The Worm Returns

For the past two years, testing of a computer worm that is believed to have sabotaged Iran's ability to develop an atomic weapon has been underway at an Israeli nuclear plant in a venture by Israel and the U.S., The New York Times reports
One can only hope and pray this is true, in a story we have carried periodically, but the rest of the media seems inclined to ignore, (its only the single most important story of the past year....even bigger than Vanessa Hudgins and Zach Efron adopting a martian baby from angelina and brad while vacationing in cabo san jerry lucas)......details of the Worm return.......As Iran marches towards the bomb , and barry and michelle frolic on the beaches of Hawaii, it is comforting to learn that our intelligence agencies are partnering with the isrealis to destroy Irans' nuclear capability from within......an undetectable computer worm that is smart enough to infiltrate and then sit and wait. If you are unfamiliar with the premise of this story it is worth a Google search...i have been banging the drum for this story since the spring time, still shocked that nobody besides Fox seems to talk about it at lenght....i would hope if the commander in chief ever decides to have another press conf ( havent seen much of the emperor since november) someone may have the audacity to ask him about it.

it is an odd story in that at least for me it simultaneously restores confidence and sounds the alarm bells of concern.....allow me to expound....also forgive me if i seem to be jumping around here...i am currently loading CD's into my I tunes library, and simultaneously listening to my current library in alphabetical order by song title....so my subliminal mindset is swinging from the Dead to Duke Ellington to Tom Waits to the Clash to Irish Rebel music to Warren Zevon and Lee Greenwod to Alice Cooper, the Outlaws, to Zep to brian Eno to Hendrix to Steppenwolf to the Ozark Mtn Daredevils to Deep purple to Thin Lizzy to ZZ Top and the Beastie boys and Kinky Friedman andback again.....it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves....suffice to say that when i have the ipod on shuffle for extended periods at Extended Volume, the Mice flee from behind the walls and lead a light brigade charge into the yard...tiny paws over tiny ears..........AH, But I digress.

back to the Worm....in a world of Bullshit Diplomacy and politically correct suicide, sitting down and extending hands to despots and signing meaningless treaties and enforcing impotent sanctions, it is comforting to at least imagine that we too are full of it, and behind closed doors we are plotting to neuter our sworn enemies and use our current advantages ...intelligence, technology and money to create a superlative Plan B should talking to animals fail...as of course it will.....whats better than being able to destroy the earth with firepower? preventing anyone else from doing it first, and so it would seem that is where we are at...........

now the scary part.....arer we so powerful that we can create a rock that even we cant lift ? in other words, can the worm turn ? can this super intelligent virus wake up one day and threaten US ? or more likely....if the technology exits, how soon before said technology falls into the wrong hands....OR EVEN MORE LIKELY....if we partnered with the Isrealis....how soon before ? ? well as david bowie would say, the Man who Sold the World.....we all love to have a few extra sheckles in our pockets....to be able to buy a round and throw some coin around like a hero....that's human nature....but our biblical friends are born with the CURSE of money....they live to be the bankers of the world and seemingly have it bred into them over centuries an unmatched desire to screw or double cross everyone and everything.......in the here and now I see islam as the enemy, it is the religion of the weak minded, it feeds off the poor and uniformed, trully as freud would say the opiate of the masses.. ..notice i didnt call them arabs....our prisons are filled with american born islam converts, when you are at the very bottom, when your world can not get worse, when there is nothing on the horizon you are susceptible....islam is salvation to a sinner, they twist and turn it any way that fits the listener....to that extent isreal is our natural allied force, our best chance at containing and neutralizing our common threat........but in the long term ? as our good friend Eggroll would remind us..have the jews ever had a partner ? ? Jesus Christ, they Killed Jesus Christ didn't they ?

I know this a lot for a Sunday Morning, maybe the stomach Flu that's going around is really just a natural reaction to the MLK Holiday .....but read it and file it away.....and don't say i didn't tell ya , when your train gets lost. ( Dylan...a jew then a christian , and now a devoted follower of sweater nite).

Say a Little prayer for the Bears today.....How much will we Drink if the NFC Title game is Bears-Packers...ov vey.

Zodiac smodiac

I was born on March 2nd, I have been a Pisces my whole life, I feel guilty when I have a shrimp cocktail or a baked Clam because I feel like a canibal, and now there telling me I'm an Aquarius......I've seen the movie HAIR, I've been hearing that dumbass song for 40 some odd years and it means nothing to me......I'm STILL a PISCES.....bullshit....I ain't giving back all my old GOOD Hororscopes, Chinese Fortune Cookie Predictions or anything......I joined the Navy because I'm a squid, what I supposed to do now, go back in time a go the Aquarium instead ?

MINNEAPOLIS - It's a new year, and there's new Zodiac signs for many in 2011. Professor Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society says the Zodiac has a date problem. If you imagine the Earth as a spinning top, the axis changes as it wobbles.

5,000 years later, it means the stars are not aligned, so those with a Libra horoscope are really a Virgo, and many others have a new Zodiac sign too.

“Right now its pointing this way, the North Star, but 3000 BC it was pointing differently,” Kunkle said. “Now things have moved and the sun is in a different constellation. We're about a whole constellation off.“

And don’t forget Ophiuchus, (Pronounced OH-FUK-US )astrology’s orphan.

”Ophiuchus has been a constellation for years and it just gets left out,” Kunkle said.

Our first Look at the Derby 2011

Well what better to do on a snowy saturday in January than take an eye spy at the Derby Contenders for next May....ahhh nothin warms the heart like the thought of our Equine Pals back on the track, galloping round the oval, the roases bllomin, beers chillin in the cooler, beef sizzlin on the grill, money flowin from the Para Mutual windows, Calvin Borell strangling someone in the winners circle....all good stuff....

actually contemplated a trip over to Monmouth Park for the simulcast today, but with the NFL games comin on soon , and I am still technically under the weather...so for now we will daydream from afar.....have a few cocktails downstairs in Club Gato, and watch trackside Live.

A quick glance at Horse Racing Nation shows no surprises...Uncle Mo is the favorite 120 days out from the Derby....and Ricky Dutrow is back with
Boys at Tosconova ,another top pick early........but as always is the CASE...Mr Bob Baffert cathces my eye with Jaycito and Solid Citizen Micheal Smith uptop as of this writing......it would make my year if this combo were to win....my favorite Trainer nad Jock.......as luck would have it...Jaycito's next race is Sunday February 20th in the San vicente Stakes at Santa Anita.....so whilst we quaff beers in the Knights of Columbus and wax poetic about Ol Time Hockey and Eddie Shore , we can call Chip or the other Uncle Mo and put a few sheckles on Jaycito......who knows, i may win enough to pay for my room in the Hotel Gregory for Sweater Nite.......or Not.

anyhow gang, as you can probably surmise....I have never picked the winner of the Derby before the Super Bowl has been played....truth be told, after a hot streak of 3 in a row from 90-92....i have only had 2 or 3 derby winner the past ten years. so take it with a grain of salt and enjoy the Derby Prep Season.....and since I am not going to Churchill Downs this years, that means the party is back on...stay tuned.

