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By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
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jace, sounds like they bet on exaggerator too
that was quite a race!
Mgnificent Jace
One of the few Wagner operas that I find truly enjoyable throughout even if you do lose circulation to body pieces after about three hours.
Patd
Loved the Preakness, but the death of two horses earlier in the day brought up all sorts of issues with racing that always disturb me.
Food for thought commentary: The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump
Jamie,
Any opera that requires a lunch break is probably too long. That said the man did know how to tell a story.
I am at best lukewarm about Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, but the Sanders campaign’s attempt to make her the story is ridiculous and it smacks of desperation. As I noted previously, Sanders got out organized and out hustled in Nevada. A failure to understand the process does not mean that the process is rigged.
Thank you for the stirring Wagner, Jace. I am now strengthened and motivated to tackle the yard.
DW-S has a thankless volunteer job. She’s damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t. If I were her I’d terminate Burnie’s relationships with the Party and then make myself available to MtP.
miami herald: Bernie Sanders backs Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s opponent
“Well, clearly, I favor her opponent,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “His views are much closer to mine than as to Wasserman Schultz’s.”
Sanders’ announcement wasn’t surprising given his ongoing feud with Wasserman Schultz and his relationship with Canova, who is now a Nova Southeastern University law professor who specializes in public finance. In 2011, Sanders chose Canova to serve on an advisory committee on federal reserve reform. And Canova has echoed many of Sanders’ campaign themes — particularly his desire for campaign finance reform.
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Canova, who lives in Hollywood, and Wasserman Schultz, who lives in Weston, are competing in the Aug. 30 primary in the liberal Broward/Miami-Dade district.
Clinton beat Sanders in the district — and Florida — in a landslide in the March 15 primary. The challenge for Canova is to see if he can inspire Sanders’ supporters — and other Democrats in the district — to topple a longtime incumbent with broad name recognition. Wasserman Schultz is well-known in Broward County where she was first elected to the state Legislature in 1992.
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This is the first time that Wasserman Schultz has faced a primary opponent in a reelection since first winning the seat in 2004. Since then she has easily beaten long shot Republican candidates. President Barack Obama named Wasserman Schultz DNC chair in 2011.
more on sanders/canova deal
Through nearly six months of campaigning for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, former Bernie Sanders advisor Tim Canova hadn’t heard a peep, at least publicly, from the presidential candidate.
“I’ve had no contact with Bernie Sanders at all,” Canova told the Washington Post in February. (Sanders once tapped Canova to sit on a Wall Street-reform committee.) “And I don’t even know if he’s aware of my candidacy.”
It took a massive schism within the Democratic Party to change all that. Today, in a clear act of spite against longtime nemesis Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sanders went on CNN and formally backed Canova for the first time.
Jamie, yes, very very sad day at pimlico prior to the preakness:
The first horse was a 9-year-old colt named Homeboykris who collapsed and died after winning the first race of the day. The second horse, Pramedya, was euthanized after breaking her front left cannon bone, according to the Associated Press.
Pramedya, a 4-year-old filly, went down to the ground around the turn in the fourth race, throwing jockey Daniel Centeno. She was euthanized on the track, according to the AP. Centeno was taken away by ambulance to be treated for a broken right collarbone.
In the first race, Homeboykris came from behind to earn a 1/2-length win as a 9-1 underdog, then collapsed and died on his way back to the barn following his surprise victory and trip to the winner’s circle, according to an article in the Baltimore Sun.
The horse’s body will be sent to a center in Pennsylvania for an autopsy, according to the article. Homeboykris was trained by Francis Campitelli, whose son, Chris, tweeted that the horse died from an “apparent heart attack.”
wouldn’t be surprised that all drumpf’s talk about banning gun free zones doesn’t cause him a problem down the line when some anti-drumpf protestors come armed next time he’s speechifying. bet they won’t get very close to the venue.
creepin’ out rights are only for his gun toters.
Flatus,
Glad you enjoyed the Wagner. Hoping your speakers did it justice.
Patd
If the autopsy shows that Homeboykris had Lasix in his system, I hope it will finally get it banned in the US as it is in most racing venues around the world. I’m also opposed to racing on very poor track conditions which may have led to injury of Pramedya. Thorobreds have slender legs for the weight and power of their hind quarters. A bad step in slop, and you are asking for broken bones. Horses love to run and stallions competing against each other is part of their genetic makeup. That doesn’t mean that instinct should be used against them.
