This celebration to the joys of capitalism is in the Zoo area.Β It is a fine time to find the finer things to buy.
Previously (Part One, Part Two) I covered by day trip to rural Germany and a side trip to Poland. Today’s Germany tale will be more urban.
When I woke up the day after my borderlands gambol, the sky was sleeting with a stiff wind blowing.Β THIS was much more like a winter day in Germany.Β I decided I was going to spend the day being more urban.Β Since I was having dinner with my son’s family I decided to do some shopping at the KaDeWe.Β This high end department store has been a Berlin fixture since the monarchy.Β The “Kaufhaus Des Westens” opened in 1907 as a store for the high end market and the German equivalent to Harrods, a function it still accomplishes in scale and scope today.Β It is a wonder to behold. Extreme luxury goods are on the ground floor and each floor is a shopping paradise with a great return policy, which is so not German.Β My trip to the store was for the 6th floor* which is the food and alcohol floor, and by that I mean the entire floor and all of high quality edible products, less the American breakfast cereals.
Kaufhaus des Westens deli. This is the proper area for all Glibs.Β Fine food, fine desserts (Very fine), fine alcohols, fine cigars, fine non-alcohol drinks.Β Let’s just call it fine.
While I was in liquor department the Dom Perignon rep was handing out free full size glasses of their champagne as tasters.Β Because of course, why not?Β This store is designed for those who buy DP as their casual breakfast champagne and buy the “good stuff” for their parties.Β (Various bottles available for 300 Euro and up)Β I was here to buy more cognac to return to the US with.Β I purchased a bottle my first full day in Berlin, but my son came over one night, I was trying to be a good host and you know how that goes.Β Anywhooo…..I was buying another bottle for my luggage since we would finish the original bottle before I left.Β I also stopped by the baked goods department and got various slices of cake for dinner. I got a mix of chocolate decadence, fresh fruit fancifuls, a citrusy delight.Β (My son was cooking so I was bringing dessert for the family and a slice to stash at my place for later with some Port.)Β Before leaving the floor I stopped by the Budwar area and got some goulash and a Budwar for lunch.Β Even the KaDeWe book department would make most US bookstores blush from embarrassment.Β (Not the Strand or Powell’s Books since they can hold their own against any bookstore on the planet.) I am told by others I know of the “shopping for entertainment” sex that the clothing, housewares, various potions and lotions, and other selections are wonderful.Β Since KaDeWe has no gun department I visited the 6th floor and nowhere else. If you are in Berlin I highly recommend making the KDW a stop on your itinerary.
On my way back I stopped at the Alexanderplatz Β to visit the Decathlon.Β Decathlon is a French sporting goods company that has stores in Germany and Italy as well.Β They sell pretty good equipment for very good prices.Β There is a very wide range of sports represented and you can get most “common” items for your sport of choice.Β If you require specialty items for a sport you probably need to go elsewhere.Β I stopped by the mountaineering area and they had ropes, harnesses, carabiners, cordage, shoes, basic protection, via ferratta equipment etc.Β If I required specialty direct aid items I would need to look elsewhere.Β I wandered over to the sailing area and they had sailing clothing, lifejackets, GPS units etc.Β There was no boat hardware which was fine.Β I was looking for sailing gloves since West Marine has been sold out for well over a year.Β Decathlon had several models, all of which were less expensive than even mail order in the US.Β Looking around further I ended buying a light weight rain jacket and pants, several pairs deck slippers, and a pair of sailing shorts.Β All of which in the US A were either out of stock forever, or much more expensive.Β The sailing shorts are quick drying, have securable pockets on the outside of the legs, and a reinforced bottom so they don’t quickly wear out.Β In the US they were running for $75-100 a pair and Decathlon had them for 25 Euro.Β While going to the checkout area I passed the skiing area (nordic, alpine, and ski mountaineering), theΒ Frisbee golf area and the boules area.Β Boules sports include bocce (Italian), lawn bowling (UK), petanque (French).Β All are very similar games.Β My Italian grandfather taught me bocci when I was a visiting Quarter Eagle and I have owned a petanque set since an earlier vacation in Corsica.Β It is a great activity to pursue since it is easy to drink while throwing heavy metal balls at objects. Β Β While perusing the petanque stuff I found an immediate impulse purchase- a magnet on a retractable line for picking up your balls without bending over.Β No more risk of spilling your alcohol. GENIUS!Β The nifty device and a pair of magnetic target balls went into my basket.Β The Decathlon had one last surprise for me at the checkout.Β There was a basket and you just throw in your items one at a time.Β The system required no scanning but totaled your purchases.Β I was skeptical but it worked as advertised.Β Β Now I had multiple shopping bags to deal with.Β At least the Germans don’t think they’ll save the planet by charging you for them.
