My tee time is in 5 minutes. I'm very happy right now.!โ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ pic.twitter.com/NqHl1mKHaE— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) November 22, 2020
Optics
WE WANT BAMA! cried The Beasman ahead of a Crimson Tide beatdown of the Cats
THE BEASMAN we want bama WE WANT BAMA! WE WANT BAMA! GO BIG BLUE! GO CATS! BAMA IS GOIN DOWN! BAMA AINโT NOBODY! THEY BUSPOSABLY IS RANKED NUMBER ONE BUT AMERICA AINโT SEEN WHAT KENTUCKY CAN DO YET! WE IS BRINGIN THE PAIN TRAIN TO TUSCALOOSER! (laffs) WE IS KENTUCKY! WEโS THE BIG BLUE! AWWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS! WE DONE PUT A WHOOPIN ON THEM SMARTY PANTS VANDERSMELT NERDS BUT WE DINT USE NONE OF OUR GOOD PLAYS. NAWโฆWE SAVIN THEM FOR BAMA CUZ STOOPS KNOWS WHEN WE BEAT BAMA THEN WE IS #1! (laffs) WE GONNA CRUSH SABANโS SISSIES BY USIN TWO QUARTERBACKS, THE ONE WHO CAN RUN DOWN LOW AND THE ONE WHO CAN PASS SETTIN UP ON HIS SHOULDERS!
SHOCKER! The Meiners family patriarch was also not a looker
The story of my "rather homely, undeveloped, and uneducated great great grandmother Minnie Katzenberger is posted below. Born in Bavaria in 1867, Minnie went on to marry a Voll, my dad's mother's name. Christina Voll married George Meiners in 1912 and they had 10 children, one of whom was my dad Mel Meiners. So how did the Meiners family name launch in America? My son Simon turned up this research: "The oldest ancestor I can find is Melโs great-grandfather, Johann Gerhard โGeorgeโ Meiners (1835-1909). Came on a ship from Germany to New Orleans in 1857. First looked for work in Saint Louis but later settled in Louisville. Married Melโs great-grandmother Maria Lemke in 1859. After she died of dropsy in 1884, he
Another potential scalawag Meiners family member, the bird grifter
My son Simon does research for a living. He turned up the salacious 1884 info about Minnie Katzenberger and her father's unlucky 1904 duel with a rival suitor. Simon sent this intriguing story today. "I found this April 1, 1898 C-J article about a โC. Katzenbergerโ (not sure if heโs family, but itโs certainly possible). He was known for carrying around a much-coveted mockingbird that sang songs for people. Eventually he traded it to a grocer at Rubel & Breckinridge for a barrel of flour. He told the grocer exactly where to hang the cage. Then one day he returned, stole the bird, and traded it to a blacksmith for two sledgehammers. Cops arrested him for grand larceny. Gotta respect the grift,
Best hate mail ever…still makes me laugh after more than 30 years
My homely, undeveloped, uneducated 17-year-old great grandmother was nearly WAP-en-ized by local toughs in 1884
Ludwina โMinnieโ Katzenberger was my great grandmother on my dad's side. In 1884, a few women tried to pull her into working at a house of ill repute when she was 17 but she โwould not permitโ when a man tried to โtake libertiesโ with her. The Courier Journal article posted below states that Minnie's father testified against the other women and the men at the prostitution house. It sounds as if he wasnโt exactly sure how old his daughter really was at the time. The reporter described my sweet great grandmother as โrather homely, undeveloped, and uneducated.โ Both father and daughter Katzenberger were from Sandberg, Bavaria so that means they moved to America sometime after her birth in
Two-fer Trumpday
Shooters, looters, rioters, and arsonists have used Louisville as an amusement park.
๐คฃNYPD OFFICER GOES OFF ABOUT HIS NEW TACTICAL TRAINING!!!๐คฃTHIS IS A MUST WATCH...AND PLEASE SHARE!!!๐ค๐๐ค pic.twitter.com/4SBMkSkHV8 โ ๐ปDestiny, RN, BSN๐ป (@Destiny3650) July 11, 2020 Legitimate protests have continued for months in Louisville and around the world. Conscientious people have been calling attention to police killings of citizens, many of whom are African Americans. Good for the protesters for keeping alive the names of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and so many other victims of police misconduct or miscalculation. The Black Lives Matter movement is the most important cultural voice in 2020. 99% of the violence in America has nothing to do with police. 16 people were just shot a funeral home in your city. It isn't the feds that are terrorizing your residents.
Black voices on Black issues; my job is to listen without comment
You want truth?.. @DrRickyLJones @terrymeiners https://t.co/NkPXckFbXp โ Terry (@cardinalterry42) July 7, 2020 THREAD: On @CNNTonight, Terry Crews explained to host @donlemon why he was rightly critical of the Black Lives Matter organization. "It was almost a supremist move where they viewed that their black lives mattered a lot more than mine." But lemon got combative real quick pic.twitter.com/TkgfU5ZAxu โ Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 7, 2020 Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered โfive,โ Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg. โ Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 7, 2020 Two men. One Black. One White. Both
Death by a thousand edit cuts
Activist journalism is killing what our information disseminating forebears spent hundreds of years building. Thanks, partisan jackasses. Journalism today. https://t.co/46dQvCprtl— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 4, 2020 Also, the English language is under siege. Yep. English is literally dead. https://t.co/hGVXeSNDV7— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 1, 2020 As I see @WKUBasketball call out @KentuckyMBB Iโm wondering why them two along with @LouisvilleMBB and @RacersHoops donโt play a Big Four Classic every year. Would think that would make money in this state. Am I wrong?— Kendrick HaskinsWave (@KendrickHaskins) July 7, 2020 Those two, Kendrick. Those two. Are there no editors in today's world? Have we completely surrendered to cost cutting management? Yes. Here's a promising story. The BLUE ANGELS are here! Happy 4th of July, America!