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Father’s Day

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I had a great Dad, and I was fortunate enough to work with him professionally. We both worked in an office setting in New Haven, Ct., and Dad was the big boss. I had the chance to watch him run meetings, and manage personalities. We laughed a lot, and I was proud of him as a manager, and was in awe of how he went about his work. Cut to Friday. I was hired to speak at Jake’s company. He was pretty nervous about all of it, and when the owner of the company walked up to the two of us and said: “Are we good? We have a lot of people here.” I just laughed. I did the two hour talk, and at one point, I caught Jake in the audience, laughing and shaking his head. Made me think of how I felt watching my Dad do his thing. And I was doing that talk for more than just the company who was paying me. I wanted Jake to know that he can stand up and be confident, and that he should do a better job than anyone was expecting him to. He’d been beside me before they handed me the microphone so he knew I was ...
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A Meanness

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We watched 20/20 last night about a young woman who was abducted from her home while she was watching her two infant children. Kathy knew the story because I’m fairly certain that she’s seen every murder ever committed. I knew nothing about it, and as the story was told, I kept hoping that it was simply a story about a kidnapping that had a happy ending. It wasn’t, and it was simply horrific. First off, why do we watch such a thing as entertainment? There are a lot of true crime shows. They are highly rated shows. Secondly, I thought about the man who committed the crime. He was an unemployed plumber. He was a guy who’d lost his job, and his wife. He was also a father, of a 11-year old boy. He simply broke in, took the woman, and killed her. “How can a man do that?” Kathy asked. “Sir, there’s just a meanness in this world,” I said, quoting Charles Starkweather in the 50’s and mowed down anyone in his way during an infamous killing rampage. The young mom was in the wrong place when the ...
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Obama Presidential Center

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It’s been a long time since I listened to a politician speak and thought: “Damn, THAT guy is brilliant.” I saw a couple of great speeches yesterday. Mandami’s tribute to the Knicks was very well done, but the speeches made for the Obama Presidential Center were a lot of fun because those I listened to were filled with compassion, and empathy, and brilliance. “Obama is a cool guy,” my son texted me. “No doubt,” I said. “Handled the job with grace and class.” The ceremony for the presidential center was attended by all the living presidents THAT matter. As Obama spoke I considered how he must feel when he hears Pedo Pig refer to him as a ‘dumb son of a bitch’. Imagine hearing that from THAT thing. And I also thought about Michelle Obama being roasted by MAGA. The stupidity THAT goes into someone believing she is a man is astounding. The Obama family is what the religious right refers to as their idea of what every human should be doing. A man and a woman in a longtime marriage, with two ...
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Let’s Make A Deal

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Wow. Iran did all right, huh? The Art of the Deal - which is absolute fiction garbage that fooled millions of Americans is on full display. I won’t bore you with the details but what America achieved was getting the strait open. It was closed when they dropped the bombs, used as leverage to out maneuver the morons who went in without a plan. America First, huh? Good job voting there, MAGA…. …Iran First was what you voted for. And Pedo Pig in his rambling, incoherent, fart-filled speech had the nerve to call Obama (who truly cut a deal) a ‘stupid son of a bitch’ on the world stage. So sad. Yet, it was all almost worth it because Marco Rubio, who hated pedo when he wasn’t a suck up pig himself, had to stand beside the orange dude as he let go with his gassy speech. Was almost all worth it to see the expression change on Marco’s face when he caught a whiff. What a beautiful celebration this 250 year anniversary will be. Celebrating the end. With the slothiest American ever leading the way...
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Summer Fun

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Ollie will go over 30,000 catches today. He’s crushing it as we have a lot more time to play with the dry days. He also gets a lot of time in as I mow the lawn. It’s aerobic mowing as I make the trip up and back, and he figures my path, and drops the ball on my right hand side. I throw, he catches, and brings it back. It takes a little longer to mow, but it’s his favorite day of the week. Of course, summer always brings me a case of poison ivy because I like to scour the woods for stray golf balls. I have a mild case, but it’s irritating. Summer also brings earlier work hours, which doesn’t mean I get done earlier. Getting old for such long hours, but WNY has excellent weather this time of year. And that brings the summer backache. I tweaked it tying my shoes on Monday morning. I was sitting down. Simply turned to the right, and 💥  Poison ivy, a sore back and a crazy dog allows time to fly on by. Summer fun in the sunshine. Go Yankees.
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White Trash

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There’s a video clip of three MAGA hillbillies in a wrestling match on the White House lawn. One of the wrestlers or fighters, or whatever hell they are called Michelle Obama a man. Pedo pig fell asleep. The reflective pool is filled with algae after the $14 million, no-bid contractor messed the entire thing up. The Iran ‘Deal’ is an absolute ass-kicking as it is worse than what was torn up. We are white trash. I didn’t watch any of the $60 million birthday party other than the couple of clips. I did see the idiot call Michelle a man, and that truly disappointed me because it tells us exactly where we are as a country. Racists. Embarrassing. No matter where you stand, look at what they’ve done to the property. They paved the rose garden. Demolished an entire wing. Ripped up the lawn. Not to mention that the Oval Office now looks like the room they dragged Sadam Hussein out of. Gawdy. Ugly. White Fucking Trash.
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Knicks in 5! & A Long Week Ahead

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I made it through an NBA Game- start to finish - and I’m glad I don’t bet because my feeling before the game was that they would clinch it on their home court in Game 6. They did it in 5 because they never backed down when things got tough. Brunson is a terrific player. Opened my eyes on Sunday morning knowing that my favorite 4 hours of the week was coming up. Got a text 90 minutes before tee time: “Doesn’t look good.” What???? I glanced out the window. It looked all right to me. Checked the weather forecast. Rain for the next hour. Stopping in 30 minutes. Next rain cloud showed up at one in the afternoon! “Pouring here,” was the next text. “I heard thunder.” Five minutes later, everyone backed out. Yep. Between 8:15 and 2:00 it rained a total of 3 minutes. We skipped a cherished round of golf because we would have had to wipe down one club around hole 15. I certainly was not going to fill my time with the white trash olympics on the White House lawn. The one thing that keeps me stres...
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