There's a lone soldier on the cross

 smoke pourin’ out of a boxcar door

You didn’t know it, you didn’t think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
After losin’ every battle  (Dylan)

some incredible and inspiring stories coming out of the rubble in the Ukraine. Exhibit A, Snake Island......a tiny island in the Black Sea inhabited by Ukranian border guards...not hardened professional soldiers....more civilian-like...think Coast Guard....13 men were manning their post on Thursday when a Russian Warship approached and advised the 13 to lay down their weapons and surrender to avoid death..... The Radio response from the island is the stuff from which legends and republics are born.

"Russian Warship......Go FUCK Yourself"

the island was bombed , the 13 were Killed, but it gives the world a window into the soul of these Ukranian countrymen....ready, willing and able to die rather than live life under the Russian thumb of oppression........when you compare these men to the worthless cowards in afghanistan that we spent billions of dollars preparing for a civil war against the rag tag taliban , it can make you cry. THESE people deserve our undying support.....but instead we pass meaningless sanctions......and we continue to buy fucking oil from Russia every day, and we are still talking about sitting at the table with Russian murderers to work on a nuclear deal with Iran.....we are an embarrassment to ourselves, as a nation we should hang our heads in shame...Biden had a chance for a real international win here and he blew it, he could have rallied the West and put such financial stress on Russia that they would have to stop....he should have given a speech directly to the Russian Public, he should have told the parents of the Russian soldiers that Putin was leading their children to HELL with an unlawful invasion of their peaceful cousins in the Ukraine, and that their children in his armies will NEVER be able to wipe the stains of murder OFF their souls ...and for what? Putins' legacy? . ..biden is more concerned about staying green and avoiding high gas prices at home than he is about human beings laying down their lives to slaughter with a yearning to stay free......we have lost our way.....it may be time for the Good Lord to wipe us off the map. We used to be the beacon for the free world to aspire, we are NOT.....we are an irrelevant sissy nation. 

The other day i outlined two simple steps that the USA could take that would make a serious impact on this outrageous genocide......so i will repeat

Stop Buying Russian oil, turn our pipelines back on, grant permits for fracking and drilling on Federal land to make up the shortfall for the oil we are no longer getting from russia.

Kick Russia off SWIFT thus making it impossible for any nation to continue to buy or sell anything to/from Russia........Moscow will revolt on Putin in 72 hours and bring an end to this war.

instead, we put silly sanctions that do nothing....and we created carve outs to avoid the sanctions.....for instance...the sanctions do not apply to Italian leather goods ......seriously.... guess who demanded that? the miserable gindaloons are more concerned with  selling Gucci bags to Russian Oligarchs than they are with Ukranians being slaughtered in the streets......the world should remember that the next time Italy is occupied and crying for help.

I think Putin thought Zelensky would flee to Poland and the west in a Helicopter the minute the first bullets flew.....and then the Ukranian army and citizens would lay down their weapons and watch the Russian tanks roll down main street without resistance.....BUT he has NOT......he is still posting videos from the streets of the capital despite the USA offering him a safe exit ( we suck)......he has vowed to fight to the death........and quite frankly i am not sure Putin planned for this........what now ?  destroy the city with firepower while the world watches?  and if he captures or kills Zelensky , what then? he doesn't seem to want to occupy the country forever but rather he wanted to chase the govt and then install his own puppet (like Belarus) ...if he destroys the cities , he owns that ...and they will have to pay to rebuild....that costs $$......and if Zelensky becomes a martyr, the citizens of Ukraine will never willfully accept being under Russian control.....so if he keeps Russian troops there the guerilla warfare they face will never stop...ever.........despite the overwhelming superiority of their weapons and troop numbers, the russians may well be painted into a corner......it's not too late for the West to help , but don't hold your breath/

Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb
Blowing through the curtains in your room
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe
 

oh, the leaves began to fallin

 And the seas began to part

And the people that confronted him were many

And he was told but these few words which opened up his heart
“If ye cannot bring good news, then don’t bring any” (Dylan)

the wicked messenger and all the news that's fit to suppress ...anyone and everyone in this country should be paying attention to this attack in Ukraine and should be very nervous

As the rest of us are watching the slaughter in the march to Kyiv ...our comrades back in Moscow are being told that the Russian forces are being mobilized to Denazify the breakaway Republics within the Ukraine and protect the freedom of those that wish to leave and join the USSR.,,,,it's 2022...the world is on the brink of war and the truth is being blocked from millions of russians. One can only hope that in this day of technology they have access to the truth.....but that begets the question ....the truth according to whom ?  what if the technology guards ever collaborated to silence the inconvenient truths? or dare i suggest even block the accounts of those who speak against their agendas......maybe a major newspaper or even a politician ......spoiler reminder.....Twitter and facebook blocked the NY Post and President Trump in the month before the election because they didn't want the truth to come out about Hunter Crackhead and his technicolor laptop. 

meanwhile in Bejing as Ping Pong readies his armies for the takeover of Taiwan, the Chinese TV accidentally posted the guidelines for covering the story in the Ukraine....Yes friends the communist govt is telling the media which stories to cover and how to cover them......seems they want russia to repay the favor when they inevitably invade Tapei .

off topic slightly but worth repeating....because who knows....all tapes and accounts of this event maybe erased as we speak...during the 2012 Presidential debate.....Sen Romney (whom i despise) was asked who the biggest Geopolitical threat to America was and he  answered Russia........to which obama, the smug condescending piece of indonesian shit replied "Senator, the 1980's called and they want their foreign policy back"....and the elites giggled like high school girls at his zinger.......wonder if any network has the stones to call obama out today ? yeah, well, forget it.

Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand which read
“The soles of my feet, I swear they’re burning”

This is how i spend my days

I came to bury not to praise
I`ll drink my fill and sleep alone
 

I pay in blood, but not my own  (Dylan)

well i try each day before i sit at my computer to find humor and to put on a happy face.....nobody wants to be preached at first thing in the morning, so when i have nothing good to say i at least try to just stick to the facts and leave the harping off to the side.

The much-anticipated invasion of Ukraine  is in full swing......innocent people are being slaughtered by the bushel by the ruthless Putin Regime....obviously he did not heed the nasally warning of our Vice President in Germany on Saturday.....obviously he wasn't swayed by the threat of sanctions ( we went after small banks and did NOT ban them from access to the SWIFT international wire system....toothless) .... obviously he wasn't too concerned with the fractured or unified NATO response........and Gigi Ping Pong is watching....and Taiwan is nervous..........we abandoned Afghanistan in such haste that we didn't bother to evacuate our own citizens....does anyone believe we are going to stand for freedom for someone else?

just curious....did sleepy joe say anything about the US not buying Russian oil? about 600,000 barrels a day from Putin..... in case you missed it, and i did.....our once oil independent nation is now importing oil from Russia and giving them the $$ and the confidence to invade their neighbors......how about today's big speech we say our pipelines are back online and Fracking is permitted on ALL Federal lands and Russia and her friends are blocked from SWIFT ........yeah well...i doubt that will happen.

Another political pumping out his piss
Another ragged beggar blowin’ ya a kiss
Life is short and it don’t last long
They`ll hang you in the morning and sing ya a song

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 (Hunter-Garcia)

shortly after sundown Sunday evening, as his chauffeur driven limousine (toyota camry) made its way over the outer bridge crossing; the President of Sweater Nite sent a one-word text to the kremlin via a back-channel secret account. "Chickpeas" . This was the agreed upon password to alert Vladimir Putin that the closing ceremonies of Sweater Nite XXIV had gone off without a hitch and that our fearless leader was back on Garden State soil. Putin wasted no time and giving the green light for the tanks to start rolling on Donetsk.....ahh but if you read the Blog last month you already knew this.

excerpt from the Blog Post Jan 27

let's start with some good news.....I sent a telegram to Putin last week and told him i was concerned that his planned incursion into the Ukraine might overshadow Sweater Nite...so we got out our date books and i suggested that the much-anticipated invasion would be best suited for the week of Feb 21-25....he raised his chalice of Vodka and shouted "Nastrovika" ( a traditional Bayridge Polish-Russian toast) and so it was concluded......in the days following Sweater Nite , sometime after Bobby Microwave and One2Many have played their encore....and the Hightides have put away the drum kit , that the russian tanks could crawl closer to Kiev.....ahhhh diplomacy.

This is just further proof that everything you need to know about the world around you can be found on this blog........SN XXIV was a Huge success....possibly our largest turnout ever......Rangers won...iceladies lost......the planet keeps spinning..........sincere Thank You to everyone who came out and supported the Liev .........a rock n roll palace and holder of soo many memories......i think everyone had a Grand Time , i know i did......onwards to the Gala 25th Annual....buckle up.

strong words

 some things require no embellishment or interpretations, this is an excerpt from a letter the Canadian Clergy sent to Prime MINIATURE Trudea .

"Your government does not grant people the right to their bodily integrity, the right to work or earn a living, the right to decide for their children or to be with their families or dying loved ones, the right to gather to worship and obey God, the right to travel in their own land or enter and leave. Civil government exists to protect these pre-political and fundamental freedoms, not bestow and remove them as if it can function in the place of God." 

There is no national emergency and to invoke one to crush peaceful political dissent is a totalitarian act of repression displaying weakness not strength,

Mr. Trudeau, with great respect, you are neither the king nor the ruler of Canada. Both you and your colleagues are public servants sent for a short time to Parliament at our behest as citizens to govern under God in terms of the Canadian Charter and to seek a harmony of public legal interest. You do not grant people rights and responsibilities that are theirs as God’s image-bearers and a free people. Since you do not grant them, you have no authority to remove them. 

We implore you to step back from the brink, restore the constitutional freedoms of the people, respect the God-given rights of our citizenry and above all to humble yourself and take a knee before Christ the King lest you perish in the way. We urge you to repent of the sins of pride, rebellion against God, and bearing false witness. You have not displayed a brotherly care and love for these honest hard-working people who have tried to peacefully bring their very serious concerns to your attention.

don't look for this on the American media......this letter and the footage of Mounted Police trampling the demonstrators will not be shown by ABC, CBS etc etc

am i the only one here tonight

 Shakin' my head and thinkin' somethin' ain't right

Is it just me? Am I losin' my mind?

Am I standin' on the edge of the end of time?

Am I the only one? Tell me I'm not

Who thinks they're takin' all the good we got

And turnin' it bad, hell, I'll be damned

I think I'm turnin' into my old man  ( Aaron Lewis)

Great song by Aaron Lewis, thanks to Steve Mac for sharing with me......give it a listen, good stuff.

observations from the Bean Post window:

just some thoughts and observations and possible conspiracy theories.........outrageous? Yes, but less far fethced with each passing day.

The hellbent attempt to bankrupt this country.

i refuse to believe that this administration is that stupid or incompetent, there has to be a reason or long term objective behind their actions.......inflation is raging, the national debt is soaring , for two years people were paid to stay home, employers can't find workers and yet the Government still wants to have another round of stimulus checks.....still wants to pass the build back better plan and still publicly states that they can spend their way out of inflation ......why ?

