L to R: Spudalicious, OMWC
Up in Idaho for my bimonthly visit and liver-bash with Spudalicious. The danger of allowing both of us in the same room is nuclear-level. Many chemistry experiments, most involving organic molecules with hydroxyl groups. There is a reason that our now-ex-wives forbade me to buy the house across the street from them.
Some remarkable birthdays today, including a guy I’d wager that you’ve heard of; an actor who was an actual racist (but his films are brilliant); Baltimore’s gift to England; one of the three greatest comic actors in cinema history; a guy who got by with one gig per year; someone who was no Cal Ripken; one of my personal heroes and inspiration; someone who demonstrated what you had to do to actually get kicked off the Supreme Court; a corrupt piece of shit that California sent to the senate (but that’s redundant); the world’s best salesman; a woman who could even out-evil Tony Soprano; a guy who would have made a pretty decent president here; a chick who smoothly transitioned from a good guy to a bad guy; a rather boring novelist who pissed off the right people; someone who volunteered for the Cosby Cock; someone I went to school with but sadly never gave me the time of day; and a guy who is very much a prostitute.
On to news.
“Yeeahhh, I’ll get right on that.”
Old Guy Music today is pretty much a documentary about our weekend.
I just rage quit a game of Oregon Trail. I guess it’s going to be one of those days.
Heh.
Damn, the comments on that Palestinian vax article at The Hill are ZeroHedgeworthy. Good Lord.
Anti-semitism is the one socially approved form of bigotry on the left.
Today is my second day off in June. Got to get caught up on stuff around the house.
Cole Beasley, American
Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley released a statement on Twitter on Friday in response to the sharp backlash he has received on social media, disclosing that he is not vaccinated and pledging to “live my one life like I want to regardless.”
“I will be outside doing what I do,” he wrote. “I’ll be out in public. If your [sic] scared of me then steer clear, or get vaccinated … I may die of covid, but I’d rather die actually living.
“I’m not going to take meds for a leg that isn’t broken. I’d rather take my chances with Covid and build up my immunity that way …I’ll play for free this year to live life how I’ve lived it from day one. If I’m forced into retirement, so be it.”
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Beasley expressed confusion over the new protocols and didn’t shy away from criticizing the NFL and NFLPA.
“This is crazy. Did we vote on this?” he tweeted. “I stay in the hotel. We still have meetings. We will all be together. Vaccinated players can go out the hotel and bring covid back in to where I am. So what does it matter if I stay in the hotel now? 100 percent immune with vaccination? No.
“The players association is a joke. Call it something different. It’s not for the players. Everyone gives me the 98 percent of people who are vaccinated don’t get covid again. The odds of me getting in the NFL and playing for 10 years are lower than that and I’m here.”
Beasley went on to call the NFLPA “a joke,” and Bills teammate Jon Feliciano also questioned the organization.
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Beasley previously responded to a CNN story in May about vaccinated people no longer needing to wear a mask outdoors, saying, “I do that without being vaccinated. Is this illegal now?” The former Dallas Cowboys receiver also spent time responding to Twitter users who questioned his stance; Timothy Caulfield, a research director and professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, told him the NFL’s rules “100% make sense” and “follow the science and are good for the sport & players.”
“I get tested every day for covid and get a negative test but I still have to keep distance from people who are ‘vaccinated’ when apparently if they get it they can’t pass it to anyone,” Beasley responded. “How does that make sense to you?”
Excellent. Needz moar of this.
^this turned up to 11K
He’d be welcome at my house…
Yeah, I was never “required” to wear a mask outdoors. Try to keep up with reality, CNN.
Wouldn’t be shocked to see him get cut by the Bills and picked back up by the Cowboys. Come back to Texas, Cole. We have some semblance of freedom here.
Morning everyone. Mdot decided to work on the bridge next to our MHP, pile drivers at 7 AM, shaking the whole house, fucking Unions!
Mornin’
7 days a week, howdy Sean,
“The average American feels they would need 10 days in their ideal location to completely de-stress.”
GET BACK TO WORK!!!!!
And a poll commissioned by CBDistillery. No bias there.
Hmmm, and just who should pay for this necessary relief I wonder. Put that the next money dump bill, assholes.