Why is it that everyone but the mainstream media knows that Strumpette is a serial liar and all his statements should be fact checked
KGC
They know. They need the eyeballs & advertising dollars for the horse race or
1. There would be no political news from now to November
2. The taped replays every 15 minutes might require new subjects
3. The drama school dropouts now called “journalists” would have to learn to pronounce cities in Syria
4. People like me would have way too much time to read
5. Invent your own silly reason for the cable channel incompetence
journalists??????? Ha! News fantasists
Jamie, lasik imo messes up a horse’s breeding credibility in addition to enabling an animal to race when he shouldn’t be racing. it may be different than the performance enhancement drugs human athletes use, but it’s just as, if not more so, morally wrong.
cnn:
A 2012 New York Times look into horse racing found that 24 horses die each week in the United States on average. The Times wrote that after Eight Belles was euthanized on the track after the 2008 Kentucky Derby, Congress got the horse racing industry to increase safety for horses and riders. One of the measures was a policy banning many anabolic steroids.
A total of 4,649 thoroughbreds — a rate of 1.87 for every 1,000 starts — died in racetrack-related incidents from 2009 to 2015, according to the Equine Injury Database compiled by The Jockey Club. In 2015, the fatality rate was the lowest (1.62) of the seven years for which data was available
“These improving fatality rates are clear evidence that we can move the needle and that the efforts of so many are truly bearing fruit,” Dr. Mary Scollay, the equine medical director in Kentucky, said in March.
from a march 4 bill moyers & co:
….The media did have a lot to do with enabling the rise of Donald Trump. Just not how Rubio or most people think.
To enable Trump, what the media did is fulfill what almost seemed to be a longtime mission: to create the first “pseudo-campaign” with the first “pseudo-candidate.” And now they are having buyer’s remorse.
That is not the standard line. The standard line on how the media are to blame is that they give him far more attention than any other candidate, and far more than his empty, sloganeering campaign warrants.
[…]We do know, as Rubio said, that the media gives Trump attention because he is a ratings-getter, and he has cleverly played off this. CBS head Les Moonves gave away the game earlier this week when he admitted, “It may not be good for America,” meaning the Trump-dominated campaign, “but it is damn good for CBS,” meaning the ratings. And then he kept doubling down: “The money’s rolling in and this is fun.” “I’ve never seen anything like this, and this is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.” “Donald’s place in this election is a good thing” – presumably for CBS stockholders. To which I can only say that the networks were granted licenses to the public airwaves, our airwaves, by promising to provide a public service. Moonves just blew that pretense all to hell.
[….] Yet Rubio is largely correct when it comes to challenging Trump for what he says. The media should be pounding Trump not for his bloviation or his braggadocio or his bad manners or even his implied racism and explicit nativism. They should be pounding him for what he purports he will do as president. But they don’t, and Trump knows they won’t. He knows he can easily bulldoze the press because it is too cowardly to take him on face to face
[….]But even that cowardice isn’t the most important way in which the media have enabled Trump and nudged him to the brink of the Republican nomination, even as they wail about the prospect. The far more grievous crime is what the media have been doing to our politics for decades now – something for which Trump just happens to be the chief beneficiary.
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Of course, just about everyone in the media now, excepting Les Moonves, is bemoaning the inevitability of Trump’s nomination, which is a bit like the boy who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan. The media may say they regret it, but they did this. They systematically destroyed our politics in the name of entertainment. They systematically conditioned us to anticipate a show. And, frankly, they will keep on doing it. In fact, Moonves seems to indicate that he would fire anyone who didn’t.
So the media can cry all they want and hope to exculpate themselves by trying to stop Trump. But in the end, Trump could only make a mockery of our politics because the media already had.
