We've all seen the headline on the Youtube clip, so and so destroyed, so and so blown up. It's where one Newscaster, Talking Head or Cognoscenti Of The Known World is arguing with another and one of them might have made a good quip. The other one looks bad. Nothing more than that. The destroyed or blown up Newscaster, Talking Head or Cognoscenti Of The Known World is all in one piece, still talking and more importantly, is still getting paid. The headline is just hyperbole.
Well the other day in Tehran a woman Newscaster was broadcasting the usual stuff. Death to Israel and America, when the studio she was in got blown up. It got destroyed. Israel dropped a bomb on it. It was the real thing. The Newscaster managed to walk away as the place began to fall apart around her, but we're pretty sure the bomb got the payroll department. Even if it didn't, there's nothing to broadcast from so no pay for the Newscaster. Now she still might be yakking away but it doesn't much matter, as no one can hear her. Every once in a while, it's the real deal.
When Great Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany back in 1940, Winston Churchill made a very famous speech in which he declared that Great Britain, would "never surrender". But we've also noticed over the years that most everyone else who announces they will "never surrender" kind of does so a few weeks or even a few days later. This comes to mind as the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Capo di tutti capi of Iran announced that he would never surrender.
Now we don't know of a place that we could get a bet down on this but if anyone knows, please in turn let us know. Because as the bombs both Israeli and the U.S of A are making big holes in the ground out of what used to be the Iranian nuclear program, we're thinking that this Ayatollah Khamenei ain't no Winston Churchill. We think this bet is so good, it's a steal.
From the beginning of The Diddy Trial there has been a chorus of legal zealots who on a daily basis proclaim that the "Prosecution has over reached! It's not R.I.C.O! That all the women were happy to be with him and in the Freak-offs! It was all consensual!"
One of the last witnesses was Brendan Paul who has been advertised as "The Diddy's Drug Mule" but when he gets on the stand he says he's not really a drug mule. He did a lot of different things for The Diddy while he was employed by him for 18 months. He only transported cocaine for The Diddy like 5 or 10 times.
Upon hearing this the Legal Zealots went crazy. "The guy's not a drug mule! He only did it 5 or 10 times at most! Brenden Paul sounded like a defense witness!" Of course transporting cocaine is a felony. Even if you only do it once. The way we look at it is the same as committing any felony like Burglary, Fraud or Rape. It's probably better to only do it 10 times rather than 20 or more but 10 or even 5, is still a lot of felonies. Then again maybe we're wrong. Maybe in the illicit Drug business 5 or 10 times isn't significant. What do you think? Was this a Steal for the Defense or The Real Deal for the Prosecution?
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BTW That's a picture of Cassie Ventura, her husband and their two kids at the top of the column. We could have gone with an image of the Iranian Newscaster but it was too creepy. We could have gone with Ayatollah Khamenei but who wants to look at that old fossil, if you don't have to. We think this picture of Cassie and family is uplifting, as it shows you can pretty much survive anything. And we like to be uplifting whenever possible.
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