Dilemma

I’m at a loss ... I can’t decide which sport to ignore more ... baseball, ice hockey, football or basketball!

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Beanbag

“Politics ain’t beanbag.” — Tip O’Neill

Was visiting a friend yesterday and he had some sports channel on the TV. Dunno which one. Guess what sport was being featured?

Beanbag!

Wow! We (and he) are really getting desperate for competitive TV action ... any kind of action amid our COVID-19 shutdowns — vintage SuperBowls, old English Soccer League games ... even contemporary axe-throwing competitions.

Dr. Fauci says we won’t be having any football this Fall. Wanna bet?

Quotable Quote

Asserting something you have been told, without checking it out first, is like taking a cheap shot in a football game. — Anon.

Headlines

2020 Democrat holdouts wait for Harris, Warren to trip

France to recognize Venezuela's Guaido if Maduro doesn't call [for] vote on Sunday

Israel begins construction of new Gaza border barrier ...

Donald Trump golfs with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods

Northam refuses to resign but says he once did Michael Jackson blackface

This is how college got so expensive in America

Trump: 'I would have a hard time' letting son play football ...

Report: Ralph 'Coonman' Northam counting on media to save him

Trump: Pompeo 'absolutely not leaving' to rum for Senate

Deutsche Bank said to have refused Trump a loan during hearted 2016 campaign

Fire in [Iran] space center kills three scientists ...

De Blasio: Bloomberg would be 'laughed out' of 2020 race

Headlines

The campaign to confirm a diplomatic novice to America' top U.N. post

Finally, signs of a Santa Claus

First year of no violent tornadoes in USA ...

German Supreme Court rejects child marriage law

Nielsen deflects blame for boy's death in Border Patrol custody

Oil surges 10% after the settle, rebounding witch stocks after Christmas Eve sell-off

MSNBC beats FOXNEWS in key ratings for first time ...

Week 16: 'Monday Night Football' ratings hit record low

How Trump gave away this secret War Zone trip

Trump cancels meeting with Iraqi leadership after a 'disagreement,' Iraq PM says

Update: Putin setting up bomber base on Caribbean island ...

China lauds Cuba for rejecting 'individualism'

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Bannon's army includes candidates backed by GOP establishment

Obama officials pretended to be Samantha Power to unmask 260 people, including Trump associates

Death toll from San Diego hepatitis outbreak raises to 19 ... 500 cases confirmed ...

Molly Ringwald tells how Hollywood sexual predators preyed on her at [age] 13

Raqqa's liberation will change, not end, fight against ISIS

'The last time I broke a man's chin' -- Harvard Law Professor threatens Sebastian Gorka

LeBron James locks arms during national anthem: wears [gold]  'equality' shoes ...

Harvey sent gushing e-mails to 'Madam Secretary' Hillary Clinton

Rand Paul opposes Senate GOP budget

Monday night football rating are in ... OUCH

Soros transfers $18 billion to his foundation ...

Mnuchin says stock market will see a 'significant' drop if tax reform is not passed

Kick that Ball

The New York Times, the Washington Post, the lovers on MSNBC's Morning Joe, CNN, the list goes on and on and on ... the newsmakers and the fake newsmakers (mostly late-nite TV) ... almost to a person are calling our current president unbalanced (aka, crazy). These accusations arise lately out of Trump's tweeting that our former president, Obama, had his phones tapped at Trump Tower right before the election.

Until we know the source and veracity of Trump's accusations against our former president, there really is no basis for calling Trump crazy ... other than loyalty to Obama, a known craven corrupter and Deep State conniver. In the meantime, I believe that much of the media's calling Trump nutso is, in and of itself, unbalanced.

Like Charlie Brown continuing to believe that Lucy won't snatch away the football at the last moment before he kicks it, the lefty media does acknowledge that they continually underestimate Trump. Yet, in this instance, they are certain that he is lying and has finally lost his marbles. So they are confidently taking their next shot at the football.

The Ryder Cup

Thank God for the Ryder Cup golf tournament! Staying loyal to my pledge not to watch NFL football games as long as these Anthem protests continue, I do need some excuse to stay supine on Sunday afternoons. Enter the Ryder Cup yesterday ... providing some excellent suspenseful matches between the US. and European duffers. Not one of these golfers took a knee or raised a fist showing their hatred of his country. Yes, all these players were male ... and white ... so I was guilty of not necessarily respecting the Black Lives narrative. Sorry ... I did escape into escapism and will, I am sure be punished in the afterlife. (For you die-hard football fans, the U.S. did  prevail.)

In the meantime, since golf is soon going away for the season, I need to find some other excuse to laze away my Sunday afternoons.

Ice hockey?

Deflategate

Zzzzzzzz ...

Parade Rest

With my grandchildren romping about me this morn, I turned on the TV to see the preparations for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Suddenly I was transported back in time 35 years or so to when I used to take my children to vintage versions of this same procession.  We were living in Stuyvesant Town on the lower east side of Manhattan and, after breakfast, we would bundle our children up and I would walk them over to Broadway in the low twenties to get a front row spot for watching this extravaganza.

The parade always consisted of many marching bands, floats, and huge helium balloons held down by phalanxes of Macy employees dressed to match the theme of their balloon.  The balloons I remember most were Underdog, the Sesame Street characters, and Rocky and Bullwinkle.  Usually there were also lots of clowns and unicyclists handing out candy and trinkets to the children.  It was all right out of Miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street ... but without Margaret O'Brien.

And I remember that it was almost always bitingly cold ... so getting the kids to stay for the finale was generally a bit dicey.  But we usually did and when Santa Claus went by waving and Ho Ho Ho-ing we knew that we could then trudge back home and thaw out.  Entering our apartment, we were greeted with the wondrous smells of pumpkin pies cooling and the Thanksgiving  turkey cooking in the oven.  I would then generally have a cup of hot coffee and settle in to TV-watch some college football with Christmas music wafting out of the stereo.  What bliss it was!