Truth Isn’t Always Silly But It Is More Fun When It Is

 

My local paper keeps telling me things that are True But Silly. This is the latest headline to catch my eye...

Georgia Judge Appoints Lawyer to Represent Dog

The case in question is about a Pit Bull that bit a small child. The judge took this drastic action because, if the dog is “convicted”, it could face The Death Penalty.

What’s next for court appointed lawyers?...

The Shirt...

Ø A T-Shirt was arrested in New York City for the message that was written on it.

Ø That offending message was...

“People With Warts In The Middle Of The End Of Their Noses Are Ugly”

Ø The Wart Lovers of America National President happened to be walking by the Offending T-Shirt and he saw what he considered this Crude and Offending Message and was immediately horrified.

Ø He reported the T-Shirt to a near-by Policeman who arrested the T-Shirt on the spot.

The T-Shirt was ordered to Lay For Trial. (Since T-Shirts cannot Stand on their own it could not be ordered to Stand For Trial.)

I can hear the court appointed defense attorney making the following cogent points...

Ø Let’s face it. A T-Shirt should not be persecuted for what is printed on it.

Ø The T-Shirt actually has no control over what is printed on it.

Ø Another actually...Actually people say “T-Shirts Say” but they don’t “say” anything. They are but innocent victims at the mercy of the people who print words on them.

Ø Most of all, let us not forget, T-Shirts Are People Too!

The Open Space...

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Some of you may not be aware that I have the ability to change postings after they have been posted. If any of you would like to add another silly Court Appointed Lawyer Story, I will be more than glad to add your foolishness to my foolishness.

Most of you are hesitant to add comments. If you prefer to write me a personal email with a silly idea to fill in The Open Space above, I will be glad to publish your words and make you as famous as I am famous.

It might make you nervous to contemplate the fact that your words will be read all my followers. Don’t let that bother you. I don’t have that many followers. L

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: If you are not the type that does what I tell them to do (write me a personal email with a silly idea) and you just prefer to read about Silliness, click here and Read All About It... https://www.iveyengineering.com/hilarious-true-court-cases-wont-believe/

Laws That Prove We Are Silly

The federal government has gone to a lot of trouble to pass laws requiring shippers to make sure that mail order items are received by the customer by the date promised by the shipper...

Ø How will the Feds know if it is or it is not received by the date promised?

Ø Are there bureaucrats with green eye shades and clip boards following the progress of each shipped item?

Ø Now you know why the sellers always say it will take 6 to 8 weeks for the product to arrive and then it arrives in about a week.

Ø Shippers are not silly but Congress is.

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The buying customer can dispute the charges if an item was bought on-line but it was never received by the buyer...

Ø We need a law for this?

Ø We are not capable of disputing charges for something not received without Federal Help?

Ø Without this law would we be saying things like this to ourselves?... ”Self, I did not get what I am being billed for. I sure wish there were a Federal Law that required sellers to actually give us what we order from them. Oh well, I guess I will send them a check for $500 but this sure does not seem fair”.

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Examples of Laws in My Home State of Georgia That Look Silly...

Ø It’s illegal to give a state senator a speeding ticket when the state assembly is in session in the State of Georgia.

Ø Spitting on sidewalks at night is not allowed in St. Mary’s, Georgia.

Ø The floor of a porno store must be smooth and none absorbent in Roswell, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal for a chicken to cross the road in Marietta, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal to say “oh boy” in Jonesboro, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal to eat chicken with a fork in Gainesville, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal to play catch with your son on the sidewalk in Dublin, Georgia.

Ø If you want to spit from a moving vehicle it must be a truck in Marietta, Georgia.

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Are you feeling superior to us people from Georgia? Before you get too full of yourself you ought to look up your own State of Residence...Y’all Are Probably Just as Silly as Us Georgians.

To see how Silly, click here... http://www.idiotlaws.com/

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

It’s Like Prego. It’s Already In There. If You Have Everything You Want, You Have No Need For Everything You Need.

 

The excerpt below is from an article entitled, “What’s Behind the Push for a Fourth Stimulus Check”. The way things are going we are going to have more Stimulus Checks than there were Rocky Movies. There is a difference between the Rocky Movies and the Stimulus Checks. The Rocky Movies came to an end but the people behind the push for Guaranteed Annual Income show no indication that they are going to stop their demand for more Stimulus Checks.

