I almost did this one yesterday, but art like this deserves a two-day run.
Squackie Claus is Comin’ to Town Open Frivolity
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CRAP! Of course it’s a wagonburner post but it’s the weekend!
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Shannon re;
And the Christmas cemetery flowers are sitting over there in bags. 80 degrees all week and now it’s going to get cold tomorrow. And wet.
Believe it or not my wife went last Saturday to put Poinsettia’s on my mom and dad, grandpaw and granny, and her mom and dad. She is good about that. Last Summer she got the local undertaker to clean up around my grandparents gave and level the markers.
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I saw TexMo’s ; “Sandmann reaches a settlement with NBC”, last night, I guess that is the second settlement after CNN. And this made me smile;
Sandmann, experienced in weathering media smears, has recently expressed support for Kyle Rittenhouse, a teen who was recently acquitted after killing two men and wounding a third in self-defense during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. Sandmann encouraged Rittenhouse to file similar defamation suits against the media.
“I personally am still involved in six media lawsuits as January approaches marking three years since the confrontation took place at the March for Life,” Sandmann wrote last month in an op-ed for the Daily Mail. “So, if Kyle is prepared to take on another burden in his early life, with the acceptance that it might result in nothing, I answer, give it a shot and hold the media accountable.”
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#4 GJT Thanks! I love that ad, I’ve seen the abbreviated version a dozen times but the full 4 minutes is great. I do love a 66 Chevy Impala,….BTW; Is somebody cutting onions in here? 😉
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My cousin who runs the family farm posted that. He lost his wife nine years ago, I know he had to have bawling watching that.
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About the 66 Impala SS, judging from the crossed flags on the fender I guessed it was a 427 because it had bar on the bottom, the 327 had the displacement above the flags without the bar. Repaying the video you can see the 427 on the breather @ the 2:30 mark but you have to be quick or pause it. Who said that I don’t have a good memory? 😀
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He has a few classic Mopars in his shop, not sure if any of them have ties to her.
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Did not catch that, 427 damn!
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#4 The 4 minute version of the video showed the mother when the car was new, the short version only showed her picture so the long version tells the story much better.
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One more thing, when he fires up the Chevy, you know it’s either a 427 or a 375 HP 327. What a sound…..
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Looking through the Chevy pictures, I found my 67 Nova SS.
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Here come da rain and I got stuff to do. Not funny!
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GJT, it could be worse. You could be camping like my daughter and her boyfriend over at SFA state park.
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Growing up I had an uncle that knew virtually every make and model of car produced in America. If a car showed up in either a TV show or movie he would automatically state the year, make, and model of the vehicle.
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Since Gordo is probably out trying to increase his knowledge at the Table of Knowledge, here is this week’s Week In Pictures.
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#4 GJT: Dang! it must be dusty in here or someone’s cutting onions or something.
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Looking at the radar earlier I decided to hop in the van and rush out west to Cat Spring first, before the rain hit.
Perfect timing, as it started just as I left there and headed back east to check the other wells.
But at the next stop, I watched the Chevy commercial twice.
So, I got soaked anyway.
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Another attempt by Big Electric to scare us all into going “green”.
Wood burners cause nearly half of urban air pollution cancer risk – study
Research published in the last year has shown wood burning in homes is the single biggest source of small particle air pollution in the UK, producing three times more than road traffic, despite just 8% of the population using wood burners.
I guess I should ask for the deposit back I put down last week from the dealer for the wood burning stove from Vermont Castings.
The dealer just ordered another four stoves of the type and color I want on November 20th. Expected delivery date to the dealer is late February. They recommended I go and pick it up in Georgetown rather than having a freight company deliver it. Apparently too many get damaged during shipping. It seems those pesky little arrows that indicate UP are ignored quite frequently.
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Morning gang. I see there is a lot going on this morning, so between the Table of Knowledge and the Couch I’m just brimming over with news, although none of it is truly what you might consider to be newsworthy. Since I got aced out of posting the WIP (you snooze, you miss you know) I decided to bring Ammo Grrrll forward this morning since I posted late last evening and I know that many of you do not follow the rules regarding going back to the day before prior to reading today’s posts. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-406.php
I’m almost inspired to go out and clean off my sliding glass door to see if I can improve on the pictures of the black cat that Brother Dave so kindly brought forward yesterday. But it’s getting colder out there, so we’ll decide how that goes here shortly. I probably need to fill up the water tanks for the animals also. https://scontent.fmxf1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/269597463_3163995583923451_141644517881321438_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=C06Tlg-0u_gAX9VYm-A&_nc_oc=AQmt5UxW-6KPBNIonsi9v5_LuFO_9dfzb12B-OAevLhOfSeRu0dDgO2a5YZ-nL2jDQo&_nc_ht=scontent.fmxf1-1.fna&oh=00_AT_zUuIrRiTJ3lHxp57otYc-2BoSo2lXq8rmxzaKs8v7vA&oe=61C2D07A
I’ve been planning a trip to BFF’s Dallas home over Christmas/New Year, but my plans have never been really detailed and finalized. Someone pointed out that Christmas is only one week away and that everyone else is making their holiday travel plans, so looks like I’d better get started on that exercise myself. I don’t like being gone much over a week, but in order to get the entire stretch in between Christmas Eve and New Years Day may take a little longer than that. I don’t travel on holidays, or the day before a holiday, so that narrows the window even further. And then there’s the process of making a list and checking it twice since I normally only carry one week’s worth of meds with me in case I run out of other excuses as to why it’s time for me to leave, so I’ve got to factor that in. Oh well, maybe I’ll get started on that plan today.
That’s about all for now. You all have a great day and more later.
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20 Texmo
So you bought one!
Which one?
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Cars for me are tools to get me from point A to point B. I don’t usually get deep emotional ties to those machines, like most men do.
But…that commercial got to me.
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Just ordered a whole rib roast from Stone Cold Meats for wife’s family Christmas. Ouch. At least we had a hunnerd dollar gift card.
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Mercy, it’s coming down right now!
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I stopped at Wally World yesterday to get stuff, and I was surprised to find that they have upped their canning supplies game.
The usual shelf stock in the usual place: a case or two of jars, some lids, various other canning supplies. I was again outraged to see that someone had ripped open one of the cases and removed two individual jars. WW can’t sell that box anymore; it’s shoplifting. I hate thieves.
Then I made my way to the end of the aisle to find a whole end cap stacked high with jars of varying sizes. I’ve never seen that many stocked before, and they even have the Ball smooth jars (sans the Ball logo on the side). I guess I’m not the only one canning.
I dried some okra last night, and some green beans. I’ve found I can snack on the dried okra and I don’t miss the fried stuff as much. Not the same, but convenient and passable. Did you know you can get almost seven sliced, dried onions into a one quart jar? Now you do. If I chopped ’em, I could probably more than double the storage capacity.
I now have dried onions, summer squash, and green beans. I am ready to drop them into soups and stews when needed. And I have some garlic infused ghee cooking.
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Kroger has “select” bone-in rib roast on sale right now for $5.77/lb.
Normally you might sneer at that grade, but if you age it a little (ok, quite a) while, it gets much more tender.
I bought a full one. It’s now 3 2-bone roasts (6-7 lb each), resting in the back of the fridge on the bottom shelf, lovingly swaddled in a blanket of fresh thyme and then cheesecloth. One of them will be served on New Years Day. The other two will continue their respite for a week or two longer. At that point one will be vacuum-sealed and frozen for Easter. The other will magically transform into 4 or 5 steaks.
I actually thought about buying a second one, but lack the fridge/freezer space for it.
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Egg foo young implies the existence of egg foo old.
Discuss.
