Da Weekend

The biggest surprise on my docket?...witnessing the passage of the INFRASTRUCTURE BILL by Congress..don't know why, but I didn't think it would go thru...there was just enough crossover votes from the Repubs, to carry it...no that there wasn't crossover votes from the Demos against it...which brings me to this...do these elected officials vote the way their constituents want?...or do they vote the way they THINK their constituents SHOULD desire?...er, spinelessly, voting via party lines...only...

The bill itself has plenty of relief for the roads and bridges that are crumbling throughout the land...the improvement of mass transit...more electrical stations and electrical mass transit items...broadband connections for the hard to get to parts of the country, er, the web net...and more, the creation of MILLIONS of jobs!...point is, something that we need in the worst way, as much of our passage ways are almost 100 years old...

It now goes to the desk of Prez B to sign it into law...

Have you tried to hold your stomach when you have heard the 'reasoning' of Aaron Rodgers for not getting vaccinated for the Covid 19?...now he has it, and has infected how many others?...I can think if nothing else other than he is a selfish arse...he is now taking ivermectin to ward off the virus...seems about right...

Speaking of...well, the YouTube has some great stuff on it...we watched again, the spoof of Jeopardy...from SNL...we absolutely belly laugh from some of the caricatures...Tom Hanks was brilliant, as was Natalie Portman...but the show stopper is the dude who plays Sean Connery...find it and you will scream!...

Yes, the Horse did hit yesterday the Breeder's...TVG is offering a thang...up to $10 a race...if you wager to win on a horse, and it doesn't win...and comes in 2nd or 3rd, you get your money back...I missed only one race, outright...most came in 2nd...but hit two, and won over $100 on day one...day 2 today...

Some dandy collegiate football games today...Army at the entire Air Force....just count on one hand the number of passes thrown...Wake Forest (undefeated) at North Carolina, who is favored?...Ohio St at Nebraska (the dudes last game as HC)...Michigan St (undefeated) at Purdue, smelling upset?...Navy at Notre Dame, the Coast Guard doesn't have a D-1 team, or the Irish would have had them instead...LSU at 'Bama....?...Oreg St at Colorado, giving 11.5 only?...what?...and the biggee for us Duck fans...UO at the Dawgs, giving 7...hold on to your rain gear...

Oh my, a concert in Houston...geez, lots happens in that city, right?...at least 8 people DIED from a rush to the stage...over 300 treated with injuries...Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival...this is Kylie Jenner's boy friend and baby daddy...can't make this stuff up...with one on the way...oh my...oh my...

Did you know...that many of these fine race horses that run at the Breeder's...are FLOWN back home, wherever that is, via FedEx airplanes, amongst others...very precious cargo...

Meta...what Facebook is going to...be named...like 'after Facebook'...hey, maybe the Horse should go to MetaHorse...but, that would mean I'm a follower...hmmm...after Horse?...let's see, Kanye went to Ye...well, Horse could go to Ho...no, that wouldn't work...suffice to say, that the Crazy Horse remains as is...

Critical Race Theory

CRT...Critical Race Theory...do you know what this is?...well, it has been a sounding board for many people...especially parents who fear the idea of it taught in the public schools...they are not so concerned that it is brought up in the collegiate system...or, are they?...

But, do you know what it really is?...often asked of voters in the recent election for Guv in Virginia...it was used as a hot topic, which was used to differentiate the Repubs from the Demos...most that were asked, did not know what it was...just that 'it will not be taught in our schools!'...OK, it is not...

It has been a 40 year process of examining what the racial divide has been in our country...how and why it is what it is...for some reason, it has been a feared topic...shoot, you want a race theory, study how the Native Americans were to be assimilated into the white world...ah ha, but that is another day, and another topic that needs an anagram...this has to do with the Black Americans and how they were...for better terms...assimilated...or, were not...

