They're Here!

They're Here!  So says David Charles Grusch former Air Force Intelligence Officer and self proclaimed whistleblower.  Grusch says the United States Government has covert programs that are holding partially intact and intact craft of "non-human origin".  And, the intact craft had the bodies of the dead pilots in it.  In other words E.T. came, he crashed and he died here.

Okay, okay we know you skeptics out there don't believe.  You're wondering why doesn't David Charles Grusch former Air Force Intelligence Officer and self proclaimed whistleblower, have something like a few pictures of the dead E.T. pilots?  Well, maybe they don't let you take your cell phone into the very secret room, buried deep in the tunnels of Area 51?  But ah ha you say there are those little, mini cameras that are so small you could hide them under your tongue or in some other body cavity?  Or he could have taken a toe nail.  Who'd notice that?  Or at least an E.T. chewing gum wrapper that was made of  material not of this earth, with writing on it that had no relation to any human alphabet?  You know, E.T. hieroglyphics.

Well if you skeptics don't believe him, it matters not.  Tucker Carlson late of Fox News fame, believes him.  Tucker even ran with this story on the opening segment of his new Twitter show!  Tucker is going to be speaking truth to power!  That's his new shtick.  And Tucker wondered why the rest of the Mass Hysteria wasn't covering the story.  We mean if they could ever get hysterical about anything, the arrival of E.T. should be it.  As all readers of this column know, the Mass Hysteria is not above making things up but they probably would like a few pictures or better still video.  Maybe a fake memo or two?  So if this Grusch guy could come up with something like that, we're pretty sure it wouldn't just be us and Tucker Carlson covering this story.  This story, would be all over the place.

And David Charles Grush also spoke of the "partially intact craft".  In other words other "non-human origin" craft and he didn't say anything about what happened to their pilots.  Maybe, like we said at the top of this article... They're here!

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The Fall Of...

As you can see the President took a fall.  Not his first and probably not his last but all you Old Brains fans not to worry.  Rome fell, as did the Mongol Empire, the Ming Dynasty and a whole host of other folks.  If you don't believe us, just ask Meghan and Harry or Harvey Weinstein.  Better still, ask Gary Condit.  Who?  You see people forget, everyone forgets, even President Biden.

BTW someone once unfriended us because we made fun of Old Brains Biden.  We thought that was kind of silly.  Getting mad at Presidents is the same as getting mad at the actors Roger Moore or George Lazanby when they played James Bond.  We didn't particularly care for them in that role but hell, they're just actors.  It's not their fault.  Just as it's not ours, when we make fun of them.  They don't mind and neither should you.

Speaking of Harry and Meghan aka Megharry, sources close to them are letting it be known that they're all done with the tell-alls.  No more books, no more Netflix series and no more interviews about the woes and pitfalls of being rich, famous and maudlin.  Could be as some say that they've nothing left to tell.  Could be that no one talks to them.  We mean if you ran into them at a party after the weather, what would you say to them?  You got to figure they're wired and anything you say might wind up in their next book.  Maybe no one talks to them.  Would you?  We mean after, hot hunh?  And, this could be a case of too little, too late.  Could be they've gone the way of the Mongols, the Mings and Gary Condit?

Then of course there is the fall of Fox News.  It seems the Murdochs who own Fox and a million other things dumped their number 1 boy, Tucker Carlson.  Hell they've dumped Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Gretchen Carlson and Shepard Smith and never missed a beat but this time it was different.  The audience got mad and they've left the building.  Fox News gets tied with or even loses to MSNBC in the ratings!  They haven't fallen as far as CNN as that's the bottom.  But then, who knows?

Now we're not saying the News media lives in a bubble all their own.  But they all might want to have a moment when they look at the population of the United States of America.  It is 335 million people.  So even when Fox News and Tucker were riding high and drawing 3 million people a show, that meant that 99.2 percent of the American people didn't even know he or they, were on the air.  Could it be that Fox, MSNBC, CNN and all the rest, just go the way of the Mings, the Romans, the Mongols and Gary Condit?

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Trouble

"If you're looking for trouble.  You came to the right place.  If you're looking for trouble.  Take a look right at my face." 

So sang Elvis back in 1958 with music and lyrics by Lieber and Stoller.  And, that seems to be the theme song that is breaking out all over the place.  As you can see in the picture above a former College Professor is holding a machete to the neck of a intrepid NY Post Reporter.  What had that Reporter done?  He had asked her about a now viral video where said former Professor had been caught, ranting and raving at some of her former students over the abortion thing.  Lucky for those students the former Professor didn't have her machete with her when she went on that rant.  And, we say former Professor and her former students, as the College she worked for Hunter College, fired her. 