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#22 Shannon
I bought the Defiant in Bordeaux Red. Now don’t drive off the road when you see the price. I found a place in Houston that will inspect my chimney and then give me a quote to install the required duct work to vent it out my existing chimney. Of course the stove needs to be in my living room so they can see how much duct they need to run.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, December 18, 2021 ☙ BOING BOING
It’s almost Christmas in Florida, which means it’s generally hot and humid. Enjoy your white Christmas, cold-weather C&C fans. I just put on a YouTube of Christmas music with snow in the background.There’s a lot going on. Today’s roundup includes: a 3-judge panel on the Sixth Circuit vacates the OSHA mandate 2-1, and the case heads to the Supreme Court; another big company drops its injection mandate; experts are baffled by the numbers coming out of South Africa, and you know that means it’s good news; Governor DeSantis gives Floridians another Christmas present; issues with Omicron tests; an unintentionally hilarious Intelligencer article may be the best news ever; and a new Florida Covid data dump for all you data nerds.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
⚖️ The Sixth Circuit, in a 2-1 split decision, granted Joe Biden’s motion to dissolve the OSHA Mandate injunction ordered by the Fifth Circuit. Since I’ve already done a bunch of legal analysis for you this week (a snoozer of a post for many readers), I won’t do that to you again. But I’ll make two comments and then explain where it goes next.
First, I’ve noticed you can always tell the court opinions that are going to support the mandates because they ALWAYS uncritically mention the official number of Covid “deaths” in the very first sentence. In this decision, the court said “The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across America, leading to the loss of over 800,000 lives, shutting down workplaces and jobs across the country, and threatening our economy.”There you go. A dead giveaway the order is going to be a stinker.
The second point is Judge Larson, writing in dissent, pointed out that the majority’s core rationale was completely made up:
“The majority opinion describes the emergency rule at issue here as permitting employers ‘to determine for themselves how best to minimize the risk of contracting COVID-19 in their workplaces.’ Maj. Op. at 7. With respect, that was the state of federal law /before/ the rule, not after.
Biden’s mandate lets employers determine for themselves? Please.
So what’s next? The plaintiff states must choose to ask the Sixth Circuit to hear the injunction issue “en banc,” which means ALL judges on the Sixth have to weigh in, or take it straight to the Supreme Court. I like their chances either way. UPDATE: late-breaking twitter reports say the appeal to the Supreme Court has already been made.
People have asked me, “but Jeff, the Supreme Court has been refusing to hear vaccine cases right and left. Why would you be optimistic about this case?”
The answer is simple. The previous cases have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on STATE law mandates. As we know, the 1905 Jacobson Supreme Court case says vaccine mandates are a matter of STATE LAW. The primacy of state law is a conservative concept — of federalism. So, the Supreme Court has been consistent so far in staying out of state affairs. But the OSHA Mandate is a FEDERAL issue, and also an issue of over-reaching agency powers, of which the Supreme Court has been skeptical for the last couple decades, at least.
So, don’t worry. While there are no guarantees in this business, I think reason and logic and the facts all support a favorable decision from the US Supreme Court. The war goes on.
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✈️ I had one of those moments this morning when a word just didn’t look right, no matter how many times I checked it. That word was Boeing, the airline, which late yesterday lifted its vaccine mandate off all its workers. In a press release, the manufacturing giant said, “after careful review, Boeing has suspended its vaccination requirement in line with a federal court’s decision prohibiting enforcement of the federal contractor executive order and a number of state laws.”
And then I was looking at the company’s name, and I was like, “Boeing?” Can that possibly be right? It looks like Boing, as in “boing, boing.” Who would name an airline after a cartoon sound? A cartoon sound of something DROPPING? How does that make sense?
Anyway. Boeing workers have been vocal in opposition to the mandate. Leaked documents showed workers allegedly planning a “FreedomFlu” sickout for every Friday beginning Oct. 15. Resist!
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♂️ Governor DeSantis announced ANOTHER Christmas present for Florida citizens yesterday. As part of the state’s continued “Early Treatment Saves Lives” campaign, Florida is expanding its successful monoclonal antibody (mAB) program to add a new EUA-approved treatment from GlaxxoSmithKline. The GSK mAB is a little different than the ones Florida is already offering.
The previous options, notably Regeneron, are available to people who’ve tested positive or been exposed to Covid, especially if symptoms are starting. All the reports I’ve heard suggest the drugs work wonders.
The new option, Astrazeneca’s Evusheld, is an antibody cocktail that works BEFORE you are infected. In other words, it prevents folks from catching the virus. In yet other words, it does what the injections were always supposed to do from the beginning. The FDA authorized the pre-exposure prophylactic on December 8, with limitations.
DeSantis explained that “In the clinical trials, it reduced the risk of developing COVID in the first instance by 77%.” The state’s goal is to have Evusheld available within a two hours’ drive of all Florida residents. The EUA authorizes the new treatment for anybody who can’t take the injections for whatever reason — such as being immunocompromised or having had a bad reaction to the first injections.
So, people who are at-risk of Covid and can’t take the injections should consider scheduling a free appointment for the new mAB. This should provide some comfort to all those empathetic people who were so tenderheartedly concerned about immunocompromised folks that they want everybody else to take the jabs too.
The Governor emphasized that Florida is going to focus on successful options for TREATING PEOPLE not failed policies like locking them down. “We are not going to indulge in any of the insanity that you see happening again in some parts of the country,” DeSantis stated, referencing colleges that are shutting down despite mask and injection mandates. “A lot of those heavy-handed policies have been total failures, and we’re certainly not going to be indulging that.”If Florida embraces early treatment in a big way — and it looks like it is — then folks are going to have to talk about it. If folks start talking about early treatment, it will change the game.
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There’s a teeny-tiny problem with the test for Omicron. According to the BBC, detecting the Omicron variant requires genetic analysis, which takes 4-5 days to turn around and is much more involved and expensive than the PCR tests.
Stay with me here. The PCR tests currently work by looking for three genetic sequences: the spike (S), the nucleocapsid, or inner part (N2), and the envelope, or “outer shell” (E). So, for a positive test, you need S + N2 + E.
But Omicron has a mutated spike protein that the PCR tests can’t see. So a positive PCR test with only N2 + E but not S “might be” Omicron. Or it could just be a negative test. So, as the BBC explains, further genetic analysis is needed to confirm whether the test actually detected Omicron or not.
Here’s the point. If the labs start counting previously negative tests (only positive for N2 + E) as positives for Covid/Omicron, without following through with the more time-consuming and expensive genetic analysis to confirm it’s Omicron, then we will see higher case numbers, even though a lot of them might not be Covid cases at all.
Calling an N2 + E test a “case” is like picking two letters out of the Scrabble bag and trying to play a three-letter word.So far, the agencies have done a bang-up job of making sure that the PCR tests only show real Covid positive cases. Haven’t they? So there’s probably nothing to worry about. There’s no reason why anyone would want to artificially inflate the case reports, right? I mean, why would they? It would be so obvious, anyway. We’d see high cases and low hospitalizations. It would be a dead give-away.
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News out of South Africa is extremely good, and it’s baffling the experts. Have you noticed that it seems like all the GOOD developments always baffle the experts? I think I could prove that to a jury.
Anyway, between November 18 and December 8, cases spiked like crazy in the Johannesburg / Pretoria area where the Omicron variant was first identified. By spiked I mean leapt from a hundred cases a day to ten thousand a day. But just as fast, it’s headed back down on a steep slope. Another positive indicator that has the experts scratching their heads is that South Africa’s R-naught, the measure of how fast the virus is spreading, is back under 1.0, which means the virus is retreating.
So, the wave looks to have been only a few weeks wide. That is MUCH narrower than previous waves. In fact, ALL metrics — cases, positivity rates, hospitalizations, and excess deaths — look extremely favorable compared to previous waves there.
Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and now Pfizer board member, said this on twitter about the numbers out of South Africa:
“Epidemic curve in Johannesburg/Pretoria that was straight up and continues straight down suggests we’re missing something fundamental about variant. Either attack rate is narrowed to sub segment of population, we’re undercounting mild or asymptomatic infections, or something else.”
Missing something fundamental. Experts baffled! This can’t be right! It won’t be good for business, that’s for sure.