This is Slick Manipulation. Certainly in the beginning the far greater majority of us would say we were opposed to Guaranteed Annual Income but the Stimulus Check is seen as Temporary and is necessitated by THE Pandemic. After the Pandemic is over some of us feel that all the people who have been getting Stimulus Checks will put up their hand and say, “Stop! That’s enough”. Fella is not Silly enough to believe that’s going to happen.

Within the Excerpt is a link (new analysis) to a very long and very frightening article about what our future might be. Read it, if you must but it just might ruin your day.

The Excerpt: “Despite that financial assistance, millions of Americans remain in financial distress, with about 4 in 10 people saying their income remains below its pre-pandemic levels, according to a survey from financial services firm TransUnion. The pandemic worsened the hardship that many families experienced even before the crisis, with more than 1 in 4 households unable to pay for basics like rent or food in at least one of three years from 2014 to 2016, according to a new analysis of data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.”

Allow me to introduce you to the Sidney Gotitall Family. This family is one of the 1 in 4 families that were unable to pay for basics like rent or food in at least one of three years from 2014 to 2016. (Do you ever wonder how the people who write article like this come up with such statistics? I sure do.)

Why did the Sidney Gotitall Family run out of money to pay rent back in August 2015? Thanks to my Potted Plant Outfit I know the why and now, thanks to my little known Blog, Foolishness...Or Is It?, you are going to know the why also.

Rather than pass judgment on Sidney (something we used to be able to do but have not been able to do since somewhere around 2012) I’ll simply list a few Could It Possibly Be’s...

• Could It Possibly Be because Sidney recently bought a 75 Inch Flat Screen TV?
  >When asked why he felt he needed a 75 Inch Flat Screen TV he responded, “I was comfortable with my 50 Inch Flat Screen TV but I knew I needed bigger when My Cousin Vinnie bought his 65 Inch Flat Screen TV. I had never been behind Vinnie by any measure of anything that is measurable until then. I felt sick. I felt inadequate. I felt ashamed. I did the only thing any red blooded American would have done. I jumped back in front of Vinnie where I belonged. It’s at times like these when I am thankful for my Costco Executive Card Membership!”
• Could It Possibly Be because Sidney drives a Fully Electric, Fully Connected, BMW iX Sports Activity Vehicle?
  > When asked why he felt he needed a Fully Electric, Fully Connected, BMW iX Sports Activity Vehicle he responded, “I can’t believe it! You dare ask me this question! I will not apologize for my determination to Save The Planet so that future generations can have a future!”
• Could It Possibly Be because Sidney goes to the South of France every February to get away from it all?
  >The look of distain that Sidney gave the lady with the microphone when she asked about his travails to the South of France could have melted another 12 square feet of the Polar Ice Cap. He could hardly contain himself when he replied, “Well I never!” He then walked out of the interview room as he flicked the remote for his Fully Electric, Fully Connected, BMW iX Sports Activity Vehicle so he could get the engine started so he could get the air conditioning started so his ride could be nice and cool when he climbed in.

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I’ll now stop being silly now and dare to make some of you really mad at Fella. Fella does not think that all people who were unable to pay for basics like rent or food in at least one of three years from 2014 to 2016 are throwing their money away willy-nilly on frivolous frivolities. On the other hand I also believe that the people who are proposing increased never-ending ever increasing funding of all of us are pulling the wool over our tax-paying eyes when they tell us that all of us are managing our money using a good common-sense decision making process while keeping in mind that their current income is not a never-ending stream that, if over spent, can be supplemented with what I would call Unearned Income and they would call their Just Desserts. (I do not apologize for the prior sentence being too long. It is too long because it had to be too long.)

If making you laugh will make you less mad at me for daring to say what I think, then read what Merriam-Webster has to say about “Just Desserts and Just Deserts”. If Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster can laugh at what they put in their Dictionary, we can allow ourselves to allow Fella to poke fun at Child Poverty...Or can we?

The English language is fond of occasionally embracing its whimsical and illogical side, in order to keep things interesting for the people who attempt to use it. For instance, the most common noun form of desert (“arid land with usually sparse vegetation”) is pronounced the same way as the adjectival form of this word (“desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied”), but not the same way as the verb (“to withdraw from or leave usually without intent to return”), even though all three words come from the same source (the Latin deserere, “to desert”). The verb desert is pronounced the same way as the dessert you eat after dinner (which comes from the Latin servir, “to serve”). And, to make things even more interesting (by which we mean confusing), there is another noun form of desert, spelled the same as the “arid land” word, but pronounced like the thing one eats after dinner, and with a meaning that is similar to neither.

