Why the delay ?

So it's been about 10 hours since the attack in Quebec, we know that two people were arrested, prime Minister Trudeau went to the podium and declared this terrorism.....POS Deblasio stepped up Police patrols in New York , but no identity on the shooters.....Weird.

the sweater

so as I finalized my sweater selection for the upcomimg gala , I thought it would be fun to reflect back on my sweater choices over the past 18 years to the best of my recollection. SN 1 = Hartford Whalers (white) my house 107-73rd street............................................................................ SN 2 = Chicago Blackhawks (throwback white)PC's Pub.................................................................................. SN 3 = St Lawrence University ( Red) The Ridgebay.................................................................................... SN 4 = Toronto St Patricks( green throwback) Molloys................................................................................ SN 5 = Minnesota Wild ( Jim Dowd #34 white Jersey) The Jinx Club Furlongs............................................................ SN 6 = North Dakota Sioux ( white jersey) The Jinx Club Furlongs..................................................................... SN 7 = New York Rangers ( Jed #41 Blueshirt) The Jinx Club Furlongs.................................................................. SN 8 = Norway ( Ronnie #8 Red jersey ) The jinx Club Furlongs........................................................................ SN 9 = Boston College ( Kiwanuka #97 white ) K of C ...Coozie debut slogan = DRINK UP LADS........................................... SN 10 = Lowell University ( Kerouac #10 red jersey) K of C ...slogan VINI, VIDI, VIDRANK.............................................. SN 11 = Alaska ( powder blue jersey) K of C .....slogan DRINK HEAVILY................................................................ SN 12 = USA ( Kane # 88 navy blue jersey) PC's Pub....slogan DRINK LIKE AN OLYMPIAD................................................... SN 13 = Calgary Heritage ( Bouwmeester # 4) K of C ...slogan LUCKY 13 & MUY CHILLY BEERE............................................. SN 14 = Quebec Nordiques ( Wang #14 blue jersey) K of C ...slogan DRINK LIKE A WARRIOR & GERONIMO E-KIA............................... SN 15 = Chicago Blackhawks ( Mikita # 21 white jersey) k of C .....slogan 1999-2013................................................... SN 16 = Columbus Bluejackets ( Dubinsky # 17 sky blue throwback)....K of C..slogan SWEET 16, BOTTOMS UP, MARCH ON).................... SN 17 = Toronto Maple Leafs ( Clark # 17 blue winter classic jersey) PC's Pub...slogan 65 TURNS 50 & What a long strange trip its been SN 18 = Montreal Canadiens ( Beliveau #4 Red jersey) Lief & K of C .....slogan WE CAN BREATHE)........................................ SN 19 ????? ( # 19) LIEV ERICKSONS ....slogan BEEEER TRUMPS HOCKEY & SN 19th Nervous Breakdown

Rally, rally.....Casino hotel

Today in Zuccotti park, next to the bench with the bronze statue of a business man with his briefcase, there will be a THANK YOU rally in support of all the hardworking Wall Street types that have pushed the DOW over 20 fucking thousand.....Even the limousine liberals will smile today when they punch up their 401ks.....The rally will last approximately 90 seconds and be confined to that one single bench, flag burning, public urination and hanging the President in effigy will be frowned upon.......On behalf of the hardworking stiffs on my team, guys and gals trying to raise a family on 80k, with no pension , who pay into their health care and can be let go at the drop of a hat without so much as a months severance, I convey a hearty YOU ARE WELCOME AMERICA !

Ship of fools

Man's inhumanity towards fellow man continued well into the evening....With no trains whatsoever running , hurricane strength winds attacking, katrinaesque rain deluging the plains, we finally escaped from Jersey city on the last helicopter from Saigon.( Actually my waterways to Belford... Wherever the fuck that is).....I quietly drank my beer as the mighty ship was tossed around the narrows like a row boat in an angry sea.... Surely I thought the good Lord was done fucking with us for this evening when the unthinkable happened......The Bartender.... Arguably the most important man on the ship, got off at pier 11 and went home for the evening..... The next 55 tortoures minutes on the high seas were spent beerless.... Forced to suffer one last indignity.....The world is an ugly place.

