Stephen kicks off Black History Month with a look at some disturbing new state laws which limit what can be taught about racism in schools, and disturbing news out of Florida where the governor refuses to condemn nazi activity in his state. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
If you can’t denounce Nazis at a news conference, then we know who owns you.
re: #2 Belafon
I can’t run that right now. What is it?
re: #1 Scottish Dragon
Not only who owns them, but who they side with. And with Nazis, you don’t get to be “Nazi adjacent”, you’re either a fucking Nazi or you’re not. There’s no middle ground.
re: #2 Belafon
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Sorry, my carry over from the last thread failed. You put up “All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.” This song by Information Society includes a woman saying “All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” They were an electronic band, and used a lot of samples, and so that line repeats a number of times.
So, is it a “Groundhog”, a “Woodchuck”, or a “Whistle Pig” where you live?
It’s the last, here.
(My Da, who grew up in Denver called it a “Big-Ass Marmot”.)
Hack was a good album, and included the song “Mirrorshades” an homage to Neuromancer.
re: #6 austin_blue
So, is it a “Groundhog”, a “Woodchuck”, or a “Whistle Pig” where you live?
It’s the last, here.
(My Da, who grew up in Denver called it a “Big-Ass Marmot”.)
Groundhog for me, both here and back in fish country.
Kelly and the RCMP had better start getting those people out of there before Ottawa residents do it for them. This is going to get ugly real fast if they don’t.
A local resident walks past the convoy with a sign in counter protest.
I suspect many people are close to or past their breaking point. This is a tinderbox situation, and not the fun kind of Tinder. #cdnpoli #antivaxxers #Ottawa pic.twitter.com/Arm8vSRWRI— Caryma Sa’d - Lawyer + Political Commentator (@CarymaRules) February 2, 2022
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said the wide availability of highly effective vaccines means the U.S. mentality needs to evolve, Politico reports.Said McConnell: “It’s time for the state of emergency to wind down… What exactly are we doing here? Where are the goalposts? What’s the end game?”
Ask the virus
re: #11 Dangerman
Ask the virus
The goalposts? 80% fully vaccinated (3 shots). You make that happen, Mitch, and we can declare the emergency over.
re: #12 Dopamine Fish
Obviously. The availability of vaccines means fuck-all if not enough people will get them.
re: #6 austin_blue
So, is it a “Groundhog”, a “Woodchuck”, or a “Whistle Pig” where you live?
It’s the last, here.
(My Da, who grew up in Denver called it a “Big-Ass Marmot”.)
I first saw this in a Dennis the menace comic in the 60s
So my county’s idiot sheriff, who was arrested and sentenced to 2 years’ probation for a drunk driving incident, just announced he is not running for re-election. (Link: KARE 11, a local news site; international visitors may have difficulty accessing it.) If you’re wondering if that means we’ll elect less of a blithering idiot, that’s not as unlikely as it may sound; the City of Minneapolis vote will help that side of the equation.
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Crazy conspiracies start at the bottom of the most extreme wingnut fever swamps and work their way up to Fox. And everyone associated with these networks knows exactly how gullible their marks are. https://t.co/OAUmidYeTG
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) February 2, 2022
it’s astonishingly bad
it’s entire story abt US “faltering efforts to vaccinate” not *one word* abt GOP being pro-pandemic and Fox telling viewers vaccine could kill them https://t.co/CfK2ZZaNNr— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 2, 2022
Weird how people who put their faith in God to protect them from a deadly virus feel the need to be armed to the teeth to go grocery shopping pic.twitter.com/j3ZkWNVBUg
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) February 2, 2022
Good. RT is malicious propaganda from a hostile dictatorship and every sensible nation, person, and platform should refuse to collaborate in spreading it. https://t.co/NlNqwlYPWk
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) February 2, 2022
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
Russia Today isn’t even a Trojan Horse, it’s blatant propaganda with a $350m Kremlin budget. Good to see not every German political institution is corrupt and feckless regarding Putin’s threat. No coincidence this occurred after Merkel’s exit. https://t.co/LFQwuaLpjE
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) February 2, 2022
re: #11 Dangerman
Ask the virus
It was NBFD remember? Just a hiccup. One guy from China. Just like the flu. If fact just about the entire cult bought the lie from day one. But but but.
My trash did not get picked up on Tuesday because the trash company that picks up my trash are all sick with Covid. Over 2 years into this.
But it’s no big freaking deal.
re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg
Obviously. The availability of vaccines means fuck-all if not enough people will get them.
Additionally, the vaccines are mediocre at best vs omicron.
re: #23 JC1
Additionally, the vaccines are mediocre at best vs omicron.
As far as I’m aware, they reduce the likelihood of transmission FROM an infected individual by an amount that is yet to be determined, but is at least slightly greater than zero; and they do an incredibly good job of preventing serious damage, death, or long-term consequences. At that point, if we can get enough people fully vaccinated, to where it is universally true in the United States that you are more likely to be vaccinated than unvaccinated in an area, then I would feel safe in saying, “OK, still take reasonable precautions, but we’re going to transition to this thing being endemic.”
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mr. Kasparov is correct. And we should always call it Russia Today, rather than RT. Let’s remember what George Orwell said about abbreviations, or shortened forms in Newspeak, which were designed to minimize the time someone could _think_ about it.
re: #25 Dopamine Fish
As far as I’m aware, they reduce the likelihood of transmission FROM an infected individual by an amount that is yet to be determined, but is at least slightly greater than zero; and they do an incredibly good job of preventing serious damage, death, or long-term consequences. At that point, if we can get enough people fully vaccinated, to where it is universally true in the United States that you are more likely to be vaccinated than unvaccinated in an area, then I would feel safe in saying, “OK, still take reasonable precautions, but we’re going to transition to this thing being endemic.”
And if enough people had brains enough to get vaccinated, omicron wouldn’t have had such a fertile field from which to explode.
re: #25 Dopamine Fish
“OK, still take reasonable precautions, but we’re going to transition to this thing being endemic.”
That is too nuanced and too much of a mouthful. The only phrases that people could get their heads around were “It’s a hoax” or “It’s no worse than the flu!” or “Let’s go, Brandon!”
DeSantis was going to say something something about the Nazis then was alerted by staff they were his voters.
Close call.
re: #31 A Cranky One
If you think Ted Nugent is better than Springsteen, shit your pants!
So where is Jeff Zucker going to land? Because these rich, destructive shitmuffins never go away til they are dead. What seems a likely direction for him? He’s going to keep doing damage til he can’t anymore, I am curious to see what he wants to do next. If we were lucky he’d take his money and go stfu somewhere, but it rarely works that way.
I broke the thread.re: #33 A Mom Anon
So where is Jeff Zucker going to land? Because these rich, destructive shitmuffins never go away til they are dead. What seems a likely direction for him? He’s going to keep doing damage til he can’t anymore, I am curious to see what he wants to do next. If we were lucky he’d take his money and go stfu somewhere, but it rarely works that way.
CBS?
