Week In Review, IQ Test Results on Howard Stern, Mike Gordon Show, Nastya Rybka, Oleg Deripaska, James Bond maneuver in car in snow storm, Animal Lifeline with John Tisch and Andy Fiori, Gary Cohn, Union Transfer, Seychelles Island, West VA teacher strike settled,Eric Prince, George Nader & Michael Cohen

I have been cracking up for like 7 minutes. 

Crackin' up from the conversation being had as we speak on the Chris Hayes show with Julia Ioffe, Malcolm Nance and some other dude talking about a Russian prostitute with some pictures and videos she posted on Instagram. They were from times she was on some yacht with that Russian oligarch named in the indictments.
The simple version of how Russian politics and Internet censorship affects the USA as ​US tech giants were thrust into the middle of the battle for Russian Internet freedom as Instagram apparently bowed to a court order to block access to posts that embarrassed an oligarch and a top government official.

Russia's telecommunications regulator also said it had ordered service providers to block the website of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose team dug up Instagram posts that showed metals magnate Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko socializing on a yacht in Norway. 

She is scared for her life. She is stating that she will turn over these videos for protection in the United States.

Big day on Tuesday's Howard (Stern) show. It is IQ test Result day!

I took the test too. I am not sure how real it is but I did it anyway.

The IQ test result between Mamet and Brent have great ramifications. One person has to lick the others boot while saying that he is smarter than them and I forget what the other consolation prize or bet result wise. I no doubt think Brent will crush Mamet in an IQ test. Mamet is simple minded. He is very basic. I think Brent has way more experiences on a huge level. He should have more common sense to score pretty high. Though I am not sure what the IQ tests means. For me, I know I could have done better because I get lazy in the middle and almost have to rev up the brain to get it working after I started to think of something else while trying to figure out a problem.

Mamet scored better than Brent though I scored better than both of them and I think above everyone on the Stern staff but again, I did my test online real quick and I am not sure how hard there's was compared to mine. 

I am assuming there's was way harder because mine was not hard.

I scored a 132 which is where I figured I would be near but if I paid attention 100% to every question, I should have gotten higher. Mamet scored a 121 (Ralph scored a 124) and Brent scored a 11 or 112. Or, maybe it was 115. Will scored the highest now that I think of it. He may have beaten me. Jason, Richard and everyone else including Jeff the Drunk and Wendy the slow adult scored way lower.

If you study how to take that test even for a day, you should be able to conquer 100% of the questions. 

I pretty much got sick this week. 

It was ridiculous and I am so over the cold weather. 

I literally slept for like 15 hours or more if you count how I laid in bed doing nothing all day and all night. I also forgot about daylight savings. I was on en route back from Wawa this AM and I noticed the car clock said it was an hour later than I thought it was. 

That is why this week in review is being released so late today.

I also had to pull a James Bond maneuver while driving in the snow storm on Wednesday. 

I was on the highway. 

The shoulders on the road were covered with snow from the plows piling it up. All of a sudden, the heavy snow and heavy slush from the roof came plowing down onto the windshield covering it. The snow was so heavy that the wipers did not work. As a matter of fact, I smelled that little burning smell for a millisecond before I turned off the blade thing inside the car. It was hairy for well over a minute. I could not move to the shoulders (the middle was a barrier so moving to the left side of the car was out) and as a matter of fact, I was in the center lane. I could not get over because there was a pick up truck next to me on the right side and there was a car to my left watching me to see if I was getting to safety. I started to slow down. I opened the window to wipe a tiny segment of snow off the windshield which is all that I could reach. The snow would accumulate right back in 8 seconds covering whatever I just wiped off with my extended hand. I had my right signal on because then I could at least see to my right via the camera which is placed on the right side of the vehicle (on rear view mirror). 

The monitor is placed in the center part of the console. 

I could not see one thing out of the front windshield. Let alone in the back. 

I luckily noticed the snow clearer thing or the ice scraper thing or whatever they are called which again, I snagged from my house at the very last minute while leaving that day.

Obviously I never cleared off the roof. 

And, it was lying down on the floor on that passenger side of the car. I was looking to my right and so I grabbed the snow wiper / ice scraper off the floor leaning all the way down onto the passenger's side of the car. 

Luckily we were all driving maybe 25 miles per hour on the road. Regardless, of how fast or slow we were going, I could then wipe off more snow with that scraper but still, it was not good. I finally got to an exit to pull off the highway. I literally plowed into a snowbank on the side of this road to get the hell out of my car. 

I was then able to wipe it down so I could get home.
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I somehow grueled through it though because I did not admit to being sick until it was all but done. 

