Quote of the Week

A Florida parent of a child exposed to recent carnage at the Parkland high school was being interviewed. When he learned that the President was coming down to offer comfort he replied -I hope he doesn't bring the rolls of paper like in Puerto Rico. I am paraphrasing but the comment is SPOT ON! Please no Bounty!

Runner up: Scott Pruitt is the EPA administrator - and not a popular fellow. He insists he has to fly First Class because his experience in Coach has been contentious vis-a-vis other passengers. He calls it "politically toxic". Perhaps he likes those warm moist face cloths.
tjs

Everyone's a Critic

Over the years many comic teams have made movies to box office success i.e. Abbott & Costello - Hope & Crosby - Laurel & Hardy. etc. But one team who crashed was Allen & Rossi who made their one and only film in 1966. The NY Times critic skewered them .."it was lacking in both wit & vitality."......and dismissed the film as a "vehicle made of plywood and cheesecloth". I'm sure it "frizzled" Marty Allen's frizzly hair. They did better on the Las Vegas circuit. His obit said he worked until age 94. His parting shot was "I work out every day. Just yesterday I was on the treadmill for an hour. Then some idiot turned it on." "Hello, dere!"
tjs

MD

MD? No, this not some Super Bowl designation of the future - and it is not a call for "a doctor in the house." It reflects the Googler reminding me that today is my Blog post No. 1500 - I always said that if I had nothing to say, I wouldn't say it. Jerry Seinfeld once wrote a TV show about "nothing" and it ran for nine seasons. I still have a long way to go. For nostalgic reasons I am repeating my first blog posting of October 29, 2010. Thanks for your loyal readership over the years.
tjs
 (You may have to read it on Fbook)

Primarily Political XXXIV

Until recently, the name Devin Nunes was just an R member of Congress - Fresno Ca. agricultural area. But he is now the controversial Chairman of the House Intel Committee - appointed by Paul Ryan. Early on he was part of Trump's transition team. He later was famous for his midnight ride to the White House to secure/procure documents - for which he was ridiculed. He then was behind the R memo attacking the FBI FISA methods. His latest caper is to build partitions in the staff room separating R from D staffers sharing their brown bag lunch lest they be tainted. Hardly bi-partisan!
If November flips the House to D those partitions will come tumbling down - echoing Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
tjs

I Love a Parade!

Donald Trump's yearning for a military parade conjures up the infamous photo of Michael Dukakis - helmeted in the turret of a Abrams tank.
It helped sink his candidacy along with Willie Horton.  Does POTUS want to ride in the lead tank or salute from the reviewing stand? Abrams tanks are said to weigh sixty tons and a few of them could rip up Pennsylvania Avenue. And he will never find enough horses to equal the French.
Ah, but the crowd size !!!
tjs

Hunting is Hazardous

Recent story which missed the 6PM news - a foursome of hunters in the wilds of Maryland aiming at a flock of Canadian geese. One member shot one and it fell out of the sky and hit his buddy on the head, rendering him unconscious. It said they can weigh 14/16 pounds + the buckshot. They had to medivac /airlift the wounded fellow out to a hospital. I wonder how the E.R. wrote this up and how his insurance handled it. There is an old saying "The goose hangs high" - but when it falls you had better be wearing a hard hat - and "duck". And to think it used to be all a hunter had to worry about was Dick Cheney.
tjs

Potpourri 18-1

Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp but he was a million years too late. In nearby Maryland they have discovered dinosaur tracks with smaller prints of the prey on a rock slab. As we used to say "A day late and a dollar short."

The 21 Club, a watering hole fancied by POTUS, is closed due to pipes bursting and expect reopening in the Spring. So he will have to wait a bit for that $36. hamburger. Meanwhile, the colorful jockeys stand sentry outside.

The World Cup (Soccer) is being held in Russia this summer. The Agriculture Ministry has warned that a plague of locusts could devour the grass at stadiums in southern cities. They are inventive - if it isn't doping it's a plague.

The stock market tanked last week so stay away from the window sills.
tjs