el blzzardo part duece

well somewhere under St Francis nose is the pond, if Barry Goldfish and his cohorts survive this winter i may start getting worried.....are these mutant nuclear survivor goldfish from 3 mile island? first they survived my Crazy dog drinking out of their pond for 4 years, then we had the uninvited snapping turtle that launched a goldfish Holocouast...all while St Frank stood around doing nothing, then the freash air pump broked and they were engulfed by more Algea that the Flacons Tight End Mr crumpler, and NOW.....winter 2010-11 they have been burried under 3 feet of snow for 21 plus days....the surface froze over and the snow has blocked out the warmth of the sun.......if these friggin fishies are alive on the first day of spring I am afraid they may grow legs and strangle me in my otherwise peaceful sleep....i'll keep my loyal readrers posted.........on a abright note...i did manage to shovel out and light the grill.....so Steak Fajitas for the Football games is a real possibility....and of course i shoveled a Crop Circle for Graves to utilize as a latrine......just in time for more snow on Tuesday....Doctor Doctor..Mister M.D.

somebody must have spiked Spikes drink

dont ask me to explain, maybe it was the meds or lackofbooze....but i found myself watchin espn last night and their two hour town hall style discussion about the black athlete in todays world.......first off john calipari is a dirtbag, pandering to and catering to these wonderful Mamas and Grandmas that raise these boys he recruits, how much stronger they are because of their grandmas......kinda made u wanna give your first born to this whitey who speaks the truth......he went on to explain why his graduation rate sucks and how he has a "Money" talk with his kids that turn pro at 19........then there was Randy Shannon....a deer in the headlights....still not sure what he was trying to say....Jalen Rose was honest, he said at Michigan they used to joke that the white guys on the team were only there for free throw percentage and to boost graduation rates... Craig Willburn made the best point of the night when talking about the NCAA trying to force kids to stay in school or at least spend a year in school before joining the NBA and how many in the black community think that is racist...."Only in this country could we view education as an impediment to success"....so true.......Robin Roberts was acting half white and half black, she could not make up her mind...acting all serious , then laughing and talking slang and jive , calling Marion Jones a sister and boogeying across the stage.....surreal.....

But Spike Lee stole the show.....mumbling and stumblimg all night....loosing his train of thought.....fading in and out....trailing off mid sentence, forgetting peoples names......made zero sense....bizaro....reminded of louis farakhan and the million man march....more like 300,000 but still a captive audience ( and thankfully nobody missed work that day).....and farakhan decides to talk about space aliens...

they kept harping about racism, and the Q surveys that rank the least liked players and how most of them are black.......but they failed to touch on the obvious...

case in point....I am a knick fan....i liked Lebron James....i thought he was a decent guy in cleveland, i would have liked to see him on the knicks....i rooted for the Cavs when they reached the NBA finals....all the while fully knowing that he was BLACK..........then came the decision.....his natl TV Fiasco when he announced he would be taking his talents to south beach....NOW ? i hope he nevers wins a title....WHY ? because i think he's an arrogant, immature, jerkoff......i know he's still black, and that has nothing to do with it........sports is about allegiances, if i had a problem with black athletes I'd spend all my time watching Hockey and Organizing Hockey Parties.....OK Bad Example.....but you get the point.

California Dreamin

this really has to stop, this cold weather has to go away....i am starting to understand why people migrate south as they get older, i would kill for a summer day or at least a taste of spring, an ice cold beer on the hot beach would be heaven.

el blizzardo part 2

if this snow keeps up, i am gonna end up in rehab....holy shazbott....something about a pending snowstorm and then the eventual snowstorm that makes you wanna put on yer drinking shoes and get hammered....i spent tuesday night in the club quarters on washington street, nice hotel except it overlooks the pit, which is now the memorial that is being built....woke up around 3:00 in the morning, still drunk, and found myself starring at the window at the footprints of 1 world trade...surreal in snow.....hard to believe its been ten years already, but somedays it feels like it another lifetime ago.....oh well.

Minnesota Mike

if your out there.....please leave your address in the comment feild, i have been asking donn for your address for a sweater nite letter for 3 weeks to no avail...

Duff...if your out there, don't begrudge your mail carrier, don't revoke their yearly stipend/ tip, it is not the fault of the USPS if you do NOT receive a letter......i put yours in an empty bottle of Jamesons and threw it in the narrows in hopes it will wash up on the sandy shores of "imported rico" in a months time..


all this at 4:00 a.m. and an impending blizzrd.......that sound Pazarecki hears in his sleep is the pension register going KA-CHING ! !

Pretty Cool ?

Gene Chizik, tha Head Coach of Auburn when asked what he thought about tickets for the BCS Natl Champinship game going for $4,000 on stub hub said "That's pretty cool, it shows you what big spectacle our game has become"

I wonder how many homes are in foreclosure in the great state of alabama.
I wonder how many months rent 4k would cover.
I wonder how many families in alabama spend 4,000 a YEAR on FOOD.

yeah that's pretty cool icehole.....

David Akers CHOKES

the perfect end to the season for that team to the south......Akers CHOKES twice on gimme's , and then the dog murderer throws a pick in the end zone.......enjoy the offseason.....in hindsight I am glad it was their fans that ponied up a C note for tickets, another $25 for parking, another $50 for the tailgate, $$$ Beers inside, waking up on a Monday with a hangover and your team LOST......must suck.

We'll get em next year Mac

In my mind I can still hear Steve Mac screaming from the alley next to Liev Ericksons, "Charlie....why don't they Put Lenny Dawson and Ed Podolak Back in the game"?

To which Charlie replied...."They both been retired for 10 years"

To which Mac Replied to the Whole Neighborhood for 3 Hour " SHADUMSKI ....I will kill you...BLAHHHH"

sadly our mighty Chiefs without the great Len Dawson could not score enough to give our beloved Horse War Paint and his buxom blonde Rider a workout.....we'll get em next year is right Mac...if we can coax Curly Culp and the Hammer out of retirement.

Letter Day

There a few days that always stand out as being special ....the first day when it is warm enough to enjoy a few brews outside for the season , Derby Day , the opening of the pool, FLAG Day... and of course today.....Sweater Nite Letter Day.....there nothing as suspenseful as the Day I ( Founder and President of SN) get to peruse the mailing list and just like Sanity Klause, get to decide who has been naughty or nice....in other words, who deserves an Invite to the annual Bacchanal ...who has distinguished themselves as a quality drinker and quasi Hockey Fan......well today is that day.....and unfortunately because of Obamacare and the rising costs of EVERYTHING, there is less money in the treasury this year than any year prior...a lot of fair weather fans will be omitted from the invite......shock waves and tremors are being felt across the region.....of course my 3 loyal readers are safe....the party by the way is Sunday Feb 20th at 3:00 at the K of C ...

put awaythe metal chairs

Today is either Elvis Pressleys birhday or death day....doesn't really matter, firemen across the tri-state area will start beating each other over the heads with anyt furniture thats not nailed down.....viva Lars Vega

one of THOSE days

ever have one of those days ? i swear certain people are sent into our lives to provoke and annoy.....not the everyday knuckleheads that we all endure, but the occasional jackass you want to strangle.....like we are part of a social experiment and the Good Lord or some Martian Nation is watching us on a video screen to see how we react.

Wednesday was one of them for me.....started bright and early while waitin on the 6:08 train to Hoboken from Little Silver.....Johnny Fatass is standing 5 feet to my left on the platform with his Ginormous Gym bag.....i'm readin the Post minding my own P&Q's ( Pints and Quarts...another expression that will soon be lost to the Euro & Metrics)....and 6:08 turns into 6:10 and the 6:15....then the gates go down alas a train is coming...."is this the 6:08 to Hoboken or the 6:20 to NY ? " he asks ME....who the fuck am i the conductor ? ? ........"no idea" is say "i didn't hear an announcement"........"yeah me neither" he says........ok then why ask me jerkoff?

