Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.
on February 14, 2024 at 7:12 pm
Highly educational, and highly tasty!
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 7:17 pm
There is some controversy about who invented the hamburger, but there is no such confusion about Salisbury steak.
***
James Henry Salisbury (October 13, 1823 – August 23, 1905) was an American physician, and the inventor of the Salisbury steak.
…
Salisbury served as a physician during the American Civil War, and became convinced that diarrhea suffered by the troops could be controlled with a diet of coffee and lean chopped beefsteak.
Salisbury was one of the earliest health food faddists and taught that diet was the main determinant of health.[2] He believed vegetables and starchy foods produced poisonous substances in the digestive system which were responsible for heart disease, tumors, mental illness and tuberculosis. He believed that human dentition demonstrated that humans were meant to eat meat, and sought to limit vegetables, fruit, starches, and fats to one-third of the diet.[3]
The Salisbury steak, his means of achieving this goal, is ground beef flavored with onion and seasoning and then broiled[4] and covered with gravy or brown sauce. It was introduced in 1888. Salisbury saw beef as an excellent defense against many different physical problems. He suggested that Salisbury steak should be eaten three times a day, with much hot water to cleanse the digestive system. He was an early American proponent of a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss, and he promoted his diet for that purpose. His diet became known as the “Salisbury diet”.
…
Salisbury steak is similar to a number of other dishes made of ground beef. Its name caught on partly because World War I inspired a movement in English-speaking nations to avoid German-sounding terms such as “hamburger”.
***
Common Tater
on February 14, 2024 at 7:28 pm
Controlling diarrhea with coffee?
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 7:34 pm
It’s an idea that’s just crazy enough to work.
Tres Cool
on February 14, 2024 at 7:50 pm
Im not patting myself on the back, but I read that wiki entry before.
I think Id been looking for a Salisbury steak recipe and got side-tracked.
R.J.
on February 14, 2024 at 7:55 pm
Well if it doesn’t, at least it comes out clean and fast.
The shooting thing is one thing. News saying people fleeing in a photo where other people are casually walking and others standing around is just weird.
The Last American Hero
on February 14, 2024 at 8:02 pm
Mostly peaceful protest broadcasts looked like a scene out of a Naked Gun movie.
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 7:46 pm
Remain calm, all is well.
***
The ASM-135A anti-satellite missile (ASAT) was the only U.S. air-launched missile ever to destroy a satellite. In the late 1970s, the U.S. anticipated Soviet development of “killer satellites” that could destroy vital U.S. reconnaissance and communication satellites. The anti-satellite missile countered this threat. Airborne tests with “captive” (not launched) ASAT missiles on modified F-15 fighters began in 1982.
In September 1985, an ASM-135A destroyed a real satellite in a pre-planned test. An F-15A launched the missile at 38,100 feet. Streaking into space, the missile homed in on the U.S. Solwind P78-1 satellite at 345 miles above the Earth, and impacted the one-ton spacecraft at about 15,000 mph.
The Solwind solar observation satellite was operational but several of its instruments had failed. This, along with other political and technical factors, led to its selection as a target for the ASM-135A. This test was the first and only time a U.S. missile destroyed a satellite.
***
Yeah..so now the news can run stories about Russian space weapons as Biden descends into dementia.
Tres Cool
on February 14, 2024 at 7:59 pm
And will any of the talking heads ask a gov’t official “well, what about OUR space-based nukes?”
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 8:26 pm
If Russia wanted to put a nuke in orbit, they would have done it a long time ago. They used nukes to put out an oil fire one time.
***
In 1963, a gas well in Southern Uzbekistan suffered a blowout at a depth of 2.4 kilometers. The natural gas caught fire and burned steadily for the next three years. This seemingly unquenchable fire was causing the loss of more than 12 million cubic meters of gas each day. That’s enough to supply the needs of many major cities, and roughly the equivalent volume of 12 Empire State buildings.
No one in the country knew how to put the fires out, and by 1966 all attempts to do so had failed. It was at this point of desperation that dropping a nuclear bomb on the fires seemed like a pretty great idea to engineers and officials.
