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NBC Nightly News remains the only national broadcast to completely have ignored ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber mocking the “stupidity” of voters. Instead of airing what Gruber said, they have done their best to obfuscate the story with ‘fluff.’

NBC Nightly News featured a full report during their November 13 cast, on “Guinness World Records Day,” and NBC morning show weatherman Al Roker’s attempt to set the record for longest weather report. The same newscast feature Cynthia McFadden’s profile of a Minnesota company where employees receive hot chili, cold beer and unlimited vacation days.

The November 17 edition of found time for a story about an Australian news anchor who wore the same blue suit every day for a year. Two-days later, Williams used 30 seconds to tell viewers that cast member Cecily Strong of Saturday Night Live would be performing a comedy routine at the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner and they devoted a full report to a study documenting the news media’s bias in favor of dog stories.

The November 28 newscast aired an outcry over the New York Times choosing a grape salad as Minnesota’s favorite Thanksgiving food, when most in the state had never even heard of it. By the way, in Nevada, where we live in a constant state of dehydration, the favorite food is supposedly ‘frog-eye salad.’

Come December 1, NBC reported on a fired GOP congressional aide, who in a Facebook post, criticized the first daughters for the way they acted during the pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey. Furthermore, during the same newscast, they also had a report/commercial for online dating site, FarmersOnly.

Three days later, fill-in host Lester Holt over-promoted a full report by correspondent Harry Smith profiling Allison Williams, who is Brian Williams’ daughter, and had the lead in the NBC musical ‘Peter Pan. The week before, on November 26, NBC ran a “behind the scenes” package, look at preparations for the live broadcast.

The next day, on December 5, Williams wasted airtime showing six-year-old boy clapping as he watched ‘Peter Pan.’ Also during the same newscast, Kevin Tibbles had a story about how people are buying ugly Christmas sweaters.

On December 9, the evening of Gruber’s appearance before a Senate hearing, NBC Nightly News finally presented a 30-second piece about Gruber’s foibles. The next night, there was nothing.

It was as if the hearing hadn’t happened.

While waiting in a doctor’s office, a boy of about four-years-old kept looking my way. Every time I caught his eye, he’d duck down behind the row of chairs.

After a few minutes he asked his mother in a rather loud whisper “Is that man Santa?”

The mother looked at me and my bushy, white beard and smiled. I could see she was both embarrassed and trying to think of a response.

“I don’t think so, but he might be one of Santa’s elves,” she answered.

The child studied me for a minute more, and then with certainty, announced, “Nope – he’s way too tall!”

Every time I hear these five Christmas songs – I return to my childhood…

1. ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,’ Gene Autry
2. ‘White Christmas,’ Bing Crosby
3. ‘Frosty the Snowman,’ Jimmy Durante
4. ‘It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,’ Andy Williams
5. ‘A Holly Jolly Christmas,’ Burle Ivys

What about you? Recount your favorites.

I had fretted about my hair cut all day long. I had asked the barber to trim my hair around the ears and neatened up the back of my head and neck. I sat down and he went to work. When he got done though, what I had asked for and gotten were two different things.

But the damage was done and it couldn’t be corrected unless I wanted to have my hair glued on. I decided I could live without the hair or the glue.

As the day wore on I felt more and more out of place. It seemed everyone was staring at me. I guess it was just me.

Late into the day, around 5:00 o’clock or so, my father and I went out to wash clothes. Dad left to do some shopping at a near by groc­ery store. I stayed to watch that the clothes got washed . I was sitting on the washing machine reading the Triplicate. I looked up to see an old man and woman walk into the Laundromat and take a seat at the far end of the room.

I thought nothing of this and went back to reading the advertisements for new and used automobiles.

Now, I’m not one to claim I have E-S-P or anything like that but I got the strangest feeling that I was being stared at. I got a chill down my spine.

I lowered the paper and peeked over the edge . I looked down the walk way to where the old man and woman were sitting, and the old man was looking at me. His eyes snapped away as I made eye contact with him. He then started talking to the old woman next to him .

I just looked back to my paper.

Again, I got that feeling. But this time I knew where to look. Again the old man was looking at me and so was the old woman. At this point I was feeling very uncomfortable and getting fidgety.

This went on for about ten minutes and I was becoming more and more uncomfortable. Soon the old women got up and started collecting her wash. The old man helped her.

As soon as their clothes had been gathered they moved with a stiff shuffle towards me.

They stopped in front of me and the old man asked “How come someone your age has a good old fashion all-American hair­ cut?”

I looked at him and my but my mind drew a blank. I didn’t know what to say.

The old man concluded “It’s certainly good to see such a haircut on a young man of your generation and age.”

I just turned red and smiled.

They shuffled down the walkway and out the door, leaving me in stunned­ silence. And somehow my hair didn’t seem so bad. It made me feel good.

But I guess that was just me, too.

During a meeting between State Budget Director Julia Teska and the Interim Finance Committee, it’s been learned that even with the state’s entire “rainy day” fund, Nevada will see a budget shortfall of more than $61 million. Following the meeting, Governor Brian Sandoval issued a statement:

“The shortfall is caused by actual revenue numbers not meeting the projected forecasts of the Economic Forum, specifically gaming and net proceeds revenues, as well as a significant increase in the student population in the Clark County School District.”

