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Oakmont is the most brutal course that hosts the US Open
So proudly... Reuters reports
There have been thirty-seven political assassinations in Mexico just this campaign season:
what hope sounds like.
@mccullough -- Oakmont is like a video game course. Magnificent shots and devastating misses. I'm enjoying it.
The IRS apparently has a new commissioner: Billy Long, the former Rep from Missouri. I first heard of him when that dope Laura Loomer tried to disrupt a Congressional Hearing because of Twitter, and it was some of the funniest heckling I've ever heard.
heh - too true.
Eco-doom and hatred of Jews are big businesses, and business is too good to quit.
We’re at war with Iran, Trump’s gone into hiding, nobody will tell us our objectives, plan or end game. Hegseth is a useless SecDef. Rubio lied about it, Tulsi Gabbard loves the leader of Iran’s greatest ally, and tomorrow we’re having a parade for Trump’s birthday.
Its nice we are having a parade to distract us from the fact Navy destroyers helped defend Israel by shooting down missles.
I am no fan of missles or indiscriminate death, but I hoped we would only be involved in helping Israel protect its people via proxy and support.
Trump promised no new wars and to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. At least we aren’t spending another billion losing drones and jets bombing a few Houthis in Yemen, so there’s that.
Mark & Kak - Start back on your meds.
^^ America First No New Wars MAGA's and Neo-Con Proxy-War MAGA's are having a day.
"Oakmont is the most brutal course that hosts the US Open ..."
The next time you're having a bad round, remember that the 2025 Masters Champion, Rory McElroy, threw his club on the course today. And 2019 British Open Champion - Champion Golfer of the Year - picked up his ball off the green without marking it, incurring a 1-stroke penalty on the way to a 16-over finish 10 strokes from making the cut.
Lowry, from the literal land of the birthplace of golf, had one comment for Oakmont: "Fuck this place."
Bem Hogan: "I'm glad I was finally able to bring this course, this monster, to its knees.” after winning the US open at Oakmont.
"CNN’s Erin Burnett Asks Padilla If Trump DHS Chief’s Agents Jacked Him Up ‘Because of How You Look?’"
Padilla went there with staff video taping, covered up his ID under a jacket and after the arrest, they released an edited version that left out the commotion Padilla created. So now, willing dupes like Erin Burnet can turn it into a racial thing. It's missing formation again and again.
Israel's Operation Rising Lion.
Wm. Empson says that in “Richard is a lion” you’re supposed to think of the heart of a lion and not the lion’s tail. A typifying pregnancy in the metaphor’s vehicle.
It might however be a Hollywood lion, brought in for a scene where, sadly, the lion is run over by a truck, as Vicki Hearne suggests. A noble beast made pathetic. “The lion must hold a sit-stay in the road while a semi bears down on him, as fast and as close as negotiations and arguments between the lion tamer and the director and producer will allow. So the lion trainer is riding on the front bumper of the truck, the camera cunningly placed so as to show lion and truck but not lion tamer. The trainer is saying, “Stay, Sudan, Stay!” The truck bears down, then screeches to a halt. Too far away and at too slow a pace to please the director, who wants a retake. The lion tamer is of course an agile person who enjoys demands on his ingenuity, but there are risks and risks, and a lion, as I was saying, is noble, therefore the tamer wants to get this scene safely shot before the lion’s nobility is awakened in the form of distrust of the tamer’s judgment.”
– Animal Happiness
There are lions and lions.
Burnett and CNN don’t have much of an audience, so Padilla’s theatrics and CNN’s dishonesty won’t gain much traction.
2 things really bug me:
1. I love the name Padilla. One of my very all time favorite people is named Padilla. Do Democrats have to ruin everything?
2. When Donald Trump came back to the White House why couldn’t he have brought 2 massive German Shepherds with him? Because we all know the H man loved German Shepherds. But we also know Biden loves German Shepherds. So much so that he let them bite half the White House staff before he removed them to safer (for the staff) ground. Can you imagine the pain the NYT would be in not to be able to draw another comparison between the H man and Trump? The psychic misery they would be in every time they saw those dogs? In fact Trump should have named them Commander and Major after Biden’s dogs. I would have loved it. O well, nobody’s perfect.
Maybe in his third term.
Lem - leaving the truth and context on the cutting room floor = what the American Soviet-Democratic media do best.
Trump hasn't told Kaka the war plans yet. I'm sure it's an oversight.
If Israel - backed by US - can exile the Supreme Theocratic Leader/ Women-subjugating Ayatollah of Iran. celebrations!!! ... except by whiny white American leftists. .. who will whine some more about Trump. Because pathetic.
"Its nice we are having a parade to distract us from the fact Navy destroyers helped defend Israel by shooting down missles."
They're an ally. An important one.
there's talk of people being bussed in a for some of these leftist tantrum rallies.
cBS “News” is pushing riot gear. [for the tantrum riots]
"...to distract us from the [that] fact Navy destroyers helped defend Israel by shooting down missles [sic]."
Iran has been at war with the United States since 1978.
Kak, your tears are delicious.
Oakmont is the course where Johnny Miller shot a 63 in the last round to win the 1973 Us open. Snead won here. So did Bobby Jones, Nicklaus, and Dustin Johnson. The winners win. No matter where they play.
rhhardin said...
Israel's Operation Rising Lion.
"Wm. Empson says that in “Richard is a lion” you’re supposed to think of the heart of a lion and not the lion’s tail. A typifying pregnancy in the metaphor’s vehicle."
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I tried reading William Empson once, and it was the most impenetrable porse---indeed, if that's what it was---I've ever encountered.
Abstractions piled upon more abstractions.....a few human beings can make sense of this stuff, and ...good for them.
But only a hundred or so poor souls on this planet give a warm shit about what he was trying to convey. They talk to themselves in journals no one reads.
BUT:
Your final sentence fragment is apropos:
"A typifying pregnancy in the metaphor’s vehicle."
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?
(But hey: we all know you won't return to tease apart that gibberish)
The big 3 plus BIBI ,smell weakness in US leadership. The guy who said he woud stop ukraine war has only seen it get worse,Gaza is a disaster ,No Iran deal,Bibi went ahead anyway and did what trump said he would do through a deal, Putin has played trump right from the beginning XI is making a fool out of trump. WHAT TARIFF DEALS? Trump says now well all the farmers and hotel people complaining because Im arresting all the good guys you know the ones that should have something but thtey dont but their god ones..WTF// TACO DON trump always chickens out... NO prices arent down,market still teetering on DEAD FLAT ,5 bills been signed so far,after previous presidents whipped em out in their 1st hundred days and trump selling $5,000,000 get a quick pass legalization if you pay US(me he means) and the guy is getting destroyed in his own in the tank courts. Gonna be a long 4 years if this perp can hang on and his senility dont have him talking to the curtains like Reagan was. Yup sometimes you do get what you deserve. And I wonder if KIM and Vlad invited to parade tomorrow,they would be so proud! My Lord Madge its all (and more ) of what you thought it would be..
Iran has been at war with the United States since 1978.
@Quaestor, damned right! The mad mullahs have been chanting “Death to America!” for 47 years. If they ever get nukes then cities like Washington, DC, and New York won’t be much behind Tel Aviv in having mushroom clouds above them.
It’s getting tougher and tougher to find good bridge partners. Some cannot bring themselves to bid “No Trump,” and others refuse to bid anything else.
The big 3 plus BIBI ,smell weakness in US leadership.
The big 3?
Russia, China and Canada? No.
Iran, Iraq, and North Korea? No.
Germany, Italy, and Japan? No.
Iran, Saudia Arabia, and Syria? No.
Russia, China, and Iran?
Maybe?
I have to admit I've never heard of "The Big 3 plus Bibi." (The worst Jazz band in Jerusalem). I tried googling it and I got...
Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin
Anyway, please tell us, Dinky, who the Big 3 are. It sounds kinda like you are talking about our Big 3 enemies right now, which may be China, Russia, and Iran. But that would mean that you are saying "Iran smells weakness in US leadership."
Is that what you are saying?
You might want to look at the date on this stupid thing Joe Biden did. Less than one month later, Hamas went to war with Israel.
Oakmont isn't as hard as some people say. Every time they have a tournament there, somebody manages to win.
"I was negotiating with them, I gave them 60 days, this is day 61. Now they're all dead." - Trump
What lessons do Putin and Xi take from this? That if things start getting dicey, you strike first or die ? It will all be over so fast you won't know what hit you, otherwise? Oh, that's right, whenever I say "Putin," I have to say "paranoid." Just because NATO overthrew Qaddafi and he ended up getting sodomized by a bunch of head choppers that we supported with air power, sodomized with a Kalashnikov, well, Qaddafi, "needed killin'" Only a paranoid person would think that NATO would ever do that to somebody who didn't need killin'! Good people need not fear."
Good people need not fear. And we decide who is a good person.
Every time I see somebody talking about the 'horseshoe' theory of the political spectrum it is illustrated by comparing the position of cranks and nuts from one side to the cranks and nuts on the other side expressing support for a position the mainstream of their party doesn't repudiate, well illustrated in most of the threads here.
"The mad mullahs have been chanting “Death to America!” for 47 years."
