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Shot: Team USA Hockey Coach Warns Players What Will Happen if They Sit for National Anthem

The coach of Team USA for the upcoming World Cup of hockey is standing by his vow to bench players who refuse to stand for the national anthem. Coach John Tortorella told ESPN Tuesday, “If any of my players sit on the bench for the national anthem, they will sit there the rest of the game.” According to ESPN, Tortorella reiterated his remarks Wednesday.

“I’m not backing off,” Tortorella said. “I’ll tell you right now. Try to understand me. I’m not criticizing anybody for stepping up and putting their thoughts out there about things. I’m the furthest thing away from being anything political. No chance I’m involved in that stuff.”

Chaser: Report: Seattle Seahawks considering team-wide national anthem protest — on 9/11

Seattle receiver Doug Baldwin said Wednesday he is also considering sitting during the anthem before Sunday’s 1:05 p.m. kickoff at CenturyLink Field while linebacker Bobby Wagner said the team has been talking about a group action…Wagner said he couldn’t say exactly what the team might do, saying “whatever we decide to do will be a big surprise.” Baldwin, asked if players besides himself have considered joining Lane, said “our locker room has discussed it. So we’ll see.”…

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Over at Treehugger is yet another post on the EVEEELS that pod coffee is for mother gaia (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Data shows that, despite the environmental implications and high cost of single-use coffee pods, people continue to buy them more than ever before. They’re calling it “the Clooney effect.” Single-use coffee pods are flying off supermarket shelves at a faster rate than ever before, possibly aided by actor George Clooney’s persuasive good looks in European Nespresso advertisements since 2006 and, more recently, in the United States.

…This is sad news for those of us who wish that more sustainable consumer practices would infiltrate the mainstream. There is nothing

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From this post over at Watts Up With That, the alternative title could have been:

the “Paul Ehrlich is still spectacularly wrong” department:

Yep, we were all heading to hell in a handbasket when Paul Erlich was making his predictions – he was all the rage when I was in college in the Bio departments and the beginning of the environmentalist movement.  Now he’s just raging as most of them have gone toes up.  Yet, like Socialists who keep believing that their “we have to take it from you for the Common Good” has never failed, they keep hawking their snake oil communism.  Even as their predictions go down in flames.  Instead of scarcity due to environmental wastelands, we see this:

Malthus Chokes on Bumper Wheat Crop

A generation after leading scientists and experts warned the world of an escalating series of horrendous famines, the crop gluts continue. The latest kick in the pants to the Malthusian doomsayers is a bumper global wheat harvest. Defying not only the Club of Rome doomsayers, but also the climate Chicken Littles who have been warning about damage from rising temperatures to world agriculture, food production is booming even as meteorologists call July 2016 the hottest month ever.

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OBAMA DEFENDS KAEPERNICK’S NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTEST.

Ed Driscoll uses Glenn’s “Unexpectedly” adjective on this; I think Rush’s meme of the spots on a tiger (“it’s who he is”) is a much better fit.  Face it, the Left hates the founding of America and what it is now.  They can only be happy with what it is that they will change it to (e.g., Michelle’s “…for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback“).

Of COURSE they don’t believe we are an exceptional nation and deserves universal condemnation for all past sins and wrongdoings – no credit at all except for what their foreign political ideology has been able to ruin this far.  All minorities are oppressed (except for Asians – just look at colleges’ bias against them) and all white are racists.  Income inequality is the fault of companies (except Democrat owned or run ones; in that case they are merely successful even as we all point out their inequalities – and hypocrisy).  Nothing is ever any one’s fault – it is always the fault of “Society”.

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So when Progressives talk “improving” America and American Society, ask them:

• Forward / progressing to WHAT (as in “what IS you end goal and does that square with our Consitution”)?
• Why do they rejoice in a foreign political ideology and reject our American one?

Here’s a good post from the Daily Signal on one piece of why we’re at as a political society from what originally made us the most vibrant and individual-centric country in history (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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And speaking of the denigration of faith to the uplifting of the denigration of traditional American values?

Yep, thanks to the mainstream media!  And the Educational changes started by Richard T Ely.

(H/T: Powerline)

Kaepernick Hypocrisy Bonus:

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Ah yes, another way of what I have been saying for years:

Winning is only a precursor; it is what you do AFTERWARDS that is most important.

To wit, you win only to get something done.  Or, miserably true, to just BE someone. Winning is important but not the end all be all – the moral of both my meme and the RedState post.  It is voting for the person that in persuading me that their beliefs are mine and that I can TRUST that they will honor their pledges once assuming office. Sadly, in many cases, the voters on the Right get duped as “Winning” then turns to be the operative word – and the ONLY operative word. Caruso continues:

As one of the first people to declare that I would never vote for Donald Trump, I am constantly barraged by people telling me there are only two choices in the presidential election. One of them is Donald Trump and the other is Hillary Clinton.

When reminded the election is not a binary choice and other candidates are available, I am almost always met with, “But none of those other candidates can win! Why would you waste a vote?” It is this mindset that reveals a total of lack of understanding of why we vote in the United States.

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