The Fog Of War

 

If you tune into the Mass Hysteria, you will always hear the Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti Of The Known World talk about The Fog Of War.  But if you ever get a chance to read the after action reports written by the Commanders in the field, usually written right after a battle has concluded, you can see that the Commanders know exactly what happened.  There is nothing foggy about it all.

Now the Mass Hysteria always likes to have someone on the ground in a war staring into the camera.  Usually with some body armor on and maybe even wearing a helmet.  As if they are in the war or the war is over the next hill or right around the corner.  When they're probably no closer than 20 miles to anything, that might get them a boo boo.  But at least they are out there.  For the rest of the Mass Hysteria, war is a never ending collage of exploding buildings, fires, people wailing and sometimes these images are from the war they are covering and sometimes from a prior war, as if they don't think you can tell the difference.  Or maybe, they can't tell the difference..  Then there is always a carefully edited, never ending loop of video, showing the same images over and over again.  And, if that was the world you lived in, your mind would be, in The Fog.

The Mass Hysteria likes to cover the current war, as if The Israeli Defense Force and the Ham Asses are two fighters entering a ring.  Maybe it's Professional Boxing or an MMA bout but in this corner it is...  And in that corner it is...  In reality, Israel is a highly complex, representative government with checks and balances and a government that exists to serve its people.  Similar to the one we live in here in the USA or that of Great Britain, France, Germany and all the civilized countries in the world.  The Ham Asses are a gang, much like the Chicago Outfit of Al Capone or the Curley Bill Brocius crew, known as The Cowboys out in Tombstone, back in 1881.  The fact that the Mass Hysteria can't differentiate between the two, is because of The Fog.

If you don't understand the difference between the two or if you think we got this wrong, please go join a gang, and report back to us.  We hear the Gambinos need a few people.

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A Little Reflection is In Order

With all the hysteria that pours out of the Mass Hysteria on a daily basis, it might be a good idea to recall a previous battle that is very similar to the current one in Gaza, The Battle of Iwo Jima.  The United States Marine Corps landed on Iwo Jima, on February 19, 1945.  The Japanese soldiers on the island had a very intricate tunnel system, the likes of which no one had ever seen before.  It took 36 very, hard fought days but The Marines took the island.  Almost all of the 22,000 Japanese soldiers died, with only 200 surrendering.  That was 78 years ago which means the Israeli Defense Forces the IDF, has a new set of weaponry that includes bunker busting bombs, drones, robots and something called a sponge bomb.  The Marines back in 1945 had high explosives, flamethrowers and well, Marines.  

So while the Mass Hysteria screams about the tunnels in Gaza it looks like,  'Alea acata est' and it's all been done before.  Let's just pray for the remaining hostages and that the IDF doesn't suffer too many casualties.

And Megan Rapinoe a female soccer player fell down on the field and it seems tore her Achilles tendon.  She decided that this injury as she put it.  "Proves there is no God".  This is the atheist argument that if there was a God, terrible things would not occur, like slavery, the Holocaust or the New York Mets not having won a World Series since 1986.  You can see how her injury fits right in there.  What it actually is, is the human body as it ages, loses it's elasticity.  The aging athlete can't do the same things they used to do and that body is more prone to injury, see Aaron Rogers New York Jets.  That is  what they call, the science.  Maybe 38 year old Megan Rapinoe, doesn't believe in the science.

First it was Tiffany Gomes the self described "crazy plane lady" who began yelling at an imaginary man while on a Airplane.  Naturally the other passengers on the plane whipped out their phones and began to record and onto Tik Tok it went.  The video went viral.  Now it's another woman on an Airplane screaming but this time she claimed she was being "human trafficked".  Technically she's right as she's a human being, going from one place to another but that's not what she was up to.  We see a trend here.  We're guessing that these two women weren't polished or good looking enough to get on one of the 'Housewives of...  Not athletic enough to get on a show like 'Wipeout' and not even appealing enough to hook up with a convict and be on 'Love After Lockup'.  So they've resorted to screaming on an airplane and hoping for Tik Tok.  This Age of Narcissism treks on.

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Questions?

In a fierce and fiery debate Wednesday night while discussing the evils of Tik Tok, candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pointed out that candidate Niki Haley's own daughter had a Tik Tok account!  OMG!  Niki Haley then responded.  "Keep my daughter's name out of your voice.".  Then she called him "scum".  Now under certain circumstances that would have been considered racist but since both of their families came here from India, she can call him whatever she wants.  But that brings us to our first question of the day and we've been pondering this one for quite sometime.  What is the difference between the Politicians of Today and The Real Housewives of New York, Beverly Hills, The Potomac or wherever you prefer?  

The answer...  We give up too.

This brings us to the Ham Asses and our second question of the day.  In case you didn't know, in the middle of the famous Gun Fight at the O.K. Corral, Ike Clanton ran up to Wyatt Earp and screamed.  "Don't shoot!  I got no gun!"  This is not just from the movies.  This was attested to by all the surviving combatants and the many witnesses.  Wyatt amazingly didn't just shoot him but shoved him aside telling him.  "The fighting has commenced.  Get to fighting or get away!"  So why don't all these Ham Ass supporters demonstrating all over the world, get their asses on a plane, fly to Egypt, go through one of the many tunnels of the Ham Assess and get to fighting?

And Jared Leto, Academy Award winning actor climbed the Empire State Building.  Well at least from floors 86 to 104 which is the highest and scariest part.  Jared is the first person to scale this New York City Landmark since King Kong.  Now, you might be wondering why would he do this?  Money?  Fame?  He already has those things.  So it's not not for the reasons most people do these outlandish and crazy things nowadays.  Like live on a desolate island for months or in a house with a bunch of other narcissistic nicompoops, just so they can all be, in front of a TV camera.  Like we said Jared Leto already has all that.  No, the answer must be, because it is there.

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Happy Halloween!

As you can see the Kardashians dressed up as the Bratz Dolls for Halloween.  Then Taylor Swift went out dressed up as who else?  Taylor Swift.  And, the Ham Asses out there in Gaza, dressed up as dead bodies.  We weren't sure who was the most convincing but after some discussion we decided, it was the Ham Asses. 

And a whole lot of the migrants who have flooded New York City are dressing up as Sex Workers and parading up and down Roosevelt Avenue in the Borough of Queens.  We hear that they are very, very convincing.

Then there is the Trick or Treat aspect of Halloween.  

For the Texas Rangers who won there third game of the World Series on Halloween and then won the World Series the next night, it was the Treat. 

Then there was Steven Edward Riley Jr. a 57 year old North Dakota man who thought he'd inherited 30 million dollars from some long, lost relative.  Since he was going to be a multi millionaire why have a frumpy, dumpy, 47 year old common law wife?  Maybe he was thinking he'd be just like Jeff Bezos.  So he planned to dump the 47 year old, frumpy, dumpy, Ina Thea Kenoyer, as soon as he cashed his 30 million dollar check.  Not only was Ina Thea Kenoyer not so hot looking, she also didn't work and just sat around the house all day.  She never, ever cleaned or cooked.  But she must have got wind of his plans and while she didn't know how to cook, she did know how to put anti-freeze in his favorite drink.  And, well, Steven Riley Jr. 57, drank it and died.  Trick, nasty Trick.

But then the story doesn't end there.  It seems that Ina Thea Kenoyer thought since she was his common law wife, she'd inherit the 30 million.  But then she found out that North Dakota doesn't recognize common law marriages.  So, it was double Trick.  And there was no 30 million dollars.  It was all an email scam.  You know those things, they usually come from Nigeria.  So it was Trick, Trick and triple Trick.

Halloween, can be a nasty night.

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What Were They Thinking?