Physicists calculated that if a nuclear bomb was detonated at a depth of around 1500 meters and close to the shaft of the well, the resulting pressure could blow out the fire. Researchers ultimately calculated that the bomb needed to be 30 kilotons, or double the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
…
After confirming the calculations, officials decided that a nuclear explosion was the best way to stop the raging fire. In 1966, two boreholes were drilled, sloping towards the blowout region, determined to be at a depth of 1.4 kilometers. The 30 kiloton bomb was lowered into the most promising borehole and then the well itself was backfilled with cement.
Then, they detonated the bomb.
There’s no better way to understand what that day was like other than this account from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka of Tashkent:
“On that cold autumn day in 1966, an underground tremor of unprecedented force shook the [ground] with a sparse grass cover on white sand. A dusty haze rose over the desert. The orange colored torch of the blazing well diminished, first slowly, then more rapidly, until it flickered and finally died out. For the first time in 1,064 days, quiet descended on the area. The jet-like roar of the gas well had been silenced.”
***
Just now got home from dinner at Culver’s! I had my favorite salad of theirs – Cranberry Bacon Bleu with raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Also brought home a “party pack” – four pints of their wonderful frozen custard (three Double Strawberry, which was the Flavor of the Day, and an Andes Mint Avalanche, with which I will undo all the good done by eating the salad.)
Tres Cool
on February 14, 2024 at 8:31 pm
Now I know what to get you for the next holiday.
KK, Plump & Unfiltered
on February 14, 2024 at 8:37 pm
Culver’s has pretty good cheese curds for fast food.
DrOtto
on February 14, 2024 at 9:45 pm
Yep, we have one near us in TX and while they are not MN State Fair good, they aren’t bad.
Fourscore
on February 14, 2024 at 8:07 pm
My monitor quit working few days ago, my friend Jeff B sent me one and back in biznuss. Jeff’s OK
Tres Cool
on February 14, 2024 at 8:36 pm
Ill keep one on stand-by in case that one conks out.
Fourscore
on February 14, 2024 at 9:16 pm
Thanks, if you need a couple to fix (and keep) I’d be happy to send ’em.
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 9:10 pm
How to play 4-dimensional chess:
***
Vladimir Putin said he would like to see Joe Biden re-elected for a second term, in the Russian president’s first comments on November’s US elections.
Speaking to Russian state TV, Putin said the current White House occupant was more “experienced” and “predictable” than his predecessor Donald Trump.
Asked who Russia would like to see win in the likely contest between the pair, Putin replied: “Biden, he’s more experienced. He’s predictable, he’s an old school politician.”
The Russian leader went on to dismiss concerns over the 81-year-old Mr Biden’s age and mental acuity.
“When I met Mr Biden three years ago, it’s true, people were already talking about his inabilities, but I saw nothing of the sort,” said Putin.
But there was a slight sting in the tail of his remarks as he added: “So he banged his head on the helicopter when he was getting out of it — who of us hasn’t banged their head on something?”
***
Corrupt dictator who’s at least pretty smart and savvy prefers dicking around with idiot reporters just for kicks.
rhywun
on February 14, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Cue four years of non-stop Russia! Russia! Russia!
That’s how this works, right?
R C Dean
on February 15, 2024 at 6:33 am
Sure, Jan.
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 9:12 pm
CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims: report
***
Intelligence related to the alleged surveillance effort is housed in a “10-inch binder,” according to the outlet, which Trump, 77, ordered to be declassified at the end of his presidency and could contain evidence that “multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.”
The whereabouts of the alleged thick binder are unknown.
The Trump campaign and the CIA did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
***
A burger’s a burger’s a burger’s a burger’s a burger.
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 10:17 pm
Farmhaus makes a better burger than most, but both locations are in Augusta, GA. I remember having a bison burger way out in Wyoming that was remarkably good as well. I want to way it was The Sleepy Coyote bar in Worland.
Not Adahn
on February 15, 2024 at 6:15 am
WTFIcanteven
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 9:52 pm
Today I learned:
***
The history of the Jews in Gabon dates back to at least the 17th century, when Black Jewish communities existed along the Gabonese coastline. The contemporary Jewish community in Gabon is mostly composed of converts and foreign-born residents.