During multiple meetings, Arnall suggested that contract negotiations could go years, repeatedly citing an example where a contract negotiation went on as long as “17 years” and “nearly 20 years.” He also argued that union dues and fees could discourage low-salaried, entry level employees from joining MSNBC, and also suggested that the fees could discourage nonwhite candidates from taking jobs at MSNBC (the WGAE has a $500 initiation fee, which new hires can pay in installments once a contract is in place).
“It comes with costs and it’s an unknown benefit right now,” he said of the union.
He added: “If our entry-level jobs come with…a requirement to write a check, pay a percentage of your salary—I’m desperately concerned that we might be turning away people who might be exactly the people that we want to be the next generation of MSNBC, NBC News employees,” he said, noting the network’s push to diversify staff.
The darkies aren’t savers. Everybody knows that.
The benefits are very well known – to the union bosses. You worker fucks – shut up and do your job.
Boring novelist in describing himself or his writing? I mean if you don’t appreciate magical realism, okay, it’s not your genre.
You could almost say that guy is a Pippsqueak compared to Cal Ripken.
MSNBC leadership has already indicated it planned to make the unionized staffers prove they have a broad base of support within the network.
How do you like unverifiable votes now, MSNBC bosses?
Um, they want a full vote on the matter; the organizers are trying to assert a union into existence without a vote.
*cackles*
Aaack! “Cackles” remind me of Kommie-la! Could you kindly make that a boisterous guffaw instead, purty please? 🙁
[OMWC style link] For a guy who can’t walk he sure has some spine.
And another: Democrat politicians mistake themselves for the College of the Cardinals.
Too many choice and utterly laughable quotes to choose from.
Pro-abortion Catholic seems to a be mutually exclusive term. Sure they can claim Catholicism but are they really?
If people think they can “identify” as whatever gender or race they want, some are bound to have some sort of reason to “identify” as Catholic, no matter what they actually believe or practice.
The obvious answer would seem to be, “no, they aren’t” but that doesn’t stop a lot of people from claiming they are.
Maybe they should nail a list of demands to the door of the Vatican and form their own sect.
What do you mean these are rules? Aren’t they supposed to be more like guidelines?
But honestly, that assertion that govt serves a moral purpose. They should all be stoned for that blasphemy.
How dare a church punish and restrict rites from individuals who don’t meet their rules.
The absolute denial of consequence is a Hallmark of our time. People are intent on expecting to live in any manner they want and have no consequei tied to it.
Pretty ignorant of the history of the church, aren’t they? Henry VIII is but one trifling example.
He too thought he was a better Catholic than the Pope, so the parallels are deeper than just surface level.
“”However, the signees said they also believe in “the primacy of conscience” and urged readers to remember Pope Francis’s warning not to treat the Eucharist as a “prize for the perfect.”””
That’s rich. I guess unrepentant murderers are just Misunderstood and shouldn’t be kept from communion either.
“alleviating poverty for Americans”
I found getting a job went a long ways for me in alleviating poverty. Good place to start, anyway
“Beasley also claimed “a lot of other NFL players” agree with his stance but “aren’t in the right place in their careers to be so outspoken.”
A sizable contingent of some of the healthiest athletes on the face of the planet are cavalier about the Covid? Oh noes.
Domestic TERRORISM
A man accused of assaulting California Gov. Gavin Newsom at an event in Oakland has been arrested, authorities said Friday.
Newsom was walking to a pizza shop to promote small businesses Thursday morning when he “was approached by an aggressive individual,” the California Highway Patrol, which provides Newsom’s security detail, said in a statement.
Newsom did not appear to have been injured.
The East Bay Times reported that the suspect threw a water bottle at the governor.
“Members of the Governor’s security detail removed the Governor from the situation, and the individual was arrested by CHP officers,” the agency said.
Another anti-authority extremist taken down.
Unless it was one of those huge jugs that goes on top of a water cooler, he wasn’t trying hard enough.
Actual footage – https://youtu.be/ZjzfX0eKGtY
You had me at “huge jugs.”
Are you secretly Tres Cool?
All he has to do is claim he was throwing the water bottle at the cops protecting Newsome and the charges will be dropped.
