Hello and welcome to the next installment of recipes from the fine cuisine of Romania in particular and Central-Eastern Europe in general, because, as I said before, I doubt anyone knows where these recipes originated, despite many claiming them. Today we have cozonac, which is a traditional desert. It is mostly made for Christmas and Easter, although it does not have strict religious associations, more like feast day associations. I have the recipe and some pictures, which I will use. The results in this case – the pictures – are not the best ever, but we use what we have. This is to do with the fact that my mom usually makes these in the family, but this time I helped. And such are the results.
Cozonac is basically a pastry like a sweet bread (not to be confused with lymphatic glands) with various fillings. In this day and age, the usual fillings are cocoa/chocolate, walnut or rahat (Turkish delight), or any combination of them. And a bunch more things to be honest. In this case, we used a mix of walnut and cocoa, although I am not sure one can source walnuts in the savage lands of the Americas.
The way my mom usually does it is as follows. To start things off, add 150 g fresh yeast in a little warm milk, a teaspoon of sugar and a few tablespoons of flour and let it activate, should double in volume pretty fast.
For the pastry, you will need: 6 egg yolks; 1 kg white flour, some high protein one like 12% or better is preferred, sifted; 400 ml milk, 100 ml sour cream, 250 g sugar; 150 g of lard, 100 g of oil; the lard melted over low heat. Any fat can be used, butter or just oil. Lemon zest. And some extract of rum and vanilla, I don’t know if these are used in the US.
Mix the oil and lard in a pot and melt the lard.
Add the milk, egg, sour cream, and vanilla/rum extract to the flour and sugar and mix well to incorporate.
Add the yeast, mix in and then knead the dough. When the dough is homogenous, add the fat bit by bit while kneading. Usually knead for 15 minutes, adding 50 g of fat every 3 or so. The dough should end up like a bread dough in consistency, and should form small bubbles. You can add a handful of raisins if that is your thing. I would not myself. Let this rest for about an hour so the yeast can do its thing.
Slightly oil a work surface and, for reasons unknown to me, take the dough out of the bowl and slam it a dozen times or so on the work surface.
For the filling you need the whites of the eggs, 500 g rough ground walnut, 3-4 tablespoons cocoa, 2-3 tablespoons of sugar, some more rum/vanilla extract. Foam the egg whites with a pinch of salt and incorporating the 2-3 tablespoons of sugar in the process. Split the whites in two parts. Half should be then mixed with 150 g of walnut and the 3 tablespoons of cocoa, the other half with just 150g of walnut. Add rum/vanilla to taste.
The dough in our case was split 40 40 20, give or take. At this point, there are two different techniques. One gets fluffier pastry, one gets more even filling distribution.
Use 40% to make a sheet of pastry, cover with a layer of walnut filling, sprinkle 100 g of dry ground walnut on top of it and roll.
Take a second 40% piece of dough and make two thinner and somewhat smaller sheets. Cover each with filling, roll and then braid together the two dough cylinders.
Place in a baking tray lined with parchment, of appropriate shape, and let rise 30 more minutes.
Take one more beaten egg and use as a wash, brush over the top of the cozonac. Bake at 165 C for 50 minutes or so. Here we use the poke it with a stick method to see it is done.
The final 20% dough is usually used to make cheese pastry. 200 g cream cheese mid with 100 g sour cream, 2 tablespoon sugar, 2 whole eggs, some resins. Mix well. In a round oven safe pot lined with parchment put dough on the bottom and sides to create a container for the filling and add the filling. Make a dough X on top and bake for 40 minutes at 165. C
For all of these some people add orange zest, or various spices. That is all to taste. We like it simpler and as such do not really add spices besides the vanilla and rum extract.
This is of course one of those things in which most families do it their way so there is no standard recipe. For a different example as to proportion of ingredients, I will end the post with an alternative recipe. This one makes a richer pastry, and it is famous, although I am not sure anyone actually does it this way. It comes from a writer and noted gourmand from the 1920s by the name Pastorel Teodoreanu.
For 400 grams of flour, which is the base of the thing, you use 20 egg yolks, 30 grams yeast, 30 ml rum, 125 ml milk, 65 g butter, 30 ml oil, 120 g sugar, vanilla. The filling is a mix of 150 g candied orange peel, 70 g raisins mixed together with 30 ml of rum. I am partial to the walnut filling, so I doubt I would like this very much.
Anyway, cozonac.
Peasant food.
