HAHHMB

We like that no one has put a gate on the Il'nn Elmi aka Il'nn Omar scandal, like Il'nngate  And no one is calling it 30 Milliongate or How much am I worth, your guess is as good as Mine gate?  We're thinking of calling it, HAHHMB.  That's an acronym for and old song titled 'He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother', with no gate needed.  And as you can see that's the title of this article.  We hope this sticks.  We're tired of gates. 

It also seems that Il'nn's actual husband didn't like it when she married her brother.  Il'nn assured him there was no sex involved, as her brother is gay.  The actual husband, who's a Muslim, didn't like that much either.  We also heard that Il'nn told her actual husband that, He ain't heavy.  He's my brother.

And people who are all upset that Il'nn came here illegally, got elected to Congress, bad mouthed the US of A and managed to accumulate 30 million dollars, should take heart in knowing that her high powered team of attorneys, are eating that up, by the hour.  The question isn't how much she actually has, it's what will she have left, when this is all over.

And people who are upset because they think Il'nn is being railroaded and it's all just political, should take heart, as Il'nn just laughs every time she's asked anything about it.  To her, it's all funny.  So why should you worry?

Do we need to repeat the title here?  No, you got it.  And here are the lyrics, so you can see how apropos it is.

"The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where, who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

… So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there

… For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother"

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The Interviews

Since we go where the rest of the media fears to tread, we got a hold of some of the transcripts of the HSI's interview of Il'nn Omar's family.

Interview Noor, Sister of  Il'nn Omar.

HSI Officer.  "Is Il'nn you're older sister or younger sister?"

Sister Noor.  "I'm not sure.  It was a long time ago and I've moved on.  I'm an author now."

HSI Officer.  "Was she born in 1981 or 1982?"

Sister Noor.  "Eh, um eh...  It's a long time ago, like the 1980s.  Who remembers?  The 80s are like so over."

HSI Officer.  "Let me try this another way.  When you went to school as kids, was Il'nn in the grades ahead of you or behind you?"

Sister Noor.  "I told you it was a long time ago, like the previous century.  Who remembers?"

Interview with Brother of Il'nn Omar and alleged husband Ahmed.

HSI Officer.  "Do you remember your first wedding?"

Brother Ahmed.  "Yes, sort of...   It was a long time ago."

HSI Officer.  "When the Bride took off her Burka, did she look familiar?"

Brother.  "Eh.. it was a long time ago.  I really don't remember it too well."

HSI Officer.  "Let me help you out here.  Did it seem like you knew her from some place?  Like the living room and the dinner table?"

Brother Ahmed.  "Eh... eh...  Maybe she never took the Burka off?"

HSI Officer.  "Really?"

Brother Ahmed.  "Eh..  Can I plead the 5th here?"

HSI Officer.  "Is Somalia like Appalachia is here.  You know, people marry their cousins, their Aunts, their brothers?"

Brother Ahmed.  "I've never heard of this place Appalachia."

HSI Officer.  "Did you consummate the marriage?  Were there any children?"

Brother.  "Not that I know of.  This was a long time ago.  If there were any kids they'd be out on their own by now.  Right?"

HSI Officer  "Did you ever get that Green Card or was the whole marriage thing, just a bust?"

Brother  "Jesus!  I mean Allah.  No, I never got that green card.  The whole America thing didn't work out for me, like it did for Il'nn.  I got stuck in Britain, just like Harry and Meagan."

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"Do You Have Some Change Or A Dollar?"

We've noticed a certain new phenomenon in the streets and subways of New York City.  Beggars ply their trade, as they always have.  They are homeless and hungry.  They just need some change or a dollar to get something to eat.  Some have stories of having lost their jobs or they've got some really bad illness, like cancer.  There is nothing new in any of this, except that now, no one is giving them any money.  No one goes into their pocket or purse and comes out with anything, no change, no dollars, not even lint.

We wondered what could be the cause of this?  Have New Yorkers become completely jaded?  Inured to the needy and those in dire straits?  We followed some beggars around through the streets and subways and no matter who the beggars passed with hand out and whatever the sad tale on their lips, no one gave them a thing.  We also noticed that the Mariachi bands that used to serenade subway goers went from a four man band to a three man band to two and just last week, one guy, one Mariachi with a guitar.  No one gave him anything, either.  We all wondered what was the cause of all this parsimony?

