To continue on with December’s theme of determining if our favorite holiday movies can be made again today or are just products if their time. We will take a look at a, shall we say, unconventional Christmas Movie.
This is my review of Epic Brewery Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout.
Don’t think Die Hard is a Christmas movie? A few of you already got into this one and confirmed my biases in the subject.
As an aside, never make a bet at a bar. It either results in you losing all your money, your clothes, or the bar having to call Security Forces in to haul you back to Hurlburt Field. Sometimes all three.
Die Hard is indeed a Christmas movie. The movie is about a guy visiting his wife for the holidays. She was a career woman working for a Japanese company, both of which was something somewhat new for the time. She also lived in another city as a result of her having a career. He planned to meet his wife during the office Christmas party, scheduled on Christmas Eve.
…Of course the twist is the building is taken over by a small group of heavily armed, East German terrorists led by Hans Grüber. They hold everyone in the building hostage in exchange for the release their comrades in arms from various prisons across the world, the “Asian Dawn,” and access codes to a enormous safe holding cash bonds.
…the other twist is the aforementioned guy visiting his wife is Detective John McClaine, NYPD. While he showed up with what was then the latest and greatest in concealed carry (Beretta Model 92), he now has a machine gun.
HO HO HO
…and hilarity ensues.
The tricky part is if this can be made again today, and the answer in my opinion is: maybe.
It really can’t be the same movie because trends in world events would probably have to be updated to match the times. The company would have to be Chinese since they are the new Japanese, buying up all of America. Although the name of the building Nakatomi Plaza could stay the same.
McClaine’s pistol will have to be updated to a Glock, obviously. He would also have to be played by a person of color, or maybe even somebody with an accent. Idris Elba checks both boxes but Liam Niesen is acceptable. Prisoner exchange is also a likely motive behind taking hostages, but nobody really has bonds printed directly on paper anymore, nor is such a massive safe necessary to secure them. Just demand a transfer of cryptocurrency from the Chinese.
Where it gets dicey are the terrorists. During the Cold War, there were a number of communist guerrilla groups that provided an easy background on the villains. Being they are terrorists the easy update is to make them some flavor of Islamic terrorists. That however is politically incorrect because #notallmuslims. In addition, there are not very many examples of movies with the villains being part of an Islamic terrorist group post 9/11. True Lies, and The Siege were both released in the 1990’s. Post 9/11, only war movies set in Iraq or Afghanistan, four hour long Clint Eastwood-backed drudgery, and a handful of TV shows that came out with both wars as a background feature Islamic terrorists—out of necessity. Uhygurs are certainly a bridge to far, given the how often movies are funded by Chinese interests these days. North Koreans and/or Cubans are a stretch.
Which leaves White Nationalists as the only acceptable villain group. This is convenient, given their leader can still be named Hans.
Honorable Mentions:
Jingle All the Way: A man played by Arnold Schwarzenegger attempts to buy his son THE TOY OF THE YEAR…on Christmas Eve. Which is silly, because he can just buy it on Amazon today, and have it delivered by Tuesday. Plus, in one scene he impersonates a cop, which makes this a total no-go.
The Santa Clause: A man played by Tim Allen inadvertently kills Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, dons his coat and becomes the new Santa Claus. Unfortunately, this requires Tim Allen to seek penance for the sins of being both funny, and traditionally male. Sadly he won’t do it, nor would they forgive him anyways. Like the other film mentioned, fatherhood is a dominant theme that nobody wants to portray in a positive manner. The title is a pun; a legal pun. Swiss would narrow gaze on a biblical proportion in response.
This beer is made in Utah. I want to make this clear, for everybody that wants to piss all over Utah for their association with weirdo religions, this beer is made in Utah…but it is illegal to sell there outside of a couple state run stores. Which is fine, because that leaves an awful lot more for me. Lots of roasted coffee notes, with a blast of whiskey. It does the job exceptionally well. Epic Brewery Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout: 4.1/5.
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254 responses to “Shoot. The. Glass.”
*shoots the glass*
*hisses, spits, bares teeth*
It should also have him shoot himself in the foot while unholstering his Glock 19.
While arrogantly announcing that he is the only person in the room who can handle a gun safely.
As a 1911 shooter, I have to agree.
He’s already upgraded. Can’t remember what it is, but is the 4th, I think he carries a cougar.
Yeah, still Beretta, but…u-p-g-r-a-y-e-d-d.
Whiskey? Not for me, shame, it looks good
Or white anti-antiabortion activists.
DENIERS! Maybe Greta could play John McClaine?
So … A Nightmare Before Christmas II?
Stephen King has gone down that path more than once.
Eric Rudolf and Tim McVeigh are the only terrorists. It is known.
Russians. Russian bad guys, Russian oligarchic corporation, Russian bitcoin hackers, all escaping in a stolen Russian nuclear submarine jam packed with stolen Russian sea-launched ICBMs.
You meant to write “Russian vote-hacking equipment.” With the crates marked “Koch Industries,” of course.
*looks at what every Koch funded outlet says about Trump
Yep, makes sense.
I replied to you yesterday, but the thread was dead; I’d be interested in playing another WebDip game.
Did anyone see that season of Agents of SHIELD with the Superior? Agent May delivers a flawless line right out of the DNC playbook:
“So what? You turned over a new leaf? Or just another Russian infiltrating our democracy?”
Supergirl Season 2 Episode 22 “Nevertheless, She Persisted”, that’s the actual episode title, a previous episode during the beginning of 2017 was “Resist”.
I’m not a DC guy, and now I’m glad about that.
We’re updating Diehard, not The Hunt For Red October
Nowadays it would be “October of Color”.
The glorious struggle for freebleeding in harvestmonth.
ew.
The Hunt for Democratic Socialist October
Cenk has a sad. Although not nearly as big a one as he’s gonna have when he loses the election.
Who is his competition for the Democrat nomination?
The weren’t terrorists, they were thieves pretending to be terrorists. This was actually John McTiernan’s idea, he thought terrorists were boring. And today to get along with the Chinese, make their fake demands about Hong Kong, hunky dory.
No.
They were exceptional thieves.
John McClaine would be a woman who is rescuing her estranged wife.
Estranged, or just traumatized because the salon wouldn’t wax her balls?
The cop who was played by Carl from Family Matters would definitely be a MtF. And instead of eating cop fare, he’d have a quinoa bowl from the local vegan co-op.
Before they showed a movie he was in, Alamo Draft House would play a special trailer. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find it online.
That was actually the plot line of the first episode of Batgirl featuring an 80 pound lesbian beating the shit out of big dudes while rescuing her ex gf
Despite my love of super hero or sci-fi based guilty pleasure TV and all things lesbian, I have not attempted this show yet. Is it worth a watch? My initial reaction to the trailers was not enthusiastic.
Also, other Christmas movies, First Blood and Lethal Weapon.
Epic has also opened a tap room in Denver, and the labeling on the bottles we get out here in Ohio no longer mention the Utah connection.
Land of Mormon not progressive. Land of Mormon not vote correctly. Land of Mormon commit cultural appropriation with NBA franchise name. Land of Mormon will became re-education camp for learning struggle and voting correctly.
I always thought it was funny they can’t sell beer where they make it.
When I go to Bonneville, I stay in Wendover, NV. It’s the sinning spot for Utahians. They drive 150 miles across the flattest, most feature free landscape that exists, to drink and gamble in a shithole 4th tier casino town.
Absolute truth.
OT: Remy on San Francisco.
Ha! I was in SF last week for the first time in two years and it’s somehow even worse.
Also, the funniest thing I’ve seen online was in 2004 or something where a guy wrote a 5 page screed on the preposterous basis for that show and how mad Becky was for having married into a family that forced her to live in attic.
If you are talking about Full House: Look at the exterior shots in the opening sequence. It is clear that the house does not have an attic.
I’m not an architect or w/e. There’s a basement in the show, too, which I’ve never seen in SF.
My dad’s childhood home in SF has a basement, but that’s because it’s built on the side of a hill. In fact if I remember correctly, it was a 2 story basement.
Remy’s a gem.
Nakatomi is a Japanese sounding word(s). The mandarin from the same characters would be Zhōngfù, although it seems like most Chinese owned assets use Western words and names. So maybe keep the same name anyways?
And that’s an assumption. I don’t believe any kanji was displayed in the movie? Time to rewatch it again anyways. Yippee ky yay, mfer.
Are you sure it isn’t a reference to this family? Which would Mandarin-ize as “Zhōngchén”, which, as far as I can tell, is not a Chinese word. At least with those characters – it is a homonym of 忠臣 or “loyalist”.
Yeah could well be, without kanji.
Which loyalist? Capitalist Running Dog Plaza? Or People’s Beautiful Center for Bringing Chinese Enlightenment?
Whatever the translation for “100-Acre Wood” is in Mandarin.
Xi Jing-ZING!
yeah. there’s no meaning at all except accidentally. they made up a japanese sounding word.
I am going to Midnight Mass this year. I do this every so often, when someone will go with me. No one will this year and therefore, I will go alone.
Prelude starts at 11:00. This is why I go. It’s the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.
Now, remember, my church is all voluntary (read: amateur) labor. After the first time I went and gushed to someone about it, they said, “You know those are paid musicians, don’t you?” No. No, I didn’t. Took the shine off, but not for long.
So, I will go and sit in the back and listen to the beautiful music and the liturgy and, because I don’t have to play Santa very hard this year, I won’t have to stay up till 5:00 a.m, to do it.
And I am going to watch Die Hard and A Christmas Horror Story because for some stupid reason I like Krampus.
Hallmark and Kinkade are not doing it for me this year.
I will probably watch “Stalingrad” and “The Hebrew Hammer”.
A Christmas Horror Story is awesome. Krampus is pretty good, too, if you just want a feature-length bit about Krampus. Obviously, Nightmare Before Christmas does double-duty as both a Halloween movie and a Christmas movie.
I am looking forward to the street theater and public posturing that will precede and follow the 2020 election. Last night in Waikiki I saw a window sticker on a car that read:
TRUMP 2020
Fuck your feelings
If a person is willing this far out from the election to drive around with that sticker in the state that gave HRC her highest percentage of the vote*. then the Dems are in trouble.
