so i am watching Fox news this morning and they are showing clips of the Egyptian military taking positions around the Pyramids, a bloody civil war about to engage, and all I can think of is when the Grateful Dead Played the Pyramids in 78'.......if the sphinx and king tut could talk....wow
Since I'm, passing your way today
I just stopped in cause I want to say
I recall your darkness
when it crackled like a thundercloud
don't tell me this town ain't got no heart
when I can hear it beat out loud
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
finally some good news
and finally a reason to go to Charlottesville Va........MMMMMM table liquor served with meals...MMMMM
Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home is teaming up with a local brewery to launch a new ale inspired by the past.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation says it's working with Starr Hill Brewery to offer Monticello Reserve Ale, inspired by what was produced and consumed regularly at Monticello.
Brewing beer was among the plantation's important activities, and the beer was one of the "table liquors" served with meals.
Monticello Reserve Ale is made from a combination of lightly hopped wheat and corn.
The ale will make its public debut at the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center museum shop on Feb. 21.
Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home is teaming up with a local brewery to launch a new ale inspired by the past.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation says it's working with Starr Hill Brewery to offer Monticello Reserve Ale, inspired by what was produced and consumed regularly at Monticello.
Brewing beer was among the plantation's important activities, and the beer was one of the "table liquors" served with meals.
Monticello Reserve Ale is made from a combination of lightly hopped wheat and corn.
The ale will make its public debut at the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center museum shop on Feb. 21.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen....yikes
when you lay down with the dogs, you get up the fleas they say in Ol Ireland,
so what's to do in the Mideast ? I don't have all the answers but I think we can't continue to support dictators, the one despot we should have backed was Saddam because he was fightin a war with Iran , he occupied their venom and national focus, yes he did oppress a significant portion of his own population , but his was the most western leading nation in the region, are things any better there now ?
Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen.......what choice do we really have, the lesser of two evils or pick your poison , we really don't have a dog in this fight but we will be forced to live the consequences....remember when this was all about isreal and palastine....the good ol days.....how did they manage to extricate themselves from ths hostilities? i don't see anybody flying planes into buildings in tel aviv....in the end though it all comes down to money and quality of life, the unemployment rate in egypt is 33%.......it's a lot harder to convince a guy that has a job, a home, a wife and kids to strap a bomb to his chest and walk into an airport than it is someone living in poverty......it was the same way in northern Ireland... once the economy improved and all that western investment brought good jobs to Catholics and Protestants alike, they were able to ..if not live in peace, at least suspend the daily murdering of each other...let's see what follows in the next few years that their in financial disarray......lets hope these united states of ours can turn this thing around before we start loosing more and more people to hopelessness...oh the problems of the world are real my friends....my head hurts...maybe i'll turn on the news and see what justin beiber is up to today.
so what's to do in the Mideast ? I don't have all the answers but I think we can't continue to support dictators, the one despot we should have backed was Saddam because he was fightin a war with Iran , he occupied their venom and national focus, yes he did oppress a significant portion of his own population , but his was the most western leading nation in the region, are things any better there now ?
Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen.......what choice do we really have, the lesser of two evils or pick your poison , we really don't have a dog in this fight but we will be forced to live the consequences....remember when this was all about isreal and palastine....the good ol days.....how did they manage to extricate themselves from ths hostilities? i don't see anybody flying planes into buildings in tel aviv....in the end though it all comes down to money and quality of life, the unemployment rate in egypt is 33%.......it's a lot harder to convince a guy that has a job, a home, a wife and kids to strap a bomb to his chest and walk into an airport than it is someone living in poverty......it was the same way in northern Ireland... once the economy improved and all that western investment brought good jobs to Catholics and Protestants alike, they were able to ..if not live in peace, at least suspend the daily murdering of each other...let's see what follows in the next few years that their in financial disarray......lets hope these united states of ours can turn this thing around before we start loosing more and more people to hopelessness...oh the problems of the world are real my friends....my head hurts...maybe i'll turn on the news and see what justin beiber is up to today.
et tu mister miller
as this disaster of a january drags on, our brain as sublimily attacked by winter songs, this one from mister steve miller came to mind.
