Weekly Mail July 9,2017

Hi Everyone:

Hope everyone was able to enjoy this beautiful weekend.

Just want to give you all a programming update.... According to my Blogger.com account, this will be the 93rd post I've made since I brought Weekly Mail out of mothballs 2 years ago. So, the gameplan here is to do 5 more of these this summer to get us to 98, then we'll take a couple of weeks off, 99 will be our annual September 11th special, then the season premiere will be our 100th post. Of course the best laid plans of mice and men and all that, but that's what we are shooting for.


Onto the week that was


POLITICS: The Dope from Park Slope invades Germany...

So Mayor DeBlasio accepted an invitation to address protesters at the G20 Summit taking place in Hamburg, Germany. I'm not sure what I find more mind boggling... That this idiot would go over there, or that someone thought inviting him was a good idea in the first place.

The group Hamburg Zeigt Haltung (Hamburg Shows Attitude) invited NY's fearless leader to be the keynote speaker for their rally against the G20 on Saturday. Poor folks. Of all the loudmouthed liberals in the world, why in the world would they choose him? Is he really the standard bearer for their movement? These people must really be hard up for speakers. Even the most die-hard liberals I know here in NY can't stand this joker. It kind of reminds me of how the French consider Jerry Lewis to be like Sir Laurence Olivier.

And if DeBlasio thinks that going over to Germany is going to make him some sort of hero around here he's even more delusional that I thought. If this is some ploy to sow the seeds for a run for higher office, he needs to have his head examined. To think that he skipped the swearing in ceremony for new NYPD recruits in a week where a cop was brutally slain..it's mind-blowing.

And the truly tragic thing about it all is that the sonofabi-ch is probably going to get re-elected. I love Bo Dietl, but he's said too many things that will come back to haunt him. I'm not familiar with anyone else whose running, the presumptive Republican candidate, Nicole Malliotakis, I've never even heard of. Hopefully she has some game, and will give DeBlasio a run for his money.

New York City doesn't deserve another 4 years of this crapola, that's for sure.


LOST AND FOUND..Amelia Earhart?

For 80 years, the conventional wisdom surrounding Amelia Earhart was that her plane crashed during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world, killing herself and her navigator Fred Noonan.

However, this week a very spooky photo was unearthed from the national archives that appears to show Earhart and Noonan alive on a dock in the Marshall Islands. NBC first reported this and the History Channel is planning on airing a documentary on Sunday about it.

According to NPR.com, a former U.S. Treasury agent named Les Kinney found the undated photo in a box of papers from the Office of Naval Intelligence. The photo shows a Caucasian woman with short hair and pants sitting on the edge of the dock with her back to the camera, and a man who bears a striking resemblance to Noonan standing off to the side. The theory holds that Earhart and Noonan crashed off the Marshall Islands and were rescued, only to be taken hostage by the Japanese on suspicion of spying.

Obviously, I would need to watch the documentary to get more info, but the whole thing seems a bit peculiar to me. If the government had this photo, how does something like that just slip through the cracks for all this time? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great mysteries of the 20th century, wouldn't someone have released this photo before?

The Japanese for their part are denying they ever had Earhart in custody, and why after all these years would they keep that charade up? The excuse there is that many Japanese records were wiped out during World War II but surely someone would have come forward sometime in the past 80 years wouldn't you think?

I guess you'll have to judge for yourself, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence airs Sunday night at 9 PM on the History Channel. I'm setting up the DVR for it.



BASEBALL: At The Half

What continues to be one of the most disappointing baseball seasons that I remember has reached it's halfway point. The Yankees who were on fire for the first quarter of the season have come back to earth, with the exception of Aaron Judge, who just broke Joe DiMaggio's record for home runs by a Yankee rookie, and if he keeps this pace up, may be challenging a couple of dudes named Ruth and Maris for the Yanks all time record (some like myself, still consider the Rajah to be the all time record holder for a season) But let's see how he does after the Home Run Derby on Tuesday, I've seen that drain young players before in the second half (see Wright, David 2006). Still, as a Met fan, I have to admit, watching this kid hit is a treat. Even if the Yanks continue to play mediocre ball, at least they'll have Judge to keep them entertained.

Speaking of my Mets, well, like I said, they have been nothing but a huge disappointment all year, and there shows no signs of that really changing. Who knows when they will get Noah Syndergaard back, if that even matters at this point. Watching them get kicked around by Washington again this week was especially disheartening. Even though I stick to my assertion that Daniel Murphy wouldn't be doing here what he is doing in Washington, I still wish either he was here or somewhere in the AL West. It's just a shame that we are at the All-Star Break and baseball has become irrelevant around here. It sucks when you expect that to happen, doubly so when you don't.



Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezenski. Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna. The category is Couples I don't Give a $h-t About, But Who Keep Popping Up in my News Feed.


I hope summer has been good to you so far

Have a Great Week