In Which 9/11 Truther and Russia Today Shill Abby Martin Calls Me a “Pathetic Hack”

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So this morning I checked Twitter, as is my wont, and what do I find but a flood of 9/11 Truthers in my timeline, saying very mean things about your humble author. After blocking all the raving loons, I dug down to the bottom of the pile and discovered that they were all worked up because Russia Today shill and all-around crackpot Abby Martin had tweeted some insults at me.

Here’s a screenshot of her tweets — I can’t embed the real ones because she deleted them.

It’s always nice to start the day with a laugh, and there’s nothing funnier than a 9/11 Truther complaining that you have one of the details in her loony fluoride conspiracy theory wrong.

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304 comments
1 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:30:15am

Wait. She’s not really arguing that fluoride is a fertilizer chemical, is she?

I can only accept so much abuse of basic science…

2 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:30:32am


Her nonsense belongs on Prison Planet or InfoWars, but apparently Russia Today and First Look want to race to the bottom of the barrel so they’re putting her nonsense on their sites.

So much for journalistic integrity.

3 Testy Toad T  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:30:56am

You say “fertilizer chemical that shouldn’t be dumped in water”, I say “tomahto”.

4 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:30:58am

Related. This just in.

5 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:31:11am

Some 9/11 truthers just make me sad for them, the low-information dude trapped in some small town who gloms onto conspiracy theories ‘cuz he really doesn’t have anything else going.

But a reporter? For fuck’s sake. Being a reporter and a 9/11 truther is like being a lawyer and believing in sovereign citizen bullshit.

6 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:31:36am

re: #1 klys

Wait. She’s not really arguing that fluoride is a fertilizer chemical, is she?

I can only accept so much abuse of basic science…

Fluoride. Phosphorus. Whatevs /Abby Martin.

That said, the source of the chemical fluoride is a byproduct of fertilizer production. It is also naturally occurring in rocks in many parts of the country (which is why it is often a byproduct).

She’s arguing that because something is a byproduct of one chemical product, which happens to be fertilizer, somehow makes the resulting chemical incapable of being used for something else.

That’s a chemistry fail in so many ways, but so typical with these low-information nuts.

7 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:32:27am

re: #1 klys

Wait. She’s not really arguing that fluoride is a fertilizer chemical, is she?

I can only accept so much abuse of basic science…

water.epa.gov

Sources of Contamination
Water additive which promotes strong teeth; erosion of natural deposits; discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories

8 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:33:18am

Yes, she is a kook, but yes, fluoride can be a run off from fertilizer production and use

9 GunstarGreen  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:33:55am

Look, all I’m sayin’ is that I’m concerned for our precious bodily fluids.

10 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:34:06am

re: #4 Gus

Is that in the tradition of Drew Pearson or Jack Anderson?

11 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:34:33am

Here’s the difference between Wingnuts and Dudebros.

Wingnuts constantly repeat bullshit but they think that it is “FACT.” They are misguided but sincere believers.

Dudebros constantly repeat bullshit even though they know is bullshit. They are sociopaths.

I’m not sure yet what category Abby Martin falls into.

12 b.d.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:34:58am

But it takes courage for a Russia Today host to say something not positive about Russia, in English, on a channel that is not even broadcast in Russia.

Courage!

This was the Shep Smith moment for RT. See! We have hosts that don’t toe the party line all of the time and nothing bad happens to them!! This was the equivalent of a VOA announcer saying something against American foreign policy in a foreign language to a foreign audience. Shocking! Stop the presses!

13 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:35:11am

re: #11 Pie-onist Overlord

Wingbro. Or sis.

14 Bulworth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:35:22am

re: #1 klys

The floride-in-the-water people must really be up in arms about companies polluting the water in WV, right?

//

15 b.d.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:36:05am

Did she get her job at Russia Today because of, or in spite of, her crazy beliefs?

16 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:36:14am

By the way, Abby Martin goes FAR beyond arguing that fluoride is a fertilizer runoff — she’s recycling old John Birch Society myths that fluoride is harmful and that it doesn’t prevent tooth decay.

17 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:36:19am

re: #10 jaunte

Is that in the tradition of Drew Pearson or Jack Anderson?

[Grabs heart like in John Wayne western.]

[Falls to ground.]

“I’m dead.”

[Dies.]

18 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:36:45am

re: #14 Bulworth

The floride-in-the-water people must really be up in arms about companies polluting the water in WV, right?

//

The only thing worse than fluoride in the water is regulating businesses.

19 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:37:00am

re: #9 GunstarGreen

Look, all I’m sayin’ is that I’m concerned for our precious bodily fluids.

You ever seen a Commie drink water?

20 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:37:02am

OMG They killed Gus!

YOU BASTARDS!!

21 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:37:30am

Wait! There’s more!

22 Skip Intro  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:37:57am

re: #16 Charles Johnson

By the way, Abby Martin goes FAR beyond arguing that fluoride is a fertilizer runoff — she’s recycling old John Birch Society myths that fluoride is harmful and that it doesn’t prevent tooth decay.

She wouldn’t, by any chance, be an anti-vaxer too?

23 Mattand  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:38:07am

re: #17 Gus

[Grabs heart like in John Wayne western.]

[Falls to ground.]

“I’m dead.”

[Dies.]

Shoulda yelled out “He hath murdered me!”, Hamlet-style.

24 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:38:09am

re: #8 Kragar

Yes, she is a kook, but yes, fluoride can be a run off from fertilizer production and use

I would argue there is a difference between a chemical used in production (which is what this is in the case of fertilizer) and a “fertilizer runoff chemical” which, to most people, is the result of fertilizer application. There is no fluoride in the fertilizer itself, as far as I can tell - and there really wouldn’t be, because all of the anions of interest are negative, which the fluoride would compete with.

But fair point, and I acknowledge it.

25 GunstarGreen  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:38:41am

re: #21 Gus

Wait! There’s more!

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Offer to help him find that badger.

The one that tore out his heart/soul and left a half-melted jolly rancher in its place.

26 b.d.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:38:51am

re: #21 Gus

Wait! There’s more!

[Embedded content]

He seems like a nice man

27 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:39:05am

re: #2 lawhawk

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Her nonsense belongs on Prison Planet or InfoWars, but apparently Russia Today and First Look want to race to the bottom of the barrel so they’re putting her nonsense on their sites.

So much for journalistic integrity.

Crazy in unum, crazy in omnes.

28 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:39:21am

How could anyone get the idea she was talking about brainwashing?

29 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:39:28am

re: #15 b.d.

Did she get her job at Russia Today because of, or in spite of, her crazy beliefs?

The Kremlin has always co-opted American conspiracy kooks to use for propaganda purposes. This is nothing new.

30 Testy Toad T  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:40:30am

re: #24 klys

More to the point, it’s using irrelevant factually correct but loaded language to try to distract from more pertinent matters.

Plain boring water is probably the most dangerous liquid on Earth, just based on the total number of people it’s killed, but that doesn’t mean I don’t drink it every day.

31 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:40:47am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

The Kremlin has always co-opted American conspiracy kooks to use for propaganda purposes. This is nothing new.

That makes me wonder…..is the John Birch Society in reality a front for the Kremlin?

O_o

32 Petero1818  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:42:33am

Just a thought, but is there a chance that MAdsen’s attack on Gus could be considered cyberbullying?

33 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:42:43am

One trick all conspiracy theorists use is to try to draw you into debating the details of their paranoid fantasies. I’ve seen this stupid tactic so many times it’s just boring by now. I refuse to play that game with them.

34 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:42:57am

re: #31 Dr Lizardo

That makes me wonder…..is the John Birch Society in reality a front for the Kremlin?

O_o

That would be pretty ironic.

35 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:42:59am

re: #31 Dr Lizardo

That makes me wonder…..is the John Birch Society in reality a front for the Kremlin?

O_o

Wasn’t that the whole twist of the Manchurian Candidate? I’d love it if the Birchers were actually secret communist themselves.

36 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:43:08am

re: #26 b.d.

He seems like a nice man

I need to die because I called him a whacko. Seems stable enough. I wonder if The Guardian is still using him as an IC expert? Pretty sure PressTV will still have no problem with him.

37 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:43:23am

re: #28 jaunte

So, according to the Barney Stinson hot/crazy scale, she’s off the charts. /

Youtube Video

38 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:43:31am

re: #32 Petero1818

Just a thought, but is there a chance that MAdsen’s attack on Gus could be considered cyberbullying?

I think he’d have to be seeking Gus out. I think it’s just Cyberassholery.

39 Mattand  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:43:53am

re: #1 klys

Wait. She’s not really arguing that fluoride is a fertilizer chemical, is she?

I can only accept so much abuse of basic science…

It’s simply amazing that Americans can walk on the freaking moon and have Star Trek communicators in our pockets, but still treat basic science as some sort of incomprehensible gibberish never to be trusted.

The whole Subway/yoga mat dust thing leaps to mind. You can have your opinions about whether or not you want it on your hoagie, but at the end of the day, it wasn’t a dietary threat.

I’ve been seeing a meme pop up here and there that broccoli has more protein than steak, ergo stop eating meat. Again, this is just wrong.

