Those kidnapped and locked in cages in Alligator Alcatraz say they aren't being fed properly and are going hungry. We have nutritional food about to be destroyed. It seems to me that we have a problem and a no cost solution staring us in the face.concordtom said:
Trump Administration will spend money to destroy emergency food supplies, rather than distribute it.
Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency foodenough to feed about 1.5 million children for a weekare set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)
Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.
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Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me. From January to mid-April, the responsibility rested with Pete Marocco, who worked across multiple agencies during the first Trump administration; then it passed to Jeremy Lewin, a law-school graduate in his 20s who was originally installed by DOGE and now has appointments at both USAID and State. Two of the USAID employees told me that staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the food never got a response and did not know whether Marocco or Lewin ever received them. (The State Department did not answer my questions about why the food was never distributed.)
In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told representatives on the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure that food aid would reach its intended recipients before spoiling. But by then, the order to incinerate the biscuits (which I later reviewed) had already been sent. Rubio has insisted that the administration embraces America's responsibility to continue saving foreign lives, including through food aid. But in April, according to NPR, the U.S. government eliminated all humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, where, the State Department said at the time, providing food risks benefiting terrorists. (The State Department has offered no similar justification for pulling aid to Pakistan.) Even if the administration was unwilling to send the biscuits to the originally intended countries, other placesSudan, say, where war is fueling the world's worst famine in decadescould have benefited. Instead, the biscuits in the Dubai warehouse continue to approach their expiration date, after which their vitamin and fat content will begin to deteriorate rapidly. At this point, United Arab Emirates policy prevents the biscuits from even being repurposed as animal feed.
Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he'd never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn't stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.
The emergency biscuits slated for destruction represent only a small fraction of America's typical annual investment in food aid. In fiscal year 2023, USAID purchased more than 1 million metric tons of food from U.S. producers. But the collapse of American foreign aid raises the stakes of every loss. Typically, the biscuits are the first thing that World Food Programme workers hand to Afghan families who are being forced out of Pakistan and back to their home country, which has been plagued by severe child malnutrition for years. Now the WFP can support only one of every 10 Afghans who are in urgent need of food assistance. The WFP projects that, globally, 58 million people are at risk for extreme hunger or starvation because this year, it lacks the money to feed them. Based on calculations from one of the current USAID employees I spoke with, the food marked for destruction could have met the nutritional needs of every child facing acute food insecurity in Gaza for a week.
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Despite the administration's repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio's testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire. Hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses. According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of foodmuch of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. governmentwere then sitting in warehouses across the world. That included 36,000 pounds of peas, oil, and cereal, which were stored in Djibouti and intended for distribution in Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa. A former senior official at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance told me that, by the time she'd left her job earlier this month, very little of the food seemed to have moved; one of the current USAID employees I spoke with confirmed her impression, though he noted that, in recent weeks, small shipments have begun leaving the Djibouti warehouse.
[Read: 'In three months, half of them will be dead']
Such operations are more difficult for USAID to manage today than they were last year because many of the humanitarian workers and supply-chain experts who once coordinated the movement of American-grown food to hungry people around the world no longer have their jobs. Last month, the CEOs of the two American companies that make another kind of emergency food for malnourished children both told The New York Times that the government seemed unsure of how to ship the food it had already purchased. Nor, they told me, have they received any new orders. (A State Department spokesperson told me that the department had recently approved additional purchases, but both CEOs told me they have yet to receive the orders. The State Department has not responded to further questions about these purchases.) But even if the Trump administration decides tomorrow to buy more food aidor simply distribute what the government already owns while the food is still usefulit may no longer have the capacity to make sure anyone receives it.
tequila4kapp said:
Thank you for sharing. That is wrong. The admin says only 12 cents of every dollar reach aid recipients, they are staying true to the mission and aid will reach recipients, delivery mechanisms are moving (eg, to State), etc. That is all fine and good - as is eliminating the ridiculous programs. But the admin should be called out where it falls short.
movielover said:
We now know a large percentage goes to Democrat NGOs, just like the drug bazaars.
movielover said:
Same for POTUS.
This is:
— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) July 12, 2025
DOGE investigation CONFIRMS BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT:
That USAID did, in fact, give Chelsea Clinton a grant of $82,000,000 through the Clinton Global Initiative — which was supposed to go toward relief efforts in Haiti.