I wish I could hope that Jeff Zucker resigning as head of CNN would give them a chance to change their direction and stop trying to be Fox News Lite, but it’s more likely they’ll get even worse.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2022
That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Wordle 228 3/6
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re: #25 Dopamine Fish
As far as I’m aware, they reduce the likelihood of transmission FROM an infected individual by an amount that is yet to be determined, but is at least slightly greater than zero; and they do an incredibly good job of preventing serious damage, death, or long-term consequences. At that point, if we can get enough people fully vaccinated, to where it is universally true in the United States that you are more likely to be vaccinated than unvaccinated in an area, then I would feel safe in saying, “OK, still take reasonable precautions, but we’re going to transition to this thing being endemic.”
I should have qualified my statement that they were mediocre compared to their effectiveness vs earlier variants. Omicron is far more likely than earlier variants to cause breakthrough infections among the vaccinated and previously infected.
It’s absolutely terrible how so much of the US media is determined to ignore Fox News’ and the Republican Party’s role in pushing anti-science propaganda to their gullible followers. https://t.co/NGGZjZGw0T
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2022
re: #40 Charles Johnson
Can’t upset the Ohio roadside diner subset.
re: #26 aatharuv
Mr. Kasparov is correct. And we should always call it Russia Today, rather than RT. Let’s remember what George Orwell said about abbreviations, or shortened forms in Newspeak, which were designed to minimize the time someone could _think_ about it.
Ratfuckers Today
re: #23 JC1
Additionally, the vaccines are mediocre at best vs omicron.
Additionally, additionally
- People in his state, and many others, have been acting like there was no pandemic for ages.
- There’s no federal mask mandate, no general vaccine mandate, virtually no government restrictions
- most schools are in person, vaccine mandates are shut down, stores are open and people can come and go, major sports are and concerts are going on with full stadiums … what is it we need to change to be “normal”?
Ps Mitch, If, as you suggest, a new disease appeared and it killed 2000+ people a day without the past two years of getting used to that, we would freak the fuck out again.
Zucker’s stunning announcement came less than two months after he fired prime time anchor Chris Cuomo for improperly advising his brother, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, about how to address sexual misconduct allegations.
“As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” Zucker told employees in a memo. “I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today.”
The egging of dipshits is a good response to dipshittery.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) February 2, 2022
And so, it begins…
Update III: Now Judge Furman is telling the jurors to go the deliberation room and choose the foreperson - and start.
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) February 2, 2022
JUST IN: Greg Abbott is now warning Texans about power outages as a winter storm approaches. Reminder, he spent the last year doing nothing to fix the power grid and instead passed abortion bounties and allowing people to carry deadly weapons in public without a permit.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) February 2, 2022
re: #50 Belafon
The jury deliberations in the trial of Michael Avenatti in the Stormy Daniels case.
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
I mean, it’s not like the weather gets cold every year or anything…
Just a little over 25 minutes till Space X goes live for today’s launch.
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pledges state’s power grid will be ready for winter weather
Abbott promises power grid will be stable, but local outages are still possible
Ksat news
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hey now, he did the important thing…of giving the energy companies a pass for extortionary high energy prices in the midst of a crisis that they were responsible for.
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re: #51 Dangerman
Ticket every one of em
Daily
Ticket? Tow them. Confiscate their trucks if they can’t pay to get them out.
I just got cold-called by a salesman for a tech company on my mobile. I’ve already turned off my profile on job boards and it’s not on my LinkedIn profile (though my title is).
Thread. It looks like Missouri is positioning itself to be the bloodiest state in the Union, a haven for right-wingers who fantasize about being able to murder people they believe are a threat to them.
That this bill is in direct response to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, the reckless actions of the McClosky’s + the sham that was the Rittenhouse trial there is no doubt.
But before delving into the new law, let’s recap where Missouri is currently in terms of crime law.— Lindsey Simmons (@LynzforCongress) February 1, 2022
re: #59 Dopamine Fish
Thread. It looks like Missouri is positioning itself to be the bloodiest state in the Union, a haven for right-wingers who fantasize about being able to murder people they believe are a threat to them.
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SB666? 666??? Are they deliberately trolling us? I would say that was a clear sign that they were Satanists working for evil but the Satanic Temple supports social justice, so it would be maligning official Satanists.
re: #59 Dopamine Fish
Thread. It looks like Missouri is positioning itself to be the bloodiest state in the Union, a haven for right-wingers who fantasize about being able to murder people they believe are a threat to them.
When push comes to shove, some MAGA gunhumpers might be the ones who get shot as well under *self defense*
Stir fry dinner pic.twitter.com/A2ehD7i4Vz
— Cabledog (@Cabledog6) February 2, 2022
velvetized chicken with onions, carrots, broccoli, shiitakes in a sort of teriyaki sauce, served over udon noodles.
re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ticket? Tow them. Confiscate their trucks if they can’t pay to get them out.
How big a truck do you need to tow a big truck?
re: #61 Scottish Dragon
When push comes to shove, some MAGA gunhumpers might be the ones who get shot as well under *self defense*
Everyone knows that those rules apply only to white shooters killing blacks.
re: #61 Scottish Dragon
When push comes to shove, some MAGA gunhumpers might be the ones who get shot as well under *self defense*
You know it won’t work that way. The whole shebang is meant to apply only to one group of people: The white right-wingers who feel threatened by the end of their way of life. Everybody else is supposed to abide by their rules, not the other way around.
re: #65 Dopamine Fish
You know it won’t work that way. The whole shebang is meant to apply only to one group of people: The white right-wingers who feel threatened by the end of their way of life. Everybody else is supposed to abide by their rules, not the other way around.
never can tell when it gets to a jury, but then again, as we saw with Michael Reinoehl, cops may decline to let the case ever get to trail.
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
a truck tower…they are a real thing
No need to tow them, just push them off the right of way. Things will get fluid after the first couple.
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
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velvetized chicken with onions, carrots, broccoli, shiitakes in a sort of teriyaki sauce, served over udon noodles.
Had to look up velvet chicken. Links also provided for bee, pork and shrimp.
re: #39 JC1
I should have qualified my statement that they were mediocre compared to their effectiveness vs earlier variants. Omicron is far more likely than earlier variants to cause breakthrough infections among the vaccinated and previously infected.
my understanding from some recent article was that the booster bumped resistance to omicron back up to what it was against covid after the second shot, by increasing antibodies something like 24 fold over the two shot folks who weren’t boosted six months out. Even my lady barber, who had to skip the booster on doctor’s orders after the second dose caused her some pretty nasty heart palpitations, go the omicron variant but found it was just several days of feeling like she had a sinus infection that wasn’t really all that terrible. I felt very bad for her, because as right-wing as everybody in that shop is, she was trying to do the right thing and the vaccine did apparently mess with her, but at least that second shot gave her some protection that likely paid off in the end.
re: #69 Decatur Deb
No need to tow them, just push them off the right of way. Things will get fluid after the first couple.
I would suggest a couple of forklifts, flip the truck over, just to make it a real problem for the truck owner.
re: #72 Belafon
I would suggest a couple of forklifts, flip the truck over, just to make it a real problem for the truck owner.
The Badger is armored and up-gunned in case anyone gets stupid.
I hate to be so personal, but Hawley is one of the worst human beings, and a self egrandizing con artist. When Trump goes down I certainly hope this evil will be layed in the open for all to see, and be ashamed of. https://t.co/3LirLgeuMz
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) February 2, 2022
re: #63 sagehen
How big a truck do you need to tow a big truck?
There are tow trucks for semis. But most vehicles (even the big lifted ones the dickless gunhumpers drive) will fit on a flatbed.
