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Kursk and General Thoughts on Ukraine

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Kursk and General Thoughts on Ukraine

The story I heard was that the Russians used a natural gas pipeline to move hundreds of troops several miles behind the Ukrainian lines and the panic this caused in several locations within the Ukrainian Kursk front has disrupted the situation and according to some reports is leading to a rout.

It will take a day or two before reports can be confirmed.  But this may be the beginning of an overall shift in the battlefield situation.  Up until now the words, meatgrinder, attrition and horrendously slow seemed to be the best way to describe the war.  Russia has been making steady but glacially slow progress in capturing the four provinces they’ve declared their own.

The exception was Ukraine’s lightning strike into Russia’s Kursk region that seemed to catch Moscow off balance before stalling out.  Zelensky had hoped that Kursk could be used as a bargaining chip in eventual negotiations with Russia.  But this new situation may be Russia’s determination to put an end to the Kursk front.

If Ukraine retreats from Kursk, I think it might signal a broader collapse of Ukrainian military resolve.  But as I said above it’s too soon to know if some of these reports are Russian bravado over their pipeline strategy.

But even regardless of the impact of this attack it almost surely seems the Russians have the wherewithal to eventually wear down the Ukrainian army into submission.  These are two stubborn enemies and the attrition is mutually destructive.  All Russia has as advantage, is size.  As I’ve said Russia will lose two million men and Ukraine will lose one million and Russia will win.

That’s victory?

From my point of view, Trump will not arbitrate this negotiation.  At best he is forcing the Ukrainians to the bargaining table by refusing continued military aid.

But he has no special insight into the psychology of these two closely related peoples.  This is very, very close to a civil war.  And considering how many Russians live in Ukraine it’s even more personal than that.  The only ones who might be able to negotiate an early end to this war are Vladimir Putin and whoever the Ukrainians pick as their leader.  Is that Zelensky?  I doubt it, but it’s possible.  The reason I doubt it is that Zelensky has rejected much better Russian deals in the past and vowed that he would force Russia out of all Ukrainian lands including Crimea.  I think he would fear for his own safety if he came back with a worse deal that cedes the lands Russia demands.  But whoever it is I believe that the sooner they start talking the better, for Ukraine.  Every day that passes more Russians die and more Ukrainian land passes into Russian control.  Eventually Russia will win on the battle field everything it currently wants through negotiation.  However, as the Russian casualties continue to mount so will their demands.  Eventually it might come to include all Ukraine.

And not all the blame goes to Russia and Ukraine.  Joe Biden and Boris Johnson convinced Zelensky that the Turkish peace talks weren’t as good as what they would get with the help of western weapons and intelligence aid.  This terrible advice was a siren song that seduced the Ukrainians into thinking we knew what we were talking about.  That was a crime.  Because we were stupid or maybe we didn’t care and just wanted to see Russia damaged even if it meant killing every last Ukrainian.  Because we knew or should have known that the Russians weren’t going to let Ukrainians mistreat the Russians living in Ukraine.  They’ve been living there for hundreds of years.  It’s as if California somehow became part of Mexico again and then the Mexicans started to abuse the Americans living there.  Who thinks that the United States would just stand by while our countrymen were abused and killed.  We would do just exactly what the Russians are doing right now.

So that’s my thought.  Ukrainians and Russians know the psychology of their relationship better than anyone else.  The sooner those two sides sit down at the negotiating table the sooner the killing can stop.  Hopefully for good.  Because it’s not as if they’re going to somehow move farther apart.  They better learn how to be neighbors of some sort.

Where’s Joe Biden’s Nobel Peace Prize?

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Okay, so maybe I’m pushing it.  Maybe it’s too soon.  But then again Obama got his preemptively and let’s face it, if we don’t get Joe to Oslo soon it might be kind of embarrassing during the presentation ceremony.  And messy.

So, how about it?  If proof is needed, we can list Afghanistan, Ukraine (kinda), COVID, January Sixth convictions (by proxy), Trump assassination attempt (by proxy), eleven plus million migrants living on the dole and the laughs we got from the debate, plus the gift of Kamala Harris.

