Everything is fine, there’s no truth to the rumors you may or may not have heard about Spud.
However he did request an open post. Since, as I mentioned earlier, I’m reading a cocktail book, let’s toss a couple recipes here for you.
Gaelic Flip
1 1/4 ounce Irish whiskey
1 ounce sweet vermouth
1/3 ounce simple syrup
1 teaspoon allspice liquor
1 whole egg
Add them all to a shaker and dry shake (no ice). Add ice, and shake until it’s chilled. Double strain into an Irish Coffee mug, and garnish with grated nutmeg.
Sherry Cobbler
3 ounces dry amontillado sherry
1/4 ounce simple syrup
1 orange half wheel
Add all of them to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake harder than you usually would (to muddle the orange with the ice), Strain into a Collins glass filled with crushed ice, and garnish with another orange half wheel.
You make a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I’m highly anxious and nervous so company would be appreciated! Signing on now…
Shitlordy
Turning Point has emerged as a force in GOP politics in the Trump era, particularly among his “Make America Great Again” movement, despite the ADL’s warning that the group “continues to attract racists.”
“Numerous individuals associated with the group have made bigoted statements about the Black community, the LGBTQ community and other groups,” the ADL, an international anti-hate group, wrote in a background memo. “While TPUSA (Turning Point USA) leaders say they reject white supremacist ideology, known white nationalists have attended their events.”
Turning Point spokesperson Andrew Kolvet dismissed the ADL’s characterization as “smears and lies.” He added that Turning Point has been blocking Fuentes from attending its events for “years.”
“The ADL is a scourge on America, which sows poison and division. They’ve completely lost the plot,” Kolvet said, describing the ADL’s criticism as “a badge of honor.”
And that’s how you respond to the ADL’s slander.
AP;DR
Lol. Another outfit that has burned its credibility.
It wouldn’t be too difficult to smear the ADL as a bunch of Maoist terrorists based on individuals peripherally associated with them.
Yeah, that game can easily be played with groups they likely favor.
Our new short stack Waffles is home and exploring the neighborhood, house and yard.
It’s nice to have dog in the house again. He’s a lot younger than I thought, only 3 months.
Puppy!!!
Enjoy! I hope you have puppy food.
When we brought our girl home, she was a puppy also, so I ended up buying a couple extra oven mitts, so she could teeth while playing tug. Worked out great.
Plus, pics?
This!
If you have a couple of hours, and are interested in Dungeons and Dragons, this interview with Tim Kask is fascinating:
https://youtu.be/RwKztsXquoM?si=jzIaX6FpdkCwQGX-
It isn’t an interview; it’s a question and answer session
I miss old TSR very much.
It’s still available.
One can purchase any edition of D&D off drivethrurpg
There are numerous retro clones, the most prominent one currently is “Old School Essentials”.
I recommend the play cast “3d6, Down the Line”. They’ve been playing together for years, and have a pretty good camaraderie going on. They use Old School Essentials, with a few house rules.
Cool. Thank you.
My new Jack Russel just got into it with my mini doxie, even at half the size my Wednesday beat the crap out of my poor JR.
She’s hiding in her cage, poor thing
Law enforcement have arrested Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez in Tulsa for the killing of Rachel Morin, a Harford County mother of five who was found dead near a hiking trail in August of 2023.
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/arrest-made-in-killing-of-rachel-morin
I have repeatedly heard immigrants commit crimes in the US at a lower rate than natives. I assume the cited stats are true. Does anyone know how those stats are collected? Are they complete? Is there a difference between legal and illegal immigrants?
I’ve read that many jurisdictions don’t ask about immigration status upon arrest so the stats are meaningless.
It’s the kind of thing that your hopeless hacker would wear at the local muni, but Aussie Cam Smith wore it at the U.S. Open.
It must have kick-started sales, because you can only get it in shrimpy and extra-shrimpy (i.e., zero percent of dad-bods out there).
I wear size shrimp, thin for the win!
Now that’s a nice shirt. Do they carry short round Sasquatch size?
I’ve shopped at H&M for a while for reasons. I used to be a M. After their convention changes, I’m now an S. I haven’t changed height nor weight, still 5’6″, ~135. However, I bought some “Regular S” shirts and actually returned them, something I never do. They’re somehow too big. I learned I’m actually a “Slim S.”
“Regular” is baggy to me, I’m not sure what a…more expansive size name they’d use next. I’d like the honesty of “Slim,” “Regular,” and “Pudgy,” but I doubt they’d go for it. I’d prefer being “svelte” frankly, but that might be a bit much. I thought I’d have to pull an older-bro and start going to Kids. Being short comes with its own fun. I’m 3in taller than bro, which I find humorous.
I was 10 over on the front
but 1 under on the back today
finished birdie, par, par, birdie, birdie, par, par…..where has that been?
Gotta love the rampant class bigotry in that article.
Watching the US Open in Pinehurst reminded me of the time I shagged my girlfriend on the 14th green there. Thus ends this edition of Confessions of a Young Man in latex.
This edition of Confessions of a Young Man in Latex should be further detailed. Then, the series must continue.
For my share, I once entered a contract with a prostitute in Vladivostok. It was a fairly standard transaction, but IMO it ended in a humorously ev-only manner. My adventures must be more documented.
I felt up both a girlfriend and an ex-wife (both of them with lovely sweater puppies) at the end of the Longville, MN runway. It’s a runway without a tower. If the lights come on, that means a plane is going to land. I felt plenty safe. The town cop felt otherwise on both occasions.
Both your girlfriend and your ex-wife were the town cop?
I’m finishing up the back nine at Pinehurst this morning; you will have access to later scores, but I record sports and watch them when I can….avoided media of the sporting sort almost entirely to support my habits.
In golf you pull for some guys and against some guys. Neph has this great line about sports being a harmless way to enjoy some tribalism…which are my tribes? Well, I pull for the oldest guys in general, proper Southerners next, any Southerner after that, and then classy guys, and then classy dressers…..don’t kinkshame.
And so, the leaderboard strikes me thus:
Pavon
…..erm, I swear I hit Tab, not Submit…..
And so, the leaderboard strikes me thus:
Pavon got nothing against le homme de Toulouse, I love a conservative approach to the game (to all things…Republicans might ought try it some time), and I like French professionals in general, so a suitable champion he would be
deChambeau is a name from Picardy, the opposite of Toulouse. I’m heavily scarred by an SMU alumna, so that’s a strike against him, but his hulking, graceless, linear approach to the game is as ugly as a sack of assholes, so fuck that guy.
Finau is a Tongan Mormon, so he reminds me of a hundred such wonderful people I Scouted with in Fort Worth. He’s hard-working and working-class, so I wish him well in all things.
Åberg is beautiful and will have his day, but I don’t pull for the kids.
mcIlroy has matured into a very attractive professional, man from county Down, who, like my own folk, is stuck between worlds and makes his way on his own. It’s been a decade since his last major, and I just can’t not pull for him.
Cantlay new guy don’t care
Hatton new guy don’t care
Kim, T goofy kid I don’t hate
Bhatia NC local I don’t hate
Morikawa is the golfer of his generation that works for me: dignified, smart, in the bottom half for swing speed.
I bought 4 bone in ribeyes today. They must have known I was coming, as they were the perfect thickness. No need for custom cuts today. 2 lb each and so tender, they’re about ready to fall off the bone.
Both butcher shops on my way home were closed.
It is the Sabbath.
Remind me – you cook them all at once and just reheat to eat during the week? Or are you par cooking? Eating cold (e.g., steak salad)?
I grill them 2 at a time for lunch and dinner. I’ll reheat the left overs during the week.
What are these “left overs” of which he speaks?
The inconsistent supply and quality continues here. Picked up ribs to smoke tomorrow. Beef for the wife, pork for me.
One of you is from Texas, and the other from Tennessee, right?
Gustave, the wife has started subscribing to various CSA’s up here, and now all of our meats come from local small farms. Something you might want to look into.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=eugene+oregon+meat+CSA&source=web
Ex-Pfizer VP claims Lil Rona shot was designed to reduce fertility.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya thinks the vaccine wasn’t designed to reduce fertility, but he thinks the regulatory agencies won’t look into possible side effects for the vaccines because of fears of “vaccine hesitancy”.
Dr. JB knows his stuff.
Way to assume Jill’s gender.
One of the most significant scientists of the last century has reached the Endo the line.
BOOOOO! a major contributor to coronary disease Citation needed you fucking assholes.
fuck how do you close tags?
I was saying boo-urns.
Statins are so bad for you.
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this
I played in two orchestras that Akira Endo conducted. Must be a different one.
Horrific vulgarity
On top of that, you can also see all this — the t-shirt slogans, the cuss words, Trump’s vulgarity — as a marker of a gap in American politics: A yawning partisan gap in attitudes about gender.
“Those differences in gender beliefs are going to make it more permissible or not to put forth these types of messages without some sort of a backlash or pushing down,” Dittmar of Rutgers University said.
Studies have found that Trump voters — including women — in 2016 were particularly likely to have beliefs that political scientists term “hostile sexism.” Furthermore, some found that these beliefs were prominent in a way they weren’t in 2012. Those “hostile sexist” beliefs include, for example, the idea that women are too easily offended.
I’m sorry you’re such a thin skinned bitch.
“The slogans, the cuss words…”
Right, totally not what democrats do.
Rina Shah is a political strategist and a former Republican congressional aide, and a Republican who opposes Trump. She told me she thinks the shirts very much matter.
“If we’re allowing our kids to see this visually, even if it’s contained at a rally, the person who wears that shirt at that rally isn’t just going to wear that one day,” she said. “This flavor of incivility is permeating our nation’s social fabric.”
Ah, the time-tested Lovelady gambit. Been around for more than a century (because it works on women and the weak-minded).
They surely proved that wrong by being offended by it.
*taps out*
If you so much as looked at a Trump t-shirt you are unclean.
I mean, it’s not like Harris has a background that invited the slur “ho”. It’s only because she is a woman of color.
My eyeball just ricocheted off a headline to the effect of, “Trump and Biden least liked pair of candidates in decades.”
My immediate response- since Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey?
Nixon was enormously popular in 1972. He carried 49 states. 60% of the popular vote.
He probably ran afoul of the Intelligence Community, and they took him out with a fake scandal.
All of that is memory holed into Nixon was deeply unpopular. Same with Reagan.
“I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.”
Classic.
I just read Paul Johnson’s History of the American people. As you can imagine, that’s a lot of material to cover. I did enjoy his section on Nixon, including the 1960 election.
British author, so maybe more objective than modern day libs?
Went out to Indy’s Bloomfest to see my SiL’s stall with my parents. She’s fun. Then I came home and the Cubs were up 2-1 with great starting pitching, AGAIN! …Interesting things happened. Hrm. I’ll leave it at that for now.
For now I’m diving into the Stanley Cup. But tomorrow I should get stuff I ordered to practice my phlebotomy skills, which I currently don’t possess. I got needles and a practice skin-thingy w ‘veins’ you can fill up, some harder/thinner than others. That’ll be on my docket, as I am not even certain which hand I should use. I’m guessing my left, but I’ll figure it out. (I’m nearly ambidextrous. Right armed, left handed, but right-fingered. (<– Drumming/piano w my fingers when driving is the tell, there.)
A family trip to West Virginia in a couple weeks, which will be fascinating on every level possible. Excitement (and curiosity!), she wrote.
I watched some college small ball yesterday, Florida vs. Tennessee. Nice to sit and have a few while watching a game.
A Tshirt for Dad, Babylon Bee style.
https://shop.babylonbee.com/products/dad-is-the-best-t-shirt
For all the snark that New Balance gets, you’d think another brand would start making some wide sneakers to steal that market share back.
EEE or GTFO.
My Barney Rubble feet demand nothing less.
(I want to win the lottery for just 2 reasons: flying private and bespoke shoes)
dad and son are EEE
I’m a 12A
I can buy a fit by paying for high-end dress, casual, and golf shoes but have few choices for sneakers: market opportunity?
The hometown team had a come-from-behind-in-the-bottom-of-the-ninth walk-off win for the second night in a row! 😁 ⚾
@ KK,
Did we get a breakdown on the date with the live, single, ostensibly male?
Dude, join the Zoom and she’ll tell you all about her date for tomorrow.
Fuck me, it hasn’t happened yet!
Let’s get it on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54LgyqSPfsQ&ab_channel=MarvinGaye-Topic
Well, it isn’t happening to *you*.
Happy Father’s day to those of you that it applies. I hope your offspring treat you to a proper steak.
🌄🍖☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcClvRt9g2Q
🎶🎶
I actually bought a tiny steak for Dad and myself. At his age, anything bigger results in way too much leftovers.
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., Don, and NA!
😉
Dad’s birthday and Father’s Day are back to back this year. Very convenient.
I’m no fan of SEPTA, but I appreciate retro and the effort to refurb these classics.
https://6abc.com/post/septa-girard-avenue-trolleys-route-15-port-richmond-west-philadelphia/14937593/
cool
local news: MATA is $60M under water
the trolley infrastructure was a tremendous boondoggle: largely empty and hopeless antiques on fixed loops where no one wants to go, ridden only occasionally by a tourist; the entire mess was shut down for four years due to the two fires on board
housing rates for the poor (for everyone!) must cover the property taxes to pay for this nonsense; today’s single mother of two must meet a rent that is still paying for this mistake made 30 years ago
Given the neighborhood they serve, it isn’t too far-fetched to say they will be riddled with bullet holes by September.
…for that extra touch of historical authenticity!
Good morning all, must’ve been a good Zoom last night.
So good that someone forgot to take their links out of “Draft” status.
Someone with Mojeaux’ number should wake her up.
I could, but knowing her usual sleep schedule and her time zone, I’m too skeert to do it! 😳
OK, I just texted Mojeaux, but if she chews me a new one, I’m blaming you!
I was just about to say I guess the only links I’m getting this morning are coming from the kitchen.
Well, since we’ve been left unattended, what sort of mischief can we get into (besides ending sentences with prepositions?)
It’s perfectly normal to end sentences with prepositions in English for.
My favorite example is an alleged quote from a child whose parent brought the wrong book up to his room for his bedtime story: “What did you bring that book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for??”
Good morning!
Maybe the OMWC has the holiday off? Why not?
Life goes on. I’m not worried about the day, can always change my will.
With any luck I’ll get the grass cut without anyone bothering me.
I’ve got grass to cut too, then it’s going to be a really hot, unpleasant week here. Fortunately I’ll get to escape it, a little, by heading for the Blue Ridge.
Happy Fathers’ Day, 4(20)! My dad’s long gone, so I send you all the good wishes I would have sent him!
(Actually…more!)
My birthday was on Friday, but weather dictated I didn’t celebrate the way I wanted until yesterday.
Happy Belated Birthday! 😃🎂🥳🎈🎊💃👯♀️
If you’d waited until the sun burned off the mist, it probably would’ve been too hot! 🥵
There’s a thermometer on the cabin (4040′) that read about 50 degrees. When I got back to the car (2100′) the car’s thermometer that measures outside temperature was about 70.
All the fire towers are closed here (I think) and surveillance is done by plane or some other way.
Happy Belated birthday, Ted;s. Celebrate today with your Dad!
The cabs are open some weekends in the summer, depending on coverage from volunteers. I got to the top before any volunteer on a Saturday would have shown up. (Last summer there was one who stayed overnight, so when I got to the top at about 8:30 on a Sunday the volunteer was there already.)
Unfortunately, this is one of the two peaks where it gets *really* windy on the fire tower.
HBD 🙂
This wouldn’t happen if I had power around here…
…and just like that Sean was ruled out from ever having power around here.
I will get the morning links up. All I have to do is post something here.
The “republicans” who act confused at Trump’s popularity think everyone is willing to go back to the usual way of doing things—the endless debates over taxes and abortion. But arguing in Congress in order to get a small tax break this year, to only then a large tax increase next year, is finally being understood as a futile endeavor. People actually want things fixed for longer than an election cycle, and it’s obvious that the usual way of doing things isn’t going to do it.
A lot of people who support Trump do so because there is a promise that he will demolish the usual way of doing things.
Many will say, “But Trump can’t/won’t demolish anything!” If that’s true (and it may be,) then why are the D’s so terrified of him?
EXACTLY
Just because a group of morons is frightened is no reason to believe their fear is rational.
I don’t mean the idiots who whine and piddle their pants on social media but the folks actually in a position to wage lawfare against him on multiple fronts in every jurisdiction they can use. Are they all just morons too, including any behind the scenes you never see mentioned in the “news” accounts?
Honestly, I wish they would STFU about taxes and put all of the energy into cutting spending – not the growth in spending, but actual year over year decreases.
But you’re exactly right – all we will get is taxes and abortion (which I guess is a variation on death and taxes).
Well, that’s one more topic than the Dems will be talking about.
We haz linkz! 😃