Into the cellar. Or converted wine fridge if you must be crass.
In the before times, the long long ago, I liked beer. I still do, I just don’t drink it very much, maybe every month or two. In fact, I may have been what’s commonly referred to as a ‘beer snob’. And I like IPAs. That’s fine, bring the hate, I can take it. That said, I was/am very fond of stouts, dunkles, scotch ales, almost everything besides light lagers, though a well done one is OK too. However, unlike many, I seem to be very sensitive to carbs. If I’m eating – or drinking – lots of carbs, I’m going to be heavy. Big boned even. So 5-6 years ago, I started downthe low carb/keto (this January has been carnivore month!) route and my beer drinking and collecting basically stopped.
Collecting? Yes, I bought up lots of ‘big’ (high alcohol) beers for aging and building vertical tasting batches. Between a dedicated small wine fridge converted to a beer fridge (conversion = plywood shelf) and an old standard fridge in the office, at one time I had 150+ beers ‘cellared’. In addition, I was brewing 5-10 gallons a month. Over the keto years, brewing went to 0 and the cellar slowly dwindled between my infrequent tasting and rare parties where I forced people to drink old beer. I was looking at the nearly empty small fridge the other day, taking inventory of the dwindling stash and thought to myself, “Hey, I’m sure everyone at glibs would love an expose on my beer fridge!”
Most of my Dogfish head – Rasion d’Extra (brown ale), Olde School (barley wine), Black & Blue, Red & White (fruit ales), Immort ale (?), Palo Santo Marron, Burton Baton, 120 Minute IPA, are gone. Those were mostly small vertical from 2005/6-2008. All I have left is a 2006-2008 + 2011 set of World Wide stout. These vary from 16% to 20%, very dark an roasty.
I never collected to much of Avery’s – but I had 2006 and 2007 Mephistopheles Stouts, some Samael’s. But one summer, my dad was staying with me for a bit and his girlfriend came by for a week or so. While I was out of town for work. I told her to help herself to the fridge, not really thinking about the fact that this description included the small fridge with all the fancy bottles on top nestled in a corner of the library. I returned to find my stash of high end aged Avery decimated, only a single 2006 Samael’s survived – and still does! It is there to be drunk of course, but I’d prefer by someone who isn’t indifferent to beer… lesson learned.
So besides those what remains? Well, from across the pond there are a couple of Brew Dog, some Westvleteren and some Harviestoun.
Some of the European contingent. Left to right, Harviestoun Ola Dubh 40, 18, BrewDog Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Sink the Bismark
I only have 2 Wesvletern 12’s left (yellow cap poking up behind the BrewDog in the foreground). One is from the ‘recent’ (only?) US release they did in 2012, reportedly to raise money to repair their roof! The other was bought as it was supposed to be, directly from the Abbey in 2008, courtesy of a colleague who drafted some of his students to get enough people to buy a couple of cases. One 6 pack came home with me in my luggage and only one lonely bottle remains.
Brewdog is the 2 paper bag wrapped bottles, on the left, Tactical Nuclear Penguin and on the right Sink the Bismark. TNP was ‘brewed’ in 2009, StB in 2010 when Brewdog went back and forth with a German brewery to own the title of world’s strongest beer. Brewed in quotes because these are actually ‘ice’ beers, where the base beer is frozen, the water ice removed and the remaining liquid is thereby fortified. This were procured by a friend in England and I transported them home in my luggage. Are they any good? My friend bought a couple of the TNP and we did try one of them back then; OK, not great. Maybe they age really well. Not sure when I’ll try the aged ones!
We did do a tour of Scotland in 2009, driving from Manchester UK up the east side of the Island to Fraeserburgh across over to Isle of Skye and back down the west coast to Manchester. At this time Brewdog had not expanded beyond their original brewery in Fraeserburgh, so we dropped in on them. Once they got over the consternation of having their work day interrupted by 4 jackasses, we got a tour and tasting from one of the owners (guy on the left in the Sink the Bismark link).
