Another mocker of the crisis in India to go along with poor B2.
A Chinese Communist Party-linked account mocked India's Covid crisis on social media. It backfired
On the micro-blogging platform Weibo, the account?posted?a photo of the Chinese Long March-5B carrier rocket blasting off, alongside a picture of cremation pyres burning at night in India under the watch of people in hazmat suits.
"China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire," the caption read, accompanied by a hashtag declaring that India's Covid-19 cases had surged past 400,000 a day.
The account that posted the photos is linked to the Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs, a powerful organ of the ruling Communist Party, overseeing the country's courts and law enforcement bodies. Several other government accounts run by the police and local courts shared the pictures.
Though nationalist sentiment against India has been running high in recent months due to border disputes, many Chinese social media users were shocked. "I can't believe this was posted by a government account. Why do you need to use the suffering of others to highlight national pride?" read one top comment underneath the post.
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Medina Spirit was bought at auction as a yearling for $1000.?
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On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 02:39 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
Misty! ?I loved the books AND the movie, same for the Black Stallion.?
Sal
Sam Savitt illustrated many of the books and I would spend hours drawing illustrations from the books. It was a magic world to immerse myself in as a child. Take a look at his prolific career.?
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Two from the TMO just died last week, one who sounds like he was a close relative of MMY. ? ?
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On May 2, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Emily Mae via groups.io <emily.mae50@...> wrote:
?On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:57 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
Actually I'm hearing it's a lot of hype and that things are no different than last year.? Just that big pharma is being greedy.
I think you've also been to India and know that it's hard to visit there without have a little bout of food poisoning.? Not exactly the most sanity place in the world so Indians probably have better than normal immune systems.? As for Kumbh, yogis can probably kill covid via thought.
So, what you're saying here is that this horrific wave of Covid-19 in India isn't happening and is just the pharmaceutical industry making things up so that they can sell vaccines.? The industry has spread magic fairy dust over the whole country so that every country and government and agency and reporter in the world will see a pretend crisis, including Modi and every citizen of India.? Obviously, you don't believe what you are seeing; I suggest you try and fly into India to document this mega-scam.? Don't bother getting vaccinated against the "little cold" before you go.? The yogis attempting to kill Covid-19 with thought have obviously died.?? ? --
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Misty! ?I loved the books AND the movie, same for the Black Stallion.?
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On May 2, 2021, at 3:12 PM, Emily Mae via groups.io <emily.mae50@...> wrote:
?On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 12:58 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
Unfortunately she forgot the Black Stallion, but it¡¯s still a pretty good list (think he was actually based on Man O¡¯ War). ?Secretariat will always be my best-loved. ??
Sal
I read the whole Walter Farley series multiple times as a kid and also the Marguerite Henry books.?? ? --
Em
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On 5/2/21 1:28 PM, Emily Mae via
groups.io wrote:
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:57 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
Actually I'm hearing it's a lot of hype and that
things are no different than last year.? Just that big pharma is
being greedy.
I think you've also been to India and know that it's hard to
visit there without have a little bout of food poisoning.? Not
exactly the most sanity place in the world so Indians probably
have better than normal immune systems.? As for Kumbh, yogis can
probably kill covid via thought.
So, what you're saying here is that this horrific wave of Covid-19
in India isn't happening and is just the pharmaceutical industry
making things up so that they can sell vaccines.? The industry has
spread magic fairy dust over the whole country so that every
country and government and agency and reporter in the world will
see a pretend crisis, including Modi and every citizen of India.?
Obviously, you don't believe what you are seeing; I suggest you
try and fly into India to document this mega-scam.? Don't bother
getting vaccinated against the "little cold" before you go.? The
yogis attempting to kill Covid-19 with thought have obviously
died.?
FYI, I've been to India. FYI, I also got sick there (for a couple
days).? Also did some of the other guests where we stayed.? The
leader of the tour also got sick even though she spent several years
in India.
FYI, I'm also a Sidh Tantric so can vouch that many yogis and
tantrics know how to kick a disease by thought (siddhi).
