Murdock: Don Brett, la transacción de la semana pasada…
Brett: ¡MURDOCK!¡No me digas malas noticias!¡Dame el dinero!
Murdock: No tengo tu dinero … Los venezolanos simplemente ofrecen su crédito.Es solo que tienen.
es que sola tienen…
[cue intense music]
[cut to Brett]
[cut to Murdock]
Brett: El crédito es que solo tienen …
[more intense music]
Murdock: Don Brett … perdóname.
[even more intense music]
[cut to Brett] [Brett wipes his nose]
Brett: Lleva a Murdock al pantano.Envíales la cabeza de Murdock a sus amigos venezolanos y diles que quiero mi dinero.
Murdock: ¡NO!Don Brett lo siento!
Brett: Callate….
Too bad for Murdock…Brett isn’t in a forgiving mood.
A partisan for Guaido was arrested by Venezuelan authorities. Good luck to that guy.
Should you be gay, I guess you can add homophobia to the list of reasons never to go to Cuba.
A helicopter crashed among protesters in Venezuala, killing 7. Had they paid Brett, Murdock might have been alive to safely land it. Moral of the story: don’t owe Brett money or people will die.
A Guatemalan child dies while in US custody at a family reunification center in Texas, apparently the third since December.
Finally, I’m just going to leave this one here. I have no comment other than I didn’t think the whole trans thing was going to fly in Mexico.
…but you guys are alright, don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. In light of yet another passing of a holiday in Mexico that seems to be celebrated more in the United States because it is a convenient marketing pitch for companies selling tequila, tortillas, Ford pickup trucks, etc.
This is my review of Modelo Chelada
Why on God’s Green Earth did I drink this? Somebody here was yammering on about it for a couple days and probably thought he was being ignored.
Then he/she/xe/ did it again the next day to a much less…tepid response.
I assure you, just because something is terrible does not mean it is fake.
What is this crap anyways? Chelada, or Michelada is a popular Mexican drink. The difference being that Michelada contains spices and chilli. No spices and chillies are not necessarily the same thing, but that is another matter for another time. Chelada is simply beer served in a chilled glass, with lime, and a salt rim like a Margarita. I decided this would be less nauseating than the Michelada in a can. If you want to actually have a Michelada or a Chelada cocktail, might I suggest actually making the cocktail, which I leave the below recipe:
Ingredients
– 2teaspoons honey (spread into a thin layer on a plate)
– 1/4cup kosher salt
– 1/2teaspoon smoked paprika
– 1/8teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
– 2limes (juiced, plus extra lime wedges to garnish)
– 2cups beer (light Mexican)
– 2 1/2teaspoons worcestershire sauce
– 2teaspoons hot sauce (preferably a more vinegar based hot sauce such as Tabasco)
– 1teaspoon low sodium soy sauce
– 1/2jalapeno (seeded and diced, optional)
– cracked black pepper (freshly)
Directions:
1. Dip the rims of two glasses into the honey. (you want only a very thin layer)
2. Place salt, paprika and cayenne (if using) onto a plate and stir together with a fork until combined. Finish rimming glasses with salt mixture, fill with ice and set aside.
3. Fill a large shaker partially with ice followed by the remaining ingredients, except for the jalapeno. Close and shake until well mixed. Divide mixture among the two prepared glasses and finish with lime wedges, black pepper and jalpaenos (if using). Serve.
How is it in cans? Well to be honest I might be inclined to buy Modelo in the tall can again in the future, but not necessarily the Chelada version. It’s more or less like the abominable lime in the Corona thing that everyone seems to think is fashionable. Seriously, it’s just beer and lime, and adding salt tickles the salt receptors on the tongue. No, this is not urine. Stop telling yourself that. No, this does not exist because there is no potable water in Mexico. The totality of slightly palatable seawater mixed with beer and lime leads me to believe this has to be some kind of awful trick played on Gringos.
By classic I mean, we’re going to seek assistance from the Spanish translation fairy…
Up first, the big news en español today, is the Spanish government is presently harboring a Venezuelan Opposition leader at their ambassador’s residence, but will limit his contact with the outside. They are in effect, not taking sides.
“España no va a permitir que su embajada se convierta en un centro de activismo político”, dijo Borrell a periodistas en el Líbano, donde está en visita oficial. Borrell recordó que López tuvo este jueves encuentros con la prensa en la embajada y recalcó que “a partir de ahora esto será regulado”. El ministro puntualizó que, en función al derecho internacional, la figura de “huésped o acogido” en la embajada “naturalmente” implica una limitación en su actividad política. “Tenemos la confianza de que, en estas condiciones, Venezuela va a respetar naturalmente la inmunidad del territorio de la embajada de España”, agregó. Borrell reiteró que España “no entregará” a López a las autoridades venezolanas, a pesar de que el Tribunal Supremo venezolano dictó este jueves una orden de arresto.
Spain is not going to allow its embassy to become a center for political activism,” Borrell told reporters in Lebanon, where he is on an official visit. Borrell recalled that Lopez had meetings with the press on Thursday at the embassy and stressed that “from now on this will be regulated.” The minister pointed out that, according to international law, the figure of “guest or welcomed” in the embassy “naturally” implies a limitation in his political activity. “We are confident that, under these conditions, Venezuela will naturally respect the immunity of the territory of the Spanish embassy,” he added. Borrell reiterated that Spain “will not deliver” Lopez to the Venezuelan authorities, despite the fact that the Venezuelan Supreme Court issued an arrest warrant Thursday.
As I assume you all know well, the US government has picked a side. TW: Seriously annoying autoplay music video at the link. It made me seek enlaces elsewhere.
Es improbable que Estados Unidos lleve el dinero directamente a Venezuela vía aérea, explicaron las fuentes y expertos, dado el sistema de defensa aérea de Venezuela. El gobierno de Trump también podría enviar dinero a un país vecino, como Colombia, y luego llevarlo a la frontera con Venezuela.
El Departamento del Tesoro podría reducir las sanciones a las empresas estatales de manera específica para canalizar los fondos a Guaidó, dijo Michael Dobson, un exfuncionario del Tesoro que también dijo que los estadounidenses pueden donar a la oposición.
El gobierno de Trump se ha enfocado en apoyar financieramente a Guaidó desde que lo reconociera por primera vez como el líder oficial de Venezuela en enero, considerando que la financiación es clave para estabilizar el país y asegurar su liderazgo. El presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, con estudios en Estados Unidos, ahora es reconocido por más de 50 países como presidente interino de Venezuela.
It is unlikely that the United States will take the money directly to Venezuela by air, sources and experts explained, given Venezuela’s air defense system. The Trump government could also send money to a neighboring country, such as Colombia, and then take it to the border with Venezuela.
The Treasury Department could reduce sanctions on state-owned companies specifically to channel funds to Guaidó, said Michael Dobson, a former Treasury official who also said that Americans can donate to the opposition.
The Trump government has focused on financially supporting Guaidó since he first recognized him as the official leader of Venezuela in January, considering that financing is key to stabilizing the country and ensuring its leadership. The president of the National Assembly, with studies in the United States, is now recognized by more than 50 countries as interim president of Venezuela.
Buena suerte
Finally, I figured the Spanish outlets would be all weirded out with their Venezuela coverage, but I have to admit they seem to be playing it pretty straight.
El 30 de abril no fue un día de protesta habitual para los opositores venezolanos, que tienen años pidiéndole al régimen chavista desde la calle que entregue el poder. La diferencia esta vez: el presidente interino Juan Guaidó apareció en un video escoltado por militares activos que lo apoyaban y, de forma inédita, los uniformados se mantuvieron defendiendo a los manifestantes durante toda la jornada del martes.
Pero a medida que pasaron las horas, distintos actores tomaron el micrófono o las redes sociales para explicar lo que, según ellos, supuestamente ocurría. Guaidó protestaba con militares, que luego de cuatro meses, finalmente reaccionaron a su llamado; Maduro dijo que seguía contando con al apoyo de los uniformados; los voceros de Estados Unidos aseguraron que el mandatario venezolano estuvo a punto de montarse en un avión y abandonar Venezuela tras la traición de tres de sus principales aliados en el Estado.
A pesar de todas las versiones y dada la desinformación que existe en el país, es difícil entender hacia dónde va Venezuela.
