Our Congress is going to repeat the their abdication of their oath's of office. Just as they passed the Healthcare Bill without reading it, they now are going to allow an agreement that was fashioned in a manner designed to give Iran an express lane to both nuclear weapons AND ICBMs while also releasing Billions of Dollars to help Iran fund terrorism around the world.
The Administration continues to claim how tough this agreement is. Really? Even they acknowledge that they have not read ANY print, much less fine print, of the side agreements that the IAEA and Iran have signed and which are incorporated by reference into the multi-party agreement now being considered by Congress. So, if Congress were really doing its job, it would refuse to even consider the matter as the entire agreement has NOT been submitted to Congress and the Administration admits that neither they or anyone on the negotiating team have seen these "secret" agreements.
No sane person would ever sign an agreement that did not state in writing ALL the conditions. Would you sign a car loan that didn't say what constituted being late on a payment? If you were told you had 30 days, but suddenly two days after it was due and while your payment was en-route they repossessed your car, would you be happy? But it would be your own fault for not insisting that ALL the terms were there for you to read and understand. But this is what Congress is doing, however, and they are being pushed by our Administration, which is saying, in effect, "Trust me...and them!"
Viewing Iran's behavior over the last 35 years, there is no basis for any degree of trust. And this agreement has nothing in it that can be verified as requiring timely effective inspections. So it is toothless and ineffective until or unless provisions to the contrary are shown in writing.
Yet our duly elected representatives are going to drink the Kool-aide; they will fail to over-ride the President's veto of their probably disapproval of this farce of an agreement. And Iran has already stated, through their leader, that Israel will not exist within 25 years. That is NOT an empty threat. And with the ICBM development that this "agreement" allows, America will also be in range.
When the mushroom cloud does occur, a proper memorial should give credit to every administration member and elected member of Congress who did not vote to stop this farce.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Monday, August 31, 2015
"Deflate-Gate" Idiocy
Our President has established...or perhaps I do him a disservice and he simply reflects...an attitude in the country where no one is ever responsible or suffers consequences for anything. The NFL for some reason never had officials in total control of Game Balls. Seems like an oversight to me. And not a particularly egregious one, but an error nonetheless.
But that error was discovered last year in a manner that threatened to bring mirth and derision down on the league for failing to oversee one of the most critical tools of the game...the ball. What to do? What to do! For some inane reason, "Our Bad! We'll fix it!" did not come to their collective minds. Instead, they focused on how to blame someone...anyone...else. Who could they possibly put on the hot seat that already had erred in the past (ala the guy who already has a record so everyone will certainly believe that he transgressed again)...Hello, New England Patriots.
The League made a bunch of assumptions (always a really bad beginning for any action): 1) that the "under pressure" was deliberate; 2) that the staff of the New England Patriots reduced the pressure; and 3) that Brady both knew and condoned it. Of course, there is no proof of any this.
If you inflate balls indoors, with warm air, and then take them outside into winter or late fall weather, the air pressure goes down. That is why we have to re-inflate our auto tires in the late fall and winter. If the balls were inflated indoors to the lower legal limit called for in the rules, as soon as they were taken out to the field, that pressure would drop. No rules were broken. The League didn't have any provision requiring or even suggesting that the officials check ball pressure prior to or during a game. Is that New England's fault? I have no recollection of anyone proving that any ball-boy or anyone else on the Patriot's staff did anything with the ball pressure. Did any confess? If so, I missed that headline.
Finally, I have 5 friends who played Quarterback at various levels, up to and including top University teams. All of them say that they could not tell pressure in a ball: a ball they liked in cold weather sometimes turned out to have higher air pressure than another that they did not like.
As a side note, some point out that Brady "destroyed" his phone when he got a new one. Well, he had given the league the emails that he thought had anything to do with the matter before, and he was fully aware of how easy it is to get data off any electronic device even when you think you have erased it, so his decision to completely destroy his phone after he had gotten a new one seem like good common sense to me...and I am not a star subject to a desire of many to know the most insignificant details of my life. He did a smart thing.
So...this action by the National Football League is not about Justice, ...or Punishment...as much as it is about their desire to save face and direct attention away from their failure to supervise game balls properly to someone or something else...and it was the New England Patriots turn to be in the barrel.
But that error was discovered last year in a manner that threatened to bring mirth and derision down on the league for failing to oversee one of the most critical tools of the game...the ball. What to do? What to do! For some inane reason, "Our Bad! We'll fix it!" did not come to their collective minds. Instead, they focused on how to blame someone...anyone...else. Who could they possibly put on the hot seat that already had erred in the past (ala the guy who already has a record so everyone will certainly believe that he transgressed again)...Hello, New England Patriots.
The League made a bunch of assumptions (always a really bad beginning for any action): 1) that the "under pressure" was deliberate; 2) that the staff of the New England Patriots reduced the pressure; and 3) that Brady both knew and condoned it. Of course, there is no proof of any this.
If you inflate balls indoors, with warm air, and then take them outside into winter or late fall weather, the air pressure goes down. That is why we have to re-inflate our auto tires in the late fall and winter. If the balls were inflated indoors to the lower legal limit called for in the rules, as soon as they were taken out to the field, that pressure would drop. No rules were broken. The League didn't have any provision requiring or even suggesting that the officials check ball pressure prior to or during a game. Is that New England's fault? I have no recollection of anyone proving that any ball-boy or anyone else on the Patriot's staff did anything with the ball pressure. Did any confess? If so, I missed that headline.
Finally, I have 5 friends who played Quarterback at various levels, up to and including top University teams. All of them say that they could not tell pressure in a ball: a ball they liked in cold weather sometimes turned out to have higher air pressure than another that they did not like.
As a side note, some point out that Brady "destroyed" his phone when he got a new one. Well, he had given the league the emails that he thought had anything to do with the matter before, and he was fully aware of how easy it is to get data off any electronic device even when you think you have erased it, so his decision to completely destroy his phone after he had gotten a new one seem like good common sense to me...and I am not a star subject to a desire of many to know the most insignificant details of my life. He did a smart thing.
So...this action by the National Football League is not about Justice, ...or Punishment...as much as it is about their desire to save face and direct attention away from their failure to supervise game balls properly to someone or something else...and it was the New England Patriots turn to be in the barrel.
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