In a land that's known as Freedom

 How can such a thing be fair

Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help that we can bring (CSNY)

I have a lot to say and so very little time to say it....literally......my good friends at Blog2print are going out of Business and i have to publish the 3rd volume of this blog into hardcover  by Monday....so i need to address some elephants in the room and document some things for posterity.

I have been observing the news and reporting on some of the most important occurrences that i feel are stepping stones to a second civil war, and on May 11 2024 i feel we have crossed the great divide....it is inevitable......we are well passed the point of no return.

The Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years....the Ottaman Empire over 600.....and in school we covered both in a fortnight. This American Expirement, this land of Freedom; will turn 250 on July 4th 2026. (That is if we make it) The original premise of huddled masses yearning to be free was a good one and it worked. But like any great house from history....a divided one can't stand......and the fastest way to become a house divided is to let in people that do not share your core values and principles. I am not talking cultural differences, we are a melting pot and that's what has made us so special. I am talking about people that Hate you and what you stand for , people that do not wish to assimilate but rather divide and conquer. The Muslims and the Chinese have been playing the long game for 2,000 plus years......every generation takes a step forward while changing a piece of their adversaries for ever. Some generations took giant leaps and bounds.....

The transition of America from where we were on September 12th 2001 to where we are now should shake everyone on the planet to their core. As a nation we have elected the squad, women who have pledged allegiance to Palastine over the US; and they are serving in Congress. We have turned our back on our most vulnerable ally in the Middle East and we have celebrated protesters' wearing Hamas headbands on the Campus grounds of Colombia , Harvard and all the rest. All this in 23 years since these same terrorists attacked and killed close to 3,000 innocent civilians on our soil. Last week was a turning point for me too.....i have crossed over.....from the alarmist ringing the bell to the survivalist with an action plan. I will still blog as long as i am breathing, but i am heading to high ground.

From the bottom of the ocean
To the mountains on the moon
Won't you please come to Chicago?
No one else can take your place

Occupy Wall St, The George Floyd riots and the BLM marches were the precursor to what is to follow, they were the testing ground to see how far they could push us, what they could get away with and what society was willing to just accept. Unfortunately this blue print is in the hands of the Anti-Semitic mobs that have been terrorizing Colleges (for now), and will be moving into the cities after graduation. This summer will be a big pot of water on a stove...simmering and beginning to bubble until it Boils over on the Shores of Lake Michigan on Monday August 19th at the Democratic national Convention.

The fuse has already been lit, i expect an explosion of Anti-American behavior to swallow and engulf Joe Biden and his friends, because these people are not the Democrats we grew up with...they are not concerned about the "party" , they want chaos and destruction and as they like to chant "Death to America". 

We can change the world
Re-arrange the world
It's dying, if you believe in justice
It's dying, and if you believe in freedom
It's dying, let a man live his own life
It's dying, rules and regulations, who needs them
Throw them out the door

 I hope to live long enough to see the looks on the faces of the Homosexuals' for Gaza when the mob takes control and they learn that they are about to loose from the neck up for offending Allah. I hope to see at least one press conference where the young ladies of America are lobbying against arranged marriages, being forced to wear Hijabs and veils from head to toe and losing their driving privileges' and right to vote.

I hope to witness the socialist mobs that spent generations living off Capitalists handouts , welfare, unemployment, food stamps etc etc when they realize that there aren't even crumbs to share when living in a dictatorship.

I think Chicago will be the official Ft Sumptor moment , i expect the majority of the cities to devolve into chaos , I can envision martial law and.......wait for it........the cancelling of all elections.....we already are a banana republic so what's stopping the dead and dying from grasping the reigns of power by any means available? i have never tried to tell anyone what they should do, or what is best for them and their familes, but after 10 days of deep thought and self examination i think i have to go where the chilly winds don't blow......Jesus was an only son, and love his only concept.....Slainte - Peace Out 

where have you been

 my blue eyed son (Dylan)

that's a long answer.

I have been to Australia and Diego Garcia and a lot of places in between.....some thanks to my adventurous spirit but mainly thanks to my uncle Sam and the Unites States Navy.

I have been to Israel and Spain,  and Sicily, Turkey and Greece....some for an extended period of time and others for a shot of Raki and a brief hello.

I've been to Venice and Rome and Naples and Trieste.....i was up and down the French Riviera for the Summer of 1988......Cannes, St Tropez, and from Marseille to Monaco....i drank in the finest Hotels in Nice and in a roadside farmhouse outside of Toulon.

I crossed the Atlantic on Guided Destroyer and sailed through the Med, The Rock of Gibraltar, the Straits of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf...I was part of a Battle Group that crossed Khadaffy's line of Death and lived to tell about it. I sailed from the North Atlantic to the Coast of South America and everywhere in between......but i never crossed the equator and became a shellback...but i did live in Pascagoula Mississippi and was in drydock in the Ingalls shipyard...famous for the alien abduction of 1973  

I spent a night in the Nairobi Hilton and thought i was Ernest Hemmingway on the eve of a Hunt.

I ve been to the Hemmingway House in Key West and the birthplace of Jack Kerouac in Lowell Mass.

Ive been to Golden Gate Park and the Haight-Ashbury and i stood on the steps of the Grateful Dead House......

Ive been to Neal Cassady's favorite bar on the outskirts of Denver and i rode the rails from NY to LA and through the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. I drank a beer on the Santa Monica pier and stared off into the end of the World.

Ive been to Wrigley and Fenway , to Shea and Yankee Stadium pre 1975...ive been to Coors Field and Dodger Stadium, Camden Yards and the Old Vet in Philly.....I saw the Nats at RFK and the White Sox at the New Commiskey, and although i never saw the Jays, i did see Doug Flutie throw 6 TD's in the Skydome against the Argonauts.

I saw the HABS in the Forum and the Maple Leafs in their beloved Garden..I saw the Whalers before they left Hartford and i hope to see them someday soon in Raleigh.... .I had season tix in the blue Seats for a decade..I saw the  Bruins in  Boston on quite a few occasions...some in the Old Gahden and some in the New one...., the BlackHawks in the newly opened United Center but I never been to Detroit.......but I did see St Francis in the New Dorp bubble that Nicky Fotiu helped build and i am eternally grateful I did.

I saw Navy play at Annapolis and the Black Knights play at West Point from the Bar in the Michie Room...I saw the two teams play each other multiple times in multiple stadiums including the 100th anniversary game at the Vet.....I saw Notre Dame at South Bend and attended the Worlds Largest Cocktail Party in Jacksonville and the Florida-Georgia game. I saw Harvard vs Yale from New Haven and Penn St, USC, Fla State and others at the Kickoff classics at Giants Stadium.

I saw the Reggie Jackson hit 3 homers to win the World Series and the Lombardi trophy awarded in Tampa. I saw Mark Messier Raise the Stanley Cup over his head and lay to rest a 54 year old curse, but first i saw Stephane Matteau make sure he got that opportunity ( at 4;24 of double OT on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend 5/27/94).

Ive been to the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness and multiple Belmont Stakes.....The Wood, Travis and the Florida Derby and I was at the Breeders Cup in my Hometown Track in 2007.

ive seen more concerts than the brain can recall but some highlights were the Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan and the Clash , Neil Young and David Allan Coe, Hot Tuna and CSNY, The Band after Robbie and the Wailers after Bob....Charlie Daniels, Willie Nelson, Marshall Tucker and the Outlaws, but sadly Skynyrd long after Ronnie....Simon & Garfunkel at Shea and Central Park, Jackson Browne , Tom Petty, The Eagles and all the No Nukes participants , and i was at the 30th anniversary concert for Bob Dylan ......but perhaps my finest blessing was the 100 + times i was in an arena to see Jerry Garcia with the Dead or solo and i am grateful i was able to attend a few shows with my wife at MSG less than 2 years before his departure...we saw the Grateful Dead and the JGB and i am sure glad we did.

I packed a lot into 59 years.....and i am sure i have omitted a lot.......just wanted to put some of it down in black and white before early onset dementia sets in....Cheers

And still

 those voices are calling from far away

Wake you up in the middle of the night just to hear them say

"Welcome to the Hotel California (Henley-Felder-Frey)

so 47 years ago this week the Eagles single Hotel California topped the charts......May 1977.....where in God's name does the time go ? I remember hearing that song on the radio everywhere i went as a 12-13 year old lad.......76th street stairs....Shore Rd, Bliss Park, Riis Park,......I wasn't a big Eagles guy at the time......i was indifferent towards the band.....liked some songs, but did not take them too seriously......i grew to appreciate their music years later....but in the spring and summer of 1977 those opening chords were ever present and distinct....and it was a longer song......and nobody dared turn the dial when it was on........it was a different world back then....packs of teenagers and young adults were hanging on most corners and inside every schoolyard.....society was attached at the hip to their radios......and in the warm weather the rolled down windows of a passing car amplified the fabric of a generation.....rare was the individual cassette tape or 8 track.....in Brooklyn it was WNEW or WPLJ......looking back on it, that was unifying in it's own way........today everyone marches to their own drum  or ipod.........i don't have to guess, i know i am old...but can it really be almost 50 years ? 

Last thing I remember, I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

I can't twist the truth

it knows no regulation

Handful of senators don't pass legislation (Barry McGuire) 

just some facts....

Columbia cancelled their Graduation Ceremony.

Brown University and other schools brokered deals with the Mob and agreed to hold votes on Divesting from Israel in the fall.

Protesters across the city and country desecrated WWI & WWII memorials with spray paint, burnt American flags and draped statues of George Washington in Palestinian Flags.

George Washington University asked for the DC Police to intervene, so far the DC Police have ignored this request.

at UNC the faculty have threatened to withhold grades for all students...UNLESS....the students that were suspended for breaking school rules during violent protests are granted amnesty.

and at UCLA...the DA has seized videotape and vowed to leave no stone unturned to bring the guilty parties to justice.......he was talking about the counter protesters that tried to break up the Anti Israel encampment.

When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction

annual derby rant 2024

 The rant was almost cancelled this year when Old Alvarez was unlawfully detained , but he is back to drink JUST A TOUCH of the Jack Daniels to HONOR MARIE .....i offered him a shot of DORNOCH that MYSTIK DAN brought back from the SIERRA LEONE, but he prefers the DOMESTIC PRODUCT. Of course the TRACK PHANTOM from WEST SARATOGA objected ....he considers himself a real SOCIETY MAN because he's friends with GRAND MO THE FIRST..he promised everyone an EPIC RIDE with his new CATALYTIC converter, but he wasn't even CATCHING FREEDOM with that old car...truth be told it was ENDLESSLY staling....it was JUST STEEL....not a STRONGHOLD .........alvarez was fighting with the computer when  he demanded to know what was T O PASSWORD......I admire his FIERCENESS.....his RESILIENCE and his spirit that stays FOREVER YOUNG.........and that's the play today 

17-19-11 , but alas i have been wrong in the past.

where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio ?

 Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Woo, woo, woo ( Paul Simon)

i believe today is day 10 since the POTUS was seen on camera, yesterday he was supposedly inside a Delaware school with Steven Spielberg, and they were filming a big glitzy campaign commercial......no actual video evidence to support this......i hope they took some time outs to pray for the hostages...........and by that i mean the janitors at Columbia not the jews in ghaza ( we know they are dead).

as the nation is further divided, as college campuses are illegally occupied by foreign agitators and as enrolled students are violating the law and threatening the safety and right to exist of their fellow jewish students....the President and his giggling sidekick fool are nowhere to be seen or heard.......KJP and doctor jill are running the country and the main stream media seems fine with that.

Christopher Wray now swears the FBI does not monitor protests.......maybe he forgot how regular citizens had their ATM records seized by the FBI and they were interrogated as to why they were within 100 miles of the nations capital on January 6th ? 

What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away
Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey 

doesn't have a point of view

Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing

Nowhere man, the world is at your command (Lennon/Mcartney)

The Colleges and Universities are in a state of turmoil ....Riots, illegal encampments, occupying school buildings by force, detaining janitors....all in the name of an Anti-Semitic movement that is bought and paid for by George Soros and the CCP.

Where is Joe Biden ? 

This is an election year after all....surely  the Democratic nominee has a thought or concern or warning or even some reassurance he wants to offer to the American People  .........no ?   Cricketts ?  ( and i am not talking about the little puppy that the Devil Woman Kristy Noem shot to death)....the POTUS released a statement through a white house spokesperson......ho hum.....support for Israel is iron clad.......no place for antisemitism ....yawn.....same ol silly warning to Iran....DON'T.....blah blah....

and what about the Herbrew Nero ? Where in the name of Abraham has Chucky Schumer been ?  it's often said in Washington DC that the most dangerous place to be is the space between Chuck Schumer and Microphone...but not lately.....the little sniveling rat with his glasses hanging off his pointy nose has not had a Sunday Press Conference or a soap box dissertation in weeks....he hasn't rushed to the Columbia Campus like Speaker Johnson or visited NYJew or any of the other protest sights........but we shouldn't be surprised......remember barry hussein and his lead from behind policy...the great spoonjiah never met a crisis he couldn't ignore until it was resolved before taking a side .

say what you will about the African't Americans....but if these colleges were being occupied by the KKK and the black students were being harassed and told they are not welcome........well, Sharpton, Jessie and all the clowns from the Ringling bros would spring into action in defense of their own........amazing how Jewish leadership is content to hide its' head in the sand .....will be interesting to see come November if they go behind the curtain and pull the lever for the same people that left them out on a limb.

He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Making all his nowhere plans for nobody