Missed Opportunity

The NFL has suspended Atlanta Falcons Wide Receiver Calvin Ridley for a year. Why?  For gambling!  Seems he placed a parley bet on his own team for $1,500.00.  We find this a little hard to digest here.  Why?  Well, if you've watched any NFL games in the last few seasons, they advertise betting and the betting sites before and during the games.  Also, late at night when most degenerate gamblers are still wide awake.  The NFL wants people to bet via FanDuel, DraftKings or Caesars.  So, it's real easy to see how a player, any player might easily get confused.  "Don't they want me to bet too?"  Especially when you realize that the average NFL player has been banging his head into other players for at least a decade or so. 

But we think the NFL missed a great opportunity here.  Instead of suspending Calvin Ridley, they could have put him in one of their commercials where he explains the parley bet to all the fans.  That bet is a little complicated.  Especially to the novice bettor.  And, the NFL wants them too. 

We also wondered if it would have been all right with the NFL, if Calvin Ridley bet on the other teams and the other games?   We mean if his team is not playing and he's sitting home in front of his TV watching Monday or Thursday night Football and the commercials come on?  He's just another fan at that point.  And, he's got the head banging part down pat, so he'd fit right in with the rest of the fans who have been banging their heads into walls, as they watched their bets fail to cover the spread and their rent or mortgage money, along with their kids college fund, go down the drain. 

Speaking of College what if Calvin had bet the College games on Saturday, or the NBA or MLB?  What would be wrong with that?  What makes Calvin Ridley different from anyone else?  Why should he be out of work? Why can't he watch his rent or mortgage money, along with his kid's college fund, go down the drain, just like everyone else?

And, speaking of MLB, when are DraftKings, FanDuel or Caesars going to wake up and get Pete Rose to do their commercials!  Pitchers and Catchers have reported to camp and Opening Day is just around the corner. Ole Pete may be 80 years old but he's still compos mentis.  And, if there ever was a guy who could tell people the who, the what and the how to bet on baseball, it's the guy with the most base hits in the history of the Major Leagues, Charlie Hustle himself, Banned for Life from Major League Baseball for gambling, Pete Rose.  C'mon guys don't let this become a missed opportunity. 

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Argue?

The President of the United States said.  "Vladimir Putin may surround Kyiv with tanks but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people."  Now who can argue with that?

And poor Kanye.  Kim has left him and he is beside himself.  Like we mentioned a while back, Kim has been married a few times but poor Kanye...  Well Kim was his only wife.  Kanye has tried dating others.  He even found a young woman who looks just like Kim but it's not working.  So Kanye has turned his heartbreak and subsequent ire on his replacement, a guy named Pete Davidson.  Pete Davidson is some kind of an actor/comedian but not in the same league as Kanye, entrepreneur, producer, actor, music video Artiste and just all around artist supreme.  This kind of reminds us of when Elvis's wife left him for her Karate Instructor.  And, Kanye has tried tweets, Tik Tok and gone on a few other locales to launch his tirades about Pete Davidson.  All to no avail.  Kim is still with Pete Davidson.  But since Kanye is a music video Artiste and all around artist supreme, he finally rolled out a music video on Pete, where he cuts Pete's head off.  Now we live in an age of political correctness and people getting divorced left and right, especially celebrities.  Then they all move on to someone else, so we have to like a guy who still believes in.  "All is fair in love and war."  Kanye wants to bury his rival and that's old school.  It's Medevil even.  Think the movie 'The Last Duel' here.  Who wants to argue with that?  Don't.  Kanye might cut your head off next.

And we have to make a correction.  We didn't think Putin was going to invade the Ukraine.  We thought he was going one way and he went the other.  We were wrong.  We apologize.  Unlike most everyone else in this journalism thing, we don't just forget about a faux pas and move on like nothing happened.  And, yeah we kind of put this at the end of the article hoping no one would notice too much.

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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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Apologies

We found it really heart warming that President Biden called young Peter Doocy of Fox News last week to apologize for calling him a "stupid son of a b*tch."  I mean when can you remember a President calling a reporter to apologize for anything?  We couldn't.  So, like we said that was heart warming and we also feel that this apology helps the spirit of unity, since young Peter Doocy like his Daddy works for Fox News.  And, Fox News is the conservative news outlet, supposedly.  But in the spirit of wokeness, shouldn't the President really have called Mrs. Doocy, Peter's Mommy to apologize?  We mean, she's really the wounded party, the victim here.  Isn't she?  She's the one the President called a b*tch.  And while the President is at it, he should call Mr. Doocy, Peter's Daddy, as it's his wife the President called a b*tch.  It's not too late Mr. President.

