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Quote of the day Ron Reagan
I asked President Reagan’s son, Ron Reagan, if his dad would recognize the Republican Party right now.
His answer:
“He would be horrified by the Republican Party right now, the spinelessness in the face of the pathological entity in the White House right now would shock him.”
His answer:
“He would be horrified by the Republican Party right now, the spinelessness in the face of the pathological entity in the White House right now would shock him.”
Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock dies at 81. Interesting history courtesy of NY Times
From The New York Times;
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Lou Brock, Baseball Hall of Famer Known for Stealing Bases, Dies at 81
The son of sharecroppers, Brock attended a one-room schoolhouse, but was inspired by possibilities beyond the poverty and segregation of the rural South.
By Richard Goldstein
Published Sept. 6, 2020 Updated Sept. 7, 2020, 12:49 p.m. ET
Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Hall of Fame outfielder who in a career spanning two decades became the greatest base-stealer the major leagues had ever known when he eclipsed the single-season and career records for steals, died on Sunday. He was 81.
d*ck Zitzmann, Brock’s agent, confirmed the death to The Associated Press, but did not provide any details. Brock began receiving treatment for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in 2017. His left leg was amputated in 2015 as a result of a diabetes-related infection.
On June 15, 1964, a floundering Cardinals team traded one of the National League’s leading pitchers for an outfielder who had failed to live up to his promise. That deal, sending the right-hander Ernie Broglio to the Chicago Cubs for Brock as the centerpiece of a six-player swap, became one of the most one-sided trades in baseball history, but hardly in the way that many envisioned.
Broglio won only seven games for the Cubs over the next two and a half seasons, then retired. Brock, sought by Cardinals Manager Johnny Keane for his largely untapped speed, helped take St. Louis to the 1964 World Series championship and went on to turn around games year after year with his feet and his bat.
Brock’s 118 stolen bases in 1974 eclipsed Maury Wills’s single-season record of 104, set in 1962, and his 938 career steals broke Ty Cobb’s mark of 892.
He led the National League in steals eight times. Although Rickey Henderson would break Brock’s stolen-base records, Brock’s luster remained undimmed. A left-handed batter, he had 3,023 hits and hit .300 eight times. He helped propel the Cardinals to three pennants and two World Series championships. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.
Louis Clark Brock was born on June 18, 1939, in El Dorado, Ark., and grew up in Collinston, La., in a family of sharecroppers who picked cotton. He attended a one-room schoolhouse, but at the age of 9 he was inspired by possibilities beyond the poverty and segregation of the rural South.
He was listening one night to a feed from the St. Louis radio station KMOX. Harry Caray was broadcasting a game between the Cardinals and Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn Dodgers, the summer after Robinson broke the major leagues’ color barrier, a time when, as Brock put it, “Jim Crow was king.”
“I was searching the dial of an old Philco radio,” Brock recalled. and when he heard about Robinson, “I felt pride in being alive. The baseball field was my fantasy of what life offered.”
As a boy, Brock never played organized baseball. Instead of a ball and bat, he swatted rocks with tree branches. But he received an academic scholarship to Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., and played baseball there, catching the attention of Buck O’Neil, the longtime Negro leagues player and manager, who was scouting for the Cubs.
The Cubs’ organization signed Brock in August 1960, and he made his major league debut late in the ’61 season. But two summers later, he was batting only .251 and struggling with the Wrigley Field sun as the Cubs’ right fielder. He was considered perhaps the fastest man in the league, but the Cubs were reluctant to turn him loose on the basepaths. ....
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Lou Brock, Baseball Hall of Famer Known for Stealing Bases, Dies at 81
The son of sharecroppers, Brock attended a one-room schoolhouse, but was inspired by possibilities beyond the poverty and segregation of the rural South.
By Richard Goldstein
Published Sept. 6, 2020 Updated Sept. 7, 2020, 12:49 p.m. ET
Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Hall of Fame outfielder who in a career spanning two decades became the greatest base-stealer the major leagues had ever known when he eclipsed the single-season and career records for steals, died on Sunday. He was 81.
d*ck Zitzmann, Brock’s agent, confirmed the death to The Associated Press, but did not provide any details. Brock began receiving treatment for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in 2017. His left leg was amputated in 2015 as a result of a diabetes-related infection.
On June 15, 1964, a floundering Cardinals team traded one of the National League’s leading pitchers for an outfielder who had failed to live up to his promise. That deal, sending the right-hander Ernie Broglio to the Chicago Cubs for Brock as the centerpiece of a six-player swap, became one of the most one-sided trades in baseball history, but hardly in the way that many envisioned.
Broglio won only seven games for the Cubs over the next two and a half seasons, then retired. Brock, sought by Cardinals Manager Johnny Keane for his largely untapped speed, helped take St. Louis to the 1964 World Series championship and went on to turn around games year after year with his feet and his bat.
Brock’s 118 stolen bases in 1974 eclipsed Maury Wills’s single-season record of 104, set in 1962, and his 938 career steals broke Ty Cobb’s mark of 892.
He led the National League in steals eight times. Although Rickey Henderson would break Brock’s stolen-base records, Brock’s luster remained undimmed. A left-handed batter, he had 3,023 hits and hit .300 eight times. He helped propel the Cardinals to three pennants and two World Series championships. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.
Louis Clark Brock was born on June 18, 1939, in El Dorado, Ark., and grew up in Collinston, La., in a family of sharecroppers who picked cotton. He attended a one-room schoolhouse, but at the age of 9 he was inspired by possibilities beyond the poverty and segregation of the rural South.
He was listening one night to a feed from the St. Louis radio station KMOX. Harry Caray was broadcasting a game between the Cardinals and Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn Dodgers, the summer after Robinson broke the major leagues’ color barrier, a time when, as Brock put it, “Jim Crow was king.”
“I was searching the dial of an old Philco radio,” Brock recalled. and when he heard about Robinson, “I felt pride in being alive. The baseball field was my fantasy of what life offered.”
As a boy, Brock never played organized baseball. Instead of a ball and bat, he swatted rocks with tree branches. But he received an academic scholarship to Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., and played baseball there, catching the attention of Buck O’Neil, the longtime Negro leagues player and manager, who was scouting for the Cubs.
The Cubs’ organization signed Brock in August 1960, and he made his major league debut late in the ’61 season. But two summers later, he was batting only .251 and struggling with the Wrigley Field sun as the Cubs’ right fielder. He was considered perhaps the fastest man in the league, but the Cubs were reluctant to turn him loose on the basepaths. ....
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Quote of last night
"In tonight’s presidential debate the President said the “Portland Sheriff” supports him. As the Multnomah County Sheriff I have never supported Donald Trump and will never support him.
Donald Trump has made my job a hell of a lot harder since he started talking about Portland, but I never thought he'd try to turn my wife against me !"
~ Sheriff Mike Reese (Sheriff of the county Portland is part of)
Donald Trump has made my job a hell of a lot harder since he started talking about Portland, but I never thought he'd try to turn my wife against me !"
~ Sheriff Mike Reese (Sheriff of the county Portland is part of)
Me
Beware gents. Naties Port Elizabeth is just a money seeker not true love. Beware please.
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....radio One...
..my music knows..) . fallout boy.
..50 song memoir .) . magnetic fields.
Tidal wave. ) . ) . L A W S ..) ..
.. mchint. ) They cast a $ Pell on you...
.part 2..[ .and the physics are real..
.blue sky mining..,) . midnight Oil
..NO Nations. } .} Jets overhead
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.. Airborne . Toxic . Event . ) .sum Time round midnight.
..a. r. ) Atomic rooster. ) Friday the 13th.
George Soros
From Wikipedia;
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George Soros, the world's greatest investor
Heralded as the "World's Greatest Investor", and "King of the Hedge Funds", in the 1980's Soros ardently strived to expand the wealth of his Quantum Fund which he in turn used to finance his efforts to bring down Communism and establish Open Societies in those Eastern European countries still feeling the effects of stagnant economies and repressive leadership. Still vilified by many on the right, who prefer to brand him "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England", and continue to denounce him, occasionally with conspiracy theories, he remains admired by many on the left. ....
Philanthropy
Soros at the 2012 Festival of Economics
Additional narratives on his personal life and Soros's efforts to further human rights in Hungary, China, and Russia, complete the later section of Slater's biography. Soros's foundations were highly active in opposing Apartheid in South Africa, and in countering what Soros viewed as the restraints on economic growth or reduction in civil liberties posed by Soviet influence in many Eastern European countries including first his native Hungary, then Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, and the Balkans. For his work in his native Hungary towards his efforts to modernize the country, Soros was presented with the Medium Cross of Hungary's Republican Order with Stars, the country's second-highest decoration.
Soros's Open Society Foundations were also active in opposing Apartheid in South Africa. By the early 90's Soros's foundations, which fought to increase civil liberties often by stimulating science and other aspects of the economy, were active in eighteen countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the new states of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkistan. When Yugoslavia broke apart, new foundations came into being in Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia. In smaller efforts, Soros supported pro-democracy movements in Burma, and school construction projects in Albania.
Central European University
In September 1991, funded almost exclusively on his own, and staffed with globally recognized academics, Soros's founded Central European University with its first campus in Prague, Czechoslovakia and with other campuses in Budapest, Hungary and Warsaw, Poland. By 2019, Soros's annual gift to operate the University reached 20 million dollars, and his personal total endowment is approximated at $880 million. As Slater noted, the CEU may have been what he considered his greatest achievement, for "with 400 students from 22 countries, the CEU was Soros's dream, the project that meant the most to him". More impressively, by 2019, the University had graduated 16,000 students.
Drug policy reform
Chapter 28 covers Soros's opposition to long prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders. Soros has come under attack frequently by leaders of the America's "war on drugs", who abhor his attempts to deal with narcotics as a public health rather than a criminal problem and have more recently attacked him for supporting referendums in five states to legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Since 1993, Soros has donated roughly 15 million to groups and foundations that favor altering America's drug policies. The Lindesmith Center, founded in 1994 by Ethan A. Adelman as a project of George Soros's Open Society Institute to conduct research in aid of drug policy reform. He gave a one million dollar donation to ballot initiatives proposing more lenient drug laws in California and Arizona and 1.1 million in August 1997 to provide clean syringes to drug addicts to prevent the spread of AIDS.
George Soros, the world's greatest investor
Heralded as the "World's Greatest Investor", and "King of the Hedge Funds", in the 1980's Soros ardently strived to expand the wealth of his Quantum Fund which he in turn used to finance his efforts to bring down Communism and establish Open Societies in those Eastern European countries still feeling the effects of stagnant economies and repressive leadership. Still vilified by many on the right, who prefer to brand him "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England", and continue to denounce him, occasionally with conspiracy theories, he remains admired by many on the left. ....
Philanthropy
Soros at the 2012 Festival of Economics
Additional narratives on his personal life and Soros's efforts to further human rights in Hungary, China, and Russia, complete the later section of Slater's biography. Soros's foundations were highly active in opposing Apartheid in South Africa, and in countering what Soros viewed as the restraints on economic growth or reduction in civil liberties posed by Soviet influence in many Eastern European countries including first his native Hungary, then Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, and the Balkans. For his work in his native Hungary towards his efforts to modernize the country, Soros was presented with the Medium Cross of Hungary's Republican Order with Stars, the country's second-highest decoration.
Soros's Open Society Foundations were also active in opposing Apartheid in South Africa. By the early 90's Soros's foundations, which fought to increase civil liberties often by stimulating science and other aspects of the economy, were active in eighteen countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the new states of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkistan. When Yugoslavia broke apart, new foundations came into being in Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia. In smaller efforts, Soros supported pro-democracy movements in Burma, and school construction projects in Albania.
Central European University
In September 1991, funded almost exclusively on his own, and staffed with globally recognized academics, Soros's founded Central European University with its first campus in Prague, Czechoslovakia and with other campuses in Budapest, Hungary and Warsaw, Poland. By 2019, Soros's annual gift to operate the University reached 20 million dollars, and his personal total endowment is approximated at $880 million. As Slater noted, the CEU may have been what he considered his greatest achievement, for "with 400 students from 22 countries, the CEU was Soros's dream, the project that meant the most to him". More impressively, by 2019, the University had graduated 16,000 students.
Drug policy reform
Chapter 28 covers Soros's opposition to long prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders. Soros has come under attack frequently by leaders of the America's "war on drugs", who abhor his attempts to deal with narcotics as a public health rather than a criminal problem and have more recently attacked him for supporting referendums in five states to legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Since 1993, Soros has donated roughly 15 million to groups and foundations that favor altering America's drug policies. The Lindesmith Center, founded in 1994 by Ethan A. Adelman as a project of George Soros's Open Society Institute to conduct research in aid of drug policy reform. He gave a one million dollar donation to ballot initiatives proposing more lenient drug laws in California and Arizona and 1.1 million in August 1997 to provide clean syringes to drug addicts to prevent the spread of AIDS.
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Mr. Jack Boggle.
Didn't quite make 90 today, and will be missed by folks who know about the usual slimy sharks that are investment brokers/advisors. This decent man, who reminded many of a gentle, wise old professor, pioneered low cost index (computer managed) investment funds, at the venerable Vanguard Group. The usual management fees for most of their offerings ranged from 0.2 to 0.5 percent of money invested, compared to sometimes ten times that at places that manage funds by hand. He'll always be part of the culture in Valley Forge, and chats with staff there (mostly salaried-not earning directly from your money) at Vanguard are full of such nice things about him.
I Just Got Myself A Perfect Man and He's All Mine.
He offered himself to me, he's been unowned for 15 months now and yearning to be owned again, by me!. He is submissive , nicely-built and single. I love that he believes in FEMALE SUPREMACY and SERVITUDE. and have respect for a female-led relationship. He is well-trained for domestic duties, cooking, ironing and laundry is his favorite task. He will also take me shopping for high-heels, of my favorite color. He will prepare my bath , wash me, have a warm towel ready and pat me dry. He calls me mistress and will make my life wonderful.
I'm not selfish so I will grant him one wish a week, in return for all his good deeds. His name is Johnie...
I'm not selfish so I will grant him one wish a week, in return for all his good deeds. His name is Johnie...
Women's preference six packs or other.
Noticed threads about ladies body - build - size preferences in general.
What body - build - size to the ladies really look for In a soulmate.
Six pack x athletic x slim x stick insects x slightly overweight or a few extra pounds. ??
My choice is slightly over weight. Stick insects never did it for me.
What body - build - size to the ladies really look for In a soulmate.
Six pack x athletic x slim x stick insects x slightly overweight or a few extra pounds. ??
My choice is slightly over weight. Stick insects never did it for me.
David Lee Roth is beginning to look like...
I caught a few year old interview with singer David Lee Roth (of Van Halen fame) and at 64 years old, he's lost a good portion of his hair. I'm not sure if he's accepted baldness as some recent photos appear that he's had some transplanting on the roof. The part I found surprising is his likeness to actor Joe Pesci who is 76 years old.
Maybe they are 2nd cousins.
It doesn't appear the years have been good to him.
Maybe they are 2nd cousins.
It doesn't appear the years have been good to him.
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