Another year, another successful holiday passing without another inane controversy. But what am I saying?
This is my review of Clown Shoes Undead American Imperial Stout.
Evidently, Trump joked the turkey he pardoned kept his cool, even under threat of subpoena from Rep. Adam Schiff.
“It seems the Democrats are accusing me of being too soft on turkey,” Mr. Trump said, turning to the birds. “But Bread and Butter, I should note that unlike previous witnesses, you and I have actually met. It’s very unusual.”
President Taft pardoned exactly zero turkeys. Bring it fact check clowns!
Which was a joke. Clearly, it was a joke.
The pardoning of a turkey however is one of the more benign presidential traditions. While the holiday itself is credited with Washington declaring a day of thanksgiving, the first turkey was pardoned by Lincoln. According to lore, Lincoln’s son Tad befriended a turkey, whom he named Jack, destined to become Christmas dinner. Tad pleaded for Jack’s life and the tradition of pardoning a turkey was born. Of course, the tradition itself was to send a turkey for the president to eat, and quite frankly thats what most of them did.
Once pardoned, the turkeys live the high life as far as a farm fowl is concerned. Some live out their days at petting zoos, avoid being massacred at Virginia Tech, or even standing in as a grand marshal for parades at Disney while their cousins are smoked and sold to tourists. Some animal rights activists are not fond of the tradition, since these turkeys are farm fowl and are bred specifically to get fat and be eaten. Their joints are not up to the task of a long life as a fat bird and keeping them alive is therefore cruel. Then of course, there are the vegans…
The trend of sparing a turkey’s life publicly is credited to Kennedy. The joke was on Kennedy, because Marylin Monroe killed herself and the bird outlived them both. Perhaps Oswald was a vegan?
This beer though, woof. You are greeted with whiff of straight booze, followed by burned chocolate and coffee. Its like a traditional Irish lunch, with the only thing missing is the fish and chips. Clown Shoes Undead American Imperial Stout 4.1/5
“President Taft pardoned exactly zero turkeys. Bring it fact check clowns!”
Looks like because he ate them all first.
I know right?
He was the only President to be stuck in multiple bath tubs.
This beer though, woof. You are greeted with whiff of straight booze, followed by burned chocolate and coffee. Its like a traditional Irish lunch, with the only thing missing is the fish and chips. Clown Shoes Undead American Imperial Stout 4.1/5
I like Clown Shoes beer. I think I have this one in the fridge.
I have 3 Heinekens and a 12 of Yuengling Golden Pilsner.
And I have to slay a monster and save my drunken friends from prison before they are hanged. So I got to get on that before too many beers.
“And I have to slay a monster and save my drunken friends from prison before they are hanged. ”
Is that a euphemism for pooping or wanking?
Yes.
Look here, Juggler, just because that’s all you do all day, I have important stuff to do!
Lies, you know you are out there looking for a perfect pronghorn pelt.
I’m wrong. The Clown Shoes I have in the fridge are Loonidragon 2019 and The Exercising of Baxter.
I respect Clown Shoes for brewing a special beer for Ohio back before our ABV cap was lifted.
Nice.
If the clown shoe fits . . .
Ruh-roh.
Clown shoe
I love those. Maybe the only BMW I could see myself in.
but whats the Abv? inquiring drunks want to know….
Wait, I’m not the only Glib who checks that on every new beer, first thing?
10%
So, my wife is watching a film. That has to be Lifetime, I don’t even have to look. To describe the film, remember when we were little kids and we just ran around all day and pretended to be super heroes and all? It’s like that, except with ‘adults’ who are going to save the world from … guess what? Climate change, what else?, with a side of institutional racism and the patriarchy. I’ve never seen so much wokeness in a 1 hour made for TV movie.
They made a live action Captain Planet? I mean the animated one was terrible enough.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo
OFFS
Don’t let Swissy watch that.
I thought your wife became the One True Libertarian.
Is this where we talk about the game?
Foozball? You can all yer foozball friens!
And, but you can if you want I guess, and they’re into that. NTTAWWT.
Probably
I’ve been watching the Euro Rugby playoffs.
