I saw the jinx coming! Why did I bet on the San Antonio Spurs and win money in game №3 of the 2026 NBA finals? I saw an announcement in the news several days before game №3 that set off an alert on my antenna.
Why did I bet on San Antonio Spurs and win in game №3? Games №1&2 in San Antonio showed Knicks’ fans going crazy in New York watching the games on screens outside of Madison Square Garden and around the whole city. Excitement was wild; there was no way to stop the momentum. Right? No; bringing in the prez to MSG, closing down the party for 10 blocks around the stadium, forcing fans to have to wait 2 hours in line to get in, shutting down traffic… ended the vibe. I immediately put down some money on the Spurs. I was a great fan of the Knicks all season until they laid that jinx on them in game №3.
I Also Loved Giants
Who is correct? There are many opinions being vocalized on both sides: Former NFL MVP Cam Newton delivered a nuanced breakdown of why politics and the quarterback position are a dangerous combination in today’s NFL. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EiFkFVQ4C/
I want to wish Happy Father’s Day to my dad, his father (Ferdinand Jr. and Sr.) and my mom’s father (Sidney Cates Jr). Ferdinand Jr. and Sr. took me fishing often when I was growing up. Sidney gave me a guitar upon which I learned chords and began my life-long music quest. My dad bought me a trumpet when I was 6 upon which I also had a life-long quest. Happy Father’s Day to all fathers.
Gazette (Dec. 13, 2025) — Happy Birthday to my four December siblings. I found an oldie but goodie picture of the four of us, but I am looking for a recent Now picture of us that I wanted to post. Meanwhile, I found this picture⬇️ taken recently of two of us. So, I have to find a picture with the other two (my sisters).
Post № 2 >>Pictured here are my 2 sisters born in Dec. That is I (bottom left in picture w/ the #BFF blur). I am 1 of 2 sons born in Dec. to my mama. pic.twitter.com/2DfLmy18p7
Gazette (Oct. 20 2025) — I was happy with today’s announcement of who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Price. In fact, I do not think that a better choice could have been made at this point in time.
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to… pic.twitter.com/Zgth8KNJk9
Meanwhile, I still list the video ⬇️ as in/work which I reference in the link below. It is fine. However, I want to clean it up a tad bit more before I call it finished. I will notify you here once I get it totally corrected and finito.
Progress So Far
I am still working on clearing up and cleaning up the video. I put the link here⬇️ of what I have so far until I can post the completed video to explain more perfectly what I am trying to say. P.S. I think that it is okay for now:
I wanted to say good morning with a brief video. I am stuck in a rabbit hole. If I led you down this rabbit hole with me, I hope that you find something awakening. I put a link where I hope that you will find an answer. https://t.co/YTxyHfAOUMpic.twitter.com/gxrDtgOPYT
On the left ⬇️ we see Bunny Wunnie №2 who seems invincible, and who can do whatever crazy/illegal stuff he wants. This Bunny Wunnie can spend billions of taxpayer dollars willy nilly for his own desires (the WH ballrom, for example) while taking away health care from millions of citizens. Woe to justice in America.
Here is a thought to think about⬇️. I just now saw this on the Internet. What a heavy-weight bout that would be? Stupid (L) vs. gravitas (R)! What do you think about them apples? pic.twitter.com/rfseWwe6ZS
In the article that I wrote below at Boscoville, I am referring to the Mardi Gras poster at the link⬇️. Like I said, the Mardi Gras poster at the link is one of my favorites.
I will write (in the next day or so) what I think history will say of our current times. Who knows whom history will be kinder to.
We can see the kind of man Donald Trump is by how he treats the children caught up in his deportation raids. People in California started protesting Trump’s immoral and illegal raids. So, Trump’s answer is to send in thousands of National Guard troops and Marines. Oh, my God! This is an invasion of California by insurrectionist Trump. He is a Nazi criminal.