OK. Some of you are mad at me again. Will you forgive me if I promise never to be Silly or Foolish in any future Blog Posting? Ok I promise...Or am I serious about this “promise”?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

 

There Is A Worldwide Shortage Of Computer Chips Out There! So What? Here’s What!

The Shortage of Computer Chips is causing all kinds of Consternation all over the World. Don’t look now but Computer Chips are everywhere and seem to be in everything.

A good example is New Cars. Today's average car has between 50 and 150 Computer Chips in them. Those of you who have been reading my Foolishness for awhile already know about my climbing up the Automotive Industry Ladder of Success to the height of my Mediocre Automotive Career. Long ago I can remember being part of a discussion that went something like this...

Ø Did you know that one of our cars now has a computer chip in it.?

Ø No. I did not. Why would we do that?

I get my Toyota’s serviced at a dealership that is probably one of the biggest sales volume dealerships in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.

They store most of their new car inventory in the big parking lot behind their dealership. In the past I have always seen this lot more than full. By “more than full” I mean all of the parking spaces had cars parked in them and the overflow was parked in the driving aisles blocking access to much of the inventory.

Here are 2 pictures from yesterday that show that the “full” has been taken out of this lot...

The cars on the left are customer’s cars in for service.

The single row of cars on the right is the dealership’s entire New Vehicle Inventory. (They are all Camry’s).

Ø In the old days Henry Ford said, “You can have any color you want, as long as it is black.”

Ø In the new days Acme Toyota says, “You can have any vehicle you want, as long as it is a Camry.”

Wanna make a salesman laugh? When “negotiating” for your new Camry ask him, “How much discount will you give me?”

Picture the look of disbelief on the Sales Manager’s face when this happens...

Ø Mr. Acme Toyota Big Guy says, “Mr. Sales Manager, you are fired!”

Ø Mr. Sales Manager says, “WhatDoYaMean I’m fired? Last month you told me I was great and you gave me a big raise and I went out and bought a big boat on a long-term monthly installment plan.”

Ø Mr. Acme Toyota Big Guy replies, “At Acme Toyota we pride ourselves on Results. For the last 17 months you have averaged selling 237 vehicle sales a month. Last month you sold 12. You are fired!”

Ø Mr. Sales Manager says, “I see your point.”

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Since we are talking about cars, let’s shift gears...

Another Worldwide Shortage is the Word “No”. Word processors are running woefully short of “No’s” and here is why.

The products we buy are plastered with the word “No” all over them...

Ø No Artificial Colors

Ø No Artificial Flavors

Ø No Artificial Flavors Colors Or Preservatives 

Ø No Artificial Ingredients

Ø No Artificial Preservatives

Ø No Certified Synthetic Colors

Ø No Dairy Ingredients 

Ø No Fat

Ø No Gluten

Ø No GMO

Ø No High Fructose Corn Syrup

Ø No Preservatives

Ø No Soy

Ø No Sugar

Ø No Synthetic Preservatives

Ø No Trans Fat 

Ø Not Fried

Ø Not Preserved

Finally this from Fella’s Department of What the Heck Does This Mean?...

“Contains 18% of a Solution”

If you want to be an expert on the subject of the Global Chip Shortage, Read All About It here: http://www.scmdojo.com/understanding-the-global-chip-shortage-how-supply-chain-leaders-are-addressing-disruptions-today/

If you have better things to do and you didn’t Read All About It, allow me to give you this to think about. Here is an ingredient list on a bottle of seasoning that I saw in a store the other day where I did not pay the $10.99 asking price. It looked to Fella that, had I bought it, I would have paid $10.99 for a bottle of almost nothing...

Proof that I am still somewhat smart lies in the fact that I said to myself, “Self, don’t buy this. You already have Salt in your Shaker at home.”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Want proof of which I speak?...

Ford Will Halt Production at US Truck Plant for Week Over Chip Shortage:
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/ford-will-halt-production-at-us-truck-plant-for-week-over-chip-shortage_3955330.html

Ford to Shut Some North American Plants for Few Weeks on Chip Shortage
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/ford-to-shut-some-north-american-plants-for-few-weeks-on-chip-shortage_3882093.html

Confusion Has Become More Important Than Communication

 

I apologize for all the ads that now appear throughout my Blog Postings. It was not always that way. Google BlogSpot does this. I have no control over these ad insertions. I know it makes my Interesting Commentary harder to read. Stick with it because it is worth the effort...Or is it?

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There was a time when we knew a person was smart because of what they said and/or wrote. Today we know people are smart because we can’t understand what they say and/or write and their hair is a mess.

I’m told that smart people know what the Jambalaya of Words below means. I must not be smart because I don’t know what the heck the people who wrote these words are talking about. Actually I hope I never get this “smart”....

"Assigning Sex Using Binary Variables In The Public Portion Of The Birth Certificate Fails To Recognize The Medical Spectrum Of Gender Identity."

We have “progressed” to the point where it is not important that what we say and/or write actually makes sense. It is only important that we confuse those who are hearing and/or reading our thrown-together words.

Here is an Intelligent Sounding Collection of Words I made up that will have today’s “smart people” shaking their head up and down in agreement as if they understood what they just read...

We have come to the point in our development as a people that we are in dire need of a parallel linguistic time-phase projection. Many are saying that an optional digital concept analysis is required to achieve a functional monitored flexibility conclusion in order to reach a complete balanced policy projection sequence referral.

If you say you understand the above paragraph, you are either lying or you have progressed to the point in your own confusion where you have become a true Connoisseur of Convoluted Phraseology.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Try again... "Assigning Sex Using Binary Variables In The Public Portion Of The Birth Certificate Fails To Recognize The Medical Spectrum Of Gender Identity."

The Trojans Were Really Stupid People!

When were used to teach History in our schools we used to teach...

Ø The Greeks laid siege to Troy because they were mad because one of the Trojans, a guy named Paris of Troy, took one of their women by the name Helen of Greece to go live with him in Troy.

Ø The Greeks got extra mad when Helen changed her name from Helen of Greece to Helen of Troy.

Ø After 10 years of trying to get into Troy the Greeks decided to implement a very sneaky plan to get it that Kirk Douglas had come up with.

Ø They built a Big Horse that was big enough to contain a whole bunch of Greeks who were very good at opening gates from the inside and hid them inside of it.

Ø Overnight they left the Big Horse outside Troy's Big Gate and withdrew their many ships over the horizon to give the impression to the Stupid Trojans that they had gone back to Greece.

Ø The Trojans woke up and saw that the Greeks had left and before leaving they had left the Big Horse outside the Big Gate as a tribute to one of their many gods.

Ø The Trojans got all excited and decided to have a Big Party.

Ø They were extra pleased when they noticed that the Greeks had been kind enough to install wheels on the Big Horse.

Ø The rolled the Big Horse inside the Big Gate and partied until they all fell down drunk.

Ø While they were partying the Greeks came back across the horizon and gathered up in front of the Big Gate and were patiently waiting for Kirk and his gate opening technicians to come out of the Big Horse and opened the Big Gate.

Ø After Kirk and the boys opened the Big Gate the Sneaky Greeks ran into Troy and killed all the Stupid Trojans.

The Late Paul Harvey is visiting with me today and he insisted I tell you The Rest of the Story which proves how really Stupid the Stupid Trojans were...

Ø Recently an iPhone was found buried at where Troy used to be.

Ø After using a wee bit of WD-40 on it and installing a new very old battery the finders found that the iPhone worked just fine.

Ø Inside of the iPhone they found a picture of the Big Horse and here it is...

Did you just say you don’t see why this proves that the Trojans were really Stupid people? I can’t believe it! Do I have to tell you everything?

The Big Horse Had 2 Windows on Each Side of It and There Was a Climbing Ladder Under Its Big Belly

When the Trojans first saw the Big Horse they should have immediately known that something was amiss because they saw a whole bunch of Sneaky Greek Heads looking out of the Big Horse’s Windows.

That, my dear readers, is Stupid of Epic Proportions!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

 

Let’s Issue A Restraining Order To Restrain People From Doing Things They Should Be Restrained From Doing. That’ll Work For Sure!

 

WhatDoYaThink he went up there to Fiddle?...

Ø In California a mother got a restraining order to prevent her Estranged Husband from coming to the home where his Estranged Wife and their 2 Estranged Sons were living.

Ø The Restraining Order also was supposed to prevent the Estranged Husband from Possessing Fire Arms.

Fella Comment:

A Restraining Order Is Not Bullet Proof

Here is what happened after the Restraining Order was issued against the Estranged Husband...

Ø The estranged husband picked up his AK-47 Type Weapon and a Hand gun and when to the home he was restrained from going to.

Ø He shot and killed his Estranged Wife (42), his 2 Sons (ages 17 and 24) and a sheriff’s deputy (leaving a wife and 2 young children).

