There are a couple of oil tankers smoking in the gulf and nobody knows what they were

hit with or who hit them but they were attacked. No deaths or anything like that but it's caused oil prices to go crazy. I think mostly because people

are wondering who's behind this. What's about to happen? Well right, yes there's some sort of systematic attack on oil commerce in the gulf now or what and it's utterly unclear who's doing it and why. But we'll stay on that to the extent that we can. It sure is heck odd. I mean there's something

going on and it's one of those you know one of those I just got done watching the first season of true detective and it's one of those twisted tails where there's more to meet the eye. I mean it's not like the you know one guy

baps another guy over the head because he doesn't like him. There's something funky going on. Oh speaking of which I haven't really been paying attention to that David Ortiz story to the former red sock sluggery goes home to the

Dominican gets shot in the back in a bar. This is not a sports story. This is a US celebrity. Yeah goes to the Dominican and gets shot. Yeah, yeah. Um but so now it turns out it was a murder for higher plot. They're saying or several people involved. They got video tapes surveillance

Bob and the guy was paid like $8,000 to shoot David Ortiz in the back. But why? Why are people paying other people to shoot red sock sluggers in their native country. Is it a personal beef? That's a lot of money in that

countries. Was he involved in something I'm toward. We'll see. Yeah, that one there's more to that one that meets the eye too. I wasn't some you know my initial thought was okay,

here's some lunatic gang member who decides to make his bones by being the guy who shot big papi. But perhaps not. So China, perhaps you've been following the story in Hong Kong. The protest turned violent.

Violent terror overnight is the people of Hong Kong are fighting to get canceled the new law that would allow the Hong Kong authorities to extradite Hong Kongers to mainland China.

If China asked them to and China will arrest you for anything. Well, and China, you have no human rights, no rights at trial. They have kangaroo courts. If you get into a court at all and then they throw in a concentration camp. So obviously the Hong Kongers are uncomfortable with this. And I heard it spelled out why precisely.

And a lot of people in Hong Kong do a tremendous amount of business in China. And the deal in China is if you want to get anything done, you got to bribe somebody. I mean, it's just the way business is done. Gifts, you know, cash, maybe or whatever.

If you even want to get a sit down with some local official and remember all the private economy is tied into the Communist Party. You've got to have the okay of the Communist Party officials. So you've got to grease palms and everybody knows that this is the way business is done.

But China. That's right, sir. But the Chinese authorities have announced that in particular they're going to crack down on bribery to which everybody says, wait a minute. What?

That's what you people do. You're in charge of the bribery.

That's one of the great things about corruption is then you have people compromised. Right. So if you're above them, you can say, hey, this guy's taking bribes. Yeah, what are you talking about? So do you, but it doesn't matter if you're above them.

Exactly. So the obviously the point is that China can therefore target anyone who is pro-democracy or harbors somebody who's pro-democracy or says something uncomfortable or whatever.

And if they've ever done any business whatsoever with any Chinese, they'll say, you know what we talked to your supplier in Beijing and they say you bribe them.

So anyway, you're getting extra-dited and better say goodbye to your friends and family because you may not be back.

And everybody will be guilty, which reminds me of the it's overly long and wordy, but at least shrugged.

I'm ran.

The bad guy in Dr. Ferris says, do you really think we want those laws observed? We want them to be broken.

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