Thursday, May 10, 2018
The News is a bit off-center of late
Bill Cosby may spend the rest of his life in prison and President Donald Trump may win the Nobel Peace Prize. Haven't googled Bill Cosby's exact age of late. Could be 89, 97 or 105 but Justice has been served. Public disgrace and opprobrium not enough and I'm no legal authority but I thought there was a statute of limitations or something. The Hollywood academies have rescinded his many awards and mere mention and it's as if I Spy never existed. They finally realized Roman Polanski is a perv too and did the same such is the feminist juggernaut a little late in coming though. President Trump is seriously being mentioned as a viable peace prize potential winner with the upcoming Kim Jong-Un summit in Singapore the Stormy Daniels saga being merely a springtime diversion to fuel the news cycle. As an aside I don't see any more tip cups in Dunkin' Donuts and I have a chunk of change to spare. Are the clerks making too much or something?
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From Charles Kuralt
ReplyDeleteto Tom Brokaw : Pee Wee Herman and Anthony Weiner are starting to look like mere rookies.
Charles Kuralt? WTF
DeleteThinking about “tip cups in Dunkin' Donuts” - those are for tips? Out this away they are considered spittoons – fer yer tobaccy juice. Yonkers is classy.
ReplyDeleteI know iced coffee is trendy but I just can't get into it.
ReplyDeleteAt least 3-5 tornadoes from the storm the other day. Newburgh, Kent and Patterson NY. Saugerties too ranging from EF-0 to EF-2. What's going on? I thought that stuff only happened in Kansas and Nebraska.
ReplyDeleteFollowing instructions from a friendly wingnut blog-
DeleteThe Man From QzMay 17, 2018 at 9:36 AM
BB Idiot, Shut the Fuck Up, and Go Nack to that Shit Hole Progressive Site where you came from!
-here I am! I noted your Great Plains weather yesterday. According to the fine print in the Theory Of
Global Warming, Mets and Yankees will be known as Jayhawks and Cornhuskers. Buffalo will change
to Omaha and Yonkers to Tulsa. Or not. More than likely, just some odd combination of winds aloft,
surface barometric pressure, southern humidity and a moving broken occluded front. You kept the cats
in I hope?
You still rescuing feral cats ?
ReplyDeleteAnother school shooting; parents bury their kids, gun sales go up. The dog barks and the caravan moves on.....
ReplyDeleteI mean yeah but don't you think the issue is larger than gun control? What's going on with mental health these days?
DeleteYou know the stats: a firearm for every person in the country. But those are only owned by 40%
DeleteYou can get a military weapon on the internet (several recent mass killers used that route), at a gun
show or your friendly 'fence'. This subculture is so strong and endemic that congress won't even
ban bumpstocks. Bumpstocks, for chrissakes. Like ya need one for hunting squirrels? Protection
at the bar? The NRA is so worried about gun rights that they sought and won the ability of those
on the US homeland terrorist watch list to possess them. OK, so we have a gun culture-thank you
years of western movies (guns were almost always banned in the towns of the frontier west) whose
main thrust is self protection. It sells extremely well. Since they (particularly the popular assault
rifles) are so ubiquitious, any crazed individual can obtain one. It is a toxic mix, guns and crazies-
and dependong on one's POV, you regulate one or the other. Everyone except the NRA knows that
guns will never be taken away. But they can be regulated (hell, we regulate artificial sweeteners and tax common pipe tobacco at 150%) : consider Australia- after a massacre there, they rewrote their
guns laws. They can have them, but the rules are strict. Since that date, there have been no mass
shootings among the Aussies. In fact a couple weeks back some guy shot his wife and kid in the outback and they were enraged. Let's ask the CrocDundee folks what they think . Ouch. Well, gotta get back to my study of
higher US culture .
This particular young person seems to have gotten the guns from his Pop.
DeleteColumbine copycat?
ReplyDelete“estimates from a number of survey studies indicate that roughly 200,000 to 400,000 guns are stolen from individuals each year.” - as I recall from Army officer class 'Unit Combat Operations', that equips anywhere from 9 to 20 infantry divisions (Normandy invasion maybe?) We are lucky we have so few
ReplyDeleteschool massacres, no?