Socialism doesn't happen overnight.....a free capitalist society like ours will not go to sleep on monday an independent nation and wake up Tuesday a socialist dictatorship........change like that takes time and you need the masses on your side......so you make everyday life as miserable, hopeless and unaffordable as possible.....inflation takes your paycheck and the only way you survive is with the financial crumbs the GOVT gives you every month...a person will never bite the hand that feeds them.....if the demonrats keep handing out small checks ( not life changing sums, just enough to stay afloat) the masses become dependent on that form of Govt and will be reluctant to vote them out.......you need villains......Big Oil is the problem today, you ban fracking, ban pipelines, give away our oil independence, and when gas prices inevitably go through the roof , well you convince the average Joe that these BIG Corporations are swimming in profits and gouging the American public.....  and soon after we have rate hikes you will hear Bernie and AOC blame the banks for your suffering ( never mind that the FED Reserve dictates the rates and while we were at 0% interest for years the big Govt encouraged average Joe's to borrow more....borrow $$ for college (don't let someone crush your dreams) , Borrow $$ for that luxury gas guzzling  SUV ( you deserve it), take a big mortage and buy that home, go on vacation and put it on Visa ......and when the rates rise and the avg guy can't keep up with his bills .....well....get the pitchforks and go after the Banks that gave you the dam credit card. (Remember occupy Wall Street? that was when the Professors with tenure convinced the students that they should be mad at the banks that loaned them the $$ for tuition and NOT the Institutions that were charging 40K a year for room and board and classes taught by Teacher's assistants). And the Govt ? well we are so far in national debt that we have to start cutting welfare, unemployment and everything else because we are bankrupt too, just like you

So now you have a broke, desperate, miserable public and they are conditioned to believe it's the dam banks and big oil companies that are the problem. And a federal Govt that claims bankruptcy too and can no longer give you any monthly stipends.......and so they suggest that the Federal Govt Nationalize those two industries for the GOOD of the Nation...and once they are nationalized, we will cap gasoline at $2 a gallon and forgive most of your credit card debt ........gee ? where do i sign up ? sounds good to me.

And once the Government takes control with your blessing they can basically call any shot they want, and you will comply...what choice do you have?  who's next?  Nationalize Medicine? already in the works.....take over the media? yeah well they are 90% there.......and just like that we are Venezuela ...adios amigos

Mask mandates in Schools.

Why?  despite all the evidence to the contrary; are the teachers Union and the demonrats going full court press on keeping school kids in masks? As every other bad govt decision goes to the sidelines, this one digs in. Why are they willing to fall on their swords for masks that don't work? and only in schools? (nobody at the super bowl wore a mask and nobody cared) Because they are grooming our children to be submissive and just do what the government tells them...no matter how stupid..the kids i grew up with challenged authority at every step of the way....we broke every fucking rule there was....we pushed back for the sake of pushing back (even if we didn't really care about the rule)...if a teacher said A , we said B... we drank beer and smoked pot in the fuckin schoolyard in broad daylight during the week and we didn't give a shit about the punishments..i didn't really develop a respect for law enforcement until the guys i grew up with became Cops......but this new generation of people who are conditioned accept what they are told....like sheep......don't question or push back, they just go with the flow and rat out their classmates if they have a birthday party without masks.

just some food for thought on a friday....again...nobody could be as stupid and incompetent as Brandon....so there must be something else going on.

Am I the only one not brainwashed?

Makin' my way through the land of the lost

radio silence

 in the days before sweater nite , i think it best to maintain radio silence.....i know Brandon and the NSA would love to get a hold of the details for XXIV , but loose lips sink ships.......FUCK JOE BIDEN.

superbowl prognostication

 Rooting for the Bengals.......but I think the Rams win.

why?

that Defensive line of the Rams against the Bengals Achilles heel offensive line.

but it's going to be super hot in LA....possibly the hottest SB  gametime temp ever (surpassing Dolphins-Redskins 1 at the LA Coliseum in 73)  so maybe if the Bengals hang close, the Rams d will wilt in the heat. I think it could come down to one final drive for Cincy, a chance to win or force OT maybe....and it will be their line desperately trying to hold off Aaron Donald and that pass rush.....i think Donald prevails....Rams 24-20.

If the Bengals are to win, i think it will be because they will be able to keep the pass rush on its heels with a heavy dose of running , and that deadly quick out to Jamar Chase.........if Joe Mixon can turn one or two 10 yard gains into 40 or 50 yard TD's....he might even steal the MVP at a robust 3500-1..........but again, my heart is looking for ways the Bengalis can win, but my head is saying Rams.

i will just be wishing on my #'s in a few high dollar pools.....good luck to everyone, and let's pray the beeeeer is cold everywhere.

Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration

 Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation

Ball of confusion
Oh yeah, that's what the world is today
Woo, hey, hey  (temptations)

50 plus years later the Temptations are still spot on, the earth is a BALL OF CONFUSION.

As blue states like NY and NJ suddenly come to the realization that masks mandates do more harm than good, the White house and Randi Weingarten double down and hide behind the CDC.

As the ladies of the view still blame President Trump for not taking the pandemic serious in the beginning, they conveniently ignore Nancy Pelosi's famous visit to SF Chinatown to declare everything is OK here and encouraging people to come on down.

Fentanyl streaming across our open border in Texas , Drug overdose deaths increased for EVERY demographic last year.....over 100,000 deaths in 2021 alone......the Biden administration, under the guise of racial equity; is sending "smoking kits" that include Crack pipes to inner cities.(look it up) 

As Canadian Truckers peacefully protest the vaccine mandates, the MSM instead listens to old black face Trudeau who calls them Nazi's and his administration even displayed an anti-semitic flyer they say the found amongst the truckers.......a closer look reveals it was for a rally 2 years prior in Miami.........CNN also accused the Truckers of flying confederate flags ......ask yourself, why would Canadian Truckers fly flags from the American civil war ? ( maybe CNN just forgot to update the script they used against the Jan 6th Capitol demonstrations......you remember those, that's when white female veteran Ashley Babbit was shot to death by a black man hiding behind a barricade, he felt so threatened that he reached through a barricaded door to shoot her in the neck and was quickly absolved of any wrongdoing without a trial.

As the average man is chastised and portrayed as a selfish killer for not wearing 3 masks and swim goggles.....Politicians ( Newsome, the mayors of LA and SF) are partying maskless and posing for photos with immune compromised Magic Johnson.......and that fat slob, the black version of basement Bertha (Bill Gallo cartoons) stacey abrams is seen as the only maskless person , surrounded by white students wearing masks......to be fair to the kids, i would wear a mask around abrams too.

and back to my favorite punching bag Neil Young.....after failing to get Joe Rogan fired for interviewing people with differing opinions than Neil, and then trying with old tapes of Rogan using the N word. (Sambo)...on the heels of this comes and old interview Mr Young did with Melody Maker in the 80's in the early days of AIDS when he said he didn't want FAGGOTS behind the register handling his potato's, because gay people were spreading AIDS to everyone.......now he is telling Spotify workers to Quit THEIR jobs and join HIS protest...........yeah well, glass house and all that stuff.

a/o last night GIVESENDGO had raised over 6.5 million for the Canadian Truckers, and then an Ottawa court issued an injunction that said the Truckers can't blow their horns for 10 days ...huh?  and step-n-fetch it trudeau is still trying to demonize the truckers....this after hailing the George Floyd arsonist movement and peaceful and necessary......give me the Temptations and a morning cocktail.

side note....honorable eggroll highly recommends Canadian sitcom LetterKenny .....and i agree .... funniest show i have seen in 25 years.....i immediately ordered the first 8 seasons on DVD......definitely worth checking out if you like beeeeer, hockey and wordplay....

Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul
Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything

And the band played on

Freedom Convoy

 if anyone is interested.......the Christian based group Givesendgo took up the job of raising $$$ for the Canadian truckers free of charge......i just gave them $50 ......best money i have spent in a while.

ready to go, willin to stay and pay

U.S.A., U.S.A.

So my sweet love can dance

another free day

U.S.A., U.S.A.  ) N. Young)

tough month for old Neil......the man who once so loved American Freedom that he wrote songs about it suddenly turned into the KGB in his attempts to silence and stifle free speech he doesn't agree with....it's sad how many vaccinated people are so insecure in their decision to get the jab that they want everyone in the same boat with them , as if they deep down fear that the vaccine was rushed and may have horrible consequences and they don't want the unvaccinated to be able to survive and declare they were right......i got the jab ( 2 of them) but i defend the right to choose.....unlike abortion, which is the murdering of another human being with a heartbeat; the unvaccinated are only risking their own lives .....and should be allowed to make that choice.

Back to Neil......he missed a great opportunity to lend his voice to a grass roots movement that is sweeping the nation and being watched around the globe.......sadly his corona fears and newfound political stance will not allow him to speak out in support of the Canadian Truckers....in case you missed it , and of course the US media is largely  ignoring the story....but Thousands of Canadian Truckers united in a FREEDOM CONVEY and descended on the Canadian capital city of Ottawa.....at the heart of the matter is a new restriction by the Canadian Govt that ALL truckers that transport goods into the United States must be fully vaccinated.......so truckers that drive alone insulated inside their cabs and never really come into contact with 3rd parties have to get the jab anyway.....even as cases decline and are less and less severe, the Canadian Govt put it's foot down.....ignoring the fact that in the first 9 months of the pandemic, before there even was a vaccine; Truckers were hailed as heroes for putting themselves on the front line and risking their own lives to keep essential goods moving across Canada and into the United States....Prime Minister Trudeau  fled his version of the white house in fear and then after being portrayed as a chicken, his minions went on the offensice and declared the Truckers were guilty of everything from using foul language to littering........funny they had nothing to say during BLMs' "mostly peaceful"  burning of  cities across Canada........even as Canadian Citizens came out in Droves on highways Overpasses to Cheer on the Truckers......Trudeau declared them public enemy number 1........not to be outdone, the communist pigs in silicone valley california had to get in on the act.........a Gio FUND ME acct was setup to raise $$ for the Truckers......they collected $10 million dollars practically overnight, and then the self loathsome left stepped in and said.....we are not going to actually distribute the $$$ you donated to the truckers because we think they are bad guys......and instead we will decide which worthy causes should get the 10 million (look it up, i swear i'm not lying....i urge everyone to avoid GO FUND ME forever)......this is even worse than when the Red Cross decided too much $$ was raised after 9/11 for the victims and decided to divert donations that were intended to the victims and instead sent the money to earthquake victims in shithole countries and any other leftist cause they could find.........the Canadian Truckers sued....and this morning GO FUND ME caved and will at least return the donations (less fees) to the people that gave the $$.....they still can't find it in their heart to do what their company charter is all about....that being raising money for grass roots causes.......nope......hopefully they too become extinct........and with all tis raging north of the border....you would think that Canada's favorite son, albeit an irrelevant former shell of himself; might have something to say ??? nope

And there ain't nothin'

Like a friend

Who can tell you

You're just pissin'

In the wind

 

Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac

 I can tell by the way you smile, he is rolling back

Come wash the nighttime clean

Come grow the scorched ground green  ( Weir / Barlow)

for the record...shadow or no shadow...i foresee at least 6 more weeks of heavy drinking.

i received Dave's Picks #41 in the mail Monday night and yesterday i sat at my work computer and gave it a listen......Baltimore Civic Ctr May 26, 1977...definitely their finest year....i loved all the different incarnations of the Dead, but after many years of listening to the shows in detail, well...77 was in a class by itself.....it was soo good.....joy and sadness.....at the same time....jerry's guitar licks spoke to me....they danced and floated around the room like butterflies.....the band was like a magnificent locomotive rolling across the countryside.....and jerry was the engineer...they opened with "Music Never Stopped" and by the 2;30 mark it was crystal clear that Jerry CAME TO PLAY....it was one of those nites......joy that i saw soo many good ones....joy that the live music was captured and protected all these years later to enjoy.....sad that we will never again be in a cozy arena on a winters night and see Jerry do his magic act....but it was a hell of a start to my day.

