Going away party for one of my scientists last night. Bittersweet because I’m glad he’s moving on to bigger and better things, but he was always a great guy to have in the lab. In any case, much alcohol flowed as is the custom at these sorts of events. Massive storms kept me up all night. So I may seem a bit hazy here and there. But my attitude is fine now.
Birthdays today are not quite as rich as yesterdays, but still, there’s a guy who knew better than Shakespeare; a guy who marked where our country decided to be a hereditary monarchy; Winston’s spirit animal; a guy whose example inspires police even today; a guy who proved that kids’ books could be really boring; a one-note actor with a gimmick; the star of my favorite John Waters movie; a guy whose name suits him; an athlete famed for his boyish good looks; and a singer whose work left me cold but whose looks gave me funny feelings in my bathing suit area.
Now for the long-awaited Links.
“How do you think this pink outfit looks on me?”
Media already pimping for our return.
Laser focused! Hand on wallet.
Shocked by expected result. Women and minorities hardest hit.
If loving (((Peter Green)))’s playing is a crime, I’m a recidivist. Seriously, how can this not be the very best British electric blues ever laid down?
Morning, Old Man.
Morning All.
Who thinks going house to house to vaccinate is a good idea?
Only the true believers
If you show up at my front door peddling anything, it damn well better be Girl Scout cookies.*
*Will also happily accept Camp Fire candy (former Camp Fire Girl here.) Fanny Farmer French & Frosted Mints FTW!!!
Re: Peter Green
God bless English cultural appropriation.
Oops. Hi GT!
Good morning, TARDy! Fancy meeting you here! 😉
Ha. I was going to make a snarky blue crude comment about girls scouts and woke Victoria Secret models, but my auto-edit feature kicked in. 🙂
Our old band used to sing an understandably-obscure song with the refrain, “Come here little girl – I want your cookies…”
Strippergram?
Just don’t send the one in the cop uniform.
Which Fanny has the better candy, Fanny Farmer or Fannie Mae?
Most confusing brand competitors outside of Breyers and Dreyers.
I thought Fannie Mae just did mortgages. 🙁
Morning glibs!
So which person do you think orchestrated the assasination with the CIA?
1. Haitian VP
B. First Lady
C. Random Cabinet leader
4. Kamala Harris in a trial run
5. Hillary
It wasn’t the CIA. They suck at assassinations, and this one actually killed the dude.
They outsourced it.
assassinsrus.com
Yes, Russian assassins do get the job done better.
No, that’s mailorderassassins.ru
Russia outsources. Bulgarians do the wet work.
If that domain isn’t bought, it should and should redirect to the CIA
All you have to do is use door-to-door Useful Idiots to find who has a LEGO model of Haiti Prez and the Presidential Palace.
My 2 cents on the He-man reboot mentioned in Mexi’s post yesterday, not that any of you care. As for Teela, exploring her character is actually a good direction to go, as it was HEAVILY implied in the cartoon that she was the daughter of The Sorceress, so lots of avenues to expand on that. As for ‘It was just a toy commercial made up by a salesman on the spot!’ So? That doesn’t mean that the writers did nothing with it once the show was in production. On wokeness, yeah apparently they race swapped characters, including one of He-Man’s ancestors, because they thought creating new characters would be too hard. I’ll probably still watch it, just if to complain about it. Gotta patch up my inflatable Battle Cat!
I’m confused. Wasn’t Teela a Niven character? Flew with Louis Wu?
Good catch, same name (Teela Brown), different character.
Wouldn’t mind some more Known Space books or short stories – I should probably dig around to make sure I have them all.
I did read “Fleet of Worlds”, haven’t decided yet on picking up the rest of that series.
And….I should probably go look for the actual Man-Kzinn wars books even if he didn’t write them all…..
yes, you should, a great series
From the community college link:
‘“I didn’t really have the option to stay virtual and work from home, so I was essentially exposed to this virus every single day. That was a lot to handle on a day-to-day basis and then go home and try to work on schoolwork,” Ramirez said.’
Why is that a lot to handle? Millions of people across decades and decades managed it just fine. Because you had to wear a face diaper? You poor dear…whiney little bitch.
Yeah, it was the 30 hours of work bs that made me roll my eyes.
When I was divorced, I worked a full-time job in logistics and put in 15-20 at the bookstore for barfly money and to talk to women (no women in logistics).
Yep. My sister worked a full time job and taught herself trigonometry in order to become an actuarial accountant. Then spent years studying for hours after work every day to pass all her tier tests to make top dollar at her current job.
a guy who proved that kids’ books could be really boring
I don’t think The Elements of Style is a kids’ book.
It’ll put ’em to sleep pretty quick at bedtime, so it has that going for it.
