April 15, 2018: Reader Tips

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In the late afternoon of Monday, Oct. 2, 1989, as I headed my car from the driveway of Arthur Hancock’s Stone Farm onto Winchester Road outside Paris, Ky., I was seized by an impulse as beckoning as the wind that strums through the trees down there, mingling the scents of new grass and old history.

 

For reasons as obscure to me then as now, I felt compelled to see Lawrence Robinson. For almost 30 years, until he suffered a stroke in March 1983, Robinson was the head caretaker of stallions at Claiborne Farm. I had not seen him since his illness, but I knew he still lived on the farm, in a small white frame house set on a hill overlooking the lush stallion paddocks and the main stallion barn. In the first stall of that barn, in the same place that was once home to the great Bold Ruler, lived Secretariat, Bold Ruler’s greatest son.

From Pure Heart, , by sports writing legend Bill Nack — dead at 77.

27 Replies to “April 15, 2018: Reader Tips”

    1. If I were to give a eulogy I’d open with: He died doing what he loved!

      Good riddance, a win win for civilization. A gay human rights lawyer global warming activist killing himself is better for the rest of us. Thanks for giving off some green house gases on the way out.

  5. Red Rose Country

    Now a police state. Where the police can off people but the government does not feel obligated to tell you who they were.

    Calgary MLA blasts government, ASIRT over secrecy

    Concerns over Alberta’s police watchdog’s reluctance to identify those responsible for two separate attacks on Calgary police officers has spilled into the provincial legislature.

    And the head of Calgary’s police union is incensed over expressions of condolence made by a provincial cabinet minister toward the perpetrators of the attacks, both dead in the wake of two separate attempts to kill city cops.

    1. Confidentiality in Alberta has gone to ridiculous lengths. The people should have knowledge of the general cause of death of everyone who dies. I absolutely hate it when a body is found in public and it is announced that foul play is not suspected and the name of the person is not revealed. I think the community has the right to know, in general terms, how people die. Since the police rarely solve a crime without the public’s help, it would be nice to know who died and in what circumstances. The attempted cop killers in Calgary – likely from a religion of peace.

      1. ” I think the community has the right to know, in general terms, how people die. ”

        The community has no rights. Only individuals have true rights, and ‘the right to gossippy tidbits’ is not one of them.

  6. AGW RIP.

    …-

    “Historic blizzard slams into Minnesota; record snowfall possible” (startrib)

    “From blizzard, flood and winter weather warnings, the area is seeing it all.” (kimt3)

    “Winter storm system hitting two-thirds of the nation, bringing blizzards, tornadoes and fires”
    ““It’s mid-April and we’ve got snow falling across basically the entire north-central United” States,” he said.” (usatoday)

    ” FINALLY! Pruitt’s EPA Kills Obama’s CAFE Standards And Resurrects Consumer Freedom” (hnews)

    …-

    “Southern Ontario braces for more snow, freezing rain and ice pellets”

    “Today’s stormy weather could be even more severe because Environment Canada says the precipitation will be intensified by howling winds.”

    http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1562267-southern-ontario-braces-for-more-snow-freezing-rain-and-ice-pellets

  7. Edmonton loves AGW…
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    The city’s winter-weary residents may be forgiven for griping about the lingering chill this year after they broke their record for most consecutive days of temperatures at or below freezing.

    …Edmonton hasn’t seen an overnight temperature above the freezing mark since Oct. 29, nearly six months ago.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/longest-winter-of-my-life-edmonton-breaks-record-with-historic-cold-stretch-1.3885288

  8. PET POT Cemetery Report.

    Stupid Liberal Justine say, Ughly, Kemo Sabay: “Cameron adds it’s noteworthy that there will be no Indigenous voices at the table.”

    …-

    “Quebec warns Trudeau about Kinder Morgan” (natobserver)

    …-

    “Pipeline meeting in Ottawa not likely to stop battle: UBC political scientist”

    “The one thing that we might see out of the meeting, is Trudeau offering to buy a stake in the project.”

    http://www.news1130.com/2018/04/14/pipeline-meeting-ottawa-not-likely-stop-battle-ubc-political-scientist/

  9. Amazon’s Brilliance Reminds Us That As China Grows, So Will American Wealth

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2018/04/15/amazons-brilliance-reminds-us-that-as-china-grows-so-will-american-wealth/2/#500017a738d5

    “That stock markets always and everywhere pricing in the future have sold off on confirmation of Trump and the Republican Party’s desire to self-flagellate is almost a waste of words. Of course markets have sold off. Investors are wise to what slows down the division of labor and specialization without which there is no progress. To be clear, no one will benefit from the Republican Party’s dismissal of free trade and limited government. “

  10. AGW Kills.

    “There’s snow and it’s cold. So it’s good.”

    “It’s a cool experience for me, the best Minneapolis experience,” Niko Heiligman, of Aachen, Germany, said as he braved the snow Saturday to take a walk along the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis. “I’m only here for the weekend, so I guess that’s how it goes. There’s snow and it’s cold. So it’s good.”

    …-

    “Deadly spring storm sweeps central US, killing two

    Hundreds of flights have been canceled in Minnesota as heavy snow, string winds, rain and hail from Gulf Coast to Great Lakes make roads treacherous”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/15/deadly-spring-storm-sweeps-central-us

  11. PET POT Cemetery Report.

    cc: Stupid Liberal Justine say, It’s not Moi fault.

    …-

    “B.C. premier still blocking Trans Mountain after meeting with Trudeau, Notley”

    “Trudeau insists B.C. government has no authority to block Trans Mountain pipeline project”

    “While Trudeau apparently laid out “legislative and financial measures” to push the project forward, Horgan argued when speaking to reporters that he did not elaborate. ”

    https://globalnews.ca/news/4145817/trudeau-horgan-trans-mountain-pipeline/

  13. PET POT Cemetery Report: View from leftista.

    Stupid Justine Liberal salutes Mao Strong’s Butts.

    …-

    “Trudeau Fails to Ease Provincial Rift Over Kinder Pipeline

    Canada Prime Minister flew from Peru to seek end to impasse

    Kinder Morgan halted project a week ago citing politics

    Justin Trudeau failed to ease the pipeline spat between two Canadian provinces that has spiraled into a political crisis and put a vital Kinder Morgan Inc. project at risk.”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-15/kinder-gridlock-deepens-as-trudeau-fails-to-ease-provincial-rift

  14. Was near a tv this morning and watched the drama infold on ctv re the Kinder Morgan summit meeting. Bongo, red rachael and Whoregan.

    Big stuff. Red was the first out of the gate following the meeting. She took the podium made a short statement and fielded questions. Same old platitudes and bromides. Disengenuous to the bone.
    Canadians then sat anxious awaiting the appearance of their leader. They waited and waited…..staring at an empty podium. ….no bongo. Where could he be?
    Well it turns out he was being held backstage by the librano spindoctors. Not to be trusted to use his own words they wrote a speech! He couldn’t be counted on to articulate this in his own words? So bereft of basic knowledge of this issue they had to tightly script his very response.
    So, what is his proposal for resolution? Taxpayer dollars. No rule of law. Let’s put the taxpayer at risk.

    Thankyou prime minister Chickenshit.

    1. No taxpayers $$s are needed. KM will finance the entire project. This intervention is just another way to create NEP redux.
      PM chickenshit indeed!!

  17. AGW Kills.

    …-

    “The Latest: Snow causes Wisconsin hotel roof collapse”

    “More than a foot of heavy snow has fallen in the area since Saturday as part of a weekend storm system that stretched all the way south to the Gulf Coast.”

    “Freezing rain from a deadly storm system has cut power to nearly 160,000 homes and businesses across Michigan.

    About 33,000 Consumers Energy customers and 125,000 DTE customers were without power by noon Sunday in Michigan due to damaged power lines.

    A winter storm warning is in effect for most of Michigan as the system that’s blamed for three deaths in Louisiana, Nebraska and Wisconsin brings heavy snow to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and freezing rain and sleet to other parts of the state.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-snow-causes-wisconsin-hotel-roof-collapse/

  18. AGW Kills by Suicide.

    “He was chasing the impossible wisp — planetary climate control through CO2.”

    “Destined to fail, overwhelmed with the futility, he apparently saw his life as worth more dead than alive, perhaps as some inspirational saint.”

    “Alas, true saints may sacrifice themselves for a greater cause, but they don’t issue press releases. They don’t pick the time and place.”

    …-

    “The empty tragedy of climate suicide PR in a New York park”

    “Pursuit of an untruth ultimately creates a vacuum.

    Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Prospect Park”

    “Perhaps there was some other cause, or mental health issue and the man would have taken his life somehow, someway and left a different note. But if we take him at his word, this was a desperate end. He was chasing the impossible wisp — planetary climate control through CO2. Destined to fail, overwhelmed with the futility, he apparently saw his life as worth more dead than alive, perhaps as some inspirational saint.

    Alas, true saints may sacrifice themselves for a greater cause, but they don’t issue press releases. They don’t pick the time and place.

    There is a desperately hollow emptiness about trying to inspire people through suicide PR. It’s not like you want children to grow up to copy you. (The danger is — some might).”

    http://joannenova.com.au/2018/04/the-empty-tragedy-of-climate-suicide-pr-in-a-new-york-park/

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