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The New York Intelligencer ran an article yesterday headlined, “Well, I Guess It’s About Time to Get COVID.” Haha! Took them long enough. Remember, the Intelligencer is another one of those self-congratulatory magazines for smug people who think of themselves as very, very smart. It even has “intelligence” in the name, for Pete’s sake.
The author — a New York City resident — feels like he’s been hiding out but has now been arrested, by an Omicron virus officer:
“Suddenly this exceedingly transmissible variant has arrived at our door with a pistol in its hand to inform us that the jig is finally up. And right now, the only reasonable response seems to be a sheepish, ‘What took you so long?’”
The Intelligencer reports about a mysterious new philosophy that might be an alternative to Covid-phobia. It’s a rare and arcane philosophy that the magazine dubs, “realism:”
”Maybe it’s just realism. If you’ve been a quarantining, mask-wearing, vaccine-and-booster-getting member of society and have avoided COVID, you’ve really done about the best that can be expected of you throughout these long 19 months.”
Good boy! You’ve done your best. You’ve been SO smart, SO fortunate, and SO responsible. But now, it’s time to face the music:
“Thanks to your sense of civic responsibility and a hefty dose of socioeconomic luck, you’ve outwitted a highly contagious virus only to be confronted with a far more contagious version of it.”
Well, you’ve outwitted something. Maybe not the virus or your mental health. But SOMETHING. Then the intellectuals’ intellectual magazine admits something … remarkable … literally unbelievable … totally unexpected — it was ALWAYS unrealistic to think you could ever completely avoid Covid:
“You may not evade the coronavirus altogether — a possibility that seemed more likely a few weeks ago, even if it was perhaps ALWAYS UNREALISTIC.”
Always unrealistic. Always. This is all very funny, but there’s a serious point here. Whereas last year, every single new Covid development was met with terror and predictions of imminent doom, this new … inevitable … Covid-catching fate has inspired the Intelligencer to a brand new courageous sense of liberty:
“Beyond going back to the kind of extreme measures that most people reasonably gave up post-vaccine, there’s not much more you can do from a personal-risk standpoint. Personally speaking, there’s something weirdly liberating about that.”
Liberating! Personally, I liberated myself 19 months ago. But better late than never.
He says, “There’s not much more you can do from a personal-risk standpoint.” Thank goodness. PLEASE stop.
Here’s the best news: there are two themes — previously ubiquitous themes — wondrously omitted from this new-fangled formula for acceptance: (1) a rejection of the concept of “doubling-down,” and (2) no mention whatsoever of “doing it for the community.”
It’s kind of like the stages of grief or something. Except with Covid, it’s been the stages of psychotic paranoia and mass delusion. Maybe we’re — finally — getting to the final stage: acceptance.
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*COVID IN FLORIDA AND ALACHUA COUNTY*
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And again, people who are “Covid naive” should DO SOMETHING. Injected or not, if folks haven’t had Covid, they could take their vitamins, stock up on some ivermectin just in case, and watch Dr. McCullough’s interview on Rogan, where he suggests a simple beta-dyne nose rinse. And of course, at risk people should consider taking advantage of Florida’s new prophylactic GlaxxoSmithKline mAB therapy.If you’re already a Covid survivor, you should be good!
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Egg Foo Old died of Covid last year and left us with his only offspring Egg Foo Young.
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Egg foo Jung is totally different from Freudian eggs.
Discuss.
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#27 – looks like a good price on the rib roast. When I used to do those the people had to fight the dogs to see who would get first shot and gnawing on those rib bones. Best part of the whole thing.
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Egg Foo Jung is Communist and that is just plain old Un-American.
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WBYeah I wanted to go prime but just couldn’t do it. Angus it is. My wife would never eat the aged stuff seeing the process, store bought, no problem.
I screwed up doing a rib roast last year for her family Christmas, now her nephews are asking if we are doing it again lol. Worth the price to keep their long held Christmas Eve tradition going and them coming. One comes from Winnie, the other San Leon. The rest are more local.
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I see we are under a severe thunderstorm warning.
Good to be inside. I have some housecleaning and chores to do. I haven’t done my treadmill or praying time, yet, either. I stayed up late, sorting a buncha beads I got cheaply at a garage sale, in anticipation of possibly making a rosary or two today.
And bookkeeping. Always bookkeeping.
I am making plans to go to the bank this week or next to close our plumbing company bank account. I have to notify the state as well, and then HCAD, so they’ll not issue taxes against our equipment. I need to reconcile the latest bank statements and make sure the latest sales tax payment has cleared before doing that.
January 1, 1990 to now. The end of an era. Hubby’s been plumbing since he was 13. It took him a good year and a half to get used to the idea of not being a plumber.
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He is, though, keeping his license active. He is a consultant at a local construction company, and they use his license to pull their permits. He won’t be turning wrenches, but he still has his identity as a plumber.
So, I guess it’s not a complete break after all.
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#19 Shannon: Nice way to seal and anchor the treads, prolly makes them a whole lot quieter to boot.
* Not an OSHA approved worksite
* I saw drops of asphalt on the newly installed treads, which will leave a mark – even if they get to it quickly
* It may take a while for the stank to go away.
* Beautiful wood grainNice link – thanks
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Even though the thunderstorms reached us later than predicted yesterday, it is clearly a good move to have rescheduled our Santa event for tomorrow. I like seeing those 1% chance of rain predicted for Sunday afternoon.
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A little hail action in the Barrio.
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Never trust a communist Kangaroo dressed up as a communist Penguin.
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That thing laid down a bunch of rain in about an hour. Don’t have a gauge but I have lakes in the yard.
Glad I mowed yesterday.
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Lutherans getting with the holiday spirit.
This is a truly disturbing event.
A Lutheran Church in Logan Square in the Chicago area hosted a drag queen prayer time for kids during their Sunday service this past week.
I’m not exaggerating in any way. A drag queen took the pulpit, spoke to the congregation, then left the pulpit and invited children to sit at his feet as he read a book about joy. A sick adaptation of the drag queen story hours libraries have been hosting the last few years. -
It’s not all bad news though.
A federal judge ordered the University of Iowa (UI) to pay $1.9 million in fees and damages after two student groups won a series of religious discrimination lawsuits against the university.
The Becket Fund, which represents Business Leaders in Christ, will receive $1.37 million while Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will get $533,000, Crux reports.
Eric Baxter, a senior VP and counsel at The Becket Fund, told Campus Reform targeting students of faith “comes at a price.”
“When university officials target students of faith, it comes at a price. The blatant discrimination against religious students at the University of Iowa was entirely preventable,” Baxter said.
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At least someone is asking the right questions.
Now a member of the city’s oversight board is demanding answers. “What I want to know are: What are the rules? And did this woman break them?” Brandon Friedman, a member of Dallas’s Community Police Oversight Board, said to a local CBS affiliate. He added: “It’s not my business why someone’s carrying $100,000 at the airport unless it’s illegal, and from everything we’ve seen it doesn’t seem to be.”
A Dallas Police Department spokesperson told the station last week that “travelers are not allowed to board a plane with more than $10,000 of cash without declaring it, even on domestic flights.” But there is no law, either state or federal, that says that. It’s just that police are allowed to seize cash or other property merely on the suspicion that it was involved in illegal activity, and the owners must go to court to prove it wasn’t. And in Texas, the law requires only a “preponderance of the evidence” before the police can take private property.
Where is the preponderance ? This is legalized grand theft.
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And I hear pachapapa has laid down new restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass again.
/spits
He feels he can wipe out the Mass of the Ages? The traditions that gave us all those great saints? The church that derived from the Apostles themselves?
The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops, I hear.
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Oh, and Latin Teacher told us a joke last after-class discussion:
The abbott of a monastery was working with a young monk, who could never seem to get the hang of spending time – and being on time – for prayer. The laziness was just never overcome. The young monk died of a sudden illness. Finally, the abbott’s days on earth ended, and as he was welcomed into Heaven.
