March 26, 2024

Ummm...I don't mean to sound like a lunatic

but I just saw a sped-up video of the collision and it really looks like the ship swung toward the support as though it were aiming for it.

Sorry…I’m a lunatic sometimes.

March 25, 2024

I'm stunned...I gotta sit down:

Diddy’s homes were raided by none other than Homeland Security…! One domicile in L.A. and one in Miami. Looks like a very big deal…

But I had to laugh….I happened to have CNN (Chicken Noodle News) on and the breathless female correspondent from Miami actually said….now listen carefully….that Diddy was “one of the greatest musicians of all time.”

Bach , Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, and Diddy. Yep. I was thinking that just the other day.

Then I remembered that Ari Melber was on and there is no greater fan of rap and Diddy than Ari, but when I changed the channel, I didn’t hear a mention of poor Diddy. Ari will no doubt be on the defense team over at MSRAP repetitively stating the fact that Diddy is wholly innocent until proven guilty by a jury of his peers. Not that Diddy has any peerage, since he’s one of the greatest musicians in history and thus eminently quotable, having nothing to do with Eminem.

I look forward to the coverage of the ALLEGED participation of this icon in whatever federal crime of which he is being charged, no matter how UNFAIRLY.

As an aside I have a couple guesses as to what they’ve got on him, but let’s see if the System, as manipulated by Don Creamsicle works as well for him.

For your viewing pleasure, fellow classical music enthusiasts.

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March 25, 2024

Given the present story arc, I predict

that the Supreme Court will eventually hand down an edict that Trump is entitled to win any election no matter the vote totals in any individual state due to the fact that he has been the recipient of an “undue” amount of negative court rulings in the past and is further entitled to what shall now be termed Electoral Reparations. As in the 2000 Election, this is a one-time, individual-specific ruling.

March 23, 2024

I have hung probably 30 chandeliers in my life...

And of all the electrical and plumbing work I do I despise this the worst. Today, I had to put up a new ceiling fixture in my foyer. It was very straightforward and the box from which to hang it I had already prepped in the late 80s when my mom lived in this house. So I had all my tools, all the equipment I needed, read the instructions understood exactly what I had to do.

After a couple tiny glitches involving different sizes of knurled nut to hold the assemblies to the ceiling and others to hold the framework which supports the glass, I had it all done. I was very proud of myself.

I put everything away including the ladder, And when I walked into the room I looked and saw that I had trapped one of the wires outside the assembly so I had to go back and get the ladder, climb up, undo both of the knurled nuts and carefully hold it so the whole fixture wouldn’t fall. Pushedthe wire back in with a key, pushed the whole assembly back up and tightened the nuts.

I’m so damned mad at myself for not checking all the way around and of course the one area that I did not look at carefully what turned out to be the offending area. Stupid. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬.

The reason this bothers me so much is this is exactly why things fail in life. Not the essentials but the Dumb stuff which is, as it turns out, is critical to success.

March 22, 2024

Jesus...

His former communications director said, "It's incredibly bad," she said. "This is a total blow to the brand of Trump; Trump is as much a brand as he is a businessman in some ways, even more so.”

Brand? A failed “University” which was sanctioned for fraud, steaks which were Outback rejects, a casino empire that went bankrupt, an airline which utterly sank into oblivion, a beauty pageant wherein pubescent girls were exposed in their changing room, a beauty pageant wherein adult women were assaulted, a vinegary variety of champagne, Trump Tea, (a totally forgotten enterprise), a fixed game show, as well as a whole host, actually an adult lifetime of outright lying - none dare call it exaggeration.

This is a brand? This is a catastrophe of capitalism. You know who’s a “brand” as an individual? Lee Iacocca, Steve Wynn, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan, Walt Disney, Frank Perdue, were ..and many others. Their names evoked some fair measures of quality and success. This truly uneducated, uncaring, uncivilized moron’s name evokes sense of failure and incompetence. This is MAD Magazine’s definition of a brand - satirically. Except it’s not fiction, it’s history.

