Odds And Ends

They held the White House Correspondents Dinner and once again, we weren't invited.  Are we hurt, angry?  Not really.  Should we be?  This is one of these organizations, who if they had someone like us as members, we wouldn't want to belong to it. (With apologies to Groucho Marx here.)  And if we were invited to one of their soirees, we would never attend.  But they could have asked.  We mean we do comment on what is going on in the world and we are a lot more reliable.  Not to mention we analyze the comings and goings of things, with a lot more adroitness.  So maybe the White House Correspondents, don't like us too much.  Then again they invited DJT 45th and 47th POTUS and they don't like him at all.  So, well, yeah, maybe we should be a little hurt and a little angry.  But not too much, just a little.

Some big shockers from the WOWTMSM last week;

POTUS 46 or Old Brains as we affectionately refer to him around here, was going senile when he was Vice President and not the last few months he was President.  Wow!  Who'd a' thunk it?

Dr. Fauci knew that the Kung Flu came from a lab but lied about it.  Another wow, who'd a' thunk it

Speaking of Fauci, we got hold of a few things from his diary that the media didn't.  Maybe that's why they don't invite us to their big soirees.

3/24/2020

'Mirror, mirror, on the wall who is the fairest of them all?'

5/22/20

'Julia Roberts met me and she giggled like a school girl.  But of course she would.'

6/28/20

'They want me to hate on Trump.  Why not?  What does Trump know?  I'm a Doctor.'

7/15/20

'Some news reporter wanted to know if the masks everyone has to wear do anything.  Of course not!  But if I tell everyone to wear them, they will wear them!'

9/20/2020

'Some nitwit Senator wanted to know if I closed the schools.  This guy used to be a Doctor.  I am a Doctor!  I am Dr. Fauci and yes!  Me, I, Dr. Fauci, closed the schools!  And I did it, because I could!'

11/05/2020

'Trump lost and it was all because of me, I, Dr. Fauci!  Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all'.

7/10/2026 'My attorneys advised me that all entries in my diary from now on should read.  Under the advice of counsel, I refuse to answer on the rights and privileges granted to me under the 5th amendment of the Constitution of the United States.'

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Deathly Shadows

The DHS, Department of Homeland Security announced that there are 400,000 dead people on our voter rolls.  Which raises the question, who are they going to vote for in the mid-terms?  Has anyone polled them?

And congratulations to Spain's Soccer team winning the World Cup!  

But Spain's Striker, Borja Iglesias was deathly worried before the Final Game.  The game for the whole shebang.  Was he worried that his team would lose in front of the whole world?  Was he worried that he would play poorly in front of the whole world?  No!  Borja Iglesias was deathly worried that if his team won, he would come face to face with DJT 45th and 47th POTUS, and Borja did not want to shake hands with DJT.  Borja was convinced that after refusing to shake hands with DJT, he would then go straight to jail.  He would not collect $200 or even get to celebrate the victory.  We're not sure what country Borja thought the Meadowlands was in, Russia maybe, Red China, Iran?  But lucky for Mr. Iglesias when his team won, DJT 45th and 47th POTUS presented the trophy to the team captain, shook the hand of one player who stuck his hand out to be shaken and then exited stage right.  Borja Iglesias was spared.

And the dead are going to lose 100 million dollars, as Treasury Secretary Bessent has announced the end to their payments.  "Cruelty thy name is..."* no longer woman, it's Bessent.

Then there is the peace deal with the IRGC which became the done deal, as in put a fork in it.  What the Mass Hysteria and Cognoscenti Of The Known World don't seem to understand, is the IRGC can't sign a peace deal.  The IRGC is a gang, and all gangsters know, they can't show weakness.  They are dead men, when they do.

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*William Shakespeare

Happy 250th Birthday USA

There are always the naysayers.  The people who don't like the United States of America.  The people who point out all the negatives.  But the United States can't help being made up of human beings and human beings have transgressed everywhere they've roamed.  There is nothing unique about that in our 50 States and 5 territories.

But the United States is unique in this world in many things.  The first and foremost, is we weren't formed by some War Lord who managed to subdue, coerce or negotiate with other War Lords to get himself named the King, and the place, a country.  No, the United States of America begins with the stroke of a pen.  'When in the course of human events...'  And it turned out to be one hell of an event.  It changed the course of history.

We were created by ideas and ideals.  They are ingrained in out founding document and all our laws.  We may fall short of those ideas and ideals from time to time, but they are ours.  We created them.  When President Lincoln spoke  about our nation on November 19th 1863 and said.  "that nation of the people, by the people and for the people", we were the only place on the planet, where anyone, could cast a vote.

