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Last Halloween, my grandson was "on restriction" but we had a great time, carving a pumpkin, he had a costume, I bought candy and let him run around the apartment building pretending he was trick or treating (no one in my neighborhood actually trick or treats, and most buildings are security coded, so in my 16 years of living here, I've never had a trick or treater), and I'd let him knock on my door, express surprise, and let him grab some candy I had in a bowl.
For the rest of you, hope you have a fun Halloween tomorrow!
I was watching the game at my local watering hole, and when the Rangers went ahead toward the end of the game, I just figured it was done, paid my bill, talked to the piano player, and went home. I didn't even turn on the TV, just sort of kicked it for a few and went to bed (I've been nursing a toothache for a few days anyway).
I wake up this morning only to find out that not only did the game get tied by the Cards, they won it in overtime, in the 11th inning! One thing, though, if I HAD stayed at the bar to watch the game, I might not have been sober enough to even walk home! Still, I hate to miss thrilling baseball games, and am bummed I didn't at least put the TV on when I got home!
Earlier this month, the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union in New York City held a fundraiser to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It just so happened that this the credit union many of the protesters at Occupy Wall Street (OWS) were using to store funds — and the protest group became an honoree at the dinner. When Goldman Sachs found out that OWS would be at the dinner, it pulled out of the event, along with its $5,000 donation. Despite the threat from the mega-bank to pull its money if OWS would be honored, event organizers decided to go ahead anyway. “Their money was welcome, but not at the price of giving up what we believe in,” said Pablo DeFilippi, associate director of member development at the National Federal of Community Development Credit Unions. “We lost their $5,000, but we have our principles.”
Now that the OWS protestors have moved up to Times Square, there is a fabulous series of webcams posted throughout that area. I generally like to watch the New Year's Eve broadcasts live at 9 p.m. my time, in New York, rather than wait until the overly hyped, fully commercialized television crap that runs on at midnight my time!
Here are some screen captures I just took (it's about 7:30 p.m. their time).
First off, there were so many stories in so many forums, of the protesting all across the globe that it will be hard to attribute some of the numbers and cities to the articles where they came from. But, I will do my best.
In Frankfurt, continental Europe's financial hub, some 5,000 people protested at the European Central Bank, and some were setting up a tent camp aiming at permanently occupying the green space in front of the ECB building.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spoke to about 500 demonstrators outside St. Paul's cathedral in London, calling the international banking system a "recipient of corrupt money."
U.K. police contained most London demonstrators in the streets around the cathedral, near the city's financial district. Protesters erected tents and asked supporters to bring them blankets, food and water as they settled down for the evening.
Several hundreds more marched in the German cities of Berlin, Cologne and Munich and the Austrian capital of Vienna, while protesters in Zurich, Switzerland's financial hub, carried banners reading "We won't bail you out yet again" and "We are the 99 percent."
Protests were held in Helsinki, Madrid, Lisbon, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Berlin, Zurich, Hamburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Athens, London ....
In Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city, 3,000 people chanted and banged drums, denouncing corporate greed.
About 200 gathered in the capital Wellington and 50 in a park in the earthquake-hit southern city of Christchurch.
In Sydney, about 2,000 people, including representatives of Aboriginal groups, communists and trade unionists, protested outside the central Reserve Bank of Australia.
Hundreds marched in Tokyo, including anti-nuclear protesters. In Manila a few dozen marched on the U.S. embassy waving banners reading: "Down with U.S. imperialism" and "Philippines not for sale."
More than 100 people gathered at the Taipei stock exchange, chanting "we are Taiwan's 99 percent," and saying economic growth had only benefited companies while middle-class salaries barely covered soaring housing, education and health care costs.
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In Paris protests coincided with the G20 finance chiefs' meeting there. In the working class neighborhood of Belleville, drummers, trumpeters and a tuba revved up a crowd of a few hundred that began to march to the city hall.
Solidarity hero Lech Walesa is flying to New York to show his support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
"How could I not respond," Walesa told a Polish newspaper Wednesday. "The thousands of people gathered near Wall Street are worried about the fate of their future, the fate of their country. This is something I understand."
A former shipyard worker who led Poland's successful revolt against Soviet communism, Walesa said "capitalism is in crisis" and not just in America.