He then went on to blow more Progressive smoke up the butts of Nevadans:

“Our economy continues to show steady signs of solid improvement, unemployment is at its lowest point since the recession and we are seeing quality, sustainable job creation across the state.”

Any Nevadan who lives in the real world will tell you that there is no ‘solid improvement,’ and that the reason the ‘unemployment is at its lowest,’ is because people have given up looking for work. Furthermore, there is no job creation – especially when you have the government deciding what businesses can and cannot operate within the state.

While he didn’t say exactly what new revenue sources he is considering, it time to get the shovels out as Sandoval plans unveil his budget proposal in the State of the State address set for January 15, 2015. That mean more Progressive bullshit is on the way.

1978

Everyday it’s back to the same old bench in the locker room, the same locker room, the same locker. This where it begins and ends.

All things center here. This is where the workouts get planned, the day discussed.

Success is forgotten here. Those who are champions are forgotten and are jus’ another member of the team.

Yet some still watch, wondering at him. He is the best.

Again the locker’s closed, slammed hard and locked. Double checked, making sure it’s locked.

He is you, and you turn and leave.

Out the door, like a Roman gladiator to the arena, you step into the spacious gymnasium. Everyone is fooling around, chasing each other and horse-playing.

Then a voice sounds, it commands, “Warm ups!”

Everyone, a well-regimented group of soldiers and like soldiers they come to attention, in a stiffened silence. Jumping-jacks, push ups, hurdlers, trunk twisters, all the same, daily.

You have memorized them by heart, because you are the ‘platoon leader’ of this ‘outfit,’ again this year – your last year.

Out to the football field at a trot, like everyday, showing those freshmen why champions are champions!

You do your daily dozen – your very own – working up a sweat, jus’ to sweat some more. Now you dash out hard a onto the hard rubber track to do twenty-five, 100 yard dashes, all of them under 12 seconds. But you do one in 13 seconds and you do one more to make up for it.

Now for the 220 yard dash, another twenty-five, all less than 23 seconds. You miss five of them, all over 23 seconds, and again you redo them.

Your heart wishes to burst home, but it won’t. And you want to sit down, but your will, or your pride won’t let you. You stand tall, while others sit. Now with a little rest, you loosen yourself ups by jogging an easy mile. Shake it off, the stiffening pain in the two stubs you call your leg.

Again to the 100-yard mark; the starting blocks. You set them, doing two for form, but now the real thing.

The coach pulls out of his pocket the starter-gun, he barks commands, “Runners to your marks, set and the gun sounds.

You have nine more to do.

The tenth one and you wish the gun were real and pointed at your head. Running 60-yards, hurting, but you must show why you’re the champion.

Everyone is leaving, but you jog and extra lap before heading in.

Through the door, the gladiator has won. The sweat on your back feels cold as you peel the shirt off, followed by your shorts and socks, then stuffed in a duffel bag to be washed.

Into the shower, where the hot water feels good, rising you clean after a good scrubbing.  Now for a cold shower, where it becomes hard to breathe,  but easier to move.

You dry off and get dressed.

You hurt all over, but never complain. You don’t complain – you’re the champion.

Off to the bus in slow, tight gait. Practice is over for today, it’s time to go home.

And after a long ride home, into your bedroom you go, tired, but you have yet to eat. So you do.

Now for bed, so tired that you don’t put on your P.J.’s after you have stripped. Off with your shoes and you know what to expect. The pain — your toes, all beaten and battered — they hurt and again you sit on your bed and cry jus’ like so many nights before.

But you don’t complain – you’re the champion.

Everyday is the same, except the last day of practice in the regular season, except this season, because it’s your last. You want to cry and you do…inside.

So down to the football field you trot one last time, but not for the practice, but rather jus’ to look, to see where you’ve been and to remember.  There’s another pain — this one in your heart — because you must leave and not jus’ for the year, but forever.

What was it all for?

You’re the champion, the very best, but you feel bewildered, lost in unhappy thoughts.  You must now let go of this part of your life, the biggest part…

It hurts, but you don’t complain because you are the champion and champions don’t complain. Besides, there is no-one who would listen.

So you hang your head low in sadness and cry. Yes — you jus’ start to cry.

It’s over, but you don’t complain, you’re the champion.

President Obama pledged to free all remaining inmates and close Guantanamo Bay Detention Center as he campaigned for President in 2008. Many remain concerned that the released prisoners will expose the U.S. to increased terrorist threats.

Now Uruguay’s President José Mujica has agreed to accept six Guantanamo Bay prisoners saying about them, “human beings who have suffered a terrible kidnapping in Guantanamo Bay,” despite polls showing 58-percent of Uruguayans oppose acceptance of the prisoners.

The U.S. embassy in the Montevideo, Uruguay, said the U.S. was “dealing with different countries in the region” and sought out Mujica because of his ‘leadership’ in Latin America. The agreement was made earlier this year but action was delayed until after the elections the 2014 November.

