Is The State Of California In A State Of Open Rebellion?

The Fella used to live in California (actually lived there twice) and I don’t remember it being as radical as it is now because it was not as radical as it is now.

 

The second time I lived there (1990 to 2000) I read a lot of articles in the newspapers about the high number of people from California that were moving out of California. The legislators in California looked at the large number of people who were leaving and said, “We can do better!”

 

Silly me, I thought they meant they could take action to slow the Exodus. I was wrong about what I thought they were thinking. What they meant by saying “We can do better” was that not enough were leaving and they could and should get more to leave.

 

Many of my Dear Readers are Lawyers. Below I have posted three Legality Questions for you Lawyering People to ponder.

 

The people who rule California seem to have moved from Silly and Confused to Open Rebellion against these United States of America...

 

Ø Is this Legal?...Lawmakers from California have proposed a bill that would compel companies making more than $1 million from the recently passed Federal Tax Reform Legislation to turn over half their tax-cut savings to the State of California. 

Ø Is this Legal?...The State Senate President Pro Tem has introduced legislation that would allow Californians to get around the State and Local Tax Cap, which is part of the recently passed Federal Tax Reform Legislation, by making a voluntary donation to a charitable fund created by the state of any amount of owed taxes above the $10,000 cap. That donation — in lieu of taxes — would allow donors to write off the gifts on their Federal Tax Returns.

Ø Is this Legal?...The State Attorney General warned employers in California that they must comply with a New California Law that limits their cooperation with Federal Immigration Officials. He said, if they assist Federal Immigration Officials in any crackdown in the State of California, they will face fines of up to $10,000 from the State of California.

It looks to the Fella as if California is doing its level best to remove “United” from the United States of America.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: Follow The Money. I wonder who or what entity will benefit from the “charitable fund created by the state” in bullet #2 above.

The Missing Victims

The Good Ole USofA has sleep-walked through another Government Shutdown. As is Standing Operating Procedure with all Shutdowns all media outlets are required by law to point out all the “Victims” of the ongoing Shutdown while it is Going On.

 

The word “Victims” above was placed in quotes because it is a bit hazy as to whether they are, in fact, “Victims”. The only real inconvenience they have is they are subjected to a Cash Flow Problem because they are not receiving their pay checks but they will all get their missed pay checks as soon as the Shutdown is done being down.

 

I will now list some of the Cash Flow “Victims” for whom the Media demanded we feel sorry. As you read the list try and think about who is not on the list...

Ø The Military but we are told we should not feel too sorry for them because they are too busy to spend their pay checks anyway.

Ø The Non-Essential Bureaucrats all of whom were told to stay home. I always wonder, if they are Non-Essential, why do they have jobs at all.

Ø NASA Workers and this one was a real dilemma for Congress. A special committee had been set up which was trying to figure out a way to stop the Astronauts up in the International Space Station from working on an emergency Space-Walk Repair that was threatening to kill everyone on board.

 

OK, that’s enough examples of “Victims”. Did you come up with any group of “Victims” that were not on the list? By golly you hit the nail on the head! It’s the Members of Congress. Why did they not make the “Cash Flow Victims” List?

 

Could it be that they were protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990? Allow me to quote wording from the law itself... “An individual with a disability is a person who has a physical or mental impairment.”  (I did the underlining of the word “mental”.)

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Congress Always Waits To The Last Minute To Address Any Thorny Issue...Or Do They?

I am irate about a recent attack on the Congress of the Good Ole USofA. I certainly can be critical of Congress but most of all I am a believer in Truth. When I see unjustified and scurrilous attacks on anyone or anything I can’t help but attempt to use the meager resources of this Blog to publish the Truth.

 

I was starting to doze off in front of my TV the other day when I heard an Uninformed Talking Head say such outlandish things about our Congress that I was jolted into wide awake consciousness. It was at that moment I knew I had to do something to set the record straight.

