Hello Folks:
We'll start with a programming note. I recently signed up for a subscription for Jeff Pearlman's Substack. Pearlman as many of you know is my favorite author, he had written 10 best-selling sports books and is working on one now about Tupac Shakur. The HBO series Winning Time was based on his book about the 1980's Lakers.
On the bottom of the welcome letter I got for subscribing was a button to start my own substack. I was able to copy over the 390 posts I've made since the big comeback in 2015 over to Substack, and this one will be there as well. Depending on how this goes, I may use substack as my permanent home for Weekly Mail. For now, we'll continue to use blogger to create the post and copy it to substack. My main goal is to get a more accurate count on how many hits we're getting. Blogger tells me that 10 people read the post, and then 20 people comment on Facebook.
Substack makes it's easier to share my posts on social media. I'm sure there are other benefits too, I'm sort of learning as I go along. Looking forward to seeing where this takes us. It also gives me the option of making this a subscription service which I promise I won't do. You can still pay me annually in 4 easy installments of 0 dollars.
Now that that's out of the way, on we go. We'll start the week that was in politics
SUPER TUESDAY
So no surprise, both President Biden and Captain Orange won all and most of the states up for grabs. Nikki Haley did manage to win Vermont, but by 10 AM on Wednesday, she announced she was dropping out.
So the rematch it seems like nobody wanted has been duly voted for. For what it's worth, (and it's not much) the primary here in NY is on April 2nd. I still plan on going to the polls and voting, though by that time, both Orange and Biden should have the delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Still, it's always fun to go and vote for somebody besides Trump.
In other Super Tuesday news, out in California the race to replace the late senator Dianne Feinstein was decided. Democrat Adam Schiff, who was a key player in the two Trump impeachment hearings in the House, will face former Dodger first baseman Steve Garvey on the Republican side. Of course Garvey is running on the family values ticket. He knocked up so many women back in his playing days, (while married to his first wife Cyndy*) that his former manager Tommy Lasorda nicknamed him "the Father of our Country" lol. And at 75, I'm sure the folks who think Joe Biden is too old to be President will have no issue with Garvey's age.
You can't make this shit up folks.
THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS:
Some random observations...
1) I distinctly remember during President Obama's second term, that then VP Biden and then House Speaker Paul Ryan would be standing near their seats chatting amicably with each other. Keep in mind, this was after Biden and Ryan had faced off in the 2012 election as VP candidates. (Ryan ran with Mitt Romney). I'm sure they weren't buddies, yet they had enough class and self-confidence to be civil to one another.
Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Mike Johnson barely looked at each other the whole time they were waiting for the President to arrive in the House chamber. And I can't help but think Johnson was acting on orders from Orange not to engage with Harris. You want to suggest she was being ant-social towards him, I suppose it's possible, but being how thin-skinned Trump is (and he's the most thin-skinned politician if not person I've ever seen) and how scared the GOP is of him, I'm betting Trump ordered him not to. And it's another sad reminder of how there's no more decorum in these matters. And yeah, I blame that on MAGA.
2) We still have a huge f-cking problem in this country of taking tragedies and making them so political, that we take all the humanity out of them.
The latest is what happened to Laken Riley.
Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University in Georgia. At River Ridge High School in Cherokee county, she ran on the cross-country team.
On the morning of February 22, she went out for a run. When she didn't return, her roommate called the cops. They found her body near the running trails of the campus.
Police used surveillance cameras and put together enough evidence to arrest Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan citizen who had illegally crossed into the US in 2022.
Laken wanted to be a nurse. Like my wife.
Laken ran cross country. Like my son.
Laken's family suffered an unimaginable loss. Like..
It's heartbreaking.
And I don't believe for a minute that Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, or most of all the whore representing Georgia's 14th congressional district give one flying f-ck about Laken Riley or her family.
And I should have written about her before this week. I own that.
I know that Mrs. Riley was upset the President mispronounced her daughter's name. I hope somewhere along the line she realizes that he meant no harm and that mentioning her in his speech took a tremendous amount of guts, being that the border issue is the biggest one facing the President.** I'm thinking his saying Laken's name wrong may have been because he was about to mention the fact that he's buried two of his children.
And make no mistake, the border crisis is something that needs to be addressed. And some of the criticism towards the Biden administration is warranted.
But the administration and members of Congress on either side also put together a comprehensive immigration bill that would have beefed up and funded border patrols and given agents the tools they needed to process those looking for asylum and deporting those who look to do us harm.
The Speaker of the House said he would reject the bill, even before it got to the House.
The whore from GA, said she wouldn't vote for it either.
They don't care. They had a bill to protect the border, and because their Dear Leader was afraid it would help his opponent, they said they would vote against it.
These same folks who pretended to care about Laken Riley don't seem quite as broken up when some maniac comes into a school, or a movie theater, and shoots the place up. Where's the whore from Georgia asking people to say the names of those poor kids? From Sandy Hook? From Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School? From Uvalde, Texas? For someone who lusts for attention as much as she does, she seems to disappear when people get shot.
