Looking for a cure to Trump derangement syndrome

 The CDC is desperate to find a vaccine to cure the Trump derangement syndrome, something that has infected liberals throughout the world and appears to be gaining steam.

Typically you can recognize the earliest symptoms of this disease by people who wear face masks in public or ride electric scooters and such, and read the New Yorker and the Atlantic.

But there has been an outbreak of even more insidious version and people like Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Kimmel appear to have become the typhoid Mary of modern times, spreading hate in the wake.

You'd like to have sympathy for these people because they are so infected and diluted that their brains are rattled, but they have become dangerous to society and there's no mask or vaccine that will cure them.

Kimmel is a particularly hopeless case, a pathetic human being who started out as a swamp sucking bottom feeder and has gone down from there.

Bruce Springsteen once had hope but he's become so deluded in his own ego that is hard to figure out how to save him -- if possible 

Kimmdl most recent pontificating is all about saving his career and has nothing to do with politics and that's rather sad.

he can't distinguish with reality from his fantasy 

You know it would be too easy to put a cork in his mouth or pacifier but that won't stop the crap that comes out of it and may even do more damage by exploding and spreading his disease even further.

So the CDC is offered a few recommendations for dealing with this

 anyone who has the disease needs to see a psychiatrist immediately

Super spreaders like kimberlin Springsteen really should live up to their promises and leave the country therefore voiding the damage here and letting them destroy other countries 

Free speech of course is a major issue when it comes to both of them since both are screaming fire in a crowded theater which was in the past the one exception to the Free speech rule 

But the arrangement goes deep in both of them like a insidious growth that needs to be cut out

 the problem is that they seem to enjoy their status and like being typhoid Mary, spreading hate and this is goes beyond merely just the syndrome but to some major personality flaw.

Trump has called for Kimmel to be fired

 that won't shut him up.

 nothing will

 but that's what free speech is about isn't it

Poor Bruce April 12, 2026

 

Poor Bruce, starved for love, can’t hear the boos for the rage in his head,

Finally finding religion that lets him rant and rave, a true believer who has ceased to believe in anything other than his own myth.

What goes on inside that rattled head of his, a man possessed, a life reassessed, a woke joke abandoning the folk he used to sing for, singing for a different crowd, overly loud, a shout in the dark that compensates for all his mistakes, the Beverly Hills delusion he revisits now, when he tells himself he’s on a mission for a god he doesn’t believe in, no entity possibly more powerful than he thinks about himself, preaching to people who pay $1,000 (sometimes $3,000) to hear his music, not his mouth, he pocketing his wealth, helping nobody but himself. Why can’t he use it to help the immigrants he preaches about, or the homeless or the hungry he never sees, his bulging pockets the only Bible he really believes in.

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Iran new weapon : congress

 Yassamin Ansari,  congresswoman from Arizona, has apparently been launched by Iran to do damage to the American war machine 

She is the latest of a series of inside attackers whohope to do in Congress what I ran cannot do on the battlefield 

Instead of a Manchurian candidate as was feared by the right back in the 1950s we get an Iranian candidate who has learned to use the American system against itself,

A brilliant strategy by Iran along with the misinformation campaign it has been waging through elite media like CNN and sky News 

Even in New York times has played its part in helping the Iranians in this war 

Of course, there have always been the stealth candidates including the squad as well as many others who do not act like they support Iran openly yet their policies are completely damaging to the American interest 

In an old Chuck Norris film called invasion USA the enemies of the state came in here and tried to destroy those institutions which we trust such as the police and the military

Movements like the defund police as well as the anti-war movement or largely designed to destroy America 

this is pretty much the Iran strategy through these steath agents in Congress 

Instead of being worried about the nuclear bomb or long-range missiles perhaps the defense department has to worry about the knife in the back from its own Congress 

This of course has been supported by numerous liberals who have decided that they like Iran better than America but are unwilling to move there 

New York times to be honored by the Republic of Iran

 It appears that the Republic of Iran is going to award the New York times it's highest award,

This in gratitude for the times disclosing the fact that a wounded pilot had been stranded in Iran.

While ultimately the times was unsuccessful in helping Iran to capture the fallen pilot. they nonetheless did their best to help terrorists State obtain that goal 

And for this the New York times will be honored at some ceremony after the bombing stops in  iran and if there's anything left of Iran to honor them with 

Of course nobody at the New York times was available for comment on this, waiting to see if they actually get the award 

Although inside sources said the time staff is extremely pleased at the idea that they might have helped the rogue terrorist Nation get that pilot 

Better luck next time one reporter said 

This of course is in keeping with the times editorial policy which is the pro-iran and anti-america. ultimately they probably will also support China but that's down the road 

The New York times has been vehemently anti-trump for years and of course it doesn't matter if the pilot got captured or not in their minds as Long as Trump got embarrassed 

One of the few surviving upper echelon of in Iran said they were very pleased with the times behavior and hope to work with the times again in future and if ever the opportunity comes available 

McCartney gives us a gift of memory March 28, 2016

 

 

 

Paul McCartney’s “The Days we left behind,” stunned me.

Partly because it is the time of the lives of the Beatles that I most treasure, a time of hope and when they worked towards a common goal.

When they were more than just friends or band mates.

