… Well, I can say that I
told you so, and I did, but I won’t, even though I just did.
Another one of those idiotic sexual harassment cases has been dropped against former New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo, and as I said yesterday, the domino has been pushed, and I expect all of these cases to fall, one after the other, in due time.
Again, each one of these is a “he said, she said” situation, and sorry, I don’t believe a word that any of these women said about their "sordid" episodes with Cuomo.
Did any of this stuff actually happen? Perhaps some of these things did occur, but with the understanding of both parties as to what they were doing.
And then others, well, like they say in Brooklyn, fuggedaboudit!
Another one of those idiotic sexual harassment cases has been dropped against former New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo, and as I said yesterday, the domino has been pushed, and I expect all of these cases to fall, one after the other, in due time.
Again, each one of these is a “he said, she said” situation, and sorry, I don’t believe a word that any of these women said about their "sordid" episodes with Cuomo.
Did any of this stuff actually happen? Perhaps some of these things did occur, but with the understanding of both parties as to what they were doing.
And then others, well, like they say in Brooklyn, fuggedaboudit!
To add to all of this, the current governor of New York, the former governor's lieutenant governor, is supposedly trying to must support for a new state law to put term limits on such offices as governor and lieutenant governor.
If she gets this law passed, then Cuomo can't run for governor again, even if he is absolved of all wrongdoings.
Do I hear political assassination here?
You can't get him on all of the other charges, you know you can't get him on anything, so now, you try to put the final nail in his coffin, because you know that if he could run, he would beat you and everyone else pretty badly.
Hmmmmm ...
Now, back to the pandemic …
A couple of thoughts crept into my critical mind yesterday, so I figure that I would throw them out to you guys so you can also think about them and give me yoiur opinions on them.
Professional basketball, hockey and other sports have been ravaged by the virus as much as the general public has.
Yet, somehow, these organizations can get their players to their next games without any delay, and they have enough rapid tests and full tests to last them into the next presidential election.
Yet, the public waits and waits for tests on long lines, and many air travelers cannot get home because of delays and cancellations due to the spread of the virus.
I have solutions, minor solutions, but it involves these sports teams:
• Due to the situation we are in right now, ban any charter flights, making them all commercial flights, which would allow some average Joes to fly and get out of the airports to their destinations.
And I do mean any charter flight, not just those that transport sports teams to their next destination.
Open these flights up to the public during this emergency period, and I bet that you rid the airports of at least 50 percent of the holiday travelers that are stranded in airports right now.
• Since sports teams seem to have unlimited supplies of tests to use on their players and other personnel, how about distributing some of those test kits to the general public?
For instance, each attendee at home games, upon admittance to the game, gets a test kit.
Or better yet, allocate however many test kits per day you can afford to distribute and hand them out to the public.
Simple as that.
Look, these measures won’t totally eradicate what is going on now in our cities and in our airports, but it could make things a little bit easier for some of us.
I mean, why should these teams have preference on air travel and testing over the general public?
These measures would be temporary, and it would also show goodwill between the teams and the communities that support these teams.
Maybe I am being a bit Pollyannaish by even suggesting this, but when I hear that people are waiting five days to fly home, and others are waiting eight hours to get a test, it makes me wonder whether we are unnecessarily putting certain people on a pedestal more so than others, and even though I am a big sports fan myself, it bothers me that we are continuing this type of nonsense, even during a very bad time in this pandemic that we are all supposed to be facing together as a country.
Those are my random thoughts of the day.
Now onto other things I want to talk about …
And unfortunately, they also have to do with the pandemic and the world that we are currently living in.
This past Saturday, the WWE had its “Day One” event—and don’t stop reading this if you are not a sports fan there is way more to this than instantly meets the eye—and something transpired that you need to know about.
The main event of “Day One” was a championship match between challenger Brock Lesnar and champion Roman Reigns.
As was the case in all such matchups, this bout was hyped for weeks to spark interest in this new event that the WWE was trying out this year on the first day of the year … but then, a monkey wrench was thrown into the proceedings.
In real life, not WWE fantasy life, Roman Reigns contracted the virus, so the WWE had to quickly manipulate the card to cancel this bout and include Lesnar in another title bout.
That is all fine and good, but if you know WWE and you know Roman Reigns, you also know that there is way more to this story.
Reigns is a cancer survivor, having had leukemia at least twice in his life, the latest occurrence being about three or so years ago.
He is also the top star in professional wrestling right now, so you mix the two things together, and you get a dose or reality that even the WWE can’t disguise.
They have to be really careful with the wrestler because of his past bouts with cancer, so I don’t expect Reigns to be back anytime soon.
It is just interesting how fantasy meets reality, and reality always seems to win out in the end.
Yes, these are strange times we live in right now, aren’t they?
Now, back to the pandemic …
A couple of thoughts crept into my critical mind yesterday, so I figure that I would throw them out to you guys so you can also think about them and give me yoiur opinions on them.
Professional basketball, hockey and other sports have been ravaged by the virus as much as the general public has.
Yet, somehow, these organizations can get their players to their next games without any delay, and they have enough rapid tests and full tests to last them into the next presidential election.
Yet, the public waits and waits for tests on long lines, and many air travelers cannot get home because of delays and cancellations due to the spread of the virus.
I have solutions, minor solutions, but it involves these sports teams:
• Due to the situation we are in right now, ban any charter flights, making them all commercial flights, which would allow some average Joes to fly and get out of the airports to their destinations.
And I do mean any charter flight, not just those that transport sports teams to their next destination.
Open these flights up to the public during this emergency period, and I bet that you rid the airports of at least 50 percent of the holiday travelers that are stranded in airports right now.
• Since sports teams seem to have unlimited supplies of tests to use on their players and other personnel, how about distributing some of those test kits to the general public?
For instance, each attendee at home games, upon admittance to the game, gets a test kit.
Or better yet, allocate however many test kits per day you can afford to distribute and hand them out to the public.
Simple as that.
Look, these measures won’t totally eradicate what is going on now in our cities and in our airports, but it could make things a little bit easier for some of us.
I mean, why should these teams have preference on air travel and testing over the general public?
These measures would be temporary, and it would also show goodwill between the teams and the communities that support these teams.
Maybe I am being a bit Pollyannaish by even suggesting this, but when I hear that people are waiting five days to fly home, and others are waiting eight hours to get a test, it makes me wonder whether we are unnecessarily putting certain people on a pedestal more so than others, and even though I am a big sports fan myself, it bothers me that we are continuing this type of nonsense, even during a very bad time in this pandemic that we are all supposed to be facing together as a country.
Those are my random thoughts of the day.
Now onto other things I want to talk about …
And unfortunately, they also have to do with the pandemic and the world that we are currently living in.
This past Saturday, the WWE had its “Day One” event—and don’t stop reading this if you are not a sports fan there is way more to this than instantly meets the eye—and something transpired that you need to know about.
The main event of “Day One” was a championship match between challenger Brock Lesnar and champion Roman Reigns.
As was the case in all such matchups, this bout was hyped for weeks to spark interest in this new event that the WWE was trying out this year on the first day of the year … but then, a monkey wrench was thrown into the proceedings.
In real life, not WWE fantasy life, Roman Reigns contracted the virus, so the WWE had to quickly manipulate the card to cancel this bout and include Lesnar in another title bout.
That is all fine and good, but if you know WWE and you know Roman Reigns, you also know that there is way more to this story.
Reigns is a cancer survivor, having had leukemia at least twice in his life, the latest occurrence being about three or so years ago.
He is also the top star in professional wrestling right now, so you mix the two things together, and you get a dose or reality that even the WWE can’t disguise.
They have to be really careful with the wrestler because of his past bouts with cancer, so I don’t expect Reigns to be back anytime soon.
It is just interesting how fantasy meets reality, and reality always seems to win out in the end.
Yes, these are strange times we live in right now, aren’t they?
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