i ran into a fortune teller

 who said beware of lightning that might strike

I haven’t known peace and quiet for so long I can’t remember what it’s like (Dylan)

some observations from a full slate of Hockey last night. My preseason prognostications included my highest of hopes for the Coyotes and the Redwings....the two teams that i felt were still a year or two away, but definitely on the rise......

well after last night we may have to put the YOTES on accelerated watchlist.....down at home 4-0 with less than 5 minutes to play in the second period against the League leading Avalanche....the young pups erupted......scored 3 unanswered goals...then pulled their goalie with 2 minutes to play and score the game tying goal....and then won in OT.....this is the type of win the defines seasons.....i love this team....they are young, talented and starting to really believe in themselves.......15,000 to 1 at the start of the season...they now hold one of the wild card spots and are hitting stride.....there's something brewing in the desert. 

As for the Redwings......the eastern conf is no joke.....but this is another young and talented team and they are hanging around for a final wild card.....any thoughts that Patty Kanes is washed up were premature....he signed around Thanksgiving and made his debut in early December....he now has 6 goals and has lit the lamp in 4 straight.......if this scrappy team sneaks into the postseason...watch out.

Blueshirts keep rolling, a 5-1 payback win last night over the Caps and a balanced scoring attack...as much as i love Krieder, i feel this team rises and falls around MIKA.......as Zibanejad goes, so goes the Rangers.....he makes everyone else on the ice better, he is a "playmaker" and when he is on, watch out.....and Kudos to Drury for the Free agent signing of the Year in Jamie Quick....a 2 time Stanley Cup Champ, he is driving and challenging Igor to be better...he will play a significant role down the stretch and into the playoffs.

I was hoping the Penguins would go for 2 after establishing a 6-0 lead over the fishtix , but they settled for 1 ( 7-0).......

tickets =  Expensive

parking = ridiculous

Beer & Food$    = Extortion

taking the family to a Christmas week blowout loss  =  Priceless

2+3 = BEEER

There’s a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin’ out of a boxcar door
You didn’t know it, you didn’t think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
After losin’ every battle

Election Talking Points

 less than 10 months til the Election.

American serviceman attacked in Iraq on Christmas day. At least1 critically injured.

Pentagon launches unspecified retaliatory attacks on Iranian proxies.

Biden heads to St Croix with the Good doctor for a family vacation.

if that is what you want from your Commander in Chief, then go ahead and vote for Joe in November.

  

we three kings

of orient are,

drinking whiskey in the nude bar (Mojo Nixon)

the most inappropriate Christmas album award goes to Mojo Nixon hands down..... a complete insane rewrite of some classic tunes for the thick skinned.

i saw today that the Jets have a home game against the Redskins and it got me thinking back to a Christmas Eve game i attended in 1989. On an absolutely frigid day the Giants hosted the Raiders at the Meadowlands needing a victory to hold off the Feagles and clinch the NFC East. I didn't have full season tickets back then, but my Uncle Pat would give me tix for a game or two each year....so Donn and i were guests of his brother Mike and his tailgate crew. These guys were professionals....i have never attended a better tailgate before or since......from the roadkill chili-stew from the Chuck Wagon to the coolers of ice-cold beers aplenty. On this day that went one step further. I had to look it up for the official record.....game time kickoff at 1:00 was 14 degrees......when we left Bayridge at 7:30 a.m. it was probably single digits. The parking lot was only half full at that early hour....only the diehards were braving the elements a full 4 hours before game time. In Truth, as we drove around the lot; I hardly saw anyone standing around outside.  We took a spot but there was no sign of the guys......just a few unoccupied cars and a big box U-Haul truck......strangely enough there was an unmanned grill in the empty spot next to the truck........suddenly that back door of the Truck opened up and inside was about 7 or 8 guys with Beach Chairs, Coolers, blasting heat and the pregame show playing on the trucks radio......BRILLIANT !  They rented a truck for the weekend......we climbed aboard, grabbed a beer and joined the indoor tailgate circle. Every 15 minutes the door would open again and someone would check the grill and bring back a platter of Hot Dogs or whatever was cooking ......the ultimate answer to the elements.

As for the Game the Giants won.......Meggett had a punt return for a TD and the Defense shut the Raiders down in the 2nd half.....i remember that it was sooo cold in the stadium , that if you spilled a little beer on the concrete under your feet, it would freeze over in less than a minute.......i refreshed my memory thanks to the internet....the Giants would end up losing 2 weeks later on the Flipper Anderson runway touchdown in the playoffs to the Rams and the 49ers went on to win the Super Bowl.

Mike if you are reading this today, thanks for some Great Tailgate memories over the years....not just this one....but this one was my favorite....I can't remember the names of all the guys from that crew, but they were first class all the way....thanks again

remember.......2+3=BEEER

Merry Christmas to one and All !

Danger Bird, he flies alone

 And he rides the wind back to his home

Although his wings have turned to stone (N. Young)

so i am watching the news and they were doing a story about the Lockerbie bombing that happened 35 years ago today.....and it got me thinking about another horrific air disaster....one that is not remembered or talked about in pop culture....one that occured around Christmas, one that killed 248 US Army Servicemen and women, one that Islamic Jihad took credit for but the US and Canadian Govt dismissed as an aviation accident.

