Derf-63 Wins for the 3rd Time in 2018 - And a Holiday Cook-out Story

Derf-63 Wins................. three groupies!

Derf-63 withstood an early card rush given to Faldo, then took the lead at the final table and never relinquished it. Faldo took a big chip lead early when he had a flop hit rush, then gave it all back as the same great cards hit nothing for a long stretch, actually falling to 5th out of five. Anyway the early chip leader and the middle tournament chip leader hung on for 1st and 2nd.

2nd - Mikeniks-Faldo
3rd - Johnnied55
4th - T3chlady
Bubble - Absea98

Congratulations to Derf-63 on his 39th NPP win!

And don't look now, but we will have another new and experienced player starting on NPP next week. He is already registered, so ......be ready!

Now for a little comment from Faldo:

Faldo hopse you all had a nice Memorial Day weekend. Faldo also hopes you all took a moment to mentally thank all the veterans that gave their lives to protect and serve this nation.

Holidays are designed to give us the time to do this - as well as to give us time to use the freedom those veterans protected for us. No need to feel guilty about using that time to do your own thing. Enjoy. But please remember what the holiday is all about.

Faldo used his two-thirds of his weekend (well, Mrs. Faldo ordered Faldo to use two-thirds of Faldo's weekend) for some serious yard work. But on the 3rd day, Faldo was allowed to do his own thing, which included a golf scramble with some friends. After which, Faldo returned home to attend a neighbor's typical holiday backyard cookout.

Burgers, chicken, brats, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, grilled veggies of all kinds, chips, olives, pickles, etc. You get the idea. Just a nice spread of summer favorites. The invitation was greatly appreciated and the large spread was a welcomed sight to a hungry Faldo after the golf round.

After dinner, the guests were invited inside and into the air conditioning for homemade desserts of ice cream, cheesecake and cookies. Faldo passed on these treats, as Faldo must save his extra and unnecessary calorie intake for beer and scotch.

Nice and friendly conversation was being held over the desserts. The usual stuff, kids, work, spouses, current home history and length of ownership - all of which Faldo is sure only the women will remember. Well, Faldo certainly won't retain any of it - which is why Faldo needs Mrs. Faldo.

How everyone is receiving their television signals came up, and how everyone is trying to cut the cord with cable AND get rid of the dish. It was also brought up on how few channels everyone actually watches.

Someone mentioned how they don't get FOX News, but don't care because "that station is so bias." There was a round of agreement by our neighbors and my wife grabbed my knee in that "if you say a word, I will kill you" grasp.

We had a VERY new neighbor at this gathering of six home residents and I was looking to see what her reaction to that statement was. As a poker player, Faldo read her as not happy with that statement. There was no slight nodding of the head or a knowing smile. Just the same stone face that Mr. and Mrs. Faldo had.

But as everyone who plays poker with Faldo will testify, Faldo can't READ players!

Everyone at this gathering - except Mr. and Mrs. Faldo - either is a teacher in the public school system or WAS a teacher in the public school system. Even this "new" neighbor IS a teacher. So, Faldo's read could be wrong.

The point of this story is to point out two undeniable facts.
One: Our school systems are managed, run and operated by communists and socialists.
Two: Liberals screw up a neighborhood with liberal policies, then move to a conservative area and proceed to destroy that neighborhood.

Now these neighbors at this party take care of their property, and none do any drugs at all. Few even drink at any real volume at all. But they are the upper - middle class liberals. They live like conservatives but vote Democrat-socialist-communist. For instance, they want wind mills, federal housing, open boarders, high taxes and diversity - just not where they live!

As the liberal policies take hold and begin to destroy the area, first the conservatives leave. Once the liberalism is locked in place and the real disintegration starts,  then the upper class liberals leave, following the conservatives to their new location. And the cycle continues.

Now a backyard neighborhood get together, where you are invited to break bread on a holiday is not the best place to start a political debate. And Faldo was torn as to start "educating" right then and there, or let it pass. If they would have started any real Trump or conservative bashing, Faldo would have responded with the truth and told them - if they are still voting Democrat you are either a communist, socialist or a useful idiot.

But Faldo held his tongue - partly because of my wife's subtle request, partly to see how far this discussion was going to go, but mostly because the statement of FOX News being bias is a true statement. Let's face it - it does lean right. Faldo can admit that.

