The 2025 Florida Azalea Sr is now in the books. The great Joe Alfieri of Florida won the sr division in a playoff with Micheal Kelly of Tampa, Fl. Joe stuffed an iron shot to within a foot on the third playoff hole after both guys parred the first two holes, number six and seven.
Marcus Beck of Tallahassee, a former winner and former FSU player won the SSR with a great closing round 67. Greg Goode of Kansas was a close second.
In the Legends division Bobby Lundquist finally broke through after being a threat the past several years after posting a final round 68 to slip past Jeff Knox.
In the Super Legends John Darr a former All American and NCAA champion team member at UF several scores ago, bested the great Fred Peel of LA on the first playoff hole. Darr closed and caught Peel with a final round 68.
The great Don Marsh in the 80yrs plus division, shot a back side 29 on Sunday to overtake 3 men ahead of him heading into the final round. Don's 67 blasted by second round leaders Brian Sachs of Florida and Steve Wilson of California. Don Marsh has been taking people to school for decades and apparently he has no plans to retire from senior golfin.
Complete results will be posted on the Palatka Golf Club website, we will be mailing out winnings and skins within the next week or so. The Florida Azalea Amateur kicks off Friday with the best players from all over the world competing in the 68 year anniversary of the Amateur. Andy and staff have a full plate in March but we will get to it.
Note: After many inquiries, I still have no idea about the Mountain Man Sr this year in NC. I suggested to the guys to call pro shop and ask them when it will be. It is not currently on the schedule. Our golf course, Mountain Glen Golf Club in Newland suffered minor damage that has already been taken are of, while other area courses, GrandfatherCC, Elk River, Diamond Creek, Linville CC took some tough shots. Linville Ridge was okay Im told. Hounds Ears CC took a hit too. I'm afraid many many members of the other clubs will swarm Mountain Glen this summer while their courses are being repaired so the Mountain Man is questionable. Mountain Glen GC will open for business in April. RT
below is the first hole at Mountain Glen from the tee taken this summer by club manager and sent to me to post for them
MOUNTAIN MAN NATIONAL SENIOR 2024 is now History! We had outstanding weather the three rounds of the tournament after a rainy windy practice round.
2024 Mountain Man Champions
Sr Kevin Vandenberg of NY opened with a 73 only to come back with 65 and finish with 73 to win by 3 over defending champ Matt Avril. Joe Tumlin shot 71-72-71 to finish third.
Ssr David Anthony of Jax, Fl one of the nation's top ssr guys started slow but a second round 66 was all he needed to coast and repeat as Mountain Man ssr champ
Legends: Don Russell of Tequesta Fl defended but had a tussle from Bev Hargraves who finished with a final low round of 70 to finish second
Super Legends: The great Fred Peel of Chipley Fl opened with 69, low round the first day in entire field and he coasted to victory with 77-78 Tom Knapp of Jupiter Fl almost caught Fred with a final 73.
Below is list of Florida Sr Azalea Champions then my political perspectives....it's crow time.....
2009 Sr Champion Bill Zylstra , Michigan (141) SSR Boyd Johnson , Georgia (144)
2010 Sr Champion Rick Woulfe , Ft Lauderdale, Fl (211 won in playoff over David Brookreson ) SSR Boyd Johnson, Georgia (143)
2011 Sr Champion Chip Lutz, Pennsylvania (208 ) SSR Gary Shimmin, South Carolina (143)
2012 Sr Champion Chip Lutz, Pennsylvania (208) SSR Jim Carley, Ormond Beach, Fla (141 won in five man playoff)
2013 Sr Champion David Anthony, Jacksonville Fl (209) SSR John Darr, Gainesville, Fl (206 )
2014 Sr Champion Ronnie Tumlin (208 won in playoff over Doug LaCrosse) SSR Ted Smith Indiana (211)
2015 Sr Champion Doug Hanzel, Georgia (208) SSR Berger Warner Ocala, Fl (211) Legends Brian Sachs Gainesville, Fl (213)
2016 Sr Champion Doug Hanzel, Savanna Ga (209) SSR Rob Hess, Casselberry Fl (211) Legends Jim Carley Ormond Bch, Fl (212)
2017 Sr Champion Doug Hanzel, Georgia (201) SSR Rob Hess, Casselberry Fl (212) Legends Brian Sachs, Gainesville, Fl (212)
2018 Sr Champion David Anthony Jax Fla (203) SSR Pete McDade , Lakeland Fl (212) Legends Don Marsh Johns Creek, GA (209)
2019 Sr Champion Doug Hanzel, Savannah Ga ( 213) SSR Rick Woulfe, Ft Lauderdale (213) Legends Don Marsh, Johns Creek, Ga (214)
2019 Super Legends Champion, Charlie Busbee of Georgia with scores of 73,73,73 a very very good performance
2020 Sr Champion Randy Haag SAN FRANCISCO (203) SSR Champion David Anthony (210) playoff over Mark Baxter(210) Leg Champion Berger Warner (207)
2020 Super Legends Champion Charlie Busbee (217 star)
2021 Sr Champion Dr Doug Hanzel (203) SSR Champion Randy Elliott(211) Legends Dr Robb Hess (208) Super Legends Dr Jim Carley (209)
2022 Sr Champion Rusty Strawn, Georgia (136 won playoff over Doug Hanzel) SSR Champion David Anthony (147 ) Legends Don Russell (143) Super Legends Dr Jim Carley (140) (tournament shortened to 36 holes due to weather)
2023 Sr Champion Matt Avril Vero Beach, SSR Champion Marcus Beck Tallahassee, Legends Champion Don Russell Tequesta, Super Legends Randy Reifers Ohio
2024 Sr Champ Rich Buckner (210) SSR Champ James Starnes (211), Leg Champ Greg Osborne 209), S Legends Jim Carley (216), Grand Master Brian Sachs(216)
2025 Sr Champ Joe Alfieri (210) SSR: Marcus Beck Legends: Bobby Lundquist Super Leg: John Darr Grand Masters: Don Marsh
