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July 31, 2025
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MLB trade deadline. Contenders can’t get enough pitching.
MLB trade deadline. Contenders can’t get enough pitching.
I wonder how many innings Suarez and Bader will get in these last 55 games or so?
A lot of haze in the pictures. Any effect on breathing?
Spirit in the Sky. Mirror in the sky, what is love?
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I tried to watch "The Brutalist." No. Give me a few more years before I take that on.
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Commentary magazine has finally put up a paywall. It's just as well. The magazine isn't what it used to be and neither is the world and neither are we.
@Gerda, most definitely. But maybe not so much an impact on young healthy people.
A soft spot for a pallet of sunrise pastels.
Football Night in America! Hall of Fame Game - Lions vs Chargers. In July already,
“ A lot of haze in the pictures. Any effect on breathing?”
Canada lets fires pollute America but thinks they are more environmental while cutting all the trees.
“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
― Astrid; also Kurt Cobain
We had an official "unhealthy" air quality index of 165 here in East Central Iowa today, because of winds from the NE that were carrying the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.
“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
When they go in, they all look the same. When they come out,
they all look different.
Benjamin Franklin
The text begins by advising a young man that a cure for sexual urges is unknown, and the proper solution is to take a wife. Then, expressing doubts that the intended reader will actually marry, Franklin names several advantages of marriage. As supplementary advice in case the recipient rejects all previous arguments, Franklin lists eight reasons why an older mistress is preferable to a young one. Advantages include better conversation, less risk of unwanted pregnancy, and "greater prudence in conducting an intrigue."[1]
According to John Richard Stevens, the unnamed correspondent is a friend of Franklin's named Cadwallader Colden, and it remains unknown whether Franklin was serious or if the letter was ever delivered.[2] Whether serious or humorous, the letter is frankly sexual:
The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.[1]
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MLB trade deadline. Contenders can’t get enough pitching.
I remember this day specifically in 1998. It was a Friday, we closed on our house that day and I took my dad to the drag races for his very first trip.
On the drive home, we found out the Mariners traded Randy Johnson for Freddy Garcia, Carlos Guillen and John Halama.
At the time it looked like another Mariner screw-up. But Houston only got three months out of Johnson while the Mariners got a staff ace, a starting shortstop and a #5 lefty starter/long bullpen guy for a team that won (still record) 116 games just three seasons later.
“They laugh at me because I'm different.”
Yes, but don’t ever change. This world desperately needs more clowns! 🤡
I believe that Zuck is on to something. The reason I do not fear AI is that in the near future I believe ISI and homo sapient sill start to integrate. Full cyborg is probably a generation away but the path is coming clear. AND I doubt that all the fears the public might have today will be realized
Article about air quality in Wisconsin and nearby states:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/air-quality-chicago-minneapolis-wildfire-smoke/1800892
Is that scuzz on the lake, or are the pictures just off today?
Recently, your sunrise pictures remind me of my time in the navy. Away from land the sun lights the eastern horizon as far as the eye can see. Some of the career men, "lifers", would take their coffee out to the fantail to watch the sun come up.
Today's third picture reminds me of mornings on the Pacific Ocean.
In Chicago
Canada pollutes;
Canada cries for others
In the voice of smoke;
The problem with some NYT use of metaphors (link here) is that while they may have some metaphorically semblance of truth, or truthiness, they are not literally true.
Video : Here is how the great Norm Macdonald put it.
TACO Thursday!
Trump walks back Mexico tariffs.
As expected.
When they go in, they all look the same. When they come out, they all look different.
Alan Shepard The Right Stuff!
Heard Justice Kavanaugh speak today. Super impressive.
Well with inflation going up and the onslaught of trumps biggest tax increase on consumers looks like COLA for 2026 may edge toward 3% instead of projected 2>6% That will help pay for my coffee plugs at COSTCO KIRLAND and all coffee products going UP!!!! It should help my monthly thoroughbred Horse Racing Bankroll INCREASE FOR PLAY. TACO DON will still do his retreats like MEXICO last minute. If he remembers what he is doing ,he is visibly more inept and cognitively shot then all seems. He is bent over like a neathandral guy, with bald wig on and a fat obese body and talk about the HAIRDO PIECE back some posts ,have you ever seen trumps pasted down look> COLA 3.1% YEAH BABY ,that'll be another $90 bucks or so for wagering..LET IT RIDE..
Dinky, typing up his latest ransom note screed before his med tech administers the next round of Risperidone.
"I believe ISI and homo sapient sill start to integrate. Full cyborg is probably a generation away but the path is coming clear."
Well, it will have to happen, otherwise Skynet won't be able to send a terminator back in time to kill John Connor.
"Football Night in America! Hall of Fame Game - Lions vs Chargers. In July already,"
Well, at least you didn't blame Trump for it......yet.
You know, it's too bad some people would rather resort to stupid name-calling as opposed to understanding how using one's leverage in negotiations can actually lead to a better deal than originally offered.
Democrats Announce 2028 Campaign Slogan: 'We Hate Capitalism, Hot Chicks, And The Jews'
Coffee plugs are covered… how ‘bout your buttplugs, Dinky?
Football Night in America! Hall of Fame Game - Lions vs Chargers. In July already
Thanks for that gadfly, I was in a bar tonight and saw that and wondered what the heck was going on. We just barely started the second half of the baseball regular season!
Yancey: No chance Don would tune into the honoring of Packer Sterling Sharpe when he could eat a MEXICAN TACO.
Just saw "The Detective" (1968) starring Frank Sinatra. Not good. mediocre script. mediocre direction. No humor. Lots of liberal speechifying (Abby Mann).