As part of that Scotland trip we stopped at Harviestoun Brewery, just north east of Edinburgh. At the time, I think the only beer they had available in the States, at least in my neck of the woods, was Old Engine Oil. The only person at the brewery was the head brewer and he was ecstatic to have visitors interested in his beer. We spent 2-3 hours there going through everything from the grain delivery and milling, down to the brew floor, talking shop. Not much better than huge bag of freshly dried hops. I felt like Jim Koch in that Sam Adams commercial grabbing a handful of hops stuffing his face in em. We grabbed a bunch of beer there, including the whole sequence of their whiskey barrel aged Old Engine Oil dubbed Ola Dubh. The beer is aged in barrels that vary from 12 year to 40 year – the whiskey was aged that long, not the beer! All I have left from that 2009 series is 2 bottles of the 40 year and one of the 18.
Speaking of Sam Adams, I have 2011 Sam Adams Utopias. This one comes in at 27%, but unlike the Brewdog gimmick, they are actually brewed to that alcohol level, not freeze distilled. Boston Beer spent years selecting/breeding yeast strains that could withstand increased alcohol levels; generally, standard beer yeasts drown in their own excrement in the 10-12% range. But over the years, they bred a hardy yeast that can actually convert up to this high levels. This bottle is opened, about 1/2 of it left. It’s a very good sipping aperitif and has been re-sealed for a special occasion.
The Utopias. Gimmick? Maybe, but damn tasty.
Now as you might be able to tell from the first picture, Stone Brewing was probably my favorite brewery, and I was especially fond – still am – the Double Bastard strong American ale. But I also liked their anniversary ales, the Old Guardian barley wine, Russian Imperial Stout, and for every day drinking, the Arrogant Bastard or Sublimely Self Righteous black IPA which started life as their 11th anniversary release in 2007, but proved popular enough to make it into regular rotation. So what remains in my beer fridge is largely some segmented verticals of Stone. From 2002 to 2012, Stone did a Vertical Epic series. It was a bit of a strange ‘vertical’ in that the style changed every year, so it was kind of hard to compare year over year; but we polished off my vertical series in an alcohol soaked thanksgiving several years ago – I think I was only missing a 2003 in the series. I did double up on some and so still have one bottle each of the 2007, 2008, and 2009. I did drink the 2010, 2011, and 2012 late last year and they were very good and held up well.
Also remaining – 2007-2011 Old Guardian barley wine and 2007-2010 Russian Imperial stout. Late last year also saw the ‘removal’ of 2006, 2011, and 2012 Russian Imperials from the fridge. I expected the 2006 to be off, but it wasn’t. Rich, mild and very drinkable.
Probably my favorite Stone beer was the Double Bastard. I bought lots of that! So I have two 2006-2013 (16 bottles total) sequences left. Just waiting to have enough drunkards around to go through one or both of those. Around the same time as the Vertical Epic tasting – 2015-2017-ish, we did a 2005-2014 tasting on Double Bastard. While obviously very similar, they were subtly different, and it wasn’t linear. If I recall, they tended to get “better” for some value of the word better back to about 2008, then the 2006, 2007 were maybe a bit off, but the 2005 was the best of the bunch. We’ll see if that hold up with 2006-2013 sequence when I get around to it.
I have more to drink than I thought!
Oh, and you may have noticed the two bottles in the lower right in the first image. A big miss from Stone, Crime, and Punishment, chile beers released in 2013. I won’t even link to them, they don’t deserve it. Crime was “Lucky Bastard” (blend of Arrogant, Double, and Oaked Arrogant) with fresh chilles added, and Punishement was 2013 Double Bastard similarly violated. They also did something called Southern Charred which was 2012 Double Bastard, violated with chilles and aged in oak barrels – never found a bottle of that. But I did try “Crime” when it first came out. Now I like chilles, I like em hot, and I love(d) beer, but this was a god-awful combination. Way too overpowering on the heat, bordering on undrinkable. In fact I think I dumped most of it. Then put the other bottles in the back of the fridge and forgot about them. Maybe I’ll try cooking with them some day.
My pride and joy. Well not really, but I look forward to drinking it. Some day. 2006 on the left through to 2013 on the right.
Lot’s of goodness there, thanks for the tour.
Oh man… I had both the Crime and the Punishment beers. They were… not good.
No Utopias, Westies, nor the big Brewdog ones in my cellar. But I do have some Cantillon, bourbon barrel aged Blackout (Great Lakes), big beers from Hoppin’ Frog, and a lot of Belgians. I also have beers being aged for my nephews to have on their 21st birthdays. Both from the year they were born.
I really should organize and inventory the cellar sometime this weekend.
I love Double Bastard. I don’t see it very often around here and usually drink it the weekend I buy it.
Here’s some music for you.
I believe Double Bastard has been discontinued for a couple years now.
Come to think about it, I haven’t had it for awhile.
NO!!!!!! Say it ain’t so!
I haven’t been into a beer store in years, so hadn’t noticed. That’s too bad. Guess it wasn’t selling well enough vs the production cost?
Well, there was also some corporate wrangling going on as well. Officially Arrogant Bastard got spun off into their own brewery (with the majority still owned by Stone IIRC). Some quick searches to see if the Double Bastard is out of production isn’t confirming it either way, but I’m also not seeing it listed on either Stone or Arrogant Bastard’s web page.
Neat-o! Thanks for the tour!
Contents of my Beer Fridge:
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I do want an empty version of the gimmicky copper still bottle.
Currently running $75 on eBay. I had to look.
Ooo! Found one for $29, buy it now. No bids.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165307819350
I’ve got a bottle of Vertical Epic around here somewhere. I think it’s either an 02 or an 06.
I also have 2 giant bottles of some collaboration that Stone did when they had their brewery in Berlin. I think it’s the Brewdog one but I’m too lazy to dig it out of the
cellarcloset right now.The 02/02/02 was the rarest of them all, only locally distributed and very limited amounts (to the point that Stone wasn’t able to provide any to tastings they held).
Maybe that’s the one I was missing; it was 2003 or 2002. Probably the 02, since I only started going by the brewery around the time they opened the new facility and Port/Lost Abbey took over their old one. I think that was 05 or 06, so I probably didn’t have the 02.
Yeah. The full run of the 02/02/02 was under 200 cases IIRC. I was at an event which happened to have Greg Koch there (in his earlier days, clean shaven and trying to look all respectable) and he was lamenting that he didn’t have anymore of it himself. His beer of choice here in Ohio? Bell’s Two Hearted (at that time he couldn’t get it in California).
Stone is also one of the reasons that Ohio got a decent amount of distribution from West Coast breweries. Greg Koch grew up in Ohio, and wanted to bring the beers he made at Stone to the state he grew up in.
Ah nevermind, it’s an 05.
My collection is a handful of Belgian Quads and a bunch of sour ales both Belgian and American. I think Cascade Brewing is responsible for half of my collection.
This does remind me a bit of my plans with stocking up the liquor that I intend for my wake. There will of course be nothing that I haven’t drank myself.
That’s a great idea. The Mrs. and I have talked about this, we will be cremated and there will be a party at some point. We will bypass the expensive funeral thing. For her, it will be nothing but Coors Light. I’ll be more complicated.
The girlfriend is under orders that for my wake, my full cellar and liquor collection are open to all who attend. And I expect it all to be consumed.
Sounds like an invitation to …. MURDER!!! I know how good your cellar is!
You know… it’s a lot easier just to ask for some of the bottles to be put in the beer fridge ahead of a visit.
Oh yeah.
I used to keep some Samichlaus of various vintages around. My old-go-to for Samichlaus stopped carrying it. So I’m all out.
I liked Samichlaus, just never aged/stored it. Drank it. Lots of breweries used to (still do?) make a winter warmer/Christmas ale and I looked forward to those, though some were a bit too heavy on the seasonal spice, tasted like a potpourri sock drawer. With the socks. The Sierra Nevada Celebration was one to look forward to. The Odell Isolation was another. I miss the anticipation of trying new beers…
If you want to part with your beer I’m sure many here would be willing to help out.
This is a very timely article. I had my cheapo bev fridge die this weekend. It was bought to provide a place to store wine and beer outside of my regular fridge. I picked up a Magic Chef from Home Depot about 6 years ago. I was lucky to get more than 2 years out of it, so 6 was a bonus.
I have a Summit fridge coming tomorrow. https://www.summitappliance.com/catalog/model/SCR2466B
I truly despise all the Bushes.
Just a reminder that it’s one big club.
What about the Busches?
+1 ‘compassionate conservative’
Hmm… I think I’ve had one of those Stone chili beers. I remember whatever it was I’m thinking of not being good.
The Avery big beer series, of which Samael and Mephistopheles are a part of, is a great series. My favorite was The Tsar. I think some of the series is no longer available.
Most of those series have been retired to my understanding. Avery also had to sell themselves to keep going, they’re owned by the same company that owns Founders now.
The Dictator Series keeps popping up now and again… The Kaiser is the best of them. Mephistopheles and Samael are retired.
How Biden’s Vow to Name a Black Woman to the Supreme Court Backfired
TW: Slate
Invoking an imaginary Black woman as his desired SCOTUS pick may have helped Biden achieve his short-term goal (though I have trouble imagining the person whose objections to Biden as a candidate were easily assuaged by the race and gender of an imaginary Supreme Court nominee). At any rate, he won the Democratic nomination and, eventually, the White House. But those abstract promises needlessly tokenized the actual women who would step into those roles, dooming them to racist and sexist skepticism before they even got the nod.
As a campaign tactic, it was not only selfish but shortsighted. It gave Biden what may have felt like a boost in the moment, while creating a wide opening for criticism and doubts about the women who’d contribute to his presidential legacy.
Elections have consequences.
If you go through the history also, he had no intention. His people just threw that black woman thing in there as an applause line during a speech and he forgot about it after.
The media did not forget.
Biden’s Supreme Court promise came during a Democratic debate in South Carolina at the urging of South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black member of Congress. “I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court,” Biden said in the debate. Clyburn reportedly would not endorse Biden until he made that commitment. Clyburn has credited the line with Biden’s win in the South Carolina primary, powered by Black voters, which gave him the momentum he needed to secure the Democratic nomination.
Some endorsements aren’t worth it I suppose.
Clyburn is a racist asshole.
And a nepotistic grifter. There’s zero reason Mignon would have been on the FCC except for her last name.
And what exactly would Clyburn do if Biden broke his “commitment”, anyway?
That’s not why Biden made a big deal of it now. He made a big deal of it now because his handlers stupidly thought it would be popular. Or stupidly thought it was the right/woke thing to do.
I like how it’s framed.
If you’re skeptical of someone who was promised the job due to race or gender, you’re obviously a sexist racist.
It’s (skepticism) is obviously not ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’ a priori. But I do have to catch myself with that thought if I see a woman or minority in an elevated position in some field that is hot and bothered to appear progressive. It’s not fair to them at all and it’s one of the more pernicious effects of this preference non-sense. Am I a bad person? Well certainly, but not because of that. It’s only logical/normal to have that reaction in the environment they’ve created. As usual, a lot of the consequences of their drive to feelings of smug superiority are offloaded on other people.
The effect is most profound in the “affirmative action hires” themselves, if my experience is any indicator. I went to law school with a black girl from the shitty part of town. She did decently in law school and ended up being in a stellar position when job searching began. To me, as an outside observer, I could see her value. She was a single mom who hoofed it through law school with two little kids and a day job. To her, there was always a niggling little doubt that she actually deserved the results she was getting.
Was it 100% merit? Probably not. Was the lion’s share due to merit? Yeah, definitely.
Agreed. Clarence Thomas despises the practice for exactly this reason.
“offloaded on other people” was partly/mainly directed at the recipients of AA. They have to deal not only with the judgement of those who might judge them as unworthy along with their own sense of the same. I just have to recognize the possibility in myself and address it. Everybody involved – except for the purveyors – has to deal with the consequences.
This phenomenon dates back to the 70s when people were openly dismissive of affirmative action hires.
It was slowly going away and was nearly gone, then Obama made it a problem again. Biden just amplified the problem.
When I was younger, I didn’t hate the idea of affirmative action but no one at this point can honestly say it’s worked. The wealth cap between blacks and whites is the same as it was 70 years ago.
America would be better off now without this form of racial discrimination.
The wealth cap between blacks and whites is the same as it was 70 years ago.
What reason is there to think AA would change that? It seems to me that AA is largely a benefit to the affluent members of the protected class in question. If you’re saying that you’re going to hire a black woman for the job, for example, you’re almost certainly not talking about hiring Shaniqua from the ghetto. You’re talking about hiring a pedigreed candidate from the protected class versus a pedigreed candidate from outside the protected class.
AA is largely a benefit to the affluent members of the protected class in question
It’s not even about the actual candidates really. It’s the whole infrastructure behind it- HR diversity positions, consultancies, advocacy groups, employment layers (on both sides), etc. That’s who was losing out as AA was being dismantled.
???
Like every other bureaucracy, it’s a self-licking ice cream cone.
This. I’m more dismissive of the idea than I have ever been. Even decades ago when I was the loser in one of the many little dramas it has caused to play out.
He keeps painting himself into corners. He’s just not good at politics (or maybe whoever’s pulling his strings are not good at politics). He could have easily said “I promise to appoint more black women to the highest positions.” I guess this comes from catering to the hard left. He’s not even paying lip service to anyone else at this point.
I mean he is good at politics in the sense that he has no real personality or values. That’s the most important criteria. He’s just not strategically good.
“Not strategically good” is a great way to put it.
“Sucks at retail politics” is the popular explanation that resonates with me.
“selfish but shortsighted”
Who in our federal gubmint, of the media, among the left’s useful idiots, does this not describe?
Calling it an affirmative action appointment is muh-racisms.
Could Jesse comment on this? He spent time in Korea, right?
“I don’t want people to get offended by this, but in Korea, [the average] penis is like 3.5 inches”
It’s like 5.1 inches here, but my own dong is probably throwing off the math.
Average says nothing about distribution.
It changes the definition of “balls deep,” which is my standard unit for measuring snow accumulation.
Nice.
https://calcsd.info/
Yeah, but they use the metric system, so it’s more like 5.8.
On a related note, myOne condoms is doing an Ask Me Anything on reddit today.
For what it’s worth, those are relatively comfortable.
Yeah, they’re good.
I discovered TheyFit back when they started. They ran into trouble with the FDA. Supposedly it was something to do with the FDA wanting a whole bunch of extra testing. They stopped shipping to the US, but I found a place in Amsterdam that would ship them to the US.
Now they are available as myOne in the US.
For RJ and others who.may be interested: https://www.evolutionofhorror.com/
That is interesting. I need to listen.
no romanian beer how disappointing.
What’s a good Romanian beer?
The one that’s free?
Dude. If Romania had free beer that would have a huge illegal immigration problem.
I’ve been told that all visitors to Romania get a free beer and one of these.
I may be moving shortly.
Nice. Where do I sign up?
there are some good craft ones. and ones that are not good but you lot would like em (belgian style bleah )
Like what’s a good one?
Ground Zero makes good ones in general. Easy rider, morning glory, Imperial Fuck, and others
https://www.groundzerobeer.ro/shop
I like one called Wallachia Pilsner
they also make weird shit like BARREL AGED GOSE but we ignore that
popular here is beer from Hop Hooligans but it is usually too sweet for me
I picked up some cheap ($6ish) Romanian Cabernet this weekend. Haven’t tried it yet.
does not sound good so far
Seems that every towing company in Ottawa has been struck by covid.
Beautiful
“Don’t worry Justin, we’ll be gone by yesterday”
That, right there, is a defining statement of the movement. It could end up in history books.
That is great. How about them Canadians, refusing to tow the lion?
That is so freaking awesome.
🙂
That’s beautiful
Fantastic. If the mayor of Ottawa wants them moved, he can get in a truck an tow them himself.
I doubt he has the required license/certification, so I’d love to see him try and immediately get arrested.
Supply chain issues hit NJ hard
I have a time-tested proprietary method of destroying this product, which involves applying a flame to a small combustion chamber. I am willing to help my fellow New Jerseyans solve this problem, for a small fee.
You, go that way! *points left*
You, go that way! *points right*
I’ll walk in a circle.
we may have to start destroying product
Feds have been doing that for decades.
Remember the “fiery but mostly peaceful” BLM protests? Well naturally, the Canuck Trucks are horrific wellsprings of non-violent danger!
This has prompted many media reports to describe the
protestsmandates as “peaceful.”Activists and academics on social mediaPeople who value freedom have taken issue with this characterization, saying it undermines the fear, damage and disruption theprotestsmandates and lockdowns have wrought.I think a person could respond to much of the stupidity floating around with 1984 quotes and make perfect sense.
