It was insulting that Netanyahu insulted our right to free speech in the well of Congress.

But in his country he suppresses free speech.

Did you read The Red Badge of Courage in HS?

Cuomo has re-invented himself on Newsnation and given Bill O a new platform.

I had Beshear as my 1st pick then Kelly from AZ. I remember the convention in 1968 in Chicago. Hopefully history won't repeat itself but I doubt it.

Time to move on don't ya think.

Ask the SCOTUS.

Yep. No more poop, or clown reactions anymore. No more middle finger unicode,

And that is a good thing so why complain.

But the same people who relied on emojis will now spend more time searching for something that they posted with an emoji. And that is a good thing as well.

Emojis are for people who are incapable of sending a post or an email anymore. We have resorted to Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok since people now lose their train of thought in less than a minute.

People don't have time to convey in 25 words or less what they are thinking so now the short cut in an Emoji.

When I was working and using Outlook I'd get popup instant messages all the time asking a question. It got so distracting I'd click on I'm Busy.

People today want instant gratification and they want it instantly.

I was in NYC in April and people were walking around with their cellphones out all the time. It's become an addiction.

That's a surprise.

All sports come with hazards today. That doesn't mean you should become an actuarial when it comes to kids and what sports they should play.

So your kids never learned to ride a bike?

You really should stay in your lane (that's a bike term btw) when you don't know what you're talking about.
EF–Oatly–Cannondale

She rides a Cannondale bike.
https://www.cannondale.com/en-us/our-riders/ef-pro-cycling/kristen-faulkner

She obviously needed a bike sponsor since they aren't cheap bikes and since it's a niche market they needed a partner.

And I'll save you the time Cannondale went BK along with Fuji which I own and ride every day. But they are still making bikes.



Congrats to Faulkner.

Yikes I had to check since I know my typing is bad but not that bad.
The SEC should require that Berkshire posts their trades as they occur.

How could it be worse?
I think that would probably make the reaction worse.

He dumped half his position in Apple and BAC while not telling a soul then announces it on Saturday when he was finished dumping. Then both the tech sector and bank sector cratered on Monday. That is not a level playing field and no one person of company should be allowed to pull that crap.

It would be one thing if he paid a dividend to his shareholders with all the cash he reaped but hell no.

And he is all wrong when it comes to the bank sector. BAC is off it's 52 week high in part to his sell off but they pay a nice divy.

I have owned TFC since the Silicon Valley bk and doubled my money and it's divy is over 5%.

Take his company's sweetheart deal with the SEC away and we'll see what a genius he is.

White Sox tie record for AL's longest losing streak
No. 17 prospect Ky Bush shows promise in MLB debut
1:21 AM EDT
https://www.mlb.com/news/ky-bush-white-sox-no-17-prospect-called-up-to-mlb?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

They are on track to break the 1962 Mets losses of 120 games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_New_York_Mets_season#:~:text=The%20Mets'%20120%20losses%20are,130).

The Opening ceremony controversy was not about the Last Supper but about the cultural history of France. Not everything today is not an attack on religion or Catholics and Christians.

https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/jeux-olympiques/ceremonie-d-ouverture-des-jo-thomas-jolly-et-daphne-burki-repondent-aux-critiques-de-jean-luc-melenchon_AV-202407280144.html

As to the boxing issue the IOC ruled they are eligible to compete as females.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-5061280/olympic-womens-boxing-gender-imane-khelif-lin-yuting

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Buy better canned tomatoes. There is vast differences.

Yes don't buy cheap tomatoes.

For lack of a better term I call it succotash.

I cut the corn off the cob, slice up the okra, Large dice the tomatoes and chop up the jalapeno peppers. If I don't have enough tomatoes I'll pick up a large can of whole tomatoes and squeeze them into a pot and rinse the can with some water. And I do add garlic.

It all goes into a pot bring to a boil then simmer.I'll check to make sure its pepper hot enough. Makes a nice soupy side dish for the winter. And I drop in a pat of butter with each serving.

Lima Beans with lots of butter. I second that emotion.

Is that Noah the boat builder or NOAA the hurricane people?
https://www.noaa.gov/

The rain is on its way.

We have progressed from LOL to a pile of crap.

So one is acceptable and the other not.

Thanks for proving my point.

And really, anyone who takes a steaming pile of poop seriously should probably avoid contact with the online world.

And anyone who posts it repeatedly should seek help. It's sophomoric.

Thank goodness. Now they need to screen for pics.

Or put them in my version of succotash.

Tomatoes
Corn
Okra
and Peppers.