There are books that highlight the moments of slavery...that are out there...that many folk don't want to be used as textbooks...whatever you may think, it is a very dark side of American history...some education systems would love to get into it, but the concept has been put away...let others deal with it...or in later years...

This is more of the division that came about due to the previous regime that engulfed our land...probably more so since the '50s of the past century...which continues to be a sounding board for many...I guess the idea of disregarding of what happened is somehow thought to be better...let's study other things in history...just not this...

'CRT is not a diversity and inclusion 'training' but a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship.'...Kimberle Crenshaw, who was the author of the name...'CRT recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past.  Instead it acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans, and other people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation.'...

Listen, kids it is a sound bite for many...that don't want to have their kids study it...true or false?... 

And now, let's go elsewhere...

Jobs...the numbers out today are (is?) a positive...up 531,000...really don't know how they come up with these figures...I go by what I see, and it seems like there are people working everywhere...ha ha...just getting more scratch per hour, though...ah, has to be ARE...

There is an investigation ongoing on the owner of the Phoenix Suns (NBA) and the Phoenix Mercury (WNBA)...Robert Sarver...read the report from ESPN...lord, alleged?...power by intimidation, isn't that about gone?...he needs to study the CRT, too...

Today the Breeder's Cup commences...almost any of these fine animals can win their race...they have the finest jockeys here, too...out at Del Mar...yes, the Horse will wager on the horses...online...

Don't hate me cuz I like to see the Lakers lose...but, they have lost twice to one of the poorer teams in the league (including last eve)...the Oklahoma City Thunder...BUT, to be fair, both teams play hard...especially OKC...with actual movement in their O...really...and they do have one of the true top 10 offensive players in the league...Shai Gilgeous-Alexander...he is one that gets no respect...just lacking support talent...like many of the 'other' teams in the league...

Beisbol...quitting while on top...Buster Posey, of the SF Giants...one of the very best catchers in all of the game...wonder if he will re-emerge as a manager one day...like many catchers do...

You want to vacay in Cancun?...rival gangs started a shooting em up thing on the BEACH...one group came in from a boat, so it is said...2 killed, and well, I dunno the rest...ah, no not me...no vacay there...

I'm not sure how this came into me head...but, one of the very best appetizers of ALL TIME...is the PF Changs lettuce wraps...tell me I'm wrong...

Thus far, NO XMAS TREES up in my view, out the deck...OC, it is Nov 5...

Just a wild guess, but this entry could be one of my biggest hits...

The Results

The three things that tempered the Horse in our election process...the Guv races in Virginia, New Jersey, and the replacement of the police force in Minneapolis...the results were...drum roll please...the Repub dude in Virginia won, as did the Demo in NJ...and the people stayed with the current system of policing...the first two races were kinda close, the latter was not...I sensed what was gonna occur in Virginia, and had no clue on the others...and there you go...

Out of the NFL a shocker...the Pack QB, Aaron Rodgers...not only tested positive for the Covid, but is allegedly not-vaccinated at all...not sure how he got by this far, but that is the alleged rumor...?...alleged rumor?...that is the statement that is going around...there you go, again...which means he is through for awhile...perhaps, a long while...a weird dude...

Not to say that this is odd, but the Horse carded 5 straight 6's on his card yesterday...on the way to an 88...hmmm, with the Breeder's Cup here on Friday...6 could be the number I play...OK, that is just plain stupid...yea, but the grass was so long and heavy, I hit more 4 and 2 irons than I ever have...

Speaking of stupid...are you a listener of Sirius XM?...in the auto, I sure am...and they moved my two fav channels to 72 and 73, from 5 and 6...the fifties and the sixties...what the heck?...who do I complain to?...and get this...they have started the Holly channel already...

In another week, I am heading up north for my annual Duck game...I think a couple of years ago, we went to LA for it...anyhoo...I see that it is raining every single bloody day from now until then, there...thus, I have to pack accordingly...duh...Boss Lady, where are my jeans?...ah, and my shoes?...

Seriously, with all the stars plopped onto the Lakers and the Nets (they play better without Kyrie), how can they not get into the finals?...they both have 10 legit real players in their lineups...

This is kinda for you PNWers...but I am buying some 'Dutch Bros' stock...you KNOW I am such a wheeler dealer...shhhh, don't tell anyone...

I have this penchant for biscuits in the am...the fast food thangs...somehow, Wendy's is doing one for $1!...where is a Wendy's?...Carl's Jr does a great one, for $4...hmmm...or yummm....

Name me your fav Christmas song of all time...there are so many really good choices...I must have 20 vinyls of them...lurve them all...

Homeless...squatters...people without direction...there are loads of names for them...street people...nevertheless, a problem...how is it in your town?...or area?...there is this spot right by the mail station downtown SD...where they seem to congregate and live...yesterday, that whole area was being sprayed, ah cleaned...by people in white suits...looked like astronauts...the homeless?...moved one block west and built themselves a city of their own...got any answers?...

You a QAnon?...well, if you are...you are in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas...waiting for JFK. Jr to reappear from the dead...I can't make this shit up...

KK and Pete Davison a couple?...seems about right...

19 states are seeking to make 'daylight saving time' a year round thang...

Great Britain has approved the Merck Covid 19 PILL!...there you go, you anti-vaxxers...do that...when it gets approved over here in the States...

Lots of talk about how the Virgina Guv winner, Youngkin, kept trump away so he could get the votes...isn't donny living in one of his towers there in that state?...

Seeing that this is indeed a throwback Thursday, I went back into the archives for this dandy...my first time platinum blonde...cute?...

Another Election Day

Didn't we just have one of these?...an ELECTION?...and I read in some places and definitely heard from the trump empire (him, Melania, the Princess, Jared, and the the two sons) that it was a fraud, a rigged ELECTION!...there are signs out there, that if the bloke from Virginia, Youngkin, loses, he and his empire (trump, Melania, the Princess, Jared, and the two sons) are set to call 'FOUL!'...unfortunately, I don't think he will have to...the polls seem to favor him...and now, the trump forevers, are given life....egads...

I have found it amusing, and somewhat crass, that when trump and his empire (well, you know who) WON in '16, there was NO FRAUD!...BTW, the book on the gal who was the servant (what else would you really call her?) is fantastic reading...I shall not go into it, as YOU need to read it yourself...and make your own mind up...as to it's contents...the reliability of it...the validity....

Isn't it odd, that so many people have written BOOKS about the flaws in the trump regime...he denies them all...of course...but go ahead, and name me one other president that had so many doubters by the PEOPLE who worked for him?...name ONE!...the list of authors, is countless...and should be devastating to the regime...should be...BUT, there are too many sheep out there in the country that blindly just follow along...good lord...can't read?...

To many people, just as important as ANY ELECTION, is the announcement of the BSBCS college football rankings...out for the first time today...which teams will meet in the Final 4...each week, the select committee meets, and comes out with their NEW findings...hey, it's all FRAUD!....oops, wrong paragraph and topic...

Do you care that trump cuts his own hair?...true or false?...whether he does, or that you care?...

All these pro sports are going on at the same time...hoops, football, beisbol, and hockey...so much for the seasons...all of them play too long, if you ask moi...you are, right?...

World Series, game 6 in Texas...tonight...JCC...

Down here is south SoCal, there is a movement to free up the trolleys...I mean, to ride them is FREE...but, the bloody polls show that only 25% of the people care about this...and that they would NOT ride 'em, free or not...we want our cars to go, wherever...not on a mass transit system...apparently...along with this, is the notion to add taxation to pay for our infrastructures...yup, the roads...