That’s a lot.

What did Teddy Roosevelt have?  The Russo-Japanese War peace treaty?  Thin soup as far as I can see.  After all, are they really any closer to friendship now than they were a hundred odd years ago?  Hardly.

No.  History is crying out for a Peace Prize for Biden.  In fact, the whole thing should be renamed the Joe Biden Peace Prize.  And the award should be reworked so that it is a replica of Joe Biden’s head.  Smiling, maybe.  But I’ll have to think about that.  He did have that great look during the debate.  You know whenever Trump was mocking him.  Not just a confused look but a look of incredible effort like he was trying to remember how to make his mouth close.  So maybe that look.

And inscribed on his forehead it could say something like, “Never forget that I, uhhh, look, you know the drill, uhhh, the thing, uhhh, oh forget it.”

Next year, Kamala Harris can get hers; either for winning the election or for losing it.  After that either Greta Thunberg or those kids who defaced one of Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings then super glued themselves to the wall.  That was world class.

But enough of this daydreaming.  Let’s get back to reality.  Even if they gave Joe the award tomorrow there’s a good chance, he won’t know what they’re saying or what it means.  So, we’ve got to break through the cognitive barrier.  What needs to be provided is a clear indication that he’s getting a lot of money.  No matter how far gone he is into imbecility he will still recognize and respond to a big pile of cash.

What makes sense is for the award money to be presented in one-dollar bills in a giant burlap bag with a dollar sign printed on the outside and the bills overflowing onto the floor.  I guess, in order to make it more familiar it should be presented to Joe by Hunter in his underwear smoking crack cocaine and surrounded by naked hookers.

And to round out the experience Doctor Jill and Barack Obama could be on either side of the stage clapping and telling him what a good boy he’s been for knowing all the words and eating all his ice cream and mostly not soiling himself.

Poor Alfred Nobel.  If only he could have lived long enough to see his award go to Barack Obama for his future contributions to world peace (which didn’t quite pan out).  And hopefully now to Joe Biden for his good sportsmanship in allowing himself without the need for violence to be forced to exit the Democratic presidential primary that he had already won and hand it over to someone even stupider than himself.  Now that’s what I call peace.

Unburdened By Yellow School Buses

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Well, they finally did it.  They either bribed or frightened or just plain exhausted Joe Biden into withdrawing from the race.  My guess is cash.

Now we have Kamala Harris as Democrat candidate.  Okay.  This is the same Kamala whose job it was to control the border.  Well, wait a minute.  That didn’t go very well, did it? Wasn’t there some kind of problem with all of her staff quitting because she is a toxic witch that can’t get along with anybody and can’t get anything done?  Okay, that could be a problem, maybe.  What else have we got?

Well, there is the thing where she likes to talk about yellow school buses.  And she likes to make up what she thinks are deep, impressive statements but other people find to be vapid and laughable.  Like when she adopted the tag line, “I can imagine what can be, unburdened by what has been.”  There Is a YouTube montage video where someone collected dozens and dozens of times, she has said this or very close versions of this.  Watching them one after the other is a daunting task.  Eventually this mantra begins sounding like a slogan to sell sneakers or a sports drink and the one saying it begins to sound unhinged.  And there are any number of videos out there documenting her propensity to belabor the obvious and try to pass it off as “deep thinking.”

It seems then that Kamala babbling incoherently will just be substituted for Joe Biden babbling incoherently in the Republican commercials targeting her in the fall.  But who knows?  Maybe Kamala has come on the scene just as the American IQ has crashed into double digits.  Maybe the voting population has gone down the same road as Kamala and they can imagine what Kamala can be unburdened by the fact that she’s an idiot.  In fact, maybe an idiot is exactly what they want.  If they can couch her pitch in terms of pseudoscientific psychobabble and feminine emotionalism and top it off with woke appeals to racialist and feminist grievance arguments then maybe she can get enough crackpots to make her election seem almost plausible.