“You can have any wish you want,” St. Peter told him, “just ask.”
The abbott took a moment to think, and then he said, “Well, I always worried about young Brother Monk. Can you tell me how he ended up?”
St. Peter took the abbott by the hand and together they descended into Hell. Passing by all sorts of horrors, they stopped in front of a huge cauldron of boiling oil, and the young monk was in the middle of it, waist deep.
“Oh, young monk, I’m so sorry you ended up here, suffering like this!” the abbott cried.
Young Monk looked at him and said, “Thank you for your kind words, dear abbott, but actually it could be worse. I am standing on the shoulders of a bishop!”
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Portland, Oregon, a wasted city of waste.
The lifelong Portland resident finally packed up and left in August. By that point, he said, the building landlord “told me that it wasn’t worth it anymore.” The graffiti, property damage, constant break-ins, and unattended-to police reports were just no longer worth the investment. “He tore up a three-year lease. The building’s vacant now,” Rogers said. The gloomy metropolis of 660,000, perched at the northwestern tip of Oregon, is not quite the anarchic dystopia that it is occasionally made out to be in some corners of conservative media. But in the wake of spasms of political violence, a slashed law-enforcement budget, a wave of early police retirements, and punitive lockdown measures that have devastated small businesses such as TriTech, it’s inching ever closer to genuine lawlessness.
You have to hand it to the landlord. He tore up the guy’s lease and let him walk.
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Scientists generally agree that, according to the research literature, wearing masks can help protect people from the coronavirus, but the precise extent of that protection, particularly in schools, remains unknown—and it might be very small. What data do exist have been interpreted into guidance in many different ways. The World Health Organization, for example, does not recommend masks for children under age 6. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control recommends against the use of masks for any children in primary school.
and,
But the Arizona study at the center of the CDC’s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. “You can’t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study,” Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, told me. His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research, and with whom I spoke for this article. Masks may well help prevent the spread of COVID, some of these experts told me, and there may well be contexts in which they should be required in schools. But the data being touted by the CDC—which showed a dramatic more-than-tripling of risk for unmasked students—ought to be excluded from this debate. The Arizona study’s lead authors stand by their work, and so does the CDC. But the critics were forthright in their harsh assessments. Noah Haber, an interdisciplinary scientist and a co-author of a systematic review of COVID-19 mitigation policies, called the research “so unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse.”
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And for the weird story of the day.
The confession of a man behind one of Britain’s biggest mysteries may have finally solved a murder that happened 51 years ago.
Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her Wimbledon home on December 29, 1969 after she was mistaken for Anna Murdoch, the 25-year-old wife of media tycoon Rupert, and later died.
Brothers Nizamodeen and Arthur Hosein were convicted of her murder though police never recovered McKay’s body.
But Nizmodeen, 75, has now revealed the site where McKay was buried to a lawyer representing her family putting police under pressure to excavate the site in a bid to find her remains.
He also claimed McKay died from a heart attack while watching a news report of her kidnapping two days after the 40-day ransom ordeal began.
He made the confession after being tracked down in Trinidad by documentary makers covering the story in August this year, despite maintaining his innocence.
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“The Church’s worst persecutors has been her own unfaithful bishops, priests and religious. Opposition from the outside is terrible; but it gives us many martyrs. But the Church’s worse enemy is her own traitors.” — Pope Pius XI (1922-1939)
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The Egg Foo family has changed their suffixes.
It’s now Egg Foo the Lesser, Egg Foo The Greater, and just Egg Foo for the guy in the middle. Any others could be the Greatest, the Least, etc.
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35 timtom
It’s all in the technique.Cook at 250-275 until 118 in the middle, then take it out and let it rest for at least 15 minutes. Use this time to make gravy, mashed potatoes or whatever.
Heat your oven up to as high as it goes 500-550. Real hot. Put the roast back in for around 15 min until you get a good crust. You don’t even have to let it rest.
Presto!
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Here’s the Alton Brown video I posted the other day. This guy knows how to cook meat.
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#28 Sarge, as you may remember, Egg Foo Old was not pulling really his load in the late 70’s so in about 1985 he was replaced with Egg Foo Young who was quite the man for almost 30 years but alas he is now also getting long in the tooth and from what I understand he’ll be replaced with Egg Foo 3.0. The message from management was something like; 3.0 is going to me much better than 1 or 2,…trust us. 😀
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Yeah, I recognized the 118/500 method as being the same.
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It was a little strange last night at the local CVS. I went to buy another bottle of nighttime cough syrup so I could get some sleep. The shelves holding considerable space for cough/cold remedies was virtually empty, every brand and size. The waiting area in front of the pharmacy was packed – about 35 or 40 people. There are usually 3 or 4 customers there.
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Beautiful day out here, but going outside it’s brisk with strong northerly wind. We didn’t get any rain with the front as it passed through here, but that should come as no surprise. I cleaned up the window where the kitty food is located, but when I walked into the room while he was out eating he saw me and took off like he had been scalded. Haven’t seen him since. He normally only drops by once a day. Last night’s crew included a big mama possum, two adolescent possums, a skunk, and I think another cat. Among them they licked the platter clean by morning.
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The promised cold front has been pushing rain through here since shortly after lunch time, and now the rain gauge has half an inch in it. Our 6 am temp was 71, now down to 56 and still falling. Wind speed varies from wobbly to strong, but right now the candy cane banners on the front porch are flying in a stout breeze. The cloudy sky to the west seems to be a bit brighter, likely because that is where the sun is at this moment among the galloping clouds.
This is not a day for gardening or golfing.
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I had to show our vacancy this afternoon.
Well, I have dinner cooking in the crock pot.
One item done. /sigh
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SO! Who was it, GJT or Shannon that sent the rain this way? It started about 2 PM and we got a few thunder boomers. I was down at the gate, finishing up the lights on the gate/fence when it got serious. Luckily the old Mile has a windscreen so only a little rain blew in. Not raining now and we only got about a half an inch but we did need it. Wife is still down that the farmhouse cleaning and decorating, me? I’m making my world famous tater soup, wife loves it. And of course I’ll cheat and use a little of it to make me some oyster stew so it’s a win-win.
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Welp gotta’ go,…”white sauce’ doncha’ know. 😉
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RE: #4 Chevrolet commercial
I just want to give props where they belong and say the young actress who played the daughter made the commercial. She was more than believable. I hope she gets some nice work out that gig.
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Before I go, I found GJT’s Muffler Bearing. 😀
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My schedule pretty messed up. Had a very short late nap, then the cats were all complaining that they wanted supper. So I obliged, and glad I did, as I got a chance to see 4 juvie raccoons on the back patio eating wet squirrel chow. I took them out a couple of scoops of the dry all-ages dog kibble, which was a big hit, put under the breezeway. The next time I looked out, there was an adult, possibly their mom eating with them.
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I’m finally taking time to glance at today’s Chron and just came across this article on page 1 of the business section, “Coal rebounding across globe, threatening efforts on climate.” And good grief, it’s written by staff writer James Osborne who seems to be into so-called climate change stuff but not yet an eco-freak as some others are. But, but, we all repeatedly hear that coal is so polluting and evil, and now after years of declining use, that has reversed. Its use is now increasing as demand for power worldwide (er, described as global) is driven by rapid economic recovery that results in increasing demand for electricity. Gasp! Oh, the agony!
And in many recent articles other writers publishing elsewhere on “climate change” have suddenly declared natural gas an enemy instead of a good thing. Clearly none of them have ever taken even an introductory course in astronomy, say starting in grade school but certainly in high school. Our Sun, around which his children the planets orbit, rules them all, period. Only a total imbecile or idiot would think mere humans could influence our Sun to do our bidding. Our climate is determined by the distance Earth is from the Sun. And that climate has changed many times over the millions of years before humans walked the planet. Pride cometh before a fall.
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68 Adee
China is building coal plants faster than you can say, “Wuhan Flu !”.