Most people don’t know that for every aviator, sailor or soldier with his index finger on the trigger, there are 10 or more support personnel supplying all their needs for victory. Petty Officer First Class Roland Peachee was going about his duties as a butcher on the dock next to his assigned ship the USS Rigel on the morning of December 7, 1941.

He heard some booms in the distance but thought nothing of it at the time.

“I think we were accusing the Army of having practice on Sunday,” Peachee said.

As the bombs began to fall Peachee took cover under a large crane, his only weapon, his meat cleaver. When he emerged it took him awhile to process what he saw.

“There were bodies in the water,” Peachee said. “Some of them were dead, in oil, burning.”

During the attack, two bombs dropped near the USS Rigel. The first bomb missed the bow and the second splashed harmlessly between the Rigel and a tanker with highly explosive aviation fuel.

The ships crew used their cutting torches to cut through the thinnest armor plate on the underside of the capsized USS Oklahoma near the propeller shaft to free the trapped crew. Without the Rigel’s successful rescue, the death toll, 2,403, would have been several hundred more sailors.

Peachee was physically unscathed but for some reason the Navy sent a telegram to his foster family in Indiana stating he was missing. He was unaware of the telegram as well and started a new life after the Navy with his wife in Nevada.

“I am ashamed I did not keep in touch with them because they were good to me,” Peachee said

In the 1980’s, he decided to look up his foster-brother.

“They said it can’t be you. I said well why not? Well you were reported dead at Pearl Harbor.”

Peachee worked as a grocer in Nevada for most of his professional life. He campaigned the state legislature to authorize a special license plate for Pearl Harbor survivors.

His home is like a living museum to that December morning.  Mementos, the 98-year-old is proud to look upon every day, including an award signed by President George H.W. Bush. During World War II, as a Naval Aviator, Bush flew a torpedo bomber.

“I guess I would be considered one of the lucky ones because I survived it and hell, I am an old man now, still alive,” Peachee said.

He was a founding member of the Silver State Pearl Harbor Survivor Association in the 1950’s. At the time there were 60 members.  Peachee believes there are only four now.

Nevada is ranked number three on the HeyLets Self-Promotion Index.  It asked 2,500 Americans who participate in social media to rate the number of posts they typically make on potentially self-promotional topics such as trips to special locations, attendance at memorable events, and work-related good news.

Here is the five “Most Braggadocious” U.S. States:

#1:  California (77% percent frequently engage in self-promotion)
#2:  Washington (76%)
#3:  Nevada:  (72%)
#4:  Maryland  (70%)
#5:  New Hampshire (69%)

The most humble five states are:

#1:  Utah (22%)
#2:  Oregon (26%)
#3:  South Carolina (33%)
#4:  Kansas (34%)
#5:  Arizona (34%)

They also ranked the top five most popular topics Nevadan’s like to post on social media:

#1:  Going on a special trip (62%)
#2:  Attending a memorable event (59%)
#3:  Meeting a noteworthy person (54%)
#4:  Something nice that your significant other did (53%)
#5:  Getting work-related good news (52%)

The protests in Union Square, Times Square and Grand Central Station started small, but soon grew with the help of “This Stops Today,”  a group affiliated with Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is overseen by labor boss Andy Stern, its president since 1996.  Stern also sits on the Executive Committee of ‘America Coming Together’ funded by George Soros, who also funded ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ and continued to fund the ‘Urban Justice Center,’ ‘Open Society,’ the ‘JEHT Foundation’ and the ‘Public Welfare Foundation.’

In a recent story from the Associated Press and FOX, the two news services quoted a couple of ‘random citizen protesters,’ — Ashley Coneys and Nadya Stevens — who are involved in the New York demonstrations. It turns out Coneys is a member of ‘Police Reform Organizing Project,’ and the ‘Urban Justice Center,’ while Stevens is the assistant to the president of Communication Workers of America Local 1180.

So much for random.

Meanwhile, another fact that isn’t being shared by FOX, the AP or any other mainstream media outlet is that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who put Eric Garner in the so-called ‘chokehold,’ was supervised by an Black female NYPD sergeant. This kind of puts a new twist on the matter as claims of ‘race’ are being shouted across the land.

As reported by New York Daily News:

“Having that black sergeant in charge of that crime scene takes race out of the equation. As awful as Pantaleo’s actions appear on that video, at no time does that black sergeant order Pantaleo to stop choking Garner.

With a population that is 70% white and 10% African-American, when a Staten Island grand jury is presented with a white cop supervised by a black sergeant applying a lethal chokehold, it eliminates the racial component.”

From a police report obtained by New York TV station PIX11 the sergeant’s name is Kizzy Adoni:

“Another female sergeant, Kizzy Adoni, made a similar statement in the report. She “believed she heard” Garner say he was having difficulty breathing. Adoni also said “The perpetrator’s condition did not seem serious and he did not appear to get worse.””

Adoni is not shown in the cell phone footage of the incident, but appears in several photographs taken as the incident unfolded. The media, the mayor of NYC, and the  rest of the race hustle industry have done their best to erase Adoni from the story because she doesn’t fit their progressive template.