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May 05 2019
Cinco de Mayo
Reprinted from 5/5/2012 The name simply means “The Fifth of May” and it’s an oddly U.S. American holiday. Except in the State of Puebla they don’t much celebrate the victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in Mexico which makes it much more like Patriot’s Day that we here in New England get …
May 04 2019
The Longest 2 Minutes In Sports
This was no ordinary homecoming. This was a do-or-die attempt to lay the ghost of years of rejection from the horse-rearing elite and the literati who sat in those privileged boxes overlooking the track and those unprivileged craven hordes who grovelled around the centre-field where he had suffered as a boy. The clubhouse as …
May 02 2019
Coupé de Ville
Not quite what you think– A car body style produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver’s position and an enclosed compartment for passengers. Take that you filthy Prole. But Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio doesn’t know either- Was Donald Trump the target of a coup? No By Louis Jacobson, Politifact Monday, April …
May 02 2019
Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
The President Wants To Shoot Migrants At The Border It would have a strong deterrent effect.
May 01 2019
Article One Powers
Among them is to set their own rules of order. Filibuster in the House? Sure, why not? We’ve already had the Hastert Rule, named after a convicted pedophile- Dennis Hastert. In court submissions on sentencing considerations filed in April 2016, federal prosecutors made allegations of sexual misconduct against Hastert, saying that he had molested at …
May 01 2019
Allez le Barricades!
The Internationale Arise ye workers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dust to win the prize. So comrades, come rally …