Casey Baez

Oh, somewhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright...a band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light...and somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout.....but there is no joy in Wrigley......The Mighty Baez has struck out.

Ain't no time to hate.... barely time to wait.

So , I saw a Facebook post by Bob Weir last night ...which; in and of itself is pretty weird, but Mr Weir was asking deadheads to still believe in a democracy and to still participate by voting in the next election......and I thought of all the slings and arrows shot at the Dead and their followers over the years by various establishments, authority figures and local politicians for being drug taking vagrants and a blight on polite society....and here in this most uncivil of elections this country has ever seen, was the cofounder of the Grateful Dead trying to restore order and reinforce faith in our transitions of power.....and in reality, the finest examples of our country's values that I have experienced in my time on earth were the years I spent in the NAVY and countless sojourns in the good company of Deadheads at a show.....one common mission.... nobody being judged by the color of their skin , their hometown, their financial status, their religion....never made to feel uneasy for my personal beliefs ( except for when Phil Lesh was insisting that everyone become an organ donor...but I digress)..... I guess the point is that we all have a right to vote, and we should exercise that, encourage our neighbor to do the same and let it be.......a very interesting side bar.....the Deadheads that replied to Bob were 75% anti Hilary for stealing the nomination from Bernie.....not so much anti Trump...... I think a lot of the assumed votes for Hilary will not show up or will vote for Gary Johnson.... we'll see.

I wanna be elected...

So I woke today with that great Alice Cooper song in my head...."I'm your Yankee Doodle Dandy in a gold Rolls Royce....I wanna be selected...... we'll Rock to the rules that I make...I'm gonna be elected".......oh if only a fine upstanding citizen like Mr Alice Cooper was on the ballot........ anyway I digress.....you know I am always on guard against something, always trying to anticipate and prepare for the worst and so I switched hats.... looked at this election from our enemies side.....this has been the ugliest, devisive and unsettling election that I can remember......and no matter the results, a lot of people are going to be more than upset with the result.... despite crooked Hilary and her pandering, she sure as hell isn't going to be quick to accept the results if she looses.....and we know Team Trump will not go quietly into that good night.....there is a real potential for violent protests from both sides.....so how can our enemies exploit that ?? By planting seeds of doubts......power outages, cyber attacks, false reports of voter tampering....it's pretty easy with the knee jerk media to start a tsunami of wildly false reporting....it happens naturally during every disaster.....can you imagine if it's preplanned and well prepared ?........ I just might take off election day and drink beer with my dog and listen to rock n roll......... kind of like every other Tuesday.

Everybody braggin

And drinking that wine , I can tell the Queen of diamonds by the way she shines.... come to daddy on an inside straight, cause I got NO CHANCE of losing this time...........that might be what the witch Hilary and the Donald are thinking to themselves as they wake up in Vegas this morning before the final debate....but someone will indeed lose in a few short weeks......ya know the old Irish folklore and a great many of the doomsday Cults around the world have long prophesized that the Devil is in the women and the anti Christ will take the form of a woman.....perhaps the moral decay of this country the past 50 years has brought us to the point of electing the Antichrist Hilary to end the world...... I would almost welcome that as an alternative to 4 years of watching her dismantle this great republic one step at a time.........as for the Donn.....my advice to him.....is to appeal to the public as the Great Outsider.....the anti establishment.....it may be too late , but he should remind the country that both the Democrats and a large portion of his own party are against him.....he should show himself to be human....make light of his situation and summarize that he must be doing something RIGHT is both corrupt parties are against him.......I skipped the first two....but I plan on watching tonight..... cause I got no chance of losing this time.

And the Nobel prize goes to ?

Bob Dylan..... I could fill a blog with thousands of quotes from his Majesty , but alas I will refrain at this time.... instead I will just rehash one of the simplest, but also one of my favorites....." The Sun ain't yellow....it's chicken "…........... classic Dylan. Anyway I have been silent for far too long on this pos kappernick and his sitting or kneeling during the National Anthem.... what is he protesting ? Racial inequality ? He's right.... The blacks get a disproportionate amount of hand-outs and advancement without merit through affirmative action....it's ironic that NOW after 8 years with a black president he decides to protest....why the anthem ? Because his protest isn't really a protest , but rather a cry for attention because he lost his job as starting QB..he had no problem with the world when he was starting QB , but loose your job to a white man ? Shit...I needs to come up with something to stay in the limelight..let's blame society for all my problems, let's rally the everyday sambo on the street and the black olives movement to my side.......funny that he had no problem cashing those checks from the evil White bastard owners of the 49ers when he was the starter...and the great spoonjiah says he's just exercising his constitutional rights.... nobody was disputing that..but it's a forced demonstration that is impeding on my right to honor and respect my nation.....you want to protest outside city hall everyday ? Go right ahead.....but so can the Ku Klux Klan when they March down main Street...they have the same constitutional rights...does that make it okay spoony ?....... A few months back I called for Mr Comey , the acting head of the FBI to resign......now comes an admission that State Dept Honcho Kennedy....a Hillary underling .....lobbied hard and made special offers to the FBI to declassify Hillary's emails.....I think if you or I were stopped for speeding ( or more likely DUI ) and we offered the policeman something in return for lessening the charge to a busted tail light, we would now be facing bribery charges......but not team Hillary...... comey says there was no product quo pro , but what else do you expect them to say ? Yes, we did it...... again....the word of the accused is not gospel......but we now have a corrupt department of Justice, a corrupt FBI and a corrupt former Secretary of state in cahoots , but we can't accept Trump's low gutter boasts to impress Billy Bush 11 years ago............and the Iranian backed Rebels in Yemen are firing on our Navy.....shhh.....I find humor in everything, but sadly the consequences are becoming to grave to laugh........... except for the story about a guy in Half-moon NY that was high on LSD and broke into his neighbor's house to rescue their Dog from a horrific fire......first be banged on all the neighbors doors....but nobody would help....so he drove his truck through the fence and broke into the house.....he was waiting proudly with the rescued Pooch in his arms when Police arrived.....by now you should have guessed that there was NO FIRE......God I miss taking LSD.

