I had a lot going on at work so I didn’t have a ton of time to peruse the internet this week. Lucky for me though, Sam Harris did me a solid and broke the internet.
Okay maybe not break the internet, but he did make an ass of himself.
This is my review of Two Brothers Domaine Du Calais Bourbon Barrel Blonde:
Harris says a lot of dumb things, but also says enough things that sound rather smart that help convince his audience to forget about the former. That is if we define dumb as, “things I disagree with” and taking advantage of an audience that is all over the place politically. He came into prominence around 2015 or so after writing a series of books about his pet issue: atheism. During the emergence of the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW), he was viewed as one of the more prominent members of those that view cultural censorship and wokeness with extreme prejudice.
The IDW though I thought at first fit in one of three categories:
- A group of leftists that got attacked by their own and upset they aren’t the ones defining the terms of debate for which the left can attack,
- A group of leftists that stuck their head out of their bubble and were honest about what they saw or,
- Jordan Peterson, who is a Jungian that just flat out spoke in biblical archetype.
In recent years, their main appeal for conservatives seemingly turned into confirmation bias. For example, Harris got into a spat over Islam with that guy people confuse with Matt Damon. Is Islam dangerous? I’m personally inclined to say it is no more implicitly dangerous than any other religion (full disclosure: I still call myself Catholic). Others however would agree with Harris and in many ways encourage him for actually possessing the fortitude to criticize Islam, instead of focusing on Christianity because its easy. All of these guys at one point said something “reasonable” culturally or philosophically only to find themselves confused to be defended by the right. In spite of their insistence their views were not on the right, they built their audience in the wake of attacks from the left.
Which is where I disagree with some of the commentary on the right.
Update: Okay, he’s a clown. Never apologize, dumbass.
This beer is more dangerous than Donald Trump. Okay, not really but its one many of you might like. Its a blonde ale. That’s it. Just a regular old, nonthreatening, yellow blonde ale that was aged in bourbon barrels. A style I first had in Atlanta a few years back and kept noticing everywhere I went had this style beer. I assumed it was popular in the south but apparently its a big deal in the midwest. If you need to not wake up with a whiskey hangover, drink at your peril because this is a bit deceptive. Very drinkable but it will hit you later on. After a few of these I woke up hating myself but I will probably get it again. Two Brothers Domaine Du Calais Bourbon Barrel Blonde: 3.4/5
Nice. I’m really happy that the new brewery in town (Ice House) actually has a saison and a cream ale as their two canned versions available right now. It’s a huge improvement from the ones that only can IPAs, etc. The cream ale is pretty darn good too. Going to try their new Belgian blonde this evening. Picking up a few cans for gifts and to try and get Matt to carry them since he always works with stocking local breweries at Gourmeltz (not sure if they have a distributor though).
Harris is tedious. Always has been.
That label is gorgeous! I’d probably buy it just for that.
Agreed. Is that art deco? It rules.
I have trouble distinguishing Deco from Nouveau, but I think so.
If you dig that stuff, here’s a site you may enjoy.
I bought it for the label, myself.
I’ll admit I picked up this one to see the girlfriend’s reaction to the label… and I wanted another DIPA in the fridge.
Well…shit…still can’t post the thing I’ve been trying to post all week.
so…BLUF, we had another financial counselor briefing at drill weekend last week and aside from touching on the TSP mutual fund updates – with some good free links for research – she reminded us that Series-I savings bonds are currently 9.62 percent. (tied to inflation – updated 2x a year). I have a long post from her I’ve been trying to post here, but it keeps giving me server 500 errors – I can forward if anyone is interested. ht
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds.htm#irate
Also in the process of transferring some TSP funds over to buy some Vanguard mutual funds. Painful process given the format of the updated site and lack of clear guidance but I finally found the links.
Financial counselor did have some good advice reminding us that TSP fund expenses are ridiculously low compared to most mutual funds and that most index funds outside of TSP are redundant – I’m looking at some specialized ones targeting Europe, Japan, Real Estate, Energy and High Growth. Unfortunately the lowest costs in some cases require massive initial buys – but I was able to find $3k buy-in options for each of those categories in Vanguard.
“In a survival situation, the only thing you need to know about the spotted owl is that it tastes like chicken.”
Relevant
Cats and dogs would be the first to go after the farm animals. Urban shopping.
Better’n seagulls or eagles then?
But not a good as Loon.
Speaking of loons, as you know, the loon is the MN state bird, the Loon Center is in Cross Lake. 15-20-30 years ago we saw and heard loons flying over head regularly, like daily. Now they seem to be much scarcer, even on the lakes. Seldom see or hear one flying when I’m outside. I did see 1 spotted leopard frog and 1 garter snake this year, so maybe there is hope.
