Funny story…
I was trying to feed the glibertarians.com content monster when I discovered a way to make up for something that had been missing in my past submissions. On my “cheap rye is good” series, people kept recommending Dickel’s. But my local liquor store never had it — they occasionally had their bourbon, but never the rye. Then one day while I was restocking, I noticed, there in the rye section — a Dickel’s bottle! I snatched it up and took it home and did a tasting, with the following review:
Opening the bottle I get an immediate hit of honey. The nose is mild. Drinking it… ok, I think this is a good example about how you can be “primed” to think about certain things because after that honey experience, I’m tasting mainly yellow things. Like diacetyl, and… corn. Why am I tasting corn? Tasting now with some water, this is much better. I usually don’t say that one version is better than the other, it’s a different tasting/drinking experience that it mainly depends on what you’re in the mood for, but with this one I’m going to say that the opened drink is just better than straight from the bottle. It’s not just the “shape” of the flavor, I’m actually getting better flavors out of it. Interestingly I think you can tell something here about how the barrels were prepped. Usually you get both the caramel and the ashy flavors from wood, but here the ash is much more predominant. I can only guess that means the barrels had a deeper/more complete char than most? It’s tasty, I’m not sure it’s a rye. It’s definitely worth drinking, but I don’t like it as well as other bottom-shelf ryes like Old Granddad or Rittenhouse. The LLS didn’t have Rittenhouse in stock when I bought this so I can’t give you a value estimation since while this was more expensive than I was expecting, inflation is currently a thing.
So then I snapped a pic to have something to give the post visual appeal and actually looked at the bottle…
Dafuq is up with Apple’s phone lenses?
Well… that explains the whole tasting corn thing. At least I can be self-satisfied with my whole “not sure this is a rye” conclusion from earlier. So while I still haven’t found the elusive Dickel’s rye, I have discovered and easy to drink tasty cheap Tennessee whiskey. Honestly, I like this better than I remember liking Jack, though it’s been a while since I had some of that. I’m guessing another trip to the LLS is in order.
To First or not to First. I have never asked myself that.
Goofy bitches.
You also missed a May the First Be With You opportunity a few days ago, but that’s to be expected since you’re not very creative.
Do you know how many Firsts I have done over my lifetime? You people think you’ve come up with something clever and it was done like five years ago. You are wasting my god damn time!
Are you
threateningpromising to leave?There are times where I feel I need a better audience for my Firsts, but I follow the path of The Great Firster and he has led me here.
Pink Floyd sang about you: “you wear out your welcome with random precision”.
D’oh.
Great review, nevertheless. I could almost taste it, even at 10 in the morning!
These are the Topo’s I ended up getting:
https://www.topoathletic.com/mens-ultraventure-2?quantity=1&color=131
The people there recommended them because they were the closest to what I was used to running on.
So far they are fantastic.
Hah. I just got the same ones. I really like the additional cushioning. I’ve hiked a few times with them as well.
SPACE SMITH GO OFF TOPIC EARLY!!!?
I should ask my Jack Daniels-loving friend if he has tried this. I don’t love Jack Daniels. I prefer Irish Whiskey, but also indulge in some bourbons and ryes.
I wonder if anyone we know was there
Steve Kirsch is a tech entrepreneur who made hundreds of millions of dollars after founding an early search engine and helping invent the optical computer mouse.
Recently, he stood before a gathering of more than 250 lawyers in Atlanta while wearing a custom black T-shirt designed like a dictionary entry for the phrase “misinformation superspreader.”
“Our definition is it’s someone who’s basically pointing out the truth and it just happens to disagree with the mainstream narrative we’re known as misinformation spreaders, because what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to control the narrative,” Kirsch told NPR.
By “they,” Kirsch means a network of pharmaceutical companies, governments, doctors and journalists that he argues are covering up a pandemic-driven plot to poison the world for profit.
NPR: impartial, independent, honest.
