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On the Trail
Mixers, mount your favorite donkey (or elephant or the more independent beast an unaffiliated mule) for today’s ride on the trail.
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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39 thoughts on “On the Trail”
base camp coffee beckons and the chuck wagon’s best sourdough hotcakes slathered with butter & mesquite desert honey. whooeee, too tough a ride too early in the morn.
from tough rides to tough riders
After years of being awakened by my dog, and occasionally cats, during the night wanting to go investigate critters in the yard, I got a couple of trail cameras. This week has been very uneventful, the trespassers are camera shy. However, I do have a couple of very interesting pictures. One is of a huge cat butt rubbing on the camera, the other is this.
“That civility is intact, so far, and so is the awkwardness that goes with the tradition: putting competing politicians at a table in a room while a horde of legislators, lobbyists, state workers and others wait to see whether they’re smiling or frowning when they come out — or when they go in.“
Political posturing, it’s the breakfast of champions.
First it’s Cuomo and now potential candidates for his job
This is absolute BS. George Floyd’s interaction with police in 2019 had nothing to with police murdering him in 2020.
“Cahill ruled that a portion of a body camera video from the 2019 arrest that shows an officer approaching the car, a photo of pills in the crack of the seat and comments Floyd made to a paramedic about what drugs he took and the timing of the drugs are admissible.“
Fried baloney!
May as well just say that the police officers who murdered George Floyd were also having ~”a bad day”~
We could power a small city with the harnessed energy of your contrived anger!
Mars, here we come!
patd = the series of pictures start with a full blob of cat fur. The camera moved around as she was rubbing her side and head on it. Finally she moved far enough away to moon the camera. Chunky is a sweetheart.
uh oh, another gerald ford in the white house?
there was a previous stumble what looked to be at same place on air force one stairs last month. both incidents also seem to start with his left foot which i wonder if that’s the one that was fractured earlier.
well, the late night comics will have a hayday with this for awhile.
“Denis, 17, tears up as he describes a devastating storm — Hurricane Eta — that he says destroyed and flooded his home and left his family with nothing.
“There is no work,” he says. “There is no money to study.”
Edgar, 17, shares a similar experience. “The house fell down around us,” he says. “Thank God my mom is still alive.”
OM was right.
How is it OK to use evidence from a previous police interaction to help defend the police accused of killing him? That’s not contrived anger. How is that relevant/legal?
Your contrarian act is tired. There are other ways to interact with folks. Or, maybe you think it’s OK to admit that evidence. If so, why?
You’re right, i’ve overstayed my welcome. Have a ball👍
My trailmix habit can easily be replaced with compulsive unsuccessful attempts to make an online vaccine appointment
Spots will open up with one of these refreshes, i’m sure of it!🤞
Or, explain why you think it’s OK for them to use that as evidence?
To me, it looks like character assassination so they can prove he had it coming to him. It’s disgusting and I don’t understand how that’s pertinent or legal.
Good luck getting your vaccine.
Judges favor cops 100/100 times
how much weight has SFB gained since leaving the White House
Probably. I hope the jury sees that they’re trying to manipulate the case against the officer by smearing the character of the victim.
crackers – I’d say he’s eating his feelings, but I’m not sure he has any.
sturge, thanks for linking the fallen pence. they need to either upgrade that stair carpet or encourage the use of less slippery shoes. ‘course it could be the deed of a dastardly dirty prankster who oils the treads when no one’s looking.
OK, in the spirit of discourse, i read your cnn.com article, and it’s obvious the defense will argue Chauvin’s knee wasn’t the cause of death and something else was, and apparently the judge believes they have a right to make that defense.
It still makes no sense to bring into evidence the drugs in his possession in 2019. Nine minutes on his stomach with a knee on his neck (while he cried for his mother with what air he had left in his lungs) killed him. The police murdered that man.
IMO, the fix was in to protect the police from the get-go.
“But the medical examiner’s office, in its report also released Monday, said that the cause of death is “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” Cardiopulmonary arrest means Floyd’s heart failed.“
One question will be posed at the end of that trial.
Would George Floyd have died without being held down in his stomach with a knee on his neck for nine minutes?
base camp coffee beckons and the chuck wagon’s best sourdough hotcakes slathered with butter & mesquite desert honey. whooeee, too tough a ride too early in the morn.
from tough rides to tough riders
After years of being awakened by my dog, and occasionally cats, during the night wanting to go investigate critters in the yard, I got a couple of trail cameras. This week has been very uneventful, the trespassers are camera shy. However, I do have a couple of very interesting pictures. One is of a huge cat butt rubbing on the camera, the other is this.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/24/texas-tribune-george-w-bush/
W, while hawking his art book at virtual SXSW, was pressed to talk politics.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/18/chip-roy-asian-americans-texas-republicans/
Chip Roy, while sitting in a committee hearing on violence against Asian Americans, showed his racism and ignorance and should be removed from that committee.
BB, Your dog has that “What you lookin’ at?” look on his (her?) face. Weimeraner?
Pogo – she is a Brittany with a little extra hound in her linage.
