Reason the poor girls love him ?

 Promise them anything

Reason they believe him

He wears a big diamond ring  ( Hunter-Garcia)

let's start with some good news.....I sent a telegram to Putin last week and told him i was concerned that his planned incursion into the Ukraine might overshadow Sweater Nite...so we got out our date books and i suggested that the much-anticipated invasion would be best suited for the week of Feb 21-25....he raised his chalice of Vodka and shouted "Nastrovika" ( a traditional Bayridge Polish-Russian toast) and so it was concluded......in the days following Sweater Nite , sometime after Bobby Microwave and One2Many have played their encore....and the Hightides have put away the drum kit , that the russian tanks could crawl closer to Kiev.....ahhhh diplomacy.

When is an alliance not really an alliance?

Ask NATO.

Senile Joe talks about NATO stopping Russia and China......not so fast.

Turkey is currently under Erdogan the dictator; they are less a democracy than Venezuala....they have repeatedly refused to allow the US warplanes to use their Air space to carry out  exercises against Syria, Iraq, Iran or any other arab nation....some fuckin ally....they will not be onboard with any action against Russia or China, and they have the largest military in NATO aside from the U.S.

Germany is the weakest turncoat in the alliance.....these stupid motherfuckers have surrendered to Russia and now rely on a natural gas pipeline from Mother Russia to support their energy needs....a pipeline that asshole joe greenlighted last year (all while shutting down the keystone pipeline in the US) Germany has never met their financial obligations to NATO, do you really think they will supply soldiers and then face the reality that Russia will cut off their gas ? 

France ? a yellow belly nation....but they were still an ally for the most part....until papa joe cutoff a deal the french had with Australia to build and sell submarines...and instead struck his own deal without notifying france of his intentions....now the shoe is on the other foot....the french can look at America and say some fuckin ally.

Italy ?  to whom and when should we surrender is the only questions the gindaloons ever ask.

Truth is after we abandoned our own people, and afghans who were helping us; the whole world should be questioning the US as an ally. Taiwan and the Ukraine should be very worried.

SCOTUS....now that Breyer is resigning the biden administration has once again verbally committed to nominating a black female to serve on the bench. Personally, the new member will be replacing a liberal member, so i only hope that the nominee leaves politics aside and is qualified to listen to the arguments and pass a fair judgment based on their interpretation of the constitution. ( something kaegan and sontemayor are incapable of on most issues) I don't care about skin color or gender, whomever is chosen i know will have ideological differences from me, and that's OK.......BUT....to begin a job search by saying the qualifications are based solely on skin color and gender is racist. in 2019 black females made up 12.3% of the US population....to eliminate over 87% of the population from consideration for the position is not only stupid but criminal. Black females only deserve to be considered for the position, along with every other color, gender or nationality of qualified people. It cheapens the nominee when you announce their skin color and gender before you chose the person....it sends the message to the country that "this" person was chosen because she is a black female instead of saying this candidate was chosen because they were best ( and just happens to be a black female)...but the demonrats do this all the time....they are forever telling the blacks that THEY are not good enough to live, eat, breath and succeed on their own in this white male hostility world.....anyone who grew up in Brooklyn knows this is bullshit....and the African Americans that succeed without the Government pushing or demanding their promotions are mutually respected and seen as coworkers....not black coworkers.

one silly question to ponder......what if someone from the nominee's childhood neighborhood should come forward at the 11th hour and vaguely claim to have been sexually mistreated as a teenager by the nominee ?  will all the characters who lined up against Justice Kavanaugh do the same this time ?

In the Valley of the Shadow

Just you, Alabama and me

still the searcher

must ride the dark horse

Racing alone in his fright (n. Young)

I have to set the record straight to live forever in the cloud....Neil Young, much like President Biden; is a confused, irrelevant and old man. Yesterday he demanded that music provider "spotify" remove all his music unless they agree to drop Joe Rogan podcasts.

Joe Rogan and his podcast sit atop the spotify charts.... Joe Rogan is anti-vaccine or pro-choice when it comes to putting unknown elements into your body.....Joe Rogan survived a bout with Covid early on and had the audacity to tell his followers how he did it.....Joe Rogan gives a platform to a plethora of people ( lunatics) to come on his show....smoke weed and share their sometimes crazy, sometimes accurate and always entertaining thoughts on the subjects of the day....from space aliens to govt plots.....JOE ROGAN has 200 million followers at last count.

Neil is a sad caricature of his former self......i doubt too many people under the age of 50 know who he is....his music at one time was representative of the times at hand...a  strong voice on politics and life in the 60,70' and 80's.....he started to lose me when he released Greendale and took a strong anti-police stand in his fictional california town.....but i loved his music and gave him a pass....he continued to slide to the dark side and soon wasn't relevant...he ranted and cried about Business and Big Auto and seemed like a really rich guy who lived on a hill and complained about stuff he thought young kids cared about......in 2016 when then citizen Donald Trump announced he was running for President , he did so by Riding an escalator down into the Lobby of Trump Tower while the Neil Young song " Rockin in the Free World" was blaring on the speakers....it soon became Trumps' signature arrival music and all his speeches and rallies.....and then Neil released a blistering stop and decease letter demanding the Trump stop using his music....Neil got on his soapbox like he always does and looked down on Trump.....his typical my values are better than yours and i refuse to allow my music to be associated with your evil campaign....he criticized everything and anything that was Trump or Trump related......strong stance.....some people might even have given Young credit for taking such principled stance ( considering his music was getting attention for the first time in years).

and then

Trump blew the whistle on poor mister Young.......he said that Neil had come to Trump tower a mere 30 days before the Presidential run announcement....he had his hand out and was begging for Trump to invest in Neils new technology for speakers to enhance music....he gave a full on presentation with bells and whistles and fully expected the Rich, White, Corporate Businessman Devil to put a check in his extended hat.....but Trump said No Thanks........after Trump blew the whistle , Neil called BS and said there was no truth to that ......so the next day Trump released photos of him and Neil yukking it up and shaking Hands in the Donns office in Trump Tower ......to which....Neil slunked back into the corner of oblivion to remain until this week........another sad grasp at relevance, he demanded that Spotify Cut ties with Rogan over his vaccine stance or stop playing Neil Young Music on their site.....gee i wonder what they will decide to do.

for the record......i love his music.....i often quote him on this blog and i will continue to do so until i receive a stop and decease letter....until then i have to ask

Tell me why

Tell me why

Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself

When you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell?

i shot the morning in the back

 with my red wings on,

i told the sun he better go back down ( Tom Waitts)

in 2022....nothing can ever be just what it is.....ever.

the only way to get guns off the street is to reinstate the plain clothes stop and frisk unit.....here's why.

Guns will always be available...that will never stop...it is unrealistic for a city like NY to focus on bigger pictures that are out of their purview. Gun Manufacturers and gun dealers in MD or PA do not , will not and never will give a shit about NYC and nor should they. Guns are more necessary NOW to keep dictators in check and protect a last slice of liberty than at any other time in our nations short history. I do not now and probably never will own a gun....i have a bad temper and drink way too much to own a firearm, but i remain grateful to my fellow Americans who are well armed and remind the scumbags in DC (both sides of the aisle) that there is a breaking point....and that day of reckoning may be closer than they think. (keep passing illegal mandates and dictating how Americans live and we'll be there soon)

back to NY and the goal of getting guns off the Street......when our laws are enforced and people are sent to Prison for breaking the law, and there is an active Police force stopping and frisking suspicious looking characters in high crime areas.....when every police stop for Hopping a turnstile or shoplifting results in an arrest and subsequent  search....when drinking, smoking marijuana or urinating in public are met with a summons and a pat down search..and if a gun is found you go away for at least a year.....when those things return to everyday life....then every potential shooter has to ask himself a question each day when putting on his Nikes and  leaving the house to go terrorize his neighborhood........DO I NEED MY GUN ? some will say yes......most will say NO , leave it at home and only take it with them when they plan on doing something that requires a gun..good stuff like robbing a bank .....part of the problem now is that with no fear of being stopped and frisked, every thug is deciding to take his gun with him on a tuesday afternoon trip to the bodega.....and why not......the other guys got theirs.....you don't want to be the Dago who brings a knife to a gunfight........and when every thug or gang member is packing....then you have tough guys who pull their guns because of a dirty look or being disrespected in some other manner.......middle of the day....crowded street....next to a school.....who cares ? and we have a shooting gallery.

so if the fear of being stopped, frisked and sent away for a year results in the majority of guns being left at home the majority of the time....that's a safer city for starters.

off topic question.....the scumbag that shot the two cops in Harlem the other night had been arrested at least 12 times......had an arsenal of weapons ....what did  his mammy say when she called 911 and why aren't the media knocking on her door demanding an interview.....did she tell the Cops when they arrived that her darling young son ( 47) was a career criminal and packing assault weapons. if they were white Trump supporters, we know the media would be suggesting they were White Supremacists and they set the cops up. ( the school shooter in Michigans' parents were arrested for their role in his shooting) why is this lady given a free pass.....no scrutiny.....they won't even reveal her name on the news.....i researched a little......she told 911 that her son was being difficult .....imagine debozo's plan of sending social workers to deal with this guy.......BUT theres more........Mammy is a retired Corrections Officer (oh yeah, look it up) ..she knows better.......don't try and tell me she was blinded by motherly love.....she knew her son was a cancerous boyle on the ass of society...she knew he hated cops....she knew he was armed.......maybe she was hoping the Cops would kill him so she would  be rid of him....maybe she was hoping she could sue for wrongful death and cash a check from the city.....maybe none of the above......but it is at least worth investigating and talking about........why is the person who lights the match by calling 911 given immunity in this day and age ?

and if i can find a book of matches,

i'm gonna burn this hotel down

news alert

 24jan2022 washington 0'9hundred zulu

disturbing report out of DC this morning....it seems yesterday while watching the Rams and the Bucs game, the CIC got nostalgic and went out on the White House Lawn at Halftime and was tossing the Nuclear football around. Pentagon spokesperson R ADM Jack Duffy confirmed many accounts that the President was telling his dog Major to " Go Long" , and then sent the Nuclear codes spiraling to absolutely knowone......Major of course is the Presidents dog and he was back in Rheboth Beach, DE after being banished from the White House for biting staffers earlier in the year...." The Leader of the free world often plays with the dog , even though the dog has been gone for 7 months" Duffy went on to say." we just don't have the heart to tell him because he really loves that dog". there was no confirmation if the tossing of this football actually resulted in the launching of a Nuclear weapon towards Russia, The Ukraine, Chicago or West Palm Beach....stay tuned to this bat staion for more.

Once i thought i saw you

 in a crowded , hazy bar

dancing on the light from star to star ( N Young)

Move over Tampa...the Carolina Hurricanes are the NEW Rangers of the south......felt like i was watching an intrasquad scrimmage last night down in Carolina.....5, count em 5 ...former Rangers are now donning their sweaters in the eye of a Hurricane.

Jesper Fast, Brady Skjei, Brendan Smith , Tony De'angelo and one of my old favorites Derek Stepan are all integral parts of this Storm Warning in Raleigh, and this team is a legit contender....they sit atop the Patrick division and with games in hand can arguably finish first in the Eastern Conference and possibly the Presidents trophy......the road to the Stanley Cup is going down tobacco road for sure....this onthe heels of former Rangers winning back to back cups in Tampa makes you wonder why we didn't have more success when they all wore blue........maybe , just maybe cause we had Mr Softee in net.....Euroscum....Queen Henrietta.......and now they will tarnish the rafter of olde MSG forever by retiring his number.......instead of raising his jersey they should raise the White Surrender flag.

Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire

a man should never gamble

 more than he can loose ( D. Bromberg)

football prognostications.

i love all 4 road dogs....here is why.

Bengals +  3.5 @ Titans.....Cincy feeling good after getting that playoff win monkey off their back....playing with house money, nothing to loose....and Burrow-Chase are really coming into their own as a dealy combination....Titans may be tight at home, lots of guys coming back from injuries....if they fall behind early it could be a long day

Niners + 5.5 @ Green Bay......i am least confident in this one.....i just think at 2 degrees that SF can run the ball and kill the clock and keep it tight , if not win...cover.

Rams + 3 @ Tampa Bay.......the Giants beat Brady twice by knocking him on his ass all day.....Tampa has 2 banged up O lineman....Rams have best defensive line in the league.....I Think Stafford plays loose and puts up points and Brady has a long, long afternoon.....Rams outright

Bills + 1.5 @ Arrowhead........i am a closet Chief fan...i hope i am wrong......but the Bills lost the AFC title game here last year ....Bills ran out to early lead (9-0) then got ambushed (38-6) before adding 10 points in garbage time......Bills are better this year....Chiefs not quite as good......I think Buffalo has grown a lot this past year and wins a close one........look for Bills to build a sizeable lead and then hang on for life at the buzzer.

alas.....i have been wrong before.

he's out , no wait...he's safe

 this kid really makes things happen out there ( Phil Rizzuto on Paradise by the dashboard light)

Rest in Peace to the one and only Meat Loaf....Michael Lee Aday dead at 74.....his album Bat out of Hell took the nation by storm in 1977 ...and if you were alive back then it probably never really left your subconscious.....hard to explain.....but wherever you were in all the years since...if you heard a clip of one of those songs you immediately recognized who it was and you were probably transported back in time to that crazy period.......still have the full album on my ipod shuffle.....still brings a smile to hear Paradise and Rizzuto.....classic stuff.

today we just have some observations from the Bean Post window.

perhaps an unintended consequence of the NCAA transfer portal, is that now when a coach jumps from learning institution A to learning institution B , he can also bring his top recruits.....such is the case with Lincoln Riley ....he abruptly left Oklahoma to accept the USC job and now most of his top players are joining him on the coast.......i complained for years that it wasn't fair that a player who chose a school based on their head coach , would have to sit out a full year if the coach left and the player wanted to transfer for any reason ( perhaps the incoming coach ran a different offense and the player didn't really fit in) and i still stand by that.....but perhaps the rule sb tweaked.....i think a coach who leaves a school while still under contract should have to sit out a year ...but we know that will never happen....so maybe his players at the old school should be allowed to transfer anywhere except the new school that he is coaching at.....in other words....all those Sooner recruits could tfr anywhere BUT USC.....i think USC has crossed a dangerous line......now any big name school that is struggling on the gridiron can target any coach, anywhere, and if they dangle enough cash they can hire him away from a competitor and hopefully bring half his recruiting class with him.........if it costs 100 million to land a Saban.....we'll just raise tuition, ticket prices, etc etc to recoup that money.....all while their tenured professors lecture the real students of the horrors of Capitalism and privilege.

staying with Football for a moment.....Dak Prescott, who is a finalist for the Walter Payton Humanitarian award; complained about the Cowboy fans throwing trash at his teamates as they exited the field after a home playoff loss to the 49ers....when told the fans were actually throwing debris at the referees he said......oh, well, props to them.........seemingly approving of the fans trying to injure the referees with bottles and other garbage.....i don't think Sir Walter Payton would approve....i sure hope Dak doesn't tarnish the award by winning this year.

President Biden...the Commander in Chief....the leader of the free world...gave a 2 hour press conference weds....im not a doctor , but it was scary......rambling, thought loss......anger, whispers, struggling to find words and then angrily bringing his own meandering diatribe to a sudden halt and culmination with stop gab phrases like ..."The Thing is"...."Listen"...."hey".....as if HE was interrupting a rambling mental patient....but there was no debate...it was him and him alone at the podium....the only one he was arguing with was the voices in his head.....they were too many miss steps to recapture them all.....for the record his entire administration was doing damage control yesterday, going on TV and the networks to clarify what he meant.

The biggest gem was when he seemed to say Putin has to invade the Ukraine.....and depending on the size of the incursion the US will or will not react accordingly.......our Nato allies were shocked....Russia laughed....and the Ukriane is left wondering if they should look elsewhere for an ally. ....and so yesterday while he was trying to project strength and contradict his comments from 22 hours ago.....he was aksed "Why are you waiting for Putin to make the first move" ?    pretty fair question i would think.....but instead of answering he muttered into a hot mike " What a stupid Question".....and he wonders why his approval rating is sooo low.