April 30 was not a day of habitual protest for Venezuelan opponents, who have been asking the Chavista regime from the street for years to hand over power. The difference this time: the interim president Juan Guaidó appeared in a video escorted by active military supporters and, in an unprecedented way, the uniformed kept defending the protesters throughout the day on Tuesday.
But as the hours passed, different actors took the microphone or social networks to explain what, according to them, supposedly happened. Guaidó protested with the military, who after four months, finally reacted to his call; Maduro said he still had the support of the uniformed; United States spokespersons said the Venezuelan leader was about to get on a plane and leave Venezuela after the betrayal of three of his main allies in the state.
Despite all the versions and given the disinformation that exists in the country, it is difficult to understand where Venezuela is going.
Easter passed. I can drink beer now. But of all the beer on Earth I can now drink, which should it be?
This is my review of Guinness Milk Stout.
Yes you read that correctly, milk stout. One of the first things I discovered in Ireland was Guinness makes an entire line of beer for sale all over Ireland. The actual first thing I discovered? Not every toll booth on the M50 has a human working in it, so should you find yourself confused by road signs in English and Gaelic, and at a toll without a human…have exact change. The second thing I discovered? Not a single Dubliner honked waiting for my wife to dismount and walk over to a booth that could give us change for €20. None. They didn’t care.
WTF does that say?
As far as others I got a chance to sample…
O’hara’s leann folláin (left). No idea how that is pronounced and I am glad I found this one. I got it at a supermarket in Clontarf near the hotel I was staying at. They do make a barrel age version, but since I don’t recommend paying Irish taxes I went with this one. Traditional Irish dry stout, like Guinness but overall has a more complex maltiness. Seems to be made with more regard; I highly recommend. 4.2/5
(right)Next stop was in Killarney where I spent the next couple of days. I found this at a local pub where I discovered they play a version of soccer with their hands. This was pretty solid, but not anything to write home about. Killarney Irish Red. 3/5.
Hop House 13. Made by Guinness. This is pretty much everywhere in Ireland, and they do a good job of making sure you are aware it exists. Ever had Spitfire? Its like that. Apparently everything Guinness makes is made with their coveted in-house yeast, which makes for a lager that is mostly confused given that Guinness is an ale. Its a translager. 2.5/5
Later I moved up to the North where I had the aforementioned Carlsberg Unfiltered. Belfast is pretty cool, but not surprisingly struck me as a rough town.
Finally, returned to Dublin where I picked up a couple of stouts at the airport because exchanging Euro to Dollars sucks. I just didn’t think the Czech girl was going to open it for me at 0745. If this brings to mind their infamous foreign export stout, this lives up to the hype. Guinness West Indies Porter 4.7/5
Which meant I was saving the milk stout for when I got back home. I wish the Czech girl at the airport opened this to be honest but it’s still pretty good. Sweeter than regular Guinness and doesn’t hide behind a mountain of nitrogen fueled foam. Guinness Milk Stout: 4/5
I’ve been stationed in a few places while in the service, and my favorite station was in Colorado. Most likely because I left there a few months after they passed that ridiculous magazine law.
This is my review of Wild Tonic Mango Ginger Kombucha
What? I’ll get to it.
What piqued my interest in this was the multiple County Sheriffs in Colorado that openly denounced the new “Red Flag” Law law that went into effect recently. While I was living there, the then local sheriff, Terry Maketa of El Paso County, declared the magazine law unenforceable and refused to even try. As for the new law, per the Colorado Springs Gazette:
The Democrat-sponsored law allows family, household members or law enforcement to petition a court for an “extreme risk protection order” (ERPO) to have guns seized from an owner if they believe he or she poses a threat to themselves or others.
The gun owner will be given legal counsel and a hearing within 14 days to determine if a longer-term order should be put in place for up to 364 days. The court can order a mental health evaluation, as well as mental health treatment.
The bill places the burden of proof on the gun owner to prove that he or she no longer poses a risk in order to get the firearms back.
The law allows courts to start accepting requests for ERPOs on Jan. 1. In the meantime, the state Police Office Standards Board, which is under Weiser’s office, along with chiefs of police, are working on policies for law enforcement in how to implement the law.
Let it be known that due process and presumption of innocence no longer exists.
So we’re going to play a game called, “Gun or Cellphone?” I scour the internet for creep-shots of people that might have a cellphone…or a handgun, but which one can it be? I leave it to you to decide…
Why would it matter? Unlike the Colorado legislature all of us here are aware that no law is just going to magically make the guns disappear, and are aware of the utter lack of statistical likelihood the person next to you is mentally insane insane enough to murder everyone in the room. We’re also much more aware if the FBI crime statistics that suggest the overwhelming number of murders with a firearm are handguns, so it seems more relevant. So lets play…
#1 Gun or Cellphone?#2 Gun or Cellphone?#3 Gun or Cellphone?#4 Gun or Cellphone?#5 Gun or cellphone?#6 Gun or cellphone?#7 Gun or cellphone?#8 Gun or cellphone?
#9 Gun or cellphone?
I don’t have an answer key…
I should warn you about this kombucha—some of the offerings from this brand are 5.6% alcohol which means this MAY be good for stealth day drinking. Even though those are clearly labeled, the nannies at the Glibertarians.com legal department wished me to put up the following disclaimer: drink this at work at your own risk…
My oldest son asked to try his hand at baseball about a month or so ago. He’s a bit awkward with a lot of the fundamentals but he’s new at it. I was never great at it either, so I was surprised when the coach asked me to assist. The other day one of the other players asked me a question: ”What does your shirt say?”
”It says, This shirt is made from four plastic bottles.” It was a souvenir I bought at Coca-Cola World in Atlanta in the 50% off bin that I thought was a fun conversation piece. The polyethylene (PET) that made up the Coke bottles was simply repurposed for polyester. It was and is in essence, a regular t-shirt.
This is my review of Dark Horse Pinot Grigio.
Recycling has been in the news recently. The bottom line up front is that nobody is willing to purchase garbage anymore. When local municipalities offer recycling services, like my hometown of Phoenix, they simply have the homeowner separate “recyclables” from bulk trash as a first step. Then a contractor sorts it further and “disposes” of it. What they were actually doing of course, was turning garbage into gold:
Recycling is the globe’s bizarro commodity, created by the richest people on Earth and sold to the developing world. Like all commodities, its price reflects a staggering string of interconnected happenings. Your 2011-era empty Coke bottle wasn’t just worth a lot because of high oil prices—it was worth a lot because Pakistan had suffered devastating monsoons in the summer of 2010. Flooding in the Indus River was one of a cascading series of events that sent cotton, in April 2011, to its highest nominal price since records began in 1870. Jeans were going to be more expensive, Levi’s announced. And so, it turned out, was recycled PET plastic, because for Chinese manufacturers of articles like teddy bears and blue jeans, polyester fibers made from old plastic bottles were a cost-effective replacement for cotton. Cotton was up; plastic was up; recycled PET prices went up. As when cotton hit its previous high price in 1995, the scramble was on for old bottles. Which you, American reader, the world’s leading consumer of soda and bottled water, had in spades.
That is until 2017, when China announced it is no longer purchasing the world’s trash. So where have all the empty bottles gone?
Nowhere. Some cities burn it, some put it quietly in landfills, but mostly it is all just piling up.
As the trash piles up, American cities are scrambling to figure out what to do with everything they had previously sent to China. But few businesses want it domestically, for one very big reason: Despite all those advertising campaigns, Americans are terrible at recycling.
About 25 percent of what ends up in the blue bins is contaminated, according to the National Waste & Recycling Association. For decades, we’ve been throwing just about whatever we wanted—wire hangers and pizza boxes and ketchup bottles and yogurt containers—into the bin and sending it to China, where low-paid workers sorted through it and cleaned it up. That’s no longer an option. And in the United States, at least, it rarely makes sense to employ people to sort through our recycling so that it can be made into new material, because virgin plastics and paper are still cheaper in comparison.
Which begs the question, if China never bought the sorted trash in the first place, would recycling ever be a viable endeavor?
I of course do not have an easy answer as to what to do with this. If I did I wouldn’t be here, I’d be off getting filthy rich. Chances are pretty good somebody will figure something out now that there is an incentive to do so. In the meantime if you want to recycle because it makes you feel good…okay go for it. Otherwise a good way to find out if there is a market for you trash is to put it in front of your house like you would an old couch. Put a sign that says, “free” on it and see if its there the next day.
Need cans for cash, cash for alcohol research
Chances are pretty good a homeless guy knows exactly what will still fetch a few pennies for recycling, and will happily take it off your hands.
I bought canned wine with the intention of aggravating OMWC, but that didn’t work. I’m going to have to make a quesadilla with some Manchego to do that. The wine in a can is fruity, crisp, and has the ever so slight aftertaste of the epoxy liner to keep the wine from reacting with the 100% recyclable aluminum can.
Buenos Tardes! Brett is currently partying down with a buddy. More details on that at his leisure….
Julian Assange is not the only one arrested for being affiliated with Julian Assange.
Interior Minister María Paula Romo did not name the man but said he had been arrested for “investigative purposes”.
An unnamed government official told the Associated Press that the man is Ola Bini, a Swedish software developer.
It comes just hours after Assange was himself arrested at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
“A person close to Wikileaks, who has been residing in Ecuador, was arrested this afternoon when he was preparing to travel to Japan,” Ecuador’s interior ministry tweeted late on Thursday.
Senior Trump administration officials said they were rescinding an Obama-era decision that deemed Cuba’s baseball league to be separate from the Cuban government. The U.S. economic embargo on Cuba prohibits Americans from doing business with Cuba’s government, so the Obama administration’s ruling had cleared the way for an agreement between MLB and the Cuban Baseball Federation reached late last year
[…]
Under the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba passed by Congress decades ago, the administration has discretion to decide whether an entity like the Cuban Baseball Federation is too closely aligned with the government — in this case Cuba’s sports ministry — to be considered independent. Senior Trump administration officials said they couldn’t understand why the Obama administration had deemed the federation to be independent, calling it “an entity of the Cuban government.”
But former Obama administration officials said the goal of the policy had been to enable Cuban players to join U.S. teams without having to defect to the United States, which often involved dangerous journeys at the hands of human smugglers. Players would often pay to be smuggled into a third-party country from which they could join MLB.
President Trump’s call to cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras is raising concerns among lawmakers and national security and development experts, who say cutting aid will exacerbate the migrant crisis that is already crippling U.S. resources at the Southern border.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Agency for International Development told NPR on Tuesday that the agency is carrying out the president’s order to end foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle, the area that comprises those three Central American nations. The spokesperson said the agency is still finalizing the allocation of funds for 2019.
Trump has blamed the Central American countries for sending migrant caravans through Mexico to the U.S. border, an idea Trump has repeatedly promoted to raise the alarm about illegal immigration. In tweets on Saturday, Trump also returned to his previous threat to completely seal off the Southern border, blaming Democrats and Mexico for the turmoil at the border.
I suppose its better than a Ma-Duece.
Hi Preet.In some parts of the world, they call this “moonshine.”
For those that answered on whether or not I should shoot something yesterday, I tried in the morning, but somebody decided they wanted to shoot tracers at the outdoor range that backs a mountain. Naturally the mountain caught fire and I had to leave, lest I lob 5.56 NATO at a bunch of firefighters. I hate shooting the carbine indoors but…
For those of you that will not click any links at all, I will just leave a picture of this item I found at a local grocery store….for your…whatever.
The wild wacky world of beer and brewing is replete with innocuous terms that appear meaningless for the average consumer. Lager vs. Ale or Pilsner vs. Urine for example. There is one, however that to my understanding has not been covered yet, so I will pull one from the archive…
This is my review of Carlsburg Unfiltered
We’re heard the old commercial for Miller Genuine Draft. It includes the phrase “cold filtered”, which is pretty much meaningless given the product being peddled. Filtering beer is a similar process to filtering any other liquid:
There are two basic types of filtration: depth and surface. Depth filtration, also called powder filtration, uses a convoluted labyrinth of channels in the filter media to trap particles. The media can be diatomaceous earth (DE), Perlite, or other porous media.
Adjust for beer accordingly
Depth filtration works similar to a pool filter. Where the pump simply pulls water from the pool to a tank filled with either sand or diatomaceous earth (DE). The filter media creates a path that is smaller than the dissolved solid the user desires to not be in the water. The pump puts pressure on the water through the filter media, which gets trapped in the tank on top of the filter media. The result is clean water flowing back into the pool.
