Growing up as Americans, we always hear about a holiday that occurs in December but nobody seems to celebrate. At least nobody I know does….
This is my review of Smaltz (He-brew) Golden Jelly Donut Hanukkah Beer:
This holiday is known as Boxing Day Kwanzaa, the first night of which is to be celebrated today. It is a holiday many were exposed to by a robot on Futurama who was doomed to give away a book called, “What the Hell is Kwanzaa?” every year for 1000 years.
Dooooomed.
So how did this come about? It all began in 1965 in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. A person named Marquette Frye was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol by a police officer named Lee Minikus. For context: Watts was the type of neighborhood that had schools that were technically integrated but in 1965 that meant it was 99% black.
“Sorry Robot Satan, I gotta hand these out.”
Naturally, hilarity ensued.
What does this have to do with a holiday people make fun of on carton sitcoms?
In 1966 (Doctor) Maulana Karenga, a professor at Cal State University, Long Beach, and author of the book: Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture started Kwanzaa in 1966 as a way to bring African Americas together following the 1965 Watts Riots. It is based on seven principles:
Umoja (unity): “To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.”
Kujichagulia (self-determination): “To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.”
Ujima (collective work and responsibility): “To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.”
Ujamaa (cooperative economics): “To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.”
Nia (purpose): “To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.”
Kuumba (creativity): “To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.”
Imani (faith): “To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.”
More information is at the link above. All of this may sound all too much like an idealistic crossover episode between BET and The Hallmark Channel. To that I remind you of the Western Front in 1914 and for the record, Watts today is significantly more level headed. Perhaps Karenga’s effort wasn’t in vain. While it is a mostly secular holiday, there are elements of spiritual origins to the rituals involved and many who celebrate it will celebrate other winter solstice holidays.
Do people really celebrate a made up holiday? Yes, but not any more made up than Christmas. After all its a Pagan holiday early Christians adopted for easy conversion, among other reasons. It is easily proven because actual Christians say this. Christmas simply has a few century’s head start.
This is actually an interesting beer. I believe its an amber ale but also has notes of bitter, dark fruit. Is it jelly donut sweet? Thankfully, no. It paired really well with the Christmas cookies I was eating at the time. Yes I did that for the lulz. Happy Kwanzaa, everyone! Smaltz (He-brew) Golden Jelly Donut Hanukkah Beer: 3.2/5
This is actually an interesting beer. I believe its an amber ale but also has notes of bitter, dark fruit. Is it jelly donut sweet? Thankfully, no. It paired really well with the Christmas cookies I was eating at the time. Yes I did that for the lulz.
Sounds interesting.
Raspberry is surprisingly good with Beer,
I’m seeing Danny Partridge walking with the Black power guys,
There are some really good sour beers with a raspberry hint.
Lagunitas Dark Swan, you should be able to find it right now where you live
Thanks. I don’t drink anymore though.
Raspberry syrup is also a standard addition to Berliner Weiss to cut the tartness.
Waaay back in the early 90’s, before the word “brewpub”, I lived near a German restaurant that brewed its own beer, and they had a raspberry hefeweizen, which was their regular hefeweizen with some raspberry syrup. IIRC it was pretty good on occasion, although I usually just drank their lager or bock.
I’m seeing Jan Brady with the Black Power guys.
That was a real episode, You didn’t know that? of all people?
I was referring to this
Ha!
I’ve had alcohol 3 days in a row. No beer description in the world can entice me to have more. I’m done with booze for the week, except tonight. Maybe.
You’ve totally sold me on a future plan.
https://youtu.be/Ls1M9wCOa70
Nice!! RV drag race on I-90!
Or, Cannonball run, but with RVs.
I see it has a built-in ski storage compartment 😉
I fear I will need a custom layout. I want a larger bed, larger bathroom, and a larger kitchen. I would sacrifice almost all common area space; I don’t plan on having guests.
Same…washer/dryer, dishwasher, more closets, less seating (as long as the dinette converts to a sofa with a view of the TV, I don’t need any additional seating)
Have I mentioned how much I love the Mercedes Unimog? Particularly when converted into off-road campers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-gG4GnRfs
Also, NO WETROOM EVER for me. I need a separate shower.
I would like one of those sit-up bathtubs, but I think that might be a bit ambitious
OMG! My grandmother had one (the kind with the wee side door) and I LOVED to use it when visiting her.
So, a back seat full of polacks ?
Prior to the rig I shared on the Zoom/drunkathon last night I had a 32′ toy hauler I pulled around. Toy haulers have all kinds of space for extra shit and are a genius idea for those who want extra room. I was going to put a washer and dryer in the “toy” part but decided to trade it in and go with the truck bed camper so I could pull a boat. Then my money flow situation drastically changed and now I own no camper except the Excursion I built a bed for.
I wasn’t impressed with that one.
I would like most of my living space taken up by desk/computer/office/craft space. And screw black water. I would prefer an incinerating toilet.
Of course, this would only happen if the kids were gone and something happened to Mr. Mojeaux.
What I’d like NOW is a small(ish) utility trailer transformed into an office.
Well, I guess I should just spike that series of articles on cocktails I was contemplating.
Aren’t cocktails spiked by definition?
No. No. Noooo. Don’t drop it.
Powerline, these are real good,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/the-week-in-pictures-stimulus-edition.php
Nice. I like the tar and feather one.
and of course the “real” libertarian one.
HE, you probably know this but the local paper was bought out by the LA Times about the same time you got here. It was much more conservative in the Copley days.
No. I didn’t know any history of Cali newspapers.
I assumed they are all liberal.
I used the read the San Jose Mercury when I would come out that way for work.
OC Register might still be halfway sane; I don’t know.
Alan Bock (RIP) used to write for the OC Register.
Name rings a bell (not to be confused with Nock; you wouldn’t but I might).
Albert Jay Nock.
🙂
Yeah, him.
Swiss made the Zed cookies didn’t he?
Gack.
Bless you?
Japan bans entry from all countries to block new strain’s spread
There’s always going to be a “new strain”
Yep. And not a single politician has a “Plan B” for what to do about that inconvenient little factoid. They’ve been pinning all their hopes on “the vaccine.”
I’ve got an idea! We can shut stuff down for 2 weeks to flatten the curve!
Put every government-sector worker in lockdown and let everyone else go about their lives.
“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat”
Again?
Nuthin up ma sleeve… Presto!
I’m certain this will work just fine.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Hold my beer.
—Fauci
Sakoku’s back in style, baby!
I hear steakhouses prevent the spread of covid.
Reference https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/16/national/suga-coronavirus-party/
RAYCISST!
Cookies and beer = monstrous farts
Hawt.
Happy Kwanzaa!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bASvwP2U_m8
I’m celebrating by doing white people shit like eating a vegetable medley to help increase my fiber intake and watching MST3K.
I encountered the good Doctor Karenga on a flight some years ago. He had an entourage consisting of young, comely females, all with Afro hairstyles and overtly hostile expressions. I didn’t try to engage him in conversation, given his violent criminal history.
Racist
Yes, he likely is.
You’re lucky it was him and not his alter ego Mr. Big.
He only wants to be with you.
Oh. Exactly as I pictured him. I did zero independent research in Karenga, himself.
GoFundme to help PA restaurants fight Wolf’s orders.
How long until that gets shut down?
They should have stated at IndieGoGo.
Indie doesn’t toss people out for ideological differences.
The Atillis Gym GoFundMe is still up. I donated to that one back in May.
And… the dishwasher is broken. Thanks 2020.
I’m sorry your kids are broken.
Marry a new one.
I’m sorry, that came out wrong. Let me try again:
Marry a new one?
No worse than my joke.
What kind was it?
If it needs replacing don’t get a Bosch unless you enjoy bending down and manually rinsing the filter (WTH, Germans?).
I love my Bosch. Super quiet and and almost no problems (that weren’t of our own causing). Cleaning the filter doesn’t bother me and less frequent after switching from the crap regular detergents to Cascade Fryer Boilout.
My mom’s Bosch just died, but it was 15 years old.
Huzzah for phosphates! I’m off to ACE for some TSP right now.
Can (and should) I be using TSP in the dishwasher?
Handyman Google says yes.
Frigidaire, cheap slumlord model. I’m hoping it’s just plug or fuse (no power/lights at all); I’ve been watching fix-it videos and those seem like easy procedures. Also, watching those videos, I learned about the may complaints concerning the Bosch filter system.
Ha! What we had also (though from the house-flipper, not the slum-lord) and replaced with GE Cafe series. The cycle is longer, but it actually dries and is much quieter.
Miele or GTFO.
(Full disclosure: have owned [or “inherited” with the purchase of a domicile] two Bosches, an Asko, a Miele and the 31-year old POS Whirlpool we’re stuck with at our present duplex until we can get the kitchen reno’d this summer, and the two best were the Asko [super-quiet!] and the Miele, which was very quiet and built like a tank. My vote: we’re getting a new Miele this coming summer if I have anything to say about it, preferably one of the 220V/240V models that can do a load of dishes in 20 minutes…)
My lottery dream kitchen involves a commercial high-temp machine – https://www.katom.com/cat/door-type-dishwashers.html
Those are beautiful. Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
Wash, rinse, & sanitize (with 180° water) in 115 seconds.
Be still, my beating heart!
Chuck em. Get paper plates.
We too are having dishwasher issues.
Making it go through a cycle with just vinegar and TSP. Will report back.
New phone arrived.
Kept pushing the button to turn it on going “why won’t it turn on?”
Plugged it in, got 61% battery, still won’t turn on.
Checked manual…
The volume and power buttons are reverse of what they were on my old phone. I’d been pressing “+ Volume” expecting the phone to turn on.
I learned this morning that the charging port on my phone is failing. I am not happy about this.
Is it capable of the inductive charging or will it necessitate a new phone?
Pixel 3a XL, so no wireless charging. I’m going to try to clean it out well and hope that fixes it.
I had an issue with my port and replaced the charging cable- that worked great. The problem seems that the charge part slowly deforms the cable plus. It’s an inexpensive fix if it works.
I tried a couple of different cables and plugs, all of them had the same issue, which leads me to believe it’s the port.
I have one cable that is the same way. I just threw it out so it didn’t deform the ports.
Amazon Kindles are notorious for having a shitty USB charger port.
I’m glad that one main charger standard has emerged. I am sad that micro-usb is what they picked.
Amen to that! The lightening (thunderbolt) connector is/was superior in every respect.
My battery died right in the middle of hosting Glib zoom, so I just passed out,
I have some stupid device health app bitching about me disabling google play services, but it wont let me turn off notifications from that piece of shit I don’t plan to use, or disable the device health app that keeps bitching. So to stop making noises I had to mute notifications, so I don’t hear text messages.
Fucking useless designers need to realize not everyone wants your shit.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/861844339/bronze-silver-french-knife-guillotine
Too bad they don’t offer a woodchipper option.
Watched WW84 last night.
2.5 hours of total crap. She spends most of the movie wandering around in street clothes researching Evil Artifact and only suits up and kicks bad-guy ass – you know, the reason people watch superhero movies – for a couple of quick scenes. The Bad Guy / Evil Artifact’s powers are nonsensical BS. At least twice during the movie, my wife said “oh god, they’re not really going to do [obvious trope], are they?”, and then they did [obvious trope].
Hollywood Movie entertainment no longer is produced with American audiences in mind.
They are catering to China, where the real money is to be made on movies.
Netflix and other streaming is for Americans.
It’s 12:08 so past noon making it time to get into the hipster twelve pack of beer I bought for the weekend to get me out of my drinking rut and expand my horizons. First up is this.
That’s a rather pretentious write-up; I hope you enjoy it anyway.
It’s not horrible but then my go to beer is Mich ultra. I am not much of a beer snob but I think I need to work on the pretentious side of my personality to help with my story telling. A lady walked into a hardware store.
I think your story telling is just fine. It’s the constant interruptions from the peanut gallery what sets them astray.
*narrows gaze*
Traitor
Next up is this. The lady in the hardware store bought a hinge.
I have had this one before and it is good. As the lady was checking out the clerk asked, “screws for the hinge?”
Went to a brewery to complete my passport for the year. Sipping a nice brown, and had a faster of a good dunkel, and a well made Marzen. The growler I brought will be filled with either the dunkel or the brown.
As the lady was checking out the clerk asked, “screws for the hinge?”
These euphemisms.
That wasn’t a euphemism, but she took it that way and replied, “no but I will blow you for that toaster.” Next up is this. and then probably a nap.
🙂
Today I learned that Yaphet Kotto had a record. https://youtu.be/gpRyr3dvSck
Armed Robbery? Bad acting?
Selling loosies.
Smirnoff and oj, Perrier. Might chuck an Emergen-C in the next one.
Bourbon, black cherry juice, and ginger ale. I really need to find a different mixer; I’m drinking 2 or 3 ginger ales per day and that can’t be good.
Diet ginger ale?
I’ve never had a diet drink where the sweetener didn’t taste like poison. I have this wonderful cook/history book and will likely try to make my own once my life becomes a bit more stable.
Diet Canada Dry is one of the most passable fakes after Coke Zero.
I’ll give it a whirl; Canada Dry, particularly the new BOLD flavor, is my usual brand.
The Cock and Bull diet ginger ale is excellent.
Coffee is all I’ve had so far (well, and a low carb cheesecake slice).
Going to switch to Diet Coke (MAGA, bitches) after noon.
I’m making “poor man’s” stroganoff today. Instead of sliced beef and fresh portobello shrooms, it uses ground beef, canned shrooms, cream of shroom soup, onion, etc.
Still damned tasty, and way cheap. Nutmeg, fenugreek leaves, sour cream, wine, Worcestershire sauce, a little grey poupon.
It’ll do.
No shame in that game.
Agreed. Would. ?
I’m doing Hamburger and Mac and Cheese, that’s poor folks food, tasty though,
I like this recipe and it is a good Dave Ramsey approved poor folks food. I put some sort of meat in it though.
Poor people food
Bookmarked, Thanks
More Poor people food: https://www.welcometoclaraskitchen.com
Heh. I like that one of the “depression-era” displayed recipes is cooked in an All-Clad sauté pan. I own two All-Clads (both sauciers ’cause they’re awesome), and between the two of them they’re worth more than every other pot and pan I own.
I bought both sauciers during my Mom’s final days in an Edmonton hospice. It was a shock to the system to watch her slowly die, and it got me to thinking about many things, including “Why am I waiting to get stuff I want for the kitchen?” I lingered in the kitchen store for about a half an hour, dithering over the purchase until one of the nice ladies asked if there was anything I wanted. I still quivered a bit as I handed over the credit card.
Weird the way some memories crop up.
That sounds like a bittersweet memory, for sure.
It does hit a point where you have to start thinking “I’ve passed the ‘saving for the future’ point and it’s now ‘the future'”, even if it’s just a nice pan.
I lived beneath my means for so long it was hard to actually spend money on things like “a non-shitty couch”.
It’s easier if it’s something that’s going to last years and years, like those All-Clads.
“Buy once, cry once.”
That’s hard to do when you don’t know if expensive stuff is any better than cheap stuff, which is a quickly growing problem (at least, in tools). Craftsman is no longer as fabulous as they once were and Pyrex is no longer what made Pyrex the good stuff.
Ah, there was a much loved restaurant in the old Lansing train depot called Clara’s. Still miss it. Their Sunday brunch buffet was legendary. sigh
Closed 5-6 years or so ago. The building has stood empty ever since.
Pan fried mash potato patties from last night’s dinner with sausages and hot milk tea. Maybe hit up the pizza joint that’s shutting down Thursday for supper tonight.
Pot of tea with honey. But the sun’s getting pretty close to the yardarm, and I’m looking forward to an Old Fashioned or two with the ribeye. I just cracked open a new bottle of Regan’s Orange Bitters #6 to play with.
Alright, the Upstart Crow 1603 Christmas Lockdown Special was awesome.
So Good! still watching!
“and a beer coaster”…….LOL
“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat”
That trick never works.
A prohibition on residential area protests in Newfields, NH
The protests at the governor’s house against his mask mandate are the impetus. Depending on the source, the request for the ordinance either came from the police (state and municipal) or the governor himself.
Note the Michael Sununu on the selectboard list. That’s yet another of the governor’s brothers.
Oh, it was the governor. I have no inside knowledge and this is the first I’ve heard of it, but it was the governor.
I simply reported on what the sources said.
(I think the governor made the request.)
Pretty sure that is unconstitutional but that has never stopped them before or I would own a Tommy gun.
+1 M1918, Panzerfaust, M134
Between this and the hissy fit mentioned before about getting pushback from the legislature, he sounds like a thin skinned little bitch. Sorry NH voters, this is why we shouldn’t have hereditary rulers.
Right to petition for redress of grievances means being allowed to do so in way that doesn’t inconvenience government officials or force them to listen, let alone actually act, on such petitions.
“he sounds like a thin skinned little bitch”
Those who ascend to power via hereditary title usually are. You spend your whole life being told you’re a special caliber of human being and eventually you get resentful of anyone who dares disagree,
I didn’t vote for him, in the primary or the general.
His wiki page.
He has been good on guns and taxes. His most recent Democrat opponent, Dan Feltes, I think would have been worse. Until Feltes lost the election, Feltes was very open about wanting a longer, harder, more extensive lockdown than what Sununu implemented. Feltes also said he would have imposed a mask mandate long ago. Only after Feltes lost the election did Feltes, a former state senator, start talking about “how the legislature needs to rein in Sununu”.
When I look at Sununu’s biography, I see someone whose family has paved the way for him. I doubt he has experienced much in the way of hardship or failure. The wiki page says he is an avid rugby player. I find this hard to believe.
I played rugby with him at MIT, that detail is true.
Battlespace prep
The nation’s first two coronavirus vaccines smashed scientists’ and health officials’ expectations with roughly 95 percent efficacy and no major safety concerns.
But there aren’t enough doses to go around — and if the next vaccines in the pipeline are merely good instead of great, they could be a hard sell to a skeptical public.
Vaccine makers AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are poised to release safety and efficacy data from late-stage trials as early as January, federal health officials say. Yet there are already signs that AstraZeneca’s shot could fall well short of existing vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer. Early data released in November showed the AstraZeneca vaccine was just 62 percent effective at the intended dose.
Scientists and public health experts worry that consumers, faced with one option that is markedly different from others, could refuse a less-effective vaccine — even if that is the only one available to them. Polls show that nearly 40 percent of U.S. adults are hesitant to take any Covid-19 vaccine. Anything that reinforces that hesitancy could threaten the country’s ability to reach herd immunity and bring the pandemic to an end.
tl;dr- Don’t throw that mask away.
I am about 99% certain that my indifferent mask usage had nothing to do with why I haven’t had so much as a sniffle in more than a year.
I am more ready to credit some combination of living alone, blood type, vitamins, not letting randos breathe in my face for fifteen minutes at a time, and any of a half dozen other theories I’ve heard, plus any theories they’re not telling us yet.
Knock on wood.
I credit my lack of ‘Rona on a robust immune system, which I keep strong like bull with poor personal hygiene.
Bum hygiene FTW.
+1 nosocomial petri dish
My wife did mention that the workout clothes I’m wearing “smell like bad cheese”, so there are limits.
In my defense, I think it’s the chest strap from my heart rate monitor.
I credit mine on my firm belief that about 1 year ago, I already had it. 3-4 weeks later, Jugsy had the same thing, and as I sat with her with her GP, the guy said “I dunno- just some virus. You dont have pneumonia and you dont have the flu. Its going around SW Ohio. Ill give you something for the cough, but you’ll have that for a couple weeks.”
About 1/2 the employees at work have been out with it, either real or faked (the Teamsters, in agreement with the employer, are VERY generous in paid time off for suspect ‘vid), yet Im still un-infected.
Mr Mojeaux was sick in Feb. Went to the ER. They said, “It’s not pneumonia but we don’t know what it is so we’re going to call it pneumonia. Follow up with a pulmonologist.” Well, that bitch was worse than useless.
I credit mine on my firm belief that about 1 year ago, I already had it.
#metoo
Well, immunity from a previous infection, supplements I take due to the “low-carb” (not so much this month) lifestyle that includes Zinc and a ton of Vitamin-D, and my daily alcohol intake.
The last mosquito that bit me is still in Betty Ford, recovering.
I caught a cold four years ago in Tokyo or Seoul. I must have the same immunity against coronavirus as the Japanese and Koreans.
Watching Love and Bullets on Amazon. Chuck Bronson, Henry Silva, et al. Violence. Deadpan humor. Chuck fucking Bronson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Bullets_(1979_film)
Henry Silva and Strother Martin? Sold!
I watched this the other day and really enjoyed it; but, I would watch Joe Don Baker make lunch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outfit_(film)
Robert Ryan ?
Ooohh and Joanna Cassidy. I used to be a barista in a coffee shop in LA back in 2000-2003. Joanna was one of my regular customers. Nice lady.
here’s a Disc Tournament with No color commentary, just the players mic’d up, a fine example of how all disc golf is played, just a good time,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GenOMK87P1U
https://img1.etsystatic.com/112/0/12554892/il_fullxfull.999834983_4ks5.jpg
So… that was an interesting trip today. I got to learn what a shattering growler looks like (brewery staff’s fault), and see a stuck snowplow trying to get towed out by a pick up truck (in such a manner that if it started working, one of the vehicles would not survive).
zoom tonight?
I was planning on it, standard link.
Cool,
Weren’t you cursing his name for his stupid sexy Zoom invites, just the other night?
Neph? never, me Maybe……
Google-gobble, gooble-gobble, one of us, one of us!
I’m heading to the local brewpub for some dinner tonight. I might drop in afterwards.
Experts and their opinions
China will leapfrog the U.S. to become the world’s largest economy by 2028, according to a new report by an economic think tank, helped by its rapid and successful response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic while its Western rivals lost control of the virus.
The British Centre for Economics and Business Research released its annual report on Saturday, suggesting that the economic fallout of the pandemic means China will surpass the U.S. five years earlier than previously estimated.
“For some time, an overarching theme of global economics has been the economic and soft power struggle between the United States and China,” the CEBR wrote as quoted by Reuters. “The COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding economic fallout have certainly tipped this rivalry in China’s favour.”
The pandemic originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, before spreading worldwide. China quickly introduced draconian restrictions to snuff out the spread, especially in Wuhan where the entire city was sealed off from the rest of the country for 76 days.
The tough measures—enabled by China’s authoritarian system—appear to have stopped the pandemic in China. Beijing has reported 95,460 cases and 4,770 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. But elsewhere the situation has been much worse. Worldwide, there have been nearly 80 million confirmed cases and more than 1.7 million deaths.
Uh huh.
One party dictatorship and slave labor will make us great. Why has nobody thought of this before?
Another “fact” filled article based on “projections”. When has a projection in the world of science ever been accurate?
The fact that they believe the Covid numbers China is throwing out, invalidates the entire article.
This. Don’t trust China, etc., etc.
That, and the economic numbers China is throwing out.
Taking everything Communists say at face value gets you the first half of GIGO.
Our real problem is demographics. Some thing like 1/4 to 1/3 of women under 30 have no interest in men (and given the way our society has feminized a large cohort of their male peers, I don’t blame them). No babies, no future. I should be dead before that plays out, so I’ve got that going for me, anyway.
“I should be dead before that plays out, so I’ve got that going for me, anyway.”
Amen Brother,
China has their own demographic issues. They’re still in track to get old before they get rich, afaik.
Babies are an under-discussed part of the US immigration debate, imo.
No worries Dean, I’m happy to fill the gap in their interest IYKWIMAITYD.
There’s plenty of Q to go around.
One newspaper I do read regularly here is Epoch Times. Sure, they were founded by Falun Gong folks, but they are 100% correct about the CCP.
They print and deliver the paper editions all around California for the non inconsequential number of Chinese expats. Taiwan too.
Well isn’t that convenient for China.
If only we’d had an authoritarian in charge here in the US, instead of the fascist nazi totalitarian dictator OMB.
“Beijing has reported 95,460 cases and 4,770 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.”
There are people walking around out there who are stupid enough to believe this. Be aware.
Had some delicious beer on tap today:
Cigar City Mead and Cider Apple Pie – one is delicious. Would not drink 2
Alcatraz Double Cold Brew – the best I can describe this as is sparkling coffee. No beer taste. A little effervescence. It was 9% ABV. Glad I had a half pint
Bells… Something. Larry’s Latest? — Another quality beer by the guys at Bells
Bell’s always works,
Cheers!
The man in brown dropped off two new wall cabinets for the laundry room.
I got them assembled today.
A quick survey says there is only one stud where one of the cabinets go. Same for the other cabinet. Not good enough.
I shall ponder the problem until tomorrow.
So you have two studs total?
Ledger boards top and bottom should work. 1×4 should work and not stick out too much.
They are both going into the corners of the mud-room/laundry. One cabinet is 21 inches wide. The stud is 14 inches from the corner. The other cabinet is 18 inches wide. So there is one stud again about 13 – 14 inches from the corner.
So yes, I need to put up ledger boards or some equivalent before I put up the cabinets.
Hyperbole will have a better answer than I, I’m sure.
Who is this MLW who is so wise in the ways of Carpentry?
Bravo! Good Lady!
Sadly, the result of having a piece of shit house and not enough money.
We will need carpentry skills in the post apocalypse.
I’m going to have to get GlibFit before I can go back to DIY. You need strength and stamina for that shit.
Time and Patience, strength is for young men and old fools,
Have you tried to mud a wall with a bum shoulder?
Strength and stamina are nothing to sneeze at.
First, learn to read a tape measure!
FFS!
16″ on center
Well, when you keep insisting to us that 5 inches is 10…
LOL GT. ^5
I have been contemplating how the weird hobbies my wife and I have will benefit us after the apocalypse.
Brewing, orchard management, vineyard management, archery, some wood working, some leather working.
The wife has so many tools, I can’t keep track. But let’s say there are at least two dozen totes full of raw wool and alpaca. She has two carding drums; five or six spinning wheels; three or for floor looms; a dozen or more table-top looms.
We have fabric stashed in every nook and corner of the house. And I have three or four half-skins of garment-weight leather sitting around as well.
Going Caveman I see…
Medieval
In the coming Bad Times, tool making will be the necessary ability, no power tools, but sharp drill bits and saw blades laying around, we need to go old school, and I think we will,
So blankets are my bugaboo, but I don’t know why. I like thrift stores because they’re like a treasure hunt. Every time I go to one I see if they have any good blankets/comforters and buy as many as I can.
I can sew. I can crochet.
Other than that, I’m mostly useless.
::raises hand:: I can knit socks and gloves. Slowly.
I can do Macrame’
Specialization makes you qealthy, generalization helps you survive.
My skillset leans more manipulation, intimidation, conflict . . . termination, that sort of thing.
I’ll get by.
I’m going to travel the wastelands , telling the history of glam, power pop, punk rock, and indie rock. I will play the songs and sing the words of the great acts of the late 20th Century.
I’ll probably starve to death after two weeks…..
Did you check the thermostat?
I am so lucky with certain little things.
Where I live, which is a Census Designated Place (no mayor), there are a few little shops clustered in an area just prior to the residential area.
One of them is a grocer/deli/liquor store that is is owned and operated by a family from Montenegro. They keep some strange and wonderful items stocked on the shelf.
They happened to let it slip that they are huge Trump supporters. In fact, I think every foreign born person I’ve met in this community are anti-leftist. Probably because they all came from either former Soviet Bloc countries, Cuba, or China.
Only SoCal born, raised, and “educated” people are foolish enough to be pro democratic socialism.
“Only SoCal born, raised, and “educated” people are” Smart enough to leave…..
So, would you go by
Yusef Escaped CA
or
Yusef Escaped AZ?
Escaped, then Ran..
Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!
Just to die in the Northlands…..
At least you have the car-alarm Congressman (srsly).
I am missing that reference.
Is that an Issa thing? He’s my congresscritter.
Yeah; was trying not to doxx you.
There, what you did, was seen,
What a great handle! However did you think of it?
Thanks for the thought.
I doxxed myself pretty bad when I set up a GoFundMe for one of our Glibs in need though. Full name and everything.
Issa?
Had to queue up the 2nd football game on Amazon Prime. I’m not quite sure why we’re watching it but Mr. Mojeaux can only take so many ancient astronaut theorists in one day.
Was it aliens ?
I’m not gonna say…but…
Of course. Aliens make everything better.
Well, I’m not saying it was aliens . . . .
Fun times? Texting from German to Spanish…..
But you both speak English…..
Are you bride shopping online again?
Umm, no, thats the last thing I need, thanks for asking….
Never underestimate the “restorative powers” of a young Russian mail-order bride. Or is that Internet bride? I can never keep up with these young-‘uns and their fancy tricknologies these days…
After Chernobyl, my penis is falling off
Aside: Pripyat is one of my pet interests. For whatever reason, Chernobyl made a far bigger impression on me than the Challenger blowing up.
What about the destruction of the Klingon home world?
Oh wait—that was a really unsubtle analog to the Chernobyl thingy.
I barely know what a Klingon is.
Also, I am still a pro-nuclear-energy devotee.
I barely know what a Klingon is.
Nonsense. You’ve seen Michelle Obama plenty of times.
Moe, have you ever followed any of the YouTube videos of a ‘Tuber called “Bald and Bankrupt”? British chap, spends a lot of time traipsing through the former Soviet Union. He has a couple of 20-minute-plus vids from his travels through the Chernobyl exclusion zone which are fascinating, not the least because he gets to know some of the people who are still living there. He’s rumoured to be a former (or perhaps not-so-former) British intelligence agent, and is fluent in Russian.
I used to follow Bionerd23, but apparently she got doxxed, banned, and kicked out of the Ukraine.
I’ll check your dude out, thanks!
In that vein, I recently saw a video about Lake Karachay. What a shitshow, imagine Chernoybl spread out over several decades.
I see that one on the science channel quite often, mostly on “What on Earth?”
It is a good thing that the people of Watts taught the people of Portland, Chicago, NYC, Minneapolis, Kenosha, etc. a good lesson in the long-term consequences of rampant lawlessness and destroying businesses.