Welcome to Friday, April 19, 2024, and National Garlic Day. You can’t have too much of the stuff! It’s native to SE Asia, and here’s world production by country, taken from Wikipedia. I’m not surprised that China far outdoes the rest of the world as a whole!
If you’re a garlic lover, try this recipe, which I once had in Lyon in a slightly different form. This is James Beard’s “Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic.” It sounds daunting, but it’s delicious and easy to make.
It’s National Cat Lady Day, and Ginger K. sent a photo:
It’s also Bicycle Day, National Amaretto Day, National Chicken Parmesan Day, and Rice Ball Day.
Here’s an apparatus for making small, cat-shaped rice balls:
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the April 19 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
*The Trial of Trump continues, now with only five jurors since two originally selected were dismissed. UPDATE: They now have twelve jurors, but still need six alternates. Further, Trump is beefing that he has to spend too much time in court (four days a week per the judge’s order). From the two pieces at WaPo:
There will be 12 jurors total, plus about six alternates, according to Merchan.
In a typical trial, prospective jurors who know the defendant would not be allowed to serve on the jury because such familiarity would interfere with their ability to remain unbiased. As for Trump, the judge said the key issue is not whether jurors know him or have an opinion of him, but whether they can set aside their feelings and render a verdict based on the evidence and law.
During questioning, some of the selected jurors acknowledged having personal views of Trump or his presidency but said they could remain impartial in the case. One spoke favorably of him, saying she liked that he “speaks his mind.” Overall, they showed a range of knowledge about his court cases, with two saying they didn’t follow the news closely.
. . . When the second day of his Manhattan criminal trial wrapped Tuesday, former president Donald Trump headed uptown to visit a bodega. It was a campaign stop, alerted to the media in advance and summarized in a news release afterward. And despite insistences from Trump and his allies that having to attend the trial is an encumbrance designed to keep him off the campaign trail, the bodega visit was a good reminder that there’s still plenty of time in the week for Trump to campaign.
The rest of the article tries to show that in 2016 Trump didn’t hold many campaign rallies on weekdays anyway, and in 2020 he didn’t campaign much because of the pandemic. The point of the article is to show that Trump is kvetching without cause:
Those [2016] rallies, incidentally, were often of the fly in, speak and leave variety. In 2020, these were the centerpiece of his campaigning efforts: landing at an airport and holding a rally on the tarmac.
That approach could work well this year, too. You can get from the courthouse to the helipad at South Street Seaport in about 20 minutes. It takes less time than that to get to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York by helicopter and then, say, two hours to Detroit. Another half-hour of driving, and you could have an 8:30 p.m. rally in Michigan even if court doesn’t get out until 5 p.m.
Well, I’m not convinced that Trump isn’t inconvenienced, though the article, called “Trump is overstating the problem of having to be in court,” is designed to show that he’s fine. It’s a slanted article, but is politicla “news”, not an op-ed. Note: I think Trump has to be in court, but I also think the article is an example of biased “reporting.”
*The U.S. vetoed a Palestinian proposal that it become a full member state of the United Nations. (Right now Palestine has the status of a “nonmember observer state.”) Although there are 15 members of the voting Security council, only the five key members, which include the U.S., can absolutely sink a proposal via a veto. And it was the only one who did.
The United States blocked the U.N. Security Council on Thursday from moving forward on a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a full member state at the United Nations, quashing an effort by Palestinian allies to get the world body to back the effort.
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, was visibly emotional after the vote, asking, “What will you do — you, the international Security Council that is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security? What are you doing to do? What are you willing to do?”
The Security Council has consistently called for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a result that has failed to materialize during negotiations between the two sides. In Washington, a spokesman for the State Department, Vedant Patel, said before the vote that the statehood resolution was dead on arrival.
“It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward statehood for the Palestinian people is through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with the support of the United States and other partners,” Mr. Patel told reporters at a news briefing on Thursday.
The United States, along with the four other permanent members of the Council, can veto any action before it. Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, praised the U.S. decision to block the proposal on Thursday, saying, “The shameful proposal was rejected. Terrorism will not be rewarded.”
The resolution had asked the 15-member Security Council to recommend to the 193-member U.N. General Assembly that “the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations,” diplomats said.
China was one of 12 countries that voted in favor of the proposal, and its ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Cong, said he found the U.S. veto “most disappointing.”
“The decade-long dream of the Palestinian people ruthlessly dashed,” he said.
Two countries, Britain and Switzerland, abstained from the vote, saying they supported a two-state solution but that the war in Gaza must be resolved first.
This is the right thing to do given that there is no appetite for Palestine to have its own state by Israel, and the bid is a cynical one. Besides, the Palestinians have “ruthlessly dashed” their own hopes for a state five or six times since 1948, rejecting any Israeli offer that would give them a state. Finally, is the UN really supposed to award terrorism by giving the terrorists their own country? (Remember, the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, also foments and rewards terrorism.)
*According to the Jerusalem Post, the U.S. and Israel have struck a deal: Biden has given Israel permission (!) to attack Rafah, with U.S. “backing”, so long as it doesn’t retaliate against Iran using a “wide counterstrike” (see also here).
The US has approved a potential Israeli Rafah operation in exchange for the Jewish state not conducting counterstrikes on Iran, according to a Thursday report from the Qatari newspaper The New Arab.
A senior official told The New Arab that “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to obtain American approval for a military operation in Rafah, in exchange for [Israel] refraining from carrying out a wide military operation against Iran in response to its recent attack.”
He claimed that “discourse of an Israeli response to Iran contradicts the desires of the American administration, and is not realistic, given the Israeli claims that the United States played the major role in repelling the Iranian attack and preventing its success.”
The source noted that “the IDF carried out airstrikes [overnight on Thursday] on several areas adjacent to the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt,” adding that “the relevant officials in Egypt were notified before the execution of some of these strikes, which came in the Philadelphi axis at a space adjacent to the border with Egypt.
The report comes among public statements from some Israeli officials expressing desire to retaliate against Iran, with a report published by the KAN broadcasting channel claimed that Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog, stated on Thursday that “Israel will react to Iran, and it won’t take years – soon Iran’s missiles will be equipped with nuclear warheads.”
The Qatar report also noted that Egypt is exemplifying “full readiness and preparedness of [its] forces stationed in northern Sinai, along the 14-kilometer border strip with the Gaza Strip, as part of a plan to deal with the scenario of a ground invasion in Rafah.”
I’d call this a good deal on the part of Israel. Their initial aim was to defeat Hamas, and they can’t do that without going into Rafah. And, make no mistake about it, they will. Whether that will achieve its aim is something we don’t know. But starting a wider war with Iran right now is not good policy, as it not only ties up the IDF but could plunge the Middle East into turmoil. Israel is going to be “allowed” to respond in a more limited way, and probably later (note the stipulation against carrying out a “wide military operation.” Now Israel can go into Rafah with the backing of the U.S.
*Why aren’t people complaining about Russia’s war crimes in the war with Ukraine (beyond, that is, the invasion of Ukraine)? Yesterday, a Russian missile hit the downtown area of a city, killing 18 (ther story says 17 but another one was found) and wounding at least 60. Why doesn’t somebody file a genocide case with the International Court against Russia?
“This would not have happened if Ukraine had received enough air defense equipment and if the world’s determination to counter Russian terror was also sufficient,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram. “There needs to be sufficient commitment from partners and sufficient support to reflect it.”
Ukraine has three Patriot air defense systems, but officials here say 26 are needed to cover the entire country. Last weekend, after Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba intensified his appeals for more systems, Germany pledged to send another to Ukraine.
“Ukraine urgently needs more Patriot systems,” the Foreign Ministry posted on X after the attack.
. . .Ukraine has three Patriot air defense systems, but officials here say 26 are needed to cover the entire country. Last weekend, after Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba intensified his appeals for more systems, Germany pledged to send another to Ukraine.
“Ukraine urgently needs more Patriot systems,” the Foreign Ministry posted on X after the attack.
A $60 billion aid package for Ukraine has been delayed in the U.S. Congress for months, as House Republicans refuse to allow a vote on the aid. In the meantime, Russia has exploited Ukraine’s ammunition and air defense shortages, destroying energy infrastructure across the country and slowly gaining ground in the east. Russian forces are currently advancing toward the town of Chasiv Yar, outside Bakhmut, the city they seized last year.
For some reason I don’t understand, probably because I’m politically naive, the Republicans keep holding up a vote on Ukraine aid. I’d gladly pay more taxes to help that gallant people fight the Russians, even though I’m starting to feel downhearted about Ukraine’s chance of retaining much territory. I hope the aid package is passed soon; Ukraine is hurting.
*I’ll be writing soon about how there’s no longer a serious issue with a dearth of food in Gaza, but I do want to show you how well Israel is taking care of its convicted terrorists—called “security prisoners” to distinguish them from regular criminals. I find these two headlines not only indicative of the difference between Israel and Hamas (seriously, how well do you think the hostages are eating), but somewhat humorous. Click to read each one:
Both articles show that Israel’s office of the attorney general are beefing because security prisoners (murderers, October 7 participants, etc.) don’t get fruit, and have to eat sausages twice a week. (I presume they’re not pork sausages.) Not good nourishment! From the first article:
A document obtained by Israel Hayom reveals the clarifications demanded by Deputy Attorney General Attorney Sharon Afek and Head of the High Court of Justice Department Attorney Aner Helman from National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Israel Prison Service regarding the food provided to security prisoners, including the Nukhba terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 attack.
According to the document, which summarizes a preliminary discussion on toughening the conditions for terrorists in prison, the representatives of the Attorney General’s Office asked the Prison Service and Ben-Gvir’s Office to explain why fruits were removed from the menu served to security prisoners, contrary to the recommendations of professionals and dietitians. The representatives also wondered how removing fruits from the menu, a decision made by Ben-Gvir, does not harm the prisoners’ health and even fails to maintain their long-term health – as required by the Prisons Ordinance.
They also inquired why sausages are served to the terrorists twice a week – and not less frequently, since they are considered processed, and therefore less healthy, food. Professionals have recommended reducing the amount of processed meat given to security prisoners to maintain their health.
And from the Jerusalem Post:
In the document in question published by Yisrael Hayom, the A-G’s representative asked why fruit was taken off the menu and why hot dogs were being served twice a week, as this could potentially violate the law which requires that prisoners be served healthy food.
In addition, the A-G’s representative questioned an IPS policy to provide prisoners with an average amount of food, as this could potentially mean that prisoners who required above-average quantities of food were not being fed enough, also contrary to the law.
Well, seriously, yes, prisoners should get a balanced diet, and I don’t think that they deserve bad food as punishment, since they’re already being punished (though all imprisoned terrorists get a stipend from the Palestinian Authority’s “pay for slay” program. Can’t they use that money to buy oranges and bananas?
*The Democratic National Convention is here in Chicago this summer, and two authors at the Free Press, Olivia Reingold and Eli Lake, tell us that it’s going to be a bumpy ride. They infiltrated a group of lefties, describing the upcoming mayhem in a piece called “Among the activists plotting to disrupt the DNC.”
In a room full of 450 far-left activists, a leader with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization kicks off a chant: “Protest is a right—not just for the rich and white.”
“Have you heard that the Democratic National Convention is coming to Chicago?” Joe Iosbaker asks the crowd. “Are we going to let ’em come here without a protest? This is Chicago, goddamn it—we’ve got to give them a 1968 kind of welcome.”
In 1968, the Democratic Convention in Chicago was a bloodbath, with 600 arrests in one street battle that was broadcast all over the world. And the group that met here last Saturday, in the local headquarters of the Teamsters Union, wants to repeat history when Joe Biden is named the presidential nominee at the DNC this August. They oppose the president they call “Genocide Joe” for backing Israel in its war against Hamas.
“If we don’t get a permit, are we still going to march?” Iosbaker asked the crowd, who responded with a chorus of “Yeah!”
“Are we still gonna march within sight and sound? Are we gonna let Genocide Joe come here and not hear us and see us? No! From Chicago to Palestine, protesting is not a crime.”
No, it’s not, but there can be crimes involved with protesting, including attacking cops, vandalism, arson, and so on. I well remember 1968, which took place when I was in college, and it was grim. This time, I guess the issue will be the war in the Middle East instead of the war in Vietnam. One thing’s for sure: I ain’t going near that convention!
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili wants a ride:
A: What are you looking for?Hili: I’m looking for a driver.
Ja: Czego szukasz?Hili: Patrzę gdzie jest kierowca.*******************
From Barry, who says “I don’t like being told that I’m a shopping bag!”:
A post from Facebook from Egidio Pavone, titled, “Iranian girls paying tribute to the Ayatollahs.”
From Jesus of the Day:
From Masih. The younger sister was killed for setting her hijab on fire. Is it too much to hope that the Iranian people will rise up against their theocratic dictatorship?
These are two sisters. One of them was killed during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ uprising in Iran, and now the other one has been arrested for not wearing a hijab in the street. Nika Shakarami, only 16 years old, took to the streets after the killing of #MahsaAmini by the morality… pic.twitter.com/vGlblGw5i2
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) April 18, 2024
Another ultra-courageous Iranian woman. Ceiling Cat bless ’em all!
Mobina Rostami, an outstanding player in Iranian volleyball, wrote on her Instagram: "As an Iranian, I am truly ashamed of the regime's attack on Israel, but you need to know that the people in Iran love Israel and hate the Islamic Republic."
This morning, she was arrested, and… pic.twitter.com/NZR70sCgTX
— Real Palestinian 🇮🇱 (@shim_rational) April 17, 2024
From Simon, though a bit early:
Latest weather report from New York City:
Stormy with a chance of incarceration
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 11, 2024
And another Trumpy Tweet from Simon, sent by Larry the Cat, in his 13th year as as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street.
My face when I loiter somewhere that says no loitering pic.twitter.com/1d6qiEIqhT
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 17, 2024
From Malcolm. This is the way models walk on the catwalk!
cat walk pic.twitter.com/tt463VwePt
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) April 16, 2024
Shark rescue, and that shark has teeth!
They helped a stranded shark back into the water on a Florida beach
pic.twitter.com/ER5xIKwTso— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) April 18, 2024
From the Auschwitz Memorial. Today marks the beginning of the uprising of Jews against Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. I tweeted about it. It was a monthlong act of bravery in the face of impossible odds; you can read about it here.
The uprising, doomed to failure from the start, resulted in the death of 13,000 Jews. It was the biggest protest of Jews against the Nazis in WWII, and a brave act of resistance. https://t.co/U8ro2NUBjf
— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) April 19, 2024
Two tweets from Dr. Cobb. Speaking of sharks, here’s a person hanging around a 20-foot Great White Shark:
20ft Great White Shark pic.twitter.com/xTbhPghaM7
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 17, 2024
Somebody must have put a GoPro camera on a toy train:
Brutal and premeditated. pic.twitter.com/Rd2tPubTfG
— Giant Military Cats (@giantcat9) April 17, 2024
Gilroy CA bills itself as “the Garlic Capital of the World” it seems that might be ………overstated
I *vaguely* recall a lyrical line from a Frank Zappa song referring to a ¶ …princess ¶…with a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma ¶ *vaguely* because of nefarious substance-stances of those times…
As someone who has experienced the “aroma of Tacoma” up close, I fear for anyone within 50 miles of Zappa’s garlic woman.
I get to eat sausages once every two weeks, so maybe I should apply to become a terrorist prisoner in Israel?
We seem to have developed a habit of me cooking pancakes for breakfast on Sundays. My son and I eat either sausages or bacon with them, whilst the Boss gets a veggie version of either. And that’s my entire meat consumption. Quomodo ceciderunt fortes!
When I roast a joint of meat I add a head of garlic, de-papered, cut in half horizontally, and placed cut side up.
After an hour or so the joint is gently flavoured and all the garlic cloves are soft and squishy and can be scooped out as a relish, added to gravy, or added to butter for later consumption/cooking.
That’s a great ‘hack.’ I do that often too. Spread the garlic on bread and mop up the juices with it.
On this day:
797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus. [Some mothers, eh?]
1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary “Note on the Theory of Diffraction” (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with “Good Night”.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
2001 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country’s history.
2021 – The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.
Births:
1806 – Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer (d. 1889).
1831 – Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor and translator (d. 1889). [First editor-in-chief of the women’s fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar.]
1872 – Alice Salomon, German social reformer (d. 1948).
1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934).
1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957).She
1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012). [One of the bestselling Danish authors, possibly second only to Hans Christian Andersen.]
1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006). [Today’s Woman of the Day, see next post below.]
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967).
1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (d. 2002).
1938 – Stanley Fish, American theorist, author, and scholar.
1942 – Alan Price, English keyboard player, singer, and composer.
1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer.
1956 – Anne Glover, Scottish biologist and academic.
1964 – Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic.
1965 – Suge Knight, American record executive.
1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress.
1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete and double Olympic champion.
1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697).
1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788).
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765).
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804).
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809).
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859).She
1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878). [Among the foremost European female composers of orchestral and chamber music in her day. Despite her contemporary fame, not much has been written about her. According to Dr Carola Darwin, “The contribution of women to Vienna’s creative life at this period has been largely forgotten as the result of Nazi ideology, as well as the general destruction of the Second World War… Johanna Müller-Hermann’s works deserve a much wider hearing, not only because of their intrinsic quality, but also because they were an integral part of Vienna’s extraordinary creative flowering.”]
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876).
1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907).
1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917). [Titter ye not!]
1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914).
2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925).
2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920).
2004 – Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922). [The only female photographer to help develop the first photos of the D-Day landings.]
2009 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930).
2013 – François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920). [Together with Jacques Monod, he originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.]
2013 – Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924).
2021 – Jim Steinman, American composer, lyricist (b. 1947).
Woman of the Day:
[Text from Wikipedia]
Anna Lee Aldred (born on this day in 1921, died June 12, 2006) was an American jockey and trick rider in rodeos. She was the first woman in the United States to receive a jockey’s license. She pursued her professional horse racing career from 1939 to 1945, winning many races at state and county fairs. She then pursued a second career as a trick rider from 1945 to 1950. She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004.
Anna Lee Mills was born in Montrose, Colorado, on April 19, 1921. Her father, Tom P. Mills, was a horse trainer and racer, and raised horses together with her mother, Dottie (nee Marlow) Mills. She had two brothers who became rodeo champions, and two sisters who also performed in the rodeo.
Anna Lee began riding at a young age. She won her first pony race at age 6 in an amateur competition in Montrose, and was participating in flat and relay races by age 12. She raced at amateur tracks in Colorado and Wyoming.
In 1939, at age 18, she received her professional license from the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Baja California, Mexico, becoming the first U.S. woman to receive a jockey’s license. Aldred said in a 2003 interview that the racetrack officials had tried to deny her application, but could not find a written rule that only men could race horses.
She lost her first professional race by a nose, but went on to win “scores” of other races at state and county fairs. During her racing career, she weighed 100 pounds (45 kg). But by 1945, having grown too tall at 5′ 5″ and weighing in at 118 pounds (54 kg), she retired from horse racing.
She opened a riding school in California, and then embarked on a five-year career as a trick rider in rodeos. She taught herself trick-riding skills at night in empty arenas. Among her tricks were “standing atop the saddle of a horse bolting down the arena” and “hanging by her foot from the side of a running horse”.
She quit her professional career upon marrying in 1950, but continued riding until she was 80. She served as a “pony boy”, leading the racehorses out to the track of the Montrose Fairgrounds before races, and also appeared in rodeo ceremonies.
After breaking her hip at age 80, she entered a nursing home in Montrose. There she slept under a horse blanket.
Aldred was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004. She was posthumously inducted into the Colorado Plateau Horseman’s Hall of Fame in 2018.
In 1950, she married Wayne Aldred, a cattleman, in Raton, New Mexico. The couple adopted a son and a daughter; their daughter was killed in a motorcycle accident while in her early teens. She and her husband divorced after 35 years of marriage.
Aldred died in a Montrose nursing home on June 12, 2006, at the age of 85.
Her 1939 racing license, in the form of a small wooden badge, and her blue and white racing silks, are exhibited at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.
God forbid I should go to any heaven where there are no horses. – Anna Lee Aldred
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lee_Aldred
Thanks Jez. Just seeing the name, “Evinrude” brings alive the smells of our old 2-cycle 5-horsepower Evinrude outboard motor mixed with the salt water air on weekend Hampton Roads fishing trips in our 15-foot bateau as a child with my father in the 1950’s. Happy childhood.
When I’m in San Francisco, I like to visit here for garlic ice cream.
https://thestinkingrose.com/
BTW, this restaurant is just down the street from City Lights bookstore.
Love that place – and City Lights – but never had the garlic ice cream.
☮️🐾
It’s simple, really. It has nothing to do with money. Many on the right are enamored of Vladimir Putin, a strongman they respect. Their leader, the Orange Menace, is a Putin asset. OM says “No support for Ukraine” and the Republicans get in line.
Cheers, GBJames.
I think their more practical argument is that it is very expensive to give them arms, it adds to our deficit, and meanwhile we don’t have (and maybe will never have) any vested interest in Ukraine. I don’t agree with those as being sufficient arguments, but there it is.
Arming Ukraine is a bargain chchchaching good. You know the most expensive thing in war is people…just like in business. If we can proxy Russia via Ukraine, it’s beautiful. It’s so something that should just keep on keepin’ on. Ukraine money is coming out of the National Defense and it’s a pittance compared to ” ” enter word between the quotes: the $trillion$ military budget (over 10 years, of course).
Not to be rude, GB, but that’s hogwash. Republicans are trying to get Biden to do something about the border, and are trying to tie that to Ukraine aid. To a lesser extent they also want to tie aid to Israel to aid to Ukraine. To a lesser degree, I think there is also a bit of “if Biden wants it, it must be bad,” which isn’t absurd.
If the Republicans were trying to do something about the border then why did the House Republicans refuse the recent border bill devised and approved by Senate Republicans and Democrats? Why have they done similar, not passed any meaningful proposed border bills, even their own, for the past 15 years or more, despite having the majorities necessary to do so for most of that time?
Exactly. Contrary to DrBrydon, it is abundantly clear to me that the Republicans (the MAGA ones at least) don’t want to do anything about the border because they would then own the issue along with Biden and lose it as their primary election issue.
No. They had the chance to get what they wanted on the border. The Orange Menace told them no to do it. You provide another example, not counter evidence.
Ever since I learned that the Democratic Party convention was going to be in Chicago, I’ve thought we might well be in for a re-run of ’68. It’s easy to see that there are large, organized, and coordinated protests against the Biden Administration’s support (however tepid) of Israel. Protestors are confronting him and Kamala when they travel. I think it’s reasonable to expect a big turnout at the convention. New York Magazine ran a piece yesterday saying that this summer’s convention won‘t be a repeat of ’68, which pretty much means that people are afraid it will be.
Why aren’t people calling Russia out? There are court decisions initiated by Ukraine.
“On 2 February 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued landmark decisions in two cases against Russia initiated by Ukraine on 16 January 2017 regarding terrorism financing and racial discrimination, and on 26 February 2022 regarding genocide allegations.”
But, I think Russia holds a position similar to Trump. They have been so egregious in their skulduggery over so long that people no longer notice. What are you going to do?
Putin has his fans. I see them all time on social media and in comments. I don’t understand why.
“Israel’s office of the attorney general are beefing because security prisoners (murderers, October 7 participants, etc.) don’t get fruit”
Could have read that in a Borowitz Report.
In response to Frau Katze. When I see a flood of anti Ukrainian or pro Putin comments I do think they are most likely trolls or bots. And the same for anti Israel propaganda. The far left has been primed to hate anything American. Which is good for putin and trump, bad for Biden. The right has been infected as well, with cynical, conspiratorial thinking, like this is the end times, America is done–I have heard this from people where I live for years. . This also is good for trump,bad for Biden. Putin has billions to spend on influencing other countries(not just the USA). He is just continuing the same tradition of the former USSR. If something doesn’t make sense follow the money.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QYh6mYIJG2Y
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