History
In the seventeenth century a Black Jewish community existed on the Loango coast in the Kingdom of Loango in what is now Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, and the Cabinda Province of Angola. This community was first mentioned in 1777 and a more thorough description was provided by the scientific works which were produced by the German Loango Expedition of 1873–76. This community had no links with Jewish communities elsewhere and has now disappeared. According to Tudor Parfitt, these communities were of considerable interest to race scientists during the period of the European Enlightenment.[1] The Jewish community in the region may have been of Iberian Sephardi origin. Some European maps from the 17th century designate the Loango coastline as the Gulf of the Jews, golfo do judeus or golfos dos judeos. According to the Moravian missionary Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, the Black Jewish community in the Loango region was established by Jews from São Tomé who had been expelled and that it was from this population of exiles that “the black Portuguese and the black Jews of Loango, who were despised even by the local black population, were descended.”[2]
***
Timeloose
on February 14, 2024 at 9:53 pm
Nice article CPRM. Those boys cooking that big burger need to find some bigger yellow shirts.
We do pierogi and Kielbasa festivals around these parts along with pizza and the usual fair foods.
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 10:21 pm
Ukrainian forces decode Russian military signals to counter assaults amidst ammunition scarcity
***
“Brew five bags of Chinese tea on 38 oranges” – this phrase, as relayed by the Associated Press, is one of the many coded messages employed by the Russians. It translates to an order to ready five artillery shells, made in Beijing, and direct them towards Ukrainian soldiers situated in the Silver Forest.
…
In this coded language, “cucumbers” refer to mortars and “carrots” symbolize grenade launchers. Locations are correspondingly represented by numerical codes in specific colors. The Ukrainians spent several months decrypting these codes.
***
In tactical situations, there isn’t enough time for complex ciphers, so idiot codes predominate. The problem with such codes is they’re easy to break, so that can only be used securely once.
Ex-wife liked to smoke. And when she ordered up weed the code name was “cabbage”.
Think the NSA was on to us ?
Derpetologist
on February 14, 2024 at 10:55 pm
NSA wouldn’t know. If you query their database for selectors (phone number, email, etc.) belonging a US person, there will be an immediate investigation from an auditor. Any police or FBI listening probably would have guessed correctly. Nobody orders cabbage over the phone, and using plant names as code words for marijuana is very common: lettuce, grass, weed, etc.
On the other hand, cops and feds are often surprisingly dumb, so it’s a toss-up.
PieInTheSky
on February 14, 2024 at 11:31 pm
Just teach people phrases in strange languages and use them until the enemy figures out what language it is, then switch language.
I may have my saturday back. We went through and looked at the actual expected impact of what was being done, and it was much less than origianlly appeared.
Gender Traitor
on February 15, 2024 at 7:03 am
😃👍
Not Adahn
on February 15, 2024 at 6:16 am
Pew-Pew!
Stinky Wizzleteats
on February 15, 2024 at 5:46 am
Grosspatzer, Superstar
on February 15, 2024 at 5:58 am
Mornin’, Stinky. Thanks for the early nutpunch.
rhywun
on February 15, 2024 at 6:03 am
People in Spain are outraged
Job done.
Tres Cool
on February 15, 2024 at 6:12 am
Reading ZH this early in the morning?
Are you a masochist ?
Stinky Wizzleteats
on February 15, 2024 at 6:15 am
Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks.
Grosspatzer, Superstar
on February 15, 2024 at 5:55 am
Mornin’, reprobates!
All kinds of work piling up, but unlike UCS I will get a weekend. And many more.
Went into the office yesterday for the first, and probably last, time, to attend a small lunch my group threw in my honor. I found out that I am something of a celebrity there – people I had never met before walked up to me and said “You’re the guy chilling out with the pipe in the all hands meetings!” I wonder if any of them had daddy issues… After lunch I attended a staff meeting which turned out to be a retirement celebration complete with strawberry cheesecake. There was a lot of dust in that room.
Gender Traitor
on February 15, 2024 at 6:02 am
Good morning, ‘patzie! Ooh! Strawberry cheesecake! That makes all the years of toil worthwhile! 😋🍰
Toxteth O'Grady
on February 15, 2024 at 6:10 am
Mornin.
I have a planned power outage from 8 to 5 today that I found out about half a day in advance. My fault for not examining the mail. Might take refugee yogurt to my mom’s fridge.
Grosspatzer, Superstar
on February 15, 2024 at 6:14 am
Planned power outage? Sounds like a dress rehearsal for the green future.
Toxteth O'Grady
on February 15, 2024 at 6:27 am
Nah, plumbing* a new building across the street, probably.