Yes, the press likes to hype things. Big pharma also buys a lot of
ads on media sites (in case you didn't notice).
Why anyone like Emily would waste this much time on me I don't
know.? She must have OCD worse than Judy had.
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On 5/2/21 1:06 PM, Emily Mae via
groups.io wrote:
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:37 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
On
Sat, May 1, 2021 at 08:07 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
It's just history, Emily. You are the stupid one
and on the wrong side of history which you will pay dearly
for.
Oh, and how do you square that this video is being funded by
the biggest corporations in the world??
That's nothing, you and Ann post stuff all the time from some of
the biggest corporations in the world.
Don't be ridiculous.???That's your shtick and you know it.???I
did a quick search on FFL archives and found over 1000 posts by
you specifically railing relentlessly about the evils of
corporate america.? You obviously can't admit that you've been
duped.
So?? Many corporations have become too big for their britches. I've
also watched the Peter Principle at work in the corporate world.? I
think your problem is you don't understand me nor the world at
large.
??
The ones you rail against?? The idea that your mind is so
compromised as to not understand what they are doing here and can
only resort to calling me "stupid" is pretty sad.
Your comments were stupid. And still are.
I'm betting you didn't even look at the video or you
would have known it was a history lesson.? The video is railing
against fascism and mind control.? Guess you're too into Seattle
having a Khemer Rouge. ?
Yes, I watched the video.? That's why I did my research; it was
highly suspect and my suspicions were correct.? The video is an
extremely poorly presented and obvious attempt at manipulating
viewers and creating fear of government is what it is.? Published
in April 2021?? Please!!? Published by the very opaque org.
Academy of Ideas, which hides its origins and turns out is a
rebrand from the prior Institute of Ideas, founded by Claire Fox.?
The Guardian investigated Claire Fox:
"It found that she
was linked to pro-gun American libertarian groups, was funded by
unpleasant pharmaceutical corporations and had a shady past in
the nastiest Trotskyist bunch who ever picketed a nurses¡¯ pay
dispute....George Monbiot castigated Fox?for being a member
of a ¡°bizarre and cultish network¡± that was poisoning scientific
debate in Britain. He charged that she was in cahoots with her
sister, Fiona, who ran a dubious PR firm that was in hock to GM
companies and proselytised for pharmaceutical corporations. If
his page had come in scratch ¡®n¡¯ sniff, it would have emitted a
whiff of sulphur."
Sounds like they learned first hand.? Too bad you didn't.
Sorry, you've been
fooled by the pharmaceutical industry.? Better luck next time.??
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Nice try grasshopper. ;-)
BTW, when are you moving the North Korea.? Sounds like just the
place for you.
For those who don't like to watch videos, the transcript.? Judge for
yourself.
The first quote nails Emily:
??? ¡°The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside
from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify
error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with
illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy
their illusions is always their victim.¡±
??? Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:57 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
Actually I'm hearing it's a lot of hype and that things are no different than last year.? Just that big pharma is being greedy.
I think you've also been to India and know that it's hard to visit there without have a little bout of food poisoning.? Not exactly the most sanity place in the world so Indians probably have better than normal immune systems.? As for Kumbh, yogis can probably kill covid via thought.
So, what you're saying here is that this horrific wave of Covid-19 in India isn't happening and is just the pharmaceutical industry making things up so that they can sell vaccines.? The industry has spread magic fairy dust over the whole country so that every country and government and agency and reporter in the world will see a pretend crisis, including Modi and every citizen of India.? Obviously, you don't believe what you are seeing; I suggest you try and fly into India to document this mega-scam.? Don't bother getting vaccinated against the "little cold" before you go.? The yogis attempting to kill Covid-19 with thought have obviously died.?? ? --
Em
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On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 12:58 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
Unfortunately she forgot the Black Stallion, but it¡¯s still a pretty good list (think he was actually based on Man O¡¯ War). ?Secretariat will always be my best-loved. ??
Sal
I read the whole Walter Farley series multiple times as a kid and also the Marguerite Henry books.?? ? --
Em
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Re: Not Just About the Other Guy
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:37 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 08:07 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
It's just history, Emily. You are the stupid one and on the wrong side of history which you will pay dearly for.