On the first day of the Hamas Israeli War, there was some footage of a Hamas Guy flying in a motorized paraglider.  Assuming it was an actual Hamas Guy and not just some footage of someone on vacation in Arizona, (The Mass Hysteria has been known to do things like that.) it would have constituted the Hamas Air Force.  The Israelis then brought out their F16's, F35's and their Apache Helicopters, a real Air Force and began to bomb the Hamas Guys back into the stone age.  Which begs the question about the Hamas Guys.  What Were They Thinking?  Obviously not too much and pretty soon, maybe nothing at all.

And, President Old Brains Biden went to Israel to show support.  When asked about the bombing of the Gaza Hospital that seems to have been the result of a misguided Hamas missile, Old Brains Biden said.  "It's that old thing.  Gotta learn to shoot straight."  Now not to take things out of context, we watched the whole response and we can see Old Brains was trying to say that he didn't think the Hamas Guys fired at the Hospital on purpose.  But like a lot of stuff he says, it came out sideways but still, you've got to wonder. What Was He Thinking?  Obviously, not too well.

And Cher, the 80 year old singer who used to be married to a guy named Sonny, in case you don't remember, said in an interview that if Donald Trump gets elected in 2024 she'll.  "Leave the country!"  Thus adding her name to a long list of celebrities who have threatened to leave the country over one thing or another.  A list that includes: Bryan Cranston, Lena Dunham, Miley Cyrus, Whoopi Goldberg, George Lopez, Cher herself back in 2016, Chelsea Handler, Amy Schumer, Jon Stewart, Barbara Streisand, Chol Sevigny?  and Omari Hardwick?  Just to name a few.  And we put question marks after the names of people we never heard of but since the internet says they're celebrities, who are we to argue?  Of course none of these people ever, actually, leave the country, so it begs the question.  When they said this nonsense.  What Were They Thinking?

Did they think that the country seeing they were leaving would immediately reverse whatever the great transgression was that sent them into exile, rather than to try to exist without them?  Or the country would just collapse without their presence, thus rendering the great transgression null and void.  Or maybe it's just the like the little girl, when she's really, really angry and she says.  "I'm not talking to you ever, ever again!"  Or is it just some other thing we can't see?  You know it might be nice if the next time some celebrity mouths this missive, that someone in the vicinity of it ask.  "What's up with that?"  Or "What's that supposed to do?"

And, we used the picture at the top of this column of a guy in a motorized paraglider while on vacation, it looks like Arizona, just to give you an image to work with.  He's not a Hamas Guy invading Israel.  This admission is called, truth in Journalism.

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Secret Agent Man

Back in the bleak Cold War era of the 1950's through the 1960's, Spies or Secret Agents reigned supreme.  If not in real life, at least in books, movies and TV.  There were the solemn, plodding characters of John Le Carre novels.  Or the Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuriyakin of the TV show The Man From Uncle or even the spoof of the genre guys like Maxwell Smart, of 'Get Smart' and Dean Martin as Matt Helm.  There was even a song about all these Spies and Secret Agents and it was appropriately titled 'Secret Agent Man'.  It went like this.

"There's a man who leads a life of danger.  With everyone he meets he stays a stranger.  With every move he makes, another chance he takes.  Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow."*

Of course the sui generis of all Secret Agents was James Bond aka 007.  James Bond was a connoisseur of fine wines, fine food and fine women.  He was elegant and he was lethal.  The 007 designation meant he had a license to kill and the British government would quickly and efficiently clean it all up.  Of course James Bond always had a gun, a Walther PPK.  And, we're kind of thinking that's what Hunter Biden, pictured above, had in mind when he sojourned out into the world, right after his father had become Vice President.

