IFLA: The “It’s Good to be the King” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of August 11

The big news this week is the absolute dominance of Leo.  It maintains all the positive aspects of last week, but then picks up Mercury starting on the 14th.  The 14th and 15th are supremely auspicious for Leos, particularly if you are acting in accordance with the nature of the great cat.  Lounging around, sleeping, eating food provided to you by others and having sex are all heartily encouraged.  Because Leo is hoarding all the direct planets, there isn’t that much to say for the others, though expect an uptick in INFOSEC on the 14th as well with Mercury leaving Cancer.  Alignment-wise, Mars-Venus-Mercury brings about benefits to the vast bulk of the people with jobs (though NOT  government employees or lighthouse-keepers).  The earth aligning with the sun and Venus suggests great things for your domestic love life, particularly if you take a more relaxed, indulgent attitude toward things — remember Leo is dominating here.

The cards are also predicting a very nice week.  Lots of coins and cups, almost everything is upright, good majors.  Nothing huge or earth-shatteringly great, just quite nice. Enjoy it.

Leo:  The Star* – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope, bright prospects

Virgo:  10 of Coins – Gain, riches, family members, home

Libra:  4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion

Scorpio: 5 of Wands reversed – Trickery, contradiction, litigation, disputes

Sagittarius:  7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination

Capricorn:  7 of Coins – Money, business, barter

Aquarius: 6 of Cups – Happy memories, good things from the past

Pisces:  Queen of Wands – A dark woman, friendly, loving, honorable

Aries:  Ace of Wands – Creation, invention, enterprise

Taurus:  3 of Cups – Plenty, perfection, the conclusion of a matter, merriment, happiness, victory

Gemini:  3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay

Cancer:  Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, luck

 

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202 responses to “IFLA: The “It’s Good to be the King” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of August 11”

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    Virgo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches, family members, home
    Finally, something good to hear….
    H
    Howdy!

    1. AlmightyJB

      I know right!

  2. Not Adahn

    I forgot my asterisk note:

    *The reason The Star gets so many negative indicators is a holdover from when astrology was more hierarchical and forced-logical-systematic-consistency than today. In that schema, the celestial lights were ranked Sun > Moon > Star with Sun meaning “awesome” and Star meaning “teh suck.” Nowadays, nobody would have an instinctive assosciation of stars with bad, but that imprint of an older time remains.

    1. Tundra

      Is the Star upright or reversed?

      1. Not Adahn

        Upright.

        1. Tundra

          Sweet!

          The Star brings hope, renewed power, and strength to carry on with life. It shows how abundantly blessed you are by the universe as evidenced by the various things around you. It may not be directly evident at the moment, for this card follows the trauma of the Tower card. Remember that you hold within you all that you need for your fulfillment – the only thing that you need is courage. For this, you have all reasons to rejoice. To see this card is a message to have faith, for the universe will bless you and bring forth all that you need.

          To receive the Star in your reading means that you have gone and passed through a terrible life challenge. You have managed to go through this without losing your hope. While you suffered, you perhaps were not aware of your own strength, but you are now perhaps recognizing that the loss helped you discover your own resilience and inner power. It is only now that you can really appreciate all that you have.

          Hail to the King, baby!

  3. Tundra

    Lounging around, sleeping, eating food provided to you by others and having sex are all heartily encouraged.

    On it. Thanks, NA!

  4. PieInTheSky

    Cancer: Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, luck

    yeah yeah whatever

    lets look at something important

    Who You’ll Bang In The Animaniacs Universe According To Your Sign

    https://bunnyears.com/who-you-bang-animaniacs-zodiac/

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Steven Spielberg? thanks Pie……….I guess

      1. hayeksplosives

        Slappy Squirrel…?

        1. Tundra

          A goddamn mime?

          1. MikeS

            I got Dr. Scratchansniff. Whatever.

          2. Not Adahn

            Non sequitur / Absurdist humor can be great.

            That site… isn’t

          3. Grumbletarian

            Rita the Cat?