That’s interesting. Waterfowl in general is going gangbusters. I wonder what’s up with the loons?
We have lots of toads, but no frogs. Although, I don’t think we’ve ever been frog country. But garter snakes…I haven’t seen any since the 80’s. A farmer friend says he sees one on occasion when he’s out on the dirt roads, so they aren’t completely gone, but they are very scarce.
We have a lot more rabbits than we used to, which I assume means a lot fewer coyotes.
Our rabbit and feral cat populations ebb and flow in inverse relation to the coyote population.
Back when I was 3/4Score I snared and shot many, many snow shoes rabbits(hares), I haven’t seen more than 1 or two in the last 25 years and I spent a lot of time in the woods. It doesn’t seem like the habitat has changed much, more foxes now it seems, coyotes and wolves shouldn’t be a problem. Don’t even see the tracks/trails in the woods of snow shoes. No cottontails here, not farm country and too cold.
If you can get any meat off it.
God help me, why did I click on that. A run of the mill get-rich-quick real estate training course like the 10 or 20 or so I see in my email spam folder every week was worse than diddling your 14 year old niece and smoking crack with hookers in between $100k a month gigs on foreign energy company boards of directors whilst your papa as VP of the United States strong-armed a prosecutor with a billion taxpayer dollars to keep you out of hot water.
I need something stronger than beer.
It made me wonder if he was aware McDs has a training program for management called, “Hamburger University“.
“New Atheist” is morally bankrupt; color me shocked.
Yesterday against my better judgement I picked up an Elysian “Pumpkin Pack”, falling prey to the fall beers they start pushing long before summer is over. I forgot that I really like about 10% of the pumpkin beers I try, and really dislike the other 90%.
*does the sign of the cross over chest
Solzhenitsyn Has it covered:
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Sam Harris is a POS. Just like the rest of the people with TDS. JFC Trump is a pos but holy shit he is honestly no worse than the rest of the pos’s that run the .gov now. I am baffled how he consumes so much of the other pos’s minds band width. I hate everyone involved.
The boat shall receive a second coat of primer and then shall be sanded again. I swear to all things maritime this bitch is getting painted today.
Bust Out Another Thousand
Nope. The thousands have been spent and all materials are on hand. The only thing that can stop me is the possible rain.
Have you posted pics of it?
Many have seen it during the zoom happy hours. Hell, you have seen it. I sprayed the second coat of primer but ran out of acetone to clean the gun. Fuck. I hope it is cleaned well enough to spray the enamel. I am a dumbass for running out of acetone.
Never heard of him but I imagine he’s got some kind of grift going on that he thinks Trump will destroy. That seems to be the main motivation for all the TDS.
AFAICT Harris is in the business of telling the elites they’re smart.
Marxist (soi-disant) philosopher, apparently. And me neither.
The beer looks good,
Who is Sam Harris? Does he have a newsletter?
Check out my “new” cart. I did it yesterday. Took an old golf cart and added a cooler, disc bag, drink holder, and cigar holder.
How does it perform in the snow?
We shall see. 🧐
Seriously, I don’t know if I’ll be as tough as Yusef and golf in the snow, but if I did, I expect those wide tires would do all right.
It wants me to sign up
Well that’s stupid. It’s supposed to let anyone with a link view it.
Worked for me.
Now I feel bad for not including a cut of meat with it.
Picked up four nice porterhouses earlier today. 5+ lbs.
Does this work?
Close-up of the cigar holder.
Stolemodified the idea from a guy on eBay.It’s missing a spot for a shotgun.
You’re right. That is a unforgivable oversight. I’ll start working on a tacticool cart version right now.
That copper coil is lovely.
Much better, it has what we need to play, pretty nice job mike!
Did you see my recce for a rangefinder Mike?
Knowing how far you go is critical to disc selection.
89$ on Amazon
I did. It’s a great idea. I’m going to look into them.
Looks like you’re ready to challenge Yusef. Put some ice cubes and a bottle of adult beverages in the cooler, whoever wins the hole gets a sample. After a few holes the game will start to average out.
Nice job on the cart, simpler is better and good job at recycling.
Thanks. Everything else was laying around. The “shelves” that the cooler and disc bag sit on are made from old license plates. It’s redneck engineering at it’s best. The cigar holder on the handle is coiled copper wire with a penny at the bottom, glued on to the screw. Total cost $0.01
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080487/mediaviewer/rm1570846208
Exactly.
Who is Sam Harris? Does he have a newsletter?
