Good morning my Glibs and Glibertarians and what a lovely day it always is!
Waukesha suspect shared social media posts promoting violence towards white people
Republican Frontrunner Drops Out of Race for U.S. Senate Seat in Pennsylvania
California: Highest Unemployment Fraud and Unemployment Rate
Arizona legislation would require schools teach ‘anti-communist’ civics curriculum
Jeffrey Epstein told jail psychologist ‘being alive is fun’ before suicide
Liquor Shortage Hits United States As Holidays Approach
General Mills Will Raise Prices up to 20 Percent in January
Samsung makes largest ever investment in Texas: $17 billion facility to ease semiconductor shortages
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Sometimes… we all need a good firsting!
Waukesha suspect shared social media posts promoting violence towards white people
It was just a parade crash.
His social media reveals him to be a black supremacist with a hatred of white people, yet his motive “is not known”. Meanwhile, Kyle Rittenhouse is still being called a white supremacist by the same media who ignore the Waukesha killer.
Worse than the Soviets.
Of course, if we change a few parameters: If a white person actually lost control of a vehicle and crashed into a crowd of BLM in an honest to goodness unfortunate accident the media would immediately call the driver a white-supreme terrorist out to murder POC’s because TMITE.
If you ever want to go down a bizarre rabbit hole start looking into the Black Israelites.
*smirks*
Never mind the “BLM” crowd is mostly white commie felons.
This was supposed to be a reply to RS post.
Taibbi finally has a public post.
Oh shit, did he finally start reading Glibs?
Rittenhouse obviously believes in self defense, personal property and small business. All not allowed under the collectivist state — hence, all “White Supremacy” in the current lexicon.
Personally, I think equating “White Supremacy” with “Western Civilization and Common Decency” isn’t going to go like they think — but they’re sure trying.
Remember those unfortunate “plane crashes” into buildings 20 years ago? Same kind of accident.
Some people did some things…
I haven’t been able to find this since the pandemic started:
https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/our-brands/e-h-taylor-jr/e-h-taylor-jr-small-batch.html
🙁
Apparently you didn’t get the memo, white supremacist! You need to lower your expectations.
You’ll drink our glorious bottom-end swill (vintage: Tuesday last) and like it, prole.
California: Highest Unemployment Fraud and Unemployment Rate
*shocked face*
?
Good thing I get my rye from a local distillery, and beer from local breweries! No shortages here.
I was trying to figure out why a West Coast bottleneck would affect stuff being shipped across the Atlantic, but apparently the problem is with closures and other packaging materials.
And now maybe truckers too.
I forwarded that link to some friends.
“Im not a prepper, but…”
“Wouldn’t you like to be a Prepper too?” ?
Start selling in Mson jars!
oh, wait…
Shrinkflation has even gotten to the Mason Jar name!
Start planting rye, barley, and hops just in case.
Have been doing so the past couple of years….and corn….lots of corn.
Re: General Mills price increases,
It occurs to me that cheap foods get more expensive but they seem to be dodging the shrinkflation trend. A 1# box of pasta, bag of pintos or rice is still a pound.
Shrinkflation has always seemed to impact certain categories of food more than others. Coffee and potato chips come to mind.
12oz, 10oz, 8oz bags of coffee make me sad.
Yeah, and most bacon now comes in 12 oz. packages.
*Shrug*
I buy by the lb at the butcher counter.
I haven’t been to Wm. Buckley Farms butcher stand in a while. I should fix that.
*snicker*
Ballston
Ballston Lake
Ballston Spa
Ball canning/jars
Same guy.
Didn’t he once say the first 100 people in the Ballston phone directory would be better butchers than Oscar Mayer?
12 oz beer bottles make me sad.
Making the packaging smaller is more infuriating because it messes up my recipe calculations. Now I have to measure more ingredients in recipes that used to be “one package”
How big are cans of vegetables that were formerly a pound? 14oz? Less?
Death Wish is still sold in 1# bags, but most other coffee (like rhy points out) have gone to 12oz.
And Stewart’s ice Cream is still a half gallon. Good for them.
Plus their “Pumpkin to Talk About” is quite yummy.
Too easy to tell they are shrinking it. Going from 10.25 oz to 9.75 oz in a bag of chips is easier to pull off…
Yeah, just pump more air into the same size bag.
One of the few customer-friendly innovations at the grocery store (at least around here) is that they’ll put the price/unit on the shelf so I don’t have to do the math in my head.
Of course, not doing the math in my head will probably mean I’ll get Alzheimer’s earlier so maybe it’s a government conspiracy to increase the D voter population.
One of the few customer-friendly innovations at the grocery store (at least around here) is that they’ll put the price/unit on the shelf so I don’t have to do the math in my head.
I’ve never been in a grocery store that did not do that.
How young ARE you?
Pretty standard in my experience since at least the 80s.
“This is very personal to me, as someone who has survived a communist war,” Nguyen said. “I have lost very close family members to the evil ideology of communism. I know what it feels to lose a nation to communism and that’s why I do not want my fellow Arizonans to ever go through what I have.
Psht. Communism has never been tried because it definitely does not always devolve into totalitarian mass murder almost as if that is the necessary outcome to even attempt to implement such an involuntary system.
They just didn’t have the right people in charge! And anyway, that wasn’t “real” communism.
On the plus side, they usually start the murder with the unproductive fucks that agitated for communism in the first place.
Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly denied being suicidal in the weeks before he killed himself in 2019 — and even told one psychologist “being alive is fun,” according to newly released prison records.
Jizlane Maxwell did not kill herself.
Yet.
Kevin Spacey to pay nearly $31 million to ‘House of Cards’ studio for breaching his contract over his sexual misconduct
They had to put “don’t rape young boys” in the contract?
With him, yes.
Sure. The contract depends on the actor. Carrie Fisher back in the day had a don’t do mounds of cocaine clause. Unfortunately Alec Baldwin only had a don’t hit anyone clause. It didn’t say anything about not shooting someone.
