on this date

 Located at 26 Wall Street in New York City's Financial District, Federal Hall is the birthplace of American Government. Formerly a British colonial city hall, in 1789 it was reconstructed and became the seat of the new American government. On April 30th of that year, a crowd assembled in front of its second floor balcony to watch George Washington take the oath of office as our first President of the United States.

i do miss the days of working in lower Manhattan on a day like this.......I walked past that statue everyday for many years and i always paid a visit on April 30th.......left unsaid in the above paragraph was that the great George Washington walked down Broad Street to Fraunces Tavern where he raised many a mugs of Cider and cavorted with his fellow Rebel Scum.........God Bless America, Today and Every Fuking Day !

There's guns across the river aimin' at ya

 Lawman on your trail, he’d like to catch ya

Bounty hunters, too, they’d like to get ya
Billy, they don’t like you to be so free (Dylan)

I don't know about you, but me ? i am quite certain that the FBI , DOJ and the rest of the government alphabet klans are scouring surveillance footage, gathering evidence and taking fingerprints from each and every campus protest and infraction....last night the paid protesters broke into and seized Hamilton Hall on the grounds of Columbia.....they took down the stars and stripes and replaced it with the Palestinian Flag...........a threat to democracy ? you betcha.....worse than Jan 6th ?  yassir........can you imagine if a security guard hiding behind a barricade was to fire a deadly shot into the heart of some young female on the other side ?  Ashley Babbitt, say her name.

side note...Palestine is a region and was never an actual country...so what the fuk are these nomad gypsies doing with their own flag ?  maybe i can get cracking on a sweater Nite flag.

side note 2......John Sullivan was at the Capitol on January 6th and he committed the inconvenient crime of filming the shooting death of Ashley Babbitt.....earlier this week he was sentenced to 6 years in prison.........the actual shooter ? Michael Byrd ....well he was quickly and quietly exonerated as a justified shooting and then promoted to Captain....look it up.

4 days out from the Kentucky Derby and i have no horse........i need to get busy.....i did see the approximate post time listed as 6:57 ..........i used to host an annual party and the first cars were rolling up to the house at high Noon........the backyard was all clear ( except for some gladiators hanging for the hockey playoffs by 6:57) ....i don't know about you , but if am in full swing by noon these days, i am sleeping soundly by 6:57.

side note.....the #5 post has the most wins with 10.....this year Catalytic sits in stall 5 at 30-1

side note 2....the #17 Post has NEVER won......the early favorite Fierceness occupies that dreaded gate at 5-2 ....hmmmm

stay tune for the annual Derby rant come saturday and please feel free to leave suggestions in the comments....i will take any advice this year....i am lost.

Rangers took care of business in the 1st round......can't emphasize how important every extra day off will be come late May/early June.

one step at a time........2+3=BEEER

Hang on to your woman if you got one
Remember in El Paso, once, you shot one
She may have been a whore, but she was a hot one
Billy, you been runnin’ for so long

waive a white flag

 put away the pistol,

Too many people just can't get kissed
But if there's nothing I can do to make amends, baby
Hope you don't murder me (Elvis Costello)

Well, Columbia and USC have decided to bow down to the protesters and beg for forgiveness at the expense of the idiots that pay tuition to attend these over priced institutions. the Trojans wasted no time in cxling Graduation.....so your the 1st one in your family to receive a degree and your parents and grandparents were making the trek to Lala Land to see you walk across that stage and receive your diploma ?  well too bad. 

Columbia immediately cxld in person classes and went to round the clock negotiations with the terrorists....they drew not one, not two, but three lines in the sand.......3 time the school administration set a deadline for the end of the encampment and threatened to bring in law enforcement to end the unlawful seige on private property.......and 3 times they extended their own deadline........even barry Hussein would blush at such weakness.

Indiana, Austin, Harvard and other campuses across the land saw increased professional protesters take to their lawns and erect George Soros funded tents on their pristine lawns, threatening jewish students and putting graduation plans on ice.

Strong Showing for the Sweater Nite Community around the globe this week......Not only was 2+3=BEEER reported from Rome to Naples......but yesterday the 11209 SN25 Shirts were spotted in Morocco courtesy of the Z-Bird..and she sported a Ranger Cap to complete the ensemble .....We Are EVERYWHERE........keep spreading that gospel.

But when I hit the bottle, there's no telling what I'll do
'Cause something deep inside me wants to turn you black and blue

Mission possible

 Sweater Nite has successfully landed an operative behind  the mozzarella curtain and is spreading the artificial intelligence warming….one bathroom wall at a time……next up…..we will be carving this important message into the walls of the colosseum.

open your shutters

 I'll open my doors

And we can go howling neath the vagabond moon (Willie Nile)

someone once told me that Willie Nile was gonna be the next Bob Dylan.....and i'm sure to her he was....and that's all that counts. terribly saddened to learn of the passing of Jean McEvoy Brown.....she was a rock n roll pioneer, an all around genuine good person and a kind hearted communist....she was born to protest and i am sure she is organizing one upstairs today.....God Speed Jean, you were a good egg, thanks for telling us about so many fantastic bands in the mid 70's /early 80's.

on this the 188th anniversary of the Texas Militia slaughtering Santa Anna and his band of dirtbags......the Great Sam Houston attacked the Mexicallis on the San jacinto River and later renamed that tributary the Little Dog Lagoon.....i wonder if any school in America still teaches about the Mexican aggressors who tried in vein to rule the Cowboys and ranchers in the free state of Texas...i doubt it  

today is big day in the history of the blog........we have sent a spy on a secret mission to Europe to bring the word of this hockey gospel to the gindaloons......we shall see if Alvarez is able to access this blog or if the EU has blocked us.

Overnight reports are coming in that Israel shot some missiles into Rafah and killed 16 people......13 supposed kids from the same family....this coming just hours after the House approved a huge spending bill with financial aid to Israel......i expect the protests in the US to turn up a notch after this news spreads.

I was dissapointed with their response to Iran....although i think it was basically a forewarning to the Mullahs ...letting them know that Israel knows exactly where the iranian Nuclear program is centered....and hopefully next time they wipe the entire facility off the map.....I still would have preferred to see some Iranian military bases hit hard.......but without real support from the US i geuss the Israelis have to play it safe.

anyway its a great day to settle in and watch some playoff hockey........and raise a few glasses to the Great State of Texas and remember fondly how they never forgot the Alamo and ultimately slaughtered the wet backs......yipee.

“I know I’ve seen that face before,” Big Jim was thinkin’ to himself
“Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody’s shelf”
But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the houselights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him
Starin’ at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts

Now i'm goin back to Canada

 On a journey through the past

And I won't be back 'til February comes (N. Young)

well today starts what we hope is a 2 month Journey to the center of the hockey earth. This may sound strange but i think the first round will be the toughest test for the Rangers. The Caps are a slow , old, boring team with a HOT Goalie.......i am extremely nervous that the longer let them hang around each game and the deeper the series goes, the greater the chance that the caps find a way......Conversely if we come out and take care of business in 5 or 6 games and beat them soundly in the wins......then we will cruise to the Conf Finals and I think we play up to our opponents level and Beat Boston, Fla, Tampa or Toronto............the Finals will depend on how healthy we are and who is our opponent.......but that miserable first round could derail the express.......let's hope i am dead wrong.

side note, the NHL says that the latest date for a game 7 of the finals in Monday June 17th......just so happens i will be in North Myrtle Beach on that date......how surreal to watch the Rangers win the Cup in a Gin Mill on the water in South Carolina of all places.

The Rest of the 1st round series play out like this.

Canes over Isles  

Florida Over Tampa

Toronto over Boston 

out west

my blue plate special again is Winnipeg

Jets over the Lanche

Nashville over Vancouver

Dallas over Vegas

Oilers over Kings

i looked it up....last year i went  4 of 8 in the first round......that's pathetic....but that's also Hockey.......if all 8 of the teams i think will lose , were to actually win.....i would only be mildly surprised....and you can't say that about any other sport....

I will stay with you, if you'll stay with me"
Said the fiddler to the drunk
And we'll keep the tab on a journey through the past

I can't get , any rest

 People say I'm obsessed

Everything you say is lies
But to me there's no surprise  (Fine Young Cannibals')

oh no Joe......the demented CIC was giving a speech in Pennsylvania yesterday and went off script.....he started talking about his Uncle who was in a plane that was shot down off the coast of New Guinea and Joe assumes he was eaten by Cannibals' because they never found his body ........unga bunga bunga binga 

2 questions

Joe has been a politician for 40 years......8 years as VP and 3 1/2 as POTUS.....what took so long for him to suddenly care about the US Steel Industry and his desire to put tariffs on Chinese steel ?

and more iportantly question 2.....everyone talks about New Guinea but you rarely if ever hear anyone talk about Old Guineas ......why ?

Rangers-Caps.....i am already having nightmares about Lindgrens brother in nets for the Caps.

Anxiously waiting for Israel to Hit back on Iran........i have to believe it is coming and it will be substantial.

Jorma tonight at the Vogel...giddy up

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
And I can't help myself

an eye for eye

 a tooth for a tooth

Vote for me and I'll set you free
Rap on, brother, rap on (The Temptations)

sleepy Joe is at it again....trying to persuade Israel NOT to retaliate after Iran shot 120 missiles into Israel over the weekend.....the sad sack leader of the free world says since we shot down their missiles we won....no need to take further action....and that is precisely why Iran fired missiles in the first place...because the leader of the free world is as feeble as a pussy cat.

The law of the land.....their land....the middle east.....since the beginning of man has always been an eye for eye.......strength is the only thing they understand.....people that aspire to beheadings as a form of persuasion are not concerned with moral victories......the only response acceptable to these people would be for Israel to fire 121 missiles at Tehran.....anything short of that will only ensure that Iran and their proxies will live to attack Israel another day........peace is not an option.....the only peace this will region will ever know is the incredible silence after Israel kills a few hundred thousand iranians and the people of iran finally overthrow the Mullahs.

this being tax deadline day , the prophetic words of the Temptations echo across the land.

Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul
Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything

And the band played on

So, round and around and around we go
Where the world's headed, nobody knows

the bills are due and the baby need shoes

 But I'm busted

Cotton is down to a quarter a pound
But I'm busted 
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county's gonna haul my belongings away
'Cause I'm busted 
Oh, yes, I am  ( Harlan Howard / Ray Charles)

nobody sang the blues with a touch of humor better than the great Ray Charles, although the late Walter Lure did a remarkable version with the Waldos....Walter played Hank Szala's 60th Birthday party at Webster Hall and included the above referenced song in the setlist as a special request from yours truly.

saw an interesting interview with  Jim Grant the other day...he is a self acclaimed Fed Watcher....and he was talking about today's inflation and the inflation of the 1970's......we talk a lot about bad history repeating itself because people are either unaware of the past or willfully ignorant.

MR. Grant said that rising energy costs were the biggest factor for the decade and i think we all remember gas rationing ....even and odd days plate sales....and long lines at the pump.....but i wasn't old enough to recall or slept through in class ( as if anyone ever taught anything relevant or worthwhile in school) ...there were 3 occasions where the inflation data partially  cooled and Wall Street and others declared premature victory ....he said they were looking hard for silver linings and a reason to decide and believe everything was over and now ok.......only to see inflation roar back even stronger and interest rates to peak at 20%.

sound familiar ?  The POTUS lies and says inflation was roaring when he took office (it was 1.2% for the 6 months prior to inauguration) and then he compares 2024 inflation to 2023 to prove that it has cooled and conveniently  ignores the 2021-2022 numbers.....since Joe took office cumulative inflation is north of 6%....but Wall Street and the Oval office are still pushing for a Rate Cut.......Chairman Powell is fighting for his Job and will probably cave and cut rates in an attempt to help Biden.....Trump has already said he will not Keep Powell when elected........funny thing is that Trump is also a big proponent of lower rates....so whomever he brings in will also cut rates..........so i think we should once again stock up on Beer and Pretzels because inflation is here to stay.

Well, I went to my brother to ask for a loan
'Cause I'm busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone
But I'm busted, I'll tell ya
My brother said, "There ain't a thing I can do
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu
And I was just thinking about calling on you
'Cause I'm busted too"

It was a paradise for lizards

 when young Brigham saw it first

He said I've seen some nasty deserts Lord, but this one here's the worst
Then the Lord called down to Brigham, said "I've got a great idea"
I want a mighty city and I think I want it here (Barlow-Weir)

It is starting to look like the NHL will pull the carpet out from under the skates of my beloved Nomads, the Phoenix Coyotes. The team just announced last week that they decided on a parcel of land that they intend to bid on in June and the build their new arena with 0 public funds. the problem is that will take approximately 3 years and the League does NOT want the team playing in the 5,000 seat Mullet Arena on the campus of Arizona State...........that is the sanitized and partially true version that Mt Bettman is feeding to the media....but nobody logs onto this Blog everyday looking for MSM bullshit.......so what's really happening.?

Ryan Smith is the 45 year old Billionaire owner of the Utah Jazz basketball team and the Delta Center that they play in.....he wants another tenant and has made it known to Gary Bettmen that he wants  an NHL team.......he is incredibly wealthy and Salt Lake City apparently is an up and coming market.....and there's nothing Bettmen worships better than the almighty dollar.........so the rumor is that the NHL will buyout the current owner of the Coyotes Alex Meruelo above market price, and then sell the Yotes to Ryan Smith for an even higher sum, and since the Coyotes are 25 years old and have a good farm system and management team in place, they are worth more than an expansion team.......The Coyotes and their young stars move to Salt Lake this summer and play in a 19,000 seat NHL Professional arena this September........Meruelo uses his proceeds to pursue that land purchase and build his new arena, and in 3 or 4 years the league will award him with an expansion franchise........just another example of the rich getting richer....not stephan richer.

anyway...as the Rangers limp to the finish line and a possible first round exit....the future of the Blueshirts will be on display Saturday night at 6:00 on ESPN  as their top prospect , Gabe Perrault; and the BC Eagles take on the Denver Pioneers in the NCAA Frozen Four title game ...giddy up.

I hope right about now that the piece of shiite OJ Simpson is roasting away in hell and maybe , just maybe, for the first time is truly sorry for all the bad things he did as Officer Nordberg on Police Squad and those stupid Hertz commercials...........save a seat for biden Juice.

In their online obituary for the double murderer, the LA Times referred to Simspon as Trump....no joke.

They were talking about OJ getting out of jail and said  "on a fall morning in 2017, Trump walked out of Lovelock Correctional Center outside of Reno a free man".............that's one more example as to why you can't believe everything you read online ......unless it's on THIS Blog........Man bites dog, film at 11:00

Salt Lake City, where Brigham made the desert bloom

Salt Lake City, put a colour TV in every room
And they got them crazy Mormon chicks, yes I'll be going there real soon

Darkness at the break of noon

 Shadows even the silver spoon

The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying (Dylan)

i must admit that i was caught off guard the other day .....no not during the fake eclipse, but when i heard FBI Chief Christopher Wray warning that China was the defining threat of our Generation....he lamented how chinese hackers are outnumbering FBI agent hacking blockers 50-1 and he criticized the CCP for stealing technology and trying to destroy the US economy.

I thought the timing was peculiar since the Pride of Ft Hamilton High School Janet Yellen had just visited Bejing for a 2nd or 3rd time in the last year ....the mushroom queen talked about welcoming healthy competition from the communist regime.

I wondered what took so long for head of the FBI to speak up.......nearly 3 1/2 years into this most destructive administration that has been on it's knees to China.....the FBI seems to have suddenly woken up and now is the one ringing the alarm bells .....my gosh....he even talked about the threats of an open border .

was he reading the tea leaves and preparing for the inevitable second coming of the Great Donn ? 

no, i don't think so.....he knows his fate is sealed and he will be fired on day 1 1/2......

it turns out this week was a procedural vote on the renewal of section 702 of the FISA Act , the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act....the same act that allows the FBI to spy on American citizens that come in contact with foreign nationals....WITHOUT a warrant........some conservative Republicans have insisted on an amendment that will force the spy agencies to obtain a warrant before spying on Americans ......seems reasonable to me.....and the fact that the Missing in Action head of the FBI came out of his groundhog hole to campaign publicly about Foreign threats to Democracy convinces me that he and his fellow spies are up to no good.

last night 19 Republicans voted NO and blocked the renewal...it is set to expire April 19th.....the news media is pouncing on the fact that these 19 Republicans blocked the renewal.....no mention though of the 209 Democrats that also voted NO.....one might think in these days of turmoil that the 19 would be applauded for not blindly voting along party lines, but instead they are painting them as dangerous soldiers of the evil Dr Trump.

Personally i think FISA sb renewed, but i also think those in power need to be kept in check.....obtaining a warrant to spy on an American Citizen is a fair and reasonable hoop that these scumbags need to jump through... Lord knows they are probably spying on this blog without permission from Alvarez.

An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it

You tell me this town ain't got no heart

The sunny side of the street is Dark 

Maybe that's 'cause it's midnight

and the dark of the moon besides, or

maybe the dark is in your eyes 

maybe the dark is in your eyes

maybe the dark is in your eyes

You know you got such dark eyes (Hunter-Garcia)

well we may have survived an earthquake and an eclipse. but we couldn't survive the implosion of the Iowa women's basketball team.

Did you know Joe Biden and Sec of Defense Lloyd Austin launched an investigation of the US Military back in April of 2021 ?

They spent millions of dollars over the course of 14 months looking for "EXTREMISM" in the ranks of their own military . Considering the military is a collection of 18-22 year olds willing to die to protect their country and fellow citizens, I'd say they are all pretty extreme.

Biden & Austin were looking for a very specific form of extremism......by now you should realize that they were looking for Trump Supporters, and if they found them they would drum up some nonsense and probably discharge these Patriots. This was done in response to January 6th.......the military seems to be the only industry that was singled out for investigation....I guess they were confident the corrupt FBI, CIA and the teachers union were already in lockstep with Comrade Biden.

The Investigation wrapped up in April of 2022 and the results were kept under wrap. USA Today persisted in getting the results of this Govt funded study and apparently it was released quietly on the day after Christmas 2023. The study found zero evidence of extremism in the military....dam that sucks for Joe & Lloyd.....hence the burying of the findings....no real surprise though.....i was lucky enough to serve under Ronald Reagen , but truthfully me and my shipmates would have done the same job with the same conviction if Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter were in the oval Office.

Does beg the question as to why someone would still be willing to fight and die for a country that views them as the Villian ?

No word from the Whitehouse on when they plan to investigate the protestors in Dearborn, Michigan that chanted Death to America on camera .........Not Tehran...Not Ghaza.....Not Islamabad.........Deraborn Michigan

quiet weekend in the city.......60 year old man stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver on a bus in the Bronx........58 year old woman punched in the face and knocked down a flight of stairs of a church before services on Sunday Morning in Queens.........but Trump supporters in the Coast Guard will the death of us all.

I recall your darkness
when it crackled like a thundercloud

Let us pause in life's pleasures

 and count its many tears

While we all sup sorrow with the poor.
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears,
Oh, hard times, come again no more. (Dylan)

Despite heavy rainfall in the Northeast this week, i have faith in the AWFULS.....the suburban Jewish American Princess Blocks......the guilt ridden whites...that they will again mobilize and take their cries, screams and protests to the inner city ghetto of Washington DC.......because these brave young woman know that RIGHT is RIGHT.......and BLACK LIVES MATTER.

The pending Rally-March-Demonstration for Reggie Brown should shatter previous attendance records...the nonstop , 24 hours a day- 7 days a week demand for Justice will be unwavering.

who is Reggie Brown ? brace yourself.

Reggie was a 64 year old Black Man...he was severely handicapped.....he had a steel plate in his head.....he only had 2 fingers on each hand.....he lived in the same rundown building in the slums of the Nation s' capital for all of his 64 years......he was a cancer survivor.........Reggie Brown was beaten to death in a horrific manner......he was chased down an alley way by strangers.....no argument, no fight, no prior beef or debts owed...strangers.....his face slammed into a brick wall until he fell to the ground....his pants were pulled down to his ankles......he was whipped with his own belt......he was kicked, punched and stomped upon and left to die in the alley....how frightened this poor bastard must've been...to not understand who was attacking you or why .....because there was absolutely no reason.

alas there is a fly in the ointment......the 3 assailants arrested yesterday were 3 black girls aged 12 and 13.......let that sink in.......12 years old and so consumed with the Black Lives Matter mantra that they chose a disabled black Life and decided to torture, terrorize and extinguish........the black family of poor Reggie is begging that these 3 miscreants be charged as adults......time will tell.

sadly there will be no march....no grassroots movement to mobilize the masses in protest....nobody will say his name.......Rest in Peace Reggie...this white devil will keep you in his prayers.

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door.
Oh, hard times, come again no more.

Instant Karma's gonna get you

 Gonna knock you right on the head

You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead (John Lennon)

well well well........return of the Nappy Head Ho's......the LSU womens team and their racist leader angel reese refused to be on the court during the National Anthem last night in Albany before the East Regional Championship....AND....they promptly lost to the female Pete Maravich and the Iowa Hawkeyes.....IOWA of course stood on the court and honored the flag and the anthem.

Their White apologist , head coach Kim Mulkey; insisted that's our routine....we leave the court 12 minutes tipoff every game and go back to the locker room.........perhaps....but why you AWFUL broad ? because the future inmates of some women's correctional facility HATE the country that  gave them free college tuition....they refuse to stand and respect the anthem...and the powers that be at LSU are trying desperately to hide that optic from the public........the reckoning can't come soon enough for some........2+3=BEEER

next up for Iowa ?  Gino Nolan and the Ucon team

next up for LSU ?   a strippers pole and an unwanted pregnancy

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
You better get yourself together darling
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughing at fools like me
Who on earth d'you think you are?
A superstar? Well right you are