Everyone's doing great, big brother is being very helpful and couldn't wait to take a picture of the baby to pre-school.

Labor was relatively easy - she pushed for a grand total of 9 minutes, and he was out!  But I guess that's the advantage of the 2nd baby.

Kelly described the way he was told about his son's death. The officer who came to his door was his best friend, and fellow officer, Joe Dunford. And Dunford's words may have made sense to and brought some tiny bit of comfort to a fellow Marine. That does not mean those same words would comfort the civilian widow of a fallen service member.

Why Kelly chose this moment to castigate all of America save those in the military escapes me. His criticisms of all other Americans, our, in his opinion, lack of respect for life (sounded like a shot at abortion supporters) and religion and women made him sound like an angry old man railing at a world that had changed while he stayed the same.

It was a painful thing to watch.

And it was also clear, to me at least, Kelly was never the White knight he has been portrayed.  Anyone who can stand in front of cameras in defense of Trump and wax rhapsodic about the things that used to be sacred doesn't understand the problem he is supposed to be containing.

As I said before, I don't blame owners for passing on Kaepernick.  I wouldn't want him on my team.  But if there's actual collusion, it would be another black eye for the NFL.  

Compare them, if you will, to the numbers for Joe Flacco, the Ravens' franchise QB.  

Yeah, just take that in for a minute.

Joe Flacco got a huge contract after the Ravens won the Super Bowl, and he's pretty much played like crap since.  

Something tells me that if Kaepernick was a white guy with domestic violence or substance abuse issues, who stood for the anthem, you wouldn't give a rat's patootie if he wore women's underwear.  Nor would you consider him a distraction.

And he is, by many accounts I've read, absolutely in football shape.  An example:

Colin has been there since January, training with me five days a week. We have been getting ready for football as if he was a starting quarterback for an NFL team. When I read that people don't know if Colin wants to play football ... this guy's been doing it five hours a day, five days a week, like he has a starting NFL job. And we don't take days off.

"This isn't a normal off-season, obviously. We are leaving no stone unturned. Working out, sleeping, eating, massages, getting ready to do it again the next day. Colin is not a guy at the clubs ... He is in the gym. We knew he was going to be dissected. We knew any chink in the armor was going to be dissected, so there are no chinks in the armor. We knew this was the be-all, end-all for us. Colin came in around 220 pounds; he lost all that weight last year because he was recovering from three surgeries. And now he's 230, a solid 230, and he's eating perfectly. He is putting extremely clean nutrients in his body. He does not put any garbage in his body. He believes in clean fuel.

And while you try to make something out of him opting out of his contract, that might have had something to do with the fact that the 49ers were going to release him.  Oh, and he didn't collect nearly as much money on his contract as people think:

The contract gave Kaepernick a $12.3 million signing bonus and a 2014 salary of just $645,000. Those were the only truly guaranteed portions of the contract, despite reports that Kaepernick's deal included a record $61 million in "guaranteed" money. It turned out the $61 million was only guaranteed if he were to suffer a career-ending injury.

Each year of the contract after the first, the 49ers were free to cut Kaepernick and not owe him any more money.

To make matters worse, Kaepernick was supposed to get his first large salary ($12.4 million) during the 2015 season. However, because of the way the contract was worded, that salary actually went down to $10.4 million. Kaepernick's salary went down $2 million each year if he was not named first- or second-team All-Pro, or if the 49ers didn't play in the Super Bowl the previous season with 80% of the snaps taken by Kaepernick. None of those things happened.

Kaepernick eventually restructured his contract during the 2016 season, turning the 2017 season into a player option. Knowing that the 49ers were going to release him later in the summer, Kaepernick opted out of his contract in early March hoping to take advantage of becoming a free agent earlier and having more time to secure a new contract.

In the end, Kaepernick's seven-year, $126 million contract turned out to be a three-year deal worth a tad more than $39 million. That is less than the three-year, $45 million contract Mike Glennon signed with the Chicago Bears this past offseason.

And there are some pretty good QBs - Brady and Rodgers, to name two - who seem to think he deserves another opportunity.  

If all you've got are knees and socks, I'm thinking you don't have much.

And statements...how dare he have an opinion!  Better than recent statements by Cam Newton, and he still got a job.  As he should...even if he's been playing crappy lately, he still is one of the best 96 people in the world at playing QB, as is Kaepernick.

But fielding the best talent and winning are both secondary to the NFL and its owners main goal...making money.

Pfffttt ...

Unrepentant hypocrite Colin Kaepernick defends Fidel Castro
Miami Herald

My exchange with Kaepernick ended there, after about three minutes, because I was stunned how someone so outspoken about his beliefs could be so ignorant to facts not up for debate. I suppose he thinks he made salient points in our back and forth.

All he did was expose himself as a fraud.

So wear your Malcolm X shirt that features Fidel Castro, Colin Kaepernick. Wear it around a town where hundreds of thousands of Cuban exiles live with memories similar to mine. Wear it on the field Sunday during pregame if you're so proud of it.

Show everyone what an unrepentant hypocrite you are.

Colin Kaepernick Castro T-shirt is ignorant of facts, insulting
Orlando Sentinel

I'd type in a bunch of Cuban curse words if I could.

There is no question that racial inequality needs to be a topic of conversation in the United States. But that gets us back to Cuba, where such conversations can get you in prison.

My family left there in 1961. We left our home, our furniture, most of valuables and our relatives behind because we were seeking freedom. It wasn't for money, nor the opportunity to visit Disney and Universal.

We wanted to be free, and the United States, bless its soul, gave us that opportunity.

So yes, I find it personally insulting that  Kaepernick is oblivious to the fact that Castro is one of the most vile dictators of modern times with extensive human rights violations.

Well-played. Your ignorance and stupidity goes well with your sense of comedic timing. We are done here.

Yeah.  No kidding.  I remember the ending.

Please do us a favor and refrain from trying to argue the eminent reasonableness of the Marino nomination.

Does this seem reasonable to you?

Some viewers from West Virginia were alarmed to hear that one pharmacy in the town of Kermit, with a population of 392, received shipments of nine million hydrocodone pills over two years.

"Aren't we all"

Omg