All new Falcon 9 and fairings. I suspect that’s because it’s an NRO satellite they are lifting into orbit..
re: #70 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Had to look up velvet chicken. Links also provided for bee, pork and shrimp.
velvetizing meat really works
Falcon 9 B1071 RTLS landing! pic.twitter.com/5vdjt0GlyM
— Chris Bergin - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) February 2, 2022
re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth
velvetizing meat really works
I’ll give it a try next time I attempt a stir fry. I printed out the recipe/procedure so I’ll have it on hand. But first I need to find/buy a small Wok at a decent price.
re: #77 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I have no doubt whatsoever that Hawley and every other Trumpy miscreant would have been front and center back in 1939 at this event:
I’m sure Hawley would have insisted on introducing Trump himself for the keynote address.
re: #33 A Mom Anon
So where is Jeff Zucker going to land? Because these rich, destructive shitmuffins never go away til they are dead. What seems a likely direction for him? He’s going to keep doing damage til he can’t anymore, I am curious to see what he wants to do next. If we were lucky he’d take his money and go stfu somewhere, but it rarely works that way.
MSNBC?
re: #83 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I’ll give it a try next time I attempt a stir fry. I printed out the recipe/procedure so I’ll have it on hand. But first I need to find/buy a small Wok at a decent price.
I just used a steel skillet this time because my wok is crap and needs replacement
ICYMI @PressSec used the perfect metaphor for #Russia’s propaganda claiming it fears aggression from #Ukraine:
“When the Fox is screaming from the top of the henhouse that he’s scared of the chickens… that should not be reported as a statement of fact.”pic.twitter.com/EYoLUIJL5M— Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) February 2, 2022
And…. Senate Education committee meeting for Thursday was just cancelled.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) February 2, 2022
If #kyga22 is cancelled Thursday and Friday due to the ice storm, there are a few open Mondays late in the session that those missed days could be slid back to. https://t.co/1XPCtRD8Ta
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) February 2, 2022
Because of the weather forecast, Thayer says the Senate is moving up their time from 2pm to noon tomorrow for gaveling in.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) February 2, 2022
good luck with that
re: #59 Dopamine Fish
“Because this is Missouri and there’s no shortage of racism, I also want you all to know about one of the worst bills I have ever seen in Missouri General Assembly.
Senate Bill 666 makes Missouri a safe haven for the lynching of black men.”
Senate Bill 666. Well they already went full on Golden Calf with their chosen harbinger of the apocalypse. What’s one more?
Normal. All normal
You’ll have to excuse me if I’m still not going to fall all over myself to praise Adam Kinzinger. Call me when he stops voting with the rest of the GOP to block voting rights legislation.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2022
Favorite slide ever from a military conference. Thanks Missile Defense Agency!
Enemy missile launched. Giant Military Cat launched. Missile intercepted. pic.twitter.com/MjS0XfOIrk— Megan Eckstein (@maeday22) February 2, 2022
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just used a steel skillet this time because my wok is crap and needs replacement
Thinking about getting this one. The last convo on here regarding Chinese cooking (fried rice) recommended just a plain carbon steel one. Thoughts Lizards?
re: #90 Charles Johnson
Same with Cheney. Until she quits voting with the rethuglicans on everything she can go pound sand as well.
re: #97 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Same with Cheney. Until she quits voting with the rethuglicans on everything she can go pound sand as well.
They’re enemies of our enemies, nothing more.
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
a truck tower…they are a real thing
And HUMONGOUS — saw one freeing a coke delivery monster out of mud once.
re: #98 ericblair
They’re enemies of our enemies, nothing more.
Maxim 29 is a proverb to live by. As in, if you follow it you live, if you don’t, well, not so much.
Jeff Bezos is involved in a little kerfuffle with the Dutch. Specifically, he is seeking their approval to temporarily dismantle an over 100 year-old bridge so he can get his new Yacht out to sea. The masts on the thing are too big to clear the bridge. Bezos is willing to fund the dismantling and reconstruction of the bridge himself.
An article I was reading on this situation also includes the following:
Rumors of the Amazon founder’s involvement with the boat started with Brad Stone’s 2021 book about the founder called Amazon Unbound, first excerpted in Bloomberg Businessweek. In addition to the 127-meter behemoth, Stone claimed Bezos also commissioned a smaller “support yacht,” that supposedly comes equipped with its own helipad. In related mindless spending efforts, Bezos has also reportedly invested $42 million dollars into a 500-foot tall mechanical clock capable of running for 10 thousand years.
But Bezos isn’t the only billionaire busting out cash for luxury yachts. While the global economies crawled back from a year of lockdowns and millions of Americans struggled to make due on government relief efforts, yacht sales were booming. Superyachts had a banner year in 2021, with a total of 887 sold worldwide according to a report from maritime data firm VesselsValue, viewed by Bloomberg. That marks a 77% increase in sales from a year prior and more than double the yachts sold in 2019.
According to that same report, an unprecedented pandemic era wealth gain among the world’s richest cohort and renewed demand for semi-isolated activities were partly the reason for the surge in yacht sales. Lonely billionaires needed something to spend all that new capital on.
Now though, it appears all that yacht demand has outpaced supply. Recent supply chain disruptions tacked on alongside the ships’ inherently long build times, means the hefty prices may swell even larger, Bloomberg notes.
The rest of us can enjoy our table scraps, I guess.
.@docrocktex26
HOW TO FIT THE ENTIRE ISSUE IN JUST ONE TWEET 👇 https://t.co/UXFsxDa15N— you can’t handle the truth. ✊🏾💻📡 (sysop) (@iam_sysop) February 2, 2022
re: #96 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Thinking about getting this one. The last convo on here regarding Chinese cooking (fried rice) recommended just a plain carbon steel one. Thoughts Lizards?
I’m looking at this one
amazon.com
I’m left wondering it is actually one of those inflatable hangers, but with the image of a strange delta winged paint printed on it.
Just to mess with folks
LOL— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) February 2, 2022
So that means that if all goes according to plan, Senate Democrats will have their 50-seat majority back my mid-March or so.
That would ensure that Dems have their members back for the SCOTUS confirmation vote— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 2, 2022
re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
“Paging Art Bell. Art Bell please pickup courtesy phone and press 9. Art Bell…..”
re: #105 Eclectic Cyborg
Lonely billionaires needed something to spend all that new capital on.
And as usual the answer was “not other people, ffs.”
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m looking at this one
amazon.com
That actually looks like a better deal. Thank you for the link.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
temporarily dismantle the fucking mast.
JFC
That was my thought as well. I’m curious why that’s not possible. None of the news stories I’ve read provide an explanation as to why the boat can’t be temporarily modified to clear the bridge.
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
The yacht builder is probably telling him it’s more expensive to unstep the mast than rebuild the bridge.
re: #116 jaunte
The yacht builder is probably telling him it’s more expensive to unstep the mast than rebuild the bridge.