Then while following one guy who'd lost his job and had cancer, we got too close.  He turned on us with his hand out.  Cornered with nowhere to go, we were going to give him some change or a dollar when we realized...  We didn't have any change or a dollar.  We don't carry money.  I use cards for everything.  One to get on the subway and one or two to pay for things.  My colleague uses her phone in the same manner and it hit us like a brick.  It wasn't just us.  It's everyone!  No one has change in their pockets!  No one has that dollar to give.  No one, has any cash!

What will become of the beggars?  Will they all fade into obscurity like the VHS machine and the pay phone?  Yes, yes, some of you are wondering what was a VHS machine?  What was a pay phone?  But you see, what we mean?

Maybe they could get those hand held devices that read your card or phone.  Waiters in certain restaurants have them?  But those things if durable and good, are expensive.  And the presence of such devices in the hand of a beggar might negate the "I'm homeless and hungry" rationale for begging.  Maybe the City could start a program for them?  Then the public would know the homeless, hungry guy was still homeless and hungry, even if he had eleven hundred dollar device in his hand.

Someone has to do something or we're afraid that the beggar, as we know him, will simply fade into obscurity.  Leaving behind maybe only a statue in Times Square, sculpted by some caring artist.  The statue won't have a pedestal, just a bronze figure of a bedraggled, poorly clothed man, with his hand out, his mouth open and whatever coming from his lips, left to the imagination.

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Mommy Can We Keep The Cat?

As the Late News media enters its last decade, let us return to yesteryear...

  

It is 1957 and an article appears in the Long Island Press about a cat caught in a tree.  Seems then 7 year old Dennis LaVista saw a cat in the tree, in front of his Garden Apartment on 77th Avenue in Kew Garden Hills, Queens.  Dennis had seen this cat before.  It hung around his block but he noticed something else.  It wasn't moving.  Dennis watched it for awhile and then ran and told his Mommy.

Mommy came outside and they both watched the cat.  The cat didn't move and they realized the cat was scared, frozen by fear and unable to move.  Mommy then went and dialed the Operator.  This is 1957, so there is no 911, 311 or any other designation for some need for city services.  You called the Operator and the Operator called the proper agency.  In this case, the Fire Department.

Now the Borough of Queens in 1957 is not the Queens of today.  It was a lot more rural.  There were no tall buildings and the Borough still had some farms near it's eastern border.  So the Fire Department didn't have that much to do, so they sent out a Truck with a ladder and the Firemen got the frightened cat out of the tree.  The Long Island Press didn't have that much to do either, so this was all dutifully reported in an article.  And the article ends with 7 year old Dennis LaVista asking.  "Mommy can we keep the cat?"

Well Dennis LaVista goes to P.S. 164 and the next day, when he shows up in school, he's a celebrity.  I guess we could all read back then but no one among all the all kids at P.S. 164 has ever known anyone who has been in the newspaper.  And as a hero, who saved a cat.  So everyone comes over to talk to Dennis about this and Dennis basks in the glow of celebrity.

Dennis also happens to sit next to the future editor of NYUUGGEE, and as we are getting ready to leave that day, Dennis first checks to make sure that there's no one else around but us and then he says.  "I never said that.  I knew we couldn't keep the cat.  I didn't even want to keep the cat."

Now you may be saying what's the BFD?  It's a cute little story on a slow news day and it gives the cute little story, a cute little ending.  But Dennis LaVista and the future editor of NYUUGGEE were  horrified, scarred for life maybe that Dennis was not only misquoted, but that a newspaper would just make up something, that was never said.

So as the Late News Media enters it's final decade, try to remember that Fake News is nothing new.  Fake News did not come about because of DJT 45th and 47th POTUS.  And Fake News did not come about when the Late News Media decided to play, It's All That Guy's Fault, sometime during President Bubba and W's Administrations.  Fake News has always been with us and it will outlast the Late News Media, long after its passing.

Just remember, as we always do, that 7 year old Dennis LaVista never asked.  "Mommy can we keep the cat?"

