Sunday Morning Coming Down

Saturday the barns at Hialeah Park are scheduled to open. Races will begin on December 26th and there is still a lot of work to be done before the first call to the post. The QH folks will becoming from Iowa, Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana for the most part. I think a lot of trainers enjoy the good weather before they start training their two year olds seriously for the big races out west at Remington Park. Hopefully, it will dry out and get a little cooler. Update 12/31/2015 It's now Thursday.  The races have resumed.  Morning workouts are happening.  The jocks cafeteria is open for tacos, burritos and all sorts of Mexican morning food.  Prices are up, but early this fall the cook bought a yearling at Heritage Place, somebody has to pay for that baby. Opening day, Sunday, and Monday were filled with trial races for big races to be held in two weeks.  The races were held but the biggest controversy was probably in the racing secretary...

I'm hardly a theologian. I'm hardly a theist either, but in this holiday season it might be prudent to point out that Christians, Jews, and Muslims probably all worship or believe in the same God. All three believe that God is the Creator and that God will someday end the world that he created. All three believe that God is a judge as well, that he will show himself as such on the last day, and that the criterion for his judgment will be not worldly greatness but moral integrity. And this list can be extended just as easily as the list of differences. If there is a God, let's hope he or she or it is the forgiving kind.

"This six bedroom, eight and one half bathroom home has been impeccably maintained and updated to reflect the amenities necessary for 21st Century Living: a 60 KW generator that provides the security of knowing activities will continue regardless of the elements; a walled and gated location, covering more than 27,000 feet on Key Biscayne's most prestigious, private street.".... The place is probably even more amazing than the insert in The Miami Herald.  The price is so high you have to call to find out how much it is. In 1971 you could go to restaurants like the English Pub on Key Biscayne or a steakhouse like The Hasta near the Grove and Coral Gables, knowing that Nixon ate there semi regularly. Key Biscayne isn't as laid back as it once was.  President's Nixon's Winter White House was pretty secluded but very very modest by standards even back then.  It was torn down as many of the houses built back in the 50's have been to make way for newer wat...

Justice Scalia serves on the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Scalia went to Harvard Law School.  Harvard is a private school that can decide who will be admitted to the school. It is almost inconceivable that a judge sitting on the Supreme Court would say something like this " There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-­Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a less­­ — a slower­-track school where they do well," Scalia said Wednesday, according to the Supreme Court transcript . The idea that Texas might decide to admit African Americans to address issues of diversity and access to the STATE University of Texas is something that might be better left to the State of Texas. Justice Scalia seems to prefer the good old days when segregation did the work of putting students in their place and often guaranteed a second class education.  What happene...

Donald Trump and his ideas about banning Muslims from coming to this country are being slammed from all directions.  And this time like a whole bunch of other times he is trying to walk it back by saying it would be a temporary measure until we can figure out what is happening. This seems to be a pattern.  Throw out some red meat to those who support him and appeal to the most base of his base. These kind of appeals to fears that exist be really need to be stopped and called out as the worst kind of demagoguery that has no place in the serious process of electing a president of the United States.  In fact it seems this pattern of attacks on people in this country may actually inflame behavior we are so concerned about.  Scapegoating people of a certain religion or nationality or race isn't an American trait I agree with and think those with a different point of view need to speak out. This is not the stuff of policy for any country that calls itself a democracy...