irene

Once I thought I saw you
in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light
from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam
I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes
turning once to fire.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting blown away

Strange But True

MIDDLETOWN NJ MAN INJURED DOING VOLUNTEER WORK !

Members of the Verizon Volunteers were out in force at their beloved Citifield last Night, but one man: Donn Hoffman of Middletown NJ got more than he bargained for. It seems the red-shirters were putting us slabs of plywood over the windows of their hospitality suite at Citifield and protect it, and themselves, from the fast approaching Hurricane Irene. Hoffman suffered significant swelling to his right thumb, but it remains unclear if he hit it with a hammer or it got jammed in the boat cooler. The Braves got hammered and so did our favorite group of Communication Workers, hopefully everyone made it home in time to ice down coolers before the power goes out.

irene

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out, “My God, they killed them all!”
Here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin’ that he never done
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world

B.Dylan

let em eat cake eh spoony ?

FIRST LADY OF LUXURY TRAVEL: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE OBAMAS' LAVISH GETAWAYS OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS
GIRLS' TRIP TO SPAIN: AUGUST 2010

The exact cost is unclear as Mrs Obama and her 40 friends footed many personal expenses, such as hotels and meals themselves.
But the U.S. taxpayer would have paid for the First Lady's 68-strong security detail, personal staff, and use of presidential jet Air Force Two.
Per diems for the secret service team runs at around $281 each - nearly $98,000 for the length of the summer break.

Use of Air Force Two, the Air Force version of a 757, comes in at $149,900 for the round trip. This does not include time on the ground.

Mrs Obama's personal staff, of which there are an unknown amount and might cost considerably more per day, should also be taken into account.

CHRISTMAS BREAK IN HAWAII: DECEMBER 2010

According to the Hawaii Reporter, the bill for the $1.5m trip included:

$63,000 on an early flight bringing Mrs Obama and the children to Hawaii ahead of the President.
$1,000,000 on Mr Obama’s return trip from Washington on Air Force One.
$38,000 for the ‘Winter White House’ beach property rental.
$16,000 to rent nearby homes for Secret Service and Navy Seals.
$134,000 for 24 White House staff to stay at the Moana Hotel.
$251,000 in police overtime.
$10,000 for an ambulance to be on hand at all times

SKI TRIP TO VAIL: FEBRUARY 2011

Mrs Obama and her daughters stayed at the Sebastian hotel on Vail Mountain, where rooms cost more than $2,400 for multi-bedroom suites.
The family appear to have flown there on Air Force Two.
They were escorted to the resort by a motorcade of about a dozen vehicles, including 15 state and local law enforcement officers
SUMMER HOLIDAY ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD: AUGUST 2011

The Blue Heron Farm estate, where the Obama family are currently staying, rents for about $50,000 a week.
According to U.S. News and World Report, the Coast Guard is required to keep


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029615/Michelle-Obama-accused-spending-10m-public-money-vacations.html#ixzz1W1qPg8hr

Irene

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

B Dylan.

quake day

as luck would have it, I spent the noon hour strolling around the Wolrd Trade Center takin photos, which is something i do every few months over the past ten years....here are some of the shots just an hour before the quake.

the quake

eerie similarities......picturesque blue skies, blazing sun, and thousands of people out in the streets in panic....i wish i could say it was surreal but it is becoming more commonplace....at least i am not alone, this time at the first sign of trouble.....ya know when the light fixtures were swaying and the venetian blinds were rattling and the floor was trembling.....the majority of my coworkers did in fact evacuate....not all, but most.....wish i could say it's over, but as we creep closer to September, and as the waves and waves of emotion come pouring back like they did yesterday, unfortunately i know this is just the beginning.

comments

hmmmmm. 9:48 a.m. on a Tuesday...whilst the rest of the world was trading stocks, getting ready for the earthquake, and stockpiling groceries for Irenes arrival.....SOMEBODY was surfing the Net.

Honorable Eggroll hard at work

a collective cheer went up amongst the NY state taxpayers yesterday when Prof DenDen Nolan stated that due to the questionable racial overtones of this Blog, he no longer logs in from his computer at work ( school).....anything that gets even 1 teacher away from clowntime and back to the business at hand...ie teaching kids? how to read , write and shoot free throws is good news for the Empirs State....happ to do my part.

Death to Miami

enough is enough.......this guy isn't the only Booster that gave money, gifts and prostitutes to the Miami "student athletes"......he's just the only Booster that's talking.

this program will never learn, with scum like donna sha lala as their president they have that clintonesque ideal that rules are for everyone else embedded in their dna....who cares if they clean house and start acting like a University, they deserve the death penalty now so we, the innocent public, do not have to watch those putrid green and orange clad obamarites whooopin it up on the feild every saturday....if we want that nonsense we can just watch Killer Kelly and Notre Dame.


Army & Navy are the only two football teams worth supporting.......fuk air farce.

Presidential Duty ?

before taking his much needed vacation,spoonjiah took a slow ride through...IOWA ? ? in a million dollar secret service guarded Bus....Just a regular guy like Ken Kesey and the merry pranskters.....good thing there is nothing serious goin on in the world today.....never too soon to campaign for those swing votes.

PEOSTA, Iowa -- Seeking some help from rural America, President Hussein Obama on Tuesday implored Iowans to share ideas with him about how leaders can give an economic jolt to the nation's heartland. He promised better days in a time of relentless joblessness, saying, "We'll get through this moment of challenge."


meanwhile far away in another part of town.....Assad, the GREAT REFORMER; is slaughtering civilians for the six o'clock news and hunting down Ex-Patriots in foreign lands that dare speak out against the regime.....and the Black Haus said .................wait for it.....wait for it..........well absolutely nothing.

nobody knows the trouble Sambo seen

"Theres nothing wrong with our country.......theres something wrong with our politics"

This is not a blog joke....that is a direct quote from the President of the United States 8/11/11.

So the Man at the highest pinnacle in US Politics, The Commander in Chief, is trying to paint himself as an outsider ? that he alone from his distant perch can see what's wrong with washington, that if we only give him a chance and Elect him, he will BRING CHANGE ? was he reading from his 2008 election campaign pamphlets? does he not realize he is the President?

What did Nero do while Rome Burned ?

He didn't go to Fukin Dinner with Harvey Weinstein and raise money for his next campaign like spoonjiah did last night, first stopping to take a dig at the --------------------fill in the blanks......the Banks, the Rich, The Tea Party, Wall Streeters, are we missing anyone ?


somebody get this shine a Stradivarius....i'd rather he fiddled around like Nero, lord knows THOSE people have rhythm.


side note....during Ramadam, when moslems do not wear jewelry, the blackhaus said the President was not wearing his wedding ring because it was in for repairs....apparently his watch was too......go wash yer feet.

a tale of two assads

i admit it , i am confused.
remember back around St Patricks day....when the White House said Khadaffy would be out of office in 72 hours, i also remember Hillarry lecturing the foreign press with regards to a rumored crackdown in hated Syria...oddly Hilary came to their defenses and referred to Assad as a "GREAT REFORMER" and now this ? what gives?

Obama administration is planning to explicitly call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in coming days as violence increases and regime continues brutal crackdown on civilian protesters

Triple AAA no more

The United States has lost its sterling credit rating. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday lowered the nation's AAA rating for the first time since granting it in 1917. The move came less than a week after a gridlocked Congress finally agreed to spending cuts that would reduce the debt by more than $2 trillion -- a tumultuous process that contributed to convulsions in financial markets. The promised cuts were not enough to satisfy S&P. The drop in the rating by one notch to AA-plus was telegraphed as a possibility back in April. The three main credit agencies, which also include Moody's Investor Service and Fitch, had warned during the budget fight that if Congress did not cut spending far enough, the country faced a downgrade. Moody's said it was keeping its AAA rating on the nation's debt, but that it might still lower it. Speaker John Boehner issued a statement saying that the downgrade is "the latest consequence of overspending by Washington." O

Hey Wang...you shoulda told em you were Jewish.

Voters nix new Islanders arena
By SELIM ALGAR

Last Updated: 3:49 AM, August 2, 2011

Posted: 1:58 AM, August 2, 2011

Tax-sick Nassau County residents iced a controversial plan to borrow $400 million for a new New York Islanders arena yesterday, in a vote marked by low turnout and high emotion.

County Executive Edward Mangano conceded defeat at 11:40 p.m., with 823 of 1,160 precincts reporting 60,228 votes against the plan and 44,839 in favor.

"Remember, this is not an ending, this is a beginning," he said. "We will continue to move ahead to Quebec or Hamilton or Oshkosh ."

Still, the rejection makes it likely that the struggling franchise will skate out of the Nassau Coliseum when its lease expires in 2015.

Islanders owner Charles Wang said, "I have to tell you, I'm disappointed. To put it bluntly, I'm heartbroken, " but in an obvious attempt to court the many jewish voters on lone Gisland he began qouting the old testement "In the book of Ruth, Naomi tried to get Ruth to go back to her own people 3 times before Ruth became a part of the Hebrew people, and so as moykyem was to abigail, we shall perhaps request a new vote, on a brighter day, have a few blintzes and see what Canada has to offer" In retrospect , Rodney dangerfield was wrong, I shoulda have told them I was Jewsish.

Opponents asserted that Mangano and Wang had been working with indefensibly rosy numbers when they projected 3,000 new jobs and a new state of the arts Hooters restuarant in the parking lot if the project were built.

Voters said they were more concerned with fiscal responsibility than allegiance to Long Island's only professional sports franchise. although most of the african-americans voters admitted they just hate hockey.

"A new arena sounds nice, but at some point, you have to say ...Hey ! the islanders fukin suck and be responsible as a citizen and say no."

With the county facing a gaping $100 million budget deficit for 2011 and some of the country's highest property taxes, residents suggested that this is no time for ice skating frogs and russians.

"We are in enough trouble already," said Anne Pierce, 39, of Garden City. "This is just too big, I'm a country doctor Jim"

Mangano said that the new arena would have cost individual taxpayers $4 dollars annually over the next 30 years, while a state fiscal watchdog group, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, put that figure at $60,000 dollars.

The authority added that the project -- which would have included a minor-league baseball park -- would have cost $800 million, with interest included.

Braving thunderstorms and high winds, Islander fans gathered in the parking lot of the long shuttered Doctor G's , where soo many stanley cup parades were held, last night to unite for their endangered squad.

Scores of heartbroken Islander fans commiserated in the parking lot after the vote was announced,

"People are going to regret this," said teary-eyed Paul Molloy, saying higher taxes would have been a small price to pay to keep the team.

"People spend 5,000 bucks on going to Starbucks a few times. We're losing our team."

His brother Pat Molloy of Belford, NJ tried to see the silver lining, "The Red Bank Armory is pretty nice and is close to my house, maybe Mr. Wang will move the Team to NJ"

The Players on the Islanders held their own Vote Results party in a Strip Club on the nerby civilization island of Manhattan. " Free at Last, Free at Last, just like George Jefferson when he moved away from Archie Bunker" Team GM garth Snow quipped while slipping a flier for the new arena into the waistband of a curvy stripper.

more to follow.........Sweater Nite 14 is lookin brighter already.