*DC gave a higher percentage but is not a state.
IN HAWAII?!?!!
*faints*
In 2015, I saw 4 ‘Johnson for President’ signs on lawns within a couple miles where I live. After ‘What’s Aleppo?’, 3 of them were taken down.
Controlling for the systematic bias that people with political/social bumper stickers on their cars are ipso facto assholes, of course.
Ayup
“I eat ass and I vote”
My favourites are the ones which have both
BERNIE : REAL POWER FOR REAL PEOPLE
and
HILLARY : READY FOR HER
The “Hillary: ready for her” and “I’m ready for Hillary” stickers always struck me as odd, almost like saying, let’s just get this shit job over with. It’s passive aggressive negativity that should have never gotten put out as a slogan, even it was apt.
I’m just imagining a picture with someone pulling their butt cheeks apart to show their gaping anus – with “Ready For Hillary” printed above.
Virginia Gun Control Bills | What You Need to Know
A pretty good rundown. It’s like Team Blue is competing to see how many State and Federal Constitutional provisions they can violate in a single piece of legislation.
This beer is made in Utah.
It’s very polite but creeps you out anyway? //jk
*sigh*
Can’t wait to be made a felon in a few weeks ?
I find it hilarious that as a swing state with a current Democratic majority, NH still has some of the best gun (and weapons in general) laws in the country, (ME and VT aren’t terrible either) with Democrats even afraid to make a move on a law that was passed shortly before their ascension because they know how unpopular it would be. But many yokeltarians are still upset that they can’t just stamp their feet and send northern New England (by extension) with the rest of the Northeast sinking into the ocean. And despite having already restricted possession of “assault weapons” prior, as soon as they entered the chambers, VA Democrats are attempting to wholesale disarm the populace, even invoking the possibility of using the VA National Guard.
If we don’t hear hyperbolic calls to nuke Ol’ Virginny and salt the earth with polonium (after allowing resident Glibs to flee to WV) one might think that it is all about cultural taste preferences as opposed to any substantive issues of liberty.
I’m fine with turning DC into a glass parking lot.
You have my axe!
even invoking the possibility of using the VA National Guard.
This one was rather striking when that idiot legislator said it. Among all other problems with the idea, I am pretty sure it is illegal to use the military for law enforcement.
Throughout the years, particularly in the Cold War and Drug War eras, many exceptions have been carved out of the Posse Comitatus Act through statute and executive order.
And that applies to federal forces. Unless state law says otherwise, non-federalized NG can be used for domestic law enforcement. Calling out the militia to deal with riots goes back before the founding.
If we don’t hear hyperbolic calls to nuke Ol’ Virginny and salt the earth with polonium (after allowing resident Glibs to flee to WV) one might think that it is all about cultural taste preferences as opposed to any substantive issues of liberty.
I’d go for that.
In seriousness, folks with two brain cells to rub together realize that this is much more than just a regional conflict. It’s an urban-focused cultural progression that is leaving a bunch of people (both urban and rural) behind. We can argue until we’re blue in the face the cosmo v. yokel side of things, but we’re still talking 80-20 in the most blue and most red enclaves. In your average solid blue or solid red area, it’s 30-20 with 50% who don’t give a flying fuck. That’s a lot of people being left behind.
All that said, conflict tends to steamroll subtlety. There were plenty of southerners who were skeptical of slavery and there were plenty of northerners who were skeptical of abolitionists. Plenty of them suited up in their respective colors when the time came.
I think that was more a product of the times that a generalization that can be applied in future conflicts. If anything, it’s going to look like the clusterfuck in Syria.
Fair. It depends on who has the biggest microphone. The people who wouldnt mind pushing new England into the Atlantic or the people who see the conflict as ideological.
?
No, seriously, ?
Which yokeltarians are calling for this, and wtf does “northern” New England even mean? I didn’t even know that New England was large or diverse enough to have directional divisions. And why would they hate Maine more than Boston for fuck’s sake?
They’ll save the children, but not the New English children.
“Northern” New England is VT/NH/ME. I know I heard the term when I was in college in NH.
And to respond to HM, I think I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the expansion of the Beltway consuming the rest of Virginia and wishing something could be done about it.
I just wish they would follow the Constitution. 2A (federal) and A1S13 (state) are quite clear on the issue of private arms. If you want to change it, there is a method built into it to do so. And with 2A reigning supreme and applying to the States it is not even enough to remove A1S13 from the Constitution of the Commonwealth.
You know why they don’t. They know the majority of Americans give, at least, a begrudging respect to the right to keep and bear arms, even if they don’t personally exercise it. If the slavers had the majority on their side, they wouldn’t have to employ such legal machinations to pursue their agenda through loopholes and backdoors. They would gladly have a constitutional convention and be done with it.
Honestly, I had forgotten that there was anything more to New England than those three. Then I remembered that Massachusetts is somehow lumped in with there. And then HM reminded me that RI exists.
I must be living in a bubble — I hear people bitching about WY’s EC vote total, but never RI’s,
The biggest cultural difference is in chowder.
