Now lets party.
Here you go Glibbies. I hope this day found you peaceful and reflective, all while enjoying Muhrican traditions. I’ve got ribs on the smoker, corn to grill, and the second cocktail is just about gone.
I think there’s some pent up aggression in the country, after being shutdown for weeks. Not to mention there are scores still to be settled.
This guy sure likes to hear himself talk. And yes, YOU failed.
I. Am. Just. So. Done. With. Coronavirus.
I’m triggered now. Time for a little instrumental to bring things back in focus.
The concert tour from hell.
Yeah, but what a track.
Solid tune. Not my usual milieu, but I’ll fuck with some Allman Bros. Thanks!
The Allman Brothers Band is badass! I’ve seen them 5 times, starting with 1979 at the Santa Barbara County Bowl. They lost “it” when they fired Dickey Betts which was the last time I went. I would go again, if it were possible.
Here’s one from the Warren Haynes era.
That early 90’s lineup, when Warren, Allen Woody, and Johnny Neal joined the band was so good. That was probably their best era outside the first few years with Duane. Some of the live shows from that era are still some of my favorite concerts ever.
While I still went to a lot of shows with Derek Trucks and love his playing, I agree the band was never quite the same or as good without Dickey. They are still my favorite band. Luckily a lot of really good local players are big fans, so get to hear live Allman’s songs quite often.
I’ve been totally geeked out on Warren Hayne’s playing for the last 30 years. The guy can play anything, and do it really well. I’ve seen him live close to 100 times with varying bands, mostly Gov’t Mule. And to this day, I still get really excited for every live show with him and he still surprises and blows me away at almost every show.
He’s great. Saw ABB twice with him and you’re right, although in ’79 they were killer and really encompassed the seventies rock and roll attitude! It was magical. Especially at the SB bowl. Look the place up. Magic place, era and band!
I’ll check it out. I should go back and listen to more of those late 70’s and early 80’s shows. I didn’t care for a couple of the albums from that time, so I’ve overlooked the live shows.
I, for one, am very proud of my fellow Missouri nose-thumbers.
People are nose thumbing all over the country. It will be almost impossible to do a shutdown like this again.
From your lips to God’s ears, Spud.
If not, we deserve what we get.
If not, they’ll get what they deserve.
We’ll be seeing the damage from this shutdown for years.
They may deserve it, but I don’t.
I was alluding to the pols.
This shut down has bred a fair amount damage to government authority.
I wish. People here in New York still seem to suck government-sector dick.
No doubt we’ll be seeing the shutdown effects for years. The big question is, will enough people be able to link their economic losses or other ill effects to the coronavirus panic, or will they run after the Red Herrings thrown by the statists?
The woman that cut my hair last Friday figured it out.
She told me her husband was opposed to cower-in-place. At first she was for it. Then after some time of being unemployed and time spent reading about economics, she realized her husband was right. While she thinks some level of cower-in-place was required, she thinks what was done was overboard and we’ll be paying an economic price for a long time.
It will be almost impossible to do a shutdown like this again.
I hope you are right.
Hah. If the numbers were to start rising quickly, people will demand their government god do something. And the general public does a poor job of risk estimation (which goes both directions).
“It will be almost impossible to do a shutdown like this again.”
But we have to! Second most scariest wave! Bad orange man! Do you all want to die?! Mail in voting! We’re not going to cheat or anything, we just don’t want you to die!
Pretty much every report on the news tonight about a Memorial Day ceremony made a point to parrot the propaganda that the people marking the occasion were antisocial distancing “properly”.
Good Sheriff. Here’s your treat.
FTA:
Kinda makes you want to move to Camden County, doesn’t it, Mo?
But the Corona is not done with you.
Maybe it is. I was looking at the graph for sars-1 and it precisely follows the curve of la-corona (albeit with different start/end dates, but same duration of time, mostly). Sars-1 was declared contained on July 4 2003. It never resurfaced again. It’s the most closely related virus to Covid19. Sars-1 started in China from bats in a cave. The Chinese lied and delayed news, etc. etc. Far more deadly, if less widespread than CV19.
Apparently the people of Staten Island are less friendly than the governor and they really believe in fairy tales from the government. Same government that runs the schools and still they believe
I thought SI was Trump country.
When I was young I wondered how the Nazis could pull off what they did. Then I look at modern progressivism and its willingness to believe any pronouncement that comes down from one of their Top Men. It was like a month and a half ago that the CDC was still saying that people shouldn’t be wearing masks.
CDC, the same outfit that cracked down on necessary opiate prescriptions. (Thanks for the reminder, Salonpas!)
And four months ago and for the last 13 years, the CDC was saying that face covering should be used when out in public during an pandemic like this.
The CDC still publishes academic studies showing that wearing masks is useless.
That journal doesn’t represent CDC. It’s open to anyone submitting papers.
‘we all failed’ at making coronavirus projections.
Who the fuck is “we”? You have a mouse in your pocket?
Thanks for the links Spud. I am not sure if I am peaceful or reflective and or if those who we should be reflective/respectful toward on this day would appreciate what is happening to what they thought they were defending.
Holidays like this one can be a Libertarian landmine. 😉
Damn, forgot the blockquote tag……….I am experimenting with making Cuban bread and listened to this while mixing.
Is that bread that escapes to America in a rickety boat?
…I was going to make joke about Cuban “defective” bread in response to that but I just smoked and can’t suss it out.
inner tubes.
‘’Get the fuck out of here,’ one of the customers screams at the woman, who throws her hands up in protest. Other shoppers are also heard shouting at the woman to get out. After a few tense moments of arguing, the woman appears to give up and walk out of the store while customers followed her out to ensure she leaves.’
Oh my. Things would have gotten interesting if that was me after I just laughed at them and kept shopping. Then again, I doubt they would have pulled that shit on a guy who has what my friends call “Resting Murder Face”.
Seriously, I look like I want to butcher everyone in any room I enter…making friends is tough.
We must dine together.
Like I said, I make a mean manicotti.
When we move I will be happy to let you cook for us in our kitchen. ?
So, when is dinner? I like manicotti. I’ll bring some vodka.
After Mo moves. And you may have drink that vodka all on your lonesome. My digestive issues have pretty much put any liquor consumption on hold. 🙂 Hell, I haven’t even had a beer in about a week.
You want to butcher Trigger Hippie?
Oh no. I think we’re both cereal killers.
Fucking leprechaun.
That’s funny. In my late twenties I was invited to a dressup Halloween party but I had to wear a costume. And being the lazy, unenthusiastic ass that I am, I just emptied out a cereal box(I think Lucky Charms) stuck a small kitchen knife through it, put some fake blood around the cut and carried it around telling people that I was a cereal killer.
A blessing and a curse.
The shaved head and scars on my face don’t exactly help either. Ha!
Speaking of Gold Star Families (front page), I heard about this for the first time today (I’m probably late to the party): https://tunnel2towers.org/gold-star/
It’s a charity that provides mortgage-free homes to Gold Star families with young children.
Tunnels to Towers is probably my favorite charity. I have a professional attachment to the cause.
I’m surprised they’re still in existence considering Jon Stewart bullied Congress into giving goodies to everybody at the Twin Towers until 2092.
Caption for the main page photo
“So you see, Daddy ship and Mommy ship love each other very much and so make a Baby ship.”
The tension seems to be building in the bluer states and especially the deep blue cities and states. Other places, not so much. Any news out of South Dakota? Louisiana? Texas?
Here everyone seems relaxed and friendly . I remarked today to the check out clerks “I think people are wearing thin on this business” and they both heartily agreed.”
On the way home I drove past a little farm where about 500 or so people were setting up for their annual Memorial Day trail ride (horses, not bikes). Not a cop in sight.
Every day this goes on the tyrants get more desperate and I fear they will strike the first blow.
Nice and relaxed here in Idaho. The most masks you’ll see is in the grocery story, and that’s only about 50%. People that want to wear masks do, and those that don’t, don’t. People are respectful of distance and there’s been zero acrimony.
That has been my experience here.
*Grant Parish is one of the top five most heavily armed jurisdictions in the country along with the parish just south of us. It is common to see people open carry and the ones you don’t see you can bet they are carrying concealed or have one in their car. Screaming, cursing and physically attacking random people would probably not be a good idea.
I’m in fucking ground zero and have seen zero acrimony. The media does what it does – pushes every scare story and Karen concern troll. It is not reflective of anything other than the story they are trying to spin.
Is it not getting worse by you? Out here, I’m seeing more masking now than at any time in the past. More scolding too and security guards at the supermarkets. I finally gave up and wear one of my kid’s old t-shirts pulled over my face. I’m getting far too high strung to be scolded by strangers any longer.
Define “worse”. Sure, most everyone is wearing a mask – you can’t enter anywhere without one, and I don’t see anyone shopping without one. Therefore, I have seen zero incidents of scolding those who aren’t masked up. No security guards anywhere except one at the bank and there was always one there anyway. I don’t see the point of stirring shit if the store has a sign demanding you wear one. ?♂️
Of the folks outside who aren’t masked, nobody seems to give a shit. I don’t.
Yeah, the local Hannaford and Shop-Rite both had people near the front directing people to the checkout, which I didn’t see a few weeks back.
The local Costco here now “recommends” people wear a face mask, but is not requiring it (they also supply the mask if you want one). I’m okay with it. Most of the people who were in there today weren’t wearing.
‘Course, it’s possibly because Edmonton is one of the least hard hit metropolitan areas in North America; 1.5 million people, 538 cases total, 13 deaths. The L’il Rona hasn’t exactly been burning through the area like wildfire . . .
The mask count is dropping around here,a few older folks, even the workers have the option to wear one or not, and the Roadhouse is open, the restaurants are open, no social distancing in sight. We just did lunch at a riverside restaurant, 6 of us at the table, hugs, shaking hands, normal life.
Be glad you escaped. They’re mandatory here. The fucking grocery store looks like a board game, with decals telling you where to stand, which way to walk, etc. The virus might be on the wane, but it ain’t over yet!
Any news out of South Dakota? Louisiana? Texas?
No, because everybody in those states not killed by Net Neutrality was killed by ending the lockdowns.
Ooooooooh, I smell cheap real estate!
Texas?
Compared to northern VA, people here in Dallas are relatively chill. I see some masks, and I have heard some grumbling from Karens, but by and large, people are returning to normal. My MIL is fuming mad that people aren’t. being. serious. about this “generational crisis.” Of course, she’s a devoted NBC nightly news and Today show watcher who can be counted on to hold whatever opinions a “right-thinking woman” is supposed to hold. She was concerned that I have coronavirus because I had a tension headache this afternoon.
Mo offense to your family–her attitude is part of the reason that Big D can suck it.
Ugh…”No offense”.
Not using Mojeaux for derogatory purposes.
Unless she asks.
Naw, I don’t get off on humiliation like some people (that I don’t know). ?
Memorial Mammary Monday loves domestic beer.
http://archive.li/Vi2Tz
That’s a darn good collection. I don’t like #6’s stupid lip piercing. She’s not invited to my place. The rest can come over.
Question for the helicopter people – what sort of aireal incident would force an emergency landing and leave the helicopter unable to take off again, but not destroy the engine or guarantee the pilot’s demise (ie, pilot and engine alive, flight no longer possible)
Hole in the fuel tank? Enough fuel to land but it all drains out before re-flight?
An auto rotation after loss of power with a relatively soft landing.
This. My friend actually did this once. Autorotated a landing, broke the skids and broke the rotors and whiplashed everyone on board. Copter was totalled. Motor, still good.
Auto gyro down, all is well. The helicopter people will know
Happens fairly frequently, I believe.
Ah, the autogyro
Have another autogyro
That’s the one I was expecting.
Pffft…Nobody expects the Simpsons’ auto-gyro!
According to the last episode of Magnum PI I watched, loss of oil pressure.
I understand the concept of autogyro but don’t know the details. However, it seems to me that loss of oil pressure would mean imminent seizure of moving parts would could, theoretically, prevent autogyro and safe landing.
It was dropping so TC had to set it down. Not out completely.
Heavy fog/low clouds. Happened all the time on a job in PNG. Right before I got there they had a crash during a long line lift. Pilot got into the low clouds, got disoriented lost spacial relation and turned upside down/really sideways which is a bad thing to do in a helicopter.
Ask Kobe.
What too soon?
on models such as the UH-1 and UH-60, the driveshaft for the tail rotor runs across the top of the tail section, any disruption there and you get ‘loss of tail rotor effectiveness’
On the UH-1 particularly, recovering from a high-g movement can cause “mast bumping” which could result in a shear around the swash-plate. But thats not so much an emergency landing that that point.
blow up all you want; push ’em into the Tonkin for all I care; we’ll make more
/ Lawrence D Bell
Given that you can hear the rotor chop from a UH-1 from 15 miles away, Im really surprised at how many werent lost in SE Asia
Prepare for the cutting of onions in your home. The whole album is good, but this is relevant.
I was expecting ‘Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’
Unless you have a good idea of where they are going, within a few hundred meters, it was difficult to get effective hardware in place fast enough to take one out. Most of the time it happened it was pure luck -or stupidity on our part.
When I read “Lone Survivor” I had to back up three times and re-read the section where they insert the team, drop the rope right where the team was inserted, then come back to the exact same spot for the re-enforcements to be inserted (only to be shot out of the sky by a Jihadi sent to that spot with an RPG just in case we did just what we did). That’s exactly the kind of boot mistake that would get an officer relieved in Vietnam even if he was lucky enough to pull it off.
All aviation emergencies are classified by when you need to land: as in (1) “right the fuck now” cuz you have no choice – in the emergency procedures section of the manual it says “land immediately”; (2) as soon as there’s some dirt available – that’s known as “land as soon as possible”; and then (3) “land as soon as practicable.”
The latter two give some room for pilot discretion depending upon what you diagnose is the problem, but the first two also include a TON of things that could force you to have to land in a parking lot and now it’s time to call for someone to come get the bird – and/or fix it in place and a maintenance test pilot will come check it out, test it, and then fly it home.
For example, an engine oil or transmission chip light could mean anything from (a) it’s just a sliver of metal has laid across the contacts, but it’s no big deal to… (b) your transmission is grinding itself up and you are moments away from the rotors stopping. You land that if it won’t clear and wait for someone to come do a xmission flush, ground turn it, then fly it back. Any hydraulic problem is a land now because without hydraulics you are well and truly fucked, so best to land that and live to fly another day. There are a ton of other examples, including engine failures, erratic surges in oil gauges, loss of radios (as crazy as it sounds) can be really dangerous depending upon the environment, a lost gyro is you think you’re heading into IMC ahead, and on and on and on.
Each aircraft has a list of “downing discrepancies” without which you have to land – and can also depend upon other factors, such as nighttime or encroaching bad weather (as I note above). Hope that answer the question.
Fuel contamination, especially water in the fuel. All helicopter fuel filtration systems that I’m familiar with will open a bypass in the event that a filter clogs, so fuel will still flow to the engine, but if there is sufficient water in the fuel the engine will flame out. A successful mid-air restart is extremely unlikely in a single engine helicopter. The rotor system can be disengaged from the engine, either by a friction clutch (older piston driven designs) or an overrunning clutch (sprag clutch) on a turbine aircraft. This allows the rotor system to continue spinning and the helicopter can glide (auto-rotate is the correct term). Speed and altitude are your friends in this scenario. You need to have a decent landing area within range. As the helicopter enters the “ground effect” cushion, the pilot uses the remaining energy in the rotor system to arrest the descent and land smoothly.
Hopefully you catch this comment.
I caught all of the comments, I also realized I forgot to specify that the helicopter in question is a Bell 47 and the story needs the fuel in good form too.
My mental draft of the incident had a birdstrike to the tail rotor, but I didn’t really like that idea.
The bird would likely get chopped to pieces and it’s almost impossible for a bird to hit the tail rotor in normal flight, so that’s pretty implausible. A bird through the canopy, however, would definitely make you land and I know of two of those. (I had to test and fly a helo back after a turkey buzzard came through the canopy and hit a friend of mine came right through the windscreen and hit my buddy square in the chops.)
How dramatic or mundane do you want it to be? There’s all kinds of things that can make you have to land and still have good fuel. I don’t know what you need the fuel for in your story, but keep in mind that it’s likely some kind of avgas/jet A or what have you, so its uses in the story may have limitations.
The Bell 47 ran on gasoline.
The landing happens before the story starts, as the narrator escapes with the pilot, and they pull the engine to connect it to a derelict truck to drive out of the jungle on logging roads rather than have to carry their injured companions on their backs.
the odds of there being usable fuel left at an abandoned site just strains my credulity, so I was going with using the copper’s remaining fuel.
Sorry, the wording was poor as it implies the narrator was on the chopper, but it doesn’t actually change the relevant parts.
Gotcha. Anything to do with the transmission is pretty much land now or risk it seizing and all the excuse necessary to put it down in a field. As crazy as it sounds, oil cooling systems are essential for helicopters and seeing transmission or engine oil temps climbing is a big deal. Here’s a website that lists what appears to be a common emergency for the 47 – a cooling fan belt failure that causes the engine oil to start to overtemp. (See E Top 5 about midway down the page).
Another observation: Every time I see the word “pandemic” my brain substitutes “panic”. I think my brain is right.
Well, it has ‘dem’ right in the middle so your brain is working properly
Plandemic,
Your brain is correct.
So I was out shopping and finally ran into a place that required a mask — Menard’s. Lowe’s did not, although a fair number of people were wearing them there. Menard’s had the model of toilet seat I wanted in stock, so I donned the mask that I keep in the car. Not that I really minded; if a store wants me to wear a mask, I’ll do it.
What really puzzles me is the people who wear a mask while walking their dog.
My favorite is the dumbasses wearing a mask while driving alone in their own car.
“Yeah–I sued myself once. Got cleaned out, made a killin’.”
Looking at the picture in the first link (at the beach), it may look crowded at first, but on closer examination, most of those groups appear to be 6 feet apart. So what’s the big deal? (I know, I know.)
On a normal day I’d probably be 2 sand dunes away from the nearest people anyway
That photo is ok but I have seen a number of ones like that where they shot at sand level with a telephoto lens. Telephotos compress depth so people appear much closer tan they are. Those photos usually accompanied articles about how bad people are for not obeying.
Good song.
warnings from authorities Sunday about people disregarding the coronavirus social-distancing rules and risking a resurgence of the scourge that has killed nearly 100,000 Americans.
GO FUCK YOURSELVES!
‘Get the fuck out of here,’ one of the customers screams at the woman, who throws her hands up in protest. Other shoppers are also heard shouting at the woman to get out.
Unless the store freely required masks as a condition of entry, those customers can GO FUCK THEMSELVES! Actually, they can go fuck themselves anyway. Even if the store freely made mask wearing a condition, it’s for the store to enforce, not the customers.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted Monday that coronavirus projections from experts were all wrong — and he’s getting out of the business of speculating because of it.
He should talk to R. Budd Dwyer about how to redeem himself.
The BBC reports that the Bolivian embassy hopes to get the orchestra on a flight back to the country in early June.
Early June? WTF?
They flew their last passenger airliner into the side of a mountain.
Top. It was into the top.
I wonder if you can still see the tail sticking out of the snow.
You got the wrong link.
I was looking for that.
Damn!!!! I knew better than to click one of your links. “call a doctor”…..not sure that will help. Call the Janitor, we got a mess here.
If you had clicked DEG’s link or knew what happened to Dwyer, then certainly you should have known what my link was.
It could have been a link to a Filter video.
That’s 50 years too modern for Ted’S.
Is this modern enough for you?
Or if you prefer the army
Nice shot….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E
Bold strategy.
https://thepostmillennial.com/germany-antifa-mob-protest-end-of-lockdown
Supposed anti-fascists protesting less actual fascism. Sounds about right.
Yes. We live in times where the supposed fascist President is attacked for not using an emergency to grab more powers for himself.
He’s trying to throw people off the trail. Just wait until he cancels the election and then you’ll be sorry.
What a coincidence that the pro and con lockdown people seem to line up politically….sans the people who at high risk. Their worry is genuine.
The rest of the pro-lockdowners just like stomping on human faces.
It says a lot about the motives behind it. Burn the country to the ground so that BadOrangeMan can’t claim we have a good economy.
That business. you spent your life building? Fuck you.
Or in the original Russian, “Tough Shitsky”
“You didn’t build that.”
There was lots of talk about the economy crashing is the only thing that could stop Trump, right before the governors caused the economy to crash.
I will likely need a bath after tucking in to these ribs. Slow cooked in the sous vide, finished on the grill with a nice Carolina style mustard sauce; coleslaw, and corn (I like to open the ears but keep the leaves attached, clean off the silk, soak in salt water for a couple minutes, throw on grill until outer leaves char) on the side. A Three Philosophers from Ommegang, a Sonoma Farmhouse Brett Stout from Lagunitas, a Waffling from Grimm, and 5 strains of cannabis on deck during/after a nice visit to the tub.
G/d bless you all. May you all have a wonderful Memorial Day.
Special shout out to the late Sgt. James Michael Lawrence, US Army; the older brother I never had. I miss you every day, Mike.
It sounds like a good time.
Three Philosophers is an excellent beer. It’s been too long since I last had it.
It was my very first and I agree, it was delicious. I will be having it again. Our local good beer store just restocked with a bunch of new stuff over the weekend. SO many beers I’ve never seen before, I can’t wait to try them.
SO many beers I’ve never seen before, I can’t wait to try them.
Excellent.
Three Philosophers is an excellent beer. It’s been too long since I last had it.
Same here, at least a decade. Takes me back to good times with old friends. I’ll need to grab some bottles next time I’m near a Total Wine… can’t find at the local grocery stores.
Triple Perfection from Ommegang is another excellent choice.
I’m making a bone-in ribeye. Still needs another hour…
I’m really hungry,
Nice, that’s a yummy cut. I’m still hungry. I might make a burger – brioche bun, Havarti cheese, red onion, one of those ugly but yummy heirloom ‘maters, and the last of my leftover Bearnaise sauce. I’m sublimating my stress in foodstuffs.
I might make a burger – brioche bun, Havarti cheese, red onion
That was my Saturday plus margaritas and the pool. Found out VA ABC no longer stocks non-specialty Hornitos tequila. Don’t know if coronavirus temporarily impacted the Mexican distilleries or if our state government monopoly on liquor just decided to fuck me over yet again. Either way, gotta find a new go-to for margaritas.
I just lit the grill to finish my al pastor. I marinated the meat yesterday but drank too much to cook it last night. It happens.
Soft flour tacos, tri-tip grilled after three hours of marinating in 50/50 teriyaki/Worcestershire, then sliced ever so thin and tossed briefly in skillet with onions, red pepper strips and homemade taco seasoning, finished in-wrap with Tex-Mex shredded cheese and 50/50 mix of Skyr yogurt and full-fat sour cream, plus refried beans with green chiles.
Feed me.
I’ve done that
Cheers to Sgt. James Michael Lawrence, US Army.
Thanks. His was such a stupid and wasteful death. He made it through SF training and had just graduated HALO school when he was murdered at a civilian house party in Fayetteville because he was standing too close to drunken, armed assholes who decided to settle their stupid drunken beef by drawing and firing drunkenly at one another.
That is a shitty way to go.
Sorry.
I’m not even a Yank, but I’d gladly pour one out for that d00d. I’ve got some Danfields Limited Edition 21-year-old that needs something or someone to salute. Here we go.
Good lord that is awful.
Sorry to hear that. There’s no good way to go but that is just sad.
There’s a reason they call it “Fayett-Nam”.
That is horrible. You never know when your time is up, eh.
(hoists drink) Here’s to absent friends and fallen comrades. /slams drink
Gas prices are below $3/gallon here in San Diego on Memorial Day. That is cheap for local standards.
Well, covidarians, you got the stalled economy you wanted. Now what?
Party?
Tax the rich!! Argle-bargle!
That will totally be sustainable.
Duh, give them money.
$1.76/gallon here in the heartland. And I’ve filled up once in the last 2.5 months.
Gasoline’s practically free here right now. And I haven’t filled up in weeks (just did so today).
$1.57 at a generic station in the middle of VA on Saturday.
I think I saw someplace in Ulster County NY the other day below $2/gallon.
When I gassed up the car last week, however, I still paid $2.059.
$1.99 per gallon here in Southern Queens. With my grocery loyalty card reward points, I filled the truck up at Shell for $0.70 per. It was like being back in high school.
I had a similar experience with our grocery points.
I was stationed in the Azores from 1973 to 1975. When we left gas prices were in the $0.40 per gallon range. Gas at the BX was $0.175 per gallon although it went up to $0.195 a few months later. We were watching people stateside lining up for gas, rationing, and even fistfights. When we returned we were astounded that gas had gone up so much (no record but I’m guessing it was the $0.70 that l0b0t mentions.)
Dad was on Eniwetok in 1958. There was no place to buy a motorcycle or gasoline on his island (two by a half miles), but they had a motorcycle and ran it all the time.
My dad was at White Sands in 1962, courtesy of the fucking peacetime draft. I like to say he was keeping the Ernst Blofelds of the world and the illegal immigrants from getting their hands on the missiles.
I visited White Sands, both the missile park and the dune park. I was surprised at how many movies and music videos have been filmed in those dunes.
I also visited a decommissioned Titan missile silo near Tucson. The tour is given by a former missile airmen. A lucky person in the tour group gets to push the button and “launch” the missile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVZmFISzqwY
Derpy, one of my friends was a maintenance officer in the 374th Strategic Missile Squadron in 1980. That was the unit which had the Titan missile explode. He was on leave at the time and needless to say, it was cut short.
wiki sez that was in Arkansas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion
Before I even clicked, I was thinking “must have been a fuel leak- hypergolic stuff explodes as soon as it mixes”.
For want of a not-dropped wrench, a missile was lost.
“Gas prices are below $3/gallon here in San Diego ”
WTF? I haven’t seen gas prices above $2 a gallon for months. Communism sure is expensive.
^^^This.
Yeah, but the jacarandas are in bloom. Got down to about 2.50 for a while.
$2 with grocery points.
I see Cameron was in Egypt’s land.
$3/gal? Good lord….I paid $.64/gallon for mid-grade (with a buck-a-gallon discount) at my grocery store.
We cancelled the low country boil for everyone because I had a scratchy throat yesterday. I know it was ragweed, and it’s mostly clear now, but my folks were born in the early forties and there’s only so much you can do about this these days. So we are boiling-for-two stovetop.
NewWife let me watch Sons of Liberty series on some educational channel. She’s doodled on her phone and asked the occasional tactical question and listenedd to explanations when I rolled my eyes about this dramatic license or that (“that never happened” “he would have never said it that way”).
We washed the 4Runner Saturday, and I hosed the cottonwood fuzz off the condenser today.
Some neighbors are piling into the lagoon with their kayaks; I hope no-one gets the flesh-eating-occoccus or typhoid out there.
Not much shitlording going on here unless you count sitting out of the sun and drinking all day.
Not much shitlording going on here unless you count sitting out of the sun and drinking all day.
^ This man knows how to shitlord.
I recall a wise man once saying “I get stoned in the morning; get drunk in the afternoon”
An interesting vid I ran across on those artificial islands they built off the coast of Dubai just prior to the great recession:
https://youtu.be/riETCR7FnZE
Too long, didn’t watch: They’re a multimillion dollar boondoggle (mostly).
Whoops, multibillion.
Huh, that was just on my recommendation list earlier today. Will have to check it out later.
I assumed they’d be a boondoggle (“Hey! Let’s form and populate a island, keeping it maintained in any circumstance! What could go wrong?”).
If the construction project was meant to be a show of extravagant wealth, it was a success, like a potlatch or burning money.
If?
You need to meet more Gulf Arabs.
Don’t listen to him hayek.
I am still struggling to find up to date info on Flu Manchu in South Dakota. Of course the numbers are probably inaccurate but less than 5000 cases and 50 deaths in the state. No info on the confirmed cases being symptomatic or asymptomatic, no info on who or where the deaths occurred.
Their numbers still look better than a lot of other places where they are locking down hard.
I still don’t know if you can catch from surfaces, from the air, how long it can hang ini the air, can you catch from mosquitoes, what is the incubation period, when do you become contagious…etc.
Apparently we know jack-shit but people must still be made to obey.
Here’s the state website, probably the most up to date info available (scroll down a little bit but, yeah, only 50 deaths):
https://doh.sd.gov/news/Coronavirus.aspx
I just looked at it and there is info there…good stuff, just not what I was looking for.
“I still don’t know if you can catch from surfaces, from the air, how long it can hang ini the air, can you catch from mosquitoes, what is the incubation period, when do you become contagious…etc.”
We really don’t know. That hasn’t stopped the sciencers from making models showing how leper length and masks StopTheSpread.
“I am still struggling to find up to date info on Flu Manchu in South Dakota.”
Oh, deplorable. The WHO has you covered. Everyone there is dead.
They had a brief spike in cases a couple of weeks ago (more than doubled the 7-day moving average), which nowhere else has had that I know of, but probably just due to blanket testing of some facility. Their testing hit a high about then.
Roll Call
Dad’s side: Grandfather’s grandfather’s father wounded July 1983, then took a month by buckboard so he could die at home (CSA)
Mom’s side: Great-uncle caught shrapnel in Belgium 24 Dec 1944. Dug up and brought home 1952ish.
Dad’s side: Grandfather’s grandfather’s father wounded July 1983, then took a month by buckboard so he could die at home (CSA)
37 years for five generations? That’s pretty quick work! :-p
correct: Vicksburg didn’t fall during my prom
I was born on the centennial of the Union fleet’s bombing Fort Fisher, but now “last century” doesn’t get me back to the war
I visited Vicksburg a few years ago while on my way to Camp Swampy. I read it’s the best marked battlefield on earth. So many vets from both sides came to make sure all the markers were correct. I like to think that led to some kind of national healing.
Naming all those Army bases in the South after Confederate generals was token of esteem, to borrow a phrase from Oz the Great and Powerful.
Dad’s side was from a rich family. He was a lt. in a building outfit. They went through Normandy after the shooting stopped and rebuilt bridges and such. He went on the be a big shot business man, eventually making CEO of royal typewriters. Cool stories about Howard Hughes and stuff.
Mom’s side was a Sicilian fuckup type. He ended up in prison for “desertion” Might have been anything, though and might have been after the war. I found his discharge records and he got an honorable. Hard story to pin down. For sure he did time in leavenworth. He was cool AF. He had a ’63 triple black lincoln and always carried a switchblade.
Wife is cooking a leg of lamb. I’m sitting on the sofa sipping a screwdriver and strumming guitar. https://twitter.com/egould310/status/1265056772076613632?s=21
The antifa has got to be the stupidest story of the day. Hopefully, this whole *waves hand around* thing will open some people’s eyes.
Unlikely. After all of their thuggish shenanigans if people can’t see yet, they aint gonna.
But… we only need the brownshirts until we get rid of bad orange man!
My cousin just posted about her dad serving in Vietnam. He’s the one who is dying from [complications of] Agent Orange.
Sorry.
Thanks. He’s been on the decline for many years, but I only just found out all his problems are because of Agent Orange.
Sorry, Mojeaux. Those guys got really got shafted by FedGov.
Sorry about your guy, too. What a shitty way to go.
Mr. Mojeaux and I both read Ozy’s book (not released yet) and we find ourselves referencing it often.
Was he drafted?
No, he enlisted ahead of the draft. He was a paper pusher, though. He did not see combat.
That said, my dad and mom had me to avoid the draft and my uncle has outlived my dad by 25 years so far.
The draft board was run by Karens on the right.
And this was the chief asshole
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Blaine_Hershey
Worst slaver in US history.
I got a letter from the man inviting me to server my country. Rather than going into the military, I went into the Air Force
“Rather than going into the military, I went into the Air Force”
Okay, that’s funny. It was also my plan until Selective Service was d/c’d.
Dad joined up right before Vietnam, because he knew he had to, and wanted to get his pick of MOS – also, according to him, the winds were blowing about the Vietnam thing (1963). But joining of “free will”, he got to go into Signal Corps (where, honestly, he could have been of most use – read Sun Tzu about military communications if you doubt it).
My dad was 17 at the end of WWII. One of my uncles was in the Signal Corp. He met the Russians at the Elbe so it wasn’t exactly danger free.
Chief asshole and slaver, indeed. Not all who wear the uniform are heroes.
Bloke on the Range’s Swiss Straight Pull Rifles Part Eight
Covers the transition from GP90 to GP11. Runtime about 21 minutes.
I just did the first slice around of the Al Pastor stack. Holy sweet baby jesus this is good stuff. I should have started earlier though it takes awhile to brown the edges with the fire I built.
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Sorcery!
I made smoked whitefish pate for my supper.
1/2 lb. Lake Superior Smoked Whitefish
A dollop of sour cream
2 dollops of cream cheese
2 green onions sliced thin
a handful of fresh chives chopped
a few sprigs of thyme leaves
Salt
Pepper
A little dash of hot sauce
De-bone the whitefish (this is tedious). Mash everything together. Refrigerate.
I had it on a 2 day old croissant with a slice of pepperjack. Would be perfect for crackers
I think I know what I’m bringing to Honey Harvest this year.
Every burp is a wonderful reminder of a nice meal.
That sounds delicious
Come to Honey Harvest and try it for yourself!
I’m hoping to.
That sounds delightful. I’ve never had Whitefish but now I want to. I once worked at a restaurant in Tallahassee, FL that made a very similar dip using smoked Amberjack and a higher ratio of cream cheese to fish, also adding lime juice and capers.
Ooh! *adds capers to grocery list*
You will have the kids eating out of your hand. Not literally perhaps but figuratively . I’ll be first in line. Just don’t advertise it too much, you know how those TC people are, you’ll get mugged in the parking lot.
The Half Shell Raw Bar in Key West (motto: EAT IT RAW) made a similar concoction. Their smoked fish dip was best served on Saltines and was awesome back in the day. I visited Key west in 2009’ish(?) and it was not the same as when I was stationed there 18(?) years earlier. However smoked fish dip is still the same no matter how much Key West was ruined. Sounds delicious!
When I was wee and we lived near Marathon so I could go to school, Key West was a once every month or so trip for groceries (they had a big Pantry Pride), sno-cones from the Cuban man with the cart, sandals from Kinos, and a good couple hours of me having fun on the playground with the rocketship seen in the lower left-hand corner of the gatefold to Livin’ And Dyin’ In 3/4 Time.
How loving of all of you to be so generous. I was so depressed today and made my way out of it just thinking of how people can be so kind and giving to someone that they’ve never seen in person. The world is a better place than it ever has been before.
Hats off to:
Baked Penguin
Shirley Knott
Four Score
Raven Nation
Winston (‘s MOM!)
Q Continuum (GIVE ME SOME TITTIES!)
Tri Pacer
Grizzly
totallynotanescaped AI
And probably several others who donated to my GoFundMe anonymously.
You guys are the best.
Just in case: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-evan-from-evansville-get-back-on-his-feet
That’s what I’m going for and through.
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Feel better and be sure to say hi if you are ever in the Philly area.
Post another post next week because I’m tapped right now, get paid once a month, and am stoned enough that I will forget by the time I get paid… next week.
Nevermind, I’ll just Mastercard it. Pay it forward, bro.
Missed your earlier post. Just donated. Feel better, young d00d.
You made me feel better. That was you. And others. But YOU. YOu.
Thank you so much. You’re moving my pawn into Kingship. And I am again crying typing this. But I mean every bit of it.
I was gonna try one of these campaigns years ago when my wife got sick… I should have. Nice to see that it works, you should increase your goal if that’s possible.
I’m so happy with everyone right now that I wouldn’t feel right increasing my goal.
I’m honestly…and I hate to say this…crying with happiness about how generous everyone has been.
I was broken and strangers are picking me up. I don’t wish it upon anyone. But good lord you guys have helped in ways that no one else could have.
Thank you all. I honestly have no other words. They don’t exist.
We can blow right past your Goal Evan, just don’t pause the campaign, I have to wait til Monday so I can give more,
Cheers!
I’m looking for some graphs and charts that would justify fucking everybody I know in the ass. Your help is appreciated.
Are you a lemon thief?
Did she say something similar? I gladly follow in LG’s footsteps.
No, but lemonparty might need a fourth.
Tres resurrected the lemon thief porn vid earlier.
Not googling that. *Insert button pushing GIF*
The model Niall Ferguson used is available on github. You could download the code, run your own scenario, and I’m sure it’ll spit out a prediction that fully 10% of the population of the USA will die unless you get to fuck everyone you know in the ass. If everyone you know believes the science, you’re golden.
^Helpful.
Are you waiting for the streetcar? https://youtu.be/YVMXQuKuISQ
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&deathsMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&country=USA+GBR+CAN+IND+DEU+FRA+SWE+BEL+GRC+IRL
And
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
Might not give the answer that you want it to…
Not my usual commenting time, but I had today off. It was good day here at Camp Swampy. The rain held off long enough for us to finish grilling the burgers and hotdogs. We made meal boxes for all the junior enlisted in my company and delivered them. I used my engineering knowledge to organize a meal assembly line.
I read Alice in Wonderland last night and almost finished The Wizard of Oz today. In the book, Tin Man starts out as a man, but ends up losing his body one piece at a time to a cursed ax. And in the book, they get different awards than in the movie. I liked it better in the movie when the lion got a medal and the scarecrow got a diploma.
By the numbers:
about 40 million have served in the US military; 12 million of those served during WW2
1 million died in wartime – 600k combat deaths and 400k deaths from disease, accidents, “friendly” fire, etc
The Army accounts for 89% of the combat deaths and 91% of the overall deaths
All gave some, some gave all.
After reading your expose yesterday on the Socialization of the US Army it sounds like a far cry from the one I remember, where drinking and whoring were common and not unexpected . Every post had an NCO Club and Officer’s Club and what happened inside those walls stayed inside.
My unit (Signal Corps) was integrated with lady soldiers about 1974 and things slowly changed because commanders couldn’t figure out how to best use the women. Stringing WD-1 on poles was tough, switch boards were easier. I had a female clerk in my shop, did a good job, but typing isn’t a tough physical task.
I moved to a new unit, new clerk danced topless at a club in town. Attractive lady, she invited us down and a couple of the troops did and pronounced her as physically fit.
From what little I know of the modern army I believe a lot of changes have been made since those earlier times. I doubt if I would or could have stayed (see 1st para)
/Old guy
These days, soldiers are banned from drinking until they get their MOS, which in my case involved over 2 years of training.
You don’t need to be the Brahmin of Baker Street to guess how faithfully that rule is followed.
My go-to phrase is I scrupulously obey all rules and regulations…just like everyone else in the Army.
There is an Army program called SHARP which stands for Sexual Harassment Response and Prevention. I read that about half of SHARP complaints are made by female soldiers about other female soldiers. 2 is not a statistically significant sample size, but here are the 2 stories I was told by the ones accused:
1. A female soldier had a picture of her and her fiance walking on a beach as a background on her computer desk top. The fiance had his shirt off because it was a beach. Another female soldier made a SHARP complaint and the offending picture was removed
2. A female soldier was a competitive body builder. She kept a trophy on her desk which featured a little statue of a woman. Another female soldier made a SHARP complaint about the trophy’s statue, and the owner was ordered to remove it.
Rape and sexual assault are no joke and should be punished. That said, most of the SHARP complaints involve nothing of that sort.
On a more cheerful note, let us consider a completely hypothetical situation which in no way bears any resemblance to real events. In this completely hypothetical situation which in no way bears any resemblance to real events, a soldier, let’s call him Private E, returns to his a room in a state which the British euphemistically describe as “tired and emotional”. Private E’s roommate, Specialist D, notices this and becomes somewhat alarmed because Private E is underage and drinking is forbidden anyway. He has Private E drink some water and sleep on his side and puts the trash can next Private E’s bed just in case. In the morning, Private E’s stomach goes into reverse gear and they both clean it up discreetly and use Pinesol to cover up the smell. Specialist D continues tutoring Private E who had been struggling in language class. Private E graduates (only a bit behind schedule) and goes on to greatness in the Army.
That sounds like Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) complaints at the women’s prison. A ton of PREAs were:
1) Two inmates in a relationship broke up, then one of them called PREA on the other to get back at her. She would work up some tears and everything while recounting the brutal rape that she suffered at the hands of her vicious ex-lover, but would admit that she made up the entire thing as soon as the investigation began. A week or two later, you’d see them holding hands and kissing out on the yard, like the whole thing never happened.
2) Inmates calling PREA on staff to annoy them. It was pretty well known that everyone who worked there would get PREA’d at some point in their careers.
I have little sympathy for those who profit from imprisoning others.
Better that we just put ’em to death? I was a jailer for a few years (municipal, not county/state), and I know for certain that there’s way, way too much legislation being enforced via imprisonment.
That said, there are definitely crimes where the person needs to be locked up and away from the rest of us.
Or, did you mean “in the current system”?
I mean “fuck anybody whose job entails the caging of their fellow citizens. ”
I’m sure that I’m glossing over key points, but I don’t really care. Anybody who lives because they are imprisoning other people are not people that I can sympathize with.
Alrighty….good talk.
Currently employed as an officer at a state institution and these are my random musings. I cant speak for every other officer out there, but I do know at my jail, there are quite a few officers of very libertarian bent. Working in a maximum security environment tends to lend itself to the belief that the idea of locking up someone for a victimless crime alongside actual murderers, rapists, and thieves (which, thankfully, isnt common at the jail I work at) is absurd. It’s absurd to have a system that, at great taxpayer expense, cant decide if its trying to punish, rehabilitate, or simply warehouse and separate prisoners from society at large. Instead it tries to somehow do all 3 at once, not really accomplishing any of them.
And yes, PREA is bullshit like 99% of the time.
Hmmm…when I was doing the jailer thing, it was only me for a couple of months. Convinced one of my best friends to apply when a 2nd spot came up, and he got it. Neither of us do that now, and we’re both libertarians, so….math checks out.
Also, I cannot stand rehabilitation talked about as something done from the outside. I get the connotation of it being a process that requires others providing various input. But, ultimately, it’s the person who makes the change themselves. So, the idea of the State rehabbing people in jail/prison chaps my hide.
Not that you are advocating that–just the idea of government actors thinking they can rehab someone.
Give incentives and guidance? Sure. But, can’t make the choice for the person. Unless, of course, you’re a tulku.
Oh, so you’re cheating on me?!
Well, local is better than regional….
I got most of the garden weeded and planted this weekend.
Zucchini
Butternut squash
Acorn squash
Spaghetti squash
Peas
Green beans
Kale
Spinach
Swiss Chard
Napa cabbage
2 varieties of cucumbers
And a treat for my future self, two raspberry bushes.
I’ve given up on corn. I still need tomato plants and tomatillo plants.
I saw a squirrel digging up the peas I had just planted. It might be time to purchase an air rifle, then I can plant squirrel skulls on pikes.
While hooking the battery charger up to my motorcycle, I witnessed a crow killing a baby squirrel. Mama squirrel was PISSED.
I have several varieties of peppers that need to harden the fuck up before they can get planted.
I know Fourscore planted his garden last week, but he’s not next to a big ass lake.
Crows gotta eat too.
Gaia’s a vicious bitch. Not sure why Greta et al think she needs help to defend herself.
I catch any crows in my plants and there’s going to be roast crow.
So in the Little House books, Ma makes a blackbird pie.
For writerly type purposes I wanted to know if anybody actually eats crow/raven and they do, but when I was researching the sources were sparse. IIRC they don’t taste like chicken.
They’re going to find out what a high powered lead pellet to the head tastes like.
Last night, I had some birds digging around in some of my potted plants.
I plan to deter them with some greenhouse reflective material cut out for the plants, when Amazon delivers it.
If not, the birds get it!
Scott Rea has you covered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2lwLZVR5c
I think you misunderstand, the crows are not the problem. The squirrels are the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DNo9UvanoA
I prefer this. https://mashable.com/video/squirrel-obstacle-course-video/
I’d guess they taste more like a duck or goose. Like liver- lots of iron. Red.
Yeah, but did you plant any food actually edible by humans?
JK.
I’ve been transplanting my F1 hybrid tomatoes and peppers into bigger containers.
Just setting out my heirloom peppers and maters. I’m really interested in this micro dwarf mater I have named ‘Orange Hat’, I’ve never seen a tomato so aggressive growing like that in more than 20 years of gardening. The things just pop out sprouting with multiple roots and then 3 or more baby leaves and thick stems and dark green leaves. I’m scared of these things, they’ll be saying ‘Feed Me Seymore!’ in a day or two.
I have lettuce coming up and need to get that planted.
My okra is sprouting, by not my cukes yet.
“… okra…”
And you are giving me shit about “edible by humans”? ;^)
Actually if you put enough Tony Chachere’s seasoning on it, add some shrimp, some rice, some sausage, okra can be edible. Kind of like stone soup.
By itself? Okra is a slimy pass.
“By itself? Okra is a slimy pass.”
Not liking okra is just so sad.
You don’t know how to cook it. And you have to be nice in order for me to tell you.
And don’t tell me, you also don’t like Cilantro and Avocado?
Nope Cilantro is planted.
And I eat half and avocado a day.
I’m open to learn.
I have yellow raspberries, the berries are big and sweet, the bushes grow well and spread easily. Next time you come by I’ll find you a shovel and a box, take some home and stick ’em in the ground and in a year or two enjoy.
I’d like that.
Instructions for cooking okra.
In a sauce pan, brown a generous dollop of butter.
Add 1 cup of sherry.
Reduce over low heat
stir in cream.
Take okra
Throw okra out window
Pour sauce over actual people food.
^^^This
I see you Okies cannot appreciate gumbo either. Sad!
+1 recipe for boiled coot.
Luckily okra is a hot weather long season crop and won’t grow for me. Let the wife buy the frozen stuff ’cause I ain’t eatin’ it.
I trust that none of ya’ll Yankees know what Gumbo is. Sad.
Had a Louisiana lass in Kansas make it for me (she and my wife were both Psychology interns at the same place.). It was phenomenal, but it had no okra in it. I proposed marriage even though I was already married.
She did turn me on to Tony Chacherie’s seasoning, though. I keep a bottle at work and a bottle on the home dining room table.
Filé Gumbo.
That’s not real Gumbo. Real Gumbo is made with okra.
Fried gumbo is also most excellent.
And, that why Cajuns get crap from so many others. When you can have the tastiness of gumbo, without that slimy, mushy shit floating in it, there’s no reason to compromise.
And, why the hell isn’t anyone mentioning fried okra? No slime; excellent crunch (when prepared correctly).
Haha, I must be an the one oddball in the world who likes plain okra. Well not plain – boiled and tossed with butter, salt, pepper, and then drizzled with Tabasco at the table.
Eischens, in Oklahoma, serves a great basket of fried okra. Outside of gumbo, I never thought I’d like the stuff, but they changed my mind. Fried in batter and a dipping sauce makes just about anything palatable.
Of course, I didn’t read far down enough….::fist bumps for fried okra mentions::
Fried okra is just about the best accompaniment to the low alcohol beer OK is famous for serving. They do meat pretty right, too… at least beef.
“I saw a squirrel digging up the peas I had just planted. It might be time to purchase an air rifle, then I can plant squirrel skulls on pikes.”
Get a cat, or two. Problem solved.
The corn just started popping up, cukes broke through today. I started the melons inside and hardened them off and they are looking good. I’m about 2 weeks ahead of schedule.Weather looks like summer coming this weeks and a nice rain today. I have irrigation so I don’t worry about that part but rain is better. Peppers look OK but the sweet peppers didn’t start too well inside but have a few plants. About 4-5 varieties of the hotties though, even as I’m a MN guy and don’t eat them. Mrs F loves ’em though. Need to weed the beets soon.
The biggest peppers I have outside right now, a Giant Marconi, and two Jalapenos that are about half the size of that one, are both starting to flower.
My baby peppers that I still have under lights are one Japanese Purple sweet pepper, 2 lemon drops, and 6 Brazilian Biquinho.
The lemon drops are a hot pepper, about 3 times hotter than a Jalapeno, so about 15 to 30 thousand Scoville heat units. I don’t really enjoy eating peppers that hot, but the plant is beautiful, so I decided to grow it anyway.
The Biquinhos are a tiny pepper. When they only have their baby leaves, you cannot tell them from a tomato. The peppers are tiny red peppers that are typically either used in salad or pickled or put up in vinegar. They’re really good.
I also have some mini-bell peppers and red cherry peppers planted, but they haven’t germinated yet.
We snuck rubber cement into the fair,
We rode all the rides, but you wanted to fly,
So you jumped off into the air.
The neon lights and cotton candy skies,
Couldn’t bring you down from those highs,
Oh now, you’re so sad, oh girl,
I see you talking to a squirrel,
Kissing it’s lips, why not mine?
So kiss me please!
https://youtu.be/ZpHaO-6VSW0
I have several sprouts each of kale, peppers, basil, and parsley. I think one of the pepper plants is big enough to go out in the yard.
I also planted some garlic, which is sprouting up quite nicely (can’t wait to garnish some dishes with the green shoots that come out of the garlic plants). Also green onions, which are doing quite nicely.
Best time of the year, fresh from the garden but it all comes at the same time and too much to eat so fast. My faves are corn, cukes and tomatoes
I miss having a garden.
That’s what Eve said.
Kale? Chard? Why? Take vitamins or something.
The rest I won’t argue with, even though I’m not a big fan of squash.
Unit 731 research pays off
What does Japan’s overall death rate over the covid period amount to I wonder. Maybe the excess deaths were just assigned to some other cause and what isn’t being looked for isn’t usually seen.
Haven’t seen exactly how they are classifying deaths. We can probably assume it isn’t as absurd as the way, say, NY is doing it.
I’m not sure why everyone is getting so triggered. This is exactly what Hoppe means by “forcible removal,” right?
Demographics are destiny! Free will for me but not for thee.
Social Shaming is an important part to any culture in enforcing certain norms, and a lot of libertarians are being duplicitious when they complain about being on the reciving end, probably because they don’t want to admit that they belong to a marginalized group of the larger population.
That being said, any genuinely accepted norm does not need a Karen like structure to go about shouting and yelling at people for not complying.
Pretty sure libertarians are “a marginalized group of the larger population” though we are all white supremacists so we should be ostracized…
Social norms are horrible as long when I don’t like them. When I like social norms then all who oppose should be killed. I mean what did classical liberals mean when they claimed that they were the forces of civilization?
It doesn’t seem as cool without the helicopters.
It isn’t. And, I don’t see the property owners making the decision in that video.
Governor Whitmer Orders Citizens To Barbecue Indoors
The Bee is rocking today.
Some ideas for my next satire:
Hippies Jealous of Successful Libertarian Commune
Generation that Raised Millennials Hates Them
Congress Ups Spending to Fight Inflation
SPLC Warns of Dangerous Right-Wing Manifesto Known as ‘US Constitution’
“SPLC Warns of Dangerous Right-Wing Manifesto Known as ‘US Constitution”
Golden!
“Anyone who disobeys the order will be put on time-out and sent to bed without any dessert. Those who continually disobey will be grounded and have their Nintendo privileges taken away.”
LOL
Governor Whitmer Recoils in Horror From Bucket of Water
Hey, Derpy – speaking of The Wizard of Oz, Fun Fact: Years ago when I had delusions of becoming a teacher (I got betta!) I read a book about how to select books to read aloud to kids. The author admitted that the movie of TWoO was better than the book – Baum hadn’t hit his stride yet. They actually recommended one of the later Oz books, Ozma of Oz. There were a ton of Oz books – my aunt collected them.
It was the Harry Potter of its day. Baum wrote 14 books and there are dozens of sequels in the shared universe by other authors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books
There is a lot more violence in TWoO book than the movie. Tin Man knows how to use that ax. He was the original Robocop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcPElnvb6bI
Got my Midnight Wisps shirt. It kicks ass.
Give me a clue what you’re talking about.
You know who else believed in Jewish conspiracies?
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/One-in-five-English-people-believe-COVID-is-a-Jewish-conspiracy-survey-629187
What, these guys? Nah…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kaifeng-Jews
The Jews?
My local beach this afternoon.
https://imgur.com/a/a16btj2
You’re supposed to shoot it the long way down the beach so it looks like everyone is on top of each other.
Heh, heh. There were an absolute ton of people there as it is federal land and therefore not subject to a bunch of the silly state restrictions. Closing or restricting beaches during a virus panic seems about at the top of the stupidest shit that has been done with this.
Right there with closing access points to the national forests.
And the Boundary Water Canoe Area. If’n you can’t socially distance yourself in 1 million acres of lakes and land, I don’t know where you can.
But Feds gonna be Fuds.
Does the other woman look like the one in the photo? If so, I can understand the man’s dilemma.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/11705114/cheating-pregnant-fiancee-affair/
FTA:
This is why I say that if a partner cheats, they need to keep their mouth shut and not put it off on the other one. Don’t make your partner carry that.
I think I’d rather know I’m dating someone who can’t be trusted.
I’m sitting here typing and erasing different things, but in this case I may agree with you after all. They’re not married, probably don’t have a lot of dating time under their belt, as opposed to say, a long-time marriage, so, yeah. I think I’d want to know too.
wow, i mean…i don’t even…did someone hack Brochettaward’s account?
He does converse like a non-psycho sometimes.
I think about it from both ends. Were I cheated on, I’d want to know, so I could ditch their ass. On the other hand, I also think that a lot of ‘confessing’ is an attempt to make your partner feel bad about it too. Or a means to get them to dump you so you don’t have to do it yourself.
I’d want to know so I could dump the woman.
In your world does “dating someone who can’t be trusted” mean abducting someone who can climb out of the oubliette?
It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
Brochettaward’s avatar is from one of the few movie adaptations that I thought was better than the book. Probably because the movie director left out the worst, nastiest visuals from the book, while still getting the main theme across. American Psycho is one of the few books that I didn’t think was boring that I also kind of wish I hadn’t read. It was a gripping read, but after I finished, I wondered why I’d devoted that much of my brain space to something that awful.
Meta all the way around …
A 41 year old regular at a British pub. I somehow doubt she’s a looker.
I love the advice is to never tell his wife to spare her.
Two weeks later, this woman gave me the wink and it happened again.
It was better, more sober, that time and it made me feel great.
Sadist “great” or psychopath “great”?
today I learned: The name Wyoming is a contraction of the Native American word mecheweamiing (“at the big plains”), and was first used by the Delaware people as a name for the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Huh. There are no Delaware Indians out there. They should have given it a Lakota or Kiowa name.
Maybe the state was settled by folks from Wyoming County.
wiki sez:
The region acquired the name Wyoming by 1865, when Representative James Mitchell Ashley of Ohio introduced a bill to Congress to provide a “temporary government for the territory of Wyoming”. The territory was named after the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, made famous by the 1809 poem Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell, based on the Battle of Wyoming in the American Revolutionary War. The name ultimately derives from the Munsee word xwé:wamənk, meaning “at the big river flat”.
“Legend has it that Captain Jack designed the town flag.”
https://youtu.be/iFta2MF-GtA?t=170
PS. There is a Wyoming County in New York, too.
Fat bottom lands, you make the Lenape world go round
^promote this man!
+1 Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBk8MnT-Tvk
Wyoming Valley Massacre in 1778 took about 300 patriot lives as British and their Iroquois allies attacked settlers
in the area. The battle is largely forgotten today, but in 1878 President Hayes and 50,000 people dedicated a monument at the site.
Goddamned Redcoats.
As we wear masks while walking in the park…
I feel sad for Hong Kong 🙁
#METOO. That hashtag is dead, so I can appropriate it now, right?
Yep.
#metoo
#metoo
Let us ponder the story of a simple soldier now long dead.
He graduated from West Point and fought in a war, for which he received honors. Unfortunately, he liked to drink too much and was given the choice of resigning or being kicked out. He went back home and worked in his dad’s store, which sold ladies’ hats. Another war began and the Army reluctantly let him return. He quickly proved that he was a good leader, was promoted rapidly, and won several key battles. After the war, he became President.
His name was Ulysses Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBZHoh_zuU
“Find out what Grant is drinking and give a barrel to each of my other generals”
A. Lincoln
So an old story goes
Ha! That’s a new one for me.
Paraphrased from a plaque I read at Vicksburg-
a message from Grant to the Confederate general: SURRENDER
Confederate General: What are your terms, good sir?
Grant: NONE
Confederate General: Sir, I beg your pardon. Let us parley.
Grant: I ATTACK
Grant was a real 19th century Terminator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrsspTTpApI
Terminated a lot Indians too…
I just got a biography of Grant. I’m looking forward to it
as soon as I saw “drink too much” I knew it was Grant,
TALL CANS!
I guess at the time it was bottles. Anyway, the lesson is that alcoholism saved America.
Alcohol Built America
If I ever run for President, I will wear a red ball cap with this slogan.
MAKE AMERICA DRUNK AGAIN
Watching Cromwell (Richard Harris) on Amazon Prime – makes we want to go full Klingon on the shut-down tyrants.
Roundheads vs. Karens?
“We are NO mere bandit army! We will not disperse!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_the_Major-Generals
I wouldn’t be so sure of that…
But did they have information vegetable, animal, and mineral?
The notion of Cromwell as a symbol of liberty simultaneously repulses and amuses me. The royalists were far more ‘liberal’ in most regards. It wasn’t a rebellion against tyranny it was a rebellion against moderation toward Ireland, in other words a rebellion because the rebels did not think the crown was being HARSH enough. It was the ultimate in Karen rebellions.
That’s because libertarians and classical liberals tend to gloss over the rather questionable aspects of their past. English classical liberalism grew out of those Protestant Nonconfirmists who hated Catholics and distrusted the State Church, Monarchy and Aristocracy for being too Catholic. They hated the Irish and Catholics and had a tendency to blame everything on Jesuit conspiracies.
Also the Abolitionist movement had some rather questionable aspects that gave us the Socons and Progressives.
And classical liberals had a conviction that they were the embodiment of civilization and progress and anyone who opposed them was a reactionary at best and a barbarian at worst. They need to educated, at a public school of course, and if that doesn’t work then well…The French Revolution clearly showed the totalitarian and genocidal dangers of that view very early on.
Ah Cromwell- the man so beloved they dug up his corpse and chopped off his head. And then restored the monarchy he fought to depose. For some reason, there is still a statue of him near the UK parliament.
I give props to the Limeys- they realize the value of not tearing down the statue of a scumbag.
“Round the world, the truth will echo- Cromwell’s men are here again. England’s name again is sullied in the eyes of honest men.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3vnPYaSm0A
The Liberals put up the statute in the 1890s. The Conservatives and Irish Nationalists opposed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Oliver_Cromwell,_Westminster
“Another [small business] victim of the pandemic.”
NO IT’S THE GOVERNMENT, NOT THE VIRUS!!!
Government IS the virus
TGA!!! Long time no see. And i’m on here too much, so i know i haven’t missed you. But i have missed you.
It’s not gay if it’s quarantine sex.
Trying to make excuses just means you know it’s really gay.
All consensual sex is gay sex if you ask me.
What if it’s two chicks?
That’s not even sex.
Two movies, one screen.
https://twitter.com/ThaddeusRussell/status/1265105836830949376
Two chicks, one cup?
π r2
NSFW.
que?
It’s David Hogg looking at Covid death numbers.
I fuckin’ knew Greta was taller than he was!
http://archive.li/nGmBb/fda78f8173d1a7ad3b67d0b1363dd7e1a76dae63.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/bBDkQ/195965a7dc61b16943334c8dbc5766d94f23497b.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/iUgpH/2d6ce9884ad2e55facf91c274beee38673f6c2c2.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/uGgBG/9e399a310a727ba5aed0ba2b7ea922c91d6cac70.jpg
NSFW.
New schedule for work came out today. Good news is I’m not scheduled for any lay-offs! But next Sat/Sun is gonna suck balls, Saturday I’m working second shift (2pm-10pm) and then Sunday I switch to first shift (6am-2pm).
No lay-offs is a good thing! Will the switch to first shift be “permanent”? (As in, as permanent as any job is right about now?)
For now 1st shift is only 2 weeks, then… Once I get into it won’t be that bad, though it’s not my preferred shift, but that first night with only 8hrs between the two shifts is gonna suck.
So just stay up all night with us on Zoom.
Zoom with no drinking? I don’t know about that, seems highly unprofessional for someone of my reputation.
You have a 4-hour turnaround??? Hell, they don’t even do that with da po-po.
Fuck–I realized my mathin’ was off just as I hit post.
Yeah, crazy 8s suck swamp dick.
Yeah, I used to similar at the radio station Friday to Saturday sometimes, but the Friday shift there was never 8hrs, usually four, that made it a bit easier mentally.
Well, let the gam…activities commence!
Not being laid off is good.
That shift change is rough. Good luck!
So if this second wave happens how bad will the shutdowns effects be?
You are basically just asking for it.
Is Canada wearing a sho….Oh of course it is…
I thought the reason we are all supposed to wearing masks and social distancing and standing behind plexiglass and washing hands and constantly disinfecting things was so we didn’t have to shut down again. I am so confused 🙁
Well if there is a second wave those things didn’t work so shutdown again.
kill it with fire? and hope a pretty bird comes from the ashes
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
For the first time in I don’t know how many years there’s something good to be said about leftists.
Thuringia could become the first state to completely lift restrictions aiming to slow the spread of coronavirus. State premier Bodo Ramelow has triggered a heated debate on whether this is a sensible local response.
Ironic as the Left Party is a descendant of the East German Communist party.
Given that the only other rational response to the coronavirus crisis came from батька Лукашэнка, a long-term Communist party member, maybe it’s not surprising. Sure, there were also Swedish socialists.
Wikipedia discriminates against the Belarusian language. Sad!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/alexander_lukashenko
a bit off topic
You are a native speaker of Russian, yes?
I know that golova is head and glaviy and glavynoye both mean main or chief. Is there an etymological relationship?
Also, I saw a word that looked liked pokazuka. The meaning was: things everyone says, but no one believes, like “workers of the world, unite!”
Please and thanks for your info.
Yes, I’m.
Golova, glavnoye, etc come from the same origin: head. Dropping a vowel in a root word is normal in Russian.
You got the idea behind the word pokazukha mostly right. A Potemkin village is usually a less controversial example of it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/potemkin_village
Fabulous! I really appreciate it. I’ve tried to teach myself Russian and it’s always great to interact with a native speaker.
Oh, one more thing: the Russian word for bear is medved. I read that means “honey eater”. Is that true? If so, very amusing.
Time to crank up the testing apparatus.
Question Time: Is it possible to go too far in getting comeuppance for a Karen?
I say this, since it seems that losing your job over this is a bit too far. Oddly, I think charging her with filing a false police report might be the best option, apart from leaving her alone.
None on social media were angered by the perceived racism? Things may be getting better.
No, I’m sure there were plenty who were highly pissed at that aspect, and, rightfully so. But, in these situations, there are competing groups–each with their own causes.
Plus, I’m not sure if Da Blaze covered that angle because it’s Da Blaze, or, because that group was more concerned about the dog than the human.
I dunno man what she did, if true one never knows, is pretty bad.
Oh, it’s bad, all right. But, is it actionable in court (a lawsuit)? Is it criminal? If not, does that mean she doesn’t get to work any more? She’s not entitled to the job, outside of a contract. But, she does have to provide for herself, and, where does her punishment end?
Also, I tend to have a problem when an issue this small gets taken over by others with no dog in the, uh….I mean, no skin the….that aren’t a part of the issue.
But, is it actionable in court (a lawsuit)? – should be. I would go with attempted murder, similar to swatting,
Ehh….I can’t fully agree to the swatting comparison. Although, I do get it, and know the situation could have been much worse.
That said, what are his losses? He wasn’t arrested, and no medical bills…no lost wages or property. And, believe me–I’d love to see the bitch sued and have to pay him something. I just think the online crowd reaction is out of balance with what happened.
Get a cracked skull by some yob with a bike lock? Damn right get the online autistic crowd on the case? This, though? I’m not convinced yet.
LC West, walkin’ out of the hospital today
You know–you coulda stayed a day or two more, and had access to all those delicious kolaches…. Just sayin’.
I have no idea who that is
It’s in the first sentence of the article.
seems name is Allen not LC
Lieutenant Colonel.
*former. don’t titles expire after one retires?
Well, military can be recalled, so there title standing after retirement is fine by me.
Sometimes. Plus he’s that rank in the Texas State Guard (currently).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)
A kolache or a Texas kolache?
Either/Or–we have both, and far more “kolaches” (in my experience).
I’m just saying, I’m not a sweets guy, that Texas kolache sounds a lot more appetizing than the ones they sell up here.
I mean, this place has a sausage gravy kolache…https://kolachefactory.com/food-items/sausage-amp-gravy
And, many others, if you look around their site.
Buying food over the internet is one of those things were I say, ‘Son, that just ain’t right.’
I wasn’t inviting you to buy kolaches online, bruh! I mean, you can, if you want–you don’t need my blessings.
Don’t not tell me what to do!
I knew you couldn’t change…
Wait, am I Geoffrey Rush or
Booster GoldGreg Kinnear?Hmmm…do you enjoy a fine, elegant Harvey Wallbanger?
C. The answer is always C or 7 if it’s a math problem.
Were does one get a chloroform deploying portable enticement snare? Asking fora friend.
Wal-Mart, duh! That’s where all villains shop.
/prog
Ye old shoppe of villainy
A world redrawn: US coronavirus response fatally ‘chaotic,’ says Noam Chomsky
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-world-redrawn-us-coronavirus-response-fatally-chaotic-says-noam-chomsky/ar-BB14xpRn
I was just thinking to myself: what does noam chomsky think of this.
Ha! Of course, Chompsky is free (ahem) to go seek out a more ‘organized’ situation in any other country he wishes. I mean, if he feels unsafe here, and doesn’t actually believe in his own rights…
Chaos as seen here.
I wish that old Commie would just die, already. I don’t normally wish ill on people but he is the worst.
Paging Chafed: Check out the candy-ass.
“See–no one needs a gun!”
How warm and fuzzy!
Heh. At least they didn’t go the “skeered” route.
By calling a tactical air strike?
Wait……what?
Thought you were referencing the cops not the typo.
I thought you thought that…
I’m surprised the parents aren’t being charged for neglect or endangerment for letting a 10-year-old start a car and sit in it by herself.
OT: Anyone know anything about TVs?
A co-worker gave me an RCA big screen TV that they were going to throw away. It works great, but there’s a weird division down the dead center of the screen. It’s almost like the two halves of the screen are on two slightly different brightness settings. It’s hard to notice except when there are large dark regions on the screen (e.g. watching original Star Wars yesterday, and you can definitely see the line when Vader walks across the screen).
Is this a known issue that is fixable in some way? Again, I don’t particularly care, and I certainly won’t complain about such a minor thing with a free TV, but I’d like to get rid of it if possible.
What kind of TV? (projection, LED, OLED, LCD, plasma…)
The sticker on the back says “LED LCD Full HDTV”.
LED and LCD are two different things, so it is one or the other…If it is an LED display the problem you’re describing would most likely be from some sort of power disparity in half the array. If it’s LCD, it could mean the same thing or the crystals on half the display have been damaged for some reason. (The ‘Full HDTV’ just means that it is 1080p, instead of 720i, 720p or 1080i; which are just about resolution)
it’s a chimera
We would have also accepted “It’s a hermaphrodite”.
“LED and LCD are two different things, so it is one or the other”
No.
All LCD screens are backlit in some way – LED is one way of doing it.
There are also LED screens that are not LCD screens, it sounds like the monitor sales group was trying to give the impression it was one of those and trick the unwary customer.
I’d advise avoiding that company going forward.
Ben Domenech talks about being sued for making a joke on twitter
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/05/so-you-made-a-joke-on-twitter-and-now-its-a-federal-case/
By a lawyer with no connection to the company, apparently. May the NLRB be relegated to the 9th circle of hell.
No connection, just a concerned citizen.
I’m sure xe comforts themselves with that idea….all those conservative lackeys being abused in a tweet. “I’ll save them!!”
If you can’t bankrupt or sic the federal government on people you disagree with then really what is the point of life?
As Conan well knew!
To crush your enemies, to see them [the people you disagree with] driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women [who think you’re rad for being mean to people they find icky].
Late night leak: Nerds are gay.
OK–it already starts out gross.
Now I know why you cheat on me.
Hey–you do your hot shots. I’ll be over here, enjoying the actual taste of food.
You are an interesting man, CPRM!
I’ve been told sleep is something humans do, so I will now attempt to experience that.
You might become addicted to it, so….fair warning.
That hasn’t happened in my 37 years of research…but maybe one day.
37?
In a row?!
How else do human years work?
Excellent choice!
*slurp,slurp,slurp*
You’ve been lied to.
Tis usually the case.
Today’s my first day back to work after a two-week vacation mostly devoted to indolence and sloth. I hope I remember how to log into Windows and (even more important) into the payroll websites.
Has it been two weeks already?
***SIGH!!*** Yes, which means it’s time to post payroll again, with less time to spare because of the Monday holiday.
On the plus side, the rest of this week is a sort of Virtual Vacation because my boss is off on HIS vacation.
no it just seems that way
Glad yours was an actual vacation of choice. I hope it was enjoyable.
Thanks. I could have stood for the weather to be warmer and drier for much of it, but we finally seem to have achieved summer weather here in SW OH. I got in plenty of back porch time, which is vital to my mental health.
I just want to retreat into the only air conditioned room in my house and sleep some more.
Hybernate until we can spray for stupid and clean this state up. Unfortunately, they haven’t invented the spray to fix stupid yet.
It was good to get away from the encroaching stupid in my office (daily wellness checks, masks when away from your immediate work area.) Vainly hoping some of that has been abandoned in my absence, but not holding my breath.
It was just this last week when were allowed to not wear a mask WHILE being 6 ft away from the other person we are working with for 8hrs.
It’s starting to get humid and 70s here where I also want the AC, but the window in my bedroom where I’ve always had my AC had to be replaced last fall, and the replacement window doesn’t fit the AC unit. The only other window in the house where it will fit is on the other side of the house.
I know what it means to have windows where AC doesn’t work. I ended up getting a portable AC where the vent could be adapted to the size of the available window. I’m afraid it’s not the cheapest option.
I looked at those a few weeks ago expecting this. Wal-Mart has some starting around $200, which wouldn’t be too bad if I’d been receiving steady pay the last couple months. But I still haven’t gotten any unemployment for the 4 weeks I was laid off.
They do vary in quality, so I’d recommend researching the durability of the product in question before sinking anything into it. It’s awful to spend $200 only to have it die the day after the warrany expires a year later.
We bit the bullet last summer when we moved into our new place; installed whole-house A/C. We’d never had such a beast until the house in The Lower Rainland™ (where, weirdly, it gets stupid hot and dry during July & August), and found we loved it too much to give it up.
We should have installed it in every house we’ve owned.
The price tag makes it a bit prohibitive
My heat doesn’t use ducts, so that would be an extremely expensive retrofit.
It ain’t cheap, but we had to replace the 30-year-old furnace as well, and the savings by doing it all at once were substantial, so we went for it. Plus if it’s all done at once, the system’s entirely integrated so the install quality’s better.
That would be great! We have a built in de-humidifier that came with the place and a window mounted AC that I need to check the filter on. And fans. It’s never enough since the neighbor took down the huge cottonwood that stood at the south end of the property.
Ugh. Wifey is going out of town again which means curtailment of my post-work fun on these boards. Someone has to ensure the pets and garden don’t die and I’ve been a lazy schlub since she was furloughed. Good heavens, that woman just goes from morning til night. She can’t stop being busy for some gorram reason. I sleep until the afternoon and might do a few light chores but she’s been pulling full freight, lately. Oh well, belts and suspenders…
My spousal unit’s the same way — she’s the Energizer Bunny of domesticity, which is fine until we go on vacay, then she has trouble just kicking back and relaxing.
I smell ya. Camping is just one chore after another. Nobody sits in a lawn chair around the fire anymore?