YES!! YES!! YES!! I feel exactly as you do. "Adopt their strategies - not the LOW CLASS ATTACKS!!" I always think - Are these demonstrations funded? Is that why we always seem to be defending a position which should be praised rather than protested? Is it that liberal professors in the colleges are proselytizing our young adults. Are we paying thousands for our children to be taught and influenced by strangers who values, morals and ethics are far removed from our own?

A 2016 study confirms what even the most casual observer of higher education has long known — that conservative professors are vastly outnumbered by liberal ones — but it also shows that the problem is getting worse. Published in Econ Journal Watch, the study looks at faculty voter registration at 40 leading universities and finds that, out of 7,243 professors, Democrats outnumber Republicans 3,623 to 314, or by a ratio of 11 1/2 to 1.

The study comes after a tumultuous few years at American colleges and universities, marked by campus race protests and the disinvitation of conservative speakers.
How edifying!!! Students are even denied the opportunity of hearing opposing points of view - another partisan prejudice which should be remedied. There was a time when politics were not such a hot button issue, as it is now, and when professors' occupation was to instruct - not indoctrinate.

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Thank you so much for your kindness, vettelover. When you mentioned the left "taking PERMANENT control over the masses,"I got somewhat anxious, but you posted all I wanted to say in your next sentence. BRAVO!!! Yes, we must never give up. It's difficult to bring others to your point of view when the competition promises free this and free that while we are the ones expected to pay for it.

The Obamacare architect, Jonathan Gruber deceived the American people by "torturing" (his word) Obamacare to such an extent that the costs of Obamacare were concealed. As a tribute to this fraud, Obama was presented with the "Lie Of The Year" award for the "You can keep your doctor and insurance" hoax. And where are all those folks who were supposed to get a windfall of $2,500 from Obamacare?

There is also a you tube video in which you could actually hear Gruber accuse Americans of being "stupid" with his own lips. "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber said. "And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."

This MIT brain trust could certainly use more discipline. What government official would call the American people "STUPID" while he's being videotaped? Did he really think he'd get away with that? Or did he think at all?

These guys consider themselves so intellectually superior, they don't know the first thing about COMMON SENSE.
What government official would call the American people "STUPID" while he's being videotaped? Did he really think he'd get away with that? No wonder Pelosi urged Obamacare's passage "before you know what's in it!" Political correctness - just a euphemism for lying - even when it came to Obama's call for "transparency."

Which goes to prove vettelover, how right you are!! "The left believes they should run the world and anyone who does not submit to them must be exterminated."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adrdmmh7bMo

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Thanks Bevos. Looks like there is someone out there who gets as riled up as I do when it comes to contempt toward America. My husband was a very patriotic sailor and I loved him with all my heart. The only things I can do for him now, for he passed five years ago, is honor and protect, as much as I can, what was of importance to him. My avatar is part of that - he served aboard the Hazelwood, during the Cuban missile crisis. He was so proud of his service - almost as proud as I was, and will always be, proud of him. My grandparents also instilled in me my devotion to America. they were immigrants from Italy and literally kissed the ground when they were accepted here. Their devotion was such that our beautiful flag flew for every national holiday.

So what has happened to us Bevos? What happened to our citizens post 9/11/01? It was inspirational to see flags flying everywhere, even from cars, with no hatred, no bias toward race or religion, and nothing but gratitude toward the police, firefighters, and first responders. All those courageous souls who entered those burning buildings TO HELP while the rest of us ran as fast as we could AWAY FROM that cloud of smoke, dust, and incinerated bodies. Both of my sons worked in N.Y. - my youngest, a mere block away from the WTC. He was chased by that ominous cloud and, though he returned to me, (Thank God), he was never the same. He said he would never forget the sound of the planes as they hit the towers, nor would he ever forget the sound of the people who, in desperation, jumped from the buildings.

