The smoke from Canada has arrived, and the air has been hazy and malodorous for several days now. The heat and humidity aren’t helping with that, but having AC makes it tolerable. Of course, local news is running stories such as “Is it safe to run my AC when air quality is bad?“. Now, Betteridge’s law of headlines aside, the obvious answer is “Yes, it’s safe to run the system that has a filter in line already.”
Who doesn’t want a little Ashley in their life?
A reboot of a reboot of a reboot…
But did they debate how to debate the debate?
Look for the robot label.
Make them strap on pool noodles to illustrate the distance.
So… parliament?
You knew what I was before you ordered.
Is there anything (((they))) WON’T complain about?
I’m gonna call bullshit on this.
OK, now say the same about “unruly teens”.
Normal 5 point scale? I remember when a 4.0 GPA was the max.
Further proof about the decline in reading.
Enough with the links, let’s get to a drink for the weekend. With the smoke in the air, a smoky drink seems appropriate.
Tia Mia
- 4 parts (1 oz) mezcal
- 4 parts (1 oz) rum
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) orange curacao
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) orgeat
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) lime juice
This basic recipe may look familiar, and I hope it does, this is a variant on the Mai Tai after all. To make this drink, we start by chilling a large rocks glass. You’ll want to also have crushed or pebble ice on hand. Add all the ingredients into a shaker with ice, and shake until it’s chilled and combined. Strain it into that chilled glass over fresh crushed/pebble ice. Garnish with a sprig of mint, a lime wheel, and an edible flower if you must. Swizzle sticks or paper umbrellas would also be appropriate.
With that, I’ll let you get to your weekend. Hope you get everything you’re looking for.
To be fair, you could’ve just been hanging out behind Chuck Schumer this week.
local news is running stories such as “Is it safe to run my AC when air quality is bad?“.
I, uhh…..
Only if you place a plastic bag over your head first. For filtration.
Just hold your breath till the problem clears up.
So people are suing Taco Bell for big bucks for their intestinal distress? I wish I had explosive diarrhea.
*kicks pebble*
It’s safe but wear a mask to be sure.
I thought those lines on the road were painted by WPA artists hanging out of motorcycle sidecars with a brush.
So… parliament?
No, Funkadelic.
Almost back to the Articles of Confederation.
Great minds, Ted.
and the air has been hazy and malodorous for several days now.
Like when the Cuyahoga catches fire?
The Cuyahoga hasn’t caught fire in my lifetime.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat, FTW!
And so it always goes with socialists.
And, did anyone else shit themselves laughing that the DSA’s national leadership is called the ‘NPC?’ Talk about life imitating art.
Good catch.
I laughed at that too.
No. Fuck off, commies.
Cetacean needed.
Lighten up St. Francis.
Sprengt den Wal! – Tulpe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NDVic_nct0
See also.
(Your strongest yet, Schpip. Outstanding.)
We need to build a wall of fans along the border and make Canada pay for it!
Fans of what?
Rush fans are serious blowhards.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat and one of the recipients of the letter calling for Kagan’s recusal, took to social media Monday to rebuke the missive. He said the letter is an example of “fossil fuel dark money pressuring Supreme Court toward climate denial.”
Big Scary Dinosaur!
4 parts (1 oz) mezcal
4 parts (1 oz) rum
2 parts (0.5 oz) orange curacao
2 parts (0.5 oz) orgeat
3 parts (0.75 oz) lime juice
Yes! I have all these things! No pebble ice though, so it’s smashing time!
Any suggestions on the rum? Light, dark, Jamaican, Dominican, English, regular, dangerously overproof? (I’m really starting to enjoy rum as a cocktail base. It may displace gin.)
I too have a Lewis bag among my tools. 🙂
Jamaican is the original rum called for here, but in general, I consider rum interchangeable in most drinks with few exceptions (such as a dark and stormy). From what little I know of the origin of this drink, the mezcal started as a float before being incorporated, so you could even split the rum to do an overproof float in a lime hull and go dark or Jamaican in the drink..
See, my opinion is a bit different. Considering the huge, broad range of flavors in different rums, I think that some certain types are suited for certain drinks, but not others. Just as an example, I once tried making a Daiquiri with Lemon Hart and Son Demerara 151, and it didn’t go well.
On the other hand, there are some rums (Plantation Three Stars) that seem to be pretty good in everything…so who knows? The experimentation is what makes it fun, and now that Prohibition is over, one bad cocktail won’t kill you.
Is it just me or is that smoke making any of you sick? I went out for dinner last night and I felt like crap when I got home. Same thing this morning, tired, scratchy throat, stuff like that. Ibuprofen helps. I started taking allergy meds last night too.
A lot of people are experiencing tiredness and irritation. I’ve been limiting my activity, and when I did go out there weren’t a lot of people moving around. Except for the panhandler at the sketchy intersection smoking (what appeared to be) a reefer.
