Let's talk about Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.   - ok ok - You heard of  him as BAD BUNNY..

- ANd listen - I don't listen to his music- Dont' really care for it ,.., but art / Music is subjective- to each their own....

and let's not pretend that NO ONE ever used a stage name  !!  

Marion Robert Morrison   - aka John Wayne

Norma Jeane Mortenson   - Marilyn Monroe

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, - aka Sting

Paul David Hewson -- Bono 

For those shouting that we should have an AMERICAN artist for the Super bowl half time show:

 if you were not aware Puerto Ricans are AMERICANS - by LAW  - American Citizens...!  

and no - despite that, they do not have all the rights of Citizens - they have no representation in Congress and do not vote in presidential elections.... and when the Orange Jesus says he met with or talked to the President of Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands - IT's HIM ! even though is too stupid to know that.

And as far as Americans for the Half time show : 

Were you bitchin about Gloria Estaban (a Cuban American), Phil Collins (British) , Enriquw Inglesias (Spanish),. U2 (Irish) , Paul Mccartney - The Rolling Stones, The Who ...  Where was all that energy that says the Performer has to be AMERICAN !!  yea - you just sound dumb,,,

AND OHHHHHHH  he sings and might rap in SPANISH !!   Their is Fascist - Dictator wanna be taking over the Government, Invading cities with the Military , punishing his enemies using the DOJ ,  Threatening Free Speech at every turn - ignoring the Laws , and grifing Billions off his presidency  - So I don't think that a guy singing in Spanish at the Halftime entertainment of  a football game is  even in the top 100  of issues we have in this country .....  It's. distraction in the news so they can contineu to plan and carry out Chaos in the background..

and lastly the NFL is a business - A BUSINESS - that is having a person that - regardless of you and I may think of his music - is (sarcasm on) SORTA  popular ((sarcasm off)

As of October 2025, Bad Bunny has surpassed 107 BILLION total Spotify streams. While he was the first artist to reach over 1 billion streams in 2025, current data from October 2025 shows his lead streams alone are over 92 billion. He also continues to be a leading contender to be Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2025. 

Key figures for Bad Bunny in 2025:

• 107B+ Total Spotify Streams: 

  This includes lead and feature streams across all his songs. 
• 92B+ Lead Spotify Streams: 

  This specifically counts streams of songs where Bad Bunny is the primary artist. 
• First Artist to 1 Billion Streams in 2025: 

  He achieved this milestone early in the year, according to Facebook posts from January 2025. 

Besides all this ............   IMHO- the half time of the Super bowl is mostly for Bathroom breaks , 

Snacks and getting another Beer.....  

Hiding behind the Wall...

 RANT MODE ON :

Ok - so these business that hide behind their phone numbers that they NEVER answer  - except to say thay your call is important , and they are getting more calls than usual - and if you leave your number they will call you back  (but never do).   Add to that the Businesses that hide behind a WEB site or a FORM. 

Ok you buy whatever it is or are looking for information on that order - maybe a retrun situation...  as YOU are a CUSTOMER of that business,,, 

There is an email or a fomr on the WEB SITE that is a CONTACT US form... and yea you fill that out - and send it - Multiple time - and WHOOSH   - they never EVER return the form or contact you.

This Business practice of keeping customers  at arms length by using a phone that is NEVER answered - or a WEB contact that is NEVER returned nor any attempt to resolve the situation... 

IF you deal with a business that answers you - processes returns in a quick and easy manner - and communicates with you after the purchase,   YOU need to frequent that business and forget about these other ones....

So now YOU and I have a choice....

One  either you  believe the women (now women - once young girls trafficked and sexually abused by men - aka Epstein & Trump)  that are up front - out on the Capitol steps, and in front of Committees in the House of Representatives telling their truths about what happened to them as young women. How they were sexually abused by Epstein and other rich men,  they are naming names, and are now putting together their own Epsien list as to who those men were...   

OR you believe the Sexual Abusers  and their minions that are now scurrying around trying to hide what they did ....  

Frankly I wonder why it is so difficult for us to JUST BELIEVE THE WOMEN ?!?!??   

The Epstein thing has dragged on long enough = it is clear that the DOJ - and their fake head - Pam Bondi - she is controlled 100% by trump = is protecting Pedofiles - including trump.. Johnson won't swear in the newest elected Represnetative cause he knows thats another vote to release the Files - and he can say he is christiona all he wants - he can't explain away this,  

First Amendment ...

 FOR all ya'll MAGA  yelling about protecting the American Flag - - please just go read the Executive order that Fat Nixon signed,.... NOWHERE and I mean NOWHERE in that order does it say  anything about a one year sentence for Burning a flag.,...  Let's say a few things about this ... and we can remember that I ain't the smartest guy in the world... 

1st - the Supreme court (before it was corrupted ) ruled that Buring a flag was protected by the First amendment - now I know that the Felon in the Whitehouse does not like the Constituton or the rule of law. Be that as it may ...  The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that burning the American flag is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment, particularly in the 1989 case Texas v. Johnson. The Court ruled that the government cannot prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds it offensive. While the ruling is controversial and has faced multiple challenges, including subsequent federal laws and attempts at constitutional amendments, the Supreme Court's interpretation remains that flag burning as a form of protest is protected expression.

2nd - If we (you) are so offended by the desecration of the FLAG why limit it to burning??  How about putting someones image on it?  and that persons image with Machine guns or riding a velociraptor ??  or replacing the stars with the Confederate flag ??? all that ok ?!??!  I'm betting yes. If fat nixon does it ,,  it's ok...

