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Beware gents. Naties Port Elizabeth is just a money seeker not true love. Beware please.
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)
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 the Day
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“From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise — I was an active and eager participant.”
“From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise — I was an active and eager participant.”
~ Michael Cohen (from his new book, 'Disloyal')
From the New York Times;
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In Tell-All Foreword, Cohen Promises Sordid Tales Trump ‘Does Not Want You to Read’
In his memoir, “Disloyal,” Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, claims that he had unique access to Mr. Trump, a man with “no true friends.”
By Annie Karni
Aug. 13, 2020
WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, released the foreword of his upcoming jailhouse tell-all on Thursday, posting to his website an introduction in which he promised stories involving the president and everything from “golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union.”
In the foreword to his memoir, “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump,” Mr. Cohen claims that he had unique access to Mr. Trump, a man with “no true friends,” who trusted Mr. Cohen so much that his cellphone contacts were synced with his own.
“I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man,” Mr. Cohen writes, claiming he has gained from those experiences a singular understanding of the president.
Mr. Cohen does not explain more in the foreword about his experience with Mr. Trump in Las Vegas, but the book will most likely revive questions about the veracity of an infamous claim in a dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy, about Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia.
In it, Mr. Steele wrote that Mr. Trump had prostitutes urinate on a bed where President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, once slept, and that the Kremlin had recordings. Mr. Trump has denied the story, and it remains unsubstantiated. James B. Comey, who as F.B.I. director briefed the president about the dossier, has said that “it’s possible, but I don’t know.”
On Twitter, Mr. Cohen said he had “waited a long time to share my truth” as he posted a link to order a signed or an unsigned copy. In the foreword, he promises that “this is a book the president of the United States does not want you to read.”
Indeed, the government tried to stop the publication of Mr. Cohen’s book, according to a federal judge. Much of it was written on yellow legal pads by hand from Otisville Federal Prison.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that the decision to return Mr. Cohen to custody from home confinement amounted to retaliation by the government for his plans to publish the unflattering portrait of Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen had been sent home because of the coronavirus pandemic. The judge ordered him to be released back into home confinement.
The book does not yet have a publication date. Mr. Cohen wrote online that it was “coming soon.” He has not said who his publisher is.
Mr. Cohen writes in his foreword that “Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors.”
In Tell-All Foreword, Cohen Promises Sordid Tales Trump ‘Does Not Want You to Read’
In his memoir, “Disloyal,” Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, claims that he had unique access to Mr. Trump, a man with “no true friends.”
By Annie Karni
Aug. 13, 2020
WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, released the foreword of his upcoming jailhouse tell-all on Thursday, posting to his website an introduction in which he promised stories involving the president and everything from “golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union.”
In the foreword to his memoir, “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump,” Mr. Cohen claims that he had unique access to Mr. Trump, a man with “no true friends,” who trusted Mr. Cohen so much that his cellphone contacts were synced with his own.
“I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man,” Mr. Cohen writes, claiming he has gained from those experiences a singular understanding of the president.
Mr. Cohen does not explain more in the foreword about his experience with Mr. Trump in Las Vegas, but the book will most likely revive questions about the veracity of an infamous claim in a dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy, about Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia.
In it, Mr. Steele wrote that Mr. Trump had prostitutes urinate on a bed where President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, once slept, and that the Kremlin had recordings. Mr. Trump has denied the story, and it remains unsubstantiated. James B. Comey, who as F.B.I. director briefed the president about the dossier, has said that “it’s possible, but I don’t know.”
On Twitter, Mr. Cohen said he had “waited a long time to share my truth” as he posted a link to order a signed or an unsigned copy. In the foreword, he promises that “this is a book the president of the United States does not want you to read.”
Indeed, the government tried to stop the publication of Mr. Cohen’s book, according to a federal judge. Much of it was written on yellow legal pads by hand from Otisville Federal Prison.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that the decision to return Mr. Cohen to custody from home confinement amounted to retaliation by the government for his plans to publish the unflattering portrait of Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen had been sent home because of the coronavirus pandemic. The judge ordered him to be released back into home confinement.
The book does not yet have a publication date. Mr. Cohen wrote online that it was “coming soon.” He has not said who his publisher is.
Mr. Cohen writes in his foreword that “Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors.”
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Cardinal Georgie Boy Pell.
On high court appeal, his conviction, and 6 year jail sentence, were overturned. Actually "quashed", so no new adjudication is possible. Supposedly, the indictment was for shi shi abuse of two choir boys, one of whom died from the abuse of the drink. Often, self medication, for many. For others, passive suicide. But the digressing starts now.
This man was one of the top handful of clerics at the largely homosexual Vatican, and he was in charge of the fabulous riches and cash of the whole corrupt outfit. Several reasons were given for this new legal result, but the most important, and highly ridiculous, was that so much traffic occured in the sacristy and elsewhere, that such s*xual ruining of the lives of young men was hard to imagine. Residencies of clerics, cars in the garages, Church basements, etc. Nooks, and nooks, and crannies everywhere.
Our own Priests actually were in cahoots with non clerical, but very homosexual men, such as janitors ("sextons"---tons of sex). And all covered each other's antics, so it was child's PLAY to work around the visiting public. Getting at nine year olds was of course facilitated by the protective Church culture, notably by compliant Bishops, especially in very religious ethnic immigrant communities. But this was aided by tactics so in touch (!) with the developmental stages of us boys, that they would befit any well trained Child Psychiatrist/DevelopMENTAL Psychologist. Knowledge is power.
In the royal scam, first identify boys who seemed particularly needy of something, perhaps protection from bullying, needing a little cash, rankings among other altar boys, etc. Then make sure the families were ot the religious sorts, never to believe their boys of priestly beastly-ality. Vet each boy for likely compliance, and use the Bible for constructing promises never to reveal the goings on of a boy's HARD work to join the elite club. Fire and brimstone, folks.Then set up a series of "testing", highly ordered, as well understood by children in this developmental stage of sticking with rules and rewards.
And so the tests were arranged in highly ordered levels, each requiring about a dozen individual tests. Now here's where it gets interesting. The sextons were the ones involved in all the initial vetting, and in supposed handing out of rewards. Perhaps oddly, viewing things through the scanning electron retospectoscope, some of us noticed that the bullying stopped as soon as the testing was UNDERway. So the non clerics did much of the work, but the clergy got to enjoy many of the benefits. And the testing scheme allowed dutiful compliance with all sorts of deviant homosexual behaviors, which I'm not even sure I can place into any volume of the memoirs, much less mention here, for sensitive CS eyes. Slick.
I'd give anything to have made this all up, peebles. After all, none of us who somehow survive, ever recover completely. Finally, lest any fans of fagos object to describing this charade as an integral homosexual aspect of this Roman Catholic sexually deviant clerical culture, don't take my words for it. Read "In the Closet of the Vatican", written after four years of on site research, by a French openly homosexual journalist. And view the film "Spotlight", about exposure of protection by the Church of these sexualkly abnormal homosexual deviant criminals, by the Boston Globe's spotlight team.
"He who is near to the Church, is often far from God."---old French saying. Cardinal Georgie Boy Pell. Former Father Inn, and Pastor Ben Dover. Et c*m spiritu tuo.
This man was one of the top handful of clerics at the largely homosexual Vatican, and he was in charge of the fabulous riches and cash of the whole corrupt outfit. Several reasons were given for this new legal result, but the most important, and highly ridiculous, was that so much traffic occured in the sacristy and elsewhere, that such s*xual ruining of the lives of young men was hard to imagine. Residencies of clerics, cars in the garages, Church basements, etc. Nooks, and nooks, and crannies everywhere.
Our own Priests actually were in cahoots with non clerical, but very homosexual men, such as janitors ("sextons"---tons of sex). And all covered each other's antics, so it was child's PLAY to work around the visiting public. Getting at nine year olds was of course facilitated by the protective Church culture, notably by compliant Bishops, especially in very religious ethnic immigrant communities. But this was aided by tactics so in touch (!) with the developmental stages of us boys, that they would befit any well trained Child Psychiatrist/DevelopMENTAL Psychologist. Knowledge is power.
In the royal scam, first identify boys who seemed particularly needy of something, perhaps protection from bullying, needing a little cash, rankings among other altar boys, etc. Then make sure the families were ot the religious sorts, never to believe their boys of priestly beastly-ality. Vet each boy for likely compliance, and use the Bible for constructing promises never to reveal the goings on of a boy's HARD work to join the elite club. Fire and brimstone, folks.Then set up a series of "testing", highly ordered, as well understood by children in this developmental stage of sticking with rules and rewards.
And so the tests were arranged in highly ordered levels, each requiring about a dozen individual tests. Now here's where it gets interesting. The sextons were the ones involved in all the initial vetting, and in supposed handing out of rewards. Perhaps oddly, viewing things through the scanning electron retospectoscope, some of us noticed that the bullying stopped as soon as the testing was UNDERway. So the non clerics did much of the work, but the clergy got to enjoy many of the benefits. And the testing scheme allowed dutiful compliance with all sorts of deviant homosexual behaviors, which I'm not even sure I can place into any volume of the memoirs, much less mention here, for sensitive CS eyes. Slick.
I'd give anything to have made this all up, peebles. After all, none of us who somehow survive, ever recover completely. Finally, lest any fans of fagos object to describing this charade as an integral homosexual aspect of this Roman Catholic sexually deviant clerical culture, don't take my words for it. Read "In the Closet of the Vatican", written after four years of on site research, by a French openly homosexual journalist. And view the film "Spotlight", about exposure of protection by the Church of these sexualkly abnormal homosexual deviant criminals, by the Boston Globe's spotlight team.
"He who is near to the Church, is often far from God."---old French saying. Cardinal Georgie Boy Pell. Former Father Inn, and Pastor Ben Dover. Et c*m spiritu tuo.
Shaving...
I went 5 days without shaving. Why?
It only takes 10 minutes to shave and it's usually before a shower (that I do daily) and I usually regret waiting so long as it clogs the razor, takes 20+ minutes and I get a horrible scratchy shave.
Done. It's done.
It only takes 10 minutes to shave and it's usually before a shower (that I do daily) and I usually regret waiting so long as it clogs the razor, takes 20+ minutes and I get a horrible scratchy shave.
Done. It's done.
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Contacting me on my private CS mail....MEN!!!!
...I of course am delighted, whenever one of you dazzling and brilliant CS LADIES contact me on my CS internal mail. I truly regret how often I have to turn down the many groveling proposals of marriage. Most are tempting, especially when a lady's total personal, and indeed, entire family wealth are offered in dowery. These, often accompanied by promises of being my sex slaves for life, with like offers on behalf of all the other women in their families, certainly get my initial attention. But c'mon fellahs, why the contacts from men? Most are either s*xual in nature---hmmmm, mustn't have reviewed my many rank homophobic blogs. Or they involve some business deal. One just today tried to tempt me away from my beloved CS platform, implying that CS is hopeless, and suggesting their own such site. The latter guaranteed rapid outcomes of marriage. MARRIAGE!!!! Again, how silly, given my views on the cursed institution. I block most. It really is a challenge being the me that I am. Such a heavy cross to bear.
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Shrinkage in men----sagging in women...
...yes, all, it's a fact of life for most, but not for all. In these liberated days of the woman on top, and of wearing gold neck bling to bed, well, entanglements with those swinging former pendulosities and the bouncing chains, has led to many an embarrassing moment. Why many men in the know eschew loose neck bling, and favor smaller breasted women. But I digress. OK, having experienced a ten fold decrease meself, from the former 30 cm, I began searching for biological reasons, some reversible, perhaps. age related decreases in free testosterone? Nasty atherosclerotic changes in those all important three veins/arteries? Alcohol related peripheral neuropathies? And even psychological effects of seeing oneself in the mirror, especially after coming out of cold water. But no, class, the urologists see much more simple reasons for this scourge of male self esteem. Added FAT, go figure, in the pubic region, supposedly COSMETICALLY making big little Vierk seem to have nearly disappeared back into his little hole. We at the Vierk Institute of course immediately saw this as Fake News, VERY fake. But no, pupils, it may well be underlying (?overlying) fat that's causing at least part of the problem. And it gets worse. While it's always a struggle for all of us to reduce the size of those love handles, which so easily appear with advancing age, the added blubber just north of the organ we men all love more than life itself, IS THE MOST DIFFICULT ON THE BODY TO GET RID OF! Forget dieting. Or exercise. Even surgery (liposuction) is rarely recommended. What's left to say, except to promise a similar lecture to follow on sagging in the ladies. I'll only say, a cautionary tale from some moms to some daughters about being careful of what we wish for. Stay tuned. Class dismissed. Except for you there up back in the miniskirt, low cut top and shiny red FM high heels. Could you please come see me after others have left? You can trust me, I'm not like all those others.
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This one's especially for our good friend......
.....Fag-O-Fan..... Alas, Mart Croney, (sp?), the trouser snake worshiping Brit playwright, has died. His 60's play about homosexuals, males, one presumes, has been revamped, allegedly to make it more sufferable, and less of the usual liberal victim stage pity party. Must see it with my husband, that tiny worm man, my cherished Leroy. Comments enabled.
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Sir Elton.....Loses voice in Kiwi Concert...
..... Cries onto 88's, saying, "I can't play, just lost my voice." Did finish some of date. Roadies and band members comfort him, and help the 72 YO off stage, as crowd roars. Now, by analogy, when a similar thing happens, to some of us men, in the bedroom, can we expect such BROAD understanding?
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