China Town

 Chasing that old dragon down

Madam Wong's
We play the blues with the curtains drawn
Sidewalks of white
While the L.A. sun beat out the night
Pounding brain
My last transmission down the drain ( John Hiatt)

this has sure felt like a spin on the Cyclone.... a roller coaster ride for the ages.....i have spent all my sideline money.....i'm all in on equities...and i am confident...ride the wave......don't sell......this summer will be a rocket ship straight up...

Captain Chaos may have pulled off his biggest victory...... while the media was losing their minds over what they perceived as a switch in policy or even Trump caving....the truth was far from that.

I too wondered why the Donn put Tariffs on Everybody....at first i too couldn't rationalize why he was tariffing goods from countries that we barely trade with or countries that have been our friends......and then i caught an interview with Jamie Dimon on Maria and it was like a lightning strike.

Mr. Dimon said what we all know....Tariffs HAD to be implemented , and the time was Now.....we could not sustain for much longer on our current path of increasing debt and widening trade gaps........he also said that the tariffs , if implemented correctly; would accomplish two things.......weaken China , BUT also strengthen our friends........and that's when it Hit me..........who are our Friends ??   Let's find out.

And so by casting the widest net......one big enough to encapsulate the entire free world (and some commies) we would be given the chance to SEE how everyone reacts in crisis.......talk is cheap.....anyone can vow to stand with you....but let's drop the gauntlet and see who really does.

In the 72 hours that followed many countries in Europe  and the Pacific were approached by China in an offer to form an alliance against US trade.......those that sided with China have exposed themselves for what they are....fair weather acquaintances .......and more importantly the likes of Australia and others told China to Fuk off........have demonstrated that they are true Allies....that is a friend.

And so as China further isolates itself from the world.....the USA has learnt a great deal about the rest of the world......Canada is a lil bitch that will eventually get bitch slapped.....but Japan and India accepted the tariffs as part of doing business and wish to reach deals with the USA....they did not waiver, they did not cry, they did not increase their already high tariffs......you can watch golf all day......you can read a library's worth of books on how to play golf........but until you have to put your BEEER down and hit that Driver .....you can't say that you can play golf........and now we know who can and will play.......and who just dresses like Tiger and never leaves the clubhouse.....

2+3=BEEER

When the master of disaster
Gets tangled in his Telecaster
He can't play it any faster
When he plays the blues
When he had the heart to ask her
And every note just shook the plaster
Now he's just a mean old bastard
When he plays the blues
Now he's just a mean old bastard
When he plays the blues

We used to play for Silver

 Now we play for life

One's for sport and one's for blood
At the point of a knife
Now the die is shaken
Now the die must fall
There ain't a winner in this game
Who don't go home with all
Not with all... (Hunter-Weir)

This is the fight of our lifetime......this is the fight for the future of our country....I wrongly assumed that everyone understood the premise......or at least everyone in my industry understood what this was really about......and then i found myself on a conference call with some naïve simpletons.....defeatists......crybaby loosers......people were actually arguing that the Administration should immediately drop all tariffs....so that things could go back to normal ........NORMAL ??

