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UJ: it's Friday? I thought it was Saturday. Oh, that's right, every day is Saturday when you are retired, no? And sorry, not sorry folks. I worked my butt off for years to get here. Yes, it's wonderful. Especially in the sunny, free State of Florida! Have a great day, all.
We put up a dry erase board on our fridge after retiring last year. Every day I write the day and date on it. Because it is hard to keep track of it without a work schedule. Lol. 🤪
I have a paper calendar (horses, of course) and it's the first thing I look at when I come down stairs of a morning. Every birthday, every event, every zoom, even the egg count goes on that thing. I would be a drooling moron walking in circles if I didn't have my calendar. 🤣🤣
After we retired the weekends and holidays, which we used to look forward to, have become the worse. Worse because TV programing is lousy, traffic is heavier, and stores are more crowded. (And summer & spring break are more annoying with so many school kids who disrespect elders are out and about.) So we prefer Mondays thru Fridays, and non-holidays now.
My husband and I "retired" at at the end of 2022 at ages 76 (him) and 73. We ended our business on our own terms after watching enough of a decline thanks to Biden and his moronic covid response. We had our business for 33 successful years. But enough is enough, I guess.
Bill, love retirement! Don't know how I managed with 2 daughters and a husband all those years. Worked in the school district my girls attended, so that helped, but rushing around all the time. It's great to have some expanse of time🤗
Retirement provides grand opportunities for volunteer work in your community and church. That's one of the primary blessings of retirement, the chance to work for something other than the almighty dollar.
I am honestly looking forward to that. There are several charitable endeavors I'd like to be actively involved in when I'm no longer working 7 am to 4 pm.
When our division got waxed and the responsibilities shifted to Switzerland, I managed to place some of my employees there. One told me months later during a stateside visit that the Americans had been sat down after a while and told by their peers to "chill, you're making us look bad".
I once got a talking to like that from a bunch of older ladies in a sub assembly factory situation. They were afraid I would make their "rate" go up, and they would have to work harder after I left for college.😆
You obviously were not a letter carrier. I tried it for a month and discovered it was a lot like work. Now for the rest of the lot, there are probably exceptions but the general thinking of the civil servant is, "O boy! I didn't win the lottery but this has to be the next best thing!"
Well, thats why we get so little of public service. Its not exactly a biblical attitude. A fair days work for a fair days pay is better. Civil employees are fairly paid.
Not true in my 40+ year experience. The old 80/20 rule applies. 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.
I've worked for gov't and commercial companies. The only real difference is the gov't will never fire anyone. They just try to move them into a role where they won't blow things up all the time.
My son was in charge of a companies training employees. On a frustrating day for him, I asked why the company just doesn’t fire people who could care less about working? His reply was, “we can’t fire people. The best we can do is demote them to the mailroom and hope they quit”.
Exactly what Jesus battled every day of His short ministry. K A. Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes. He upset the tables and taught that grace get's you in the door, not money, actions or influence.
I dropped out of organized religion long ago and frequent only Bible teaching churches teaching both OT and NT.
Regarding tithes, I am watchful and hopefully wise. When I tithe it's with a thankful heart, and if the church isn't responsible with the tithes, it's on them when they appear before God.
Find a cause that builds the kingdom of God and gets the gospel message out while showing the love and compassion of a Christ follower to the people they help. I give to my church and multiple unaffiliated evangelical organizations that meet these criteria.
My daughter left teaching and went into nursing for awhile. She really got disgusted because it seemed the majority of the people they treated, especially in the E.R., were mostly homeless bums, drunks and addicts who of course paid no bills. Some of them played that game just to have a bed for a night and some attention. She did nursing for awhile, but got really fed up with it all and now she's back in teaching.
Agree, if work ethic is retired, then that role is NOT in the 20% that makes the Good Parts work.... No one can tell me those People on the line are not in the 20% Doing the Work - (getting pelted and doxed and literally fighting for the law and order; any Country that's going to call itself a Country needs).
This is my advice for retirees: At some point some doctor is going to decide to give you a cognizant test with questions which a 25 year old thinks are important....like the date...keep your cell phone with you...just ask "Why would I care? I have no schedule but let's see what my cell phone says". When he asks the name of the president just say "Unfair question. High schoolers don't know that." I did this when the doctor pulled that crap on my mother...I challenged him on every question. He stopped asking.
The NBA is morally bankrupt. LeBron James, Adam Silver, and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai bent over to become Xi Jinping's court eunuchs. They forced Enes Kanter Freedom out of the league because he criticized the CCP: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/enes-kanter-freedom-shoes-booko
Yup, cannot stand it and have not watched for thirty years. Corrupt players, corrupt owners, and a commissioner that quite literally looks like the caricature of a medieval demon. There is something very ugly at the heart of this league.
It wasn't always like this. The league used to promote players that personified the best of the country, like Bird and Jordan. Positive people that promoted an ethos of hard-work, clean living, and team cooperation. Now it's showboaters, arrogant layabouts, and tatooed gangster types. It had been subtlety infiltrating for decades but really became prominent for me when they started pushing human-freakshow Dennis Rodman as some sort of role model. Frankly demonic.
There's only one league that still promotes an image of wholesomeness and that's the NHL. It's also the far-most entertaining and exciting of the Big Four, probably not by coincidence.
Edit: Take a look at this photo of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. I didn't cherry-pick an unflattering photo, he looks like this in all of them.
God gave us an innate sense of disgust and revulsion for good reason as a protection mechanism. There's been seventy years of media brainwashing telling us it's immoral to trust our own God-given intuition. Yet in my experience it's rarely wrong.
I think that part of the problem is that the major sports leagues are the easiest and most attention-grabbing way that we’ve been following for decades (if not centuries, in the case of baseball) to watch a sports that they didn’t invent. Are the rules of these sports the legal property of these leagues? If not, then what is stopping anyone from starting a parallel league? I love the Dallas Cowboys as much as anyone ever has, but you’re right. Our affections are being twisted and abused. All we have to do is stop giving them our attention and our money.
I love sports but just became utterly repulsed. That's how I became an NHL fan despite living in Southern California my entire life and not knowing anything about hockey. The NHL really is different.
The league is dominated by a humble small-town Canadian farm boy ethos. Despite the league only being about 40% Canadian now, everyone still adopts it because it's expected. Skill is admired but not showboating. Perceived laziness gets player benched regardless of how good they are. Yes there are fights, but they are oriented towards defending smaller teammates (i.e. the enforcer), not just because someone couldn't control their temper.
A few years back a handful of owners told their team they had to wear "pride" jerseys during warm-ups on a specific night. There were a some high-profile holdouts who refused citing their Christianity. Then the NHL player's union told the league they would not stand for this, the players could not be ordered to violate their religious beliefs. The Commissioner put a temporary hold on any more events pending a review of league policy. During the off-season the league issued a new policy that prohibited any jerseys for non-hockey related "causes".
This was back during the peak of homosexual pride hysteria yet the league still put a stop to it, likely due to player union pressure. Don't get me wrong, the league isn't perfect or an paragon of Christian morality. But it's the only one that hasn't become infected with really dark personal gratification and money worshipping tendencies.
I just wish I understood hockey. I get football, basketball and baseball. I love sports, but hockey has eluded me. I’m going to start watching more of it.
You have to attend a game in person to really understand the nuance that can't be seen on TV. Such as players jumping on and off the ice, stuff going on behind the puck, and the player interactions. Almost none of this is seen on TV as it's focused on puck movement.
Despite that TV coverage is really good now and if you start watching you'll pick it up. When I first started watching it was before HDTV and it was really hard to follow the puck. It's much better now and the replay technology is excellent.
If you do want to attend a game consider an AHL game if there's a club near you. The AHL is the NHL's top-level farm system and the hockey quality is surprisingly good. There's also lots of college hockey in the Northeast and Midwest, as the NCAA is taking a much bigger role in player development (for better or worse we'll see). Best of all, ticket prices are really affordable unlike many NHL teams these days.
They have. UFL. XFL. Heck, the AFL used to be an alternative league to the NFL until they merged when Joe Namath and the Jets beat the Colts. I remember when it was formed
Coming from a Big 10 state, many universities, including prominent Catholic uni., there was always sports frenzy. Lived 3 doors down from the football coach.