The friendly confines

Way to go TV.....the Cubs hosting two playoff games in the October Sun.... against either the heated rival NY Mets or 100 year foe the GIANTS....NY or California TV audience....this game will draw big ratings no matter what......can't wait,................................. Friday's first pitch 9:15 Eastern . Saturday 8:08 p.m........... ridiculous

the vice presidential debates

so I caught a little piece last night on the evening news about the history of the VP debates, and once again the media portrayed Vice Admiral Stockdale ( Ross Perots' running mate) as a buffoon.......remember Saturday night live mocking him to no end because of his opening remarks at that one debate ...."who am I ? , what am I doing here?".........I thought maybe 24 years later, and 10 + years after his death that they may give him a fair shake....but nope......still the object of mockery ......how much better we all are than him.....that silly little man with the limp.........heres a snippet from his wikpedia page.....just another war hero unmercifully mocked for his sacrifice......he went on to be President of the Naval war College.......received every possible award for his military service and wrote 5 books about his time in a Noth Vietnam prison and the Stockdale idealogy on how to survice an insufferable situation in captivity......a real dope. On 9 September 1965, while flying from USS Oriskany on a mission over North Vietnam, Stockdale ejected from his Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, which had been struck by enemy fire and completely disabled. He parachuted into a small village, where he was severely beaten and taken prisoner. Stockdale was held as a prisoner of war in the Hoa Lo prison (the infamous "Hanoi Hilton") for the next seven and a half years. As the senior Naval officer, he was one of the primary organizers of prisoner resistance. Tortured routinely and denied medical attention for the severely damaged leg he suffered during capture, Stockdale created and enforced a code of conduct for all prisoners which governed torture, secret communications, and behavior. In the summer of 1969, he was locked in leg irons in a bath stall and routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so that his captors could not use him as propaganda. When they covered his head with a hat, he beat himself with a stool until his face was swollen beyond recognition. When Stockdale was discovered with information that could implicate his friends' "black activities", he slit his wrists so they could not torture him into confession. Early in Stockdale's captivity, his wife, Sybil Stockdale, organized The League of American Families of POWs and MIAs, with other wives of servicemen who were in similar circumstances. By 1968, she and her organization, which called for the President and the U.S. Congress to publicly acknowledge the mistreatment of the POWs (something that had never been done despite evidence of gross mistreatment), gained the attention of the American press. Sybil Stockdale personally made these demands known at the Paris Peace Talks. Stockdale was one of eleven prisoners known as the "Alcatraz Gang": George Thomas Coker; George McKnight; Jeremiah Denton; Harry Jenkins; Sam Johnson; James Mulligan; Howard Rutledge; Robert Shumaker; Ronald Storz; and Nels Tanner. These individuals had been leaders of resistance activities while in captivity and thus were separated from other captives and placed in solitary confinement. "Alcatraz" was a special facility in a courtyard behind the North Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, located about one mile away from Hoa Lo Prison. In Alcatraz, each of the prisoners was kept in an individual windowless and concrete cell measuring 3 by 9 feet (0.9 by 2.7 m) with a light bulb kept on around the clock, and they were locked in leg irons each night.[11][12][13][14][15] Of the eleven, Storz died in captivity there in 1970. In a business book by James C. Collins called Good to Great, Collins writes about a conversation he had with Stockdale regarding his coping strategy during his period in the Vietnamese POW camp......I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade. When Collins asked who didn't make it out of Vietnam, Stockdale replied: Oh, that's easy, the optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, 'We're going to be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart. Stockdale then added: This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

Driving that train

Tommy Gallagher you better watch your speed.......not a laughing matter....just another attempt on my life by isis and their sympathizers....me and Donnie beisbol narrowly escaped death....again.....sadly Donnie's new cooler bag ( a back to work gift from his gym buddies at retro fitness....things won't be the same without Donnie hanging round the gym all summer getting fit as a fiddle ).....but the cooler bag tipped over and 4 tallboy spilled out onto the platform..... Donnie was inconsolable.....3 unrelated tall boys were found packed in ice in the first black box.... apparently being used as a cooler........ anyway....today marks the 5th full day since the accident and they still have yet to access the lead car, the drivers cab or the 2nd black box.... that's embarrassing and unacceptable....I walked past the station yesterday.....it was quieter than the library.... nothing going on but the rent...... guess I will be riding the Marrakesh express ( path) for a while....