I know that I got my dad sick but then again, two people got me sick last weekend and leading into Monday. Someone in my Kickboxing and Boxing classes last Saturday and Sunday was sick. He told me he was and because I thought my antibodies would fight off anything at this point in the winter, I merely said that at least he was in class and that he could sweat it the hell out of his system. 

Then, on Sunday / Monday, I was with some girl that kept on sniffling. Of course I did not exactly say to leave and nor did I you know, lay off each other if you get my drift, but she was at the end of whatever I got this week. My nose was sniffly and runny after I felt like hell one day. My bones ached. I was hacking coughing wise and I don't even smoke. 

I still did not miss training until Sunday. I was pissed though.

It took me out of my game at Gordon Friday night

I had no business being there. I did not want to engage in any conversations because I did not want to breathe on anyone. There were a few cute women I would have liked to have met but I could not do much that night. 

The music was good though. 

I had no clue Mike got to that electronic or whatever type of a groove it got to at times. 

It is obviously bass driven which he pulls off big time. 

It did not hit me until someone in the crowd bumped into me but making a joke saying that he was sorry and how it is not even a Les Claypool or Primus show and he still bumped into me which I thought was funny or cute if you will, but again, it then hit me that this band is driven by a lead bass player. There are not too many bands that are led by bass players. Rush I guess is the most mainstream act I can think of.

My point is that I am more used to seeing guitar driven bands like phish. That is what I love the most when seeing live music. A serious guitar is what I look for.

Anyway, the playing was at a huge level because of Mike. 

I did not realize Robert Walter was playing Keyboards in the band until like the day of or when I posted this poster art graphic (which says the players in the band on that poster art). 

The only songs though that I recognized all night were 'Meat' and 'Crazy Sometimes' which I love when Phish does it and then they did a 'Funky Bitch' encore. I did recognize that Stealing Jamaica lyric. I am not sure if Phish ever played that song but that was noticeable lyric wise.
Mike Gordon Setlist Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2018, OGOGO

Union Transfer is a weird venue. 

The people working there are pretentious. They can't be bothered and the food if you call what they sold as snacks as food, was ridic. They had local beers though being served at the bar. It is a weird place. The girl working the snack place was reading something when I approached the counter. She then took that extra second to look up as if I was bothering her. Like how they acted in old record stores and how I presume they act in those dispensaries. That is how this woman acted when I wanted to buy chips.

I then had to plow through the Animal Lifeline comedy fundraiser event with John Tisch and  Andy Fiori on Saturday night. 

That was hellish because I felt like crap all day and all night but I could NOT blow it off. 

It was fun and there was a funny coincidence that went down but again, by then, I had one eye on getting through the event and to get home to sleep until whenever I wake up.

In Trump news this week, Gary Cohn, the top Trump economic advisor leaves based on irreconcilable conditions based on the tariff dispute. 

He did the tax plan and now there is nothing for him to do. His departure was abrupt.

West VA teacher strike was settled this week. 

They got that 5% which was the deal breaker that caused the impasse.
Now they need to get teachers in Oklahoma paid a decent wage. They are now the least highest paid teachers state wise.

Then we had that George Nader melt down whose week culminated in him being grilled by the Grand jury for like 7 hours. Evidently, he flipped and is talking about that odd meeting held on the Seychelles Island with him, Eric Prince and regarding the set up of that Putin-Trump back channel for communications. 

The question now is what was done with the money issued by the leaders from UAE and given to them. Did that make it into the Trump campaign? He gave testimony to a Grand Jury as the Advisor to the United Emirates Government.

Speaking of campaign finance funds, there is nothing normal about what Michael Cohen did to pay off that Porn Star Trump had sex with. I can care less about those sex scandal issues and I certainly do not want Trump going down because of that issue. 

I only want him to only go down for cheating his way into office. That is my issue (and nothing else matters to me). 

I do however, have an issue of the precedent set because of Trump. 

For instance, if Michael Cohen and Trump paid off this woman with that contract which is a joke of a contract, what about the other cases that had much less change hands?

For instance, in the Chaka Fattah case, one person got indicted and was sentenced to a potential few years in Federal Prison for gifting his daughter a 17K vehicle. 

Trump and Cohen nipped any question of being handed over a gift per se, by handing over cash taken directly from the Trump Organization. What is also being glossed over is that not one lawyer in the history of mankind has ever taken the liberty of shelling out any money, let alone 130K to cover up an affair or to pay for anything relating to a case they are handling.

Any lawyer that I have hired and I have hired some hardcore ones (one of my ex lawyers is representing El Chapo for gods sakes), has wanted money. None of them had ever offered to pay for something on behalf of something I did wrong or to cover some fee.

Anyway, I hope any of this 'week in review' makes sense. I must get caught up work wise. I am so behind. I rushed through this today.