The Reason sooooo many people hate the biden Administration is the same reason so many people felt the same way about Obama........they are arrogant and dismissive......and nothing makes the blood boil more than being dismissed.......Had the networks and the incoming Biden Administration at the very least reported on the election discrepancies and acknowledged that there were irregularities ....instead of dismissing any question about the process as sour grapes.......well Jan 6th would never had happened.......and then weds the President seemed to claim that the upcoming elections would not be legitimate.........grounds for impeachment ?

i don't know about you.......but it's 20 degrees.........i'm going to login for work and wait patiently for 11:00 ....the official start for Friday Happy Hour whilst working remote.......i'm gonna pour a generous glass of Jack Daniels Apple with a splash of diet Cranberry and put on BAT OUT OF HELL and thing about the good old days when only the bronx was burning....as opposed to the whole nation

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night

I can see paradise by the dashboard light

tea leaves

 trying to read between the lines of the NY Giants....they haven't hired a GM yet and they just asked permission to speak to Dan Quinn (former Falcon HC and Cowboy def corrd) for their coaching vacancy.

i have to think that means they DO have their GM hired but can't announce it yet......and he has verbally told them he is okay with Quinn.

I am thinking it is Ryan Poles from The Chiefs and he asked that they wait until after the Super Bowl or the Chiefs are eliminated to go public......we shall see

while money doesn't talk

it swears

Obscenity, who really cares

Propaganda, all is phony (Dylan) 

 so as we approach our 2nd anniversary our working remote...i decided to get an idea of how much $$ has dropped out of the local economies that i used to support....i lowballed all the numbers....it's definitely higher.....but you get the idea

Monthly train pass $326.00          times     24 months    = $7,824.00

Hoboken Deli……6 pints to go with tip for ice $20.00    times minimum of 3 visits a week ( most weeks 5 visits, but occasional vacation holiday, wfh etx etc , so we round down)              = $60 a week  time 104 weeks $6,240.00

Lunch in Bars……minimum 1 a week…..$35 with tip  times 104 weeks  = $3,640.00

Fast food lunch….at least once a week……$10 min…….times 104 weeks…..= $1,040

 

Not included….coffees, egg sandwhich or bagel from a street cart on Fridays,  Path or Boat tickets, happy hour drinks before train,

that's $18,700.00 just from me.........i must say i immediately increased my 401K contribution and i opened a ROTH and started putting my train fare in that acct each month.......the pandemic did wonders for my mental health.....and my dogs'.......it gave me ample time to exercise......and it was a financial blessing....i think i survived omnicron too........although it may be too soon to gloat.

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only

 

sometimes i wish

 that i could STOP you from talking

When I hear the silly things that you say

I think somebody better put out the big light

'Cause I can't stand to see you this way (Elvis "the real king" Costello)

i don't recommend watching the news, but sometimes if you watch and you force your brain to listen; you hear the strangest things.....more and more politicians and athletes insist on stringing together words to sound like sentences or intelligent thoughts and nobody calls them out for their incoherent barbs

yesterday Vice President Kamel Toe sat down with liberal NBC news and ...wait for it.....a black reporter. (she rarely if ever gives interviews to white people...and then it almost always is a sympathetic female).and she was asked if it's time the administration admits their Covid Strategy is not working.

"It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down”

come again stymie?  what the fuck is she trying to say? reminds me of the movie airplane...with the airport announcement in the background of the opening credits......"The yellow zone is for loading and unloading passengers, there is no loading or unloading of passengers permitted in the yellow zone"

her comments are reminiscent of someone doing a book report on a book they haven't read.....or trying desperately to answer an essay question and meet the minimum word requirement.....good thing she met bidens only requirement for the job, a woman of color.

