will it go round in circles

 will it fly high like a bird up in the sky (B.Preston)

even Billy Preston, the black Beatle; could not have foreseen this dizzying display be the left.

so now after 24 months of controlling the Presidency, Congress and Senate the Demonrats are calling for some immigration reform. After 24 months of denying there was a problem at the border, they are now concerned with migrants on our southern crossing.....this on the heels of tearful visits to the border to blame Trump for kids in cages that obama built. Now with the Republicans about to take the majority in the House , all the cans that have been kicked down the road have stop tumbling.....it is dizzying.

so now after 12 months of the Fed aggressively raising rates to stem the tide of inflation, the Demonrats and Far too many Republicans have signed on for another 2 trillion is nonsensical spending....gasoline on the inflation fire....not a bad time to be invested in the safety of Core Money Market......enjoy the higher rates and get ready to pounce when the market drops significantly between now and may or June.

in March 2020 when the virus was brand new, and vaccines were 11 months away...when people were dying and hospitals overrun, the only thing we knew was the virus originated in Wuhan China....Pres Trump put in place a travel ban to and from China......Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi called him a Xenaphobe. Yesterday , with the whole world vaccinated and triple boosted.....with the virus reduced to a seasonal cold...Joe Biden put in place a travel ban from China.....all travelers must now be tested for Covid before being allowed to enter the US......unless you are part of the 5 or 10 thousand daily to walk in from Mexico.

my brain has been flashing back to Diego Garcia a lot lately in my dreams......that really is starting to feel more like a movie i saw a long time ago and not the place i lived for 12 months....hard to believe that me and Dano were both stationed there in our short lifetimes....

I got a song ain't got no melody. i'm gonna sing it to my friends

 I got a story ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every once in a while

yeah, up in the morning and out to school

 The teacher is teaching the golden rule

American history and practical math
You study them hard, hoping to pass ( Chuck Berry)

soooo the Taliban is banning Females from attending school.....no problems there.....we all know the fairer sex already "KNOWS it ALL", but in a strange twist they are also banning females from Public Parks and Gyms ......honestly, i don't think they have thought this one through .... ever see an afghan broad? it's not like they resemble the second coming or Racquel Walsh or Farrah Fawcett .... they should instead insist that the native females, who are not wasting time in the halls of knowledge; spend all their new free time IN THE GYM.......and seriously, who wants to go to an all-male park with a pack of homos? let the physically fit young ladies into the parks, but ban the head scarves and veils. ( the fatso's should have to wear 2 hijabs). Until they reverse these descisions I will NOT be vacationing in Kabul.

Working your fingers right down to the bone
The guy behind you won't leave you alone

Arabian Wind

 The needles eye is thin 

the Ships of State sail on mirage

but drown in sand

in No-Man's Land (Hunter-Garcia)

Well he did it, he FINALLY did IT......The GREAT Alvarez lead Argentina to the World Cup victory over France.....he singlehandedly carried the team on his Magical Right Foot. (how exactly do you carry something on your foot singlehandedly?) Yesterday as Sunday turned to Monday under the Quatar Moon, the mad Argentine by way of Panama (city in fla) netted a unique hat trick....he scored a PK goal ....he scored an OT Goal, and he scored a fifth of Jack Daniels from the lobby Bar despite the silly moslom ban on alcohol....like Pele before him, ole Alvarez only goes by one name...could be he never had a first name or more likely he just forgets what it is....As Crowds roared around the world the Great Alvarez stayed cool as a slice of cucumber in your Mojito.....they held watch parties in Pensacola, Pascagoula, Redbank and yes on the beach in Panama City too.......maybe even Buenos Airies. Jet fans in the Redrock patiently waited for the beautiful game to conclude so they could be thrown to the Lions, and this finale did not disappoint....no distraction from the Tiki Bar at the Norwood this time around......Viva Argentina and God Bless Alvarez.

They lie where they fall
There's nothing more to say
The desert stars are bright tonight,

come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again (Dylan)

the more we dig, the more we unearth. Disappointing scuttlebutt out of Annapolis now tells a tale of shame (if it's accurate). The story i have been hearing is that Coach Ken was fired in the locker room after an emotional double OT loss to Army....that's unacceptable for a Coach who carried himself with dignity for 15 years and never put the Academy or his players in an embarrassing light. The story goes that Chet Gladchuck marched into the locker room and fired Coach Niumatalolo within earshot of his players....that's bush league Steinbrenner / Jerry Jones crap....we are better than that. To add insult to injury Coach Ken pleaded for 1 more year.....offered to coach for Free, and to voluntarily resign after next season if they didn't want him back....he felt the team was finally coming out of the pandemic and was on the doorstep of a return to glory. ( I stated here that the team played bad in Sept, better in October and flawless in November, i too felt they were heading in the right direction) AD Gladchuck did not agree.

The pushback was fast...a petition was started this past week to FIRE Gladchuck and Reinstate Coach Ken , after 3 says it had 4,000 signatures...Chet, fearing backlash tried to say that this was building over 4 or 5 years and had nothing to do with the loss to Army....but the truth is he would never have been able to Fire the Coach after a WIN over Army.....so that begs the question....was Chet rooting against the Mids so he could justify firing coach K ? at the end of the 2015 Season the Coach, a devout Mormon; took an interview at Brigham Young.....he later withdrew from consideration for the job....but i believe the damage was done.....and Chet just waited until the Coach was down and out to kick him in the stomach.

everyone involved in this story will move....Coach K may take another job eventually....Chet will relish his 15 minutes of fame and wine and dine replacements on the taxpayers dime, the players will be left with a feeling of responsibility for the untimely demise of a belove coach.....but alas i remember the words of my Wall St Mentor..."Time Wounds all Heels"

And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

i always said you could make it

 I know what I said and I meant it

I always liked the way you played guitar
I always knew that someday you'd go far
And if you do will anything happen? (Blondie)

the great Deborah Harry , aka Angela Trimble was singing about an unrequited love of a bandmate but her question could be applied to the world today and the mainstream media MSM. seriously, how many stories can they continue to ignore ?

the border ? now that Gavin Newsome has visited the border and warned of impending peril they may have to fake interest ....remember when Trump was President they all followed AOC to the border as she wept for the children in cages.....today those kids freeze to death on the roads of El Paso and the MSM yawns.

Twitter / Elon Musk ? probably the biggest story of the last 50 years and the MSM laughs it off or completely refuses to even cover it. the same people that lost their minds over fake Russian interference in our elections do not seem to be the least bit concerned about Big Tech and the Demonrat Party working together to censor and silence their political opponents.

Bankman-Fried and FTX: ...on november 11th FTX files for Bankruptcy......on Nov 13th Reuters reports that over 1 billion in investor funds are missing....since then SBF has remained free in the Bahamas...he has conducted dozens of interviews with the sympathetic left....late Nov it is revealed he gave close to 100 million to political candidates.....46 Demonrats and 4 Republicans.....in every story since then the MSM has reported that his attempted corruption to buy influence was Bipartisan ,,,,,46-4 ? does that really sound bipartisan ? laughable. On Tuesday SBF was scheduled to testify zia zoom under oath before Congress...this babbling fool, childish deer caught in the headlights was going to spill some beans......not so fast....Monday night the DOJ had him arrested......on the eve of possible damaging testimony...can't make that up. i wonder why it took 30 days to arrest him.....i wonder if he wasn't scheduled to testify if he would have remained free long enough to kill himself with thirteen shots to the back of his own head ??

polite society watches this world unravel and waits for the other shoe to drop....but even when the shoe drops in a Forest the sound is silenced.....may go to the Lincroft Inn for a pint and see if i run into Angie Trimble.

You always said that you would never change
Like the people that you've met and the places that you've been
And if you do will anything happen?
Will it come true will anything happen?
Will I see you again?
Will I see you again?

what have you done for me lately ?

 

Coach Ken Niumatalolo has been relieved of his duties as Head Football Coach at the Naval Acadamy.....15 years at the Helm, the winningest coach in Academy History,11 bowl appearance and  6 bowl victories, 6 Commander in Chief Trophy's and 11 wins and 5 losses verse Army.........but 3 straight losing seasons and double overtime loss to the Cadets of Army.....(2-5 verse Army in the last 7 years)....was he another victim of the pandemic ? the option offense takes extensive practice and is all about timing and quite frankly it was not clicking since 2019....but thanks for the Incredible Run Coach Ken...God Speed and following seas.

seems like I've been here before

Fuzzy then and still so obscure, good-bye, good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. (Bob Weir)

 eerily familiar...turnabout is fair play...deja vu all over again but with the roles reversed.

The squids were in control.....first OT in the history of Army-Navy was going to a second round after Navy completed their only pass attempt of the day ...a 25 yard strike to a wide open receiver in the endzone matched Army's score......and now the squids were going in again.....after they scored it will be time for their stingy defense to shut the door on the Black Knights on the hudson.....alas it was not meant to be.

Anton Hall had 99 yards rushing, he was on his way to a 2-yard plunge that would put his boxscore total over the century mark and probably be the game winning touchdown, but Austin Hill had something else in mind. The young Cadet somehow knocked the ball out and his teammate recovered on the 1-yard line, and a few minutes later Army kicked the decisive field goal.

it was 10 years and one day exactly since Army QB Trent Steelman was stripped of the ball on the 10 yard line as Army was marching down the field for the winning score, 12/9/2012.....Navy dove on the ball and ran out the last 60 seconds of clock back then....but yesterday it was Army's turn, Hats off to them and Congratulations.....tonight when i lay my head down on the pillow i will say a quick prayer for the anguish and emptiness that i am sure is engulfing Anton Hall Jr......HEAD UP Kid....your country needs you.....it wasn't all your fault...without your effort all season we wouldn't even have been in a position to win....stay positive.

amidst the Monmouth County chill, 14 lads managed to drink an oceans worth of beer and burn down a forest worth of wood.....Slainte

and i look to my left

 And I look to my right

And I'm looking for a man
I'm looking for a sign
I don't want to be the prisoner (the Clash)

Bo Bergdahl - Betsy Griner .....there ain't no difference between the two as Jackson Browne would say.....both hate America, both became prisoners as a result of their own stupid misguided actions, both were traded by the Demonrat in Charge for more dangerous folks that have killed and will kill again.... most likely American casualties too.

strange timing too......10 months in confinement....9 months after we implored the rest of the free world to isolate Russia because of Ukraine and stop buying oil....8 months after sleepy jo vowed to get her back, a full month after the election...why now?

maybe because the big tech interference in our election is being exposed and the MSM needs a distraction to justify ignoring Twitter and Hunter Biden..or maybe because Putin is close to losing a war and running out of drones, and he all of a sudden gets his best arms dealer back in the war room...maybe both

..who knows?  we all do , that's who.

another ugly chapter of hypocrisy in the destruction of a distracted nation. among the litany of egregious acts surrounding this prisoner swap was the laughable revelation by the WNBA Commissioner that the White House briefed her last week and said the swap meetings were intensifying and an exchange was imminent....i guess as commissioner of the WNBA she has a NEED TO KNOW.....and the lesbian wife in the white house for a video Op of the moment Joe said she's free .....that has Netflix documentary written all over it.

Your mother does the washing up
Your old man digs the garden
You're only free to dodge the cops
An' bunk the train to stardom

I don't wanna Be......the Prisoner....i don't wanna be....the Prisoner

i heard the news today , oh boy

 They hauled your ship up on the shore,

Now the city gone dark, there is no more joy,
They tore the heart right out and cut it to the core (Dylan)

that clip was from the Bob Dylan tribute song for John Lennon (Roll on John) and if youve never heard it, well do yourself a favor and give it a listen today....hell, even if you've heard it  a million times it is worth another listen today....because today is the 42 nd anniversary of his senseless assassination on the streets of NYC, in front of his home.....John lost his life, but the earth lost John.

i still feel the loss when i think of all the songs that were in him but never made it to paper....again, our loss as a species on earth....senseless stupidity.......hard to accept that Yoko and Paul ares till here to haunt us, but poor John was snuffed out in his prime.

Ah, people asking questions
Lost in confusion
Well, I tell them there's no problem
Only solutions
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me, as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round

I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go

leavin home, out on the road

 I've been down before

Ridin' along in this big ol' jet plane

I've been thinkin' about my home (S. Miller)

first and foremost..if anyone is flying the unfriendly skies this day, well; our thoughts and prayers are with you.

seriously though, just when you thought this administration could not possibly get dumber than they were a day prior...they one-up themselves. A bizarre story broke yesterday about Air Marshals being taken off planes, that's actually what their job description reads ( to ride commercial air traffic as an undercover agent) and they are being sent to the BORDER......no no no, not to perform duties in line with their policing background, but rather to perform menial tasks and assist the illegal immigrants crossing the border. A few Air Marshals spoke with Fox news and said they were ordered to take out trash, help illegals getting checked in at the border and driving injured illegals to medical facilities ......i swear that i wish this was the Onion and I was only joking....but it's true......so now as we approach the busy holiday travel season , securities experts are projecting that less than 10% of all flights will have an Air Marshall on board......makes you wonder if Mayorkas is hoping for a terrorist attack.

i remember a conversation i had with a few close friends in a tavern in the aftermath of 9/11....i was the only one in the group opposed to the Patriot Act....it would have been easy to go with the flow and support the sweeping evaporation of our freedoms in an effort to prevent another attack , but i warned/reminded my cohorts that George Bush would not be President for life and his Administration would be replaced.....and all the powers we handed over to that sitting President would be given to all his successors.....and sadly a short 20+ years later our HOMELAND SECURITY is now the Biggest Threat to , well, homeland security.........sing it Stevie

But my heart keeps calling me backwards
As I get on the 707
Ridin' high I got tears in my eyes
You know you got to go through hell
Before you get to heaven