A relative handed me a small pepper a few months ago. She was very excited because a plant she had been pruning for about a year finally bore fruit.
This is my review of Button Brew House Chiltepin Red Ale:
The Chiltepin, or bird’s eye pepper, is a plant native to the southwest and northern Mexico. It is known for growing under the shade of an oak tree. One of the reasons there is a cult following for these is the ease in which one can grow them in the backyard. Being a native plant it thrives in the dry climate where others will require more rain. Not that you can’t water plants around here, but it’s the time of year where people would rather let their lawns die than go outside and turn on the hose.
The pepper itself is tiny, smaller than a quarter. Using the slightly more objective Scoville scale we can determine it is 23 times hotter than the ubiquitous jalapeño. In line with the Thai pepper.
Even though it is hotter, because it is smaller you can eat one, cough for a few seconds and hate yourself for doing that, and then…nothing. It doesn’t last long at all. It has a natural smoky flavor which makes it much more interesting if you ever plan to toss it into something…like beer.
Being a red ale this has a nice malt content, little hops and would otherwise be chuggable. Adding a blast of smoked capsicum sounds like it makes all of that moot, but it is somewhat complimentary. Although I concede the point where I eat these all the time. Unlike other local beers that are downright abysmal, this is actually quite drinkable. Not an everyday sort of thing, but one I can say I will be inclined to buy again. Button Brew House Chiltepin Red Ale: 2.8/5
Weekend firsts are beneath me.
9 minutes after posting? I wouldnt be swellin’ up with pride over your “first” skills. Go outside and get some fresh air.
I suspect you “sweat” at the same rate in both places, but it evaporates, in Arizona.
That beer sounds awful.
IIRC the evaporation is what cools you off. Doesn’t work where I live but that’s what they say.
This
I’ll ship you the shirt I was just wearing while I was doing yardwork. Sealed in a plastic baggie…
You don’t understand the Japanese girls’ used panties business model at all, do you?
“Gonna need a bigger vending machine”
Only slightly. It’s every other aspect that he’s getting wrong.
“Mexican Dude’s Used Tshirts”
They’re used, at least.
My point being, nobody wants a Mexican’s used anything.
That came off just a shade more racist than intended.
LOL
Just a titch. Hardly worth canceling you over.
The two hurricanes are going to slam* into each other, the spaghetti models are all over the place.
Technically the intersection point is separated by about 2 days, but still mucking with the models.
You know who else relied upon models ?
Jeffrey Epstein?
A whole bunch of male rock stars?
lol at both of youse
Lewis H. Glaser?
I’d like to change my answer to Ray Harryhausen.
The latest pro-mask study which relied on a model which assumes masks work to contain Lil Rona spread?
The Bluth Company?
Speaking of hurricanes, why haven’t East and Gulf coast autocrats permanently evacuated all residences and businesses within 50 miles of their shores? Models show that such a policy would save countless lives and prevent trillions of dollars in property damage. I’ m not seeing a down side here.
Because they can always count of Uncle Sugar to make it good.
“why haven’t East and Gulf coast autocrats permanently evacuated all residences”
To Antarctica, no hurricanes there and it’s too cold for viruses, everyone will be safe forever.
This entire thing is about the elites being able to treat people like infants, which is what they’ve always wanted to do. And their excuse is that ‘experts’ told them to do it. Soon enough we’ll have little Goebbels everywhere.
Soon enough we’ll have little Goebbels everywhere.
Don’t give me no hand-me-down goons
I got one already.
You know who else relied upon models ?
Matthew Brady?
why haven’t East and Gulf coast autocrats permanently evacuated all residences and businesses within 50 miles of their shores?
By George, I think you’ve got it!
Craigslist is your friend for shipping containers.
My concern is with the cost and process of having it picked up and relocated after it’s full. It seems as if it would be “no big deal” but…
I think Richard Pryor did a documentary on the subject.
Craigslist has some dodgy characters. If you’re not careful you could get burned.
“Craigslist is your friend for shipping containers.”
Container arrives from Craigslist. *Opens container and finds 50 hungry Guatemalan children inside*
More orphans for your monocle mine!
I grew a pepper that looked like that, Mrs Fourscore got the seeds from somewhere, one of her friends. She wanted them because they looked so pretty. They grew very well here, she said they were hot but I scoffed ’cause they looked like holly berries. She has been after me to grow them again but like pretty much every thing else (except at mealtimes) I tend to ignore her. I’ll look for them again in the seed catalogs. Now I have a name.
Container arrives from Craigslist. *Opens container and finds 50 hungry Guatemalan children inside*
Woohoo, bonus orfinks!
+1 Popeye
I’d be very surprised if they ever get enough doses to make a universal mandate possible.
We’ll still be fined for not complying.
Like the mask thing in March or so:
Costco doorperson: You have to wear a mask inside.
Me: Which aisle can I buy one at?
CD: We’re out of stock.
“Craigslist is your friend for shipping containers.”
Avoid the shipping containers from Wayfair.
Buy straight from Seabox. About $3-4K for a 20ft container. They do mods too, like windows and doors if the container is going to act as a mobile command post or office.
I’ve occasionally looked into buying some land and putting a container house on it.
Scott Adams has a good bit on the Charlottesville “fine people on both sides” race hoax. The day that happened I was in England for my wife’s neice’s wedding and someone there commented to me about how “my” President had said Nazis were wonderful that day. So, of course the next day over breakfast I looked up the media reports and found the examples of the media reports saying exactly that. So I watched the press conference in full to get the context. It’s amazing how much they have pressed this straight up lie over the years, even featuring it in Biden’s acceptance speech the other nite. That would be great for Trump to play the press condemnations of him and then play the video of what he actually said.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/08/21/scott_adams_brain-dead_race_hoaxer_joe_biden_is_the_biggest_asshole_in_america.html
Right again, Scott.
I never read Dilbert and couldn’t have told you who Scott Adams was before he started posting about the 2016 election. But reading him in the months leading up to it, I was impressed and figured he was really on to something.
Dayum, Scott.
Also – huh. Believe it or not I’ve never seen Trump’s full quote. I never dug into the story because I just assumed it was bullshit.
It’s like 30 seconds later that he explicitly says that he’s not talking about neo-Nazis and that “they should be condemned”.
There’s been this thing lately where the Left is trying to re-brand themselves as Team Truth or something, and they constantly shout their loyalty to facts, truth, reason, logic, evidence, etc. But the same people who do this are the same ones who get a deer-in-the-headlights look when I ask them if they ever looked into the context of that “fine people” quote. Most of them just stammer and stutter that it was on every news network.
It becomes obvious that what they really mean is “I outsourced all my thinking to CNN and NYT”.
I remember hearing them call themselves the “reality-based party” a few administrations ago. They’ve been playing this game forever. Fuck, I didn’t catch on until my late twenties.
It goes back even further. Wilson, and especially FDR’s propagandists were absolutely huge in pushing the idea that “modern scientific and economic thinkers” had made the Founders and their worldview obsolete, and of course that is very much a Marxist idea, that the industrial revolution makes first principles like constitutional governance, separation of powers, free market economics, and all the other vital components of a free society as outmoded as the horse and buggy.
The full video, with the quote in full context has existed since Charlottesville, and never purged from public view. They’ve happily ignored it for years in lieu of their narrative and will continue to do so. Playing it at a convention won’t change that.
I should clarify…if you took a minute to look it up, the full context was always available. Not that they played it on the air.
I’m sure even if you strapped them down Ludovico style and forced them to watch it, they’d come up with some pedantry like “Well he only said they should be condemned, not that he condemns them! DOG WHISTLE!!”
It’s especially irritating because he quite explicitly said
During the Iraq War, at the height of the neocon infestation of the Republican Party, it was very popular among the rightwing blogs to show signs and posters at antiwar marches that were communist, or that had some kind of “9/11 was an inside job” and paint the whole march with that.
The fundamental divide in this country isn’t Biden fans vs Trump fans, it’s not race, and it’s not socioeconomic (though that comes close).
It’s about what the role of government is. If you think government should protect you from all harm, not just in a defense-against-foreign-powers way, but protection from COVID, bike accidents, gunzz, hurt feelings, etc, then that is the way you will vote. Mostly, but far from all, politicians promising this call themselves Dems. Or Rick Santorum.
If you don’t think that’s the role of government, and you think people’s freedom carries with it the freedom to fail or to make bad individual decisions, You are more likely to be Libertarian or “conservative”.
Apropos Heinlein quote
I used to think that lefties were “idealists working from highest motives” and then closer inspection showed plenty of envy, malice, and greed as actual motivation. So I don’t cut lefties any slack.
And in the Dems or Repubs, the actual politicians are sleazy power grabbing con artists.
Only Massie and Paul aren’t dying to get ahead politically for personal gain. They want to save the nation, and they aren’t scummy enough to amass power.
I used to think that lefties were “idealists working from highest motives” and then closer inspection showed plenty of envy, malice, and greed as actual motivation. So I don’t cut lefties any slack.
I used to hang out with a lot of Proglodytes when I was Swing dancing in the Boston area.
“Plenty of envy, malice, and greed” is being nice to them.
My mom was into Swing dancing back in the day. Then Tango her last couple years.
Why she liked such insufferable people was beyond me.
There is a reason I cut back on my involvement in the scene.
Though it’s only occuring to me now, that’s probably why she gave it up too. Then fell for another.
DAMN YOU, DANCING!!!! *SHAKEN FIST*
*why she put up with such insufferable people to participate in activities she enjoyed
I done did writ up a story for y’all and contacted The Powers That Be to git it posted.
Yay
Meant to be yay!
Huzzah!
Being a red ale this has a nice malt content, little hops and would otherwise be chuggable. Adding a blast of smoked capsicum sounds like it makes all of that moot, but it is somewhat complimentary.
Sounds like I should try this beer.
Today was wasted. I planned to go to the Portsmouth anti-mask ordinance rally which started at 9:30 AM. I hit my snooze button. Some days of not sleeping well caught up with me and I slept the day away. Fuck.
Ah ha! I finally found one!
I think there were others you reviewed that interested me.
If you like smoke, the Rogue Chipotle Ale is another solid one that’s fairly widely distributed (or was last time I looked for it). New Holland has also released a variant of the Dragon’s Milk that’s aged over chilies which is quite good.
Look who is running for Hillsborough County (NH) attorney.
Seriously.
I noticed his signs popping up in my town. I thought to myself, “That Sarwark?” I did a little digging. Yep. That Sarwark.
Oh for fuck’s sake
Are drugs going to fall out of my ass?
Fifteen Minnesotans who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this month have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, including one state resident hospitalized with COVID-19, state health officials say.
The Minnesota Department of Health received the first case report on Thursday and 14 more case reports on Friday, said Kris Ehresmann, the state’s director of infectious diseases, during a briefing Friday with reporters. Minnesotans who tested positive visited multiple campgrounds and bars at the South Dakota event, Ehresmann said, so cases apparently can’t be connected to any one location.
OHMYGOD! THE SKY IS FALLING!
FLATTEN THE CURVE!
That’s what I was thinking. It’s one petson. How is that newsworthy?
You mean…. you’re not panicking? YOU MUST WANT GRANDMA TO DIE!!!1111!1!1!11
I mowed over three baby copperheads yesterday evening.
Baby bunny narrowly escaped mine yesterday. I ran over a nest last spring. A cloud of fluff blasted out the duct, and two survivors managed to run for cover of the nearest hedge. Took the dog by later and I guess those two returned, plus some more stragglers who’d kept their heads down. She gulped em down whole. Good day.
oh. got the mulching kit this year, so now I’ll never know when I run over a bunny nest again. [sad face]
I mean this sincerely. Go fuck yourself.
Not everybody’s Good Day involves firsting a PowerBottom.
Guy who obnoxiously plays the firsting game vs. guy who apparently considers Watership Down a happy book.
It’s like Operation Barbarosa all over again.
We cpuld jkust sit back and wait for them to wear each other down.
I don’t just show up for the first post and call it a day, I fuck a thread way postmortem. My endurance knows no bounds. Cmon man, put your doyouevenknowme gloves on and try again.
Is that why you only show up every few days?
Because I’m either busy being manic or sleeping off depression? yes.
I thought “Watership Down” was a joke combining Titanic and Blackhawk Down into a movie for male audiences, till sometime last year when I saw the titlecard on Amazon.
Did those rabbits eat someone beetgreens unmercifully? Then yes.
If you don’t like Watership Down you can eat hraka.
I do like it, but if you think it is a happy book you only saw the cover and never read it.
IIRC, Watership Down is a laugh riot compared to The Plague Dogs.
dogs trying to be dentists sounds hilari…oh, nm.
One of my grade school teachers started showing us the (1978) animated version one year. She had not watched it previous to showing it to the class based on her reactions.
Why would you show anything to children you hadn’t audited first?
Because you’re a public school teacher?
UCS: Because it’s an animated movie about bunnies!
GT: Private Catholic school…
Shame on you, Sister Mary Agony!
Is it too late for you to demand a refund on your parents’ behalf?
I just started watching an HBO show (Amazon HBO channel) called Beforeigners. People from prior centuries start showing up in Oslo. One former shieldmaid becomes a cop. It’s smart and funny.
Sounds interesting!!
(confession – I often have imaginary conversations with Ben Franklin as if he were visiting our time. He’s kind of a political sounding board for me, as I try to figure out what he would think of X, Y, or Z)
(maybe I should write a series on my conversations with Ben)
Sounds more interesting than most of the shit coming out, so yes. I’d mostly like to see your portrayal of Ben. I assume he’s not the typical powdered-wig-harumphy-shit aristocrat that never existed people seem to think everyone from 1700s was.
In my mind he’s practical and erudite. He’s more of the “Scientist/Party Boy/Bostonian Ben” than “Politician Ben”. And he doesn’t mind my foul language.
Swilling ale from pewter steins in the predawn hours because “one more hand” turned into twenty. Or do y’all play chess?
You sure that’s the actual Ben Franklin and not the notions store?
No, she dug up the real deal and necromanced him back to conversational status. Here, smell him.
Funny coincidence! I had to pick a historical figure to visit with, and I chose Ben Franklin.
I subsequently have imagined him in our modern times, as if he time traveled from the 18th century, because I think he’d be able to wrap his mind around what had happened and then he’d dive right in, for better or for worse.
Awesome! I think he would see a lot of good (technology) and a lot of bad (politics). So he and I often talk about things like airplanes and that morphs into a discussion about govt’s role in aviation. I think he would be like a kid in a candy store with how far we’ve come since he demonstrated electricity at his house parties back in the day.
I’d show him yoga pants and twerking videos. Even the libertarian women are complete nerds.
Thanks, Captain Obvious
You rang?
I would pick Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Any particular reason?
She was pretty badass…I learned about her on Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain”
Lots of reasons, such as when her son Richard was being held for ransom, she wrote a letter to the pope and signed it “Eleanor, by the wrath of God, Queen of England.”
She may have been interesting, but her child rearing skills produced a cannibal (ok it may be apocryphal but I don’t care it is funny) and a King so bad his reign gave us the seeds of liberty as a reaction.
You didn’t get to be medieval king by being nice. It wasn’t a job for moral people.
3 of her 5 sons were kings, 2 of her 3 daughters were queens.
QFT
Hence, “by the wrath of God.”
You also didn’t get to be a medieval king by any other form of merit. Eleanore may have been a wonderful person and interesting to talk with, but lets not pretend there is some merit to her in the fact that she was born to the right father and consequently married off to the right husband, which is what made her sons kings, and her daughters marriageable to kings.
That’s not really how medieval kingship worked. You had to constantly hold onto your throne. It required cunning, decisiveness, diplomacy, and capable generalship. It wasn’t like probating a will. There were always competing claims, and you could bribe an Archbishop to produce pedigrees to back them, and then it was all about how many swords you could muster. Silly headed fanciful girls did not ever wield real power. It’s not a coincidence that Eleanor’s sons all wore crowns, and remember Richard the Lionheart spent most of his reign on Crusade. He was rarely in England. But Eleanor was, and she ruled in his stead.
There’s a joke liberals like to tell about how Bill and Hillary go to her 30th high school reunion and see an old boyfriend of hers, who now owns a car dealership, where his wife is the office manager. Bill says “See there honey, if you’d have married him you’d be the office manager at the Pontiac dealership.” To which Hillary says “If I had married him, he’d be the President.”
That joke is true for Eleanor, and for a few other medieval queens, and we should always remember our Kipling, in all things: the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Then you should pick someone else.
Meant to a reply to cancel.
That’s not really how medieval kingship worked. You had to constantly hold onto your throne. It required cunning, decisiveness, diplomacy, and capable generalship.
Fair enough, but by your own standard let’s look at her sons as kings:
Henry the Young King: Named King by his father, who was alive throughout his ‘reign’ and never gave him any power. rebelled against his father with his brother Richard and was defeated at every turn
Richard: Defeated in Henry’s rebellion, rebelled again, won killed his father (according to legend) caused a pogrom immediately following his coronation, then headed off to play crusader, got confused about where he was supposed to be crusading and went on a spree across the Mediterannean, finally got to the holy land and after some effective battles headed home, was captured by people he had pissed off with the spree in the Med and held for ransom, at which point John (who had been his father’s chosen heir after the rebellion against Henry II, rebelled against Richard. Richard gets released and proceeds to end up at war with France, dies.
John: Well it is John, no need to belabor his awfulness as king.
Did my making a joke tweak you, or was it my disrespect for Eleanore?
More like Eleasnore, ammirte?!?!
(that’s how you do that)
(which one of you was Holding My Beer)
Off the top of my head, I’d pick either Louisa May Alcott (a sentimental favorite) or, if a related group were permitted, Alcott’s acquaintances the Peabody sisters.
Then she arrests people for being racist, right? Pass.
Oh, 2007, nm. Watchlist’d.
I enjoy the “trans temporalists” and her making fun of her partner for being afraid of the evil spirit gluten.
“It’s a dry heat” is absolutely relevant. New Mexico is a wonderful state with a beautiful climate, even if it gets into the high 90s in the summer. Why? BECAUSE IT’S NOT A CLINGING, AWFUL HUMID HEAT.
Outside: 89F, 53%, 95HI
Inside: 73F, 43%
So yeah, I’m thinking go back to sleep, wake up in late Nov.
A high of 89 degrees is considered a pleasant fall day here.
I’ve heard that too. A co-worker who was in Iraq said it was actually somewhat comfortable if you were in the shade, and it only got really terrible if you were near a body of water.
After sunset Iraq was actually nice. It gets cool/the perfect temperature. Sitting around smoking hookah at night was nice. There’s such little shade in Iraq that I don’t even consider that something worth talking about. It was so fucking bright, hot, and sandy that I don’t know how you could call it comfortable.
All of you realize my opinion of this whole dry heat business came about from living in multiple states, including Texas, Florida, and South Carolina? If its above 60, I sweat, regardless of latitude, elevation, or presence of a body of water.
I did the Iraq thing too. From a weather standpoint, it was much worse in Qa’Tar.
This
Fine, but the dry heat thing isn’t a canard, it’s absolute truth. I’ll take 90s in ABQ vs 70s in NYC.
Today is acceptable in NYC – 89º but only 55% humidity. W00t.
I say that as I’m sitting in a climate controlled building, having no interest in being outside. But in between getting my car started and the AC gets cranked, I’m all about Albuquerque weather.
Stayed in Albuquerque a couple of summer nights a few years ago, but didn’t see much of the city. (Mainly drove up to tour Taos Pueblo.) Had stayed in Farmington while visiting Mesa Verde Nat’l Park, and I loved the scenery between Farmington and Albuquerque – mountains on one side of the road, mesa on the other. Would go back to northern NM in a heartbeat.
All of ABQ was being torn up at once for a public transport project when I drove through it a few years ago. I had to tail the local license plates to make sure I was in the correct (temporary) lane.
Sorry to hear about your Mutterschmerz, KK.
I miss NM 🙁
I missed NM so much I brought some home in a bucket.
it’s absolute truth
I’m not here to deny your lived experience.
It’s frigging unbearable in NorCal today. Mid-90s, and supposedly only 37% humidity, but feels ten degrees hotter, likely due to the thick smoke everywhere from the wildfires. It’s hard to see the neighbor’s house through all the smoke.
That’s not smoke and if it were it isn’t due to decades of mismanagement. It’s Newsom’s effusive praise for green energy made manifest.
“Either way, it stinks.”
I’ve occasionally looked into buying some land and putting a container house on it.
I spent quite a bit of time looking at container houses, and I came to the conclusion it would be more efficient (for me, anyway) to just have a load of steel delivered, and build a steel and concrete and glass house. By the time you get through hacking and chopping, it doesn’t seem like you gain much.
Unless you want to live in a box. A small one, at that.
I think you can buy them prefab so you don’t have to cut into them.
You mean like the Zombie Apocalypse House?
I would go for no more than 1200 sq feet. 1000 would be ideal. But I would want to cut a lot of windows in it.
Meh, just build a tiny bungalow. By the time you retrofit a container, it’ll be about the same money.
I was a shipping container house aficionada for a while, as well as swooning over tiny houses, but then realized I’d rather have those things for an OFFICE than a house.
That said, my brother Air BnB’d in a half-size shipping container that was cute as a button. It was in someone’s back yard in a shifty neighborhood that was on the front edge of gentrification. It was yellow (so of course I liked it) and ALMOST my favorite shade.
Construction Yellow is a great color, some pretty greedy appropriation there Caterpillar et all.
(this joke appropriated from Dimitri Martin)
I have a client who is buying up lots in scenic locations and building container houses for Air BnB’s on them. Some of them are pretty interesting looking.
Oh, this was adorable. Great for one person for a 2- or 3-night stay, but not big enough for me for an office.
I have a load of steel in my front yard now, starting Monday it’ll be the new roof. Steel siding, steel roof, hope to get a discount on my insurance.
Happy news for PA! Wolf can suck it.
Good.
OFFS. Might as well just give up and off yourself.
I’m convinced the enhanced suicide rate is an intended effect of the lockdowns.
*of prolonging the lockdowns
TEQUILA!
Codigo “Rosa Blanco” (? It looks like the other Anejos)
“Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.”
I think you can buy them prefab so you don’t have to cut into them.
Where’s the fun in that?
I got sucked into watching this show, one day, about a container house project. I thought, “i’ll watch this. Those things are cool, and easy, and cheap, right? Maybe I’ll learn something.” It was somewhere outside Austin, Texas, I think. They start dragging these metal boxes in and grafting them together, and standing them on end, and building overhangs and porticoes and who-knows-what-all. It was really cool when they were done, I’ll say that, but it was huge and complicated and it rolled across the scales at about $700k. And thy probably could have done all the same stuff with a truckload of steel.
Expansion pack for “Virtual Signal: The Game”
I want it.
Just watched The Swamp. Massie is always awesome. And damn, Matt Gaetz is handsome. (Not meant as faint praise.) It all looks exhausting.
https://amp.thepostmillennial.com/biden-supporter-arrested-for-stealing-trump-hat-from-7-year-old-child/
Good.
Was the hat returned to the kid?
Evidence.
He’s getting a new one from the White House.
Good.
Wow. Way to punk….a kid. Assholes.
Dude, if you haven’t tried stealing candy from babies *shudders recalling the rush*, oh man…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/silent-majority-massive-trump-2020-boat-parade-lake-winnipesaukee-new-hampshire-video/
I hope they don’t lose all their guns.
Winnipesaukee is real? I thought they made it up for “What About Bob?”
/joking
Nice.
It’s the first day of Bike Week. No vendors, which I think was by town decree but I can’t remember. The Clown Prince says if there are more than 100 people, you’ve gotta wear a mask. We’ll see how Bike Week goes.
There are packs of seals swimming barely 10 yards away from the beach. About 2 dozen animals each. Nice to see a seal in the ocean from a beach towel. At least I found something good to say about Cape Cod.
Obligatory, and just to beat Ted’S to the punch.
See, I was thinking of a bunch of seals.
This week in Project Progress
At first, I was looking for the joke.
Then I realized it was a meassure of how far you were getting the border garden bed constructed.
the 2nd two are ripping up the old landscape cloth before I lay down fresh. unpictured was reinflating the yardcart so I can continue moving blocks. I wasn’t going to keep hauling them by hand past that point.
529 blocks to go.
I would have thought you dug the new bed, then laid the border.
Why isn’t this important topic being discussed at the DNC?
I know how Willie Brown would answer.
I became politically active in 2000 after living through the Gore v Bush hanging chad recount. The unhinged lefties were showing flashes of their true colors, and it was alarming.
The recount was obviously meant to push Gore to the front, but the Supreme Court wisely shut it down (on grounds that all votes must be treated the same or something).
That was for 2-3 counties in Florida. At least all the ballots looked the same and there were live voters who cast the ballots, leaving a paper trail.
How in the actual EFF are we going to deal with the all mail-in method? Fraud will be rampant, sob stories will be told. Whoever is eventually declared winner will not be believed to have won by half the country.
Hold on to your butts.
{side note on 2000: when the SC stopped the recount because the integrity of the ballots couldn’t be guaranteed, the media was granted access to the ballots, and they did a full recount. They published quietly in March or April that Bush’s lead over Gore had in fact increased. But to this day, Dems say Bush was “selected, not elected.”}
{side note on 2000: when the SC stopped the recount because the integrity of the ballots couldn’t be guaranteed, the media was granted access to the ballots, and they did a full recount. They published quietly in March or April that Bush’s lead over Gore had in fact increased. But to this day, Dems say Bush was “selected, not elected.”}
I remember that.
I smiled when I read it, and I never liked GWB.
Whoever is eventually declared winner will not be believed to have won by half the country.
“With all votes in, we have 100% for Biden and 100% for Trump…waitaminute….”
I’d like to know how they intend to offer proof that your vote was counted.
You vote was counted – but not for the candidate you put on the ballot.
How do they offer proof with paper ballots?
At least I feed my paper ballot into a machine that goes “ding”* when it reads my vote.
*NB. It doesn’t actually go “ding”.
I is disappoint. : (
It could go “ding”, but we’d have to quadruple your taxes.
I don’t trust that machine. It doesn’t even say who it thinks I voted for.
yes it does, “ding” is short for Dingbat. Never have to change the recording that way.
This is the real danger with the current climate. A lot of our basic institutions necessarily depend on people trusting the process, and we seem to be reaching a point where neither side trusts the other side to follow even the most fundamental of procedures. We are becoming a low trust society and that is not an easily reversed, or trivial change.
Yeah… when you don’t trust the courts and the system to punish wrong doers, it makes a lot more sense to start taking it into your own hands. As much as I like reading comics and watching comic book movies, that’s not a world I want to actually live in.
But to this day, Dems say Bush was “selected, not elected.”
Whenever I hear that from my more left friends, I just note that, had the Supremes gotten involved and declared Gore the winner, it would’ve still been true that the President had been “selected, not elected.”
They hate that. ;-)
Maybe ots just my phone – using the duckduckgo browser app without actually installing an ad blocker, but it seems like the majority of news sites don’t want to work anymore. And for those other sources- that let me read a paragraph and then flash up a login page – f em.
I’m sure they’re working, just give them a week or two to finish loading. Check your CPU meter, should be pegged at 250%. Do you have atleast 128gigs of RAM? That’s bare min for browsing the web nowadays. Huh, they don’t make phones with that much RAM, that’s crazy.
LOL Troll Master Flash does it again.
Even AP can’t totally hand-wave this one away.
Oh.
Well, not all of them…
“During two caucuses before the evening conventions started, the Muslim Delegates and Al lies Assembly and the LGBTQ Caucus meeting, both Tuesday, left out “under God,” from the pledge.“
The anti-left protests in Portland are attracting more people, including the Proud Boys showing up for the first time afaik.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/downtown-portland-braces-for-opposing-rallies-at-noon-saturday-live-updates.html
Mayor Soyboy is on top of it
https://twitter.com/lori08471929/status/1297243460609757185?s=21
LOL that doesn’t even make sense. Oh, I get it. That’s just their “stated” goal. A dog whistle, I suppose.
MUH POST OFFICE
I guess some Federal buildings are safe in downtown Portland.
Today in “no shit”.
They must mean “travel-restricted states”, or did I miss hearing about the NOVID states?
Enh, it’s the NY Post. You take what you can get.
here’s a psychometric chart for “today”
and the winner is……………………………. Rhywun at 76 BTU / lb of air !!!!!! * insert Kermit going yay gif *
It is hot as bawls in the Big Apple; I’ll add some other comments in a moment
Ooops: Rhywun won at 39 BTU/lb (at least I check my work)
These are the temps and humidity as reported here or some bad hour I found at the airport
2/ Wylie is a close second (wherever he is)
3/ TUS
4/ MEM (I played golf!)
5/ SFO is having a bad day
6/ SAN is having a bad day
and the real winner is……………………………………………………….PDX around 27 BTU/lb