The AZ senate race is getting serious.
This is my review of Two Brothers Quad Radical:
News of a poll of millennials likely voters was made public earlier this week with a slightly surprising result. The statewide races in AZ are all within the margin of error. The cynical response of course was the poll was skewed to overstate support for team blue being a CBS poll, so it’s probably much closer than it appears.
The reason it seems surprising has to do with the sheer volume of non-stop ads I get to watch in AZ. For good reason, Kelly has a ton of money from out of state to burn. The guy dropped nearly $30 million over the past 5 years telling everyone in the state who to hate, and barely has a statistical tie to show for it. Most of the propaganda either prop ps up Kelly or provides free advertising on Masters’ views. Oh he wants to end social security, he thinks every war since the Civil War is immoral war of choice? As if I’m supposed to be offended by either position….the thing is once you account for his distaste for Mexicans, Masters isn’t terribly removed from anyone here.
Which brings me to this:
The fun part is the Lake campaign also piled on. Regardless of the outcome of this race it is clear Mark Kelly is finished. As you can plainly see, he is here depicted as the soyjack, or perhaps in his case soystronaut. Where his opponent is clearly the Chad. Attempts at furthering his political career by suggesting otherwise is clearly a lost cause.
Edit: I wrote this …before the debate.
This is no beer for soyboy. Coming in at 10% abv with portions of the beer aged in bourbon barrels, and the addition of rum soaked fruit this is probably not something to drink outside on a hot day. Turns out I did it anyways. Quads being a complex Belgian style popularized by Trappist monks and the Belgian government outlawing distilled spirits in the past, this lives up to it. Just don’t do what I did and sweat off a bunch of these. Two Brothers Quad Radical: 4.1/5
Now that sounds like a great beer,
and its cold today, perfect weather
Cheers!
Latest poll average for OH’s Senate race at FiveThirtyEight has the D up by 1.6%. Neither candidate is an incumbent. I am decidedly underwhelmed by the R, J.D. Vance. Will probably hold my nose and vote for him, for all the good it may do. 😑
I wonder how their polls skew. They’ve got evil! and dangerous! Zeldin down to Governor Kathy Accident by a zillion points when I just heard a poll yesterday has her up by like two points.
I’ve been sick of the commercials for weeks. I miss the brief time when for some reason Hulu thought I was in New Mexico and was showing me senate commercials from tehre.
A 4.1 score? That is high praise indeed. I will look for this, but probably unsuccessfully.
Exactly what I was thinking. Mexi is very stingy with the ratings, so anything above 4 is worth checking out for sure!
I think I told my Two Brothers story before, but didnt mention it was them. When they started, they couldnt find a distributor who would take them, so they started their own. When they tried to renew their license, Illinois was like, oops, you cant have both, we shouldnt have given you that. So they sold the distributorship to their wives.
+1 creativity
This is no beer for soyboy. Coming in at 10% abv with portions of the beer aged in bourbon barrels, and the addition of rum soaked fruit this is probably not something to drink outside on a hot day. Turns out I did it anyways. Quads being a complex Belgian style popularized by Trappist monks and the Belgian government outlawing distilled spirits in the past, this lives up to it. Just don’t do what I did and sweat off a bunch of these. Two Brothers Quad Radical: 4.1/5
Sounds delicious. I think I’ll need some after today.
Haven’t had a good quad in a hot minute (do have a few Delirium Nocturnes left though) – looking forward to a Blonde or two this afternoon.
I’m sure Q has you covered
🙏
*takes notes*
1. Drink in the heat
2. Exercise
Got it. Thanks.
Um….
…yeah
@Fish, re reverse harem romance, I didn’t want to say too much yesterday on Twitter because my romance peeps follow me, but I tried to write one of those once and found it icky. I don’t know how you have more than one “alpha” male (usually 3-5) lusting after one heroine and they can still be considered “alpha,” when they’re really just cucks. My idea was good, but it was just too much ick.
Alpha Cuck seems to be the most sought after fraternity on every college campus.
No worries – it was more about the copycat phenomenon of picking one new things (or old thing – ie. Arabian Nights) and everyone cookie-cutting it for virtue points at the same time.
$$$$$.
RH romance is extremely popular, and I could have made a killing, but chose not to write icky things.
YA is super popular with most romance-reading women (not me; I generally don’t like teenage angst or love triangles), and they likely never think about Arabian nights or if they have, not know any one individual story. It’s a rich field to plow.
My first book is a Hamlet retelling. Second book, “The Gift of the Magi.” Third book, the New Testament gospels, i.e., Easter story. I’m working on Cinderella/fairy godmother, Krampus/Santa. So I have no problem with retellings or riffs.
Shakespeare himself was an IP thief. He just knew how to make the stories popular.
It’s a rich field to plow.
Giggity.
Heh. You never disappoint.
My adolescent sense of humor keeps me young.
My issue with the original tweet is that he called the “crappy” without indicating that he had read any of them.