No this is not the one I visited.Β For being barbarians they seem to have grokked the concept of a Roman bath pretty well.
Since it was still nasty weather outside I decided to drop my new stuff off at my AirBnb and take a sauna in a neighborhood establishment. Be careful when booking your walkup Airbnb is all I am saying.Β I have enjoyed saunas for decades and have been using German saunas since the 1980s so I knew what I was getting into.Β For those of you who haven’t been to a German sauna there are a few rules to follow: no clothes, sit/lie on a sauna towel, no speaking, and in most places only the staff may water down the sauna stones. Very in ordnung.Β After paying admission and an additional 1 Euro for a second towel I went to the changing room and found a locker and prepped.Β Strip, hang your clothes up, lock your locker and shower.Β Do not try getting past a German sauna attendant without thoroughly showering.Β The sauna was very traditional with no glass front and was kept around 88/90 Euro degrees. I spread out my towel in an open space and started my time.Β One nice feature in this sauna was that there were several 15 minute sandglasses so you didn’t have to estimate your time from repeated turns of a single sandglass.Β The other sauna bathers with me were of both sexes and equally nude.Β Several gave me a slight head nod which I returned but there was no conversation inside.Β I was a bit out of practice (saunas are not popular in Hawaii) so the 15 minutes seemed long.Β When the sand ran out I got up steeled my nerves for the cold water plunge.Β The water was refreshing but I did not submerge my head.Β There was a constant water flow, but this was in public so no, danke.Β I spread my other towel on a cool down recliner, got on, laid back and let my body steam.Β As I returned to normal temps my 15 minute cool down readily extended to 20 minutes.Β I showered, and did another cycle in the sauna.Β Midway through this cycle the sauna worker came said something in not English and dipped a single portion of eucalyptus water onto the stones.Β She quickly retreated and when the steam hit my skin my sweat rate shot up.Β Those last 5-6 minutes were a challenge until I retreated out the door.Β After my second cycle I felt very relaxed and rejuvenated.Β This was a smaller neighborhood sauna so the facility only had two saunas- one dry and one damp and a small bar.Β Large saunas are much more complex, featuring one or several pools, dining options, indoor and outdoor cooling off areas, and often petanque/table tennis areas and chess areas. It is very easy to spend all day there.Β All in all it was a 12 Euros well spent.Β If I was spending longer in Berlin I could have purchased a pass for a week/month/year and brought the cost per visit down.Β Later in my trip I had time during my Helsinki layover to visit a Finnish sauna.Β The biggest difference was the locals asked me in Finnish, then in English, where I was from.Β When I told them Hawaii it started a fun conversation and a woman offered me some champagne she kept in a special Finnish coozy.Β Cold champagne while in a sauna is a delight.
The surrounding fence is gone and yes, I most certainly did flip off Stalin’s memory here.