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Been looking at a great big old moon rising in the east while the sun was setting in the west. Brightest moon I’ve seen in a while, so guess this cold front pushed a lot of pollution out of the way. Showing 47 degrees out there right now headed for a low of 35 tonight, but there certainly are not any clouds out there to keep the radiant heat from dissipating rapidly, so I would not be surprised to find a little frost in the morning.
A couple of pretty good football games on TV today. UAB topped highly ranked BYU in the big upset so far today. Other than that, nothing really to report on. I’ll get me a burger patty and a sliced mater going here in a minute, so you all don’t need to wait on me for supper. Can even think about Brother Dave’s tater soup or I’ll just blow up and explode. Mine is pretty good, and I don’t even know what I’m doing – I can just imagine how good Dave’s is. OK, more later.
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Thanks! Look at that a nice short and to the point recipe – no life long stories and ads to weed through. It’s agin my instincts to reverse sear but that’s the best way it seems and the way I planned on doing it, just hadn’t decided on details. I bought a rib roasting rack from Bezos, supposed to have been here today but not here yet. I had one but didn’t like it, this one can be flipped and used as a rib rack.
BTW, when my wife was filling out her H‑E‑B shopping cart this morning she saw a rib roast for $25, bone in, select – she axed if I wanted to get one to freeze just for us later so I said why not? She brought it home, six and half ell bees baby! Looks pretty good, should have just got two of those lol.
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I found a bearing in my muffler once. Wasn’t a good sign.
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What a nice, one hour lecture on explosives, explosions, and the difference explosion v. detonation
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ReturnToTraditino.org breaks down the latest vomit inducing rules from the Vaticon on the Mass of the Ages.
“Abrogating” the Pontifical Mass? Sequestering the TLM? Only one mass a day, if the TLM is said?
This is evil, evil, evil. Here’s hoping our bishops stand up to this. There is a canon law – until the antipope rewrites the rules.
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I am reminded of the not-so-funny-because-it’s-true joke:
Q: “What is the difference between a modernist (like pachapapa) and a Satanist?”
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The rain is coming down pretty good now, 1.41″ an hour according to my handy dandy weather station or about 2.5″ since 2 PM. And A pretty good light show on occasion.
BTW; The Baked Tater Soup was a big hit and a complete surprise to the wife when she came back from the farm house. Oh and the Oyster Stew I fixed for me was outstanding. Yup, Life is Good. 😉 -
Down to 43 degrees out here this evening. I reworked some of my rose cuttings taking those from the den and re-potting them in individual containers for the kitchen windows. Many of the existing cuttings in the kitchen windows are showing some new growth while those in the den were not showing much of anything, so hopefully bringing them in to join their brothers in the kitchen windows will stimulate them a little more. My videos seem to indicate that if you get a 50% success rate rooting these things that you are doing OK, and I don’t see anything that appears completely rotted out or dead yet, so I’m holding out hope for a much better success rate. If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking ’til you do succeed. They’ve been spurred somewhat by the absence of having to use the heater and drying them out, but if it gets much colder and I do have to start using heat, I’ll cover them to keep the humidity higher in and around their containers and stems so they won’t burn up. Interesting since I don’t think I’ve ever done this before with roses – some of those vines are easy – just put some dirt on them and they take off, but roses have to develop more slowly apparently. And yes, I’ll take some of those antique roses from where ever down there Shannon. Between the poor soil, the deer, the drought conditions, and excessive summer heat, who know what might make it and what won’t before it’s over. Some of these are going into large pots, so there will be a few with good soil and regular watering and so forth.
OK, about getting to be bedtime. You all have a great evening, More later tomorrow or some time.
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Did anyone ever check on SQK this week?
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Here’s a rose story for you. Back in the day, Dr. Smith (his real name) was the team physician for Rice football and other athletics and was the head of Orthopedics at Hermann Hospital. virtually every afternoon he was present for practice and of course on the sidelines at games. He lived in one of the mansions of River Oaks, and his hobby was rose gardening – he had them all over his estate over there. On weekends, he would dress the part in his overalls and get out to tend his rose gardens. This is his favorite story. He reported that one day he was out fussing with the roses and a Rolls Royce slowly glided up to him and a lady in the back rolled her window down to talk to him. She commented on how beautiful Mrs. Smith’s rose gardens were and politely inquired as to how much she paid him to serve as her gardener (obviously assuming that he was in fact just the gardener). Dr. Smith replied that Mrs. Smith did not pay him to take care of the roses, but offered that she did occasionally allow him to sleep with her. He said the back window was going up as the Rolls slowly drove away after that comment. Dr. Smith loved telling that story, and I must have heard it a hundred time.
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Squawk posted some new pix and reposted some FB Memory pix. He and BSue went to the Anahuac wildlife sanctuary last week.
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Hope we get an easy sudoku in the HouChron tomorrow, so’s I have a fightin’ chance to complete it before I need to head over to do the Pix with Santa thing. Night all.
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Mornin’ Gang
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I didn’t know that!? Did you know that Barbie was really a German Call Girl?
Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl Who Became America’s Iconic Barbie Doll.
So it turns out Barbie’s original design was based on a German adult gag-gift escort doll named Lilli. That’s right, she wasn’t a dentist or a surgeon, an Olympian gymnast, a pet stylist or an ambassador for world peace. And she certainly wasn’t a toy for little girls…
Unbeknownst to most, Barbie actually started out life in the late 1940s as a German cartoon character created by artist Reinhard Beuthien for the Hamburg-based tabloid, Bild-Zeitung. The comic strip character was known as “Bild Lilli”, a post-war gold-digging buxom broad who got by in life seducing wealthy male suitors.
She became so popular that in 1953, the newspaper decided to market a three-dimensional version which was sold as an adult novelty toy, available to buy from bars, tobacco kiosks and adult toy stores. They were often given out as bachelor party gag gifts and dangled from a car’s rearview mirror.
Parents considered the doll inappropriate for children and a German brochure from the 1950s described Lilli as “always discreet,” and with her impressive wardrobe, she was “the star of every bar”. She did indeed have such a wide range of outfits and accessories you could buy for her, that eventually little girls began wanting her as a playdoll too. While toy factories tried to cash in on her popularity with children, Lilli still remained a successful adult novelty, especially outside of Germany. A journalist for The New Yorker magazine, Ariel Levy, later referred to Lilli as a “sex doll”.
In the 1950s, one of the founders of Mattel, Ruth Handler, was traveling to Europe and bought a few Lilli dolls to take home. She re-worked the design of the doll and later debuted Barbie at the New York toy fair on March 9, 1959.
Mattel acquired the rights to Bild Lilli in 1964, and production of the German doll ceased. (Funny how Barbie’s lighter skin tone was just about the only noticeable change in the early days).
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If you’re wondering what to get me for Christmas, I’d like really this 55 ¾ Ton GMC with military running gear. Sweet! 😉
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Yes Virginia, Liberalism in a Mental Disorder. ~SIGH~
Middle Schooler Suspended When Principal Sees His Veterans Memorial.
When eighth grader Tyler Carlin was tasked with creating a physical representation for his history class at Celina Middle School, he decided to honor our nation’s fallen soldiers. However, after carefully constructing his monument to one of the most valuable aspects of U.S. history, his creation didn’t quite receive the response he was seeking.
After using a Nerf gun, boots, and a helmet to create a replica of the “battle cross” monument, 13-year-old Carlin was called into the principal’s office the second he walked into the school. Despite receiving his history teacher’s pre-approval, Carlin was given a 3-day in-school suspension for “bringing a look-alike weapon to school and creating a disturbance.”
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Well isn’t that nice? I got my Capitol Credit Dividend check form the REA yesterday, $175.60. FWIW; I’m grandfathered in since 1957.
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Mornin SD! What’s an REA? DDG don’t know neither.