what was normal before January 20th ? the truth is that our country was in a death spiral.....since the end of WWII our country has been sold out by both sides of the aisle....the internal fight against American Exceptionalism began shortly after we ended with war in the pacific by dropping some calling cards on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.......driven by guilt or a self loathsome trait, we have propped up every other country on the planet at the expense of our own.....we have been and continue to be raped and ripped off in every trade deal....we have allowed our goods to be tariffed and we have refused to tariff incoming goods.......hey, we're rich....we can afford it......and the thieves of Wall Street hide behind the curtain of free trade.......and then for over a half century their insatiable greed forced publicly traded companies look everywhere else in the world to make their products cheaper and increase their profit margins....NIKE and others moved plants to viet nam , cambodia, thailand etc and paid pennies a day to workers, and raised the prices on their sneakers back home.........one isolated example ?  NO......a trend.....Hoover vacums moved to Mexico ....Big pharma went to Ireland....and on and on......to the point where very little is made at home and because of our unions and the costs of doing business , the products that are made at home cost significantly more......that is a strategic problem.........add in the fact that Washington DC ....both sides....have spent so much money that our debt is unsustainable .......we are a house of smoke and mirrors......we are the make believe Rock Ridge.......behind the facade of the Buildings there is Nothing there......we have, have, have to draw a true line in the sand.....gig in......and force the pendulum to swing back......this may be our last chance........Our enemies and allies look at Americans as being soft....unable or unwilling to engage in the long term battle.......ignore what they say publically...privately they are convinced that we the people will cave......we will toss out Trump and Vance in 3 years......and the Gravy train will start running again.....the good old days of paying for Europes wars in the Ukraine...and singlehandedly financing Nato will be back.......our tariffs will go away while their tariffs remain or even increase.......we will go back to paying enemies to like us..we will return to a foreign policy of appeasement......we will offer financial aid to nations that are thriving, while we drowned in debt.....do you think i am being overly dramatic ?  take a look at the protests on the campus of Columbia University....in broad daylight....under the watchful eye of the school administration; they are calling for the end of Western civilization values....they don't want a library upgrade or to change the school mascott....they want you and me burned at the stake.......wake the F up........it is critical for the future of the Republic that we do NOT cave.......this is not just a passing negotiation to get a slightly better deal....this has to be bigger.....we need to do our part......immediately stop buying anything from China........if you need a product, take the time to research, find and buy products made in the USA........Wall street is tricky, they like to hide the country of origin or us phrases like 100% assembled in the USA.......dig deeper....find the plant.....and only buy American....this may be our last chance.

as for the market.......we talked about this two weeks ago.....this really is the American Liberation......this remains a beautiful buying opportunity.....but even if you do not have the fortitude to BUY MORE like me......whatever you do........DON'T SELL in a down market.....i believe the long term future of America is so bright, we indeed gotta buy shades

2+3=American BEEER

 Gotta get to Tulsa

First train we can ride
Got to settle one old score
And one small point of pride...

Ain't no place a man can hide, Shannon
Keep him from the sun
Ain't no bed will give us rest now
You keep us on the run

The Cold Blooded Moon

 The captain waits above the celebration

Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid  (Dylan)

Dylan sang and warned of the Changing of the guards.....and that is what we have today.

Just a football fields length from where Secretariat set the High Bar for Equine Greatness, Alex Ovechkin sits one goal away from Hockey immortality. The record that was not supposed to be broken in our lifetime has been tied. Today on National TV against the Gilligans Islanders the Great Eight  will etch his likeness on Hockey's Mt Rushmore...........and just as Gordie Howe passed the torch to the Great One.......Gretzky (and the lovely Janet) will hand over the keys to Ovie. 

I remember the night Gretzky broke the record in Los Angeles.......the Rangers were actually in Edmonton playing the Oilers, and they cut away from the game to go back to the studio to give an update and show the Goal.....it was March 23, 1994.......and now 31 years later we get to see it eclipsed a second time...........Congratulations to Alex Ovechkin.

2+3=895 BEEERS

Gentlemen, he said
I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes
I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards

I glanced into the chamber

where the judges were talking
 

Darkness was everywhere, it smelled like a tomb (Dylan)

sometimes i feel like a broken record....but it's worth repeating....the greatest threat to Democracy lies in the judicial system with activist judges. We have slews of politically appointed judges that do not understand or do not care what their role is. Their role is to interpret the law and rule on disputes , it is not to steer or mold society into their vision of what utopia should look like. There are millions of large scale examples in the pushback against everything and anything the Trump administration tries to do , but i will give you a smaller example to show just how lost these people are. To be clear, i am not opposed to all of their decisions, but just because i like the outcome does not make it right either.

the town of Grants Pass in Oregon is trying to address the homeless encampments that line the cities streets and parks. The town has placed restrictions on where and when a person is allowed to setup a tent and or a makeshift campsite. Reasonable rules for use of public property as decided by the Public.

