Jealousy

Every once in a while jealousy rears its ugly head.  President Old Brains Biden who had all kinds of classified documents in his garage which is a big no no, got investigated for it.  The Special Investigator Robert  Hur concluded that Old Brains was too old, too feeble and his memory was so bad, that brining a case against him would be a waste of time.  Now any wise guy knows when you're being looked at, just keep your mouth shut.  But Old Brains got really angry and declared.  "I know what the hell I'm doing!"  Now you could say it was just one of the countless times Old Brains misspoke but we're thinking it's jealousy rearing its ugly head.  We figure Old Brains is thinking if Bad, Bad Orange Man can get indicted for miss handling classified documents, why can't I?

Also Old Brains' wife Jill and his Attorney Bob Bauer also blasted the investigators report.  Maybe they think Old Brains should be indicted as well.  And, maybe it's time for Special Investigator Robert Hur, no relation to Ben by the way, to take another look at this.

And District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County Georgia, the woman who dares to bring charges against Donald John Trump former President of the United States, aka Bad, Bad Orange Man, is in hot water.  Seems she hired her paramour Nathan Wade to prosecute Bad, Bad, Orange Man.  Seems Attorney Wade spent $654,000 plus on the case and some of it might have gone to their romance.  Added to that Mr. Wade was married at the time, so he and Fani, are caught in flagrante delicto.

Now some people are enraged and want the case dismissed but then it could be jealousy rearing its ugly head.  Maybe some people are just hating that a not so hot looking, middle aged woman, found love.  Even if it was in all the wrong places.  After all the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl and there was the kiss between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce after the victory, with all the confetti raining down.  And that is as pretty a picture, as you will ever see.  And people, are hating that too.

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Who Are The Worst People In America?

Who are the worst people in America?  You might be thinking serial killers, drug dealers, organized crime figures or even slumlords but no.  The worst people in America, could be the ones running for office.  If you don't believe us, just watch the commercials.  The people running for office have voted for all manner of evil and they want to take away your rights.  Which rights you might ask?  Well, whatever you got.  What can you do?  Well vote for the other guy of course.  But if you wait a little while, the next set commercials will come on telling you the other guy is not much better, maybe even worse.  What can you do?  Who knows?  Not us.  Good luck at the polls.

And Donald John Trump former President of the United States just took the Republican New Hampshire primary, Can anyone stop the The Beast or is he an unstoppable Juggernaut that will crush his only remaining opponent Niki Haley in the ensuing primaries?  Will he win the election in a landslide with his supporters weeping with joy and his detractors gnashing their teeth once again?  Will he have to take the oath of office from a jail cell?  Or will all the cases against him, just fall apart?  Who knows?  Not us.  Good luck at the polls.

And who will win the Super Bowl?  Teams look unstoppable till they are not.  See the Cowboys and the Packers.  At which point the fans, sometimes the owner and the Cognoscenti of the sports world, want players, coaches, head coaches or coordinators fired, if not tarred feathered and run out of town on a rail.  There is much gnashing of teeth.  Maybe as much if not more than there might be if Donald John Trump gets elected again.  There are no votes here, so don't worry about going to the polls.  But there are points.  So good luck with the spread, the over/under, the first, second, third quarter score and how long it takes Reba McEntire to sing the National Anthem.

Also watch out for the Officials.  Those are the guys in the black and white stripped shirts.  They can throw a flag and call a penalty on just about any play.  They can cause one team to score or not.  They can ruin whichever or whatever way you bet.  They can take the money right out of your pocket.  And, they are the absolute, worse people in America.

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We've Been Wondering

There are things that make us wonder and we've been wondering about certain things for a while...  Like if a letter is silent was it it there?  Take Ghislaine Maxwell.  When we first saw her name in print we were trying to figure out how to pronounce it.  Ghis translates into what?  Was it pronounced "Ghh-is", sort of like Chris in Christmas?  And then was it "lainee'"?  Because we knew she was French.  But then we find out that the "h" is silent and so it seems is the "s" and so is the "i" in laine.  So her name is pronounced "Ga-lane."  Which begs the question why don't we all just type Ga-lane from now on?  Of course that's only if she stays in the news and doesn't catch the suicide thing.  The suicide thing is a lot like the Covid thing.  It can be the end of you.  And we're going to type it "Ga'lane" with little ' accent in there because she's French.

And why can't Hillary run for President again?  This is the third time for Trump and the fourth or fifth for Biden.  We've lost count.  But Hillary?  She only gets to run once.  Is that fair?  And like why?  Is she too young at only 76?  She'll turn 80, somewhere in her first term just like the other two guys.  So, is it because she's a woman?  The old glass ceiling thing?  Is it the Russians?  Did they say don't even think about letting her run?  It's not fair.  Yeah, yeah we know we're repeating ourselves but that's how unfair it is.

