Who knew?

The Babe in a different uniform. He reported for duty then headed straight to the clap shack.

John Prine was the man:

WKRLEM:John Prine - "Souvenirs" - Live from Sessions at West 54th

WABC TV Eyewitness News (1976) It's time for the news!

When they hired John Johnson it became a colored presentation. Just sayn'

Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore tell it like it is!

I tried out all the time but I never got picked!

Story of my life!

The rest of the Dream team

 

Left Field: Roy White

He was the best player on those old Yankee teams. A good hitter, baserunner and a spectacular fielder. He was all around one of my favorite players.

Centerfield: Jim Lyttle

He only had a short career with the Yankees but he was one of my favorites because I got his bat on Bat Day. I used it to play softball and I have it to this very day.

Right Field: Ron Woods

I mean just look at the guy! You can tell he was a very smart ball player.

Well at least he dove into the stands to catch the ball.

Just sayn'

Pitcher: Stan Bahnsen

A crafty right hander he was the best pitcher on some very bad teams. I saw him pitch his heart out game after game and lose do the ineptness of the rest of the team

He never gave up. A true Yankee.

We got the Berky!

 

It's true......Trooper knows what will happen!

They will be Wild in the Streets!

I still see them......in my dreams......

 Opening day is on March 30th when the Yankees meet the San Fransico Giants. Pretty ironic since the Yankees and the Giants were bitter rivals when they were both in New York City. The Yankees (then known as the Highlanders) were the upstart little team in the Polo Grounds and were scorned by the much more established and storied Giants led by the legendary John McGraw. Now they play in the regular season. Things have sure changed since I was a rabid fan.

When I think back to all the teams and players I rooted for my mind always goes back to the days of my yute. The team I really want to see? Well it is full of people you don't even remember.

First  Base: Frank Tepedino

A Brooklyn boy he came up to bigs after the great old teams were gone. He played for us for a few years and then became a New York City fireman. Served on 911. A hero in several respects.

Second Base: Horace Clarke

The real "Hands of Stone"....fuck Roberto Duran. Perhaps the worst second baseman ever to play for the Yankees. He is a true icon. In fact, these teams are always referred to as the "Horace Clarke Yankees." That's how I feel about them.

They don't make TV stars like this anymore!

How many of them can you name?

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On Beginnings, Endings, & Points of Connection

 

These two hark back to postings and comments previously presented by others here and elsewhere pertaining to the ouroboros, ancient Egyptian texts, and being careful of that for which you wish.  

 
"The ouroboros or uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy.

One of the earliest known ouroboros motifs is found in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE. The text concerns the actions of the Ra and his union with Osiris in the underworld. The ouroboros is depicted twice on the figure: holding their tails in their mouths, one encircling the head and upper chest, the other surrounding the feet of a large figure, which may represent the unified Ra-Osiris (Osiris born again as Ra). Both serpents are manifestations of the deity Mehen, who in other funerary texts protects Ra in his underworld journey. 

The whole divine figure represents the beginning and the end of time."

Be Careful Of That For Which You Wish...

OK, we all know the Let's Go, Brandon thing started a scant 8 months after the steal. Among college kids.

Demos always figure they have kids that stupid in their hip pocket. News, however, persists there is some kind of revival movement among da yoots.

We have all kinds of news about how all us Right-Wingers (Right here meaning correct) saw through the lies because the CDC is admitting they were lies. Then there's the whole gender thing. Turns out all those impressionable are just as grossed out by it as everybody else. Kids aren't buying it, constant indoctrination notwithstanding.

And this is just the beginning.

Now comes news that iTunes has banned Trump's Justice For All recording because it spent a full week at #1 after being released less than a week earlier. He was followed by Natasha Owens' Trump Won And You Know It, which is number one on the pop charts and number two on iTunes.

Could those kids actually be thinking?

So, where is all this going? Elon Musk thinks this whole arrest business will blow up in the Lefties' faces.

So do I.

Why? Because Elon seems to be thinking the same thing I am. That, once in court, Trump will pull a Hitler on them (someone get Sixty the smelling salts). 

Think a century back. Think Germany. Those looney tunes tried to take over Bavaria. 16 killed. Their leader and a couple of others arrested for treason.

But Dolf used the trial as a platform to tell Germany what was wrong and how he would fix it. Turned him from a local looney to a national figure who kept warning people Weimar was too deep in America's pocket. And on 10/25/29, he was able to say, "Toldja".

In one form or another, that's what Musk, I think, expects, and so do I. Trump has used all of Dr Goebbels' little tweaks all along (so has every other politician from 1934 on). Look at a full Hitler speech (giddy-up to whoa, not outtakes) and you'll see the stump speech of every American politician you ever knew of. Think of the way Deep State tried to sell Kung Flu and pressure people into getting the shot. Think of the screaming because we would social distance or wear masks - they did their best to turn us into Jud Suss. 

