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To end the theories

          The drones flying over Northern NJ reminds everyone about the Chinese spy balloons that flew over the country during the Trump and Biden administrations. Americans already had enough of the Chinese government after the entire Corona virus debacle. We're still waiting for the WHO to stop covering for China and admit the virus started in a C hinese lab. Then the spy ballons started. It was later revealed the Chinese were flying spy ballons sooner than the government admitted. Of course the Democrats were quick to point out that the spy ballons started under President Trump. Given the relationship between the federal government and the former president I wouldn't be surprised if President Trump wasn't given the complete picture on purpose. The conspiracy theories spread and soon after came the finger pointing. Everybody under the sun promised investigations into the ballons, but like most government investigations it disappeared from the news cycle...
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Last RACES Net of the year

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This is a teaser entry for a few feature enteries upcoming for my 25th year as a amateur radio operator. Starting the first week in January I will look back on a quarter century on the air!!!!!   Made it into the final County RACES net of the year(They never do a net i n December)..........I love my position. Notice I didn't say ":authority", I said "position". Meaning I know where I stand in the City of Cape May. I was a radio officer in my old town of Woodcliff Lake, I was at the time the only active ham in town. When I moved to Cape May I joined the local ham radio club and when I mentioned I was a member of RACES in Woodcliff Lake. The head of the County RACES said "Thank you now we don't need to send a member down to Cape May every month". I sheepishly said, "I'm it?" In which he replied "You're it and if anyone give you trouble tell them to come to me." I have been the City of Cape May's RACES Officer every...
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Biden welcomes Trump

The day after  the 2008 election I wrote an entry entitled " The White House Meeting " where I imagined the contrast between the meeting between outgoing President Bush and incoming President  Obama and the meeting between the outgoing Vice President  Dick Cheney and the incoming President Joe Biden. Frankly it was a tounge and cheek  piece where while Bush and Obama seemed to be at peace, Cheneyy and Biden seemed to be on the verge of coming to blows. Then after Obama'a two terms as  president, he reluctantly welcomed Donald Trump. Then we all what happened over the course of those four years, fake investigations, the trials and all kinds of othe  r
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Day after reflections

I first want to congratulate President-elect Trump for recapturing the Oval Office. From announcing his campaign again to almost getting assassinated on July 13th to his victory last n ight, it's sure been a wild ride! It has been said he hasn't stopped running since losing to Joe Biden in 2020. I would also likle  to congratulate VP Harris for running a good campaign however it fell short. A few observations \ the day after the election.  I find the most interesting, the race in a little county in Texas called Starr County, a county that has a heavy Hispanic population, and hasn't voted for a Republican since 1896, that's 132 years!! It's remarkable because all the Democrats ever talk about is Trump's racism . However Starr County is right on the Mexican border and has definitely seen its share of crime coming across the southern border. T he Democrats again said Trump's border policies were racist and by endorsing Trump you're endorsing racism. That th...
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Billy Joel Enteries

I'm slowly putting more of my book on  m y blog. Some of this stuff  is over twenty years old  but I need to preserve stuff on myt blog since my old website went down. Th ese are original  without any editing, which might not win me a Pulitzer, but it  is a good way to back up my book while expanding the blog! March 27, 1997 River of Dreams (B. Joel) This reminds me of the days at the Woodcliff School, the worst school on earth. My “river” was widest during seventh grade because I was in a class  with guys who didn't treat me as an equal. They pretended to walk and talk the way I did and said I was some kind of an experiment that went wrong. Then outside the room there was this one kid who waqs worse than anyone in tha room!! One day we were in the library amd he wrote a note saying “Jay will never have sex”> He knew I liked a gi rl very much and he used my disability to scare her away. One time Andrew told her if she and I were to ever make lo...
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15th Annual Garden State Meet

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Trying to start to   writing regularly on the blog  again. I have been working on other stuff like adding links and uploading more poetry, but no real enteries so I decide to put up this license pla ete meet report. Really interesting story  on how  I go t to the meet itself. Dad was planning on helping Pete work on his house. He said he wasn't going to drive back to New Jersey  all weekend. Luckily my friend John Willard lived near Pete's house and I got him to pick me up. Below is  the meet report I submitted to the ALPCA Magazine On a crisp October day 50 ALPCA members and 16 guests assembled at the Pennington Fire Company in Pennington, NJ for the 15th Annual Garden State Region Meet. People arrived before the 8 AM and were greeted with coffee bagels and doughnuts. Trading was very active as members showed off their latest finds from the car show and flea market out in Hershey, PA just a few days prior. This was the first year we gave awards out fo...
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Billy Joel Facebook Posts

 Another couple of posts from the Billy Joel:Completely Retold  Facebook Page that made it onto this blolg./ Billy Joel  has been a majoor influence on my writing since  high schoo.   I have been on this page for years and have held my tongue, but now that I know I will never Billy Joel at the Garden, I feel I need to vent/II have a physical disability and been a fan for most of my life. I COULDN'T GO TO SHOWS Billy Joel is a New York Guy so I'm going to use NY LANGAUGE AYONE who complains about the last show isn't a "fan", they're are an asshole. The more shows you seen the bigger ASSHOLE.. This ISN'T ABLE "BEING A FAN BUT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LAST SAHOW IS TASTLESS. He done this for ten years. He's put on 150 shows., So good, some just OK. It's definitely not what fans like ME WANT TO READ. Ok he's been off a few times and people have given honest concert going experiences but people people TRULY should have held their tongues this ti...
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