Football Saturday!

The colleges and coaches get rich off the unpaid (or under-paid) players. But no one takes a knee, so there's that.

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[Jim Eagle]

On October 21, 1805, off the coast of Spain, the fleet of the British Empire, under the command of Horatio Lord Admiral Nelson, engaged and decisively defeated a larger French and Spanish Navy.
Previously, Admiral Nelson had lost his right eye capturing Corsica and his right arm attacking the Canary Islands. He captured six and destroyed seven of Napoleon's ships at the Battle of the Nile and successfully assaulted Copenhagen. However, Admiral Nelson is best remembered (and immortalized) for winning one of the greatest naval battles in history, The Battle of Trafalgar. The daring 47-year-old Nelson defeated Napoleon's [age 36] combined French and Spanish fleets, consisting of 33 ships with 2,640 guns off the coast of Spain.
Napoleon received fifteen million dollars two years earlier from selling 600 million acres to the United States [Louisiana Purchase], but it was not enough to change the outcome. Admiral Nelson's defeat of the French navy abruptly ended Napoleon's power at sea, and with it, his dreams of world conquest. The 90,000 French troops assembled on the coast of France were forced to abandon their plans of crossing the English Channel and invading Britain.
During the Battle of Trafalgar, cannonade and musket shot ripped apart ships at point blank range, killing or wounding nearly ten thousand. Admiral Nelson was fatally shot in the spine. He was carried below deck to the ship's surgeon where he died. Admiral Horatio Nelson's last words were: "Thank God I have done my duty."

[Pinandpuller]

Meanwhile in France:

Noir fella, um, il n'a fait rien la mal.

Flammable CS+ Taser+ Bad Attitude= You got knocked TFO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku6FcC1PW8g

Fun for all ages

[Extraneus]

Looks like the same shirt that got a kid kicked out of school last week, Steph. Nice.

[Extraneus]

Trump says he'll pull US from nuclear agreement with Moscow

President Trump says he'll pull the U.S. out of its years-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia.

Trump says Moscow has violated the terms of the weapons pact, which dates to 1987, but he offered no further details on Saturday afternoon.

The pact helps protect the security of the U.S. and its allies in Europe and the Far East. It bars its signatories, the U.S. and Russia, from possessing, producing or test-flying a ground-launched cruise missile with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.

Trump made the announcement following a campaign stop and Make America Great Again rally in Elko, Nevada.

National Security Adviser John Bolton was headed Saturday to Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. An administrative official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Fox News earlier this week that Bolton would be informing Moscow of the INF pullout during the trip.

“Across two administrations, the United States and our allies have attempted to bring Russia back into full and verifiable compliance with INF," said the source. "Despite our objections, Russia continues to produce and field prohibited cruise missiles and has ignored calls for transparency.”

[Extraneus]

Said Trump. "We are going to terminate the agreement and then we are going to develop the weapons" unless Russia and China agree to a new deal.

[Jim Eagle]

Holy Merde, Vols score against Bama. With the second string QB.

[Pinandpuller]

I personally find Knoxville to be a wholly unremarkable city. Reminiscent of Kansas City but with 50% less murders and 25% more strip malls.

[Miss Marple]

Jack,

That reminds me of one of my favorite poems: The Admiral's Ghost by Alfred Noyes.

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-admiral-s-ghost/

[James D.]

Said Trump. "We are going to terminate the agreement and then we are going to develop the weapons" unless Russia and China agree to a new deal.

I love President Trump.

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! As Jane mentioned,wow! It is hot here. Just an observation,I'm not complaining. :) We took a Jeep ride on Casey Key today and saw a few houses being built to hurricane specs. They are concrete bunkers,which aren't exactly cozy and comfy,but I guess they will withstand a hurricane.

[James D.]

Said Trump. "We are going to terminate the agreement and then we are going to develop the weapons" unless Russia and China agree to a new deal.

I love President Trump.

[Pinandpuller]

"Chelsea" got the surgery finally. Countdown to "accidental" overdose. I tell you nobody, but nobody, wants to watch Eddie Izzard age as woman. Trust me.

[Jim Eagle]

Well, Pin, it does have a river, a larger stadium than Vandy/Titans, and it doesn't have funky redneck music like Nashville.

I can live with that. Plus where my Mother's family originated after emigrating from Ireland.

But unfortunately, it also has the U of Tennessee, and there is no singing on Rocky Top. That is a given.

[Extraneus]

How was the cruise, James?

[Pinandpuller]

Unexpectedly

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Looks like the same shirt that got a kid kicked out of school last week, Steph. Nice.

That's why I chose that one. Thanks!

[Pinandpuller]

That was weird. Resized it, previewed it and everything

[Jim Eagle]

Pin,

Photo no come through.

[Extraneus]

Trump hints at plan to fix 'both sides' of migrant caravan crisis

President Trump said Saturday that he had a plan to fix the immigration and humanitarian crisis on display in the migrant caravan headed for the U.S., but said he’s keeping it under wraps until after the election.

...

“We’re going to figure it out. I’ll be honest with you, I’ve already figured it out. You’re going to be happy. We’re going to make a lot of people happy,” said Mr. Trump.

He then added, “Think I’ll keep it a little bit low key until the election. I like where we stand in the election. You know, I think that blue wave is being rapidly shattered.”

Mr. Trump did not hint at how his plan would cause political waves.

He also did not back off his tough stance on border security, illegal immigration and reforms to legal immigration.

Saying he wants to complete a wall on the southern border in the next year, Mr. Trump warned that electing Democrats would usher in unchecked illegal immigration and lawlessness.

“The Democrats don’t care about what they’re extremist immigration will do to your communities, to your hospitals … and to your schools,” he said. “The Democrats don’t care that a flood of illegal immigration will bankrupt our country.”

[Jim Eagle]

If Trump doesn't pull all out the border patrol and military then he has lost me. You cannot allow a planned attack on our border and not respond with even deadly force. Someone has to lose here, and if it the USA, Trump has lost me.

[Pinandpuller]

I base a lot of my opinion on driving through Knoxville, which I find tedious. Several years ago my GPS told me to go downtown and cross that bridge which I assume goes by the stadium. It was closed for construction so I had to back a 48' trailer up but it was 2 AM so that worked out.

There are some really great places in East Tennessee that aren't cramped up city life trapped like a duck in a pen.

I like aspects of Nashville but I don't live there. I'm about 45 miles out. Frankly, I don't like going out that much. Ask my wife.

[maryrose]

I like Nashville and the Grand Olde Opry.
Enjoyed a great fall day at Red Wagon Farm.
16 days remaining .
Starting to feel good about our chances in the House
Still need more prediction about the Governor Race in Alaska.

[Central Command]

" then he has lost me."

We're sure he will be crushed. Once you lose the old fat dipshits...

[JimNorCal]

Don Surber has some fun with the Wile E. Coyote concept.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/10/project-acme-this-time-its-different.html

A reader tipped me to the Democrat Party's playbook to win in November.

Called Project ACME -- Action to Conquer the Midterm Election -- its motto is "This Time It's Different."

Its 57 authors have among them a combined 33 doctorates in political science, 20 doctorates in communication, 10 doctorates in womyn's studies, and several law degrees. Some of them have more than one PhD.

[Jerk In Black!]

Did I ever tell you about the time I escaped from 10,000 screaming tribesman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4roxM8hUMk

[Neo]

It is really no different than the attitude of Secretary of State James Mattis who said, “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f$*k with me, I’ll kill you all.”

Secretary of State James Mattis ??

[Jim Eagle]

Secretary of Defense, Neo?

[Jim Eagle]

Stuff like illegal substitution that make you a patsy for great teams like Bama. Its called coaching, discipline, and communications. With some teams it is a given they can't handle either of those 3.

[Jim Eagle]

Late but Today's Latin Phrase of the Day:

Forma linguae Latinae a multis laudatur.

For me and Beasts,and all you lovers of Latin.

[GUS]

Alabama should be in the NFL.

[Extraneus]

So Trump first threatened to deploy the military to protect the border. Now he says he has it all figured out but won't disclose his plan until after the election.

Is he backing off on the threat or are both statements valid?

[Extraneus]

Watch–Angry Customers Confront McConnell at Restaurant: ‘Why Don’t You Get Out of Here?’

The Senator from Kentucky was dining with his wife Elaine Chao, who serves as the current United States Secretary of Transportation, at Havana Rumba in Louisville.