It’s amazing to me that there are some 1st Amendment lawsuits out there, and they seem to be gaining traction. Yet at the same time our government, and other governments, are still going full speed ahead with censorship, and they’re doing so right in the open. More than anything else that keeps me awake at night.
There’s no evidence, NPR says so.
But if you claim COVID is killing millions, we’ll just take your word for it.
I tapped out there, my brain was hurting.
They had evidence. All those ticking numbers they displayed on the bottom of the TV screen 24/7 in 2020.
And just like war deaths, once a Dem was the President, no more need for counting.
The scientific consensus shows COVID vaccines are safe and significantly reduce the chances of death or serious illness. While many Americans may share a distrust of pharmaceutical companies and healthcare systems, there is no evidence of the kind of conspiracy alleged in these circles.
The “nobody I know” consensus.
Pharma companies directly contacting Twitter and asking to take down tweets that are factual, but might cause people to hesitate about vaccines, apparently does not count as evidence.
Because science is based on consensus.
If scientific consensus about the safety and efficacy of drugs can be reached this quickly, can we start adopting the same standards to other medications to speed up the FDA approval process allowing more life-saving medications to reach the market much more quickly and at a massively reduced cost to the end user as both their life and financial stability hang in the balance?
I’ll take my answer off air.
You going to Act-Up or something?
Pater Dean swears by Dickel. It doesn’t give heartburn like other whiskeys do. I keep meaning to try barrel aging some at home, but I would need to get a barrel for that.
You’d also have to be willing to pour bottles into the barrel rather than your glass. Imagine that struggle.
I guess you should have looked at the bottle first.
I’m glad I have never done that. (vaguely remembers buying 5-40w oil from Amazon instead of 15-40 because reading is hard)
I like rum better than whiskey, this is my current favorite:
https://curiada.com/products/smith-cross-traditional-jamaica-rum
I’m sure it’s wrong, but I like 2 shots in a Cherry Dr. Pepper.
Every time I look for rum cocktails, they seem too fruity, or too sour.
How would the experts here drink it?
I don’t know, I’d have to taste it first.
I recently acquired a bottle of rum made to the royal navy ration formula. But I still haven’t tried the bottle of white haitian rum I’ve had for a few years.
I’m not a rum drinker.
*shrug*
What flavor profiles are you looking for in your rum cocktail? Any likes/dislikes?
Uh… I like rum and coke… I currently like rum and cherry Dr. Pepper…. uh…
I don’t like fruity cocktails, that’s about the limit of knowledge to answer that question.
You could go the Mai Tai route (white rum, dark rum, orange liquor, lime juice, orgeat) if you want tropical, a mojito (mint, simple syrup, rum, lime juice, club soda) if you want something bright and summery, a dark and stormy (rum and ginger beer) for simplicity, a daiquiri (rum, lime juice, simple syrup) for traditional. You can also use rum in place of any of the other clear liquors (gin, vodka, tequila) as a one to one replacement. It’ll change the drink’s flavor profile, and some substitutions work better than others.
The dark and stormy sounds interesting, might tell my wife to grab me some ginger beer.
Ron Zacapa and sprite is better
If you’ve never had a traditional Daiquiri, you should try one. Try to get the image of frozen Strawberry Daiquiri sugar bombs from TGIFridays out of your head.
Same thing with margaritas. Just because the popular current expression of a drink is terrible, there’s usually something wonderful and delicious behind it.
The girlfriend has become interested in Hemingway Daiquiris.
Hemingway daiquiris are delicious.
They put it on the rye shelf!
I love funky Jamaican rums. Plantation 3 Stars is cheap and good. Terrific in classic Daiquiris, and I’ve been known to make a Rum & Tonic once in a while…
When someone makes a dramatic claim that vaccines are killing millions, it’s their burden to show the evidence, said Morris, not the other way around.