      1. westernsloper

        Not one mention of milk baths. Lame.

    2. MikeS

      I don’t care what this stupid website says, I want Hello Nurse.

      1. Sorry, but you get Nurse Ratched instead.

        1. Tres Cool

          How about Nurse Diesel from “High Anxiety” ?

    3. Suthenboy

      Can I change my sign to Taurus?

    4. DEG

      I don’t get the nurse. Sad.

  5. westernsloper

    Removal, absence, delay.

    Not sure what to make of that.

      1. westernsloper

        lol

  6. Heroic Mulatto

    So no one is going to talk about the gay lions?

    1. Not Adahn

      Did drugs fall out of their butt when they were shot by a dentist?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        The Siegfried and Roy Agenda!

        1. hayeksplosives

          Isn’t that reduced to Siegfried and the Righteous Brother by now?

          1. Tundra

            +2 empty codpieces

          2. Tres Cool

            I’ve dragged this through a couple threads….

            CODPIECE !

          3. Chafed

            How did they get Lavar Burton to appear in that video?

          4. Chafed

            We still have Rob Halford.

    1. westernsloper

      Resources are scarce, the weather can be extreme and oxygen levels hover at dangerously low levels.

      The site is at 11,000 feet. Oxygen levels are quite ok at that elevation.

      1. Tundra

        Not on your first day in CO when you just flew in from MSP.

        1. westernsloper

          Ya, it messes with some people when thrust into it. The article is about nomadic people who walked there so I doubt they got elevation sickness though I don’t think Oxygen levels get dangerous until 20,000 +.

          1. Tundra

            Yeah, I was joking. When a flat lander like me acclimates in 24 hours, there is no way 11,000 poses any serious hardship.

          2. westernsloper

            Aaaah, ya it takes a day or so to get used to it. I just find it funny the author makes it sound all scary but then again she is from Toronto so that explains much. She finishes with….

            The researchers plan to return to Fincha Havera for additional excavations, according to Zimmer. Ideally, they would like to find the bones of the humans who lived there—even more ideally, bones with extractable DNA. Such a find could help scientists learn more about how ancient humans adapted to high altitudes and whether those adaptations have been inherited by mountain-dwelling peoples of the present day.

            It’s not like the people living in Aspen or Mt Crested Butte are Sherpas or something.

          3. Suthenboy

            “how ancient humans adapted to high altitudes and whether those adaptations have been inherited by mountain-dwelling peoples of the present day.”

            More silly shit from people who should know better. Go check out the injuns in Bolivia/Peru. You don’t have to study them. Just look at them. 5 feet tall with the lung capacity of a horse. Of course they adapted. They walk over the Andes where we would pass out and I don’t think they even get winded.

          4. hayeksplosives

            I remember from some history course that Spanish ladies who came to Peru as the Spaniards came in to “settle” it quickly found that they were dying in childbirth at an alarming rate.

            Then they observed that the Peruvian women would go down to the foothills when the time was coming. Spanish ladies started doing the same, and it was problem solved.

          5. Ozymandias

            Some Afghan tribes live up in the Hindu Kush (i.e. the footsteps to the Himalayas) and yes, they climb like mountain goats all over those hills. It was a lesson in humility in the early part of the war.

          6. westernsloper

            In the early days of the Afghan war my ignorant self said on one or more occasion, “just go in the Mtns and get the assholes”. Then some years later I worked a job there and flew out of Bagram on my way home and got a good look at the Hindu Kush. I have never ever seen mountains like that. They are awe inspiring and there is little chance to find someone in them if they don’t want to be found. Brutal rugged. Makes the Rockies look like Kansas.

          7. DEG

            Just look at them. 5 feet tall with the lung capacity of a horse. Of course they adapted. They walk over the Andes where we would pass out and I don’t think they even get winded.

            Yeah. I’ve seen some Inca ruins which weren’t Machu Picchu. Those took a lot of work.

          8. DEG

            24 hours? I wish I could have acclimated that fast.

