I’m back with tales of adventure, feats of derring-do, and… wait, I got nothin’. Highlight of last weekend when I was gone was meeting the mayor of Buffalo. Surprisingly, he didn’t have horns. Even more surprisingly, neither did I. There’s a theme here: both Beer and Buffalo start with the letter B. Seriously, what are the odds?
Speaking of highlights, there’s birthdays, including a guy responsible for 9/11; a guy who’s getting married in the morning; the guy who brought us the Holy Trinity; one of SP’s heroines; a guy who made a career as a shlub; a guy who couldn’t wait to go back to prison; a horrifically poor president who looks better now because of the even worse guys who followed him; a woman who gave Young Man With Candy funny feelings in his bathing suit area; the best Jewish baseball player I ever saw; and a guy who never took steroids, honest!.
Let’s get to Links.
Like this is going to end Gaptooth’s grift.
I’m shocked, shocked that Congress might support corruption.
“It’s all about the Benjamins.” Say, has Omar been kept under wraps before the mid-terms? She’s been uncharacteristically quiet- or the press has been uncharacteristically reticent about covering her.
Craig Kilborn says, “Miss me yet?”
Is this actually ginned up outrage over a nothingburger or bizarrely silly pandering?
So wait, news coverage of global warming climate change climate catastrophe is bullshit?
Old Guy Music is a really nice song (I played it myself a few times- easy chord structure) by a woman with a terrific voice, and there’s a hidden joke. That aside, there’s some really true and deep emotion there, and that drives the music.
“It is Oktober. There is bier.”
And weird spelling?
Das ist normal für Deutsch.
“Like this is going to end Gaptooth’s grift.”
I for one support Micheal Strahan’s transition.
Lol.
Sick burn.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
https://youtu.be/JWsRz3TJDEY
More on-topic buffalo.
Always liked that song. She disappeared quickly.
Wow, that is a time-warp. Eighties overload!
I met the mayor of Rochester once. I guess that is the closest I have come to royalty.
The one whose husband was dealing drugs?
Nah, it was decades ago.
I once encountered Queen Sylvia of Sweden. I was at Skansen, an awesome historical park with an animal zoo and all kinds of cool stuff, on Swedish National Day.
I was wearing the traditional Swedish National dress, and unexpectedly (to me) people lined up on one of many roads. Turns out that King Carl and Queen Sylvia were passing by in a horse-drawn carriage. She was sitting back and casually waving to onlookers, then saw me in the Swedish outfit. She then sat straight upright, grinned, and enthusiastically waved at me (not the “queen’s wave”) because we two were the only ones wearing the national costume.
Swedish National Dress (queen Sylvia on the right; her daughters to the left): https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-00ed9bc042be053396dfb8a699a4b006.webp
Trivia: Queen Sylvia is the subject of the ABBA song “dancing queen”.
lol nice.
That is a classic tune.
Damn, HS… globe trotting practical engineer and high sciences, national weapons labs and rubbing elbows with dancing Queens now.
Between you, OMWC, Sloopy the Super Auctioneer and the others here living their dreams, all I can say is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjaqrPpdQYc
I live a much quieter life, and that’s how I want it in my heart — but y’all really impress the hell out of me some days.
I vacillate between thinking I’m glad I didn’t go balls-out on my youthful ambitions, and thinking that’s probably just a sour grapes cope for a mediocrity that would have prevented me from ever fulfilling them anyway.
Awwe, shucks SDF.
It’s been a wild ride from my little hometown in Oklahoma. I’ve been really lucky to live an adventurous and always interesting life.
Some of my stories can’t be told until declassified, others are just too weird. I might write a memoir to be published after I die.
“There are only two ways to tell the whole truth–anonymously and posthumously.” –Thomas Sowell
“The delay is a momentous setback for the stock trading reform effort, which drew a rare confluence of support from an overwhelming majority of Republican and Democratic voters. ”
Because they know it’s symbolic bullshit?
Nah, those voters actually believe Congress will do something about that; silly voters.
Ah, I missed the word “voters”.
*drinks more coffee*
How could I get in on something like that?
Ask Curtis Armstrong.
DO YOU KNOW THE STREET VALUE OF THIS MOUNTAIN?!?
Sorry to go OT at this time, but thank y’all for keeping me company last night with the usual Zoom shenanigans. It really, really helped. I was convinced a tree was goin to fall on the house at any minute, and I was fixin to go into the fetal position. I really did fall asleep listening to some shit about beer or obscure hipster movies or TV shows.
Sorry you had such a scare, and glad it turned out OK….but isn’t part of the point of RV living the ability to drive your home away from approaching nasty weather? 🤔
I’m not on the RV
Ah! Got it!
I can’t imagine how lipped out I would have been if I were on the rig. But, like you said, I could have moved it. In fact, judging by the weather app, if I drove 1 mile south of here (my dad’s house), there would be very little wind.
*flipped out
Sorry I was already checked out when you showed up. I was wondering and worried.
Glad you’re OK.
Matthau is the best! I rewatched Bad News Bears just yesterday; it holds up well and is still a fantastic film. Ditto The Taking Of Pelham 123 and Charley Varrick.
He made a good bad guy in one of my favorites, Charade.
Well, it also has Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
Inorite??? Does it get any better than that??
Cary Grant and Myrna Loy? Take your pick of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House or The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.
Mr. Blandings is one of my favorite films; the book is even better as it does not contain all the superfluous stuff about the advertising game and Gussie the maid and Wham that was added to the film. As WebDom and I are currently fixin’ up a century old house that was previously occupied by deadbeat tenants (who squatted for 18 months and let their kid and cats destroy the place), that film hits very close to home. It’s funny because it’s true.
“yep”
He also has a supporting role as the good-guy friend of James Mason in Bigger Than Life, which has the hilarious premise of Mason getting addicted to cortisone and developing delusions of grandeur.
123 was an awesome movie. It really cemented the “old cop about to retire” trope.
The remake was dog shit.
Night follows day. I can only think of one remake, ever, that improved on the original and that was Man on Fire.
No Way Out
Better than The Big Clock?
The other No Way Out is pretty darn good, too.
Two movies with the same title and no other connection?
Sure. There’s also two completely different movies titled Heaven Can Wait.
Then not exactly remakes, are they?
Fistful of Dollars at least got close to equality with Yojimbo.
And to be fair to my hindbrain that likes the shiny shiny and the explosions, I can watch Star Wars much more than The Hidden Fortress.
John Carpenter’s The Thing.
Probably The Wizard of Oz, although to be fair I’ve never actually seen the silent film.
Silent to sound is a different type of remake.
“John Carpenter’s The Thing.”
I wouldn’t call it a remake. It’s too different from the original.
Evil Dead 2 was better than the extremely low budget Evil Dead 1.
I was confused when watching Evil Dead 2, thinking “Now why would he go back to that cabin? He knows that bad shit happens there!!!” Then I understood it was not a sequel; it was a complete remake but this time with a budget > $1000.
Then there is another remake, Evil Dead (2013).
I prefer The Road Warrior to Mad Max, but they’re both good movies. I meant to add this to a “sequels suck” convo that was going on here, but I didn’t feel like logging in.
By the way, there was no third movie, so don’t talk about it.
Obviously, Penguin doesn’t run Bartertown.
Airplane!
Can’t deny it — though I’m a bit of a weirdo in that I enjoy Zero Hour as well.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Airplane.
He was a funny guy and, yes, that’s a great movie. It’s hard to watch it without thinking about the opposing coach’s head getting cut off by a helicopter blade but still funny nonetheless.
I’m reminded of the Mel Brooks quote: Tragedy is when I get a paper cut on my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
I know I’ve seen Matthau in about 200 roles, but right now the only ones I can think of are Grumpy Old Men and The Survivors. The former kinda sucked. The latter was kinda good.
Odd Couple
Grumpy Old Men is redeemed by the presence of Ann-Margaret. Also Burgess Meredith with a barrage of euphemisms at the end of the film.
It’s been over 20 years since I saw it. I have no recollection of that scene, unfortunately. Burgess Meredith in The Obsolete Man and Robert Duvall in Miniature are tied for my favorite performances/episodes of Twilight Zone.
+1 takin’ the skin boat to tuna town
The Sunshine Boys
Charley Varrick, looking this up I saw it’s based on a novel called ‘The Looters’ I thought I’d buy a copy, as I like a good heist novel. Used paperbacks are going for 70$, check your bookshelves.
“Used paperbacks are going for 70$”
What?
Out of print, and no e-book version, so their rare, I guess. You can get a movie-tie in copy, titled ‘Charley Varrick’ instead of ‘The Looters’ for 35$ so that’s a bargain.
Yaaas. I rewatch that all the time – so good.
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a great movie.
Mornin y’all.
Good morning, Sean!
☕😀
Gallifrey has a South as well as a North, it seems… 😉 Mornin’, Sean.
Good Morning
Good Morning
“”The RAP Act (Restorating Artistic Protection Act) – preventing the use of lyrics as the sole basis to prosecute cases.””
The sole basis?
OK, I read the whole article and it doesn’t say what the bill says.
Of course not — it couldn’t be a political ad for Newsom if it had substance and let people think beyond the rah-rah’s.
That would require the journalist to work. Work is passe.
Love the totally not-racist assumptions in that. Never change, Dems.
My death threats identify as rap lyrics.
If I ever threaten to kill Gavin Newsome,
I’ll just be rappin’ with my crew, son.
“I would suppose there are many members who have not actually read the legislation. And it’s certainly an important enough issue that we need to take adequate time to deliberate on it. We know that stock trading by members of Congress and by judges — Article III judges — is unacceptable,” he said, referring to judges who are nominated by the president and can only be removed from office with impeachment proceedings.
Read the legislation before they vote on it? Why start now?
I’d extend that to being sure that insider trading includes using any advance information from congresscritters on upcoming hearings or legislation to handle the family members getting rich on their behalf (like oh, Mr. Pelosi for just a wild example… Well, rich-*er*… lots of graft going back lots of years in that family).
And I’m sure that would never pass either… can’t keep the hogs from the trough when they’re the ones voting and all.
The d’Alesandro family in Baltimore had a long and rich history.
/looks around nervously
That’s just crazy talk!
If a Jew-hating, brother-marrying, Muslim, pinko harpie says some bugfuck nutso anti-Semitic bullshit and there’s no one from the D.C. press corps there to cover it, does she make a sound?
God character summary of Omar.
She’s awful.
And will get re-elected. Because Minneapolis is true blue.
(Why she doesn’t get primaried is beyond me.)
Better Somali vote buying organization, I think.
She was primaried last time. She still won.
Matthau is the best! I rewatched Bad News Bears just yesterday; it holds up well and is still a fantastic film. Ditto The Taking Of Pelham 123 and Charley Varrick.
Don’t forget Hopscotch.
Lyrical confessions are inadmissible?
Here’s the thing about the data showing no trend in Florida landfalls: it doesn’t matter. You can quote numbers and fucking data and shit to these idiots and they’ll be vomiting forth the same nonsense before the day is through. Like the endless lectures on the definition of “assault weapon” or “fascist” it does not a damn bit of good in a post facts world.
Religion be like that.
There’s a new anti-gun propaganda ad making the rounds on local teevee.
https://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/northwell-health-addresses-gun-safety-by-equating-it-with-owning-a-tiger/178810/
“Guns are now the leading cause of death for kids”. Well it turns out that “kids” include those up to age 19. I spent a fruitless hour trying to find a breakdown by age for the “study”, since I expect most of those deaths occur on the streets of urban jungles. But they do helpfully break it down on racial and ethnic lines.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
The Northwell ad leads one to believe that there is an epidemic of accidental deaths in homes. Assholes.
There have been a lot of corollaries made in the exotic animal ownership world over the past couple decades from following how gun ownership was abolished in the UK. The UK started with Tacticool weapons, no one needs an AR, etc., and all the Fudds and handgun owners cheered along. Then the UK went after handguns and the Fudds went along. Then they came for the Fudds. Divide and conquer.
I’ve watched the reptile community cheer as the US went after private ownership of exotic mammalian predators like tigers, claiming no one needed to own a tiger. Then the reptile community divided itself as the gov went after ownership of larger constrictors and venomous snakes. Now many cities outright ban ownership of completely harmless pets like cornsnakes, in addition to non-reptiles (ferrets, parrots, etc).
And not just predators. It’s become exceedingly difficult for private ownership of any non-domestic animal larger than a hedgehog. It’s very ironic to see the tiger ownership argument flipped on gun owners instead being used the other way around.
What the actual fuck?
Better than BTS.
Remember when Matisyahu was a thing?
Thankfully barely
No… can’t say I ever remember that happening, sorry.
Is this actually ginned up outrage over a nothingburger or bizarrely silly pandering?
Yes
Enigma
“DeSantis is showing — though the process is ongoing — that he can play both the political culture warrior and the in-charge governor of the entire state,” former Republican National Committee spokesman Doug Heye said, calling DeSantis a “Trump with substance.”
DeSantis has been a thorn in the side of the Biden administration for the last year-and-a-half, eliciting frequent responses from the White House briefing room podium and at one point last year referring to the Biden administration as the “Brandon administration” in a nod to a popular conservative meme mocking the president.
The White House has sparred with DeSantis over his ban on mask mandates in schools; his support for a law that restricts discussion of sexual orientation in the classroom; and most recently his decision to fly migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.
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CNN published a story this week that noted DeSantis was urging Floridians to heed the warnings and instructions of some of the same local officials whose guidance he said to ignore early on in the coronavirus pandemic as he pushed for the state to reopen businesses and drop mask mandates.
Gotcha.
Quite a reach but it’ll get the true believers’ heads a noddin.
The fact that the RNC isn’t shitting its pants about DeSantis tells me he’s going to end up being to the MAGA/Deplorable/Trumpista/whatever-we’re-calling-it movement exactly what Rubio and Toomey were to Tea Party movement.
“his decision to fly migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.”
Why would the governor of Florida do that?
‘Orning ‘ordle report: Theme Music. ‘Nuff said.
Daily Duotrigordle #213
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 08:33.19
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Daily Duotrigordle #213
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 05:00.08
slow day
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meh
Fun with crap seed words.
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Upper left screwed me hard. On the bright side, by my last guess there was only one possible word the remaining letters could have spelled…
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Tundra line, which is 1 (4 total) better than I usually do.
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Stupid top left.
New York is planning to use prison boats for illegal aliens.
Sounds like Adams is hoping to have great expectations.
Like Ellis Island but reversed.
Once they load up the boat with illegals from Venezuela, they’ll sail to Venezuela, right?
Right?
If they can hang/finish drywall we’ll take them in Ohio.
Ran out of French Canadians?
Hell, I miss Stewart (but only rarely).
Never saw the Kilborn version.
I thought Greg Kinnear preceded Stewart
Wasn’t Kinnear the original host of Talk Soup, before Joel McHale?
Kilborn was the best. He and (show creator/head writer) Liz Winstead made a fantastic duo. Stewart turned the show into a DNC talking points extravaganza.
Fun Fact – Kilborn and his roommate both auditioned for the role and his roommate almost won the part. That roommate was Mike Rowe who then went on to create Dirty Jobs.
No shit!! I love Mike Rowe. Thanks for sharing the trivia!!
Well I’ll be…
Kinnear hosted Talk Soup for several years…good old show.
I never watched Talk Soup, but I loved The Soup. The Soup would be very successful on Youtube if it were reimagined and rebooted, I think.
Same show, they dropped the Talk part for some reason. Probably would do well until they got bounced for telling the wrong joke-it was pretty irreverent from what I remember.
They dropped the Talk part because in the Kinnear days it was focused on talk shows. When they went to The Soup, they covered all TV genres
Nope I’m wrong. That was Talk Soup, which preceded The Soup with Joel McHale
Conan O Brien needs to dust off the Masturbating Bear and apply for the job.
I watched the Kilborn era. Early Stewart was fine but as he settled in it went proggie.
Yeah, I tuned out long before smug prick showed up.
Worst if all he is responsible for Samantha bee and this joker.
And by settled in, you mean Obama got elected and speaking truth to power went out of fashion.
Baseless nonsense
The Kremlin and Russian state media are aggressively pushing a baseless conspiracy theory blaming the United States for damage to natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in what analysts said Friday is another effort to split the U.S. and its European allies.
The Russian position is also reverberating on social media forums popular with American conservatives and far-right groups.
NATO leaders believe the damage to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines between Russia and Germany is the result of sabotage. NATO has refrained from identifying a suspect pending an investigation into the damage.
Russia began blaming the U.S. quickly after the damage was reported Monday night. On Friday, speaking at a ceremony to annex four Ukrainian regions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said “Anglo-Saxons” in the West were behind the “terror attacks” but did not specify any nations.
Pravda and other Russian state outlets reported Thursday that the U.S. operates underwater robots capable of carrying out the acts of sabotage. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman wrote about her suspicions of U.S. involvement in a Telegram post.
That doesn’t make sense. We’re the good guys. We’d never do such a thing.
Same “analysts” that were all in on the Steele dossier, that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation, that the Afghan government was going to be around after we left, that have a revolving door with the MSM, who are all for Clapper and other known bare-faced-lying-to-Congress folks? Those analysts, right?
:eyeroll:
I don’t know if it’s baseless or not. Maybe a news organization, hey maybe the AP could put someone on it, could look into it with a critical eye.
Thabk yiu for participating. The “/sarc of the day” award has gone to Stinky Wizzleteats for his comment at 7:48 AM, a mere 48 minutes after the first post of the day. Great Job, Wizzleteats!
The Russian position is also reverberating on social media forums popular with American conservatives and far-right groups…. On Friday, speaking at a ceremony to annex four Ukrainian regions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said “Anglo-Saxons” in the West were behind the “terror attacks” but did not specify any nations.
It’s actually a pretty good speech. For all the talk of Kremlin propaganda and Putin being crazy, I’m hard-pressed to find disagreements with most of it. Contrast the below speech with what spews from DC on any pretty much any issue you want to pick. I’ve had a lot of mental glass windows shattering over the past few months. Framing Russia/Ukraine conflict as nothing more than an invasion of evil bad man Putin into Ukraine is like simplifying a game of chess or Go into tic tac toe.
Also this snippet:
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It was a good speech and a declaration that the age of attempted cooperation is over in every sense of the word.
Id rather have parent 1 and 2 thanmlive in putins russia myself
I’m guessing the American Dad who was sent to jail for objecting to his physician ex-wife having their minor child mutilated would prefer living in Russia than Parent 1 and Parent 2.
I have no idea what this is, but annectodal cases you find every where. probably a lot more in russia than the US. Certainly more russians want to move to US than the other way
Completely agree that America is a more attractive place to live than in Russia on the whole.
Most Americans aren’t currently living under the Parent 1 and Parent 2 dystopia that DC wants to impose. I’m guessing those who are forced under that dynamic, like that father, probably would prefer Russia. If the state abducted my child to castrate them and tried to jail me for opposing, I would certainly do anything in power to get my child and get out of there.
The Parent 1 and Parent 2 dystopia vision describes an Orwellian hellscape far beyond anything in Russia. The closes real-world analogy is probably North Korea.
Parent 1 and Parent 2 dystopia can be fought, putin’s regime cannot
🙄
Now, if he only understood that the elites of both Europe and the US are in cahoots against their own people as well any other country leadership that doesn’t tow the lion.
It sounds like Putin understands that, at least for Europe. He talks about the elites in Europe betraying their own people.
And he’s exactly right on that count. The US just shanked an ally and the government of that country is going to do nothing in response.
It’s becoming more and more clear that the real purpose of this insanity has been to prevent a German/Russian alliance which would be an actual threat to American hegemony. And the old Warsaw Pact countries don’t want it either.
where are the elites any different?
That’s my point. They aren’t. But Americans, and I’m guessing the citizens of Western Europe, naively thought their elites were different.
““Anglo-Saxons””
The upper East Side done did it. Can Anderson Cooper SCUBA dive?
‘Is this actually ginned up outrage over a nothingburger or bizarrely silly pandering?’
I’m sure I’m late to the game, but embrace the power of and.
“Pro poker player is accused of using ‘hidden vibrating device’ to help her win $130,000 hand: Gives money back to her opponent – but claims she was forced to hand it over ‘in a dark hallway'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11269073/Pro-poker-player-accused-using-hidden-vibrating-device-help-win-130-000.html
This story has a familiar theme.
The orgasm wasn’t a tell?
No, that’s a perfectly natural reaction to taking down a $130,000 pot.
At least she didn’t buy a solid gold boat.
This is someone’s kink. Just saying.
Also, this guy sounds like sour grapes, she’d have to know what cards are next too. Maybe she was just sick of his crappy play style of being a pot bully.
If it’s being livestreamed, all you need is a partner watching the stream on a phone paired to your Lush. Anybody that would participate in a livestreamed game like that is a fucking retard.
Yeah, it sounds like a scene from Casino that someone linked here in the last week or so.
President Joe Biden on Friday dismissed Russia’s claims.
“It was a deliberate act of sabotage. And now the Russians are pumping out disinformation and lies,” Biden said. “… When things calm down, we’re going to send the divers down to find out exactly what happened. We don’t know that yet exactly. But just don’t listen to what Putin’s saying. What he’s saying we know is not true.”
The assertions of U.S. responsibility cite Biden’s threat in February to stop the recently completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline if Russia invaded Ukraine. “If Russia invades … then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2,” Biden said. “We will bring an end to it.”
There you have it. Joe says we’re innocent.
He’s the President. He wouldn’t lie.
And if you don’t believe him, you’re just a semi-fascist choosing to live in darkness and insurrection in your winter of despair. C’mon, Jack!
Hey… where’s Jackie? Come on up here, Jackie! End of line.
You forgot ‘Russian agent’ in there.
UGH!!! I just had to decapitate a dying blue jay with a shovel to put it out of it’s misery. I feel weepy and sick. That’s the third bird strike on our living room windows, but the first fatality. Fuck. I need a drink.
I recommend pinot noir
Damn shame, he had just turned his life around and was about to start college.
I heard he was a week away from retirement.
😟 I’m so sorry! I seem to recall way back when seeing decals on sliding glass doors that looked like stylized snakes, and I thought part of the idea was to discourage bird strikes. I wonder if a few strategically-placed window “clings” – maybe of some sort of raptor – would help?
There’s a whole website for that stuff!!! 😃
Yeah they make them that look like crows or falcons too. Some can be artistic and decorative.
The window clings do work.
You shouldn’t feel bad if you did the right thing. It isn’t easy taking life though, even inconsequential ones.
Birds quite often recover after flying into windows. I’ve seen some knocked out cold and their head at a funny angle get up and fly away 5 minutes later.
I’ve read that Blue Jays are known for looking like they are dying when they are just fine.
This one was flopping about in spasms with blood coming from its beak. I think I did the right thing. Regardless, I hate needlessly taking the life of another creature.
My comment was meant more as a caution for others, not a criticism of your actions. And without a doubt your heart was in the right place. Blood coming out it’s beak; I’d say you did the right thing.
The myth of ‘democratic backsliding’
Don’t even get them started on MILFsulloni.
Can’t wait for the parody porn to start, Palin was gold for that.
I usually reserve my riding crop masochistic fantasies for women who speak German but for her I’ll make an exception.
I am disaponted by OMWC . At a recent tasting i had yet another california pinot noir and found it meh for the money, yet he keeps saying it is the best pinot in the world. I just dont see it
This
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/pursuit+pinot+noir+russian+river+valley+sonoma+county+north+coast+california+usa/1/romania
I am also annoyed that i find myself liking priorat wines and they tend on the rather pricey side
The problem is that you’re drinking pinot noir.
I like a good burgundy
One problem you are having is there is a plethora of California pinot noir, not all of it good. It doesn’t surprise me that Romania isn’t getting the best. However, OMWC is wrong – Oregon pinot noir is generally better than California, but I have a hard enough time getting that on the east coast of the country; Romania has no hope.
I assume the new york wine part also has pinot.
I never ever said California Pinot Noir is the best in the world. In the past, there were some excellent ones from there, but not many. These days… I can think of maybe one or two.
However, I am VERY happy with many of the Pinot Noirs we’re getting in western NY. Very different style than the French, light color, low alcohol, intense flavor, great acid balance, sort of classic cool climate but without the green quality one might worry about.
Well if I say you said it it must be true
“The central theme is that this is a “false-flag” operation, an American plot designed to convince Europe that it was a Russian attack intended to signal the vulnerability of Europe’s energy supplies,” the researchers wrote.
Right. False flag. That makes sense.
Our conspiracy theories are Truth, your conspiracy theories are dangerous.
“Meghan Markle raged at Vanity Fair’s cover featuring her when she began dating Harry – claiming it’s RACIST to say she’s ‘wild’ about him because Judy Garland song ‘I’m Just Wild About Harry’ used blackface dancers in 1939, new book claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11268301/Meghan-Markle-raged-RACIST-Vanity-Fair-cover-began-dating-Harry-new-book-claims.html
OFFS!!
Oh! I see a new game like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except the opposite, wherein we find the racism in the most steps possible.
She’s a psycho, but that’s not news.
Lunch
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Qr35Dey2q15WKgdS8
Chicken and grits? Interesting combo…
It is not grits it os mamaliga and it was eaten separatly mixed with butter egg cheese and sour cream.
This pic is before it was all mashed toghether
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NRyLqzybgzvggYEx6
So… a cornmeal porridge… aka, grits. 😉
Not to trust Wikipedia too much, but:
Exactly what I was going to say. 😛
But the preparation of polenta is typically superior to southern ‘grits’. Gross.
I’m not a grits fan myself (my wife would probably point out that this is due to my being a transplanted Yankee from the upper midwest instead of a true Southerner like herself, I’m sure) — but having watched more cooking shows than I’ll admit to, I think good grits preparation is not that far off from polenta. Both are apparently easy to not get just right, but done well should be creamy and flavorful.
Mentally, I think of it like Cuisses de Grenouille vs. “Doc Hopper’s Fried Frog Legs”… gussy anything up with European chefs over here in the States and it looks higher class. 😉
When I saw two place settings I was going to ask if you were entertaining a young lady, but then I noticed the Kleenex…
Ewwwwwwwwww!
(Legit LOL at that one…)
Ha ha.
Your names on there you know.
I did not know but cannot see it or how to change. Meh.
As long as you don’t mind, looks good by the way…almost Southern (American) food.
I see it is not possible
I probably need to stop sharing in the future
Eh, don’t all Romanians have the same name?
My name is very common
I don’t think that would be for me. *shrug*
My moms recipe for polenta: simmer water and add enough cornmeal and salt
Working on another article, so you all have that to look forward to. Have a great day!
I’m waiting until it’s cold enough to make wild mushroom risotto. Mmmm… love that stuff.
I want to bear all your children.
You misspelled “bare”.
Opera.
Freaking.
Clap.
Pssst….. it’s kind of warm in Italy.
The Dolomites laugh at you.
They don’t even know karate.
Re: the RAP act. Does that mean you could get away with anything from slander, false accusations, to inciting violence as long as it’s in a “song” or rap?
I foresee a new twist on presidential debates and political ads…
Mornin’, reprobates.
(((Rod Carew)))??? Interesting. Turns out we were neighbors in the late 50’s/ early 60’s. There were two synagogues on my block (182nd St.), I wonder if that had any influence on the young lad.
Had to look up the Karish gas field.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1fjnMZ4PlE8/Xg5XYvyVdqI/AAAAAAAATcU/qqFS1C3yCrw7YX1x3kxDdjSgx-xvebP7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/eastern-med-gas-fields.gif
Funny how other countries don’t mind offshore drilling to fuel their economy.
Theme music
Subtle
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday called for a windfall profit tax to be levied on the profits above a set amount for companies involved in the extraction, production and refining of oil. The funds collected by the tax would then be “directed to rebates/refunds to California taxpayers impacted by high gas prices,” according to a press release from Newsom’s office.
“Crude oil prices are down but oil and gas companies have jacked up prices at the pump in California,” Newsom claimed in a statement. “We’re not going to stand by while greedy oil companies fleece Californians.”
The politics of envy and resentment never go out of style.
LOL
Nothing to do with the various blends mandated by CARB and pushing out / regulating the crap out of refineries, no sir… (To be fair, said refineries have an awfully consistent pattern of “unexpected maintenance” right at the start of the various blend switch overs, jacking the price up… so I don’t believe they’re pure as snow either.)
It’s easy to collude when there are so few producers in the market. The State has no real problem with that despite this window dressing.
I’m so glad Newsom is focusing on rap lyrics. Gas is headed back toward $7/gallon around here. Electricity prices are increasing about 20%/year. That slimy half wit is sinking this state.
Good vs Evil
This Sunday’s election in Brazil will be one of the most-watched in Latin America, as two polar ideological opposites fight for the presidency in the world’s fourth-largest democracy.
On the right is current President Jair Bolsonaro, a brash nationalist widely criticized for escalating destruction of the Amazon, bungling Brazil’s COVID-19 response and casting doubts on the country’s electoral system in the run-up to election day.
He faces a tough fight from a former president and one of Latin America’s most revered leftists, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula, as he is affectionately known, has led with more than 10 points ahead of Bolsonaro in many of the polls. But he has to overcome voter skepticism after major corruption scandals during his two terms in office landed him in jail.
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A win by da Silva would be a stunning political comeback. The 76-year-old former metalworker led Brazil from 2003 to 2010. He expanded social welfare programs that helped millions rise out of poverty, during a time of economic growth and a boom in commodity prices. Leaving office, da Silva was widely regarded as one of the most popular politicians in the world. But in 2017, he was caught up in a sweeping corruption investigation, dubbed Operation Car Wash, that led to his imprisonment the following year. Da Silva has always maintained his innocence, and was released in 2019 after spending 580 days in prison. His conviction was annulled.
Lula is the right kind of populist. Not like that rat fink Bolsonaro.
OFFS
Never change, NPR.
…by outsiders who would rather Brazilians live in poverty.
Note the framing – widely criticized brash nationalist v. Revered leftist who lifted millions out of poverty.
Dude, NPR is fair and balanced, they would never editorialize like that.
Silicone Saturday will be elected dictator for life.
https://archive.ph/7ekMH
My name is very common
“This is my brother Vlad, and my other brother Vlad.”
“And this is my sister — she needs to get out in the sun more. Say hello!”
“Hello… I am paler.”
-2 Darryls
The left’s suicidal pact with Silicon Valley
So… outright theft, now. Stay classy, the global cabal.
I refuse to use Paypal. They’re thieves and my enemy.
Brazil has among the world’s highest confirmed coronavirus deaths per capita. It has struggled to emerge from global economic turmoil stoked by fallout from the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Economic problems, high inflation and discontent over inequality and corruption have led to a shift to the left in other countries in the region, including Chile and Colombia.
The economy will be the toughest post-election challenge. Bolsonaro boasted at the United Nations recently that Brazil’s economy is in full recovery. But economic growth is lackluster and inflation is hurting the poor. Political Scientist Guilherme Casarões says Brazil’s electorate is highly polarized now after four years of Bolsonaro’s presidency and hard-right rhetoric. The president insists he is the defender of family values, winning him support from a growing population of conservative evangelicals. He rejected lockdowns and mask mandates during the pandemic. And through executive orders, he not only loosened Brazil’s gun laws but severely eliminated environmental protections in the Amazon.
The devil incarnate. How could the Brazilians not despise him?
In other news, I severely eliminated my breakfast.
OK, I didn’t give them credit for using a euphemism for shitting all over something.
Ms. Kahn would never be so uncouth.
She was just running out of descriptors in her vocabulary that sufficiently described how vindictively evil Bolsonaro is.
severely eliminated environmental protections
with extreme prejudice?
I could see severely limited, that would be a proper English construction. I guess this is as good as NPR gets these days.
Brazil just needs to look at the shining example of Biden for how to deal with these problems that the hard-right Trump left him, and do the same. Utopia will follow.
IKR?
Cuckette.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19941506/ex-ran-off-best-friend-pregnant/
Winston’s Mom?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/worlds-fattest-vagina-woman-unrecognisable-28044013
Oh fuck, why did I click?
*stabs eyes with fork*
OMG 🤮
Is there anyone who finds that attractive?
I refused to click it but I’ll guess Tres Cool.
Not just a sycophant- a world class sycophant
And more than any departure from the genre announced so far – from the firing of Samantha Bee to the quitting of Desus and Mero and impending exit of James Corden – Noah’s goodbye could send the most dire signals yet about the future of late night TV.
I saw it most clearly sitting in the audience of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April, watching Noah deftly thread an impossible needle. He had to tell jokes sharp enough to resonate with his savvy audience of journalists and politicos, but not so cutting that they seemed nasty or ill-intentioned. And from my spot in the room, he scored tremendously, relying on a quick wit and ready charm to leaven even his sharpest jabs.
Telling his savvy audience exactly what they came to hear. So wit. Much insight. Walking the high wire of us-vs-them politics as if it were a superhighway.
That’s comedy gold; doubtless funnier than anything Noah has ever said.
Have they canned John Oliver yet?
The food shortage isn’t quite yet that dire, but we’re getting closer.
That was a funnier line than I’ve ever heard from Noah.
“sitting in the audience of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner”
If there’s a better way to tell people you are a state propagandist without using those words, I can’t think of it.
I refuse to use Paypal. They’re thieves and my enemy.
*uptwinkles*
But what are the alternatives?
For processing? Plenty.
As a consumer, I won’t use Paypal to pay unless it’s at eBay where there is no choice.
I meant if you are selling stuff over the internet.
Stripe, which I use.
Authorize.net plus any of a million independent credit card processors.
Dan Bongino has his his credit card payment platform, but I don’t know if it would work with a hostile company such as eBay, who I believe, could go all Nancy Reagan and just say no.
Can’t touch that.
https://twitter.com/Emilia26774099/status/1575958659342880768?cxt=HHwWgMCq7aCD994rAAAA
I watched all 2 mins…..I’m broken
I… have no words.
Well, Green Day got famous for writing songs about taking dumps and jerking off…
Worth a read.
https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/californias-misinformation-epidemic
Part 2
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/californias-misinformation-epidemic
It’s easy to collude when there are so few producers in the market. The State has no real problem with that despite this window dressing.
The BigOil companies operate in a vacuum of unconstrained capitalist rapacity.
Trevor Noah is nearing his last laugh on “The Daily Show.”
Bold of the writer to assume that there was a first laugh during Noah’s time at TDS.
All this Ukraine war means there is little talk of the Ethiopia war. Ethiopia did need a goof war tbf
In my recent @washingtonpost
column, a reader asks me how to handle when longterm friends & colleagues mispronounce their name. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised by the comments, but folks really don’t understand how harmful this can be to a person’s psyche.
https://twitter.com/SahajKohli/status/1575604715475173376
well get an easy to pronounce name then
awwwwwww…. poor baby
My son’s have some of the easiest names and yet people screw them up all the time, particularly person’s that natively speak romance languages. They assign the wrong emphasis on vowels.
I have trophies, certificates and gifts with my last name misspelled, people add and subtract letters to my last name when they try to pronounce it and for first year of my marriage my lovely gal couldn’t spell it and yet…I persevered and survived
Grow the fuck up.
Oh and the first gift my wife got me was a beautiful engraved decanter and it was misspelled. She felt terrible but instead I told her, you are now officially in the family.
I would have retweeted this in response to the snowflake, but she decided to limit who can respond to her.
My maiden name is simple, phonetically correct, and easy to pronounce and people STILL got it wrong over half the time because it’s foreign-enough looking they need to process a minute, but they don’t. You a) get used to it and b) make it clear you think they’re stupid for not being able to read.
Stalwart solidarity
World leaders, lawmakers and experts quickly dismissed Putin’s claims on Friday, using words such as “sham” and “phony” and “invented reality” to describe his declaration that territories that are not under his control will somehow become a part of Russia.
“He’s not going to scare us nor intimidate us,” President Joe Biden said of Putin. “Putin’s actions are a sign he is struggling, the sham referendum he carried out, and his routine he put on … the United States is never going to recognize this, and quite frankly the world is not going to recognize it either.”
Leaders from across Europe read from the same playbook, pledging to support Ukraine and punish Russia for subverting international law by attempting, again, to steal Ukrainian territory.
What we really need is a barrage of Bugs Bunny cartoons featuring a caricature Putin as hapless punching bag for the wily bunny.
Wondering if the right will ever admit that neolib policies were absolutely disastrous for towns and cities that depended almost exclusively on manufacturing and heavy industry.
https://twitter.com/Heghoulian/status/1575945451240554514
wait i thought …
Ultimately this was all about making the US dollar the global reserve currency and the fallout from that,
Now the battle is over whether it remains so, and I fear the stakes are high enough that we’re willing to nuke countries over it.
https://twitter.com/How2Drink/status/1575885810640920579
Oddly impressive!
Enjoyable
It’s like Ron Jeremy had a love child with this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXMuWi0dUBc
“Abortion bans are inherently racist, inherently classist, and fundamentally part of the white supremacist agenda,” said Dr. Bhavik Kumar, medical director for primary and transgender care at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston.
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https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1575921332910313472
word
WE MUST KILL MINORITY FETUSES OR HUMANITY WILL END
https://babylonbee.com/news/did-god-really-say-you-shouldnt-kill-your-baby-hisses-slithering-newsom-to-frightened-pregnant-woman
Well obviously white supremacists would want more black and brown babies to be born.
Pay no attention to the history of Planned Parenthood behind the curtain.
White-supreme pizzas want non-white babies to live…That’s some mighty fine logic-ing there…
this is an _extremely_ grim table
https://twitter.com/hunter_owens/status/1575884725935185925
i think Romania is worse, going towards infinity
I wonder what the US number is when they exclude Boston as well as New York.
Just as high. Google Seattle Big Bertha.
We don’t get to exclude NYC if Japan doesn’t exclude Tokyo, Mexico doesn’t exclude Mexico City, etc.
It is time for the rest of America to wake up to the fact that our public sector is more corrupt than most if not all of Europe. And of course, NYC spectacularly so.
“The bottom line is this — no one who does not want debt relief will have to get that debt relief,” she said.
It worked when they said you can keep your doctor too
Now do people who don’t want to pay for debt relief.
Well obviously white supremacists would want more black and brown babies to be born.
There’s cotton to be licked.
duh
*heads to Urban Dictionary*
“licked”
Good grief. Tuping is hsrd.