*or whatever the electrical equivalent is
Stinky Wizzleteats
on February 15, 2024 at 6:11 am
Grosspatzer, Superstar
on February 15, 2024 at 6:15 am
You have to ask? I’d think you know all about laying pipe by now.
Tres Cool
on February 15, 2024 at 6:02 am
suh’ fam
whats goody
Gender Traitor
on February 15, 2024 at 6:03 am
Good morning, homey!
Ownbestenemy
on February 15, 2024 at 6:12 am
I know it depends on your perspective. If you think Hillary Clinton is evil and the circle she keeps is just as evil and if you think Soros is a marxist bastard with evil intentions for the human race…it would make sense that Huma Abedin and Alex Soros are knocking boots.
Gender Traitor
on February 15, 2024 at 6:16 am
Please tell us you just had a bad dream.
Tres Cool
on February 15, 2024 at 6:21 am
Evilest babies ever.
R C Dean
on February 15, 2024 at 6:40 am
Between her aging out and his low-T, I doubt we have to worry about their spawn.
It’s strange. For some reason I was disappointed to find that a manufacturer of eInk displays provides header files for interfacing with them. While that increases the odds of success, it also eliminates all the challenge and thus any satisfaction from getting the thing working.
Gender Traitor
on February 15, 2024 at 6:30 am
Is there another manufacturer that doesn’t provide such files?
Probably, but the driver hardware is so very similar that it’s liable to work anyway. (The documentation outright says as much and that their driver hardware can run other manufacturers displays upto a given size)
Not Adahn
on February 15, 2024 at 6:26 am
Nobody’s made a FEED ME joke?
Tres Cool
on February 15, 2024 at 6:26 am
Well, this should make sending out the invites to the gang-rape easier.
Highly educational, and highly tasty!
There is some controversy about who invented the hamburger, but there is no such confusion about Salisbury steak.
***
James Henry Salisbury (October 13, 1823 – August 23, 1905) was an American physician, and the inventor of the Salisbury steak.
…
Salisbury served as a physician during the American Civil War, and became convinced that diarrhea suffered by the troops could be controlled with a diet of coffee and lean chopped beefsteak.
Salisbury was one of the earliest health food faddists and taught that diet was the main determinant of health.[2] He believed vegetables and starchy foods produced poisonous substances in the digestive system which were responsible for heart disease, tumors, mental illness and tuberculosis. He believed that human dentition demonstrated that humans were meant to eat meat, and sought to limit vegetables, fruit, starches, and fats to one-third of the diet.[3]
The Salisbury steak, his means of achieving this goal, is ground beef flavored with onion and seasoning and then broiled[4] and covered with gravy or brown sauce. It was introduced in 1888. Salisbury saw beef as an excellent defense against many different physical problems. He suggested that Salisbury steak should be eaten three times a day, with much hot water to cleanse the digestive system. He was an early American proponent of a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss, and he promoted his diet for that purpose. His diet became known as the “Salisbury diet”.
…
Salisbury steak is similar to a number of other dishes made of ground beef. Its name caught on partly because World War I inspired a movement in English-speaking nations to avoid German-sounding terms such as “hamburger”.
***
Controlling diarrhea with coffee?
It’s an idea that’s just crazy enough to work.
Im not patting myself on the back, but I read that wiki entry before.
I think Id been looking for a Salisbury steak recipe and got side-tracked.
Well if it doesn’t, at least it comes out clean and fast.
Burgertime. I remember that game.
a ray of sunshine
Doesn’t take much to keep some dogs busy and presumably happy
Thin…blue…line
The shooting thing is one thing. News saying people fleeing in a photo where other people are casually walking and others standing around is just weird.
https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/chiefs-rally-shooting-01-gty-jt-240214_1707941943354_hpEmbed_3x2_992.jpg
Mostly peaceful protest broadcasts looked like a scene out of a Naked Gun movie.
Remain calm, all is well.
***
The ASM-135A anti-satellite missile (ASAT) was the only U.S. air-launched missile ever to destroy a satellite. In the late 1970s, the U.S. anticipated Soviet development of “killer satellites” that could destroy vital U.S. reconnaissance and communication satellites. The anti-satellite missile countered this threat. Airborne tests with “captive” (not launched) ASAT missiles on modified F-15 fighters began in 1982.
