Money Ball

Just caught a glimpse of our modern Sunday gladiators ... mask-less, in close physical contact, with fake crowd noises, cardboard fans ... fighting for the highest point total in what once was America’s national sport ... professional football.

But, let’s face it kind readers, these athletic actors are mostly not virtue signaling to show how mattering they are for anyone’s life. They are performing to earn enough money for their team owners so that they can continue to pay them their humongous salaries.

Yes, in its heyday this sport did get one’s juices flowing, but our current pandemic and political dogfight is doing enough of that to satisfy my shriveling senses.

So, if I can’t and won’t watch this modern-day equivalent of Christians being fed to the lions, I think I’ll learn to to be happy with The Great British Bake Off. But it might be nice if they would mount a little flour-flinging mayhem from the losers ... or throw a babka to the winner.

STAND UP FOR AMERI.cA!

Headlines

Trump calls for ousting GOP congressman from party ahead of coronavirus relief vote

Coronavirus live updates: Lack of Internet leaves millions cut off, Real ID deadline extended

USA now leads world in cases ... Peak second week in April ...

New York Times blames evangelical Christians  for coronavirus

Poll: Majority approve of Trump’s coronavirus response, but more Americans say he was too slow to start

Trump criticizes GM, CEO Mary Barra for wanting ‘top  dollar’ for producing ventilators

UK rocked: Boris positive ...

Hundreds die in Iran after drinking poison ‘cure’ for coronavirus

Judge orders release of 10 immigration detainees from N.J. jails

Cramer sees oil plummeting below $20 per barrel

Federal Reserve’s balance sheet tops $5 trillion for first time ...

Dr. Deborah Birx steers away from making Doomsday prediction

Headlines

DeFazio threatens to subpoena GSA for Trump Hotel documents

NBA salary caps could feel pressure from China rift

Trump campaign threatens to sue CNN ... Demands substantial damages from bias ...

Democrat-controlled House passes bill with Russia ‘quid pro quo’

Syria Kurds accuse Turkey of violating cease-fire terms

Grocery sales are rising but so is the pressure on profits, analyst says

Pew: 54% approve Trump impeachment ...

Mick  Mulvaney: ‘We held up the money’ for Ukraine investigation

‘I guess I’m the Meryl Streep of generals’: Mattis jokes about Trump calling him overrated

Turkish President Erdogan says he ‘cannot forget’ Trump’s letter

Chris Wallace new face I’d resistance ...

Pew: US Christian population in free fall, down 12% in ten years

Headlines

Kavanaugh's GOP defenders on the hot seat at hearings

New orders for key US-made capital goods unexpectedly drop in August

Bibi [Nerenyahu]: Iran has 'secret atomic warehouse' ...

Brett Kavanaugh rips Senate for 'search and destroy' tactics ...

House committee tees up release of Russian probe transcripts

Trump says he rejected meeting with Trudeau over NAFTA -- but Canada says it never asked to meet

Regulators sue Musk for fraud, seek Tesla removal ...

Muslim mob stones three Christians to death in Kenya

House Republivans pass symbolic measure against non-citizen voting

More US corporate giants say tariffs will mean price hikes

Obama fantacies about being president again ...

Fed Chair Jay Powell: Taeiffs are not hurting the economy or raising prices

Headlines

Tax payouts deliver a wave of hope and hype

Trump claims his London trip is off because he doesm't like the Embassy building

Spain surpasses USA as tourist destination ...

Study: Over 20 million Christians worldwide facing severe persecution

White House doesn't deny Trump's 'shithole' immigration remark

Trump says Mexico will 'indirectly' pay for the wall through NAFTA

Pew: American media bias worst in world ...

Report: Saudi Arabia seeks reform towards 'moderate Islam'

McAuliffe: If Trump got in my space 'you'd have to pick him up off the floor'

The Chinese trade surplus with the United States hit a record high in 2017

Furious protesters burn EU flag as chaos hits streets of Bulgatia ...

Democrats expand 'Dreamer, amnesty plan to include millions of parents

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Despite refugee attacks, most Germans don't blame Merkel

Russia brokers Syrian cease fire as USA sidelined ...

John Bolton: The two state [Israel/Palestinian] solution is dead

Scientists on brink of bringing back extinct beasts

Charlie Sheen calls on God to kill Trump

Trump says he'll meet with intelligence community to discuss findings that led to Russian sanctions

Study: Christians most persecuted religious group in the world

'Leaked document' puts Kerry at head of UN snub of Israel

Trump makes last minute push to add Hispanic to Cabinet

Kellyanne Conway 'struggling to find [private] school for her children in DC'

Exclusive: Obama, Palestinians plotting more anti-Israel actions

Obama historic land grab: 552 million acres for 'conservation'

The Dope Pope

I don't think I need to add much to all the criticism being directed toward Pope Francis over his attempt to swim in America's political pool ... clearly without his water wings. He recently held a Catholic mass at the border between Mexico and the United States and said that we Americans should be building bridges and not walls. Then he implied that Donald Trump is not a Christian for his pronouncements about illegal immigration from Mexico and Syria. This is the same man who recently called capitalism "the spawn of the devil."

This current Vicar of Christ has done almost nothing to remedy the repulsive pederast evils that are eroding the foundations of his Church ... nor has he rigorously spoken out against the Christian massacres occurring almost daily in the Middle East and Africa. He obviously has rather set his praying priorities so that his special God might smite carbon dioxide, conservatives and capitalists.

I predict that he shall forevermore be known as the Dope Pope ...

Afterward: And he is for Castro, condoms and communism ...

Question

The following headline is on the cover of this Sunday's New York Times Magazine: "Christians in the Middle East are being forced out of their homes, enslaved and killed. Why is no one coming to their aid?" (See: New York Times Story.)

Obvious answer: Because Pope Francis, President Obama, and much of the rest of the Christian world all seem to be preoccupied with global warming, income inequality, and the evils of war.

The Rapture

There are a number of Christians who believe in “The Rapture” … effectively Judgment Day … when the world will end and all saintly people will immediately rise unto heaven. And now a number of these Christians are convinced that this fateful day will commence May 21st of this year (see Judgment Day). This event may indeed happen, but color me skeptical.

A while back I entered a New Yorker magazine cartoon competition in which you were asked to supply a caption for a captionless cartoon. I didn’t win, but I thought my submission (for the above cartoon) was clearly of the New Yorker genre and should have at least gotten an honorable mention. My entry was: “Somehow I thought that The Rapture would be a little more selective.”