And speaking of the Covid thing, we always wondered what the six feet was about?  If you remember we were all told to stay six feet away from each other.  Why six feet?  Why not five or ten or maybe even better, fifty?  Was it supposed to invoke the same distance as six feet under.  You know how deep you get buried to add more shock and awe?  But now we know from out of the mouth of Dr. Fauci who said.  "It just sort of appeared."  Did he mean like an apparition?  Like Jacob Marley from Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'?  Or was it more like Casper the Friendly Ghost?  Or was it like the Myrmidons of ancient Greece, the loyal followers of Achilles who some legends say rose out of the earth?  Fauci said this in a Congressional hearing and like a lot things with the Congress people, they didn't follow up.  So we will all be, left to wonder.

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Suggestions For 2024

In 2023 ABC unveiled a new riff on one of it's tried and true reality shows.  It was The Golden Bachelor.  This one differed from the previous Bachelor or Bachelorette shows in that the Bachelor was a 72 year old guy looking for love with an age appropriate woman.  The show was a big hit.  So we think next year's Golden Bachelor should be William Jefferson Clinton aka the 42nd President of the United States aka John Doe 36.

Obviously the man needs love and like the song says he's been "looking for love in all the wrong places".  Like Epstein's Island of lost teenage girls.  Maybe being on the TV show with a dozen or so age appropriate women to choose from and the audience weighing in on who he should pick, he might get it right this time.  We could sub title this season 'One Last Shot'.

And we have a suggestion for Disney.  Stop making movies.  Now some people say the movies are too woke.  Others say they just spend too much money on the CGI and special effects and they just can't recover the costs.  But they've lost over a billion dollars in 2023 on their movies and as the old saying goes.  'When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.'  Maybe they should try something else like a new religion along the lines of Scientology or an onlyfans.  There's a lot of money in those things.

And maybe the Ham Asses should try something new as well.  We mean something other than popping out of tunnels and firing missiles at Israel, most of which get shot down and a few kill some innocent people.  Of course we mean the Ham Asses that haven't been blown up, shot, drowned in their tunnels or otherwise sent to the hereafter.  Maybe they should learn bricklaying, as scenes from Gaza look like Berlin circa May 1945.  There will be a need for bricklayers, when all of this is done.  Or maybe they could get together and build a real subway with trains, tracks and stops that would take people from point A to point B, C and all over Gaza.  They're real good a building tunnels.  Or maybe they could learn Coding.  Anything but the firing missiles stuff.  That's not working out so hot for them.

Anyway, out with the old and in with the new.

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NYUUGGEE's Person Of The Year 2023

It's Barbie!  Why?  Well for starters, she's a doll.  And no, not just because she looks so sweet but because she's an actual doll made out of whatever they make dolls out of.  And Barbie came into this world in 1959!  That's 64 years ago and in that time there have been one billion, that's billion with a B, Barbie dolls sold!  That means a billion little girls all over the world played out their dreams with Barbie.  And, Barbie has been everything from a doctor to a lawyer to an Astronaut.  In fact, Barbie made it to the moon four years before Neil Armstrong did!  And, while the original and standard Barbie is the one pictured above there is every kind of Barbie, in all kinds of skin tones and there is even a Barbie in a wheelchair.  So, there's a Barbie for everyone.

Now some of you might be saying, she's not real!  She's not a person!  But then they made a movie about her, where the Barbie doll becomes a real woman!  And, there's a little speech in the movie where one of the characters explains the difficulty of being a real woman.  It's kind of silly and funny but James Cameron said of the speech.  "You basically sum up thousands of years of female dilemma in one minute."  And, James Cameron in case you didn't know made the movie 'Titanic' and the Avatar movies too.  And, those movies made billions!  That's Billions with a B, just like Barbie.  In fact the movie Barbie grossed over 1.4 billion dollars.  So, who are we or you to argue?  And, as all these other sites weigh with who they think was the person of the year, just ask, how much did they make?

Okay, okay this is a joke.  Barbie is not a real person.  Of course in this age of unbridled narcissism and staged events everywhere you look, you might ask, is any thing we view real anymore?  With all the images popping up on the various screens, can we tell the difference between people selling us stuff and people who are actually doing something of value?

Well yeah.  And, our real person of the year is the IDF, as in Israeli Defense Forces.  When their nation was attacked, they answered the call.  They are defending their homes, their families and their liberty with the skill and courage, that would make any nation proud.  They are also paying the price.  And, they are for real.

Anyone out there who tells you some nitwit celebrity or politician is their person of the year, well... Like Barbie at the top of this page, its just a joke.

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Person Of The Year 2023?

