The Difference

Anyone who missed Jake Angeli aka Jake Chansley aka the QAnon Sharman storming the Capitol dressed in Viking garb and face paint, can catch a very similar routine this upcoming Wednesday night.  If you miss that one, it’s not to worry.  You can catch it following week or any week after that.  Just tune into the WWE or the AEW.  Just in case you don’t know the WWE is the World Wrestling Exhibition and the AEW is the All Elite Wrestling.  This is not to say that political discourse in this country has gone from the ridiculous to the just plain silly.  It’s just to say that political discourse in this country has gone from the ridiculous to the just plain silly. 

 

The difference between The Cognoscenti of The Known World and the WWE and AEW fans, is The Cognoscenti of The Known World think it’s all real and the Wrestling fans know it’s all fake.  Or as the promoters and the fans of Professional Wrestling like to frame it, it’s an exhibition. 

 

And not to worry about the QAnon Sharman.  He may go to jail but he’ll be interviewed everywhere, then he’ll write a book and he may even wind up with his own Podcast channel.  It’s just like, that big ass tattoo on John Wick’s back that says.  FORTIS FORTUNA ADIUVAT.  Fortune favors the bold. 

 

Now this next item has some of us around here really upset and others just think it’s funny, as in boohoo poor babies but Kim and Kanye have split up.  Now the people who think it's, funny point out that Kim has been married twice and has had numerous other well publicized long-term relationships, so it’s no big deal.  She’ll just find another athlete, performer or celebrity and you’ll be able to watch the whole romance unfold on TV or your favorite streaming device.  Those of us who are upset point out that for Kanye, Kim was his only wife.  Poor baby. 

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JETS! JETS! JETS!

 

The New York Jets were sailing along this year with a perfect record when they did the damnedest of all things, they won a game.  And Jets fans in whom hope springs eternal, still had visions of the number one pick dancing heads.  Hell, they had opened at 0 and 13.  What was one win?  They still had hope.  The dream, was still alive.  But then that dream, was smashed like a bug on your windshield, as the Dog Ass Jets went out and won the next game too.  That number one pick, will now go to the 1 and 15 Jacksonville Jaguars, who knew how to get the job done.  But cheer up Jet fans, even if the Jets got the number one pick, they would have picked the wrong guy.  Think Blair Thomas here.  Or if they picked the right guy, once he was signed up and a Jet, they would have ruined him.  Go no further back in the team’s history than to current quarterback, Sam Darnold. 

 

Now some Jet fans when they look back can only focus on that ever, dimming image of Joe Namath with his right index finger pointing to the sky on January 12, 1969.  The day the Jets won their only Superbowl.  But the more optimistic Jet fans, can see where their team made it to the AFC Championship game and or the playoffs, sometimes.  In fact, one head coach Wrecks Ryan bragged for years that his Jet teams had made it to the AFC Championship game, twice.  Of course, they lost both times so Wrecks Ryan went the way of Eric Mangini, Bruce Coslet, and Slinging Sammy Baugh.  

 

But we’ve figured out where the whole thing went wrong.  The glory days of the Jets happened when they were in the now long gone, American Football League or AFL.  Once the AFL and NFL merged, it was all downhill for the Jets.  Much in the same way the Kennedy clan got derailed when the human race developed the internal combustion engine.  And, the Kennedys started driving their boats, cars and planes into the drink. 

So, what the Jets need to do now is find another league.  There is the CFL which is the Canadian Football League.  Of course, the games are played up in Canada and are only seen on some obscure TV channel here.  But the good news is, if they keep losing, hardly anyone will see it or even know.  Then there is the XFL which is played in the United States but the games are played in the Spring and no one is watching.  So, if they keep losing, again, no one will know or much care.  Then there is LFL or Legends Football League which will become the X League in 2021.  If those names don’t ring a bell maybe their original name will, the Lingerie Football League.  Here are the League’s Champions the Seattle Mist. 

And, they don’t have cheerleaders.  They don’t need them.  And, as you can see, they don’t waste a whole lot of money on uniforms or equipment.  They’re tough.  Think Rugby here. 

 

So, whether the Jets head way up north, play in the Spring or ditch all the guys, it’s time for them to turn Joe Namath’s picture to the wall and head for the exits.

 

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November 23, 1963

 

A little over a week ago, was the 57th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy and that tragic and somber moment was duly noted by many.  But then no mention of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States can ever be complete, without the conspiracy theories.  So here are some of our favorites. 

 

LBJ did it with help from the CIA, the FBI and the real assassin on the Grassy Knoll.  In this theory LBJ is a power-hungry man who wants, needs, no, has to be President!  So, he orchestrates the assassination and ascends to the Presidency.  For a while he’s on top of the world.  He’s elected the next year in a major landslide but then he gets lost in the quagmire of Viet Nam.  Demonstrations and riots erupt across the country.  LBJ becomes the object of hatred and scorn.  Protestors chant.  “Hey, hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today!”  When he runs for re-election even though he wins the New Hampshire Primary, he is so beat and disillusioned by the war that he quits the race.  In an angry, hurtful television address to the nation, he says.  “I shall not seek and I will  not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your President.” 

  

This would make a great movie.  Think ‘All About Eve’ here where a young Anne Baxter schemes lies and sleeps her way to the top of Broadway only to find it all empty and meaningless.  We see Kevin Costner as LBJ.  Angelina Jolie as Jackie Kennedy and Tom Hardy as JFK.  J.K Simmons is the shadowy figure on the Grassy Knoll. 

 

Then there is the Mafia did it.  Sam Giancana and Carlos Marcello had the President whacked.  There are some facts to play with here.  Fact 1, Joseph P. Kennedy the father of JFK was mobbed up.  He was a bootlegger during prohibition and the Mob were his partners.  Fact 2, the Mob helped JFK get elected helping turn out the vote for him in Chicago and Louisiana.  Fact 3, the Kennedys try to get the Mob to whack Fidel Castro.  Fact 4, Jack Ruby was definitely mobbed up.  You can fill in the blanks to Lee Harvey Oswald.  This would make another great movie with DeNiro playing Sam Giancana and Joe Pesci playing Marcello.  Lorraine Bracco is Jackie Kennedy, Ray Liotta is Lee Harvey Oswald and Paul Sorvino is Jack Ruby. Think of this as The Goodfellas go to Washington. 

 

Of course, our favorite conspiracy theory comes from our own Financial and Real Estate expert Carmine.  Carmine contends that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of the many illegitimate kids of Joseph P. Kennedy.  The favored son JFK gets to live the charmed life, hob knobbing with celebrities, sleeping with movie stars, marrying Jackie not to mention all the money and the Presidency.  While poor ole Lee Harvey makes a buck and change an hour working in a book depository.  When the favored son comes to Dallas, poor ole Lee just can’t take it anymore.  He buys a gun and well, the rest is history.  This wouldn’t make much of a movie.  It’s just too sad. 

  

Those are our favorites, what’s yours? 

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A Little Perspective

 

With all the screaming, yelling and consternation going on over this Presidential election, perhaps it is time to try and give a little perspective.  Let’s take the Presidential election of 1960.  It was a close election in terms of popular vote and won by then Senator John F. Kennedy.  People old enough to remember the Kennedy years remember all the comparisons of that administration to Camelot.  They were all beautiful and everybody seemed happy.  Now let’s say JFK had lost.  What would have happened?  Well, there would be a whole lot of consternation and gnashing of teeth among his friends and followers but then JFK would have gone home to Boston.  Where he would have written a few books, fooled around with his wife and well a few other women.  Now he had Addison’s disease so he probably would have not lived to see 80 or 90 but he definitely had a few more decades of a nice life, instead of what happened to him. 

Now let’s take Ronald Reagan.  He was elected in two landslide elections.  He had two good terms and went home as popular or more popular than when he first got elected.  But he also got shot and almost died.  If not for the quick thinking of his staff and some excellent surgeons, that could have been the end of him.  Now if he’d lost, well John Hinkley would have shot President Carter.  Think about that because John Hinkley shot the President because he wanted a date with Jodie Foster.  Hinckley didn’t have anything against President Reagan.  It was just whoever was President.  Just in case you didn’t know, John Hinckley never did get that date, even though he’s been out of that prison hospital for a few years.  We guess, Jodie wasn’t impressed.  Maybe, he should have shot the Pope. 

Now let’s take O.J.  Yeah, yeah O.J. didn’t run for President but just try and remember all the hoopla over that.  For over a year people were screaming, yelling and getting blue in the face over, did O.J. do it?  There is a great trivia question and that is.  What was the most watched live event in TV history?  Answer, the slow Bronco chase with O.J. and Al Cowlings in the Bronco.  Now some of you might not even remember it and that’s the point.  Who remembers the chase that had a hundred million people glued to their TVs and who even cares now, if O.J. did it or not?

Now, not to bring the whole thing up again but one thing always bothered me.  According to the Prosecution, O.J. is stabbing his wife to death and this Ron Goldman returning her glasses from some restaurant, walks into it.  Ron then takes on O.J.  Now not to cast any aspersions on a guy who got stabbed to death but if I walked into a scene where some six-foot, three inches tall, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound guy was stabbing a woman to death, I’d run like hell.  Remember Nicole Simpson wasn’t Ron Goldman’s wife, girlfriend, mother, or sister.  She was just someone he knew a little.  Maybe Ron Goldman thought he was Spider-Man.  But I’m pretty sure most people would have run like hell too.  In fact, a whole lot of people would have run, thrown away her glasses and never said a word about it.  This doesn’t mean O.J. didn’t do it.  Just that mentioning something like this back then, would have caused a furor.  How dare you say such a thing about this valiant, young dead guy?  But now?  Who cares?  Who even remembers?  I had to go Wiki to make sure I got the names right here. 

So, when something in the news has everyone going crazy, it is good to remember that at some point up ahead, that it will fade away.  There may be ramifications, as there are with all things.  But all the screaming, the yelling, people getting blue in the face, will most definitely, fade away.  Well at least until the next bruhaha rears its ugly head.

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