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re riverbank minus all those diseased trees with it along with about six golf holes he also removed hundreds of other trees around the golf course to open up sightlines nonetheless for awhile the members had access to two very good golf courses that were well maintained but that wasn t enough for trump because he had a vanity project in mind his goal all along was to get the club to host a significant professional golf tournament after the initial renovation of the one golf course the championship course he invited pga officials to evaluate it for tournament use their conclusion the greens were too flat and easy and the layout was not conducive to the logistics of a big tournament so trump decided to undertake another renovation this one created a superb golf course on the river and a decidedly mediocre mishmash of a leftover golf course on the interior affectionately called trump municipal by members as part of the renovation trump used portions of both golf courses to create a new 18 hole championship course along the full riverfront he added some new holes and re did all the greens to give them more undulation as requested by the pga they still don t have that much undulation it will be interesting to see how the pros play it this weekend along the way he made an impetuous decision before finishing the final routing of the new course to add an island green par 3 hole in place of a short par 4 that he had never liked construction on the new hole started immediately after he made the decision but guess what the new hole did not fit into the final routing of the new course nor did it fit into the leftover course somewhere he would have to get rid of a hole because there were now 37 instead of 36 ultimately he combined the new par 3 with an old par 4 to make a new par 5 hole that makes absolutely no sense and is uniformly hated by all members shortly after the new hole opened trump was at the club and spotted one of the best lady members of the club on that hole he asked her what she thought she very diplomatically said something along the lines of well mr trump it is a very interesting hole i just wish there was a larger landing area to the right along the water for players who need to lay up trump turned red and said if you don t like it you can join another club then stormed off this was pretty typical of his response to any member who did not lavish praise on his decisions in any event the new championship course is indeed tournament worthy it is nearly 8000 yards long with great views of the potomac river and some very challenging holes it is also about an 8 mile walk which is quite long especially in the summer heat with virtually no trees for shade but the other course the riverview is as trump would say about something for which he wasn t responsible a disaster the riverview has three different types of greens it has seven holes on one side of the property with the remaining 11 holes about a quarter mile cart ride away on the other side of the property it is the product of three golf course designers tom fazio for the first seven arthur hills for the 10 of the other 11 and donald trump for the infamous par 5 the starting hole is not near the clubhouse nor is it close to the practice range it is in a word the forgotten course trump doesn t play it it won t host tournaments he just doesn t care kind of like people who rely on obamacare to keep themselves alive trump is quite a character members and caddies have plenty of stories about his cheating on the golf course he is a good golfer but not as good as he would have you believe as he takes any decent length putt and has a vanity handicap no one wants to cross him so he is not called out on his conduct once in the middle of a two day tournament he tried to get the format for the second day changed because he did not think it favored him if he were just the colorful quirky dictatorial owner of a private golf club trump s idiosyncrasies would not be a big deal but he s not now he is president of the united states and he is dangerously delusional i maintain that there is a reason we generally elect people to public office up a chain from local to state to national office it is because we then get a measure of them as they take on more responsibility if trump were running for local office in a small town he would never get elected because voters would see his flaws or if elected he would not retain office for long indeed most of the membership at the club are republicans but very few supported trump s candidacy during the primary campaign and many could not even bear to vote for him in the general election despite their contempt for hillary clinton that is because they know him they d seen him in action and they knew better i m glad to be out of the club i had many great friendships there which i miss and on the occasion of the sr pga tournament at the club i wish all the best to my friends who are still there many of whom are selflessly volunteering countless hours to make the tournament a success i also hope that one day very soon donald trump will return to his role as a colorful quirky private citizen posted by x curmudgeon at 12 50 pm 2 comments friday may 19 2017 how the russia scandal will go down for trump now that an independent prosecutor has been appointed to investigate the trump campaign s ties to russia we can hope to get to the bottom of this in due course it won t happen overnight most likely the probe will take at least a year republicans should welcome the probe if an independent prosecutor clears the trump campaign they re all good if mueller instead finds wrongdoing they can get rid of trump and have pence as president which would be much better for them all around trump would also welcome the appointment of an independent prosecutor if he and his campaign did nothing wrong indeed one of his big problems so far has been the refusal to say he would welcome an investigation that would clear his campaign of wrongdoing in any event where there s smoke there s fire and in the case of trump s campaign there is plenty of smoke i believe the investigation will show that trump s campaign did indeed coordinate with russia and that the coordination began early on during the republican primaries if true that it started during the primaries republicans will be much more willing to dump trump the key player is michael flynn most likely flynn offered to use his contacts with russians to help leverage the trump campaign paul manafort was also undoubtedly involved and it wouldn t be surprising if some of the other clowns in trump s camp roger stone rudy guiliani played a role but flynn is the main man we already know that he had many contacts with the russians the question becomes who those russians were and what they offered to do and also what trump knew trump of course will deny that he knew anything in any scheme like this it is important to protect the boss plausible deniability that was the key in watergate it wasn t bugging dnc hq per se that was the problem but rather whether pres nixon knew about it trump has already hedged his bets stating yesterday that his campaign or at least he himself did not coordinate with the russians note however that trump made flynn his national security adviser despite numerous warnings not to it seems a promise was made or maybe flynn knew too much so in the end it will come down to flynn eventually he will be given immunity in exchange for his