But we think poor ole Hunter only saw the movies and didn't read the books, so he sort of missed the mark a little.  Not his fault so much, as some of the movies missed the mark a little too.  Like the last one where James Bond cried, died and might have left a kid behind.  James Bond, the essential James Bond from the novels, must have always used condoms or had a vasectomy, as none of his women ever got pregnant.  STDs?  Maybe he did go with condoms but STDs were for the other guy.  And James Bond never smoked crack or did any drugs.  It was Vodka Martinis shaken not stirred.  And, he didn't make it with his dead brother's wife.  That would be tacky.  No, James Bond always had sex with women who were beautiful, hot and wanted him.  And, none of them ever got angry with him afterwards.  Unlike Hunter, whose dead brother's ex-wife hates him or the Stripper, who also hates him.  You know the one he got pregnant and doesn't want to pay child support for.

Maybe Hunter aimed too high.  But then maybe it's the quest that counts and not the destination so much.  Think of all the guys who searched for the Holy Grail.  Maybe in that quest, Hunter found the quintessence that is Hunter Biden and in so doing, found contentment, inner peace.  Maybe he won't mind it so much when they scoot him off to the Hoosegow.  Maybe he'll just sing the last line of the 'Secret Agent Man' song.  "They've given you a number and taken away your name."

It's what they do when they lock you up.

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*P.F. Sloan, Steve Barri and sung by Johnny Rivers

Looking Good or Not?

Senator Robert Menedez of New Jersey has been indicted on charges of bribery and if that sounds familiar, it's because he was indicted on federal corruption charges back in 2015.  This is a case of deja vu all over again.  In that first case, Senator Menedez had done favors for some guy who had committed Medicare fraud and wanted to bring hot women from Brazil into the country.  The guy in turn had given Senator Menedez free rides on his private jet and bought the Senator some gifts.  The jury had a hard time differentiating between corruption and the usual practices of elected officials, so they couldn't get to a verdict.  The Prosecutors realizing this case might be a bridge too far, dropped the charges.

But this new bribery case might be different.  Seems the Senator had 480k in cash stuffed in his socks, the mattress and various other places in his house.  Then there was another 100k in cash in his wife's safety deposit box.  Now he could argue that he doesn't trust banks after all he is a Senator and should know.  And he and his wife have scrimped, saved, used coupons a lot and tucked the cash away for a few decades but then he also has gold bars.  Yeah the stuff you see in the movies that the bad guys like the Nazis would hide away.  And, these gold bars have ID numbers on them that are registered to a guy who is facing prosecution and the Senator is trying to get him off.  Well, who knows?  Maybe the Senator has a story for the jury but right about now, it doesn't look too good.

Now there is Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.  They seem to be dating.  Travis Kelce who plays for the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs and Taylor Swift who needs no introduction, have been seen together on numerous occasions.  She invited him to one of her concerts and he was bewitched.  Taylor Swift has been known to have that effect on men.  He in turn invited her to see him perform with the Chiefs.  She showed up with an entourage and they all danced to the tune of the Chiefs, crushing the Chicago Bears 41 to 10.  So right about now, it all looks really good.  But given their dating histories by this time next year, they'll both just be a memory to each other.  Hell they might not even make it to the Super Bowl.  And she'll write a song next year about a guy who was "out of bounds" caught in a "personal foul" or he just couldn't get "into the end zone".  But right about now, it looks really good.

And continuing with the NFL, the New York Jets watched the sugar plum fairies of the Super Bowl that were dancing in their heads make a quick run for the exits, as Aaron Rodgers went down on his fourth play in a New York Jets uniform.  He tore his Achilles tendon, highlighting a reality that billionaire sports team owners don't seem to grasp.  As the human body ages, it loses it's elasticity and we all of us but especially athletes, can no longer do the things we used to do and we are more prone to injury.  The Jets brain trust's plan B seems to be Zach Wilson but they'd be better off looking around at the many local high school Quarterbacks out there in New Jersey.  

What's really bad is the Jets have to play the Chiefs this week on Sunday Night Football where everyone with no other games to watch, will be tuned in.  And, they may well have to watch Taylor Swift and the entourage dancing again which will be good for her fans, fans of her romance with Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs fans but for the long suffering New York Jets fans, this isn't looking too good.

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