Beer Nut

There's a very good reason the media are silent about the Milwaukee mass shooting

By Andrea Widburg

On Wednesday, an angry ex-employee got a gun, put a silencer on it, went to the MillersCoors facility where he had once worked, and shot five people to death before shooting himself. One would expect to have a barrage of news stories about America's gun violence problem and the need to ban guns. After all, on Tuesday, before the shooting happened, the Democrat candidates were all over each other trying to explain why each would be more effective at destroying the Second Amendment. Instead, we got crickets.

The reason for the media's silence became apparent when the media identified the shooter: 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill was black. This meant that the media couldn't use its white supremacist narrative to justify grabbing guns.

... If the media were genuinely committed to gutting the Second Amendment, they would have promoted this shooting equally with other mass shootings. That they didn't is a reminder that Democrat values tend to be situational. Guns are all right in some hands but not in others.

For example, even though Democrat-run inner cities are a place of routine gun carnage, the media tend to ignore all the black-on-black shooting that takes place in those cities, despite the sad fact that those shootings account for most of the non-suicide gun deaths in America. This silence suggests that Democrats don't care about blacks, no matter how much they claim to.

Democrats are also loath to dwell on these shootings because they invariably occur in tightly gun-controlled communities and are carried out by people possessing illegal guns. Thus, anti-gun laws made no difference to the deadly outcome.

The media really get agitated when a person who is not a member of one of the Left's protected classes kills with a gun. The most agitating thing of all is when the person kills white people. In other words, because most media members are themselves white, they are most offended when their own kind is killed. Again, this has to do with situational, not actual, ethics.

Democrats are wrong to demand gun control. Guns out are there, making them a Pandora's box. Denying the legions of decent Americans the right to have guns for self-defense, whether against the criminal in their midst or (God forbid!) against a government gone rogue, is morally and constitutionally wrong. But what's even more wrong about the Democrats' antipathy to guns is that they really care about guns only when people like them are the victims and when the shooter does not belong to a favored victim identity group.

And that's why Anthony Ferrill's vile, criminal act is being memory-holed as surely as the media have memory-holed the fact that it was a Bernie Bro who tried to kill the entire Republican Congress a few years ago.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/theres_a_very_good_reason_the_media_is_silent_about_the_milwaukee_mass_shooting.html

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Shooter at Milwaukee Molson Coors had a long-running dispute with a co-worker

MILWAUKEE – The man who opened fire at the Molson Coors plant Wednesday, killing five co-workers and himself, had been involved in a long-running dispute with a co-worker that boiled over, according to law enforcement and brewery sources who spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

...Ferrill was a licensed industrial journeyman electrician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Milwaukee.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/27/milwaukee-molson-coors-shooter-had-long-running-dispute-co-worker/4893244002/

Truth in Communism

The Elephant in the Living Room: The Communist Origins of Modern Antifa

February 26, 2020

by General Nick Zeljko Glasnovic

The following text is the translation of two speeches given by General Nick Z. Glasnovic in January 2020 in the Parliament of Croatia. Transl. by T. Sunic. General Glasnovic is an MP in the Croatian Parliament

Starting from the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1988, communist regimes all over the world killed tens of millions of people. Those mass killings were carried out in the name of equality, democracy and tolerance. Most of those killed were victims of “self-genocide” given that they were mostly victims of their own countrymen. Such criminal communist insanity had been planned to the last detail. Wherever the communist cabal had come into power, i.e., from Mongolia to the Adriatic coast, the most vital part of the population had to be beheaded first.