          9. Playa Manhattan

            Infant mortality rates skyrocket when you start getting above 12-13,000 feet.

    2. cyto

      My “wow” moment was that they found a glass bead from 47,000 years ago.

      Holy crap! I had no idea we were making glass 47,000 years ago.

      1. CPRM

        Well, you’re not going to shove a wooden bead up your ass, splinters and all.

        1. cyto

          That kind of comment is what Al Gore invented the internet for.

      2. cyto

        Wikipedia says more like 5,000 years ago. So i’m going with poorly worded sentence. You be the judge:

        There, a team of experts unearthed a trove of artifacts—among them stone tools, clay fragments, burnt animal bones and a glass bead—indicating that people had lived there as early as 47,000 years ago.

        1. Sean

          The Corning Museum of Glass is an interesting visit.

          https://www.cmog.org

          1. DEG

            Corning was doing a demo at an arts festival I was at several years ago. I couldn’t see what they were doing clearly because of the crowd but I remember that what little I could see was pretty cool.

  7. MikeS

    Pisces: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, friendly, loving, honorable

    Hmmm…my wife is quite tan.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Go on.

    2. Tundra

      Pics?

    1. AlmightyJB

      If I were their insurance company, I would be doing my own investigation.

      1. Not Adahn

        The electricity and gas to the house was shut off, all of their possessions were inside, and someone was cell-filming it when it went kerblooie?

        I must be missing something here.

        1. Tundra

          I read that as post-fire action, but the whole thing seems pretty far fetched. I think you’d have a better chance of being firebombed by flying a Gadsden flag that something as pedestrian as an interracial marriage.

        2. Fourscore

          Looks sort of rural

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        I’m sure they are. But the all hate crimes are ipso facto hoaxes is as retarded a stance as “believe all women”.

        1. Not Adahn

          Of course you’re correct.

          I will say that some narrative elements seem to be more common among hoaxes than actual hate crimes.

          -Vandalism/racist message left in uber-proggie location
          -Writing slurs on the victim
          -Fecal smearing.

          I wonder if this is an ideological Turing test failure, or a mythology among circles where people develop into race crime hoaxers or what.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            I’m quite happy if 99.997% are hoaxes. The point is that I am armed in preparation of the .003% The 2nd Amendment is not Bayesian.

          2. Not Adahn

            Bayes gets over-applied.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            I remember a similar discussion in the comments not long ago, and I agree. There are many contexts in which a frequentist interpretation, or even classical, makes more sense. But Bayesian stats are considered “sexy”.

          4. Suthenboy

            Yeah but this one doesn’t pass the smell test. Seriously, who paints swastikas? Believe it or not the whole Nazi scare is bullshit. Complete bullshit.
            I live in a parish where it is common to see confederate flags. It is the most backwoodsy, rednecky place you can imagine and yet Heroic Mulatto could live here safer than nearly any place in the world. His children would be welcomed in the school system and there is a good chance he would be invited to join the local gun club. Want to reduce your chances of being a victim of. hate crime? Move here.

      1. Not Adahn

        They interviewed her on the radio. Something about it seems off. Who brings their own feces with them to do some vandalizin’?

        1. Fourscore

          Sandy?

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        That’s just someone confused about the Passover story.

    2. PieInTheSky

      do you even have any guns? I though you were the intellectual type not like these other yokels

      1. PieInTheSky

        Now I wonder how many glibs, besides me, own 0 guns

        1. AlmightyJB

          I also have 0. Damn boating accidents.

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        Non sequitur. I have many, many instruments of death and destruction. I live in SIG Sauer’s American subsidiary’s backyard, after all.

        1. PieInTheSky

          Non sequitur – yeah but i was curious

        2. Chafed

          Field trip to HM’s house!

          1. DEG

            I’ve heard SIG Academy is good. I haven’t been but I think I need to change that.

      3. Not Adahn

        Guns are extremely intellectually interesting.

        They are machines of sufficient complexity to be non-obvious in their functionality, but simple enough that you can understand how everything works simultaneously (cars are to complicated, even before computerization — watch the Jam Handy video on the cooling system sometime).

        Then there’s ballistics, ergonomics, noiception, etc.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Yes! There is also the fact that marksmanship is also highly intellectually demanding, to the point of being meditative. It’s modern Zen archery.

          1. Not Adahn

            Truth.

            I find shooting to be extremely focusing, and when the buzzer goes off in competition I often enter the same state of mushin that I found in Kenpo.

            There is a particular kind of joy in moving perfectly, and having the hole in the target appear exactly where you know it will.

          2. Playa Manhattan

            Shooting is like golfing, only with explosions.

          3. AlmightyJB

            Modern day rock thrower.

        2. PieInTheSky

          well in Europe all educated people know guns are evil

        3. AlmightyJB

          They’re artistically interesting as well,or can be. Like a fine motor car.

    3. westernsloper

      WTF? The gas was off and the house blew up?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        *shrugs*

        It could have been an explosive device.

        1. westernsloper

          I suppose. And ya, totally agree acts or even the possibility of acts like that are why nobody should ever give up their guns. I think the pro 2nd crowd could make big gains with that simple message.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            On the one hand, they tell me I don’t need guns because there are cops. On the other hand, they tell me that, as a swarthy, brown guy, cops will execute me on sight. I refuse to listen to someone so logically inconsistent.

          2. westernsloper

            Exactly!!!

          3. DEG

            I refuse to listen to someone so logically inconsistent.

            It’s not logically inconsistent as long as you learn to stop worrying and love “THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!11!!1!!” and learn that logic is white patriarchal oppression.

      2. Tres Cool

        Someone recently had chipotle ?

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Yep

          1. Tres Cool

            HEY YUFUS!

          2. westernsloper

            Did you find the Titanium Tall Can yet?

    4. Suthenboy

      I smell a rat.

    5. CPRM

      The story I read, but can’t find now had this list of facts, that make the insurance scam angle more plausible:

      1. The home was being renovated after a previous fire (cause not explained in the story)
      2. Renovation workers smelled gas, someone had left the valve on the stove open.
      3. The home was evacuated and the gas was shut off, but enough gas remained that it could cause an explosion.

      facts that could counter insurance scam:

      1. After over 20 years the home was within a year of being paid off.

  8. Not Adahn

    Finished The Boys

    That was a twisted ending. But I really do like the fact that the show takes advantage of the “TV writers are stupid and don’t make sense” convention to put clues in the story. Orphan Black and The Umbrella Academy also did that. You could make the claim that Mr. Robot also did that, but it revealed things too soon, imo.

    1. Sean

      Yeah, loved season 1. And that ending was great.

    2. Urthona

      Enjoyed it. Also funny is a horribly dark way.

    3. Tulip

      Me too. It was great

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination

    Still not going to DC- you might as well try to get me to Mars.

  10. westernsloper
  11. 61North

    Turns out that my employee who has about 140 pounds on me can definitely drink me under the table.

    1. Tres Cool

      Science!

      1. 61North

        He’s a big boy. It was also in the upper 70s and too damn hot for me out in the direct sun.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Drinking in the heat just makes me tired.

          1. 61North

            I stumbled home at 7 and passed out. No shame.

          2. westernsloper

            That is what coffee is for.

          3. AlmightyJB

            Or Crunk Juice?

          4. Tres Cool

            +4 Loko

        2. Playa Manhattan

          I’m at 34North and it’s cooler here.

        3. DrOtto

          “…upper 70s…too damn hot…” does not compute.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Heh…

    Joe Biden just said, “We believe in facts, not truth.” Does anybody really believe he is mentally fit to be president? We are “playing” in a very big and complicated world. Joe doesn’t have a clue!

    1. 61North

      My old man told me how much gets from SS each year and it’s insane. Granted, the money was taken from him and he would have done better investing it on his own. But still…

      1. AlmightyJB

        Really. I didn’t think it paid all that much.

        1. RAHeinlein

          Payout is much better for those who aren’t genuinely eligible – see spouses.