Another much less talked about ELECTION today...in Minnesota...where they are voting to eliminate their police force and replace it with a Department of Safety...ah, what?...Minneapolis...wooah...something seems amiss, here...this is due to the George Floyd killing...right?...shoot, let's just hire Sheriff Longmire and do it up right...I can't make this shit up...

I am repeating this from a day or two ago...but, you need to hear it...Bill Maher has declared the pandemic over...throw away your masks, have some parties, and meet up with all your family on Thanksgiving...

Let's talk stocks...the market...yesterday was the biggest one day jump for us I can recall...you see, we and our money guy JJ, have invested in electric everything...but, today, will it be a correcting one?...and then, my crypto...the Ethereum has jumped...which is what I sunk my hard earned cash into...yes, I have no clue to what I am doing...but, my amount now is $406, it was a bottomed out $268...

I will never ever understand this...why so many businesses combat the vaccine mandates...religion?...forevers?...what gives?...mandates themselves?...get your shots, people!

Finally, this is the day that the TV channels come alive with fervor...who is winning, and who is losing...where they are winning, where they are losing...expert panels...lord, if I see Chris Christie one more time, I am gonna throw something at the pixels!...

Nudging November

And NOW, the race to get the first Xmas Tree up has begun...personal ones, not the store dudes...as we skitaddle into November...is that a confeve moment?...perhaps...all eyes are on the Virginia Guv race...tomorrow is due date...some (most) are saying this is a Biden vs trump vote...naw, not the Horse...there are some votes that sway that way, but I do think there are true believers in the guys...then again, I will never ever understand voting patterns...so I am officially wishy washy on this particular match...

The NFL is in the mid-season stuff...loads of injuries, apathy by the players, the cellar dwellers wanting changes...by all, especially the rich owners...anyhoo...the Pats won again over the Chargers...TT lost to the Saints...the Cowboys beat the Viks, with a backup QB...the line of the Rams/Texans game was 16 1/2...really...and they won by 16 and thus, you lost if you bet LA...told you it was too much...them Vegas blokes know their biz...

The Astros won game 5 and move it back into the wild and willy west, ah, Texas...where anything goes...World Series...why not move it to Waco, and make this whole paragraph total alliteration?...what?...wack!...

Does the cancelation of the American Airlines flights have anything to do with their stewardess getting hit last week by a passenger?...ah, they may be called flight attendants now...I am old school stupid...the company says weather issues...and ?...anyway, there are thousands of stranded passengers,  waiting for something...to get where they were going...

Horse racing...the annual prestigious Breeder's Cup is this weekend out at Del Mar...nope, have no tix, but will scope them out and bet from the friendly confines of the condo...if one hits 20%, you make scratch...almost ANY horse can win...any race...def miss Hdcp Andy and his smile, his knowledge and well, just him...

Somebody over served me last nite...and I promise you this...I will get to the bottom of it...will search him or her out and will lecture the culprit...you can guarantee that...of all the nerve...

Speaking of Texas...and it's irascible Guv, Abbott...'hey abbott!' ( Lou Costello)...he says he is spending $2 billion bucks on razor fencing and a wall on the Texan/Mexico border...the fencing is made in China...the razors from Germany...tongue in cheek...

These shortened thangs, that we are ALL supposed to know...POTUS, WOTUS, SCOTUS, FLOTUS, VOTUS....well, you get me drift...SCOTUS is re-examining the abortion law in Texas (there is that bloody state again)...Abbott is calling BS, and wants to know if the TSSC can just handle their own...biz...hey, a thought, how about seceding from the union?...you have my vote...

Let's get this blog published this am...have a great NOVEMBER, kids!...

Spooky

Happy Halloween, kids!...guess it's almost safe to recognize this day of days...according to Bill Maher, the pandemic is almost over...and for goodness sakes, he is the bloke who we all trust as our rode model, right?...the common music theme for us rockabillies, is the 'Monster Mash' by Bobby Boris Picket...it's a good one...hey, it's a great one...but, let's go elsewhere, if only for the name...'SPOOKY' by the late Dennis Yost and his Classics IV....

Speaking of SPOOKY, the old, former President of this USA, donny, and his still-bride Melania, were in attendance at last nite's World Series game in Atlanta...says he was asked to attend...there is the rub, he wasn't....but dang it all, he seemed to have lost the texts that prove that...MLB and the Yankee dude, both said that donny asked if he could be at the game...he and she...were so rapt up in the game, that they shared the 'tomahawk chop' with the crowd...dammit, where was Prez B?...oh yea, in Europe, meeting with the fellow G20 leaders...

The spookiness of the nite, will be down at the Gaslamp Quarter, on 5th street...so where are the Horse, Boss Lady and them marvelous Mackles gonna be?...sittin at a table on 5th...watching it all unfurl...yes, I have yet to pick out my costume...no, it will not be Custer...more likely a feathered Duck...

Hey, the Ducks had no match with the Colorado Buffalo..in fact, they were going with their 2nd unit in the 3rd quarter!...almost backfired on 'em...as Colorado could do damage on the backups..Mich St got the battle of their state...Harbaugh just can't seem to win the big ones...hmmm...Cal, who played the Ducks tuff, beat up on the Beavers...Georgia easily over Florida...FresnO St over SDSU, like I feared...

That game I got for us, WSU in Eugene, just might be a whopper after all...as the Cougs moved into 2nd...a whupping of ASU...a BIG UPSET...two weeks, Snooki and Laurie, are you ready for the Horse?...

Back to the WS...the Braves (and trump) chopped the Astros 3-2...and now lead the series 3-1...a win today and they are champs...PETA....'they are warming up in the arm barn'...can't make this shit up...

This can be a very fun day and nite...when we all get to change up and look like someone else...act differently...put on masks, ah not like the mandatory ones...thing is the KFam have been doing this all their adult lives...turns out permanent...hey, I get it...is it wrong that I want Tom to look like Kaitlyn?...

We were in a very diff mood yesterday...decided to do a Thanksgiving type of meal...'Just the Two of Us'...who sang that?...I digress...turkey (divine), real mashers, gravy, whole cranberry sauce, a Boss Lady salad, and of course, a home baked pumpkin pie...really...it was delicious, to say the least...or the most...believe me, the turkey was as tender and juicy as it could be...took 2 1/2 hrs to cook it...

This Guv vote in Virginia...the early write ins are now done...so, vote day on Tuesday is left...looks like it may be a redo...so close...wouldn't that just figure...but, the Horse predicts...a win outright...and I may be disappointed...just a hunch...

NFL today....you know my pix already...there is a lot of noise about an upset by the Colts over the Titans...hmmm, why?...who knows what?...the stats and history favor the Pats over the Chargers...I know I told you to take this, but 16 points is a huge amount to cover in the bigs...talking the Rams over the Texans...Cowboys over the Vikings, if the QB goes...big big game for Dallas...

There is this cooking show of sorts...the dude is in Italy...tasting all the lovely pasta there...Stanley Tucci...an actor...as I was watching it, I kept thinking 'where is the beef?'...one item they mentioned, was that in the 30's and or 40's, a leader there was trying to persuade the Italians from NOT CONSUMING pasta...'made you weak and possibly non-virile'...not kidding...Benito Mussolini...who reminds me of donny so much...just without the blonde mop...

What's with American Airlines canceling so many flights?...more than 600 today (Sunday)...'they' say weather issues and staffing shortages...you want a job?...they have to be hiring...they want a 70 something dude?...I'm their Horse...

Just in...Prez B announced that the US has reached a deal with the EU...rolling back tariffs...Euro steel and aluminum...easing a trade war that you know who started...

Can't we just do what MLB does?...trade donny, Melania, and the two sons...to Germany, for the rights to the next 4 years of Octoberfest?...

To the bills, I go...