Pfft

It's that sound it makes.  The air rushing out of the balloon and the once smiling little creature deflates, zips away and turns into a little piece of crumbled rubber or whatever they make balloons out of nowadays. Pfft.

First off the Russians were supposed to invade the Ukraine.  Hell, Old Brains told us so.  So did the NY Times and most of the not so main stream media.  They even gave us a date Feb 15, the day after Valentine's Day.  But nothing happened, so the NY Times changed the date to Feb 16th but the Russians didn't come.  They didn't invade.  Maybe the Russians don't read the NY Times.  Maybe, all the Russians were doing on the Ukrainian border were military maneuvers.  Something any country that has been invaded as many times as Russia has, might do from time to time.  But we were supposed to see explosions, fire and quick rapid images of the dead, lying in grotesque poses.  Then Newscasters, would come on speaking rapidly with a great deal of angst in their voices.  Their faces spread all over the screens of our various TV, computer and streaming devices.  Then the Politicians, The Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti of The Known World, would all denounce the invasion with great vehemence and in multiple languages too.  But then... the air rushing out of the balloon, pfft.  Everyone was dressed for dinner but the guests just never showed.

Then there was the Olympics.  You know the music, dramatic, hopeful triumphant.  And, you know the images, beautiful young athletes, the world's greatest, competing and achieving amazing things.  The crowd roaring, the national anthems playing, the gold medals around the neck of the beautiful, now brought to tears by the enormity of it all, young athletes.  But then the athletes were all isolated and the announcers were left in the studios of their home countries.  This is Beijing, not that far from Wuhan and the Chi Coms were taking no chances with the virus some say, they cooked up in their own labs.  And, now you know why we call it the Kung Flu around here.  Then the people in the stands were few and far between.  The announcers many time zones away were unable to feel and seize the moment and scream something like.  "Do you believe in miracles?"  No crowd oohing, aahing or roaring.  It was all quiet.  You could hear the skates scrapping over the ice.  The biggest story to come out of these games was the 15 year old Russian figure skater, who had failed a drug test.  They let her skate anyway.  The hue and cry arose over that.  Then she took to the ice and led after the short program.  OMG!  What if she wins?  The world held it's collective breath.  Then the long program came.  She stumbled and fell.  No gold medal here.  The air rushing out of the balloon again, pftt once more.  The guests had arrived for dinner this time but they were late, the soup was cold and the hostess had gone to bed.

And Virginia Giuffre took the 12 million from Prince Andrew and scampered away.  In case you forgot or didn't know or hadn't heard, Virginia Giuffre was the victim who wouldn't go away.  She forced the Prosecutors to pursue Jeffrey Epstein, till he was arrested and then committed suicide, supposedly.  She forced the Prosecutors to arrest and then try Ghislaine, who is now convicted and facing life in prison.  We think Ghislaine will only get 5 to 15 and maybe do 3 but she is convicted.  All throughout this ordeal the world waited for names to be named.  Who among the Glitterati of the world have been having sex with little girls?  Was it former President Billy Bob?  Was it World Renowned Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz?  Prince Andrew was named but who else?  Who else?  These questions get asked because this is a curious case of underage girls being procured to have sex with adults but none of the adults were ever tried, indicted, arrested or even named.  But now with Virginia taking the money, there had to be a NDA and well now... we'll never know.  It's pfft one more time.  No guests, no dinner and no dessert.

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One Night In Bangkok

Like the song goes.  "One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble.'

Can't be too careful with your company'.

Seems that Whoopie Goldberg made a faux pas the other day.  She crossed over that imaginary line between "light and shadow, science and superstition, things and ideas, she crossed into" and then she got whisked away to the cornfields for two weeks.  Of course in the old Twilight Zone, no one every returned from the cornfields,  It was that "undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."  But in the Twilight Zone that seems to be the world we live in today, maybe it's possible.  Then she can tell us just how unbearable not being on TV or having a microphone to rant into every day, is.  Also, losing the $93,000 a week.  That had to be tough.

And, we kind of get it.  She denigrated the Holocaust by pretty much saying that it was just a bunch of white people killing each other.  Yeah that's nasty.  We get it.  But saying angry and nasty things is what they do on that TV show The View, everyday.  It's what makes The View, The View.  So, Whoopie just has to be wondering...  Why me?  Now maybe, if she'd a just said the Holocaust was like Trump and his supporters killing each other, she'd a been okay.

Then over there at the Crumbling News Network aka CNN, the tough guys are tumbling so fast and furious it's hard to keep track of them.  First it was Andrew Cuomo who didn't actually work there but his brother did and he could be on that channel anytime he wanted.  We don't want to go over all the sexual harassment allegations leveled against Andrew Cuomo.  They are too numerous to mention.  But the next to tumble was his brother Chris, aka Fredo Cuomo, who did work there.  Why was he tumbled?  He violated journalistic ethics!  How?  By helping his brother fight off all those sexual harassment allegations, too numerous to mention.  We know, we know, you didn't think CNN had any ethics.  Neither did we.  But this Fredo actually helped his brother and got sh*t canned in the process.  Boo hoo.

BTW all the all the allegations, leveled at Andrew Cuomo too numerous to mention, have been dropped.  We wonder how that made the victims feel?  But we digress.  This poor Fredo, is also losing out out on the $18,000,000.00 that was left on his contract.  And, that has to be tough.

Next up were two producers over at the Crumbling News Network who are in various stages of being prosecuted for Pedophilia.  Whoa!  And, you don't need to check the journalist ethics rulebook for that one.  It's in the Penal Code.  But then Jeff Zucker, The President of CNN, The Head Honcho, got the boot!  Why?  Seems he and another employee were having a relationship and neither of them, reported it.  Now they're both single and over the age of consent, so I'm sure the people at CNN breathed a sigh of relief.  And, some people are even wondering what's the BFG!  But if you put your girlfriend up for a raise or promotion and people know she's your girlfriend, she probably won't get it.  That's why you would try to keep it on the down low.  That's not journalistic ethics, rearing its ugly head again.  That's just business.  Just like the song says.  "Can't be too careful with your company."  You don't want to tumble do you?

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