When you go to work for the government in any capacity, the military, the legislatures, as civil servants, or anyone having anything to do with the workings of government, you take an oath.  And that oath is not to the King, The Queen or whatever Potentate is running the show.  You don't even take an oath to the country or even its people.  You take an oath to preserve, protect and defend, the Constitution, our ideas and ideals.

So when the naysayers whine, cry and bemoan this or that about the good ole U.S. of A, just remember, we invented this thing called Liberty.  It's our way of life.  It was and is, a pathway, for the rest of the human race to follow.

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Who's Who

Tucker Carson has left the Republican Party!  We know some of you are asking who?  Trust us, he used to be somebody.

And George Conway just came in 5th in his attempt to become a Congressman from New York.  Who?  Well he used to be married to Kellyanne Conway.  Who?  She used to be a spokesperson for DJT back when he was POTUS 45.  George spent a million trying to unseat DJT and then he spent 6.7 million to come in 5th in a Congressional primary.  Where did he get all the money?  Well we think he got the first million from being Mr. Kellyanne Conway.  The 6.7 million he got from donors.  Why did they give him the money?  You'd have to ask them.

BTW that's a picture of Kellyanne Conway above.  Trust us, you don't want to be looking at George.

And the IRGC is firing missiles at ships and Bahrain of all places.  And doing this in the middle of a cease fire.  So you might be asking, who are those guys?  Well a country, any country is made up of a whole lot of entities, other than the government.  There are businesses, agriculture, communications, etcetera, etcetera.  Think of our own country.  The IRGC has managed to infiltrate almost all of these entities, so they can skim money off the top, but they don't know how to run any of these entities.  They are just a bunch of thugs.  The people in these entities, want peace.  They know that the IRGC might kill them but they probably figure that being dead, is better than being dead broke.

The IRGC on the other hand, know that as soon as the ink is dry on any agreement, they are finished.  They might run for Afghanistan, Russia, China maybe, or they are dead.  Even if they survive, they will no longer be the Capo di tutti capi.  From what we've read being the Capo di tutti capi, aside from all the money, is a drug like no other.  Some people just can't give it up.

While we have used a Mafia term here, let us clear up something.  Some of the Cognoscenti Of The Known World, compare the IRGC to the Mafia.  That's a lousy comparison.  The Mafia in America does not, commit mass murder.  The Mafia in America does not, target innocent woman and children.  They protect them.  And the Mafia in America has good business men in their ranks.  They know how to make money.  The IRGC does not.

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Movie Trailers!

We love movie trailers.  The movies themselves...  Well...  Not so much.  But the trailers are great.  In fact there is a Netflix one where a scientist figures out how to wire people up, to see the afterlife.  It works so well that these people can't wait to get there.  So, they don't.  Thus the crux of the movie.  People committing suicide in huge numbers.  And the star of this movie or who appears to be the star of this movie, we only saw the trailer, so we can't say for sure, but the star is Robert Redford.  And, we think this is absolutely brilliant, as just in case you didn't know, Robert Redford has gone on to the afterlife.  He's no longer with us.  Who better to star in this movie?

Could it be AI?  Maybe.  Could it be the last movie he made?  If so, the timing was perfect.

In Hollyweird they say they don't like guns but they can't seem to make too many movies without guns, lots of guns.  In some movies the hero goes through a whole bunch of guns and shoots a countless number of bad guys, with the bad guys falling like dominoes.  That brings us to the trailer for War Machine.  The star is Alan Ritchson and he is leading what looks like a whole platoon of Army Rangers.  They're all on some kind of a maneuver, when they run into the War Machine.  We're pretty sure everyone in that platoon gets shot, blown up or just plain squashed, until it's just Alan Richardson and the War Machine left, mano on mano.  Or better put, mano on machino.  By this time in a Hollyweird action movie, the guns are usually all gone, so Alan Richardson will find someway to squash or just plain tear apart the War Machine with his bare hands.  We can't wait to see this one.  

If anyone has seen War Machine, don't tell us the ending in the comments section and ruin it for us.

Of course there are love stories and you don't need guns in a love story but that brings us to another trailer for another movie, Misdirection.  A couple decide to rob a billionaire's home.  Unfortunately, the robbery takes longer than Mr. and Mrs. B&E thought it would and the billionaire comes home.  Mr. B&E knocks the billionaire out with his gun.  Then Mr. B&E handcuffs the billionaire.  But when the billionaire comes to and looks at Mrs. B&E, he realizes he knows her.  An ex-lover?  We only saw the trailer but we know it's love, betrayal and of course, guns.  Like we said you don't need guns for a love story but a love story with guns, is so much better.

Note to our readers.  Don't worry, we will continue with the War in Iran.  We will explain it all, once it's over.  But it's far from over.  It might be the beginning of the end.  It is way past the end of the beginning but it's not the end.*

*With apologies to Winston Churchill.