testimony about what trump knew i expect that he will then testify that yes of course the boss knew but he didn t want to be informed of any of the details then maybe we can get a serious president posted by x curmudgeon at 4 12 pm 1 comment friday october 21 2016 the early election signs point to hillary many people tend to overlook that these days voting begins several weeks before election day according to data compiled by political scientist michael mcdonald at electproject org nearly 40 of votes in the 2012 presidential election were cast before election day that total could be eclipsed this year although some states have curtailed early voting for political reasons as of this morning according to mcdonald s data more than 4 million people have already voted in this election with early in person voting starting in more and more states that figure will go up rapidly over the next few days states vary widely in the data they report from the early ballots no state of course reports on who the early voters cast their ballots for but some do provide useful demographic information some interesting tidbits from the data so far iowa is a state where donald trump has consistently polled favorably he holds a 3 7 lead over hillary in the polling average for that state but iowans have been voting now for quite a few days and the tilt is heavily democratic so far 235 000 votes have been cast in iowa there were 1 5 million total in the state in 2012 of those 49 are from registered democrats and 32 from republicans in contrast in 2012 42 of absentee ballots were from dems and 32 from republicans of course that doesn t mean hillary is winning or trump is losing the data could and likely will change as additional ballots come in also it may be that traditional blue collar white democrats in iowa are voting for trump so we won t get too excited about the data so far but if i was trump i d be worried if he loses iowa he is likely to go down to a landslide defeat nationally north carolina and georgia provide a demographic breakdown of their early voting data what s interesting here is the gender divide in georgia 433 000 votes have been cast 3 9 million total votes in 2012 of those 56 are from women and 42 from men nationally women make up about 53 of all voters in nc 221 000 ballots have been cast of which 55 are from women and 43 men of course this could just be that women are voting early and men will catch up at some point and it doesn t tell you who they are voting for finally in virginia it is noteworthy that early balloting in democratically strong northern virginia is up 56 over 2012 virginia is probably a lost cause for trump anyway polling has consistently shown a race their that is not close at all posted by x curmudgeon at 10 30 am 1 comment trump lost the election the day he announced his candidacy the election is almost here and barring something very unexpected hillary clinton will be our next president that is pretty surprising given that at the outset of the nomination process a year and a half ago a generic republican easily beat hillary in a hypothetical match up but then donald trump threw his hat in the ring the very day that trump made his campaign announcement he both won the gop nomination and lost the general election as soon as trump made his now infamous statement about mexican rapists and criminals he vaulted to the top of the gop nomination heap unfortunately there is a sizable portion of the republican base that delights in overt immigrant bashing and racism and by saying it bluntly trump made himself the darling of these voters at the same time and i said it to a friend at the time while sitting in trump s golf club in sterling va he lost the general election even to a candidate as unpopular as hillary bigotry is not a popular position in the us and thankfully the larger electorate will generally shy away from a candidate who expresses himself or herself in a bigoted way it s too bad because our country could use a vigorous debate on policy issues rather than personality we benefit from such debate as it often helps us to get to a moderate middle ground position that is usually better for the large majority of citizens this is the what our founders envisaged with their system of checks and balances as one example ohio gov john kasich a fairly conservative republican recently had the courage and intellectual honesty to defend free trade which neither trump nor clinton will do although clinton probably favors free trade free trade provides our country with numerous benefits including lower cost not quality goods and vigorous markets for our exports the idea that we are somehow going to go back to being an industrial manufacturing economy is pretty ludicrous moreover we wouldn t want to manufacturing jobs are increasingly becoming automated we are better off that our economy has already moved on in any event let s hope the republican party can right its ship i fear otherwise trump has basically written a playbook for future campaigns if you want to distinguish yourself in a large field of republicans be a bigot and try to mask it by saying you re just not being politically correct perhaps a new centrist conservative party will emerge one that embraces fiscal and economic conservatism libertarianism and ethnic religious and sexual diversity posted by x curmudgeon at 8 57 am no comments monday december 07 2015 the university of virginia football rip off the university of virginia announced a few days ago that it had hired a new football coach who it will reportedly pay 3 25 annually what a huge waste of money on top of this uva students are required to pay a sports fee of 657 annually one of the highest in the nation among large public universities uva students should go on strike against paying this exorbitant and useless fee to support a bloated athletic department budget here s an undeniable fact about college football 100 of games result in someone lossing in the aggregate 50 of games played will result in a loss what that means for schools like uva is that unless they can out recruit the likes of alabama clemson florida state ohio state etc they are going to be on the losing end and in the long run there is no way that uva can out recruit the major fbs football powers about the best uva can hope for is to occasionally have a decent season in the acc and go to a minor bowl heck anyone can go to a minor bowl these days but that very fact has completely devalued the entire bowl experience anyway there is a much better way for uva and similarly situated schools to go instead of participating in an ever escalating arms race that it cannot possibly win it should drop out uva ought to join other more academically oriented and or smaller schools such as duke unc wake forest temple villanova rutgers and form an ivy league type of college football conference one that promotes the true idea of student athlete the ivy league school play a ten game season with no playoffs no bowl games limited scholarships etc the season is still competitive within the league but not over the top the two teams that play for the national championship this season will likely have played 15 games apiece a ridiculous sacrifice for unpaid college kids to be asked to make for the glory of their rich alumnae uva could then slash its football budget eliminate the hated student fee and pursue its primary mission educating students it could also set an example that would 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