Here we are on Saturday morning again. It’s the day before Easter, and I haven’t seen a single damn Cadbury egg yet. I’m sure my teeth and gut thank me, but that’s my guilty pleasure and I miss them. Starting tomorrow’s brisket today. Two hours on the smoker, and then into the sous vide for 26-30 hours depending on when I get it all done today and when we want to eat tomorrow. I’ll also do a couple of slabs of pork ribs, some borracho beans and mac’n’cheese, because it’s been too long since I had stuff like that. What’s everyone else cooking up this weekend?
Florida Mom dropped her kids at the Dollar Store and forgot the part where you have to give them each a fiver to spend if you want to go get drunk without them.
PBR hiding Easter Kegs around Tampa. First prize is two kegs of PBR, second prize is four.
Well this explains so much about the last 8 years.
“Shoot straight you bastards, don’t make a mess of it!” I also would pick firing squad over electric chair.
Thank goodness we still have these two
Hell, my kids used to drop me off at a bar, “Be back in an hour”, then they’d show up an hour late.
“Oh, I forgot you were waiting”
Usually I didn’t mind.
Cadbury AIGS are teh bomb. If Id allow myself Id be like a junkie fresh out of rehab and eat those things until I went into a hyperglycemic shock.
whaddup doh’
I swore off them pre keto. But, yes, back in the day…
I’m not sure I’ve ever had one. The concept is kind of repellant.
Oh, they’re good. Likely my favorite Easter candy. But like Sean, Im not gonna despite having a couple here in the house (for Jugsy of course).
My next biggest temptation is loaded potato skins, followed closely by Mrs. Fields cookies.
Mm, potato skins.
Mrs. Fields was a MILF. Did she innovate the oatmeal-chocolate chip hybrid?
Great, now I’m nostalgic for the ’80s again.
(oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8 )
Did you catch this episode?
No! Good call.
Toll House cookies kinda suck.
What?? Bite your tongue!! (Or, you know, your typing fingers!) Homemade chocolate chip cookies made with Nestle’s Toll House morsels were a vital part of my (mostly) idyllic childhood!
Repellant? You’re thinking of peeps.
I liked them when I was younger, but the last time I had one it was too damn sweet.
“Correction officials have maintained they are unable to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injection, the state’s third method.”
If needed (which I hope is a couple years off) I could take my sick/aged/injured doge to the vet this morning and have it euthanized with IV drugs. How fuckin’ hard is it for people?
It’s a complicated situation. Doctors don’t participate in lethal injections because they fear retaliation from their professional associations. Participate means prescribing or recommending drugs.
I have read the State of Maryland’s execution manual (we had a copy at work, because reasons). It’s a shitshow. Maryland had to pass a special law allowing pharmacists to sell the drugs to the DOC. The cocktail mixture is determined by DOC.
Trust me, you want the firing squad.
And speaking to the Vet thing — while those people certainly have the expertise for this, and their training is equivalent to that of an MD, imagine the outrage: State Treats Prisoners Like Dogs, Vet to Execute….
Given the way cops shoot (or don’t) I’m not sure Id trust them to do it right the 1st time. Unless of course I was “resisting” arrest someplace or pulled over for excessive window tint, Im sure I could count on them to put a round to the head.
My vet wears a t-shirt that says “Real doctors treat multiple species”.
In death by noble gas, does the decedent pass out before beginning to suffocate?
Yes
At least that was always my understanding when someone brought it up
“Doctors don’t participate in lethal injections because they fear retaliation from their professional associations. Participate means prescribing or recommending drugs.”
Maryland? Who needs doctors? According to the media, Baltimore is lousy with professionals administering lethal fentanyl cocktails. Why not leverage this underutilized resource?
Dispense vs administer.
Seems bizarre, 100K of death by overdose of fentanyl but yet there’s a scarcity of lethal drugs?
Kid on spring break, “How do I do these things?”
Salesman on the corner, “Take X before bedtime, call me in the morning if there’s a problem”
It’s artificial scarcity. The drugs are all available, but getting someone to sign off on it knowing the purpose is the hard part.
Sadly, this leads to the use of them being pretty amateur, with all the disfunction that implies.
I thought doctors were prohibited because of the Hippocratic Oath, meaning you had a, possibly poorly, trained prison guard mix and administer the injection which could lead to a painful and horrific death for the prisoner if done wrong.
