And left Churchill Downs/In a heavenly band/Of Angels


by RJ White

Last year, as you may recall, the sainted horse Barbaro was put down after a long illness. His fans reacted with restraint and a healthy dose of perspective. For a nice summary, here’s the Field Guide to Barbaro Message Board Factions .

This past weekend, tragedy struck the horse racing world once again, with the injury and subsequent euthanization of Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby. Would Barbaro’s online fans at the Alex Brown Racing forums face the news with the same restraint and healthy dose of perspective?

Well, of course.

Kent, I too look forward to the day we’ll see these majestic champions together in Heaven. The Heavenly Herd just keeps growing….

Anger flares!

This is what nightmares are made of. Afterwards, these lady horses are forced to have sex with different men horses they don’t know that well so they can become pregnant only for their baby to be taken away is sad. I will never see the Kentucky Derby as a festive wonderful event. We need to respect these creatures. Judgement day will come for us.

Elsewhere, there is confusion -

Can we start candles.. where is the candle lady. I am not good at doing the candle link

Questioning of faith-

Am sitting here crying over this. Prayed all day that all horses would make it safe all day. Dont understand what happened.

Either prayer doesn’t work or god specifically does not like you.

I’m not sure, but I think 8 bells translates to 6:00, which would correspond to the time the Derby was run - God I hope not - how prophetic

ALSO THERE WERE SEVEN LETTERS IN KENNEDY’S NAME!

To all on this sad Sunday. Am enclosing a link here to watch a Dan Fogelberg tribute video to Barbaro that is very lovely and emotional. But as you listen to the words it applies to dear Eight Belles also.

Dan Fogelberg = healing balm. But speaking of beautiful, beautiful poetry, does anyone have anything they’d like to offer up ?

Eight Bells for Eight Belles

Sunday morning in Kentucky
The day after the Derby
The sun shines bright
On my Old Kentucky Home
But my heart is heavy
And my shoulders droop
Under the load I carry
The white country church
Stands in the valley
Church bells are ringing
On the eighth bell
I am sobbing
The tears finally
Unleashing
The bell tolls for thee
Eight Belles
My beautiful gray girl
You did
What the experts
Thought you couldn’t
You beat the boys
You ran the race
Of your life
And it took your life
You were big and strong and beautiful
And you were all girl…

Perhaps the saddest thing to come out of this is that Eight Belles won’t get nearly the acclaim or deification her predecessor in racing-aided horse death garnered, much like the way in which nobody cared when Shannon Hoon died so soon after Kurt Cobain killed himself.



You have too much influence over children and parents have trusted you and your family to provide good entertainment and be role models.


by Sluggo, Agent of N.A.N.C.Y.

The star of Hannah Montana, 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, recently took some photos for an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair that are being described as “provocative.” In a “best of both worlds” move, Ms. Cyrus is apologizing in advance for the photos, claiming that she finds them embarrassing, which will afford her some sympathy from her fanbase while still ensuring controversy that will sell even more copies of the magazine.

Reaction is mixed, as one might imagine. Despite Ms. Cyrus’ apology, some fans have officially jumped ship:

Well, that’s the last time my girls listen to Hanna Montana. It’s simple, there a are plenty of examples of how to be a SL#T out there. We are looking for examples of character and this is not it.

Some folks leave comments as if Ms. Cyrus is ever going to read them:

Earning $1 billion dollars, and then have pictures in compromising positions, and clothing is nothing short of stupid. She is only compromising the brand.Bite your tongue, Miley, and leave your clothes on. Hire a PR person whom your family trusts, as well as Disney trusts, to watch your step through all the b.s.

Miley!!!!! Don’t go there. Don’t let anyone convince you that crap is artistic. You have too much influence over children and parents have trusted you and your family to provide good entertainment and be role models. Please stay a good girl!A worried parent!

Miley, this is not representative of modesty for one who proclaims to follow Jesus. Are you in the world or of the world? You can’t have it both ways.

Another person charmingly presses the religion button:

Ever notice this: The bigger the crucifix, the faster the clothes come off.

A couple people know what they’re seeing, and aren’t having any of it:

what a tramp!

As James Carville once said, ‘This is what you get dragging a $20.00 bill through a trailer park’. Welcome home sweetie.