Line items show that $3 million of the $84… https://t.co/tTJUnVOfbF pic.twitter.com/S5piv0HXew
concordtom said:SFCityBear said:concordtom said:SFCityBear said:bearister said:
I did 5 consecutive dunks to beat him in HORSE at the Rossmoor gym. He was in too foul of a mood to socialize after that.
That was a tad unfair. I mean, can any 80 year old white man dunk?
More like 70.
In what year do you think this event took place?
Bearister said he dunked 5 times.
You asked, can an 80 year old white man dunk?
I pointed out that Bearister is more like 70 at the time of HTP's death.
Doesn't matter when this figurative dunking event happened, because Bearister is not as old as you seemed to suggest.
🇹🇷🇮🇱🇸🇾 The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemns the Israeli attacks on Damascus:
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All part of a bigger plan. There, I’ve said it. I had held back, but when Newscum announced the $101,000,000 plan to destroy the Palisades with crime box buildings, I just don’t care anymore.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 15, 2025
Does anyone think this wasn’t planned to some degree all along? pic.twitter.com/tyzHJ2vOpq
This was planned from the very beginning:
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 15, 2025
Cancel fire insurance.
Empty the reservoirs.
Hire DEI overseers.
Let crazy arsonist bums roam freely.
Leave town when the Santa Ana winds are dangerously high. pic.twitter.com/vok3m4mE4p
SFCityBear said:concordtom said:SFCityBear said:concordtom said:SFCityBear said:bearister said:
I did 5 consecutive dunks to beat him in HORSE at the Rossmoor gym. He was in too foul of a mood to socialize after that.
That was a tad unfair. I mean, can any 80 year old white man dunk?
More like 70.
In what year do you think this event took place?
Bearister said he dunked 5 times.
You asked, can an 80 year old white man dunk?
I pointed out that Bearister is more like 70 at the time of HTP's death.
Doesn't matter when this figurative dunking event happened, because Bearister is not as old as you seemed to suggest.
concordtom,
You are confused, and that is my fault, for assuming readers would understand my post. I aplologize.
My post was about the age of Helltopay1, when the alleged game of horse took place, not about Bearister's age when the game took place.
You know the rules for a game of Horse, right? Player A takes a shot. If he makes it, then player B has to make the same type of shot, shooting from the same spot on the floor. If player B misses the shot, then he earns an "H" on his record. Player A takes another shot. If he makes it, then Player B must try and make the same shot. If he misses it, then he earns another letter, the letter "O". If he earns all five letters in the word, "HORSE", he loses the game.
So in Bearister's game, he must have been shooting first, and he made 5 dunks, and claimed to have won the game, then I assume Helltopay missed all the dunk attempts. I implied the game was unfair, because Helltopay was likely an 80 year old white man, and likely could no longer dunk (if he ever could), and Bearister a much younger man.
As to age, my post after that one talked about Helltopay playing against my cousin Jim back in high school. Jim was born in 1937. When they played against each other, it would likely have been in 1953 or 1954. Helltopay had transferred from St Ignatius to Lowell, and Jim played for Lincoln. Jim is 4.5 years older than me. I am several years older than Bearister, judging from when his interest in rock music started, my interest in rock and roll was about 5 or six years old already. So when these two gentleman played this alleged game of Horse, Helltopay was well into his 80s. I should also mention that HelltoPay used to hang out with St Marys and Warrior great, Tom Meschery, when Tom was just a youngster. He said he beat Tom at hunch, and then they would go to gyms and the Marin Town and Country Club to challenge other two man teams to games of hunch. Tom is currently 86. I was unable to find obits of Helltopay or my cousin Jim to verify the ages
I'd say it was bad form for a young man in his 70s to challenge an old geezer in his 80s to a game of HORSE with dunks allowed. On the other hand it would have been foolish for the old man to challenge man that much younger.
I apologize for the confusion.
SFCB
movielover said:
Funny, SMC used to have an on-campus little pub. Last time I was in Moraga I stopped at Safeway and saw a place next door... the Ranch House... while looking out for the Barn, which I didn't locate. The RH is a low key, western, needs-paint breakfast place, no frills. Nearby Canyon Club looks popular. TM still writing.
Eastern Oregon Bear said:Those kidnapped and locked in cages in Alligator Alcatraz say they aren't being fed properly and are going hungry. We have nutritional food about to be destroyed. It seems to me that we have a problem and a no cost solution staring us in the face.concordtom said:
Trump Administration will spend money to destroy emergency food supplies, rather than distribute it.
Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency foodenough to feed about 1.5 million children for a weekare set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)
Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.
ADVERTISEMENT
Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me. From January to mid-April, the responsibility rested with Pete Marocco, who worked across multiple agencies during the first Trump administration; then it passed to Jeremy Lewin, a law-school graduate in his 20s who was originally installed by DOGE and now has appointments at both USAID and State. Two of the USAID employees told me that staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the food never got a response and did not know whether Marocco or Lewin ever received them. (The State Department did not answer my questions about why the food was never distributed.)
In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told representatives on the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure that food aid would reach its intended recipients before spoiling. But by then, the order to incinerate the biscuits (which I later reviewed) had already been sent. Rubio has insisted that the administration embraces America's responsibility to continue saving foreign lives, including through food aid. But in April, according to NPR, the U.S. government eliminated all humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, where, the State Department said at the time, providing food risks benefiting terrorists. (The State Department has offered no similar justification for pulling aid to Pakistan.) Even if the administration was unwilling to send the biscuits to the originally intended countries, other placesSudan, say, where war is fueling the world's worst famine in decadescould have benefited. Instead, the biscuits in the Dubai warehouse continue to approach their expiration date, after which their vitamin and fat content will begin to deteriorate rapidly. At this point, United Arab Emirates policy prevents the biscuits from even being repurposed as animal feed.
Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he'd never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn't stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.
The emergency biscuits slated for destruction represent only a small fraction of America's typical annual investment in food aid. In fiscal year 2023, USAID purchased more than 1 million metric tons of food from U.S. producers. But the collapse of American foreign aid raises the stakes of every loss. Typically, the biscuits are the first thing that World Food Programme workers hand to Afghan families who are being forced out of Pakistan and back to their home country, which has been plagued by severe child malnutrition for years. Now the WFP can support only one of every 10 Afghans who are in urgent need of food assistance. The WFP projects that, globally, 58 million people are at risk for extreme hunger or starvation because this year, it lacks the money to feed them. Based on calculations from one of the current USAID employees I spoke with, the food marked for destruction could have met the nutritional needs of every child facing acute food insecurity in Gaza for a week.
ADVERTISEMENT
Despite the administration's repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio's testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire. Hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses. According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of foodmuch of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. governmentwere then sitting in warehouses across the world. That included 36,000 pounds of peas, oil, and cereal, which were stored in Djibouti and intended for distribution in Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa. A former senior official at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance told me that, by the time she'd left her job earlier this month, very little of the food seemed to have moved; one of the current USAID employees I spoke with confirmed her impression, though he noted that, in recent weeks, small shipments have begun leaving the Djibouti warehouse.
[Read: 'In three months, half of them will be dead']
Such operations are more difficult for USAID to manage today than they were last year because many of the humanitarian workers and supply-chain experts who once coordinated the movement of American-grown food to hungry people around the world no longer have their jobs. Last month, the CEOs of the two American companies that make another kind of emergency food for malnourished children both told The New York Times that the government seemed unsure of how to ship the food it had already purchased. Nor, they told me, have they received any new orders. (A State Department spokesperson told me that the department had recently approved additional purchases, but both CEOs told me they have yet to receive the orders. The State Department has not responded to further questions about these purchases.) But even if the Trump administration decides tomorrow to buy more food aidor simply distribute what the government already owns while the food is still usefulit may no longer have the capacity to make sure anyone receives it.
movielover said:All part of a bigger plan. There, I’ve said it. I had held back, but when Newscum announced the $101,000,000 plan to destroy the Palisades with crime box buildings, I just don’t care anymore.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 15, 2025
Does anyone think this wasn’t planned to some degree all along? pic.twitter.com/tyzHJ2vOpq
What happened to the LA Fire thread?This was planned from the very beginning:
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 15, 2025
Cancel fire insurance.