March 19, 2025 Our astronauts are back! When asked to comment Tyrus said "every time America needs help its an African to the rescue" that wrestler is funny. He claims to be black, but he looks more green to me with all the tattoos. The Azalea Amateur was rained out Sunday for the final round. Kids from all over the world and colleges throughout America gathered for the 120 player open amateur division....I have no idea who won, results are on the Palatka Golf Club website. I still find the PGA Tour boring these days.....the so called playoff was sad....The young guy had no chance, Rory took him to school in the 3 holes. Guarantee many of you could have given the Irishman a better tussle. But....when I was a young teenager some 60 years ago, I lost my first few tournaments after getting real close to the lead...I broke through in 1968 when I finally realized the other guy was as nervous as I was....150 or so victories later many that I have forgotten, I can still feel the tension in that first playoff, feel the ball coming off my borrowed First Flight driver, feel the Top Flight Spalding wedge I hit inside 10 feet and feel the lag I hit to secure victory over a big time college player who boned it over the green then chunked his chip....I can still hear the gallery of hundreds talking quietly my victory was a fluke....I proved to all of them over the next few years was no fluke.....what memories we all have about special times on the course.....I could write a small book about various putts and shots over the past 60 years....just a simple example: I don't know what year but I know it was in the early 80s at Thomasville Ga in the Rose City Open.....I hit a 4 iron on the par 5 4th a mile high dead at the tiny green from about 195....it landed and stopped! Fellow players were astonished...I acted as if I expected to hit the shot....I don't remember if I won or finished last but I remember that shot as if it was yesterday. Im sure you guys have those kinds of memories too that's what makes toonamint golfin so unique.
politics: I'm still laughing at the crooks screaming about Muskie raiding their feed troughs.....I heard him say yesterday they have identified something like 8 million people over 105 yrs old (long since dead) who are still getting checks....he said that gravy train was being cut. What I want to know is how many dead folks in their 70s,80s,90s are still collecting? SOMEBODY is cashing out those checks. He also said his people found 14 government computers that automatically and regularly spewed out US Govt checks to all kinds of crazy places and non government organizations started by who knows who.... and there is no evidence these are ordered to be sent to anybody for any reason it just happens.....he said billions have been flying off the shelf for what appears to be years and nobody nowhere to be found, knows anything about it....yeah, right. Question: does this blatant fraud make you feel good about having to write a check to the irs every year?????? I pay quarterly and last year had a nice little capital gain and had to pony up an additional 27K along with a 1500 dollar penalty......No wonder people cheat as much as they can.....wife and I have always played it straight when we were working every day....makes me feel like we were suckers. Unfortunately young people have no idea...they will shape the future of politics....I wonder if there is any way to make them understand how corrupt our own government has been and will continue to be unless there is another Trumpster/Muskie coming along soon. RT
March 8, 2025: The smoke is clearing, our 16th Florida Sr Azalea had short rains on Sat and Sunday after perfect Friday skies. We only had 15 minute delays on Sat and Sunday then the sun came out. Temps were in the 70s all three days. Fairways and fringes were perfect, greens were okay.....we are doing another overseed in May hoping we will get a full cover of a new hybrid grass by fall and no more dirt spots. Other courses in north Floria have had the same problems, especially those who are required to use recycled water from treatment plants. Ain't government grand.....
We had virtually nobody get in off the wait list this year, very rare. Entries will open on this website Nov 1.
No real political comments at this time, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the news this past week or so, but I am sure the Trump show will have some interesting acts in coming weeks. I did watch 60 Minutes last night and was not surprised they were interviewing the head of some government agency nicknamed the Watchdogs, who got fired by Trump. He was squawking how awful it was and that his agency of oversight "carefully watched over government spending to ensure no waste" Hah! CBS portrayed him and his agency as being terribly and unjustly treated by Trump..He claimed the country would suffer without the spending watchdogs...CBS ate it all......what the hell is CBS Sixty Minutes smoking???????? They are as left wing propagandists as anything we have ever seen. I guess they always have been and we are now seeing it on full display. RT
TODAY IS FRIDAY MARCH 7, 2025 TEE TIME FIRST ROUND 10AM. Weather forecast is perfect high of 72 around 65 at tee time no rain in sight, light wind. Saturday the same....Sunday iffy at this time but 25% it won't rain a drop. All defending champs are back. I will post winners Monday or Tuesday.
FEB 12, 2025.......time is not our friend old friends. Guys keep asking how I am doing....I give myself a 4....and that ain't par. That said I am holding steady trying to play some, waiting to get my arse back to NC. I have become totally spoiled. I grew up on bermuda, played on bermuda for 60 years.....I used to laugh at guys coming from the north to play our pro and amateur events in Florida, the bermuda drove them nuts. Now, it drives me nuts. Bent, blue, poa. is easy to read and easy to make putts....start a straight putt at the hole and start grinnin.....but down south you hit a straight in ten footer and you pray it doesn't do something stupid.....ohhh yes there are all kinds of hybrids out there that are better, some of the new grasses grown on public courses that use affluent (oughta be a cuss word) , provide a beautiful cover and tough as an old boot against weather, bugs, kids, pissed off divots you name it....butttt.....unless you own a blade factory it eats your mower blades up....you have to keep it skinned down where it rolls 12-13 or it is uncuttable due to grain....just my opinion now....I can't play a lick any more but I can still putt and I know when a green is putting good and not....hell, I'd rather putt on dirt than than grainy wire grass greens that the grain grows six different ways on a green.....take that eagle stuff....I have that too....the grain grows down hill no matter what....so if you have a double breaker or more the grain changes with every little bump and pitch ... a 3-5 footer, always my specialty, can look flat and break a cup.....even if you know what its supposed to do your brain and hands will not accept it. So much for that....our superintendant is trying his best to get the greens in shape....no rain, freezing weather you name it....I thought a few dirt spots on our greens were bad till one of our guys playing the sos event over in St Augustine came over yesterday and said their greens were no better than ours, maybe not as good.....okayyyyyyy.
politics: TODAY IS MARCH 7, 2025 and we are all seeing unfold the corruption within our government. Trump had four years to think about where all the bodies were buried....Musky is digging them up and quickly. The supreme court has lost its marbles again....ruling against a halt on USAID funding until Musky n Trumpster and big balls figure out who is stealing what.....only thing I can figure is somebody got to the court...either money or serious threats of death or worse....I don't doubt for a minute that is possible with billions and billions being stolen from our account....those stealing the money will do anything to stay out of the news.....but, the only news people covering the corruption and fraud is fox, rav and Newsmax....so only about half the country knows anything about it and the other half think its propaganda. Makes you want to boycott paying your taxes....but they will lock YOU up....those who steal your taxes dance all the way to their jets and yachts and chalets all over the world. Will we ever find out how many billions Zelensky kicked back to our congress, senate and administration? Next case your honor...hell with it I'm just gonna go tee off....RT
I am still laughing at the lefty nut cakes....maxine is the best one of them all....hollerin for Musk to get his ass down here.....who the hell cares what Maxine says or thinks....and that my friends is a US Rep....Lord help us. DT got hostages coming home in 3 weeks that Biden couldn't do in 4 years, and DT is not getting them back with money. The ones Biden got back we had to pay big and give the other side six guys to our one....DT ain't doing that he has other ways....one of our readers said I should talk about Fauci or Froggy as my brother calls him.....Fauci is old news, sure he is guilty as hell of all sorts of things but I have moved past him, he is just a blip on the radar that is now gone, if he can sleep after doing what he did so be it....lets be sure we never get another Froggy heading up anything.
About USAID.....we all knew it was crooked but nobody could do anything about it....the swamp ran it....the swamp creatures got most of the money we were sure.....now we find out the swamp is writing checks to all kinds of crazy labels especially in Africa. Does anybody think that money was spent wisely? What I want to see come out is who is getting the millions and billions of kickbacks?????? Musk says a lot of fraud.....I hope they can trace the kick backs to our politicians and swamp things....but then what? Just cut off the head of the snake and the creatures will start coming out of their holes hollering they need money and Musk should be locked up. I still think there is an under current still trying to figure out how to kill DT and Musky may be on the hit list by now too.....cut off the gravy train to the swamp and the swamp will strike back any way they can. USAID is obviously the biggest gravy train ever devised by the swamp they should be commended for ingenuity and hung from the nearest oak tree. RT
FEB 4, 2025.....man, does time fly....here we are about 4 weeks to tee time day after tomorrow. The field is full.....again....and has been full since November and nobody is dropping out yet. The deadline for a 75% refund is Feb 15. We have 124 dozen balls to give away. We have a dozen or so first timers who are just turning 55, we have a former USGA Sr Champion Rusty Strawn in the senior division, Kevin Vandenberg the number one ranked senior in the world last year and who is off to a fast start this year again. Our defending champ Rich Bucker is back. In fact all our defenders are back. The course right now is very good from tee to fringe....the greens are rolling "okay" but not great. The course is getting over 200 plays a day and they keep the greens pretty well beat up but Dave the super will be rolling the greens for us every day so that will help a lot and he expects to see green speed in the 10-11 category. Of note: we have 12 guys in the 80 plus division....a very good showing so far....hope they all make it....several are former champs in the younger divisions, we should all be so lucky to be healthy enough to play at 80 plus.
politics: I have had several guys ask me to comment on what's going at the swamp. Okay okay, as of today the jury is still out on cabinet nominations, what I have seen and am amazed to see is the number of senators on both sides of the aisle, who appear to be simply and politely as I can say it....too damned old to be making important decisions for this country. Florida finally got rid of our guy a few years ago who needed to be out to pasture decades ago.....I saw the guy from Oregon today expounding on Kennedy.....common man, but then again he is from Oregon so he is excused. We have several RINOS still in the senate and they are spooky....Mitch needs to go to pasture, Susan too and the nutcase from Alaska ..... well, what can we say.
The Dems are going nuts Trump has shut down the foreign aid department for now.....it is coming to light just what the people in that department are doing with our money...and apparently have been doing for decades.....I made note today: and this is just the tip of the berg:
$1.5 MILLION SENT TO SERBIA TO A LESBIAN/GAY RIGHT GROUP???? What the hell?????
$2.5 MILLION SENT TO VIETNAM TO HELP THEM BUY ELECTRIC VEHICHLES?????
$30 MILLION TO AFRICA TO DO TRANSGENDER RESEARCH? Who the hell is getting the money, who is getting huge kickbacks....Transgender Research in Africa? Thirty Million????
$6 MILLION TO PROMOTE EGYPTIAN TOURISM? Whoooooo????What????? What senator's travel agency got that? They kept two, gave him or her 4 most likely.
$47, 000 for a gay comic book in South America? Who stole that 47 grand??