And It's February.....forget stymie history...this has always been the month of Kerouac and Cassidy for me....Neil was born on Feb 8 in the back seat of a car passing through Salt Lake City on the way to California from Denver...and died on Feb 4th at the age of 41.........Jack, a Pisces; was born March 12th 1922.....would have turned 100 this year.....he too died before his 50th birthday....at the age of 47 in St Petersburg Fl. February is also the month i start reading "On the Road"......i have read it every other year for the past 40 years or so......might have missed once or twice.....but have definitely read it cover to cover 20 times in my life....never gets old for me....perfect pre spring reading.....coming out of winter....and with each passing year and re-reading of the classic novel, it just reminds me that the ROAD is gone.....

i feel empathy for the youth of today....that slice of Americanna is gone forever...the innocence that existed....the individual identity that each city, state or territory had is gone.....we are a homogenized nation....same banks, same starbucks and mcdonalds, same everything.....the corner bars are disappearing and have been replaced with corporate umbrellas that own a wide variety of diverse establishments.....chili's, outback, panera for breakfeast....doesn't matter where you go in the lower 48, we have a corporate outpost for you....serving up all your favorites just like home.......im not angry....i am actually grateful that i traveled the world and my own country as much as i did before it was extinct....i had steak and eggs in the Piel Street Bar in Montreal.....Drank Coors at Coors Field, had a Golden Road IPA on the pier in Santa Monica, smoked a joint in Golden gate Park near Haight -Ashbury, .ate in Gene & Georgettis whilst in the windy city, had a Sam Adams  in the Cask & Flaggon, visited many of the old ballparks and hockey arenas before they were replaced and my memory is strong....I had a Falaffel from a street cart in Haifa at 3:00 a.m., drank Rakki in Antalya Turkey, had a Tusker Beer in the Nairobi Hilton and imagined i was Hemingway on the eve of an Elephant hunt, I drank a Guiness across from the St James gate, i had a jambon and fromage( ham n cheese) sanwich on a warm baguette with butter in a little shack off the pier in St Tropez and drank red wine in the french country side....partied in Benidorm with Bath Separatists', watched Malvern defeat Geelong in Austrailian League Football, had Grandma Gretzky's pierogies in Toronta , had a mojito in miami and oxtail stew in Guantanamo bay, drank moonshine in Mississippi and a hurricane on Bourbon Street....and hell, i am probably forgetting half.......i'm just disappointed that we are losing our identity as a nation, and nations are loosing their identities around this magnificent planet........for God's sake there was a Primanti bros sandwich shop on the beach rd in Ft Lauderdale the last time i was there......sorry, but that kielbasa sandwich should only be enjoyed in the steel city or western PA , in the freezing cold and served up by a horde of Pollocks.....some things should remain regional in my opinion.....it's what makes traveling so rewarding.

maybe it's just the cold weather that has me down.....maybe i'm just old and cranky today.....maybe i am just mad because whoopi goldberg misappropriated Jewish Culture and stole a Jewish name and then said hurtful things on TV about the holocaust.....i hope she doesn't get cancelled, her brand of stupidity can only help the cause come November....maybe i need a little drink of the Jack Daniels......some Grateful Dead on the stereo and i need to read the opening chapter of ON the ROAD for the 20 something time.

. Fare thee well now

Let your life proceed by it's own design

Nothing to tell now

Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine

22

 Rest in Peace to Jon Donofrio, the young man stabbed to death in Bayridge Saturday night at the age of 22. I did not know him but by all accounts, he was a really good kid. A graduate of New Utrecht High and a driver of a horse drawn Carriage in and around Central Park ( a family owned business), Maybe because of the snow storm or maybe because the media doesn't like stories like this , but very little coverage by the local jerkoffs on channel 2 and 5 ( i refuse to watch abc 7)...........Sunday there was an arrest, still zero coverage....last night there was a candlelight vigil and nothing on the News,,,,,makes you wonder who the killer was and why the news doesn't pursue this story, who are they covering for ?...he's 19 with a Mexican last name , wanna guess ? ....as Jen Psaki at the White House mocks Fox News and anyone concerned with a rise in crime, the city of NY gets ready to bury another Police officer.....Psaki went on to say that $$$ for the Police was in the Build Back Better plan that republicans voted against........NOT TRUE says the liberal Washington Post.......$$ in the bill was for municipalities to cover budget gaps.....it may have gone to to pay the police but not necessarily....it was NOT new $$ or dedicated $$ for Police......rather it was a blank check for NY, Philly , Chicago etc etc....all the demonrat cities that shut off their tax revenue base during the pandemic....and those cities could use that $$ for whatever ails them.....but hey, we are a stupid country, so why should someone like Psaki feel obligated to speak truths when a lying soundbite does the trick.

anyway .....22 is too young to die...as crazy as Bayridge was in the 70's and 80's i wasn't ever afraid of being stabbed to death at closing time...sure there were fights....but a bottle to the head or a baseball bat was as bad as it got.........i'm starting to understand old people more and more each day.....i'm starting to get that same feeling of just saying FUCK IT to everything.

Reason the poor girls love him ?

 Promise them anything

Reason they believe him

He wears a big diamond ring  ( Hunter-Garcia)

let's start with some good news.....I sent a telegram to Putin last week and told him i was concerned that his planned incursion into the Ukraine might overshadow Sweater Nite...so we got out our date books and i suggested that the much-anticipated invasion would be best suited for the week of Feb 21-25....he raised his chalice of Vodka and shouted "Nastrovika" ( a traditional Bayridge Polish-Russian toast) and so it was concluded......in the days following Sweater Nite , sometime after Bobby Microwave and One2Many have played their encore....and the Hightides have put away the drum kit , that the russian tanks could crawl closer to Kiev.....ahhhh diplomacy.

When is an alliance not really an alliance?

Ask NATO.

Senile Joe talks about NATO stopping Russia and China......not so fast.

Turkey is currently under Erdogan the dictator; they are less a democracy than Venezuala....they have repeatedly refused to allow the US warplanes to use their Air space to carry out  exercises against Syria, Iraq, Iran or any other arab nation....some fuckin ally....they will not be onboard with any action against Russia or China, and they have the largest military in NATO aside from the U.S.

Germany is the weakest turncoat in the alliance.....these stupid motherfuckers have surrendered to Russia and now rely on a natural gas pipeline from Mother Russia to support their energy needs....a pipeline that asshole joe greenlighted last year (all while shutting down the keystone pipeline in the US) Germany has never met their financial obligations to NATO, do you really think they will supply soldiers and then face the reality that Russia will cut off their gas ? 

France ? a yellow belly nation....but they were still an ally for the most part....until papa joe cutoff a deal the french had with Australia to build and sell submarines...and instead struck his own deal without notifying france of his intentions....now the shoe is on the other foot....the french can look at America and say some fuckin ally.

Italy ?  to whom and when should we surrender is the only questions the gindaloons ever ask.

Truth is after we abandoned our own people, and afghans who were helping us; the whole world should be questioning the US as an ally. Taiwan and the Ukraine should be very worried.

SCOTUS....now that Breyer is resigning the biden administration has once again verbally committed to nominating a black female to serve on the bench. Personally, the new member will be replacing a liberal member, so i only hope that the nominee leaves politics aside and is qualified to listen to the arguments and pass a fair judgment based on their interpretation of the constitution. ( something kaegan and sontemayor are incapable of on most issues) I don't care about skin color or gender, whomever is chosen i know will have ideological differences from me, and that's OK.......BUT....to begin a job search by saying the qualifications are based solely on skin color and gender is racist. in 2019 black females made up 12.3% of the US population....to eliminate over 87% of the population from consideration for the position is not only stupid but criminal. Black females only deserve to be considered for the position, along with every other color, gender or nationality of qualified people. It cheapens the nominee when you announce their skin color and gender before you chose the person....it sends the message to the country that "this" person was chosen because she is a black female instead of saying this candidate was chosen because they were best ( and just happens to be a black female)...but the demonrats do this all the time....they are forever telling the blacks that THEY are not good enough to live, eat, breath and succeed on their own in this white male hostility world.....anyone who grew up in Brooklyn knows this is bullshit....and the African Americans that succeed without the Government pushing or demanding their promotions are mutually respected and seen as coworkers....not black coworkers.

one silly question to ponder......what if someone from the nominee's childhood neighborhood should come forward at the 11th hour and vaguely claim to have been sexually mistreated as a teenager by the nominee ?  will all the characters who lined up against Justice Kavanaugh do the same this time ?

In the Valley of the Shadow

Just you, Alabama and me

still the searcher

must ride the dark horse

Racing alone in his fright (n. Young)

I have to set the record straight to live forever in the cloud....Neil Young, much like President Biden; is a confused, irrelevant and old man. Yesterday he demanded that music provider "spotify" remove all his music unless they agree to drop Joe Rogan podcasts.

Joe Rogan and his podcast sit atop the spotify charts.... Joe Rogan is anti-vaccine or pro-choice when it comes to putting unknown elements into your body.....Joe Rogan survived a bout with Covid early on and had the audacity to tell his followers how he did it.....Joe Rogan gives a platform to a plethora of people ( lunatics) to come on his show....smoke weed and share their sometimes crazy, sometimes accurate and always entertaining thoughts on the subjects of the day....from space aliens to govt plots.....JOE ROGAN has 200 million followers at last count.

Neil is a sad caricature of his former self......i doubt too many people under the age of 50 know who he is....his music at one time was representative of the times at hand...a  strong voice on politics and life in the 60,70' and 80's.....he started to lose me when he released Greendale and took a strong anti-police stand in his fictional california town.....but i loved his music and gave him a pass....he continued to slide to the dark side and soon wasn't relevant...he ranted and cried about Business and Big Auto and seemed like a really rich guy who lived on a hill and complained about stuff he thought young kids cared about......in 2016 when then citizen Donald Trump announced he was running for President , he did so by Riding an escalator down into the Lobby of Trump Tower while the Neil Young song " Rockin in the Free World" was blaring on the speakers....it soon became Trumps' signature arrival music and all his speeches and rallies.....and then Neil released a blistering stop and decease letter demanding the Trump stop using his music....Neil got on his soapbox like he always does and looked down on Trump.....his typical my values are better than yours and i refuse to allow my music to be associated with your evil campaign....he criticized everything and anything that was Trump or Trump related......strong stance.....some people might even have given Young credit for taking such principled stance ( considering his music was getting attention for the first time in years).

and then

Trump blew the whistle on poor mister Young.......he said that Neil had come to Trump tower a mere 30 days before the Presidential run announcement....he had his hand out and was begging for Trump to invest in Neils new technology for speakers to enhance music....he gave a full on presentation with bells and whistles and fully expected the Rich, White, Corporate Businessman Devil to put a check in his extended hat.....but Trump said No Thanks........after Trump blew the whistle , Neil called BS and said there was no truth to that ......so the next day Trump released photos of him and Neil yukking it up and shaking Hands in the Donns office in Trump Tower ......to which....Neil slunked back into the corner of oblivion to remain until this week........another sad grasp at relevance, he demanded that Spotify Cut ties with Rogan over his vaccine stance or stop playing Neil Young Music on their site.....gee i wonder what they will decide to do.

for the record......i love his music.....i often quote him on this blog and i will continue to do so until i receive a stop and decease letter....until then i have to ask

Tell me why

Tell me why

Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself

When you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell?

i shot the morning in the back

 with my red wings on,

i told the sun he better go back down ( Tom Waitts)

in 2022....nothing can ever be just what it is.....ever.

the only way to get guns off the street is to reinstate the plain clothes stop and frisk unit.....here's why.