"This is a worldwide problem," he told the Lublin-based Dziennik Wschodni newspaper. "The Wall Street protesters have focused a magnifying glass on the problem."
But, we are still dealing with the police run amok over these protests.
On the other hand, corporate America is going to be bombarded in another way, by a new site called Occupy the Board Room.
Today, you, the 99%, can make your voice heard directly to the Wall Street elites who wrecked the economy and made the rest of us pay. Find a pen pal below and tell them a story that explains why they need to listen to you after acting for so many years like your words don't matter.
-------- Rather than bumping my older post to the front page and adding the new stuff, you can read the older post by clicking to it, and I'll add my updates to this part two.
When this thing started out in New York on Wall Street, it was a rag tag group of people that, seriously, many on the left through their blogs, were quite skeptical of. Only a few hundred people, no real manifesto so to speak, blah, blah, blah. A lot of liberals had grown tired of the demonstrating the past few years as (1) media never covered it and (2) nothing was ever accomplished.
I don't know if I was ever in that group. I've always been supportive or protesting, even if it goes nowhere. Yes, there is the disappointment that after all that work, you go home and are depressed, but persistence pays off, and for the most part, over the last couple of years, there has been a lack of persistence with respect to protesting.
We saw a difference in Wisconsin, where persistence was beginning to pay off. In the end, Walker still passed his laws, but what followed were the recall elections (and Walker is still waiting for his). Court challenges followed. There was a bit of change in what Walker thought was going to be a cakewalk of dismantling the public sector and replacing it with his own private cronies. And Walker was but one of many governors that followed an eerily similar blueprint that was obviously orchestrated by people like the Koch brothers and others that are part of the 1%.
Occupy Wall Street morphed into Occupy Your Street (insert town) to the 99%. They are one in the same in that the protestors are the 99% that have been left out of any profits earned in the last few years, are part of the people fired by the 1% that kept making money by the firing, are part of the college graduates that are up to their ears in debt but can't get a job because of the 1% only paying shit wages so they can keep more of their 1%, and they are the millions who have lost their homes thanks to the 1% (some of whom not only profited by creating the housing bubble, but have actually picked up foreclosed homes and gloated about it, including one of the Republican candidates for POTUS job). For far too long this has been going on, and because our politicians are the puppets whose strings have been being pulled by the 1%, including both parties, but now even more so thanks to the SCOTUS' Citizens United ruling, you'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see something like Occupy Wall Street happen. When even Obama refuses to prosecute the bad guys (well, who couldn't see that coming when he refused to prosecute the bad guys from the Bush administration over the two wars we are in, the unlawful surveillance of American citizens, etc. - hell, Obama agrees with the Bush administration's practices as we have all found out by now), and kept throwing good money at bad money, the 99% finally found their voice.
The big news of course, has been the police brutality all across the nation, attacking the protestors with their batons and spraying them with tear gas. Never mind the fact that there are videos of this everywhere, as usual, the press (which are owned by the 1%) gloss over it, make light of it, blame the protestors as being hippie, 1960's anti-war like, (and that's the mild stuff, because they are also being called anti-American and a lot of disgusting untrue analogous references to the Vietnam era protestors), thus resulting in a "movement" that has no cohesion, therefore is deserving of the dismissive attitude by media.
The line being drawn in the sand was supposed to be Friday's clearing out of the Zuccotti Park by Mayor Bloomberg, ostensibly to "clean it up" but we all knew it was to get a foothold into the park and thereby not allow the people back in. They (the owners of the park and Bloomberg) have backed down it seems. This from AmericaBlog:
Late last night, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, backed down from their attempt to evict #OccupyWallStreet. MoveOn shot a great video of the protesters getting the news and their reaction.
I was in Chicago on Monday and although did not see the protests on Sunday, I saw the Robin Hood protestors in their boats going up the river with their signs. Also, being in Los Angeles, our mayor has even issued a proclamation allowing the protestors here to remain on city property, and there have been no arrests or beatings like in New York, Portland and other areas. I'm not a fan of our mayor, but at least he's got some sense of what is going on across the country and he's not about to get besmirched by reacting negatively.
SEATTLE - Police experimented with a new tactic Friday night as they responded to a weeklong Occupy Seattle demonstration at Westlake Park - ticketing drivers who honked in support of protesters.
Yeah, that will stop the protestors, you morons. Honking in support of protestors is what people who drive by in their cars have done since I can remember! But now, that's a ticket, a tactic that these boneheads think will thwart support for OWS! And just what do the police anywhere think is wrong with OWS anyway? They are most certainly not part of the 1% and don't they realize that this movement represents THEM as well?
Still, it doesn't seem like the police are handling these protests very well. Not to mention, when the Teabaggers were just as belligerent during the Democratic health care town halls - and mind you, there were members of Congress present - the cops never reacted like this.
Occupy Wall Street is like the kid in the fairy story saying what everyone knows but is afraid to say: the emperor has no clothes. The system is broken. Think about the promise of global market capitalism. If we let the system work, if we let the rich get richer, if we let corporations focus on profit, if we let pollution go unpriced and unchecked, then we will all be better off. It may not be equally distributed, but the poor will get less poor, those who work hard will get jobs, those who study hard will get better jobs and we’ll have enough wealth to fix the environment.
“What we now have — most extremely in the U.S. but pretty much everywhere — is the mother of all broken promises,” Gilding adds. “Yes, the rich are getting richer and the corporations are making profits — with their executives richly rewarded. But, meanwhile, the people are getting worse off — drowning in housing debt and/or tuition debt — many who worked hard are unemployed; many who studied hard are unable to get good work; the environment is getting more and more damaged; and people are realizing their kids will be even worse off than they are. This particular round of protests may build or may not, but what will not go away is the broad coalition of those to whom the system lied and who have now woken up. It’s not just the environmentalists, or the poor, or the unemployed. It’s most people, including the highly educated middle class, who are feeling the results of a system that saw all the growth of the last three decades go to the top 1 percent.”
I first posted on this subject here on August 22, 2011. Here's a little tidbit from Matt Taibbi's blog about this, with a very interesting point.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris sent a letter to state and federal regulators explaining that she pulled out because the proposed settlement amount for banks guilty of bad securitization practices leading up to the mortgage crisis – said to be in the $20 billion range – was too small.
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I’m convinced that the deal will eventually go through, however, after some further concessions are made. Certainly the absence of both New York (whose Attorney General Eric Schneiderman gamely started this mess by refusing to sign on or abandon his own investigation into corrupt securitization practices) and California will make it difficult for the banks to do any kind of a deal. But there is such an awesome amount of political will to get this deal done in Washington that it almost has to happen before the presidential election season really gets going.
If it does get done, expect a great deal of public debate over whether or not the size of the settlement was sufficient. Did the banks pay enough? Should they have paid ten billion more? Twenty? Even I engaged in a little bit of that some weeks ago.
But if and when that debate takes place, it will actually obscure the real issue, because this settlement is not about getting money from the banks. The deal being contemplated is actually the opposite: a giant bailout.
In fact, any federal foreclosure settlement along the lines of what’s been proposed will amount to a last round of post-2008-crisis bailouts. I talked to one foreclosure activist over the weekend who put it this way: “[The AG settlement] will be a bigger bailout than TARP.”
Another bailout. More giveaways to the 1%. Nothing fair to the 99%. And media keeps asking what is the point of OWS? Open your eyes, stupid people!
Two senior Treasury officials said Friday that they had never seen a loan restructuring similar to an Energy Department loan to a failed solar panel maker.
The half-billion dollar loan to Solyndra Inc. was restructured earlier this year so that private investors moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment on part of the loan in case of a default.
You read that right. The loan was restructured so that private investors will get their money before the TAXPAYERS!
Great title (from this article). On the way back to O'Hare, there was a sign facing those leaving O'Hare going into Chicago that, I paraphrase, said Welcome to Chicago, We're Broke. It was a bit longer in phrase, but I really can't remember it other than it struck me odd as a "welcome to my city" type sign, because of its rather blatant slap. Most "welcome to my city" signs are upbeat, and if it has something important, it is usually highlighted in the welcome sign.
Drowning in deficits, Illinois has turned to a deliberate policy of not paying billions of dollars in bills for months at a time, creating a cycle of hardship and sacrifice for residents and businesses helping the state carry out some of the most important government tasks.
