A Hill To Die On

We keep hearing and reading this phrase "that's a hill to die on".  Now we are used to political speech being filled with hyperbole and meaningless verbiage and one of our all time favorites will always be "a thousand points of light".  But this "hill to die on" thing, really has us confused.  We get the idea.  A place to make a last stand.  And it sounds like it's trying to be a historical reference too but what hill?  There was Bunker Hill which was actually Breed's Hill but a lot of the Colonials retreated.  They didn't all die up there.  Was Custer on a hill at the Little Big Horn?  Was the Alamo on a hill?  Do they mean San Juan Hill which was actually Kettle's Hill?  Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders took that hill.  So, where is this hill?  We mean if you're going to die somewhere, you might want to know.  We want to know too.

And the Jeffrey Epstein story has become "a nothingburger", according to Harry Enten, a data analyst for CNN.  Now we don't believe CNN or any of the WOWTMSM, especially when they give us numbers.  But according to this Enten guy, these numbers are from Google searches.  Not some fake group of people they supposedly called on the phone, who think exactly as CNN wants them to.  Nor are they numbers from the government, which can be changed whenever anyone wants them to.  No, this came from Google searches, which could be faked once anyone begins to use them too often.  But for right now, the Google searches on Jeffrey Epstein have fallen by 89%.  Not too many people are much interested in him anymore.

It could be, because we pointed out that the government convicted him and Ghislaine Maxwell, without ever mentioning a client, so why would his files still have any of those names?  Or it could be as we pointed out, that even if those names became public, so a few meaningless, narcissistic nitwits would fall from various screens we look at.  Soon to be replaced by another group and BFD.  So it could be our observations, that put this story to bed.  So with that in mind, we have two more.

One, that Epstein was blackmailing powerful and famous people.  Fugettaboutitt!  Try it yourself and see what happens to you.  Only beat up, if you're lucky.  But the more obvious pin to that balloon is, would anyone keep hanging around with him? Would you?  We mean after you beat the bleep out of hm.  Epstein would have been the loneliest guy on the planet.  Even Ghislaine, would have left him.  Who wants to be the only guest at the party?

Two, you have to live in New York City to know this one and you have to have a sharp eye because you could miss this, if you walk by too fast.  But you can see it in the picture above, if you look closely.  The  Metropolitan Correctional Center where Epstein died, is on a hill.  So in spite of, or because of, the cameras not working, the guards falling asleep, Jeffrey Epstein found his hill to die on.  Even if he didn't want to.

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Who Would You Hire?

Sydney Sweeney pictured above, has made a commercial for American Eagle Jeans.  We've watched it five times.  Hey, we have to do research.  But we can't seem to find any inferences to the Nazis or the head Nazi, Adolph Hitler.  And since references to Nazis and the head Nazi Adolph Hitler, seem to pop up on almost a daily basis, we thought it was high time for a Hitler quiz.  We mean if you are going to compare A to B, you need to know what B is, otherwise your comparison is what?  So without further ado.

Question 1.  What High School did Adolph Hitler graduate from?

A. Vienna High School of the Arts.

B. Braunau am Inn High School.

C. Braunau am Inn Reformatory School.

D. Hitler never graduated from High School.

Question 2.  Before Hitler was Der Fuhrer what was his occupation?

A. Hitler was a Dentist who didn't use Novocaine.  He liked to watch his patients squirm.

B. Hitler never had an occupation.  He lived in a Shelter.  He was a homeless, day laborer.

C. Hitler was a Shoe Maker.

D. Hitler was a Journalist and part of the fake news media of his day.

Question 3.  Who was Geli Raubal

A. She was Hitler's niece.

B.  She was Hitler's girlfriend.

C. She was Hitler's niece and his girlfriend.

Question 4.  Hitler's ability to become Der Fuhrer, design economic policy for Germany, chart foreign policy, design military campaigns and run the entire government of Germany, came from his experience as...

A. His tenure at Konigliche Preubische Kriegsakademie.  Germany's West Point.

B. His experience as a day laborer and homeless guy, who lived in a Shelter.

C. His military experience.  He was a Corporal in WWI.

D. Damned if we know.

Answers.

1. D.  Hitler was a dropout.

2. B.  Hitler was a homeless guy who lived in a Shelter.  The only work he got was as a day laborer.

3.  A. B. and C.  We like to make one question real easy and Geli was Hitler's niece and his girlfriend, so no matter what you picked, you got it right.

4. D.  Damned if we know.  We hate to put a big pin in the balloon that has Hitler as the Evil Genius and the face of Evil but based on his resume, before he was the Fuhrer of course, we have to ask you one question.  Would you hire this guy?  Not as Der Fuhrer but like, as anything?  Our own theory is Hitler was a guy who could speak extemporaneously for quite awhile, without notes or index cards.  Just like a lot of would be Hollyweird stars, who wait tables, while hoping for the big break.  Or one of the Housewives of New York, Beverly Hills or wherever you like.  We kind of think of Hitler, as the first Housewife of Munich.  Nothing else, makes any sense.

But back to Sydney Sweeney.  She's an Actress with an impressive resume.  She's been in some big productions like 'The Handmaid's Tale', 'Euphoria' and 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood'. She's also a producer.  She's way more qualified to be hired for a job, any job, than Adolf Hitler.  In short, there's no comparison here.

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Sorry?

We were feeling sorry for Jerome Powell the Chairman of the Federal Reserve because DJT, POTUS 45 & 47 thinks Powell is a "stupid person" and talking to him "is like talking to a chair.  There's nothing there."  And a whole lot of people want Powell to resign.  He is definitely not going to be reinstated when his term is up next spring.  If that wasn't bad enough, he was last seen shuffling along like an old homeless guy that DJT, POTUS 45 & 47 and Senator Tim Scott had picked up along the way, as they reviewed the new Federal Reserve Building.  A building whose construction has gone way overboard.  A building Chairman Powell will never sit in.  And the building's construction is so over budget that a criminal referral was sent to the DOJ about it.  Fed Chairman Powell could have some 'splaining to do. 

Yeah we were feeling sorry for the old guy till we did a little research and found out he's worth 55 million dollars!  Do we feel sorry for him now?  Fugettaaboutitt!

And Ghislaine Maxwell is now talking to Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche!  Why?  Well she's doing 20 years for sex trafficking underage girls and she wants out of prison.  Most everyone in those places wants the same thing.  So why is this high ranking Deputy Attorney General talking to her?  Well, she can name, names.  She knows who she sent the little girls to go see.  This is something that Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi and the rest of the FBI and DOJ haven't got a clue about.  She was always happy to tell the DOJ, it's just that no one ever asked before.

Do we feel sorry for Ghislaine Maxwell?  Not hardly.

And poor Dan Bongino.  In the course of his investigations he has uncovered such a shocking truth that it has "shocked him down to his core" and "he will never be the same."  Most of the country believes that the government played some role in the assassination of President Kennedy, so it has to be bigger than that.  We have our money on LBJ by the way.  And since Dan Bongino is the Deputy Director of the FBI now, he probably knows who was shooting from the Grassy Knoll.  So what could these scandals ever be?

BTW we all thought Bongino was a tough guy.  Tough guys can handle anything.  They don't get shaken to their core.  We're not sure what is going to be more shocking to us, getting the details on these scandals or us realizing that Dan Bongino, is a wuss.

Do we feel sorry for Dan Bongino?  Well, maybe a little.

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Nobody

CBS has cancelled the Colbert Show!  There are all kinds of conspiracy theories surrounding this and there is much gnashing of teeth in certain quarters.  But CBS says The Colbert Show is losing 40 million dollars a year!  OMG!  And that is why they are cancelling the show.  

And people in certain quarters, who are gnashing their teeth, are bemoaning this cancellation as it just might be a harbinger of things to come for the other late night talk shows.  The old slippery slop thing.  With good reason too, as Colbert ironically, is the highest rated of the broadcast, late night, talk shows.  So you can imagine how much the other shows are losing.  Imagine that!  Corporations not wanting to lose 40 million a year?  "Oh, the humanity!"*

We have a sneaky suspicion that the names of the Late Night TV show hosts will be a category on Jeopardy a decade from now and none of the contestants will get anything in that category right.  Nobody will remember or care.

