Let’s go with odds and ends….

The odds encompass a wide range of silliness that accumulate, sometimes as really important issues such as, who is plugging the toilet in Sheboygan, Wisconsin?

Or why do photos of  members of the United States Congress with Louis Farrakan keep showing up even as the subjects deny having anything to do with this hater of jews and white people?  This list of friends all seem to come from the Democratic Party.  Really!  Why?

Or why was it fine for U-S president Obama to send congratulations to Vladimir Putin in 2012 after he was re-elected President of Russia but not OK for U-S president Donald Trump to do the same after Putin’s  re-election in 2018?  Do we suppose Putin’s victory in 2012 was a triumph without ballot box stuffing and the arrests of possible challenges?

Or why are all the lawyers on the Mueller Investigation team Democrats, half of whom sent money to the Clinton campaign.  You wonder if any sent money to The Donald.?

Or why can’t late night comedians find jokes that are actually funny?   Do Americans really believe that Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Myers are funny?  You want funny see the recent Facebook posting of George Carlin on the Jimmy Dean show.  I know that’s goes back years..but it’s been a long time since we’ve seen comedy that’s not laced with cruel political folderol.  How about Flip Wilson’s ugly baby story on the Carson show.  That was funny!

Or when will Canada’s Prime Minister grow-up?  Our dollar is in need of some serious policy upgrades.

Now there are some who will not think some of the Odds are odd which is odd but let me see if I can get an agreement on at least one oddity! Last week Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and filmmaker Michael Moore were involved in a televised town hall that focused on “inequality” in America.
They slammed wealthy Americans,  got the crowd worked up about the excesses of America’s 1% and generally moaned and groaned about the excesses of the rich.

Journalist Gary McIntyre decided to plumb the riches of the accusers, Sanders, Warren and Moore.  Sanders he noted likes to parade around Washington, D.C in a rumpled suit with unkempt hair, just like a no account off the street.  Sanders, according to McIntyre is doing swell–just bought a 600-thousand dollar house, earned $858, 000 in book royalties and with his Senate salary  pulled in more than a million in earnings in 2016.  Sanders says wealthy people are, “never satisfied, always wanting more.”  In 2016 Sanders was a one per center.  Does he wants more?

Senator Warren, according to CNN money is worth between $3.7 million and $10 million.

Has a Victorian home in Cambridge now assessed at $1.9 million and received an advance of $525,000 to write her book,  A fighting chance.  She claims to be fighting for  the middle and working class presumably with her one percent!.

Moore who has said the level of greed by the wealthy is “crazy” while working himself into a frenzy–denouncing business leaders living in “gated communities” and “castles with moats around them.”  His documentaries, “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 911.” helped him heap together a fortune of $50-million.  His 2013 divorce proceedings revealed the couple’s house was a 10-thousand-square-foot Michigan mansion.  Gated.

Don’t know about the moat but Madonna and Bruce Willis were living in the same neighborhood!  “Crazy.”

Now for the ends—there’s a serial toilet clogger on the loose in Sheboygan, Wisconsin!

Over the past year and a half this person, believed to be a male, has clogged the women’s toilet at the Deland Community Centre 26 times in 2016/17 and three times so far this year costing thousands of dollars for labour and repair.  Plus the inconvenience.

Sheboygan’s superintendant of parks and forestry says, “we can’t figure this one out.”

The culprit is  inserting  20 ounce soda bottles into the pipes of the women’s washroom.

(Thanks to Gary McIntyre for much of the information about the hypocrites Sanders, Warren and Moore)