Does anybody see a trend here? Did any of you look closely at Biden's cabinet? The previous administration opened the flood gates to their pet causes....LBGTQUEERSETC.....I think aside from the so called "foreign aid" most of this crap is simply disguised as a way for those in charge of the swamp to steal money by the Billions....nobody seems to know who gets what, for what or where? They don't even bother to label the checks to anything legitimate if there is such a thing. I can see it now plain as sunrise.....send me 30 Mill for a gay education program in Africa, we'll give some figure head a mill, I'll take ten, the other 19 will go to politicians in the US through various back channels and wallah! We just stole 30 million....it's like Black LivesMatter is running the show....and may beeeee. The more Musk uncovers the more sickening it gets....I had to write a check for 30 grand last year to the irs ..... and for what, so the swamp can steal a bunch of it.....I'm getting pissed off and its a beautiful day outside....think I'll just go get in my cart....RT
Jan 14, 2025....wow so far nobody is withdrawing this year so far....so far so good. We have a healthy waiting list, those on the wait list stay tuned. I still find tour golfin boring its like watching the hooters tour but I am sure I will get used to a new crop of great players coming up. The other tour I never could get interested in....hell, I forgot the name already what was it 54 something? Doesn't matter. I see Callaway has a new ball cover design, the chrome tour was a good ball, and it made Titleist change their ball this year for lower spin and better roll but if you hit it like me doesn't make any difference, I wish somebody would make a ball for old goats like me who know how to play but can't....the age thing has us all by the ying yang and it ain't gonna get any better I don't care how many TV pills you take or laps you run....time will gotcha one way or another.
I had a great meeting with the founder of Amateur Golf.com, Pete is quite a fellow. He doesn't much care for my politics, but that's okay....he is now a friend, my third one who is not a Trump fan but he is not as nasty about it as my other two anti Trump friends....those two guys are good players and great friends we have all agreed not to talk politics, especially in light of Nov....I'm just keeping quite and smug.
Today I watched the entire senate hearing on Hegseth....I wanted to see if the dems could frustrate him, trap him with gotcha questions, etc. Schumer told them to be nasty and they were, especially that clown from Virginia. Pete was unflappable, they couldn't trick him at all. I'm sure DT was happy with his performance. I think its time that we got the fox outa the hen house in the military.....Pocahontas tried her best but couldn't do it and got frustrated herself. The dems and probably the pentagon probably drummed up all kinds of "anonymous" accusations.....a normal guy would have jumped across the desk and whacked somebody....Pete just kept his cool, and that's cool.
Many of my friends say the dems are not through trying to kill DT.....I don't know.....I do think the swamp had something to do with the two attempts we know about. Hell, we know less about those two guys than we do about Baghdad Bob.....why is the fbi, dot, ss etc not telling us ANYTHING about those two assassins? Many of my friends think the same thing as I do and probably you too.....I don't trust any of them anymore.....DT will clean house I hope and the swamp will strike back any way it can that I can tell you to quote the chief to be. I am still not poking my three friends who voted for dumb Joe......its more fun just being quiet and smug which my wife says does not fit me at all but I'm just gonna keep the cards close.......RT
Dec 19, 2024....Drones, Joe says what drones????? I for one, am not alarmed yet unless they start spraying....I have a friend in NC who flies a huge drone big as a car and sprays the Christmas trees all over the mountains all year for pests fungus, etc. It makes noise, it carries a huge heavy load. If these things were adversarial, I ask why????? Satellite imagery can see your license plate from orbit. I think its kind of like UFO arguments, unless you have been real close no telling what is going on. My father was an Air Force fighter pilot in the 40s and 50s. He told me after the war he was just tooling along in a T-33 (trainer jet, he was a fighter instructor having survived WWII) he told me a long silver cigar shaped craft came out of nowhere and pulled up along side him and fairly close....he said it sat there for a couple of minutes. He said he kept his plane on the straight and steady just looking in wonder. He said it had no markings, no visible means of propulsion, no wings, no tail. He said all of a sudden it accelerated out of sight in seconds. My cousin was a radar tech in Africa in the 1950s. He told me fighter pilots reported UFO sightings all the time and the story was always the same, guys would see them up close then the crafts would accellarate at who knows what speed right out of sight, he aid he could not pick up anything on radar but the pilots would all be yelling at each other.....he was a believer too.
My wife made a very astute observation regarding UFOs from other parts of the universe. "If they were up to no good, we would damned sure know it"
I think perhaps, they use earth to refuel or rest or gather up some groceries from time to time. I saw one navy officer on TV talk about some underwater crafts had been clocked at over 200 MPH underwater.....we have all seen the videos of Navy pilots chasing wedge shaped objects that dove into the ocean after being sighted in the air.....nobody on this God's earth has such capability. So, live and let live I figure.....and look at it this way....If we ventured to another galaxy and saw cavemen and guys running around with spears chasing varmints to eat, would we want to land and try to straighten them out? Nope. If we saw a planet full of crazies killing each other all over their planet would we want to stop off for a cup of tea? If we detected nuclear bombs all over the place would we hang around? Nope. We may watch awhile, shake our heads and move on. Now, if we saw some old guys with sticks whacking a ball around towards a tin can in the ground, sure, stop off and give a few lessons, or get a few.
Politics: The stock market took a dump today, the Fed triggered the AI computers to sell sell selllll. I aint selling nuttin. My basis in everything is so low I don't want to pay the taxes.....I'm a long hauler. Besides the dividends are great! Take one of my oil companies paying 3.7% dividends at 110 a share.....hell my basis is 3.50 a share.....my initial investment doubles every year.....brokers say you can't look at it that way....WHY NOT????!!!!