It held zero interest. Sports nuts would actually roof their home with giant team icons in a fan.
Am thinking the zero interest may have been turning away from the corruption.
Fans loved to gather and imbibe. Holidaze were gatherings they lived for.
For the sake of argument, lets suppose Silver is the most brilliant basketball executive in the world. Even so, you would think someone would say, "We can't put this guy out there as the face of the NBA as he looks like the spawn of Satan. Put him behind the scenes and we'll have someone a bit less evil-looking and repulsive act as commissioner".
Nope, they willingly and apparently enthusiastically (as he's been commissioner 11 years) put him there as public face of the NBA. That tells me they want the league to look demonic. That's why they also promote players that represent everything that is wrong with modern culture, and is directly contrary to Christianity.
(Plus of coarse if Silver put on some weight, didn't shave his head, and wore contacts he'd be a bit more normal looking. He's never going to be a male model but he doesn't have to look physically repulsive. It's a choice.)
So is it just a marketing gimmick, or is the league actually demonic? Ten years ago I would have thought the former. I've seen enough over the past decade that now I think differently.
I agree with everything except the tattooed gangster types. The current NBA is actually starting to have more players with 2 parents, both mom and dad.
My reply to Stephen A Smith is: shouldn’t someone like the President care about the corruption in sports?
Online betting and gambling has killed college football and basketball. NCAA allowing transfer portals and NIL monies rot these sports. The schools with the biggest pockets will rule. Players will come and go. Coaches will be fired three games in. It’s a mess and anyone paying attention saw it coming.
Pete Rose was banned from baseball and the BHOF for betting. Now a betting fan site carries many MLB, NHL, and NBA games for a subscription fee.
And why should it even be a part of the conversation that Trump is going to get back at those who harmed him! That had no part in the conversation. What has happened is illegal and those who perpetrated these acts should be held accountable. Right is right!!!!!
And if they’re doing illegal activities… That clip of Steve A. Smith bothered me. I didn’t like or agree with what he appeared to be insinuating which sounded to me like he thinks all these people are innocent but Trump will go after them purely for revenge. Baloney! If all your actions are above board then you’ll have no issues. The fear tactics bother me, probably because it’s the same old tired trope trotted out during COVID, and that some irrational legal immigrants say about fearing that they’re going to be snatched off the streets and deported. Ridiculous.
I was very disappointed in what Smith said, and I agree with your take on it. I guess Smith chalks it up to the good old boys betting club and he thinks Trump should leave it alone. The high-tech cheating they were doing is off the charts. I heard one person say everyone at a table would have been in on the con, except the one person they were going to fleece.
The NCAA killed college athletics. Had they, while raking in Billions, worked out an equitable compensation plan for the athletes that risk their health and well being while at the same time they generated billions for the NCAA we wouldn’t have the financial Wild West that is now college sports.
I believe Stephen A Smith is a conservative who backs the president, I think he was giving ‘pro sports’ a warning to clean up their act or the government will get more involved.
I read that he was thinking of running for President and not as a Republican. He just giving the Dems what he thinks is a much deserved tongue lashing.
I hope you’re correct and I misinterpreted it. Generally I like some of the things he says, and I know Bill O’Reilly respects him which does carry a bit of weight with me.
I don't know if ya'll remember but it was the NBA and Nike who were the first companies to play along with the hysteria of the "pandemic" and they closed up shop to let the American people know this was serious. I'm pretty sure they were cc'd in on Fauci's scamdemic which was the biggest power grab play the world has probably ever seen.
Nike cancel Jonathan Irving's shoe contract because he was a Christian who wouldn't kneel or get jabbed. Started his own shoe line, now very successful. Remember Nike is an Oregon (Portland?) company
Not that this is even news but guess who pays zero taxes? Nike sucks. We haven’t bought or worn anything with a Nike logo on it since before 2020. 🤮 When I see friends wearing Nike crap I have to hold my tongue or it will slice and dice them. I know someone who works there too.
And that’s why I hold my tongue. You never know why someone wears a certain brand. I get it. I still dislike them. I’m from Oregon and seeing the Nike campus is like its own world. Their employees get great perks too. They can lavish employees but it’s the OTHER smaller businesses that are paying the taxes. I’m sure other businesses would love to have money to do better for their employees but they’re too busy paying taxes to do it. Anyway. Just my observation.
Actually, the NCAA basketball season was just entering March Madness. It was all canceled, just like that. That’s when I knew something was horribly wrong.
All Sports Franchises like the NBA, the NFL, MBA, PGA, Tennis on down are “morally bankrupt”. And have been for many,many years. Look at the amount of people who still watch this ‘sports crap’ on TV, 24/7 365?
If it’s on the TEE VEE they are watching it! And the majority of these ‘sports fans’ are likely the ones that fell in line during the Scamdemic, followed ‘orders’, stayed home ‘watching sports’, and then flocked like sheep to get the EUA mRNA ‘covid vaxxines
My guess would be that these celebrity sports figures have serious problems with gambling and probably up to their ears in debt to you know “hoose” and the only way they can pay off their gambling debts is being shills.
Rothschilds. Rockefellers. Morgans, etc. it's never enough. At some time, it becomes a you know what measuring contest with their peers, where money= power.
Sadly I know some people who love Lebron James and I can’t stand him. I hope he’s one who is arrested prosecuted and never able to play basketball again.
The NBA is so easy to fix. Remember a few years ago a referee was busted for throwing games with calls that would affect the scores and/or winners. I watch March Madness. I haven't watched the NBA in years.
Good luck with March Madness with the transfer portals and NIL money. This year the NCAA is allowing early exit college players, playing in the pro’s G league to come back and play college basketball. Now that they’re being paid.
That is so disappointing. I’m a Duke Graduate (only Grad school, not undergraduate and long ago, before all of this garbage was going on or at least before we were aware of it) and I love March Madness… (yes, I’m aware and disgusted by the Duke compliance with the trans crap, hopefully they get their heads out of their asses soon) but now I have to wonder if I even want to watch this coming spring March Madness. UGH!!!! Why can’t people just be decent!!!!!?????
Yeah, the guy, Doneghy, I think was his name, was the scapegoat. The illegal activity permeated the officiating ranks, Doneghy’s cell phone records confirmed it. But the NBA, in concert with their corporate media stooges, clamped down on the real story.
All professional sports are mind-numbing ponderous events that drain valuable time from your life. The only reason any of them are popular is because of sports betting or fantasy leagues which also involve betting. I guess if you have nothing to do, it can consume your days and make them seem like you are busy.
Professional sports, especially the NFL, are the opiate of the masses. Modern day Roman gladiator games. I remember some decades ago the players went on strike in an election year. When fall approached, I told anyone who would lesson TPTB would not allow the strike to continue and let people focus on politics. I was right.
I went to an NFL game several years ago as a guest of a company that I did business with.
As we walked among the throngs of fans going into the massive stadium I couldn’t help but think that this was the modern day version of the Roman coliseum. In my mind I even conjured up a Mel Brooks version with yoga clad souvenir vendors hawking autographed drawings of famous gladiators.
This vision was clinched as I glanced up at the owner’s box high above me. There sat the team’s owner on a luxurious, elevated leather “throne” gazing down on the assembled spectators cheering on his team of modern day gladiators. I thought to myself that we as a society have crossed the rubicon.
I don't watch sports to bet. I don't gamble except a lottery ticket now and then. I am busy, I own my own business and work 6 days a week. I watch particular games to take a break. Entertainment is important.
Agree, not saying everyone has to like sports but they can be fun to watch sometimes. I do think it’s ridiculous how much money is wrapped up in them but the same goes for movies/TV and a lot of types of music. I think sometimes the lower levels of sports (high school for example) and lesser known musicians or local theater can be just as fun to see though.
Yeah, I get it. I like to read and watch movies(good ones) so we all have something to provide a break from the daily routines. I guess with sports, to me, it seems really pointless and not entertaining watching people for hours moving a ball of some sort around a playing area but to each his own.
I philosophically agree with this comment. I have a hubby who feels that unless he “keeps up” with the latest baseball, SEC football, etc, then he doesn’t have anything to talk to his “manly” friends about. They don’t bet at all, just text each other through endless games. I won’t complain that he would rather do this than talk to me about politics or world events…. He says that those topics are a waste of time…sigh.