I blame MAGA for a lot of things, but one of the first times I really remember getting pissed about this selective outrage was during the Benghazi affair. I remember getting into a huge argument with a former co-worker who was a hard core liberal. He dismissed Benghazi as much ado about nothing, kept repeating how there were many more embassy attacks when George W. Bush was President. I kept asking this dude how many of those attacks resulted in one of our ambassadors getting killed? (The answer-which he avoided giving was zero). And while I wholeheartedly agree that 12 hearings about Benghazi was- to say the least- overkill, acting like it wasn't a big deal wasn't cool either.
I realize this is all going to get worse before it gets better, if it's ever going to get better. What happened to Laken Riley should have never happened, should never happen to anyone. I feel bad that the President tripped over her name, but that happens during speeches. You know what would have pissed me off? If he said "My thoughts and prayers to her family." Isn't that what we say when the schools get shot up?
3) I'm going to get a migraine tonight because of all the times I mentioned the whore from Georgia in this week's post. As I've said before, if I was running a network, I wouldn't mention her name, I would mute the sound like they do when someone cusses on TV when she barks during the speech, and I'd put up one of those blue dots over her mug like they used to do on Court TV when there was someone whose face they didn't want the world to see (For example during the William Kennedy Smith trial). Her name will never be mentioned here as long as I'm writing this, and if I'm offending anyone by calling her a whore, that's too bad. She is who she is.
4) I turned in before the Republican response to SOTU, but now I kind of sorry I did. They are giving out the Oscars tonight, and I guess it's too late to change my vote for Best Actress in a Dramatic role. But I mean can anyone nominated tonight really claim to have been more overly dramatic than was Senator Katie Britt (R-AL)?
I saw a bunch of comments online Friday morning saying that Britt had practically handed SNL their cold open for Saturday. When I had a chance to watch it for myself, I saw what they meant.
She sounded like someone just gave her a wedgie and took all her lunch money. And I would have said that even if everything she said wasn't completely full of $hit. Such as
What we saw was the performance of a permanent politician who has actually been in office for longer than I’ve even been alive.
So let's replace him with a 77-year-old. Right. And she also said this..
“Let’s be honest, it’s been a minute since Joe Biden pumped gas, ran a carpool or even pushed a grocery cart,” Britt said. “Meanwhile, the rest of us see our dollar and we know it doesn’t go as far.”
And again, her answer is a guy who I guarantee never pushed a grocery cart or ran a carpool, and do you think Fred made him get out of the limo to put gas in it? Yeah, me neither.
She told a heartbreaking story about speaking to a woman who was raped as a 12-year-old thousands of times in a sex trafficking ring run by a drug cartel. Britt inferred that this too was a result of Biden's border policy. Except that this woman has told her story countless times (which God Bless Her, she has every right to do) she was 12 years old back in the mid 2000's. Joe Biden wasn't President then, or even VP. This was the Bush/Cheney era, and the rapes took place in Mexico.
Saying Lincoln instead of Laken? That's a misstep.
Speaking about rapes that took place in Mexico between 2004 and 2008 and blaming that on Joe Biden, that's an outright lie.
There were some people who didn't even believe Britt was speaking from her own kitchen as she said, but was on a television studio set. That would give new meaning to the term "kitchen debate" (Google it up kids- that was between Vice President Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1959)
She's still young enough that she can come to her senses. I'm not holding my breath, but well, we can only hope.
OK, let's move on shall we?
HOCKEY: Trade Deadline News:
The big prize at the deadline was Jake Guentzel, who was traded from Pittsburgh to the Hurricanes for 4 young players and 2 draft picks. The Canes are battling the Rangers for the Metropolitan Division, so I was sorry to see this trade happen.
Speaking of which the Rangers picked up three of what they call "depth pieces" They received center Alex Wennberg from the Kraken, defenseman Chad Ruhwedel from the Penguins and right-wing Jack Roslovic from the Blue Jackets. I don't know much about any of these guys, but the good news is they didn't give up any top prospects or high draft picks to get any of them. Low risk, with a high possible upside. Time will tell.
The Islanders stood pat at the deadline. They are also one of the hottest teams in the NHL, riding a 5 game winning streak and closing in on a playoff spot. They figured why spoil a good thing. (Also they are right at the salary cap)
The Devils, who fired coach Lindy Ruff last week, made two deals, one that made them look like they were selling and one that looked like they were buying. They traded winger Tyler Toffoli to the Jets, and acquired goalie Jake Allen from the Canadiens. They needed a goalie, but why trade a 30 goal scorer if you’re hoping to make the playoffs? Looks to me like they’re packing up for the offseason.
By the way: St Johns is 5-0 since Rick Pitino went off on them, and I went off on Pitino for going off on them. Figures right? They're going to have to win a couple of games in the Big East tournament to get an invite to the big dance.
Daylight savings time began Sunday morning, so of course a lot of us are walking around like zombies today. I always say I do like it that it stays light out until 7 o’clock now. But of course it’s pitch black getting up to go to work. The good news is warmer, better weather is coming.
My goal is to do a St.Patrick’s Day Special next week. Till then
Stay Safe
and Have a Great Week
*Cyndy Garvey was Regis Philbin's original co-host on ABC's The Morning Show, the precursor to Live with Regis and Kathie Lee which is now Live with Kelly and Mark.
**I also hope that in their sadness and grief that they don't allow themselves to become political pawns. To that end, the Riley's turned down an invitation from Congressman Mike Collins (R-GA) to attend the State of the Union with him. I hope that was their way of saying don't use our suffering for your benefit.
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