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Having my first issues with the three year old house on wheels. I’ve got four LED recessed ceiling lights that go on and off, sometimes flickering, finally figured out how to remove one yesterday to get a name, model number to find replacements but no help. It’s made by Intertek, the number on it does not come up anywhere on the web. I know I could find one to fit and wiring will be no problem but it gives no indication on what the color temperature/wattage they are, it needs to match all the others. Not sure what to do other than seeing if Champion Mobile Homes can help me Monday.
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#88 SD: That principal needs to be taken out to the nearest suitable tree, tied in place, and whipped with at least 40 lashes, after which salt is to be rubbed into the wounds (can’t have its stupidity getting an infection dontchaknow), followed by a banishment from ever serving in any public capacity again and the loss of all of its retirement.
I think that after a few such punishments for this kind of stupidity, it may stop.
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REA = Rural Electrification Act. It’s what brought electricity out to the country we didn’t get it here until 1947. For all the bad things FDR did, I think the REA was a good thing without it the power companies wouldn’t bring power lines to the sparsely populated rural areas. That said, it sure brought a bunch of Damn City Slickers to the country after A/C became popular.
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And of course, as projects go for me, just removing the dang thing took considerable DDGing/Googling, finally figured out it has spring loaded hinges holding it to the sheetrock, just watch where your fingers are when it comes out (axe me how I know), then more searching to figure out how to remove the wires from these weird push in connectors – you just twist and pull. Groan.
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I mentioned the two wreaths I put up and they didn’t come with anything on them just the fake cedar ring. My wife had a couple of big bows that added some color but I thought that it needed a little more. I knew we had some red, golf ball sized ornaments so I though I’d put a few on both wreaths but as I was heading up the trail to the tractor shed I noticed the sixty eleven dozen Nandina’s scattered around the woods there so I thought they’d be just perfect.
FWIW; I of course, knew the Nandina’s were there but just didn’t think about them. This time of the year they’re in bloom so you can see the bright red berries from a long way off and we seemed to have cornered the market on them on the north side of the property around this house. -
Um… Dave. You know this bunch around here. You should never post something about a sex doll and then lead your next post with this.
If you’re wondering what to get me for Christmas, I’d like really this
Just sayin 🙂
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Give me a break! Fauci is on two talking heads shows right now, ABC and NBC, MERCY!
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#96 TexMo 😀
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Morning gangsters and gangsterettes. Kinda chilly out here this morning – about 33 according to my smartazzed phone. I slept in until daylight, but I was up twice during the middle of the night to take care of old man business. I typically turn my heat down low on cold nights, and after my first visit to the RR about 3AM I decided to turn my lectrick blanket on the lowest setting. That worked out just perfect, and I think that extra warmth was what kept me in bed until daylight. And then, since it’s Sunday and Larry’s Table Of Knowledge is locked up, I decided to drag out my old fashioned coffee percolator and fix an entire pot of coffee on the stovetop. I just about forgot how, but Google reminded me how many scoops to put in and how long to let it perk – but to never let it boil. So I waited around and am now enjoying fresh perked coffee – I don’t know if it really tastes any better than the Keurig, but maybe just the anticipation, smelling the steam coming from the spout, hearing the perking and gurgling noises, or whatever – it sure tastes good this cool morning. Worth waiting for. And by day’s end, I will drink the entire pot and save the grounds for mixing in to my new rose garden when all these cuttings get rooted.
I enjoyed watching some college football yesterday, and some of those teams out there looked like they had something to prove. Some really good, tough hitting. Most of the time these lesser schools lack the seriously talented, NFL quality players in the skilled, ball handing positions, so they must rely more on physical toughness rather than razzle dazzle to move the ball. I do enjoy that type of game – reminds me of how the Steelers and the Oiliers under Bum Phillips played the game. I watched a HBC game where Neon Dion was coaching one of the teams – Jackson State I believe, and it was also a good game. Sanders has stolen a few recruits from the big boys and is going to bring back the glory days of HBC; turning out NFL players – Gramlin used to do that regularly.
OK, I’m off to see what’s happening here this morning. More later and you all have a good one.
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I have watched a lot of rocket stove videos, a lot of knife building/forging videos, and now this guy makes a smokeless burn barrel. What is great about this last one is at the very end; he said that if we all just make less smoke, it is better for everyone. Then he encouraged all watching to improve on his idea. Humility, simply asking for people to use their brains to do things in a better way for the benefit of all of us; no scolding, no cajoling, no guilt trips. I like the idea of honestly appealing to people using sound reason and logic instead of the mindless, lies based scolding, derision, and use of force to achieve submission method favored by the left.
The thread that runs through all of the above is the conservation and most efficient use of the heat generated by the fuel. When burning garbage, the hotter the heat – the more complete the combustion, less smoke and if forging, more heat where you need it to do what you want.
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My #87, Here’s one for Shannon, 1950 Ford Pick Up with front drive added. FWIW; I could be seen in that thing. Also one of the two horizontal chrome posts above the grill opens the hood and if memory serves, it was on the left, I guess so you opened with the left and lifted with the right?
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Beautiful.
I have a feeling I’d have to put in an air ride driver’s seat to protect my back.
🙂
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Well, made a new friend at the 9:00 mass this morning. (Hubby was shocked – SHOCKED! – when I told him upon my return home. 😉 ).
After I had seated myself, a mom arrived with a 2-3 year old boy and one that looked to be in the neighborhood of 8 months or so. Blonde haired older boy was already, ahem, “active”. I mouthed over to mom to let me know if she needed help, she mouthed back thank you.
As mass progressed, Blondie proceeded to roam, to the pew in front, trying to climb over the edge of his pew, crawling under. Mom was trying to wrangle the little one, who had to nurse during mass and began to announce his discomfort at not having a nap afterwards. Mom had her hands full and for a time couldn’t move much, which meant that Blondie was often able to avoid her hands pulling him into the pew.
I threw a few “Mom looks” at him during mass, upon which he’d melt down into the pew next to his mom for a few minutes. At one point, when I thought he’d actually fall in his attempt to straddle the arm of the pew, I pointed at his mom and mouthed very clearly “SIT DOWN!” He did.
After mass, I waited for mom, who had dragged her rambunctious boys to the back of the church for control. She gratefully handed the baby over to me which gave her both hands to repack the diaper bag. I told her that sometimes reprimands from strangers are much more effective that those from mom, and she laughingly agreed and thanked me for the “assistance”. Her name is Lindsay. She told me that she’d told her son that if he didn’t behave, he’d have to sit with me. /grin/ Blondie was introduced as Giorgio. He has a very pronounced stutter, which took me back to Handsome Son’s days with his speech problems. I sat down in the pew and Giorgio and I had a pleasant conversation about Christmas. “Jesus isn’t here yet,” he said. I was surprised and gratified that Santa hadn’t come up in conversation. I took him up to the creche and we talked a bit. He also confirmed that he’d been told he might have to sit with me. “Yes, you might have to, next time,” I said. As we returned down the aisle to his mother, he asked if I could come to his house.
Melted my heart, that did.
Lindsay and I got a good laugh out of that. In the few seconds I had as we walked out, I gave her one therapy tip I’d learned from my experience. She was grateful for that as well. I wished them a merry Christmas.
Now, I get to go and deliver Christmas gifts to some other kids.
Good day.
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Apparently they’re gonna trot Biden out to issue a “stark warning of what the winter will be like” for all you miscreants who refuse to get with the program, sez the psickening press psecretary Jen Psaki.
My prediction is the winter will feature cooler weather than the summer and the
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During the announcements after Mass, Fr. Felix clarified upcoming Holy Days of obligation. Sundays are always holy days. Next week, Christmas is, so you have two back-to-back obligations. Same with the following week, with Saturday being the Solemnity of the Mary.
He wanted to clarify “You can’t use one Mass to satisfy the two days of obligation.” Then he added, “I wanted to make sure everyone understands … in case you were educated by Jesuits.” That got quite a laugh from the congregation. He smiled, struck his chest, and said “Mea culpa”.
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105. Didn’t realize you were gonna be at the 9:00 Mass. I would have looked for you.
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Hadn’t planned on making chili today but someone gave me a bunch of ground venison.
