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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Trump: Breaking the bank

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump's family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast.
Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex'' Alles, in an interview with USA TODAY, said more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year. 
The agency has faced a crushing workload since the height of the contentious election season, and it has not relented in the first seven months of the administration. Agents must protect Trump – who has traveled almost every weekend to his properties in Florida, New Jersey and Virginia – and his adult children whose business trips and vacations have taken them across the country and overseas.

Exclusive: Secret Service depletes funds to pay agents because of Trump's frequent travel, large family


Sad state of affairs in America

Behind the Crazy Headlines: Three Truths About the Trump Presidency


he United States has had some turbulent and scandal-plagued Presidencies during its two-hundred-and-forty-one-year history—those of Richard Nixon, Warren Harding, and Ulysses S. Grant come to mind—yet there has never been one like Donald Trump’s. On Monday morning, I sat down to write a post about the swearing-in of John Kelly as the new White House chief of staff, and the beginning of Act II of Trump’s Presidency. By the time I had finished writing, not one but two news cycles had turned. In the afternoon, news broke that Anthony Scaramucci, the New York financier who was named Trump’s director of communications just a week and a half ago, had been fired. And on Monday night, the Washington Post revealed that President Trump had dictated a misleading statement that was given to the press about his son Donald Trump, Jr.,’s infamous meeting, last June, with a Russian lawyer.

In this Administration, the scoops and shockers and bloopers come so fast that it is hard to keep up, let alone figure out what is ephemeral and what really matters. But, at the risk of the next news cycle making me look silly, here are three points to remember about how we got here and where we are going.

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Thanks Kerry

Bank Robber forgets his mask

A bank robber wanted to keep his identity a secret, but he forgot to wear his mask. He told everyone in the bank not to look at him or he would shoot them.
One foolhardy customer sneaked a look and the bank robber and he did what he said he would do.......he shot that customer. The robber asked the crowd if anyone else had seen his face.
One customer gazing intently at the floor, said " I think my wife got a glimpse"

Thanks Joe and Leslie

Why athletes can't have regular jobs!

1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model:
"I wan' all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to copulate me."

2. New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:
"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.." 

3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skin's say:
"I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,"
Matt Millen of the Raiders said: 
"To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."

4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
"He treat us like mens. He let us wear earrings."

5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

6. Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh :
"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.."
(Now that is beautiful)

7. Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach:
"You guys line up alphabetically by height..," 
And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, and then line up in a circle."

8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison:
"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton ..."

9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker:
"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."

10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota:
"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning, regardless of what time it is."

11. Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim 
Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice:
"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. 
(I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)

12. Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player:
"I asked him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?'
He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"

13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D:
"Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject." 

14. In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:
"I can go to my left or right, I am amphibious."

15. Former Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded: 
"Because she's too ugly to kiss good-bye."
Ok........
I'll add one more, The basketball player was asked what his church preference was, and his answer was red brick.
He also thought Taco Bell was the Mexican Telephone company.


Thanks Randy

UNPAID BABY SITTERS









Thanks Norman

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and Worrying

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in an argument

COSTELLO:    I want to talk about the unemployment rate in Canada
ABBOTT:        Good Subject.  Terrible Times.  It's 5.6%.

COSTELLO:    That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT:         No, that's 23%.

COSTELLO:    You just said 5.6%.

ABBOTT:         5.6% Unemployed.

COSTELLO:    Right, 5.6% out of work.

ABBOTT:         No, that's 23%.

COSTELLO:    Okay, so it's 23% unemployed.

ABBOTT:         No, that's 5.6%.

COSTELLO:    WAIT A MINUTE.  Is it 5.6% or 23%?

ABBOTT:        5.6% are unemployed.  23% are out of work.

COSTELLO:    If you are out of work you are unemployed
 
ABBOTT:        No, Trudeau said you can't count the "Out of Work"  as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO:   BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!

ABBOTT:        No, you miss his point.

COSTELLO:   What point?

ABBOTT:        Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work.  It wouldn't be fair.

COSTELLO:    To whom?

ABBOTT:        The unemployed.

COSTELLO:    But ALL of them are out of work.

ABBOTT:        No, the unemployed are actively looking for work.  Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.

COSTELLO:   So if you're off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?

ABBOTT:        Unemployment would go down.  Absolutely!

COSTELLO:   The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?

ABBOTT:        Absolutely it goes down.  That's how it gets to 5.6%. Otherwise it would be 23%.

COSTELLO:    Wait, I got a question for you  That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

ABBOTT:        Two ways is correct.

COSTELLO:    Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

ABBOTT:        Correct.

COSTELLO:    And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

ABBOTT:        Bingo.

COSTELLO:   So there are two ways to bring unemployment down,  and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.

ABBOTT:       Now you're thinking like a Liberal.

COSTELLO:   I don't even know what the hell I just said!

ABBOTT:       Now you're thinking like Trudeau.

Thanks Ralph 

Monday, August 21, 2017

Monday's Ride - 1914 Dodge Brothers Gateway Classic Cars Orlando #460

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis

Brooke Baldwin reads out list of Trump failures and chaotic moments in O...

SAD!

Robert Reich
22 hrs
This morning Trump tweeted a popular refrain of white supremacist groups that oppose the removal of Confederate monuments:
“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You..... ...can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!”
No, Mr. Trump. This is not about the removal of confederate monuments. It’s about what those monuments represent. And it’s about your shameless fueling of racism and other forms of hate for political gain.
What do you think?

Defiant, Trump Laments Assault on Culture and Revives a Bogus Pershing Story

There is no such thing as white culture


Sunday, August 20, 2017

Sunday's Ride - 24' Chris-Craft Sportsman FOR SALE at The Boathouse of Madison

Well said

Zoe Spellman
Tell me, born to a Jewish mother, that I should have stayed home when Neo Nazis goose-stepped into my town. Tell me that I should have ignored them when they screamed "Jew will not replace us" on the grounds of my beloved university.
Tell me, a child of Virginia, raised, educated, and settled here, that I have no sense of heritage or pride.
Tell me, a student of history from the University of Virginia, that I don't understand what the Civil War was about or what each side was fighting for.
Tell me about how violently I protested, with my water bottle and cardboard sign.
Tell me all about what the statues of Lee, Jackson, Davis, and Stuart should actually mean to the descendants of those bought, sold, shackled and murdered, who have no such monuments of their own.
Tell me--no, keep telling me--I'm a race traitor, a leftist cunt, a dirty Jew faggot, and a bulldyke whore.
Tell me, who missed being hit by that car by about twelve inches, who saw heads split and legs crushed and bones snapped and who heard screams of terror and saw a woman die, and who can never, ever, ever unsee it, to 'just hear them out, because they're afraid, too.'
Tell me i'm equally to blame for the violence in my little town.
Tell me I deserved it.

As I always thought

Report: Queasy Aussies Killed Trump’s Casino Bid Over “Mafia Connections”

Government documents label Trump’s Atlantic City operations “dangerous.”


Australian authorities simply couldn’t stomach Donald Trump’s alleged mob ties, according to government documents published by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper, The Australian, on Tuesday. The paper’s investigation reveals that Trump’s dream of building a casino in Sydney in the late 1980s was killed off by queasy officials who considered his operations in New Jersey “dangerous.”

In 1987, Trump had already opened two casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey—Trump’s Castle and Trump Plaza—with Trump Taj Mahal on its way. He was looking to expand the empire Down Under by bidding for a spot on Sydney’s picturesque harbor in partnership with a local developer, the Kern Corporation.

When the state government officials met that May to consider proposals for the site, they were presented with a police report that was unambivalent in opposing the plan for a one clear reason. “Atlantic City would be a dubious model for Sydney and in our judgment,” police noted, according to a summary contained in government minutes. “The Trump Mafia connections should exclude the Kern/Trump consortium.” 

Also included in the documents published by The Australian is a fin­ancial report concluding Trump’s partnership had overstated estimated revenue from the ­casino.

Trump’s comments about the Sydney casino at the time foreshadow his bellicosity as president. From The Australian: