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[Travellin Dave]

Ten years ago: After a trip to the International Space Station, shuttle Discovery ended its career as the most flown U.S. spaceship, returning from orbit for the last time. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in his state and commuting the sentences of all remaining death row inmates.


Five years ago: Six days before the Florida primary, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate in Miami over who was the true friend of American Hispanics, and had even worse things to say about Republican front-runner Donald Trump. During a Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, John Franklin McGraw struck protester Rakeem Jones as Jones was being removed by sheriff’s deputies (McGraw, who later apologized for his actions, received a 30-day suspended sentence).


One year ago: Global stock markets and oil prices plunged, reflecting mounting alarm over the impact of the coronavirus. An alarmingly sharp slide at the opening bell on Wall Street triggered the first automatic halt in trading in more than two decades; the Dow industrials finished nearly 8% lower. A cruise ship with at least 21 infected people aboard was allowed to dock in Oakland, California after days idling at sea while dozens of those aboard were tested. Italy’s premier put the entire country on lockdown to combat the coronavirus, urging all 60 million Italians to stay home. The Capitol’s attending physician said “several” members of Congress had contact with a person who had attended a recent political conference and had later developed COVID-19. More than two dozen people, including the trainer of champion horse Maximum Security, were charged in what authorities described as a widespread scheme to drug racehorses to make them run faster.

[Travellin Dave]

Today’s Birthdays:

Former Sen. James L. Buckley, Conservative-N.Y., is 98.
Lloyd Price is 88.
Actor Joyce Van Patten is 87. Country singer Mickey Gilley is 85.
Actor Trish Van Devere is 80.
Singer-musician John Cale (The Velvet Underground) is 79.
Singer Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders) is 79.
Former ABC anchorman Charles Gibson is 78.
Rock musician Robin Trower is 76.
Singer Jeffrey Osborne is 73.
Country musician Jimmie Fadden (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 73.
Actor Jaime Lyn Bauer is 72.
Magazine editor Michael Kinsley is 70.
TV newscaster Faith Daniels is 64.
Actor Linda Fiorentino is 63.
Actor Tom Amandes is 62. Actor-director Lonny Price is 62.
Country musician Rusty Hendrix (Confederate Railroad) is 61.
Actor Juliette Binoche is 57.
Rock musician Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five) is 53.
Rock musician Shannon Leto (30 Seconds to Mars) is 51.
Rapper C-Murder (AKA C-Miller) is 50.
Actor Emmanuel Lewis is 50.
Actor Jean Louisa Kelly is 49.
Actor Kerr Smith is 49.
Actor Oscar Isaac is 42.
Comedian Jordan Klepper (TV: “The Daily Show”) is 42.
Rapper Chingy is 41.
Actor Matthew Gray Gubler is 41.
Rock musician Chad Gilbert (New Found Glory) is 40.
NHL defenseman Brent Burns is 36.
Actor Brittany Snow is 35.
Rapper Bow Wow is 34.
Rapper YG is 31.
Actor Luis Armand Garcia is 29.
Actor Cierra Ramirez is 26.

[Travellin Dave]

The sweet smell of page 2.

[Travellin Dave]

The sweet smell of page 2.

Never mind....the dog just farted.

[razgueado]

Morning, muchachos.

[razgueado]

The sweet smell of page 2.

Never mind....the dog just farted.

Yeah...that's it....the dawwwg farted.

[Travellin Dave]

Here in a new banter segment, we have the entertaining cigar description:

"It tastes like rye bread on top of some weird creaminess and tertiary flavors of coffee bitters and horseradish. The finish has both rye bread and nuttiness, though it’s now joined by herbs, pre-ground black pepper and touches of saltiness. The retrohales show off even more of the saltiness joining a different bread flavor—more like a sourdough—along with strawberries and a tiny bit of harshness. The finish of the retorhale is similar, though there’s a bit more meatiness and virtually none of the strawberry flavor."

[Travellin Dave]

Here in a new banter segment, we have the entertaining cigar description:

"It tastes like rye bread on top of some weird creaminess and tertiary flavors of coffee bitters and horseradish. The finish has both rye bread and nuttiness, though it’s now joined by herbs, pre-ground black pepper and touches of saltiness. The retrohales show off even more of the saltiness joining a different bread flavor—more like a sourdough—along with strawberries and a tiny bit of harshness. The finish of the retorhale is similar, though there’s a bit more meatiness and virtually none of the strawberry flavor."