It's true. Most people run like a scalded cat if anything meaningful or controversial is discussed, You can see how the cabal knows this and makes sure the masses have their idiotic distractions. Don't like sports? There is always the Khardasians. or some other satanic entertainment minions adore
It's funny how much energy people put into rooting for their city's team when the team has nothing to do with that city. It's just a bunch of paid professionals hired from many locales that the owner of that particular franchise had the money to buy. They are really cheering for a particular corporate franchise and the CEO's choice of hirees. Like defending your town's McDonald's over the next town's.
I grew up in Portland and the blazers were a big deal, and still are. I became disillusioned early on and haven’t followed them much after Bill Walton retired.
The NBA is not about the sport of basketball anymore. If it was, the game officials would enforce the rules of the game. Legalized sport gambling is destroying sports.
I stopped watching professional sports about 3, maybe 4 years ago. Al of them. I stopped watching the NBA ~30 years ago. They have long led the pack in most overpaid ill behaved undeserving athletes.
I’m “betting” they arrested the guys most likely to snitch out others
More dominoes will fall
High probability similar scandals brewing in NFL and MLB. Why would NBA be the only one? Athletes are dumb and mouthy - they have been bragging about their get-rich-easy-money scheme amongst their circles
Thank you for being the first to comment on the article. Other think retirement banter is more important. As you point out the NBA is another criminal cartel. The truth is that it has not been different in decades. Sloppy criminals do not believe a day of reckoning would find them.
The human child trafficing issue is actually much worse.
Everyday more arrests. Organized criminals taking advantage of children.
All Sports Franchises like the NBA, the NFL, MBA, PGA, Tennis on down are “morally bankrupt”. And have been for many,many years. Look at the amount of people who still watch this ‘sports crap’ on TV, 24/7 365?
If it’s on the TEE VEE they are watching it! And the majority of these ‘sports fans’ are likely the ones that fell in line during the Scamdemic, followed ‘orders’, stayed home ‘watching sports’, and then flocked like sheep to get the EUA mRNA ‘covid vaxxines’. 🤔🙄
What's with all the black grifters showing up in the news lately? Letitia, Fani, some woman charged with using $11 million NGO find to buy houses and a Mercedes, Karmelo Anthony's parents, ALL the BLM people, these basketball people. . .
The culture only values possessions, doesn't matter how they get them. You see it ALL OVER Africa
"It’s a big deal. The FBI reported recording 3,000+ calls with its confidential informants. The cash was cleverly laundered through cryptocurrencies, and Patel said tens of millions in total fraud were involved."
Now do the same thing with Congress members and the forever war funding that's basically just fraud. Start with Ukraine.
"There is an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger groups. To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints, which control their behavior as individuals within the group."
So eloquently said! Such an accurate reflection of our reality. But reminds me of what I was told as a child, “Misery and sin loves company. Choose your company carefully.” -Grandma
Even more important when choosing leaders and public policy.
My X feed got set to "for you" instead of "following" when starting up the app on my cell phone yesterday. The first one was Governor Newsom saying that Trump was Literally Destroying the White House! (regarding building the ballroom).
The White House has needed an appropriate venue for entertaining when large groups gather - Kings, Presidents, Prime Ministers, etc plus their entourages. The tent was too far away from the WH, exposed to weather getting there & still too small! It also had NO BATHROOM - ports potty’s were used!!!
There is so much going on. Trolls everywhere in full force. I am a bit overwhelmed by the amount if misinformation. Jeff & some commenters help keep me on an even keel. Thanks all.
The evil desperation is palpable and we’re not even close to the end of it. Smell the rot and don’t lose our focus. I smell it everywhere too. Fight Fight Fight!!! 🙏
The demons are very active in response to the resurgence of faith and the very public declarations of the gospel. Evil hates that and flails against it. Far too many people are useful tools for evil.
The disinformation is relatively easy to see now, thanks to C&C training. Misinformation is a lot trickier. The misinformed may be eloquent and sincere in the way it is presented. Perhaps it may help a little to note when no source is provided.
“One team executive told NBC, “It’s a nightmare for the league.” Professional Wrestling fans know what they’re getting. But credulous NBA fans assume the games are fair and not manipulated.” —- I posted this quote from George Orwell the other day:
““Football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
— George Orwell, 1984
This quote is coming into realization now. This was the worse thing to happen as it’s only increasing the time and attention spent on sports.
Play sports, then go get a job that helps the world keep turning. No professional sports. Or if there is - stop paying them insane amounts of money!! Pay them what the average worker makes. Then see how many will want to play and work out and stay in shape. Then you can charge $20 a ticket and $1 for a bottle of water! Go back to those days when they played for the love of the game and not the love of money. And for crap sake stop this insane portal of paying college players. Whoever made that decision was pure evil.
Alfred, Macy janitor: Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same - don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck. From Miracle on 34th Street.
Excuse me, I know nothing about TV sports. So this is the half-time that will have that bunny guy performing? You'd think they'd be more cautious about their audience then to diss them by presenting that guy. I mean, it seems that it was a really unpopular choice.
That one cracked me up! I remember when I had to replace my old one. Boy, what a disappointment. I would also like to say a war on crockpots. The new ones stink and they do not last.
Yeah the government won that one. My dishwasher gets nothing clean unless I pre brush everything off the dishes. And it’s an expensive Electrolux. Quiet for sure. But worthless
Once the greenies gained control of the rule makers when it came to water consumption, it became impossible to clean anything. Including my corpulent body. I detest low flow shower heads, and toilets that need three flushes to clean out the bowl.
Blown away. Praises to our Heavenly FATHER for fulfilling HIS promises of exposing things done in the dark to the light which is truth. I thank You GOD for your blessings and Your mercies
I'm so thankful that we have a President who has big brass cahonies, which he uses to speak plainly and act boldly. Yet some still say Trump is owned by others. I think not.
Except when it comes to releasing the Epstein, 911 and JFK files, shutting down Israel's mass-slaughter in Gaza... investigating and prosecuting the massive Biden family corruption... and ending the Ukraine conflict by halting ALL support to that gang of corrupt filth...
Trump (and Cabinet) now serves his Master, Netanyahu... America comes a distant 2nd.
I’m just shaking me head here - Stephen Smith’s warning that “He’s coming” infers Trump and his FBI are somehow not legitimately rooting out criminality because that’s the right thing to do, these people are GUILTY and it needs to stop…No, instead it’s all just about vengeance, blah blah blah. His reaction is so detached from reality it makes my head hurt.
I'm sorry, but that is NOT Stephen A. Smith. It does not look like him, sound like him, or act like him. Body double .
I can't stand him. He is the most racist sports commentator out there. I will never forget when R.G.Griffin entered the league, and Smith nastily opined "I don't know if he is a brother down for the cause". That was not the same man.
Can't believe no one has posted or noted the last blip from "Nancy Pelosi". That was no more her than Jessica Simpson. Body doubles seem to be everywhere these days.
"“La Diabla” (the devil), who in assembly-line fashion lured pregnant Mexican women, murdered them, harvested their organs, took the babies via c-section, and sold the infants on the international baby market"
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Keep your eyes on the ball...
It’s important that people understand exactly what level of evil we’re dealing with. The cartels aren’t just a bunch of run of the mill goons running drugs.
"The Times has no self-respect. I bet when it was little and played hide-and-go-seek, the other kids wouldn’t even go looking for it." 🥹
The Times was probably never invited to the other kids' birthday parties either. That would explain why it's such a maladjusted rag with no social skills.
The truth in this is that the Times staff is made up of the very people no one has ever wanted to socialize with, eg David French, every single badly groomed reporter and the unbearably pompous yet dishonest editors. No they were never invited to the parties, birthday parties, proms, etc.
Most Trump haters I know are busy ranting about him building a ballroom. And his ball room joke. That's more unconstitutional to them than Trump's cartel remarks.
No kidding. They are stuck there. WWIII could break out but they would still be moaning about the destruction of the "historic" East Wing corridor and how it endangers the Republic.
It's really bizarre how much energy they are directing at this remodel. I think part of it is they know it will be beautiful and a lasting legacy from the president they despise. So they have to scream angrily about it and whip their followers up into yet more demonstrations of hatred against him. I'm surprised there haven't been lawsuits filed.
Good point. Albert Pike statue was torn down by Antifa. Maybe this will house the new statue.
Looks like they me re erect the Pike Statue.
Albert Pike had promised his Masonic allies in Europe that they would have three world wars to consolidate the world power of the Canaanites. We have now seen two of those world wars, and, as promised, the first world war was to set up a Communist regime, the second world war was to raise it to the status of a world power, and the third world war is planned to destroy both Communism and Christianity in a great orgy of annihilation. This coming war is intended to be the final death knell of the people of Shem; after its conclusion the Canaanites will reign unchallenged throughout the world."
It goes along with their theme of "everything President Trump does is unprecedented, and in a bad way!"
It's very easy for an honest person to look up similar incidences during other administrations, and realize that the thing, once again, is in no way unprecedented, and that their howling is just part of the outrage machine.
So. The culprit of the day is the NBA. Does any rational person think it stops there? The NFL, MLB, NHL. Any organized sport that has betting on them is susceptible to this. Blatantly bad NFL calls that are allowed to pass? Poor calls by MLB umpires? Try to convince me otherwise. The best part of this story? Trump is coming for you. TAW.
I can’t help but wonder if that’s how Pritzker won his 1.5M at blackjack. He’s definitely connected to the mob. And after he JUST sheepishly admitted to the gambling winnings, he has been coming after Trump this week in the most heinous way to try to incite others to want him dead. A desperate man who believes he won’t be caught but is guilty and sees the investigation going on. How do you stop the locomotive? Get all the towns people to believe it’s carrying Armageddon and needs to be derailed to save their children, and they will all pile on to stop it.
He’s the biggest liar I have ever witnessed in my life, showing every sign of someone who lies incessantly but truly thinks his performance is believable.
Pritzker's cousin is one behind the transgender movement and getting gender clinics to open. That family is evil. That's why I will not stay at a Hyatt hotel.
I would add that professional sports foments a primitive artificial world aimed at turbocharging celebrity worship, alongside a grotesque squandering of attention and resources. Insiders carry an extreme, cumulative karmic burden.
Oh, that was only part of it, Doc. Rozier is accused of arranging beforehand to underplay his talent to throw the odds towards those who bet on such nonsense. Hundreds of thousands of dollars involved in just one game. Lots of people screwed.
It is Friday!!! But sometimes it doesn’t matter when you are retired…
UJ: it's Friday? I thought it was Saturday. Oh, that's right, every day is Saturday when you are retired, no? And sorry, not sorry folks. I worked my butt off for years to get here. Yes, it's wonderful. Especially in the sunny, free State of Florida! Have a great day, all.
We put up a dry erase board on our fridge after retiring last year. Every day I write the day and date on it. Because it is hard to keep track of it without a work schedule. Lol. 🤪
My pill strip reminds me of what day of the week it is!
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Your comment came up as a gray rectangle with a gray X in the middle. Does not compute!
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LMAO! that's great. Good job!!
👍🏻 we have a big calendar on fridge - otherwise I would never know what day it is!!
My children ‘threaten’ to get me a white board all the time…😂
Oy, that sounds too much like being in a hospital bed (where they do exactly that same thing on a dry erase board)
I know… I am always asking my wife what day it is… or say it feels like Saturday, is church tomorrow…. No dear it is Wednesday.
I have a paper calendar (horses, of course) and it's the first thing I look at when I come down stairs of a morning. Every birthday, every event, every zoom, even the egg count goes on that thing. I would be a drooling moron walking in circles if I didn't have my calendar. 🤣🤣
Er, a drooling moron walking in circles? That's my job description!
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Is that what’s wrong with me? 🤔 (*dabs drool from my chin)
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I use the calendar on my phone.
I hate my phone 🤣 It's a minimal relationship 😏
It's a love/hate relationship with mine. It's old and does weird things that aggravate me, but I hope it keeps working well enough.
Someone makes a clock that merely says what day it is. Not the time. Oh, to be retired and oblivious...
Ask Siri or Alexa....
Hahaha.
Enjoy it!! You deserve it after all those years of hard work!!
After we retired the weekends and holidays, which we used to look forward to, have become the worse. Worse because TV programing is lousy, traffic is heavier, and stores are more crowded. (And summer & spring break are more annoying with so many school kids who disrespect elders are out and about.) So we prefer Mondays thru Fridays, and non-holidays now.
Same here...we stay home on weekends.
My husband and I "retired" at at the end of 2022 at ages 76 (him) and 73. We ended our business on our own terms after watching enough of a decline thanks to Biden and his moronic covid response. We had our business for 33 successful years. But enough is enough, I guess.
Same here! Not sorry at all! 😎
And "Get off my lawn!"
I have a "day of the week clock" for when I'm not sure..
Bill, love retirement! Don't know how I managed with 2 daughters and a husband all those years. Worked in the school district my girls attended, so that helped, but rushing around all the time. It's great to have some expanse of time🤗
Rub it in why don't you. 😁 Some of us still get unreasonably excited by the last workday of the week!
Your day will come. It’s worth the wait!
Retirement provides grand opportunities for volunteer work in your community and church. That's one of the primary blessings of retirement, the chance to work for something other than the almighty dollar.
I am honestly looking forward to that. There are several charitable endeavors I'd like to be actively involved in when I'm no longer working 7 am to 4 pm.
Did most of my volunteer work while working full time....that's how we ended up adopting 3 children, while NOT looking to adopt anyone! 😂😂😂
I understand the feeling. All things have their time, Dear One. Patient perseverance.
"Not that I am a bad employee, but I retired my work ethic the day I started my first job with the federal government," my father once told me.
When our division got waxed and the responsibilities shifted to Switzerland, I managed to place some of my employees there. One told me months later during a stateside visit that the Americans had been sat down after a while and told by their peers to "chill, you're making us look bad".
I once got a talking to like that from a bunch of older ladies in a sub assembly factory situation. They were afraid I would make their "rate" go up, and they would have to work harder after I left for college.😆
Americans were making them look bad? I didn't realize the Swiss were sores for sight eyes.
Their work ethic was, shall we say, more akin to government workers than American private sector workers.
Europeans often say they think Americans just work too hard.
I've heard that sentiment in civil service, rolandttg.
You obviously were not a letter carrier. I tried it for a month and discovered it was a lot like work. Now for the rest of the lot, there are probably exceptions but the general thinking of the civil servant is, "O boy! I didn't win the lottery but this has to be the next best thing!"
Hahaha.
Well, thats why we get so little of public service. Its not exactly a biblical attitude. A fair days work for a fair days pay is better. Civil employees are fairly paid.
Not true in my 40+ year experience. The old 80/20 rule applies. 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.
I've worked for gov't and commercial companies. The only real difference is the gov't will never fire anyone. They just try to move them into a role where they won't blow things up all the time.
My son was in charge of a companies training employees. On a frustrating day for him, I asked why the company just doesn’t fire people who could care less about working? His reply was, “we can’t fire people. The best we can do is demote them to the mailroom and hope they quit”.
Similar to church donations: 20% of the people give 80% of the money.
It's called the Pareto Principle. 20 percent of anything cause 80 percent of the impact. i.e. 20 percent of the Dems cause 80 percent of the problems.
There are too many questions these days about the system of organized religion. People are skeptical.
Exactly what Jesus battled every day of His short ministry. K A. Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes. He upset the tables and taught that grace get's you in the door, not money, actions or influence.
I dropped out of organized religion long ago and frequent only Bible teaching churches teaching both OT and NT.
Regarding tithes, I am watchful and hopefully wise. When I tithe it's with a thankful heart, and if the church isn't responsible with the tithes, it's on them when they appear before God.
Find a cause that builds the kingdom of God and gets the gospel message out while showing the love and compassion of a Christ follower to the people they help. I give to my church and multiple unaffiliated evangelical organizations that meet these criteria.
45 years of emergency medicine before retirement: 10% of the population soaks up 90% of medical care.
My daughter left teaching and went into nursing for awhile. She really got disgusted because it seemed the majority of the people they treated, especially in the E.R., were mostly homeless bums, drunks and addicts who of course paid no bills. Some of them played that game just to have a bed for a night and some attention. She did nursing for awhile, but got really fed up with it all and now she's back in teaching.