We installed a puppet Shah there, and he couldn't hold on to power, he had no legitimacy outside of his support by Western foreigners. But that's how it works. They overthrew our puppet! It's war! Just like the Roman Empire. But eventually empires stop paying for themselves and become an expensive burden. We will see.
I don't think a single American soldier should die over who rules in Iran. The reality is though, that the propagandists have gotten Americans baying for blood, and as hard as you try, you can't vote for peace. It just won't happen.
It always saddened me though, to see even Althouse posting anti-Iranian propaganda, when it was plain that this was coming. When you get people like Peachy, even, baying for blood, you know that the cause of peace is hopeless. That propaganda is almost an exact science.
Oakmont: HUUUUge squirrel!!!
I wanna know what Gavin Newsom thinks of all of this.
Did you see Rory smash the tee marker with his fairway wood? Classic…we used to have a home away friendly with Oakmont so a bunch of guys would go play. I never went but the story goes the member set up might be mire difficult than when the Open is there. That sounds unlikely but while the USGA likes to penalize shots off the fairway they like consistency while members at lots of places get gnarly, inconsistent lies…
"They're an ally. An important one."
Why? Why are they important allies? Because of all of the oil in the Middle East that we need and so must control? Sometimes people need killin' because they sit on top of land or resources that we need or just want.
But the lesson of propaganda is that if you repeat things often enough, people start to perceive them as true. Our allies put the head choppers in charge in Syria, BTW. Oh, that's right, the head choppers are our allies too, I keep forgetting.
The Indians "needed killin'" because we wanted their land. But good people need not fear.
I'm noting the splendid level of non-reporting in these critical times. It's Pulitzer level in that in only a few years the non-reporters will be able to win Pulitzers by reporting on the non-reporting they are doing right now. For example, ICE is arresting and deporting illegals who are gang members or guilty of felonies including those who have invested the money made by human trafficking or fentanyl distribution into legitimate businesses. For this reason ICE might go to a Home Depot location where an MS-13 gang member hangs out or ICE might go a business owned by the gangs. In preparation for their future Pulitzers, the non-reporters first write up the ICE actions as indiscriminate round-ups at Home Depot parking lots or at ordinary businesses. As intended, this frightens every illegal who picks up work at Home Depots or who works at a legitimate business. So that sells clicks. Then later comes the writing of a "Jake Tapper", a book reporting the author's non-reporting of important news. This important revelation becomes a Pulitzer prize winner so that author gets clicks and kudos with only the most minimal involvement of any intelligence or conscience. Which is a fortunate since there is very little of either available in Higher Journalism.
So, as I say, there's lots of Pulitzer-level non-reporting going on: the tax-payer dollars used to fund the pallets of bricks, the molotov cocktails and the face masks used in mostly peaceful riots, arson and looting; the discrimination against toxic white males, white Asians and fascist conservatives of all genders and orientations at Harvard and throughout the Ivy League; the same discrimination in the media of all kinds and at all levels; the abuses of child mutilation aka "gender-affirmation"; over-vaccination; blatant antisemitism tastefully draped in a settler-colonialism keffiyeh, "the very newest in ideology, my dear." This is the golden age of the non-reporter. All hail.
"FormerLawClerk said...
"Oakmont is the most brutal course that hosts the US Open ..."
The next time you're having a bad round, remember that the 2025 Masters Champion, Rory McElroy, threw his club on the course today. And 2019 British Open Champion - Champion Golfer of the Year - picked up his ball off the green without marking it, incurring a 1-stroke penalty on the way to a 16-over finish 10 strokes from making the cut.
Lowry, from the literal land of the birthplace of golf, had one comment for Oakmont: "Fuck this place.""
The birthplace of golf as it's known now....18 holes etc is Scotland. Shane Lowry is Irish. Despite the funny SNL skit https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgzfxs Irish and Scottish are different.
It’s nearly 7:30 AM here. Where’s my steaming cuppa kak’s tears?
"Why are they important allies? Because of all of the oil in the Middle East that we need and so must control?"
The 1980s called, Tim…
An Atari from the 1970’s just smacked down ChatGPT
In chess
Here's Jaq (6:18am) explaining why he keeps repeating things that have been proven false, e.g. that the U.S. created the Taliban in 1994 to force the USSR to invade Afghanistan in 1979, that Ukraine blew up the Kakhovka dam and tried to blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, that the popular uprising against brutal and massively corrupt thug Yanukovych had nothing to do with the wishes of the Ukrainian people, that Russia is not bombing Ukrainian hospitals and civilian apartment buildings every night, and dozens more.
Why does he repeat these lies over and over? As he himself says, "the lesson of propaganda is that if you repeat things often enough, people start to perceive them as true".
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