I informed my youngest he needs to eat more protein. He tends to eat nothing but complex carbs, because he’s a kid, and that’s what kids find amongst the multitude of meat and cheese based snacks. Except I’ve found him in a dark corner in the morning eating a Chomps stick. Yes, its just a high falutin Slim Jim but at 10g of protein this represents 1/5 of his daily protein requirement. I told him that behavior was odd and he doesn’t need to hide eating meat in the morning.
So this morning I get this:
*Rip*
“WILL YOU STOP EATING THOSE IN THE CAR!?”
“What?” *continues munching*
Yes, in an enclosed space at 0700, they’re a bit on the stinky side.
¡enlaces!
The Orange Man levies his tariffs over the weekend. Market drops. Mexico says it will play along. Market recovers. Canada meanwhile…needed another day to ask its mother first.
The ACLU does what they do, waste the court’s time.
Meanwhile, why are we doing the tariff thing again?
Not to be outdone, Ecuador also levies a 27% tariff on Mexico.
When did Marco Rubio start being cool? Is this some based Golem wearing a Rubio skinsuit?
El Presidente Dudebro has some ideas.
They need to stop playing this in the gym. Have a great Tuesday!
how do I see the fucking gif?
actually, it’s not a gif today.
http://www.xhamster.com?
Reflexes got the better of me.
That will show up in some report in IT. I hope I survive.
Ouch… sorry. Did not intend for anyone to follow it (I didn’t actually do the http:// part for that matter — apparently WordPress decided to be “helpful”).
I wasn’t paying attention when I clicked.
I assume that IT has bigger problems than me.
🙂
For some reason when my VPN connects to a server in Utah there are sites that won’t open. Not naughty sites, but just regular ones.
NSA probably.
I’m now wondering if I’m going to be alone in thinking he was letting one rip in a different fashion… for which this statement still holds.
Well it doesn’t really have the vibe for NASCAR…..
Be fair — the Central American crapholes to El Salvador — the South American ones to Millei. Talk about an Amazon delivery!
Chomps are great!
100 calories and 10g of protein – not too shabby. Also no shitty ingredients and – for Pie – grass finished!
But yes, kind of stinky.
Yep. I’ll buy them by the box.
No stinky issues here.
They’re excellent, but a bit expensive.
Just drink a glass of milk.
One of the first Community Notes on X had to do with that song. There’s a country star that got a country music award for doing a cover of it, and some AWFL was on X saying Tracy Chapman would never win that award (because racist). And the community note was that she’s not a country singer, but she won Grammy’s and the song went platinum for her.
I remember that.
They need to stop playing this in the gym.
I know that easy listening sure gets me going.
I listened to these guys today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKeH7JYE48&ab_channel=jat13
Excellent choice.
Drummers who can sing baffle me. I’m not a bad singer, though never performed as such. I *have* done so as a drummer:
The ‘speaking’ and drumming parts of my brain have never allowed their mixture, and that ain’t just an Ev thing. It’s funny how odd multi-tasks can completely override each other, muting both skills. (Any other examples, ya got?)
That’s a great ‘new’ song, by far(?) the best a glib has linked to (that I didn’t already know). I kinda knew their name and jokes from umlauts and Airheads!, but never listened to ’em. That’s impressive as hell. Sincere thanks.
My pleasure. I grew up in Minneapolis so got to see them a bunch of times. One of my favorite bands. Bob Mould did (and still is doing) some terrific solo stuff. Grant Hart (the drummer) did some great solo stuff as well, but he passed away a few years ago. Start here:
Candy Apple Grey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr3I-MDr0Z0&ab_channel=LuilsonLucas
Bob’s first solo album, Workbook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKrkqCUacI&list=PL971FAD579CC5DFA7&ab_channel=HatefulMadness
Also, Warehouse: songs and stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCgmTLdQoSU&list=PLdB2qly-JTgC9TdqhmPHVDfh9I6Gl6AOI
And Mould’s best solo album, Black Sheets of Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeRe8ESJy3U&list=PLoERbxXMyKwbZAH4S-dfBA1dzJBO1Gqu-
Ahem.
I said “start” Zwak!
Don’t forget Sugar.
