Weekly Mail March 31, 2019

Hello All:


We took off last week because we marched in the Rockville Centre St. Patrick's Day parade, a fun annual tradition for the family and I. Unlike this past Saturday which was beautiful, it was real chilly last week. Still, we had a blast.



VINDICATION? Part One-  President Trump:

It was announced on a Friday evening, smack dab in the middle of March Madness, that Robert Mueller had submitted his report on possible Russian Collusion in the 2016 election to the Attorney General. Sunday afternoon, AG William Barr released a 4 page memo stating that the Trump campaign did not conspire with the Russian government and that "while the report does not conclude that the President committed a crime (Obstruction of justice) it does not exonerate him."

Jimmy Kimmel put it best.... "I haven't been this confused since the last episode of Lost."

Are we to take the word of Trump's appointed AG? If so, how does he draw this conclusion from a 300 page report? If not, where are the people working for Muller coming out and saying No, that's not what we said!" You want to tell me Meuller's people are bound from leaking any info? Please! Loose lips may sink ships, they also are what make the world go 'round.

Of course we all should wait till if/when the full report comes out, but you know Trump and friends would have declared victory no matter what. The fact that AG Barr's letter said there was no evidence of collusion, you know it was going to be New Year's Eve in Trumpland.

I don't know. My common sense tells me Don Jr. and Jared Kushner weren't ordering vodka for Mar-A-Lago at that August 2016 Trump Tower meeting. But until we see the full report, or until Muller himself or one of his peeps disputes Barr's letter, that's all we've got to go on.


VINDICATION? Part Two-Jussie Smollett.

Two days after Barr's letter came out, came word that Chicago's Cook County state's attorney's office was dropping all the charges against Smollett and wiping his record clean.

I thought 16 counts against Smollett was a tad excessive. I think dropping all the charges is excessive the other way.

Look, he goes to trial and a jury finds him not guilty? Hey, that's our justice system*.  But to just act like it didn't happen? This I don't get.

And again, maybe in the grand scheme of things, I'm one of the ones making a mountain out of a molehill here. I just think if Smollett pulled this stunt, (and I believe he did), he did African-Americans and the LBGT community a disservice. There is enough bad things happening to these poor people that this idiot didn't need to go and make something up.


All right that's enough of that.


NCAA TOURNAMENT:

Last year as much as I hate to bring it up, the tournament was historical as a 16 seed beat a one seed for the first time. This year, we had almost the entire Elite 8 was either a 1, 2 or 3 seed. Entirely all chalk. Auburn, who I picked to get knocked out in the first round, was the lone 5 seed. They knocked off Kentucky on Sunday to advance to the Final Four. Cheers to my Alabama relatives.

The only good thing to come out of this for me is that North Carolina got knocked out on Friday night. The one thing our fair nation didn't need was a Duke-North Carolina NCAA Final. Thanks to Michigan State, neither one of them got to the Final Four.

My bracket officially bit the dust Thursday night when Michigan got their doors blown off by Texas Tech. I would never pick Duke or North Carolina to win it all, I had no faith in Gonzaga, who also lost to Texas Tech Saturday night, and I felt like I gave my sister in law's alma mater the horns last year by picking Virginia to go all the way. They're in the Final Four this year, thanks to an OT win over Purdue on Saturday.

Duke getting knocked out by Michigan State should have given me cause for great joy, instead it ensured that not one of my picks made it to the Final Four. What's worse, I finished second to last in the pool I was in, so I don't even get the booby prize for coming in dead last.

As Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam once sang,,,Que Sara Que Sara




HOME SECURITY: What you don't know ........

Many people have gotten themselves these door cameras. And they are probably a good thing. If you catch some scumbag making off with your Amazon Boxes, or more recently some dirtbag was ripping off poor elderly people in my neighborhood. He was arrested mainly the result of door camera footage.

Like I said, it's a good thing.

But every once in a while you might pick up something you may not have wanted to see. Something you may regret that you saw.

Such was the case for poor Rishab Malhotra of Stockton CA.

He had a milkshake delivered from Cold Stone Creamery via Door Dash. Everything was cool till the next day when Rishab's father checked the video and saw the delivery dope sipping the milkshake.

yyyeeeewww!

Mr. Malhotra was a lot more diplomatic than I would have been. He told Fox 40 in Stockton..

"They just need proper training and then an apology, 'Hey, what you did was wrong.' And we want to make sure he doesn't do that to other people,"


Funk that man. If you need to be trained not to drink out of other people's cups, you're in the wrong line of work.

Now look, I had a little trick back in my Baskin Robbins days. When we made shakes, we had to put a metal funnel in the cup for the mixer to work. Sometimes (very rarely) I would put a little extra milk in the funnel, then pour that extra into one of those little dixie cups. If it was customer I liked, I'd slip them the extra. ("Here, taste this. How'd I do?"..it was good for a little PR) If it was someone I didn't like it went to the house.

But the thought of drinking out of someone's shake never even crossed my mind. How gross! I don't believe there is justifiable homicide, but delivery people who drink out of their customer's cups? That might qualify. Especially in California*

https://fox40.com/2019/03/27/video-doordash-driver-secretly-sips-milkshake-before-giving-it-to-stockton-boy/

WSIP in CINCINNATI: (Sex In Public)

Two Ohio horndogs were arrested last week when they were caught doing the nasty on something called the Sky Star Wheel, along the banks of the Ohio River.

Michael Mathisen, 30, and Lauren (Wild Thing) Wilder 31, were taken into custody after Thursday's Reds-Pirates opening day game. They were both charged with disorderly conduct.

The criminal complaint says that the pair "engaged in sexual intercourse in the open in front of children and adults."

Todd Schnieder the managing partner of Sky Star, said that when workers observed the couple going at it, they hit a button that stopped the ride, and an off duty officer responded. Apparently the officer was expressly hired for an eventuality just like this. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer...

The officer was hired "in anticipation of any type of incident like this or a rowdy crowd," Schneider said.

Similar incidents have occurred at other SkyStar locations, he added.

So this is a thing apparently. The Mile High Club on a Ferris Wheel. Hey, the St. Anthony's Feast is coming up in Oceanside in a couple of months. They usually have a Ferris Wheel. Of course the Sky Star Wheel is glass enclosed, the Ferris Wheel at the feast is open. That's a long way to fall...
Yeah I'd avoid sex on ferris wheels.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/29/intoxicated-duo-busted-for-having-sex-on-observation-wheel/


The Mets and Yanks both opened their seasons this week. I'm glad baseball is back, but March 28 is way to early to be playing ball. Especially since winter seems to be hanging around extra these past few years.

That's all my complaints for now.

Have a Great Week.









*See the People vs. Orenthal James Simpson