Everybody's talkin at me

 I don't hear a word they're sayin'

Only the echoes of my mind

People stoppin', starin'

I can't see their faces

Only the shadows of their eyes  ( Harry Nilson)

one thing that has to change is the multiple voices shouting commands during a police stop.....ONE VOICE.....whomever is the designated talker or the senior person on the scene sb the only voice the apprehended individual should hear.....I had heart palpitations sitting on my couch and listening to 5 different voices shouting different commands at Tyre Nicholls....i understand they are wound tight and sometimes fearing for their own life....but if you want the suspect to cooperate, you have to at least give him a chance to hear your instructions and comprehend.

I'm going where the sun keeps shinin'

Through the pourin' rain

Goin' where the weather suits my clothes

Bankin' off of the Northeast winds

Sailin' on summer breeze

And skippin' over the ocean like a stone

mama, mama

 many worlds I've come

since I first left home ( Garcia-Hunter)

it was very tough to watch the dying breaths of Tyre Nicholls. Nobody deserves to be beaten to death in the road by anyone, let alone authority. Five extremely aggressive bullies with badges beat a 29-year-old man to death after a traffic stop. The most devout amongst us would be left to question whether God does exist after watching this video. How did it come to this, where did this anger and lack of respect for life originate. Certainly these 5 officers did not feel that Tyre was a child of the same God they worship. As he lay bleeding, pepper sprayed, punched, kicked in the face and battered by batons, he cries out for his Moma........her house was less than 100 yards away. In the days, week or months ahead there will be plenty of time to review and analyze this incident....but today i'm just going to say a prayer for his Mom and his son.

Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

now don't you know the world don't care

 just what we're livin' through;

Its spinnin' just keeps takin' you for rides;  (Jorma)

the faster we go , the rounder we get......spinning, spinning spinning. 

Mars Candy apparently made a change last year to the green female M&M cartoon character and replaced her GoGo boots with sneakers, and social media exploded. (Cartoon character being the key component of this nonsense). This year they introduced a purple M&M candy and cartoon character, and again social media went nuts.... too woke? not woke enough ?? who the hell knows, but yesterday Mars announced that they were retiring the Cartoon characters all together.... another senseless victim of a woke society.

Congressman Santos?  this guy is an absolut piece of work....too much to recap, his list of lies, fabrications and inventions are impressive....he has learnt the most valuable lesson in politics...say anything and deny everything. i did catch an interview he did with a podcast where he was speaking Portuguese and he claimed to have survived an assassination attempt in Florida (he didn't elaborate as to who was trying to kill him) and that he was mugged at 3:00 p.m. in NYC and they (the bad guys) took his watch and his shoes .....i'm unclear if that means something significant in the spanish culture o if this guy was just on shrooms. ( if i lived in Nasau county i would have voted for Keith Corbett instead of Santos) 

Gov Desantos is under fire from the media for cxlng a Black History class in Florida Schools. Heck Kareem Abdul Pierre at the white house called the move incomprehensible. 

Spoiler alert, the syllabus for the course includes sections of Queer Studies, CRT and abolishing Prisons. not a single section on the struggles of Black M&M's though.

seems like the Lunar new year must have been a full moon......chinamen on the west coast used to celebrations to settle some scores.....2 mass shootings, but Nancy still says "come on down and celebrate" 

funny how now that the Republicans are back in the majority in Congress...every story about a shooting ends with a new question on gun control......when the DEMS controlled the House, senate, Oval Office the MSM never raised those questions. Same as abortion..they do not want to solve the problem , they want to fund raise and campaign on the issue...oh well if i was Kevin Mcarthy i would change strategies.....stop with this silly argument about mental health....he should instead say that because we have so many NUTS in this country, that is why we need to ensure that every household has an armory to protect themselves.

seriously though, the clear headed liberal thinks outlawing guns will get them off the streets....but liberal dems DO NOT enforce laws...if they did there would be no fentanyl on the streets and 27 million less illegal aliens.

Scott Rolen ?  seriously ?  if he belongs in the Hall of Fame then Don Mattingly deserves his own wing.

