The New York Times quotes last night’s late night sages on Attorney General William Barr testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee:
“Mueller wrote Barr a letter complaining that Barr ‘did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance’ of Mueller’s work. ‘Context, nature, and substance.’ That is, uh — that is everything. That’s like saying, ‘I really like what you did with this, you know, car, except the wheels, the engine and the car.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“Going from Barr’s summary to the actual Mueller report is like being told how the stork brought your baby brother and watching the video of the actual childbirth — very different experiences.” — TREVOR NOAH
“You can’t boil a report that long down to four pages, and you shouldn’t try. That’s like saying the battle of Winterfell was about a dude who smoked too much weed and thought he was a bird.” — SETH MEYERS
But Barr didn’t back down, testifying that he’d found Mueller’s letter to be “a bit snitty.” Stephen Colbert’s reaction was, “I can imagine Mueller was a bit snitty because your four-page summary was a steaming pile of snit.”
“William Barr’s testimony today could really hurt him. Yes. In fact, it was so bad he might even have to stay in the Trump administration.” — CONAN O’BRIEN
“Now people are accusing Barr of covering up for Trump. Yeah, when Trump heard, he immediately asked him to resign as attorney general and be his new vice president.” — JIMMY FALLON
Jamie, Omaha Beach scratched
BTW, did you get my trifecta pick yesterday – roadster, maximum security and game winner?
Louisville courier journal:
Omaha Beach is out of the 2019 Kentucky Derby. The morning-line favorite was scratched with an entrapped epiglottis. While that is bad news for the colt and his connections, it could be good news for everyone else, particularly the new favorite, Game Winner (9/2).
But this does raise questions about what’s next.
Odds: Game Winner becomes the new Kentucky Derby 2019 morning-line favorite
What happens to money bet on Omaha Beach?
Good news, bettors. It is refunded. If you’ve placed a bet on Omaha Beach (or any horse), they can cancel it before the race starts.
Who replaces Omaha Beach?
Bodexpress is the first also eligible this year.
The bay colt is 0-3-0 in five career starts with a pair of seconds in three races in 2019. His sire is Bodemeister, who finished second in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 2012. His dam is Pied a Terre, by City Zip. Bodexpress is trained by Gustavo Delgado.
But he doesn’t truly “replace” Omaha Beach.
What post position does Bodexpress get?
With the scratch in the No. 12 post, horses in posts 13-20 will move over one, and Bodexpress takes the No. 20 post, previously occupied by Country House. Chris Landeros will pick up the mount with 30-1 odds. Horses 13-20 will retain their program number despite moving in one in the starting gate, and Bodexpress will wear No. 21.
What happens if another horse scratches?
If another horse scratches, there will be 19 horses in the field as Bodexpress was the only also eligible this year. Say the No. 3 horse scratches (no, By My Standards has not scratched and, as far as I know, is not planning to), then horses in posts 4-20 move in one post. In that situation, Code of Honor would start in the No. 11 post but wear No. 13 as that is his program number. There would be no 3 or 12 horse in this hypothetical.
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ironic that the twit is about to go to war in support of someone authorized by a legislative body to supersede someone else declared president by means of a fraudulent election.
Not the real Omaha Beach, sigh
Patd
Thanks for getting the article up. This is going to play havoc with the odds. I’ll get them all later after things settle down. Yes I did get your Trifecta. Flatus and Blue Bronc will need a new horse.
Kentucky Derby
1 – War of Will 20-1 RR & Whiskey Jack
2 – Tax 20-1 XR
3 – By My Standards 20-1
4 – Gray Magician 50 – 1
5 – Improbable 6 – 1 Pogo & Lani
6 – Vekoma 20-1
7 – Maximum Security 10 – 1
8 -Tacitus 10-1 Sturgeone
9 – Plus Que Parfait 30-1
10 – Cutting Humor 30-1
11 – Haikal 30-1
12 – Omaha Beach 4-1 /SCRATCHED Flatus Blue Bronc
13 – Code of Honor 15-1
14 – Win Win Win 15-1
15 – Master Fencer 15-1
16 – Game Winner 5-1
17 – Roadster 6-1 Patd & Jamie
18 – Long Range Toddy 30-1
19 – Spinoff 30-1
20 – Country House 30-1
21 – Bodexpress
Patd Trifecta – Roadster, Maximum Security, and game winner.
and if it’s Thursday, it’s “thurby” in
New This Year: Thurby Goes Gonzo! Join us as we celebrate Louisville native Hunter S. Thompson- and Groundbreaking Illustrator Ralph Steadman [continues listing the day’s activities and entertainments]
From the NY Times’ Peter Baker about the witty snitty hearing.
Ummm, Squeaky,, no. Sen. Hirono was simply pointing out the truth about Barr. She is to be commended.
about Steadman from the courier journal:
Arriving at the Churchill Downs press room the first weekend in May 1970, Welsh-born artist Ralph Steadman was on the hunt for press credentials so he could draw cartoons during the 96th Kentucky Derby.
