This Happens Every Day Before Your Very Eyes and You Are Paying It No Never Mind

I just watched a segment on TV about how a CEO was upset because his minions were not paying proper attention to him when he was speaking to them. 

Here’s what the CEO was upset about (in Bullet Point Format) …

 Recently the CEO was addressing his company’s top 326 executives.

 While he was speaking to them, he noticed that many of them were looking at their smartphones.

 Worst than looking at their smartphones, they were texting using their smartphones.

 He wondered what they were texting about.

 He pondered that their texting must be very important, or they would not have dared to be texting while he was talking to them because He Is Very Important and they are not.

Here is what he found out…

>You want to do lunch today?

>Did you see that linebacker drop that sure interception with 10 seconds left in the big game last night that would have been a sure pick six and would have won the game for the chipmunks?

>How do you spell CEO?

 He became very mad, and he ordered everyone who was looking at their smartphones while he was talking to be fired and ushered out of the auditorium by security.

 After those 312 former executives were removed, he was shocked to see there were only 14 executives left in his audience and 13 of them were sleeping while he was speaking and 1 had forgotten his smartphone at home.

I’m sorry I got so carried away with my Bullet Points that I lapsed into nonsense…Or am I? Or did I?

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Now for the Everywhere Every Day Truth referred to in the subject of this Blog Posting.

This happens every day on every news show because of the Bottom of the Screen Scroll. Did you just draw a blank and say to yourself, “Self, what’s a Bottom of the Screen Scroll?” My Dear Readers, you see the Bottom of the Screen Scroll every day and you didn’t know what you are looking at. Allow me to explain (in Bullet Point Format) …

 How could it happen that all of the TV watchers in the Good Ole USofA had just been told that Toledo, Ohio’s Air Force had just dropped an Atomic Bomb on New York City and killed everyone in New York City but all of the TV watchers did not know that Toledo had just done what it just did?

 They did not know what Toledo just did because of the Bottom of the Screen Scroll.

(Oh, I forgot, you don’t know what the Bottom of the Screen Scroll is.)

 On all our news shows there is a continuous word scroll that gives us breaking news.

 It is an insult to the Very Intelligent and Experienced Expert who had been invited onto the news show to tell us what he knows about the very important subject he is an expert in.

 The scroll ensures that the TV watchers are unaware of whatever the Invited Expert is telling them because all of them are reading the Bottom of the Screen Scroll and not listening to the Invited Smart Expert.

 In this case the TV watchers were adsorbed by the Bottom of the Screen Scroll which was telling them that Brad Pitt just punched Leonardo DiCaprio in the mouth and broke a tooth in a Bowling Alley because Leonardo had laughed while Brad was about to throw his ball causing him to not make his spare which would have allowed him to break 100.  

My Dear Readers, the above Foolishness is Fella’s way of telling you that he thinks it is Silly to Invite a World Renowned Expert to come on your news show to tell you what he knows and then Scroll Other Important or Unimportant Information to make sure the watcher of your news show is paying little or no attention to what your Invited World Renowned Expert has to say.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Can We All Get Along?

In 1992 Rodney King asked, Can We All Get Along? Wherever he was when he asked the question there was Rodney King Rioting in “progress” outside of where he was.

Fella was on the fourth floor of a square office building where he was pursuing his mediocre automotive career. We had a panoramic view of all four points of the compass. When looking out of three of the sides of our building we could see smoke rising from the rioting that was going on in support of Rodney.

It was obvious that we were not all getting along.

Neither is our Congress getting along at this time in our storied history. Our 24-Hour News Cycle (isn’t it awful?) will often tell us that the Hatred in our Congress today has never been worse. Do you think that’s true? This Blog Posting takes no solace in saying that there was at least one time when Congressional Hatred was worse than it is today.

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Excerpted from Bill O’Reilly’s book entitled, Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst…

Congressman John Quincy Adams is in a rage.

The former President of the United States stands before Congress, slamming his wooden cane against the lectern.

It is the summer of 1842. The House of Representatives is bitterly divided between abolitionists and pro-slavery factions. Two dozen police officers guard the chamber. Most of the legislators are armed with pistols. Some members, like Maine Representative Jonathan Cilley, have been victims of violence.

Adams’s health is failing. The seventy-seven-year-old is bald with dark eyes; prominent gray sideburns line his face. Two decades after being elected president, Adams now represents Massachusetts in Congress. He is thoughtful, disciplined, but above all else, detests slavery.

Adams surveys the chamber with suspicion.

The House has 233 members—all of them White men. Of these men, 112 are Democrats from the South. Half own slaves. Three years earlier, their coalition passed a so-called Gag Rule banning all discussion about the emancipation of Black Americans.

