“Who decided that all Thoroughbreds would share a January 1 birthday?”
(Note: Applies to all Northern Hemisphere Thoroughbreds; Southern Hemisphere Thoroughbreds share a birth date of August 1)
Time for a brief history lesson…
The British turf traditions were brought over from England with the colonists and continued on well after the Revolutionary War ended in 1783. One of those traditions was recognizing May Day (May 1) as the birth date for racing Thoroughbreds. Racing didn’t really take place during the winter or spring in England, and it had been decided in the mid-1700’s that May 1 would be a universal birth date for Thoroughbreds.
However, racing was changing in Great Britain, and on April 25, 1833, members of The Jockey Club agreed that horses at their headquarters in Newmarket would share the birth date of January 1 instead of May 1. This only applied at Newmarket, though, as there were two factions of racing in England at the time: those who followed the ‘Newmarket rules’ and those whose officials came up with their own set of regulations.
January 1 wouldn’t be adopted countrywide until 1858.
Once the new date became widespread in Britain, some in America called for racing to follow suit, specifically the North. The South dug its heels in, though, and refused to change the date from May 1.
Thus, for a time, American racehorses celebrated their birth days on two different dates, depending on where they were born. The divide remained until after the Civil War ended in 1865, when the main focus of the sport shifted from the South to the North, specifically New York.
One of the first changes made was bringing Southern race horses in step with the North to make the official birthday January 1.
The above is just a brief summary; Nelson Dunstan wrote an in depth article that was printed in the January 12, 1948, edition of the Daily Racing Form. Special thanks to Tom Hall from The Blood-Horse and the Keeneland Library for their help.
Now to name the baby
How do horses get their names?
Owners have to get creative with horse names, since no two racing horses can share a name at the same time, according to the Jockey Club rule book. Horse names must be submitted to the Jockey Club no later than February of their second year. And it should go without saying, but horse names can’t be rude or inappropriate. There has certainly been a handful in history on the borderline, or that snuck in, but as a rule of thumb, it’s not a great idea.
Names also can’t be longer than 18 characters, including spaces, and must meet a variety of other conditions. The Jockey Club tosses about 30% of the names submitted. One of the most common naming techniques is to use the horse’s pedigree, incorporating the name of its father, or both father and mother. But names can come from anything — current events, a favorite pastime, a location or pop culture. Barbaro and his siblings got their name from a family painting of horses.
Here are the more specific rules for naming a horse: What’s in a Name: A Look at the Rules for Naming Thoroughbreds | News | Kentucky Derby
To Check this year’s Derby horses, enter their name in the search block at Thoroughbred Horse Pedigree Query and the five previous generations will appear. This will often reveal the reasoning behind the name. You can also put in a name you like to see if there is a horse by that name or a retired name that might be available as some names are on the Jockey Club Permanent List and cannot be used.
Jamie, thanks. didn’t know the old south had been against the birthday change. nowadays from what I’ve heard, it’s to their (especially Florida’s) advantage since their horses are born earlier in general and therefore a tad stronger and experienced by Derby time. Anything to that in your research.
today is Oaks Day at Churchill Downs and according to https://www.kentuckyderby.com/visit/derby-week-events/kentucky-oaks/
for other news of the day, here’s stephen
President Trump ousted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and gave the job to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, officials are hoarding supplies ahead of an expected spike in prices, someone needs to check Attorney General Pam Bondi’s math, and Stephen weighs in on a question that is burning up the internet.
And the window is open for final bets
1. Citizen Bull (20-1)
2. Neoequos (30-1)
3. Final Gambit (30-1)
4. Rodriguez (12-1) – Sturgeone
5. American Promise (30-1) – Patd (place)
6. Admire Daytona (30-1)
7. Luxor Cafe (15-1) – Pogeaux
8. Journalism (3-1) – Blue Bronc, Jamie (Place)
9. Burnham Square (12-1)
10. Grande (20-1)
11. Flying Mohawk (30-1)
12. East Avenue (20-1)
13. Publisher (20-1) – Jamie (show)
14. Tiztastic (20-1) – Craig
15. Render Judgment (30-1) – Ivy, Anonduh
16. Coal Battle (30-1)
17. Sandman (6-1) – Renee, Patd (win)
18. Sovereignty (5-1) – Patd (Show)
19. Chunk of Gold (30-1)
20. Owen Almighty (30-1)
Sturgeone
Rodriguez has been scratched. Will need another horse for you.
