September 7, 1980
Billy Sims' Electrifying NFL Debut
The Lions runner totals an NFL rookie first-game record three rushing TDs and a then-record 217 yards from scrimmage (153 rush, 64 rec).
Detroit spoils the Rams' first regular season game playing in Anaheim, 41-20.
Vin Scully and George Allen call it for CBS.
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
Preach it sir! F Dom Lemon!
The gentleman is spot on!
Don Lemon wonders why we’re going to have a state funeral for Charlie Kirk , doesn’t think he deserves one. Meanwhile he idolized George Floyd, who was an absolute drug addicted criminal, That’s who Don Lemon likes, I recall George Floyd supporters burning down city after city state after state yeah that’s who Don Lemon supports to!
F you Don
Priceless! A day in the life of Senator Kennedy.
‘I don’t hate anybody, I don’t.
I look for Grace wherever I can find it . And when I say my prayers, one of the things I ask my maker is…please God don’t make me hate.
Because sometimes it’s hard, here in Washington.
When I get up in the morning and walk over to the Capitol from my overpriced apartment, and I give myself a peptalk. I say, Kennedy, today you’re gonna follow Jesus
And by 10 o’clock, I still wanna follow Jesus, but I also wanna slap the hell out of somebody.’
Authorize lethal force to stop those rioters and attempts to break into ICE facility. Stop them now from using violence against ICE agents. Protest and attempting to break into a government facility are not the same. #ICE