“They’re presuming that they have the entitlement that what they’re saying can be presumed to be true without them demonstrating rigorously that it’s true, and that it is the responsibility of society and the scientific community to prove them wrong. And if they fail to prove them wrong, or if they don’t show up, then they’re really offended. And then to them, that just proves their guilt. It proves the cover up,” he said.
And what about the people claiming the vaccines and other policies (like masks) are safe and EFFECTIVE? Do they have no obligation to support their claims with evidence? Why did they work so hard to eliminate any semblance of a control group?
It’s just more “I know you are, but what am I?” Peewee Herman School of Rhetoric deflection.
They took some Febreze and squirted it at a cloth mask and measured the particles that made it to the other side. It’s science.
When someone makes a dramatic claim that vaccines are killing millions, it’s their burden to show the evidence
When someone claims
gene therapiesare safe and effective it’s their burden to show the evidence.When someone claims a novel disease is killing millions it’s their burden to show the evidence.
Somehow missed the word “vaccines”. *sigh*
These reviews have been of cheap booze, because I need my money for turning into smoke and holes in paper. And as such I’ve discovered a whole lot of “hey this is pretty tasty!”
However, the day after I did this tasting, we had some high 40 degrees and drizzly weather — just perfect for drinking Scotch. So I poured a finger of Talisker 10 and it was amazing how much better that was than this. Double (maybe triple) the price? Yeah. Twice (or three times) as good? Also yeah.
I’ve found the sweet spot (for me) is about the mid-range, $30-50 bottles. There are outliers on both sides, but that range is in the good enough to drink neat/not too expensive to mix.
Just to verify, you mean 750mL bottles?
Correct. That would be for base spirits only, not mixers or accent liquors.
“just perfect for drinking Scotch.”
I’m sorry, but is there weather which is NOT perfect for drinking Scotch?
Yup. Hot conditions make me differently thirsty. Also direct sunlight,
Agreed, while I could drink whisk(e)y when it’s 100+ out with direct sunlight, I would much rather have a nice refreshing Tom Collins in such an environment.
I’m sure it’s wrong, but I like 2 shots in a Cherry Dr. Pepper.
Ow, my pancreas.
Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it, it’s really good.
https://www.ign.com/articles/babylon-5-animated-movie-announced-a-love-letter-to-the-fans
Has this been mentioned?
When is Babylon 6 going to be released?
I shudder imaging all the ways they may ruin it.
I saw that… I am… conflicted. There’s questions as to if this is a reboot, continuation, and if the live action reboot is still moving forward.
The B5 movies were… mixed.
Sorry – didn’t refresh before posting.
Who are you?
What do you want?
Rye?
I toured the Jack and Dickel distilleries some years back. The big difference was quality. Jack was mass produced. Some things I remember from the tour:
Dickel is aged in single story warehouses for even flavor, Jack’s are 6 stories.
Jack was pulled after a certain number of years and bottled. Dickel was aged at least 6 years, at that point they tested each barrel every year and pulled them when they were ready
Jack was filtered through 6 feet of charcoal, dickel was 12 ft
Dickel is some mighty fine Lickel.
I have no comment on their Rye though.
There’s all sorts of different aging and storage theories when it comes to whisk(e)y. There’s also the question of how much you’ll be losing to the devil’s cut (the liquor that is absorbed and kept by the barrel) and the angel’s share (the liquor that evaporates out of the barrels during aging).
Why does the height of the storage warehouse matter? Is it a temperature thing maybe?
Temperature, and more importantly, temperature variation. The more the temperature fluctuates, the more is lost to the angels and devils.
Jim Beam and Heavenly Hill distilleries both claim that the multiple levels help in improving the product. I asked the Jim Beam tour guide where the sweet spot was and he said outer edge, more than half way up was where they age the very best stuff. They use something like 12 level rick-houses; basically 6 stories.
I believe they said the temps in their houses can vary from 40 to 120 degrees on a single day. The larger batch stuff gets rotated to improve consistency.