So, what do I think about DJT cabinet guys? I like the couple of guys who our rinos are studderstepping over.....why? Cause they are not swamp creatures simple as that. The swampsters are going nuts cause DT knows where the bodies are buried this tine. He knows who he cannot trust he knows who needs to go he knows who needs to be fired he knows who is a crook and skunk of the highest order.....annnnd...DC is full of them. Does anybody think these government employees working from home put in their 40 hrs a week??? Anybody who believes that ..... well, have a drink of swamp water.....not all of them, but but many probably have other jobs and are raking it in from all directions, does anybody believe there a boss going door to door checking? noooope.....does anybody in DC care that if you have to call somebody about a problem you get put on hold for hours, I would rather call the cable TV people or an internet service and get some guy in India after a 30 minute hold....and then he can't speak southern English so I gots no idea what he is saying. I hang up and call again, then I get somebody in the Philippines and it ain't Tim Tebow on the other end. What is yore cawlll about meeester tuuuumlen? I will have to ask my soupervizer about that kwestchun may aye putchoo on hold? Then you get the fast busy signal.....gone..... ahhhhhh nuts.
The pundits are all saying Joe is awol, at the beach sleeping in his easy chair.....wrong he is in his recliner sleeping by the fire in Connecticut or Delaware or wherever he has a house up there.....guarantee you Hunter is the salesman for the wall parts sellenem to his buddies and then offering them back to DT for 50 times the purchase price......I hope Trump tells those guys involved to go dump the wall stuff in the ocean.....recycle guys won't take them being full of cement,,,,,letem eatem. Somebody has to separate the concrete from the steel....that ain't easy. Somebody has to haul that stuff ...that is heavy stuff.....maybe dt will offer them a little less than the cents on the dollar IF they bring them back.....other wise....stackem in your back yard.
Ok, last observation.....ceo guys from everywhere coming to Fla to see the king....pledge support and money.....why? cause the new sheriff has the keys to the jail house....they all did what they wanted with jojo in charge....anything ....... they kept quiet till the election was over..... why? so they could schmooze up to the winner whoever that was going to be. I'm done. RT
DEC 2, 2024....NOT a whole lot going on right now with election being old news...its almost boring....who out there believed jojo he would not pardon hunter???? Any hands out there? I didn't think so. I am still laughing at the dems all pointing fingers at each other for the huge loss.....I am also laughing at Morgan squawking about the dem campaign burning through 1.5 BILLION in a couple of months and getting clobbered by a guy who only spent 750 million..lawyer morgan was obviously a biiiig contributor. I saw him on some minor news type outlet saying if they couldn't manage 1.5B how could they manage the white house? good question but he still is a democrat donor I wonder if he is going to pony up for the campaign deficit? I see the pentagon is dead set against Pete to be chief of the military they say he has no experience big enough to manage the military....hmmmm could it be they are so smart they can do so and lose hundreds of millions that NOBODY knows anything about? If I'm Dracula running the blood bank and they hire a vampire killer to come in and see what's going on....stakes and hammer in hand....I'd be hollering too! I seee gasoline is going back up just as I predicted....shocker! Were there any crooked vote counting schemes going on? Sure, in Penn and Az only Trumster won by so big a margin they couldn't recount enough and judges threw out what appeared to be phony mail ins.....duhhh....last time they were afraid to throw stuff out....this time they were afraid not to, too many eyes were on the count or at least the repubs had them thinking so. Anywayyyyy.....judgement day is coming in January.....we shall see if donald can deliver....its going to be a tough hill to climb but he has to be one of the toughest street fighters I ever saw.....don't forget to order his new gold sneakers! No, I didn't bite on that one just laughin at it....RT
NOV 18, 2024...I'M still laughin.....but now I am watching the media do an about face saying all of a sudden that kamala haha was a "bad" or "weak" candidate....what???? all I heard for the past three months was how wonderful she was and that she would most likely win.....this goes to show all of us that the media lies to us every day.....every day. Makes me boil to think I trusted Walter Cronkite.....we all know Rather was rather....well.....I do not know what anybody can do about the media stroking the country to their views instead of reporting the facts....even FOX people have a leash on them....owners of FOX endorsed kamala haha .....so why do they leave Jesse, Gutt, Hannity and Laura alone? Simple, they bring in huge bucks simple as that. RAV doesn't seem to have any hidden agenda that I can detect yet... they are fun to watch they are conservative and make good sense. I am a registered independent and I plan on staying that way.....interesting how chuckie and the Penn dem senator are putting time and money into a recount after they lost....chuckie is an election denier when the shoe is on his foot. The repubs say not to worry all those hundred thousand mail ins are from red counties in Penn.....welll, nothing would surprise me. Some judge somewhere finally had the guts to tell one of the blue wall states they could not count votes whose signatures did not match or dead people's votes or non citizens votes. SHOCKING that would even have to go to court but I guess this time the repubs had boots on the ground watching for such. I am still laughing and glad I was dead wrong....that said, I do smell a dead rat here and there where Trump won handily yet people crossed over and voted for a democratic incumbent senator or rep.....huh?.....hard to believe that voters in Az voted for a senator who supported the white house agenda totally yet still voted for Trump....that makes nooooo sense....oh well I'm laughing my way to my cart...its been a great 12 days.......RT
NOV 14, 2024....MAN, AM I HAVING FUN WATCHING the folks in DC gone batspit crazy....cabinet appointment nominations are driving them out of the cave. I think most will get confirmed but maybe not Gates. I know DT must have something up his sleeve on this one, we shall see, meanwhile the DOJ shall be twisting in the wind....poor things they can dish it out but can't take it. I guess they will all get jobs at CNN and MSNBC. I find the most interesting nomination is secretary of defense....Pete might just make a good one....the brass is screaming bloody murder saying he is unfit.....inexperienced....all kinds of expletives......I'm laughing, those criticizing the appointment probably have never been shot at...Pete has.....most have never been on the ground as a grunt....Pete has. He will want to rid the military of transexuals, and will not subscribe to DEI which has handcuffed the military the past 4 years....I never bet against worse, but I gotta put a few chips on that right now.