Duvall and Lee Remick wasted. Jack Klugman shows why he was a TV actor. Depection of Homosexuals seems almost camp, when viewed today. Wants to be "dark and gritty" but shiny new clothes and brightly lit Technicolor sets make that impossible. Ralph Meeker good as the corrupt cop.
A slow 2 hours.
Oddest thing is 53 y/o, 150 lbs sinatra punches everyone out. Duvall hit in the stomach for being "rude to Gays". Ralph meeker gets beat up because Frank doesn't like him. And Knocks down another guy who mouths off to him. Nobody lays a hand on Sinatra - they just take it. Probably because Sinatra was the producer.
OCEAN does, so that we don’t have to.
Golly. What a beautiful sunrise.
Today we leave for a month-long road trip while our house is on the market. Comps are such that we could make about double what we thought or equity was, so... considering the kids are all out of the house, it seemed like a good time to give it a shot.
Trouble is, having now knocked out all the little deferred-maintenance painting and changing out of ugly fixtures and taking a toothbrush to the corners, we kind of hope it doesn't sell this month - especially since I get Knee #1 replaced at the end of September and our house is ideally set up for my recovery. The best case scenario - and I find this weird - is that we get a full-price (or better - why not?) CONTINGENT offer, and that the buyers' house takes at least a couple of months to sell - such that we could have them pay our mortgage for those months and true it all up at closing.
Why would anyone buy now? Well, we're zoned to the best elementary, middle, and high schools in our district, which is ranked #1 in the Houston area, #7 in Texas, and in the top 1% of districts nationally. And all the buyers would need is a contract to enable their kids to start school on time. Bring on the expats!
Leaving Katy?
"We just barely started the second half of the baseball regular season!"
While it's commonly called the second half of the season, the All-Star game is not at the midpoint. We are almost a month past the midpoint.
Jamie - Are you in GHWB's (rest his soul) neighborhood?
VIX right under 20, the stable genius has done what he is best at chaos. 7 months in all the price decreases promised and he is just a shade above DOW where BRANDON gave him 43000 ,2 wars he has failed to "negotiate" 90 tariffs in 90 days is a world wide joke,, he sends letters! That's negotiation. He talks on the phone and says he stopped wars, GASLIGHTING 101.This fella is showing more signs in public conversations of losing all his marbles. He is married to Epstein and cant shake the "flooding of the Zone" no matter what "look over here he tries/ Its trump everyday, story is getting old. trump says they are starving people in Gaza , magas up in here say NO WAY just look at their cell phones. Trump says BIBI just stalling war because of politics, no DUH! YOU JUST FIGURING THAT OUT. Vlad is watching with glee, XI says keep it going love the chaos. Madge, get us a couple plane tickets to SARATOGA ,chill for weekend, don't think FIERCENESS gets beat at this distance, dont like Leone on this track ,may be some $$$ in triple. Don the Con is getting super boring, change the channel.
oH by the way ,when your the King and you dont like the numbers just fire the numbers person and put in your sycophant,thats how KIM and XI and Balsonarro And Duterte and .........do it... Its good to be King! :)
On a roll today as trumps Beaucoup Dinky Dau nonsense starting to do what we expected .Dinky say trump love you long time(no not you ,his rich sycophants)
President Donald Trump and his economic policies are the reason for "crashing our economy" following the release of the July jobs report on Friday.
The latest jobs report showed that the U.S. labor market has slowed over the past few months, with unemployment inching upward and prior job gains revised to be weaker than expected. U.S. employers added 73,000 jobs in July, far fewer than expected, while unemployment moved to 4.2 percent from 4.1 percent.
Throughout both of his campaigns and presidencies, Trump has positioned himself as a dealmaker and economic steward who could "bring back jobs," lower costs and "Make America Great Again." Trump has pledged that his economic platform, which includes broad tariffs, tax breaks and expanded U.S. manufacturing, will help boost the nation's economy.
July jobs report was "way below expectations," in a Friday X post, adding that "May and June revised down as well." The Bureau of Labor Statistics wrote on Friday that "Revisions for May and June were larger than normal," adding that "With these revisions, employment in May and June combined is 258,000 lower than previously reported."
The May and June job gains were sharply downgraded: 19,000 jobs were added in May, well below the roughly 139,000 originally reported, and only 14,000 in June, about 133,000 fewer than expected.
These conditions not seen since 2020. Don't let Donald Trump gaslight you. He is failing Americans and crashing our economy."
Companies don't want to create jobs in Trump's chaos economy with weakening rule of law and rampant corruption."
Trump's first six months in office have been marked by a cycle of announcing, imposing, pausing and reimposing tariffs, a trade strategy that at times has unsettled global and U.S. markets.
Alex Jacquez, a former special assistant to the president for economic development and industrial strategy, told Newsweek that Friday's jobs report "confirms that Trump's policies have been weighing down the economy....Big downward revisions for May and June show that Trump's chaotic trade policies likely impacted the labor market more than we thought earlier in the year, halting a strong jobs market. Stripping out the health care sector, the U.S. has lost jobs in each of the last three months."
Michael Negron, senior fellow for economic opportunity at the Center for American Progress and former special assistant to the president for economic policy, told Newsweek that the "disappointing jobs numbers are the latest sign, after recent data releases showing an uptick in inflation, decline in business investment, and slowdown in consumer spending, that the economy is starting to buckle under the weight of President Trump's tariff strategy." SOLUTION = FIRE THE JOBS NUMBERS PEOPLE that's what wanna be dictators do, very simple. MAGA'S cheer loudly ,that's a boy donnie, you'll teach em. :(
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