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  • Happy 250th Birthday USA

    There are always the naysayers.  The people who don’t like the United States of America.  The people who point out all the negatives.  But the United States can’t help being made up of human beings and human beings have transgressed everywhere they’ve roamed.  There is nothing unique about that in our 50 States and 5 territories.

    But the United States is unique in this world in many things.  The first and foremost, is we weren’t formed by some War Lord who managed to subdue, coerce or negotiate with other War Lords to get himself named the King, and the place, a country.  No, the United States of America begins with the stroke of a pen.  ‘When in the course of human events…’  And it turned out to be one hell of an event.  It changed the course of history.

    We were created by ideas and ideals.  They are ingrained in out founding document and all our laws.  We may fall short of those ideas and ideals from time to time, but they are ours.  We created them.  When President Lincoln spoke  about our nation on November 19th 1863 and said.  “that nation of the people, by the people and for the people”, we were the only place on the planet, where anyone, could cast a vote.

    When you go to work for the government in any capacity, the military, the legislatures, as civil servants, or anyone having anything to do with the workings of government, you take an oath.  And that oath is not to the King, The Queen or whatever Potentate is running the show.  You don’t even take an oath to the country or even its people.  You take an oath to preserve, protect and defend, the Constitution, our ideas and ideals.

    So when the naysayers whine, cry and bemoan this or that about the good ole U.S. of A, just remember, we invented this thing called Liberty.  It’s our way of life.  It was and is, a pathway, for the rest of the human race to follow.

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  • Quiz Time

    Every once in a while we like to see if everyone is paying attention.  Just like when you were in school, it is now Quiz time!

    Question 1.  As the midterms approach celebrities rear their heads like Groundhogs on February 2 and start endorsing candidates, which begs our first question.  When was the last time a celebrity endorsement, helped a candidate win an election?

    A. 1960 Presidential election

    B.  1981 New York City Comptroller’s election.

    C.  2004 Presidential election.

    D.  Never

    Question 2.  Jill Biden former first lady and wife of Joe Biden 46th POTUS thought her husband was performing so badly during his debate with Donald John Trump POTUS 45 and 47, that he’d had…

    A.  Brain freeze from have one too many ice cream cones that day.

    B.  A demon had entered his body.

    C.  A Eureka moment about history, the Presidency and the why of it all.  So much so that he couldn’t find the words to express it.  Maybe no one can.

    D.  A stroke.

    Question 3.  The IRGC and the United States of America will sign a peace deal today because.

    A.  The IRGC is winning and they are tired of winning.

    B.  The United States has run out of missiles and bombs.

    C.  Somewhere in the vortex that is The Once Was The Main Stream Media, someone is declaring that both sides have agreed.  Sometimes with the terms listed and one of these days, they might be right.

    D.  All of the above.

    E.  None of the above.

    Question 4.  David Rush a former CIA officer was arrested with a cache of 40 million in gold bars, 35 luxury watches and 2 million in cash.  How did he accumulate all this stuff?  He asked the CIA for it.  But how was he able to do that?

    A.  It’s classified, they can’t tell us.

    B.  David Rush was a former pilot, graduate of Clemson and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who needed these things for…  It’s classified they can’t tell us.

    C.  David Rush had no degrees, never flew a plane but the CIA was impressed by how he faked it and got away with it for decades, so they hired him.  Then of course, well he could ask for things.

    D.  All of the above

    E.  None of the above.

    F.  Ya don’t know do ya?

    Answers.

    Question 1.  D, never.  This was easy.  We like to start with easy ones.

    Question 2.  D, A stroke.  Jill Biden gave this information in an interview with the WOWTMSM.  She must have thought Old Brains had a stroke, a few times every day.

    Question 3.  The answer is C, but no matter what you picked you get this one right, as all of the answers have appeared repeatedly in the media.

    Question 4.  This is another one where no matter what you picked, you got it right, as don’t expect a rundown of the events leading up to the arrest of one David Rush.  Expect this story to just go away.

    Scoring.  25 points for each correct answer.  If you got 100 congratulations!  You know what is going on.  You’re probably one of our regulars here, who gets all the pertinent information that is out there.  If you got 75, try to tune in here more often.  If you got 50 you need to think about where you are getting your information from.  If you got less than 50, seek remedial help.  Starting with mathematics.

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  • Have You Been Paying Attention?

    Certain things have appeared in the WOWTMSM since the kerfuffle with the Iranian regime began and we were just wondering if people were paying attention.  This is not an official quiz.  There will be no prizes.  But have you heard these?

    Another forever war.

    America has no plan.

    The war is expanding.

    America is running out of missiles.

    The Houthis have entered the conflict.

    The war is expanding.

    The IRGC will wait till the bombs stop, crawl out of their holes and start the regime all over again like nothing happened, other than a lot of guys will have gotten promoted.

