Weekly Mail June 18, 2017

Happy (belated) Father's Day to my fellow Dads out there...

I spent Father's Day morning with my Dad, first having breakfast with he and my Mom, then visiting his church on Woodhaven Boulevard. Then a trip to the park with Timmy followed by grilling a couple of steaks with my father in law. A real nice weekend with the family.



DAY OF SHOOTING

Last Wednesday started out with news that some idiot opened fired on some members of Congress who were practicing for a charity softball game. Steve Scalise, the House majority whip, was critically wounded.

Later on in the day, another shooting took place, this time at a UPS facility in San Francisco, killing 3 people.

Then another man was shot in the ankle outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Of course the first question out of everyone's mouth was Was this terrorism?

Nobody seems to know what the motive was behind the shooting outside the Barc. The San Francisco shooting looks like it was a disgruntled employee. The Northern Virginia shooting was supposedly committed by a Bernie Sanders supporter.

Of course some factions of the media is acting as if old Bernie ordered the hit himself, which even a staunch righty like myself knows is preposterous. But that what upsets me the most about all of this $hit.

Every one is keeping score. One side cheers because this guy liked Bernie Sanders. Maybe the last shooting was carried out by a Trump supporter. The memes come out on line. The liberals blame the NRA. The NRA says if the workers at UPS had their own guns, they could have protected themselves. Thoughts and prayers get offered and more and more, they get rejected.

And here's what scares me more than anything else.... After 9/11, and from what I'm always told, after the JFK assassination, we were a nation united. Of course we were united in grief, but united nonetheless. I'm pretty sure if/when something on a scale like that happens again, the finger pointing and the name calling will start right away, no time to mourn what we lost because we'll all be playing the blame game.

I'm sometimes guilty of it myself. I'm trying not to be. I just know whatever the solution is, we are nowhere near it right now. Everyone on both sides needs to take a good long look in the mirror.
And then maybe we'll get somewhere.



All right. Let's lighten it up some....


UBER: I"ll take ill advised e-mails for $1000, Alex

I thought about getting this in last week, but this story struck me as funny. The founder of Uber, one Travis Kalanick, sent an e-mail out to his employees before a company trip to Mexico. What follows may be construed as offensive, but some of it is actually quite funny.

First of all he says "Make sure you read this e-mail, or I'll kick your ass. I'll be sending Mr Kalanick a rights fee check, because that is now the official slogan of Weekly Mail. The Times has "All The News That's Fit to Print," we have "Read This or I'll Kick Your A$$."

He goes on to warn his charges that the budget won't allow for bail money so getting arrested wasn't an option. (personally I never took a trip with Karl (the Ace) Ludwig, where we didn't have some cash set aside for just that eventuality-fortunately we never had to use it...I think)

He also says there will be a 200.00 puke charge. That's another cost that would have set us back on a couple of our adventures.

It's the following paragraph that got our hero in hot water...

4) Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic "YES! I will have sex with you" AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command. Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip. #CEOLife #FML

So sex was permissible with several strict caveats. It's probably a good rule of thumb to follow in daily life as well (make sure you have permission and make sure it's someone not working for you) but perhaps not something that should be a written as a guideline in a company wide e-mail.

You know who didn't have guidelines for having sex?

Batman!!


SUPER HERO SEX STORIES

Adam West, who died a couple of weeks ago at age 88, once told an interviewer that he would have sex with 8 women a night.

 Included in those romps were several quickies in between sets while filming the TV series back in the 60's.

I would tend to doubt West's claims, except that this was around the time Wilt Chamberlain was racking up his Hall of Fame sack statistics, and what female could resist the man behind that mask?This was the 60's, the time where Simon and Garfunkel beckoned Joe DiMaggio, telling him that a lonely nation turned their lonely eyes towards him. Apparently lonely ladies were turning their eyes towards Gotham City, and leaving their clothes at home.

Sorry for the delay on this.

Have a Great (rest of the) Week