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I hope that President Obama pardens Leonard.
Letter sent. Maybe there will be justice some day.
I think I read this on the Popular Resistance site and previously signed.
At that site, it ALSO gives an address to send Letters and Cards directly to Leonard Peltier in prison.
I have just now done both those things!
Like TomCat, I have been supporting the release of Leonard Peltier since he was arrested! If you read about what happened, before and after he and two others were arrested, you can easily see that there is nothing "normal" about this case. With us sending letters to President Obama, maybe someone will finally release t...
I as well Terre have been fighting for this man's release since the beginning. Breaks my heart.
Leonard Peltier is now the ONLY Political Prisoner that Amnesty International has listed for the USA. How tragic it is for an American Indian, the FIRST people that lived upon these lands BEFORE it was called the USA.
Reshared article, petition and letter request to President Obama on social media.
It is a disgrace that he is still there, please free Leonard Peltier!
Change.Org - Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier.
Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier.
Change.Org - Free Leonard Peltier: Contact the President to grant Leonard Peltier Clemency.
Free Leonard Peltier: Contact the President to grant Leonard Peltier Clemency.
Obama Commutes Sentences of 46 Federal Prisoners, But What About Leonard Peltier?
Will you send a letter to President Obama for Leonard Peltier?
Free Leonard Peltier: Contact the President to grant Leonard Peltier Clemency..
Reshared petition over social media.
We’re excited by what we’re seeing.
We have 21 states that are still outstanding where we expect to pick up a significant number of new delegates.
To be sure, both campaigns have a long night ahead of them – but we feel very good about the numbers that we’re seeing.
It’s very important that people in the states where the polls are still open get out and vote.
Unlike the Obama campaign, the Clinton campaign never dedicated significant resources to Georgia.
The Obama campaign has 9 offices in Georgia. The Clinton campaign only has 2.
Sen. Obama has had staff and significant campaign operation across the state for 8 months. Sen. Clinton only deployed staff to the state in the last couple of weeks.
Polls have consistently showed Sen. Obama with wide lead over Sen Clinton. That lead has only widened over time.
A truly great house and property ready for you to move right in. Pride of ownership shows everywhere, they have constantly updated with the best materials and contractors. Open floor plan between family room, with wood burning fireplace, and an updated eat in kitchen with granite counters and floors. Also on the main l...
Let's pretend for a moment you are a hacker, what would you do with a hijacked cell phone tower? I could see the value if you were the government, they do this stuff all the time. Maybe I just don't think like a hacker but I just don't know what the hell you would do with a hacked cell phone tower.
Mobile security firm Zimperium, the company that found the Stagefright bug, says it discovered three critical flaws in several software packages that run on BTS stations. According to Zimperium, other software packages not included in their tests might also be affected since they all seem to run in the same manner, wit...
3 bedroom ranch home in great Austintown neighborhood. The home features hardwood floors throughout formal living room with fireplace, dining room, eat-in kitchen, bonus room on 1st floor - great for a home office, has a door leading to backyard. Full basement. Attached garage. Updates include new water softener 2013, ...
How Dumb Can Brand Marketing Get?
Experts say the traditional focus group, in which participants are guided through a discussion about a product or brand while marketers watch from behind a glass window, suffers from a few shortcomings. Responses can be influenced by a marketer's presence, and one person may dominate the whole group.
Anybody who's conducted or observed a focus group (and I've done both) and has an ounce of self-awareness realizes that the real purpose of a focus group is to gather "evidence" that the company needs to put more money into marketing's pet projects.
What's incredible is that 1) there are still people in the corporate world who think that focus groups have real meaning and 2) that it took decades for "experts" to conclude what any objective observer (with a modicum of insight into human nature) could deduce in about 30 seconds.
What have those "experts" been doing all this time? Examining their own polyps?
Now, you'd think that once the "experts" pulled this particular dead cat out of the bag, brand marketers would conclude that the proverbial "jig is up" and stop trying to foist focus groups "research" into corporate discussions on how to invest sales and marketing dollars.
Participants were given iPods programmed with pop music and asked to visually represent how they felt about the concepts for two Web-based applications for Suave, a Unilever hair care line. While the women were creating the collages, representatives from Unilever watched from an adjacent room.
One montage, which included an upside-down Barbie doll in a pink taffeta dress, her outstretched arms giving the appearance that she was falling from the sky, represented vulnerability and the "ultimate feeling of not being in control,...Depending on the context, outstretched arms also represented playfulness and openn...
Have you ever, in your life, heard of anything more ridiculous? Grown adults doing kindergarten exercises while marketers play at being pop psychologists who supposedly "interpreting" the nonsense... even though it can be interpreted in completely contrary ways.
Of course, the New York Times -- typical of the mainstream business press -- was all agog at the idea. However, anybody who actually does something useful for a living, and has an ounce of common sense, knows that this kind of BS is, at best, a colossal waste of time and money.
