• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.
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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(another update)
Verdict Derek Chauvin
So he was found guilty on all three counts….Second degree murder, third degree murder, and manslaughter.
First, should anyone care about my opinion, I, like most of America, saw the infamous video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck as he slowly died.
I watched it all for the nine minutes plus and I can't believe, with two cops on either side of him, Chauvin couldn't ask one to sit on his legs and the other to hold his arms and I would have gotten off of the guy's neck.
It was obvious something was wrong with the guy and with two men holding his arms and legs he could have gotten relief enough to breathe.
And no, I don't think it was SOLELY Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck that killed him. It was reported, and obvious by watching, that Floyd was getting very weak and appeared to be very high.
But it doesn't matter. Floyd was obviously in trouble and Chauvin could have gotten up without Floyd being able to run off.
I am not convinced that Chauvin should have gotten any charge with the word "murder" in it as I don't think he meant to kill the guy. But manslaughter was entirely appropriate as I see it as any individual with common sense should have reacted much quicker to get the guy some help and relieve him of anything causing him so much suffering.
I heard one of the five million pundits on the news cable shows say something that struck me as very true.
During that video of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd's neck…..he came off as being very arrogant. It was as if he was saying to the world around "The hell I'm taking my knee off his neck. He fought me and my partners and now that I've got him down, he's staying down."
The pundit offered this assessment and I immediately snapped my fingers. YES! Chauvin had an expression that showed his disdain explicitly and no doubt this didn't help him any.
It was a sad state of affairs but Floyd didn't deserve to die a slow death in front of the world like he did.
Like I said, manslaughter would have been a fair-er verdict and Chauvin came off as the bad guy through and through.
No way Chauvin should have been declared not guilty.
MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
Maxine Waters, Biden, Nancy Pelosi, DC a state?
It was a wild week yon descendants. Representative Maxine Waters of California's 43rd district called for Black Lives Matter to respond with a vengeance if Derek Chauvin was not found guilty on all counts. Then we have the fabulouso Nancy Pelosi respond with a prayer to St. George Floyd. Nancy is the Speaker of the House as I write this and was also my childhood friend, yon descendants. A story for another time.
And finally, the House of Representatives voted today to have Washington D.C. declared the 51st state in the United States of America.
Which is not likely to happen, yon descendants, as such a thing is outlawed in the constitution. However, should yon descendants be reading this at a time when there very much IS a state known as Washington D.C.......well I guess I was wrong.
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OVER THE INTERNET
(social media explains so much)
REVIEWS TV SHOWS
(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)
OVER THE INTERNET
(social media explains so much)
(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)
So I thought I would use this TV review space to do a critique of Fox TV political pundits. I watch Fox darn near 24 hours a day, not that I'm proud of that. But I know them all, know their foibles and freakiness so follow along.
My three favorite pundits on Fox News are Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. I like them so much because they are on every weekday night. Of those three, I like Tucker Carlson the best. I like Sean Hannity as he always has the best guests. But he does tend to interrupt guests and it's annoying. Laura Ingraham is okay, a good ending to the day, airing at 10 pm.
I cannot stand Chris Wallace and that's no secret to anybody. He looks like a clown and doesn't act like a conservative at all.
My second favorite political pundit is Dan Bongino. Now I know he doesn't technically qualify as a Fox New pundit but he is a guest on Fox quite a bit. I also watch Bongino's podcast every day and I am happy to announce that Bongino will be a replacement for Rush Limbaugh on my own local radio show on 5/24. This makes me quite happy.
Some miscellaneous other pundits figure in the equation. Brett Baer is okay although if his hair is real I got a bridge to sell anybody believes it. I also quite like the Fox and Friends morning team although as of this writing the Doocys, it would seem, have disappeared.
Jason Chaffitz, a former congress critter, does a good job and I expect to see more of him in the future.
Geraldo Riviera really needs to go. He brings nothing to the equation, is not interesting and.....don't all of us remember Al Capone's vaults?
