Table Seven Nooz Update 6/4/2020

Hello!  🖐  How’s everyone doing today?  I woke up today at almost 3 a.m. with some stuff on my mind, and I figured, why not blog about it.  Check it out, and write in.  Let me know what’s up.

This morning I Tweeted, ” Okay so we’re going to attack Drew Brees now for stating his opinion about flag burning and kneeling. YOU’RE STILL NOT GETTING IT! (They’re calling him lost, and saying he’s not ready.) LMAO. The minute you say something against the narrative, you’re demonized.”

“I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country,” Brees said in an interview with Daniel Roberts. “Let me just tell what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States.”

-Drew Brees

It’s amazing how many people would agree with this quote until they see the picture of the man who said it.

A major problem in this country is that we as a people receive backlash and pushback for stating our opinions.  I talk about this all the time.  Every person in this country has the right to talk about and share their personal opinions.

No one should ever be threatened, attacked, demonized, red flagged, blacklisted, or outcasted for sharing their opinions.  You cannot argue with someone for giving an opinion.  I don’t understand why people aren’t accepting that.

This is why we are are ill as a nation.  Good therapy encourages you to talk about what you’re feeling, and what’s on your mind, but the minute we do, we get attacked, demonized, and labeled.

Yesterday, I wrote a story titled Sports in America because I wanted to:

  • Bring attention to the fact that we live in a very diverse country.  There will always be racist people in this country.  Racism, bigotry, and prejudice will always be present in a nation that’s as diverse as America, but you cannot solve racial issues by forcing people to accept one another.  

That’s why sports are important.  Good teams, and successful teams are able to put their differences aside.  When they do, there’s a real magical feeling, and ultimately, they win.  Trust me.

My brother and I always laughed and joked about the town we grew up in because we said it was a microcosm of the world.  It was very diverse culturally.  If you walked into our high school cafeteria at lunch you would see white kids sitting with white kids, black kids sitting with black kids, Asians sitting with Asians, Jewish people sitting with Jewish people, and of course there were lunch tables made up of people who played sports together.

This was never done on purpose.  People just naturally gravitated into groups they felt comfortable in.  For the most part, there weren’t any issues either.  Everyone really got along, but when it came time to eat, people ate with the people they felt comfortable with.

One day, the Vice Principal said he had an issue with this, and he wanted to break these tables up and force students to take random seats at lunch, but he never did.  There was never a problem, but he almost created one.

There’s nothing wrong with people sitting and eating with who they’re comfortable with, eventually they’ll come out of their comfort zones, but if you try to force it prematurely, you’re going to do more harm than good.

Random Thoughts/Opinions About Covid-19 and George Floyd

  • I encourage you to use some common sense here.
  • We never shut the country down for an illness before.
  • When you’re sick, you stay home until you’re better.  Right?
  • Many people were curious about the closure of the economy.  All government centers closed and people went home.
  • Almost three months later, riots break out, and conveniently, no one was working.
  • Why didn’t the people who were filming the police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck try to push the cop off?  They just kept saying, “You’re killing him, you’re killing him, you’re killing him, you’re killing him, you’re killing him, oooooooh he’s dead.”
  • If the Coronavirus is legit, we should be able to test for it.  If you’re sick then you stay home until you’re better.  People who exercise for thirty minutes a day live longer than people who sit around doing nothing.  Life extension is increased by 30%. (I hear that on Coast to Coast.)
  • The beach is extremely beneficial and it promotes good health and skin care.  Salt water and sunshine are essential.
  • Excessive force and police brutality are real issues in this country, and we should always call it out and bring attention to it.
  • I don’t think the military should ever be turned on the people.  If people are peacefully protesting, marching, and walking, why are they in a standoff with an armed militia?
  • There are many reasons why people protest, but one main reason is to show the government they are not in charge.  The people are.  The people put you in power.  It’s a government created by the people, for the people.
  • When the government no longer works for the people, the people can abolish and start anew.
  • If I was ever arrested and killed, I would hope someone would avenge my death, but right now, a lot of  people are just taking advantage.

Solutions

  1. Excessive police force and brutality should not be tolerated, ever.  It doesn’t matter what color you are.  Victims have to bring attention to it and call it out.
  2. Let’s try to recognize narratives.  This is important because it’s because of the narratives that people get attacked for speaking their minds and sharing their opinions.  Individual Americans are being outcasted and demonized when they speak against the popular narratives.   
  3. We all should keep a copy of the Bill of Rights on hand.
  4. Listen to people.  Give people a chance to speak.  Stop trying to silence people when you don’t agree with them.
  5. Let’s keep sports strong, pure, and free from people who are trying to distort the meaning of teamwork and undermining the value of perseverance, hard work, and winning.
  6. If “we the people” are upset, than the system isn’t working.  What’s the problem?  What can we fix, what can we change?
  7. Let’s go back to paper prescriptions because e-scripts are causing unnecessary inconveniences.  Little things like that.  Think.
  8. We can’t fix everything at once.  We have to start with smaller issues, and get some small victories under our belts.
  9. People don’t want to be controlled, or forced to do anything.  We like to make decisions for ourselves.

 

Okay everyone.  Pay attention, stay alert, and educate yourselves.  Feel free to write in.  Have a joyful and blessed day.

Sports in America

We must see things for what they are, and not for what we would like them to be. There will always be an element, or a group of people that seek to ruin a good thing. Sports in America are good, and they’re necessary because of what they represent and the qualities they instill.

America is united, and the people of sports teams unite for a cause. Through sports we learn the concept of coming together for a goal, and that goal is winning. A team is made up of humans, people of different colors, religions, and ethnic backgrounds, and sports in this country are set up for children by the time they reach age ten.

Wars, racial issues, prejudices, and civil unrest are nothing new to the people of this country, afterall, we did fight for our freedom, but we should constantly strive to overcome our differences. Some people do, and some don’t. Sports are by no means the answer to all the problems in this country or our communities, but they are necessary because they attempt to teach. They instill the qualities we need to be successful as adult men and women.

Sports, for that reason, should be protected from the ‘element’. Sports should be free from any and all religious and political propaganda. The people who get it, need to prevent the infiltration of the ‘element’ because the element wants to destroy something good. The element wants to destroy the integrity of the game, and ultimately, the game itself.

Did We Just Get Set Up?

Back before the United States was shut down because of Covid-19, I’m talking like January and February of this year 2020, we saw videos of people in China walking around with face masks.

I remember laughing to myself, and asking myself, “What the heck is going on out there?”

Not long after asking myself that, I watched a news story about citizens in China wearing face masks to protect themselves against facial recognition technology.  The people in china were trying to protect themselves, and their privacy from a government trying to imprison them for commiting crimes in the past by using advanced technology.

I said to myself, “Oh, there it is.”

Then, in March, the United States began closing down because of Covid-19, and now Americans were wearing the masks.

Americans wanted to know where the virus came from, and we were told Wuhan, a city in China.

Then I heard, America could have been better prepared to deal with the virus if the people in Wuhan didn’t lie to the world about being sick.

At that point, I started to think about the story about the facial recognition technology, and I said to myself, “They weren’t being spied on, they were sick, and they used the story about facial recognition to deceive the world.

Forget about everything you just read.  Fast forward to now.  People around the country are rioting because of what happened to George Floyd.  In addition, people are also wearing masks because of Covid-19.

You have people rioting for one reason, and wearing a mask for another (which is the deception because sometimes rioters wear masks), but both are joined together so you have rioters wearing masks.

Was there really facial recognition technology in China?  I don’t know, but America might consider it now because….

what do we do if in the future, people are wearing masks because of a viral outbreak, but then decide to steal, destroy, or kill just because their identity is concealed?

IRIS SCANNING 

Welcome to the future, I think we just got played.

NCAA College Football 2020/2021

images (1)  The Covid-19 crisis will subside, and America will return to normalcy.  When that happens, we’ll finally have a moment to go back and revisit some things that happened during an electrically fast period of time.  Amidst the issues happening outside the football world, which sometimes seep into the football world, stuff happens that demands our attention, but because of an order of importance, some things need to be put on the back burner, as they say.

Let’s revisit the NCAA 2020 College Football Playoffs Semi-Final game between the (2)Ohio State Buckeyes, and the (3) Clemson Tigers.  Specifically, let’s return to the second quarter.  It’s 3rd and 5, and there’s just about 5 minutes left in the half.  Ohio State is winning 16-0.  The ball is snapped, the Buckeyes blitz, there’s a hit, and then, there’s an ejection.  Shaun Wade hits and sacks Trevor Lawrence, and then, he gets ejected for targeting.

My issue here is obviously the ejection, but in a growing culture where we demonize players for making clean open field tackles, referees must be careful with the terminology they’re using.

There was a time, not long ago, when the fans used to cheer and applaud good clean hits, and that’s what creates momentum.  I worry, as an ex-NCAA football player, and a fan of the game, that this growing trend of booing and placing guilt on players for making clean hits, is going to eventually change the game, but not for the better.

Terminology?  When you target someone, you’re intentionally going after that person.  Was Shaun Wade really targeting Trevor Lawrence, or did he make a clean hit and tackle off a called blitz?

I’ve been an Ohio State football fan since 1996, and I can tell you that Ohio State is not that kind of program.  I also don’t believe Shaun Wade is that kind of player.

Shaun Wade’s ejection, which came at such a critical point in the game, not only changed the momentum coming from the crowd, but it gave the Tigers a first down, and the extended drive led to a Clemson touchdown.  Going into the locker room at halftime down by 9, is a lot different than going in and being down by 16.

I understand there’s a concern about player safety, but football is contact sport, and it’s a fast physical sport.  The players have to be able to play the game, and referees have to do a better job at deciding the difference between clean aggressive hits that happen throughout the course of the game, and those that are delivered to inflict intentional harm.

If you haven’t played the game than you cannot know how fast the play is on the field.  The plays are called, the ball is snapped, and contact is made.  It’s that fast.  Our concern with player safety still, cannot interfere with the free flow of the game, unless we sacrifice the game itself in the name of safety.

The summer will be here in few weeks, and hopefully football will return.  Hopefully football will return.

 

I’d Hate to Say it but,…

For a while now, people have been telling you the first amendment is under attack.  For a while now, people have been telling you that Youtube and FaceBook and Twitter are social media platforms that people can use to post their information and videos.  It’s unconstitutional and against the first amendment for Social Media platforms to pull videos.

The point that I’m getting at here is, when you were told you’re first amendment rights were being violated, you called those people conspiracy theorist…..

But now you’re whining and crying because your videos are getting pulled off Youtube for no reason.  You see, most people put their blinders on to the realities until they’re directly affected.

The problem with that approach is that unfortunately, those are the times when you need your rights.

Be proactive.

 

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Jentry 2

Today was one of those days, but it was a good day.  Weather wise, it was pretty crappy though.  I was outside walking almost the entire day, and there was a constant mist.

You know that rain where it’s not coming down hard, but it’s just a steady mist?  The kind that if you’re in all day, you’ll be soaked, and confused because it really didn’t seem like it was raining, but it was.

It was humid too, but enough about the weather.  I’m just in this weird situation right now where I need to work.  I needed to work and make money yesterday, but for reasons beyond my control, my plans keep getting delayed.

Enough sitting around though right?  If you follow my blog, you probably know I’m going back to school for a teaching certification, but for work, I’ve been substituting.  Until the district was closed because of Covid-19.

I can’t keep waiting, and I think there’s a really good lesson to be learned here about moving on and moving forward even though you might actually be walking down a different path than you intended.

So, I went to the Amazon recruiting center today because I was supposed to complete the “final step” to a tedious hiring process, and get my start date confirmed, but there was a mix up with the shift time.  I don’t really want to work over night.  Then I walked to a couple of other places and dropped off a resume, so we’ll see.

Tomorrow, same thing.  I cannot wait any longer for what I want to happen because it seems like the harder I try, something beyond my control prevents me from doing what I want.  Is it personal?  Some no, some maybe.

I will keep applying, and I will keep trying everything and anything else.  I’m not getting younger.  There’s a life that I have envisioned for myself, and I will have it even if it means flying to another part of the country and moving to a different state.

How is everyone else doing?  Write in.  You know we encourage feedback and dialogue, and I would love to chat.  Have a great night, and a wonderful day tomorrow.

Please…Allow Me

Under normal circumstances, a person shouldn’t really have to express what they’re about or what they believe, but because this is my blog, and some of the issues that I discuss on here can be political, and perhaps, controversial at times, please allow me this moment.

Keeping it simple, I believe in freedom.  I believe in an individual’s freedom to choose and an individual’s freedom to express him or herself.  As long as what you do doesn’t affect the people around you, then do as you wish.   Obviously, this is generally speaking, but I think you get the point.

I can’t speak for anyone but myself.

I’m Qualified

What’s up everyone?  How are you today?  Look, I’m not sitting here trying to brag about my qualifications.

I’m shocked, and seventeen years after graduating college, I’m starting to realize why I don’t have a job with a newspaper.

Your job as a reporter is to gather the facts of a newsworthy story.  Local injustice and personal issues within the local job market is newsworthy.

I’m sorry if you don’t have the balls to get to the heart of an issue, but don’t cast me aside like I’m some kid who’s confused.

Here we are, once again during the Covid-19 crisis…., helping each other, humanitarianism, love, brother and sisterhood.  Where is it?

I can’t be the problem all the time.