FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 Watched a very interesting video about Australian military service in the Vietnam war. People may not realize that our American war was an allied effort, to a degree. It was primarily our show, led by our military industrial complex for our fun and profit, but countries like Korea and Thailand also lent personnel to the cause. This added an air of legitimacy to our being there, but those countries also lost men and limbs in the effort.  But no country struck fear into the hearts and minds of both the communists and the US military command, more than the Australian SAS (Special Air Service). They fought their own war, their way, much to the chagrin of the American command.  There was a mountainous area in Vietnam that was so dangerous that US Marines were forbidden to deploy there. Marines were getting slaughtered in ambushes in the jungle, but perhaps worse, they were being systematically disappeared from patrols, never to be seen again. Their bodies never found. The Vie...

 I have never found Bill Maher funny at all. He has writers making the jokes for his opening monologue and the bits he does in the middle of the show. He can be  funny and he tours as a stand-up act, but he is not funny at that. I tried watching his stand up once and gave up five minutes in. He seems to be high all the time, and he giggles a lot at his own material, perhaps to signal to the audience that a joke is inbound and they should laugh. He seems to get seriously angry at the crowd if they don't laugh. It happens too often to be 'part of the act'- practiced indignation.  I used to watch "Real Time" not because of him, but despite him. He tended to have interesting guests. They made the show watchable. I gave up watching a couple years ago because I just couldn't with him anymore. You could find those interesting guests in better hands anywhere else on podcasts, which everyone who is anyone seems to have these days. Podcasts are like what blogs used to b...

 When people totally lose it in those ubiquitous 'Karen' videos, I often feel sorry for them. If you take away the verbal content of their videoed diatribe, you'd see somebody losing control of themselves, wonder what it was all about and figure, "Well, that's what they are like all the time! What a jerk!" You rarely get the whole story. You often get just the middle part of the story, the fun part. Facebook/You Tube REELS  are big on that. No beginning or end to the conflict, just the screaming and/or violence. I often ask myself, "Why is that little white lady picking a fight with that black guy? Does she not know about weight classes? Age and gender limitations?" Paul Harvey must be spinning in his grave wondering when we will get the rest of the story.  I reserve the right to have a little curiosity as to how this thing got started when I see a white woman of a certain age going after a black man of a more certain age. It doesn't make a lot o...

Nicole Curtis lost her show on HGTV for using the n-word in the most Nicole Curtis way possible.  Whatever she was doing at the time, she exclaimed "WHY? It's the last one. Oh, fart n___". She's always had an odd way of cussing. I guess you might develop that in a TV career, no matter what you were doing, just to be safe and employed. I seem to recall her saying cutesy, midwestern gal 'swears' like "Oh, fudge" when I used to watch her show. She went on to say after this slip, "What the fuck is that I just said??!!" I don't know myself! Never heard that before.  Nicole and I had a falling out several years ago. On Facebook there was a thread about some project she was working on in Minnesota. One of the commenters complained that she had bid on painting jobs for Nicole up there a few times and never gotten chosen. Much to this person's chagrin, Nicole used the paint party approach to do the work and the painter felt duped. Nicole...

 Got into "Landman" with Billy Bob Thorton, recently. I wasn't sure that I would, as some media was saying it was too pro big oil. Maybe. But this is America and everyone is entitled to watch a mom or a nurse get shot down in the street and interpret the events as they see fit. Or, as others see fit for them. Choices. I was once big oil-adjacent, in the 80's, when I tended bar at The Petroleum Club of New Orleans. It was a private club for people in the oil bidness , 99.9% were white and male. Pretty sure I mentioned this before, where I was the Jackie Robinson of bartenders, breaking the color barrier, and becoming the first white bartender in the Club's history. It was a reverse Jackie Robinson though as prior to me, the bartenders (and wait staff) had been all black. The ol' boys preferred the old ways and many of the whites did not like me, simply because of the color of my skin, which was the same as theirs. Weird, huh? New Orleans is a different town, fo...

 Bibi Netanyahu probably knows more than anyone about Trump and the other principals involved with child rape and sex-trafficking on Epstein's Island. It has long been believed that Epstein worked for Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Also, Putin's KGB and even *our* own CIA even though they habitually point out that they don't spy on Americans because they are not allowed to. Oh. OK. Who knew there were rules? Who knew those rules were followed? The word is that there are tapes of men raping these young girls. Don't doubt it. Why not? It's kompromat. It can be used for blackmail or coercion of political figures. I think the allure of the island was that it was a safe place to fulfill their horrific desires. In the mental gymnastics required to do something so wrong, they likely felt safe amongst their own kind. Everyone was doing it. They were not alone.  There was also, I gather, financial business afoot on the island. You get a bunch of rich guys togethe...