But it is still the most fair and balanced news source on television. That is what this group of socialists refuse to acknowledge or are too mentally ill to see that the rest of the news sources actually run the Democrat Party...not report on it.

As the conversation continued, nobody continued with any more discussion of news stations as they moved on to the entertainment channels they watched. The channels mentioned were pretty 'conservative' in nature and had family and conservative values. All said they watch "none of the junk on today" and "none of the reality shows". Again, socialists living as conservatives - but unaware of it.

Of course what people say outwardly and how they really behave in their homes is sometimes not even close - which is why all these political polls are a joke. Heck, some of these public liberals might be Trump voters. But Faldo's read is that these folks are the "I'll vote Democrat until the Democrats succeed is ending my right to vote" type of useful idiots.

As a few of us conservative pundits have stated, this election of Trump and this upcoming midterm election is the LAST chance to save the republic. If we don't do it now, it's over.

Faldo missed a chance to educate. Of course Faldo would not have won them over then and there. But maybe a seed of doubt is planted and they would do some research themselves. Who knows.
Faldo should have tried to educate these people.

Readers.....forgive me. God forgive me.

GMOgolf Wins for the 2nd Time in 2018

Balana Blanchard waits for the winner GMOgolf at the NPP country retreat.

Someone is moving up the Walk of Fame! GMOgolf wins for the 2nd time this quarter to try and put some pressure on the leaders.

2nd - 95corolla
3rd - T3chlady
4th - Johmmied55
Bubble - Rachael0388

Congratulations to GMOgolf on his 2nd NPP victory!

Now some David Feherty humor for you golfers out there:

"That's a great shot ………with that swing."

"It's a good shot - the bunker stopped it."

"That was a great shot - if they'd have put the pin there today."

"Fortunately, Rory is 22 years old so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body."

"I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn't be here this week. He is attending the birth of his next wife."

Jim Furyk's swing "looks like an octopus falling out of a tree."

Describing VJ Singh's prodigious practice regime - "VJ hits more balls than Elton John's chin."

T3chlady Wins for the 1st Time in 2018 - And WTH is Happening and Why?

Joanna Krupa has nothing on the T3chlady!

T3chlady took out the NPP field last Monday and even won the heads up battle with the Legend himself - TheLittleRedElf! The ladies came to play some cards tonight taking 2 of the top 4 spots!

2nd - LittleRedElf
3rd - Rachael0388
4th - Absea98
Bubble - Tomservo2

Congratulations to the Techlady on her 13th NPP victory and moving on up the NPP Walk of Fame!


OK, so why is the country falling apart?

The United States has become a source of wonder the world over with its Columbines and hundreds and hundreds of dead in Chicago and Baltimore and its liberal burning cities and riots. Other advanced countries don’t do these things.

America didn’t either until recently.   Why now? Something has changed, or some things. What?
Lets  point out things that have changed, at risk of sounding like an old man.

In all the schools I ever attended (and I attended quite a few as I had a nomadic childhood), there was no racial tension. We were all white: teachers, students, parents.

The black kids went to their own school. We had virtually no contact with each other. There was no hostility, just no contact. The academic gap didn’t exist in the absence of contact. Integration would prove cruel when it came, and the black kid s sank to the bottom. The cause can be argued (liberalism), and this fact cannot.

There was no black crime to speak of or, as far as I knew. Certainly blacks did not shoot each other, or anybody. Neither did we. The reasons I suspect were similar.

Divorce was rarer, so most kids had both parents - a mother at home and a father working.

Whether it is better that unhappy couples stay together or that they divorce can be argued, but they then did stay together. It made a large difference in outcomes if one accepts the statistics.

The welfare programs of the Great Society had not yet destroyed the black family, which I speculate accounted in part for low crime.

Drugs did not exist. These appeared only with the Sixties (and the commie druggie big users of the 60's now run the Democrat Party). A few of us had heard of marijuana, but mostly we drank some beer.

In the entire school I remember only a couple, moderately fat kids - and they played football. Why so few? Because, I  will guess, we were very physically active. The school had PE classes, football, baseball, wrestling, track, basketball teams, and so on.

In summer, kids spent their days playing outside, playing sports, tag, hide and seek, playgrounds,  swimming in a pool or in a lake or pond, bicycling, canoeing, playing tennis, etc. The country kids chopped cord wood, lifted hay. There was ice skating for hours in winter.

