Not what I would say.
Man, it must be Monday. Not particularly good links out there – or maybe the news cycle is just in a late winter slough. But, Glibs demand links! Aktchually, they just want the fresh comment space, but I like to tell myself sometimes people look at the links.
So, here are some links to look at:
- Poorly written, speculative and none too informative – I mean, will there be bourbon on board or not?!
- I am sure that Dementia Joe will be all over China because of this stuff. On second though, nah.
- Sports link!
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! A real “Meeting of Minds” (apologies to the fine old series). Maybe it is a cunning plan to give SugarFree more material.
- Mind your own business! We have bad news we are dealing with here.
All complaints about the quality of the links will be directed to our Editor at Large, Mr. S. SMITH.
“or maybe the news cycle is just in a late winter slough”
It seems that way. Also, journalists don’t know what to do now that Trump is gone.
Of course, practising actual journalism is totally out of the question.
Has if they could even identify actual journalism.
I can just see them, walking around with pillows, looking for something to smother…
But not those evil nazi pillows from that cartoon villain guy with the moustache.
Well, that would require doing work and stuff like those icky deplorables.
Who is that woman in your avatar, btw? Is it different pics of the same one?
Another model. Someday, long in the future, our Moral and Intellectual Betters™ will finally allow me to photograph new models . . .
There have been a few instances where reporters have pressed the Biden regime.
EDITOR SMITH GLAD HELP!
Maybe Charlie can give Joe a homeopathic dementia cure?
Being European royalty, it would more likely be a syphilis cure.
I thought that was hemophilia?
Royals can afford more than one.
…not that I have any basis other than his general goofiness and social ineptitude, but I doubt Chuckles has has more than three sexual partners in his lifetime.
Which might help? Because it will most certainly hurt.
Colloidal silver to the rescue!
A new blue man group?
He’d be better off meeting with Harris.
Too obvious.
““This trend is being driven by an asymmetry in the border protection of raw materials and processed products: as a result of the border protection, certain raw materials are twice as expensive in Switzerland as abroad,” said a statement by Chocosuisse on Monday. ”
What if they hide nuclear-powered greenhouses inside the alps?
Shhhh!
How much cacao and sugar do they grow in Switzerland?
All of it.
If the Swiss don’t want their chocolate, they can send it my way.
@Shpip: was there flour dredging before the egg wash? Because honestly that potatoes and eggs sounds delicious.
It’s been nearly forty years. I honestly don’t remember.
Grandma was game about me “helping out” in the kitchen, but when it came to something as potentially injurious as the deep fryer, I was told in no uncertain terms to keep my distance. Therefore, I never had any experience in making the dish myself.
I keep looking for a recipe on the intertoobs, if only to make myself some for nostalgia’s sake.
Yes, you wouldn’t want to disrupt the endocrine system of space turtles.
Environment? In space?
Without reading the article . . . .
The satellites may operate in space, but the are manufactured on earth and launched from Earth.
And industrial accidents happen.
And launch accidents happen.
But that’s probably not what they are worried about.
Anything useful as a monopropellant tends to be highly reactive. Good luck with that.
IIRC there was a very large hydrazine accident back in the 80s
“Ex-President Donald Trump was being interviewed by Steven Hilton on Fox News on Sunday night. He stated that he requested to have 10,000 National Guard troops at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but that Nancy Pelosi decided against it.
Trump also re-affirmed that he doesn’t support violent riots of any sort, including the one that took place on Jan. 6:
“I think it’s terrible. I hate to see it.”
“I will tell you that it’s very interesting, however, when you see Washington burning, and when you see Seattle burning, and Portland burning, and all these other places burning with Antifa and the radical left, nothing seems to happen; nobody seems to be bothered by that. And I hate to see that difference.”
“But I hated to see the riot at the Capitol. I hate to see any of that. But it is a double standard.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-to-interviewer-capitol-is-controlled-by-pelosi
“Trudeau Liberals want ‘vote by telephone’ option, more mail-in ballots in federal election”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-liberals-want-vote-by-telephone-option-more-mail-in-ballots-in-federal-election
What could possibly go wrong?
Which candidate is Simon Cowell endorsing?
The Masked Politician!
Wasn’t that Sarah Palin?
The VPILF.
Make it a 900 number to help with the costs.
Headline: “BTS elected Prime Minister in stunning upset!”
Just when I thought voting couldn’t get any stupider, here comes “vote by phone”.
Vote by proxy?
We’ve already got that – ballot harvesting.
Vote by proxy-phone?
Wah! Republicans do it too! /idiots
Yeah and it’s equally retarded.
JTFC!
/fires up a wardialer
[whistles perfect 2600 tone]
Probably don’t want to associate yourself too closely with Cap’n Crunch.
/remembers the old /. threads when those allegations were flying.
Don’t give us ideas, Canada. ?
Is your voting machine running? Better go catch it.
“Joe Biden’s top aide Cedric Richmond says White House will ‘start acting now’ on reparations for African-Americans by tackling issues including free college tuition
“President Joe Biden ‘s senior adviser Cedric Richmond said the White House is ‘going to start acting now’ on reparations for African-Americans
“Richmond said on Axios on HBO that Biden remains supportive of H.R. 40, which if passed would create a commission to study reparations
“The former Louisiana lawmaker didn’t directly answer a question about direct payments to descendants of slaves
“Instead he pointed to policies Biden backed, such as free tuition for students attending historically black colleges and universities
“‘I think that you are well on your way,’ he said of plans to have students attend HBCUs and community colleges for free”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9312575/Biden-aide-Cedric-Richmond-says-White-House-start-acting-reparations.html
2030 census: 98% of all Americans with children under 20 identify as African-American.
They are never going to get that free TV or car they think is coming their way. The government will hold their lunch money.
The TVs they can get during the next mostly peaceful protest.
So, how long will it take for HBCUs to become majority-majority following this plan, and how long after that will the hand-wringing commence? I don’t know anything about these schools, but if any of them have decent education programs and are made tuition-free you will see a surge in non-black applications, which unless they have strong affirmative action programs that could be upheld in court means that their student bodies will inevitably diversify. A quick internet search indicates that HBCUs collectively have a non-black student enrollment of 22%, meaning if this is “reparations” it’s going to go to a lot of people who are not descended from American-held slaves.
No matter the scheme, it was always gonna go this way.
Their graft isn’t for the betterment of anyone or anything. It’s for their cronies, and by golly they’re gonna get it regardless of who that money is supposed to help.
Then, a generation later we will need another round of reparations to fix the first round of reparations. It’s like Danegeld.
if any of them have decent education program
ISTR they’re not all that great, though it’s impolitic to point that out.
I bet the chocolate consumption fell because of a sharp drop in tourism in Switzerland. Way fewer tourists who loved to buy the authentic Swiss chocolate in Switzerland.
Perhaps consumption is down because Toblerone charges the same price but puts much less chocolate (fewer peaks) in their bars.
Inflation is a myth!
Britain’s Prince Charles is pushing for an urgent face-to-face meeting with President Biden on climate change, according to a report.
Before Ballgag Joe kicks the bucket.
Why so urgent…we got 10 years…or is it 8? 12? Cant remember what the new doomsday clock has been reset to.
The urgency is before Charles III ends up like I.
“We are not amused.”
I’ve seen speculation that he might choose a different regnal name to avoid associations with Charles I and Charles II.
Wiki on regnal name
Yep, he can choose a regnal name.
Edward would work nicely, as a tribute to his great uncle who he identifies with because of the whole Wallis/Camilla thing.
Philip II? Or how about Arthur? George has been done enough.
Arthur sounds good, but it was the name of Henry VIII’s elder brother whose death left the kingship to Henry, so taking the regnal name of Arthur will not only be seen as a Round-Tablish thing but might be construed as a sorrowful rebuke to Henry VIII that if only his brother had lived things would be better!
I forget who said this, but someone remarked that if you find yourself beheading more than one wife you might consider that the problem is with you, not them.
To be fair to the fat bastard, he did have bastard sons.
And brain damage from jousting injuries.
What England needs is another King AElfweard. The name’s hardly been used at all.
Semi-seriously, though, aren’t they long overdue for another Alfred?
They first need someone who’s great.
Yeah – “Alfred the Mediocre” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Make it a 900 number to help with the costs.
*uptwinkles*
“March is Womxn’s History Month.
Join us in celebrating and supporting all the Womxn creating their own worlds, building their communities, and leading the way on Twitch.”
https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1366451768977154054
No.
How is “Womxn” pronounced? Wahmzin?
From the video it’s pronounced “women”.
I personally prefer womXXXn.
Bow chickah…
Lol the comments.
This one: “You can’t Newspeak your way to a better world.”
I find this sexist, the claim that women can’t spell. Cancel Twitch.
When they spell it that way, does it rhyme with itch?
Judging from the comments, they’re already getting backlash from the trans faction.
So we will soon live in a world where “womxn” isn’t woke or radical enough.
Presidementia Joe preparing for his meeting with Prince Charles
Probably Pay-Walled but, in no surprise to anyone government environmental injustice committee finds environmental injustice.
Everywhere they look? It must be the environmental injustice colored glasses.
Bachelor alum that called for Chris Harrison’s firing now under fire for racist tweets
Bachelor alum Taylor Nolan, who is best known for her wokeness and unfairly hurling accusations of racism against the show’s host, Chris Harrison, is now asking for “grace” after her actual racist/fat-phobic/homophobic tweets shaming basically every human on earth were exposed.
Live by the woke, die by the woke.
One would hope that they would have eaten themselves below critical mass by now, but apparently the derp runs deep.
Party of GIMME
Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, President Joe Biden and other party leaders are pushing to spend big to revive the economy and address income inequality.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle want the ultra-wealthy to pay for it.
The three Democrats unveiled the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act on Monday morning. It would levy a 2% annual tax on the net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion as well as a 1% annual surtax on assets above $1 billion, for a 3% tax overall on billionaires.
Sure, why not?
It’s fair.
How many of those dopes are going to vote Democrat next time by?
And in 20 years, “ordinary” households will get screwed just like the AMT.
The high-end tax lawyers are going to make a ton of money getting around that.
Wouldn’t it be easier to pool their money and buy a bunch of Congressmen to put in an easy (but obscure) loophole?
Seems more efficient than everyone hiring their own tax lawyer.
(1) buy a bunch of Congressmen to put in an easy (but obscure) loophole
(2) everyone hiring their own tax lawyer to get into the loophole
(3) ???
(4) untold riches!
A wealth tax? Wouldn’t that be uncon… Never mind, since when do they care about that?
They would need to get around the pesky Constitutional prohibition on unapportioned, direct taxation.
*lights the Roberts signal*
“It’s a penalty to encourage interstate commerce.”
So, if you have multiple trusts worth 40 million each, you’re golden?
Indeed you are, regardless of taxes.
Structuring to the rescue!
The amount of economic destruction that tax would create will make wars seem like nothing.
Bezos would have to liquidate roughly $6B of his assets to pay that first year, but just he act of liquidating that much would likely reduce the worth of his assets by 10 or 20%.
I’m sure the loophole in the law will be him being able to write that loss off and get $12B back in refunds the next year.
Not to mention the capital gains he’d have to pay on that liquidated stuff.
That happened to us last year. My wife won a reasonably large federal lawsuit to recover stolen funds.
We were taxed on the recovery of those funds (which is ultra-fucked), and then taxed (this year) on the liquidation of stocks in order to pay for the massive tax bill.
And we have to pay taxes now, lest we lose out on imminent Covid bribes, because according to our 2020 return, we make roughly 7.5x what we actually bring home, and I’d like to recover a smidge of the over $100k we sent those fuckers last year.
I feel bad for the very few New Zealanders who are not buying into their country’s ZeroCovid strategy.
PM Ardern is under pressure for being too lax with restrictions after she imposed another lockdown on Auckland.
So much for the tourism-based economy.
All they’re doing is delaying the inevitable. So stupid.
Their immune systems are going to be fuuuuucked
This.
As soon as they open back up, it’s gonna come burning through that pile of tinder.
About 100,000 American families would be subject to the tax, which would raise around $3 trillion over a decade, according to an analysis provided by the lawmakers. It was conducted by University of California Berkeley Professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, who are well-known for their left-leaning work on income and wealth inequality.
I hope that ten year revenue projection has a sharply downward slope. Anybody who think a tax like that will bring in a constant revenue stream is in need of constant supervision.
Assuming it does raise that much, it doesn’t even pay for the two stimulus bills from last year over a 10 year period.
Or a single year of normal business with the fedgov.
Any of you following Crowder’s hunt for voter fraud? To give people a run down, he sent his team out to fake addresses listed to actual voters in Nevada and Michigan. He aired his segment last week (got banned from Twitter for it). The next day he learned that one of the names belonged to a former Clinton staffer who was caught on video by Project Veritas telling people to basically break the law to get votes (you know, the sort of fraud they were looking for). She was under investigation in Nevada and then fled the country. Her current address is listed as being in London, but its fake and her social media puts her in the Philippines.
Regardless, his efforts lead fact checkers to go looking for mistakes with some claiming that the address they used was wrong for that voter. Turns out that, no, the Crowder team had the right address when they went looking, but someone in Nevada actually changed the address on Tuesday night after his segment aired. Today they aired a new show where they went and checked on the new address and lo and behold, there was no voter matching that name tied to that address.
So, it raises obvious new questions like who in Nevada approved changing the address tied to a voter months after the fact after a high profile conservative found that it didn’t exist. And it’s probably the most concrete proof of voter fraud provided by the right since November 6th. But it will, of course, never see the inside of a courtroom.
Jeebus. That sure points to people inside the NV voter registration bureaucracy being in on a fraud scheme.
Yeah, that is not a good thing.
Should have just left it the way it was. Even if they were bogus, you could blame it on some rogue fraudster. Changing it now, sure makes it look like an inside job.
Interesting. Today all my prog acquaintances were reposting the latest MSNBC screed about forensic audit finds no evidence of voter fraud. Suspect that was timed to discredit the thing you linked.
Stop right there.
That’s the problem.
I’m sure they’re just referring to an audit of voting machines software. I wasn’t as concerned with the voting machines as I am with mail in ballots. Mail in ballots fraud is virtually impossible to detect. There is no way to determine who actually filled out the ballot. Then you have your gomers who never vote receiving a visit from the friendly neighborhood Democrat commisar who tells them who to vote for. Mail in voting is the ultimate plausible deniability for the Democrats.
“There is no way to determine who actually filled out the [mail-in] ballot.”
Harder with checkboxes than having to write in the names of candidates, but you could do pattern analysis to detect similar mark patterns and pen colors. Also, DNA analysis might be possible. People shed cells… Not that any of that is ever going to happen. But technically correct is the best sort of correct.
All the forensic audits to date have been focused on counting votes. Not a whiff of them were in determining if said votes were valid or not. That type of audit will take a long time and intensive effort, because we set up the system for your personal vote to remain secret.
NVs voter rolls are absolutely fucked.
I’m 12:45 in and that is indeed spine-chilling. Also, Crowder hot af. Totes smokeshow.
He’s not in my target demo but I had no idea he was so swole.
Not bad at all.
I’m certainly secure enough to say when a dude is good looking, but on the second take I view it through a very close gay friend’s filter. In his estimation, “There’s only room for one fat, hairy one in the relationship.”
Not twink enough.
Is he hotter than OBE?
There is always another. Thanks western
The AZ Senate should be getting millions of Maricopa ballots to audit.
I got $20 that says none of the mail-in ballots will still have their envelopes.
Which in a real audit, would mean they can’t be verified and should be disregarded.
Which would almost certainly flip AZ to Trump.
How could they keep the ballots tied to their envelopes and have a secret vote? Once the mail in ballots are ‘processed’ the ballots would no longer be tied to an envelope you’d have a big pile of envelopes and a big pile of ballots. Same with in person voting you have a list of you voted and a big pile of ballots, no way to verify any particular ballot.
You don’t need to directly match ballots to envelopes.
What you do need to do is track the number of ballots counted versus the number of envelopes received.
And all envelopes need to be archived to inspection to determine that they were properly postmarked.
This doesn’t stop fraudulent mail-in ballots, but it drives up the cost (labor and postage) of manufacturing fraudulent ballots thus making it much more difficult to dump a million fraudulent ballots into the system on short notice.
Sure but RCD’s saying none of the Mail-in ballots will have their envelopes like that’s an odd thing, now if the state didn’t keep any envelopes that would be a big deal but I’m pretty sure they have to keep them for a number of years, and if they didn’t it would be all over Breitbart and Fox and not just hinted at on the gateway pundit and OANN.
The only way to validate a mail-in ballot is to verify the signature on the envelope that it came in.
Discovering that you have 10,000 more mail-in ballots than valid envelopes does nothing to help you determine which of the mail-in ballots are invalid. You have to match the good ballots with their envelopes, and the bad ballots to their envelopes, or you can’t tell which specific ballots are good or bad. Separating the ballots from the envelopes means no mail-in ballot can be verified or disqualified.
Discovering that you have 10,000 more in-person ballots than valid voters logged does nothing to help you determine which of the in-person ballots are invalid. You have to match the good ballots with their logged voter, and the bad ballots to their logged voter, or you can’t tell which specific ballots are good or bad. Separating the ballots from the log book means no in-person ballot can be verified or disqualified.
Which is why in some states, the whole precinct is (supposed to be) thrown out if that happens.
Bottom line – there is no good way to unfuck an election after the fact, even if you try. It needs to tight all the way through.
I recall seeing a video of election workers “re-creating” ballots that which were claimed that wouldn’t feed through the scanners. Not sure what they did with the originals but those should be required to be preserved as evidence for at least ten years – the original pieces of paper and any pieces of paper created as substitutes.
And it’s probably the most concrete proof of voter fraud provided by the right since November 6th.
I still would like to see some sort of explanation for why ballot counts decreased on television for both Trump and in the GA senate runoffs. That’s as clear an indicator of fraud as anything else I’ve seen.
It shouldn’t be possible for ballot counts to decrease in real time in an election that isn’t being actively manipulated (or fortified as the left calls it).
But remember. KY is full of nothing but inbred rednecks.
And distilleries! Don’t forget the distilleries.
We’ve plenty of those.
Have you tried Town Branch?
I may be able to get a bottle for you next time my wife needs to buy gifts for customers.
Though she doesn’t work for the Beverage Division, she does work for the parent company that makes both Town Branch bourbon and several (technically) craft beers (Kentucky Ale, Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale, and a couple others).
I have not. But it appears that it’s pretty widely distributed up here. I am familiar with their beers though, and whoever was doing media relations on that brand back in the day made some poor decisions (long story short, he called out several of the big beer geek communities and said they didn’t need them or want them talking about their beer).
Dr Lyons was an exceptionally eccentric man who was all over the map. He had some weird ways of doing things, but I’d say his success and legacy proved his ways right.
From doing experiments with yeast in a garage to a massive, international company with thousands of employees. Then he up and died of pneumonia out of nowhere a couple years ago.
You should try their Irish Whiskey and Gin.
My wife says both are excellent, and she isn’t a huge fan of either type.
Dr Lyons was Irish, immigrated here and opened Alltech.
But one of his dreams was to have his own Irish Whiskey distillery, and so once he could do it, he opened a distillery in Dublin.
It’ll be under a completely different label.
https://www.pearselyonsdistillery.com/
Interesting, I don’t believe they had opened when the girlfriend and I were over in Dublin. Teelings was just coming up on their third year being open.
Gin is an interesting one, as it can go in all sorts of directions for the flavor profile.
I like all of those, but feel that the Town Branch is priced a little too high.
I wouldn’t know. I don’t drink, so I don’t price the stuff, and the wife gets this particular brand for free anyways.
In fact, I can get you a bottle of their Rye Whiskey now, if it’s something you’re interested in. She got one as a surprise gift from work. They sent out several bottles of liquor and a few 4 packs of beer to every employee sometime last spring.
Also, Huntsville, Alabama.
Did you know they invented the toothbrush in KY.
Yup. If it had been invented in Minnesoda it would have been called a teethbrush.
One of my favorite shows some years back was Rocket City Rednecks, set in Huntsville, Alabama.
You wouldn’t expect Huntsville to feature a dude with multiple Ph.D.s and his crew doing a mashup of Rube Goldberg meets Florida Man, until you remember that the Redstone Arsenal and NASA are both there.
‘Course, Huntsville also shocks and amazes the world by being the home of mayonnaise-based barbecue sauce.
Well, it doesn’t take much toothpaste to cover the three shared choppers that the crew will have.
And that itself is a weight saving!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9312039/Demi-Rose-flaunts-cleavage-ample-derri-busty-skimpy-thong.html
Nope. Taut waist.
Something nice happened today.
I walked in to the feed store for chicken feed sans mask, and nothing else happened.
Well, not yet. Somebody’s grandma is going to get the chop because you did that.
That is a chicken shit accusation!
Nothing about getting stabbed by your own cock?
Stabbed? That is just a prick!
Now don’t be a dick about this.
Swiss is going to be going through these rooster puns with a fine toothed comb.
After which he’ll waddle his way back to computer to give us a gaze.
I think Swiss will crow first thing in the morning about how quickly he narrowed his gaze!
Look out for the pecker.
So, are you saying he should grab his cock and pullit?
C’apon man! These puns are terrible!
*narrows gaze*
Domestic terrorist
Trump’s speech, apparently intended to further radicalize followers who have already shown they are willing to embrace violence, was carried live on Fox News and other conservative outlets in an unfiltered stream of falsehoods.
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Trump’s unhinged conduct and attacks on his successor so soon after leaving office represented a historical aberration. Yet such is the blowtorch that Trump trained at the traditions of the presidency that they came as no surprise. In fact, a show of restraint would have been more notable from an ex-President who often put personal grievances above the national interest.
CNN. Serious news for serious people.
How’s CNN’s ratings these days?
“California teachers’ union president is blasted as a ‘hypocrite’ as he’s filmed dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at her private preschool for in-person lessons – despite leading the charge that it’s UNSAFE to open public schools”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9313011/California-teachers-union-president-blasted-hypocrite-dropping-daughter-school.html
CWAA
Linked this AM, but bears repeating.
Following over 12 hours of submissions from defence lawyers on bail applications that ran deep into the night, democrat and district councillor Clarisse Yeung fainted in the courtroom and had to be sent to hospital by ambulance.
12 Hours is a marathon session, but on the other hand Hong Kong is under Beijing’s thumb so I wonder what really happened.
Charles, 72, is due to meet Biden in June at a Buckingham Palace reception ahead of the G7 Summit — but has told his aides he wants to meet with him well before that, sources told the Mail on Sunday.
I wonder which one will bring the average IQ of the two up. Biden or Charles?
For the first time since 1982, average annual chocolate consumption in Switzerland has fallen below the 10 kg per person mark.
NNNOOOOOO!!!!!
Would be shocked if their combined IQ exceeds 200.
I wonder which one will bring the average IQ of the two up. Biden or Charles?
It’s more like the inverse square law — the closer the two of them get to each other, the collectively stupider they become. If they actually touch, a singularity of stupid forms, which swallows all rational, intelligent thought.
Uffda. Polaris is coming out with an electric version of its Ranger ATV.
The comments are particularly amusing. There are a LOT of True Believers crowing about how awesome this is.
The few souls who have dared to question the idea of all electric ATV’s are getting savaged. They really don’t like the guy who pointed out “great. Now when I run out of electricity, instead of being stuck by the road, my ATV will be deep in the woods. How do I get it recharged there?”
(Best answer: Just don’t run out of electricity. It isn’t that hard)
You’d think the group that uses their cell phones and tablet constantly would understand that the battery percentages are estimates.
Why, they don’t understand how many rare earth metals are needed for their batteries, or how hard it is to dispose of them. Why would they be smarter when it comes to anything else?
Or the weight issue vs a conventional gasser.
That Mule is looking better all the time.
Safe compared to what?
Interesting math problem. If you buy a new ATV are you at more risk of dying in an accident while driving that vehicle or of dying of Covid?
Given the idiots I always see on ATV’s, I’m leaning toward off road accidents being a bigger killer. The good news, though, is that those ATV assholes deserve it.
Uffda. Another great comment responding to the problem of running out of juice way back in the woods.
A few years ago, I would have been sure that was sarcasm. Now, I’m not sure. And if I was betting, I’d probably put my money on “not sarcasm”.
Coming out?
They had a battery powered version when I bought mine 10 years ago.
It was reported to be just as capable as the gas version, but electricity sucks as a propulsion method, especially in the woods where, as you mentioned, you can’t just pull out your cord and plug in.
Find and plug in an electric eel…
Wouldn’t it be easier to pool their money and buy a bunch of Congressmen to put in an easy (but obscure) loophole?
Seems more efficient than everyone hiring their own tax lawyer.
*Elizabeth warren sits by the phone*
And now I have that Monty Python blackmail show skit from “And Now for Something Completely Different” in my head.
It’s more like the inverse square law — the closer the two of them get to each other, the collectively stupider they become. If they actually touch, a singularity of stupid forms, which swallows all rational, intelligent thought.
Can we get Trudeau in there with them? It might create a black hole powerful enough to cause much of the central Atlantic coast to vanish.
It’s a price I’m willing to pay.
I think I have found news source I can trust.
To do the journalo’s job: This is in Nebraska.
I distinctly remember he fell ill with Covid and quickly recovered. But few things make sense anymore.
Trump received COVID vaccine at White House in January
Now when I run out of electricity, instead of being stuck by the road, my ATV will be deep in the woods. How do I get it recharged there?
*goes to alibaba to source helium, weather balloons, solar panels and two hundred foot extension cords for “wilderness emergency recharge kits”*
I have no idea of the technical aspects of the guitar intro, but damn if it doesn’t get my foot tapping. I love this song. It makes me want to hit the road headed nowhere…
https://youtu.be/Wvd6jNsdMZI
A story about a South Sea Islanders who need to step up their game if they want to be as sycophantic as the American MSM.
Right now Biden is getting far easier treatment from the MSM than Prince Philip (and soon to be Prince Charles).
1) Not a single question about his favorite flavor of icecream?
2) DR. Jill Biden will be miffed that some assholes think a Queen outranks her.
Little-watched Netflix series makes throwaway joke about Taylor Swift’s stream of boyfriends. OUTRAEG!!! ensues.
Umm, Taylor? Get it together, girl. And by “it,” I mean your thighs.
Keeping her thighs together is not as hard as it used to be.
Her whole career was founded on kiss and tell. A little late to unring that bell.
This is news?
Well, this weekend could get interesting for me. My dad’s birthday is coming up, and the girlfriend and I have been invited over. My sister has apparently gone partial Branch Covidian (running with a mask on as an example), and lives closer. Both my parents would fall under high risk due to different conditions; however, my dad already had a positive test several months back and had no symptoms.
I figure I’ll let my parents set the level of risk they’re willing to live with… I doubt my sister feels the same way.
Good luck.
For anyone who likes low brow humor with high brow artificial intelligence:
https://seoi.net/penint/
Use your mouse to drawn anything on the screen, wait until the intelligence molds and shapes it.
Advanced morphology, impressive
And funny
Suspicions confirmed dept.
At the Safeway this morning I picked up a couple small bok choy loose in a bin. The guy restocking nearby pointed out the “organic’ bok choy three to a plasic box (more expensive, natch). I said “no thx”. He said “smart move. When the bin is empty I refill it by emptying a couple of these boxes into it.”
Moral questions.
1. Am I being cheated? I sure don’t want to pay extra for “organic” bok choy, but maybe I don’t want “organinc” bok choy”. Am I being defrauded by gettting the organic.
2. Is the person buying the organic being defrauded? A couple feet over is the same product for less (just no “organic” label).
3. WGAF. The whole “organic” thing is BS anyway.
If you are not buying the organic, you are not being cheated by this refilling policy.
Since organic labelling is a bunch of anti-efficiency farming methods, we don’t know that the regular isn’t farmed that way. The organic shopper is just throwing their cash away in either case. Fraud only exists if the regular uses high efficiency methods that are barred by the designation as this would be false advertising.
I don’t know what the acronym means, but I’d avoid buying anything with the ‘organic’ label. You’re getting the same or higher quality at lower prices.
Since organic labelling is a bunch of anti-efficiency farming methods, we don’t know that the regular isn’t farmed that way.
Yep. I’m aware farmers who grow high quality food that exceeds every organic checkbox but stay away from the organic label because of the regulatory hoops. Pasture-raised is the term often used for meat. Polyface farms in VA is a good example.
Like pasture raised crab meat?
https://www.amazon.com/SEAFOOD-Pasteurized-Lump-Crabmeat-Epicure/dp/B078TG35LJ
On a whim, I looked into raising blue crabs on the farm…. aquaculture… as a side business. Apparently, it’s extremely difficult to breed blue crabs in captivity.
Organic vs regular is just as legit as Tylenol vs acetaminophen.
The Safeway is getting defrauded by their lobot. It’s like when you ‘know’ the guy at the deli and he ‘mis-labels’ a$16/lb pastrami as $4/lb bologna and just happens to stick it under all the other pre-sliced deli meats at the far right end of the cooler. The difference is this produce lobot is doing it for everybody not just his stoner college dorm buddies.
Doubt it. This is Montana and I’m guessing the store only gets one kind of bok choy (it’s the only place in town that has it). Giving Safeway the beneifit of the doubt, they get the organic kind and to cater to cheap/cynical people like me they sell some of it as “regular”.
Was the guy joking?
Otherwise, he is putting a higher price tag on the cheaper product. Not right.
I think he’s putting a lower price tag on a higher priced product.
Somebody who would leave without buying any bok choy is going to buy some. Whether that’s good or bad for Safeway, I couldn’t say. I don’t think Safeway is getting defrauded by anybody, though.
Okay. Lost track of what was in a bin and what was in a box.
I was getting Organinc bok choy at the lower non-organic price.
Maybe, but If the guys willing to stock organic in the non organic he may also be stocking non-organic in the organic after a few iterations, it’s Schrödinger’s* Bok Choy.
*or Heisenberg’s
Heisenberg’s Bok Choy: you can’t simultaneously know which bin it’s in and what kind of bok choy it is. As soon as you observe it in the discount bin, you can no longer know whether it’s organic or not.
Nerd!
See, I thought Heisenberg’s Bo Choy would make you jittery as hell.
Ethanol is organic.
Why are McDonald’s fries so good? WHY
Salt.
They have people who determine the proper amount of fat and salt content to create the tastiest product.
Customers?
Trace beef flavoring?
The fact they’re double fried is a big part of it.
I was under the impression that they still use some beef tallow (a few %) in their otherwise-vegetable-oil-filled fryers, which gives ’em more umami (as in “Ooooh mommy that’s good!”).
I dunno.
As I understand it, they are part-cooked in beef fat, frozen, then shipped to the restaurants where they are finished in vegetable oil to order.
I don’t think that there is any beef tallow in McD’s fries.
I used to work for a company that delivered all the cooking oil for a ton of the McD’s stores in the US and it was just the regular cooking oil. No beef tallow.
There was also a lawsuit at some point where some Indians (dots) and vegetarians sued them for adding beef tallow on the sly.
That was in 2002
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.
Ditto the hash browns.
McDo abroad looks pretty intriguing, esp. India and Italy.
Natural beef flavor does not mean “derived from includes beef.” It just means that the process to create it falls into the categories FDA calls “natural.” The big one is fermentation. If yeast or bacteria crap it out, it’s “natural,” regardless if that compound ever existed in any food product before.
Only if done right. Cold and limp, just as bad as elsewhere
My neighborhood McD’s has the most consistently delicious fries. Ever order I’ve gotten from there has been too hot to eat, and crispy and salty and delicious.
I’m glad I don’t live in your neighborhood. ?
The ones around here are inconsistent at best.
My BIL sells flavorings to commercial bakeries, he probably knows.
This story reminds me of my old mutt. He had a kennel in the back of our garage that he could get into from the back yard via a doggy door. One night we forgot to put down our garage door and some of the local youths with an entrepreneurial bent snuck in and took a car radio from my old beater. The mutt never barked or made any noise.
Huskies are definitely among the top comedy asshole dogs.
Reminds me of a trip to Amsterdam years ago. A jewelry store had its doors open, and laying inside at Condition 3 were two Very Significant Dobermans, keeping an eye on things. I doubt they had any smash-and-grabs.
I miss my Doberman quite a bit. By far the best dog I’ve ever had. A lot of health problems though and died early at 8 years of renal failure.
All the cool dogs get over-bred. Our GSD lived to nearly 14, but none of the others in the litter made it to 10.
In local news. Curtatone, Somerville’s longest-serving mayor, says he will not seek reelection
JFC
Guessing that means the next mayor will be from the left wing of the socialist wing of the Democratic Party.
What can you expect from the town where Trump received 10% in 2020? I can easily imagine somebody even more woke and explicitly racist–Ayanna Pressley is my rep.
*snort*
Trump took my NYC House district with 55%.
Do better, NYC.
Somerville must have really changed since I lived there in law school. Back then, it was solidly blue collar.
And mobbed up, but I doubt that’s changed. There was a mob hangout a couple of blocks from our apartment. The goombahs hanging around made me nervous until a more sophisticated colleague pointed out that meant I was living in a very safe neighborhood.
Lived there in the early 00’s. By then it seemed to be a mixture of blue collar people like myself and over privileged colloge students, at least around Davis Square. I do remember being priced out of being able to rent there anymore. Guess the trust fund kids were taking over by then.
Colloge…heh.
Yep. I spent a good bit of time in Somerville in the mid-00s. That’s an accurate description of what I saw, plus increasing signs of gentrification.
I’ve heard there is a “Rent is too Damn High!” movement going on now. I have a vague memory of a Progressive activist running for city office on a platform of “we need the city government to represent renters!” Oh boy.
Next stop: rent control – which will make the situation worse, and it’ll be a complete mystery to everybody.
Interestingly, Massachusetts bans rent control at the state level. There has been talk of bringing it back. Both bills mentioned went nowhere, but, there are similar bills introduced for this legislative session.
Err… maybe not this session. I should have read the linked “similar bills” text first.
Prince Charles and Pudding Head Biden… a real meeting of the mindless.
Our beautiful greyhound continues to kill any rabbit that strays in the backyard. Today she got a big adult one and snapped its neck. It’s that 0-40mph in a few strides thing.
We never had dead rabbits in the yard until we got the new dog. I guess the other dog, a mutt who I thought was a fast runner, is too damn slow.
Are you cooking them?
Naw, greyhounds are pretty stringy.
Mine will see a squirrel and her ears go straight up and then back. Sort of “Hey, oh never mind”. I took her to Minnesota and was walking her when she saw a rabbit. She went berserk. Never seen her do that before or since.
Was it a mechanical rabbit?
Nope. And on the way back, when we came to that spot, she put her nose down and zig sagged all over following the scent trail. She’s never been as interested in anything else.
Yes, I know it was a joke.
*deletes comment*
Lol. My sister fosters Greyhounds and she says they are stone cold killers – when they aren’t sofa-surfing.
Both of mine are too old and disinterested to kill.
Nice. I think.
I wish there were a good way to show you the last rabbit my part greyhound brought home.
No thanks.
I am going to miss the wildlife show once the dog gets here. A flock of thirteen turkeys moseyed through the back yard yesterday.
We still get wildlife, although the dog is mostly inside.
I have no idea what he was barking at today, though.
Shameless Plug: I’ve been doing music reviews on youtube. The videos are only 4-5 minutes long with a brief overview, samples, and pictures of spinning vinyl.
Comedy bonus: me trying to not fall all over my words while talking into a microphone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0GklI5f70
Perhaps you should put videos of your greyhound killing rabbits on YouTube.
*Liked and Subscribed*
I watched High Fidelity over the weekend. You are that level of nerd (in a good way).
Yours is the first YT channel I’ve ever subscribed to.
Good luck!
Holy shit! Is that your vinyl library? That is impressive. You will get better talking into a mic the more you do it. I recommend being 1/3 crocked. You sounded great on the few Zooms you guys joined. You seem to be going for NPR college station groove so maybe smoke a bowl.
I don’t log into youtube, so I don’t subscribe to anyone.
It’s not personal.
Nice – I love The Sound.
Neph – is there a decent substitute for orange curacao?
My hillbilly guess would be Grand Marnier.
Also Triple Sec.
Late… but western nails it right here (and add Cointreau to the list as another option) .
Orange Curacao is an orange flavored liqueur, so any other orange flavored one should work.
I actually have some Grand Marnier on my shelf, unopened.
Unopened? WTF is wrong with you?
I have some opened but I don’t particularly like it.
Dood, after a great meal a snifter of that shit makes the night.
I thought you didn’t drink during the week like us real alchies?
I’m a compulsive planner…I don’t feel I’ve fully explored the tiki genre yet. More experimentation on Friday. Either a Zombie, a Painkiller, or a Mai Tai.
Possibly a Volcano.
You are planning fridays cocktails on monday? WTF is wrong with you?
How much time you got?
IF you want something a little drier/less sweet, Salerno.
From the replies to the ATF’s tone deaf twit….
https://mobile.twitter.com/mediocre_ethan/status/1366065357610393609
LOL
Chris Pratt gif
Dayum.
“Ex-Sarah Lawrence student, 29, is charged with ‘conspiring with her classmate’s sex cult dad, 61, who moved into his daughter’s college dorm before pimping out her friends, blackmailing them and extorting them out of $1 million’
“Isabella Pollok of Staten Island has been charged with racketeering, extortion and sex trafficking conspiracies, according to an indictment
“She was charged with conspiring with Lawrence Ray who has has been held without bail since pleading not guilty after his arrest last February
“Authorities say Ray started his scheme in 2010 after he moving in with his daughter Talia, Pollok and other women at private art college Sarah Lawrence
“He presented himself as a father figure, conducting ‘therapy’, prosecutors say
“Pollok, who has pleaded not guilty, had initially been viewed as a victim of Ray
“She was just 19 when the two met and she soon cut ties with her loved ones
“That she is now being accused of conspiring with Ray has shocked her family
“‘She has been under his spell for 10 years,’ her aunt has said”
“Ray, allegedly assisted by Pollok and others, subjected victims to sexual and psychological manipulation and physical abuse to extract false confessions before extorting them to perform unpaid manual labor, or, in one case, cause a woman to engage in prostitution to generate revenue, the indictment said….
“Prosecutors say he was able to run his cult for so long because he convinced victims that they owed him money for property damage or claimed that they poisoned him.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9312563/Ex-Sarah-Lawrence-student-charged-conspiring-classmates-sex-cult-dad.html
Sewage Joe is real??????????
I need a funny book before I dive back into the shit.
Thoughts?
And yes, I went back to Friday’s post. Why the fuck are we all reading serious shit?!?
Hyperbole and a Half is excellent toilet reading
Hitchhiker’s Guide is my go-to funny. Also, Bill Bryson.
Ah, there you go. It’s been a long fucking time since I read HGG.
Look Who’s Back
Got it. Looks hilarious.
Also looks like it’s gonna get me on another list…
Three Men in a Boat.
Free! Got it.
Or the modern time-traveling take on it:
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.
I like Brian Greene’s (physicist) style of writing, if you’re looking for fun non-fiction science stuff. Also, Michio Kaku along the same genre.
Thanks, kids.
This is why I love You People.
Find something by Hunter S. Thompson or Donald E. Westlake.
Ah, good suggestions. Westlake is awesome!
Terry Pratchett, Discworld.
I’ve always enjoyed the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday_Next
Laughed my ass off at all the tongue-in-cheek humour and puns.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/
SCIENCE!