I am flattered! You've been spending quite a bit of time this week reading my blog and my archives! Thanks for giving me the hits. Of course, I also have your IP address and other interesting computer data information that you leave every time you pop" in and "visit." Plus, I know every page you look at, how long you stay on the page, what time (work, of course, so I hope you have a billing rate for reading blogs!), your browser, your operating system and even the resolution of your screen/monitor! You'd be surprised how much more I know about you than you know about me! Love the link to Super Lawyers! LOL!
Whirlwind short visit. Had its ups and downs, but overall, it was a very pleasant visit. Too many pictures taken to even start to put online. I did get to see the Robin Hood protestors crossing the river in their row boats, though, live, so that was way fucking cool! Went to the Baha'i House of Worship at night when all the lights are on. It is really a fabulous building, and I actually cried like a baby inside. I hadn't been there since I was 16, and it is such a spiritual part of my whole life that to be there (there is only one House of Worship in each country, so they are very special) overwhelmed me. My daughter, of course, loved Wilmette area, but it's way over her price range (sweety darling!). Rogers Park is like a cross between the East Village and the West Village, but with a lot more trees. That's where my grandson has been living.
Flight there was a breeze, getting around was easy, flight home was delayed a bit, today was hell trying to catch up to work.
Will post more over the weekend, both political and personal.
By the way, hat tip and shout out goes to my new favorite (Chicago) bar, Duke's! I was only one of two rooting for Detroit to beat Chicago on MNF, and it was a hoot! I had called around the Rogers Park area to talk to the bars to see where my daughter might like to go hang out after she had to bring her son back to the babysitter or the dad (although, I have to say, the dad let my grandson spend the night with her a few nights while she stayed at the motel, so props for that), so when my daughter got there and called Dukes (I told her since it was a GLBT bar, she'd probably have more fun), the bartender tells her "hey, your mom called us last night!" How funny is that? They sent someone over to her motel to walk her to the bar. That doesn't happen at most places EVER! So on Monday night, I hung out with her at Dukes. First time I was so so so drunk, but REMEMBERED everything! No blackouts whatsoever! And it was cool walking back after the bar closed (they gave me my drink "to go") we stopped off at another bar, the Glenwood, that was closed, but the bartender from Dukes knew the bartender Wally, so he opened up and poured us a round! Very friendly neighborhood, I have to say.
For not flying in 11 years, I had no problems, no gripping of the seat handles on take off, no headaches upon landing! I'm ready to get back into the traveling game.
I leave at midnight and arrive about 6 a.m. tomorrow in Chicago. I am staying one day (the day my grandson has off from school). My daughter is there for her "one week" visitation. Our hearing keeps getting tossed around, but for now, is set for November 1, 2011. In the meantime, we both will see Zaire, go to the Baha'i temple in Wilmette, and if we have time, check out OccupyChicago (although my daughter told me they went there already!)
I can't wait to see my grandson! I haven't flown in 11 years, so this will be a new experience for me. I was told to put as much as I could that I was taking on the plane in see through plastic bags. Since I'm basically staying only one night, I'm bringing my purse and a really, really, tiny little bag with a change of clothes! Of course, I have all my phone and battery chargers! I am traveling light, and will be asleep (hopefully) for most of the plane trip. I come home Tuesday, and since it's an hour and a half from O'Hare to the motel where my daughter is staying (cost me close to a grand to pay for it, but it's two blocks from where Zaire lives, so I had to go for it), I may not get much time, if any, to see the grandkid on Tuesday, since my plane leaves around 7 p.m. I'm nervous as hell and already have had three valium! I'll have a few drinks before I leave, and maybe one at the bar at the airport, and then hope I can just fall asleep. I'll post when I get back.
Flying to Chicago to see Zaire. Leaving Sunday at midnight, arriving at about 7 a.m. Monday morning.
Just another Manic Monday - trying to navigate the subways, trains, bus systems from O'Hare to Rodgers Park. Of course, knowing ME, I've already set myself up at Duke's Hideaway bar for Monday Night Football (lol) and am in their pool as well. Damn, I'm good! And friendly, don't forget.