Yes. But it’s gonna be a short discussion – Pakistan is absolute ass.
Well, they’re not as bad as Zimbabwe. BUT, to your point from the other day, for a team that aspires to be in the upper echelon they are pretty dire right now.
The really alarming result was getting whacked at home in their best format by the Sri Lanka “B team”.
My winter foot ware?
https://www.amazon.com/Kamik-Mens-Nationplus-Boot-Black/dp/B0169967P2?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0169967P2
Thanks c
Hallmark Christmas movies are surprisingly good background noise for decorating, but I will take Father Mouse and the town Christmas Clock any day.
“Hallmark Christmas movies are surprisingly good”
My God. This is why we can’t let a woman become president.
Most of us are too smart to want the job.
Don’t you have a (((skin tag))) to remove?
Sheesh someone wants to get rid of me. I’m like the skin tag nuzzling on the cusp of your navel, entertaining you despite your obvious objections.
And yet you treat me like I’m yesterday’s tomatoes.
““Hallmark Christmas movies are surprisingly good””
OFFS, Moj, I’m going to have to tack even more onto that title of yours, Glib Squad Prime The Worst.
It’s all the same G’damn movie, my wife had watched every version of it.
HEY! Fake news! I qualified it. Also, they work almost as well as Tylenol PM.
Well, at least Lifetime is getting new material. Scroll up and read that post about the Lifetime movie wife is currently watching.
I am overwhelmed with the really intriguing stuff coming out of various cable and streaming outlets. It’s like I’ve supplanted reading with binge-watching and honestly, that discomfots me. It takes less effort to watch.
But the stories are good and quite original.
I’ve watched maybe 20 hours of TV in the past 5 years, and all of that was either movies with the wife or documentaries. We have Sling, Netflix, and Amazon.
Also, I am now boiling down the turkey carcass for turkey salad. Don’t know how I’m going to store the stock tho.
Have you any Mason jars?
I do not, nor will I buy any before we move.
Ah. Well, that’s the only way I know of to preserve stock of any kind.
She’s literally the only person in North America with no Mason jars.
I follow mommy blogs and shabby chic Pinterest boards.
You have no idea how right you are.
My wife has so many storage containers that they would fill up one of those POD moving containers by themselves.
Gallon ziplocs?
*gives Ziplocs the side-eye*
Ice cube tray first. As long as it stays frozen, no issues, even if there’s a hole in the bag.
BRILLIANT!!!!
This is why I believe I’m not creative, that I’m just a craftsman. I would never have thought of that.
Learned it from the wife. She did it when she made baby food, and it was so much easier to deal with.
I use quart Ziploc.
We use those a lot for the freezer.
I lay them flat while they freeze (use a cookie sheet) then you can stand them up like fat records.
We use Pyrex round storage containers. 1c for individual size and 2c for cooking use. Place Saran Wrap stretched over the top, place lid, burp, and stack in freezer.
Defrost in fridge, or in a pinch, run under hot water and slide out.,
Damn it! I just checked and it looks like A Christmas Horror Story isn’t on any of the streaming services I’ve got. This means I’m going to need to buy it. And a package of cookies and bread will be getting shipped out to you on Monday.
“Damn it! I just checked and it looks like A Christmas Horror Story isn’t on any of the streaming services I’ve got. ”
You don’t have Lifetime? I mean if you’re into the really frightening stuff.
Nope, no live TV services. And who doesn’t want to watch elves go Romero zombie and Santa need to start killing them all? It has Shatner in it, if you need another reason to watch it. Santa’s Slay is another entertaining one.
I love fish and chips!
Anti-ClownShoe
Would.
Ok, I could see myself driving that as well, but only if someone else was picking up the tab.
My winter foot ware?
NICE
unlike previous witnesses, you and I have actually met.
This proves the bribe was delivered face-to-face, ladies and gentlemen of the jury!
Are the Democrats still doing impeachment?
Ask one of the three people who have tuned into it. I don’t think anyone else even knows.
Clown Shoes Undead American Imperial Stout.
Wait a minute… this is Undead Party Crasher. I’ve had this before, though I didn’t rate it on Beeradvocate. It’s a good beer.
