Mingle with the good people we meet

 Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost

Along the way
In this great future, you can't forget your past
So dry your tears, I seh

Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right    (Vincent Ford ) sung by Robert Marley)

ive seen the bright lights of memphis

 and the Commodore Hotel

And underneath a street lamp, I met a Southern Belle

Well, she took me to the river where she casts her spell

And in that southern moonlight, she sang the song so well

not exactly a Louisville classic , but you get the point......and so begins Derby week....Essential Quality and Hot Rod Charlie are the top two betting favorites....and i hope it stays that way because i am tossing them both OUT.....i am going with a NY connection of Todd Pletcher and Irad Ortiz Jr. onboard KNOWN AGENDA.........bet early and often .....keep an eye on another Pletcher Horse BOURBONIC , he won the Wood at 38-1.....but i think that was either an anomaly or his peak......and MIDNIGHT BOURBON is a Tiznow descendent and worthy of triples & superfecta consideration........and of course i would be remis if i didn't put a few sheckles on Brooklyn Strong ........but my true runner up is Medina Spirit....a Bob Baffert trained colt out of the sunshine state....so that will be my primary exacta.

this could all be moot come 11:00 a.m. Tuesday when the post position draw occurs , and so i could be reduced to betting birthdays, anniversary's and Lucky numbers.....but heck , what else am i supposed to blog about on a rainy sunday morning.

Walk me out in the morning dew my honey

Walk me out in the morning dew today

I'll walk you out in the morning dew my honey

I guess it doesn't really matter anyway

I guess it doesn't matter anyway

I guess it doesn't matter anyway

I guess it doesn't matter anyway

see here how everything

 lead up to this day ,

and it's just like any other day that's ever been. ( Hunter/Garcia)

watchin the mookies jumpin and up and down and celebrating like they Hit the number after the police officer in Minnesota was convicted , couldn't help but remind me of the day that OJ was acquitted of slashing the throats of 2 white people.....celebrity privilige.

I was in the Killarney Rose for the midday verdict.......you would have thought it was new years eve the way certain aspects of the population were celebrating an escape from justice. As i walked back to the office at 44 wall, there was a shinebox doing a little jigg in the middle of the street......tickled pink that good ol OJ was scott free of murder.....he was high fiving stupid white people who also were celebrating for whatever reason....and i couldn't resist........i told him " i hate to break it to you pal, but when you wake up tomorrow look in the mirror.....you'll still be black" ........his whole spirit was crushed.....and i laughed.......i probably should have kept walkin and let this homeless creature enjoy 5 minutes of joy.....but right is right...and i had to remind him that his miserable little life was not going to change because of the OJ verdict.........and in present day ?  as the verdict was being announced a sweet 16 yr old honor student in columbus was shot to death by a police officer in a driveway.....moments before she could stab her nemesis to death.........and around and around we go.

Sun goin up
and then the
sun it goin down

crashers getting bombed, bombed, bombed

 who's to blame ?

who's to blame when situations degenerate ?

disgusting things you'd never anticipate, who's to blame ?

this party's gone out of bounds ( B-52's)

well this one is easy....as the border is overwhelmed with migrants and jen psaki insists that the biden administration is telling migrants not to come....gov Murphy and Evil Eyes Cuomo have proposed to  giving aid ( 40 million NJ , and over 1 billion NY) to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS that may have lost their undocumented jobs during the pandemic............now if your living in shithole mexico, guatamala or any other central american hotspot wouldn't you take a chance of getting to the border to collect ? ....of course you would......this is just another form of wealth redistribution.....every thing the left does is about wealth redistribution......i would like to see murphy give away his ill gotten gains....his goldman sachs forture...every penny....before he starts to give away my crumbs.......because that too is the left.....they have some internal horrible guilt about their parents or grandparents working hard to provide them with a GOOD life.....a home...and education.....stability......a foundation to live by.....moral ethic......take your pick......and they must feel that they can never live up to their predecessors......and so rather than excepting their own failures, they attempt to tear everyone else down into their gutter.......they do it with the blacks on a regular basis.........Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Condeleza Rice, Candace Owens.......all bad...uncle Tom Turncoats........Eric Garner, Sleepy Floyd , DMX and the rest ?  national hero's.

so in the latest minnesota shooting a highly decorated, senior  female cop mistook her gun for her taser.

i wonder if her promotions were warranted or if she was the benefit of a DIVERSITY push ? obviously to even ask that question i must be a misogynist pig......

