Stand Down Burn Down

About every 6 weeks Celebrities R Us has an Awards Gala out in Hollywood where Celebrities present Awards to Themselves, Trees, Climate Activists, Unicorns, Rocks and Al Gore.

At their next Awards Gala they will present multiple awards to all the Mayors across the Good Ole USofA who instituted Police Stand Downs So We Could All Watch Buildings Burn Down.

The President of Celebrities R Us read this Press Release to the assembled breathless media yesterday...

Starting last year the many Mostly Peaceful Fiery Protests have brought a new dimension of excitement onto the American Landscape. The Mayors who instituted these Police Stand Downs recognized that we all had become bored with Seinfeld Reruns and gave us something new and different to watch on the nightly news each night. Even though the frequency of these Mostly Peaceful Fiery Protests has diminished as of late we will always have Portland’s Ongoing Mostly Peaceful Fiery Protests to satisfy our yearning for excitement. We are secure in the knowledge that we will always be able to watch Portland destroy itself in the safety of our living rooms each night. What a joy it is to see all this destruction happening night after night while realizing that it’s not our businesses that are being destroyed.

After the Press Release had been read, one of the reporters asked, “Your honor, do you not think that some consideration should be given to the Mom and Pop Business Owners who lost everything in these Mostly Peaceful Fiery Protests?”

His Honor looked confused. Knowing he was talking to a Mental Midget he composed himself and put the Midget in his place with this brilliant answer, “Who are these Mom and Pop People? Have they every made a movie? Have any of them ever received an award from any of the plethora of Awards Galas we have held all these years? Have any of them ever been to the South of France in season? The truth is we do not know who they are. Oh yes, some of them may have raised families but there are lots of families out here and some of these people they raised have done some really bad things.

Let’s move on. You there in the front row wearing all those diamonds and showing all those really interesting tattoos, do you have a better question to ask of me?”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

So, What’s New? Portland Is Rioting! That’s Not New.

There is something new but please don’t jump to the bottom of this Blog Posting to find out what it is. Wade through my words to get to there. You will enjoy the wade...Or will u?

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Following the Kyle Rittenhouse Not-Guilty Verdict there were scattered protests across the Fruited Plain and a riot was declared in Portland, Oregon.

Maybe you think I am Picking on Portland. Maybe you think I am making this up because I like to Pick on Portland. Well, Mr. Smarty Pants Wrong Thinker, here is a link to a 44 second USA Today Video Article that shows I am speaking the truth...again.

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2021/11/20/rittenhouse-protest-portland-declared-riot/8700427002/

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In 1945 four years after I was born a movie entitled A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was a sensation. Today A Riot Was Declared in Portland is not a movie and we don’t see much about Portland’s riots on the Nightly News because the Talking Heads don’t want to look like they are Picking on Portland.

Here is a link to a Washington Examiner News Article that tells us all about these Ongoing Riots...  

(If you don’t want to click on the link, just read the last paragraph excerpt below the link below and you will get a good feel about what’s going on over there.)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/portland-legalized-rioting-and-youll-never-guess-what-happened-next

The last paragraph says it all, “Portland has chosen to be the home of rioters for years now. The city will also likely set its new modern high for homicides, as it is well on pace to pass its 1987 record. Portland leaders and Oregon legislators have stood idly by as lawlessness has been encouraged by activists and agitators. The outcome has been predictable, and the same mindset can’t be allowed to consume other cities or states throughout the country.”

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Portland’s Mayor Wheeler

I know what the Good Citizens of Portland can do! They can use the ballot box to not re-elect Mayor Wheeler! Here is why this strategy does not work in Portland...

Ø George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020.

Ø Nationwide protests and rioting started on May 25, 2020.

Ø Portland was especially hit with riots happening almost every night since May 25, 2020.

Ø Mayor Wheeler instructed the Portland Police to Stand Down.

Ø It was called a Strategy.

Ø The Anarchists saw the police standing around and took that as Portland’s “permission” to continue to Riot.