 

You got a hint about what shocked me so in the Subject Line of this Posting. The Uninformed Head That Talked said, “Congress is notorious for waiting to the last minute to address almost anything but certainly any issue that is controversial.” When I heard this I saw myself as George H. W. Bush and said to myself, “This will not stand!”

 

Allow me to lay out my case...

Ø For the last 30 years there has been a certain member of congress who is universally acknowledged as the most Unpopular Member of Congress for a stand he has repeatedly taken on a very thorny issue.

Ø You all know of whom I speak.

Ø He is Congressman Basel Slug.

Ø He and the unpopular stand he repeatedly takes is the reason that an elaborate alarm system (called the BS Alarm) was installed 6 months into his first term in office.

Ø Basel has one important area of Congress’ Daily Operational Procedure that he is passionate about and which he has repeatedly offered proposals to eliminate.

Ø When word gets out that he is going to submit another Elimination Proposal, the BS Alarm is triggered...
>The alarm bell is sounded throughout the halls of Congress.
>Members spring into instant awareness of what is going on and head toward their desks prepared to vote down Basel’s latest proposal.
>Members who are napping have left strict orders that they are to be awakened immediately.

 

Many attempts have been made to get Basel to give up his crusade but, as of yet, no one has come close to changing his resolve. In an interview on CNN recently Basel drew his red line even redder. The steely look in his eyes convinced every other member of Congress that he will never give up his quest as he said, “I will never give up on my desire to eliminate Congressional Happy Hour. I am closer to my goal than I have ever been. Last month 1 Congressman and 2 Senators over napped and missed the vote. I have been in Congress so long that I do not remember which State sent me here but, one thing I do know for certain, the Folks Back Home (wherever that is) are behind me 100%!”

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Yes, I Am A Millionaire. Yes, I Don’t Need The Food Stamps I Am Collecting. Yes, I Have Every Intention Of Removing Myself From The Food Stamp Rolls But It Will Have To Wait Because I Am Too Busy Counting My Money.

Even before I get started on this one, I just heard 12 of you saying I am making a mountain out of a molehill. No need to waste a Blog Posting on a few millionaires collecting a few coins. My dear readers, this is a Pretty Big Molehill!...

Ø The Internal Revenue Service reported that 2,362 millionaires collected a total of $20,799,000 in unemployment benefits in 2009.

Ø 18 people with an adjusted gross income of $10,000,000 or more received an average of $12,333 in jobless benefits for a total of $222,000.

 

Before we get started, allow me to save you some reading time. Right at the beginning of this Blog Posting’s weighty points of interest you are going to see this term used... “Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility”. I have researched this and am posting what it means for you to read and not understand.

 

I recommend that you do not read what “Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility” means because you will not understand what it means after you read what it means. Just skip down past what it means to the string of 6 asterisks and continue on.

 

BROAD-BASED CATEGORICAL ELIGIBILITY

Broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) is a policy in which households may become categorically eligible for SNAP because they qualify for a non-cash Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or State maintenance of effort (MOE) funded benefit. The chart below shows which States implemented BBCE, the programs that confer BBCE, the asset limit of the TANF/MOE program, and the gross income limit of the TANF/MOE program.  

 

BBCE cannot limit eligibility. Households with seniors or disabled members that are not eligible for the program that confers categorical eligibility may apply for and receive SNAP under regular SNAP rules. Under regular program rules, households with elderly or disabled members do not need to meet the gross income limit, but must meet the net income limit.

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How Millionaires Collect Food Stamps

Wall Street Journal

January 16, 2018

by Kristina Rasmussen Vice President for Federal Affairs for the Foundation for Government Accountability

Ø You probably assume that food stamps go to poor people only. But this policy, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture instituted during the Clinton administration, allows state food-stamp programs to grant benefits to anyone having moderately low wage income, regardless of net worth. A family with a seven-figure bank account can be eligible for food stamps.

