Some Friday Thoughts

 Greetings everyone, except you, Pete Hegseth. What's been reported on this week as to what's happening on board the USS Abraham Lincoln is totally unsatisfactory and quite infuriating to a Navy Vet who served on an aircraft carrier (Eisenhower). Of course, Drunky McDrunkface is downplaying these reports saying that those reports are a complete misrepresentation of what he thinks is going on. Pete, the heat is on from Congress, and sooner or later you might end up with your drinking buddy in Trump's doghouse, if you're not there already (even though Trump is now defending him). What a debacle.

This coming Tuesday is primary day here in Florida, where for governor there's a battle brewing among Byron Donalds, James Fishback, and Jay Collins for the GOP nomination, to go against David Jolly, who will be the presumptive Democratic candidate in the general election. Of course, from what I've seen on local television, only Donalds is running campaign ads, something I alluded to in my last entry, probably because he got the almighty Trump endorsement, even though in recent weeks that seems to be a kiss of death of sorts. Right, MyPillow guy???

I do have one question though. Hey Democrats, DO YOU REALLY WANT TO WIN COME NOVEMBER?! Because by every indication, it doesn't seem like it, just like in years past. I have heard or seen ZERO campaign ads from ANY candidate on the left side of the aisle, the only mention I hear of the Democrats even running is from negative ads from Donalds or Kevin Steele (who I guess is running for Congress, I haven't paid too much attention). And it's the same ol' typical playbook that they use. "Radical left Democrat," "Conservative Republican," etc. Plus, the GOP loves to play on left wing stereotypes, like Democrats are America-hating radicals that want wonton abortions and don't believe in faith or the family. Pffft. How about their (GOP's) radical right-wing ideology? If you're looking for stereotypes for them, I guess it would be a mix of Bible thumping and the video for "America (F*** Yeah)!"

Seriously though, are the Dems even trying? As I recall during the 2016 Presidential election, I did not see a single placard for Clinton, nor do remember seeing one for Biden in 2020 (then again, thanks to COVID nobody could really go anywhere), and for this last cycle, I only saw ONE placard for Harris. I'd rather not get any news surrounding local Dems from "Chasing Oz," who can be somewhat annoying at times (Google it), and MSNOW is basically a shell of its former self. Locally, there was one story about David Jolly and the improbable, no IMPOSSIBLE task at hand of winning the state house is what has become an increasingly red state. I mean, Trump has said in the past that the system's rigged. Well, it kind of is. Almost every talk radio station (in this market at least) leans decidedly right-wing; it's like the Dems have no say at all. I guess there are a couple of programs on the radio that fall left, but I don't hear them because after 2016 I swore off talk radio, if not ALL radio altogether for that very reason. So I guess the strategy for the Democrats is kind of like Chinese President Xi Jinping's strategy for the Iran war; do nothing and win. In that video, I learned that Napolean (of all people) said that you should never interrupt an opponent while he's (she's) making a mistake. Well...

Football season is upon us. Whoop-dee-do. I really don't feel like making a prediction blog post this year; I don't have very high hopes for the Bucs after their monumental collapse last season. Plus, Jon Gruden is doing PxP for preseason games this year. Sorry, but after he decided to partner with Barf Tool Sports, I want nothing to do with him. Plus, there's a bad vibe going around training camp this year anyway. After this season, I'm sure Todd Bowles will be let go and the franchise will begin a years-long rebuild...again. Heck, I may not watch a snap of Bucs football this year, which I haven't done since my Navy days (before the Bucs were relevant and the advent of mini-dish systems and Sunday Ticket).

As I'm sure you've noticed, the country is virtually on fire, and it's getting worse for next week. Makes me wish for when Florida got soaking rains the other week. Of course, I can't go out in such weather, but I'd rather have that than non-stop swamp ass. Plus, the tropics are starting to ramp up, but I don't expect anything to form with Saharan Dust in the Atlantic and a massive El Nino affecting the world's weather. A tropical system named Cristobal did form, but since its name was a variation Chris, of course it fizzled out before it really got going. Anyway, next week it will be so hot, my favorite bartenders may have to team up the fight any fires that may occur. Who are they? Sorry, that's confidential, although I'm sure you have heard of at least one of them.