Agree, if work ethic is retired, then that role is NOT in the 20% that makes the Good Parts work.... No one can tell me those People on the line are not in the 20% Doing the Work - (getting pelted and doxed and literally fighting for the law and order; any Country that's going to call itself a Country needs).
I believe it's called 'pass the trash' J Boss.
I don't know why but even though I'm retired, I still look forward to Fridays and the weekend. Must just be conditioning from working all those years.
Yep, even though never worked a M-F schedule. Makes no sense! 🤣
Every day is Saturday, when you're retired. Except if you have a Dr's appointment...then it's Tuesday. 😁
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium...
Ha! I remember that movie...Suzanne Pleshette as I recall.
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Ohhhhh so much truth there! Hahahaha
It’s raining, PTL! So I’m still in my Jammie’s ☺️
This is my advice for retirees: At some point some doctor is going to decide to give you a cognizant test with questions which a 25 year old thinks are important....like the date...keep your cell phone with you...just ask "Why would I care? I have no schedule but let's see what my cell phone says". When he asks the name of the president just say "Unfair question. High schoolers don't know that." I did this when the doctor pulled that crap on my mother...I challenged him on every question. He stopped asking.
Do you still wear jeans on Friday? LOL.
I wear Jeans everyday starting October 1st… otherwise shorts from about March 15th
You keep your hands offa my jeans! My mother used to call them, "dungarees."
Amen Uncle Juan!
Ain't retirement great!? As a retired teacher, I wave at the kids in my robe sipping coffee watching the bus go by
Ahhhhh...
Dammmmmnnnnn Juancho! that's below the belt.......
But, best to you and yours!
Later Jay
It takes a while to get used to that.
The NBA is morally bankrupt. LeBron James, Adam Silver, and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai bent over to become Xi Jinping's court eunuchs. They forced Enes Kanter Freedom out of the league because he criticized the CCP: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/enes-kanter-freedom-shoes-booko
Yup, cannot stand it and have not watched for thirty years. Corrupt players, corrupt owners, and a commissioner that quite literally looks like the caricature of a medieval demon. There is something very ugly at the heart of this league.
It wasn't always like this. The league used to promote players that personified the best of the country, like Bird and Jordan. Positive people that promoted an ethos of hard-work, clean living, and team cooperation. Now it's showboaters, arrogant layabouts, and tatooed gangster types. It had been subtlety infiltrating for decades but really became prominent for me when they started pushing human-freakshow Dennis Rodman as some sort of role model. Frankly demonic.
There's only one league that still promotes an image of wholesomeness and that's the NHL. It's also the far-most entertaining and exciting of the Big Four, probably not by coincidence.
Edit: Take a look at this photo of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. I didn't cherry-pick an unflattering photo, he looks like this in all of them.
https://img.particlenews.com/img/id/4Ar18j_15rWVISS00
God gave us an innate sense of disgust and revulsion for good reason as a protection mechanism. There's been seventy years of media brainwashing telling us it's immoral to trust our own God-given intuition. Yet in my experience it's rarely wrong.
Hmm, disturbing resemblance to He Who Shall Not Be Named.
Creecher’s creepy uncle.
He who -must- not be named 🪄🤓📚
I think that part of the problem is that the major sports leagues are the easiest and most attention-grabbing way that we’ve been following for decades (if not centuries, in the case of baseball) to watch a sports that they didn’t invent. Are the rules of these sports the legal property of these leagues? If not, then what is stopping anyone from starting a parallel league? I love the Dallas Cowboys as much as anyone ever has, but you’re right. Our affections are being twisted and abused. All we have to do is stop giving them our attention and our money.
I love sports but just became utterly repulsed. That's how I became an NHL fan despite living in Southern California my entire life and not knowing anything about hockey. The NHL really is different.
The league is dominated by a humble small-town Canadian farm boy ethos. Despite the league only being about 40% Canadian now, everyone still adopts it because it's expected. Skill is admired but not showboating. Perceived laziness gets player benched regardless of how good they are. Yes there are fights, but they are oriented towards defending smaller teammates (i.e. the enforcer), not just because someone couldn't control their temper.
A few years back a handful of owners told their team they had to wear "pride" jerseys during warm-ups on a specific night. There were a some high-profile holdouts who refused citing their Christianity. Then the NHL player's union told the league they would not stand for this, the players could not be ordered to violate their religious beliefs. The Commissioner put a temporary hold on any more events pending a review of league policy. During the off-season the league issued a new policy that prohibited any jerseys for non-hockey related "causes".
This was back during the peak of homosexual pride hysteria yet the league still put a stop to it, likely due to player union pressure. Don't get me wrong, the league isn't perfect or an paragon of Christian morality. But it's the only one that hasn't become infected with really dark personal gratification and money worshipping tendencies.
I just wish I understood hockey. I get football, basketball and baseball. I love sports, but hockey has eluded me. I’m going to start watching more of it.
You have to attend a game in person to really understand the nuance that can't be seen on TV. Such as players jumping on and off the ice, stuff going on behind the puck, and the player interactions. Almost none of this is seen on TV as it's focused on puck movement.
Despite that TV coverage is really good now and if you start watching you'll pick it up. When I first started watching it was before HDTV and it was really hard to follow the puck. It's much better now and the replay technology is excellent.
If you do want to attend a game consider an AHL game if there's a club near you. The AHL is the NHL's top-level farm system and the hockey quality is surprisingly good. There's also lots of college hockey in the Northeast and Midwest, as the NCAA is taking a much bigger role in player development (for better or worse we'll see). Best of all, ticket prices are really affordable unlike many NHL teams these days.
There was an AHL team in a town near where I grew up. We would go watch them on occasion. It was so much fun.
I'd rather watch the globetrotters. Apparently there is a baseball league getting attention with similar showmanship called the Savannah Bananas.
I got my son their jersey and he gets so much attention from it; on airplane, in elevators, etc. The Bananas are really popular.
They have. UFL. XFL. Heck, the AFL used to be an alternative league to the NFL until they merged when Joe Namath and the Jets beat the Colts. I remember when it was formed
Coming from a Big 10 state, many universities, including prominent Catholic uni., there was always sports frenzy. Lived 3 doors down from the football coach.
It held zero interest. Sports nuts would actually roof their home with giant team icons in a fan.
Am thinking the zero interest may have been turning away from the corruption.
Fans loved to gather and imbibe. Holidaze were gatherings they lived for.
excellent and spot on commentary- and sad.
Oh my! He’s a nightmare imo! Scary AF
Ewwwww…..he looks like a Big Toe……….
... with nail fungus.
😂😂😂and carbuncles on each side…
Silver looks like a Claus Schwab relative. His actions are not far off that either!
Yikes!
You tried to warn us about the picture - still, it was shocking. Brother of James Carrville? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4273249/posts
For the sake of argument, lets suppose Silver is the most brilliant basketball executive in the world. Even so, you would think someone would say, "We can't put this guy out there as the face of the NBA as he looks like the spawn of Satan. Put him behind the scenes and we'll have someone a bit less evil-looking and repulsive act as commissioner".
Nope, they willingly and apparently enthusiastically (as he's been commissioner 11 years) put him there as public face of the NBA. That tells me they want the league to look demonic. That's why they also promote players that represent everything that is wrong with modern culture, and is directly contrary to Christianity.
(Plus of coarse if Silver put on some weight, didn't shave his head, and wore contacts he'd be a bit more normal looking. He's never going to be a male model but he doesn't have to look physically repulsive. It's a choice.)
So is it just a marketing gimmick, or is the league actually demonic? Ten years ago I would have thought the former. I've seen enough over the past decade that now I think differently.
He does look like he came from an inbred family.
Oh my word, my head actually recoiled! Your description is spot-on!
Totally agree. Used to be a huge NBA fan.
I agree with everything except the tattooed gangster types. The current NBA is actually starting to have more players with 2 parents, both mom and dad.
Is he some kind of alien? He doesn't look like he has ever handled a basketball. Totally creepy. Ugh!
My reply to Stephen A Smith is: shouldn’t someone like the President care about the corruption in sports?
Online betting and gambling has killed college football and basketball. NCAA allowing transfer portals and NIL monies rot these sports. The schools with the biggest pockets will rule. Players will come and go. Coaches will be fired three games in. It’s a mess and anyone paying attention saw it coming.
