Come Heller high water …
- If I had been on O.J. Simpson’s parole board, his parole hearing would have gone like this: “Are you willing to admit you killed them?” “No.” “Next!” Ten seconds. Boom. Done. Instead, this killer will once again roam the land. And golf courses. And of course he’ll be looking for Nicole and Ron’s killer behind every sand trap. Once a mockery of justice, always a mockery of justice.
- Big Andrew Heller column announcement: I hereby declare that I am changing President Trump to “Republican President Trump” in all references (unless I
forget, in which case you can politely remind me, as in “Hey, numbskull …” Why am I doing this when I’ve never before identified presidents by their party affiliation, even that genial dunderhead GWB? Three reasons: 1)Because I thoroughly reject everything this man stands for; 2) Because he’s not my president; and 3) Because Republicans elected him, so they get to take credit for him. - By the way, if Republican President Trump wanted to make sure Bob Mueller investigates his finances, the best way to do it would be to tell Bob Mueller not to investigate his finances, which of course is precisely what Trump did. God, he’s dumb. It’s like he’s never met another human being.
- Listen, if you want to be part of fixing this country, the single best thing you can do is stop posting material from alleged “news” websites that lean hard left or hard right. I won’t read that stuff. I want my news straight, not filtered through ideology.
- I also think news should be labeled “news” and opinion should be labeled “opinion.” CNN has helped blur the line between the two with its news model of covering three stories, tops, followed by hour after hour of “experts” debating those stories. Increasingly, I find people can’t tell the difference. They tell me they heard something on “the news” but what they really heard was someone’s opinion about the news. Whole different animals, people.
- Sure, the Tigers might have gotten more for J.D. Martinez if they’d waiting until the trade deadline. But they also might have gotten nothing. As much as I love the guy, his contract is up at the end of the season and there is no way – given the gobs of money owed to Verlander, Cabrera and Upton – they could give him a new one. What fans ought to be upset about is the Tigers giving Verlander a super-long deal. You don’t give pitchers long term deals because they are the orchids of the baseball world.
- I sure am glad “Game of Thrones” is back on HBO. But I’m warnin’ ya, HBO, if it starts getting too grim and too sadistic, I’m outta here. I did it before and missed a season or two, and I’ll do it again.
- I was a major comic fan as a kid. We had thousands of them. So many, in fact, my older brother opened a comic book shop with them as an adult. So I love superheroes. And yet I haven’t gone to see “Wonder Woman,” which is supposed to be wonderful. And I won’t go see “Spider Man,” which is also supposed to be great. I guess I’m kinda superheroed out, y’know? As Bob Talbert, one of my column idols from long ago, would say, “You, too?”
- “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee.
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Andrew, the Nevada Parole Board cannot ask any questions nor consider the matter of the murders of Nicole and Ron’s. It is not a matter that is relevant to the matter of O.J.’s parole hearing. They can only comment on the charges that he is in prison for. ABC is too wrapped up in O.J.’s parole hearing. Airing he parole hearing of O.J. is a waste of air time. A lot of people do not care about O.J.
President Trump is still your president whether you like it or not.
As far a Mueller going after President Trump’s finances, why does he need to do so? I thought it was all about President Trump’s use of Russian salad dressing that was being investigated.
Mueller has had close connections to both hilliary and slick willey.
Hilliary and the previous president have more connections to the Russians
than President Trump has.
One of these days someone like hilliary may win the presidency and you will be rejoicing over that. However, within a short time disillusionment will set in. It will not be the utopia that you imagine. Anyone that the state determines as an enemy will suffer. You will, If you live long enough, will find yourself labeled as an enemy of the state. Socialist democratic states usually kill and or imprison those that they consider a danger to their way of government. You as a newspaper columnist fit that description. Lenin, Hitler, Stalin and Mao did the same thing. Eliminated those that they in their minds might become a threat to their method of government.
Plenty of people care. Anger at injustice doesn’t die.
There is no injustice. You are just an angry, bitter little man.
Hillary lost – Get over it
Proud that you voted for a complete douche or just too dumb to admit it.
Republican President Trump will be hoisted on his own petard.
The Republican Party is no more. Republicans just haven’t figured that out yet. It is now the “Trump Party” driven by the ideology of the bigoted alt right and enabled by conservatives.
