NEWS OF THE WEEK

Ten (10) prisoners escaped from a New Orleans jail.  Five were captured almost immediately.  Now, the number of jail employees who assisted the escapees has risen to about the same number as the escapees.  It almost always requires inside help to make a prison break.  Only in the movies do the criminals do it all by themselves.  

You've all heard that Qatar has offered, or given, a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to the U.S. for use as Air Force One.  It'll take a little while to bring it up to AF One standards on the interior - some people think it will cost about $1B to do it.  We forget but the government has had two 747s on order from Boeing for use as Air Force One for over five years.  Boeing had promised delivery by 2022 but now has said it expects them to be delivered by 2027 - just before President Trump leaves office.  Lets hope the doors don't fly off during flight.  Maybe Boeing is still trying to figure out why their space capsule was faulty.

The  P. Diddy trial is fulfilling the national desire for lascivious reports from normally rational (semi-rational) press sources.  It's a freakin' mess.   I'm guessing the first book about the trial will be published before the end of the trial - and, it will only be sold with a brown paper bag over it.    

The big winner at the movie theaters last weekend was "Final Destination:  Bloodlines".  Of course, it's in the Horror genre.  I never heard of any of the cast.  I think they tried to hide in the lean-to with all the power saws instead of taking the running car.   

The stock market indices are in the red for the week but still way up for the past month.  The market is not for the faint of heart - it jumps or falls every time Trump expounds on new investments or threatens a new tariff . 

Tornadoes have been ravaging southern Kentucky and others.  Insurance becomes a larger portion of a family's costs every day.  The fires in California have had a huge impact there and other weather phenomena will everywhere.