Pete Rose was banned from baseball and the BHOF for betting. Now a betting fan site carries many MLB, NHL, and NBA games for a subscription fee.
And why should it even be a part of the conversation that Trump is going to get back at those who harmed him! That had no part in the conversation. What has happened is illegal and those who perpetrated these acts should be held accountable. Right is right!!!!!
And “no one is above the law” 😉
Yep! So the libs have been shouting from the rooftops for 8 years!!!
They only like it when it doesn’t apply to *them* though!
And if they’re doing illegal activities… That clip of Steve A. Smith bothered me. I didn’t like or agree with what he appeared to be insinuating which sounded to me like he thinks all these people are innocent but Trump will go after them purely for revenge. Baloney! If all your actions are above board then you’ll have no issues. The fear tactics bother me, probably because it’s the same old tired trope trotted out during COVID, and that some irrational legal immigrants say about fearing that they’re going to be snatched off the streets and deported. Ridiculous.
I was very disappointed in what Smith said, and I agree with your take on it. I guess Smith chalks it up to the good old boys betting club and he thinks Trump should leave it alone. The high-tech cheating they were doing is off the charts. I heard one person say everyone at a table would have been in on the con, except the one person they were going to fleece.
Wow- quite sad!
I think the FBI is a little bit involved & paybacks are hell - at least I hope so…
The NCAA killed college athletics. Had they, while raking in Billions, worked out an equitable compensation plan for the athletes that risk their health and well being while at the same time they generated billions for the NCAA we wouldn’t have the financial Wild West that is now college sports.
Very funny moving Barbary around like that.
I believe Stephen A Smith is a conservative who backs the president, I think he was giving ‘pro sports’ a warning to clean up their act or the government will get more involved.
Steven A was back tracking this morning. Got lots of blow-back.
Good! He should have gotten blowback, Carol.
Who gave him pushback?
I read that he was thinking of running for President and not as a Republican. He just giving the Dems what he thinks is a much deserved tongue lashing.
Sure didn’t sound like it in that clip, Karen.
I know, I took it as a warning to sports people. Didn’t think he was slamming Trump. 🤷♀️
I hope you’re correct and I misinterpreted it. Generally I like some of the things he says, and I know Bill O’Reilly respects him which does carry a bit of weight with me.
Plus he plays a suave mafia thug on General Hospital, cameo appearance these days, so he’d know all about the mafia 😉🤪🤣😉😆😁
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
I don't know if ya'll remember but it was the NBA and Nike who were the first companies to play along with the hysteria of the "pandemic" and they closed up shop to let the American people know this was serious. I'm pretty sure they were cc'd in on Fauci's scamdemic which was the biggest power grab play the world has probably ever seen.
The NBA is controlled by Nike. Nike is controlled by China.
Draw your own conclusions. Myself, I lost interest after Larry and Magic retired.
Nike cancel Jonathan Irving's shoe contract because he was a Christian who wouldn't kneel or get jabbed. Started his own shoe line, now very successful. Remember Nike is an Oregon (Portland?) company
Not that this is even news but guess who pays zero taxes? Nike sucks. We haven’t bought or worn anything with a Nike logo on it since before 2020. 🤮 When I see friends wearing Nike crap I have to hold my tongue or it will slice and dice them. I know someone who works there too.
I haven't worn Nike's in ~35 years
Same. I refuse to support them any longer, Sunnydaze.
I get it and hate Nike too but unfortunately their soccer cleats are the ones that fit my son the best 😕
And that’s why I hold my tongue. You never know why someone wears a certain brand. I get it. I still dislike them. I’m from Oregon and seeing the Nike campus is like its own world. Their employees get great perks too. They can lavish employees but it’s the OTHER smaller businesses that are paying the taxes. I’m sure other businesses would love to have money to do better for their employees but they’re too busy paying taxes to do it. Anyway. Just my observation.
I think you are referring to Jonathan Issac, rolandttg, of Orland Magic.
I placed info on him somewhere amongst the hundreds of replies today.
Happy to see someone else up to speed!
Actually, the NCAA basketball season was just entering March Madness. It was all canceled, just like that. That’s when I knew something was horribly wrong.
A “horribly wrong” fake Scamdemic that was a DOD Psy Op!
Yep. And my Louisville Cardinals were one of the best teams that year.
My Michigan State Spartans coached by the best man in the sport, Tom Izzo, had a really good shot that year. Mr March had it humming and then nothing.
It was so disappointing.
All Sports Franchises like the NBA, the NFL, MBA, PGA, Tennis on down are “morally bankrupt”. And have been for many,many years. Look at the amount of people who still watch this ‘sports crap’ on TV, 24/7 365?
If it’s on the TEE VEE they are watching it! And the majority of these ‘sports fans’ are likely the ones that fell in line during the Scamdemic, followed ‘orders’, stayed home ‘watching sports’, and then flocked like sheep to get the EUA mRNA ‘covid vaxxines
Also, a lot of cheating in the horse races. They drug all the horses with HCTZ. Cheating.
Greed is the storehouse for every other vice.
If you have 160 million dollars, how much more do you need? It’s worth the risk of illegal gambling??!!
That's the nature of greed. It's never enough. They don't know what enough is.
Maybe it’s the thrill of doing something illegal and getting away with it. Or just sheer hubris.
My guess would be that these celebrity sports figures have serious problems with gambling and probably up to their ears in debt to you know “hoose” and the only way they can pay off their gambling debts is being shills.
Rothschilds. Rockefellers. Morgans, etc. it's never enough. At some time, it becomes a you know what measuring contest with their peers, where money= power.
It doesn't seem to affect corrupt elected politicians.
not to mention going completely woke -
Sadly I know some people who love Lebron James and I can’t stand him. I hope he’s one who is arrested prosecuted and never able to play basketball again.
The NBA is so easy to fix. Remember a few years ago a referee was busted for throwing games with calls that would affect the scores and/or winners. I watch March Madness. I haven't watched the NBA in years.
Good luck with March Madness with the transfer portals and NIL money. This year the NCAA is allowing early exit college players, playing in the pro’s G league to come back and play college basketball. Now that they’re being paid.
That is so disappointing. I’m a Duke Graduate (only Grad school, not undergraduate and long ago, before all of this garbage was going on or at least before we were aware of it) and I love March Madness… (yes, I’m aware and disgusted by the Duke compliance with the trans crap, hopefully they get their heads out of their asses soon) but now I have to wonder if I even want to watch this coming spring March Madness. UGH!!!! Why can’t people just be decent!!!!!?????
Seems like that whole NIL stuff messed things up in the world of college sports which I used to enjoy watching on occasion, LMWC.
Yep. My UL Cardinals just got one of those G-league players. Schools have been doing the same with international players for years.
Yeah, the guy, Doneghy, I think was his name, was the scapegoat. The illegal activity permeated the officiating ranks, Doneghy’s cell phone records confirmed it. But the NBA, in concert with their corporate media stooges, clamped down on the real story.
All professional sports are mind-numbing ponderous events that drain valuable time from your life. The only reason any of them are popular is because of sports betting or fantasy leagues which also involve betting. I guess if you have nothing to do, it can consume your days and make them seem like you are busy.
Professional sports, especially the NFL, are the opiate of the masses. Modern day Roman gladiator games. I remember some decades ago the players went on strike in an election year. When fall approached, I told anyone who would lesson TPTB would not allow the strike to continue and let people focus on politics. I was right.
I went to an NFL game several years ago as a guest of a company that I did business with.
As we walked among the throngs of fans going into the massive stadium I couldn’t help but think that this was the modern day version of the Roman coliseum. In my mind I even conjured up a Mel Brooks version with yoga clad souvenir vendors hawking autographed drawings of famous gladiators.
This vision was clinched as I glanced up at the owner’s box high above me. There sat the team’s owner on a luxurious, elevated leather “throne” gazing down on the assembled spectators cheering on his team of modern day gladiators. I thought to myself that we as a society have crossed the rubicon.
Exactly. The circus of the bread and circuses quote, rolandttg.
I don't watch sports to bet. I don't gamble except a lottery ticket now and then. I am busy, I own my own business and work 6 days a week. I watch particular games to take a break. Entertainment is important.
