Albany, Aces and Ads

The Schloss-Blog is back from Albany, and East Berne, where we visited with my Gamma Delta Chi fraternity brothers and their significant others in a glorious party weekend. It all came up aces, a constant flow of conversation that seemed as though it picked up where it had left off - in 1972, 1973 or 1974.

One other highlight - a quick ride out to East Berne, where I attended Camps Orinsekwa Sonnikwa for 16 summers, the longest-tenured camper-turned-counselor/waterski instructor.

There is nothing left of the camp grounds, now desolate, overgrown, the bunks razed, the magnificent waterfront facility gone.?

But East Berne, on the other hand, thrives. Maple Inn on the Lake, Warner Lake, that is, which I glided all over as a skier, is a popular cocktail spot and dinner-gathering place, right on the lake, viewing the tiny cabins so many people still own on the mile-long body of water. Pics I took are up on Facebook.

After a delicious lunch, coconut shrimp superb and a glass of wine, we cruised around to the old sites: the former Maple Inn; the boarded up Duke's Ice Cream parlor; and the closed-up Ted Quay's gas station. Wasn't much else to town and there still isn't. Blink when you drive through on old State Route 443 (nee, 43) and you'll miss it.

But not the memories.

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As much as I could remininsce, there is a world going on. Trump and Vance continue to lie, about everything, in a media landscape thats doesn't even call them about it hardly because it's all they do. NY Times, you are letting us down.

Trump will let the United States, the world down. Bigly.

Go ahead, vote for him - his tariffs will raise prices and set inflation off amok. His tax proposals will benefit the rich and balloon the deficit, four times as much as Kamala's would.

Go ahead, vote for him and good luck with both your money and your rights, because they're both disappearing.

Good luck.

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Deportation.

Trump plans to deport everyone who is not a white nationalist.

OK, not that drastic, but close. If you weren't born in the United States, you could be gone, perhaps even if you're a naturalized citizen.

I mean, he would've deported Obama if 44 had not had a birth certificate proving he'd been born in the United States.

There's even word of immigrant camps where those awaiting deportation would be held, pending hearings deciding their fates.

Only to be deported anyway. Because if you come from a sh_thole country, you're gone.

Oh what fun.

Go ahead, vote for Trump. Then send me a postcard from the sh_thole country from which you end up, or from "camp."

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, GDX wives.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Rest in peace, Al McCoy.