“Honolulu Police Used Robo-dog To Patrol Homeless Camp”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/honolulu-police-use-robo-dog-patrol-homeless-camp
A robotic spy dog doesn’t seem like the smartest thing to turn loose among a group that’s probably replete with schizophrenics. That thing would make me paranoid and I have no mental illnesses other than being a libertarian.
“Disinfecting”. Is that like cleansing?
Also: https://www.harborfreight.com/12-lb-sledge-hammer-with-fiberglass-handle-94061.html will take care of that nuisance pretty quick.
Sean annoyed with robotic dog.
?
Reminds me of the Onion bit “Are we doing enough to keep paranoid schizophrenics feeling safe”
NYC’s land use regulations are broken (duh) so what is the solution? Why, a racist law, of course.
Busted link which my iPad refuses to let me edit to fix.
Once again reminded why I prefer a PC for real work.
guh
JFC…
I can’t imagine why housing is so expensive in NYC.
The gift of giving (somebody else’s money)
Eleven U.S. mayors, from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee, Oklahoma, have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents in their cities, saying their aim is to set an example for the federal government on how a nationwide program could work.
The mayors had no details on how much it would cost, who would pay for it or how people would be chosen. All of those details would be worked out with the help of local commissions comprised of representatives from Black-led organizations set up to advise the mayor of each city. But the mayors say they are committed to paying reparations instead of just talking about them.
“Black Americans don’t need another study that sits on a shelf,” said St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, the city’s first Black female mayor and a member of the group. “We need decisive action to address the racial wealth gap holding communities back across our country.”
Instead of paying nonprofit parasites to “consult” just give everybody 40 acres and a mule.
I’m still waiting for my reparations from Romania for kicking my people out and stealing their land.
*Looks around for Pie*
You’re a werewolf?
*growls*
Not that I’m aware of.
I used to tell myself that : no Democrat would actually do anything because it’s patently illegal.
Then I consulted myself by saying “the politicians might, but the courts will strike it down”
Now I believe I understand the truth.
Yeah, there’s never been a better time for this particular money-grab.
Saw a roadside kiosk selling Trump 2024 merch yesterday.
Totally not a cult
“a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.”
You know who else had a relatively small group considered strange or sinister by others?
SugarFree?
Jeffrey Epstein?
Me, for sure.
Charles Manson?
Ned Flanders?
There is enough money involved now for it to graduate from cult to religion.
Chattel slavery officially ended in the United States in 1865 with the adoption of the 13th amendment to U.S. Constitution. But its effects have lingered far beyond that, contributing to disparities in wealth and health between white and Black populations.
You might want to expand on that a bit.
Until the black community (not all, I know, but many) stops considering academic success to be Oreoish behavior the wealth and achievement disparities will never be meaningfully addressed.
Joe doesn’t need Harris, he has back-ups.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/077/090/450/original/ff6220e2eaee556a.jpg
Looks like his plastic surgeon’s a Max Headroom fan.
Trumpy Bear commercials are back.
Uh, comment obviously meant for elsewhere.
Totally not a cult
If Trump did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Get ‘em while they’re hot:
https://www.illuminidol.com/products/donald-trump
I’m sending one of those to my East Coast proggie buddy. He’ll call me up and call me an asshole, but he’s done that before.
Interesting summer drink from my Saturday morning dose of Japanese cuteness.
https://youtu.be/y-Hu2KVYIeU
At the 14:38 mark.
Hard cider, mead, lemon and mint over ice.
Joe Biden’s America, where gender justice shall soon be the Law of the Land
“The Department of Justice is mounting a case arguing that laws in West Virginia and Arkansas that bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports are unconstitutional, despite the overwhelming majority of Americans supporting biological gender segregation in sports, according to a report citing court papers.
“The United States has a significant interest in ensuring that all students, including students who are transgender, can participate in an educational environment free of unlawful discrimination,” the DOJ said in court documents filed in a West Virginia court case Thursday, according to a report by the Daily Mail.
The DOJ asked a judge to overturn the West Virginia rule — signed into law by Republican Gov. Jim Justice in April — which blocks transgender athletes from playing in women’s sports from middle school through college, the outlet reported.”
Those fine young… errr, “athletes”… must be allowed to impose their psychoses on the world around them. America will make that happen.
The solution is to banned gendered sports leagues as discriminatory. If you’re Manon Rhéaume, great. If not, oh well.
And even she never played in a regular season game at the top professional level.
She hardly even played at the minor pro level. I guess she played two games here in the ATL. The hype was nauseating. I completely forgot about her until you mentioned it.
Ok, this formulation drives me nuts. Even when used favorably.
Unless the author is doing a really crappy job of saying that the Biden administration’s lawsuit was filed on the basis of a misunderstood view of public opinion, there is no “despite” here. Public sentiment is wholly orthogonal to constitutionality.
It’s not orthogonal to court decisions though. Should be but isn’t.
This bugged me too.
I just don’t get the left’s hatred of (real) women. ?♂️
They don’t vote Team Blue in sufficient numbers. Some still think for themselves. Ergo, all must be punished.
Good morning, Old Man!
That documentary surprised me a little. I didn’t think you two could still gather chicks like that. Well done!
The Old Guy Music I expected.
Have a great Saturday, y’all!
Two thumbs up for the tune!
I think it’s going to stop raining soon, so I intend to have a great Saturday. You do the same!
Two tunes from Gram Parsons. Dedicated to OMWC.
Streets of Baltimore
https://youtu.be/8V4NoboSq6w
Kiss the Children
https://youtu.be/vuWZNZTU-Z4
Perfect.
*narrows gaze*
I was looking for something else, but I found this
Have the Marxists successfully split us on racial and gender lines? Yes.
60-70% masking at Costco last night. I saw more than a dozen couples where the man was unmasked and the woman was masked. This is a largely Indian and Chinese immigrant area and 85%+ of those populations were masked. White folks? Only the cashier and a couple of blue hair chicks were masked (their male companions were not).
Wife and I probably struck terror into the poor family in masks AND face shields AND gloves. The poor kids looked like they had just come out of a hazmat spill. All the while, we’re walking by maskless with a baby confusedly staring at them from her carrier.
All the while, we’re walking by maskless with a baby confusedly staring at them from her carrier.
DEATH ON WHEELS.
Ogami Itto, is that you?
The solution is to banned gendered sports leagues as discriminatory.
Not a lot of whining about all those FtM linebackers putting Johnny He-Man on the bench.
…but “many experts” still say the benefits of the COVID shot “outweigh the potential risks.”
The benefits-outweigh-risks ship sailed off the horizon and into the abyss about a year ago. Who the hell is going to buy that now??
The people at work emailing me daily to get the jab are still selling it. Along with every manager and above during any phone-in conference call. The company private web page is smothered with vaccine goodness too.
How can I miss you if you won’t go away?
Both parents and children may have a hard time saying goodbye at first, said Mary Alvord, a psychologist and co-author of “Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens: A Workbook to Break the Nine Thought Habits That Are Holding You Back.” She added that most will not have true separation anxiety disorder, which is characterized by excessive distress over leaving loved ones.
Still, run-of-the-mill separation anxiety may be more intense than it was before the coronavirus upended our lives, Alvord said.
“What’s been so fascinating about the pandemic and all the restrictions and all the losses and all the grief mixed into one is it’s just unleashed so many different emotional states from people that they have been caught off-guard sometimes,” she said.
Alvord suggested gradually easing into being apart, if possible. That might mean dropping a child off at a relative’s house for a couple of hours or at a swim lesson before sending them off to a full day of camp — and then commending them on how brave they were.
For kids who feel uncomfortable about being away from parents, “don’t make a big deal of it,” Turner said.
“Don’t say, ‘I’m going to miss you!’ That’s going to make it worse,” he said.
You’ve been huddled together for a year, hiding from the end of the world. You can’t expect to just break that special doomsday cult bond overnight.
“Because being cooped up together 24/7 for more than a year hasn’t been tense and nerve-wracking at all,” they lied.
Exactly this.
It a fucking phase. Funny enough. 6 month olds and 3 year old tend to get it the worst. Whaddya know, that’s the age of the kids in the story….
*revels in the existential terror on the 7 month old’s face when I linger too long while playing peekaboo*
I found getting a job went a long ways for me in alleviating poverty. Good place to start, anyway
“Shut up, hater,” they explained.
JJ (Walker) is hyping supplemental SS insurance on TV. We’ve come full circle
Experts recommend that parents remind themselves of the positives of being apart from their children. Gaining independence is a normal, necessary part of childhood that was disrupted this past year, they said.
