Deadlines and Commitments

The Schloss-Blog is mad about a newspaper's budget, an HOA's religious sanctimony, Merrick Garland's screw-up and just who is an American enemy anyway, not necessarily in that order.

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Unmentioned above but seriously concerning was Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" bolting to Florida last weekend to meet up with Donald Trump, who they'd been tearing into visciously the last nine years for his hypocrisy, dishonesty and lack of integrity.

So where was theirs?

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Radio Free Phoenix, the online station where I do the Sunday night vintage, free-form, underground rock 'n' roll online show and have for more than six years, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a kickass party at Rooster's Country bar and grill in Mesa, Arizona, last Sunday.

Kickass hardly describes it. Founder Andy Olson hosted a star-studded lineup of Phoenix-area rockers who performed, including a rousing set by Summer of Love, which does 1967 hit-music only. They had the whole place dancing to the Monkees and Turtles hits, among other bands.

The 'whole place' included current and former RFP deejays Janie Snyder Pecorella, Joe Catanzaro, Miss Holley (Keri) King, Paul Riopelle, Sharon Kelley, John Hesterman, Cheryl Sweet, John Kirk DeRitis, station voice and face Liz Boyle and yours truly). Plus a roster of Phoenix-area radio all-stars.

RFP merchandise and memorabilia was auctioned off and/or sold and many, many dollars were raised for the commercial-free operation, which otherwise only takes in money on sales of T-shirts and coffee mugs, or on outright donations.

I am honored to be one of the deejays.

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On a bitter note, if Merrick Garland had started the investigations and prosecutions of Donald Trump immediately upon taking office as Attorney General instead of waiting a year, Trump would've likely been tried and convicted by now and all of this mess would've been avoided.

Thanks for nothing, Merrick. Now Trump is going to likely investigate and prosecute you for no other reason that being Biden's Attorney General.

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The HOA where I live hangs holiday garnish on its gates every year at this time. Except this year, the HOA apparently took exception to having Jewish-related decorations up and had them taken down with a notation to the people who worked diligently to put them up to the effect of no Hanukkah decorations allowed, period.

I sense antisemitism on the board of directors. No, I don't sense it, I see it. Outright.

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If China is our enemy for influence in the Pan-Pacific region, among other places, how come we trade so much with them?

And how come Trump wants to screw that up by placing outlandish tariffs on Chinese imports? Go figure, but inflation will soar.

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The newspaper for which I have been a sports correspondent the last 10 years cut out using all part-timers at the tail end of this high school football season due to budgetary constraints.

It left huge gaps in its coverage of the heart of the football playoff games this weekend, with many games going unstaffed.

For me personally, it meant a one week-premature ending to my sportswriting career, 50 years now. Saw many great games, teams and performers out here the last 10 years, including Brock Purdy, Spencer Rattler and N'Keal Harry and classic games between Centennial and Chaparral, Chaparral and Saguaro, Saguaro and ALA Queen Creek (coached by Ty Detmer) and Horizon and Millenium.

Thank you everyone at Pioneer Press, the Daily Herald and now the Arizona Republic for allowing me to share my words with your readers. It's been a privilege.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Erin Schlossberg.

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

Women in the White House? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Wiomen in the White House

The Schloss-Blog is still mad, but not that Trump won.

Actually, we survived the first Trump Administration, although not everyone did.

Like the 1 million Americans who died from COVID because Trump dismissed it.

And this year, the Democrats who stupidly refused to remind America of that.

And got blown out of the water in the election.

Trump and the Republicans have the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.

What could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? 

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Is there a conspiracy among TV neetworks?

Every time I change the channel during a commercial break, the channel I switch to is on a commercial break.

Every time.

Does that happen to you too? Isn't if effing frustrating?

Even during football games. I can switch from one game on a timeout to another, and it's on a commercial timeout as well.

No, really.

In different time zones. In a game between teams three different time zones apart.

I'm done channel jumping. 

Until tomorrow night, that is.

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Since the election, I have not watched a minute of MSNBC or CNN or any network newscast, for that matter.

The NY Times is about all I can handle.

Have been watching Bill Maher, John Oliver, SNL and ... and ... OK, that's about it.

Bill Maher has been spot on, lambasting Democrats for handing the election to the Republicans, scolding them for poor messaging and for forgetting to say that the economy is pretty good right now, that inflation is under control right now and that immigration - well, when was the last time there was a news flash about a caravan making its way through Central America and Mexico?

Like, never.

Four years of Trump, maybe more - yikes!

Two years at least of Republicans controlling Congress.

What could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong?

Besides everything.

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Good night, Mrs, Calabash. Here's to you, Charli, XCX.

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

And look for pictures on my Facebook and Instagram from the Radio Free Phoenix 20th anniversary party.

Ouch

Schloss-Blog says:

The economy already is good. Trump will take credit.

The economy will be slammed by Trump's tariffs and tax cuts. Trump will not take credit. He'll blame Democrats.

A national abortion bill is on the way. Trump will take credit.

Cuts are coming to entitlements in the name of Elon Musk. Trump will take credit.

The border is already at prepandemic levels for immigration. Trump will take credit.

The border will be closed. Trump will take credit.

Muslims will again be banned from coming to the United Stares. Trump will take credit.

   How are you feeling about that, all you Arab-Americans who voted for Trump?

Israel, in continuing to attempt to exterminate Hamas, will instead exterminate Gaza.

With Trump's full support.

   How are you feeling about that, all you Arab-Americans who voted for Trump?

J.D. Vance is one heart attack away from being president.

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My social media feed reads like a funeral.

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Trump will deport both illegal and legal migrants. He's coming for you.

Because of Trump's outright support for Netanyahu's war effort, antisemitism will spike in America.

Ukraine is Putin's.

And when we withdraw from NATO, so is much of Europe, likely.

I'm not gonna' move to Canada. Or any foreign country. However, "moving to Canada" has spiked in search engines. Really.

And if California secedes, I will move there.

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The answer: Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Josh Shapiro and Gretchen Whitmer.

The question: who is already running for president in 2028.

But will Trump step down in 2028? And have the criminal charges against him be brought back up?

Meanwhile, Trump will ask his Attorney General to investigate and prosecute everyone from the Bidens to the Clintons to Jack Smith to Kamala Harris and anyone with a 'D' next to their names. Maybe even true patriots like John Kelly and Mark Milley.

And he'll pardon as many of those those Jan. 6 insuurectionists as he can.

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Kamala Harris got punished for the inflation that spiked in the wake of Trump's refusal to recognize COVID.

As 1 million Americans died. That dismissal killed them and the economy.

And gave birth to the product shortages that became inflation.

Democrats got punished. In the Senate as well.

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Meanwhile, get ready to be in line at the grocery store, at the restaurant, at the movie theater with someone with an AR-15 strapped on their back.

Guns will proliferate in our schools. In the name of "protection."

The government will be back in so many of our bedrooms.

Women just became second-class citizens.

Trump was the juggernaut who launched inflation.

Now it got him reelected.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Jordan. Long may you reign in soccer and in fantasy football.

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

And see you, perhaps, at the Radio Free Phoenix 20th anniversary party at Roosters Country in Mesa, Arizona, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2-7 p.m.

Trump killed...

 The Schloss-Blog is mad about...

...Kamala not telling America that Donald Trump killed 1 million of their fellow countrymen with his dismissal of COVID

...and set off inflation with same by causing product shortages as cargo shipments backed up at American ports.

...Trump is running for only one reason:

TO STAY OUT OF JAIL

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Are you watching the advertising? If you live in a battleground state, you can't help but see it everywhere (Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin).

It's sickening sometimes, what Kari Lake says about Democrat Ruben Gallego, a decorated Marine and true Arizonan.

It's sickening what Bernie Moreno in Ohio says about women.

It's sickening what J.D. Vance says about immigrants.

And women.

And with Donald Trump, it's just plain sickening. About women. About immigrants. About Haitians in Ohio and Venezuelans in Colorado.

His followers believe everything he says.

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Yet, about one-third to one-half the electorate believe Trump won the 2020 election. They don't care that he's a convicted felon, that he's been proven liable for defamation and SEXUAl ABUSE. That he's been proven liable for fraud.

And that he's had six - count 'em six - bankruptcies, yet he's more trusted to handle the economy.

D'oh.

Hillary Clinton was right - basket of deplorables. If you're a Trump supporter, you're a supporter of racism.

Congratulations.

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Good night, Mrs.  Calabash. Here's to you, Tyrique Stevenson.

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