There is New England Clam Chowder, which represents all that is right and good in the world.
Then there is Manhattan Clam Chowder (actually from RI’s large Portuguese population), which is the pedophilia of food.
I knew I liked you, HM
*puts on latex glove and offers five*
Not serious.
Glib is in our site’s name.
But northern New England is traditionally (VT, NH, and ME) and southern is (MA, RI, and CT) and there is a big cultural difference! MA/RI/CT, culturally, is just, say Westchester, NY (northern annex). It is also much more Irish. VT/NH/ME has much more a local control ethos and is English/French.
With the modern northern creep, I would say that in, NH at least, northern NE begins 20 minutes north of Concord.
Yanks are all the same to me.
That’s it. You don’t get the WV option!
You get the VW option (i.e., you get a VW bus, a tank of gas, and 30 minutes forewarning).
Joke’s on you. I have family in WV.
Oh is Connecticut still a state? I thought it was one of the five boroughs.
They’re maintainint the legal fiction so they can steal two senators.
With the modern northern creep, I would say that in, NH at least, northern NE begins 20 minutes north of Concord.
Sadly yes. I would also say that the southernmost parts of Maine are no longer northern New England.
SHUT THE FUCK UP TRUMPTARD
Plot twist: I have been Corey Lewandowski this entire time.
I can see you smacking a ho if the circumstances were right.
In light of the Wisconsin “purge” of 234,000 votes, what is a reasonable expiration on a voter registration? My own experience is colored by working in a DOJ pre-clearance state where we had to list people who we knew damn well didn’t live in the jurisdiction or had died (no secrets in small town Alaska).
My preference is to match voter rolls to a 4 or 5 year driver’s license or state ID card renewal cycle, and then if you don’t have and ID or DL, then tough titties. SLD about state-issued IDs.
Didn’t vote in previous general election, surrendered plates, or DL’s gets a letter to validate residency and continuing voter registration. Failing to vote in two successive general elections = auto purge.
I’d give four years, since a lot fewer people vote in odd-year elections (other than those states that have statewide elections in odd-numbered years).
Forgot about the odd year generals. Four years was essentially what I had in mind. And voting in any election during that period resets the clock so it’s not have to vote only in a general to count. Basically if you can’t be arsed to do so over multiple elections, fuck it.
Also fuck vote by mail, except on single request as an absentee ballot.
And auto registration schemes such as motor voter.
Die Hard is totally a Christmas movie. For some reason, the Harry Potter movies have become Christmas movies, too, because they’re always on the various movie channels this time of year.
I’ve watched Santa Clause a few times this year, and I’ve gotta say it has not aged well. It is very much a creature of its time. It absolutely screams “early 90s” in a way I haven’t seen since Hellraiser III. Bad Santa, on the other hand, is a perennial classic on par with Miracle on 34th Street.
I’ve only seen Bad Santa once but only because I keep forgetting to re-watch it.
Great film.
#metoo and I even have the DVD. I remember it being pretty darn good.
I really like Billy Bob Thornton. I first saw him in Slingblade.
Tangentially, I first saw Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in Shine.
It was jarring when I saw them both go on to do other not-mentally-handicapped things, which made me appreciate their acting more.
Miracle on 69th Street
Or, if Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is more your thing
See also: Liar, Liar
Neh, don’t like Jim Carrey much.
Also don’t really care for slapstick humor or stupid humor (I Love Lucy).
You should see Lucille Ball in Lured, which is quite different from the zany Lucy of later years.
That’s a good flick.
Hey, I will! Thanks!
After Silence of the Lambs, I KNEW I would never be able to see Hopkins as anything other than Lecter ever again.
And then he was Von Helsing and it was all good.
#protip
Do not grease and flour a pan
Grease and SUGAR it.
This tip brought to me 20 years ago by Dragon Lady and has made my baking life ever so much easier.
Fuck a duck.
Is that another #protip?
Is that another pro tip?
You beat me!
#notlikethat
#greatminds
You do you, man.
Sorry, should’ve quoted the relevant part. Liar, Liar did not age well
We watched Nightmare Before Christmas last night. It’s fun. Could be Halloween or Christmas movie.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0096061/
Decent film
Some politically motivated investigations are more equal than others
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, confirmed Wednesday that he is continuing to investigate FBI leaks that took place during the 2016 campaign that were motivated by anti-Hillary Clinton sentiment. Horowitz testified before a Senate panel on his report on the origins of the FBI’s investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. While Horowitz did not find any anti-Trump bias in the inquiry’s launch, Trump has claimed the investigation was improperly opened in an attempt to hinder his presidential campaign. At the hearing, Republican lawmakers continued to push that mantle, while Democrats, meanwhile, highlighted an issue the public still doesn’t fully understand: How a faction of the FBI was involved in politically-motivated activity targeting their party’s 2016 presidential nominee.
During the 2016 election, the FBI’s New York field office was a hotbed of anti-Hillary Clinton bias. Officials there leaked to the press about the bureau’s investigations of Clinton, and multiple outlets have reported that Comey was concerned that they might disclose they had possession of a top Clinton aide’s laptop that had yet to be examined as part of the investigation into Clinton’s e-mails. Just two weeks before the election, Comey made his fateful decision to write to congress that the FBI had the laptop and would examine it as part of the Clinton email probe— a decision that harshly damaged Clinton’s election chances. Comey and other top FBI officials have testified to their concern about leaks in the New York office. Former FBI General Counsel James Baker told Horowitz last year that the leaks played into Comey’s decision to alert Congress—and the public—to the re-opening of the Clinton investigation. “We were quite confident that…somebody is going to leak this,” Baker said. “That we have all these emails. That, if we don’t put out a letter, somebody is going to leak it.”
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While Horowitz’s report did detail multiple errors on the part of FBI officials and agents in its Trump-Russia investigation, it did not find they were the result of any anti-Trump bias. Meanwhile, the actions of agents in the New York field office, a story that could reveal actual anti-Clinton bias within the FBI during the last presidential election, remain largely unknown.
It’s not political when our side does it. It’s just a dogged quest for truth.
*It’s not like I find the notion of “anti-Hillary Clinton bias” inconceivable.
I find this very hard to believe.
Sounds like progjection.
IOW, a couple of the agents there thought that it may have been possible that HIllary’s private email server was maybe technically speaking perhaps not 100% in compliance with the letter of the law.
I’m pretty sure it was the NYPD who leaked about Wiener’s laptop, they were trying to give it to the FBI, but the FBI was all, ‘Naw, we’re good.”
Whites only need apply.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/12/14/illinois-town-posts-job-opening-democrats/
It’d be hilarious if someone organized 500 people in MAGA hats to go apply for the job.
With Trump reaffirming through executive order the protected status of Jewish ethnicity under civil rights law, when will he do with same for our heroes in blue? For too long, libtards have hidden under the 1st Amendment to discriminate against LEOs through anti-Copism. We need to close this loophole and protect our alpha guarddogs who protect us from the crackheads and illegals!
Please sign my petition so that the White House knows how many of us are standing with our Heroes!
Sign me up, dawg.
Is that really what you meant with the second link?
You doubt my principles?
The comedians call it working blue.
That link was so much better than change.org
My yearly Xmas movies
Christmas in Connecticut
The Bishop’s Wife
Love, Actually
Elf
Die Hard
White Christmas
If I happen to catch them when it’s on:
It’s a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th St
The Holiday
Home Alone
Black Christmas
Wife’s additions
Ernest Saves Christmas
Four Christmases
Scrooged?
With the last appearance of the Solid Gold Dancers.
I watch Scrooged every year. Bill Murray is a stable genius.
Black Christmas
Christmas vacation
Holiday Inn
+1
We’re No Angels
Truly excellent
The only problem is it has Peter Ustinov, who is not one of my favorites, not by a long shot.
Try again, since I Gilmore’d it.
#protip
Do not grease and flour a pan
Grease and SUGAR it.
This tip brought to me 20 years ago by Dragon Lady and has made my baking life ever so much easier.
Or, if you’re making a chocolate cake that calls for greasing and flouring, grease and cocoa powder it. No more ugly white streaks on the sides.
Cocoa powder is too expensive to waste like that, and you speak as if you’re not planning on applying any decorative treatments like frosting.
If you need more than 1 or at most 2 tablespoons, you’re doing it wrong.
But on my now highly restricted diet, flour is right out. Fortunately chocolate is still allowed and I make the world’s best flourless chocolate cake. Butter the pan, put parchment paper in bottom of pan, butter it, and the cake slides right out after baking.
Aldi’s. Use shit cocoa for less important things than a chocolate cake.
Confectioner’s sugar, I assume?
NO! That defeats the purpose (sliding out effortlessly).
Doesn’t using granulated sugar give all your baked goods a sandy texture?
No. And it doesn’t caramelize, either.
Nobody believes me about this until they try it. Lots of more experienced bakers than I have thanked me.
Gotcha, I just figured it was a closer texture to flour.
That is what you don’t want.
The crystals act like microscopic ball bearings.
Looks like a nice beer. I’m drinking this:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/25433/452014/
I just [sarc]love[/sarc] when another bug sneaks in because you’ve been worn down by the first bug. I had a stomach bug starting thurday, and two days of very little food has me waking up on saturday to find my face hurting from the sinus pressure, and a nagging cough that decides to come back every half hour or so.
Fun.
To make things more lovely this saturday, apparently the stomach bug isn’t gone, it was just waiting for me to try to eat before coming back. Worse, It’s been too recently since I last took meds to down some more. (I don’t want to stagger to the store in the dead of night because I’m out and suffering)
Coincidence? I think not.
On September 12th, a little more than a month after the weekend that a shooter killed twenty-two people and wounded twenty-four more at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and a man killed nine people and wounded seventeen outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, there was a moment of thrilling moral clarity during the Democratic Presidential debate. The former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, speaking about the kind of semi-automatic weapons used in the massacres, made it clear that he stood by his proposal not only to ban such weapons but to institute a mandatory buyback of them as well. As he put it, memorably, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15!”
Now O’Rourke is out of the race and the mandatory-buyback idea seems to have exited the stage with him.
Lots of “Nobody I know doesn’t want stricter gun control.”
It’s a tsunami of support. Take ’em all.
I like how she thinks that is somehow an “own”.
I mean, I assume he is, but I’m just guessing because there’s no way I’d actually have a conversation with any of those icky people.
One can never disagree with their heroes. I mean I agree with everything that Obama ever said. Obama puts Ranch on his salad, I hate blue cheese but I put Ranch on my salad because Obama did it and if I didn’t I’d be racist.
This is a very interesting phenomenon and I think it deserves serious study. The left has adopted an utterly unforgiving standard of conformity. Any flaw, or at least any flaw that is in any of the intersectional areas, is immediate and irrevocable damnation. Traditional religions and philosophies recognized that man was fallible and had mechanisms for forgiveness, hierarchies of wrongdoing, and some aspect of redemption. I suppose it ties into the Marxist belief in an achievable earthly paradise and human perfectibility, but it leads to serious mental gymnastics since perfection is not in fact an aspect of humanity, and while they delight in finding a flaw in heroes of the right, they seem to go to great lengths to deny the obvious and significant flaws of the heroes of the left. Hence gay men wearing Che shirts.
Ranch is blue cheese for people who can’t afford cheese.
The only problem is it has Peter Ustinov, who is not one of my favorites, not by a long shot.
I think Ustinov is great, in that particular movie.
YMMV
Despite the relentless efforts of special-interest groups such as the National Rifle Association to defeat virtually any gun regulation, many Americans will no longer accept a brittle and suspect interpretation of the Second Amendment at the expense of human lives.
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The movement for stricter gun legislation has been revitalized in recent years by new organizations and younger voices.
Those gun fetishist bastards at the NRA are trying their damnedest to prevent Americans from saving lives, but now we have a totally grass roots wave of anti gun activism.
virtually any gun regulation
20+ thousand laws/regs are not enough.
We need one more.
Any citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States who is 14 years of age or older may purchase, own, and carry either openly or concealed as they see fit, any weapon of any type, at any time and in any place and manner (I’m willing to dicker on rights of exclusion from private property). The carrying, ownership, or possession of any weapon shall in no case be used as a factor in determining probable cause for any warrant or investigation, nor shall it be used as a factor in establishing the reasonableness of any suspicion, or of any other standard under which an agent of the State may take an action otherwise prohibited.
He would also have to be played by a person of color, or maybe even somebody with an accent.
A woman of color.
Epic Brewery Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout: 4.1/5.
It’s a good beer. I think I gave it a higher rating than that, but that’s a respectable rating.
I’d watch a remake with Michelle Rodriguez.
If you disagree, you’re a homo.
Odette Annable or GTFO.
I think we can work both in.
First impressions of the Stoeger M3K:
I think it’s inferior in almost every way to the (significantly cheaper) CZ1012.
However, it is much easier to load (I can dual-load it without breaking off my thumbnail) and the magazine tube is extendable without resorting to a hacksaw. So for racing, it’s a much better choice.
I don’t have nearly enough rounds through either one to have an opinion on reliability.
I have a 1990’s Fox FA1 semiauto 12 gauge, and it’s cheap-ish. It’s 1990’s cheap, which is 2019 higher-mid range good. Works great, I’m just not all that excited by shotguns in general and long barreled hunting shotguns in particular. I only have about 20 boxes of shells through it.
Shotguns themselves aren’t terribly compelling, but the shotgun sports are lots of fun for me.
Inside 25 yards, especially indoors, if you have a good repeating shotgun you are in charge. It doesn’t matter what anyone else has, you have them outgunned.
Well, maybe not if they have this.
When making hot chocolate, substituting chipotle powder for the cayenne is an upgrade.
Ummm….full recipe, pls?/morbid curiosity
Per cup of milk:
2T cocoa
2T honey
dash-1/4t each salt, vanilla, cinnamon, chipotle powder
Interesting! Thanks!
It started off long ago as the recipe on the Hershey’s cocoa can, but that version was too weak for 12yr old me.
We don’t need no stinkin facts
The Republican allegiance to the gun lobby appears to be more important than the lives of vulnerable women and small children. More important, even, than the lives of law enforcement officers. And finally, some of those officers are pushing back.
On Monday, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo stood before reporters and cameras and issued a scathing critique of the GOP after one of his sergeants was gunned down responding to a domestic violence call Saturday.
The gunman, Arturo Solis, had been convicted of domestic violence in 2015, but thanks to lax American gun laws, was able to get a gun anyway. While federal gun law currently bars spouses, ex-spouses, live-in partners and people who have children together from possessing a firearm if they have a domestic violence conviction, there is a “boyfriend loophole” that does not similarly constrain dating partners.
Democrats, women’s rights advocates, and anti-violence activists have been trying to change that, pushing for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act with the boyfriend loophole closed. That version passed the House in April, with 33 GOP members breaking ranks. But Republican leaders have refused to move on reauthorization of a VAWA version in the Senate that includes closure of the loophole. Why? Because both they and the NRA oppose the very provision that would bar dating partners convicted of domestic violence or stalking from having guns.
In other words, they think that men like Solis deserve to keep their guns.
Maybe we should make it illegal to beat wives and girlfriends. Hell, we could even make it illegal to shoot cops if only we weren’t so beholden to the NRA.
Yo, Artie:
Maybe after you can get your cops to stop murdering citizens, I’ll schedule some time to listen to you.
I am having trouble following that, a clue that it is probably a lie.
People (spouses, ex-spouses, live-in partners and people who have children together) with a conviction of domestic violence are barred from having guns. In this case barred means their live-in partner, or anyone else in the house, may not keep guns in the house as the convicted would be in the house with guns, a house they themselves also live in.
Actually, people convicted of domestic violence, regardless of their relationship to anyone else, is barred from possessing a gun, therefore they may not be present in a house with a gun in it – that is considered possessing.
The so called boyfriend loophole means that a person can date another person who does possess guns as long as they are only dating and not residing in that persons residence. Closing the boyfriend loophole would mean that the convicted either could not go to their dates home or the person they are dating would have to get rid of their guns. So, a person not convicted of any crime could lose their inalienable right to have the means to defend themselves simply because they are dating someone convicted of a felony (presuming the closing of the loophole would include all felons, not just those convicted of domestic violence).
I see. This isn’t about disarming convicted felons, it is about disarming as many people regardless of their record, as possible.
Interesting note: The real’ loophole’ in the law is that law enforcement personnel, the people with the highest rate of domestic violence of any demographic, are given an exception to this law. They can keep their guns even with a domestic violence conviction. How do ya’ like that? I am guessing if you tried to close that loophole Art Acevedo would have a screaming shit-fit. Fuck you Art.
I don’t think there’s a camera old Hollywood Art doesn’t like getting in front of. Glad he’s Houston’s problem now (sorry Sloop).
Happy day.
I was able to get a box of 50 through it in the rain.
https://imgur.com/a/SIbDTXq
Great trigger. 1st 5 out of the box were on steel at 20 yards.
That’s a nice looking piece.
be a shame if anything happened to it?
Don’t take it boating.
I’m planning on a canoeing trip next week. It’ll be with me for protection from coyotes.
nice looking piece
I’ll say.
Huh. My LGS didn’t carry that variant.
‘That’s a nice looking piece.’
Second.
Nice!
I swing through another Walmart this morning and picked up some more cheap .45 ammo. This one was mostly cleaned out of the discounted stuff.
I’ve been meaning to do the same.
Yeah, I need to get a stainless one at some point.
Is that one of the new ones with the Omega Trigger?
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for the Army/Navy game.
::glances around, doesn’t see Sloopy:: Most important college football game of the year!
#GNBA
*ahem*
You have that backwards, homey.
ABNG?
everyone’s a comedian
I’m not.
See, that’s funny, right there.
Replied in the last thread- as a courtesy, Navy can sing first after the game today.
Oddly enough, I really don’t give a rats ass who wins. The AF at least plays in a real conference.
This is a very interesting phenomenon and I think it deserves serious study. The left has adopted an utterly unforgiving standard of conformity. Any flaw, or at least any flaw that is in any of the intersectional areas, is immediate and irrevocable damnation.
Fanaticism is no vice in service of the True Religion. Let no doubt or waffling infect the army of truth.
One of my favorite Christmas movies, mostly because of childhood nostalgia, is Why Christmas Trees Aren’t Perfect
Clown show.
Hmmm.
Anyone want to quickly form a commentor’s union and threaten to picket DNC events unless they let us wet our beaks?
I reminded of the communist debate/talk where there were endless points of order called each demanding something more absurd than the last. I didnt have the patience to watch through to see if they ever actually discussed/debated anything. The whole thing seemed to be a competition of one fruitcake after another making everything about themselves.
The Dem field is composed of the worst candidates I have seen in my lifetime. Lyndon LaRouche is rolling his eyes in hell.
“the communist debate/talk”
Caught on film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s
That left the Democratic National Committee scrambling to either help resolve the labor impasse or find a new debate site — with only five days to spare.
“We are working with all stakeholders to find an acceptable resolution that meets their needs and is consistent with our values,” DNC spokesman Xochitl Hinojosa tweeted.
“Xochitl Hinojosa”
That sounds like the name of someone who would cut the still-beating heart out of anyone who interfered with her plans, and eat it.
It sounds like someone who would be willing to do that but probably incapable of figuring out what side of the knife you cut with.
“Why my hand hurt?”
I hope they find a new site and Chick-fil-A caters it.
Headline over on the google nooze:
“A sustainable energy plan will help put Egypt among the top ten global economies”
Am I a bad person for laughing out loud at that?
“Outside” is a type of “among” isn’t it?
Depends on what they mean by “sustainable”. The actual meaning, or the new woke meaning.
Can they upgrade the Aswan dam to produce more electricity?
You can also make it true by tweaking the definitions of “top,” global,” and “economy”
Well, they still border Israel, so they will be adjacent to a top economy.
Hey they are rocking it at 2/3 the size of Singapore’s economy now! And only 20 times the population and 1300 times the land.
Hey, hey, most of that land is barren desert.
Fair point. Although that desert is full of tourist attractions, or would be if they could manage not to be a horribly dangerous place to visit.