Alison, I know this world is killing you
Oh, Alison, my aim is true, my aim is true

pay no attention

 to the man behind the curtain.....forget what i told you yesterday and listen to what i have to say today.

in 1987 while running for the Democratic nomination for President (before withdrawing amidst dismal support before the first primary) Candidate Biden told an Atlanta Audience that the southern half of his home state Delaware was DIXIE from a cultural standpoint, and he bragged that former Alabama Governor (and infamous segregationist) George Wallace had praised Sen Biden as one of the young outstanding up and coming politicians.

In 2005, Senator Biden was a defender of the filibuster. When Republicans were considering suspending the procedure for judicial nominations, Biden called it “an example of the arrogance of power” and “a power grab” that “would eviscerate the Senate.” 

Yesterday President Biden was back in Hot lanta ......talking about his voting rights bill....and apparently there is no middle ground.....according to POTUS you are either on the side of Martin Luther King or that evil bastard and old admirer George Wallace (way to unify Joe).

Yesterday President Biden said we have no option but to change the Senate rules and abolish the filibuster.

senility knows no shame......why fret about your legacy when you can just rewrite history every 10 years or so to suit yourself as dictator in Chief ?

a whisper

 to a scream (Icicle works) 

i feel like a broken record, but we are in serious fucking trouble......never mind worrying about the demonrats packing the supreme court.....how about teaching/reminding the supreme court what their JOB is....anyone who read the accounts of the Supreme Court hearing on vaccine mandates should be shaken at their core.

Sontamayer and Kaegen apparently have forgotten that their job is to weigh in on the legality of the Law, and NOT to write or dictate the law. their personal feeling and their quoting of covid statistics have zero place in the decision before them....let alone that sontamoyar is fucking wrong....she's hiding in her apartment on zoom and quoting meidcal statistics that have been debunked by both sides.....

for the record...she stated  " we have well over 100,000 kids in hospitals , many of them in serious condition and on ventilators "......the CDC and Washington Post for Christ sakes stated that there are currently 3,700pediatric cases in the nations hospitals.

But even if her stats were legitimate....her job is to decide whether the White House and O.S.H.A (the nations occupational safety and health Administration)  has the authority to mandate vaccines for Private Business.....nothing more.......this decision should not be taken lightly by the left......for it is not about the vaccine, but about the power.......i remind my liberal friends that you will not hold the reigns for eternity......and would you be OK if the next President ( Donald Trump perhaps) had the authority to singlehandedly pass a mandate on YOU.....perhaps he agrees with Mike Bloomberg and fears juvenile diabetes is a health emergency and bans Coca Cola.....or that obesity is a national threat to our readiness and bans all fast food restaurants and fatty foods, snacks, etc.

Justice Kaegan gave the childish analogy that people could decide to go to a baseball game , but if they did they could decide who to go with.....but workers do not have that luxury of deciding who they work with............hmm......okay....maybe she thinks that's a cute analogy....maybe she has never been to a ballgame....because you don't get to decide who else is at the game.....standing behind you in the beer line, using the restroom at the same time or riding an escalator or parked in the spot next to you....nice sound bite tho....she's so hip...

Justice Kaegen and her pals were adamant that COVID is an immediate threat and need this legislation immediately......but if it is such an eminent threat to all of US....why can't congress find a few hours to pass a legal and binding legislation?  and if it is such an eminent threat to all of US....why is this mandate only applying to businesses with over 100 employees?

If covid is such an eminent threat to all of US , why is there no Mandate that anyone receiving unemployment, social security or welfare be subject to the vaccine mandate ?  or anyone living in public housing ? or even the thousands of illegal immigrants strolling across the border daily ? whre is the heart and compassion for these people....why aren't we eager to protect these folks ? 

Justice Gorsuch questioned if OSHA has the power for this , do they also have the power to mandate polio or flu vaccines ? if not, why not i  ask ? because whatever reason they give would also apply to COVID.

side note...i looked it up....OSHA was created by President Nixon in 1971.....I do not think tricky Dick had this in mind when he created this administration... and i do not think that Congress at the time was giving away their Authority to pass laws for the health of the Nation for eternity......but if this is upheld, OSHA will become the most powerful organization in the Nation......imagine if President AOC appoints one of her communist Pals head of OSHA in 10 years.....yep, well like i said....Russia, China and Iran will not have to fire a single shot to take us down....we are doing a good enough job for them.

let's be clear.....i hate the government....but i fear tyrants.....from either side of the aisle.....this should frighten every American from Coast to Coast....people need to see past the current actors and realize this decision will live with us for eternity.....i do not ever want to live under tyranny and i am nauseous to see how quickly our country/society has been distracted and misinformed to accept tyrany as a form of salvation from the FLU....we really don't deserve independence...we deserve to be slaughtered.  