3rd - IMHO - this BS executive action is the start of the attack on the First Amendment.  look - just read the order ...  it talks about "shall refer the matter to the appropriate State or local authority for potential action."  and I think that is exactly what they are after - they want court cases to get to the Supreme court and challenge the legality of burning the flag - challenge the First Amendment. in that way eliminate the other Rights the Amendment affords us... and sets up Fat Nixon as the Fascist Authoritarian defining what is lawful  and what is not -  I believe that this is Step #1...   so look for a Court case to get to the new (Corrupt) court and get DUMPO's Cronies to go along with the dismantling of the Bill of Rights...

 We have lived in South Carolina for going on 4 years now - not a long time....   moving here from NY to escape the COLD WINTERS and the Snow ....  we looked around the SC and NC area for a few trips and settled on Conway, South Carolina - taken by the Beautiful city - and the Waccamaw River (nowhere near as big as the Hudson )...  

You find things different here in the South- There seems to be DOLLAR stores on every corner - Family Dollar, Dollar General,  Dollar Tree,,,,,,    and not be out done - there are more Churches than Dollar stores,,,, they are in Strip malls - Small venues  maybe once  used to be shops or restaurants and large Stand- alone structures - all that are packed on Sunday mornings...Some are recognizable = Baptists, Methodists, but many many  are not - "The Church of the Blessed Bible" , The church Of the Seacoast, The Rock, The Pentecostal church,  Jamestown Church - I have seen ONE Catholic church and one Jewish temple - SO yea - lots and lots of Churches....   We have Golf-Cars - aka Golf Carts ,,.. these are legally driven on side roads and can cross main roads - they don't seem to require seatbelts or helmets, or anything ... I see children riding on parents laps, and sitting in the back seats of these things by themselves - and unfortunately - there are accidents with them that do not turn out well for the occupants of the Golf-car.

And it's odd to see people riding in the back of pick-up trucks just asking to get tossed out if there is a wreck.....   Nearly every main or sorts main road - has a center lane that is used as a Merge and turn lane...  and oh - did I mention that no one uses turn signals ..... 

There are no Auto inspections,,, none - not for safety items, not for emissions,,, NADA=  now there are requirements that the vehicle has to meet - Lights, tires, brakes etc,, but no one ever checks to make sure that they work....   and at least on the main 501 route between here and the Beach / Myrtle Beach - there is Traffic - now not L.I.E. traffic but traffic,,, and if there is (and there always seems  to be ) an accident - there is no way around the main route - two bridges / 3 lanes  enter and leave Conway on 501 (two lanes)  and Business 501(one lane) - both of these cross the Waccamaw river ,, and to the south of all this is that river - and to date there are no plans to build another way across the Wet land,,,,,  hence - when the accidents occur - you are stuck waiting until it clears as the Traffic just backs up for miles ........

Even though there is a new law - regulating the SQUAT trucks - these are pickup trucks with the Front end raised and back lowered (squatting)  this new law states thtat the front cannot be more than 4 inches higher than the back - frankly when you see these - you have to wonder how they see over the hood !!

Everyone or near everyone calls you Mr or Miss then first name - so MR Mark... 

and I have told folks I go to that its just Mark - and they have said - OH NO = 

"My Momma  would whoop me if I did not call you that ".

There are - as least it seems to me - more folks here that need assistance - with clothes, with food , with housing,   and the good news (if it is good news)  Every one of those churches has a food pantry, a clothes bin, and there are stand alone organizations, and thrift shops that support the same - some actually have refrigerated storage - so you can donate milk and eggs  - dairy products....  and yes - like I'd dare say every southern town and city - there are homeless folks....  It is easier to be homeless where its warm, than where its cold... 

One of the things here is that the population has exploded in the past decades - there are many many housing developments.  and more planned.,....   now - I believe that the influx of people always comes before the gains in infrastructure .   so we are always needing more schools, more/ larger roads, more services, garbage, police, fire, etc...  and let me say that it is rare - at least in the folks I know - that anyone is from here,.....  the Northeast is the main contributor ... with a few folks from other locales,,,  I know one - maybe 2 that are born and raised Southerners -   however - let me tell you that (if you read and believe the posts and comments on the Book of Faces)  those from here have a hatred or maybe its distain for those that have moved here....   Each post on car accident, flooding, housing development, etc - you can't get past 1/2 dozen comments before its all the fault of those who - like us - moved here from elsewhere - and god forbid a person asks "where are the best Bagels". Or Pizza or Chinese food. ???  that is met with many GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM comments .....  I would only hope that those making these comments about who they consider foreigners -  do not use any of the services or businesses that came with the development of the towns and cities,, that they do not have an income that is dependant on that population - builder, electrician , plumber, HVAC,  - that would seem to my hypocritical. 

Disgraceful - just disgraceful....

 Vlad gets red carpet, and Trump gets Epstein off the front pages. A submissive, groveling, obsequious Donald Trump was humiliated yesterday afternoon by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The American president, accused by multiple women and teenage girls of raping or sexually assaulting them, joined the indicted war criminal and Russian president who has kidnapped over 100,000 children from Ukraine and sold most of them into God-only-knows-what in Russia. It was a disgusting, pathetic display of the moral collapse that is Donald Trump. As Senator Richard Blumenthal said: “[M]y stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. He has directed soldiers to kill women and children and bury them in mass graves. He’s kidnapped children as we speak. The reality on the ground is that people are bleeding and dying all around Ukraine because Putin is continuing to bomb them. And at the front, he’s continuing to pummel the brave Ukrainian soldiers who are defending the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the town of Pokrovsk.” But Trump did succeed in getting Jeffrey Epstein off the front pages for several days. Will a discussion of the possibility that Trump was joining Epstein in raping young girls return to media prominence? Or has Trump succeeded in making it “old news”? Meanwhile, Putin gets a status boost all around the world as America is once again placed in the gutter by Donald Trump.