in the winter time
When all the leaves are brown
And the wind blows so chill
And the birds have all flown for the summer
I'm callin', hear me callin', hear me callin'
I'm callin', hear me callin', hear me callin'
In the winter time
in the winter time
When all the leaves are brown
And the wind blows so chill
And the birds have all flown for the summer
I'm callin', hear me callin', hear me callin'
I'm callin', hear me callin', hear me callin'
In the winter time
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
enough-ski
I too like most Americans am enamored with the poetry of the great Robert Frost , but as we sit on the precipice of yet another noreast Blast of snow I must declare the enough is afu*kin nuff already.....i am starting to think about taking a weeks vacation and goin someplace warm like Florida......or who knows maybe "imported Rico"......i usually get the winter blues and long for spring somewheres in the neighborhood of the Feast of Ol Saint Patrick.....but this year i am beating the holiday rush and declaring my disdain for all things cold related.....and sadly mister frost....this includes you.......why don't you write some poems about ice cold beer on a hot summers day ? just like the Ozark Mountain Daredevils....
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Rex insists Jets will still win Super Bowl THIS YEAR
bizaro is the only word that does it justice, in a profanity laced tirade launched at nobody in particular, Jet Coach Rex Ryan was caught on tape emerging from a notorious S&M club in pittsburgh Sunday Nite with a woman that didn't look anything like his wife......."I don't care what the J*ws in the NFL office have to say about it, we are still going to dallas and we will beat both teams with our feet and feet and feet tied behind our backs " shouted an apparently innebriated Ryan........"and Namath is driving the M*x$$@! bus" declared Rex......"My boy sanchez better bring his green card cause dallas is awfully close to the border" GM Mike Ol Xmas Tree Tannenbaum added.
no Gym Today
LOS ANGELES -- Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who inspired Charlie Higgins to trim down, eat well and pump iron for hours before his court officer weigh in , died Sunday. He was 96.
LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast, his longtime agent Rick Hersh said.
Lalanne ate bon Bons and drank beere every day of his life up until the end, Hersh said, he never really worked out , it was all special effects.
P.S. if you checked this blog today expecting to see a humorous attack on gangreen and the jet faithful....WELL SHAME ON YOU.
LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast, his longtime agent Rick Hersh said.
Lalanne ate bon Bons and drank beere every day of his life up until the end, Hersh said, he never really worked out , it was all special effects.
P.S. if you checked this blog today expecting to see a humorous attack on gangreen and the jet faithful....WELL SHAME ON YOU.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Pittsburgh Steelers Polka
To my loyal readers who are also jet fans...REPENT NOW, the end is near....play this Steeler Polka , Drink a CASE of IRON CITY Lager, Eat some Pieroggis and Bratts and root the Steel City Gang Home.........Bastrovika.......BEARS-STEELERS Super Bowl.
restuarant review..COPPER CANYON
tried the Copper Canyon in Atlantic highlands last night, on main street across from the Harborside Grille....nice place, definitely a keeper......no signage out front so of course we walked right past the place twice....in sub zero temps.....when we finaly walked in and asked the Host if this was the place, our "over the top" friend says "Yes, the one and only"....not agood start, but within minutes we were drinking ice Cold Bottles of SOL a nice mexican beer.....their chips and salsa were phenomonal....slightly overbaked...just the way i love em...and the salsa had kick.......a lot of FISH on the menu but there was enough chicken, pork and steak to balance.....everything had a southwest theme to it...guacomole, rice , beans, spicy good stuff......service was excellent, enrique inglesias was our waiter and he helped me to continously imbibe said SOL throughout the evening...never had to find him, he found us......they also had a large assortments of tequilas and margaritas that they were very proud of.....i do love tekillya, but it seldom loves me back.....after dinner we reapired to the lounge which was slightly surreal....as we walked in the piano player was playing "Gimme me 3 steps" SKYNYRD on the piano?? one by one we each asked....it was odd....but it was well lit and you could converse without straining your larynyx, so overall it was good.....like i said, i would go back......maybe in the summer...it's very close to the seastreak ferry...could fit into the 3 slot in the batting order after stops in ON THE DECK and HARBORSIDE.
disheartening at best, criminal at its worst
this is a disturbing story, but certainly not shocking. it's just further evidence of a sickness that grips this nation....a never ending money grab, no regard or concern for the origins of the money or the intended destination of these donations.....not surprisingly the bloomberg admin defended the salaries....oh well, live goes on....or in this example, death pays a dividend......i just wonder how these people look in the mirror when they are shaving in the morning, are they so callous they believe it is fair compensation? do they ever stop and take their own karma temperature ?
this story appears in todays NY POST.
9/11 museum bigs cash in
By ANNIE KARNI
Last Updated: 7:04 AM, January 23, 2011
Posted: 1:34 AM, January 23, 2011
Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero -- not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.
But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most recent filings. Four execs took home more than $320,000.
Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row -- 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo's election campaign.
The money to pay the $5.3 million in compensation for the foundation's 87 staffers in 2009 came from private donations -- $220 million raised in a Herculean grass-roots effort to honor the 2,974 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and $150 million from blue-ribbon board members. More than 60,000 individuals in all 50 states and 31 countries donated to the cause.
The rest of the foundation's money -- about $330 million in tax funds from the state and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. -- is earmarked for construction of the $610 million project.
Donors ranged from Ohio high-school students who raised $14,000 by completing a 650-mile trek from their Toledo suburb to Ground Zero, to pupils at Bethpage HS in New Jersey who collected $746 in pennies.
Teacher Shawn Clincy of the Mary Volz School in Runnemede, NJ, whose middle-school students raised $1,000 knocking on doors, was shocked by the salaries. "They're taking money from 13-year-olds who went out and collected donations. That doesn't sit right with me," he said.
Michael Burke, whose firefighter brother, William, was killed in the attacks, questioned the generous pay: "These guys are making a fortune -- it seems extravagant."
The memorial and museum is being built on 10 acres at Ground Zero, featuring two large reflecting pools with manmade waterfalls set within the footprints of the Twin Towers.
The underground 100,000-
square-foot museum will exhibit the iconic "survivor stairs" and "last column" and donated artifacts from the site and victims' families.
The foundation defended the salaries disclosed in IRS tax filings reviewed by The Post.
"We're setting up a venue that will be the highest drawing venue in New York City," said board member Tom Roger, who lost his daughter on 9/11. "You don't bring in your typical, well-meaning nonprofit person off the street to get that done. Once it's opened and operational, the salary structure will . . . come back down."
Foundation officials pointed to the compensation package of $456,558 earned by the head of the American Cancer Society's Eastern Division, which has similar annual revenue of $96 million.
Mayor Bloomberg, board chairman, said, "They're paid only a fraction of what they're worth, but at a level similar to people at comparable nonprofits."
High-priced execs
Highest earners at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum (2009 total compensation):
* Joe Daniels, President: $371,307
* Alice Greenwald, Executive VP for Programs: $351,100
* Joan Gerner, Executive VP, Capital Planning (Left in Spring 2010): $337,143
* Cathy Blaney, Executive VP, Development: $322,292
* David Langford, CFO: $224,113
* Luis Mendes, VP Design and Construction: $221,429
* Lynn Rasic, Senior VP, Public Affairs: $214,270
* Noelle Lillien, General Counsel: $193,316
* Suany Chough, Senior Adviser, Design Construction and Planning: $190,831
* Allison Bailey, Chief of Staff to President: $171,417
this story appears in todays NY POST.
9/11 museum bigs cash in
By ANNIE KARNI
Last Updated: 7:04 AM, January 23, 2011
Posted: 1:34 AM, January 23, 2011
Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero -- not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.
But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most recent filings. Four execs took home more than $320,000.
Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row -- 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo's election campaign.
The money to pay the $5.3 million in compensation for the foundation's 87 staffers in 2009 came from private donations -- $220 million raised in a Herculean grass-roots effort to honor the 2,974 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and $150 million from blue-ribbon board members. More than 60,000 individuals in all 50 states and 31 countries donated to the cause.
The rest of the foundation's money -- about $330 million in tax funds from the state and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. -- is earmarked for construction of the $610 million project.
Donors ranged from Ohio high-school students who raised $14,000 by completing a 650-mile trek from their Toledo suburb to Ground Zero, to pupils at Bethpage HS in New Jersey who collected $746 in pennies.
Teacher Shawn Clincy of the Mary Volz School in Runnemede, NJ, whose middle-school students raised $1,000 knocking on doors, was shocked by the salaries. "They're taking money from 13-year-olds who went out and collected donations. That doesn't sit right with me," he said.
Michael Burke, whose firefighter brother, William, was killed in the attacks, questioned the generous pay: "These guys are making a fortune -- it seems extravagant."
The memorial and museum is being built on 10 acres at Ground Zero, featuring two large reflecting pools with manmade waterfalls set within the footprints of the Twin Towers.
The underground 100,000-
square-foot museum will exhibit the iconic "survivor stairs" and "last column" and donated artifacts from the site and victims' families.
The foundation defended the salaries disclosed in IRS tax filings reviewed by The Post.
"We're setting up a venue that will be the highest drawing venue in New York City," said board member Tom Roger, who lost his daughter on 9/11. "You don't bring in your typical, well-meaning nonprofit person off the street to get that done. Once it's opened and operational, the salary structure will . . . come back down."
Foundation officials pointed to the compensation package of $456,558 earned by the head of the American Cancer Society's Eastern Division, which has similar annual revenue of $96 million.
Mayor Bloomberg, board chairman, said, "They're paid only a fraction of what they're worth, but at a level similar to people at comparable nonprofits."
High-priced execs
Highest earners at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum (2009 total compensation):
* Joe Daniels, President: $371,307
* Alice Greenwald, Executive VP for Programs: $351,100
* Joan Gerner, Executive VP, Capital Planning (Left in Spring 2010): $337,143
* Cathy Blaney, Executive VP, Development: $322,292
* David Langford, CFO: $224,113
* Luis Mendes, VP Design and Construction: $221,429
* Lynn Rasic, Senior VP, Public Affairs: $214,270
* Noelle Lillien, General Counsel: $193,316
* Suany Chough, Senior Adviser, Design Construction and Planning: $190,831
* Allison Bailey, Chief of Staff to President: $171,417
Saturday, January 22, 2011
houston.....we have a problem
can't elaborate too much, but suffice to say the jersey i ordered for sweater nite 13 was received yesterday and there is a big mistake....i opted for personalization and they gave me the wrong name and number........with only 4 weeks to go to the gala, and this jerz took a month to receive.......tension is high at Headquarters.....but my administrative Assistant and Editor of the Annual letter..."Valerie" in on the case........the extended sweater nite family wishes her God Speed and following Seas......she's on a mission from GOD.
Friday, January 21, 2011
snow begone
i woke up at 2:00 a.m. and saw it was snowing , went back to bed tired and grumpy and in a foul mood, but a funny thing happened on the way to the dawn....at precisely 345 my ipod alrm went off, and by 346 i was smiling...the beautiful sound of mr Garcia's guitar and the wistful lyrics or Robert Hunter warmed my soul....i was happy to be awake and thankful to be alive....suddenly the aches and pains of a miserable work week went away....no better way to start the day than the good ol Grateful Dead.....today we had a fast live version of Scarlett Begonias from circa 1977 with the young vibrant Miss Donna Jean Godchauxx accompanying Jerome Garcia on lyrics, it really brought a smile to my face and thus i am alive and kicking and ready to start the day.....full lyrics listed below, feel free to sing along or as they say in the navy, smoke em if ya got em......to paraphrase one line from Mister Hunter, so very true that you can indeed be shown the light....if you bother to look at it right
Scarlet Begonias
As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square
Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air,
From the other direction, she was calling my eye,
It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try.
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes.
And I knew without askin' she was into the blues.
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.
In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough,
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff.
As I picked up my matches and was closing the door,
I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, been there before.
Well, I ain't always right but I've never been wrong.
Seldom turns out the way it does in a song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves,
Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues.
And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes,
Wind in the willow's playin' "Tea for Two";
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue,
Strangers stoppin' strangers just to shake their hand,
Everybody's playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band.
Scarlet Begonias
As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square
Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air,
From the other direction, she was calling my eye,
It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try.
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes.
And I knew without askin' she was into the blues.
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.
In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough,
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff.
As I picked up my matches and was closing the door,
I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, been there before.
Well, I ain't always right but I've never been wrong.
Seldom turns out the way it does in a song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves,
Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues.
And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes,
Wind in the willow's playin' "Tea for Two";
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue,
Strangers stoppin' strangers just to shake their hand,
Everybody's playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
On the road
in the middle of this miserable winter of our discontent i am taking the bold initiative of moving up my annual reading of "ON THE ROAD".....normally saved for March, when Hope SPRINGS eternal and outdoor drinking is sooo close you can taste it....but this year this snowfilled season has me glarring at the horizon looking for something, and so without FURTHUR delay I am will go barnes and noble this saturday and pick up a fresh copy of the book that saved the world and for approximately the 20 or 25th time read it from cover to cover , underlining all my favorite quotations for future generations to study and decipher........and we are still in friggin january...
i did receive an email alert from the dead that there is a spring tour forming....if anyone has interest in a road trip please let me know....something on the eastern seaboard preferred...
i did receive an email alert from the dead that there is a spring tour forming....if anyone has interest in a road trip please let me know....something on the eastern seaboard preferred...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Team Staal ?
oh boy the NHL is loosing their collective marbles....i make a lot of stuff up on this blog, but I promise you even I or the Onion could not dream this up....in a sure sign that the apocoplypse is indeed very near ; the NHL is scrapping the East vs West format for this yeras All-Star game, and instead the Teams will be named after their respective captains...Team Staal vs Team Lidstrom ( seriously) ....players from either conference can play on either team...not an intended joke although certainly laughable....but it gets better.....the players for each team will be selected in a schoolyard choose it up style.....i swear i am not kidding...and heres the punchline....the selection will of course be televised in prime time.........please google this or go straight to the NHL website for verification, there will be a quiz at Sweater nite...
in the unlikely event you did not receive your formal invite, the GALA will be held Sunday FeBREWary 20th at 3:00 in the Knights of Columbus on 81st street and 5th Ave in beloved Bayridge and the borough of Churches....
see Dano...I told you this was a Hockey Blog.
in the unlikely event you did not receive your formal invite, the GALA will be held Sunday FeBREWary 20th at 3:00 in the Knights of Columbus on 81st street and 5th Ave in beloved Bayridge and the borough of Churches....
see Dano...I told you this was a Hockey Blog.
Martha.... My Dear
i am a little late with this story and for that i apologize, was roused from my sleep at 3:15 by a barking dog at the foot of my bed, which jarred my memory and forced me to logon and report this story.....it's a good thing.
Martha Stewart looooves her dogs. But do they secretly resent her? When she bent down to whisper goodbye to her bulldog Francesca, the dog jumped up and split her lip, sending Martha to the hospital. There, she criticized the wallpaper.
the moral of the story is that unless you are the alpha male in the house, don't fuck with your dog or anyone eleses dog whenm they are resting, sleeping,eating. watching OPRAH, chasing squirells, rolling in the grass, wagging their tail, havin a beer at sweater nite etc etc..........two file photos....one of martha My Dear gettin stitched, and the other of a random DOG that did not bite Martha, but is trained to bite Oprah.
Monday, January 17, 2011
class Act
In 2007 as a member of the San Diego Chargers , Ladanian tomlinson was outraged at the classless Patriots after they knocked his team out of the playoff and had the Audacity To Celebrate:
In 2007, the Chargers hosted the Patriots in the second round and blew a 21-13 lead in the fourth quarter before falling 24-21. The normally laid-back Tomlinson lost his cool and went after a Patriots player, upset that some New England players were dancing on the Chargers logo at midfield at Qualcomm Stadium. He called the Patriots "disrespectful" that night and said they "showed no class
fast forward to last night in Foxboro when Braylon edwards was doing cartwheels across the field, and santonio "what's happenin" holmes was parading arounf like an airplane.........now that's class.
I have a case of Iron City Lager on ice for the AFC Title game.
In 2007, the Chargers hosted the Patriots in the second round and blew a 21-13 lead in the fourth quarter before falling 24-21. The normally laid-back Tomlinson lost his cool and went after a Patriots player, upset that some New England players were dancing on the Chargers logo at midfield at Qualcomm Stadium. He called the Patriots "disrespectful" that night and said they "showed no class
fast forward to last night in Foxboro when Braylon edwards was doing cartwheels across the field, and santonio "what's happenin" holmes was parading arounf like an airplane.........now that's class.
I have a case of Iron City Lager on ice for the AFC Title game.