I had some family over this past week; one of my sister's grandkids (and her boyfriend), and another one comes this weekend (with HER boyfriend). As for me, I'm not sure what I'll do this week. I MIGHT try to live out a dream of mine and do PxP...hey there's an idea; why not try to do PxP of the Bucs game later today and possibly do a live stream of said game. Then again, since I've never done anything like this I probably won't. I would need to do some research of both teams instead of flying by the seat of my pants (and it would make me somewhat hypocritical provided what wrote earlier in this post), then again, I usually write these blog posts flying by the seat of my pants anyway, so who knows...

In any event, have a safe weekend. Take care, and just say no to data centers (and flock cameras)

Bonyscribe

Writer's Block? No, More Like Too Much S*** To Talk About

 Hello to everyone except president Squealon Muskrat. I haven't posted on here in almost a month, and for good reason. I really haven't felt like doing so, in part because watching the news, especially this past month, has been exhausting. Much like it was from 2017-2019; a different crisis every week that made following current events seem like you were watching a terrible SNL skit. By the way, congrats to SNL for somehow making it to 50 years.

Anyway, there's been so much crap that's been spewed out by the current "administration" that finding a starting point to write about it has been next to impossible. So, as Cody Rhodes would say, "what do we want to talk about?" Well, we could start with what went down in Boston last night.

Yeah, it's sports-related, but given the events of this past month, quite politically charged. I'm not going to get into why the Four Nations mid-season hockey tournament was so charged, because you've probably heard about it by now. However, the presentation of the start of last night's championship game (at least from an ESPN perspective) was kind of extra, with the airing of the portrayal of the movie "Miracle" Herb Brooks's pregame speech from the 1980 Olympic gold medal game. Before the game, the anthems seemed a little different. Canada's anthem was just a singer singing without backing music (complete with a veiled shot at DJT to boot), while the "Star Spangled Banner" was accompanied by the Boston Pops Orchestra. The Freaking Boston Pops. Question: was the NHL hoping that a certain individual was watching? For what it's worth, he wasn't; he was talking to his lemmings at CPAC, while the "president" was wielding a chainsaw like a fucking maniac. But that's another story to be told by other people with other blogs.

 Anyway, Canada prevailed by the score of 3-2 in overtime as Connor McDavid found himself open in the slot and beat Connor Hellyebuck, igniting a wild celebration across our northern border, complete with Kraft Dinner and Tim Horton's. Canada PM Justin Trudeau took to the social platform ruined by president Muskrat to say this:

No word had come into the Bony Scribe news center as of this evening as to whether or not our supposed commander-in-chief will call for bombing raids over Nunavut as a result. Probably not, but given how unhinged he is, you never know. Possibly he'll impose a further tariff, because that's all Trump is seemingly good at. 

On a personal note, Valentine's Day went about as much as expected: rotten. My plans for the day (which was a day late) became a week late because of family reasons. I don't understand why my family seems to be so good at self-sabotage, but at least I'll get another chance tomorrow, and I'll do so with possibly a smirk on my face. No, I'm not saying why that is.

I've also started watching "Stranger Things." Yeah, I'm way late to the party, but the first couple of episodes have been somewhat interesting. Have I gotten into it like I did "Manifest?" Not yet. That's not to say that I won't become a fan of it. There are other programs on Netflix that I'll have to check out, like "Squid Game" and "Outer Banks." But I may have to resubscribe to Peacock because apparently there's still two years left on their PLE deal. Dangit.

Time to wrap this up for now, Smackdown is about to come on. I should have more later by the end of this weekend, that is if I feel up to it. Until then, have a good one.

BonyScribe