Went to the fortune teller

 Had my fortune read

I didn't know what to tell her
I had a dizzy feeling in my head (Rolling Stones)

how this for a prediction market ?

Trump to Xi Xi Ping Pong :  " Stop Buying Iranian Oil.....buy from America and i'll give you a discount"

Ping Pong to the Donn :   "ok.....but we're taking Taiwan next month, stay out of it "

Rubio to Everyone :  "Deal, but then we're taking Cuba at the same time"

Fang Fang :   DEAL

Brendan Murphy:  Did someone say Deal ? ? ? 

and that friends will be the End of Iran and send the DOW to 60 or even 75K.......peace on earth, goodwill towards man, who cares if it only lasts a few years.....get in the deep end with the Blue chips and get out before they blow.

Dum Spiro Spero........while i breathe, I hope

2+3=BEEER

Now I'm a happy fellow
Well, I am married to the fortune teller
Well happy as me can be
Now I get my fortune told for free

while the firelights aglow

Strange shadows from the flames will grow
Till things we've never seen

Will seem familiar ( Hunter-Garcia)

shortly before his passing, Bobby Ace Weir did an interview and was asked about the legacy of the Grateful Dead music......and he seemed to be greasing the treads when he spoke of the where the locomotive was headed after "HE" passed........he was obviously comfortable and even encouraged at the thought of John Mayer driving the ship........he marveled at how the GD music was indeed built to last for at least 300 years.......not hubris......just honest observations....unlike their peers, the GD felt that after the sounds left their instruments they belonged to the universe.......and if you came to one of their shows you were welcome to "tape" it and bring the music home with you......provided you were willing to share it with others........Bob talked about how the original band members always collaborated with their fellow bands and played every benefit or festival that they were invited to..and after the passing of Jerry Garcia, Bob said he felt the responsibility to play with the next generation and find someone to shepherd the music after he was gone...

anyone raised in the 20th century can attest to how quickly music evolves and changes.......parents and their children rarely have similar tastes.........kids tend to reject their parents music as too old or old fashioned to be enjoyed or taken seriously...it's normal.

Last Sunday i was at the Grand Strand Brewery......the Owners/Brewmasters are also amateur musicians ....they have formed a GD cover band.....and on the first Sunday of each month they perform a free show on the plaza-public park outside the Brewery......as i was enjoying a Beach Haze Wheat Beer, half a block from the mighty Atlantic, a warm May breeze waffling across the plaza and the sounds of Samson & Delilah in the air.........i did a 360 and took it all in........and i took particular notice of those enjoying the music........seriously a range of toddlers to Senior Citizens......it's fun music.....incredibly American .....easy to sway to the beat,  or allow it to warm your soul........and i think and pray that Bobby is right.........We will survive, We will get by.

 

Inspiration, move me brightly
Light the song with sense and color
Hold away despair
More than this I will not ask

Faced with mysteries dark and vast
Statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall
Some climb to get to Terrapin

derby Rant 2026

 i am SO HAPPY to be back here talking about the Derby.....a few years back i was a little INTREPIDO about posting such a silly ALBUS of jibberish, as some of my critics called it.... buy one little sip of CORONA DE ORO and i am back like a PAVLOVIAN dog  with a ROBUSTA prognostication....it's funny how these run on analysis seem to revolve around Booze....it's no WONDER DEAN sticks to his DANON BOURBON , a very POTENTE and somewhat INCREDIBOLT cocktail for certain......but gals like the PUMA  are all about their RIGHT TO PARTY and consider it a LITMUS TEST to drink at SIX SPEED and somehow stay ahead of the EMERGING MARKET, so she prefers a shot of GOLDEN TEMPO and a vintage bottle from the GREAT WHITE winery. OCELLI the troublemaker interrupted the party and shouted, give us your picks without FURTHER ADO in the direction of the honorable CHIEF WALLABE....but know one paid heed , all could see he lacked authority to give such orders, he was just a RENEGADE barking a false COMMANDMENT.

and that's how i see it......6-1-12    Commandment then Renegade followed by Chief Wallabee.........alas, i have been very , very wrong the past 4 or 5 years.....

for those keeping score at home, the Derby Rant is celebrating it's 16th iteration ........i can't wait till the martians read this in 250 years and try to figure it out........

2+3= BEEER

They say everything can be replaced

 Yet every distance is not near

So I remember every face
Of every man who put me here (Dylan)

3 assassination attempts on the President of the United States since the summer of 2024, and still the demonrats and the MSM use their dog whistles to activate the anger of their base base...to play on the fears and nightmares of the Trump deranged....hoping a sleeper cell will awake and do their dirty work.....hoping the unstable will cave to the pressure.......comparing notes each day and using catch phrases and code words....(last week it was authoritarian.......sometimes it's hitler......Fascist is another fave)

But the internet is forever.....and some of us will never forget.......so today they remind everyone that violence is not the answer ...wink wink.....and steer the talking points towards gun control or climate change....but they hope , pray and rely on someone , somewhere taking up arms...........so they talk about standing up to Trump, putting a target on his back, placing him is the crosshairs....they talk of the needs for foot soldiers willing to take the fight to the streets......and a complacent media lowers it's collective head and concedes that what must be done, must be done.

And this wasn't a a run of the mill mental patient......a homeless schizophrenic or a deranged person being controlled by the voice of his dog......this was an overeducated teacher of the year.....by all means a rational person persuaded by the "NEWS" he chose to follow/believe.......this was someone that took the time to type out a manifesto and clearly outline his motive and his intentions.........it won't be easy to play the dismissive game and just chalk this one up to more money for mental health initiatives.

God help them all if they ever succeed.

The bigger concern at the moment though is how lax security was at the Hilton and the question of why was this chosen as the host venue. We live in a time of convenience.....where you can check into a hotel via your phone and never need to stop at the front desk.......you can park your SUV in a sub garage and take the elevator up to your room with multiple bags stuffed with whatever.....guns and ammo....or perhaps a homemade bomb.......imagine if the shooter instead requested a room on a lower floor and then planted a significant bomb in that room........the entire Presidential cabinet was in the ballroom.....imagine the damage and chaos if a bomb created a partial or total collapse of the hotel.

Lastly......we are at war.........we are aware of Iranian Nationals that are living amongst us and referred to as sleeper cells.....imagine if this was carried out by a group of professional military assassins, instead of a disgruntled CNN groupie ? 

They say every man needs protection
They say every man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

anybody here

 see my old friend John,

can you tell me where he's gone ( Dion)

simple song by the master Dion, but it haunts anyone and everyone that is missing  a friend.

how many laughs, how many stories, how many phone calls, how many BBQ's or trips to the track or rounds of golf or visits to the liev were taken from us way, way too soon.........Slainte Buddy, God Speed.

2+3= an ice cold beer in a styrofoam cup

He freed a lot of people
But it seems the good, they die young
I just looked around and he's gone

so let's leave it alone

 'Cause we can't see eye to eye

There ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy
There's only you and me and we just disagree ( Dave Mason)

Rest in Peace to Dave Mason....

can't remember if this recurring character post is called Post cards from the Bean Post Window or Snippets from the Bean Post window....but you get the idea.....at least i hope you do.....and if you are more confused now then 30 seconds ago....just wait.

some observations from the past few weeks news cycle....in no particular order.

Schmucky Chuck Schumer brought a Vote to limit the POTUS war powers funding...a futile effort to stop funding for the Iran excursion without Congressional funding......for a 5th time.......when asked if he thought anything had changed since the first 4 votes and that maybe this time it would pass.....the corrupt senile ol bastard admitted out loud....NO.....i just want to tie the Republicans to this operation epic Failure so they can't try to distance themselves from the war in the midterm elections......so the Senator from the great state of NY is wasting everyone's time basically trashing our military efforts, hoping we somehow FAIL in Iran and running an ad campaign at the taxpayers expense........can anyone say term limits ?  followed by public executions for treason.

Fang Fangs boyfriend had some very serious allegations come to light about sexual harassment and rape....and the ink was barely dry on the story when Turkey Neck Pelosi and Adam Shitt went public demanding ERIC SWALWELL  end his campaign for Governor of California........but no mention of him resigning from Congress........so if you are keeping score at home he is OK to serve congress as an accused rapist , but not to campaign for Gov.....hmmm..........truth is everyone knew for years he was a younger Harvery Weinstein, and everyone knew it was a matter of time before the allegations surfaced......and the unfortunate truth is that the California Gov race was crowded with 5 demonrats splitting the vote.....so they needed someone to drop out , so why not the cringe worthy Swalwell.....but they need him to keep that congressional seat blue.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment should be the biggest story of the new millennium....but it won't be......people from coast to coast who wonder "How did my country become so divided"? have their answer......but nobody is talking about it....

8 months into President Trumps first term ( August 2017) there was a rally in Charlottesville Virginia to Unite the Right and protest the taking down of Confederate Statues ( specifically West Point Graduate Robert E Lee). The protest was met by an unusually large counter protest and violence ensued.....the Unite the right side was provided torches at Night and Nazi Flags during the day.(not something I or anyone i know could support) , the counter protestors were bussed in from near and far with fancy signs painting the right wing conservatives as white supremacist's .....an awfully fast and efficient response to something that had not happened yet........in the ensuing violence, one wacko drove his car through a group of counter protestors and tragically killed Heather Heyer..........this sparked National debate and National division....the left insisted that ALL Trump supporters were KKK White Supremacists and Neo Nazi's.........Trump called Heather Heyer a great woman and offered condolences  to her family.....he said there were bad actors on BOTH sides.....and some Fine People on BOTH sides.....the Media only reported that Trump defended the rally and called the Killer a Fine Person........the 1st of many hoaxes encouraged and supported by the MSM..........in the months after the rally the SPLC  saw their networth jump from 50 million to 820 million...prompted by the likes of Apple's Tim Cook and his 2 million personal contribution.......and people who did not support Trump now had their signature moment to forever hate and try to stop him....after all....he was the equivilent of Hitler...

Here is the kicker.........BOTH sides were funded by the same party......the recent indictment charges that the SPLC was paying the KKK to organize the the Rally on the right, so that they could then prove a need for organizations like them........LOOK....SEE....Racism REALLY IS alive and well and must be stopped.....and we are just the ones to do it.....it is the equivalent of a  Fire Dept  paying arsonists to set fires so that they could in turn argue on their own behalf for more $$$ in the budget to fight fires.............

and the toll this took on the country is still being felt.....but again the MSM is instead questioning the merits of the indictment instead of looking in the mirror and feeling shame for the harm they have done to this great country.

if any spacemen  are reading this in the 22nd century...it is true....although i am sure eventually AI will deny any of this ever happened....they already deny that 2+3=BEEER.

I'm going back to a place that's far away
How bout you, have you got a place to stay?
Why should I care when I'm just trying to get along?
We were friends, but now it's the end of our love song

So let's leave it alone

it's time for Hockey Playoff Prognostication

 i know everyone was probably holding their collective breaths.........so here we go with the first rd predictions:

right off the bat we have a shocker.......Ottawa over my hometown Canes

Flyers over the Penguini's and clam sauce

Young Sabres over aging Bruins

Le Habitants over the Lightning 

out west

Colorado over LA

Minnesota over Dallas 

Utah shocks Vegas

The Ducks drill the Oilers

stay tuned for rd 2