On Dec 12th 1985 Arrow Air stopped in Gander Newfoundland to refuel on its journey from West Germany to Ft Campbell , Kentucky. ( 2 months prior i was on Arrow Air in the opposite direction, my flight went from Norfolk to Bangor Maine before refueling for our flight across that Atlantic Ocean and ultimately Diego Garcia)

Flight 1285 took off and apparently stalled and crashed less than a mile down the road from the airport ...all passenger and crew were killed on impact. The US & Canadian Govts investigated and came to the conclusion that ice on the wings was the culprit.... even though experts testified that there was no way possible that ice could bring down a DC-8....even though an islamic jihad group took credit for a bomb, even though the investigation also raised concerns that the weight of the plane was underestimated, and that extra weight created a drag that the engine could not overcome. 

NOPE...it was ice ......after all these years i guess it doesn't matter......but it always stuck with me. Arrow Air was a commercial airline that basically served the Department of Defense....after the accident ALL Arrow Airplanes were grounded. Eventually they lost their DOD contracts and went out of business. 7 months later i flew home from the indian ocean for the grand Reopening of the Statue of Liberty and all of my flights were on Air Force c-140 cargo hops....we flew with pallets of equipment and were strapped into the jump seats that paratroopers would normally sit....but those are stories for another day.

After all these years i guess it doesn't matter.....unless that was your sibling, your child, your parent that was on their way home 2 weeks before Christmas. They suffered the cruelest of fates and their lives were surely changed if not destroyed. I don't think you get over that...i don't think you ever celebrate Christmas again.

What surely was a jovial and raucous group at takeoff for their final leg of their journey , saw joy turn to death in a flash......after all these years i guess it doesn't matter....but it does to me and i think about those families every year. It is one of the reasons that I always volunteered to take duty and stay on the ship Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.....so the guys with wives and children in the Jacksonville area could stay home for a respite. .....life is short 

And though these wings have turned to stone
I can fly, fly, fly away
Watch me fly above the city
Like a shadow on the sky

Everyday brings change,

 and the world puts on a new face

Sudden things rearrange,

 and this whole world seems like a new place (The Marvelettes)

things are very different today than they were just a few days ago. The metaphorical fog has lifted and suddenly i can see clearly like Johnny Nash, but i hope i am wrong.

Donal Trump is killing dementia Joe in most polls.....yesterdcay the important battleground state of Michigan....a part of sleepy Joe rust belt stronghold (he won by 3 % points in 2020) had poll results with Trump leading by 10 points.

and today they white house is putting on a full court press with the MSM to portray Joe as an empathetic character.....a good Dad that only cares about his sons wellbeing. And Poor Poor Hunter is scared for his future and has told his inner circle that he will have to flee the country for his own safety if Trump wins....

what happens next ? 

I suspect the DEM Machine has already approached Joe and given him the script......

Joe gives a tear jerker speech about God and Family and then pardons Hunter, not because he is guilty of anything; but because Trump is an evil dictator that will use the justice system to execute his political adversaries. (they are masters of accusing the other side of doing whatever it is that they are actually guilty of) Then Joe concludes by saying he is stepping down .

Kamal toe gets to be the first black female POTUS and the Dems get credit for making it happen.

since we are so close to the Election that Dems have a special election between Harris and Newsome to see who the people want as their candidate...and guess who wins.

and if Joe rejects the script ?  Schumer and Pelosi will threaten to stop blocking investigations and they will assist the Republican in hanging the entire biden crime family....right down to little Hailey Boo hoo Biden.,  Joe has no choice to accept. and he, the witch doctor jill , hunter and bags of money and coke will be loaded into the Beverly Hillbillies truck for the short ride to Rehobeth Beach.......but before he leaves Joe will leave a letter for the Kumallah...admitting once and for all that 2+3=BEEER

What's this whole world comin' to
Things just ain't the same
Any time the hunter gets captured by the game

My Brother Esau killed a Hunter

 back in 1969

And before the killing was done,
His inheritance was mine.  (Barlow-Weir)

no, Bob wasn't talking about THAT Hunter....not the commander in chief's son that stood on the steps of the Capitol and defied a subpoena. Poor old Hunter Biden painted a sad self portrait of man that was in the grips of a drug addiction, unable to function and on the brink of death....but his daddy helped him through the addiction. And although he still struggles with it, he is currently clean. he also said that Joe Biden was never financially involved in His business.

so if you are keeping score at home.....the Biden Crime Family lie has narrowed in scope as the facts emerge.

I never asked my son about his business, EVER.

I never invested in my son's companies.

I was never financially involved in his business.

all this why boasting that he witheld aid on behalf of the United States until the Ukraine fired a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. Hunter sat on the board of Directors for Burisma, but clearly Joe didn't know.

so through the sin of omission we can conclude that Joe did talk to Hunter about Business. He knew that his son was selling access to him and ..he was enriched by the business (10 million for the Big Guy). ...........and if he wasn't selling access to his Father.....why would Burisma hire a hopeless American drug addict with no past experience in the Energy field, to sit on the Board of a Ukranian Energy Firm?

how bout the Presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT testifying about rampant antisemitic protests on their Campus. The calls for Genocide of the Jews from the River to the Sea. 

3 female elitist who went to Capitol Hill and were going to talk circles around silly politicians. talking about context and being Champions of Free Speech and they were going to leave everyone speechless with their brilliance.....well....it didn't quite go that way.

Elise Stefanik grilled them and exposed THEIR ignorance and prejudice. 

in the aftermath, the white President from Penn was fired......the white President from MIT is facing a backlash from 700 faculty and alumni to step down........the black President from Harvard is having a statue of herself built in the commons. Claudine Gray , who has been investigated for dozens of cases of plagiarism; refuses to step down and the smug Harvard elite seem fine with that.  

