Ok so despite my best efforts to avoid it, we published late because we made the mistake of watching the end of the AFC Championship Game.
I had just bragged to my mom on the phone that I had avoided watching both games. Missing the NFC game was smart because it looked like a shitty non call in the 4th quarter screwed the Saints out of a trip to Atlanta.
So one would think that I'd be able to avoid watching my least favorite team of all time, right? Especially since all the updates said the Patriots were winning.
But when I saw the Chiefs had taken the lead, I tuned in. Once again crappy officiating was the culprit here. A BS roughing the passing call on Tom Brady, plus reversing the fumble call on Julian Edelman. Unreal.
The last Super Bowl I watched was the Seahawks-Patriots disaster back in 2015. I have refused to watch the past 3.
Well, make that 4. Rams-Patriots. A pox on both their houses!
TELIVISON: You Go Girl!!!
Since I work full time, I don't watch The View (nor do I watch it when I'm off BTW) and I certainly don't find myself agreeing with Whoppi Goldberg on most matters. But these past two weeks I have found myself in lockstep with the star of Jumpin Jack Flash.
Last week, she called out Mayor DeBlasio for his dimwitted decision to put bike lanes on many streets. Her beef with the Dope from Park Slope was 10th Avenue, mine is with my hometown of Woodside's Skillman Avenue. They take away much needed parking spaces, they clog up traffic, and I don't think they make biking any safer to be honest.
But what was even more surprising was that Goldberg dared to take on America's sweetheart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“You just got there, and I know you have lots of good ideas,” said Goldberg “but I would encourage you to sit still for a minute and learn the job. Because there are people in that party who have been working their tails off for that country and you can learn some stuff from them.”
“You don’t have to be born into it. You don’t have to know it from the start. But before you start pooping on people and what they’ve done, you gotta do something, too,” Goldberg continued. “There is absolutely room for new energy but you can’t poop on what was when you’re coming in on the shoulders of quite a few giants.”
This was all in response to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez contention to Anderson Cooper that "the Democratic Party has compromised too much and lost sight of who we are."
Someone recently asked me how I felt about President Obama, and I responded that I grew to respect him more as his administration went on. To expand on that, I always felt what he was doing was in his mind, in the best interests of America, whether or not I agreed with the actual decision or not.
But also, I felt that in the beginning of his first term, that sometimes he acted as if the sheer force of his personality was enough to make the change he promised on the campaign trail. Especially in foreign policy. But also in some of his domestic decisions too. I felt that as time wore on, and he saw that it was going to be more difficult than giving a great speech, that he rose to the challenges and became a solid, arguably a great President.
I think that's what Whoppi was trying to say to AOC.
I've made no bones about the fact that I'm not a fan of our nation's youngest congresswoman. As an American who loves this country, I also realize that I need to give her a chance. She's entitled to that. And I'm willing to give her a chance to make our country better.
But that starts with realizing that campaigning for office is different from doing the job you were campaigning for. It's a lesson the current President hasn't learned (and I'm afraid he's not going to), it's a lesson I think President Obama learned well.
And now Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez needs to learn it. Don't take my word for it. Listen to a liberal host of the View.
ADVERTISING: The Best a Man Can Get?
Browsing Facebook this past week, I came across a couple of my liberal friends posting memes about conservatives being up in arms over a Gillette commercial regarding "toxic masculinity." Being a conservative myself, I figured I Youtube up said commercial to see if it would grind my gears.
I watched it and I can see both sides of it.
There's a scene where two boys about Timmy's age beating the $h-t out each other while a bunch of dads stand behind a grill chanting "Boys will be Boys". And if that's what Gillette thinks of American men, then that's a shame. I've been to many barbecues and I've never seen anyone sit back and watch while two kids clobber each other like Ali-Frazier in Manila and do nothing about it. It usually gets broken up quickly.
But I don't think that's what Gillette was trying to say.
In 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a Bed In For Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. At one point, Al Capp, the cartoonist who created Lil Abner, came in to the room to grill John and Yoko on several topics. Capp, who had he lived would have his own show on Fox News, asked John about the lyric in The Ballad of John and Yoko where he sings, "They're gonna crucify me."
Capp: Ok, but in the lyric, you did say they were going to crucify you.
John: Well, yeah if you take it literally.
Capp: well what did you want it to mean?
John: They're going to crucify you and me and everyone else.
Capp: Well I never said they were going to crucify me
John: Well I have.
The spirit of the commercial, I think is that we all need to be nicer to each other. That they are approaching it from the male point of view is what has folks up in arms but, I believe it applies to everyone.
I don't have a problem with it. Maybe because I know that my son is being taught how to treat people correctly. I know that my friends are teaching their kids proper respect too. I don't need a commercial to tell me that either.
Most likely Gillette felt this commercial needed to be made because of the #metoo movement, which is marked by protest marches on this third weekend in January, the third anniversary of Captain Orange's inauguration. Which leads me too..
FAST FOOD NATION-Clemson's White House Party.
When David Souter was confirmed by Congress to the Supreme Court, Jay Leno, then filling in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, joked in his opening monologue that "President (HW) Bush had him to the White House for lunch, but with the economy in bad shape, he had to buy him a Happy Meal."
Fast forward 28 years later. The government is shut down, so President Trump decided to celebrate with the Clemson's National Championship with fast food served on fancy dinnerware. Big Mac's, Whoppers, Wendy's on fine china.
I thought 25 years ago, when Bill Clinton took over, that we had our first white trash President. Indeed Don Imus wondered aloud how long it would be before "the White House lawn would have broken down cars sitting on it." Alas, we were a generation early on that one.
The weather forecasters covered their asses this weekend. They predicted between a dusting to three feet of snow. They got this ice cold weather right on the money though.
Stay Warm
and Have a Great Week
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