Happy 2022 and a Few Things

Happy New Year everybody and the IRS says don't forget to file your taxes this year.  Well they say that every year but this year they also want you to report your ill gotten gains.  If you're a Meth dealer or a Shylock or if you went to one of those smash and grabs and made off with a car full of stuff, you should report it this year.  We're not sure what form you use.  We didn't see a box on the standard 1040.  Does anyone know?

And Dan Rather the guy who had to quit the big time news business because of a fake story with fake memos piped up to say.  "People who say Let's Go Brandon, can't handle the truth."  Maybe he forgot his own fake story with the fake memos.  Hell that was back in 2004 and Dan is getting on in his years.  Dan is 90.  So maybe he also forgot that the quote came from a fictional character Colonel Jessup played by Jack Nicholson.  Colonel Jessup/Jack Nicholson in case you forgot or didn't know, has a classic meltdown on the witness stand.  A young Tom Cruise gets him babbling like the nut job that he is and one of his lines is.  "You can't handle the truth!"  The movie is A Few Good Men and if you never saw it, that scene alone is worth the price of admission.  Turns out Colonel Jessup caused the death of one of his own men and he has a real convoluted way of justifying it.  So maybe Dan didn't realize who he was quoting.  Then again, maybe Dan did.  Maybe Dan's memory is intact too.  Maybe Colonel Jessup was and still is, Dan's hero.

And in another oops concerning the Kung Flu, Dr. Gottlieb, former head of the FDA that's the Federal Drug Administration, now admits that wearing a cloth mask doesn't work.  So all you people who have been wearing those cloth masks for the last two years and well that includes some of us here, we've all just been giving ourselves bad breath, a hard time when exercising or just going up stairs, for well... nothing.

Now they're used to be this thing in Medicine where if you were given some medicine or some kind of regimen and it didn't work, well they told you to stop doing it.  Maybe this Dr. Fauci and his friends never heard of that one or they forgot.  Or maybe they just dropped it, for the Kung Flu.  Then there is the old adage that if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.  And, then there is this definition, if you keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, it's called insanity.

So after almost two years of masks, some of whom we now learn do nothing, quarantines, shut downs, vaccines, testing and more people getting the Kung Flu than when all this rigmarole started, maybe, just maybe, everyone should just get on with their lives.

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