AN IMAGINARY MESSAGE....12/7/23

“Hey Clarence, this is Richard Sackler! This is a message for you and your buddies up there at the Supreme Court. You all talked about us yesterday.

You know, me and my family already had to cough up $6 billion to give to people who said their loved ones died from our drug, OxyContin.

So what if claims against us already top $40 trillion.

We knew they were gettin' hooked and dyin' from Oxy, but hey, it made us a lot of money!

So we had to bankrupt the company to come up with the cash, but my brothers and sisters and all our kids - we ain’t gonna’ file ourselves ‘cause then they might take our money too!

But if you make us do that, they’ll have a hard time findin’ it - we already moved $11 billion out of the company and stashed it overseas.

I know you’ll do the right thing, Clarence. You always have….”

IT'S SHOWTIME....AGAIN!....12/6/23

Tonight is the last candidate's debate for the GOP presidential nomination before the Iowa Caucuses in January. Like previous clashes, it's mostly shrill theater.

News pundits are salivating about how the 2 frontrunners, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis will try to take each other down using words like attack and assault as if they were in a knife fight.

The bloodier the battle, the more money the host network makes.

Each participant has been practicing soundbites they hope will resonate and catapult them to the top, but where does that get them?

Second place.

So they're positioning themselves for one of 2 things - that Trump either dies or goes to jail before the election so the 2nd place winner can step in and take over....or as the old saying goes, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"....and vie for an invitation to become the former president's running mate.

If it's the latter, they may want to give Mike Pence a call and ask him how that worked out....

MY BAD....12/5/23

With the death of Henry Kissinger last week, I had a thought.

What if obituaries for all presidents and higher up officials began with the bad things the deceased had done during their lives?

Lyndon Johnson’s eulogy would have included lying to us about our chances of winning the Viet Nam War (there was no chance and he knew it).

Kissinger’s of course would start with his secret bombing of Cambodia and Laos, and then ALSO covering up the fact that we were losing the war but stayed in it anyway, causing the unnecessary deaths of thousands of American soldiers.

Nixon’s memorial would have begun with the Watergate break-in, and Reagan’s and George H.W. Bush’s would have been prefaced by their illegal Iran-Contra dealings.

George W. Bush’s chief testimonial would be lying us into the Iraq quagmire with his “weapons of mass destruction” nonsense.

And Donald Trump’s? That obit would take days to read - and that’s just the bad part.