A protester met the full-force of NFL linebacker Bobby Wagner on Monday night as the Los Angeles Rams hosted the San Francisco 49ers.

At the end of the first half, a man ran onto the field at the Levi’s Stadium carrying a pink flare, temporarily halting play.

While he initially evaded the efforts of stewards trying to stop him, he made the mistake of running towards the Rams defensive bench.

Wagner and teammate Takkarist McKinley saw him coming and, as McKinley tried to grab hold of the protester, Wagner took him down.

Content with his intervention, the 32-year-old walked away as security escorted the man off the field.

That’s what Linebackers do!

Yes, yesterday was moving day from a condo back to a house.

We have moved many times down through the years.

It never gets any easier because we continue to accumulate STUFF!

From what I’ve read recently, America is on the move.

Climate change is causing more people to move because they are living in an area with too little or too much water.

Most moving companies we contacted are booked into the far future.

If you have a strong reason to move, it will hopefully be well worth the enormous effort required to pick up your like and put it elsewhere.

Good luck!

When planning a honeymoon, many couples go for obvious destinations like Paris, the city of love, or the Maldives, with its stunning azure waters.

Few, unlike Croatian newlyweds Kristijan and Andrea Ilicic, opt for a freight train carrying wagons of dirty iron ore across the baking hot deserts of Mauritania in northwest Africa.

The couple hit upon their unusual post-wedding experience having already visited scores of destinations around the world as travel influencers — Kristijan has clocked up no less than 150.

“We really saw a lot,” Kristijan told CNN via email. “This time, it had to be something completely different. And we found it in… Mauritania!”

The climax of their trip was a daring photoshoot on top of the iron ore-laden train as it rumbled across the desert on its 700-kilometer (435-mile) journey from the mining town of Zouérat to the Atlantic port of Nouadhibou. (CNN)

Now, you’ve seen everything!

(From Bill Bonner) (A multibillionaire’s prediction)

Clean energy (Windmills and Solar) will not be able to replace the power generated by fossil fuels for 20 years.

And yet we are are shutting down the production of fossil fuels everywhere.

It seems to be the “politically correct” thing to do.

But, we are heading for a lack of energy crisis needed to heat our homes and drive our economy.

Ask questions of your local government.

If not now, when?

Schools and parents are spoiling their kids.

They are doing this by helping the child avoid disappointment.

And yet, disappointment is a part of everyone’s life.

At an exclusive girls high school, one of the students did not get elected to the student government.

So, she persuaded her mother to come to the school and defend her desire to be a member of the student body.

The school created an additional position on the governmental body and awarded it to the complainer.

So, how and when is that young lady going to learn how to cope with disappointment in the future?

The real tragedy of these modern times is the fact that more young people are committing suicide when things don’t go their way.

The “school of hard knocks” is still the best teacher.

Life is a series of ups and downs.

We all must learn how to handle both.

If not today, when?

People who set goals for each day are more productive.

The one thing you always have with you is your cellular phone.

Why not make a list of goals for today and save that list in your cellular phone?

It’s so simple to do and could become a good daily habit for you.

If not today, when?

One day, we decided to get a dog.

So, we began visiting shelters to see if we could find the “perfect” dog.

We went to a number of shelters and found one my wife wanted.

The people who run the shelter said she had delivered a litter of puppies.

After the delivery, her owner sent her out into the streets.

The police found her very hungry and dehydrated.

It took the shelter two months to restore her to full health.

The moment my wife laid eyes on her, it was love at first sight.

She instantly named the dog “Happy” because she knew this dog would make her happy.

“Happy” has been a daily source of joy in our lives.

So, as usual, my wife’s instincts were correct in choosing her and naming her “Happy.”

“Happy” has all the good qualities of a dog: loyalty, affection and friendliness to everyone.

“Happy” has earned her name many times over!

Did the man in the photo above make good choices or is his life strewn with regrets?

The quality of each person’s life is the result of the impact of outside forces over which there is no control and also decisions made deliberately by the individual.

When I hear of the death of young people, I wonder if they had lived long enough to gather wisdom into their decisions.

Or, did they have a low quality of their short life because they didn’t live long enough to know what is truly important.

And how does happenstance impact our view of life.

I know a very poor young man who has had a tough childhood and a mighty struggle in adulthood.

One day he asked me, “Why am I not lucky?”

The quality of his life has been degraded by a terrible mother and his wrong decisions in adulthood.

The only advice I can offer, despite these outside influences, to have a high quality life is that you must try to live by the following virtues: Honesty, loyalty, compassion, charity, forgiveness, humility, patience and gratitude.

It would seem that some people have a far less opportunity for a happy life than others and no one seems to be able to know why.

All we can do to help these people is to demonstrate kindness, patience and support in our daily lives any way we are able.

If not today, when?

44 black mothers per 100,000 die in childbirth in the U.S. each year.

18 white mothers per 100,000 die in childbirth in the U.S. each year

12 Hispanic mothers per 100,000 die in childbirth in the U.S. each year.

Many new mothers also suffer from post partum depression.

I am using these statistics to drive home the point that there is a certain degree of risk for every woman who bears a child.

And the birth is not where her responsibility ends.

Oh no, motherhood and its responsibilities are just beginning.

Each mother will try to nurture, take care of and worry about each child throughout her life.

Never forget the efforts your mother has made on your behalf.

As she ages, it’s your turn to love her and help her.

Never forsake your mother.

And just think of all the single moms in our society trying to raise a child alone.

Honor thy mother!

Washington (CNN)

French President Emmanuel Macron is warning about a “crisis of democracies,” including in the United States, following years of “pressure” and “destabilization” efforts in an exclusive US interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Asked by Tapper if he’s worried about American democracy, Macron replied, “I worry about all of us.”

“I hate lecturing people and saying, ‘I’m worried for you.’ … But I do believe that what is at stake is what we built in the 18th century,” Macron said.

The French leader warned of a global crisis of Western “liberal democracies” when asked by Tapper about the trend in nationalism, populism and racism spreading in Europe and the US.

“I think we have [a] big crisis of democracies, of what I would call liberal democracies.

Let’s be clear about that.

Why?

First, because being open societies and being open and very cooperative democracies put pressure on your people.

It could destabilize them,” Macron said.