Roger Angell, White’s step-son, wrote some fascinating remembrances of growing up on the White farm in Maine. White’s eccentricities, perception, economy, independence, and well-rounded skill-set don’t make him a libertarian, but Angell paints a clear picture of the consummate individual, a recluse who commanded a salary but had rather keep his own company in the woods on off the coast.
Good morning.
“Online classes, especially for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) subjects, were particularly frustrating to manage as the material was difficult to learn virtually.”
Yeah, most people who aren’t cooking meth don’t have chemistry labs at home, so that would be a problem. What we need is more funding for at-home science labs. A few trillion ought to do the trick.
Pyrex in every pantry! This is Franco’s Spain!
Didn’t those old kids science lab kits come with burners and other tools as well as the vials of different elements? Been a hot minute since I last looked at one (or the ads in Boys Life) – guessing the improved ones are still around and probably still cheaper than a college math textbook.
Not sure, be honest. I never played with those as a kid…Probably.
Better than funding drug injection sites.
Science lab injection sites. Get your fix, learn how to make a stronger form, get your AD in Chemistry
Our local paper is now writing apologist articles for CRT in full Vox explaining format. I don’t think it’s coincidence that they’re owned by the Trib.
Yeah, I’m expecting a huge push on this. If they get institutionalized racist education (I mean, more even than currently), it’s game over. Those kids will be propagandized to deliver the support that is currently lacking for the Dems’ plans to steal all future elections.
I bet they didn’t count on any push-back.
I have been saying this Trump was elected. The “plan” by Lefties to spread propaganda and indoctrinate kids with Communism was working as long as it was used incrementally. Once Lefties lost their minds and most Americans caught on, game over for Communism.
Same with Lefties quietly taking over the federal and state bureaucracy and using that to destroy America from the inside out. Its why many Black Americans fight budget cuts. More and more Black Americans are taking jobs as government workers. Its also why they relaxed drug convictions being a bar to government work to help that end. Once all this was exposed and diabolical plan by Democrats to use Black Americans and illegals, there is more and more resistance.
Democrats are desperate and it shows. Democrats having been playing the long game since the Party of slavery was created. Democrats are now scrambling to stave off their demise with any Commie tactic that might work and they are having recruiting problems.
Democrats also control the White House, the government of every major city in the country, the largest county in virtually every state in the country, the House, half the state legislatures, the Senate, a good share of the governorships, just about every university not named Hillsdale, oh and perhaps most important to this topic – 90% of K-12 classrooms and nearly as many school boards.
Sure, they’ll pack up their toys any day now.
Trump was at best a speed bump and only because his obnoxious nature caused the left to expose themselves.
Democrats dont control anything in the federal government which is why they are desperate. As you stated, they have true believers all over the place but the dont really control anything. The CRT push back proves that. Democrats depended on most Americans working and not having time to examine everything they do do destroy this Republic.
Did you know that Republicans are very close to 34 state Legislatures to call a Constitutional Convention?
Lefties act like they are in control precisely because they are not in control. Here in Georgia, many of us consider America in Civil War 2.0 so that means that el presidente Biden has zero power.
Trump didnt get Lefties to expose themselves because of how he talked. They exposed themselves because his “n”th D chess moves were an incredible threat to Democrat power. Trump limiting illegals was a huge threat to future Democrat voter potential. Trump wanting to pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq was another. Lefties could not control Trump, so he had to be stopped!
That’s a lot of racial stuff there bud. , not say the sentiment may not be right, but, um…
As for “racial” stuff, Black Americans tend to have high conviction rates for their demographics before states stopped arresting people for drugs. As for Democrat Party diabolical plans to use people- see slavery, segregation, urban housing projects, Japanese-American internment, etc.
The White House says it is laser-focused on bolstering the government’s ability to respond to another coronavirus-like outbreak. But doing so will require ample funding from Congress to help agencies react as quickly and effectively as possible to prevent a loss of life similar to COVID-19, which has killed more than 4 million people globally and more than 600,000 Americans.
Experts have said the U.S. was caught flat-footed by the coronavirus pandemic due to years of inadequate investments in public health infrastructure. The rapid spread of cases along with pressure on hospitals and clinical laboratories exposed critical weaknesses.
Emergency funding has helped public health agencies fight the coronavirus, but unless that level of spending can be sustained, the country is considered in danger of repeating the same mistakes.
There is no problem which cannot be solved by sprinkling copious amounts of
moneymagic pixie dust on it.“Experts”
*spits*
No need to throw money at public health infrastructure. Invest in a bigger and better police state. Obedience is the key.
So defund the CDC?
The very people trying to stand on those dead bodies now said it was racist over reaction in Jan-Feb 2021. What a great thing politics is.
We knew exactly how Kungflu was going to behave based on the infection rates and death rates of the crew and passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise. Out of 3711 crew and passengers, 712 were confirmed infected, and 14 died.
Infection rate of ~20% and death rate of .3%
That is with recycled air being blown around a ship and into crew and passenger cabins 24/7.
And with a population much more elderly than than the general public.
Denver maid reports ‘bunch of guns’ in hotel room near MLB All-Star Game site; 4 arrests: report
“Four suspects were arrested in Denver after a maid working at a hotel near the city’s Coors Field baseball stadium discovered “a bunch of guns laid out” in a room, according to reports.”
“Just days ago, authorities in Chicago also feared a possible “Las Vegas-style” crime was being planned when a suspect with a rifle was spotted in a room overlooking a city fireworks event. Authorities there later arrested a 32-year-old Iowa man in connection with the incident.”
A lot of jumping to conclusions going on lately.
If I left a bunch of weapons on display unattended in a hotel room, I’d expect a police visit.
A bunch of cased weapons in the closet? Not so much.
Everyone knows that owning guns is a crime.
Denver… Colorado… you used to be cool.
Maybe its something about Denver, but werent 2 guys arrested during the DNC convention there (or something) charged with plotting to kill Obama?
Whatever happened to those guys ?
Oh….despite the media coverage and outrage (as I recall), not much happened
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_assassination_plot_in_Denver
Clearly White Supremacist. Case Closed.
Someone should call the FBI; they’ll clear it up.
Not sure how many are following the Arizona Maricopa County audit news.
Evidently, the AZ state Senate is doing a third count. Evidently they want an Maricopa County election official count, contractor count, and someone else to count. Since having a legal ballot count match up exactly is probably 99.9999999999999% impossible, It is suspected that the counts are off by a margin of “victory” and they want all the “i” dotted and “t” crossed.
Add in Georgia’s audit and now Pennsylvania’s audit and those fence sitters might be convinced that Democrats are liars and cheaters and cannot be trusted to run elections.
It seems like the left is going all in to stop PA’s audit. Its probably just because I live here, so I here about it more, but did other states going through/planning an audit have the President come to their states to speak against it or have their Governors tell county officials to not cooperate?
Georgia only had lawsuits and the Hollywood unemployed hollering about “racism”.
You’re lucky. You get el presidente Biden and his merry band of traitors to the Constitution coming to the Keystone State.
As we found out years later with the Russian hoax, the Biden won hoax is becoming more and more a fact.
Unpossible. Why, just last Sunday Doonesbury told me there’s never been any fraud in any American election, therefore any attempt to guarantee legitimate voting is back to Jim Crow. And he had a crow named Jim telling us that any voting laws are racist voter suppression attempts, so you know it must be true.
*except when the Rushuns put Trump in power.
Well, Abrams still has not conceded the 2018 Georgia Governor election because “fraud”.
Some outside groups have undertaken their own reviews, and have offered recommendations. The White House is analyzing recommendations from experts in addition to gathering input from those within the government in its review.
The Bipartisan Policy Center is calling for the creation of a new federal board to oversee U.S. preparedness for future public health threats, and the allocation of $4.5 billion in annual mandatory funding for a new public health infrastructure account to support state and local governments.
“There needs to be intergovernmental coordination and federal oversight, there needs to be a 21st century public data structure, and there needs to be adequate public health funding,” said Anand Parekh, the center’s chief medical adviser.
The only answer is a global totalitarian dictatorship of public health experts. Only then will we be truly safe from disease and death.
The term “public health” sets off alarm bells for me.
There’s my health, and your health, his health and her health, but there is no “public health.”
Public health is a collectivist term meant to justify curtailing individual rights for “the greater good.”
I prefer “government health”.
exactly
Another pearl is “health system.” There is no system; no Sky-net is going to send you an email telling you when your colonoscopy is scheduled and where and then pay for it and pat you on the head goodboy for going. There is no system that is organized, obligation, or even tacitly aligned to provide for your health.
And anyway, if you did a shitty job of picking your grandparents, there ain’t no manual for fixing that.
As someone who is in the VA health system, even with electronic health records and a communication system that I can directly message my doctor the VA system is nothing close to the scary Sky-net days…yet.
I will say, the Commies running the Banana Republic contact me every week by phone and email to get the vaccine.
It appears that veteran suicides are a bigger problem than COVID in <60 year old veterans.
A lot of jumping to conclusions going on lately.
No, no, no. The correct incantation is, “An abundance of caution.”
What may seem meaningless or irrelevant to some is plain evidence of a massive threat to “experts”.
Good morning y’all.
Another fun fact is swirling about Russia, England and France’s role in America’s Civil War 1.0
England and France mostly sided with the Confederacy. Breaking up USA was the plan since some saw it as the Liberty threat to the Monarchy. England had various internal problems to prevent active support of the CSA with Red Coats.
Russia ultimately sided with the Yankees and the rest is history.
Yup, England and France sided with the slaver Democrats if you can believe that.
Media already pimping for our return.
Then by all means, give reporters a bunch of guns and let them lead the charge.
Send all the non-civilians working at the Pentagon there. And don’t replace them at the Pentagon.
Yes. Send Kelly, that admiral who mandated the “Anti-Racist handbook “ to go teach the taliban about their white rage.
Send Shrub and Zero too. They can demonstrate their excellent leadership skills.
I cant wait until the Taliban secure their borders and limit immigration into Afghanistan.
MSM will sing praises.
Yes, give them all the new Nikon 35mm blaster of truthyness!
That will show them tali-bans!
In addition to the White House’s own review, there has been a push on Capitol Hill for the formation of a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to analyze the nation’s pandemic preparedness and response.
The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Health Committee are working on a legislative package to consider lessons learned during the COVID-19 response and ensure the public health system is fully modernized and in better shape to handle the next pandemic.
If not for our quick thinking, and the widespread adoption of masks and lockdowns, nine trazillion people would have died. We’re heroes!
Hmmm…trying Pale Moon browser on the recommendations of a few folks here – not fully sold yet. Seems a little less resource intensive, but missing my addons from firefox (discontinued in the newest versions). Need adblock (esp for youtube), monocle, noscript and a few others….
might have to switch back over for the short term.
Coming up on 3.5 yrs for this laptop though, so likely that I’ll need a replacement in the next couple of months either way. Nuts.
as much as I hate the corporate culture of mozzila I have not attempted to replace firefox yet
I’m on Edge. ?♂️
something something tallest midget
Davis Jenkins, a senior research scholar and research professor at Columbia’s Teachers College, said the decline in college enrollment among graduating high school students is “chilling”.
The jig is up, bub. Your phoney baloney “everybody needs college!” swindle is falling apart.
+ 1 mikeroweWORKS Foundation
It’s probably hitting all the superfluous elite colleges too but I doubt we’ll hear about that from the Grauniad.
I usually don’t go back to threads in past articles even if I leave the conversation before it is done but I will make an exception
in the thread about the horros of war there was this
” Not an Economist
Not an Economist on July 10, 2021 at 4:44 pm
The Germans raped, murdered, and pillaged their way across Russia so a lot of what the Russians did was payback. I’m not sure the Russians would have done it if the Germans hadn’t done it first.”
I can pretty much guarantee the Russians would have done most of it anyway. there was plenty of rape done by russians in the first world war and the war of 1877 on Romanian territory and we were allies in both of those.
I think NaE needs to learn about Total War, or just ask Carthage
I added something late in the night, so I will repost since it was an interesting conversation.
—The German war with Russia had all sorts of atrocities and rape happened alot. Most german didnt want to have sex with Russian invaders in 1945 but quite a few USSR women had consenual sex with german soldiers. There is a lot of blonde hair and blue eyes in eastern europe because of WWII.
In 1939-1941, Russians did horrible things to poles in eastern poland after russia took that land as part of MR pact. Katyn forest is one example.
Ukraine wanted to side with germany against Stalin and even provided tens of thousands of troops for the waffen SS.
Romania sided with germany and was a point of invasion into the USSR in 1941.
Bulgaria was dragged reluntantly into WWII but never declared war on the USSR nor sent troops to fight on the Eastern Front. Russia treated Bulgaria differently but there has been a Bulgaria-Russia friendship since the time of the Czars. Russia wanted ship access to the mediterranean and Bulgaria was their ticket.—
Also Russians raped and murdered Afghan women after their invasion in 1979. Commies are evil fucks.
So something else to avoid on Wikipedia is religious doctrine. Not because it’s biased, but it seems confused, as if it was written by 100 people with little knowledge of it. I was looking up a question on Lutheran doctrine, and was just not very user friendly.
Also, it described Lutheranism as Protestant, but I always thought of them as Reformist, since Luther didn’t set out to start a new church. Though at this point o guess, it doesn’t make a difference.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.is/7iVN7
Good morning, Old Man and friends!
Another absolutely flawless morning here in crazy land. Sun is shining, birds are singing and Peter Green is playing.
Not bad at all.
I hope each and every one of you have a fantastic day!
Good morning, Tundra! Overcast and damp here, and I’ve followed up Green with my accustomed Sunday morning Vox Choral on the satellite radio classical channel, but no less perfect here. You have that fantastic day yourself. Aw, heck – I know you will! #AttitudeIsAll
It is a gorgeous morning.
ⓘ Dogs don’t have thumbs
@MorlockP
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Ok, this foolishness needs a more thorough takedown.
My background: not a professional builder, but I did volunteer w Habitat for Humanity for years, have done construction (framing) for pay, built half of my old house, have taken timber framing classes and built TF house.
https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1413862918660235266
this guy really does not like strawbale houses
We must stop this senseless race to the bottom
The G-20 and OECD have been working for several years on international tax issues and are hoping to finalize a detailed implementation plan in October. A final agreement will include more details about the tax rate and base for a global minimum tax. In addition to the discussions on a global minimum tax, the OECD and G-20 are also working on a framework related to the location of where corporate profits are taxed.
The international tax proposal will “grant greater tax certainty and stop the race to the bottom with respect to corporate tax rates,” Italian Finance Minister Daniele Franco said during a news conference.
He said “additional work is necessary” between now and October to “fully finalize” the agreement and iron out technical details.
A deal on a global minimum tax would not require countries to raise their corporate tax rates. Instead, it would incentivize countries to implement mechanisms aimed at ensuring that corporations pay at least a minimum rate on their income.
An agreement on a global minimum tax is a major goal of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
The only answer is a global totalitarian dictatorship of public
healthfinance experts. Only then will we be truly safe fromdisease and deathpoverty and wealth inequity.Do you think they know they are the baddies?
This kind of shit is how we got the EU.
Don’t fall for it, the world.
I know the executive can unilaterally set tax rates, in agreement with foreign nations. It’s there in the constitution
Anyone else winder why Census 2020 numbers are not officially out and states able to use those to prepare for mostly Blue states losing 5+ House seats?
No, I don’t wonder.
And the numbers are bullshit.
If you go to Census.gov’s 2018 estimates (the second table, NST-EST2018-01), you’ll find that New York was a good 300k people away from 26.5 seats, or keeping the 27 it had after the 2010. The idea that it was within a whisker of keeping that seat, which the “official” numbers determined, and not a good half million people away, is nonsense. Ditto the numbers for Rhode Island (which probably should have lost its second seat), Florida, and Texas, for starters.
New York apparently gained 200k people between 2010 and July 2018, and another 600k between then.
Texas was gaining just over 400k a year for the first eight years, and then just 400k in the final 21 months?
Georgia gained ~1 million new residents since 2010. We got 2 House seats in 2010, so we got skipped for adding another seat this time.
The was they do the Census reapportionment is not what people think and there is room for tomfoolery. Its not all about population gains/loss as states with most House seats get first draft picks. Alabama lost population but didnt lose a House seat.
Snotty intelligensia will tell you it’s the same reason that the wall isn’t built: Trump management principles. But it’s really the insidious invaders from Brocollus Centauri, our intergallactic broccoli brothers who, while invisible to the human eye and undetectable to science’s keenest sensors, secretly run the US government from the basement under the pizzeria orphan bordello. They enable bureaucrats to ignore the direction and stymie the work of the otherwise most powerful man in the world, genius though he be, from delivering on his campaign promises (I mean, who knew that government and healthcare and stuff is hard when one makes such promises).
But there’s good news: it’s not too late. Indeed, now, just a few weeks before Trump is re-instated as president, is the perfect time for you to step up and do your part. Give what you can at https://secure.winred.com/save-america-joint-fundraising-committee/membership?location=djt_sa_banner&_ga=2.191928554.1915701433.1626009924-174240904.1626009924
God bless you and God bless these United States.
“pizzeria orphan bordello”
Now that’s funny.
Band or album name?
Leaving aside the actual, that picture looks like the sort of person who would write all of that. Good work.
Ozzy Man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbZ2McB7jY
The Biden administration has argued that a deal would help to prevent American companies from becoming less competitive if the U.S. raises its corporate tax rate, as the president has proposed. The administration is pushing for the minimum tax rate in the final agreement to be higher than 15 percent.
All your profit are belong to us.
Crush the middle class.
the middle class have it coming
FTW! Literally!
Lyman Stone 石來民 BisonBisonBison
@lymanstoneky
another day, another Sarah Taber thread that’s wrong
a thread about why the southern nut industry isn’t taking off without containing reference to “bugs” and especially “cicadas”
“Dr Sarah Taber
@SarahTaber_bww
Incoming megathread on ag as a network good
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Pecans are nearly a 1:1 replacement for almonds in the food system. But unlike almonds, pecans can grow nearly everywhere in the eastern US.
So why did we wind up with a massive CA almond industry & a tiny eastern pecan one?”
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1413959918705692674
So are we team pecan or team almond?
I like almonds, but pecans make better pies, so…
pee-CAN or pee-KAAAAAAHN?
PEE-kin
Pah-khan.
A right mixer you are!
Team no subsidies.
Team comparative advantage.
But pecans taste better than almonds.
But if we are going on taste, team cashew.
Farmers market fresh roasts cashews.
Sublime.
Fuck Planters.
Both.
From the original thread critiquesd byt he linked thread
“Tree crops take more complex financial modeling than annual crops like corn, cotton, & soybeans.It’s still not rocket science! It’s just arithmetic.
But apparently it’s different enough that most of the lending for orchard & nut crops is handled by specialists.
And those specialists are in California, with cost models tailored to California conditions.
That means “being a farmer” is dramatically different job in CA & the South.
CA farmers are more like general contractors. Their job is coordinating specialists.
Meanwhile in the South, there are few if any skilled contractors to draw from.
You have to do EVERYTHING yourself. You have to buy the equipment, teach yourself &/or crew how to use it, & eat the cost of all the botched work while people build proficiency.
”
So southern people don’t know how to plant trees right. Any thoughts from our local southern tree people?
The pecan is the state tree of Texas. They are amazing, tough things, and they’re everywhere: just when you think some patch high desert couldn’t be more horrid, you suddenly find a stand that some optimist planted decades ago. From Bandera to Henrietta to Midland, they punctuate every otherwise murderous landscape with thrilling relief from the various skin cancers raining down on you (ScotchIrish perspective: YMMV (your melanin may vary)).
McGinty to the white courtesy phone
I forgot: pecan is a beautiful, tight-grained wood that works and finishes well and is nearly the equal of close cousin walnut.
Hmmm… I have a few splits for the smoker. I may take one and see how well it works.
Pecan is an excellent smoking wood.
Don’t know about walnut, but I have a set of pecan bedroom furniture which was given to my by an uncle when he moved to Fla in 1994. That set was purchased new in 1968, and is still beautiful; I hope to give it to one of my spawn when the time comes.
Commifornia AG is very different from Georgia and Southern AG. CA Burdensome regulation is one important difference. One major difference is that the South grows many of the tree crops for both commercial and residential use around the USA. Another major difference are the amount of corporate farms in CA compared to the South. We still have a bunch of family farms and Co-ops that farmers use to pool resources and crop yields.
We also have many similarities. Georgia even has a large wine market. We partner with our Universities (University of Georgia) for AG resources.
Also the hazelnut is superior to all the nuts
#fakenews
Macadamia is the top nut.
Peanut isnt even a nut and is superior to macadamia and hazel.
*Kif sigh*
I thought you were cool, man.
I think he a closet Jimmy Carter voter.
You can’t make dynamite with a cashew…
To be fair, there’s a good argument there. I love me some nuts. Are peanuts so prominent in everything we eat because they’re so in demand or just because they’re so easy to produce?
Sea salted peanuts with a cool glass of milk is an awfully tasty treat for under $2.
+ 1 Frangelico
Filbert > hazelnut
what the hell is a Filbert ?
A hazelnut. Just don’t ask for the other name for a Brazil Nut, we don’t don’t want to be cancelled.
Not just a hazelnut, the Frechified name so you know it’s classier!
Foie Gras better than ‘fatty liver’, no? Ha, ha, ha, mi capitan!
Production in the US of in shell hazelnuts has been controlled by government decree since 1949.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/moa/982-hazelnuts
You gotta get all serious when I was trying to make a racist joke! There are not fine people on both sides here!
Foie Gras better than ‘fatty liver’
Lots of Foie Gras round here, amirite? Mine is positively pickled.
The comment wasn’t there when I hit reply!!
Pecans are nearly a 1:1 replacement for almonds in the food system.
Dr. Taber clearly has no idea how to cook. This is as sensible as “Cauliflower is nearly a 1:1 replacement for wheat in the food system.”
Gotta agree with you there.
I often substitute pecans for walnuts, but almonds are an entirely different beast.
Deez.
Winner
All your profit are belong to us, pt 2
Expensive transit projects in big cities often demonstrate the promise of value capture most clearly. The Second Avenue subway expansion in New York City, for example, has cost $1.7 billion per kilometer — far more than recent subway construction around the world. I recently found, alongside co-authors Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh of Columbia and Constantine Kontokosta of New York University, that the project lowered commute times and raised the value of local real estate dramatically. In fact, as I detail in a recent policy brief for the Manhattan Institute, the increase in land value alone would have been enough to pay for the entire subway construction.