The train rolls in and the door stops right in front of him....takes him about 15 seconds to get on the train.......annoying........he goes left, so i immediately go right....i already hate this prick and I don't want to see him again for the rest of eternity.

oh....but it wouldn't be a story if it ended there, now would it ? ?

so we get to Hoboken and I start my walk to the light Rail....there is ongoing construction to the walkway, so it is narrow........there is a logjam up ahead....we only have a minute or two to catch our train.....what is the Problem ? ? u guessed it....Johnny Fatass is walking at a snails pace and nobody can get around him because of his bag....i am about ten people behind him. so i give up.......of course the train pulls out about 20 seconds before we get there....on a normal day I would be nice and warm on my lite rail, but today i am stuck waiting on the frozen tundra of the platform for the next train....which OF COURSE is 3 minutes late.

when it finally arrives i wait to see where this jackass is going, he heads to the back of the train so i go forward......just before we pull out of the station, i am sitting there re-reading my Post and as the doors are about to close who comes running down the platform ? changed his mind and now HAS to be in the first car, a social disease this SOB is....now he doesn't sit near me or say a word, but STILL i am seething.....he annoys me to no end.

we get to my stop at Harborside and OF COURSE...he is getting off too...so i go into slowdown mode...just like the sanitation dpt on a snow day, I drag my feet and walk extra slow to let this loathsome creature get further ahead of me......I decide to go into the cafeteria across the street to get another 20oz bucket of Java beans....mmm delicious caffeine will make the world right again....so i go in and make my coffee, contemplate an egg wrap or a muffin, decide against it, just want to pay for my coffee and get to the desk....one last hurdle, the Cashier....one last indignity to suffer before my workday commences, this miscreant is ahead of me in line, and he has his filthy Gym Bag on the counter where other people will eventually place their breakfast items, I can't even look at him, my blood pressure is soaring, i am already thinking about how early i can go to lunch so i can start drinking ......i am staring at the ceiling, patiently waiting.....tick tock, tick tock...what is the holdup? this freako has already paid and received his change, but now he has to rearrange his pockets, put his credit card back, get out his work badge, put away his train pass....blah, blah, blah....all while standing in front of the register...preventing sally Jones from ringing up my CASH purchase....

as i walk to the office after leaving the cafeteria I wonder aloud if there is doubt as to why i have the stress levels I do ,and why I am forced to imbibe ?


if the Good lord was fucking with me, I hope he at least got a chuckle out of it....2 pepcid and 12 Coors Lights later, i too was laughing about it.

stop the presses

at 3:08 this morning the sweater nite crew was aroused from their slumber and ordered to stop the presses......just a few hours before the first letters were to be dropped at the post Office declaring the K of C as the host of SN XIII .......

for the first time in her illustrous History Sweater Nite is Goin overseas......and we aint talkin about the NARROWS , nosir.......SN 13 is going to the land of Rum for a Nice respite on the Tropical Beaches of

PUERTO RICO..........no tellin whom we may run into down there......more to follow.

History Channel

so 3:30 this morning we are watching a Biography of Rebert E Lee on the history channel while sipping coffee and the narration consists of reading of letters between Lee and his wife Mary.....real good stuff, insightful, witty , emotional.....150 years later you still get a feel for what was happening on those battlefields from a factual historical standpoint and also from a personal point of view........suddenly I was saddened by the realiztion that this type of Biography will soon be extinct, 150 years from now when "They" look back on this generation and try to retell our tales and gain insight to our emotions, there will be little to review and decipher, nobody writes letters anymore...all we will have to show for ourselves is abbreviated texts in cyber space............OH, and Of Course this BLOG...

Navy Captain Relived of Duty

wow....the XO of the USS Enterprise was involved with lewd videos that poked fun at Homosexuals, Lesbians and masturbation...................that sound you didn't hear was crickets in the distance....as in...who gives a f*k ?....... as Steven Tyler stated so correctly 20 years ago and still appropriate."Theres something wrong with the world today".......i mean seriously, enough with the application of civilian morals and standards to the Military.....it's not the same, the military is a world unto itself, there are a different set or norms and mores that are adhered to.....when you pull away from the dock as i can attest ( and I am sure the Marines, Army and Air Force are similar when they deploy) everything changes......the stress levels increase dramatically , the class structure changes, suddenly it is survival of the strong.........i have never been, but i imagine it is similar to a prison environment, you exploit the weak and find a niche to survive.....you are sailing away from your home and there is no certainty that you will ever return, civilian rules and politically correct behavior do not exist. The task of this XO and the Senior Command of this Carrier was to get 6,000 men to forget about their wives and children and do what was asked of them, even if it cost them their lives......tell me exactly how some fatass lawyer in Virginia and the ACLU would handle this task....who gives a shiite what course of action this XO took, so he made some videos, he tried to inject some levity into the situation, show the crew he was human and has a sense of humor, we know the civilian world is too sensitive, we know there is a great deal of the population that is waiting to be offended by something so they can sue or go to HR , we know PC is suffocating social debate and everyone looks over their shoulder before they state their opinions......but this CAN't cross over to the Military......Dont ask dont tell was nonsense , there are gays in the military , always have been , and always will be......just like High School or any other social situation, some guys will torment and torture suspected gays and others could give a dam so as long as they do their job like everyone else. What happens overseas or in combat or anywhere the military is deployed, cannot be litigated in a court room, should not be dissected on larry king live and should be left to the Military to handle.

i'd love to see the unedited videos from that ship, i bet they are hysterical.

Winter Classic

ok lets start the debates...why the F have the New York Rangers, easily the NHL's most recognizable and popular franchise not been invited to participate in the Winter Classic....even if you feel Rangers-Iceladies from Yankee stadium or Rangers-Devils from Giants Stadium is too regional or you are uncertain with the NY weather come Jan 1......you most certainly agree the Rangers deserve....ahem, DEMAND the right to play on the biggest stage...even if it's on the road......How About Rangers-Red Wings from Tiger Stadium ? or Rangers- Maple Leafs from the SKYDOME....Rangers-Rockies from Coors Field.....mmmmmm Cooooors field.....or Rangers-Blue Jackets from the Horse Shoe...oh the list goes on and on.......in case you missed it, and i would feel comfortable in wagering a few C notes that you did......the Frogmen to the North, feeling betrayed and left out of the big show , are staging their own outdoor game with 2 teams of their own.....on Sunday Feb 20th the Flying Frenchmen from Montreal travel to former home of Doug Flutie and the Calgary Stampeders to tackle the Flames formerly of hot Lanta...

little ten

well the big ten went 0-5 on New Years day , and what ramifications will that have on next year most over hyped conf in the nation.....nada.....because the Press/Media are a Joke...everyone is self serving, nobody wants to vote their conscience if that outcome of said vote has a negative impact on themselves.....i have gone over this before, but i will again for the sake of my newcomers......if an AP Voter from Peoria Illinois , one that covers the Illini and Big Ten Football for his newspaper voted accurately , and just say the Big Ten had no teams in the Top 15 , it would then render his coverage of the Illini VS Mich, Ohio St, Wisc Penn St or take your pick to have less meaning and garner less attention than if he were covering Illini VS the #3 Ranker Wolverines or the #1 Buckeyes etc etc........the polls become popularity contests as opposed to viable rankings, and that will never change.....Boise and TCU will never get their due, because they don't have a seat at the table.....disband the BCS now, we know we will never have a Playoff, so lets just try to get independent voters, equal representation from across the country, and throwout the auto bids.....I am BIG East guy, but we all know even Boise with 1 loss would have put up a better fight against Oklahoma than UCONN did.

el blizzardo

these shots were taken at 7:00 a.m. New Years Day 2011.....a full 6 days after the storm, sadly the outside bar is still snowed in, but the comfy cozy confines of Club Gato were open for business throughout the storm.....or so Gravey tells me.

enough already

I am sick and tired of the citizens of this fair city going after the sanitation dept like an unruly mob, accusing them of a slowdown and incompotency, that's just silly, as the picture clearly shows, NY's Strongest were NOT frolicking in the snow, but rather they were hard at work for 72 hours, plowing the roads and making our lives easier......can't the NY Post find any cops, firemen or MTA workers to ridicule.

Blizzard

was offline for a few days, stranded in the Candlewood suites in Jerz city for the great blizzrd of 2010........despite les miserabe Giants we made the most of it, found a few watering holes that stayed open despitethe horrific elements and managed to drink plenty of fluids and survive on kobe beef......got home just in time to shovel out a crop circle in the backyard for Queen Graves to roam and relieve herself , so all is well......

happy belation

a belated wish of health, happiness, peace, prosperity and the constant flow of libations this Christmas season and throughout 2011 to all the Loyal Blog readers and the Exetended ever growing family of Sweater Nite......this coming sweater nite we will embroider the blog address onto the beer huggies so there will be nor more excuses for not reading religiously.

At the time of this writing we are hunkering down for a massive snowstorm that is roaring up the coast, my Christmas elfs ( Val, Gravey and Messier) are busy readying club Gato for an afternoon of playoff implication football and cold beeeeeeere.

Happy Birthday to Steve O'Dowd who is braving the elements in Soldier Field for the Jets- Bears game.

comes a time

Comes a time , when a blind man takes your hand
and says, don't you see ? ( Jerry Garcia )

inevitably in life there also comes a time in life when you ask yourself, WHY DO I GIVE A DAM ?

I don't like being extorted for a PSL , but I do it because i love the Giants.
I don't like being forced to buy season tickets and preseason games and parking passes IN ADVANCE, but i do it because i bleed BIG blue.
I don't like paying a Bernard Kings ransom for a bottle of beer in the nose bleed seats of the NEW GIANTS stadium, but I do it because there is a bond between players and fans that bridges generations, a pride that comes with identifying yourself as a GIANTS fan, euphoric when they succeed and despaired when they fail.

Yesterday tested the limits of said bond, when we the people give up so much, time, money etc etc ; this close to Christmas, you at least expect the team to meet you half-way , the 4th quarter of yesterdays games against the that team from the south, went far beyond embarrassing, i don't like loosing, but i can tolerate it.....I CANT Tolerate apathy, and that's what i saw on the field in the waning 8 minutes of the game.

why ? why ? do i give a dam.....well maybe i don't.

Woodsie saves the day

so after 96 hours of being in the dark about whether or not they are serving Cold Beer at the Garden for the Holiday Festival, no thanks to eggroll, the man the myth the legend Dante Woods calls me this morning shortly after services and emphatically stated that they ARE selling Beer manayana evening .....to the garden we go ? ? that is the question.

blast from the past

spent a cold saturday afternoon slightly under the weather looking for old pictures to put on Facebook to torture my niece's, stumbled across this gem .....summer of 1980, wishing back then i had a buck 69 for some blatz no doubt.......wishing tday i could find that shirt, if it wasn't thrown away when I left for bootcamp. I remember it well to , it was obviously a homemade tie dye and it was originally a white Tee with a small Mickey Mouse on the left breast , i made it special for the Spring Tour and if i recall.....and i do.....most of the good stuff that was being sold outside the venues that year "also" had a Mickey Mouse Character embossed on the outside.

nothin says Christmas

like a long days journey into night, drinking fine Ales in some of the oldest pubs on the isle of Manhattan. Spent Friday with my bride slaking our thirst with pints of Brooklyn Lager, The Ear Inn homebrew , Stellas, PBR's and anything else that came down the pike. Breakfast in the grey Dog on Carmine street, a late lunch in Walkers , started the drinking in the Prince Street Lounge at 10:00 a.m., with stops along the way including the aforementioned EAR INN and Fanellis......did not make it up to Petes unfortunately, next time we shall start there just to be sure.

Once again the CLASH were right

well now that Cliff lee has returned to the phillies it's looking more and more as tho the stars are aligning for the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse to return.......seriously folks if faced with the choice of our miscreant, sloth neighbors to the south (friends and blood family excluded)winning another world series , OR the world coming to an end....I might choose Armageddon....it would be less painful and would be over quickly.

It's not Christmas Time anymore....it's Armegiddeon Time. (Joe Strummer)

Honorable Eggroll is soooo busy!

How busy is he , you may ask...and rightfully so....
well the Eggman, AKA DasDas, AKA Coach Nolan, AKA Uncle Den Den , AKA and the list of nicknames can stretch from the OLA schoolyard all the way to Kirk Campions house and back, but you get the jist......I sent Strovika ( aka...ah forget it) a short and pecise text on Monday Morning.

" Eggroll ( i says) do they sell BEEEEEER at the Holiday Festival at MSG ? "

a yes or no question...but an important one that required the courtesy of a reply, you see the Terriers of Remsen street, Our Beloved St. Franks College basketball team is playing at Madisoy Square Garden on Monday against the Wildcats of Northwestern,, with the Redmen playing Davidson in the Nightcap......but if they ain't serving Nightcaps....well then obviously we ain't goin....I'd rather have double root canal then sit through a college basketball doubleheader without at least a dozen cold beers.


and so i find myself this early Thursday morn still waiting on a simple 3 letter reply.....or God Forbid a dreaded 2 letter reply.

The Fate , and attendance figures for MSG lie in the balance.

Does anyone out there know if they are serving our godd friend Mr. Al Cohol at the games? obviously the eggmesiter is hard at work with his own team and can't reply....either that or his kids are on strike and won't teach him how to Text.

1996 Army - Navy Revisited

in what was most certainly the most bitter defeat in the series, mainly because i was not only in attendance but because I helped organize a busload of approx 20 "friends" who were all rooting for ARMY ...except of course fellow squid Jack Duffy , the photos above were from that fateful day and the articale below is a recap from the Baltimore Sun......after getting rained on for 7 hours and drinking a delauge of Beer, Navy fell short at the Army Goal line......heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking. baltimoresun.com Army 28, Navy 24 Army enlists more Navy misery Mids see 18-point lead slip away in 28-24 loss, fifth straight near-miss 

Goooooooooo NAVY !

Today does promise to be a classic game between the service academies, with the Midshipmen of Navy looking to improve upon an unprecedented streak of 8 straight over ARMY.(scores listed below) But the final score never tells the real story, this game is match between the finest Men the United States has to offer. This past decade our country has been at war , and these guys both sides of the ball have willingly joined the frey as opposed to shying away. The Pride , Honor and Courage on display today in Phildelphia mean so much more than a final score. Do yourself a favor, settle in on your favorite couch or bar stool, raise a glass of Ale to these Midshipmen and Cadets and maybe say a prayer that God has their back , the way they have OURS.