In September 1985, an ASM-135A destroyed a real satellite in a pre-planned test. An F-15A launched the missile at 38,100 feet. Streaking into space, the missile homed in on the U.S. Solwind P78-1 satellite at 345 miles above the Earth, and impacted the one-ton spacecraft at about 15,000 mph.
The Solwind solar observation satellite was operational but several of its instruments had failed. This, along with other political and technical factors, led to its selection as a target for the ASM-135A. This test was the first and only time a U.S. missile destroyed a satellite.
***
link
Yeah..so now the news can run stories about Russian space weapons as Biden descends into dementia.
And will any of the talking heads ask a gov’t official “well, what about OUR space-based nukes?”
If Russia wanted to put a nuke in orbit, they would have done it a long time ago. They used nukes to put out an oil fire one time.
***
In 1963, a gas well in Southern Uzbekistan suffered a blowout at a depth of 2.4 kilometers. The natural gas caught fire and burned steadily for the next three years. This seemingly unquenchable fire was causing the loss of more than 12 million cubic meters of gas each day. That’s enough to supply the needs of many major cities, and roughly the equivalent volume of 12 Empire State buildings.
No one in the country knew how to put the fires out, and by 1966 all attempts to do so had failed. It was at this point of desperation that dropping a nuclear bomb on the fires seemed like a pretty great idea to engineers and officials.
Physicists calculated that if a nuclear bomb was detonated at a depth of around 1500 meters and close to the shaft of the well, the resulting pressure could blow out the fire. Researchers ultimately calculated that the bomb needed to be 30 kilotons, or double the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
…
After confirming the calculations, officials decided that a nuclear explosion was the best way to stop the raging fire. In 1966, two boreholes were drilled, sloping towards the blowout region, determined to be at a depth of 1.4 kilometers. The 30 kiloton bomb was lowered into the most promising borehole and then the well itself was backfilled with cement.
Then, they detonated the bomb.
There’s no better way to understand what that day was like other than this account from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka of Tashkent:
“On that cold autumn day in 1966, an underground tremor of unprecedented force shook the [ground] with a sparse grass cover on white sand. A dusty haze rose over the desert. The orange colored torch of the blazing well diminished, first slowly, then more rapidly, until it flickered and finally died out. For the first time in 1,064 days, quiet descended on the area. The jet-like roar of the gas well had been silenced.”
***
https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire
Butter burger? Jesus, I’m eating here.
ok this is awesome…thanks CPRM!
https://visitduluth.com/event/chum-rhubarb-festival-2023-06-25/
I have to say I dig the rhubarb bratwurst.
We do apples. 🙄
So do we:
https://www.visitlakecity.org/johnny-appleseed-days/
The city were I went to middle- and high-school.
And https://www.bayfield.org/bayfield-apple-festival/ which is somewhat local to Duloot.
Not that I mind, really. I do love apple cider.
Here, it is watermelon. Though for the parade, there was a nice float with a dinosaur theme.
We have a Culver’s here. Never been. But you say they have something called a “butter burger”???
* checks lunchtime schedule for tomorrow *
We have them scattered around SW Ohio. Good stuff.
Don’t get too excited it’s just a mediocre burger with a dollop of butter on the bun.
Resident Belt-Onion Contrarian is correct.
Now that Lion’s Choice on the other hand…..
Just now got home from dinner at Culver’s! I had my favorite salad of theirs – Cranberry Bacon Bleu with raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Also brought home a “party pack” – four pints of their wonderful frozen custard (three Double Strawberry, which was the Flavor of the Day, and an Andes Mint Avalanche, with which I will undo all the good done by eating the salad.)
Now I know what to get you for the next holiday.
Did…did you say frozen custard???
WHY DO I HAVE A MEETING AT NOON TOMORROW
Keep this important reference handy!
Want me to DoorDash you some ?
Culver’s has pretty good cheese curds for fast food.
Yep, we have one near us in TX and while they are not MN State Fair good, they aren’t bad.
My monitor quit working few days ago, my friend Jeff B sent me one and back in biznuss. Jeff’s OK
Ill keep one on stand-by in case that one conks out.
Thanks, if you need a couple to fix (and keep) I’d be happy to send ’em.
How to play 4-dimensional chess:
***
Vladimir Putin said he would like to see Joe Biden re-elected for a second term, in the Russian president’s first comments on November’s US elections.
