Posted on 12/27/2010 7:21:35 PM PST by Tribemike1
Rendell was rankled by the league's decision to move the Philadelphia Eagles' home game against the Minnesota Vikings from Sunday night to Tuesday evening.
The NFL cited the winter storm that wound up slamming most of the East Coast as the reason for the change, but elected to postpone the game before any snow had even accumulated. About a foot of snow fell on Philadelphia, though less than 5 inches was on the ground before the scheduled kickoff at 8:20 p.m. EST Sunday night.
Rendell viewed the NFL's decision as a referendum on the toughness, or lack thereof, of the United States.
"My biggest beef is that this is part of what's happened in this country," Rendell said. "I think we've become wussies."
"We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything," Rendell added. "If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down."
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For most it means our right to travel by common carrier airline is restricted because of the morally intolerable searches and abuses to person that are now commonplace. For some there is alternative via private planes, or privately chartered flights.
It is even MORE troublesome that similar searches are now becoming common at courthouses.
I'm sure 99% of the tickets were sold and paid for in advance. Perhaps someone from Philly could chime in on this.
I agree concessions would have been low.
It is troubling indeed.
Faddish dementia has replaced common sense and honest respect for the dignity of fellow humans. Every one of the airline bombers on 9/11 and since could easily have been noticed by someone aware enough and with common sense.
Actor James Woods noticed Mohammed Atta and some of his murderous crew of terrorists some weeks before 9/11 on a flight to LA.
The behavioral cues of suicide bombers are, in fact, the strongest observable signature they have — no scanner or pat down can improve upon it.
This is the first reasonable thing I’ve heard come from a democrat’s mouth.
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