1. Kentucky Derby DQ'd. So personally, I had bet on two horses. I but $25 each on Improbable and Maximum Security on Wednesday or Thursday I think. I had 10-1 on Max Security. I think Improbably might have been 7-1, but I cant recall and I don't care to go look it up on my Bovada account. Max Security had won. I had won $250. I was kind of pumped. Then I saw the replay. By the rules, I think they made the right decision. Max Security slid out 4 lanes. He cut off one of the horses very hard. I think it was War of Will, but I am not sure. That horse ended up 7th, but his momentum was killed at that point. Additionally, I saw one horse make a huge charge and then it looked like it got held up by the move. In any other race, Max Security is DQ'd. Any other person who knows much about horse racing would probably admit that. I don't know horse racing a ton, but I have seen DQs for much less. I get those who don't like the rule (@VP), but it's a rule and if you have a rule, you need to enforce it to establish consistency. Now I feel like I lost $250, so if one of you could venmo me $250, that would be cool.
2. Flooding: So I am trying to follow along the flooding in the upper midwest and I guess it is the worst it has been since 1993. (Side Note: Elizabeth Warren blames this on Global Warming, but if you read my previous sentence, that doesn't make sense). Flooding sucks. I feel awful for those going through it. Wasn't Markus Golden from Alton? Anyways, hopefully Missouri can help out those affected. Flooding just doesn't get the disaster support from charities like other natural disasters do. I have been reaching out to some friends in NWMo to see how I can help up there. If any of you are badly affected or know people in need. Please feel free to reach out to the PowerMizzou community as it has helped many in the past. I see that there is rain in the forecast most of this week up there. Hopefully it will be nominal amounts or none at all.
3. Meghan Markle gives birth. Wehadababyitsaboy Not very many really care. My interest is in if Harry's Ginger Genes take over or if Markle's skin tone can save that child from the future sun.
4. STL has a violent weekend. I saw the news and it is really sad that people die. I am pretty shocked that 16 were shot, but only 2 died. Every wants to blame something or someone. How do we fix this? Ban guns? Add in funding to provide better security or better protection? More money? UBI? etc. etc. etc. I don't want to go into those communities and tell them what they need to do. I don't know how to fix it. I don't know how to reduce it. I read Darius Miles' piece on himself in East STL. I have read and heard countless articles on issues in poor areas stricken with crime. You hear athletes talk about their parents and the conditions they grew up in. More often than not growing up in a single parent household is harder for the children than growing up with 2 parents. You can see it in the kids that come to Mizzou from those areas. I am sure @hoodtiger could opine that it makes a difference. He knows a lot of kids from those areas. There are single parents that are rock stars. (The lady that cleans my house is a single mom with 3 kids. She is a legal immigrant. Her ex husband used to beat her, but she got away from that, started her own business, and her first daughter is in med school, her son starts at UPenn this fall on a full ride after graduating top of his class here in Dallas, and her third child, another daughter is top 5 in her class in 10th grade). So there are amazing single parents. However, those are few success stories, not the mean. The reason is because it is really hard to raise kids and it is even harder to raise them by yourself. I don't know how we fix that situation. Culture, more requirements for responsibility. I have no idea. Like I said, I don't know how to fix the issue. I just noticed a correlation.
5. 2020 election update: Bill de Blasio is reportedly running for POTUS. This will probably end quickly I would think. Mayor Pete has all the big city mayors thinking they can be POTUS.
According to real clear politics, Biden is the favorite. Sanders is #2 and then a fall off to 3rd which often changes. In gen election polls, Sanders and Biden would defeat Trump by 6 points. O'Rourke would defeat Trump by 10. Everyone else is much less. Warren would lose to Trump which would be catastrophic, because if Trump wins popular vote, he could get the electoral votes from CA, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA, which would result in an epic electroal landslide. BTW, notice anything about those states in terms of political affiliation? In my opinion, these are not good numbers for dems. O'Rourke is, but not Biden or Bernie. I think HRC was favored by basically around 4 points going into election day. To feel safe, the dem candidate needs to be favored by probably 6 or more points on election day. To be only favored by 6 after the spring that Trump has had is not good. I would think the B Boys (Bernie and Biden) would be favored by 8. Harris failing to gain more steam is not a good sign for Dems either. Biden's honeymoon popularity will falter and Bernie's rhetoric will develop fatigue in addition it seems that mainstream media is against him. I think Trump will have to eff this up to lose at this point. Either the economy tanks (which could happen due to global weakness) or Trump has an epic issue happen. I could be wrong. I am wrong often, but I think I have more historic factual support for my position right now than not.