BB, mooned by a cat? or was it just marking territory with the feline version of “kiss my ass” to you and yours?
don’t think I’ve ever had sourdough hot cakes
question for mixers: anybody been on that grand canyon trail ride and does the thread video do it justice?
i’ve heard that it is truly frightening being atop a swaying stubborn mule caught between a mile deep precipice and an unforgiving cliff wall.
click sourdough pancake recipe from foodnetwork
and for an even better hot cake that’s good for you, try mayo clinic’s
buckwheat pancake recipe
for those of us more inclined otherwise: use whole eggs, butter and cream where necessary.
Eons ago in another group (remember Compuserve?) we would hold the annual “March Into Spring” with some very inventive creatures and riders.
Mine was a plaid horse of many colors ridden by a bagpipe playing koala. Not sure how that would go over in Arizona.
looks like late night comics beginning to feel comfortable making joe jokes now. here’s fallon last night
Jimmy addresses Vladimir Putin’s response to President Joe Biden’s recent remarks about him
did someone say hot cakes…
Folks really got into sourdough during lockdown. They’ve come up with some creative ways of using the discard.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/17/texas-greg-abbott-dan-patrick-dade-phelan/
“That civility is intact, so far, and so is the awkwardness that goes with the tradition: putting competing politicians at a table in a room while a horde of legislators, lobbyists, state workers and others wait to see whether they’re smiling or frowning when they come out — or when they go in.“
Political posturing, it’s the breakfast of champions.
First it’s Cuomo and now potential candidates for his job
Rep Tom Reed accused of sexual harassment
The above questionable act is one many men find hilarious. My Ex was particularly proud he could pull it off one handed.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/us/derek-chauvin-trial-decisions/index.html
This is absolute BS. George Floyd’s interaction with police in 2019 had nothing to with police murdering him in 2020.
“Cahill ruled that a portion of a body camera video from the 2019 arrest that shows an officer approaching the car, a photo of pills in the crack of the seat and comments Floyd made to a paramedic about what drugs he took and the timing of the drugs are admissible.“
Fried baloney!
May as well just say that the police officers who murdered George Floyd were also having ~”a bad day”~
We could power a small city with the harnessed energy of your contrived anger!
Mars, here we come!
patd = the series of pictures start with a full blob of cat fur. The camera moved around as she was rubbing her side and head on it. Finally she moved far enough away to moon the camera. Chunky is a sweetheart.
uh oh, another gerald ford in the white house?
there was a previous stumble what looked to be at same place on air force one stairs last month. both incidents also seem to start with his left foot which i wonder if that’s the one that was fractured earlier.
well, the late night comics will have a hayday with this for awhile.
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/pence-stumbles-climbing-stairs-air-132240986.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/us/border-migrant-teens/index.html
“Denis, 17, tears up as he describes a devastating storm — Hurricane Eta — that he says destroyed and flooded his home and left his family with nothing.
“There is no work,” he says. “There is no money to study.”
Edgar, 17, shares a similar experience. “The house fell down around us,” he says. “Thank God my mom is still alive.”
OM was right.
How is it OK to use evidence from a previous police interaction to help defend the police accused of killing him? That’s not contrived anger. How is that relevant/legal?
Your contrarian act is tired. There are other ways to interact with folks. Or, maybe you think it’s OK to admit that evidence. If so, why?
You’re right, i’ve overstayed my welcome. Have a ball👍
My trailmix habit can easily be replaced with compulsive unsuccessful attempts to make an online vaccine appointment
Spots will open up with one of these refreshes, i’m sure of it!🤞
Or, explain why you think it’s OK for them to use that as evidence?
To me, it looks like character assassination so they can prove he had it coming to him. It’s disgusting and I don’t understand how that’s pertinent or legal.
Good luck getting your vaccine.
Judges favor cops 100/100 times
how much weight has SFB gained since leaving the White House
Probably. I hope the jury sees that they’re trying to manipulate the case against the officer by smearing the character of the victim.
crackers – I’d say he’s eating his feelings, but I’m not sure he has any.
sturge, thanks for linking the fallen pence. they need to either upgrade that stair carpet or encourage the use of less slippery shoes. ‘course it could be the deed of a dastardly dirty prankster who oils the treads when no one’s looking.
OK, in the spirit of discourse, i read your cnn.com article, and it’s obvious the defense will argue Chauvin’s knee wasn’t the cause of death and something else was, and apparently the judge believes they have a right to make that defense.
It still makes no sense to bring into evidence the drugs in his possession in 2019. Nine minutes on his stomach with a knee on his neck (while he cried for his mother with what air he had left in his lungs) killed him. The police murdered that man.
George Floyd’s family had to get an independent autopsy to get the truth.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/us/george-floyd-independent-autopsy/index.html
“asphyxiation from sustained pressure”
IMO, the fix was in to protect the police from the get-go.
“But the medical examiner’s office, in its report also released Monday, said that the cause of death is “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” Cardiopulmonary arrest means Floyd’s heart failed.“
One question will be posed at the end of that trial.
Would George Floyd have died without being held down in his stomach with a knee on his neck for nine minutes?
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