Thursday, June 23, 2022

Bloodhounds are beautiful? Must be - ask Trumpet...

Last night I smoked a doob and watched this dog thing on TV. I thought the dog that looked like a mop shoulda won, but what do I know... 


A bloodhound named Trumpet won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show last night. Trumpet beat a French bulldog, a German shepherd, a Maltese, an English setter, a Samoyed and a Lakeland terrier to take the trophy. 'I am so excited for Trumpet,' said handler Heather Helmer, who co-owns and bred the 4-year-old. Trumpet became the first bloodhound to win Westminster.
It's the first time a Bloodhound has won Westminster's Best in Show prize in the event's 146-year history. 
The show featured more than 3,500 dogs with over 200 breeds competing in three different competitions, ranging from affenpinschers to Yorkshire terriers. The goal is to crown the dog that most represents the ideal for its breed.
Usually held in winter at New York City´s Madison Square Garden, the show moved to the suburban Lyndhurst estate last year and this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. 

I never in my life would have believed that watching a bunch of pampered pooches prance around and run through cones and shit would be any kinda fun. But then again I never fired up a chubby and watched this shit, either. We laughed our asses off.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell - a pretty important guy in his own right - broke with President Biden’s repeated attempts to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for the highest inflation in 40 years  on Wednesday. Powell, confirmed last month to a second term as chairman (so he doesn't have to worry about job security), explained to the Senate Banking Committee that "inflation was high before the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which increased global food and energy prices."
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) elicited the remark from Powell at a committee hearing after laying out the fact that inflation grew higher over the course of 2021.
 

“I realize there are a number of factors that play a role in those historic inflation that we’re experiencing - supply chain disruptions, regulations that constrain supply, we’ve got rising inflation expectations and excessive fiscal spending, but the problem hasn’t sprung out of nowhere,” Hagerty said. In January of 2021, inflation was at 1.4%. 
By December of 2021, it had risen to 7% - a fivefold increase. Now, since the war in Ukraine began in late February, the rate of inflation has risen incrementally another 1.6% to a current level of 8.6%. So again, from 7% to 8.6%.”
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A team of Florida wildlife biologists captured the largest Burmese python ever discovered in the state, officials announced yesterday. The gargantuan female serpent, considered an invasive species in Florida, measured nearly 18 feet long and weighed 215 pounds, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
The snake was caught last December in the Everglades following a 20 minute wrestling match with biologists, but researchers left the python in a freezer until April. During a necropsy, the snake was found to have 122 eggs developing in its abdomen - breaking another record for the most eggs female python can produce in a breeding cycle, according to the conservancy.
Why is the Burmese python a problem in Florida?
The pythons are taking over the land and ultimately killing so many of the native species. This growing problem is of major concern for the preservation efforts of the historic wetlands. Experts are labeling the pythons as Florida's largest invasive species that has wreaked havoc on the natural ecosystem. They reproduce in crazy numbers as evidenced by this one snake having had 122 eggs in her!
Here's a very good web site from the State of Florida about why these big motherfuckers are such a problem here:
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/python/
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British Rail is shut down by a strike with the train workers demanding pay increases because of inflation in their country. The Brits pride themselves on their train systems and shutting them down basically shuts down the country, That is some scary power that union has. They'll probably get whatever they want, which will force the railways to raise their prices of fares and that will increase the effects of inflation on the regular Joe's who need the trains to commute. That's the start of a death spiral out of control inflation can become. Juss' sayin'...
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Here's one that didn't make the cut at Westminster:

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Fourth of July is just two weeks away...
If you're looking for a unique gift item for the special lady in your life, 
maybe you should take a look at the jewelry my wife makes. 
Click on either picture to go to her online store: 
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People just need to shut the fuck up and chill. Jeez...
 
 
Residents in the town of Millinocket, Maine, say they are 'outraged and disappointed' after a local insurance agency displayed a racist sign remarking on the Juneteenth holiday. 
Seriously - just between me and you and the fire hydrant, do you really think that a single fuckin' person who lives in this dipshit little backwoods town in the middle of fuckin' nowhere ever uttered either on of those two words? Seriously? Anyway, some jerkoff in the media picked up on this and there ya go...
Meanwhile, the guy who did nothing more than say what is on a lot of people's minds to start with, is gonna be fucked out of his business that probably took him years to foster and grow.
Progressive and Allstate are terminating their relationships with the agency, according to representatives of the insurance companies.
 It was taped to the front of Harry E. Reed Insurance Agency in Millinocket on Monday. The small town sits about three hours outside Portland and some 50 miles away from the U.S.-Canada border.
 
This is what the guys in the media are probably saying about this poor bastard. Maybe he shoulda just shut the fuck up, but he didn't, and now he's fucked. Oh, well...
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This is an aerial photo of John Travolta's house. He is a certified private pilot who owns five aircraft, so it’s only fitting that the actor’s Florida home has two runways that lead directly to his front door.
Travolta’s property, located in the Jumbolair Aviation Estates in Ocala, Florida, is situated on Greystone Airport, about 20 miles west of where I live. The actor was reportedly the first resident of the 550-acre community that caters to people who want fly-in, fly-out access.
The aviation community allows homeowners to land their planes, including Travolta’s Boeing 707 airliner, and taxi up to their homes.
Nice life when ya got the dough, huh?
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What has happened to America's taste in the arts that somehow this kind of crapwaddle could actually make it to Broadway? In a time when everything is SO fucked up in this country, do we really need another 'Rocky - the musical'? I wonder how Leonard Bernstein would react to today's bullshit taste in entertainment. I wonder how West Side Story - in it's original Broadway form and cast - would be received today. I do know that Spielberg - obviously our generation's greatest film maker - crashed and burned when he tried to remake Bernstein's classic in an effort that never, ever should have been undertaken, but that's just my opinion.
 
An interesting side note about Bernstein's original version of his screenplay: The two gangs were originally supposed to be Irish vs: Jewish gangs on the West Side of NYC, but his backers thought that the story line was a little too 'anti-semitic' and forced him to change them to the white bread and Puerto Rican gangs that we know from the story. There was, at that time, a huge influx of Puerto Ricans in to New York, and there was quite a bit of anti-PR backlash going on. The backers didn't give a fuck about pissing off the Ricans, but worried the city's Jews wouldn't like the portrayal. Interesting shit, huh?
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Maybe they could sell of some of the $ 30 billion worth of shit Biden left there when he bailed out of the country to provide aid for their people. Fuck these fuckin' camel-jockey, goat fuckin' towel heads. I feel bad for the innocent folks that are getting fucked by these over-zealous scumbags, but wuddya gonna do, right?
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5 comments:

  1. Let's see how fast FJB and Congress fall all over themselves to ship more money to Afghanistan.

    They might even put the gun control bill on hold to do so.

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  2. We left $75B worth of military hardware in Afghanistan

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  3. so the last three lines were his (witty?) view of non-violent black culture today -
    so I change it to a hypothetical holiday honoring Leo Frank and the last three lines to "Enjoy your Bagels and Lox"; would it get my panties in a twist? Nah, not really.
    if he wouldn't do business with me 'cause I'm Jewish, I'd find another broker, there's a million of 'em around, but for two national firms to terminate their relationship with the agency 'cause of that (and destroy his means of making a living and posssibly him as well)...
    personally, I'd sooner give my business to an anti-Semitic broker than to ever do business with the firms that can't tolerate a bit of weird humor

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  4. Regarding "DOG SHOWS", rent or ortherwise watch the movie "Best In Show" - it is Fuc--ing Hilarous, and as a bonus also features a Bloodhound competing.

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