Any thought on Prince Harry and his new bride?
ReplyDeleteI am so not into the Royals. What does he do for a living again?
DeleteDunno..The Artist Formerly Known As Prince? British pop culture, old chap.
DeleteIt seems that the MeToo movement has a list of chefs of interest, including Mario Batali . Is being outed the new In?
ReplyDeleteHim I'm not surprised over. You can picture it. What is it the porn?
Delete“President Trump is seriously being mentioned as a viable peace prize potential winner with the upcoming Kim Jong-Un summit”
ReplyDeleteNice, but on hold while he investigates the investigators. The age of The Art Of The Deal..or how to
apply real estate to world problems....
So Trump/Jong-Un isn't gonna take place?
DeleteGood question. IMO what we have is the oriental necessity of saving face vs the real estate mogul
Deletenecessity of never losing. Diplomacy be damned. Makes for good press, though.
Thoughts on Roseanne?
ReplyDeleteYeah...I always get her mixed up with Rosie O'Donnell. We are in the age of political incorrectness
Deleteand anything goes these days. Back in the day, you would get detention for pottymouth talk, ya know?
If you had Sister Annunciata, you were in worse trouble....
Conservative commentators are funny. Not that long ago they were crowing about the reboot of the Roseanne show. Trump supporter, show the rest of Middle America but now they're like ewww icky!
DeleteIf I understnd the Guiliani School Of Law, the next time the Yonkers camera convicts you, you may pardon yourself. Lemee know how that works out.
ReplyDeleteYes I heard that last night on the news that Trump may pardon himself over the Russia probe. How come Nixon never heard of this?
ReplyDeleteNixon was pardoned by President Ford, who considered that years of trials would be damaging to the country.
Delete“CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer told AP Radio News in 2003 that he asked Ford if he felt Nixon should have thanked him, and Ford replied, "It would've helped."
Schieffer pressed Ford and asked how he felt about Nixon not thanking him, and Ford chuckled and said, "Well, that's Nixon for you."
Schieffer said Ford believed that the pardon was "the major factor" in his later losing the presidential race to Carter”
I had seen Dicky on the TV with shifty eyes and sweaty nose state “I am not a crook” and conlcuded
that live TV is sort of a lie detector.
IMO, being president is like a four year root canal....
I know Nixon was pardoned by Ford but apparently he could have done it himself? Least that's the Rudy interpretation.
DeleteIt was reported that Anthony Bourdain committed suicide in France. He seemed tired and hard driving but I wonder-
ReplyDelete“In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain detailed the many drugs he used with friends in the ’80s. “We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in at every opportunity to ‘conceptualize,'” he wrote. “Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Pot, quaaludes, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, Seconal, Tuinal, speed, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we’d send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get. We worked long hours and took considerable pride in our efforts-the drugs, we thought, having little effect on the end-product”
- if some of that stuff does something to the noggin that causes flashback years later?
His suicide surprised me. What you're asking is does years of doing hardcore drugs cause brain damage? To me he was just too much of an egotistical wise-ass to off himself. Sorry for the delayed responses again. I think you may have wound up in my Spam Folder again and I assumed you had passed.
DeleteThe Pentagon has been directed to create a fifth military- the
ReplyDeleteSpace Force. Been pondering whether Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock
will be involved, whether intel has picked up plans for an invasion by aliens from Betelguese and of course, if we will continue to use the more powerful and efficient Russian rockets. Presumably in the near future at least, the problems of earth orbit satellites (1450
zipping around), who owns them, what they do: the random 'space junk'
and potential meteor, asteroid and comet impact will be the mission
of the latest StarTrek Enterprize. Later maybe a Great Wall across the Asteroid Belt? ..and will the normal salute used by the other five US military be eschewed for the familiar 'Live long and prosper' digital split salute? The 97 year old Flash Gordon has reportedly stated "Well, it's about time" :)
Did the Chinese thing land or what happened? I lost track.
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