And with any measure of good fortune, he will be history in a few months as well.

March 21, 2024

In my career, I have treated approximately

60 Common Pleas Judges, 10 Municipal court judges, and 15 Federal Judges. I got to know almost all of them well and they were all very different kinds of individuals, with or without humor, reflection, kindness, humanity, bias, bigotry, distaste for the pseudo-powerful.

But one thing they ALL had in common was that they knew a bullshitter instantly and had no time for one. One reason, among others, that I know this is the vast number of them came to me because I was known as an honest person who would neither overtreat nor overcharge them nor would I attempt to “sell” them something they really did not require or would not somehow benefit from. When I would hear what they had been told by another clinician , I knew exactly to whom they had been speaking and was amazed at their ability to detect, well, bullshit. My approach was very mattter-of-fact, realistic and pragmatic. They understood that immediately.

Point is, I would never enter a courtroom and attempt to “put one over” on an experienced judge. The result would invariably be some form of “fatal”. If TFG or his lawyers think for an instant that they’re shrewder than the judge they are mightily mistaken. They’re gonna get their nuts toasted on Centre Street.

March 21, 2024

"Who'd you rather have a beer with?"

Remember that one? I recall telling all my now-former buddies that George W Bush had no interest or intention of having a beer with THEM but it didn’t matter one whit.

The amazing thing about the Right in this country is that they will vote in a guy like Nixon, finally figure out that he’s a criminal like the rest of us suspected; a Bush,Jr. who was a dope and a member of the Lucky Sperm Club who lied about issues that wound up killing and maiming many of his own constituents, not to mention Iraqis; a Reagan who lied about a lot and was selling arms to Iran via a back channel AND lying about it, and there are never any post-administration reflections from them or their Party upon how things went terribly wrong, even by their stupid criteria.

But we get to hear about Monica Lewinsky and Oval Office blowjobs ad infinitum, Kennedy’s affairs with women, Roosevelt’s “wheelchair deception”, Obama’s sneaking of cigarettes and his birth certificate , Biden’s “Crime Family” which never existed, and Carter’s abortive catastrophic nightmare attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran (most likely sabotage from within to guarantee failure).

America is always poised to be proximal to the lowest common denominator- a beer huh? So that’s the best we can do…? One might ask: who woukd you rather ask as a neighbor to keep a close watch on your home when you leave for two weeks.

And you notice that I didn’t even mention once that cartoonish faux-James Bond villain running as a Republican for President this time.

March 21, 2024

St.Senator Burch is one terrifically brave person

And to have to suffer a tragic loss and be forced in a way to have to explain it rationally to the Arizona Legislature and the American people is doubly horrific. She is clearly a sophisticated, intelligent, careful and feeling woman.

. Now please allow me to tell you what I think someone else in the same position is going to need to do in order to break this logjam of repressive creeps. It might go exactly like this:

“I claim my five minutes Mr President. Now stop looking at your iPhones for a minute and meet my gaze, you slimy motherfuckers. Your whole political existences are predicated upon your so-called base loving your position on women’s reproductive rights as non-citizens. Today is different however…Hey Senator Jones, you slimy prick: turn around and look me in the eye and tell me that my doctor is obliged by your law to tell me about adoption when the organism inside me is as dead as a doornail. Yeah, YOU. SAY IT! And YOU Senator Smith: everyone in this chamber knows you were fucking your administrator and when she got pregnant, “with child” as you hypocritical assholes would say in one of your fake-moralistic diatribes, you sent her to the Adirondacks for a two week vacation which included a visit to the doctor for an “emergency D and C, right?”, likely paid out of your petty cash slush fund that we also all know about. Did you happen to mention this to your wife? No? Well she can watch the NBC Nightly News tonight and Lester Holt can fill her in.