Ø That’s how lottery winners—including actual millionaires—wind up getting food stamps. In 2012 a millionaire from Detroit was revealed to be receiving $200 in monthly food aid despite having won $1 million the year before. “I feel that it’s OK because I have no income,” she said, “and I have bills to pay. I have two houses.”

Ø In 2011 another Michigan resident, was found to be receiving food assistance despite having taken home $850,000 in lottery winnings the previous year. To his credit, he had contacted the state food-stamp bureaucracy to ask if he needed to come off public assistance after getting his newfound wealth. He was told he could stay on it.

Ø To collect food aid you need two things:
1. An income below a multiple of the poverty line, ranging from 130% to 200%.
2. Eligibility for some sort of benefit funded by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the main welfare program for single parents.
(Here is where you will accuse me of making things up)...
There’s “one weird trick” in play here. The state spends TANF dollars to print a welfare brochure. The brochure itself is defined as a “benefit”, which everybody is “eligible” to receive, thereby meeting the USDA requirement for receiving a benefit funded by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
(I recommend you read the above One Weird Trick 4 times. That’s how many times I had to read it before I got it. Wow!)

Ø Of the 47 million Americans who received food stamps in 2014, some 4 million got them under “Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility” (that’s the part you skipped above because you were not going to understand anyway)—most because their wealth would have made them ineligible otherwise.

 

From my No and Yes Department...

No, I did not make any of this up.

Yes, it is awful.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe... If you think this all came to light yesterday, think again. Read as much as you can stand...

 

October 1, 2010...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-10-01/almost-3-000-millionaires-claimed-jobless-benefits-in-2008-irs-data-show

also

January 6, 2012...

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/jan/06/kay-bailey-hutchison/hutchison-says-getting-millionaires-food-stamps-un/

also

Last but certainly not least...

The GOP has found out about this unbelievable situation and they are going to do something about it pronto!

In the above sentence the word “pronto” (without delay) is misleading.

The article that prompted me to write the bolded sentence above was written on December 12, 2011 and this awful issue is still with us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/us/gop-bill-would-block-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-for-millionaires.html

The Fella Saw It Coming

For years the Smartfella has been warning all of you within warning distance of the possible dangers of the Smartphone. Now even the people who became filthy rich because of the Smartphone are beginning to see that it may not be the smartest thing they have ever sent down the pike.

There is no doubt that the Smartphone itself is a wonderful and amazing technological advancement, however, the Social Consequences of the Smartphone have started to raise their ugly heads and there is nothing pretty about their ugly heads…

Ø Even Apple Executives are worried about their iPhone’s tendency to monopolize attention.

Ø Facebook’s biggies are concerned about social media’s tendency to consume more and more user time.

Ø The situation is getting so bad that the American Psychiatric Association has come up with a name for what’s happening to our children. It’s called Internet Gaming Disorder.

From the early days of Digital Everything, the Fella has preached (but no one was listening to me) that an understanding of math is necessary to know if what a Calculator tells you is the answer is the answer. If you are solving for 2+2 and your answer comes out to be 255, you need to know that is a wrong answer. (You hit some wrong keys while inputting you input.)

A recent Wall Street Journal article tells me that the Wall Street Journal was worried…For homework, point an iPhone Camera at an Algebra Problem and PhotoMath solves it.

How can children learn to solve problems in an age when Smartphones provide instant answers? Their once knowledge seeking minds are “thinking” to their selves, “No need to understand the answer. It has to be right because my device says it’s right. The answer is the answer.”

Some pretty tech-savvy and influential organizations are urging Apple to develop new software tools that would help parents control and limit phone use more easily and are recommending that Apple dedicate money and attention towards studying the impact of overuse on mental health. (Wow! Mental Health! This is getting serious.)

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Of course you all remember my blog posting about the witness in court being unable to answer questions because he no longer talked but could only communicate by Texting…Or do u? That was silly of me…Or was it?

Actually that was just the tip of a Not-So-Silly Iceberg...

Ø The family of 6 sitting in a restaurant and every one of them working on their iPhone.

Ø The many videos on the Internet of people walking and looking down at their phones and bumping into things and actually falling to the ground then getting up and walk off while looking down at their phones.

Ø Again on the Internet, the famous video of the lady at a mall walking into the water fountain.

Ø The mother and child in a restaurant where she is on her phone and the child is playing with the salt and pepper shakers. (It’s called Modern Day Bonding.)

Ø The case of the 16-year-old Eagle Scout who found it hard to break away from online videogames (even at 3am) who told his mother he thought he was addicted. He tried to wean himself off the games by pledging to give them up till after final exams. While weaning, his mother observed that he was having trouble sleeping and he could not sit still.

Ø Psychologists say social media creates anxiety among children when they are away from their phones—what they call “fear of missing out,” whether on social plans, conversations or damaging gossip teens worry could be about themselves.

Ø About half the teens in a survey of 620 families in 2016 said they felt addicted to their phones. Nearly 80% said they checked them more than hourly and felt the need to respond instantly to messages.

Ø About 16% of the nation’s high-school students were bullied online in 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children who are cyber bullied are three times more likely to contemplate suicide, according to a study in JAMA Pediatrics in 2014.

Ø The drivers at stop lights who do not get moving when the light changes until the car behind blows its horn. The driver of the car behind blows his horn because he is anxious to get to the phone store because he lost his Smartphone and he is on the way to get a new one.

Ø The Big Game is over. The 17 Gathered Game Watchers have just seen their team win the big game and all but 5 of them are jumping around with excitement. In the midst of all the excitement are 5 Smartphone users pecking at their devices as attentively as they would be pecking at them in the back of their chemistry class.

Ø The people who come down from the mountain top with 27 Selfies being asked, “Did you see that beautiful sunset?” and responding, “What sunset?”

Ø I also blogged about the fact that Dr. Jonas Salk would never have invented the Polio Vaccine if he were being constantly interrupted by text messages, emails, facebookers facebooking him, reminders, alarms and notifications about any of the these interruptions.

Ø The Tech Industry Executive was asked by his son, “What does God look like?” The Tech Daddy said, “No one knows?” The Tech Son replied without irony, “Why don’t we just go on God’s Facebook page and see?”

Don’t think that, now that the problem has reared its ugly head, everyone is going to step up and address this ugly problem. Some say it the parent’s responsibility to fix the ugly. Parents say it is Apple’s responsibility. Apple is defending its parental controls and other protections for children who use its iPhones, saying that it started offering some of them as early as 2008. In response parents are saying, “Oh yea! You are trying to shirk your responsibility. Well here is what I have to say about what you just said! … Oh, wait a minute. … I’ll get back to you. I just got a text message”.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: I’m a realist. I know that only 17.4% of you will read any further because 82.6% of you are tired of me for today but am pasting “I Was Gonna Find A Cure For All Forms Of Cancer” (a blog of mine from 2010) because I know that 17.4% will get a real chuckle…

I Was Going Find A Cure For All Forms Of Cancer

The smartest man who ever lived in the entire history of humankind on the face of the earth is about to publish an open email to every email address in the entire world. Since us knowledge seekers often seek the counsel of other knowledge seekers he first sent the email to me for proofreading and spell checking. He was so grateful to me for the misspelled word I found he gave me permission to publish his email, in its entirety, in Foolishness…Or Is It?

I bet you are excited! Here is the email…

“At a very young age I came to the realization that I was, without a doubt, the smartest man who ever lived in the entire history of humankind on the face of the earth. I then quickly determined that what I wanted to do with my life was find a cure for all forms of cancer. I took out my calculator and quickly ascertained that it would take 7.45 years of dedicated hard work and research to accomplish this lofty goal. (I may have been a few months off in my 7.45 years estimate above but it was very close to the actual number because you should remember I am the smartest man who ever lived in the entire history of humankind on the face of the earth.)

I was three weeks into my Herculean Cancer Cure Task and was making great progress when I discovered Social Networking (My Space, Twitter, Face Book, etc.). I was instantly captivated. I could not think of doing anything else with my life other than Social Networking.

During my Social Networking endeavors I am proud to say that I have accomplished many Great Social Feats. Space limitations (and an irresistible compulsion to get back to my morning Twittering regimen) prohibit me from bragging too much about my Social Accomplishments but here are a few…

Ø August 2, 1998 … I am sitting on my couch thinking about getting up to make myself a peanut and jelly sandwich.

Ø June 27, 2005 … I mailed the Social World the first in a series of pictures of myself eating a cinnamon and raisin bagel.

Ø January 8, 2007 … I laughed so hard that I had tears in my eyes after getting a picture of Alfonzo (an accountant from Bulgaria whom I have never met but am proud to say is one of my 21,376,412 Face Book Followers) sticking his tongue out at the camera while wearing a red clown nose ball on his left index finger.

I cannot tell you how Socially Fulfilling my life has been to this point. Each day is another pleasure to me. There are times I start to feel a twinge of regret for all those millions of people all over the Earth I could have saved from the debilitating effects, pain, suffering, financial ruin and death that cancer caused them but in life one must make choices and I chose Social Networking.

If any of you reading this email wants to send me your address, I will be more than glad to add you as a follower of mine on my Twitter Account. Nothing could make me happier than to have you as a fellow Twit.”

Do The English Use Their Language To Better Affect Than We Use Their Language?

In describing their many Parliaments the British have called them really neat, descriptive and appropriate names such as:

Ø Blessed Parliament

Ø Happy Parliament

Ø Useless Parliament

Ø Rump Parliament

Ø Barebone’s Parliament

 

The list is a lot longer than this but these are the ones that caught my Foolish Eye.

 

In the case of our Congresses, we just put numbers in front of the word “Congress” and move on. Ah, if we were only as imaginative as the British…

Ø Blessed Congress: I don’t remember us having any Blessed Congress unless they were the very first few Congresses. By the time we got to the 3^rd or 4^th Congress members figured out that other members thought thoughts. They quickly figured out that many of them thought thoughts that were different from their own thoughts. It was at that point in our evolving history that The Other Guy was invented. That’s when the trouble really started.

Ø Happy Congress: We have had many Happy Congresses. Maybe I ought to clarify this one. I should have said we have had many Happy Hour Congresses.

Ø Useless Congress: We certainly have had a number of Useless Congresses.

Ø Rump Congress: Since “Rump” can refer to the back end of a horse, you must agree that we have had many Rump Congresses.

Ø Barebone Congress: The Barebone’s Parliament actually got its name from a person (The nominee for the City of London, Praise-God Barebone.) However, if Barebone is used to refer to the accomplishments of a particular congress, we have certainly had a number of Barebone Congresses. They are SortaLike Useless Congress (See above).

 

Allow me to finish this Foolishness with a reference to Oliver Cromwell’s immortal words to the Rump Parliament in 1653 and the plagiarized use of these nifty words by Leo Amery to the Chamberlain Government in 1940…

“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

Here is a finish after the finish by the Smartfella about our Congress…

“They do go. They go home every week. The problem is they come back the next week. (Unless they are on Recess, Vacation or Home Work Period).”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I Just Heard Someone Say, “Under Ordinary Circumstances” And I Said To Myself, “Self, What’s Ordinary?”

I have a feeling that the world we live in has always been Extraordinary but, if it was not always that way, it is now.

Nothing is “Ordinary” any longer. There used to be things we could depend on because that’s just the way it was. Now we are beleaguered by the Topsy-Turvy, Upside Down, Crazy, Unbelievable, Strange, etc.

 

What am I talking about? Here are a few examples…

Ø If your parents found out that Sister Mary Mary had to discipline you by hitting you on your hand with her ruler, you got hit with another ruler at home. Now parents run screaming (closely followed by their lawyer) to the school to give Sister Mary Mary a piece of their mind.

Ø In San Francisco people used to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and die. Now Bridge Officials are installing a System of Nets that will cost over $200 Million Dollars to discourage jumpers.
>Did you notice the word “over” in the above bullet, as in “over $200 Million Dollars”. Do you know how high over $200 Million Dollars “over $200 Million Dollars” can go? I don’t and they don’t either.
>Current news reports say initially the cost was to be $76 Million Dollars. I wrote about this craziness in 2008 and I know that at that time Bridge Officials were saying it would cost between $40 and $50 Million Dollars. This can only mean that they are lying about their past lies.
>In my 2008 Blog Posting I pointed out that people who want to commit suicide want to commit suicide. This means that they are going to scramble across the net and fall over the edge of the net so they can continue to commit suicide.
>Bridge Officials will find that, in order to prevent the suicide determined jumpers from continuing to commit suicide, guards with rifles will have to be employed to shoot them before they get to the edge of the net.

Ø Phone Booths were everywhere but none were called Cars.

Ø Boys were boys and girls were girls.

Ø We used to work and study hard so we could get to the point where we deserved the things we acquired. Now we see and hear commercials every day that tell us we deserve lots of things (start paying attention to commercials and you will be amazed at all the things the announcer says you deserve)…A trip to Hawaii, A big screen TV, Not to have to pay your credit card balance in full, A dental implant, An Apple Watch (And every other Electronic Device there is out there), etc.

Ø Only men and women married each other.

Ø We used to address people older than us as “Sir” and “Ma’am”. I still do that but I don’t limit it to the few people that are older than I am. The look of confusion on the faces of those around me when I do this is beautiful to behold. Occasionally someone will say. “You must be from down south”. To which I happily reply, “Yes, sir/ma’am, I am”.

Ø We used to say, “Hello or Good Morning”. From that we progressed to, “Where ya at, man”. Then we progressed further on to, “Hey, dude”. I don’t consider this “Progress” Progress.

Ø The Cubs could not win the World Series.

Ø We used to put on a Coat and Tie to go pick people up at the Airport. Now we go to Sunday Morning Church dressed as if we just got back from the Beach or out of the Garden.

Ø Dogs and Trees were not People Too.

Ø We all only had 7 TV Channels. We watched 3 to 4 of our 7 TV Channels. Now we pay through the nose so we can brag that we have 552 TV Channels but we watch 3 to 4 of our 552 TV Channels.

Ø The MailMan was called the MailMan and not the PersonPerson.

Ø Politicians did not lie every time they opened their mouths…Or did they not?

Ø We used to be required to be home in time to sit at the Dinner Table for Family Dinner and we did not consider it a Requirement. We sat up straight and said “please” a lot. Now Family Dinners are only seen on Ozzie and Harriet and Ozzie and Harriet is not seen and I am considered Out of Step because I just changed my Email Lagniappe Signature to… "No text message is ever worth interrupting a meal with people you love."

 

Maybe the Good Ole Days were really not as Good as we make them out to be but I do think they were less confusing.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: In 1970 I ate at a well-known restaurant in Shreveport, LA that had been there for many years and it had a sign in its foyer from its early days of operation that read, “It’s tough to spend 75 Cents for a steak, but if you spend 50 Cents, it’s tougher”.

Is It Really That Dangerous?

Micro Drone Specifications:

Dimensions…2.3 Inches X 2.3 Inches

Weight…3.8 ounces

 

Do you think the Drone is Dangerous?

 

If you said “No”, you are wrong!