Oh, and how do you square that this video is being funded by the biggest corporations in the world??
That's nothing, you and Ann post stuff all the time from some of the biggest corporations in the world.
Don't be ridiculous.???That's your shtick and you know it.???I did a quick search on FFL archives and found over 1000 posts by you specifically railing relentlessly about the evils of corporate america.? You obviously can't admit that you've been duped.??The ones you rail against?? The idea that your mind is so compromised as to not understand what they are doing here and can only resort to calling me "stupid" is pretty sad.
I'm betting you didn't even look at the video or you would have known it was a history lesson.? The video is railing against fascism and mind control.? Guess you're too into Seattle having a Khemer Rouge. ?
Yes, I watched the video.? That's why I did my research; it was highly suspect and my suspicions were correct.? The video is an extremely poorly presented and obvious attempt at manipulating viewers and creating fear of government is what it is.? Published in April 2021?? Please!!? Published by the very opaque org. Academy of Ideas, which hides its origins and turns out is a rebrand from the prior Institute of Ideas, founded by Claire Fox.? The Guardian investigated Claire Fox: "It found that she was linked to pro-gun American libertarian groups, was funded by unpleasant pharmaceutical corporations and had a shady past in the nastiest Trotskyist bunch who ever picketed a nurses¡¯ pay dispute....George Monbiot castigated Fox?for being a member of a ¡°bizarre and cultish network¡± that was poisoning scientific debate in Britain. He charged that she was in cahoots with her sister, Fiona, who ran a dubious PR firm that was in hock to GM companies and proselytised for pharmaceutical corporations. If his page had come in scratch ¡®n¡¯ sniff, it would have emitted a whiff of sulphur."
Sorry, you've been fooled by the pharmaceutical industry.? Better luck next time.?? --
Em
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? Unfortunately she forgot the Black Stallion, but it¡¯s still a pretty good list (think he was actually based on Man O¡¯ War). ?Secretariat will always be my best-loved. ??
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On May 2, 2021, at 12:10 PM, Emily Mae via groups.io <emily.mae50@...> wrote:
?The guy who cuts my hair turned me on to Heather Cox Richardson, who writes an almost daily online political newsletter summarizing events called Letters from an American.? There is a free version and a paying version; I'm signed up for the free version.? She is an excellent writer, factual, and succinct.? She lives in Maine and also posts photographs and other things of interest occasionally.?? Today, she posted this:??
"In honor of this year's Kentucky Derby (won today by Medina Spirit), I'm posting a piece my friend Michael S. Green and I wrote together a number of years ago on Ten Famous American Horses. It has no deep meaning... it's just fun. It remains one of my favorite things I had a hand in writing, and I'm pleased to have an excuse to share it.
I'll be back on the usual beat tomorrow.
1) Traveller
General Robert E. Lee rode Traveller (spelled with two Ls, in the British style) from February 1862 until the general¡¯s death in 1870. Traveller was a grey American Saddlebred of 16 hands. He had great endurance for long marches, and was generally unflappable in battle, although he once broke both of General Lee¡¯s hands when he shied at enemy movements. Lee brought Traveller with him when he assumed the presidency of Washington and Lee University. Traveller died of tetanus in 1871. He is buried on campus, where the safe ride program still uses his name.
2) Comanche
Comanche was attached to General Custer¡¯s detachment of the 7th Cavalry when it engaged the Lakota in 1876 at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The troops in the detachment were all killed in the engagement, but soldiers found Comanche, badly wounded, two days later. They nursed him back to health, and he became the 7th Cavalry¡¯s mascot. The commanding officer decreed that the horse would never again be ridden, and that he would always be paraded, draped in black, in all military ceremonies involving the 7th Cavalry. When Comanche died of colic in 1891, he was given a full military funeral (the only other horse so honored was Black Jack, who served in more than a thousand military funerals in the 1950s and 1960s). Comanche¡¯s taxidermied body is preserved in the Natural History Museum at the University Of Kansas.