Surface filtration uses a thin film material with pores smaller than the particles to be removed. Particles remain on the surface of the filter while clarified liquid flows through. If the pores are of a defined size (for instance, up to 5 μm), filtration is said to be “absolute” to the pore size. Membrane and cross-flow filtration are examples.
This is more like reverse-osmosis. It produces a cleaner end product but as one might expect is a more cost intensive process.
In both circumstances the desired substances to be removed from the beer include hops, dead yeast and other microbes that in high enough concentration can result in unpalatable beer. In the case of commercially produced pilsners, a crystal clear appearance is also highly desired by both the brewer and consumer. So why then do so many seem to obsess over unfiltered beer?
Some will say filtering removes too much from the finished product, leaving it with a “sterile” flavor. Others will go on and on about “mouthfeel” when the words “texture” and “body” have an almost identical meaning and does not bring connotations related to fellatio. There are even specific styles that happen to be unfiltered by tradition, Hefeweizen and Belgian Abbey ales for example, where some would prefer not to be made any other way.
In the above example, I had at a fine dining establishment in Northern Ireland and I pretty much had Guinness with every meal for about a week so I wanted something different. I can’t really say it went well with my braised duck but it was rather nice on it’s own. I recommend it over regular Carlsburg, which in of itself is nothing to write home about. Carlsburg Unfiltered: 3.2/5
Upon leaving work one afternoon, I heard the most annoying sound in the world. What is that noise? I asked myself as I put on my seatbelt. So I checked the messages.
Stupid Chrysler product and their stupid defects. Time to go to Wal-Mart.
This is my review of Brady’s Barrel Aged Irish Whiskey Coffee.
Nope. Still no beer.
Later that evening, while I was showing my son how to use the electronic tool to lookup the proper lamp for a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the thought occurred to me. It isn’t a particularly difficult item to replace, nor is it prohibitively expensive, yet people neglect to change these out in a timely manner. If people were more responsible, perhaps a cop wouldn’t have to pull people over when their tail lights are out. Then again, I’d hate to see the creative lengths small towns would go through to replace the lost revenue.
Sure enough, the boy found the lamp number: 3157. Wait…red or amber? I never look at the back of my car, so I don’t know off the top of my head. But I bet if I look it up…Here we go, Jalopnik says:
the US (and Canada, but they’re just piggybacking on our regs) is the only place in the world where the rear turn indicator may be red, instead of orange/yellow/amber. Up front, indicators need to cast an amber light to differentiate from the white headlamps, but out rear you can actually just use one red-shining bulb for stop/tail/turn functions, as many cars do — especially trucks and jeeps and other vehicles that use off-the-shelf cheap trailer-type lights.
Okay so red is okay, right? Lets make sure and hit the next link.
American regulators, alone in the world, have dismissed the idea that there might be something wrong with trying to convey two very different messages with two (or just one!) identical red lights. So automakers play “now it’s amber, now it’s red” with rear turn signal color in the American market: amber this year, red next year, back to amber at the next facelift. Even imports have red rear signals in America, sometime because stylists will use any tool at their disposal to differentiate this year’s model from last year’s.
You’re not helping…
Some of the problem goes away if the two identical red lights, the brake light and the turn signal, are widely separated from each other. It’s instructive to look at the ECE regulations, used just about everywhere but in North America. They don’t allow red rear turn signals, but they do require two bright red lights in the back: the brake light and the rear fog light, an extra-bright tail light activated by the driver when it’s foggy, so following drivers can still see the car. They look similar to each other, just like the American red brake and red turn signal, so the ECE regulations say their closest lit edges have to be at least 10 cm (4 inches) apart. That way, drivers have no problem seeing and discerning both functions. But there’s no such separation requirement for brake lights and red turn signals in American regulations.
This is ridiculous, red or amber? At this point my son was wondering what I was up to.
Shortly after releasing their tentative and preliminary 2008-09 findings, NHTSA opened a public docket requesting comment on the matter. Naturally, there are opinions on both sides. But it’s interesting to see how many ordinary drivers, with no ulterior motive or axe to grind, strongly urged NHTSA to please require amber signals.
Perhaps it’s time to think about taking a deep breath and moving the American turn signal regulation boldly into line with what the rest of the world has known since before the Beatles.
I don’t care what the &@#*% nannies in the rest if the world think they know. Red or amber!
“Dad. Right here. 3157W.”
