tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291060642024-03-18T05:48:41.770-04:00Foolishness...Or Is It? ... You Decide If It Is Sheer Foolishness or Sheer Brilliance.Enjoy my mind wanderings. Thought provoking. Serious humor. Stimulating thought since 2006. Nathaniel Hawthorne-"Easy reading is damn hard writing." Tertullian-"Credo quia absurdum", I believe it because it is absurd. John Lennox-"Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists." George Burns-"Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist." Willy Wonka-"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.comBlogger1750125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-40279900880594839082024-03-04T10:59:00.000-05:002024-03-04T10:59:16.581-05:00Why Do People Do That?<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Internet Is Wonderful! It will explain everything to
you. It will allow you to learn about whatever you want to learn about whenever
you are ready to lean about it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For example: If you are like me, I’m sure you have a strong
desire to be like me, you have often wondered about this one...<b>Why Do People
Get Tattooed?</b> Thanks to me, with the help of the Internet, you are about to
find out <b>Why People Get Tattooed</b>...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdU-kJ_EQpScbZf4QZ-vhUXH0_-8kp5yTFZswgjiMqIhf9LJh19s4KSApEUAEhdYPX6Ys1Tnk8OBc0ydhcmYMo0iA3QZ4Jz6C7mPO9vAZEK5amCPrQU_jLulYI9eivfhhjo3iafLlGFm-BTflfgp6pSCNCuLJCoonzfmad1HgW0dS3X-vdETP9zQ/s720/QuestionMark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdU-kJ_EQpScbZf4QZ-vhUXH0_-8kp5yTFZswgjiMqIhf9LJh19s4KSApEUAEhdYPX6Ys1Tnk8OBc0ydhcmYMo0iA3QZ4Jz6C7mPO9vAZEK5amCPrQU_jLulYI9eivfhhjo3iafLlGFm-BTflfgp6pSCNCuLJCoonzfmad1HgW0dS3X-vdETP9zQ/w228-h228/QuestionMark.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>People get tattoos for various reasons, such as for
artistic, cosmetic, sentimental, religious or spiritual reasons, for family and
to symbolize their belonging to or identification with particular groups,
including <a name="_Hlk160437198">criminal gangs </a>or a particular ethnic
group or law-abiding subculture. Tattoos can also be for attention, <a name="_Hlk160438777">self-expression</a>, artistic freedom, rebellion, a visual
display of a personal narrative, reminders of spiritual/cultural traditions,
sexual motivation, addiction, identification with a group or <a name="_Hlk160437354">even drunken</a> impulsiveness.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Have you ever seen a finer example of a waste of words? You
can take your pick of any part of this explanation and think to yourself any
one or all of these reasons to ignore what you just read and move onto some
other endeavor where your time will be better spent...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Who gives a chit! <br /><a name="_Hlk160437053">i.e.: </a>artistic
freedom or identification with a particular ethnic group or rebellion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Huh? <br />i.e.: a visual display of a personal
narrative or self-expression or cosmetic reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->That’s stupid! <br />i.e.: for sentimental reasons or addiction
or sexual motivation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When I saw the last one <b>Even Drunken Impulsiveness</b> it
made me harken back to my youth (are you tired of hearing about my youth?) ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When we were young and we saw a man (in those days it was
always a man) with a tattoo it mean 2 things...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->He used to be in the Navy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->One night, while in the Navy, he got drunk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="text-align: justify;">Lagniappe: </b><span style="text-align: justify;">There was a
time, </span><span style="text-align: justify;">after people looked at their tattooed selves and started to cry,</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> I thought there was a fortune to be made in Tattoo Removal Parlors. As of now, I’m not so sure that will ever happen.</span></p><br /><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-81250828273643678682024-02-27T13:26:00.002-05:002024-02-27T13:28:46.498-05:00Enough Is Enough...Or is it?<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <span> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHZYERScpG4rLd4hLNGWl3Yp0wAlYaUyDGqKcMJ_jf7PUO1UYxqgnSsPUJCSSRoHRP792OwGm6Dp22_9sSMSukveWk1qjpAEe2zSGVugBcVOfvOCbQcx_r6CCr-uH7V4pPEEXugrErIm7bMIHhMxE3R3RGjw9wykGJWhCnMV47MtL16yY2B9B-Q/s280/MoneyFlying.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="280" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHZYERScpG4rLd4hLNGWl3Yp0wAlYaUyDGqKcMJ_jf7PUO1UYxqgnSsPUJCSSRoHRP792OwGm6Dp22_9sSMSukveWk1qjpAEe2zSGVugBcVOfvOCbQcx_r6CCr-uH7V4pPEEXugrErIm7bMIHhMxE3R3RGjw9wykGJWhCnMV47MtL16yY2B9B-Q/s1600/MoneyFlying.jpg" width="280" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b>(I could have titled this Blog Posting Gone With The Wind)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I hope you appreciate what I do for you. You don’t
know what I do for you? What I do is stumble through the Internet and find
useless but interesting information and I send it your way to brighten your
day...Or is it brighten?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">I stumbled across a celebrity (even though I
never heard of her) who got divorced. The divorce got her $2.5 billion, plus an
extra $100 million for 13 years. Unfortunately, she filed for bankruptcy in her
80’s.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In my younger days when I wanted to be sound clever,
I was known to say, <b>“The only thing money can’t buy is poverty”</b>. Either
George Burns or I invented this bit of cleverness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">George or I may have been clever but many
years later, on at this this one occasion, we were proven wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-54361760727865995232024-02-24T20:09:00.002-05:002024-02-27T08:17:33.599-05:00You Can Never Be Too Safe...Or can you never be?<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ahh, what a wonderful sight! Can’t you just picture it in
your mind’s eye (whatever that is)? Two loving parents holding their breath as
they watch their darling child struggle to take its first step. In the future
there will be millions more steps but this is historic. The is The Big One
because this is The First One!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But wait! Something is amiss in your Minds’ Eye. Something’s
not right! Ahh ha! I see it! Today’s ever-protective two loving parents have
taken steps to protect their darling child from injury. They surrounded their
child with protection. For fear of their child falling and bumping something or
other, they have equipped their child with a Helmet for its Head, Palm Pads for
its Palms, Elbow Pads for its Elbows and Knee Pads for its Knees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">That’s all well and good...Or is it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The picture below is Modern Child Protective America going to even
more extremes...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Seat Belts Have Made Their Way Into The Baby Changing Stations of America’s Men’s Rest Rooms!...</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The answer is, Yes! ... But should we be so afraid?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Lagniappe:</b> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">How long will it be before a Modern American Father, white as a sheet, is
going to come rushing out of a Baby Fall Out Proof Men’s Rest Room crying out, </span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Call
911! I can’t undo the Baby Fall Out Prevention Protective Seat Belt and My
Darling Child Is Beginning To Whimper!”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-27422577957848845612024-02-23T11:31:00.000-05:002024-02-23T11:31:32.493-05:00I've Never Done A Blog Posting Like This Before<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqzo8jLP5UiO9naz5t6fJs315blJAkDNYKGu2e9QRTGG9ui8rT2ZA3-hDtsR6kdwX9YKuP6kYiiYhyhUDfFJo70zJycpQVkBMU2hQppuxjgULJ7FclaS1yX-4amjtWnJrUzGrH2xXnXh93oYsbNQiny6tgat9Xi-xlU1KLwjO5nhBTMwn1lqO9CA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="771" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqzo8jLP5UiO9naz5t6fJs315blJAkDNYKGu2e9QRTGG9ui8rT2ZA3-hDtsR6kdwX9YKuP6kYiiYhyhUDfFJo70zJycpQVkBMU2hQppuxjgULJ7FclaS1yX-4amjtWnJrUzGrH2xXnXh93oYsbNQiny6tgat9Xi-xlU1KLwjO5nhBTMwn1lqO9CA=w598-h436" width="598" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I could not not give recognition to Mr. Anonymous for his Outstanding Commenting Effort to my Blog Posting of February 16, 2024 entitled <i>Somebody Do Something</i>. This was a Herculean Effort if I have ever seen one!</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Here it is. Be advised this may bring tears of admiration to your eyes. I only hope it will challenge the rest of you to try to emulate Mr. Anonymous...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>Anonymous said...</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>Are you really blaming the chairs for the company's demise? No joke that my company got rid of all chairs after our CEO read a blog post about how standing desks increase productivity by 35%. Now, everyone is more productive and focused, but worker’s compensation claims for lower back and foot problems are way up. The really bad part is that we had a co-worker in a wheelchair who had to write a memo asking that she be allowed to sit in their wheelchair. The CEO, reluctantly, granted the request, but our co-worker eventually left because she felt singled out when others complained that she wasn’t a 'team player'. The problem isn't the chairs; it's poor management and lack of accountability. Instead of blaming inanimate objects, focus on creating a productive work environment where employees are engaged and motivated. This post is a classic case of misdirected indignation!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I got all teared up all over again!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Would I kid u?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Smartfella</span></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-65919979497150797902024-02-16T16:20:00.000-05:002024-02-16T16:20:13.241-05:00Somebody Do Something!<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Picking a title for this Blog Posting was not easy. Alternative
titles just flowed out of me. I could have used, <b>“You Have a Job So Why
Ain’t You Working?”</b> or this one would have worked, <b>“Why Are You Just
Sitting There?”</b> or this, <b>“Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something!”</b>
or, <b>“Are You Asleep?”.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Why are so many “workers” sitting
around doing nothing? It’s not their fault because they can’t help themselves.
It’s where they are that’s the problem. To be more specific, it’s where their
butts are that’s the problem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If you are their employer, it’s now a
really Big Problem for you and the saddest part is you are the one who paid for
your own Big Problem and you </span><u>Paid Big Time</u>!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Did you just say, “Huh?!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Please allow me to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’ll explain by telling you a story...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There once was a Up And Coming Company that was owned by an Up
And Coming <a name="_Hlk158971480">Entrepreneur</a>. This <a name="_Hlk158926426">entrepreneur </a>was flush with money because his
employees were top notch and hard working as all get out. He was so grateful to
his hard-working employees that he decided to do something very nice (and very
expensive) for his hard-working employees. No employee was left out because, as
I said, without exception they were all hard workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What he did was buy every employee his/her own <b>X-Chair</b>.
Before he made the final decision to authorize this big an expenditure he did
pause for a moment because this was a really large amount of money but he
quickly moved forward with the purchase because he felt his workers deserved
the best because they were the best.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><div>************</div></span><p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And now for The Rest of the Story...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Six months later the company went out of business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Are you wondering how this could happen? The chairs were
very expensive but their cost was not the reason the Up And Coming Company
owned by the Up And Coming Entrepreneur went out of business. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It was the chair itself that was the reason for the
company’s demise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I am the Noticer you are not the Noticer. If you were the
Noticer, you would know why the Up And Coming Company went out of business. <b>X-Chair</b>
actually demonstrated why the Up And Coming Company was going to go out of
business in every <b>X-Chair Commercial</b> they ran on your television.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You should have noticed that all the people sitting in their
<b>X-Chairs</b> in the <b>X-Chair Commercials</b> were not doing anything. They just sat in their
<b>X-Chairs</b> staring into the distance looking content and smiling contentedly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In other word, they were not working! They were not getting
anything done! They were not doing anything except comfortably getting paid <b>To Do
Nothing</b> in their <b>Extremely Comfortable X-Chairs</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6YOdykSiCTi4Ur3MF3PipCsFIGpU-X_nm3b1mpW9_pmXOxhXpf_iTRq4CN691lb3XnV6UYqnhfUgWENcDzyb15TIqj1x9fIWVzmnrggIZy1fnd-tB1jiA4F17SqCupck4ncAmUBMCaeqGrP43TpCtFAbMDoSxqBYNInctlmI89_U0f2JYgnPIWQ/s800/SleepingInChair%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6YOdykSiCTi4Ur3MF3PipCsFIGpU-X_nm3b1mpW9_pmXOxhXpf_iTRq4CN691lb3XnV6UYqnhfUgWENcDzyb15TIqj1x9fIWVzmnrggIZy1fnd-tB1jiA4F17SqCupck4ncAmUBMCaeqGrP43TpCtFAbMDoSxqBYNInctlmI89_U0f2JYgnPIWQ/s320/SleepingInChair%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s a wonder it took a whole 6 months to go out of
business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: large;">Lagniappe: </b><span style="line-height: 115%;">On the other hand maybe it was the cost of the <b>X-Chairs</b> that made the Up
And Coming Business go out of business. I looked up the cost of <b>X-Chairs</b> on the
Internet. The web site quoted the price of a <b>X-Tech Ultimate Executive Office Chair </b>to be, “<b>From $1,899”.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another way
of saying “<b>From $1,899”</b> is, <b>“$1,899 and Up”</b>. Do you realize how
much <b>Up</b> there is above <b>$1,899</b>? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">X-Chair knew
how much <b>Up</b> there was. The Former Up And Coming </span>Entrepreneur</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> never should have said, <b>“Pick out
whichever model you want”</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-81959438382580733642024-02-13T14:29:00.000-05:002024-02-13T14:29:14.839-05:00It Was Worse Than That Was Bad<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-Cm0k2wXX5hUctSmN1ACTWy38zVKVwmQlStyxXZEvESE1-EaauEvlFmqcaVB6n7UTvwuh-eY3jYoc4dOgRLXSWq-JppZSgKgfz3uR4svHsbzbOOai8vDmhxUSD5sjLp_xMlsokkz-FL7Ly3ZEcowKJdkxuLCT9Vkjr0jTMJfx4aEF6rRqLgYSg/s1024/GoodBadUgly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-Cm0k2wXX5hUctSmN1ACTWy38zVKVwmQlStyxXZEvESE1-EaauEvlFmqcaVB6n7UTvwuh-eY3jYoc4dOgRLXSWq-JppZSgKgfz3uR4svHsbzbOOai8vDmhxUSD5sjLp_xMlsokkz-FL7Ly3ZEcowKJdkxuLCT9Vkjr0jTMJfx4aEF6rRqLgYSg/s320/GoodBadUgly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">If Sunday’s Super Bowl...</span></div><p></p><div>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Did not have a single pass completion by either
team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Did not have a single yard gained rushing by
either team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Only ended because all the fans either fell
asleep or had left the stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The time spent watching it would have been a lot better time
spent than watching the halftime show.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p><b>Lagniappe:</b> Click Here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ2dVKbAUIs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ2dVKbAUIs</a></p><p></p><p class="FORIITitle"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-66210148696343986692024-02-11T12:14:00.000-05:002024-02-11T12:14:19.208-05:00Why?<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I guess this qualifies as Foolishness but it’s not Funny...Or
is it?</span></div><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Where have I been? I did not know this was an issue. I did
not know this was going on. Why is this an ongoing issue?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkSxrHBfke2x2akgqZjEaNJBpLpan6qozRmuza3f4K7hZ0N_V-OXm_7M1b0C14hyphenhyphen5udCQofPC2Pxuv9BEg1S1Di8NLjU1oHXaJqTyzJAGk0XOmpHzzvEGFmIIK__6M-TL_ehM_yKKVA-RkBm_XYzW2jiTsA3ymgrs-THhHsyAD1bLTLsnnhgWQA/s284/CharlieBrownAaugh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="284" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkSxrHBfke2x2akgqZjEaNJBpLpan6qozRmuza3f4K7hZ0N_V-OXm_7M1b0C14hyphenhyphen5udCQofPC2Pxuv9BEg1S1Di8NLjU1oHXaJqTyzJAGk0XOmpHzzvEGFmIIK__6M-TL_ehM_yKKVA-RkBm_XYzW2jiTsA3ymgrs-THhHsyAD1bLTLsnnhgWQA/s1600/CharlieBrownAaugh.jpg" width="284" /></a></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I just heard that the Black National Anthem is going to be
played at today’s Super Bowl. I went online to see if this was really true only
to find out that, not only is it really true, but this divisive issue has been
with us for several years and I thought I knew what was going on in the Good
Ole USofA.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Looking at the bright side, it could be worse. What would be
worse would be if the National Anthem were not played at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Oh my gosh, it has been worse and I did not know about that
either...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Last year at the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament the National Anthem
was not played at all. Instead, what was played was the Black National Anthem
and America the Beautiful.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">America the Beautiful is a beautiful patriotic song but that’s
not the point. The point is it’s not Our National Anthem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Maybe what we need is the National Anthem of Every Country
in the United Nations be sung before the game can begin. We need to be mindful
that the people at the game or not at the game from the likes of...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Andorra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dominica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Lao People’s Democratic Republic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Mali<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Nauru<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Palau<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Saint Kitts and Nevis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Democratic Republic of São Tomé<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Príncipe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">...and so on and so forth are people too and they will be
sorely offended when they come to the realization after the singing is done
that their tune had not been sung. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After all, there are only 193 Countries in The United Nations.
It won’t take long for each country to have its chance to be proud. Then there
will probably still be enough time left for some football.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Yea, I’m being silly...Or am I?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: large;">Lagniappe:</b> <span style="line-height: 115%;">Oops! I forgot Grand Fenwick...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeV6gbK3hCJb9QjhSXwJy3HztfG5D7gGwt2fH9H7FVnmcZxj1hyphenhyphenU05qNWqllLlVGbPaIZctI-nh_nHkuWLKmMyu3jhTV3v3fWcV_YPoMHp7KxitqwJeG4FUNAfttYYTe6nJXBY_W6Y52Iq0K3rLDUMipStOk0vYmT8eFM1m4R39CSf6BhoBPj6g/s195/MouseRoared%204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="195" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeV6gbK3hCJb9QjhSXwJy3HztfG5D7gGwt2fH9H7FVnmcZxj1hyphenhyphenU05qNWqllLlVGbPaIZctI-nh_nHkuWLKmMyu3jhTV3v3fWcV_YPoMHp7KxitqwJeG4FUNAfttYYTe6nJXBY_W6Y52Iq0K3rLDUMipStOk0vYmT8eFM1m4R39CSf6BhoBPj6g/s1600/MouseRoared%204.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/</a></p><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Lagniappe Another:</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span>Moving on from Foolish to Downright Stupid...<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">A
ticket to the Super Bowl in 1967 cost $10, or just over $90 adjusted
for inflation. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">As of
Wednesday, the average price of tickets was $8,600. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Last
week, seats were going for more than $12,000. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Resellers
have been asking up to $45,000 a ticket.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">A
20-person suite will run you a cool $1.8 million, including the cost of
tickets as well as food and alcoholic beverages. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">A more
modest 8-seat accommodation plus tickets and amenities is going
for $330,000.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">A “cheap”
4-seater suite can be had for $150,000. <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Here's what 30-second Super Bowl ads have cost through
the years:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl I, 1967 – $37,500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl II, 1968 – $54,500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl III, 1969 – $55,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl IV, 1970 – $78,200<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl V, 1971 – $72,500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl VI, 1972 – $86,100<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl VII, 1973 – $88,100<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl VIII, 1974 – $103,500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl IX, 1975 – $107,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl X, 1976 – $110,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XI, 1977 – $125,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XII, 1978 –$162,300<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XIII, 1979 – $185,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XIV, 1980 – $222,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XV, 1981 – $275,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XVI, 1982 – $324,300<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XVII, 1983 – $400,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XVIII, 1984 – $368,200<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XIX, 1985 – $525,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XX, 1986 – $550,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXI, 1987 – $600,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXII, 1988 – $645,500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXIII, 1989 – $675,500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXIV, 1990 – $700,400<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXV, 1991 – $800,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXVI, 1992 – $850,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXVII, 1993 – $850,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXVIII, 1994 – $900,000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXIX, 1995 – $1.15 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXX, 1996 – $1.085 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXI, 1997 – $1.2 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXII, 1998 – $1.29 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXIII, 1999 – $1.6 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000 – $2.1 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXV, 2001 – $2.2 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXVI, 2002 – $2.2 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXVII, 2003 – $2.2 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2004 – $2.3 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XXXIX, 2005 – $2.4 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XL, 2006 – $2.5 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLI, 2007 – $2.385 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLII, 2008 – $2.699 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLIII, 2009 – $2.999 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLIV, 2010 – $2.954 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLV, 2011 – $3.1 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLVI, 2012 – $3.5 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLVII, 2013 – $3.8 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLVIII, 2014 – $4 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl XLIX, 2015 – $4.25 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl 50, 2016 – $4.5 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl LI, 2017 – $5 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl LII, 2018 – $5.2 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl LIII, 2019 – $5.3 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl LIV, 2020 – $5.6 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl LV, 2021 – $5.5 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Super Bowl LVI, 2022 – $6.5 million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Super Bowl LVII, 2023 – $7 million*<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Super Bowl LVIII, 2024 – $7 million*<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">*I’m relieved to see that Ad Inflation is under control.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p></p></div>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-56489915314575144952024-02-02T11:37:00.034-05:002024-02-02T12:54:13.862-05:00AAUGH!<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqW1a6btgnf7ukMkvmROvrp6PfjtV4kZwXmZnoUViHcVsoYVCUChruZYG_I5YuDSwpbB4yPQXGfSv_4dw6XcI0Lw17deIDtDNH2kxtbIrq7fOQItyJo0CfSJYNPalcLRTuDzqU75oLIV06KfLWZE61RuVuqgr_CpiI29K0jM8uSwHYSyZbFkAbnA/s284/CharlieBrownAaugh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="284" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqW1a6btgnf7ukMkvmROvrp6PfjtV4kZwXmZnoUViHcVsoYVCUChruZYG_I5YuDSwpbB4yPQXGfSv_4dw6XcI0Lw17deIDtDNH2kxtbIrq7fOQItyJo0CfSJYNPalcLRTuDzqU75oLIV06KfLWZE61RuVuqgr_CpiI29K0jM8uSwHYSyZbFkAbnA/s1600/CharlieBrownAaugh.jpg" width="284" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I don’t watch Morning TV. Oops, it looks like I started this
Blog Posting with a lie. I need to remove the lie before I move on...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I used to not watch Morning TV but I gave it a try
starting a few weeks back.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It was a mistake to have given it a try. I know you are dying
to know why I decided it was a mistake...Or are you dying? I’ll give you a hint
and the hint has to do with none other than Tom Brady...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Morning talk show hosts shout at us <u>all the
time</u>!...<b>AAUGH!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Morning talk show hosts <u>talk faster than my
ears can hear and understand</u>....<b>AAUGH!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Morning talk show hosts appear to be in a
constant state of happy but they must think that the awful news they shout at
me faster than I can hear is happy news because they look so happy while 99% of
what they report to us is Awful News. <u>Why does Awful News make them Happy?</u>...<b>AAUGH!</b><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Enter Tom Brady...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They don’t know it yet but the talk show hosts just
convinced me that I need to stop the insanity (listening to them is insanity). They
just broke for a break. When they break for a break, they always give us an
interesting News Hook that makes us want to sit through the commercials and
still be there when the commercials are over to hear the You-Just-Gotta-Hear-This-Interesting-News-Hook-After-The-Commercial-Is-Over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here is the You Just Gotta Hear Interesting News Hook they
tried to hook me with...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Stay with us because after the break we are going to tell
you about Tom Brady’s Favorite Dessert!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Really?! Do they really think I am so stupid I would want to
know what Tom Brady eats for a Dessert? They don’t have any respect for me!
