If you have anger issues, this one is a great tool (h/t mindyourbusiness)
Disclaimer: I’m not your Supervisor. These are my opinions after reading through these books a few times.
July 2
“Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands. Even dying is one of the
important assignments of life and, in this as in all else, make the most of your resources to do well the duty at hand.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.2
I need to do what needs done, and nobody cares how I feel. If I don’t sleep enough, I still need to get up and go running. Just because I had a long day at work, that doesn’t mean I go home instead of the gym. I would like to relax this weekend, but I need to mow the grass and my wife’s car needs new struts. When I was stuck on the couch, I still had to do my best at being an invalid, that meant not hurting myself by trying to do too much too fast. It also meant making sure to thank my wife and not let my frustrations out on her.
July 3
“The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony with whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will and nothing that we wish for fails to happen.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.14.7
I did not wish for my wife’s car to blow up. That was outside of my control, so I tried not to get upset about it. I also had to not get irritated at my wife driving my car, she can drive a manual, but she is not smooth with the gear changes and hills make her nervous so she over revs the engine. Instead I tried to remember how fortunate we are that we have extra vehicles and she can use it as an opportunity to improve her 5-speed skills. I know more things will go against me in the future, and will try to not let it affect me. If I have something bothering me, I need to look at myself and figure out how to keep my equilibrium.
July 4
“Protect your own good in all that you do, and as concerns everything else take what is given as far as you can make reasoned use of it. If you don’t, you’ll be unlucky, prone to failure, hindered and stymied.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.3.11
It’s important to keep myself in a good mood. If I am making good decisions and actually doing the things I tell myself I want to do, it is easier to maintain that state of mind. If I do not do these things, I will end up angry at myself. When I am not happy with myself, it is easier to do dumb things and make it harder to get myself back on track.
July 5
“Good people will do what they find honorable to do, even if it requires hard work; they’ll do it even if it causes them injury; they’ll do it even if it will bring danger. Again, they won’t do what they find base, even if it brings wealth, pleasure, or power. Nothing will deter them from what is honorable, and nothing will
lure them into what is base.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 76.18
I try to be a good person and do the “right” thing. It doesn’t matter if anyone sees it or knows about it. All of my choices are pretty easy for me to make in that regard. When I was younger and I tried to be a little more morally flexible, I would always end up hating myself and the reward was never worth it.
July 6
“On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind—I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I’m made for, the very things for which I was put into this world? Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It’s so pleasurable. Were you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.1
It is a lot easier to get up on time if I sleep enough. Those days when I don’t sleep enough, it is hard to get out of bed. When I am lazy and lay there for a while, I don’t gain anything. I am still tired and now I have to hurry so I won’t be late for work.When I am in bed fighting with myself, this passage reminds me to be a grownup, not a child.
July 7
“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 88.7b
The lessons we learn from stories can be important. Even if it comes from a fictional hero, perseverance and strength of character are worth emulating. One of my early examples for honesty was the lead players in Louis L’Amour books.
July 8
“Enough of this miserable, whining life. Stop monkeying around! Why are you troubled? What’s new here? What’s so confounding? The one responsible? Take a good look. Or just the matter itself?
Then look at that. There’s nothing else to look at. And as far as the gods go, by now you could try being more straightforward and kind. It’s the same, whether you’ve examined these things for a hundred years, or only three.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.37
I woke up angry last weekend. I was late for a self imposed deadline to get started working in the garage, I hadn’t slept well, I was hungry, and my wife wanted me to take her out shopping instead.(she doesn’t like driving my car) Luckily I was in the kitchen and she was in the living room when she asked me, so she didn’t see my immediate reaction. I thought about it for a few minutes and realized there was nothing in the garage that couldn’t wait until Sunday and if I took her out we could stop for lunch. We ended up having a good day and I could have started an argument or made her go by herself. When I really looked at what was causing the anger, it was me.
— • —
Music this week is Candlemass, they are a doom metal band from Sweden and most people hate them. They have an opera singer and slow riffs, but you don’t have to be fast to be heavy.
Their first album had a more traditional singer .
After that they got the opera singer, probably my favorite song: At the Gallow’s End
I know they are not for everyone, but I like them, their first 4 albums are amazing, after that they got a different singer and lost some of their uniqueness.
“Protect your own good in all that you do, and as concerns everything else take what is given as far as you can make reasoned use of it. If you don’t, you’ll be unlucky, prone to failure, hindered and stymied.”
You know what really pisses me off? People who try to get in the middle of what I am doing and “help” me to do things in a manner or sequence which will benefit them.
I’m working on my timeline, according to my priorities. Don’t like it? Tough shit. Fuck off.
Takes note: “Not a team player.”
+1 addition to list
#metoo
“Not a team player.”
Does not play well with the other children.
At a basic level, I see myself as a fundimentally honest person.
This is why, more so than the future wasted interview time, I am so infuriated by being told to blindly accept the brazen lies of the vendors when evaluating these candidates. The candidates didn’t claim to have this experience, the vendors lied. We know they lied.
It doesn’t matter.
Do you have access to the candidates’ resumes? If so, why not just ignore HR, read their resumes, and tell HR whatever they want to hear in how you evaluated candidates?
I have to fill out a stupid sharepoint application with specific scores based upon the qualifications sent to the vendors and with explicit justifications as to how each score was derived.
So just score the qualifications how you want and make up the justifications to support the scores you’ve given.
Surely your HR drones don’t understand the role well enough to legitimately criticize whatever made up justifications you use for your scores?
I wish it were that easy.
If it were that easy, it wouldn’t have bounced back after the first time.
You need to put pimp hand gloves on and get your HR back in line.
He’s in government. His HR drones are picking for political reasons.
Those vendors paid good bribes to be in a position to lie to you. Who are you to question the wisdom of corrupt operations of government, huh?
“The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony with whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will and nothing that we wish for fails to happen.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.14.7
This one is crushing me right now. Work is a train wreck, I’m dealing with some family issues and everything appears to be going to shit. It’s definitely impacting my health.
But clearly that’s on me. I am not brining my will into harmony, I’m being swept along by events. Aggravating, but even typing it out here helps me see it.
Thanks, Ron!
Epictetus, what a crock of b.s. that is. I don’t think any Glibs are ready to “bring our will into harmony with whatever happens” in the D.C. Swamp.
Roll with the punch doesn’t mean the same thing as collaborate. Look for ways to circumvent the swamp monkeys’ chittering. As noted by Juris below, these people are begging to be slapped down. Given time and enough rope, they’ll defeat themselves.
Yeah, Epictetus is lame. I much prefer the philosophical teachings of Epictatas, which are similar to those of our very own Q Continuum.
I’m pretty familiar with Epistaxis. Results from some conflicts in my past.
True, but stressing yourself out about it doesn’t help.
This one is crushing me right now. Work is a train wreck, I’m dealing with some family issues and everything appears to be going to shit. It’s definitely impacting my health.
Sorry. Best wishes.
Good luck turning it around, Tundra.
Dragging this from the morning links thread:
Re: David Hogg saying he won’t have kids because abortion and guns SCOTUS decisions didn’t go his way:
banginglc1 on July 1, 2022 at 8:53 am
Seriously, do these idiots not understand that most of their solutions to Dobbs are exactly what conservatives have wanted for years?
FreedomToons agrees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFVN7LAJs0
Damn Fridays sure do roll around fast. After the Stoic it’s damn-near the weekend.
I’m in need of this today. My vacuum broke. I will have the part tomorrow, so I should just roll with it. Also local Speedway gas station has no regular gas.
That sucks
It really leaves a void.
Sounds like she’s running on fumes.
I hit a deer yesterday with my beloved Big Ugly crew cab. It was towed to Tifton GA.
I got home around 430am this morning after a 26hour day that included
* being dead on the road at 5am
* having my car reservation canceled by Enterprise within an hour of my securing it
> walking four miles to breakfast and back because no Uber
” taking a shower in orange water and squatting in a Motel6 down on MLK all day
” driving eight hours because the ride I caught was from very very tired people who had of course just driven eight hours on zero notice
But I feel okay on five hours’ sleep. Worst case I put $5k in the transmission and drive it another three years.
Saved the weekend. Happy hour soon. Golf tomorrow. Big lunch with friends. Holiday Monday.
It will work out.
That’s a rough day, enjoy the weekend.
I haven’t found the text of the actual travesty, but from the AP:
Monthly?
The current system can’t even handle a requirement for yearly.
Hell, they can’t even keep up with “once”.
I foresee a new business opportunity: “Rattus Norvegicus Quick-ee Background Check Services! Dealing exclusively with government clients, superfast, surprisingly cheap and guaranteed results!*”
Now I just need to figure out which congresscritters need to be receiving the kickbacks.
*if a psychopath** receives a clean background check, double your money back!***
**Proof of psychopathy to be provided by Glibrat Psychiatric Services, L.L.C.
***for that individual check.
Nope.
The response will be. “Sorry, the State Police are backed up, so you’re now a felon, go directly to jail.”
So you’re saying I need to be giving more kickbacks.
OFFS.
I’m seeing injunctions against enforcement coming before the ink is dry.
Seriously. They can easily get away with the training bit (and some buildings off limits), but the rest of it? Hot garbage.
I just want to see the next round citing the decision where the court said you can’t require someone request permission to exercise a consitutional right. (That one was a First Amendment speech case, but they didn’t limit the ruling to speech). Permits are unconsitutional, but the court is too squish to admit it.
Fuck that. 15 hours of live fire training per person? Not enough firing ranges or trainers to NOT be an undue burden.
*sees another business opportunity*
You might need a firm to help you through getting all the building and business permits to start up you range…
Oh, clearly, I don’t agree with any of it. I can just tolerate PA’s system of shall issue, with no additional caveats. Anything past that is too much.
MD requires 16, plus a live fire test.
I have passed the live fire test blindfolded. https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/shooting-a-carry-permit-test-blindfolded/
NY requires more than that, but the live fire portion is not fifteen hours. I scored 500/500 on the live fire, but I was not blindfolded. It uses an AP1, passing score 425.
And the live fire portion requires one certified RSO per applicant.
You should try it blindfolded, just for the lulz…
Our RSOs would eject you from the site for trying it.
There are cameras in the pistol shack, and I imagine pants would be shat.
Weenies.
I think maybe I’ll set this up for our range night next Thursday.
Followup: Signs saying guns are welcome will become a new class of felony.
I’m rather in awe that they have decided they can determine who can go into a house of worship. Of course, Hokum does speak for God you know.
I think house of worship is fairly a standard off limits area for concealed carry holders. At least it was a gray area in Virginia (banned unless you have a legitimate need) until the state AG released an opinion that the legitimate need language was unenforceable and not necessary.
The presumptive felon status unless there is an affirmative sign granting permission is a new one to me though. And I thought North Carolina adding force of law behind no gun signs was bad enough.
How do they square the house of worship thing with 1A?
FYTW clause?
Might be a good idea to repeal that.
The gun grabbers are not opposed to mass murder of defenseless people. Why would they repeal it? That’s more bloody shirts they can wave while standing on a pile of dead bodies.
TX has had their bullshit 30.06/30.07 sign rules for a while.
And how does a misdemeanor conviction for intoxication negate a constitutional right? I assume the menacing and third degree assault are also misdemeanors. Let’s see those be used to disqualify someone from voting. Or obtaining a drivers license.
until the state AG
The new one I presume.
I think it was the last GOP one before the current one. As far as I know, the Dem AGs since never issued a counter opinion.
I mean an opinion isn’t much comfort, but it’d be helpful for a jury if you were tried after defending yourself. I always thought the attacks on temples and churches made the need to carry in houses of worship self-evident, but I’m not sure how well that reason would be received in a trial.
One of the beneficial changes to the Ohio law with the addition of Constitutional carry was removing the mandatory notification to law enforcement. Previously, it was (I believe) a misdemeanor to fail to inform if you had a carry license/were carrying when you were pulled over.
Oh that’s good. I wasn’t aware they removed the duty to inform.
Yeah, that never made sense to me. If somebody is inclined to shoot a cop, he’s not going to mention that he has a gun regardless of the law. And if somebody harmless who is being pulled over has a gun, just mentioning “gun” is going to unnecessarily put the cop on high alert. It’s just a recipe for disaster.
And if somebody harmless who is being pulled over has a gun, just mentioning “gun” is going to unnecessarily put the cop on high alert.
I guess it depends on if you need a permit to carry concealed. It’s probably not issue in states with constitutional concealed carry. But if a permit is needed… it’s good practice to let the cop know if you carrying concealed when being pulled over. The permit is flagged in DMV’s system and is linked to your driver’s license. So the cop is going to know anyway as soon as they run your license, and not voluntarily telling them beforehand is 100% guaranteed to enrage them. It might put the LEO on high alert, but letting them discover on their own will be worse.
VA let’s Maryland LEOs have access to VA’s DMV system to identify VA CCP holders. So those pieces of LEO shit in MD hunt down cars with VA license plates and then run the driver’s licenses to see if the driver has a VA CCP. They are hoping the driver forgot there’s not reciprocity. These fishing expeditions have gotten so bad that the VA almost passed a bill into law that prevented sharing DMV info with Maryland. But some of the state GOP turned yellow after the one of the police unions said doing so would put LEOs lives in danger. Way to put MD LEOs ahead of VA residents.
What I disagree with is the requirement that you have to tell them. It makes no sense.
If they find out when they run your plates, they have time to process it and use due caution. They may ask you if you have a weapon in the vehicle if they are concerned. When you say “I have a gun” out of the blue to a cop, you’re going to freak them the fuck out, and many will go into fight or flight mode, which means they will be scared and angry. Scared and angry people make bad decisions.
*Sometimes* your CCW status is linked to your DMV info. Not always. It’s worth finding out for sure, because you do not want to tell the fuzz that you’re carrying unless you absolutely need to…
I agree that the requirement is not good. I’m just pointing out that it is good practice to inform the LEO if you are in a state with permits linked to the DMV. There is no benefit to not informing in such cases.
I don’t believe it is linked to your license plate, just your driver license. That’s why MD pulls over any car with VA plates and then runs the driver’s license. So they don’t know you have a CCP when your plates are run, only after they’ve already talked with you and gotten your driver’s license to run. And then it’s guaranteed to piss them off that you didn’t inform them previously when they were standing next to you.
The conversation will go along the lines of “How come you didn’t tell me you had a gun on you before when I was standing a foot away from you?” Try telling the cop that it’s because you don’t have to. Best case is you get the ticket for whatever you were pulled over for in the first place. Worse would be having the same conversation while the terrified and now very pissed off cop has their gun drawn.
ES, how do you find something like that out?
SSD – The USCCA website (https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/ccw_reciprocity_map/) has that information for most states.
ES, I thought you meant within VA itself that licenses are not always linked to DMV. Yeah, definitely some states do not link licenses to DMV and then you do not want to inform.
Very helpful site though, thanks for sending.
Also learned that the Virginia one handgun a month law no longer applies to CCW holders. That’s good to know. Or maybe it never did. I thought I almost got snared by it last year but maybe it was never an issue.