Abandoning the concept of ‘truth’ is almost a superpower…
“Someone’s horning in our territory.”
/CNN
Eh, The Glob and Mail is undoubtedly a member in good standing of the International Brotherhood of Scriveners, Gossips and Panicmongers.
“They’re also seeing the images that we’re all seeing, of very right-wing extremist messages: the flags that display the swastika, confederate flags, images of a prime minister being lynched,” McKenney said. “I’m not sure that I would continue to call this peaceful.”
Totally genuine. Nazis were all about medical freedom.
And the south will rise again…in Ottowa…
OK, so I’m not really acquainted with Tom Woods. With regard to his “School of Life,” how many of you here who are familiar with him think he can accomplish what he’s setting out to do? How much value do you think joining it would have for you? Do you know enough about him to tell whether he has a plan and can execute on it in a way that will benefit the members?
I’m giving it a shot.
I think he knows enough people to pull it off. He has been planning this. He’s talked about a big announcement on his podcast for a while.
I think I will also.
Do you think it’s worth the cost? I find it a bit disconcerting that in the video he says he’s offering membership for the pioneer group for the first 6 months at “half off” but in the text on the signup page, he says the cost will be $997 annually. But the cost for the first 6 months is $297 which is clearly about $600 annually, not half of $1000. Just a nitpick, but let’s get this right at the beginning, dude.
I’m considering signing up, but I want to know whether it’s going to be worth it.
297*2 = 600 for 6 months = 1200 annually.
That’s my point. The discount isn’t really 50%.
Ah gotcha.
I probably could have written my earlier paragraph better to make my point more clearly, sorry.
I figure I give it a try for six months, if I don’t think it is worth it, I drop it.
If it turns out to not be worth it, I’ve made more expensive mistakes in my life.
I’m inclined to try it out…I too have spent worse money before.
I’m also wondering what kind of time commitment is going to be implied to get the most out of it.
If you want to take a look at something else Tom has done.
libertyclassroom.com
Tom seems to be very well connected and respected in libertarian circles (outside of prags). I enjoy his podcast and actually find it valuable.
I’m willing to put some money towards an effort that I would value. If he can’t pull it off, then well, I’ve definitely spent more on worse things.
Interestingly enough I have a copy of “Real Dissent…” but I have yet to actually read it. My unread book stack is far too tall.
I used Ron Paul’s home school course and Tom is one of the teachers.
I have thought about the liberty classroom thing, but I read too much as it is, and don’t think I would use it enough to justify the cost.
I bought it because I have a homeschool kid. I need to utilize it myself.
How was Ron Paul homeschool? My kids are too young right now, but I’m contemplating it for the future.
I’m probably going to pass. He’s got 9 points; 3 of them don’t apply to me, I’ve got a pretty good handle on one of the others. I don’t see having resources to invest in land any time soon nor being able to relocate.
Woods is pretty resourceful and can probably pull off a lot of what he claims, but for me, potential returns not really worth it right now.
I’m in the same boat–but I may pay for the 6 months to see how it goes, what additional topics he tackles, and lock in the lower rate long term.
I’m limited in the possibility to relocate unless things get shitty enough that I can convince my GF that we need to move. The things I think I could benefit from are the discussions with entrepeneurs, taxation strategies, and alternate health care setups (especially if employment becomes difficult).
I just don’t want to be throwing money at a grift, and being grifted by the people he brings in. I hope it doesn’t turn into “pay this to get access to all these great minds, who will tell you how you can pay for their grifts in turn.”
Keep making the personal the political and see where it gets your fat ass.
Dem political consultant
https://twitter.com/notlarrysabato/status/1488375333577449473
Such tolerant. Much compassion.
Charming.
Impressive ratio actually.
And his response even doubles down on the stupid:
Better homeschool, slash property taxes and defund the schools then.
“can identify the dickheads”
…the point of the masks all along.
I’m reminded of a sign a counterprotestor had at a Keene, NH anti-mask ordinance protest I attended.
“WEARING A MASK IS AN INTELLIGENCE TEST”
It is… just not in the way you think.
Exactly, it’s a 2-way street.
Schoolmarm Barbie says, “Teaching is haaaard.”
“Last summer, I started traveling across the country,” says Becky Pringle, president of the NEA, which has nearly 3 million members, talking about the impetus for the survey. “Without exception, every stop I made, from Kentucky to Oakland, I heard those similar stories of educators who were exhausted, overwhelmed, feeling unloved, disrespected.”
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“This is just not what they bargained for,” McCoy says. “I also mentor new teachers in my county and one of the girls that had done some clinical work in my classroom, she called me and she just said, ‘Is it normal for me to cry every single day after school?’ And I said, ‘Honey, it’s not normal. But this year it’s not uncommon.’ ”
Boo fucking hoo. Self-inflicted damage is self-inflicted. Did you seriously think the chumps would never smarten up?
But we thought we would own these kids lock, stock, and barrel! Nobody told us the parents would want a say!
You shouldn’t make the name so fake if you want to fool people.
‘Is it normal for me to cry every single day after school?’ And I said, ‘Honey, it’s not normal. Seek psychiatric help. ‘
Better response.
I threw a birthday party for the ex years back, invited all her friends, mostly professionals. One ran Vanderbilt Pediatrics.
The only school teacher there could not shut up about how her job, teaching elementary school, was the toughest job in the world ever. Insecure. Overcompensating.
Should have pulled a Norm MacDonald.
Said something derogatory about teachers and when she gets offended, ask her “You’re not one of those fuckin’ teachers are you?”
Traveling across the country? In the time of Covid? She was trying to kill those innocent teachers!
So she had the time off, and the money, to travel across the country for the summer. How many professions allow you to do that?
Well, president of any union can probably do that. I’m just also making the assumption that she’s all in on mandates for all.
she’s all in on mandates for
allthe little people.Seems more likely.
And you people say there isn’t any good news.
She’s all in on mandates for the little people?
That’s good. She can help all those actors Peter Dinklage screwed out of a job.
Welcome to adulthood, you must be new here.
Ola Dubh = “black oil”, I take it.
When it comes to solutions, the NEA says money is uppermost in its members’ minds. They support raising salaries and hiring more people. Pringle says the union has been amplifying the Biden administration’s message that American Rescue Plan money — $122 billion in federal aid to K-12 schools — can and should be used to improve pay and create new positions.
America will not be truly free until second grade teachers are paid as much as NFL defensive linemen!
Not delivering a good education. Well, no surprise, really.
Why not $500 billion or a few trillion?? Do we want the smartest kids or not?!
*the face you make when you realize you bought $1,000 of the wrong version and can’t return it, plus have to replace it with $1,600 of the correct version*
This guy takes the mask fanatics to school.
https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods
It’s practically an encyclopedia of the available research.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Aussieland…
Western Australia bans unvaccinated parents from seeing their sick children in hospital. The media applauds exploiting desperate parents in their darkest hour.
…strikes again.
From tomorrow in Western Australia.
You may walk around a supermarket all day and buy all the food you like, but if you wish to add a bottle of booze in the same shop, you must provide proof of vaccination.
There is no scientific justification.
It’s a sick control tactic.
Do you want riots? Because this is how you get riots.
Related: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/covid-wa-jail-for-those-harassing-workers-checking-vaccination-certificates-c-5508124
Just stab them. If you’re getting the police called on you anyway, make it count.
I’d be inclined to vaccinate the pols until they dropped dead in response.
It’s the escalation of the whole farce.
How much longer can it continue? It appears, that in Canada, the answer is “not much longer”.
What they NEED to be worried about is the inept performance of the national soccer team. It may be worse than the USMNT.
Let fly the lawsuits. (and grab your pitchforks…)
Loudoun will suspend students who don’t wear masks. @LCPSOfficial: “Beginning on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, students who willfully continue to refuse to follow COVID
mitigation measures as required by Loudoun County Public Schools will be suspended from school….”
I hate to repeat myself, but use the National Guard to escort the unmasked kids into school.
Particularly if it’s black kids.
Should be what is done, but won’t. A democrat in Youngkins situation would absolutely be doing it. They know how to do optics.
Wait til they mandate jabs in kids.
That’s when the real fun starts.
I’m not so sure they’ve thought going up against Governor Rugby Dad through. Picking a fight with private equity executives doesn’t usually end well.
I’ve been reasonably impressed with his first couple of weeks. He’s been more aggressive than I figured he would be.
I have to admit, I’ve been a bit surprised. I wasn’t really sure his heart would be in it. But, if it is, well, this is a guy whose career was focused on building teams to figure out how to f**k somebody over a couple of basis points.
I used to scoff at dire predictions of societal breakdown.
What a fool I was.
I’ve had people ask me about the new Tavor bullpup, “Why’d you get that?”
So far, I haven’t said “So I can engage rioters and looters at range.” So far.
“And I like IPAs. That’s fine, bring the hate, I can take it. That said, I was/am very fond of stouts, dunkles, scotch ales, almost everything besides light lagers, though a well done one is OK too.”
You may be a heretic but at least you’re not an infidel.
Okay, and you’re with me on the chilies in beer fad?
You’re an okay guy, even if you do like IPAs.
I’ve actually had Utopia, didn’t like it at all. Too strong for me, but very fancy and neat concept, impressive brewing.
Afternoon everybody. Can any of you advise about real Covid rules/strictness in Philadelphia?
Mostly thinking about Center City. I know the city’s published rules basically seem to say all restaurants (etc.) must ask for vax cards. But a lot of time the rules and the reality are different.
So what’s the real boots-on-the-ground story? Are people really wearing masks in public there? Restaurants requiring vax cards, etc.? Are the rules largely ignore-able in practice?
Thanks in advance y’all.
Just bring a BLM card and show that.
You can burn down shops, loot, and riot with that card in Center City.
I guess Rittenhouse Square is a more precise description of the area, actually…
In that case, borrow an AR-15.
Somebody will be along shortly to provide actual advice, I’m sure.
Rittenhouse Square is pretty hoity-toity so you can be sure they’re following all the diktats.
I keep an eye on things in PA. I’ve seen nothing about Philly. The groups that I chat with do not go into the city because of the Covid orders. I have not been in the city outside of the interstates since the Before Times.
My guess would be Center City, because of the presence of city offices and heavy police presence, will be a place where businesses comply with the orders.
A place I like on South Street is complying with the orders. I think, based on the owner’s Facebook posts, he is unhappy about the situation and is only doing it to keep the city off his back.
I don’t go into Philly.
It’s a shithole.
The latest black face of white-supremacy.
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I wonder if Denzel is too old to play him in the movie.
https://www.wfmz.com/health/cdc-launches-webpage-to-help-reduce-maternal-death/article_e431958a-8371-11ec-908c-27ea95ebcedc.html
So not woke. What about pregnant men?
There’s a drug commercial out there that uses the line “Not for those assigned female at birth.” I cringe every time I hear it. I think of a doctor with a clipboard in the delivery room, arbitrarily checking either the male or female box on a form.
That’s the HIV prevention drug ad that has dudes pretending to be women in it.
It’s a blatant appeal to woke virtue signaling to sell a drug.
It is. I find the stereotypes of people who might have HIV to be pretty cringy as well. Here’s a gay guy! Here’s a black guy! Here’s a guy dressed as a woman! All promiscuous (wink wink)!
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So the CDC is promoting chiropractic, now?
How long before they start promoting homeopathy?
Homoapathy? What’s that? I can’t keep up with you kids.
“Hmmm, your billfold needs a little adjustment. And make another appointment with the receptionist on your way out”
https://www.fox29.com/news/caught-on-camera-clerk-robbery-suspect-exchange-gunfire-inside-philadelphia-store
With video.
Shit happens fast.
Looks like everybody lost that one.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/shadowy-far-left-groups-are-behind
“Dr” Wallace is a moron.
A stolen Malice quote: “it is easier to train a smart dog than a dumb one.”
OK, then. I have here an enrollment form for a clinical trial for an experimental drug. You can either sign up and do the trial, or get fired. Remember, if you do sign up, you did so voluntarily. “It was your choice, no one made you take it,” isn’t that the way it goes?
No offense to self-proclaimed beer snobs but 120 Minute IPA is Satan’s cumshot.
Is that good or bad?
You have to take 120 and bury it in your yard for a year before drinking it.
In my yard, 120 would be the temp is stored at.