The laugh is now they're begging our forgiveness.

Were it not for the little old Internet, we'd all be swinging by the neck from lampposts. Everybody says the drumbeat of social media and Fake News is too great. If that were true, we'd still be on lockdown.

For the record, I think the Davos crowd really does want to starve 7 billion people and herd the rest in SMART (Social Security Schemes, Modern Urban Facilities, Adopting Smart Agricultural Practices Road, Infrastructure, and Transportation Facilities and Tech Savvy) villages just like you saw on The Prisoner so they can be controlled and serve their betters.

Ironic Donald Trump seems to have been chosen to be the latest in the line starting with Moses.

On Running the Race, Riding the Horse & Peddling Influence

 

On Victory Laps & Downward Descent

 

On March, April & Year Round Madness

 

On Flagrant Violence & Manufactured Outrage

 

Give them an inch…..

We predicted this in arguments about gay marriage.

Now we are facing the same crossroads with critical race theory. And transgenderism. And climate change.

If you give them an inch they will take a mile.

They won’t stop.
 

On More Hope & Change

 

An old cartoon above to go with the following from yesterday's post on American Greatness: "Michelle Obama Is Not Coming to Save the Democrats--They have made their bed with Joe Biden and cackling Kamala Harris and there’s no way out" by Jane Guenther Parent

"My favorite new conspiracy theory goes like this: the Democrats know they are in big trouble for 2024. They have this addled, dementia-riddled, diaper-wearing octogenarian and his dreadful wife occupying the White House, and he’s become an embarrassment. These days he makes three to four hair-curling, cringey gaffes per week, falls up the stairs to Air Force One every time he tries to trot up them to project American strength and vigor, and has been credibly accused of passing gas in front of the Queen Consort of England. But Democrats can’t abandon him before the primaries because, well, Kamala. So Biden will announce he is running again but will withdraw sometime around the Democratic National Convention so as to clear the presidential field for . . . 

Michelle Obama. 

...She emerged from her privileged Martha’s Vineyard cocoon recently to recount in a podcast (about herself, naturally) that she cried uncontrollably for a half an hour on Air Force One when she left Washington, D.C., after Donald Trump’s inauguration. “Just straight, uncontrollable sobbing” from “holding it together for eight years” under the enormous, horrible, crushing burden of being the First Lady of the United States. Her story was one of struggle where living in the White House with staff to cater to her every need, traveling on her own ginormous government airplane to Japan and South Africa with her mother and her entourage, and enjoying eight years of wildly obvious throne sniffing media flattery as the Most Stylish First Lady Ever was just too much to bear. 

And about those vacations? According to Judicial Watch, which obtained U.S. Air Force and Secret Service records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the Obama travel expenses for family vacations cost U.S. taxpayers $114,691,322.17. 

...Almost eight years have passed since Michelle was finally freed from the prison of the White House. She has been quiet lately, working on a podcast and another book about her favorite topic—herself. She has homes in Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, and the oceanfront plot where her husband is building a Hawaiian retreat where Tom Selleck’s boss used to live in “Magnum P.I.” until the Obamas leveled it. 

She travels to New York City to see the U.S. Open from box seats wearing $600 designer jeans and is seen leaving the swanky Pierre Hotel on the Upper East Side, where the presidential suite goes for $30,000 per night. She vacations in France with Bono, kayaks in Hawaii during the winter holidays, and wears thigh-high glittery $3,900 Balenciaga boots on book tours where she speaks for money about her struggles. 

...Michelle Obama still has the attention of an eager, supplicant media, the admiration of liberal women, and enough money to keep her in the lifestyle to which she obviously has become accustomed. She has even eased off the whole “Let’s Move” thing and references to her famous biceps. Now she discusses her menopausal weight gain in this “blessed” time of life. Her kids are grown, they are millionaires, and life is good. Face it: she does not look or sound like a woman who wants to be president. 

And presidential politics ain’t beanbag. The kid glove treatment she received as the wife of the first black presidential candidate would evaporate if she were the candidate. We would hear all over again about the unintelligible college thesis, the no-show political spoils job, the surrendered law license, the curious absence of any photos of her pregnant with her children, the complete lack of any electoral office other than that of wife."

The article ends with this query, which made me smile: "Even so: does she, dare I say, have the balls to run?" 

And this conclusion, with which I'm not sure I fully agree: "This conspiracy is merely a good laugh full of schadenfreude at the horrible predicament in which the Democratic Party has placed itself. They have made their bed with Joe Biden and cackling Kamala and there’s no way out. And Michelle Obama is not coming to save them."  

Considering the Dem's ability to pull the strings needed to finagle the Basement Dweller and the Kackler into the two top spots, I'm not yet ready to go along and laugh this one off.

Happy International Woman’s Day!

 

On Wielding the Stick, Shiny Objects & Ruined Reputations

 

On Treasure Chests & Sponsor Jackets