I did not expect to end up in rural New York running the kitchen for my daughter’s coffee shop/café as my career-capper. But here we are. And there I am, pretending to be a short-order cook.
Birthdays today include a guy who wasn’t one of the Wright Brothers; the great-great-grandpa of Instant Pot; the greatest cartoonist EVER and don’t even bother fighting me, it’s objectively true; my historical celebrity crush; a writer who, let’s admit it, was very uneven; and a fun general named after a zit.
Let’s get to Links before another order for eight breakfast sandwiches, with three sausage, two bacon, two black bean burger, and one no protein; with four American, two Swiss, and two Cheddar; with two on everything bagels, three on croissants, two on sesame bagels, and one on a flatbread comes flying at me. Oh, and make sure the Cheddar, sesame bagel, and bacon one has a runny yolk.
I’m sure it will all make perfect sense.
So we’ll lose your luggage and toss you out of the plane for not wearing a mask.
Career goal: Chicago Police Department.
I made sure the girls who work for me saw this.
With luck, that Jew-hating race hustler will die quickly.
Old Guy Music should warm the cockles of your black, black hearts. It is my new favorite song.
“Let’s get to Links before another order for eight breakfast sandwiches, with three sausage, two bacon, two black bean burger, and one no protein; with four American, two Swiss, and two Cheddar; with two on everything bagels, three on croissants, two on sesame bagels, and one on a flatbread comes flying at me. Oh, and make sure the Cheddar, sesame bagel, and bacon one has a runny yolk.”
I can do that. It just takes practice.
You’re hired.
Point is I’m not some genius scientist.
Unfortunately, I’m the world’s shittiest multitasker and I have a shit short-term memory. Perfect job qualifications.
This is a lovely and inexpensive area. You’d look great manning the flat-top.
Low cost area in NY? Wonder what your indexing that to, or if you’re just joking.
He’s in western NY. You might be familiar with the cost of living there 😛
Still too expensive, just looks good compared to downstate and the capital region.
CoL is like half of what we dealt with in Phoenix.
Interesting, I always thought AZ was cheaper than that.. how much was due to your a/c bill?
When I lived in AZ, the utilities were 5 times as high as LA. We had really cheap electricity back then. Even though my AZ rent was half as high, the utes evened it out. A/C is not a three months out of the year thing there.
A glib job I finally understand. 😉
I’ll have a twist of lemon.
I guess you’re not a breakfast person?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqqXCiPJTXE
Heh: Marilu’s character is looking at herself with a clean knife. I know that trick.
Did you know she can remember every day of her life?
Yah, iss cool. I forget the term for it. ISTR she can also do the “which day of the week?” trick.
And she is about to say to the English protagonist “I would love to give you a makeover”.
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Sandwiches?!
Where’s my breakfast bowl? #KetoLife
I’m gonna need extra bacon and habaneros too.
The breakfast bowls are another multi-pronged nightmare.
You just gonna leave that hanging like that?
I’m quite curious about the problems that presents. Doesn’t even have to be detailed. Broad strokes would probably be enough.
Dish/utensil logistics? Increased costs? (Possible) Lack of market?
My head hurts just reading that.
I would be worse than useless in that situation.
“Taliban set woman on fire for ‘bad cooking,’ Afghan activist alleges”
Something something babies being taken out of incubators. I don’t buy it.
Honestly, I wouldn’t put anything past the Taliban.
I wouldn’t put anything past the fake media either. Videos with date tags or it didn’t happen.
Even if it’s true, you don’t see the media trumpeting how many Afghans were burned by US munitions or abused by warlords we supported. It is war propaganda, true or otherwise.
https://everywoman.org/who-we-are/najla-ayoubi/
She positively glows.
““Look, I don’t want to be in charge, but if I was – oh I want to get the Americans? Cool. Give me nine guys. I’m gonna walk through the streets and I’m gonna kill everyone I see, and I’m gonna grab the Americans.” said Mr O’Neill. “It is not difficult.””
Actually, I think it is difficult. Because, you know, they are going to shoot back.
I figured the military expected our ‘allies’ in Talibanistan to shoot back as well.
I have trouble believing this shit wasn’t deliberate.
“don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up”
One of the few true things to come out of his mouth.
Yes, he should have been aware it was a terrible plan, but Joe wouldn’t have been the one to come up with it in the first place.
It sounds like Joe took Trump’s and the Generals’ plans, poked some giant holes in it (not deploying troops to secure Bagram air base), and told them to execute it.
The “my dad can beat up your dad” guy is all grown up now.
His comments on Fox News appeared to bear little relation to reports of the realities on the ground in Afghanistan
There’s a lot of that going around, I think.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Parker!
OM, what Hebrew letter is that atop the lovely hot beverage? Is it, by chance….chai?
…You might as well live.
Ever read the Marion Meade bio of her?
What Fresh Hell etc.? I think so, but it’s been a while. Could stand a reread, anyway.
Yeah, that. Am telling Noah about the flood, evidently.
Oh, FFS. GoodReads is claiming “Readers Also Enjoyed,” among other titles, Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden. ::barely suppresses urge to retch::
I hear that site is corrupt. Moj would know.
For similar I would suggest the Richard Ellmann bio of Oscar Wilde.
Aleph.
But you have to rotate the screen π/4 radians.
Mornin’! What’s Aleph, O Old Man?.
Cantor notation.
Am impressed you recognize the Hebrew alphabet. I only know shin.
Ten years of Orthodox Hebrew School.
But can you get my oven out of Sabbath Mode?
I guess about 3 or 4 years ago my wife was cleaning up the kitchen and it took my a solid a good 10 minutes ending in a trip to Google to get the right G-d damn combination of buttons to get it to work again.