And Senator Williams…you know I happen to know your suite mate from Holyoke and she told me after you were on FOX suggesting that women would do well to follow an abstinence lifestyle until married, that your room may as well have had a revolving door for all the men who came and went. Get it, Senator? CAME and went. And by the way, she thought that you definitely went home to New York City that time you claimed you were skiing in Killington. Someone saw you getting on the Greyhound going South, not North. You came back really…subdued. Things got calm in the suite with you for a while. Any memory of that? No?? Your color doesn’t look so good all of a sudden.

You so-called pro-life people are the worst hypocrites and destroyers of life You should all go to Hell, which if you believed in it as you say you do, is awaiting your presence. Assholes all. I yield back my time”

This would go viral and instill a certain awakening by those who only respond to the political equivalent of a Tarantino movie. BOOM!

This of course is a Swiftian Modest Proposal. I don’t think it’s gonna happen anytime soon. But then again…

March 20, 2024

So Kimberly Guilfoyle went to her plastic surgeon,

Dr Feelgreat for the forty-seventh time in three months with a complaint about her facial features. The doctor, tired of seeing her all the time said to her, “Kim, I think I’m going to try a new invention on you. It’s called “The Knob”. We place it under your skin above the hairline on the back of your head and each time you think there’s a sag somewhere, just give it a clockwise rotation until you hear it click, and it will pull everything tight. What do you think?”

She replied, “That sounds GREAT , doc. I can tell that the Best is Yet to Come!”

So the doc places the device under local anesthesia and sure enough, he doesn’t hear from her for eighteen months.

One morning he comes to his office and there’s an urgent message from Kimberly, “Doc!! I have to see you right away!! It’s an emergency!!” So he has his receptionist call her. He hears shortly thereafter that she’s arrived a placed into an exam room. He promptly enters the room, looks at her and says, “OK Kim, yes the bags under your eyes ARE your breasts. I don’t however, want to begin to talk about your beard.”

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Adapted from an “old joke “. I sincerely hope that I didn’t offend. But this group deserves every dose of this clap(trap).

March 20, 2024

A few thoughts on a quiet morning...

One of the intrinsic issues with humanity is that individuals for the most part do not understand consequences as they pertain to themselves. I cannot begin to tell you the number of people whom I have known who have performed some illegal act, justified it to themselves, and believed that they could justify it as well to the law-enforcement authorities, and then the judge. Individuals, and I am no exception, Have relationships, sever ties, obfuscate (to be polite), steal, Enter businesses, or professions, and sometimes even write posts for websites, without considering what may happen to them, if things go awry.


Now in the context of our favorite website, I would extend this to those who back a candidate or candidates who clearly elucidate their vision for “conservatism”, repression and retribution against perceived enemies. The vast number of individuals feel that they are sufficiently anonymous that this will not pertain to them personally, nor to their families and friends. An example of this occurred during the 1980 campaign for the presidency in which Ronald Reagan went to Pittsburgh, donned a hardhat, and joked with all the steel workers about welfare queens, and the like, as though he were one of the boys and the steelworkers were members of his Club.

We all know what happened to steel industry once Reagan became president and those jobs are never coming back to the United States . I guarantee you that every single one of the steelworkers who thought that Ronny was a great guy, had no idea that he, or she would be affected directly in such an untoward manner.

And so it is with this tinhorn Mussolini, who is running for the presidency. There is no question that there is a capability and a desire and willingness to jail political opponents, if not exterminate them. Anyone who believes that there is a limit to this man’s Nazi-like desires, and motivations, is utterly and completely fooling him or her self . The consequences will be dire for a great many people in this nation should he be sent to a throne : because the seat will become a throne and not a presidency.

The vast number of people reading this post know this, and I am aware that I am preaching to the choir , but it is imperative, that when we talk to so-called lower information voters, that we let them know in no U.N. certain terms that their world may be permanently turned upside down if he is elected.