WASHINGTON REDSKINS NAME CONTROVERSY

Ok, I am really getting tired of the whining about the name of the Washing NFL club.  The Redskins are a proud team with a very respectful name of which they are very respectful  So, let me add another example of the stupidity of brain dead Harry Reid and the concern about the naming of the Washington Football team the REDSKINS.

This was sent to me by someone who is sane enough to see through the garbage, but I added my own observation at the end. be sure to read through completely.

Incorrect Team Names

I agree with our Native American population. I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward.

Let's ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians.

If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns.

The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to the white folk.

The New York Yankees offend the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young men’s lives.

I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.

Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates! Don't forget the Oklahoma Sooners.

Now, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children. The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. Wrong message to our children.

The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic. Wrong message to our children.

The Cincinnati Reds promote downers/barbiturates. Wrong message to our children.

The Milwaukee Brewers---well that goes without saying. Wrong message to our children.

So, there you go. We need to support any legislation that comes out to rectify this travesty, because the government will likely become involved with this issue, as they should. Just the kind of thing the do-nothing congress loves.

With all of this in mind, it might also make some sense to change the name of the Oregon State women's athletic team to something other than "the Beavers.”

My observation: If anyone really wants to go in the direction of correcting politically sensitive names which are considered derogatory towards Native Americans, forget about the Oklahoma Sooners team name, eliminate the name of the state itself.for it, by the definition of the politically correct progressive name police, is more "racist" than the term Redskins and it is condoned by the Federal Government as well as brain dead Harry. Funny how we never hear brain dead Harry state that he will neither vist or pass through Oklahoma until they change their name. Funny how we don't hear from a group of Native Americans from upstate NY screaming about how offended they are by the name of one of our 50 states. Where is the class action lawsuit to change the name of Oklahoma? Where is the television commercial during a championship sporting event discussing the atrocity speaking the name of our 46th state? You see, Oklahoma is the Choctaw (a Native American tribe, in case you didn't know) word for "Red People", ie...Okla = people and humma = red, so if the politically correct progressive name police are going to get all bent over and claim racism in the name of a sports team, perhaps first they should sue the Federal government to change  the name of our 46th state.

ObamaCare and the Lies by which it Passed

On Friday November 8, President Obama was speaking in Miami Florida at a Democratic fundraiser when he began another of his tirades against the TEA Party labeling them as “a small faction” and telling Democrats in attendance (it was a democratic fundraiser) that Republicans will have a price to pay for defying the American populace. He ramped it up by saying that the small faction, the TEA Party, “will not act on the basic interests of the American people”.  

Here something to consider – Due to the PPACA (ObamaCare), approximately 5 million people will lose their health insurance by spring of next year. When the large company and union enrollment begins as the year delay expires next October, another 12+ million working Americans will lose their insurance. All of these Americans will find themselves having to obtain more costly insurance as a result of a law passed by a very small faction of strictly partisan legislators and only after manipulation of their own rules. These legislators passed ObamaCare without reading it while making the incredible claim that they “had to pass it so we can read it to find out what is in it”.  Now we have read the bill and now we, the majority of Americans are seeing the truth. REGARDLESS of whether Americans like their plan or their doctor and even if the plan hasn't changed they are losing their insurance and are being forced into the ObamaCare collectives at higher cost and lower quality.

Is this acting on the basic interest of the majority of the American People?

I have been saying since 2009 when I actually read the entire PPACA , the ACT was not intended to help those who are unable to obtain insurance, it is designed to destroy the health insurance market in favor of another big government designed program like Medicaid. Any fool who can add will see that the numbers don't add up.  And you have to be really stupid to think that a government program as large as this would run smoothly without cost overruns. Lest we forget, at the time the bill was up for vote, the administration claimed that it would not cost a dime in added taxation and that the cost of insurance for the average family would decrease by $2500 per year.