        2. 61North

          low 30’s per year year for life. He didn’t collect until as late as possible.

      2. Tulip

        From the SS. I knew it! Nazis!

    1. westernsloper

      Williams video is funny. “Don’t tell me nothing about the Clintons, I don’t want to know anything”….HA!

    2. Rhywun

      “Racist neo-Nazi Trump repeatedly promotes evidence-free conspiracy theories and falsehoods without regard for the consequences of his rhetoric!”

      1. Francisco d’Anconia

        If only CNN were self-aware

        1. Francisco d’Anconia

          I guess if you scream about other’s disregard for facts, no on notices yours?

    3. leon

      Hey he got CNN to say there was a connection between Clinton and Epstein.

    4. Not Adahn

      More than two years later, there is still no evidence that Trump’s phones were wiretapped during the 2016 campaign.

      Ok, what gives?

      Are they claiming that Trump’s personal phone wasn’t tapped, or that it didn’t happen during a specific period of time that they are defining as “the 2016 campaign?”

      1. hayeksplosives

        News has devolved into he said/she said/xe said.

        There are few, if any, honest brokers of facts.

      2. CPRM

        “Tapping is when they actually connect wires to your phone system, they never did that to Trump.”-real way I’ve read this claim hand waived.

        1. kbolino

          Pretty much. Of course, since this was targeting U.S. persons inside the U.S., who were just using regular infrastructure to communicate, all the government had to do was talk to the phone company. Under the FISA Amendments Act, the government can compel telecommunications providers to assist them with surveillance pursuant to a FISC warrant.

          Actual wiretapping is only done when necessary. In this case, it wasn’t necessary.

      3. kbolino

        The other detail that lets them weasel out is that they weren’t targeting Trump as such but only:

        1. Carter Page, before the election
        2. The Russian ambassador with whom Michael Flynn was speaking, after the election

        The first is definitely deliberate, while the second is inadvertent. Of course, none of the evidence (if it exists) supporting the warrant issued for (1) has been released to the public, and the public disclosure of (2) constitutes a serious breach of the law (while they can wiggle out of needing to “minimize” Flynn’s name for dissemination, nobody authorized release to the public; and, of course, whatever source and possibly methods were used to spy on the Russian ambassador were compromised).

        1. westernsloper

          They leave out how many layers of communication the surveillance covers as well. It is my understanding that whoever the targeted person talks to as well as who that layer talks to falls under the umbrella of surveillance. Who knows how many phones/emails they monitored, but I guarantee it made it to Trump. It has became obvious that was the whole goal.

        2. grrizzly

          Flynn was targeted directly. There was no need for “incidental collection” by way of the Russian ambassador. Flynn was considered to be in violation of the FARA act. Instead of indicting him for working on behalf of the Turkish government without registration, the government got a FISA warrant on Flynn. That’s how spying on opposition politicians is “legalized.”

          1. grrizzly

            The details are here.

          2. kbolino

            I suppose that’s plausible, but it’s a bit odd. The Russian ambassador is an easy target, no paperwork is needed. Going after Flynn directly leaves a paper trail.

            Most of those details are pure speculation. I will withhold judgment until there’s some hard evidence (which, hopefully, will come out of Flynn’s case). Given how the Page case played out, I imagine the government’s case will be another house of lies.

          3. grrizzly

            Actually this post makes a better case why Flynn was not unmasked.

            In order to review the identity of the U.S. person, a process called ‘unmasking’, a 702 submission must be made. That submission, the unmasking, leaves a paper/electronic trail. In a 2017 congressional hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham asks Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former DNI James Clapper about this process.
            However, in the two years following this testimony, there was nothing that would deliver the answer as to: who unmasked General Michael Flynn?

            The reason is simple, Flynn wasn’t unmasked – because he was under FISC authorized active surveillance. Here’s how we know.

            ♦ First, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were watching that hearing where Senator Lindsey Graham was questioning Sally Yates and James Clapper. As they discussed in their text messages the issue of “unmasking” is irrelevant. “incidental collection” is the “incorrect narrative”

            What the USG did is certainly much worse than most could imagine.

