American Pharoah Wins Tripple Crown

American Pharoah broke the 37 year jinx and won at the Belmont and with it the Tripple Crown, one of the most sought after distinctions in horse racing.  American Pharoah with jockey Victor Espenoza made it look easy and the horse led virtually the entire race and pulled out a little further at the very end.  Frosted came in second and Keen Ice was in third.  Materiality was supposed to be a problem but that horse came in last in an eight horse race.  Of course Tripple Crown winners have to compete with fresh horses that didn’t race in the Preakness.  The race wasn’t run till ten to four our time, which is a little late.   Cosmically - - the fortunes of the jockey were cited as a positive omen if he won.  Victor Espenoza rode War Emblem in 2002 and in last year’s failed attempt on California Chrome.  I first turned on KNBC after tea time at 2:20 or so but that was far too soon.   I listened to JACK radio (if they are still calling it that) but they were playing a bunch of duds.  I also tried to read a William Shatner novel I’d been stuck on.

This is Saturday morning and overcast on June 6, 2015.  It’s the 71^st anniversary of Normandy and also the anniversary of the Ziggy Stardust album, otherwise known as Burt Lombard’s third album with the band.  I think Hannity was right when he said this will be the year we get a Tripple Crown at the Belmont with American Pharoah winning.   This has been the year of the exception of the Charlie rule where you get long shots with horse races.  This has been a year of the favorite.  Bones is not a happy camper with Cleveland losing first the game and then one of their players.  Republicans such as Rick Perry are starting to pay attention to the rampant income inequality we have in America.  And I would say to people such as Rush Limbaugh who dismiss that idea that even if the statement proves to be untrue (or if it were untrue) the idea that it’s the common perception that if you “work hard and play by the rules then you can’t get ahead” this is a dangerous mentality for the average worker to have.   Rick Santorum says that in former times “Everyone’s income level would match the level of their worker proficiency” is no longer true in America now.  You have the lazy freeloader rich, who care almost nothing about a real work ethic- - who live to cheat the system with these rigged derivative investment schemes- - where you win if your client loses, violates the most fundamental conflict of interest precepts.  Bernie Sanders started this conversation about Wall Street and now even the Republicans are following suit.  I had Chris Matthews on for quite a bit this morning and Bruce Jenner was a topic for too large a portion of that time.  I would agree with Santorum saying “Catelyn chooses to be referred to as a woman and I am not going to argue with [him] but genetically Catelyn is still a male with Y chromosones and the rest of [her] DNA is male”.   It gets hard to even hold a conversation at times.  I know little about Gore Vidal except he is way too out there in the leftist sphere, and I’m sure I’d be siding with William Buckley in their debates in 1968.  KNX radio had President Obama talk about immigration and on the Republican side there were (I believe) an awful lot of lies told about this Trans Pacific Trade Authority or whatever it’s called.  None of those guarantees are real.   Neither do I believe any of those statistics on the good that “trade deals” do for manufacture and job that were cited in the speech.   On another topic Bones came out with the statement that “You may have a point there.  If President Obama could lie about how much good the FBI anti terrorist program is doing-  - in terms of creating more “terrorism” than it eliminates- - then perhaps we should take another look at the things the Obama Administration is saying about Russian aggression in the Ukraine.”   It was actually that unnamed “associate” of Bones that convinced Bones to reconsider his position on the whole Putin and Russian aggression thing.  They can’t say “It’s coffee time” any more so now I guess they’re reduced to saying ‘It’s refreshment time”.

It seems TISA or Trade in Services agreement, is contained within the TPP.  This controls such things as internet privacy and health information privacy, or even building a government hospital without the permission of a local private hospital.  The scope of TISA seems to affect more countries than the TPP itself.  None of the BRICS, or Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa - - are affected by the Trans Pacific Partnership.  This idea of having a counter block to oppose the BRICS, to me seems fanciful and counterproductive, even if it’s true.   There are much simpler ways to go about resisting the influence of the BRICS than the TPP is.

UNITED STATES ACTIVITY AND PLANS FOR SYRIA

Barsocchini, like Cole, also suggests that Western governments would not admit to wanting a “Salafist Principality,” even privately. This is incorrect. Declassified filessince World War II prove that Western governments frequently and privately admit to cultivating Islamist extremism for geopolitical reasons.  In summary, the Pentagon report is absolutely clear that the West, the Gulf states and Turkey were supporting the Syrian opposition to attain a common goal: the emergence of a “Salafist” political entity in eastern Syria that would help “isolate” Assad.

Even if we ignore the document’s inclusion of “the West”, Dr. Ahmed points out, the pages still show that “despite ongoing intelligence updates proving that their [the West’s] allies were not funding “moderates” – instead supporting their favoured Islamist terrorists – US and European intelligence advisers on the ground simply continued on the same course.”  Ahmed also notes that “despite official declarations of being able to certify support to “moderates” as opposed to extremists, last year the State Department was unable to identify a single “moderate” rebel group in receipt of Western support.”  Indeed, as reported by Patrick Cockburn in August, 2014, “Jihadi groups ideologically close to al-Qa‘ida have been relabeled as moderate if their actions are deemed supportive of US policy aims.”  And Shamus Cooke commented: “…the U.S.-backed “moderate” group, the Islamic Front, is dominated by the extremist group ahrar al sham.”   Ahmed also notes that the EU has bought oil from ISIS.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH

This morning I got up at a quarter to six.  I developed a little nausea from taking my medication on an empty stomach before breakfast.  I went to the liquor store before seven to get a dollar coffee and the guy asked ‘How come you aren’t buying cigarettes?”  I drank the coffee up here while listening to Stephanie Miller.  John Fugelsang was on the first hour obsessing over this Dugar family closet sin.  I feel they are running this sisterly sexual infringement thing into the ground.  It’s not as if what he did were the worst sin ever.  President Clinton did worse when he raped Juanita Broadwick.  We had Cheerios for breakfast.  The main part of breakfast wasn’t until eight or so.  Now they are pre mixing the cream and sugar in the coffee and I was afraid they were going to run out before they got to our table.  We had tater tots with catsup, and a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly.  At one point I lent Bill my key to get in the room.