McConnell was confronted by four men. One of the men yelled at McConnell, “Why don’t you get out of here? Why don’t you leave the entire country?”

Back in Kentucky.

[Extraneus]

Throughout the altercation, McConnell remained at his table. He thanked his supporters and shook their hands after the incident occurred.

[Extraneus]

Who'll be the first to get up out of their seats and fight back?

[Extraneus]

Wow, four in a row and it's not a new thread!

(Make that 5.)

[Pinandpuller]

Alabama's score is hard to differentiate from a basketball game.

[Janet]

((I think we need to do a repeat of the empty chair protest the weekend before election day, but instead of an empty chair, we all put up Trump/Republican signs in our yards and wear Trump gear - hats, shirts, etc.))

I'm with ya Stephanie! I wear my Deplorables stuff all the time, but I am more chicken about wearing straight up Trump shirts & the MAGA cap.
I'm in though

[Pinandpuller]

57 Islamic countries. 57 authors. 57 channels.

Two scoops. Two SC justices. Two terms.

[henry]

Two more weeks, then should Rs retain House & Senate the prog temper tantrum will amp to eleven. I'm enjoying the relative peace, and not answering my phone as nearly all calls are political push polls / funding requests. One call from mom got through, it made a pleasant morning.

[Pinandpuller]

Tom Jones and The Cardigans-Burning Down the House

https://youtu.be/iYuldgIOelY

[Beasts of England]

I forgot to post this yesterday and it's interesting: every election since 1954 that the Republicans have added to their Senate majority, they've also added seats in the House. There are no exceptions found in that 64 year data set.

I researched this because a friend asked me why some feel so confident about gaining several Senate seats, yet fret about losing the House. The above correlation isn't determinative of causation, natch, as the nature of the intrastate voting subsets and individual candidates are different. However, some recent elections have become even more of a national policy referendum than strictly state and district contests.

Caveat: I haven't gone back through the historic races to determine if the Reps picked up Senate and/or House seats because their Dem opponents made unforced errors like they're making this cycle. That may seem like a nit, but there could be a common causal attribute that I don't have time to investigate. Although I kinda doubt it... (Is that hedged enough?)

Nonetheless, if you're looking for some Xanax data to calm your electoral anxiety, it's a decent point of departure.

[henry]

All the signs near me are MAGA already.

[gentlejim]

57 authors...
I thought that meant one author from each state.

[Pinandpuller]

Jace Everett-Bad Things (True Blood)

https://youtu.be/sMPNjPpdjKU

[Jack is Back! (On the iPad in Bed)]

We have a very prominent guy here in Southampton who is unabashedly pro- Trump. One of the reallynice houses on South Main Street. Had a huge Trump MAGA banner flying over the front of his house. Now a huge Zeldin sign. Like my neighbor says, “George doesn’t give a shit”, words to live by I this day and age.

[Extraneus]

I am more chicken about wearing straight up Trump shirts & the MAGA cap.

I've been carrying a Glock 43 lately, and even I wouldn't. It's going to get violent, I have no doubt, and you don't want to be there when it does.

[Pinandpuller]

Was that' movie based on a comic book?

Clutch-In Walks Barbarella

https://youtu.be/rZ9GSFZZY6c

CORAL!!!

[Pinandpuller]

When they go High for the MAGA hat I go Low for the Appendix Slash.

[boatbuilder]

It was with great trepidation that I clicked on Pinandpuller's Tom Jones link.

Very good, actually. And the link did not mention Nina...whooh.

[Extraneus]

You know, the rest of the world can see that the great American experiment is about to fail. Some are happy about that and some aren't, but they're all obviously watching us self-destruct.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Another tip off to the coup plotters:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1426440/khashoggi-fallout-next-saudi-ambassador-to-us-could-be-princess-reema/amp/

They based a character in portrait of a spy on her.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

As to Prince talal, his fortune has lost 58% since 2014, with 20% since last fall, motive for revenge?

[Extraneus]

FBI Admits It Used Multiple Spies To Infiltrate Trump Campaign

[Catsmeat]

I think Hugh Laurie was remarkably good rolling the blues!

Thanks, Jack, re Trafalgar (I teach about it in detail when I do Persuasion) and for that marvelous poem, Miss Marple--who would have thunk that Nelson was really just the ghost of Drake? My students read "Casabianca," too, not a great poem by a long shot but a real rouser, and then they learn (a little) about the Battle of the Nile.

[Pinandpuller]

Did someone already post this for The Rut?

Queens of the Stone Age-No One Knows

https://youtu.be/s88r_q7oufE

[sbwaters]

Catsmeat, we saw Hugh Laurie in a small theater at Turning Stone. Well done show. He plays a mean piano and was accompanied by very talented musicians. Worthwhile.

[Pinandpuller]

Who Nina?

Do you think Tom Jones is on a Tony Bennett career arc?

Also, Tom Jones has got some blue eyes. Can they retire Sinatra'a jersey?

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

I know the cat calling the kettle:

https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/c200bnfn

[Catsmeat]

Hey, Nebraska won one (and indeed the only one so far), 53-28 against Minnesota! All is not lost--literally...

[JimNorCal]

One for narciso.
At InstaPundit
Additional emails show that Sinema “was behind a protest to free José Padilla, also known as Muhajir Abdullah, who was convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists. Padilla was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002, on suspicion of plotting a radiological bomb attack.”

[Bubarooni]

Did al-Turki lose the spot when MBS got elevated? Talal's losses are peanuts compared to that.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

She's quite a piece of work, isn't she Padilla aka Abdullah muhajir worked with first a Trinidadian saudi, who had communications with atta.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Well he was nephew to the king that was killed but he was pretty far down on the succession rolls.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Padilla didn't get along with that fellow call him Johnny drop, so he worked with an Egyptian fellow who Obama sprung and there As may gave him a kicking new pad.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Other clan members had their wallets get thin:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vogue.com/article/contemporary-muslim-fashions-modest-dressing-de-young-museum/amp

Some have done well however.

[Man Tran]

rse,

This may have been posted a few days ago, but I got it from Mrs MT for our granddaughter:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/10/k12_why_so_little_for_the_mind.html

It was right down your alley. It was done by Bruce Deitrick Price. Have you had any interaction with him? Seemed right on the mark.

[Pinandpuller]

Labi Siffre-I Got The...

https://youtu.be/xKISdd2mKzU

[jim nj]

PIN,

Used to play softball regularly with a crew of friends that included Tony Bennet's sons Danny and Dae in my late teens, early twenties.

One of the sons took over managing his father's career. That's when Tony's carer re-bloomed. The kid did a really good job. Turned Tony red-hot. Look at how many singers want to duets with him.

[Bubarooni]

I was tailgating at the I.U. vs Penn State game today. The game was another 'dollar short and day late' kinda thing.

I was hanging in Fess Fields with the Sorority Dads.

The wind was blowing crazy. Crazy enough that a huge branch fell outta a tree 25 feet away from us and an entire huge tree 50 yards away. It sounded like a bomb going off and produced a moment of near pandemonium.

That tree fell right over Forest Ave. Probably 3.5 feet thick. 25 minutes later security show up and put up a sign that said 'Road Closed'.

A great cry in unison went up that said 'No shit!'

I had a great time but, I gotta admit, I was on edge most of the day!

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

This is why Stuart mill called them the stupid party:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/20/government-pressure-use-salisbury-sanctions-against-saudi-officials/

[Miss Marple]

Catsmeat ,

I don't know when I first ran across that poem, but I have known it for years. Noyes also wrote the poem "The Highwayman", which was in my high school freshman lit book.

Because Nelson was a favorite of mine from English history, it has always remained in my memory.

[Pinandpuller]

David Lee Roth-Baker Street

https://youtu.be/Uyq3ldQ5H8E

[Pinandpuller]

jim

He's still got it. And he wants to gig, why not?

[Pinandpuller]

I never really thought of it before but I do believe Peyton Manning could play Buford Pusser.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Why the Hellmouth didn't open up:

https://mobile.twitter.com/MatlockFletcher/status/1053801089353596930

[Captain Hate]

Catsmeat,

I am loving Harry Crews's "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place".