And you need a cross-section shot at the end.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DosliPsOvrOaUfeZNB8BmGdWVLmAgYSR/view?usp=drivesdk
I’m good to try any of the varieties!
What drinks do you traditionally pair them with? At least here coffee would seem to work.
Well there is a old saying
One of the great things in life is cozonac and red wine. The only thing better is just red wine…
There is no standard pairing. Or maybe a glass of cold milk. Or some wine.
Served by itself? Any toppings common?
no toppings. Usually it is served after the main course and people drink whatever they were drinking before…
AB-
Cognac?
“some resins”
Pine sap, nylon, epoxy, I like to mix it up.
raisins
HE KNOW THAT. HE ONLY KIDDING.
SEE EVERYONE TONIGHT! HA!
for reasons unknown to me, take the dough out of the bowl and slam it a dozen times or so on the work surface.
You have to show it who’s boss?
That looks really good. In the unlikely event we travel to Europe again, I’m thinking Mittel Europe may get our Yankee tourist dollars.
I believe slamming the dough helps with air bubble dispersion.
You don’t want big voids.
That’s the “slap and fold”, typically used by bakers to improve gluten development in very wet doughs.
Carbs that aren’t beer or a hotdog/hamburger bun are gross.
It’s like I don’t even know you.
You’re right, I forgot tortillas and if you’re short on cash some white bread.
..and potatoes, but not gross sweet potatoes…
If you’re going to defile your body with excess carbs, at least make it cornbread.
Only Johnny cake slathered in butter, and then only one small piece.
Beer has bread value but bread has no beer value.
*throws pizza dough in the trash and runs away sobbing *
No one said there would be so much math.
Recipes should all be in volume measurements.
American volume measurements.
How many cups is 500g of flour?
Sounds like it would be delicious. I’m usually not a walnut fan but this seems more toward the baklava type of use which is good.
My Ma would put big chunks of walnut in her cookies; just so I wouldn’t eat them all (I contend).
for dry ingredients by weight is more accurate
Weight is the proper way to measure ingredients. And I would put this more in the Babka category then baklava.
Volume is fine for liquid ingredients.
well I said dry myself 🙂
volume is fine as long as you can get the necessary precision. I weigh the water for my pizza dough recipe because it needs to be 365+/-5g to start. I don’t have any vessel that holds that volume of water that is able to give me that level of precision.
Here’s a little secret – most recipes don’t require that much precision.
Small digital kitchen scales are cheap. Once you have one, you’ll find plenty of uses for them.
The grocery store. Either in shell in the bulk bins, or already shelled in the baking aisle (whole, crushed, halved, or diced).
Or go to your grandparents farm and pick them.
Durham flips his first domino.
Kevin Clinesmith, Corrupt FBI Attorney Who Falsified Carter Page FISA Warrant, Expected To Plead Guilty
Finally.
I’m not dancing until the big fish are frying.
/I wasn’t serious
I was.
Yeah, I love the sound of big fish frying. But this is a minnow, a minnow no one has ever heard of. Can we at least get that one asshole and his girlfriend Gumby?
Clinesmith was no minnow.
I should add, however, that he is small only by comparison to the fact that this was done with the explicit approval of the sitting POTUS (OCriminal) and his closest advisors. By comparison, yes, Clinesmith is a foot soldier, but everyone involved knew exactly what they were doing and understood that the whole purpose was to go after an opposition candidate. They all hated Trump so much, however, that they went willingly along. I hope Clinesmith gets it good and hard in prison, but that’s probably unlikely.
Looks like a ninner to me. Throw it back!
Seriously never heard of the guy. Can we at least someone who is well known? What was the guys name who was sexting his GF Gumby and said ‘there’s no there there’? He’ll do for a keeper to start.
Consider this, Hype: would you have a “minnow” doing the underlying work for the FISA warrant on Carter Page? Or doctoring up emails in order to throw off FBI folks who were asking about Page’s history Clinesmith’s supervisor was Peter Strzok.
I only protest against it because you’re making the DemOp Media’s case for them that this is a “big nothing-burger,” but view it however you want.
“Peter Strzok”
That’s him! The Gumby grabber!
I was half jesting, you know?
I did not know that, but I hope they can at least get Clinesmith to sell Stdork down the river. He can fap to Gumby when he’s in the pokey.
I just want the Jailer, when he slams the door shut to say ‘Now there’s a there and there it is!’.
A few Clintonectomies would be good. Mother always said, “If you’re going to dream, dream big.” I’d like to see a mass confessioningᵀᴹ to the DOJ for immunity/reduced sentences.
Fish don’t fry in the kitchen
I expected nothing less.
Finally
Deputy (dep-oo-tee) dawg is pretending to do something.
I’m always interested in what’s being pled to – that’s frequently the “tell” for what’s going on. Under 1001(a)(3) Clinesmith could get some time – up to 5 or 8, depending upon how integral they view the thing he altered to the FISA process – but the charging document is pretty damning. No matter how the media tries to spin it, they included very specific facts about what he did, as well as text and email messages to other people. One of them is particularly damning: Clinesmith’s reply after being asked if he was going to leave when Trump won: “Vive le resistance” was his answer.
This could very well be the beginning of something seismic, but I’m not holding my breath. This site, however, has done a marvelous job of putting the jigsaw pieces together from existing public documents and it’s just… I don’t know, it’s at least as bad as you can imagine, however. Very likely worse. Click on the links in the article and you realize this whole thing has been every conspiracy theorists’ worst fever dream multiplied by about 500. A cabal of folks at DoJ, on orders from the White House and other very, very senior officials in the FBI and Intel Agencies used every bit of the national security apparatus to go after Trump. Mueller’s Team was part of the attempted coverup, too.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/08/11/igor-danchenko-and-a-34-month-long-doj-fbi-cover-up-operation/
It was a coup. Is that illegal?
Well, well. After months of grunting and straining, the elephant craps out a gnat.
A mid-ranker, at best, whose crimes have been public knowledge for, what, a year, plead guilty. The lowest of the low hanging fruit has finally been harvested.
They could have bagged and tagged him at least a year ago. No indication of whether there was a deal and he rolled over on anyone, which is the only conceivable justification for the delay.
Yay, I guess.
He was the mastermind. It has been dealt with. Barr got them libs good. Time to move along. Nothing else to see, no reasonable prosecutor…
I was a bit more optimistic. We’ll see.
Its still a little early to write Durham off. I’m not particularly optimistic, but I’ve been wrong before.
I’m cynical. I’ll believe that something big comes out of Durham’s work or the Swamp gets drained when I see it.
Barr is part of the swamp, we may as well forget about this. Deputy Dawg did his promise to Trump, he really got em. Now it’s time for him to take a nap and gain another 100 lbs in those pork jowels.
It is more than I thought would happen. I thought no one would be held to account. Hopefully, he did roll on someone, or he doesn’t commit suicide by means of two .25s to the back of the head if he did snitch.
My Slovene grandmother and her family did something similar with the walnut filling. They did not do as much fancy twisting though. Super delicious!
Found it on the interwebs,
https://www.internationalcuisine.com/potica/
I like the look of our stuff better
My Slovak grandma used to make those, and my mom still does. We called them nut rolls. Usually they have either apple or poppy seed filling.
My Slovak wife makes a lot of stuff like that too. She’s making pletenky right now.
Pie, that all looks so good. I ‘m thinking lots of calories that old folks may not need but what the hell, covid’s gonna catch us anyway, right?
Thanks. Now I’m Hongry(ier)
And if the ‘vid or the riots don’t, the years of depression ushered in by Democrat mismanagement surely will.
Shut up and pay your property taxes on that pile of rubble. And don’t you dare think of cleaning it up without a permit!
You’ve heard the expression, “You couldn’t pay me to live there”
Well, that’s where I live and I still have to pay for it.
I ‘m thinking lots of calories that old folks may not need – well as long as you keep active you can say you are bulking.
thanks for the recipe
JFC these people live in a fantasy world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/how-to-test-every-american-for-covid-19-every-day/615217/
how bout no? Life isn’t worth living in this hellscape of a society. Not only that but fuck that noise the margins just do not exist in business to do that. These people are legitimately insane. I get the scientist who are selling the testing kits thinking this is a good idea but that’s about it.
Science is the new magic, because the magic of economics hath forsaken us.
There is no technical obstacle to that vision.
Not a vision. That is a fucking nightmare.
“Let’s make the all-star team of people in this field, pay them whatever they need to be paid, put billions of dollars in, and get a working test in a month that could be truly scalable. Take it out of the free-market, capitalistic world and say: ‘This is a national emergency’—which,” he said, “it is.”
OFFS! Now I wish the ‘rona were a lot worse, so that it would take out assholes like this.
An incredibly expensive nightmare at that. These people can go to hell.
