I Have Been Down this Road Too Many Times

 I remember 1963, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1981.  And now today.  Although I am not a Trump supporter by any stretch of the imagination, I am glad he is okay.  And no, I don't think this will help him politically, just as President Gerald Ford didn't benefit politically from having TWO assassination attempts in 1976.

Here is the video.  Sadly, at least one person died besides the shooter, and several injured:

An ABC report is here.

President Biden delivered remarks in response to the shooting:

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Crackpottery for Tuesday, but Remembering the Incomparable Secretariat

 Peter Singer never should have been allowed in the United States to teach at Princeton, let alone be traveling everywhere peddling his "animal liberation" and euthanasia (for humans) bullshit.

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Another crackpot throws his hat into the ring running for president although he is going the third-party route.

West goes out of his way to piss people off.  It is to be hoped people simply ignore him.

Ditto for fellow crank RFJ, Jr.

By the way, West has been married five times and divorced four.  Like the crackpot Peter Singer, West taught at Princeton.  He also has an MA and Ph.D. from there.

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Later this week will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Secretariat winning the 1973 Triple Crown in his otherworldly performance in the Belmont.  This article in the Blood Horse marks it and CBS announcer Chic Anderson's legendary call of the race.  It might have been the best sports call in history.

It makes sense.  The greatest horse of all time winning the greatest horse race of all time and the greatest performance in sports history with the best call in sports history--a perfect combination.

Sadly, nobody remembers track announcer Dave Johnson's call of the race.  If you were at the Belmont track on June 9, 1973, you heard Johnson, not Anderson.  

Dave tried, though, despite not being a Chic Anderson.  He is 82 now.  Anderson was only 47 when he died from a heart attack in 1979.

Snip from the Johnson article:

"At the time in 1973 as a track announcer, you were paid to say what you see," Johnson said. "I had to shut my microphone off with about 70 yards left and I could not call the finish. We were told to keep going through the whole field and the only time you could call the finish was when it was on television or radio."

Due to those restrictions, Johnson's call was much more straightforward than Anderson's. For instance, while Pvt. Smiles, who was never a factor and disappeared from Anderson's call after the first six furlongs, Johnson's duty to his on-track listeners required him to still mention the well-beaten 14-1 longshot in the stretch .

Yet even with those shackles, Johnson still managed to capture the magnitude of what was happening as he spoke louder and quicker and with more emotion during the final stages.

Johnson was a good track announcer, but at that race he was 31 lengths behind Anderson.

Johnson's call can be found here. 

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The Problem With Running for Public Office

 As Michigan US House candidate John Gibbs is finding out, one's stupid antics in one's youth can come back and bite him in the backside.

And a BLACK man of all people yammering against women's suffrage.  

I don't know why it is men think they feel they have to tell women what to think, what to feel, how to act, or what their civil rights movement should or should not do.

He is running away from his youthful stupidity.  Snip:

Anne Marie Schieber, a spokesperson for Gibbs’ campaign told CNN that Gibbs believed women should be allowed to vote and work.

“John made the site to provoke the left on campus and to draw attention to the hypocrisy of some modern-day feminists. It was nothing more than a college kid being over the top,” she said in an email. “Of course, John does not believe that women shouldn’t vote or shouldn’t work, and his mother worked for thirty-three years for the Michigan Department of Transportation!”

Gibbs requested the website for the think tank be removed from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in 2016, according to a spokesman for the Internet Archive. But CNN’s KFile reviewed it on a different archiving service.

On the site, Gibbs actively argued against women being granted the right to vote, saying it led to an enlarged federal government.

How dumb do you have to be to advocate that more than half of the electorate shouldn't have the right to vote?

Mitch McConnell is a Psychopath

 not to mention a filthy liar, when he said he was "concerned" "wealthy" Democrats would spend the money on God knows what.  He knows there were income limits on who would get the stimulus money, but as a psychopath, he can't allow the economy get better under Joseph Biden, so he puts the kibosh on something desperately needed.

He is the reason the U.S. Senate is completely broken.  No one person should have the power to block needed legislation.

I ranted about him this morning:

So did Bernie Sanders:

I'm trying to figure out what the problem is with voting up or down on $2,000 direct payments to working people. Senate Republicans can't seem to give me a clear answer. pic.twitter.com/SIF3KnRFCn

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 31, 2020

This bastard really needs to be hounded from office.