Yes he does.
Y’all are not gonna believe this…
Well I don’t believe whatever it is I am not supposed to believe.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/05/c4/3405c4227ee022e6541be5c650cdf9d4.jpg
Let’s just say that there was another DQ on my squad…
Really good article MS. That beer sounds interesting. I’m going to get it if it’s available locally. I think you got it exactly right on the IDW and its relationship, if I can call it that, to conservatives.
A special thank you for the Bret Weinstein link. His thoughts about Epstein are intriguing. I really can’t explain why no independent journalist (e.g. Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi Sy Hersh) has explored these questions.
Martyr Made did an amazing podcast series on Epstein. You need to subscribe to his substack, but he’s tremendous.
I imagine they won’t touch it as they enjoy being alive.
I spotted an owl recently.
I spotted a Suthen recently.
*waves*
Suthen! How the heck are you? 😃
I am well. Just taking a little break. I dont have anything to say that won’t have the fbi knocking on my door.
Fish frying for my neighbor tomorrow. I am looking forward to that. I hope. you are doing well.
Doing great, thanks! I suppose I COULD be doing better, but it would take some doing! 😁
Hey, good to see ya again!
Did you wipe your ass with it? Good to see you posting.
I spotted a Southern, there becoming as rare as the owls.
Glad to see you back again. I hope all is well and if not then getting better.
He’s back!
Sooo much traffic on the road earlier today.
Where the hell is everyone going?
Hopefully away from me. I ran across a festival then a parade along my motorcycle ride. I just got home after finding some roads thankfully less traveled.
The latest Tom Woods podcast was about how the WEF is just European elite bankers controlling governments in the New World. This is my favorite conspiracy yet.
I caught that one pulling weeds this morning, it was everything I wanted from a guy at ZeroHedge.
You listen to Tom Woods podcasts while pulling weeds, too?
Max Blumenthal writes:
The Miami Police held a gun “buyback for Ukraine” event that claimed to have netted 68 weapons to ship to Kiev.
The whole thing seems like a joke; those weapons do not look fit for the battlefield and it’s a likely violation of ITAR.
Every army that is suffering tens of thousands of casualties from massed, accurate artillery fire wants a motley assortment of rifles of various makes and calibers to give to its unfortunate draftees, it is known.
4score – I built and put out a swarm trap a few months ago. Within minutes some scouts were measuring it for carpet. A day later I went to check on it and while I was standing there the swarm showed up. I was standing two feet from the trap and watched in amazement as the swarm zipped right in. I even got to see the queen go in.
Not many people get to see that. Remarkable success.
Checking on them in the Langstrom there must be 10x as many bees as were in the swarm. I am glad I started keeping again.
I hope you and your bees are doing well.
That must have been an amazing sight.
Do you have a link or any info for a swarm trap? First time I’ve heard that term…although I guess it makes sense conceptually. I don’t think my suburban neighborhood would be a good match, but for future reference ;p
Think small hive box with some pleasant smelling stuff inside strapped into a tree
Your suburban neighborhood is fine…maybe even better.
The size is the key. Also, they won’t like new wood. New wood exudes fumes. Find someone with an old shed or barn and buy a few planks from them. Older is better. Use one Q-tip with a single drop of lemongrass oil on one end as bait. Just drop it in the trap. Put two frames in it about 4 inches apart. If you catch one you will find the swarm between the frames. You can lift the frames out and and transfer the swarm and queen directly into a proper Langstrom hive quickly and easily.
https://www.revivalwoods.com/blog/2020/4/6/how-to-build-a-swarm-trap-for-free-bees
Cool. I’ve been trying to do more lemongrass to keep bugs off the porch – didn’t take too well this summer, but I’ve been on travel a lot more often.
One Q-tip, one drop of lemongrass on one end. That is all it takes. Bees have an extraordinarily good sense of smell. They WILL find it quickly. If the size is right and the wood is right you will catch one quickly in the spring. It can happen all year but spring is best.
Neat!
We’re looking OK, my partner has a better location but since we are full partners it doesn’t matter. We have 2 more pulls, last on Sep 10, move my bees up to his property to get them out of the way of HH on the 18th. We’ve had decent rains this year so flowers should be good.
Good to see you again, especially bringing good news. We’ve tried to capture swarms (of our own) but never successfully. Since we started pulling frames every 2 weeks we haven’t had a swarm. Good luck with the critters.
Stupid cucumber plants refuse to fruit. Even with pollinating by hand.
Stupid tomato plants producing ruined fruit.
Stupid hot pepper plants* been pissy for a month or more. Dropping flowers like crazy.
Stupid cherry tomato plants been producing like mad.
/sigh
*One orange long tail scorpion being the exception. That mofo is doing quite well.
Lime your soil?
Container plants. We’ve been alternating kelp and Fox farm fertilizers.
I thought you put the lime in the coconut.
Blossom end rot on the tomatoes?
Yeah.
Yeah, me too, for the reason Suthenboy re: the lime.
I’ve been using powdered eggshells in my tomato pots. Seems to be working quite well.
My uncle used to use scraps of drywall. His tomatoes were amazeballs.
I’m considering an irrigation system for next year.
It’s been way under for rainfall for us this year.
Ditto
I won’t stick around long. I am in the midst of making persimmon bread. For some reason I have a persimmon that is dropping fruit early. Prosessing the fruit is a bit labor intensive so I took a break. I will be back later.
Fuyu or Hachiya? Never mind, all perthimmonth are thour. /ducks
Wait until they are very soft, squishy and look rotten. No more alum and they are quite delicious.
Local native. https://grownative.org/native_plants/persimmon/
https://images.bonanzastatic.com/afu/images/9334/3404/1eb3_7965244647/__57.jpg
Close to the traditional family recipe I am using. I usually dont put raisins, just pecans. Mrs. Suthenboy insists that this time I put craisins in it. We will see how that turns out
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6701/persimmon-bread-i/
It doesnt hurt to paint the top of the loaf with honey. That makes it more low-carb. Just sayin….
Consume with lots of hot coffee.
I forgot to add: I save the seed and plant them. All of them.
” I save the seed and plant them.”
Me too. My couch pulls out, but I dont.
Gotta go out and mow the front yard. Did the back yard in a single batch yesterday (with a second battery), but that was at noon right after my workout. This should be a little more pleasant – still a pain in the ass, but I like to get both yards on the same approximate schedule. Esp with rain forecasts….
“After a few of these I woke up hating myself but I will probably get it again. “
Been there.
Fat girls?
I feel your pain.
Carl Jung wins again.
The other day I picked out a color I wanted to paint the boat and took it to the overly tattooed paint mixer person at the paint mixing station at my closest home depot. I requested said color in an exterior oil base enamel. She informed me that it was illegal to sell oil base paint in Colorado. I asked since fucking when? She informed me since she had been working at home depot which was over a year. I glared at her and refrained from punching her in the face. I rather walked down an adjacent paint aisle and picked up a gallon of oil based enamel that was off the shelf mixed. So the boat will not be entirely the color I wanted but close enough. My guess is that dumb bitch is from California.
Virginia banned oil based paints in 2005.
KK, did your dad show up?
How long before the watermelons ban all paint?
I hope they never do that here. Oil primer’s sometimes the only way to prevent bubbling when painting over old paint with fresh latex.
And banning oil-based paint’s stupid for another reason — so-called “waterborne” paint is just alkyd that’s been chemically treated to bond to water molecules as well, so clean-up can be done with soap ‘n water. But, there I go again, expecting non-hypocritical consistency from my Moral And Intellectual Betters™.
I have a hard time finding oil based deck stain. The water based shit doesn’t soak in. I had to go to a traditional commercial/contractor paint store.
Storm stains
https://www.stormsystem.com/
I’m now going to him for all of my stuff from now on.
Did you show mixer person the gallon of illegal paint before you left?
No but I should have. I was a bit pissed off and have trouble dealing with morons in person. It is best if I just walk away.
Hey all! Hope you’re having a great day.
It’s the 15th anniversary of tying the knot with Mr Splosives.
I had finally received the paperwork finalizing my (non-acrimonious) divorce from my ex, which was done solely through mail and attorneys, no court drama.
So Mr Splosives and I went to Hennepin County Minnesota and took out a marriage license, which are good for 6 months. We were saying “Whatevs, maybe we will, maybe it will expire—no hurry.”
Then the next Monday, the pastor randomly asked us to come over for dinner. While we were on the line, I said “Hey, even though introduced me as his wife, we’re not married. But I have the license, so would you do the honors?”
So Monday august 20, 2007, we got married on the backyard deck of the pastors house, had taco casserole, and changed into NFL jerseys to watch the Bears/Colts preseason game.
Awesomely simple.
Congrats, HE, the years pass so quickly. Now it’s 15, goodness.
Congratulations! What a great story and accomplishment!
Please give my best to the old man!
👍
lol
The prior February was the Super Bowl in which the Bears (Hubs team) lost to the Colts (my team), so the preseason rematch was fun.
Hubby’s kids were same age as pastor’s kids so they all just bounced on the trampoline and played Calvinball.
We didn’t tell the kids (11 yo and 9 yo) that we were getting married, just that they needed button down shirts for visiting the pastor.
They only figured it out when we assembled on the deck and I had a bouquet of zinnias from my own yard, and we wanted to take pictures.
Then the pastor realized we needed a witness!! We had his wife as one witness, but Minnesota requires 2, so pastor sprinted over to the next house and got their 18 year old daughter (home alone) to come be our witness. Never saw her before or since, but I have a lovely wedding photo with her!!
Next day we embarked on our honeymoon, consisting of driving from Minneapolis through South Dakota.
Good times, and low budget fun!!
So simple, yet adorable.
👍
Excellent.
Congrats.
I tested my new brush cutting head for the weedeater. I had to modify one of the adapters. Bored it out and tapped it to the proper thread. I hate tapping by hand. I can never get it in straight (euphemism away, perverts).
It has real blades. It even takes down the tall weeds with the thumb-sized stems. I can see a guy losing part of a finger (or toe) to it through carelessness.
Be aware that when the cutter blade comes into contact with a tree trunk that it can’t cut through, it can have a nasty little kickback.
Nobody should be standing to your right, unless they like severed shins.
I’ll use the spotted owl to segue to the woodland caribou and grizzly bear, both of which have been weaponized to limit outdoor sports I enjoy.
Luckily the growing wolf and cougar populations have taken care of the caribou.
What I find annoying is that as the bear population increases and they move into our recreation area, our activities must be curtailed because endangered species! When it is obvious the bears dgaf we are there.
The worst part is that I have no problems with either species but their weaponization by the greenies makes me at times wish they had gone extinct.
Word. Don’t get me started about the recent re-introduction of wolves. The only counties that voted for it are the ones they won’t put the wolves in. I would love to see wolves roaming down town Boulder.
DoD mandates monkeypox shots, for Navy only of course.
😀
The virus is in the seamen.
You know who else has been in the seamen?
The Marines?
+1 Village Person
+2 Rum, sodomy, and the lash
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/man-who-kidnapped-buried-school-bus-full-of-children-officially-granted-parole.html
“Woods was convicted of kidnapping the bus full of children, ages 5-to-14, back on July 15, 1976 from their hometown just more than 100 miles outside of San Fransisco. He and his accomplices, Richard and James Schoenfeld, then drove them 100 miles to the town of Livermore where they loaded them into a moving truck and buried them alive.”
I didn’t think Dirty Harry was based on real life. Good grief.
…I got nuthin’. Jeez.
“Incredibly, no one died in the incident, and the bus driver and the children managed to dig their way out after 16 hours.”
Eh, given the circumstances, not as terrible as I assumed it was.
https://imgur.com/a/2d2U3xL
It is done……….for now.
Cool.
Vendetta
Liz Cheney has her sights set on Donald Trump.
The Wyoming congresswoman may have lost her bid for reelection this past week, but she is making it her mission to ensure Trump is never president again.
“I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic,” Cheney said on NBC’s Today show the day after her primary loss. “And I think that defeating him is going to require a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents, and that’s what I intend to be a part of.”
Cheney is taking a few steps to try and make that possible:
Forming a PAC: After her loss, she immediately formed a political action committee called The Great Task;
Continued Jan. 6 committee hearings: As the vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee, she is continuing hearings this fall with the aim of continuing to expose Trump’s conduct that day;
A potential run for president: Cheney says she’s “thinking about” a run, even possibly an independent bid.
She should call it “Quest for the Orange Whale”.
Harpoons out for Moby Trump.
She immediately started making money off of losing. We thought her dad was the most evil of evil. We had no idea. That cunt is more evil. Imagine the wars she could start.
She’s taking a bowling ball to a gun fight? Good for her, that’ll fix ‘im.
“form the PAC” – her campaign website switched over the same day. I suspect all her campaign millions also switched over and no one will ever call her on it.
It’s for the Greater Good!
To save Democraaaaacccccyyyyy!!!
man, I am sick of “democracy” being invoked by every two-bit wannabe dictator.
She needs to seek professional help.
Not as much as the deranged idiots who are supporting her.
In reality, Cheney knows she has little-to-no chance of winning a GOP presidential primary. Not only did she lose her House primary by more than 30 points, but her approval with Republicans nationally has nosedived since she has taken her strong stance against Trump.
The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, for example, showed Cheney with just a 13% favorability rating with her own party.
Maybe people find her to be a tedious scold and harpy on her own merits.
No, no… it’s because orange tricknology.
Nice guide boat, ‘Sloper.