I wish we could throw them all out and start over.
2. Flooding: So I am trying to follow along the flooding in the upper midwest and I guess it is the worst it has been since 1993. (Side Note: Elizabeth Warren blames this on Global Warming, but if you read my previous sentence, that doesn't make sense). Flooding sucks. I feel awful for those going through it. Wasn't Markus Golden from Alton? Anyways, hopefully Missouri can help out those affected. Flooding just doesn't get the disaster support from charities like other natural disasters do. I have been reaching out to some friends in NWMo to see how I can help up there. If any of you are badly affected or know people in need. Please feel free to reach out to the PowerMizzou community as it has helped many in the past. I see that there is rain in the forecast most of this week up there. Hopefully it will be nominal amounts or none at all.
3. Meghan Markle gives birth. Wehadababyitsaboy Not very many really care. My interest is in if Harry's Ginger Genes take over or if Markle's skin tone can save that child from the future sun.
4. STL has a violent weekend. I saw the news and it is really sad that people die. I am pretty shocked that 16 were shot, but only 2 died. Every wants to blame something or someone. How do we fix this? Ban guns? Add in funding to provide better security or better protection? More money? UBI? etc. etc. etc. I don't want to go into those communities and tell them what they need to do. I don't know how to fix it. I don't know how to reduce it. I read Darius Miles' piece on himself in East STL. I have read and heard countless articles on issues in poor areas stricken with crime. You hear athletes talk about their parents and the conditions they grew up in. More often than not growing up in a single parent household is harder for the children than growing up with 2 parents. You can see it in the kids that come to Mizzou from those areas. I am sure @hoodtiger could opine that it makes a difference. He knows a lot of kids from those areas. There are single parents that are rock stars. (The lady that cleans my house is a single mom with 3 kids. She is a legal immigrant. Her ex husband used to beat her, but she got away from that, started her own business, and her first daughter is in med school, her son starts at UPenn this fall on a full ride after graduating top of his class here in Dallas, and her third child, another daughter is top 5 in her class in 10th grade). So there are amazing single parents. However, those are few success stories, not the mean. The reason is because it is really hard to raise kids and it is even harder to raise them by yourself. I don't know how we fix that situation. Culture, more requirements for responsibility. I have no idea. Like I said, I don't know how to fix the issue. I just noticed a correlation.
5. 2020 election update: Bill de Blasio is reportedly running for POTUS. This will probably end quickly I would think. Mayor Pete has all the big city mayors thinking they can be POTUS.
According to real clear politics, Biden is the favorite. Sanders is #2 and then a fall off to 3rd which often changes. In gen election polls, Sanders and Biden would defeat Trump by 6 points. O'Rourke would defeat Trump by 10. Everyone else is much less. Warren would lose to Trump which would be catastrophic, because if Trump wins popular vote, he could get the electoral votes from CA, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA, which would result in an epic electroal landslide. BTW, notice anything about those states in terms of political affiliation? In my opinion, these are not good numbers for dems. O'Rourke is, but not Biden or Bernie. I think HRC was favored by basically around 4 points going into election day. To feel safe, the dem candidate needs to be favored by probably 6 or more points on election day. To be only favored by 6 after the spring that Trump has had is not good. I would think the B Boys (Bernie and Biden) would be favored by 8. Harris failing to gain more steam is not a good sign for Dems either. Biden's honeymoon popularity will falter and Bernie's rhetoric will develop fatigue in addition it seems that mainstream media is against him. I think Trump will have to eff this up to lose at this point. Either the economy tanks (which could happen due to global weakness) or Trump has an epic issue happen. I could be wrong. I am wrong often, but I think I have more historic factual support for my position right now than not.
I wish we could throw them all out and start over.