Whaaaaa?
Another good one from Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/06/the-week-in-pictures-gee-whiz-7-edition.php
“Go gay with Jello”
?
Got $1,000,001.- you don’t want anymore?
Sorry V6…
Ford forced buyers to retain ownership for a certain period of time. I’m assuming the lockup is over and we will see more coming on the market.
LoL! “Eco boost”
Does it come with some veggimeat sandwiches and Birkenstocks too?
The whole car is a marketing expenditure for Ford. The program won’t directly turn a profit so I can understand why they wanted to showcase what is likely going to be their workhorse motor for many models. Plus it is marginally smaller which is a real benefit.
In this case, of course, it’s far from what you are getting in your F150. I’m surprised that the V6 is as popular as it is in their trucks, but is both aftermarket tunable and efficient. Personally I’d rather have the V8 as it is less stressed, but more thirsty with mostly the same power.
If I’m getting a V6 supercar I’m getting a Dino.
When it works, the EcoBoost is a decent engine. I recently had a cam sensor go out in my F-150, which triggered the check engine light, and that meant the computer wouldn’t let the turbos activate. Then the truck accelerated like a battleship.
I’ve read that’s a somewhat common occurrence.
A known flaw of the Ford F150s of the early 2000s is that the windshield wasn’t perfectly sealed. This led very slowly to water ingress in the lower left of the windshield (from the drivers seat perspective) and thus into an unseen microprocessor/ controller module.
The erratic behavior caused by this was difficult to diagnose but eventually owners (like me) figured out that it would happen mostly after a hard rain. We compiled notes on a bulletin board online. The fix was very cheap: replace the windshield.
No further problems.
I sometimes regret selling my 18 year old V8 2000 5.4 liter expedition. It was a fine beast, and the engine was flawless even after 18! years. (Frame/body rusted out by Minnesota salt).
I was told that it rained constantly in Seattle. That is literally why I moved here (plus lots of money). They were lying about the rain. Bright and sunny this morning. I don’t want to go running in that shit. At least it’s 55°F. Those miles aren’t gonna be run with me laying around in bed, listening to Townes Van Zandt, and reading snarky glibs. Time to strap on the Nikes, stretch, and run. Have a goddamn good day, everybody!
Not only did it FINALLY stop raining in Dayton, the sun came out after a night of pretty intense thunderstorms (and late yesterday afternoon, a small tornado that killed some livestock up to the north.) I’m finally able to get back out to Tranquility Base! At some point I’ll get back on the treadmill. (Got in another hour last night to celebrate the fact that we didn’t lose power.) I may even make it to the farmers’ market today to be tempted by some nommy baked goods. (Not a whole lot of produce is ready yet.) Also going up to the local German Baptist market to order a couple of pies for next weekend. A goddamn good day indeed! Hope yours is, too!
“ Also going up to the local German Baptist market to order a couple of pies for next weekend.”
This is the best decision you’ve made all year. Enjoy!
Strawberry rhubarb – one regular and one sugar-free. Best decision this year indeed.
My experience was a low drizzle and nice clouds most of the year (albeit 100 straight days of sun in 2012 – miserable). VA gets more inches of rain annually.
Summers are dry in the PNW.
I have taken a few business trips up to Seattle and brought the wife. She loves Seattle in the rain but never once during my week long jaunts did it ever.
That city has absolutely gone to complete shit though. Great in the midday but like a survival game once the sun sets.
In Silicone Saturday we trust.
https://archive.li/zw0Xi
I struggle sometimes with the concept of the holy Trinity in Christianity.
Similarly, what the “end times” really mean is open to much speculation and conjecture.
I was reading Wayne Grudem’s “Systematic Theology” as well as my ESV translation of the Bible, and I’m slowly concluding that I might be an Orthodox Christian.
I don’t know how hard/easy it is to “convert” but I now have an appointment with a local Russian Orthodox priest to talk about all this.
Disclaimer: not an actual movie villain /assassin
Jon Gabriel (@exjon on twitter – used to do the Conservatarians podcast, now does “The King of Stuff”) did it a little while back. I’ve seen a few other folks talk about it more. The traditionalism is more interesting to me than catholicism (Chesterton excepted), but I’ve always been non/interdenominational myself.