That’s it! I’m done!...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk157765140"></a><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i%27m+not+gonna+take+it+anymore&atb=v355-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsdQCPlAZjbY"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157765140;">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i%27m+not+gonna+take+it+anymore&atb=v355-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsdQCPlAZjbY</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157765140;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157765140;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157765140;"></span>
</span><p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This Is The Bottom Line Area Of This Blog...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Bottom Line is where is I put is something that is Fella
Catchy, Fella Inspirational or (usually) Fella Foolish. None of that today
because Fella can’t top Peter Finch’s forever to be remembered tirade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Lagniappe:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span>Have you
noticed that Nightly News Shows are crammed packed with one disaster after
another and at the end the Happy Talking Head looks at you through the camera
and says something like, <b>“Have a wonderful weekend!”</b> If we truly had
Accuracy in The Media The Head would say, <b>“I hope you survive the weekend”</b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-12071286134386817922024-01-26T14:02:00.000-05:002024-01-26T14:02:42.690-05:00A Museum About a Great Aircraft and A Book About Someone Who Really Knew How To Fly It<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_LMePNYVDAFX1KxKH2FPpzDLfomSuZxFccB1Xicu2uteVw5kh6OuijSHKp73wh2jdY650BKk1iFtCbTafR_6BNwBV7m7jyWUunzfYnt9jynlABhVvNFX76xt8BQDTziyFqDnBuLEOb42WwaOLll11iutlwT6PEuM8js8gBuS3rMm4F76cWed0Q/s232/BulletThruHelmet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="232" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_LMePNYVDAFX1KxKH2FPpzDLfomSuZxFccB1Xicu2uteVw5kh6OuijSHKp73wh2jdY650BKk1iFtCbTafR_6BNwBV7m7jyWUunzfYnt9jynlABhVvNFX76xt8BQDTziyFqDnBuLEOb42WwaOLll11iutlwT6PEuM8js8gBuS3rMm4F76cWed0Q/s1600/BulletThruHelmet.jpg" width="232" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="FORIIMiddle"><a name="_Hlk157028871"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157028871;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Bullet Came In The Front and Went Out The
Side<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157028871;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There is no
Foolishness in this Blog Posting...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157028871;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The book was written by a Dustoff Pilot (Medical Evacuation
Pilot) who flew with the 57<sup>th</sup> Medical Detachment in Vietnam and who
is regarded by us as one of our Legends. His name is Colonel Douglas E. Moore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I recommend the book to you as a good read about the military
unit I happened to be part of which established an astounding history of life
saving in Vietnam starting in 1962.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The book does not cost that much and a part of the proceeds from
the book goes towards a museum that is still under construction which will be
dedicated to the UH-1 Helicopter (The Huey) that we flew in Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzeiQi57-aQh8LR0j0fdnPwLEok5EeZOi9PZJ5Vrq6wMI2HSyBuWEC1xgVgSVGeYvd68L4ZMOm5wrmB6j7y8y029X-MJMMBM6Vgl3gIvdRoB_5__9_Br7UEA6Ut7XXz43wOpPn69fuwxGa0qEJaef-bR84hbTogJ6j4JA-SXKQ7rG_9Q08Jlx1A/s628/HueyInFlight.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="628" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzeiQi57-aQh8LR0j0fdnPwLEok5EeZOi9PZJ5Vrq6wMI2HSyBuWEC1xgVgSVGeYvd68L4ZMOm5wrmB6j7y8y029X-MJMMBM6Vgl3gIvdRoB_5__9_Br7UEA6Ut7XXz43wOpPn69fuwxGa0qEJaef-bR84hbTogJ6j4JA-SXKQ7rG_9Q08Jlx1A/w432-h236/HueyInFlight.png" width="432" /></a></span></o:p></p><p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Museum Link Is:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://museumspedia.com/en/i/15174-american-huey-museum/">https://museumspedia.com/en/i/15174-american-huey-museum/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This is a copy of an email I received from Colonel Moore...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Douglas Moore</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>From: </b>xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.net<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>To: </b>AlexO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Tue, Jan 2 at 6:52 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Did I ever tell you guys that I wrote a book? Years ago,
Phil Marshall called to say he had read a couple of articles I wrote for Army
magazines and wanted to ask a favor. He told me about the Huey 369 project at
Peru, Indiana where he and others were planning a Huey museum and had acquired
their first aircraft, a former Dust Off bird. Following a VHPA reunion in
Indianapolis, my wife and I stopped by and Phil gave us a ride in that a/c and
then talked us out of a couple thousand dollars to go into their building fund.
Later he asked me and others to put together a book that could be sold at their
museum project. I complied with the understanding that all my proceeds from the
book would go into the building fund. The title is <i>A Bullet Through The
Helmet</i> and is available from Amazon. Four dollars from each sale goes to
the museum. If you haven’t read it, you might recognize some of the characters
and places and you could help the museum scheduled to open this summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Doug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Book Link Is: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Through-Helmet-Vietnam-Dustoff/dp/1726311724">https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Through-Helmet-Vietnam-Dustoff/dp/1726311724</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In writing my Blog <i>Foolishess...Or Is It?</i> I have been
known to exaggerate, some say I lie but this time I did not lie when I said, “There
is no Foolishness in this Blog Posting...”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Not being Foolish is not easy for me and I promise not to do
it again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</v:imagedata></v:shape></span><o:p></o:p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-6825611913070697022024-01-13T11:13:00.000-05:002024-01-13T11:13:16.748-05:00Yes You Earned It but You Have No Right to It!<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_eP_hohyphenhyphenTp4Mei4HODVHCAqUgqGL9tk7UQvmn2mS5Obw2luZCIvwLYW0Dlc7yNyyC8QRpf1rtw-Q-IQ6j3jtf0BBK0CyJt0NNn2tqhElrcz1cNu55p06Illq9T44gXtUs2C0K8XZBuNou8-emCJH4g3LkSjUPi5ExzfoBO3YfcKrCutaVBgzxQ/s960/SocialJustice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_eP_hohyphenhyphenTp4Mei4HODVHCAqUgqGL9tk7UQvmn2mS5Obw2luZCIvwLYW0Dlc7yNyyC8QRpf1rtw-Q-IQ6j3jtf0BBK0CyJt0NNn2tqhElrcz1cNu55p06Illq9T44gXtUs2C0K8XZBuNou8-emCJH4g3LkSjUPi5ExzfoBO3YfcKrCutaVBgzxQ/s320/SocialJustice.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I spend more and more time trying to Hide Who I Am and
Trying To Prove Who I Am To Those I Don’t Want To Hide From and Trying To
Figure Out Who I Am or Who I Was Before I Hid Who I Am/Was. (If you can figure
out what I just pecked out, send me a text message and explain it to me.)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The bad guys have been coming at me ever since way back when
I first asked myself, “Self, is it spelled ‘computer’ or ‘computor’?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I thought I was holding my own against them with all of my
different passwords but it appears they are on the verge of having their way
with me and there is no longer anything I can do to stop them...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">From Malwarebytes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">EXPLOITS AND VULNERABILITIES</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Sound of You
Typing On Your Keyboard Could Reveal Your Password<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Posted: December 12, 2023 by Mark Stockley</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As if password authentication’s coffin needed any more
nails, researchers in the UK have discovered yet another way to hammer one in.
The technique, developed at Durham University, the University of Surrey, and
Royal Holloway University of London, builds on previous work to produce a more
accurate way to guess your password by listening to the sound of you typing it
on your keyboard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The slight differences in the sounds each key makes is an
unintentional leak of information, known as a “side channel”. Computers
typically have lots of side channels, such as noises, heat, and changes in
electromagnetic emissions, which can be hoovered up and analyzed by adversaries
to learn more about what’s happening on the computer.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Subject of this Blog Posting is not more of my
Foolishness. You had better take me seriously. On the other hand, it actually
will make no never mind if you take me seriously or not because they are
winning and we are losing and they know it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There will come a day when you will end up losing all you
have to those who want all you have. Actually I understand that a Federal
Judge that was appointed by President Garfield (yes lifetime appointed judges do
live too long) presently is considering a cause of action that will allow all
of what you thought was yours to be transferred to those that wished they had
what you have. Here is what the Judge has on his legal plate courtesy of the
slick lawyer from the law firm Dewey Obfuscate Anhow...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Your Honor, those that have too much should be required to
share what they worked all their lives to earn with those who did not lift a
finger to earn anything because the non-workers whole heartedly believed that eventually they would
be given what they did not work to earn the same as if they had worked to earn
it.</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In the last 30 years the above foolishness has been taught
in our formerly excellent education system. It is called Leveled Playing Field Syndrome.
More and more the Leveled Playing Field Believers had been assured that it was not
fair that hard workers should be rewarded in such a disproportional manner. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Slackers r Us Movement knew that if this Rewarding of
Hard Work were allowed to spread throughout society it could become accepted as
a bedrock principle and then where would we all be? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Slackers, therefore, sat on their hands and waited
knowing that the old adage, All Good Thing Come to Those Who Do Nothing would
eventually come to fruition.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p><p class="FORIIMiddle"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Fella Fix...</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Since they are going to get all that you have sooner or
later, I recommend you send a Text Message to those who want what you have and
ask how you would go about sending all of what you own to them now. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This will save you a lot of grief. Watching everything you
own slowly being transferred to the Do Nothings over a period of years could
prove to be very stressful and agonizing. The Slackers Vision Statement says it
all...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Why should you have what we want just because you earned
it? You know we are going to win and you are going to lose. Hand it over. Just
do it! ... Now!</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /> </p><p><br /></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-89755713813483128062024-01-09T21:56:00.000-05:002024-01-09T21:56:12.795-05:00The Day the Jews Disappeared<p><span style="color: #21252c; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On
December 22, 2023 I told you I was going to send you a long essay by Steve
Allen that was going to be so long many that of you would not take the time to read
it all the way through. I usually almost always sometimes keep my promises...</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Anonymous
Introduction...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This
article was written years ago by the Great Humorist, Satirist, Musician, Author,
Clear Thinker and TV Host, Steve Allen. Those of you who do not know who Steve
Allen was, please take a moment to Google him. He was an master of “wit”. By that
I mean True Wit, Humor and Cleverness as opposed to what passes for Wit, Humor
or Cleverness in too many of today’s celebrities which often consists of Cuss Words.
Steve Allen and his very few peers set the bar for this art form to a height
which will probably not be reached again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">At
a party one evening where my wife and I (not Fella but the person who was
writing this anonymous introduction to Steve Allen’s writing) were talking to
Steve and his lovely wife Jayne Meadows, we spoke briefly about the newly
growing popularity of the Internet. I explained to Steve a little about what
the Internet represented, how it could allow people access to information
anywhere, anytime, and with just a mouse click. Steve asked me if I could put
one of his favorite social commentary essays online. I promised him that I
would put it on the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What’s
important to remember is that Steve Allen was not Jewish, and was not asked to
use his considerable talent to write this by anyone else whether Jewish or not.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s
been a long time, sir, but I am honored to finally keep my promise to you. This
essay is every bit as relevant, powerful, and true today as when you wrote it a
few years ago, or if it were fifty years ago. On behalf of the human race,
thank you for this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Centered" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This
is Fella. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I said it was long and it
is 3,430 words long.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Steve chose
each word very carefully. Please take the time to read each word carefully.
They are powerful words.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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DISAPPEARED</span></span></b><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">By Steve Allen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It
was Dr. Billy James Harwood, of Dallas, Texas, who made the first official
announcement, although people all over the country had noticed the
disappearances. Oddly enough, those who sensed that something was
terribly wrong at first assumed that they had discovered a purely local
phenomenon. But it was Harwood who appeared on the morning CBS network
news and said to a suddenly slack-jawed world --or at least that part of it
that could see American television -- "The Jeeeews are gone. That's
right, my friends. The Jeeeews are gone. I discovered it just a few
hours ago when I went down to the Hilton hotel to welcome a visiting delegation
from the Holy Land. Israel, I mean. And they weren't there."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Had
they checked in?" asked a stunned young woman with a hand mike.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"'Deed
they had," Harwood said. "Desk clerk said they'd come in about
11 o'clock the previous morning, right on schedule. Said he had a phone
call for 'em 'bout 9:30 the following mornin', and when he rang their rooms
there wasn't nobody in any of 'em. That's the first time I knew there was
any trouble."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"What
did you do?" the woman said, still staring and shaking her head, as
if she could not believe her own questions, much less Harwood's answers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Well,"
Harwood said. "I put in a call to Rabbi Goldman of Temple Emanuel to
ask if he'd heard from them, and there was no answer at the temple. At
first I figured there was maybe just some problem with the phones -- what with
another strike goin' on -- so I sent one of my people over there, and they said
the whole place had been cleared out."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"You
mean they'd locked up and gone away?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"No,"
Harwood said. "They didn't lock anything up. Most doors and windows
was open. People's personal belongin's was lyin' around -- pocketbooks
and that sort of thing. Men's briefcases. Somebody told me they
found a real expensive gold watch on the sink in the men's room. Somebody was
washin' their hands when it happened."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"When
what happened?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Well,
that's what I don't know, exactly. It looks like all the Jews are
gone. All of them in Dallas, anyway. I called a lot of my friends the last
two or three hours, believe me, and not a one of them has seen hide nor hair of
a Jew since last night. Darndest thing I ever saw."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"And
what explanation can you offer?" the newswoman said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Well,"
said Harwood, "I think we're seein' the beginnin' of the last days.
I had been warning that this was comin' for quite some time. We know
there'll be early signs and wonders, strange things happening. And this
is about the strangest thing I ever saw. Don't you think so?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Well,
yes," the woman said. "That's all the information we have from
here, Tom. And now back to New York."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The
news show itself looked considerably more ragged and unprofessional than usual
-- wrong film clips were shown, some microphones that were supposed to be
turned on were soundless, and the few gentile newsmen and women who did appear
had a totally perplexed look, as though terribly distracted even when
discussing other items in the day's news. Correspondents from London,
Paris, Rome and Berlin were piped in. They confirmed that the sudden
disappearance of Jews was a worldwide phenomenon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Transportation
officials of local state and federal governments were questioned to see if
perhaps separate parties of Jews had left town in buses, trains, airplanes,
trucks, private cars, or any other means of conveyance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They
could shed no light on the peculiar state of affairs. However the Jews had
disappeared, it seemed the means of their traveling had not been
conventional. The national newscasts of the other two networks were also a
bit of a shambles. Charles Kuralt and Bryant Gumbel being gentiles, were on the
air, but chaos emerged around them every few seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"An
anti-Semitic terrorist group has just called NBC news to take credit for the --
er -- disappearance, said an obviously shaken Gumbel, "but
authorities here give no credence to the claim. Incidentally, we would
like to apologize for problems we're having with both sound and picture -- not
to mention some of our remote pick-ups -- but it seems that a number of our technical
people were Jewish -- are Jewish, I mean -- and -- well -- we've had trouble
replacing them here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"There
have been scattered reports of looting in Jewish neighborhoods which, having
been totally abandoned, were undefended. But early details are sketchy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Hospital
emergency wards the country over have become madhouses to far more than the
usual degree since a large percentage of the doctors that usually serve them
can not now be located."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On
ABC, a harried newswoman reported that every film studio in Los Angeles had
closed down and stopped production, due to the absence of leading writers,
directors, actors, actresses, agents, producers, and technical and secretarial
personnel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Inquiries
into the thousand-and-one legal ramifications of the mysterious mass
disappearance went largely unanswered since a good many of the nation's law
firms reported that key members of their staffs were missing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Mental
hospitals and clinics were particularly hard hit as thousands of patients who
had depended on meeting psychiatrists, analysts, and consultants had been
thrown into a panic at the discovery that their doctors were missing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When
newsmen called nearby universities, think-tanks and scholarly societies to get
background information on the unprecedented event, they discovered that so many
key personnel were missing that the institutions could provide essentially no
services whatsoever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In
Van Nuys, California, a distraught housewife begged police to find her
husband. No, there had been no problems. They'd just gone to sleep
together, and she'd awakened alone. Why, yes, he was Jewish; no, she
wasn't, but what did that have to do with it?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Suddenly,
the face of the President of the United States appeared simultaneously on all
network and local newscasts. "My fellow Americans," he said,
"a disaster of major proportions has struck our nation. Well,
actually I should say the world, since, according to reports I've been
receiving, there are no Jews left anywhere -- or, if there are, we don't know
where they might be. I had expected to receive much fuller information
about this to share with you. Unfortunately, a number of my key advisors
are among the missing, and -- uh -- that has compounded the problem here at the
White House, I don't mind telling you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"In
the face of this bizarre -- er -- catastrophe, I had planned to issue a call to
the commissioners of baseball, football, and other major sports, as well as the
managers and coaches of all teams, to cancel all athletic events during the
emergency, but I have now been advised that no such call was necessary since
the absence of key players, coaches, administrators, school and team officials
-- well, you see what the problem is there, too. I have tried to reach the
Kremlin by phone, but -- uh -- it seems that telephone circuits worldwide are
in disarray since important personnel are missing, and in some areas it appears
that no one else seems to know how to run the --er -- the equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"I
had also planned to issue a formal Presidential request, to all theatrical and
entertainment enterprises, to suspend operations until further notice, but
that, too, has proved unnecessary since I have just been advised that not only
all the legitimate theaters in New York, but theaters in other parts of the
country, including many motion picture houses, have been closed down due to an
inability to function normally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"I
have also been informed, within the hour, that Wall Street has suspended
operations totally. We do not want this announcement to cause Americans
concerned about their investments to panic. I have it on good authority
that most banks will be open tomorrow morning, although in many parts of the
country their services will be, quite understandably, seriously curtailed.
"That is all the information we have here at the White House at
present. Thank you."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">From
Las Vegas, a newsman reported, on the CBS network, that all hotels and casinos
had closed since so many musicians, comedians, singers, dancers, technical
personnel, hotel managers, not to mention gambling executives and others, were
at the moment missing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The
following morning almost all regular television and radio programming had been
canceled because a good part of it could not have been presented anyway.
Most stations carried endless newscasts, in keeping with the industry's
traditional response to major disasters or tragedies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A
particularly strange turn of events occurred on the Today show, when Katie
Couric mentioned that in many cities there had been reports that gentiles were
also among the missing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Katie,"
Bryant Gumbel said, "you're right in that we had picked up such reports
earlier this morning, but I've just been advised that there are no gentiles
missing. The impression that some were gone has been explained by virtue
of the fact that a good many people had Jewish friends without realizing that
they were Jewish. Consequently, when they were missing--"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"I
see what you mean," Couric said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"In
fact," Gumbel continued, "a number of prominent Americans are
unaccounted for who were not expected to be missing. I mean --<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"I
know what you mean," Couric said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"For
example, film actor Kirk Douglas is nowhere to be found today -- a fact which
has surprised millions of Americans who did not know that Douglas was Jewish<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Oh,"
said Gumbel, "we've just been told that the President is about to address
the nation once again. We take you now to Washington, D.C."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Good
morning, my fellow Americans," the President said in a tired, raspy
voice. "I was up a good part of the night trying to make contact
with our embassy officials in Jerusalem. They have advised me -- although
I cannot say I was totally surprised to hear it -- that the nation of Israel is
almost a ghost country. The Arab population of the state is, of course,
still there. And in the streets, I am told, there are a few American and
other foreign tourists. But as of this moment, there are no Jews in
Israel. But then," he added, "it would seem there are no Jews
anywhere on earth."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A
few minutes later, from the NBC newsroom, there was a flurry of excitement at
reports that two actual Jews had been discovered walking down Rodeo Drive in
Beverly Hills, California. It was shortly revealed, however, that the two
were gentiles who had been passing as Jews for some time in the belief that it
would be helpful to them in the motion picture industry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Newsman
Peter Jennings, commenting on the case, said, "I just started to say that
this bizarre incident would probably give Woody Allen an idea for his next
movie. But then I remembered that Woody Allen is among the missing.
In fact, it appears that there are very few comedians left in the United
States. A producer from the Entertainment Tonight show has called the NBC
newsroom to say that he had picked up a rumor that a number of long-inactive
gentile comedians such as Jack Paar, Alan Young, Garry Moore, and George Gobel
had tried to call their agents to tell them that they were available for work
but that they could not get through to their agents, for obvious reasons."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Within
another 24 hours, major industries in the United States had either closed down
or been effectively crippled. From Chicago came reports that a group of
uniformed Nazis has gathered in front of a Jewish temple, where they had been
interrupted in their demonstration and severely beaten by a crowd of Catholic
pacifists who had been making a survey of the neighborhood at the time and were
apparently driven mad by the sight of the Hitler-sympathizers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The
world of nature, needless to say, not directly effected by the mass mystery,
continued its customary daily assault upon human lives and sensibilities.
But now every earthquake, every typhoon, hurricane, torrential downpour, mud
slide, tornado, forest fire, regional war, power blackout, drought, plague of
insects -- indeed, every natural calamity of the sort always common was greatly
complicated by the absence of Jews. Relief efforts --whether medical,
administrative, managerial, or economic were in disarray, and each new problem
compounded the spreading disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A
good many newspapers stopped publication, though all used the word temporarily
in apologizing for this. Since the advertising industry had largely come
to a standstill, newspapers, radios and television all entered an immediate,
acute state of financial crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">From
the Middle East there were reports that Arab joy, which for several days had
been hysterical and unbounded at the news of the mysterious absence of Jews,
had now been replaced by rioting, unrest, and military action, inasmuch as the
various Muslim states and subfactions, no longer feeling in any sense united by
their antipathy for Israel and its sympathizers around the world, were falling
upon each other with remarkable ferocity, Iran and Iraq having already shown
the way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In
parts of the Third World those peoples and parties that had depended upon
Israel for arms were suddenly thrown into a state of severe military
disadvantage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Russia,
oddly enough, seemed to be functioning better than any other major nation,
largely because it had expelled so many of its Jews over the past century that
it was now fairly well able to maintain essential services, there no longer
having been any Jews in positions of authority.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Within
three more days, a number of radio and television around the U.S. -- not to
mention other parts of the world -- had thrown in the towel, since, without
advertising revenue, they could no longer continue their already crippled
operations. Although the three networks continued to provide services
they considered essential, they too were reported to be losing millions of
dollars daily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Oriental
nations continued to function but were thrown into a condition of financial
panic when it became apparent that tens of thousands of separate foreign
business agreements and contracts could no longer be honored. The
repercussions were especially severe in China, which in recent years had been
painstakingly -- although somewhat unofficially -- adding free-market
components to its Marxist superstructure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Back
in the United States, even the Mafia was thrown into turmoil at the sudden loss
of its handful of non-Italian financial advisors and lawyers, though leading
Mafioso were pleased that a number of the more aggressive district attorneys
and other prosecutors were also no longer at work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The
following Sunday the already stupefying drama suddenly took what Christians at
once regarded as an even more ominous turn. Protestant and Catholic
houses of worship were opened to find that all representation of Jesus and his
immediate social circle were missing. Statues of Christ -- even the
traditional figure hanging on the cross -- graven images of Mary, Joseph, St.
Peter -- these and others had vanished.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It
took only one day for the realization to dawn that all the now-absent
representations were of Jews. The Pope immediately declared a worldwide
period of mourning -- "perhaps somewhat belatedly," as one American
Cardinal commented.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Some
were saying only the other day," the Pontiff declared on a radio network,
"that the disappearance of the Jews was God's curse, that an entire people
had been done away with as punishment for their sins. We now realize that even
to harbor such suspicions was itself a grave sin. It is the rest of us
who are being punished."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There
now began a period of great fear, but also of that form of great comedy that
has always taken tragedy as its raw material. People bumped into each
other more. More stupid mistakes, of all kinds, were made. The President,
at a news conference, actually said, "This is the most unheard of thing
I've ever heard of."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But
by the following Sunday not even the anodyne of laughter was any longer
available to dull the pain occasioned by the loss of what was, after all, just
one of the earth's hundreds of tribes: On that day humanity began to be
deprived of the Jewish legacy to the world. The Old Testament -- the
actual pages of books -- disappeared. Christian and Muslim theologians and
preachers, bereft of much of the philosophical underpinnings of their faiths,
became at first confused, then largely incoherent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Science
and technology -- and the million-and-one applications of them -- fell into
turmoil at the sudden loss of all knowledge and discovery contributed by Jews,
of whom Einstein was only one; the space program therefore ground to a halt, as
did the nuclear industry. Financial chaos at once ensued as bankruptcies,
bank closings and defaulted loans became the norm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A
particularly savage stage quickly emerged, as people, driven to desperation,
began to attack each other even more brutally than they did in normal times,
which had always been horrible enough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But
riots and fiery confrontations became even more common as the perception
gradually took hold that Jewish discoveries in the field of medicine, too, were
no longer available, the memory of their details having, overnight, been
expunged. Millions died of illnesses long curable or preventable,
naturally in addition to the vast armies that daily died as in times before the
eerie exodus. This swamped the already overburdened hospitals, many of which
now simply collapsed and went out of business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rumors,
inevitably, swept continents and leaped oceans. Sightings of Jews, encounters
with Jews were reported, though not supported by evidence. A multimillionaire
resident of Houston offered a $10 million fee -- no questions asked -- to
anyone who would bring him a Jew, alive. Of Semites, there was, of course, no
shortage, since Jews had been only one of the Semitic tribes. Indeed assorted
Palestinians and other Arabs now tried to pass themselves off as Jews, without
success. A young Iranian Muslim living in Berkeley, California claimed to have
undergone a sincere conversion to Judaism, changed his name from Pahri Bashtar
to Sol Schwartz and attempted to take possession of an abandoned temple on
Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. For a brief time he attracted a small
following, which consisted entirely of right-wing evangelical Christians.
He was not taken seriously and soon retreated from public view.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The
plight of blacks, at all times unfortunate in American society, had become
acutely so. This was due, in part, to the general social disorganization,
a phenomenon that always falls most heavily on those least economically secure,
and in part because the various liberal organizations that had, for over half a
century, worked on behalf of American blacks, had now almost totally collapsed,
because of the absence of Jewish support -- financial and personal. There
never having been any conservative organizations whatever that were dedicated
to improving the lives of American blacks, they were now left largely to the
mercies of the marketplace; in other words, the very system that had for over
two centuries employed them as slaves, and which had, as a matter of historical
fact, bitterly resisted all efforts to bring them up out of that degraded
state. Certain governmental programs -- all created by liberals and uniformly
opposed by conservatives -- still attempted to offer a degree of help to the
poor (a category which consisted not only of blacks), but these programs, too,
were in a state of severe disorganization, with the result that delays and
errors were no longer the occasional exception but had become the daily norm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It
was as if the lesson so long preached by environmentalists -- that the partial
or total destruction of any one species was likely to have unfortunate
repercussions in the balance of nature -- was now perceived to be operative in
the context of relations among human tribes as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A
state of martial law was declared. As an immediate consequence a number of
essential constitutional guarantees had to be suspended. Strange new religions,
never uncommon to American experience, now began to proliferate in even larger
numbers. Many of them -- such as the Tribe of Judah; the House of Israel; the
Sons of David; the Chosen People; the New Jerusalem; the First Church of
Christ, Jew -- took Jewish names.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And
then, in part by accident, a great war started, from which nuclear weapons were
not excluded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: 4.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #21252c; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And
then everybody disappeared</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-88500670565649486252024-01-05T10:08:00.008-05:002024-01-05T10:24:14.379-05:00Once Voters Saw the Kind of Governor Their Governor Really Was She Was In Deep Trouble<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Xz4WD5YfoXPKryHW67ZIYH0tAQs8MAyeiHnFSU6DZKg1cuHTlYlepwiiSJ9VNyEv43Cf2yMVz8Ve3c1oJR2tFUay7HqeDvV6Hf_7j_hUAnwGXecaKIEvrZcrD2YzEvRvAp5J3RRV-UsuE2KKjsfEsGyjVEMlhTSNZzDF_56OE9d2KdesDqjDNg/s700/QueenOnThrone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="700" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Xz4WD5YfoXPKryHW67ZIYH0tAQs8MAyeiHnFSU6DZKg1cuHTlYlepwiiSJ9VNyEv43Cf2yMVz8Ve3c1oJR2tFUay7HqeDvV6Hf_7j_hUAnwGXecaKIEvrZcrD2YzEvRvAp5J3RRV-UsuE2KKjsfEsGyjVEMlhTSNZzDF_56OE9d2KdesDqjDNg/s320/QueenOnThrone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In all too many cases COVID-19 resulted in bad governance
and wild guesses were substituted for logical thinking and those of us who had
no power to do anything about anything were forced to suffer in stunned
amazement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">COVIID-19 brought out the truly stupid side of politicians who
once were seen as just not too bright and then many of them morphed into powerful bullies
and tyrants.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A good example of all of this awful was found in the
Governor of one of our largest and most influential states. For example, Governor
Awful issued a draconian order in April of 2020 that required most businesses
to close...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Governor
Silly-Is-As-Silly-Does threw confusion into the mix when she forced hardware
stores (which were allowed to remain open) to close off the parts of their
stores that sold carpet, flooring, furniture, garden supplies, and paint. <br />
>>>Imagine being this Governor’s Press Secretary trying to explain
this to the voters.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Governor
You-Gotta-Be-Kidding disregarded business owner’s free speech rights by
prohibiting them from advertising or promoting any goods other than,
“groceries, medical supplies, or items that are necessary to maintain the
safety, sanitation, and basic operation of residences”. <br />
>>>Imagine being this Governor’s Press Secretary trying to explain
this to the voters.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Governor
You-Got-Too-Much prohibited residents from traveling to a second home or a
vacation rental. <br />
>>>Imagine being this Governor’s Press Secretary trying to explain
this to the voters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">During this period of Mayhem, Confusion and Uncertainty
about what their Governor was going to dictate next the voters were on pins and
needles about what was the next shoe to drop. Headlines such as these appeared
in the state’s newspapers...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->“What’s
going on?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->“You
say you don’t understand what’s going on inside your State Capital. We at the
Riverside Gazette don’t understand ether.”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->“You
won’t believe this one.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">************</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I saw a voter hiding behind a trash can looking very scared.
When I asked why he was scared and hiding, he looked left and right over his
shoulders before he replied, “Haven’t you heard? The word on the street is that
the Governor is about to sign an Executive Dictate that anyone who wants to cut
down a tree on their property is going to be required to line up a minimum of 7
of his brothers-in-law to catch the tree before it hits the ground.”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->I
asked, “Why do they have to catch the tree before it hits the ground?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He
replied, “Clover damage prevention.”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->I
replied, “Clover damage prevention?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He
replied, “That’s right. Our Governor is a Clover Lover.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->I
replied, “What if you don’t have 7 brothers-in-law?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He
replied, “Then you are not allowed to cut down any trees.”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->I
asked, “Can you get neighbors to fill in for lack of brothers-in-law?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He
replied, “No. The Governor says that would not make good sense.”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->I
asked, “What are the voters going to do?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->He
replied, “Keep hiding behind trash cans and pray we survive until the next election.”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The result of all of this Mayhem, Confusion and Uncertainty was
that the incumbent governor was soundly defeated in her bid for re-election.
This election result shows that the people of her state still have the good
sense to go to the polls and use their right to vote to remove chaos from
government before all is lost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thank heaven! There is still hope for the Good Ole USofA!...Or is there?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">************</b></p><p class="FORIIMiddle"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The above 2 paragraph are not true. Here is an excerpt from a
news report about the true outcome of this Governor’s run for a second term in
Office...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Incumbent Governor You-Won’t-Believe-What-She-Just-Did ran
for re-election to a second term yesterday. Governor </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">You-Won’t-Believe-What-She-Just-Did </b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>defeated her opponent by a margin of 10.6
percentage points, a wider margin than polls indicated as well as a wider
margin than her first victory four years prior.</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes, the Above
Subject of this Blog Posting was a Fella Misdirection (aka: a lie).</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The main reason people vote for any particular candidate for
office could very likely be Name Recognition. I don’t want to get too carried
away but this is My Blog and it is called Foolishness...Or Is It? and that
means I can peck out what I want when I want so get ready for what I want to peck out...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>At this time we have a Senator from Louisiana named John
Kennedy. I wonder how many people voted for him because they thought he was
that Dead President Who Used To Be President Until He Was Assassinated.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">That could not happen...Or could it not?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p></div><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-44370014784662373082023-12-24T11:54:00.000-05:002023-12-24T11:54:05.477-05:00I Can Shorten His Search<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PecA8_ExMSlq01wRNtY5a8PKrvxVuwj3_BEh0ux-DEjYr2y-ieBrveA53GYRCeKpxeLE1nuROJA1qnFLTVwNomThCNCqCDPG0PHMI43ahpuAcxH6xUBtItfHfNDJCfJ6fsknigJ_q1VTzXKnJ8bJTCbff6EZwli0yub-A_n5MJRF9c-fKuNZzQ/s2000/Jail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PecA8_ExMSlq01wRNtY5a8PKrvxVuwj3_BEh0ux-DEjYr2y-ieBrveA53GYRCeKpxeLE1nuROJA1qnFLTVwNomThCNCqCDPG0PHMI43ahpuAcxH6xUBtItfHfNDJCfJ6fsknigJ_q1VTzXKnJ8bJTCbff6EZwli0yub-A_n5MJRF9c-fKuNZzQ/s320/Jail.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A young Eager-To-Succeed New Federal Employee is hired and
told he has one job and that is to know where Hunter Biden is at all times. At
first his job is a piece of cake but out of the blue one day he finds he is in deep
trouble because Hunter has disappeared and he fears his Cushy Federal Career is
at an end!</span></p><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Fella is not here to say Eager-To-Succeed could come to me
and I will always be able to tell him where Hunter is but I can assure you (and
him) that I can narrow down his search for him. I will always be able to give
him a <u>for certain</u> where Hunter <u>is not</u> and then he only has to
look everyplace else which means he can find Hunter more quickly than he could
have if I had not narrowed his field of search for him.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Oops! Did I forget to
tell you where Hunter is not? Forgive me...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">With absolute certainty I could always assure you (and him)
that Hunter <u>Is Not In Jail</u> but there is a good chance Jail Is exactly
where <u>I will be going</u> if my local Library can carry through with its recent
threats directed at me.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As you may remember we recently moved. Since the move we
have been to our Local Public Library several times, we have borrowed and
returned a few books. Our library, however, says we did not return one of the
books we borrowed and it has sent me a carefully worded threat that has me very
nervous about the possibility that I may be heading for <b>Jail</b>...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">...If such person shall thereafter willfully and knowingly
fail to return such article within 15 days, such person shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by <u>a fine of not
more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than 30 days</u>.”</span></b></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Fella did the underlining)</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b>************</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Do you see why I’m feeling less than loved and warmly
welcomed in my new county of residence?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I bet Hunter never received such a nasty letter as this
nasty letter is nasty.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If, after I unpack my 30 overnight bags and look in the next
cell and see Hunter in there, I promise I will text Young Eager-To-Succeed New
Federal Employee and tell him that he should come look in the cell next to mine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">However, I do not think I will ever send such a text message
because there ain’t no way Hunter is gonna be in any jail cell anywhere in the
Good Ole USofA even if he were to check out and not return a half dozen books
from my Local Public Library.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hunter is not afraid of my Local Public Library but I sure
am.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lagniappe:</b> Here
is what I did. I threw in the towel. I called my library and begged to be
allowed to pay for the lost book (which I really think I have already
returned). I did this because I knew that my Local Public Library had many
lawyers at its disposal and I do not even have a brother-in-law who used to be
a lawyer. I paid $28.99 for that book I probably already returned.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lagniappe Part 2: </b>Now
I am sitting here perplexed and trying to understand how a measly $28.99 could
be equated to <u>a $500 fine or 30 days in a jail cell</u> that is not even next
to Hunter Biden’s Jail Cell.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Fella did the underlining)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-24820710037833047962023-12-23T10:29:00.008-05:002023-12-23T10:54:49.574-05:00Christmas May Not Be Losing Steam After All<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHxg663R1H-KLgnzs_e0UEKDI-FP6DPiGG3hDX19Cj9uBA85rLaA2g2EdcU_mDpnLkp28W2x09Xfnr7xSuko6mPqW9CkCvRPWoLokbBdSOIqsGjQlxKG7aG5ljWciWQzWMS3UKhHEI-gdf-R5goiHl67_xq44ZK773j84rXLqZaJO1oQiiZOIjg/s733/ChristmasMayNotBeLosingSteamAterAll.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="733" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHxg663R1H-KLgnzs_e0UEKDI-FP6DPiGG3hDX19Cj9uBA85rLaA2g2EdcU_mDpnLkp28W2x09Xfnr7xSuko6mPqW9CkCvRPWoLokbBdSOIqsGjQlxKG7aG5ljWciWQzWMS3UKhHEI-gdf-R5goiHl67_xq44ZK773j84rXLqZaJO1oQiiZOIjg/w468-h302/ChristmasMayNotBeLosingSteamAterAll.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tokyo December 22, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Merry Christmas!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">🎅🎄🤶</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">FellaO</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lagniappe:</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; outline: none;">According to the Government of Japan, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(80, 151, 255, 0.18); color: #040c28; outline: none;">69.0% of the population practices Shintō, 66.7% practice Buddhism, 1.5% practice Christianity and 6.2% practice other religions</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; outline: none;"> as of 2018.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: xx-small; outline: none;">(Can anyone explain why this adds to 143.4%?)</span></span></div> <p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-51745575043284866302023-12-22T12:01:00.000-05:002023-12-22T12:01:54.359-05:00I Did This One on April 16, 2017 But You Forgot I Did So I'm Doing It Again Cuz It's A Good One<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I'm about to go on another Steve Allen Tirade. Get ready cuz it's gonna be worth the time you take to read what I have to say about a true comic genius (and song writer and musician and author).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hang on. It's going to be worth the long read that I'm going to send in the next few days (and I promise you it will be a long read) but for now here is a Steve Allen Short Read that's very interesting...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQLAzCwFWp2vfpom_vDkrEAVEVAIFDky9CEzOpt8yW9Oa9rsifE0-iqJGA2ta_lrqBKXMQOJU2fQSfvd1Y0Qqq3p3peF6Bnyz3ew1Z2xQa4Djc2jsx3IxIb1x4LMu_I7WrqHfzy9mxJwSgpK-_qgo3nuzocvDL0vp_0KeicRskG2kU8kXseEdvA/s231/SteveAllen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="182" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQLAzCwFWp2vfpom_vDkrEAVEVAIFDky9CEzOpt8yW9Oa9rsifE0-iqJGA2ta_lrqBKXMQOJU2fQSfvd1Y0Qqq3p3peF6Bnyz3ew1Z2xQa4Djc2jsx3IxIb1x4LMu_I7WrqHfzy9mxJwSgpK-_qgo3nuzocvDL0vp_0KeicRskG2kU8kXseEdvA/s1600/SteveAllen.jpg" width="182" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">INTRODUCTION</span></b><p></p><p>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 340.2pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(Steve
Allen’s Book ‘HiHo Steverino’)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A public figure undertaking to write his
autobiography faces at least one problem: so much is already known of him that
his story can scarcely hope to surprise the reader at every turn of the
narrative. The novelist is under no such handicap. Unhindered by facts, he need
be guided only by his imagination, which has unlimited freedom. The
autobiographer on the other hand, if he has a conscience, must conform to the
details of his history, particularly those which are a matter of public record.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I choose to start, therefore, by referring to
several elements of my personal history which have been reported by the media.
