Happy Memorial Day!

On What Was Left & Right

 

On Bills, Appointments, Recommendations & Help Wanted

 

How we used to be......I miss it

Fox is done....It's about time1

 

It's all over for Fox News. They have been exposed for what they have always been. Another tool in the grip of the Duopoly. They are part and parcel of the Deep State and the Oligarchy that controls the Republic.

It is understandable that they dumped Tucker Carlson. He is an apostate. Against the dogma of the Deep State. He dares to be against the dictates of the corporate overlords. Sticking up for the victims of the government in the persecution of the January 6th patriots. Standing against the rape of our military preparedness in handing over all of our munitions to the Ukraine. To actual literal Nazi's who are the darlings of the left. Ridiculing the woke policies of the homosexual industrial complex in using pronouns and trans bathrooms policies where a chick with a dick gets to flash the News Bunnies in their locker room. I mean Judge Jeanine hasn't seen a cock since the first Bush administration. Do they want to give her a fuckin' heart attack?

For a long time, Fox has coasted by having Maga hosts in Primetime bringing the ratings while being the normal mainstream media pussies the rest of the day. They are infested with Bush Republicans who turn on us in calling races during elections or offering commentaries by pieces of shit like Karl Rove. 

Now the worm has turned on these worms so to speak.

Ron DeSantis has bypassed Fox to announce his candidacy on Twitter. He is going directly to the people. He seems smart enough to ignore the mainstream media and that includes Fox. They want him to be part of the Trump show. Have him attack Trump and let Trump attack him. Hoping to bring both of them down. He is smart to just tote his achievements directly to the people using social media. As long as Elon Musk can hold off the pressure to conform, he has a platform. Twitter will start broadcasting Tucker's show directly without censorship or pressure to conform to the dictates of the Duopoly. 

Fox is no longer the forum for Maga or the true conservative populist uprising. 

I don't know where I stand yet on the contest between Trump and DeSantis. We have to see what the campaign will bring.

I just know Fox News is dead to me. It should be dead to you.

Behind every great woman......

Everybody say Midget!

So yesterday when we woke up the wife was all upset. She had just had a crazy dream. In the dream she was in a Costco with her friend, and they say a family of midgets trying to push a wagon full of groceries to the check-out stand. In her dream she turns to her friend and says "Drop the glove Oscar, drop the glove." Her friend turns to her and shouts "Everybody say Midget!'

So she says to me what did I think that means? 

I didn't know.

Later that day we went to my cardiologist's office to get a second opinion. It seems I needed the surgeon to sign off on the procedure since I am getting the new-fangled Watchman device. Now this is the guy who did my angiogram, and he is a pretty good doctor. The only thing is he is very imperious and about four feet tall. He has to stand on milk box to operate. He checks me out and agrees as I make sure to butter him up and tell him I am so glad that he is going to do the surgery. He leaves to write up his notes and I turn to Lisa and say "Everybody say Midget." As we were leaving, I saw him staring at me. 

I wonder if he heard me.

On Pies & Nothing Burgers

 

This Will throw A Scare Into Them

Many black people are herd animals. Before somebody calls me a racist, I add so are most women, high school kids, social media addicts, and Leftists. It's why Cancel Culture exists.

I rode the Market-Frankford El for many a year, getting to school and then to work. You looked at the crowd and whatever baseball team was in that summer, every black guy had some of their apparel (Rockies, Rays). Ditto Kangol caps, Hilfiger, Triple Phat, etc. 

Howsomever, we now see something interesting. And from a prominent black entertainment figure. No, it's not LeBum, but a wheel in TV and music whose work is seen all the time.

Ice Cube says the Demos need to remember who put them where they are. Yeah, a lot of it is the same old We Need Programs To Make Us Equal; Don't Ask Us To Do It Ourselves stuff, but, again, another prominent black figure is talking what amounts to treason for many blacks. And a lot of young blacks are saying the same, except they like what Conservatives say. They've seen the result of a half century of Democrat paternalism. It's why Bill Cosby was railroaded.

I say what I've said before. The Democrats are hemorrhaging constituencies, not just constituents. Demographics are are against the Demos. The Conservatives are having the babies. Hispanics are assimilating. Moslems are leaving the faith.