However, John Quincy Adams will not be silent. He believes owning human beings is a violation of God’s law. His father, President John Adams, wanted the institution eliminated in the original drafts of the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson, fearing an open revolt from the southern states, rejected that idea.

Now, Adams is determined to right that wrong.

On the other side of the US Capitol, his nemesis waits quietly in the empty Senate Chamber. The man from South Carolina is a proud White supremacist. He is also Adams’s former vice president.

His name is John C. Calhoun.

The southerner is nervous.

Senator Calhoun waits for news from the House of Representatives. For the first time in two years, his former boss, John Quincy Adams, will violate the Gag Order and introduce another petition to abolish slavery. This cannot happen.

Inside his Capitol Hill office, the sixty-two-year-old Calhoun inhales from a wooden pipe while reclining in his leather chair. Though the temperature inside the room exceeds eighty degrees, the senator wears a heavy dark suit, a woolen waistcoat, and a gray cravat tied around his neck. His wavy black hair runs down to his shoulders. At the same time, hundreds of miles away, Calhoun’s fifty slaves work under the harsh South Carolina sun harvesting corn, wheat, cotton, and rice.

But even worse, his captives are abused. They are publicly flogged, beaten, and sometimes imprisoned in metal cages. Those who try to escape have one foot removed with an axe. The bloody stump is sealed with a smoldering poker to prevent fatal blood loss or future infection. Repeat offenders are hanged on the senator’s orders.

After three decades in politics, John Calhoun is now the most powerful Democrat in Washington. For the last week, he has given blunt instructions to the southern representatives: John Quincy Adams must be defeated.

The House of Representatives falls silent.

The ailing Adams defiantly stands in the center of the room. Though diminished physically, he summons a great breath and issues a defiant cry: “Am I gagged?” The chamber erupts into chaos. The northerners stand, screaming their support, while the southerners on the other side of the hall throw debris into the air.

Adams raises his fist. The room falls silent.

In his opposite hand, he holds a leather-bound notebook containing ten thousand signatures. It is the largest anti-slavery petition in the history of the United States. Again, Adams asks, “Am I gagged?”

Fistfights break out between the politicians. Congressman Henry Wise of Virginia attacks opponents with a metal cane. A pistol is displayed. Edward Black, a member from Georgia, threatens to lynch fellow lawmakers. The cacophony echoes down the halls of Congress.

On the Senate side of the Capitol, John Calhoun smiles.

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Do you feel better now that you know that our 24-hour nightly news cycle is wrong when it tells us that the members of our Congress hate each other more now than they hated each other in the past?

Actually, both hate periods make Fella nervous about the long-term survival of our Country.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Einstein and Fella

 

The NYPD confirmed that this guy I wish to talk about had a long rap sheet of over 30 prior arrests for bank robberies. However, upon appearing in front of this judge I wish to talk about, he was allowed back on the streets on supervised release.

 

Does anyone, including this judge I wish to talk about, know what Supervised Release means? Are you ready for a Fella Calculated Wild Guess? Fella thinks that the supervised released person can go anywhere he wants but he is always followed by a following person with a clip board to record everything he does including bank robberies he chooses to do.

 

Fella contends thinking that releasing someone who has demonstrated a proclivity to do the same illegal thing over 30 times and expecting he won’t do it again is Silly Thinking, especially if he suffers no meaningful bad consequences for doing the same illegal thing over 30 times.

 

I know Fella fairly well and I dare say he would think over 20 times is a good indication of future robberies and the same could be said of over 10 robberies and over 5 robberies and over 2 robberies.

 

There is no evidence that Einstein ever said, “The Definition of Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results”. However, Fella would speculate that Einstein would probably think this judge I am talking about is Insane.

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Let us hear from our Judicial System. Here is an actual quotation by a court spokesman…

"It is important to note, however, that the vast majority of bail decisions turn on the court’s discretionary weighing of a broad range of factors in order to make an individualized assessment of the defendant’s risk of flight to avoid prosecution. That assessment involves due consideration of information and arguments presented by the prosecutor and defense counsel, as well as other materials submitted to the court."

 

My Dear Readers, this is Judicial Double Talk. This is an answer given by someone who believes that an answer to a question need only be words spoken in the direction of the questioner and it needs not make any sense.

 

Fella made up question and answer…Or are they made up?

Question: Why was the robber released after he had already committed 30 robberies?

Answer: He was released because he said he was not sorry he had robbed 30 banks, and he also said he was not going to give back any of the money he stole. 

 

Would I kid u? 

Smartfella 

 

Ligniappe: Going back to the Court Spokesman’s Quotation…”defendant’s risk of flight to avoid prosecution”. Fella concurs that there is no Risk of Flight but that’s because there is No Fear of Prosecution.