This week our runner ups.  Number 1 runner up Bob Iger, the embattled CEO of Disney.  His company lost billions in 2023 and they are due to lose billions more in 2024.  He seems to be driving this once great company off a cliff.  But Bob Iger is still in charge.  Still the CEO of Disney.  This reminds us of Jake LaMotta a middle weight contender and even  champion of the 1940's and 50's.  Jake fought Sugar Ray Robinson six times.  Many in the world of boxing consider Ray Robinson to have been pound for pound, the greatest fighter of all time.  Jake managed to win one of their fights but lost the other five.  In their last fight Sugar Ray just pounded Jake into a bloody pulp.  As the fight came to a close, through a face that was a total mess with his eyes looking like slits and his lips all bent out of shape, Jake managed to mutter.  "Never knocked me down Ray.  You never knocked me down."  Ray Robinson had beaten him five times but never knocked Jake LaMotta off his feet.  And, Bob Iger like Jake LaMotta is still standing.  He maybe losing more billions for his company than any CEO in history but no one's knocked him down.

Number 2 runner up Meghan and Harry.  They lost their 20 million dollar Spotify deal.  Netflix dumped them. The Royal family dumped them.  They have been dissed by the Royals in more ways than we can even count.  It seems no one explained to them that a 'Tell All', never has a sequel.  The very nature of the 'Tell All', is you 'Tell All' and there shouldn't be anything left.  But even if there is or might be more, no one speaks to people who do 'Tell All's for fear of being in the next one.  But they're still together!  Who'd a' thunk that one?  We would have bet good money that they'd gone their separate ways by now.  With Harry on his knees begging his Daddy to let him come home, so he could play the Prodigal son.  The Prodigal son meme would play really well, as no one has done it in a long, long time.  It would blow up the internet.  It would make the Mass Hysteria apoplectic.  Even the Cognoscenti Of The Known World, would weigh in on a daily basis.  And Meghan, we figured she'd be in another 3rd rate, cable only TV show.  Or she'd be one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  But what can we say?  Sometimes, we're wrong.  But they are still together!  Amazing!

Tune in next week for our Person of the year 2023.  Or maybe the week after, as this might be harder than we think.  But no, our person of the year will not be Taylor Swift.  We think that Time Magazine who made her their person of the year, is just a shadow of their former self.  No, more like an echo.  They put Taylor Swift on the cover of their magazine because her concerts sold out and a movie of her concerts, grossed over 249 million dollars, world wide.  So they hoped that with her on the cover they might get someone to look at their archaic construct.  Maybe they'd even get some likes on Tik Tok, Twitter and Youtube.  No one reads the thing anymore and hasn't for a long time.  It's not like Taylor Swift did anything of note.  Gone are the salad days when Time Magazine's Man of the Year was Adolph Hitler and the sane world gasped.

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Smelling Like A Rose Or Not

John Kerry Climate Czar, former Secretary of State, former Senator from Massachusetts, former Congressman from Massachusetts, who was in Viet Nam by the way, was decrying the state of Climate Change and the fact that the adults of the world were just not listening!  He was on a TV show bemoaning the use of coal in specifics but also the whole climate change thing, to a group of other Climate Change Aficionados, who listened with great empathy to his exhortations.  Then he farted.

Now we are not saying that this was the ultimate statement on Climate Change but if we stop to think about for a minute, maybe it was.

And love springs eternal!  Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are still together and still in love.  If you remember the big scandal last year.  It was these two co-hosts on ABC's Good Morning America fell in love.  They met on that show and it should have been a great story but they were still married to their respective spouses and ABC fired them.  This in an industry that has had many many members of its profession accused of and fired for sexual harassment and even pedophilia.  In fact the co-hosts of Morning Joe did the same thing and while the Joe of Morning Joe was not married the Mika of Morning Joe, was.

Now we wondered at the time if their firing had anything to do with Amy Robach being a white woman and  T.J. Holmes being a black man.  Joe and Mika of Morning Joe, are both white.  But then the people who scream and cry about these things didn't raise a peep, so who were we to make such a suggestion.

But as we said love springs eternal and Amy and T.J. have resurfaced where all fired TV hosts resurrect, on their very own Podcast.  Maybe those lines from the old Bette Midler hit song 'The Rose' are appropriate here.

'Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose'*

And across the pond in Venice a group of tourists were told repeatedly to sit down, they were rocking the boat.  But they were busy taking selfies while in a Gondola and like a lot of today's youths, they could not stop stop taking selfies.  The Gondola in turn capsized and all the selfie takers went into the Canal.  Luckily all the selfie takers were saved but sad to say all their phones were ruined and the selfies lost for all time.  And, we're not sure what gets dumped into those Canals in Venice but we're pretty sure that the fished out selfie takers, didn't come up smelling like roses.

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* Amanda McBroom