Obvious Truth

For every winner, there are legions of losers — Anon.

Psychological Warfare

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame, I think has it right -- calling terrorists "terrorists" reinforces their self worth since that is what they are trying to evoke -- terror. And also calling them "cowards" just slides off their backs because they deem themselves heroes for Allah ... see: Dilbert Blog.

Scott Adams rather likes Trump's term "losers" since it is true negative reinforcement for such scumbags ... particularly when their caliphate suffers another loss on the battlefield. And Dilbert's drawer also would like Muslim religious poobahs to disabuse their flocks that 72 virgins await them in heaven for their martyrdom. If they thought that killing innocents guaranteed them an eternity in Hell (without any nookie), they might have second thoughts about their diabolical plans.

I agree on both counts ... and believe that more psychological warfare along these lines might save the U.S. many lives and much treasure.

NFL

The National Football League (NFL) got none of my TV eyeball-time on Sunday ... nor is it likely to coax me back anytime soon. This is because this Congress-created monopoly has done nothing to nip in the bud the grotesque Black Lives Matter protests during the playing of our national anthem and our honored remembrances of 9/11. Four Miami Dolphin players "took a knee"  on Sunday and one Kansas City Chief raised his fist during our Francis Scott Key musical paean. (Their names are unimportant.) Yes I know these babinzos have every right to protest against their real and imagined slights by our nation ... independent of the millions of dollars they get annually to run around a grassy field. But I also have the same right to call them uneducated boobs and refuse to frequent their advertisers or appreciate the fans who grease their palms.

The NFL is one of the "circus" parts of the strategy that governments use to keep their people pacified, viz, "bread and circus." But I am growing out of such pampering. I've got other things I can do with my Sundays. And I have other reasons ... because of his looking the other way during Colin Kaepernick's protests, his shoddy treatment of the Patriot's Tom Brady, his disallowing the Dallas Cowboys to wear memorial insignias for their slain Dallas policemen, his denial of a player to memorialize 9/11 on his football cleats (see: Breitbart Story) and his generally poor administrative talents ... NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is not loved by many thinking former football fans ... including myself.

So I will wage my puny little protest and eschew this "circus" entertainment that I have in the past so much enjoyed ... until such time as Goodell is gone and the NFL wises up. Until then NFL, for me, stands for nudnicks, flakes and losers.