Let me briefly set them down:</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
was born in Chicago.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
am Jewish. My first wife was Jewish.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
am the third richest man in the entertainment field, after Bob Hope and the
late Bing Crosby, with a personal fortune of over 200 million dollars.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
play the piano only in the key of G.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
write every word of my own comedy material.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
am generally procommunist, despite which I at one time recommended bombing
China's nuclear facilities.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
am a pacifist.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
am also a Unitarian.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
take drugs.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
plan to run for political office.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
am the composer of such successful songs as "Misty," "Teach Me
Tonight," and "Quando Caliente El Sol."</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
am a gifted clarinetist, as proven by my performance in the motion picture <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Benny Goodman Story.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
replaced comedian Jerry Lester on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tonight </i>show.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBullet"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Though
generally affable, I am a man of occasionally violent temper, and in one
instance broke the plate glass door of the William Morris Agency building in
Beverly Hills, after having been refused admittance late at night by a security
guard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Anyone about whom the above specifics are true must
be a fascinating fellow, indeed. Unfortunately, I am not nearly so interesting.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There is no truth at all to any of the statements
listed</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">above, though each has
appeared in the public record.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">------------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">May 2017...Today the news is
full of stories about Fake News. It looks like Fake News has been with us since
at least May 1992 because that’s when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hi
Ho Steverino </i>was first published</span></p><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-8008556348395749722023-12-15T22:12:00.000-05:002023-12-15T22:12:03.883-05:00Quick! Turn On The Faucet!<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00XvW1PiVV5Lqg0UYv1RFNTka66hdevknMnLeyShaOKiI9r_SjbHkY-SaSNvTbmiEhEcvV5n0UpJtRKP32ipzsqD6zTKxdXGXP_MLEc3wixloFrEQThNxHVp6pbmPLrPp4_cgctBxVLml5x3umPqSaCVnqDUN7alCVrlCQF2m15IDBj53AcEw1Q/s238/HopeRampy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="191" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00XvW1PiVV5Lqg0UYv1RFNTka66hdevknMnLeyShaOKiI9r_SjbHkY-SaSNvTbmiEhEcvV5n0UpJtRKP32ipzsqD6zTKxdXGXP_MLEc3wixloFrEQThNxHVp6pbmPLrPp4_cgctBxVLml5x3umPqSaCVnqDUN7alCVrlCQF2m15IDBj53AcEw1Q/s1600/HopeRampy.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">An effective
fighting force is not achieved by turning on a faucet. They happen because of
years of training, years of hard work and dedication by those doing the training
and those that are being trained.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">During COVID-19 lots
of silly things were done and among the silliest was the decision made to kick out
of our Armed Forces large numbers of well-trained members of our Army, Navy,
Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard because they refused to be Vaccinated
with the Covid Vaccination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Now, years later,
the chickens have come home to roost and the safety and security of our country
is in jeopardy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Amid a historic
military recruiting crisis, unvaccinated soldiers who were kicked out of the U.S.
Army are now being invited back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Somewhere in the Pentagon
this recently happened...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oh, chit! Get ‘em back! Quick! Turn on the faucet!</span></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But, General Silly, it does not work that
way! It’s gonna take awhile!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In a recent letter to “former service member[s],” Brigadier General
Hope C. Rampy</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOGUKuL0AKoC2pBQgkLTXl5GZsn3pr-nr6-sUgC-Pu7xrk6D8vr3Ygbs58nK8iA2OOnN0mmvp0_9nOJJZiB84Yzz9U9Qs6-Lm3mEeVvUQoJiNDX3JSUqTrYVsQevabZamOjID5Rx99_ji1GhggJhFEgBfbx8BkbSOq01bX82S0AWvlo-NA3WG9w/s238/HopeRampy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="191" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOGUKuL0AKoC2pBQgkLTXl5GZsn3pr-nr6-sUgC-Pu7xrk6D8vr3Ygbs58nK8iA2OOnN0mmvp0_9nOJJZiB84Yzz9U9Qs6-Lm3mEeVvUQoJiNDX3JSUqTrYVsQevabZamOjID5Rx99_ji1GhggJhFEgBfbx8BkbSOq01bX82S0AWvlo-NA3WG9w/s1600/HopeRampy.jpg" width="191" /></a> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">informed recipients that “former soldiers who
were involuntarily separated for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccination
may request a correction of their military records.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The COVID-19
Vaccination Mandate</span> <a href="https://lists.youmaker.com/links/IlOX1T23aW/RontmvJPy/0L0v36dZ6m4c/7L7im3gQdY" target="_blank">was officially repealed</a> early this year in line with a
provision in the defense package passed in December 2022. Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin first mandated COVID-19 Vaccination on Aug. 24, 2021, just weeks
after announcing his intention to do so through an Aug. 9 <a href="https://lists.youmaker.com/links/IlOX1T23aW/RontmvJPy/0L0v36dZ6m4c/waFZ74tgnb" target="_blank">memo.</a></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I know that My Dear Readers are clear thinkers because they
read my Foolishness. Being clear thinkers each of you know how important and
expensive it is to develop and maintain a force of Highly Trained Combatants.
Once our money and resources have achieved the high level of combat readiness that
is necessary to defend our country it is something that must be protected
because, if lost, it is hard to achieve again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Back in 2021 some of our military leaders lost sight of the
good sense described in the above paragraph and put into place a Vaccination
Mandate that kicked out m<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ore than 8,000
troops </span>from the various military branches because they were not COVID-19
Vaccinated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here is a Fella Explanation of why this Kick ‘Em Out Mandate
<u>makes perfect sense</u>...Or does it?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->A
member of our Armed Forces who refused to take the COVID-19 Virus Shot would be
at high risk of getting the Coronavirus.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->If
this were to happen that Stubborn Highly Trained Armed Forces Guy could become
a Highly Trained Armed Forces COVID-19 Virus Carrying Guy.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->If
that Stubborn Highly Trained Armed Forces COVID-19 Virus Carrying Guy was
deployed into a combat zone and if he were to become engaged with an enemy
combatant in hand to hand combat it is possible he could give the virus to that
Unsuspecting Enemy Combatant Guy and that would not be nice!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Aren’t you glad you read this Blog Posting? If everyone in
the world also read this Blog Posting, everyone in the world would be as well
informed as you are and that would be nice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-54097781246091527752023-11-26T21:32:00.000-05:002023-11-26T21:39:05.715-05:00I Keep Saying I’m Smart and You Keep Thinking You Are Smarter Than I Am Smart. OK, Smarty, Prove It!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hni2WFDjiFtUi4Kss7dob0VgJ71XyjS3c2QgaU6YaVGf8Uxm8HNr8fzsM1mhZffy0PJjXWwvr-BEwG-EjtlmjMbp9cjXSv3khuSlOhnRUIiFoPVWTxpf9Xsvl6w1mo4hTolNSPEiZsKs50_Bf-wKrleQ4HXkpy3NP8OKcmZFE_HjoQbUuapfRA/s2768/QuestionMark2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2768" data-original-width="2028" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hni2WFDjiFtUi4Kss7dob0VgJ71XyjS3c2QgaU6YaVGf8Uxm8HNr8fzsM1mhZffy0PJjXWwvr-BEwG-EjtlmjMbp9cjXSv3khuSlOhnRUIiFoPVWTxpf9Xsvl6w1mo4hTolNSPEiZsKs50_Bf-wKrleQ4HXkpy3NP8OKcmZFE_HjoQbUuapfRA/s320/QuestionMark2.jpg" width="234" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Explain this to me...</span></div><p></p><p>
</p><p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->As
you know I just had 2 stents put into me.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
have been given prescriptions for 2 drugs that are very
important to me and my heart that is in me.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->One
of the prescriptions is supposed to Prevent Clotting around My Stents.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->My
pharmacist looked me straight in my disbelieving eyes and said, “That will be
$261.89 for a one month’s supply”.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->My
pharmacist did not seem the least bit sympathetic as I started to whimper.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
said, “How many months will I have to take this prescription?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->She
calmly said, “That’s depends but you have been given 11 refills.”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->At
this point my mind is racing to try and calculate how much 12 times $261.89 is.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
won’t say I got it calculated exactly right in my head but I came close enough to
almost have my heart attack me.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Later
my calculator and I figured it out exactly...$3,142.68.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->My
mind was still racing as I thought to myself, “It’s really more than $3,142.68
because I am almost certainly going to be taking this pill more than a mere 12
months!”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
accepted my predicament.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
paid for my prescription.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
went home and started taking my pills.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Yes
I whimper as each pill is taken.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here’s the part of this Blog Posting where you get your
chance to prove that you are smarter than Fella.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Eight days after the operation I had my first follow-up
appointment with my Cardiologist (It gives one pause when he realizes that he
now has his very own Cardiologist.)...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->My
Medical Advisor (my daughter) says to my Cardiologist, “What about Plavix?
Could not Plavix do the same thing as the $261.89 prescription?”</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->My
Cardiologist says, “Yes it could. I’ll write you a prescription for Plavix”.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I
did not yet know the significance of what my Cardiologist had just said but my Medical
Advisor (my daughter) did and did she look pleased with what my Cardiologist
had just said.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We are getting near the bottom of this Blog Posting so here
is the Bottom Line...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Plavix
costs $6.00 per month.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->You
don’t need a calculator to get to the annual cost of $72.00?...Or do you?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Do
you need a calculator to figure out that that $72.00 is $3,070.68 less than the
$261.89 times 12 drug?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">OK, smarty, show me how smart you are...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Why was I prescribed a drug that costs $3,070.68 a year more
than another long-used proven far cheaper drug that does the same thing?</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Don’t jump to the conclusion that it’s all about some the drug
company and/or doctors making a lot of money. That the easy way out of this
question and could not be the answer...Or could it not be?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-54068571969524974342023-11-20T20:21:00.002-05:002023-12-08T08:14:37.943-05:00Nothing to Worry About...Or is there?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72PYPepeSX3S39BlJJx2UowTrnp9EdWa6RjnwfmEA3D27AJxqGwl2I-Bt8li7DBlQSO4QcTdz6aMTq0u2WiDeMU2-2OiHQ5w8TwmjahJy6TsK2n_uE7ObkHjQDhA_sKXU7DvK4GloE-2AF6sUJs67ed8ndVK6UBi3GuY9nzD2W-d5ZrmoGTHY4g/s800/Doctor2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72PYPepeSX3S39BlJJx2UowTrnp9EdWa6RjnwfmEA3D27AJxqGwl2I-Bt8li7DBlQSO4QcTdz6aMTq0u2WiDeMU2-2OiHQ5w8TwmjahJy6TsK2n_uE7ObkHjQDhA_sKXU7DvK4GloE-2AF6sUJs67ed8ndVK6UBi3GuY9nzD2W-d5ZrmoGTHY4g/s320/Doctor2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For those of you have been wondering where I have been this
is part of the answer. I have been in an out of the hospital. But the good news
is I still have the stamina and presence of mind to peck out Foolishness...Or Is
It Blog Postings...Or is that good news?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There could and might be several Blog Postings about my 72
hours brush with death. There were lots of good things that happened while I
was in the hospital. A really good thing is I am still vertical and very
thankful for the professional, talented and caring people who kept me upright.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There were other things that happened where the best that
can be said about some of the people who had my life in their less than capable
hands is, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wow! What great fodder for
someone who writes a blog called, Foolishness...Or Is It?!</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here is one of the several negative Blog Postings I could
but may not write...</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">It </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">was about 12:30am. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’m hooked up to 3 different machines. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A nurse rushes in and says, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Your oxygen is falling!”<o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I start asking questions. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">She does not respond but keeps clicking on the
computer. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Then she rushes out. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I think to myself...Is she is going to get a doctor? ... Or is she </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">going to get some big uncomfortable probe to stick into me!? ... Or is she </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">getting out of here because she thinks I am dying and she does not want to be anywhere near me as I fade away cuz she might be blamed for my fading!?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-indent: -24px;">I started taking deep breaths to get much needed oxygen into my failing body.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-indent: -24px;">About an hour later a different nurse comes in and I take a chance and pause my deep breathing and say, <b>"My oxygen is falling!"</b> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-indent: -24px;">She looked at the computer screen and said, <b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">“Looks good to me”</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Then she left leaving me and my heart laying there wondering,
if I could get myself unhooked and was able to get over to that closet, is
there something I could use to bar the door that would prevent any </span><span face="Tahoma, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">more Caregivers from getting in to “Care” for
me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lagniappe: </b>Oh
yea, why was I at death’s door? I needed to have 2 Stents Inserted in an artery
running down the front of my heart and during the stent insertion the artery
was punctured and you know what happens when that happens. If you want to know
the Rest of the Story you gonna have to wait for the movie to come out.</span></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-44691079396955999362023-11-09T20:50:00.003-05:002023-11-09T20:55:49.761-05:00Let’s Call It A Whole Bunch<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcHks-ZaihXhBwjh4wGmqxAckIIb8JB-ZmMcL8GRclTqMjkuucafBnRPDDywCtMksEvFa-EVFKZDeejb8RHVdJU34f9K-oMWirKCVf5MQONzD8LtGQzaeYygLYcwWW_lv2hBn5Oiu45Qa5w3YjLxzqnBPyXNqx2_Fc3s10MI6DhszFZDJHSByu8g/s400/EnoughIsEnough.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcHks-ZaihXhBwjh4wGmqxAckIIb8JB-ZmMcL8GRclTqMjkuucafBnRPDDywCtMksEvFa-EVFKZDeejb8RHVdJU34f9K-oMWirKCVf5MQONzD8LtGQzaeYygLYcwWW_lv2hBn5Oiu45Qa5w3YjLxzqnBPyXNqx2_Fc3s10MI6DhszFZDJHSByu8g/s320/EnoughIsEnough.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There have been many figures thrown around recently by our News
Media estimating how many Americans are trapped and/or stuck in the Gaza Strip.
I have heard 400 and I have heard 600. (Isn’t it strange how our News Media
always throws around Rounded Figures?) For the sake of getting along with the
pecking out of this Blog Posting let’s just go along with the Subject Line
above and say it is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Whole Bunch</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Whatever the exact number is is not important to Fella and
the Foolishness he is about to create. The important thing is, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What The Heck Were They Doing In The Gaza
Strip To Begin With?</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’m not one to propose to waste American Tax Payer’s Money
but I think that a Whatever It Takes Tax Increase ought to be imposed on us to
do the following...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As each of these Gazan Trapped and/or Stuck Americans sets
foot back in the Good Ole USofA, if and when they are released, they ought to
be met by a Team Of American Tax Payer Funded Psychiatrists with American Tax
Payer Funded Couches and the Gazan Escapees ought to be immediately laid down
on these American Tax Payer Funded Couches and asked a series of questions
like...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->What
the hell were you thinking?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Have
you not been watching TV for the last 40 or so years?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Don’t
you know that Gaza is a Hell Hole?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Don’t
you know that Lucifer has been running short on living accommodations for the
condemned for the last 10 years he has been sending his overflow to Gaza?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Have
you not seen the Rioting in Gaza during the last 10 years?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Don’t
you know that 95% of those riots are caused by the Gaza Condemned demanding
that they be sent to the Real Hell instead of the Gaza Substitute Hell?</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">************</b></p><p class="FORIIMiddle"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On the other hand, maybe we ought to stop trying to get them
back. Our Immigration System has always had quotas and, from what I have been
seeing recently on TV and in our 9% Approval Rated Congress, we must already be
far over our quota of Dumb People.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-42557314551026834952023-10-26T17:17:00.002-04:002023-10-26T17:18:10.009-04:00I Knew Going In With Absolute Certainty I Was Being Lied To!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQoAVoYX5WtSIKNTchp78uiPAF6NCtMkPHffKKgFfkn6zUaM-aPBeaL_25CNWZ240JSf1ENw3pNVvMzWy2FMW1EFC53Nt3Re0_nvoKeYpGN35Ow47w5xGdL2VhwTjPWSJBklCnpQyHX0201q7CFl5jUDrmMEuTQ1BqeFBq7al57c7ApBwVfWupw/s266/Fingers.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="266" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQoAVoYX5WtSIKNTchp78uiPAF6NCtMkPHffKKgFfkn6zUaM-aPBeaL_25CNWZ240JSf1ENw3pNVvMzWy2FMW1EFC53Nt3Re0_nvoKeYpGN35Ow47w5xGdL2VhwTjPWSJBklCnpQyHX0201q7CFl5jUDrmMEuTQ1BqeFBq7al57c7ApBwVfWupw/s1600/Fingers.jpg" width="266" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Yes, this just happened to me...Again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I was registering online for a Doctor’s Appointment. The Doctor’s
Computer told me, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“This preregistration
process will take only 5 to 10 minutes to complete”</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It actually took 35 minutes to complete.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Without a doubt I was lied to and my Doctor’s Computer knew
it was lying to me!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-66548334546741746962023-10-23T23:35:00.002-04:002023-10-23T23:37:04.678-04:00Let Me Do Da Stealing I’m One of Us<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WyVO0n8VG_Oabwbp3HI5Up3WgkCVYaLins__ub2_4zBUNdzSoqkYaLYxVK8jg4vL6FXnB21cxlzBGGAvLfABH4Oj_kl2UViDh0erXGhMnFu4EgoC323NSWT-4Z7q12G_VX7SbVvLaU-L_mw7XWiLpFf2pqzwZXdcIEO3TzNUJqV0MzuoebX6uQ/s182/Burglar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="182" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WyVO0n8VG_Oabwbp3HI5Up3WgkCVYaLins__ub2_4zBUNdzSoqkYaLYxVK8jg4vL6FXnB21cxlzBGGAvLfABH4Oj_kl2UViDh0erXGhMnFu4EgoC323NSWT-4Z7q12G_VX7SbVvLaU-L_mw7XWiLpFf2pqzwZXdcIEO3TzNUJqV0MzuoebX6uQ/s1600/Burglar.jpg" width="182" /></a><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">News Clips | October 21, 2023</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">During a House Oversight Subcommittee hearing on Oct. 19,
founder and CEO of Audient Group Linda Miller, the former deputy executive
director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee in the Department of
Justice, disclosed that according to some estimates, <u>half of U.S. pandemic
unemployment assistance fraud went to adversarial nations</u>. Her comments
came in response to a question from Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) concerning a
recent federal prosecution of a group of <u>Chinese state-linked hackers who
stole an estimated $20 million in relief funds</u>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(Fella did the underlining.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">If you are like me you did not read the above News Clip
close enough. The amount of stolen money the article is telling us about is not
only $20 Million (betcha did not know it was possible to use the word “only”
with $20 Million). The article brings to light the fact that 50% of U.S.
