Con Te Partiro

As Andrea Bocelli would say in his ginzo operatic voice.....It's time to say Goodbye......and Yes Sweater Sweater it's time to say goodbye to Brooklyn before the vermon infested iceladies arrive.

waiting on the president

so I am watching the sickening news about poor Autumn Pasquale , and they arrested these 2 animals that lured and killed her for f*king bicycle parts and I am thinking " They could be Obama's Sons".......remember how he interjected himself into the shooting of the drug upped truant teen in florida that was shot by the civilian security guard while looking for homes to rob............well barry , why the silence on this tragedy ? these two miscreants look a lot like you and michelle too.

but why ?

as this fiasco in libya continues to unravel, i am still getting stuck on one point....WHY ?   why was the black haus so reluctant to classify the libyan massacre on the anniversay of the 9/11 attacks as a "terrorist" attack ?  what was/is there motive in first insisting it was a crowd of rebel rouses that got out of hand, why 5 days after the fact did they send Susan Rice onto Meet the Press to further push the notion it was payback for an anti-islam movie and street protest gone out of bounds? This was Al Queda, and nobody, and i do mean nobody, would blame obama for al queda's existince, they were here before barry and will be here long after he leaves.......it's not like this was the new libyan govt that he supported attacking us, he would not have had egg on his face for the actions of an organized al queda attack ....so why ? it is not like the american public was under the assumption that there was an everlasting peace in the middle east after the sand nigga spring...so why? ....why so eager to brush this aside....call it less than optimal, a bump on the road.......the jewish vote? they could care less about our diplomats in libya....hell isreal is facing nuclear extinction at the hands of iran and the jews are still lining up in boca raton to reelect this jackass....so why?

it is obviously something Big.....for hillary to fall on her sword and commit political suicide it must be big.......its also obvious that if Susan Rice had gone on these shows so close to the election and spread this propoganda on her own....without the encouragement or insistence of the black haus....she would have been fired.....can you imagine a renegade voice in his administration rockin the boat against his will and causing a stir like this one caused......off with her head.....but Nope...she has been spared....she was obviously just doing her job.....but WHY ?

I am stumped......my main suspicion now is that barry knew that continued attacks and the obvious healthiness of al queda would prevent him from freeing Sheik Omar;  the blind cleric behind the 1993 world trade center attacks,  as an olive branch to egypt..........but would he risk it all to keep his plan alive? or is he so arrogant he really felt that the dumbass american public will ignore the facts and drink the cool aid?

somewhere in a cornfield of Illinois.. Carlton Fisk is waking up behind the wheel with an empty bottle of vodka...no doubt contemplating the same puzzling issues as me.

survey says........

my dog Graves was beeming with pride when she saw these results., although she vows to do her part to leapfrog gosts and become the biggest fear for spoony.....quite possible the greatest survey of the past 20 years.......this will have to be reprinted in the sweater nite letter.

Two magazines, Country Living (95.99% white readership) and Ebony /Jet (99.99% black readership) did surveys on "WHAT DO PEOPLE FEAR MOST?”




The results were interesting, to say the least...

Country Living magazine's top three answers were:

1. Nuclear war/terrorist attack in U.S

2. Child/spouse dying

3. Terminal illness





Ebony / Jet magazine's top three answers were:

1. Ghosts
2. Dogs
3. Registered mail



No Kidding - And these are the people who put Obama over the top.

just wonderin

i sure hope there weren't any EXECS from Chrysler / GM or the other automative Big 3 at the Tigers games this past week.....I sure hope they gave up their luxury suites for all the Detroit teams after accepting bailout funds from the Government......I seem to recall spponjiah wagging his finger back in 09 telling Wall Street they couldn't give out Bonuses because of the financial stimullus....i certainly recall the media mocking Bank of America for having the audacity to pay deferred compensation to their employees that year.....i geuss the automakers get a free pass....after all...the first thing they did with their bailout cash was to produce a 2 minutes superbowl commercial exclaiming the rebirth of Made in Detroit with Eminem as their spokesperson....maybe he worked for free.....

nice to see that Dou*bag sprinsgteen hasn't changed....he's back in ohio stumping for obama.....i hope everyone who went to any of his concerts or bought any of his CD's the past 4 years feels responsible.....YOU sent him a message that it's OK....his loyal fans will trott out there and buy his tix no matter what....

i , on the other hand....still send hate mail to Phil Lesh for politicizing organ donation at a concert 5 years ago....poor Jerry would be turning in his grave....if he had a grave.....if his daughter and Bob weir hadn't spread his ashes into the ghanges River in India.....pooor poooor Jerry...you deserved better.