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Hang Down Your Head

"Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Hang down your head and cry

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Poor boy, you're bound to die"*

Tom Dula pronounced Dooley, was a young man who couldn't help from sleeping with two women or some say three, at the same time.  And all of them were cousins, Laura, Anne and Pauline.  Well one of them Laura, was found stabbed to death.  Most people thought it was a jealous Anne, who stabbed Laura to death.  Anne was arrested and tried but then Tom Dula either because he saw the error of his ways, or he just couldn't stand to see another of his paramours die, confessed.  Tom Dula, said it was me and Anne had nothing to do with it.  Of course Anne, was then acquitted.

Now Tom Dula may have had some bumps in the road.  He was on the losing side in the Civil War and romantically he may have loved too often and too well, if not too wisely.  But he was, in the end, an honorable man.  He faced up to his demons.  Tom Dula was hung but the story of Tom Dula lives on.  It was a ballad by Thomas Land, that was sung through the decades, till someone recorded it in 1938.  The Kingston Trio has the most famous recording.

This ballad is included in 'American Songs of the Century' and is also one of the 'Top 100 of All Time Western Songs'.  It is a haunting and sorrowful ballad, about lost lives and lost love.

All of which brings us to modern day and one Lindsay Clancy.  Lindsay strangled her three children to death, then she slit her wrists and threw herself out the window.  She didn't use as much pressure on her wrists, as she did when she strangled her children and the window she jumped out of, was on the second floor.  So it was only filicide not filicide/suicide.

Of course she was arrested and tried but then a strange thing happened, a hung jury.  The poor woman suffers from depression and hears voices.  So she and her attorneys say.  And the doctors didn't give her the right meds.  And it's also postpartum depression and that's a killer.  The jury saw her in a wheelchair.  Her husband left her and well, she's lost her kids.  11 members of the jury felt sorry for her.  Juries are often ruled by emotion, not the law, or even common sense.

They hung Tom Dolley/Dula both in the song and in real life.  Lindsay Clancy may only be sent to a mental institution and don't be surprised if sometime in the future, she gets out of that wheelchair and with the right meds, she's ready to rejoin society.

Honor is a strange thing.  Some people are born with it and some people acquire it through a test of their will.  Then there are other people, people who you would least expect to have it and yet, they acquire it.  They acquire it, through tragedy, suffering and death.  Sometimes, their own.

They'll be no haunting and sorrowful ballads for Lindsay Clancy.

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*Thomas Land

Quiz Time

Get out your pencils and get ready, it's Quiz Time again.

Question 1.  

Meghan and Harry were in the news because.

A.  They moved to Manhattan where they can get chased by the Paparazzi.

B.  They moved back to Merry Ole England and were welcomed back to Buckingham Palace with open arms.

C.  They moved to Texas, where they will open a BBQ.

D.  They moved back to England, almost in silence.

Question 2.  

Art Garfunkel announced.

A.  He takes long distance walks in the United States, Japan, Europe and he can't find Paul Simon anywhere.

B.  He is collaborating on an album with Jelly Roll.

C. He goes for long distance walks in the United States, Japan, Europe and sometimes he can't remember what country he's in.

D.  He was thinking of leaving the U.S. of A. because of DJT 45th and 47th POTUS.

E.  Who is Art Garfunkel and why is this a question?

Question 3.  

DJT 45th and 47th POTUS  is thinking of giving New Mexico a new name.  The new name will be.

A.  47, as New Mexico is our 47th State and someone is also the 47th POTUS.

B.  Central Park West.

C.  New America

D.  Mara Largo II

Question 4.  Since last week was 9/11 we couldn't let that pass without a question about it.

Osama Bin Laden had his Myrmidons attack the World Trade Center on 9/11 because.

A.  They hate us.

B.  The terrorists wanted a win and the terrorists won.

C.  Osama wanted to get our F-16s out of Mecca

D  Osama and his Myrmidons are terrorists and attacking places especially big buildings, is what they do.

E.  Osama hated Donald John Trump.  Osama thought the New York City Entrepreneur, was just like Hitler.

Answers.

Question 1.  The answer is D.  It's kind of sad if you stop to think about it.  But gone are the days of the tell all books, the Netflix specials, the mad dash around Manhattan chased by the Paparazzi and even the cooking shows.