LOL
This is such horrible theology, I can barely breathe. God causes a woman to be raped? As a theologian, homiletician, pastor & seminary prof, I want to state this very clearly: For those of you who have been impregnated through rape — THIS IS NOT WHAT GOD WANTED FOR YOU. 1/ https://t.co/l1cywJ6L8g
— Rev. Dr. Leah Schade, PhD (@LeahSchade) February 2, 2022
God wants your body to be respected. God wants you to be able to choose who you are intimate with. God wants your child to be conceived not through an act of violence but in an act of love — freely, without coercion, and without harm. /2
— Rev. Dr. Leah Schade, PhD (@LeahSchade) February 2, 2022
This man has no right to claim that God put you, a woman who has been raped, “in this moment.” He is wrong. What he is saying is theological malpractice. Do not believe him. /3
— Rev. Dr. Leah Schade, PhD (@LeahSchade) February 2, 2022
He is using this one story of a woman choosing to give birth after a gang rape to say that suffering from sexual violence and giving birth is “heroic,” thus shaming every woman who has made a different choice — and using theology to justify his stance. THIS. IS. WRONG.
— Rev. Dr. Leah Schade, PhD (@LeahSchade) February 2, 2022
re: #96 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Thinking about getting this one. The last convo on here regarding Chinese cooking (fried rice) recommended just a plain carbon steel one. Thoughts Lizards?
my plain carbon steel one looked pretty for about a week, and then was rusted through.
re: #119 steve_davis
my plain carbon steel one looked pretty for about a week, and then was rusted through.
gotta take care of carbon steel, just like cast iron
re: #82 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Chris Bergin - NSF
@NASASpaceflight
Falcon 9 B1071 RTLS landing!
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
—Robert A Heinlein
my carbon steel knives are the best, but only if they get the TLC required.
How to Season a Carbon Steel Pan
Michele, this is definitely a must read article.
re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I’m 99% sure that is a temporary pop-up that has a jet painted on it. The shadow at the front of it wouldn’t look like that if the “cover” was transparent.
re: #116 jaunte
The yacht builder is probably telling him it’s more expensive to unstep the mast than rebuild the bridge.
Of course you’d think that wouldn’t matter to the richest fucking man in the world.
/
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
gotta take care of carbon steel, just like cast iron
Oil it regularly, polish it when surface rust shows up, and most importantly, COOK WITH IT so it builds up that natural patina of residue.
re: #125 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I’m 99% sure that is a temporary pop-up that has a jet painted on it. The shadow at the front of it wouldn’t look like that if the “cover” was transparent.
if it is an extendable clear covering the front housing may look like that even if the extension was clear
Not if they knew exactly where they wanted to put the structure
/s/
Or, if the material is clear except for the image printed on it. Which would allow for the shadow seen too— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) February 2, 2022
There’s a whole Twitter tag now around this, and honestly, it’s hilarious.
#AvenattiJuryNotes we can’t find the count where he’s charged with being an asshole
— RadicalLeftLunaticHat (@Popehat) February 2, 2022
Republicans gained a narrow majority in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2021.
Right out of the gate, they’ve voted to halt next year’s minimum wage bump (planned to go from $11 to $12).
This is what you get when you elect Republicans. Don’t forget.https://t.co/jnERZGLt8P— Nick Knudsen (@NickKnudsenUS) February 2, 2022
re: #131 jaunte
Narrator: Not only did they forget, they celebrated it at the time.
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
I believe that last bit should read ‘Allow deadly people to carry weapons in public without a permit.’
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe they can build a wall? A big wall. Beautiful wall. And the parts of the storm that breaches the wall can be shot.
Or nuked. From space. By Space Force Cadets learning about climate and control of climate…
So Redneck it fucking hurts.
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
How to Season a Carbon Steel Pan
Michele, this is definitely a must read article.
also this one
Carbon Steel Pan Care - How to Clean, Store, and Cooking tips
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
How to Season a Carbon Steel Pan
Michele, this is definitely a must read article.
FWIW, my SOP with my cast iron stuff is to after use, brush out with hot water (as hot as the tap can deliver), then put on stove on low heat, enough to dry it out but not burn the oil.
Treat with oil — minimal amount, just enough to allow for a thin coat — using kitchen paper towel, then let it be on heat for a bit to let it soak in.
Let cool down.
Put into storage.
I would imagine the process is similar with carbon steel.
EDIT: My oil of choice is rapeseed oil.
Apparently this has the Muskbros all in a tizzy. I can’t imagine why; programming a car to break the law seems problematic on its face.
“yes, we programed the car to run stop signs” it’s not something your attorney wants you to have admitted in public https://t.co/NWE7w6Uax6
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) February 2, 2022
re: #136 Teukka
FWIW, my SOP with my cast iron stuff is to after use, brush out with hot water (as hot as the tap can deliver), then put on stove on low heat, enough to dry it out but not burn the oil.
Treat with oil — minimal amount, just enough to allow for a thin coat — using kitchen paper towel, then let it be on heat for a bit to let it soak in.
Let cool down.
Put into storage.I would imagine the process is similar with carbon steel.
That’s what is detailed in my #135
also this one
Carbon Steel Pan Care - How to Clean, Store, and Cooking tips
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
How to Season a Carbon Steel Pan
Michele, this is definitely a must read article.
Seems like a pretty straight forward process. Bookmarked for future reference. Thank you.
re: #137 Dopamine Fish
Apparently this has the Muskbros all in a tizzy. I can’t imagine why; programming a car to break the law seems problematic on its face.
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It’s called a California stop. But now that he’s moving to Texas he’ll have to remove that feature.
re: #137 Dopamine Fish
Apparently this has the Muskbros all in a tizzy. I can’t imagine why; programming a car to break the law seems problematic on its face.
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This is an interesting legal issue to see who would be liable for a ticket in this case. However, the big issue here is that Tesla’s autonomous driving system is massively underdesigned, has an intervention rate about 1000 times higher than Waymo as far as I can see, and should never ever ever have been released to the public.
re: #83 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I’ll give it a try next time I attempt a stir fry. I printed out the recipe/procedure so I’ll have it on hand. But first I need to find/buy a small Wok at a decent price.
FWIW, Francis Lam on NPR’s “Splendid Table” had a guest cook on the program a month or so ago who doesn’t use a wok to stir fry on western stoves.
The guest felt that unless you had a Chinese stove, a steel frying pan at a high temperature was a better fit for a western stove, gas or electric.
True, but after seeing a naked mouse in a book I never wore clothes in the bathtub again.
— Speranza (@adriantis141) January 28, 2022
Reminder:
A billion dollar wall and spending on border “enforcement” by Texas will not keep the lights on during yet another winter storm.
These fuckers had a decade to improve their power infrastructure and grid. They had a year to prepare after the grid nearly completely failed that would have left vast swaths of the state without power for weeks. And yet they’re warning of rolling outages once again because the grid is about to be overtaxed by predictable winter weather: cold.
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
also this one
Carbon Steel Pan Care - How to Clean, Store, and Cooking tips
Also read and bookmarked. Thanks again.
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
I had a roomie at the co-op who was raped outside her fancy pants dorm and she got pregnant. She was (then) a Good Catholic Girl, so she did not get an abortion but instead put her daughter up for adoption. It completely FUCKED HER UP. This being the first half of the 1980s, these adoption “services” still basically treated women like containers and she got no counseling either pre or post-birth. I don’t know what happened to her after she married a gay Baptist preacher, because yeah, the rape completely messed up her view of sex.
And those people who say that adoption is an option have never had a cousin who was put up for adoption ask you if their schizophrenic mother would have been a better (single) parent than the physically and mentally abusive married couple who adopted her. I was completely speechless. I mean, I know what it’s like to have a schizophrenic parent but what can I say? It probably would have been ugly, but I don’t know.
And those are the reasons I give whenever someone says that adoption is an option. Oh, and this “theology” is utter and complete horseshit. So tired of this.
Trump: Steal the election
Media: Bereft Of Avenues, A Philosopher-In-Chief Weighs The Scales Of Jurisprudence— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) February 1, 2022
re: #144 lawhawk
And it hurts the least among them. The ones who can’t even buy a gas generator. No power cares not what you have. No power laughs at your plans. No power kills those with no money or other place to run to.
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
Soldano is a liar. I do not believe his story.
Ooooookay …
re: #119 steve_davis
my plain carbon steel one looked pretty for about a week, and then was rusted through.
Sorry. But you didn’t take care of it properly. Both cast iron and carbon steel have 100.+ year life spans.
Duck curling.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/C3nCY4FZvW
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) February 2, 2022
re: #137 Dopamine Fish
Apparently this has the Muskbros all in a tizzy. I can’t imagine why; programming a car to break the law seems problematic on its face.
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Years ago, in one of my first Driver’s Ed lessons, I ran a stop sign in the sense that I slowed down to a crawl, looked both ways, saw it was clear and then kept going. My instructor immediately slammed on the brakes and scolded me for not stopping saying “that sign is not a suggestion”.
The funny thing is, I rolled the stop because I’d seen my dad and my grandfather do that all the time for years while riding with them and just kind of assumed you didn’t actually have to stop all the way when you got to a stop sign, so it didn’t occur to me that I might be doing something wrong during my driving lesson.
in other news, usps has apparently managed to lose an ebay shipment worth about 200 bucks to me. how the fuck do you manage to lose a carton of books weighing approximately 50 pounds somewhere between atlanta and memphis? No, correction, they claim it made it to Memphis, but they’re doing the recovery from Atlanta, ‘cause who the fuck knows? The topper of course is that media mail has no insurance, so if they lose it, or if they fuck it up because they inspect it and don’t pack it back very well (something they’re renowned for) you’re just out of fucking luck.
One of my favorite “grunge” bands. Layne Staley was a voice from beyond. He flat out brought it with power and passion.
Bright candles burn brighter, faster.
Makes studio version seem weak.
Alice In Chains. Live.
re: #141 ericblair
It’s computerized. Nothing can possibly go worng.
re: #157 Moe Avattar
It’s computerized. Nothing can possibly go worng.
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re: #157 Moe Avattar
It’s computerized. Nothing can possibly go worng.
I’m sorry Dave, but I can’t stop at the sign.
re: #155 steve_davis
You’d be amazed within some systems how easy it is to lose track of something that gets labeled wrong.
re: #159 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I’m sorry Dave, but I can’t stop at the sign.
re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg
You’d be amazed within some systems how easy it is to lose track of something that gets labeled wrong.
it’s not lost, we just can’t locate it at the moment.
re: #158 Teukka
go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle* go wrong *crackle*
He said computer, not Republican.
re: #77 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If trump is so bad, why did you vote for his agenda over 90% of the time, Adam? Policy-wise, you’re like all the rest of these creeps.
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) February 2, 2022
Hi @CharlieKirk11. Dr. Fauci has broken zero laws and no one is prosecuting him for saving American lives. What you’re advocating for here—locking up your political opponents—is called fascism and it isn’t happening in the United States of America. https://t.co/bPOHS8yEyk
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈 (@AmoneyResists) February 2, 2022
re: #137 Dopamine Fish
Apparently this has the Muskbros all in a tizzy. I can’t imagine why; programming a car to break the law seems problematic on its face.
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This is known as a “rolling” or “California” stop. Waaaay back in the Dark Ages, we were told in drivers ed that (Texas) DPS troopers would pull us over and give us a ticket for running a stop sign if we did that. (Imagines all the troopers and cops in Texas noting that Teslas are programmed for rolling stops, and they see dollar $ign$.)
Oh shit. pic.twitter.com/oHjLAQGQYq
— Rabbi Mike Harvey (@RabbiHarvey) February 2, 2022
re: #168 gocart mozart
Ian Malcolm warned us about this.
JUST NOW (WOW): “Absolutely it would impact not only the attorney’s perspective but also the client’s…Far less likely to cooperate.”
Robert Jenkins, an attorney for several 1/6 clients says flatly Trump’s pardon statements impact the cases.pic.twitter.com/3Y0u9OhI0W— John Berman (@JohnBerman) February 2, 2022
re: #168 gocart mozart
Fuck. Bad sign. BAD. SIGN. 👀
re: #90 Charles Johnson
You’ll have to excuse me if I’m still not going to fall all over myself to praise Adam Kinzinger. Call me when he stops voting with the rest of the GOP to block voting rights legislation.
I feel less bad now about my comment last week saying that Liz Cheney at the end of the day is still a Republican, caucusing with a party that wants to essentially disenfranchise any non-caucasian voter in the US*, despite seemingly making the right moves on the Jan 6 commission.
*Among other things; see the “Rape is a gift from God” monster above who has his own suite in the GOP Big Tent.
So, Town Hall meeting at work next Thursday. Most likely they’re going to force everyone back in the office, since the pandemic is “over”.
Not looking forward to going back into an office and having to sit across from a dude who apparently has Typhoid Mary as a role model.
re: #166 mmmirele
This is known as a “rolling” or “California” stop. Waaaay back in the Dark Ages, we were told in drivers ed that (Texas) DPS troopers would pull us over and give us a ticket for running a stop sign if we did that. (Imagines all the troopers and cops in Texas noting that Teslas are programmed for rolling stops, and they see dollar $ign$.)
LEOs love infractions like that - quick & easy way to boost their citation quota.
re: #170 The Pie Overlord!
TFG is obstructing justice.
re: #175 jaunte
TFG is obstructing justice.
And has been for the past, what? Three or four years now? At least?
re: #172 Mattand
I feel less bad now about my comment last week saying that Liz Cheney at the end of the day is still a Republican, caucusing with a party that wants to essentially disenfranchise any non-caucasian voter in the US*, despite seemingly making the right moves on the Jan 6 commission.
*Among other things; see the “Rape is a gift from God” monster above who has his own suite in the GOP Big Tent.
The only difference between Cheney and Trump with respect to installing a fascist GOP dictatorship is the timing.
Trump wants it done now, and Cheney thinks it is too soon to do that without facing a backlash that might destroy the GOP.
Pretty funny comments on this post:
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) February 2, 2022
JFC
Trump: Some of these people are not guilty. Many of these people are not guilty. What they’ve done to these and in many cases they’re patriots. They’re soldiers, they’re policemen… Lindsey Graham doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about if he said that pic.twitter.com/M2RpSSu90c
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 2, 2022
re: #177 EPR-radar
The only difference between Cheney and Trump with respect to installing a fascist GOP dictatorship is the timing.
Trump wants it done now, and Cheney thinks it is too soon to do that without facing a backlash that might destroy the GOP.
The Cheneys hatred of Trump are all due to his foreign policy. They are not our friends but their disagreement with Trump’s entire FP agenda is deeply held.
What they’ve done to these and in many cases they’re patriots.