Agree, not saying everyone has to like sports but they can be fun to watch sometimes. I do think it’s ridiculous how much money is wrapped up in them but the same goes for movies/TV and a lot of types of music. I think sometimes the lower levels of sports (high school for example) and lesser known musicians or local theater can be just as fun to see though.
Yeah, I get it. I like to read and watch movies(good ones) so we all have something to provide a break from the daily routines. I guess with sports, to me, it seems really pointless and not entertaining watching people for hours moving a ball of some sort around a playing area but to each his own.
I philosophically agree with this comment. I have a hubby who feels that unless he “keeps up” with the latest baseball, SEC football, etc, then he doesn’t have anything to talk to his “manly” friends about. They don’t bet at all, just text each other through endless games. I won’t complain that he would rather do this than talk to me about politics or world events…. He says that those topics are a waste of time…sigh.
It's true. Most people run like a scalded cat if anything meaningful or controversial is discussed, You can see how the cabal knows this and makes sure the masses have their idiotic distractions. Don't like sports? There is always the Khardasians. or some other satanic entertainment minions adore
Yep…”bread and circuses” for the masses. Also correct: satanic!
It's funny how much energy people put into rooting for their city's team when the team has nothing to do with that city. It's just a bunch of paid professionals hired from many locales that the owner of that particular franchise had the money to buy. They are really cheering for a particular corporate franchise and the CEO's choice of hirees. Like defending your town's McDonald's over the next town's.
Truth! Now do the China-owned NFL...
"END RACISM"!!!
What a pathetic load of bullcrap... and the vile racist joggers are not paying attention.
Joggers and jews... the most racist, parasitic, dishonest people on earth. Yes, muslims come in third.
I grew up in Portland and the blazers were a big deal, and still are. I became disillusioned early on and haven’t followed them much after Bill Walton retired.
Trailblazers, the only major game in town. No other sport can gain traction, and now few people want to venture downtown.
S.P.H. the Portland Timbers soccer team is gathering a following.
The NBA is not about the sport of basketball anymore. If it was, the game officials would enforce the rules of the game. Legalized sport gambling is destroying sports.
I stopped watching professional sports about 3, maybe 4 years ago. Al of them. I stopped watching the NBA ~30 years ago. They have long led the pack in most overpaid ill behaved undeserving athletes.
I prefer the lesser known sports or lower non professional levels partly because the egos aren’t as bad.
I’m “betting” they arrested the guys most likely to snitch out others
More dominoes will fall
High probability similar scandals brewing in NFL and MLB. Why would NBA be the only one? Athletes are dumb and mouthy - they have been bragging about their get-rich-easy-money scheme amongst their circles
I’m here for it. And I used to love sports
Thank you for being the first to comment on the article. Other think retirement banter is more important. As you point out the NBA is another criminal cartel. The truth is that it has not been different in decades. Sloppy criminals do not believe a day of reckoning would find them.
The human child trafficing issue is actually much worse.
Everyday more arrests. Organized criminals taking advantage of children.
A culture that promotes this is beyond help.
All Sports Franchises like the NBA, the NFL, MBA, PGA, Tennis on down are “morally bankrupt”. And have been for many,many years. Look at the amount of people who still watch this ‘sports crap’ on TV, 24/7 365?
If it’s on the TEE VEE they are watching it! And the majority of these ‘sports fans’ are likely the ones that fell in line during the Scamdemic, followed ‘orders’, stayed home ‘watching sports’, and then flocked like sheep to get the EUA mRNA ‘covid vaxxines’. 🤔🙄
All televised sports are suspect to fixings and I rate them about the same as the Olympics. Not what they appear to be....
I always liked to play them, not watch unless its your kid. Watching tv sports is such a bore.
What's with all the black grifters showing up in the news lately? Letitia, Fani, some woman charged with using $11 million NGO find to buy houses and a Mercedes, Karmelo Anthony's parents, ALL the BLM people, these basketball people. . .
The culture only values possessions, doesn't matter how they get them. You see it ALL OVER Africa
"It’s a big deal. The FBI reported recording 3,000+ calls with its confidential informants. The cash was cleverly laundered through cryptocurrencies, and Patel said tens of millions in total fraud were involved."
Now do the same thing with Congress members and the forever war funding that's basically just fraud. Start with Ukraine.
AGREE
Or the Federal Reserve System.
Indeed... but I wonder of making the Treasury Dept take over all the Fed's functions would be any better?
States might do better to take control.
Imagine, though, if CA had control of that. It would all go poof.
Great idea... though the corrupt Gov would go bananas... maybe another Civil war??
I sure wish the Confederacy had won the last one! Old Abe was not the hero most think he was, eh?
Same thing but with real blood being shed.
J Boss… 100% agree… 🎯
Next... de-fund the mass-murdering, land stealing scum of Israel.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all those who do His commandments;
His praise endures forever.
— Psalm 111:10 NAS95
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"There is an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger groups. To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints, which control their behavior as individuals within the group."
The Road to Serfdom
F.A. Hayek 1944
So eloquently said! Such an accurate reflection of our reality. But reminds me of what I was told as a child, “Misery and sin loves company. Choose your company carefully.” -Grandma
Even more important when choosing leaders and public policy.
Also “if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”
That’s a really good book
We need to be aware of manipulation.
Happy Glorious Friday from behind enemy lines in Commiefornia. I LOVE when Trump gets to smack down Newscum! TAW!
Amen! I love when I can use C&C snippets to post snark on Newsom’s X posts. Happy Friday from San Diego!
"At ease, soldier." Enjoy the news and the nice weather.
My X feed got set to "for you" instead of "following" when starting up the app on my cell phone yesterday. The first one was Governor Newsom saying that Trump was Literally Destroying the White House! (regarding building the ballroom).
Thankfully, the comments were brutal.
https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1980811529395270122
The White House has needed an appropriate venue for entertaining when large groups gather - Kings, Presidents, Prime Ministers, etc plus their entourages. The tent was too far away from the WH, exposed to weather getting there & still too small! It also had NO BATHROOM - ports potty’s were used!!!
Criticism is ridiculous!!!
Me too fellow Ca~in~ian—
Another Californian here on the front lines fighting the communists in my city.
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There is so much going on. Trolls everywhere in full force. I am a bit overwhelmed by the amount if misinformation. Jeff & some commenters help keep me on an even keel. Thanks all.
The evil desperation is palpable and we’re not even close to the end of it. Smell the rot and don’t lose our focus. I smell it everywhere too. Fight Fight Fight!!! 🙏
The demons are very active in response to the resurgence of faith and the very public declarations of the gospel. Evil hates that and flails against it. Far too many people are useful tools for evil.
Well said.
Agreed and my thanks as well!
The disinformation is relatively easy to see now, thanks to C&C training. Misinformation is a lot trickier. The misinformed may be eloquent and sincere in the way it is presented. Perhaps it may help a little to note when no source is provided.
“One team executive told NBC, “It’s a nightmare for the league.” Professional Wrestling fans know what they’re getting. But credulous NBA fans assume the games are fair and not manipulated.” —- I posted this quote from George Orwell the other day:
““Football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
— George Orwell, 1984
This quote is coming into realization now. This was the worse thing to happen as it’s only increasing the time and attention spent on sports.
Now it has dire consequences”
Hence a reason for us to evaluate our relationship with sports: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/7-reasons-you-should-stop-watching
Play sports, read about them, even bet on them, but don't waste time watching them. Life is too short, like Greg Gutfeld!
Play sports, then go get a job that helps the world keep turning. No professional sports. Or if there is - stop paying them insane amounts of money!! Pay them what the average worker makes. Then see how many will want to play and work out and stay in shape. Then you can charge $20 a ticket and $1 for a bottle of water! Go back to those days when they played for the love of the game and not the love of money. And for crap sake stop this insane portal of paying college players. Whoever made that decision was pure evil.
Alfred, Macy janitor: Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same - don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck. From Miracle on 34th Street.
Love this! Put sports in its place! Sooo mic time is spent — especially on the weekends on them. But yes, play them!
Even college football has been ruined, IMHO, by the NIL bullcrap and the transfer portal.
It's a nightmare now. I follow only one team, my alma mater, SJSU.
Mine is SDSU... San Diego State...
Both of our teams are a bit stinky.
I did learn how to roll a decent doobie tho!
Cal State U system! An old girlfriend graduated LBSU. We met in Italy. Lotta good times with her in Europe and Long Beach.