As the 33-year-old walked through the gates into the iconic racetrack, he had no idea that after this weekend he would be forever linked with maverick Louisville journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
“Of all the people I could meet in America, I think the key person was Hunter S. Thompson,” Steadman recalls of his collaboration with the journalist on his now infamous essay, “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.” “If I met others, and I did, they usually were friends of his. So it was easy to become included in their adventures since I was ‘the innocent abroad’ on my first visit to America.”
Steadman returns to Churchill Downs on May 2 — 49 years to the day after his first raucous alcohol-soaked Kentucky Derby experience with Thompson. Now 82, Steadman has created an original piece of artwork in partnership with Churchill Downs and the Speed Art Museum specifically for Thurby, known as the locals day at the track.
He’ll sign the poster for fans who may have gotten their first taste of the lifelong collaboration between the artist and Thompson with the “decadent and depraved” essay.
In 1970, Steadman and Thompson had never met, but Scanlan’s Monthly, a short-lived monthly publication, teamed the writer and illustrator for an article about Kentucky Derby weekend in Louisville.
Their unconventional first-person account of the races and events of that Kentucky Derby weekend would launch a new type of journalism. “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” is often cited as the first piece of published “gonzo” journalism in which writers do not simply cover the story but become the story.
Their inebriated Derby weekend also launched a lifelong collaboration between Steadman and Thompson. The duo would go on to work together many times for Rolling Stone magazine and on Thompson’s 1971 novel “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
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The official drink for Thurby is certainly packing a “kick”
“Old Thaimer” Recipe
2.5 oz Old Forester Mint Julep
0.5 oz Ginger Liqueur
0.5 oz Lime Juice (store bought)
½ dropper Habanero Shrub
Oooh, baby, That would be a helluva drink. The lime and habanero combination makes for a great drink (I had a habanero margarita that was just that and it was wonderful) – and added to a mint julep – damn, I’m going to have to try that.
that must be what Steadman’s poster pony just drank. note the crazed look and smoking snout.
nbc via msn:
[…]
Appearing on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Clinton discussed the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report that the president had pressed his then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate Clinton.
“I’m living rent free inside of Donald Trump’s brain, and it’s not a very nice place to be, I can tell you that,” the former Secretary of State told Maddow in her first television interview this year, calling the president’s ongoing fixation on her a “diversion attack.”
“I guess it is one of their tools to fire up their hard-core base,” Clinton said.
“When in doubt, go after me … They know better. But this is part of their whole technique to divert attention from what the real story is. The real story is the Russians interfered in our election. And Trump committed obstruction of justice. That’s the real story.”
On Attorney General William Barr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Clinton said calling for his resignation “makes perfect sense,” although she did not explicitly do so herself, as some Democrats have, and she cautioned that his conduct should not draw attention away from the Mueller report’s findings.
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And for those that didn’t see Rachel last night… paraphrasing… Hillary then went on to talk about trump’s calling on Russia to find her emails and likened it to the Democrats playing the same game and calling on China to find trump’s tax returns.
It was really good to see Hillary at her best again.
No Omaha Beach, go with Win Win Win instead.
BB – Win Win Win it is 🙂
Russia: Even the whales are defecting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/02/authorities-alleged-russian-spy-whale-is-refusing-leave-seeking-norwegians-devotion/?utm_term=.64df0a39960f
the hill:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said Attorney General William Barr committed a crime by lying to lawmakers during his testimony on Capitol Hill.
“What is deadly serious about it is the attorney general of the United States of America was not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States. That’s a crime,” Pelosi said during a press conference in the Capitol.
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Pelosi said she “lost sleep” Wednesday night watching replays of Barr’s testimony.
“How sad it is for us to see the top law enforcement officer in our country misrepresenting — withholding — the truth from the Congress of the United States,” she said.
Asked directly whether Barr committed a crime, Pelosi didn’t hesitate.
“He lied to Congress; he lied to Congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime,” Pelosi said.
“Nobody is above the law; not the president of the United States, and not the attorney general.”
renee, NYTimes seems to agree with you about the power of that part of the interview:
also powerful was this in yesterday’s NYTimes
[it provided the talking heads with a great sound bite: “Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.”]
The Ms Clinton who showed up on Maddow last night, without her campaign, was fresh, spontaneous, affable, human, smart, and sassy. This was a Clinton who could have won in 2016 despite the russian attacks. She didn’t come off as speechie or processed.
Peter Mayhew … Wookie of Star Wars has passed away at 74
XR
That was the way she was in the smaller venues, but the media wanted the Arena style garbage of the Trump campaign for dollars and eyeballs. They would show his empty podium rather than her quieter voter interactions. It was infuriating.
Ms Jamie,
sigh
Eat more chickens
Eet mor chikin barrz
So things are heating up quickly. Somebody better start polling the public to see where it stands on Congress saying to SFB and his merry band of criminals, “No, fuck you.”
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