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud that was stolen was <u>stolen by Chinese
State-Linked Hackers</u>. The total U.S. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Money
Stolen was <u>$40 Million</u>!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Does this mean that Members of our 9% Approval Rated
Congress sit around their formerly smoke-filled rooms and says the likes of
this to each other, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“OK, we need umptiump
billions of dollars for this worthy cause. Since we know that umptiump billions
of dollars are going to be stolen we need to increase the tax increase needed
for this worthy cause by umptiump billions of dollars so we will have enough
un-stolen billions left.” <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Does it ever cross their small minds that maybe they ought
to stop the stealing?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Is this country completely out of control or what?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Here comes the Foolishness...Or is it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We have perfectly good certified criminals in the Good Ole
USofA. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">If I were a perfectly good certified criminal in the Good
Ole USofA I would be offended. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I can just hear Vito complaining to the boys at barber
shop...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Why
is this country allowing foreign criminals to steal Pandemic Unemployment
Funds?</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Just
because we are Criminals does not mean are not Patriotic.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->If
this country is going to be stupid enough to allow $20 Million to be stolen
like this, it ought to send us a text message and tell us that they are this
stupid and offer us the opportunity to steal it rather than them allowing this
perfectly good money go to these low life foreign bad guys who are not
patriotic criminals like us.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->That
just ain’t right!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I agree with Vito. Our Rulers are indeed stupid.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The Blogging is over. This is Fella being absolutely
serious. What this means is Foreign and/or Domestic Criminals can steal $20 to $40 Million
just by clicking on a computer’s keys without having to go out and buying or
stealing a gun. Vito is right. That just ain’t right.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p><br /><p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-63845466429208853002023-10-20T22:15:00.007-04:002023-10-20T22:38:56.600-04:00If It Weren’t So Serious It Would Be Silly<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For 2 weeks now there has been no news except news about Hamas
and Israel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If we were back to 3 weeks ago the News Media would be going
berserk about all kinds of other reported disasters of the day. If there are no
disasters on any given day the News Media will make ordinary non-disasters
sound like disastrous disasters...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Breaking
News<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->This
Just It<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->He
Did It Again<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->He Didn’t Do It again<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Harry
Met Sally<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Harry
And Sally Have Split Up<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I think it is quite possible that, if the Exclamation Point
had not been invented, the News Media would not have been invented.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s what they do. They make ordinary non-disasters sound
like disastrous disasters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After this war is a thing of the past they will go back to
shouting at us about all the things that they are paying no never mind to at
this time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The sad part is they will get us to worry about all those unimportant
molehills.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Maybe we are the silly ones.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lagniappe:</b> Come
to think about it, have you ever come across An Important Molehill?</span></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-55121463350805206472023-10-15T22:53:00.000-04:002023-10-15T22:53:23.327-04:00Are We Too Civilized To Try and Stop Evil? or Whoever Invented the Smudge Ought To Have His Statue Torn Down<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90JxDeKhJPt4T1tdjicKYSnYwZVtLYXoMg8ECCH9hzEZdIkv7RGigBs3no_VPUTOMzqKBQga_lz6jJ06LekwbnFTeoRIE_XQbJURsV7I4MyM1E4jFggOcN75qsV_DBjmhyphenhyphenlyFpvWYu_tXQkdftgYDyAildKnnzvu_mzVmP1tlRL_XIfxGVEwwrQ/s474/SeeNoEvil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="474" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90JxDeKhJPt4T1tdjicKYSnYwZVtLYXoMg8ECCH9hzEZdIkv7RGigBs3no_VPUTOMzqKBQga_lz6jJ06LekwbnFTeoRIE_XQbJURsV7I4MyM1E4jFggOcN75qsV_DBjmhyphenhyphenlyFpvWYu_tXQkdftgYDyAildKnnzvu_mzVmP1tlRL_XIfxGVEwwrQ/s320/SeeNoEvil.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I was hesitant to write this Blog Posting because I would
not get much support from many of you out there because you out there are too
civilized and I am on the precipice of I Don’t Care Anymore.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This is going to be a hard Blog Posting to write but I’m
going to give it a go. Please read on and see how I go about pecking it out
knowing that many of you are going to say to me, <b>“How could you!”</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’ll set this up by talking about a Smudge Absurdity...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Several
years ago in broad daylight a man stole a baby right out of a carriage being
pushed by its mother.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->The
man and the man's face were caught on a security camera running up the street with the baby in hand
being chased by the mother’s other two small children.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Did
you just say to yourself, <b>“That’s great! They got a clear picture of the bad
guy’s face and were going to be broadcasting it on TV and on the Internet and
in short order they would apprehend the bad guy and get the baby back to its
distraught Mother!”</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->That’s
not what happened because the people in charge of doing stupid things put a
smudge over the face of the fleeing baby-stealing bad guy.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Because
of the smudge, instead of people down the street seeing the bad guy running
with a baby under his arm and tackling him and taking the stolen baby away from
him, they saw him coming toward them and they said to themselves, <b>“I wonder if
that is the baby stealer I just saw on the TV (and/or the Internet)? No, that’s
not him. The TV (and/or the Internet) baby stealer had a smudge for a face.”</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here is where I start treading on thin ice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The news reports about the Israeli-Hamas War are going
Smudge Crazy. Hamas has been doing some really Awful Things and the world is
almost getting to see the Awful Things but not getting to see the Awful Things
because they are Smudged Over.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Two nights ago I was telling my long-suffering wife (she is
long suffering because I’ve got no one else that will listen to me) that the Smudges
ought to be removed because the world needs to see the Awful in all of its Awfulness.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Then last night the Smartfella was proven right (to himself
at least). I saw on TV, over and over, Hamas Supporters say that it was not
true that babies had their heads cut off. It was just Israeli Lies.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I say let the world see the Evil!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Maybe, just maybe, it will make some of the Hamas Supporters
in our universities go back to their video games instead of going out and demonstrating with their cue cards in hand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Maybe if they saw a baby head or two cut off unsmudged (is
that a word?) they would see the light and call a spade a spade and see how the
cow really eats the cabbage and say<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,
“Eureka, I now understand! I see that the Evil out there is Evil! I wanna
become Jew!”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I think I have made myself confusingly clear. If you do not
see my absolutely perfectly irrefutable logic I feel sorry for you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On the other hand I understand that all of what I pecked out
above will fall on many deaf ears because many of the demonstrators who see the
babies heads rolling into the streets will say, <b>“Just what I expected! Netanyahu
cut off those babies’ heads with a kitchen knife and paid Fox News to make it
look like Hamas did it”</b>. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjmV1LoWL3RKrJBav-4ZZeG2sG4ArgKsG2hOnYpHf6AWxS8uSIwLvAqGIurqdO55m6UI_DBb0FLGasvozofLEOugD_VphiKaxHvutsX4fQiIrjz1zvn6t38HYdWvsAqYj6Z6Qc6NFNyvIryyw5KjzqdiQNmP2UF9KmogwXmwXbuFnMSrNcpaAyTw/s284/CharlieBrownAaugh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="284" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjmV1LoWL3RKrJBav-4ZZeG2sG4ArgKsG2hOnYpHf6AWxS8uSIwLvAqGIurqdO55m6UI_DBb0FLGasvozofLEOugD_VphiKaxHvutsX4fQiIrjz1zvn6t38HYdWvsAqYj6Z6Qc6NFNyvIryyw5KjzqdiQNmP2UF9KmogwXmwXbuFnMSrNcpaAyTw/s1600/CharlieBrownAaugh.jpg" width="284" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[endif]--></span></span><p></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The guy with the microphone asks: <b>“How Do You Know That?”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The demonstrator replies, <b>“Because it says so on my cue
card!”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-63095317685549207312023-10-09T07:47:00.000-04:002023-10-09T07:47:24.801-04:00In The Old Days We Knew What Beauty Looked Like<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Old Days Are a Thing Of The Past</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(That may be one of the silliest things I have ever pecked
out!)</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’ll start over...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In The Old Days We Knew What Beauty Looked Like</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In the New Days some of us are confused about Beauty.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Nah! That does not get my point across either. </span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">************</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’ll try again...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In The New Days Some of Us Are Beauty Stupid </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The more age advanced among my Dear Readers remember Marilyn. I am
so confident about that I will save time and not even peck out her last name...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9sOBT4fPmeIzOLxzg22Mndonri84zRp7vHXPVn3YqhaCZu2s3L2RPwxj6RAWfGKUmh7q2cSYp0-cg_FXbmAyhUZxUkLKjIeH8s14d_CpzIFWWusAYUJqXimUeZ96Iu2KvWEqIeNPyoqErPElRy3WiZykLu9qs4ECfP09MI8uIlPLdLXn9g_BnQ/s1024/Marilyn3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="922" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9sOBT4fPmeIzOLxzg22Mndonri84zRp7vHXPVn3YqhaCZu2s3L2RPwxj6RAWfGKUmh7q2cSYp0-cg_FXbmAyhUZxUkLKjIeH8s14d_CpzIFWWusAYUJqXimUeZ96Iu2KvWEqIeNPyoqErPElRy3WiZykLu9qs4ECfP09MI8uIlPLdLXn9g_BnQ/w229-h255/Marilyn3.jpg" width="229" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Below is what Modern Advertising Executives think is Beautiful...</span></div><p></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Beauty Stupid #1...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip8RA6MJv-9Klqq1UzDUPyGSdNJhu5I78i7i8OU_Sa0eQeLzjt92HSMqQAldhv3cyEJgddLE-mdJ08WOR5Wwq9Zjs7QPKl2ZZOYFs2mh-o505s9qdOi_6gHuq1FqsXLRDTm0iBj4JAY6uiMraSpDIhKtPjobd9e6hGarbm7vL5yQ09gPYfwbgUug/s2712/BeautyStupid1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2712" data-original-width="1416" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip8RA6MJv-9Klqq1UzDUPyGSdNJhu5I78i7i8OU_Sa0eQeLzjt92HSMqQAldhv3cyEJgddLE-mdJ08WOR5Wwq9Zjs7QPKl2ZZOYFs2mh-o505s9qdOi_6gHuq1FqsXLRDTm0iBj4JAY6uiMraSpDIhKtPjobd9e6hGarbm7vL5yQ09gPYfwbgUug/w217-h416/BeautyStupid1.JPG" width="217" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Beauty Stupid #2...</span></div><p></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvYJxLhjrmdDTSYIQwtAnMRghL6MAR7NdTWQKKY1YKJYVuf98g2vOOeVRI3f0WuhP-j_HfmnvGjH1r0Bsc0-yukzeRJ2CTVFCa04wSZdqBgocFq78ZiA2-yEdbLYBJ7Ek2GfEjUrGZ6APh_gytLPEDui_lSg-MRPgxqZ1D8z26anR8VUy5ic-SQ/s4032/BeautyStupid2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2671" data-original-width="4032" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvYJxLhjrmdDTSYIQwtAnMRghL6MAR7NdTWQKKY1YKJYVuf98g2vOOeVRI3f0WuhP-j_HfmnvGjH1r0Bsc0-yukzeRJ2CTVFCa04wSZdqBgocFq78ZiA2-yEdbLYBJ7Ek2GfEjUrGZ6APh_gytLPEDui_lSg-MRPgxqZ1D8z26anR8VUy5ic-SQ/s320/BeautyStupid2.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What’s wrong with them?</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I will finish up this Blog Posting by trying to help you
forget what you just saw and think about Marilynn What's Her Name.</span></p>
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Modern Advertising Executives’ 3 Friends Above...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VKENXgjJRHky7VjcEwRdrDWKu9kbWqj-CL7YH0yWUj-ZblqT4kHAmhESoLtlslUtUcTYDOIlrsajJjmXdvqcYnlgsNZhfLKkZCmreuAs1mN7d9UZ65bdLfOyklebkdSsZR7Y6UvHd1Dsd7xhibD9tqZT5DSxUr051jTzdFAlzR9otPniYx7IBA/s579/Marilyn&Friends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="436" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VKENXgjJRHky7VjcEwRdrDWKu9kbWqj-CL7YH0yWUj-ZblqT4kHAmhESoLtlslUtUcTYDOIlrsajJjmXdvqcYnlgsNZhfLKkZCmreuAs1mN7d9UZ65bdLfOyklebkdSsZR7Y6UvHd1Dsd7xhibD9tqZT5DSxUr051jTzdFAlzR9otPniYx7IBA/s320/Marilyn&Friends.jpg" width="241" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Would I kid u?</div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29106064.post-48197874693038872552023-09-20T14:33:00.001-04:002023-09-20T14:36:41.592-04:00Post Office Again...You Already Know I Am Smart But Did You Know I Am Smarter Than The U.S. Post Office (USPS)?<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_564JXzFzrzt4Qe7zNnmyCxfgHwfrCu8wzEXSnHQnScnZzlP2bLVXc9icrgvxRxRs9SnHzI9_wN0jIQWbT-HG1FokDdpaBmLW7ynwoL5IM13zn_TptG2fAsQ9GfU4MFvrXctzqhs5N7dnqZ80VqhvLwccCtzzCcSSQNfVIlZaqoE4GEBPdXOhg/s120/PostalWorker2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="120" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_564JXzFzrzt4Qe7zNnmyCxfgHwfrCu8wzEXSnHQnScnZzlP2bLVXc9icrgvxRxRs9SnHzI9_wN0jIQWbT-HG1FokDdpaBmLW7ynwoL5IM13zn_TptG2fAsQ9GfU4MFvrXctzqhs5N7dnqZ80VqhvLwccCtzzCcSSQNfVIlZaqoE4GEBPdXOhg/s1600/PostalWorker2.jpg" width="120" /></a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If I were in charge of the USPS my phone call the other day to the USPS <u>would not</u> have gone like this...</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->I
punched phone prompts for over 5 minutes.</span></p><p class="FORIIBulletCxSpFirst">
</p><p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->I
had to jump through 5 different sets of phone prompts.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->At
the end of the 5 minutes of frustrating punching the USPS Phone Computer said
to me, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Hey, dummy, you called on a
holiday. We are closed today because it is a holiday, dummy. Call back when it
is not a holiday, dummy.”</b></span></p>
<p class="FORIIBulletCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Ok
I embellished the prior Bullet Point...It was a lot briefer than that. It simply
said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“We are closed today. Call back during regular business hours.”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">That’s what it really said but I know what USPS Phone
Computer was thinking. It was thinking I was a dummy.</span></p>
<p class="FORIIMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>************</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>If I were in charge of the USPS, my phone call to the USPS would have been very short because in the very beginning I would have been told that they were closed and the Herculean Effort to make me </span><b>Phone Punch Drunk</b><span> would not have taken place.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Would I kid u?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smartfella</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>SmartFella?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13758622640313521412noreply@blogger.com2