Wednesday morning brilliance from Lex at no extra charge

Check out Turner Classic Movies for first caged child
What’s the big deal?  Anyone ever watch “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” with David Niven and Doris Day?  They put their toddler in a cage and it was funny.

Immigrant cognitive dissonance
I can understand people wanting to get out of the, how is it PDJT put it, oh yeah - sh*thole countries.  What I cannot understand is why when they get out and come to a place like America they immediately want to vote for a party that wants to turn the US into sh*thole like they just left.

Horowitz investigating black Sox scandal
Here are OIG Horowitz’s findings if he had investigated the famous Black Sox scandal – (the Chicago White Sox throwing the 1919 World Series for the unwashed):

Yes they admitted taking the money.

Yes, with the exception of Joe Jackson, they played well below the ability that was demonstrated during the regular season.

I could not find one single piece of paper signed by the players, notarized by a qualified notary public and registered with Cook County Clerk of public records indicating their intent to throw the 9 game series in 8 games.

Therefore, I conclude that they did not throw the series.

Horowitz is as logic challenged as Comey’s famous, “Sure she’s guilty as hell.  There’s a mountain of evidence proving it, but alas no intent.  So move along now.”  Horowitz logic, “Look I know we have a mountain of evidence indicating bias. But unless they confess to it on tape and sign a written statement indicating their guilt, all this evidence is useless.”

NFL kneeling as easy to understand as a swastika neck tattoo
While we’re on the sports stuff.  Certain NFL players have indicated a willingness to meet with PDJT on the kneeling controversy.  They will lose.  Here’s why.

)  1. The issue is too easy for Joe six pack to understand.

  2.  The players cannot consistently explain why they are doing what they are doing

  3.  Protesting the flag is like looking for a job with swastika neck tattoo.  Almost no one will not hire you for not having a swastika neck tattoo (is that too many negatives? Re-read it. You know what I mean.).  There are entire swaths of people who will not hire you if you do.

No one will condemn you for standing for the Anthem. A great many will if you kneel.  The NFL is a business.  The idea is to get the largest audience possible.  So why do something that POs 3/4ths of the fan base?    

Boob Nifong Mueller’s witch hunt a dead man walking
No matter what Nifong Mueller’s team turns up at this point, it is horribly tainted.  Anyone wrung up by Nifong Mueller so far ought to demand Strzok, McCabe and Comey testify as to the origin of the investigation and then use the OIG report to demonstrate the obvious bias that Horowitz could not find to a jury that would see in one hot second.

I’m not a lawyer, I know who both my parents are, BADABOOM – but this seems like fruit from the poisonous tree.  All of Nigong Mueller’s charges came after a clear bias was demonstrated to exist among the investigators who forced the investigation on false pretexts.      

Today’s JG rant
God bless the JG.  About 4 out of 7 days of each week I can count on the JG to publish a string of letters from unhinged #NEVERTRUMPers that allows me relive the euphoria that occurred at about 9pm on the evening of Nov 8, 2016.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.

Take John Stevens’s letter, “GOP’s vacuousness becoming more evident” of Jun 20, 2018.  Reading that letter was like watching the stunned mullet look on Clinton supporters’ faces gathered for her “victory party” at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.  The venue was chosen because the atrium had a glass ceiling that Clinton was going to symbolically crash through.  By 9pm the weeping began and has not stopped since.  The Ceiling at the Javits Center symbolically and literally remains intact.

Hilariously, Stevens demonstrated his total lack of self-awareness by stringing together more than a half dozen invectives directed at how (trigger warning) President Donald J. Trump is dividing the country, ironically ending by condemning (trigger warning) President Trump for – get this – “name-calling.”  That’s good stuff.  Its logic is like those fascist social justice warriors on campus using the hecklers veto to shout down conservative speakers in the name of free speech.

It’s made even more hilarious coming from the Democrat side whose main political and policy argument these days was made by Robert Di Nero, “F-Trump.”

News flash to Stevens and other #NEVERTRUMPers.  (Trigger warning) President Donald J. Trump was not elected because he possessed a Washingtonian demeanor, a Madisonian understanding of the constitution or the oral ability of Henry Clay.       

I did run across one nugget of truth in Stevens’s screed, if voters want to reverse the current economic boom, they should definitely vote Democrat.           

 

OP's vacuousness becoming more evident

I am getting weary of Republicans and conservatives playing the whiny “you are being mean to us” card. Are they all so boneheaded that they don't know they won? They control the Senate and  House and Supreme Court and White House. What is it they want? They are in control. Perhaps it has something to do with what they won: Donald Trump. The tweeter-in-chief is an excellent example of how one can win and lose in one fell swoop. Trump has so polarized and divided this country and his own party with his ignorant, thin-skinned, lying, narcissistic, flip-flopping, loud-mouthed, name-calling self that he is experiencing as great a congressional gridlock as nearly any president before him. The turnover in his administration seems to be higher than that of a fast-food restaurant. His administration, which he claims is “running like a well-oiled machine,” is a gyre of chaos and treachery. It is no wonder the White House leaks like a sieve; no one in there can trust anyone else or be certain he or she will have a job in three days' time.

Trump has clearly lied and obstructed justice since his presidency began, along with throwing away the vast majority of trust and cooperation of our allies – except, of course, Saudi Arabia, the country from which 15 of the 19 9/11 conspirators originated. And he wants us to be afraid of Mexicans? If indeed, it seems to some that the media has a bias against Trump and Republicans, perhaps it is because they are reporting news as it is, rather than the wishful thinking, denial and lies being perpetrated on already-prejudiced patrons of Fox “News.” In a “post-truth” era such as the one in which we are living, of course facts and responsible news reporting would be eschewed by many simply because it is something they do not want to hear. So, Republicans and other conservatives, if you want something done besides giving huge tax cuts to the top 1 percent, take a leadership role and do it. Hopefully, in the midterm and the next presidential elections, this tide of backward movement in nearly every aspect of economy and society can be reversed, and the mistakes and purposeful retrogression they do can be overturned.

John Stevens

Angola