Finally Greg Gutfield. Sometimes he's okay but he tells a lot of stupid jokes. Now Gutfeld has his own show but it's awful to listen to.
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EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
Cops
(My opinion for my descendants)
Cops
So okay, I have an opinion about cops and I have experience with them. I was once married to a cop so that's experience. He was a motorcycle traffic cop on the Jones Falls Expressway. He wasn't a bad guy. He got hit on the back of his legs while giving a motorist a ticket. The guy who hit him didn't stop but fortunately the guy getting the ticket saw the hit and saw husband get thrown out on a brutal expressway. The motorist jumped out of the car and grabbed husband, pulling him out of the way of speeding vehicles. The motorist was awarded a present and dinner by the Baltimore City Police Department. And, of course, husband tore up the ticket.
But I've had bad experiences with cops and by me cops too often get into things that are not their job. One such example was when my daughter, suffering from a mental illness that we won't delve into, left her dog all alone and I heard it whining and crying all night. Daughter lived across the street from me, in a house that I bought her. I had son-in-law bust open the door to retrieve the dog.
When daughter came home from mental hospital that she so adores she called the cops on me. A cop comes and somehow this guy comes over my house and asks me if I could arrange to have the lock fixed on her door.
This is a cop's job?
It was understandable that the police responded to a call about a door that was broken into. But this cop wouldn't let it go, running back and forth, my house to daughters, asking me to please have the lock on the door fixed. It was late on a Sunday night and I would happily have it fixed the next day although are we allowed to leave dogs all alone in a house with no food or water?
I told the cop it was not his job and I would handle it with my daughter in the morning.
I had several other instances with cops that left me wary of them. One was when I called the police on my neighbor, whose grass was three feet high and myself, and many people driving by his house, began to get worried. So I called the police and requested a wellness check.
The police came, checked things out, and I was called back and told that the neighbor was ok. Indeed that very evening he got someone to come out and mow the grass.
The cop called me and asked my name, my birthday, where I was born....a bunch of other questions to the point that I finally asked him why he was quizzing me like this. "I'm a cop," he said. "We ask a lot of questions."
Oh do they? I, on behalf of a bunch of other people in our neighborhood, was trying to help someone. What the hell with all the questions? Where I was born?
So let me throw my hat in the ring and say that cops should seriously deal with emergencies, not broken locks and grilling helpful neighbors.
I don't have the answers and the above doesn't necessarily reflect badly on the police. But it shows they have too much to do and police departments across the country should take a serious look at all that their police do.
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Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear. Bear in mind my spelling. I am, after all, only a fly.
THE FLY ON THE WALL
Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear. Bear in mind my spelling. I am, after all, only a fly.
"There was a video of SOMEONE carrying around a fire extinguisher!" Valeria shouted just as I entered what turned out to be a classroom on fooling the public. I didn't know this when I entered. All I know is they were wheeling some cookies and refreshments into the room so I thought I would follow.
"But it wasn't Sicknick!" someone responded, loudly.
"It doesn't matter," Valeria responded. "A video of someone carrying around a fire extinguisher was shown with the news that evening that Trump arranged that riot. So we sent out word that Sicknick died from being bashed with a fire extinguisher."
"But now you got to tell the truth, that Sicknick died of natural causes," the other voice responded.
"We knew that the public saw that video of those hoodlums lugging around a fire extinguisher. We wanted the American public to think Trump's hoodlums killed Sicknick, right after he started the riot."
With this Valeria put some cream in her coffee as the room fell silent.
"It's now over three months. For those months the Trump people took the hit, which was our plan. Now we tell how Sicknick really died. Maybe 30...40% of the people who heard the first report even remember it now. That's still over half the American public think Sicknick was killed by an angry Trump voter who bashed him with a fire extinguisher.."
"So you made the Trump people take the hit?"
"Wasn't that our plan?" Valeria asked.
So it turned out this was a meeting on how to manipulate the media, and thus the American public.
But this fly was not fooled.
Plus the crumbs were pretty good.
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TIME FOR A SMILE
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