Going through the story of the Beatles, I crave that time as well, partly because it foreshadows my lives with my friends, and how much we managed to come together, and never had success ruin it for us – we all remained like brothers for all of our lives.

McCartney’s release of his song and the album to come realizes finally just how powerful a time it was prior to their success, and how much success really cost them.

The release of this new music reflects something I was thinking about as well, and how I wish I could have been part of that experience – although again, I was with my friends, two of whom (like John and George) have since passed on.

I’ve written extensively about my experiences, and several songs that reflect the same feeling McCarney’s recent song does (my song called “Formerly Joe’s very much in the same vein as Paul’s.

This may well be McCartney’s swan song (hopefully not). If it is, I treasure it, because it looks back and brings back to life those precious moments he lived through (and stirs up in me the nostalgia for our little gang).

Few things have touched me so deeply, or bonded me more closely with McCartney (who I’ve never met) than the release of this song – which I’m in the process of learning, part of my attempt to get into the heads of the Beatles by trying to perform their music.

Thank you, Paul.

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Unresolved March 28, 2026

 

Seven nights in a row I’ve dreamed about my old job at the newspaper, not with the most recent owner, but the one I worked for twenty-five years prior to that.

Not exactly a nightmare, although filled with the usual trepidation, the weekly and sometimes daily deadline hovering over me.

My dreams usually have the same overall landscape, a world that roughly corresponds to places I actually lived or worked. With this latest series, the landscape altered somewhat.

I won’t confess to any questionable trysts, though REM sleep always brings its share of those as well. Yet, these dreams recollected some of what I felt when the owner of our paper used to spy on me, checking the computers where I worked as if looking for evidence of a crime.

I rarely used work a computer for anything but work. If I wrote anything private, I did so long hand into hardcovered notebooks that I carried with me in my bag or my car.

These recent dreams had the same feeling I got when in reality I came to work to find my boss sitting at my terminal or got word from the other office that he had been snooping in my terminal there.

In waking, I lost most of the thread of these dreams, only that he expected something of me or suspected something about me, which in reality or dreamland, he could not prove.

Why I am saddled with these dreams these days after nearly a decade since he sold off the business and moved up state New York, I can’t say.

Perhaps the godawful work environment still haunts me even now when I have a much better boss and a less stressful job. Something remains unresolved, something I suspect never will be.

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Beatles story: Be careful of what you wish for

 

 

The more I learned about the Beatles history the sadder the story is

It is one of those tales of caution that Shakespeare might have written or others about getting what you really want

This is partly a tale of my friends and our band, which came dangerously close to fame and it would have ruined our lives if we’d gotten it

All of it started in the basement of a friend, who's rich parents gave him everything he wanted in instruments and everybody gravitated towards that place

Out of this emerge the band that played Passaic valley area and for a time looked like it was going to have its own version of Beatlemania

Two venues had to be closed down because of overcrowding of teens

This occurred after I first saw the band in Paterson playing the St John's community center where Paulie got up on stage

Later, while I was on the run from the police out west, the band made even more headway and by the time I came back was already playing most of the clubs in the area and making a name for itself

The most notable of these performances was at Melody lake where we played for a bikers’ picnic thousands of motorcyclists, scaring the hell out of Passaic county – our version of the 1969 Rolling Stones concert.

In a battle of the band that was supposed to be won by a band largely made up of a horn section, our band prevailed. It was at an exclusive community, where only relations to the association could compete. But since our drummer was dating one of the daughters, we were allowed to compete. Everybody thought the house group with its big horn sound would prevail. It did not.

The prize was a recording contract as well as the services of a prominent booking agency.

The band was very tight by that time and one of the prominent agents came to see us at the Red Baron in cedar Grove.

He offered to represent us but at a price we had to give him a percentage of all the revenues we had made already and then upgrade all of our equipment to Marshalls and other stuff we couldn't afford

What are the two Johns who played guitar for our band told him to screw off and we got blacklisted

We tried to disguise John, doing a Davis Bowie disguise, but he was just too good a guitarists and nobody got fooled – much like the scene from Backbeat in which Stu was playing Elvis, and the agent walked out.

We never reached that high point again although we continue to play in various factions at one point splitting it to two entirely different bands one new age and one more traditional Rock

One version of the band cut a single thanks to the assistance of Joey Ramone. But it went nowhere.

The other band put out several albums of original material no record company picked up on.

Perhaps a blessing, since none of us were ready for success.

One John went on to work as a prominent computer specialist and succeeded in that fashion.

The other John was more tragic, never giving up the rock and roll live and died eventually from liver failure.

Paulie became something for hermit after working as a library director for 20 years

Some of this sounds like the scene from yesterday in which John Lennon held up as a hermit and that's what I think of often when I see that film, Paul living in in his trailer where he eventually passed away as well

And the more I learn about the Beatles the more I realize that had the band really succeeded it would have had the same issues and perhaps not the same positive result no Linda or Yoko to settle down the most too provocative characters

Sometimes I think it's better off not getting what you want especially when it comes to fame because there's no way to shed the mantle of it and perhaps as with the Beatles you sort of become a puppet show for other media to make money

In many ways the Beatles lucked out later when each of them settled into a real life but the story is still sad very tragic a regular Shakespearean tragedy

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