the door of only one person in the hope that they would rescue you, would you knock on the door of a Polish lawyer, a Polish doctor, a Polish artist or a Polish priest?”
Without hesitation, he responded, “Polish priest.” And his wife immediately added, “I would prefer a Polish nun.”
I should note that neither had a religious agenda, as both were secular Jews.
Of course, most Christians in Europe failed the moral test of the Holocaust, but so did nearly all secular intellectuals. And few Christians today deny this. But any honest person would still bet on a priest before a doctor, artist, lawyer or professor. It is one reason I believe that the decline of Judeo-Christian religions is a calamity: We will produce fewer people who will do great good.
No. 2: Another study of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust offered four characteristics of rescuers. I read this book about 40 years ago and I do not remember the name of the book or three of the four characteristics. But I remember one of them because it struck me as an original insight and because it made so much sense. According to this study, individuals who were considered “eccentric” prior to the war were disproportionately represented among those who hid Jews.
Now, why would that be? Why would people regarded as eccentric be more likely to risk torture and death to hide a member of a persecuted group they weren’t part of?
The answer is obvious: Eccentrics are, by definition, people who march to the beat of their own drummer, who are nonconformists, and who don’t seek social approval.
That should give us some major insights into who would save Jews — or any other group targeted for death (such as landowners in communist countries) — if our society were taken over by Nazis or communists.
If this theory about eccentrics is correct, it should give us pause.
When I observe Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and, for that matter, the citizens of most countries at this time, this observation about who would risk their lives to hide a Jew leaves me pessimistic with regard to how any of these groups would act under a Nazi or communist regime.
We have seen herdlike behavior and an unquestioning obedience to authority that few expected to witness in previously free countries such as the English-speaking ones. Worse, we have seen unquestioning obedience to irrational authority.
Wearing masks outdoors is irrational. Yet a vast number of Americans have, sheeplike, obeyed irrational government demands to wear them. Telling people who have had COVID-19 to take a vaccine against COVID-19, when natural antibodies are longer lasting and more effective, not to mention safer, than a vaccine is irrational. Telling people who have been vaccinated or had COVID-19 to wear masks is irrational. Prolonged lockdowns of healthy people are irrational.
Yet tens of millions of Americans are unquestioningly obeying irrational orders and castigating those resisting or even questioning them.
It was “eccentric” Christian pastors who kept their churches open and an “eccentric” Catholic priest who sued the state of California for denying him his constitutional right to minister to his flock — and who prevailed against the state. Except for these clergymen and a handful of eccentric restaurant owners, almost all other Americans obeyed the state’s irrational orders.
That is frightening because people who obey irrational orders and despise those who do not are precisely the type of people who didn’t hide Jews.
So, then, here are two questions for American Jews to ponder:
If a Nazi-like doctrine took over America, and you could knock on the door of someone who obeyed all government orders regarding masks, regardless of their rationality, or someone who questioned government authority and obeyed few or none of its mask orders — on whose door would you knock?
If you were given the choice between knocking on the door of an atheist professor and the door of an Evangelical pastor or a Catholic priest — on whose door would knock?
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Stomach cramps from swallowing the fact we elected Biden/Harris.
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(Beyond THE CNN cameras There are innocent Afghans being beheaded and slaughtered as you read this. And what about the American 160 service dogs the US didn’t have space for and are likely already the victims of target practice by the animal-hating Taliban? )
Bleeding from the eyes. This is not Ebola. It is your eyes reacting to
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then identified as the disease itself.
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available in November 2022.
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“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot, is a fool; and
he, who dares not, is a slave.”
— William Drummond, Scottish writer (1585 – 1649)
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