Operation Mom swings into high gear this weekend as we prepare for her to come in from Florida for a month, in preparation for a permanent move. Well, she won’t complain that it’s too cold. And she appreciates our cooking. Fortunately, her eyesight is not what it once was, so little details about housecleaning that would have occasioned lectures a few years go will now be overlooked. We just have to be prepared for the confused puppy look when we talk about politics with our local libertarian friends.
I’m in a particularly good mood because a film I’ve been chasing for years has suddenly shown up, courtesy of SugarFree. 1932’s Million Dollar Legs is easily the most surreal movie WC Fields ever made. And I watched it joyously. It didn’t strike SP quite the same way, but maybe when she gets older… At least she allowed that it was much better than Jaws. Stooge aficionados will recognize Vernon Dent, who was uncredited, as the Secretary of Agriculture.
Today’s birthdays include a guy who so badly wanted to be president; one of my favorite American chefs; a guy who made it so; a guy who got to stand next to Clarence White; and last but not least, Dave.
“It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear.”
“I mean woke is great and all that, but these people are icky.”
Enough Happy Little Trees to make a forest.
“I just wanted you to see what a yutz we have for a rabbi.”
I’m going to guess that this won’t hold up. But it’s an interesting take nonetheless.
Speaking of which, stop jerking off and save the planet.
Goddamn Canadians are just pigs, eh?
Old Guy Music is just something I haven’t been able to get out of my head today. curlB = dE/dt
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375 responses to “Saturday Morning Links of Great Purity”
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I’m so sorry for you.
Profound
It is sad to be so jealous.
So why are you?
I’m so often the Miss Congeniality, second fiddle, also ran, or 1st looser?
could be worse, you could have come in second.
Or Ken’S could have been here and spotted “looser”
Loser*
Those Haredi Orthodox sure do like to boink.
Letters to the Local Rag: How Dare You Not Do What We Demand You Do In Opposition To Your Publicly Held Political Positions
So, they’re pretty much asking for people NOT to support Dr. Mark Downey. Good luck, Virginian Glibs.
I know Downey personally, he lives down the street from me. Nice enough guy, but an idiot politically.
Ha! Scruffy just Doxxed himself – how many houses can be on that street?
That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
So kindly fuck off.
B-b-but it says “well regulated” so therefore every gun regulation is totally constitutional!!
/gun grabber
*in a smug and patronizing tone*
Also, we have the National Guard, aka the modern militia. Besides, the fed government has nukes.
*Eric Swallwell perks up*
If you ever get that BS line from some smug shipdit about “the National Guard”, as if it was the militia refer the fool to US Code in which the militia is defined as all able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 45, plus all military veterans to the age of 60. There actually is a militia and it is not the National Guard.
^^^This. The guard is a dual mandate Reserve force for the federal government.
That’s the unorganized militia. The NG is part of the organized militia.
*ahem*
composed of the body of the people
Q hardest hit by the porn-caused CO2 news.
Letters To The Local Rag: Build the Wall to Keep Hate Birds Out
Letters to the Local Rag: A Call To Action!
Here’s an idea. There are many giant holes in the ground from surface mining. Rather than fill them with water, let’s fill them with recyclables until they fill the land. We can call it… a landfill!
…and lose some of the prettiest and certainly deepest lakes in MN? No way. Sent all the trash to San Francisco for street landscaping
“Her peers do not take her seriously,” the senior Democratic source said Friday, adding: “They think it is absurd to call the speaker racist. Offensive and absurd.”
Unfortunately, this “senior Democrat” believes s/he should be taken seriously. None of those idiots should be taken seriously.
Why so serious?
Another serious woman
Goddamn Canadians are just pigs, eh?
The Canadian pigs now have union thugs to back them.
Question which occurred to me for no particular reason: if California now has background checks for ammo, does that mean no more mail order bullets? Do you have to have it shipped to an ffl to be transferred?
That’s a…good question. I believe it only applies to in-state gun/ammo stores/sellers, so the out-of-state/mail order ones should be okay. I could be (am probably) wrong, however.
I’m pretty sure they banned mail-order ammo ages ago.
Well, I just educated myself and wow, once again, fuck California.
My guess is they’ll just apply the processing fee and all that nonsense at the vendor you pick up the goods at.
We ordered a bunch of 9mm here in CA last month.
No prob.
Did you have it shipped to your address or to an “approved vendor”?
I’d like to know as I am guiding a buddy in CA to the path of gun ownership.
Law kicked in this month. Ammo sales was through the roof last month.
So does this apply to reloading components as well?
Not sure.
“I just wanted you to see what a yutz we have for a rabbi.” – sorry you have to get rid of your dog
“I mean woke is great and all that, but these people are icky.”
[…]
Speaking of which, stop jerking off and save the planet.
Any idiocy will be given a respectful hearing if it’s portrayed as being “green”.
“green”
To be more specific… and on topic… the soylent kind?
Also a TW should be instituted for NYT links
I’m going to guess that this won’t hold up. But it’s an interesting take nonetheless. – I would find it difficult to have clear experimental evidence AGW… if not impossible
Pretty much. We’re talking about a field of study where there’s a fixed sample size of one.
“Opponents of infrastructure and affordable housing projects often call upon the California Environmental Quality Act as a stalling ploy to delay construction. The law requires developers to explore any environmental effects a project might have, and take steps to reduce them.”
Let’s use government red tape to solve a problem caused by government. Let’s net even discuss incentives.
Is it Maxwell’s birthday? Who wakes up with field equations in their head?
I had a friend in university who printed maxwell’s equations on a tshirt. And no one beat him up for being a nerd.
No one recognized them?
it was a polytechnic. most did
Then there was no excuse for sparing him.
Maxwell’s field equations came down upon his head?
Groundskeeper Willie.
To be fair, I left out the current term, so it’s only applicable in a nonconducting medium.
So Ampere’s Law?
Sort of the opposite. If you only have the current term, you get Ampere’s Law.
Duh, right. *seeks coffee*
(Raises hand sheepishly)
Nerds. Top to bottom.
Goddamn Canadians are just pigs, eh? – good damn Bulgarians. Bunch of savages. Not like clean Romanians
The (((dog story))) reminded me of reading Prophets Prey about the FLDS community in AZ. Warren Jeffs made a similar pronouncement and then had every dog in the town rounded up and shot. I’ve known other ‘holy men’ who similarly seems to despise puppers. Any theories?
Just one:
Those people are fucking assholes.
And it’s a great way to measure the level of control you have over you followers….force them to part with the only expendable, yet utterly beloved, member of the family
Geez. You could be onto something there.
A sadistic loyalty test
I would go completely psycho if someone hurt my pets.
Holy men are evil. People who hate dogs are evil. Therefore by associative properties, holy men hate dogs.
God is dog spelled backwards so it’s just like playing god’s records backwards?
Yes, Tipper.
Good morning, Old Man (and the rest of you splendid people)!