the power of me

wow....this is one for the ages.......i hvae always known i have the incredible power to fortune into famine, how i can give the kiss of death to a sports franchise by rooting for them....how my teams seldom win championships ( see the long troubled history of the Mets & Rangers) and how the teams i hate anjoy riches( see Notre dame on a roll since i officially turned against them).....but even this one scares me.

sometime after the Yankees defeated the orioles on Friday night i sat at the bar at Ceasars AC , enjoying a cool refreshing glass of ale and pondering the baseball playoffs.......A1 on the agenda was the Nationals preserving a 6 run lead and eliminating the hated Cardinals ( check)......next up was the pending Yankee-Tigers series......i thought for a moment and declared to nobody in particular that my hatred for the Redwings was soooo great , that it extended to the Mich, Mich St, Motown music, the Lions and Yes the Tigers.......no self respecting hockey fan would have an interest in basketball, so the pistons are safe for the moment......and so by default I was rooting for the Yankees.

I cam out of the Jackson browne concert to witness the Cardinals rally back in the 9th inning to beat the Nationals.......as bad as this was, i reasoned that it was okay because the National Fans are also Capital Fans.....and Oriole Fans are Ravens fans.....so there was a silver lining.

now i have only rooted for the Yankees 3 times in this 16 year run of theirs......in 96 over the Braves for Metropolitans reasons and the Yanks won......i also rooted for them over the Diamondbacks after the 2001 attacks on our city ( Riviera blows saves in 9th inning to cost them world series) and 2004 over the redsox (yanks blow 3-0 series lead) .......powerful stuff this jinx of mine.

But Last night takes the case........not only did the Yanks loose game 1 ....but they lost their Captain to a broken ankle.......if Jeter only knew I was rooting for the Yanks he would have lifted himself for a pinch hitter in the 10th.

who's next ?

bear mountain picnic

the beeeeeere was delicous on Bear Mountain yesterday.......food was so-so......oooompa nazi music was missing, vendors were scarce and boring......thank God for the BEEEEERE.

wild cards ?

couple of quick points.

Orioles....feel good story kinda......first post season appearence since 1997.......should bring back glorious memories of the 1970's....Plamer, Cuellar, Mcnally, Brooksie, Mark ABelanger and all.....the brilliant October Sun reflcecting off those white jersey and the Orange trim ?????

yeah right........Nightime in Texas and the birds wore BLACK Jerseys......sad.


Now......the play of the day......Infield fly rule ??   tuff call.....shortstop never came to a complete stop....hard to say he was camped under the ball....he also had his back to the infield.....if he intended to drop it on purpose to get the double play it wouldn;t have worked in 200 tries..

BUT the real story was the classless Atlanta Fans throwing garbage on the field for 20 minutes...and those empty cans werent thrown from the cheap seats upstairs....nope , that was teddy Turner fellow yachstman in the field level seats.

BUT BUT BUT ....the best story of the day was LARRY Jones going 1 for 5 and critical throwing error.....nice to see that scumbag go out in shame.....go fuk yourself chipper. 

old Jacks lowell

the hard, cold, oft sad red brick factory walls of the textile mills that Jack described in saturating detail remain, but what lies behind those walls is a scene that would make Te~ Jean himself smile with pride. A vibrant cloister of bars,pubs,taverns and meat Meccas.......an influx of youthful college kids from Umass Lowell brings this "Venice of America" to life. A quiet walk along the canals hearkens back to old Emil in his sidecar crossing and recrossing the Merrimack with Manuel... to the bemusement of onlookers....not much, except everything...has changed........Jacks' presence is nowhere and everywhere at the same time....perhaps Gerard still haunts these plains ...in the most gentile way a ghost can haunt.......the long shadows that come on a dying september sunday afternoon demand a remembrance of the sorrow and angst of a surf like factory worker....the Shrine of Joseph, the congregation is seated.....Saint Lucy stares from her throne....ole Lowell...one step forward , two steps back.....she truly never forgets.

Kerouac

Ran the Jack Kerouac 5K this past sauturday in Lowell Mass........a full review of the sights and sounds of old Lowell to follow tonite when I have more time............I think of Dean Moriarity....

R. A. Diculous....

spent a glorious afternoon in the left field  bleachers at new shea yesterday with Jimmy Holliday, Crankie & Donn e Beisbol watching R.A. Dickey notch his 20th win......no better way to spend a Thursday....

hockey ? remember hockey? this is a song about alice

anybody here seen bobby lupo ??  what in Gods name is happenming in the NHL....call me crazy, but from where I sit it appears that the players are desperate to play...just make them a semi reasonable offer.....and most of the owners are ready to put this to bed........so whats blocking the deal ???? betman, that's it.....and a handful of small market owners........The Rangers-Boston-Detriot-Philly-Toronto- need to dump bettman or break away and form their own league.

tiny ten

another saturday....another poor showing for the tiny ten....Whisky survives Utep....Ohio State outlasts ALABAMA-birmingham....Mich State was loosing at home in the 4th qtr to eastern michigan.....Ioaw lost at home to the CHIPpewas of Central mich...Michigan turns the ball over 7 times in a loss at ND....i think denard robinson was afraid coach kelly would murder him if he beat the irish...illinois spanked again......Minny and northwestern had nice wins.........and now starts conf play....when ohios state beats the spartans are we supposed to be impressed?????

in case you missed.....and the media didnt pick up on it....ha.........caroline kennedy made a speech at the dnc and said as a catholic woman, she supports abortion....basically telling all the catholic woman of america its okay to support abortion ...like me.....and you dont have to vote your concience.....where is the outrage?   where are the US Bishops ????

this excerpt from Catholic Online.

There were a lot of bad speeches at the Democratic National Convention, but Caroline Kennedy's speech was the low point in many ways.  She got up on a national stage and used her professed Catholic faith to justify and actually demand the preservation of grave evils that the Church explicitly condemns.  She presented lies for the truth, and tried to justify it with her Catholic faith.

Romney video contd

funny, but there was more to that video that you'll probably never hear or see....at least not on ABC< NBC<  or CBS.........all they want to talk about is the 47 %.........but also in that video Romney cstates that the Palastinians are only concerned about the destruction of Isreal and that peace will never come to the region......why wont they play that ? because they are too busy convincing the Jews that this Crazy Mormon will be bad for Isreal......cant let this cat out of the bag.

incidentally....as i watched the comments about the 47% ....i couldnt help but think about where the buffalo Roam and the scene where  Hunter S. Thompson meets Nixon at the urinile.....and Nixon turns to him and says " FUCK THE DOOMED".........classic.....your a good egg Harris from the Post.....FUCK the 47%.

wake up Mitt

that tape may be a Godsend........stand behind those comments Mitt.....dont try to wooo the democrats.....dont try to be something to everyone.....this isnt high school.....these are opposing ideals and strategies....its okay to call your opponents lowlifes...if that's what you believe........dont back down, dont apologize...STAND UP for what you said.........educated America knows your Right.....when they go behind that curtain they will have to vote their conscience.....

little ten

the big bad little ten flexed their muscles yesterday with some blowout wins over weaker foes...ohio state scored late to beat unranked cal at the horseshoe.....penn state crushed navy and invited the local boy scouts into the locker room to celebrate Nittany lion style....northwestern beat boston college ( does that count as a full win ?)...michigan beat mighty umass,,,,i didnt realize they had a fottball team......minnesota barely survived over western michigan by 5 pts.....nebraska beat arkansas st...purdue beat up on eastern michigan........wisconsin snuck by utah state...........the only little ten school to play a Ranked opponent was Michigan State at home against # 20 Notre Dame..........the irish rolled 20-3.


tell us ince again how tough the big ten is brent mussburger......until of course they signa tv deal with Fox or NBC, CBS......thne espn and abc will mock the big ten on a daily basis.

sooo much trouble in the world (b.marley)

wow , with all these terrible things happening all over the planet, it makes me wonder why Americans didn't elect that guy from 4 years ago who promised to solve the worlds problems....you remember...the guy guy who was gonna invite our enemies to sit down and discuss our differences.....offer an olive branch....press the reset button.....gosh, why didnt we elect him......surely by now we would all be singing kum-by-yaa in the streets.......and if the above didn't work, i bet he would have invited everybody to the white house for a beer to discuss their problems.....such a wise man in such troubled times.....why didnt we elect him ????


as our military budgets are slashed and the next generation of patriots are watching and probably growing suspicious....one can only wonder if we will be able to defend ourselves after 4 more years of this nonsense.

i hear the wind whistle

the swaying trees and rambunctious seas


announce the dawn of another year,

just like the ones before, spirits arrive at your door

to reclaim....the lives they left too soon.

Fear not , they come in peace

to the homes and cubicles where they should still dwell

to the lives they left behind against their will, not by their choice.

acknowledge the howl on this day if no other

they are roaring in unison to remind.

comforting

it is a source of comfort when the winds of september tenth arrive every year, the trees bend ...a subtle genuflect  to acknowledge the arrival of soo many spirits in one space at the same time...its comforting to know they are still here.