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Friday, November 13, 2026

FRIDAY IS THE BIG DAY

 Yes today is the day. A day we reverently celebrate each year, along with tens of 1housands of others. But before we get to the big day, let's review some of the current issues. 

Microsoft is still mostly down. Outlook is the worst email service in the history of communication. So we have no sympathy for Outlook users. Join the rest of the world and get gmail. 

NVidia is a ....buy.  Really. There is a difference between a social issue (like this) and a company issue. They still have two trillion dollars in orders. They still produce the most wanted and best AI chips that are changing the world. They just had a CEO who was all too human. If you question our advice, we will quote an investor of some renown who has been moderately successful in investing: 

When people are greedy be fearful. When people are fearful be greedy. 

Warren Buffet (for our robed readers, he is the most successful investor of the last 100 years, our description of him was sarcasm.) 

HAPPY NATIONAL ODD COUPLE. DAY

November 13, 1970 is the day Felix Unger was asked to leave his place of residence. As legions of Odd Couple fans know, that request came from his wife.  Today thousands of fans will gather outside the San Remo on Central Park West (yes we know the address is often shown at 1049 Park Avenue) and share good times, swap stories, and engage in trivia with their fellow Odd Couple fans.   A good time will be had by all. (We've done it many times). There's even a National Odd Couple Day social media account run by the NYPD- a group of New York cops who grew up on the show.





Felix loved to pretend to be a lawyer. There are a few great court scenes in the Odd Couple.. Here's one of our favourites: 



We cannot tell you the number of times we have wanted to use Felix's line. 

Thursday, November 12, 2026

52 YEARS AGO

The Rumble in the Jungle; the sweetest right hand ever thrown and landed was 52 years ago today as Muhammed Ali in 1974 regained the heavyweight championship for the second time, knocking out George Foreman who was considered indestructible: 

 


 The zoom for the Remembrance of Gene Zenobi tomorrow is: 

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

REMEMBERANCES

 HAPPY VETERANS DAY. You can search up our prior posts on this subject and we hoped you paused at 11:11 today and spent a moment in silence for the doughboys who were the first to die on European soil to keep the world free. Sadly, they would not be the last. 

Speaking of remembrances, the remembrance of Gene Zenobi is up this week on Friday in the big courtroom on 4 starting at 2pm.  We hope you attend. Gene was a remarkable man. 

Gene Zenobi 



Sunday, November 08, 2026

NFL WEEK 9 2026

UPDATE: ANOTHER FOUR OUT OF FIVE WINS DAY.  We are ordering the Opus One this week. 

If you are a U of M Hurricanes "fan" then most of you just canceled your plans to attend the final quarter of the National Championship game because the Canes lost to Notre Dame last night (and somewhere in Miami Judge Moreno was smiling last night). Fickle Miami fans won't support their teams if they lose, and now you need somewhere else to spend your money. Perhaps that new restaurant everyone in Miami wants to be seen at, along with a lease on a new Porsche to pull up to the new restaurant?

Well smarten-up and let us "learns ya somethin" as they used to say in our old neighborhood up here in the Northeast on a glorious November fall day (after a few days of rain). 

Last week we gave you Steeler RB Jaylen Warren over rushing yards. He got over 100 in the first half- an ea$y win. While Warren is having a great year, the real secret is that the upstart Cleveland Browns cannot stop the run, much like chucklehead Floridians cannot stop voting for Maga drones. 

This week the Browns play the Saints and you can get some nice odds on Saints RBs Estime over 40 yards and Kamara over 50 yards, Our pick is Estime over 40.  [ WIN]

Rams -4.5 over DC in a bounce back game. [WIN]

Giants -3 over the hapless Eagles. [WIN]

Chiefs -9.5 over the sinking Jets.  [WIN]

And home dog Falcons +3 over the Bengals. the over 52.5 is high, but what the heck? You can always make more money charging extra for no actions right?  [loss 😱]


Friday, November 06, 2026

US ATTY JUMPS SHIP

 Sdfl US Attorney Jason something or other has jumped ship and quit. 

Use your own metaphors for what jumps a ship. 


Never never never quit. 

Winston Spencer Churchill. 

Thursday, November 05, 2026

NOT US NOT HERE

 Count on Florida to hold the line. 

While the rest of the nation returned to a bit of sanity, Florida continued to elect and re-elect science-denying, immigrant hating, MAGA republicans; proving once again that our state is populated by an overabundance of Chuckleheads. 

The more things change in the Country, the more things remain the same in the State that proudly has a county named Dixie. 

Meanwhile, California Governor Newsome, in an act of political courage, commuted the sentence of over 500 inmates on death row. They will now serve life in prison. 

Soft on crime? No. 

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals”

Fydor Dostoevsky, The House Of The Dead. 

(Sadly we can probably count on one hand the number of Floridians who have read that book. But a whole lot more can belt out Dixie.)

Wednesday, November 04, 2026

SERIOUS HELP NEEDED

 First congrats to Artie McNeil, one of our two new elected judges. Well deserved and he will do a great job. We don't know the other elected judge so....good luck.

Next, help is needed. 

It's a new day and America is reeling from what is being called (by some) an unprecedented amount of voter fraud. The DOJ and FBI spent tens of millions of dollars, assigned hundreds of agents and dozens of experienced prosecutors and indicted an earth shaking ....ready now...twenty-eight people!!!! for election fraud. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. We have it on good authority at least another dozen people who shouldn't have voted did. 

So. we need your help. 

1) If you saw lines of suspicious looking North Koreans at your polling place, click here. They are identifiable by all being thin and are puzzled on how to use a smart phone. 

2) If you saw dead Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro near a polling place with a laptop trying to hack voting machines, click here. He was everywhere on election day. 

3) If you saw lines of illegal Haitian immigrants snacking on cats waiting to vote illegally, click here. 

4) If you are in Michigan and have been recruited into a holy Jihad against the US by their new senator, click here. Also click if any judge has applied sharia law in deciding your case. 

5) And finally, if you saw a MAGA DOJ poll security expert trying to impound a ballot being cast by someone who looks suspiciously Hispanic  (especially Mexican )  only to be wrestled to the ground by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while she was waving a Soviet flag and holding a copy of Das Kapital, click here.   

Remember if you see something, say something. We are a nation of snitches. 

We will get through this disaster of an election day and muddle on. 

And that sigh of relief you heard last night was all the DeSantis Drones on the bench when whasshiszname won the race for Governor. Their dreams of the 3rd DCA survive.