Daniel, Daniel and the sacred harp

Dancing through the clover

Daniel, Daniel would you mind

If I look it over

you used to say, live and let live

 You know you did

You know you did

You know you did ( McCartney....Paul not Frank)

sleepy joe biden, the man who ran for president under the promise that he would crush the virus....and then took the Vaccine that President Trump had fastracked and used it to further divide the country...by first insisting that minorities received head of the line privileges...and then offered gifts, cash and other incentives when minorities refused to get the jab......the man who declared INDEPENDANCE from the Virus on July 4th.....and then predicted a winter of Death for the unvaccinated. The Man who passed a series of Federal vaccine mandates on private business, and then declared there is NO Federal solution to covid.... ...a man who 48 hours ago whispered to the nation that this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated...despite record numbers of fully vaccinated people getting the disease (including myself).....that same man is now being urged by the White house staff to change the conversation and start talking about the wonderful treatments we have and to advise Americans to just LIVE WITH IT.....forget about yer yesterdays' tomorrows'......and yet the elitist pigs of this nation, the "well educated" stools of society, still scratch their heads as to WHY the Average man despises and distrusts each and every politician on both sides of the aisle.

yesterday was perhaps the most disgusting display of partisanship disguised as something else....the President and VP...also known as Shits & Giggles.....gave speeches further dividing the nation in the Capital on the anniversary of the Jan 6th events.......no mention of Air Force Veteran Ashley Babbit who was gunned down by a coward hiding on the other side of the door, shot in the neck because she was a threat ; even though she was unarmed and on the other side of a barricade.......no mention of the Capitol Police officer who did not even face charges for her murder.........nope.....just the standard playbook of blaming Trump, Trump, Trump......a house divided....well, you know the thing

but if this ever changing world in which we live in, makes you give in and cry .....say

LIVE and let DIE

i saw you in my nightmares

But I'll see you in my dreams

And I might live a thousand years

Before I know what that means (N.Young)

well that didn't take long....last night was my first night terrors of 2022......a recurring series of nightmares that drag on through the night....same central theme....it's been plaguing me for 20+ years...slightly different but always the same.

Last night started with a familiar dream.....i am in the kitchen at work and when i go back to my desk i realize i am on the 100th floor of an office building ( guess which one) and there is impendng doom.....i try in vain to warn everyone that a plane is coming to kill us.....but nobody listens or cares.....i am panicked and sweating and head for the elevators....but the elevator is an open air ski lift type of vehicle and instead of going to down to the lobby it just circles the floor.......i am in terror mode.....i am pushing every button , but the elevator will not descend........i wake up in a cold sweat.

back to sleep....nightmare two....even more disturbing......similar scenario....i am on the 100th floor looking at the window and i am paralyzed with fear....i suddenly realize where i am and what is about to happen.....this time i look at the people working at their desks and i decide i have to get away from them because they are all about to die and i get in the elevator.....i warn nobody....i try to leave without telling them......the elevator stops halfway down and now i am stuck in the middle of the building.....i get out at look for a different elevator......i am frantically pushing call buttons but nothing happens.....people are walking the halls unaware of what is about to happen......i am searching for the stairs but find nothing.....i wake up in a cold sweat....last night i looked at my watch.....barely 11:00....i had a splitting headache......my heart was pounding ....and it was too early to get up....i HAD to go back to sleep.

back to the 100th floor.....again i tell nobody what's going to happen (which is disturbing to recall) i instead find the stairs......but this is weird, even for my brain......the stairs are like the MSG staircases in the 1980's......people hanging out smoking cigarettes and weed....drinking beer.....talking....and basically blocking my path......i am trying to squeeze past them....acting nonchalant and calm, but sweating.....and then boom.....we are rocked by an explosion....now all the cigarette smoke turns thick and black and the lights are flickering and people are panicking ....i give up....i can't make it down the stairs....i wake up......midnight....fuck me.