Ø Three other deputies were injured in the mayhem.

Ø Two other women and 2 young girls escaped the home before they could be harmed.

Ø The Estranged Husband then climbed on top of his house with his restrained weapons and was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies.

More than 100 deputies responded to the scene and 23 of them have been placed on Administrative Leave. Why are 23 of them on Administrative Leave? Are they suspected of using Unnecessary Force? Aghhhhh!

Can’t you just hear the Dead Restrained Husband’s Lawyer saying at the hearing that has been called to have all 100 of the deputies fired saying*

“Your Honor, from the outset I must go on the record that Estranged Dead Client considered this Restraining Order to be very restraining on his freedom of movement.

 That being said I must also say these 100 deputies acted in callous disregard for the location of my Estranged Dead Client. They shot my client while he was on the roof of his recently deceased wife’s restrained house. He had gone up there to grieve for the loss of his recently deceased wife, who I might add, was the Mother of his 2 recently deceased children. 

The deputies should been cognizant of the fact that being this high up was a long way from the safety of the ground. They acted in collective callous disregard for the obvious fact that, if they shot and killed my Estranged Dead Client while he was so high above the ground, he might fall and sustain further injuries from the fall itself after he was dead. 

It makes no never mind that firing these 100 officers will leave 100 wives and 412 children without any visible means of support. They should have thought of that before they tried to hurt my Estranged Dead Client while he was in the process of grieving on top of a slippery roof. 

Yes, your honor, justice demands that the State of California throws the book at all 100 of these Callous Disregarding Uncaring Trigger Happy Deputies!”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella 

*Lagniappe: The hearing is being held in a special courtroom with a sign over the entrance door that reads, “Foolish Trials R Us”.

 

This Is A Clear-Cut Case Of Marketing Run Amuck!

 

Years ago, when I was younger, I played a lot of Four Wall Handball. Still today I think that Handball was the greatest sport I ever tried my hand(s) at (no pun intended).

I used to think, when I got old, I would take up Racquetball. Handball player had a great dislike for Racquetball Players, Racquetball Racquets and Racquetballs.

We felt this way because they appeared overnight from out of nowhere. We played at the YMCA. There were only 2 courts but we never had a problem getting a court reserved when we wanted to play. Once Racquetball Players arrived on the scene there were so many of them that we had a hard time getting a court reserved.  They were very good at beating us to the reservation desk and they got the time slots reserved ahead of us.

To get right down to it, we also had no respect for their “sport”...

Ø The Racquetball Racquet made their reach longer.

Ø With this longer reach they did not have to run as much.

Ø Since they did not have to run as much they were not in great shape as we knew we were.

Ø Because of their longer reach they did not have to go crashing into the walls as much as we went crashing into walls.

Ø Because they did not crash into walls like we did they never left blood on the walls they did not crash into.

We thought why bother playing such a sport if you did not get to experience the extreme pleasure of the excruciating pain you would experience when you hit a ball wrong with your unprotected hand. (Actually it hurt a lot even when you hit it correctly with your unprotected hand.)

Racquetball Players never banged or scraped their hands into the wall trying to get to that impossible to get to shot from that lucky opponent you were playing. (It was at moments like this when we developed an extreme dislike for our opponents.)

Racquetball players never got the exhilaration of looking at their hand after a match and seeing a whole bunch of black and blue bruises (Definition of Bruises: Tender areas of skin discoloration caused by blood leaking from blood vessels damaged by pressure or impact).

We just knew we were in better shape than they were, we knew we would live longer than they would (This was a plus because, when they started dying, we could then get our time slots back) and we knew our bellies were flatter than their bellies were.

Regarding the 3 “knews” in the above paragraph...We Were, We Would and They Were.

The Bottom Line Before The Bottom...We Thought They Were Sissies.

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Finally I am getting around to the Subject Title of this Blog Posting... “This Is A Clear-Cut Case Of Marketing Run Amuck!”

Back in California in the 1990s, long before I got old, I did play some Racquetball. I succumbed because there were no Handball Players in the gated community where I lived. I bought my own Racquetball Racquet and it has been hanging in my garages ever since.

I held onto it all these years because of the Features Card that came with the Racquet which told me of all the wonders of my Racquetball Racquet.

My Dear Readers, I now give you the Lying Promo Words that came with my Dust Covered Hanging In My Garage Racquet...

Dare To Discover The Player You Could Be

Our racquets excel in every facet of the game, each has also been “turbo charged” in particular qualities to maximize each player’s strength and style.

For the power player daring enough to summon the ultimate force in racquetball, capable of blasting all opponents to smithereens.

This is Fella...Remember the word “Smithereens”.

For the shot-maker and pacesetter who deftly delivers searing, precision zingers that are unrelenting in their pacesetting game of attrition, punishing opponents on a torturous tour over every inch of the court.

For the counter-punching, shot-making maestro calling on catlike quickness and defensive wizardry to bedevil the opponent into disbelieving bewilderment and frustration.

If there is a jail for Exaggeration, the guy who wrote this over the top Description of this Racquet’s Destructive Powers would be in Jail. Not only that he would be Solitary Confinement in that jail.

If one day a guard said to the warden, “We can’t find the key to the Lying Racquet Composer’s Solitary Confinement Cell!”. 

The warden would probably reply, “  he ain’t ever getting outa Solitary Confinement!”

It is frightening to think about the possibility of 2 players buying this Weapon of Destruction Racquet and playing a game against each other. If these racquets lived up to the Manufacturer’s Exaggerated Hype, at the end of the match there would be...

No Smithereens Left Standing

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: One night as my Cousin Leon and I left the YMCA he said to me, "Handball is like hitting yourself in your head with a hammer. It feels so good when you quit." My Cousin always did have a way with words.

We Are Evolving

 

The form of government that Benjamin Franklin and his Drinking Buddies set up for us in 1787 was a Democratic Republic. That was 234 years ago. It has been a good ride being a Democratic Republic but The Times They Are A-Changin and it looks like a whole bunch of you fellow Americans want to Fundamentally Change the form of Governance in the Good Ole USofA.

Many of My Dear Readers just figured out where I am heading in with this Blog Posting but they are wrong in their thinking because my thinking is Sillier than what they are thinking I am thinking.

What I am thinking is our becoming the Czech Republic but different. We have already started becoming what I am thinking we going to become. I’m sure many of you are now getting my drift...Or are you?

I say we are evolving, not into the Czech Republic, but into the Check Republic. For more than a year now, the Checks have been flying out of Washington D.C. like bats flowing out of Uncle Mark’s Bat House at dusk  going looking for dinner.

You still don’t get my drift? Where have you been?...

• The First Stimulus Checks maxed out at $1,200 per person with an extra $500 per dependent.
• The Second Stimulus Checks capped out at $600 per person, and another $600 per qualifying child dependent.
• If you didn't get a First and Second Stimulus Check or got less than the full amounts, you may be eligible to claim the 2020 Recovery Rebate Credit and must file a 2020 tax return even if you don't usually file a tax return.
• The Third Stimulus Checks were $1,400 for an eligible individual and $1,400 for each qualifying dependent.
• With the first checks sent out, the IRS automatically sent Stimulus Checks to many who normally aren’t required to file a tax return – including Older Adults, Social Security and SSDI and SSI Recipients and Railroad Retirees.
• During all of this, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Checks have continued going out. (SSI Recipients were concerned that their Stimulus Checks would be treated as income by the Internal Revenue Service but the IRS reassured them that Stimulus Checks were not to be treated as income.)
• Checks have been sent out to prevent Child Poverty (Child Tax Credits) to about 64 million children.
• There are also $1,000 “Thank You” Payments going to teachers and other school staff in states such as Texas and Florida.
• Soon, California will be issuing another round of Golden State Stimulus Checks, providing $600 (or up to $1,100) for millions of eligible residents.
• We are hearing calls for a Fourth Round of Stimulus Checks in the form of $2,000 extra per month for adults and $1,000 for children.
• The Eviction Moratorium is a form of Reverse Check because people who have mortgages or who pay rent do not have to send in checks for an ever changing period of time.
• The American Rescue Plan passed in March 2021 set aside $21.5 billion for rental assistance. This is in addition to $25 billion allocated to states under December Stimulus Law. 
• There are new rules for the Child Tax Credit that give parents the option of receiving the advance monthly checks for extra cash this year or getting one lump sum for up to $3,600 per kid in 2022.
• A Change.org Petition that has collected more than 2.7 million signatures calls on Congress to send out a Fourth Stimulus Check of $2,000 for adults and $1,000 for children on a monthly basis for the Remainder of the Pandemic.
• In late March, a group of lawmakers asked the Administration to include Regular Stimulus Payments in its Next Stimulus Package.
• In May, several members of the House Ways and Means Committee made a similar request.
• There's also money going to certain individuals in the form of "plus-up" payments (whatever that is).
• A weekly $300 Unemployment Bonus was extended to Labor Day.
• Some lawmakers are petitioning for Federal Unemployment Assistance to extend beyond Labor Day.
• Pandemic Unemployment Assistance was also extended to Gig Workers, Freelancers and the Self-Employed.
• Our President has called on Congress to extend the Expanded Child Tax Credit through 2025. 

