Incredible

With the breaking news of the DOJ indicting 12 Russians...for hacking the DNC webnet connections...emails, and whatever...what part of this doesn't smell like 44 years ago?...Watergate...this is just the tipping point, kids...with this info, that the indicted received...what did they do with it?...why?...who met with whom, to give the info to?...it's all there for the finding...sure, there will be roadblocks set up...

Incredible tweet from POTUS today...accusing former Prez Obama for the lack of protection from the Russian spies...listen, Donny, they are coming after YOU!...just a matter of time...as he is preparing for a friendly summit with Russian leader, Putin....well, he is playing golf in Scotland...got to collect his thoughts...hey, and how did you weather the hundreds of thousands of Brits...DEMONSTRATING against you...YOU!...our allies?...yesterday...total embarrassment for the USA...

Cringeworthy...that is the word used by the English press...as DJT tried to walk with the Queen...now, what is the 'proper' way to do this?...with the lack of people stepping up to be able to tell Donny ANYTHING, I am sure he just was winging it...

As I briefly mentioned yesterday, you MUST see the vid of the Oct 19 debate...Clinton vs Trump...where Hillary lays out just what was 'indicted'...priceless, is to see Donny squirm...this is in the campaign of '16...

Speaking of sharks...wait, I was, wasn't I?...just off the Eastern Floridian coast...TWO different shark attacks...it's summer, the water is warm, and they are OUT there...hungry, apparently...just north of Jacksonville Beach, and east of Alligator Creek...makes you want to get out and swim in that area, huh...

Bragging rights...News Source in Santa Barbara...did one of them 'Most Fav'...here you see the winner of the Favorite Dentist in SB....Dr Cris Shepard...BTW, his buddy, Dr Drew, won the MVP of the orthodontists...

Back over the pond...at Wimbledon...the tennis T...let's be very clear...I am the one...not the only one...who has ZERO interest in the tennis world, or the prima donnas that play it...bully for whomever that wins...bully bully...make that Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham)...

If you can't say anything good about the Padres then, _______________________________...

I am getting real tired of the Lefty talk...er, Phil Mickelson, who really is a righty...his propaganda is getting old...his mockery of the game, that has made him a gazillionare...much like Kylie...he can't beat the kids...his mouth can...but not his game...wants a 'winner take all' match with Tiger...made for the pixel version...I guess he is filling in the dead time prior to him going on the senior tour...

Staying British...OK you blokes and babes...there is a very hot rumor that there is going to be a 'Downton Abbey' movie!...what?...one of my favorite shows, ever...now THIS, is a good thang.....

Yes, this reference to Donny...gosh, brings me to the 'Big Lebowski'...some mighty good lines in it, that refers to Donny...ah ha...

And, you got it...it is National Mac and Cheese Day...I dunno, I (we) have made lots of gourmet styles...not sure if the one right out of the box, isn't just as good...

Commiserating

BREAKING NEWS...the DOJ just announced that they are indicting 12 Russians for hacking the Democrat emails, during the last election...the seal is broken...please go back to the debate of Oct 19, to see the Demo candidate, Ms Clinton, address THIS ISSUE then...here we go...

Hi, kids...it's 6:30 in the morning, and the Horse is drinking a cup of Joe...smacking at the keyboard, with a little of this and a little of that...to unveil the thoughts in me brain...you know it taketh me 2 hours to write this...most every day...from reading the 11 sources, to highlighting, to proof reading, and then publishing...

I am reading a book by John Grisham...who I absolutely LURVE!...Camino Island...this is what triggers me...he is doing a story on writers...authors...unlike, the Horse...however, I HAVE written a book...started like 5 others...just can't get further than a couple of chapters...debated a 'Coaching Book'...to sell to colleges, as they almost ALL have courses emphasizing that...did a mock up, listed an outline...nope...didn't do it...

Back to Grisham's book...he says that the authors do what I do...start in the am, with a cup of coffee or tea...and bang the typewriter, er keyboard...for like 2 to 4 hours everyday...then quit at noon...much like a job, well, a half time one...right?...until they finish the manuscript...send it off to their agent, and the publisher...and get it printed...then paid!...I do mine for the benefit of myself and YOU all out there that take the time to read me...

Yes, the book, Camino Island, is a terrific read and fast...he has a knack of establishing the lead characters...in as much as you can picture them perfectly...I always think he could do a flick on each and every book he writes...so I fantasize who would play whom, in his story...and yes...I prefer the written book, as compared to the one on the tablet...OK, let's move on...

Other...