Iirc, mom was a big fan of Publix chicken. Is there an equivalent there for her?
I just got the “4th of July” chicken recipe that my family has eaten for three generations. I was shocked at how simple it is:
Quartered chickens
2 cups white vinegar
1 cup oil
Tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
Poultry seasoning
Marinade and then cook over charcoal, blackening skin
Seems too simple to be so damn tasty.
Oops….forgot to add….one egg gets whisked into the marinade which you bring to a low boil before adding the chicken
Cornell Chicken. That’s good stuff. I used it on the 4th as well.
Will make. Thanks, Bob!
Good morning sir!
That’s going to be our first challenge. There’s an ostrich farm a few blocks from here, so I might take her over to see how big we grow our chickens down here.
HA! Perfect. Simultaneous shock and bliss!
What about us non-splendid people?
*waves* Hi!
The residents’ fight against this homeless shelter comes as San Francisco’s homeless population surged, with city officials tallying more than 8,000 during the last homeless count. More than 1,400 wait for temporary shelter spots to open up each night, and the city has promised to increase the number of shelter beds by 1,000. Homelessness in San Francisco has reached the level of a humanitarian crisis, fueled in part by the tech boom supercharging the housing market.
Opponents of the shelter have long said that their ultimate concern is public safety, a point that homeless rights advocates have argued was bigoted and dehumanizing. In addition to the environmental concerns, the lawsuit states that the project is “likely to decrease the fair market value” for any future projects in that location.
I read that as “tagging more than 8,000 homeless” first time by. Big bright orange ear tags would be a good start.
“Homelessness in San Francisco has reached the level of a humanitarian crisis, fueled in part by the tech boom supercharging the housing market.” When in doubt, blame tech.
San Francisco rewards homelessness and then wonders why it gets more homeless
San Fransisco Iron Law:
“You get more of what you punish and less of what you reward”
On my walk to the office I see a one-person hobo camp right in front of the art museum. He (or she, hard to tell) has a sleeping bag, a tarp to stay dry, and a rollie-backpack thing to carry it all. He or she is usually still asleep when I walk by, completely covered by the tarp /sleeping bag depending on the weather.
I also note a population of traveling hobos in summer, then a regular population in the rest of the year. The traveling hobos usually have much deeper tans. I imagine it is hard to be a year-round hobo in Michigan, but people do it.
Homelessness in San Francisco has reached the level of a humanitarian crisis, fueled in part by the tech boom supercharging the housing market.
I defy you to find one of the noble homeless street denizens of San Francisco who reside there because they couldn’t quite make the rent in the supercharged housing market. We see so many of these folks in the ER every day. These are hobos, not some law clerk between jobs who was a paycheck away from the street. Always suggesting these folks would be productive employed apartment dwellers if not for “X” is why SF never gets anywhere on this issue.
Biden under fire for mass deportations under Obama
Fascinating how one can be “under fire” for enforcing a law (or set of laws) that wasn’t “controversial” until yesterday.
Odd how Biden will take all the heat for this and Barry will get a pass as well. Cognitive dissonance seems to be a pillar upon which the DemOp media is founded.
The whole thing is ridiculous. These people really are advocating lawlessness. Except for a few laws they can use to bash conservatives… “bake that cake”.
One senior lawmaker, who is black, scorched Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday for allegedly using the race card against the speaker, calling her comments “so inappropriate.”
When everyone is a racist, no one is. I find this feud entertaining. *makes popcorn*
Also, I still maintain possibility that AOC is part of some sort of elaborate troll.
the level of men’s tennis is decreasing if old man Federer still makes finals and Djokovic Nadal and Federer are 3 of 4 semifinalists.
I am at my moms house and the tv is turned on to cycling. Oh my god it is boring
Cycling, tennis, golf, and soccer are the most intensely boring things to ever laughingly be called “sports.” Holy shit, it’s concentrated ennui.
my mom watches tour de france for the views mostly but she knows teams and cyclist names and shit.
Views of France… or the Cyclists?
Cyclists are not much to look at. Also there zre other countries than france in the tour de france
So, the French had napoleonic delusions about where their territory ends still?
You forgot baseball.
I never forget baseball, the Queen of Sports.
^ obviously a much nicer person than Ted ^
Look you can say what you want about soccer, but there is no way you can classify soccer as boring and baseball as exciting.
*looks in personal sports enjoyment ledger*
Nope…looks like I can, and do.
Baseball is fine. You don’t know how to enjoy it properly.
1980’s tennis was the pinnacle of sports entertainment.
The Lendl/Lundgren match in 87 is still one of my favorites.
I loved watching Boris Becker.
Really good, but pales next to the Stanley Cup finals and World Juniors.
Watch Skeet Shooting
“Pull”
Bang
“Pull”
Bang
100 times for each competitor
Like Golf, playing Skeet Shooting is much more fun than watching Skeet Shooting.
For the first time, I heard one of the commentators during a men’s match the other day get visibly angry at the fact that no one is stepping up to put those geezers in their place. He was English, of course. The Americans are nauseatingly worshipful of them.
So some one told me n acetyl cysteine helps with hangovers. Anyone any thoughts
It does, but it’s better to take it before you start drinking.
stop jerking off and save the planet.
I figured my masturbatory habits were saving the planet from the possibility of more assholes like me wandering the around.
“San Francisco has a homeless crisis on its hands,” Coté said. “The city is ready to put roofs over people’s heads and get them indoors. Others are filing baseless lawsuits to keep people out in the cold. Rather than trying to shift the problem to someone else’s backyard, everyone needs to do their part.”
FUCK
OFF,
SLAVER.
Whats more frustrating? The fact that asking the homeless to do anything is called insensitive, or that the government doesn’t consider you having done anything to help until it forcibly takes your money, takes a cut and then implements some program to graft the rest of the money.
Yes
I’d love to hear the explanation for this.
Or this.
8000 homeless fighting for 200 beds. If its alcohol free the place will be empty
Of course if you’re a private investor wanting to add to the housing supply, you’re an evil profiteer and anything goes in the holy crusade to prevent you from gentrifying their city with places in which people could live.
Maine Coon yawning
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1149715623280201729
to much dog talk round here so here;s a cat
Aww!
That’s a skinny maine coon. The one we had was 26 pounds* at his high water mark. Was still nearly 20 lbs when he died.
*That’s 11.8 kg for you euros
Nice! Ours is right around 25lbs.; he was a foundling, tromping through snow banks bigger than he was (just a wee kitten) behind our old Brooklyn apartment. He is very happy as a spoiled indoor cat. He likes nothing more than to roll around in my lap and have his tummy rubbed.
That sounds like a nice kitty…I miss our Tigger. He lived to be 16, even with heart problems (hazard of the breed) and being diabetic in his later years.
Holocaust!
Vice President Mike Pence saw firsthand the extreme overcrowding migrants are often forced to endure at federal detention centers when he visited two Friday in Texas.
Agents wore face masks, and video showed detainees packed into their holding areas surrounded by chain-link fence, the concrete floors littered with silver thermal blankets. Reporters accompanying Pence described the facility as smelling “horrendous.”
A group of men detained behind chain link fencing shouted to news cameras, “No shower, no shower!”
Those people at Auschwitz didn’t want to take showers, either.
Immigrants are smelly. Got it.
Honestly, it’s not a bad idea to see if there are inhumane conditions at those facilities and rectify it. But that has been completely derailed by this political goal to make the US a completely borderless region.
Kind of like how unjustified police shootings are actually an important issue that must be addressed, but the BLM movement turned it into racially charged poo-flinging with their stupid rhetoric.
(And I think one way to deal with poor conditions at ICE facilities is to disincentivize people from crossing illegally so that they don’t have to be in those facilities to begin with)
Wait I thought the conditions are supposed to work as deterrent and such rectifying it defeats the purpose
While watching Bob Ross paint is pretty amazing, I contend the best thing about him is his hair.
Most guys don’t have the chops to pull off the whitefro.
‘sup
you can’t just waltz in here after what you did and say sup
Fine. How about Im Here!
+3rd, Thurston Howell
My wife once bought us a set of “thirsty” towels. Taking out two of them, I asked “Where’s thirsty towel the third?” She didn’t find it funny, sadly.
Sup, Tres!
Reap the whirlwind, dummies
Democrats who have called President Trump and his polices racists are now pointing fingers at each other on issues of race.
Allegations of racial insensitivity are flying between the 2020 Democratic contenders, as well as between House Democrats, raising concerns that internecine squabbles over identity and race are tarnishing party leaders and distracting Democrats from their goal of ousting the president in 2020.
The racially-charged controversies, which have swirled around former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 79, have also put a spotlight on a generational rift within the party.
Longtime Democratic leaders are facing new scrutiny from younger peers over their past records. And they’re being called out for their rhetoric, which in some cases has offended the younger generation of liberals.
Frustrated lawmakers say the backbiting over race has gotten out of control. They want to see it come to an end so that Democrats can return focus to their agenda in the House and defeating Trump at the ballot box.
Lord of the Flies was an instruction manual.
It’s kinda funny and sad to see that Democratic “Debate” is essentially a struggle for faux moral superiority by calling each other racist.
I hope they keep doing it.
Honestly, if I were a Russian bot programmed to ensure Trump’s re-election, I would dig into every Dem candidate’s past and find statements that could be portrayed as racist per standard “progressive” logic and blow them up on social media to ensure that the whole debate degrates into poo-flinging.
… Wait, does anyone want to take bets that this is actually put forth as a conspiracy theory after the Democrats lose in 2020??
Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks ignited a long-simmering feud with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).
CBC members, such as Clay, exploded in anger at Ocasio-Cortez for having “used the race card” and accused progressives of seeking to oust black lawmakers by endorsing their primary challengers.
Copyright infringement!
I guess there isn’t just one type of race card but a deck of different values and maybe even suites – like hearts, clubs, …. and I should stop there…
The Cochin Lighthouse is a fully functional lighthouse, though it has absolutely no need to actually function. It’s the only lighthouse in all of Saskatchewan—which makes sense, since this particular province has no sea in sight.
The lighthouse was built in a traditional style, making it look like it would fit in among the lighthouses dotting the shores along Canada’s east coast. It even has a working light, although its beams shine for landlocked tourists rather than seafaring ships.
One of Cochin’s former mayors had the grand idea of constructing this out-of-place tower after visiting Canada’s coast. His seemingly silly plan to plunk a lighthouse in the middle of the prairies paid off. Locals and tourists alike are enamoured by the beloved landmark.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cochin-lighthouse
Gordie: Come check out what I built!
Donnie: You built a lighthouse? In Prince Albert, eh? Where’s the water Gordie?
Gordie (scratches head): Dunno Donnie. I was pretty drunk there and got hit with the puck in the noggin the other day and just started building. Hey, wanna get a brewskie and catch the Riders? Those bums Bombers are in town*!
Donnie: You got it buddy.
*The Winnipeg Blue Bombers v. Saskatchewan Roughriders is Canada’s Battle of the Prairie Plains.
Corner Gas comes correct – https://youtu.be/UWzFSRZuA4k?t=6
Misallocation of resources.
But it was shovel ready!
(And I think one way to deal with poor conditions at ICE facilities is to disincentivize people from crossing illegally so that they don’t have to be in those facilities to begin with)
Despite the shrieking, I suspect those “migrants” are better off in ICE camps than they would be in hobo jungles on the other side of the border.
First they came for my private jet, and I didn’t own a private jet. Then they came for the homeless and I wasn’t homo. Then they came for the porn, and everyone flipped them the bird.
Now this is news:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/prominent-liberal-church-ousts-pastor-after-alleged-sex-toy-shopping-spree
“That’s not mine, baby!”
That’s what i was thinking, but it’s creepier than that.
God wants you to come.
Every sperm is sacred
Something tells me they don’t ascribe to that particular interpretation.
I think it’s more along the lines of “Everyone’s sexual satisfaction is sacred.”
Probably more sacred than commitment.
Oh come all ye faithful!
Is they faithfully executing their duties?
Oh behave!
Sounds like it’s your bag baby
“inter-denominational liberalism and progressive beliefs on LGBTQ, immigration, and environmental issues, ”
You mean a political club masquerading as a church.
COEXIST man…
At first I thought they might be Unitarian but reading the article came to understand they are Christian-only. Unitarians (Unitarian-Universalists for ya’ll pedants) embrace everything mentioned but have no dogma about what religion to pursue.
“The sex toy incident was apparently the final straw amid mounting concerns from the Riverside Church Council about Butler’s judgment, as she was seeking a $100,000 raise. She has a $250,000 annual salary and $8,000 monthly housing allowance — on top of other cushy benefits.”
Oh, ffs. That’s a pretty cushy gig. I’m guessing no vows of poverty there.
She needs that extra 100K to cover her pornhub subscription.
You would have to have a few screws loose to think that taking your colleagues to a smut shop is ever a good idea.
Did the Google Maps car-thing hit the rabbit?!!!???
I moved back a bit and look at what you see in these snaps:
Rabbit on the road before the camera arrives:
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.917927,19.9370155,3a,75y,98.83h,89.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYm6CkuPdOEB3eux-w0AWFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Rabbit appearing next to the camera sort of jumping away (getting hit?):
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9179725,19.9372157,3a,75y,201.86h,64.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUKuVyCjsm1OkV-FzQcummA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Rabbit flying in the OTHER DIRECTION?:
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9179957,19.937314,3a,75y,227.21h,102.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqky8dDlC-sQk6JPk_WK7Yw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Rabbit/Alien hybrid in mid-air?:
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9180385,19.9375027,3a,42.8y,240.73h,102.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1vXZbyDYwWmKtSFGtL1okA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
WTF?
Wouldn’t it be easier to just get rid of Belgium?
From a practical standpoint, yes.
Just save the Abbeys making Trappiste.
I made that exact same point a couple of days ago
Biden under fire. Fine.
But why isn’t criticism hurled at the one man who ordered them? You know who.
He didn’t know it was happening until he read about it in the paper.
I’m willing to bet Biden will defend himself by saying that the numbers are meaningless because they reclassified what qualifies as deportation, which is what they did to achieve those numbers, to pacify the rubes. He’ll use the legitimate criticism of Obama’s policy as a defense now that it isn’t an advantage for him.
He wasn’t deporting them, he was repatriating them.
Re-uniting them with their culture and heritage!
San Franciscan logic: I thought being woke was all about virtue signalling and nothing else!
But why isn’t criticism hurled at the one man who ordered them? You know who.
Dick Cheney?
Wow that article about AOC and comments by senior Democrats are rough! At least the DNC is drawing the line at fuckheads like AOC, Ilhan and Rashida. These people are trouble.
“…The feud between Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi escalated after Congress recently passed a border funding bill that Ocasio-Cortez, and freshmen Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., all opposed.
“…In an interview last weekend, Pelosi told The New York Times that “all these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world, but they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got….”
“…The senior Democratic source, meanwhile, told Fox News that Justice Democrats “don’t have the ability to primary anyone.”
“No one is afraid of those nerds,” the source said, referring to the Justice Democrats…”
The real question is where the power will rest after Pelosi drops dead. Who’s the next generation? The Millenials are angling to skip right over Gen X and take control.
Gen X better show some balls, vag and moxy.
Millennials should be nowhere near power until they grow up.
Oldest millennials are turning 40…
Yikes! Where do they go for safe spaces?
Mom’s basement, mostly.
I was born a year too late to be a Boomer.
Not mature. Just old.
For that we would have to track their karma trail as I don’t see “growing up” occurring in this lifetime.
We’re too busy slacking.
YOU’RE A MILLENNIAL?
/look of disgust.
Gen X
That totes doesn’t describe me.
Never owned a skateboard.
“At least the DNC is drawing the line at fuckheads like AOC, Ilhan and Rashida. These people are trouble.”
I was kinda sad. I was hoping they would be able to divide the Dems more. Looks like AOC is gonna be squashed.
Me too. But know what? She’s poison. But Sanders has done more damage to people’s minds.
We stopped off in Montpelier for a coffee the other day on our way back from a junket in Mount Washington and visiting a friend in Providence and the coffee shop was selling coffee with that moron’s face. They actually celebrate commies. Fools.
Very good espresso though. It’s rare to get a good one.
Justice Democrats, Super Delegates, it’s a crappy superhero cartoon.
Canada under The Douche Dauphin is one big virtue signalling mess.
According to Gatestone:
“In 2017, a Swedish police report, “Utsatta områden 2017” (“Vulnerable Areas 2017″) showed that there are 61 such areas — also known as no-go zones — in Sweden. They encompass 200 criminal networks, consisting of an estimated 5,000 criminals. Most of the inhabitants are non-Western immigrants and their descendants.”
Ouch.
What do people think of Gatestone here?
I’m wondering if I need one of these. Video here.
I’m not sure if you do, but I sure need one.
Silicone Saturday causes involuntary autonomic reactions.
https://bit.ly/2YQzuwj
Pot bad https://imgur.com/gallery/8HH5aFn
That’s fantastic.
I’m gonna have to get back into smoking weed.
She was horny for some French sex.
That dude has brass balls.
A real blow job!
HA!
That looks like a recruiting poster.
I think most “anti-drug” propaganda from the government was actually drug advertising.
If only I could read Alto Clef…
Justice
A former Arizona teacher was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for having sex multiple times with one of her students, a 13-year-old boy.
The sentence, the minimum that 28-year-old Brittany Zamora faced, was the culmination of a sensational case that drew international attention, The Arizona Republic reported.
That’s just crazy. She probably would have gotten a lighter sentence if she had run over him and killed him with her car.
Apparently there’s no middle ground in these cases; either slap on the wrist 6 months probation or getting the book thrown at you.
Do pedos get that much? I notice the Dutch are big on this kick to reclassify pedo behaviour and not consider it a crime.
What’s up with this. I thought we had a no child left behind policy. But I didn’t have no hotties hitting on me in high school.
Did the Google Maps car-thing hit the rabbit?!!!???
I moved back a bit and look at what you see in these snaps:
Rabbit on the road before the camera arrives:
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.917927,19.9370155,3a,75y,98.83h,89.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYm6CkuPdOEB3eux-w0AWFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Rabbit appearing next to the camera sort of jumping away (getting hit?):
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9179725,19.9372157,3a,75y,201.86h,64.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUKuVyCjsm1OkV-FzQcummA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Rabbit flying in the OTHER DIRECTION?:
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9179957,19.937314,3a,75y,227.21h,102.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqky8dDlC-sQk6JPk_WK7Yw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
That bunny has hops.
You can see the leg is pretty mangled. One hell of a way to go!
*Elmer Fudd voice*
“Killl da wabbit… Kill da WABBIT!”
I think the next pic is better!
https://goo.gl/maps/inFzm21JxXZppSRN6
And the next…
https://goo.gl/maps/7Qwx1wkD7mZLtCec9
Tried to post that but Glibs.com was tired of my links.
“My response to Donald Trump regarding his “Dislike of Cryptocurrency” tweet.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1149622832000712707
Public Enemy Number One slips out of the noose, again
President Donald Trump this week claimed he won an emoluments case brought against him after a federal appeals court dismissed the lawsuit. A Harvard law professor and constitutional expert says that’s “bullshit.”
The lawsuit, brought forward by Washington, D.C., and Maryland, challenged the legality of payments made to Trump’s hotels by foreign officials after he was elected president. They claimed that the president was in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which prohibits members of the U.S. government from receiving gifts from foreign states without the consent of Congress.
On Monday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found that the states had no legal standing to sue Trump. In the ruling, the panel said that the argument was “so attenuated and abstract” that it raised the question of whether the case was an appropriate use of the judicial system.
Trump quickly claimed victory following the court’s decision, writing on Twitter: “Word just out that I won a big part of the Deep State and Democrat induced Witch Hunt. Unanimous decision in my favor from The United States Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit on the ridiculous Emoluments Case.”
Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe fired back at Trump, noting that the president didn’t win the lawsuit at all.
“It’s all bullshit, of course. He didn’t ‘win’,” tweeted Tribe, explaining that the appellate panel had merely ruled that D.C. and Maryland lacked standing to bring the action. “[A]nd he’s still using the Oval Office to rob us blind and fill his coffers with piles of rubles that put him in debt to our adversaries,” Tribe continued.
Filling his coffers with rubles. Sick burn.
Wooooow, that’s like, so brave and stuff.
(Brave = expressing a completely mainstream opinion that has already been espoused by countless media personalities and politicians)
fill his coffers with piles of rubles
Bazinga.
Sure sounds like he won.
He did. Winning on a technicality is still winning.
Tribe used to be not stupid. Sad what the TDS done to him.
There’s a reason cyclists are so hated.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/11/nycs-privileged-bicyclists-wont-even-discuss-best-way-to-stop-bike-deaths/
I can live with the smugness, it’s the “SHARE THE ROAD EARTH KILLER” bullshit while they simultaneously ignore all traffic laws.
I chide golfers as being the worst, but as a cyclist myself (I don’t ride in the city. I just power ride on country roads), I have to say cycling culture is pretty annoying, if not insufferable. at times. Which is why I RIDE ALONE. Don’t feel like listening to jack offs brag where they rode their bikes and what group sets they have or plan to get over 80kms. I’m liable to knock one onto traffic and I ain’t going to jail for them.
Try this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZ0N7VTDtY
There’s a road side shrine in a nearby town for an idiot cyclists that illegally turned right front of a car. And he’s memorialized now.
Halep actually won. rather easy too
Still wasn’t worth the reduction.
well she gave up two grand slams and won two grand slams so seems an even trade
Wood
“Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?
Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.
She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.
Keep??Her??Name??Out??Of??Your??Mouth.”
https://twitter.com/HouseDemocrats/status/1149856308801286148
“Keep??Her??Name??Out??Of??Your??Mouth.”
How dare you speak the name of the high lord!
Keep??Your??Foot??Out??Of??Yours??
Inmates running the asylum.
I hope they keep it up going into 2020. ?
?
NOTZEE!
Its astonishing how social media has enstupidated the discourse.
“Keep her name out of your mouth”. Why does so much of social media come off like the bitchy/cool girls in junior high?
Have a book advertisement masquerading as an insightful condemnation of low-wage work, brought to you by newly-woke NY Post.
The Post is turning?
It’s like their editorial and “news” divisions are run by two different newspapers.
I wonder if they ever asked people if they are satisfied with that job or if they just cherry-picked the stories of dissatisfaction (OK, I’ll stop being silly; we all know what the answer is).
When I worked at a factory, there was probably 50 percent of the workforce that preferred to work around 60 to 70 hours per week for the overtime pay.
” total of 15 to 20 miles through a 25-acre warehouse — as long as seven New York blocks”
Doubtful.
I can’t stick around but I will give an update.
We took in that rRhodesian Ridgeback. The dumbass won the dog lottery and didn’t know it. He was a little off and ended up biting both of us on two different occasions. We consulted the vet and she advised we have him put down. I should have shot him a couple of months ago but I let my sentiment get the better of me. Anyway, the vet gave us some dope to give to him to calm him down so we could get him in the car to transport him to the office.
I gave him the dope and the wife and I sat in the bedroom with the other dogs while that kicked in. When the expected time had passed I went back into the living room to put the poor guy in the car. I discovered that the dope had not calmed him down. It had the opposite effect on him. Apparently that happens in about one in a thousand cases and we drew the short straw. He was so enraged and vicious words cant describe it. He came at me white eyed, all tooth and claw. We are talking 60 pounds of pure muscle. He was built like a body builder. He got through my heavy leather Wellingtons (If I hadn’t had those on he would have killed me) and both of them filled up with blood in seconds. That’s how strong his jaws were. He managed to knock me down and tried to get on top of me to kill me. He got hold of both of my arms and managed to get the artery in my left arm. In just a few seconds the whole kitchen floor was covered in my blood. We are slipping and sliding and flopping around in a desperate struggle and my wife saved my life. She ran over and handed me a strap. By that point I had barely managed to get on top of him and pinned him down by the throat with my knee. I barely managed to tie his jaws shut.
Let me say that again.
My wife saved my life.
If she hadnt done that I would be dead now. The best thing I ever did was marry that girl.
Anyway, after his jaws were tied I slipped and slid around but managed to run out the back door. He followed me out bumping me with his tied snout trying to bite but I made a U-turn and shut him out. I was able to get a rifle then and of course that was the end of it. We called an ambulance but I was bleeding so badly I wasn’t sure they would make it in time. With pressure I was able to get most of the bleeding stopped. They tried to get me on the gurney but while they were getting it set up I climbed in the ambulance on my own. Fuck that.
The fucker cut the artery in my left wrist and did a fair amount of damage to the tendons. That should heal up just fine. He damaged the tendons in my right wrist and there are more than a few serious punctures. He tore up my right foot (through those fucking heavy boots!). On my left leg he lacerated it badly and fishhooked the muscle in my calf out through the skin. They managed to glue me all back together and the wife is doing an excellent job regularly changing the dressings. It looks like I will fully recover sans my left leg. No sign of infection so far. The bastard cut the nerve in my calf so I have a large patch on my leg with no sensation. I guess if you are gonna have a dead spot the front of your left calf is the place to have it.
Unless it is some incredibly cute little peanut the next stray that shows up here gets a rock between the eyes. As I said a couple of days ago, life and death struggle. I got surgery, he got an autopsy.
*Let me assure everyone, rabies treatment is A LOT of fun. A real treat.
I will try to get back on later this evening.
Jesus.
jesus I would not have made it through that. This is why I don’t plan on getting a dog. Not sure I could handle everything necessary.
Also I am too old for something like that
I am laso glad you made it off course. Make your next dog a basset hound or westie
I can highly recommend a border collie.
Just keep it busy.
seem overactive
Very, very challenging dog if you are a casual dog owner.
Like all herding breeds. If they don’t have a mission they will drive you insane.
Eh, most dogs, particularly ones that you raise from a pup, don’t do that. Strays and rescues are probably the more difficult, and even then lots of success stories. And then there’s cases like Suthenboy. I was looking at adopting a Rhodesian Ridgeback once. Took it for a walk at the pound and the damn thing slipped its leash. Finally caught up to it and got it back on and back to the shelter. That was the end of that.
Neighbor brought home a Rottweiler that was clearly mental. I told him it was a nice gesture to try to adopt but that it was not the right dog for him. He, of course, wouldn’t listen. A couple days later the Rot got out and damn near killed another neighbor’s dog.
He took it back and got a lab instead.
The lady I bought my GSD from told me she turned down 90% of the people who wanted one of her dogs. Told them to get a Golden. It’s good advice.
Wow, glad you survived.
Holy Crap!
I am glad to hear that you survived. I hope it will heal right.
I wasn’t sure before so I didn’t write anything about it but I believe he thought he was the alpha. It even sounds like he might have gone more wolf than dog – didn’t recognize a human as anything but a threat.
Domesticated dogs can be exceedingly dangerous. They don’t have that self preservation instinct that wolves have. Makes them very unpredictable when they’re wild. It also makes them effective hunting companions because they don’t back down.
Damn. I’m glad you married that fine woman. They’re hens teeth.
Jesus Christ man.
Sorry about all of that.
Holy WTF!!? Glad you made it out. No good deed goes unpunished.
Wow. Sorry 🙁
Wow, glad you survived and will hopefully completely heal. Buy your wife dinner the first chance you get.
