@SaintsForecast Good thing we didn’t practice with the Chiefs. Not only would only the Saints get fined, they’d have made Gayle surrender a 10% equity stake to the Hunt family.
My uncle left his right kneecap and two best friends in the sands outside Fallujah when he was nineteen years old.
Last Tuesday, he sat on a cracked vinyl chair in a VA hospital waiting room with his cane between his knees. His lower back was on fire. He was told the earliest appointment for an MRI scan was in seven months.
Seven. Months.
He didn’t yell. He didn’t flip a table. He just swallowed hard, put his veteran cap back on his bald head, and whispered: "They're doing their best, son."
On the drive home, we passed the old Holiday Inn three miles down the highway.
Whole building block-booked by the city. Fresh white linen on every bed. High-speed Wi-Fi. Three hot catered meals a day. Two private security guards at the glass entrance scanning key cards for men who crossed the southern border seventy-two hours ago.
Look at the two pictures.
A boy who gave his flesh and blood to this flag sits on a broken chair waiting seven months for a scan.
A man who broke federal law to enter this soil gets a warm bed, three hot meals, and a plastic key card before his boots are even dry.
This is not broken bureaucracy. This is a deliberate insult.
Tell me to my face:
Who is this government working for?
The soldier who bled for it, or the trespasser who took the room?
@goatlave2 While we’re at it, how ‘bout the Saints never traded their first draft pick for Gary Cuozzo & took Bubba Smith, nailed their drafts, ownership stayed out of football decisions, won a Super Bowl in their fifth year & went on to be the most successful franchise in NFL history. Sigh
@SenateGOP Electing Senate Republicans achieves nothing beyond keeping Senate Democrats out of the seats.
“Vote for us; yeah we’re worthless, but the other guys are bat shit crazy” isn’t gonna work forever, guys.
How about you get off your asses and do your jobs?
@kevinnbass Yeah, but…now hear me out…suppose, just suppose, the Republicans gave us an actual reason to vote for them besides “Democrats are batshit crazy?”
I know, I know, but what if they didn’t just absolutely and totally suck?
@mattvanswol The only reason to vote for congressional Republicans is the Democrat Party are bat-shit crazy psychopaths.
Right now that’s enough. But it won’t always be the case.
@datboywolf Price looks like that guy on COPS the Alabama Highway Patrol pulled over for a busted taillight and the dog alerted and found meth in his pickup truck
@stephgracela@NOLAnews Well of course. NOLA has virtually no crime, streets are utterly spotless, city services are stellar, utilities & drainage are inexpensive & excellent, schools are top notch, the budget is balanced and there’s no history of corruption.
Has to be politics. What’s to criticize?