It was long ago

 and it was far away ,

and it was so much better

than it is today. ( Meat Loaf)

I have been looking back fondly on the glory of the sports world in the 1970's-1980's and I realize just how spoiled I was. The things i remember that were so great, that they couldn't possibly go away...and then suddenly went away. I loved baseball and watched all summer long for as long as i can remember, but i really earned my sea stripes during and after the Mets trip to the World Series in 1973.( I was lucky enough to attend game 4 of the Mets-Reds series...yep, the day AFTER the Rose-Harrelson fight) and i was devastated when my "second favorite" team, the Oakland A's ; defeated my Mets in 7.....Truth is that the prior year i listened to my older brothers drone on and on about how the more professional, and classier and simply better Big Red Machine would crush the upstart clowns in their green and gold uniforms.....i immediately fell in love with Oakland and my childhood hero was Joseph Oden Rudi...#26.

for the rest of the decade we were blessed with some of the Best National and American League Championship series.....there was something special about only 2 divisions in each league and one 5 game series to decide who goes to the World Series.....something very dreadful and sudden to be eliminated in 3 or 4 games after battling for 6 months and 162 regular season games.........bam it's over......like a Johnny Bench golf shot that just cleared the wall or a Chris Chambliss Bomb into the October Night that still hasn't come down......but the real beauty.....this thing that set baseball apart from all the others....was the 3:00 weekday start under that October cloudless sky ....the setting sun that played havoc on right fielders...the shadows from the light stanchions that creeped across the infield as the later inning approached....the blackout under the eye that every player seemed to donn.....and the green grass that survived August heat, just seemed to breath new life with every Kelly green Blade.

I remember racing home from grade school to catch the Orioles-Athletics series and listening to Tom Seaver as a guest in the booth talk about Jim Palmer.....and then chuckle as the mighty A's crushed their dreams, year after year.....I remember the story about the house behind the Center Field wall at Memorial Stadium , and how they refused to paint it Navy Blue to help the batters eye....and so the Orioles planted trees obstructing their view......i remember Rick Monday going yard to snap a tie in the 9th inning of game 5 in Montreal in 1981....a dejected Gary Carter....( surely that game would have been moved to 8:00 nowadays). I remember the Candyman (John Candeleria)  and his Pirates battling the Reds.....and of course the Yankees-Royals parts 1,2 and 3.......and that one day playoff in Fenway Park....if ever there was a 3 hour commercial for the game, something that should have been bottled up and sent to the Smithsonian to explain to future generations what Baseball was like in her prime....this was it.......I can still see Nettles settling under that Yazstremski pop up..........yes we were blessed.

I still long for those days......and i still love the baseball playoffs..although sometimes i find myself sitting in a backyard, under the brilliant fall sunshine, sipping a delicious beer , and instead of focusing on the game on TV......i'm thinking of Lenny Dykstra leaping 5 feet in the air as his HR sailed into the dugout in the bottom of the 9th vs the Astros at Olde Shea......of Bert Campaneris throwing his bat at the Tigers or Reggie breaking his leg on a play at the plate....or Stargell & the Cobra sweeping the Reds in 79, we are family.......or Rusty Staub lacing doubles off the wall and Tug Mcgraw hopping off the mound......Thurman Munson hitting a blast into monument park ....the series was tied 1-1.....bottom of the 8th.....Yanks trailing 5-4......Munson hit a mammoth blast off Doug bird ....410 feet....i had to just stop and watch the video on You Tube....you should too.....the crowd demanded a Curtain Call, he finally popped out of the dugout with his catching gear on...Reggie greeted him at home plate.......Cosell announcing ... said it was Thurman's first homer in 54 games ....the field was in complete shadow....but the left-center field bleachers were drenched in sunshine........we'll never see the likes of meaningful day baseball again.

anyway.....i bought myself a new 75 inch TV for the wall in my garagee...it is being delivered and installed tomorrow morning....the fridge is packed with beeeer and hot dogs and kielbasa will be grilled before the first pitch......and i will watch, but my mind may still be lingering in the 70's 80's....

2+3=BEEER

Holy Cow I think he's gonna make it 

Ticking Away

  the moments that make up a dull day

You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way (Pink Floyd)

I have returned from a glorious trip up north and i have made a few observations. The trip was a grand success... but , as i grow older ; these reunions take on multiple meanings and spark so many different emotions. I chose the Floyd opening lyric because it is the best song i have ever heard about the changing outlooks that develop and advance with age. how seamless the transition can be from bored youth....to dying adult....we all know it, but we all fall into the same trap......from having nothing to do...the restless angst of youth...to being too busy to do anything...the pressures of work/adulthood....to praying for more time at the end......and so with each go around......i find myself being more appreciative of everyone i had a chance to see......to have a chat, share a beer or just shake hands......that unspoken crossover from worrying if you would ever see an old timer again...to reluctantly acquiesce that it is YOU that may never be seen again....I wasn't alone.....On the top of that Hill in Bliss Park there was a spoken and unspoken vibe ....nobody is guaranteed tomorrow....make the most of the moment.

I will add that rumors of the demise of New York City are premature....sure they have their problems....their politicians suck......taxes and cost of living are out of control and crimes is always a problem.....but the living , breathing spirit of the Greatest City the World has even known is still alive and well......the 5 boroughs tend to adjust and reinvent themselves as each wave that was supposed to drowned them recedes.....maybe a year away at this age was what i needed.....but it sure was exciting to be back in midtown and drinking on the banks of Redhook.....I fully see what the attraction is ...i get it why college grads are willing to live in a closet sixed apartment on the edges of the madness....just to say they were A PART of IT and some date in the future.

2+3=BEEER

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

Come down off your throne

 And leave your body alone

Somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years
Somebody holds the key (Blind Faith)

The night is dark and full of terrors as they say on Game of Thrones….but we have to identify and isolate the true Satan…and fight that…..no more friendly fire or collateral damage…..it’s easy to swing on the defenseless , but it takes courage to admit the true problem and climb that mountain…..but we can …..and we must.

Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home

I've just reached the place

 Where the willow don’t bend

There’s not much more to be said
It’s the top of the end
I’m going
I’m going
I’m gone  (Dylan)

Truth is I  left hours ago....riding the Steel Locomotive North towards the Big Apple......I left a China Robot the password to my blog and this is probably him typing now.....who knows.

anyway....it's laughable how all of a sudden BIG Tech is sounding the alarm bells on themselves and begging the Govt or someone to put the breaks on the artificial intelligence movement......how  every democrat politician woke up one morning and started waving the caution Flag on data centers.......how the MSM has lost it's collective mind that someone from Anthropic quit because he suddenly found a conscience and fears for the future of humanity....the timing is wild...isn't it ? General Tso chicken is soooo gooood.....

First Off.....Big Tech has no soul, filet or rhythm......they would,  and probably already have; sold their grandmothers for a competitive edge....the big boys are already 95% of the way there.....the only thing that worries them is that someone might be gaining on them.....and SO.....they want EVERYONE to stop moving forward....until they can sew up the little loose ends and completely corner the market future.....you want fried rice with that ??

The demonrats are allergic to the truth , greedy and pretty dumb (with a B )and will sing any song on behalf of china or a chinese backed lobbyist....and so each day they digest the theme of the day memo from Doctor Evil , or Xi Xi Ping Pong, and regurgitate the same sound bites.....he said 2 eggroll....not 3.

Jessica tarlovski and the leftist media are all fired up because some clown Coxon quit Anthropic ....they first insisted he left millions on the table and walked away without his options because he is afraid A I will kill everyone real soon....and he wanted Nothing to do with it .

turns  out this jackass was only there 4 months.......just how many options do we think he accumulated in 4 months ?  my guess from past experience with Firms going public is 0 ....ZERO.....NADA.....Nuthin....he's either a Chinese agent that was about to be fired or a lazy moron that wants to start a podcast or write a book .

side note.....i'm disgusted with the swamp move of Trump offering $5K as a bribe for votes in the midterm...this is wrong on every imaginable level......I assume he is deliberately trying to blow this up , but i'm not sure why.......no more duck sauce.

Thursday Night......Mike & Eddie playing in Pippins....JC behind the stick....giddy up.

this robot must have a short circuit.

2+3= Tsingtao

I’m closin’ the book
On the pages and the text
And I don’t really care
What happens next
I’m just going
I’m going
I’m gone

Old Man down

 way down, down, down by the docks of the city

blind and dirty, he asked me for a dime

a dime for a cup of coffee.....

i got no dime but i have some time

to hear a story (Hunter-Garcia)

so i remember the cup with maroon triangles more than anything else.....i see it consistently....i dream about it....it's always there......i will try to find a picture on the internet.......it's significance to me is not just because i was fiddling with the lid to add sweet & Low when i was knocked out of my chair and onto my desk when the first plane struck my building.....it was the last thing i saw before all hell broke loose......i had a recurring dream ( and still do) that i am in the building and i am the only one that knows the planes are coming....and that cup is always there......and all of a sudden in my dream i realize that i have to run for the stairs......usually wake up in a cold sweat......but that cup....yep......it never should have been there, but it may have saved my life.

In the summer/autumn of 2001 I was working for Instinet Clearing Services ( a subdivision of Reuters...we were one of the first and only at the time ECN ; electronic crossing networks) we were on the 13th Floor of the North Tower...TOWER 1....first hit, last to fall. I was part of their venture into a Retail Brokerage offering and a Clearing Corp......we were still in our early stages and Reuters was prepping for an IPO to take us public ( an offering that i would have close to 100,000 share of options ...i was going to retire before my 50th birthday) i digress.....in the summer of 2001, since we did not have much work, the Margin Dept did a lot of sitting around, we took extended lunches in Little Italy or the Village, Drank in O'Haras and played on the computer......but we had a regular breakfast in the Port Authority Cafeteria on the 43rd floor of Tower 1 ( we had to take 2 elevators to get there)  we would sit there and admire the incredible views while we read the post and drank coffee.....It was me, Johnny Fraulo, Pooch and Anthony.........but the day prior it just so happened that Fraulo was on Vacation in Vegas.....Pooch was on Jury Duty in Staten Island and Anthony was always late on the Express Bus from Brooklyn.......so as i rode the ferry over from Hoboken i decided to grab a coffee from a street vendor on Vesey street between wtc 6 and wtc 7.......ironically i then walked up the survivor staircase to the plaza and into Tower 1....and so a few minutes later i was at my desk ( and NOT in the elevator going to the cafeteria) i have often wondered what would have happened if any of the other 3 were in the office......the howling screams i heard coming from the elevators just a few minutes later (while i was on the Emergency Phones by the Stairs) could have been my own screams....the burnt, smoldering corpses that littered the lobby just 10 minutes later , the still smoking bodies we had to step around to get to the Vista Hotel could have been me and my buddies....

I remember Sept 13th ....i was the only person in my car on the NJ Transit train....I had to walk from Hoboken to our disaster site at 101 Pavonia Ave in Jersey City...it was a ghost town....we setup shop in a room that housed our computer servers...it was freezing in there, it had to be.....and the Old AC unit made a loud BANG every time it kicked on.....which was every few minutes......i remember some of the women were in tears from being scared by the loud noises....i remember some of them were sent home....i remember we had one long window in the room that faced lower Manhattan......we spent a month there.....there weren't any good bars there along the water in 2001......but we had a deli......and everyday the four of us would grab 3 or 4 pints in brown bags and sit on a park bench and stare across the Hudson at the smoldering pile that used to be our office (years later Dorrians would open across the street)  we watched the smoke change from Black....to grey......to a sickening yellow haze......for weeks it continued to rise....slowly killing everyone and everything in it's path.....and we sat helpless across the river just watching...wondering ...waiting.

I share some of this today because i fear that many in the country have....if not forgotten...have chose to move on......i fear that attention paid to the anniversary will only wane and diminish from year 26 and forward...i wanted to get this out and on paper before it slipped from my memory too....although i doubt that will happen ....my luck, even i have Alzheimer's someday; this will be the only shit that sticks with me.....the Cup with the maroon triangles....i wish i could find one, i would post a picture.

anyway...stay safe......i'm going off the grid until saturday.....i have a beach chair and a cooler full of beer with my name written all over it

I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown
nowhere to go
just to hang around

well they Say

 that time loves a hero

But only time will tell
If he's real he's a legend from heaven
If he ain't he was sent here from hell (Little Feat)

and so just a few days before the 25th anniversary comes news that 9/11 related cancers saw an dramatic uptick this past year , but who knows if that is even true....doctors, lawyers and other liars are all in this game for the money....they have managed to put a price tag on everything from cancer to heart burn....does it diminish from the people that truly lost their lives on that day or years later from the smoke ? that's for everyone to decide on their own........i just think its disgusting to live in a time where everything has to taken with a grain of salt...so many lies, distractions and censorship.......I fully understand how older folks become so jaded and distrusting of anyone and everything.

This week Gov Pataki said the he has a 9/11 related "restricted airway disease"  .....ok..........he was Gov from 1995-2006......did he stand up for the people of his State and insist that the air quality was a problem in the days, weeks, months afterwards.....OR...did he hide behind Kristy Todd Whittman........Whittman of course apologized for claiming the air was Fine.....in 2016......what took so long ?

Yesterday mandanni released files that he said were found in lock boxes in city hall.....smoking gun memo's showing the Guliani Administration knew all along that the asbestos in the air was a problem and that they hid the truth and were more concerned about the cities lawsuit liability.

I am grateful that i am still here 25 years later.....i don't know if it helped....but while i spent an Hour in a thick cloud of smoke outside Castle Clinton and the Holocaust Memorial ( so thick i couldn't even see Mondo standing next to me, could hear his voice, couldn't see his face) i used a water bottle that someone was giving out , to wet the sleeve of my work shirt and then i tried to breathe through the shirt....using the wet shirt as a filter to block some of the dust from getting to my lungs....maybe it helped....i still feel in the back of my mind that i will walk into a doctor someday and be given a 6 month death sentence.....nothing i can do about that, i try not to think about that too much....but every year this month of September gets worse and worse.

anyway, this time next week i will be in good old Bayridge......Blisstock on the 19th and the Hoban run on the 20th.....hopefully i see a lot of friendly faces on the Hill at Owls Head....

Some say my uncle that he's a zero
His life as a shell, he left it back at Stateside
I'd say he's doing well without his shell
Bumming 'round the beaches of Puerto Rico
The beauty of the sunrise and sunset
To his friends he wish he could tell
They're at home still running for bells
Better San Juan than that blue collar hell

What's happening on Wall Street

 What´s happening at the Stock Exchange

I want to know
What´s happening on Squawk Box
What´s happening with my stocks
I want to know
I watch you on the TV every single day
Those eyes make everything okay ( Joey Ramone)

Well the true Queen of Bayridge has been unceremoniously fired by the Fox News Corporation.

From a coat check girl at the Rex Manor to Halls of Fontbonne Academy to the Floor of the NY Stock Exchange she blazed a trail...her rise was fast and furious....she put up with a great deal of harassment when she became the first woman to broadcast from the lions den ( the all male floor of the NYSE)...and she threw out the first pitch before a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium...and as referenced above, she had a song written for/about her by none other than the great Joey Ramone....not bad for a kid from Brooklyn.

Her reporting at Fox Business was simply put, the best there ever was; if you never saw her live, you should spend a day searching for clips from the show.....she interviewed Corporate tycoons, thousands of politicians, foreign heads of state and POTUS himself on a regular basis.....she let nobody off the hook......in her famous Brooklyn accent she demanded of every political blowhard " Whatta are Ya gonna do about it"?.....she was toughest on Republicans that came on the show expecting to be treated with kid gloves, but she was relentless....she love to demand to know WHEN a vote would happen.....and when the politician tap danced...she would remind her audience how many days were left in session before concluding " Your Not gonna get that Vote before recess" .

She was a China Hawk......she never let up on the origins of Covid and wrote a book about how China was trying to corrupt the world...she befriended Jimmy Lai before he was imprisoned in Honk Kong and she had Gordon Chang on as a regular guest......but the thing i admired most was her style of interviewing.....she listened......most Talking Heads are busy thinking about their next question....but she was notorious for picking up something in the persons answer and then going off script and pushing back or calling people out for what they just said.......she was also the one of the first that accused China of deliberately spreading the virus....she railed on the fact that China sent a huge delegation to Davos in Feb 2020 to attend the economic forum....."in years prior you didn't even know if they were there" she would say.." but in 2020 everywhere you went there was someone from China mingling with Economic big shots, locals and reporters"  she was never afraid to call a spade a spade.

The early reports on her firing are troubling....not for her....bur for FOX.

apparently when the President gave his  National Address back in July and he accused CHINA of election interference ...the bosses at Fox instructed their staff to censor the story....do NOT report what the President said and do NOT further his theories.....and they put that in writing via internal Memo's and texts......and allegedly Maria shared this TRUTH with the White House.

I don't know about you but i think this could be the final nail in the MSM coffin.....this provides furthur conviction that nobody can really be trusted....no network, no newspaper , no body ! ......i watch the news for entertainment value.....but i tuned to Maria's multiple shows for the truth....no matter how unpleasant or inconvenient it was to report....and now, that too; has been taken from us.

if only there was a Blog that told the truth, the whole truth and nuthin but the Truth...with some booze and jocularity tossed in for good measure......the truth is many of the stories i share with you originated from Mornings with Maria.....i'll wait patiently for her statement and her next move.....hopefully instead of signing an NDA, she comes out swinging and suing and writing a book about Murdoch's Regime.

it's funny now how all the demonrats are spewing the same taglines about Data centers...all of them negative talking points that originated in ? you guessed it, CHINA....but my favorite is AOC......she suggested they build a Data center near Mar-a-Lago to see how Trump like it.......of course by now you can surmise correctly that there are 2 data centers within a mile of Mar A Lago.......is she really that stupid or does she just think that you are ?

2+3=  FOX news censored the answer

I watch her at the big board every single day
While she´s reporting you best stay out of her way
I watch her every day
I watch her every night
She´s really outta sight

Maria Bartiromo 

Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo

After all the jacks are in their boxes

 And the clowns have all gone to bed

You can hear happiness
Staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers
"Mary"  (Jimi)

I think Hakeem is stalking me........no, not Hakeem Olajuwon......he's Hakeem the Dream.....i'm talking about the New York Nightmare....Hakeem Craig Jeffries...

Thursday i gave a brief overview on Data Centers and how i thought they could be reigned in and managed so that both sides benefitted....and yesterday Hakeem took the bait. ( Truth be told/ in fairness he was responding to POTUS......Trumpski said cities that reject Data centers flat out, are backwards and doomed to be left behind this economic windfall)

But Hakeem of course had to paint data centers as the new satan.....and insisted the Repubs were trying to unleash this horrible monster on the American public....it's kind of sad, but the big blue North gets what they deserve when they continue to elect morons.....they vote on party lines only , and in primaries they choose the candidates with the best sound bites or whomever their union tells them to support.......data centers do not have to / nor should they be a partisan issue......both sides should be actively pursuing  their construction in their districts, with safeguards and on good financial terms for their constituents.

So, what we can expect to see is that more data centers will be built in Red States in the South......already low property taxes will shrink or go away entirely....quality of life investments like parks and recreation will flourish and technology field jobs will be created.........and up north ? more of the same red tape... just like how  they will squander the FB payout on more bureaucracy and govt overreach programs.......it is a shame, because i truly do love NY/NJ and do not wish to see these states abandoned.

Lots of Talk about these FLOCK cameras.....i don't see why it is such a problem to fix......i share concerns with many over the loss of privacy...and i despise Big Brother Govt spying....but in this day and age with so many abductions of children and ex spouses, a few minutes could be the difference between life and death....I think it can be an fixed.....limit access to the data....only provide unlimited access in the areas surrounding a disappearance /abduction, and for a brief window....and only grant access after the fact ( for evidence gathering) if accompanied by a warrant........do not allow Cops to search for their ex wife's whereabouts on his lunch hour.......and no blind searches for a specific plate without a warrant.

I am following this Clancy case in Mass.......lady killed her 3 toddlers and then either tried to kill herself or create a smokescreen to distract everyone......the murder of the kids is NOT in doubt....from what i understand they are trying to determine her mental state at the time of the killing....I do not think a jury of average Joe's should be responsible for that.....this sb a trial before a judge and let both side provide their experts testimony....and let the judge decide.

must be bitter resentment for fans of the Notorious B.I.G (Chris Wallace) aka Biggy Smalls......he was murdered in 1997 as payback for the part he played in the murder of Tupac Shakur....this was during the infamous Rap wars between East Coast and West Coast Rappers........Martians, this is not a joke.....well now it turns out that Tupac was killed by the Uncle of some LA rapper that he beat up earlier in the evening.....and Biggy had nuthin to do wit it......shame.

anybody seen Mikie ?  an 8 month old infant was killed and his Mother & Sister hospitalized , when they were run over by a vehicle in a supermarket parking lot in Jackson ( i believe) New Jersey.......spoiler alert...not only was the driver unlicensed, but she was illegal....maybe, just maybe...if the State of NJ cooperated with ICE ( instead of protesting outside of Delaney Hall) this 20 year old miscreant would have been identified and detained BEFORE she murdered an infant.....maybe the family of the deceased should file a $100 million lawsuit against the State for Failing to enforce /assist Federal Immigration policies .

a few sports prognostications........NFL win totals

Falcons  over 7 1/2

Browns  over  5 1/2

Broncos under 9 1/2

Jaguars under  8 1/2

and NVDA is lingering between 215 and 220.....this is a $300 stock.....if you have patience and a few sheckles....load up......i'd say it hits $300 next May around earnings time...

and 2+3=BEEER

Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past?
And with this crutch
Its old age and its wisdom
It whispers, "No, this will be the last"

Blisstock T-shirt Link

 I know everyone has too many t-shirts already, and most of us are trying to downsize our wardrobe, but i created these shirts as a nod to a fantastic Bayridge event....BLISSTOCK.....and to raise a few sheckles for a worthy Bayridge Institution....The Guild for Exceptional Children.........spoiler alert....we are keeping the window to purchase a shirt open until After Blisstock.....we think quite a few people may be inspired that day to buy a shirt....so the physical shirts will not be delivered until early October......you may also just make a donation if you really do not want a shirt...

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/a-group-of-lifetime-friends-gather-annually-to-raise-money-for-worthy-worthy-causes?utm_campaign=desktop-campaign-page-share-v3&utm_content=a-group-of-lifetime-friends-gather-annually-to-raise-money-for-worthy-worthy-causes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link

Wake of the Flood

 Laughing water, 49

Get out the pans
Don't just stand there dreaming
Get out the way, get out the way

Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine  (Hunter-Garcia)

The footage from the flooding in Nepal is a not so subtle reminder that Water is the strongest force on the globe....Water covers 71% of the earth  surface.....water extinguishes fire....and water ruins a nice glass of whiskey.

not defending Zuckerberg or Face page.....but this settlement is crap....Madison Avenue spends 24 hours a day trying to come up with ad campaigns that convince people watching television that they cannot live without the products they are pitching.....millions of entrepreneurs spend their life's worth trying to create a product that can capture the imagination of the consumer and hold them for a Kings ransom....the objective of every business in a Capitalist society is reel in as many customers as possible and to crush their competition......to hold FB financially responsible just because they did IT better than anyone else is shameless money grab.

NJ will get close to $700 million......will they invest in roads or paydown their debt ?  no, they will create a new State run agency to combat social media addiction....i wish i was kidding......i wonder if Zuck regrets giving $100 Million to the Newark School System over 20 years ago ? 

NVIDIA blew away the estimates with their earning release last night....stock is up over 7% in after hours trading....still a bargain at $225 a share.

lots of chatter lately about Data Centers....my feeling is that although they are unsightly, ugly warehouses.......they are essential to the AI future......local communities can use this opportunity to pull themselves out of debt and even fund some of their pet projects, they can put in reasonable guardrails that ensure the DC's are energy self sufficient and not a drain on the grid, insist that they use non drinkable water for cooling, and they can prohibit them from buying farmland or open spaces to build.....one idea that seems like a no brainer to me would be to force these data centers to occupy/convert abandoned shopping malls or outdated warehouses or yesterday's factories......but the one truth that cannot be denied is that if these municipalities get greedy and have unreasonable demands.....well the private sector is always two steps ahead of govt jugheads......they will build the DC's in the desert, underwater or as Elon suggests; in outer space....they will utilize mini nuclear power plants and will keep all their Coins to themselves....and the stupid politicians will blow another chance to save their sinking ships.........i hope when the Martians are reading this is 250 years, they will leave a comment and tell me if i was right or wrong. 

Stay tuned for an exciting offer from Sweater Nite......we are finalizing the Design for some Blisstock T-Shirts ....we will be donating the proceeds from the sale of these shirts to a worthy local Bayridge Institution.....John Duffy's alma mater; The Guild for Exceptional Children....i hope to have the link to order shirts by tomorrow.

2+3=BEEER

Line up a long shot
Maybe try it two times
Maybe more

Be good to know
You got shoes to wear when you find the floor
Why hold out for more?

Once upon a time

 I had a little money

Government burglars took it long
Before I could mail it to you
Still you are the only one
Now I can't let it slip away
So if the man with the ticker tape, he tries to take it
Well, this is what I'm gonna say (Elvis Costello)

This is a very interesting time for the stock market.....It honestly could swing violently in either direction or remain the same as if nothing were happening all around....on one hand i am adding to my position in Nvidia (on the eve of earnings) and at the same time i am moving more $$ to the sidelines ...on the off chance that the market is eventually spooked by,  or take notice to;  the countries $40 Trillion debt.......we are currently borrowing an addittional $93,000 every second...we spend more $$ annually on the interest payments than we do on National Defense.....it would seem to most that we are on the precipice of a great collapse......yet the market seems to shrug and say, let's wait and see......Scott Bessent is dipping into Treasury reserves to buyback govt bonds, to try and stabilize surging yields on the 10yr and 30 yr.......feels like a shell game , but nobody even flinched......is this a 1990's market repeat....as Greenspan dubbed "Irrational Exhuberance" ? does the market not believe that stocks can and will go down in value ?.....just when i am ready to pull the plug on some funds that have been up 30% ytd, i watch an interview with an economist who insists that a 1% moved in GDP will bring everything back under control and a 2% increase will eliminate the national debt entirely. If the new economic sanctions against Iran manage to cripple the regime and oil prices tumble, does everything else fall in line ? and what about the new trade war that POTUS just launched against Canada ? (side note, i have his back 100% on this one, and i believe Jamieson "Winston " Greer that the northern frogs tried to hoodwink our trade deal by adding too much bull crap at the midnight hour)  and it is true, they need us a lot more than we need them.......hopefully our friends in Alberta see through Mark Carney's BS.....they are shocked and outraged that the bad orange man would tariff canadian goods.....but never have anything to say about the 200% tariffs they levied on US Farmers during the Clinton and Obama years.( took me 4 questions and about 10 minutes to get A I to admit that....they kept insisting that Canadian tariffs were merely retaliatory )

anyway there it quite a lot spinning on the financial globe at the moment.....reminds me of David Lindley and Jackson Browne discussing Cocaine....."it takes a clear mind" to figure what moves to make next ....or perhaps......sit still and do nothing........glad i cleared that up for you.

side note.....i really love this guy Jameis Winston...a funny guy with a positive outlook...he has the tools to be a starter for sure, i'm glad he seems content to be a Giant Backup.....especially with Darts concussion history.

2+3= $40 Trillion...........yikes

I think I've lived a little too long on the outskirts of town
I think I'm going insane from talking to myself for so long
Oh, but I've never been accused
When they step on your face, then wear that good-look grin
I gotta break out one weekend before I do somebody in
But every single time I feel a little stronger
They tell me it's a crime, well, how much longer?

Blame it on Cain
Don't blame it on me
Oh-oh, oh, it's nobody's fault
But we need somebody to burn

Now i'm going back to Canada

 On a journey through the past

And I won't be back 'til February comes (N. Young)

speaking of February, as mentioned prior; the NFL will hold the Super Bowl on Valentines Day, Sunday February 14th ....which is also the Sunday of Presidents Day Weekend...which is also the unofficial placeholder for Sweater Nite.

Now, i may have been born drunk, but it wasn't at night...or something like that.....Sweater Nite will NOT stand toe to toe with Pete Rozelle.....we are being pushed back to Saturday Feb 20th......Rangers-Flyers High Noon from the spectrum.....the last surviving watering hole from our childhood will be the Host.

but i digress.

This is a post about the good people of Alberta Canada ( not an attack on Mr Young)....it seems that through the beauties of open borders, tiny northern enclaves like Edmonton and Calgary have seen a surge of migrants in the past 10 years.....between 600,000 to 1 million....they are drowning financially and seeing their culture eroded...and the Uber Liberals in Ottawa could not give 2 shiites.....and so on October 19th, when the Oiler and Flame faithful drive their pickup trucks to the voting stations, they will be asked one very specific question:

Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Govt of Alberta begin the process to separate from Canada ?

this is just a few years removed from the Authoritarian crackdown on the Canadian Truckers protest, when Trudeau & Friends labled their own blue collar truck drivers as terrorists because the drove to Ottawa to protest........rules for thee, not for me.....the liberal agenda and battle cry....these same left wing frogs were downright giddy and supportive of the black olives matter movement on American soil.

I have not seen much in the US papers and TV about this Vote in Canada.....hopefully the MSM wakes up and gives us some coverage.....yeah right.

Neil Young by the way (sorry, i cant resist) considers himself as manning the front line against Trump and US influence in beloved Canada, he maintains a dual citizenship....guess he can't make up his mind.........the old Neil would have written an entire album worth of songs in defense of the Truckers, but he couldn't even release an official statement.......and as far as where he stands on Alberta secession ??   cricketts.

2+3=Lanny McDonald

"I will stay with you, if you'll stay with me"
Said the fiddler to the drunk
And we'll keep the tab on a journey through the past

seemed like such a simple thing

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The judge he smiled

 when he picked up his pen

Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin Penn
Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
But I can't forget that day I shot that bad bitch down (G. Thorogood)

it may seem like a small story, big it is emblematic of a much larger issue. Last night 3 belligerent fools ran onto the field at Yankee stadium and delayed the game....security , the ground crew and ultimately uniformed police were needed to tackle, cuff and remove these idiots.

Why does this keep happening ? especially in NY.....NY has the Calvin Klein Law that states anyone interfering with a professional sporting event by running onto the court or field will serve 1 year jail time.

so i did a little research and you probably guessed......nobody has ever served jail time for running on the field at Shea, Yankee, Citifield , MSG etc.......every single time the Judge has instead imposed fines and or community service.

If a law is not enforced, does it even exist ?  until some Judge has the guts to do their job, we will never know if the harsh penalty works as a deterrent......not very different than cashless bail......if they recidivist offender is habitually released a few hours after committing their crime, well then there is literally no deterrent.

2+3 sometimes does equal 5........but not in NY

 Come on you hotheads you listen to me

Stay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

Trouble with you is

The trouble with me
Got two good eyes
but we still don't see 

Come round the bend
You know it's the end
The fireman screams and
The engine just gleams (Hunter-Garcia)

Happy Friday.....let's keep it light.......easy listening music......only good news to report....yeah right.

Let's jump right in, that lazy ignorant twit on the Five , Jessica Tarlov; likes to say that democrats are Okay with Photo ID to Vote , but argues that getting a birth certificate to prove citizenship is going too far and or difficult for married women......OK, lets allow that premise for the sake of the discussion, (even though it doesn't seem to be too difficult to get a passport so they can go to Europe on vacation)   ........THEN say we go with a simple Photo ID to vote.....what about the sanctuary Cities that are giving drivers licenses to known illegal aliens ? how does this Matzo Ball think we should handle that ?  will the cities ever agree to stop giving a drivers license to an illegal ? will they create a special License with Bold Print at the top that admits NON CITIZEN ID ?  i doubt that.

The MSM and the left are trying really hard to get everyone whipped into a frenzy over this guy that died at Delaney Hall.....lets see this weekend if they can get large crowds to protest outside or if everyone is in te Hamptons instead........40 year illegal....deported a few years ago.....came back......has a 12 year daughter and Mother here......no clarification on whether either of them are legal or also illegal.....Dude had diabetes and serval things wrong with him.......media wants desperately to pin this on ICE.....but his Mamma already did an interview for TV.....obviously before Gov Mikkie Mouse and the rest coach coach her.....and she admitted that her Son said he didn't feel well and he had numbness in his hands........no mention of bad treatment inside the facility....no claims of being denied medical attention or his medicines being withheld.....sucks.......Mamma should have said all of the above....who knows maybe next week she will sing a different tune.

it's funny how NYC is now all of a sudden going after e bikes and electric scooters.......Julie Menin insisting this is a crisis and they are passing bills to outlaw these deadly bikes....can you imagine if Trump or any Republican was the sponsor of this Bill ?  It would be just another racist attack against the wonderful hard working immigrants and people of color,  who work 3 shifts a day for Uber eats to feed their 19 children, or go to community college and can't afford a car or gasoline.........hypocrisy and the liberal agenda walk hand in hand......Instead this is just another example of the elitist 1% Manhattanite scum that really wish to wall off their island and keep it for themselves.....tax every car that dares to enter from the outer boroughs and get rid of these lousy scooters that the Mexicans and chineese use. I personally hate these scooters and agree that the drivers are reckless, ignore traffic patterns and are a menace to pedestrians....when crossing the streets in Jersey City, you had to keep your head on a swivel , but what did they think would happen when they tore up the streets in all of these cities and put in bike lanes ? where they expecting old ladies on their schwinns with a cute basket on the handlebars ?

It is interesting to watch the Democrats getting squeezed out of their own party.....Chuck Schumer keeps saying there's plenty of room in the tent for Jew Hating moslem jihadists....I can't wait until they get the numbers and tell Chuck and the rest of them that there is no room in the tent for the jews.

amazing how many pundits still don't understand that mandani is not trying to run the city well or be a multi term success under traditional standards... they still don't see or refuse to admit that he is here to teaer down and destroy the great Jew city of New York.......the people that own second homes/apartments in NY are a Godsend to any mayor......they pay full price on their property tax and use a fraction of city services....they do not have kids in school, ride the subways or visit the ER,,,,,,when in town they use taxis, ubers, and spend top dollar on fine dining and the arts.....one millionaires taxes will cover social programs for a few of the sloths that he loves.....so what business model would suggest driving them OUT of the city ?  the ones that ends with Manhattan becoming a moslem paradise in a generation or two.......lets legalize or stop prosecuting prostitution in Jackson Heights and other neighborhoods....lets allow for unlicensed street vendors to drive out the rent paying shops and stores on Canal Street and everywhere else and ultimately let's punish the jewish landlords until they give up.

on a bright note......BLISSTOCK is only 6 weeks away.....Saturday Sept 19th......followed by the Hoban run at the Big X on Sunday morning.....Thursday&Friday (17,18) may very well be local 11209 drinking or golfing days if anyone is around.....i'll be holding court in the Gregory for 4 days...giddy up.

2+3=BEEER

Drivin' that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you better
watch your speed
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind

Hear that hot blooded singer

 On the bandstand croon

September song, Memphis in June
While they’re beating the devil out of a guy who’s wearing a powder blue wig (Dylan)

Lot of attention to the WNBA and Sophie Cunningham and the lesbo's in charge lately......to recap:  a few teenage girls went to see Sophie and her Indiana team take on Seattle in Seattle.....the girls had a simple home made sign that read "Thanks Sophie for sticking up for girls" and the dyke minority owner of Seattle verbally accosted these kids and her friend ( a 50 year old male) joined in and called the kids trash ......coaches, players and most media outlets jumped into the fray... The media, mainly FOX ; could not understand why the WNBA players were not standing up for themselves and protecting their own jobs in a women's only league...they continue to argue that these players will change their tune when some men donn skirts and take their jobs on the team.....but one key ingredient was missing from this pathetic stew.

The WNBA already has a provision that blocks male athletes from competing in the WNBA ...their official stance is that only biological woman can compete.....they refuse to clarify ...like Katanji brown, what a woman is...and incredously refuse to release an official policy on "trans" athletes......if they just ignore it, it will go away...but miraculously there has NEVER EVER been a biological male allowed to play or try out for a team....how is that possible.........well, believe what you wish....but 6 months ago i read on the internet that a Biological male had to be on hormone blockers and have a testosterone level not higher than an average female......NOW....all that language has been purged from the internet and AI insists the league never had an official policy.....so i ask the same question i did last year.....if you are a homeless 6 foot 5 male that played D1 Ball at Oregon State and now find yourself living under the highway in Portland.....would you be willing to say that you identify as a girl and get paid 50K to dominate in the WNBA ???  i tend to think there are more than a few takers out there........but again......like Fauci & Co.......

it's Rules for Thee.....but Not for Me 

These dykes want boys to play in girls sports at the lower levels or in College....to swim on your grand-daughter's team and get dressed in the same locker room because the league is doing their dirty work and protecting their livelihood..

after 2 hours of fighting with A I , i was finally able to get them to admit to this ( I asked what would happen if tomorrow , Jalen Brunson said he feels like a woman and wants to play for the Liberty) .....i finally asked if the WNBA bans trannies but is too scared to make that official policy:

While that is a common interpretation of the league's silence, it is more accurate to say that transgender women are effectively barred by a web of external rules and systemic structures, allowing the WNBA to avoid the political and legal fallout of making an official policy.

How can an entertainment business in a capitalist society operate and survive with practices ( or lack thereof) like this ?  well....they don't.....you see, the WNBA is only in existence because they are subsidized by the NBA.......that's right....anything men can do, women can do better.....as long as the men pay for it......laughable.

so the league that doesn't need to make a profit can allow the dykes to beat, stifle and strangle their only marketable player in Caitlin Clark....they can march off the cliff with the .001% of Americans that think Men should be welcome in the girls room , because at the end of the day, when the whole thing implodes....David Stern will be there the clean things up....Yaaa Womens Lib.

2+3=BEEER

I been to Babylon
I gotta confess
I could still hear the voice crying in the wilderness
What looks large from a distance, close up is never that big