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Old Dog, did you actually milk that cow by hand?

Yes indeed, but it's not a skill I've found much use for and I wasn't good at it.  I was a kid and my hands were neither large nor strong enough to do a good job.  It was a small farm, maybe a dozen or so cows, but milking machines came a few years later.  Even with the machines it's still a lot of hard work because you have a new set of equipment to clean and maintain.  Once the milk is out of the cow there is a lot to do like filtering, homogenizing, and most importantly, keeping things clean.  The barn may be a bit funky but the milk house is near immaculate; the food and health inspectors don't fool around.

Fun fact: Elsie, the Borden's cow, was a Jersey.

And although "cow" sometimes refers to both cows and bulls it is more properly defined as a female bovine but is also used to refer to female elephants, whales, seals, and what not.

In an aside to Uncle Ken, a girl cat is called a "molly," if Google is to be believed, although I've never heard of the term.

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It looks like the big vote on Kavanaugh's selection is happening tomorrow, at least in the Senate.  But what about the House of Representatives, can they sit on it a while?  I haven't followed the proceedings closely enough to tell how exactly it is going to go down.

That New York Times article about the financial shenanigans of Fred Trump was a real eye-opener.  The guy really knew how to finesse the system but not much may come of it besides making the The Donald livid.  The tax authorities in New York seem interested but who knows what they'll do.  At least Trump's reputation as a business wizard took a well deserved hit.  I think everyone knew he was a bullshit artist from way back but not to such an extent.  Uncle Ken had the right term from a previous discussion: Gobsmacked.

Any guesses as to what next week's big story will be?