I forgot to add this. The emergency room nurse said ” I see a lot of dog bites. This is the worst I have ever seen. You are lucky to be alive. ”
An emergency room nurse said that.
Christ Suthen’. Thank God your wife was there! Hope your recovery goes well.
You are a tough bugger.
I’m sorry to hear that happened to you and prayers for a speedy recovery.
My God. That’s intense. Very glad to hear you survived that!
This is way early. But, depending upon the damage, you may be able to get good leg recovery with some strength training. Even moderate, low weights may help.
Again, thank God for your wife.
Holy. Shit.
Glad you’re alive with no permanent disabilities or anything.
Stray dogs can be fucking mean. That’s why I still bring my CZ-75 Compact (14 + 1 of 9mm hollowpoints) when I go jogging even though crime is practically nonexistent here.
I had a 38 on the counter not 5 feet from me the whole time but I couldn’t get to it. Words cant describe how viciously he was attacking me. The dope turned him into a monster.
It’s never happened to me, but from reading accounts of survivors, being mauled by an animal is one of the most terrifying and primal things a human can go through.
Truer words never spoken. Your mind gets crystal clear real fast. It is just like being shot at. You only think one thing. Survive.
Glad you made it out of that mess relatively intact. Were I you I’d make sure your missus got waited on hand and foot for the next six months at least.
And if another stray shows up on your property, I hope you have a large argument at hand.
One of the reasons I used to run with a loaded rifle/carbine when I lived in BFE Arizona years ago. Very few people out there but it was known that dogs were dumped out there when people had to relocate. Dogs can be dangerous enough – feral dogs can kill you quick.
Wow. How did you carry it? It wasn’t horribly uncomfortable?
My jogging route goes through the suburbs and public parks, so carrying a rifle would attract more police attention than I want to deal with every time I go for a run (even though it’s technically legal and probably looks really fucking cool).
Port arms. I figured it gave me a little upper body work as a benefit.
As I said it was BFE Arizona (about 20 minutes southeast of Tucson). Nobody cared. People driving by would wave as always. It was perfectly legal. I even did it with a suppressed, full-auto MAC-10 sometimes. But this was more than 25 years ago.
I tried doing it a year later when I was in grad school just north of PHX. Still legal but the police took a dim view.
Fast thinking on your part, Suthen, and a great response from the team. Glad you are more or less still in one piece. The stray dog lesson is should be well learned for the rest of us. Good that you took the necessary action. Hat’s off!
Dang, son, that’s a hell of a story. Glad to hear there’s no permanent damage.
Terrible event, Suthen. That is just awful. Ridgebacks are one of a very small handful of breeds that just strike me wrong. And I raise pit bulls. There’s just something about them that I don’t want.
Years ago, when our rescue pit mix (probably pointer or viszla) went bad (he attacked our female pit several times before we had him put down), he was never aggressive towards us. I waded into a couple of their “fights” (the female, incredibly, didn’t really fight back) with no hesitation I would get bit.
Once a dog crosses the line into attacking other dogs or people, its over as far as I’m concerned. You may be able to train them out of it, but I would never trust them again.
Holy.Shit.
Holy crap, Suthen. That’s…amazing. I’ve had to break up dog fights before, but never anything like that. I’m so glad you’re salvageable. I mean, just, damn!
JFC. Glad your prognosis is good but that’s terrifying.
Holy shit. I didn’t read the morning links until the evening, and I see this? Shit.
I am happy you pulled through. Kudos to your wife for saving your life.
I hope you heal up quickly!
Jesu cristi, Suthen. Wow. I’m glad you’re still with us among the living. I’m terribly sorry that all of this happened with that dog, but look at the bright side: there should be zero guilt with putting him down now. It’s still sad, but… I really do appreciate people who adopt dogs, my wife did the same (but he’s a little shit and I could throw him out the window one-handed if it came to it), especially older ones, but man, you’re fortunate to be alive.
Anyway, best wishes for a fast and full recovery.
Hope your recovery is swift. All of my dogs have been saved dogs but the instance they show signs of aggression towards me or others I correct them. I would hate to put one down but biting me or someone else would be the reason for sure. I still have the scars from a wolf/husky hybrid that bit me a friend’s house when I tried handing the owner a glass of soda. No one understands the true power of an animal until they lock on an appendage. I’m a big boy and when he clamped on my forearm I couldn’t move it.
From Justice Democrats twitter.
“Replying to @justicedems
Nancy is cancelled. Time for @ShahidForChange to take her seat and give San Franciscan’s true progressive representation in the House. #MedicareForAll #CloseTheCamps ‘
These people are certifiable.
And dangerous.
And I would say they are betting against the house. Ask anybody who gambles what that means.
“On Twitter, she’s Christopher Hitchens. In person, she’s Billy Madison.”
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1149838914158497793
“Alexandria De Bergerac
It’s blindingly obvious that whoever is writing incoming Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tweets is not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. AOC has a social-media Cyrano de B. This wouldn’t be too worthy of notice under most circumstances because we generally expect statements of public figures to be laundered through the paid-publicist machine and to come out uncontroversial and anodyne. But AOC doesn’t stick to Congressperson boilerplate on social media. She is the new master of the sick burn, the withering putdown and the curare-tipped rejoinder. Yet at the same time, in interviews she continues to embarrass herself.
In-person AOC does not speak like this. On Twitter, she’s Christopher Hitchens. In person, she’s Billy Madison. In person, she thinks the unemployment rate goes down when people take multiple jobs. She thinks funeral costs should be included in the overall price tag of health care. She thinks that when the U.S. was founded, it rejected capitalism.
Fine. The guy who has been writing Orrin Hatch’s Twitter jokes is probably not Orrin Hatch. But AOC has chosen as her social-media spokesperson someone whose I.Q. is so many points above hers that it’s setting her up for an epic face plant. Someday, someone’s going to quiz AOC in person on something that she supposedly said on social media, and she’s going to draw a complete blank. I can only hope that when it happens her interviewer closes out by saying, “I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.””
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-presence/
Ooh, buuurn
I hope she stays in Congress forever. She’s the perfect spokeswoman for Team Blue.
#metoo
Whoever is writing her tweets may be smarter than AOC but their not all that smart themselves and they sure as hell don’t have the intellect nor the wit of Hitch.
More:
“Are Red, Neolibs Are Whack
Flipped corrupt Joe Crowley’s ass. Besides, getting one progressive in the house is worth more in the long run than flipping a red seat to a centrist Dem that votes with Trump 70% of the time any day.”
Are Red, Neolibs Are Whack
We have a dem controlled House now, and it hasn’t done anything because they are complicit and don’t resist anything Trump has done. This isn’t 1999. The people are starving for progressive change.”
They are?
AOC has 4 million followers. The group that apparently put her there has 212 000.
Interesting.
I wonder how many of those 4 million are a) legit and b) people rubber necking at a car crash.
“Anti-ICE protesters rip American flag off flag pole, raise Mexican flag at ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1150007832428761088
That’s an excellent way to gain supporters for your cause.
Most relevant response.
https://twitter.com/sgarber15/status/1150023881555623937
Someone’s never been to a US men’s national soccer match played in the US….
Do we even know who these “activists” are? Could be a bunch of home-grown antifa types for all we know.
Because they aren’t immigrants and they don’t want to be a part of this country legally.
Ok. I don’t care what kind of libertarian you are when it comes to the flag but that demands some sort of action.
That’s whacked and treasonous. Wtf?
And they’ll get coddled and defended by the apologists in the media and politics.
Did everyone skip the history lesson about raising a foreign flag over a structure as a declaration of ownership AKA war? That’s why flags are so important to the good ol USA. We had to fight for damn near every inch… and then we’d raise a flag.
This actually is a case where the National Guard should be called out. Raising a flag is declaring intent.
I grew up in a neighborhood which was predominately people of Mexican heritage. That was 40-some-odd years ago but none of them ever put a Mexican flag on anything. Even those who were Mexican citizens knew on whose soil they lived and why they chose to be there. It would have been too easy to live where the Mexican flag flew in the breeze – maybe 10 minutes by car.
But but but….Union Jack at a fish&chips or the Irish tricolor in a bar.
Has the Colorado National Guard been used for riot control since the Ludlow Masacre?
Our governor is an ultra Prog; he’d be more likely to call the National Guard on a boy scout gathering.
Same with the governor here stepping into Portland’s shit pile.
Want to his Twitter. He has a Tweet about giving great advice.
Ooo-Boy.
Between raising that flag, speaking Spanish at the debates, and planning to taking money away from Americans to finance healthcare for illegal immigrants, they sure are giving a lot of credence to the idea that Democrats are literally trying to destroy America.
I think it’s pretty clear they went from wanting to distance themselves from its roots to uprooting it outright.
That was an exceedingly stupid thing to do.
And nothing else will happen. It’s like those rallies, often in front of ICE facilities, where the speakers boast of being illegal aliens. That right there should be an auto deport if you’re publicly stating you’re here illegally.
No kidding. May as well have been a bunch of pro-Trump 4chan trolls it makes illegals/Dems look so bad. We all know they won’t be deported and/or prosecuted, but Trump will probably retweet it and get those working-class white former-Dems riled up.
You missed campaigning for the Presidency of the United States … in Mexico.
I meant to put this under Akira’s 10:18 comment above.
Holy shit, Suthen. That’s horrible. Glad you made it.
Morning assholes!
I’m going to the pool with a pretty girl and getting boozy! Have a great day everyone!
Did you buy that AK?
Nah. I really wanted to, but right now I should not be spending ~$600 on an impulse buy. When I bought my AR (M&P Sport 1) many years ago, I thought ‘there’s no way ARs will ever be cheaper than this (~$580)’. Guess what, they’re cheaper now. I expect I will still be able to find that AK for a similar price in the future.
I do intend to buy that Glock 42 though. I need a small handgun more than I need another long gun.
Take a good look at the SA 911s, if you’re looking at 380s. Excellent little piece of hardware at a decent price.
Poppy?
A man can dream lol. Or maybe not… she is too young for me.
does she know you are going?
It’s his avatar.
If anyone is curious, my avatar is Balsa from the anime “Seirei no moribito”. One of my favorite things in the whole world.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029248/
I am topping off the pool now. Short on pretty girls around here though. I need to get one. Perhaps one that can double as a pool float.
first garden tomatoes this year. There is nothing like a perfectly ripe just picked tomato. But you Americans would not understand…
My tomato plants are not doing well. Curled leaves and the blooms just drop off. I thought my chili plants were doing ok, but I saw this morning a brown spot on one of the chilis. I need to throw in the towel on gardening.
Because tomatoes are from Italy… or no, maybe from Spain. No, that’s not it. Oh yeah, they’re from north America!
pssst… South America
We got it from the Aztecs in Mexico – which is north America.
And they got it from South America.
Sure, but 30-40mya, where’d Solanacea get their genes from, huh smartguy? Probably some Siberian shrub. Who ultimately inherited from a bacteria that failed to digest a cyanobacteria.
Ergo, tomatoes come from the ocean.
The goddamn squirrels ate all my tomatoes. I had good luck with collard greens since they don’t seem to recognize them as food, but then I had to pick the worms off of them daily.
I haven’t even gotten around to planting anything lately. Maybe I’ll try to grow some basil since they have inexplicably stopped carrying it at grocery stores around here… And I want to try my hand at pesto.
Basil is the one plant I can’t kill. I need to get some too. Love having fresh basil on hand.
Try redneck pesto. Pecans and collards instead of pine nuts and basil.
The frost on June 13th did in 45 (all of them) tomato plants. I left them in the ground and 40 of them regenerated from the root and now some are in blossom. With a long fall I’ll have lots of tomatoes, they are growing like a wild fire now that the heat has kicked in. I love tomatoes, fresh corn and cukes, all will be a little late but all are looking good now, just a little late.
Deer came last night and ate the flowers off Mrs F’s rose bush. Doe with 2 spotted fawns spent yesterday afternoon in the yard, casing the place.
We’ve had mulies in the back yard eating rose hips. Fine by me; the bushes needed to be deadheaded anyway.
Last summer, one night when I was drunkenly cleaning a cantaloupe (we call em muskmelon) I thought, “Im gonna toss these seeds in some dirt and see what happens.”
Well, not long later, vines sprang forth with blooms, and soon little melons were forming. The strange thing was that out of the 3 or melons I got, they were all sized between a baseball and softball. Then autumn arrived, and I cleaned the flower beds out.
Imagine my shock when a few weeks ago, I have 2 more melon vines. Evidently I didnt get all the seeds out last year.
Don’t ever let anyone sucker you into planting mint. That shit won’t die.
I have some plastic planters where I could grow it in isolation… And I do love me some mint juleps.
Basil, parsley, and possibly oregano are bigger priorities though.
That’s the only way to plant mint. I’ve made the mistake of planting in the ground. Took repeated Roundups to finally get rid of it.
When I lived in southern Wisconsin (dairy country outside Madison), the woods behind our house hosted a mix of mint and hemp plants. The mint plants were all over the map on taste; I founds some that had a real crisp, cool taste, better than any other mint I’ve had. they were super happy when I transplanted them. Not so happy when I realized the mistake I had made.
I had a spot tilled last year, never got the rabbit fence complete in time, been growing maple seedlings since.
Started a tray of tomato and another tray of chilis, 72spots per tray, 6 varieties of tomatoes / 4 varieties of chilis. Fucked up my blood sugar and got sick the first week of May when I was supposed to be transplanting them outside. Neglected watering while I was bed-ridden. 6 tomato seedlings made it to containers by the end of May. The pepper seedlings did a little better, about 1/4 of the tray finally made it into containers this week, already popping out the first blooms, some even looking like they set though I’m not sure how they pollinated indoors.
Broke one of the tomatoes while potting, applied a splint, looked good till the first real heat hit and there clearly wasn’t enough water getting past the break as the upper portion of the vine wilted nearly to death. Below the break, sidebranch was developing into a new trunk. Ton of rootbumps shooting out above the break, so wrapped the injury in sphagnum and tied on a mesh bag of soil, wrapped the whole caboodle in plastic and kept moist….5days later, turgidity returning to the upper vine, unwrap, and BAM, root mania. Upper vine broke off while I was trying to remove the dressings, so two plants in the end.
So that tomato is a little behind the others, the largest with a main vine as tall as me and multiple lower branches that will need their own poles/ties soon, two handfuls of blossoms so far.
3 pots of beet greens that i’m having trouble eating before they get too big for salad. Just started a pot of basil (thai, cinnamon, and purple) and another pot with chives (common and garlic) and oregano. Lost momentum before getting a couple pots of cilantro going, still on the todo list.
Not so many deer to be a problem I think, despite almost bumping into one while mowing recently, but the rabbits…..jesus. It’s rare that I look out a window in passing without seeing a rabbit. Looked out the living room recently and there were 3 of them gamboling the lawn. Was weeding yesterday, turned back to the porch for a drink, and there’s a baby rabbit sitting there. Back in April, mowed a spot I’d neglected for two weeks, and out flew a bunch of fur and limbs. Walked over there with the dog later, “Bella, look in here”…..SQUEEEEE…she swallowed 4 bunnies whole, two others making it to the safety of a nearby hedge because Bella was preoccupied with the slower ones. Went over and kicked the hedge and an adult sprinted out to escape around the house.
I’m not sure that even if I complete my rabbit fence that it will be effective against the horde of lil varmints, so I haven’t been motivated to cut another 50 sections of chicken wire for the skirt around the bottom of the fence. The trench to put the skirt in, dug last year, has mostly eroded so that will need to be re-trenched. Wondering if I shouldn’t just rip up the wire fence and buy a truckload of cinderblocks.
MIne are still green. No peppers yet either.
I wish I could find it again today, but I ran across some interesting articles about SF housing a couple days ago.
The first was building permits or housing starts in the early post war period. Basically they took a nose dive in the 60’s. Part of that could be land was used up by then. But it’s also when government sponsored and mandated urban redevelopment ramped up.
The other was about the Yerba Buena Gardens, one of those “renewal” projects. Thanks to fed money, SF bought and destroyed large amounts of low income housing. Replacement housing was supposed to be provided, but *spoiler alert* it wasn’t. And that was the beef of the article, but reading between the lines you can see how fucked up things are and were and it’s government involved and caused all the way down.
With that opening picture, I’m surprised that this mornings music wasn’t Rats & Star.
Editor wanted
The Trump administration announced late Friday that it will formally suspend an Obama-era regulation that penalized automakers that didn’t meet fuel efficiency requirements, Reuters reports.
After Congress ordered federal agencies to adjust existing penalties in 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued rules that more than doubled fines — from $5.50 per 0.1 mile to $14 for the same distance — for automakers that consume more fuel than standards allow.
The rules issued under former President Obama called for a fuel-efficiency average of 46.7 miles per gallon by 2026, while the Trump administration’s rules call for 37 miles per gallon.
After automakers decried the implementation, saying it could raise compliance costs by $1 billion annually, the Trump administration began to unravel the regulation in 2018.
Despite the Trump administration’s announcement, the NHTSA told Reuters in a statement that it was following Congress’ initial intent to make sure the penalty rate for fuel standards was set at law-mandated levels.
I’m having a little trouble unraveling who is doing what to whom, and why, here. The writer is apparently unable to distinguish between the cafe mileage requirement and the penalty for missing it. My best guess is NHTSA is openly defying Trump because justice.
It would be nice to know if the penalties are based on anything but whimsy.
Some music since I’m out getting in trouble and can’t comment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8HTNaqEMOgk
Words from a Gunney in my past: “You’re not in trouble if you don’t get caught”
Wise words. Is the wife really sleeping is the real question, though.
Is brining chicken the One Weird Trick that makes breasts succulent and juicy? Or is it just a salty salmonella bath?
I have found when I have brined chicken it is too salty for my taste. I usually use half the salt most brine recipes call for but sometimes I forget and ya, way too salty.
Really? I have brined the crap out of chicken, turkey, etc. and its never been particularly salty. The difference brining makes on turkeys and chicken breasts is significant; I hope to never eat un-brined turkey again.
Like with saline?
I dry brine and make sure to pull them off the grill at 165 or so. But yes, brining makes a huge difference.
I need a meat thermometer. I always sear on both sides and then boil it under a lid until it’s white throughout (but really because I go turn off the burner).
AT the very least get one of these.
Works great. I also have a couple leave-in thermometers that are helpful as well.
This one
And for monitoring multiple pieces and/or grill temps, this one.
It makes a world of difference.
I always brine pork chops and pork tenderloin and it makes world of difference. 2 qts water, 1/4 cup each kosher salt and sugar, chopped onion, bay leaves, few peppercorns. Even thin chops grill up nice and moist.
I rinse before grilling and I don’t salt again until I’ve tasted.
What happens with a brine is the salt initially draws the water out of the meat but then the meat pulls it back in and more along with flavor.
Brine it with a salt/MSG mix.
“I hope as these ICE Raids get underway, people who are in positions of safety take photos of the faces of those doing the arresting. 20 years from now, when we’re telling the stories of how this era unfolded, it will be useful to track those individuals down to interview them.”
https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1149514196054208513
Christ, what an asshole.
What about when Ob– oh I give up.
it will be useful to track those individuals down to interview them.
“It must have been very frustrating to do your job and try to keep illegals out of the US when you were constantly being undermined by Congress and pilloried in the press. Can you give us a front-line perspective on that?”
Long-awaited
Radical as its mid-engine layout is, the base C8 should still get the 6.2-liter, small-block pushrod V-8 that has reliably powered front-engine Corvettes for generations. Purists will surely grumble, however, at the lack of a manual transmission option; the C8 will be offered only with a dual-clutch 8-speed automatic.
Never mind.
Long-awaited by who? I know a few gearheads, and they hate it.
One of the best values in performance cars, but it gets a big meh from me.
I really like the looks of the current generation, the best since at least the “coke bottle” ‘Vettes (and I’m not crazy about that generation).
It’s so ugly…. and pretty much a wannabe euro tin can.
Doesn’t really look like a Corvette at all. The current design is really nice.
Long-awaited by who?
GM has been dithering about a mid-engine Corvette since the ’60s.
*by whose
The fucking literacy on this board is abysmal.
You mean “by whom”.
Babies are conceived in the whom, dude
Lol
it will be useful to track those individuals down to
interview themprosecute them for their crimes against humanity and the One World Government.Honesty is the best policy.
The fucking literacy on this board is abysmal.
No, your a idjit.