    5. DrOtto

      Is Hillary happy or sad that Trump gets all the credit for the Obama birther conspiracy. It was borne of her oppo research, yet he gets all the credit.

  13. egould310

    I just made a red wine spritzer. Shot of Smirnoff, healthy splash of a very delicious Apothic red blend, squeeze of lime, Perrier.

    Chilli cheese dogs being delivered from DogHaus. Deep Space Nine playing all day on Netflix. Good day.

    1. AlmightyJB

      I made chili. Will save some for chili dogs later this week.

      1. egould310

        Sounds good. I should be free on Wednesday evening. What time are we eating?

        1. AlmightyJB

          Beer thirty!

      2. hayeksplosives

        I can’t think about chili when it is this hot!!

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Chili dogs and lawnmower beer outside. Problem solved.

        2. egould310

          Got a nice ocean breeze here in Long Beach. Beautiful day.

        3. AlmightyJB

          It helps that I keep my house at meat cooler temps:)

          1. hayeksplosives

            Yeah, now that I am back indoors, I could eat some chili. Don’t know if I will make any until fall though.

            Probably going for a swim in a bit…

          2. AlmightyJB

            Nice:)

    2. Sean

      I’m a fan of Apothic’s blends. ??

      1. egould310

        Yeah. It’s cheap, but delicious. I don’t really like wine but this is growing on me.

        1. AlmightyJB

          I’m not a wine person either. I’ll have to give that a shot.

      2. BEAM’s not a team player

        My bro, a pretty big wine snob when he gets going, is nevertheless also a fan; I like Apothic Red (‘specially in the carton!), but for some odd reason their white and “dark” blends just don’t do it for me.  ??‍♂️

    3. Playa Manhattan

      Beer. Yet again. Hazy Aloha Sculpin.

  14. Tres Cool

    Helping a buddy do a brake-job and replace 2 calipers on his kid’s ’03 camry sometime this week.
    If anyone has been in my situation, any tips or tricks to a toyota? (Ive done plenty of brakes before…)

    1. CPRM

      Find someone with tiny hands to help.

      1. Tres Cool

        I dont want Marco Rubio hanging around.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    More than two years later, there is still no evidence that Trump’s phones were wiretapped during the 2016 campaign.

    It’s not spying when The FBI does it.

    1. kbolino

      It’s a perfect shell game they’ve got going. When one of the major IC agencies is in the doghouse, the other nearly identical agencies get to play the good guys. Oh no, the NSA is spying on us! But the FBI and CIA must be the good guys.

    2. cyto

      That was one of the most ridiculous things in American history… right up there with “it depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is” for combining stupidity with sheer chutzpah.

      The FBI sends foreign nationals and FBI agents who have absolutely no connection to the Trump campaign to infiltrate the campaign in an attempt to plant evidence to be used to further justify their spying efforts. But it isn’t spying — because they are “informants”. Of course, they don’t meet the definition of informant because they have no information from inside, they are infiltrating to get information. But “the FBI doesn’t use spies” therefore “informant” and all the fact-checking organizations can use that to say that “the FBI spied on Trump” is a lie.

      And because nobody is paying attention when the media just lies to us, that lie looks like it is going to work. They are just gonna keep repeating it until everyone forgets that it was a ridiculous lie when first told, and even worse each time it was repeated.

    1. CPRM

      Big Trouble in Little Mongolia.

    2. Rhywun

      “We don’t know precisely what form the DOOM will take but we must DO SOMETHING.”

      1. CPRM

        At some point SOMETHING will happen! So we must do SOMETHING!

      2. hayeksplosives

        The Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man?

    3. cyto

      China is already communist and fully authoritarian. They don’t have any work to do there.

    4. hayeksplosives

      “We have detected no evidence of human influence. But that doesn’t mean we can just relax and do nothing.”