now i am on the street....a weird street in lower Manhattan that i have never seen before....i desperately look at the buildings , trying to find a landmark....but nothing looks familiar......i am trying to get to hoboken.....i find a train station but i do not have tokens or a metrocard.....i am in a long line waiting to buy a ticket.....i finally decide to get on a train without a ticket......i am trying to tell the conductor that i am trying to escape the WTC , but it hasn't happened yet and everyone is laughing at me.....i can't remember where i have to change for the PATH train.....i can't remember anything.....the subway keeps rolling and they tell me to put my luggage on the luggage rack........i see this as my chance to escape....and i jump off the train........now i am in Hoboken.....but it sure isn't hoboken.....the deli that sells beer in now on a barge in the hudson...and i am determined to get beer........but the beer looks weird.....each bottle has a different label....and it's warm....no coors light.......the girl at the counter (not Jacqie) shows me where a 30 pack of bud light is hidden and i place a blanket over the 30 pack and try to sneak out.........i wake up and it's 2:55.....i have to get out of bed.....get a drink of water....hope to flush the insanity from my brain........i will just lie awake until the alarm sounds at 4:40....i wouldn't dare trying to go back to sleep........i lie awake.....wondering if i will be having these dreams when i am 65, 70, 75 or however long i live.....in whatever city, state or country  i live......will i just lay in bed praying for the dawn to chase the monsters out of my head until the next time........they are less frequent than 2001, 2002, 2003 etc.....but when they come back, they come back with a vengeance .....not sure what triggers it.....maybe a commercial on TV (t2T) or a news story or traumatic event in the papers.....or a song on my ipad....or nothing at all.......i stopped wondering why i drink so much years ago.....i have plenty of good reasons.

If I could hold on to just one thought

For long enough to know

Why my mind is moving so fast

And the conversation is slow

Burn off all the fog

And let the sun through to the snow

Let me see your face again

Before I have to go

Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street

 A gentle Irishman, mighty odd ( Finnegans wake-Irish Classic) 

I was lucky enough in the early 90's to work with a friend who had a connection with Exxon Mobil.....Exxon was one of the primary radio sponsors of NY Giants Football.....well every Monday WOR Radio would host a luncheon for their sponsors at the Hilton Towers in Midtown....and as luck would have it i got to go 2 or 3 times one season.......at each luncheon a member of the team or coaching staff would be the guest and they would mingle and talk to the crowd ( maybe only 5 or 6 tables of 10 people)....usually we would gravitate towards Jim Gordon and just listen to his stories...one of kind....Bob Poppa, Carl Banks etc etc.....really nice guys......we met Strahan his Rookie season, he was very engaging.

On one particular Monday Dan Reeves was the guest of honor and i found myself in a circle of about 5 or 6 people listening to the coach talk Giants football....suddenly there was a break in the conversation and i had to speak up......i didn't ask a question per se, but i mentioned to the coach that I had just seen a documentary about the ice bowl and well...he took it from there......he talked about how cold it was .....the slipping and sliding on the frozen turf...how hard it was to catch the football,,,and then he stopped and smiled.....he mentioned how Bart Starr was known around the globe and in every household in America because of that QB sneak......he paused...and then reminded the 2 or 3 of us still in the conversation circle that the Cowboys had taken the lead in the 4th qtr of that game on a Halfback Option from midfield.....a pitch left , and then the halfback threw a strike to a wide open receiver and a 50 yd touchdown..in 16 below freezing wind on a patch of frozen tundra........the halfback of course was DAN Reeves......and who knows....if the Packers don't score on the final play; perhaps that Dan Reeves TD would be the most viewed highlight in NFL history.......by now cocktail hour was ending and we had to take our seats....i shook the Coachs' massive hand and wished him well.....he was a true gentlemen and i respected him greatly from that day forward and always thought of what might have been whenever his name came up.

Coach Reeves passed away on New Years and the young age of 77........Rest in Peace Coach.