But honestly, she suffers from the same problem that did in Joe Biden.  After all, he was always in the hole, even before he broke out into tongues at the debate.  He was behind in the polls because his economy stinks and the country is flooded with illegal aliens, drug addicts and other homeless people who are causing a crime epidemic.  So even if Kamala’s version of Tourette’s Syndrome is slightly less off-putting than Joe’s she still has to convince voters that four years of Biden/Harris isn’t Harris’s fault.  And that’s a pretty hard sell.

An additional challenge will be for her to explain how she kept telling anyone who asked her that that Joe Biden was as sharp as a tack and running rings around his staff making America run like a Swiss watch.  That one isn’t going to fly.  Just like all of the rest of the liars in his inner circle they saw the Vegetable in Chief regularly and she knew that he was essentially a dementia patient with his finger on the button of the nuclear football.  That is going to be a very difficult question to answer.  I’d love to see her unburden on that little beauty.

Say It Ain’t So, Joe! We Lost Biden.

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Dementia Joe punks out and withdraws from the presidential race.

Sigh.

Well, We don’t have mush-brain Biden to kick around anymore.  Now we’ll have to kick Psycho Ex-Girlfriend Kamala Harris around.

Goodbye Corn Pop.  Goodbye Dog Faced Pony Soldier.  Goodbye Uncle Bosie.  Goodbye Cannibals that ate Uncle Bosie.  Goodbye Dr. Jill.  Goodbye Hunter Biden.  Goodbye to the hair-sniffing sidle.  Goodbye to untranslatable mumbles from the podium.  Goodbye to falling down on everything.

Goodbye Joe.  Don’t think it hasn’t been fun.  Because it hasn’t.

Update:

Quote from Medicaid after hearing the news, “We finally beat Biden.”

 

Mutiny on the HMS Biden

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Ah, the last few days without political posts have been really enjoyable.  Movies.  Now, that’s more like it.  And I’ll continue the trend going forward but I thought a short post on Debate-Gate would be okay.

This week’s news has been a steady drum beat of regime media flacks and Democrat operatives reiterating the message that for the good of Democracy Joe Biden must drop out of the presidential race.  They describe the replacing of Biden with Harris or some other, younger, less white, less male candidate in exciting and intriguing ways.  Obama and Clinton will preside over some kind of gameshow-like debate where these wondrous candidates will showcase for the nation their intelligence and charm.  A wonderful candidate will be chosen and it will inspire the voters and Trump will go down to ignominious defeat.  All we have to do is convince Joe to release his delegates.

But he doesn’t want to!

And this brings us to every talk show this week.  The formula is always the same, “I love Joe Biden.  He has done more for us than anyone possibly could and he is the most wonderful human being in the world and may possibly be a demi-god. But…”

And then there it is.  But!

But he is a senile, doddering old fool who will lose to Donald Trump in the general election unless we scare him off the ballot or, or, or…

Or what?  Because right now Joe Biden says he’s staying.  And I think he knows you can’t get rid of him unless one of two things happen.

One thing would be for the Justice Department to discover that Hunter Biden has been giving the “Big Guy” ten percent.  That would really work.  Joe would be hauled away and the Democrat Party could remove him for cause.  But would the Democrat side survive the fallout?  Wouldn’t it tar the whole party just in time for the fall vote?

The second way they could get him to quit is pay him off.  Probably $100 million in an off-shore account would do the trick.   But who wants to give Joe Biden all that money?

So, until such time as they are willing to bite the bullet, Joe is hanging tough.  And in the meantime, he puts out these interviews and press conferences where we can see just how demented he is.  And his poll numbers will keep drifting down.  He’s calling Kamala Harris, Donald Trump.  And Zelensky, Putin.  And he’s making millions into billions, into trillions and who knows what’s next.  And it’s only a matter of time until he stops wearing pants.  Basically, Grandpa Simpson is running the country and our allies abroad are starting to wonder whether they should start sizing up their other options.

And so, as we head into the Republican Convention and then the Democrat Convention media talking heads and congress-critters will continue running around in circles with their heads exploding all over the place.  All because the polls keep getting worse and worse for Biden but he just won’t do what he’s told.

And isn’t that great.