Silver Charm, Oldest living Derby Winner still charming
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/silver-charm-oldest-living-kentucky-derby-winner-still-charming-fans-in-retirement/vi-AA1E0Coo?ocid=socialshare&pc=ASTS&cvid=5391f82e48e542c29130b9c64f80f151&ei=14#details
with Rodrieguez scratched everyone moves up a post and renee’s and my win pick sandman escapes the dreaded #17 slot (but sovereignty my show pick moves into it).
FYI an article on https://www.kentucky.com/sports/horses/kentucky-derby/article304898331.html
I like my 20-1 odds
Of course the deep south objected – they wanted to keep slavery in place and now we know that objection to the fictitious birthdate change for thoroughbreds was the real reason for the Civil War. Did Ken Burns mention that in his documentary?
Pat, you might want to change your bet to Win – the fifth pole position is one with the most winners (10) and Nos. 8 & 10 not far behind at 9, with # 17 being the worst, with no wins from there.
Sorry for the edit… first source I was using was inconsistent with the records and was based only on very recent runs – since 1998. The historical data says my horse just dropped from an 8 win position to a 2.
If you clicked this yesterday, many thanks.
If you haven’t yet and can spare five minutes to let the video roll to the end (even if you turn the sound off), please do.
Still in the 24-hour test window for YouTube analytics. This project is helping me learn how their algorithm works.
Nice thread, Jamie, thank you.
I don’t recall horses’ names from year-to-year, but who could ever forget Barbaro? Fair Hill Training Center is a familiar place as my cousin’s house sat directly across from it.
A summer job of mine in college was working the front desk at the hotel where all the trainers and jockeys lived for the season near Delaware Park. A culture unto their own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Hill_Training_Center
Employers added 177,000 jobs in April, a solid showing amid tariff uncertainty (WaPo)
Not to be catty about it, but shouldn’t that be spiking to levels like the post pandemic years what with all the new manufacturing plants being built and all?
Excellent Tuna vid, Poobah. That’s the doneness I strive for in tuna. LP agrees with me, Mrs. P on the other hand likes it cooked until it isn’t “fishy” (an elusive goal for …fish) . Truth be told, she ain’t a tuna fan, but sea bass, she’ll eat that all day long. Because I’m too lazy to look, do you have a LM vid on Halibut – perhaps my favorite from the North Atlantic?
I love shellfish… but fish fish… it better be deep fried and smothered in tartar sauce.
However… I did watch your video Craig. Is that one of CBob’s hats you’re wearing?
today’s meme…
Black Heritage in racing
Black jockeys and horsemen dominated the sport of Thoroughbred racing, from the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 through 1903, right before the Jim Crow era pushed them out. In fact, from the inaugural Kentucky Derby in 1875, Black jockeys dominated the sport, winning over half of the first 28 Derbys. A new tour and special programming bring this rich history to life in a new way and serve as an extension to the Museum’s longtime permanent exhibit, African Americans in Thoroughbred Racing, and educational programming.
(Photo: Oliver Lewis. On May 17, 1875, Lewis won the very first Kentucky Derby on horse Aristides.)
Another black jockey, Isaac Murphy, rode in eleven Kentucky Derbies, winning three times: on Buchanan in 1884, Riley in 1890, and Kingman in 1891. Murphy is the only jockey to have won the Kentucky Derby, the Kentucky Oaks, and the Clark Handicap in the same year (1884). Many consider Murphy to be the greatest jockey of all time winning 44% of all of his races.
https://kyhorsepark.com/explore/isaac-burns-murphy/
Thanks for this post, Jamie…
meme #2…
craig, i’m with you on calling those weeds (no matter how lovely they are) weeds. have been for years on a conservation resource program and the feds require plants like that (beautiful as they are and others like honeysuckle, thistle, autumn olive etc all super-pretty/aromatic) to be summarily destroyed or you get nasty comments from the regional taskmaster biologist. ex:
pogoeaux, I’m with the mrs on the rareness issue. this from eatkanga.com:
not sure if they think cooking does away with the mercury. it surely does away with germs and worms though.
if you make the pan hotter you can get a darker sear with the same internal rareness
No no no……Rodriguez is STILL IN.
HE’S DOING GREAT—IN FACT, he’s already won!!
It’s not as bad as kudzu.