I guess the only thing worse than POTUS roaming about our country, is when he is languishing about Europe...stirring up our 'allies', with his condemnation of their own spending...whether it be NATO or Tariffs...he is in England today...egads, think WE have protests...just watch the Tele for theirs...do you think he gets it?...I don't think so...come on home, Donny...you have done enough...

Stormy...you KNEW I had to follow up with this after writing about DJT...as if, there was ever a connection...smile...well now, the Ohio Police Department DROPPED all charges on her...the sting, was probably illegal...listen here dudes, spend YOUR time catching the drug lords...not the strippers...anyhow, the police are doing an investigation within their own crew, to see what transpired...oh my...

Kylie is purnt near a billionaire...'self made' is the monicker...what?...for selling lip enhancers?...who buys these?...she is part of the Kris K Klan...the KKK?...what?...the pixel company, E!, just re-signed the crew for $100 million bucks...what?...who watches it?...as the hoop commentator, Dick Vitale queried, 'who is this gal, and why is she worth a billion?'...not even 21 yrs of age...got to give it to her, er, Kris...well played...get it while you can...

Now the state of Washington, is having problems with their drinking water...does this have anything to do with global warming?...

Off we went to the Happy Together Tour...out at Humphreys...the weather was perfect, my good friends...light breeze...and a whole lot of people that looked just like you and me...that is if you were a 60's bloke or babe...the Cowsills...B+...Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders)...C...he didn't sing Louie Louie...the Association...A-...there are 3 left...Gary Puckett...A-...the Union Gap not there, but was named after a place in Washington...One Dog Night, well, two of them, have passed on...B+...One...the Turtles...C...who was the kid doing the lead singing?...one of the two leads must have, well, you know...to be fair, most of the originals, are in their 70's...hey, it was fun...

OK, all of you real Cubbies fans...who will take up most of the seats out at Petco for the games here...bask in your glory of beating down the helpless Padres...cheer, whole heartedly for your boys...it's cool...thank you for your cash while in town...enjoy your stay...unless, you are the heathens who actually live here...and are band wagoners...ha ha...actually, I don't care...root for whomever you'd like...hmmm, maybe the Padres should wear hard hats out in the field...I digress...

It seems like a wassie morning...a couple of eggs over easy...a couple of strips of bacon (xtra crispy)...yup, time to get a cooking...egads, you DO know it is Friday the 13th, right?...oh yea, it took me 1 hr and 42 minutes from start to finish this am....

Good Vibrations

Morning, kids...yes, around the Q we are bracing for the conventions of conventions...COMIC CON...no doubt, the hugest one of the year for San Diego...as the loads of trucks arrive...semis...construction of billboards to be EVERYWHERE!...ie, sites were the attendees (geeks?) stand in horrific lines to walk thru trailers and the like...egads...we, the commoners, will set up camp at one of the local watering holes...and just watch...as most are dressed up in their finest comic gear...


Pictured here are some of last year's thangs that were about town...ie, one of my pix, that the crack Pinnacle Art Committee, didn't choose...again...snubbed, oh my, I digress...somebody must be 'blackballing' me...what a term...anyway, if you are one of them type, this is THE EVENT that you have been waiting for...

My blog title for the day, refers to something that happened when we were at Pala Casino, watching them Beach Boys...I forgot to write about it, until now...and this...brought tears to me eyes...really...hey, remember the video advertisement of the Native with tears in his eyes, when he sees the amount of waste, left on the land?...well, it has some similarities...just as the Boys were about to start the concert...to my right, an elder lady (be careful, Horse) was wheeled in, in her wheel chair...the music started..."Let's Go Surfin'"...she arose...gray hair a bobbing up and down...and bee bopped the ENTIRE show...for a couple of hours, she had no pain...as she went back into time, and got lost in the 60's...definitely, "Good Vibrations"...

Tonight, we head on out to Humphreys...for a concert that features that era, yet again...the last time we saw the "Happy Together Tour"...we sat by Bill Walton...BTW, it has happened a couple of times...it's a show featuring the Turtles, Mark Lindsey, Gary Puckett, One Dog Night, and others...whomever is still with us, sanging their hits...it is a blast...

I asked if you knew where the heck Stormy Daniels was...ah ha...she got fingered...oops, wrong terminology...got set up by the Ohio Cops...what do you call it, 'stake out?'...something like that...anyhoo, she was arrested for 'improper touching'...to (or by?) a female undercover police woman...who was at ringside pushing dollar bills at Stormy...allegedly...found her...is it just me, or aren't there more important bad people out there that need to be 'staked out' than her?...

POTUS...of course I was gonna go there...ha ha...is making waves with the NATO leaders...after his dressing down of the German leader, he now proclaims, that she is coming around...and will do what he wants her to...I can't imagine in this whole wide world, that he is taken seriously by them, or anyone else there...sorry, Repubs, but that's what I feel...ah hem, just ask former Sec of State, John Kerry....