Speaking to Russian state TV, Putin said the current White House occupant was more “experienced” and “predictable” than his predecessor Donald Trump.
Asked who Russia would like to see win in the likely contest between the pair, Putin replied: “Biden, he’s more experienced. He’s predictable, he’s an old school politician.”
The Russian leader went on to dismiss concerns over the 81-year-old Mr Biden’s age and mental acuity.
“When I met Mr Biden three years ago, it’s true, people were already talking about his inabilities, but I saw nothing of the sort,” said Putin.
But there was a slight sting in the tail of his remarks as he added: “So he banged his head on the helicopter when he was getting out of it — who of us hasn’t banged their head on something?”
***
link
Corrupt dictator prefers corrupt wannabe dictator
Yeah, I read “experienced and predictable” as not a good thing.
More like “weak and malleable”.
Pretty sure that’s what he’s thinking.
Shit, maybe he will invade Poland if Biden gets reelected.
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8817839616/hC6CDA42C/can-i-haz-poland
Corrupt dictator who’s at least pretty smart and savvy prefers dicking around with idiot reporters just for kicks.
Cue four years of non-stop Russia! Russia! Russia!
That’s how this works, right?
Sure, Jan.
CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims: report
***
Intelligence related to the alleged surveillance effort is housed in a “10-inch binder,” according to the outlet, which Trump, 77, ordered to be declassified at the end of his presidency and could contain evidence that “multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.”
The whereabouts of the alleged thick binder are unknown.
The Trump campaign and the CIA did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
***
link
Putin has it. Duh.
So after the Mar-a-Lago raid, no one’s eyes will ever see it again.
A burger’s a burger’s a burger’s a burger’s a burger.
Farmhaus makes a better burger than most, but both locations are in Augusta, GA. I remember having a bison burger way out in Wyoming that was remarkably good as well. I want to way it was The Sleepy Coyote bar in Worland.
WTFIcanteven
Today I learned:
***
The history of the Jews in Gabon dates back to at least the 17th century, when Black Jewish communities existed along the Gabonese coastline. The contemporary Jewish community in Gabon is mostly composed of converts and foreign-born residents.
History
In the seventeenth century a Black Jewish community existed on the Loango coast in the Kingdom of Loango in what is now Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, and the Cabinda Province of Angola. This community was first mentioned in 1777 and a more thorough description was provided by the scientific works which were produced by the German Loango Expedition of 1873–76. This community had no links with Jewish communities elsewhere and has now disappeared. According to Tudor Parfitt, these communities were of considerable interest to race scientists during the period of the European Enlightenment.[1] The Jewish community in the region may have been of Iberian Sephardi origin. Some European maps from the 17th century designate the Loango coastline as the Gulf of the Jews, golfo do judeus or golfos dos judeos. According to the Moravian missionary Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, the Black Jewish community in the Loango region was established by Jews from São Tomé who had been expelled and that it was from this population of exiles that “the black Portuguese and the black Jews of Loango, who were despised even by the local black population, were descended.”[2]
***
Nice article CPRM. Those boys cooking that big burger need to find some bigger yellow shirts.
We do pierogi and Kielbasa festivals around these parts along with pizza and the usual fair foods.
Ukrainian forces decode Russian military signals to counter assaults amidst ammunition scarcity
***
“Brew five bags of Chinese tea on 38 oranges” – this phrase, as relayed by the Associated Press, is one of the many coded messages employed by the Russians. It translates to an order to ready five artillery shells, made in Beijing, and direct them towards Ukrainian soldiers situated in the Silver Forest.
…
In this coded language, “cucumbers” refer to mortars and “carrots” symbolize grenade launchers. Locations are correspondingly represented by numerical codes in specific colors. The Ukrainians spent several months decrypting these codes.
***
In tactical situations, there isn’t enough time for complex ciphers, so idiot codes predominate. The problem with such codes is they’re easy to break, so that can only be used securely once.
link
Ex-wife liked to smoke. And when she ordered up weed the code name was “cabbage”.
Think the NSA was on to us ?
NSA wouldn’t know. If you query their database for selectors (phone number, email, etc.) belonging a US person, there will be an immediate investigation from an auditor. Any police or FBI listening probably would have guessed correctly. Nobody orders cabbage over the phone, and using plant names as code words for marijuana is very common: lettuce, grass, weed, etc.
On the other hand, cops and feds are often surprisingly dumb, so it’s a toss-up.
Just teach people phrases in strange languages and use them until the enemy figures out what language it is, then switch language.
Is there a Seymour pork butts festival?
mornin glibsters
This is Traditional Sconnie BBQ.
Cheese!
😂😂
Good mornin, you burger lovers!
🌞
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean!
Damn I have not listen to that band in a long time
…and good afternoon, Pie!
Huh, one of the last bands I found even remotely interesting. Not bad.
The one time I remember seeing them perform on TV, I thought they had a lot to be modest about, but I’ll give them another listen.
The best thing about Whataburger is you can get burgers for breakfast.
🙁
I’m not actually going to get a weekend this weekend the way things keep piling up.
😨 Noooo! Maybe if you work extra hard today and tomorrow?
Won’t help the events are scheduled for Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday…
😒
I may have my saturday back. We went through and looked at the actual expected impact of what was being done, and it was much less than origianlly appeared.
😃👍
Pew-Pew!
DON’T click if you’re at work I suppose:
-Outrage In Spain As Children Paraded Around In Lingerie For ‘Pride’
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/outrage-spain-children-paraded-around-lingerie-pride
What in the actual Hell? Sodom and Gomorrah…
Mornin’, Stinky. Thanks for the early nutpunch.
Job done.
Reading ZH this early in the morning?
Are you a masochist ?
Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks.
Mornin’, reprobates!
All kinds of work piling up, but unlike UCS I will get a weekend. And many more.
Went into the office yesterday for the first, and probably last, time, to attend a small lunch my group threw in my honor. I found out that I am something of a celebrity there – people I had never met before walked up to me and said “You’re the guy chilling out with the pipe in the all hands meetings!” I wonder if any of them had daddy issues… After lunch I attended a staff meeting which turned out to be a retirement celebration complete with strawberry cheesecake. There was a lot of dust in that room.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Ooh! Strawberry cheesecake! That makes all the years of toil worthwhile! 😋🍰
Mornin.
I have a planned power outage from 8 to 5 today that I found out about half a day in advance. My fault for not examining the mail. Might take refugee yogurt to my mom’s fridge.
Planned power outage? Sounds like a dress rehearsal for the green future.
Nah, plumbing* a new building across the street, probably.
*or whatever the electrical equivalent is
A pipe huh? Galvanized steel or lead?
PVC.
You have to ask? I’d think you know all about laying pipe by now.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning, homey!
I know it depends on your perspective. If you think Hillary Clinton is evil and the circle she keeps is just as evil and if you think Soros is a marxist bastard with evil intentions for the human race…it would make sense that Huma Abedin and Alex Soros are knocking boots.
Please tell us you just had a bad dream.
Evilest babies ever.
Between her aging out and his low-T, I doubt we have to worry about their spawn.
IVF with an evil surrogate. Duh.
Mornin’ all!
Good morning, Beau!
It’s strange. For some reason I was disappointed to find that a manufacturer of eInk displays provides header files for interfacing with them. While that increases the odds of success, it also eliminates all the challenge and thus any satisfaction from getting the thing working.
Is there another manufacturer that doesn’t provide such files?
Probably, but the driver hardware is so very similar that it’s liable to work anyway. (The documentation outright says as much and that their driver hardware can run other manufacturers displays upto a given size)
Nobody’s made a FEED ME joke?
Well, this should make sending out the invites to the gang-rape easier.
School lists which female students are virgins before leaking it online
Well, as long as they have superior potassium.
TC, I remember from TOS when the euphemism was “regulating interstate commerce”. 🥬
I’d probably be more interested in which ones weren’t.
OFFS.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-13087117/Sadiq-Khan-defends-London-Overground-lines-TfL-revamp-Suffragette-Lioness.html
Even the innocent-sounding names to American ears are all woke silliness.
I wonder what skeletons he has in his closet.
At the least, electoral fraud. Of the “There’s no evidence, so we won’t look for evidence because there’s no evidence shut up bigot” variety.
Liberty line: “Some irony there, one feels.”
Yeah but it seems to be all contained in Kazakhstan.
Wait….I think I see the problem
What are we talking about again?
School’s list-o-virgins getting leaked.