If NFL Teams Had Integrity, They Team Would Take Kaep's Latest Offer

 When Aaron Rodgers went down, Colin Kaepernick notified the Jets he would be willing to join their practice squad.

  Get that? He didn't say, Bring me in to immediately replace Rogers, just give me a chance to prove myself on the practice squad. This guy believes in himself. He knows what he can do even if all the league's teams are blackballing him.

Kaepernick is a good enough talent that every team in the league should be jumping to add him to their practice squads. If not, they are sending a clear message that they are unwilling to treat him fairly.

Bring Prime Time Namath in to Sack Wilson

 

Let Joe Namath coach the New York Jets. He's pretty upset with quarterback Zach Wilson, who went down untouched for a sack in the Jets' 15-10 loss to the New England Patriots.

"You sit down?" Namath asked. "You sit down on a play? You go right down? What happened? I hought you're trying to win and make plays. You quit on a play? What is going on? It's disgusting."

Namath suggested coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas should be fired. "These guys aren't picking the right players. They aren't doing a good job of coaching. . . . They need to fix it and that's getting rid of a lot of people and bringing new ones in."

Sounds like the way Deion Sanders went about fixing things at the University of Colorado. So, make Joe Namath the Deion Sanders of the New York Jets.

Here's guessing he wouldn't do well. The game has gone ahead of the 80-year-old Namath. Still, it would be fun to watch. New York City is the most prime-time city in America, and imagine the excitement that would be generated by bringing in a coach who would be just as fiery as Prime Time Sanders. 

Just How Do We Define 'Border Crisis'?

 The border crisis, is it a security crisis or a humanitarian crisis? Is it a crisis because we do not have enough immigration facilities and immigration courts to handle the number of people coming,or is it a crisis because we refuse to create enough immigration facilities and courts to handle the influx?

Is it a crisis because we don't have a good and length-of-the-border wall to prevent them from coming, or because we do have so many walls that it makes it difficult for them to come preventing?

Is it a crisis because we don't want these people and they are getting in, anyway, or is it a crisis because, while we want them, our policies hamper them from integrating into the U.S. timely and efficiently?

I know which side of the aisle most people are on. I know they say, if you don't have a border, you don't have a country. My reply is that if you don't allow freedom-seekers refuge in what is suppose to be a land of refuge, you are not the country our forefathers created.

The Hospital Bed Goes Completely Unnoticed

 

The hospital bed. Of all the world's issues and crises, it goes unnoticed, untouched. How many millions of patients enter our nursing centers only to be slapped into beds lacking adequate comfort? Worse, how many millions of the develop bed sores, sores that they take to their deaths? 

This is not a time to be cutting corners, saving a buck. Care centers should feel obligated to buy the best and most comfortable beds on the market for their patients.

'Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy'? How So?

 PragerU would tell you fossil fuels are wonderful, that they clean our water and lead us in the fight to overcome climate change. "Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Source of Energy." That's the title of one of their videos.

First off, a warning: PragerU has received much of its funding from the Wilks brothers (Dan and Farris), who made a lot of their money in the fracking business. There is a little conflict of interest in a company that has received so much money from the fossil fuel industry to be telling us that it is clean.

But, let's just listen to the video, and judge if it is correct. Let the video stand on its own. 

"Here's a graph you've probably never seen," says the PragerU host, as he unveils a graph showing the correlation of fossil fuel use and access to clean water. The graph takes us from 1990 to 2010, and shows that as the per person use of fossil fuels went up, so did access to clean water. "More fossil fuels, more clean water," says the narrator. 

Of course, he could just as easily made a graph showing that as fossil fuel use has increased, so has the world's population, and concluded that fossil fuel use is driving up the population. Correlation does not mean causation. Access to clean water is likely increasing because we are doing things to make it cleaner.

Or, he could have drawn up a graph showing that as we have used more fossil fuels, so has the percentage of the global population with clean sanitation also increased. Whoops, actually he did try that one. "More fossil fuels, better sanitation," he said. Somehow, it eludes him that the two might not be connected even though they are both increasing. Couldn't it be that we have greater sanitation because we are following better sanitation practices? Somehow, it seems those sanitation practices are going to factor in a lot greater than whether we have upped our use of fossil fuels.

"Okay, what about air quality?" he asks. "Here's a graph of the air quality trends in the United States." And, up goes a graph showing the downward trend of emissions in the U.S. from 1970 to 2010, "even as we used more fossil fuels than ever."  

I find that at odds with a statement from the Environmental Protection Agency: "Since 1970, CO2 emissions have increased by about 90%, with emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributing about 78% of the total greenhouse gas emissions increase from 1970 to 2011"

"Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy"? How so?

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If You Want Work in a Lawyer's Office, Hone Your Green Skills

 You realize, of course, that every college student should be taught how they can help their profession become greener. Colleges haven't shifted that direction, but they need to.

I'm serious, here. Companies are starting to hire those who can help them become greener. It seems that since we need to rid ourselves of 50 percent of our carbon emissions by 2030 and shed all of them by 2050, that means every company will need to drain carbon emissions from what they are doing. Therefore, the employee who can help them reach that goal becomes more valuable.

One LinkedIn report found that the number of job listings requiring at least one green-related skill increased 22.4 percent from 2022 to 2023. I guess we should hop down to the nearest Job Service and see if we find any such postings.

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If Paul Revere Were Alive Today, and Spanking His Horse to it's Fastest, Would He Say, 'Climate Change is Coming! Climate Change is Coming!"

"The British are coming! The British are coming!" he yelled. But this time, nobody was listening. "Okay," he said, "it's not the British, but it is climate change, and we should be mounting our horses to fight it."

He scurried and found a large, 8,500-page book. Opening it and pointing his finger at a spot on one page, he read to them. "Global surface temperature has increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2000 years."

They gave him a look of annoyance and waved him off. 

"Hey, he said. "it says right here that we are not meeting the Paris Agreement goal of cutting emissions. You know that don't you?"

"Well, there's your problem right there," they said. "That Paris Agreement is nothing but communist junk. Those guys are tied in with the United Nations, and you can't trust the United Nations. They just want to control the world, and dumb crumbs like you listen to them. 'The sky is falling! the sky is falling!' Yeah, right."

"No, I didn't say that. I said the British are coming! The British are coming!" he said. "And I only said that because this is serious, just like that was. Back in that day, they heeded warnings. But, I have to  wonder if today, they would just greet Paul Revere with, 'Yeah, right."

And, so it is, warnings don't mean what they used to.

Back in Paul Revere's day, they didn't have communists. Good thing, because if they did, he would have been accused of being a communist.

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