Why don't I ever bet against worse??? Easy: in my spearfishing days, I had an offshore boat and my men and I were headed back in from 40 miles off shore and a good day of shooting.....when we got about ten miles off shore headed in all I could see was a line of thunderstorms miles across....we were headed due east the line went north to south as far as we could see.....the wind started getting stronger and the seas higher....rain was in sheets....lightning striking all around...I told everybody put on a life jacket and if I yelled everybody overboard everybody was to jump....I gave one guy to be in charge of the EPIRB in that event.....waves were coming over the bow of the boat washing knee deep into the scuffers, I had the bilge pumps on wide open...if the engines drowned out we were done for and one guy says: captain it can't get any worse! THAT WAS THE WRONG THING TO SAY.....it got lots worse....waves were breaking into the boat mid way through the hull I was behind a windshield and hanging on to the wheel watching the compass and waVe direction and the engine gauges to make sure they were still running....if we lost power the boat would surely roll over.....of course I am here telling the story so we made it .... but I told the guys NEVER EVER BET GAINST WORSE AGAIN....and that said never say "Ican't play any worse than this".....wrong again....you can and will play worse sooner or later. RT
NOV 8, STARDATE 2024; I am eating the left over crow from last night this morning....I said I would eat crow if I was wrong about the election. Here I am stunned.....still.....I thought no way Trump could beat the cheat and he would have to win by 20-30 points to have a chance to win any of the blue wall....well, I guess I underestimated the pollsters who once again proven to be full of high grade BS. It is rich stuff.....oil stocks are starting to sag much to my displeasure but I have owned them for over 35 years and ain't quitting now especially when my basis is two or three dollars.....anyway I AM A HAPPY CROW EATER TODAY!!! My entire attitude is on the upswing. I am not trying to figure out how to prepare myself for financial distress....all is good. I WAS WRONG for the first time ever I think and Trumpster did it to me. I am convinced Joe is happy, Jill is happier.....the dems are finally acting like republicans eating their own....they are pissed with Obama and Hillary and Nancy, really pissed. They shuda had a new primary or kicked Joe out earlier, apparently Kamalahaha did not sit well with most people around the country....even Caliefarnya turned almost totally red away from the coast.....as of today, the house is still questionable but Senate is safe in hand. Chuckie has to go back to his hole in the ground .... aoc is about to implode....Nancy is quiet and Ted is smug. Most of us are smug in fact and that is the way to act I think.
I still believe gas prices will go back up quickly until mid 2025....my oil companies have made money by the bank load since jojo took over with the obama crowd steering the ship......oil prices are stable right now but will surely fall. I have said for 30 years plus this country runs on gasoline and diesel,, still does and the economy rides those commodities.....always has and will into the seeable future for is old folks.
Pollsters: I think reading between the lines that Trumps internal poll people were telling him the national paid for polls were totally wrong....THAT my friends was why he was having so much fun on the stump.....the McDonalds then the Garbage truck skits were genius I still want to know who came up with those schticks I'm still laughing I guess next he will be selling reflector vests with Trump embroidered on the back.....at inauguration he should offer them for sale for those attending the would be hilarious. Now, we ask whooooo turned on jojo's laptop and got him onto zoom to make the garbage comments while kamalahaha was having a rally on the whitehouse lawn and didn't invite him to attend ????? easy.....Jill. She is pissed and that did help.... a lot. Somebody dreamed that up I am sure to take the wind out of kamalahahas rally....mission accomplished.
Finally, I wish Trump would have a little bit of my crow and make an apology to the Bush family....they are good people he should never have insulted them but my wife says Trump is a New Yorker and has no southern type upbringing.....I'll just eat the whole rest of the crow pie today and be done with it....rt :)
ELECTION DAY EVE: NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED....DJT keeps saying things that the media turns around 180 degrees and that's his fault.....I'm sure his people shutter every time he starts talking about opponents and those against him....he cannot stand it he HAS to strike out.....nothing short of stupid.....he never got Haley to come out to the rallies with him....stupid again.....I eat crow all the time.....he will not so much as as eat a feather.....stupid.....I am frustrated he did not go to the border today and hold a rally somewhere like El Paso or in Arizona with a hole in the wall behind him....THAT is where he shoulda been today......stupid....BUT what do I know, I'm just a former player who is now just a club golfer who now has a handicap and plays scrambles as the designated putter. All that said I think he has a 30/30 chance of winning if the cheat is held to a minimum.....I have said and still do say he has to win by 20 points to have a chance.....we will know nothing late tomorrow night....several key states will withhold tallies till they see how many they need to win....UNLESS...UNLESS....Harris has won outright that my friends would tell us the vote was probably somewhat fair if the dems win Az, Wi, Mi, Pa, Ga ..... if they get their counts out tomorrow night then Harris won them all....if not, Trump is winning in those states its that simple.
Regarding Judges not considering suits filed by republican lawyers....hell no, they are not about to consider fraud charges.....they get elected in many cases and folks they are not even going to hear the complaints......no way in hell are they going to rule against the ruling class no matter how obvious it is......they simply will not hear the case just like in 2020 the dems said hundreds of complaints were filed, the judiciary refused to go to trial on any of them therefore there was no fraud the judges said so! Yeah with a gun to their heads.....they sat the issues out. I will say many states have gone to paper ballots like here in Fla I went in early, filled out my ballot and they fed it into a counting machine that is not connected to the internet ...... probably a fair count..... maybe.
