headin' for the trains,
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans.
Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained,
Took us all the way to New Orleans. ( Kris Kristofferson)
Rest in peace to Kris Kristofferson........a Rhodes Scholar and US Army Helicopter pilot before heading to Nashville and writing some of Americas finest ballads ....your songs and spirit will ive forever in the soul of America
Freedoms just another word for, nothin left to loose.
is too much sorrow,
it's impossible to make it today. ( N. Young)
sure feels that way sometimes........everything is going up, up, up............property taxes, home insurance, transportation, you name it ...UP......and still the simple minds buy the simple lines.......an opportunity economy.....well unemployment is historically low....so opportunity is there.....the problem we have a govt that spends like a crack addict....trapped in the moment without regard or concern for tomorrow.
The demoralizing part is when you live in a country with a spending problem and still nothing gets built or improved....we gave 65 billion to the Ukraine the past 2 years and then a cat 3 hurricane cuts through North and South Carolina knocking out power to millions.... where is the investment in American infrastructure ? our energy grid is vulnerable and we still have power lines above ground on termite infested telephone poles....politicians refuse to invest in the mundane boring upkeep and improvement of out cities and rural communities unless their is a photo Op or a ribbon cutting ceremony.......Our transit systems are worse than 3rd world.........Friday Amtrak launched an ad campaign for their new DIRECT SERVICE between Chicago and Miami........take a deep breath....this is not meant to be funny....they are advertising this as a great new option...they are proud of this.....the trip takes 47 Hours (if it is on time) and the ONE way fare for a single bedroom is $1,600..........by comparison.......a one way flight between the 2 cities costs $300-400 and takes all of 3 hours....... to all the Green Agenda people that want to save the planet by outlawing styrofoam cups ....i ask you, where is the plan for high speed electrical trains to reduce the number of planes in the air ?
All the money that is pissed away and still we have veterans that were used as cannon fodder , sleeping on the streets......Frank Siller and the private sector are the only ones that get things done.....the T2T are buying shuttered motels and converting them into communal private housing for homeless Vets....God Bless a guy like Frank that took a tragedy and turned it into lifetime calling of helping others...nobody else was gonna do it....certainly not the government.
On that note i am disappointed with myself for not participating in the Tunnel to Towers the last few years....i am a coward.....that race at the end of the painful month of September just became too much for me on the mental and psychological side .....i was in a deep depression in the days after the race..and on race day i found myself struggling to contain my anger at most of the people around me as we waited for the starting gun...mostly at the teenagers and college kids that came out for a fun day and were not somber enough for my liking...i liked it better the first few years when there weren't many people.....just like i do with most bars......i still donate...and i may run one more time in the future......but i just couldn't handle the emotions...and that's my own fault.
let's end this on a positive note.......The Squids of Navy and the Black Knights on the Hudson are both 4-0....they sit tied atop the American Football Conference and both teams have a formidable passing attack and spirited defense......let's get both of these teams back into the Bowl picture......and there is a plan B for the Big game this year.......if my house is unavailable,... we had a skater step up and offer to host......hint.....we may be drinking icey cold Heineken from a Keg that day....
2+3=BEEEER
You take my hand, I'll take your hand
Together we may get away
inside the Coliseum
Dodging lions and wastin’ timei am not a backer, supporter or fan of Eric Adams.....but i can tell you 2 things definitively.......he is better than the alternative and he is being targeted by the leftist weaponized Judicial system.
First off...if the Mayor were to resign or be relieved of his duties by Governor horse face....the public advocate would assume the reigns ( pun intended) and run the city until a special election can be held ( at his discretion )
Williams is the ultimate liberal hypocrite......he hates the Police and has supported defunding the NYPD, yet he lives on the guarded military base of Fort Hamilton.....he rides around in a suv with armed security for his role as Public advocate , but is opposed to average citizens carrying firearms to protect themselves ......He is staunch supporter of BLM , Occupy Wall Street and Planned Parenthood.
Back to Adams......the meat and potatoes of the indictment circle around hotel upgrades, free flights and other gifts he received from Turkey while he was the Borough President of Crooklyn......victimless crimes......you, me and Poudneil were not impacted by the Adams family flying first class to Constantinople......or from him receiving a luxury suite in the Izmir Hilton........I was in Izmir in the Spring of 88......we drank Raki in the streets and visited some strip clubs....if Adams was there, we didn't see him......the only illegal action he is accused of , is speeding up an inspection of a new Turkish embassy......he is not accused of forcing the FDNY to pass a building that was not safe.....just for requesting that they do a favor and speed up the process....
so these "crimes" happened over a decade ago.....why didn't this come to light when he was running for Mayor against Curtis Sliwa ? Or during his first year of his administration ? were the Feds sitting on the indictments and holding them over the Mayors head ? Is it sheer coincidence that when the Mayor spoke out about all the busloads of migrants arriving on a daily basis and insisting that NYC was suffocating and could not sustain the invasion, that all his trouble began ? In fact....the Mayor was on his way to DC to speak out, Up and against the wave of migrants flooding over our southern border.....he wanted NYC to revoke its self imposed sanctuary city status.......and then he recd a call that the FBI was executing search warrants and home inspections on many of his top aides and Lts within the administration.......this is just another example of the weaponizing of the justice system against ...not only your political rivals...but those within your own party that do not fall in line........once step closer to a bananna republic.
switching gears.....but i am very close to start Rooting for Russia in the war.......this guy Zllensky is a real slime ball.........we have given this guy 65 Billion in the past 30 months.....enough already......let's not forget that this guy is an Actor by trade....and he is playing the US for fools.....his wearing of Tshirts and camouflaged pants is getting old......why the fuck isn't sleepy Joe trying to broker a peace deal over there ? or is he too busy denouncing Israel for not accepting his peace treaty with the Terrorists ?
Class move by Johnny Torts......The flyers coach reached out to Mr Gadreau and invited him to attend the Flyers practice and workouts with the team....the grieving Father of John & Matt Gadreau is a high school hockey coach and Torts said simply he thought it might do him some good to get on the ice with the Flyers from a Therapeutic standpoint....and it wasn't just for show....Torts gave him the playbook and let him run some drills......and he even told Torts to go easy on the Flyers.....apparently Torts was screaming at the team to skate harder and Mr Gadreau reminded him that he only had 3 lines at practice....good stuff....Torts was always one of my favorites....
yesterday was a sad day by the Bay and across the world of sports....for those old enough to appreciate the Oakland Almedia County Coliseum in all of its glory in the 1970's.......it was sports and entertainment Mecca for a decade or so........The Raiders ruled the AFC with John Madden, Snake Stabler and all the silver & black maniacs, Belitnikoff,, Branch , Villipiano.......the Sea of Hands win over Miami, Roughin the Passer over New England and the Battles with the Steelers are etched in the memory forever.......and the Swingin A's in the Emerald Green and Gold Uni's were a Dynasty cut short.......3 straight World Series ...one of only 2 times in history to do that.....but even more impressive was that almost every key player from the 1974 team left via free agency and most won titles or played in World Series in other cities.....Reggie, Rudi,Tennace, Bando, Claudell and Campy.......Rollie, Catfish, Ken Holtzman, Darryl Knowles, Vida Blue & Blue Moon.......if they didn't have free agency that team could have won 7 or 8 titles...who knows ..........and Bill Graham used to stage his day on the Green concerts in the Colo....The Grateful Dead were regulars.....Lynyrd Skynyrd played one of their final shows there in 77 and the Gimme Back my Bullets tour......Led Zepplin closed out a North American Tour and the Rolling Stones and the WHO also graced the stage...... sadly i never made it there in person.....but it lives forever in my heart......the stairs to nowhere and Mount Davis...i doubt we'll ever see the likes of them again.....
Train wheels runnin’ through the back of my memory
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese
Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece
Through the light
Of the nightWith the lorries rolling by
Blue moon sinking from the weight of the loadAnd the buildings scrape the sky (N. Young)got country music playin,
if you hate us, you just don't know what you're sayin (N.Young)
that was 1980 and Mr Young was talking about his adopted country, the U.S. of A, but it could apply to Israel and the silly protestors who think they are in solidarity with the nomads and terrorists that hide under a palistinian flag.
In case you missed it, the New Tolerance Fund offered $1 Million to the Queers for Palastine to hold an LGBTQ-LMNOP Pride event or parade in Gaza........the NTF understands that the alphabet community is not welcome in the religion of peace....and if they dare try to hold an event in the middle east, well it will probably end in a bloodbath.......so far no comments from the Queers for Palastine and all the other alphabets that protest against Israel and pledge their support for Terrorist's.....even though those terrorists think that the homos should be exterminated.....oh well, why let facts get in the way of a fun afternoon out burning flags and tossing molotov cocktails into patrol cars.
Israel on the other hand has shifted the focus away from the decimated ruins of gaza hamas....and are now zeroing in on Lebanon and the Iran backed hezbollah . They created a shado company to manufacter pagers and then inserted plastic explosives inside the pager.....they waited for hezbollah to distribute the pagers to all their top scumbags ( approx 3,000) and then Israel detonated the pagers.....killing, castrating and or severely disfiguring their enemy ........BRAVO.
Last week they did the work that the USA was unable or unwilling to do. In a targeted strike they took out Ibrahim Aqil, the mastermind behind the Marine Corps barracks bombing that killed 241 young , Brave Americans....next month on the 41st anniversary of the horrific attack (October 23rd) for the first time the families and friends of the deceased can take some form of solace knowing the bomber is rotting in hell.
this morning the Israelis are warning the the folks time the s in Southern Lebanon to GTFO of their homes which are being used as weapons depots. the Airstrikes are under way and in a new twist the Israelis did not give advance notice of these strikes to the US.....we are not really their ally and they know it.......we are in bed with the terrorists....kamala, joe, barry Hussein, hillary, they all hate Israel...it is clear to anyone that wished to admit it.
side note.....Tampon Tim gave a rousing speech to a few dozen losers in philly and declared that "We cannot afford 4 more years of this " i couldn't agree more.
side note 2.......Kamala is skipping the Al Smith Dinner next month ( the annual Catholic Fundraiser has been a must attend event for anyone running for President).....the last time a candidate for POTUS skipped the dinner was that other notable loser Walter Fritz Mondale in 1984....but still the Pope and all the Pedophile Priests and Socialist/Communist Irish will line up to vote for Kamala........
dark days on the planet....dark days indeed,
Got people here, down on their knees and prayin
Hawks and Doves, are circling in the rain
I watched the news last night after I heard that Kamala Harris was disturbed about a “possible “ assassination attempt on President Trump…….in fairness I was watching football and read that on the scroll …..it’s possible that I missed when they cut into the game with BREAKING NEWS……but her reaction was the first bit of news that I saw.
I watched the news this morning and ABC , NBC and FOX5 NY all reported that the gunman was a former supporter of Trump and that he turned against the President in 2020 on Twitter.
It wasn’t until I opened the NY Post just now on the train and read that the gunman had actually been posting on social media the same rhetoric that Kamala and Joe use about Democracy being on the Ballot and the mantra that we CAN’T loose..
Another indisputable piece of evidence that shows how disingenuous the media is and how they are ALL in lockstep to influence another election….
He won’t do it, but I would support Donald Trump if he dropped out of the race….. I don’t think this country is worth dying for anymore.
just a beautiful Methodist hymn written in 1901....covered by hundreds, but my favorite version is Jorma Kaukonen on Blue Country Heart in 2002.
What are they doing in heaven today
Where sin and sorrow are all done away?
Where peace abounds like a river, they say?
What are they doing there now?
There's some whose hearts
Were burdened with care
They paid for their moment with fighting and tears
But they clung to the cross with a trembling fear
But what are they doing there now?
And there's some whose bodies were full of disease
Physicians and doctors couldn't give them much ease
And they suffered 'til death brought a final release
But what are they doing there now?
What are they doing in heaven today
Where sin and sorrow are all done away?
Where peace abounds like a river, they say?
What are they doing there now?
There's some who were poor and often despised
They looked up to heaven with tear-blinded eyes
While people were heedless and deaf to their cries
What are they doing there now?
There is a season, turn, turn, turn.
And a time to every purpose under heaven.( Ecclesiastes)that brilliant sunshine......those magnificent cool breezes and absence of humidity, the rustling of the trees.....picture perfect post cards......September always delivers the finest weather for the Northeast.....but behind the silver lining lies the realization that we are crawling or speeding our way towards winter and the long dormant , frozen death of that season......could be a metaphor for the nation.
interesting clip of Bernie Sanders on Meet the Press over the weekend....when he was asked if he thought Kamala was abandoning her radical progressive policies that she has held in the past and has recently flip flopped on......he said No, she's not abandoning her previous positions, she is just being pragmatic and saying what she thinks she needs to say to win the election.
So, in other words.....she is lying to a stupid and gullible public that wants someone to tell them it's raining when they are actually getting pissed on.....it struck me how brazen they have become....the actually say the quiet piece out loud.....it's like they are all in on the little joke they are playing on the American Public.......even AOC and the squad have received the memo.....keep mum....don't criticize Kamala , she doesn't really mean ANY of it....Kamala now wants to BUILD the WALL and she supports FRACKING , and yet none the greenies have a problem or have publicaly challenged her new positions.........and the media bangs the drum and marches along the parade route.
2+3=BEEER
A time to be born, a time to die.
A time to plant, a time to reap.
A time to kill, a time to heal.
A time to laugh, a time to weep.