So “Trump Party President Trump of the United States of Trump” is what you mean to say.
Ha ha ha ha heeeeee…… Too many words–I’ll screw it up–but I still like it.
I agree. It’s dead. But it was the Tea Party what done it. With a lead pipe. In the parlor.
But Trump Party President has a ring to it.
Here is a game we might play: Do you remember where you were when you learned the jury in California unanimously found O.J. not guilty of the murders?
I was at work, selling cell-phones in a Sam’s Club in Grand Rapids. My cell-phone kiosk was right next to Sam’s Club’s TV department. I tuned in a couple of the giant TVs to the OJ trial announcement. Not Guilty! I announced the result to all the customers and employees. When was that? Sometime in the mid-1990s?
I have sworn off replying to the trolls. Too bad our first post (above) is from the long-winded troll.
Dammit, I can’t play because I can’t remember….
However, with you all the way on the trolls. Let them talk to themselves.
Cell phones in 1995? I am having trouble remembering those, but I remember this. I had just graduated high school. I remember that moment specifically, because I followed the trial. My parents were out of state for a few day and my brother and I watched as they read the verdict. I remember feeling shocked and in disbelief. We were a “he’s guilty” household. Over the years I started to question that position though as the glove really didn’t seem to fit, among other things. It was when I heard that his best friend who supposedly knew him better than anyone else believed he is guilty that I made up my mind that I think he is guilty too.
I don’t think it’s trump party for the simple reason that republicans that voted for him know they made a big mistake. Proof is the low low approval rating. Either party will never admit they made a mistake and that’s pretty much why either party can get anything done.
Can’t not can.
O.J. the killer should not have gotten parole. He should rot in prison for life.
I still miss Bob Tolbert.
Me too. He was so fun to read!
re Comic Books
I was NOT a big comic kid, EXCEPT for a couple of WW2 comic books: Our Army At War, starring Sargent Rock, and Star-Spangled War Stories, starring Gunner and Sarge, plus The Haunted Tank. You, Andrew, may be too young for this WW2 stuff.
Anybody else out there, did you love Sargent Rock? Does anybody out there remember the time Sargent Rock and his squad blew up a German tank, just with their bayonets, when they were completely out of ammo?
I want to ramp up Andrew Heller’s blog, from a sort-of semi-regional Michigan blog, to a noticed, respected national and international go-to and quote-from entity.
Three-Point Plan:
1. Andrew, Dear Leader, you need to start writing good posts, at least twice per week.
2. You faithful smart posters, please just keep on a-readin’ and a-postin’.
3. We need MUCH better trolls!
On the web site, we have terrible, stupid trolls who cannot write well. We have silly simple-minded people who tell us about the fact that they carry guns, but cannot explain why. If we are to have a first-class blog site here, we need MUCH BETTER TROLLS!
You trolls are embarrassing. I am embarrassed just to ignore you .
Let’s get cranking with this blog! Andrew, please post more often! And, trolls, please sharpen your pencils, and make yourself worthy adversaries to Andrew and the rest of us smart, happy, loving blog-people.
I thought the president now was Trumputin
Tom,
You and Fred are very arrogant and bigoted. In your world the only opinion that matters is yours
and yours alone. In your world we would be living in the book 1984. There would be no freedom of speech. Just PC talking points, anything beyond that would be treason.
Men like you want the government to do the thinking for the vast majority of the citizens. In their minds Fred and Tom think and believe that they would be part of the elitists that would rule over the rest of the population. In truth they would be the ones that would be part of the slave class. Existing to only serve the higher elite class. They could find themselves living in a concentration camp.
These are the same liberal, hate mongering who want to deny law abiding Americans of firearms. They want it easier to push their political “enemies” into camps.
I carry daily. Let them flail and cry. The more they whine, the more I laugh.
I see Sean Spicer decided to save what little dignity he has left and get out while he can. I am less optimistic that Jeff Sessions will soon follow. Jeff handed his cojones to Trump a long time ago.
Sean Spicer’s best career and life move now would be to host Saturday Night Live. Does he have the vision to go ahead and host?
Maybe he can go on and spoof Melissa McCarthey.
Right on! Are any of the national important people looking at how clever this blog is, right now? I hope so. We can give them good ideas!