Today in Tokyo -

 Magic?  Maybe.  1st Olympic Gold for Ireland EVER!

Look how happy they are!  I'm happy for them!  I mean, how great is that? Luck?  No.  Skill and a great deal of hard work garnered this honor.  I didn't know what sculling even was, but these Irish boys are faster at it than anyone, in this case, Germans.  I've seen my share of Olympic Games and paid nominal attention every cycle.  These Tokyo games captured my attention.  I like everything about The Japanese; the art, their aesthetic, their cuisine, their reverence of history.  They believe that strength is in the group not the individual.  The pursuit of perfection is a noble endeavor in itself; the journey is the destination.  And they made the 2020 games in Tokyo unforgettable and inspiring.  The Japanese did the impossible - they had a successful, mentally aware, harmony of respect and athletic excellence and sportsmanship during a pandemic.  Luck?  Tokyo doesn't need any.

Conspiracy Theory? No. Idea of How 1/6 Was Planned? THAT, I Have!

 Hello Fellow Travelers!

This is a classic scene from a classic film, "The Godfather".  Michael Corleone goes to the hospital to see his mafia father (Marlon Brando) whose been shot seven times by a drug kingpin, and clinging to life.

What you note through the scene, is that all the staff is gone.  Michael quickly calls Tom Hagen to send reinforcement bodyguards and tells Hagen, "Pop's all alone.  Tessio's (mob lieutenant) men aren't here."

You know what happens next.  1/6 at the Capitol was similar in many ways, the building seemed eerily empty.  The authorities were scarce and slow to respond.  It looked a lot like an obvious, GF1 movie mafia, set-up to me.  Who do we all know (besides the My Pillow guy) that was described by his own top advisor as a "f&*%ing moron"?  What GF fan thought he could pull an attempted coup off? What idiot thought he could incite a mob to overturn our election?  What imbecile surmised   Americans would just forget thousands of racist thugs trashing our sacred capitol and threatening our lawmakers with death?

I can imagine such an individual.  Someone who feels nothing for anyone but himself, values no one but himself.  Other humans only exist to serve him, make him look/sound better, increase his value.  I keep thinking things are normal, we got rid of #45, but like doggy-do-on-a-shoe, he's embarrassing, smells and sticks long after he's physically left.  He's still  here!  Make your representative aware that last you checked, we all had a sacred right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but #45 is messing up those rights.  Still.

Time to give #45 a more robust definition of what "No" means.  Maybe America could issue a Permanent Restraining Order, an eviction notice (from the country, if possible), a Bounty/Reward (whatever happened to Dog, The Bounty Hunter?  He'd be awesome!  Hey, he's a "Florida Man" too!  It'll be great quasi-reality TV!) 

As the days drag on, the arrest/indictment of #45's henchmen and stooges grows longer and deeper.  It's like an old video game I used to play- Space Invaders.   You were a big ship and you fought off smaller ships.  At first it's easy and then the little ships come faster and faster and they 'res more of them and finally you're surrounded by shooting, little, ships.  It's inevitable, you lose.  And that's how I see #45s future.  As Peter Clemenza (Mafia Capo) remarked to Michael during "the war", "you have to have one (mob war) every ten years or so.  Gets rid of the bad blood."  Do I think arranging minimal security and siccing a vicious mob on The US Capitol to kill people based on a mafia movie was fairly stupid, obvious, horrible, and therefore practically screams 'Me!   Me!  Look over here!'  Do I think this is exactly the sort of scat Sir Orange traffics in?  If I gave an answer, I'd run the risk of being called a conspiracy theorist.  I just have ideas...