With all this talk about making government and public sector jobs go away to cut the deficit (whether it be state or federal), along with the equally absurd notion that the private sector either will, or can, take these jobs, I have to weigh in here from my perspective with my job. In the legal field, the court system and all the employees are what would be considered government or public sector oriented. Over the years, the lack of funds for judges, clerks, secretaries, etc. in Los Angeles, forced the court system last year and part of this year, to shut down one day a month. No work, but no pay either. So, that just all alone created a backlog. Then having to lay off judges, forced the smaller pool of judges to hear a larger pool of cases, thus increasing their caseload, thus increasing the wait time for lawyers on even simple matters such as Case Management Conferences (which were quick and easy, and are still quick and easy, except when you close 20 courtrooms in the county, you have to wait two hours before you get to your ten minute Case Management Conference). Letting go of the clerks has increased the wait time for those Judgments lawyers desperately need for their clients, for without the judgments, you can't collect on what you won. Same with the wait time for Writs, Abstracts, defaults, etc. Although, in some cases, even if it takes the default clerk a week to get to your particular request for the default, it will still be "stamped" defaulted the day it was submitted. Still ... what used to be a one day turn around, became two to four weeks, and then four to six weeks! Laying of sheriffs, that delays the levy process, or the lock out process if you've just won your unlawful detainer action to evict the non-paying tenant at your property. I literally had to beg a clerk in San Bernardino, who informed me they can only hand out five eviction notices to three sheriffs one day a week! For all of SAN FUCKING BERNARDINO COUNTY! Since it was the holidays, and although I hate to kick someone out of their house during the holidays, in this particular case the defendant had beat us twice in court (never let your boss tell you he's going to serve the documents -- always insist on using a licensed process server as I have consistently reminded him). Finally, when on the third trial we actually win since the occupants had been by that time literally staying in the apartment for free for close to six months, I am told that I have to wait two more weeks until after Christmas because she has booked all of her sheriffs for the maximum five lock outs! Fortunately, she sort of understood that the owners were going to lose another two weeks of rent, so she consulted with her boss and got one fucking extra day in during that two week dry spell, and my lock out was one of them.
Adding to the misery is the increase in the number of people representing themselves because they simply cannot afford a lawyer, which has resulted in most courts having a self help area where the judge sends them to assist with obtaining and filling out the proper documents. The lines for the self help filings are longer than the ex parte lines on any given day! Jury trials -- when was the last time there was a raise for a juror, especially if you are sitting for a two to four week trial? My girlfriend was summoned to a jury pool, and it turned out to be the one for the Michael Jackson doctor case -- she was recused, but she told me about the 30 page questionnaire she had to fill out, which I thought was rather odd, but then that would be standard for any high profile case.
My point is, even though I personally think some of these clerks, judges, secretaries, etc. are overpaid and are too stupid to do the job, and remember I said SOME (don't get me started on the court in Compton, I actually had the head clerk there call me and ask me to apologize for something I put on a "buck slip" [that's the cover sheet that is attached to the documents the attorney service picks up every day to file in the various courthouses] and I mentioned that this filing in Compton would be difficult because the clerks there don't know their brains from their asses!) I asked her if my default was going to be entered any sooner if I apologized and she said no, so I just hung up on her! But, a lot of the clerks are very helpful.
The delays also affect cases negatively. I have a case that my office for plaintiff and the other office for defendants are so acrimonious toward each other that we requested and was granted what is called a discovery referee, so the court doesn't have to actually hear every single motion relating to discovery issues. Yet, I only this week got the signed Order on the recommendation of the referee that he submitted in JUNE! Four fucking months! All that does is delay trials, cost our clients needles wait time (and sometimes more money, but not always). I mean, it's only a $40 fee to hear a motion to compel, and maybe a few hours to write it up (we don't charge the high fees a lot of lawyers do, we stay between the $250 and $350 per hour range), and generally 15 minutes to argue the thing. The discovery referee charges a gazillion dollars to both sides to do basically the same thing, and instead of getting a ruling from the bench on the day of the motion, with the referee, I end up waiting four months for an order that allowed me to FINALLY get documents from some banks that the defendants didn't want us to see!