Is Your Oven Stuck on 350 Degrees? It’s Not Broken, It’s in Sabbath Mode.
It only plays “Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath” on loop?? Terrible, indeed.
Except in a vegan kitchen, then it’s Sweet Leaf.
I can’t believe the news today!
Really? Mine plays War Pigs.
Er, that GT knows owt about it. Unclear antecedent is my fault.
Lotsa (((kids))) in my high school, since at that time, all the local synagogues were in our corner of town. Also, my first paying job was working as a “Party Pal” (not THAT kind!) for two friends, (((cousins))) to each other who ran a business providing help to caterers at weddings, bar & bat mitzvahs, etc. and to hostesses at parties. I was hired to be the Party Pal for the (((cousins’))) (((families’))) Seder. Afterward, they gave me a little haroset sandwich on matzo to try, and after I ate it, one (((friend’s))) (((brother))) said, “Congratulations! You’re now an honorary Jew.”
Don’t know if that would be officially recognized in Israel.
Oh, cool. Am envious. Have never been invited to temple or Seder, but I like Yiddish.
Some Yiddish terms are just so much better than those in any other language. I’m particularly fond of zaftig, though I try not to allow myself to become so (#GlibFit,) and fakakta.
Leo Rosten!
Yeah, very expressive. Was just watching Linda Richman clips on YT, bubbeleh.
Due to a massive drug-fueled mistake I found myself married to a shrieking wraith harridan of a shibboleth (from hell) for a few years. I got along very well with the rest of her family, who claimed to be Jew-nitarians. (None of the above refers to GT). I figure that that makes me an honorary Jew. And I get bumped up a rank or two for meritorious service in the “Long Suffering” Division.
The military has alerted major US airlines that their help may be requested to operate flights for Afghan evacuees, either on a voluntary basis or by activating the Civil Reserve Fleet, NBC’s Josh Lederman reported.
The Civil Reserve Air Fleet was created in 1952 after WWII and can be activated during a national defense crisis to add to the US military’s aircraft capacity. Commercial airlines volunteer to participate in the program and in return are given preference for transporting cargo and personnel for the Department of Defense.
Volunteer or be shot. Biden’s America is a kinder, gentler place than you-know-who’s.
I’ve said this before, but I’m not sure I give a shit about the people stuck in Afghanistan. If it’s a bunch of CIA goons who were there to arm bad guys, meddle in things they shouldn’t, and generally do evil, I hope they have to walk home.
People do the darndest things…
Now to do Fauci and the CDC and the American people. You can fool some…
I am fully in favor of flying Fauci to Afghanistan, one way.
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I’m sure there is quite a collection of Dudley Do-Rights there from all kinds of NGOs who honestly thought they were there to help.
There’s a not insignificant number of fed gov workers trying to complete other projects as well. Like infrastructure and such.
Given the state of the airline industry, they should be thrilled. I flew there and back on a United 747 in 90-91. Much better than a military transport and M16s fit in the overhead compartment.
Can I get avocado on that?
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I’m sure it will all make perfect sense.
He’s doing it in the middle of a hurricane striking the media center of the country (or, at least, giving it a glancing blow and a fair bit of rain). His handlers must really want it buried.
More teeth for the evil mandates. The average time it takes to approve a drug is 10-12 years. That’s for drugs that work well and are beneficial. You know the one’s we want.
Because if there’s one thing I’ve wondered lately it’s where have all the “messages” gone.
Long time passes.
If covid was any kind of extremely deadly, everyone would rush down to get the shots, even not knowing how well they work. The shot sucks and the disease is not all that horrific. Then, they worsen everything by injecting politics and straight up lies into it. Now, America is embroiled in yet another front of the culture war, over absolutely nothing.
You seriously have a restaurant in NY? Where approx? I’m heading up to the Adirondack next month for my mini vacation.
Well west of there, past the Finger Lakes, a small college town near Hornell. We’d welcome a visit if you’re ambitious.
You’re about an hour from where I live. At least you’re probably not surrounded by crazies out there.
That little college needs to monitor their pyrometric cones.
I have a good friend here who was at Alfred University for several years.
any good vineyards to visit in the region?
Park it outside so people will know how virtuous you are
General Motors is recalling all Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles sold worldwide to fix a battery problem that could cause fires, expanding a previous recall. The company last month told owners of 2017-2019 model year vehicles to park outdoors and not charge them overnight after two vehicles repaired in the earlier recall caught fire.
The recall and others raise questions about lithium ion batteries, which now are used in nearly all electric vehicles. Ford, BMW and Hyundai all have recalled batteries recently. President Joe Biden will need electric vehicles to reach a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half 2030 as part of a broader effort to fight climate change.
What happens to your carbon footprint when your emission free vehicle burns your house down?
When you become homeless and dependent on the gov’t for everything, including transportation ?
I think the left ejaculates at the idea.
We have about a hundred of those at work.
Talk about sticker shock!
the greatest cartoonist EVER and don’t even bother fighting me, it’s objectively true
Better than this guy?
Holy shit, is that photo real?
Explains a lot.
The photo is real. The hair is not.
I wonder how much he had “to pay” for that haircut?
“Britain loses patience with Sleepy Joe: Tony Blair brands Biden an ‘imbecile’ over ‘tragic, dangerous and unnecessary’ decision to quit Afghanistan amid claims Boris remarked ‘we would be better off with Trump’
Cabinet insiders have suggested the President was ‘gaga’ and ‘doolally’ for withdrawing so quickly, while the Prime Minister has allegedly privately referred to Mr Biden as ‘Sleepy Joe’, the nickname coined by Donald Trump. Mr Johnson also allegedly remarked Britain ‘would be better off with Trump’ – allegations branded ‘categorically untrue’ by Downing Street.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9916221/Blair-brands-Biden-imbecile-unnecessary-decision-quit-Afghanistan.html
That’s some special relationship.
Biden to address nation on Afghanistan evacuation Sunday afternoon
Resignation in… 3…. 2….
Grownups in charge
The Biden administration on Sunday activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, ordering U.S. commercial airlines to provide flights for the Afghanistan evacuation efforts.
The CRAF is a nearly 70-year-old program created in the wake of the Berlin airlift to provide a backup by commercial air carriers for a “major national defense emergency.”
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The flights would not fly into Afghanistan but instead would be used to transport those who have already been flown out of the country. These routes could include flying individuals who are stranded at U.S. bases in Germany, Qatar and Bahrain, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news.
Public private partnership. Competent governance. LEADERSHIP.
The Donner party had leadership too.
“Ex-Navy SEAL from team who shot Bin Laden says he’d save Americans by shooting ‘everyone I see’ in Afghanistan”
“Look, I don’t want to be in charge, but if I was – oh I want to get the Americans? Cool. Give me nine guys. I’m gonna walk through the streets and I’m gonna kill everyone I see, and I’m gonna grab the Americans.” said Mr O’Neill. “It is not difficult.”
He’s not wrong… The Taliban don’t rule because they’re special. They rule because they’re fully willing and capable of doing exactly this.
And then the Taliban would just start shooting down planes. That guy shouldn’t be in charge of a food truck.
I heard a figure that the Taliban took 20 casualties for every one they inflicted. Fighting with those odds takes a good bit of resolve. That kind of boasting is simultaneously idiotic, bloodthirsty, and unrealistic.
He’s basically just telling us that he doesn’t fit in modern society. He’s a soldier who is willing to kill and maybe die in battle. That’s not what want from our modern military. We want extra inclusive equity based androgynous culture warriors.
To be fair, we also needed culture warriors in Afghanistan, they were just too busy doing blue on blue instead of destroying Afghanistan’s culture.
No, we didn’t. We should have kicked their asses hard in ’01 and then went home that same year. Watched them closely and if there’s a hint of returning to the old ways, go back and kick their asses again. Let them decide their own culture, just don’t fuck with us.
Three unspoken assumption being that we were going to try to do nation building. I agree with you 100% that we shouldn’t have.
Bumper sticker, 1966
Ft Benning
“Win in Viet Nam”
Scraped off, 1975
“Save us, Joe Biden!”
Haha, that doddering bumbler couldn’t mail a letter.
I only took this job because I didn’t want to have to actually do anything
“It’s frustrating and overwhelming just to be in the position that we are in,” Burdge said. “We have so many children as well as teachers that are either isolated or quarantined right now. It’s really tough for nurses.
“At least we have this,” she added, referring to the new mask mandate. “It’s a safeguard. Nothing is 100 percent, but this will hopefully help get the numbers down.”
With fewer tools at their disposal, school nurses nationwide are expressing frustration and exhaustion even as the academic year is only just beginning.
It is especially difficult in states like Florida, where political leaders are refusing to allow schools to create mask mandates and other policies that could act as basic safeguards against the coronavirus’ delta variant, which is surging and has been shown to increasingly infect children just as they are returning to school.
“School nurses here are facing a moral dilemma, because the protocols that are in place and coming from the state don’t align with their values, their training, general scientific opinion, CDC guidance or the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics,” said Lisa Kern, the director of the Florida Association of School Nurses. “It’s unsettling.”
This cognitive dissonance is particularly tough because many school nurses have taken on huge responsibilities during the public health crisis.
Cognitive dissonance?
I’m not even supposed to be here today!
many school nurses have taken on huge responsibilities during the public health crisis.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
They’re talking about the obesity of the students.
Fat chance.
Assumes a fantasy universe where the last eighteen months never happened.
Robert Heinlein would like a word.
Are we still talking about The Cat Who Walks Through Walls?
Why in God’s name did kids get made this way?
So sick of fighting them to make them eat. I blame women for being to attentive to their needs, on an evolutionary scale.
My wife struggles with this – as did my ex. Remarkably, a problem “dad” never has. Observe:
Food on table at time to eat. Those who do not eat will have to wait until the next time food is put on the table to partake. If this is an overnight wait, even better.
It’s amazing how a coupla bouts with hunger focuses the mind and steels the will, yet causes no harm.
This was my strategy, but I was afraid it wouldn’t work without both parents. I’ll try it going alone. Thanks.
Lack, I don’t know your house, so this isn’t necessarily for you, but this is one of Ozy’s peeves.
I don’t think this is anything other than excessive parental love. We want to feed our children – but it all goes awry in so many ways.
Like how my wife gets all flustered by asking the kids what they “want” and then engaging in this drawn out, aggravation filled hostage negotiation over what they “want” vs. what’s in our cupboards for dinner.
The kids always “want” ice cream, candy, snacks, chips, and an assortment of other garbage (to which my wife caters) and eventually has to make something that the kids have now argued against, she doesn’t like to say “no” in the first place, etc. And no one can figure out why mealtime is such a headache and involves all of this angst.
1. They’re kids. They don’t “know” what they should eat – of course they’re going to always pick dessert as a meal – this is why adults are supposed to exist.
2. They need to learn to eat healthy food, which includes lots of good protein to build bone and muscle, good fats, and almost ZERO processed carb.
3. Less to no garbage carbs limits the insulin swings, which also helps with behavior and mood.
4. Mealtime is not a fucking debate society. When they have a job, buy the groceries, and cook the meals, they can have a vote.
5. Finally, a lot of aggravation can be saved in the shopping by not buying all of the garbage that winds up causing these problems in the first place.
I’m always amazed at how much bullshit parents invite for themselves by fucking up this most basic process and spending a lifetime in aggravation with no thought as to why that is. I’m sure it’s doG’s fault and no one else’s.
Favorite mythical restaurant concept: “Mom’s – where you eat what’s put in front of you.”
Any chance you have a twin sister I can dump my wife for?
My daughter is out of the house now so there are no more food battles with her. I can now identify almost everything in the pantry and fridge.
My wife comes home yesterday with BOGO 4 packs of MC chicken pot pies.
Me: “You know he’s just going to eat those everyday until they’re gone.”
Her: “I’ll put them in the freezer downstairs.”
Oh goodie, he’ll never find them now!
I go get a cup of coffee. He’s eating one at 10 o’clock in the morning.
*rolls eyes*
Oh look, I can see my brain.
I did both the shopping and the cooking up until 2011 or 2012. Got so sick tired of explaining I’m not a short order cook that I finally resigned that position in the household. The biggest offender was not the kids, but the wife. The kids of course took a page from her book. Now our grocery bill is doubled and we don’t have ingredients, we have boxes of shit food.
I’ve said this before, but I’m not sure I give a shit about the people stuck in Afghanistan. If it’s a bunch of CIA goons who were there to arm bad guys, meddle in things they shouldn’t, and generally do evil, I hope they have to walk home.
I have no problem with that. NGO parasites, too.
In 2001, the Taliban had a minor foil in the form of the Northern Alliance, who controlled a small chunk of the country. After 20 years of very expensive nation building, the Taliban control all but one valley.
They learned the lesson of not allowing a hostile redoubt in the country that outsiders could exploit to get rid of them. They made sure to eliminate that possibility this time.
One of the NA’s leaders Ahmad Shah Massoud, a real badass who earned the nickname Lion of The Panjshir, was assassinated on September 9th 2001 by jihadis posing as journalists. They had a camera filled with Semtex. There is a theory that the same technique was attempted on GW Bush, 2 days later as the planes were crashing into the WTC. IIRC, Two Afghan journalists, claiming to have a scheduled interview with POTUS, showed up at his Sarasota hotel then disappeared when they were told that no such appointment was scheduled. POTUS was already at the school photo-op, reading The Hungry Caterpillar.
I had not heard that before. Interesting.
“It’s impossible,” said Karen Schwind, the president of the Texas School Nurses Organization, who works as the health services coordinator at the New Braunfels Independent School District.
“I’m receiving calls and hearing from parents who absolutely want to keep their kids in masks, would like their child to be in a classroom with only masks and do not want the child in the classroom where there are no masks,” Schwind said. “Unfortunately, that’s just not something we have the capability of doing at this point. But then there’s the flip side of it where the parents are absolutely tired of the masks, they didn’t want them even last year and they are not sending their child to school in a mask.”
Gosh, hon. That’s awful. Those people should just shut up and do what you tell them.
Saw a name-change notice from Karen to Kerri recently.
Poor Karens/Karins. A perfectly cromulent Scandinavian name once.
Me, I mentally christen that type as Barbara, but nobody asked me.
I’m receiving calls and hearing from parents who absolutely want to keep their kids in masks
Nobody’s forcing those kids not to wear masks. You, however, want to force everybody else to bend to your desires.
Their brains are broken. You have to feel a little sorry for them, at this point. What the elites have done to this
countryworld is obscene.What’s obscene is how weak the human mind really is. My cynical tendencies have blossomed into full blown misanthropy the past 2 years; everything I see now I just chalk up to “dumb-ass human shit”. Expecting them to behave any differently is unreasonable.
Nice ?
I didn’t know they had that in them, to be honest. Though I haven’t listened in a long time.
“The FDA is urging people to stop taking veterinary drugs to treat or prevent Covid-19 after receiving multiple reports of patients who have been hospitalized after “self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses,” the FDA says.”
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1429186813118255109
Bunch of neigh sayers.
Heh. Might be a good idea to let doctors treat the disease as they see fit instead of going all-in on experimental vaccines.
How will Pfizer make hundreds of billions with doctors prescribing a dirt-cheap generic med?
Merck has the answer.
https://swprs.org/merck-claim-exposing-big-pharma-lobbyists/
My doc didn’t treat the ‘Rona, just the bacterial pneumonia. I was perfectly happy with that decision. It worked out well.
Stop horsing around!
The FDA also urges people not to take drugs that fall out of your ass.
Ask your doctor if loperamide is right for you.
Whinny are we giving up pun threads?
I think yesterday someone posted a remark from the FDA about farm supply ivermectin being dosed for livestock so it’s dangerous to take for humans.
It’s disingenuous. The dosage by weight instructions on the bottle for cows is the exact same as the FLCCC dosing protocol for humans. Ivermectin labeled for livestock is the exact same as that for humans with the exception that you don’t need a prescription and have the responsibility of measuring the dose yourself. It wouldn’t surprise me if those same livestock bottles are relabeled at the plant for human use and sent out to developing nations where they couldn’t afford the markup on individual premeasured doses.
100% positive the problem here is these patients missed the decimal and overdosed themselves (e.g., did 15 ml instead of 1.5 ml).
A veterinarian gave me liquid antibiotics for my pet rat. Just a couple of drops a day.
I asked why they made it pink and bubblegum flavored when it’s for animals.
He explained that it’s the same as what they make for humans. It’s cheaper for them to make it all to humans standards in batches rather than have a separate production line for human vs veterinary use.
Meanwhile, out of other end of Mr. Ed, they say the vaccine is totally safe and effective. Later, you read in the consent form the it’s not really either, but shut up and take it, or else.
That stuff won’t even stop you from catching colt.
Good morning, OM, as usual, I’m late but it’s your fault. I have to read every one of your links.
In the very remote chance I stop in for breakfast, what time do you open? Some food preparation is necessary so you must get to work super early. Good to hear that all is going well. The early morning customers may not be the greatest tippers, though.
So *you’re* the one person who actually reads the links!
7:30. But for you, 8:30. I’ll barter breakfast for honey.
“Trump advises his audience in Alabama to take the Covid vaccine”
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1429255690682572805
I wonder if Trump won if the Democrats would still be against the vaccine.
Three guesses, and the first two don’t … Count.
*dons sunglasses*
Let’s hop in a
time machine and find out.
I had no idea people could vote at birth.
The funny part is these people would see no problem if confronted with this. Orwell was right about doublethink all along. Yet another example of humans just being human.
Noble statesman
Cuomo told New York magazine August 13 that he would have won any impeachment process following the report, but he said he did not want to “drag the state through the mud, through a three-month, four-month impeachment, and then win, and have made the State Legislature and the state government look like a ship of fools.”
“Everything I’ve done all my life was for the exact opposite. I’m not doing that,” he said. “I’m not a martyr. It’s just, I saw the options, option A, option B.”
He is an inspiration to us all, and will be deeply missed.
Sadly, given the state of new York, I might really miss him… Like peak derp there’s no such thing as peak statist.
Yeah, I have a feeling that when Tish finally claws her way to the top we’ll be longing for the token resistance he would occasionally present to the lunatics in the legislature.
“I didn’t want the state of New York to sully itself by finding out what a saint I am.”
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.li/xubuL
“A Life Destroyed for ‘Parading’ at the Capitol
Joe Biden, his Justice Department, and the news media don’t care how many lives they destroy in this process. In fact, the more, the better…
After suffering the effects of tear gas and sting balls launched by police officers outside the building—a reality the news media still refuses to cover—Reeder went inside the building to look for water to rinse his eyes. From all accounts, he was allowed into the building. While inside, Reeder marveled at the beauty of the Capitol and urged others “do not destroy anything.” He asked police how he could get out of the building as the situation between law enforcement and protesters escalated.
Reeder took selfies and videos of his experience. “I’m leaving now . . . I got tear gassed at least four times inside the Capitol . . . I saw the lady they say got shot, I walked right past her in a pool of blood,” he said in one video. “And it’s just . . . completely crazy in there.” After he entered a second time—police were not allowing protesters to exit the grounds so Reeder was looking for a way out through the building—he said in another post that he was “gassed several times . . . and shot with pepper balls.””
https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/19/a-life-destroyed-for-parading-at-the-capitol/
Anyway, read the whole thing.
“But as is the case in all January 6 prosecutions, the government is showing no mercy; Reeder, not charged with anything close to “rioting” or mob activity, nonetheless is branded a criminal by Joe Biden’s Justice Department. “[I]t is important to convey to future rioters and would-be mob participants—especially those who intend to improperly influence the democratic process—that their actions will have consequences,” assistant U.S. attorney Joshua Rothstein wrote in the government’s sentencing memo. “Picketing, demonstrating, or parading at the Capitol as part of the riot on January 6 is not like picketing at the Capitol some other day, without other rioters present.”
Rothstein ticked off a list of notables who have lain in state at the Rotunda, including former presidents and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then condemned Reeder for daring to enter such a sacred place. “[H]is very presence in the Capitol rotunda that day was a desecration of hallowed ground,” Rothstein wrote.
To add insult to injury, prosecutors are citing Reeder’s now-deleted Facebook activity to bolster their argument he should spend two months in jail. The memes and messages don’t show any criminal intent; there’s no evidence Reeder planned to commit any violent crime on January 6 based on his social media account.”
CWAA
“[H]is very presence in the Capitol rotunda that day was a desecration of hallowed ground,”
So… a religious argument that he’s “unclean” and has no right to be in a building he pays to maintain. The fact that a case like this wasn’t immediately thrown out shows how corrupt the process is.
“[H]is very presence in the Capitol rotunda that day was a desecration of hallowed ground,” Rothstein wrote.”
/puke
I expect the same reaction to the inevitable lockdown and medical experimentation protests that Joe and friends are going to stir up.
Just look at the history of the Germans, circa ’20-’40s. That seems to be their playbook.
Very close to admitting it right here.
“Why is this day different from all other days?”
Looks like the new religion is culturally appropriating a (((ritual))).
“All I’m asking for is the right to the same weapons that I paid for the Taliban to own”
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1429092668953481218
LOLOLOL
I didn’t know Louis CK wrote Deirdre for advice…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15926322/really-happy-being-single/
OMWC, you were correct about the morning music; fine, fine stuff. Kinda sorta reminds me of The Day The NAZI Died.
I see CNN is blaming Trump for the Afghan withdrawal disaster right now…
What else were they gonna do really? CNN is by far the most propaganda-y of the propaganda networks; and they seem to be the only one outright blaming Trump. Their braindead viewers will lap up whatever shit they serve.
Brooksie isn’t giving us the rundown on Sunday morning derp so I got curious enough to click over for a few minutes…my God.
Robin Hood Men in Tights just started…think I’ll watch that instead.
Back on-brand.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/21/nyc-subway-attacker-beats-woman-with-metal-stick/
“Police released security video of the middle-aged suspect, who was wearing a black t-shirt with an egg and bacon image”
‘Twas the scrambled eggs what done it. Clearly he wanted them sunnyside up. I blame the short-order cook.
YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS!!
More likely scrambled brains.
If the real world ever returns, it will fun returning to all the “street smarts” that everyone used in the nineties the last time the city was overrun with crazies.
Brought to you by the partnership for a fun free America!
You didn’t link the one with the hot chick?!
It’s the morning. My brain is still barely over easy.
Here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVz2oXqlmbg
I wonder if the victim now supports concealed carry in NYC.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/22/afghanistan-news-seven-dead-amid-crushes-at-kabul-airport-15131384/
https://archive.li/d90xU/206e8baddaaac93b0346c46e6479004cc5ccd3c0.jpg
It’s too bad Stephanie Kelton is white
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has backed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s reappointment to his position, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told Bloomberg.
Yellen has talked to senior White House officials to cast her support for Powell, the sources said, who would likely be voted through by both Democrats and Republicans.
Powell was appointed by former President Trump in 2018, and former President Obama appointed him to the Fed in 2012.
The sources said the White House has broadened its candidate search and has been looking at public comments about views on the labor market from potential nominees.
Stop pussyfooting around, Joe. What the Federal Reserve Bank needs in these troubled times is a powerful advocate for unconstrained money creation and government spending.
The underutilized Commerce Clause could be used to override local zoning.
I’m not going to read that word salad but Imma guess it boils down racial bean counting.
The article cites a number of federal anti-discrimination laws that worked but believes it’s the Commerce Clause that will save the day.
*scratches head*
It’s another exercise in bamboozling the public by switching out “equality” for “equity”.
Dear Leader is very fit, I don’t know what they’re talking about.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/north-koreans-banned-mentioning-kim-24812039
they are just jealous of the concept of food
LOL
Dear Leader is most alive man to ever be alive!
Is there such a thing as a “hero” who does not receive a government paycheck, here in
Joe Biden’sCNN’s America?Inquiring minds, and all that.
Well imagine that!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914969/Popular-blue-surgical-face-masks-NOT-stop-people-infected-COVID-19.html
No doubt our Glorious Omniscient Health Bureaucrats have access to knowledge not available to mere mortals and masks will still be used to ward off the evil eye.
“That’s 10% fewer grandmas you’re killing. Now pull up your fucking mask.”
There are plenty of comments over there to the effect that they do work because ten percent is better than nothing. At some point they become counterproductive, I wonder what the threshold would be for them. That kind of alarmism can be used to justify use based on any effectiveness above zero percent.
“If it prevents even one completely asymptomatic case…”
Way too close to the truth
Most blue surgical face masks used by many during the pandemic are not enough to avoid people from being infected with COVID-19, an alarming new study has found.
SHOCKING REVELATION!
Throw your mask away? Let’s not jump to conclusions.
If you can breathe sorta OK, your mask ain’t working. You gotta be turning blue to be safe.
The N95 was conversely able to filter over 50% of aerosol droplets while the other half is dispersed above the wearer’s head.
‘A lot of this may seem like common sense,’ Yarusevych comments. ‘There is a reason, for instance, that medical practitioners wear N95 masks – they work much better. The novelty here is that we have provided solid numbers and rigorous analysis to support that assumption.’
*outright, prolonged laughter*
It may seem like common sense.
I call it pigeon superstition.
goddamnit stop saying pigeon I hate those things I am triggered
even the one I ate in a fancy restaurant was under-cooked.
??
wut
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/south-korean-politicians-want-semen-terrorism-labelled-as-a-sex-crime
Something wicked this way comes.
Obama douses D.C.’s party scene
The bashing of the bash is having a chilling effect on the D.C. party scene as (especially Democratic) pols and their staffers scramble to figure out when and where — or even if — they can party again.
…
Not all parties are being scrapped. Hill aides are advising their bosses on which ones to attend as event planners try to draw those luminaries to their parties. It can’t be a party just for a party’s sake, several of the advisers told us. There has to be a greater cause to justify going.
“Do as I say, not as I do.” isn’t polling well.
TOS hardest hit.
“Journalists might suffer too, with the Washington book party circuit in limbo.”
LOLOLOL
What a bunch of fucking failures.
“Genuine q for ppl more concerned about schools being closed than covid: are you aware mandatory schooling is barely a century old in this country?
Maybe ur all grandparents had highschool, but what about ur great-grandparents?
Yes, education is important. But it’s a pandemic!”
https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/1429156161614405634
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD apparently got her degree without school.
What I heard: government schools are worthless.
Abolish them!
But keep paying the teachers…
“Like, omg! R u srs?”
A quick and forceful response.
Why don’t you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue?
Chuck Todd comes down hard on Biden’s “plan”.
And Biden moves a little closer to the open window.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning to the rest of you fine people!
So we’ll lose your luggage and toss you out of the plane for not wearing a mask.
Maybe should have kept Bagram eh, Slow Joe?
I promise to watch exactly zero seconds of his comments. The entertainment value is officially gone. We have hit governance rock-bottom.
Speaking of which, what a lovely and appropriate song. Two minutes of pure bliss!
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday! 62, blue skies and perfect here.
Good morning, Tundy! Fixin’ to be a bit steamy down here in SW OH – already 81 (“feels like 85.”) We may take a miss on this afternoon’s minor league ballgame, as it’s due to hit nominal 90 at first pitch, but we’re sure as hell not gonna watch Dopey Joe instead.
*shrug* I’ve been living governance rock-bottom through eight years of Deblasio.
You get used to it.
James Lofton does is pre-season announcer for the Packers, and all I’ve ever heard was how great he was while he was here and he is now a Hall of Famer. I was too young to pay attention while he was here. So today I was just wondering why he left Green Bay. In the days before free agency it must have meant the team got rid of him. Bios are him are surprisingly sparse. but after refining my search:
That story has this quaint quote about how much NFL players were paid back then:
A familiar name from my Buffalo college years and I didn’t even pay any attention to the game then.
Your turn at short order cook reminds me of a scene in Dead Like Me when Mandy Patinkin’s character, who had been a hellish customer on a short order cook, had to replace that short order cook with no notice. He wasn’t good at it.
I’m still looking for enough info to find the cafe.
How are we suppossed to patronize the location?
are you trying to doxx people?
I don’t want the world to know. Just people who’d spend money there.
I am not sure they serve hardtack and water
?
I believe it’s in Alfred, New York, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out which coffeeshop it actually is.
🙁 That corner of the pennsylvania border is particularly out of the way.
It is easy. You go to each one and ask loudly: Do you have Australian wine cause I am in the mood for a proper Syrah
Leave a cigarette with a dollar sign on it in the ashtray.
*checks premises*
::remembers first full-time job after college working food prep at a subs/pizza/salads joint, alternately making sammiches, tossing pizza dough, and working the deep fryer for o-rings, batter-dipped veggies, & cheese sticks. Shudders::
I sm still unclear if the family has ownership in the cafe or are just exploited workers
Yes?
We loved that show. It was a shame about the sex scandal with what’s her name.
I liked the show as well but am unfamiliar with any sex scandal and not sure I care
What?!
I thought they closed up shop because Patinkin was being a diva, as per usual.
No, it was just one the characters got booted. We kind of liked her. It was strange.
Never mind. The sex thing happened after the car accident. Faulty memory.
Read More: https://www.thelist.com/423086/what-happened-to-the-cast-of-dead-like-me/?utm_campaign=clip
It’s alwasy fun to realize halfway through assembling a tank how easy it would be to magnetize the one mutually exclusive weapon option to swap it whenever I… who am I kidding, I haven’t actually played a game of wahammer since the release of 8th edition.
You’re not assembling a real tank in real life???
?
In one night?
‘Fraid not.
You’re good with your hands?
::looks at link:: That’s really gorgeous!
Mine isn’t all that colorful
See
Well done! Do you plan to paint it, or are you going to leave it as is?
It’s not done if it’s not painted.
Wow, Australia, you really are the worst.
Dead dogs, courtesy of Covid insanity.
JFC.
Can’t, won’t, shan’t.
I hear Fauci likes beagle experiments. I suppose he wouldn’t be the first.
::abandons any pretense to Universalist principles:: Special place in Hell.
Covid insanity
Don’t blame Covid. It’s tyrant insanity. Covid is just another weapon for the evil to wield.
Australia’s gone into the toilet.
Counterclockwise?
^^^This. Officially crossed off my list of places I ever want to go. Pity, because it was pretty high on that list before.
Clive James, descendants of gaolers, etc.
There seem to be many sane Strines; don’t dismiss them en masse (or Brits, or Californians…).
There are definitely millions of great Aussies, just as I’m sure there are millions of great Norks. I wouldn’t visit either place now for the same reason; the amplitude may be different but any place with a government that murders dogs to keep people locked up from a cold bug is not a place I want to support.
ditto and ditto
Same here
I’ve been to Australia twice. I liked it. There are shitty people there, like the bigot that talked my ear off on the plane to Adelaide, but there are good people too.
Australia needs Ned Kelly to come back from the grave.
I assume there’s no lack of blue juice in the shelters, which have been more humane. Sounds the tyrants just sent in storm troopers with guns blazing. Message sent to cow the populace further.
Only a short hop to shooting people for the same rationale.
Whoever it was talking about having to buy Magnum PI on yesterday’s post. It is streamed for free on Roku app
Thanks. One of my favorite shows evah.
Streaming licenses only last so long. It used to be on Netflix, not there anymore. If you you buy a physical copy you always have it, until your nephew breaks it trying to shove it in the toaster…
That is frustrating, I’ve gone halfway through a series before and then poof it’s gone. Then I just look for another old series to start. There’s always some old show worth watching even if most of the new stuff is crap
Makes one want to sail the high seas.
I know of a capital ship…
Yup, I’m not playing the streaming game. Anything I want to watch forever, I buy it. Or at least download it.
Thanks Archie! That was me. I may still end up buying the entire box set of DVD’s just to make sure I have them always and forever.
*burns out of the grass in my Quattrovalvole after checking my .45 and adjusting my Tigers cap*
The problem with streaming is when they take out “problematic” episodes. Owning the DVDs takes woke out of the equation.
That song is much too somber for such a happy subject. Plus it needz moar cowbell.
“ministers are openly questioning both the sanity of Joe Biden, the US president, and the durability of the Anglo-American relationship”
https://archive.li/ulQUP#selection-915.228-915.362
Bit late for that eh, globalist shitheads? Didn’t you want a “normal” president; one that doesn’t send mean tweets or cozy up with the cockroaches in Middle America? Besides, Biden’s sanity is irrelevant, it’s not like he’s the one calling the shots. He just gets the drool wiped off his chin and parked in front of a teleprompter from time to time. You want blame, blame the Obama 2.0 bureaucrats.
Further:
“civilian leaders are wondering how their intelligence agencies failed to predict the chaos.”
This is one situation that I don’t think the IC can be blamed for. The reports seem to say that the spooks were warning against the plan of action for months ahead of time. The Executive Branch and the DoD chose to ignore it. The fact that Austin still has a job shows how corrupt and incompetent they all are.
I like how that sentence structure implies Biden isn’t the US president.
What is the official glinertarian position on putting some mustard on a burger?
Better than putting pineapple on it.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Better than putting pineapple on it.
Can we blame squirrels for this? Or Glib Hive mind.
My position is that it’s great, especially with dill pickle as well. For the really good burgers, though, I go for A1 and/or Heinz 57 steak sauces.
Pretty much the only thing I’ve never had on a burger (condiment wise) is tarter sauce. Maybe I should try that.
WHAT?!?!? This has to rival pineapple on pizza right here. Can we get a ruling?
It’s just tarted up mayo. I say it’s acceptable.
Yeah, some of the Big Boy’s put that on burgers. It’s all right by me.
Oh, yes! That’s Big Boy’s thing, at least at our regional Big Boy chain – Frisch’s.
Now I want another Swiss Miss (burger with Swiss Cheese, shredded lettuce, and tartar sauce on a rye bun.)
My go-to is pickles, a slice of American cheese (a recent addition – I used to use cheddar but somehow American works better for this single use), and A1.
And as I buying better beef lately, I do find myself wanting less A1. It’s amazing what a difference $$ makes. All my life I wondered why I couldn’t make a decent burger.
A good burger doesn’t need condiments.
That doesn’t mean you can’t use them.
Much like fries. If they NEED ketchup, they must not be too good.
Non-optional.
Mustard, mayo, red onion, pickle = perfection. Ketchup doesn’t go on a burger; it goes on fries. Also Heinz is the only acceptable ketchup. Get that Hunt’s shit the fuck outta’ here.
Not red onion, pickled onion.
Brooks or GTFO.
You should have Brooksed that response.
I’m using some weird Turkish ketchup I found at my halal grocer. It’s slightly less sweet than the usual suspects, so I like it. The only thing I use it for is fry sauce.
Fries need mayo, not ketchup.
^^^
I learned sweet and sour sauce is great with fries…
I loved fries and beef gravy as a kid.
Mayo and ketchup.
Or nothing.
Mustard goes on hot dogs.
^^^
Although, I do add ketchup and sweet relish to hot dogs if there are no onions.
It’s excellent, especially with any kind of onions or onion flavoring.
Yeah, mustard is fine on burgers. I need to try it more often.
The one common thing I absolutely reject is grilled onions. *blech*
No mustard, that’s gross, and Grille those Onions!
The burger I made was very tasty but I worry about the calories. Given the overall color of the patty and the flare when I put it on the grill I suspect it had a lot of fat. I bought 95% lean burgers once but they were so dry they were inedible
I had mustard sriracha and tomato on it
The bun is where the calories are. Fat is your friend.
Yeah, stay away from that 95% shit. It’s not doing you any favors at all.
Oh I do I generally but the 80% lean stuff. But fat has a ton of calories. And if you are not keto, and even if you are sometimes, they can add up.
Keto and low-carb are inherently calorie-limiting once you get into ketosis. Fat keeps you sated so you don’t eat as much.
Fat is king. Protein is queen. Green and cruciferous vegetables their prince.
Keto and low-carb are inherently calorie-limiting once you get into ketosis. Fat keeps you sated so you don’t eat as much. – not always. I knew people on actual keto under 30 grams of carbs a day and in ketosis who struggled after the initial drop to lose fat until they went higher protein lower fat..
for some people keto is not as calorie limiting as you might think.
It took me about a year to get to that point, at 20g carbs per day. It DID happen for me, but admittedly it took a while.
that is a silly thing to say.
What kind of mustard? Stoneground, Horseradish, Yellow, Dijon? What kind of burger? Stuffed, buttered, beef, bison, mushroom, bacon, cowboy, pub? It’s not 1985 anymore!
Nobody needs more than two kinds of mustard, shitlord!
Um, I have 6 kinds, and they are Fucking Awesome!
Mustard’s just fine. My basic burger decorations are just mustard and sweet pickles.
The alternative is to go all the way to sweet+savory and do something like bacon, cheese, a fried egg, and blackberry jelly. Maybe sauteed onions, too if I feel like the effort. As I get older, my settings on pretty much everything in life are drifting to a mix of 1 and 11.
The article that popped up while navigating to Glibs: “Texas legislature makes quorum, but House Democrats say they cheated to get there”
That’s some weapons grade projection there.
LOL
Fucking losers.
How did they cheat?
Speaking of pineapple if you though it disgusting on pizza
Ainsley’s Toasted Sandwich – Ainsley’s Barbecue Bible – BBC Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1_ODDevbY8
Inelegantly Wasted: A Boozy Night Out In Victorian London – Rogues Gallery Online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JshTUDqIec
Did not watch to see if there was any auto-erotic-asphyxiation.
I did not expect to end up in rural New York running the kitchen for my daughter’s coffee shop/café as my career-capper. But here we are. And there I am, pretending to be a short-order cook.
I think that is a good career capper.
Biden is expected to deliver remarks from the Roosevelt Room at 4 p.m. EST following a closed-door meeting with his national security team in the situation room to receive updates on security in Afghanistan, according to a press schedule shared by the White House Saturday night.
You know… the thing.
The military has alerted major US airlines that their help may be requested to operate flights for Afghan evacuees, either on a voluntary basis or by activating the Civil Reserve Fleet, NBC’s Josh Lederman reported.
Just a little fascism…errr…. just the tip.
The woman was “put on fire because she was accused of bad cooking for Taliban fighters,” Najla Ayoubi, a former Afghan judge, told Sky News Friday.
Charles Napier couldn’t be reached for comment.
Jesse Jackson, 79, is vaccinated against the virus and received his first dose in January during a publicised event as he urged others to do so as soon as possible.
How the fuck did he get sick if get the vaccine? You mean the people selling that vaccine aren’t honest?
Good Old Guy Music.
A little while ago Old Guy Music was “Corner Pocket”. That was excellent.
Lunch time at the Diner,
no IFLA?
Gotta love Trump, he still has a voice, Dayum!
https://youtu.be/pJyBs9XbYDc