In an effort to destroy the Christian tradition, communists had to remove the Church and the clergy. During the early communist revolutionary post-World War II fervor, religious leaders were often burned alive, or buried alive, or crucified alive. The Bolsheviks, in 1918, buried alive the Russian Christian Orthodox Bishop Andronicus. In 1937, the Russian theologian, mathematician and inventor, Pavel Florensky, after being subjected to torture, was executed by the Communist authorities. He was one of nameless 750,000 victims of the NKVD (Soviet secret police). He was shot in the neck at the height of the communist repression, later to be known as Stalin’s “Great Purge.” In addition to killing millions of people of various religious denominations (mostly Christians), more than 110,000 clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church were executed. Even the Red Army needed to be partially beheaded. Stalin executed several Soviet marshals, generals and tens of thousands of lower rank officers during the 1936–1937 purges. In 1931, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, which could accommodate up to 10,000 believers, was blown up by Stalin’s thugs. Books by foreign authors were burned or banned. In 1940, after Stalin had dismembered the Baltic states, literature in vernacular languages in those countries ​​was also banned.

Brainwashing was an integral part of all communist regimes, with psychiatric experiments on prisoners becoming a daily routine. Politically incorrect thinkers were confined to psychiatric wards where they were drugged, tortured and questioned. The Soviet NKVD and, later on, their smaller post-World War II copycat East European outlets shortly after they were established began to experiment with nerve poison, a method used later to “neutralize” political opponents, both at home and abroad. Prisoners were killed by mustard gas, ricin and digitoxin. After years of imprisonment, the Archbishop of the Ukrainian Church Theodore George Romzha was killed by a curare injection.

Nor did communism spare scientists, especially those who had obtained some prominence in the fields of genetics and forensics. The biologist Nikolai Koltsov, a Russian pioneer of modern genetics, became a victim of communist poisoning in 1940. On the same day, his wife committed suicide. Many Soviet pseudo-scientists, including a famed hoaxer Trofim Lysenko, who had rejected Mendel’s laws of heredity, succeeded in setting back for decades all efforts in genetic research in Russia. Some modalities of the Lysenko’s quackery can be observed today among many Antifa and LGTB outlets who claim that gender and race are a matter of free choice and are not influenced by heredity.

In the early days of the communist experiment, the method of weaponizing food against their own people was also widespread, as was observed on the massive scale during the great famine in Ukraine in the 1930s. The mandatory communist slogan in the early 1950s, enforced all over communized Eastern Europe, went something like this: “We shall grow wheat from the heavens so that hungry America and England can see it.” In order to suppress the revolt in May 1950 in the Cazin region of what is today a small slice of northwestern Bosnia, the Yugoslav communist strongman Josip B. Tito, sent units of the Yugoslav National Army to quell the rebellion of starved peasants.

The Memory Hole

Victims of the Communist mass terror don’t seem to be a favored theme of Hollywood movies, docudrama, and TV series. These horrors are presented as little more than a minor footnote in history textbooks. What do graduate students in the West know about Vasily Blokhin, the NKVD executive responsible for the execution of more than 7,000 Polish officers in the spring of 1940? What do Western students know about the fate of Ljudevit Jurak (1881–1945) and Eduard Miloslavic (1884–1952), two Croatian forensic experts who studied the mass graves at Katyn and Vinnitsa, hired in 1943 by the German Wehrmacht to examine the bodies of Poles massacred in 1940 by the Soviet commissars? What do Chinese students, or for that matter Western students, know today about the “Great leap forward” and the “Cultural Revolution” (1966–1976) of Chairman Mao Zedong which nearly destroyed 3,000 years of Chinese history? The dead hand of Marxism and Leninism still extends over the European continent, albeit under the new label of “antifascism.” Former communist affiliates and their latter-day antifa progeny have now rebaptized themselves into Social Democrats and Liberals. Former Yugoslav Titoists and their descendants in Croatia haven’t disappeared; they operate now under different party names, using more digestible parliamentary paraphernalia such as the “HNS” (Croatian People’s Party) the “IDS” (Istria’s Democratic Assembly), and the “HSS” ( Croatian Peasant Party). The much vaunted Council of Europe resolution 1481, adopted in 2006 and condemning communist crimes, remains a dead letter, good enough to assuage the guilty consciences of Brussels bureaucrats.

The communist regimes left not only human, economic and ecological devastation. Communist anthropology has distorted the mental makeup of generations to come. Communism had given birth to a species deprived of any moral values, of any sense of personal responsibility, and of any sense of striving for common good. The Russian writer Alexander Zinoviev called this species an “honest liar.” In November 2019, the Belgrade historian Srdjan Cvetkovic visited Zagreb. At a scientific meeting, sponsored by the Croatian Institute of History he confirmed the long-held public secret that 56,000 Serbs had been killed from 1944 to 1946 in Serbia by the victorious Yugoslav Communists. More than 20% of those killed were under the age of 18. The conference, as was to be expected, was ignored by the mainstream media in Croatia, thus reminding us that the authorities in Croatia and her EU watchdog, are the only ones who decide on the political narrative in the mainstream media. What do children learn now in Croatia about the history of the communist crimes against the Croatian people? Nor do they know anything about the largest ethnic cleansing campaign in European history and the destruction of the German minority in the former Yugoslavia during and after World War II. One must not forget that lies and deception were imprinted in the Bolshevik genetic code. Henceforth their offspring consider themselves as the only genuine interpreters of modern history.

The history of Eastern Europe has been mapped out by countless “Naked Islands,” big or small Gulag archipelagos, foibes, and unexplored mass graves. Almost daily the Croat media report on the newly found mass graves dating back to 1945–46. To this day the ruling class in the West has shown a total lack of personal and legal conscience towards victims of communism. If we give up the search for the truth, we also sign our moral capitulation and we decide to participate in the erasure of our collective memory. It looks, however, that we will have to put up for a much longer time with the communist elephants in our living rooms.

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/02/26/the-elephant-in-the-living-room-the-communist-origins-of-modern-antifa/

Capitalized Socialism

Universal Basic Income: A Dream Come True for Despots

- Antony Sammeroff

After all, these governments are composed of the same people who launched a permanent war in the Middle East, wasting trillions of dollars on destroying millions of lives. These governments bailed out the banks from the public purse and gave themselves raises after telling the rest of the nation we had to tighten our belts. They have robbed the young of the opportunity to own a home by sending house prices through the roof and mean to leave them a nation in ruinous debt. They continue locking away huge numbers of people for decades for victimless crimes, leaving their children to be raised single-handed. They created an oligopoly of higher education provision forcing generations into student debt that cannot be defaulted on, and healthcare systems that are so restrictive that people must pay inordinate sums to get care or are otherwise forced onto government waiting lists so long that many of their conditions are chronic or untreatable before they are seen to.

Am I the only one who thinks these powers may be used for evil rather than good?

https://mises.org/wire/universal-basic-income-dream-come-true-despots

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The Minimum Wage by Miles Mathis

I just tripped across some minimum wage stats in researching something else, and was shocked. No, scratch that. Not shocked. I am past being shocked by anything. I am very far from being numb, and I found this very saddening, but “shocked” is the wrong word. I now understand the predatory nature of the ruling class, and this is just one more instance of that. What is a bit awe inspiring, however, is that the levels of predation of the upper classes on the lower have gotten so much greater in the past 40 years. Since the rich weren't doing badly 40 years ago, there is really no excuse for it. What turned my head was discovering the minimum wage for tipped employees (like waiters) is now $2.13/hr. When I was waiting tables in college, it was $2.00/hr. That was 36 years ago. That's a 6% rise in 36 years. Do you know how much inflation we have had in that time? About 300%, or 4x (4 times). What cost $1 then now costs $4. Meaning? That $2.13 is really worth about 53 cents. Or, waiters now are getting paid about 1/4th what I was getting paid in 1984.

http://mileswmathis.com/wage.pdf 

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The Great Pension Fund Hoax - Corporation Nation 2 - Clint Richardson

https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=X44W8UXX61BX

TRT 3:53:23

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https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/01/social-solution003.html

Free Shit

Bernie Bros and the Catastrophe of Socialism

By Lloyd Marcus

The love affair of young Americans with Bernie Sanders is the result of their disturbingly disastrous belief that they are entitled to what other people worked for. Pied Piper Bernie seduces young followers with his seductive lie: “You deserve and I will give you everything for free.” Ponder that, folks. In Bernie's America, no one has to work for anything.

Unless Bernie is another Jesus Christ who can feed 5,000 with a few fish and loaves of bread, Bernie's free everything means everyone will get a crumb -- long lines waiting for a crumb of healthcare, food, and so on. Far too many youths are Bernie Bros, true believers of his absurd mystical Promise Land where everyone gets a free ride.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/bernie_bros_and_the_catastrophe_of_socialism.html

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Exploding Cigar II: Florida's Democrats panic after Bernie Sanders blows a kiss to Castro
By Monica Showalter

The Latino refugees and now voters of Florida know. They really, really know. They know Bernie's promise of a socialist paradise is false because they've heard it before. And they sure as heck aren't interested in getting fooled again.

And this is a very important detail, because the press will soon be calling them "intransigent" and other crapola, subtly making Bernie the victim instead.

It's absolute garbage.

Number one, the first thing all these voters will remember is that all of these socialist hellholes began with pretty promises of free stuff for everyone, just as Bernie promises, everything democratically done, everything "for the people." All they saw, though, was an immensely empowered government with zero freedoms left for them, taking complete control over what they read, what kind of health care they get, and what they are allowed to think. Socialists such as Bernie claim it's a "tradeoff" -- less freedom but more free stuff, daddy government taking care of your every need -- but these voters know firsthand that that's a naked lie. Once the people lost their freedoms, they get nothing, not one thing. Cuban kids eat ice to stave off hunger. Today's "stat of the day" from Venezuela from Axios's Mike Allen is that one third of the people all these goodies were promised to ... are literally starving. It's billed as a "stat of the day." For Venezuelans involved in this, that's no bite-sized factlet to move on from, it's the ugly, ugly, ugly and ongoing reality and why they want that socialist hellhole regime gone.

Communism in fact is the vilest lying system ever devised, with millions of dead to its name. Babalu Blog's distinguished Yale professor contributor, Carlos Eire, has a superb list of just why Sanders might really be calling it appealing and none of his reasons are attractive reasons. Not one good thing can be given to it.

With all power in the hands of the state, citizens lose their power to make any choices in their lives. At the same time, central planning will ensure that only a nomenklatura party elite will ever be serviced by the all-powerful state, the locals will be left with no food, no health care, no libraries, and no right to complain about it, either, because the freedom's gone. At that point, they know the only thing they will ever be reliably fed by communists are lies.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/exploding_cigar_ii_floridas_democrats_in_panic_after_bernie_sanders_blows_a_kiss_to_castro.html

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/stop_being_so_optimistic_about_a_universal_basic_income.html

cOG dIS*... 001

Americans want entertainers for their made-for-TV politicians. Poor, dignified Mr. Bloomberg didn’t know he would face professional actors, not legislators. Eric Margolis

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE 

1) The Democrats made Congress spend 45 million dollars on a report absolving Trump of “Russian collusion” and may nominate a Communist who honeymooned in Moscow.

2) Bleating like a Quaker, "It's for the children" and supporting late term abortion.

3) The front runner to be sacrificed in November, today, is either a man who hates billionaires or a billionaire.

4) Is Mayor Pete the husband or the wife? Both?

5) The Democratic Party, for all is Civil Rights blather, was the original home of the Ku Klux Klan. Jackie Robinson was a Republican.

6) Hillary has a philandering husband and she decides to stay with him.

7) The Socialist candidate is a millionaire with three homes.

8) Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and New York City are Democratic strongholds.

9) There are too many candidates flying around the country in their private jets, screaming about climate change, carbon footprint and the end of the world. The great Beto O'Rourke kicked off his campaign with, 'Vote for Me or the World is Going to End'.

10) Nancy Pelosi lives in a compound with a ten foot high wall and armed security guards at the entrance. Barry and Mike bought a mansion 15 from the ocean shoreline. Joe Biden is still campaigning.

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March 12, 2020

The Left's Pretend Virtue

By Steve Matteucci

Pretend virtue is the leftists’ stock-in-trade.

They pretend to fight for women while they encourage them to give in to the men who want to use them for sex, to dress for men’s pleasure, to kill their own children, and now to accept men using their bathrooms and overrunning their sporting events.

They pretend to care about children but encourage them to be dangerously promiscuous, indoctrinate, rather than teach, them in school, scare them with tales of global catastrophes caused by their parents, and are now grooming them to accept as normal gender reassignments.

They pretend to be the great defenders of racial minorities while destroying their cities, splitting up their families, letting them kill each other off, and keeping them dependent on government.

They pretend to care about the poor while they advocate policies that hurt the poor, from rent control (reduces available housing thus increasing its cost), minimum wage laws (artificially increases the cost of labor, keeping the unskilled from getting a job that would get them into the workforce), lax immigration laws (increases the number of workers, holding down wages), taxes and regulation (increases the cost and risk of creating their own jobs), and welfare benefits (decreases the incentive to get a job and work their way out of poverty and dependency).

Dear Bernie*

Dear Bernie,

As far as a National Health Plan,  I do NOT want drug addicts, intravenous drug addicts, people addicted to pills.  I do NOT intend to pay for medical bills for lung cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer,or any other cancer in a tobacco user.  The pre-existing condition for the obese was thin.  They will NOT be in my health plan.  Alcoholics are NOT to be in my health plan.  My health plan will NOT allow sex change procedure or abortion as birth control.  Muslims are not welcome, but Christ. Scientists and Seventh Day Adventists are.  Not a chance for homosexual men, and that goes for whores, too.

The people I do want in my health plan are yoga teachers, organic farmers, raw food and juice adherents, regular exercisers, sober, conscientious people of high moral character.  All newborns and children are covered in my health plan.  The elderly, also.

In general, people who desire and work towards health will be insured. Those using tobacco, alcohol, drugs, or having a food or sex addiction can start their own plan.  Bad behavior consisting of slow  self-murder is not my concern, nor do I wish to fund it.

I, sure as hell, am not going to contribute to an International Health Plan.

Sen. Sanders, do you think my requests are so outlandish? Please fashion a plan with these policies and I will wholeheartedly support your quest to be President of the United States.

Sincerely, 

an American citizen

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The Stupid, It Berns II

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Top Five Things I Observed Attending Yesterday’s Bernie Rally in Denver

https://realityanddenial.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/aging-hippie-bernie-rally-somewhat-reminiscent-of-the-60s/

1) There was a strong presence of drugs.

2) There was a lot of sexual depravity.

3) There was a noticeable lack of racial diversity in attendance.

4) The rally was surprisingly low energy.

5) The whole rally was built on fear.

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My Walk on the Wild Side – Attending a Bernie Sanders Rally

By Brian C. Joondeph

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/my_walk_on_the_wild_side__attending_a_bernie_sanders_rally.html

The Bernie rally started off with some local officials whipping up the crowd, including one young woman with a high-pitched voice screeching unintelligibly, a metaphor for the Democrat party, made worse by the dismal acoustics in the convention center. Finally, Bernie, the man of the hour, took stage and launched into his standard stump speech.

Trump is a racist, sexist, homophobe. (So is Michael Bloomberg based on recent revelations, but Bernie hasn’t gone there, yet.) America is a racist country through and through, he told the raucous throngs. The solutions are the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. As predictable as sunrise and sunset.

It was indeed a walk on the wild side. As Lou Reed sang in the iconic song, “Everybody had to pay and pay. A hustle here and a hustle there.” Every one of Bernie’s proposals was a hustle. Everybody, not just the rich, has to pay and pay. Interestingly, four years ago, Bernie railed against millionaires and billionaires. Now that he is in the former category, he only mentions billionaires. Who of course aren’t “paying their fair share” of taxes.

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Hershey Squirt*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/12/hersey-squirt.html

The Stupid, It Berns

The Myth of Bernie Sanders’s Honesty

By Selwyn Duke

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/the_myth_of_bernie_sanderss_honesty.html

... Oh, he certainly possesses authentic passion. Sanders isn’t empty to the core, as an early Arkansas Democrat critic said of Bill Clinton; he’s not a full-fledged opportunist such as Queen of Mean Amy Klobuchar or Pistol Pete Buttigieg, whose Marxist father, unbelievably, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society (you can’t make this stuff up!). Nonetheless, Sanders would certainly understand late comedian Lenny Bruce’s observation, “We’re all as honest as we can afford to be.”

... A great saying informs, “A man capable of deceiving only others is not nearly as dangerous as a man capable of deceiving himself.” The worst deception is self-deception. A normally dishonest person is to be reviled, but he could conceivably experience conscience pangs and decide to tell others the truth. But the self-deluded mislead others as a matter of course simply by relating what they’ve convinced themselves is truth, and, barring an epiphany-inducing conversion of heart and soul, can never set the record straight because their own perception is crooked.

... While Sanders is no genius and more wizened than wise, he’s not a dumb man, either. So, is there an excuse for his not knowing, at this late date, the devil he dances with in socialism? It’s like a 21st century psychiatrist still subscribing to trepanation or a modern investment adviser recommending alchemy to increase precious metals holdings. It’s gross, damnable malpractice.

... Well, note that recent Project Veritas undercover videos showed his campaign staff talking about putting political opponents in gulags, Soviet style, and even summarily executing them. (This, not to mention the Bernie supporter who committed the 2017 congressional baseball shooting and the one who just tried to burn a California GOP office.) Of course, it would be unfair to definitively attribute to a man beliefs stated, unauthorized, by underlings.

Except that Sanders has not fired even one of these Marxists.

... Caricature by Donkey Hotey

Contact Selwyn Duke, follow him on Gab (preferably) or Twitter, or log on to SelwynDuke.com.

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Beisball 2020*

I just love this picture

It's Pitchers-and-Catchers time in the old ball yard. 

 First things First!  

This is THE YEAR!  

GooooYoooouuuuuWhiiiiiiiiteeee Sooooxxx! 

-Andy the Clown 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_the_Clown

The Houston Astros with bench coach Alex Cora, won the World Series 2017.  The Boston Red Sox with manager Alex Cora won 2018.  What an amazing 'leader of men'.  It does help to have a live camera feed from the outfield to the dugout stealing the catchers signs so the batter has a heads up.

If nobody knows that, it does look good on the Yearly Performance Review.  But if people do know the scheme was in place, you look like Bozo.  Not exactly illegal in a criminal way, just plain weasal -like.  Not starred on the new resume he needs to punch up.  

As if Bill Veeck hired Andy the Clown to managed the White Sox.  I wonder if he gave that consideration.  Bill's first hire when he and his "partners" took ownership was Paul Richards, long time baseball man with a reputation of doing what was needed to win. While he managed the team, low tech, he used a guy with binoculars in center field and his assistant waving a handkerchief. The SouthSide Hitmen of 77-78 lead the league in homers in the largest field, by far, in the American League (440 center and 352 on the lines.)  Long, loopy fly balls with a 'plink' off the bat, especially in the later innings.  We cheered like mad.

Jack McDowell spilled the beans on Tony LaRussa using a light on the smaller scoreboard to signal the batter.  Not much new under the sun, only getting higher tech.

Wavy Lines... Wavy Lines... Garth... Wavy Lines

In some crazy willy-nilly  decision, Bubsy, Daniher, Frankie and I decided outside the usual left field lower deck grandstand location, where Old Willie McGee would buy all us beers from Sawtooth Darling, the vendor. Willie would  pay from the 16 yr olds' money, one for himself. Only fittin'.

Whatever reason, on a sunny day in May, upper deck behind the plate,
in our youthful jerkiness, settled into our seats.  I was filling in my score card and fooling with the little pencil, dropped it and while trying to find it in a tangle of legs, Tom Egan, a big, right handed hitting catcher, hit the ball out of the park.  Right down the third base line, just past the pennant and over the roof.  I was on my hands and knees looking for my pencil.  People jumping up and down. I missed it.  That's why I will always remember 352 ft down the line, those big yellow numbers at the top of the wall in my sight line.

Roger Broussard, the Sodfather of Comiskey Park, groundskeeper extraordinaire would have half the first base running lane in two feet of fine sand when Rickey Henderson came to town.  Didn't matter, he'd be safe and two pitches later he's be on third, esp. w/ Carlton Fisk's pus arm. Henderson may be all-time best in my lifetime, I'll give that some consideration, he is from Oakland and I hold a grudge.  Roger should write a book, an oral history of his secrets.  Baseball Omerta keeps them sealed.

Didn't Alex's brother Joey play for the Sox?  Maybe Joey picked up some tricks from the Masters and relayed it to his big time big league big brother manager brother.

A.J. Hinch, the manager of the 2018 Astros says he knew, but didn't stop it. Dweeb. It was hatched by Carlos Beltran, in the meantime named manager of the 2020 Mets.  He is also creating a new resume to hawk, but in Espanol, as Carlos will go back to the old country and never be heard from again.

MLB fined the team's owner, who in great Old Texas Oil Man grumpiness called a press conference and told everyone to fuck off.  Altuve was also there, the MVP for that year.  I think they should cut his fingers off on a paper cutter at home plate on Opening Day.  If I was a Muslim, that is.

Let's talk about those on the team definitively did not get advantage from the cheating - the Astros and Red Sox pitchers. Except for pitching with a lead, there is no Quo Quid Bono for their job BUT you are on a team.  Not many secrets after 180 ball games or so, barnstorming the country.  The coaches are also more culpable, as they have to have higher degree of integrity as their position shows. 

MY RULING (I got this one, Commish):  The World Series of 2017 and 2018 shall be vacated, declared un-won.  All prize money, all endorsement, merchandising monies of the unofficial winners, namely the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox, shall be allocated in a fair and agreed upon manner to the players and club of the officially declared 'undefeated' teams in all playoff games involving Houston and Boston through the World Series 2017 and 2018, respectively.

Although the Astros returned to the Series in 2019, they were defeated by the Nationals.  Those opponent clubs and players in the Astros playoff rush shall fairly compensated by the Houston Astros baseball club.

SOLUTION: Bluetooth from pitcher to catcher to dugout.

and

A Big Finger Wave and Warning to Everyone in MLB
No, No, Never

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This is the year, Walt

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Pitchers and Catchers*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/02/pitchers-and-catchers.html

Opening Day*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/04/opening-day.html

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REMEMBERING MARK FIDRYCH

MARCH 20, 2020 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF

For those who missed the Mark Fidrych experience, here’s some background. Fidrych debuted as a 21 year old rookie for the Detroit Tigers in 1976. He made the club with only a year and a half of experience in the minor leagues.

Inserted into the starting rotation in mid-May, Fidrych won nine of his first ten starts. His only loss was to Boston, 2-0. He completed all but one of these starts.

For the season, Fidrych went 19-9 with 2.34 ERA and 24 complete games (in 31 starts) for a bad team. He didn’t win the AL Cy Young award, the great Jim Palmer did. But from the time Fidrych entered the starting rotation until the end of the season, the Bird was as good as Palmer.

... After baseball, Fidrych returned to his home in Northborough, Massachusetts. He farmed, drove a truck, and did odd jobs. Once, when someone said to him “don’t I know you from somewhere?” Fidrych replied “I used to work at the Sunoco station at the corner.”

Fidrych died in 2009, at age 54, in an accident as he worked underneath a truck.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/remembering-mark-fidrych.php

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Miss you, A.J.

Evan Gattis on Astros Cheating Scandal: ‘We F*cked Up’

"Everybody wants to be the best player in the f–king world, man…and we cheated that, for sure, and we obviously cheated baseball and cheated fans,” Gattis said. “Fans felt duped. I feel bad for fans.

“I’m not asking for sympathy or anything like that. If our punishment is being hated by everybody forever, just like whatever. I don’t know what should be done, but something had to f–king be done. I do agree with that, big-time. I do think it’s good for baseball that we’re cleaning it up…And I understand that it’s not f–king good enough to say sorry. I get it.”

An MLB investigation into the Astros sign-stealing scheme resulted in the suspensions of both the general manager and manager, in addition to the forfeiting of first and second round picks in 2020 and 2021, and a $5 million fine.

“We didn’t look at our moral compass and say this is right,” Gattis said. “It was almost like paranoia warfare or something. But what we did was wrong. Don’t get it twisted, it was wrong for the nature of competition, not even just baseball.”

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/04/02/evan-gattis-astros-cheating-scandal-we-fcked-up/

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Cranial saw, please

 

Europeans resent Trump's forcing them to contribute to their own defense

By Andrea Widburg

If you really want to shock leftists, tell them Europe does not have, and has never had, socialized medicine or, indeed, socialized anything. European nations certainly had government-controlled medicine. They also boasted short work weeks, long vacations, year-long maternity leaves, early retirement, fully-paid-for old-age care, and all sorts of other things that made them feel superior to Americans.

However, contrary to Europeans' self-satisfied faux-socialist vision of themselves, Europeans didn't fund their so-called "soft socialism." Instead, for the most part, Americans did. During the Cold War, the government collected taxes from Americans to pay Europe's defense costs, allowing Europeans to spend their tax money on all those little socialist luxuries. Americans, meanwhile; worked 60-hour weeks; got short vacations; and paid for their own medical care, old-age care, and maternity leave

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/europeans_resent_trumps_forcing_them_to_contribute_to_their_own_defense.html

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Bullshit Everywhere

Bullshit.  Bullshit Everywhere

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http://mileswmathis.com/panther.pdf

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/11/reporter-uncovers-history-changing-manson-family-connections-to-cia-and-hollywood.html

https://truepundit.com/video-epstein-medical-examiner-drops-autopsy-bombshell-no-dna-test-conducted-to-confirm-epsteins-identity/

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/RlpYFhT20rNv/

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The Trayvon Hoax Shines a Light on the 'Fake News' Industry

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/emthe_trayvon_hoaxem_shines_a_light_on_the_fake_news_industry.html

We Are All George Zimmerman Now

By George Zimmerman

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/we_are_all_george_zimmerman_now.html

Just take it, George... shut up and sit down.

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Jersey City Gladio is One Big Convoluted Story

December 12, 2019 Russ Winter

https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/12/jersey-city-gladio-is-one-big-convoluted-story/

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"Antifa" Organization Has 501(c)(3) Status

Eric Striker Nov 24, 2019

https://national-justice.com/current-events/antifa-organization-has-501c3-status

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The Hollywood Story of ‘Amistad’ Was a Fictional Exaggeration, Missing in Historic Texts and Records
February 19, 2020 Russ Winter

https://www.winterwatch.net/2020/02/ship-of-fools-the-hollywood-story-of-amistad-was-a-fictional-exaggeration-missing-in-historic-texts-and-records/

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