Ø The Anarchists continued to Riot.

Ø Portland’s City Elections were held on November 3, 2020.

Ø November 3, 2020 is more than 5 months after the rioting in Portland started.

Ø The police have been standing and watching what was happening all this time because Mayor Wheeler told them to do “enforce” his Stand and Watch Strategy.

Mayor Ted Wheeler Was Relected On November 3, 2020!

Wheeler had support from United for Portland, a group that formed in October and included the Services Employees International Union, the Portland Business Alliance, the Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association, the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, and the Portland NAACP.

Hiz Honor got 46.0% of the vote.

The second place candidate got 40.8% of the Vote.

Charlie Brown is visiting with me today. Charlie just said, “Aaugh!”

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Is it possible I still have not convinced you that there is A Lot of Rioting in Portland? WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU? Did I just hear you say it is an exaggeration to say Portland Rioted Almost Every Night? Ok, Mr. Hard to Convince, here is what happened during the 72 nights following May 29, 2020...

Protesters threw projectiles during 58 of the 72 nights of demonstrations.

They started fires on 42 of the nights.

Riots were declared on 17 of the nights, though it isn’t reported how often police classified the Chaos not as Riots but as “Unlawful Assemblies”.

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(This is the Something New I promised at the beginning of this Blog Posting)

Mayor Wheeler has accepted responsibility.

Now I see what you are thinking (my powers have moved on from knowing what you are saying to knowing what you are thinking). You are thinking you want proof that the Mayor has stepped up and taken responsibility. Well, here it is...

September 9, 2021

Portland Mayor Admits Hands-Off Approach to Riots Was Wrong

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2021/09/09/portland-mayor-riots-n49773

I know some of you will not read this Mea Culpa Article about Hiz Honor saying it was hiz fault so I will leave you with these 4 bullet point excerpts from the article the some of you did not read...

Ø Even after the rest of the nation started to settle down, Portland had riots continue nightly for months.

Ø This was especially problematic because the Portland Police Department didn’t really do anything because the city mandated a hands-off approach to the rioters.

Ø Now, the mayor believes that might have been a mistake.

Ø Let’s file this under, “No s***, Sherlock.” (Fella did the highlighting.)

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Now I know what you are about to be thinking in a moment. You are going to think, “How dare Fella add a Lagniappe to this already too long Blog Posting!”

The Headline to that last link above was (that might have been a mistake) ...

Portland mayor now says police ‘hands off’ riot response was ‘not the right strategy’

Fella comment to Hiz Honor the Mayor... Doing nothing in the face of massive and ongoing destruction of lives and property in your city Is Not A Strategy!

Your Honor, I Object! This Was An Accident!

NBC labels Waukesha attack an ‘accident’

by Becket Adams, Senior Commentary Writer | 

November 24, 2021 03:53 PM

A man rammed his car this weekend into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six (so far) and injuring dozens more. Eyewitnesses claim the driver intentionally sped up and swerved his vehicle into revelers.

But let’s not call it an “attack,” suggests NBC News. Rather, let’s call it an “accident.”

In a video uploaded Tuesday describing the arrest of suspect Darrell E. Brooks Jr., who is black, NBC included a caption that read , “Video captured by a Ring camera appears to show [Brooks] in front of a home before being arrested in connection to the Waukesha parade accident.”

Fella did the underlining.

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Other things must happen...

Ø The Victims should to be referred to Alleged Victims.

Ø The Injured’s Injuries should be referred to as Suspected Injuries.

Ø Ford Motor Company needs to be sued for making a Dangerous Weapon.

All 3 bullet points above make perfect sense in the Foolish world we live in today...Or do they?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Mystery Solved!

I have found him! I have found the Missing Man! How could I not have noticed him before now? Are my Renowned Noticing Skills slipping away from me?

Have I got your curiosity aroused? I hope I have but allow me to toy with you a bit more.

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The Missing Man has gone missing from Television Commercials for years and shows no sign of making a return anytime in the near future.

You have seen all the commercials just as I have seen all the commercials but you are not me and you may not have noticed what I noticed. Here is the layout of the kind of TV Commercials that have been catching my Noticing Eye for years now...

Ø A Mother with 2 Beautiful Mystery Children living in a Beautiful House is sitting down with her 2 Beautiful Mystery Children to decide what Security System they will select for the Beautiful House they live in.

Ø A Lady wakes up the morning after she retires from her life-long job. She strolls around with her cup of coffee in her Beautiful Home. And she starts planning in her Beautiful Head about what she is going to do with the rest of her life. Her Beautiful Mystery Children come join her and start helping her plan her Beautiful Future.

Ø A Mother is in the family car with a Beautiful Mystery Child teaching her Beautiful Mystery Child to drive the family car.

My Dear Readers, I know you. I know what you are thinking...

You are wondering why I kept calling the Beautiful Children “Mystery Children” in my three bullet points above. Pardon me. I thought it was obvious.

It’s because the Beautiful Children are in these Commercials but there is no Beautiful Father. There is not even an Ugly Father. There is No Father at all. If there is No Father, where did the Beautiful Children come from?

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I am about to solve the Mystery of the Mystery Children and the Mystery Missing Father...

I was in Costco a couple of days ago when I found the Missing Mystery Father. He walked right past me as I was looking for the beer. I found him and I found he had already found the beer. He was pushing a cart that had 4 Cases of Beer that had 36 Beers in Each Case!

There Is No Father In These Commercials Because He Is In Costco Buying The Beer!

How Silly you are! You probably thought all of this Foolishness above was my attempt to describe the Ongoing Attempt by some Mystery People to Diminish the Importance of the Father and/or the Father Figure in the Good Ole USofA.

Never forget that I know what you are thinking.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Can I Be Serious For A Minute? If PETA Wants To Be Taken Seriously, They Ought To Address Serious Issues.

 

I’m sorry (not really) but I think People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals should not spend their time getting agitated about Silly Issues if they want to be thought of as Not Silly.

PETA now is demanding that the Commissioner of Baseball change the name of Bullpen to the Arm Barn. I (an acknowledged expert on Silliness) am here to tell you that this is Silliness of the Highest Order.

The first recorded use of the term Bullpen was in 1877...

Ø These people way back then were not Evil People just because they started calling the Bullpen the Bullpen.

Ø They were not deliberately being disrespectful of Bulls.

Ø They were not the least bit uncaring about the feelings of Pens.

Lucky for them they happened to be living in a time when they were allowed to say things without being always on guard that each and every word they used would be analyzed for inner meaning knowing that a wrong word at the wrong time could jeopardize their livelihoods.

What’s next?...

Ø The word “Strike” needs to be banned from baseball because it implies violence. It would be better if we called it a “Centered Placement of the Ball”.

Ø The use of the word “Gridiron” must be removed from Football because a Gridiron is a Hot Grate for Cooking Food. Research has been conducted by some really smart researchers and they determined that the smoke emitted from the millions of Gridirons worldwide is confusing the Caribou and causing them to migrate into areas they don’t want to migrate into and once they do migrate where they did not want to migrate to they do not know how to get back from whence they migrated.

Ø The word “Sneakers” ought to be banned from basketball because it has a nasty ring to it since it implies that the basketball players hang around with Sneaky People like Burglars. What’s the alternative? There are many possibilities but “Soft Shoes” has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

Don’t blame me for this Blog Posting. The Silly People at PETA caused me to write it. I just stumble across the Irrational out there and try to warn you what Foolishness is coming your way so you won’t be blindsided.

See, I myself just did it without knowing I did it! I was uncaring and insensitive and I want to apologize before a boycott is launched against my Blog. I said “blindsided” and I am sorry I did. I know I should have said Visually Impairedsided or Unseeingsided or Destitute of Visionsighted.