“Kudzu: The Invasive Vine that Ate the South”
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/indiana/stories-in-indiana/kudzu-invasive-species/
Sturgeone
So he’s faking that sore foot because he’s not in the mood?
FAKE NEWS!
But if he DECIDES to drop out because of Biden and the radical left, then I pick Final Gambit.
Ya might know I’d pick the only one to get the axe.
Final Gambit it is
Note to the lurkers in the rafters, this annual Trailmix tradition is open to all. We race for bragging rights only, so feel free to join the party.
I am making a 30-second Derby Day Mint Julep video tomorrow for YouTube and TikTok in case anyone has a tip to add. Music suggestions?
Rough script so far (opens with ceremonial clapping of the mint sprigs):
Mint got clapped. Bourbon got splashed. Ice got wrecked.
This ain’t your grandma’s julep. (Unless she’s wild.)
🍹 Old Overholt (Kentucky’s budget-friendly legend). Maple syrup. Crushed ice avalanche (Like a snow cone for grownups)
No measuring. Just vibes.
Serve immediately. Regret nothing.
🥃 Happy Derby Day, y’all.
Music selection has to include Ray Charles, One Mint Julep
YES Jamie. I almost forgot about that one. Here’s a tentative script with that song:
[Opening horn hit / intro beat]
Visual: Slow-mo clap of the mint sprigs like a gladiator about to enter battle.
Text on screen: “Mint got clapped.”
[Next musical phrase]
Visual: Bourbon pouring like a waterfall of bad decisions.
Text: “Bourbon got splashed.”
[Saxophones enter]
Visual: Avalanche of crushed ice in slow motion.
Text: “Ice got wrecked.”
[Verse starts]
Visual: Cocktail stir and dramatic sip.
Voiceover or caption: “This ain’t your grandma’s julep. (Unless she’s wild.)”
[Bridge or instrumental flourish]
Visual: Close-up on Old Overholt bottle, mint leaf garnish getting flung on top.
Caption: “Maple syrup. No measuring. Just vibes.”
[Outro beat]
Visual: You raising the glass toward the camera.
Text/VO: “🥃 Happy Derby Day, y’all.”
Just posted 30-sec teaser for full roll out today of Tuna Steak…
Yes, an old nugget of a song about the gay children in Kentucky.
Kudzu – an insane weed. After he retired, My dad lived in Irondale, AL but played golf at Grayson Valley CC near Chalkville and Center Point just east of Roebuck, where I grew up. Never rode in a golf cart as far as I know – last time I played with him we walked 18 – and this is after his 1st knee replacement and in anticipation of a 2nd, that he was pretty gimpy on at that point (and apples do not fall far from the tree, but this one gave up on golf). I digress. On the road from I-59 to GVCC there were fields on the left that had power lines next to the road and a few barns and such in them. One particularly notable kudzu field had kudzu that grew up and over the power pole next to a small decrepit (from what you could tell) barn, about the size of a 2 stall garage. The power pole and line, along with the guy wire, were grown over and encased by kudzu, as was the barn. It was just an impressive example of the power of kudzu in the south. I used to say that rather than drop bombs on Hanoi, the US Govt should have mulched kudzu with poison ivy and dropped it on Hanoi, which within a year would have been uninhabitable.
Pogeaux – If this is “Biden’s economy,” then those jobs are Biden’s, too. If Adolf wants credit for the jobs, then he gets the tRUMPcession, too.
Do they calculate the jobs lost by fired, federal workers and tariff-driven layoffs in that number, or just new-hires (who may be part of the federal firings)?
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/connolly-demands-rescission-regulations-reviving-schedule-f/404990/
Connolly demands rescission of regulations reviving Schedule F
The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee warned that politicization of the federal workforce will lead to more instances of “incompetence” in government.
op House Democrat on Thursday demanded that the Office of Personnel Management rescind proposed regulations reviving Schedule F, President Trump’s plan to strip tens of thousands of federal workers of their civil service protections.
The proposed rule, published earlier this month and open for public comment until May 23, reestablishes the since-renamed Schedule Policy/Career, a new job category within the excepted service for jobs that the administration deems to be “policy-related,” and outlines the process by which agencies should move to reclassify jobs within the federal government’s competitive service into the new category. Employees converted to Schedule Policy/Career would effectively become at-will employees.
OPM estimates that around 50,000 federal employees will be placed in the new job category, or around 2% of the civilian workforce.