The problem with the backwards logic of cutting back on public sector jobs is that the growth in population mandates growth in the public sector! More students need more teachers, not less. More litigants need more judges and the judiciary, not less. More people means we need more cops. More people means that we need more firemen. More people means that those services that are generally offered from the public sector must increase, not decrease. It seems logical to me, and I have experienced it first hand waiting in court half a day for a 20 minute hearing. I really hate to bill a client for something like that.
Anyone that knows me, knows that I am always in a "New York" state of mind. Even as I post, friends are staying at my place in Harlem, for free, and after I got airline tickets at a discount price they still can't believe I can get.
NYC is my second home town, and this song embodies all of who I am and what I feel.
CAIN: I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself! [...] It is not someone’s fault if they succeeded, it is someone’s fault if they failed.
No, Mr. Cain. It is corporate greed and Wall Street that did this to Americans. The unemployed need not apply is the current mantra for many companies that are actually hiring. Being unemployed is not a choice you stupid dirt bag. It's what has happened all across America thanks to corporations FIRING their workers and sending the jobs out of the country, along with closing down factories and FIRING the workers. All so the CEO's and shareholders can make more money by not having to pay living wages to AMERICANS. Dumb people like this is a true example of where we are going in this country, because a lot of people (with money) really believe this crap. And that is why I still feel there will be actual riots and violence in the future, by the have nots against the haves. "If you don't have a job and are not rich, blame yourself." That's a good one, Herman.
From AMERICAblog, entitled: "New York Observer: Exclusive "Occupy Wall Street" Unaired Fox Footage"
Great, articulate and spot on comments from a "protestor" filmed by Fox News that never saw the light of day on that network!
Workers Union is going to court today in hopes of blocking New York City from forcing bus drivers to transport any Occupy Wall Street protesters after the New York police department commandeered at least three buses to take many of the 700 protesters off the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend. Last week, the TWU voted to support the Occupy Wall Street movement and called the order to bus prisoners “a blatant act of political retaliation.” “TWU Local 100 supports the protesters on Wall Street and takes great offense that the mayor and NYPD have ordered operators to transport citizens who were exercising their constitutional right to protest — and shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place,” TWU President John Samuelsen said. Samuelson said that by instructing the drivers to follow the police directive, the Metropolitan Transit Authority violated its contract with the Local 100.
Earlier updates.
Credit: Ian Murphy's cell phone
LIBERTY SQUARE, NY--despite the early morning rain, morale is high. A reported 100,000 copies of The Occupied Wall Street Journal have just arrived. The young occupiers are busy handing out the four page broadsheet to curious passersby and the protest tourists, who linger on the outskirts of Zuccotti Park, snapping photos of signs and the occasional blue-haired hippie.
Oh, and let's not forget the mantra "class warfare!" Let them eat cake (or in this case, drink champagne).
A picture is worth a thousand words.
It seems the movement is spreading; Video of Americans in Boston, courtesy of Think Progress.
The occupation of Wall Street appear to be organically spreading, as similar movements are popping up across the nation, in locations as varied as Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street firms will be the target of a nonviolent demonstration in which organizers say they want 20,000 people to participate with tents, kitchens and “peaceful barricades” in lower Manhattan.
Dubbed “#OccupyWallStreet,” the goal of the protest scheduled to start today is to get President Barack Obama to establish a commission to end “the influence money has over our representatives in Washington,” according to the website of Adbusters, a group promoting the demonstration. Organizers want participants to “occupy” the area for “a few months,” according to the website.
“People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we'll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sept. 15 at a press conference. “As long as they do it where other people's rights are respected, this is the place where people can speak their minds, and that's what makes New York New York.”
I don't usually play betting pools re sports, but at my new watering hole, they have straight up pick the winners of all the games each week (not based on under/over or point spreads). I won last week, but had to stay at the bar on Monday to see who won that game to determine if someone tied me, which no one did. Tonight, I walked into the bar, and they simply handed me the money. I had picked 13 correct teams to win and no one was close so that it didn't matter who won tonight, I would still have the best record. Sweet!
Everyone wants to sit next to me when I put my bet in on 10/6, LOL. We shall see! I told my readers I am a sports pig ... now I am proving it. Who walks into the betting arena and is handed the prize before the last game is played? ME....!!!!
P.S. If you were wondering what happened last night with the "no pre-game show" with Hank Williams, Jr., it was pulled because of this segment that aired earlier in the day on Fox News:
