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Congratulations to Jeff Bagwell on his well-deserved induction, today, into the Baseball of Fame (See My Blog for July 6, 2009).  I was watching an episode of "The Little Rascals", their young, pretty, well-liked, teacher is engaged to be married.  Her fiance, wearing a coat and tie, arrives at the school at lunchtime to see her.  The little rascals, afraid that if she marries him, that she'll no longer be their teacher, tells him all these horrible lies about her, the fellow leaves.  Learning of this, sobbing,  ...How could you children do this to me?...  We should try to have no regrets about what we say

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I've had a boatload of Hits from Japan, of all places, Abe, get off your fat butt and hire me.  Billy Walters was sentenced to 5 years in prison, now "71", he'll have to serve about all of this as it's a Federal sentence.  Billy profited an illicit 43 mil on Insider Tradings tips from Tom Davis, over 6 years.  A gambling-legend, who had a segment of "60 Minutes" about him, Billy boasted that no year wasn't he ahead on his Sportsbets, in 2013, his various businesses took-in a half bil, so this was relatively chump-change to him.  U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, preceding sentencing  ...Billy Walters is a cheater and a criminal, and not a very clever one.  The crime was amateurishly simple...  Billy comes from humble Kentucky roots, rising-up to fine attire and luxurious surroundings, but he was still a malevolent, dumb, tobacco-chawin' Hillbilly.  There was a good movie in 1989, "Johnny Handsome", due to his mother's drug-use, a guy was born facially-malformed, he turned to a life of crime, while in prison, a plastic surgeon (Forest Whitaker), said that Johnny Handsome's problem was his appearance, and that when righted, so would his actions.  So Johnny, after his operation, looked much better, well, he looked like a young Mickey Rourke.  Released from prison, he resumes his life of crime, leading to a bad-end, with the overseeing Police Lieutenant (Morgan Freeman), noting ...What that Quack didn't realize is that you can change the outside, not the inside...

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Scott told me to not send him any more postcards.  On this past trip, I sent him 3 postcards, and he only got the one from Corsica.  Of the other 2, one was sent from Ben Gurion Airport, also 2 years ago, I sent a friend of mine, Al, the Filipino Minister (worked as an electrical engineer on U.S. Air Force Bases, maybe 20 years ago, he got a higher-calling, as he puts it), a postcard from Ben Gurion, and he never got his (for sure they got to this country).  I've been talking-about the drug-addled U.S. Postal Service in Las Vegas for years, with no improvement

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That chick who hosts "Horror Hotel" on the Action Channel, boy is she cute, those teeth.  Billy Walters is scheduled to be sentenced on July 27, and the Prosecutors are going for 10 years, the maximum-allowed, let this be a lesson

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Flip Wilson (Dec. 8, 1933 to Nov. 25, 1998), was perhaps the best of the Black Comedians, he was amongst the best of the Comedians, and had a wildly-popular show on NBC, from 1970 to 1974, reaching 2nd-highest rated on TV.  In his skits playing "Geraldine", he's now remembered as "her" trademark being "What you see is what you get", well, it wasn't that at all (why would it be, not funny), what "she" actually said, while, say, flouncing down the stairs was "What you see is a lot more than what you're going to get".  Not some one who took himself overly-seriously, he was playing cards with these guys, with Flip's bid being  ...One Spade...

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Now, so far as double D's, this wasn't the SD paper talking about some local guy, he was based in St. Louis and had a big national reputation, that wall would know more about doing good investments than him.  Jimmy Swaggart is still on TV, he'd be so full of the Spirit, that he'd preach 4 hours without notes.  The Emperor Commodus began persecuting the Christians of Alexandria after hearing that they had laughed at him

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See My Blogs for June 21, 2015, Oct. 8, 2015, March 24, 2016, and Dec. 21, 2016, on the "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau".  See the editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, for July 12, 2017, "Arbitration dispute"  ...While arguing that "everyone has a right to their day in court" sounds persuasive, arbitration can be a reasonable tool for dispute resolution, speeding the process and lowering costs for all involved ... ...In fact, Mr. Cordray's diktat is a sop to the trial lawyers, a key Democratic constituency that contributes millions to the party's coffers ... "This bureaucratic rule will harm American consumers but thrill class-action lawyers",  noted Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee...  Why is it that I would be expected to take-on Citibank and MasterCard, who have ripped-me off for multi-thousands of dollars, on my own, instead of seeking and finding redress through the Federal Branch of the U.S. Government per the U.S. Constitution?  And it's not just me, but hundreds of thousands of Senior Citizens, Obama is gone, time to get this going

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I was once in San Diego, reading their newspaper, the "Union-Tribune", I turned to the business-section and saw a big picture of someone I had known well and long.  It was the same as turning to the business-section, and seeing a big picture of Donald Duck, with an accompanying-article saying that he knew a lot about investments.  He and I had been involved in a Futures operation, and the last I had seen him in the flesh, he was so on the downslide, that I had wondered, ha, ha, if he was dead.  As long as he has a moving-mouth, he'll hang in there, you don't sell the steak, you sell the gristle.  Scott is going to San Diego, where he's from, for a week.  Supposedly, amongst others, he'll be seeing Joe.  Friends since 7th Grade, 9 years ago, Joe was living in Scott's house in Las Vegas, but they had a disagreement, and layed hands on each other.  In such instance, there is no friendship, and you go separate ways.  But just recently, Joe reached-out to Scott, and they'll be seeing each other yet again (can't we all just get along?).  I don't know why I'm weighing-in, it's no concern of mine

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The 24 Hour Fitness SuperSport at 5035 W. Tropicana in Las Vegas, is a refuge for big drug-dealers and pimps, they're allowed to use the facility as their safe-harbor.  On an upbeat athletic-note, yesterday, I took-in the NBA Summer League, I saw 16 teams play, yeah.  The Thomas-Mack seats 19 thou, while across the hall is Cox Arena, which seats 5 thou, and seeing a game there, you're really on top of things.  A game begins in Cox, while a game begins in the T-M, a half-hour later, 4 games in each.  When a game ends, the next 2 teams rush-out.  I'd see a half in Cox, then a short-walk across the hall to see a half, I was there from 1 to 9:30 P.M., I had no food, I hope to soon recover.  The teams are young guys, with brief or no NBA experience, there's the prized-rookies, but most are hungry-fellows trying to win a job, some will.  The caliber of ball is very-high, just to be allowed to go-out for an NBA team, you have to be very-good.  De'Aaron Fox showed-us why he was the 5th pick in the recent NBA Draft, and I'm telling-you that D.J. Wilson, "21", 6'10" and 240 lbs., who only started one year at Michigan, is an absolute-steal for the Milwaukee Bucks as the 17th pick, he shoots 3's, he handles the ball-well, I wish the Cavs had him.  There's a lot of former players in attendance, you see many very-tall guys in their 40's and 50's, all looking pretty-good having kept themselves-up, the tickets are all general admission, grab a seat where you can, $33                                        

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I'm at the Flamingo Library in Las Vegas, which is very-nice, physically.  But the Staff allows people to yell, use bad language, the Homeless wheel large-carts in filled with their worldly-possessions, a lot of normal-people won't come here, which is supposed to be a source of information in pleasant-surroundings.  And they have ample Security Guards, some of whom wear a Glock 9 mm., they just walk-around.  San Diego has cleaned-up their public libraries, with no one allowed to bring in a bag over a certain small-size, going to the library should be an enjoyable-experience for everyone

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Vlad, your continuing-interest in me is unhealthy, what are you, a moocher?  I'll accept dollars, rubles, or bitcoin

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4th of July, bye and bye, heh.  Most of my Hits, a ton, are from Russia (their minds are in the gutter), so pay-me, Vlad, you swinish old bastard.  Us boxing-fans had a real-treat on Sat. Nite, with the Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn, WBO Welterweight Championship on the ESPN.  What a robbery, the Australian, Horn, only connected on 15% of his punches, before 55 thou, at Brisbane, called the "Battle of Brisbane" in remembrance of the actual (See My Blog for Oct. 5, 2010).  It looks bad for the home-country, for a foreign-contestant to be so blatantly "jobbed".  Like when Germany's Axel Schulz fought George Foreman at the MGM on April 22, 1995, seen on the HBO, for the first 6 rounds it was even, the last 6, Axel punched George's eyes out, when the decision was announced, the people of Bad Saarow, who were watching in the wee hours in the town-square, pelted the screen.  Before he became Muhammad Ali, he was Cassius Clay, 18-0, and fighting British journeyman Henry Cooper (May 3, 1934 to May 1, 2011), (55-14-1), at Wembley on June 18, 1963, before 35 thou, a prelude to his Heavyweight Championship Fight with Sonny Liston.  Prior to the contest, Cassius said that Henry was ...a bum... and no one to be concerned-with, Henry said that he didn't mind.  Towards the end of the 4th Round, Henry, known for his left-hook, connected on Cassius' jaw, with a punch that Cassius later said ...My ancestors in Africa felt..., Cassius falling-into the ropes, and saved by the bell.  Cassius' trainer, Angelo Dundee, in violation of the rules, led Cassius back to his corner, and applied smelling-salts, also in violation, then he told the referee and judges that he had "discovered" a split in the right glove (Angelo later said, that he had created the split).  The time it took to put-on the new glove gave Cassius the opportunity to recover from the punch that had taken-him off his feet, and in the 5th Round, Cassius renewed, vigorously attacked, with the scar-tissue bursting-above both of Henry's eyes, the bout stopped at 2 mins. 15 secs.  Henry knocking-out Cassius would have been disastrous for Cassius' career, the last I heard, Sir 'Enery's gloves were hanging in a London pub beneath   These gloves didn't split