“This rule would allow the Trump administration to summarily terminate a veteran who devoted their post-service career to the federal government and replace them with a 20-something political operative whose primary qualification is unquestioned fealty to the MAGA movement.”
*Yeah, it was in Project 2025.
Kudzu is used for various purposes, including as an herbal supplement to help reduce alcohol consumption, treat menopausal symptoms, and improve heart health. Additionally, its roots can be consumed as food, and the plant is utilized in traditional medicine and for making products like soaps and lotions. -ai
MAGA is like human kudzu, creeping into all spaces and choking out everything that isn’t it.
What we need to be is a pest to human kudzu. Get them at the root, drown their ideology, blowtorch their evil theology, give their lies no quarter.
Bravo!
yup… that’s how it’s done…
Tuesday morning we had a line of severe thunderstorms move through the area. A lot of trees down, none in my neighborhood but 1/2 mile south my sister lives at the end of a culdesac and she doesn’t have a neighbor without a tree down, including the neighbors tree that was across the back corner of her house above her bedroom. So I’ve been helping her try to keep as much water out of the house as possible. It has rained every day since. I found out one thing, I can still get up on the roof and work. After the tree guys remove the tree, I put my toolbelt on yesterday and finished putting a tarp over the hole over her bedroom. A rather large hole it took 2 sheets of plywood and an 8X16 tarp.
I woke up at 6am this morning remembering why I don’t wear a tool belt anymore. But a couple of hours walking it off and my hip quit hurting. Getting old sucks
Jack
A little humor in the midst of all the firing and forced retirements. Talk about being out of touch. The retirement program is called “Designated Early Retirement Program” also known as DERP (Stupid)
My son is walking around making faces: I’ve been DERPed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9vzrxxjdwo
Trump will rename Veterans Day
US President Donald Trump says he plans to rename Veterans Day – known as Remembrance Day in the UK – as “Victory Day for World War I” to celebrate American contributions to the conflict.
The president also wants to name VE Day on 8 May as “Victory Day for World War II”, he said on his Truth Social social media platform.
This week, the Associated Press reported that the US Army has drawn up plans for a parade to celebrate the army’s 250th birthday on 14 June – the same day as Trump’s birthday.
we already knew that Trump resents veterans
they’re everything he’ll never be
I had forgotten he draws, Jamie.
Very nice, comprehensive thread-starter this morning, too.
Old Overholt? What you couldn’t find any Old Crow?
I’m not even going start talking about maple syrup, I guess once start adding sugar to good whiskey.
I’m sipping on a bit of Preacher Craigs finest. Salvation in ever sip.
Jack
Women’s marches are going nationwide for the p*ssy grabber’s birthday.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-02/army-plans-for-a-potential-parade-on-trumps-birthday-call-for-6-600-soldiers-ap-learns
Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers
Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, the Associated Press has learned.
The Army anniversary just happens to coincide with Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14.
While the slides do not include any price estimates, it would likely cost tens of millions of dollars to put on a parade of that size. Costs would include the movement of military vehicles, equipment, aircraft and troops from across the country to Washington and the need to feed and house thousands of service members.
High costs halted Trump’s push for a parade in his first term, and the tanks and other heavy vehicles that are part of the Army’s latest plans have raised concerns from city officials about damage to roads.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-votes-to-overturn-epa-rule-limits-7-hazardous-air-pollutants-clean-air-act/
Senate votes to overturn EPA rule that limits 7 hazardous air pollutants
The 52-46 party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.
Senate Republicans utilized the Congressional Review Act to overturn the regulation, which was passed by the Biden administration in 2024.
The joint resolution now goes to the Republican-led House, where it also expected to pass.
The seven pollutants in question are:
Alkylated lead compounds
Polycyclic organic matter (POM)
Mercury
Hexachlorobenzene
Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB)
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDF)
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
It seems that making folks sick is a win-win for Republicans. Weakened regulations mean more profit, and folks sickened by these poisons means more business for the medical-industrial complex.
IMO, based on his family’s stories of his cruelty to animals and humans throughout his miserable, entitled life, I really think he gets his jollies offa folks dying. He hurt animals for his pleasure even when he was younger, which is a sign of a potential serial killer. By withholding meds, pushing fake cures that are toxic, defunding mental healthcare and food safety inspections, humans will die and he can put hash marks for each life taken on his basement wall or in his diary if he tracks his atrocities.
Stephen Miller Is Favorite to Be Trump’s Next National Security Adviser: Axios
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https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/stephen-miller/stephen-miller-emails-explained
Miller’s racist views can be seen through the policies he advocates for, but also through the material he absorbs. Emails show that Miller sent a story from VDARE, a white nationalist site, to McHugh on Oct. 23, 2015. VDARE supports the “great replacement” myth, which is the ludicrous belief that nonwhite people are methodically wiping white people out of existence. Steve Sailer, writer of the VDARE article Miller shared, believes in race science, a colonial concept that has long been debunked.
On Sept. 6, 2015, Miller recommended Camp of the Saints, a racist French novel by Jean Raspail, to Breitbart for review. The book is popular amongst white nationalists and neo-Nazis, as it is a story of white genicide that latches onto the “great replacement” myth and spins it into a troubling narrative that contains violent and sexualized ideas about refugees. Regardless of whether Trump has read Camp of the Saints, the same notions about refugees can be heard in just about any of his speeches.
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https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/miller-pushed-racist-camp-saints-beloved-far-right/
Miller Sees ‘Parallels’ to Novel in Pope’s Words
While working for Sessions, Miller highlighted “The Camp of the Saints” to Breitbart in an email Sept. 6, 2015, writing to Katie McHugh, an editor at the website at the time:
“… you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints.”
John Tanton, the father of the modern anti-immigration movement and founder of hate groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Center for Immigration Studies, called the book “20 years ahead of its time” as he promoted the Social Contract Press’ publication of it in the mid-‘90s. He explained he saw it as a way to counter the effect of books that described the immigrant experience in positive terms:
“Over the years the American public has absorbed a great number of books, articles, poems and films which exalt the immigrant experience. It is easy for the feelings evoked by Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty to obscure the fact that we are currently receiving too many immigrants (and receiving them too fast) for the health of our environment and of our common culture. Raspail evokes different feelings and that may help to pave the way for policy changes.”
*Are they going to try to infect the papal conclave with MAGA?
nothing special about this track, just a nice Friday afternoon vibe
new, if you’re into that
meme #3…
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pbs-chief-slams-trumps-executive-order-aiming-to-cut-federal-funding-for-pbs-and-npr-as-unlawful
The head of PBS said Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR was blatantly unlawful.
*Will he just ave the FCC pull the plug?
👍🏻 🎶
Jack, I, too prefer my bourbon without all the trimmings as a rule, but a good Old Fashioned is pretty tasty and a good Mint Julep tastes fine every so often. Even my RW Transylvania/UK nut friend, who is also a bourbon collector and connoisseur, likes both of those drinks and a couple others, but in general if he adds anything to his glass it’s just ice. I’m a late-in-life convert to bourbon, although I still like a nice scotch from time to time. I had 2 really good old fashioneds last time I was in Lexington for the Bama-UK football game – one was a bourbon old fashioned and the other was a smoked old fashioned, and I’d gladly sip on either again if given the chance.
whskyjack, the liquor store lady where i was just now said she had heard of Old Overholt, but hadn’t seen it in years, doesn’t think they still make it. So I settled for some Jim Beam on sale.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-officials-hoarding-supplies-trade-war-tariffs-1235329235/
SPOOKED BY TRADE WARS, TRUMP OFFICIALS HOARD SUPPLIES: ‘IT WOULD BE STUPID NOT TO!’
Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before Trump’s tariffs cause prices to skyrocket
*A) There will also be price gouging. We make paper products in the US, but stocking up before super-hoarders empty shelves is just smart…or it makes you a super-hoarder.
*B) Let’s rebrand the tariffs correctly:
tRUMP’s Trade War on Christmas!
*C) I’ve never received a total of 30 dolls in my life, including the “Weird Barbie” I bought two years ago when the movie came out. Dems need to start screaming about income inequality. We’ve got to go left to win…if there’s anything left to win…if there are elections…if non-MAGAts are allowed to vote. It was “the economy, stupid,” but it was comparing your personal economy to that of the upper crust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Overholt
Old Overholt is America’s oldest continually maintained brand of whiskey.[1] It was founded in West Overton, Pennsylvania, in 1810.[1] Old Overholt is a rye whiskey distilled by A. Overholt & Co., currently a subsidiary of Suntory Global Spirits, which is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan.
It is produced at the Jim Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. It is one of the most commonly available straight rye whiskies in the United States, where it is available at most liquor stores.