It’s just like Qualified Immunity. If there’s not a court case establishing something is wrong, there’s no way he could be expected to know.
I thought they put that in the script.
While no Spacey fan, I find the ruling a tad ridiculous. They voluntarily fired him. Those costs are on them.
I hope you are feeling better Banjos, but I’m just gonna come out and say it—I come here every morning expecting to see some cute cat or squirrel gif and now all i get is this asshole jumping with his lasso!!
I’m beginning to think I’m losing my hearing. For the life of me, as hard as I strain, I simply can’t hear any ‘upbeat banjo music playing’.
Palmetto State Armory now offers carry insurance.
*NY AG prepares to sue PSA*
No need. There is a department for regulating insurers that will harass them to death.
Since NY Dept of Insurance doesn’t recognize policies from any other state, not an issue. I’m sure Palmetto’s coverage excludes NY and any other state the policy holder is not permitted to carry.
I’ve been considering USCCA and U.S. Law shield–a friend of mine represents both of them. Any other choices that Glibs recommend as better/competitive? I know both of them have significantly different types of plans.
You can sometimes add a rider to an umbrella liability policy.
Is an umbrella that much of a liability risk?
Re: Samsung,
I miss Austin. A lot.
I think you might not miss it so much, given what is transforming into.
I was back there a few weeks ago and was more cognizant of how dirty and ugly the place is (though I realized that before). And of course the weather sucks. And the government.
But the people…
The people there still DO things and still are trying NEW things.
Plus UT coeds >> Skidmore coeds.
Aaaand, not to start a REGION WAR, but…
Southerners are vastly more honest than Northerners. Or at least I can read the “I am lying to you but we will both pretend I’m not so this social interaction will go smoothly” register that southrons have but AFAICT northerners don’t.
*chuckle*
My wife (from Philly) has no idea how to deal with that particular cultural norm.
It’s usually expressed by Southern women with “Well, isn’t that precious…”
I would have expected: “Well, bless your heart…..” myself.
That too.
When I pick up on someone trying that “polite lie” nonsense, it irritates me more. It strikes me as rude.
Great example of how one culture does not fit all – as both the culture-fascists of left and right would have it.
To me it’s more honest.
It’s acknowledging realities and also informing you of the truth. The “lying without indicating you’re lying” strikes me as deceptive and I get very angry when I find out that it’s happened.
I think the Japanese do the same thing.
It’s like when a person has a mistress — the town might all know about it, but as long as they’re reasonably discreet there doesn’t need to be a divorce or open hostilities. Now if the guy is flaunting it or the mistress shows up at his funeral and tries to sit in the seating reserved for the family…
Everyone is lying. Whether they treat me like I’m stupid or radiate the smug that undercarries the ‘polite lie’ is more important.
And if the town knows any of your business – move.
Bah. But the southern way actually communicates between “this is a lie” and “this is the truth.” Therefore honest.
Admittedly it can be done improperly. When a friend of mine started dating a married man, they were pretending so hard that they weren’t holding hands under the table that literally everybody could tell that what they were doing (even though their hands weren’t visible). And that puts pressure on others to ignore what you’re doing, and is thus rude.
I say “southern,” but if Leonard Cohen is a reliable source they do this in Quebec too. At least if we are to believe the lyric “Everybody knows you’ve been discreet.” The far-too-often-absent Rufus will have to confrm.
I lean on it pretty hard sometimes as a conservative business owner in a liberal region. It’s more about finding commonalities than outright lying. Then there are days IDGAF and go scorched earth when the school marms rub me the wrong way.
They tug too hard?
Plus UT coeds >> Skidmore coeds.
My sister-in-law went to Skidmore. Can confirm.
Having lived there nearly 30 years ago, I miss that Austin.
From what Ive been told about the place now, I wouldnt move back to Central Tejas for anything.
Like Thomas Wolfe said, “You Can’t Go Home Again”.
Come back to Texas
It’s just not the same
Since you went away
Before you lose your accent
And forget all about
The Lone Star state
https://youtu.be/wBWNgg8CClc
I opened the bottle of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked and it smells and tastes quite very different than the wild turkey rare breed I usually get.
Were you not expecting that?
One of the things that gets me about period dramas is when they offer beverages according to type. Can I get you a drink? Scotch or Irish?” Not all Scotch is created equal.
I was but it seems to me the difference is somewhat higher than say between wild turkey and four roses single barrel
According to tour guide at Woodford, the master distiller was setting out to make “the sweetest bourbon” possible. After the initial aging, they move it to new barrels that are only lightly charred to maximize the sugars.
I love that bourbon, the WRDO, that is.
Guinnessland’s tempered fascist senator.
@gerryhorkan is calling for those that have not been jabbed to be banned from supermarkets.
Aussieland’s insane fascist senator: Australian Senator Goes Full Mental Jacket
At what point do Aussies start offing these assholes?
I honestly cant stand that accent. Or her views.
But prolly would. She’s thicc and certainly has a certain….zest.
My GF had a friend from Vietnam in her grad school class. We were at a game night, playing “Apples to Apples.” I was “the judge” for the particular round and the cue card that came up was “Evil.” She played “Communism” on it, so she won.
Needless to say, her response generated some…uncomfortable…reactions from some of the other grad students.
Lived experience bitches.
That’s got to hurt, even for the brain damaged.
Based on a news item in my recommends, I once again googled willow alaska weather, looked out the window in Old Bucharest, and decided Alaskans are absolute madpeople
This is true. See if you can find a 1990s TV show called “Northern Exposure.”
I did see that on Romanian TV in the early 2000s… but I do not remember much. It was this one and one about a Canadian Mountie coming to America were on the same day. Due South I think the latter was called.
Due South was a great show.
Eh. It was filmed in Oregon. Mildly entertaining show, but you’d think they would at least filmed it in Alaska.
The town in the show was supposedly based on Talkeetna, which is about 30 minutes up the road from us.
Roslyn, WA (east side of the Cascades).
Correct. Don’t know why I was thinking Oregon.
Probably easier to film in Washington (with proximity to Vancouver) and the team probably thought the town itself more picturesque that would fit their vision/ideals.
I mean, Vancouver is basically a stand-in for everywhere in the U.S. that isn’t distinctly California or Florida for film and TV.
People think the bears are scary until they meet the moose.
I think we should all do the adult thing and skip the monty python joke this time
Awwww.
Will we be sacked?
Pie is just bummed that there’s no were-møøse in Romania…
Hmm, does Romania have… lumberjacks?
https://realitateadeolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/7e62abe6dbef2a2bbd515ec4dda27e61.jpg
That’s because Eurolandians call them were-elk.
Let’s not bicker and argue over who punned who.
“I think we should all do the adult thing ”
Why start now?
Also can confirm. Moose cause more problems to people every year than bears, and not just by getting hit on the roads.
Even the Army stayed clear of moose. Tourists are the ones stupid enough to get near a moose for a photo op.
Can confirm.
Are you a paranoid hypochondriac?
Among those planning to gather this Thanksgiving, 30% said the guests will include unvaccinated people and another 17% said they don’t know whether guests will be vaccinated or not — which means that almost half of the survey respondents, 47%, could be around unvaccinated people for the holiday.
Unvaccinated people are six times more likely to test positive for Covid-19 than those who are vaccinated, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventon, said during a White House briefing Monday.
“Infections among the unvaccinated continue to drive this pandemic, hospitalizations, and deaths — tragically, at a time when we have vaccines that can provide incredible protection,” Walensky said. “As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I want to take a moment to reflect on where we were a year ago. I can remember waiting in great anticipation for the lifesaving vaccines we currently have at our fingertips.”
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To celebrate safely, here are four questions to ask friends and family ahead of gatherings.
Unvaxxed people are like radio receivers. They magically pull the virus out of the atmosphere and amplify it, and then beam it to vaccinated people nearby.
Infections among the unvaccinated continue to drive this pandemic
Send the unclean to camps.
And I am pretty sure that “vaccinating” during an outbreak has been known to drive pandemics. Besides the fact that the pandemic was over by the time it was announced and all we have is a new endemic respiratory illness for which there are multiple available treatments that render the emergency authorization of the “vaccine” illegitimate and illegal.
Nobody important ever says “endemic”.
Stop twisting my nipples.
“You wanna talk to God? Let’s go see him together.”
And- the obligatory:
Since his family members are fully vaccinated, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health, said that he will be spending the holidays with his family — and it’s OK to ditch the masks when everyone is vaccinated.
“That’s what I’m going to do with my family,” Fauci told CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union on Sunday. But he added that when you are traveling or unaware of the vaccination status of people around you, then wear a mask.
“That is the safety net — is vaccination,” Fauci said.
Yeah, whatever.
Is it wrong that I want this elderly man to get Covid from one of his vaccinated relatives.
No — but I don’t because he might die. I want the son of a bitch in a courtroom, the fawning media to have to own up to how much he contributed to the mess he’s now trying to claim he’s “fixing” and for him to go to prison for the rest of his life in utter and complete disgrace and disdain.
Samsung makes largest ever investment in Texas: $17 billion facility to ease semiconductor shortages – but they don’t make much automotive stuff if any…
They are simply ensuring their own supply for their own phones and such.
Well I am happy for now with my Pixel so Samsung can do whatever… Then again the galaxy s8 was a good phone for 2017. Based on the reviews I read before buying, the s21 is not nearly as good for it’s time
But where are they going to source more explosing batteries?
explosing batteries – new tech?
“They are simply ensuring their own supply for their own phones and such.”
Imagine wanting the source of your critical manufacturing components to be independent of Communist China’s whims and caprices.
I’ll pay a little more for products that are built/produced in-country because I know there’s no foreign influence or supply manipulation. There’s still our own stupid government to worry about, but at least there’s jobs for more here.
Yeah, guys, don’t hit your wives. It’s not good for anyone.
I haven’t been following this. Is there police reports, or just the divorce filings?
Good question. I don’t know for sure.
Divorce proceedings — I take every bit of gossip out of those with a large grain of salt.
Unfortunately, too many people don’t — otherwise we never would have gotten Obama.
How about a good spanking and later, some oral sex?
Now you’ve gone and triggered Pie with the Python reference, Sir Galahad of TARDis….
So you’ve been to Castle Anthrax too. Fun times there.
I know nothing about the guy, but: I read his statement to mean he doesn’t want to run a campaign where the press ignores policy positions and exclusive attacks him over the divorce, and probably very publicly drags his kids through the mud. Doesn’t matter if he actually is a wife beater or not.
Women’s March
@womensmarch
We apologize deeply for the email that was sent today. $14.92 was our average donation amount this week. It was an oversight on our part to not make the connection to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide for Indigenous people, especially before Thanksgiving.
https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/1463229266976464912
Im going to do it again.
Know why native Americans hate snow?
Because it’s white and settles on their land.
TAH-DAH!
??
I’m not even sure how to respond to that. Maybe with this…
https://media1.tenor.com/images/c81712c3d48effc646df05fbdf930bec/tenor.gif
I would accept a Picard face palm as well.
After reading this Tweet, I am now against Women’s Rights.
Oh dear god, no! Please NO!
OMG. We truly do live in the best timeline.
No, the best timeline is the one where Kid Rock was serious about political office.
By all accounts, Oz is a brilliant surgeon and a great doctor.
I think he’s aware of this and it also makes him colossal narcissicist and borderline sociopath.
Ideal for pubic office…hello Fauci Ver. 2.0
I think I’d have to take points away for “great doctor” for promoting pseudoscientific garbage.
Yeah — all I’ve heard of him is more in line with “The duck says….”
You don’t need brilliance to be a surgeon. It’s not rocket science.
Can we agree that the guy is likely an asshole either way?
The Thanksgiving bouncers
https://www.axios.com/thanksgiving-bouncer-covid-rapid-tests-03215555-bf84-40e2-baef-3629e31d9573.html
Why it matters: Normalizing rapid tests is a practical way to help extended families feel a little more normal around the holiday dinner table.
You may have relatives who aren’t vaccinated (or won’t say) — or babies or immunocompromised guests who are vulnerable to breakthrough infections.
How it works: If you’re hosting, let your guests know ahead of their arrival that you’ll be testing everyone at the door for their own safety. If you’re a guest who’s anxious about attending without testing, talk to your host now about their plans and how you can help.
Depending on your budget, you might offer to pick up the tab for everyone’s tests, or hosts might ask guests to pay for their own.
At-home antigen tests cost around $25 for a box of two.
Alternatively, guests who have gotten a PCR test within a couple of days prior could bring evidence of their negative results. PCR rapid tests can be obtained same-day but are generally much more expensive.
Yeah. piss off.
Normalizing rapid tests is a practical way to help extended families feel a little more normal around the holiday dinner table.
Ignoring the convid farce is far more effective.
Ignoring, or mocking.
Aren’t these the same PCR tests that are finally being phased out (after the New Year?) because they’re really unreliable? Which is part of why all the “positive tests” figures being bandied about aren’t really that trustworthy either?
One of life’s little mysteries
And California isn’t the only place grappling with “smash-and-grab” crimes. Fourteen robbers barged into a Louis Vuitton store in suburban Chicago last week and fled with more than $100,000 in handbags and other merchandise.
So why so many recent incidents? Are they linked to the holiday season? Is it pandemic restlessness?
“This has nothing to do with the pandemic,” said Pete Eliadis, a former law enforcement official and founder of security company Intelligence Consulting Partners. “The pandemic is overused at this point.”
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San Francisco has seen a surge in crime since it reopened in the pandemic. In the Central district, for example, larceny and theft incidents are up almost 88% from a year earlier, and overall crime is up almost 52%, according to police statistics.
Many of the store thieves wear masks or hoods, making them difficult to identify even when they’re spotted on security cameras.
Police in Los Angeles and San Francisco have made some arrests, but thieves often face few consequences, Eliadis said.
Something something merchandise equity.
You don’t say.
A swarm of people clean out a clothing store in Oakland . Second time in a month.
They’ll probably be hawking all that merchandise on Market Street by this afternoon.
Just a little freelance reparatin’ going on there. Nothing to worry about.
Articles about inner cities becoming retail deserts on 3, 2, 1….
Don’t you want to go shopping in 1980’s Beruit?
You can only laugh. Until it gets worse.
Is it wrong that I want this elderly man to get Covid from one of his vaccinated relatives.
If that’s wrong, me no wanna be right.
I honestly cant stand that accent. Or her views.
But prolly would. She’s thicc and certainly has a certain….zest.
It’s the insanity. It really brings out the zest in you.
Nah. She’s ugly on the inside AND the outside.
I wonder how she died.
A WOMAN believed to be the oldest person in world has died at the reported age of 124.
Francisca Susano, affectionately known as Lola Iska, died on Monday night at her home in the Philippines.
Heart failure brought on by a cocaine fueled orgy at her nursing home?
My first wife worked in a nursing home when we were together. This would have been back in the early Eighties. One of the surprising things she told me about that job was how much the old folks in the home were getttin’ it on. And this wasn’t an assisted living or retirement home, it was a full on, full-time nursing care home.
believed to be – so no reliable birth certificate? Or believed to be because there may be someone in the mountains of Kazakhstan older?
Yes
Ray Davies hardest hit.
Another Covid casualty, no doubt.
Her life cut tragically short. Wear a jab. Get the mask.
Noam Blum
@neontaster
My favorite part of this piece is “we shouldn’t use the term looting because that’s only used to describe black people, but also we don’t know the races of all those involved.”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1463171298159480837
Is looting only used for black people, or is this one of those things the left says that has no basis in reality?
The latter. Completely pulled out of their keisters.
yes
Looting is an act that can and is performed by people regardless of their race. I’ve never heard anyone use a different verb for different ethnicities.
“Nooter”? “Wooter?”
Loota, please.
also we don’t know the races of all those involved
Actually we do, since they are all on camera. But let’s just pretend it could could be large groups of white people.
Masked vigilantes. Robbing Hoods, if you will.
╰(*°▽°*)╯
The racial angle is bullshit, but “looting” is an opportunistic crime whereas “smash and grab” is what is being done here.
How it works: If you’re hosting, let your guests know ahead of their arrival that you’ll be testing everyone at the door for their own safety. If you’re a guest who’s anxious about attending without testing, talk to your host now about their plans and how you can help.
By all means, announce this beforehand, so your not-insane friends and relatives don’t waste a trip.
How does one accumulate $31 million in “swinging dick around money”? I am perplexed. That dude was really into his hobby! I’d punch him in the nose for a plug nickel and he’d probably come in his drawers. What a waste.
Useless political party is useless.
According to reports, 21 House Republicans are siding with the likes of transgender activist groups to make sexual orientation and gender identity a federally protected class under civil rights law.
Yet, with the mounting controversies that have cropped up over the past year regarding the transgender movement, these House Republicans may be alienating their constituents by handing over more power to this ideology’s already forceful ability to silence dissent.
End Times preacher Sharon Gilbert says that an alien imitated her husband, and then it tried to have sex with her, and then it claimed to be Xerxes, and then Jesus got involved, and then the alien turned out to be a reptile with a posse of gargoyles.
https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1463220147993329670
But did the reptile mention 1492?
I might have had that fever-dream the last time I did cocaine. Get outta my head!
So Mr. Lizard is passing out ‘shrooms or LSD or something now….
I rescind my previous comment, above: *THIS* is how the 124-year-ld lady in the Philippines died.
“an alien imitated her husband, and then it tried to have sex with her[…]then Jesus got involved”
That’s one kinky three way.
Take. Eat. This is the Body.
Her life is a lot more interesting than mine.
Plus UT coeds >> Skidmore coeds.
Whaaaa?
*totters off to fainting couch*
Wellesley College hardest hit.
Oberlin runs off crying, slams door to room.
Trufax:
The stripper I lived with went to Sarah Lawrence before dropping out to support her drummer boyfriend in his Rock & Roll lifestyle. Said drummer wound up apprenticed to Daniel Watson outside of Austin and eventually won an episode of Forged in Fire.
Absolutely nothing nearly as interesting has happened to me since I left Austin. And yet, this life is better.
Titty Tuesday sez: Epstein didn’t kill himself.
https://archive.md/4efJQ
Except it’s Wednesday. Oh.
OK, Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.md/n03tV
Monday, Saturday, they will remain the same.
brah- I work the next 5 or 6 nights. Im not even sure month it is.
Other than I got paid and caked the fuck up!
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
Out for lunch with @ChrisWillx
and Rule Brittania just asked them to put lettuce in his burrito
Chris Williamson
@ChrisWillx
A man who put pineapple with salmon is judging me for lettuce.
So what if the Official Glibertarian Position on
lettuce in burrito and pineapple with salmon?
me? pineapple is disgusting in any and all possible situations.
In any form other than sushi, salmon is disgusting.
That’s odd, my GF says the same thing. I like it in all forms.
Smoked salmon done right is delectable. It’s all about the brine.
Both hot and cold smoked salmon are teh awesome.
And grilled salmon with pineapple and/or teriyaki sounds great.
I cedar-plan salmon on the grill weekly during the summer; delicious.
Also, miso-butter salmon kicks ass (finished off with some furikake). But that might be because miso butter would make a brick taste good.
Yes.
Try it broiled with hollandaise sauce.
For any given “it.”
+1 elixir of the gods
Hold the salmon, add ham, poached egg, and an English muffin.
The diner made eggs benedict with cold smoked salmon instead of the ham, it was magnificent.
I haven’t tried it — but I would think a pineapple glaze with salmon would work. Maple, cherry and other sweet, syrupy glazes on grilled salmon do — so pineapple shouldn’t be too far off.
Lettuce in burrito seems weird to me — but I’m not a big burrito fan anyway, so can’t really bother myself to care much. Put cabbage in it and call it a Mex/Asian fusion eggroll for all I care.
Or a salmon and pineapple ceviche.
Pineapple and ham are a tasty teat on pizza.
Misspell works!
Lettuce is acceptable in the correct burrito – aka the garbage burrito, a college days favorite of mine. I’m amazed that place is still around – it’s been a long, long time since I was around there.
local burrito place offers shredded iceberg – I like the crunch of it.
Not a pineapple fan, but I could see it w/ salmon.
Shredded lettuce is just fine in a burrito, it has to be a super burrito tho with everything in it.
Salmon is awesome cooked, raw, smoked and ceviched, although I am a bit partial to the raw stuff. A buddy gave me a nice whole one he caught a few weeks back. Had two meals of it baked with salt and pepper and then topped with homemade chimmichuri, absolutely fantastic. Used all the small pieces I scraped off the bones to make sushi rolls, also fantastic.
In the dystopian future that we now live in – this is how you have a safe parade.
https://youtu.be/7YcuaSHMbCk
Peopl shooting in portrait mode deserve to be ran over.
A group of white supremacists canceling the personhood of black bodies.
Musing about cars:
It’s really weird to me how all calculations of electric car ownership seem to assume electricity is free and electric cars require no maintenance. I don’t think the forcible conversion to all-electric vehicles is wise. I wouldn’t mind having a hybrid, especially one with a fuel tank that pushes 800 miles of range. Too bad they never come in MT. I might own the last MT I will.
Relevant.
“For the hundreds of thousands of folks who bought one of those electric cars, they’re going to save $800 to $1000 in fuel costs this year,” Biden said, referring to the $112,595 electric Hummer pickup he test drove at a General Motors factory in Detroit earlier this month. …
“My effort to combat climate change is not raising the price of gas, what it’s doing is increasing the availability of jobs,” Biden insisted. …
“Let’s do that. Let’s beat climate change. With more extensive innovation and opportunities,” Biden said, claiming the economy would be “less vulnerable to these kinds of price hikes” on fossil fuels.
If only buzzword bingo would solve the worlds problems. (And stay the hell away from my IC engine vehicle.)
“I don’t think the forcible conversion to all-electric vehicles is wise”
Understatement of the century. A market distortion of that magnitude would have a tsunami of unintended consequences. Never mind the fact that most of the electricity used in those magic cars comes from coal or gas-burning power plants, the whole “emission free!” bullshit is laughable. Even further never mind the fact that the manufacture of the batteries themselves rely largely on slave and quasi-slave labor in China.
Well I like to start with the faintest criticism and work my way up. Yeah, it could be a tremendous disaster. Hold onto your IC tech.
I’ve not seen a hybrid get 800 miles range. Mine gets 450, which my focus could have done with a similarly large gas tank. Yes, the C-Max has a larger gas tank than the non-hybrid focus.
hmmm…right now I drive a focus with a 5mt. I guess it gets 350 miles per tank but the effective range is only about 300 because I hate playing range chicken. I think I just want an efficient 5mt car with a double gas tank.
My wife’s Jetta gets ~5-600 highway miles per tank.
Speaking of exhaust recirculation from yesterday. Already has it and yes, it’s not good.
My F-150 gets a bit over 500 miles per tank. Granted,
it’s a hundred dollars to fill up, but I only need to do
that every six to eight weeks.
My fusion hybrid gets 515ish on a 12g tank.
The Pacifica hybrid is hard to measure. 500ish on a 15g tank for continuous highway driving. Practically infinite for daily driving so long as we drive less than 30 miles per day. We filled up half a tank this morning and the prior refuel was probably in October.
I would consider a plug-in hybrid. All electric forfeits a lot of freedom – one reason the commies like them.