3) Beautiful Jim Key
Beautiful Jim Key was a performing horse trained by formerly enslaved veterinarian Dr. William Key. Key demonstrated how Beautiful Jim could read, write, do math, tell time, spell, sort mail, and recite the Bible. Beautiful Jim performed from 1897 to 1906 and became a legend. An estimated ten million Americans saw him perform, and others collected his memorabilia ¨C buttons, photos, and postcards ¨C or danced the Beautiful Jim Key two-step. Dr. Key insisted that he had taught Beautiful Jim using only kindness, and Beautiful Jim Key¡¯s popularity was important in preventing cruelty to animals in America, with more than 2 million children signing the Jim Key Band of Mercy, in which they pledged: ¡°I promise always to be kind to animals.¡±
4) Man o¡¯ War
Named for his owner, August Belmont, Jr., who was overseas in WWI, Man o¡¯ War is widely regarded as the top Thoroughbred racehorse of all time. He won 20 of his 21 races and almost a quarter of a million dollars in the early twentieth century. His one loss ¨C to ¡°Upset¡± ¨C came after a bad start. Man o¡¯ War sired many of America¡¯s famous racehorses, including Hard Tack, which in turn sired Seabiscuit, the small horse that came to symbolize hope during the Great Depression.
5) Trigger
Entertainer Roy Rogers chose the palomino Trigger from five rented horses to be his mount in a Western film in the 1930s, changing his name from Golden Cloud to Trigger because of his quick mind and feet. Rogers rode Trigger in his 1950s television series, making the horse a household name. When Trigger died, Rogers had his skin draped over a Styrofoam mold and displayed it in the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in California. He also had a 24-foot statue of Trigger made from steel and fiberglass. One other copy of that mold was also made: it is ¡°Bucky the Bronco,¡± which rears above the Denver Broncos stadium south scoreboard.
6) Sergeant Reckless
American Marines in Korea bought a mare in October 1952 from a Korean stable boy who needed the money to buy an artificial leg for his sister, who had stepped on a land mine. The marines named her Reckless after their unit¡¯s nickname, the Reckless Rifles. They made a pet of her, and trained her to carry supplies and to evacuate wounded. She learned to travel supply routes without a guide: on one notable day she made 51 solo trips. Wounded twice, she was given a battlefield rank of corporal in 1953 and promoted to sergeant after the war, when she was also awarded two Purple Hearts and a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal.
7) Mr. Ed
Mr. Ed was a talking palomino in a 1960s television show by the same name. At a time when Westerns dominated American television, Mr. Ed was the anti-Western, with the main human character a klutzy architect and the hero a horse that was fond of his meals and his comfortable life, and spoke with the voice of Allan ¡°Rocky¡± Lane, who made dozens of ¡°B¡± westerns. But the show was a five-year hit as it married the past to the future. Mr. Ed offered a gentle homely wisdom that enabled him to straighten out the troubles of the humans around him. The startling special effects that made it appear that the horse was talking melded modern technology with the comforting traditional community depicted in the show.
8) Black Jack
Black Jack, named for John J. ¡°Black Jack¡± Pershing, was the riderless black horse in the funerals of John F. Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Douglas MacArthur, as well as more than a thousand other funerals with full military honors. A riderless horse, with boots reversed in the stirrups, symbolized a fallen leader, while Black Jack¡¯s brands ¨C a US brand and an army serial number ¨C recalled the army¡¯s history. Black Jack himself was buried with full military honors; the only other horse honored with a military funeral was Comanche.