Now we’ve got “Oh noes, fluoride in teh waterz!!” making a comeback. Being pushed by a 9/11 truther, no less.

Swear to God, at this rate people are going to executed for using a fucking calculator in fifty years.

40 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:44:17am

re: #37 lawhawk

So, according to the Barney Stinson hot/crazy scale, she’s off the charts. /

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Challenge Accepted!
///

41 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:44:30am

re: #39 Mattand

What’s a calculator? /

42 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:44:38am

re: #33 Charles Johnson

One trick all conspiracy theorists use is to try to draw you into debating the details of their paranoid fantasies. I’ve seen this stupid tactic so many times it’s just boring by now. I refuse to play that game with them.

There is a certain amount of irony in a conspiracy theorist bleating about facts not being properly presented.

43 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:44:46am

Youtube Video
Related- My favorite Onion video story ever.

44 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:45:04am

re: #30 Testy Toad T

More to the point, it’s using irrelevant factually correct but loaded language to try to distract from more pertinent matters.

Plain boring water is probably the most dangerous liquid on Earth, just based on the total number of people it’s killed, but that doesn’t mean I don’t drink it every day.

Which is why, IIRC, medieval folks drank a lot of watered wine, so that the water would likely not make them sick or kill them.
Not they they knew anything about germs and such. Sort of “I don’t know why, but it works” kind of thinking.

45 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:45:07am

re: #41 lawhawk

What’s a calculator? /

It’s a function on your phone.

46 Mattand  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:46:12am

re: #45 GeneJockey

It’s a function on your phone.

Like a Speak-and-Spell, only with numbers.

“The cow says ‘The square root of 9 is 3! Mooooo!’ “

47 b.d.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:46:13am

Well, there you have it. Cased closed!
//

48 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:46:14am

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

Which is why, IIRC, medieval folks drank a lot of watered wine, so that the water would likely not make them sick or kill them.
Not they they knew anything about germs and such. Sort of “I don’t know why, but it works” kind of thinking.

It does sort of change one’s view of history to consider that a lot of our ancestors spent a lot of their time slightly sozzled.

49 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:46:49am

re: #47 b.d.

Perfect.

Либертарианская инструмент

50 Testy Toad T  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:46:53am

re: #48 GeneJockey

It does sort of change one’s view of history to consider that a lot of our ancestors spent a lot of their time slightly sozzled.

I’m in good company, then!

[hic]

51 Skip Intro  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:47:09am

Now I know where Michelle Bachmann will be employed February 2015.

52 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:47:14am

re: #47 b.d.

Well, there you have it. Cased closed!
//

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It would be news if Luapr Nor was saying we should be involved. I don’t know what I find more annoying. His reflexative opposition to any international involvement with anything or the McCain/Graham approach which is WAR WAR and MORE WAR.

53 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:47:25am

re: #42 klys

There is a certain amount of irony in a conspiracy theorist bleating about facts not being properly presented.

I nominate this for understatement of the week.

54 Mattand  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:47:59am

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

Which is why, IIRC, medieval folks drank a lot of watered wine, so that the water would likely not make them sick or kill them.
Not they they knew anything about germs and such. Sort of “I don’t know why, but it works” kind of thinking.

Let’s not forget how water’s medieval lethality led to the fine art of brewing beer.

To dysentery!

55 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:48:06am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

The Kremlin has always co-opted American conspiracy kooks to use for propaganda purposes. This is nothing new.

Yep. Why train and send agents of subversion when you can just send checks to make sure our own stay in business.

By the way Charles…it is good knowing you do a great job of running a political site of which no one pays any attention. I should think a great journalist like Abby Martin wouldn’t even lower herself to comment on the writings of a ‘pathetic hack.’

56 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:48:34am

My house is surrounded by animated miniature wood carved Wayne Madsen ninjas!

57 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:48:50am

re: #45 GeneJockey

Phone? All I see is this:

you rang?

58 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:49:26am

re: #56 Gus

Don’t feed them after midnight, or you get Drew Pearsons.

59 Mattand  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:50:34am

re: #57 lawhawk

Phone? All I see is this:

you rang?

That’s not a phone. It has a cord!

60 calochortus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:50:35am

re: #57 lawhawk

Phone? All I see is this:

you rang?

You should come to my house. I have one with a dial. None of this fancy-schmancy push button nonsense.

(OK, I do have a couple with pushbuttons)

61 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:50:48am

I admit just hesitating for a second in opening the front door. O.O

62 Mattand  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:51:29am

re: #56 Gus

My house is surrounded by animated miniature wood carved Wayne Madsen ninjas!

Get Karen Black to burn them in the oven.

(Look it up, whippersnappers!)

63 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:51:54am

re: #54 Mattand

Let’s not forget how water’s medieval lethality led to the fine art of brewing beer.

To dysentery!

Thank FSM for hops!

Apparently when the colonists got here, they didn’t have hops, so they tried other things to preserve/flavor beer, like spruce buds. A decade or so ago, to commemorate this, Anchor brewery made a run of Spruce Beer.

It was vile.

I bought two bottles. I managed to get three swallows into the first before I decided that I’d rather not drink than drink that shit. Several weeks later, I opened the other one, to see if I had been to quick in my judgement.

Nope.

64 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:53:03am

re: #61 Gus

I admit just hesitating for a second in opening the front door. O.O

It’s important to be careful. You don’t want to trip. A toothpick could take your eye out.

65 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:54:06am

re: #42 klys

There is a certain amount of irony in a conspiracy theorist bleating about facts not being properly presented.

Irony? That implies some intent.

This is pure bedrock irrational crazy. And like Charles said, you can’t debate foaming-at-the-brain crazy.

66 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:54:08am

re: #62 Mattand

Get Karen Black to burn them in the oven.

(Look it up, whippersnappers!)

Jesus, that movie scared the shit out of me! I still get the willies thinking about it, so THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH for bringing it up!

67 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:54:54am

re: #66 GeneJockey

Jesus, that movie scared the shit out of me! I still get the willies thinking about it, so THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH for bringing it up!

Hey, think how I feel. //

68 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:55:06am

re: #65 ObserverArt

Irony? That implies some intent.

This is pure bedrock irrational crazy. And like Charles said, you can’t debate foaming-at-the-brain crazy.

“Did he froth at the mouth to fall over? Or fall over to froth at the mouth?”

69 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:55:37am

re: #65 ObserverArt

Irony? That implies some intent.

This is pure bedrock irrational crazy. And like Charles said, you can’t debate foaming-at-the-brain crazy.

I don’t think irony requires intent on their part. More like the overall situation is ironic.

…Like RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNN…….

/ok, I’ll stop now.

70 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:56:10am

re: #67 Gus

Hey, think how I feel. //

You gotta be like Agnes Moorehead and the tiny spacemen. Don’t take any shit. Stuff ‘em in a sack and beat the living hell out of them.

71 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:56:19am
72 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:56:54am

re: #48 GeneJockey

It does sort of change one’s view of history to consider that a lot of our ancestors spent a lot of their time slightly sozzled.

The first or second time I had a 2pm beer after a long walk or other exertion was when I truly grasped that concept.

73 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:57:08am

re: #70 GeneJockey

You gotta be like Agnes Moorehead and the tiny spacemen. Don’t take any shit. Stuff ‘em in a sack and beat the living hell out of them.

“It’s an American spaceship and it’s tiny! Noooooooooooooo!”

PEW PEW PEW

[Grabs ax.]

//

74 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:57:53am

re: #63 GeneJockey

Thank FSM for hops!

Apparently when the colonists got here, they didn’t have hops, so they tried other things to preserve/flavor beer, like spruce buds. A decade or so ago, to commemorate this, Anchor brewery made a run of Spruce Beer.

It was vile.

I bought two bottles. I managed to get three swallows into the first before I decided that I’d rather not drink than drink that shit. Several weeks later, I opened the other one, to see if I had been to quick in my judgement.

Nope.

We actually grow hops here on the farm. I really need to dig up and separate the rhizomes. I planted the originals more than 15 years ago, so this Spring it will be well past time for some divide and propagate.
(and yes, we brew our own beer here in the backwoods)

75 b.d.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:58:57am

re: #70 GeneJockey

You gotta be like Agnes Moorehead and the tiny spacemen. Don’t take any shit. Stuff ‘em in a sack and beat the living hell out of them.

That will not stand!!! - PETTWMN (People for the ethical treatment of tiny Wayne Madsen ninjas)

76 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:59:00am

re: #68 GeneJockey

“Did he froth at the mouth to fall over? Or fall over to froth at the mouth?”

In England it’s frothing at the mouth and then falling over. After droning on and on and on…

77 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:59:07am
78 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:59:51am

Speaking of Spring…

79 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:00:18pm

re: #59 Mattand

That’s not a phone. It has a cord!

NSA safe!

80 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:01:02pm

re: #79 ObserverArt

NSA safe!

Not safe from Feline Overlord sabotage though.

81 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:02:18pm

re: #57 lawhawk

Phone? All I see is this:

you rang?