woman is the nigger of the world

John Lennon said that, and I believe its true..... I sat with pride in my basement bar watching the news reels from Washington d.c. , so proud of these American women ( not the pro life ones, but that's another story) marching around the Capitol ; protesting the sexist President Regime on day 2 of his reign.....I wait with baited breath for the day that a Woman can become a doctor , or a lawyer or work on wall street or dare I say ....Run for Political office........or dare I really say accept the nomination of a Major party to run for the highest office in the land ....and also accept the questions for a major debate in advance of her opponent, stand silent as her party schemes to discredit her male opponent ( The Altacacca mister Bernie sanders) and be excused of crimes that MEN sit in Prison for committing....Yes, that is when we can all stop waiting to exhale and know that the buxom gender has indeed arrived...

hypocrisy....is a walk on a slippery rock

ok....so Edie Brickell was actually talking about PHILOSOPHY , but I couldn't find a lyric that circled around hypocrisy. I wont rehash the past 8 years.....just the most recent incident in the long winding road that leads to Russia....so....Obama was incensed with the evidence that Russia was behind the hacking of emails of the DNC that lead to exposing of some ugly truths about miss Hillary & co.........he expelled Russian diplomats and proposed financial sanctions......again these were private emails that were exposed.....nobody suggested they were fakes..........Bradley manning on the other hand published classified documents about battle plans that put the military in real jeopardy.......that offense ? not so bad.....he gets a pardon ......if he hadn't declared he was transgender and attempted suicide while in jail , does he still get a pardon ? just ask Petraus. Obama also pardoned Oscar lopez Rivera...the FALN founder that was linked to 100's of bomb attacks on US soil, including the one in lower Manhattan of Fraunces Tavern that killed 4 during lunch and wounded 50......yep, never forget, blah blah blah....... the whole premise of a Presidential pardon is OK.....just like the electoral College.....we wont hear the left complain until Trump leaves office and pardons a few folks, then all holy hell will break out. CIA head John Brennan has been very vocal in his opposition to PRESIDENT Trump, went public with his outrage when Trump questioned the intelligence community.....but when asked about his personal feeling about the spoonjiah get out of jail cards he suddenly had NO COMMENT........what about that famous letter from 100 members of the intelligence community that warned against Trump prior to the election ? did they write any letters warning of possible pardons to potentially dangerous people, or the freeing of Guantanimo prisoners ? nope....silence.... I had the unfortunate displeasure of watching the confirmation hearings yesterday while working from home......Bernie Sanders, Al Franken & company......they collectively reinforced there is no tolerance for any ideas or free thought that deviate from their own mantras......and yet they wonder why they are out of touch with voters......Trumps nominees showed great composure and class while being preached to by a pack of degenerates.... these are twisted times my friends......thank God for the diversion of the annual Sweater Nite Gala to restore some normalcy. Sweater pauses for a moment to remember Mary Duffy and ask that all my readers say a prayer for her and the extended Duffy family. Mrs Duffy was a Saint, plain and simple, no other way to describe her....despite all the hijinks and insanity that surrounded her she remained one of the most pleasant people you could ever encounter, if you met her on the Avenue, coming or going from Lento's or Rinzy's Steakhouse; you left feeling better....she was that nice of a lady......Rest in Peace Mrs Duff.

In Blog we trust

In these troubling times of FAKE news and false reporting and everyone and everything getting hacked....it must be very comforting to my loyal readers to know they can always turn to this blog for the truth.....for the truth shall set you free.........for the record, I am a trend setter, I was making up the news 20 years ago.... what took everyone so long to ketchup.......side note..... The Sweater Nite letters sb in the mail by Saturday.... The party is slated for Sunday afternoon February 19th at the original Liev Erickson bar...

Uncle Gordy

Bayridge is a strange terrain, with even stranger characters that have adorned her landscape over the years. Decades and probably centuries....... Gordon Contessa was a beauty...a lot of folks probably got their ass kicked by this assassin.....some friends were swindled out of nickels for his drug habbit....and some folks he didn't know were straight out robbed perhaps....but he was good hearted , tough, mental case ......he was one of the toughest toughest guys in Bayridge in his prime..... and not to sound like Sally field , but he really, really liked me.....I always knew I had a friend in Uncle Gordy.....the more Collins broke his balls, the more Gordy liked me.....I found him in liev Erickson Park once and brought him home to live over Napper's for a few weeks...he used to order pay per view movies and swear that they came on tv free....he got locked out once and climbed up the fire scape and banged on Seamus's Window to get in......but I helped him and he never forgot that.....he always told me that he had my back....and that meant something to me.....I haven't seen him in 2 years , but news of his passing makes me sad.....you weren't a great man Gordy....but none of us are....but I loved ya , and I miss you already.

Stark realities...part 99

Don't want to leave this world behind me now,.....don't want to move to the outskirts of town..... don't want to loose the comradery of my neighborhood bar......don't want to leave this world somehow......I have so many things I've yet to do..... places and people I need to see....a thousand sunrises of brand new days.... I pray they're waiting for me......Not sure whats lying around the bend....a little further down the road I guess....don't know what happens when the lights go out, but I pray it's for the best......Never made it to that special place, where dreams and wishes all come true......they say cream and bastards rise to the top , but it's a different path I've chosen for you.......I say my prayers for other people now , can't see the point in wasting your time, I hope someday we all meet again, but in a softer world next time....(w.Stark)

All the LIEFS are brown,and the sky is grey

Well....I may have been California dreaming during the rotisserie draft, but I showed the depths of my GM savvy by dismantling and rebuilding my roster in 2 leagues and rallying to make the playoffs in both.... playoffs? Playoffs ??.....that's right Jim Mora....Wassabi#9 ....and SMALL CHANGE are both going to the playoffs.... Thanks Jay Ajay and other late additions.

Rally round the troops Duff

Jet fans...... football fans.....the entire nation couldn't help but wince in pain at the embarrassing night at the meadowlands that was jets v colts 12/5/16.....the team that brought us the butt fumble and the fake spike....a litany of H.O.F. coaches like Kotite & Hermie Edwards..... the ones that got away like Carrol & Belicheat.....a team that mastered the draft with the picks of Ron Faurot , Blair Thomas, Kyle Brady, Johnny Lam Jones and Johnny Mitchell has sunken to an unimaginable new low.....it's not right.....it's not fair.....they need a boost....a metaphorical shot in the arm.....and I know just the man to do it....your favorite Battalion chief and mine needs to bleed green for j-e-t-s nation....and I know just the gesture....I call on you Mister Duffy to pick up Bryce (even the losers get lucky sometime) Petty in rotisserie football and start him this Sunday....who cares who you are playing ( Wasabi#9 for those keeping score at home) stand for the anthem and stand for the Jets......

Payback

And so 75 years have passed since the dirty yellow Japs executed a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, killing 2400 Americans.... despite all the horseshit that passes for "history" that is being force fed to kids in school... they thought that they had won the war that day.....they thought they had crushed the United States Navy and would enjoy Naval supremecy in the Pacific....they thought they would rain terror on the shipping lanes and soon it would be the Americans that would surrender....they were wrong..... The United States Navy collectively stood up , brushed off and went about the business of making America Great Again......and in the end.....when the yellow menace was forced to their tiny knees to beg for an end to the war...... fittingly it was onboard the USS Missouri that the agreed to an Unconditional surrender.....let's teach that lesson today... instead of apologizing for winning you self loathing miscreant spoonjiah.

A rifle on my shoulder , 6 shooter in my hand.

" Lord I've been all around this world"............and yesterday came a surprise phonecall from the suburbs of Mosul in the sandstorms of Iraq....from my original shipmate on the good destroyer Luce , who will not be named here for privacy protection.....and as we rehashed the olde and made plans for mugs raising in the future, he mentioned that he has been checking out the BLOG.......better than AFRTS.....sweater Nite now brings updates from the taverns to the troops on the Frontline.......as John Lennon would say " we're bigger than Jesus"............. And in the spirit of the military, a great story making the rounds about an American hero....Ray Chavez....he turns 104 tomorrow.....he is the oldest known living Navy survivor from the Pearl harbor attacks....he lives in San Diego and works out on a treadmill every week.....the other gym members raised money to send him to Hawaii for the 75th anniversary observance on tge 7th....he said he's excited to go , but worries that it could be his last time going...and then he laughs....he didn't talk about that day after....he only broke his silence on the 50th Anniversary.... because he thought it was important to talk about....that's an American.....that's a HERO...God Bless Ray Chavez....God Bless our U.S.A.

Everybody's trying.....to get to the BAR

The name of the bar ? The Bar is called Heaven ( d.byrne) It seems you can't even pop into a local watering hole on a Monday afternoon without meeting someone or hearing about someone that is battling cancer......was it always like this ? Or is this just a product of turning 50...... The scary part is the last 3 or 4 friends or acquaintance's that I have learned about have yet to celebrate their 50th Birthday... It's a painful reminder that nobody is guaranteed tomorrow....so if you feel like a drink today....take 2.....if you feel like playing hooky...pick up the phone....work hard so you can afford to play harder.....that's my message to the graduating class of 2017.....also be alert.....we need more lerts...

Now everything's a little upside down

As a matter of fact, the wheels have stopped.whats good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top..... you're on the bottom.....B.Dylan. And so as President elect Trump goes about the business of making America Great Again, the left has....well..... The left has lost its fargin mind..... students walking out of class in high school, College Professors turning lessons into bitch and venting sessions.... cancelling mid terms because students are too traumatized to study....nightly protests over the results of a fair election.... demands to eliminate the electoral college system....if the RIGHT had behaved this was after emperor spoonjiah rose to Powe, they would be labeled Racists...( When Obama received 94% of the black vote , that was ok.....when white males voted for Trump they were racist, sexist homophobes.)...... Hillary wasn't even finished destroying the furniture in her election night hotel when the left vowed to fight everything Mr. Trump wanted to do.....sad sacks... crybabies....sore losers......Harry piece of shit Reid said it's not right that white nationalists are celebrating the election while undocumented immigrants are crying in the street....look it up, he really said that.... amazing.......let's form a search party to help them "find" their documents......there is a movement to get Obama to pardon Hillary, so Trump can't throw her in jail..... I mention all this so that it is documented for eternity.....in the year 3013.....when Brian Duffy's great, great, great, great grandson " Jebediah Budvizer Duffy" is studying the blog in his social studies class at Trump University ( to be built on the sprawling developments that were once the isle of Staten Dump)he will have proof of the Insanity that was 2016..........." Hey Moe....where can I get a sweatshirt from Trump University" said Dan Woods from the Beanpost window.

Productive day

I spent election day in the backyard, drinking FOUNDERS all day IPA ..... literally all day..... listening to rock n roll, basking in the high 60's glorious sunshine and quite frankly worrying about the future of this great nation....I feared the Clinton mafia family would steal this election...and the dire ramifications that we would endure.. I questioned where I fit in a land willing to elect this murderous, treacherous criminal...... I talked aloud to my faithful dog Matteau..... thankfully he did not talk back...so I didn't pull a Berkowitz..... I thought a lot about the past....and analyzed where it all went wrong.....we had Dykstra and Mookie.....we traded them both and we got stuck with Juan Samuel....we let STRAW walk in free agency and failed to get anything in return for DOC Gooden....and that my friends is why the 86 Mets never won again........then I woke up and TRUMP was President and Hilary didn't have the decency to address her followers in the Javetts center....she had podesta send them home.

Tuesday, afternoon, I'm just beginning to see, Now I'm on my way, It doesn't matter to me, Chasing the clouds away.......

the votes are in

it's official......i'm drinking on Tuesday........vote...walk dog.....golf....DRINKING during all of the above.....it's probable that al queda or someone equally sinister will be plotting to disrupt the election...a good day to avoid planes, trains and shopping malls.

The big drop is COMEYing

I have been pretty harsh when it comes to judging FBI director James Comey for his handling of crooked hellary and the email non-indictment.....so I was equally surprised when he notified Congress that he was reopening the investigation last Friday ( 11 days before the election)....so as I sat in the yard drinking beer with my dog, I pondered why he would do that.....and then it came to me...if wiki leaks hacked into everyone and anyone on the Democrats team....fm podesta, to brazille to Wasserman-schultz....they probably took a crack at Huma and Weiner Dog...... sooooo....they probably have ALL these "new" emails......and sooooo they are probably gonna drop an email cache anyday now...... Comey knows it....and .he didn't want to be criticized for sitting on the emails in the wake of their disclosure.....he probably figures Assange is gonna release them anyway, let me save face and go public that they exist.....the only question is when are they released and what do they contain ? Could they be the missing exchanges between Hillary and Ambassador Stevens ?.........one last thing.....can you imagine if wiki leaks releases a fake email on Monday....no time to vett , verify or confirm its legit..... Hillary would go apeshit insisting it's a fabrication ( and rightfully so) but seriously....who would believe her at this point? ...... I should have been a villian instead of the GOOD GUY that I am...... I have dastardly ideas aplenty.