BBR is headed south to the Yucatan Penisula in Mexico this morning. We’ll return on July 22nd.
We’ve scheduled a couple of best of Boom Boom’s Life Lessons to tide you over till then. They’re timeless, quick, and thought-provoking reads for you. Enjoy.
One of our staff members swore the country off over 18 years ago due to comfort and safety reasons.
We’ll give it one more go.
Till then, stay cool.
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Have you ever heard anyone say, “OMG, why would anyone ever have voted for Donald J. Trump?” We thought so.
Why? “Why” was on full display yesterday in Washington DC, otherwise known as The Swamp.
Current president in name only Joe Biden addressed a few important issues. On one, inflation, he was asked what his plan was to combat this runaway train. His answer was that it’s 1) covid’s fault, and 2) Putin’s fault.
He went on and asked what the GOP plan to fight inflation was. “How about spending less?” Ted Cruz tweeted back later.
Finally, Biden went for the kill shot. His teleprompter prompted him to exclaim that his spending policies help lower inflation not make prices go higher.
In short, assign blame elsewhere, make it political, ignore the problem, and spend more money.
Meanwhile down the street another pesky Swamp Thing, 
Mitch McConnell, took the podium in the Capitol Rotunda. He proudly stated that he contacted the President directly last week and told him that in order to get more aid for Ukraine, they should rush a bill through that had nothing extraneous attached to it. Let’s get $40 billion directly to Ukraine ASAP.
He went on to say that he thought all of us could agree that the war in Ukraine was the most important issue facing Americans today. Out of touch, much?
This is the same Senate minority leader who helped usher in Obamacare after the Democrats greased his old sweaty palm with $2 billion inside of that “affordable healthcare act” earmarked for infrastructure spending in his great home state-Kentucky. If you like your interstate you can expand your interstate.
This is the same Senate minority leader who said last month that if the Republicans regained control of the Senate that he would indeed be the majority leader all over again.
This is the same Senate that has 50 Republicans that didn’t offer one scintilla of objection to his power grab before the Republicans possibly grab the power again.
Meanwhile, down at the virtual ink press, The Washington Post ran a story titled George Washington University Needs to Change Its Name. Do you notice any similarities in the two bolded words in the previous sentence?
That’s journalism 101? What’s important now?
Meh. What’s $40 billion anyway?
Is the $40 billion a part of a NATO aid package? Doubtful. How much combined have the other NATO nations provided. Our guess is that it’s in the very few millions with an “M.”
Can Volodymyr Zelenskyy turn the $40 billion into tanks, bullets, or guns anytime soon? We’ve heard of Carvana, but not Tankvana.
Have you ever heard anyone, or everyone, at a Trump rally chant harmoniously “Drain the Swamp, Drain the Swamp?”
We thought so. We hope so. Like a bankruptcy sale, everyone must go.
Maybe The Washington Post should change its name to The Swamp Post.
It should.
It’s all over but the shouting. Paperwork pending, Elon Musk has bought Twitter.
And, the shouting is all over the place but far from over.
It’s shaping up as a bad couple of weeks for the left side of ideology. First, it was masks off. Now, it’s Musk on.
Elon Musk used the platform he is buying to provide insight into what likely will be his guiding principle. He tweeted, ” I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter because that is what free speech means.”
But a lot (and we mean a lot) of “open-minded” citizens see it differently and came to Twitter and TV to tell us as much. Even the ones that announced that they were packing their Tesla and moving to Canada if Donald Trump won had something to say.
Let’s start with the esteemed senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren. “This deal is dangerous for our democracy. Billionaires like Musk play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain. We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold big tech accountable.”
There is so much to unpack in that statement. Was she speaking about herself? If Elizabeth Warren identified as a man her pro(per) nouns would be Bernie and Sanders, but we digress.
News flash, free speech isn’t dangerous to our democracy. See the very First Amendment for confirmation.
What some try to define as hate speech is indeed free speech. You might hate what they say, but it’s their right to say it. It’s just like burning an American flag. You might hate seeing someone do so, but it’s been judicially ruled and subsequently upheld as freedom of expression.
Former Presidential Democratic “want to be” nominee Howard Dean tweeted that he was out.
Thousands commented back that they were as well. The irony of using the platform to boldly announce that you’re leaving the platform is palpable.
None other than former VP Dan Quayle jumped in and tweeted, “at least seven people will miss you!” Hateful. True. Quayle even spelled seven correctly!
Well, maybe the next stop for Dean is CNN+. Come to think of it, it’s been a really bad run for those that lean left.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki, “The president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, and has long argued that they must be held accountable for the harms that they cause.” Likely he’s just been too busy to tackle this cause just yet. After he fixes the harm caused by Russia and inflation though, lookout.
A study by The Center for Responsive Politics of political donations for the midterms by corporate employees, and published by Vox shows that 98.7% of the money donated went to the Democratic party from Twitter employees.
Want more? Netflix 99.6%. Apple 97.5%. Google 96.0%. Facebook 94.5%. You can see why Biden is concerned, can’t you?
People who have preached that men can get pregnant are now concerned with misinformation on Twitter. How timely? How noble?
An African American who nearly single-handedly brought electric cars to the market to save the planet is now the bad guy for wanting free speech to truly be free.
Only in America could all of this happen concurrently.
After all, it’s the land of the “free” and the home of the “brave,” depending on whom you ask of course.
You only have two eyeballs. If you’re looking globally at the Russia/Ukraine border buildup with one and the Communist China Oppression and Olympics with the other you might be missing something.
Big Tech has entered(yet again) into its own global border buildup and oppressive tactics. And, when you consider the long-term consequences the stakes might be higher than Russia and China combined.