With my energy restored I decided to explore the neighborhood more.Β I bundled up, grabbed an umbrella and headed out.Β First I walked through the large park nearby.Β I circled up the Grosser Bunkerberg then across the Kleiner Bunkerberg to take the views in from the top. The skies were gay and dropping icy rain but the bare trees afforded some nice views of the central city area.Β Then I wandered down past some DDR era monument to the USSR and south to the large eastern road leading into the Alexanderplatz- the Karl-Marx Allee.Β The K-M, nee the Stalin Allee, figures prominently in several scenes from the comedy “Goodbye Lenin”.Β The road was the center of life in East Berlin during the DDR.Β It is very broad (89 meters) and a bit over two kilometers long. The Allee featured shopping, restaurants, a huge cinema, and apartments for favored people of the DDR.Β The best apartments were towards the Alexanderplatz end and the quality and size fell off the farther east you went.Β Until destalinization the then Stalin Allee featured a 5 meter tall bronze statue of the “Man of Steel” on top of a 3 meter tall plinth.Β In 1961 the USSR decided Uncle Joe needed to go so in one night he was removed and every sign in East Berlin that referred to “Stalin Allee” was replaced by “Karl-Marx Allee”.Β The statue was cut up under Stasi supervision and melted down for new statues.Β However part of the moustache and his left ear were spirited away and now are displayed in a nearby cafΓ©. The plinth border remains, and I made sure to flip it off as I went past.Β Since the city reunified a great deal of money has gone into stabilizing the fronts of the buildings along the K-M since DDR construction standards were much more USSR than German.Β All along the K-M there are a number of Soviet Realism buildings that remind the passerby of the Socialist vision of paradise.Β Farther along this road, after it reverts from Allee back to Strasse, there lies the museum in the former Stasi headquarters.Β Maybe a source of another story on another day.
There was no way I was going to miss seeing his ear.Β The cafe was Berlin “meh” so it was decent, but really I went to see the Man of Steel’s bronze ear.
Since it getting to midafternoon the sun was setting, though with the clouds and sleet the daylight was just being snuffed out. After all who needs daylight at 4pm?Β I dropped down into a nearby U-Bahn (subway) station.Β Soon I was back at my home base and it was time to prepare for dinner. The next day I had a different adventure on tap a bit north of Berlin.Β That will be in the next episode.
“gambol”
GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
Trusting that dbleagle is safe and secure from the Lahaina debacle.
I am fine since I am on Oahu. I know through sailing nine Lahaina families that lost their home and multiple pets. All their family members are accounted for.
The State is going to fuck up the recovery of Lahaina. The Guv, the idiot, racist, sexist Senator, the dumb Senator, plus multiple NGO’s are calling for the “new Lahaina” to be a model Net Zero city. This will slow down an already 10+ year rebuild timeline (up to 2200+ buildings destroyed) and drive up costs by high 5 to 6 digits per home. Plus the old funky aspects of Front Street will never return. Insurance and zoning will never permit it. It was nice to visit the Yacht Club, sit on an open grid patio and watch and listen to the surf under your feet while enjoying a sunset beverage. If you never visited Lahaina before today you’ll never know what is gone. The town was both a tourist trap along Front Street and a funky laid back vibe away from there.
From talking to first responders that I know, the death toll will be much higher. I am not sure if it is incompetence, a cover-up, or both behind the gov communications to date.
Lahaina was the tourist heart of the island. Maybe one dive/whale watching company survived. A friend who I was sailing with last weekend told me he is expecting an immediate 20+% drop to his business. (Tour/experience bookings for multiple airlines and hotels.) He says destroyed businesses owe him multiple $10,000 each because he had quarterly billing and this happened midway through a cycle.
But at least biden could put the loss in context. “No comment.” Now THAT is a true leader speaking.
That is so SMDH I can’t even.
Every time you think he couldn’t stoop lower.
Awful. In every way.
I’d be shocked if it wasn’t more than 20%. As long as non-essential travel is being discouraged and airlines/hotels are offering travel waivers and then as bookings fall off.
at least they managed to get Kamala to do the “our hearts are with those in Maui” or something like that. But Biden couldn’t even offer that much off the cuff? i wonder if he had any idea what the reporter was even asking him.
“They haven’t told me what to say.”/Commander in Chief
Nice.
I had a great time in Berlin, ca. 1986.
Highlights included downing some beers, shooting some pool, making some friends. Sehr gemΓΌtlich.
Thanks dbleagle, a far cry from the Germany I knew 65 years ago. 35 pfennigs for a glass of local, 50 for a 1/2 liter mug. 4 marks @ a buck.
I bet we haven’t seen the last of Marks and Pfennigs. Even Deutschland will probably get tired of the rest of the Eastern Hemisphere’s shit at some point.
a woman offered me some champagne she kept in a special Finnish coozy.
These euphemisms.
Thanks dbleagle! I like your travelogue.
I remember going to a six story toy store in Hamburg when I was… 11, I think? Anyway, just a metric F-ton of cool, weird, and fabulous toys: Z scale trains, Steiff plushies, books of all sorts, and so on. Definately a high point of that trip for a yungun.
The wife and I have been in talks for a big blow-out trip, and I keep nudging towards Berlin. But she lived in Germany for a while as an… exchange student? or something, in collage and is reluctant to go back.
You could always visit Bavaria. Any “proper” German will tell you it is the most German of the other countries.
Lots to see. More good beir scattered everywhere than even Mex can rate in a decade. From where I lived in deepest, darkest Bavaria, Italy was only an hour away.
One other possibility is Austria. I have a good friend who was born in Vienna, and is half-Austrain (mother was a NoDak) so I have connections and such out that way.
But, Berlin, you know? I had a great aunt and uncle emigrate there in the sixties.
You know who else was from NoDak?
Angie Dickinson?
Berlin is truly a world class city with plenty to do and see. I have one last part to this travelogue to discuss a suburban day.
Hawaii has do your own fireworks on New Years that beat anything I have seen anywhere else in the US or Korea. Berlin took it to the next level. It was exponentially a different experience. Commercial grade booms fired everywhere and for almost an hour without pause. You had to shout to be heard by the person next to you. The entire neighborhood I was in was wreathed in very visible, and smellable smoke. For being a culture known for following rules the Germans forget about that at the stroke of midnight for an hour or so. I imagine the show on 123123 will be intense as well.
That was a bit of culture shock when I was living there. I had no idea it was coming.
I find it very appropriate for such a proper folk to let loose once in a while.
I live Vienna a lot. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
Did she get caught with a dead call girl in the trunk of her car?
No Cyril! When they’re dead they’re just hookers!
Nah, sleeping while being a maid. A hanging offence.
I was stationed in the Azores (Tercera) in 73-75. We’ve talked about a return visit but probably won’t
1) It was a special time with special people who wouldn’t be there
2) I thoroughly dislike air travel since 2001
3) “You can’t go home again”, meaning the place has lost its charm in the last 50 years. It was a bucolic, agrarian hideaway, still living in the 1800’s when we were there. For better or worse, it’s not going to be the same.
Wife wants to go to New Zealand and I don’t want to visit a totalitarian state. Maybe we’ll compromise on Ireland/Scotland.
We’ll see. We’re still debating the Glibcruise.
I think that is why I will never go back to Ireland. I was there before the Celtic Tiger, and while it was devistatingly poor, and the Troubles were a going concern for a lot of my time there, it just isn’t the same place, for good or ill. To many memories, both joyous and utterly terrifying.
You might just check out southern Germany. Fly into Frankfurt, drive east to Wurzburg, then south on Romantic Road, overnight in romantic Rothenburg, couple days in Munich (Dachau, Marienplatz, Hofbrauhaus,
Octoberfest, White Rose monument, etc.) then west to Neuschwanstein Castle, down to Lindau on Lake Constance (Bodensee) then to Freiburg in Black Forest, turn north to Heidelburg and back to Frankfurt.
Lovely scenery, bier, people, food.
She lived in southern Germany for that time, and knows it pretty well, while I spent most of my time all over. But I was there before the wall came down, so Berlin always held a special place in my mind.
