Finding the Balance of Harmony
“The closest approximation to truth
is found usually
in the mean of extreme views.”
“The closest approximation to truth
is found usually
in the mean of extreme views.”
“…And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment– the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution…”
-JFK
February 4, 2024
RE: Case #O33B46A22Z-24
As a former Jockeys Guild member and journalist, I am dedicated to the integrity of our sport.
On or about February 2, 2024 at Tampa Bay Downs, (located at 11225 Race Track Rd N Tampa, FL 33626 United States), a thoroughbred horse owner informed me that he politely asked two men who were wearing the FGCC insignia on their shirts who they were.
The above mentioned owner informed me that the two men laughed at him “smugly,” then, walked away.
“…I would have liked to love you,
but I was just a kid…”
“Goodbye Norma Jeane
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name
My decision to retire began on my way to the track on a horse for John Servis.
July 11 – September 7, 2024
“…have no relation to Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master- degrees, which were constructed for the general class of Masons. …”
1984 Breeders’ Cup Classic
§ 47-9-730:
“Under South Carolina law, an equine activity sponsor or equine professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a participant in an equine activity resulting from an inherent risk of equine activity, pursuant to Article 7, Chapter 9 of Title 47, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976”
“…followed by Tinner’s Way and Concern is still last; three furlongs to go. CIGAR!!! Cigar Makes His Move; and he Sweeps to the lead with a dramatic rush!”
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind—
Continue reading “Employers Taking Taxes Out of Your Paycheck is a Crime!”
It broke my heart to leave her there!
“87,000 new IRS agents.
By the way, those agents will be trained to use armed force.
That can’t be good!!””
Why has the American worker allowed for it’s employer to steal from it on the daily basis?
“…with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use…”
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind—
Continue reading “Employers Taking Taxes Out of Your Paycheck is a Crime!”
“You don’t get paid for having the idea;
you get paid for producing the Result.”
-Chip Van Hassel
“faith…if it is not accompanied by action,
is dead.”
“Too Important!”
“…The change that has occurred within the racing industry is not something that is lasting.”
-Retired Journeyman, Christopher Van Hassel
I had always planned to train racehorses after I retired from my riding career, but I had not predicted that the racing business would change the ways in which it has. The change that has occurred within the racing industry is not something that is lasting. Why do I say that?
Continue reading “Trick Or Treason!”Tom Durkin, Dave Johnson, Larry Collmus and Mike Battaglia share their favorite memories of calling the Kentucky Derby over the years.
“Success is like being pregnant; everybody says, ‘congratulations,’ but nobody knows how many times you got fucked!”
“…because their Beehive Mind has absolutely corrupted the Craft…”
The essence of the FC Degree is the ablative of means through which Masters operate.
Continue reading “Essence of the Fellow Craft Degree”holidays are no longer “working days” and won’t be considered “counted” days.
(Copied and edited by Van Hassel Conditioners)
By July 1, 2022 all licensed racetrack personnel are being required to register with HISA.
“The time has come to nullify government interferences with personal autonomy by disregarding them, and to threaten seriously to leave and ignore the governments that hate our freedoms. If we don’t do this, make way for voluntary servitude.”
“I have been writing for years asking if we still have the U.S. Constitution. That issue has come into sharper focus in the past 18 months as mayors and governors have created dictatorial powers and exercised those powers to interfere with personal autonomy in America.
Continue reading “Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Wrote”Announcer: Good afternoon, Diogenes. In keeping with your
reputation as a non-conformist, I see that you keep your bathtub
outside of your house.
Diogenes: The bathtub is my house.
Announcer: I see. Well there must be some advantage to that.
Diogenes: Certainly. No window can give a view like this, and if
the neighborhood goes bad, I can just walk off with the house.
A hierophant (Ancient Greek: ἱεροφάντης) is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy.
As such, a hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles.
The word comes from ancient Greece, where it was constructed from the combination of ta hiera (‘the holy’) and phainein (‘to show’).
“I Don’t Think; therefore, I Ain’t.
Nancy Mills
“…And men have lost their reason…”
Friends, Romans, countrymen,
lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar,not to praise him.
[I.I.I.]
The evil that men dolives after them;
The goodis oft
interred with their bones;
Caesar’s Friend and Murderer
Deaf and Denied an Interpreter in Florida State Prison
I love Michelle. And I believe her story empowers all of us to recognize our own strengths and innate abilities even when our surrounding culture and systems do not. The systems must change in the United States and globally to support everyone.
BEING MICHELLE follows the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system that refused to accommodate her needs as a deaf person with autism.
Continue reading “Being Michelle: Deaf and Autistic, Wrongfully Imprisoned!”“…Texas is the reason…”
“Let Go of any reigns which are not currently in your hands!”
“A Trainer
Chip Van Hassel
can give
enough instructions
to paralyze the rider.”
The best way to find synchronicity is to Trust,
To Allow
and to
Let Go
of any reigns which are not currently in your hands.
Many trainers expect perfection every second, every step.
Chip Van Hassel
Elephants poop in the room whilst perfection is only witnessed briefly in moments displayed as result of training and effort towards the delayed gratification of raising to the next degree.
Perfection occurs
Chip Van Hassel
only
throughout humble circumstance.
“We don’t need guns to stand for Freedom.”
“Peace is so simple in philosophy and motive, it therefore stands as mankind’s Ultimate Goal.
What is stopping each individual man from acting-out that goal on the day he is called to go to war?
Who is empowering the jailors to jail the man who refuses to wage war?
What single man is the jailor?”
Chip Van Hassel
“The change that has occurred within the racing industry is not something that is lasting. Why do I say that? Because the change is in the function of racing in our culture, not our culture’s function in racing.”
Chip Van Hassel
November 12, 2024
DEPARTMENT: FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION (DBPR)
PROFESSION: Racetrack Employee Occupational License
“A good beating never hurt anybody.“
Jane Cibelli
If the Florida Gaming Control Commission ever denies your license for, “failure to complete an application,” … Read this!
1 When obtaining your license to work at Tampa Bay Downs, pay the Florida Gaming Control Commission (FGCC) $37.25 to be fingerprinted, then, pay the FGCC $80.00 to process that application with those fingerprints.
“The horses he beat were pretty special — not many horses last like he did at that level. He was a great horse who did a lot for our whole family.”
February 26, 2002
American steeplechase legend Lonesome Glory died Feb. 25 from injuries suffered in a paddock accident at trainer Bruce Miller’s farm.
Owned by Kay Jeffords, Lonesome Glory is the only American steeplechase horse to win five Eclipse Awards (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999), and also the only American jumper to earn more than $1 million.
Continue reading “Lonesome Glory Dies After Accident”“For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe.”
“From the ends of the earth I call to you,
PSALMS 61:2
I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”