Yes, this just happened to me...Again.
I was registering online for a Doctor’s Appointment. The Doctor’s Computer told me, “This preregistration process will take only 5 to 10 minutes to complete”.
It actually took 35 minutes to complete.
Without a doubt I was lied to and my Doctor’s Computer knew it was lying to me!
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
News Clips | October 21, 2023
During a House Oversight Subcommittee hearing on Oct. 19, founder and CEO of Audient Group Linda Miller, the former deputy executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee in the Department of Justice, disclosed that according to some estimates, half of U.S. pandemic unemployment assistance fraud went to adversarial nations. Her comments came in response to a question from Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) concerning a recent federal prosecution of a group of Chinese state-linked hackers who stole an estimated $20 million in relief funds.
(Fella did the underlining.)
If you are like me you did not read the above News Clip close enough. The amount of stolen money the article is telling us about is not only $20 Million (betcha did not know it was possible to use the word “only” with $20 Million). The article brings to light the fact that 50% of U.S. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud that was stolen was stolen by Chinese State-Linked Hackers. The total U.S. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Money Stolen was $40 Million!
Does this mean that Members of our 9% Approval Rated
Congress sit around their formerly smoke-filled rooms and says the likes of
this to each other, “OK, we need umptiump
billions of dollars for this worthy cause. Since we know that umptiump billions
of dollars are going to be stolen we need to increase the tax increase needed
for this worthy cause by umptiump billions of dollars so we will have enough
un-stolen billions left.”
Does it ever cross their small minds that maybe they ought to stop the stealing?
Is this country completely out of control or what?
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Here comes the Foolishness...Or is it?
We have perfectly good certified criminals in the Good Ole USofA.
If I were a perfectly good certified criminal in the Good Ole USofA I would be offended.
I can just hear Vito complaining to the boys at barber shop...
Ø Why is this country allowing foreign criminals to steal Pandemic Unemployment Funds?
Ø Just because we are Criminals does not mean are not Patriotic.
Ø If this country is going to be stupid enough to allow $20 Million to be stolen like this, it ought to send us a text message and tell us that they are this stupid and offer us the opportunity to steal it rather than them allowing this perfectly good money go to these low life foreign bad guys who are not patriotic criminals like us.
Ø That just ain’t right!
I agree with Vito. Our Rulers are indeed stupid.
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The Blogging is over. This is Fella being absolutely serious. What this means is Foreign and/or Domestic Criminals can steal $20 to $40 Million just by clicking on a computer’s keys without having to go out and buying or stealing a gun. Vito is right. That just ain’t right.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
For 2 weeks now there has been no news except news about Hamas and Israel.
If we were back to 3 weeks ago the News Media would be going berserk about all kinds of other reported disasters of the day. If there are no disasters on any given day the News Media will make ordinary non-disasters sound like disastrous disasters...
Ø Breaking News!
Ø This Just It!
Ø He
Did It Again!
Ø He Didn’t Do It again!
Ø Harry
Met Sally!
Ø Harry And Sally Have Split Up!
I think it is quite possible that, if the Exclamation Point had not been invented, the News Media would not have been invented.
It’s what they do. They make ordinary non-disasters sound like disastrous disasters.
After this war is a thing of the past they will go back to shouting at us about all the things that they are paying no never mind to at this time.
The sad part is they will get us to worry about all those unimportant molehills.
Maybe we are the silly ones.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Come to think about it, have you ever come across An Important Molehill?
This is going to be a hard Blog Posting to write but I’m going to give it a go. Please read on and see how I go about pecking it out knowing that many of you are going to say to me, “How could you!”
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I’ll set this up by talking about a Smudge Absurdity...
Ø Several years ago in broad daylight a man stole a baby right out of a carriage being pushed by its mother.
Ø The man and the man's face were caught on a security camera running up the street with the baby in hand being chased by the mother’s other two small children.
Ø Did you just say to yourself, “That’s great! They got a clear picture of the bad guy’s face and were going to be broadcasting it on TV and on the Internet and in short order they would apprehend the bad guy and get the baby back to its distraught Mother!”
Ø That’s not what happened because the people in charge of doing stupid things put a smudge over the face of the fleeing baby-stealing bad guy.
Ø Because of the smudge, instead of people down the street seeing the bad guy running with a baby under his arm and tackling him and taking the stolen baby away from him, they saw him coming toward them and they said to themselves, “I wonder if that is the baby stealer I just saw on the TV (and/or the Internet)? No, that’s not him. The TV (and/or the Internet) baby stealer had a smudge for a face.”
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Here is where I start treading on thin ice.
The news reports about the Israeli-Hamas War are going Smudge Crazy. Hamas has been doing some really Awful Things and the world is almost getting to see the Awful Things but not getting to see the Awful Things because they are Smudged Over.
Two nights ago I was telling my long-suffering wife (she is long suffering because I’ve got no one else that will listen to me) that the Smudges ought to be removed because the world needs to see the Awful in all of its Awfulness.
Then last night the Smartfella was proven right (to himself at least). I saw on TV, over and over, Hamas Supporters say that it was not true that babies had their heads cut off. It was just Israeli Lies.
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I say let the world see the Evil!
Maybe, just maybe, it will make some of the Hamas Supporters in our universities go back to their video games instead of going out and demonstrating with their cue cards in hand.
Maybe if they saw a baby head or two cut off unsmudged (is
that a word?) they would see the light and call a spade a spade and see how the
cow really eats the cabbage and say,
“Eureka, I now understand! I see that the Evil out there is Evil! I wanna
become Jew!”
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I think I have made myself confusingly clear. If you do not see my absolutely perfectly irrefutable logic I feel sorry for you.
On the other hand I understand that all of what I pecked out above will fall on many deaf ears because many of the demonstrators who see the babies heads rolling into the streets will say, “Just what I expected! Netanyahu cut off those babies’ heads with a kitchen knife and paid Fox News to make it look like Hamas did it”.
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The guy with the microphone asks: “How Do You Know That?”
The demonstrator replies, “Because it says so on my cue card!”
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
The Old Days Are a Thing Of The Past
(That may be one of the silliest things I have ever pecked out!)
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I’ll start over...
In The Old Days We Knew What Beauty Looked Like
In the New Days some of us are confused about Beauty.
Nah! That does not get my point across either.
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I’ll try again...
In The New Days Some of Us Are Beauty Stupid
The more age advanced among my Dear Readers remember Marilyn. I am so confident about that I will save time and not even peck out her last name...
Beauty Stupid #1...
I will finish up this Blog Posting by trying to help you forget what you just saw and think about Marilynn What's Her Name.
Even Marilyn’s 2 Friends Below Are Better Looking Than the Modern Advertising Executives’ 3 Friends Above...
Smartfella