 

The booklet that comes with it thinks it is Very Dangerous. Pages 2 thru 11 the booklet tells you how dangerous it really is…

Ø 5 Cautions

Ø Important Safety Instruction Message: “All of the safety and operating instructions should be read, adhered to and followed before the unit is operated”. (I guess there is a difference between “Adhered To” and “Followed”.)

Ø 41 Warnings

Ø 5 Danger Caution Warnings (or are they Danger Warning Cautions?)

 

Inside the booklet there is…

Ø Another Caution: (Yes, All Caps) “DO NOT ATTEPMT TO FLY THE MICRO DRONE IF THERE IS RAIN, SNOW, HEAVY WINDS, THUNDER OR LIGHTENING OUTDOORS. IT COULD DAMAGE YOUR PRODUCT AND MAY CAUSE BODILY HARM”.

Ø 3 More Warnings

 

One of the strangest Dangers Caution Warnings is, “Do not use while bathing or in a shower”.

 

As you, my dear readers, may remember, I bought a handgun on Black Friday last. I don’t want you to think I am going overboard with this Blog Posting nor do I want you to think I am going crazier than you may already think I am crazy, so I won’t go count up what I am wondering about…

I wonder if the Handgun Handbook had this many Warnings, Cautions and Dangers?

Maybe I am overreacting. It just might cause a rather serious dent in a person if a 2.3 inch X 2.3 inch 3.8 ounces flying thingy flew into his chest…Or could it?

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: I know I have several lawyers among my Dear Readers. I can just hear them thinking to their collective selves, “This is unconscionable! How could such a dangerous projectile be released upon an unsuspecting public with only 6 Cautions, 44 Warnings and 5 Danger Caution Warnings? With every passing day I am more and more convinced that they need people of my ilk!” (I just love using the word “ilk”.)

One A Day Multiple Foolishness

I have a friend who has a wife (she is also a friend) who once cooked a different recipe for dinner every night for the 365 days in that year.

 

I have enough blog ideas already written to post one every day of 2018.

 

I am using this Blog Posting to tell you not to worry. I’m not going to do that.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: I might have taken on this Herculean Task but I already missed January 1^st. I was too busy yesterday making up a list of excuses why the Georgia Bulldogs were going to lose last night to the Oklahoma Sooners.

An Old Serious Issue Is Still An Important Serious Issue If It Is Still An Issue

I hate the Scroll

Several years ago I took note of an Issue that I thought was important. I put it into a folder on my computer entitled, My Email “Wisdom” and promptly forgot about it.

 

For those of you who object to my calling my own Mind Wandering “Wisdom”, find something else you object to about me because I put the word “Wisdom” in quotation marks which, of course, means I acknowledge that my Wisdom may not be grounded in Intellectually Defensible Thought…Or is it?

 

I’m going to move on now because these first two paragraphs have confused me.

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This “Wisdom” started wandering through my mind as I was watching our president (it does not make any difference which president) was making a very serious speech in London, England.

 

During the entirety of his important speech (on CNN) that Infernal Scroll was scrolling across the bottom of the screen.

 

Is the serious speech important or not? If it is important, why is other information constantly being passed before our eyes? It is really hard to stay fixated on what is being said while the scroll is doing its best to distract our attention.

 

I would agree that a scroll is serving a useful purpose if it is giving us other more important information like…

Ø An atomic bomb has just destroyed Toledo.

Ø Jennifer and Chuck have just called it quits.

Ø No one left alive after an earthquake destroys Denver.

 

I was trying to not look at the scroll but, at one point while I was being distracted, I thought to myself...

Is it really necessary to scroll before me “Happy Birthday Larry King and Ted Turner” while the President is trying to convey serious information about important stuff?

 

It is time for me to swear. I made up the information about Toledo, Jennifer and Chuck and Denver but I swear I actually saw “Happy Birthday Larry King and Ted Turner” pass before my disbelieving eyes.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella