So today, my next ex-girlfriend and I are going for a long walk along the waterfront and inevitable discussions, followed by a nice dinner. She has made only one slight political comment so far and dropped the subject completely, so it will be interesting to see if she shaved her head.
Birthdays today are a bit sparse but include a guy not famous for the Klein bottle; a guy who made fire chief long before Spud could have; someone to blame for Harvey Korman and your cell phone; a politician doomed to be an NCO all his life; the liberal candidate for governor of Maryland in ’66; a much better version of Neil deGrasse Tyson; not the greatest chess player ever but certainly the most creative; the obligatory commie blonde in the act; and a musician I’d have no truck with.
Truck on over to the Links.
Something tells me that, come January, some Iranian nuclear and oil sites might be flaming.
Note that this person still works for FEMA, just in a different county.
Sports News: Be An Asshole
TMBG are reputedly major assholes, but damn, they’ve written some excellent songs.
Sorry — but with this phrasing, I have to ask — you’re dating Gwen Stefani now?
Morning, OMWC. Morning, all.
His next girl will be nothing like his ex girl.
His only real hope for a long term relationship.
Just because he moved to upstate New York, I didn’t think that meant he was into hicks.
“you’re dating Gwen Stefani now?”
If not, do you mind if I ask her out?
That woman’s going to look worse than Madonna if she keeps going with the Botox, fillers, buccal fat removal, etc.
https://ibb.co/1Lt09dR
How would you feel if I took her out?
“That woman’s going to look worse than Madonna if she keeps going with the Botox”
I remember her from the Orange County (CA) club scene years ago (We’ll always have Paris). I was probably 20 years older than the rest of the crowd, but I liked the music.
I stand with Reel Big Fish!
Happy birthday Colonel Vindman?
Happy birthday Judy Holliday?
Or if you’re getting any in the foreseeable future. (4B or not 4B?)
😂😂
That is the question….
Maybe — if the couple of headlines I saw over the last couple of days are correct (Hamas being kicked out of Qatar, etc.) if they quickly tone down their militias, settle things with Israel and we get the energy market to stop feeding them money he might leave them to their own devices. We’ll see… I wouldn’t blame him for having a personal grudge – but at some point some realpolitik has to kick in for this sort of thing (I’m sure some idiot in the CIA has hatched some dumb plot against Putin or the Iranians [or possibly the Israelis because we have some real rabid morons], I wouldn’t really want them nuking Shreveport in recompense…)
Yeah, that is a huge concern – that the MIC will simply ignore Donald once again and do whatever the fuck they want. I hope he goes nuclear on their ass.
Happy birthday Michelle Thaller!
I’ve literally lost count of the number of potentially irreversible tipping points we’ve already passed.
Greta is doomed to die a bitter, disappointed, old woman.
I have to wonder if they honestly believe cavemen using fire is what broke the Earth out of the last Ice Age or something. (And no idea how the prior cycles happened).
I know, I know… they’d doubtless come back with the standard “Earth will survive… humanity won’t!” — as if we haven’t adapted for our entire existence, as if we don’t know how to either build levees, build new cities in the worst case and desalinate if they’d stop blocking cheaper energy infrastructure.
Obligatory.
Mostly they fail to realize the climate stability that has been the era in which mankind evolved – let alone realize how THAT was normal.
grr – was NOT normal
We knew what you meant, JI.
I’m really hoping Argentina sends an inauguration gift to the US in January of a gold-plated chainsaw.
For cutting the defense budget?
My most generous interpretation is that they took this as a sign of being “anti-government” and “more likely to resent FEMA’s presence” or something. Which could be true in some (a lot?) of cases… Doesn’t mean they’re right to do things — if they’re supposed to contact folks, they’re supposed to… but I’m suspicious that was their at least overt thinking (sub-conscious may well have been “avoid the icky!” true).
Promoting/proclaiming your preferred flavor of .gov is not “anti-government”. It’s literally the opposite.
Being pro Trump could be interpreted as “anti-commie rat fucker”. They shouldn’t be worried unless they are, actually, commie rat fuckers.
I guarantee the safety thing was the premise but that’s bigotry in and of itself. At least the official was gotten rid of and there were actually several whistleblowers who knew that was no bueno.
The official was not gotten rid of. Rather, ze was transferred to another county.
So it’s another case of “one bad apple”. Not necessarily a sign of total rot.
But yes, bad apples need to be crushed and flushed down the drain.
Planned Pogromhood?
“Dutch PM ‘horrified’ by attacks after soccer match”
In other news, Dr. Frankenstein Distressed at Experiment’s Outcome.
Just remember, the Country That Hid Anne Frank(tm) is also the country that ratted her out.
Someone mentioned noise that maybe the Israeli’s “started it” by booing or whistling or whatever Europeans do these days during a moment of silence at that match.
Was there any follow up in the media to that I wonder. Nothing I’ve seen.
It sounds to me like hooligans from both sides were itching for a fight as hooligans often are, and once it got started the Muslim hooligans weren’t too picky about whom they beat.
This might be a dumb question, but why does FEMA have personnel in other countries?
Um…. “county” Pat. 😉 Note the lack of “R” , matey! (arrrr)
I’m looking forward to an abundance of r’s on Friday evenings.
YARRRR!
Well, that makes more sense…
Because FYTW.
So today, my next ex-girlfriend and I are going for a long walk
I think Q needs a new theme, maybe a Sunday evening OMWC gallery. “No no no! We’re already on enough lists, we don’t need the FBI Child Porn division tracking us too!” But, see the theme would be NPR ladies, a sort of “OMWCs GILF Gallery”, preferably with images featuring NPR tote bags.
TBH, never heard of that guy.
But the complete horseshit in that article infuriates me. People are falling for that garbage and making life miserable for everyone around them.
As Secretary General of the UN, he’s usually in the headlines for his indignant rants about Jews not wanting to be slaughtered. This is a brand extension, sort of doing the reverse of Greta.
That could be anyone at the UN.
Understanding the watermelons and nearly every ‘movement’ or government action:
To subjugate a people those people must be made weak. Strike at their ability to prosper without you.
That is the root of all evil.
Sigh. Something bugs me about this story.
Maybe it’s the tens of thousands I heard they’re getting from GoFundMe (for what?). I bet their porn page is on fire, too.
After seven years? OK, then.
My bitter cynicism senses are tingling at all of this.
Unless they made the call to DEC themselves, I really don’t see what difference any of the rest makes.
The GoFundMe is (supposedly) for their animal shelter. The need for a license is arguably just another bureaucratic overreach, anyway, and the fact that it was pending just shows how slow and inept the agency is.
Depends on when he applied for it.
Maybe it’s all on the level and the fantastic amounts of attention and profit they’re getting is just a happy result.
Or maybe not. It just reeks to me.
so what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/la+cabanne+pomerol+bordeaux+france/2017/
pretty good
Nothing yet, but likely a too-young Riesling tonight.
Bordeaux has gotten ridiculously expensive here for anything decent.
Maxwell House. You know you’re just trolling, Pie. But o — I am positive you’re not drinking…. wine.
why would I be trolling. It is literally what I am drinking as we type
Because you know it is morning in the States, we’re not all day drinkers and coffee or the like is almost certainly going to be our answers — and then you heckle the coffee. We’ve seen this before, we do pay attention… not all blind as a bat.
Most times I do not heckle the coffee. And most times when I do it is because it is not single origin specialty coffee.
Single origin is for yuppie poseurs. Blends from a local master roaster, that’s the good stuff…
Blends suck 9 out of 10 times. most are made for milkers
The usual – iced mocha latte in my Glibs latte mug! When this carton is gone, if the weather has finally cooled off, I may be making the seasonal switch to hot chai latte.
The usual – triple espresso over ice.
French roast.
The blackest/cheapest coffee I can find at the store in semi bulk.
Chateau La Sink.
Ha. I was somewhat surprised the other day when I realized he was commentating the game I was watching and he was actually reasonably personable. Always thought he came across as not that.
I’ve been surprised at how well he’s done as an announcer.
Goals today…
Wasserhund -> Smart Mouth -> Vibrant Shore -> Aslin
about 6 miles more or less.
Hoping for an update on my waiver by Tuesday night (more likely Wed AM)….
update on my waiver
This is getting to be like the Cal score.
I think I mentioned my friend who visited toronto and used it to make conclusions about the whole of the U.S. He recently mentioned how he did not like that steakhouses only had grain fed beef and he wanted grass fed. I know in US grass fed grain finished is a thing, but how often can you find 100% grass fed in high end steakhouses?
I have two farms nearby who sell the hell out of grass-fed beef. I was assured by Spud that grass-fed is inferior, but then again, he’s been breathing in excessive smoke for the past 40 years.
I thought it was Bacon-magic that was smoke cured around here.
grass-fed is inferior
Personally, I much prefer the flavor of grass-fed/grain-finished as opposed to 100% grass fed. The main argument for 100% grass fed is, nutritionally, the ratio of omega3 to omega6 being more favorable, and, environmentally/policy, grass fed are generally on more of the small regenerative ranches and outside of the feed lot system. On the first, beef is such a minor source of either 3 and 6 that I think it’s in the weeds to fret too much about that. On the later, it is concern, especially from the perspective of centralized vs distributed sourcing – during the ‘pandemic’ I did buy 1/2 cows regularly from smaller ranches but it does get expensive. Maybe if Massie does go to Ag and there’s some progress on something like the PRIME Act, some of that cost on the small rancher side can come down.
Pie – essentially all commercial beef in the US is grass fed/grain finished with some 100% grass fed available as specialty/high end ‘luxury’ goods in higher end grocers. The commercial herds spent the bulk of their life out on the pastures and ranches (grass fed) and a relatively smaller portion of their (end of) life on the feed lot on grain to ‘fatten up’ (as an aside, interesting that you stuff something with grains to make them fat… wonder if there’s a hint there). I don’t eat out hardly at all and never a steak house – too expensive and not as good in general as what I can do at home – but I believe that all the ‘high end’ steak houses are going to be out the commercial (e.g. grass fed/grain finished). Outside of specialty joints that advertise 100% grass fed as marketing/selling point, you won’t get 100% grass when out to eat.
I buy from a local rancher. I think grass fed/finished ground beef is about the best thing ever.
Eggs and raw milk, too. It’s all superior.
“Grass fed” is ill-defined.
https://extension.sdstate.edu/grass-fed-beef-understanding-terminology-conventionally-raised-beef-and-grass-fed-beef
Grass fed means it only eats grass throughout its life to the point of becoming steak. why would it be ill defined? it eats grass not grain or other stuff. Off course grass meaning various plants on a pasture.
Read the article. Or not.
Heh… that raises the odd mental image of Florida Man trying to start a business with “genuine kudzu fed beef!”
It probably would taste like crap if anyone tried it — which is too bad… something like that might help the Southeast recover from that fecund pestilence.
What is the point of reading the article? I did but it changes nothing. I made it clear what I mean. I see no point in playing definition games. Just because it is fashionable these days to change the meaning of words for fun and profit.
As I said, “Grass fed” is an ill defined term. You have a definition, others have other definitions.
That’s the very definition of “ill defined”
well I specifically added 100% in my initial post to make it clear what I mean and contrasted it to grain finish so I am not sure where the confusion is
“Why would it be ill defined?”
You, like most people, make assumptions about what phrases mean…you assume it is the commonly understood meaning of the words used. You do this because you dont work in the marketing industry.
Grain fed
Free range
hand made
organic
wild
Fresh
The list is long of words legally defined to mean the opposite of what the common meaning is.
tl;dr We don’t have 100% grass-fed beef here in the US.
Did he know that he was actually in Canada…?
well yes but he assumes the US is just like Canada only more guns.
Fine… he’s mostly right.
I like the weird little differences when I’m there.
basically he wanted to visit the US on holiday for 3 weeks, but he was 5 days in toronto with work, he had a bad stomach that period, assumed the food is to blame, assumed the food in the US will make his stomach sick, and not he is not sure if he want to holiday in the US because he thinks he will have a bad stomach the whole time due to the horrible food in that part of the world.
Tell him to get over himself.
Lots of us live in both countries without stomach issues.
Anyway, I like Toronto. The go-to destination for young college kids in Buffalo.
That’s too bad. He was so close and could have seen if he could get grass-fed Beef on weck.
Mmmmm I miss that… the hotel I worked at used to have that in the bar’s buffet. I could live on that shit.
I don’t know how the horseradish would affect a sensitive stomach, but it’ll sure open up stuffy sinuses! 😳
… rare, au jus, horseradish … 🤤
I had no idea that song was them.
I stopped paying attention after 1990.
You and everyone else.
It is slightly regrettable because those first three albums are fantastic. But sometimes I just lose interest in a band for no particular reason I can figure out.
I’m straight but I’m willing to marry Javier Milei if he keeps doing what he’s doing.
I would give it a few years before conclusions
Left: Tim Montgomerie, “I wouldn’t mind if some universities close. Because they’re not providing a good education”
Right: Bonnie Greer, “Go to university because it expands your mind.. You become a human being.. A university is not a business.. It is the centre for expanding your humanity”
https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1854688740335079859
OMG the comments.
There is a reason I don’t twix.
I can never see comments on X. I just get ‘something went wrong’.
I have no time or inclination to figure out why and fix it.
do you have an account / are you logged in?
Yeah, now I remember. I forgot my username and without it it is impossible to get in contact with them apparently. I fuck with it a little and think…screw this I have better things to do.
I don’t have an account but I do see comments.
“During the two-day operation, which began this past Monday, undercover detectives went to 22 different Asian massage parlors around Polk County to get massages from licensed therapists.
But 20 of those women – who are all from the Republic of China – offered sex acts to the detectives completely unprompted…
It led to the arrests of the women – three of whom were US citizens while the others were here on work visas.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14062079/Florida-cops-arrest-spa-workers-Operation-Skin-Soft.html
They’re not sending their best.
offered sex acts to the detectives completely unprompted – happened to me once and I am not even a cop
But based on the above you wanted it to take years before your happy ending.
Our heroes in blue.
while the others were here on work visas
And they were working, what’s the issue?
“What belongs to each Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should be delegated the power to tell an Argentine what to do with his or her property.”
Whoa, wjoa, whoa. that there is pariah state talk.
I’m kind of skeptical of the Iran story. Sounds too convenient.
So they people who wouldn’t mind seeing Trump dead, and desperately want war with Iran… Have figured out that Iran is trying to kill Trump?
Maybe. Or maybe they make a great patsy while pointing Trump’s foreign policy in the direction they want it to go.
Keep that up and I might find myself questioning why they let 10 (12?) radicals continue no-landing flight simulators, roam the country and have such lousy security at Logan Airport when W ran on a more isolationist platform…..
“So they people who wouldn’t mind seeing Trump dead, and desperately want war with Iran… Have figured out that Iran is trying to kill Trump?”
That’s the way it smells to me.
@Fourscore: Trey and Marina had 8 daughters and one cuntalicious sociopath who was the bane of many people’s existence, gaslit her lover into killing her husband and trying to kill her niece, then ended up killing herself.
Is that the secret code to trigger the sleeper agents?
You have promises to keep…
No. It’s part of the plot of Hamlet.
Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?
“‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief”
Blah, blah, blah. Give us more money or you’ll all die!
How many times will people continue to fall for this shit?
“We are determined to find out” – Manbearpig
Infinity times. Half the country votes for a political party which puts this hoax at or near the top of their platform every election.
The same platform that cant tell reality from fantasy, sanity from insanity, right from wrong etc.
Suddenly they are serious experts on a highly technical but not well understood area of scientific study.
Also, they have a 100% perfect record of being wrong on everything for at least my lifetime.
But-
but- but-
Ahead of the election, billionaire businessman Mark Cuban claimed on “The View” that former President Donald Trump eschewed strong women and that he found them “intimidating.”“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women ever,” Cuban said. “It’s just that simple.”
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One of Trump’s first acts as president-elect was on Thursday to tap his campaign co-manager Susie Wiles to be his chief of staff.
Wiles will be the first woman in that critical and powerful role.
“Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected,” Trump said in a statement. “Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again.”
Apparently, Trump’s not afraid of those characteristics after all.
She’s not black.
Wait a minute. I thought Valerie Jarret was chief of staff?
Trump chose well for his campaign manager. Apparently, he finally found someone who would get in his face and say, “This is what needs to happen to get the results you want. Do what I tell you to do.”
“Senior advisor.”
After learning that she is Pat Summerall’s daughter, all I can see when I look at her now is Pat in drag (she has the same face)
He should bring back Kayleigh McEnany as press secretary. She took absolutely zero shift from TMITE.
Beaucoup T&A on a snowy Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.is/BFQsl
“ snowy Silicone Saturday.”
Did the storm turn out to be as bad as forecast?
Some cures for ED in that batch.
With wildfires, drought and extreme weather already ravaging parts of the planet, new research raises concerns about the stability of natural carbon sinks that underpin decarbonisation efforts. Forests, plants and soil – as a net category – absorbed almost no carbon in 2023 during the hottest year on record. While the collapse of land carbon sinks may be temporary, scientists have warned that cracks in the resilience of the Earth’s systems are beginning to show.
Is this some new gambit to frighten us? Plants won’t absorb carbon anymore, because Gaia is angry?
Now we’re going to have to go to net-negative, and that will definitely require a global socialist dictatorship.
Plants won’t absorb carbon anymore, because Gaia is angry?
The plant equivalent of B4 – no more carbon dioxide absorption! We’ll hold our breath until you people accede to our demands!
Emma Vigeland
@EmmaVigeland
Can’t believe I actually had faith in other white women to choose our collective reproductive rights over their own whiteness. Naive and dumb.
Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
You’re the best white woman, not like those other white women, who are worse white women than you are.
https://x.com/charlescwcooke/status/1854330863854514601
vince
@chparmsandwich
Dude people didn’t show up in droves for Harris literally BECAUSE she wasn’t left enough lmao. A fuck ton of democrat voters sat out because she’s a center right candidate
https://x.com/chparmsandwich/status/1854297499772551271
there are various opinions and this is one one them
Well… some voters sat out the election because she didn’t hate Israel enough.
But not enough to account for the millions of fewer votes than Biden got – it’s looking more and more like those votes just appeared out of thin air.
‘Looking more and more like…”
It always did it is just getting more difficult to make it forbidden to point that out.
Guterres would not comment on how he thought the donor base to the climate process should change, instead urging governments to take decisive action on phasing out fossil fuels entirely.
“Until 2030, we should be reducing by 9% every year. Unfortunately, last year, there was still a growth of 1.3% which means that either we fully assume the sense of urgency at the level of governments, corporations and the other key generators of climate change, or we risk not only to go above the 1.5 degrees, but eventually to go above two degrees. Let’s not forget that we are on course for 3.1C at the present moment,” he said.
Until these comments are made from a yurt heated and lit by cow hung fires you and the rest of your death cultists can fuck right off.
Pizza Omakase from No. 1 Ranked Pizzeria in Asia with Daniele Cason – The Pizza Bar on 38th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDbd8XRi2z8
What is the Official Glibertarian position on putting some thyme on a steak besides the S&P ?
Um … the only things that belong on a good cut of beef is butter, salt, and pepper.
“good cut of beef” is gonna include a tri tip which opens the door to Santa Maria seasoning.
😛
We don’t do tri-tip here. I mean, we do steak, but our thing is more toward pork ribs and beef burnt ends.
gonna include a tri tip
And just like that, Sean has decided what’s for dinner tomorrow at Maison de Putrid…. hmmm. Maison de Meat…. nope, not better.
No Santa Maria seasoning, Tri-tip au Jus de Poison.
Chimmichurri sauce is also good.
Maison de Meat…. nope, not better.
I beg to differ.
Though you could go with Maison de la viande
Or Chez Meat. Thats’s got a nice ring to it.
Typically yes, but as noted carnivore Sean says, Santa Maria on tri tip is fantastic. I also do a coffee rub mix on tri tip that’s great. I’m a pretty big fan of an anchovy compound butter, particularly works well on New Yorks. Mash together some fresh garlic, a generous amount of anchovy paste, butter, parsley and a squeeze of lemon juice. Spread over steaks just as they come out the pan onto plate. Heaven.
But now we’re getting into BBQ, not steak.
I don’t even use pepper. Just salt.
I do salt, pepper and some cayenne. Lots of different things sometimes. I support your position.
And as Neph said, chimichurri. It is actually good on everything. Chimi chicken, pork chops or tenderloin, steaks, and it works really well with salmon too.
Fresh thyme in a compound butter? Absolutely.
And then it puts the butter on pork loin chops…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/tony-todd-star-of-candyman-film-series-and-final-destination-dies-at-69/ar-AA1tNrzA
An iconic actor.
Yah, saw that. RIP.
Great in everything I’ve seen.
Did he die in a highly improbable accident?
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕
@jeremykauffman
Your child might be a libertarian
– Want to save their money instead of spend it
– Ask why you have the right to set their bed time
– Memorize every precedent you’ve set and carefully monitor violations
– Own their own firearm
– Start a business before age 14
My kids are strongly encouraged to resolve disputes among themselves.
If they cannot, they can invoke Dad Court. There is no crying in Dad Court. They have to argue like lawyers, and all rulings are final.
Invoking Dad Court inappropriately is itself a court violation.
https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/1853162926598926479
if 14 is to young to work it is to young to own a business.
What is the official.glibertarian position on drinking a glass of Țuică while grilling the meat on a cold day?
You do you?
So when he announced the overhaul of the nation’s largest tax agency, he was not just pledging to cut government spending. He is credibly committing to the country’s liberalization by firing tax-hungry bureaucrats whose mission it was to punish entrepreneurs and wealth generators.
Those fired tax collectors can all move to Brussels.
After considering all of the evidence and arguments, the “Court must take action as justice demands,” the Court said in its decision. “PICA is an unconstitutional affront to the Second Amendment and must be enjoined. The Government may not deprive law-abiding citizens of their guaranteed right to self-defense as a means of offense.”
How many divisions does the judge have?
Punish the wicked
In one of its most controversial decisions, California’s air board voted tonight to revamp a key climate change program, which could increase gas prices in a state already facing some of the nation’s steepest costs at the pump.
The California Air Resources Board approved major changes to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard, a program aimed at encouraging use of cleaner transportation fuels with financial incentives as the state moves toward phasing out gasoline and diesel.
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At the heart of the controversy is the question: How do you wean Californians off gasoline and diesel — which is critical for cleaning the state’s dirty air and reducing its role in the climate crisis — without substantially raising the cost to consumers?
Many air board members referred to an urgency to push for cleaner fuels in California because of the outcome of the Tuesday election, which gave Donald Trump, who has denied the existence of climate change and targeted California environmental programs, the presidency and Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.
Substantially raising costs to consumers is the goal. We all know that. Anybody who voted for Trump deserves to suffer.
They will also accept piles of corpses.
What is their plan post-IC engine to avoid the gallows? They better have a solid plan because when people see the reality of what that means…
No Santa Maria seasoning, Tri-tip au Jus de Poison.
Did you get that from the Lucretia Borgia Cookbook?
Mojeaux,
I finished “1520 Main” this morning. I like it, thanks for sharing. One question:
Though Gio’s uncle had been killed, the bounty was still in force. He had left town the second Trey, Bishop, Boss Tom, and Brother John finished hammering out the deal, and had begun to establish himself with a new name, religion, and occupation in a place the Cosa Nostra would never think to look.