Picking up the baton next is Tom Hanks pictured right above.  As you can see that guy with Tom Hank's finger in his face must have said or did something.  Tom in turn gave him the "if you're looking for trouble, look right at my face", question.  

And, Tom Hanks is the guy who stormed the beaches of Normandy in 'Saving Private Ryan', sunk German submarines in 'Greyhound' and took out the Mob in 'Road To Perdition'.  And Tom Hanks had to be the kind of guy that Lieber and Stoller had in mind, when they warned "don't you mess around with me".

And carrying that baton over the finish line is this guy.  

That's James Holzhauer newly crowned Jeopardy Masters Champion.  If you go up against this guy, you lose.  When he hits the Daily Double he bets all his chips.  Then he gets the question right and the game is over even if it's early in Double Jeopardy or just late in Single Jeopardy.  He just has so much money at that point that you can't catch him.  And, you're left on that stage in the Alex Trebeck studio writhing in agony for the remainder of the show, as the answers click off and even Final Jeopardy can't save you, as he just has too much dough.  Look at that face.  That's Holzhauer going all in.  And, that's the line "because I'm evil.  My middle name is misery."

Here are the lyrics and you can see how it's just breaking out all over.

If you're looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you're looking for trouble
Take a look right at my face
I was born standing up
And talking back
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
'Cause I'm evil, my middle name is misery
Well, I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me

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Democracy Is Dead

Can we all just agree if for no other purpose that we don't have to read another article on the subject, that democracy is dead.  How many articles have to be written about something being dead, before we can all just agree that it is dead?  This shouldn't be so hard.  Lets say after 1,000 articles about how something is dead, it's dead.  Okay if that's not enough, how about a5,000?  I think we've all passed that point a while ago and if not, at least in the last year or so.  So all together now, democracy is dead!

Of course those of you who are familiar with the Constitution of the United States, know that there never was a democracy and therefore since it never existed it can't really die but why get nit-picky about the matter.  One more time, democracy is dead!

What does this mean?  Can you go to work tomorrow?  School?  The beach, the movies bowling?  Can you log on to your computer?  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and of course yes!  According to a lot of the Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti of The Known World, democracy died quite a while ago and you've been doing all these things anyway, so keep it up.  It will help the economy.

When exactly did democracy die?  It could have been the Hayes/Tilden Presidential election of 1876.  Or it could have been the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.  Or it could have been the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1917.  Or it could have been the 2000 Presidential election or the 2016 one or the 2020 one.  Or it could have happened after one of the many Supreme Court decisions that were handed down by the Nine Pointy Headed Wonders Of The Known World.  But regardless of where or when, we think that everyone can clearly see and more importantly agree, that democracy is dead.  It's time to move on.

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"The CIA Killed My Uncle"

That quote in the title is not attributed to anyone here but rather RFK Jr. pictured above.  But wait, someone here's uncle wound up in the trunk of his car with two bullet holes in his head.  The authorities labeled it a suicide.  Now the second bullet and him being in the trunk of the car kind of put some doubt on the suicide angle.  But then some people said it was Mob related.  But the uncle was an accountant for the Department of Defense and well he didn't owe money or anything so...  Then someone else here's Grandmother disappeared a few decades ago but she worked for the Department of the Interior not the CIA or the FBI or the NSA or so they said.  She used to travel to Europe, Asia and even Cuba which didn't seem to have anything to do with the Dept. of the Interior.  No body was ever found and some people say it was an Alien abduction.  But getting back to RFK Jr., his uncle was the venerable and assassinated President JFK. 

 

Now, there are more conspiracy theories surrounding who shot JFK, than there were people in Dealey Plaza that day on November 23, 1963 so it's easy for any claim to sort of get lost in the avalanche of conspiracy theories.  But then RFK Jr., is obviously a Kennedy, so when he speaks about this you would think people would listen.  But alas it seems no one has paid much attention to his claim.  Only a handful of places in the Screen-O-Sphere including us, have even mentioned it.  

Now RFK Jr. says there are documents on this lots of documents.  And, RFK Jr. is running for President although no one pays much attention to that either.  Maybe because he went to the Old Brains Biden school of mumbling and not making any sense, when he speaks.  And the dems already have the original, as President.  Who needs another one?  It could also be that while RFK Jr., said their are documents, he didn't have any.

Now these documents might be in the mass of documents that the government has been hoarding for the last sixty years.  But then every couple of decades they have released a whole batch and there is nothing, ever, in them.  Why all these documents are kept secret no one ever says.  But then a whole generation of people who were alive that day, keep waiting and hoping and RFK Jr. must be amongst them.  We're not sure what they think, they'll find.  Maybe there's a typed up confession.  'I shot JFK from the grassy knoll.'  Signed Wouldn't you like to know?  But we doubt it. 

