Legally Bondi!

Oh my. Pamzilla appeared before the Senate Oversight Committee armed to the teeth with oppo research on every Democratic Senator who had the audacity to ask questions. She rolled her eyes, insulted them, made up shit they'd done, made up contributions to Democrats by donors related to Epstein, stayed silent, defended her boss and did everything BUT answer questions. Pam Bondi would be the worst lawyer in any other regime, but isn't the worst because of the existence of Alina Habba Do and Lindsey Halligan, not to mention Todd Blanche. She isn't anything other than a mob lawyer keeping the wolves at bay from her mob boss employer. She is the Attorney General for all the people. Stop while I guffaw. Bondi is a dumpster fire, and nobody is going to put her out. As long as she's in office, existing as a street tough doing the mobsters revenge, she's a joke. She accepted a $25000 bribe  campaign contribution from Trump while serving as AG in Floriduh to keep her from indicting the fraud Trump over his fraud Trump University. We all know what she is and are just haggling over price now.

Meanwhile the beauty queen lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, appointed as US Attorney for Virginia because the Godfather thinks she's hot, and willing to do whatever he wants, justified or not, has indicted former FBI head James Comey for something. She's an idiot insurance lawyer who has never tried a case and boy does it show. She was castigated by a judge for being so incompetent she couldn't even file paperwork correctly for the indictment of Comey. Comey, who has the best lawyers in DC, should have no problem beating this rap. Halligan is so dumb she filed a court document setting the trial date for Jan 5, 2025, 9 months ago. This is the real men in women's sports argument. She's about to be crushed.

The Godfather Don, who just has to have a roundtable every week in which his cabinet kisses his ass, leaving their self-respect at the door, is just sitting there glowing in the praise, hitting on any hot chick he lets in the door. Yesterday it was table full of "independent journalists" also known as right wing grifters paid to further the regimes bullshit. Total frauds like Andy Ngo (Trump fell asleep listening to this dullard), Jack Posobiec and some Seattle grifter who claimed Trump had turned her views around right before he told her how attractive she was. Others like Savanah Hernandez from TPUSA and Katie Daviscourt, a blonde Post Millennial "reporter" who dressed like she had been hired as an escort for an orange businessman. And Nick Sortor, a grifter who followed Secretary Swizzle Stick Noem all over hell documenting her idiocy, insisting there is actually an Antifa, dressed as a frog perhaps? Pathetic

Finally, ICE continues on their revenge tour of Chicago and Portland and LA. Thugs, untrained clowns, right wing whackjobs and horribly nasty men who'd been stuffed into lockers in middle school are the ICE base. Cheered on by bigots and assholes but fortunately met with resistance by the people, these jokers are failing miserably at Stephen Millers 3500 people a day bounty. 10, 11 or 12 of them at a time chasing grandfathers into coffee shops to earn their bounty, shooting people who get in the way, and pepper balling priests yet they claim to be under assault. Oh yeah, they are ICE, a bunch of incompetent snowflakes who soon will learn "I was just following orders" aint gonna work as a defense. 

This country is being run by a bald little worm named Stephen Miller. This Miller is perhaps the most powerful Nazi to ever be that close to the Presidency. The day he goes to prison cannot come soon enough.

Herb Alpert!

 If you are a child of the 60's you couldn't get away from radio hits by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. And you liked them. The poppy trumpet and the rest of the Brass. Now of course we know that there never really was a Tijuana Brass as he used session musicians yet who cared?

Alpert brought his latest version of the Brass to Omaha last night to perform in front of a full house. The crowd was lively, shouted out questions, stood and applauded way too much for a guy with a bad knee and loved every second of it.

Alpert is 90 years old, looks great, plays great, moves great and tells stories like a fun Grandpa. Beginning with The Lonely Bull , Alpert went right into action Above the band was a giant screen that showed old tapes of 1960s shows in which Herb Alpert appeared on, commercials that featured Alpert's music (Tea Berry gum), old music videos of the brass playing in bullrings, racetracks, on the beach, and onstage. It was a fascinating watch from the aspect of a kid from the 60's. Johnny Carson, the Dating Game, Rowan and Martin among others.

All the hits were played, many of which I'd forgotten about. Whipped Cream (Alpert has a great story about that album cover which apparently got some loudmouth in the crowd "through puberty") Spanish Flea, Love Potion #9, This Guys In Love With You (another great story) Rise, Smile, Tijuana Taxi, Mexican Shuffle. The songs are all there.

As an added bonus, the former lead singer of Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, Lani Hall, was brought out to sing short snippets of their hits. Oh yeah, she is also Herb Alperts wife of 52 years. Another great story of how they met, how he ordered the Brass to stay away from Brasil 66's women singers during a tour so he could have Lani to himself. He's so great at weaving a story together unlike other old men we are subjected to.

This legend is 90 years old. If you get a chance, this concert is a must. You'll be smiling for 90 minutes.

The Week That Was!

The invasion of America has hit a new concern. Portland, Memphis, Chicago, Los Angeles and every Home Depot in this nation has been invaded by Trumps goons, ICE. The Mango Mussolini has doubled down by sending National Guard troops into American cities that didn't vote for this fragile Ego'd little bitch. The results are predictable. Since there is no attack on ICE in any of these places, lets manufacture one by unleashing these J6ers, Proud Boys and just plain thugs onto the normal people who say no more of this fascist shit. They march out like little goosestepping pretend soldiers, adorned in gas masks, slapping their night sticks into their hands, and flak jackets and when nothing happens, they attack the protesters. This results in videos of goons beating up hippies, appealing to the Archie Bunkers still alive, and thus, the hey what's the context questions. They show old WW II footage to the Idiot in Chief, tell him its (fill in the blank) city, he buys it and then Stephen Miller takes a break from eating mice, and orders the baboons in cool uniforms to wherever to bust heads. Then Miller takes a break from jacking off to Holocaust videos to manufacture a new "crisis". The day these pieces of dung go before a court and get life will be a great day.

Meanwhile, Pete the Drunken Dingleberry Hegseth takes a break from homoerotic speeches to Generals to bring out videos of American fighter pilots killing Venezuelan fishermen or leisure boaters by blowing them out of the water. Many of them were heading for port, not to the US to force fentanyl down your poor kid's throat. These are war crimes of course, as the evidence that these people were drug runners is nonexistent. But Hegseth just keeps showing them, which I'm sure makes him think of hairless buff shirtless men that definitely are not gay (SNL credit), and gets his Christian nationalist crank all hard. The day this guy goes before a court will be a great day.

Kash Patel, the Twitter troll, and head of the FBI has become even more incompetent as his reign of error continues. Patel was hired, along with his fellow podcasting prick, Dan Bingo Bongo, to get into bum fights with Democratic Congresspeople for maximum Fox and Newsmax exposure to appease the base of monkeys. Patel has recently ended FBI cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center because of woke or some such shit. This means when one of those organizations comes to the FBI with credible threats from racists, anti-semites, or your general psychotic loser, Patel and Bingo will ignore it. Thus, I assume the FBI will also not take seriously what White People Are Superior groups tell them about phony Antifa and BLM activities. Yeah sure. Patel's job is to protect white nationalists aka the MAGA base. 

Meanwhile, the Tiffany Network, home of Murrow and Cronkite and Friendly, under the orders of Skydance Paramount Plus pussies, have hired Bari Weiss, a disgruntled New York Times reject, to run its editorial department. Weiss is one of those frauds that suddenly realized that grifting MAGA is lucrative and ranted about cancel culture and woke. Oh the golden oldies never fail with dummies. Weiss caught the eye of the Ellisons, David and Larry, as they buy up American media to further the conservative con job. And now this right wing grifter will be stuffing the billionaire me me me culture into CBS News. Pretty soon we will be seeing anchors like Beanie Boy Tim Pool and "reporters" like Andy Ngo and Benny Johnson spewing the regime bullshit. I guess it's good the only people who watch network news any longer are old and on their way out. Like Larry Ellison.

The shutdown continues with the GOP going full Goebbels by telling a lie often enough that people start believing it. Not since the Volkischer Beobachter has a government spewed more bullshit. The Democrats want to spend a trillion dollars on illegals health care. Put forth by every GOP weasel still shilling for this Goon in Chief, this is utter garbage. They know it but outright lying, not the usual spinning, is the new GOP way. Up is down, in is out, Antifa is fascist, and a Nazi salute is a "Roman salute". Some of them when confronted with their lies go back to spinning. Illegals go to ER, have no money, and the taxpayers get stuck with the bill. Not exactly a trillion, and not even true, but the let em bleed out on the street or die of disease argument really isn't a winner. Well at least with normal people with a heart. Those kind of folks don't death threat any politician who strays from the cruelty platform.

Finally whooping cough, measles, typhoid, tuberculosis and soon smallpox I'm sure are back. As parents listen to their internet kook "research" and that gravel eating RFK Jr, about the "herd immunity" trash we've heard for years, back then from hippie weirdos, and now from dumb Magats AND hippie weirdos, back off from vaccines for their runny nosed kids. The spread of dead diseases, long thought gone, one of humanity's greatest achievements, is back. Red States like Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Missouri and Louisiana have outbreaks of these diseases. Congrats rubes. It's almost back to when America was great. 

We are fucked.

The Outsiders!

 The touring company of the Outsiders has come to Omaha before launching nationally next week. They call this a "try out" stay where the kinks and any other problems are dealt with before going national. You'd never know judging from this musical performance tonight.

Based on the S E Hinton novel and the 1983 movie, the story involves 1967 Tulsa where the city is divided by East, where the greasers live, and the West where the "soc's" or rich kids live. Whenever they catch the other on their side of town, fights ensue.

The main characters include Pony Boy (a fantastic Nolan White), his love struck kinda dumb brother Soda Pop (Corbin Drew Ross as a great straight man) and the oldest brother Darell (the glue of the play Travis Roy Rogers), Pony Boy's best friend Johnny Cade (Bonale Fambrini in a great understated role), the New York bred Dallas Winston (Tyler Jordan Wesley in another great performance) and Cherry Valance, the soc with a brain and a heart (a wonderful Emma Hearn).

The story is familiar. The greasers, the poor kids made fun of by the soc's, just want to be left alone to go to movies and malls on the west side but cannot because they get attacked if they are found. Johnny Cade is beaten to a pulp and seems to know his days are numbered. Pony Boy tries to keep him together while at the same time making an attempt to keep his brothers supportive. But Pony Boy is wracked with guilt over his parents' deaths he feels he could have prevented. The play involves this guilt turning to rage and the killing of the main soc, a brutal rich kid, by Johnny. The run from the law, the turning the kids into heroes saving children from a fire, resulting in the death of Johnny. There is no redemption here as in the opening song states, this is the way its always gonna be.

The music is good but there is a lot of copying from other musicals here. I heard Hamilton, Hadestown and Grease type music which does come together. The songs are good, the lyrics are great, and the stage presence is phenomenal. There is a scene of a rumble in a park, done in slow motion with rain pouring down, with bright lights signifying what's it like being knocked out. Its superb choreography, maybe the best I've seen in years. Another scene when the soc's try and drown Pony Boy, complete with sound effects and the sense of drowning onstage is also so great. 

But the truly great moment in the Tony Award winning musical is the goodbye song of Dallas Winston. Tyler Wesley knocks this moment out of the park. But it's ended and Pony Boy's narration takes over, denying Wesley of any applause. That was awkward but he got his due during the curtain call.

The first act is very good. The second act is great. A solid two hours of fun, sadness and wonder. This cast of young up and comers, many making their touring debuts, have no weak spots. They all act and sing like wily veterans. 

On the negative side. Not much, but when Pony Boy bleaches his hair blonde and they tell him he looks like Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry, sorry but as Max's Mom pointed out, he looks more like Beavis. Thats all the bad I got.

In conclusion, if you get the chance by all means attend this awesome musical. I expected not much and got more than I expected. That is the definition of a great experience.

Bravo! And stay gold Pony Boy.