So how did we get from that populace, UNITED in one cause, to this division in which we have become so angry with each other? When I consider what changed us, what brought us from American allegiance to alienation, I remember the words and actions of a man who expressed his disdain for our country and who mentioned, in word and deed, his fealty to an ideology contrary to ours!!! It was Obama, who spent TWENTY YEARS in a church whose Rev. spewed "God Damn America"; Obama who proclaimed: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction;" and who launched the fund raising for his Presidential campaign in the home of Bill Ayers, a leader of the Weatherman underground terrorism organization, who posed for the front page of Chicago Magazine STOMPING ON THE AMERICAN FLAG. Ayers and his comrades bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and a Police Station, and then Ayers had the temerity to remark that he was sorry he COULDN'T DO MORE!! It was Obama who APOLOGIZED for America in foreign lands, in front of foreign leaders; who BOWED before foreign leaders; who stood with his hands clasped by his crotch while the National Anthem was being played, yet declared the MUSLIM call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on earth." Obama recited it to me, with a "first rate (Arabic) accent" said Nicholas Kristof, during an interview which was published in the New York Times. The translation of the call to prayer:

"Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme. I witness that there is NO GOD BUT ALLAH." (How's that for a professed Christian?)

"There have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." (April, 2009 - Strasbourg - in front of 2000 French and Germans)

"I also believe that all too often our government made decisions based on FEAR rather than foresight; that all too often our government TRIMMED FACTS AND EVIDENCE to fit ideological predispositions." (May 21, 2009 - Remarks by Obama on National Security)

Think about that last, vile Obama quote. Is there one other Head of State that would define their country as cowardly, corrupt and culpable? It's SHAMEFUL!!

Is there any wonder that the Pledge of Allegiance to America and her National Anthem has been so degraded and why we have to fight to restore it. How about some PRO-American protests for a change? If we can't walk in a protest demonstration, how about bombarding our representatives with correspondence demanding respect for our iconic symbols? We shouldn't just complain. Let Trump know that using the First Amendment to allow desecration of the flag and disrespect of our pledge and National Anthem is ludicrous, even illegal. Referring to the Rees Lloyd ~ Oct 2, 2017 ~ News With Views - article which Don Dinsdale posted may just be what is needed. Trump's sincere allegiance may be our last chance.
https://newswithviews.com/american-legion-vfw-oppose-nfl-protests-not-a-free-speech-right/

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CRAP? Got some news for you, bud!! There's a whole lot of us in this country who don't consider the flag or the anthem as "worn out" - including thousands of our military who fight under that beautiful American banner you call "crap." You know who I mean - those guys and gals who put their lives on the line so we (AND YOU) have the freedom we enjoy - and all those other courageous veterans who lost their lives in past years. A generation taught to disrespect their country would also question their responsibility to defend it. Think about that!!!

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Access the following - We have plenty of hope!! They'll still have to go some to divide us!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAXHr0qccvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJ22St2YZY
(as Challenger flies)

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Every time I see those you tube videos that show our soldiers, black and white, surprising their families with their early returns from deployment, I feel proud of every one of them. Don't forget, they are part of a volunteer military!! Whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve, at one point in their lives they wrote a blank check made payable to the U.S.A. for an amount of "up to and including their lives." That is honor!! That is selflessnesse!! That is allegiance!! They make these sacrifices under the banner and auspices of our beautiful flag and the stirring strains of our National Anthem.

Yet, instead of showing our gratitude to these courageous men and women, there are some among us who selfishly live under the protection and the prerogative to protest that they provide. Instead of kneeling down to pray for the health and safety of these brave Americans, they choose instead, to spit in their faces.

When I read about the "suspicious" plays of the Oakland Raiders toward their own QB, Derek Carr, I admit I was surprised, but not shocked. Here are multi-millionaires protesting the tenets of the country that made it possible for them to become multi-millionaires, but are disloyal and disrespectful of her iconic symbols. It stands to reason that this lack of loyalty would even extend into their locker rooms. How proud of themselves they must be!! What betrayal!! They probably didn't even care if Carr would have been seriously injured. Their objective was to "get the guy" who didn't agree with them. Now, just think about that!! One guy vs. his own team!! What cowards!!!

