Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Weekly Poop 9/11/19



Roost #44 Poop
·         From the Prez
o    Next Roost Meeting- September 12, Thursday at 7:30 at the Carousel. Between 117 & 118 Streets. Proceed through the lobby and ice rink to the restaurant at the ocean front, Meeting on the left side of the restaurant.

o    October meeting will be at Alley Oops on 131st/Coastal Hwy.  Enter front door, turn right, walk past bar to a room in the NE corner of the building.  We will have HH drink menu and HH food menu.  The room seats 60 people.  They are hoping to do us every month but there may be problems in June, July and August.

o    Walk for Recovery- The Roost donated $100.00 to the Walk for Recovery event on the Boardwalk Saturday, September 7th. This is sponsored by the Atlantic Club and the Worcester County Warriors Against Opiate Addiction. The five mile walk will start at 2PM on the Boardwalk. Proceeds from the event go toward scholarships that support high school students affected by addiction and help get people into treatment. Susan and I will be marching. Registration is $20 per individual. Contact me if you're interested in joining us and possibly forming a team from the Roost. If you would like to participate individually or make a donation, contact Heidi McNeeley at 302-381-0589 or go to Atlanticclubocmd.org.

o    Member of the Year- Time for nominations for Member of the Year Award.  Nominations should be in writing and sent to Chairman of the Board Larry Gerst or present to Larry at next Roost meeting.  Only Board members, Officers and past award members are eligible to nominate winners of the award.  Please contact me if you have any questions - eric_waterman@comcast.net.

o    Convention Cooler/Bags which were not available at the Convention have been delivered.  They will be available at the Roost meeting on September 12th for the members who registered for the Convention.  Contact Eric (eric_waterman@comcast.net) if you won't be at the meeting or if you would like to pick up your cooler bag prior to the meeting.

·         Dates to Remember:
o    9/12 – Monthly Roost Meeting (at The Carousel)
o    10/5 – Crab Feast (at The Shrimp Boat)
o    10/10 – Monthly Roost Meeting (at Alley Oops)
o    10/11 – Haunted Lighthouse Tour
o    10/26 – Kent Island Pub Crawl
o    11/8 – Harrington Bus Trip
o    12/13 – Roost Christmas Party (at Mio Fratello’s)

·         Membership: Please mail your dues to: Susan Berterman, 12290 Dixie Drive, Bishopville, MD, 21813.  Still only $30 per year.  We have 112 current paid members.

·         Ticket Exchange:
o    Nick Costa (non-Ravens Roost 44 member) is selling his Ravens’ PSLs and season tickets.  Nick’s phone is 410-428-0131.
o    2 seats up for sale.  They are Section 519, Row 17, Seats 7 & 8 - $1,350.00 for the whole season or I am selling for individual games.  Thanks, Matt Herrmann matt.herrmann@comcast.net
·         Game Bus: The Ravens Bus will be running this year.  Both Season Passes and Individual Games Seats are available (on a limited basis).  Please contact Bill Regan for information.  The pickup locations are as follows. Please arrive a few minutes early.
o    Ocean City Elementary School - Departing 7:00 am.  Address: 12828 Center Dr, Ocean City, MD 21842
o    Worcester County Library Ocean Pines - Departing 7:30.  Address: 11107 Cathell Rd, Berlin, MD 21811
o    Roses Millsboro - Departing 8 am.  Address: 29859 Dupont Blvd, Millsboro, DE 19966
My email address: bregan@redsuncustom.com.  My cell: 410-430-7902.  Text is best.
·         Penguin Swim:
o    I want to thank everyone who joined us on the Bar-Hop Cruise.  It was a beautiful night on the water with great friends and we raised $685 for the RR44 Penguin Swim Team.  Thanks also  to the staff at "Fishtails", "de Lazy Lizard" and "Sunset Grill" for their hospitality.
o    The OC Ravens Roost #44 Penguin Swim Team registration page is now available.  Anyone wishing to join the Team, simply go to aghpenguinswim.org, click on "join a team", click on OC Ravens Roost #44, and then register.  Note that it requires a $25 donation by credit card to register.  If you were on the Team last year, be sure to click on "Returning Penguins" to get started.  I will have more information on upcoming events at the Wednesday meeting.
·         Ravens Rap: Ravens Rap returns!  Join Mike Bradley, Tony Lombardi, and a plethora of special guests every Monday as they review the previous week’s game and preview the upcoming game.  Ravens Rap begins Monday, September 9, 7pm and continues every Monday throughout the season.  Drinks and food specials!
·         Harrington Bus Trip
o    Date: Friday November 8th, 2019
o    Cost: $20.00
o    Pickup Time: Montego Bay 8:15am, Rose’s 8:45
o    Departure from Casino: 3pm
o    Perks: $15.00 Free Slot Play, and $7.00 towards lunch buffet
o    Contact: Mary Kendall, email: or cell phone: 302-236-9617, home phone: 302-934-7210
·         Entertainment:
o    Entertainment Schedule 2019:
§  Saturday, October 5thRavens Roost #44 Crab Feast @ the Shrimp Boat in West OC, 12-3pm.  Crabs, chicken, corn on the cob, draft beer.  Members only.  Sign up sheet at the next meeting.
§  Friday, October 11 - Haunted Lighthouse tour, 6pm, $34pp, $25 for 11 and under.
§  Saturday, October 26 - Kent Island pub crawl no fee.
§  Friday, December 13th, 6:30 – 9:30pm, Roost Christmas Party @ Mio Fratello’s in Fenwick Island.  Live music, 3 drink tix per person.  Dinner choices will be announced at the August Meeting.  Price is $40pp, non-member spouse or SO $65.
§  See attachment to download/print selection form.
Call or text Donna @ 410-627-7597 or email @ chapshouse@comcast,net.