Here we go Again
"This Time it's not about football anymore, this will be a class struggle, more of an ideological battle between myself and Steeler Coach Mike Tomlin....in fact i am giving the players off this week , they don't even have to show up at Heinz Field...I can win without them.....my family owned plantations in the deep south back in the 1800's and we are pretty sure that Tomlins ancestors picked Cotton for my great Grandaddy......us Ryans we fought on both sides of the Civil War to ensure victory , so some of my family died trying to free the Tomlins and the rest of the family kept them in shackles while they slaved in the fields.....so he and i have a score to settle....this will be the second biggest War in american History, I geuss WWII was bigger" Rex Ryan Foxboro MA 16Jan2011
Wow this guy is delusional.....wonder what the spread will be in Vegas?
Wow this guy is delusional.....wonder what the spread will be in Vegas?
Sunday, January 16, 2011
2nd biggest game in franchise history ?
This one will be the second-biggest game in the history of this franchise," Ryan said on Friday. "Maybe Super Bowl III was the most [important]. Even more so than last year's Indianapolis game [in the AFC championship], I think this one is bigger because you got your rival, a team that has won three straight Super Bowls, right there in your own division, at their place, coming off the huge embarrassing loss that we had that Monday night game.
Wow...what a pompous self serving ass Rex Ryan is.....are you kidding me ? 2nd biggest game in franchise history? i beg to differ.....how about the AFL Championship come from behind victory at Shea over the More Hated Raiders to propel the Jets intop Super Bowl 3.....without that win who knows if there is even an AFC around today to talk about.
How about the AFC title game against Don Shula's Dolphins in the orange Bowl....a win would have put the Jets into the Super Bowl against the Redskins....a very winnable game back then.
Or the 10 point lead against Elway in Mile High.....surely if the Jets hang on and win that game Bill Parcells prepare them to dismantle the miserable Falcons in the Super Bowl.
Or the Playoff Overtime loss to the Steelers in the Herm Edwards era....that was HUGE game, who knows how far they would have gone with that confidence.
Hell...this isn't even the biggest game in the Fatass Ryan era....last years Colts game had more on the line in terms of a berth is the Super Bowl...someplace the Jets havent been in over 40 years...
This Game ? it's a Big game, but that's all....a win merely means they get to go to Pittsburgh for the AFC Title game, no automatic berth to dallas......it's an interesting game and a win would be tremendous, I will Bet the Jets and Definitely think they Can Win outright and certainly will keep it close into the 4th..but 2nd biggest in franchise history, that's an insult to the Polis, Duffy, Etc etc Clan of JETS fans who have patiently sat through 40 plus years of rhetoric, Boasts and predictions.....Shut The Fuk up and win something already.....jeeeez
ps. side not to Rex....the patriots havent won 3 straight super bowls...in fact...they didn't even win the last super bowl they played in...they lost to a quiet group of professionals that carry the moniker BIG FUCKIN BLUE ! !
Wow...what a pompous self serving ass Rex Ryan is.....are you kidding me ? 2nd biggest game in franchise history? i beg to differ.....how about the AFL Championship come from behind victory at Shea over the More Hated Raiders to propel the Jets intop Super Bowl 3.....without that win who knows if there is even an AFC around today to talk about.
How about the AFC title game against Don Shula's Dolphins in the orange Bowl....a win would have put the Jets into the Super Bowl against the Redskins....a very winnable game back then.
Or the 10 point lead against Elway in Mile High.....surely if the Jets hang on and win that game Bill Parcells prepare them to dismantle the miserable Falcons in the Super Bowl.
Or the Playoff Overtime loss to the Steelers in the Herm Edwards era....that was HUGE game, who knows how far they would have gone with that confidence.
Hell...this isn't even the biggest game in the Fatass Ryan era....last years Colts game had more on the line in terms of a berth is the Super Bowl...someplace the Jets havent been in over 40 years...
This Game ? it's a Big game, but that's all....a win merely means they get to go to Pittsburgh for the AFC Title game, no automatic berth to dallas......it's an interesting game and a win would be tremendous, I will Bet the Jets and Definitely think they Can Win outright and certainly will keep it close into the 4th..but 2nd biggest in franchise history, that's an insult to the Polis, Duffy, Etc etc Clan of JETS fans who have patiently sat through 40 plus years of rhetoric, Boasts and predictions.....Shut The Fuk up and win something already.....jeeeez
ps. side not to Rex....the patriots havent won 3 straight super bowls...in fact...they didn't even win the last super bowl they played in...they lost to a quiet group of professionals that carry the moniker BIG FUCKIN BLUE ! !
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.
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.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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.
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.
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