Guest Contributor – Milo Mindbender – 06JUL2024 – 2024 Election

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The problems the Dems will have with shifting Joe into the backseat are as follows from my perspective
1. How do you keep the family that has benefitted so heavily from his position quiet, short of just erasing them.
2. How do you keep the donor blocks who bought into the political process giving more graft with only 10% for the big guy?
3. Who would be acceptable to the grifters, and yet still be morally malleable enough to go along with the trashing of America
4. How do you convince the undecided that this is at all in their best interest, and they should just brace for impact and go along for the ride, because it may be a short one but it will definitely be exciting.

Trump is not one of my favorite people, I personally do not like him, but I am voting for a president not a BFF. When he returns to office he needs to be a little more selective on who he puts in what position, and stop being so trusting that they will do the job he hired them for. It seems that in his term most of the people around him were not loyal to him, and several need to be registered as foreign provocateurs, rather than US citizens. The biggest thing in Trump’s favor is the fact that he did work for the betterment of America, and the American people rather than shipping boatloads of money to be laundered through crypto or Ukraine.
I hope the country as a collective whole realize that the Dems have no loyalty to them beyond ” What can you do for me today”, and the Republican party for the most part is a collective of spineless jellyfish so scared of being called mean or racist they will go along to get along, just please don’t call me names. We may need to develop a party that shockingly puts American interest in the forefront, and tells the globalist community to go take a flying leap at a rolling donut on a gravel driveway. The pan nationalist cabal that is demanding we sponsor the importation of the 3rd world to drain our resources, and change our demographic makeup is not doing this for the betterment of any nation that complies, and their end goal is reversion to savagery with themselves positioned at the safe walked off end of the jungle.

Dementia Joe Has Left and Gone Away.  Hey, Hey, Hey.

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Come back Joe!  All is forgiven.  Who would have thought I’d be missing Joe Biden already?  Now that he is plummeting in the polls, he’s my favorite Democrat.  I think back to last week when he said, “We finally beat Medicaid!”  I mean, come on man!  That was pure gold.  We’ll never hear anything half that funny again.  I mean, sure Kamala has that, “What Can Be, Unburdened by What Has Been” gibberish.  And that’s hilarious but eventually after she’s said it a thousand times it just gets annoying.

But with Joe there are gems hidden around every twist and turn.  For an inexplicable reason Joe will lie that no soldiers died during his administration.  And yet, no one can forget the soldiers who were blown up by a suicide bomber during his chaotic rout out of Kabul.  No sane person would lie about something that important and that easy to refute.  This seems to hearken back to the Joe Biden who lied about his poor academic record and plagiarized other politicians’ speeches.  He’s saying something, anything, just to have a counterattack when some shortcoming in his record is exposed.  The debate on June 27th was a kill shot perpetrated on Joe Biden by Joe Biden.  Donald Trump goaded him with a litany of failures that Biden has presided over.  Inflation, uncontrolled immigration, skyrocketing crime; the list goes on and on.  But the correct response is not to get lost in the weeds trying to quote fake statistics from your fake experts.  Joe has no memory left and so all he did was prove that he’s suffering from memory loss.  He should have owned up to some of the problems and staked out a strategy for overcoming these problems in the future and shown some initiative.  By going the former route, he has compounded the appearance of dishonesty along with dementia.

Ah, good times.

But unfortunately, this wonderfully entertaining debate has killed the goose that lays the golden eggs.  Many people speculated that the early debate was intended to prove that Biden is too adle-pated to run for reelection while there is still time to replace him in the race.  If so, then mission accomplished.  All of the mainstream media have been shouting for the last seven days that Joe is a human vegetable.   And now the donors and even the Democratic lawmakers are starting to join in the chorus.  And what, up until now, has been a solid wall of denial is beginning to sound more like a desperate plea to allow Joe to prove that the debate was a fluke and that “sharp as a tack” Joe Biden will reassert himself.  Apparently, he’ll be going on a “competence tour.”  He has a meeting with the Democratic governors and an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC.

Well, there goes the show!  Now that the press has admitted that the emperor has no clothes, the governors will be shocked to learn that Biden is a simpering idiot.  And Stephanopoulos won’t be able to resist proving that the only thing Biden should be a candidate for is the memory floor at the nursing home.

