Those of us who are passionate about college basketball know the
importance of the March Madness Basketball Tournament and reaching the
Final Four. It is, of course, the pinnacle of achievement for the
season, and the winner has bragging rights for the year. So what does a
college basketball tournament have in common with the explosive anger
of the collectivist left?
Calls ad an 'offense' to U.S. service members, veterans.
Former UFC fighter and Army Ranger Tim Kennedy is joining the Nike
boycott over the company's announcement that Colin Kaepernick is the new
face of their "Just Do It" campaign.
A Nike advertisement featuring Kaepernick recently hit social media
and instantly began trending nationwide for its controversial messaging.
In it, two sentences lay superimposed on a black and white headshot of
Kaepernick: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing
everything.”
Jair Bolsonaro gestures after being stabbed in the stomach during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate who is leading the polls in
Brazil’s presidential race, is in a serious condition but out of danger
after being stabbed while campaigning just a month before the election.
Bolsonaro was rushed to the Santa Casa de Misericórdia hospital in
the town of Juiz de Fora, about 125 miles (200km) north of Rio de
Janeiro after being stabbed by a man who rushed up to him while he was
being carried on the shoulders of a supporter through the crowd.
Lieutenant-Colonel Garnet J. Wolseley was sent to Canada to reinforce the existing military force after the US Navy seizure of the British mail packet Trent in November, 1861. War was expected to commence and Wolseley, who distinguished himself later in his career in the Second Ashanti War and in an effort to rescue General Charles Gordon, led 10,000 seasoned British troops in Canada. Wolseley was well-aware of the immigrant source of Lincoln’s army.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.org The Great American Political Divide
“Could Such Men be Defeated?”
Wolseley was aware of the source of many of Lincoln’s soldiers, combed from Ireland and Germany to fight against Americans. As he called for British intervention, he also knew that his country was responsible for populating the US with Africans, over whom the war was allegedly fought by the North.
“The first British officer to visit the Confederacy had at one time expected to be fighting against the North. Lieutenant-Colonel Garnet J. Wolseley, a veteran of several of Queen Victoria’s wars, was part of a British force ordered to Canada in 1861 as a show of strength after the US Navy stopped the British mail packet Trent and seized two Confederate agents who were on board.
The threat of war receded . . . [and taking] two months leave, he travelled . . . to New York City in September 1862 . . . and crossed the Potomac [as] General Robert E. Lee’s army was withdrawing from Maryland at the conclusion of the [Sharpsburg] campaign.
Even as he entered Virginia, Wolseley was favorably disposed toward the Confederacy, ostensibly out of concern for civil liberties in the wartime North. He described residents of Maryland as “stricken . . . with terror” by arrests ordered from Washington [and declined] to describe his route through Maryland, lest he endanger those with whom he had stayed.
Travelling by train from Fredericksburg to Richmond, [the] wounded from Lee’s Maryland invasion . . . impressed even Wolseley, the professional soldier:
“Men with legs and arms amputated, and whose pale, haggard faces assumed an expression of anguish even at the slightest jolting of the railway carriages, lay stretched across the seats – some accompanied . . . by wives or sisters, whose careworn features told a tale of sleepless nights passed in painful uncertainty regarding the fate of those they loved.”
In early October, Wolseley set out for Lee’s headquarters . . . his driver was a convalescent soldier who was still in considerable discomfort. “He said his furlough was up, and he would rather die than overstay it . . . when spoken to about the war, every man in the South, were prepared to die, he said, but never to reunite with the d—d Yankees.”
The British officer was impressed [with Lee]: “He is slightly reserved; but he is a person that, whenever seen, whether in a castle or a hovel, alone or in a crowd, must at once attract attention as being a splendid specimen of an English gentleman.”
Everywhere he was impressed with the tough, dedicate Confederate soldiers. Could such men be defeated, he would ask, “by mobs of Irish and German mercenaries, hired at $15 a month to fight in a cause they know little and care less about?”
[Returning] to Britain, he wrote an article for Blackwood’s Magazine [in which] he urged the British Parliament to intervene on behalf of the South, saying that the time had come “for putting an end to the most inhuman struggle that ever disgraced a great nation.”
(British Observers in Wartime Dixie, John M. Taylor; Military History Quarterly, Winter 2002, excerpts pp. 68-69)
A Gold Star mother is the latest to speak out against Nike’s latest
“Just Do It” ad campaign featuring former NFL player Colin Kaepernick
for making light of the word “sacrifice.”
Trina Hart, who lost her 21-year-old Marine son Ty Hart when his
helicopter went down off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu during
a mission in 2016, is blasting Nike for using Kaepernick as its
spokesperson for an ad about “sacrifice,” KOIN reported.
A poll from Morning Consult shows devastating results for Nike’s
brand favorability, in the days after making Colin Kaepernick the face
of their new ad campaign.
According to the poll via Axios, Nike’s numbers “dropped
34 points from a net +69 favorable impression (76% favorable, 7%
unfavorable) among consumers to a net +35 favorable impression (60%
favorable, 24% unfavorable).”
These numbers are nothing short of devastating for Nike, and with no
other news worthy of note, there’s no explanation for the sudden decline
other than the company’s commitment to Kaepernick.
In 1954, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., was
embroiled in a dispute with the Army. During a televised Senate hearing
McCarthy falsely accused an Army lawyer involved in the case of having
ties to a communist organization.
In a pivotal rejoinder, lawyer Joseph Welch, representing the Army, told McCarthy:
"Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty
or your recklessness. … Let us not assassinate this lad further,
senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?"
Welch died in 1960, but if he were around today he
could level the same question at Senate Democrats who have spent two
days relentlessly attacking Judge Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation
hearing for the positon of associate justice on the Supreme Court.
Adam Schindler captured one of the so-called protestors accepting a cash payment on Capitol Hill
Yesterday, Linda Sarsour who had once called for a “jihad” in the
USA, who also represents the Women’s March stormed into the
confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Herself, along with
seventy others as confirmed earlier this morning by Sen. Chuck Grassley
were arrested.
This is the same Linda Sarsour who is instructing voters to #JustDoIt
and vote Democrat regardless if they like the candidates or not.