[JM Hanes]

News from the Art World -- The virtue signal is strong with them: Met and Brooklyn Museums Will Not Use Saudi Money for Programs on the Middle East. Not that it would cost them much, even if they actually planned to return it to the source — which they don't!:

The museum said it had accepted less than $20,000 for the event, which is to take place on Tuesday. The Met still has the money, and is deciding what to do with it now that it will not be used for the seminar.

So, these ethical giants will be substituting Met money for Saudi funds this month, and then, at some more auspicious moment in the future, substitute the Saudi money for Met dollars. We've got your circular logic, right here, except for the logic part.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

That's one of those songs pin, I must have 1,000 times yet never knew the name.

[JM Hanes]

Moar from KJART:

American actress, Gigi Bermingham, sets sails for Europe to interview her dramatic counterparts in France & the UK. She concludes (emphasis mine):

Certainly American culture is different from European culture. So I had expected the life of a theatre artist in Paris or London to be more refined, somehow easier, and at the same time more gratifying on a creative level than mine here in the States. But it turns out that their struggles, passions, fiscal concerns, their training, their identity issues, and the sexism they face—in other words, much of their life experience, seems very similar to my own. For better or for worse, the actor’s path, whether here or in Europe, is where I can always find a fellow traveler.

Good grief, this is no teenage ingenue we're talking about. The woman is 61 years old!

[Miss Marple]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1053774822012968961.html

Thread from a retired intelligence guy on Middle Eastern terrorists coming in from our southern border.

[Catsmeat]

I'm so pleased, CH! You see what I mean about it being a little scarifying...

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

The descriptions of the players don't quite match the pics,

[Pinandpuller]

This band was influenced by Jeff Lynne-Prove Me Wrong

Franz Ferdinand-Do You Want To

https://youtu.be/1OJRRUnY--A

[DrJ]

Liszt's piano transcriptions of Bach, mostly Preludes and Fugues (Pizarro):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5x2ucMVGvA

[Pinandpuller]

You don't listen to Dave Ramsey mr narciso?

[Tom R]

Does this count as an October Surprise?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-20/fbi-admits-using-multiple-spies-infiltrate-trump-campaign

[Miss Marple]

https://amgreatness.com/2018/10/20/why-the-media-couldnt-care-less-about-khashoggi/

This is by Gorka.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Judge Orders Mueller To Prove Russian Company Meddled In Election
What if Mueller's hat, whatever its color, is actually a dunce cap?

[henry]

Mueller wears a dunce cap? I'm good with that.

[Miss Marple]

Tom R,

Why do I have to read that on Zerohedge? Perfect example of MSM burying stories with the Khashoggi coverage.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Excellent choice Dr j, how are you doing.

All the Grishenko snipe players, sipher corn Jeff Stein, have all bought s audi robes.

[Pinandpuller]

Do you guys think a nocturne has to be 'typically for a piano' or can artists expand definitions?

Do boxes have to be checked off when categorizing a piece?

[Captain Hate]

Crews is the real deal, Catsmeat. I'm impressed that he has a rabid following in libs and academics I know; it gives me hope for the future.

Mueller is the ultimate Deep State made man, which is why I can't jump on board that 4d stuff suggesting otherwise.

[Captain Hate]

My KJOM selection for the evening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpyn5R6Ar7s

I saw those guys last week.

[DrJ]

Thank you narciso! Liszt's transcriptions usually are decent. Here things are fair to partly cloudy.

[JM Hanes]

Ignatz:

Team Mueller apparently can't even come up a process crime to justify indicting the Russian for, well, nothing, as it turns out. This is even more pathetic than I thought it would be, back when everybody realized that they never actually expected the Russians to show up in the first place.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Yet when push comes to shove, and the Fed lowers the federal funds rate, expect the unexpected to happen...The market carnage left in its wake will be grotesque and unrecognizable.
The author expects this to happen after the Fed raises rates to the point equities crash and the tried and true interest rate lowering no longer works.

[JM Hanes]

Savannah Police Look for Person Who Put Googly Eyes on a Statue:

"It's no laughing matter," they say.

[Miss Marple]

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1053807130120200192

President warning about stiff penalties for vote fraud.

[DrJ]

CH,

I ask about a Jazz artist I saw in the last week: Marquis Hill. Pleasant enough, but without melody or song structure. Is this supposedly an acceptable form of modern Jazz?