And later in the same review...

"...continues to be led by the rye bread flavor, though predictably it’s now joined by toastiness and saltiness that seem to come over from the retrohale. There’s also a bit of a Thousand Island dressing flavor, though it’s a very distant secondary offering. The finish has more toastiness, a bitter creaminess, white pepper and black pepper. While it’s not particularly spicy, the pepper flavors do seem to stick around more than the other flavors on the finish. The largest change for me is that the flavor is now definitively in the full category with tons of richness. While the smoke production sometimes requires me to increase puff rates to prevent the cigar from going out, I’m able to correct the issue without the use of the lighter, at least until right around the point where I go to remove the band. By that point—the final third—the profile no longer has any bread flavors. Instead there’s a nutty mixture—sometimes leaning towards macadamia nuts—over grapefruit sourness and white pepper. The finish is a bit more vibrant with nuttiness, citrus rinds, a sweet creaminess and a black pepper that lingers on the front of my tongue for a minute or so. Retrohaling provides even more citrus notes joined by nuttiness, popcorn and a bit of meatiness. Interestingly, pushing the smoke out through my nose also leads to an even stronger black pepper on my tongue that once again continues for minutes."

[Travellin Dave]

Morning Mr. Raz.

[Travellin Dave]

And here's my new bit of trivia for today...courtesy of cigars....

ASYLUM ADDING MARTES 13
MARCH 8, 2021

While Americans know of Friday the 13th, in the Spanish-speaking world the unlucky day is actually a Tuesday. Asylum Cigars is paying tribute to the unlucky day with its new Asylum Martes 13 releases.

[Travellin Dave]

First they sold the casino in Bethlehem (PA), now Sands is exiting the Strip...

https://apnews.com/article/venetian-casino-sold-las-vegas-645b6166fb6fa2b2fe7ce8925773345f

[Travellin Dave]

Didn't know that Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) felt the need to form a new subsidiary, Forged Cigar Company.  LGC is one of the lines in that new company profile. 
New cigar line being launched, don't know how true to EPC's fine offerings these will be.
https://cigar-coop.com/2021/03/cigar-news-la-gloria-cubana-spirit-of-the-lady-announced.html

[Travellin Dave]

Just trying to offer up some varied reading material to our lurkers out there.

[Travellin Dave]

Another Megan and Harry lull?
How many times are you going to watch that Tony?

[LuvTooGolf]

Here in a new banter segment, we have the entertaining cigar description:

"It tastes like rye bread on top of some weird creaminess and tertiary flavors of coffee bitters and horseradish. The finish has both rye bread and nuttiness, though it’s now joined by herbs, pre-ground black pepper and touches of saltiness. The retrohales show off even more of the saltiness joining a different bread flavor—more like a sourdough—along with strawberries and a tiny bit of harshness. The finish of the retorhale is similar, though there’s a bit more meatiness and virtually none of the strawberry flavor."

And later in the same review...

"...continues to be led by the rye bread flavor, though predictably it’s now joined by toastiness and saltiness that seem to come over from the retrohale. There’s also a bit of a Thousand Island dressing flavor, though it’s a very distant secondary offering. The finish has more toastiness, a bitter creaminess, white pepper and black pepper. While it’s not particularly spicy, the pepper flavors do seem to stick around more than the other flavors on the finish. The largest change for me is that the flavor is now definitively in the full category with tons of richness. While the smoke production sometimes requires me to increase puff rates to prevent the cigar from going out, I’m able to correct the issue without the use of the lighter, at least until right around the point where I go to remove the band. By that point—the final third—the profile no longer has any bread flavors. Instead there’s a nutty mixture—sometimes leaning towards macadamia nuts—over grapefruit sourness and white pepper. The finish is a bit more vibrant with nuttiness, citrus rinds, a sweet creaminess and a black pepper that lingers on the front of my tongue for a minute or so. Retrohaling provides even more citrus notes joined by nuttiness, popcorn and a bit of meatiness. Interestingly, pushing the smoke out through my nose also leads to an even stronger black pepper on my tongue that once again continues for minutes."

Get the fuck out of here with that description.