Time has come for us to part

 And think of living as it was.

Into the future we must cross...

...Must cross.   (Jorma)

i never really cared much for new years eve and so this year too i will just skip it.....partly because i am still sick with the China Flu but mainly because New Years Day is now and always will be one of my favorite days of the year.....and so i chose to rest up and celebrate the NEW YEAR and say good riddance to the one that has passed.....i do so with Beer, Music, Beer, sports and BEEEEEER.......you said beeeeer 3 times....well i'm just getting started.

Genesis,,,,,Jorma......i doubt there has been a Jan1 since i was 9 or 10 and did not listen to that song at some point......literally the beginning.....it simply must be listened to on new yeras day......and i always chose optimistic happy, feel good songs for New Years day......here a  few on my annual playlist

Blue Sky, Revival, New Morning,  New Lee Highway Blues, Two of Us, Morning Dew, The Music Never Stopped, Running Down a Dream, North Wind Rise, Running on Empty, Henry, 

optimistic, new beginnings, new days dawn.....nothing quite like New Years Day....today is the first day of the rest of your life and all that nonsense.....but seriously....wake up early tomorrow with a clear head, crack a beer, play some tunes and if possible go to the ocean........i have always managed to walk by the water on Jan 1.....whether it be the Narrows, the Atlantic, Indian Ocean or Carribean Sea from the deck of a ship or the boardwalk in Seabright the last 20 years....the ocean tells us no lies......listen to the waves cracking, time waitts for no man, everything is evolving and revolving and coming and going and all at the same time......breath deep the fresh air, patt yourself on the back for another year in the books and treat yourself to a beverage, a bite to eat and some all american athletic competition diversion......the earth is billions of years old, and yet we managed to exist on the planet at the same time as Jerry Garcia.....put that in yer pipe and smoke it.

And when we came out into view

And there I found myself with you.

When breathing felt like something new...

New...

Along with you

Going along with you.

And them Caribbean winds still blow

 rom Nassau to Mexico

Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire

And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free

Bringing everything that’s near to me nearer to the fire ( Dylan)

well don't think that because half the state has the China Flu, that Gov Murphy will let that influence or ruin his holiday plans.....no sir......the Gov who just snuck by Jack Cittarelli in November ( Thanks to the teachers union and some absentee ballots) is on his way to San Jose....as in Costa Rica ; for a much deserved 8 day vacation......never mind that he has been railing about masks and CDC guidelines and Vaccines for 21 months , never mind that the state dept discourages travel to Costa Rica at this time....never mind that clueless Joe just stated that there is NO FEDERAL SOLUTION to Covid and that it is up to the Govs to figure this thing out....never mind that NJ residents that are employed by NYC firms are having their constitutional rights trampled by an illegal overeach of a vaccine mandate in Manhattan......OR that they are about to be double and triple taxed by NYC with congestion pricing.....never mind that those same people feel compelled to drive because the public transit systems are a LIFE or DEATH gamble all day/everyday.......never mind all that......Horse Face Murphy is OFF to the BEACH.

Funny fact.....after the dems and blacks cried about TREE Equity and how everything is stacked against them and there is racism in the air and water and roads and everything ( Hell even the China Flu is racist).....NYC setup 5 locations from which FREE at Home covid tests were being handed out so the good citizens of this city didn't have to stand in lines waiting for a wuhan test......guess where the 5 locations were?.....Jamaica Queens, Malcolm X Blvd and 125th, Flatbush and Church Ave, Fordham Rd and Bay Street S.I .......if you are not familiar with NYC i will give you a spoiler alert....these are the blackest neighborhoods in each borough.....they give new meaning to the phrase Dark Continent.......as a white male i am waiting for my $100 for getting vaccinated.....and waiting for my head of the line priviliges for being awarded a marijuana sales license, i want a free at home test, a child tax credit, extended unemployment , slavery reparations.....and a FUCKING TREE planted in front of my house....

oh well.....maybe i will jet down to Costa Rica to hang with the Gov whilst i wait on that tree.

We met at the steeple where the mission bells ring

She said, “I know what you’re thinking, but there ain’t a thing

You can do about it, so let us just agree to agree”

And so this is Christmas

 For weak and for strong,

For the rich and the poor ones,

The road is so long.  (John Lennon)

I woke up Tuesday morning, sick as a dog (Not Matteau)......i tried my usual remedy of Jack Daniels with Lemon Tea and Honey and Tylenol, but apparently the China Flu is immune to American Whiskey....and so we were forced to cxl plans for the Eve and Christmas Day, not so much out of an abundance of caution but because we both felt like death soup warmed over.....dry cough, headache, fatigue and General malaise ( Admiral malaise was in a strip bar)....but yet i stand before you this Christmas Eve morn as a very Happy, grateful and truly blessed individual....I chose to focus on all the wonderful things in my life and not feel sorry for myself for missing 48 hours of parties.

One thing i am grateful for is the fact that i do not have work today . I always felt like the Bob Cratchet looser of the year when i had to get on that miserable train on 12/24......it was empty except for a few other losers and a rookie crew that drew the short straw. In the office it was always that bullshit waiting game of hoping they would announce a departure schedule and then trying to scramble to find a holiday schedule train home.....i remember the years of calling around to see what trains my friends (if they were IN ) were catching...and i always had to go to the B and even C list to find someone, ANYONE; to ride the train with.....because the only thing worse than drinking beer on a 90 minute train home on Christmas Eve is doing it by yourself.

In my Navy Years i would always volunteer to take duty on the Eve and Christmas Day for a married guy if we were in port....i remember how grateful some of these guys were.....for them it was a Christmas miracle....for me it was better to remain on ship with all the single guys and pretend it was just another day , than to sit in a gin mill in Jacksonville Beach and be forced to look in the mirror and think about home.

And so today i will smile knowing i am home in my basement bar....a place where i have more whiskey than Lynchburg Tennessee....enough beer to satisfy a hoard of thirsty campers....great food, a warm house, music galore and the nuclear family intact and a warm, fuzzy dog pushing me off the couch. Eeven though i am under the weather, i am grateful for my health; for this too shall pass. In a weird way i am looking forward to 72 hours of drinking, snoozing, eating and watching 90 day fiancé or below deck reruns....

so i wish all my loyal readers the serenity that i am feeling today.....happiness is right here in front of us if we chose to find it.....turn off the news for 3 days and enjoy the good things around us...howver grand or small....it's okay to push back against that dog that is stretching out....just patt his head and cover him with a blankie.

i opened with John Lennon....but i will close with the immortal words of Ringo Starr ( George Harrison may have a writing credit on this one too, not sure)

Peace, remember peace is how we make it,
Here within your reach
If you're big enough to take it.

and the Ocean is howling

 for the things that might have been  ( Peter Rowan)

i sat in front the TV last nite and was preoccupied with another lost oppurtunity for this looser-in-chief.

Last month we saw video of people chasing Kristen Senema into an airport bathroom and challenging her on her opposition to the Build Back a Better Taliban bill.....Kristen Senema is a Democrat....Joe Biden ran on a platform of unifying the country and both parties.....when asked to condemn the people whi chased/filmed the Senator from Arizona , he said..."it's all part of the process"   so much for civility.

Sunday Joe Manchin stated he absolutely cannot support BBB.....and he personally did not appreciate being called out by the White House....being harassed on his family's Houseboat , and being made the scapegoat for everything......ignorant black poloiticians accused him of obstructing Democracy , when in fact he was exercising Democracy....but hey, they've only been in this country 3 or 400 hundred years....they can't be expected to know the meaning of big words...they heard it once and they repeated it....whatever it means is mute.

next day multiple Blacks went to CNN to say that Manchin was Racist.....Bette Midler ( a fuckin jew bitch) had the nerve to say that the people of West Virginia are poor, ignorant and strung out on drugs.....the party of tolerance never fails to drop the ball,,,,and Biden and the White House said nothing.

This was a golden oppurtunity for the CIC to say that he's known Manchin for 30 plus years, he respects his integrity and he unequivocally denounces anyone inferring that the Senator is Racist......it would have been the highlight of his Presidency to give a passionate speech about race in this country and to call out the far left for playing the race card and for slandering a good man that merely disagrees with their bill. He could remind everyone that when you call non racists a RACIST, the impact of the word looses all power and people tune you off. He could have insisted that all we all learn to negotiate in good conscience and to respect the other side opinions and objectives.........it would have gone a long way in restoring some faith with the independents that voted for Biden but now realize that AOC & the squad are running the country.....November can't get here fast enough.

And that last good morning sunrise will be the brightest you've ever seen

Sunday afternoon Tijuana, that is a lovely town

 Bullfight brings the tourists and

Their money flowing down  (J.Dawson NRPS)

well well well.........if you leave the southern border open for a year i suppose this was bound to happen....although millions have walked across without so much as a china flu test, let alone vetting their identity; one fella was apprehended yesterday with ties to Yemini terror organizations......he didn't try to sneak in....instead he walked across wearing the Uniform of the Oneida NY Volunteer ambulance organization......complete with a US Flag on the shoulder and everything.....maybe he was just here to help with the tornados in Kentucky.....you know those poor arabs are always being mischaracterized as bad people...when the truth is that islam is a peaceful religious be-header, blah blah blah.

Now you know these douchbags in the white house are hard at work trying to spin this....i wish vegas gave odds on which direction they will go.

* he was lost

* he was a peaceful man forced from Yemen because of poverty and racism and no vaccines

* he is a humanitarian and he only came here to help Americans and correct the false narrative that moslems are terrorists 

*OR , wait for it.......this is proof that the border is secure and Team Biden is catching the bad guys .

in any event, one can only fear how many like him have crossed in the last 11 months and what are they planning to do ? i mean besides collect benefits and vote in our elections of course

The border guards are much too busy

There at five o' clock

Henry's truckin' right on through

He hardly even stopped

look for a while

at the china cat sunflower

Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun

Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono

Like a crazy quilt star gown through a dream night wind  (Hunter-Garcia)

and just like that it appears the NHL participation in the Bejing Olympics is in peril. The league has until January 9th to formally withdraw and based on two main factors it appears they will. First and foremost is the cancellation of games due to outbreaks of the wuhan virus...they league cannot shut down for 3 weeks for the Olympics and still find available dates to reschedule games that have been already cancelled.....they will need some of those days back in February . The second factor which is not really talked about in the light of day, so as to not offend the Chinese hosts is the fact that the players are starting to have reservations about venturing to Bejing......there are no clear guidelines as to what the Communist Chineese Govt will do should an athlete test positive for the China Flu while in Bejing. One only has to go back to August to realize the current administration will do NOTHING to rescue it's citizens from a hostile foreign government.....let alone a dozen hockey players eh ? 

So what does this mean for Sweater Nite 24 ?  not a dam thing.....the party is ON.....Macadoo is playing in the Oak Room and we may even have some NHL action if they wisely reschedule some games for the Sunday afternoon of a 3 day weekend.

I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls

In the eagle-winged palace of the queen chinee

China cat, china cat

China cat, china cat

take a look around you boy

 it's bound to scare you boy   ( Barry Maguire)

where to begin on this Thursday morn ?

Parents at the University of Pennsylvania are up in arms and have written a letter to the NCAA complaining about a male student that took hormones for a year and decided to swim for the girls team.....seems the swimmer formerly known as William Thomas has now set two NCAA records for Womens swimming and beat a normal female teammate in a qualify event by 38 seconds...the Parents wrote a letter complaining about the unfair playing field.....but alas, in this age of wokeness; they refused to sign the letter for fear of retaliation from the "accept everyone" woke crowd........hilarious......can't wait till some dude in the NBA development league decides he's a girly girl and joins the WNBA and starts dunking on everyone and getting 50 points a game.

I warned of a similar scenario years ago....everytime the MSM did a feel-good story about a high school female trying out for the boys football team as a kicker , and celebrated her can do attitude...I warned the day was coming where colleges and high schools would have 1 team for every sport (not both a boys and girls team) and the best athletes regardless of gender would make the team......it would signal the end of womens sports..and the costly title 9.....except maybe gymnastics and tiddlywinks.

Nancy Pelosi, remember old turkey neck ? well she came out from behind the walls of her mansion to say she was appalled at the attitude of lawlessness that is gripping San Francisco .....not a joke....what planet do these people live on ? 