The trend of sparing a turkey’s life publicly is credited to Kennedy. The joke was on Kennedy, because Marylin Monroe killed herself and the bird outlived them both
I told you, you could never trust a turkey.
Wife just opened a bottle of wine. There’s my excuse to pop a beer.
Found a scorpion in a light fixture. Very inconvenient having to disassemble a ceiling fan-mounted fixture while keeping a scorpion in the bowl.
Scorpions are super fucking creepy *shudder*.
I used to have nightmares about the scorpion scenes in Clash of the Titans (Harry Hamlin edition).
One of my half brothers was telling me, when he lived in TX, he woke up in the night and felt something on his chest. Reached over and flipped on the light on his night stand and there was a scorpion on his chest staring right at him. I’ve never seen one that close up and don’t want to. When I was about 4-5 years old when we lived in Simi Valley, I got up to go to the bathroom and ran into a tarantula in the hallway. Scared the piss out of me, literally, that thing looked huge to me. I ran back down the hall crying and my grandfather came out and found it and killed it. That shit gave me nightmares for a long time.
For fun, or horror, walk around the Sonoran Desert at night with a black light. Scorpions glow and you can see them when they are out hunting. A couple of species are this brilliant orange- very cool.
We hated our boss in Iraq. We captured one of those “Legendary Iraqi Camel Spiders (TM)” and trapped her underneath the empty coffee mug he left on his desk.
He thought it was one of those “acceptance” pranks you do to a guy you like because its funny. Did I mention we hated him?
More like the Hunkmeister edition.
Love or hate the show – I liked the writing, and with half the cast from Dayton, viewing was required by local ordinance (I wasn’t nearly the scofflaw I am now) – I enjoyed how West Wing handled the problematic turkey pardon issue.
Man Michigan is stomping Ohio. This is embarrassing.
Just pulled up the score… so am I going to need to walk up to a local bar to watch this at the half?
Just trying to troll Sloop
::shakes fist drunkenly::
It’s basically the only game of the year I want to see UoM win.
Not that I much care.
Looks like you might have to wait another year.
Well, I get a partial — always good to see UoM lose.
They are doing their level best to give the ge away right now. They seem to be succeeding.
Special teams just handed Ohio another touchdown.
In unrelated Ohio State Football news, this is not good.
Hope he gets better.
I might have to start paying attention to this game.
Ooh. Sun’s coming out.
It’s a dadgum winter wonderland, out there. I might have to road-test my new (used) snow blower, later. The guy I got it from says it needs a new drive wheel, but this snow is light enough it shouldn’t have much trouble.
So jealous. I want snow
May you live in intersting times or something.
It’s even snowing here in the high desert, ha!
I have a little extra, I’ll sent you a quart. Oops, no Mason jars. I’ll send you a gallon in a ziploc.
I’ll treasure it always
So jealous. I want snow
I’ll let you shovel as much as you want.
Did these teams make a deal with the NCAA to not play defense?
Putting up the Christmas tree. All the lights work so I don’t have to restring it again. You know how exhausting putting 1,000 lights on a 6′ tree is?
Got the carcass in the pot.
XX upset because our local “diocese” (stake) announced a dance tonight. Can’t be arsed to announce it a couple of weeks in advance. Can’t get a nice dress on short notice as her size and her taste don’t often coincide. She doesn’t get to go anyway though because her grades suck donkey balls. Same reason she doesn’t get to the KC teen formal at the art gallery. Dear XX: Stay on top of your grades and scenarios like this won’t happen.
I never dressed up more than church dress for those dances anyway.
The KC teen formal/masquerade at the art gallery is not a church thing. I assume it’s a non-society version of a deb ball, so formal is it. Generally speaking, girls like dressing up. She’s got a dress, but it needs to be altered.
Oh i meant the church dance, not the social formal.
Try a menorah instead. Much shorter set up time.
Question for the EST sub-tribe of the Glibs. I arrive next Saturday in the DC area (Alexandria) for a work trip and am free until Tuesday morning. I have already seen all the stuff on the Mall and around the major FedGov buildings. What are you recommendations for something amusing to do or see?