Man, we’re gonna miss Joe Biden.  Donald Trump is never going to find a pushover as good as Joe is.  And from now on the Democrat he goes up against in the race will blame everything wrong with the country on Joe Biden’s mental problems instead of Democrat policy.

But regardless of what a great foil Biden makes in the 2024 race, I’m overjoyed to see him humiliated and tossed aside.  From everything I’ve read about him, he is an awful human being and deserves every bit of dishonor and rejection that comes his way.  What would make me happiest would be if Hunter cut a deal with prosecutors for leniency in exchange for revealing all the details of the “Big Guy’s” influence racket.  Exposing the truth of Scranton Joe for all the world to see is exactly what he deserves.  His lies and dishonesty are the sum total of his career and should be seen as his only legacy.

Bye Joe.

Trump is a Point Ahead of Biden in New Jersey

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New Jersey is a blue state.  If Trump is currently polling slightly ahead of Biden (41 – 40) I think that should be a blinking red danger signal for the Democrats.  We may be witnessing a major shift in the American public’s political calculus.  Maybe it’s as simple as “It’s the economy stupid.”

Update:

TomD replied,

I thing the major headline should be Trump is only a point ahead, indicating the major league accumulation of negatives he has as ballast. I think that 80%+ of this ballast is the result of the unceasing histrionic media wide attack he has been undergoing since 2016. Repeat a lie often enough——

But the fact is that his image has been largely and permanently poisoned for close to 50% of the population. I know several people who just hate Trump. Question them as to why and you get nothing substantial, just blanket statements like, “Trump lies”. Push deeper about the specific lies and they don’t have anything. If they do have a specific “lie”, it typically an example of hyperbole, or exaggeration for effect. There is a huge and substantial difference in a fundamental lie like hiding Biden’s inability to perform the functions of his office and “I had the greatest economy in history”.

Chemist replied to TomD:

Tom, I have had this discussion with too many people. None of them can give a specific example of a “Trump lie”. So I went a different way. I point out some of Biden’s more egregious lies and actions. If the conversation is in person, I will stop at one or two. If an email, they get the whole list. Here is the list. Feel free to pile on:

Biden avowed that no one is above the law.
Biden then bought votes by ignoring the supreme court and “Forgiving” billions of dollars in student loans – but Trump lies.
 
Biden used the power of the vice presidency to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired (thereby protecting his corrupt son Hunter) – but Trump lies.

Joe Biden had an affair with a married woman (Jill Stevenson) and destroyed their marriage – but Trump lies.
 
The latest “brilliant” appointment to the Supreme Court doesn’t know what a woman is – but Trump lies.

Children are sexually groomed by teachers and if you object they’ll take your child from you – but Trump lies.
 
Biden showered with his teenage daughter – but Trump lies.

 

Coping with Biden and Overruling Chevron

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The post-debate euphoria has finally worn off.  I’ve watched the various media and political operatives screech and croak in horror at the spectacle of Joe Biden’s cognitive flat lining.  And it was immensely gratifying.  I haven’t had this much fun since Election Night 2016.  Wonderful.  But now it’s time to put down the toys and look out into the cold, hard light of Saturday and move on.

It doesn’t appear that the Democrat elite has decided to pull the plug on Dementia Joe.  At least not yet.  Obama and Clinton have texted that Biden’s performance is just one of those things and everything will be status quo on the way toward glorious victory in November.  Well, good.  Leaving Joe in is the best thing that could happen for Trump.  There will be a small subset of voters who don’t care for Trump but are horrified by the prospect of a man as obviously cognitively damaged as Biden, in charge of the US military and other critical agencies of the government.  It’s got to give them pause wondering who is actually running the government instead of Biden right now.  So, this revelation has to boost Trump somewhat.  How much is the big question.  We should have some polls in a week or two.

I saw that the Supreme Court came out with a couple of rulings.  One is relevant to President Trump and other January 6th defendants.  It overrules charging them with obstruction of a government proceeding.  This will help a number of the defendants because this serious charge was the only felony for a number of the defendants.