Some wonder what the family was up to when all this was going on:

Where the hell was Billy Ray? Boot Scoot Boogie dancing..??

I have had a feeling since the start of her career that Billy ray has been trying to revive his career somehow throw his child.This proves it.A christian child ,being a child,definitly might make this kind of judgement mistake.A christian father wouldn’t,unless he was following the money(or fame).Dude, if you are supposed to be managing her,why did you not squelch the deal before it hit VF?

Screw up - apologize! Screw up - apologize!Screw up - apologize!Lose fan base.Lose contracts. Apologize for screwing up and beg forgiveness.Gain one contract.Gain back some fans.Screw up - apologize!Screw up - apologize!Die of drug overdose. Billy Ray holds press conference and accepts blame (sort of).Does Billy Ray have any more kids to exploit?He’s doing such a bang-up job of tramping up this one!

Okay, what?

i think her father is a very sick man. i am not sure he does not have incest on his mind.

Quick! Throw in some references to current events!

Isn’t is sad and ironic that 450 children have been unconstitutionally stripped from their mothers in Texas based on a prank call from Colorado, and here is the All American Girl stripping for the world to see? We are surely bread and circus Rome these days and are doomed on this course.

“MOHT1021″ predicts the future!

soon, she’ll likely be pregnant just like jamie lynn spears, who’s 16. they keep working them younger and younger. […] i wouldn’t be surprised if, by the time they are 18, she and jamie lynn spears are both famous porn starlets. the master plan is to destroy the united states of america. the way to do that is to, of course, destroy the family. hannah’s on her way to becoming a very famous prostitute. go, girl!!!

“Beachscene” lays down the law:

NO ONE should buy the magazine unless they are child sex perverts.

And “jimesmith” has some words of wisdom for all of us:

All you people bloggong on BS stuff like this — get a life!



Seriously we need to start uping the skill requirements to be someone with power in this country.


by Sluggo, Agent of N.A.N.C.Y.

Okay, granted, the headline of this article, covering the legal conflict between Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and the writer of an unauthorized encyclopedia on her work,is a bit on the provocative side (”Harry Potter storylines are gibberish, judge tells Rowling”), but it’s clear from the article itself what the judge meant. This commentator gets it right:

The headline here is VERY misleading if you read the judge’s actual quote. He said that the book was filled with names and words that WOULD BE gibberish ‘in any OTHER context.’ That is a very factual and simple statement which doesn’t imply ANYTHING about the storyline. I don’t care one way or the other about Harry Potter, but I’m an ex-journalist who hates to see the facts so badly misrepresented.

Of course, why let “reading the article” or “a moment’s worth of thought” get in the way of “knee-jerk reaction?”

Seem the judge isn’t into fiction or fairy stories. Wonder if he reads the Bible.

The judge must not be too bright if he doesn’t understand the books. Definitely has no imagination.

It seems suspicious to me that a judge, who normally reads complex, convoluted legal briefs, would find it difficult to read ‘Harry Potter’. Maybe it’s too straightforward and clearly written for him.

I am a 64 year old male American judge and have read all of the Harry Potter series. […] The judge that calls these books ‘gibberish’ may have a small screw loose or has completely forgotten his childhood. The books are great and much deeper than one would think.

Kids seem to have no trouble following the Potter books. It’s scary that a judge can’t.

Harry Potter is hardly gibberish. Has the judge listened to attorneys trying cases? He lacks imagination…

Hmm…hope there’s room for some non sequitur political commentary:

Gibberish! The book is easily comprehensible to 10 year olds. How did this man get to be a district court judge? Probably a Clinton appointee.

Response is immediate:

Uhhh, no. Reagan.

And then it’s back to calling the judge stupid:

My 9 year old grandson has digested the entire series. He relishes the complexity and challenge.

And I’ll bet Judge Patterson hasn’t read anything substantive outside of a legal brief in decades…

Harry Potter? Complex? and this guy gets to decide whether someone is guilty of a crime…

seriously we need to start uping the skill requirements to be someone with power in this country.

i’ve had minumum wage jobs with people smart enough to understand harry potter.

Well said.



Read these posts and ask yourself: do we need more retards or do we have enough already?


by Tom Thumb

Sometimes, it’s impossible not to love Ted Turner. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, America’s favorite billionaire pagan environmentalist ex-hubby of Jane Fonda got in touch with his inner Harlan Ellison during a Charlie Rose interview on global warming:

“Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals,” said Turner, 69. “Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable.”