Women’s literature/books written by women, especially romance, is constantly denegrated by men, and libertarian/conservative men are the worst doing it.
If you’re gonna call something crappy, read the fucking thing first.
It’s one thing for me to say, RH is icky, i.e., “I don’t like it”. It’s another thing for me to say “They’re crappily written.”
Now you’ve got me wondering about the household dynamics within a polygynous house.
Assuming one household rather than having a separate house for each wife (but probably at least a separate room) what sort of dynamics can be expected between these ladies, and to what extent does the husband’s distribution of affactions have an impact (if any).
I guess you’d have to watch Sister Wives to find out, but I’ve long suspected that at least in Mormon polygamy, some wives may not mind and/or even have a cover for any lesbian relationships they may have. I’m absolutely certain there had to be some amount of it within large polygamous families.
Not my genre of TV, I guess I’ll go back to writing whatever it was I was working on. Ah, ‘Drunk Clergyman Investigates’
The attack ads against Ron Johnson make it sound like he holds better positions than he does. If what they espouse he believes is actually the way he voted in the senate I’d vote for him.
Unfortunately doesn’t look like there is anyone for me to vote for on the senate ticket. The third party guy is unhinged as well: Holding trump accountable for his crimes . Especially the attack on our country by his followers and his ignoring the pandemic. trump is responsible for the deaths of many people
He’s been on Kudlow a lot on FNC the last few weeks – seems reasonable but he’s not in my state.
He talks a big game, but like all the others he is a statist TEAM guy and that is it. He led the charge to get rid of Obama care, don’tcha know. Good thing we got rid of that when the Rs controlled both houses and the exec…
Wasn’t it the perfidious [spits] McCain who torpedoed that?
Yup. If I recall correctly, that was the infamous thumbs down incident.
Johnson is the only one seriously talking about going after the CDC/NIH/FDA et al over the vaccines.
That alone is reason enough to vote for him.
and that is all he’ll ever do.
He’s held hearings to the extent that it is possible. It’s worth reviewing.
I feel the same way about Christine Drazan and Skarlatos.
If only team red was as awesome aa team blue wants me to think they are.
Yeah, where are these incredible go-getting R’s who are repealing progressive laws left and right?
The ones in the House, by and large, are not even pushing back on actions that could lead to nuclear war.
From Powerline’s Week In Pictures:
As someone who’s been studying French for the past year, I support this message:
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(and WTF, German?)
Four grammatical cases, three genders plus plural (which takes the same article regardless of gender).
Wait until you learn that adjectives are declined differently based on whether they’re preceded by a definite article (or some of the possessive pronouns), an indefinite article (or other of the possessive pronouns), or none at all.
Yeah, that’s nice of them.
The Germans have a long way to go. Fortunately I don’t have to enact my labor for them.
Also, this took me _way_ too long to get:
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You must fear the Reaper.
Or Joan Crawford
*violently strikes cowbell*
Godzilla has a sad.
Getting the government or their contractors influence good and hard. Waiting an eternity for lunch at the space center…
Keep an eye out for SPACE SMITH
We decided to try to watch the launch tonight. Between my in-laws and a for year old I may be regretting it later.
My Alma mater Oklahoma State University is taking on Texas Tech in about half an hour.
Neither school is a national powerhouse in NCAAF but they both crank out individual players who stand out and make it big in the NFL later.
Texas Tech produces more engineers in the oddball specialty of pulsed powe engineering, so I work with a few Texas Tech grads and have been talking smack to them this week. I hope the Pokes (Oklahoma State Cowboys are known as Cowpokes or Pokes so as to distinguish them from the loathsome Dallas Cowboys NFL team.) will prevail!!
I didn’t know you were a Tosu fan. 🙁
That’s why my cat is Black with Orange eyes!!
Fun fact: Ok State and Texas Tech both have mascots who carry firearms: Pistol Pete and the Red Raiders.
May it ever be thus.
‘red raiders’ /instantly explodes the heads of all progs
See: “Mahomes, Patrick”
That Barry Sanders guy wasn’t shabby either.
The stock market is way down. Traditionally, that’d be a perfect time to buy some undervalued stocks and holds them til the market “inevitably” bounces back up.
But now I am concerned that the US has fucked itself (or, rather fucked it’s goose that lays the golden eggs) that it might never bounce back.
I’m going to be coming into a small pile of cash soon as part of my relocation deal to Nevada (1 year employment anniversary) and I have no idea what the wisest thing to do with it is, so for now, it’s going into savings/rainy day fund.
I have to buy a new kitchen fridge/freezer because the expensive General Electric one runs on R600 (propane) and has already corroded due to condensation, the inverter and compressor have crapped out, and it’s good for nothing. Home Depot sent a repair guy out who diagnosed it but said they don’t work on Propane fridges because of the potential danger and the legal requirement to bring in a hose and draw the propane off into the yard.
So I called GE and they sent out a guy Thursday who took one look at it and said “Nope, we don’t do propane systems.”