I lived in WΓΌrzburg for a year – can heartily recommend this itinerary.
If you follow that itinerary make sure to add Garmish since you are in the neighborhood. I also recommend stopping by the Kloister Reutberg. The bier is brewed by cloistered nuns since 1677 and wins many awards. They sit on a small hill with a great view of the alps and above average food. Have a mass (1L) of their dunkel with a Wiener schnitzel, and apfelstrudel for dessert. After your lunch walk it off the nearby hiking paths. You’ll be saying “Bayern ist gutt.” as well.
O ja.
To be fair to the reader, I can only speak for the Bayern leg. I know nothing of Baden-WΓΌrttemberg, never made it there.
Sadly I didn’t get to see the Bodensee or Neuschwanstein either but there is so much to see and do all over Bayern you really can’t go wrong.
My relatives are from the area around Passau, so I’d recommend that, which gets you close to Austria and the Czech Republic too.
Thanks, dbleagle!
I’ve only been to Munich, but it seems like I need to make a trip back.
the Strand or Powellβs Books since they can hold their own against any bookstore on the planet
Sadly, Powell’s has declined from its once lofty heights.
I feared as much. When I’d go elk hunting I’d make sure to take in a trip to Powell’s before I flew out. In November 2016 the area was sketchy with all the Trump protests, and I can only imagine it today.
It’s not even the neighborhood*, their space has shrunk (they closed Technical Books several years ago), a lot more new and the price of used isn’t that much of a bargain, and really it can’t compare (in person) to back catalog of online retailers.
*the neighborhood itself isn’t that bad, there’s a brand new busy Shake Shack, and visible security. On the minus side, visible security, crazies walking by, and bums a block away or less. The county’s bum magnet center is about two blocks away. You can get a nice education of various ways to ingest drugs. Most don’t even bother to put a coat or blanket over themselves when doing it anymore. Decriminalization has been an outstanding success. Sidewalks are stained with unknown and known substances. Lots of litter and graffiti abound.
I still came out with a half dozen books two weeks ago.
The left keeps repeating the mistake of forgetting how badly that shit turns off the normies. You can only hand-wave it away as “the real ___(insert city here)____” for so long.
How guys my age remember the Cold War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN07ufZZlOA
I read Khrushchev’s memoirs. Once in the late 1930s, he was tasked to investigate the death of many horses in western Ukraine. German sabotage was suspected. Khrushchev was skeptical, thinking that if the Germans wanted to sabotage Ukraine, they’d blow up bridges and power plants. Nonetheless, the Soviet secret police tortured confessions out of various randos saying that they poisoned the horses under orders of Herr Hitler. Khruschev set up two investigative committees, to make it harder for the secret police to manipulate the outcome. An esteemed veterinarian from Moscow was called in, who told Khrushchev that the horses had been poisoned by fungus from eating wet hay. To prove his point, the veterinarian cultured fungus from wet hay, ate it with tea, and indeed came down with the same sickness that afflicted the horses. The case was thereby settled.
Russian has 2 words for truth (istina and pravda) and 2 words for lie (lozh and vranyo). Lozh means lie about the same as English. Vranyo means a lie so silly no one bothers to refute it.
I would have played that game. I thought you’d go for this bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuMe5RvxPQ
I was living in Germany when the wall came down. That was a very interesting 48 hours.
I saw big slabs of the Berlin Wall at a monument at DLI. When I was in Dresden (formerly in East Germany) in 2003, it was amusing to see old anti-communist graffiti here and there. But there were still street signs like Dostejewskistrasse and such.
When I was inprocessing at DLI, a former Army Russian linguist told us that his job was to hang out in West Berlin and listen to the commy radio and TV. When he heard that Soviet troops had been called out in 1989 to help with the summer potato harvest, he wrote in a report that the USSR was doomed. Potatoes get harvested in the spring and Soviet soldiers would have been on military maneuvers at the same time. It was busy work to keep them from going AWOL.
His report was ignored.
My son and his family live in the former East Berlin. After you’ve been in the city for a while you can tell Ost from West at a glance. But the old commie building are being replaced in many places so I don’t know how long away from Karl Marx Allee and a few related areas you’ll still be able to tell.
In the northern part of the city is the old neighborhood for the DDR leadership, including the former DDR White House. After the Czech uprising the leaders had a new neighborhood of “cottages” (really new houses) that they moved to.
On a previous trip I visited that area (still commie heavy) and had a laugh. The old White House complex is fenced in and is the official residence of the PRC ambassador. Commies gotta commie.
Soyuzmultfilm had some cool cartoons though. I like Polygon and Dinosaur Mountain.
Polygon is about a mind-reading autonomous tank. It’s prescient of weaponized AI.
https://youtu.be/E2aqk3M21FM?t=2420
Thx for travelogue. Makes me want to go back. I was there before the wall fell & my clearance didnβt allow travel to Berlin.
Suggested attack ad #6
This video on mute and this video.
Compare and contrast.
RUS and UKR recruiting videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNh1o156cuI
Not one lesbian household mentioned.
UCS – any forums (non-reddit) you would suggest for 40k discussion/collecting? In particular looking at my downloaded indices and trying to figure out where I can source the figures I want from….that are apparently not in stock anywhere. Apparently 3d printed versions are “legal” or at least playable most places? Certainly cheaper.
“A magnet on a retractable line for picking up your balls without bending over.”
That could come in handy as I get older.
Now that is how you euphemism.
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A split screen of this and this.
That time Biden bragged about his IQ.
Later, he challenged people to push-up contests.
I watched a documentary about Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus since 1994. He wasn’t the smartest, or even the most popular, but he knew how to get attention by being on the right committees. It reminds me of someone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xHTplfCCVI
Pray tell, why does the US Senate judiciary committee care about apartheid? It’s not like they could have changed it. The comments on that video are nauseating.
Oh yeah, and who was so staunchly opposed the integration by busing? Why, none other than Joe Biden!
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But the 1981 CNN interview illustrates that Bidenβs objections to busing to end segregation in schools were much broader than he casts them today.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/30/politics/kfile-joe-biden-cnn-interview-busing-desegregate-schools/index.html
God, what a lying, corrupt, useless, hypocritical, sack of shit.
I remember being bused to the egghead schools which by some strange coincidence were in the worst ghettos.
Neighborhoods I would not voluntarily visit 40 years later.
Five hours, One Minute, a little cleaning and curing.
The detail is fantastic.
I’m not seeing the usual layer-cake thing going on. Nice!
The layers on this printer as 35 ΞΌm, so hair-fine.
How to win Iowa GOP voters…if you’re Ramaswamy, rap Eminem(?) Oh yeah, and promise to pardon Biden.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1690375946480570369
Help us, sweet meteor of death!
For Derpy. Dr B comes from the top rope.
https://cafehayek.com/2023/08/a-climate-psychology-certificate-program.html
56 comments is fucking lame for this level of excellence.
The county school board passed “sex is not a social construct” policies. I expect a lot of reeee.
Good morning all!
Today’s music selections are from a decidedly odd little obscure band, His Name Is Alive.
We Hold the Land in Great Esteem.
And the lovely Blue Moon.
Share and enjoy
Okay, let’s try that again, it’s the better (imnsho) cut.
Blue Moon
Good morning, Shirley! And, if applicable, Roat and Tundra!
Your musical selections these last couple of days are definitely more…mellow than Sean’s usual offerings! π
And good morning to you! I hope you’re finding at least some of this stuff interesting and enjoyable.
I’ve got some not so mellow lined up, I assure you. Mostly, though, I’m going for quirky and either lesser known bands or lesser known works of better known bands. Stuff you’re not likely to have heard.
I think you’re correct that the second track is the better of the two. I’m afraid the first very much put me to mind of a church youth group circa 1972 (or, in my limited experience of same, what a “guitar mass” of the same era would have been like. π)
My selections aspire to be motivational.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXWkMlKFkI
πΆπΆ
ππ
Mornin’
Good morning, Sean! How’s your vacation going?
Great! The food here is phenomenal and such a lovely, serene location.
Switching locations today. Leaving the resort for a lil B&B.
Another day, another Trump indictment:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/georgia-da-about-charge-trump-new-rico-indictment
*yawn* And whatβs with the RICO abuse now?
The more dirt comes out about the Bidens, the closer Trump’s indictments have to be to what they’ve been doing?
Projection. I hate how far we’ve fallen as a society.
He has known associations with the US Government.
So the midnight presser I am guessing will be spun as to deter racist rabid Trumpers? Cause dropping indictments of this magnitude over night is how transparent countries operate nowadays.
Well it’s early and apparently only need a couple days to adjust to a different timezone because I am all bright eyed back in Nevada at 330am
Good morning, OBE! Do I surmise correctly that you have, in fact, made an offer on a house in NKY?
We did but it’s complicated. Seller is trying to buy a new house and is contingent on an offer of their current house. Not sure if they will accept because I am guessing they were hoping for a cash purchase.
If it works out, great. Otherwise I have an apartment lined up while we continue searching.
Nice little split-level, just the right size for empty-nest and a secluded backyard.
ππ ππ€
Want to see my shocked face?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-catholics-need-adopt-massachusetts-foster-care-family-children-marriage-obergefell-df672535?st=qkmf4gj496cg4zy&reflink=article_email_share
Alito has turned out to be one of the more prescient Supremes, thatβs for sure.
Yeah talk about foreshadowing
βI assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes,β Justice Alito answered, βbut if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.β
Bitter clingers have no use in society today.
Kids should be raised in state-run orphanariums anyway.
Lovely. Mrs. Patzer and I had a great deal of trouble conceiving, and two days before the social worker’s home evaluation visit we got the good news that #1 son was on the way. This was in NYC, and we were pretty much the couple in that story (Mrs. Patzer was a lay minister, I was a cantor). We wouldn’t stand a chance today. And it won’t matter if their suit is successful, there are thousands if good soldiers out there who will continue to operate as if nothing happened.
Huh. Social worker evaluation was in the context of adoption proceedings.
https://news.yahoo.com/beyond-amazing-ny-bagels-entirely-195446364.html
Fake bagels made from felt.
I prefer bagels that can be tasted, not just felt.
The eyes are disturbing.
I bet they follow you as you walk around the “bakery/deli.” π³
Why is this a story by a major news organization? This is shit thay should be in your local community happenings magazine.
https://ibb.co/7rpr0JS
Found that in Louisville. Still going through pictures and hoping to have time to write a small piece and add to the other travel articles that are so great here.
Mornin’, reprobates!
“Vacation” started with sorting out a high severity incident at $employer Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Patzer and the spawn were ready to shoot me, I am having homicidal thoughts about the vendor who caused the issue. Next time you upgrade your proxy, let us know in advance.
On the bright side, Ocean City NJ has installed handicapped accessible ramps and staging areas on the beaches. Roll the wheelchair down the ramp, park it at the staging area and set up right there; Mrs. Patzer is in heaven. Me am enjoying the Haitian Blue covfefe I picked up at the Ocean City Coffee Company shop on the boardwalk. A bit pricey, but well worth it. And not nearly so pricey as the Jamaican Blue Mountain the young man behind the counter attempted to sell me. That kid has a bright future in sales, but even he couldn’t talk me into laying out $75 for a pound of coffee.
Morning! Enjoy the vacation and 75 a pound?
25 for Haitian. And thanks for the memories of young Jane Fonda.
Good morning, ‘patzie! So glad you finally made your escape and that your destination is amenable to Mrs. P’s needs!
Mornin’, GT. Massages for me and the missus later this morning. Vacation got off to a rocky start but looks like there will be a happy ending!
Hey-o!