Losing some to the angels and devil are a necessary part of the process for making the better stuff.
Temperature, humidity, both change with height inside a building. A shorter building is more consistant from layer to layer.
Also, for many years there were only 2 Tennessee sipping Whiskey’s in the world, Jack and Dickel. That’s not true now, but it was for a long time. Thier slogan through the 70’s was:
“If you only know Jack, you don’t know Dickel” and the ads featured Waylon Jennings.
I swear I don’t work for them, I just know a lot of useless information.
Sounds like you need some more Drinkin’ Buddies.
Don’t we all.
Pretty much all of the Heaven Hill brands are solid and at a good price point. Elijah Craig is more premium but not super expensive. I’ll keep buying from HH and hopefully they don’t pull a Bud Light stunt.
Words fail me…
https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1653799076641779712
BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment!
HEY
HEY
LOOK AT THIS GUY
HE DIDN’T EVEN READ THE COMMENTS
As long as you read my First, I’m ok with you, though.
When they animate Garibaldi, how much hair are they going to give him I wonder?
It should change from scene to scene without anyone commenting on it.
Along with his waist size.
I would hope they’re not going to try to recast the deceased cast members.
They just might to skinsuit the known libertarian of the show
Not recast, re-animate!
If they keep all the same characters, but have all the deceased actors’ characters stay silent, it’ll be a pretty quiet movie.
There is no crisis here.
Well, I have a comment in moderation because I am a dummy: https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1654119256814919681?cxt=HHwWgoCx6eeszvQtAAAA
Yeah that was thanks to First Republic.
It’s probably 90/10 PacWest is toast. But the Fed’s likely pause may give it a reprieve.
Don’t bank anywhere with “west” in the name…
You mean the one’s overseen by the SF Fed?
I’m shocked…
The Yellen legacy lives on.
This is the most brazenly obvious case of the Fed causing cartelization of banking into a small number of giant crony institutions imaginable. That thread is flooded with “only JPMC and it’s ilk are safe” bots. Once there are only 5 banks left, they’ll all issue a simultaneous statement on how we need to switch to a digital currency immediately. Obviously there are no downsides you Kulaks and wreckers!
Our business account was with Zions…we have sold our business and pulled our money from them weeks ago.
Dune: Part Two trailer is released. It looks good. Director says this is really meant to be watched in tandem with the first one as it’s really one long movie. My only real gripe with the first one was that it didn’t feel like a complete movie, even by modern franchise standards where things are cut up with the audience supposed to be fine with a product that in no way feels complete because they know it’s part of a trilogy or a sequel is coming. It just kind of ended.
Somehow, they made this thing cheaper than all of that crap Disney is pumping out for Marvel and Star Wars which need a billion to break even. How the fuck does an Indiana Jones movie with one big name actor end up needing a billion just to break even? How does something like The Flash movie need that much to break even and yet still look like cheap shit in the trailers?
I know a large part of it is the constant reshoots because they go in to making movies with no actual script or anything resembling a plan and just hope for the best, then show it to test audiences and just reshoot everything when it fails…but the modern Marvel and Star Wars crap often looks like cheap shit.
Don’t even get me started on that monstrosity Amazon produced that looks like a high school theater production compared to House Of The Dragon.
I thought the same. The first film felt very incomplete.
I also thought you’d be lost if you didn’t read the book. However since I read the book I can’t say that for sure.
The girlfriend was able to follow it without having read the book. But I was also there to provide context and answer questions.
I hadn’t read the book and my wife and I really liked the movie, but we were definitely hoping there would be a second one made.
I have since read the books and thought the movie did a good job of showing most of the story.
Wife hadn’t read the book and she enjoyed the movie. There may be some advantages in that you aren’t critiquing against what you read.
I can confirm. I never read the book. How did that fat guy fly away from the poison? Don’t know, there was no set-up. Why does anybody cast Zendaya? Don’t know, doesn’t make sense.