And nothing has motivated Americans more than the gender thing.

The Demos have every right to be scared.

On Chilly Winds & Warm Breezes

 

On Operational Control: All Boxed Up and In the Bag

 

It's Branco again, delivering the goods, found in RMalone's stack of portrayed opinions.

On Unveiling & Recharging

 

The Dreadful Steaming Brown Pile

Here is what AI came up with when I requested a meeting between Robert B Parker's detective Spenser and John D.  MacDonald's Travis McGee. You would recall I started a series about their meeting, and I am totally disappointed in what they came up with in Artificial Intelligence

The Steaming Brown Pile

Travis McGee leaned back in his beach chair, sipping on a gin and tonic and watching the waves roll in. It had been a good week for him – two cases wrapped up with a tidy profit, and enough sunshine and saltwater to soothe the soul.

As he looked out over the water, he saw a familiar figure walking down the beach towards him. It was Spenser, the Boston PI. They had crossed paths a few times over the years, and while they weren't exactly friends, there was a certain respect between them.

"Travis," Spenser said, nodding in greeting as he reached the beach chair. "Long time no see."

"Spenser," Travis replied, raising his glass in a toast. "What brings you down to Florida?"

"Got a case," Spenser said, taking a seat in the sand next to Travis. "Boston businessman, wife and daughter kidnapped, ransom demand for two million."

"Sounds like a good payday," Travis said. "What's the catch?"

"The catch," Spenser said, "is that the businessman has a past. Some shady dealings, connections to organized crime, that sort of thing. He's worried that if he goes to the cops, his past will catch up with him."

Travis snorted. "That's always the way, isn't it? I swear, half my cases involve people who should have gone straight a long time ago."

Spenser nodded in agreement. "So, you got anything going on down here? Might be good to have some backup."

Travis thought for a moment. "Actually, I do have something. Local developer, trying to muscle in on some beachfront property. He's got some hired goons making threats and causing trouble."

Spenser grinned. "Sounds like my kind of party. You mind if I tag along?"

Travis shook his head. "Not at all. The more the merrier."

They finished their drinks and headed off down the beach, two hard-boiled detectives with a job to do. Maybe they weren't exactly friends, but there was a certain camaraderie between them – a sense that, in a world full of shady characters and dirty deals, they were two of the few who could be counted on to do the right thing.

The Case of the not so Intelligent Artificial Intelligence

I have been playing around with Artificial Intelligence apps on the computer. I have trying to use it to simplify some descriptions and to help in writing. 

The problem is that it sucks. It sucks hard. I have been reading about how it will replace writers but there is no way that it could ever work. You have to give so much information for to generate something and then it seems to just be regurgitating what you put in originally.

I tried to get it to write one of my letters to Holmes from Inspector Lestrade. When I used a lot of detail it actually refused to do it since it said it would not make fun of anyone's sexuality or mock anyone. What's the fun in that. 

Anyway this is what it came up with:

 My dear Mr. Holmes,

I trust this letter finds you well, and perhaps even well-occupied with one of your many pressing cases. It is with some hesitancy that I write to you on a matter that, while it may not require your immediate attention, is nonetheless of some interest.

You may recall the Lady Chatterley case, which had the good fortune of crossing your path some years ago. It seems that, despite the best efforts of yourself and the Yard, this particular affair has not been entirely laid to rest.

Rumors, whispers, and insinuations have been floating about of late, suggesting that the late Lady Chatterley's gardener, one Oliver Mellors, may have been more deeply involved in her demise than was previously thought. While I do not wish to imply any wrongdoing on the part of the deceased, I must confess that such talk has made me rather uneasy.

I know that you are always one to keep your ear to the ground when it comes to such matters, and I would be most grateful if you could spare a moment to look into this for me. I understand that your time is valuable, but I assure you that any information you could provide would be of great use to the Yard.

I remain, as always, your humble servant.

Yours sincerely,

Inspector Lestrade

Not a Joke & Passed Off Propaganda

 

On Selling Busloads of Security & Confidence

 

On Distractions & Predictions

 

On Hidin' Bidens