One thing I know for sure is I will never say “Blind As A Bat” because that is sure to get the Bat Lovers R Us People all roiled up at me.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: The sad part about all of this is, in the Era of Silliness which we live in, we hear such Foolishness and we laugh and we make jokes about how Crazy the Silly Protests are. Then, within weeks of the laughter dying down, we turn on the TV to see Panel Discussions in progress about the merits of what we were just laughing about. If we stay in front of the TV we witness College Professors explaining the Merits of the Crazy. We sit with our collective mouths open as we hear Psychologist lament about the injustices that are been heaped on bulls from the moment they are born. Before we know it we begin to feel guilty. Then we shock even ourselves by saying something like, “It looks like the manager has had enough. He just told a left hander to start warming up in the Arm Barn”.

This Election Was Flawed!

 

Did you just go jumping to a false conclusion again? Did you think I was talking about the 2020 Presidential Election? Ah Ha! I tricked you.

Fella is not talking about that election. He is talking about the Minneapolis City Election on November 2 where the good citizens of that fair city voted on a Referendum to Defund the Police.

Here is a quote from CNN Politics Online... “Talk of curbing police departments by cutting or limiting their resources has run into a countervailing wall of concern over public safety and waning support from early allies -- including leading Democrats who largely view it as political poison.”

Here is another quote from CNN Politics Online... “Mayor Jacob Frey was confronted outside his home in June 2020, shortly after Floyd's murder, and jeered when he refused to commit to abolishing the police department -- a much more ambitious step than was proposed in the ballot initiative on Tuesday. A day after Frey's confrontation with protesters, nine members of the city council announced plans to begin the process of ending the Minneapolis Police Department.”

(Somehow there is a difference between Defunding, Abolishing and Ending...Or is there?)

Here is a quote from Fella... “Wow! Nine members of the city council! The city Council only has 12 members. That 75% of the members were in favor of this Silly Idea! Wow!”

Fella is still bug eyed... “Wow! The President of the City Council was one of the nine! Wow!”

Here is another quote from CNN Politics Online... “More people cast their ballots early this year than any other Minneapolis election in 45 years. Early voting was up 143% compared to the 2017 municipal election, and up 488% compared to the 2013 municipal election.”

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In the end, it was up to Minneapolis residents to decide what they wanted—and on Election Day they voted 56 percent to 44 percent against the Referendum’s “Public Safety Amendment”, approved a strong mayor system, ousted some of the most vocal progressives in the council chambers and reelected Mayor Jacob Frey, a moderate who fought hard against the amendment.

By early fall, many of the council members had a change of heart and none of them wanted to discuss Defunding the Police.

The northern side of the city, which houses the largest African American population in the state, voted against the proposal.

That many Black residents in Minneapolis voted against the amendment wasn’t unexpected. Weeks before Election Day, pollsters had found that 75% of Black people here wanted more boots on the ground.

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But what prompted Fella to name this Blog Posting, “This Election Was Flawed!”? When I (me) put this question to Fella (me) Fella (me) said in Bullet Point Format (he {I} always talks in Bullet Point Format)...

• What concerns me is that fact that 44% Voted For the Referendum!
• 44% ain’t that far from 51%.
• It does not take much to move voters 7 Percentage Points in the Good Ole USofA today!
• Big happenings can cause riots and so can small happenings.
• The reason Fella (me) called this a Flawed Election is the fact that a significant percentage of the 44% that voted for the Referendum were people who could benefit if the Police Department were to be weakened because it had been Defunded, Abolished or Ended.
• Minneapolis’ Criminals R Us Chapter actually came out in full support of the Defund the Police Referendum!
• Criminals R Us even ran a heavy campaign of Full Page Newspaper Ads in favor of the Referendum!
• Fella (me) strongly believes that Criminals should be recused from being able to vote in a Defund the Police Referendum because they have a Vested Interest in seeing the Police Department Defunded!

This just ain’t right! (Fella {me} just ran out of Bullet Points).  

