Clean up after your horse. I clean up after my dog.
I can already hear the incoming retorts of the upper class equestrian elite: 'horse diets are so much different than dogs and it nurtures the ground'. New flash: gravel paths don't need any nutrients.
It draws flies, it gets lodged in bike tires, it smells, it can spread E. coli, and it's absolutely leaving a trace.
Dismount, shovel it up, take it out with you. Buy a horse diaper for Secretariat, or better yet, keep it on the farm and off of public paths. 'Leave no trace' applies to all, even those with a dressage trophy.
SEABISCUIT IN THE HOMESTRETCH
Hope everyone had a happy, healthy and relaxing Christmas with family and friends. Took a break from this nonsense and checked back in tonight. Wow. Can't believe all the gibberish. (There was a actually a guy on Stocktwits posting -and bragging about- his portfolio on Christmas Day. A truly pathetic cry for help). Also, there was the usual nonsense about how: INO has failed...blah....blah...blah.....Kim is a failure...blah...blah...blah....Covid is over....blah....blah...blah. Anyway, I digress.
Covid rages on uncontrollably. Doesn't matter if (big if) omicron super-spikes and recedes in a month. Doesn't matter if (big if) omicron is less virulent. Doesn't matter if (big if) mRNA vaccines are providing any protection against this variant.
The point is that a NEXT worldwide solution is needed because COVID IS NOT GOING AWAY. We've been playing whack-a-mole for two years now. Inovio is in Phase 3 trials with the next generation solution. All the obfuscation and misdirection will not change this fact. Phase 3 (supported by China and the WHO because they saw the Phase 2 results and were blown away enough to sidestep the supposed mRNA juggernauts). This week, we found out about trials in Africa (Rwanda and Tunisia). The evidence piles up.
This will all get sorted out shortly. When the reality of the situation crystalizes, the market will react (late, as usual). There is no other candidate in line with this kind of backing. Failure is not an option. The world is ready to try something new because this insanity must end.
Seabiscuit is about to finally overtake War Admiral.
imho
xx
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Where is our dedicated Brother of our Faith, Seabicuit?!!!!!
Dane is always proposing new nicknames for himself, which is not how nicknames work, unless you're in the NBA and surrounded by yes-men. Dane is closer to being in the WNBA and surrounded by no-men, and in this instance, the no-men surprisingly even included his own mother.
This must have taken place in 2003 because we were all at Dane's when an advertisement for the movie Seabiscuit came on the TV. The commercial prompted Dane to suggest yet another nickname.
"Hey, guys, what do you think about that as a nickname for me? 'Seabiscuit?'"
Wendy, one of sweetest people we know, happened to be passing by and addressed his inquiry before any of us could.
"I've got a good nickname for you, Dane: how about 'Douchebag?'"
She left the room, chuckling, while we scraped our jaws off of the floor - we had certainly never heard her speak like that before, nor have we heard it since. It was especially flabbergasting because she absolutely roasted her own 13-year-old son, and we were under the impression that that was our duty.
Joey made the mistake of relaying this story to his parents and they swiftly forbade him from hanging out at the Johnson house for a while because they were concerned that Wendy would poison his mind, along with his body via her brownies, but that's a story for later. Regardless, Wendy was indisputably onto something with that nickname because nobody has ever called Dane "Seabiscuit," but "Douchebag Dane" has stuck around for almost twenty years now. It's much more fitting.
Guys guys guys... the Covidiots are LITERALLY taking LITERAL HORSE DE-WORMER for Covid!!!! This is THE funniest thing ever XD!!! I can't even!!!!! Alright then, I guess I'll just give my horse the Pfizer jab to treat his worms...? 🤷 Lol fucking Covidiots!! The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong in these ones, amirite guys!?!?! Even that fat chud Joe Rogan is taking the de-wormer!! LOLOLOLOLOL!! I hope they bury them in their MAGA hats when they immediately die of Covid (as we all know it's 100% fatal without the vaccine!!!!) and we're free from their MISINFORMATION!!
Shakes head, arms folded Horse de-wormer... I can't... I fucking can't!! Literally wheezes to death with laughter
XD XD XD
I needed Seabiscuit, just like the legion of fans the storied race horse accumulated during the Great Depression. The book for me was like a crevice or jug that a mountain climber grasps during their attempt to journey skyward. Like those struggling during the Great Depression, I needed something to grasp -- something to hold onto to escape the abyss. A good book is a panacea for much of what ails the neglected, creative mind.
John Pollard was Seabiscuit's ride or die jockey and one the book's four main characters (including the horse). Pollard courted danger with a blind eye -- literally. He was struck in the head by debris kicked up by a race horse and permanently lost sight in his right eye long before he eventually became Seabiscuit's jockey. Riding a horse without depth horse is extremely dangerous, but Pollard was fearless. He kept his blindness a secret in order to pursue his career as a jockey.
Pollard was the son of a bankrupt Irish immigrant. He left home at the age of 15 to pursue his dream of being a jockey in the care of a guardian who abandoned him. Often homeless, the frail jockey moonlighted as a boxer.
The young Pollard was an eclectic character. Books were his only constant companion -- worn pocket volumes of Shakespeare, Robert Service's Songs of Sourdough and a Ralph Waldo Emerson collection. Injured, the older jockey battled alcoholism for many years.
When Pollard first encountered Seabiscuit, the stallion was troubled and unruly. Pollard's gentleness endeared him to SeaBiscuit and won him over.
Seabiscuit is also a story about East vs West, as the West Coast race horse famously challenges the reigning East Coast steed War Admiral.
Pollard was critically injured and nearly killed at least twice during races. For me, Seabiscuit is a story about getting back in the saddle. I loved it!
My husband and I stayed on Isle of Palms almost 2 years ago. We went to the Seabiscuit cafe almost everyday. He was obsessed with their shrimp gravy. We cannot find a recipe anywhere close to it!! Is there some secret SC shrimp gravy?? 🤣
Dane is always proposing new nicknames for himself, which is not how nicknames work, unless you're in the NBA and surrounded by yes-men. Dane is closer to being in the WNBA and surrounded by no-men, and in this instance, the no-men surprisingly even included his own mother.
This must have taken place in 2003 because we were all at Dane's when an advertisement for the movie Seabiscuit came on the TV. The commercial prompted Dane to suggest yet another nickname.
"Hey, guys, what do you think about that as a nickname for me? 'Seabiscuit?'"
Wendy, one of sweetest people we know, happened to be passing by and addressed his inquiry before any of us could.
"I've got a good nickname for you, Dane: how about 'Douchebag?'"
She left the room, chuckling, while we scraped our jaws off of the floor - we had certainly never heard her speak like that before, nor have we heard it since. It was especially flabbergasting because she absolutely roasted her own 13-year-old son, and we were under the impression that that was our duty.
Joey made the mistake of relaying this story to his parents and they swiftly forbade him from hanging out at the Johnson house for a while because they were concerned that Wendy would poison his mind, along with his body via her brownies, but that's a story for later. Regardless, Wendy was indisputably onto something with that nickname because nobody has ever called Dane "Seabiscuit," but "Douchebag Dane" has stuck around for almost twenty years now. It's much more fitting.