It’s a good thing that they’re totally living in la la land. They’ve already tried pushing bullshit like this at organizational levels, and I’ve seen the result of that. People will not go for this sort of violation of their privacy. Not even progs. I’ve seen town halls, I’ve seen the surveys and polls. This sort of shit has already been soundly rejected. It’s a fucking non-starter, thank God.
But the people pushing this Orwellian bullshit? Their hell should be to live in a world where they are forcefully interrogated, poked, and prodded every day continuously, every single waking moment of their miserable day.
Next, the test for intestinal worms. Bring a sample or make a sample. Can’t be to careful.
You just want to see Grandma dead.
I agree, he only wants my dead grandmas to die.
I agree, he only wants my dead grandmas to die.
OKTHXBYE. I’d rather be a hunter-gatherer.
south dakota sounds better and better.
And if you test positive, you get a yellow star to wear and are transferred to a special colony.
Think of it more like a temporary holding camp.
It’s just like going to a luxury spa.
The showers are to die for!
A bullet in the head would be easier on society.
“the margins just do not exist in business to do that”
One of my Office Progs is actually a pretty smart dude. He’s sort of backed into a corner now where he realizes the lockdowns were a huge overreaction but he still has to signal hard for TEAM SCIENCE. So his latest TEAM SCIENCE talking point is “we need a million contact tracers, then we can reopen”.
So I, of course, point that the entire United States military has 1.3 million servicemen. So he wants to add an entire federal department 75% the size of the DOD and this is supposedly a “rational and moderate” step.
He sounds pretty stupid to me. Might be smart about his one narrow area and completely stupid about everything else in the world. Like 90% of the doctors I’ve ever met.
the other thing this article is tacitly admitting is there will be no vaccine in time for May of next year. Once I again I ask what is really the point of this? we flattened the curve we are on the otherside of this in most places, what are we trying to suppress at this point? There are real problems at this point where we don’t even have enough wild virus to test a control group to further develop a vaccine.
Sounds like some relatives of mine that plan to wear masks, wear gloves, maintain Leper Length, and limit social interactions until there is a vaccine.
It doesn’t matter what I say to them. “We just don’t want to get the virus!”
Sigh.
“the” virus. Good grief.
Santa Claus has got the ‘vid this year.
Here’s my version of May 2021. People have long since grown fatigued of all the fear mongering. The virus has eased up and run its course just like every other germ in the history of mankind. Even though some people are still getting sick and dying, the population has accepted that risk just like they have accepted deaths from car crashes.
There is such a thing as “quality of life” that these people keep ignoring.
Kids going back to school and people seeing actual fans in football stadiums in the fall will go a long way for many.
people seeing actual fans in football stadiums in the fall
Is anybody planning to do that? I haven’t been paying attention, since I’ve pretty much written football off.
Jerry Jones has said he wants fans and MLS has allowed fans to attend the games in Texas. Also there is 0 chance the SEC doesn’t allow fans in the stands. 0. There would be riots.
MLS naturally loans itself to social distancing, since there aren’t any fans.
There is more football besides NFL/NCAA D-1
I think the SEC/ACC/Big12 are gonna play. Probably.
And someone will win a national title and rub it in Ohio States face. Probably Clemson or Alabama, so no different than a normal year, but maybe not.
It bothers me to put a $ value on life, but it exists. We make the choices every day. But some people just can’t get past that hangup and refuse to accept reality.
If you had to chose between getting a billion dollars or 20 years of world peace, 0 wars, what would you choose?
Neither, I saw that Simpson’s halloween episode.
Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons.
OJ worked Halloween? That is scary.
If it’s a continuation of the current situation, no contest. I’ll give you my bank account number.
$1b is barely a round error in the annual DoD budget, yet alone 20 years of them. That would be a no brainer.
JFC. That’s supposed to be optimistic? That sounds more dystopian hellhole to me.
local infection levels are down in the single digits
I don’t believe the level of active infections has exceeded the low single digits even without your Orwellian fantasy.
Well, which is it?
Why is everybody spitting into the same bag?
Counting AZ, that would mean the damn bag doesn’t get where its going for a day,
Plus, why on earth would there be all this folderol and only a handful of processing sites.
I suppose asking “why” is racist nowadays.
Prepub paper, May 2022: excessive spitting in public communal settings and lack of sanitation led to current drug resistant tuberculosis epidemic current raging through the US and other countries.
*Ding!* *Ding!* *Ding!*
Remember when Gattaca came out and it was considered a dystopian nightmare?
was it though?
All I know is that given what would become of Jude Law, he shouldn’t have given Ethan Hawke any hair at all.
Let’s make all the government-sector employees do this every day for a year before inflicting it on the private sector.
The Atlantic is now worse than the Guardian. They jumped the proggy shark, fuggitaboutit!
That rayzorfister guy needs to WD-40 his fuckin chair.
*looks at his view count*
*looks at my view count*
Or maybe I need to make my chair annoyingly creeky.
This looks delicious.
Just like with orphan factory workers, beating the dough toughens it up some.
This looks amazing, I may have to try making it some day.
I didn’t know UCS had a youtube channel.
Just had a dishwasher repairman. Main guy, no mask. Assistant, mask.
Just interesting.
“Dear Penthouse, I never thought I’d be writing…”
With fava beans and a nice chiante?
Don’t forget the sultry Assistant.
dishwasher – how bourgeois
The ‘vid took all his orphans.
That’s a lie. They were all asymptomatic. He drank them and spreads the virus at night.
Maybe the guy was there to repair an orphan? Ever think of that, smart guy?
Not wearing a mask is a privilege of status?
Romanian government decided to extend the time outdoor bars an restaurants need to close form 2300 to midnight… But Romania is one of the leaders in covid cases apparently.
Vampires hardest hit
Is it really a surprise a bat virus is rampant in Romania??
What is surprising is they aren’t already immune.
Shouldn’t you gain immunity by drinking the blood of someone who has already had the virus? Sounds like science to me.
Looks good Pie. Do you do all of the kneading in the bowl?
Yes. I did like 25% of it my mom did most of the work. I assume it can be done in a processor
Holy Shit, the masks are off.
California Legislature Votes to Strike ‘the State Shall Not Discriminate’ from Constitution, Opening the Door to Legalized Discrimination
Now they can legally fuck over whites with impunity.
Democrats gonna democrat. That took a 40 year break, but they are right back to where they were before.
California, separate but equal?
Can we just make them separate?
Cascadia Mega Fault Rupture 2020!
well whites have no one to blame but themselves. Also sell while the real estate market is still high and get the fuck out…
Moral bankruptcy goes hand-in-hand with fiscal bankruptcy.
If whites start identifying based on race, and they will if this kind of thing continues, there’s going to be serious trouble in this country.
Self-hate is the only motivation I can think of for whites to vote Democrat.
And yes, white racial politics is coming. It’s inevitable now and why the left keeps scare-mongering over white-supremist boogie-men.
Probably so. ☹️
Just like how the Nazis were a reaction to the leftist insurrections of the late WWI/early 20’s.
https://youtu.be/CsbYx6hevoQ
so in the end you blame ((()))
The worst part is that all of this stuff is completely unnecessary but people respond to incentives in predictable ways. It’s a shame.
Not sure how changing state law will affect federal civil rights laws….but it’s good for them to let us know who is who.
Federal civil rights laws…for now. Just like in California, those can change.
Those change based on who runs the DOJ.
“As California goes, so goes the country.”
Been hearing this my entire life.
Well if we’d just push the bastards into the sea.
Why do you want to pollute the sea? I say fertilize the soil with commie ashes.
CA is planning anti-white discrimination, which has been de facto legal for a generation.
It is curious they find the need to make it explicit given that they do it already without anyone blinking.
Makes you wonder what else they have planned.
IDK how things work in California, but in civilized places, constitutional changes can only be proposed by the legislature, and then ratified by the people in a general vote.
In Commifornia, the Attorney General writes the description for the ballot.
For example, the legislative proposal to remove the property tax cap will appear as “A Measure to remove road funding restrictions.” or somesuch.
The repeal of the antidiscrimination clause will get something like:
“A measure to redress issues with historic racism.”
And some extract of rum and vanilla, I don’t know if these are used in the US.
Yes, vanilla is commonly used. Rum extract less so, but still available in any grocery’s spices aisle.
High protein flour is sold as bread flour, also available in any grocery. Well, before covid. It’s mostly available again.
Why use Rum extract instead of just using rum?
I never asked that question… I assume it was cheaper in commie Romania and stuck. The 1920s recipe has actual rum.
I would assume that the extract has more concentrated flavor than rum.
And less liquid for amount of flavor
https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cake/rum-using-rum-or-rum-extracts-in.html
Because you drink the rum?
A lot of vanilla extract ain’t real vanilla though.
most of the cheap one isn’t. I assume one could use real vanilla but I don’t know how much
I always see both at the store. I don’t bake so I don’t mind paying 10x as much for the real thing just to use a few drops for the occasional mixed drink.
I often say “Politics is just the Kardashians, but for people who think they are better than you”, I was thinking about it, and tell me, How was Joe Biden picking his VP any different than The Bachelor but for people who mean to control you?
We didn’t get to see Fauxcahontas cry and run out of the room when she didn’t get a rose?
So not even as entertaining.
When you get fucked on The Bachelor it’s usually consensual.
The DNC just announced the entertainment line-up for the convention. No one can say politics isn’t entertainment with a straight face.
OFFS.
Stephen Stills is the only one I’d consider “entertainment”.
For what it’s worth, I concur.
That picture at the top…what the fuck is that?
I think its the Icon for “The HIll”
That’s a multi-Grammy winner baby!
The pop tart du jour.
It makes me think of some of the court characters from The Hunger Games.
Monday night will feature “a unique performance of our National Anthem” from a 57-person youth choir, with each member representing “one of the 57 states and territories as they perform from remote locations across the nation,” the convention’s statement said.
Sounds tasty. I’ve always been a fan of Heinz products.
They better be kneeling.
A choir?! In these Days of Rona?
Geezus Christ, industry publications are getting in on the lying. And not the usual product and corporate fellating kind
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/contradictions-muddy-atts-social-justice-message/2020/08/
The rot is too deep. There is not upside, outside of the Ripley solution.
Hey I keep telling people wee need to find a stargate to a perfectly earth like planet and move there to form libertopia
*snort*
How un-self-aware can you be?
Looks delicious! I may try a half recipe since it looks like a lot of dough.
Are the tablespoons a precise measurement or just “big spoon in the drawer” amount?
just “big spoon in the drawer” amount
my mom never precisely measured things until I ask her for a recipe to post here
But in this case tablespoon can better be translated as to taste, especially sugar
A lot of the skepticism of voter fraud claims has been based on the idea that state governments are neutral in the federal elections, even considering party affiliation. I don’t think this is true.
Every single state around the country has suffered budget shortfalls due to their panic and lockdowns. They all have every incentive in the world to offload the financial burden of these fuckups to the federal government.
Based on a quick Google, it would only cost 30 or 40 billion for a Democrat Congress and White House to clear the red ink out of the four or five crucial swing states that will decide the election. That is a massive incentive for not only the party hacks but also the supposedly apolitical employees to look the other way to any kind of ballot irregularity. It doesn’t need to be any kind of grand conspiracy, all that is required is for the party hacks to issue the instructions, and for the worker bees to think about the looming possibility of budget cuts if the feds don’t bail out the states.
^this, which is why the left constantly decries any suggestion of a fix as a “grand conspiracy”.
All conspiracies, and conspiracy theories, are right-wing.
Well, not quite all.
I thought South Dakota had a surplus.
Today in too local:
I just got campaign mail from this guy today showing him all decked out in his military garb, touting his service, etc. etc. He has constant TV commercials calling his opponent a “fraud” etc. No adverts from her; I assume she’ll be outspent 10-to-1 but at least she walks the streets near me unlike this guy.
Dude, your desperation is showing.
My contempt for Republican leaning moderates who will vote for a Democrat under the premise that if he or she served in the military it must mean they are some kind of moderate is really fucking high. That was how Rahm Emanuel swept in the Blue Dogs who lined up and voted for Obamacare. He picked all these younger people with no history of leftist activism, and got as many people who served overseas as possible.
When push comes to shove, when its time to create some brand new perpetual taxation monstrosity, the “moderates” always fall in line. There is no such thing as a pro-life Democrat, a fiscally conservative Democrat, or a pro-gun Democrat. They always fucking do what they are told by Nancy Pelosi.
We already have a massive welfare state. That already exists. If you think we need publicly funded healthcare and education and welfare, well welcome to the Great Society. It turned fifty fucking six this year chief. Vote Republican, because Republicans think whatever the Democrats of about 10 years ago supported is the proper level of government.
The funny thing is I didn’t even know about “his service” until I got that mail. I didn’t vote, or pay the slightest attention to the contest. I don’t recall any campaign advertising. I just assumed he squeaked by with the rest of the “blue wave” that won GOP districts.
Yet, the DNC and corporate media act like the Republican Party is run by Murray Rothbard’s ghost.
Just got a notification that “Former FBI Lawyer” is expected to plead guilty in the Trump Russia collusion debacle. I.E the guy who falsified the email to a Judge. I take it that this is all that will happen and this is the dedicated sacrifice so that Barr can preserve the holy institutions of the FBI and Justice Department.
I think there will be more, maybe no blockbusters, but more. And the more there are, the more the MSM will ignore them.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/393996/#respond
9th Circuit strikes down CA’s “large capacity” magazine ban. 2-1, with the Chief Judge dissenting.
From the comments:
Judge Callahan is a Bush 43 appointee.
Judge Lee is a Donald Trump appointee
Chief Judge Lynn is a Bill Clinton appointee.
Elections have consequences, vote accordingly.
We should stop calling them Judges, and just call them Political referees.
“Well looks like our case got assigned to two Left and one right wing Political referree, hope you enjoyed saying you have gun rights”
“Well looks like our case got assigned to two right and one left wing Political refferee, hope you enjoyed saying you had 4th amendment rights”
The law is unconstitutional, just like all other firearm restrictions. That being said, it’s also stupid, anyone who can get good at swapping magazines quickly, just circumvented that stupidity already.
Damn, that looks good as always, Pie.
I have to show this to my white slave hand maiden… urrr, I mean wife, and she if she can replicate it. That or we’ll have to plan an expedition to Romania, as soon as we can leave the country again.
Why did I read this with 3 hours to go til dinner? Now I’m just going to have to shove something in my gullet to stop the grumbling.
plus the science shows you can’t catch covid while you are ingesting food.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/kamala-harris-imaginary-centrist/
“The “center” of American politics will always be wherever the Democratic Party’s nominees happen to stand.”
Harsyani says it better than I have ever been able to.
“The “center” of American politics will always be wherever the Democratic Party’s nominees happen to stand.”
*Stalin blushes*
He’s one of their best writers.
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Author of White Fragility making money hand over fist TW: TOS
The ultimate expression of white privilege is becoming rich off other races.
The only thing that bugs me about that is that shes white, honestly.
If a black woman wants to get rich absolving white lefties of their guilt, then knock yourself out. But I cannot fucking believe that people are paying a white upper middle class American woman, the most privileged creature to ever exist in all of human history, to lecture them about privilege.
It’s projection, it always is, and she assumes everyone is just like her, projection and narcissism combined is a bad combination.
I can’t stand that she’s a big part of a movement that’s undoing 50 years of civil rights progress, and intentionally causing division and hatred, but people are just throwing money at her.
Those people throwing money at her, are her, they’re the same people and they love feeling ‘everyone is just like me!’.
When I first moved to MD and started making some friends, one guy I had made friends with, we were just out having a beer and talking and some political issue came up, can’t remember what.
But I’ll just say this, with exceptions, most people here who label themselves ‘conservative’ are not the same as those folks in flyover who label themselves conservative. Most ‘conservatives’ here are people who will vote for Bernie Sanders and can be convinced that any unconstitutional law is OK because reasons. But they don’t like them dope smokers and they’ll keep their capitalism even while voting against it.
So I said to him something like the following:
You know those people out there in flyover, you know the rednecks. *he chuckes* Those people do not think like you do. I know those people, I lived with them for half my life, I understand them, I know where they are coming from. You don’t understand them and you probably will not because you live in a bubble and you probably feel comfortable there and don’t want to know, it’s much easier to just think of them as dumb rednecks and that makes ya’ll feel superior.
You should have seen the look on this guy’s face. It was just ‘WTF?’ did this guy just say to me?, lol. Anyway we’re still friends, but he’s still an east coast conservative, IOW not a conservative.
Where are you that you are finding Bernie Bro ‘Conservatives’?
You know where I am. Are you trying to say that there are no supposed conservatives here who have not said they will vote for Bernie? You’re way off, you don’t know any blue state conservatives, almost all of them have severe untreatable TDS.
The real question may be ‘where are you’?
No I don’t have a clue where you are.
Baltimore. Does that explain it?
In that context, I suppose it would be easier to find people who adopt the label without the principles.
It would be hard NOT to find them. Ask Juris there, he’s been to Balmer, he knows that I’m talking bout.
Most GOP voters around here… I was listening to conversations last year before the election while just walking around the hood. As it goes here, this is a pretty conservative neighborhood. A typical conversation would go like this:
Well, I don’t know why they can’t find a nice conservative, you know, like that Jeb Bush? Yeah, I know, Jeb’s so nice, I’d vote for him, not like that Donald Trump, he’s just mean!
No further explanation needed. Jeb Bush, Mittens, those are conservatives to these folk.