It’s right there, two paragraphs down:
Tomorrow is the usual ham, green bean casserole and rolls. Might bake some broccoli and cauliflower since my son hates green bean casserole (the heathen!). Traditional for holidays in my house (and I love green bean casserole, so any excuse… 😉 )
So you’re saying SMOD is going to be calling on us from beyond the Oort Cloud? Or that it takes 8 years for our space tracking system to figure out the where space rocks are coming from, so we’re probably screwed if we need them to figure something out quickly?
In today’s old computer panel saga — I thought I got lucky… and then it chumpified me again. I’d rant about the upper right, but my rant would probably give hints, so y’all are spared.
Daily Quordle 82
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Bad luck on guess #3. But at least I’m not a chump. (I would have guessed the top right on #3 if I hadn’t gone for the bottom right, but it only would have improved my score by 1.)
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Meh, 25.
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#waffle85 2/5
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The usual meh.
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Bottom right just hurt. I had it, it was all the right letters, there were no conflicts, but no…
Daily Quordle 82
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Chumped again…
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7️⃣6️⃣
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Double chump! Fuck you, upper right!
Interesting. For the last two days I’ve used your starting words and I kicked you ass today. Did you switch strategy today?
Nope. Sometimes the words just appear and sometimes you gotta grind it out. That’s what makes this game interesting.
Also I took 4 guesses to get a word I had 4 letters for.
Ouchie
Yeah, there is definitely luck involved. Will the correct word jump to your mind right away, or will it take you four guesses to get it? Usually it takes me four guesses.
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The miss was just sloppiness on my part.
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Wasted too much effort on UR.
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Pretty sure this is a new personal best
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Such a good start, but there were several possibilities for the upper right and I chose the wrong ones 🙂
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/103271480-queensryche-at-the-univest-performance-center
Wait, what?
Queensryche is coming to town?
That’s Queensrÿche. And its not the same without Geoff Tate or Chris DeGarmo.
Why is there no Unicode for the triryche?
https://youtu.be/i0_THrxYs1w
The top comment saddens me.
You didn’t know because they announced it in silent lucidity.
They’re not really much of a metal empire these days.
That standing rib roast is going in the oven today. ??
Probably gonna grill some steaks tomorrow.
I’ll be neck deep in beef all week.
That sounds appealing on so many levels.
I’ll be neck deep in beef all week.
That’s what she said.
“…as the actress said to the bishop.”
Picked up a full brisket labeled prime, at Costco yesterday, $3.99/lb! Local market had chuck roasts 2 for 1 last week, so I have a load of shredded beef in the freezer now.
Plenty of Cadbury at the stores and has been for weeks.
5 3
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Almost got me.
From the SC firing squad procedure letter:
“The department spent about $53,600 on supplies and materials to make these changes, comply with the
law and add safety precautions. The construction and design work was done in-house.”
I wonder if they used inmate labor to construct the death room?
https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2022/04/off-duty-police-officers-like-anyone-over-21-may-consume-weed-nj-attorney-general-says.html
I’m very conflicted on this. Federally, how can they possess firearms?
This is a good point
Because fuck you, that’s how.
4473 pertains to purchase of a firearm from a federally licensed dealer. It doesn’t reach to private transaction or simple possession (which fall under the general police power of the states).
Don’t most police buy their own guns?
No, most are issued by dept. This, among other reasons, keeps liability down.
Are you sure? As far I know, federal law enforcement are issued guns, but most local police have to buy them. It could be different in NJ. I remember reading uniformed NYPD are issued guns with ridiculously heavy trigger pulls. I know that cops who buy guns and ammo for work can deduct them from their taxes.
I’m pretty sure most departments issue them. I’ve bought a couple off of local departments. My brother was also issued one when he got his cop job.
Granted, they can buy a duty weapon and they get a pretty good discount. A friend of mine showed me his price sheet for ammo during the peak of the price insanity, and I almost bought 10 cases off of him on the spot.
Yeah Leo rates are bonkers.
At the blue gun shop I go to, baby cops bring in a voucher from their department and then apply it towards whatever gun they want (I assume there are some restrictions).
There’s a short list of approved guns by department. Most are probably the same list
Outrageous government overreach
A weeklong protest by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott against President Biden’s recent immigration policy reached a resolution on Friday, but the gridlock it created has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and delays in shipments of everything from avocados to automobile parts that will have a longer-term impact.
On Friday, Abbott reversed course on an order he put in place last week that required lengthier “enhanced safety inspections” of commercial vehicles entering Texas. The efforts, he said, were to help stop the flow of illegal contraband and human trafficking.
Abbott’s move, which Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticized as “political theater,” ultimately created a logjam of trucks between the US and its largest goods trading partner. Vegetable producers say their produce is spoiling in idling trucks and they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
If there is anything they can’t abide at CNN, it’s political grandstanding and malicious enforcement of petty rules.
Canadian truckers did it first
Of course the press mischaracterizes these. And while yes, every truck was stopped and it absolutely was intended to be punitive, the real goal was to reach agreements with the individual Mexican states that border TX to get them to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants into TX similar to what the rule was the fed gov just relaxed. Those agreements are now in place. Short term pain for long term gain is not a bad play, but they only dedicate one pgh to even mentioning the agreements without even saying what they are about other than to end the stops. Good reporting CNN.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/the-week-in-pictures-pooped-president-edition.php
Howdy Folks!
The kid with the toy grill is missing a toy beer.
One of those pictures led me to this Hot Chicks With Guns (SFW)
Still a sucker for the Reese’s eggs
Reese’s eggs > Cadbury Creme eggs. It. Is. Known.
The kiddo doesn’t need that many, right?
Probably just our usual Sunday brunch of turkey sausage patties and blueberry waffles. In a feeble attempt to cut down a little on the carbs, I’ve been dosing my waffles with this stuff. They also have a maple peanut butter syrup, but that’s too weird even for a peanut butter lover like me.
(Note: last night I became a Boynton bear in solidarity with our multiple Glibbears, but for today and tomorrow, I think I’ll be a Boynton bunny, ’cause Easter and ’cause Boynton is da bomb!)
I love your Boynton avatars. Did you have a birthday recently? If not I’ll have to find the hippo birdies for you.
My birthday was in November. Fun fact: I’m the proud owner of a vintage (but cracked and therefore no longer beverage-friendly) “Wee Fish Ewe a Mare Egrets Moose Panda Hippo Gnu Deer” mug!
I have a Don’t Let the Turkeys Get You Down mug, also no longer used. (Gah, can I go back to the eighties for just a week?)
Happy half-birdie, anyway!
I had an Am Lit prof at Miami/OH who was finishing up her Ph.D at UNC Chapel Hill. She specialized in early Colonial diarists and constantly raved about how “erudite” they were. At the end of the semester, I found a graduation card for her that featured a Boynton turkey in cap & gown saying “I am eruditer than you!”
Hmm, did not know all this (oldish article): https://americanprofile.com/articles/sandra-boynton-greeting-cards/
Ooh! Thanks for that link! One of the last times I flew commercially (’83,) she was the featured cover story of the airline’s onboard magazine. Hung on to that article for years, but of course it’s long gone now.
So, I really like Zeihan – maybe he’s a good salesman – and this is a pretty interesting (if lengthy) presentation.
Alright, no one is investing the time so I’ll summarize.
China and Russia are demographically doomed. The demographics drive the economics and there is nothing that can be done politically to undo that damage. The danger in both comes as they destabilize.
We ourselves are undergoing a big party re-alignment that will take another 2-5 years to complete – making everything a mess here politically, but by every other measure we’re pretty damn good for the future.
He has some very interesting things to say about Mexico.
I haven’t read the article (yet), but your summary reminds me of a point I heard someone make regarding China. The right is so obsessed with China exerting it’s influence and taking over the world but also points out (correctly) that free market capitalism is superior to the communist/fascist fusion you see in China. So why are we worried about China? Their ability to exert themselves beyond their borders should be thwarted by their own flawed economic model.
Ok I’ll go read the article now.
Oh it’s a video. Eff.
Champagne fascism
Environmentalists immediately blasted the leasing announcement.
“Not only does it devastate our planet, it’s a handout to Big Oil at the expense of average Americans, who will bear the brunt of its societal, health and financial ramifications,” said Dan Ritzman, Lands Water Wildlife director at the Sierra Club, in a statement. “We urge the Biden administration to take advantage of this historic opportunity to make good on campaign promises, fulfill a global commitment to acting on climate, and serve American communities by phasing out oil and gas production on public lands and oceans.”
Fuck the plebs. My laptop is working just fine, and Uber is just a text message away.
“Uber is just a text message away.”
Or maybe a big yellow taxi?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20
I wonder how much support environmentalists would generate if they had the conditions they wish upon us immediately forced upon them first.
You silly billy, they’re going to be Inner Party members, not slaves like the rabble!
I really don’t think they think that, though it would be the most likely outcome.
Wait til that person finds out the whole thing is smoke and mirrors.
The administration’s own forecasts – the ones they don’t trumpet to the public – prove it.
As far as taking it seriously, all the leftists I know (and that is a lot) take it as the most important thing. But, once you dial down a bit with them, it really isn’t about the environment per se, but about man and his place in the environment. It is just a variation on Malthusianism.
” Joe Biden seeks new ways to help lower gas prices.”
New to him maybe but to the rest of humanity it’s turning the clocks back 16 months. How do we learn from history?
I don’t know if he is dementic, stupid or just passed his best used by date. It’s like he has discovered something never known before.
Is there an additive for E15? I think my car is only rated for E10. Great, now I miss Oklahoma.
It really is strange. Growing corn, then using additional energy to convert the corn into a lesser quality energy.
Help me on this.
Grassley et al really are not our friends.
Silicone Saturday with Florida Flair.
https://archive.ph/FwtvB
“Today, we begin to reset how and what we consider to be the highest and best use of Americans’ resources for the benefit of all current and future generations,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
Now quit your squawking.
Good morning, Brett!
Rib roast on the rotisserie for us. Sous vide salmon for my son’s girlfriend.
Kids are each bringing their significant others, so we are in for a fun time.
Have a great day, peeps!
I have two big porterhouse steaks and a #of shrimps I’m grilling tomorrow.
This is MIL and wife’s Easter. Then off to my moms for ham and potato salad.
I have a great memory of my first Easter away from my family. I was very homesick as holidays with my big family are huge.
My now good friend invited me to his Tio’s house. I learned how Mexican American’s celebrated in south TX. BBQ, beans, and confetti eggs.
His Mom and Aunt both met me at the door with a big hug and kiss on the cheek and said we are your family today. Still makes me get a little misty thinking about it.
“Parents sue Massachusetts public school district for ‘violating their rights’ by keeping their 11-year-old child’s genderqueer status and new pronouns a secret from them”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10722469/Parents-sue-Massachusetts-school-district-gender-identity-policy.html
She’s 11. How does she even know what “genderqueer” means?
Well 6 years of propaganda will probably have some impact
^^ this plus JI’s point below.
How much you want to bet that the teacher looks exactly like you think and how much do you want to bet that the kid has had an iPhone for a couple years?
The teacher gives her a Cadbury Egg every time she repeats the correct phases.
Social media.
I don’t even know WTF “genderqueer” means. The “queer” part would seem to indicate some sort of leftist political activist asshole but I don’t know how that applies to an 11-year-old.
In my understanding, it’s the superposition of all genders at once. IOW, a plea for attention.
“I don’t even know WTF “genderqueer” means.”
Exactly, you’re a middle-age gay dude, and she hasn’t even hit puberty.
A middle-age *cis white* gay dude.
IOW: a Nazi.
Cis white gay men are the white men of gay men.
“Sting, 70, enjoys a cup of TEA during his energetic set as he rocks out at the London Palladium while showing his support for war-torn Ukraine”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10723389/Sting-enjoys-cup-TEA-energetic-set-rocks-London-Palladium.html
Holy shit, an old English guy drinking tea!
I don’t drink coffee, I drink tea, my dear…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
Great tune.
er, take one of those. Aw heck.
Sting is a pretentious douche, but did manage some terrific music.
And he is excellent in Only Murders In the Building.
Earl Grey, Hot.
I remember when the celebrity set was all into Tibet. I wonder what happened to that.
Wasn’t it liberated? After all that positive energy in its direction?
I’m roasting a duck tomorrow. Still looking into it. Not sure if I should do the salting and drying thing today. Seems unnecessary .
I vote yes
Doom! Nice to see you back!
Wow, is DOOMette a cutie!
Time is going by too fast.
It is. This year is already flying.
Good to be back!
I always dry brine.
OK, so what is the benefit? Doesn’t it make it the meat dryer? Also, I don’t want it to be salty. I’m cooking for someone who watches her salt.
It reduces the amount of moisture lost during cooking and helps promote a crispier skin. You only need a small amount (1/2 tsp per pound of meat), so it should be fairly meaningless for your guest and definitely won’t taste salty.
I’ve got a rib roast in the fridge salting for two days. It definitely makes a difference in the tenderness of the finished product.
*Don’t dry brine hamburgers.
I wonder how much support environmentalists would generate if they had the conditions they wish upon us immediately forced upon them first.
i think many of them honestly believe there would be no costs associated with the transition to a “carbon free” energy supply. Nothing would change. The world would just be magically better.
So, in Sowell’s formulation they are all politicians.
Look at what is going on with the supply chain right now. A bunch the issues are tied up around “environmental” ideas, and once those ideas were put into actual practice we all got to see how stupid they are. This is the result of the long march through the institutions. When there is no one around to point out the idiocy of your ideas…
Food comes from the store. Electricity comes from the outlet. Money comes from the bank.
The sad thing is that these people’s “ideas” spread like wildfire. Lazy thinking appeals to lazy thinkers.
something something strong men good times good times weak men weak men bad times something
Soft women make men hard.
So I’ve started the long road toward getting my fucked up prognathic jaw fixed. My surgeon ordered a bunch of hormone tests to rule out acromegaly; it was always known that, due to a lack of any family history, the condition was extremely likely to be related to high GH levels. It just wasn’t known if that was isolated to puberty (my jaw just kept growing at age 18) or if it’s an enduring thing.
Welp, results: Testosterone 4.5X normal, 2X upper limit; HGH 4X normal, 2X upper limit, elevated prolactin. Now I’ve gotta go in for a pituitary MRI dammit. Sucks.
There’s zero chance that if indeed there is something there that it’s cancer since I would have long since been dead in the intervening 20 years since the condition manifested. But I just don’t want to add yet another surgery on top of the two I’m already having on my jaw.
“Testosterone 4.5X normal”
Damn. You ever fuck a Coke machine?
Does it have big tits? (obligatory answer)
What’s your test number?
1990.
Nice!
That’s high, but ‘normal’ has been driven down over the years. Good luck – I hope all works out.
The test concerns me less than the HGH. The endocrinologist explained to me that the only real risk with high test in men is getting sludgy blood from too many RBCs; which I don’t have. High HGH though, in addition to causing physical deformation (oversized and continued growth of various body parts), has a tendency to cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. People with bad acromegaly have reduced life expectancy of about 30% without treatment. My next visit after the MRI is to a cardiologist to make sure things are ok (I have no reason to believe they’re not).
“continued growth of various body parts”
/humblebrag
Mrs F cooks, I eat. There are no questions and no complaints. Tough to lose weight.
She recently discovered we have a freezer and pantry full of stuff that have been hidden. She’s cleaning up a lot of things that haven’t been seen for quite some time.
This is getting sicker by the day.
Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers
And we are arming these fuckers. No way that could bite us in the ass, right?
We are a failed state.
This long article that someone posted the other day is pretty astonishing if it’s all true.
TL;DR: The US does not come out smelling very sweet.
I read that, it seems we have a few irons in that dumpster fire, but no one told us plebes,
And the Ukes are just as bad an actor as anyone in this,
I tend to think it’s accurate. It sure jibes with what the anti-war folks have reported.
That’s an understatement even if it’s only half true. Is NATO the new NAZI?
New?
The fucking Nazis never went away.
See this?
Try this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICkcyt87Lw0
Good Lord. These people are evil.
Yeah ok, but now we are NAZIs too.
Of course, Putin and the Russian nationalists also don’t think Russians are European, so there’s that.
We definitely had a hand or two in the cookie jar
His view of the conduct of the war is a little too pro-Russian for me. He is basically saying things are going according to plan for the Russians. He claims those lines of Russian trucks stuck on the road were actually proof the Russians had achieved their objectives and not had logistical problems. That is just unbelievable. There are too many pictures of bad tires and the way the trucks are lined up on the road do not make any sort of logistical sense at all.
Everything he says is favorable to Russia. Just because you don’t believe everything US/NATO/Ukraine is saying doesn’t mean you have to believe everything Russia is saying either. The truth is somewhere in-between.
Absolutely
But the point I’ve been continually trying to make is that the West, led by the USA and Britain, wanted this to happen. They’ve intentionally sabotaged efforts at peace and created an intolerable situation on Russia’s border while simultaneously dangling NATO membership to Ukraine. And let’s be real here, why in the fuck would we want one of the most corrupt nations on earth in NATO? It would only be a liability to American and European security. So the only reason for refusing to put in writing that Ukraine would never join NATO was to provoke Russia. The same reason we encouraged Kiev to attack Donbass and armed them for the effort.
Russia invaded and that’s on them, but we’re pretending like this isn’t our proxy war and that Ukraine is fighting the good fight as a noble David against Goliath. In reality, we’re just using them as cannon fodder in an attempt to destabilize Moscow. It’s evil and insane.
Putin Derangement Syndrome? It is unbelievable what the west is willing to do to try to get rid of him.
The neoconservatives and neoliberals are doing everything they can to prevent a peer competitor to the US from arising. And they definitely intend to keep Europe under their thumb. Destabilization is our game and we play it well.
I can see their logic though because Russians are unaware of what is going on.
“But some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers who may be thousands of miles from the drivers of the Kremlin’s war machine.”
Like, no shit. What’s more likely to happen: “Oh those poor selfless Ukrainian heroes just tortured and taunted me over the death of my *involuntarily conscripted* son! We must pressure Putin to stop the war!” or: “I was having doubts about Putin’s justifications for this war, but those evil Ukrainian bastards just proved him right! KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS!”
Seems like an enormous strategic error.
I’m sure they’ll be pissed at their own government, though, as well. I would be.
Assuming the Russian government/Russian military isn’t telling the mothers what happened, yeah I’d expect them to be pissed. Kind of like the article from yesterday about the kid at Fort Bragg who was left to die for five days.
But because the Ukrainian government has the moral support of people in the west we don’t like, everything they do has to be spun as wicked and subhuman, while everything the Russians do should be handwaved away.
I mean I gotta be honest. If my country is being invaded anything goes. I wouldn’t hesitate to do what they’re doing. Or use chemical weapons. Or torture. Or whatever I think works.
The arbitrary morality of modern war goes away the instant my sovereignty is threatened.
Not arguing with either one of you. In fact I agree with both of you.
I just think it’s illustrative of how pointless it is to try and take some kind of moral high ground in any war. People in general (not just the left) are desperate to frame the world into a struggle of good vs. evil in which they are the good guys. Russia is waging a war of aggression on extremely thin justification so I hope they lose, but wars don’t fit nice little narratives just because modern social media-driven life wants them to.
Of course, the optimum outcome would be that it had never happened in the first place.
You don’t think the Vodka Karens will blame Putin for drafting their boys?
This is getting old, it’s fucking snowing again, 35 degrees out, can I get some sunshine!?
Anyone?
Sorry, dude.
The sunshine is probably my favorite part of living here. I didn’t realize how much of an effect it has on my melon.
CO was nice for that, I lived in Canon City down south of you, nice place.
Cheers anyway Tundra!
It’s sunny here…and 20 degrees and a foot of fresh snow. ? Sure would be nice to get some spring since it the fucking middle of April.
If only we could have seen something like this coming from about a million light-years away.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/how-feminism-got-hijacked?s=r
Funny how consequences that are glaringly obvious to a typical 10 year old somehow elude our brilliant betters in academia. Consequences like: if you let biological males compete in sports against biological women, for the most part, the biological males will win (depending on the sport of course). And: if you divorce the concept of womanhood from physical reality, it no longer means anything.
Funny how Bari can see the goalpost moving in feminism, but is totally and willfully blind to it in foreign policy.
Christina Hoff Sommers wrote Who Stole Feminism? 28 years ago.
I never expected in my lifetime to see fringe trans activism render the participants of nearly every elite institution completely unable to formulate a coherent thought for fear of “offending” the activists. I blame the internet. It would have taken much longer otherwise.
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Among the meats I picked up from the butcher was 2/3 lb of ‘dry-aged ground beef’. I am unsure if it was dry-aged before or after being ground. Anyway, it’s actually worse than regular ground beef, flavor-wise. I think I’ll sink it in tomato sauce.
Or make tacos.
Before.
I’ve never heard of aging ground beef.
It makes no sense. Dry-aging is a tenderizing and flavour-altering mechanism. Ground beef is already mechanically tenderized, and very few people use ground beef directly for its flavour properties without drowning it in sauce or condiments.
Seems like a very expensive method of gaining no real culinary advantage.
I suspect it’s a case of dry-aged cuts that don’t move get ground. The price tag was in-line with the fresh ground, so I’m guessing it’s a case of “get this off our shelves before we’re forced to throw it out”.
Meat that’s been cut can’t be dry aged. Ground beef turns grey and spoils rather quickly if it isn’t frozen.
That doesn’t sound tempting.
I mentioned it before but I had “tenderloin burgers” recently. Vile.
It was one of those curiousities where the desire to know for sure was worth risking $6 and a wasted meal.
I’d still go for fresh ground beef instead of aged.
Now, see, if the tenderloin had simply been pummeled into rounds (like they do with pork tenderloin sandwiches) and then grilled, that might have been interesting and different, particularly if you didn’t then drown it in additional flavours.
Grinding it is a waste of time and money.
Chicken fried steak sammiches are delish.
With an egg.
Grocery store had a top round for $3.99/lb. It’s in the sous vide now to be roasted tomorrow.
Mountain hike cancelled on account of dog limping. I’d rather not get four or five miles in and have to carry 80 pounds of adorable back.
What about Adorable front?
Not on account of weather?
we would have been done before the next rain started.
Yikes! I hope she’s ok.
This is where she hopefully learns that she’s made out of flesh and bone and can’t just “give ‘er!” all the freakin’ time. It took a while, but my previous dogs finally learned that. Okay, well, the super-smart female learned that. The goofy, lovable male, not so much…
Her rabies vaccine is due anyway, so I’ll make a vet appointment. No visible damage, no licking her paws.
Have the vet check for parvo.
Feel better, doggo
This is what lurking gets me. I demand a refund!
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Hyp jinxed me yesterday by reporting my lack of chumpness. I fucking doubled today!
That’s my first attempt. My wife and I enjoy wordle, and she just said that now I’ve ruined what was an enjoyable, relaxing puzzle.
I have a system that usually got me 22. It failed me today and I was too stubborn and wasted too many guesses on the upper right.
What were your words again?
Trade spoil and I can’t remember the third
I have decent luck starting with FRUIT and BEACH.
MUNCH
MUNCH, I use it sometimes.
whoops, refresh fail.
**HEAVY SIGH**
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This is a good read,
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washington-will-fight-russia-to-the-last-ukrainian/
Excellent. Thanks for the link.
Blinken came right out yesterday and said the war will last the rest of the year. Fucking monsters, all of them.
“We might be able to work out a peace deal after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.”
This war has been in the works for years. I doubt they even care about its impact on the election. Besides which, it’s not the the GOP is going to put an end to it.
You’d think these warmongers would have a dim light in the back of their head after calling for war crimes trials for Putin and Russians… nah, they’ve fully drunk the it can never happen to us koolaid.
Why should they worry? The US has been able to use its power as leverage to prevent being called to account by the international community for bad behavior. They don’t, of course, recognize that the US is in a more precarious position, internationally, than it has been in well over a century.
I really think that these idiots truly believed that everyone hated Trump, that all the issues he brought to the for were just right wing talking points, and that they really were the adults in the room. And, lo and behold, Trump was actually bringing up valid points (no matter how ham fisted he may have been), and because the left has so insulated itself from any counter opinion, whether by shouting dissenters down or be attempting to delegitimize any opposition, they have no feedback mechanism.
Testosterone 4.5X normal, 2X upper limit; HGH 4X normal, 2X upper limit, elevated prolactin.
Sounds iike a case of toxic masculinity.
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North Carolina Democratic Party protests the disrespect which colleges and universities are showing to influential Democrats of the past.
(Just kidding, they never heard of any of these guys and don’t even know which party they were with.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/which-nc-colleges-and-universities-are-removing-tributes-to-racism-and-white-supremacy/ar-AAVWbbg
Fried potatoes with jalapeños, chives and onion…homemade bacon and scrambled eggs. The day is ready to commence
The USG has no intention on having a functioning military.
The Department of Defense issued an equity report, aiming to equalize outcomes for employees and partners across racial, sexual and gender lines.
The DOD released its equity report alongside all other departments of President Biden’s administration this week. In the text, the DOD explained a series of procedural changes to better align with the White House’s demands for “equity.”
“While the Department has historically focused on increasing equity within the DOD community, the collective actions described in this plan represent a shift in the Department’s approach and focus to better ensure that we leverage our capabilities to create opportunities for all Americans,” the Department of Defense wrote in its report.
The DOD report offers a series of plans moving forward that “will identify potential barriers that underserved communities and individuals face regarding Federal programs.”
I guess having the best badasses available in order to fight and win wars is no longer the purview of the military.
The DOD report offers a series of plans moving forward that “will identify potential barriers that underserved communities and individuals face regarding Federal programs.”
“Underserved”?
Gibberish in, gibberish out.