The Great Tripple Crown Mystery Continues

Now the horse racing profession has gone a full 35 years without a Tripple Crown winner.  Yesterday any hopes of that were dashed with "Orb" doing a poor showing.  "Oxbow" came in first, and "This is My Lucky Day" cane in second, and "My Loot" came in third.  These are easy names to remember.  It seems Oxbow had a really easy time of it, and the jockey said "It was just like at work out".   "Orb" 's companion in the turf growing up- - "Departing" didn't do at all well.  But as we intoned two weeks ago, other sports have their records set all the time.  And three times in the decade of the 'seventies we had a tripple crown winner, but for thirty-five years and counting, now this particular Prize has illuded us.  It's been one thing or another.  Often of course the same horse will win the Derby and the Preakness, but balk about the rigorous demands of the long Belmont track.  This year there won't even be a chance of it happening.

The following stuff has been on my mind lately, if you care.  From Word.  Eye Witness graced us with announcing there would be a Round 3 NBA game on today.  The past few years ABC has ruthlessly blacked out all round three games.  They said “These teams beat the Clippers and the Lakers”.  Actually I believe the Oklahoma Thunder and the Golden State Warriers had something to do with the fact that the SA Spurs and the Memphis Grizleys are now in round three.  We had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with our medication.  I watched the Mc Laughlin group.  One thing you can easily glean here is that these people are Statists.  They get all upset about Bengazi, which has pretty much been proved to be a phoney story given the revelatory E mails.  And then we have the whole Income Tax thing and the “Climate of political bias”.  What the hell is that supposed to mean anyhow?  You have absolutely no proof so you are blaming the “climate of hostility against the tea party”.  When you come down to it, after Citizen’s United the IRS would have been remiss in my opinion NOT to have closely scrutinized these hundreds of conservative activist groups that now wanted privileged tax status so that they did not have to report their donor’s list.  And I swear I’m going to vomit if one more person compares this example to the NAACP being harassed by the Government fifty years ago, as if any of these right wingers cared jack about civil rights.   In point of fact I didn’t hear the President say word one about the tea party and neither I suspect did any of the people now complaining about it, because you know if they could have raised the issue during the 2012 campaign they would have.  And the fact that they didn’t proves there was absolutely no evidence of a “climate of hostility”.  But it also begs the question of “Certain people make these accusations, which would rather imply that they have knowledge about what IRS people are doing that the rest of us don’t.  So it’s simple.  Just finger the IRS agents who initiated this “policy of harassment”.  But they have also made their intentions clear.  They aren’t going after a few bad apples, they want to bring down the whole taxing apperatus of the government.  As upset as the Mc Laughlin group was about these two stories you’d think they’d be bothered by the AP phone tapping.  I comment about this above quoting Glen Beck.  Just to follow up, Glen Beck had a fairly substantial editorial of the “trifecta” of scandals by the Obama Administration, and once again talked about how no digital device is safe from government prying, even if it’s turned off.  You have to take the batteries out to insure that you are safe.  Beck says that the government fields and records and categorizes all of the information they get so it can be easily accessed. These conservatives are Statists.  If they really disliked government as much as they claim they wouldn’t run in the first place.  Except it’s amazing how congressman after congressman doubles or triples their wealth after having served in congress, so they’ve obviously found the post an expedient way to serve themselves.  

I borrowed fifty cents from Janet and so had enough money now for another pack of John Black grape, which won’t last forever.  The ABC game shows were on.  I finally did what I haven’t done in three months.  I went into flicker and began downloading photographs.  I now have several rows of them, and I worked expeditiously.  “Cops” was on at eight.  I was outside some of the time.  In here I read more from the New Testament.  At nine they were preparing to show a third segment of “Cops” but enough was enough already.  I switched it to “Criminal Minds”, which was a rerun.  It was about this guy who can’t accept the fact that he’s gay and sets all the watches to 6:22, which is really 18:22 military time because it’s PM, because Leviticus 18:22 has a prohibition against homosexuality.

I woke at three and went out for a cigarette.  I felt anxious and uneasy.  I got to thinking things like “If I knew my health would be guaranteed for the next thirty years, would I forego ever making reference to dead people or people on other planets in my blog postings”?  It’s a mute point anyhow.  Since when did God even talk to me?  I reran the grounds through a final time in the morning finishing up that can.  I goofed when I said Dr. Levy was off by a factor of five in guessing how much coffee I use.  He’s only off by a factor or four.  They had this thing on the Today show or CBS or something about “Where Las Vegas signs go to die”.  Because it seems that neon style tubing is not being used very much anymore.  Tubes were always so flexible to do handwriting and things.  This world is changing too fact.   The VHS tape lasted just over twenty years, and in the overall scheme of things that isn’t long.  I first encountered the use of VHS tapes or recording TV programs in Government class in 1976, and already by then it was a prominent means of presentation.  Tape cassettes were around for a little longer, nearly thirty years for most of the seventies, all of the eighties, and most of the nineties.   The DVD came in about 1998.  The MP3 digital format is probably later than that.  You’d never know we were in a recession by how many relatively new buildings get torn down.  The nuttiest thing was tearing down the whole field part of Angel Stadium after the Rams left, drastically reducing the seating capacity?  Whose insane idea was that?  I digress.  Anyhow I got a drink of water and then went back to bed where I slept satisfactorally and got up at six.

For breakfast Loretta wanted to know what we were having- - and it turned out we were having a fried egg and sausage- - but no pancakes or French toast or anything bread-wise at all with that.  Fortunately the old lady didn’t want her place so I had two fried eggs and two sausages and Dora came by so I had another bowl of oatmeal, without the apples this time.  In terms of Meet the Press of course it’s going to be a rehash of the week’s news.  They had a younger Mitch Mc Conell from 1987 in a clip saying that “Too many of these privileged groups get tax advantages they don’t deserve- - mostly left wing ones, because they turn out to be political after all”.  Of course now Mc Conell says “I was wrong then”.  It was like pulling teeth to get Mitch Mc Conell to admit or take a position or say Yes or No to any question.   The “I was wrong then” remark does not set at all well with me.  Too many Christians will pound the table and repeat themselves emphatically about some particular issue.  Sometimes after a while I come to believe them, only to have the rug yanked out from under me later when they completely reverse their stance 180 degrees, because it’s expedient for them to do so.  Virtually nothing I did “as a Christian” was “in my interest” to do so.  I did them out of a sense of duty.  Trying to be civil to Rev Bill Halliday was no picnic, believe me.  But the funny thing is there were more conservatives at this Meet the Press gathering than there are ants at a picnic.  And all of them were chirping away - - like mental patients in “The Snake Pit” movie.   You know what Bones said to me today.  He said “Just don’t pay attention to them and don’t even honor them by discussing their actions.  Just ignore them”.   I hope people do come to ignore them.