I repeat - there are black men and women also fighting for our country. Where is the respect for them - or does the vile hatred and racism of the ingrates outweigh all common decency, loyalty, or patriotism?!!

In consideration of his past comments, I do believe that oldsailor meant his remark sarcastically. I also believe that to surrender again to Liberal Lunacy is absurd. Every time we yield to these suggestions that are antithetical to everything we stand for (or SHOULD stand for) we lose our moral compass. We have succumbed so often to what has been euphemistically called "political correctness" that our country's values and ethics, allegiance and patriotism, has been skewed. It's amazing - after decades of beating women, rapes, illegal drug use, gambling, and dog fighting, all of sudden the NFL is interested in social justice. Tebow kneels to pray and the media criticizes him for expressing his beliefs on the field - Kaepernick kneels during the National Anthem to express his beliefs and is praised by the same media. THE HYPOCRISY IS SHAMELESS!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAMkOG8Dzg

They're never Right about anything anyway!! (LOL) (Grace)

You did it again, Don!! Another amazing, intelligent, AUTHENTICATED post. BRAVO!! We OPP posters are so fortunate to have you on this site!!!

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Poor little snowflake. I would have thought that after, eight years of Obama and Hillary, nothing would shock you!!

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If it was Russian collusion, then Hillary was a cohort. I have posted this 2014 video several times. It is proof positive that this excuse for a mother, let alone a former Sec. of State, ADMITTED that she knew of Russia's expertise in hacking - "in a nanosecond" - and that she was mandated to remove the batteries from her Blackberry, computers, phones, etc., BEFORE SHE LEFT THE PLANE, WHEN SHE TRAVELED THERE (AND TO CHINA AS WELL). What that proves is, despite the sanctions, she went home to her personal, UNSECURED, server and continued to transfer Classified and Top Secret intel. It also serves to question Comey's declaration that Hillary should not be indicted because there was no "INTENT." How the heck could there be NO INTENT when she ADMITTED that Russia was so adept at hacking that she had to remove the batteries from her mobile devices - IN 2014 - and still continued using an unsecured server!!!!

There were over 100 Hillary emails discovered which contained serious covert information. God only knows (or maybe Assange) how many more in that mountain of over 33,000 deleted, BleachBit emails, which also exposed confidential, National Security communiques. (Strange, isn't it, that they can find an audio of Trump from 10 years ago, in which he made an inappropriate comment, WHILE HE WAS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, but 33,000 emails of a Sec. of State are rendered UNAVAILABLE?) Hillary is a greedy, callous, corrupt, criminal who should never be granted a position in U.S. politics - never, ever again!!! She should be placed in a BASKET OF INDICTABLES along with her other LIBERAL LOONS!!

And BTW, when it comes to Russian collusion, it is also odd that the other video I have posted here shows Obama talking to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev , with an oh-so-friendly pat on the hand, that he would have "More Flexibility" after his 2012 election. Medvedev said he would relay the message to incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin. Now, if that doesn't smack of EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION, I don't know what does!!!


https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hillary-clinton-blackberry-russia-china/2016/03/18/id/719769/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8DbSRQE

How right you are, Radiance - But then, you always are!! I actually can't see any redeeming quality in Hillary at all - no kindness, compassion, empathy, or truthfulness. I just recently came across the story about her defense of a rapist of a 12 year old girl. I read that she actually interrogated the girl, asking her: "You really wanted it, didn't you!!" Wow! Can't get much lower than that!!

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Don - You always amaze me with the information you are able to glean.