Boy Howdy ain’t that the truth
to repeat for emphasis:
CBS head Les Moonves gave away the game earlier this week when he admitted, “It may not be good for America,” meaning the Trump-dominated campaign, “but it is damn good for CBS,” meaning the ratings. And then he kept doubling down: “The money’s rolling in and this is fun.” “I’ve never seen anything like this, and this is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.” “Donald’s place in this election is a good thing” – presumably for CBS stockholders.
why has someone not made a stink about what moonves said? it’s almost an admission of contributing to drumpf’s campaign. all those freebie news mentions and interviews on cbs are “in kind” donations and should be accounted for on the candidate’s f.e.c. reports
KGC,
What the media can’t have is a blow out. A landslide election would make them look bad. They had much to do with legitimizing Trump and now they have to make it look good. What they don’t seem to understand is that if they continue to talk about a close election between two flawed candidates(both sides do it you see) it is very likely to come true. If this continues Trump could very well win. Honesty and qualifications be damned! So much for the myth of the liberal media.
robert kagen wrote an opinion piece called “This is how fascism comes to America” in wapo last week that’s very chilling in its application to what is happening to us. here’s a sample:
To understand how such movements take over a democracy, one only has to watch the Republican Party today. These movements play on all the fears, vanities, ambitions and insecurities that make up the human psyche. In democracies, at least for politicians, the only thing that matters is what the voters say they want — vox populi vox Dei. A mass political movement is thus a powerful and, to those who would oppose it, frightening weapon. When controlled and directed by a single leader, it can be aimed at whomever the leader chooses. If someone criticizes or opposes the leader, it doesn’t matter how popular or admired that person has been. He might be a famous war hero, but if the leader derides and ridicules his heroism, the followers laugh and jeer. He might be the highest-ranking elected guardian of the party’s most cherished principles. But if he hesitates to support the leader, he faces political death.
In such an environment, every political figure confronts a stark choice: Get right with the leader and his mass following or get run over.
I don’t think anyone committed to the strumpette will change their mind because the reason the are for him is one most of them won’t admit they are racist. It has nothing to do with job or eyerack (most Trump voters supported Shrub)
have been trying to find out how much money or in kind contributions the democratic party (local and national) has given to Bernie. what material support has come his way paid for from party funds? did the party ever give him money while he was officially an independent?
American Red Cross Disaster University went well, except a few people who could not or would not arrive due to a bit of rain so the disaster shelter simulation had to be cancelled. I took a couple of classes to learn how the Emergency Operations Center works, that might be a nice position to try someday.
My primary disaster job is to drive ARC emergency vehicles, feed people and help in the shelters. Lots of contact work with people out of their homes for some reason. We are kind of like hoteliers, except our lodging is typically a high school and you get to share one side of the gym with one hundred (or so) new (same gender) friends, on one of our wonderful cots. Our “restaurant” might feature meals ready to eat (MRE’s) ours are Heater Meals. Or your meal maybe imported, from a a local restaurant, Italian or Mexican, or even Popeye’s.
I guarantee that if you are hit with a flood, fire, hurricane, tornado or any other disaster, you will be happy to join us. We are always looking for volunteers to join us in the fun of helping others help themselves in a disaster. ARC
Watching Great Performances: The Pearl Fishers.
Les Pêcheurs de Perles: “Au fond du temple saint” (Polenzani, Kwiecien)
Patd
Well Hillary did give him money when he was running for the Senate. A contribution she may now regret. ? You can tackle the insanity of Presidential FEC filings HERE if you are so inclined. Right at the moment the FEC is not happy with Bernie to the tune of almost 300 pages of complaints.
Just watched All The Way on HBO. Bryan Cranston was brilliant as LBJ. The man did Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and much more in education, jobs, immigration, the environment, and the arts. Totally screwed up in Viet Nam and he knew it. Still, on domestic reform he is a very close second to FDR. Deserves a better place in history than he’s gotten thus far.
Craig,
That is my assessment too, based on what I’ve read. Absent Viet Nam, Johnson would most likely have gone down as one of the most effective presidents ever to hold office. Seldom has anyone understood the ins and outs of the legislative process quite like Johnson.
Yes, Jace, it’s just sickening that he couldn’t stand up to the right wing hawks and get out of Viet Nam as he knew he should. But that’s how he got their votes for the vast domestic reforms he put in place. One of the most dramatic and consequential trade offs in our political history. I’ve always thought VN vets should get credit for their sacrifice that allowed LBJ to get the votes for Medicare, Medicaid, and all the domestic good that he did. It’s their unwitting legacy.
Craig,
One of the groomsmen at our wedding with whom I am still in touch, flew helicopters for two tours in Viet Nam. His conclusion was that the dominoes were going to fall with us or without us, might better to have been without us.
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