2002 Navy 58–12 Giants Stadium East Rutherford, NJ Army 49-47-7
2003 Navy 34–6 Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA Army 49-48-7
2004 Navy 42–13 Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA Tied 49-49-7
2005 Navy 42–23 Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA Navy 50-49-7
2006 Navy 26–14 Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA Navy 51-49-7
2007 Navy 38–3 M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, MD Navy 52-49-7
2008 Navy 34–0 Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA Navy 53-49-7
2009 Navy 17–3 Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA Navy 54-49-7

Rising First and shining Best

Like a Phoenix from the ashes the United States Navy Rose Up, Collectively Brushed off the Dust, repaired what was salvageable, rebuilt what was not and orchestrated the Greatest Comeback in the Manned History of the Planet Earth.......and amazing 45 months later, a mere hiccup in time, the USS Missouri ( Mighty Mo) and the USS Nicholas sailed into Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2nd 1945 and accepted the Unconditional surrender of Japanese forces...aboard the Battleship Missouri, Flagship of the US Navy in the Pacific...the same NAVY that was left for dead on the sleepy Hawaiian shores by said Jap Bastards.........GOD SPEED AND FOLLOWING SEAS !

Try to remember in your travels

With no warning the attacking planes came into sight over pearl harbor. At 7:55 AM, December 7, 1941 the first target was hit and by 9:45 AM it was all over. Behind them the Japanese left devastation as their aircraft carriers headed home to Japan. Over 2400 people died, hundreds of planes were destroyed, and a fleet containing eight battleships was ruined. With a single act, Japan woke America to the horrible realities of war. The debate that had divided Americans since the German defeat of France was decided, America would go to war. President Roosevelt received word of the attack on a Sunday afternoon and stated he would ask congress to declare war on Japan. On Monday the declaration of war was signed and one day later, Germany, Italy, and Japan declared war on the US.

12 billion ?

well, now that the Federal Govt has made a 12 billion dollar profit on Citibank, maybe the Media will start referring to TARP as an investment in the US Financial system instead of a bailout....yeah right. We have harped on this in the past but it BEARS ( no pun intended) repeating.......nobody was bailed out, the institutions that needed cash to stay alive we're told to sell themselves or the Treasury Secretary brokered the sale for them or they went under...............TARP was an interest free loan to hand picked Banks to encourage lending, so that MAIN Street could continue to get financing for car loans, etc etc..The Fed Govt took ownership (shares) in the Banks as collateral for the loans at their "all time" low prices....low and behold when the markets recovered slightly the fed had a windfall....Damm Wall Street Crooks....making money for the American public again........and TIS the season when we will hear about Wall Street Bonuses , when in fact , it is deferred compensation, no different than Union contracts with pensions and other perks......sorry there is one difference, whereas Govt Pensions are paid even if the Municipality is bankrupt, deferred Comp on Wall Street is a percentage of profits.....tuff year on the street, the Company didn't make money ? ? FU pay me...no bonus....

The U.S. Treasury sold the last of its Citigroup Inc. common shares in a $10.5 billion offering that capped the government's biggest bank bailout of the financial-market meltdown.

The stock sale, which was finalized Monday evening, means taxpayers will reap a profit of $12 billion on their $45 billion cash investment in Citi, the Treasury said. It also helps the government quell some of the criticism that it went too far in propping up the financial system, and allows the bank to shake the market stigma that it has effectively been a ward of the state.




The U.S. Treasury sold the last of its Citigroup Inc. common shares in a $10.5 billion offering that capped the government's biggest bank bailout of the financial-market meltdown.

The stock sale, which was finalized Monday evening, means taxpayers will reap a profit of $12 billion on their $45 billion cash investment in Citi, the Treasury said. It also helps the government quell some of the criticism that it went too far in propping up the financial system, and allows the bank to shake the market stigma that it has effectively been a ward of the state.

****not suitable for children****

I try police my BLOG and keep free and clear of obscene language , but the below email i am about to reprint may shock some of you.....in the spirit of the season I reached out to my friends with gangrene and offered heartfelt condolonces on the Brian Leonhard injury.......what i received in return was disturbing......below is an "EXACT" replica of on email Squiree Brian Duffy sent early this morning ( The LORDS' day)

Why the anger? Just sit there with your little bottle of Chimp Chiller Ale, wear your little blue 56 jersey with the name "RAPIST" on the back, giggle to yourself whenever Brady completes a pass, and count your little Super Bowl trophies. You should be more concerned with Bishop Ford basketball than the NFL....at this rate your pal eggroll will be fired before the Auburn-Oregon Game, and with good cause...he couldn't coach his way out of a paper bag....dano after 6 hours in Farrells would make a better coach.....I heard Hoff, Higgins and Collins were at the debut verse POLY....Don't ANY of your friends work anymore? (was Raymore and Flanagan closed again?) your legions are so thin you guys had to accept JC into the fold....well at least he drinks....Mac, Roll, Dano ,Higgins which one of you guys is getting farmed next.....Boris and Natasha drink more than your friends...Leave worrying about the Jets to Jets fans like me and that Pollack Pazarecki. Thank you and Merry Christmas.---Duff

Furthur

Trucked into the Big city to see the Boys one more time in the Wolrds most famous arena, and was certainly not dissapointed. The sound, the song selection and arrangement (more on that later) the sights and SMELLS were all too familiar, the beeeeeer was extremely cold and the band was inspired to put it mildly.

Set 1: Jam > Help on the Way > Slipknot > Shakedown Street > Jack Straw, El Paso, Wharf Rat > keyboard solo > Two Djinn > Lady with a Fan > Terrapin Station > Terrapin Suite > At a Siding

Set 2: Mountain Song > Jam > Dark Star > The Other One > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Death Don't Have No Mercy > Franklin's Tower, E: One More Saturday Night

One for the Ages

Let me start out by saying if you were not fortunate enough to watch the whole spectacle, then you were cheated of one of the finest examples of Americana left today. The other professional sports can take a back seat to America's Queen...Nothing , and i mean NOTHING like this has ever happened in this sport or any sport. Never has there been this kind of outpouring of love for a retiring champion on the cusp of their last match, game, fight etc etc.........i implore you to get to you tube and try to catch the the walk from barn 41 to the paddock....ESPN deserves a medal for having the foresight to televise a part of horse racing that has never been talked about or shown on TV, even folks at the track are not usually locked in to this exhibition, namely because it is an insignificant non-event...the horses are lead from the barn onto the track counterclockwise past the finish line , through the tunnel and into the paddock wearing their aprons, no numbers or silks, some of them unrecognizable......until yesterday.

There were 3 police officers there to escort her and the handler , Queen Z was already dancing , playing with her two front legs , scratching at the dirt and showboating like Cassius Clay , words don't do it justice , it was a sight to behold.The crowd swell started early , up along the clubhouse turn, usually the quietest part of the track, they were buzzing , shouts and cat calls of "ZENYATTA".
As they made their way towards the grandstand the cheering started , now she was hopping around, bouncing if you will , the tunnel was lined with Breeders officials, Press, and those lucky enough to sneak a peak at the champ as she passed. When she emerged into the Paddock it was New Years Eve and the stroke of midnight, an absolute joyful roar , flags, banners, posters, flashbulbs, cheers and applause....all for one girl, THE QUEEN of AMERICA this day. Don't take my word for it, Bob Baffert and Nick Zito both interviewed in the paddock said they had never seen anything like this BEFORE a race....NOTHING.

This field was deep, certainly the toughest she had ever faced, all battle tested males from the triple crown and stakes races across the land, no slouches here, if she falls far behind like she always does, she's toast today.

I really love this horse, she amazes me, and have the utmost respect for her will to win and ability to find a way. I have had the pleasure watching her the past two years on TVG and i never bet her , i like to too much, she should not have to bear the jinx of my wager on her huge shoulders.

And there off ! she slides to the rail behind the pack as always , but still right there, as they round the clubhouse turn she is fading , Mike Smith asks her to step it up early, perhaps realizing she can't play around today , but little response. the field is in 3 packs....the lead 4 , a big gap to the next 7 , and an even bigger gap to Zenyatta.......i forget about my dopey horse Lookin at Lucky and I am fixated on Zenyatta.....she doesn't have it today, a pit in my stomach, so sad, she is not even going to make a real run.....around the far turn and onto the stretch i am focusin on Lucky.....he is 4 wide with nobody in front, just explode down the stretch and we got it ......but Blame is pulling away and all I can hope for is 2nd....and the track announcer shouts "Zenyatta is making here move" no way.....she is zigzagging through a minefield of horses and now is on outside still about 6 lenghts with 200 yards to go....with every stride she is closing the gap , and BLAME aint quitting, with Ga Go, Garret Gomez uptop he has the best jockey in the land, but Mike Smith and Queen Z are barreling down the stretch...3 lengths , 2 lengths 1 length, 1/2 length and she is just about to pass......FLASH ! they hit the wire.

The sight of this girl standing on the track, covered in mud , and somewhat confused that they were not going to the winners circle was too much. Mike Smith leaned forward and kissed her neck before the dismount, it was unfamiliar waters for both of them, for the 1st time is her life, the first time in an unbelieveable 20 races, she was not getting the flower blanket, it was almost too much to bear.

Mike Smith stated before the race that he would give back all his accomplishments over the years for this race, he wanted it for her , more than any other race in his life, he is a deeply religious man and a true gentlemen , a figure we don't often encounter in professional sports, you won't see him on a Nike commercial, he doesn't have that street edge that thugs, coke dealers and the sneaker buying populace seem
to love . And when it was over he wept , he didn't refuse to speak to the media, instead he went to the dais, broke down and blamed himself for the ride , he didn't use any of the excuses that were at his disposal, the stiff competition, the unfamiliar dirt surface, the cold weather for a Cali girl, the first time racing under the lights, the excitement of 75K fans...nope, none of it , it was his fault and he just hopes she still goes down in history as one of the all time greats.

I misspoke on this blog a while back, although i was always in Zenyatta's camp, i mistakenly said that the excitement that followed Rachel was unmatched, the truth is because I saw Rachel in person on 3 occasions I had a chance to see first hand what the buzz was, Saturday I saw on TV the infectious following of Americas Queen...she is not only the greatest Female Horse of All time, and one of the Greatest Race Horses of all time , she is the biggest Equine Rock Star of them all. The outpouring for Barbaro was unprecedented, but it took a tragedy to unfold, in some ways Barbaro may deserve credit for this new American public that has taken to the races, I wonder how many of the gals at Churchill first started following racing after the Barbaro saga.

And I close , if you didn't see it live on Saturday, i feel bad for you , because I doubt we will ever see anything like it again........Thank you Zenyatta for saving our sport.

America's Queen Z

By Amy Wilson
awilson1@herald-leader.com
LOUISVILLE — Children wept. And so did grown-ups, the ones who had come from Nebraska and Minnesota and California and Maryland to see their girl, Zenyatta, run one more, only to lose by one stride.

This was not what they had planned when they came to Kentucky's Churchill Downs on Saturday morning in triumphant glee.

"She's still a powerhouse," said Beth Shakan of Annapolis, Md. "This changes nothing."

As she said that, Erica Harris of Omaha, Neb., stood next to her in the dark and cried.

The day had started with all the promise of the tall beauty retiring from racing having never lost a single race. Cheryl Williams tried early Saturday to entice Breeders' Cup patrons who wanted to park their cars with a sign that read only: "See Zenyatta."

Just across from Williams' front yard — now a dozen parking spaces selling for $20 apiece — you had a perfect view of Barn 41's little paddock and, in it, the then-19-0, 17-hands tall beauty noshing some grass hours before what could have been her greatest triumph.

"Half of the drivers don't believe me," Williams said, "because it's too good to be true." Williams was positively giddy, cashing in as she was on the zeal that belonged exclusively to this horse and to this moment and to what many believed was the chance to see the final run of the horse who could very well turn out to be the greatest this century would know.

Next door, with lesser views of Barn 41, the going rate was $15.

Inside the Downs, the Breeders' Cup, renowned for its lack of Kentucky Derby millinery, saw the rules relaxed for Zenyatta's followers.

Dressed in boa-trimmed hats, replete with silver crowns and horse ears, wrapped in pink scarves and wearing what amounted to Zenyatta jerseys, six friends from five states who met on an Internet fantasy horse racing club came together yet again to see their favorite horse.

"We love her," they said almost in unison, explaining that they'd met her in person, given her a four-pack of Guinness beer, let her eat their flashy hats and were even allowed in the winner's circle at Hollywood Park where Diana Carreon of Venice Beach, Calif., got to raise a sign that read: "Zenyatta for Governor."

Inside the Churchill Downs shop Saturday afternoon, people were upset that Zenyatta merchandise sold out early in the morning. That made Leslie Sworsky and Carol Hanson, two Minnesota high school teachers, look prescient by designing their own T-shirts to wear Saturday. "Hail to the Queen" read the front of the shirt; "You'll tell your grandkids you saw her run" read the back.

The teachers took a day off work Friday, driving all day, crying when they saw the Twin Spires Saturday morning. Both women have loved horses for a long time, but only really began to follow Zenyatta when they heard a story about her on NPR a year ago. They said they just fell in love instantly.

"We both were in high school for Secretariat," said Sworsky. "That feeling hasn't come around for us since then. We were destroyed by what happened to Ruffian, Eight Belles and Barbaro. This horse is just joyful. This business needs this."

Because this was the Breeders' Cup, there was talk about business even when there was talk about joy, and it was coming from those with pink feathers and plastic horses in a field of teal grass on their heads.

"This is what horse racing should be about," said Nebraska's Harris before the race. "She was given time to grow into her body and be the racehorse she was supposed to be."

Harris was the most visible of fans, her hat marking each of the largest races with tiny banners and signs. She became engaged to Jeremiah Johnson just before Zenyatta's win at Del Mar. Her engagement ring is two intertwined, diamond-studded horse shoes.

Shakan, her friend from Maryland, met Erica and Jeremiah that day at Del Mar. They have become great friends, attending all the races Zenyatta's run since.

"We have met so many people," said Shakan. "I don't want to see it end."

Standing nearby was friend Jamie Harris of Louisville who added, almost as an afterthought: "But Kentucky needs Zenyatta to win, so we can get over the loss of Secretariat. It's time."

It was not time this time.

As a horse with the impossibly ironic name of Blame won, the Churchill Downs crowd at first hardly knew how to behave. There was a stunned silence.

"No one clapped for her," said Shakan, dismayed that she did not again hear the roar of Churchill Downs crowd call Zenyatta's name and see it rise to its feet for her as she crossed the wire.

"Why not?" she asked, then answered it herself: "To be all that, that's a lot of pressure for one horse."