Adam Schiff , remember that cocksucker ? not that anyone else will report this , but he admitted that he "INADVERTANTLY" altered a text from Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows and presented the doctored text as evidence in the Jan 6 hearings to make it look like Jordan was telling Meadows to have Mike Pence not certify the election.....turns out it was a memo from an attorney that Jordan fwd, and half a sentence cutoff and a paragraph explaining this was deleted ( inadvertantly) ....not a joke.....how many times can this prick get away with lying and or falsifying information  before he is brought up on charges.

Sleepy Joe, remember the AWOL-IN-Chief ?  still hasn't visited the victims of the Christmas parade in Wisconsin....and yesterday amidst a short visit to Kentucky, he found time to make predictions about the midterm election.....classless , drooling, pathetic looser.....the people pulling the strings should be held accountable.

And why was the President absent from the Army-Navy game ? turns out his handlers were terrified that 80,000 strong would begin chanting "Lets Go Brandon" ....and that would not be a good optic for the free world......i say oh contraire....it would send a clear message to the chinks and ruskies that under this horsehit disgace of a country there still beats the heart of an army of Patriots....all too willing to die to protect our freedoms... 

Yep, all you cowards that were offended by the scary orange man and his mean tweets.....you own this.

Ah, you may leave here for four days in space

But when you return, it's the same old place

The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace

You can bury your dead but don't leave a trace

 

You might not like it now

but you will,

the future will not stand still (Adam Ant)  

there is a breaking point.....a point where law abiding citizens finally give up hopes of winning fairly, when playing by the rules seems fruitless, when the rules themselves are ignored by everyone else and so you simply take matters into your own hands.....we are close.

If the democrats continue to be AWOL at our Southern Border, allowing and encouraging illegal immigration, and now push forward with plans to allow Non Citizens to vote in our elections,  a civil war will ensue. They have an opportunity to delay the inevitable fisticuffs....to immediately shout down the progressives in their own party and stop this lawless plan.....because truth be told, when the shooting starts it is the right that has the guns, and it is those in the middle that will suffer the most.....there is a naivete within the left that just assumes the conservatives will always follow the law.....but if they keep defunding the Police and shredding the rules of law ; they may see a different side of things.....this isn't a threat by any means, i own no weapons and never will.....i often joke that i drink way too much to have a firearm in the house, and i would probably shoot the TV before i  pulled the gun on an intruder....but the future is right in front of us....someone has to say it.....we can't all stare blindly into the abyss and drool like Brandon.

74 year old woman shot her 73 year old husband in Middletown NJ Monday morning.....i have one question ......what took you so long.

get off your knees and hear the insect prayer

Victory is sweet

 Congratulations to coach Ken and the men of the US Naval Academy Football team.....a glorious victory !

Don't call me Norman

 call me CHUBSY UBSY ......

that was the classic scene from the Little Rascals of course.....but i am happy to report a tidbit on Norman Boomer Esiason.

The guys from WFAN Boomer & Gio were doing a remote show this morning from the deck of the Intrepid in advance of tomorrows' Army-Navy game form the Giants Stadium....and Gio asked rhetorically if President Biden would follow a long history of sitting Presidents attending America's Game......Boomer shot a dirty look, shook his head and took a long sip of his coffee.......apparently, he is NOT a fan of the CIC.....Gio apologized and said that he didn't mean to get Boomer upset so early in the morning....but it was too late.....Boomer then remarked how the President didn't even go to Pearl Harbor for the 80th anniversary of our worst military attack.....he continued to shake his head in disgust......Bravo Boomer....Bravo for not being afraid to speak the truth.

glimmers of hope.....glimmers of hope.....we are NOT alone in this muck and mire.

Oh Miss Crabtree, theres something heavy on my heart

Oh Chubsy Ubsy theres gonna be something heavy on your nose

SQUID GAMES

 that just may be the headline of the NY Post backpage come Sunday morning.....theres something Fishy in Denmark and it's not just the rotten streets in Copenhagen.....well, well, well if it's Tuesday Weld it's must be Belgium.....and other strange realizations

The Midshipmen of the Naval Academy are only 7.5 dogs against Mighty Army....and the game total is a measly 33 1/2.......Army averages 35 points a game......what gives ??

well one little tidbit of information is that the Navy schedule is ranked #3 in the nation ( in terms of opposition winning %) and although they were absolutely outmatched and lost for the first month of the season they did show some grit in the last 2 months...in hanging with Houston and Cincy....and they gave ND a game for 3 quarters in South Bend.....BUT STILL..... Navy does not have a great defense.....surely Army will cover the total themselves and beat these squids by a dozen or more......right ?? 