The Trinity is a concept that’s difficult to wrap our heads around as a physical/human concept but God’s ways are higher than our ways and He isn’t forced into our conceptions. I think it makes the most sense when you look at the interaction between Jesus, the Spirit and the Father during his period of incarnation.
Even though the Trinity isn’t thought of as part of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), the very first verses of the very first chapter introduce all three members of the Trinity:
1) God
….
2) The Holy Spirit
3) the Spoken Word of God, ie Jesus Christ.
The Gospel of John opens with a wonderful echo of Genesis, complete with “In the Beginning”:
Now try it in Hebrew.
Dude, you know I’m a shiksa.
I’d like to buy a vowel…
Well played, sir.
I found some new respect for traditionalism when my husband was in the hospital suffering from ICU psychosis.
It was time to pull his 4 chest drainage tubes out, so they gave him a sedative. But he was so hyped on the psychosis, truly believing he was surrounded by demons, that the only way they got the tubes out was for the doctors and nurses who knew the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary etc recited it repeatedly with him while they pulled the tubes.
Those traditional memorized prayers that I scoffed at as a young Protestant years ago literally got him though that ordeal. So yeah, I’m willing to learn some traditions.
I have it on good authority that all you have to do is read a few books, memorize a few prayers, and you’re in the club.
Lolz.
I’m not neurotic enough to qualify for Seinfeld.
Not an Orthodox, but I’ve enjoyed Fr Andrew Damick (interviews and content on a number of YouTube channels) explaining his faith.
If I’m getting a V6 supercar I’m getting a Dino.
Get a Lancia Stratos. Same drivetrain, as I recall, and much cooler.
A mouse got under the hood of my jeep and chewed some wires. Goddammit. I bought the wire and connectors to fix it and told the salesman why I was buying the stuff.
“I sold cars for 25 years. You wouldn’t believe the damage mice do to cars. I have seen millions of dollar in damage to cars that mice do.”
If I find that goddamned mouse….
I had a squirrel chew through a fuel line once. The tank emptied onto the driveway.
Squirrels love cable, copper or fiber, even more than methheads.
Squirrels love methheads?
Even better!
https://us.autologic.com/news/automotive-wiring-harness-deterioration
Biodegradable wiring that is also a rodent attractant.
Tell me about it! $450 to replace rodent chaws on a practically new Honda/
Honda is being sued over the issue. https://youtu.be/eUtxsplLLFk
Headline:
“Biden says Delta variant is ‘particularly dangerous for young people’.”
I don’t trust that senile bumbler to know where where he is, plus or minus a thousand miles. Why on earth would anybody take his medical advice?
Because he’s being advised by St. Science Fauci.
A virologist can say the opposite or even just say there is no evidence supporting that and be deemed a conspiracy theorist and shuttered from the public square.
Only the president’s men can utter the holy words of science.
Major gets rid of the competition
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/19/politics/champ-biden-german-shepherd-dog-dies/index.html
I expect this will figure into next week’s episode of Joemala.
I bet Joe doesn’t even like dogs. They probably keep them around for political props.
Blame Trump.
“Even as Champ’s strength waned in his last months, when we came into a room, he would immediately pull himself up, his tail always wagging, and nuzzle us for an ear scratch or a belly rub. Wherever we were, he wanted to be, and everything was instantly better when he was next to us,” they said in the statement.
The Bidens continued: “He loved nothing more than curling up at our feet in front of a fire at the end of the day, joining us as a comforting presence in meetings, or sunning himself in the White House garden. In his younger days, he was happiest chasing golf balls on the front lawn of the Naval Observatory or racing to catch our grandchildren as they ran around our backyard in Delaware.”
Champ, they said, had been with the family during their “most joyful moments” and “most grief-stricken days.”
“We love our sweet, good boy and will miss him always,” the President and first lady said.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
Good grief.
Will the flags be lowered to half-staff? Will he lie in state in the Capitol? will be be buried at Arlington, with a twenty one gun salute?
Publicizing your grief for political purposes is about on a par with child molestation.
“We love our sweet, good boy and will miss him always,” the President and first lady said.
Beau rolls over in his grave.
“Beau? Beau who?”