Ahhh…
Okay, it’s been a few hours since we last met. Shall we see if there’s any links worth perusing?
I dunno. I don’t think it’s very safe to allow them to be so close to each other.
Yessss, continue to feed on your own.
Okay, at least the dude this morning was on a bicycle.
Okay, I am done. Have a great evening!
Im going to bed. Some of us (for another week) work all night.
“About 9am Monday (6/5) morning, the technical rope rescue team from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue responded to Grand Canyon West Skywalk for a 33-year-old male who went over the edge at the Sky Walk into the canyon,” said the sheriff’s office.
With mops and buckets, and maybe a battery powered wet vac.
A bucket drop should take care of it.
Better late than never figuring that out, I guess.
When you’ve lost Hollywood….
Salami, swiss cheese and saltine crackers for lunch. I have some shrimp in the freezer, but thawing them out is too much work.
I understand. I cleaned the house and also disassembled and rebalanced a three-blade wooden fan. No desire to make food. Hoping the wife brings salads home.
Summer sausage and an almond-crusted cheese ball for me.
Andouille sausage and shrimp with roasted cabbage, corn on the cob, onions, and red peppers for supper.
Very good. Maybe a little too spicy.
Tomorrow morning is low carb chaffles with KK and Tulip’s Hollandaise sauce and cheap ass ham (or maybe smoked salmon).
i MIGHT SKIP 1 OF THE 3 Tbspoons of Tony Chacheries (as much as I like it).
Leftover mussels in a white wine sauce for my dinner in a bit.
Good grief. 🙄
And fuck the use of the word “intersection”.
Right? That purple turd?
I *hated* all that shit when I was a kid. Even Happy Meals – I just wanted regular-people food with no stupid cartoon characters. And McDonald’s was a rare treat anyway.
I think I was 9 when I just ordered a Big Mac. My parents or anyone else paying didn’t question it when I ate the damn thing.
The Bro was all about that Happy Meal. Don’t you fuck with The Bro’s Happy Meal.
I had every single Power Rangers toy when the movie came out. It took hard work and dedication to make that happen.
If Happy Meals had come with science-fiction novels inside, I might have been more interested.
Oddly though, no justification for the raid is mentioned.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
I saw the article on that gun shop raid earlier. There is a lot of information missing, such as warrants and the like. There might by shady dealings going on with the shop owner but the lack of coverage in the MSM makes me think that he’s getting railroaded.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Woot!
Hey gang!
Fishing this weekend with Pater Dean. Great day yesterday – probably 50 fish between us. Today we had wind, rain, sleet, and snow simultaneously! At nearly 10,000 feet, and not many fish (at least Pater Dean caught the biggest so far – nearly 3 pounds). He’s been saying this will be his last trip, and this time I think he means it. He’s 84, doesn’t like the long drive at all, and struggles with getting in and out of the boat and nearly any footing that isn’t pretty solid.
Supposed to be good weather tomorrow. I’ll check in when I get back Tuesday.
Awesome! Enjoy it.
Sounds like a wonderful Father’s Day weekend, RC. Enjoy!
I can appreciate your Dad’s concerns. Fished a couple weeks ago with classmates, I need a dock with a post to get in/out of the boat. Put 3-86ers in the same 14 ft boat and watch the ensuing hilarity.
Fortunately our drives are in minutes, fishing isn’t quite the same anymore, I used to go several times a week, I like fishing alone.
Sounds like a good trip.
My dad’s fishing buddy (and good friend and surrogate dad) is in his mid 90’s and they go fishing once a week during the season. He has a little difficulty getting in/out but is fine once he’s aboard.
Glass Guru OMWC and I have a couple of times talked about Pyrex quality going to shit after I vented. Today I found out something interesting: PYREX (uppercase) is the good stuff and pyrex (lowercase) is the shitty stuff.
Huh. Good to know.
News I can use! 💫
+1 corning ware
ah, interesting. I checked my cabinet and I have one measuring cup that’s old and thus the original version, but the rest are the weak version.
according to the comments, the French version is marked for UK pints, not US ones, so make sure you convert US cups to ml before measuring anything.
I bought an original/vintage PYREX double boiler off eBay many years ago. I paid a premium because it had the lid (almost worthless without it), which one of my kids promptly broke. But dammit, I have a PYREX double boiler.
OOOH i am envious.
I’d kill for a brand new Corelware percolator.
I’ll give you two guesses as to why the change was made.
So, why did Pyrex make the change all those years ago? Increased air pollution regulations and a focus on reducing energy consumption were two of the primary causes behind the move.
Got it in one.
JFC
The wiki article makes it not quite as cut and dried, at least when it comes to vintage/NOS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex
Instant Brands, formerly Corelle Brands, the spin-off from Corning, filed for bankruptcy several days ago.
Yeah, I see a lot “follow the instructions” in there. To be honest, it would never occur to me to try take a piece of glass from the freezer to the oven without some mishap.
Unforeseeable
PacifiCorp has asked state regulators to let it potentially pass the cost of damages it owes for wildfires in 2020 onto its customers.
In a filing Thursday with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, PacifiCorp asked the regulatory body to allow the utility to defer any costs related to wildfire liability through June 2024. That would give the company the option to add those costs to customer rates in the future.
Earlier this week, a Multnomah County jury found PacifiCorp owes around $90 million in damages related to four wildfires after its Oregon business, Pacific Power, had a hand in causing or worsening those fires on Labor Day weekend 2020.
“The deferred accounting application enables (PacifiCorp) to preserve its ability to seek (wildfire cost) recovery in the future in the event the outcome could potentially impact the financial stability of the Company, which would result in higher costs to customers,” attorneys for PacifiCorp wrote regulators.
Raise rates to pay off those judgement? That’s nuts. They have a bunch of money in a big vault.
They should just declare bankruptcy and cease all operations with immediate effect.
Wait, that wasn’t supposed to happen!
They were supposedly to magically come up with those funds!
The icing on the cake is that punitive damages belong to the state under state law. Which is ridiculous. Because the supposed power line caused fire merged shortly after starting with a fire that the state had been managing for weeks and thought was contained. Now so called public safety shutdowns are now enshrined every time the wind picks up.
Nor were the fires the result of forest mismanagement or not enough fuel reduction.
Multnomah county jury.
Fuckers should be hanged. Along with ODF.
Of course, the results would be the same in far too much of the state. I bet you could get a similar result in Grant or Josephine Counties by railing against big corporate business.
I managed to scrape up a division win (2nd overall) at the 2-gun match this morning, shooting my home defense rifle and my carry pistol from concealment no less. I’m treating myself to a few cocktails and a burger now.
Oh, and Steve Smith was in my squad. No attempts at rape or cannibalism were noted. I suppose an armed society is indeed a polite society..
Doubled 17 and bogeyed 18 to finish 79: threw away best round ever trying to play conservatively.
Sometimes you gotta run it instead of laying up,
Bummer
Last local match before Nats. I had some blunders, which is good since I was riding waaaay too high after the last three matches so some humility is beneficial.
I already posted my brag for the day at the bottom of the dead thread (and thanks for the comments y’all), but since we’re drinkin’ I’ll do it here, too.
XX#2 (18) got her private pilot’s license today.
So now Mrs. Tree’s talking about putting in a runway…
Congrats!
I always liked flying with Dad.
There was an “air community” near where Dad used to live. Houses had a two-car garage and hangar, streets were wide enough to taxi to the airstrip down the road. Cool idea, but hard to put into practice. You need a lot of land.
I remember a Popular Mechanics article about them back in the ’60s.
There is still one on I95, Calnevari on the way to Searchlight Nv
There’s a nice one in Williamson, GA. It’s a very old strip, but the neighborhood is pretty new with fairly high-end houses and hangars.. Big grass strip, and a good restaurant/bar that folks can taxi right up to.
There is one near me, in Independence Oregon. Also too, there is one in Fresno, CA.
Congrats again!
I will also re-brag: XY (17) got his high school equivalency cert in the mail today, a full year before he would have graduated, with a 90%.
Getting it done.
Oh congrats to all the kiddos!
Mine just finished his first year college – dean’s list in engineering.
¡Excelente!
Outstanding! Congrats to XX#2!
Yay!!!
🙂
Congratulations all around!
Spudz Salacious Silicone Saturday Slootz.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
So, The Lump. Seriously, what could it be that he wouldn’t just get the damn thing drained or removed? And I’m not a huge fan of dress codes, but isn’t there a dress code in congress? The loser is wearing a hoodie and shorts on the Senate Floor?
And Dr. Oz lost to this fucking guy?!?!
Mail-in voting and ballot harvesting allowed Team Blue to bank a lot of votes before the debate showed how unfit Fetterlump was.
And of course the press was running interference for Fetterlump.
Killing babies is a potent voter motivator, apparently. Who knew?
Seriously.
A former NH state legislator I know lost reelection in 2022. Her report from the ground of meeting voters, being at the polls, etc. is that Democrats were very good at getting out the vote. They got their own people out and people that never usually vote. For the latter group, abortion was the key.
After watching the deep state stage a soft coup against Trump for years, and now watching them openly tear off the mask and indict the guy while he’s running for the presidency while rubbing our noses in the fact that they haven’t prosecuted any of the protected class for doing the same…among about 50 other things I could name…
Why the fuck do people think these people WOULDN’T cheat if they could?
We know there has been cheating in American elections in the past. Nothing was done about it then or since. But people, even on the right, even among the most skeptical of government possible…there are people who actually seem to think the elections are sacrosanct or that it would just be plain impossible to do in today’s modern world and get away with it despite elections being less auditable and perhaps more open to cheating than at any point in our entire history.
Christ, they wrote an article where they talked about “fortifying” the election through lawfare and ballot harvesting. They talked about having an army of “activists” waiting to take to the streets the night of the election if told to do so.
Joe Biden didn’t even run a god damn campaign. He can’t even fill an empty gymnasium to about a tenth of capacity. Everywhere at public events for months in blue states as well as red massive crowds broke into let’s go Brandon chants that we could all see. Yet I am supposed to believe that this corrupt, completely depraved piece of shit who also happens to be in severe mental decline managed to get the most votes in American history on the up-up.
I didn’t even get into the weird shit that happen on election night and our new normal where it takes weeks to find out who won an election despite the technology being in place to supposedly make counting votes easier than ever.
Thinking that election was on the up-and-up requires the acceptance of far more cognitive dissonance and blind faith in the system than thinking they cheated.
Of course they cheat.
If you can imagine a method of cheating, they certainly have. And I have no reason to believe that they wouldn’t use every method at their disposal.
OK. So anyway…how about that lump? Why wouldn’t he have it removed? What could it be?
Also; nobody who commented above thinks maybe Oz was just a shit candidate? His loss had to be due to cheating and “fortification”? Maybe being a Trump lackey isn’t a winning strategy? Shudder the thought.
You know what probably didn’t help any Republican in Pennsylvania? The fact that their courts changed the election laws unconstitutionally.
I love the “but they’re shit candidates argument!” What the hell is lump as you call him? How can anyone honestly argue that Oz is a worse candidate than that guy? He has barely even been able to vote for the Dems because he’s such a trainwreck behind the scenes. How often before recent times have voters elected people after they’ve suffered severe strokes and it was painfully obvious that they couldn’t medically do the job they were being elected to do?
The argument also isn’t there’s no way those candidates could lose, anyway. It isn’t that no way Trump could lose and people don’t agree with me. There’s a hell of a lot more to what I said than that, but what’s most mind boggling to me is how many people here who know the government just pulled unprecedented power grabs with covid, violated the first amendment in new, novel ways with social media, staged a soft coup against an elected president, and then indicted said elected president when he’s again the leading candidate for 2024…and still refuse to even consider that yes, these people cheated.
Can there be ANY argument that they wouldn’t do it if they could? <– if you answer nothing else, address this. Pretty pretty please.
And setting aside, just for a second, all of the cheating aspects of 2020, the idea that Trump dragged candidates down is rather far fetched. Trump, assuming everything was above board, gathered the second highest vote tally OF ALL TIME. In other words, he wasn’t a shit candidate who dragged the party down, he was very much a contender.
No, ballot stuffing and other shenanigans were the deciding factors here. Hiding what a shit candidate Lump was until after early voting was a deciding factor.
“Good Vibrations” is a good song.
’60s were a good time for the music that I enjoyed.
The rise and fall of the K-31
A great many rifles have passed through time never having truly been tested. Some of them were simply too far ahead of their time, and others a day late and a dollar short. Such is the case of the Swiss K31, arguably one of the finest military rifles ever made … and possibly the best bolt-action rifle to come out in the prewar era.
It’s too bad, however, that it was never used in its intended role, an example of notorious Swiss neutrality. The rifle is so well made and accurate that it has instead made a name for itself stateside as one of the go-to rifles for vintage military matches, but even then, it’s slowly becoming extinct on the firing line.
So, without further ado, let’s look at the rise and fall of the prince of service rifles.
This video claims to be from Wagner group about a captured Ukrainian underground weapons depot.
I imagine that there are a lot of gun collectors thinking about how to get some of those.
Ugh it smells like Canada again.
Maple syrup and moose farts?
Sadly, no.
I was thinking more “a hamper of unwashed hockey uniforms”?
Sadly, no.
*deletes comment*
ASIA becoming HISTORY
Did Steve Howe die or something?
I expected what Ted expected.
Heat of the moment.
I saw him live 25 years ago and he already looked like the cryptkeeper. Yet he continues on.
25 years ago he was 2 years younger than I am today.
The Bro man…Oh yeeeeeeaaaaaa.
Rip Daniel Ellsberg.
Now, if anybody really would have had the dirt on Hillary…
RIP indeed.
I don’t which is more infuriating. The blatantly illegal and immoral program or that they had to conduct an environmental impact review first
https://www.blm.gov/programs/lands-and-realty/regional-information/alaska/land-transfer/ak-native-allotment-act/alaska-native-vietnam-veterans-land-allotment
Embrace the power of “and” brother.
But what the actual fuck is this about? Why is this small group of veterans thought to deserve this over all the other Vietnam veterans? Being a veteran should not entitle you to land, or for that matter much else. It is one thing to take care of severely disabled veterans but this is another matter entirely.
No idea, other than apparently it was pushed by Alaska’s delegation. Fuck you Trump for signing this thing.
I agree. The state here operated a home loan program for vets up to 10 years after leaving the service, separate from the federal one. Lying hack at what was the leading paper said Iraq/Afg veterans weren’t covered by existing program (they were) and pushed a measure to make it a lifetime benefit. Of course it passed.
Riuby Red over Fractal Maple,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FpBn8FfmJmJDn6Hm8
Listened to some Dave Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQQHacWlrew&t=1307s
Dave is leaning on Iran war plans as justifications for Trump’s having kept the docs. I don’t like Dave’s take, any student of history knows we have attack plans for every country on earth, it doesn’t prove there was any plot to actually attack Iran. Robby’s take is much better, this is clearly just a witch hunt because Trump didn’t return the docs he shouldn’t have kept, unlike everyone else who relinquished the documents they also should not have kept.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads (including step-dads and father figures!) Here’s hoping you don’t have to pay for your own brunch/dinner out today! 😉
Mornin GT!
Good morning, Sean! ::raised iced mocha latte::
60 years of Dadhood have prepared me not to expect too much, which isn’t all that bad. Better’n being in Philadelphia.
Wait, its fathers day?
I wonder what time my son will call?
Hey Glibs! 😁☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6366dxFf-Os
🎶🎶
https://www.alltrails.com/us/pennsylvania/off-road-driving
Hmmm…
There must be off road trails around here somewhere. We still have unpaved roads and fords (the water crossing) in the county.
Well, I think we’re on our own this morning, boys & girls. 😄 Anybody got any lynx?
File under too local but incredibly lucky news.
Something is amiss with the link.
Oops! Try this. That’s what I get for trying to trim off what I thought was excess stuff at the end of the URL.
Glad the kid is OK, but expect an arrest for illegal possession of a firearm.
While the toddler was not gravely injured, they were transported to Dayton Children’s Hospital out of precaution for potential injuries.>/em>
Two-year-olds have preferred pronouns?
They were probably suicidal because someone misgendered them and wouldn’t approve their “gender-affirming care.” 🙄
Well, it IS Moraine after all. A Drexel kid would have managed to kill someone.
FUN FACT- a Moraine the pile of stuff at the leading edge of a glacier. The city so named is likely at the end point of the glacier over ohio during the last ice age. As you go north from Dayton, the landscape becomes flat as a pancake really quick.
…and a Northridge toddler would have at least wounded someone.
Truth. Ugly, but truth.
You’re on your own.
Mornin’, reprobates.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/17/queens-restaurant-the-clinton-to-close-after-over-80-years/
Old friends (since grammar school) from Mrs. Patzer’s neighborhood.
“It’s just too difficult a business, really,” he said. “It’s more of a lifestyle than anything else. And COVID certainly didn’t help. We’re in the mindset for retirement.”
The gift that keeps giving.
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Morning.
We just lost a few similar places on LBI. There the real estate was way more valuable than the business.
Happy People with Penises Day!
I think it’s a actually Happy People With Penises Who Used Them For Their Original Purpose Day
I accept this improvement.
HPWPWUTFTOPD ?
We need lapel pins with this on it.
I feel like our avatars complement each other now.
True!
Mornin’. The spawn are treating me to a day at the ballpark. Should be a good time. The franchise has a colorful history.
https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/338661/fresh-corruption-scandal-hits-heavily-jewish-upstate-new-york-town/
Never fear, our favorite prosecutor was on the case.
Rockland County is not upstate.
It is to the city folk. Full of deplorables, too. There’s a gun shop on Middletown Rd. about three miles north of me.
“the first criminal securities fraud prosecution involving municipal bonds.”
Selective enforcement?
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS* !!
*Tres V 2.0 is still out of town so we’ll celebrate “all I really wanted from your Mom was a BJ day” next weekend.
Sounds like I need to give someone a serious talking-to :
DEAR JANE: My wife gained 50LBS after giving birth… now I don’t want to have sex with her because I’m NOT attracted to larger women.
Having decided to get back into the exciting world of air emissions sampling, this time next week I should be preparing to depart for San Francisco.
I cant un-hear Rip Taylor.
Be sure to dress for the occasion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0vkKy504U
Be sure to wear flowers in your hair, maybe bring a dose of Narcan if you wanna be a hero.
https://youtu.be/NrUIJY_Xu2s
I don’t generally like brutalism, but Habitat 67 is an exception. Not that I like the concrete block look (it could be more elegant), but its intended (efficient) purpose and land use (efficient) appeals to me.
That’s pretty cool. Thank you for sharing!
I bookmarked it for later, because it’s starting to go into history and how government “helps” with zoning, central planning, etc.
“Body Parts From Harvard Morgue Had Buyers With Ties To Facebook Oddities Group”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-morgue-manager-accused-selling-stolen-body-parts-unlawful-interstate-transport
Yuck, yuck, yuck…
Lynks, you say?
Elderly Jewish man dies after sex.
It’s like in junior high school when your friend starts going steady and you never see or hear from them until the inevitable dramatic breakup.
I smell drama.
HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!
I hope some NPR lady didn’t drug OMWC and take one of his kidneys. I don’t know how much an old kidney is worth, but kosher meat is usually more expensive.
Zwak gave us the answer just a couple of comments up from this.
I ignore YT links.
Old Man is off doing things with one of his NPR ladies. We had a substitute linkster lined up, but that fell through. Sloopy is putting up something.
I survived the Nevada trip, despite the Universe’s various attempts to kill me along the way.
If I never set foot in Vegas again, it will be too soon.
“Juneteenth holiday horror: Four shot dead and at least 42 are injured as violence erupts across the nation over holiday weekend”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12207611/Multiple-people-shot-Illinois-shopping-mall.html
#BLM