*Same distillery; close enough. It all tastes the same to me. Wet cardboard that burns.
A very long time ago, think five decadesish, I was in the US Air Force, enlisted, sargent. As the Vietnam War was over there were a lot of officers, pilots, laying about with little to blow up. A bright idea came down to have Mississippi State University open a special part time program for a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree. I applied, after great consternation and heartburn it was decided that I could go for it. So, I walk into class and the stinking officers were stunned and more than a few were offended that an enlisted non-commissioned officer was in their midst. The base commander helped solve that by stating we did not have to live with privileges in the classrooms. In other words ignore rank in the classroom. Other officers welcomed me in and we studied together.
That is a long winded way of getting to MSU and the bovine world. There were studies on how to get cows to eat kudzu, and eat it in great quantities. I don’t know if they succeeded though. There is a lot of kudzu around the farm lands where I live. Many do not cut the vines, a weekly task, which allows the plant to take over the woods. You can sit and watch the damned thing grow.
Congress has the honor of naming holidays and when those take place. krasnov can “name” anything he wants, Gulp of America is not real, Gulf of Mexico is real. Veterans Day is real, whatever gobbledygook he comes up with is not real.
Old Overcoat makes a great Manhattan.
Bovines on the hill from my driveway, chewing their cud (no kudzu around here, just MAGAts).
Weeds. You got yours, I’ve got mine.
If only I knew how to upload a photo….
Jamie, Ray Charles “One Mint Julep” looks like a no-go. Here is a typically vague response from YouTube copyright police. You don’t find out for sure until you put a song in a video and upload it. And if it’s restricted you have to remake the whole thing. So I don’t use a song when I get this message in advance:
Copyright claim Ray Charles’ “One Mint Julep”:
Your video won’t be blocked, but visibility will be restricted.
I’ve seen Old Overholt but then , I may hang around in rougher neighborhoods than you do.
My dad drank Old Crow, it is a cheap strong flavored sour mash. I will use it for flavoring when cooking but don’t drink it even mixed.
Jim Beam is my guzzling whiskey, a decent bourbon at a decent price. I mix it with coke. Interesting thing about economics of drinking, the coke has more than doubled in price but the Jim Beam is still the same price bouncing around $22 to $24 a half gallon.
Jack
Pog, why can’t you upload. The Browse button below comment box opens your file folders, and the 100MB limit should be big enough, even for Apple photo hogs
I was surprised at how much I had to pay for the Maple Syrup for this mint julep video. $9 was the cheapest at Whole Foods, their own 365 brand
Now.
AHA! (I was doing what I do with other platforms – copy, paste)
Jamie
Citizen Bull to win for $2
Jack
I don’t grow mint in the garden but I do have oregano and thyme Wonder if that would work.
Jack
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/texas-military-zone-el-paso-immigrants-soldiers-arrest/
U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.
Craig – Maybe just hum a few bars.
Or, maybe have it playing in the background from another device.
Even though the renaming of Veterans’ Day is likely a distraction, I still called my Senators. Only Congress can do what he wants to do, and by renaming for specific victories, it’s a kick in the teeth to everyone else who severed elsewhere. I don’t see him picking out a day for when the Union beat the Confederacy, but it sure feels like we didn’t, right now.
Got it Jack
Grande was scratched but no one was riding him.
Pogeaux – I always used copy/paste before. Now you have to do the whole download, upload, post and then erase the download drill.
This makes me resentful AF.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/02/trump-presidency-news/#link-IPNQCJ2XLZE5BGXUO4XUX5X5VI
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/01/dan-patrick-trump-religious-liberty-commission/
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has been tapped to chair President Donald Trump’s new commission on religious liberty, which was announced during the National Day of Prayer celebration at the White House on Thursday.
“You are restoring the hopes and the prayers of millions upon millions of believers of all faiths,” said Patrick, referencing Trump, during a speech at the event.
This commission is a part of Trump’s push to “bring back religion,” to the United States. Trump on Thursday touted his pardons of anti-abortion protesters, the reinstatement of military members who were discharged due to vaccine mandates, creation of a Department of Justice task force to eradicate “anti-Christian bias,” and executive order against anti-semitism.
*So, is it “all faiths” or just…? Gotcha.
That’s just wrong. She got herself killed by breaking in with the insurrectionist mob. She is part of a stain on democracy.