Mr. Turner suggests limiting population growth as a partial remedy… which looks to be the last straw for commenter Solution, who has a modest proposal for Mr. Turner and like-minded folk:

It is funny how you don’t see the people who advocate over population putting their money where their mouth is and sign up for voluntary suicide. Maybe that is why dems appose the war in Iraq, that way when the USA leaves, the crazy terrorist will be able to freely wipe out a good chunk of the population and Ted and company can live in their euphoria.

Solution goes on to describe how he’s doing his small part to kill us all. Just like God intended!

Hey Ted I left my incandescent light bulb on all night and I let my car warm up before driving it this morning. Not to mention snow storms across the Midwest, in April. The earth is bigger than you Ted. It can take care of itself, who said the earth wasn’t intelligently designed?

God, as you might expect, disagrees. Rather insensitively, I might add.

Global warming is not the problem. Overpopulation and human stupidity is.
Read these posts and ask yourself: do we need more retards or do we have enough already?
It’s either religious rednecks or idiot liberals. When did common sense go out of style?
We are running out of resources, it’s time to think before you start multiplying like rats.

Common sense? No thanks. Oscar McGriff is all about the SCIENCE!

I read an article about how the native Americans reached the America’s across the land bridge from Sibeia to Alaska at an earlier time than thought, 13,000 B.C.E. This article also stated that the weather was warmer then. We are now told that if the weather is warmer our oceans would rise. How can there have been a land bridge then if in a cooler time as now there is no land bridge. For some reason this sounds contrary to current theory on global warming that our oceans will rise and we will have less land area.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, my next-door neighbor isn’t going to catch and skin himself.



Surprised they didn’t redesign the bottle neck to go along with this campaign.


by Ted Grant

We’ve already talked a bit about…interesting reactions to a cheeky vodka ad campaign, but if you thought that was the only advertising campaign to get people upset, then, well, I suppose you’ve lived a very sheltered life up until now.

Because Absolut is also running this campaign, primarily in gay newspapers and magazines:

“Aha,” you say, “It’s a joke about penis size. Clearly people are offended at such a cheap and easy gag appearing in their magazines!”

Well, no.

Perhaps they are exploring a new niche market for their product - promoting it as a disinfectant after having gay sex….

These fools are determined to make sure that I won’t buy any of their products. First the Mexican map now supporting queers.

Is anyone really surprised about this? After all, my guess is that you need to imbibe a lot of vodka before doing what the pillow-biters normally do…

To me, these ads are more or less as offensive to me as if Absolut ran ads advocating child sexual abuse or extoling the vitrues of the Third Reich.

WHAT ON EARTH HAS HAPPENED TO MY CULTURE?

Hey, it wouldn’t be the internet without a completely inappropriate Nazi reference…

I’ve gave up Gray Goose when the Frenchies “stabbed us in the back” about the war in Iraq…my father who was “over there” in WWI must have rolled over in his grave…
guess the Frenchies have a short memory…
especially since we “pulled their bacon out of the fire” TWICE!

“Interesting” punctuation “aside,” I wonder what “Gray Goose” or the “French” have to do with “this.”

Can you imagine Jack Daniels or Old Grand Dad ever advertising itself as “the preferred whiskey for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered consumers”? Neither can I.

Will Absolut’s advocacy stop at Aztlan and the homo agenda? Doubt it. Expect a map of the Mideast excluding Israel next. …and perhaps a map of a U.S. with a submerged coastline (due to ice cap melting from global warming)

I don’t even like Vodka, and suddenly I want a big glass of it…



Most I know want the American dream including my wife and her family.


by pico -d gallo

Absolut Vodka has shocked Americans with its invention of the idea of targeting an ad to appeal to the patriotism and nationalism of its audience, something that’s never been done in America before. It shows the Mexican border expanded into American territory.

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As you can imagine, this has set off shrill klaxons in the minds of folks who are terrified of “la Reconquista”.

They just lost me as a customer. We have enough racial division caused by their invasion of our country. Please don’t rub it in our faces.

Yes, the Mexicans have caused racism by coming to America.

Shameful and traitorous. Absolut, you have LOST me and probably most Americans as customers!

