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By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor

Things that happened on this day that are thread worthy, their impact to ponder:

  • 1494 – Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria.
  • 1862 – The Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day.
  • 1925 – John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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  1. on this day also noted 1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.

    1987 – The U.S. congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened.

    those items listed above and in the thread topic have in common: some things never quite work out the way one thinks they will.

    the 13th amendment didn’t cure racism, the contra findings  and penalties didn’t stop political criminal behavior, there are still people who disbelieve evolution and promote legislation to curtail the teaching thereof and as for the island Santa Gloria… now gloriously bade bye-bye by Belafonte

     

  2. This is going to be a wet day. Vodka in Louisville, rain in Louisville and tequila in the US (hell, Mexico only celebrates Cinco de Mayo in tourist areas).

    It does look like the track may be sloppy and the hats wet and floppy at the Oaks. Hope Wicked Lick is good when it’s sloppy.

  3. I hope the healthcare bill passed yesterday by the house is a harbinger of its fate in the Senate and the midterm elections.The Republicans were able to get just 85% of their guys to support it and no supporters among Democrats. It would lose 42-58 with those percentages and the House would be evenly split.

  4. Pardon the length, but I saw this posted in comments below the article about pugns doing a jig after passing AHCA. Posted by someone who calls him/herself as “Putin Won Get Over It”

    Putin Won Get Over It
    7:02 AM EDT

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Moments after House Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, millions of Trump supporters celebrated the imminent loss of their health insurance.  From coast to coast, Americans who cast their votes for Donald J. Trump expressed jubilation at finally being relieved of the burden of being insured in the event of catastrophic illness.  “Ever since President Trump was inaugurated, I’ve been counting the days for him to take away my health insurance,” Carol Foyler, a Trump supporter in Houston, said. “Today I just want to say thank you, Mr. President, for keeping your promise.”  Harland Dorrinson, a Trump voter from Tallahassee, Florida, said that he was “excited as hell about losing my health insurance” but sounded a more cautious note.  “I just hope the Senate doesn’t come in and give me back my health coverage,” he said. “Right now this all feels too good to be true.”  Most Trump supporters, however, would not let such gloomy predictions about the future ruin what for them was a day of unbridled celebration.  “Knowing that Trump could take away my Obamacare makes me feel super optimistic about what he’s capable of,” Tracy Klugian, of Columbus, Ohio, said. “I can’t wait until he gets rid of my Medicare.”

  5. Pogo – If you can get your hands on a bottle of that Bombay Saphhire they’re recalling…its 77% alcohol.   Maybe Space-X can use it for rocket fuel.

  6. yeah…   it be wet today….     ahhhhhhhh…   I can smell the leaves unfurling here in northlandia…

    republicans = biggus dickus…

  7. Yesterday, Repugz may have given Dems what they needed to regroup.  Dems, being Dems, might manage to make nothing of it.   They’ve still got to embrace Berniecrats. This is their opening to do just that.

  8. 154 proof?? Sounds good to me, and I don’t like gin.

    Asshat Steve Scalise is on mojo lying about the bill they passed yesterday.

  11. bernie is over ..his pro-no choice position is out of step with 70% of America
    hope you like your new insurance now your employer is does not have to provide insurance

  12. for once truthiness from the twit: Trump Tells Australia’s Prime Minister ‘You Have Better Health Care Than We Do’

    wapo’s coverage of above: Trump’s forbidden love: Single-payer health care

    President Trump claimed a victory Thursday after the House approved a more free-market approach to health care.

    Then he capped it off by praising a country with government-run, universal health care.

    Alongside Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at an event in New York, Trump reflected on what the House had just done. He took the occasion to bash Obamacare as being terrible, and then he turned to Turnbull.

    “We have a failing health care — I shouldn’t say this to our great gentleman and my friend from Australia,” Trump said, as The Post’s Abby Phillip reports, “because you have better health care than we do.”

    Australia’s health-care system is run by the government. It’s essentially a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system that is available to everyone, with private insurance also available. (They even call it “Medicare.”)

  13. should be reposted often for emphasis

    “We have a failing health care — I shouldn’t say this to our great gentleman and my friend from Australia,” Trump said, as The Post’s Abby Phillip reports, “because you have better health care than we do.”

    Australia’s health-care system is run by the government. It’s essentially a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system that is available to everyone, with private insurance also available. (They even call it “Medicare.”)


  14. Published on May 4, 2017

    A bill to rob Americans of health care is barbaric and intolerable

  15. Health care is the most natural of concerns for humans.  From the minute we are born, we need care.  It is about access and affordability.   I have experience with regular health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and my in-laws had access to Tricare.  There is also workman’s comp…the Cadillac of delivery and affordability.  To me, Medicaid is the best…single payer with an eye to holistic care…dental and vision included.   Paperwork for the program is nil.  Not so with Medicare.  Medicare has been so dissected, diluted over the tinkering of the repugs.  For a lousy 20% of the entire bill, the insurance grabs a lot for the minute payment scale.  But, the biggest winners?  Insurance. In my state, they had the entire Medicaid expansion via Centennial Care.   Hopefully, the repugs are killing their voting base with trumpstress and these guys will lose in ’18.   The redistricting makes that difficult.

    Pre-existing conditions?   A joke on humanity.  Tax credits for the poor while killing them with a consumptive tax?  Ridiculous.

  16. thank you, pogo, for pointing-out that cinco de mayo is a beer, tequila holiday for touristas.    The big day in Mexico is September 16th…Independence day.  AND, the avocado shortage continues…guacamole for China, not for the consumption in the not so great US of AA.  Thank the commander-in-thief.    And he puts meatloaf in his taco salad.

     

  17. ny times: Fact Check: Is Congress Exempt From the G.O.P. Health Bill?

    Accusations of hypocrisy greeted the House passage of the amended American Health Care Act on Thursday, as people were outraged — erroneously — by claims that the bill does not apply to Congress.
    It is true that the bill exempted lawmakers from its provisions. But a subsequent piece of legislation, which the House approved, eliminated the exemption, effectively nullifying that claim. The Senate now will consider both bills.
    Timothy S. Jost, a health care expert at Washington and Lee University School of Law, said the exemption “was done for arcane budget reasons and many did not realize it.” He was one of the first people to notice the quirk.
    [….]
    A spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee said the legislative maneuver was privately cleared by the Senate budget committee. A spokesman for the committee, however, denied that. So it’s unclear whom to credit — or blame — for the attempted workaround.
    But in the end, none of that came to pass. A separate bill offered by Representative Martha E. McSally, Republican of Arizona, eliminated the congressional exemption from the House health plan. Her bill was overwhelmingly approved by the House — meaning that Congress will live by the same health care rules as other Americans.

  18. curious that gopers are allowing states to cut out contraceptive coverage and maternity health care at the same time.   [as icing on that cake, I bet viagra will still be covered]

  20. patd…as I have commented several times, conception begins at erection for repug males.  The alt right endorses that message and promises to keep white women pure and away from any sperm killing or baby killing radicals. (their message, not mine)

  21. Mike Allen floating this today: “Disney CEO Bob Iger is being pelted with entreaties to run for president in 2020, and is clearly intrigued by the idea, according to industry sources. Iger has discussed the feasibility with friends but has made no formal moves.”

  22. Thanks, Craig….Michael Moore floated the idea of the dems copying the trumpence junta by running a similar candidate in 2020.  It may work for them and it was a sad shame we did not get Bloomberg instead of trump,  We all would be fairing better under his moderate tutelage.

  23. “Conception begins at erection for repug males.” BW, LOL!!!  I think the repugn beer drinking yesterday was to work up a full bladder – they might as well literally pee on their constituents like they figuratively did by passing that POS legislation (for which there is thankfully no legislative healthcare available to it and it will arrive DOA in the Senate).

  25. Found a new website for anyone who truly loves film making and movies.  Cinephilia & Beyond.  No gossip, no garbage, no clickbait.  Just thoughtful articles and inside stories on the great films and their directors.

     

  26. so the Bern-outs are running a candidate against Nancy P.  He won’t win won’t come close and it certainlu isn’t going to make anyone feel good about anti-choice Bernie in very pro-choice SF

  28. In re the case of Robert Iger :

    Mr Iger first became famous outside of the ABCDisney dysfunctional family when he traded sportscaster Al Michael, and a 2d round draft choice to be named later, to NBC for retired cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

    This is not a joke, mostly. I added the ‘2d round draft choice’ for comedic effect.

  29. Sportscaster Al Michael then entered the record books as the very first human being to be traded for a fictional character. And, a retired one at that !

    Oh, the ignominy. Oh, the inhumanity!

  30. Acoma and Taos Puebla are the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the US.

    It only seems as if Pierre, SD is 10 M!LLEN!A older. If it weren’t for wife-swapping, nothing would ever happen in Pierre.

  32. I just noticed Kentucky Oaks will be on my DirecTV Channel 220. On something called NBC Sports Network. Which I didn’t even know existed. So maybe it’s on other TV systems.

  33. Craig…  NBC Sports Network is also carried on Comcast.  I’ve watched it many times to see a hockey game.  Check your local listings to see the channel#….  or if you have one of those handy dandy remotes, just say the name of the channel into it and up it will come.

  34. NBCSN is on Spectrum (fka Time Warner) as well.

    Looks like the rain in Louisville is on the verge of beginning and should last to or through post time for the Oaks.  Will likely be a muddy race. Bummer.

  37. NBC Sports was showing Churchill Downs all morning but have now switched to English Soccer until the Oaks.  So far today, I am losing my shirt and the skin to go with it.  …..

  41. Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!  For the one or two who have not heard yet, the maker of Bombay Sapphire Gin has a recall on because some of it is at 154 proof, or what comes out the still.  Lots of media coverage.

    With that information I thought a quick search for the lot number would help me search for it at the liquor store (just to help clear the shelves).   Finally I found the information I needed.  It was a lot that was sold in Canada.  Once again the media gets a great story and forgets to put out the most important chunk of information, that you were not going to get any, er, I mean you would not be able to help your local liquor store get it off the shelves.

     

  44. May 5 is/was Children’s Day in Japan. It used to be called Boy’s Day. They merged Boy’s and Girl’s Day into one. Probably as sumkinda conservative austerity measure.

  49. Cute.  Commentator just called for Tequelita, Salty, and Wicked Lick as a hunch trifecta for Cinco de Mayo.  Bet if that happens, he will be kicking himself from here to Sunday for not betting it.

  50. I love the fillies.  They are truly beautiful.  Very few are as powerful as the stallions, but for conformation, they are just magnificent.

  51. For the record, I only picked Tequelita because it was the least bizarre name. Why are these names getting so stupid? Horse owners need to hire branding experts.

  60. Bad Names – not talking about gangs and women’s fashions,  Horses and dogs have names of the breeder or kennel, unless they come up with something different.  It has been difficult to come up with a unique name that does not sound like a Colorado mining camp lady of the night for many decades.  I’m waiting for something that can only be used on cable.  And, I do not want to disparage ladies of the night.

     

  62. Jamie….   Congrats!

    Craig…  they can only use a name once.  There are a lot of little tracks along with the big ones all over the country.  Racing has been going on for a long time.  I bet it gets harder to come up with something unique.

  63. Dept of the Interior wants comments on or after May 12 on decisions about Monument Site reevaluation.  I’m in favor of a firing squad a dawn for anyone suggesting changes, if you must be more diplomatic:

    Comments may be submitted online after May 12 at http://www.regulations.gov by entering “DOI-2017-0002” in the Search bar and clicking “Search,” or by mail to Monument Review, MS-1530, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240.

  65. My last doggie:  Poupon d’Fleur

    I later found out from some folks up in Canada that a Poupon, or maybe Pouponne, was a baby faced girl so little Poupon was actually, if so, a baby faced flower girl………

  66. Should you ever own a thoroughbred there is a site where you can check for names.  You can only have 18 characters.  Just insert name in the query box and see if one is registered.

    This is also where you check for a five generation pedigree for any existing registered horse.

    Breeders often combine some version of the sire and dam’s names or some sentimental tribute or personal identity.  i.e. Barbaro and his brothers were named for dogs in a family portrait.

     

  67. Sturg, you had to remind of Sue’s opening the miniature jar of Grey Poupon in Rosie’s rear arm rest…

  69. I just made facebook friend of Jose Jimenez, Bill Dana……is this a great country, or what………

    perhaps the most politically incorrect comedy bit ever teevee’d……

  70. Flate, did you ever get to pull up in Rosie next to someone with their window down and ask em if they had any grey Poupon?

     

  72. I’m tearing up my cyber bet, and my eyes are also tearing up. I could have used that little trifecta cyber bundle. sigh.

    My problem is, when I was a teenager I knew a mike smith who was a serious criminal s.o.b. He was a baaaad 16 year old, and I’ll bet that he died young and violently. Anywho, I have negative feelings about the name mike smith, and so I’ll prolly never ever pick a winning horse. sigh.

  73. XR, I knew a Mike Smith as a kid – I figure he became a banker or a businessman or died young in prison – maybe the same guy as you knew, but he wasn’t all that bad so maybe not – and know another Mike Smith who’s a lawyer, so he’s not exactly a successful guy. And I’ve never won a trifecta – I blame them. Now my eyes are tearing up.

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