Mmm mmmm.
Can’t wait to get it started.
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It’s even worse than they earlier reported.
It’s gonna be “The Winter of Death”.
Is there something new they need a distraction from?
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Didn’t realize you were gonna be at the 9:00 Mass. I would have looked for you.
Like a Mexican eagle, she was circling above looking for her next boy child victim.
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Much to Fay’s chagrin, I am not a fan of white onions, I prefer the yellow.
But the white is the best for chili.
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I am not a fan of white onions
Of course you wouldn’t be.
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I just walked in and Fay is watching the Texans. They’re ahead of JAX 14-10.
I think the Jags will end up kicking their butt. Because the Texans are only good for a half.
That, and the Jags are celebrating that head coach Urban Meyer was fired and committed to a lunatic asylum where he belongs.
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Home Depot testing technology to combat organized retail theft as state, federal lawmakers propose laws
https://www.11alive.com/article/money/home-depot-technology-organized-retail-theft/85-0206e8f8-bc0a-4ea5-8444-b07d402907e9 -
Oh chickadees, I got up an hour late, fed cats, made my big coffee, did the sudoku with no mishaps, will be leaving soon to head to our Pix with Santa event.
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Internment camps for the unvaccinated may be coming to NY next year.
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A sentence perhaps never before said:
At the H‑E‑B right now a rib roast is cheaper than a brisket. $3.88 vs. $3.96
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The Aussie’s are doing it. Why not us?
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It’s high time we got those FEMA internment camps open.
It’s high time we use the correct words – internment camps.
Then maybe the internees’ ancestors can get reparations some day.
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#s 117 & 119 – I wonder IF the individuals tasked with enforcement of this INSANITY
will be wearing Kevlar?
We can start a pool……………..
WHERE will the shooting START? *no smiley!*
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The 1-win Detroit Lions are beating the 10-win Arizona team like a drum.
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White Pepper is one of Fay’s secret ingredients in chili.
But it is highly volatile. Be careful.
🙂Just a pinch or two. Or three.
I ain’t telling.
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Shannon says:
DECEMBER 19, 2021 AT 14:39
White Pepper is one of Fay’s secret ingredients in chili.But it is highly volatile. Be careful.
Knowledge received and will be put to use in my next batch, thank you.
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My 123 revised.
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I glanced around looking for you, but couldn’t stay after. Had to get home to change for gift delivery.
There was a little boy with the last family. We make stockings to hand out, and the smile on his face as he took possession of a stocking would have melted the ice cap. Precious.
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One of the things I was surprised about up here was the fact you can’t find plain white onions. Yellow (they call them Spanish), red and Vidalia – that is it, unless you’re looking for green onions or shallots.
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Long live Bum and the guys.
And all those Steelers.Precious memories.
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The had the prettiest yellow onions at the Kroger on Barker Cypress and 529; not round but flat, like someone squished a ball of dough. 4-1/2″ across from east to west, 2-1/2″ from north to south. Some of them asked for a ride to my house and I obliged.
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Those are the sweet yellow onions, best for raw stuff and things like onion rings. The spherical ones are harsher raw, but cooked in a stew, soup, roasted, etc. they get sweet and the harshness goes away. The sweet ones get overwhelmed when cooked a long time.
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Smokeless burn barrel.
City people don’t understand.
Country people go, “Way cool. A way to get around the burn ban!”
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Tonight’s chili is exquisite.
The cornbread is on the dry side, just the way I like it. No sugar.
I like cornbread, not Sweet Cornbread Cake.
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I wish I was there. I don’t make cornbread here anymore because I’m the only one who eats it.
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The real untold story which currently stars Joe Manchin as the West Virginia Bad Man is that there are a lot of swing district Democrats worried as hell about reelection next fall and the BBB bill isn’t playing well at all at kitchen tables around the country. I’ve seen a couple of semi-buried stories lately out of DC featuring anonymous incumbents wringing their hands over the gargantuan spending costs.
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I wish you were too.
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I made some hot water cornbread a couple of nights ago to go with my chili. That led to me discovering that the can of baking powder in the pantry had a “best if used by” date nearly seven years ago. The cornbread wasn’t completely flat but it was thick.
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One of my chili secrets is to add just a touch of Texas gulf coast in there with some Slap Yo Mama. I tried some of that Tony Whatshisname that starts with a C but is pronounced like an S but it is too seafoody for chili, but the Slap Yo Mama has them asking what happened here. But don’t get the white pepper kind, get the original.
Nothing new to report from here all day long. Just too cold to get out and do much of anything, so I dinked around with the rose cuttings a little more and acted like I was getting ready for the trip at the end of the week, but I really didn’t accomplish anything on that front. Just heated up my last cup of coffee from the perk I did this morning, so that played out just about right. Will start on dinner here is a bit.
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I like sweet cornbread, yellow onions, and pineapple on my pizza, so there.
No beans in chili, though, so I’m not totally evil.
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Pix with Santa successfully completed, now off to judge best yard decorations for 2021. Later, y’all.
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That led to me discovering that the can of baking powder in the pantry had a “best if used by” date nearly seven years ago.
Mine was only two years out of date.
But it puffed up real nice in the middle.
Until it collapsed.That’s when I knew all was just fine.
🙂 🙂 🙂
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You and SD need to overcome that pineapple pizza disease.
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Pineapple on pizza is aok – as long as there are also jalapenos!
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My pizza orders are always “large, thin crust, plain pie”. I’m a purist. It’s very easy to cover up and doctor bad pizza with a bunch of toppings. I like it crust, sauce and cheese, period, and if a pizza joint can’t do it really well, I don’t go back.
The seemingly simplest things are the hardest to get right.
It’s always been my philosophy if a Mexican restaurant can’t make a good plate of cheese enchiladas, then they don’t know how cook anything else in their kitchen. It’s always my test order on the first visit.
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I don’t make cornbread here anymore because I’m the only one who eats it.
It’s not like it costs an arm & a leg to make. Only takes about 5 minutes of actual work.
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No pineapples on my pizza. No barbecue chicken pizza. No taco pizza. Thin crust. Normal toppings. I even like anchovies.
I have one exception from the norm. Dino’s in Lafayette makes a pizza called the Marie Laveau. It’s topped with crab meat. I have one every time I’m over there.
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145 WB
I’ll make a pan for my annual New Year’s Eve Chili Extravaganza. I’m just not that big of an eater and I hate throwing food away.
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OMG.
I knew Katfish had deteriorated over the years.
But not to pineapple on pizza.
You have no idea.
Dreadful tears here.
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Dino’s in Lafayette makes a pizza called the Marie Laveau. It’s topped with crab meat. I have one every time I’m over there.
Lordy. I’m leaving now. Sounds Devine.
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No pineapples on my pizza. No barbecue chicken pizza. No taco pizza. Thin crust. Normal toppings. I even like anchovies.
I have one exception from the norm. Dino’s in Lafayette makes a pizza called the Marie Laveau. It’s topped with crab meat. I have one every time I’m over there.
I just knew I liked you for some reason.
🙂
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This so-called pizza that sits a-perched a 3/4-1” thick piece of bread really needs to be outlawed.
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If you like your so-called pizza on a base of .75-1.0” thick piece of bread, move to Chicago eh?
Please.
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Sorry, no pizza allowed over here. Cornbread either any more. I guess I will admit that there are a few things that I miss eating sometimes. I think the rule on baking soda is that if it is over 5 years old, double the amount added. Over 10, add one extra tablespoon on top of the others.
And if you like pineapple, just buy one. They are cheaper than pizza.
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People who like thick bread pizza are likely to put beans in their chili and ketchup on their burgers and hot dogs.
Psycho.
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I don’t rent no pigs neither.
So, there’s that.
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ELG
We have extraordinary respect for you Keto folks.
Truthfully.
Let the rest of us fight over pizza crust, okay?
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I’m just not that big of an eater and I hate throwing food away.
