From Da Tech Guy: Little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolfe in the swamp

Yes, the swamp needs to be drained. From my post at Da Tech Guy: Little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolfe in the swamp.

Fats Domino: I Hear You Knocking

Largely but sadly overlooked among the earlier rockers is Fats Domino, who passed away last fall. Fats' recording career goes back to 1950--when rock and roll was simply a rhythm and blues term for sexual intercourse.It was legendary DJ Alan Freed who applied the term to what was then often called "race music."

Here's Domino in, I guess, the 1970s belting out his 1961 hit, "I Hear You Knocking," which Dave Edmunds scored a smash with his version ten years later.

Negative Nancy downplays low unemployment rates, ignores consumer confidence near 18-year high

I hope the Democrats never replace Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) as their leader in the House.

Keep up the bad work, Nancy.

Mark Dice on Hannity's sarcastic advice om following Hillary's example on evidence destruction

Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor in charge of the Russian collusion case--have you found any proof, Robert--wants to collect cellphones from witnesses, not suspects, in regards to his witchunt.

Which leads Mark Dice to report on Sean Hannity's flippant response to Mueller:

Delete all your emails, and then acid wash the emails and hard drives on your phones, then take your phones and bash them with a hammer into little itsy bitsy pieces, use BleachBit, remove the sim cards. And then take the pieces and hand it over to Robert Mueller and say, "Hillary Rodham Clinton, this is equal justice under the law."

The leftist media didn't get the joke.

Chicago Bears CEO speaks out in favor of new players-must-stand anthem rule

Earlier this week four leftist members of Congress from Illinois released to the media a letter they sent to the management of the Chicago Bears that criticized the team for supporting the new NFL policy, which is popular with fans, that requires players to stand when Our National Anthem is performed. The spoiled millionaires do have the option of remaining in the locker room while the Star Spangled Banner is played.

One of those left-wingers who signed the letter is the woman who, in theory at least, represents me in Congress, Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston). If that name sound familiar, it's because her felon husband, Robert Creamer, spoke favorably of sending leftist goons to Donald Trump rallies to disrupt them.

Liberals don't support free speech unless it toes the leftist line.

Today the chairman of the Bears, George McCaskey, spoke out in favor of the new policy.

“We think players should stand and we encourage our players to stand,” McCaskey said “We told our players that last September and we feel the same way.”

Good for him.

Go Bears!

Tucker Carlson on the civil war brewing in California

California has always been a trendsetter in America--but let's hope the time had ended. The Tarnished State's anti-growth polices are driving out its middle class. Will California became the Brazil or Venezuela of the United States?

Mark Dice: Miss America Ruined by Feminists

Former Fox News host Gretchen Carson, a onetime Miss America, now runs the pageant. Except now it's a competition.

And she'll quickly learn that the only reason people pay attention to it was that it had a swimsuit segment.

Mark Dice takes a hilarious look at the new Miss America competition.

On this day in 2011: Marathon Pundit drives entire Ronald Reagan Trail

Henry, IL

Early in the morning on June 6, 2011 I left Marathon Pundit world headquarters in Morton Grove to drive the entire length of Illinois' Ronald Reagan Trail.

"Dutch" was born in Tampico in Whiteside County on February 6, 1911--of course that was the centennial year of Reagan's birth--and after moving around with his family all over northern Illinois, the Reagans finally settled in Dixon,

Click here for a drive through history.

(Video) Top 10 reasons NOT to move to Illinois. And yes, Chicago is on the list.

The World According to Briggs gives us the top 10 reasons not to move to Illinois. He hits the obvious buttons, crime, corruption, and of course taxes, but adds one that I've noted a few times--terribly-maintained roads.

But while Briggs rightfully condemns political malfeasance, he leaves out mentioning Speaker for Life Michael Madigan (D-Chicago). He's a one man wrecking machine.

But there's an upside. "Illinois is a great state with really, really good people," adding "their biggest problem is the people running it and Chicago."

Madigan, who is also the longtime chairman of the Democratic Party, has been misruling Illinois for over 30 years, and as you know, he's from Chicago.



To be fair, Briggs has similar videos about other states.

Four leftist members of Congress question Chicago Bears on new NFL anthem policy

It's leftist members of Congress vs. the Monsters of the Midway over the new NFL national anthem policy.

The Democrats wonder why they keep losing elections. Sure, they do better in Illinois, because of gerrymandering engineered by party boss Michael Madigan, but here's another case where leftists side with those holding a view that is despised by the majority.

And while I also hold the First Amendment dear, it does not offer blanket protection in regards to private employers.

Left out of every news report on this letter--see below--on this dopey letter to the Bears that I could find is that the majority owner of the Chicago Bears, Virginia McCaskey, supported conservative gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives over Republican-in-name-only Bruce Rauner in this spring's primary.

The left takes names and it remembers.

From SB Nation:

In a letter to Chicago Bears ownership, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL) calls for Virginia McCaskey, principle [SB Nation means "principal"} owner of the franchise, to give more clarity on how the team plans to enforce the NFL’s new anthem policy. She is the first member of Congress to ask for transparency from a team regarding the new rules.

According to a draft of the letter obtained by SB Nation, Kelly wants to know how Bears ownership voted on the policy, how they intend to enforce it, and what the team’s overall policy is on free speech, noting that teams around the league play in stadiums that are largely paid for with public funding.

“Given the investment of taxpayer dollars, the NFL and its team should be held to the highest possible public standard, especially when it comes to protecting and defending the First Amendment rights on players, employees, and fans,” Kelly states in the letter.

She mentions that the Bears’ roster is 68 percent black, that the NFL is 70 percent black, and that the team receives a large amount of support from communities of color.

But Kelly fails to mention that Bears fans hate when players refuse to stand for the anthem--or purposely ignore it. In the Bears only quality win of 2017, Bears fans booed the Pittsburgh Steelers when they entered the field after the anthem was played. "Da Bears," all standing, were on the playing field.

Also signing the letter were three other left-wing members of the Illinois congressional delegation, Danny K. Davis, Bobby Rush, and Jan Schakowsky. The latter nominally represents me in Congress. Schakowsky's husband, felon Robert Creamer, used thugs to shut down a Chicago Donald Trump rally in 2016.

Where does Schakowsky really stand on free speech?