9) Khartoum
Khartoum was the prize stud horse of Jack Woltz, the fictional Hollywood mogul in Mario Puzo¡¯s?The Godfather. In one of the film version¡¯s most famous scenes, after Woltz refuses requests from Don Vito Corleone to cast singer Johnny Fontane in a movie, Woltz wakes up to find Khartoum¡¯s head in bed with him¡ and agrees to use Fontane in the film. In the novel, Fontane wins the Academy Award for his performance. According to old Hollywood rumor, the story referred to real events. The rumor was that mobsters persuaded Columbia Pictures executive Harry Cohn to cast Frank Sinatra in?From Here to Eternity. As Maggio, Sinatra revived his sagging film career and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
10) Secretariat
Secretariat was an American Thoroughbred that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years. His records in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes still stand. After Secretariat was stricken with a painful infection and euthanized in 1989, an autopsy revealed that he had an unusually big heart. Sportswriter Red Smith once asked his trainer how Secretariat had run one morning; Charlie Hatton replied, ¡°The trees swayed.¡±"
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Em
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On 5/2/21 11:42 AM, WillyTex via
groups.io wrote:
"Experts attribute this lockdown, although imperfect, to
slowing the spread. But the restrictions were economically
devastating, putting tens of millions of people out of work and
jeopardizing many of Mr. Modi¡¯s greatest ambitions, including
making India a world power. He was afraid to close down."
India¡¯s Covid-19 crisis shakes Modi¡¯s image of strength
Actually I'm hearing it's a lot of hype and that things are no
different than last year.? Just that big pharma is being greedy.
I think you've also been to India and know that it's hard to visit
there without have a little bout of food poisoning.? Not exactly the
most sanity place in the world so Indians probably have better than
normal immune systems.? As for Kumbh, yogis can probably kill covid
via thought.
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"Experts attribute this lockdown, although imperfect, to slowing the spread. But the restrictions were economically devastating, putting tens of millions of people out of work and jeopardizing many of Mr. Modi¡¯s greatest ambitions, including making India a world power. He was afraid to close down."
India¡¯s Covid-19 crisis shakes Modi¡¯s image of strength
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:31 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
The UHD player is a Sony 700X which I got a good deal on.
Several months ago I was considering the Sony 700 or 800 to replace an older Blu-ray unit but I decided to get the Panasonic. Back in the day (2008) Yamaha released what was at the time the highly rated Yamaha BD-S667 Blu-ray Disc Player, followed by the 671 and then the 681. They were designed to fit in with RX series Yamaha receiver.These days Yamaha is out of the DVD disk playing business. Go figure. Old review: "Prior Yamaha blu ray players (1065, 1900) were Sharp-based players that lacked any real redeeming quality save an opportunity for Yamaha receiver owners to have some commonality in their rack. Upon reading the press releases of the 667, a few things caught my eye - that worrying quick start feature was dropped and the inclusion of dlna made me wonder whose format the player was based. It did not appear to be Sharp-based (unlike the new Pioneer releases) and also lacked the usual Funai or LG look and layout that is generally easy to spot.
The 667 arrived Thursday afternoon and I have been pushing this unit through an abnormally high number of tests. Its GUI, OSD, and setup menu were very familiar in that they struck me as very similar to my Oppo 83 and 80. The initial setup and overlain setup menu were different in look and lacked a number of options the Oppos have, but had an overwhelming Oppo-esque familiarity to them.The center-mounted disc drive is a bit pokey, opening in 10-12 seconds (very similar to the Oppp 83 EAP first-run drives), but load times were very fast and were only outpaced by the newest Samsung models. Upon checking synthetic deinterlacing tests, I knew we had found the very competent Mediatek chipset. In fact, its synthetic deinterlacing tests for film cadence matched the Oppo BDP-80 identically. Unfortunately, its video deinterlacing was not quite up to par with the Oppo BDP-80.Real world DVD testing revealed a very competent player that could not quite match the Pioneer BDP-320's sharpness or the Oppo's accuracy in avoiding aliasing, but was damn close. The player's biggest deficiency is a lack of fine tuned noise reduction to bring a more detailed edge to the image. That said, the player is very versatile and offers the same smooth, accurate image other mediatek chipped players produce. The player offers a zoom function for dvds that is effective and similar to that offered in the Oppo 80, but a bit different in its gradients.In respects of analogue audio, the 667 offers only stereo outputs that are adequate, but not inspiring in my testing. Moreover, it does not offer SACD or DVD-A playback like the Oppo (or even the Sony 470 for the former), but it does offer DLNA connectivity and Netflix streaming."
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 08:18 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
He should have bought a Roku.? I've suggested just getting the $35 Roku 4K device that just plugs into an HDMI port on that TV and has a remote and he'll be set. The cable company "modem" is right next to the set so wifi will work.
We plugged an external HD into the Roku HDMI port in the media room and use the Roku player to play music from our digitized music collection of MP3. However we mainly use an Acer Chromebook and the built-in Vizio Chromecast to watch music concerts. YMMV.
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Re: Not Just About the Other Guy
On 5/2/21 9:59 AM, Emily Mae via
groups.io wrote:
On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 08:07 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
It's just history, Emily. You are the stupid one and
on the wrong side of history which you will pay dearly for.
Oh, and how do you square that this video is being funded by the
biggest corporations in the world??
That's nothing, you and Ann post stuff all the time from some of the
biggest corporations in the world.
The ones you rail
against?? The idea that your mind is so compromised as to not
understand what they are doing here and can only resort to calling
me "stupid" is pretty sad.
I'm betting you didn't even look at the video or you would have
known it was a history lesson.? The video is railing against fascism
and mind control.? Guess you're too into Seattle having a Khemer
Rouge. ?
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The guy who cuts my hair turned me on to Heather Cox Richardson, who writes an almost daily online political newsletter summarizing events called Letters from an American.? There is a free version and a paying version; I'm signed up for the free version.? She is an excellent writer, factual, and succinct.? She lives in Maine and also posts photographs and other things of interest occasionally.?? Today, she posted this:??
"In honor of this year's Kentucky Derby (won today by Medina Spirit), I'm posting a piece my friend Michael S. Green and I wrote together a number of years ago on Ten Famous American Horses. It has no deep meaning... it's just fun. It remains one of my favorite things I had a hand in writing, and I'm pleased to have an excuse to share it.
I'll be back on the usual beat tomorrow.
1) Traveller
General Robert E. Lee rode Traveller (spelled with two Ls, in the British style) from February 1862 until the general¡¯s death in 1870. Traveller was a grey American Saddlebred of 16 hands. He had great endurance for long marches, and was generally unflappable in battle, although he once broke both of General Lee¡¯s hands when he shied at enemy movements. Lee brought Traveller with him when he assumed the presidency of Washington and Lee University. Traveller died of tetanus in 1871. He is buried on campus, where the safe ride program still uses his name.
2) Comanche
Comanche was attached to General Custer¡¯s detachment of the 7th Cavalry when it engaged the Lakota in 1876 at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The troops in the detachment were all killed in the engagement, but soldiers found Comanche, badly wounded, two days later. They nursed him back to health, and he became the 7th Cavalry¡¯s mascot. The commanding officer decreed that the horse would never again be ridden, and that he would always be paraded, draped in black, in all military ceremonies involving the 7th Cavalry. When Comanche died of colic in 1891, he was given a full military funeral (the only other horse so honored was Black Jack, who served in more than a thousand military funerals in the 1950s and 1960s). Comanche¡¯s taxidermied body is preserved in the Natural History Museum at the University Of Kansas.
3) Beautiful Jim Key
Beautiful Jim Key was a performing horse trained by formerly enslaved veterinarian Dr. William Key. Key demonstrated how Beautiful Jim could read, write, do math, tell time, spell, sort mail, and recite the Bible. Beautiful Jim performed from 1897 to 1906 and became a legend. An estimated ten million Americans saw him perform, and others collected his memorabilia ¨C buttons, photos, and postcards ¨C or danced the Beautiful Jim Key two-step. Dr. Key insisted that he had taught Beautiful Jim using only kindness, and Beautiful Jim Key¡¯s popularity was important in preventing cruelty to animals in America, with more than 2 million children signing the Jim Key Band of Mercy, in which they pledged: ¡°I promise always to be kind to animals.¡±
4) Man o¡¯ War
Named for his owner, August Belmont, Jr., who was overseas in WWI, Man o¡¯ War is widely regarded as the top Thoroughbred racehorse of all time. He won 20 of his 21 races and almost a quarter of a million dollars in the early twentieth century. His one loss ¨C to ¡°Upset¡± ¨C came after a bad start. Man o¡¯ War sired many of America¡¯s famous racehorses, including Hard Tack, which in turn sired Seabiscuit, the small horse that came to symbolize hope during the Great Depression.
5) Trigger
Entertainer Roy Rogers chose the palomino Trigger from five rented horses to be his mount in a Western film in the 1930s, changing his name from Golden Cloud to Trigger because of his quick mind and feet. Rogers rode Trigger in his 1950s television series, making the horse a household name. When Trigger died, Rogers had his skin draped over a Styrofoam mold and displayed it in the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in California. He also had a 24-foot statue of Trigger made from steel and fiberglass. One other copy of that mold was also made: it is ¡°Bucky the Bronco,¡± which rears above the Denver Broncos stadium south scoreboard.
6) Sergeant Reckless
American Marines in Korea bought a mare in October 1952 from a Korean stable boy who needed the money to buy an artificial leg for his sister, who had stepped on a land mine. The marines named her Reckless after their unit¡¯s nickname, the Reckless Rifles. They made a pet of her, and trained her to carry supplies and to evacuate wounded. She learned to travel supply routes without a guide: on one notable day she made 51 solo trips. Wounded twice, she was given a battlefield rank of corporal in 1953 and promoted to sergeant after the war, when she was also awarded two Purple Hearts and a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal.
7) Mr. Ed
Mr. Ed was a talking palomino in a 1960s television show by the same name. At a time when Westerns dominated American television, Mr. Ed was the anti-Western, with the main human character a klutzy architect and the hero a horse that was fond of his meals and his comfortable life, and spoke with the voice of Allan ¡°Rocky¡± Lane, who made dozens of ¡°B¡± westerns. But the show was a five-year hit as it married the past to the future. Mr. Ed offered a gentle homely wisdom that enabled him to straighten out the troubles of the humans around him. The startling special effects that made it appear that the horse was talking melded modern technology with the comforting traditional community depicted in the show.
8) Black Jack
Black Jack, named for John J. ¡°Black Jack¡± Pershing, was the riderless black horse in the funerals of John F. Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Douglas MacArthur, as well as more than a thousand other funerals with full military honors. A riderless horse, with boots reversed in the stirrups, symbolized a fallen leader, while Black Jack¡¯s brands ¨C a US brand and an army serial number ¨C recalled the army¡¯s history. Black Jack himself was buried with full military honors; the only other horse honored with a military funeral was Comanche.
9) Khartoum
Khartoum was the prize stud horse of Jack Woltz, the fictional Hollywood mogul in Mario Puzo¡¯s?The Godfather. In one of the film version¡¯s most famous scenes, after Woltz refuses requests from Don Vito Corleone to cast singer Johnny Fontane in a movie, Woltz wakes up to find Khartoum¡¯s head in bed with him¡ and agrees to use Fontane in the film. In the novel, Fontane wins the Academy Award for his performance. According to old Hollywood rumor, the story referred to real events. The rumor was that mobsters persuaded Columbia Pictures executive Harry Cohn to cast Frank Sinatra in?From Here to Eternity. As Maggio, Sinatra revived his sagging film career and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
10) Secretariat
Secretariat was an American Thoroughbred that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years. His records in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes still stand. After Secretariat was stricken with a painful infection and euthanized in 1989, an autopsy revealed that he had an unusually big heart. Sportswriter Red Smith once asked his trainer how Secretariat had run one morning; Charlie Hatton replied, ¡°The trees swayed.¡±"
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Em
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Re: Very cool little graphic
On 5/2/21 9:30 AM, WillyTex via
groups.io wrote:
On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 07:55 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
See where the world stands on vaccinations?
That's weird! China didn't show up on the map. Go figure.
According to Chinese news sources, the Communist government has
been able to almost eradicate the COVID virus and it's spread in
China. YMMV.
That graphic was posted by MJ over on "The Corner" (aka Barry's
Blog).? They're heavy kool-aid drinkers over there.
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Re: Very cool little graphic
On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 05:55 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
See where the world stands on vaccinations?
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Cool graphic.?? ? --
Em
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