I would never read any of her novels.
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I could have spent a lifetime not knowing how Donald Trump treats staff.
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Joe Drape and the NYT might wind up having to defend themselves in court.
It sounds like he didn't do a lot of homework on this issue.
The article noted trainer Bob Baffert didn't respond to requests for comment, but Thursday the Hall of Fame trainer attributed the positive to contamination.
"I've never administered that drug or had it administered to one of my horses," Baffert said. "I wouldn't even know how it would come—what form it would come in."
On Nov. 14, 2016, the CHRB issued a warning that jimson weed had been found in bedding straw, and because the weed can contain scopolamine, it could lead to a post-race positive because of contamination.
"It is certainly not a crisis, but this weed can contain scopolamine, which is a prohibited substance," CHRB equine medical director Dr. Rick Arthur said at the time. The New York Times story noted the CHRB's warning to horsemen.
According to The New York Times report, sanctions for such a positive called for a disqualification of the horse at that time. The Times reported that four months after the positive, the board disposed of the inquiry altogether in a closed-door executive session. Rick Baedeker, executive director of the CHRB, said in the story that the regulator moved cautiously because of the likelihood of contamination. He noted that jimson weed can become inadvertently mixed in feed.
The conspiracy theorists will not buy this explanation, however.
Baffert has a lot of non-fans in racing.
The more information that has come out, the more it appears there was no conspiracy and no wrongdoing. The substance was in the hay that was randomly dispersed. Some seven horses in several different barns had traces of it. This was NOT an instance of cheating.
Absent any further evidence, Drape and the Times need to issue an apology.
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It is a hell of a note when feminists have to get published in right-wing media in order to have a voice at all, thanks to the idiot left embracing transgender and queer theory horseshit.
"Katelyn Burns," mentioned in the piece, is a transvestite and not a woman of any sort.
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Obituary: Popular novelist Anne Rivers Siddons, 83, has died after a battle with lung cancer.
Attending Auburn University in the 1950s, Siddons was a journalist for her college newspaper, where she was fired for writing columns in favor of integration – a story she’d later work into her debut novel. But before she became a novelist, she wrote for Atlanta magazine. An editor at publishing giant Doubleday saw one of her articles for the magazine and was so impressed that he wrote her a letter soliciting a manuscript for possible publication. The stunned Siddons sent him a collection of essays, and they were published as her first book – and only full-length nonfiction work – 1975’s “John Chancellor Always Makes Me Cry.”
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Of course Elizabeth Warren isn't going to be president and this proposal isn't going to happen, but it would more than pay for my Medicare premium which will take effect in January.
Warren’s plan goes quite a bit further. It includes the cost-of-living adjustment, the minimum monthly benefit, and an across-the-board benefit hike. But that across-the-board jump comes to $200 a month immediately for every current and future recipient, along with several other changes focused on women, caregivers, people with disabilities, and people of color. The $2,400 a year extra for everyone is nearly double what the Larson/Sanders plan gives to its poorest beneficiaries.
An independent analysis from Mark Zandi of Moody’s estimates that the Warren Social Security plan would increase average benefits by almost 25 percent for the lower half of income earners. It would lift 4.9 million seniors out of poverty, slashing the senior poverty rate by over two-thirds. And once it kicks in, it would steadily and modestly grow the economy by putting more money in the hands of seniors who are likely to spend it. “The plan results in a much more progressive Social Security system,” Zandi writes.
Repeal the WEP and GPO, and this would be better still.
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