White. A white lamp will work.
I found this coffee at a tourist shop in Galway (H/T Swiss). It looked interesting enough but seemed a tad steep for what I paid for it. Now they take green beans and store them in old Irish whiskey barrels. Once it ages for the time they want it to age they roast the beans in-house. The result is a product thst smells nothing like coffee.
In the end though, its not very acidic, and seems meant to add a particular ingredient; I’ll let you guess what that is. In the cold brew setup it winds up tasting like muddy water, but it smells like something you probably shouldn’t take to work. Good luck finding it.
Brett requested assistance earlier this week for the links. I told him I had links. So lets do this…
Es culpa de españa que soy un cabron
Evidently, grievances over centuries old atrocities is not a uniquely American phenomenon. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent a message to King Philipe IV of Spain as well as Pope Francis earlier this week, demanding an apology for conquering Mexico. King Philipe’s response? No quiero.
Firing the first shots in what threatens to become a diplomatic row, the Left-wing Mexican leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Monday that he had sent letters to Spain’s King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of what is today Mexico.
“There were massacres and oppression. The so-called conquest was waged with the sword and the cross. They built their churches on top of the temples,” Mr López Obrador said in a video message.
He filmed the clip at a Mayan monument near the site of the first battle in which Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fought indigenous people 500 years ago this month.
The artefacts include carved pieces and human bones from the Pacific island. In 1947, Heyerdahl became famous for skippering a tiny balsawood raft, the Kon-Tiki, on a 6,000km (3,728 miles) journey from Peru to Polynesia. His expedition proved, he said, that ancient cultures could have sailed to, and populated, the South Pacific. Later DNA tests suggested that the islands were settled by migrant populations from South East Asia.
The ban on the young opposition leader will last for 15 years, according to a statement made by state comptroller Elvis Amoroso. Amoroso, an appointee of President Nicolas Maduro, made the announcement Thursday on state broadcaster VTV. He claimed there were inconsistencies in Guaido’s personal financial disclosures and accused him of accepting gifts from foreign governments. Amoroso said Guaido had been staying in “luxurious hotels” without “justifying who was financing his exuberant accommodations” both in Venezuela and abroad.
Sounds like all those people wetting themselves over Trump’s tax returns…but as it turns out, there may be somebody crazy enough for that.
US CBP recorded the largest number of arrests at the border in 10 years. 3700. I guess they only had one pickup truck.
CBP is on track to see as many as over 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants along the southwest border in March, making it the busiest month since 2008, commissioner Kevin McAleenan said Wednesday. Of the 100,000 expected to cross, nearly 40,000 of them will be kids, the agency expects.
But on that note, invasive species have begun to pop up in the Galapagos Islands.
When Carlton’s team looked underwater, however, they found a horde of invaders. “Now we have 53, which is a rather stunning increase,” says marine biologist Gregory Ruiz, who was on the trip. “It’s about a tenfold increase.”
He says there’s no question now: “The Galapagos has been invaded” underwater.
Ruiz says they found exotic species clinging to pilings, docks and mangrove roots. The researchers hung plastic plates underwater and all sorts of alien invertebrates latched on.
It’s hard to tell where the invaders came from, Ruiz says. But rising tourism in the Galapagos means more boats, docks and pilings — transportation and homes for invasives, wherever their initial source was.
Murdock: Don Brett … perdóname.
O’hara’s leann folláin (left). No idea how that is pronounced and I am glad I found this one. I got it at a supermarket in Clontarf near the hotel I was staying at. They do make a barrel age version, but since I don’t recommend paying Irish taxes I went with this one. Traditional Irish dry stout, like Guinness but overall has a more complex maltiness. Seems to be made with more regard; I highly recommend. 4.2/5
Hop House 13. Made by Guinness. This is pretty much everywhere in Ireland, and they do a good job of making sure you are aware it exists. Ever had Spitfire? Its like that. Apparently everything Guinness makes is made with their coveted in-house yeast, which makes for a lager that is mostly confused given that Guinness is an ale. Its a translager. 2.5/5
Later I moved up to the North where I had the 
Buenos Tardes! Brett is currently partying down with a buddy. More details on that at his leisure….
This is more like reverse-osmosis. It produces a cleaner end product but as one might expect is a more cost intensive process.
