The whole witch hunt, burn them at the stake mentality that is being misdirected at NFL football players when we have war criminals and banking looters roaming free and living the good life bothers me, as does the whole politically-correct reverse McCarthyism meant to squash free speech that is being pushed by the propaganda pre$$.
Now I find it is THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY in the whole world!
"Goodell apologizes, says he won’t resign" by Ben Volin | Globe Staff September 19, 2014
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell broke his silence Friday, taking responsibility for mishandling allegations against former Ravens running back Ray Rice, vowing to change the league’s investigative approach, and announcing initiatives on domestic violence education and awareness....
Don't get me wrong, I'm not excusing violence in any form. This is an antiwar blog, after all; however, this has the smell of am propaganda campaign to basically neuter all men and give them a scarlet letter for mere accusations. It carries the stench of the feminist campaign in the 1990s where they were wearing shirts saying "potential rape victim" and were encouraged to falsely accuse men to give them and education. Has the Duke lacrosse case been so quickly forgotten?
Again, this is not to excuse or condone violence against women -- or anyone! You just have to understand what agenda the dividing and distorting prism of the propaganda pre$$ is promoting at a given time. You need to contextualize the focus of their choices.
Why would this lying mouthpiece of the 1% looters be now making such a fuss about an issue that has been ignored for decades, forcing it down our throat through football?
However, Goodell’s hourlong press conference didn’t quell calls for him to resign.
Former Patriot Tedy Bruschi, one of several current and former players to criticize Goodell, said on ESPN, “Roger Goodell needs to step down and move on.’’
NOW president Terry O'Neill repeated that she believed Goodell should go.
‘‘NFL commissioner Roger Goodell today did nothing to increase confidence in his ability to lead the NFL out of its morass,’’ O'Neill said in a statement. ‘‘What Mr. Goodell doesn’t seem to understand is that he should be aiming to make fundamental changes in the organization.’’
Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who has voiced support for Goodell, declined a request for comment Friday.
The NFL lost a corporate sponsor Friday when Procter & Gamble canceled an initiative between its brand Crest and the NFL during the league’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign next month.
Also see: PepsiCo boss decries NFL problems, backs Goodell
Rice was initially suspended two games by Goodell in July, but was promptly cut by the Ravens and suspended indefinitely shortly after the full video’s release Sept. 8.
Goodell has said he had not seen the full video until TMZ posted it. However, the Associated Press reported last week that a law enforcement official says he sent the video to a league executive five months ago.
Who phonied up all that WMD and Al-CIA-Duh "evidence" against Iraq?
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The NFL has had several high-profile domestic violence incidents over the past several months, in addition to Rice. The Minnesota Vikings placed star running back Adrian Peterson on paid leave this week after he was indicted for allegedly causing injury to his 4-year-old son. The Carolina Panthers also placed star pass rusher Greg Hardy on paid leave this week while he appeals a guilty conviction for a domestic violence incident with his girlfriend. The San Francisco 49ers have allowed defensive tackle Ray McDonald to keep playing while authorities decide whether to charge him with domestic violence stemming from an arrest three weeks ago. And Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer was arrested for alleged domestic violence Wednesday and won’t play this weekend.
“These incidents demonstrate that we can use the NFL to help create change not only in our league, but in society with respect to domestic violence and sexual assault,” Goodell said. “We will reexamine, enhance, and improve all of our current programs — and then we’ll do more.
I say BAN FOOTBALL! THAT is the change we NEED! It leads to domestic violence and a militari$tic mind$et.
“Our standards, and the consequences of falling short, must be clear, consistent, and current. They must be implemented through procedures that are fair and transparent.”
Goodell also authorized the NFL last week to launch a full investigation into the handling of the Rice case by the league office, to be led by former FBI director Robert Mueller. Goodell promised Mueller “full cooperation and access.”
Mueller had been on the job about two weeks when 9/11 hit and has been in on the cover-up ever since.
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But, in his press conference, Goodell still left many questions unanswered....
I didn't ask.
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And then the cheers went silent (like me):
"Obama announces campaign to prevent campus sexual assaults" by Michael D. Shear and Elena Schneider | New York Times September 20, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama has tried to use the power of his office to combat sexual assaults on college campuses. On Friday, he got some help.
In a speech from the East Room, the president announced “It’s on Us,” a nationwide public service campaign aimed at urging young people to do more to prevent campus sexual assaults. Obama called for a “fundamental shift in our culture” in the way women are treated and in the response to victims of sexual assault.
Where are the next airstrikes? Those women not important?
“From sports leagues to pop culture to politics, our society does not sufficiently value women,” Obama said. “We still don’t condemn sexual assault as loudly as we should.”
Speak for yourself, sphincter!
Besides, I'm not the one that has set the agenda or objectified them in the ma$$ media.
At the event, the administration debuted a 30-second video, which features celebrities including the actors Kerry Washington and Jon Hamm, the musician Questlove, and the NBA star Kevin Love.
Officials said the celebrities involved would know how to get through to the millennial generation.
Just wait a few minutes for them to get their heads out of their phone.
Love, who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Olivia Munn, an actress in “The Newsroom,” an HBO series, attended the announcement.
Obama also put a heavy emphasis on engaging men in the conversation.
“It is not just on parents of young women to caution them; it is on the parents of young men to teach them respect for women,” Obama said. “It is on grown men to set an example and be clear about what it means to be a man.”
While Obama did not specifically mention the recent problems the NFL has had with domestic violence, he did acknowledge recent incidents.
“We’ve been working on campus sexual assault for several years, but the issue of violence against women is now in the news every day,” Obama said. “We’re getting a better picture of what domestic violence is all about. People are talking about it. Victims are realizing they’re not alone.”
The campaign’s name, “It’s on Us,” is intended to send the message that everyone should feel a responsibility to confront the problem of sexual assault.
But confront the rape of the economy by Wall Street and the selling out of student futures through student loan debt (federal government making profits of those loans, too!) and get your skulls bashed in as they clear the park or common. Confront the war machine or the servility towards Israel by this government and you are some sort of outlander.
I'm so sick of this disassembling, mass-murdering war criminal who has done nothing but enable the elite by preaching his spew. Just shut up, "sir."
Obama’s White House has been aggressively seeking to fight the growing number of sexual assaults at the nation’s colleges. In April, after a series of highly publicized rapes on college campuses, the administration released guidelines aimed at pressuring universities to do more.
A task force created by the White House has been advertising with a “1is2many” campaign intended to drive home the message that sexual assaults will always be a problem on college campuses. The task force had urged colleges to do surveys to document the extent of the problem on campuses.
Why does this government want to literally get into your pants? Isn't the filching of your wallet enough?
And in May, the Department of Education released the names of 55 colleges and universities that are being investigated for their handling of sex assault complaints. The release of the information was intended as another pressure tactic.
The president also introduced an “It’s on Us” logo on Friday, Electronic Arts, a popular video-game maker, has pledged to include the logo in many of its games. There is also a website: itsonus.org.
Sorry, I have a headache and am not in the mood (never am after reading a Globe).
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I don't know how I would feel about a hug given all the elite ties to pedophile sex rings and other things.
Do we really know what is in the package (odd a certain person dying because of medical mistakes), and are the under-covered stories of our times possibly more evil than one can imagine?
"Calls grow for judge in domestic violence case to resign" by Alan Blinder and Campbell Robertson | New York Times September 19, 2014
ATLANTA — The message from a furious public to the National Football League over the past few weeks has been clear: Charges of domestic violence should have serious consequences.
But in a sign that the outrage has expanded, a US judge in Alabama faced abrupt and potent pressure to resign Thursday after he was charged with striking his wife last month at a luxury hotel here.
Although District Judge Mark E. Fuller of the Middle District of Alabama was arrested and charged with battery in early August, it was only this week that several of his state’s top political figures demanded that he leave the bench.
I'll raise you. Lynch the f***er. Better yet, castrate him and use his balls for stew.
Anything you can do I can do better, anything you can do....
Representative Terri Sewell, the sole Democrat representing Alabama in Congress, drew a connection between Fuller’s future and the storm over domestic violence in the NFL. “If an NFL player can lose his job because of domestic violence,” she said, “then a federal judge should definitely not be allowed to keep his lifetime appointment to the federal bench.”
What if she charges at you with a knife?
More critically, Fuller, an appointee of President George W. Bush and a frequent target of Democratic ire, has also received harsh criticism from Republican members of Alabama’s congressional delegation, including the state’s two senators, who both called for him to resign.
There you go. That guy put firecrackers in frog's butts to blow them up, and then signed off on torture.
Senator Richard C. Shelby said Wednesday that the judge had “lost the confidence of his colleagues and the people of the state of Alabama,” and Senator Jeff Sessions, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Fuller’s “unacceptable personal conduct violates the trust that has been placed in him.”
Earlier in the week, Representative Martha Roby, a Republican whose father is a senior judge on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which includes Alabama, raised the possibility that Fuller could be vulnerable to impeachment.
Notice how all that talk and all the Obama scandals has died down since ISIS rose up?
The reaction was a remarkable display of how accusations of domestic violence are being viewed with new urgency.
Aaaah, urgency! Code word for a big agenda push, whatever it be. This simply to start the gender wars in preparation for Hitlery?
“The judge is brought down to the level of football players,” said Arthur D. Hellman, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in judicial ethics. “You don’t normally see people talking about those two occupations in the same paragraph.”
On the evening of Aug. 9, the judge’s wife, Kelli Fuller, dialed 911 from a Ritz-Carlton to report he had assaulted her during a dispute about her suspicions that he was engaged in an extramarital relationship with a law clerk. An Atlanta police officer wrote in an incident report that Kelli Fuller had “visible lacerations to her mouth and forehead” when she opened the door of her hotel room, which the officer said smelled of alcohol.
That there has to be banned, too. It leads to so many destructive things, and if it is good enough for the demon weed that heals it is good enough for bad booze.
“Mrs. Fuller stated when she confronted him about their issues, he pulled her hair and threw her to the ground and kicked her,” the report said. “Mrs. Fuller also stated she was dragged around the room and Mr. Fuller hit her in the mouth several times.”
Fuller, in his own interview with the police, said he had reacted defensively after his wife hurled a glass toward him while he watched CNN.
The police reported that Fuller’s stepson said the episode was similar to past confrontations. Fuller has entered a pretrial diversion program that requires counseling and could lead to an expungement of the misdemeanor charge.
“This incident has been very embarrassing to me, my family, friends, and the court,” Fuller said in a statement. “I deeply regret this incident and look forward to working to resolve these difficulties with my family, where they should be resolved.”
Within days, the appeals court decided Fuller would not be assigned new cases while his case was pending.
Fuller’s is not an obscure name in legal circles, the judge having come under criticism for his handling of the trial and sentencing of former governor Don Siegelman of Alabama in 2006.
Got slammed down during Attorneygate (remember that?).
Siegelman, a Democrat, was convicted on seven counts, including bribery and mail fraud, in a case that many saw as politically motivated. That history could be adding to the uproar Fuller faces.
“People who have called for his resignation for years based on Siegelman can now join with politicians of the judge’s own political party,” said G. Douglas Jones, a former US attorney in Birmingham. “It empowers a number of people to speak out.”
The judges reviewing the case, legal specialists said, will be tasked with applying federal judicial conduct guidelines that allow for sanctions when behavior outside of the courthouse could have “a prejudicial effect on the administration of the business of the courts.”
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Just being an Alabama man!
Don't forget your bag!