Children of undocumented migrants are reportedly being placed in custody, separated from their parents who are en route to deportation in the current crackdown. How did ICE expect the majority minority city of LA to react?
Incarnation (or The INCARNATION) means that God took human form in the body of Christ. The doctrine is based on the paradox that because God was incarnated in Christ, Christ was both fully human and fully God at the same time. For Lent, I am studying this much more deeply. BTW, The Church festival commemorating the announcement (Annunciation) of the Incarnation by Gabriel the Archangel to Mary is held on March 25 (Lady Day). How often have I driven on and parked on Annunciation St. in New Orleans from the Crescent City Connection to the uptown Walmart w/o ever making that miraculous connection in my mind?
GAZETTE (New Orleans) — When Mary accepted God’s offer to bear and give birth to Jesus (Conceptio Christi), the Word (of God) became one of us. God became “incarnate,” with a body like ours; hence the name Incarnate Word. Because of His resurrection, the Incarnate Word continues to dwell among us. The Resurrection is celebrated on Easter Sunday.
Conceptio Christi is a Christian holiday commemorating the visit of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, where he announced that she would give birth to Jesus Christ.
Going back further, even unto the Old Testament, this boy (below) wants to know how people inhabited the earth.
His daddy had already told him that people multiplied from Adam and Eve.
I made a note for y'all in the below video. Follow me down this rabbit hole for a possible golden nugget.
This video shows me telling you something about the Easter time March 25th Feast of the Annunciation or Lady Day that I recently spoke about. I thought that I should share this with you. I mispronounced the Greek phrase Conceptio Christi. I will redo the video one day to correct my mispronounciation. Click:
Feast of Conceptio Christi
Speaking of feasts, I have a question about the picture of the pan of deliciousness that is shown here.
The caption called this #NewOrleans stuffed bell peppers. My question is: do people make these in other parts of the country? pic.twitter.com/WSzxad6MGr
My dad used to tell me similar words to Abraham Lincoln’s words below. He advised me that Silence is Golden when he brought me as a youngster on house calls with him where he repaired TV’s (and such) as an electrical technician.
Silence is golden:
Later in life, some of the pretty young girls who saw me when I was on-call with my dad remembered me. They looked me up once they grew up so fine and lovely. Who knew that they noticed me when I sat silently in their living room or den? Thank God that my dad had taught me to SHUT UP.
When I was a youngster:
The link below also explains my nickname on another post. On Reply 2/2 at that post, I say to scroll down to see. NEVERMIND! Do not click the link “HOW DID I GET THE NICKNAME.” That is too much convoluted scrolling, etc. just to chase that rabbit down the rabbit hole. I just tried it again, and that is too hard tracking behind that rabbit. DON’T DO IT. I already explained it enough right here, thank you.
Did the Supreme Court tell LADY JUSTICE (as in, the scales of American justice are equally balanced and blind) to shut up when it handed Donald Trump an illegal/unjust victory in the New York Attorney General’s case that he lost? With this current Supreme Court, justice will never prevail when it comes to Trump. Justice does not prevail even when he loses in the lower courts.
Meanwhile, in the picture below, I am saying a Hail Mary for intercessory prayer ref: a pickup truck for myself which I need for roof work and other things. I am reminded of when quarterback Roger Staubach prayed a Hail Mary for what became known as the Hail Mary pass to defeat Minnesota with a long bomb in the last minutes of their playoff game in the 1970’s.
Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee!
Arch Manning (Peyton's nephew) didn't start for Texas in 2024.
Reports had said that 2023 starter Quinn Ewers was not guaranteed the starting QB job in 2024 if he came back.
Quinn Ewers won't be guaranteed a starting job if he returns to Texas in 2024 with Arch Manning waiting in the wings. https://t.co/zKhTNco0CR
UPDATE: ⚜️ The Saints are confirmed to be sticking with Dennis Allen and Derek Carr (as expected) through at least next season, but all rumors point to New Orleans moving on from Pete Carmichael as the offensive play caller. Long overdue.