Me ?  I think Navy's defense has something to prove, i think they will hold the Cadets in check and they will have to because the offense is probably only good for 2 touchdowns and a field goal.....i'll predict Navy 17  Army 14......go squids...

 will a new group of hero's rise to the occasion on the rain soaked pitch of Giants Stadium and somehow, somehow find a way ?     48 hours till Armageddon .....buckle up

The Wheel is turning

 and you can't slow down,

can't hold on and you can't let go (Garcia-Hunter)

sometimes i wish i was pulling your leg.....i wish it was just a joke or an exaggeration of the truth.

Doctor Gindaloon Fauci says the ban on travel from South Africa was made at a time when we were really in the DARK,  he went on to say 

"We all feel very badly about the hardship that might have been put upon not only South Africa but the other African countries.".

so my first question is...if you were in the Dark 8 days ago.....what level of enlightenment did you enjoy 18 months ago ? when you decided to shut down America, issue mask and vaccine mandates and block all international travel to and from the USA ?  and do you all feel "really bad" about the HARDSHIP you inflicted on the American Public....especially bars, restaurants and hospitality industries ?  i mustve missed that admission of guilt and apology to the American People.

my second question......should any nation ever make sweeping changes to policy while admittedly being in the dark ?  (  especially since our 180 degree turn around occured just a day after the WHO cautioned Nations about overeacting ?  who the fuck is calling the shots in this country ?  senile joe went on tv over the weekend and joked about President Fauci being in charge....oh how nice it must be to be a simpleton.....where you can stare in the face of danger but your brain is too far gone to comprehend.

Crime ? what Crime ??  Philadelphia DA "Uncle Larry" Krasner  is insisting there is no crisis or cause for alarm.....he was nicknamed "Uncle Larry" by the criminal population because he is so soft on crime....but the city's african-american ex-mayor Micheal Nutter says otherwise.

“It takes a certain audacity of ignorance and white privilege to say that right now. … I have to wonder what kind of messed-up world of white wokeness Krasner is living in to have so little regard for human lives lost, many of them Black and brown, while he advances his own national profile as a progressive district attorney.”....it's worth noting that homicides and shooting have doubled since 2019 ( they took 2020 off because of the pandemic)

Crime ? what Crime ??  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is placing the blame for crime on the retailers themselves......again....not pulling your leg ...she blamed retailers for not hiring more security guards and for not having operational cameras to record thefts ......let that sink in.......she collects enormous tax dollars from the business's on Michigan Avenue, then denies them basic police protection through her defunding and villifying of the men in blue and NOW she wants those same business to go out and hire private security ? ....why stop there .......insist that they drive their own trash to the local dump and put out any fires with a garden hose ......oh....and return their tax $$....lol

Putin ? what Putin ? not sure if i have the stomach today to talk about the 3 ring circus that is our foreign policy....but a few bullet points may suffice.

*Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline in the USA

*Biden gave a greenlight to our NATO ally Germany to proceed with a Pipeline to buy gas from Russia, no concessions from Putin, no demands that he NOT invade anyone...a financial windfall for mother russia.

* Putin puts 75,000 troops on the ukraine border and hints at an invasion

*biden caves and asks Putin not to invade and is getting ready to agree to NOT add Ukraine to NATO as an olive branch ....the leader of the free world continues to shit on democracy around the world and also shit his pants.

Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, Big wheel turn by the grace of God, Every time that wheel turn 'round, Bound to cover just a little more ground.

* 

 

80 years

 “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”  (FDR addressing Congress)

2400+ Americans were killed that day.....the Japs made a strategic move to destroy the United States Navy and rule the seas for the remainder of the global war....the United States was ill prepared and our servicemen paid the price......sound familiar?