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

I understand That There Are Some of You Who Are Tired Of Foolishness, Silliness & Craziness. Well This Your Big Day!

I warn you Serious Seekers out there that, after you read this, you may be sorry but in your sadness your should remember that...

“Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it” is attributed to the American philosopher George Santayana and it can be accurately quoted as “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” as stated in his work, The Life of Reason : Reason in Common.”

I have a very big book entitled, Chronicle of the 20^th century. On page 475 of 1,374 there is this small article (they are all small articles) that contains a Big Warning to us smug moderns who say to ourselves, “We would never do something like that. That’s crazy. We are smarter than that.”

Unless you have been living under a rock and watching nothing but the comings and goings of celebrities and, of course, football you should know that History Is Slowly Trying To Repeat Itself.

Here is the article. Don’t skim it. Read it slowly. Let it sink in...

Nazis Take Parents Away From Children

November 29, 1937. In Waldenberg, Germany, a court has taken parents away from their children because they refused to teach them Nazi ideology. The parents are pacifists, members of a Christian sect called International Bible Researchers. The court accused them of creating an environment where the children would grow up “enemies of the state”. The children were delivered into the state’s care.

The judge delivered a lengthy statement reading in part., “The law as a racial and national instrument entrusts German parents with the education of their children only under certain conditions, namely, that they educate them in the fashion that the nation and state expect”.

Worriedfella

 

The Mental Midgets Running San Francisco Can’t See the Problems for the Stupids All Around Them

A Stanford University Economics Professor cited a study he published recently that shows 15% of residents of San Francisco have left the city center during the pandemic and have not returned

A Walgreen’s Spokesman said that Walgreens has been closing stores in San Francisco because over the past few months retail theft in its San Francisco Stores had escalated to five times our chain average and Walgreen’s has had to ramp up investments in security for its San Francisco locations to 46 times our chain average.

A San Francisco Supervisor said, Walgreens is abandoning the community. We do not know exactly why.

The Fella ponders how the San Francisco Supervisor can say they do not know why. One of the qualifications to be a San Francisco Supervisor must be possession of a small mind and I bet this guy’s small mind is thinking something like this...

Walgreens is being run by people with a lifelong obsession to make San Francisco look bad. San Francisco is a wonderful place to live that does not have a Shoplifting Problem or a High Crime Problem or a High Homelessness Problem or a High Drug Use Problem or a High Rat Infestation Problem or Lots of Poop on the Streets Problem and Jimmy Hoffa has been playing gin in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with John Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Glenn Miller ever since on July 30, 1975 when he went into the men’s room at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and put on that mustache and hair wig and snuck away from the public eye.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Facts Are Facts

 
“Just the Facts, Ma’am”

Back on December 29, 2018 I published a Blog Posting in which I referred My Dear Readers to a Web Site that always strives to give us the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth. It is named “Just Facts...Seize the Data”. Its link is https://www.justfacts.com.

Some of us are Mental Midgets and those of us who are (certainly not you and hopefully not me) get upset at Truth when it turns out to be other than what we think Truth Is or think it Ought To Be. Now we hear people say they believe we have our Truth and they have their Truth. That’s Foolishness. There can only be One Truth.

Today I am going to refer you to an article in Just Facts that is going to tell you the Truth about Face Masks. Some of you just got your backs up at the last sentence because you feel Safe behind your Face Masks and you don’t want to be told that you are not Safe behind your Face Masks. That, My Dear Readers, does not mean you are Safe.

The Just Facts article I am talking about has 20,271 words in it. If you want to read each and every word for yourself, you will find the link to those 20,271 words in the Lagniappe below.

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I will digress at this point in this not-foolish Foolishness...Or Is It? Blog Posting and give some of you a computing lesson in Microsoft Word.

If you are finding it hard to believe that I counted all those words, you would be correct in that disbelief because I did not count those 20,271 words.

Here is the computing lesson: If you highlight all the words in any article and paste them into a blank Word Document, Word will count the words and show the total word count in the lower left corner of the Word Document.

If you did not know this until now, you learned something. If you already knew this, you just wasted your time reading 127 words that you did not have to read.

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I apologize that this Blog Posting is getting to be so long but I do think this is important.

Just Facts probably was aware that their article was too long so they summarized it at the end of their too-long article. This Blog Posting will finish up with that summary.

If the summary tells you facts that are not what you believe, don’t get mad at me. Get mad at Just Facts and ignore their Facts but know you are doing that ignoring at your own peril.

(“CDC” stands for Center for Disease Control and “WHO” stands for World Health Organization)

Summary

With remarkable consistency, the comprehensive facts detailed above prove that:     

•          Governments enacted mask mandates based on the false assumption that Covid-19 is mainly transmitted by large droplets that are bigger than the pore sizes of most masks and only remain airborne for a few seconds.
•         Covid-19 is mainly spread by microscopic aerosols that remain airborne for minutes or hours, easily penetrate common masks, and travel freely through gaps around their edges.
•         The CDC and WHO minimized the threat of aerosol transmission for more than a year while issuing guidelines that left people vulnerable to this mortal danger.
•         The CDC and WHO finally admitted that aerosols pose a major threat of transmission but tried to cover their tracks and failed to adequately update their guidelines—thus allowing countless preventable deaths to continue to this day.
•         UV disinfection systems are highly effective at killing airborne viruses and have been successfully used to control the spread of contagious respiratory diseases for more than 80 years.
•         The strongest and most relevant studies have found inconsistent benefits from N95 masks in healthcare settings and no statistically significant benefits from any type of mask in community settings.
•         The CDC is scraping the bottom of the scientific barrel by cherry picking and distorting low-quality and unrealistic studies to support the claim that masks control the spread of C-19.
•         Masks of all types, and especially N95s, cause headaches, difficulty breathing, increased cardio-pulmonary stress during exercise, marked discomfort, and weakened social bonds.
•         The average CO2 concentrations inhaled by people wearing masks are far above what many governments permit for indoor settings, and this may impair certain high-level brain functions like initiative, strategic thinking, and complex decision-making.
•         Google/YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are acting as a megaphone of the deadly falsehoods propagated by the CDC and WHO while silencing their critics.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: If you want to read all 20,271 words, click on this link: https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods

I Know I Can I Trust You

I’m going to make a ton of money and am telling you about how I’m going to get rich because I know I can trust you not to steal my Sure Fire Money Making Idea...Or can I?

While at the Georgia vs. Missouri Football Game Saturday it did not take long for the Dollar Signs started jumping inside my head...

I Am Going to Set Up a Kiosk to Sell Blue Jean Holes to Female Football Fans

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

What Confuses Me Is Why Are They So Determined To Confuse Me

 

If you are in deep trouble, you go Bankrupt. I understand that. That does not Confuse me.

Here is where I get Confused...

After Some of These Bankrupted Firms Go Bankrupt, They Do Things That Do Not Fit Into My Understanding of Bankruptcy

OK, I’ll stop trying to Confuse you and explain why I’m Confused...

Ø A few years ago K-Mart went bankrupt, and the next time I Turned Around, K-Mart bought out Sears.

Ø Four months ago Hertz Rent A Car went bankrupt and the next time I Turned Around I read this...

October 26, 2021

Hertz Amps Up With Groundbreaking Tesla Deal

Rental car giant Hertz was a shell of its former self before emerging from bankruptcy earlier this year, but on Monday it flashed the latest sign of a rapid turnaround by placing an order for 100,000 pricey new Teslas to add to its fleet.

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I wonder how many CEO’s of other companies that are doing well, selling lots of stuff and making lots of money are lying awake at night thinking...

 I Sure Wish I Could Figure Out How I Could Go Bankrupt! If I did Fella Just Might Write About Me In His Next Blog Posting!

I know what! I’ll Stop Turning Around and then I won’t be so confused...Or will I be?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella