If you happen to be one of those people constantly trying to find items that do not contain rapeseed oil or canola oil, I found something interesting while picking up burger buns the other day. King’s Hawaiian uses butter! Kamehameha for the win!
Now for Mexican links!
Earfquake! 7.6 magnitude hits Mexico killing 2, but Tres Cool still the hardest hit. Incidentally, this falls on the anniversary of earthquakes in 1985 and 2017, which means they will find a way to blame it on climate change.
I’m going to call Gabriel Boric Presidente Barista, because he looks like the assistant manager at a Starbucks. Anyways, he made significant changes to his cabinet after the constitution fallout.
Its probably better this way. Brandon has bigger things to worry about.
Right. Human rights violations are why they are worried about Presidente Dudebro winning his reelection.
They picked a hell of a time to end the fuel subsidy.
Another hurricane headed for Puerto Rico. I look forward to claims of racism when Team Brandon does pretty much nothing.
Here’s a tune I haven’t heard in a while. Have a great Tuesday!
King’s Hawaiian uses butter!
Butter makes it better.
buttered batter begets better bread?
D’oh!
They are too sweet for my taste.
I never tried one.
Tasty but yeah, sugar is the third ingredient. Loved ’em as a kid.
Its bread. The whole thing is sugar.
Spoilsport. You’ll be breaking the bad news about alcohol next.
Its fermented sugar.
Noooo! 😱
Throw some fried ham in one.
It also makes the best peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I prefer extra-chunky Jif and some good local blackberry preserves.
which means they will find a way to blame it on climate change.
That’ll really shake things up.
Well, the Grauniad did include their climate change chant at the end of their article.
I try to avoid soybean oil. Makes finding mayonnaise a challenge.
Make your own.
So is seed oil the new transfat?
Supposedly dominated by PUFAs (PolyUnsaturated Fatty Acids). I don’t know enough to comment, other than monounsaturates are teh hotness these days. (For reference, olive oil’s got lots of monos, I b’lieve…)
Not really, they are related.
And they are in almost everything.
Up here in The Great White North, you can get commercial mayonnaise made with canola (I know, I know) and olive oil, so that’s a bit of an improvement. But like Ted’s says, “Make your own.” If’n you’ve got a blender, it’s ridiculously easy to do. Tastes great, too.
If you read the ingredients (at least of the ones I’ve seen), it still has soybean oil.
It’s Hellmans brand, I did, and there’s no soybean oil listed (c’mon! we grow canola here by the metric shit-ton! It’s bound to be cheaper than soybean oil).
And I was betting on STEVE SMITH brand mayo. But STEVE wouldn’t use that estrogen-packed soybean stuff . . . .
I have a blender, but the mayo never emulsifies.
Sounds like a Phillip K. Dick novel title.
Primal Kitchen makes a good one.
That’s the one. It’s tasty as heck too, my favorite mayo so far.
Yeah but the sticker shock 😯
LadyZ gets a big jar at Costco that’s made with abogado oil.
**avocado
Good to know. For a second there, I thought they were pressing Spanish lawyers. But then, it probably would’ve made the links.
…and I’m way late, as usual.
¡ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Rw8xBKADI !
Mechanically-pressed lawyers make the best oil.
Tastes kinda…sleazy.
Oily is oily.
I look forward to claims of racism when Team Brandon does pretty much nothing.
Haven’t they sent all the spare change to Ukraine?
They could send Puerto Ricans who lost their homes to the Ukraine.
They have a really big couch.
They picked a hell of a time to end the fuel subsidy.
In the sidebar, BBC had a link to this story which has an odd headline if it hasn’t been edited yet.
Chilean President Boric changes Cabinet after voters reject new constitution
Boric, 36, the country’s youngest president, changed the leadership of five ministries as his approval ratings have declined steeply.
I guess people don’t like his chilly demeanor.
He’s known for his acidic remarks.
fr fr no capsicum
Chili should NOT have beans!
Next you’ll tell us that pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza. Pfft
The pistoff one is correct.
What about pineapple in chili? Mmm, pineapple.
In Port-au-Prince, protesters set up barricades and blocked roads with piles of burning tyres.
In the city of Gonaives, in the north, public buildings and private residences were attacked and looted.
The local offices of the UN Food Programme were attacked on Thursday.
The country has been plagued by gang violence.
Will Haiti take over Somalia as the place the usual suspects think is Libertopia?
Hmm, is Boric ditching his leftist constituency and tacking to the center? He was bound to disappoint one faction or the other.
Lure me in with a picture of a pretty wimminz, and then immediately start talking about buns.
Well played
I try to keep things lively.
here we go again…
Well, how are they gonna know how many ballots to fabricate until the count comes in?
For my entire life it wasn’t a problem to determine the winners on election day. Now in the most technically advanced phase of human history it’s too hard to count ballots.
Heh… oldie but goodie cited in that thread: https://babylonbee.com/news/broward-county-brings-in-expert-consultant-to-speed-up-ballot-count
It’s the end of September and it’s 97 degrees outside. WTF Iowa.
You get one final summer heat wave. Supposed to cool off next week I think.
Here it finally drops to highs in the 70s. I love fall.
We had our Indian summer over the weekend and now it’s just delightful. 70s, breezy. Canada is sending us their best air today.
97 here today then 70s tomorrow. That should be headed your way.
Forty-eight and rainy here at the moment.
Cringe.
Hola, señor!
Kings are amazingly delicious. Carbs aren’t terrible, either.
Another Far Behind.
This rolled up next.
. Great song. SD never gets old.
Nature and Darwin continue to try and weed out people but Government continues to get in the way
https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/stop-cooking-chicken-in-nyquil-fda-begs-in-response-to-social-media-trend/
Stop Cooking Chicken in Nyquil, FDA Begs in Response to Social Media Trend
People are still putting out those “challenge” things? I’m just happy we’re over putting the name “bomb” in every recipe name. “Nyquil Chicken Bombs will ruin all other chicken for you!”
Yeah, I could see that putting me off chicken for quite awhile.
Cook it in bourbon.
Cheap bourbon. Cook it in cheap bourbon.
Only cook with what you wouldn’t drink. My wife occasionally uses one of my good beers without asking.
Nope. I cook with what I would drink. Few things elevate a good chili as much as a good smoked beer being added.
*checks copy of Chilitsgebot*
Beer is an acceptable ingredient.
The nerve of this woman…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighs in on former President Trump’s handling of sensitive documents and why she hopes the DOJ will hold Trump accountable.
Literally everything she says is the inverse of reality.
If Trump doesn’t respond “What difference, at this point, does it make?” (or better, just WDATPDIM), I will be disappoint.
Newest rally song to dad-dance to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOx8TyvUmI
Putin will give his speech between 2 and 3 am ET this morning.
Wonder what NATO gave him…
I read it was originally scheduled for 1700 UTC. Something significant must have happened to delay it. I’m guessing an update with China though rather than NATO.
I think it will be Russia formally declaring war on Ukraine and going full mobilization. The Luhansk and Donetz regions will be recognized as independent countries.
I’m guessing the second. Although maybe as some kind of Russian quasi-republic thing – there have been reports of annexation type activity in Eastern Ukraine by the Russians (grain of salt, of course).
I’ll be a little surprised if he goes all the way to full mobilization.
I don’t know what full mobilization gets him. Their problems are (a) logistics and (b) leadership. Piling up more troops that can’t be moved or supplied, to be commanded by the same people overseeing the current clusterhump, doesn’t seem like a step forward.
From what I’ve read, Russia has been using a fraction of their military strength and taken pains to avoid civilian causalities. For just one example, look how fast the US hit the power grid in Iraq compared to Russia avoiding doing so until last week after months of fighting. They’ve had logistics fuck-ups, but the whole narrative of their invasion of Kiev being blocked and forced into retreat is MSM fiction. Ukraine is lost. They can either capitulate and agree to keep NATO nukes out or eventually Russia will stop fighting with one arm tied behind their back and turn the country to dust.
The US objective is to bleed Russia and loot American taxpayers as much as possible before Ukraine inevitably falls. We’re pouring weapons into Ukraine right now, including long range ones capable of hitting Russian targets. Russia’s had enough of the US interference and is going to end this before we can escalate further. That’s my view on my why they would go full mobilization. No morality about what’s right or wrong… just national strategic interests.
I think Russia’s “short victorious war” died on the road to Kiev last spring – why would they have made such a major push (i still think it was the schewrpunkt) if they weren’t planning to take Kiev? I think if they could have pushed further since then, they would have. I think what we are seeing is pretty much what they are capable of – why would they grind it out like this? I think they avoided hitting civilian infrastructure because they were planning on keeping what they conquered and didn’t want to have to rebuild it.
Absent massive Western aid, Ukraine was doomed. But they got the aid, and now the war is stalemated (at best, if you’re Russian). Could Russia still win? Six months ago, I would have said absolutely. Now, I really don’t know. Much turns on what counts as winning, I suppose. And maybe that’s Putin’s game now – formalize the annexation of Donetsk and Luhansk, shift to defense, and call it a victory. Maybe his best option at this point.
But trying to triangulate some approximation of the truth from two competing propaganda streams is a dicey business, so who knows?
We’ll see how it plays out. I think the Kiev push was a feint to occupy Ukrainian troops while Russia began their advances in the East and South. It’s notable that the Russian troops pulled back from Kiev and weren’t pushed back. Contrast that with America’s rout from Kabul. Yet despite America being publicly routed by third world tribesman armed with AKs, there is no serious question that our military could have ground Kabul and the entire country of Afghanistan into dust if we chose too. Just because we didn’t doesn’t mean we couldn’t. I think the same applies to Russia. But we’ll see. This winter if Russia does mobilize.
I agree that Kiev was a feint.
An awfully big feint, but certainly possible. The attempt to take the airport with airborne troops isn’t something you do as part of a feint, because if you don’t push your ground troops to the airport, you have thrown those airborne units away, intentionally and by plan, and I don’t think Russia would do that. I also don’t think Putin’s firing and generally meddling with his general staff is something you would see following a successful strategic feint at Kiev. I like the explanation of the opening phase of this war as: the penny-packet attacks in the traditionally contested east were holding attacks to keep reinforcements from going to Kiev, and the main assault was intended to be Kiev to end the war early. I suspect that what actually opened up for Russia as the Ukes fought in the east was the southern corridor, which they took advantage of.
If Kiev wasn’t a feint, but rather Moscow’s attempt at a short victorious war, then pulling back would make sense once it failed. And it did fail, I think; they simply could not move enough troops to the front in Kiev to make a go of it, since they were confined to a very narrow logistics corridor, and one that relied on trucks and roads rather than railways. All across the war, Russia has shown real weakness when they get very far from a railhead. Once they bogged down and couldn’t take Kiev, they really had no option but to pull back.
As always, see above re: propaganda and grains of salt.
Their parliaments are petitioning to become part of Russia, supposedly.
If they become Russian territory, then “full mobilization” conscripts can be used to fight the Ukes there without (formal) full mobilization. But, see above.
Actual for real political violence inspired by people who will never be held accountable. Man Admits to Killing Teen He Claimed Was ‘Republican Extremist’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/20/nolte-man-admits-killing-teen-member-of-republican-extremist-group/
Leftists are guilty of everything they accuse the opposition of. ///Progjection
The check is in the mail.
/Joe
No it isn’t.
Yes, this is a Nazi salute, at a Doug Mastriano campaign event in Pennsylvania. In 2022.
Democracy is literally on the ballot in November.
You are literally a moron.
Democracy is literally on the ballot in November.
*checks sample AZ ballot received recently*
Not in Arizona, its not. Just candidates, and some resolutions I can’t be arsed to read before I vote no.
Any arm raised with open palm is now a Nazi salute?
High fives are racist now.
If it fits the narrative they are building, then yes.
“Oregon mom fails to change woke new state law that will put period products in girls AND boys’ school bathrooms for students as young as FIVE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11231105/OR-mom-fails-change-new-state-law-period-products-girls-boys-bathrooms.html
Five?
Maybe they identify as five.
Pwnd.
Ok this is amazing. Don Lemon brings up the need for slave reparations from the royal family. His guest says, yes, people should be demanding reparations… from the African leaders who sold them into slavery.
LOLOLOL
His reaction at the end was beautiful.
What a buffoon.
“Lena Dunham turns heads in a strapless dress and packs on the PDA with husband Luis Felber at the UK premiere of her new film Catherine Called Birdy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11232085/Lena-Dunham-packs-PDA-husband-Luis-Felber-premiere-Catherine-Called-Birdy.html
No.
Turns heads away would be my guess. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but there are few creatures in this world that only God and a mother could fathom their sight.
She hasn’t always looked awful. Sometimes she’s had a cute-ish Laurie Metcalf kinda look. But this is someone who admits to molesting her younger sister, so…
Are you listening to yourself?
Eh?
OK, to rephrase: If she is monstrous, it’s better warning for the public that she looks that way.
There is probably a way to make her more presentable than the completely wrong outfit she’s got on there.
Burka?
I would wear this, but this was a few years and a hundred pounds ago.
https://cdn-02.independent.ie/incoming/article36471171.ece/8c4ff/AUTOCROP/w620/GettyImages-634812938.jpg
I’m sure you could find a three piece suit and purple shirt that fits. I mean they’ll make them for my fat ass…
I just dig the ruffled shawl thingy, sheesh.
Are you sure this is Lena Dunham?
Lena Dunham turns heads
Away. In horror.
Stomachs, not heads.
Ugh just keep scrolling down… these people are so up their own assholes.
***Dry heaves***
I don’t understand her popularity with the taste-makers. It seems like some people believe they are sophisticated because they like something that’s actually awful and that the rubes just don’t understand. Like IPAs.
“Teen girl, 14, develops allergy to WATER that makes getting wet feel like ‘being doused in gasoline and set on fire’ – and can’t even CRY without erupting in angry red rash
An allergy to water is extremely rare, with only about 100 people — or less than one-in-230 million — thought to be affected worldwide. There is no cure, and experts warn flare-ups could be fatal if they become too severe.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11231909/Teen-girl-14-develops-allergy-WATER-makes-getting-wet-feel-like-set-fire.html
How is that even possible?
It isn’t. She’s a spooner.
Spooner?
Me neither.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E16/804035
It refers to the number of “spoons of energy” a person has. A healthy person has unlimited spoons, while a person with cancer, say, only has one or two. It is a shitty thing, but here is a good piece about the phenomena: https://www.commonsense.news/p/hurts-so-good
Oh right, that.
My niece has POTS. My brother took her to the Mayo Clinic and they couldn’t help her. It was their last resort.
Granite Grok, a conservative news outlet in NH, says a loyal reader sent them this video.
Damn.
Good video.
That was great.
🔥🔥🔥
Interesting tidbit here is that Obamacare requires that insurance companies pay for “gender affirming” treatment. https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392
That goes a long way toward explaining why we see so much of this trans stuff now. Classic Bootleggers and Baptists.
There are a handful of things other countries are starting to backpedal on. The trans stuff and vaccines for kids come to mind. But not the US, there’s too much money involved.
NH Judge rules in Manchester School District case
A Hillsborough Superior Court judge has dismissed the lawsuit brought by a Manchester mother who says the school district’s transgender policy is interfering with her rights as a parent, with the judge ruling the mother’s rights as a parent are “not absolute.”
Judge Amy Messer ruled the Manchester School District’s policy directing teachers and staff not to fully and accurately inform parents about their child’s expressed gender identity is fine. Messer ruled parents ultimately do not have the right to direct how their children are to be educated in public schools.
“(T)he right to make decisions about the care, custody, and control of one’s child is not absolute,” Messer wrote.
The mother, who filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym Jane Doe, stated in her original complaint that she found out in fall 2021 that her child was using a different pronoun and gender identity at school. The name of the school was withheld in court documents to protect the child’s identity.
“Now tug your forelock, vassal!”
Jesus.
This really needs to go up to SCOTUS.
It’s fucking outrageous.
PSICA
Rolling around under the Element for the past couple of days. The bottom looks surprisingly good; zero evidence of rust, no sign of being crashed or excessively abused. Somebody whacked one of the mufflers on a rock at some point, I’d say. That just goes with the scratches on the sides from driving through the underbrush. Changed fluids in diff and transmission. Who knows when that was done last (at the factory, maybe). The substance which came out of the transmission smelled really really good. Maybe it will shift into first a little better, but I think the first gear synchro is shot.
Putting the new serpentine belt on was an epic struggle. It’s rather cramped in there. Confidence level rising. It could use a set of ball joints, I think, but that will have to wait.
I miss my Element. We had kids and two back seats weren’t going to cut it. No, not a stylish vehicle, but very practical and comfortable to drive. It was also a tank in the snow.
*Not a Russian tank, like a good one.
*deletes comment about being towed by a tractor*
“Up to”
General Motors has agreed to sell up to 175,000 electric vehicles to Hertz Global
over the next five years, the companies announced Tuesday.
The deal calls for GM to start supplying electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV to the rental car giant starting the first quarter of next year. Those vehicles are expected to be followed by newer EV models on the company’s Ultium battery technology, such as the Chevrolet Blazer, Chevrolet Equinox and vehicles from GM’s other brands.
GM is expected to significantly increase its production of all-electric vehicles in the coming years, as North American output of the cars and trucks — as well as the battery cells used to power them — increases. The company plans to reach production capability of 1 million EVs in North America and China, each, by 2025.
Makes for a good “try it before you buy it” option.
We’ll see how many cars Hertz actually takes delivery of.
And how many people they have incorrectly arrested.
Why didn’t that link work? I don’t know. I evn checked it.
Hertz link
And Hertz will dump them just before they need a battery change that costs more than the vehicle.
And Hertz will dump them just before they need a battery change that costs more than the vehicle.
Hertz won’t hold onto them that long.
Would you be surprised to know that the American patriots who fought and died in the Revolution were doing it in order for future generations to be forced to sacrifice their labor and earnings for the whims of others? That’s what an environmentalist and open space advocate wrote in our local newsrag as a take down of me for standing up at a meeting and questioning why our township’s voters should pass a tax referendum (increase of 10% for at least next thirty years) on us for a new park that residents of at least five surrounding townships would use but not have to pay for. Of course, the letter writer doesn’t even live in our township! Gee, I guess I never realized that the Founding Fathers and the Patriots weren’t really upset about Parliament levying taxes on the colonies. Maybe they were just pissed that King George and Lord North hadn’t created enough bike trails?
Too local?
JK, that is outrageous. Bike trails FTW. We have a perfectly good bike/pedestrian path running alongside the two major county roads here, but you will never see a bicycle there. It’s far more entertaining for the cyclists to flip the bird at motorists passing them on narrow two-lane roads at 50 mph. That was money well spent.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/09/tiktok-sleepy-chicken-recipe-using-nyquil-is-a-bad-idea-fda.html
L O L !
Paging Dr. Darwin – will Dr. Charles Darwin pick up the white courtesy phone, please.
Will the drugs fall out Charles Darwin’s ass?
Along with a bottle of Chivas Beagle.
*Trades for Swissy’s Kirschwasser*
This seems familiar
Abolish the FDA.
I won’t bother linking, but I was just reading a thing at Politico (probably) about Liz Cheney and about how the Democrats pretty much can’t wait to cut her loose as soon as her usefulness is gone. Did anybody ever seriously think Democrats were going to vote for her? For President? For anything?
As soon as she no longer is something to hit Trump over the head with, she’s headed for the last roundup.
Anyone who believed she was anything other than a useful tool to the D’s is a drooling moron.
I’m including Liz and her team there.
Little piggy goes to market.
They’re gonna drag her back out during the Desantis campaign.
Yep goal is to start with maga and then eventually around Oct say all registered Republicans are no different. She will bear the torch in hopes she won’t get lined up
I am sure Cali will find a way to screw this up…
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fcalifornia%2Fstory%2F2022-09-19%2Fmarijuana-law-california-employment-firing-hiring
California workers won’t have to worry about being fired, or not hired, for off-the-clock marijuana use
Tag close fail.
The downside of using Schwab for both my checking and investment accounts is that see the latter when I log in to do something with the former.
To think I was contemplating possible early retirement a few years back…
(I’ll still recommend the checking account – it’s great; unlimited ATM cash-back, no foreign transaction fees for overseas ATMs)
The markets are on quite a tear in the last couple of weeks. The morning news said down something like 7.5 percent in the last 30 days. Great.
Bogleheads is always soothing.
I’ll note that I’m _not_ retired, but having “just retired” is worst-case scenario for a major market downturn.
If those people can deal, I can deal – retirement is still years away.
Texas judge rules that people under felony indictment have the right to buy guns under the Second Amendment
Now move to people who have done their time also.
step by step
Gonna get to you, Kinnath
Ewww.
A better step.
Fuck yeah, it is.
Dig this.
Dig this.
Tundra, I wanted to listen to the vids, but …so busy
rhywun, you could have gone with industrial and still gone with the step theme.
Another step
Nice!
A few more steps
Gimme three steps.
First step, ask Kinnath out and treat him like a lady
Amazing to think the man who played Sgt Lipton was in that group.
A former police chief for the town I live in said he thought the prohibition of felons owning firearms was unconstitutional. He told legislators from the town that they needed to fix the state law to repeal the prohibition. I don’t know if he said anything to the state’s Federal legislators.
Nothing else happened.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://youtu.be/b2SJX6YP948
Hah!
I love the translations.
I made my spicy-hot tuna fish, and it’s more hot than tuna, egg, and cheese combined. I may have to throw some more in there.
“tuna, egg, and cheese combined”
Is this something fried?
No.
canned tuna fish
extra sharp cheddar, grated
hard-boiled egg, sliced or grated
white onion, diced
mayo
paprika
chili powder
cayenne pepper
black pepper
parsley flakes
salt
all to taste
mix well, refrigerate, serve with Wheat Thins
I make it in huge batches, so I mix mine with my hand mixer.
I saved this earlier but I am still afraid of the tune/cheddar combination. It seems really wrong.
Gilmored
If you leave out the mayo, the egg is raw, then roll in bread crumbs and fry it, that might be good.
I have always had tuna salad/sandwiches/melts with cheese.
I replace the egg with pickles and celery.
I’m confused. Are you willing to share the recipes?
If you leave out the mayo, the egg is raw, then roll in bread crumbs and fry it, that might be good.