      2nd sentence does not compute with first sentence…

    5. westernsloper

      Wu said the latest study, with 10,000 years’ worth of new data, not only helped to draw a more complete picture of the 500-year cycle, but also revealed a previously unknown mechanism behind the phenomenon, which suggested the impact of the sun on the Earth’s climate may be greater than previously thought.

      Ya, I am not so sure the sun’s impact has been unknown it just doesn’t fit the narrative so hush up about that one.

    6. Playa Manhattan

      “the conifer tree line has been retreating north”

      What an odd way to say that the tree line is advancing north.

      1. Tres Cool

        Is that a Wuphemism ?

  16. DEG

    The 14th and 15th are supremely auspicious for Leos, particularly if you are acting in accordance with the nature of the great cat. Lounging around, sleeping, eating food provided to you by others and having sex are all heartily encouraged.

    I’m reminded of the Penn and Teller Bullshit! episode on Feng Shui. “Still looks like shit”.

    Leo: The Star* – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope, bright prospects

    Uhhh…. some of these things aren’t like the others.

    1. westernsloper

      Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, could be the Zombie apocalypse, and hope, bright prospects could mean you figure out how to fight the zombies. It’s World War Z.

      1. DEG

        Maybe I’ll turn my Lee-Metford into one of these.

  17. AlmightyJB

    I’m not sure how I’ve never seen this before. Star Wars Party Edition.

    https://youtu.be/WSCm8yAxBr8

    1. CPRM

      Creepio is the best.

  18. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Scott Adams is a fucking retard, Exhibit A:

    https://youtu.be/Qmu9LoRkyCc

    Skip to 36 min for his suggestion on how Trump should handle the NRA if they don’t get out of the way. The man’s a dumbass.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      I like some of what he has to say, but….

      After the Gilroy shooting…. what a shameless asshole.

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        He endorses Tipper Gore style labeling and making movies with shootings X rated later in the stream. He’s just not a very bright person.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          He certainly seems to be on the spectrum when he does stuff like this:
          https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-scott-adams-tweet-14199548.php

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Jesus.

          2. cyto

            The writer of the article is worse:

            “You’re using a tragedy to advertise your product,” replied another. “Your insinuation that the outrage you’re receiving is ‘fake’ is unbelievably arrogant.”

            “It’s fake unless you are bitching about CNN interviewing witnesses as we speak,” Adams replied.

            Adams either unintentionally or willfully misunderstands how CNN works; media outlets, except in extremely rare cases, do not pay witnesses or sources for interviews.

            Uh, here’s a clue, hon… CNN (and your employer SFGate) make money off of advertising while they are showing you those interviews. So yeah, that is CNN’s entire business model. They exploit tragedy, terror and conflict for money. And we all participate in that model, because we are interested in the horror, tragedy and conflict.

          3. Stinky Wizzleteats

            Definitely indicates a lack of empathy and good judgement. It very well may be a great app but jeez.

          4. Playa Manhattan

            Amazing.

    2. AlmightyJB

      I’m scared to see what our duckweed governer has planned for us.

      https://www.foxnews.com/media/red-flag-laws-ohio-dayton-mike-dewine

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Red flag laws i.e. personality trait crime. Weirdos with guns, the vast majority of whom don’t hurt a fly, are going to get screwed. I hope the courts shoot this bullshit down when the time comes but their judgement doesn’t fill me with confidence.

        1. cyto

          There are definitely stories that will follow. There will be people who are having conflict with their neighbor and call the police. There will be vindictive ex wives who know their ex really loves his gun collection. There will be crazy cat ladies who report the guy who mows his lawn Saturday morning and gets her cats all upset.

          And one of those events will result in a violent confrontation with the police. A dog will get shot. Maybe a guy on the spectrum gets shot.

          And these stories will be shared on weirdo sites across the internet. Places that worry about police abuse. Places that worry about the rights of ex husbands. And places that worry about general civil liberties and personal freedom, like Glibertarians.

