Horse Trainer FAIL!

I'm going to come right out and say it. 

If you are at a baseball game and catch a foul ball and there is a little kid sitting next to you - screw you little kid.  I'm keeping the damn ball. GET OFF MY YARD!!  HEY - I've been waiting for 57 damn years to catch a foul ball and you??  HEY, you are like 4 years old and can't even pee standing up and have 53 more damn years to catch one.

Of course it'll probably be traumatic and he will hate authority and become a serial old person killer and the cameras will be on me and I'll be on Sports Center as the dude who refused to give a little kid a baseball and a youtube video will now go viral and I'll get beat up in the parking lot and days later I'll get hate mail and someone will throw a baseball through my window.

Youtube - man, you can't get away with anything now can you.  

Seems this horse "trainer" at the Midwest Horse Show feels it's OK to strike a horse when she is upset.



Horse Trainer FAIL

The trainer has been identified and is now getting bitch slapped by the world (as she should).  Her statement is that the horse would not go into the trailer and she had been trying for an hour.  It's just noise she said.  So . . .I guess after an hour it's OK to start striking a horse. 

I would love to be one of her kids!  And if she does this in public? What does she do in private! 

Animal Services and all sorts of organizations are taking action and I believe her life has become rather hellish since the incident.  Admittedly, the bat did not "hurt" the horse.  That bat would not hurt a human but if your child did not eat his peas would you swing a bat at him to make him eat?

FAIL!
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SO - it looks like the citizens of Columbus might be getting their taxes raised at the tune of $500 for every $120,000 house.  HOPEFULLY Fall River will also be getting that much as a new combined High School is being talked about.

I don't know all the facts but from the sounds of it a combined Fall River/Columbus Junior/Senior High School on completely undeveloped land is in the works.  Too bad this is not on TIF land?? (is it?) .  Will the citizens be forced to fund the entire thing?  No government loans?  OH wait - Wisconsin can not afford education.

Looking at the current high school you can tell they probably have not discovered computers yet. And if we do move to a new school this can be converted into a Kohls Grocery store pretty quickly.

I'm going to reserve judgement for the time being and hope someone can point me to any meetings there might be.  I'm sure there will be some banter on the huge increase in property taxes (which Walker said would never go up).
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DISPLAY - FAIL!! 

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Taking a page from balderdash - I might be switching to colored golf balls this year.  I have always coveted his balls and how he can find them so easily when he loses one.    


Here is a list of all the orange balls 


Wilson Staff Elite 50
Precept XP3
Bridgestone E6
Volvik Crystal
Nike PD Long
Srixon AD333 (UK only?)
Srixon Z Star VX Tour
Maxfli Noodle Ice 

Titelist DT Solo and NXT are now available in yellow.
 

American economy is not bad at all.

 A friend who is code named "cathy" commented in the comments yesterday that a service called "Play On" might be something to look into when trying to get programs on to my TV. At the moment HBO GO can only be played on my computer.   So I was looking into Play On  and did a search in Google (the 9th wonder of the world).  I found this review for Play On.

"Not since Shania Twain bared her midriff, and gained legions of fans outside of the country music scene, has there been a disc that blatantly wears its intentions on its sleeve."

hmmmm - that seemed like an interesting crossover on describing the  service but I was not really catching the real meaning.  wait . . . . . OHHHH!!!!!   It's a DIFFERENT Play On.

Here is a REAL review and it seems legit.

Play On Review

My problem is that is it just a stop gap?  What if I get the service and all of a sudden it's really not needed.  I mean with cloud computing coming and we won't even need PCs anymore and being able to breath underwater with telephones in our heads and radios in our teeth . . . .

HEY - just thinking out loud here!!  what if  I invented a way to click my teeth and send Morse Code to friends!!  A NEW way to communicate. This could be the new face book.  TOOTH BOOK!!!  

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My trailer purchase fell though - I was too late. sigh.  Better call uHaul for the Stoughton Art Fair May 19&20.  Man, renting will cost me 5% of the trailer!   grrrrr.

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A couple photos from the back yard.

Saxifraga

The Tulips were a freebie from Jungs so I just planted them to see what they looked like. 

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So - Wisconsin is dead last of all States in job creation.  SWEET!!  Well done Governor.  Well, he will fix things by cutting teacher salaries next year by up to 30%.  Walker passed a new bill which combined with Act 10 is a nightmare for teachers!  (who really needs teachers anyway - overrated public servants that stand around all day talking).

Cutting an pasting a little here . . . . . 

The new rule will prohibit school districts and other governmental bodies from including most so-called "add-ons" like paying for additional education.


For example, in the Monticello School District, the maximum a teacher could earn in the district was $52,927-- which is what someone who has a Masters degree, 24 hours of college credit and 12 years of experience is paid.  Under the new rule, the maximum a teacher will be able to earn  in future contracts is $38,167, which is the maximum for a teacher that has the minimum educational requirements, but many years of experience.

Not being a teacher and getting bored of this subject you can read the post here.

Boring teacher post that I really don't understand that much because my eyes gloss over.

ANYWAY - I was talking about the U.S. economy and really how good America is doing compared to the rest of the world.  When you talk macro-economics you really have to talk about the whole world.

Check out these numbers.

Greece - unemployment is 21.8%
Spain - unemployment is 23.6%
Portugal - unemployment is 15%
Italy - youth unemployment is 31.9%  (much less then the above 3 countries)

The U.S. unemployment is down 2% in the last two years to 8.5%.  We have added 4.1 million new jobs in the last 2 years. Growth is 2.5% which is slow but it's growth.  Consumer debt to income ratio is at it's lowest since 1994. Car sales are up and one very good indicator of the economy is RV sales which were up 35% over the same time period last year. My art is selling which tells me people have "extra" cash.

The US economy is doing fine considering just how deep of a hole we were in - HOWEVER - with the huge problems overseas it's not all wonderful.  Of course the Republicans are super quick to blame Obama which is so short sighted it's embarrassing. 

Don't listen to the doom and gloom conservatives. Even GOP-leaning economists are telling their party to tone down the rhetoric on the economy. 

Last years debt-ceiling showdown stalled the economy (conservatives LOVED that) and sliced 20% out of the stock market and that can not happen again.  It really seems that Republicans WANT America to fail just so they can say "we told you so".

Remember - when you listen to the news they WANT you to be worried so you will tune in tomorrow.

sigh!

Genocide Remembrance Day - Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր

Today is a big day in the Armenian community.  I know this because where I purchased my doughnut today I commented on the music and the woman behind the counter explained it all.

The systematic killing of the Armenian population by the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I is remembered today across the world  as Turkey slaughtered 1.5 million Armenian's.  This was the very first recorded genocide where an entire race was  systemically almost exterminated.

Entire cities were rounded up and marched hundreds of miles into desert without food and water and left to die.  Many others were loaded onto barges, towed out to sea and sunk. 

If you know an Armenian  he or she is a child or grandchild of a survivors
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I watched VEEP last night on HBO and was disgusted with the word "retard" used seven times in jokes.  It totally put a damper on the night and all other comedies fell angry ears.  Oddly "nigger" is frowned upon but "retard" can be used in jokes!  I had expected more out of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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I've started watching Boardwalk Empire and am totally hooked.  Too bad I can only get it on HBO GO and not Netflix.  I have to watch it on my computer. Not really a good way for the two of us to sit down for a evening of 1920's entertainment.   I love the fact that Steve Buscemi who is just butt ugly and is now a star. They make if look pretty good BE. 

OK - this is just silly.  There is a restaurant in Las Vegas called the "Heart Attack Grill".  They have delicacies like the Quadruple Bypass Burger, four half-pound beef patties, eight slices of American cheese, a whole tomato and half an onion served in a lard-coated bun.

Well, since February there have been two heart attacks.  The place is CASH ONLY BTW.  I guess the 4000 calorie double bypass" burger was just a little too much for the woman.
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Gotta run
cheers