The problem is that existing government financing methods leave this value largely untouched. We estimate that New York City will recoup less than a third of the real estate value generated, while the rest is a windfall for private developers who just happened to own land in the vicinity of the subway stops. Local governments around the country will find that infrastructure improvements constructed in isolation will cost taxpayers enormous amounts while enriching local property owners.
Value capture helps address this problem. Urban governments tax the incremental property gains resulting from infrastructure improvements in order to finance their construction, making public investment more fiscally responsible and more equitable. Meanwhile, taxing the surplus windfall that accrues to local landowners leaves landowners no worse off than they were before, while providing funding to finance essential projects.
See? We cannot afford to let all those fabulous gains accrue to private citizens. That wouldn’t be right.
Meh. I’m paying for it. Where’s my profit?
Hope you all have a good day. I’m moving slow because I stayed up late watching McGregor do origami with his ankle.
Heard about that. NO desire to see it. ::shudders::
At its root, value capture recognizes that infrastructure investment builds brighter cities and more prosperous communities — and harnesses that progress for the public good. That seems like something we can all get behind.
Without Society to guide and support you, you’d be nothing. Nothing, I tell you.
Pay your tithe. Or else.
Fucking commies.
If what we were doing in Afghanistan was so important and beneficial to teh peepul, why is it all falling apart so quickly?
What the fuck have we been doing over there, all this time?
Desert and Mountains weapons testing. Mostly focusing on expanding our drone warfare abilities. Mean while spending stupid amounts of moeny to keep well trained and active SF groups in all branches of our military.
Spending money.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/worldwide-phenomenon-prefab-tiny-home-maker-nestron-just-started-shipping-overseas-see-inside-its-77-000-units/ss-AAM1l79
Nope.
That’s an awfully fancy trailer you’ve got there. Can’t wait to meet the kids raised in them.
I already have one, 660 sq, ft.
yes, it’s a mobile home, in a Senior park.
GTFO
$77,000??? Does it come with a Singapore Slut?
2021 moment last night at the party: everyone’s cell phones going off at once with the storm warning.
Where I work, there’s a federal mandate not to have cellphones turned on. It’s pretty amusing when the amber alerts come in and everyone has to pretend like we didn’t just here 60+ cell phones go off.
lol
A couple years ago at close to 11pm I had the tv on and all of a sudden there was a mass explosion of screeching sound. Both of our cell phones and the teevee were blaring a terrible sound at a volume higher than normal. All for a Amber Alert for some dude who was in a custody dispute with his ex wife and took his daughter. I immediately went and disabled all alerts on both our phones. So I got that going for me.
They’re asking the hard questions about Afghanistan, on Meet the Press.
Haha, just kidding.
Did they gargle some Avanetti cock on live camera again or did Hunter need another polish?
Our departure from Afghanistan is chaotic and disorganized. It’s Trump’s fault.
For being such a fat stupid abhorrent man, so I’m told, his omnipotent capabilities are quite impressive.
It’s really not that hard – John Valdez
GRUESOME CONTENT WARNING! A tale of two swords.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVU0uD2Uds4
there is nothing gruesome about that content.
I just watched the most recent Best of the Worst by Red Letter Media and it is credited as being directed by (Redacted); sometimes I swear they must be lurkers, or maybe I need to visit the haberdasher to have my tin foil redone.
Trumpism is a VIRUS inside the Republican Party.
He’s an unappreciated genius – Anthony Scaramucci
Kinzinger is a blathering cunt.
People are getting themselves killed from the plague.
This, too, must be laid at the feet of Former President Cartoon Villain.
Let’s keep politics out of the Jan 6 investigation.
Now that’s funny.
“Cracking the case! US customs officers seize 500 grams of meth hidden in individual PEANUT SHELLS being shipped from Mexico to Texas”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9776535/US-customs-officers-seize-500-grams-meth-hidden-individual-PEANUT-SHELLS.html
That’s nuts.
Imagine the market forces at work to make this type of activity profitable.
Or, someone was just REALLY bored…
And on a lot of meth.
I got nothin to say to that.
Good morning everyone.
I just cut the grass, two seconds after putting away the mower and closing my shed it began to rain.
“I love it when a plan comes together. “
Fresh cut grass and the smell of rain? Lucky!!!
And Meet the Press tosses “Weather is not climate!” into the dustbin of history.
And the vast outpouring of liberal grief over the lost sheep, J D Vance, continues.
I guess he’s just a no good hillbilly, after all.
Via WaPo :
Oh noes! He might not see Trump as the Great Satan!!!1!1
FOX news is literally killing people with their anti-vaxxer disinfo campaign. ARREST THEM!
What happened to the granola crunchy celebrity parents who were antivaxx well before covid? Did they change their tune, or are they just getting ignored by the MSM?
And the CDC saying vaxxed people should wear masks ‘in certain areas of the country where vaccination numbers are low’, somehow I don’t think they are talking about inner-cities, where it is such a case, either.
I think many of them either bought into this or they are keeping their mouths well shut. One of the highest anti-vax areas in the country is the county right north of here, Marin. It is extremely wealthy and very white and just a few years back they had a whooping cough outbreak there because of so many foregoing vaccines for their kids. I haven’t heard a peep from there, and Marin has one of the highest Coof vax rates in the country.
“Surreal moment in Oakland. About 200 mostly black families rally with police to call for an end to the epidemic of gun violence. Mothers at the stage mourning recently murdered children. In the back, less than a dozen mostly white antifa protesters assembled to jeer them.”
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1413961672163610632
“In #Oakland today there was a “Stand up for a Safe Oakland” rally against gun violence
Several #Antifa, who appear to be all white, showed up to “protest” by drowning out mostly black speakers who were naming and remembering homicide victims”
https://twitter.com/AntifaWatch2/status/1413966278415503362
I don’t get it.
I mean, what the antifa were attempting to accomplish. Just being anti-cop, but too stupid to know that it seemed like they were mocking the grieving families?
No shortage of stupid to go around in that room.
And no, you still don’t get to take my guns away.
Not saying this is a false flag, but a weakness of being “just an idea” and a horizontal organization that goes around masked with no identifiable leaders, is that it makes such operations easy to accomplish to discredit them.
No. It makes it easy for antifa itself to disavov anything they’ve ever done retroactively. I have yet to see them do anything not completely reprehensible, so i can’t even imagine what they might want to distance themselves from.
Democrats and Lefties have no choice but to disavow what they do. Once people find out, lefties change their names, apologize (but keep doing the same behavior), and blame someone else.
Democrats have the nerve to claim a bunch of racist Democrats ditched their Democrat Party legacy and joined the GOP. They have real trouble naming those people but they claim it anyway.
People might not know this but every state has registered Democrats and Republicans. Georgia has millions of Democrat voters even when Republicans control Georgia overall. Some of those Democrats will always vote Democrat and always have.
Georgia flipped Republican largely because of Gen Xers who voted GOP. The old racist Democrats still voted Democrat, there were just more young Republicans.
I’m sure it’s entirely legit.
Various voting results I’ve seen lately (such as the Dem primary for NYC mayor) bear out the fact that the “defund the police”/”ACAB” types are almost entirely of the white gentry, and most black voters aren’t having it.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. A whole lot of stupid white boys (and girls) just need their collective asses beat. If the black folks surrounded them and worked them over, I’d donate to their defense fund.
Something something, Eugene Levy being funnily racist.
I think I would have to go with the idea that there is a significant portion of Antifa that thinks blacks are not that bright and need to be told what to do by their betters.
Remember, some of these new types of racism are not even what most people think of when they think of racism.
How can making sure an entire race of Americans are given handouts be racist?
How can forcing others to hire people based on race be racist?
How can dumbing down what racism means be racist?
How can treating races of adults like kids be racist?
Lefties actually want you to think that only White Americans who dont embrace Communism, can be racist.
I mean, what the antifa were attempting to accomplish. Just being anti-cop, but too stupid to know that it seemed like they were mocking the grieving families?
To be honest, based on their track record, I have no difficulty believing those were actual “antifa” foot soldiers who felt the need to come tell those black folks they are just too fucking dumb to understand what they really need.
In fairness, ” legalize crime so we can wreck the whole country and remold it into a soviet style commie paradise” is just a tad hard to understand.
I dunno, some pretty dumb people seem to understand it.
That is one great blues tune there, very much like. If any of y’alls are into blues and have never seen the Alan Lomax doc filmed in the 70’s on it I would highly recommend. This is one of my fav bluesman and songs from the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M
I found this fascinating album in a going-out-of-business big box electronics store years ago, and it’s a favorite. I’m pretty sure several of the tracks are from Lomax recordings.
Nice, that’s going on right now GT. I like the African blues stuff and Lightnin Hopkins is also one of my fav bluesman.
Even one with minstrel show origins! Soooo problematic (and possibly my favorite track!)
…and one from a chain gang that was certainly a field holler.
Excellent stuff, I’m a huge fan of old recordings. Thanks!
I just clicked onto the the Virgin Galactic stream thinking I’d see Richard Branson bonking a woman in space, instead it’s shitty music in the desert. I hate space travel now.
This is on repeat?
https://youtu.be/C3lWwBslWqg
So this won’t be what space travel is like?
https://youtu.be/8KTs1IzyquQ
Disappoint.