Ravens Poop
·         Good daily dose of Ravens news notes and nuggets here.  It’s getting to the point where I can hardly stand ESPN, but you can go here to stay up to date with all of the AFC North news.

·         Out and about and can’t watch the game?  You can listen to the Ravens on the radio! (I know, right?)  Go here: https://www.baltimoreravens.com/game-day/coverage for the list of affiliates.

·         The Ravens 2019 Schedule is live!  Go here for details.

·         Follow all the Orioles news on MASN here from columnist Roch Kubatko.
·         Thinking of listening to the Orioles?  Their affiliates are here: https://www.mlb.com/orioles/schedule/broadcast-affiliates (good luck finding a station in Ocean City that carries them).

Local Poop
·         Thursday thru Sunday - OC Bikefest, Roland E. Powell Convention Center.  The largest motorcycle rally on the East Coast!  Featuring vendors, merchandise, food, concerts, and entertainment!
·         Saturday - Arts & Jazz Festival, The Freeman Stage at Bayside.  Enjoy jazz performances live on the Freeman Stage starting at 11 a.m. with Joe Baione.  Baione has a passion for all things jazz.  This performance is followed by five time Juno Award winner, Jane Bunnett.  The final act of the day is The Lao Tizer Band.
·         Sunday - OC Cruzers Car Display - Somerset Street Plaza - Somerset Plaza between the Boardwalk and Baltimore Ave.  Are you a fan of classic cars and live music?  If you answered yes to this question, The OC Cruzers Car Display is the perfect event for you!  Enjoy viewing classic cars while listening to live music in Ocean City Maryland.  OC Cruzers will display approximately 15 vehicles along Somerset Street Plaza.  The owners of the vehicles will supervise and educate spectators about their older cars.  Live music or DJ will be provided.  Select Sundays 3pm to 6pm.  For more information, call 410-289-7739 or visit www.ocdc.org.
Save the Dates:
o    Sep 22: DJ music
·         Monday - Ravens Rap Show - Chance To Win Tickets To Ravens Home Games, The Original Greene Turtle.  Ravens Rap Show Live - all you need to know about your hometown team!  Join your hosts Mike Bradley of 92.7 FM with his special guests each week for expert analysis, fun commentary and insider information.  The Ravens Rap Show is filmed LIVE every Monday night from 7-8pm at The Original Greene Turtle!  Every show you attend gets you more chances to win Ravens Tickets to home Ravens games vs the Bears, the Dolphins, the Lions and the Colts (must be present to win) and other giveaways from sponsors!  While you are here, you might as well have a cold beer; $2.75 Miller Lite and Coors Light Bottles and Drafts and $2.75 Rail Drinks.

Funny Poop
·         A pastor, known for his lengthy sermons, noticed a man get up and leave during the middle of his message.  The man returned just before the conclusion of the service.  Afterwards the pastor asked the man where he had gone.

"I went to get a haircut," was the reply.

"But," said the pastor, "why didn't you do that before the service?"

"Because," the gentleman said, "I didn't need one then."
Etcetera
·         Got Poop?  Let me know!  I’m going to try to get this out every Wednesday so if you get it to me by Tuesday, I’ll try to include it.  Your input is appreciated.

·         Our website is up and running.  Be sure to bookmark our address - www.OCRavensRoost44.com or go to our blog @ http://ravensroost44.blogspot.com/ for the latest news, notes and nuggets.

·         Life is short.  Focus on the good.



Frank



Wednesday, November 9, 2016

American Uprising

Everything is about to change.




Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.
They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.
They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.
They fought and they won.
This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.
Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.
They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.
They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.
And they changed everything.
Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.
He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.
And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.
 And America said, “No.”
Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their dedication made the impossible happen.
Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.
It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.
It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC calls it a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.
Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.
They won improbably. And they won amazingly.
They were tired of ObamaCare. They were tired of unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America disappear.
And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.
Watch this video. See ten ways John Oliver destroyed Donald Trump. Here’s three ways Samantha Bee broke the internet by taunting Trump supporters. These three minutes of Stephen Colbert talking about how stupid Trump is owns the internet. Watch Madonna curse out Trump supporters. Watch Katy Perry. Watch Miley Cyrus. Watch Robert Downey Jr. Watch Beyonce campaign with Hillary. Watch. Click.
Watch fifty million Americans take back their country.
The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures.
No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.
America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.
The day when we stop being able to pull of the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.
Today is not that day. Today fifty million Americans did the impossible.
Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to change.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264771/american-uprising-daniel-greenfield