Best description of Andy Harris I’ve ever heard, other than my own which is two words: obnoxious asshole.
I have known him for over 30 years and would say that is a very succinct and accurate description.
I think this is the best summary.
“In the Times Magazine profile, which was over a year in the making, DiAngelo proves to be a dazzlingly contemporary cross between a charismatic religious leader and a therapist. Does a televangelist ever tell you that you are without sin and no longer need to listen to his appeals? Not if he wants to keep up the payments on his fleet of Jaguars. “
Apparently one of the points in her books is that “trying to help” people of other races is white privilege. So donating any of that money to scholarships or things like that would be bad. Aw shucks, no choice but to keep all that money herself!
Except the people and organizations throwing their money at her are using her screed to take power over their (white) friends and employees. People are losing their jobs over this shit. She is evil.
https://www.targetsportsusa.com/target-sports-usa-lake-city-556mm-nato-bulk-ammo-55-grain-full-metal-jacket-1000-rounds-m193bk-p-110074.aspx
Shows in stock. I’m gonna pass at $500.
…and gone.
I’m thinking I probably need an AR. But this is the stupidest possible time to get one and get ammo for one.
Unless the Dems win in November, in which case this is the stupidest time not to get one. If the Dems win the Presidency, I don’t see how they House or fail to win the Senate, and then, well, look at VA. Game over, man. Game over!
Just checked .308 prices. The only one available that I am interested in is over $2.00\ round. And I’m actually considering it. Fucking .410 is hard to get. Jeebus. If the ammo market is a leading indicator, well, We. Are. Fucked.
You know what’s fun?
AR pistol in 7.62×39. And it’s still affordable to feed right now.
Just saying…
Rainier Arms has some Arsenal AK clones in stock for ~$1200, which is about the baseline price for a good AK. Worth looking at…
GF may not have a job to go back to in September. She told me to be good about no big purchases for now.
As profitable as the business is at the moment, they really ought to invest in a few more politicians – the kind that stay bought.
So the 200 rounds for $225 I bought a month ago are a bargain now???
I think any ammo bought a month ago is a Bargain now.
And I misspoke – it was just under $2.00\ round.
I love ARs and think that everyone should have one. But you have *something* you can fight with, right? At this point, it might be wiser to prioritize practicing and training with the guns you already have…
M1A, Beretta 1301, Para-Ordnance .45, Sig 9 mm. Hopefully, I will have an honor guard for my entrance to Valhalla.
I don’t need-need an AR. For the first time, I’m just kinda wishing I had one.
Before the boating accident, I was more of an AK man. I even ordered 1000 rounds of ammo before the ‘Rona panic started (which was unfortunately on the boat as well). I even had an AR receiver in case I ever wanted to build one, but it’s probably rusted at the bottom of the lake now.
And, just got the bill for this year’s furniture acquisition. No, there will be no more new guns at the Casa Dean.
But the scene of the catastrophic firefight will be first class. Just the best. Hollywood set designers will weep at the crime scene photos.
I was going to ask if it was suitably bulletproof furnature.
I don’t want to sound like an insane person, but should the Postal Service be endorsing a candidate when mail in voting is a thing?
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/14/major-us-postal-workers-union-endorses-biden-president/5584789002/
Yikes
Those semi-public employees are above reproach so it’s all good.
It’s just one more reason to abolish public unions, as if we needed more reasons.
Beat me to it. “Pay us tribute, or else…”.
Jeebus. The people handling the mail on ballots the Dems are demanding just announced they want the Dem to win.
And nothing will be done. It’s like giving one party sole control of ballot security. Nothing to see here, etc.
And you wonder why I worry about the Dems sweeping the table.
Don’t they give an endorsement every time?
Probably, but it used to not matter. This year, they will be, effectively, ballot security for a huge chunk of the election. For the first time, although it’s been trending that way.
So can Trumpy Bear sue to prevent mail-in ballots based on USPS corruption?
Wow.
To be fair, we knew that was coming.
But, wow.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/breaking-9th-circuit-panel-strikes-down-california-high-capcity-magazine-ban/
Strict Scrutiny. Huh.
Prediction – it’ll be reversed en banc. Still a solid ruling, but it won’t last.
Exactly my prediction, as well.
Or this ^^
I’m sure the state will appeal, and then Roberts will deign to take a SCOTUS Case and shoot it down.
Poor Rhywun. Lewandowski hasn’t scored.
I may watch the repeat. No spoilers.
But how are you supposed to make a FWD Honda look absurd?