And, as time passes and the people who were alive that day shuffle off to the hereafter, the never ending curiosity of what happened on that day, will die off with them.  A whole host conspiracy theories will disappear from books, movies, documentaries and even The Screen-O-Sphere.  When the last secret file  is released and there is nothing there and the who done it, was it Oswald acting alone? was it The CIA? The FBI?  LBJ? Nixon? The Whitehouse Plumbers? The Mafia, The Chicago Outfit? becomes an unanswered question just dangling in the air, the world will go on.  Just as it has for the last 60 years.  

And, don't feel bad for the poor souls who wondered and heaped conspiracy theory on top of conspiracy theory on top of conspiracy theory and never got an answer.  Because once they all reach that "undiscovered country from which no traveler returns" they can just ask.  And, they won't need any stinking documents.

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It's Good To Be The King

There was that moment and you can see it in the picture above when William kissed his Father the newly crowned King Charles III and a tear rolled down the King's cheek.  You knew then, that it is good to be The King.

Not so good was poor Harry, strolling into the Coronation all by himself with no wife and not even his children by his side.  Children, who could easily be there, as they are also the grandchildren of King Charles III.  In that moment Harry knew that barring some unforeseen, unimaginable catastrophe, he would never be The King.  Harry knew it before.  He even titled his book accordingly but still it had to have hit home with a sort of finality, that all he'd ever be was The Spare.

Sitting home in her palatial mansion in California gnashing her teeth, was the woman who had forsaken the Royalty but still uses the title Duchess, realizing that she blew it because...  It is good to be The King.  And now, she'll never, ever, even, get close.

Then there was that moment after Elon Musk had fired, let go or watched those who resigned, leave Twitter and the number inched over 6500 ex-employees.  Elon only has a 1,000 employees left and yet, the thing runs better than before, saving him millions a year.  And, Elon knew right then that...  It's good to be The King.

 And Tucker Carlson unceremoniously dumped by Fox News for reasons unknown has received offers from Rumble a Podcast forum and Newsmax a competing conservative news channel.  In fact, Newsmax has offered Tucker more money than Fox News!  But Tucker is holding his cards tight to his vest.  Tucker realizes he is the biggest name in news talk right now.  And, as ratings for Fox News have cratered since they dumped him, Tucker knows he's bigger than Fox News.  He doesn't need Newsmax or the money.  It's not about the money.  It's about who's in charge and who gets to call the shots.  So Tucker has met with Elon Musk.   Because Tucker knows that Elon knows that...  It's good to be The King.

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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon is a Private Eye novel by Dashiell Hammett that was turned into one of the great film noirs, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.  It is a story of a quest for a priceless treasure "the stuff that dreams are made of".  A story of lust, love, greed and murder.  The hero of this narrative Sam Spade/Humphrey Bogart outwits the bad guys, solves the case  but succumbs to the wily, seductive charms of the femme fatal Mary Astor/Brigid O'Shaughnessy.  Also somewhere along the way, he realizes Brigid O'Shaughnessy is the one, who killed his partner.  In one of the classic scenes of all time, he explains to her.  "You killed Miles (his partner) and you're going over for it."  ... "I won't play the sap for you!"  "I won't walk in the shoes of Thursby (her previous paramour) and I don't know how many others footsteps..."

This is a movie Tucker Carlson pictured above should have watched and if he did, he should have paid more attention to the ending.  Because he just walked in the footsteps of...  and it's a big long list of people, too numerous to even mention mention here.  People who exited the TV news business with the door banging them in the ass, if they didn't move quickly enough.  Of course the ex TV news stars made millions while all Bogart/Sam Spade got was a broken heart.  Of course the ex TV news stars have the broken heart too.  They lost the promise of the priceless treasure, "the stuff that dreams are made of".  That stuff, was being on TV every night.  Getting to put their two cents in on everything.  Getting to prop up and tear down anyone and anything.  Getting to interview Presidents, Princes, Kings and Queens with their own name, on everyone's lips.  

But all of a sudden it was over.  If they moved quickly enough and the door didn't bang their ass, they were off to some obscure cable TV show that hardly anyone watches.  Or their own Podcast that might make more money and even have a larger audience but their name, was no longer on everyone's lips.  The Presidents, the Princes, the Kings and the Queens did not stop by.  And with their name no longer on everyone's lips, that name began to fade away, like one of the notes in the bugle call Taps, played at the end of a soldier's day or his funeral... Chris Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly, Dan Rather...  Da da dah.

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