When the Muslim Brotherhood was finished yukking it up in the WhiteHouse with Obama didnt they claim they were going to knock down all of the blasphemous tourist attractions in Egypt? I believe they did say that. Fortunately Obama’s Arab spring ended with those piece of shit getting tossed out on their ears. Obama truly does have the kiss of death. Who is he endorsing in this race? Whoever it is you can bet they will lose.
How much do they want?
Wasn’t that what the Aswan High Dam was supposed to do?
Two scoops was too easy on her.
Up aganst the wall MFs
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/14/greta-thunberg-world-leaders-against-the-wall/
But she quickly gave an “I’m sorry it you didn’t understand me” non appology
https://apnews.com/bbdc563ad79a33a42d478633eeab6ca4
From the sidebar of the AP link
BAGHDAD (AP) — An angry mob killed a 16-year-old and strung up the corpse by its feet from a traffic pole after the teen shot and killed six people Thursday
SLD murder is bad mkay, though immediate justice administered by direct witnesses does seem to have some advantages.
How much money did we spend prosecuting a war there? The people who prosecuted that war should be made to pay back every goddamned red cent of it. Every cent.
She is probably right, it is a misunderstanding, but at the same time I am fairly certain climate deniers in a 30 y.o. Greta’s world where she has real power would be lined up and shot. Not just them but anyone caught not wearing their underwear on the outside. The commie ‘everyone must comply’ crowd always escalates the coercion until there are mass graves. Always.
I would say a misunderstanding given the full quote:
“World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities but we have to make sure they cannot do that. We will make sure that we put them against the wall and they will have to do their job to protect our futures.”
Cooking bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers right now. I wanted to add chopped onions, but forgot.
That was the universe looking out for you.
You think it would not be good?
Eh. Some people love raw onion. I’m not a fan, especially with japs.
It depends on the onion.
Some you can eat and not still be tasting it several hours later.
The rest, however, are not a good choice raw.
I can’t stand jalapenos or raw onion. I’ll just have the bacon and cheese please.
Not a fan of jalapeños here, either. I usually substitute serranos, or poblano for mild.
If he’s cooking it in a popper it wont be raw. Science!
If he’s cooking it in a popper it wont be raw. That’s just science.
Ah HA!
To cook a popper so that the bacon is crispy but not burnt requires a heat level and time insufficient to cook onion insulated by being inside a jalepeno with heat sinking materials such as cheese.
I’m going to need to see your math on that before I accept it as fact. Also maybe he’s sauteing the onions with a little chorizo and garlic mixing that with the cheese, then stuffing the peppers, wrapping them in bacon, and baking them for 20min @ 400 degress ‘murican.
It wouldn’t be inside the pepper. I was going to add it inside the bacon wrap.
Some people love raw onion. I’m not a fan, especially with japs.
Walla Walla Sweets, as befits their name, are excellent eating when raw. (Good cooked, too, but frankly, they’re a waste of money that way, ’cause almost any onion can be made sweet if it’s cooked correctly . . . ) I’m sure there are other varieties that can be eaten raw without the acrid sting.
The latest evidence that the Dems have cooked their goose and inadvertently gotten Trump re-elected:
We went to look at Christmas lights last night. There is a street nearby where the competition has become fierce. One house has not one but two separate power feeds just for the lights. It is magnificent. This is not the evidence though…
The neighborhood is on the intercoastal waterway, so the houses range from about $700k to well into the millions. This is deep, deep in “no republicans allowed” country. Broward and Palm Beach counties are proggie heaven. This is a town that has a ban on plastic straws.
Directly across from that huge Christmas display is a light display that skews distinctively red, white and blue. There are American flags made of Christmas lights. And among the display are signs: “God Bess America” and “Drain the Swamp” …… a very Trump Christmas.
The dems are done. Nobody would have put that display up in 2016.
I posted here before the election in 2016 that I was seeing very few political signs compared to the two Obama elections, and what I was seeing was skewing slightly toward Trump. I put that down to “people really don’t like Hillary”.
This time around, I think people are pissed. They don’t want any part of these democrats.
You still don’t pipe up about the evils of the Obama administration and the Progressive stupidity of the current crop of candidates. But people who are all-in for Team Blue are not piping up all that much any more – after a couple of years of feeling free to opine about Trump’s pending impeachment and imprisonment for over 2 years.
Their candidates are the worst in history, each one the worst of the bunch in their own special way. The icing is the egregious soviet-style behavior of the party in general. The Kavenaugh shit-show was bad enough, but this impeachment debacle is so over the top one would have to be certifiably insane to watch them and support them. The only reason they haven’t been run out of the country on a rail is because most people are not watching. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Trump matched or nearly matched the Reagan landslide. Excepting Hawaii, Minnesota, NY and California…and he might even take some of them.
Every time Nadler claims the evidence is overwhelming but wont cite any of it, every time he claims that it is too dangerous for the American people to have the vote I just smile to myself.
Anyone miss having fever dreams? I had them loads when I was a kid. A couple times a year I’d be laid up with fever and have these fantastic nightmares. Really memorable. It’s probably been twenty years since I’ve had a proper good fever.