He still can’t speak English.
re: #137 Dopamine Fish
Apparently this has the Muskbros all in a tizzy. I can’t imagine why; programming a car to break the law seems problematic on its face.
I had actually posted a page about this issue a few years back. Disheartening to see my concerns at the time were well-founded.
I am amused by the sudden realization that the Rooney Rule was merely window dressing, and that teams generally hire coaches they think are best for their team, then fill out their required racial interview quota.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 2, 2022
If the NFL is systemically racist against black coaches, how did 38 year old Brian Flores, who had never been a coordinator in the NFL or any other league, get one of 32 head jobs after being the linebackers coach for the Patriots for a few years?
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 2, 2022
Flores is going full Kaepernick. He decided that it’s too much work to succeed as a coach in the NFL so now he’s trying to cash in as a professional victim instead. It’s a smart move financially. Lots of money to be made in victimhood.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 2, 2022
The Right attacking Brian Flores over his discrimination lawsuit against the NFL owners.
34F here, 21 degrees cooler than when I left for work this morning.
re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
A not-so-subtle message to Russia? “You don’t know everything we have so do you really want to FAFO?”
NEW: Germany has banned the transmission of Russian propaganda outlet RT.
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) February 2, 2022
re: #185 Belafon
Longer sentences for you guys then.
I’m okay with this. Their lawyers will try to convince them to take deals, and they’ll opt for trials and get 7 to 10 year sentences minus time served - may it take a good year or two for some of them to even get to trial.
re: #71 steve_davis
my understanding from some recent article was that the booster bumped resistance to omicron back up to what it was against covid after the second shot, by increasing antibodies something like 24 fold over the two shot folks who weren’t boosted six months out. Even my lady barber, who had to skip the booster on doctor’s orders after the second dose caused her some pretty nasty heart palpitations, go the omicron variant but found it was just several days of feeling like she had a sinus infection that wasn’t really all that terrible. I felt very bad for her, because as right-wing as everybody in that shop is, she was trying to do the right thing and the vaccine did apparently mess with her, but at least that second shot gave her some protection that likely paid off in the end.
I think that boostered resistance is like 70-75% vs omicron, compared to 90%+ vs wild, Alpha, etc.
Omicron is so contagious that a 75% vaccine wouldn’t prevent spread without other measures.
re: #189 Belafon
34F here, 21 degrees cooler than when I left for work this morning.
62 here but the wind has calmed down and when I walked the boys it felt like 70. Generating lots of sun juice as well.
re: #152 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Sorry. But you didn’t take care of it properly. Both cast iron and carbon steel have 100.+ year life spans.
Our carbon steel wok was a wedding present-nearly 45 years ago. Still going strong.
re: #149 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Soldano is a liar. I do not believe his story.
soldano is a liar is pretty much a given
re: #192 darthstar
I’m okay with this. Their lawyers will try to convince them to take deals, and they’ll opt for trials and get 7 to 10 year sentences minus time served - may it take a good year or two for some of them to even get to trial.
Everyone who refuses to cooperate should be given at least a 3 year minimum sentence. Trump clones running for office are likely to make the same promise.
re: #152 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Sorry. But you didn’t take care of it properly. Both cast iron and carbon steel have 100.+ year life spans.
I have to agree. I use carbon steel fry ware and love love love it. The key is proper seasoning, never wash with soap- hot water only. Always dry and a thin coat of oil if it’s going to sit for a while. My pans are as non-stick as coated aluminum.
re: #198 Dave In Austin
I have to agree. I use carbon steel fry ware and love love love it. The key is proper seasoning, never wash with soap- hot water only. Always dry and a thin coat of oil if it’s going to sit for a while. My pans are as non-stick as coated aluminum.
A little detergent now and then won’t hurt a properly seasoned pan. Just don’t overdo it.
re: #181 The Pie Overlord!
JFC
Trump saying they are “…policemen…” really means he views them as his personal stormtroopers.
And they are.
On the Cheney’s : we should remember than many of the GOP (both camps, the neocons and religious-right) actually despise Trump. They had no use for him at all.
Only because Trump correctly judged that America was ripe for a populist idiot did the GOP machinery decide they had to be on the Trump bandwagon.
The old-school neocons thought warmongering about enemies was enough.
The religious right thought that scaring people about the horrors of sex and atheists was enough.
The klansmen thought scaring white-people about brown-people was enough.
Trump showed them that the way to getting more votes was to appeal to the vapidness of reality TV.
re: #198 Dave In Austin
I have to agree. I use carbon steel fry ware and love love love it. The key is proper seasoning, never wash with soap- hot water only. Always dry and a thin coat of oil if it’s going to sit for a while. My pans are as non-stick as coated aluminum.
way back in like the early 80s i wanted a cast iron frying pan
all the stuff in the stores was silver. and a few other colors
no one had the beautiful black color i had seen and wanted so bad
there was so much i didnt know
absolutely obliterated pic.twitter.com/lnKeoTXXTA
— Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) February 2, 2022
re: #200 Florida Panhandler
Trump saying they are “…policemen…” really means he views them as his personal stormtroopers.
And they are.
Einsatztrumppen
Breaking Politico: In the final days of his presidency, Trump seriously considered issuing a blanket pardon for all participants in the Jan. 6 riot, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.https://t.co/1Zap1AXzE8
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 2, 2022
Today is 22-2-2 .
Not sure that means anything in the universe at large, but I find it very comforting in some strange way that our Gregorian calendar is pattern oriented.
Reminds me of astrology.
re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter
Mississippi looks like a disaster
when it comes to Covid, but then it’s a disaster for a whole range of economic and health metrics. As of today when sorted by deaths per million, it is in a solid first place, with a state that should know better in 2nd place:[Embedded content]
This alone is true more times often than not…and I live in this state. The fact we suck so much drives me mad.
re: #199 calochortus
A little detergent now and then won’t hurt a properly seasoned pan. Just don’t overdo it.
The only thing that will hurt a properly seasoned pan is a brillo pad or oven cleaner. After cleaning, dry over heat and smear oil.
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
This alone is true more times often than not…and I live in this state. The fact we suck so much drives me mad.
And that people take pride in it….
re: #162 Dangerman
it’s not lost, we just can’t locate it at the moment.
honestly, losing the money is irritating enough, but it was a really nice assortment of library of america volumes someone bought off me. they don’t exactly have tremendous sentimental value to me, but still, I had to work a bit to put the set together, used, in the first place, and it’s gonna really peeve me if they’re sitting in a box in a warehouse somewhere, or worse, sitting on the bookshelf of some postal employee who decided they’d make a nice starter set to their library.
re: #191 jaunte
noted that earlier at #20
JUST IN: Germany’s media regulators have banned broadcasting of the German-language TV channel of Russian state broadcaster RT pic.twitter.com/lQdrHYEpZG
— DW Politics (@dw_politics) February 2, 2022
re: #199 calochortus
A little detergent now and then won’t hurt a properly seasoned pan. Just don’t overdo it.
the key is make sure it bone-dry and then a wipe of neutral oil
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
the key is make sure it bone-dry and then a wipe of neutral oil
I just bought a bottle of Grape seed oil for the one I ordered. Thanks BWS for not only the tip on a decent Wok, but the links for seasoning and cleaning it. It will be here Tuesday.
NOPE
Governors from both parties are telling President Biden that the US must “move away from the pandemic.” We can’t live in a perpetual state of emergency. There needs to be a quick off-ramp of restrictions, with the understanding they may need to return if new threats emerge. pic.twitter.com/PuWZRukP92
— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) February 2, 2022
re: #215 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I just bought a bottle of Grape seed oil for the one I ordered. Thanks BWS for not only the tip on a decent Wok, but the links for seasoning and cleaning it. It will be here Tuesday.
Be sure to send food pron of the stir fry you make with it.
re: #215 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I just bought a bottle of Grape seed oil for the one I ordered. Thanks BWS for not only the tip on a decent Wok, but the links for seasoning and cleaning it. It will be here Tuesday.
check out her other links…lots of good stuff there
re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
…….
The klansmen thought scaring white-people about brown-people was enough.
Trump showed them that the way to getting more votes was to appeal to the vapidness of reality TV.
It was definitely the scaring white people about brown people. Yes, Trump got noticed because of the show, but his enduring legacy is the promotion of all things white and demonization of people of color. It was his promotion of birtherism that got him fully onto the national stage. But before that, he demanded the death penalty for the Central Park 5, who were shown to be innocent of the crime; he never apologized for his campaign against them
The attacks on the 1619 Project and the efforts to ban “CRT” are all part of his racist policies. He taught the GOP that open racism sells — no more need to use subtle dog whistles.
I do not know if this will play here. This is from Cook’s Illustrated on how to care for a cast iron Skillet:
cooksillustrated.com
re: #204 gocart mozart
Put a sock in it, given what you are doing to an ethnic minority in your own realm, you state-controlled puppet.
— Captain Magic (@ericfruitbat) February 2, 2022
re: #218 Dopamine Fish
Be sure to send food pron of the stir fry you make with it.
Of course. But the deal is off if I screw it up on first (2nd, 3rd) try. I’m sure there a learning curve here. But hey! I can always go to You Tube and watch a video or three before I even actually try it.
re: #206 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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but he couldn’t do that, because it would ruin the Antifa-FBI story.
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
If new threats emerge??
We don’t have the CURRENT threat under control yet!
What the actual fuck?
re: #223 Captain Magic
At least I live in a country with multiple political parties, rather than the single state party you are forced to dwell in, you moron.
— Captain Magic (@ericfruitbat) February 3, 2022
re: #202 Dangerman
way back in like the early 80s i wanted a cast iron frying pan
all the stuff in the stores was silver. and a few other colors
no one had the beautiful black color i had seen and wanted so badthere was so much i didnt know
My parents background was so impoverished that my mother threw away the silver pieces they were given as wedding presents because she couldn’t keep them clean and didn’t have any idea of their value. I learned this while talking with her in about 2004 about the aluminum pieces that she received at the same time which are now in my possession.
re: #225 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Of course. But the deal is off if I screw it up on first (2nd, 3rd) try. I’m sure there a learning curve here. But hey! I can always go to You Tube and watch a video or three before I even actually try it.
you can always ask here before you start. We might have some suggestions learned from our own teachable moments in cooking…
re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth
check out her other links…lots of good stuff there
Will do. All ready dreaming about stir-fried/sauteed shrimp, mushrooms and onion with asparagus served over/with a nice salmon filet.
re: #228 Captain Magic
I’d call him a mandarin. To me it looks like Xi is planning to become Emperor of The Middle Kingdom.
Let’s hope he lets his bureaucracy keep their balls.
Simple zest for living is part of it https://t.co/Hd6BELStKA
— Jorts (and Jean) (@JortsTheCat) February 2, 2022
we just had a little moment of excitement that involved (a) water glass crashing to floor, causing me to jump up and see wtf was going on, (b) cat getting wrapped up in earbuds and panicking, (c) tv remote flying across the room, (d) cat racing down hallway
— That Tom Tomorrow guy (@tomtomorrow) February 2, 2022
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
If new threats emerge??
We don’t have the CURRENT threat under control yet!
What the actual fuck?
This is the new narrative. People of all political persuasions are tired of the lockdown and want to resume a normal like. My niece’s family — vaccinated and boosted — all just went through omicron and recovered quickly. They want to begin dining in with vaccinated friends and feel that their immunity will protect them for at least a couple months.
re: #232 Romantic Heretic
Agree that the current CCP is much less communist in spirit and much more like an ancient imperial hierarchy with the emperor on top.
This is the thing with anti-China sentiment that bothers me: it is growing because of inferiority complexes, not because of high-moral ground stances.
We’ve being doing business with the CCP controlled China for decades now.
When China was still relatively small economically compared to the US we were ok with that.
But now, with the looming reality that the US is becoming number 2 on the world economic stage, people are starting to say CHINA-this and CHINA-that.
We (the US) are very, very hypocritical about all of this.
We need a come-to-Adam-Smith moment here: China will, and should because of its population, become the largest and thus most influential economy on the planet.
That it’s government is an oligarchy of political in-breeding and that ruling group really does horrible things to people within its own borders is a moral issue.
But it always has been.
UPDATE: The National Butterfly Center on the Texas border is closing “for the immediate future” after conspiracy-fueled threats against the center escalated in recent days. https://t.co/vi9KSIEi7e
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) February 2, 2022
Feb. 2, 1922: With bootleg booze difficult to come by, partiers at a Windsor, N.C., dance inhale 7 fire extinguishers full of an intoxicating gas to liven things up. “The authorities are endeavoring to ascertain just what the ingredients of the ‘joy gas’ are.” pic.twitter.com/WnqMriMNOq
— Jon Blackwell (This Day in 1922) (@100YearsAgoNews) February 2, 2022
(Baltimore Sun)
— Jon Blackwell (This Day in 1922) (@100YearsAgoNews) February 2, 2022
This should be interesting:
Documentary about King Crimson and Robert Fripp. And doesn’t appear to pull any punches.
re: #146 mmmirele
I had a roomie at the co-op who was raped outside her fancy pants dorm and she got pregnant. She was (then) a Good Catholic Girl, so she did not get an abortion but instead put her daughter up for adoption. It completely FUCKED HER UP. This being the first half of the 1980s, these adoption “services” still basically treated women like containers and she got no counseling either pre or post-birth. I don’t know what happened to her after she married a gay Baptist preacher, because yeah, the rape completely messed up her view of sex.
And those people who say that adoption is an option have never had a cousin who was put up for adoption ask you if their schizophrenic mother would have been a better (single) parent than the physically and mentally abusive married couple who adopted her. I was completely speechless. I mean, I know what it’s like to have a schizophrenic parent but what can I say? It probably would have been ugly, but I don’t know.
And those are the reasons I give whenever someone says that adoption is an option. Oh, and this “theology” is utter and complete horseshit. So tired of this.
Putting up for adoption is an outdated statement that belies the history of the term.
FYI:
At the end of the 19th century, people in urban areas ran orphanages, and thought the solution to kids not being adopted was to send them west on trains to communities that had shortage of workers. These orphan trains would then stop at towns along the way, and literally put the kids up on a rail and people essentially bought the kids into their families as indentured help.
Today, adoption agencies refer to setting up adoption plans with the birth mothers.
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
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When I’m in that situation I turn to brake fluid. I can stop whenever I want.
But the Sackler’s are still walking the streets. https://t.co/7S0JW3P1Si
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) February 3, 2022
re: #189 Belafon
34F here, 21 degrees cooler than when I left for work this morning.