Let’s start with GoFundMe.com. Apparently, the fundraising website has applied to the FCC for a name change and a new domain address. It’s called Go F@#$ Yourself.com. They really haven’t applied but the newly suggested name would be quite apropos.
Surely you’ve heard by now that a GoFundMe fundraiser for the Canadian Freedom Convoy that crossed over 10 million dollars was closed down by GoFundMe. Then they announced that instead of the money going to the truckers protesting the vax mandate, they would “redirect” the donations to “credible and established charities” verified by GoFundMe.
The justification offered by GoFundMe was that it had turned into an occupation. They went on to say that there were “police reports of violence and other unlawful activity.” Both are against GoFundMe regulations to conduct a fundraiser.
This is the same platform that allowed and even gave its backing to fund the lovely new residential (tents) development in 2020 in downtown Seattle called CHOP (Capital Hill Occupied Protests). If you want to talk occupation, how about cordoning off six square blocks in the middle of downtown? If you want to talk violence, the mostly peaceful community was closed down three weeks after it broke ground after numerous 911 calls for burglaries, rapes, four shootings with two of them being homicides. Thirty new neighbors and its “civic” leader in all were arrested.
Six states, all red by the way, had aggressive Attorney Generals who filed or threatened to file suit alleging “fraud and theft” by GoFundMe of the promised money. It should be downright scary to all that we’ve gotten to this spot.
And, then there is the Spotify/Joe Rogan arm wrestle. Former hippy musicians like Neil Young have taken their music off of the platform that gives the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast a platform that over 11 million people tune in to regularly. Once upon a time, hippies sang for freedom from government intervention, now they apparently embrace it, but we digress.
First, it was “misinformation” as the culprit as Rogan brought one or two docs on that told us the entire approach to the pandemic was upside down. How dare they exhibit their right to free speech?
Cancel Joe Rogan for this misinformation (misinformation is slang for “I don’t agree with you”)! 
How dare he ask questions that allowed the docs to step outside of the test or vax lines?
Shouldn’t we revoke the docs’ licenses to practice while we are at it? Nah, they’re not the real threat. Rogan’s common sense and growing listenership are.
But the campaign to cancel doesn’t stop there. Now it’s “Joe Rogan is a racist!” He used the dreaded “n-word” a time or two too many in previous podcasts, the context of which is apparently immaterial.
Do all of these cries of misinformation and racism sound like a Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Failure, or Nils Lofgren song that’s old and tired? They left Spotify, too.
Barbara Streisand even threatened to do so as well. Woah, scary, or not. If you’re Spotify, what to do? What to do?
So far Joe Rogan apologized for what we aren’t sure about. And Spotify has now quietly deleted over 110 of his older podcasts and we aren’t sure why. You can’t be half pregnant and you can’t have some free speech.
Whoppi apologized last week and two weeks from now all will go on as usual. Rogan and Spotify should easily be able to do the same, but it won’t be easy.
GoFundMe should be ostracized to the point of going out of business, but it won’t.
Hey, did you hear that Putin has more tanks headed to the Ukraine border?
Who just won gold in the women’s downhill skiing?
There’s some good news and bad news in our world as we know it on 1/19/22. And today you’ll need to take the good with the bad. And in a marked departure from our inflationary times, you’ll get 12 for the price of 10. Yum.
We hope you enjoyed the nuggets- short and sweet.
The last thing you need after four days of overindulgence is more. We’re air frying the nuggets again today to keep them light.
That includes the USPS, though the employee union is fighting it.Post-holiday Mondays are always stressful. We hope that our fireside chat helped.
Last week Abby was downright crabby.
Coming off of only her second losing week in eight was one thing. But, labor shortages in her department are another.
This lack of staffing caused a deadline error that accidentally omitted her hunch bet. She won, but it doesn’t count if it’s not published.
Regardless, she had a week to let the canine teeth shine right through her smile. For the season the won-loss is 27 up and 21 down. The bones for are a tasty 42 v 29. The hunch bet sat in timeout and is 6-1.
To the picks she goes.
The Spartans are undefeated, but their wins are against teams with names like Rutgers, Little Sisters of the Poor, and Western Kentucky. This one won’t be too close. Two bones.Auburn squares off at home vs Ole Miss. The over/ under is 66 1/2. It seems low considering the scoring prowess of Ole Miss and as well as their leaky defense. Somehow it stays under on a hunch.
Five favorites, two dogs, one pick it, and no candy corn.
Woof!
If you’ve never been to the Flora-Bama bar, you should put it on your bucket list. No really. Bama has the best team football team in the world and 1/2 of the best bar in the world as well. It sits 1/2 in Florida and 1/2 in Bama, right on the state line, fifty yards from the Gulf of Mexico.
Cincy checks in proudly at #6 after going into South Bend and bouncing the Irish 24-13. Cincinnati’s defense isn’t Georgia ferocious, but it’s mighty strong. The Bearcats showed against ND they can perform on big stages. They have only one marginally ranked (24 SMU) left on their schedule. Is that good or bad for them? It depends on how the others ahead and slightly behind them play out.Out.
As Wall St pundits preach, “pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.”
Last week, Abby felt queasy about the games and lines and stayed conservative. The strategy paid as the bleeding was minimal and required only a small bandaid. Therefore, through four weeks the tale (tail) of the dog is 12-9 won/lost, 19-10 bones won/lost, and the hunch bet extended its winning streak to 4-0!
The matchups and the spreads get more interesting this week as key conference matchups abound.
Three, Abby loves UGA the Bulldog mascot. Two bones.Auburn visits a rainy Death Valley Saturday night. LSU can’t run the ball and Auburn can’t pass the ball. Abby expects both Tiger teams to force the action on D. On a hunch take under 56 on the total.
Seven games, eight bets, twelve bones, and a strong hunch.
Woof!
