Hi Everyone
Daylight savings started this weekend. The late sunsets are nice, waking up in the middle of the night to go to work will be a drag the next couple weeks, but we shall press on because that’s what we do, right?
Anyway, onto the week that was….
POLITICS- The (not) State of the Union Address
So I'm going to be honest, I didn't watch Convicted Felon Captain Orange's Address to the Joint Session of Congress the other night. I figured if I wanted to be lied to for an hour and half, I could watch WWE Smackdown on Friday night. Plus, I figured I could tune into my social media accounts and get updates from both sides of the aisle. And so, I thank you, whether you are MAGA or correct, none of you let me down. I can make the following observations...
1) Al Green (D-TX)* was ejected from the chamber by the Sgt at Arms at the direction of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for heckling CFCO. Cool! I'm all for decorum and civility in Congress.
Funny thing though, I don't remember Speaker Johnson being so quick on the draw when the whore representing Georgia's 14th district and the handjob queen representing Colorado's 4th district were heckling President Biden during his SOTU addresses. Those two skankasoureses were giving out to President Biden while he was talking about his son, who died of cancer from tar pits while serving in Iraq.
Which leads me to the second thing I saw that got my MAGAts all up in arms..
2) No Democrat stood and clapped for a poor kid who had survived brain cancer when CFCO announced him during the speech.
Now, in these situations, I often ask myself what I would do if I was sitting there. Would I have stood and clapped, would I have stayed seated and done nothing, stood and not clapped, clapped and not stood?
I'm an old softie, I may have stood and clapped. But let's be honest here, CFCO only had that poor kid there for that reason, so that people would stand and clap. And he would have acted like everyone was clapping for him.
I also would have pointed out to the kid's father (who had a lot to say about the Democrats who didn't stand and clap), that Orange and his right hand man (or more correctly, the other way around) are looking to make massive cuts to Medicaid, making it much more difficult for other children who have life threatening diseases to get the care they need. I also would have told him that his poor young son was being used as a prop.
3) I've also come to the conclusion that Mike Johnson is more deplorable than Orange, JD Vance and the two aforementioned loudmouths. He is smart enough to know better but is so afraid to lose his gig as Speaker, he allows himself to look like a buffoon. That's a rough way to live. To be smart enough to make a difference, but too much of a coward to do so.
The Washington Post came up with 26 statements that "were untrue, misleading or lacked context."
For never Trumpers like me, that number sounds awfully low, for the MAGA crowd, it's the Washington Post so they are full of beans like the rest of the mainstream media.
If you are in the latter company, well, hey right now you're laughing because the joke's on us. Fair enough. Maybe one day you'll realize he is laughing at you, insulting you and robbing you just as much as he is laughing, insulting and robbing me. The question is, will you be honest enough to admit it? Even if only to yourself?
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Gene Hackman- 1930-2025
On Friday authorities in New Mexico ruled that legendary actor Gene Hackman and his wife of 30 years Betsey Arakawa both died of natural causes. Arakawa died of hantavirus, which can occur when one is expose to rodent excrement. Hackman it is believed lived up to a week longer than did his wife, and because of his advanced age and Alzheimer's disease may not have known his wife had died, and even if he had, would not have been able to do anything about it if he had.
While this makes their deaths no less sad or tragic, at least there is some explanation of how they both died. And now Hackman will be remembered more for how he lived than how he died.
And how did he live? As arguably his generation's greatest actor. If not at the top of the list, damn close.
And what always struck me about the way he played all his characters, either good guys like Norman Dale and Popeye Doyle, bad guys like Lex Luthor or Sherrif Bill Daggett, or anybody in between, there was an everyman quality about them.
I'd like to think Hackman acted the same way he lived his life: simple, proud of his accomplishments but no real airs about him. So many testimonials I read in the days after his passing in which ordinary people who met him said he was pleasant and down to earth. I remember his speech when he won Best Supporting Actor for Unforgiven, when after thanking all his fellow actors and those who worked on the movie, he dedicated his award to his late uncle who he simply described as "a pretty wonderful guy"
Gene Hackman was a pretty wonderful guy. And a hell of an actor. He'll be missed. RIP.
The news in sports, besides at St.John's, is all bad.
The Rangers had two brutal losses against teams that they need to pass to make the playoffs, the Islanders traded one of their best scorers for draft capital, meaning they are probably waving the proverbial white flag, the Devils lost Jack Hughes for the season which is heartbreaking.
Jalen Brunson is hurt for nobody knows how long and the Knicks weren’t beating any good teams with him anyway. The Nets are the Nets, our football teams are deciding which first round busts they are going to draft, and to top it all off, Gerrit Cole may need Tommy John surgery and Francisco Alvarez is out till June.
Go Johnnies! We need you more than you can imagine.
On that note
Stay Safe
and Have a Great Week
*Not the Al Green who sang Let’s Stay Together.
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