Ever so often I’m reminded there is supposed to be a philosophical framework for the libertarian worldview. A set of principles if you will, that from time to time ought to be refreshed. This occurred to me earlier this week, and I’ll share it with everyone here. Maybe you’ll like it, maybe not but its might inspire some commentary and lets face it you’re probably going straight to the comments…
This is my review of Ommegang Three Philosophers Wine Barrel Quadruppel Ale.
This was prompted by this article here, by a guy in a bowtie and Bauhaus eyeglasses. I only point these things out because in spite of my Chromexel shoes and well-fitted office attire—I can’t pull that off. This whole thing is pretty good but the part I focused on was here:
The big picture is that before the age of liberalism, humanity slogged around for some 150,000 years without hope, improvement in living standards, or better or longer lives. Then freedom came. Hope was born. In your own life, you could manage to create improvement. You could live better. You could cause the world around you to adapt to new conditions. You could improve the lives of others. To be volitional meant something for the first time. You could travel. You could earn money and buy things. You could invest, and hope for a better life for your children. To have hope in this world, and not just the next, was the great gift of liberalism to the world.
We cannot and should not give this up. Anger, bitterness, resentment, and hate are just not good substitutes. On the contrary, they are corrosive of the heart and soul. I’ve had many discussions with people who are shaking off a statist phase. The number one thing they have told me: “I was consumed and blinded by anger. It caused me to lose sight of the beauty of liberty.” This leads me to believe that avoiding this cast of mind could provide some immunization against illiberal thought.
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Hi Hillary. Remember when I said I’d see you in court? I LIED
Formal alliances between libertarians and others have been the source of great mischief for decades. There is nothing wrong with cooperating with people from many sides of the political spectrum for the good of liberty. And there is not much point in regarding libertarians as some kind of hermetically sealed group, protected from outside influence. Formal alliances are another matter. These can tempt people to distort priorities, bury principles, and embrace insidious ideas, all in the interest of preserving the alliance.
This is a particular problem in the area of politics. You hate candidate A and don’t particularly like candidate B. But your loathing of A is so strong that you come to back, even passionately, candidate B. Once having backed B, you continue to confirm your bias by cheering everything he or she does following the election. This tendency can rot the brain and debase one’s principles to the point that you no longer remember what it is you actually believe.
There are reminders everywhere that we live in the best possible timeline. Not just in the sense the crop of governments figures finally suit our disdain for the offices they hold, and do so in the most entertaining fashion possible. It is in the very literal sense. For example, I live in a desert, made possible by a series of dams throughout the state. I am paid well working comfortably in a climate controlled office. I’ve travelled quite a bit on my own dime, which is something my grandparents didn’t do at all. One of my grandfathers was a carpenter, the other a shop teacher. One traveled to Korea and nowhere else, the other briefly went to college to play baseball but otherwise never left his hometown.
That is only one example. Compare yourself to your grandparents, chances are your life is better and this isn’t just happening here, it’s everywhere. Things are better without us noticing; people even write books pointing out this overlooked fact. If we intend to convince others to accept a freer society is one where they should not expect the rest of society to come save them every time something scares them, perhaps one way is to show them is there is very little lurking out there to be saved from.
The other point is in proving to be the viable alternative. Yes, it has been entertaining to say the least to watch certain politicians turn red and flail about like Connor McGregor when he’s being choked out. Quite frankly, like Connor they deserved what they get, however libertarians allying themselves to the left or right because somebody at the time might prove suitable for getting back at another will come with strings attached. Strings that will in theory violate libertarian principles. It’s a destructive path we’ve discussed here before. While it is true evil will relent only when faced with evil in kind, it is still evil–regardless of who at the time wields it, or the necessity of doing so. Jefferson is often credited with saying, “In matters of style, swim with the fish. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Without principles, what are you supposed to be anyways?
This beer is interesting. Instead of aging the beer in whiskey barrels which has a complimentary effect many are comfortable with, they instead age in repurposed wine barrels. Belgian ales are highly complex and arguably wine-like as well so this does work. In this case its a quadruppel, which is full bodied, complex, and fruity. Now its even fruitier. If you are not a fan of wine, you might go for this one, and vice versa. I plan to buy it again soon. Ommegang Three Philosophers Wine Barrel Quadruppel Ale: 4.0/5.
Dogfish Head did the Red and White beer a while back which included Pinot Noir grape juice as part of the fermentation, and a portion was aged in Oak and blended back. Another to straddle the line between wine and beer.
I wish the Bavarian government of 1516 could resurrect itself and get their hands on whoever concocted that abomination.
Grape juice in “beer”. Jaysus wept.
Nope. Fuck the Reinheitsgebot. I enjoy being able to have beer made year round, without price fixing, and without a government monopoly on wheat beers.
I like my coffee stouts, peanut butter cup porters, fruited goses, spiced wits, Belgian strongs, and other strange experimental beers.
All I care about is the ingredients. Brewers can voluntarily follow the Reinheitsgebot. Peanut butter is for jelly sandwiches, not beer, in my taste.
The popularity of Willoughby’s Peanut Butter Cup Porter and Nut Smasher as well as the Sweet Baby Jesus from Deschutes argues that Peanut Butter (more likely PB2) works in beer quite well.
Bernie Sanders is popular.
But unlike Bernie, I don’t want to limit people’s access to beers. As much as I hate season creep, I just bitch about it.
Speaking of season creep, if I had lasted into 2016, I was going to release Febtoberfest, as part of my middle finger series.
Obligatory IPA
Febtoberfest
Inverted Six
And another aimed at just one person, but it would have set off other font geeks in its wake:
Helvetica – but the label was going to be in Comic Sans
I think it was last year that Sierra Nevada had a “Spring Seasonal” (a Brut IPA) out in January.
robc:
One of the local breweries has done One Trick Pony:
This year they’re doing Two Trick Pony, which has double the hops, and double the pony.
To clarify, I don’t want to limit anybody’s access to whatever pleases them to call “beer”. Nor would I prevent people enjoying Bach’s Goldberg Variations played on a vuvuzela.
The Goldberg Variations aren’t enjoyable regardless of the instrument they’re played on.
Sweet Baby Jesus is from DuClaw, not Deschutes. I used to get that at their original brew-pub.
You are correct. I claim my error, and hang my head in shame at making it.
Very early OT but it was 40 years ago today, The Miracle On Ice
According to hockey analytics, the US shouldn’t have won … but they did.
Hence the term “Miracle on Ice” and not “Foregone Conclusion on Ice.”
It’s a cold day, about to rain. Maybe I’ll put on my Eruzione jersey for grins.
I forgot how dreary the rain can be, it’s not cold at all, just wet.. Bella is trapped in the house, she hates the rain,
I cut up some of the branches that had fallen during the last ice storm, knocked the snow off of them and stood them up in the sun. Hopefully they’ll be dry enough to use as firewood tomorrow morning.
Morning wood. Don’t let it go to waste.
Nice selfie!
It really cannot be exaggerated how unlikely it was. US was 0-28 against the Soviets in international play. They had just gotten smoked by the commies a few days before. Herbie put together a team that was shockingly young (22 years avg), but learned to play a different system than the slogging, north-south game that was typical of North American hockey.
A healthy chunk of the team was from Minne, naturally!
It really was a miracle and I still get goosebumps watching the last few minutes of the game.
For those who haven’t seen Miracle (Kurt Russel version), I highly recommend it. It will absolutely fire you up.
Yup. Former Minnesodan here. My doctor at the time was the team physician. He had some happy stories.
I need to watch that one again. Good movie.
There are metrics in hockey which usually indicate which team is going to win — like shots on goal. And the Soviets were better on every one. Except the goalie for the US decided to play the game of his life. Even the shots that got by him weren’t exactly his fault.
A “never forget” moment for those of us who were young hockey players; truly a once in a lifetime happening. I was crying after they won. I couldn’t believe it. Especially after that shellacking they had taken in the game at MSG against the Soviets: 10-3, I think it was.
I remember watching the game in the common room at our fraternity house. The entire frat was probably in there together that day, raucous and rowdy, cheering almost every move. It would probably be hard for today’s kids to understand how 50-plus guys were able to crowd around a little 25-inch screen, but I remember seeing everything pretty clearly. What a different era, hard to believe it’s been 40 years.
Whats really funny is how many people think that was the gold medal game. Nope, they had to best another team, nearly as good as the Soviet team.
USA 4, Finland 2
What’s funny is how blase we were about it. It was like after they beat the Soviets they simply couldn’t possibly lose to Finland. Most people don’t remember they were also behind for much of that game, but pulled it out with 3 goals in the third, IIRC.
Even the movie Miracle, mentions the Finland game for about 5 seconds. Granted, the story it beating the Soviet team,.
I laced up in the very locker room those boys did some 16 years prior. That was when I wanted to make a run for the olympics in hockey. I knew it was a long shot but hey! So was theirs.
Then the NHL was allowed to send players to the olympics.
Still a great memory of mine up in Lake Placid though and getting to be there
Repost of sorts: https://radio.foxnews.com/podcast/fox-news-rundown Eruzione on today’s extra
The Beer looks Smashing, ABv?
“For example, I live in a desert, made possible by a series of dams throughout the state.”
It sounds like the State took your water away…
Looks to be 9.3%.
Still under the Hopslam (10%) and the El Jusoso (9.5%) I have sitting in the fridge for tonight.
I’m taking the Kids to dinner tonight in Laughlin, not driving, so I can sample some local stuff while out and about,
It wasn’t a desert before the dams?
of course, Dams and A/C is why Phoenix exists, the entire Southwest really,
Around 10%
Self-ownership is overrated.
That’s what a lot of people seem to think.
I think this is where someone says, Fuck Off Slaver!
Yes?
Self-ownership means responsibility and responsibility is difficult/stressful/etc.
One of the things I looked forward to when I got a job up here was going to the Ommegang brewery. My favorite.
Seems like a weak reason to subject yourself to New York.
It was just one of the reasons.
Speaking of “subject,” have you seen this?
https://www.secondamendmentdaily.com/2020/01/new-york-bill-requires-mental-health-checks-before-any-firearms-purchase/
Better write u, includes links to both the house and senat bills:
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/01/new-gun-control-law-would-require-gun-owners-in-ny-to-get-mental-health-evaluations/#axzz6Ehmb0ILx
So, where do you think the lawsuit ios going to die?
Well, they could try the MA trick where they don’t process any purchase requests because the correct forms haven’t been decided on by the state police, then dismiss the first few people who sue for lack of standing because technically they haven’t been denied. Eventually, that part would get appealed, but maybe by the time the law finally got tossed out, most independent gun stores would be out of business. Then while all this was happening, they could come up with a new licensing procedure for gun sellers, and “encourage” them to “voluntarily ” limit what kinds of guns and ammo are sold (a la Dick’s and Wal-Mart).
I should buy a house outside of the state and move my official residence.
It’s not going to die.
The lawsuits always do. What makes you think the inevitable one against this law will survive?
Fantasy scenario:
I win a shooting competition.
Kid of the guy I beat doxxes me, finds Glibs, uses SF to get my 2A revoked on mental health grounds
Glibs legal team challenges, since they now have standing.
Swiss narrows gaze at courtroom, law is overturned
STEVE SMITH visits Cuomo and the Assembly.
Oops, I misstated. I meant the law isn’t going to die.
RE the strings attached. link. They just did a big one of those around here last month I think. 18 arrests and all hauled away to federal holding areas. Canyon City I assume. It was all very hush hush which was impressive since it is small town where news travels fast.
This is funny.
Do we all read the same stuff at the same time?
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-week-in-pictures-caucausoid-caucus-edition.php
We saw your meme step outside
Jesus. Get out now, people.
Land of the Magna Carta and free Englishmen.
There is a reason we shot them and ran them out.
The problem with alliances and loyalties is a paradox:
1. Humans are tribal. They will, by and large, practice loyalty to those they care about no matter how misguided.
2. Humans will make alliances that limit their ability to make other alliances as needs must. For instance, Candidate A is working to end the war on drugs, but is pro-UBI and healthcare for all, so you ally with Candidate A ONLY on the war on drugs because you care about it. Candidate B is vehementally free market on healthcare, so you ally yourself with him ONLY on that issue because Candidate B is also, sadly, hawkish and copsucking.
3A. Candidate A is going to question your loyalty and cast you out, so you are powerless to help get something done about the war on drugs. Candidate B is going to question your loyalty, so you are powerless to help keep socialism at bay. They both hammer in loyalty loyalty loyalty and you go away feeling a tidge uneasy with your wishy-washiness.
OR
3B. Both candidates will take anything you have to give and kick you out as soon as they get what they want. Not only do you not get any real promised or perceived promised associations or networking opportunities, but you are actively blacklisted, making the whole thing pointless. (But no true libertarian would ever expect reciprocity as long as the goal was met.) (Right?) Which means that you can’t make further inroads into getting done the things you care about and possibly making some bank whilst doing so.
THEN or IN ADDITION TO
4. One or both candidates turn around and do exactly the opposite of what they said they would do, having wasted your time to begin with and making you feel stupid and having lost out on those opportunities.
Loyalty comes with a price and it has big teeth always ready and eager to bite you in the ass.
Alliances are built on sand under which is a sinkhole just waiting to swallow you up.
People who demand loyalty and make alliances with implicit or stated promises are just power-hungry and will use you to further their own agenda, which may or may not line up with yours.
This is completely and totally anathema to the libertarian soul, who truly understands liberty and know that without that toehold, you’re not going to get any. It’s not that you CAN’T compromise. It’s that you won’t be allowed near anybody to compromise WITH.
People want rules and regulations not precisely for themselves but to regulate others whose behavior they don’t like. Almost NOBODY will sacrifice their discomfort to afford someone else liberty because it is your guiding principle. Thus it has always been.
In short, there are way more of them than us.
So libertarians retreat to their bunkers, shine their guns, stockpile toilet paper and whiskey, and point and mock and cry THE TREE OF LIBERTY MUST BE REFRESHED FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS! whilst spraying vinegar in the air at contrails before going back to what they were doing to make a living and enjoy life.
Either that or just colonize Mars.
It truly is a great time. My parents were born before the Wright Bros were circling Kitty Hawk. My generation (and yours) can go 1/2 way around the world in a day, in more or less comfort, enjoying food and entertainment along the way. Those things provided by capitalism are doing well, the government stuff not so hot. How anyone can look at politicians, of all stripes, and believe that somehow they can improve on life is beyond me.
Dams and A/C is why Phoenix exists, the entire Southwest really,
Global Warming will kill us all! There is no escape!
Blow the Bridges across the Colorado river, it’s the only way to be sure…….
It won’t help, they’re airborne.
We do live in the best timeline, that is for sure. I think everyone here recognizes that, but it is a surprisingly unshared reality. I’m an optimist by nature, but you don’t have to be to realize how damn good we have it here. Just by reading some history and knowing a little bit about how the rest of the world operates should be enough.
Ommegang has never truly disappointed me.
My favorite was their “Valar Morgulis,” which was basically their Abby Ale without adjuncts or flavorings. I wish they’d bring it back.
If they do, it’ll be under a different name, and will probably have no reference to GoT. I’m pretty sure that license has run its course with the release of their last one.
Last month I saw multipacks with GoT re-releases, but they may have been old.
It truly is a great time. My parents were born before the Wright Bros were circling Kitty Hawk. My generation (and yours) can go 1/2 way around the world in a day, in more or less comfort, enjoying food and entertainment along the way. Those things provided by capitalism are doing well, the government stuff not so hot. How anyone can look at politicians, of all stripes, and believe that somehow they can improve on life is beyond me.
Amen. And that stuff came to be despite, not because of, government “help”.
Ok, I am utterly defeated by this bluetooth driver issue. Just, no. Hate fills my heart. How did it work out of the box and now has no idea what to do?? There’s not even an install disk to use for recovery!!
THis blows.
What’s the issue that you’re having? Do you know the chipset? I’m assuming Windows 10?
Yeah, it’s windows 10. My spouse is on the PC now just browsing so I took a break and repaired a broken kudu skull using PaleoBond products (I swear by them!)
I just needed to work on something I knew how to do.
Feel free to drop answers in (if my attempts to help aren’t at the condescending level). I’ve been building my own machines for over 20 years now, and have dealt with more then my share of driver issues.
Clearly, I need the condescending help. i used to build my own too but have fallen way behind in recent years, and never really grokked windows inner workings that well in the first place.
Issue is that now the PC keeps trying to connect Bluetooth (built in to the machine, not a dongle or USB stick) that WAS already working before something effed it up automatically. So it tries, gives the sad sounding three beeps of fail, immediately retries, gives the three beeps, and so on. Endless loop.
All the windows help sites say to uninstall the drivers and let it automatically update them. So I try to uninstall the BT driver, but it says it can’t because it’s in use. It most definitely isn’t but the attempt at reconnecting every three seconds makes it seem like it’s in use.
So I tried to come in as administrator and kill it that way but can’t get that to work either. It has an NVIDIA card but also motherboard audio, and says to plug the HDMI into the Motherboard, not the NVIDIA. So I did, and as I said, it originally let me choose between the Monitor speakers (lame) and the Aiwa Bluetooth speakers I have (AWESOME) but now only has the monitor speakers and the endless error sounds.
Sound issues. After the last update or two from Microsoft.
Huh. My system keeps farting around with the sound volume and/or the audio enabling/disabling, which didn’t happen prior to the last two or so updates. I think I’m gonna go and uninstall the latest update and see what happens — others are having issues as well.
Is there a handy place I can shove some screen captures to you fine people who want to help? I could do a temporary Google image share or something else if you are willing.
I even have TeamViewer that allows access to PC control by trusted other TeamViewer members.
For the audio, uninstall the nVidia audio driver (you can do that through the nVidia GeForce Experience if you have that installed). Do you know the chipset of the Bluetooth on the motherboard (or the model of the motherboard)?
Are you still unable to uninstall the Bluetooth driver if you put the system into Airplane mode (accessed through the Wireless/Network control panel)? Turning that on should disable the Bluetooth device. You should also be able to manually disable the Bluetooth device by right clicking on My Computer, going to Properties, then selecting Device Manager from the left hand sidebar. In there, you should be able to find the Bluetooth device, right click on it, and disable it.
It tells me I can’t disable the device since it’s in use~!~
The exact computer I got is:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077QDM2DP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
✔ AMD RYZEN 3 1200 4-Core 3.1 GHz (3.4 GHz Turbo) | 1 TB 7200RPM Hard Drive | A320M Motherboard
✔ Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Video Card | 8GB DDR4 2400 Gaming Memory | Windows 10 Home 64-bit
✔ Wi-Fi Ready | No bloatware | 1 x Dual-link DVI, 1 x DisplayPort (version 1.4), 1 x HDMI | 9 x USB (4 X USB 2.0; 5 X USB3.0)
✔ Power by 80 Plus Certified 500 Watt Power Supply | Free Gaming Keyboard & Mouse | Monitor Not included
✔ 1 Year Warranty on Parts and Labor | Lifetime Free US Technical Support | Assemble in the USA
What happened when you put it in Airplane mode? As it’s got free support, you could also reach out to them (no idea how that company’s support is though).
Did removing the nVidia audio driver help?
I updated the NVIDIA driver–no help. I can try removing next. Is there something I can do in Safe mode to just CMD prompt line delete the offending BT files?
There is:
https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002870214-How-do-I-boot-Windows-10-in-Safe-Mode-
Re: support. I called them at 1 PM yesterday and left a message. No response. My guess is that they just use “free lifetime support” as a throw-away line.
Hayek:
Figured as much, but figured it’s usually at least trying to go through the official support channels (self interest, as I do support for a living). Did the safe mode article help you out?
No, I couldn’t get it to work with F8. It does warn it might take a few attempts due to the quickness of boot from SSD. I am readily able to get to BIOS though, but not ” Safe mode”, and when i’m in Bios and go to advanced it says it’s not on the internet.
So I went and sanded down my skull repair. it looks great. And I have just put a gallon of whole milk in the instant pot to make yogurt. I want to feel good for something.
Hayek:
You can do a reboot that will go into safe mode, there were steps on the page I linked, down below the image. But I understand stepping away, and taking a break.
Hate fills my heart.
Do you know who else?
Greg Gutfeld?
We do live in the best timeline, that is for sure. I think everyone here recognizes that, but it is a surprisingly unshared reality. I’m an optimist by nature, but you don’t have to be to realize how damn good we have it here. Just by reading some history and knowing a little bit about how the rest of the world operates should be enough.
According to the New York Times, we’re headed for the Abyss. Penury, starvation and pestilence are the best we can hope for.
Yeah, according the the NYT “God is Dead” yet every year we get closer and closer to world peace and the stars. Maybe it’s just their god that’s dead.
Do we all read the same stuff at the same time?
PEANUT GALLERY HIVE MIND!!
There’s too much to get done and I just feel like hiding in the deepest corner I can find in the house and not coming out.
Are you The Devil?
I thought that was called Saturday?
Saturday’s when I have to get all the outdoor stuff done that I couldn’t get to because the sun sets too early this time of year.
*looks out at yard*
Meh. It’s still February. I can put it off until at least next week.
That said, for some reason, my yard is already close to needing to be cut. Damn mild winter.
I feel the need to comment since the lead-in photo is so similar to my avatar.
Here’s my comment: I like beer.
+1
Beer is good! And stuff!
Oh, man…it’s been years. It are go good with pizza!
Beer!
Holy crappoly.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2210/41815/
There are a lot of flags in that description that says it’s not for me.
It’s not for the faint of heart. Not saying that you’re a pussy, or anything.
“Imperial Sout” “Oatmeal” “Aged” “In bourbon barrels” All say “This tastes terrible.”
Oatmeal doesn’t really impact flavor, it impacts mouthfeel and body. But yeah, I wouldn’t recommend this one for you.
Sure taunt me with the one Duval owned brewery that doesn’t distribute to Ohio. But I have had that one before, damn is it good.
Just cracked my first El Jugoso, while I wait to start prepping dinner.
The quoted passage perfectly explains how TDS leads to the insanity we see in the candidates the Dems are supporting….and. the TDS that rotted away any principles that those back at TOS had.
It also requires a nearly complete lack of self awareness.
Pointing out Trump or Gabbard or any other politician is not a libertarian isn’t TDS.
Now if you lose your shit everytime Trump insults somebody, then sure, an accusation for TDS is warranted.
Fantasy scenario:
I win a shooting competition.
Kid of the guy I beat doxxes me, finds Glibs, uses SF to get my 2A revoked on mental health grounds
Glibs legal team challenges, since they now have standing.
Swiss narrows gaze at courtroom, law is overturned
STEVE SMITH visits Cuomo and the Assembly.
*stands with hand over heart, hums Star Spangled Banner*
I just got a tingle up my leg.
I linked this in the last post as it was dying, but it is worth a repost. I wonder if Uncle Joe will get asked about this coming up. It really deserves a series of questions. He has claimed now on a couple of occasions that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela. This was while he was a Senator. No one can corroborate this and he has never mentioned it before.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/biden-claims-he-was-arrested-back-70s-trying-visit-nelson-mandela-no-one-remembers-it
It was Corn Pop who bailed him out.
His chances of getting the nomination at this point are slim to none. The Dem establishment now realizes that he is too far gone. They want him far gone enough so that they can control him, but this is too much for them, the risk of him saying outlandish shit has now outweighed his usefulness to them.
Now he is slurring his speech and claiming his dead son was Attorney General.
Go home Joe. Go spend some time with your grandchildren while you can.
You would think. Any normal person would. Pretty soon he won’t have a choice. He will be out in a few weeks. It’s gonna be Sanders or Bloomberg. Hillary very well might get the VP nod, but I really don’t think she is gonna come out of a brokered convention in the top spot. She already lost once to Trump when he was an unknown factor, now that he has a record even the Dems famous ballot harvesting wouldn’t push her to the top. I have a primary ballot to fill out and I’m still debating if I’m gonna vote for Bernie on it as I chose the Dem primary as I now register independent after the Johnson/Weld fiasco. I kinda want to see Bernie get eviscerated in November to cause the ultra lefty wing of the Dems to break off.
They simply dont have anyone. Not one. Worse, the ones waiting in the wings to take the top slots are even worse. The crazy, crazy things they have said is breathtaking. It’s a clusterfuck beyond belief. I think we are seeing the death of the Comm…I mean Democrat party.
I remember when the Democrats were just evil – not insane and evil – and you could actually find articles from concerned moderate Dems about how Obama had raided the party coffers and that there was nothing left “on the bench.” Between the Clintons – especially Herself – and Obama, they destroyed the entire party.
I must note that the resulting shitshow we’re seeing now can rightly be called a nice, big, steaming mug of KARMA, fuckers! The guy who is going to win the most delegates is a guy with an (I) after his name who is a card carrying socialist/communist. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of people.
Indeed, I really, really hope to see it happen. Seeing what they have “accomplished” here in California after a decade of total control is disgusting.
It’s why I fled and came to AZ. I can’t claim to be a native Californian, but I lived there for ~6 years total and it’s a beautiful state. Team Blue has plundered that place, fucked everyone outside of the major cities, helped exacerbate or cause some of the worst “natural” disasters (fires and droughts), as well as the man-made ones (homelessness and drug addiction, for two examples) with their insane policies. And yet people will still vote with their virtue-signaller rather than their brains and somehow it’s still the Evil Rethuglikkkans who are responsible. And they’re all about stomping on their enemies: farmers, gun-owners, cis-hetero white males… sanity.
I’m cackling at Team Blue right now and I don’t feel the least bit bad about it. And I hope CA goes down to the drain, too (no harm meant for our CA Glibs). With their smug Hollywood douchebags emblematic of the decay of a once great State that epitomized the American Dream.
Exactly Ozy. I’m a native Californian, born in the mid 70’s here and have had a front row seat to them utterly fucking the place up. A straight up paradise on earth that they have massively screwed up with their shitty policies. Eventually I will flee as well, but I have little kids and family nowhere else in this country really, and a business here that can’t be moved, so for now I’m here. Eventually it will be a move somewhere in the West if they haven’t managed to fuck all that up by then.
The problem is there’s a possibility he could actually win in November.
There is no doubt a possibility of that. A black swan type event could happen and then it’s Dear Leader time. That’s what gives me pause.
Onlee becuz the Rushuns jerrymeandered the electoral collidge with the senate!!11!! She WuN the popular VoTE!!1!!!!!1!!1111q1!!!!!!!
Ommegang has never disappointed me either. They have some styles that are ok, but I never had a bad beer from them.
I just cooked up a few batches of hot sauce from a kit my in-laws bought me for Christmas.
Good stuff. Kinda like the Blue Apron approach. They provide three batches of pre packaged chilies, fruit, and spices and you cook them up and bottle them.
For anyone who can cook, it’s one and done. I’ll keep the recipes and modify them myself next time with my own ingredients fo 1/10 the price.
The results are good however. The least spicy has a great flavor and the spiciest is intense, but not impossible to consume.
If anyone is interested.
https://www.urbankangaroo.com/blogs/tutorials/hot-sauce-diy-tutorial
My wife buys Tabasco by the gallon. We keep a bottle in the car for use in restaurants that do not have tabasco. She uses it for dip for potato chips, to give an example of how much she consumes. Sometimes for fun rather than order it we will take a road trip down to Avery Island to buy it.
My favorite? Home grown tabasco peppers pickled in vinegar. Sometimes I will drop one habanero in with them. Any peas or beans generously sloshed with the vinegar is incredibly delicious.
We love hot sauce.
I do as well. The stuff I made today is a bit too hot for more than a dash. I like the crystal hot sauce for every day.
The first batch I made has a lot of flavor and not a tremendous amount of heat.
The last batch had two ghost peppers and a habenero. Too hot.
The middle batch was a good fruity habenero with pineapple and mango added.
I keep Texas Pete on hand for eggs (its the best for that). I like Tabasco as well but I don’t have any at the moment. Right now I am still working on a couple colonial themed brand bottles I got in Willamsburg. One is a whiskey habanero that is good in chili.
I’m a huge hot sauce fan. If you’ve never tried this stuff, pick up a bottle, it is super flavorful and super hot. Also they make a roasted version Kutbil-it XXXtra hot that is also incredible.
https://www.amazon.com/El-Yucateco-Caribbean-Habanero-Bottle/dp/B000MSDLH4/ref=sr_1_14?crid=3BEGQ6N5FYR3N&keywords=salsa+yucateco&qid=1582401912&sprefix=Salsa+yuca%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-14
I love 3 Philosophers. Currently starting my drink on with a Great Lakes Conway’s Irish Red. Nor a ton of flavor but smooth, light, nice. Nice session beer.
On to a Newcastle which is on of my favorite pairings with wings which Im eating now. Lemon Pepper dry rub. Love the dry rub because you get the crispy skin. Happy tongue:) ?
I’ll be drinking a lot of that in a couple of weeks (most likely some from the taps at the brew house as well).
Quick reminder for Dallas/Ft. Worth peeps, meetup is scheduled for J. Gilligan’s in Arlington today at 6:00. That’s 1800 in man time.
Well, look what the cat dragged in!
You’re a fine one to talk. Good to see you, Franky. You too, Gojira.
Yes, don’t see everyone that much. Nice to see you both as well.
This us going to sound crazy but I really wanted to know what you thought of the beer.
I liked it. Like I said the finish is interesting with the fruitliness of the wine. Nor is it bitter like red wine at all.
Is there such a thing as a *bad* tripel or quad? I believe the worst I’ve ever had was still decent.
Now that I think about it, no. There are no “bad” trippel or quads.
Perhaps I can find a bad one?
Yes… yes there are. They’ll be hot with fusel alcohol flavors, or grossly underattenuated and very sweet.
On topic, had this last night & it was fantastic:
It really does taste just like a peanut butter cup.
I am not sure if I am down with the beer tastes like candy thing. I like candy and I like beer. One of my favorite combos was a hot bubble bath with the Mrs, a plate of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies and beer. (That was prior to the her not being the Mrs)
Beer & Candy
Willoughby Brewing is famous for their Peanut Butter Cup Porter until they got a production facility it was rarely seen outside of the walls of their brewpub because they couldn’t keep up with demand.
And a coffee, no less. Better & better. I’ll try to find it.
You’d have to make it up here to Ohio. I don’t think they even distribute outside the Greater Cleveland area now with the production facility.
I just poured one of these. Seems tasty.
Vodka and orange juice. Good morning, Glibs.
I would like to think Biden has no chance. But we’re talking about a party which prizes appearance over substance by some astronomical multiplier. Over and over again, we see a paper thin veneer of “respectable public service” haphazardly slapped over the most venal, self-aggrandizing authoritarians imagineable. And it works. The Democrat base troop obediently forth to the ballot box and pull the lever.
When the high panjandrums of the DNC emerge from their smoke filled room at the convention and anoint the New Big Thing to be the candidate, the faithful will smile knowingly and say, “See? They know what’s best.” And it won’t matter if it’s Amy K or Barbara Boxer or some random Pol Pot impersonator.
Remember 2012 at the DNC where a reporter went around the crowd asking randos “Who owns you?”
They had no shortage of people answering “The Government”.
They’re sheep.
I like those GoT beers but they are kinda expensive. *sips Guinness*
Anyway, I just did tortilla pizzas on the grill. That is the only way I am ever going to do it going forward. But I had to jerry rig a heat deflector to put under the pies. I guess it is time to get a couple pizza stones.
They are expensive…Tune in next week.
Maybe.
We have one from Pampered Chef cuz wife likes their stuff but it is expensive. I think most pizza stones are just fritted glass or ceramic beads so I am not sure how there can be that much quality difference.
Check these guys out: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/3253/pizza-stones.html
At those prices they are practically disposable.
Hmmm. They have some cool stuff. I might get one of these: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/american-metalcraft-ppk17-18-double-pom-handle-pizza-knife/124PPK17.html
I have a good one but the rolling cutters get too much cheese with such a short blade and start pulling toppings off.
Get it, you won’t be disappointed I switch from the old roller/cutter maybe two years back and will never go back, plus it looks cool hanging on the side of the cabinet.
I use one of my 15 inch butcher knives. Perks of being a butchers grandson.
They are literally disposable, too. My brother went through quite a few of them, always careful to let them cool slowly, but they tended to crack after a couple of bakes anyway. I don’t know if there’s a trick to it. I’d stick with cast iron.
Funny you should mention that. I just realized I could have used my cast iron griddle pan. But I was trying to do two at a time. And suddenly I realize that I have this griddle as well.
Webstaurant is the schnizzle. I shop there often.
We got a California Pizza Stone. Hard as your heart, heavy as your conscience, a tremendous heat sink. Much better than our old one, and priced accordingly.
Did it also come with a moralizing lecture about how you’re raping the earth by taking her stone to feed yourself instead of starving?
Not that I recall. I believe it’s made by compressing the bones of deceased hippies under high heat and pressure. “California” because that’s the best place for feedstock.
THIS sub-thread is why I’m here.
deceased hippies
well eventually I suppose this becomes true, but the manufacturing process doesn’t begin that way.
Nice article. It and the comments remind me of Goldberg’s book, Suicide of the West. Human nature is tribal and hierarchical, and things like markets and free speech/religion work to the extent that people can suppress their tribal instincts.
Side note: if trade unions are good, why are nations bad? They both involve excluding people.
Today’s beers are Abita Turbodog, a fine brown ale I haven’t had in years, and Toasted Lager.
counterpoint: NJR fanatasizes about a borderless world run by socialists -https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/02/looking-back-at-the-socialist-future
I’ll believe in the imagine-no-countries nonsense the day everyone speaks the same language, follows the same religion, and has the same skin color.
You know, like the future people from South Park.
coming soon: a humor warm-up as I get ready for next week’s post.
Today’s beers are Abita Turbodog, a fine brown ale I haven’t had in years,
Me neither. I had it all the time when I was stationed in SC, it is good.
Remember the Boris Yeltsin in the grocery store story? America is vastly richer today than it was then. I am pretty sure the explosion of tasty craft beers is one result of that. The wealth produced by liberty in general and a relatively free market are wonderful.
So why does the rest of the world deride us for it while falling further and further behind? It is really dumb. Yesterday I posited that people’s tendency to control others comes from a general anxiety that they can only define in nebulous terms when they see someone doing something different than they would do it. I gave the example of the two guys fighting online over what constitutes proper gumbo. It was pretty vicious. Really guys? You are going to fight over how to cook soup? Jeebus. I will take ten thousand craft beers over laws governing ‘correct’ recipes (such as France has).
Liberty for the win. Every time.
By the way…scientific fact: The only proper beans for chili are black beans.
Bean? In Chili?
It’s been debunked over and over again.
Every NYer I’ve met puts kidney beans in their chili.
That doesn’t make it right.
Nah, pintos.
I had that before. The Caribbean one I made today has a similar flavor. You are correct
Wow. That post of mine was totally mis threaded and I haven’t had a drink yet.
I do black with light and dark red.
Also, deep dish and Hawaiian are an affront to humanity.
If you simply must, yes, black beans are the way to go.
If Abuela Dean’s New Mex Red chili recipe ever surfaces, you will all be given The Gift of the One True Chili.
Hint: no beans, olives or . . . tomatoes.
Beans in chili just means you couldn’t get your hands on enough meat. It’s a way to stretch it on the cheap.
*Hides boudin from Nephilium*
Dude, it’s a struggle to find decent andouille up here, let alone boudin. I can exercise my Cleveland privilege when it comes to kielbasa, packzi, pierogies, strudel, baklava, and butter horns.
Well, yeah.
Yep. 3 pounds of meat and a can each of black, pinto, and light red kidney beans is my usual combo.
Not pineapple?
Great Northern or GTFO.
You sick fuck.
Black beans if you’re making duck chili. Pintos otherwise.
Ditto.
Suthen, your posts always seem to express my own sentiments. Thanks.
Which is why I don’t post anything of substance here. I got nothing to add. So in the meantime I’ll post links to punk rock/indie bands. The Internet https://youtu.be/Ey1VreyFj5Q
I thought libertarians were supposed to agree on nothing?
Thanks E. It’s nice to know sometimes we are not alone.
I gave the example of the two guys fighting online over what constitutes proper gumbo.
That is silly. Now how one makes Carbonara that shit is serious!!
When we were in Rome last September, the spousal unit and I got a minor tongue-lashing about the recipe for Spaghetti Carbonara. ”It never contains cream or milk! The only dairy in it should be Pecorino Romano!” I already knew that, but I was a bit surprised by the passion with which the opinion was expressed. Mind you, the Carbonara I had at the little street resto near the Vatican was awesome enough to make me go Catholic.
“Praise Jesus!”
No, no, NO.
It’s “Holy Mary, Mother of God . . . “
So you fondled some altar boys?
If they’ll make me another Carbonara like that, I’ll fondle the Pope.
Eeeew. Commie cooties.
I always carry hand sanitizer. ;-)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No, the OTHER pope.
If you are beating eggs you add cream. Italy gave us many cooking techniques. France perfected them. Mostly by adding cream.
Purchased a copy of Larousse Gastronomique yesterday at an estate sale. Today, picked-up two quarts of my favorite cream, four lbs of butter, and three dozen eggs.
She’s got eggs, she knows how to use ’em….
. . . picked-up two quarts of my favorite cream, four lbs of butter, and three dozen eggs.
I’m not even sure that’ll get you through the first dozen pages of Larousse. ?
??
Carbonara Romano is made with egg yolks — no cream required. It’s a great technique.
Suthenboy gets it.
Fuckin’ a.
Nice avatar. Just watched the end of Miracle. Makes me choke up every time.
I’m dry today, but these Saturday afternoon posts remind me of how unadventurous I’ve become in beer selection.
Arent you in the UK? Last I was there, they had beer in every corner…
They used to have warm beer on ever corner, but that’s not Shariah compliant, so they were bullied into hiding it.
It may surprise you to know that many an off-license and convenience store is manned by a muslim. I suppose the koran doesn’t say much about selling alcohol, but then that’s assuming that all muslims adhere to the same level of observance, which, like the various brands of Christianity, they don’t. When the muslim kids go out on the town they get pretty rowdy, all pent up. No beer and no women make young men go something something. In accordance with the rules they shouldn’t drink, but as individuals they are liable to make their own choices, so many do. What a surprise; it turns out that people will be people.
tag fail
I’m not talking about the business owners, I’m talking about the tendency of the authorities to kowtow to the whims of people screeching racist and -phobia at them
I know I know, but I thought I’d paint a beautiful picture anyway.
I thought it was like how their bankers can’t charge interest. But bank loan processing fees for the same amount are totes cool.
There are two pubs within 2 mins walk of here. I’m staying at home with the injun* food I done cooked.
*”Dots, not feathers.”
Gender bigot. How do you know it’s not pull start Indian food?
Tampa isn’t getting creamed today. What happened?
Tampon Bay hockey, or what?
STEVE SMITH
Served lumpy.
They still lost because, Tampa.
Glad you mentioned it because I was asleep. Glorious nap.
Hound update:
It’s looking like the pericardial effusion (fluid around the heart) was idiopathic (“we don’t know why that happened”) – no obvious signs of cancer via ultrasound or x-rays, which is the usual suspect. Fluid has not returned after being drained.
We’ll be picking her up tonight and probably follow-up with the cardio docs in a month.
Here she is, eager to leave
Thanks for all of your well wishes.
For those who asked re: pet insurance – yes, it exists but is usually so laden with exceptions that conventional wisdom is to just save the equivalent payments yourself. She likely would have been dropped after her first knee surgery anyway.
I’m fortunate that I have a good job and prudent enough to regularly put aside a chunk of what I make – this is what emergency funds are for.
Insurance is only for things you can’t pay for another way. In the long run, the insurance companies always win. There is a reason their balance sheets are, well, thicc.
I’m alost irritated pet insurance is a thing. SLD: if you can sell it, sell it.
My new company offers it as a benefit, I read through the terms and was all, “WHY”?
There are two aspects of pet insurance that aren’t for me. First, we have a soft cap of $1000 per incident before the pet goes night night. Second because our E-fund covers the pet.
They are not in business to lose money. Insurance is what the government mandates.
Hope all is well with her soon.
Yes, good point. My wife inherited some money and wanted to…spend it. I said hell no. “Why? What good is it if we cant spend it? ”
I said “You are forgetting about that call.”
“What call?”
Me – “The one that comes in the middle of the night saying ‘I’ve been arrested’, or ‘The baby needs surgery’ or ‘I got in a wreck’. Trust me, that call is coming.”
Two weeks later: *ring ring* “The baby needs surgery”
I haven’t heard a word about spending money since.
We put the rest in an annuity and a high interest bearing account (I forget what it is called). Again, she asked why. I said “Because when I am gone you are going to need it and it will be there. What are we gonna do with it? Buy more junk to pile on top of the dust covered junk we already have. Save it and let it grow.”
Our monthly statements show it growing nicely.
Most people see money as a consumable. Nearly everyone I know is like that. They gobble it up as soon as they get it and then sweat trying to find more. For people like that there is not enough money in the world and they cant sleep at night for worry. Money is not a consumable. It is a resource. You manage and conserve it and you can sleep at night in peace.
“more junk to pile on top of the dust covered junk”
At a certain point it becomes a problem. I’m trying to initiate a distribution but even the recipients to be aren’t receptive. Giving someone something they wouldn’t use makes no sense either. If they are going to pawn or sell it why give them the item, easier to give cash. My kids are not hunters/fishermen so they have no need for some of the things I no longer use. Grandkids likewise.
I am thinking about a garage sale. Yes, money takes up less space.
Another thought: I am thinking about leaving my son’s inheritance in a ten year annuity that he has to wait ten years for. By that age he will have grokked what I am talking about. Either that or longer term for the grandchildren.
Thoughts anyone?
I am disappointed. I was waiting for someone to reply – Shorter Suthenboy – “I’m cheap”
I thought his inheritance was payable in trees.
Well there is that. It is as good as an annuity. There wont be any to harvest in at least ten years after I a m gone…I think. And it is a shared inheritance with his cousins.
Willamette has developed a strain of super-pine – fast growing and disease resistant. I planted four – 40ac plots with them. I didnt go back there for 5 or 6 years and when I did (several months ago) I was stunned. I thought I had gone to the wrong place. Jeebus they were kidding when they called them ‘super’. If you stand still on a quiet day you can hear the bark cracking they are growing so fast. Some of them are already 25 feet tall and over 12″ in diameter. That will be his shared inheritance. I meant the stuff he gets strictly from me which will mostly be money.
Willamette Industries? RIP, bought by Weyerhaeuser.
Reminds me. I need to start clearing some brush to pick up some seedlings in March.
We put all the left over assets into a trust, to be metered out (2 kids) at 3 % a year per kid. With any luck (6% growth) it’ll be self perpetuating. When the first dies the second inherits that share. When both are gone the residual is divided equally between 3 grand kids and given in a lump sum.
Until such time as both the Mrs and I are gone the living spouse has complete control, after the trust administrator does the work. It cost a few bucks to establish but it was a relief when it was done. We were mid-late 70s, time was of an essence.
after that the
In Louisiana we have what is called a Living Trust where the trust administrator is YOU, not a third, outside party. You simply designate who you want to be the administrator after you die. I am leaning heavily in that direction.
That’s where we’re at. There is no difference from normal daily operations until both are gone or incapacitated.. Then the administrator gets involved.
That’s what we’ve got.
I’m not sure it needs to be an annuity, but having the inheritance held in trust for a few years is fairly common, especially if you have some concerns about his maturity.
I can highly recommend https://www.bogleheads.org/ for those sorts of questions – there’s an incredible depth of knowledge by the posters there and I’m sure you’d find their philosophy simpatico.
Add me as another supporter of Bogleheads.
My biggest takeaway from their philosophy: costs are guaranteed, returns are not.
Glad to hear. Best wishes for no recurrence!
She’s a cutie. Looks happy and ready to be back with her people.
Great news! Good doggie! Looks like the one and only dog my family had (besides a plethora of cats) when I was a kid.
Give her a big hug for me. Taking the pup home from the vet with a clean bill, or at least a treatment plan, is always relieving for me. Damn sweethearts can’t talk and tell me what’s wrong.
Worth every damn dime.
Happy for you all!
Going through trump audio, and to not waste so much time on my day off I’m going through it at 1.71 speed. Chipmunk Trump. heh.
I am so out of shape… I just helped move a 255 lb. work bench up a fight of exterior stair (easy but I pulled my back right below the shoulder) and a flight of interior stairs that begin almost exactly the narrowest dimension of the bench from the wall so the two of us had to deadlift, from awkward positions, the damn thing onto the dolly on the 2nd stair up. Then my fat ass had to climb over the railing onto the stairs to drag it up. I feel about like i felt after I rolled my car 3 times at 85 mph when I was 20.
/points to GlibFit
/tries to run away, blows out bad knee and falls down on the ground
/runs past Neph pointing and laughing
/gets severe cramp in left calf muscle and sits on sofa for two weeks sulking till it heals
*Scooters past on a motorized cart stolen from Wal-Mart*
/Slowly walks past Jarflax as he’s struggling with his chore.
“Hey, good looking work bench, when you get everything set up I’ll bring over a few things that need fixing. Good to see you, Ol’ Bud”/
Sad trombone:
Clint Eastwood endorses Bloomberg
And then drugs fell out of his Depends.
[anguished Zoidberg groan]
Is Clint really hurting that bad for money?
While he approves of “certain things” the president has done, he wishes that he would act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names. I would personally like for him to not bring himself to that level,” he said.
Oh, fuck off. Even Clint fucking Eastwood is on the style over results camp? Good lord…
I’m pretty sure Dirty Harry didn’t have genteel manners.
Now I’m imagining a buddy cop movie with Trump and Clint. Bloomberg could be the exasperated police chief.
“You’re a loose cannon, Trump! I got the mayor breathin’ down my neck! You caused over a million dollars in property damage with that stupid stunt! Clint! You get this knucklehead under control, or have you BOTH off the force so fast, your heads will spin!”
I find this whole line of argument interesting. Once we have “calm and reasoned discussion” everyone will agree with me. And the real problem with Hitler was that he was not a Junker.
Did you ever think that having style might get even more good results?
What about the fact that the arbiters of style are leftists?
You should read the whole interview. It’s kind of a throw away line.
Feminist Becomes Nun; Says It’s Way Better
OMAHA – Jennifer Mullins, 27, spent several years as a feminist activist after earning her gender studies degree from the University of Nebraska. Now, she is preparing for a new job at St James Academy, an all-boys Catholic school. But first, she had to become a nun. “It was a natural choice. I get to yell at teenage boys and hit them with rulers when they’re naughty, which is basically all I ever wanted to do anyway. Plus, the habit hides me from the male gaze. The only interactions I have with males are when I have power over them, as God intended. It’s way better than working at Starbucks and trying to score likes on social media.” Mother Mary Elizabeth, the headmistress of St James Academy, spoke highly of Mullins, who now goes by Sister Christina, she/her pronouns. “She is as stern and pious a nun as I have ever seen. The boys are terrified of her and even the laziest, most undisciplined ones scramble for a B average lest they incur her wrath”, said Mother Mary Elizabeth. “I couldn’t be happier”, said Sister Christina. “I threw my smart phone in the garbage and finally feel like I’m doing something productive with my life.”
*applause*
Scarily believable. See if you can get it picked up and spread across twitter.
Concur… sort of.
My only complaint is… I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or not because it read too authentic.
If it hadn’t been for Derpy, I’d have wondered too. It’s a bit too subtle for the Bee.
The readers here are a very astute and discerning sort, so it’s a comfortable place for me to try more under the radar stuff.
I have more practice in writing quasi-believable things. It’s a habit from my spot the not days.
The idea I have for my next post is far from subtle. But, until it is ready, I want to a few more humor warm-ups.
I don’t Twitter. Those of you who do, feel free to copy n paste. I consider the above work to be in the public domain. I would hope that such humor would raise the general level of thinking.
A few hundred words is nothing. I could write many more just like it.
Nice.
“I threw my smart phone in the garbage and finally feel like I’m doing something productive with my life.”
I did the same with my blender. I’ll muddle my own herbs and fruits by hand, thank you.
Beautiful:)
Oooh! New game:
“Bee, or not The Bee”
I like it. It’s a challenge. Maybe something like 5 Bee headlines and 1 from me. Can you spot the not?
Nice. I was sucked in until the first quote tipped me off. As Ozy says it almost reads too authentic. Almost.
“Hail Mother Mary full of grace, allow me to show men to their place.”
*feels prayer beads
I think I’m doing it wrong.
My grandfather was a millionaire married to a Rockette.
Then again, he died at 32. So there’s that.
As long as he died banging the Rockette, it’s fine.
If by banging my grandma you mean “a slow, painful death from kidney cancer,” then, yes.
So, Like Alexander, he was a quitter.
It’s all about the lived experience now.
Isn’t it a shame how that has become ‘livid experience’?
I’m more interested in epoché of my lewd experience.
Go for it!
How many daughters do you have again? Two? Three?
My brother had children before I did. I asked him how is it? His answer: “a kid is a black hole that you throw all of the money in the world into and it never fills up”
I was under the impression that your daughters were happy kids. If true…stop worrying, you are doing it right.
I have 1 (that I know about…)
But yeah, the kid’s all right.
You’re like an artichoke. Pull off one leaf, you find 3 or 4 more underneath.
And an unusable thistle for a heart?
I ripped up an old sled and turned it into shelves.
Bad Carpentry Award 2020 nominee.
You didn’t think of cleaning off the wood and staining it?
Okay simmer down there, Ron. I will. It’s not glued up. I can take it apart and rescue the wood which I intend to do when the weather is dry. In the meantime it would just be in the way if it wasn’t making itself useful.
Leave it, dude. Seriously. Mission accomplished.
Black or Purple?
Jet Black, Starlit https://youtu.be/z8pPYwNeJVU
That’s what Daughter said, i think i have Black well covered, maybe even the trench coat Tonight, it’s Badass!
and I got these for golfing, SK8 high, Forever!!!!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z15ZutL9MwdjWsKg7
We rented Parasite last night. Without providing any spoilers, I think the overall impression of the flick was “disturbing” and none of the characters could be called sympathetic. Wondering what anyone else of you who watched it might think?
I read the synposis and was left confused as to what the draw was for watching it.
It seems to be somewhat of a Rorschach. Armond White totally ripped it a new one, of course, but I’d be surprised if he didn’t. As for the “capitalism bad”, I think a lot of western progs have exposed their ignorance of Korean culture in projecting their wish fulfilment on it, when it’s in fact quite particular to an interpretation of Korean society and culture. Generally speaking I don’t particularly want to see something if I know it’s gratuitously nasty and unpleasant just to make a point, but I’m usually glad I gave something a chance.
Armond White being a contrarian and spending his review talking about how some other movie is better? You don’t say!
From what little I have heard I had the vague impression the overall theme was ‘Capitalism bad’. I had no interest in watching it.
I thought it was the opposite, really. It struck me more about class envy. I think one of the reasons why it works is that it is like a Rorschach test for class sympathies – knowing that the only way to win the game is not to play.
OK, maybe I will see it.
How about his other films? Snowpiercer? And I am awaiting Mises.org to argue this film is really about crony capitalism.
I never saw it.
Snowpiercer and Okju are also supposed to be critiques of capitalism.
Sorry Okja
Snowpiercer was dumb and boring.
I bought a Mini disc marker, 4″ diameter, 5$ Amazon asked me to review it, this is only for marking a spot on the ground, here’s what I wrote,
“I use a lot of Discs, but this one is Amazing, 500+ ft. throws, and deadly accurate, I got my first Ace over 400′ with it, I recommend MvP discs Highly, will buy again,”
Was it buy 1, get 1 free? You’re gonna wear out that first marker, what with all those throws, moving the marker, etc. Now review Bella’s dog food.
I guess I could write one at Walmart.com, that’s where her Purina Dog Chow comes from,
Race of Small Glowing Rectangles Poised to Conquer Galaxy
ALPHA CENTAURI – Planet after planet, civilization after civilization, all fall before the unstoppable might of these small glowing rectangles. It starts innocently enough. A few boxes that show interesting pictures and sounds. Before long, the boxes are in every home, being watched for hours a day. The boxes are so enticing that those who gaze upon them work to miniaturize and mass produce them, so they can look at them as often as possible. Soon, everyone, even children carries one at all times and checks it constantly. They watch so much they forget to reproduce. Eventually, only a handful of survivors are left, so they flee to another planet to be free of the plague. But someone always brings one of the things with them. So the cycle starts anew on another doomed planet. This is a distress transmission! Do not look at the rectangles! Spread the word. This is our last transmission. The rectangle watchers have found us and beating down the doors. They demand that we watch a four legged-creature do something funny! DO NOT LOOK AT THE RECTANGLES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Vt0UGwmgQ
Are Circles OK?
How about Trapezoids?
it’s all so confusing….
It’s like an eclipse- poke a hole in a piece of paper and let the light fall on a safe viewing surface.
” I see Millions of Tiny Crescents!”
??
Well, this saturday just keeps getting ‘better’ All of my discretionary spending this month had to go into fixing my car so I could keep going to work.
And I think the laundry cycle finished, so I have to deal with that.
I just paid the State of California $2,400 in back taxes for 2017 and 2018. Yay, Saturday!
I want to be productive, but the heap of ‘gottados’, ‘shouldadones’ and ‘wishihadnts’ keep distracting me, and everything I try to get my mood back to an even keel keeps making me feel like I’m wasting time and procrastingating instead of just working on ‘allthatotherstuff’
It’s the weekend, man. Worry about procrastinating tomorrow.
* I have a similar list but knocked about half of it out yesterday so today I feel justified in being worthless.
A little here, a little there, soon you got shit done and say, Beer thirty!
/Tall Cans!
I got rear ended* on the freeway yesterday.
*as in the car behind me in traffic ran into the back of my vehicle.
How bad was the damage?
The muffler and bumper will need to be replaced, but the exhaust otherwise sounds fantastic.
Yikes! Are you OK? No whiplash, I hope. If you do have neck pain and your doc recommends physical therapy, I recommend you go through with it. My old Festiva was rear-ended by an Explorer, and I skipped the recommended PT. Lived to regret it.
I’m fine. I was more worried about the cop that witnessed it, and three other cars thst had the same fate as me.
There’s a special place in hell for Rubberneckers
I dread the times I need to take my car into the shop. It’s never cheap. Of course, looking up the steps of how to work on it at home (even for simple repairs) makes me willing to pay it. I’m getting about ready to start looking for a new car in the next couple of years.
In theory I could change the brake rotors
In practice, having only streetside parking makes me not want to go through with that.
I have a Mini Cooper. In theory, I could work on it. In practice, even experienced gear heads hate working on them. There’s no extra room anywhere, and at least one thing I looked up had a step of “Remove the front tire”. At which point I noped the hell out of it.
Once you have the proper lifting equipment and a garage to do it in. It sucks less, but it’s still a whole lot of cussing and pulling on stuck things.
The garage I’ve got. However, I know my skill set, and anything more complicated then swapping bits out is beyond it.
I changed a headlight once.
The amount of parts that needed to be removed to do it made me decide never to do that again.