Her race is ambiguous and she is a good stand-in for multiple racial groups.
Also, popular with teenage girls.
She can’t act. It would be better if they just gave her a role where she was silent all the time.
The woman who played the role of Chani in the TV series was probably the best.
Give me 80’s Sean Young or give me death!
Agreed, but preferred her in Blade Runner.
Stripes.
“Give me 80’s Sean Young or give me death!”
Well, since giving you 80s Sean Young would violate the laws of physics, I guess death it is.
I don’t think she is terrible in the Spider Man series. Their take on MJ as a bumbling kind-of nerdy girl is interesting.
What, you’ve never seen a blimp?
. How did that fat guy fly away from the poison?
Baron Harkonnen is such a gross fat-ass that he wears a “suspensor” suit so he can move. He jacked up the settings on the suspensors to get away from the poison.
It’s a movie that felt too short at 2.5 hours.
I have never been one to begrudge long movie run times if something is well made. I know a lot of people strongly disagree there.
I haven’t read the books, but it seems like there is still a lot of material left to fit into one movie – even a long one. Three movies would have made sense, but may have been tough to get made. Was touch and go if they’d even do the follow-up.
Now THIS is what makes you a jackass.
Honestly though, Dune is the book I’ve reread more times than any, except maybe the Chronicles of Narnia.
Chronci-what?
I ended up reading most of them, even the one where the Emperor was an almost immortal sand worm but had no desire to continue after that.
Oh you missed one of the great pay-offs in literature. In the last book Duncan Idaho comes to the realization that someone [out there] understands the Holzmann Equation (which up to that point is merely reliable and impenetrably mysterious). Kind of like e=MC**2 is for us.
I loved the first and third book, but G E of D was such a slog I gave up.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (1 and 2) are the books I most enjoyed on reread. I don’t think I could reread the third, though, became a slog.
Ya hya chouhada!
I thought Dune was boring AF.
Temperature, and more importantly, temperature variation. The more the temperature fluctuates, the more is lost to the angels and devils.
Does anybody age their whiskey underground?
I know that there are breweries that barrel age beers in limestone caverns, and I would believe that some distilleries would also have access to something similar. There’s also a trend of doing coastal/boat aging along/on the oceans.
https://vinepair.com/articles/ocean-aged-whiskey/
With whiskey aging, temperature fluctuation is desired.
No we just rewrite them to satisfy our modern, delicate, and fucked sensibilities.
President Jill Biden: “All books should be in the library. All books. This is America. We don’t ban books.”
Like ZOMG I can’t even.
.@VP Harris: “There are literally — can you imagine, in this year of our lord, 2023, book bans. I mean, really, like, what? Book bans.”
Idk why Dems insist on having phonographic/pedophilic materials in grade school libraries.
Now do online “hate speech”.
Easy solution. Just take a copy of Mein Kampf or The Art of the Deal and place it in the elementary school library.
We’ll see if all books should be in the library.
And they insist on it because they truly don’t know how to draw the line on sexual behavior anymore. They’re incapable because they’re terrified of being called phobic.
I am sure we can also find the Anarchist Cookbook there too
Playboys next to the Highlights.
I have the RIGHT! to be able to read copies Big Jugs and Tight Tugs Magazine at the elementary school library, Fascist!
At the drag time reading circle!
I never could find my copy of Mein Kampf in my elementary school library.
Weren’t they just getting rid of Huck Finn and the like because of all the racial stereotypes?
The undertones are for this noble cause is all books they approve of should be in libraries. All unapproved books will be edited and redistributed once the offending language/idea/narrative is corrected.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
That’s different!
/loads up list of articles about books being edited to fit “modern tastes”
Ocean (boat) aged whiskey sounds interesting.
Not that I drink whiskey or any distilled spirits anymore.
Jefferson’s Ocean (a bourbon) is such a product.
I have yet to try this one, but Jefferson’s is probably the best $30 bottle of booze I’ve ever had.
I actually prefer the standard over the Select (+$25).
Jefferson’s Ocean is most excellent. I got a bottle at my retirement dinner.
Kelt Cognac does that as well… I like it.
https://keltcognac.com/
Wife hadn’t read the book and she enjoyed the movie. There may be some advantages in that you aren’t critiquing against what you read.
I think that’s true for a lot of page-to-screen movies. Having read the book is more hindrance than help.
Definitely agree. If I have a choice, it’s movie, then book.
Supposedly this Pratchett riff on Star Wars hasn’t been reprinted in 45 years, so maybe you nerds haven’t seen it.
Thank you. That is a piece that I haven’t seen before.
Yes, thank you!
The Walt Disney Company, Netflix, Comcast and other media giants lost more than a half-trillion dollars in market value last year, according to a report from the Financial Times.
In fact, the market value for the Dow Jones Media Titans (DJMT) index, a barometer of the financial health of 30 of the biggest media companies in the world, plunged from $1.35 trillion to $808 billion, a decline of about 40%.
In the before times, this would mean that heads would be on the chopping block left and right. That was when corporations actually prioritized making money more than politics and ESG scores.
Everybody is betting on Blackrock and Vanguard mutual fund money.
Problem is when Blackrock goes tits up, that money won’t be there and the woke corporations have forgotten how or are unwilling to service their customer base properly.
I’m waiting for the Bee to write about Disney hiring Dylan to star in some shows based on the great work he did for Bud Light.
It tells me that these companies are clearly operating with some knowledge about continued income from sources that will keep them by keeping them afloat for their correct behavior. It is literally impossible for all of these companies to sustain these losses and still have no signs of major course corrections. It worries me how little they seem to be worried, as if they know they have a golden parachute that the rest of us don’t know about.
***Reshapes tinfoil hat into mouse ears***
I think you underestimate the moral righteousness and quasi-religious fervor of the wokists.
Entertainment is going to lose a lot more value when we’re down to worrying about food, shelter and heat (or cool).
Entertainment with the correct “messaging” about how wise our benevolent leaders that is heavily subsidized by “financing” from companies with a direct line to the Fed’s money printer will become more important than ever when we’re worrying about food and shelter. Need to keep the plebs distracted with messages about the virtues of state mandated dieting and perpetual weather adaptability so they don’t remember back to those dangerous and oppressive times when people were comfortable and well fed at the expense of mother Gaia.
justice is served.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election.
A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, as the world watched on live TV.
It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Democratic President Joe Biden out of the White House at all costs. The charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Our collective nightmare is over. Hang the traitors.
It was a plot so dangerous and deadly that the Feds outnumbered its perpetrators and instead of stopping it before it went into motion, allowed it to play out in full. And actively encouraged on while it happened.
We found the conspiracy theorist.
Under the reach of seditious conspiracy, we aren’t safe here.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/politics/jared-wise-former-fbi-january-6/index.html
And ignore all the video you’ve seen of Ray Epps and what he said in those.
People have just been so gosh darn mean to that poor man. It’s downright tragic.
All of those shootings were terrifying.
The verdict comes after a trial that took more than twice as long as originally expected, slowed by bickering, mistrial motions and revelations of government informants in the group.
Should have rendered a “not guilty” verdict.
Securing the conviction of Tarrio, a high-profile leader who wasn’t at the riot itself, could embolden the Justice Department as a special counsel investigates Trump, including key aspects of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
They never needed the encouragement to try to take out their political opposition for a fake narrative and fake crimes.
Prosecutors told jurors the group viewed itself as “Trump’s army” and was prepared for “all-out war” to stop Biden from becoming president.
Fantastical tale is fantasy.
The backbone of the government’s case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that show the far-right extremist group peddling Trump’s false claims of a stolen election and trading fears over what would happen when Biden took office.
Unfounded conspiracies. The country has been way better off since Biden saved us from MAGA.
The notion that this is going to encourage the DOJ to go after Trump is ridiculous. They know as well as I do that if they put Trump in front of a DC jury for anything, they’d get a conviction.
All out, but completely unarmed, war. That’s a new one.
Wasn’t Tarrio an informant?
Yep. Even Pravda admits it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader-exclusive/exclusive-proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-informer-for-law-enforcement-idUSKBN29W1PE
The judge was basically functioning as a prosecutor. Clown world.
Nothing left to fix for government it would seem.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/feds-threat-catholic-hospital-funding-chapel-candle-could-ignite-legal-firestorm-attorneys-say
They have a real hard on for the Catholics it appears.
Progressives have always disliked the Catholics.
Which is dumb because just like minorities, they reliably vote Dem even as the Dems push policies that directly oppose their beliefs.
Father Coughlin didn’t like Progressives.
Toxic exposure
An ex-FBI official who allegedly urged rioters to “kill” officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was previously the supervisory special agent in charge of Homegrown Violent Extremism for the FBI New York Field Office’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News.
Jared Wise was arrested in Oregon this week, charged with four misdemeanor counts. After he entered the Capitol and exited through a broken window, an FBI affidavit alleges, Wise yelled at officers outside the Capitol.
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Several current and former law enforcement officials, along with military veterans and active members of the military, have been arrested in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. In an email sent to a top FBI official after the attack and obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, someone familiar with the bureau’s operations warned that many within the bureau were “sympathetic” to the mob.
That domestic terrorism stuff warped his mind. He deserves a big fat disability check.
“Wise yelled at officers outside the Capitol”
Oh. My. GOD!
NYT – Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/world/asia/bikini-atoll-resettlement-fund.html
$59 Million, Gone: How Bikini Atoll Leaders Blew Through U.S. Trust Fund
“With the fund virtually depleted, the council’s roughly 350 employees are no longer being paid. Monthly payments of about $150 each to the community’s 6,800 members — a vital lifeline that helped cover food and rent among a population with high rates of poverty — have ceased.”
So $59m / 6,800 / $150 equals roughly 58 months. So I have no idea how this could have happened in just about six years.
For Yusef:
Pro Disc Golfer Disqualified After Testing Negative For Cannabis
The verdict comes after a trial that took more than twice as long as originally expected, slowed by bickering, mistrial motions and revelations of government informants in the group.
That’s a longwinded way to say “prosecutorial misconduct”.
Not to fear, every one of those prosecutors will fail up!
Our “diplomats” keep preaching the good news of LGBTQ without regard to how it’s damaging our foreign relations.
https://twitter.com/ganaha_masako/status/1651643146147713024
Vandalism is the point.
I think I might prefer deep dish and pineapple to this ridiculous thing.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/tiktok-users-blast-chef-brooke-baevskys-2000-pizza/
The ingredient list is designed purely for virtue signaling excess.
And bless them for it, too. Rich people spending their money on $30 bottles of water and $1000 pizzas is a wonderful thing.
There was a beer on tap at a brewery out in Vegas called the High Roller btl. It was $250, and was barrel aged with caviar (from memory and the quick conversation I had with the bartender about it). They also had a waygu burger that came in an individual smoke box with the text that it was Instagram ready (with an over $100 price tag).
I stuck with some lager and some chips.
Yes, instead of buying $20 pizzas and stuffing $1980 in in money bin, rich person redistributed $2000 to the little people. Again demonstrates money doesn’t trickle down, it actually flows.
I’m just shocked that something on the Tikkity Tok was out of touch with reality. How could that happen?
fears over what would happen when Biden took office.
Unfounded. Without evidence.
Something tells me this story will not gain traction.
A student in Prince George’s County is lucky to be alive after a terrifying armed attack on a school bus.
Authorities are currently investigating the incident as an assault, but from what witnesses are saying, it sounds like attempted murder.
FOX 5’s Melanie Alnwick says it happened Monday afternoon on a Prince George’s County school bus. The driver stopped to let a student off at a stop by Iverson Mall when three teenage suspects wearing masks and hoodies pushed their way past the bus aide and began attacking another student.
Alnwick says one suspect pointed a gun at the boy’s chest and pulled the trigger, but the gun jammed. The bus aide said bullets fell to the floor.
The bus aide said bullets fell to the floor.
Wut?
Wanted, for questioning.
Mag being backwards was a nice touch.
Mag wasn’t seated properly when the slide was racked. Then it fell out along with the incorrectly chambered round.
Guns have achieved sentience, y’all. Be careful out there.
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1653957368517103618
HWFO drops some math:
https://twitter.com/Freakoutery/status/1654082560652091394
No, we’re all Americans, there are no differences between us! Stop with your identity-obsessed bigotry!!!
We can’t talk about that.
She’s a real peach…
Dude (aka, a Republican Tennessee state representative) specifically asked what was causing violence: sin, the breakdown of families, mental illness or guns. And I answered the fucking guns. Feel free to register your concerns with the hurt feelings department, Sean.
And by “peach” I mean cunte.
Entertainment is going to lose a lot more value when we’re down to worrying about food, shelter and heat (or cool).
But Hollywood escapism sustained the plebs during the Great Depression!
So Hollywood tells us.
Something just popped into my head for (nearly) no reason.
Remember the old saying, about athletes? “He’s got a million dollar arm, and a ten cent head.”
Well- “She’s got a million dollar ass, et c.” can be broadly applicable, as well.
Didn’t actresses used to get their legs or tits insured by Lloyds as a publicity stunt?
And this is why we can’t have nice things.
Very OT, but for those of you who read and enjoyed my pipe organ article — a dear friend works in cataloging at MSU library. She was told this afternoon there would be a ‘pipe organ slide rule’ waiting on her desk tomorrow morning for her to catalog.
I’m pretty sure I’ve clarified for her, and now you, what that might be. Organ pipes grow shorter as the pitch goes up, nominally halving in height at each octave. To preserve the tonal color of the stop, the cross sectional area must also reduce as pitch rises, but it almost never halves at the octave. There are a number of ‘standard’ scaling ratios, and a host of idiosyncratic ones as well. A properly set up slide rule would be a valuable tool for the pipe builder. I’m hoping for a picture 😉
My father collected slide rules, along with adding machines, and surveying instruments. I’m sure he would have been interested.
The largest he had one of these:
https://www.nzeldes.com/HOC/images/Thacher06_medium.jpg
I have the few ones that mean something to us.. like the one he used in high school and the one I was issued in 6th grade also the theodolite we/he picked up in portobello rd in London. I also have his telescopes.. used them for the eclipse in 2017… getting ready for the 2024 one.
Cool! And cool! What scopes, if I may ask?
Meade LX200 12″? and a pair of ETX90’s
Just registered for Iron Sight Nationals. I joined a squad with a couple of really nice people, though everyone in it is B class or higher. I find that trying to shoot at the pace of people better than me makes me sloppy, so I’ll have to be particularly disciplined.
My brother has always referred to good shooting requiring intense relaxation.
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There is a good looking, fit woman in my squad running a 1911. Unfortunately her husband will also be there and he’s a better shooter than I am.
I have two very short Rum reviews.
Rhum Barbancourt – Haitian White Rum. Can be summed up in three words “Feel the Burn”. Not much aroma. Both the taste and aftertaste are entirely alcohol burn. It’s not that good.
Pusser’s British Navy Rum – Supposedly the formula used for the Royal Navy Rum ration. Some aroma, no real distinct notes. Flavor – meh. You can drink it, but it’d probably work better in a mixer.
Mag wasn’t seated properly when the slide was racked. Then it fell out along with the incorrectly chambered round.
See? If you turn the gun 90 degrees the slide won’t fall out.
Good grief.
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