Immigration bill

[TheVictors]

Supposed to be idyllic here for the opening day at Del Mar racetrack ...limo picking me up at 10:30! Going to be a very, very fun day of "work"

 

[Michchamp]

MC has provided more substantial criticism of Friedman on this board than Taibbi did in that article. It's very uncharacteristic of Taibbi.

this one might be more to your liking. also, it's more recent. it came out of this earlier article Taibbi wrote, criticising Freidman's piece on Syria "which described our Iraq invasion as the U.S diving on a grenade we ourselves exploded, by pulling out the pin of Saddam Hussein." For the record, he's aware of the fact that kicking around Freidman isn't exactly fresh anymore:

I know, this is getting very old. I promise, after this, to not mention Thomas Friedman for a long time. But his column today was so old-school, it deserves some attention.
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[redandguilty]

okay.

as far as the immigration bill goes, I'm not really too familiar with it. Though if Friedman is writing about it, I'm skeptical it's really that good for America; it's more likely not good, or bad, just one of those things DC and the media invent to kick around and distract the rest of us, while they really conduct other business behind closed doors.

uh...

so... it's hot out here today, and humid. we're in one of those bad summer heat waves. I guess Detroit is too. what's it like in NC?

High of about 90?, 70% humidity. We've had so much rain lately, it's been unusually cool, but that seems to be over now. So much rain it impacted the garden negatively. Green beans are the only thing that looks happy. I'm staying inside 'til dinner. Then I'm hitting up the macaroni and cheese food truck. http://www.macurroni.com/?page_id=15

 

[tinselwolverine]

Supposed to be idyllic here for the opening day at Del Mar racetrack ...limo picking me up at 10:30! Going to be a very, very fun day of "work"

Can you box the trifecta for me on the 1, 2 and 3 horse in the 5th race?

I promise I'm good for the six bucks.

 

[TheVictors]

I like Undrafted in the 6th..

 

[redandguilty]

this one might be more to your liking. also, it's more recent. it came out of this earlier article Taibbi wrote, criticising Freidman's piece on Syria "which described our Iraq invasion as the U.S diving on a grenade we ourselves exploded, by pulling out the pin of Saddam Hussein." For the record, he's aware of the fact that kicking around Freidman isn't exactly fresh anymore:

I know, this is getting very old. I promise, after this, to not mention Thomas Friedman for a long time. But his column today was so old-school, it deserves some attention.
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Yeah. Much better. As soon as you go to the Middle East, I can't defend Friedman anymore. I want to like, nope, I generally do like the feel-good, middle-of-the-road, well-regulated trade solves everything take on economics in spite of the "herds of hunters", but he needs to recognize that economics are his comfort zone.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Can you box the trifecta for me on the 1, 2 and 3 horse in the 5th race?

I promise I'm good for the six bucks.

5 furlongs, approximately 4:13 pm start time. 2 yr old fillies, 118 lbs.

1 - Lethal Story, jockey Alonso Quinonez

2 - Cause Ur My Babe, jockey Mike Smith

3 - Sky Forever, jockey Martin Pedroza

 

[tinselwolverine]

I like Undrafted in the 6th..

Undrafted

6th Race Del Mar, July 17, 2013

5th Horse

Wesley Ward, Owner

Jockey, Joel Rosario

3 yr old, bred in Kentucky

 

[tinselwolverine]

5 furlongs, approximately 4:13 pm start time. 2 yr old fillies, 118 lbs.

1 - Lethal Story, jockey Alonso Quinonez

2 - Cause Ur My Babe, jockey Mike Smith

3 - Sky Forever, jockey Martin Pedroza

Wait...that can't be the weight in pounds...

 

[tinselwolverine]

Wait...that can't be the weight in pounds...

Oh...that's right...it's the weight they'll be carrying...

 

[tinselwolverine]

Undrafted

6th Race Del Mar, July 17, 2013

5th Horse

Wesley Ward, Owner

Jockey, Joel Rosario

3 yr old, bred in Kentucky

121 lbs...

Initial line 5/2

 

[tinselwolverine]

121 lbs...

Initial line 5/2

Oceanside Stakes; 1 mile, post approx. 4:45 PM PDST

 

[TheVictors]

I know little about the horses I will be betting on, but that's not the reason you go to opening day...

 

[Michchamp]

couple years back I had a day off, and went to the track on the SW Side of Chicago. Far cry from Del Mar...

anyways, I talked to some of the local guys betting there - mostly retired union laborers - and they said it's important to know the jockeys, because good jockeys win more races. the horse is of less concern, unless you're dealing with a particularly gifted specimen (and there aren't many of those in the day-to-day horse races.)

 

[tinselwolverine]

I know little about the horses I will be betting on, but that's not the reason you go to opening day...

Me too, I don't know anything about the 1, 2 or 3 horse in the 5th, those are just numbers that popped into my head.

All the data I posted was right from today's program that I pulled up online...

 

[tinselwolverine]

Me too, I don't know anything about the 1, 2 or 3 horse in the 5th, those are just numbers that popped into my head.

All the data I posted was right from today's program that I pulled up online...

Frankly, I'm a little surprised Red & Guilty didn't beat me to it...

 

[TheVictors]

Yeah, I have heard about it being the jockeys ...and those dudes are small! One "tip" I got was to bet the jockeys that come the furthest so that a jockey from Brazil > one from SoCal ....a lot of folks had race forms on their desks yesterday

 

[tinselwolverine]

couple years back I had a day off, and went to the track on the SW Side of Chicago. Far cry from Del Mar...

anyways, I talked to some of the local guys betting there - mostly retired union laborers - and they said it's important to know the jockeys, because good jockeys win more races. the horse is of less concern, unless you're dealing with a particularly gifted specimen (and there aren't many of those in the day-to-day horse races.)

I went to see Willie Shoemaker's last race - or maybe it was the opening day of his last season, not sure, that was, wow, more than 20 years ago...it was at Santa Anita...

I think that's the last time I went to the track. I bought tickets for my wife and me to go to the first day of Breeders' Cup when it was at Santa Anita in 2009; but I had to go out of town that weekend for some sudden impending family business...

So the wife went with her sister...I think she ended up winning $100, or something like that...