Absolut isn’t an American company. But this person reminds us that everyone in the world is required to stay loyal to America.

I’m all for free speech and irreverent advertising, but to show my home now part of another country in an Ablsout (perfect) world is offensive. Regardless, they have absolutely no idea what is important to non-illegal Californians, which are still the majority. I won’t be buying Absolut ever again.

Also addressing one of the comments here as to the sophistication of Mexicans in general…. you must be referring to the miniscule fraction of the DF elite who are strictly from European ancestry. Yes they are sophisticated, but the masses are still asses.

It’s quite simple. I am an American, I love my country and thus I will never buy nor drink Absolut vodka ever again.

Makes one wonder how many of these boycotters actually buy and drink Absolut on a regular basis anyway. At least this guy is honest:

I stopped drinking Absolut several years ago. I wish I were still drinking it so that I could boycott it. Well, for what it’s worth, I’m boycotting it now!

Good thing Jackson slaughtered anyone who had a chance to make the U.S. map look even close to that. I absolutly will not buy absolut.

Anyone expect to see an ad (from any global brand) about a world without the USA? With a swastika over all over europe, a hammer & sickle over all of asia, and the only place where people vote in free elections in N America? Didn’t think so. Like the ubiquitous “imbecile/loser male/father” in what seems like 75% of retail TV spots, advertisers show their laziness when they go for such an easy target as the most dominant member of a group. So bashing America (which this Absolut ad plainly is) and bashing men and the resulting boredom these tired old cliches induce will eventually subside when selling product once again becomes more important than making a thinly veiled left-leaning political statement. It can’t happen soon enough.

RW needs to lock up his womenfolks:

The nation of Mexico’s 3 major imports into the USA are poverty, criminals, and ignorance.

If they were to extend their Govt into the southwest, we can add corruption to the list.

Why go backward?

I salute the Hispanics that are good honest Americans.

Most I know want the American dream including my wife and her family.

Don’t worry Texans. The new Sam Houston is coming back soon. How do I know this? I am the new Sam Houston! I will kick every freeloading Mexican out of Texas. I might even take Mexico by invasion. But I will be using AK 47’s. Over my dead body will turd world Mexico ever take back TEXAS! Get your guns ready red blooded TEXANS and AMERICANS. Jorge Bush is a traitor and loves Mexicans. Too bad the BUSH girls don’t marry one of those hard working morons! If the morons running this country don’t stop this crap soon the people WILL!

… enough , close the borders .
… shoot them in the leg , the 1st week.
… shoot for the head , the 2nd.
… $ 500 bounty for illegals within our borders .
…. that should ease unemployment and get the economy
going .
…. ” let’s drink to that . ”
… KNOB CREEK

I find this type of advertising disgusting and uneducated. It creates divides between people of different cutlers.

Probably the most repulsive ad I’ve ever seen. Sadly, people who think this is funny are either dumber than granite as to what’s happening in the counrty, or working for the enemy outright.

Whether slow, fast, violent or not, changing a border is war, pals. You can do it actively, or with mass infiltration of people, language and culture, over a longer time. It’s still an invasion.

The slow creep of fumes lets us all be happy, right until the end, when we close our eyes.

Mexico need to be dealt a death blow. 170 years of hostile behavior is enough.

Another (Globalist Elite controlled) multi-national company pandering to the La Raza crowd. The Elite has long tried to creat “Aztlan” via open borders, birthright citizenship & other treasonous methods. We Americans had better turn off the “Sheeplevision”, put down the iPods, iPhones & video games & fight for our (once great) Constitutional Republic before it’s too late!

It wouldn’t be GOTI material without someone posting in ALL CAPS:

I USED TO DRINK ALOT OF ABSOLUT WHILE PARTYING ON THE GREEK ISLANDS……
NEVER AGAIN! TEQUILA SUCKS…….I THINK I WILL STICK TO WISKEY!

normally i don’t care about anything. but this stupid and inflammatory ad fries my butt.

glug, glug, gulg - the sound of my Absolut going into the toilet, never again to darken my door step or mouth. If fact, when I go to a drinking estblisment. I will ask they remove the drink from the selections. Of course, I will tell them why.

My ancestors were part of the Texas Revolution.
We’ve been here 300 years, and seen all six flags fly over it.
I was raised a Son of the Old Republic.
And while some snooty, liberal, eurotrash Scandle-navians may think it’s funny to make comments that we ’stole’ this land, or that it ought to be given back in some twisted bit of progressivist guilt, they have never lived here.
The blood, sweat, and tears of 300 years worth of my ancestors is in this soil, having worked hard to call themselves first “Texans” and then “Americans”. This is the product of work, dedication, and sacrifice.

It goes beyond mere insult to a native Texan. It borders on sin.

You’re welcome to your opinion, but you’d best do it well beyond rifle range.
- a mistake they made at Gonzales in 1835 too.

In the meantime, I’ve better things to drink than “Absolut Insult’

I WILL NEVER BUY THIS AGAIN,
AND ANY AMERICAN WHO SUPPORTS THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN
THEY ARE A TRAITOR !!

In summary:

Absolutely no more “Absolut ” for me - dumb Swedes ! They must not have been vikings or maybe they were (lol)

Viva los Internets!



Perhaps this is the end results coming out of the Nazi Germany era.


by Ted Grant

The Advocate recently ran a piece about Thomas Beatie, a female-to-male transsexual in Oregon who became pregnant. It’s a fascinating story that calls into question our assumptions about gender, gender identity and the evolving nature of the family in the twenty-first century.

Er, unless you’re a Free Republic reader that is:

Please stay calm. Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times. The ride through Obamaville has just begun.

This is basically an insane woman that had her breasts removed, took testosterone shots and still got pregnant. She is a one woman freak show. And the fact that she did it voluntarily means she is quite literally insane.

what a nauseating freak

Barring some sort of miracle, this child is going to be the biggest serial killer the modern world has ever seen.

I think some social agency needs to step in, and take the child from her, when/if it is born. How can you subject a child to that?

And then, even for the Freepers, the comments take a disturbing turn:

Perhaps this is the end results coming out of the Nazi Germany era.

The doctors/scientist did a lot of experiments in those dark back rooms.

And it wasn’t curing dwarfism as some of their subjects were afflicted with.

I think you got it, Nazi horrors live on 60 years later.

Well, luckily we have some left-leaning blogs to counter-act all that negativity, right?

Er, right?:

…and when will NOT wanting a child be considered normal ?

(Yes, it just wouldn’t be a thread about pregnancy on a lefty blog without someone getting indignant about not wanting children..)

hold that thought, I have to go kill something, I’ll be back

The…hell?

I understand that homosexuality is not a choice, but what bothers me is transgender people who try and claim that what they did to their bodies wasn’t a choice they made, and therefore we shouldn’t judge them by it. Discriminating based on what somebody is is a terrible thing, but discriminating based on choices people make is completely fair territory.

And it’s because of people like you that we can’t get anti-discrimination laws passed…

I’m surprised no one has mentioned mpreg fan fiction yet. Those guys must be getting pretty excited about all of this.

It all comes down to fan-fiction in the end for some people, doesn’t it?



Liberal Anarchists who hate this country


by Ted Grant

USA Today, America’s tabloid, reports on an interview with one-time Abu Ghraib guard Lyndie England which was run in the German magazine Stern. England doesn’t appear to show much regret over her actions and in fact seems to find that the problem with Abu Ghraib wasn’t so much that American soldiers were torturing people, but that the media had the audacity to report on it.

Sadly, it seems many of her country people feel the same way…

The cowardly media responsible for this yellow journalism will never take any responsibility. I await a story on 20/20 or 48 hours or 60 minutes to determine why this stupidity was leaked irresponsibly. They should be convicted for murder.

The Abu Ghraib photos that I saw looked no different than the photos that would have been taken at any one of hundreds of US colleges on fraternity initiation Hell nights. It is completely absurd that there was any kind of response to this at all. It was purely a case of opportunistic traitorous Liberal Anarchist carping.

Abu Ghraib was just a bunch of opportunistic Liberal Anarchist carping over nothing. If you got arrested on a traffic violation in this country you’d get treated a lot rougher than the Abu Ghraib prisoners did. JUst a lot of carping and wailing by Liberal Anarchists who hate this country, and who want to tear it down every chance they can get. You Liberal Anarchists are a bunch of traitors. We should deal with you people the way we would have a hundred years ago. Tar and feather you and ride you out of town on a rail.