Empty the reservoirs.
Hire DEI overseers.
Let crazy arsonist bums roam freely.
Leave town when the Santa Ana winds are dangerously high. pic.twitter.com/vok3m4mE4p
Oh, I never expected the Trump administration to do anything sensible. Punishing the people they hate is completely predictable for them.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:Those kidnapped and locked in cages in Alligator Alcatraz say they aren't being fed properly and are going hungry. We have nutritional food about to be destroyed. It seems to me that we have a problem and a no cost solution staring us in the face.concordtom said:
Trump Administration will spend money to destroy emergency food supplies, rather than distribute it.
Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency foodenough to feed about 1.5 million children for a weekare set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)
Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.
ADVERTISEMENT
Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me. From January to mid-April, the responsibility rested with Pete Marocco, who worked across multiple agencies during the first Trump administration; then it passed to Jeremy Lewin, a law-school graduate in his 20s who was originally installed by DOGE and now has appointments at both USAID and State. Two of the USAID employees told me that staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the food never got a response and did not know whether Marocco or Lewin ever received them. (The State Department did not answer my questions about why the food was never distributed.)
In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told representatives on the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure that food aid would reach its intended recipients before spoiling. But by then, the order to incinerate the biscuits (which I later reviewed) had already been sent. Rubio has insisted that the administration embraces America's responsibility to continue saving foreign lives, including through food aid. But in April, according to NPR, the U.S. government eliminated all humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, where, the State Department said at the time, providing food risks benefiting terrorists. (The State Department has offered no similar justification for pulling aid to Pakistan.) Even if the administration was unwilling to send the biscuits to the originally intended countries, other placesSudan, say, where war is fueling the world's worst famine in decadescould have benefited. Instead, the biscuits in the Dubai warehouse continue to approach their expiration date, after which their vitamin and fat content will begin to deteriorate rapidly. At this point, United Arab Emirates policy prevents the biscuits from even being repurposed as animal feed.
Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he'd never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn't stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.
The emergency biscuits slated for destruction represent only a small fraction of America's typical annual investment in food aid. In fiscal year 2023, USAID purchased more than 1 million metric tons of food from U.S. producers. But the collapse of American foreign aid raises the stakes of every loss. Typically, the biscuits are the first thing that World Food Programme workers hand to Afghan families who are being forced out of Pakistan and back to their home country, which has been plagued by severe child malnutrition for years. Now the WFP can support only one of every 10 Afghans who are in urgent need of food assistance. The WFP projects that, globally, 58 million people are at risk for extreme hunger or starvation because this year, it lacks the money to feed them. Based on calculations from one of the current USAID employees I spoke with, the food marked for destruction could have met the nutritional needs of every child facing acute food insecurity in Gaza for a week.
ADVERTISEMENT
Despite the administration's repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio's testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire. Hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses. According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of foodmuch of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. governmentwere then sitting in warehouses across the world. That included 36,000 pounds of peas, oil, and cereal, which were stored in Djibouti and intended for distribution in Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa. A former senior official at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance told me that, by the time she'd left her job earlier this month, very little of the food seemed to have moved; one of the current USAID employees I spoke with confirmed her impression, though he noted that, in recent weeks, small shipments have begun leaving the Djibouti warehouse.
[Read: 'In three months, half of them will be dead']
Such operations are more difficult for USAID to manage today than they were last year because many of the humanitarian workers and supply-chain experts who once coordinated the movement of American-grown food to hungry people around the world no longer have their jobs. Last month, the CEOs of the two American companies that make another kind of emergency food for malnourished children both told The New York Times that the government seemed unsure of how to ship the food it had already purchased. Nor, they told me, have they received any new orders. (A State Department spokesperson told me that the department had recently approved additional purchases, but both CEOs told me they have yet to receive the orders. The State Department has not responded to further questions about these purchases.) But even if the Trump administration decides tomorrow to buy more food aidor simply distribute what the government already owns while the food is still usefulit may no longer have the capacity to make sure anyone receives it.
MAGA is more interested in making life difficult for their perceived opponents than actually doing anything productive.