Yep, if nothing else, us Cal State guys knew/know how to part-ay!
Panem et circenses
You guys are always making me look up stuff
It’s killing college basketball and football.
Excuse me, I know nothing about TV sports. So this is the half-time that will have that bunny guy performing? You'd think they'd be more cautious about their audience then to diss them by presenting that guy. I mean, it seems that it was a really unpopular choice.
(The War Against Dishwashers That Actually Work was debated, but never formally declared.)
Where and how does he come up with these hilarious things?!
That one cracked me up! I remember when I had to replace my old one. Boy, what a disappointment. I would also like to say a war on crockpots. The new ones stink and they do not last.
This. They overcook all the time and dry everything out
Made in China: unrestricted warfare on family dinners.
Yup. You pet what you gay for.
Wow, I just realized he wasn't talking about people. LOL - I haven't had any coffee yet and it's showing!
You know what? That's exactly what I first thought also! So, you're not alone!
😂😂😂
Yeah the government won that one. My dishwasher gets nothing clean unless I pre brush everything off the dishes. And it’s an expensive Electrolux. Quiet for sure. But worthless
Once the greenies gained control of the rule makers when it came to water consumption, it became impossible to clean anything. Including my corpulent body. I detest low flow shower heads, and toilets that need three flushes to clean out the bowl.
Mechanical or human dishwashers?
Blown away. Praises to our Heavenly FATHER for fulfilling HIS promises of exposing things done in the dark to the light which is truth. I thank You GOD for your blessings and Your mercies
Especially the baby story. That’s disgusting and wicked and pure evil
She had the correct nickname —pure evil!! 😡
I'm so thankful that we have a President who has big brass cahonies, which he uses to speak plainly and act boldly. Yet some still say Trump is owned by others. I think not.
Plain-speak is very welcome from our gubmint officials.
Although I do with they would DOGE the military.
But that ain't happenin.
DOGE Congress. And election fraud.
Seems Trump has shut most of DOGE down... it was a great idea and Elon was kicking ass...
So why hamstring it??? (Hint: Corruption)
Except when it comes to releasing the Epstein, 911 and JFK files, shutting down Israel's mass-slaughter in Gaza... investigating and prosecuting the massive Biden family corruption... and ending the Ukraine conflict by halting ALL support to that gang of corrupt filth...
Trump (and Cabinet) now serves his Master, Netanyahu... America comes a distant 2nd.
Read The Committee of 300 by Coleman. No president is in charge.
I’m just shaking me head here - Stephen Smith’s warning that “He’s coming” infers Trump and his FBI are somehow not legitimately rooting out criminality because that’s the right thing to do, these people are GUILTY and it needs to stop…No, instead it’s all just about vengeance, blah blah blah. His reaction is so detached from reality it makes my head hurt.
exactly. i felt same way
I'm sorry, but that is NOT Stephen A. Smith. It does not look like him, sound like him, or act like him. Body double .
I can't stand him. He is the most racist sports commentator out there. I will never forget when R.G.Griffin entered the league, and Smith nastily opined "I don't know if he is a brother down for the cause". That was not the same man.
Can't believe no one has posted or noted the last blip from "Nancy Pelosi". That was no more her than Jessica Simpson. Body doubles seem to be everywhere these days.
It was him. He was back tracking his statements this morning.
"“La Diabla” (the devil), who in assembly-line fashion lured pregnant Mexican women, murdered them, harvested their organs, took the babies via c-section, and sold the infants on the international baby market"
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Keep your eyes on the ball...
It’s important that people understand exactly what level of evil we’re dealing with. The cartels aren’t just a bunch of run of the mill goons running drugs.
There are principalities behind this sort of thing.
I was literally sick to my stomach after reading this. Sick, evil demons
I never used to take that idea literally. But after the last few years I’ve never been more sure of anything.
"The Times has no self-respect. I bet when it was little and played hide-and-go-seek, the other kids wouldn’t even go looking for it." 🥹
The Times was probably never invited to the other kids' birthday parties either. That would explain why it's such a maladjusted rag with no social skills.
And it wasn’t picked for the kickball team or invited to prom.
Well that was me but I DO NOT in any way identify or sympathize with these people!!
The truth in this is that the Times staff is made up of the very people no one has ever wanted to socialize with, eg David French, every single badly groomed reporter and the unbearably pompous yet dishonest editors. No they were never invited to the parties, birthday parties, proms, etc.
Most Trump haters I know are busy ranting about him building a ballroom. And his ball room joke. That's more unconstitutional to them than Trump's cartel remarks.
No kidding. They are stuck there. WWIII could break out but they would still be moaning about the destruction of the "historic" East Wing corridor and how it endangers the Republic.
Never heard of it before tbh.
It's going to be a great addition to the White House.
Glad to have a President who takes pride in office.
I wonder if they aren't afraid the masonic cornerstone will be found and replaced.
There's just something over-the-top about their reactions.
It's really bizarre how much energy they are directing at this remodel. I think part of it is they know it will be beautiful and a lasting legacy from the president they despise. So they have to scream angrily about it and whip their followers up into yet more demonstrations of hatred against him. I'm surprised there haven't been lawsuits filed.
A lawsuit to stop construction was filed by a Virginia couple yesterday. Of course Politico covered it like the second coming. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/east-wing-white-house-demolition-00620974
Good point. Albert Pike statue was torn down by Antifa. Maybe this will house the new statue.
Looks like they me re erect the Pike Statue.
Albert Pike had promised his Masonic allies in Europe that they would have three world wars to consolidate the world power of the Canaanites. We have now seen two of those world wars, and, as promised, the first world war was to set up a Communist regime, the second world war was to raise it to the status of a world power, and the third world war is planned to destroy both Communism and Christianity in a great orgy of annihilation. This coming war is intended to be the final death knell of the people of Shem; after its conclusion the Canaanites will reign unchallenged throughout the world."
Eustace Mullins
The Curse of Canaan
Or the tunnels?
It goes along with their theme of "everything President Trump does is unprecedented, and in a bad way!"
It's very easy for an honest person to look up similar incidences during other administrations, and realize that the thing, once again, is in no way unprecedented, and that their howling is just part of the outrage machine.
True
About Pfizer?
And genocide?
““Operation Nothing But Net” — 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thats really what they called it
So. The culprit of the day is the NBA. Does any rational person think it stops there? The NFL, MLB, NHL. Any organized sport that has betting on them is susceptible to this. Blatantly bad NFL calls that are allowed to pass? Poor calls by MLB umpires? Try to convince me otherwise. The best part of this story? Trump is coming for you. TAW.
I can’t help but wonder if that’s how Pritzker won his 1.5M at blackjack. He’s definitely connected to the mob. And after he JUST sheepishly admitted to the gambling winnings, he has been coming after Trump this week in the most heinous way to try to incite others to want him dead. A desperate man who believes he won’t be caught but is guilty and sees the investigation going on. How do you stop the locomotive? Get all the towns people to believe it’s carrying Armageddon and needs to be derailed to save their children, and they will all pile on to stop it.
He’s the biggest liar I have ever witnessed in my life, showing every sign of someone who lies incessantly but truly thinks his performance is believable.
Right off hand, I can't think of a better way to launder money than playing in a high stakes poker game that you know will be thrown to you.
Probably it's more lucrative than Hunter's crackhead "art" pieces.
Good point!
That's really sad about Darren Bailey's son, wife and 2 grandkids.
Pritzker's cousin is one behind the transgender movement and getting gender clinics to open. That family is evil. That's why I will not stay at a Hyatt hotel.
Agreed.
I would add that professional sports foments a primitive artificial world aimed at turbocharging celebrity worship, alongside a grotesque squandering of attention and resources. Insiders carry an extreme, cumulative karmic burden.
The FBI press release was about rigged poker games using athletes and coach as a draw to play, not about fixing games. Dontcha think that’ll be next?
Oh, that was only part of it, Doc. Rozier is accused of arranging beforehand to underplay his talent to throw the odds towards those who bet on such nonsense. Hundreds of thousands of dollars involved in just one game. Lots of people screwed.
Each crime has its own press release. They DO cover the fixing of games:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/current-and-former-national-basketball-association-players-and-four-other-individuals
I wonder how people who are betting on these teams feel about the cheating and throwing of games.