I still need to add a recipe to the Thanksgiving Recipe deal. I might try a new brine this year, the one last year contained sugar and since I prefer to deep-fry resulted in what I can only describe as “mahogany turkey.”
Which would be great if it were really mahogany.
Now for some links:
Caution: May be a carrier for parasites, food borne illnesses, and COVID-19
¿Como se dice, “I’ll take things that didn’t happened for $1000” en español?
If they don’t hold kids in a detention center, where will they put them?
Chicano Hispanic Tejano Mexican American politicians are offended the Mexican president still hasn’t congratulated Joe Biden. Cry more, pussies.
Belize had an election. Who knew?
Its called Iota. Somebody come up with a joke about not caring one iota because otherwise I got nothin.
Hey, at least we’re not Peru, amirite!?
Music from a guy that likes Planet Fitness…because YOU CAN DEADLIFT ON THE SMITH MACHINE.
Fürst?
As first as Speedy Gonzalez.
Of course, I didn’t use Primero, which would be more appropriate.
If you like Georgio, you’ll love Primo ?
Or Wurst?
Both!
Leave something for Bro.
Of course it is the wurst. Libertarian sites are always a sausage party because there are no libertarian women.
Prince?
I think you want “Erste”.
Whatever.
das ist richtig
I don’t like the smith machine. It feels weird. Except for decline bench press.
Damn DeWine!
Better than a shutdown, but still dumb.
A lockdown by any other name would smell as shit.
Its borderline martial law without the martial (yet)…but guvs are getting itchy with that can of worms.
Sooo … what if people say “Fuck off, slaver”, and ignore the “curfew” en masse. Then what? It’s either enforced at the point of a gun, or it’s a mere suggestion.
Because the mere threat of having to spend the night in the clank keeps most people in line and they know it.
Trump should organize a rally at 10:01pm and make the State come and arrest people.
Charged with a second degree felony under what law, specifically? I am fairly certain this ‘violation of a public health ‘order’ business is illegal.
2nd degree of we are top men now sit down and shut up
The process, of course, is the punishment.
I’m with you Suthen, how is this legal?
Because do as we say, it’s right there in the FYTW clause.
See! This is why I can never pass the bar exam. I always forget about the FYTW penumbra
second-degree misdemeanor
and next time you go to an amusement park read the signs telling you that you cannot take pictures and notice that they threaten you with criminal penalties for disobeying the orders of the pimply faced 16 year old pushingthe button to make the ride go. See that speck way way out on the horizon? That speck is the ship with the principle that legislative authority can’t be delegated.
The only shining light in it was that he specified that the 05:00 removal was that people work out in the morning at the gym. The bar/restaurant/gym order is most likely coming Thursday.
It also has an end date (not that I believe they’ll stick to that).
And later headlines are also saying that bars/restaurants/gyms won’t be getting closed this week.
Maybe the restaurant association dumped enough money in their pockets this time.
Time to spill Dewine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i0DMbCKnAg
A declaration of War.
Too much of a Burdon
Fuck him.
The curfew order had not been signed as of mid-afternoon Tuesday and was not immediately available. It may be available later tonight, the spokesman said.
Not immediately available? Quite the emergency huh? Time is of the essence.
where will they put them?
Salt mines?
Belize had an election.
Turnout was 110% for Joe Biden.
Subtitle from the first article:
How low, exactly? Is there any risk at all? Like, at all?!
Sigh. The biggest lie the Devil ever told was convincing the work that risk could be eliminated.
world*
The biggest lie the Devil ever told was convincing the work that risk could be eliminated.
This. Life is dangerous. There are ~40K deaths from car accidents per year in the US. There are ~5K deaths from workplace injuries per year in the US. So far, COVID has killed ~47K people of working age (15-65) in the US. Going to work (including commute) is about as dangerous as COVID, for the working age populace.
Well, the lockdowns are saving us from COVID, car accidents, and workplace injuries!
Welp, they’re not wrong.*
*Secondary and tertiary effects need not be considered.
And it’s completely elimiated the flu!
Someone, somewhere, is saying the same thing sincerely.
But I did get a good laugh out of it, so thanks.
Even accepting those numbers at face value, that’s a great comparison to make. Good to have in the back pocket, thanks.
In my work, I deal a lot with risk management and mitigation. In every single training or seminar I’ve taken on the subject, that’s one of the foundational concepts: Risk cannot be eliminated. You must decide what level and type of risk you’re going to accept. The key is to identify the risks and make an informed decision.
Yet both my senior management and most people in the world seem to forget, ignore, or disbelieve this.
All of them must have been in academia. Because that’s the only place I know where people roam the hallowed halls like zombies until they keel over.
I am constantly telling my crew that we are not in the risk elimination business; we are in the risk mitigation and risk acceptance business. If they want to eliminate risk, padlock the doors and call it a day.
Choose your bad.
Even accepting those numbers at face value, that’s a great comparison to make. Good to have in the back pocket, thanks.
The numbers no doubt overstate things, as I just pulled them from the CDC here, and the COVID category is “All Deaths involving COVID-19”.
Which of course makes the ridiculous cry of ‘Trump killed 240,000 people’ even more absurd, as so many of these folks died from other things but were also positive for covid; covid may have been involved, but was not the primary cause of death. The idea that all these people would still be alive if only Imaginary Perfect President had been in charge is risible.
The biggest lie the Devil ever told was convincing the work that risk could be eliminated.
And like that -poof- he’s gone,
I wouldn’t be calling the devil a poof if I were you.
Democratic Latino lawmakers criticized Mexico’s president for saying he would refrain from commenting until “all the legal matters have been resolved.”
What about YOU, comrade? Have YOU congratulated our fearless leader on his clear, in no way objectionable victory?
*puts mexican sharpshooter on list of dissidents*
Are we back to Latino and not doing LatinX anymore? This gender neutral shit is getting confusing.
MS needs a white person to correct him.
Latinos HATE Latinx.
Leguizamo uses it.
How To Use the Smith Machine
*snort*
Joe Biden is the corporate candidate? 0_o
A Joe Biden administration dominated by corporate-friendly insiders will not help usher in the most progressive Democratic administration in generations.
This move gives greater urgency for Joe Biden to create an Office of Climate Mobilization on Day 1 and appoint progressives.
Big Gov + Big Business
A match made in hell.
Their woke dreams are a lost cause. Even the CCP figured out that socialism does not work and so they turned to capitalism. Yeah, it’s a very crony form of capitalism with the ruling CCP party members using the peasantry for borderline slave labor. Does that sound like something you think the democrat establishment likes the sound of?
China would still be a very backwards country and dirt poor without capitalism and if Bernie and AOC could get their way, we’d be heading there too.
With the dems in charge, we’ll become more like China. The woketards are going to get their bubble burst good and hard because that shit is useless. You ass will wind up in camps in China for that bullshit and so the wokestards better wake up and get in shape for their usefulness as an idiot.
“Borderline.” Ask the Uighurs.
Well, yeah, there’s that.
What I was getting at is that the democrats will not be allowed to let the woketards get all their wet dreams and destroy our economy. Of course they’re going to take your guns and of course you’re getting a social credit score. And you will get poorer. But the woketards aren’t getting jackshit except their worthless asses to work or starve. What do you think would happen to them in China? What would happen with BLM and antifa? Well, there you go.
The CCP’s economic scheme is not very dissimilar from that of Germany’s from 1933-1945. You may do business so long as you are a member of the party in good standing and if the party issues a diktat, you will comply. They also have the whole ethnic cleansing thing going on too. So there’s that.
Time to inject mouthwash directly into your veins.
Mouthwash can kill coronavirus in 30 seconds after initial exposure, a new study has found.
The Cardiff University study, which has yet to be peer reviewed, found that mouthwashes with at least .07 percent cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) showed “promising signs” of combatting the virus, according to Science Focus. CPC-based mouthwashes eradicated the virus when exposed in a laboratory, but the trial has yet to be conducted with saliva.
That’s why I always pour Listerine all over my dick after I fuck a cheap prostitute bareback.
If you did it before, you could cure her too.
That’s what it was originally designed for, if you didn’t already know.
Did not know that. Apparently, not what it was originally designed for, but one of the first attempts to market it:
“Floor cleaner” is an interesting euphemism.
ISTR some olde-timey magazine advertisements that recommended Listerine as a cure for stinky vag.
It’s not unusual. Tom Jones did it too.
That’s gotta be a big ticket budget item then
Links: A virus is not a living thing. It is molecular wreckage from a cell that has died. In order to be propagated it needs living cells. As far as I know dead meat contains no living cells. Maybe some could be stuck to the meat but it is doubtful they would be viable and they certainly won’t be after cooking. Besides, I know they are lying because they are chi-coms.
I am sick and tired of hearing about the plight of people sneaking into the country illegally, especially the politicized lies about children being tortured and burned at the stake. Fuck off. Stay home and fix your own country.
It aint 100% certain that creepy Joe won yet, so y’all can fuck off too.
I am sure they have changed because tourist dollars but the last I heard about Belize they spit on you in the street for being white. They can have the place.
Last I heard Iota is a cat5? Holy shit. They have my sympathies. It is going to be a disaster.
3 presidents in as many weeks? Good luck Peru. maybe you will end up with a good one *snicker*
Yes, I am grumpy as hell.
On the bright side sitting on my grill right now are boneless, skinless chicken thighs, each filed and wrapped around a jalapeño filled with cream cheese and the whole thing tied up in bacon. (Bacon being the duct tape of the culinary world)
When they get around 160 they will be slathered with a rather spicy chipotle bbq sauce and then consumed with great enthusiasm.
I hope everyone had a better day than I did, especially Festus.
Hmmm. Im doing chicken quarters tonight.
I feel like chicken tonight! Like chicken tonight! Like chicken tonight!
I thought that was caul fat.
“Links: A virus is not a living thing. It is molecular wreckage from a cell that has died.”
So, it’s a zombie? I know the vid was the coming zombie apocalypse!
Viruses are alive. They are self-replicating DNA that is not integrated into any other DNA. That fact that it needs to hijack and parasitize living cells to replicate does not make it non-alive, any more than the fact that we need to kill and eat other organisms to live, or that some insects lay their eggs inside other insects, so their offspring can eat their host when they hatch.
By your definition, mitochondria are not living things, even though their DNA is not human DNA.
Not sure if the definition has changed, but way back when I learned to love SCIENCE, a virus was not considered alive. It’s like a self replicating computer program that reprograms and takes over actual living cells.
Yeah, that’s the way it was when I was a student.
You don’t “kill” a virus (or an enzyme etc.) you “deactivate” them.
What I was taught in government indoctrination camps is that viruses are not alive, and most tests you would take to get credentials would require you to categorize viruses as non-alive to get a “correct” answer.
But, look at this drawing of a virus that has not attached itself to a host cell, and tell me that that is “wreckage”, rather than a stripped down efficient biological invading machine:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Tevenphage.svg/1200px-Tevenphage.svg.png
Virus: alive or not? Was a specific discussion topic in my bio class.
It’s not a clear cut fit that other organisms have. It doesn’t ingest nutrients. It doesn’t grow.
It was acknowledged to be an ongoing debate.
It has the same metabolism as a rock.
Until it attaches to the host and hijacks that metabolism.
Most parasites gradually evolve away any body parts not needed to parasitize. Viruses are parasites that have simply trimmed away to the maximum extent possible, so they can maximize the number of offspring per unit of mass parasitized – quantity has its own quality.
“so they can maximize the number of offspring per unit of mass parasitized”
So, they’re like progressives?
Nah, progressives tend to kill their babies, and then convert the young of the non-progs.
Technically, progressivism is a “biological sink” – it’s a mental rather than physical space that results in poor reproduction, but new individuals keep pouring into it from the outside.
Meh, at some point it’s just a chemical reaction.
Otherwise you could argue any DNA is alive and it’s just hijacking the tech with a syringe to ensure its propagation.
Looks like it was downgraded by the time it hit land, but ya – still gonna be a disaster, I would think.
I’ve never lived through one of those (Western WA has very little in the way of weather that tries to kill you), but sounds appalling.
What about the well-documented truths of women being sterilized against their will like some Dr. Mengele shit over a victimless crime?
Do you have a link? The article I read only had hearsay and no direct interviews with victims.
You can read Dawn Wooten’s (the whistleblower) testimony right here.
The AP interviewed 3 women, and here is a 4th (TW: Vox.
That does not read as there being mass sterilization. It reads as people not understanding the consent they signed and specifically says there was no mass sterilization program as the whistle blower claimed. It should be easy to find the victims if there are so many. I may be a little jaded as I can’t tell you how many English speaking patients that can’t tell you why they are having surgery or what the surgery includes even though I know it has been explained to them by multiple people.
She does not use the term “mass sterilization,” but “high rates.” I did not use the term “mass sterilization” as even one hysterectomy without informed consent is horrific. And well, we already know of several victims. All, including the whistle-blower, have provided their real names.
If it is hard for native English speakers, so much so for non-English speakers.
“Ms. Wooten stated that the sick call nurse tries to communicate with the detained immigrants and speak Spanish to detained immigrants by simply googling Spanish or by asking another detained immigrant to help interpret rather than using the language line as medical staff are supposed to.” As someone who helps train medical and legal interpreters, that’s crazy sauce. If that happened in the private sector with any regularity, OCR would be up one side of them and down the other. That is, at the least, highly unethical, if not illegal.
Also, consensual or not, all of this raises the question as to why these operations are being performed in the first place. Where is it listed in the ambit of DHS that they are to serve as a cancer ward or gynecological clinic for detainees? If you one isn’t bothered about the ethics of informed consent and medical procedures, they should be upset that taxpayer money is being used to provide non-emergency medical care for deportees.
I definitely bothered by the free healthcare for anyone. we use a video translation service, but we aren’t some government facility with sovereign immunity. If the women don’t want free healthcare from hatchet men, maybe go find a nice Spanish speaking surgeon and pay for the surgery. When you say sterilized against there will, I think held down and forced into surgery, not signing a consent they don’t understand and then being unhappy with the results. If the goal was to sterilize immigrants you would do tubal ligation because it’s much faster and cheaper than hysterectomies. Not excusing poor medical practice, but it’s not exactly harvesting organs from prisoners.
I agree their translation practices, as described, are badly substandard.
Where is it listed in the ambit of DHS that they are to serve as a cancer ward or gynecological clinic for detainees?
They are obligated to provide medical care to their detainees. There are security issues with sending detainees to outside medical facilities; we get them in my hospital, and they are under guard 24/7 and cause a lot of headaches. I finally put a stop to the agencies just dumping them on us and telling us to call them when they were ready to discharge (this was mostly done so that the agency didn’t have to pay us for what we did). We are about to terminate our contract with the local federal prison; just not worth it.
If someone showed up in our ED with the symptoms described, they might well wind up in the OR, after the usual diagnostic workup. Depending on severity of symptoms, we might try to get them out to an oncologist or an OB/GYN, if there are any willing to see them on short notice for what is probably little, if any, pay.
Health care for prisoners is generally borderline standard-of-care, on a good day. There aren’t any easy answers. OF course, the best way to avoid winding up getting surgery in a DHS detention facility is to not immigrate illegally. Or, I suppose, just not get caught.
From the AP article:
The AP’s review did not find evidence of mass hysterectomies as alleged in a widely shared complaint filed by a nurse at the detention center. Dawn Wooten alleged that many detained women were taken to an unnamed gynecologist whom she labeled the “uterus collector” because of how many hysterectomies he performed.
This was why I used the term “mass sterilization”.
Well, my bias is that I sit on an IRB, so I have high standards for consent. Well, not really “high”, I just take the Belmont Report and its associated regulations seriously. It is shocking to me that this doctor who is under the purview of HHS doesn’t seem to as well.
How difficult is it to hire people who speak Spanish?
I agree with your standards for consent. We have bilingual staff, but if they aren’t certified translators, they can’t get consent, we have to use the video translator. Also the consent form has to be written in their language. Just because government has immunity and can get away with being sloppy, doesn’t guarantee they are being malicious.
Oh, I hear ya, HM. I have scraped a knuckle on more than one physician who had lax views on patient consent. The worst are the ones from NHS in Britain, where patient consent is just not a thing.
But as I tell my people and the doctors constantly, the form the patient signs is not informed consent. It confirms that they had a discussion with their doctor about informed consent, he explained the risks, benefits, etc., and they had their questions answered. What goes on in that discussion, how good the patient’s subjective understandin was, etc., is all a black box.
even one hysterectomy without informed consent is horrific
Unless of course this is the third generation of imbecile and then the state has a compelling interest.
Vox lady had one Fallopian tube removed. She can still get pregnant with the other tube. Not exactly a smoking gun for forced sterilization.
I find the allegations of neglect quite credible.
I am also willing to entertain accusations that proper informed consent was not given, although I’ve heard enough bullshit on that front to be moderately skeptical.
On the issue of whether the hysterectomies were medically necessary, I remain agnostic. Looks like two of the women had some kind of cancer, likely ovarian cancer, for which a hysterectomy could be appropriate. With regard to the opinions of other physicians, trust me when I say you can get a physician to give any opinion you pay them for. There’s a reason every malpractice suit features a matched set of specialists on each side, giving diametrically opposed opinions.
Caveat: due to abuses by the progressives back in the day in sterilizing people, you generally need specific consent to sterilization. However, it gets murky when you are opened up in the OR and the surgeon concludes based on what zhe sees that a hysterectomy is the way to go. Sewing people up to get paperwork signed, so you can open them up again and finish, is not without risk and is very rarely done.
Its quite possible that this happened the way the activists say; detention would be the environment where something like this would most likely occur. Its also quite possible that it didn’t, as I have seen plenty of malpractice suits where the plaintiff’s version is, let’s say, loosely tied to actual events. So that’s my bias on stories like this; I’ve been the accused in similar claims that were exaggerated, at best.
There could be some shady doctors, hell I’m sure there are, but gyn surgery is often vague pain or bleeding that you don’t always have a firm diagnosis for before surgery and chronic infection and poor medical care can lead to more extensive surgery, add in a language and probably education barrier and you get people that misunderstand and make claims. It definitely is a forced sterilization factory.
Ok, but the nurse speaks English and has a certain level of medical education, yet she thought something was untoward.
I hope if the physicians are performing unnecessary procedures or experiments their license gets pulled. I don’t know this nurse and she may be an honest to god whistle blower or someone looking for attention. From reading the victims complaints, it doesn’t stand out as a cut and dried malpractice, but again I don’t have their medical records in front of me.
The story is also getting traction in some pro-life circles, so hopefully will see a bipartisan push against this horrific tax-payer funded butchery.
I don’t truck much with the far right, after watching them rend their garments over Teri schivo.
I felt sorry for that poor woman’s memory more than anything. It seemed pretty clear to me that her husband was angling for the money that was in a trust. He had a new woman in his life, and had a kid with her, but instead of petitioning to have his marriage dissolved, he was petitioning to have her feeding tube cut off, when her parents were perfectly fine taking over her care.
As I vaguely recall, there were also issues about what she would have wanted, which is supposed to take primacy even with patients in permanent vegetative states.