I'm going to get out of this...but not without this thought...I saw a list of 15 top Demos that may try to take down Trump in 2020...ie, Oprah, at number 15...the number 1?...Bernie Sanders...but, I have one to add...recall I listed the idea of an 18 year old draft?...well, the Demos just may have to 'draft' this candidate into action...a person who speaks well...that would stand up to the likes of the bullying pulpit of Trump...has charisma...knows the office of the Presidency real well...and has a proper way of orchestrating people...Michelle Obama...think about it...

Going to end with them frustrating Padres...I know, why do I beat myself up on this?...Dr Cris tells me to quit watching them...mistakes galore in the 3rd inning...like, LL stuff...and for all the 'talk' about 'swinging at strikes' crap...they were a swanging at EVERYTHING!!!...striking out like...well, let's just say, it is like watching Daffy Duck...so frustrating...and another L...to make matters worse, guess who is rolling into town?...Da Cubbies, to feast on the Friars...

Thursday already?...what, were we on vacay?...right...

Special Nite

With all the commotion over the lack of production by the irascible Padres, they turned up the heat and played like a REAL MLB TEAM...of course, they must have been reading the unflattering remarks made by the Horse...whatever it taketh...as the San Diegans whupped them Bums, 4-1...

Highlighting the nite, were two dingers hit by C Hedges (FINALLY!) and yet another by the oh so caliente, Wil Myers...who now has hit 6 HR's in 4 games...terrific defensive plays by CF Margot...and the best of all, a gem thrown by P Eric Lauer...who went into the NINTH, nursing a shut out...oh yea, the former Pad, Matty Kemp...who we STILL pay, BTW, struck out FOUR times...thank you very much...however, he, Kemp, is a starting ALL STAR!...

Speaking of that, the alum out of the high school in Salem, Oregon (North Salem)...and now an Oakland A...Jed Lowrie was named to the AS Game...great honor for a great kid, who has had a nice career in the bigs...and has hammered the Padres pitching this season...the SD Rep this year?...closer Brad Hand...all teams get one...that is ours...

Big Brother...you watch this CBS thang?...lasts the entire summer...14 or so, random people put into a house...they vote out a dude or babe each week, well, the group does...and yes, it is riveting...well sort of...maybe I am giving the production too much credit...but isn't it eerily similar to the crap that is going on in the NATO meeting?...with POTUS popping off about Germany and Russia colluding...wait, I thought he did that in the last election?...stay away from the Russians, they are his!...I digress...anyway, I don' think they vote out a leader, do they?...I have a nomination...

So now that the Thai kids and their coach got saved from the Cave...newsies are going back in...what?...to show where they were and what it took to get them out...THE STORY...I keep telling all of you, including the reporters...stay out of the caves...have you ever wondered why the team went into the cave in the first place?...yea, me too...

One of my bewilderments of the collegiate entrances...how the schools accept YOU...based on grades in high school...your extracurricular activities...if you were the ASB Prez...SAT scores...ahem, if you are a star athlete...and now, the item that POTUS is addressing, quotas for minorities...the list is long, and depending on the school, the number of spots available are limited...one of the items, is an essay the kids write...always wondered who got the task of reading those...anyhoo, it is being eliminated in many of the colleges...hey, just give them $50 grand, and YOU get in...that, too...

Skipping over to Nashville...are we?...not yet planned...but, there have been a number of bars and restaurants opened by 'stars'...on Low Broad...the latest is to be, by the American idol judge, Luke Bryan...Jason Aldean did a bit ago, as did Florida Georgia Line...rumors abound that Austin, Texas, is very comparative...hmmm, Texas?...

Collegiate hoops...ah, here we go...whatever happened to the coach from 'Zona who got fingered by the FBI for offering money to an incoming hoopster at his University?...see above for 'getting into college'...think the player wrote an essay?...I digress...anyway, the NBA recognizes the problem...gonna save the day...and eliminate 'the one and done rule'...which means, the kids don't have to go to a college or university for one year, before getting the call to go to the NBA...once 18, you can be 'drafted'...

On a totally different platform...I read where a politician wants 'every 18 year old to be drafted into the military'...well, to serve in the military after high school...I keep telling ya, we are progressing (digressing!) back to the 50's...

Whatever happened to Hope Hicks?...er, what job did she have, anyway?...and that's the way it is...7/11...a good name for a store, right?...

Forgot about this...we, the mighty Padres do not have the monopoly on questionable stuff in MLB...one of the thangs that goes on in the game, with the monotonous longevity of the season...guys get nicknames...you know, Arod, Bumpy, GT, on and on...you get it...well now, it came back to haunt them Cleveland Indians (Injuns)...as they were protecting a lead in the 9th inning...Mgr Francona, visited the mound to take out his pitcher...asked for a reliever, alas, the wrong guy came out...his nickname was too similar to the dude he really wanted...too late, he had to use him...and promptly gave up the winning (losing) hit...hey, bloke, maybe call him by his GIVEN name...

PS....the answer is the White House Communications Director...

I'm Baaaack

And a mighty HELLO to all of you out there in the web net...I'm baaaack from the Vegas trip...the heat, my gawd, the heat...107* or something ridiculous like that...TG for the swimming pool...goes without saying, but I will...say it...there are a lot of people that vacay there...regardless of the temp...unbelievable!...I must tell ya, they are of all ages, nationalities, and gender...the most inhabited night of them all?...Sunday...why?...I dunno...

Our stay at the Mirage was terrific as usual...of course, having a free night helps the cause...still...a great hotel with all the amenities...and just so happened to be next door (sort of) to Caesars, where our concert was...Mariah Carey...more on that a bit later...the swimming pool...humongous and most every lounger taken by noon...really...one of the days, we got there at the opening hour of 8...yup, got FRONT ROW...the other, after noon, and we were lucky to find two in the back...really...but the pool, is simply fantastic and we wallowed about, with our closest 1,000 friends...in it...BTW, if you didn't have NEW designer sunglasses you were officially OUT OF STYLE!...

Always nice to return home, with MORE scratch than you went with...lucky days at 'Let It Ride', will do the trick...hit a little everywhere...not a lot, but didn't lose...however, the winner of the time there...was their steakhouse 'The Heritage'...in the lines of most very nice ones, like Ruth's Chris, Flemings, Mortons, Eddie V's...you get the pix...but...the Filet was even BETTER!...the most tender one, ever...yes, it is a MUST do when there, kids...Marsh had the halibut...and our comments were, the best meal we have had to date...

Mona A Mi Gabi...was another stop...of course, Marsh's fav...met up with our former Gaslamp City Square gal (Annette) and her man friend...non stop talk, if you can imagine...but, just another part of the trip, that did seem to go way too quickly...BTW, that walk was not too comfortable...looks like it is just right there...NOT...sweatin' with the oldies...

Now, Mariah...there were some comments that she was doing some lip-syncing in her show...NO!...not in the one we saw...she was splendid!...looked great, sounded great, and did something I did NOT EXPECT...she bantered with her audience more than ANY artist that we have seen...really...the negative...there were songs that we had no idea what they were...probably a third of what she sang...however, the people around us knew them and sung right along with her....we are officially OUT OF IT!...ha ha...no problem...as we were departing Vegas, via Cabbie...our driver laughed and said, 'who cares if she lip-syncs anyway, they are HER songs!'...

Finally...them cabbies...that is all we road in...a different breed of cat there...locals that have been doing it for years...have stories upon stories...like that now...less than 35% of the income that the casinos make, are from gambling...get that?...and my fav story of them all...one dude was talking about all the famous peeps he has carried about...that the 'famous' wear caps and sunglasses so to not be recognized...but they ALL want to be in the cab...there was this gal, who had her bodyguard stop and get here something at a CVS...she then said to the cabbie, 'you know who I am?'...he replied 'can't say that I do'...she took off here glasses and cap, and said 'how about now?'...he said, 'nope'...disgusted, she pouted...'now that is that, just tell me who you are, anyway'...'I'm Kim Kardashian'...he said to me 'I had never ever heard of her!'...

He called his daughter who was irate at him...google her, she said...yup, that was her...but, he still didn't know her....'oh yea, and she does NEED makeup...'

Other...

The Cave has relinquished the soccer team and their coach...awesome rescue...as I feared the worst...listen kids, stay out of caves...

POTUS has put up a moderate conservative for the opening in SCOTUS....I'm OK with this, in case any one asks for me input...Brett Kavanaugh, 53 years young...not sure the Demos feel the way I do...

The inept Padres gave up 20 runs in a game in Zona....TWENTY!...total embarrassment...and the Mgr Green, keeps finding new alibis for the inept play....replace him with Mark McGwire and let's get a different look....can't be any worse...

Prez T made a rally speech in Montana...this from an article in the Washington Post...must be fake news, right Donald?...he laid out 98 'factual claims' that were found to be 76% false, misleading or lacking evidence...ah yes, what credibility do we need to speak?...say anything...you...want...

And it's good to be back...but, what is this humidity stuff we have?...