You could visit the Archibald’s Gentlemen’s Club with Hunter Biden. All kinds of crack there, I hear.
If you like airplanes,I have heard this actually better than the main museum.
I haven’t been to the main museum. The Udvar-Hazy center is good.
I have visited and had a great time. Seeing the Enola Gay was interesting, especially since I have been to the loading pit on Tinian.
Have you been to the Spy Museum? Mount Vernon is beautiful this time of year. The Mount Vernon first mill and distillery (a short drive from Mount Vernon) is good. The National Cryptological Museum will be open while you’re here and is pretty cool.
Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum sure loves the Spy Museum. It looks as if it would be a fun visit.
I am disappointed none of the local Glibs are offering to host a meet-up in Dbl Eagle’s honor. What kind of fake community have we created here?
Good idea SP! I’m gonna be out of town until sometime Saturday, but if people want to do something Monday night, I’m probably going to be free-ish. I don’t know Alexandria very well, so I’ll leave it to the inside the beltway glibs on details.
Speaking of, I’m in ft Collins Monday through thursday if anybody wants to meet up.
I would have found a way to get up to Ft. Collins, but Mrs. A and I are flying back to (ugh) New Jersey tomorrow morning.
My nephew is watching Empire Strikes back and playing with my Han Solo and Leia figures; crazy kid Luke V Vader is where it’s at.
You have Han Solo and Leia figures? Hmmmmm
Psssst, UCS
To be honest, I have hundreds of army men, hand painted by yours truly……
Okay this make sense — in an Orwellian sense.
We should invade the UK to restore liberty.
But what if the UK’s actions turn him into an anti-government extremist?
What, short of Guy Fawkes, qualifies as an extreme reaction to their government? Actually Guy Fawkes may just be a reasonable response at this point.
Best to jsut send him to the gulags
What are you recommendations for something amusing to do or see?
Tulip is in Alexandria, I think. She’d know.
Ooh, I’m so thrilled you remember
Howdy Tulip, what say you? I would appreciate suggestions. There have been some solid suggestions made, but not something where I go, “I MUST see that!”.
I answered above, but, Spy Museum, national cryptologic museum. Mount Vernon decorated for Christmas and the mount Vernon grist mill and brewery.
My apologies. I missed that those were your recommendations.
But you aren’t offering to host a fellow Glib when he has time to kill in your town?
I mean, if Dbl Eagle came to Phoenix, we’d throw a Glib party in his honor.
DoubleEagle, do you have dinner plans? Is there a cuisine you like?
It’s a sincere offer. I’d love to meet a fellow glib.
Just saw an Ad for a new movie: “Richard Jewell” Looks good, but i’m sure we’ll hear about this is just a sign of the age of Trump there is hate for reporters
Why wait?
Worse yet, Scruggs is deceased and unable to defend herself.
You know who else is dead?
Lou Reed?
WHAT!!!!????!???
/actually doesn’t even know who Lou Reed is
WHAT!!!!????!???
Sid Vicious?
Yeah, you have a situation where a guy whose life has been kind of a failure has his moment of Truth, and he against all expectations rises to that moment, fairly spectacularly. So the reporter and FBI demonize him, subject him to every dirty trick and slanderous accusation, all to prove that his one glorious moment was a lie and that he is a despicable terrorist. By a miracle they fail and he is vindicated. But a movie about this shouldn’t be mean the reporter…. God I hate these people.
It wasn’t just the one reporter and wasn’t just the AJC. The media broadly carried the FBI’s water to paint Jewell as guilty before the investigation even finished.
What I got from that is that Scruggs and the AJC should get credit for reporting Jewell was a suspect because Jewell’s lawyer never would have found out otherwise. Also; they later played a hand in proving it couldn’t have been Jewell, therefore negating any harm they might have done before that.
The FBI was spreading the Jewell narrative far and wide, not just in the AJC. They tried to entrap him with the “training” video. It would have come out very shortly, directly due to the FBI’s actions.
Please send your Sarcometer in for calibration. ?
Harbaugh burns a time-out and we get the TD anyway. Niiiiiiiiiice.
Need a stop and a score.
Harbaugh needs to be taken out by a late hit.
I’ve changed my mind. Harbaugh needs to be fired for not keeping his team in line. They could be much closer if they didn’t keep doing themselves harm.
Mmmm. Ham and cheese BLT and a Deschutes fresh hopped hazy IPA.
Sounds tasty, don’t tell the anti hop crowd…….
Screw ‘em. Hazy’s tend to be more citrus forward and less bitter.
Hazy IPAs are pretty good. I’ve enjoyed quite a few of them.
Many IPA-lovers incorrectly label bitter-IPA-haters as “anti-hops”. Just because I don’t like heavily peated Scotchs doesn’t mean I hate Scotch. I like Macallen and Glenmorangie very much.
“This isn’t going to end the way way they think…”
Greeeat….. It’s just going to get worse
Yeup.
This is one reason why I poo-poo all those people who say the military and police will not stand with the state against the people.
Yes, yes they will. They will slaughter whoever doesn’t obey and feel vindicated in their righteousness because they do not see themselves as The Bad Guy.
Wake me up when these guys start killing cops who are serving these orders, because until this hits home cops will keep enforcing this and it will go the way they think.
^^
they don’t need broad confiscation if they can do it in 1s and 2s. Red flag laws are the way US will achieve gun confiscation.
Great pic in the comments
Great sign.
QFT
*applause*
Quasi-old guy music.
Bring the noise.
Well that’s the season. Fuck.
Nice pass.
I spoke too soon. That kid is a tough sonofabitch.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Fuck TTUN!!!!!!!
I was damned worried for the kid when I saw him back on the field, even with the brace.
This game isn’t even fun anymore
Oh yes it is.
Ham and cheese BLT
Just had a ham and salami and swiss on sourdough, with re-heated mashed pottoes. Bueno.
Oops.
From not an economist’s link, above:
Forty-nine-year-old Roy Larner became known as the “Lion of London Bridge” after three Jihadis in a van plowed into a crowd of people on London Bridge before stalking from building to building, killing seven people and eventually reaching the Black and Blue pub where Larner was drinking with friends.
“They had these long knives and started shouting about Allah. Then it was, ‘Islam, Islam, Islam,’” Larner said. “Like an idiot I shouted back at them … I took a few steps towards them and said, ‘Fuck you, I’m Millwall,’” he said, referring to his favorite soccer team.
He fought them off with his bare fists, sustaining serious stab wounds all over his body but allowing dozens of other patrons to escape.
The BBC called him a “hero,” Brits pushed for him to be awarded one of England’s highest honors, the George Cross medal, and a Swedish brewery named a beer after him.
Larner has now been added to a terrorist watchlist know as Britain’s “Prevent” program after fears he could become an anti-Islam extremist, the Sun reported Monday.
Larner claims, without evidence, radical jihadists are murderous fanatics.
What a mess… This is what happens when an entire generation of men is killed off.
It gets worse than that. The killer in the latest attack was previously convicted of terrorist acts, served his time, and was released. The spokesman for the group he’s associated with is a welfare leach and also convicted (of essentially belonging to a prohibited group- wonderful Brit free speech) but was released after serving a fraction of his sentence.
This is one reason why I poo-poo all those people who say the military and police will not stand with the state against the people.
Cops will unhesitatingly (gleefully) trample our freedom under their jackboots. The military? Maybe not all of them.
It all depends how the battle lines are drawn. Major event precipitating unrest? Many more cops and soldiers will side with the armed citizens.
Slow drift toward casual violence? Not a chance.
Ooh, I’m so thrilled you remember
*bangs sarcasmometer on desk, holds to ear*
I’m not being sarcastic. Flutters lashes
Even that might be a bit too subtle…
Gender equity
The University of Central Florida has placed a sorority on interim suspension following allegations of hazing and alcohol misconduct.
The UCF chapter of Pi Beta Phi — a national sorority which aims to “promote friendship” and “develop women of intellect and integrity,” according to its website — was notified of the interim suspension in a November 21 letter from the university.
The university learned of the allegations in a report submitted to the Office of Student Conduct, which cited an incident on November 15 at the sorority house involving hazing, alcohol and drugs.
