We’re right back to Friday the 13th, for those who celebrate.
In (relatively) local news, STEVE SMITH is being reported in Ohio. I’ll guess it’s a rogue hippy or melonhead.
Won’t someone please think of the teachers and administrators?
This week I learned there was a jelly bean shortage.
We only want good government agents to use this.
The danger of illegally traveling to a foreign country.
NFTs make so much more sense than four digit cosmetic skins.
So this is gearing up for ‘Brat Summer’, right?
“We need to build the right biases into the model from the beginning.”
“Some” states. I think we can all guess which ones.
I don’t think they’ve really thought this through…
I did return from the Tiki weekender, decisions were made, Spam Mai Tais (not even close to the strangest one, I would say the clarified Malort Mai Tai wins that) were consumed, so I’ll bring you a couple of drink recipes for this week. The first, in honor of the holiday next week:
Baby Guinness
- 8 part (2 oz.) coffee liqueur (Kahlua or Tia Maria)
- 1 part (0.25 oz.) Irish Cream (Bailey’s)
This is a basic bitch layered shot, prized this time of year for the appearance alone. To build the shot, pour in the coffee liqueur and then float the Irish Cream on top. You can swap out the coffee liqueur for Licor 43 (and either retain the Irish Cream or swap it out for heavy whipping cream) at which point it’s a Baby Beer.
For the more involved drink, one I had several of over the weekend
Singapore Sling
- 3 part (0.75 oz) gin
- 1 part (0.25 oz) Benedictine
- 1 part (0.25 oz) Grand Marnier
- 1 part (0.25 oz) Heering cherry liqueur
- 4 part (1 oz) pineapple juice
- 2 part (0.5 oz) lime juice
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- Club Soda – to top
Everything but the club soda gets put into a shaker, fresh ice added, and shaken until chilled. At this point, strain it into a glass (either a highball, collins, or hurricane) over fresh ice, top with club soda, and give a gentle stir to combine. Garnish for this traditionally is a flag garnish (orange wrapped around a cherry on a single skewer).
With that, I hope you get the weekends you are looking for.
Starburst jelly beans are the BEST.
The best jelly beans are Black.
I would say that’s the opposite of the truth, but there’s the failed flavors that were used in the joke boxes of jelly beans.
My favorite story about jelly beans is of course:
California woman sues Jelly Belly Candy claiming beans were full of sugar
She was confused by the listing of sugars in the nutritional information and couldn’t grasp that “evaporated cane juice” is sugar.
It was evaporated silly, shouldn’t exist!
Word! 👊
There is no such thing as a good jellybean.
Apologies, Sean and Tom Baker fans.
“I’m not paying my federal income taxes this year,”
You already paid…
I understand the sentiment. There are many things I wish my taxes didn’t pay for.
The only reason I pay them is because if I don’t, they’ll throw me in prison.
In six months look for the article entitled “Trump imprisons tax protesters in 1st Amendment Violation!”
I’ll be working. :^(
With the Federal Government, specifically the FAA actually upgrading things, my weekends will be getting thinner in the near future.
No work. Shooting, more shooting, moving excess junk into storage, and hopefully getting a haircut.
Licor 43 is delightful. Try adding a generous shot to your morning coffee – the day just seems to fly by.
The girlfriend was the one who told me about Licor 43. I don’t recall it being big back in the day, and if I’m adjusting my coffee, I go Irish or nothing. I honestly am not even a fan of bourbon in my coffee.
I don’t think it was ever as big in the ‘States as it was in Spain and Italy. Still good though.
A Spanish Margarita is an interesting take on the classic – 1.5oz. Licor 43, 1.5oz. Blanco Tequila, juice of half a lime, dash of orange bitters, shake and strain according to regular Margarita protocol.
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I mean, I don’t even remember seeing it as an ingredient on a cocktail list previous to the girlfriend coming back from a Spanish cruise talking about the new spirit she learned about. Even now, I don’t see it frequently, but I have started seeing flavored versions of Licor 43. I may have to try that twist on the Margarita at some point, in general, I find Licor 43 too sweet, so using it as a sweetener makes sense to me.
So… 1 part of Kahlua is 0.25 oz., but 1 part of Bailey’s is 0.5 oz.?🤔
Typo fixed.
I thought maybe I’d just missed the unit on Booze Math on school.
IN school, speaking of typos.
GT:
One of the cocktail books I have specifies in the beginning that they’re using an ounce to mean 30 ml (even though it’s a little heavy), and clarifies that really an ounce is a “part” when it comes to cocktails, since everything goes to ratios.
Any recommendations on gun safes? Need to be big enough for a shotgun with an 18″ barrel.
Yes. In general, don’t buy anything marketed as a gun safe. You’ll get much more capacity and protection for your dollar, by going to a local safe and vault dealer and purchasing a surplus/refurbished bank safe.
For specific recommendations, how many guns do you need to store (pistols vs. long guns), do you need quick access, and where is the safe going to be located (living area, bedroom, basement/garage)?
Basement (exposed concrete floor). Eventually one shotgun, three handguns. But maybe some space to add a rifle. Probably space for ammo as well.
Hmm. Okay.
So in general, my advice to avoid anything marketed as a gun safe stands. Most gun safes are listed as Underwriter’s Laboratories RSCs (Residential Security Containers) – meaning that an exemplar safe withstood an attack by a UL safe tech, with nothing but hand tools, for at least five minutes.
Not great security, but there are a few other factors in play.
First, if a safe company requests a UL RSC certification, the RSC certification is what they get no matter how long their safe withstood the attack. It might have lasted one second past five minutes, or it might have lasted three hours. The company doesn’t ever get to find out.
Second, as part of the testing, the UL safe tech gets to study a copy of the safe’s engineering drawings, as well as disassemble the safe down to the components, all off the clock.
Third, UL safe and vault technicians are the undisputed OG heavyweight champions of cracking safes. They’re better than any professional criminal you’ll ever find. Your average junkie burglar isn’t in the same league; hell, they’re not even playing the same sport.
If you just want an easy solution that doesn’t involve surplus or refurb’d bank safes, AMSEC is one of the few companies that makes UL-listed TL-15 and TL-30 gun safes, in addition to RSCs, and evey their RSCs are pretty good. One of their smaller RSCs would probably sort you out for now. Get some Hilti fasteners and bolt it to your wall/floor.
One last caution – gun safe capacity advertising is built upon a foundation of lies. If a gun safe ad says ‘holds up to 16 long guns’, in the real world it will hold 5-8.
Sounds like buying a tent. “Sleeps 8” means “Sleeps 4”
My prepper friends like the safes with old style dials over the newer keypads. Electronics suck.
Get a bigger safe than you think you need. Mine is marketed as an 18-gun safe, but there is no way 18 guns will fit in it.
Thanks all
Baby Guinness– you are missing adding Irish whisky and dropping that in a pint of actual Guinness and exploding.
That would be an Irish Car Bomb (or the much gayer, Irish Cocktail), generally served with a half pint of Guinness instead of a full one.
Well ya…its the only way to honor St. Patrick. Not the gayer version..that just turns the rats a little light in the loafers.
Ordering an Irish Car Bomb on St. Patrick’s Day is sort of like dyeing your hair green before going out to the bar.
“This Court cannot allow the internal politics of a court to sideline a Senate-confirmed judge and threaten the independence of other judges who may fear similar reprisals from their colleagues,” Newman’s attorneys wrote to the Supreme Court.
They’re all just jealous of her.
I don’t care if she’s senile or not. Go home, granny. 40 years in the same job is long enough.
AI is the most important civil and human rights issue of our time
Aaaand done.
In her classroom, Butcher keeps heavy glass paperweights — objects she says could be used to defend students if necessary
You know how the hoplophobes bleat “A gun in the home is more likely to be used against you than against a home invader?”
This is the real-world version of that. A paperweight is useless against a spree shooter, and a kid with an apostrophe in his name is more likely to bash the teacher’s (admittedly limited) brains in with it than she ever “defends students” with the thing.
No guns in the classroom though cause teachers might go nuts!
Firearms access in schools should probably be limited to the football coaches…
You can write a check or money order, payable to the United States Treasury, and in the memo section notate that it’s a gift to the United States. Mail your check or money order to the address below.
Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Reporting and Analysis Branch 2
P.O. Box 1328
Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328
But that doesn’t force me to do it. Treasury should send thugs to these folks like the mob did and demand their voluntary payments.
I’ve said this a gabillion times, but I’m obliged to repeat it every year, maybe twice:
I got married on Friday the 13th. ON PURPOSE.
Huh, didn’t even notice it was the 13th…
Nothing gives a progressive the warm fuzzies like coercing their neighbors to submit to the will of the mobocracy.
He was just a hurting young man distraught over the death of his family in Lebanon.
Well then, justified!
He can fuck off with that nonsense. CWAA
I get it…but I also wonder if this dude makes a passionate appeal for clicks when a Chinook goes down during a training exercise with 15 troops.
Too early to tell what we’ve gained. If Iran ceases to exist as a functional polity, I would consider that a successful geopolitical play.
That’s the same guy who told a white man objecting to the naming of a nearby street or corner for a terrorist sympathizer wasn’t welcome in his city, IIRC.
Welp, I know what I’m doing tomorrow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nnPc142nI
I’m lucky I didn’t end up on the ground…
Firearms access in schools should probably be limited to the football coaches…
I had a science teacher in high school mid ’70s who was an ex Navy pilot of some sort. If you told me he had a .45 in the glovebox of his car in the school parking lot I wouldn’t exactly faint from surprise.
Every farm boy in my high school had a gun rack in his pickup’s rear window.
Just finished my first (1/2) week of work (I started on Wednesday afternoon)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck off, racists.
Depraved indifference
On Monday morning, Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., did something that has become practically routine among House Republicans: He launched a racist attack against millions of American Muslims.
“Muslims don’t belong in American society,” Ogles said on X. “Pluralism is a lie.”
When asked about Ogles’ bigoted anti-Muslim outburst, House Speaker Mike Johnson did what he’s done many times in the past when a Republican House member posted an outrageously racist sentiment on social media: nothing.
Johnson refused to condemn Ogles and instead argued that “there’s a lot of energy in the country, and a lot of popular sentiment, that the demand to impose Sharia law in America is a serious problem.”
Some day we’ll purge the infidels and make the world a better place.