Well, since we are sharing Saturday Spending … $1,499.66 for front end work on a car I just spent $1,700 on to change the timing chain.
Front end work is not going to get done anytime soon, though.
I know the pain, I just had to drop over $2,000 on the Mini over the past two months (radiator line with a sensor, struts, and barrings).
Yeah, my car ate in excess of $2500 2 weeks before my laptop died. I had been prepared for the start of year reset on all the deductibles & the car insurance quarterly out. The rest was just nasty. This has not been a good month financially.
I can’t turn this into a Bee type story. It’s more of short story or screenplay. The premise is Biden crashes the Daytona 500 in the No Malarkey bus and has a Ben Hur type chariot duel with Trump’s motorcade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7fKgVQ7JiQ
I can imagine Biden yelling out the window: I’m a fuel-injected suicide machine! I roll the nickels! I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag!
The No Malarkey Bus gets trashed, but heals like Stephen King’s Christine.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/02/22/joe-biden-has-a-photo-with-cher-and-some-modified-song-lyrics-to-counter-bernies-support-from-dick-van-dyke-bloombergs-clint-eastwood-endorsement/
So Bernie has the coveted Dick Van Duke endorsement. Who will Olivia de Haviland endorse?
She Likes Ike!
Ohhhh, Rob! ?
Girl trouble again?
Dick Van Dyke is still alive? I thought he was playing checkers with Lou Reed.
Oh no. Physicists estimate that Dick Van Dyke will be the last being to observe the heat death of the universe, assuming he hasn’t done so already in another great cycle.
So he’ll see the Lions/Browns Superbowl happen?
Oh yes. Then, the Cleveland Browns will let him down one last time. Until the stars are right again.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Dick Van Dyke R’long Island wgah’nagl fhtagn
You mean R’new Rochelle
QUIET, YOU!
I was too lazy to look it up.
All those schoolboy hours in front of the TV weren’t wasted after all.
I remember people years ago joking that his name was just a different way of saying “Penis Van Lesbian”.
My 7th grade sense of humor applauds politely.
Peter O’Toole.
How did anybody say that with a straight face?
After he kills Keith Richards with his bare hands?
Oh no. Keith Richards will dissolve in a fiery mist and join his ancestors in a constellation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiHrU33CzF0
Keith Moon will be there too, so long as he doesn’t drive a car into a pool on the way there.
@Fourscore, Purina Dog Chow review,
“When i started my Belgian Malinois on Puppy chow, I had know idea how big and strong she would get, after two Shoulder dislocations, i put her on Purina Dog Chow and the results are Fan, tastic! Even though she is 15″ at the shoulder,she amasses 600 Kilos! how that for muscle! I use mt Kia van to walk her, and stand on the brakes so we don’t break the speed laws. I’m going to start a bus service using her and the van, exclusively for the homeless, Would Recommend……”
I’m on my way to Walmart! I’ve heard that a lot of old people eat dog food, with a review like that I’ll be back on top of my game. I can cancel my order for that Male Enhancing stuff.
Thanks Yusef and Bella, just what I was hoping for !
I have been outside playing with the snowblower, whittling down the glacier in my driveway (and smoothing off what the moron neighbor plowed across the end of my driveway. He’s lucky I don’t have a front end loader, or he’d be looking at ten tons of snow on his front porch).
I was until I killed a shear pin, anyway. If I time this right, I can have a snack, go to Murdoch’s -they gotta have shear pins- and end up at the bar right at opening up time.
Always keep a pack of sheer pins on hand.
and a spare Flange, you never know….
MY hardware store keeps a bin of them right at the front counter.
Got out a big gun for today
Three Notch’d Know Good Beer Russian Imperial Stout
9.4 ABV, 40 IBU. Really dark black, decent amount of bitterness and some bite, but really just a pretty basic Russian Imperial.
If it’s bitter, it ain’t an Imperial Russian, IMO
Always keep a pack of sheer pins on hand.
But then I’d have to keep working.
Works out better this way. Besides, that’s what tomorrows are for.
Finally saw the steps for the first time since November, 47 degrees, wahoo! Dripping off the roof. With any kind of luck the snow blower may get the rest of this winter off.
Speaking of lists, gunsmith tomorrow.
I have a little J-frame Smith that I kept on the bedside table in a holster. The new puppy decided that was not a holster but a chew toy (those damned things aren’t cheap). He tugged it off of the table and it landed perfectly on the corner of the rear sight on ceramic tile. *facepalm*
I ordered a new sight and it came in but the mounting screw is very small and has a very thin, shallow slot. No way in hell I can get that out without buggering it up. Smith and Wesson makes a special sight screwdriver (of course they do) so off to the gunsmith.
Gun smithing seems to be a dying art. Smiths aren’t so easy to find anymore. I found one but he is 30 minutes away.
That’s what I like about Idaho. I choose the gunsmith based on the work I need done.
I can find them easy around here.
I’ve never used this guy before, but I’m thinking about having my Ruger GP100 worked over.
http://pinnaclehighperformance.com
This is my usual go to guy: https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Gun-Store/Donleys-Gun-Shop-116936738351472/
Nice guy, super reasonable rates.
Buh?
The two gun stores near me both have one, and then there’s a completely independent gunsmith next to my diner (though he’s only open two days a week)
Proving that derp is not monopolized by the left, I give you: Libertarians Are Coming For Your Sexual Dignity.
Enjoy – apparently it is part of a series.
As somebody who doesn’t partake in porn, let me say that these SoCons are exactly why I no longer call myself a conservative. Trying to shape society through government action is more evil than any vice you may eradicate.
Bingo and ditto.
“In short, porn harms the people who create it, the people who watch it, and the people who try to date and marry porn addicts.”
Horseshit. Sanctimonious bitch.
There is never any shortage of people itching to tell everyone else how to live.
Is that a new category I should check out?
“sexual dignity”
That’s almost, but not quite, an oxymoron.
By which I mean, flaunting one’s sexuality is generally seen as undignified.
It’s hard to be dignified while sporting an o-face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzIN3EgBIHg
Post some stuff from American Greatness and American Conservative. Good derp there.
I needed some SKS work a few months ago, had my friend take it to the Twin Cities to a smith that Cabela’s use (about 3 hours) but he lives there. Gone about a month but seems to be working smoothly now. Need to re zero but waiting for the snow to disappear.
Truck said 46 today. Shouldn’t be long!
Mid 40’s today, but we’re supposed to drop back into freezing over the next week. I’ve already got my first two 30+ mile rides planned, just waiting for the weather to cooperate.
Goddamn it.
I still have to go out and get stupid stuff like food. And because I procrastinated, it’s the time of day when everyone wants my parking spot.
It makes no sense. I have a corner lot with a disproportionate amount of road frontage, yet somehow ‘right in front of UnCivil’s house’ is the preferred parking spot for all of my neighbors. The empty lot across the road is second most popular, then the single family unit on the corner opposite the lot. For some reason, no one wants to park on the corner with the actual apartment building.
Most places deliver now.
But the ATM doesn’t. And while I’m out, I might as well save all those hefty delivery fees.
Don’t forget to buy cheese. You always seem to be out.
+1 pair cheese gloves
I have a three pound wheel of cheddar in the fridge. So, for once, I’m not completely out of cheese 🙂
Coronavius cases in South Korea has doubled every day for 5 days in a row. Seems to be spreading fast in Iran too.
https://youtu.be/vWJBJq-tVsc
I’ll just leave this here: https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/02/china-denies-weaponizing-virus-no-one-has-heard-of/
Imagine that. A country where backward people have no idea what germ theory is are having trouble stopping germs. Another country where doomsday fanatics are deliberately spreading germs.
I bet if we had accurate numbers for China it would look a hell of a lot worse.
How about a little controversy?
Oh, Spare Me!–Should You Even Bother to Carry a Reload?
Funny article, but how many of you honestly carry a spare?
Gun? Joint? Beer? tires?
Spare what?
RTFA!
now’s not the time… Getting buzzed for the the death dinner…..
One 50 round box each of 38spl and 9mm in the car. Two five round stripper clips for the revolver, one extra mag for the 9mm.