Have You Checked All The Cardboard Boxes On 5th Avenue?

I didn’t have a proper Hope chest, but I did have this chest - my pride and joy. Others may say that it is a little Hope chest, and then say that there is little hope for me.

Growing up, I had skates with metal wheels that clamped onto your shoes. The only place we had to skate was on the sidewalks, so if the skates weren’t secured tightly or the sidewalk was uneven, it could lead to some interesting results, usually involving Bactine, iodine and Band-aids - or worse.

Ultra Right beer, brewed in response to the protests of Bud Light, are both made by Budweiser.

Odd that the party who was bitching about “cancel culture” is finding so many things to cancel. When they’re not canceling things like people, educational courses, bodily sovereignty, beer, department stores, words, companies that speak out, things they can’t define (like “woke”), etc. they’ll whine like air raid sirens about things they don’t like…. Okay, for that party, it’s not odd.

By the same reasoning of trump, you could say:

“Isn‘t it a shame, all those people are dead all because Trump was born?”

“Isn‘t it a shame, all those people are dead all because 62 million Americans thought having a debt-ridden, fake game show narcissist as the leader of their country would be a grand idea?”

“Isn‘t it a shame, all those people are dead all because our President was a ‘useful idiot’ to the dictator of Russia.”

Bonus: Cawthorn embarrasses himself again - no word about his underwear choices.

https://apple.news/AMwxZ7bATRuqTE7F2LY1pAA

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Donald Trump, Malignant Narcissist, Blames Ukrainian Casualties on “Rigged” U.S. Election — Vanity Fair

He apparently thinks that baseless claim will be of comfort to the grieving families and friends of “all those people [who] are dead.”

We used to shop at this Publix in Cocoa Beach - eventually Publix built a new one in town, walking distance from our condo, and sold the building to Winn-Dixie.

The retreads keep reappearing in the new administration …

Having failed to twist GOP arms hard enough to get Matt (Breathalyzer Boy) Gaetz into the Attorney General job, don-OLD trump has turned to a Golden Oldie for the job: Pam Bondi, former Attorney General for Florida. Bondi reached national notoriety for being in the position to join a lawsuit against Trump University for grifting citizens out of their hard-earned money to learn how to invest in real estate. Associating with this “university” (if by “university” you mean a non-accredited fake school run by a group of people interested in getting money out of students) would cost prospective land barons $1,495 for seminars up to a $35,000 "Gold Elite" program. When confronted with this suit against the Republican candidate for president, Ms. Bondi decided that the $25,000 offered by the future crook-in-chief would soothe the conflict between her job as the attorney of the people and not ruffling the feathers of the leader of her party.

So, if we have someone who can be bribed so easily in a position where bribery can be made, what other decisions will Ms. Bondi overlook – or perhaps look too hard – to increase her personal wealth?

But there is a more humorous aspect to Bondi being in Washington, D.C.: her former main squeeze, Rick Scott, serves as senator for Florida. Back when Bondi and Scott were in Tallahassee, there were strong rumors of the two canoodling on the sly, ending only as both moved on from state governance. Indeed, we have this picture of Scott leering at Bondi:

What a smooth operator.

It’s bad enough that we have shady people filling positions in this new administration, including someone willing to take bribes (not to mention rapists), but we should consider passing a law that prospective lawmakers prove that they were born on this planet, to avoid aliens like Rick Scott from getting elected:

Why?

Why does this criminal whiny little bitch get to come up with a lower bond total?

The prosecutors have the evidence, displayed it in court, he was found guilty and had a bond amount to pay. It’s a large amount but the total was judged to be the amount he shorted the state by having a variable amount to his building’s value.

If regular people, you and me, had a huge amount we owed in a court case due to manipulating valuations, do you think we’d get a break like this? Or do you think they’d immediately seize your home and property and possessions?

So he couldn’t come up with $464 million. If you can’t afford the consequences, don’t do the crime.

This criminal has skated on every evil, malicious and self-serving deed he’s done in his life, and there’s a whole library of noxious deeds that he’s done. You think he won’t come up with the $175 million instead to appeal his barges? Maybe he won’t, but for the sake of this country and people, let’s not drag this out any longer. We have the rule of law, and that says that in cases like this, the amount fined and interest is what the guilty party has to come up with. No gimmes, do-Overs, Kings X, fingers crossed, or any other child’s play: it’s time me to apply the law as it’s written.

A quick calculation:

If the helicopter service cost $15 in 1965 (for example), that would be the equivalent of $134.04 today.

I could see a New York cab ride costing that much in 2023.

This thing is a land yacht! When I lived in South Florida, the IT director was from Noo Yawk, with that kind of accent and he had a ‘72 Buick in a darker green. He ruled his kingdom with fear; after being hired, he’d keep an eye on what you were doing, and a misstep resulted in a visit from him, in a not-so-good mood. Being the kind of guy he was, he might still have that Buick.