And they are picking on Harry and Meghan again.  No, not 'South Park'.  Now it's 'Family Guy', another animated series.  Why?  Meghan and Harry are not doing anything.  And, we sort of get the Royal Family back in Great Britain.  They represent the country, the culture.  They serve a purpose.  But Meghan and Harry?  What do they do?  They are sort of like the lilies of the field.  "They toil not, neither do they spin"**.  Well maybe not quite the lilies of the field but you get the picture.  They're not doing much.

Seth MacFarlane is the guy who runs 'Family Guy' and we sort of get it, as Harry and Meghan were almost somebody, but now?

And Hunter Biden went on a F bomb fueled rant on X, where he bemoaned the illegal immigrants being deported to El Salvador.  He says if he's elected President, he'll demand they are all are brought back.  We didn't know he was running.  Maybe that should have been the headline instead of all the F bombs.  But if El Salvador refuses to send back the illegal immigrants, he'll invade El Salvador to get them back.  That's when he's President of course.

But maybe what he's really upset about is no one buys his paintings anymore.  And with his father's pardon in hand, no one even investigates him anymore.  No one even talks about his Laptop anymore.  He's a nobody.

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*That is a quote from Herbert Morrison reporting the Hindenburg disaster.

** Matthew 6:27

Just Funny That Way

Is it only us?  Or do you notice how certain famous people who have been getting away it for a long time and get busted, also get linked to the C.I.A. or some other intelligence organization?  Not all of the them of course, but certainly Jeffrey Epstein, who was not only C.I.A. operative but he also worked for MOSSAD, supposedly.  Then there was the The Diddy who worked for the F.B.I., supposedly.  We were just wondering why is that?  Not that it's even true or not, just why?  Like no one ever linked the C.I.A., the F.B.I. or MOSSAD to Harvey Weinstein.  Or Bill Cosby.  We guess, life is just funny that way.

And Alan Dershowitz famed Harvard Law Professor knows who is on the CLIENT LIST!  He has seen it.  Why?  Well he was accused by Virginia (committed suicide) Giuffre, of being one of the CLIENTS!  She later recanted her accusation saying she mixed him up with someone else.  How you mix that guy's face up with someone else's, we don't know.  That's him pictured above.  Then again she might not have seen the guy's face.  Maybe it was dark and the guy said.  "I'm Alan Dershowitz, famed Harvard Law Professor."  The guy just wanted to impress her.  But either way, she recanted.  But of course while being accused, Dershowitz demanded and got to see all the information on the case.  It's called DISCOVERY.   So he's seen it.  Will you see it?  Of course not!  Why?  "Attorney client privilege" says Alan (I don't want to commit suicide) Dershowitz.

Just a little note here, as people like to throw around and hide behind PRIVILEGE.  Understand that it's not a law.  It's a privilege held by a Priest, Doctor, Lawyer and Spouse.  They can refuse to disclose or testify but they don't have to refuse.  They can both talk and testify, if they so desire.  Like we said, it's not a law.  So Alan Dershowitz famed Harvard Law Professor can, if he wants to, tell you who was on the Jeffrey (committed suicide) Epstein List.  Will he?  We say, no way.  Why?  Because life is just funny that way.

And John Brennan former head of the C.I.A. and J. Edgar Comey former head of the F.B.I. are under criminal investigation!  OMG!!  We thought of listing all the political figures who have been under criminal investigation but then we realized we don't have enough staff, enough time or enough space here.  But we feel confident in laying odds.  So it's 10 to 1 against indictment.  10 to 1 against a trial or a conviction.  And we'd put it at 1,000 to 1 against either of them doing any jail time but we don't want to take anyone's dollar.*

So why do they do this?  Waste time and energy investigating, when even if they get a conviction the subject never does a minute in jail?  Well by now you know, life is just funny that way.

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*This does not apply to unknown people who get caught up in these investigations who might be reading this from their jail cell.

The Client List

An FBI memo concludes that there is no Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell Client List!  Ghislaine might be wondering why she's in jail.  Jeffrey had no comment.

In simpler times, before computers and cell phones, a high class Brothel would be raided, the Madame in custody and supposedly out there somewhere, was the BLACK BOOK.  The BLACK BOOK was this item that contained the names of the Clients.  Since this was a high priced Brothel, the Clients were the rich, the famous, the influential, the movers and the shakers along with the predilections of their sexual preferences.  Now the predilections were in the BLACK BOOK because the Madame wanted to take good care of her rich clients and needed to remember what they liked.  

Promises of the release of this nefarious tome would flood the newspapers and magazines.  Alas much to the chagrin of those who waited patiently for the release of the BLACK BOOK, it just never happened.  This thing never got produced and the public never got to learn what was in it.

Maybe the thing was a total fiction or maybe having someone's name and phone number in a book is not evidence of a crime.  Even if it had some indications of what that person liked to do, when satiating their libido.  Remember the crime is exchanging money for sex, not having someone's name in a book.  The only well known Client we can ever remember getting busted, was one Charlie Sheen.  Yeah the guy with the tiger blood, who could consume Cocaine 8 Balls and Escorts like they were gummy bears.  But Charlie wasn't busted because his name was in the BLACK BOOK.  He was busted because he paid with a check.  Maybe he had one 8 Ball too many and forgot the oldest adage, when engaging in the oldest profession.  Only use cash.

But jump ahead to today and hardly anything gets written down on paper.  We use electronics for almost everything and in place of the BLACK BOOK is the CLIENT LIST.  And once again just having someone's name and phone number on an electronic device, is not evidence of a crime.  Even if it says something like Bill Clinton 202-###-#### and have cigars on hand.

What the FBI memo is really saying is.  We convicted Jeffrey Epstein and never mentioned a Client.  We arrested him again for the same thing and would have convicted him again, without mentioning a Client.  We arrested, tried and convicted Ghislaine Maxwell without ever mentioning a Client.  What makes you think we will tell you now?

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We Were Wrong

Every once in a while we get things wrong in the Journalism Matrix.  When we do that we feel we have to apologize.  We might be the only ones who do this, as certainly no one else comes to mind right now.  But we got two things wrong in our assessment of the shooting of Minnesota State Legislators.  First thing is only one Minnesota Legislator got killed.  The other deceased individual was her husband.  The other Minnesota Legislator was shot and survived as did his wife.  But the big thing we missed was we thought this shooting would bring on a onslaught of the various ideologues blaming the other side because of the mud they all sling.  It didn't happen.

Now that might have been because the shooter Vance Luther Boelter wrote a letter in which he confessed to the shootings and said the Minnesota Governor and failed VP candidate Tim Walz told him to do it.  Thus making all other theories null and void.  Or possibly it could be that a whole lot of people realized the guy Vance Luther Boelter, is off his nut.  But either way, we were wrong and we apologize.

Now this other thing we got wrong goes back aways.  Back past the election when Donald John Trump was facing over 90 felony counts in four different legal proceedings.  We speculated as to what he could do if elected.  We thought he could either govern from a jail cell in Ossining State Penitentiary or maybe he could be President in Exile, and govern from someplace like Dubai.  Well three of the cases just fell apart and even though he got convicted of 34 felony accounts in New York, the Judge said.  "Have a nice day."  No jail time or even a fine.  Makes you wonder why they bothered with this but then this is a column about us being wrong not about the machinations of the legal system.  That is fodder for another day.  Donald John Trump POTUS 45 & 47 as you can see from the picture above, is governing from the White House, not Ossining State Penitentiary or Dubai.  We were wrong and we apologize.

Trust us that wasn't so hard and we feel better.  Sort of like you had a fight with your wife.  You apologized and it's a whole lot better than sleeping on the couch.  Maybe everyone in this Journalism Matrix, should do the same thing.

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