Christmas Come early

the most wonderful day of the year, now that Breeders Cup is here.

chills and goosebumps and no it's not a hangover, it is the thrilling exhilaration and anticipation of Day 2 of the breeders Cup. Zenyatta tabs a stab at immortality this day. At approx 6:45 this evening, beneath the shadows of the Twin Spires, on the holiest of ovals the equine racers have ever known, this Gal will attempt to etch her face on the Mt Rushmore of Horse Racing. If she wins her name will be whispered in the same sentence as Secretariat, Man o War and War Admiral. A perfect 20-0 and back to back winner of the "Classic" I don't think she will do it, I can't fathom "any" horse coming from dead last ( as she always does) against this field, but Alas I have been wrong before and today I am such a sport that i am going to give her a "fighting chance" .....I will NOT bet on her.


here are the rest of the Gato picks, feel free to wager as much as you like.

Manitoba
Atta Boy Roy
Chamberlain Bridge
JP's Gusto
Gio Ponti
Tizway
Debussy
LOOKIN AT LUCKY

thems fightin words

not a big fan of Calvin in the past, dont care for his AW SHUCKS style or that GOOD OL BOY persona he flaunts, will never forgive him for abandoning Derby CHAMPION Mine that Bird for the glory of Rachel A in the Preak.

That being said, he was in the right on Friday in the winners Circle of the venerable Chruchill Downs, in case you missed it, Mr Borell took Javi Catellano to task for a dangerous move that could have killed Martin Garcia , Romp and Calvin himself......castellano responded by throwing a punch at Calvin and fireworks ensued,.....as the above photo should attest, Borell went Banannas...flipped his lid, and pleaded with security " let me go so i can kill that little bastard".

have a lot of homework to do before i head over to Monmouth park this day....check back in an hour or so and me and Gravey will let you in on whom were tossing sheckles at on day two.......6 for 6 yesterday.....pulled a PG.

Sweater Nite Breeders Picks

So my Pal Gravey and I are sitting here havin a few brews talkin horsies and we realize our loyal readership is probably awaiting our picks for day 1 of the breeeders....here goes....free money awaits

eldaafer
more than real
dubai majesty
awesome feather
shared account
unrivaled belle


on my way to Brannigans in a few if any of you lads are around..

close.....but no cigar-ski

Whom would be a better Sheriff for Monmouth County than this beast ? she did receive 2 "write in" votes, but not enough to win.

the Wonder Bar

incidentally.....the Wonder Bar has an outdoor Bar with a dog run in the back , and now proudly hosts YAPPY Hour....all well behaved pooches are welcome.

Congratulations El Gigantes of San Francisco , the official Beisbol Team of the Late Jerry Garcia and Sweater Nite....

Zombie Walk in Asbury Park

today is the Zombie walk in Asbury, they are hoping to set a Record. Zombie Walk is the official Halloween event of Sweater Nite , if you can't make the walk, you can certainly have a beeeer in the Wonder Bar

obama care...

Don't say I didn't warn ya , when your train gets lost. B Dylan

This article was written by Marc Siegel in the NY Post Oct 26th

I Can feel ObamaCare closing in.

It starts with small things. Consider a patient I'll call Jane, a corporate executive in her mid 40s. She's happy with her current health coverage -- a high-deductible policy paired with a Flexible Spending Account that can cover up to $3,000 a year in routine expenses, which she uses to pay for much of her medical care.

Other than her yearly screening check-up, Jane doesn't come in to see me unless she's really sick. An occasional bout of bronchitis prompts a brief visit, where I prescribe her a short course of antibiotics. Otherwise she uses her FSA to buy Tylenol and Advil over-the-counter for an occasional headache, insect repellant for summers in her backyard and Prevacid for an infrequent case of heartburn.

But, starting Jan. 1, Jane won't be able to use her flex-spend account to cover OTC remedies without getting a prescription first. That's right: She'll need a prescription for non-prescription drugs -- a waste of her time, and mine. Otherwise, she has to pay a 20 percent penalty for using the account to buy exactly the sort of things it was designed to cover.

She's not alone: I have 20-plus patients facing this pointless restriction on their flex-spend or Health Savings accounts. Nationwide, more than 30 million workers with FSAs and 10 million others with HSAs are all in the same boat.

Do the congressmen who passed the health-reform law seriously expect me to somehow find the time to prescribe laxatives, antacids, creams for insect bites and hemorrhoids and so on for these patients? Or are they just looking to render that coverage worthless?

There's much worse to come. Also on Jan. 1, the cuts to Medicare Advantage start kicking in -- $140 billion in lost federal funding. I don't yet know how many of my patients will lose the dental, eye and comprehensive prescription-drug coverage that these policies provide.

The burdens keep piling up, bit by bit, over the next three years. I'm really worried about 2014: That's when the new Independent Medicare Advisory Board starts restricting the essential services I can provide the more than half my patients who have Medicare. Since the "reform" cut hundreds of billions from Medicare, something's going to have to give.

Then there's the issue Dr. Scott Gottlieb pointed out recently on these pages ("Killing Marcus Welby," Oct. 18): The reform law is also designed to push my patients -- and me -- into an HMO-style arrangement, even if they've renamed these behemoths "Accountable Care Organizations." We're not supposed to find a way around all the restrictions -- we're supposed to give up, and start following the orders of the president's preferred experts.

As more of the "reform" law takes hold, the daily practice of medicine will grow more and more difficult for both doctors and patients. Premiums are already rising and services are diminishing.

Several of my patients have found that their policies are changing and no longer cover their medications. Their referrals are restricted to narrow networks of specialists even as their co-pays and deductibles rise.

Others have lost their jobs but still have too much income to qualify for Medicaid and don't yet qualify for the high-risk pools. I see many of these patients for free, but they can't afford the tests I want to order.

It's hard for me to believe that President Obama has spent any time in a real doctor's office. He can claim that he hasn't succeeded in getting his message across, or that fear clouds our thinking -- but when it comes to health care, most Americans understand his message and just don't agree with it.

And, having written a book on fear, I can tell you that fear is an appropriate response to ObamaCare as it plays out in my examination room.

Marc Siegel is a practicing internist in New York and a Fox News medical contributor.

Uncle Jerry up above

there is no doubt that the Fate of the 2010 SF Giants turned dramatically after they held "JERRY GARCIA" night on Aug 9th.....at that point the Padres were running away with the division and El Gigantes were in danger of missing the playoffs entirely....the late Jerry Garcia, a huge baseball and Giant fan has certainly been lookin down from above ever since......Go Giants !

Dublin Marathon

across the pond in Dublin they are lining up for the start of the marathon at this time, good luck Steve, beat that ol broad.


side note....sounds like the packers-vikings game was very exciting last night.....i wonder if anyone saw it.......I was down in Philly at the little bandbox waiting for game 7.....nobody effin showed....

total domination

When you beat your opponent 75% of the time, as NAVY has against the Irish in recent years, is it really still considered competition ? these victories over ND are not the type of quality wins we need in the BCS standings...yeah it's nice to play them every year, but trouncing them doesn't help the bottom line of winning a National Championship....maybe its time we rethink this rivalry ......i heard someone say somethin a long time ago about a "STREAK" ....those days died with tyrone shoelaces willingham........at least charlie Weiss used to keep it close....

35-17 was deceptive.....it wasn't that close.

GOOOOOOO NAVY

he aint dead, he's just asleep

Happy Birthday Bobby Ace......Many many more.

Sugar Magnolia, Blossoms bloomin
Heads all empty and I dont care.
saw my baby down by the river,
I knew she had to come up soon for air.

Isle be seein you

WCBS News is reporting that Charles (don't tell em your Jewish) Wang has sold the iceladies hockey club to a group of investors from Oklahoma City for 23 dollars and a necklace. A news conf to announce the sale and relocation of the team is slated for 9:00 a.m. Before the sale was finalized GM Garth Brooks Snow extended Rick Dipietros contract another 18 years and promised the netminder he could also play starting point guard for the OK City Thunder of the NBA. When reached in Toronto for comment Commissioner Gary Bettman said only " Mark Messier...come get your Stanley Cup ".

film at elevenish.