What I previously wrote: Am I the only one who sees it? It is not Derek Carr at all. It is the way the stupid coaches stick Taysom Hill in and out at QB totally disrupting Carr’s momentum. They should play Taysom like everyone else… in the conventional, professional football way. Carr (and #JameisWinston) are fine if you stop yanking them in and out for Taysom in the middle of their offensive series. It is juvenile and #bushleague.
Leave Carr alone.
How did I get my nickname Ferdie Werdie?
My grandfather Sidney Cates gave me the nickname Ferdie Werdie when I was about 5 yrs old and it has stuck ever since.
Ferdie Werdie
I also put the answer on Twitter about who gave me my nickname.
Clarence is not leaving for himself a great legacy in history. by Ferdie Werdie (June 17, 2023) — How can you say he is a credit to his race when he is tearing down everything that people fought and died for in the 1960’s? He is gutting voting rights, destroying affirmative action, turning abortion rights back to the Dark Ages. Plus, he receives questionable “political” gifts, hides under-the-table unethical dealings, has lied, etc. Clarence Thomas has turned the Supreme Court into one with ethical problems. My question is: do some of his actions taint his court rulings?
Speaking of the “MAGA crowd,” Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife works with the deplorables even though Clarence rules in the Supreme Court on many of the MAGA actions. Democrats call for new supreme court ethics rules amid Clarence Thomas’ recurring scandals… which ethics rules will be too little and way too late.
2/2 >>I listened to the song to see if it helps me understand better. In fact, I like the song:https://t.co/i0Po8vGkRW
It is so unfair for Judge Thomas to pass SCOTUS judgements on the very rights and most personal freedoms of Americans’ lives. In his unethical hands are life and death judgements which will last for many decades and beyond. How unfair to Americans! Democrats accuse the top U.S. court of the ‘lowest ethical standards’ in history, but Republicans say criticism of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Thomas is unfounded. The Republicans are evil and rotten.
Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife works with the deplorables even though Clarence rules in the Supreme Court on many of the MAGA actions. Democrats call for new supreme court ethics rules amid Clarence Thomas’ recurring scandals… 1/3https://t.co/IHpTCee61K
I will cook a batch of my cajun boudin soon, and post a picture of a new addition to my recipe. Of course, I might also write a more in-depth recipe for y’all exposing some of my secret ingredients.
In Cajun cooking, particularly that of Acadiana parish in Louisiana, boudin refers to a mixture of meat, rice, and seasonings which are then stuffed in pork casings. Pork is the most traditional meat used, but you’ll also find boudin stuffed with crawfish, alligator, or shrimp. Boiled, smoked, or grilled, boudin can be consumed virtually anywhere which makes it an easy and satisfying on-the-go meal that fisherman and hunters are especially fond of.
Okay, the Saints are resting now since I wrote the below meme. However, I am beginning to read about the Saints again, but we all know that they are going to lose ignominiously this coming season if they continue their offense with the same juvenile game plan as last season… #woeisme!
…unless they play one QB at a time. Then, I will like them again.
NOTE: By the way, See below what I think about the New Orleans SAINTS’ game plan under the current coaches.
GAZETTE (April 14, 2023) — I cannot wait until I get to my refrigerator in order to see what holiday deliciousness is left.
UPDATE: I “eviscerated” the food into my stomach. So, that is why…The cat who ate the canary.
I said that they put me in “time out” because it looks like they punished me after I raided the fridge for some leftovers from Thanksgiving.
Then...
If you are wondering what my thoughts were when I studied the picture of this girl, I wrote out some words that explain a little bit about what was percolating in my cranial area at the time. Scroll down a little bit to see what I wrote.
I say something below.
More news...
Now that my stomach is filled up, I feel like watching some TV. I do not need any blankets or heat because it is very pleasant tonight.
She is watching TV.
MEANWHILE:
Music is the language of love. A song is what sparked off all of the love in the classic movie CASABLANCA.
Oh, what a love song!
I just watched the New Orleans SAINTS get rubbed out in a football game as usual. But anyway...
1/2 …If SAINTS GM Mickey Loomis keeps this crowd around for another year or much longer, he needs to be fired too. The #deplorable, supremacist element down here in this neck of the woods loves what's going on with the Saints' offense (if you get my drift)… pic.twitter.com/Nl9wHllugj
The Baton Rouge Advocate bought the New Orleans Times-Picayune and now we get LSU on the front page of the sports every day, and relegate Saints, Pels, Tulane to page four or further back in the newspaper. UPDATE: Word must have reached the Advocate because the newspaper has recently been fairer in its placement of stories about SAINTS, Pelicans, Tulane, etc.
#Tulane is having a good year. I am tired of seeing LSU take the whole front pg of the sports every day in New Orleans. Tulane, the #SAINTS and PELS are relegated to pg 4 or deeper. LSU is fine, but why smash the B.R. LSU in our New Orleans faces. 1/2 https://t.co/X04Xy01ELApic.twitter.com/QsiWhaZw3F
Even Jesus Christ held music “upon high” in his ministry, and sang hymns when he met with his followers. Jesus’ music tradition is still carried on today in most religions which hold music up in a high place. The Scriptures say that the Lord lives in our praises. Godly, spiritual music is praise.
This picture below is scientists’ rendition of how Jesus looked (using scientific and DNA methods). This is the picture of Jesus that they portray.
Jesus Christ
Scientific methods drew this picture of how they say that Jesus looked.
Do you remember when Donald Trump strangled his secret service agent on January 6th?
Do you believe your very own eyes or do you believe the words coming out of Donald Trump’s lying mouth about the incident?
Proof with your own eyes…
GAZETTE (New Orleans) — This picture below of Mrs. Thomas is somewhat mean-spirited. Mrs. Clarence Thomas is a lovely lady. It is her politics and sway on Clarence’s SCOTUS decisions that people do not like.
Ginni Thomas
This is a younger picture (below) of Ginni Thomas which shows how lovely she was.
Ginni when younger.
Many people wonder if Donald Trump will suffer any consequences for his insurrection crimes on January 6th. He wants to announce early for the 2024 Presidential race in order to protect himself from prosecution. His thinking is that no charges will be brought against him while he is campaigning.
BREAKING: A Former federal prosecutor just said Donald Trump could be sent to prison for life over Jan. 6
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) July 14, 2022
Meanwhile, I would like to perform my act and music again.
by FERDIE (July 4) — My stand-up comedy and music career might be over. The Corona virus shut the doors of the coffee house at which I performed for a number of years. When it opened back up (they and Algiers Point Bar where I did some open mic nights) contacted me often to come back and perform. I was not ready to go into Corona crowds yet. They eventually stopped calling. I might start back, but I still avoid Corona crowds.
Coffee house where I performed for years before Corona hit.
Kareem Abdul Jabber at 7’2″ makes Bill Russell and Muhammad Ali (both over 6 feet tall) look short. I tell you what, as I get older, I can see people who were shorter than I now look taller than I. It surprises me, but I had a back injury with vertebrae damage.
Kareem Abdul Jabber
Climate activist Greta Thunberg had a fiery response to Andrew Tate's attempt to boast about his carbon-dioxide-emitting cars. https://t.co/ppKCVvnygH
Name: Wakan Tanka. Tribalaffiliation:Lakota, Dakota Personage: The Great Spirit; God. Alternate spellings: Wakantanka, Wakan-Tanka, Wakataka Pronunciation: wah-kahn tahn-kah Also known as: Great Mystery Type:High god, Creator Related figures in other tribes:Wakanda (Omaha), Earth-maker (Ho-chunk), Gitche Manitou (Ojibway)
Wakan Tanka is the great Creator power of the Lakota and Dakota tribes. Wakan Tanka is an abstract, omnipresent creative force who is never personified in traditional Siouan legends, and in fact did not even have a gender before the introduction of English with its gender-specific pronouns.
Wakan Tanka Stories
Wakantanka: Wikipedia article about the Great Mystery.
Wakan Tanka; The Great Spirit
Inquiring minds want to know. Can we come up with the public’s opinion on the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard of their day (Brad&Angie)? I am now thinking that I should have given 2 more choices: 1. Neither one is wrong, or 2. Both of them are wrong.
This is a brief allusion to George Armstrong Custer and Custer’s Last Stand. I will add more information later on from my “Last Stand” study. Sitting Bull and Custer fought at the Battle of the Little BigHorn where Custer died on June 25, 1876.
Custer's Last Stand.
Sitting Bull poses below with Buffalo Bill, 1885
Buffalo Bill, known for his Wild West Show that featured Native American men and women, struck a partnership with Sitting Bull in 1885 when Sitting Bull performed on his show for several months. Sitting Bull in 1876 had lead his people against the U.S. government at the Battle of Little Bighorn (among other battles). The United States maintained its desire for revenge against Sitting Bull until it was successful in his death in 1890 two weeks before the Wounded Knee massacre of his tribe.
Sitting Bull and Wild Bill
After he left Bill’s show, the two remained friends that lasted until the end of their respective lives. Sitting Bull ended up going back to his tribe after the show in support of his tribe’s Ghost Dance movement which the United States looked upon as insubordination. The U.S. ended the tribe’s Ghost Dance ceremony with a massacre of the Indians.
‘Pretty Nose’ sits here for her portrait in 1879
A photographer captured this image of Pretty Nose at Fort Keogh, Montana, in 1879. She was a member of the Arapaho tribe and was a war chief who took part in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Pretty Nose
There are those who stated that she was a member of the Cheyenne tribe, but what she wore identified her as Arapaho, thanks to the black, red, and white cuffs adorning her. She lived well into old age, so much so that she was able to see her grandson, Mark Soldier Wolf, become an elder of the Arapaho tribe.
Then, more about Custer!
Where was Custer's Last Stand?
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River, in south-central Montana on June 25-26, 1876. The Native combatants were warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, battling men of the 7th Regiment of the US Cavalry, along with their Crow, and Arikara scouts.
Some girls survived the U.S. army massacres of that period.
What season are we in in Louisiana?
I wanted to say something about what season we are now in in Louisiana:
I like old-school movies and old-school pictures. Bettie Page has to be the most prolific pinup queen ever. She has a great, unending volume of pictures. The Los Angeles Times wrote: “Page was most famous for the estimated 20,000 4-by-5-inch black-and-whoite glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel–or nothing at all.”
GAZETTE (Sept. 2019) — Where is #HurricaneDorian going to hit in the U.S.? I heard some say that it might hit #Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s #Florida resort.
Ann Coulter sent an interesting tweet.
At least Dorian patiently waits outside our border before crashing ashore, more than can be said for your average illegal.
GAZETTE (New Orleans) — I posted a picture of Mrs. Clarence Thomas about five stories below to explain how her politics affect Clarence’s SCOTUS decisions. Ginni Thomas is a lovely lady. It is her politics and sway on Clarence’s SCOTUS decisions that people do not like.
Judge Thomas
Meanwhile, I explain how...
Music is the language of love. A song is what sparked off all of the love in the classic movie CASABLANCA.
Oh, what a love song!
I just watched the New Orleans SAINTS get robbed of a football game. But anyway...
by Ferdie Delery (2022 Season) — The Baton Rouge Advocate bought the New Orleans Times-Picayune and now we get LSU on the front page of the sports every day, and relegate Saints, Pels, Tulane to page four or further back in the newspaper.
#Tulane is having a good year. I am tired of seeing LSU take the whole front pg of the sports every day in New Orleans. Tulane, the #SAINTS and PELS are relegated to pg 4 or deeper. LSU is fine, but why smash the B.R. LSU in our New Orleans faces. 1/2 https://t.co/X04Xy01ELApic.twitter.com/QsiWhaZw3F
Even Jesus Christ held music “upon high” in his ministry, and sang hymns when he met with his followers. Jesus’ music tradition is still carried on today in most religions which hold music up in a high place. The Scriptures say that the Lord lives in our praises. Godly, spiritual music is praise.
This picture below is scientists’ rendition of how Jesus looked (using scientific and DNA methods). This is the picture of Jesus that they portray.
Jesus Christ
Scientific methods drew this picture of how they say that Jesus looked.
Do you remember when Donald Trump strangled his secret service security agent on January 6th?
Do you believe your very own eyes or do you believe the words coming out of Donald Trump’s lying mouth about the incident?
Proof with your own eyes…
GAZETTE (New Orleans) — This picture below of Mrs. Thomas is somewhat mean-spirited. Mrs. Clarence Thomas is a lovely lady. It is her politics and sway on Clarence’s SCOTUS decisions that people do not like.
Ginni Thomas
This is a younger picture (below) of Ginni Thomas which shows how lovely she was.
Ginni when younger.
Many people wonder if Donald Trump will suffer any consequences for his insurrection crimes on January 6th. He seems to want to announce early for the 2024 Presidential race in order to protect himself from prosecution. His thinking is that no charges will be brought against him while he is campaigning.
BREAKING: A Former federal prosecutor just said Donald Trump could be sent to prison for life over Jan. 6
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) July 14, 2022
Good news for Democrats...
I wondered for a long time why Democrats opened up their primary season with Iowa and New Hampshire. Those two states give a tainted vision of what the Democratic electorare wants.
Many states already had “trigger bans” written up for when the Supreme Court voted to outlaw abortions. That way their state would already have laws written up making it illegal immediately.
Supreme Court voted down abortion.
The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday sets off a cascade of antiabortion legislation that will affect roughly half the country.
Without the landmark precedent in place, access to abortion began to change quickly. First, 13 states with “trigger bans,” designed to take effect if Roe were struck down, will prohibit abortion within 30 days. At least eight states banned the procedure the day the ruling was released.
These states were ready, waiting on the ledge to ban abortions.
Note: See most attractive man below.
Ferdie (January 5, 2023) — On the 7th vote for Speaker of the House, Rep. Matt Gaetz voted for Donald Trump.
MEANWHILE… It is spring time, and we are all hoping for easier times after this long stretch with the pandemic and the issues with the gun control. It is time for love to be in the air. Dog is man’s best friend.
When my daughter was five or six years old she asked me if I like any people at all. We finally concluded that NOPE, I do not like anybody 🙂. I am not happy unless I wake up every single day pee'd off with somebody. NOTE: of course, we are not talking about the usual suspects. pic.twitter.com/bIuL1rb1TZ
Speaking of man’s best friend, I saw that according to Science Magazine, actor Robert Pattinson is the most attractive man in the world. My scientific metrics are currently working out who is the most beautiful woman. To stop my metrics machine at this point for a moment to see who is coming out first right now, my study says that Sofia Vergara is tops.
Most attractive man.
According to how the numbers are playing out currently in my metrics study, Sofia Vergara is polling out as the #1 most beautiful woman. In fact, I wrote a story about Sofia recently. I will look it up and link it here.
My Metrics Machine says Sofie #1 woman.
Why would the deplorables want to elect a president who committed insurrection against his government? Joe Biden is 10,000 times better than Donald “Traitor” Trump.
I do not believe this.
I love crawfish, especially crawfish bisque which I ate last weekend.
Delery Gazette 