Weekly Mail January 28, 2018

Hey There:


Saturday, Timmy participated in his first Pinewood Derby. I had never heard of this, but apparently it's a big deal in the Cub Scouts.

Tim got to work with power tools and hot glue guns and a whole bunch of other stuff I still haven't used to this day. I'm the least handy person I know, and it was my job to put the wheels on this thing. I told Timmy that there was a 50/50 chance his car would come apart right there on the track. He was assigned number 3 for his car. Dale Earnhardt. (He would have preferred 95 for Lightning McQueen, but I'm sure there's a law against that somewhere in the Cub Scout manual)

Speaking of Dale Earnhardt, the day he died at the Daytona 500, was also the day of my sister's bridal shower. My dad, my uncle Eammon and myself were at our house flipping between the Daytona 500 and watching the XFL. More on the XFL later in this broadcast, for now back to the Pinewood Derby...

So Timmy raced twice and came in third out of 4 in the first heat and 2nd out of 4 in his second heat. We were both just happy that the car was able to finish. A good time was had by all.

Actually the reason this is coming out late is because I met up with my crew from Woodside for a bit tonight. As always, and especially tonight, a great time.



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However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows 

Jesus, discussing the end of the world with his disciples-Matthew 24:36



OK, so we don't know when it's going to happen, but after this week, and at the risk of annoying my Lord and Savior, I think we have a pretty good idea of how.  

Hawaii governor David Ige confessed last week that the reason he waited 17 minutes to alert his constituency that the nuclear missile headed towards his state was nonexistent was that he forgot his Twitter password.

According to CNN, Governor Ige knew within two minutes that the alert sent out was a false alarm but he was unable to tweet out the correction.

"I have to confess that I don't know my Twitter account login and passwords... I will be putting that on my phone." Ige told reporters last Monday.


And there it is folks. THAT's how the end of the world is going to happen. Somebody, somewhere is going to forget their password and the end will be upon us. Mark my words and take it to the bank. (Though it will obviously be too late to collect).

This is most definitely a 21st Century issue isn't it? I mean think about some of those classic end of the world movies like Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove. If those movies were made today, you could have the president forgetting the password to call of the missiles. And it would be totally believable.

Because it could happen to anyone. It does happen to everyone. You can't get out of bed in the morning without having to type some damn password in somewhere. Cell phone, e-mail, forget about at the office. At both of my jobs I have several different programs I have to log into before I can start my day. Every program requires a different password.

Drives me bat$-it. And they wonder why I'm so cranky at the office.

My computer at home has taken to offering me suggestions for passwords whenever I have to register Timmy for something on-line. It's usually some concoction of numbers, letters and symbols that I wouldn't be able to remember if I was being interrogated by ISIS. In Daniel Craig's first Bond movie Casino Royale, he was being tortured to give up a password that would transfer funds to a terrorist group. Bond refused even as he was being tortured. I'd a been like "Dude, I don't remember!" How could anyone not buy that explanation?

Yes my friends the end of the world as we know it will happen because Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump or whoever takes their place is going to forget a password.

You read that here first.


POLITICS: De Blasio blows off Trump.

A group of mayors from around the country were scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House last week to discuss infrastructure, a topic which has been neglected by both Republicans and Democrats for years. The Dope from Park Slope was amongst the mayors invited.

But at the last minute De Blasio changed his mind.

“I will NOT be attending today’s meeting at the White House after @realDonaldTrump’s Department of Justice decided to renew their racist assault on our immigrant communities. It doesn’t make us safer and it violates America’s core values,”


I'm not going to get into the whole sanctuary cities debate here, maybe some other time when I really want to raise hell with all of you (or some of you). What I do have to say is that I'm not buying the DFPS's story about canceling on Trump at the last minute. I think that was his plan all along.

If it wasn't sanctuary cities, it would have been the wall, or the tax bill or anything he could have used to show the world that he has no problem telling Trump to shove it. And to do so by maxing out the exposure.

Do I have proof of this? Nope. Just my humble opinion, but that was the first reaction I had when I heard he wasn't going.

SPORTS: The Return of the XFL

Will and Grace, soon to be Roseanne, and just announced Murphy Brown are all being rebooted. So in the vein of no idea so bad that it can't be done again, here comes Vince McMahon to give the XFL another chance.

Unlike the first incarnation of the XFL, this one will have no gimmicks, nobody with a criminal record, (the old league's Las Vegas team was called the Outlaws for crissakes) and everyone has to stand for the national anthem.

OK, so when the XFL came around in 2001, one of the "gimmicks" they advertised was no fair catches, implying that if you caught the ball you could get immediately decimated by a defender. (The fine-print in the rules stated that the defender needed to allow a 5 yard window for the receiver to catch the ball). Another gimmick, and one I really liked BTW was instead of a coin flip to determine who kicked off, the ball was placed 10 yards or so down the field and one guy for each team would have to run and pick up the ball "steal the bacon" style. I thought that was brilliant.

It sounds like there will be none of that. No scantily clad cheerleaders infiltrating the locker rooms, no artificial battles between color commentators and coaches. "I said I'm not doing any of that wrestling crap" said New York Hitmen coach Rusty Tillman when Jesse "the Body" Ventura tried to goad him into a debate.

To me the one issue McMahon still has is that the players are all going to stink. Whether he has gimmicks or not, whether they stand for the anthem or don't. Anybody whose got a morsel of talent is going to play somewhere else. Whose going to pay to watch that? mcMahon says he's not beholden to TV since he isn't taking on any networks as a partner. That's smart, because what TV Network would sign up for this?

Look, I've made a lifetime of predicting $h-t that turns out all wrong, but I really can't see this working.


We made it through January folks. Hopefully better times are a comin

Have a Great Week