This last one below is not law yet but on July 30, 2021 it was introduced in the House of Representatives to begin the process of possibly becoming the Law of the Land...

The Sending Unconditional Payments to People Overcoming Resistances to Triumph (SUPPORT) Act will create a guaranteed income program of up to $1,200 per month for adults and $600 for kids.

Yes Siree Bob! We Are The Check Republic! 

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My computer just ran out of Bullet Point Symbols and I’m tired of doing this Blog Posting anyway.

That’s it. That’s all there is. That’s the name of that tune. That’s how the cow eats the cabbage...Or is it?

You may remember Fella can see the future and here is the Future He Is A-Seein...

All of the Manufacturers listed below stepped up to protect us from the ravages of the Pandemic. These people are Heroes! When the Pandemic finally fades into our past these Heroes are going to see a dramatic drop in revenues. When that time comes, we are obligated to send them Checks to allow them to transition into other areas of Manufacturing Stuff...

Ø Plexiglas Manufacturers

Ø Face Mask Manufacturers

Ø Vaccine Manufacturers

Ø Sanitizer Manufacturers

Ø Latex Glove Manufacturers

Ø Face Shield Manufacturers

Ø Vitamin E Manufacturers

Ø Zinc Manufacturers

Ø Vitamin C Manufacturers

Ø “Heroes Work Here” Sign Manufacturers

This list could go on and on but, as I said above, I’m tired.

I sure hope Our Rulers are working on a check for people who are tired.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

CDC Is Now Into Making Law...Or is it?

 

Fella wrote this first part of this Blog Posting on July 27, 2021

Fella Observation of the Day:

Our Duly Elected Congress is empowered to make the Laws of the Land. One would think that a Congress that is paying any attention at all would object when this law making power is usurped by another government entity which is not empowered to make the Laws of the Land.

Fella Question of the Day:

What took the Judicial System so long to rule that a government entity which is not empowered to make the Laws of the Land has passed a Moratorium of the Land which ended up being enforced from September, 2020 until (it will expire) July 31, 2021 (Actually it was originally supposed to end December 31, 2020 but the agency that did not have authority to enact the Moratorium kept extending the Moratorium they did not have the authority to create.)

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July 23, 2021

Federal Court Rules CDC’s COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Is Unlawful

A federal court on Friday ruled that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) overstepped its authority by halting evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Cincinnati-based U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with a lower court ruling that said the CDC engaged in federal overreach with the eviction moratorium, which the agency has consistently extended for months. Several weeks ago, the CDC announced it would allow the policy, which was passed into law by Congress, to expire at the end of July. (Fella did the underlining.)

Take note of the line above which states, "which was passed into law by Congress". This means to Fella that Congress passed its law after the CDC had already passed its “law”.

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I actually know why it took the Judicial System so long to decide that the CDC did not have the authority to enact this Moratorium.

The Court got distracted and delayed because it tried to read the Moratorium. That is a Herculean Task. The Moratorium is long long long. It is complicated. It is confusing. (It is linked below.)

Please do not be tricked as the court was tricked and start trying to read it. If you do click on the link below, just look at it, skim it and say, “Aghhhh!” and go about your life. You have better things to do...

• The Moratorium is more than 7,000 words.
• It has an almost uncountable number of references to other confusing government dictates, moratoriums, laws, regulations, etc.
• I copied and pasted 1 Single Paragraph out of the Moratorium for you to read so you might understand just how confusing the full 7,000 Word+ dictate is.
• This is the first and last paragraph I looked at.
• Can you understand what this example paragraph is saying?

You can bet the rest of the Moratorium is just as confusing...

This Order is not a rule within the meaning of the Administrative Procedure Act (‘‘APA’’) but rather an emergency action taken under the existing authority of 42 CFR 70.2. In the event that this Order qualifies as a rule under the APA, notice and comment and a delay in effective date are not required because there is good cause to dispense with prior public notice and comment and the opportunity to comment on this Order and the delay in effective date. See 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B). Considering the public-health emergency caused by COVID–19, it would be impracticable and contrary to the public health, and by extension the public interest, to delay the issuance and effective date of this Order.

The Courts should have said, “We are not going to read this (same as Congress will not read it). It does not matter what the Moratorium says because the CDC does not have authority to take such action. We are going to leave now and join Congress at Happy Hour. Yes we know it is early for Happy Hour but Congress knows that too and they have already been there for 20 minutes.”

Here is the link, as promised...

CDC’s COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-09-04/pdf/2020-19654.pdf

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Fella Statement of Fact: All our laws are too long and too complicated to be understood by any of us. Shadow Bureaucrats write our laws and then the chaos begins as we salute and fall into line.

Here ends the first part of this Blog Posting which Fella wrote on July 27, 2021

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Fella pecked this second part out on August 5, 2021...

As stated above all of the above was a completed Blog Posting which was finished on July 27, 2021. This was 4 days before the Moratorium was again due to expire again on July 31, 2021.

I decided not to publish it because I saw where Congress had stepped in (after the CDC had acted) and passed a law making the CDC’s Law Making Attempt actually a Law.

Don’t you agree this was handled very sloppily? Next time the CDC wants to make a law it ought to send a Tweet to Congress. In its Tweet the CDC can tell Congress what it wants done. Congress can then pretend that the law was its own “brilliant idea” and not a dictate to it from the CDC.

When the CDC acts first and Congress has to follow along to save face it is not really saving face it is just looking silly.

On August 3, 2021 the CDC extended the Expired Unconstitutional Moratorium which Congress had stepped in and formally made a Law of the Land because the CDC told Congress that it ought to make it a law but which Law the Judicial System has already ruled to be Unconstitutional.

Interesting Fella Tidbit: Even though Congress had taken “ownership” of the Moratorium it has been the CDC which has enacted the several extensions that have taken place since the first expiration date of December 31, 2020. Why was not Congress doing the extensions? It’s Congress’ Law is it not...Or is it not?

Do you see the silliness in all of this?...

Ø The CDC passes a law which they can’t pass because our Constitution says Congress makes law not the CDC.

Ø Congress steps in, after the fact, and makes the Moratorium a law.

Ø The Judicial System steps in and declares the Moratorium (no matter who passed it) Unconstitutional.

Ø Now they (whoever “they” are) decide to the reinstate the Expired Unconstitutional Moratorium.

Ø Congress steps in and extends the Expired Unconstitutional Moratorium because it is a Law of the Land that they passed.

No! That’s not what happened!

Ø What happened was the CDC steps in and extends the Expired Unconstitutional Moratorium which they had no power to pass in the first place.

Are you still asking why is the CDC doing the extending and not the Congress?

I have the answer to your question...

Someone (whoever they are), knowing that the CDC cannot make Law has stepped in and determined that, while the CDC cannot make Law, the CDC does have the power to extend laws they did not make!

Do you now have a better understanding of all of the Foolishness? I’m glad I could help.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: I’m sorry this Blog Posting is so complicated and so confusing. Here’s a plan of action. Let’s keep electing our Representative and Senators. They are sure to get better at explaining things to us as they get more practiced at it. Or will they? An awful lot of awful can be hidden is a forest of Complicated Confusion. Besides, Football Season is about to start and we need not concern ourselves with any of all of this until next February.

 

Foot Note (Somehow different from a Lagniappe...Or is it?):

• Moratorium was due to expire at the end of December ’20 but was extended.
• Moratorium was due to expire at the end of January ’21 but was extended.
• Moratorium was due to expire at the end of March ’21 but was extended.
• Moratorium was due to expire at the end of June ’21 but was extended. (The CDC said in a statement that this extension is intended to be the final extension of its eviction ban.)
• Moratorium was due to expire at the end of July ’21 AND IT WAS NOT EXTENDED!
• On August 3, 2021 (3 days after it expired) the Unconstitutional Moratorium (Just like Jesus) was resurrected and extended through October 3, 2021...

The CDC’s order states the moratorium will only last through Oct. 3, will cover 90% of Americans and will be especially targeting areas where “substantial and high levels” of infection from Covid-19 could occur. It is also “subject to further extension, modification or recission based on public health circumstances.” 

(Fella did the underlining.)

Fella Comment on the above Foot Note: Does “further extension, modification or recission based on public health circumstances” mean It Will Never End?

Just When You Thought This Blog Posting Would Never End...This is the end: I’m sure glad there is also a Moratorium on the ongoing expenses and taxes of the Landlords...Or is there?