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  • Trump 2020 press communications director to join pro-DeSantis super PAC

    03/24/2023 4:30:00 PM PDT · by backpacker_c · 30 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 24, 2023 | Fin Gomez, Aaron Navarro
    Erin Perrine, who was the press communications director for former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, has joined a super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Perrine will be the communications director for the "Never Back Down" PAC, a group led by Trump-era top homeland security official Ken Cuccinelli. After her stint as the 2020 Trump campaign's national spokesperson, Perrine served as communications director for GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. ... Earlier this week, seasoned GOP strategist Jeff Roe was also brought on as an adviser to the super PAC, according to a Republican operative with direct knowledge of the move....
  • Iowa high school baseball team kneels during national anthem to start season

    06/16/2020 7:03:25 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 74 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 16 2020 | David Aaro
    An Iowa high school baseball team started its season on Monday by kneeling during the national anthem in support of Black Lives Matter and racial injustice, according to multiple reports. All of the Roosevelt Roughriders players linked arms and were seen kneeling as "The Star-Spangled Banner" echoed through Principal Park in Des Moines ahead of the team's first game against Ankeny Centennial. “[We have a] lot of diversity, and a lot of people of color," a Roosevelt senior outfielder told Des Moines WHO 13. “We’re just trying to show our appreciation, and it’s about social justice."
  • Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders: Battle of San Juan Hill

    07/01/2019 8:42:34 AM PDT · by Perseverando · 11 replies
    American Minute ^ | July 1, 2019 | Bill Federer
    Slavery existed in Cuba longer than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere, except Brazil. Slaves were purchased from Africa where Arab Muslim slave traders had enslaved an estimated 180 million blacks over the 14 centuries of Islamic rule. President James Buchanan wrote December 19, 1859: "When a market for African slaves shall no longer be furnished in Cuba ... Christianity and civilization may gradually penetrate the existing gloom." President Ulysses S. Grant stated, December 2, 1872: "Slavery in Cuba is ... a terrible evil ... It is greatly to be hoped that ... Spain will voluntarily adopt ... emancipation ......
  • Rangers' farm team selling drink named after Rougned Odor's punch

    05/18/2016 9:49:00 AM PDT · by DFG · 22 replies
    YAHOO ^ | 05/18/2016 | Kyle Ringo
    Minor league baseball teams have been known to go a step or two further than their major league counterparts when it comes to marketing and promotion gimmicks meant to attract attention and maybe help sell a few tickets. So it’s no surprise an affiliate of the Texas Rangers is trying to capitalize on one of the biggest moments in the baseball season so far — Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor punching Toronto slugger Jose Bautista. The now-famous incident for which Odor received an eight-game suspension on Tuesday.
  • To celebrate Miss Universe gaffe, Frisco RoughRiders come up with runner-up promotion

    12/25/2015 7:48:12 AM PST · by DFG · 10 replies
    Dallas Morning News ^ | 12/24/2015 | TOMMY CUMMINGS
    You know what's dangerous about a minor-league baseball team marketing person watching a Miss Universe Pageant gone terribly wrong? Ideas start happening. That was the case for Nathan Barnett, who works in the front office of the Frisco RoughRiders, the Texas Rangers' Double-A affiliate. On Sunday, Barnett saw pageant host Steve Harvey announce the wrong winner. As anyone with marketing in his blood will do, Barnett immediately reached for his cellphone. "It was not one person's idea, really, but I saw the gaffe happen live and texted [Roughriders director of marketing and promotions] Matt Ratliff that we had to invite...
  • LIVE HERE THEY COME: Video of 2 Million Bikers group on their way to DC

    09/10/2013 2:44:12 PM PDT · by smoothsailing · 1,085 replies
    September 10, 2013 HERE THEY COME: Video of 2 Million Bikers group on their way to DC Right Scoop I’m not sure exactly where this is at but clearly DC is in for some fun. And I love how the trooper salutes them with his horns and siren as they ride by. Watch: VIDEO(I'm pretty sure that's a Virginia State Trooper flashing his lights and siren so this is either I-95 or I-64, I guess)
  • (Grey Cup) A Riders goof, an Als victory (Montreal 28, Saskatchewan 27)

    11/30/2009 4:11:37 AM PST · by Loyalist · 1 replies · 517+ views
    Globe and Mail ^ | November 30, 2009 | David Naylor
    It was one of the more bizarre scenes one will see in professional sports. The Saskatchewan Roughriders were in full party mode, galloping onto the field to celebrate the franchise’s second Grey Cup win in three seasons after Montreal’s Damon Duval missed a 43-yard field-goal attempt that would have won the game for the heavily-favoured Alouettes. But the Riders’ celebration stopped colder than a Regina winter night when the players suddenly noticed a red flag lying under the goalpost, followed by the announcement that Saskatchewan had lined up with too many men on the field. That gave Duval another shot...
  • Teddy had it so right! Not Kennedy, but Roosevelt!

    04/05/2006 5:19:17 PM PDT · by Icelander · 41 replies · 926+ views
    040506 | Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something...
  • The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Charge at San Juan Hill - Jan 7th, 2003

    U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. We hope to provide an ongoing source of information about issues and problems that are specific to Veterans and resources that are available to Veterans and their families. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel free to address their specific circumstances or whatever issues concern them in an atmosphere of peace, understanding, brotherhood...
  • EXPANSION AND PEACE

    09/29/2002 9:34:37 AM PDT · by Madcelt · 7 replies · 175+ views
    http://www.mittanmedia.com ^ | PUBLISHED IN THE "INDEPENDENT," DECEMBER 21, 1899 | By Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt
    Lately, people have been questioning whether or not we should continue on with our war against terrorists. People question attacking Iraq. People say we might have brought the attacks on ourselves. So, this morning on my show, rather than try to offer some sort of personal insight myself, I read an article written by Teddy Roosevelt, published in 1899. It was about war and peace and what happens when people want peace at any cost. How brokered "peace" can sometimes be worse on a society than an actual war. Here are excerpts from that article below. I hope it gives...