FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 I'm no fucking rat, but I got a line on some very clever immigrants that seem to have escaped the scrutiny of our ICEhole storm troopers. I'm not really worried about them getting busted because I don't think ICE reads and like a lot of stupid people, they don't read this blog. For that reason, I'm going to go ahead and out them here and because their skills in blending into America are so excellent! I mean- they fooled a Ferrerman. That's not supposed to happen. First one is Gerran Howell. He plays young doctor, Dennis Whitaker from Oklahoma on HBO's "The Pitt". He does a fine job, even finer when you discover that the little scamp is WELSH!  That's a country in the United Kingdom called Wales. I never would have guessed or been the least bit suspicious until I saw an interview clip of him on IMDb, speaking in his native voice.  Second up (also from The Pitt) is Shabana Azeez. OK, now the name is not the big tip off you might think it is. I w...

 Is rooting for Trump to fail- knowing that America will fail along with him- is that really such a bad thing?  What we and the rest of the world hate about Trump is what the world has hated about the US for the better and worse part of 250 years. Mostly the worse parts. We built this country on slavery for fuck's sake! We all but wiped out the native people living here. Who does that? Well, other societies have, but they don't gloss over it as well as we do, and they don't continue on into the future with no shame about it. Not for long that is. Spain and England once ruled the world, but the world eventually humbled them, gave them their comeuppance, and they learned not to be so goddamn greedy. They survived and today are two pretty damn nice countries. Germany started two world wars in the last century because they were awful people with Trump-like *qualities*, but now they are pretty settled down and not only very contrite about their past but concerned for our present...

 Until the news broke of the bigly protest at the fancy, Southern Baptist Church in in St Paul, Minnesota, I hadn't given much thought to ministers and pastors having day jobs. The pastor at that church, David Easterwood (a fitting name, I'd say!) has a fulltime job as the director of the local ICE field office. Makes you wonder which is the side hustle. I really had thought at some point that "the calling" is a 24/7 gig for all of them. A niece is married to a minister, and I've never known him to have a day job of any sort. I believe though, that something like 30% of pastors in his field of Christianity have fulltime jobs in other, non-religious fields. I did  know that as I had worked in Memphis with maybe a dozen guys in commercial construction who were preachers. But these fellas had store front churches at best. Kinda like a starter kit of ministry. Many didn't even have that, and they'd tell me they were also a preacher. I'd give them a Pete Da...

Heard a comedian (I think, Jimmy Carr) talking about how communism has only ever been effective at the level of the family unit. That's long been my assessment of it. He went on to say that democracy was the worst form of government, "except for all the others". Not my sentiment exactly, but also true. I lean towards democratic socialism. It's not perfect, but any system where you can obtain wealth for your efforts, but you also have to help others out, is a good thing in my book. You can be too rich, just as one can be too poor. No one should be either.  These are very odd times in 2026. Soooo many filthy rich people and they just can't be happy with what they've got. They must have it all. But having it all means lording over the poors in every aspect of their already sad lives. This is late-stage capitalism as it could only work out when left unchecked by society for so long. I think the true 'trickle-down' is only available to those that can enable...

 "They are all crooks!" "The two parties are the same!" I've heard these statements in the bars and jobsites of my life, and I would shake my head at the great unwashed snarling them whenever the subject of politics reared its head. What idiot children these men were to just brush off their involvement in the political process, by writing them all  off as crooks. Well, the stupid fuckers are right,  just for all the wrong reasons. Republicans and democrats are in this together, taking turns fleecing the citizens for fun and profit. This is  by design. It is why we can't have nice things. It is why we have Chuck Schumer as senate minority leader and senate majority leader depending on whose turn it is to be in charge. That's a big clue right there. This Seinfeld's Mr. Littman is the most useless piece of shit this side of Donald J. Trump. He's a horrible character. I mean Schumer- not Littman. Both are playing a role though.  Politics is Hollywood...

 Well, here we go again... In December, I added a cable TV package to my Xfinity internet, foolishly thinking I would have access to NFL games. (Da Bears are doing well this season, and I wanted them in my home) For $20 a month I would get Fox Sports (typical home for da Bears, or so I thought) and the Chicago Fox station that carries them as well. And CBS and all that other crap. But wait- there's more! As a bonus, they would stream me the Peacock Network (a $12.99 value). This seemed like a pretty good package.  Of course, it wasn't. I don't know what Fox Sports does, but they don't do NFL games. That turns out to be FOXONE, which costs more money. I could upgrade... And the local Fox station- well, I'm not in Chicagoland anymore, but if I can get it and watch their news, surely, I'd be seeing the Bears on Sundays, right? Right? Wrong. To be Ferrer, at no time did the folks at Xfinity tell  me that I'd be getting Bears games, or any NFL teams. This was all...