as we gazed out on

Saint Dominic's Preview...….( Van Morrison).

as the years do collide in the conscious and the subconscious I find it interesting how events that seemed borderline insignificant as they occurred, actually seered deep into the brain and resurface over and over...…….as I stand at my computer and drink a cold beeeer….and I watch Detroit and Chicago battle it out in the annual Turkeish bowl......I first think of all the United States Military separated from their families on this day...….what's left unsaid on TV when they talk about those deployed, is that even if you aren't deployed...even if your ship is stateside...sitting in port in a tiny town like Mayport Florida...there is a duty section...….and half of that ship has to remain on the ship....ever ready....prepared for anything....even though their families may be carving that turkey a few miles off base.....someone has to be on duty every single fucking day of the year.....so yes...pray for the guys and gals on the front lines around the globe....but let me tell …sometimes it is easier to be deployed...you are mentally prepared well in advance, and you know you won't be home...and its so far away you even wonder if it's really happening at all....and there is nothing sadder than spending a holiday stuck on a ship...or a base.....on American soil......unable to leave......while the whole country revels in jocularity and enjoy the nectar that the Gods have been so good to share with us....and you ? you are stuck with 100 miserable fuckers who all Hate the world on this or any given day......I vividly remember being so angry that the Mess crew even served turkey on Thanksgiving...I wished they would just let that Thursday pass without any reminder...……..and I always come back to my one Thanksgiving on the Footprint of Freedom.....Diego Garcia ( me and Danny Woods served our Country on that Rock in the Indian Ocean)….and oh how I remember drinking everything under the sun in the 100 degree heat....ad Listening to Van Morrison  "Saint Dominic Preview over and over.....the whole CD blarring from the balcony of the Barracks.....and all os uf…..united in our loneliness...but UNITED...….and we were 5 or 6 thousand miles from the Continental United States....we were deployed on that island....and it was easier than the 3 miserable Thanksgivings I spent on that ship.....I being single always volunteered to work Thanksgiving so a married guy could be with his wife and kids.....but it was torture...…...I am comimg up on 55 years on this planet.....but those 3 or 4 years I spent working for my Uncle Sam were the most influential days I have ever spent....at least me brain says so...……….and as Van would say '''And we sailed , all around the world....and we sailed...looking for a brand new start....Ohhhhhh...listen to the Lion"

God Bless President Trump......God Bless the USA.

It’s a nice name

Part of me wants to completely ignore the NFL , but another side of me insists on shining a light into their Forrest of hypocrisy......I had to rewind the TV yesterday when I heard a former player ( I apologize I don’t remember whom) exclaim that “Mason Rudolph started the fight with Myles Garret “......and” he must’ve said something to get Garret so enraged “ and finally “ he walks away while his linemen stickup for him and he gets nothin ( suspension) .....sounds like a dog whistle to me, the blacks are great at playing the system, they know all they have to do is insinuate race , and half of America begs for their forgiveness....I won’t be surprised if Garret breaks his silence and accuses Rudolph of using a racial slur.....but if he did, I am sure that wouldn’t sit well with the black offensive lineman that came to his defense....

How about Kapernick ? Cancels his league sponsored workout and moves it to a high school 60 miles away so he can cry that nobody showed (8 pathetic franchises including the Jets showed up).....funny I don’t remember the league having a private workout for Richie Icognito when he was trying to resurrect his career.......but Kapernick also said it’s time for the league to stop running and face the truth.........for the record, Kapernick opted out of his contract with the 49ers after he lost his starting job the prior year.....he was a running QB who didn’t want to run anymore and his play was in decline.....guaranteed if he was Peyton Manning in his prime that 75% of the league owners would have looked the other way about his kneeling and signed him.....truth is ...he was no longer good enough to warrant the baggage he carried.


Lastly......he wore a KUNTA KINTE t shirt to the workout........someone should have reminded him that his name is TOBY.

You’ve got to pickup every stitch

The rabbits runnin' in the ditch
Beatnicks are out to make it rich
Oh no
Must be the season of the witch
Must be the season of the witch (D. Leitch)

Yep, it’s the season of the with HUNT.......while the world spins out of control and trade deals wait to be ratified and the dreamers dangle in the breeze and the police surrender the streets and subways to the criminales, all the democrats want to do is hold secret dry runs for their impeachment over a phone call.....the President was well within his power to set conditions for foreign aid, especially when giving funds to a country that was drowning in corruption.....unlike previous administrations that gave billions to the Arafat’s of this world, 

“ how can the life of such a man,
Be in the palm of some fool’s hands,
To see him obviously framed, couldn’t help but make you feel ashamed,
To live in a land, where justice is a game “ (Dylan)