          And everyone else will be happy in the knowledge that we are a bunch of kooks. Because they know it can never happen to them. (until it does)

  19. Playa Manhattan

    Sister is in town with the new baby, had a get together at my little brother’s house. I got a full 9lb USDA Choice beef tenderloin roast (pre-peeled) to cook there.

    I arrive to find that he had a major leak in the wall, and the kitchen is down to the studs, so we have pizza by the pool instead.

    My beef intake this weekend has been nothing short of heroic. It’s a tough life.

    The best meal (of the 5 so far) is just a straight up salt and pepper dry roast with a roasted shallot-balsamic churri.

    I saved the best piece of the roast for tonight, and I think I’m going to do it again, expect maybe stuffed with a few cloves of garlic.

    1. Akira

      Nice.

      I have some leftover tomato sauce with stew beef in the fridge, which I’ll probably make with some pasta. I might try making rigatoni again out of my Kitchenaid stand mixer pasta attachment. But getting the dough just right is tricky; it needs to be soft enough to go through the extruder but firm and dry enough that the pieces won’t stick together or collapse.

      There’s also a nice sirloin steak that will probably be made into gyudon.

    2. Tres Cool

      Good luck. We’re all counting on you.

    3. egould310

      Beef.

      I’m cooking a skirt steak in the skillet, butter and olive oil, salt and pepper. I’ll top it with a homemade pesto. Baby spinach salad with alot of mushrooms in a lemon vinaigrette.

    4. Gustave Lytton

      I hope the roast went into a fridge somewhere on arrival rather than getting tossed.

      Did thick tenderloin medallions pounded thin on the grill last night.I think this is my favorite method, and make excellent sandwiches for following day.

      Today is grilled half chicken over beer bath with the other half and cutting used for making broth. After a short nap I think.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        I put it in their garage fridge, and then brought it home with me.

        Hence my heroic beef intake.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          I thought you meant you were cutoff and suffering from beef withdrawal.

          Your work shall not go unnoticed.

          *cue Aaron Copeland’s Hoedown*

    5. westernsloper

      Chicken here.

      I rubbed my chicken earlier and now it is resting. I will light the grill soon.

      1. creech

        Euphemize much?

    6. commodious spittoon

      (pre-peeled)

      Que?

  20. Tres Cool

    Jugsy was in the mood for chicken & noodles (why not? Its only august and 88º outside). So I decided to switch up my usual manner of making it, and found a recipe for “creamy” chicken & noodles (for the instapot- maybe not my 5 decade old Presto stovetop). Something didnt translate well.

    I nearly made a Tsarnev-style starting pistol.

    1. cyto

      I have a really good recipe for Chicken Noodle Soup.

      1. Drive to store
      2. Obtain can of soup
      3. Drive home
      4. ????
      5. Soup!

      1. Playa Manhattan

        That’s a good start.

      2. Tres Cool

        I used cream of chicken soup as a thickener, and based on my experience with my pressure cooker over 25, it didnt seem right. But I tried it.
        It wasnt right. I dont know what venting system those silly instapots have, but mine certainly doesnt. It plugged quite quickly, and I had 4 quarts of 252º liquid under 15 psi.

        1. Tres Cool

          /over 25 years
          ..and I just consulted my B&W book, and saturated steam at 15 psig is 249.72º F.
          I was close.

  21. cyto

    All right, since we are talking food…

    I’m making mushroom and cheese ravioli with mushroom cream sauce for the kids.

    I’m probably gonna enhance mine with fake crab. The kids don’t like fake crab, so no crab for them.

    We’ll go with asparagus quickly sauteed in butter with garlic and anise for a veggie.

    And I’m gonna go super fancy for the bread. Walmart has this everything baguette for a buck. They are soft and delicious. So they probably cause cancer or something. But they are great for sopping up excess sauce.

    And there you have it. A meal fit for a king.

    The 7 year old is probably going to decide she hates it and trundle off to make grilled cheese. Or maybe Ramen. Kids can be a real joy…..

    1. As long as she’s cooking for herself.

  22. Tulip

    Man, I want someone to cook me dinner.