High today @ 12:30 was 60 degrees, We’re down to 45 degrees, now. We’ll switch over to sleet and icing around around 2 or 3 this morning.
re: #204 gocart mozart
Don’t make me like the Chinese government, Rep.
re: #238 A Cranky One
This should be interesting:
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Documentary about King Crimson and Robert Fripp. And doesn’t appear to pull any punches.
I’m a sometime listener to the fourth era. That’s mostly because Belew was living in my hometown at the time and the band held rehearsals in a building across the street from a restaurant where I was a bus boy. So I got to see them from time to time. I was already a Belew fan from “Lone Rhinoceros” and that was the link to buying “Three of a Perfect Pair,” the only KC album I owned. I’ve mentioned this before, but because I was a small part of the local music scene in my own way I got to play volleyball a couple of times with Belew and other musicians in the park across the street from the house he was renting in Urbana, IL. Of course, I never actually had a conversation with any of them. But last year on Fathers Day I posted “Oh Daddy” to FB and a friend who is still a close friend with AB tagged him and he “liked” my post. Yay! It’s always about me.
re: #235 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This kinda puts us in the same place as Britain pre-Civil War. Technically against slavery but still doing business with the South because slavery meant cheap cotton.
I have a good book in my library: Blood, Tears, and Folly. It is an excellent history on how unprepared The British Empire was for WWII. The author went back quite aways in time to illustrate this.
Reading these parts I was struck by the similarities between Britain and the US. Why?
Well, after the Napoleonic Wars Britain was the premier manufacturing nation. If you wanted manufactured goods they probably came from Britain.
But the people with money soon decided that was…kind of beneath them. Factories are dirty, smelly, and not filled with the best people. So they decided to go into finance and spread their money far and wide, which came back with interest. It looked great on paper.
Who did they lend that money to? The US and Germany mostly. Who invested in industry. By the time of WWI the US was the chief manufacturing nation, and Germany was ahead of Britain. By WWII Britain had to armour its battleships with Czech steel, had to by foreign manufactured aircraft instruments, and buy its AA guns from Sweden and Switzerland.
After WWII guess who the #1 manufacturing nation was? And guess who decided that manufacturing was beneath them? And started lending money, a lot of it to Japan and then China?
And here we stand.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shit…he was a great actor.
re: #247 Romantic Heretic
What I’m seeing on my Facebook timeline is a surge in anti-China memes.
Why?
I suspect this once again is due to political operatives trying to steer a hyper-nationalist pro-Trump (or Trump replacement) election.
Who’s to benefit from this anti-China meme-ing??
Long before the CCP existed rulers in eastern Asia were oppressing their neighbors.
Americans are usually totally unaware of the history of easter Asia.
Yes, I think there are parallels between Britain and the US if we shift our timeframe back 150 years or so.
Americans do the “America first” thing without even thinking about the fact that the US is only about 4.5% of the world’s population.
And for the past 50 years we, the US, and in particular American companies, have been gladly going overseas to find really cheap labor.
Because in the US slavery was outlawed way back when. When an American could own slaves there were few reasons to outsource labor to another part of the planet.
re: #238 A Cranky One
This should be interesting:
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Documentary about King Crimson and Robert Fripp. And doesn’t appear to pull any punches.
Lark Tongues in Aspic was the best album of 1973.
Fight me.
50F here in TheBackwoods right now.
Got a Winter Storm Warning issued for 6 am.
Insane…
re: #250 austin_blue
Lark Tongues in Aspic was the best album of 1973.
Fight me.
Consider yourself fought.
Dark Side of the Moon
Aladdin Sane
Goat’s Head Soup
Quadrophenia
Innervisions
Brain Salad Surgery
Greetings from Asbury Park New Jersey/Wild Innocent and E Street Shuffle
re: #247 Romantic Heretic
…
After WWII guess who the #1 manufacturing nation was? And guess who decided that manufacturing was beneath them? And started lending money, a lot of it to Japan and then China?And here we stand.
IMO the decline of US manufacturing was not a historical inevitability — it’s the result of big finance capturing government and setting priorities accordingly. That’s why every US trade deal is bad for US manufacturing and good for US copyright holders and financiers.
This is what is going to happen in the Greater Delaware Valley over the next few days:
re: #250 austin_blue
Lark Tongues in Aspic was the best album of 1973.
Fight me.
oh, goodness…
Dark Side of the Moon
re: #253 EPR-radar
IMO the decline of US manufacturing was not a historical inevitability — it’s the result of big finance capturing government and setting priorities accordingly. That’s why every US trade deal is bad for US manufacturing and good for US copyright holders and financiers.
Convincing people they should always want the lowest price set us down a bad path.
crowd sourced precipitation reports: for those who like to keep up to date
mping.ou.edu
Just plugged the missus’ car in again…so much for cashing in on net metering today…wait! I just was able to stop charging and schedule it to start at 2am when electricity is 25 cents per kWh instead of 27…It’ll probably pull about 4kW from the battery but it will take about 45 kW total to fill up to 267 miles of range (Can’t max it out to 300 all the time because it reduces battery life apparently). So it should cost about $10 for the refill. Looking forward to later sunsets because then I’ll be able to fill the thing for about four or five bucks during the day.
re: #250 austin_blue
King Crimson never really recovered from losing Jamie Muir.
The Wards — both doctors of osteopathic medicine — are suing T-Mobile to block the subpoena, claiming (among other things) it could reveal sensitive doctor-patient info.https://t.co/NxvQ3Nrx5x
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 2, 2022
Here’s the throwback video of the Arizona GOP electors signing the certificates claiming to be the true electors from the state. https://t.co/zS0bIj9e3Chttps://t.co/NxvQ3Nrx5x
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 2, 2022
UPDATE: Judge Brnovich has recused from the Kelli/Michael Ward lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/XxZ4ET97Y8
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 2, 2022
re: #253 EPR-radar
Perhaps not historically inevitable, but humanly inevitable.
The types of people drawn to money and power are generally selfish and short sighted.
re: #252 sagehen
Consider yourself fought.
Dark Side of the Moon
Aladdin Sane
Goat’s Head Soup
Quadrophenia
Innervisions
Brain Salad Surgery
Greetings from Asbury Park New Jersey/Wild Innocent and E Street Shuffle
Not to mention Wake of the Flood and Yessongs. They are all great, great, great albums.
But none of them, at the (album’s) age of 49 continue to surprise me every time I play LTiA. It’s just breathtaking and a tremendous example of musical brilliance, from the opening section of the opening track (a Kalimba for Dog’s sake!) to the use of “found around the house” percussion. It’s daring. It is shockingly prescient of the future of hard metal. It rejects time signatures for a melding of sound(s).
It’s a rare gem of musicality.
re: #212 steve_davis
honestly, losing the money is irritating enough, but it was a really nice assortment of library of america volumes someone bought off me. they don’t exactly have tremendous sentimental value to me, but still, I had to work a bit to put the set together, used, in the first place, and it’s gonna really peeve me if they’re sitting in a box in a warehouse somewhere, or worse, sitting on the bookshelf of some postal employee who decided they’d make a nice starter set to their library.
Media mail is low priority. I had a package that parked itself in a warehouse or something on the east coast and sat there for weeks. It got to me eventually.
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