President Obama sold the PPACA on the basis that it would help the “small faction” of Americans who needed protection because they were unable to obtain Health Care.  He continually misstated that they, the 30+ million uninsured Americans were unable to obtain HEALTH CARE.  This is just not true.  Everyone in America who gets sick or injured has access to very high quality HEALTH CARE, regardless of their ability to pay and it is just about the best quality care available in the world.

What this “small faction” lacks is access to health INSURANCE and while serious, it is a completely different issue. President Obama sold the concept of health CARE for everyone through the PPACA by stating over and over to the vast majority of Americans who have health insurance, “If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.  PERIOD. Nobody is going to take it away”  “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, no one is going to change this”.  He and his small faction of ideological zealots repeated this continually to the American people.  Just like he repeated continually that the mandate was not a tax.  He even continued claiming the ObamaCare mandated penalty was not a tax after the SCOTUS found that it is, in fact a tax on the American tax payer.

So much for truth from the office of the Chief Executive and so much for acting for the will of the majority.  When President Obama repeatedly made the statement that "If you like your insurance you can keep it, PERIOD, he was lying.  When he claimed that "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, no one is going to change this", he was lying again.  Last week he claimed he was sorry that people may have lost their insurance based on what he said. Considering that he had to know that large numbers of people would lose their insurance, why would he actually be sorry when it happened? Logically, many will say he lied yet again.

Even worse, he was lying not by omission, but willfully and knowingly to achieve his agenda, no matter the ultimate cost to the American people.  He lied because he knew that if he told the truth, upwards of 19 million people would lose their current insurance plans as a direct result of the "ACT" and American voters, even union member supporters and rank and file democrats would not stand for it.  He knew that if he told the truth, the "ACT" would never pass.

In an attempt to deceive yet again, he now deflects blame onto the TEA Party and excoriates them as small but vocal factions who are willing to thwart the "basic interests of the majority of Americans".  Funny thing is, President Obama and the extremely partisan Democrat Legislators, a small faction of Americans elected to represent all American citizens, paid no heed to the constituency they were elected to serve and passed the bill against the wishes of the majority by manipulating the senate rules to achieve their goal.

This is not to say the TEA Party Patriots are blameless. They were not willing to consider what the other side was saying in their zeal to have their voices heard.  They didn't listen to a common sense approach to regulating the Health Insurance industry and they didn't bother to differentiate between the progressives replacing the word INSURANCE for CARE.  No one is entitled to Health Care, but a case can be made that everyone should be entitled to access affordable Health Insurance. Had the TEA Party activists listened, they may have been able to limit the damage of the PPACA legislation to controls on the Health Insurance industry.  Had they listened, Americans might not be experiencing the fiasco of the government monstrosity which is ObamaCare. This is only speculation because the stacked house Obama experienced in 2008 through 2010 allowed him to push through any laws he wanted and the Democratic majority legislature rapturously fell right in line with his request.

Yet, the worst action taken by the TEA Party activists was shutting down the government in an attempt to defund ObamaCare.  The reason is because ObamaCare will fall on its own as the majority of Americans actually experience what is in it.  Had the TEA Party legislators focused where they should, on budget issues, If the house stood firm with the budget they passed, forcing the Senate to act or be the cause of the shutdown, if the house held Obama to a dollar cut for every dollar of increased revenue (ie...the debt limit increase) the American people would see who is truly putting the screws to them and it sure as hell isn't the TEA Party Patriots. Had Cruz and the House TEA Party contingent not forced the issue, had they played the cards they drew rather than going “all in” too early, it would be Democrats jumping ship and demanding that ObamaCare be modified or abolished and Obama's ability to vilify would be minimized.

So, let’s not fret about who is or isn’t truly the “small faction” or to what degree the President lied. Let’s accept the facts and show the president that the majority of Americans have the basic interests of America in their hearts and minds.  It is time for the majority -- true blue American Patriots -- to stand up and rally the support of your friends and neighbors to show President Obama and Harry Reid that we are NOT a small minority. We are the majority common sense voice of America and we will be heard.