That can’t be a REAL phone. The cord isn’t all fucked up.

82 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:02:22pm
83 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:03:03pm

re: #82 Gus

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Man, you’d think Syria would suffice for that shit.

84 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:03:04pm

re: #66 GeneJockey

Jesus, that movie scared the shit out of me! I still get the willies thinking about it, so THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH for bringing it up!

I have one of those Zuni warrior dolls. Scares the bejeesus out of guests.

Scares them shitless when I show the “Trilogy of Terror”.

:)

85 Bubblehead II  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:03:07pm

re: #20 Pie-onist Overlord

OMG They killed Gus!

YOU BASTARDS!!

Upding for the Wizards reference.

86 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:03:34pm

• GOP group blames Hillary for Ukraine crisis.

• John Hagee says the crisis in Ukraine is a forerunner of the End Times invasion of Israel prophesied in The Bible.

Anything else?

87 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:03:45pm

re: #85 Bubblehead II

Upding for the Wizards reference.

I thought it was a South Park reference. :)

88 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:03:46pm
89 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:03:48pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

Speaking of Spring…

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CA could use more of actual winter, though. Instead of this non-existent bullshit.

I know the rest of you are sick of it, but…showers are good.

90 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:05:57pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

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I know holding a katana like that is supposed to LOOK cool and all, but there’s a reason why Prime and Seconde are no longer taught in any school of fencing.

91 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:06:08pm

re: #69 klys

I don’t think irony requires intent on their part. More like the overall situation is ironic.

…Like RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNN…….

/ok, I’ll stop now.

Wasn’t it been debated that rain on your wedding day is not ironic???

/// …so ‘95.

92 b.d.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:06:27pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

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Edward R. Murrow used to dress up like The Shadow.

93 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:07:05pm


Ahem.

94 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:07:27pm

re: #89 klys

CA could use more of actual winter, though. Instead of this non-existent bullshit.

I know the rest of you are sick of it, but…showers are good.

I would soooo ship this crap to you if I could…

95 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:07:37pm

Yep, tanks. Bolivarian socialist tanks.

96 b.d.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:07:58pm

re: #95 Gus

Yep, tanks. Bolivarian socialist tanks.

The People’s Tanks!

97 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:08:32pm

re: #96 b.d.

The People’s Tanks!

You’re welcome!

98 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:08:33pm

re: #93 Gus

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Ahem.

Sometimes a parade is just a damned parade!!11!!

//

99 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:08:33pm

re: #82 Gus

[Embedded content]

Uh what.

100 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:08:43pm

re: #96 b.d.

The People’s Tanks!

“Hey man like I’m anti-war man and a pacifist man. I totally support the government of Chavez and the Bolivarian man because they’re like about peace man.”

101 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:08:51pm

re: #96 b.d.

The People’s Tanks!

The people’s tanks made glorious by heroes of labor.

102 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:09:00pm

re: #91 ObserverArt

Wasn’t it been debated that rain on your wedding day is not ironic???

/// …so ‘95.

It did rain on my wedding day. Was supposed to be an outdoor ceremony too!

But it held off for moody wedding photos, so I didn’t care.

103 Lidane  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:09:12pm
104 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:09:50pm

re: #103 Lidane

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Extortion, how nice. Fuck you Fox.

105 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:10:04pm

re: #103 Lidane

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whut? Who is making death threats? Libturds, again?
//

106 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:10:51pm

re: #80 Feline Fearless Leader

Not safe from Feline Overlord sabotage though.

That Darn Cat!

(An Original Disney Film Classic. Staring Haley Mills and Dean Jones)

: )

107 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:11:00pm

“A sucker is born every minute.”
— David Hannum

108 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:11:39pm

re: #103 Lidane

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“Fox News host Jon Scott on Wednesday advised former IRS official Lois Lerner that she should give up her constitutional rights and testify before Congress if she wanted death against her life to stop. “

Whazzat again?

109 Testy Toad T  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:11:42pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

whut? Who is making death threats? Libturds, again?
//

It is so much work making conservatives look as bad as they do. Just completely exhausting. I think I post a couple of hundred Fox Nation comments per day.

110 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:12:21pm

Oh, yeah, Jack Conway is running for governor.
Prescription drug abuse is probably his signature issue as AG. From what I can find, this Zhydro is the new improved OxyContin.

111 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:12:33pm

re: #109 Testy Toad T

It is so much work making conservatives look as bad as they do. Just completely exhausting. I think I post a couple of hundred Fox Nation comments per day.

These False Flags don’t just sew themselves, ya know!

112 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:12:33pm

FUCK IT’S SNOWING AGAIN!

113 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:14:21pm

re: #63 GeneJockey

Thank FSM for hops!

Apparently when the colonists got here, they didn’t have hops, so they tried other things to preserve/flavor beer, like spruce buds. A decade or so ago, to commemorate this, Anchor brewery made a run of Spruce Beer.

It was vile.

I bought two bottles. I managed to get three swallows into the first before I decided that I’d rather not drink than drink that shit. Several weeks later, I opened the other one, to see if I had been to quick in my judgement.

Nope.

hops or other extra flavorings are not required to make good beer - hefeweizen and most belgian ales are made with no hops or very low levels of hops

personally, i prefer beer without hops. it seems beer has been made for over 10 thousand years, but the habit of flavoring it with hops seems to have started in germany abt 500 years ago

114 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:15:37pm


Nothing to see here.

115 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:15:59pm

re: #113 dog philosopher

hops or other extra flavorings are not required to make good beer - hefeweizen and most belgian ales are made with no hops or very low levels of hops

personally, i prefer beer without hops. it seems beer has been made for over 10 thousand years, but the habit of flavoring it with hops seems to have started in germany abt 500 years ago

And on the opposite end of the spectrum, I took the husband to Lagunitas Taproom this weekend.

116 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:17:06pm

re: #109 Testy Toad T

It is so much work making conservatives look as bad as they do. Just completely exhausting. I think I post a couple of hundred Fox Nation comments per day.

George Soros pays very well.//

117 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:17:14pm

heh…

118 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:17:20pm

re: #113 dog philosopher

hops or other extra flavorings are not required to make good beer - hefeweizen and most belgian ales are made with no hops or very low levels of hops

personally, i prefer beer without hops. it seems beer has been made for over 10 thousand years, but the habit of flavoring it with hops seems to have started in germany abt 500 years ago

Hops done for flavor, but also as a preservative.

That said, I do not understand the US microbrew infatuation with IPAs and making things as hoppy/bitter as humanly possible. Fan of a nice smooth wheat beer myself.

119 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:17:48pm

Sure glad Iran is all moderate and stuff now.

120 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:18:09pm

re: #115 klys

And on the opposite end of the spectrum, I took the husband to Lagunitas Taproom this weekend.

Planning on touring the Guinness Storehouse when I go to Dublin this summer. Guinness is I’ve noticed one of those that people love or hate. Well I’ve been firmly in the former for a long time. Lagunitas is good though.

121 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:18:54pm

re: #95 Gus

Yep, tanks. Bolivarian socialist tanks.

Made by the workers, but not the Venezuelan workers.

122 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:19:00pm

re: #118 Feline Fearless Leader

Hops done for flavor, but also as a preservative.

They also put you to sleep.
One of the value-added products I make here on the farm are “sleep pillows”. They are small pillows (about 6x6”) stuffed with hops and lavender. Will put you right to sleep.

123 Mattand  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:19:13pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

What? You mean all heroes of journalistic independence DON’T pose with ninja swords?

How can you forget Upton Sinclair’s bad ass nunchaku skills?

124 Political Atheist  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:19:43pm

re: #5 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Some 9/11 truthers just make me sad for them, the low-information dude trapped in some small town who gloms onto conspiracy theories ‘cuz he really doesn’t have anything else going.

But a reporter? For fuck’s sake. Being a reporter and a 9/11 truther is like being a lawyer and believing in sovereign citizen bullshit.

That’s not a journalism that’s an advocate working underground. Or so it would appear to me. See a lot of that these days.

125 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:19:44pm

re: #120 HappyWarrior

Planning on touring the Guinness Storehouse when I go to Dublin this summer. Guinness is I’ve noticed one of those that people love or hate. Well I’ve been firmly in the former for a long time. Lagunitas is good though.

It is on the husband’s bucket list to do that when we go to Ireland.

I, on the other hand, don’t like beer.

126 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:20:04pm

re: #120 HappyWarrior

Planning on touring the Guinness Storehouse when I go to Dublin this summer. Guinness is I’ve noticed one of those that people love or hate. Well I’ve been firmly in the former for a long time. Lagunitas is good though.

I have a friend in Dublin with serious Guinness brewery connections.
Someday I’ll be visiting…

127 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:20:11pm

re: #121 jaunte

Made by the workers, but not the Venezuelan workers.

Any ID on those tanks? Where’s DF?

DF! Wake-up. Got a question for you. //

128 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:20:18pm

re: #115 klys

And on the opposite end of the spectrum, I took the husband to Lagunitas Taproom this weekend.

Oh, I can beat that.

A guy I used to work with, who took brewing SERIOUSLY, told me about a beer that took “120 minutes to boil, adding hops every 3 minutes, adding 12 ounces of dextrose every 12 hours for 2 weeks, and at the same time dry hopping every day for 4 weeks”

It came in at 21% alcohol, and the last I heard he was aging it for a couple years.

129 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:20:24pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

They also put you to sleep.
One of the value-added products I make here on the farm are “sleep pillows”. They are small pillows (about 6x6”) stuffed with hops and lavender. Will put you right to sleep.

My sister-in-law, with her allergies and sleep issues, had a favority pillow that was stuffed with buckwheat hulls. Wanted more filling for it — and bought 10lbs of cracked buckwheat.

130 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:21:00pm

re: #125 klys

It is on the husband’s bucket list to do that when we go to Ireland.

I, on the other hand, don’t like beer.

It’s something I would have done during my brief stay in Dublin coming from Galway studying abroad but I was stricken with the worse hangover ever that day so I stayed in my hotel.

131 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:21:09pm

re: #127 Gus

I think they’re Russian.

132 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:21:28pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

I have a friend in Dublin with serious Guinness brewery connections.
Someday I’ll be visiting…

It looks like a lot of fun. And the kicker I hear is you get a free pint at the end of the tour.

133 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:21:37pm

re: #128 GeneJockey

Oh, I can beat that.

A guy I used to work with, who took brewing SERIOUSLY, told me about a beer that took “120 minutes to boil, adding hops every 3 minutes, adding 12 ounces of dextrose every 12 hours for 2 weeks, and at the same time dry hopping every day for 4 weeks”

It came in at 21% alcohol, and the last I heard he was aging it for a couple years.

Oh good lord.

134 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:21:39pm

re: #127 Gus

Any ID on those tanks? Where’s DF?

DF! Wake-up. Got a question for you. //

Got a non-Twitter pic? I could take a shot at an ID.

135 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:21:45pm

re: #129 Feline Fearless Leader

My sister-in-law, with her allergies and sleep issues, had a favority pillow that was stuffed with buckwheat hulls. Wanted more filling for it — and bought 10lbs of cracked buckwheat.

Buckwheat hull pillows are the BEST!

136 Bubblehead II  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:21:56pm

re: #87 Pie-onist Overlord

I thought it was a South Park reference. :)

Wizards. “They Killed Fritz”

Youtube Video

137 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:22:03pm

Consider this a warning. Just like Putin and Russia let the West down so will Iran. Mark my words.

138 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:22:23pm

T-72
en.wikipedia.org

139 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:22:50pm

re: #130 HappyWarrior

It’s something I would have done during my brief stay in Dublin coming from Galway studying abroad but I was stricken with the worse hangover ever that day so I stayed in my hotel.

Ireland is a serious candidate for the next international trip, as are Scotland and the Brittany region of France.

He might have a business trip that direction in May, which timing might dictate I couldn’t tag along on. That would be sad. :(

140 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:22:51pm

re: #136 Bubblehead II

Wizards. “They Killed Fritz”

[Embedded content]

South Park: “They killed Kenny! The Bastards!”

141 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:22:58pm

re: #128 GeneJockey

Oh, I can beat that.

A guy I used to work with, who took brewing SERIOUSLY, told me about a beer that took “120 minutes to boil, adding hops every 3 minutes, adding 12 ounces of dextrose every 12 hours for 2 weeks, and at the same time dry hopping every day for 4 weeks”

It came in at 21% alcohol, and the last I heard he was aging it for a couple years.

21% sheesh and I thought I was adventurous having ones that tip out over 10%.

142 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:23:13pm

re: #137 Gus

Consider this a warning. Just like Putin and Russia let the West down so will Iran. Mark my words.

/cues ominous music

143 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:23:37pm

re: #103 Lidane

Well, now, you know I’m no fan of Fox News, but that Raw Story headline is highly misleading. First, this wasn’t “Fox News” - it was a reporter for US News and World Report on a Fox show. Second, calling it a “warning” is absurd. Here’s what he said:

“She felt she was getting death threats, that she felt concerned about her safety,” US News and World Report’s David Catanese told Scott on Wednesday.

“I can see why if you’re getting death threats, why you wouldn’t want to open yourself up to more scrutiny,” Scott admitted. “But at the same time, it would seem that answering some of the questions might cause some of these people who are so angry to ease up.”

Is it creepy and blaming the victim? Yes. But it’s just a distortion to call this a “warning.”

144 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:24:00pm

re: #118 Feline Fearless Leader

Hops done for flavor, but also as a preservative.

That said, I do not understand the US microbrew infatuation with IPAs and making things as hoppy/bitter as humanly possible. Fan of a nice smooth wheat beer myself.

I’ve had ONE good IPA, where the hoppy smell was not paired with teeth-etching bitterness. White Hawk. Other IPAs leave me unimpressed.

145 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:24:01pm

re: #139 klys

Ireland is a serious candidate for the next international trip, as are Scotland and the Brittany region of France.

He might have a business trip that direction in May, which timing might dictate I couldn’t tag along on. That would be sad. :(

Where was the last trip? This one I’m planning on doing Ireland, England(have family there), Spain, and Portugal. Going to mix it up between touristy stuff but also some beach days in Barcelona and outside Lisbon.

146 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:24:06pm

re: #141 HappyWarrior

21% sheesh and I thought I was adventurous having ones that tip out over 10%.

We never bother measuring the alcohol content of our beer.
We’re just happy when the bottles don’t explode.

147 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:24:15pm

re: #138 jaunte

T-72
en.wikipedia.org

Nothing to see here. Nothing to worry about. Peace, love, and Kumbaya!

148 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:24:21pm

Venezuela Will Load Urals Defence Plants With Work

(2009)

149 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:24:45pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Buckwheat hull pillows are the BEST!

To continue anecdote -

My brother pointed out that the pillow was stuffed with buckwheat *hulls* and not the actual buckwheat. Sister-in-law, never one to waste anything, posited that the cracked buckwheat would be just as good.

My brother, knowing what buttons to push, mentioned that having actual buckwheat in the pillow might cause it to attract insects. End of idea.

Brother-in-law who cooks was then gifted with 10lbs of buckwheat. I’m still making occasional batches of buckwheat pilaf.

150 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:25:13pm

re: #118 Feline Fearless Leader

Hops done for flavor, but also as a preservative.

That said, I do not understand the US microbrew infatuation with IPAs and making things as hoppy/bitter as humanly possible. Fan of a nice smooth wheat beer myself.

currently it seems the fashion is to provide spicy hot flavorings for everything and hoppy hoppy beers

my theory is that americans are overwhelmed with stimuli and need to be hit over the head to experience anything - only very yang need apply

151 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:25:21pm

re: #113 dog philosopher

very high hops & ale yeast.

152 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:25:22pm

re: #144 GeneJockey

I’ve had ONE good IPA, where the hoppy smell was not paired with teeth-etching bitterness. White Hawk. Other IPAs leave me unimpressed.

My husband is the opposite. Loves the bitterness.

re: #145 HappyWarrior

Where was the last trip? This one I’m planning on doing Ireland, England(have family there), Spain, and Portugal. Going to mix it up between touristy stuff but also some beach days in Barcelona and outside Lisbon.

Japan, for New Year’s. Which, in retrospect, two weeks overseas after ten days of family for the holidays was not the best plan ever. But we still had a fantastic time.

153 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:26:08pm

re: #149 Feline Fearless Leader

To continue anecdote -

My brother pointed out that the pillow was stuffed with buckwheat *hulls* and not the actual buckwheat. Sister-in-law, never one to waste anything, posited that the cracked buckwheat would be just as good.

My brother, knowing what buttons to push, mentioned that having actual buckwheat in the pillow might cause it to attract insects. End of idea.

Brother-in-law who cooks was then gifted with 10lbs of buckwheat. I’m still making occasional batches of buckwheat pilaf.

I LOVE buckwheat pancakes and waffles, but I’m the only one in the family who does. I think what gets them is the batter looking like wet cement.

154 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:26:11pm

re: #150 dog philosopher

currently it seems the fashion is to provide spicy hot flavorings for everything and hoppy hoppy beers

my theory is that americans are overwhelmed with stimuli and need to be hit over the head to experience anything - only very yang need apply

American flavoring is bland compared to a ton of other food, though. Some of our most enduring favorites are very mild.

155 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:26:13pm

re: #128 GeneJockey

Oh, I can beat that.

A guy I used to work with, who took brewing SERIOUSLY, told me about a beer that took “120 minutes to boil, adding hops every 3 minutes, adding 12 ounces of dextrose every 12 hours for 2 weeks, and at the same time dry hopping every day for 4 weeks”

It came in at 21% alcohol, and the last I heard he was aging it for a couple years.

beer with 21% alcohol will age you a couple of years

156 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:27:11pm

re: #151 William Barnett-Lewis

very high hops & ale yeast.

very high hops and ale yeast what?

157 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:27:15pm

re: #149 Feline Fearless Leader

To continue anecdote -

My brother pointed out that the pillow was stuffed with buckwheat *hulls* and not the actual buckwheat. Sister-in-law, never one to waste anything, posited that the cracked buckwheat would be just as good.

My brother, knowing what buttons to push, mentioned that having actual buckwheat in the pillow might cause it to attract insects. End of idea.

Brother-in-law who cooks was then gifted with 10lbs of buckwheat. I’m still making occasional batches of buckwheat pilaf.

Oh, I was afraid to ask if she had used the actual cracked buckwheat.
I would have separated the hulls from the buckwheat. Hulls for pillow stuffing, actual buckwheat to grind up into flour.
Buckwheat pancakes…nom, nom, nom!

158 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:27:38pm

re: #153 GeneJockey

I LOVE buckwheat pancakes and waffles, but I’m the only one in the family who does. I think what gets them is the batter looking like wet cement.

Using buckwheat flour I assume? This is working with the cracked grain, not a flour, but it makes a nice nutty-flavored pilaf. And I’ve used it as a soup filler as well instead of pearl barley a few times.

159 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:27:43pm

re: #156 dog philosopher

very high hops and ale yeast what?

“…Oil can…”

160 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:28:38pm

re: #158 Feline Fearless Leader

Using buckwheat flour I assume? This is working with the cracked grain, not a flour, but it makes a nice nutty-flavored pilaf. And I’ve used it as a soup filler as well instead of pearl barley a few times.

Yep. IIRC they’re also known as ‘groats’.

161 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:28:48pm

re: #152 klys

My husband is the opposite. Loves the bitterness.

Japan, for New Year’s. Which, in retrospect, two weeks overseas after ten days of family for the holidays was not the best plan ever. But we still had a fantastic time.

Never been to Asia before. Sounds like a neat trip though. What I like about travel is doing the touristy stuff by day but by night trying to live it like a local.

162 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:28:52pm

I’m beginning to think that the entire conspiracy culture, the Birchers, LaRouchies, dudebros, Alex Jones, ufools, whatever, is a gigantic Kremlin plot to undermine sanity and consensus in the US.
Sounds unlikely, but this has more to commend it than the average commercial conspiracy theory.
Note that RT.com, openly owned by the Russian government, is probably the #1 source for the right’s conspiracy memes and talking points these days.
The pro-Russian bias of the Assange/Greenwald/Snowden axis could not be more obvious and it has real consequences in the real world.
The Russians could not have created this industry from scratch, of course, but they could easily have subsumed existing conspiracy subcultures and magnified them from fringe crankery to the enormously influential and destructive crankery we see today.

163 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:28:58pm

re: #154 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

American flavoring is bland compared to a ton of other food, though. Some of our most enduring favorites are very mild.

I sort of put us in the middle on flavorings. We go for a bolder approach to spicing than, say, Japan (wasabi is the exception there, not the rule), but definitely don’t approach what a lot of other cultures can do.

Japanese microbrews can be interesting. Very German influenced.

164 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:29:53pm

Hahahahaha! “Journalist.”

165 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:30:15pm

re: #127 Gus

Any ID on those tanks? Where’s DF?

DF! Wake-up. Got a question for you. //

They have 192 T-72B1V, beginning in September 2009.

166 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:30:46pm

Acceptable beer.

167 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:31:28pm

re: #23 Mattand

Shoulda yelled out “He hath murdered me!”, Hamlet-style.

If someone hasn’t done a Gangnam parody called “Hamlet Style” some college drama department is missing a trick.

168 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:31:53pm

re: #156 dog philosopher

How to make proper IPA of course ;) with a nice room temp fermentation.

169 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:33:00pm

re: #30 Testy Toad T

More to the point, it’s using irrelevant factually correct but loaded language to try to distract from more pertinent matters.

Plain boring water is probably the most dangerous liquid on Earth, just based on the total number of people it’s killed, but that doesn’t mean I don’t drink it every day.

Water, as a substance, is freaking weird.

witcombe.sbc.edu

170 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:33:02pm

re: #160 GeneJockey

Yep. IIRC they’re also known as ‘groats’.

Yea. Been useful a few times when hosting a meal that includes visitors who are avoiding gluten,

171 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:34:15pm

Always fun when your manager decides random horseshit that isn’t due for 3 months suddenly becomes crucial because he got a wild hair up his ass.

172 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:34:22pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

One trick all conspiracy theorists use is to try to draw you into debating the details of their paranoid fantasies. I’ve seen this stupid tactic so many times it’s just boring by now. I refuse to play that game with them.

What do you is the cause of the reason for you thinking the details are boring and/or stupid?

Could it be…

SATAN FLUORIDATION?

173 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:35:24pm

re: #169 chadu

Water, as a substance, is freaking weird.

witcombe.sbc.edu

“Are you an acid or a base?”
“I’m both!”
“Fuck you, water!”

174 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:35:46pm

re: #163 klys

I sort of put us in the middle on flavorings. We go for a bolder approach to spicing than, say, Japan (wasabi is the exception there, not the rule), but definitely don’t approach what a lot of other cultures can do.

Japanese microbrews can be interesting. Very German influenced.

I don’t think we do things more boldly than Japan, no. In terms of spiciness, sure, but there’s a lot of extremely strongly-flavored food that’s a mainstay in Japan.

Basically, I think we’re close to the bottom in terms of strong flavors in our cuisine, not anywhere near the top. It’s hard to think of a cuisine that’s not from a terribly deprived country that’s less-flavored.

I think, though, this is just because we’re a melting pot. We have the super-flavorful stuff available to us if we want, even if most ‘ethnic’ food in the US tends to be toned down in mainstream places. The stuff that’s just American, burgers, hot dogs, pizza, fried chicken, pastrami, french fries, ice cream, donuts, biscuits, mac and cheese, etc.—tends to be fatty and salty. Traditional American foods that are spicy, I can pretty much only think of hot wings.

175 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:36:05pm

re: #41 lawhawk

What’s a calculator? /

It’s an iPhone app.

176 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:37:15pm

re: #171 Kragar

Always fun when your manager decides random horseshit that isn’t due for 3 months suddenly becomes crucial because he got a wild hair up his ass.

Was it a hair, or a hare?
/

177 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:37:21pm

Dammit now I want a grilled cheese.

178 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:37:23pm

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

Which is why, IIRC, medieval folks drank a lot of watered wine, so that the water would likely not make them sick or kill them.
Not they they knew anything about germs and such. Sort of “I don’t know why, but it works” kind of thinking.

TIME TRAVEL PRO-TIP: “Hey, dude, germs are like tiny demons. Since cleanliness is next to godliness, soap and water helps exorcise them.”

179 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:37:30pm

re: #166 wrenchwench

Acceptable beer.

Real beer

180 Ian G.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:37:57pm

re: #82 Gus

Is any event around the world NOT a sign of the end times? OMFG, Wichita State has a perfect season in basketball! END TIMEZ!!!!!!1

181 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:38:02pm

re: #45 GeneJockey

It’s a function on your phone.

SCOOPED!

(When I get scooped, I upding. Thass how I roll, mang.)

182 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:38:28pm

re: #162 Shiplord Kirel

I’m beginning to think that the entire conspiracy culture, the Birchers, LaRouchies, dudebros, Alex Jones, ufools, whatever, is a gigantic Kremlin plot to undermine sanity and consensus in the US.
Sounds unlikely, but this has more to commend it than the average commercial conspiracy theory.
Note that RT.com, openly owned by the Russian government, is probably the #1 source for the right’s conspiracy memes and talking points these days.
The pro-Russian bias of the Assange/Greenwald/Snowden axis could not be more obvious and it has real consequences in the real world.
The Russians could not have created this industry from scratch, of course, but they could easily have subsumed existing conspiracy subcultures and magnified them from fringe crankery to the enormously influential and destructive crankery we see today.

I don’t know if it has been mentioned here, but it has been pointed out RT.com isn’t available in Russia. It is their ‘vehicle’ to get a certain news slant to the west…mainly the good ol’ USofA.

183 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:38:42pm

re: #175 chadu

It’s an iPhone app.

I think the ability to make/receive a call is essentially just an app at this point.

184 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:38:42pm

re: #174 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

I think the difference between spicy food and hot needs to be mentioned. Any fool can make a food “hot” by adding spices, to the point it can’t even really be tasted. Making a food spicy and have flavor is the hard part.

185 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:39:03pm

re: #177 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Dammit now I want a grilled cheese.

Marble rye, with smoked gouda.

186 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:39:10pm

re: #62 Mattand

Get Karen Black to burn them in the oven.

(Look it up, whippersnappers!)

Trilogy of Terror? Good times.

187 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:39:38pm

re: #184 Kragar

Yeah there’s a sadly significant percentage of idiots who just drench stuff in Tabasco sauce.

Tabasco is like as bad as a hot sauce can be without being actually literally distasteful.

188 Bubblehead II  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:39:43pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

South Park: “They killed Kenny! The Bastards!”

Well since I don’t watch South Park, Wizards was the only thing I had to reference and since the they killed fritz scene occurred well before the they killed Kenny scenes I have a sneaking suspicion that they are a riff on it.

189 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:39:54pm

acceptable beer

i like franzikaner hefewiezen and afflighem belgian ale

or a nice corona if it’s for breakfast…

190 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:39:57pm

re: #183 Feline Fearless Leader

I think the ability to make/receive a call is essentially just an app at this point.

Is physical existence a meta-app in an iPhonecentric cosmology?

*deep thoughts*

191 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:39:58pm

re: #185 Feline Fearless Leader

Marble rye, with smoked gouda.

Nope. It’s going to be simple cheddar on SF sourdough.

192 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:40:30pm

re: #179 Dr Lizardo

Real beer

I’ll try it as soon as it shows up at Albertson’s.

193 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:41:30pm

Grilled pastrami with pepper jack cheese on english muffin bread with wasabi mayonnaise is the best sandwich of all time.

194 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:41:54pm

re: #191 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Nope. It’s going to be simple cheddar on SF sourdough.

American cheese on spongy bread, but then it has to be served with either tomato soup, or ideally high school cafeteria chili.

Without the chili, yeah, sourdough and cheddar.

With real butter.

195 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:42:01pm

Dogfish head is a good beer. They’ve got a nice restaurant too.

196 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:42:18pm

re: #191 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Nope. It’s going to be simple cheddar on SF sourdough.

I’m going to have peanut butter on multi-grain whole wheat sourdough.

197 A Mom Anon  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:42:40pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s what I do with my hops too. I have one vine that grows on a wire fence around my pear trees. Not enough to really make beer (I don’t have the equipment or knowledge to make beer at the moment, perhaps someday…), but enough to fill up a two gallon bag. I was thinking of maybe using hops and lavender, maybe some lemon thyme and add them to an olive oil soap base and see how that works.

198 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:42:42pm

Beer? What is beer?

199 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:42:49pm

re: #82 Gus

John Hagee says the crisis in Ukraine is a forerunner of the End Times invasion of Israel prophesied in The Bible:

Hey, John Hagee, Your Mom is a forerunner of the End Times invasion of Israel prophesied in The Bible!

I mean, the evidence for his statement and my statement are about equal.

200 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:43:04pm

re: #187 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Yeah there’s a sadly significant percentage of idiots who just drench stuff in Tabasco sauce.

Tabasco is like as bad as a hot sauce can be without being actually literally distasteful.

Tastes like shit, but you’re burning so bad you can’t taste it after the first one.

My wife makes some pretty awesome Kim-chii fried chicken. Just enough to give them some kick but no burn.

201 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:43:05pm

Maybe if we cook just the ideal grilled cheese for Putin he’ll chill the fuck out.

202 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:43:17pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

Man, you’d think Syria would suffice for that shit.

Isn’t it closer, too?

Psh, geography.

203 Charles Johnson  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:43:29pm

And right on cue, Abby Martin has blocked me. Saw that coming.

204 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:43:32pm

re: #183 Feline Fearless Leader

I think the ability to make/receive a call is essentially just an app at this point.

One that was failing on my new smartphone the other day when I was at Costco, trying to reach my family to discover whether we needed me to buy the usual 2 gal of milk.

(Almost typed ‘2 gal of MILF!)

205 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:43:51pm

re: #187 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Yeah there’s a sadly significant percentage of idiots who just drench stuff in Tabasco sauce.

Tabasco is like as bad as a hot sauce can be without being actually literally distasteful.

Yep. Having had *good* hot sauce just having tabasco as the option when I want to add heat to a dish is pretty disappointing.

It also seems that a lot of American “hot” cooking is now totally hooked on just capsaicin for heat. Lots of real options since black/white pepper, garlic, mustard, horseradish, etc. can all bring heat to a dish along with other flavors.

206 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:44:08pm

re: #174 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

I don’t think we do things more boldly than Japan, no. In terms of spiciness, sure, but there’s a lot of extremely strongly-flavored food that’s a mainstay in Japan.

Basically, I think we’re close to the bottom in terms of strong flavors in our cuisine, not anywhere near the top. It’s hard to think of a cuisine that’s not from a terribly deprived country that’s less-flavored.

I think, though, this is just because we’re a melting pot. We have the super-flavorful stuff available to us if we want, even if most ‘ethnic’ food in the US tends to be toned down in mainstream places. The stuff that’s just American, burgers, hot dogs, pizza, fried chicken, pastrami, french fries, ice cream, donuts, biscuits, mac and cheese, etc.—tends to be fatty and salty. Traditional American foods that are spicy, I can pretty much only think of hot wings.

traditional american foods have tended to be fatty, salty, and bland, but i find at least here in california that fashionable food tends to be spicy hot - sriracha sauce, jalapeños, chipotl, wasabi, what have you

no thank you i won’t be having the chipotl burger with wasabi chips…

207 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:44:14pm

Note, while I don’t trust Iran I don’t think it’s the end of the world either. Carry on.

208 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:44:51pm

Is beetle juice really a juice?

209 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:45:03pm

re: #192 wrenchwench

I’ll try it as soon as it shows up at Albertson’s.

Heh. You might be able to find Pilsner Urquell in Albertson’s. It’s from Plzen, Czech Republic.

We also have this:

A play on words; it means, “Thankfully, life is bitter”. Radegast beer.

210 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:45:06pm

re: #90 GeneJockey

I know holding a katana like that is supposed to LOOK cool and all, but there’s a reason why Prime and Seconde are no longer taught in any school of fencing.

I love Count Rugen’s defense in the Princess Bride: Parry Quatre*, turn and run like hell.

* IIRC from Fencing I in college, 20 years ago.

211 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:45:23pm

re: #198 Gus

Beer? What is beer?

Letting yeast have its way with wet barley. ;)

212 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:46:11pm

re: #103 Lidane

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Fourth Estate Underwater, Foreclosed.

213 BongCrodny  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:46:13pm

re: #128 GeneJockey

“and at the same time dry hopping every day for 4 weeks”

I tried to do that, but I found I needed to take a day off every four or five days.

214 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:46:30pm

Chicken fried beer battered beetles with white gravy.

215 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:46:54pm

With a side order of peaches.

216 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:46:58pm

re: #209 Dr Lizardo

Heh. You might be able to find Pilsner Urquell in Albertson’s. It’s from Plzen, Czech Republic.

We also have this:

A play on words; it means, “Thankfully, life is bitter”. Radegast beer.

Do they have a brew that comes with bird crap in it?
/// ;P

217 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:47:01pm

Canned.

218 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:47:11pm

re: #187 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Yeah there’s a sadly significant percentage of idiots who just drench stuff in Tabasco sauce.

Tabasco is like as bad as a hot sauce can be without being actually literally distasteful.

I had a friend, a Texan, who used to eat hamburgers with the burger in his right hand and the Tabasco in his left.

*shake,shake,shake* Bite. Chew. *shake,shake,shake* Bite. Chew.

Eventually it was dribbling out the other side onto his hand. I can only imagine what it tasted like.

OTOH, he could not take horseradish or wasabi.

219 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:47:14pm

And those celery sticks with peanut butter.

220 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:47:16pm

Still trying to figure out what strong-flavored Japanese foods there are. That are actually Japanese and not imports (ours is not the only melting-pot culture when it comes to food).

221 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:47:21pm

And milk.

222 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:47:26pm

re: #210 chadu

I love Count Rugen’s defense in the Princess Bride: Parry Quatre*, turn and run like hell.

* IIRC from Fencing I in college, 20 years ago.

I love that scene.

223 jaunte  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:48:01pm

re: #216 Feline Fearless Leader

Do they have a brew that comes with bird crap in it?

Just sit in the biergarten long enough.

224 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:48:29pm

re: #209 Dr Lizardo

Heh. You might be able to find Pilsner Urquell in Albertson’s. It’s from Plzen, Czech Republic.

We also have this:

A play on words; it means, “Thankfully, life is bitter”. Radegast beer.

I’ve enjoyed Pilsner Urquell many times and it is indeed at Albertson’s!

225 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:48:32pm

Tater tots.

226 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:48:46pm

re: #188 Bubblehead II

Well since I don’t watch South Park, Wizards was the only thing I had to reference and since the they killed fritz scene occurred well before the they killed Kenny scenes I have a sneaking suspicion that they are a riff on it.

In South Park, poor Kenny gets killed Every Single Episode.

227 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:48:49pm

Salisbury steak.

228 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:49:38pm

re: #218 GeneJockey

I had a friend, a Texan, who used to eat hamburgers with the burger in his right hand and the Tabasco in his left.

*shake,shake,shake* Bite. Chew. *shake,shake,shake* Bite. Chew.

Eventually it was dribbling out the other side onto his hand. I can only imagine what it tasted like.

OTOH, he could not take horseradish or wasabi.

Does he put a shot in his Budweiser as well?
/

229 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:49:40pm

re: #123 Mattand

How can you forget Upton Sinclair’s bad ass nunchaku skills?

I always pegged him as baritsu, like Sherlock Holmes.

TRUE FACT: Teddy Roosevelt was a black belt in judo… not that he needed it, like Mr. Miyagi. “Canvas. JC Penney $3.98. You like?”

230 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:49:41pm

re: #210 chadu

I love Count Rugen’s defense in the Princess Bride: Parry Quatre*, turn and run like hell.

* IIRC from Fencing I in college, 20 years ago.

“Its a highly honed art based on mastering techniques of escape and evasion.”
“It looks like he’s running away.”
“To the layman perhaps.”

From some anime from years ago

231 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:49:53pm

re: #216 Feline Fearless Leader

Do they have a brew that comes with bird crap in it?
/// ;P

lol

I’ve had to explain a couple of times here to Americans and Brits that Radegast beer is named after the Western Slavic deity, not the Tolkein character. Or Sylvester McCoy. With bird crap in his hair.

232 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:50:11pm

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

In South Park, poor Kenny gets killed Every Single Episode.

Every time Kenny dies it’s like watching a Liveleak video. //

233 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:50:25pm

“Holy shit. That guy is still alive!”

234 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:51:47pm

re: #229 chadu

I always pegged him as baritsu, like Sherlock Holmes.

TRUE FACT: Teddy Roosevelt was a black belt in judo… not that he needed it, like Mr. Miyagi. “Canvas. JC Penney $3.98. You like?”

235 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:52:12pm

re: #209 Dr Lizardo

Heh. You might be able to find Pilsner Urquell in Albertson’s. It’s from Plzen, Czech Republic.

We also have this:

A play on words; it means, “Thankfully, life is bitter”. Radegast beer.

I’ve been wanting to try Pilsner Urquell. It’s not available in most places I shop…and I’d need to make a special run to find it. I know it has to be here in Columbus. I like Pilsner beers. I think it goes back to my half German half Slovak roots or something.

236 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:52:13pm

re: #203 Charles Johnson

And right on cue, Abby Martin has blocked me. Saw that coming.

But we can still point and laugh at her on the twitterz machine…

237 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:52:19pm

re: #220 klys

Still trying to figure out what strong-flavored Japanese foods there are. That are actually Japanese and not imports (ours is not the only melting-pot culture when it comes to food).

Well, for example:

Takoyaki, umeboshi, tsukemono— really the whole ‘pickled’ family— goya, sunomono, bean-paste stuff, and they tend to prefer their seafood to have a much ‘fishier’ flavor than we in the US do.

238 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:52:30pm

60 years ago, every right-wing paranoid in the United States was looking under every bed and behind every bush for pro-Russian subversives. Nowadays, they need only look in the mirror.

239 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:53:34pm

re: #176 Feline Fearless Leader

Was it a hair, or a hare?
/

Mr. Gere, white courtesy phone.

240 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:53:40pm
241 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:53:47pm

re: #237 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Well, for example:

Takoyaki, umeboshi, tsukemono— really the whole ‘pickled’ family— goya, sunomono, bean-paste stuff, and they tend to prefer their seafood to have a much ‘fishier’ flavor than we in the US do.

My wife laughs at me when I use soy sauce instead of the sweeter tonkatsu sauce.

242 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:54:05pm

re: #220 klys

Still trying to figure out what strong-flavored Japanese foods there are. That are actually Japanese and not imports (ours is not the only melting-pot culture when it comes to food).

japan has integrated some imports into its cuisine in a very similar way that hamburger and hot dogs, both originating in germany, have become quintessentially american, and americans have been eating spaghetti and egg foo young for over 150 years

japanese katsu sauce has a common origin with american ketsup, and the japanese word transcribed as ‘furai’ is actually the same as the english word ‘fried’. incidentally, the japanese also took their word for ‘thank you’, ‘arigato’, from the portuguese ‘abrigado’…

243 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:55:00pm

re: #235 ObserverArt

I’ve been wanting to try Pilsner Urquell. It’s not available in most places I shop…and I’d need to make a special run to find it. I know it has to be here in Columbus. I like Pilsner beers. I think it goes back to my half German half Slovak roots or something.

It’s a very good pilsner beer. Another good Czech beer, if you can find it, is Czechvar.

That’s the American name, imposed on them because its Czech name, Budvar, of course sounds far too close to Budweiser, which is ironically, the Americanized version of the beer from ჎ske Budějovice. Or in German, Budweis.

244 urbanmeemaw  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:55:35pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

“I can see why if you’re getting death threats, why you wouldn’t want to open yourself up to more scrutiny,” Scott admitted. “But at the same time, it would seem that answering some of the questions might cause some of these people who are so angry to ease up.”

That is one of the sickest things I’ve ever read. What a jackal that Scott is.

245 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:55:55pm

re: #241 Kragar

My wife laughs at me when I use soy sauce instead of the sweeter tonkatsu sauce.

Fish sauce is an issue of some tension between my wife and I. I have to negotiate if I want to use it in a recipe, basically make a case for why it will work with the dish. She almost always actually likes the end result but it still freaks her out a bit.

246 brennant  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:56:07pm

re: #243 Dr Lizardo

It’s a very good pilsner beer. Another good Czech beer, if you can find it, is Czechvar.

That’s the American name, imposed on them because its Czech name, Budvar, of course sounds far too close to Budweiser, which is ironically, the Americanized version of the beer from ჎ske Budějovice. Or in German, Budweis.

Czechvar is my new fav beer. I always get a bottle or two at the bottle shop down the street.

247 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:56:32pm
248 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:56:56pm

re: #193 Kragar

Grilled pastrami with pepper jack cheese on english muffin bread with wasabi mayonnaise is the best sandwich of all time.

Yo Kragar, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but peppered thick-cut bacon, argula, heirloom tomatoes, and sliced avocado on toasted pumpernickel with mayo is one of the best sandwiches of all time…one of the best sandwiches of all time!

249 rosiee  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:57:02pm

re: #245 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

A real man’s fish sauce
en.wikipedia.org
albeit you should know it contains rotten anchovies.

250 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:58:14pm

re: #204 GeneJockey

One that was failing on my new smartphone the other day when I was at Costco, trying to reach my family to discover whether we needed me to buy the usual 2 gal of milk.

(Almost typed ‘2 gal of MILF!)

Tiny, but sex-ay!

251 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:58:30pm

OBAMA IS HITLER! SEE HERE’S MY PHOTOSHOP OF OBAMA WITH A HITLER MUSTACHE ALSO MAKING THE NAZI SALUTE. LIBTARDS!

WAIT, WHAT? HILLARY CLINTON COMPARED VLADAMIR PUTIN TO HITLER?!?!?

THAT IS SO WRONG AND A GODWIN AND AN INSULT TO ALL THAT SUFFERED UNDER HITLER AND MY GRAND PAPPY WHO FOUGHT THE GERMANS IN W-W-TWO!!

252 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:58:53pm

re: #205 Feline Fearless Leader

Yep. Having had *good* hot sauce just having tabasco as the option when I want to add heat to a dish is pretty disappointing.

It also seems that a lot of American “hot” cooking is now totally hooked on just capsaicin for heat. Lots of real options since black/white pepper, garlic, mustard, horseradish, etc. can all bring heat to a dish along with other flavors.

Agreed, but I very much like the Chipotle Tabasco.

253 dog philosopher  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:59:06pm

re: #204 GeneJockey

One that was failing on my new smartphone the other day when I was at Costco, trying to reach my family to discover whether we needed me to buy the usual 2 gal of milk.

(Almost typed ‘2 gal of MILF!)

is that anything like the 12 inch pianist?

254 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:59:08pm

re: #245 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Fish sauce is an issue of some tension between my wife and I. I have to negotiate if I want to use it in a recipe, basically make a case for why it will work with the dish. She almost always actually likes the end result but it still freaks her out a bit.

I’ve learned that anything that makes a dish spicy, I need to hold off and only add to my portion of a meal.

255 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:59:11pm

re: #246 brennant

Czechvar is my new fav beer. I always get a bottle or two at the bottle shop down the street.

Cool. That’s what Czechs (insistently) call “the original Budweiser”.

And not far from me, there’s a statue of that ancient Slavic god, Radegast. He’s the god of hospitality. And war.

Go figure.

Radegast statue on Mt. Radhošť, Northern Moravia

256 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:59:32pm

re: #208 Gus

Is beetle juice really a juice?

He doesn’t look Juice-ish…

///

257 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 12:59:40pm

re: #243 Dr Lizardo

It’s a very good pilsner beer. Another good Czech beer, if you can find it, is Czechvar.

That’s the American name, imposed on them because its Czech name, Budvar, of course sounds far too close to Budweiser, which is ironically, the Americanized version of the beer from ჎ske Budějovice. Or in German, Budweis.

That paragraph felt like a carnival ride.

258 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:00:12pm

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

Cool. That’s what Czechs (insistently) call “the original Budweiser”.

And not far from me, there’s a statue of that ancient Slavic god, Radegast. He’s the god of hospitality. And war.

Go figure.

Radegast statue on Mt. Radhošť, Northern Moravia

Radegast haz moobs…

259 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:00:20pm

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

Cool. That’s what Czechs (insistently) call “the original Budweiser”.

And not far from me, there’s a statue of that ancient Slavic god, Radegast. He’s the god of hospitality. And war.

Go figure.

Radegast statue on Mt. Radhošť, Northern Moravia

Now that would make a cool tat. Say though do you know many Slovaks? I know you’re in the CR. But I’ve been trying to find out some cool Slovak symbolism for my next bit of ink.

260 rosiee  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:00:26pm

re: #251 Gus

Funnily enough the Syrian Ba’ath party is directly linked to Vichy France and the Nazis, ergo isn’t Putin’s avowed support for them by association make him a fascist.

261 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:00:45pm

Drum roll please…

262 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:00:48pm

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

Radegast haz moobs…

Betcha wouldn’t say that to Raddy’s face!

263 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:00:57pm

I will say that I’m thoroughly addicted to Shichimi.

264 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:00:58pm

Wait for it…

265 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:01:02pm
266 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:01:31pm

re: #237 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Well, for example:

Takoyaki, umeboshi, tsukemono— really the whole ‘pickled’ family— goya, sunomono, bean-paste stuff, and they tend to prefer their seafood to have a much ‘fishier’ flavor than we in the US do.

I think part of my distinction was on external spicing versus flavors from the ingredients.

I consider their food to be about subtle flavors with an emphasis on the natural flavors of the ingredients, with little to no added spices. I think American cuisine is slightly more likely to add spices, but certainly not to the level of other developed countries, I’ll agree.

My own cooking is not for the flavor-averse or those who desire subtle.

267 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:02:13pm

re: #259 HappyWarrior

Now that would make a cool tat. Say though do you know many Slovaks? I know you’re in the CR. But I’ve been trying to find out some cool Slovak symbolism for my next bit of ink.

Not many, to be honest. Only Slovak I knew was a young lady I was dating about 5 years ago. I didn’t keep in touch with her after we went our separate ways.

268 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:02:22pm

re: #263 Kragar

I will say that I’m thoroughly addicted to Shichimi.

My husband puts it on pizza.

269 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:02:27pm

re: #234 Kragar

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I believe that’s him at Harvard, after being told he had a weak heart and overmuch exertion would kill him.

No joke.

Look at the “F you, death!” expression.

270 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:03:15pm

re: #265 Gus

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SCOTUS is gonna just love that one…

271 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:03:45pm

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

Radegast haz moobs…

Too much beer and partying it up.

272 GeneJockey  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:04:09pm

re: #269 chadu

I believe that’s him at Harvard, after being told he had a weak heart and overmuch exertion would kill him.

No joke.

Look at the “F you, death!” expression.

“And what do we say to Death?”

273 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:04:28pm

re: #265 Gus

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Will it be legal when I make the photographer eat the camera if I catch him pulling that shit with my daughters?

274 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:04:35pm

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

SCOTUS is gonna just love that one…

It’ll probably be unanimous with that decision with Scalia being the lone decent. Wish I was joking.

275 HappyWarrior  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:04:55pm

re: #267 Dr Lizardo

Not many, to be honest. Only Slovak I knew was a young lady I was dating about 5 years ago. I didn’t keep in touch with her after we went our separate ways.

Ah okay, thanks anyhow. Sure I’ll find some thing.

276 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:05:14pm
277 rosiee  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:05:47pm

re: #276 Gus

What’s new.

278 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:05:49pm
279 Amory Blaine  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:06:03pm

Wrong day
glue

Sniff remarkable

280 Testy Toad T  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:06:09pm

re: #265 Gus

The court did say that the law intended to protect women in public and should be updated, according to MassLive.

“At the core of the Commonwealth’s argument to the contrary is the proposition that a woman, and in particular a woman riding on a public trolley, has a reasonable expectation of privacy in not having a stranger secretly take photographs up her skirt. The proposition is eminently reasonable, but (the law) in its current form does not address it,” the decision reads.

Seems legit. Courts don’t get to make law and, contrary to like-clockwork GOP freakouts, they very rarely try to.

281 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:06:59pm

Ah, the slap fighting starts early:

282 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:07:22pm

re: #234 Kragar

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283 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:07:29pm

re: #279 Amory Blaine

Youtube Video

284 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:08:09pm

re: #275 HappyWarrior

Ah okay, thanks anyhow. Sure I’ll find some thing.

You could use easily Radegast as a tattoo; that particular deity is throughout the mythos of the Western Slavic peoples. It would be recognized by pretty much anyone in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, probably even into Ukraine.

285 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:08:32pm

re: #266 klys

I think part of my distinction was on external spicing versus flavors from the ingredients.

I consider their food to be about subtle flavors with an emphasis on the natural flavors of the ingredients, with little to no added spices.

Spices are also natural flavors, and I don’t think pickling is about the natural flavor, but more about radically changing that natural flavor.

Image: 2007-10-059p28.png

Anyway: Food is awesome. “bland” food like perfectly cooked mashed potatoes or just grapes can be freaking awesome. So can stuff it takes weeks to prepare.

Thanks, evolution, for coming up with this taste thing.

286 Ian G.  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:08:35pm

re: #282 chadu

TR wins the “most badass President” award rather easily, doesn’t he?

287 wrenchwench  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:08:46pm
288 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:09:23pm

re: #25 GunstarGreen

Offer to help him find that badger.

The one that tore out his heart/soul and left a half-melted jolly rancher in its place.

Gus is the Honey Badger of LGF…

RBS

289 lawhawk  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:10:01pm

re: #265 Gus

Wow. That’s some pretty skewed legal logic there by the court.

Never mind that the reason that some of these perverts do it is because they’re hoping to find someone who’s gone commando. So much for the expectation of privacy.

I also expect the MA legislature to close that nonsensical “loophole” this year.

290 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:10:27pm

re: #288 RealityBasedSteve

Gus is the Honey Badger of LGF…

RBS

Sometimes. Right now I’m considering a nap.

291 klys  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:11:04pm

re: #290 Gus

Sometimes. Right now I’m considering a nap.

Watch for ninjas.

292 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:11:51pm

re: #289 lawhawk

Wow. That’s some pretty skewed legal logic there by the court.

Never mind that the reason that some of these perverts do it is because they’re hoping to find someone who’s gone commando. So much for the expectation of privacy.

I also expect the MA legislature to close that nonsensical “loophole” this year.

Well, I guess it’s OK then to take down urinal pics in PUBLIC restrooms. Right? //

293 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:12:26pm

re: #291 klys

Watch for ninjas.

nap ninja are the very worst kind. Those and the ones that steal your sausages, but they are the Wurst kind.

RBS

294 ObserverArt  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:12:57pm

re: #290 Gus

Sometimes. Right now I’m considering a nap.

I’m sure even Honey Badger sleeps. But only enough to make him cranky when he reawakens.

; )

295 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:13:00pm

re: #293 RealityBasedSteve

nap ninja are the very worst kind. Those and the ones that steal your sausages, but they are the Wurst kind.

RBS

That was bad and you should feel bad.

296 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:15:52pm

re: #286 Ian G.

TR wins the “most badass President” award rather easily, doesn’t he?

The only real competitors are Jackson and Lincoln.

(Washington doesn’t count, because I’m pretty sure either he was invulnerable or his operator was playing in God-mode.)

297 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:17:51pm

re: #292 Gus

Well, I guess it’s OK then to take down urinal pics in PUBLIC restrooms. Right? //

Oh, this is an even better fake meme to start than the “upside-down Confederate flag = gay” one.

“If guy walks into the bathroom with his phone in his hand and looks at you, unless you shake your head no, you’re agreeing to give him a down-urinal dick-pic.”

298 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:18:20pm

re: #294 ObserverArt

I’m sure even Honey Badger sleeps. But only enough to make him cranky when he reawakens.

; )

Only after being bitten by venomous snakes. (Seriously.)

299 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:22:14pm

re: #285 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Spices are also natural flavors, and I don’t think pickling is about the natural flavor, but more about radically changing that natural flavor.

Image: 2007-10-059p28.png

Anyway: Food is awesome. “bland” food like perfectly cooked mashed potatoes or just grapes can be freaking awesome. So can stuff it takes weeks to prepare.

Thanks, evolution, for coming up with this taste thing.

There’s a lot related to what makes food “good”. Smell, texture, taste, temperature as well as presentation and eating atmosphere. Plus getting synergies from what mix of dishes you are eating.

300 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:24:04pm

re: #299 Feline Fearless Leader

How it looks, too, is actually important. That fancy plating ain’t just pissing in the wind.

301 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:26:01pm

re: #300 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

How it looks, too, is actually important. That fancy plating ain’t just pissing in the wind.

Yep. And such you get ingredients such as saffron. Mainly a coloring component.

302 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 1:53:56pm

re: #301 Feline Fearless Leader

Yep. And such you get ingredients such as saffron. Mainly a coloring component.

I like to use Tumeric as a coloring agent for rice, but I learned the hard way that 1. A little goes a LONG way and 2. It will stain anodized aluminum if it boils over.

RBS

303 TedStriker  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 2:55:22pm

re: #203 Charles Johnson

And right on cue, Abby Martin has blocked me. Saw that coming.

Awww, Abby’s fee-fees got hurt.

304 DKoch  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:36:47pm

re: #303 TedStriker

On twitter, how do you know if someone has blocked you? Do they send you a notification?


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