And, of course, there’s an ethical issue for the doctors; they aren’t supposed to order or provide treatment that they believe is unethical, which includes “futile” care that prolongs suffering and the like. We recently re-did our policies on end-of-life care to make it clear that the physicians propose, and the patients consent; there is no such thing as a physician providing treatment he objects to. It takes two to agree on a course of treatment.
Its been a long time, and my memory is hazy, but my general recollection is that both sides had their issues, but that pulling the plug was the right decision.
My issue with that case was that the idiot Republicans in Congress held hearings about it. It was clearly a matter to be decided by the family, and if the family could not resolve the issue by the local court, with rights of appeal to the State appellate courts. There was no trace of a federal nexus, and further no remotely constitutional basis for federal legislative involvement. The issues were: 1. What were her wishes? 2. If it was impossible to determine #1, who had the right to make her health care decisions? and those are squarely within the power of the State courts.
The Mexican President called Titty Tuesday to congratulate it on the great rack.
https://archive.li/rTePz
11 appears to be a chubby girl hiding that behind camera angle and hair placement. IMO, the best looking of the bunch.
You need to link to this for that kind of comment.
* slow clap *
Indeed — #11 is a cutie!!!!
#4 is clearly a hobbit.
#16 has likely had about 40 lbs of ass photoshopped away.
It’s kind of hard to photoshop away 40 lbs of ass when the pic is entirely frontal and thus no buttage visable.
As you can tell by my icon pic, 40 extra lbs of ass is my idea of perfection.
“Prolefeed, may I introduce you to Tres Cool? Tres Cool, Prolefeed.”
#1 kinda looks like Maitland Ward, but I think isn’t Maitland Ward.
I like #8. Nice smile.
I want to like #9 but she looks too much like a RealDoll.
#15 also looks like a RealDoll.
#16 looks familiar. I can’t run archive images through Google Image search again. Dammit.
I recommend #21’s iChive gallery.
#30’s eyes are off. I looked at her iChive gallery. Those eyes. Something is off there.
I ran #16 thru Google Image search and no other pics of her came up, just that one and similar brunettes in red.
Today I saw a lady in a NA Miata with a bumper sticker that read: “no airbags. We die like men”. I got a good chuckle from that.
Would.
If they don’t hold kids in a detention center, where will they put them?
“This is no longer a detention center. It is now secure temporary housing for formerly-northbound youth.”
Camps. I am afraid the correct answer, per Glibertarians.com running gag #11808, the children will be put into camps.
Surely you can find someone that will do this for money.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13213895/fifty-years-fantasising-two-women-fighting/
Not crashing the computer by clicking a Sun link, but isn’t that “foxy boxing?”
Yes.
There are also a bunch of videos on PornHub related to woman wrestling/fighting.
I’m starting to collect my first principles and wonder about the great references.
You own yourself. You own your body and mind and may exploit them in any way that suits you. You may absolutely do anything that does not hurt another person.
Who has the best declaration or reference on this idea?
If they don’t hold kids in a detention center, where will they put them?
The article says they are shifting responsibility for illegal immigrant kids from their immigration agency to their family development agency. So, does Mexico do foster homes or orphanages?
I’m sure the cartels have a nice place for them.
The cartels are just, well consider them libertarian cousins who only want to make a buck. Someone has to make those cocaine bricks.
Just dump them on the streets where they can sell chicle for pennies and work their way up to a gang of pickpockets like god intended!
See, I’m going with “In the back of a pickup headed to El Norte.”
We are all in this together.
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) on Tuesday urged Chicagoans to stay home and avoid large crowds one week after she participated in a large rally celebrating the election of Joe Biden.
“We are urging people to stay home, to not be in large crowds, to wear face coverings, and really take responsibility for their own lives, for the lives of their family members and for the lives of other people in the city,” she said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “We have to rise above the me and get to the we. We have a larger obligation to each other that we have got to get to.”
No.
I’ll say this as eloquently as I can. I ain’t in no fuckin nothin with no Beetlejuice! Ewww!
They will get their village one way or another. These people absolutely cannot accept that people, while social creatures, are individuals before anything else.
The ‘me’ is more important than the ‘we.’
And way more important than the ‘you.’
ding ding!
This is the politico that gave zhemselves permission to visit a hair stylist becasue hygiene was more important to xem than the unwashed tax cattle, no?
We? She must have a frog in her pocket.
Goddamned herd animals.
A good brine is salt, acid, and sugar. If you want to try something different, try a mix of pineapple and lime juice. Does wonders for pork. Never tried it with turkey.
I found one with buttermilk.
Buttermilk and poultry is fantastic. Now that I think about it, never done turkey and buttermilk. Thanks for planting that idea. Yum yum.
And hot sauce – buttermilk, salt, and hot sauce is great for poultry.
Is 2 hits of acid enough?
Mexican American politicians are offended the Mexican president still hasn’t congratulated Joe Biden. Cry more, pussies.
The article fails to mention that AMLO has made claims of election fraud in his own races, so it only makes sense that he would not go along with the “nothing to see here” brigade. Although the article does mention that AMLO and Trump have had a good working relationship, including some instances of horse-trading that I had been unaware of (apparently not only did Trump use the stick of tariffs to corral Mexico to crack down on immigration and change their trade policy, he also used carrots by standing with Mexico against OPEC). Also, I found this part of the article humorous:
why bother say his name, another asshole in the same office.
Same office, same orifice.
I had the same question.
In volume one of his memoirs, A Promised Land, Obama detailed the call he received from his advisor Robert Gibbs at 6:00 a.m. waking him up to inform him of the news:
Gibbs: You were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Obama: What do you mean?
Gibbs: They just announced it a few minutes ago.
Obama: For what?
Obama said when his wife Michelle Obama asked him what the call was about, he replied, “I’m getting the Nobel Peace Prize.”
“That’s wonderful, honey,” Michelle Obama replied, before rolling over in bed to get more sleep.
Ha. How relatable.
For him, it was the equivalent of getting a Dundie. When the NPP commission decided in whatever year to give Al Gore one for his bullshit movie instead of the Polish woman who risked her life to save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust, they lost whatever credibility they ever had.
Don’t worry; when Greta Scoldilocks wins for throwing a fit and looking 8 years old when she is 16, balance and dignity will be restored to the Nobel peace prize.
Well, he earned it later by peace-striking the shit out at least half a dozen countries.
So this new memoir is volume 1, implying others are on the way. It’s 768 pages. This is on top of the other two memoirs he put out before he was president. He must’ve really gotten some stuff done, what with all the writing about it.
This is already his third memoir, too, I believe? I wish someone loved me as much as Obama loves himself.
John McAfee?
BP!
Hype!
What is going to inspire you without a secret nazi president?
Just won’t be a secret anymore.
Secret Commie President?
Not much of a secret…
Not much of a secret…
That is not a secret either
The Great Uniter and Healer.
So, one of these but borgifird?
Was just reading some in City of Stairs while eating my lunch, and statement by a secondary character jumped out at me:
“…you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it’s not corruption at all – it’s the law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law.”
I love that trilogy. Many draft phrases, and some amazing characters.
I might be wrong, but I think it was you that mentioned it in a previous What Are We Reading? article.
If so, thanks!
Pretty good so far. Just about halfway through the first book.
It was, and you’re quite welcome. Robert Jackson Bennett is an author to watch. American Elsewhere is great, as are Foundryside and Shorefall. I didn’t care for the earlier books, though.
I grabbed the Founers Trilogy (library ebooks), too – hope to get through them all before I have to return them.
You don’t care about Central Americans getting hit by a hurricane? Why, I oughta…
wanna beta he hates Puppies too?
Kittens. I am not a cat man.
mexican sharpshooter hates pussy?
Just yours.
My monkey sphere keeps shrinking. At current rate I’m not going to give a shit about myself by 2022.
and in that moment you will discover true freedom!
Tyler Dryden?
Durden. Stupid autocorrect
Why should I? they don’t even no I exist….
Somebody come up with a joke about not caring one iota because otherwise I got nothin.
I made the joke a day or so ago when I linked the WC report on the hurricane. I don’t get no respect around here.
Respect always comes from being First.
My tits are cool but my calm is damaged.
A second county in Georgia has found a memory card with thousands of votes that had not been uploaded into the system used in the state. The majority of the votes were for President Donald Trump.
“Gabriel Sterling in the Secretary of State’s Office describes what happened in Fayette County: There were votes that had been scanned and were on a memory card, but the issue was that they hadn’t been uploaded,” 11Alive News reported. “He said it was more easily discoverable than the issue in Floyd County, because they were able to see that the number of people who were checked in on the early voting file in Fayette was higher than the number of people there was in the county’s reported vote total.”
It’s gonna be a gigantic shitshow if GA flips back to Trump from all these “errors” that only go one way.
The GA SoS just went on camera and said they had completed their audit of the voting machines and found no evidence of fraud. Apparently he is categorizing “fraud” in different ways than I would.
they had completed their audit of the voting machines and found no evidence of fraud
“According to our audit, we did great! The process I am responsible worked extremely well! I mean, I don’t want to toot my own horn, but . . . .”
Just in time for Sleepy Joe’s handlers to institute a surge.
“Sirens blasted from the U.S. embassy inside the zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions,” Reuters reported. “One security source said at least four rockets were fired and some of them landed near the U.S. embassy.”
Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson tweeted: “Iraqi intelligence says at least 4 rockets fired at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad moments after U.S. acting defense secretary announces partial withdrawal of American forces from the country.”
The attacked signaled the end of an “informal truce announced by Iran-backed militias in October,” the Associated Press reported. “The rockets were fired from the al-Amin al-Thaniyah neighborhood of Baghdad.”
The terrorists are dumb. They probably wanted to get in some final shots before the opportunity leaves, but their top men should have reeled them in. Why give the occupiers an excuse to stay, when they are leaving?
They aren’t going anywhere unless Trump gets them out of there now. Once he’s out of office, they’re there for at least another 4 years.
Can you say escalation?
They’re already laying plans to go into Syria.
Good god, that’d be a disaster. Also kiss Ukraine goodbye if that happens.
War is a racket for both sides, not just us.
“China ‘used secret microwave pulse weapon to cook Indian soldiers alive’ and force them into retreat in Himalayan border battle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8957019/China-used-secret-microwave-pulse-weapon-Indian-soldiers.html
Dousing them in soy sauce is going to far.
I’m not going to click, but if it’s the microwave weapon I’m familiar with it only burns skin deep, not exactly enough to cook them alive. Fuck I hate the media.
um, too
Does that fall under Chinese or Indian cooking?
Fusion cuisine.
I thought fusion is still 25 years away?
+1 whiskey on campfire
That’s more gamma/neutrino cooking than microwave.
“California man, 44, wanted over $35m Ponzi scheme tried to flee FBI agents using an underwater ‘SEA SCOOTER’ in freezing Lake Shasta before being arrested when he surfaced after 25 minutes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8957821/Man-wanted-35-million-Ponzi-scheme-tried-flee-FBI-agents-using-underwater-sea-scooter.html
That’s the best transportation you could have bought with $35M?
Hank Scorpio, he is not
A least he could’ve got one of those awesome one-person hovercraft.
“Here we go again: Panic buyers across U.S. empty shelves of toilet paper, food and disinfectant as 40 states see record daily increases in cases and 20 states report all-time highs in deaths”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8957785/Panic-buying-2-0-Shoppers-hoard-essentials-states-impose-stricter-COVID-lockdowns.html
OFFS!!
TP will save us once again!
We saw it coming and stocked up on toilet paper a couple of weeks ago. The stores here started running out late last week.
How many states reported the numbers of dead decreasing?
It should be noted that total US deaths per week is 1/4 that of the peak in April and 1/2 that of the second peak in August. Panic is unwarranted, even if the positive cases are up.
This is awesome actually. finally we’re making some progress getting through this bullshit.
Shut up you! It’s RAGING all around us! Now panic and obey!
And can I just say that I hate hate HATE the fact that “cases” are “tested positive?” I realize that may be the correct definition in some ways, but when you have tens- or hundreds of thousands of people that test positive but have no symptoms, then they’re not sick.
Potentially carriers, sure, let’s have that discussion. But let’s not conflate “case” with “sick”.
Amen.
So Georgia has now found 6000 votes that were “misplaced” in majority Trump counties?
Oh fuck off.
Seems a bit suspicious doesn’t it?
And a 3rd one was just found in a yuge Trump county. Although this one only contained a few hundred votes.
Maybe already mentioned, maybe not:
“California lawmakers head to Maui with lobbyists despite pandemic, travel warnings”
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/11/16/california-lawmakers-head-to-maui-with-lobbyists-despite-pandemic-travel-warnings-1336605
New lockdowns, a gov having an expensive get together with lobbyists, and lawmakers heading to Maui for a nice and I’d bet nonsocially distanced jaunt with other lobbyists. Cali really is screwed and they seem to be just fine with it.
dbeagle(?) can correct me, but doesn’t Hawaii have a mandatory 14-day quarantine for incoming travelers, no matter test status?
