Some Reads for Saturday

 Another case of MAGA dudes getting into trouble and fellow MAGA dudes sticking up for them.

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Another day, another idiot.

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A Few Thursday Reads

 Obituary:  2000 Preakness winner Red Bullet, 29, who denied 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus a chance at a Triple Crown, has died.   He died August 7, years after he was pensioned from stud duty in 2011.  

Snip:

Red Bullet (Unbridled—Cargo, by Caro) began his racing career as a 3-year-old, winning his first three starts, including the Gotham Stakes (G3). In his fourth start, he ran second to eventual Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus in the Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) before defeating that rival in the Preakness.

Red Bullet was retired from racing with six wins from 14 starts and earnings of $1,161,920...

2000 Preakness:

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My belief is Trump's issue is CHF more than anything.  His shortness of breath is a dead giveaway.

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Stephen Miller should have been run out of D.C. a long, long time ago.

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Some Things for Monday

 How low can he go?  Trump's approval ratings are under 30 percent, 29 to be exact, the lowest he has ever gotten.  And there is still two more years to go.

Speaking of politics, Karl Rove has decided to vote Democratic this election.

Snip:

“I’m gonna go get hats made up that say on the front of ’em, ‘Stone Cold,’” Rove said Friday during the 2026 Atlantic Festival in New York City.

Rove, who has defended the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq, denounced his party in a fiery Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday. In it, he wrote he decided to vote against French after the candidate posted a photo of non-white University of Texas football fans, writing, “The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.”

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Reads for Sunday

 No matter what, Trump is really dumb.  This is why too many people support him--they are equally dumb or even dumber, and they identify with him because he is dumb.

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It's hard to take a New York Times columnist seriously when he doesn't understand Stephen Miller cannot be impeached because he is a White House staffer and not an appointed bureaucrat or cabinet member.

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Reads Going Into the Weekend

 Obituary:  Prominent thoroughbred breeder Arthur B. Hancock III, owner of Stone Farm, which is adjacent to Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, has died at the age of 83.

He owned and bred Gato Del Sol, who won the Kentucky Derby in 1982.  He became even more famous as the owner of 1989 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Sunday Silence.  He had been the owner of Sunday Silence's infamous sire, the ill-named Halo, who was anything but an angel.

His brother, Seth, ran Claiborne Farm for many years after their dad, Arthur "Bull" Hancock, Jr, died in 1972.  After Seth retired a few years ago, his son took over the reins of that farm.

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As his Racing Hall of Fame bio notes, Hancock certainly had the pedigree to become an influential figure in the game simply by following in the family footsteps, but circumstances dictated he journey down a different path. Hancock's grandfather, Arthur B. Hancock, founded Kentucky's legendary Claiborne Farm, while his father, Arthur B. "Bull" Hancock Jr., expanded the business to where it became arguably the most important breeding farm in the United States during the 20th century, and whose sales and influence also impacted European racing.

After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Hancock moved to the New York City area and worked for a year as an apprentice under future Hall of Fame trainer Edward A. Neloy. He then returned to Claiborne as the assistant broodmare and yearling manager under the tutelage of his father. However, after Bull Hancock's death, Claiborne's leadership wasn't passed to Arthur. Instead, those duties went to his brother, Seth.

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He was also known as a songwriter and musician.

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Some Reads for Thursday

 Obit:  Famed artists Peter Max, known for his iconic 1960s "Day-Glo" psychedelic and similar paintings, died at the age of 88.  He was a big part of 1960s pop culture with his poster designs and such.

You can't talk about the decade without including him.

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Max began his career in graphic design in the 1960s and his swirly, colorful, instantly recognizable designs epitomized the era’s “flower power” art. But thanks to his prolific output and fun, accessible style, Max’s work remained well known and popular well into the 21st century.

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But in his first flush of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his mural-like tableaus of flowers, the cosmos and cartoonish figures – all in vivid colors such as turquoise, orange and neon green – seemed to be everywhere. Dorm room walls were plastered with his posters. Household furnishings such as clocks and bedspreads sported his designs.

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Another obit:  Former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, 84, has died.  The article notes he had a neurological disorder, and Kyl had announced last December he was leaving public life due to dementia.

Details:

 Kyl spent almost three decades in Congress, serving in both chambers, and watched his party undergo a drastic transformation, with his career spanning Ronald Reagan’s presidency to President Donald Trump’s first term. 

Former  Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who considered Kyl a mentor, described the former senator in a February 2025 interview with The Associated Press as a true statesman and a “workhorse” among Washington’s “show horses.

”If you saw him on the plane, he was sitting in the aisle, in coach, and he was reading,” Ducey said. “And he was reading potential bills or Senate business.”

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Kyl would never cut it in today's shitshow of a U.S. Congress, even more lazy under GOP rule than in his day.

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Women are ditching churches, especially right-wing ones, to escape the MAGA cancer,

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A Few Reads for Wednesday

 TPUSA must be on the skids financially for Erika to go the sue route:

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Obituary:  Sunny,  13, the Portuguese Water Dog owned by the Obamas, has died, the family announced.  Their other dog, Bo, died in 2021.

Snip:

Barack wrote alongside multiple photos of Sunny through the years, “Yesterday, we lost a cherished member of our family.  We got Sunny at the start of our second term in the White House, and all of us – including our first dog, Bo – immediately fell in love.” 

“We also had trouble keeping up with her, for Sunny was a force of nature. Athletic and full of boundless energy, she leapt over the hedges on the South Lawn like they weren’t even there, chasing squirrels, birds and anything else that moved,” he continued. 

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