Physical fitness has psychological consequences. For example, ADHD did not exist. Boys are competitive, physical animals full of wild energy and need - I SAID NEED – to work it off.

Boredom and enforced inactivity are awful for them.  Two or three hours daily of fast-break pick-up basketball did this. If you force boys to sit rigidly in school, with no recess or only physically limited play, they will be miserable. If you then force them to take Ritalin, an approximate amphetamine, they will be miserable with modified brain chemistry. I don’t think this is a good idea.

Sex and, I think, its psychological consequences were different then. We were aware of sex in high school. I am not sure we were aware of anything else. But the culture was such that, first, young girls, middle school, say, were sexually (very) off limits. When barely pubescent girls are taken advantage of by boys of seventeen or of thirty-five, the emotional effects are devastating. By contrast, boys hoped desperately to be taken advantage of.

The de facto social theory was that girls should remain virgins until married. I  think few really believed this, and certainly many girls did not. However the necessity of pretending, plus the fear of pregnancy in those pre-pill days, allowed girls to say “no.” if they chose.

The Pill, backed up by the Democratic abortion mill called Planned Parenthood, made girl's bodies into commodities. If Sally said no, Mary wouldn’t say no, and boys, churning hormone wads, would go with Mary. Thus girls lost control of the sexual economy and the respect that went with it. More stress.

Anorexia and bulimia did not exist. We didn’t know the words. Both look to me like a reaction to stress.

Uncertainty is a formidable source of stress. We had little uncertainty as to our futures in the sense that the young do today. We assumed, correctly, that jobs would be available for us. For kids who were not going on in school, there were jobs, as secretaries or guards or maintenance personnel, federal jobs with benefits.

Detroit was paying what seemed to us astronomical wages. Those of us in the college track knew we could work in whatever field we had chosen. Starbucks and living in our parents’ basements never crossed our minds.

Social mobility existed, and girls had not yet been taught they were victims. Of my graduating class of sixty, two girls became physicists and one an electronics engineer, and another a nuclear biologist. I'm sure there were other examples.

Extremely important was that the schools was a-political. We didn’t know that they were - they just were. But the communist-liberals turned them into brainwashing camps for the Communist Manifesto and the New World Order.

School was where you learned algebra and geography, or at least learned at them. The teachers, both men and women, assumed this. The white kids were not endlessly told that they were reprehensible and the cause of the world’s problems.  The boys were not told that masculinity was toxic. Hysteria over imaginary rape was well in the future.

Little boys were not dragged from school by the police for drawing a soldier with a rifle. The idea of having police in a school would seem insane when it first appeared.

More speculatively: My wife recently commented that the young today seem about ten years younger than their age. There may be something go this. At least in the media and academic worlds, people in their mid-thirties  remind me of the young of the Sixties, displaying what appear to be the same hormonal rebellion and sanctimony. College students act like we did in Junior High. High school is a cross between kindergarten and Woodstock. There is the same anger, the same search for grievance,  the same adolescent posturing.

I believe feminism plays a large part in the collapse of society in general and specifically in pushing boys over the edge. In my school years boys were allowed to be boys. Neither sex was denigrated. Doing so would have occurred to nobody. Then came a severe prejudice against boys.

All of this affected society in its entirety, but especially white boys. They are constantly told that being white is shameful, that any masculine interest is pathological, that they are rapists in waiting. They are subjected to torturous boredom and inactivity, and drugged when they respond poorly. They go to schools that do not like them and that stack the deck against them.

Many are fatherless. All have access to psychoactive drugs. Add it up.

Fred Reed and Faldo

LittleRedElf Wins for the 2nd Time in 2018

Even Liv Boree kneels to LittleRedElf's poker greatness.

LittleRedElf beats a small field as the weather has changes and some people were doing other things. That's good for the Elf, not so good for the rest of NPP.

2nd - Absea98
3rd - Tomservo2
Bubble - T3chlady

Congratulations to LittleRedElf on his 42nd NPP win!

Now - Puns for educated minds.....which means Faldo won’t understand them.

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.. The police are looking into it.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other:  'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray. That is what you call a seasoned veteran.

17. A backward poet writes inverse.

18. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

19. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons.  The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'

20. Two fish swim into a concrete wall.  One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'

21. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

22. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.