Question 2.  The answer is D but if you picked E, we'll give it to you.  Art Garfunkel's was the flip side of Simon and Garfunkel, and well, not too many people could pick him out of a crowd of two.

Question 3.  The answer is C.  This one was too easy but we're kind of partial to Central Park West and not just because we thought of it.  It has a certain ring to it.

Question 4.  The answer is C.  This one came right out of the horse's mouth but if you listened to The Late Media, you might have missed this and you might have gone with A or B.  They repeated those two ad nauseum.  So if you picked A or B give yourself 10 points.

Each question is worth 25 points and everyone should have gotten at least an 85 here, as this quiz was an easy one.  We like to give easy ones once in a while.  We want people to feel good about themselves.

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Broke

If you have had trouble logging on to the internet in the last week, it was Sydney Sweeny's fault.  She broke it.  That is according to the Know It All's and that's Sydney pictured above breaking the internet.  Hey don't complain to us.  We don't make the news.  We just report it.

And Don Lemon formerly of CNN said in an interview that now, he "can tell the truth".  Does that sound familiar?  It seems to be the constant refrain of a whole lot of people who were whisked out of the What Once Was The Main Stream Media aka the WOWTMSM  and sent off to the cornfields.  Now you might wonder what were they all telling us before?  Our guess is, you already know.  Somewhere along the way, the so called Main Stream Media got broke.  They lost their way.  We don't have the time or the space to list all the stories they made up, as opposed to the ones they just got wrong but its a long list.  Kind of like from New York to Miam or even L.A. if you play all the video.

BTW we're thinking of no longer calling it the What Once Was The Main Stream Media, aka the  WOWTMSM.  We're thinking,  The Late Media.  And not late, as in being late, or staying out late.  No, we mean late, as in dead. 

And the President of Iran Mashoud Pezeshkian, admitted that Iran's economy is in deep doo doo and going broke!  Of course he's not a President like a U.S. President or even the President of the Knights of Columbus, so whatever he says, doesn't mean diddly squat.  But if that guy admits bleep, is broke, it's broke for real.  Iran is not the internet and Pezeshkian, is not Sydney Sweeney.

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HisBubbaness R.I.P. ?

Rumor has it that HisBubbaness's health is failing and HerHillaryness is planning his funeral.  We kind of think HisBubbaness is planning it too.  Why would he be left out?  How could he be left out?  Well, we mean, other than being the belle of the ball.

Is it only us or do you think that HisBubbaness has already sent DJT 45th and 47th POTUS the remarks he should make?  Do you think HisBubbaness has also written his own eulogy?  Will there be any great lines read at the service?  We mean will someone say something that people can remember HisBubbaness by?  Other than, you know what.

That leads us to will Monica be at the funeral?  Of course she'll be there, but will she sit somewhere inside, or will she be out in the street?  Will the WOWTMSM show images of her at the funeral?  Will other outlets?  We're laying 4 to 5 on the former and taking no bets on the later.

Get ready because this funeral will be on every outlet, in the same manner that the slow car chase with O.J. was.  If you don't have streaming, or you haven't saved your old DVD player, you won't be able to watch anything else.  We think HerHillaryness will have a lot of hankies but no tears.  Monica on the other hand will have a lot of hankies and her tears will be there, for all to see.

Will HerHillaryness write a book?  Yes!  Will Monica write a book?  Yes!  Will they both have the same title, My Life With Bill?

Will Obama POTUS 44, and DJT POTUS 45 & 47 be laughing at HisBubbaness's funeral, as they were at Jimmy Carter's?  That's them at the top of this column at Jimmy Carter's funeral.  Let's hope not.  And, let's hope that rumors of HisBubbaness's funeral planning, like initial reports of Mark Twain's demise, are greatly exaggerated.

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Caprice Of Destiny

Luigi Mangione who in case you forgot, shot and killed a United Health Care employee and shot him because the guy was a United Health Care employee. That Luigi Mangione, just let a whole lot of people down.  

The shooting was captured on tape, so there was no doubt about what happened.  Just who was the shooter?  That got cleared up pretty quick, what with cameras everywhere and computerized everything.  Mangione was caught in a few days.

But once he was captured, the WOWTMSM wet their pants, as Luigi Mangione was a really good looking guy.  Not since John Dillinger, did the WOWTMSM have such a killer.  And in turn, Mangione collected overnight, a legion of young, good looking women.  Or so says the WOWTMSM.  It could be a case with the WOWTMSM just making things up.  Nothing new there.  But then again, maybe they just don't understand what a legion is, and six people might make up a legion in their minds.  It's hard to tell, which is which here.

And the WOWTMSM decided that this shooting, made it time, to discuss health care in America.

So, the WOWMSM got themselves geared up for another Trial of the Century!  This time with the issue of health care in America, in the offing.  But alas, "the best laid scheme o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley." as Mangione copped a plea.  No trial,  Boy, you could hear and feel the air rushing out of that balloon.  And now what would the legion of six do, except write love letters to and put money in the commissary of, one Luigi Mangione, in whatever prison he winds up in. 

By the way, didn't Obamacare solve the issue of Health Care in America?  What would the WOWTMSM talk about?  It costs too much?  Who's fault is that?

But no Trial of the Century for the WOWTMSM.  No breathless reporters standing in front of the Federal Court building in Foley Square, telling us all about the day's actions in court, the blow by blow, the low down.  No, legal analysts saying over and over again, how all it takes is just one juror.  One juror who hates the Health Care System.  One juror and Mangione walks free, to be gobbled up by his legion of beautiful young legionettes, who would have grown to maybe two dozen.  Two legions maybe?  But no, no, Mangione said. that magic word.  "Guilty."  So, it's over.  

Oh, what might have been!

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The King Of The Kung Flu

Dr. Fauci has become the darling of the media once again.  No, no longer the poster boy of the WOWTMSM for the Kung Flu.  No, this time, he's the darling of the Paparazzi.  The Paparazzi have begun to  camp outside his home where they can get pictures of him throwing out the garbage and going for walks with his wife.  Fauci does not look happy.  Mrs. Fauci doesn't look too happy either.  That's her in the picture above giving instructions to the Paparazzi.  Hey we get it.  Fauci used to be somebody.

Fauci used to be on every screen that the WOWTMSM had.  Fauci was on the cover of all the WOWTMSM's magazines.  Fauci told everyone to wear masks.  Fauci closed all the schools.  Fauci told us all to stay home, to stay safe.  Fauci told us all to believe the science.  And then, well, Fauci was the science.  Fauci told us to take the vaccine.  Hell take two, no three, four, five shots.  What the hell, the vaccine was safe.

And Fauci made a lot of money while he was at it too.  But like all con artists who play the game too long, the wheels began to come off.  But by then Fauci had exited stage left, retired with pension in hand and all the moola he made from the Kung Flu.  Fauci had his get out of Jail card too.

So when called before the Senate one more time, all Fauci had to do is give some lame ass excuses.  You've seen those acts.  The Senators bellow for the video clips and the folks back home, while the subject just yada, yada, blah, blah, blahs their way through the hearing.  Yeah the subject looks stupid or maybe gives a quotable quote like.  "At this point Senator what difference does it make?"  But the subject is home free.  Hell, Fauci even had the pardon.  They couldn't get him for anything he did while he was The King of the Kung Flu.

But no.  Fauci began with "On the advice of counsel I respectfully decline to answer based on my rights under the fifth amendment." and kept it up through 111 questions always repeating the whole statement.  Why he didn't just say, "I plead da 5th." like all the other lowlifes, who plead the 5th?  But then why did he plead the 5th?  He has that pardon.

Maybe there are things that there are no pardons for.  Things so vile and licentious, that the penal code, can't quite capture them.  Things that can't be said out loud or even whispered.  And maybe Fauci, The Man Who Was The Science, The King of the Kung Flu, knows that, all too well.

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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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One Little Question For Memorial Day

The recent Iranian kerfuffle has brought out the hate America and the not quite hate, but the disdain for America crowd.  These are not just the Trump haters but the people who have spent their whole lives disparaging America.  And this well before there was a Donald John Trump 45th and 47th POTUS.  They can't write a book, make a speech or have a discussion without saying something degrading or nasty about the United States of America.

In response, we happened to realize something and that led us to this one little question.