NFL unwatchable part 2

not sure what time the game ended last night, but I do know the last train to Monmouth County departs Seacaucus at 1:08 AM .......otherwise you can take a nap on a bench in the lautenderg Mahal until 5:35.....you have work on Tuesday?...Fck you.

incidentally, remember the good old days growing up in NYC.....you could go to any corner tavern or friends house on a sunday and sit down to watch the Giants and Jets back to back...1:00 & 4:00 every Sunday....week after week.

this past weekend was the 5th of this 2010 NFL season and the Jets and Giants have yet to play back to back on Sunday sfternoon.....tradition.

Teach Your Children, ahem; students well

why on Gods Green earth do these stupid teachers want OUT of obamacare ? dont they know this is FREE YIPEE healthacre for all....a topic that s/b near and dear to their liberal hearts.........and Mcdonalds, a company that has always provided health care for its 30,000 employees said it would have to rethink that policy as a result in the rising costs from obamacare.......can anyone say waiver for Micky D's ?

The United Federation of Teachers -- one of President Obama's key political backers -- is the biggest beneficiary of a White House sweetheart deal that will exempt certain outfits from
complying with new health-care rules, officials revealed yesterday.

The quietly approved federal waivers for 30 companies, health insurers, unions and other groups across the country means the UFT doesn't have to gradually phase out caps on annual health coverage like everyone else.

The UFT was concerned that could have been a major financial hit on the union.

The one-year waiver, approved last month by the Department of Health and Human Services, covers all 351,000 members of the UFT's welfare fund, which provides health care and other benefits.

The UFT has the largest pool of affected employees of the 30 organizations that received waivers. The second largest was CIGNA with 265,000 members.

Critics have questioned the need for the exemptions, who got them, and why.

"Big labor spent millions of dollars pushing ObamaCare, which they made sure was stuffed full of union giveaways," said Patrick Semmens, spokesman for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which represents businesses

the NFL is becoming unwatchable

maybe its me, maybe I am cranky on Columbus day morn, but the NFL is starting to suck.......flags, flags, flags after every play........challenges, challenges, challenges after every big play ( and sometimes after insignificant plays).....look at me dances after every touchdown , even when your team is getting their ass kicked ( look at the bronco lowlights yesterday) , every imbecile who manages to get past the yard sticks has to jump up and signal first down, even if the play was good for 1 yard, but hey America , don't act surprised or disgusted, WE created this, WE allowed sophomoric behavior from the media booth to take over our psyche, fools like Brent Musberger and Chris Berman get huge bonuses to glorify thuggery and insist how a rapist, DUI , Murderer, Wife Beater (take your pick) "got redemption after catching a pass or sacking the QB .....something he already gets grossly overpaid to do as part of his J O B ......but where do the funds come from to overpay Johhny Spoonjiah-Brown (everybody got 3 names these days, it started out practical because it was coin flip over possible parenthood, but now 3 names is coool).

Lets sell the game for starters........highest bidder gets to rape the shit out of NFL traditions and prostitute the game for their own enjoyment.....
Sunday Night Game ? no problem
Sunday Night Game in NY in December ? no problem
Monday Night Football? no problem
Thursday Night Football ? no problem
Thanksgiving Night Game ? no problem
Playoff games at Night ? no problem
Playoff Games at Night in January in Green Bay ? no problem
and the beat goes on

How bout a new stadium ? the NFL gave the Jets and Giants an interest free 300 million dollar loan for new stadium construction, not bad....not enough....both teams..BOTH TEAMS had to charge PSL for the privilege to buy season tickets...make no mistake about it, this is not a personal seat license , you are entitled to nothing more than the responsibility to buy season and preseason tickets......team goes 4-12 (or 4-14 after they add 2 more games) and you think about saving 2 grand in your IRA instead of buying tickets next year? guess what , you just forfeit your PSL, no reimbursement, no money back.

wanna come to the game , you better have prepaid parking ( for the entire regular and PRE season) otherwise you can park in Carlstadt and pray for a shuttle bus.

feel like a beer, be prepared to be treated like a terrorist , lets see some I.D. 60 year old man , and you can only buy two at a time....so what you are with 3 friends and you felt like buyin a round of brew , make two trips back to the top of the stadium sucker , and line up again at halftime because we ain't selling you beer in the 3rd quarter...so what you came to the game via public transportation and wish to enjoy an adult beverage during the 2nd half......tuff......that will be $18.50 got your two beers ( or you can pickup a 30 pack at home and watch it on your HD TV).

and what do they do with the added revenue ? JSB gets a nice check every week courtesy of us ........i think i am done.

you are missed

Come hear Uncle John's Band
by the riverside
Come with me or go alone
He's come to take his children home
Come hear Uncle John's Band
playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone
he's come to take his children home

Baseball and Selig

Ahh ...good ol October, Baseball playoffs.....memories for a lifetime....sadly in this day and age the only time we get to see a playoff game in the brilliant October sunshine is in the first round, everything else is sold to the West Coast in "THEIR" prime time....but what the hell , we'll take what we can get, maybe the first playoff game in the New Twinkie tadium, with the seventh inning shadows and a tight ballgame against the Yanks....yep kids in the Twin Cities would skip school and bask in the glory of the postseason, or maybe a 1:00 tee time from the bandbox in Phila, the Reds n Phils crushing dingers into the sun drenched bleachers, that would be swell....Braves - Giants anyone ? Bobby Cox last hurrah, one last trip to the mound in the late afternoon chill, contemplating a pitching change as the home crowd roars, the young rookie Heyward battling the sun in SF Bay to make a game saving catch aginst the wall.......so far soo good............and what does MLB give us ?

Back to Back 1:00 starts from the DOME in Tampa- St Pete......artificial turf, controlled temps, and steam pipes for a roof.

The King is Dead

Long live the King....

The United States Naval Academies utter domination over their rival service academies died on the carpet in Colorado Springs yesterday after an unprecedented 15 straight victories. In the cool crisp air and brilliant sunshine of the Rockie Mountains the Mighty Cadets of Air Force rose up in unison and shouted enough is enough. Withe the backs of their Jerseys adorned with FREEDOM and SERVICE it had to make you feel good to see them win, even this old Salt was filled with pride in our Nations future AF leaders. Navy, a 10 point dog; held their own. A third quarter go ahead touchdown was called back for "holding" and we settled for a gap closing field goal to make it 7-6.( replays showed that although the hold did not spring Ricky Dobbs, it was still a good and correct call). Navy miscues killed all chances of an upset though as an early field goal shank and a breakdown on special teams that led to a blocked punt and AF ball on the Squids 13 yrd line was too much to overcome. Navy did however drive the Falcon 30 yard line down 8 pts with 2:00 to go, but a Dobbs interception sealed our fate. It was a brutally battled game all day long, hard hittin emotion although no skirmishes on this day......and when it was over ? handshakes, huggs and Alma Mater singing......no room for this silliness on ESPN, God Forbid some kid would put away his Alabama, USC, Texas, fill in the blanks Jersey and start emulating the Service Academies.

Congratulations Air Force, but remember ...if our round robin ends in a 3 way tie, the current possessor of the Commander In Chief Trophy holds onto it.....it may not be leaving Bancroft Hall; anytime soon.......Go ARMY on Nov 6th.