But the one thing that didn't show up in all the japanese plans for global domination was the resiliency of the American serviceman...particularly the Navy.....and the sheer brilliance and street smarts of our Admirals like Bull Halsey, Chester Nimitz and Ray Spruance.( I put Halsey first because he is from Elizabeth NJ and  my personal favorite, his biography is essential reading)

Under this Holy Trinity of leadership the United States Navy  rose from the ashes......dusted herself off, rebuilt and ultimately destroyed the Godless Bastards of the Japenese Empire.(today their descendants are left to make tiny radios and eat sushi off naked models in tokyo)....and when brought to her knees, the Nips were forced to come aboard the Mighty USS Missouri to sign away their unconditional surrender in Tokyo bay.

i shudder to think about how this country will react when the next pearl harbor happens, but that's a rant for another day......today we reflect back on the poor souls and countless lives that were lost that day, the thousands of families that were changed forever.....we hope and pray that a valuable lesson was learnt, one that will prevent future generations from having to endure similar atrocities...but i won't hold my breath.

Blue of the mighty deep, Gold of God's great sun;

Let these our colors be, Till All of time be done-n-n-ne;

On seven seas we learn, Navy's stern call:

Faith, courage, service true, With honor over, honor over all.

you and me ain't no movie stars

what we are, is what we are

We share a bed,

Some popcorn,

And TV, yeah.   (A. Cooper) 

ah but it was a simpler TV that the great Alice Cooper was singing about.....the TV of the 70's was a good source of entertainment and distraction....not so much today .....some random media observations

*the news isn't really the news anymore.......i watch our local stations in the morning for shootings, house fires and the weather....only cbs 2 and fox 5 ( 2 because they are the least offensive and 5 because Bianca Peters is hotter than a 5 alarm burrito) ...but lately these liberal leaning outlets seem more content to report hollywood happenings than local shootings, stabbing or mid day rapes.......i wonder why that is ?.....i remember the dark days under President Trump where certain networks were counting the # of covid cases daily on screen.......how anytime a police officer sneezed in someone's general direction there was a full court press of coverage......not lately

*a funny trend is happening in the comments section of some of these media pages.......whenever a horrific crime is reported BUT the perp is not described or their name is not mentioned ( as polar opposite of Kyle Rittenhouse, he had his full white life on display and researched before he was acquitted).....if the actual criminal is left in the vague shadows.........nj.com is the worst......they will report on a horrible crime and then say the police apprehended a suspect described as a man wearing a brown jacket.....no mention of Race or his or her name ..people commenting will mimic Wheel of Fortune and ask Pat if they can buy a vowel ? or better yet.......jump right to it....."Pat, I would like to solve the puzzle"........just like when south park would run the clip of a newsperson reporting on a suicide bomber.........."and..........it's moslems"

Classic Fauci.......while answering Peter Doocy's questions about the travel ban he said "everybody entering the country will be tested for Covid"........Doocy asked again, "Everybody" ?.......pompous fauci replied "that's what i said...everybody"........Doocy corrected him and said , "No, you said everyone entering the country at the airport, but what about those entering by foot at our southern border ?........to which the ginny doctor waved his hand and said "oh, that's a different story"......really ?

Relax

I'll need some information first

Just the basic facts

Can you show me where it hurts?   ( Gilmour/Waters)

**more people have died in the United States from the Covid China Flu since inauguration day ....than they did during the Trump Administration.

** those who died during the Trump Administration did so pre-vaccine

**those who died post inauguration day did so despite a free, readily available; vaccine

**Biden and the Democrats called Trump a Xenophobe and a Racist for enacting an International  travel Ban.

**Biden and the Democrats enacted their own travel ban this week in reaction to a mild strain from South Africa.

**Biden ran on a platform of Crushing the corona Virus.....and on July 4th declared the United States had achieved Independence from the Virus.

**this morning Biden will address the nation with an updated plan......it centers around masks and vaccines......hmm......hope they do not pre-empt the Price is Right for that Breaking News.

**democrats swore they would never take the vaccine while Trump was President....Democrats now want to villainize and ostracize anyone that does not get vaccinated

**Joe Biden pre-election said vaccine mandates were an overreach of power and he would instead try to persuade people to become vaccinated but never make it mandatory

**Joe Biden enacted vaccine mandates on federal employees and strong armed the airline industry and other other private business to do the same.

**Federal courts are now ruling these mandates illegal

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying