White House Declares Monkeypox A “Public Health Emergency”
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It was just a matter of time before the Biden administration would use something like Monkeypox to fix the next election cycle.
They cannot win on the issues, so they have to come up with something to fix the mid-term elections.
It is unfortunate the Biden administration have chosen to politicize Monkeypox instead of addressing the issue head on.
Everyone who has been reading about Monkeypox knows this is not a national emergency, but an emergency limited to certain states and cities in the United States. It is also limited to a specific sector of our population.
Keep in mind, as of today, the number of infected people in the United States is around 6,600 out of a population of over 330 million people.
You do the math and try to rationalize how this is a “public health emergency.”
Like the government did with HIV/AIDS, they have, once again, neglected to address the issue and instead made Monkeypox a political one.
Brittney Grier after being found guilty of cannabis possession and smuggling. Photo courtesy of taketonews.com
Why is it every time an American breaks the law overseas, and it is found guilty for breaking those country’s laws, our government acts outraged?
Because our government thinks rich and famous Americans are above the law, not only in our country, but in other countries as well.
Basketball player Brittney Grier was convicted in a Russian court for possession of cannabis and smuggling. Grier was sentenced to 9 years in prison and the Biden administration finds the verdict “unacceptable.”
Unacceptable? This is the same Biden administration who, as reported, was willing to trade Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for this American citizen who broke the laws of a foreign country.
That would have been “unacceptable.” During the 1990’s and early 2000’s, Viktor Bout was responsible for the death of millions of human beings from Eastern Europe to the Middle East as he sold weapons to whomever was willing to pay the price.
Viktor Bout is currently serving a 25 year sentence in the United States for conspiring to kill Americans and Joe Biden wants to trade this international criminal for a petty drug smuggler who happened to get caught violating Russian law.
Only the corrupt Biden administration would be willing to suggest such a stupid trade.
As a Federal Air Marshal, I traveled the world, and understood that while working in foreign countries, I was not only representing the government of the United States, but still bound by the laws of such countries.
Having said that, I worked with many agents who thought they could act like idiots overseas and get away with it, so it does happen.
When you are overseas, your American passport is not a pass to do as you please, you still a “guest” and not exempt from that country’s laws.
Ms. Grier should have done her research, after all, she has been playing in Russia for quite some time, she should have known better.
Unacceptable is the fact the corrupt Biden administration things drug possession and smuggling into a foreign country is acceptable.
Ms. Grier athlete status does not exempt her from following the law.
Just because the United States has a dual justice system, one for the rich and one for the poor, it does not mean every country in the world has to follow this flawed system of justice.
Phil Mickelson and 10 Other LIV Golf Players File Antitrust Suit Against The PGA Tour
LIV Golf players, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau. Photo courtesy of golfmagic.com
It is about time!
Time for the PGA Tour to open its books and show the world the kind of big business they do not want to give up.
Phil Mickelson and 10 other LIV players have filed an antitrust suit against PGA Tour INC over the suspensions issued by PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.
Three of the players have also filed for an injunction. The three players had qualified for the FedEx Cup prior to them joining LIV Golf, and under the new rules, they will not be allowed to play.
Listening to the on-field interviewer from the Golf Channel talking to some of the players at this week’s Wyndham Championships about LIV Golf and the lawsuit, was embarrassing and pathetic.
Damon Hack and Eamon Lynch were not much different in their commentary. More of the same, doing the PGA Tour bid. You can count on these two to bore you to death as they represent the Golf Channel lunatic fringe.
Having said that, I do not expect anything different from the Golf Channel. After all, they are part of the woke culture at NBC Sports. Objectivity and real journalism is not a requirement.
Paging Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, and Scottie Scheffler. Oops, once again they are not at the Wyndham Championship “supporting” the PGA Tour and the sponsor. Nothing more than whiny hypocrites.
The PGA Tour is big business and has been spending lots of money paying lobbyists in Washington to assist them in gaining political support for the PGA Tour in an attempt to prevent LIV Golf from operating.
Why would they spend money lobbying politicians? What are they afraid of?
Davis Love III, went as far as to say, “If the LIV guys sue and are allowed to play on the PGA Tour, the players are enough fed up with it.” What the heck is he saying? Is he threatening the LIV players with bodily harm?
He went on to say, “We understand we make the rules on the PGA Tour and the commissioner is enforcing our rules and we don’t want those guys playing, coming and cherry-picking our tournaments.”
Really? PGA Tour players cherry-pick their tournaments, and as long as they meet the minimum 15 event requirement, they are free to do as they wish. This is why McIlroy, Thomas, and Scheffler have not showed up for the last three regular season tournaments.
Love continued with his irrational tirade and it got even crazier. “We hold all the cards. We say to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and to Washington, ‘No, we support the rules. We don’t want those guys playing. We don’t care what the courts say.”
“The nuclear option is to say ‘Fine, if they have to play in our events we just won’t play’.”
Go ahead Davis, who cares? If you, and the rest of the PGA Tour players want to take that childish stance, no problem. I am sure that will do lots for your fan base.
He added that the suspensions issued to Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Patrick Reed, makes them ineligible to play for his President’s Cup team in September.
I’ll say the International Team will have a good opportunity to beat the United States without too much fuzz. Keeping your best players out sounds like a great strategy Davis.
If Davis Love III sounds insane to you, welcome to the club.
Commissioner Monahan should be embarrassed. He is nothing but a coward. These players go out and engage the media instead of concentrating on playing the tournaments. The media should be handle by Jay Monahan, not the players.
Jay Monahan is evil. He knows exactly what he is doing by pinning PGA Tour players against LIV Golf players. He has created this atmosphere and he should be fired.
By the way Jay, it is called LIV Golf, not the Saudi League. Stop sounding stupid and ignorant.
Jay Monahan’s salary is higher than most of the purses these players are playing for. He is worth about $12 million dollars with an annual salary of $4 million dollars. The winners purse for the Open Championship was $2.5 million. Let that marinate for a minute.
The PGA Tour is going to be exposed for the fraud they are, and the PGA Tour membership finally will see how much money the suits at Ponte Vedra have been hiding from them.
If you want to read a bit more about this so-called 501 (c) (6) outfit, indulge yourself with the links below.
The losers? The PGA Tour and the DP World Tour. The LIV Golf event at Bedminster was impressive and very entertaining. The addition of David Feherty as a commentator was a nice one and he was very funny.
Despite the fact that Tony Finau won the PGA Tour Rocket Mortgage for his second consecutive PGA Tour win , Henrik Stenson’s win at the LIV Golf event was more meaningful as much as a bigger statement.
All the credit to Finau, for the second week in a row he decimated a weak field. At the Rocket Mortgage Patrick Cantlay, 4th in the official world golf rankings, was the highest-ranking player in the field.
LIV Golf had more Major champions in the field in 54 holes of golf than the PGA Tour had in 144 holes of golf between the 3M Championship and the Rocket Mortgage. So much for LIV Golf weak fields and “has been” players.
I was wondering where McIlroy, Justin Thomas, and Scheffler have been hiding for the past two weeks. Ah yes, I forgot, they do not play these little tournaments. Of course, they trash LIV Golf while claiming they are all about the PGA Tour. They can spare me their hypocrisy.
Despite all the haters, LIV Golf was entertaining. Watching Henrik Stenson win the tournament, after been stripped of his European Ryder Cup Team captaincy, was something to see. He is not nicknamed the “Iceman” for no reason.
He was steady and played flawless golf. As he said during his post victory interview, he played “like a captain.” An obvious jab at the DP World Tour for their decision.
Another successful LIV Golf event and another egg on the face of the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour.