This case even made its way to the Supreme Court last June and SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that municipalities can enact and enforce rules for sleeping outdoors on public property.......the 3 liberal dingbos argued that this will allow cities to criminalize homelessness ......how so ?   Grants Pass will arrest you for putting up a tent and sleeping on the library steps......and they will arrest me for doing the same thing.......the crime is NOT being homeless .....the crime is camping on public property that is not permitted for camping.

The Supreme Court is the last word, the highest court in the land, the place where arguments are settled once and for all.....but the left only accepts decisions that they agree with....and so a new lawsuit was brought against the town of Grants Pass, this one arguing that the camping ban  discriminates against people with disabilities.........not sure what that argument is all about ......are they saying that people with disabilities can't go to the woods and sb allowed to erect tents on city halls' lawn ?  I question the standing of this lawsuit , i doubt there is a single disabled person in the state of Oregon that sincerely wants to camp out on public land in Grants Pass........BUT....I am sure there are plenty of people in Oregon with disabilities who are being persuaded and even coerced into joining the fight against the big, bad, Orange man and all his flock.

Enter Circuit Judge Sarah Mcglaughlin, probably another self loathsome irish lesbian , revolting against a Daddy that drank too much and so full of herself that she thinks she's gonna change the world for the greater good. She decreed from the Mountain Top that the city must increase capacity at locations the city approves for camping and ensure that the sites are accessible to people with disabilities. (first question, what about a city that has no designated areas for camping ? ) She added that IF the city fails to do so, then they are prohibited from citing, arresting or fining people for camping on public property.

Sounds good......quid pro quo.....this for that...a win win........you want to enforce your rules for camping downtown ?  ok , but you have to build camping facilities for the disabled......sounds like a negotiation or a settlement between 2 sides......but it's certainly not the role of a judge or within her powers to decree such terms.......her role was to decide if the cities policies discriminate against people with disabilities....her role is that of judge......she is not empowered to act as Arbiter. She probably went out that night to the weekly meeting of angry dykes at the local "imported" city winery and patted herself on the back and shared her success with the other militants ....and then watched the WNBA and rooted against the Heterosuxuals.....if they could find any. 

so that's just one little story from the not so great northwest , but i think we can all agree that judges need to reign it in, rule on what is before them and apply the law.......even if it goes against their personal desires, dreams or aspirations for this great nation..........and save the decrees from high on the mountain for universal truths , such as   2+3= BEEER

side note....BC scored with 1:17 left on Friday afternoon and then added an empty netter to beat Bentley 3-1.....but i think they are in trouble today against defending champ Denver University.........2 players worth watching on the Eagles are NY Ranger draft picks Drew Fortescue from Pearl River and Gabe Perrault from Hinsdale, Illinois........both should be on Broadway next October and possibly representing the USA in Milan come the Olympics.

There was little to say, there was no conversation
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree
And the locusts sang off in the distance
Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody
Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance
Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me

 

A Civil War did then engage

 Twas woman to woman and man to man

Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began ( The Dubliners)

This Friday at 2:00 p.m. the gloves come off.....on a sheet of ice in downtown Manchester  New Hampshire.........what exactly is a Hampshire ? and what did they do with the old one ?

The Bentley Falcons make their first ever appearance in the NCAA Mens Ice Hockey Tournament , that alone is a great story.....the one time business College in Waltham Mass, now a University with an Athletic program in it's infancy ; has won the Atlantic hockey Division for the first time and advanced to the round of 16.

And who shall they play ?  A rival from nearby Chestnut Hill and the #1 team in the nation......the Big, Bad, Eagles of Boston College.......just 6 miles separates the two campuses , they probably drink in the same gin mills or jockey for a spot at the bar in Cask n Flagon on Redsox opening day.....but that's where the similarities die......BC is loaded with top recruits, NHL prospects and the expectation of a trip to the frozen 4 every year........the hardscrabble Falcons are future investment bankers that have turned a Club Status team from the 70' and 80's into a D1 program just over 25 years ago. 

Yes this will be a civil war.....and although i have family on both sides of the ice , i know the bassist for Bentley......GOOOO FALCONS.........2+3=BEEER

The liquor scattered over Tim
Tim revives, see how he rises
Timothy rising from the bed
Said "Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
Thundering Jesus, do you think I'm dead?"

You hurt the ones

 that I love best and cover up the truth with lies

One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around your eyes
Blood on your saddle  (Dylan)

oh these silly liberals......not only are they intolerant of anyone and anything that doesn't look, smell, think and breathe exactly like themselves.......they also tend to turn on each other and cannibalize their own base.

Take in point the senseless attacks on Tesla's....Tesla Dealerships and Tesla drivers..........(remember a few years ago when a bunch of us conservatives went to the Anheuser Busch breweries and firebombed them because we were mad about that Tranny spokesperson ??? neither do i. )

anyway the point is the major majority of Tesla drivers are Green New Deal liberals......it makes no sense to attack them......and i tend to think the people that work in the dealerships or the manufacturing plants , the regular everyday Americans that are trying to provide for their families; may take it personally if you put them out of work, burn down their office or even injure of kill their friends and coworkers.

I despise most of the politicians and or talking heads on the left.......and i might boycott their products, or movies or networks......but this is still America.....they have a right to exist, work, live, breathe and believe whatever they want......and i have a right to vote, argue and my Dog has the right to post humorous blogs against them.......if we can't accept and get over these truths....then the 2nd Civil War is coming.

2 under reported but still interesting tidbits about tariffs.....in an effort to avoid the steel and aluminum tariffs, .Century Aluminum is building the first new Smelter on US soil in over 50 years ............helter skelter in a summer swelter, what's a smelter ?   i had to look it up too.....it's an industrial plant used for extracting metals from their ores. they expect construction to generate a few thousand temporary jobs and they plant itself to create 1,000 permanent jobs.... the plant will be located on the Kentucky-Ohio border.

And in NY State of all places.........wine producers in the Finger Lakes are adding staff and increasing production in anticipation of the tariffs on Franch-Italian and other wines and spirits coming into the US........so the country collects a Tariff ....$$WIN.........consumers chose to buy cheaper American made wines, beers and spirits....$$WIN.........and the elitist swine that insist on drinking French Champagne (instead of the champagne of Beers...Miller High Life) they get to pay more for their privilege's..$$WIN

and if wine is too expensive, just remember that 

2+3=BEEEER

or champale

I sure hope Boones Farm Strawberry Hill isn't imported.

 

Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out but when they will I can only guess

False hearted Judges

 dying in the webs that they spin

Only a matter of time ’til night comes steppin’ in (Dylan)

the country voted, the people have spoken, but the elitist judges know better....they are going to unite and resist this groundswell movement.....the Trump Derangement Syndrome is so strong that these judicial gangsters are going to step on the constitution to block, delay or derail the will of the people......whether it be DOGE, US Aid, Voluntary Buyouts for Federal employees or deporting of violent criminals..... these 1% liberal elitist all want to go to the next cocktail party at the Met Gala and pat themselves on the back for Resisting......but this time is different........i firmly believe that Mr Trump will not flinch......thanks to sleepy Joe and the stolen 2020 election; our POTUS was relieved of the burden of facing reelection.....his plans went on hiatus for 4 years but this time he is pedal to the medal for 4 years ....no regard or concern for the meaningless MSM or the AOC -Schumer sound bites.....Pelosi is dead....long live the King.

The Donn has also declared April 2nd as American Liberation Day.......that of course is the day that these beautiful "reciprocal" Tariffs go into effect.......it may mean a cyclone ride for the markets, but it will end well......hold some cash on the side for bargain hunting , as i am sure there will be some down days......but then GET IN...and STAY IN.....ride it out......the summer is going to a glorious skyrocket to new heights......at least that is how i see it.

2+3=BEEER

Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame
You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name

And when Finally the bottom fell out

 I became withdrawn

The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin’ on like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue  (Dylan)

My Opinion ?  this is the bottom for the market........the profit taking from the tech stocks is over.....the obsession with tariffs while ignoring everything else has leveled off, and most importantly ; the recently maligned banking sector was thrown a lifeline yesterday when President Trump named Fed Gov Michelle Bowman as Fed Vice chair for Supervision........once the market fairly digests this information along with inflation flattening out and the train to reduced govt spending is proceeding down the track and has not been derailed ....Musk is finding real corruption that will result in real savings......i think the market will soar.

Trump told us on the campaign about short term pain for long term gain.......he told us he would use tariffs to both raise revenue and ultimately force the EU-Canada-Mexico to lower or drop their tariffs....and that is what he is doing.....he talked to the Irish PM yesterday about how Ireland lowered their Corp Tax Rate at the same time obama was raising ours.....and how Pfizer and Big Pharma all moved to the Emerald Isle..he stressed the need to get that supply chain back on US shores....creating US jobs.......he talked about China building car factories in Mexico and how he would tariff those cars at 200%.........the media hates Trump and is rooting against and actively working against him......but although money may be stubborn....it isn't stupid.........I firmly believe we go up big from this day forward.......and my favorite stock of the past 20 years will lead the way.

JPM is trading at the bargain rate of $228 with an annual dividend of $5...........this is a $300 stock by new years eve.......giddy up.

if you are looking for a cheap way to play the energy sector , my all time stock that i have been holding since the 90's is EPD.........oil & natural gas pipe lines across the Permian basin and the southeast......$33 stock with a div yeild of 7%..........if oil prices drop because of increased supply from the drill baby drill policies....you might want to be aligned with the companies that charge $$ to move the product.....

2+3=BEEER

And I was standin’ on the side of the road
Rain fallin’ on my shoes
Heading out for the East Coast
Lord knows I’ve paid some dues gettin’ through
Tangled up in blue

Conquistador, there is no time

 I must pay my respects

And though I came to jeer at you, I leave now with regrets
And as the gloom begins to fall
I see there is no, only all
I know you came with sword held high
You did not conquer, only die ( Procul Haram)

pay no attention to the calendar or the standings......after 5 months of jockeying for position, the quest for Lord Stanley's Cup begins today. With the trade deadline in the background, skaters are looking around the dressing room and saying this is who we are going to war with.....no more hired guns are coming to save the day......

I am satisfied with Chris Drury's transactions........there was no reason to ransom the future for an aging star to save the day....so it seems he decided to bolster the defense and hope to ride a hot goaltender....start winning 2-1, 3-2..........and that is a playoff hockey mentality...........the younger guys have been keeping us relevant all season.....Will Cuylle is the best player on the team in my opinion ......let's get in first and then hope for the best from Igor.....if we advance, maybe we sign Gabe Perrault when BC is finished winning the Frozen Four.......but it starts today against Ottawa.

One prediction........I think Connor Hellebuyck has always been an Elite goalie....but after going toe to toe with his American mates against Team Canada, i think his confidence level is sky high.....I think he Carries Winnipeg to the Cup Finals on his back...  

anywhoo.......i was on the sidelines for a few weeks with work and a mini vacation.....BUT i am back.........buckle up for the playoffs.....GO TRUMP.........2+3=BEEEER

Though I hoped for, something to find
I could see no maze to unwind

Johnny, Roisin up your bow

and play your fiddle hard
'Cause Hell's broke loose in Georgia and the Devil deals the cards
And if you win, you get this shiny fiddle made of gold

But if you lose, the Devil gets your soul (Charlie Daniels)

Donald J Trump just played the Demonrats like a Stradivarius.....in yet another major issue facing Americans; the Republicans have seized the High ground and stand with the masses....the working class men and women , the ones whose only crime is driving to work, the cops, firemen and nurses that work overnight shifts and keep this city functioning , the ones that just want to live to see the sunrise and chose to drive into the cesspool of Manhattan instead of risking lives and limbs on the lawless mass transit system.......the Republicans STAND with You.

Kathy Horseface hochul wants to turn Manhattan into an elitist playground, where only the 1% can afford to visit ......Utopia on the Hudson....no cars.....no peasants parking in front of the doorman apartment buildings.....why stop there Kathy ? why not ban those noisy garbage trucks that wake us up everyday.....and those large tractor trailers that deliver Food....and the UPS gas guzzlers that delivers trinkets from china on an hourly basis........can't get enough of a good idea. 

Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Iwo Jima.....a bloody siege that would change the course of the War in the Pacific and the direction of mans time on the planet....it took 4 days for the US forces to take control of mt Suribachi and Raise the Flag over the island on Feb 23rd......the fighting would continue for 6 weeks and see 7,000 Americans lose their lives.....there aren't enough words to describe the heroism and importance of this battle and i know my readers are well versed on the subject.....but i can still implore you to give it some thought today, say a quick prayer and raise a glass in their memory.

Tonight the Red , White and Blue take to the ice to face our future 51st state in the 4 Nations Final.......truth be told i am nervous....very, very nervous......but it would be a great way to Kickoff Sweater Nite 27 weekend........here is an updated lineup of events

tonight:    The Globe in Redbank

Friday:    Happy Hour - Salty Dog

Saturday   12:00 Pregame skate Kelly's (4th or 5th ave...your choice)

                      2:00  the main event PC's

Sunday    wrap up morning beers and brunch @ the Gregory

2+3=BEEER

Well, that ol' Devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat
And he laid that golden fiddle down on the ground at Johnny's feet
Johnny said, "Devil, come on back if you ever wanna try again
I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best there's ever been"
And he played........

Some Rise

 Some fall

Some climb
To get to terrapin (Hunter-Garcia)

Athletes are all different....that is what makes sports so compelling.....this isn't the Punt, Pass and Kick competition ....we don't measure athletic ability as an individual statistical performance and declare a winner...we play team games....chemistry is as important as ability.....coaches make difficult decisions on personnel and try to match their players strength with the opponents weakness ......and then drive, determination and emotion are usually the deciding factors.

Last night was one of the more epic clashes we have seen in a while....if the tension wasn't tight enough with the USA and CANADA playing at the professional level for the first time in what feels like forever....(it was actually 9 years ago) throw in the political animosity of the last month with President Trump calling for Canada to join America as our 51st state and referring to that sissy trudeau as the Governor. ( I tried hard to have a team Canada jersey made for Sweater Nite with the # 51 and STATE on the back....but they could not guarantee delivery in time for the Gala)

As expected, the frogs of montreaux boooed our beloved Anthem.

What happened next was not expeted.....at the dropping of the puck, Matthew Tkachuk dropped his gloves and immediately fought Braden Hagel.......while those 2 were throwing down....younger brother Brady Tkachuk was calling on Canadian tough guy Sam Bennet from one bench to the other to get on the ice ..........after the ice cleared and the puck dropped again.....Brady and Sam dropped the gloves and we had round 2.......play eventually resumed after another face off and the puck was shot into the zone there was a scramble in front of the net....after that quick whistle JT Miller dropped the gloves against Colton Parayko.......3 separate fights in the first 9 seconds of play..........after that we had a few hours of clean, hard hitting intense hockey....where bitter regular season rivals become your Hero's.....Jake Guentzel killed the Rangers for years as a Penguin......today I am proud he's on my team....Dylan Larkin plays for hated Detroit Redwings....today i would proudly wear his jerseys....and the Tkachuks ?  doesn't matter who they play for....you HAVE to love these guys..I loved their Dad Keith (Captain Coyote) and love his kids too........the Americans battled to a hard scrabble 3-1 win.......nerve wracking, nail biting through and through .

And THAT is why next Saturday we will gather........not wearing tank tops.......or Football jerseys......or even softball/baseball uni's.........BUT rather in Hockey Sweaters.......each one blood , Beeer and sweat stained and screaming out a story.....a story of victory and triumph or honorable defeat.....we will proudly display our colors and marvel and admire those of our linemates....we will drink Beeer as if the end of time itself was coming at midnight and we will wax poetically about last nights game and many others.....we will honor and miss those that have left us and cherish those that are still here.....Slainte

for  a brief moment last night i was regretting not holding Sweater Nite yesterday for the big game.......but then reality set in when i admitted to myself that by 8:30 PM , i would have been back in the Gregory Hotel  snoring away.

SIDE NOTE.........next year....the Winter Olympics will be held in Milan Italy.....the Hockey semifinals will be held on Friday Feb 20th......with the time difference the games will be at 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 PM......and the Gold Medal game will be Sunday Feb 22nd at 7:00 a.m. NY time......i suspect I will be somewhere in the Palmetto state,..maybe Captain Archies...tallying up my scorecard and enjoying an IPA.........be sure to send me a photo from SN 28.....

2+3= 4 Nations

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

One day, i was on the ground

 When I needed a hand

Then it couldn't be found
I was so far down that I couldn't get up

You know and one day I was one of life's losers
Even my friends were my accusers
And in my head, I lost before I begun (Santanna)

So the Unions went to the courts to block the voluntary retirement packages being offered to their members. I have never been a member of a union, but i thought their mission was to protect their members and to operate in their members best interest......this smells like either the unions saying their members are too stupid to decide their own future and how and when to retire or move on......OR.....this is a desperate grab to hold onto to power and keep membership high and dues flowing in......or a little of both.

The funny thing about the liberals today....they love to get on their elitists' soapbox and preach down to the less educated masses, they feel that themselves, obama, the times and a handful of harvard grads are the only ones smart enough to get it....but the odd thing is they refuse to state their opinions....kamala and joe hid from the press....refused to take questions...refused to do sit down interviews, refused to share their brilliance....in fact....they go to great lengths to cover their tracks, muddy the waters and hide their true intentions.....but why ?   if you are bigger, better, smarter than me...if you have invented a better mouse trap.....why not explain it ? 

On the flip side stands DJT......more than happy to share his intentions....no matter how unpopular his plans were with half the country.....he shouted his plans to anyone and everyone that would listen ....and now he is fulfilling those campaign promises.....no hidden card tricks.....no bait and switch.....everything he has done in 3 short weeks was foretold on the campaign trail.

Side note....it's funny how now the demonrats want everything to go through congress.......but that is because congress is where good decent plans go to die....the desert of inaction....they couldn't even codify Roe v Wade over 50 years...despite having the numbers to do so......as spoonjiah obama said in 2014......"if congress is too slow to act, then i will get it done through executive action, if you don't like it ?....sue me"...............sucks when your own Kings words come back to bite you.

The anger at D.O.G.E can be summed up easily......only those with something to hide are trying to block the exposing of fraud and corruption......there can be no other reason......and even the uneducated masses that never went to harvard can see that. 

I read something interesting the other day that i did not know....in the period between WWI and the depression one of the biggest advocates for the creation of the Department of Education was none other than the Ku Klux Klan.......it seems the klansmen were worried about the Catholic Church gaining too much influence by opening so many schools....and so they wanted to crush the Church and control on a national level what was taught.....and more importantly, what was not taught.........sound familiar ?

i must say the world has become so very interesting the past 3 weeks.........i'm encouraged , optimistic and eager to read the NY Post everyday.....i just hope when Education oversight is given back to the states that they all.....even our newest state Canada....teach the gospel that 2+3=BEEER

When I played my hand
I looked like a joker
Turn around, fate must have woke her
'Cause lady luck she was waiting outside the door

I'm winning
I'm winning
I'm winning
I'm winning
I'm winning
And I don't intend on losing again

What time is It ?

 said the judge to Joey when they met

“Five to ten,” said Joey. The judge says,

 “That’s exactly what you get” (Dylan)

The single greatest threat to democracy that this nation faces may very well be the broken judicial system. Corrupt judges that are imposing their desire and will over the constitution and Law.

U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Paul Engelmayer, an appointee of former President Barack Spoonjiah Obama, issued a temporary restraining order Saturday that sided with 19 Democratic state attorneys general who claimed that giving DOGE "full access" to the Treasury’s payment systems violates the law. The lawsuit was spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the order also extended to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

He is just of the many demonrat judges that  are using their positions on the bench to delay, derail and obstruct the agenda of our newly elected President and his administration. Cleaning House at the DOJ has to be on the agenda and near the top of things to do. The amount of corruption and waste exposed in 3 short weeks should disgust Americans, but also offer a Beacon of light . Think about an America that stops wasting and or giving away taxpayer dollars to bribe enemies, line their own pockets and further expand a deviant lifestyle around the globe. 

Elon recently exposed a possible Billion dollars of Social Security benefits paid out by the Treasury to people without social security numbers....Heck , if we give him enough time he may recoup enough money to lower or eliminate income tax completely , and he is already talking about ending Tax on Social Security.......but to do it he will have to break the established machine.....and the main obstacle will be christ killa judges from jew york like engelmayer.......

as for Joey Gallo , he was eventually freed from prison only to be gunned down inside Umberto's clam Bar on Mulberry street...ironically Joeys Dads name was also named  Umberto....thankfully Joeys dinner guest that night.....the Great Don Rickles.....had not shown up at the clam bar and his live was spared to the great delight of generations of fans....."hey Irish guy....you want some whiskey "?  they don't write em like that anymore.

The sun turned cold over President Street and the town of Brooklyn mourned
They said a mass in the old church near the house where he was born
And someday if God’s in heaven overlookin’ His preserve
I know the men that shot him down will get what they deserve

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)

that sounds like the rallying cry of the left......they really really really don't like us to be so Free.

Our Commander in Chief has done more to restore the health and reputation of this nation in 3 weeks than any other President accomplished in two terms........he belongs on Rushmore.....let's take a stroll down memory lane.

The exposing of the insanity behind USAID and the eventual shuttering of the agency is top of the charts.......the obscene amount of money we were giving away to foreign countries to promote nonsense social issues is astounding.......and it stops now.

The bold fresh ideas on how to handle Gaza have caught the worlds attention and will eventually force Arab states in the region step up and help solve the Arab problem....and that was the plan all along.

The Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have made clear to the world that he is not bluffing and it forced our neighbors to immediately act like ....well....neighbors.........and we buy every pile of shit that china wants to sell us ...and yet...our companies are not free to operate in or sell to China without obeying XiXi Ping Pongs rules....there is a great inbalance.......if they refuse to address then the tariffs will increase......and despite what leftists economists say, Tariffs are not a tax on Americans.....unless you insist on continuing to buy imported items..........don't want to pay a tariff ? stop buying Corona.

The voluntary Buyout of Federal employees that do not want to come back to work will save the country billions, and sweep out some dead wood......Wall Street does it all the time.....it is a way to maintain a younger, hungrier and more motivated workforce......and for now.....it's voluntary.......i hope the richest lady in Massachusetts is listening........not kemosabe warren.

Carried out some air strikes against ISIS in Somalia....just to remind everyone that we know Who your are , and Where you are , and we can and will reach you when needed.

Called on the Ukraine to repay us with rare earth materials in exchange for our continued support in their never ending war with Russia........a double win........we help them keep our true enemy bogged down in a futile war AND we get boatloads of Lithium, Uranium and Titanium.

Ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to allow/force water from Northern California reservoirs to flow down to the fires in Los Angeles.

Banned Biological males from womans sports.

Banned fruit loop flags and BLM banners from being flown in Govt embassy's and offices.

Removed the US from nonsensical UN committees and climate agreements

Removed senile and compromised Joe Bidens security clearance....he does not need to receive security briefs...he could sell or give away classified information.

and my favorite.......he reversed the ban on Plastic Straws.......Paper Straws don't work he said.......common sense.

and tomorrow he capps off his 3rd week at the Chelsea by becoming the first sitting President to attend the Super Bowl..........MAGA

2+3=Winning

no prediction on the game....but my gut is telling me that my beloved Chiefs will fall short.....they have been playing with Fire and more importantly.......although i hate to say it....Philly is a very good, well rounded team.....if they play mistake free...i am afraid the feagles will win.

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