The United States of America has military bases in 49 different countries.  If you ask the internet it will give you different numbers every time but we can be pretty sure it's at least 49 countries.  So the question is, what do all those countries have in common?  Different parts of the world, different cultures, different languages, different religions and yet, one thing in common.

It's just a one word answer but before we give it to you, we have to make a little notation about the U.A.E. Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordon, Turkey and Oman.  They all came under attack during this Iranian kerfuffle.  But stop to think about how many casualties those countries would have suffered had they not had American air defenses, intercepting most of those missiles and drones fired at them.

And now for the answer, drum roll please....  The answer is...  Peace.

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Have You Been Paying Attention?

Certain things have appeared in the WOWTMSM since the kerfuffle with the Iranian regime began and we were just wondering if people were paying attention.  This is not an official quiz.  There will be no prizes.  But have you heard these?

Another forever war.

America has no plan.

The war is expanding.

America is running out of missiles.

The Houthis have entered the conflict.

The war is expanding.

The IRGC will wait till the bombs stop, crawl out of their holes and start the regime all over again like nothing happened, other than a lot of guys will have gotten promoted.

Iran still has a nuclear program that they can start over in three weeks, no two weeks, no by next Tuesday.

The war is expanding.

Another forever war.

This war is like 'Whac-A-Mol'e, kill one IRGC or Basij leader and another pops up.

The war is expanding.

The IRGC and the Basij militia will go into Guerilla war mode after the bombing stops.

The Terrorists have won.

Another forever war.

And now to see if you have been paying attention.  But just two questions because as previously mentioned, this is not an official quiz.

Question 1)  How many of the above statements have appeared in the WOWTMSM?

A.  8  

B.  5 

C.  All of them except, the Terrorists have won.

D.  2

Question 2)  How many of them turned out to be true?

A.  All of them.

B.  10

C.  None

D. 1.

Answers

Question 1)  Correct answer C.  All except the Terrorists have won.  We haven't heard that one in a long time.  It was big after 9/11.  We just threw that in to be funny.

Question 2)  Correct answer C, none.  But if you picked D, we'll give that to you because the Houthis did fire one missile at Israel and they kept announcing that they were going to join the war even if they never did.  We're not hard task masters.

If watching and listening to the WOWTMSM has left you perplexed don't worry, as they don't worry about it too much either.

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Don't

Yeah, yeah we know there is a war going on but it's just blah, blah, blah everyday with whoever you happen to tune into saying the same old, same old.  Like they know what's going on.  Now we've put our military hats on and we know what's going on but we'll wait till the smoke clears before we give our analysis.  

And there are other things happening in this world.  Take those commercials that jump out of you whenever you're watching something on Youtube and usually just when something got real interesting.  Sometimes right in the middle of a word. 

Hey we're not complaining.  We have to log onto a lot of sites and we just don't want to pay the few bucks that will make the advertisements go away, so tough noogies on us.  But we can't help but wonder which one of these dumb ass commercials are the worst.  We even have categories.

The One That Can't Possibly Be True.  There is this little box, designed by former NASA engineers that will cool any room in 90 seconds.  Any room?  You mean like St. Patrick's Cathedral?  Cost?  19.99? 29.99?  Doesn't matter you can buy a fan for less which is what this thing will turn out to be.

Don't Try This At Home.  A middle aged guy comes on and tells you.  " Forget Viagra!  Don't waste your money on those pills!  I'm going to tell you how to get rock hard for hours!  Just get some Vick's Vapor Rub and..."  Not only don't try this at home but hit the that skip button real fast.  Before you even think of it.

It Won't Work But It Can't Hurt.  It's a little drawing that shows a woman drinking a glass of water.  Then a nice soothing voice comes on and says.  "Drink a glass of warm water before you go to bed and your vision will improve overnight."  And when that doesn't work don't worry, as there are commercials that will tell you how they got something to stop you from getting up to pee three and four times a night.

Okay, okay there is a war going on and try not to get too stressed out.  Remember the terrorists have won.  The Russians are this fearsome military power, that will over run Ukraine in a few weeks.  Global warming which was later changed to Climate Change, will cause the seas to rise, and the Polar Ice Caps to melt by the year 2000.

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