Guns will always be available...that will never stop...it is unrealistic for a city like NY to focus on bigger pictures that are out of their purview. Gun Manufacturers and gun dealers in MD or PA do not , will not and never will give a shit about NYC and nor should they. Guns are more necessary NOW to keep dictators in check and protect a last slice of liberty than at any other time in our nations short history. I do not now and probably never will own a gun....i have a bad temper and drink way too much to own a firearm, but i remain grateful to my fellow Americans who are well armed and remind the scumbags in DC (both sides of the aisle) that there is a breaking point....and that day of reckoning may be closer than they think. (keep passing illegal mandates and dictating how Americans live and we'll be there soon)

back to NY and the goal of getting guns off the Street......when our laws are enforced and people are sent to Prison for breaking the law, and there is an active Police force stopping and frisking suspicious looking characters in high crime areas.....when every police stop for Hopping a turnstile or shoplifting results in an arrest and subsequent  search....when drinking, smoking marijuana or urinating in public are met with a summons and a pat down search..and if a gun is found you go away for at least a year.....when those things return to everyday life....then every potential shooter has to ask himself a question each day when putting on his Nikes and  leaving the house to go terrorize his neighborhood........DO I NEED MY GUN ? some will say yes......most will say NO , leave it at home and only take it with them when they plan on doing something that requires a gun..good stuff like robbing a bank .....part of the problem now is that with no fear of being stopped and frisked, every thug is deciding to take his gun with him on a tuesday afternoon trip to the bodega.....and why not......the other guys got theirs.....you don't want to be the Dago who brings a knife to a gunfight........and when every thug or gang member is packing....then you have tough guys who pull their guns because of a dirty look or being disrespected in some other manner.......middle of the day....crowded street....next to a school.....who cares ? and we have a shooting gallery.

so if the fear of being stopped, frisked and sent away for a year results in the majority of guns being left at home the majority of the time....that's a safer city for starters.

off topic question.....the scumbag that shot the two cops in Harlem the other night had been arrested at least 12 times......had an arsenal of weapons ....what did  his mammy say when she called 911 and why aren't the media knocking on her door demanding an interview.....did she tell the Cops when they arrived that her darling young son ( 47) was a career criminal and packing assault weapons. if they were white Trump supporters, we know the media would be suggesting they were White Supremacists and they set the cops up. ( the school shooter in Michigans' parents were arrested for their role in his shooting) why is this lady given a free pass.....no scrutiny.....they won't even reveal her name on the news.....i researched a little......she told 911 that her son was being difficult .....imagine debozo's plan of sending social workers to deal with this guy.......BUT theres more........Mammy is a retired Corrections Officer (oh yeah, look it up) ..she knows better.......don't try and tell me she was blinded by motherly love.....she knew her son was a cancerous boyle on the ass of society...she knew he hated cops....she knew he was armed.......maybe she was hoping the Cops would kill him so she would  be rid of him....maybe she was hoping she could sue for wrongful death and cash a check from the city.....maybe none of the above......but it is at least worth investigating and talking about........why is the person who lights the match by calling 911 given immunity in this day and age ?

and if i can find a book of matches,

i'm gonna burn this hotel down

news alert

 24jan2022 washington 0'9hundred zulu

disturbing report out of DC this morning....it seems yesterday while watching the Rams and the Bucs game, the CIC got nostalgic and went out on the White House Lawn at Halftime and was tossing the Nuclear football around. Pentagon spokesperson R ADM Jack Duffy confirmed many accounts that the President was telling his dog Major to " Go Long" , and then sent the Nuclear codes spiraling to absolutely knowone......Major of course is the Presidents dog and he was back in Rheboth Beach, DE after being banished from the White House for biting staffers earlier in the year...." The Leader of the free world often plays with the dog , even though the dog has been gone for 7 months" Duffy went on to say." we just don't have the heart to tell him because he really loves that dog". there was no confirmation if the tossing of this football actually resulted in the launching of a Nuclear weapon towards Russia, The Ukraine, Chicago or West Palm Beach....stay tuned to this bat staion for more.

Once i thought i saw you

 in a crowded , hazy bar

dancing on the light from star to star ( N Young)

Move over Tampa...the Carolina Hurricanes are the NEW Rangers of the south......felt like i was watching an intrasquad scrimmage last night down in Carolina.....5, count em 5 ...former Rangers are now donning their sweaters in the eye of a Hurricane.

Jesper Fast, Brady Skjei, Brendan Smith , Tony De'angelo and one of my old favorites Derek Stepan are all integral parts of this Storm Warning in Raleigh, and this team is a legit contender....they sit atop the Patrick division and with games in hand can arguably finish first in the Eastern Conference and possibly the Presidents trophy......the road to the Stanley Cup is going down tobacco road for sure....this onthe heels of former Rangers winning back to back cups in Tampa makes you wonder why we didn't have more success when they all wore blue........maybe , just maybe cause we had Mr Softee in net.....Euroscum....Queen Henrietta.......and now they will tarnish the rafter of olde MSG forever by retiring his number.......instead of raising his jersey they should raise the White Surrender flag.

Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire

a man should never gamble

 more than he can loose ( D. Bromberg)

football prognostications.

i love all 4 road dogs....here is why.

Bengals +  3.5 @ Titans.....Cincy feeling good after getting that playoff win monkey off their back....playing with house money, nothing to loose....and Burrow-Chase are really coming into their own as a dealy combination....Titans may be tight at home, lots of guys coming back from injuries....if they fall behind early it could be a long day

Niners + 5.5 @ Green Bay......i am least confident in this one.....i just think at 2 degrees that SF can run the ball and kill the clock and keep it tight , if not win...cover.

Rams + 3 @ Tampa Bay.......the Giants beat Brady twice by knocking him on his ass all day.....Tampa has 2 banged up O lineman....Rams have best defensive line in the league.....I Think Stafford plays loose and puts up points and Brady has a long, long afternoon.....Rams outright

Bills + 1.5 @ Arrowhead........i am a closet Chief fan...i hope i am wrong......but the Bills lost the AFC title game here last year ....Bills ran out to early lead (9-0) then got ambushed (38-6) before adding 10 points in garbage time......Bills are better this year....Chiefs not quite as good......I think Buffalo has grown a lot this past year and wins a close one........look for Bills to build a sizeable lead and then hang on for life at the buzzer.

alas.....i have been wrong before.

he's out , no wait...he's safe

 this kid really makes things happen out there ( Phil Rizzuto on Paradise by the dashboard light)

Rest in Peace to the one and only Meat Loaf....Michael Lee Aday dead at 74.....his album Bat out of Hell took the nation by storm in 1977 ...and if you were alive back then it probably never really left your subconscious.....hard to explain.....but wherever you were in all the years since...if you heard a clip of one of those songs you immediately recognized who it was and you were probably transported back in time to that crazy period.......still have the full album on my ipod shuffle.....still brings a smile to hear Paradise and Rizzuto.....classic stuff.

today we just have some observations from the Bean Post window.

perhaps an unintended consequence of the NCAA transfer portal, is that now when a coach jumps from learning institution A to learning institution B , he can also bring his top recruits.....such is the case with Lincoln Riley ....he abruptly left Oklahoma to accept the USC job and now most of his top players are joining him on the coast.......i complained for years that it wasn't fair that a player who chose a school based on their head coach , would have to sit out a full year if the coach left and the player wanted to transfer for any reason ( perhaps the incoming coach ran a different offense and the player didn't really fit in) and i still stand by that.....but perhaps the rule sb tweaked.....i think a coach who leaves a school while still under contract should have to sit out a year ...but we know that will never happen....so maybe his players at the old school should be allowed to transfer anywhere except the new school that he is coaching at.....in other words....all those Sooner recruits could tfr anywhere BUT USC.....i think USC has crossed a dangerous line......now any big name school that is struggling on the gridiron can target any coach, anywhere, and if they dangle enough cash they can hire him away from a competitor and hopefully bring half his recruiting class with him.........if it costs 100 million to land a Saban.....we'll just raise tuition, ticket prices, etc etc to recoup that money.....all while their tenured professors lecture the real students of the horrors of Capitalism and privilege.

staying with Football for a moment.....Dak Prescott, who is a finalist for the Walter Payton Humanitarian award; complained about the Cowboy fans throwing trash at his teamates as they exited the field after a home playoff loss to the 49ers....when told the fans were actually throwing debris at the referees he said......oh, well, props to them.........seemingly approving of the fans trying to injure the referees with bottles and other garbage.....i don't think Sir Walter Payton would approve....i sure hope Dak doesn't tarnish the award by winning this year.

President Biden...the Commander in Chief....the leader of the free world...gave a 2 hour press conference weds....im not a doctor , but it was scary......rambling, thought loss......anger, whispers, struggling to find words and then angrily bringing his own meandering diatribe to a sudden halt and culmination with stop gab phrases like ..."The Thing is"...."Listen"...."hey".....as if HE was interrupting a rambling mental patient....but there was no debate...it was him and him alone at the podium....the only one he was arguing with was the voices in his head.....they were too many miss steps to recapture them all.....for the record his entire administration was doing damage control yesterday, going on TV and the networks to clarify what he meant.

The biggest gem was when he seemed to say Putin has to invade the Ukraine.....and depending on the size of the incursion the US will or will not react accordingly.......our Nato allies were shocked....Russia laughed....and the Ukriane is left wondering if they should look elsewhere for an ally. ....and so yesterday while he was trying to project strength and contradict his comments from 22 hours ago.....he was aksed "Why are you waiting for Putin to make the first move" ?    pretty fair question i would think.....but instead of answering he muttered into a hot mike " What a stupid Question".....and he wonders why his approval rating is sooo low.

The Reason sooooo many people hate the biden Administration is the same reason so many people felt the same way about Obama........they are arrogant and dismissive......and nothing makes the blood boil more than being dismissed.......Had the networks and the incoming Biden Administration at the very least reported on the election discrepancies and acknowledged that there were irregularities ....instead of dismissing any question about the process as sour grapes.......well Jan 6th would never had happened.......and then weds the President seemed to claim that the upcoming elections would not be legitimate.........grounds for impeachment ?

i don't know about you.......but it's 20 degrees.........i'm going to login for work and wait patiently for 11:00 ....the official start for Friday Happy Hour whilst working remote.......i'm gonna pour a generous glass of Jack Daniels Apple with a splash of diet Cranberry and put on BAT OUT OF HELL and thing about the good old days when only the bronx was burning....as opposed to the whole nation

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night

I can see paradise by the dashboard light