As much time as movielover spends posting tweets and memes here and interacting with endless imaginary friends that just happen to support his world view, I figure he has no time to actually watch movies, let alone love them.concordtom said:movielover said:All part of a bigger plan. There, I’ve said it. I had held back, but when Newscum announced the $101,000,000 plan to destroy the Palisades with crime box buildings, I just don’t care anymore.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 15, 2025
Does anyone think this wasn’t planned to some degree all along? pic.twitter.com/tyzHJ2vOpq
What happened to the LA Fire thread?This was planned from the very beginning:
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 15, 2025
Cancel fire insurance.
Empty the reservoirs.
Hire DEI overseers.
Let crazy arsonist bums roam freely.
Leave town when the Santa Ana winds are dangerously high. pic.twitter.com/vok3m4mE4p
Pretty cool that James Woods parades around his insanity so publicly for us all to see.
You are right to do so hidden behind your "username" - about the only thing you are right about.
bearister said:SFCityBear said:concordtom said:SFCityBear said:concordtom said:SFCityBear said:bearister said:
I did 5 consecutive dunks to beat him in HORSE at the Rossmoor gym. He was in too foul of a mood to socialize after that.
That was a tad unfair. I mean, can any 80 year old white man dunk?
More like 70.
In what year do you think this event took place?
Bearister said he dunked 5 times.
You asked, can an 80 year old white man dunk?
I pointed out that Bearister is more like 70 at the time of HTP's death.
Doesn't matter when this figurative dunking event happened, because Bearister is not as old as you seemed to suggest.
concordtom,
You are confused, and that is my fault, for assuming readers would understand my post. I aplologize.
My post was about the age of Helltopay1, when the alleged game of horse took place, not about Bearister's age when the game took place.
You know the rules for a game of Horse, right? Player A takes a shot. If he makes it, then player B has to make the same type of shot, shooting from the same spot on the floor. If player B misses the shot, then he earns an "H" on his record. Player A takes another shot. If he makes it, then Player B must try and make the same shot. If he misses it, then he earns another letter, the letter "O". If he earns all five letters in the word, "HORSE", he loses the game.
So in Bearister's game, he must have been shooting first, and he made 5 dunks, and claimed to have won the game, then I assume Helltopay missed all the dunk attempts. I implied the game was unfair, because Helltopay was likely an 80 year old white man, and likely could no longer dunk (if he ever could), and Bearister a much younger man.
As to age, my post after that one talked about Helltopay playing against my cousin Jim back in high school. Jim was born in 1937. When they played against each other, it would likely have been in 1953 or 1954. Helltopay had transferred from St Ignatius to Lowell, and Jim played for Lincoln. Jim is 4.5 years older than me. I am several years older than Bearister, judging from when his interest in rock music started, my interest in rock and roll was about 5 or six years old already. So when these two gentleman played this alleged game of Horse, Helltopay was well into his 80s. I should also mention that HelltoPay used to hang out with St Marys and Warrior great, Tom Meschery, when Tom was just a youngster. He said he beat Tom at hunch, and then they would go to gyms and the Marin Town and Country Club to challenge other two man teams to games of hunch. Tom is currently 86. I was unable to find obits of Helltopay or my cousin Jim to verify the ages
I'd say it was bad form for a young man in his 70s to challenge an old geezer in his 80s to a game of HORSE with dunks allowed. On the other hand it would have been foolish for the old man to challenge man that much younger.
I apologize for the confusion.
SFCB
SFCB, my last dunk looked a lot like this:
I HAVE SERIOUS UPS FOR A MID BABY BOOMER.
I wish Cal had a better hoop team to analyze because I have always considered you the best analyst. Take care.
movielover said:
TM was only 6'6"? Just learned he played in Wilt's legendary 100-point game. Years ago he read some of his poems at St. Mary's Colllege, and remarked about their college watering hole The Barn.
An audience member noted it was still there, so TM and others adjourned for a cold frosty.
tequila4kapp said:
That is just terrible.
Jesus. Give it a rest already.concordtom said:tequila4kapp said:
That is just terrible.
….that it didn't happen to the Orange Coup d'Etat artist.
DiabloWags said:
Ex-wife of Cal Business Professor and 5 others arrested in PJ's murder.
Greek police arrest five people in murder case of UC Berkeley professor, including his ex-wife | CNN
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