The other decision is much more important for the country at large.  It overturned the so-called “Chevron deference.”  According to this 1984 ruling courts were forced to show deference to federal agencies when interpreting ambiguities in the law within their area of expertise.

“”Chevron is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision.

The court’s conservative justices were in the majority, with the liberal justices dissenting. The ruling will make it easier for judges to second-guess actions by regulators, empowering challengers to regulations across federal agencies.

Business, conservative and libertarian groups cheered the decision, saying it eliminates a rule that requires courts to favor the government in all manner of challenges to regulation. The litigation was part of what has been termed the “war on the administrative state,” an effort to weaken the federal agency bureaucracy that interprets laws, crafts federal rules and implements executive action.”

Now this is brilliant.  With the right courts and executive branch oversight many overreaches by agencies like EPA and the IRS can be challenged in court and reversed.  This is a wonderful result.

So that is the world today.  A mixture of progress and regress.  In one direction we see the Supreme Court correcting past mistakes.  In another rogue judges and prosecutors serve up lawfare against the enemies of a demented president of the United States.

Well, it’s not as if we’re all not used to the spectacle.  The encouraging sign is that more of it is happening out in the open and more and more normies are getting an eyeful.

Scranton Joe Screws the Pooch

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Wow!  I guess politically, I’m not an average American.  So, I can’t say what the rest of America thought of that performance.  But by my reckoning Joe Biden got his clock cleaned good and thorough.

Now this may have no effect either on opinion polls or election results.  After all, those things can be arranged independent of what actual people think.  But, wow.

Now obviously Joe was doped to the gills and he had been coached on all the questions that CNN was going to ask.  But it didn’t matter.  He still looked and sounded like a re-animated corpse.  He even managed to have the brain freeze moment we were waiting for.  He was stumbling through one of his rehearsed set speeches when he lost the thread of what he was trying to say.  He stopped for five or ten seconds and then just made some non sequitur to fill the dead air.

I’ll give him credit.  He didn’t fall down or befoul himself.  But it couldn’t have been much worse if he had.

So, the other side.  Trump hammered him the whole time.  The border, inflation, crime.  Over and over again especially with the crime caused by illegal aliens.  He was relentless.  And he was disciplined.  No matter what the question from the moderator, Trump concentrated on whichever topics were scoring the most points.  He was like a boxer who has opened up a cut on his opponent.  He kept after that weak spot and peppered it with jabs.  Eventually he settled on illegal aliens murdering Americans and displacing Americans from their rightful benefits; social security, Medicaid, housing for veterans, jobs.

By the end of the debate Biden actually got a little more lucid.  But by then it was too late.  Every Democrat big wig had gone into full panic mode and was calling up the FBI and the CIA demanding that they blackmail Biden into dropping out of the race “voluntarily.”

So, this was really, really bad for Joe.

Well, will he drop out?  I hope not.  With a performance this shockingly bad he might be able to make the election fraud-proof.  If all of a sudden Trump wins New Jersey and Virginia it doesn’t matter anymore if he loses Pennsylvania.  So, I’m hoping that Joe hangs in there.

But will there be a second debate?  At this point I kind of doubt it.  I don’t think Joe’s handlers want to risk another fiasco like tonight.  So maybe they claim some beef about Trump saying mean things and refuse the September meeting.

And I’ll have to at this point thank Donald Trump for giving me one of the best laughs I’ve had in months.  Trump was disciplined and for him, moderate.  He didn’t go over on his time and he didn’t shout while his microphone was muted.  He just methodically undermined Joe Biden’s whole term as president.  And most enjoyably he called Joe Biden an habitual liar.  And that is the most effective attack that you can end with when attacking Biden.  Because it’s true and it’s common knowledge.  And because inevitably you can point to a lie, he’s making right there at the time you’re talking to him.  He’s that constant.

So, by tomorrow morning polls will be circulating and it should be a crap-fest for Scranton Joe.  Not even Uncle Bosie can save him now.  Even Corn Pop would tell him it’s time to hang up the cap and bells.  But please Joe hang in there.