Even so, this kind of shenanigan is only marginally worse than much of the airy-fairy junk that's trotted out by marketers who have committed their entire careers to the goal avoiding real work that can be measured in some meaningful way.
What's even more dumb, of course, is that there are top executives who let this kind of thing go on, rather than just saying: "ENOUGH!" and firing everybody involved with such a ludicrous exercise. Including, I might add, the executive who approved it in the first place.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for montages of Barbie doll pictures. Heck, my five year old daughter does them sometimes. But it's a sad testament to the intellectual integrity of the market profession that this kind of idiocy is taken seriously.
While your dog might be afraid of the vacuum, one pup from Columbus, Ohio, seems to like his… or, at least, he’s not afraid to show that sucker who’s boss. According to The Telegraph, the boxer wasn’t shy about interacting with the vacuum. As his human held the nozzle, the dog put his mouth around it several times whil...
And this isn’t the first time that a dog has interacted with a vacuum either. According to Mail Online, a dog made headlines for a similar encounter back in November. Evidently the vacuum isn’t something to fear anymore… and it can provide plenty of entertainment — who needs to clean anyway?
And if you’re in the mood for more viral goodness, check out this video of a talking 7-week-old baby. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, the child can be heard cooing what sounds like the word “hello” to his mom.
The NFC East, a division which at times defies the laws of logic, common sense, gravity, and, well, you get the point. The Giants, Eagles, Cowboys, and Redskins can be about as a formidable foursome as there is in our League. The talent level is good from top to bottom, but it’s how they all four go about collecting it...
Shake ups and losses on the defensive side of the ball have left holes in a number of areas for the Cowboys. Without a first round selection, Dallas doesn’t pick until the 2nd (#51) and some of the premier players at positions of need could quite possibly be long gone by then. The departure of Roy Williams at safety af...
Possible targets: Safety Darcel McBath (Texas Tech), safety Rashad Johnson (Alabama), safety Patrick Chung (Oregon).
The Giants have been able to stay relatively balanced on offense over the past few seasons behind a three-pronged running attack, passing accuracy of Eli Manning and a stable of targets to throw to. But with the release of Plaxico Burress and questions surrounding the re-signing of veteran Amani Toomer, G.M. Jerry Rees...
Potential targets: Receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey (Maryland), receiver Hakeem Nicks (North Carolina), receiver Percy Harvin (Florida).
The Eagles recently took care of their number one need with the trade acquisition of OT Jason Peters from the Buffalo Bills. Peters solidifies the left side (with Pro Bowl credentials) after the loss of Tra Thomas and teams up with UFA Stacy Andrews on the right . This move not only strengthens their offensive front (a...
Possible targets: running back Beanie Wells (Ohio State), running back Donald Brown (Connecticut), running back LeSean McCoy (Pitt).
The Redskins had appeared to have backed off their quest for improvement through free agency over the course of the past couple seasons, but all that changed with the mega-contracts of DeAngelo Hall and Albert Haynesworth. In a study done between 2002 through 2007, the Redskins outspent (on seasonal average) all of the...
Possible targets: defensive end Everette Brown (Florida State); defensive Larry English (Northern Illinois); defensive end Robert Ayers (Tennessee).
This guy has the needs nailed.
What about Moreno for the Eagles??
Wrong. Redskins primary need is new owner.
I wonder of the Eagles will try to move up to get Moreno.
If he is gone, expect them to try to get Pettigrew, or trade down into the high 2nd round for McCoy.
Wasn’t Roy Williams supposed to be signed by now? That says something about his abilities. He is fairly young. Bhut he hits like a little boy and covers like an old granma.
Yep, Philly will probably trade out of the 1st round…. again….
this owner/front office/team agent/vinny impressor/college dropout is killing both true fans and the team, all while making the Bidwells look like they know football.
Snyder was satisfied with having a “better” 2008 than Jones’ traveling circus. with an owner my age, the future looks bleak for my rest of my fall and winter Sundays.
Watch the cowboys select the wide receiver out of ohio state, whose father is the wide receiver coach for the Atlanta Falcons.
One miss on the Eagles … no way they take Beanie Wells. He doesn’t fit what they use a running back for. If they don’t get Knowshon (they may try to trade up to get him) they’ll most likely either go defense at 21 and then grab best RB available in the 2nd round or they’ll trade back a couple slots, pick up some extra ...
I’ve seen some reputable sources say they actually have McCoy rated as highly as Brown and Moreno.
The receiver you are talking about is Brian Robiskie, and he probably wont be there by the 51st pick. His stock is rising and hes most likely looking at being one of the first few picks in the second round.
A portrait of Andra Davis, a former Broncos linebacker, from Oct. 6, 2015.