Pffftt, I’m sure there are exceptions for important people who are holed up in a nice resort.
The current rules are that if you take a test w/i 72 hours of arrival with a negative test result, from an authorized testing company, you can skip the 14 day quarantine.
I am expecting a return to the hard 14 day rule for all.
The Guv has put the state in a hard place. We are in a full blown depression out here with businesses failing at a record rate. Yet the government is so incompetent that we will be returning hundreds of millions of dollars to the Feds from the first bailout package. The state received over $900M and still has at touch over $550M undistributed. They just hired the workers, but the string n the money says it must be distributed before 01Jan2021.
Unreal. No tourism from Asia or the USA, lowered import/export. They’ve hosed the entire economy there, more than most (any?) other states.
Talking to a couple friend at Pearl Harbor, they say they are a worried for what happens next from an economic standpoint. They have their jobs, of course, given where they work, but are definitely concerned.
Sorry you have to deal with that.
Testing will get you out of the quarantine requirement:
The pre-travel testing program for COVID-19 began Oct. 15, 2020. Pre-travel testing enables travelers to avoid a mandatory 14-day quarantine if they are tested within 72 hours before their flight to Hawaii departs with an FDA-approved nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) and can show proof of a negative test result. The State of Hawaii will ONLY accept test results from TRUSTED TESTING AND TRAVEL PARTNERS.
You have to realize that the important people trying to keep you safe, have to be able to do their jobs.
In 1994, Incumbent Congressman Dan Rostenkowski lost his re-election bid to Republican challenger Michael Flanagan by a margin of 54 to 46 percent. At the time, he was under federal indictment for a variety of corruption charges including being the ringleader of an embezzlement scheme to launder post office money. He would eventually be sentenced to 18 months in prison.
And while all of this was widely known, he got 46% of the vote. Flanagan would lose his bid for re-election comfortably in two years to Rod Blagojevich.
46% of the voters shrugged their shoulders and pulled the lever for the member of “their” party. The lawmakers on their trip to Hawaii laugh at us because they know we’re powerless to stop them. It’s so infuriating I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to ignore all this shit I can do nothing about.
Flanagan made the mistake of running as honest?
“Twitter’s Jack Dorsey warns Donald Trump will lose protection from being banned from platform when he leaves the White House – and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is slammed by senators for evading answers as tech two are quizzed on ‘censorship’ claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8958241/Twitter-boss-Jack-Dorsey-says-platform-labelled-300-000-tweets-misinformation.html
For a fascist who is literally Hitler, Trump really sucks at the whole “dictator” thing. Castro would have had both of those assholes quietly disappear, and no one would have said shit.
Trump not ending the various social media platforms’ special protections was one of the biggest failings of his presidency. Now they’re going to run absolutely fucking rampant on anyone to the right of Pol Pot.
TOS has assured us that the tech gestapo has done nothing wrong and instead it’s the dems and GOP who are wrong for questioning our technocracy overlords.
I don’t think we should end section 230, but simply qualify that to retain its protections you may not censor or fact check.
This also works for me. Too late now though.
Since Glibs occasionally “Cat Butts” commenters they should be legally liable for anything any of us assholes say in the comments?
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Oops, wrong butt
What what?
Question for those up in arms about section 230. What do you guys think it does? And what do you think happens if it is repealed? Because all it does is say that Facebook et al. are not liable for things the users post, and if it is repealled you won’t have less policing of posts by facebook and Twitter, you will have more. In fact you will probably have pre-screening of submissions for later publication. Yes, if you just hate facebook and Twitter it would harm them, just not in a way that gets you what you want from them.
I’m in the “stop using those services!!!!” Camp.
I have no problem with that either but why provide them with legal cover in a bargain they aren’t living up to?
Yeah, Section 230 is only good in theory. In practice it doesn’t seem to matter to the big players. If only some landmark cases came before the supremes.
What legal cover? They kick people off their platform. Freedom of association. Go to Gab or Parlor.
Everyone advocating repeal of 230 is basically saying they want websites that do any curating or policing of comments to be held liable if a post violates libel law. Other than the time honored principle of “I want bad things for my enemies,” I don’t really get what it is supposed to accomplish. I despise viewpoint discrimination, but if I post my firmly held view that Kamala Harris is a whore, a grifter, a slaver, and in every way a despicable human being, why should SP have to pay a judgment? Section 230 has nothing to do with the complaint we have against Facebook.
It’s not the hill I want to die. My hill is hardcore porn should be on every streaming service or I’m being censored or they are or something.
It does allow for “good faith” moderation, whatever the hell that means.
The legend from my husband has it that Steve Case lobbied for section 230 because he wanted to be able to remove the child porn from AOLs servers without facing legal liability for it having ended up there. The original intent of ‘good faith’ moderation was a lot more along the lines of what the PTB here do. The result has been that platforms can remove whatever they want, even for opinions they don’t like.
There’s no way to stop the censorship but I’d like it at least codified that if they censor or “fact check” they have zero protections.
That’s a great way to nuke anonymity on the internet.
Rule 14 of the FRCP:
IOW, Shithead v. Facebook turns into Shithead v. Facebook and you. You may be judgmentproof, but libel cases tend to be less about the money and more about revenge.
Isn’t the theory that section 230 will still exist for platforms that simply publish user generated content?
They don’t want to repeal section 230. They do though think Facebook and Twitter should lose section 230 protections because they do decide to filter user content. Because they are no longer content neutral platforms and are instead publishers, they should have the same burdens as all the other publishers.
That is how I understand the argument.
I disagree with it. I think that people who are upset with Facebook and Twitter should just stop using them. It really isn’t that hard to live without them.
Removing section 230 for “publishers” is just going to open an entire new can of worms. The Govt will get to decide who is crossing the line between platform and publisher. They will also demand all sorts of additional auditing and compliance paperwork to prove you aren’t editing user content.
Let Facebook fuck this shit up on their own.
As an employee at a company that allows and encourages UGC, I’m not keen on the government modifying it either. I just want my management to smack around the tiny little nazis running our moderation team who have decided it’s their job to stop ‘disinformation’ too.
In an ideal world, I’d like them to not censor at all. But, I find the prospect of liability-based neutral censorship preferable to one-sided ideological censorship. The social media giants enforcing ideological conformity has the tendency to become a problem in meatspace that saying “Hey I can move to Parler or talk on Glibertarians” doesn’t really address. As things stand now, a person can be deplatformed on social media and then established in the public’s perception as a horrible white supremacist Nazi without having any ability to defend himself. And anyone who dares defend him or her online risks the same treatment. And, before anyone suggests this is just a hypothetical, what about the Proud Boys? I’m not a huge fan, but any claim that they’re white supremacist is laughable on its face. Yet, social media has still established that “fact” in the public consciousness. Anyone think that couldn’t happen to anyone else?
Well at least anyone to the right of Pol Pot will have Gab (is that still a thing or was it totally overrun with 88ers?), Parler (demands a phone number for access), and PornHub, right?
Perhaps I am just overly black pilled these days, but sometimes I secretly wish Trump would live up to the “dictator” character that he is constantly painted with to disappear some of these people. It would probably be a net gain to society.
I see Trump as being about as unqualified ad hoc and inept as the left sees him. The thing that infuriates the left, and amuses me, is that this guy who is basically a monkey shrieking on twitter and flinging poo has not only not collapsed everything into smoking ruins, but has actually done a bit better than their vaunted ‘qualified’ politicians. This leads inescapably to the conclusion that qualified politicians are less competant than a monkey flinging poo.
An all knowing 4D chess playing God Emperor he most certainly is not. Still miles better than Biden though.
That’s exactly how I described the first debate to my die-hard Trump relatives: “It was two baboons shrieking and flinging poo at each other. Tell my why either of these monkeys deserves my vote?!”
He’s at least somewhat moral, though, because a less moral person would say something like “You want authoritarian, I’ll give you authoritarian” and do some heinous stuff.
You are correct, though, that competency is a low, low bar.
The tea leaves I’m reading is that the new administration will likely go after Parler and others, and the recent deluge of media articles talking about all the “dangerous extremists” on these sites is laying the groundwork for them.
They’ll fail.
the one redeeming quality of our government is that it’s completely incompetent.
I’m assuming so, but I still think they’ll try. They play for keeps
yeah. They’ve been trying to take down conservative talk radio for my entire life. and now things like breitbart.
they’ll try. you’re right about that.
I think it’s different now, because back in the 90s there was still a very strong strain of free speech in the American Left. That has been stamped out to the fringes at this point. Groups like the ACLU have been skinsuited. People like Alan Dershowitz are now being vilified as Russian Stooge Trumpist Nazis.
The movers and the shakers of the Democrats are not in favor of free speech, they are in favor of managed speech that has no “hate” or “disinformation” in it.
Nat Hentoff would be vilified too if he were still alive.
Try honey powder instead of sugar. And use a little less. Not saying this can’t mahoginize, but I prefer it for brines.
Man I hate training the night shift. Exempt FTL.
Heh, I first read that as “Exempt Faster Than Light”, and I thought “from what?” and then I remembered.
What makes the night shift unique? Stoopider than day shift people, or is it that you’re working during that shift? Either way garners my sympathy.
Pure selfishness of working more without being paid extra.
Plus it takes me a long time to unwind to the point where I can sleep, so I’ll be especially grumpy tomorrow morning.
Ugh, sorry. Been there.
A company I worked for when I was paying my own way through my degree had shifts. They approached me one day and asked me if I would be willing to go to 2nd shift if they’d make me the plant 2nd shift foreman or whatever they called it back then, the top guy on the shift anyway, and a big raise.
I was like ‘man I don’t know, I’ll have to change all my classes back to day time and I don’t think I’ll like it’. So they asked me if I’d just try it for a week and I said sure, I needed the bucks.
Dude, they only come out a night is the only thing that comes to mind. Talk about the dregs of society, it was really that bad.
Probably the funniest thing that happened in that week, because I turned it down after, is this. We had a guy who was a parts inspector and I only knew him because he used to do this split shift thing where he’d come in sometimes during the day, even though he was the night guy.
So I heard this commotion and I look over there, I was just walking past and there’s this one huge fat vulgur foul mouthed lady who worked this shift and she’s saying to him ‘Hey! Is it OK I wear a sports bra!?
The guy was your classic nerd type, really quiet, mild mannered and mostly kept to himself.
So he says ‘Um, yeah, I guess that’s OK, but I… ask him. And he points at me and she repeats it. I’m thinking what the fuck? Who cares what sort of bra you’re wearing, fatty. But what she really meant is it OK if I ONLY wear a sports bra on my shift. And I said ‘OK’.
So she turns around facing my mild mannered co-worker and yanks off her shirt, to only be wearing his sweat stained sports bra that was barely containing the mass of blubber on her.
The look on that dude’s face, I was still laughing my ass off years later. He looked terrified, it was like he saw a t-rex about to eat him. He says ‘nooooo!!!!’ and is turning away waving his hands around, you can’t do that!
LOLOL.
HA! Great story. I mean, how could he have not known what was coming?! But, that’s what makes it even better.
Although for me, the best part of your story was the phrase “only be wearing his sweat stained sports bra”
🙂
That was a type-o. I didn’t laugh at the moment though. I said ‘maam, no, you have to put your shirt back on’. She’s like ‘It’s fucking hot in here!. I said ‘I know, but you have to put your shirt back on, or leave’.
The next morning I went in to talk to the plant manager. I told him about it and the fuckhead is laughing’. I said ‘It’s not funny… OK, it’s actually pretty funny’ and we had a good laugh.
That guy, his wife used to come in there sometimes, oh my god she was hot. I remember one day we were standing in the aisle talking and watching a the new girl on first shift. He says ‘Man, she’s ugly, but she has a great body’. I said ‘Jeff, you are a man after my own way, I like you’. Ah, the good ole days…
That was a type-o.
Ya I know – made it even funnier, though!
I never had to deal with stripping sumos, but you paint a shudderingly clear picture.
She was a loud foul mouthed ultra crude imbecile if I’ve ever seen one. It was like I was already living in Baltimore.
I work second shift…never mind.
When I was doing that, about 90% of our employees on 2nd couldn’t speak English or were high on drugs during work, or both. It was impossible. No wonder they had tractor trailers of scrap parts to haul off every week.
They tried opening a plant in China before they went out of business.
I worked nights and overnights until my 30s – often alone. My first 9 to 5 job I was like, “I am never, ever working nights or overnights again”.
The one exception to that rule in my experience was when I had to spend a good chunk of a year in a hospital. The night shift nursing staff was – with two exceptions – just as good as the day shift, even if a few of them had… interesting… personalities.
But, it was a pediatric oncology ward, so that tends to get the cream of the crop from what I’ve been told.
Likely an outlier that illustrates the rule.
To be fair… I’m referring to the customers, not any staff I worked with.
YOU CAN DEADLIFT ON THE SMITH MACHINE.
Yuck.
The city of Jinan said it found the coronavirus on beef and tripe the packaging and on the meat itself from Brazil, Bolivia and New Zealand, Reuters reported. The virus was also found on the packaging of imported pork from Argentina.
I agree. “Shit that didn’t happen.”
López Obrador said Saturday that he would refrain from commenting on the U.S. elections until “all the legal matters have been resolved.”
Obrador has some functioning brain cells. Odd.
“Belizeans, in impressive numbers, voted for a new beginning,” Mr Briceño said. “This 2020 is a call for our young nation to grow up, to face the challenges of our generation and to advance our peaceful, constructive and progressive revolution.”
Oh boy. Sounds like Belize will go down the shitter.
Climate Change Behind Larger, More Powerful Storms
I had to go through almost half of the article before the NPR writers blamed climate change? I suspect that writer might get fired for burying climate change that deep in the article.
Peru has much at stake: The country is in the throes of one of the world’s most lethal coronavirus outbreaks
How is that possible? Peru had one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. It must be those wreckers and kulaks. It can’t be that lockdowns are stupid.
Was there a note that said: Dear China, here’s you or virus back?
According to ZeroHedge Tokyo’s been put on the highest level of COVID alert. What’s that mean Straffinrun if you’re around, the restrictions have been fairly tame so far haven’t they?
Japan has bigger problems to deal with than covid
https://soranews24.com/2020/11/17/japanese-middle-school-criticized-for-pulling-out-girls-bra-straps-to-check-their-color/
Well, how else can they tell if they are really white devils, or not? Would you rather they throw them in a lake to see if they float? We have to use real SCIENCE!
This story makes my head hurt. I should be elated by it because 17 idiots voluntarily resigned from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The problem is that if you read the details, it sure looks like the MPCA wasted a shit ton of money already trying to placate these employees. WTF? They work for you! Tell them to shut up about environmental justice and get back to fucking work.
Luckily these idiots are so entitled that they resigned for the dumbest reasons possible.
The project that they are so upset about is the replacement of really old pipelines with new ones. Remember the people who resigned are ostensibly really, really, really concerned about the environment. So yeah, they have to oppose building a new safer pipeline.
I read that as they weren’t allowed to completely dominate every team meeting with their agenda or avoid their normal duties to push their cause.
The horror.
Pretty much. ‘Sharing honest thoughts and opinions’ has become code for, ‘Shitting all over everyone and everything in range.’
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s group on environmental justice
The obvious question is why there even is a “group on environmental justice”.
Any lawyer Glibs following the Rudy thing in PA, law Twitter is having a field day with his arguments, but it’s Twitter and they all have TDS, is it as bad as they say it is? The big one now is the judge asked Rudy “what standard should I apply” and Rudy answered “the normal one” which apparently isn’t a sane answer in legal speak.
#TrumpLawyers
It’s pure, unpunctuated greatness, the deepest of benches
Sidney Powell et al either have a case or they don’t. Are we about to find out?
I doubt it but I hope she does if there was really anything close to that going on.
https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/bend-reminds-residents-of-mask-hotline/article_832697de-285c-11eb-a168-c7015504d792.html
Can we get a hotline to report Califucktards? How about civilly fining those POS carpetbaggers until they get back into their Uhauls and self flush themselves back into the shithole they helped create?
The ONLY good thing in that article:
(Fargin squirrels)
The ONLY good thing in that article:
Anonymous calls are not accepted
Having to put your name on the complaint – and if that’s part of public record – means that might help. A little.
used to be, a complaint had to be signed by the complainant, so you could confront your accusers,
How quaint. I saw Yusef consorting with the devil behind the big oak tree!
Wasn’t me, no Oaks for miles….
/nor the Devil……
Hickory is more to the Devil’s liking.
Exeter, NH has a mask ordinance. When the town government debated it, the town police chief was opposed to it because he said enforcement of the ordinance would stir up animosity between the police and ordinary citizens. He also said that if the town government passed the ordinance, which it did, the town police would never respond to an anonymous complain of someone violating the mask ordinance. Give your name when you complain, or we ignore it.
Now…. you could give a fake name and how would the police know you did that?
“Can we get a hotline to report Califucktards?”
Only if there will be a Canuckistani reporting option as well.
I’ve asked in another forum, as someone moving to South Carolina from Manhattan, is there some way I can tell the people actually from there “I’m not one of them!”?
I found my Wardrobe gives me away…..
In my case, the “them” refers to the other people coming from up North.
I know, I tell people I’m from AZ, so I don’t get called Them,
/Cali
“residency laundering”
I moved west, like an idiot. To be fair, my source state of Minnesota wasn’t exactly a bastion of freedom these past few years. And I like the Cali weather.
Might just have to do some reseat and take a road trip to an ammo friendly state.
Eat boiled peanuts, and pretend to like them?
At the local Walmart buy a cammo baseball style hat. Wear hat. So to the various church charity BBQ’s and compare their pig with the other churches.
If you slip up and mention that you are from Manhattan. Follow up immediately with, “That’s Manhattan, Montana. It is just west of Bozeman off of I-90.
If you are asked about country music answer with, “Don’t much care for the new stuff since George Strait retired. I prefer Patsy, Waylon, Willie and Merle.” (And you will be 100% correct with that statement.)
There is a Manhattan, Kansas.
Duh. There is a Manhattan, Montana.
Ummm….I actually do like Waylon, Hank, Hank Jr, & Willie, I don’t know enough Merle. I’m okay with Patsy or or Loretta or Johnny Cash. Heck, I even enjoy Luke Combs.
A watched roux never thickens…
And then suddenly BAM! it’s done.
Tonight is a watchagot casserole. Had 2 underdone chicken thighs from the grill (1 cup diced), 2 boiled eggs, onion, celery, about a cup of diced cooked potatoes.
Onions in the butter slowly, then 2TBSP flour, whisking while thickening. Finally in goes the chopped stuff, and pour into a greased 9×12. Put raw biscuits on top. Bake at 425 for 15-20 mins.
Easy peasy. Scratches the same itch as chicken soup, and I’m a little under the weather so why not? Just need to do the biscuits now. ..
And then suddenly BAM! it’s done.
But is it THICC??