Prediction: I was once in the broadcast business and I can guarantee you several things, the Weather Channel gets rich every time there is a hurricane, CNN will get rich if Trump wins, Fox will get rich if Harris wins....simple as that. e
Remember this: Fox ownership endorsed Harris.....I like Newsmax but they are light years behind Fox in their infrastructure....I think CNN is ahead of Fox when it comes to worldwide reporting and timeliness.....I think they all can be bought. CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC have all already been purchased by he left.
Final prediction: I predict we will not know who won till Thursday or even next week and that's all I have to say about that.....UNLESS.....HARRIS WINS OUTRIGHT WITH NO SHENANIGANS NEEDED if so no need for a slow late count. Remember I said that. rt
NOV 1, 2024 I STILL am predicting Kamalahaha will win next week, not because she will win straight up but because trumpster has to spot her too many strokes.....like a scramble, the winning team is quite often the last one to turn in their card. Amazing how that is so consistently true. An honest count and He wins I just don't see how he can get one.....a handfull of key states are run by dems top to bottom its like asking the fox to count the hens in the henhouse every day to make sure nobody's missing....you ain't gonna get a fair count. I will saya this: if He does win, even by razor thin margins he probably won by 20% IN REALITY. This is not sour grapes its just the way things are today. Trump threwem a fastball back in 2016 and they were asleep at the plate....won't happen again. Hell, there are plenty of republicans who do not want him back in the DC swamp......look no further than Mitch not helping Cruz at all with zero money .... nobody owns Ted so he can't be controlled.....don't think Mitch and Chuckie don't talk regularly smile, have a drink and say see ya tomorrow's keep things the way they arelets get rid of Ted, ..... Wed night I hope I am eating crow along about supper time.....the cheaters won't report results till the next day just like the guys in the club scramble that seem to win every time. RT
OCT 1, 2024 I was recently criticized by the leader of a national publication who read my comments below, we had a friendly back and forth he though my comments were racist....I begged to differ, I finally asked him one simple question I see nothing below racist in any way....exactly what did I say that is not true? He did not answer. He is in California.....shocker! I enjoy friendly political disagreements. He said his golf publication NEVER ever has any political overtones. I understand why....he is a commercial enterprise and like a famous entertainer once told me: If you ever get involved with politics the best you can hope for is to piss off half your fans......Me? I'm different I owned my own two radio stations, I commented conservative jargon weekly on the air.....I would tell folks if you don't like what I say there is a button on your radio.....button....that was a loooong time ago friends. Anyway I mean no harm to anybody just telling it like it is and making predictions and below after review is still TRUE.
I see by the news a large district in California (where else) will allow non citizens to vote in the upcoming elections....why not? You need them to stay in control. I see some purple state judges refusing to disallow voters who have no id.....hell I can run out there and vote all day all over every town I guess....in Fl you gotta have ID and you have to be a U.S CITIZEN......we are on the verge of collapse in my opinion.....throughout history democracies have collapsed when the electorate figured out they could vote themselves benefits until they bankrupted the whole system.....that boat guys, is coming down the river right at us. Can we stop this? I still do not think so.....the polls are crazy she is up one day the next day DT is up.....in a toss up, the cheat will do the job....I just don't think DT can win with less than a 60-40% margin.....they only need to rig a couple of states......oh, you disagree you folks from California? Why oh why are the dems screaming and sueing because Georgia legislature just enacted a hand count law instead of computer count? Whyyyyyyy? You tell me.
Gasoline is still under 3.00 through out southern swing states like NC and SC.....it will stay low till after the election do not even dream the oil companies want DT in office they are killing it under Joe and will under the cackler too.
So, Texas is on the road to creating the Texas Stock Market....and we ain't talking about a stock yard fulla cows....I heard the governor who I really like, say why not? Texas has a bigger economy than NY now, NY is in a shambles......Texas running the show is fine with me.
Remember guys, if you are in a blue state that does not require ID, get a foursome and ride from poll to poll. RT
AUG 30, 2024 Here we go with how the cackler will win......
1) The cheat: Over a million phony registrations in the redest of red states, Texas? And that's how many they caught. How many phony voter registrations are floating around in the rest of the country? Dozens of millions.....that my friends is how DT lost last time. No blue state will purge the roles, none zip zero.
2.) The oil companies will hold down gasoline prices: Why? I own a considerable amount of XOM and BP ..... they are making more money now than they ever did under DT. They will keep retail prices down best they can through Nov.....right now where I am its 3.05 a gallon....on Labor Day Weekend!
3) Broadcast and internet is controlled by lefties. They went to school in the late 90s and 2000s and were taught by far lefties....print media now is obsolete....all the kids 40 and under get most of their news from cnn and info from the internet....and most of that is phony...they believe anything if its on the internet....next case your honor.
4) Dumb voters: drives me nuts when both sides say "the American people are smarter than that" No they are not, they are plain dumb and complacent. We are probably in the less than 40% crowd who got a decent high school education, some of us even went to college....back when I graduated in 71, I never had a single professor who talked politics...not one....I had some law courses, lots of broadcast classes (cause they were easy and no homework)...my degree is from the college of liberal arts I never had any lefty crap.....In a debate class they put me up against some hippie girl and I smoked her....she finally hollered out loud...."damned Leos you can't argue with them!" The professor looked at me and asked me what my sign was......yep, Leo. Brought the house down.