Get a small cast iron skillet and just cook what you can eat. I use an 8″ Lodge when I’m just making cornbread for me.
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I don’t understand Chicago-style pizza. Way too much bread.
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Sarge doesn’t rent pigs.
But he will consider a long term lease.
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Sarge
The last opportunity to visit the Battleship Texas has passed.
Sure would like to know if any site is watching the move to the rehab.
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I’m patiently waiting for Hammie’s number one best selling “Cooking For One” cookbook.
Really.
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We used my BIG Dutch oven twice today. It weighs about 35 lbs without the lid, it will hold at least 2.5 gallons easily; 15 lbs of ground meat and all the rest for chili is no problemo. Stuffed cabbage rolls was for one of the uses, and I can’t remember what the other one was; either way it was the correct vessel for the tasks. I have
smallmedium and really large black iron vessels to cook in; treated properly, they are the best. -
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Gus- Well we don’t rent pigs and I figure its better to say it right up front cause a man that does like to rent pigs is… he’s hard to stop.
Woodrow- And if that ain’t bad enough you got all them Greek words on there too.
Gus- I told you Woodrow along time ago, it ain’t Greek its Latin.
Woodrow- Well what does it say that Latin?
Gus- Well it’s a motto, it just says itself, Yovaro yovaro fit yovaro…. (It actually reads Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia fit)
Woodrow- You don’t have no idea what it says. You found that in some old book or something. For all you know it invites people to rob us!
Gus- Well first man that comes along that can read Latin is invited to rob us as far as I’m concerned. I’d like the chance to shoot at a educated man once in my life.
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Took us almost an hour and a half to agree on 5 (FIVE) winning Christmas yard decorations. We also award 2 Hall of Fame winners, been the same 2 houses for last 15 years. The toughest category tonight was Best Religious, which had fallen into disuse for a number of years. Noticed a year ago that we had religious yard decorations again, so had a new sign created by our local printer. Had FOUR contenders for that sign tonight.
We have had the same 4 contest judges for the last 10 years, but tonight was my last run as I end my HOA board position with this year. But I do still go out tomorrow night with the camera to get pix of the winner yards.
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#148 – El Patron of the disintegrated short term memory club – we have
roundly discussed this more than a few times!
And ‘hand tossed’ AINT Chicago thick!
Thin crust is AOK within only ONE hour of delivery (unless one uses the broiler to re-crisp leftover slices)
Hand tossed – the LAST slice a week later is just as yummy as the first!
again – using the broiler for re-heating………..
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#162 – I’m wondering what you use to fire that monster up with.
#163 – One of many of my favorite Lonesome Dove cites. McMurtry was just full of them when he wrote that story. Did I ever mention that he was my English teacher at Rice one semester?
“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”
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Did I ever mention that he was my English teacher at Rice one semester?
No. You didn’t.
Did you realize what you had at the time?
I mean, that must have been an awfully long time ago.
🙂 🙂
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#168 – Well the movie Hud with Paul Newman had come out, and Larry had written that book. He already had several books to his credit by then. And yes, it was a long time ago on a planet far, far away.
“I see you’re in a hurry to get someplace. It’s a great mistake to hurry.” “Why?” Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything the traveler said. “Because the grave’s our destination,” Mr. Sedgwick said. “Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.”
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Hud…it was a great Greek tragedy set in West Texas. There has been nothing like it before or since.
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WhooooHoooo: I made the gun thread over yonder.
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El Gordo says:
DECEMBER 19, 2021 AT 20:37
#162 – I’m wondering what you use to fire that monster up with.I put that big heavy bas**rd on the gas stove and let her rip for at least 8 minutes before I start to add food to it. It takes a while to heat up and it holds heat goodly well for a while. In this case we put it with the cover on in the preheated oven. Worked like a champ.
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(unless one uses the broiler to re-crisp leftover slices)
[cue Foghorn Leggorn] No, no, no boy. You’re doin’ it all wrong!
To crisp a thin crust pizza on reheat, use a skillet. Preheat on med-high heat. When hot, put pizza slices in so that ALL pieces make full contact with bottom of skillet – may need to work in batches.
This is the trick: put a couple tablespoons (no more) of water in the bottom of the skillet and quickly cover (this makes lots of steam to reheat the top while the bottom heats. The water will boil off quickly, allowing the crust to crisp up.
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Shannon says:
DECEMBER 19, 2021 AT 19:16
SargeThe last opportunity to visit the Battleship Texas has passed.
Sure would like to know if any site is watching the move to the rehab.
The last time she can be visited at her present location at San Jacinto battlefield has “passed” but I’m pretty sure at least on more farewell visit will be scheduled once the date on which she will be pulled from the slip she’s in and is towed to Galveston for dry docking, and I’m willing to bet there will be one or two visits there as well as restoration progresses. The good news is that she is now out of the hands of Texas Parks and Wildlife and in the hands of the Battleship Texas Foundation, which means that advertising and promotion can be done sensibly and bidness like.
One of the drawbacks to her being in the possession of TPWD is that there is actually a law that severely limits advertisement of TPWD sites. Ever see a billboard for any State Park of Historic site? Yah, neither have I and that’s because the only signage allowed is the brown and green “Next Exit” signs on the freeway. The law was passed decades ago to ensure that State owned sites don’t compete with privately owned sites. So you can have a big billboard for a snake ranch, but nothing for Stephen F. Austin State Park. This, of course, is a death sentence for anything that requires visitation in order to generate maintenance funds, and why she ended up in deplorable condition–more than once.
The contract has been signed for drydocking, and it will be in Galveston. A floating drydock of the proper size has been purchased that negates the need for towing her across the Gulf to Alabama where the closest drydock of her size is.The Battleship TEXAS Foundation has a YouTube Channel and a Facebook Page. Their latest update was in October, skip to 8:26 for the announcement and location of the drydock. No exact date for the move has been pinpointed, but they’re forecasting that by 2nd Quarter 2022, she’ll be in the drydock. IIRC, she’s scheduled for 2 years in restoration.
There’s some talk about recreating as much of her 1945 anti-aircraft complement (there has never been anywhere near the number of 20 & 40MM mounts on her since 1948) by building non-firing replicas that would go in the hard to get to places no one would visit, but it might interest all y’all to know that all of the deck guns, including the 5 inchers in the air castle, are being restored to firing condition. Yes Virginia, there will be big booms (and maybe some rat-a-tat-tats and budda-budda-buddas).
I’ve got some friends who are Curators, Admins or Directors of other historic ships slathering at the bit waiting on the job announcement to go out. I’m personally pulling for Max Kaiserman from the USS OLYMPIA to get the job. -
Maybe a ka-thung, ka-thung or two as well
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None of y’all mentioned tuna on pizza?!? That was a mainstay when I lived in Casablanca.
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Sarge, that’s pretty cool that they will return some of those big guns to firing condition.
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Sarge, that’s pretty cool that they will return some of those big guns to firing condition.
A couple of the 20’s are already there, and the 5 inchers are close. I don’t know about the 3 inchers, and the 40’s are moving right along. But “restoration” means, back to operational condition. Per ATF rules, this is legal for weapons in calibers that ammunition is no longer being manufactured for. I’ve got a couple friends who have “French 75’s” from WW1 making big boom from time to time, and most of the WW2 tanks you see in parades and gun shows have operational main guns.
the general practice is to take one or several brass casings of the original ammunition and make a sub-caliber insert that fits a 12 Gauge blank cartridge and a foam sabot/shell that disintegrates as it exits the barrel (and if its the right material, a nice bright orange flame) but stays solid enough while inside the barrel to operate the gas cylinder. That way you get the kaboom, flash, and barrel cycling. Its so frikkin cool when it does that. -
Nitey nite, gang. I had a fun day with my HOA Christmas activities, but I am exhausted as a result. So off to dreamland.
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Goodnight Hamsters . Just checked today’s entries to catch up on the posts during the day. Too much other stuff going on here today and the Packers game left no time to sit down and log in.
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