A Day Before New Hampshire
There's a well-known news "source" that is highly damaging to the U.S., which, however, has a very poor appreciation of that fact. It's named after a certain furtive, chicken-killing animal, the hunting of which by the English gentry was so memorably dismissed by Oscar Wilde as being "the pursuit of the inedible by the unspeakable."
By now you can call the name of this source, so let me just say that today it claims that a big Irish bookmaker has just paid out $75,000 to bettors who wagered that Barack Obama would be the Democratic Presidential nominee.
As this toxic news "source" that claims to be "fair and balanced" has long shown that it harbors only the deepest of ill will toward the Democrats, I'm wondering what the dodge here is. More reputable sources don't seem to be reporting this very odd bit of news.
It's hard to believe that any bookmaker in his right mind would do such a thing.
After all, only one popularity contest has been held so far, the one that Obama won, in Iowa, a state that is noticeably long on cornfield acreage but short on people. Another small but supposedly indicative state, New Hampshire, is still a day or two from holding its primary,and then later, stretching deep into the spring, will come the numerous people monsters, and, smarting from Iowa, and New Hampshire, they may find quite different things to say of much greater weight.
So I feel certain that no matter what that news "source" and its Irish bookmaker say, absolutely nothing has been decided yet.
In horseshoes, we have a saying that "Anything can happen in horseshoes." Another old saying that I've always liked, about the uncertain working of events, goes, "Man proposes but God disposes." But my favorite is, "My goat would have gotten to Mecca if it hadn't been for the wolves by the side of the road."
Besides, most American sportspeople go to the track to see and to bet on races that last somewhat longer than the one or two seconds it takes for the horses to break out of the gate.
By now you can call the name of this source, so let me just say that today it claims that a big Irish bookmaker has just paid out $75,000 to bettors who wagered that Barack Obama would be the Democratic Presidential nominee.
As this toxic news "source" that claims to be "fair and balanced" has long shown that it harbors only the deepest of ill will toward the Democrats, I'm wondering what the dodge here is. More reputable sources don't seem to be reporting this very odd bit of news.
It's hard to believe that any bookmaker in his right mind would do such a thing.
After all, only one popularity contest has been held so far, the one that Obama won, in Iowa, a state that is noticeably long on cornfield acreage but short on people. Another small but supposedly indicative state, New Hampshire, is still a day or two from holding its primary,and then later, stretching deep into the spring, will come the numerous people monsters, and, smarting from Iowa, and New Hampshire, they may find quite different things to say of much greater weight.
So I feel certain that no matter what that news "source" and its Irish bookmaker say, absolutely nothing has been decided yet.
In horseshoes, we have a saying that "Anything can happen in horseshoes." Another old saying that I've always liked, about the uncertain working of events, goes, "Man proposes but God disposes." But my favorite is, "My goat would have gotten to Mecca if it hadn't been for the wolves by the side of the road."
Besides, most American sportspeople go to the track to see and to bet on races that last somewhat longer than the one or two seconds it takes for the horses to break out of the gate.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 11:56 AM
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