As I have mentioned before, I have never in my life hated anyone. That emotion is abhorrent to me - but Hillary is the exception I have allowed myself. She bears a special, malevolent kind of evil. She is cruel, and heartless. Her perniciousness was so blatantly evident in her treatment of the brave American representatives she abandoned in Benghazi while they awaited reinforcements, WHICH NEVER CAME; her disdain of the veterans she callously spurned as they died awaiting care, which was inexcusably delayed - at times, EVEN BEYOND RECOVERY; and also because, though her obligations of office was to ensure and protect the lives of our heroes, she was "extremely careless," exposing Top Secret and Classified information to hacking and, in so doing, compromising National Security and FURTHER JEOPARDIZING THE LIVES OF OUR FINE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN AS THEY FIGHT FOR US, far from home and family.

Is there any heart more generous, any soul more honorable, any love greater than theirs - "that they lay down their lives for their friends?"

I will never understand how a mother can be so apathetic toward those who risk life and limb for their safety and the safety of their loved ones. She had the capability to, at the very least, offer them support and comfort. Every time I watch our soldiers on you tube, returning home, I wish I could give them a big hug and a sincere welcome. It's no wonder to me that Hillary is described as cold, foul-mouthed, greedy, and hostile. Whether you're president, or wealthy beyond reason, all the money and position in the world won't make you happy - not unless you learn what it's like to care for others more than yourself. It's actually quite rewarding - in a non-financial kind of way.

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Absolutely inspiring!!! What an amazing post. If you composed it ldsuttonjr - BRAVO!!! If you copied it from another source - CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I'm so tired of all the demands and disloyalty coming from those who don't know the meaning of appreciation - for the advantages of the beauty, shelter, food, protection, education, and medical aid, but also the freedom and liberty we are provided by our country and her military. It is disgusting!!!

We were warned by the last Administration that they would "fundamentally transform America." Well, they certainly managed that, didn't they? After 9/11 we were united, cared for each other, regardless of race or religion. Now look at us!!! Why did we allow these ingrates to take our country and turn it into a hate fest.

Where are OUR protests? Why aren't we holding pickets screaming our allegiance to America. What are we waiting for? - Our silence is deafening. Of course, we don't have the audiences of the celebrities, the stadiums filled with sports fans, the paid-for rabble-rousers, the politicians who don't want to upset their "base." It's commendable to do things legally, but it's not very vociferous. We just can't be hushed any more. It's gone beyond that. I'm not advocating violence, but I am supporting some NOISE. How about having a PATRIOT PARADE, an allegiance march for our soldiers and veterans, with flags flying and some nationalistic hymns and marches playing, i.e. National Anthem, the Stars and Stripes Forever, God Bless America, America The Beautiful, God Bless The USA. Maybe some requests by our politicians may be helpful.

And we can't forget President Trump!! Sure, he has his detractors - but he was never directly responsible for the deaths of Americans (like Hillary); nor did he apologize to misogynistic, anti-American countries; criticize our country while on foreign lands; bow down toa Muslim Prince; refuse to wear a flag pin; cup his hands at his crotch while the National Anthem played; call an American Police Force "stupid" before he had all the details; launched his first presidential campaign in the home of a self-described leader of a Communist revolutionary group, the Weather Underground - Bill Ayers, a terrorist who bombed a Police Station, the Capitol, and the Pentagon, stomped on our flag, and was pictured doing it on the cover of "Chicago" Magazine; and then filled his White House with men who practiced the same ideology as the 9/11 terrorists.

The-Blame-Trump-For-Everything Group is becoming an absolute embarrassment. How dumb can they get? That's like hoping the pilot crashes the plane that we're all on. Whether we agree with everything he does, or not, he is still the President and when you consider what we COULD HAVE ELECTED, we should be thankful we are "deplorable" and not "snowflakes."

God Bless America!! God Bless Us All!!

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Hillary is the same woman whose husband praised her ability to "stand her ground" through 11 hours of testimony from the Benghazi Committee. Bill remarked: "I doubt if anyone else could do that for 11 hours." Wow!! How Inspiring!! How faithful he is to his wife!! YEAH! SURE!! - But how about the four Brave Americans who also stood their ground, through mortar fire and rockets, anticipating relief which DID NOT COME, for MORE THAN 11 HOURS!! Sadly, those four heroes are no longer alive for comment.

The casket ceremony, when our best and bravest return home, is extremely solemn: Here are the traditions you are likely to see at a military grave site service held at a national cemetery:

The flag-draped casket arrives at the cemetery by hearse or horse-drawn caisson.

A six-man honor guard carries the casket to the grave site.

The chaplain or pastor (if applicable) reads a committal service.

The honor guard lifts and holds the American flag taut over the casket.

The seven-person firing party fires three volleys. A spent shell may be picked up and later tucked into the folded memorial flag.

A bugler sounds “Taps.”

The honor guard ceremonially folds the American flag.

The highest ranking officer presents the folded flag to the family with a brief statement of gratitude and a salute.

Whether at a national cemetery or at a private service, each member of the honor guard has a specific role and has practiced for these occasions. They carry out every detail of the ceremony with cadence and precision. Salutes are offered in slow motion, honoring the sacrifice of a life given in service.

Why am I posting this heart-rending list of traditional customs at a Military Casket Ceremony? HERE'S WHY!! The sister of Glen Doherty a former Navy SEAL who was working for the CIA's Global Response staff in Libya on Sept. 11, was in the capital of Tripoli when the call for help came from the diplomatic mission in Benghazi -- a "consulate" in name only. AT THE CASKET CEREMONY, Kate Quigley - Glen's sister - was urged, by Hillary, to "feel sorry" for the Libyan people, because they weren't educated properly. Can you believe anyone could be that callous?!! Would you be able to look at the photos of those courageous young men, know you're
responsible for their deaths, and yet have the temerity to tell a sister to forgive the barbarians who massacred her brother - while he is LAYING IN A COFFIN IN FRONT OF HER?!! WHAT KIND OF MOTHER DOES THAT? Wait!! I think it just came to me!!

“Please, tell the world what she’s really like,” Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith, said after Hillary aggressively denied on-air that she had said what the victims' parents say she said in a private conversation with them. Ms.Smith claimed that Hillary had told her the attack was “the fault of the video,” referring to a low-budget, American-made film called 'Innocence of Muslims,' which was said to have gravely inflamed tensions around the time of the Benghazi attack.

As Ms. Smith told the Republican National Convention, “When I saw Hillary Clinton at Sean’s coffin ceremony she looked me squarely in the eye and told me a video was responsible.” Hillary denies this. In fact, she questioned Smith’s mental capacity. Hillary's soulless response??: “I don’t hold any ill feeling for someone who, in that moment, may not fully recall everything that was or wasn’t said.” WOW!! How compassionate of her!!!

Charles Woods, the father of former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods — who was also slaughtered by al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists at Benghazi — appeared with a calendar that he carried on the day he met Clinton. “I keep this little book, and I’ve shown this to the public many times. What I have written down here, this is verbatim what was written down soon after she spoke it. Here it is: “I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand, and she said we are going to have the FILM MAKER arrested who was responsible for the death of my son.”

Of course, it's not so easy to call a former judge mentally incapacitated as she did Ms. Smith. Judge Woods had remained silent UNTIL Hillary called the families of the victims LIARS!!! Then the retired judge's family integrity and his son's legacy was challenged, so he felt he had no choice but to respond. The father, who carried a calendar in which he placed daily notations, had written, verbatim, Hillary's words to him at the casket ceremony. He was ready to take a lie detector test, together with Hillary, if she agreed, using the same operator, and at the same time, to expose who really WAS a LIAR!! Guess what? She didn't go for it!! Can you believe that? Sure you can!!!

In typical Hillary fashion, she bewailed the money being spent on these investigations. Of course, she could have ended the whole debate about her veracity with a simple lie detector test!! CURIOUS, THOUGH? WHY DIDN'T SHE??!!!


http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/01/22/kate-quigley-benghazi-victim-glen-dohertys-sister-shocked-bill-clintons-comments

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/18/mother_of_benghazi_attack_victim_i_blame_hillary_clinton_personally_for_the_death_of_my_son.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmzNYCwi8AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUObFqU5cgE