Opening Stuff:
Rats! The President
of the USA is going on TV tonight and is expected to enable and reward
lawlessness. That’s not the kind of leadership I want for this country. I want
to push the standards up. I want strivers at every level of society. Instead of
chipping away at the foundation of American principles, the President should be
hammering on the government of Mexico. This talk, if it is as expected, will be
a disgrace to a great society.
The Nina, The Pinta
and the Santa Maria got a lot of miles per Galleon. (From “Shoe”)
If there was no TV,
it would be just another day in Ferguson Mo.
Mike Nichols and Elaine May was one of the
all time funniest comedy teams.
The Question:
What was Mike Nichols first big movie success and what super
star’s career did it launch? Bonus:
Who is Michael Igor Peschkowsky? Bonus
2: What is a “Tracker” in modern day politics?
The Headlines:
--Gunman Opens Fire In Florida State U. Library; 3 Students
Wounded; Shooter Killed By Police.
--Markets are Sucking Early; New Jobless Claims Under 300K;
Oil Under $75 As Rebound Dies;
--NK Threatens To Boost Military, Conduct Nuke Tests In Response
To UN Resolution On Human Rights
--Mike Nichols Dies At 83.
--Millions Given By UN To Somalia Has Disappeared.
--Kerry In Vienna For Iran
Nuke Talks; In Effort To Claim Victory, Admin May Give Too Much Away.
--Citi Director Of Environment And Social Risk Found In
Bathtub With Throat Slit; Could be Lover’s Quarrel.
--Cosby Continues To Lose Projects As Scandal Talk
Escalates.
The NFL is back, and
the surprises keep on coming. Actually they aren’t that big a surprise any
more as the games this year seem more full of “pick-um’s than sure things. A
little better week last week, so our record creeps up to 99-60. Still at only
62%, there’s lots of room for improvement. Ok, tonight we have a great old,
classic AFC, bitter, intense rivalry game – but that was before this year’s
edition of the Chiefs and Raiders. Gotta pick KC, a team that looks very good.
GB is thriving, so mystery Minn should lose. TB shows signs of life but Chi is
at home. All of a sudden at 4-6, Atlanta is in 1st place! I love
Cleveland, but I’m going Falcons. Philly to bounce back over Tenn. There’s a possible
game of the week scenario if the Mighty “D” of Detroit can stifle the product
Offense of NE. I gotta pick the home team NE in a tough battle. Indy should get
back on the winning side against Jax. If they can get rid of the snow, Buff
should nip Jets in another war. SL is showing me something and SD is fading. SF has been unsettling, but should
take the Skins. I have to pick Dallas over the Giants, a team that looks shaky
even at home. Another mystery team, Baltimore may scare NO, but the Saints need
to keep pace with Mediocrity in their division. Miami could easily beat Denver who
may be missing Saunders and J. Thomas. PM is looking fidgety lately and Miami D
is fierce. Miami to upset here. And that brings us to Arizona and Seattle. This
is the all the marbles game for last years SB Champ. Arizona has been
resourceful, but the home noise and the desire for some degree of
respectability should give the Seahawks a win…barely.
Deleting the Uber App
has become a hot new trend. It isn’t only the disparaging of a female journalist
or worries over tte Company’s data collection policies, but the relative safety
of the overall operation. It has become apparent to observers that the management
of an underinsured company is most interested in selling apps while giving
total responsibility mere lip service.
Homeland is keeping
me on the edge of my seat this year. Oh yeah, and you know that big new
Showtime effort “The Affair” is going somewhere. It would be nice if it got
there. Aside from occasional bickering among side players, the basic premise of
each new episode so far is what new sex trick can we learn today, and what new location
can they do it in. It is one dimensional, and it needs boost outside the
bedroom, or shower or car hood.
When you think about
it, property taxes could be unconstitutional since in essence they are a form
of involuntary rent. They basically say you don’t really own your property
because the Gov can take it away for back taxes.
Two words I cannot
stand are “Eminent Domain”. They even get scarier as government continuers
to move away from “Of the People”.
My spies in the
Manufacturing industry publishing business tell me this is one of the best
years ever. Hot, Hot, Hot! RI and NE
used to be a big part of that before Governemnt regs forced them out. And conglomerates
sucked out all of the cash..
How come so-called
clean cut, honest, nose to the grindstone kids are so disliked by the insecure
often more popular peers who revel in bad grades and social misconduct? It must
be guilt.
Rand Paul could
be the candidate who cuts across the great political divide.
I am a “Jack of all
trades” kind f guy. There’s too much pressure being a “master of one”.
The Libs don’t
seem to accept successful blacks who speak proper English. Yet, successful
white NBA players are comfortable speaking like they are from the Hood. It must
be a “Render unto Caesar” thing.
Dogs who don’t
get along are Cross-breeds.
Calling U. Kentucky
basketball a college athletic program is a real stretch.
The Answer:
Mike Nichols often wrote or directed films and Broadway shows
that poked fun at himself and people like him. Often that was adultery of which
he often said he was expert, but in his first big film The Graduate, it was
about an earnest young man rebelling against elder’s expectations. He said he
identified with that awkward, perpetually flustered Benjamin Braddock played by
Dustin Hoffman. Bonus: Peschkpwsky
was Nichols real name, who when seven in 1938 escaped with his family from Nazi
Germany. Bonus 2: A tracker is a new
person in a campaign, generally a kid with a Smartphone who scours the Twitter
word for embarrassing and awkward statements from the competition.
America still has a
chance to survive because all of the noise is coming from a minority who
haven’t figured why they are allowed to speak out. The real problem isn’t the agitators
and the misguided leaders, but the protected fourth estate who won’t step in
with the truth.
So did hear about the
blond caught in fierce snowstorm, who, as suggested, spent an hour
following a snowplow until she realized she was still in a Wal-Mart parking
lot? I wonder what Fox newscasters think about Blond jokes?
No comments:
Post a Comment