5) DT can't stand it...he doesn't know when to shut up and that -pisses the women off even the red ones.
I wonder....I wonder when she wins, will the stock market go to hell? If she gets the house and senate all hell will break loose.....unrealized gains? She has no clue what that entails...stocks ? vacation houses? your office property? the vacant lot next to your house you bought? how many irs agents with guns will it take to enforce that one? Your Rolex? Your wife's diamond ring and gold jewelry you bought fifty years ago? The business you built and plan on handing down..... Are they gonna go search your safety box at the bank looking for stuff you have stashed away for hard times? Sure they will, its coming....I hear in- home safes are selling like crazy and for good reason. I hear gold coins are on fire and for good reason. What is one to do? grab your stuff and leave in December and head to the islands I guess....but I don't want to leave......kids coming up today have no clue...if they want to work hard and do well and have a house at the beach it ain't gonna happen they will have a socialistic anchor around their neck and won't even know it....kids today will never know the world as we enjoyed it the last 50 plus years......Think I'll just go get in my cart......RT
AUG 22, 2024 OK folks I was half right about my predictions on what the dems would do to Biden....I have predicted for a year they would push him out at the last minute and insert big mike.....they pushed him out alright but big mike probably told them no way she would run.....ok kamalahaha raised her hand. Who has been running the country the past 31/2 yrs? Obama easy answer....jojo had no clue has no clue....Jill is pissed off.....so I was half right.
What's gonna happen from here? I predict IFFFF the cackler agrees to a news conference it will be stacked just like jojo had it stacked with libs throwing soft balls.....IFFFF she agrees to a debate I will be shocked ..... but mayyyybe......that said I don't think it will matter. It all comes down to this: the cackler has a 90% chance of winning according to my crystal ball.....dumb dems are coming back home.....they got their black man president (never mind he is a zebra) now they want a woman zebra.....the black women are coming back, black men according to some are not happy with the cackler......the dems are successfully turning the election into a personality contest not a good sense contest.....that is why I give her 90%.....trumpster is too hard headed....he shoulda picked nikki.....that would have kept the white female vote solid....I predict they will drift away they still don't like djt and will either stay home or go cackler....couple all that with the regular cheat on mail ins, rigged computers and stuffed drop boxes and trumpster has a slim to no chance.....and slim done left town.
The democratic platform is absolutely insane.....48% capital gains.....25% unrealized gains tax.....90% of America is too dumb to realize what that would do.....the stock market would crash....unload at current capital gains or go broke paying the unrealized gain tax.....they would apply this to second homes, vacation properties, corporations whose owners have increased the value over much time....name it.....the dumb 90% of America has no clue it sounds great we gonna tax those sorry bastards on Wall Street, near mind it will kill us old folks who worked and saved the past 50 years, never mind old folks with two homes one down south for winter up north or in the mountains in the winter.....and WHOOOOO is going to be in charge of figuring out what your unrealized gain is on real estate? It will take at least a million IRS agents or a whole new govt department who will look out after their friends and the politicians but audit the hell outa you and me......they are crazy as hell.....but hold on folks, its coming.....RT
JULY 19,2024.....ok ok, guys keep asking what is going on and why politically......here's RT's take on the whole deal....I predicted "they" would try to kill Trump....that has come top pass....easy call.....next question was who? Easy the cia, fbi, doj, and secret service in coordination with Biden's puppeteers who we all know are baccala lowbama's henchmen who have been running the country the past three and half years. Next question is why???? because they all know that trumpster will wipe out the entire crowd from top to bottom.....from top to bottom.....next, was the assassination attempt a set up? of course it was, i have talked to a hundred people from all walks of life (mostly on the golf course) the past week and to the man and woman they ALL say it was a conspiracy.....somebody convinced the 20 yr old kid he could do the deed, get away with it and escape rich.....he was a dumbass....of course they shot him numerous times deader than dead. But....they waited till he got his shots off first.....the crowd saw the guy on the roof, cops saw the guy ss saw the guy they let him shoot before they took him out permanently....his parents called the cops to warn them ....... its all so obvious it makes you want to scream!!!!
Ok, that didn't work.....this time.....so they go to page two in the play book....take joe out.....I think he is being told get out or we will take you out.....he will get out before the weekend is over.....he has to.....they will replace him with big mike and hillary as big mikes vp.....the same crowd that has been running the country into hell, will keep doing so.....sounds like I think she will win.....yes I do....she will get the women, the abortionists, the dems who have strayed....couple that with the cheat on ballots and voting machines and they are a cinch to beat djt......I hope I am dead wrong but just my opinion....its all beginning to add up what I have been saying for a year and here we are with the pieces lining up......investigation? are you crazy? the investigators are the conspirators where you think that investigation is going to go? It's like asking that midget fauci how did we have a hand in getting the virus created?.....whistle blowers? anybody blows a whistle gets blown away and ignored by the media.....speaking of which even cnn is all over jojo to quit....time is not their friend they gotta get him out of the way fast....if they don't they will have to kill jojo and or trumpster.....just my opinion, hope I am wrong. I think JD is a good vp pick but I wish trumpster would have eaten a little crow and picked nikki but he couldn't bring himself to do it damnit....she would have brought along all those women who would leave the repubs for a new dem guaranteed. Hope I'm wrong we shall see
DJT speaks tonight for the first time since the shooting.....he seems a little subdued and humbled....not his usual fiesty self.....I think he is rattled that he now knows he cannot trust the secret service.....and he doesn't know who in the service conspired to get him killed.....his guards are his killers in my opinion.....we probably will never know unless somebody blows real hard and lives to prove the tale......fat chance.....nobody will believe them who controls news and info.....rt