Did I miss something about Gio or are you just moving the plot forward quickly?
And I remember Gio had a bounty on his head. I just don’t remember the other stuff.
Gio got short shrift later in the book after I established Dot and Gio’s relationship, because that wasn’t going to change. And also, Marina was in Minneapolis. So basically, that was just a “where are they now” point for the reader. Tying up loose ends without adding 4 more chapters.
So, this is a technical side note.
One reason my books are long is because I’m trying not to write episodically (choppy), which I’ve always struggled with. When your story takes place over years instead of days or weeks, it’s hard to do.
To properly give weight to Dot and Gio’s story without the whole thing feeling episodic, I would have had to write transition scenes and suchlike. However, since I felt Dot and Gio’s relationship was established by 3/4 of the way through the book and we can infer that their relationship was somewhat static, I didn’t feel it was necessary to write more about it.
I get it. Thanks!
Eric Guerra, a Sacramento city council member who was appointed to the air board by Gov. Gavin Newsom, said the air board must prioritize public health but that support of working families is equally important, so he called for frequent monitoring of the possible impact on gas prices.
Something something phony baloney jobs.
Environmentalists and consumer advocates opposed the new rules, warning the changes will boost alternative fuels — such as biofuels made from cow manure or soy beans — that may have limited environmental upsides, and will allow oil companies to stay in business because they can buy credits or switch to producing those fuels.
“It is not based on science, and it will undermine environmental justice and the rapid transition to zero emissions that we need more than ever today,” Nina Robertson, a senior attorney with Earth Justice told the board. “It represents a grab bag of giveaways to polluting special interests that have turned what once was a program for climate progress into a piggy bank for their false climate solutions.”
Let’s hear your “scientific” basis for this notion of so-called environmental justice. These people are dangerous fanatics and should be mocked mercilessly any time they appear in public.
allow oil companies to stay in business
Points for honesty, I suppose.
She and her ilk are pure con artists. The gibberish they push is something they would never live by themselves. They impose it on you so that they get money. It is stealing by deception.
Deprive her of everything she has that exists because of fossil fuels and she would have no possessions at her disposal whatsoever, including any man-made infrastructure. She would be naked wandering around in a harsh wilderness and would probably die within 48 hours.
Wow, that second paragraph there reads like something right out of the twilight zone. That is one impressive basket of gibberish.
My steak was a disappointment. I do not know how to say it in American but I call it stringy in Romanian. Basically full of those white conjunctive tissues string like things. I hate those and barely ate half of the steak.
What cut?
theoretically rib eye. worst one I had all year
“gristle”
I though gristle was the crunchy stuff that is nice to eat like at the end of bones. Then again some westerners don’t like the crunchy gristle.
But it is not the conjunctive tissue but how you call meat with it. so not gristle but gristley
so how do you call the crunchy stuff at then end of bones?
Connective tissue
Gristle is the stuff on the bones, yes, but we generally use it for anything in meat that is edible but not necessarily desirable and difficult to chew.
Connective yes, my mind went to the romanian word
Chewy and tough? Yep. ‘Stringy’ works quite well.
The crusty stuff at the end of bones? If cooked, I’d just called that ‘fried’ or ‘the crust.’ The fried skin of chicken is obviously the best tasting part of fried chicken. Chicken, while prosperous, cheap and nutritious, is exceptionally boring. Hence ‘all food’ tasting like it, I presume ,what with the non-distinct, get-the-job done aspect of food. Like everything, it can be delicious if prepared well. Frequently with other food that tastes much better.
Gristle is the stuff on the bones, yes, but we generally use it for anything in meat that is edible but not necessarily desirable and difficult to chew.
I always thought gristle was cartilage.
It is, but maybe I’m wrong about who uses which word for what. My family uses gristle as a catchall but we know what we’re chewing off the end of a chicken bone is cartilage.