Well, everyone needs an assist. And, yes, Sugar was the stuff. Copper Blue was awesome.
re Immigration: ““The government is doing just what Congress by statute decreed that the United States must not do. It is returning asylum seekers — not just single adults, but families too — 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝,” 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞.”
Yes. That’s exactly what will happen to them. (My yawning won’t cease ’til their delusions do.)
At first glance, I don’t see any mention in that article of the app that Biden encouraged everyone to use, with instructions on how to declare they needed asylum no matter what country they came from.
People in general do not eat enough protein. My wife’s step mom is basically starving herself to lose weight, and wondering why her hair is falling out. Mrs. TOK told her she’s malnourished and needs more protein. She rejected that advice. Then went to her doctor, who told her to eat more protein, specifically 100g per day.
Step Mom: “How can I possibly eat that much?”
Mrs. TOK: “I routinely eat that much for breakfast. I’m eating 210g on a good day.”
Eat more steak. This ain’t hard.
This. The amount per serving size is amazing. And the fat is important as well.
Eat Steak: https://youtu.be/ndGgvleVfI8?si=dR-drq4FzybcOp7Q
I like Cows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exZC3weT4WU&ab_channel=twintonedigital
Hey Pete! Let’s Eat More Meat (1994 Remastered) – Dizzy Gillespie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA39go_KTdE
Let me teach you how to eat. How to marinate the meat
So, my mom spent almost 2 weeks in the hospital. She didn’t eat. She’s eaten a little here and there since she’s gotten to my house, but she can’t get to the commode quite yet, so she’s hungry, but, you know. Yesterday her PT talked to her about eating protein and one reason she’s so weak is because she hasn’t had any. She will NOT touch protein shakes. 🤢 She asked for scrambled eggs with cheese last night. I scrambled 2 eggs, but I don’t think she ate but 1 egg’s worth.
Chicken? Fish?
She absolutely needs to figure it out. Her poor body is in recovery mode and needs help.
Seconded. Eggs with cheese was a good idea, that’s got a decent amount of protein and fat. At least she had some.
Cottage cheese is good, Greek yogurt, nuts. Maybe a protein bar? Most are too much like candy bars, but in her case so what.
You can’t start with a feast if you’ve been starving/malnourished so long or you’ll get sick. I’m encouraging her to eat and I’ll fix whatever she wants, but I have to be careful not to get into the nagging zone, which her sisters have been nagging and berating her for the last 15 years. She’ll eat just to get me to shut up, and her mental health is also fragile right now. She keeps apologizing to me for being such a “bother” and “burden.” So if she asks for a McChicken (she has twice now), that’s what she gets—pronto.
Her gut is likely really fucked up. Are you giving her any probiotics? Kevin’s yogurt suggestion is a good one. Kefir is good too.
Ground beef seems to be pretty easy on most people too.
Oh, probiotics! I didn’t even think. Thank you! She’s sleeping right now. I’ll ask her when she wakes up.
I have a shit-ton of ground beef, so I can do that also.
Don’t waste money on the pills and powders yet. Try some of the fermented foods first. Kombucha might be good as well.
My wife like just plain ground beef when she needs the extra protein. Sometimes with rice, sometimes not. I think it’s gross without seasoning. It’s also easy to cook up and leave in the fridge for the week.
Many small meals or large snacks with an emphasis on nutrition particularly protein. IIRC that’s one thing they did to the WW2 servicemembers who had been prisoners of the Japanese and were severely malnourished.
I’m way outside my wheelhouse here, but be cautious if she still has renal problems.
Kevin:
I use it a lot too. Sometimes only with salt, pepper and garlic. Sometimes taco seasoning and have it with eggs in the morning. Simple can be good!
Tonio:
That’s a great idea. For someone who hasn’t been eating, 40g of protein will seem like choking down a wildebeest.
No renal problems anymore. She went into the hospital with a kidney infection (which is what happens when you have an untreated UTI). She was given contrast dye, which made her kidneys “fail,” but we didn’t know that and, further, wouldn’t have known it’s a self-correcting problem. No miracles. Dye just worked its way out of her system.
