November 15, 2018 “Down with this motherfucker.” Apparently, Robert De Niro didn’t get the memo from Wide-Bottomed Hillary, the one that said civility would return when the Democrats took over the House.

November 15, 2018

“Down with this motherfucker.” Apparently, Robert De Niro didn’t get the memo from Wide-Bottomed Hillary, the one that said civility would return when the Democrats took over the House.

Although I was trained not to construct universals from particulars, particularly when there are myriad particulars, London Lamar, a Black woman recently elected to the Tennessee legislature, is “pushing the envelope” on White people turning their eyes away when Black people, particularly public Black people, say stupid, really big-time stupid, things. “Boys will be boys” has been replaced with “Blacks will be Blacks”. Apparently, the quiet racism of low expectations of Black folk now rules. Maybe Lysenko was right. Although it’s been 153 years since more than 650,000 White men died – including  relative of mine - overturned the Dred Scott decision, the burden of being captured by Black men and transported by Black men to be sold to White men has proved to be a burden too far to be shed.  I mention Lysenko because of the generic imprint that slavery caused.to be seared into Black Americans. [Maybe the lack of “slave blood” is what caused Jesse Jackson to threaten to cut Obama’s “nuts” off. Maybe not.] That’s why it’s OK for London Lamar to say “Tennessee is racist” and people who vote for Republicans are “stupid”. I wonder if she thinks the people who voted for Lincoln were “stupid”? White folk, particularly sensitive ones, guys like me, are always looking for guidance lest we be branded with the new Scarlet Letter “R”, for Racist. I get them confused but was it Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton who used the term “hook-nosed diamond merchants” when discussing Jews? I know it was Louie Farrakhan who called Jews “termites” just before a bunch of them got shot at shul. And for this Trump, with a daughter who converted to serious Judaism and gave him 2 serious Jewish grandchildren is called an anti-Semite? Whenever I watch a slew of Maxine Waters’ constituents loot and pillage a 7-11 and I hear her describe it as “alternative shopping” I call the local hatch and ask if any of their boobies are missing. And somehow this is all my fault?

A bunch of White high school seniors in Baraboo, Wisconsin had a group photo taken of them holding their right hands up. For this, the POO – Perpetually Outraged and Offended – are, and can you believe it, outraged and offended. They are being investigated by the Wisconsin Attorney General, and thank God they don’t have real crimes to investigate, Saturday Night Live, The View, CNBC, MSNBC, the BBC, NPR, and the UN. If they had simply held their right hands up and made a fist they would have been hailed as speaking truth to power and showing solidarity with the Black Panthers – Remember them? – and they would have been on the righteous path to being inducted into the coven of Social Justice Warriors. 

Is there a racially neutral way to say that Doctor Brenda Snipes – I italicize Doctor because it is based on time in grade, enduring insufferable ennui, not scholarship. – the Black female supervisor of elections in Broward County is an incompetent jackass? She got the job because her predecessor, also a Black female multi-degreed educator, was abysmally incompetent and was fired. Protocol demanded that she be replaced with another Black female multi-degreed educator. No wonder Johnny can’t read. I’m from Hudson County, NJ. At least when they put the fix in there, the numbers added up.

Two things:

A – Perhaps not quite like Keats watching “when a new planet swims into his ken” but there was something big hanging out in the southeastern sky this morning. The rising sun chased it back from whence it came. Further study is needed, beginning tomorrow morning. Could it be the place “from beyond the stars” from whence our rights come? Maybe.

B – Our cousins, the Brits, are doing what free people always do when they are making up their minds.It’s in public; it’s not pretty; dishes may be broken; sometimes bad language is used; but in the end they decide. 5 years ago, I read where the EU sausage committee in Belgium, in Belgium? fined a British Banger company because the angle of its product deviated too much from the mean. That alone was sufficient reason to blow the whole kit and caboodle up. The thought of some tight-assed Walloon telling the children of men who beat the Kaiser and took Hitler to the mat caterwauling about how curved a friggin’ sausage can be is bonkers. As the Iron Duke said of Waterloo, “It was a damn close-run thing”. I am glad they appear to be getting out while the getting is good. Here the sensible and honorable thing to do is to get the lion’s arse out of that particular breach. Let Boris Johnson and Rees-Mogg duke it out to see who gets to put new curtains into 10 Downing Street. In the Roman Catholic Church it is called papabili

Even a blind squirrel can find an acorn. Congresswoman Chiquita Ocasio-Cortez is spot on right about Amazon welding itself to the public teat called New York city. Bezos has more money than God. That means no hot stove is safe from his corporate tentacles.

All of his looting of public funds is done in the name of “creating” jobs so the boobs who now rule the Democratic party, the ones who think that raising taxes and the minimum wage is the one sure way to the land of milk and honey only if you don’t count Cuba y Venezuela. At the end of the day he is going to get $76,000 for each job he                                  “creates”. Speaking of things done well, I “created” more jobs in the ‘80s than all the companies on the Dow-Jones Industrial Average. And it was simple. I had interests in energy entities in 5 states – New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio, and Canada. Oil, gas, coal, gold, and zinc. From Crossroads, New Mexico to Timmins, Ontario I hired people and I helped people start their own businesses. I did not do this for eleemosynary or altruistic reasons but because it made sense – dollars and cents sense for me – to so do. Also, and here’s the fun part, the companies on the DJIA in 1980 “created” no new net jobs in the ‘80s. In fact, there were fewer people working for them in 1990 than there was in1980. That made my approximately 420 – not counting accountants and lawyers – akin to what the New Deal thought it was but wasn’t.

I watched UConn, coached by Danny Hurley, beat Syracuse, coached by Jim Boeheim, in basketball at Madison Square Garden, last night. 3 things: #1 – If you only see one basketball game you must see it at MSG. Its collective memory survived the move from 50^th street to 34^th street. #2 – Coach Boeheim’s classmate, teammate, and roommate, Frank Nicoletti, was my lawyer when he was “of counsel” at Finley, Kumble before they imploded taking more casualties than this country took in Grenada. #3 – The father of the UConn coach, Bob Hurley, Sr – and thank God for Google but be sure to include “Sr” in your search – coached teams that had 2 common denominators: A – a Kamikaze defense that seemed to have 6 or 7 guys on the court and – B – And they knew what to do at the end of the game. Other than some faulty foul shooting – if your going to miss a foul shot make sure it’s the last half of a 1 & 1 – which can be corrected, the collective memory, the institutional memory, of 1000s of hours at the White Eagle Hall on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, just like Isaac Stern on the violin or John McPhee with a word processor, shone forth. Plus, his Mom looked great.

Kevin Smith

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PS – I remember Pere Hurley would have foul shooting drills at the end of practice when everyone was tired, just like at the end of a game. And then they would only take 3 shots because there are no 4 shot fouls in basketball.