Crashers gettin' bombed
Who's to blame?
Can you pull it back in line?
Can you salvage it in time?

Whooooooa!

 

in a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes

 I bargained for salvation an’ they gave me a lethal dose

I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”  ( Dylan)

the Easter season in general, and Good Friday in particular; always make think of Bob Dylans' masterpiece "Shelter from the Storm"...and this year is no different. Perhaps this year and this point in history is the time we need shelter the most. What is happening on these shores of the great America should make everyone who loves her ...shudder with fear.

the Hypocrisy of Woke Corporate America is going to destroy this "Nation" once and for all......I truly blog for the future, for the people who may stumble upon this blog in 100 years( if the govt doesnt erase it) they may read and understand that not EVERYONE was fooled.....and Not everyone was an ostrich with their heads in the sand.....hiding from the Muslims and the Scary orange Man who said bad words. Some of us lived, saw it crumble and were helpless to prevent it....we were shouted down and forced into the shadows by the scholars and the PC police.  

so.....if i want to fly somewhere in this country on a Delta airlines plane, I have to present a Photo ID.

so..if i want to buy a bottle of Coca-Cola's Topo Chico brand Hard seltzer , i need to present a photo ID

 so...if i order baseball tickets online and wish to pick them up at the box office, i need a photo ID.

so..if you want to request an absentee ballot to vote in Georgia, you need to present a photo ID.

which of the 4 statements above a RACIST in Nature......it sb all or none , since they are pretty much the same, but in America today the first 3 are OK.....but the corporations behind the first 3 are labeling the 4th scenario as RACIST.

for clarification the Georgia law makes no mention of race and is applied equally to all Georgia residents, but Delta, Coke,  MLB and President Biden are going to great lengths to convince America that this voting Law is racist and restricts the ability of African Americans to vote.

What exactly are they really saying about African Americans with this dog whistle statement ?

That the Blacks are too dumb, lazy or unmotivated to bother to get a photo id ?

that the blacks after centuries in this country still can't assimilate to the very basic protocol of having a drivers license or passport of general state issued photo identification ?

How do the travel on Delta or any other airline ?

how  do the buy alcohol ?

how do they pickup tickets at a box office ?

this stems from the liberal sanctuary cities. The leftist scum in this country pick and choose which laws they care to follow and create sanctuaries to shield themselves and the hopeless/helpless black population from the rules they don't like...........let's legalize marijuana because marijuana laws ...although they apply to everyone equally; are somehow tougher on the hopeless blacks........but let's also wipe clean their police records for everyone that has a marijuana offense ......why ?  because we want blacks to own marijuana licenses to sell weed and we also want to deny a license to anyone with a criminal record......presto.....the blacks criminal record with regards to marijuana have gone up in smoke.

to appreciate hypocrisy it's a fun exercise to reverse the roles in a situation ask yourself how the Left would react.

so imagine if Georgia decided to do away with photo id's to purchase alcohol or fly or pickup tickets at a box office because Blacks can't expected to have a photo id .......what pray tell do you think the reaction would be.

Well, I’m livin’ in a foreign country but I’m bound to cross the line
Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”

a pistol shot

 at 5 O'clock,

the bells of heaven ring.

tell me what you done it for

no,,i won't...tell you a thing ( Hunter/Garcia)

follow the bouncing ball ladies and gentlemen....everyone wins a prize at this carnival.

so....in order to distract from the fact that "vast majority" of attacks on Asian Americans are committed by our very own oppressed African American cousins, the Mayor and Chuck Schumer paraded out as many black woman as they could to denounce Asian attacks in Chinatown......that's called hiding in plain sight.....if only they hadn't blocked Trump from social media they could tie all these attack's back to one of his recent tweets.

and.....obviously bracing for the inevitable spike in Covid cases as a result of the thousands of illegals streaming across the border and being housed in every hotel, gymnasium and cage they can find...the govt went on the emotional offensive and old Joe begged states to reconsider the Mask mandate....never mind that 48 hours prior he patted himself on the back for administering Trumps vaccine at a record pace.....and CDC director Rochelle Walensky went so far as to talk about "IMPENDING DOOM"......they are so ready to explain the migrant spike that they are showing their cards too early.

and Kamala ? that didn't take long.......as the NY Post noted.....6 days after old Joe put her in charge of the Border....she said NO THANKS........i'm only working on Root causes of immigration....not border security......stupid white man thought he was the president.

and congestion pricing is coming soon to NYC.....this will be the final nail in the coffin and ensure that the white males from the other 4 Boroughs stay at home and leave the city to the Shines to Beat the asains and frighten the occasional tourist.

"Take up your china doll
it's only fractured -
and just a little nervous
from the fall"

what kind of house is this ?

 Where I have come to roam?”

“It’s not a house,” said Judas Priest
“It’s not a house . . . it’s a home”
(Bob Dylan)

you know when i rambled around europe with the US Navy in the late 80's i always walked the streets of these ancients cities and tried to transport my brain back in time to the days of wine and roses.....in Jerusalem i thought of Jesus and Pilot and the Crucifixion and looked at ancient buildings and wondered who had built them and who may have lived in them......in Palermo i thought of General Patton.....and the allies that passed through..in Nairobi i thought of Hemmingway and wondered if i was drinking in a hotel bar that he may have frequented......France, Turkey, Spain , Greece.....same story......buildings that seemed to be hundreds or even thousands of years old and i felt it was my duty to ponder the existence of people i had never met....i read every plaque on every monument i passed.....it mattered once.....someone cared enough to erect it or build it.....i could at least stop and think about it.

Bayridge has been turning over new leaves since....well probably since it's existence.....Brooklyn itself seems to be a pass through stop on the evolution road.....stop, drop and roll..........when my parents sold the only home i had ever known in 1989 i avoided walking down that block for the next 5 years or so......as if i was a tresspasser.......now when time permits on sweater nite weekend i allow myself one quick stroll down memory lane past 554.....but it's all too weird.....i do it to spark a memory of a neighbor or an event that may be buried in subconscious.

the 200 series on 73rd street between Ridge Blvd and 3rd Avenue is one of those blocks that is bursting at the seems with memories, families and wild Characters of the Night.......too many to list or recall....but for the short time i lived on 73rd between colonial and narrows , that block was my part of navigation system home , whether i was coming from the subway or the bars , i would walk down that block..and memories would come flowing back.....i'd peer at the windows of homes i used to frequent and smile.....even as the neighborhood changed and people moved away  there was always a familiar face at the house numbered 221........sadly this week that house has changed hands.....for the first time since approx 1963 there is No Longer a Woods in residence...and that is sad....i wonder in the future on some quiet sunday morning....when the new owners are drinking coffee in the dining room and reading the paper.....will they hear the familiar THUD of someone dribbling a basketball in the bedroom above....

"time rolls on, and the band played on.....somebody's favorite tune" ( Jorma)

 

struggle for a dollar...scuffle for a dime

 Step out from the past and try to hold the line

So how come history takes such a long, long time

When you're waiting for a miracle   ( Bruce Cockburn)

sorry for the delay but we had some family emergencies this week......alas all is well....where was i ?

ah yes.....Friday February 22nd 1980.

first off I went skiing upstate at a Dude Ranch with the Mc Evoys.....me, Whitey, Freddie Roc and Dermot....we skiid and drank in the hotel for 3 days....complete insanity....terrorized the slopes by day ...and took a taxi into town, bought beer at the age of 14 and went back to the hotel to terrorize some more....on Friday we took a Bus from the Catskills to the Port Authority and we arrived at the crossroads of the universe around 6:00 - 6:30 pm.......keep in mind this was 1980.....no cell phones, no internet and the USA-Russia game was not being televised......as we arrived in the Port the place was buzzing....out on 8th avenue people were standing around and chatting about the GAME.......someone told us that the Americans were beating the Russians late in the 3rd period.......unreal....we couldn't believe it......we crossed 8th avenue and walked into a Bar.....my memory isn't perfect....it was either A Blarney Stone /Blarney Rock or Mcahons.....one of those chain Irish Bars.....real bucket of blood....but on this Friday afternoon it was jumping.....we were still a few weeks away from our 15th Birthdays but the drinking age was only 18 .....and we looked older.....so we combined all of our singles into a pile and ordered 5 mugs of Bud.......the game was not on TV or Radio.......but the stereo behind the Bar was tuned to 1010 WINS and every 15 minutes was a sports update.......John Montone or someone similar was outside the arena at Lake Placid and filing updates that were being passed out to him.......the bar went silent when he announced " There are less than 3 minutes to go and the Americans are clinging to a 1 goal lead , but the Russians are swarming the Americans trying to tie the game".....the Bar Roared.....everyone high fiving and raising their beers triumphantly........then the bar got silent again......we stood staring at the ceiling or floors  listening to the radio and some crazy report about potential subway strike or an expansion project at the Javits center..we were all excited , but we would not have been shocked if the next report said the Russians scored twice in the closing minute...they were that good.......and then.....we interrupt this report to go live to Lake Placid where 1010 WINS John Montone is standing by.

"Well it's all over at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid......the underdog Americans have shocked the world and defeated the Soviet Union"...........BEDLAM.......pure fucking BEDLAM......everyone was jumping up and down and taking to the streets with their Beer Mugs.....Cars on 8th ave honked their horns......eruptions and Roars went up from the Port Authority as word Spread.....42nd street was electric........chants of USA, USA, USA broke out all over the city............looking back on that moment i laugh at the oddity of it......of all the places in the world for a group of 14 year olds to be.....but that was NY in the 70's/80's........we walked to Broadway and caught the RR train back to Bayridge....i walked home and sat down just in time for ABC to televise the game on tape delay......a moment that changed my life forever......sadly we will never know a moment like that again.....nobody cared that it was Jimmy Carter in the White House, everyone was truly United to Beat Russia....and we did.......it was the first Real Sign that the United States of America was roaring back to Life........5 years later i would be enlisting in the Navy and hoping to go to war with those Russian Bastards on the High Seas....America owes a debt of gratitude to Herb Brooks and all those wonderful lads....

if only you believed in miracles...

 so would I (Marty Balin)

In the aftermath of the Mark Pavelich passing i turned to You Tube. I re-watched a 1 hour documentary about that 1980 team and memories galore came flooding back. 

in the summer/fall of 1979 i closely followed the US Olympic hockey team as best i could.....which if you too were old enough to remember 1979 meant i would check the NY Post for the overnight scores and hope they had a blip about international or exhibition scores. only about 10 Ranger road games a year were carried on channel 9....no home games of course unless you went to Manhattan for cable......there was no E.S.P.N...heck the 1975 Stanley cup finals appeared on PBS..the flyers-sabres classic series was briefly interrupted by Monty Python commercials and some liberal flames begging for donations..........no articles about the team to speak of......nobody covered college hockey so i had never heard of any of the players or even knew who the coach was.......but every week or so a score would appear in the paper....just the final score....and i being a naïve 14 year old started to believe that we had a pretty good hockey team......i remember telling my oldest brother Jay that we were going to win a medal at Lake Placid....he laughed........a few months before the actual Olympics they held a pre-olympic tournament at Lake Placid.....according to the papers.....still no real coverage......and we beat the Russians....Holy Cow....I was Right.......i couldn't wait to tell my brother.......but he scoffed and laughed some more.......he told me that the Russians were so good that they had a B Team and a C team......he told me that Tretiak and the others would never play in a silly pre-olympic tournament....he reminded me that when the Russians mopped up the NHL the prior year that they sent a second team in addition to the National Team......(Moscow Dynamo if i recall).........deep down i knew he was right , but i held out hope.......one night during a Ranger road game in November they ran an ad for tickets to see the USA mens team play the Russians in mid December at the Garden......i begged my father to get tickets from work..........i think...and i could be wrong.....but i think he could have gotten them but nobody was wiling go to the game with me on a weeknight in December....and there was never a possibility that i was getting the Pfizer Red Seats to go to the game with Steve Mac......even at 14 i was knee deep in trouble 80% of the time ...and Mac was Mac.........the game wasn't televised and i couldn't find a radio feed.......i distinctly remember calling sports phone for an update and hearing Pat Hallas state that the russians were putting on a clinic at MSG.......i think it was 3-0 before people settled into their seats.....and 10-3 final........in the documentary i watched over the weekend Al Michaels referenced that game and said it wasn't as close as the 10-3 score indicated.........well.......i grudgingly accepted the fact that my brother was right.

tomorrow i will share the fascinating tale of where in the world i was on February 22nd 1980....it's a doozy.....and one of the top moments in my life where I  thank God that the stars alligned just the way they did.

In the bleak midwinter

 In the bleak mid-winter

Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

I first heard the name Mark Pavelich like the rest of our Country in February 1980. He was the 5ft 7 spark plug for the United States 🇺🇸 hockey team at Lake Placid. On February 22nd on a Friday afternoon, WE beat the Russians......Still the Greatest Hockey game....not just my lifetime but the Nations....

I later was lucky enough to be in the blue seats in February of 1983 when Mark Pavelich became the first (and still only)American Born player to score 5 goals in a game....... with a flair for the dramatic it also happened to be CAP night.... and everyone at the game received a Red baseball cap compliments of Winston cigarettes.......10 or 15 thousand it seemed were tossed on the ice with the hat trick...... and some more with #4 ..... and still more with the 5th goal.

His tenure with the Rangers ended abruptly when he quit the team in the prime of his career because he was feuding with then coach Ted Sator.

He often refused to attend the Olympic team reunions and a few years ago was arrested for beating his neighbor with a tire iron.....it was later disclosed that he was suffering from mental illness and living like a hermit in the woods.

Mark Pavelich haves me two of my greatest thrills as a hockey fan.... and I always loved him for that.

Yesterday, in the bleak mid winter; he died.

Rest In Peace Mark

Look out any window

 any morning, any evening, any day

Maybe the sun is shining
birds are winging or
rain is falling from a heavy sky -
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through?

it's all a dream we dreamed....one afternoon.....long ago. ( Hunter/Lesh)

today we leave the real world alone.

no politics or political scandals for me.

No Fox business & Maria Bartiromo

No Sports talk or Twitter

No Instagram , Yahoo or ESPN

i might not even Blog today....oh....wait.....never mind.

nope.....today i spend the morning on the treadmill......take my Boy Matteau Matteau for a short walk ( its cold).......read a little Kerouac ...listen to some good Ol Grateful Dead, and then repair to the bar Room in Redbank for Tall Glasses of Beer....i'll stare blankly at the TV showing Grapefruit League baseball from the sun drenched fields of Florida and i will enjoy a delicious steak with Val and celebrate my  56th successful trip around the Sun.

Slainte ~

t's just a box of rain

I don't know who put it there

Believe it if you need it

or leave it if you dare

But it's just a box of rain

or a ribbon for your hair

Such a long long time to be gone

and a short time to be there

no mans land

 there ain't no asylum here,

King Solomon he never lived round here ,

Go Straight to hell Boys ( the Clash)

i don't often push for Boycotts , and i try to never convince someone else as to what they should do with their hard earned pay.....but i will share some facts with my readers and give you something to think about the next time you are shopping .

Coca- Cola issued their employees a workplace diversity instructional document that gave them some free advice , guidance........"BE LESS WHITE".......not fake news, and Cocal Cola doesn't deny it , they did panic and try to blame the author and claim that the slides were also in Linkedin......but no outrage or apology or declaration to remove .

One of the slide announced the White children in the Western Hemisphere by the age of 3 or 4 believe that they are better than everyone else......YES....it's true........it's called PARENTING.....it's called ENCOURAGING.....it's called SUPPORT......white families are more guilty of this than the absent father - single momma communitties......but the White Parents are not telling their Kids to go out and slaughter whats left of the Indians......or attack blacks or mug Asians on the subway......they are instilling in their children the highest standards.....they are reinforcing to their children that they are Bright, have access to the Best Education on the Planet and that they can achieve anything if they set their mind to it........and in typical self loathsome liberal fashion, the left; instead of trying to mimmick the successful, instead try to tear them down so that everyone is equal in the gutter......it is sad and pathetic.

as a result i will no longer buy Cocal Cola products.....( minute made, sprite, schwepps, dasani and the list goes on and on) I no my little boycott won't change the world.....but i know i will sleep a little better.

"let me tell ya bout your blood Bamboo kid

it ain't coca cola, it's rice"

must be getting early

 clocks are running late.

paint by numbers morning sky, looks so phony (Hunter/Garcia)

we have come full circle....one year ago we stood in the Lief on the precipice of a global pandemic that few could have imagined. We raised tall glass of beer and honored our past while toasting our future. Time dragged on and the band played on......over 50 skaters paid homage that day....not to Hockey but to the 11209 community........and so this year it's all so very different, but gather we shall.

a spot at the Mahogany may be hard to come by but the high Tops will take their place in the folklore. Imbiberie's / Musketeers/ PC's will play host yet again on Saturday afternoon. our numbers reduced to a mere shadow of the behemoths of prior years but the spirit will be there stronger than ever. Sweater Nite 23 will take its' rightful place in history and i believe will be fondly remembered in the years that are to come....lets' hope so anyway.

Oh well a touch of grey

Kind of suits you anyway

That was all I had to say

It's alright

I will get by

I will get by

I will get by

I will survive

We will get by

We will get by

We will get by

We will survive

they walked along by the old canal

 a little confused, i remember well ( dylan)

ah joe.....poor old dementia joe......he said last night on town Hall that when he took over office there was NO Vaccine.......i have to assume that he forgot that HE received the Vaccine while Donald Trump was President.....it can't be BOTH Joe.....it just can't be BOTH,

he also said he is favor of forgiving 10K in Federal student loan debt ........i am very curious to hear the argument as to why.

is tuition to high ?  what are we doing about it ?

are the college teachers being asked to take a paycut to help lower tuition for minorities and women ?

were the loans unfair ? what are we doing about it ?

Did the Federal Govt lend money to kids who should not have been accepted into College ? what are we doing about it ?

is this a one time deal for current students ? or anyone and everyone that has an outstanding loan ? ( including doctors, lawyers and scientists ) 

what about high school seniors ? can they expect this forgivness next year ? is this an annual policy for eternity ?

or is this just more grandstanding wealth redistribution......take money from the taxpayers and give it to the blacks, women and illegal aliens ......because .....as Joe Biden said....."people of color may have a hard time figuring out how to get on the internet "

imagine if Trump said that. 

words.....words

 between the lines of age ( Neil Young)

thats all you hear these days ....empty words.....the say anything generation has won......don't bother me with the facts...they change directions like weather vanes....that evil bastard cuomo gave a press conference and refuted his former aide who came clean and admitted a coverup in the nursing home deaths.....he said a lot of words....but never uttered two simple ones....."i'm sorry".....no , he dug his heels in further and insisted that the death totals were delayed because of a DOJ investigation....and that he TOLD the NY State assembly that months ago.....thankfully members from both parties immediately stepped forward and said NO HE DID NOT.........two weeks ago he had a hillary moment and flatly said of the 8,000 person discrepancy "THEY DIED" what do you want from me........reminds us all of "What difference does it make" ? .....oh but the sun will rise eventually , and cuomo and his aides will figure a new direction to go.....and deny everything and anything that has happened in the past 12 months......and the petrified will accept his explanation because the alternatives are too scary for the faint of heart......those who would rather bury their heads in the sand than face the ugly truth and harsh WORDS of Donald Trump will continue to skip along the path of destruction , right off the cliff into the abyss......all because of words.

i look out the window , and out on the road

their bringing me presents, and saying hello

The sun ain’t yellow it’s chicken

 That was of course a Bob Dylan line.....,,

The Biden administration quietly withdrew a proposed rule requiring disclosure of relationships with Confucius Institutes. The Confucius Institutes are entities in U.S. colleges and schools which are funded and staffed by China’s Ministry of Education. The  China task force tracks threats posed by Chinese Communist Party influence in America’s education system.  

Business as usual...... the Biden mafia family climbing back into bed with the Chinese 

 in the dead of winter.....with bars in NYC closed and the northeast blanketed with snow and frigid temps....in the middle of a pandemic , with states still in lockdown......you would think the ratings for the superbowl would be the highest in history......i mean....what else was there to do on a sunday evening ? can't go to the movies, can't go to dinner....and yet the ratings were the worst in 14 years......maybe , just maybe ; somewhere in the nfl coroprate offices, someone is realizing that actions have consequences....and when you alienate have the country your popularity is going to take a hit.

small quiet side note....Mark Cuban yesterday admitted that the Dallas mavericks made the decision to forego playing the national anthem before games this year........my question....if he feels this is the right move and he's not worried about backlash, why didn't he have a press release on opening night ? why wait 2 months into a season to admit it after relentless questioning by local press ?

there's nothing in the streets

Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight (Townshend)

oh sweet Jesus their hypocrisy know NO limits.....how many times in the past few years have i begun a post with these same comments....it's an ongoing disgusting theme,

AMAZON is facing a worker revolt in Bessimer Alabama......it seems the local yocals have the audacity to talk about Unionizing.....now one would think that Jeff Bezos , the capitalist billionaire and head of the liberals; would be delighted to hear of such progress for the working class........but NO.....seems they are fighting it tooth and nail....but here's the kicker.......remember that silly Presidential election ? the one where Liberal governers rewrote election laws and allowed everyone to vote by mail ( and even mailed people ballots whether they asked for them or not )?  and Beezos and the left thought it the prudent thing to do ?  well Amazon filed a Lawsuit in Alabama insisting that the Union could not accept mail in ballots and every Amazon employee HAD to vote in person ....why is that i wonder ? 

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie

jorma

 if you have not been following the Jorma Quarantine concerts every saturday night since last April....you should try to check them out on Youtube......i have a Bose soundbar on my barroom TV and i have been catching up on the show this past month......try to ignore his annoying wife Vanessa and just enjoy his stories and incredible acoustic music......it's hard to believe he is 80 years old......he still remembers dates, time, places, addresses , and minutia detail from some incredible stories from 50-60 years ago......his weekly guest John Hurlbutt usually gets him to play 2 cover tunes .....lots of Dylan, the Band , Airplane and great stuff from the 60's........these concerts feel like his parting gift to the universe....he gets a little choked up at times talking about all the great musicians and friends that have passed on.......really great stuff tho.

Too soon ?

 I love BROOKLYN STRONG in the Kentucky Derby.......remember the name, he’s going to be great for a long, long time