I do plain ground beef with salt (unsalted is just gross) when I’m being careful. Her sodium is low, too, so …
I don’t know if she likes yogurt. I’ll ask.
Does she like pork?
Thinly sliced pork loin chops cook fast and go good with everything from salads to sandwiches to soup.
Bison helps with this.
Relevant:
https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1886889970637603030
Another reason to celebrate Trump exiting us from the WHO and the Paris Climate “treaty”
FUCK THAT ADVICE. (Not all of it.)
Fortify Protein Shakes. 360g/serving and 16g of protein. All in 8oz. Vanilla’s now my favorite. Necessary morning drink. Y’all do coffee. Uh. No,
I’ll do an ad for that in a heartbeat. (See also: Valtrex. Don’t ‘get’ shingles.)
“While not addressing the ultimatum over the canal, [Panama President] Mulino said in a news conference on Sunday that his government would not renew an agreement with China on its “Belt and Road” investment initiative signed by a former president in 2017.”
This time? I’m not shrieking “STOP MAKING ME DEFEND HIM!.” I’m just watching in (comparative, presidential) awe. Anything anti-China is good, but damn it’s also Monroe Doctrine-ish. ‘Stay the fuck away from our hemisphere.’ Panama is a damn big piece. Fuck, yes.
I saw Mexico folded. Just got home from work. Did the Canucks give into OMB yet?
yes they did
No, according to the lefty chick on “The Five”, Trump caved to them.
The NFL will no longer display “End Racism” in the endzone for the Super Bowl.
All of this stupid little shit adds up. I don’t think we’ll ever see a more resounding victory in the culture war than Trump’s re-eleection in our lifetimes. I’ve said it before, but the left is defeated right now. Uttlery despondent while those normies who were going with the flow so they didn’t rock the boat are quietly breathing a sigh of relief.
There’s no resistance this go around. Just…the agony of defeat. It’s a beautiful thing to behold.
Or, as KK reminded me last week, “Silent majority is silent.”
I think the speed plays a part as well. I don’t think the proggies (of both parties) know where to focus their outrage.
Drinking from a firehose. And JD promises they won’t slow down.
I hope he’s right. They should have a new target every week. Gut the EPA, and USAID is old news. Move on to the IRS, and the EPA is old news. They could do that every week for two years and not run out of targets.
Flooding the zone. I have seen this mentioned a few times in leftward sites, they just don’t know how to keep up.
The NFL will no longer display “End Racism” in the endzone for the Super Bowl.
Doesn’t matter until they bring back the Washington Redskins.
Baby steps.
What is interesting to me is that several of my proggie people have been rheee-ing more about Musk this time than OMB. He seems to be the #1 Threat to Democracy now.
Trump is only dangerous now because he is enabling Musk.
I can’t believe some of the emails I have gotten about how terrible it is that Musk has busted into Treasury and USAID. If I’m feeling masochistic, I’ll reply sometimes with “what makes you more worried, Elon getting access to those bureaucracies or what he’s finding in there? Because for me it is the latter.”
Surprisingly, those don’t much pushback. I think they know that the spending by the Feds is indefensible. If I do get pushback, it is about privacy and how Musk now knows everything about people and that is wrong. If I was really mean, I could reply “Welcome to the libertarian bandwagon.”
That’s because Musk gets shit done and the left is terrified of that.
They’re lying.
Absolute bullshit, unless we are at war or something with Mexico or Canada.
lol Bullshit
These fucks are renewing their passports right now.
Don’t even have to deport many of them. Just block their reentry when they try to fly back from their vacations.
Saw a meme (paraphrased):
Immigrant Family at Border: I’m from Central America and I’ll be persecuted if I stay.
Border Patrol: Well, you’re in Mexico. Problem solved.
Rhywun:
I’d love it if Musk and his nerd squad would dig into the numbers and find out how many of our refugees have returned home to visit. In my world, anyone here as a refugee that visits home again is automatically barred from returning.
And if they’ve gone and come back already, refugee status revoked. They obviously lied on their application. Put ‘em on the next helicopter, err, plane home.
“They need to stop playing this in the gym.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4
Then this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WstYU5Hgtg&ab_channel=High-DefDigest
If gyms played that more often I would go.
Heh. The wife and I have a thing were we will say the words to a catchy tune but not sing them, just to get it stuck in the other ones head.
I will be doing this one tonight.
Lol. Asshole!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs&ab_channel=DenisLearyVEVO
Top Google story on Canada conceding to Trump:
Yea, it’s Trump being outsmarted here.
Trump is barely even hiding what he’s actually doing. They teach this shit even in our shitty school system. It’s the carry a big stick approach to diplomacy, and the US still has the biggest club around by far. The tariffs were a negotiating tactic, and they’re working. The threats of annexation are a bargaining tool.
He did the same shit (less effectively) in term 1. I was actually wrong. He’s learned a lot from his first go around. Didn’t think he was capable of this.
“eventually break Canada into folding as part of the U.S. (He has said as much)”
Still doing the old “take him literally but not seriously” schtick, I see.
LOL sure Jan. 🙄
Re Slim Jims. I FLUV Slim Jims. Then a friend of mine pointed out there were 9g carbs, of which 1g was fiber and 2g were sugars, so I stopped eating them as low-carb snacks.
Never saw Chomps before.
Costco carries them.
Jack Links does zero sugar sticks too.
https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Links-Sticks-Sugar-Ounce/dp/B08QR1MWHF?th=1
Duke’s Hatch Green Chile.
Omnomnomnom
https://www.dukesmeats.com/smoked-shorty-sausages/green-chile
Another excellent choice.
Yep! Yum!
Cheesy movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcEV9VrSh3E
Holy shit! I think I saw that!
And Valerie – yum.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
If Elon gets rid of the IRS, fuck it. I’ll carry his next child for him.
Does he REALLY think getting rid of the IRS is a scary thing?
To a certain segment of the population, yes. The IRS is the instrument for financial equity, which goes after the rich scofflaws who don’t pay their fair share.
And the Post Office??
O
M
G
No!!
Hah! That one should be easy.
Please, don’t throw me in the briar patch!
Threatens Shpip
The BBC claiming this leads me to believe that Chinese soldiers are absolutely operating the Panama Canal.
Every time. It’s fun to read CM once you understand the code words, isn’t it?
I’m having a beer on a Tuesday because fuck all of it.
So, KK, just wanted to confirm:
Are you unemployed right now?
Not the foggiest clue. Seriously.
Did you work a full day today?
My wife says the same thing, there’s a lot thrown out there but really there’s a lot they need to get in olace before they can really do anything. For example, actually having office space.
As much as I could without an email address, network access, or a website 🤷♂️
Sorry to hear that, KK. Not knowing is probably worse than actually getting the news, in some ways.
Does he REALLY think getting rid of the IRS is a scary thing?
Oh, lordy, don’t throw me in the briar patch! Anything but that!
How about just eliminating tax withholding?
People would freak when it came time to pay and possibly ask some questions…
Especially now that we see where some of the money is going.
A friend of mine thinks that the US has high taxes relative to his home country. While our taxes are too high, his home country just does a better job of hiding it. VAT is built into the price. Withholdings are automatic. But if you look at government spending as a percent of GDP (aka the true tax rate) his country spends far more.
I thought I read somewhere a few years ago that the U.S. spends just as much as those other countries we like to make fun of but we just hide it better.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fed income tax
FICA
SUI
WC
State income tax
State sales tax
State property tax
County and Municipal addons to property tax
ditto sales tax
Municipal income tax
more excise taxes than most realize (gasoline, utilities, internet, phone, tobacco and alcohol and pot, some foods, plus other less known ones)
Tariffs that are already in place on various things imported.
Use taxes for hotels, restaurants, etc.
Yeah there’s quite a few ways we are bled.
Jarflax, now add in compulsory spending to private industry on insurance, medicare, various regulations for daycares, restaurants, fire codes etc.
Motor vehicle registration, inspection etc.
Add all of that up and compare it to your income. How much of your money is yours?
Oh, lordy, don’t throw me in the briar patch! Anything but that!
It would be fun to hear a proggie use that phrase and then ask them where it came from.
Seems weird that we have so many things from Song of the South (zippedydoodah), but can never even talk about the movie because it is so “problematic”.
People would freak when it came time to pay and possibly ask some questions…
Monthly tax bill, with the rent and electricity.
“Holy fuck, what did they buy this time?”
St. Pete looks over his scroll, mumbles to himself then looks up. “Well Milton, everything checks out here. Looks like y ou did a lot of good stuff while you were down there. There is just this one thing…..”
Two demons show up and wait for the command to escort Mr. Friedman away from the pearly gates.
Speaking of protein, I just remembered I bought a chunk of smoked salmon the other day. tasty.
We’ll keep a couple of packages of chunk salmon like https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.960518127.html in the fridge – pop one on top of a salad and you’ve got a great lunch.
They keep for a while, which is nice.
This is a behind the scenes video of Trump greeting Netanyahu today: https://x.com/Scavino47/status/1886901433582391521
It occurs to me that this admin is as open as any I’ve ever seen. Maybe I’m just used to Biden, where everything is scripted and hidden and everyone was putting up a front. But you see videos like this every day, Trump is answering off the cuff questions constantly. Everything they are doing is out in the open. (Maybe not KK’s employment status). It’s all on social media. If you have any question what they are doing at ICE or DOGE or whatever, just look it up. It’s all right there.
This kind of openness is a threat to Our Democracy.
https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1886838651801477136?s=46
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
USAID was supposed to be the hotbed of resistance against Trump 2.0.
They were going to launder money to international “democracy” NGOs and media outlet to attack President Trump.
This is why they’re melting down big time.
All the freakouts seem to boil down to “muh grift!” and it’s fucking glorious.
In addition to flooding the zone, Team Trump is cutting off the escape hatches. His opponents can’t slip away and begin a new attack from a different direction. Refusing to knuckle to whatever passes as “political etiquette” in DC is serving them well.
“You can’t do that! It’s against the law!” (Meaning, “We could do something like that with impunity, but people like you were never supposed to!”).
Stoneface Trump: *pushes button*
It’s fucking glorious.
Privileged
Two groups of anonymous FBI agents who worked on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation and other federal probes tied to President Trump are suing the federal government over the Justice Department’s plans to review the FBI’s workforce and scrutinize agents who may have worked on the sensitive investigations, according to two separate lawsuits filed monday.
The agents and the FBI Agents Association — an organization that represents thousands of current and former agents — are suing the Justice Department and its interim head, Acting Attorney General James McHenry, to prevent the public release of the names of the agents facing scrutiny.
Silly me. I didn’t even know we had a secret police agency.
Lol, “a“
The nine unnamed FBI agents who filed the first lawsuit on Tuesday alleged, “The purpose for this list is to identify agents to be terminated or to suffer other adverse employment action.”
Their attorneys asked for a jury trial and wrote that the agents feared “this list might be published by allies of President Trump, thus placing themselves and their families in immediate danger of retribution.”
If you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear.
Exactly my thoughts.
You can demand a jury trial when you get fired?
You can certainly ask politely.
Wouldn’t it be true that naming any criminal defendant going on trial was “placing them and families in danger of retribution?” Secret trials – just what American democracy needs.
I think there needs to be some happy medium between “secret trials” on the one hand and the police ganging up with the media to deliberately embarrass people by publishing mug shots.
Let’s not forget the “perp walk”!
https://www.gbnews.com/news/jack-the-ripper-identity-confirmed-dna-match
Russell Edwards says he has obtained a “100 per cent DNA match” linking the killer to Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber who emigrated to London.
Maybe.
One of the theories that seemed credible is that there was no “Jack the Ripper”; it was a few unrelated murders that was overblown by the press.
They’ll have to fix that old Todd Sweeney musical now. Shame.
It’s time for a trans version of that anyway.
Funny that.
Illegal immigrant used stolen ID to vote, buy guns while hiding in Florida: Feds
Votes Americans won’t cast.
Nice…
An actually cogent Politico article.
Democrats Are Falling For Trump and Musk’s Foreign Aid Trap
Bonus quote.
No more mister nice party, geez.
LOL as if
I have no problem inviting China, Russia, whoever into the tar pits of Africa and the Middle East. Your turn to pour out blood and treasure to no purpose.
They’re already there, possibly learning lessons