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Do's And Don'ts

We have often wondered during the age of Me Too and especially amid the exploits of Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, and P. Diddy, didn't any of these women have a husband, a boyfriend, a brother or even an Uncle, to punch the miscreant's lights out?  Well as the picture of Prince Andrew above shows, somebody does.

And we often wondered about the intelligent quotient of some of our elected officials and not because Donald John Trump  POTUS 45 & 47 says they are low I.Q individuals.  We think it's a legitimate question.  Well Scott Bessent Secretary of the Treasury was in one of those dog and pony shows called Congressional hearings and he wanted to make a point by repeating something Woodrow Wilson 28th POTUS said.  So he asked his inquisitor Congresswoman Judy Chu.  "Who was the President of the United States during World War I?" Expecting Congresswoman Judy Chu to answer.  "Woodrow Wilson."  At which point he would give the quote.  But all Scott got was a blank stare, tabula rosa, from Congresswoman Judy Chu .  She had no idea.  She tried talking over him, as he persisted in asking and she finally answered.  "I don't know."  Which in turn answers our question do some of out elected officials have low I.Qs..  They do.

And Scott Pelley of CBS's 60 Minutes was fired after he lambasted his Boss in front of  a staff meeting of 60 Minutes.  Scott then went on to claim in an interview with the NY Times, that he was a hero who had been under fire in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Shades of Brian Williams maybe.  But Pelley with choaking voice and tears streaming down his face said he was willing to go into combat because he loves his country and believes in the freedom of the Press or as he put it.  "You can't have democracy without Journalism."   

Now he is slated to go into that vast cornfield inhabited by Dan Rather, the aforementioned Brian Williams, Joy Reid, Chris Wallace, Poppy Harlow and a whole host of others, whose fading voices  disappeared into the gloam of obscure TV cable news networks or worse, Substack.

Like they say a word to the wise is sufficient, so if you ever feel compelled to tell your Boss off in the middle of a staff meeting...  Don't.

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Quiz Time

Every once in a while we like to see if everyone is paying attention.  Just like when you were in school, it is now Quiz time!

Question 1.  As the midterms approach celebrities rear their heads like Groundhogs on February 2 and start endorsing candidates, which begs our first question.  When was the last time a celebrity endorsement, helped a candidate win an election?

A. 1960 Presidential election

B.  1981 New York City Comptroller's election.

C.  2004 Presidential election.

D.  Never

Question 2.  Jill Biden former first lady and wife of Joe Biden 46th POTUS thought her husband was performing so badly during his debate with Donald John Trump POTUS 45 and 47, that he'd had...

A.  Brain freeze from have one too many ice cream cones that day.

B.  A demon had entered his body.

C.  A Eureka moment about history, the Presidency and the why of it all.  So much so that he couldn't find the words to express it.  Maybe no one can.

D.  A stroke.

Question 3.  The IRGC and the United States of America will sign a peace deal today because.

A.  The IRGC is winning and they are tired of winning.

B.  The United States has run out of missiles and bombs.

C.  Somewhere in the vortex that is The Once Was The Main Stream Media, someone is declaring that both sides have agreed.  Sometimes with the terms listed and one of these days, they might be right.

D.  All of the above.

E.  None of the above.

Question 4.  David Rush a former CIA officer was arrested with a cache of 40 million in gold bars, 35 luxury watches and 2 million in cash.  How did he accumulate all this stuff?  He asked the CIA for it.  But how was he able to do that?

A.  It's classified, they can't tell us.

B.  David Rush was a former pilot, graduate of Clemson and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who needed these things for...  It's classified they can't tell us.

C.  David Rush had no degrees, never flew a plane but the CIA was impressed by how he faked it and got away with it for decades, so they hired him.  Then of course, well he could ask for things.

D.  All of the above

E.  None of the above.

F.  Ya don't know do ya?

Answers.

Question 1.  D, never.  This was easy.  We like to start with easy ones.

Question 2.  D, A stroke.  Jill Biden gave this information in an interview with the WOWTMSM.  She must have thought Old Brains had a stroke, a few times every day.

Question 3.  The answer is C, but no matter what you picked you get this one right, as all of the answers have appeared repeatedly in the media.

Question 4.  This is another one where no matter what you picked, you got it right, as don't expect a rundown of the events leading up to the arrest of one David Rush.  Expect this story to just go away.

Scoring.  25 points for each correct answer.  If you got 100 congratulations!  You know what is going on.  You're probably one of our regulars here, who gets all the pertinent information that is out there.  If you got 75, try to tune in here more often.  If you got 50 you need to think about where you are getting your information from.  If you got less than 50, seek remedial help.  Starting with mathematics.

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