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A post about UCF’s chapter of Pi Beta Phi on Greekrank.com, a website that collects information on university fraternities and sororities through posts from users, was made on November 15, the same day the incident report was filed to the Office of Student Conduct.
The post outlines some of the hazing the user’s friend went through by the sorority, which calls itself the “Mafia,” according to the post. The writer notes that her friend, previously not a big drinker, was forced to drink excessively and was pressured to do drugs such as cocaine.
“She had to swear not to reveal these ‘rituals.’ She said they’ve been doing this for years, apparently,” according to the post. “She wants to drop and report them but is too scared because they said if anyone snitches they’ll know who it was and they’ll find a way out of trouble because they’ve ‘gotten out of any investigation before’ and will deny everything.”
The post has since been removed from the website.
Bullying and intimidation- not just a male sport.
That’s the fucking ball game.
Hell. Fucking. Yeah.
O-H…
I-O!
What a bullshit call.
They got it right. Thank God. We need Fuller next week in Indy.
Amazing.
Now that the big game is pretty much over, time to switch to the B1G game that just went to OT.
https://twitter.com/dkcookie37/status/1200872355469369344/photo/1
LOL
I’m not being sarcastic. Flutters lashes
Phew!
*coughs nervously*
Ohio State ekes out another one, to the great relief of bookies everywhere.
Meanwhile, phase one of snow removal (pushing snow off second story deck) is done. Now, to fire up the mighty snowblower.
Not really “ekes” considering the spread.
O-H…
I-O!
Oh, that was a great way to wrap-up the holiday.
Now, to text my acquaintances in that place up north. And drinking.
Rivalry week ain’t over… Browns/Stillers tomorrow.
I-O!!!!!
Now go win the Big Ten!
It’s funny that the Wolverines just learned how to tie and untie their shoes during finals. They were just trying to show J.K.
Quite Frankly bullshit like that would have me freakin pissed if i was Harbaragh. His team lost, but it would have been much closer if they had kept their head.
I-m’fkn-O!
My Ommegang Three Philosophers is going quite well with my Buckeye win. Especially after my crude but fruitful attempts at Mai Tia’s and Hurricanes this afternoon:)
Milwaukee’s Beast Diet for me.
Cause I’m classy like that.
I’m down with that
More furniture sold.
Christmas tree up and decorated.
Advent calendar put together and hung up.
Turkey carcass boiled (waiting for stock to cool).
XY’s afghan repaired.
So far, so good.
*looks at to-do list*
Ugh.
Chuck it all and come visit me. (I have done ZERO decorating or thinking about it, even.) We can talk about marketing for writers and artists!
Man, I would, too, if I had the moolah.
Some Fabulous Moolah ?
I’m starting to think that Freddie Kitchens might be part of the problem. /s
Probably, but I’m not going to fault him for wearing this.
Well, I’ve got the Dictator Bee’s wings mostly painted. The body is still only primed.
Snowblower works, but needs some tuning. Also throws rocks. Must pay attention to direction of chute, especially when changing course.
Notre Dame vs Stanford. Why can’t it end in a 2 – 2 tie?
I will make the claim for Geekiest Saturday even among this group of geeks.
Setting up Dirac Live Room Correction.
(He’s actually cooking meth)
Dear NSA: He’s not cooking meth.
Of course not that would interfere with his making devices for the Stern Gang.
I plan on replacing my B & K preamp with a Yamaha. It does the room correction for you.
I’m going to PAX unplugged in Philly next Saturday.
/beat that
My brain gets tricky sometimes. I just watched a short video on the FB dying out in the NFL, and I was trying to think of the guy the Viqueens used to have that played FB/H-Back/Tightend. My brain kept going to plate, but I knew that wasn’t his name; look it up and it’s Kleinsasser, see saucer, like a plate. My fucking brain.
William Henderson was better.
Setting up Dirac Live Room Correction.
*blank stare*
Last mention, but I’ll be in Philly next weekend if any Glibs are up for meeting up. The GF and I are getting in Thursday, and leaving Monday or Tuesday (depending on if we can extend the hotel stay). There are definite plans to hit up Monk’s Cafe one night.