Month: December 2017

Now granted that I am usually up on all of the latest, but this could be my best scoop! I hear a rumor that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had some very interesting comments when asked some questions concerning the spiraling attendance at some of the NFL games on November 26.
You probably will not see is anyplace else!!

Q: Commissioner, views of the stands in New Jersey at the Jets game against the Carolina Panthers taken just before kickoff show a significant number of empty seats. Do you have a comment?
A: I heard that there was a traffic jam before the game which delayed a a lot of fans from getting there on time!

Q: Commissioner, likewise views of the stands minutes before kickoff in Cincinnati in the game against the Cleveland Browns show a pretty significant number of empty seats. Any comment?
A: I heard that there was an even bigger unexpected traffic jam just outside the stadium in Cincinnati that day! This was possibly because of an unconfirmed report that some stop lights in Cincinnati were not functioning!

Q: Commissioner, pictures of the stands in Atlanta similarly showed a large number of empty seats. Any reason for this?
A: It is my understanding that there was a snafu at the various parking entrance gates that caused many fans to miss the kickoff!

Q: Commissioner, on the Internet, transmitted live, views of the stands ten minutes before kickoff in Indianapolis demonstrated a huge number of empty seats. Why was that?
A: Although unreported because of security concerns, there was a significant electrical grid problem, which spared the Internet. This caused chaos throughout Indiana. Obviously without power the fans had a lot of difficulty getting to the stadium on time, and a lot unfortunately just could not make it at all!

Q: Commissioner, the T.V ratings for the NFL games are down significantly this year. Is there any reason for this?
A: With global warming many T.V. viewers are now spending more time outside enjoying the warm fall days.

Q: Are you telling us that one million previous NFL viewers were outside enjoying the weather? Are you aware that these are stats for week 11 of this year as compared to last year?
A: Well of course not all of these one million viewers were outside enjoying the weather! Some of them were trapped in there house because their garage doors would not open because of the unreported power grid problem. Also note that because of this unreported power grid problem, a lot of avid NFL fans were not able to watch the games because their homes had no power and hence no working televisions.

Q: So let me get this straight, Commissioner. You do not think that these relatively empty NFL stadiums, and this dramatic decline in television viewership has anything to do with the NFL players kneeling for the National Anthem?
A: Of course, perhaps one or two previous fans, have chosen to boycott our product, but this boycotting B.S. is being vastly over-rated. Like I said before there are logical reasons to explain these apparent decreases.
However, please do not publicize this unreported power grid problem as it will only embolden our country’s enemies.
Thank you.

WOW!! Is this a scoop, or what?

Prior to a few days ago I had never heard of CFPB, and therefore was at a loss when CFPB was in the headlines. However, in the last few days the CFPB, which was created as part of the Dodd Frank Act of July, 2010, has been in the news quite a lot. So I decided to do a little investigating.
Before I actually started to become informed about the CFPB I saw a picture of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren (D,Ma), and Leandra English accompanied by a tweet by Nancy Pelosi which said, “Incredibly thankful for the determination of Leandra English, the rightful Acting Director of @CFPB # Defend CFPB.”
There were so many things here that I did not understand:
Who is Leandra English, and what is she so determined about?
What is the CFPB?
And finally what does the ‘#’ stand for or mean?
However one thing that I knew for sure – if a photo has Warren, Pelosi, and Schumer together with Leandra English – I would never buy a car from Ms. English!

The CFPB stands for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It turns out that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren before she was elected to the Senate. Although it is possible that this “Bureau” was created with the best intentions, it was actually designed to act as an agency free of constitutional restraint. The director was appointed to a nonrevocable five year term and it was funded by Federal Reserve profits so that its budget could not be cut by Congress.
Every thing went along as probably envisioned by its creators until October 2016 when the D.C. Court of Appeals found that the structure of the CFPB was unconstitutional, and empowered the president to remove the agency’s director at will. The next chink in the armor of the CFPB came in November, 2016 when Donald Trump was elected. In December, 2016 a very long article was written by Richard Rubin, in the National Review. Mr. Rubin had worked as an attorney at CFPB, and basically he characterized it as an organization that would initially shake down companies into million dollar settlements. Then the CFPB would then redirect millions of dollars into pockets of firms connected to top-tier Democrats. Aha! Now I get the picture of the picture of Warren, Schumer, Pelosi, and Ms. English together, arm in arm.
To make a long story even longer, the outgoing partisan director of CFPB, Richard Cordray (a big bud of Elizabeth Warren) appointed Leandra English as the acting director before he left. Now perhaps the thought was that since any newly appointed director would have to undergo Senate confirmation first, that Ms. English would have months, if not years , as the Acting Director. However, President Trump outsmarted those that thought that they were so smart, by appointing Mike Mulvaney as the Acting Director of CFPB. A brilliant move as Mr. Mulvaney had already been confirmed by the Senate, albeit to a different position, and according to the D.C. Court of Appeals (2016), the President has the authority to name the director.
Mr. Mulvaney brought doughnuts to the CFPB on Monday morning, Nov. 27, 2017 and assumed his position as Acting Director of CFPB.
The Democrats, of course, filed suit to stop Mr. Mulvaney from assuming his rightful position. I say “of course” because the Democrats file suit every time President Trump does anything that they do not like!
Hallelujah!! This time a federal judge ruled in favor of the Constitution, and Ms. French is out, and Mr. Mulvaney is in.