BTW where are all the woke people when you need them?  Why are we the only ones who noticed this?

And, RFK Jr. apologized after he compared the vaccination bruhaha to Nazi Germany and Anne Frank.  He said.  “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,”  If you've ever seen RFK Jr. speak you might come away with the impression that he's mentally challenged and his latest comments did nothing to dissuade that.  But we just think he stutters.  And, we're glad that he came around to realizing everything is not quite Nazi Germany, no matter how excited he got at the perfidy of it all.  A whole lot of people nowadays, don't get that, even if they're not mentally challenged, supposedly.

And Jerry Falwell Jr. disgraced and ousted former President of Liberty College has lost 80 pounds and is on the road to redemption.  Seems he said some things in the past that might have been racist and anti-Muslim.  But the straw that broke the camel's back and the thing that got him ousted or forced to resign, was his wife had an affair with the pool boy.  Now, this wouldn't normally force some school President to get ousted but this is Liberty University and it's a real Christian place.  Spouses of the faculty or the President of the University are not supposed to have affairs with the pool boy or anyone else for that matter.  This isn't UCLA or CNN, where you can just carry on any which way you want.  No.  But Jerry Falwell Jr. in the spirit of wokenss, realized that it all might have been his fault, not his wife's.  He hadn't been taking care of her or himself.  So, he went on a diet, lost the 80 pounds, took testosterone injections and won his wife back.  And, as she said "They are more together now than any couple you will meet in your life."  She's apologized, he's apologized and maybe even the pool boy has apologized.  We're not sure.  But we just have to wonder if maybe it's time for Liberty University to take him back?  Or at least, apologize for forcing him out.  And, why not?  Everyone's doing it.

And, we put a picture of Billy Eckstein at the top here because his rendition of the song 'I Apologize' is the best.  He had that great baritone voice and when he sings "If I made you cry.  If I told a lie...  I'm sorry.  From the bottom of my heart dear.  I apologize." you really believe him.  Even if you don't buy some of the other apologies listed above.

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The Week That Was Jan 15, 2022

We got some really scary news last week.  Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of our beloved Bronx and Queens, ex-bartender, triple vaxxed and one of the first people to tell us to wear a mask, got the Kung Flu.  Is no one safe?  Will this nightmare ever end?  "Oh the horror!"

And it was reported that Alan Dershowitz famed Harvard Law Professor asked then President Donald John Trump who some people confuse with Hitler, for a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell back in 2020.  Now some people, including one young woman Virginia Giuffe a victim, have said that the Famed Law Professor had sex with her when she was underage and he was a member of the Epstein/Maxwell gaggle.  But as of us going to press, that is still just an allegation.  Repeat, that is only an allegation.  We don't want to get sued here.  Famed Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is suing Ms Giuffe.  But you might ask, as we are doing, why would Alan Dershowitz, famed Harvard Law Professor ask for a pardon for Ghislaine?  Well, he is a lawyer and Ghislaine is his friend.  There are pictures that attest to that.  Maybe Ghislaine hired him to ask for a pardon?  Then again, maybe the Famed Law Professor likes little girls and there are pictures of that too?  And, maybe even video?  Some people speculate about things like that.  Not us of course.  And, maybe the pardon would have put that all to rest?  Hey, we said maybe.

Did you miss the Golden Globes this year?  Don't feel bad, so did everyone else.  It wasn't on TV.  Not on  broadcast, cable or even any of the streaming services.  Seems the Golden Globes has had a few issues.  While people may pontificate about various things like inclusion and wokeness, it doesn't mean they actually, ever, do them.  And, the Golden Globes sort of got hoisted on their own petards.  That, and their ratings were in the toilet.  So, the Golden Globes couldn't find a venue or even a host and well they just put the winners up on their Twitter account.  Most of the winners didn't even acknowledge that they'd won.  Maybe they didn't know.  So we didn't get to see another line up of lame brain narcissists thank Grandma, Jesus, their Kindergarten teacher or whoever has replaced Harvey Weinstein in Hollyweird.  Do you feel cheated?  Not to worry, the Oscars are coming up soon.

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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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