    Iran still has a nuclear program that they can start over in three weeks, no two weeks, no by next Tuesday.

    The war is expanding.

    Another forever war.

    This war is like ‘Whac-A-Mol’e, kill one IRGC or Basij leader and another pops up.

    The war is expanding.

    The IRGC and the Basij militia will go into Guerilla war mode after the bombing stops.

    The Terrorists have won.

    Another forever war.

    And now to see if you have been paying attention.  But just two questions because as previously mentioned, this is not an official quiz.

    Question 1)  How many of the above statements have appeared in the WOWTMSM?

    A.  8  

    B.  5 

    C.  All of them except, the Terrorists have won.

    D.  2

    Question 2)  How many of them turned out to be true?

    A.  All of them.

    B.  10

    C.  None

    D. 1.

    Answers

    Question 1)  Correct answer C.  All except the Terrorists have won.  We haven’t heard that one in a long time.  It was big after 9/11.  We just threw that in to be funny.

    Question 2)  Correct answer C, none.  But if you picked D, we’ll give that to you because the Houthis did fire one missile at Israel and they kept announcing that they were going to join the war even if they never did.  We’re not hard task masters.

    If watching and listening to the WOWTMSM has left you perplexed don’t worry, as they don’t worry about it too much either.

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  • Confusion

    Everyone in WOWTMSM agrees that war is bad but as previously mentioned in last weeks article, “bleep” blowing up is good.  It must be as they can’t stop showing it, even if the Talking Heads are wringing their hands and clutching their pearls, over the price of gas at the pump.  

    Then there is ‘Boots On The Ground.  Boots on the ground are bad.  No, boots on the ground are good, even necessary.  And for some of us, whenever we hear “boots on the ground” we get this image of just that, boots on the ground.  Some lined up nice and neat and others just strewn about, as if they were just dropped there.  But no one is wearing them.  There are no soldiers anywhere, just boots, boots on the ground, boots on the ground everywhere.  Maybe that’s not a bad thing.  Maybe some people in Iran , need some boots.  Maybe we could just drop some in.

    Then there is the “Forever War’.  Not another ‘Forever War’ puhleezzeee!  BTW what is a “Forever War’?  There was the 100 years war back in the 1300’s and 1400’s, between England and France and France and France  That might have seemed like forever but 100 years as long as it was, was not quite forever.  Not even close.  Besides, no one knew they were in the 100 years war.  It got that designation after the fact.  Just as some historians now see WWI and WWII as one war.  But there has never been a forever war, so we don’t think there will be one now.  On the other hand, if there is a forever war, we won’t know, as none of us will be around, when it ends.

    Then there is the DJT POTUS 45 & 47 announcing that we are engaging negotiations to end the War with Iran.  But then the IRGC and the Basij militia at first claimed there are no such talks.  Then the IRGC and the Basij guys announce they reject all the proposals made by DJT 45 & 47 POTUS and had a list of their own. So, somebody must have talked to somebody.

    It’s all a bit confusing, no?  Well not really.  Try to remember that a nation is made up of a lot more entities than it’s military and government figures.  There are businesses of all kinds, manufacturing of all kinds, institutions of all kinds like agriculture, transportation, health, religious and not just the Mullahs, cultural etcetera, etcetera, just like all societies.  So, it is quite possible that we are negotiating with responsible entities in Iran.  And not just with the IRGC and the boys from Basij.  So both conditions, can be true.

    And don’t listen to the Talking Heads too much.  They’re just reading from a teleprompter and they’re not even sure what’s on it half the time.  The other half of the time…  Well your guess is as good as ours.

    We hope we have removed some of the confusion.  But we are selves are quite confused, so don’t get your hopes up too high because we could be wrong.  If we are we will admit it, unlike The Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti Of The Known World who will simply run on to their next point of expertise, as quickly as they can.

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  • ‘That Which We Call A Rose’

    There has been some difficulty in the pronunciation of the first name of the new Ayatollah of Iran.  This is no small thing.  How would we all feel if people around the world consistently miss pronounced our President’s names like Barack or Dwight or Lyndon or Franklin Delano?  The problem seems to lie in the spelling of Mojtaba.  Is the J silent?  Is it pronounced J and how?  This isn’t English or Spanish.  

    We will need to write about him from time to time, so why don’t we just call him Mojito?  Mojito Khamenei.  Mojitos are fun.  Once we have a fun term everyone can use, we can avoid offending.  Something we try very hard to do, not offend, that is.  Oh yes Mojitos are a rum based drink that came from Cuba originally and they are quite tasty and depending on who makes them, can be quite potent.

    And yes there a other problems with Mojito Khamenei.  He might be in a coma.  He might have lost a leg.  He might need a lot of plastic surgery for his face.  But the biggest problem is, he might not be around too long.  Who will be next?

