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Stan: Fasten your seat belts

Bernie Goldberg asked, “Will he or won’t he toss his hair in the ring?”

If it takes you more than five seconds to recognize who he is talking about, I suggest you stop watching “Naked and Afraid” and tune in to the news once in a while. Still don’t know who he is talking about? Well this man has been, and still is, in construction big time, and he is ready to stop illegal immigration by building “… the best wall, the biggest, the strongest, not penetrable, they won’t be crawling over it, like giving it a little jump and they’re over the wall, it cost us trillions.”

If you still don’t know who I am talking about then maybe you should go back to watching “Naked and Afraid.”

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So far we cannot get any information from Hillary about the e-mails she no longer has, but perhaps those whom she communicated with still have theirs. There is a strong possibility that under the right terms they may be coerced into disclosing those communications.

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The restaurant was beautiful but the restroom was the pits. There were dirty floors, dirty walls, and graffiti all over, really disgusting. Here is something to ponder: If the toilet is so filthy, what can one expect from the kitchen? We will not return, and I will let you know what the manager-owner has to say if or when he responds to my comment.

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The 2002 Academy Award-winning blockbuster “A Beautiful Mind,” starring Russel Crowe, was a story about the math genius John Nash. The mastermind won several prestigious awards including a Nobel Prize in economics and most recently a top prize from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in Oslo. Professor Nash was connected with some of the most prominent institutes of higher education, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Brandeis University.

His beautiful mind was filled with a lot of information and theories about so many things that most of us never heard of. He knew all about “non-cooperative games,” “Nash’s equilibrium,” and “game theory” — whatever those may be. He did know a lot about mathematics, but it is sad that he did not know enough about wearing a seat belt. Two weeks ago his brilliant mind was lost when he neglected to buckle his seat belt and the taxi he and his wife were in crashed. They were both thrown out of the cab, and died instantly. Rest in peace, professor.

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When they start giving out the annual awards for the best acting on the planet, those in charge might want to ask themselves the following question: How does Josh Earnest do it with a straight face?

The White House press secretary has been very busy offering excuses and alibis for our president, and he’s been doing a great job making up the defenses. If you watch the faces of the reporters in the room, you can tell that they are holding back the laughter. I could not help laughing out loud when I heard the bovine excrement about Obama’s speech at the Coast Guard graduation. The president spoke about climate change. We have a major border problem, Islamic terrorism, a questionable agreement coming up with Iran, insulting and not looking out for Israel, and a whole lot more. Yet he read a speech that would have most intelligent world leaders firing their speech writer. He said that anyone who failed to take action against climate change was in “dereliction of duty.”

I am StanGershbein@Bellsouth.net wondering why he never used the phrase “dereliction of duty” when he spoke about Bowe Bergdahl, who truly is guilty of dereliction of duty.

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