GE insists they won’t refund or credit us until a repairman says it’s “irreparable”. Technically it can be repaired, but no one will do it, and the repair guy from Home Depot says it will just happen again.
Lessons:
General Electric sucks.
Propane refrigerant (R600) sucks.
EPA sucks for pushing the market to R600 “for the environment.”
Talk about old fashioned tech, how is that legal?
R600 is now the norm because it is considered friendly to the Ozone and also is low carbon.
R134a is also ozone friendly but not considered carbon friendly, so they are out there but more expensive than the R600 (propane) ones.
Just fucking let us have Freon again, ok?!?
I’m going to be coming into a small pile of cash soon as part of my relocation deal to Nevada (1 year employment anniversary) and I have no idea what the wisest thing to do with it is
Hookers and blow, of course.
GE Appliances is owned by Haier.
I made a thing.
It’s fall, y’all
Rickrolled!
I was going to put a cross-stitch “come back with a warrant” in the middle, but you can see it’s a bit overstuffed.
Be sure to leave room in your Christmas wreath.
I think I’ll just hang it on my door.
“AM I BEING DETAINED?” is appropriate year-round.
That goes on a car.
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Sorry, I literally can’t vent anywhere else.
Dude, I am so sorry. Police? Charges? Lawsuit?
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And this is the best Powerline meme for the week.
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Carl Fukishima… his reactor made quite a spill in Japan. He led an amazing life, what else can you say?
Fuuuuuck. I am so sorry to hear that. Damn that sucks. Go ahead and vent.
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Can you just … not tell them, since you’re not going to scorch her earth anyway?
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Yeah. That is heartbreaking. Damn. [Editor: personal information redacted at request of poster]
She said to me that she had made “egregious mistakes” a few weeks ago. I thought she was talking about not getting our books done on time and causing me to eat thousands in tax penalties. I had no idea.
Now I do.
So at least she feels guilty. Small consolation…
That’s enough venting. I think I’m just going to drink now.
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She’s lucky she has you for a sibling.
If one of my sibs had done that to (say) me and my wife, I’m not sure I’d want the law involved. It’s far too slow.
Same. I’d scorch the earth, but then I have been stolen from by a family member and I’m salty as all hell.
I’m really sorry, brother.
That’s terrible. Family betraying you is a stab in the back,
And the way you describe it, it’s irrational. She destroyed her future.
Holy crap! I take a break from the comments for two days, and Nerfherder gets the shaft! I am very sorry to hear it. You are dealing with this in a mature and sensible manner, and you are very much entitled to drink.
So sorry to hear that man.
This is terrible. So sorry for you and your parents.
Sorry.
I’m not asking for excruciating detail, but some true crime cinema would be great. POV cameras. Turn tragedy into very real reality TV money. This is 2008 and property values are only going up up up, my friend.
Piss off, you.
?
I’m sorry man, I was trying to inject some lev—
Nah, I was being a jerkass. I want the drama. It’s tragedy for you, for the spectators it’s material. And how! Come on, stand on the other side of it, this would be horribly, terribly entertaining. I won’t pretend to not be an asshole, but come on.
And Toxteth: [ ] You were looking after someone, and I can’t disrespect that. Good on you.
You and me, though, fists in the parking lot.
Good lord. That is terrible to hear. Glad you caught it but what a gigantic shit-show.
Scruff, I am so sorry to hear that. I have a friend who’s aunt pulled something similar with the the family matriarch, who she was in charge of care for. The issue was that the family house is now worth 100X what was paid, so she kept borrowing against it via power of attorney. And, of course, didn’t tell the family, who all knew the value now.
It really sucks when people you love and trust deeply betray you.
Damn, so sorry you have to deal with this.
Oh, SNerfy, I don’t know what else to say besides Fuuuuck!I’msosorry.
The Stars My Destination is remarkable. One can remark on it. One can probably have a much more edified experience with it than that with which I walked away, either time. It feels like a very depthy book, a lot of analogues (lol) that I don’t recognize. The last chapter describing synesthesia/time travel/transhumanism is (and typographically) interesting. It’s a helluva lot more interesting than what I read of C.S. Lewis’ space book. A lot less interesting than Harry Harrison’s books, though.
And I still hold that Bester was a commie.
Moved dirt for four hours. Now I am tired.
Im off work in 4 minutes, then its time golf and
Tall Cans!
Cheers🍻
Three hours prepping the bed and putting in the winter garden. Moved dirt yeah, but the hard thing was putting the entire thing into chicken proof netting. If I don’t, they tear up the ground and kill the young plants. Now for a beer and soak in the pool.
Winds have died because of a huge, deep low-pressure system north of the state. I hope something builds back because I have a race tomorrow.
Better get the orphans ready to be strapped to oars.
Winter garden? There are seasons there?
It is fall, y’all. Put a batch of cornbread in the oven. I wish I had ham and bean soup, but as I’m the only one who likes it, I don’t make it because I can’t eat a batch fast enough before it goes south.