    And we hate to feel dumb.  But we don’t pretend to be experts, so well, we can be dumb.  But we don’t think anyone here, has ever heard of Kharg Island before.  Have you?  Seems that 90 percent of all of Iran’s oil goes through this heretofore never mentioned island but now on the lips of every expert, as it got bombed.  How come no one has mentioned it before?  We don’t mean Gamers who have been attacking this island for a few decades on their screens, but the Cognoscenti Of The Known World and the Talking Heads, especially the military experts among them.  Maybe dumb, is a thing that’s going around and we shouldn’t feel too bad about it.

    We get why the Secretary of War and our own Head of the Joint Chiefs wouldn’t mention it.  As why alert anyone to potential targets?

    And oh yeah how do you pronounce Kharg?  Sounds like “Car egg” maybe.  Maybe we should just call it Rose island.  That way we can link this article back to the title.

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    Title “That which we call a rose by any other name, would still smell as sweet.”  Juliet to Romeo.  William Shakespeare.

  • Who’d A’…

    2025 Mayoral Candidate Zohan Mandani was going to let everyone ride the buses in New York City for free!  Newly elected Mayor Zohan Mandani, says he can’t do it.  You have to pay.  Who’d a’ thunk it?

    Ex-Pizza man and Minnesota native Mark Anderson tried to escort Luigi Mangione the guy who shot the Insurance clerk in the back, out of the MDC in Brooklyn.  Anderson claimed he was an FBI Agent and he had court papers signed by a Judge and his weapons, we assume he meant stuff issued to a real FBI Agents, were in his bag.  But all he really had was a driver’s license and the bag only had a chunk of Gouda and a Pizza cutter.  He wound up in handcuffs and in front of a real Judge.  Anderson’s court appointed attorney said the ex-Pizza man should be released and taken to a hospital, as he’s mentally ill.  Who’d a thunk that one?

    And the FBI finally released all of the Jeffrey Epstein files and there was finally something in them.  Turns out Bill Gates, genius and billionaire founder of Microsoft asked Jeffrey if he could get him some anti-biotics for his wife.  Seems genius and Billionaire Bill got an STD from one of Jeffrey’s “Russian girls”.  And that reminded us of something Mickey Mantle explained to one of his younger teammates years ago.  One of the hardest things to do Mickey said, was not hit the curveball.  No, it was to somehow explain to your wife, why she has to take anti-biotics, for your head cold.  Maybe genius and Billionaire Bill, figured out how to explain that to his wife but the concept of the condom, escaped him.  Who’d a’ thunk that?

    Note to Billionaire Bill, if you use the condom, you won’t need the anti-biotics.  

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  • To The Shores Of Tripoli

    On April 27th 1805, seven U.S. Marines and about 90 of Hamet Karmanli’s guys, led by Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon captured Derna in the then Regency of Tripoli, modern day Lybia.  It was the first time the U.S. flag was raised on foreign soil.  That’s where the line “to the shores of Tripoli” comes from in the Marie Corps Hymn.  Lieutenant O’Bannon and the U.S. Navy had been sent their by then President Thomas Jefferson to do battle with the Barbary Pirates in what is known as the First Barbary Pirates War.  

    Now this does not exactly equate to pulling Maduro out of his bed and flying him back to New York in a few hours.  We didn’t have helicopters back in 1805, or F-35’s, Aircraft Carriers and C-47’s, so it was quite a trip to Tripoli and back.  But it just goes to show that despite all the screaming from some in the Mass Hysteria, there isn’t anything entirely new with the Maduro intervention.

    And we could have used the word capture instead of intervention here.  Or we could have used operation or arrest.  But we went with intervention, as it sounds like those situations where a few friends get together to try and stop someone from doing drugs.  And the intervention of Maduro, will stop him from the selling drugs.  We don’t know if he uses but if he does, it will stop that too.

    What were the Barbary Pirates doing?  Well they were interfering with international trade, seizing ships, taking hostages and demanding bribes.  Things gangs do that screw up a lot of people’s lives and cost a lot of people, a lot of money.  Does any of this sound familiar?

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  • Conspiracies and Coverups

    Now we don’t like taking bows here but just a few weeks back, November 9th to be exact, we published an article asking Where Are the Conspiracy Theories?  Low and behold just a few days later Tucker Carlson late of Fox News, lists a whole bunch of things about Thomas Matthew Crooks!  Crooks in case you have forgotten, was one of the would be POTUS 45 & 47 assassins.  Seems this Crooks guy was all over Social Media with all kinds of nutty ideas.  And this after the FBI had proclaimed that Crooks had very small digital footprint.  Maybe the FBI doesn’t know much about Digital Footprints and Social Media?  Or should we begin to think of those two dirty words…  Conspiracy and Coverup? 

    And as usual a day late and a dollar short, the rest of the Mass Hysteria begins to chime in.  Just remember you read it here first!  Why here?  Because we ask the tough questions.  And that is what this Journalism thingy is all about.

    And the House of Representatives is going to release their Epstein files!  They are going to name names!  And the names if they belong to anyone you heard of before, will say.  “Yes I knew him.  We did charity work together.”  “We talked about investments as Epstein was a financial whiz.”  “Epstein knew a lot of people.  He knew a lot of things.”  Will anyone say.  “I did not have sexual relations with those little girls!”  Will anyone get arrested?  Will we see or hear any of those supposed sex tapes with famous people in them?  Fugettaboutitt!

    One new thing we did learn about Jeffrey Epstein even though it didn’t come from the House report was,…  He had a little wee wee.  Similar information was given about another great sex abuser, Harvey Weinstein.  Does anyone see a pattern here?

    And as the anniversary of the assassination of JFK creeps upon us once again, the conspiracy theories will rear their ugly heads.  Our favorite has always been, the one put forward by our own Financial Editor Carmine S.  Carmine’s conspiracy is, Lee Harvey Oswald was one of Joseph P. Kennedy’s (father of JFK and well known philander ) many illegitimate kids.  And Oswald had had it.  JFK got to be President with a beautiful wife and kids, not to mention all the money the Kennedys had, while poor Lee Harvey, had to work in a Book Depository in Dallas for a buck twenty five an hour.  How would you feel, if you were poor old Lee Harvey?

    We know we’ve mentioned this conspiracy theory before but everyone trots out their conspiracy theories every year, and this one bears repeating.  It’s a goodie.

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  • Where Are The…

    the Conspiracy Theories?

    Donald John Trump POSTUS 45 and 47, had one assassin shoot him and another assassin lay in wait ready to shoot him.  The first guy who was killed on the scene and the other guy has already been convicted but where are the conspiracy theories?  The guy who lay in wait, Ryan Roush had his place all staked out in the grassy knoll.  No need to speculate whether or not there would have been shots fired from it.

    Was Thomas Matthew Crooks a lone gunman?  Have they accounted for all the bullets?  Did he actually hit POTUS 45?  Was there a second gunman?  a Third even?  Thomas Matthew Crooks whose first shot  nicked DJT’s ear. didn’t seem to be able to come close with any of his other shots.  What makes anyone think he hit DJT with that first shot?  Why was he killed at the scene?

    Why are we the only people asking these questions?  Does anyone care?  If we hadn’t put these guys names in this article, could you have named them in a quiz?

    Yes we know that conspiracy theories historically take time.  First there is the investigation and then the official report.  And after all that, the conspiracy theories begin to rear their ugly head.  But this 2025 not 1961 or 1968!  No one much believes anything the government says any more.  Especially in official reports.  Besides we have Facebook, X, Tik Tok, Instagram, Podcasts and Blogs like this one.  There is no reason to wait!

    Now we could speculate as to why there are no conspiracy theories but that would be a conspiracy theory.  And as readers of this Blog know, we don’t engage in conspiracy theories.

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  • The Next Great Late Night Show

    The Jimmy Kimmel show is back on the air!  Does that sound like there is a but at the end of that sentence?  Well there is.  Jimmy’s ratings are in the toilet.  While ABC might have forgiven him, it seems as if a whole lot of other people haven’t.  If he’s canned again well,  ABC will have to fill the slot withe something.  So here are some great ideas from our staff.

    1.  ‘Do You Want To Be A Billionaire?  An old retired CEO mentors a small group young men and women through the maze that is the Global Economy.  Then he sends them on their pathway to billionaire’s Ville, Where they might live next door to Elon Musk .  The old CEO plays both con man and Psychiatrist, as he counsels, advises and most of all gives encouragement to these young Lions.  We’re going to call this show ‘Don’t Worry, I got fired too. 

    2.  ‘I’ll Sue You’.  Celebrities, Politician and other assorted Pezzonovante square off in court over some slight.  Real or imagined.  It will be like Judge Judy with a few alterations.  One of which will be the payout is not confined to 10,000 dollars.  And unlike The Judge Judy Show, you, not Judge Judy, will decide.  Both litigants lay out their case and then just like Dancing With The Stars, you, the audience will weigh in.  You decide who wins and how much, regardless of what the litigants are asking.  And yes sports fans there are no limits.  This will be a sister show to ‘Don’t Worry, I Got Fired Too!’  The litigants here might become Billionaires.

    3.  ‘What Causes Autism’.  Doctors, Researchers, Moms and other assorted people who know nothing, give their opinions every week.  Just like in real life.  And, just like other Realty shows, once the season comes to a close, there will be final confrontations, cliffhangers and yes, disappointments.

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