I think people really underestimate how valuable it is that “with a car you can go anywhere”. I am skeptical of the 400+mile ranges reported for newer all-electrics. I am even more skeptical of the promises battery recharges will be faster as right now it still takes a considerable amount of time. Rapid charging these types of batteries puts them under considerable stress and reduces their lifetime dramatically. There’s no way right now to build a better battery without massively increasing material cost.
The forcible conversion to all-electric is to track every movement the vehicle makes. We already get the government sob stories about fuel efficiency costing precious tax revenue, as if they’ve never heard of excise taxes on tires.
This bitch is still talking.
“I think that the role of disinformation, the way that propaganda has been really weaponized, and the increasing ability to manipulate people through algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence will only make this harder to combat. so I don’t want to be pessimistic about it because I think this is a worthy and necessary battle.”
Correct but not how you mean.
Now, think about it because that’s truly what is behind Trump and his enablers and those who invaded and attacked our Capitol. They don’t like the world we’re living in, and they have that in common with, you know, autocratic leaders from Russia to Turkey to Hungary to Brazil and so many other places, who are driven by personal power and greed and corruption but who utilize fears about change to try to get people to hate one another and feel insecure and, therefore, be easily manipulated by demagogues and by disinformation.
Projection thy name is Hillary.
Projection is usually an unconscious act. Hillary lies.
Oh goody.
https://archive.md/S0aKn
Just because-
I have a Samsung phone. I have disliked it since the day I took it out of the box. Now, it has suddenly lost its ability to wifi hotspot, which in my current circumstances is a giant pain in the ass. Right now I am mooching off a nearby unsecured access point, which I feel guilty about.
My previous phones were LGs.
I really really don’t want to go out and get a new phone. I also don’t want to do a rest on this one and *hope* it helps.
My first smart phone was a Galaxy Nexus made also by Samsung for Google. My second was an Lg G2. My third the galaxy S8. They were all good phones.
Now the pixel 5a started well enough… But it remains to be seen
Conservatives and libertarians have been calling Democrats “communists” for a long time. It’s no longer an exaggeration, just a statement of fact.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/11/democrats-are-communist-party-now-daniel-greenfield/
I still stick to “fascists” as I don’t know any Dems who have actually called for the abolition of private property.
Read Omarova’s bio linked in that article. She is a straight-up Leninist.
She may well be, but I’m talking about the run-of-the mill fascist Democrats and the rich, luxury-loving fools who finance them.
Good night, Dear Friends.
G’d night, Festus
This Rona shit is officially over.
Yesterday I found out that a coworker who sits in the cube across from me tested positive for the Rona. Last time he was in the office was last Thursday and we sit 15 feet apart from each other facing opposite. He didn’t show any symptoms until Sunday.
I figured I was 99.9999% not infected. But….. I was planning on going to my aunt and uncle for T-giving this year and they are both old and decrepit. Aunt is also a bit paranoid about the Rona. So I figured to be safe I’d go get tested.
Fucking place was a zoo. People wore masks, but no one was doing a good job of maintaining a 6 ft distance. Spent about an hour in the place from start to finish. The people working there seemed wholly unconcerned about anything. If the Rona was as deadly as they say it is, they’d be doing things much differently.
For one, the whole process was full of people inside the building standing in lines next to each other. You’d think that the way to do it would be to keep people outside and separated as much as possible.
Part of the process is that you have to use a smart phone to create an account with the testing company (vendor of the state) before you can take the test. If you don’t have a smart phone they will give you a tablet to set the account up.
So why not have people sign in and use that app to tell them when to come in from their car (or outside) to get tested and then email them the results?
Nope! Stand in line for the tests. Wait in a big mob waiting for the results.
I am pretty sure my chances of being infected is at least an order of magnitude higher after being tested than it was before.
Also, the infection rate is allegedly above 10% here in Minnesoda. I watched over 100 people get their results last night and it didn’t look like anyone was positive.
I’m basing that on a) no one looked alarmed to get a positive result and b) no medical person approached anyone. I would assume if someone was positive, the would have someone come out to tell the walking dead person where to go plan their funeral?
Feature, not bug. Their jobs go away unless there’s a high degree of concern driving a high number of tests.
I’ve started getting daily emails from ADP (my company’s HR administrator) asking me to take a vaccination survey. I’ll keep deleting them until I get an official email from the bosses.
Great news for all you The Ohio State University football fans: The Pennsylvania State University has given Coach Franklin a new 10 year contract!
He still has a better record against TossU than Harbaugh.
So long as the kids are safe, it doesn’t matter who’s calling the plays.
+1 PJ Fleck 7 year contract
I am pretty sure my chances of being infected is at least an order of magnitude higher after being tested than it was before.
Success!
And:
The people working there seemed wholly unconcerned about anything. If the Rona was as deadly as they say it is, they’d be doing things much differently.
Shush, you!
Yes, I think I can see why they are stopping development of this vaccine.
Go fish
The Jan. 6 select committee on Tuesday subpoenaed the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, extremist groups that responded to former President Donald Trump’s call to descend on Washington and played central roles in the attack on the Capitol.
The House committee issued subpoenas Tuesday to Proud Boys Chair Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, as well as both of the organizations they lead. It also subpoenaed a lower-profile far-right group, 1st Amendment Praetorian, along with its leader, Robert Patrick Lewis.
Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement the panel sought information from those “reportedly involved with planning the attack, with the violent mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6th, or with efforts to overturn the results of the election,” and believed that the subpoenaed individuals and organizations had relevant information.
We’ll save DEMOCRACY! even if we have to reduce it to smoking rubble.
Pre-9/11, when the communists were afraid of the US government, Pacifica radio LOVED the Oathkeepers.
Curious that all these “far-right extremist” groups tend to value individual freedom and constitutionally limited government…
Well known cardinal signs of Nazis.
Carl Schmitt spins in his grave.
If they’re so well known, why did the Astros need to steal them?
When are they going to subpoena the FBI?
planning the attack
Didn’t the FBI CI already say there was no planning?
Is there a shred of evidence of either of these extremist groups having extremist beliefs?
They lack an unswerving devotion to the leftist dogma of the day. What more evidence do you need?
There has to be somewhere.
“Extreme” is a relative term. So freedom is extreme relative to communism.
This Rona shit is officially over.
It ain’t over ’til the men behind the curtain say it’s over.
As God is my witness … I thought turkeys could fly.
Wild turkeys can fly. I’ve seen them go over a highway.
Farmed turkeys can barely walk.
One of the greatest sitcom episodes of all time.
Absolutely a Tday classic, and there’s not many Tday classics.
We’re visiting Green Bay for the holiday and saw two wild turkeys waddling across the road yesterday.
Elsewhere, Sosa joked that he as “99 problems and my left nut is one”.
Ouch.
Good morning, Banjos!
I hope you and Sloop are feeling better.
I found the perfect present for your kids.
Have a fantastic day, people!
You expect the energy secretary to know about US energy consumption?
Reporter: “How many barrels of oil does the U.S. consume per day?”
Energy Sec. Granholm: “I don’t have that number in front of me. I’m sorry.”
But let’s not fiddle with producing more. Better to exhaust the emergency supply.
Or maybe she just didn’t want to admit that the US consumes as much as she released in about 3 days.
“Nor in my head. I guess President Brandon went ahead without even asking my department’s input on this.”
Anyone else cooking today? I took the day off work. Got the 20 lb turkey brining in the garage fridge. Will smoke it tomorrow with cherry and pecan. Wife went back to Costco yesterday and grabbed the very last packer brisket… 23 lbs. That’ll start smoking on hickory and pecan later this afternoon. Gonna see what else I can knock out today.
It was a close call right up until the deadline, but the crew finished the new kitchen yesterday. I was up till probably 1am installing the small things like magnetic knife strips, spice rack. We doubled our countertop and cabinet space, as well as ran a vented hood, so well worth it.
I have a smoked turkey in the fridge.
And no other ingredients. Or coffee. I need to get to the grocery store. I guess if I bake some cornbread tonight it can stale out on the counter overnight.
The meat is what really counts and you’ve already got that. Grocery stores have been a shit show.
My mom and aunts are doing a stripped-down tryptophan day, meaning they are not doing all the work. I’m on the hook for green beans (no green bean casserole, tyvm), smooshed spuds, and a pecan pie. The pecan pie only because I want one and mom is not going to bother.
Also, if I were doing tryptophan day, I would be spatchcocking the damned bird.
I could totally do Tday without a bird. Turkey is not my favorite.
I detest turkey and only make them because of the ‘tradition’, which I’m happy to torpedo this year.
Also, I quarter the bird. Even easier, faster and more accurate than spatchcocking.
My faborite word is “spatchcock”. My husband hates it when I say it.
It’s my favorite culinary related for sure.
Wife says, “This meat won’t fit in my oven unless I spatchcock it.”
“I see, go on.”
If I visit on zoom, can you you use it in a sentence with some euphemistic intent?
Almost everything I say is with euphemistic intent.
Right now the word of the zooms is “degloving”.
I will be quartering this year.
Get some salt under the skin for some crispy goodness!
Also, injecting the breasts with butter helps keep it from getting too dry.
I don’t do injection, but I usually make a seasoned, softened butter that I slather under the skin of the breast. ?
We’re doing spare ribs (for the two of us) – thankfully with tolerable weather for smoking.
I like turkey, but I don’t like the purines (big cause of gout) it leaves in my body. Have to be very judicious in the amount of it I eat.
thankfully with tolerable weather for smoking.
Mid 60s and at least partly sunny tomorrow. Looking forward to it.
I don’t like turkey either Mo. I only make one because certain family members would mutiny otherwise.
Along the lines of pecan pie, we just realized we had two pecan trees on the property. Too late for this year, but nice moving forward.
No. My Thanksgiving dinner is a 1-lb NY Strip steak I picked up yesterday. It doesn’t need to be cooked until just before I’m ready to eat.
Sounds like a great day! And congrats on the new kitchen – worth every penny!
I’ve got a couple rib roasts dry brining in the fridge, so there isn’t much I need to do today. Compared to past years, we have a really small group (our two kids and some of their pals who didn’t travel home). I’m really looking forward to the break from my extended family. College kids are weird, but somehow less weird than my proggies.
Enjoy your day, SSD!
Thanks Tundra and you too! That sounds like a nice time with your kids and their friends.
In-laws are prepping Golishkies (I think that’s how it’s spelled). Meat, Onion and Rice wrapped in a cabbage leaf and soaked in sour kraut overnight in the stove on low heat. Not my favorite dish.
I was with you until it was soaked in sour kraut overnight.
as well as ran a vented hood
The one thing our kitchen still lacks – and all of our smoke alarms work like champs.
Yep. I need it too and is in our designs for our kitchen remodeling if and when we pull the trigger
Some prep work today. I’ll drop the bird in brine here in a few hours, Everything else is all timed out for tomorrow. Active cooking is only about an hour, everything else is just sitting in the oven or on the stove top.
Active cooking is only about an hour, everything else is just sitting in the oven or on the stove top.
That’s a good plan. I try to keep it as simple as possible on the day of. Needing to do little more than watch a turkey smoke with a beer or bourbon in my hand is ideal.
Green bean casserole prep starts in 5 minutes. Then pumpkin pie. Then stuffing balls.
Not as “from scratch” as I usually do (canned green beans, canned pumpkin, store bought bread cubes), but I’m lazy and not hosting. Thankfully, all of this food is easily reheated, so I can make it today.
Fuck. Off.
Dr. Fauci on booster shots: “We believe” boosters “will likely” give you the highest level of protection yet.
Eligible for the J&J TWO months from the first jab? Are kidding me? Go to hell and take your death shots with you.
What’s a good political witch hunt without lying and/or fabricating evidence?
Tollbooth records belonging to former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik place him 300 miles away from the infamous January 5th meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., with a legal letter (below) seen by The National Pulse accusing Rep. Bernie Thompson’s commission of fabricating the evidence.
Thompson’s Jan. 6th commission recently subpoenaed Kerik, a close associate of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Their letter asserted:
The Select Committee’s investigation and public accounts have revealed credible evidence of your involvement in the events within the scope of the Select Committee’s inquiry. You reportedly participated in a meeting on January 5, 2021 at the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C., in which Rudolph Giuliani, Stephen Bannon, John Eastman, and others discussed options for overturning the results of the November 2020 election such as, among other things, pressuring Vice President Pence not to certify the electoral college results…
Today, I am grateful that we are shed of the house that plagued us for 16 years and finally broke us. I thought I would miss it if just a tidge, but I do not. Fresh start in a fresh and very nice place in a very nice neighborhood for a reasonable price (for everything it is and has). We got it on a fluke (weird series of events) and in the nick of time, and I can only think the Lord led us straight to it.
“Samsung makes largest ever investment in Texas: $17 billion facility to ease semiconductor shortages”
I’m waiting for an actual report on this one.
What we have is a press release. From our Mandarin class. The Abbott group released one to take credit for creating the jerbs and eliminating supply chain woes. The Biden admin released another because apparently they dangled massive subsidies or tax breaks, and pro-Democrat media are calling this a “Biden admin win”.
I think it’s interesting that the media thinks part of its job is uncritically disseminating government propaganda.
I’ll wait for any actual reporting here. I won’t hold my breath.
NPR said it this morning. Joe Biden has our back, baby!
*sniff* *sniff*
@Animal, package arrived last night! Looking forward to it.
Good deal – enjoy!
I’ve had Samsung phones for years and love them. They have their annoying quirks, but I don’t want something different. Every time I have to move in to a new phone, I hate it and now especially because they took out the SD card slots, and they don’t have one the same size as my current one, which fits my (small) hand perfectly. I get a new phone when I start getting screen burn-in, which I am now,
I’m on my third Samsung Note now, this one a Note 20. I like them because the screen is big enough that I can manage it with my big gorilloid hands. I handled one of their smaller phones and it was just too tiny.
My husband has that, in Ultra, which does have an SD card slot. He has big hands, too.
^^
/typed from my note 10 plus
I’m also a sucker for the stylus. I don’t use it often, but when I do, it’s invaluable.
I have a Galaxy 7.
I’ve seen that model for sale on Woot a few times. It looks like theyre doing Apple right now, but usually once per month they do a fairly widespread Samsung sale
I keep an eye out in places like Woot for refurbs of my phone model for that exact reason. I’m happy with the current phone, and don’t plan on upgrading anytime soon.
The nice thing with Samsung is that they’ve made upgrading and transferring easier than in the past. With the current phone, I was 80% there just by signing into my account.
We’ll just keep making up reasons to be concerned.
Yet strangely, they never seem to propose things that would improve the income conditions below the median. Nope, they are only concerned with bringing down the top.
Yeah, I’m going to believe that’s an actual thing. ?
Do you, old sport?
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) recently reported that its best estimate of fraudulent unemployment payments totals at least $20 billion. That makes it easily the largest fraud in U.S. history and is more than the entire state budget of about half of U.S. states. None of the money has been reported as recovered.
Only $20 billion? I figured it would have been more.
Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly denied being suicidal in the weeks before he killed himself in 2019 — and even told one psychologist “being alive is fun,” according to newly released prison records.
Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Pennsylvania and Virginia — both of which have state-run liquor systems — are rationing their supply in anticipation of shortages.
Urgh.
The good news is people in those states can easily drive to another to get booze. We used to when I lived in Philly.
Put your booze in your trunk before returning to PA. If you are stopped, there is no “probable cause” for you to allow cops to search your trunk.
Has this vile bitch been discussed hereabouts yet? I can only imagine the impotent rage I would feel if it were one of my loved ones killed in that bona fide act of terrorism. These people (such as those praising the killing of Ashli Babbit) deserve some real pain in their lives.
Yeah, it got mentioned the day the tweets were made.
Mental illness. That’s what we have now – the mentally ill are driving culture (off of a cliff).
Yeah, but can we do? It sounds bad when we say they need to be institutionalized. Kind of like them putting us in camps for wrongthink.
Well, not ceding a shit ton of power to them would be a good start.
I would start by voting them out of office.
Good luck with that, everybody.
Her job is “social media director”, and she didn’t realize that putting something like that on social media would be a bad idea?
I dislike cancel culture, but that’s just sheer incompetence.
It was only a mistake because the wrong people saw it. /what they really think
Ive seen reports from unreliable sources that she went on some sort of social media rant about being fired.
Now if that isn’t the face of a real “Karen” I don’t know what is.
I don’t think I saw this political compass meme before. I kinda like it.
https://twitter.com/johnnylemuria/status/1463226603949985794
Today in YouTube recommends
Elise Trouw – How to Get What You Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGiOkuoJGyk
so the question is, is this chick
a. hot
b.talented
c. both
d. neither
Yes
C. As in cup size.
Get me to my fainting couch,
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/nov/24/anti-mask-anti-vaxxers-take-protests-too-far-into/
Well the LV Sun suddenly doesn’t like protests. Color me shocked
Well, they ought to know.
FFS, what do they think the last two years have been all about?!
Guess they didn’t get the memo that this sort of thing is only OK in restaurants and retail establishments. Homes are off-limits. This is how it’s done:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rep-waters-draws-criticism-saying-trump-officials-should-be-harassed-n886311
My state senator lives nearby and a big mob showed up at his house to tell him he was totes evil.
The funny thing is that Warren is a bit of a crypto-libertarian. He fought a long time to stop Real ID from coming here. He also spiked proposed gun control bills for several legislative sessions.
If you ask the standard person though he will tell you that Warren is a standard RINO.
A properly configured sprinkler system would go a long way to discourage this sort of behavior.
*”configures” sprinkler system with citric acid tank*