Throw it all in a pot and cook slowly and freeze for a cold winter day.

No one should be allowed to move the market with the stunt he pulled off this weekend.

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The SEC should require that Berkshire posts their trades as they occur.

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I guess if you're going to learn about road courses Central Park would be the place to do it.

Interesting that she once rode for a team associated with Silicon Valley Bank.

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Thanks. Some of the ones I've seen are pure childish.

Noah Lyles, of course
More than 24 hours have passed since the 27-year-old’s shocking victory in the 100-meter dash yesterday, and you could still convince me he maybe didn’t win. That’s how close this race was, with the top four runners finishing within one-tenth of a second of each other. Just look at this:



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Lyles’ win — the first for an American in this event in 20 years — was even more impressive, considering his poor start. He didn’t lead a second of this race until he crossed the finish line, and that’s after weeks’ worth of his bravado. As Marcus Thompson III wrote, Lyles’ mouth wrote the check before the Olympics — and his feet cashed it.

Bobby Finke’s unbelievable stamina

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5680313/2024/08/04/bobby-finke-olympic-swimming-american-history/?source=pulsenewsletter&campaign=10613818&userId=11932965

Bobby does the unFINKEable! 🙌

Gold medal and WORLD RECORD in the 1500m freestyle!#ParisOlympics | 📺 NBC and Peacock pic.twitter.com/siCsTPEN8X

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 4, 2024

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Every Olympics, I watch the 1500-meter swim and wonder how anyone survives. It is a long event by Olympic swimming standards, but instead of boring you, each lap ratchets up tension as you watch a person keep swimming faster than you ever could. That was Finke yesterday, leading wire-to-wire in the sport’s most grueling event. His gold medal is the only individual male swimming gold won by an American in these Olympics.

Bobby Finke and the race that extended American Olympic swimming history
NANTERRE, France — Bobby Finke swam like he was being chased. Because, in effect, he was. History nipped at Finke’s heels, biting, clawing and trying to pull him back under the water with every stroke of his arduous 1,500-meter freestyle swim.

In 1904, an innovator by the name of Charles Daniels — presumably no relation to the devil down in Georgia — gobbled up two Olympic medals in the first Games to include swimming. Daniels, known for adding a twist to the Australian crawl to essentially invent the freestyle, jumped in an artificial lake in St. Louis to win a gold medal in the 220-yard freestyle (1904 was the first and last time the races were measured in yards). He followed it up with a 440-yard victory, beginning a 120-year run for American men. At every Olympics in which the U.S. has competed since Daniels’ victory, the American men have come home with at least one individual gold.

But as Finke stepped to the blocks in the last individual event on the last day of a nine-day meet, the U.S. men still had nothing golden to show for their efforts. They’d won medals — two silvers and three bronze — just none in the currency that matters most, outside of the 4×100 freestyle relay. Finke did not pretend he wasn’t aware. The gold medalist in Tokyo knew what was at stake. In fact, he purposefully read the articles about the men brushing up to futility.

“I like reading that stuff,” he said. “It motivates me inside.” It also, he admits, felt like someone parked a piano on his back for a race that needs no help to create misery. Asked if it was pressure or motivation, Finke laughed. “It was both,” he said.

Bobby Finke
In the last individual event on the Paris program, Bobby Finke became the first American man all week to win an individual gold, extending a U.S. streak. (Adam Pretty / Getty Images)
The 1,500 is not fun, and it is not easy — no matter how much to the contrary Katie Ledecky might make it look. It is tedious and difficult, and tediously difficult to manage. Go out too fast and die, go out to0 slow and be left in everyone’s wake. Hard enough on its own, the 1,500 doubled down on intensity for Finke, who was swimming for and against history.

“I was putting pressure on myself to try and get it done,” he said. “I knew going into the race that I was the last individual swim for the guys. At the 300-meter mark, I was maybe a body-length lead, and I thought, ‘I can’t let it go now.'”

Finke did not let it go; in fact, he did the opposite in the most dramatic fashion. Barreling out to the lead in the first lap, he went wire to wire, holding off Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri and Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen to keep the American streak alive, and blowing past a 12-year-old world record in the process. Finke’s 14:30.67 ended the mark held by China’s Sun Yang, a record that came with an asterisk. The World Anti-Doping Association handed Yang an eight-year suspension in 2020 after he refused to cooperate with doping officials who visited his home in 2018. A security guard smashed his blood vials with a hammer, and Yang refused to submit to a urine test.

“Yeah, that was a record that needed to go,” Wiffen said with a smirk.


On top of a record that needed to be preserved for the Americans. The importance of Finke’s race turned bold and underlined before they even hung the medal around his neck. Just as the United States faithful in Paris finally came down from their joy and the Americans enjoyed their sigh of relief, the men lined up for the 4×100 medley relay. It has been the surest of sure things in swimming. The U.S. had not lost the race in Olympic history, winning all 15 times it had contested the relay (the United States boycotted the games in 1980).

China tapped the wall first, winning by 0.55, a stunning upset and yet one seemingly par for the course in Paris.

Finke also saved the U.S. from more ignominious history. His gold, coupled with the women’s 4×100 medley relay world-record swim Sunday meant the Americans won the gold-medal count against Australia. Had Finke not delivered, the U.S. would have finished not alone in first in the standings for the first time since 1988, when they were beaten by the East Germans.

Part of it is attrition. As the U.S. grew swimming, it brought new countries to the pool. Now the cold splash of reality is hitting; those newbies are catching up, something that Finke believes is good for the sport even if it “sucks that we’re not always dominating.” Still, the men’s dearth of golds was a surprise, driven home by one race after another. “There’s always going to be bad races,” Finke conceded. “We happened to have maybe more than we’d like.”

That Finke did not is a testimony to his own courage. He’s known more as a closer. In Tokyo, he came from behind in both the 800 and 1,500, trailing in the final 50 meters before finding another gear to burst to a win. This time, Finke went for broke, a gutsy and risky decision that caught even his competitors off guard.

“I mean, I was expecting Bobby to be at his best,” Paltrinieri said. “But I didn’t expect him to be that fast at the first part of the race.”

Whether he was buoyed by the enormity of the moment or feeding off adrenaline, Finke said he felt good, so he went with it. Somewhere around the 300-meter mark, his breathing timed right so he could spy the big boards and see himself beyond a yellow line — the one that delineates the world record. He also was nearly a full two seconds ahead of Paltrinieri. The Italian threatened briefly to make it interesting, a half-second behind at 800 meters, but it turns out closers can close, even when they work from ahead.

With Ledecky, his training partner at the University of Florida, cheering him on while rattling a cowbell, Finke found another gear and wound up winning by more than three seconds.

Exhausted but joyous, Finke pumped his fist at the finish, knowing he had just chased history. And won.

Scottie Scheffler’s incredible back nine
It has been a dumbfounding year for Scheffler, who won the Masters, welcomed his first child, got arrested before a major tournament and still played … and is now an Olympic gold medalist, posting a 29 on the home stretch to win after Jon Rahm collapsed. It was touching to see Scheffler, famously stoic, get emotional on the podium.

The best moments from a bonkers Olympic Sunday

From Wall Street to Olympic Gold.
Kristen Faulkner’s breakaway win
Since 1984, no American woman had won an Olympic road racing gold medal until yesterday. Faulkner — a replacement athlete in these Games, no less — broke away from the field with three kilometers to go to claim top honors. Faulkner’s road here is even wilder: from venture capitalist in 2020 to Olympic gold medalist in 2024.

Kristen Faulkner stuns with gold in Olympic women’s road race, ending 40-year American drought
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5679833/2024/08/04/kristen-faulkner-gold-olympics-road-cycling/?source=pulsenewsletter&campaign=10613818&userId=11932965Faulkner, a Harvard graduate and former rower, got into cycling by riding her bike around Central Park in New York City. She attended an introductory clinic for women’s cycling in 2017 and by 2020 she was racing for Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank, then the longest-running professional women’s cycling team in North America. A year later, she quit venture capital to fully commit to cycling. Faulkner now rides for the American Continental Women Team EF-Oatly-Cannondale.

How Noah Lyles Won the Men’s 100-Meter Gold by a Fraction
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/04/sports/olympics/mens-100-noah-lyles-kishane-thompson.html?campaign_id=223&emc=edit_oe_20240805&instance_id=130756&nl=olympics-briefing®i_id=1477058&segment_id=174192&te=1&user_id=3b6708353eb4d86d1549f97d1e8d7b46

Olympics Briefing: Simone’s Finale
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Reporting from Paris



Simone Biles will compete in her last two events of these Olympics — the balance beam and the floor exercise finals — on Monday. Will they be her last two Olympic events ever? For a sense of the occasion, I chatted with my colleague Juliet Macur, who has covered gymnastics for The Times for two decades.

You’ve been following Simone Biles, who is 27, for what seems like forever. What’s your first memory of her?

The first time I met her was when she was still 18, before the 2016 Olympics. We met at her parents’ house, in Spring, Texas, and she was just a normal teenager. She showed me around her purple bedroom. It had a life-size cutout of Zac Efron in it. She was just a typical teen, certainly not expecting how famous she would get at those Olympics and beyond.

We saw how much she struggled in Tokyo. What was your impression of her mind-set when you spoke to her before these Games?

A lot has changed since Tokyo. She’s been in therapy every week since then. And what’s changed is that she really doesn’t care about what people think about her anymore. It’s not like suddenly she’s fixed, suddenly she’s never going to have a mental block like she did in Tokyo. She said she’s still a work in progress. But I kind of like that because it makes her more human, more relatable to her fans and the people watching her.

And what have you observed from her in Paris?

She’s found this joy again. That’s easy to see. She’s smiling. She’s jogging off the platform to give hugs to people and joking around. It’s like she’s not nervous anymore. She’s just herself again, which is nice to see.

Can we expect another two gold medals for her on Monday?

She should win the floor exercise because her tumbling moves are just so crazy. It’s unbelievable, the height and complexity in almost everything that she does. But I don’t really know what’s going to happen on the balance beam. Of course she’s supposed to win a medal. But anything could happen. There’s such a small margin of error there, and I’m not sure if she’ll come away with the gold on that one.

And will that be the last we see of her on the Olympic stage?

Her mother and her sister said they think this is the end for sure. And there have been hints: She’s said, like, “I’m getting old, things are hurting, I have a life to live, I want to support my husband.” I just have this feeling that this might be the last time we see her competing at the Olympics. She could prove me wrong. But I think people should kind of take a step back and appreciate whatever she does on Monday, because it could be the last time you see her.

LAURA KRAUT BECOMES OLDEST U.S. OLYMPIC MEDALLIST IN 72 YEARS, INSPIRING A GENERATION AT PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

The Paris 2024 Olympics really is a competition for a wide range of ages.

From People's Republic of China’s 11 year old skateboarder Zheng Haohao, through to Spain’s 65-year-old equestrian rider Juan Antonio Jiménez, there are plenty of generations continuing to break records in the French capital.

And making history for Team USA is Laura Kraut.

The 58-year-old showjumper won silver alongside teammates Karl Cook and McLain Ward on Friday (August 2), and in doing so became the oldest U.S. medallist at the Olympics Games in 72 years.
https://olympics.com/en/news/laura-kraut-oldest-usa-olympic-medallist-inspires-generation-paris-2024

The Fancy Footwork of Dressage Freestyle
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/sports/world-cup-dressage-freestyle.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak4.1sZY.Y6HYxKi9vMYI&smid=url-share

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Equestrian Is Having an Uncomfortable Moment. Its Olympic Horses Are Not.
Accusations of mistreatment cast a shadow over dressage and other events. Can cooling tents and locally sourced hay change the narrative?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/03/world/olympics/equestrian-horses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak4.NAk6.W79kF3OhCGh6&smid=url-share

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For most of the athletes at the Paris Olympics, the accommodations are to be endured, rather than enjoyed. In the name of sustainability, the beds at the Olympic Village feature cardboard frames and inflatable mattresses. The bathrooms are communal. To the horror of the French, the British have even complained about the food.

One group of competitors, though, has no such issues. They are spending the Games in a temperature-controlled, tastefully appointed housing complex set amid the ornate splendor of Versailles. Their food, and often their beds, have traveled with them from home. They each have a staff member to cater to their every need. Life, at the Olympics, should be good for the horses.

“The stables at Versailles are more than just a place to rest,” the International Equestrian Federation said in a recent news release, sounding more like a luxury tour operator than an athletic governing body. “Each horse will enjoy a spacious 4m x 3m box with rubber mats and locally-sourced bedding of straw or shavings.”

The emphasis on equine comfort at these Games is at least partly rooted in defensiveness. A few days before the opening ceremony, a four-year-old video emerged of the British Olympian Charlotte Dujardin, a three-time gold medalist in dressage, repeatedly striking a horse with a whip during a training session at her stable.

Dujardin withdrew from the Games and was suspended indefinitely by the equestrian federation, known as FEI, pending the results of an investigation. She issued an apology, saying she was “deeply ashamed” of an “error of judgment” that “does not reflect how I train my horses or my students.”


Finland’s Joanna Robinson pats her horse, Glamouraline.


The equestrian venue is set amid the ornate splendor of Versailles.

We should be fine since we are 4 hours from the beach. Topsail and Carolina not so much. They may dry out by Labor Day.

They are talking over a foot of rain.

And the FED blew it. They obviously didn't read my post.

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