Indianapolis can handle it, no problem

I just read that Kraft is sending the Gillette Stadium Employees to the Super Bowl

That is wonderful, But what about the 11 Patriot cheerleaders that didn’t get to go?

Should they not be included in the trip and the most excitement and the biggest and best part of football.

They promote the team all year long. and route for them and then in the end are left home as if they are incidental to organization. How heart breaking.

Can Kraft not send them as well?

From http://www.johnhourihan.wordpress.com
In Afghanistan, the Taliban sentences to death those who don’t believe in their religion.
In Iran, those voicing opinions in the streets are beaten or killed by government thugs.
In China, the Internet is censored because people use it to criticize the government.
And a few years ago, outside our borders, 60 journalists were killed, 673 arrested, 929 were physically attacked or threatened, 353 media outlets were censored, and 29 journalists were kidnapped.
But in America, we enjoy our freedoms of religion, speech, press, and assembly.
And in America, on any given night, between 154,000 and 200,000 men and women who took up arms and defended those freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly are living in the alleys, dumpsters and doorways of the nation — hungry, sick, cold and defeated.
Over the course of a year, the number comes embarrassingly close to a million veterans who are homeless at one time or another.
And we let it happen.
It doesn’t even seem to bother us. Well, not the way really important things bother us.
It isn’t new.
It has happened after every war. When those who stand on the wall and fight get back from war we have a unique way of handling them.
They are an embarrassment, so we ignore them.
On Friday, the President of the United States outlined how he would provide a job corps to reduce the number of veterans without a job.
This is nice. It has always been a fact that if the unemployment of the general public is about 5 to 10 percent, the percentage for young veterans is 15 to 20.
But what of those who fought for their home and returned to a home that left them homeless?
We deal with the important things, though. Don’t we?
Our media four-walls a football game that is to take place Sunday. The Patriots against the Giants. We now know the life stories of each man on each team. We know how they fought to get to this game of games. There are the heroes and the villains. We can’t wait, and we have parties and everyone gets rich. The cost of a Super Bowl advertisement in 2012 can reach $4 million for a 30-second spot.
I love it too. Before there were the Boston Patriots, the New York Giants were my team. It is, for me, dramatic irony, and I‘m looking forward to it.
But, whether we like it or not, it is not as important as those we sent to war as teenagers and who came back maimed physically or psychologically. They are just a fact of life that we more fortunate ones have to live with, preferably in silence and darkness.
We don’t like seeing them, so we close our eyes or put them in the closet.
There have been no trillions of stimulus dollars spent caring for our veterans. We use that to bail out those whose greed devastated the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness our veterans once secured for us.
We go into the worst national debt we have ever seen, as we pay out hand-over-fist to those miscreants who caused “we the people” to lose our homes, jobs, retirement funds, health benefits, and nearly toppled the world economy.
But for those who walk the streets with post traumatic stress disorder, with addictions they learned fighting for our country, we do only enough to get a few votes — only enough to tell ourselves we tried. And we spend more on a football game.
Millions will sit down Sunday for an entire day of the Super Bowl. We will spend more on chips and dip than we spend each year on homeless vets.
So I ask, if it is possible that we can find it in our hearts that, when the game is over, and the empty beer cans are recycled, and the hangovers are done, can’t we maybe take some time to take care of those who defended our freedoms.
Get them off the streets, into jobs, off drugs and alcohol, and back into the lives they left when they went to war.
Or be truthful and add these freedoms to the Bill of Rights:
1. The right to ignore our defenders.
2. The right to allow them to die hungry and cold in the streets.
3. The right to close our eyes when we pass them in winter morning doorways.
4. The right to send the next batch of sons into the same Stygian hell.

The Big Game is almost here!

Excited for the commercials? Check out our full-length ad featuring Adriana Lima, Chuck Liddell, and Motley Crue: http://bit.ly/KiaBGAd. You won’t want to miss this one!

Cheers,
Michael
Kia Outreach Team

[...] CBS Local [...]

Mr.Geagan,
Please get your facts correct. The police did not close the street thus causing and or creating more of a crowding situation. They opened the street to our guests and close the street to mobile traffic. I take it you were not in Indy this week, because you would have seen the happy faces everywhere downtown. Everyone enjoyed the experience and this is not the first time Indy has experience over 500,000 people enjoying a sports event in this town. We are friendly and everyone enjoyed the NFL Experience etc. Children, parents, teenagers, and early twenties, and grandparents all found something to enjoy.
Yes, there was a large crowd there Friday night but….. it was handled immediately with out and problems. So stuff your attitude you know where and get your facts correct the next time.
. .