The days got darker when training camps opened. Andra Davis, 36, a former Broncos linebacker who played 10 seasons in the NFL, retired in 2012, leaving him with a life he expected to be easy and free of the cutthroat world he had inhabited so long. But the honeymoon period was short-lived.
As football started up without him, just 5 miles from his home in Centennial, he found himself alone in his basement, the lights off and his mind racing, thinking about all the things he didn’t accomplish in the NFL and the life he no longer had.
He wasn’t broke. He wasn’t alone. He had a loving family — his wife and three daughters were never far from his side. But depression does not discern family or fortune.
Davis’ career didn’t end on his terms, but it rarely does for NFL players, even the greats such as Peyton Manning. The NFL Players Association says the average career in the league is just more than three years.
And the end can be jarring.
For many, losing football means losing not just a job and a paycheck, but an identity.
From early on, Davis, like most football players, had been programmed to shield the severity of his injuries.
The notion of invincibility is often both a necessity and a crutch — until the game film exposes weaknesses you no longer can hide.
Chris Kuper, 32, a former Broncos offensive lineman, retired in 2014 after eight seasons and a string of injuries. His body couldn’t take the beating anymore. But his mind was eager for more.
Surgery to repair a herniated disk in August 2011 ended the seven-year career of former tight end Bo Scaife, a Denver native.
Davis never imagined life after football, even though he had seen the revolving door of players during his stops with Cleveland, Denver and Buffalo and how one hit, one play, can often end a career.
Drafted by the Browns in the fifth round in 2002, Davis suffered a torn labrum in his first game as a Bill, in 2010, and that was the beginning of the end.
He slogged through two more seasons, playing his final game Jan. 1, 2012. And when that game ended, so did the calls from teammates.
Not everything comes to a halt when the final whistle blows. Implicit in retirement is continued pain.
Kuper never fully recovered from an ankle injury he twice had surgically repaired. When he left the game, weight melted off, putting less pressure on his joints.
Scaife’s injuries are still felt.
Headaches still are frequent for Davis. The constant neck pain? Arthritis. Won’t go away, his doctors told him. The shoulder tear that ended his career still gives him problems. He recently underwent surgery on his right big toe. His left hip has been repaired. And last month, he had surgery to repair his right hip.
The pain coupled with the loneliness led to a depression so deep that Davis almost ended it all.
It wasn’t until late 2012, when he saw his wife break down during a visit with a psychiatrist, that he came to grips with the severity of his depression. The two later went on a fast for Lent that provided Andra structure and renewed faith, and helped lift the dark cloud that had enveloped him.
For the first three years of his career, Davis was broke. He entered the league more than $100,000 in debt after burning through his signing bonus. He bought the Louis Vuitton luggage and the brand new Lincoln Navigator, all with the belief that he would pay it off with his next check.
Davis played it smarter when the paychecks got bigger. When he received a five-year contract extension with the Browns in 2005, his financial adviser urged him to put $100,000 a year for five years into a life insurance policy, a drop in the bucket that would ultimately save him in retirement.
Many players lack basic financial skills necessary to manage a six figure-plus paychecks.
The Broncos hold regular meetings — some individual, some teamwide — about planning for a career after football. The players union has representatives visit teams five to seven times a year to inform players of available programs. But often the most basic things are overlooked. And the focus for active players is and m...
“I think some of the stuff needs to be mandatory as far as basics of finance, whether it’s filing your taxes, putting together a résumé — that’s an important thing,” Kuper said.
When players retire, they aren’t handed a road map to help navigate the myriad resources available to them. The NFLPA’s Players Trust was established in 2013 to provide educational, career, medical and networking resources to retired players. But there are multiple other organizations — with the league, with the union ...
Davis, who went back to school in retirement to receive his MBA, relied on the advice of former players to find his way. The shared lessons also helped to rebuild a social network that was torn down in retirement.
“Being able to speak to other guys about the transition and what they’re doing, it was so therapeutic for me,” said Scaife, who also received his MBA after retiring and has since launched a leadership and apparel company, Fresh Ed. Life.
Before the start of training camp this past summer, Davis boxed up the football memorabilia sprinkled around his home office. The framed jerseys signed by fellow players were hung in the basement, not far from the trophies and commemorative footballs arranged on a bookcase.
The journey to retirement is rarely smooth. Davis left the game in a better position than most: financially stable, and with a family that rode the roller coaster of the NFL with him, even when it stopped.
Kuper did too, recently welcoming his third child and working as a managing partner with Black Lab Sports, a startup in Boulder that invests in sports technology.Kuper also coaches at Columbine High School and is a part-investor in a D1 Sports training facility in Highlands Ranch.
Davis often speaks at local schools as part of All Roads Open, his faith-based organization that provides educational and mentorship programs to students and families. He is grateful he got to fulfill his dream of playing in the NFL.

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