I’m getting the feeling this whole push has been unserious from the start. As if by design.
And there would be just as many complaints if they pushed standard time.
I have a slight preference for standard time, but I’d be more than happy to live with permanent DST if WE STOP FUCKING CHANGING CLOCKS TWICE A YEAR!!1!
My big fear is that if they delay this until we switch back to standard time that will give the changers time to organize and delay, delay, delay.
The MSM would find a million reasons to complain about a change in either direction. It can only be because they enjoy watching the people dance like monkeys twice a year.
“It can only be because they enjoy watching the people dance like monkeys twice a year.”
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
They love government being able to assert control over every aspect of our lives.
This just popped up on Pandora
Oh, the lead singer / accordion player is totes cute.
Uh huh.
Bet he has received far more praise for being so STUNNING and BRAVE.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
That was New Nightmare (which is well worth watching).
Will it be a nightmare in a nightmare in a nightmare …
That was Inception.
“Yes, it’s safe to run the system that has a filter in line already.”
I’m wondering what their filters look like.
Where is the climate scold outrage at the Canada wildfire? What is the carbon footprint of the wildfire? Where are the calls for reparations?
In a meeting today my manager stated we’ll have more of this until we start taking climate change seriously. So Canada is just a victim here right?
I’ve heard this blamed on climate change from other sources.
“So Canada is just a victim here right?”
But the real emissions culprits (China and India) are never mentioned, and the blame is always placed on the US, and to a lesser extent to other developed countries.
I do think the climate is changing. I have only seen this type of wildfire smoke twice in my lifetime, both were within the last decade. Most definitely the winters around here are different from when I was a kid.
But the climate has been changing since the beginning whether we were here or not. This is just what Earth does. It’s funny how people today think there is an “ideal” set point for the climate it just happens to be how it’s been since they’ve been alive. The “ideal” set point isn’t an ice age, or the whole planet being tropical for some reason.
Yes, of course the climate is changing. I was sloppy by using “climate change” as shorthand for catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. You’re right about the climateers and their ideal set-point.
That’s more believable than the religious belief that man somehow causes any of it.
That is because they know they’re spinning bullshit.
There is no proof of any of their claims. The only intent is to grab power and make you dance to their tune.
I gotcha right here.
Question:
The Odyssey, and other epic tales of heroism and struggle, are meant to inspire us to greatness.
What are the chances of that in connection with this new movie?
The last movie that inspired me to greatness* was Project Hail Mary.
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*not in bed.
Meh. I didn’t like that as much as The Martian. PHM was a great movie, particularly the effects, but the book was rather preachy, with climate scolding lurking just below the surface and breaking water occasionally. I wonder if Weir has been co-opted by his new Hollywood friends. Or perhaps the question should be to what degree…
I’m really looking forward to “I Play Rocky”. That’s a truly inspiring story, I always liked it and it seem they’re doing a good job with it.
I will give Andy Weir credit for creating a truly believable alien; most aliens are just humans in greenface, or tentacleface, or whatever.
I honestly didn’t notice.
Of course, keeping in mind that the existential climate catastrophe was a global cooling event, that was mitigated with ground-level nuclear explosions and eventually solved by the application of advanced technology…this doesn’t sound like something that Greta would have come up with.
And yes, Rocky was amazing. It really says something when Ryan Gosling gives probably his greatest performance ever, in anything…and gets completely upstaged by a puppet.
Weir’s dad was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore Lab. There’s a good chance he’s been immersed in climate change stuff since he was young.
In the end, far from healing the political fractures running through Germany, the effort to save Timmy seemed in part to be driven by populist resentment against “elites” that is driving the rise of the nationalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). As an actor in a wetsuit rails against officials for letting Timmy die and callls for ordinary people to “wake up”, a large German flag is raised behind her back.
Everywhere we go, we see exactly what we were looking for.
Politik über alles
This is delicious. Trump is calling out Canada (with delicious commentary by our very own Animal).
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/17/new-trump-confronts-canada-on-deadly-wildfire-smoke-incalculable-cost-n2204446
On point. Both of them.
Yup.
I hadn’t thought of the forest management angle. It is entirely believable that they’re not doing it.
Canada is not sending us their best air.
Spokane is getting hit by smoke from down near the Threedoor area.
I reluctantly filed a VA disability claim yesterday for depression, anxiety, insomnia, bipolar, and PTSD. I hate the idea of getting a handout, but I also don’t want to end up homeless. To get the money, I’ll have to undergo an exam at some point. No biggie.
When I was in the Army, a bunch of people lied to my face to trap me in a psych ward for 3 days. Last October, I spent 17 days in a Florida psych ward where I was diagnosed first with schizophrenia and then bipolar. In the 5 years since I left the Army, I’ve had 10 jobs. In December, I got fired from Wal-Mart after a week for working too slowly, and that left me with serious doubts as to whether I’ll be able to find and keep a job that pays enough.
Based on the descriptions, a 50% disabled rating looks reasonable for me. That’s enough to cover my rent and utilities. At this point, I just want to stay alive, off the street, and out of jail. Anything better than that is a bonus.
“It’s my nerves, sir”, as the shellshocked soldier said to Patton before he got slapped.
If I end up not needing the money, I’ll use it to help raise my future children and thus contribute to the libertarian breeding project.
My new job is going well and should keep me afloat. I try to be thankful for the good things in my life. There have been many.
One day at a time.
Step by step.
Live for today.
It’s over, they’re gone.
Focus here and now.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Oh boy
“It has been over seven months since the ‘no camping’ ordinance has gone into effect,” Aurojit Chakraborty said. “It’s been months, nothing has changed.”
Chakraborty was one of many who spoke during public comment at Tuesday night’s Board of Aldermen meeting, with a strong presence from the Southern NH Democratic Socialists of America.
They urged the board to repeal the city’s camping ban and offer viable solutions for the unhoused in Nashua, frustrated that the board chose to pass what they see as a punitive approach to homelessness without addressing the root cause.
I’ve got a solution for you. Vlad Tepes used it with great effect in 15th-century Wallachia.
A wise man once told me, “Law without punishment is just advice.”
Offer them free camping on the peaks of the Presidential Range
The “root cause” nine times out of ten is either mental illness or drug addiction. Two items that the left absolutely refuses to see.
Those dumb krauts. Instead of pissing away a pile of money just to let the whale die anyway, they should have tried to auction it to the Japanese.
Jone’s Good Ass Barbeque and Foot Massage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkMUU9tUqk
The smoke thing reminds me of the smoke-haze in Singapore. From forest fires in Malaysia, some planned and some not. It blew kinda right into SNG and could last a few days to a week.
The locals weren’t a fan. A short bridge goes to Malaysia, and they check your car to make sure drivers didn’t pop over just to get Malay gas and avoid local taxes on it. Local coworker bitched about it and said it wasn’t worth the stress. There, where drugs are a capital offense, I certainly wouldn’t risk it. They don’t play ’round, yo. (I also certainly didn’t have a car there. No way that would be worth it. Public transport in SNG is clean, efficient, orderly, and abundant.
(Something too city states, no?)
https://babylonbee.com/news/idaho-builds-border-wall-out-of-potatoes-to-keep-out-californians/
Too late!
More right wing hate
The man who allegedly breached security and shouted a racial slur at “TODAY” co-anchor Craig Melvin was arraigned on hate crime charges Friday.
The suspect, identified as Andrew Truelove, 41, faces a count of burglary in the third degree as a hate crime and a count of menacing in the third degree as a hate crime, according to a complaint filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Off with his head.
Finest minds
When Daniel Moraff showed up on Graham Platner’s doorstep last summer, the oyster farmer had a message for the young political operative who had traveled to the Maine coast to convince him to run for the U.S. Senate: “Get the fuck off my property.”
It took weeks of prodding before Platner relented, according to two people who worked on the campaign. But once he did, Moraff, 34, and a handful of other out-of-state consultants who had plucked him from obscurity wasted no time selling him as far more than just a Democrat who could finally topple Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
In an email last August to fellow Democratic operatives, Moraff described Platner as “a cross between a rugged JFK and Bernie Sanders” and hailed him as “one of the most talented politicians of our time. Maybe any time.”
The email, which was obtained by POLITICO, carried the subject line: “I think this guy is going to be president.”
We won the War Against Running With Scissors, and this is what it got us.
🤣😂
What a loss for the country.
I got prescribed lamotrigine as a mood stabilizer because I mentioned I’ve spent a lot of time lying in bed all day. I haven’t taken the pills because the side effects scared me.
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Side effects such as rash, fever, and fatigue are very serious, as they may indicate incipient SJS, TEN, DRESS syndrome, or aseptic meningitis.[50]
Lamotrigine prescribing information has a black box warning about life-threatening skin reactions, including Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS), DRESS syndrome, and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN).
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Other side effects include alopecia (hair loss), loss of balance or coordination, double vision, crossed eyes, pupil constriction, blurred vision, dizziness and lack of coordination, drowsiness, insomnia, anxiety, vivid dreams or nightmares, dry mouth, mouth ulcers, memory problems, mood changes, itchiness, runny nose, cough, nausea, indigestion, abdominal pain, weight loss
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My mom and others are convinced there’s a chemical imbalance in my brain. I think it’s more likely that my depression and other ills are a natural reaction to the many setbacks and painful experiences I’ve had since 2020.
I can get up early when I have to. I’ve had too much free time in the past 3 years.