Don't you know you've gotta keep on fightin' through; The last frontier is flying deep inside!

out on bail

 the check is in the mail,

they can sentence me to life and i won't go to jail  (Beasty Boys)

Today is on the of those days that we have to hope and pray that school aged delinquents are too busy with Tik Tok to study history. NY State has granted a license to legally sell marijuana in Greenwich village on Bleeker street to man with multiple marijuana convictions (including a stint in prison). The problem with this is that this person was selected because of his past, not in spite of it. We can talk all day about second chances, and i am in favor of forgiving low level offenses for possession, but NY is going out of their way and crossing a double line to reward someone that knowingly, and repeatedly broke the law. If you want to set aside a % of licenses for minorities ? ok.........If you want to forgive people that received a summons for smoking a joint? OK......if you want to recruit people that went to jail for dealing drugs to kids and reward them with a golden ticket/license ??   yeah, well like i said , let's hope our impressionable youth are distracted. 

I got all the time, that i need to kill

so what's the time ?

it's time to get ill

i knocked em dead in Dallas

And I didn't pay my dues

Yeah, I knocked 'em dead in Dallas

They didn't know we were Jews (the Dictators)

get your popcorn ready and secure a seat on the couch , you might even want to pop in a betamax tape and record the game. This Weds night on the NHL network is the prospects game. the Top 40 players from the premier junior hockey leagues in the world (WHL, OHL, QMJHL)  will be on the ice for a "prospects game"  , This will be a chance to see most of the players that will be selected in the June draft going toe to toe with each other. In case you haven't been following NHL draft news, the class of 2023 is considered one of the best and deepest draft classes of the last 30 years. In addittion to Connor Bedard ( the consensus #1) will be 39 other players that could make a difference to any NHL roster at the moment. take a seat, crack a Molson and enjoy the game.

I sock 'em everywhere that I sing
Cause you know baby
I'm the Next Big Thing

 

drought and starvation

 packaging of the soul.

Persecution, execution, governments out of control

You can see the writing on the wall inviting trouble.  ( Dylan)

As i watch the long-range forecast on the chucklehead news, i can't help but think this historic snow drought will come to an end in glorious fashion with a historic blizzard on Sweater Nite (aka Presidents weekend) Fear not, we have drank in the snow before and will not be deterred. I spent more than a few afternoons of a great white out with Dano drinking in the Bean Post and gazing out onto 5th ave and watching the good people of Bayridge struggle with crossing the snow drifts of 5th ave. Something about a storm that brings out the inner drinker in everyone, I remember i was home on leave when Hurricane Gloria came ashore in 1985....spent the day in Slapsticks ...bar was packed.....jukebox was a big hit with songs like Dylans' Hurricane & Hard Rain, Creedence who'll stop the rain and have you ever seen rain, Neils Like a Hurricane, G-L-O-R-I-A multiple versions....(.even Laura Branigans silly song got a rebirth) . So we will have to get kraken with a snowstorm play list.

the power of commercials......i was grocery shopping on Sunday for the 1st time in a year and i was overcome with the urge to buy a box of Cheese-Its ....not because i was crazing them, but because they have the best commercial on TV....the one with the football coach in the locker room talking to a bunch of cheese wheels in shoulder pads and he's giving a pep talk before the big game....my favorite is the guy who screams " I woke up feeling the cheesiest coach" ....not sure if they give Oscars to commericals , but whoever wrote that one deserves a statue.

Joe Biden yesterday called Republicans "Fiscally Demented" ......not sure if this brain dead puppet should be throwing the D word around. He went on to use a speech honoring MLK to make a tired old joke about insurrectionists needing more firepower than an AR-15 if they want to overrun the govt. (Because Joe has an army and he will win...ha ha, get it ?  it's so funny to joke about civil war, such a great unifier and chief.)

Big Govt loves to vilify the private sector but the facts are the facts. I am required to take lengthy training twice a year on how to first classify every internal document ( Classified, Confidential, Public etc etc) and more importantly how to handle or dispose of these documents. We also fire people in the private sector for lying on a resume or application for employment and we are still subject to random urinalysis test to make sure we are not high on drugs while we handle your retirement savings.

horrible story with a silver lining. A real problem at the border that is not getting any attention. These poor illegal immigrants crawling to America in search of a hotel and free Wi-Fi, are also leaving their dogs at the border. These huddled masses that just want to have sex in the stairways of a Manhattan hotel and throw out mayor adams turkey sandwiches have zero compassion for their canine companions. Thankfully an American hero has launched Big Dog Ranch Rescue and they are actively feeding, caring for and finding home for these beloved pooches. America is a beacon and there is still more good than evil in the heart of the nation....the light still outshines the dark , but for how long ? 

Nightclubs of the broken-hearted, stadiums of the damned
Legislature, perverted nature, doors that are rudely slammed
Look into infinity, all you see is trouble

give me a ticket for an aeroplane

 

i ain't got time to take no fast train (j. Cocker)

by the close of business today, all skaters in the tri-state area should be in possession of their Sweater Nite letter. I have heard from the administrative offices that not all letters contained the "special edition" Doge Coin that will be required to gain entry on the 19th.....if for any reason your letter did not contain a token , please call 917-374-4965, ask for Unadilla the secratary and give her the password "Chick Peas" and she will send you a replacement token.(Leave a message if it goes to voicemail)

 Oh, the lonely days are gone

I'll be right home

My baby she wrote me a letter

don't let the glasses fool you

 Stand beside me when you measure my size

Don't let false estimations rule you

Some evening you might come to realise (D. Bromberg)

we can draw conclusions on the wall as the who or what was the Demon that Bromberg was talking about. thankfully the Mainstream media doesn't even try cloak their partisanship. As i enjoyed my coffee this morning i perused the local TV stations, hoping to find a cute weather girl or traffic maven or at the very least some highlights from Big Blue's Big Win. Instead, i found all 3 stations standing on a soap box preaching down to us less worthy of their Brilliance. Eager to tell us how wonderful the good, departed doctor was. All 3 made a point of emphasizing how Dr King preached civil disobedience, all 3 ignored his message of "peaceful" protest. It explains how the Sleepy Floyd protests turned into riots in a flash, all while talking heads from CNN stood in front of burning buildings and said it was "mainly" peaceful.  it makes me wonder what is worse....an uninformed public or a misinformed public.

Today i will go find a nice warm tavern to enjoy a pint and ponder the legacy of Dr King Jr.........not really, but if i drink enough, maybe i will find someone in the bar to talk and reminisce about the Real KING......Bernard!!

I've been a wizard since my childhood

And I have earned some respect for my art

I rule the spirits that live in the wildwood

And every evening I talk to the stars

 let's play along....indulge me....if we accept the silly premise that Joe took these documents home 6 years ago.....put them in a closet and forgot about them....and suddenly someone discovered them on Nov 2nd....we all know that Ron Klain would have called an emergency meeting of Joe's entire staff and ordered an inspection of every residence, apartment, office, closet, whatever; that Joe had access to, in order to find what else was there....he then would have had all subsequent documents brought to a single location and joe would do a one time, mea culpa....ah shucks, Joe made a mistake, we are all sorry...........there is no way they go public after 60 days, let Joe talk at a press conf, and then have to admit 24 hours later there was a second discovery of documents........UNLESS.......this is all designed from the inside to take Joe down .......isn't the timing peculiar ? we all suspected he would go away after the Dems got trounced in the midterms....but after they survived and he started talking about running again.....suddenly there is trouble in paradise........i have long suspected that Kamel Toe cut a deal to be VP if she dropped out of the primaries and threw her support behind joe.....i think she was also promised that he would step down voluntarily or the dem machine would remove him against his will after the mid-terms , so that she could finish his term and be the First female spoonjiah  POTUS. This is the same party that gave the debate answers to Hillary and hung Bernie out to dry.

ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning

 And you find out that those other days are gone?

All you have is memories of happiness

Lingerin' on  (N. Young)

Joe Biden was surprised to learn there were Classified documents found at his China funded Library at the University of Penn location in DC (just a few short blocks from the Chinese embassy)

I guess he will be shocked to learn that his aides found additional classified documents at as yet undisclosed location of his.

The Biden Administration first learned of the documents days before the midterms

The American Public first learned of the documents days ago.

Donald Trump took documents out of the White House when he left office...as President he claims to have declassified the documents.

Joe Biden took documents over 6 years ago and it's unclear if anyone (including Joe) knew that he had them. As VP in 2016 he did not have the authority to declassify anything

Donald Trump and his lawyers were in open dialogue and dispute with the National archives about the return o these documents.

Joe Biden, the White House, the National Archives, The public did not seem to even know that Joe had documents.

The FBI raided Donald Trumps private residence at 5:00 a.m. and searched the entire home and took everything they wanted (including passports and private documents)

The FBI seems intent of trusting the Biden Administration to self report and return ALL of the documents they have.

Every media report on this story(except fox) concludes with a talking head reminding us that the BIG Difference is that Biden is cooperating, move on, Trump is worse, nothing more to discuss.

meanwhile in a span of 12 hours a Pressure Cooker was apparently found on a PATH train and the WTC station was evacuated .....oh and every single flight in the United States of Ameria was grounded by order of the FAA because of ?  well, we are told a computer glitch....mayor Pete promises to tell us more as soon as he knows......and still they scratch their heads and wonder what drives people to armed insurrection.

Yet still a light is shining
From that lamp on down the hall
Maybe the star of Bethlehem
Wasn't a star at all

dissolved into the bells of the Lightning

 

Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake

Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an’ forsaked

Tolling for the outcast, burnin’ constantly at stake  (Dylan) 

this past week it's amazing that our country did not die from a Hamlin overdose.....any insignificant, virtue signaling , cheesy tribute that was worth doing, was overdone........from the 30 yard line in most stadiums being outlined in Bills Red & Blue (if you didn't know, Hamlin wore #3 you insensitive brute) to some moron on the NFL Network wearing Hamlin's jersey backwards so we can see his name( as if we didn't know a Blue Bills #3 Jersey was for Hamlin) and he wore it for 8 hours, every time they switched back to the studio this crumb was sitting at the desk with professionally dressed commentators , but he was repping with his backwards jersey...obviously he cared more. And the award for the stupidest tribute goes to the Denver Broncos as they had a player from each team meet at the 30-yard line for a pree game kneel down and symbolic prayer.....not just any players...but the players from each team that wear #3 (get it, get it?) not a dry eye in the house for a person they never met or even knew existed 6 days ago. As for the modern-day NFL player, the ones he had to dig deep into their souls to find a way to put that uniform back on, collect that check and somehow play a game .... whew, it was tough, but they somehow did it. These wonderful, caring, misunderstood members of society, somehow soldiered on against all odds...changed forever. Until Alex Smith of the Steelers sacked the QB and collapsed on the field as part of his pre-planned Spontaneous celebration, and his teamate Demarvin leal performed mock CPR.....yep changed forever. And the winner for tone deaf self-importance award goes to Green Bay's Quay Walker, 6 days after medical staff saved his "Brother" Hamlins life on the field, good old Quay shoved the Detroit Lions medical staff as they dared to tend to an injured player on the Lambeau turf. ( editors note, at least guys like Demarvin and Quay always get the right coffee when waiting in line @ Starbucks......maybe their mommies were playing scrabble when they were born). Kudos the Raja who pointed out how the NFL and the media ran Tim Teebow out of the league for having the audacity to take a knee in prayer after scoring a touchdown just a few years ago.......and today if you don't offer prayers for Damar or walk around carrying a red cardboard heart with the #3 in the middle you are the Devil incarnate. Stay classy America, your hypocrisy is showing.

An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

they say the women treat you fine, on Broadway

 But looking at them just gives me the blues (G. Benson)

another sure fire sign that our city is in decay , 5 more shows held their final curtain call last night.......4 on Broadway and one off broadway hit for 30+ years. And Gov Kathy is pushing forward with Cuomo's plan of redeveloping the area around MSG. All that amounts to is condemning properties for imminent domain and allowing her Big Donor developers the right to build more office buildings on the corridor between 7th and 9th ave......say goodbye to the Molly Wee and all the other successful businesses that survived the covid shutdowns ...only to have their livelihoods stolen by big Govt.....and mayor adams is silent.....even though Kathy gave away the cities share of taxes for these new towers as an incentive for her friends to build.......that's right.....the local tax...the $$ that should go to the city to hire Police, Fire, Sanitation etc etc for this redeveloped area has been forgiven by the state. I shudder to think what the isle of Manhattan will look like in 20 or 30 years.

after 2 years in office sleepy joe took a 2 hour trip to our southern border to see what's really going on ......well if you follow Fox Business News you would have seen the photos of the tent encampment on main street El Paso from Thursday Morning...the one with hundreds of makeshift tents, sleeping bags and men, women and young children sleeping on the streets.....it miraculously disappeared 48 hours before the Presidents arrival. Sleepy Joe was greeted by pristine, empty main street.... all good here.

A nation that choses to live in darkness deserves what they get.

Cause how ya gonna make some time

When all you got is one thin dime

And one thin dime won't even shine your shoes

now that the holidays have come

 They can relax and watch the sun

Rise above all of the beautiful things they've done (N. Young)

Yes Neil the holidays have come....and gone....theres no turning back now.

somewhere in a conference room in the west wing of the white house there are 3 or 4 or 5 recent college graduates that are setting policy, authoring the Presidents Twitter acct and running this country.... the most sheltered, protected, entitled generation that this world has seen is running our country off the road and into a ditch we may never get out of. Like a pack of High school seniors talking tough about the world and and set in stone with their own opinions....and then they go to the cafeteria for free lunch, and home to sleep in mommy and daddy's safe house.

the 'administrations" new plan for the border is childish, amateurish and blind. They (these interns) view the problem at the border as if it were a logjam at the airport for TSA screening. Their plan is for potential migrants to download an APP on their phone and then schedule their own asylum hearings at the next available date....so pablo and juan can remain in Quito Ecuador harvesting coffee beans and chatting about the world cup until their hearing in 6 months......brilliant...that should do it.....lost in the shuffle is the fact that 96% of asylum requests are rejected because ...well....these people aren't fleeing for their lives, they are just searching for a better place to live ( and collect free money)....but we already have a plan in place for that, it's called application for citizenship....just ike the Irish, English, French or Italians that want to live in the USA......but that takes time and the $$$may run out soon.......also lost in the shuffle is the hundreds of thousands who are sneaking into the country carrying drugs or who have already been deported.....they are not going to schedule an appointment no matter how cool the new APP is.

come sunday dementia Joe is visiting the border....will he finally apologize to the Mounted Border guards that he vilified and publicly convicted before they were ultimately acquitted? 

will he or Kamaltoe  finally share what the root causes are ? 

So the subtle face is a loser this time around

Here we are in the years

Where the showman shifts the gears

Lives become careers

Children cry in fear

"Let us out of here"

i should have known right then

  it was too good to last

God, it's such a drag when you live in the past  (Tom Petty)

yes sir Mr. Petty....even the losers get lucky sometimes, but not the Republican losers in Congress...I don't give a shiite who the Speaker of the house eventually is but the embarrassment that is on display in DC will sting for a long time. They had two months since the election to get behind closed doors and hammer this out, instead they played right into the media and demonrat hands and put on a public display of disarray.....on a day that should have been spent sending a message to the American people about policy and agenda was instead spent bickering and grandstanding....  

Loser # 2 is the POS from Maine that attacked 3 cops with a manchette on new years eve in times square. Apparently, he WAS on the FBI watchlist but nobody noticed when he suddenly bought an amtrak ticket to travel to NYC before New years....why bother having a watch list if nobody is watching ?  and this little punk crybaby is boo hooing because his dad died a few years ago and he became radicalized....his dad was a loser that overdosed....grow up.

Losers 3 & 4 ......asshat mitch McConnel is holding a press event today with Joe Biden to celebrate the infrastructure bill in action in Kentucky...and to highlight all the good things that POTUS has done for the bourbon state......yep, republican leadership.

finally, the media reaction to Damar Hamlin collapsing on the field during MNF was horrific....every channel had their own medical expert on TV to speculate what might have happened....how about we take a breath and just wait for the hospital and the doctors treating the patient to tell us. every channel i watched yesterday there was someone trying to prove that they cared more than the next guy.... desperately trying to convince themselves and us that their lives were turned upside down because a person they never met before had a heart attack on TV..... I wish him well, but seriously....people die everyday....people bury loved ones everyday....the world keeps spinning.....yet that pussy GIO on WFAN apologized for being insensitive ahead of talking sports during a radio show that is sports talk....give it a break.....save your crocodile tears and espn ass kissing monologue.

wish i had something positive to kick start 2023.......maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me.

Great win by Tulane over USC, the kid that caught the winning touchdown is from Redbank Catholic....nice win by the bruins in the Winter Classic from Fenway and congrats to TCU and Sonny Dykes in reminding us that No School is too small or insignificant to beat an overinflated Big Ten imposter.......at least Ohio State covered..........LSU beat Purdue by 55 points....Bama cruised....MISS St beat Illinois........newcomers USC and UCLA lost to Tulane and Pitt.....but come August...the little ten will have another 5 or 6  schools in the top 15........loooooooosers

 Baby, even the losers Get lucky sometimes

Even the losers
Keep a little bit of pride
They get lucky sometimes