“not voluntarily telling them beforehand is 100% guaranteed to enrage them”
Do I need to inform them of any other rights I might be exercising? Travel? Free expression? Free exercise?
“Your worship, I have a gun with me. I also have several books, and was headed to the church. I was also arguing with the NPR station.”
The King’s Men are a touchy bunch.
Do I need to inform them of any other rights I might be exercising? Travel? Free expression? Free exercise?
Yes on travel if you live in a border state with inland checkpoints. Also yes on free expression if we can associate that to needing to explain the purpose for carrying a wad of cash.
-1 Philando Castile
Castile told the cop he was a licensed carrier and it just made the chickenship cop so scared that he plugged him.
I guess it is fair for me to post the totality of circs:
So the coward didn’t plug him because of the gun, but because he was also armed with second hand MJ smoke
I’m (oddly) reminded of that scene in The Usual Suspects where Redfoot flicks his cigarette into McManus’s face…
I think house of worship is fairly a standard off limits area for concealed carry holders.
That’s a sign of a gun-unfriendly state.
I belong to a militant holy order. We are required to be armed while attending service.
Punctuate every “amen” with a shot at a target.
+1 kirpan
And for those who don’t/wouldn’t know, this makes the license last for three years, whereas it currently lasts for five.
FAAAAHCK YOOOOUUUUUUU!
I don’t even remember the name I was using on MySpace.
I don’t think that New York has a good state-level gun rights organization at present.
But if they did, I would hope that they have a legal response loaded, chambered, and ready to send.
(This is not a euphemism for anything.)
Got it:
https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/EXTRAORDINARY_SESSION1-CONCEALED_CARRY_IMPROVEMENT_ACT-BILL.pdf
It has a “good moral character” clause.
No sheep fuckers.
Or insurrectionists no doubt.
Are furries okay?
Armed sheep fuckers always leads to a Wild Wooly West type situation.
You have to be of an equal or better moral character as a NY governor? Just choose William Seward, FDR, Spitzer or Cuomo as your role model.
If you need to be of funky character, choose George Clinton.
“Good Moral Character” is just another May Issue clause and means “Whoever the judge feels like”
Clarence is smart enough to have seen this coming.
He should have gone all the way in his ruling.
I think that would have shed too many of the less staunch justices and cost the majority.
Current license holders do not need to take the fifteen hour course… until they renew the license (p4 l9)
p11: unless you got your license before July 1, 1963. Then you’re good.
Very disappointed they didn’t choose Nov. 22 of that year.
Why?
November 22nd, 1963? Really? Granted, it wasn’t in NY, but it was kind of the most significant day of that entire year.
/head explodes
Former Marine shows off his marksmanship skills.
Look, I am busy arguing with HR.
It doesn’t ring a bell. 1963 doesn’t ring a bell.
Oliver Stone would get it.
UCS, you really to get your head together.
Kennedy assassination
J
F
K
Really fun bit of trivia, I get physical mail from Grassy Knoll Industries every month or so.
Oh, come now, JFK didn’t die, they stuck him in a Texas nursing home. /Ozzie Davis
Or
That was a suicide, JFK shot himself /Red Dwarf
It’s the day Aldous Huxley died.
P7: single shot flintlocks and other firearms manufactured before 1898 DO require a license.
p8: references to a “foreign state.” Do they mean US states other than NY, or actual foreign countries?
That’s a pretty common term in state laws referring to either another State in the U.S., or a foreign country. Each of the United States is, or has limited sovereignty, I think.
And by “either,” I mean it is often used to refer to both.
P14: One of the delights of the NY handgun laws is that if you get your handgun license revoked you lose ALL of your firearms. That provision is still here.
P15: License requirements no longer determined on a county basis. NYC gets to set the standards for everyone!
P18: Got a permit to block off part of a sidewalk? It’s a gun-free zone now! Also line 10: “any gathering of individuals to collectively express their constitutional rights to protest or assemble.” As with the house of worship above, in NY you can have 1A, or you can have 2A. Not both.
P20: Here’s the bit about the new felony of possessing a gun in a business unless it conspicuously displays a sign saying it’s ok. You’ll be happy to know that this law does not apply to cops or government officials! Also you ARE allowed to possess a handgun when undergoing your 15 hours of live fire training as long as you’re being directly supervised by a “duly authorized instructor.”
I haven’t gotten to anything (yet) that allows you to practice for that proficiency test on your own.
P22: A new database to track all ammunition sales. I can only imagine this kills off mail-ordering of ammo entirely.
Why was this not mentioned before?
P23: a reference to serial number of ammunition
Ammunition does not have serial numbers.
So they’re banning ammunition in its entirety?
Spite. Progs are powered by it.
track all ammunition sales
Right…
P24: FFLs required to keep a record of ammunition sales. Nothing yet about how long such records need to be maintained.
P25: No loaded firearms left in cars.
Must be locked (unloaded) in something “fire, impact and tamper resistant.” Glove compartment specifically called out as insufficient.
‘Fire resistant’?
Someone show me a portable fire-rated gun case. I’ll wait.
Stop acting as if the goal is anything but setting up impossible conditions.
^
Oh, I know that. I’m just trying to separate the impossible conditions from the merely abusive ones…
Listen, if you don’t have the resources to have an appropriate storage container installed in your vehicle, you don’t have the financial stability to be a good gun owner.
P26: any stricter rules supersede this law.
Also P26: Adding plate carriers to the previous soft body armor ban. Yes I mean plate CARRIERS. “…regardless of whether such product is to be worn alone or is sold as a complement to another product or garment”. I’m actually amazed they correctly used “complement. “
in their haste, did they forget to ban the shock plates? So you could tape them to yourself?
Nope the plates also fall into that “product” description.
Is there precedent for a law successfully banning wear of a type of garment in the USA?
I seem to recall some low hanging pants bans back in the 90’s. I believe all of them got struck down relatively quickly. Of course, that was after the cops got to bust all sorts of “undesirable youths”.
Protective garments are another requirement of USC’s militant order, so religious accommodation a la hijab/burqa.
The holy vestments must be worn when in public, or when the public has line of sight to you.
P33: I’ll need a lawyer, but they may have made it illegal to give someone ammo without a NICS check.
P32: Annual report about how many icky guns and icky bullets have been approved, how many denied, how many people are working on keeping icky things out of the hands of the proles, and how much in fees will be needed to pay them.
New fees?
P36: “Background Check Fund.”
The state comptroller may invest the monies in this fund because of course he can.
Someone’s getting that kickback.
Checking how many funds you have. If you hav enough to pay for the firearm, ammo, training, and hoops jumping, you have too much. If it’s not enough, then that’s reason alone to deny.
P37: The organizations who can authorize instructors:
USA
USN
USCG
USMC
NYNG
Adjutant General of NY
Division of Criminal Justice Services
NRA (which NY is currently trying to destroy)
4H
USAF not on the list. Lol.
The chair force is not renown for their marksmanship.
P38: When issuing a license, they must also issue safe storage requirements printed in 24-point type boldface on a 8.5″x11″ sheet of paper.
I think the NY State Legislature is taunting the U.S. Supreme Court. Yeah, whatcha gonna do aboutit?
Can it be in Wingdings font?
Comic Sans
Monster.
P39: some details about this 16 hours of instruction. Wasn’t it fifteen a little while ago?
In person, live.
Only two hours of it has to be actual live fire. The rest seems theoretically useful, though we’ll see what the staties approve. “Best practices when encountering law enforcement” included. I can only imagine how failing to comply with those will be used against you. Written test, passing score is 80%.
The first piece of “good” news which only seems good because everything else is so shitty: repeating all of this nonsense is only required for your first renewal, not every three years.
Easily shut down in the next pandemic.
Written test, passing score is 80%.
In Esperanto.
P41: Law goes into effect Sept 1. Time to hit up targetsportsusa.com!
Also severability clause, triggers for the various sections should particular ones be delayed for amending.
So, individually challenge every clause, because all of them are unconsitutional.
provide their social media accounts
Talk about BEGGING to get slapped down. Hell the NY Court of Appeals may do it rather than letting the Federal courts have the pleasure.
Kathy keeps this up and we’ll end up at constitutional carry.
Someone is aiming for another smackdown.
Begging for it, it seems.
Well, they do then get to do it again, so it keeps them busy.
It’s literally what ehy are getting paid to do. No one will lose a job over this. It can go on forever.
UnCivilServant wrote, in the morning thread,
That sounds like a side effect of HR sandbagging their numbers. “We did such a good job at your job that we sent you 200% of the candidates that industry surveys suggest are needed to find the right candidate! Wait, what? Only 30% of the candidates were qualified? That’s not our metric. It’s your job to find the qualified candidates from the list we provide. We don’t know what exactly qualifies a candidate for the job you need to fill. You’re the experts in that field.”
If the US Armed Services are having a recruitment problem, I have a suggestion: Waive the no-felonies rule and recruit from the prison system. What could possibly be better for the country than staffing up the military while simultaneously giving prisoners a chance to redeem themselves while learning valuable skills like how to operate heavy weapons systems and organize tactical battlefield actions?
dirty dozen?
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the real Marines.”
–Chesty Puller
The current crop of soldiers already look like prison inmates.
+1 Carbine Williams
July 7 lesson might have been swapped with July 4, considering the patriotic theme.
We have arrived. XY has his keys. Moving in shall commence presently.
Be sure to hang the disco ball where the track lighting can get to it easily.
*been a while since I’ve set up a bachelor pad*
I thought all bachelor pads had stripper poles these days?
How I imagine Not-Adahn
Will you be venting on the Zoom tonight?
Don’t know. Will be in a hotel room with Mr Mojeaux. He may not want to participate.
No tiny roommates skittering along the baseboards, I hope?
Nope.
Good!
Excellent.
Ok, got a slow-cooker full of chili started for tonight. First time trying this format. Also following a recipe that involves actually adding spices (including cocoa powder) – rather than my old combo of meat and peppers in a pot. Hopefully turns out well. This time will try leftovers in single serving containers vice one big one – and may try freezing one to see how it goes.
(I have a stash of korean instant microwave rice from the commissary – great stuff (pre-cooked, 1 min nuke)) and I will probably make some old jiffy (non-keto) cornbread in the next few weeks too – back in Norfolk again next week.
—
On another note, I can verify that despite how good it sounds, the addition of kim-chi does not improve the flavor of fried cabbage – at least not with the recipe I’ve been using.
I can’t point to any definitive proof, but I suspect you’ll be best served by leaving all together for a day or two before portioning it out; my gut feeling is that the flavor will develop better that way.
Oh, and the single-servings should freeze nicely. They’ll keep for months, just be sure to label and date them.
(“Could be meat. Could be cake…”)
Hmm, just added a little salt. Possible that not quite following the recipe re: chopped tomato selection and tomato paste vice additional tomato sauce may hurt me but we’ll see.
As ever, “salt to taste”.
tomato paste will give you some of that deep, umami taste.
I’m trying to be better about not being so rigid w/ recipes – I’ve been doing this long enough that I know (or should know) what changes I can make.
The real magic comes when you learn what you can play with in baking recipes. There were several failures for me until I got that all worked out.
Chili without cumin is defective. Science!
Shorter July 2: The enemy doesn’t care if you’re tired.
It is a lot easier to get up on time if I sleep enough.
Yes. I had a little trouble getting up today thanks to not enough sleep.
OT: DEG, do you know Karlyn Borysenko? I’ve watched a few of her videos, don’t know exactly what to make of her.
I’ve never met her. I was not impressed with the little bit I’ve seen of her twitter feed.
Also local Speedway gas station has no regular gas.
“Gasoline is too cheap,” said Brian Deese, economic advisor to the Biden administration.
Luckily mommy didn’t abort her.
A toddler leads protestors in chanting “my body, my choice” at a protest in Arkansas.
Totally not groomers. Nosiree.
Ice cream for dinner!
Gross.
The real magic comes when you learn what you can play with in baking recipes. There were several failures for me until I got that all worked out.
Cooking is art, Baking is science,
That’s what they tell me, anyway.
Frank Luntz’s Muskrat Advises Liberals on How to Manipulate Trump Supporters
I present to you the next thing.
NEW Listeria outbreak: 23 people sick, 20 of them live in or traveled to Florida before they got sick. No food linked to outbreak yet. CDC will provide new info as investigation progresses.
Fucking Desantis!
The Cleveland Public Schools have solved all of their problems now.
Three Cleveland schools, named for slaveholders or other problematic figures, renamed
The three problematic figures? Patrick Henry (Henry was a founding father, who owned enslaved people), Louis Agassiz (Agassiz was a 19th century Swiss biologist who endorsed scientific racism, the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to justify racism, racial inferiority or racial superiority), and Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson was a founding father and U.S. president, who owned enslaved people).
Significant figures from history should only be judged by the delicate, contextually ignorant, modern sensibilities of leftists. It is known.
At least Harriet Tubman flew the trans flag.
Because they took her gun away from her?
Enslaved people?
Given how much they hate Agassiz’s theory, he was probably right.
This one makes me smile today. I had to get up early to drive to an EEG appointment in Las Vegas, and they wanted it to be a “sleep deprived” EEG, so I was instructed to get no more than 4 hours sleep last night.
Boy, did I want to stay under the covers when the alarm went off! But I “stoically” got my hiney up and dressed, then hit the road.
Now I just got home and shampooed all the electrode glue out of my hair. I am back in bed for a much-needed nap!
That sucks, but I hope your results are good and your hippo has been on a diet.
Seeing that comment out of context, I first thought of the river horses.
I gotta admit, I just don’t get some of these euphemisms.
Maybe the hippo comment harkens back to the fat butt discussion?
That would not be a big-brained move.
Relevant: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.J4kDrK6VeNXsssO0Wq5iNAHaHR%26pid%3DApi&f=1
“When I was younger and I tried to be a little more morally flexible, I would always end up hating myself and the reward was never worth it.“
I think I learned this lesson during my divorce. Make sure you can live with yourself, money or fleeting satisfaction are never a good trade.
“Make sure you can live with yourself”
Yep, first you have to learn to like yourself. Learn that you are a nice person and others like you because you are the person they want for a friend.
Divorce may take some time to relearn those things.
Depression is a helluva drug.
I hope sloper shows for zoom. I have questions.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RisenChow/status/1542564697353895941
That is…the only word I can come up with is ‘awesome.’
Agreed, it’s fantastic.
I love the Joleen cover.
Rural Africans are socially conservative farmers and ranchers so naturally music about cows and trucks speaks more to them than pop or hip hop especially if it gives them an excuse to wear their cowboy hats and boots
makes total sense.
TIL…
Leave it to a black dude to make country dancing look cool.
Quick drive by. Sorry – finishing up PI motion for filing.
I somehow stumbled onto this gem on Twitter from Thomas Q Sowell.
I had to share it and you miscreants were the only
peopleTulpae who would appreciate it.I LOL’d.
He’s a font of wisdom.
And Ron – this is my favorite week of Stoic quotes. I love all of these.
I laughed. https://mobile.twitter.com/SonnieJohnson/status/1540023824418226177
Thanks for these. I enjoy reading them.
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