With their heads tucked firmly in the sand they just can't fire a black woman...it would ruin their next Diversity and Inclusion celebration........

Diversity and inclusion without merit is nothing more than Affirmative Action on steroids. 

and 2+3=BEEER , no matter what the elitists try to tell you.

Greg Schiano just received a 7 year extension to keep coaching Rutgers Football at $6 million a year....a sports program that continuously loses money at a State School that continuously raises tuition. Just remember it's the Banks Fault that you are drowning in student loan debt, NOT the Education system as a whole.

We shadowdance the silent war within.
The shadowdance, it never ends...
Never ends, never ends.
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse, yet again...
Yet again.
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse,
And wandering the land.

  

If i had a gun

 for every ace I've drawn

I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby cause I'm moaning low
You know I'm only in it for the gold (Hunter-Garcia)

yep, listening to Jerry this morning singing about a LOSER.....oh well.....the squids hung in there and played their hearts out....Army was the better team.....but first year coach Brian Newbury also seemed to melt under the bright lights......first possession of the game he called for an ill-advised pass while in field goal range and it was picked off....in a tight game you really have to seize points when you can........later in the game he went for a 2 point conversion and failed......thus on the final drive they needed a TD and a 2 point conversion just to tie..........i did think we lost every close call and video review......but obviously i am biased........i did not expect to win the game but the longer we hung around the more my hopes did spike........on the bright side i hit the $200 halftime pool........and with that ridiculous safety on the final play i hit the $200 final.....so i got back everything i laid out on food and beeer....and of course 2+3=BEEER

Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shine
Come to Daddy on an inside straight
I got no chance of losing this time
No, I got no chance of losing this time

America's Game

Today the men of the Naval Academy in Annapolis and the Military Academy at West Point, will take to the grid iron in battle for a share or complete control of the Commander in Chief trophy. For the Seniors it will be their final day of childhood games, what awaits them on the battlefields of the planet are anyone's guess. Let's hope that both sides play to their potential, a mistake free game and nobody gets hurt. Leave it ALL on the field and may the better team win......assuming it's Navy....and if it's not, let's hope Army fumbles a lot.

2+3=BEEER

a lot of BEEER today 

Let's Go Brandon

Money

 So they say

Is the root of all evil today  (Pink Floyd)

nothing that happens in sports really surprises me anymore....but the recent bowl selections caught me off guard.......we know everything is dictated by money but ironically, they may have missed a chance to earn  a few more sheckles.....every open bowl slot was filled on Sunday afternoon....most likely so the respective bowls could get busy advertising and selling their game....with the helmets of the 2 schools on the logo.....understood.

the problem is to be selected for a Bowl you need 6 wins..........Army and Navy have 5 wins each and were not eligible........Army and Navy play each other saturday.....someone has to win....why not have one of the bowls select  Eastern Michigan or James Madison and say that their opponent will be the WINNER of the Army Navy game.?  

It benefits that Army Navy game by adding additional element of consequence.

It benefits the Bowl game because the announcers will talking about that bowl all day to a national TV audience......something the Myrtle Beach Bowl or the Duke's Mayonnaise Bowl could only wish for. 

but what do i know about marketing .....besides 2+3=BEEER

New car, caviar, four star, daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

  

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

interesting tidbit in the news about our school systems....gov Murphy, under the guise of addressing the teacher shortage; have pushed a bill to lower the standards for becoming a teacher and eliminating tests and qualifications.  

First....is there a teacher shortage?

NO...there is shortage of people willing to take jobs in the inner city jungles and deal with the animal byproducts of a lawless society....plenty of teachers, but not enough suckers willing to work in this lawless environment and risk their own life.

Second...our schools are failing for many reasons, mainly it starts at home...let's be honest, these kids are living in single family unsupervised homes, there is no family structure or parental input/influence...not all, but most....some single parents are working to pay the rent and put food on the table and the kids are left to fend for themselves...other households are drug fueled flophouses and still others are occupied by welfare recipients that keep adding to the flock to get more money from uncle sam....our teachers are nothing more than day care providers...or taxpayer funded babysitters....but adding unqualified teachers to the mix will help nobody....so why do it Murph ?

because as Sy Symms used to say....an educated consumer is my best customer.......or in this case conversely....an uneducated simpleton is easily guided / controlled.......the Teachers Union is a powerful voting block.....adding less educated minorities to their payrolls will help come election day...never bite the hand that feeds you....if someone pulls you off the street and says i will give you a job with good pay, great benefits, a pension and summers off......you too would probably vote for that savior.

it's all part of the socialist playbook.....control the schools and you control the message.....bankrupt the nation....a starving person will gladly turn a blind eye if you offer them table scraps...and a stupid person will not even know enough to have to turn that blind eye.....education is bliss and of course

2+3=BEEER

sad news , heard last night of the passing of Tommy Galucci , a Bayridge mainstay gone too young,,,rest in peace Tommy.

Get back in the classroom, open your books

Gee, but the teacher don't know how mean she looks

 

well, the howling wolf will howl tonight

 the king snake will crawl

Trees that’ve stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall (Dylan)

Montclair NJ just cut down Oak trees that had stood for anywhere from 75 to 200 years...to redevelop a baseball field and install a new artificial turf surface.........please tell me again how Exxon drilling in the Gulf of mexico is endangering the planet.

Phil Murphys and his Sweedish friends killed about 50 whales trying to install wind turbines off the Jersey Shore.....please tell me again how cardboard beer containers in Farrells were going to pollute the water supply.

Canada voted against an aid package to the Ukraine and limp wrist trudeau is blaming it on influence from American MAGA Republicans.......please tell me again how anarchist truckers almost toppled the govt of our socialists neighbors last year.....

the transparent idiocy of those in charge is tiring.....this planet is boring me.....i'm ready to visit the next one.

2+3=BEEER

Tomorrow all activity will cease
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace

Thanksgiving

 to lay me down, once more

To lay me down
with my head
in sparkling clover
Let the world go by
all lost in dreaming  (Hunter-Garcia)

today we take respite from the weary troubles of the world and give thanks ...not just for all we have , but as we grow older we should be grateful for all we have seen and done , all the people we've met along the way and all the places we have visited.......if it was all wine and roses, we wouldn't appreciate the good times we've had....Slainte'.....God Bless........2+3=BEEER

All the years combine
they melt into a dream

trouble in the water

  trouble in the air

Go all the way to the other side of the world, you’ll find trouble there

Revolution even ain’t no solution for trouble (dylan)

take a walk down to the shore and stare off into all 4 directions.......there is trouble , war, chaos, discontent everywhere...the planet is either at a turning point or on the eve of destruction....i am not optimistic.....i think the fools that push diversity and inclusion at the expense of Merit , Knowledge and Hard work....may be shocked someday when the Moosies and the LBGTQ-LMNOP communities decide to enslave their stupid lily white Grandchildren or deny them a seat at the table for the "atrocities of their ancestors" ....the ugly truth is that nobody wants equality.....everyone wants the whip....the upper hand...the seat of power with revenge on their minds..........

is awareness a curse?......would life be easier as a simpleton? .....am i the fool for worrying about a world that i am not long for? i try to sip my beer and pet my dog, listen to my music and watch the Rangers and focus on the beauty of the planet itself......but it ain't easy.......there's trouble everywhere........2+3=BEEER

Put your ear to the train tracks, put your ear to the ground
You ever feel like you’re never alone even when there’s nobody else around?
Since the beginning of the universe man’s been cursed by trouble
Trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Nothin’ but trouble

Well i'm running

 Police on my back

I've been hiding

Police on my back

There was a shooting

Police on my back

And the victim

Well, he won't come back (Eddy Grant - the Clash)

i wait with bated breath for the full complement of the United States Justice Dept to come down on the Violent Protesters at the DNC on Weds night. The Capitol Police were under attack by the Pro Palestinian mob. We all saw the crystal clear videos and some of the 20 yr old white girls hung around and did TV interviews before heading back to their safe spaces on campus. Surely the FBI will scour these videos and hunt down every single person in attendance and conduct pre dawn raids on their private residences to bring them to justice.....a full-scale investigation on the scale of January 6th will follow.......spoiler alet.....there was only 1 arrest.........if only they were wearing MAGA hats , then the law would have taken notice.

when will age finally become a factor in the 2024 Presidential election ? the MSM is completely ignoring the age and mental capacity of the incumbent.......but that will change......i say within 48 hours of Biden dropping out of the race or being found dead in his sleep....the entire focus of the election will become a daily, ongoing narrative about TRUMP being too old.

Mayor Adams is threatening to slash NYC's budget because of the cost of the migrant crisis.....but the crisis is a self-inflicted wound....Adams immediately started putting illegal aliens in $300 a night hotels in midtown Manhattan.....he rolled the dice that old dementia Joe would reimburse him...and then some....for every dollar the city spent....he gambled, and lost......instead of a fat check, they sent the FBI (remember them) to his campaign managers home in a raid...same day Adams was enroute to DC ......seems our corrupt adams family is in bed with the Turkish Govt and probably taking bribes to expedite special requests from Erdogan & Co......oh well....even in Turkey 2+3=BEEER

What have I done?
What have I done?

China Doll, Alcohol, duality, mortality

 Mercury rules you and destiny fools you

Like the plague, with a dangerous wink
And there’s no time to think (Dylan)

as the country sleeps........xixi ping pong unleashed a plethora of fentanyl ...in 2022 200 Americans a day were murdered from fentanyl poisoning....over  250,000 have died since the pandemic......china is a communist country....you cannot visit your grandmother without the CCP knowing your every move.....the possibility of someone brewing batches of fentanyl and shipping them to mexico and ultimately the USA without the express written consent of Ping Pong is ludicrous .

Yesterday in a freshly cleaned San Francisco;  Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Thanked XiXi ping for agreeing to stop the flow of Fentanyl........thank you for agreeing to stop murdering my people....we are a shadow of our former selves.....we are an embarrassment and a joke.....at the age of 81  Joe Biden should have said if you don't stop the Fentanyl flow, I will Nuke the entire fucking planet you slant eyed coscksucker .....i'll be dead soon anyway, but i'm gonna drag you to hell with me......how do you think the nips would react to that ? 

instead, the room was filled with American Businessman ...all too eager to pay 40K for a table and a chance to get their foot in the door in China....i'll print the names...remember their products....they are selling out your children for a quick profit......all great houses are destroyed from within...we are no different.

Apple

Blackrock

Blackstone

Nike

Pfizer

Salesforce

Bridgewater

Long Beach Sweater Night

Craicfest

Citadel

Tesla

Visa

2+3=BEEER  even in communist china

No time to choose when the truth must die
No time to lose or say goodbye
No time to prepare for the victim that’s there
No time to suffer or blink
And no time to think

There's something happening over here

 but what it is ain't exactly clear,

there's a man with a gun over there

telling me i got to beware (Stephen Stills)

we know that those who do not learn their history are doomed to repeat it.....but what about those that refuse to acknowledge their present? 

just over 30 days ago...through the beauty of technology and cell phone and go pro videos , the world witnessed a terrorist attack unfold live and in person on a desert concert on the Israeli-Gaza border...in the days afterwards WE ALL learned the horrifying details of women being raped in the streets,  the elderly torched-burnt alive in their homes.....infants being beheaded in front of their Mothers and hostages being dragged back to Gaza......until ....an astoundingly large percentage of the world's population decided to ignore, dismiss or dispute these facts and turn the table over on Israel.....declare the Jews to be the real true problem and accuse them of genocide......the funny thing ...although  it's not really funny is that the palestinian protestors and the simpleton US College students sing songs and chant phrases calling for the Jew Genocide....."From the River to the Sea"  the Israel borders....they want to wipe them off the map.........I Guess the Columbia-Harvard-Yale students are cool with Genocide as long it's the right Genocide...or they are learning from American politicians....just accuse your opponent of doing all the dirty deeds that you are guilty of, and the preoccupied voter will get confused and tune both sides out.

A 17 year old white male High School student in Las Vegas was beaten to death by a mob of black & latino thugs in a schoolyard after he intervened on behalf of a smaller friend that was robbed and dumped into a trash cans by the sambos and wetbacks...Jonathan Lewis...say his name? not so much....i had to go to Reuters to gather details....thanks American media for ignoring this story....even though multiple videos exist, the MSM doesn't wish to tell stories that go against the narrative.......talk about refusing to acknowledge your present.

we all saw all of this coming....but the one shocking element to me is the incredible pace of this decline....we are going down faster than the titanic.....that is IF you believe it really was the Titanic that sank....and not her dilapidated sister ship the Olympic that was secretly switched and deliberately sunk by JP Morgan for the insurance....

i digress........we used to joke in the 80's that someone was drinking like the Russians were in the tunnel........today my advice is to drink up like Xixi Ping Pong was in the Bay Area....because he is..

2+3=BEEER

We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

observations from the bean Post window

 "look at this poor bastard waitin on a bus, don't he know it's a snow day"  (Dano)

on more than a few occasions, me and Dano would gather at the Bean Post on a snow day to quench our thirst and watch the productive members of society struggle on their way to work or running errands....it never got old from the warm confines of the front window,  with a cold goblet in yer hand......peering out the window hoping to catch the Greek or Macadoo passing by, so we could corral them in for a dozen cold ones.

I remember reading on the first business day after the October 7th Hamas terror attacks (Monday Oct 9) that Israel liquidated $30 Billion in foreign assets in preparation for the war that was to come......and yet the US Congress still acts like the IDF is pooling together loose change to buy a few bullets.'

That's the American way.....throw money at every problem, even if the problem doesn't need money.... and of course with that Money comes our Authority to weigh in on your problem and second guess your every move. 

Oh , and in the case of dementia Joe , he gets to "URGE" Israel to take a humanitarian pause and let the really badass hamas scum  escape into Egypt when the Jews take their foot off the gas.......you see...Joe and Kamel Toe are realizing that the Moosies ain't going to the polls next November.....they won't vote for Trump, but they will probably sit out the election...With the squad bashing the biden administration every day , it would take a miracle for them to about face in 12 months.... ....and some of the Jews might too....they are not happy with the current state of the elite US College Campuses, the anti-Israel protests being urged by Profs at Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Cornell etc etc...and the silence from the white house....they too will be reluctant to pull a lever for the DONN.....but they might send a message to the party by voting for Kennedy or sitting the election cycle out.

I have started watching the BBC news and going on Rueters website once or twice a week......they are the only ones willing to report the inconvenient truth that our NATO ally Erdogan and his Turkish Regime are openly supporting Hamas and accusing Israel of Genocide......you'd think maybe the American news stations might find time to report this (after marathon coverage of course)...but no.....we remain the republic with its head in the sand......if we don't see it or say it, maybe it will go away......if a tree falls in the forrest and nobody is there to hear it , is Nora Odonell still and ignorant irish slut ? yes, yes she is.

2+3=BEEER

Long Live Alvarez....hey cris, hey creees.....i drink a little bit of the Jack Daniels.

I may have to go to the Bean Post next snow day and have an imaginary conversation with Dano.

Big wheels keep on turnin'
Carry me home to see my kin

oh the time will come up

 When the winds will stop

And the breeze will cease to be breathin’
Like the stillness in the wind
’Fore the hurricane begins
The hour when the ship comes in (Dylan)

score one for the Whales......the two wind farm projects under construction off the Jersey Shore are.....well.....dead in the water. for the past 18 months average citizens in Monmouth and Ocean County were begging and pleading for a hault-pause or termination to these projects because of Dead Whales and Dolphins washing ashore in record numbers.......Peta and all the leftists activists were AWOL on the issue....suddenly they were silenced....others like Buck Tooth Murphy tried to rationalize that he good outweighed the bad......and that wind energy was worth the cost of a few dead whales........the same criminals that cry about the impact on the environment that fossil fuels have...well....they just didn't care to even consider the environmental impact the building of these massive wind farms would have on Marine life or migrating birds. Orsted...the Danish Firm that was just granted 1 Billion in Tax Breaks to build these murderous monstrosities has pulled the plug on both projects, citing cost overruns, supply chain issues and inflation as making the project unsustainable.....never mind the inconvenient truth that wind energy is limited and unreliable...

Blaine Stoughton, Ron Francis , Gordie & Nicky and all the Great Hartford Whalers are celebrating today as a victory.....All Hail the Whale......2+3=BEEER .

Oh the fishes will laugh

As they swim out of the path

And the seagulls they’ll be smiling

And the rocks on the sand

Will proudly stand

The hour that the ship comes in

Now he's hell bent for destruction

 he's afraid and confused

And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
And all he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies  (Dylan)

I knew it......I knew that SOB Trump was going to get us into WW III.....he's too unstable...always tweeting out nonsense. His son in law is Jewish, so of course he's gonna back Israel and stir unrest in the peaceful middle east.........he has a score to settle with Putin....he's going to provoke him into invading the Ukraine....and China ? he hates China....he only brokered that trade agreement as a smoke screen....his real intention is to taunt XiXi Ping Pong into annexing Taiwan ..........and he's so old that he doesn't really care about the long term ramifications of his actions or inactions.........he'll probably be dead or institutionalized before WE have to pay the piper..........

What this country needs is a return to normalcy , we need to put adults back in charge....we need the calming easygoing influence of a true moderate like Joe Biden. He's not too far left, he once sponsored a crime bill for goodness sake....he's a career politician , he understands how Washington works and he's not afraid to reach across the aisle to get things done.....he is a great unifier ...always has been. he's Amtrak Joe, a man of the people...he's not an elitist like that park avenue Trump...he spends his time at the beach in his shack with his dogs and his lovely wife (when she's not in surgery) .....yep, elect Joe and we'll get 4 years of financial prosperity and peace....not more of the chaos.

so I was watching the News and this Dude in Maine was in a hospital in July and he told the doctors he was hearing voices telling him to shoot up a military facility ....and they let him go home to his arsenal of weapons in 2 short weeks.......and my Dog Matteau said to me that he was amazed at how stable and sane i was compared to so many other fellas that served in the military.......so we cracked a few beers and continued our discussions.....Matteau also told me that 2+3= BEEER , and he thought i was premature in my assessment of the Rangers in general , and Alexis Lafrenierre in particular.....Blueshirts won their 3rd straight out west, blanking the Oilers 3-0 and Alexi has 4 goals on the young season.......

Oh, man is opposed to fair play
He wants it all and he wants it his way

Now, there's a woman on my block
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who wanna take away his license to kill?

well, the Neighborhood bully

 he’s just one man

His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully  (Dylan)

And so this never-ending circle goes around and around. As Israel continues to pound Gaza, they are hopefully crippling Hamas...but they are absolutely ensuring there will be a next generation of disgruntled arabs (claiming to be palestinians) willing to die if they can take some jews with them. I suppose you have to expect if a kid loses his parents and his home to a bombing, well then he will grow hating the aggressors. Facts won't matter to a person that looses their family, siblings, friends and  entire hometown. Israel has the right to bomb the crap out of this shithole and the survivors have the right to dedicate the rest of their lives to avenging this.

It is still quite surprising how quickly the snowflakes in this country...(the ones who are afraid of words and ideas) have rationalized the beheading of infants and rallied behind Hamas......how do you go from a hamas rally and chanting Gas the Jews to another rally crying that the words penmanship and history are sexist ? 

funny story about the Sikh community in Queens getting attacked because they were turbins and people calling them hamas.....omitted from the story is the inconvenient fact that the attackers are ALL BLACK.....the only ones stupid enough to confuse the Ayotollah with Vijay Singh.

I am happy to say that I was wrong last week about the Hostages.......4 people were released this week.....but i am doubtful that many of the original ones are still alive.

It is time for someone like Fox ( the only network that would dare) to research and document the moves of the obama and then biden administrations. They need to research barry husseins dad and find out where he stood in the moslem conflicts betweens sunnis and shia's.....and then show how every action was a slight to the jews and a nod to the arabs........if this country survives another hundred years, historians will look back on this period and ask the question....How did that NOT see this coming ?.......HOW did the twice elect an iranian agent ?

anyway the phillies lost games 6 and 7 at home........the 2023 baseball season is a HUGE success......and now we advance to the Hoboken World Series......my olde favorite watering hole on Washington is all the rage......Texas Arizona......giddy up......2+3=BEEER

Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully

The Hostages were trembling

 when they heard a man exclaim

“Let’s blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame”  (Dylan)

let's be honest.....two weeks in and we have not seen a single video of the hostages pleading for their lives and begging Isreal to stop the bombing and negotiate....one has to conclude that they are all dead. I hope i am wrong, but i think if the hostages were still alive we would be seeing images and videos on the news 24/7.....also .....brain dead Joe didn't even mention them in his address to the nation last night.....my guess is he knows they are dead...and he didn't want to look stupid like MOOchelle obama when she released that powerful photo of herself holding up a handmade sign that said "bring home our girls" when moslems in africa kidnapped every girl in some village in zibabwa, zaire, sudan or wherever...take your pick......of course the girls were raped for a year and converted to islam or had their heads cut off......who even remembers........they certainly were never brought home.......anyway i think the Detroit Redwings are back in business....i think this is year 3 of the Stevie Yzerman administration.......the last two years he dealt players for picks and drafted well......mainly homegrown ...with a few huge FA signings like Andrew Copp......he is doing for the Motor City exactly what he did for Tampa Bay....building a dynasty.......I envision a Coyote-Redwing Stanley Cup Final in 2025 or 2026.........and suddenly the Rangers look older, slower and average at best.......i'm not a big fan of Shesterkin......i admit he is better than queen henrietta.....but that's not saying much.....that heartless swedish swine was the biggest imposter in Broadway history..........anyway.....2+3=BEEER.....go isreal, beat hamas....and hezbollah, and syria....and iran...........

But Joey stepped up, he raised his hand, said, “We’re not those kind of men
It’s peace and quiet that we need to go back to work again”

keep on rollin to your paradise

 

you can't get bit by the same snake twice (Dylan)

curiouser and curiouser.....i sit here this morning listening to the Prophet Zimmerman on the ipod and the above song came on.....the title is "I ain't gonna go to hell for anybody" ...it was an unreleased gem from the late 70's i suppose....truth is even on his own website the lyrics and publishing information are blank......so i googled the lyrics and 3 or 4 different versions came up....none of which actually match the version i was listening to ( a live version from Toronto 1980) strange occurrences in the desert no doubt...although Dylan has always kept things interesting by changing the lyrics to entire verses to amuse and confuse.....anyway...i find myself listening to Slow Train and Infidels more and more.....he was spot on about the world 50 years ago....when others were too scared to speak the truth...he shined the light in their eyes.........case in point.

The United States Office for Palestinian Affairs called on Israelis to “refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks” in response to Hamas attacking Israel — then deleted the message.

yep, that's leadership....like Kylie Jenner and Instagram..first she supported Isreal and then she took that down quickly, i guess her interns weren't sure which side everybody else was on, so they deleted their post...like responding Yes to a party and then hearing that Rocco and the Cool Kids aren't going.......our first response was to tell the victim not to hit back....because we are a weak self-centered country that only cares about elections and rewriting history as it happens live in color. We are so weak it's actually surprising that China hasn't launched the missiles yet....one can only assume that they took my advice from last year and decided to stand back, save their ammo, and watch us crumble from within. The pathetic 80 year old Potus whispering and mumbling something about us standing with isreal was embarrassing....and then he said he saw videos of children being beheaded...and then the press office had to clarify that he DID NOT actually see the videos........like me in the schoolyard when i was 12 and i fell asleep in the 3rd quarter of the Monday Night game...and still swore i saw the Fantastic finish....unfortunately there is a little bit more at stake here....maybe.

so Friday did not turn into the day of jihad that was threatened, but that was probably by strategic design more so than our Intelligence and Police preventing anything. The truth is any sleeper cells that the PLO-Hammas-Hezbullah-Isis-Iran wanted to have in this country are already here.....our border has been open for 3 years....millions of got aways to go along with the common slob that surrenders......the frightening thing is, wondering what bigger plan these evil bastards have in store for us , that they did not show their face this week....must be something bigger and grander.........funny how the state dept can't seem to get planes into Isreal to evacuate Americans, but Schmucky Schumer can fly in on the taxpayer dime and pose for a photo with the Mayor of Tel Aviv......that email is being sent as we speak ...probably a great haul for fundraising..........in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King and 2+3=BEEER

I see people who are supposed to know better standin’ around like furniture ,

There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it

Tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won’t have the power to keep it

i woke up to the sound of music

 Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be (lennon-Mccartney)

and today of all days my alarm clock went off at 3:55 to this gem by the Beatles.

Today i go into the office and possibly into battle.

My whole life i have been under attack from the moslems.

from bombings in Marsielle and Naples, to the invasion of my beloved Bayridge and the attacks on the World Trade Center....and by the grace of God i have managed to stay one step ahead......let's hope that trend continues.......but in the back of my head i hear Mr Dylans twang........has your luck run out she said to him, well i guess you must've known it would someday......i hope that day is not today.

stay safe friends......in an increasingly ugly and senseless world....stay safe.....i hope Mother Mary is with you all.

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

once there was a way

 To get back homeward

Once there was a way

To get back home  (Lennon-Mccartney)

we joke a lot on this blog, but i am actually stunned into a partial silence at the events of this past week..

not that Hamas attack .....the murder of civilians, the beheading of infants in front of their mothers before killing the moms. .....not the rape of teen girls and the parading of their naked bodies through the streets.....that is barbaric and yes shocking.....but no i am not stunned by anything these lowlife scumbag animals would do in the name of their pedophile prophet.

not the response of the Isrealis....not the bombing of Ghaza or the callup of 300K reservists and the upcoming invasion....no, that is to be expected..

It is the immediate and very well organized protests around the world that sprung up so quickly.....with beautiful signs displaying a clear and consistent message......."almost as if it were planned ahead of time"....not protesting the butchers of Hamas.....but protesting against the victim...ISREAL. 

From the expected slums of NY and LA ....to the less expected streets of London and that great penal colony in the south Pacific......AUSTRALIA..........and in the land down under they were chanting "GAS the JEWS"......

many of the protestors were not of arabic descent.......they were white college aged kids.....the same ones who need a safe space and are offended by comics like Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinnison .....now they seem to be honoring and echoing Adolph Hitler........I must admit this to me was stunning. I remember learning the golden rule as a child....that if you do not learn history , then you are doomed to repeat it......and i have warned on this blog that the censorship, whitewashing the dictionary and tearing down statues from the past that we did not like would lead to this......but i meant 50, 75, 100 years down the line.....i honestly did not think i would live to see this........24 hours after their infants were beheaded, the victims are the target of worldwide outrage and the verbal threats of Nazi Germany from the 1940's ......if there is a God on Pluto , Saturn or even Mars....maybe it's time he ends this little experiment on earth.

Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise

ticking timebomb

 

i am not a conspiracy guy....but this does not add up.....How is it possible that a country like Isreal, known for being overly protective; with security that is the envy of the free world , allow a concert to take place in the middle of the desert on the border with Ghaza...and NOT have the entire concert site surrounded by the Military ? 

Isreal has already denied reports that Egypt called earlier in the week to warn that their intelligence agencies were picking up chatter indicating that something bad was brewing.

perhaps...just perhaps.....Benji met with his inner circle last month and said we need to allow an attack....horiffic  enough to catch the world's attention.....then we need to tie it to Iran.......and then we need to once and for all wipe Iran off the Map.....because the USA and British are pussies and will do nothing........and if Isreal does not take Iran out after this....well then it is Isreal that will be Nuked by Iran with the next decade....and we ALL know that to be true.

side note....maybe the fraud FBI sb looking at the Palestinians celebrating in Times Square and Patterson NJ....instead of arresting someone for breaking glass on Jan 6th.....i know you are reading this....how do you sleep at night you traitors?

2+3=BEEER

you got a lot of nerve

 To say you are my friend

When I was down

You just stood there grinning  (Dylan)

as the death toll in Isreal rises to over 400 , you have to wonder how much nerve the Vegetable in Chief has to stand at the podium and say that America stands with Isreal. After all it was the money we just gave to Iran last month that funded this attack. How can we pretend that is not so ? How can the media report this story and continue to omit the obvious connection between us giving Iran billions $$ and Hamas suddenly having the funds to carry out such an attack? and our new york jewish community will continue to bury their head in the sand and accept no responsibility for their cousins being slaughtered. They had 1 ally in the white House in the last 50 years and that was Donald Trump......they worshipped  obama but he hates them with a blood red passion., he grew in Indonesia eating dogs and chanting Death to Isreal......they love dementia Joe and he too wants a stronger Iran in the middle east to keep Bibi in check.....and they refuse to see it or admit......the bible says you reap what you sow.....and that 2+3=BEEER....at least my version does.

 Yes, I wish that for just one time

You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

went to see the Gypsy

 Stayin’ in a big hotel

He smiled when he saw me coming
And he said, “Well, well, well”  (Dylan)

well we know that Bob was talking about an encounter with Elvis Pressley , real or surreal; as Dylan himself has often said that he never met Elvis. Despite photographs of the 2 together and the story of Bob and George Harrison attending an Elvis concert in Vegas .....the song is generally accepted as the retelling of their introduction in the Kings after Party Suite of a Swanky Vegas strip Hotel.

Life will be even more confusing for the friends and family of our Navy and Army students this December. It has been reported that folks that booked rooms in the hotels around Gillete Stadium (Host of the Navy-Army game) have had their reservations cancelled. Why ? you might ask.....well because these hotels are now housing illegal aliens at the expense of the people that followed the rules and made a reservation. Yep, the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts has forced private business to accept these illegals and give the Boot to the registered and future paying guests of the Hotel. How far has this country swung in the wrong direction ? so far that i am doubtful we can ever swing back to normalcy.

2+3=BEEER

hockey prediction....the Coyotes are at the bottom of the stanley cup futures.....15,000 to 1......This team is better than that.....they will make the playoffs i believe....and they will make some noise......i may stroll over to the racetrack and put a few sheckles on my Yotes.

I went back to see the gypsy

It was nearly early dawn

The gypsy’s door was open wide

But the gypsy was gone

And that pretty dancing girl

She could not be found

So I watched that sun come rising

From that little Minnesota town

Blind man runnin

 through the light of the night

With an answer in his hand
Come on down to the river of sight 
And you can really understand. (N. Young)

where were we ? ah yes....the sad disappearance of the watering hole. I have always thought of the Great American Bar as so much more than a place to get a drink. It's a place to get your news, interpret the news and discuss the news with your neighbor...both the temporary neighbor on the next stool and the lasting citizens of the town in which you imbibe.

When i started my second stint in the financial district (after having been chased to the Garden state in the aftermath of the collapse of the towers) I found myself at a firm that discouraged drinking at lunch every single day, and so on occasion instead of going to O'haras next door; i would venture across the pit towards J&R Records and rediscovered an old haunt i had not visited in a decade. The BEEKMAN Pub........the thing i loved most was a separation wall that stood around 4 feet high and separated the Bar from the dining room.....it had a ledge and barstools beneath......if the barstools were all taken (which they often were in the golden age of alcohol , before the financial collapse of 2008-09) you could get a pint, order a burger and sit at the ledge and not feel like a redheaded stepchild..... i used to drink with my boy Dano in here....sometimes planned and sometimes we would just run into each other at the ledge.....we were both drawn to this bar by the same attribute but for different reasons.....we used to laugh the Nobody will Ever find you in the Beekman.....lost at the moment was the irony that we both quite often did find the other at the mahogany cave across from the Hospital......the Guiness was grand, the food edible, the prices were reasonable......but it was the bar itself that held the magic......the little stained glass sign behind the till that shouted Welcome to the Beekman.....and when you approached from the streets there were times when you swore they must be closed.....but once you opened the door it was like walking onto the field at Yankee Stadium. I mourn the passing of these great Cathedrals ....i feel empathy for those that never got to experience the emotional rescue that these legendary haunts provided. She was established in 1936.......she witnessed a lot of NYC history ...just a stones throw from the base of the Brooklyn Bridge and down the block from city hall....across the street from the hospital and the constant wailing of the sirens of the dead and dying.......2+3=BEEER

Red lights flashing through the window in the rain
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying in a gutter in the lane
If you're walking home alone